Everett Daily Herald, August 17, 2015

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This week’s watchwords Food trucks

Tuck Gionet

McCleary decision

The Everett Food Truck Festival is back for a third year of serving up a dazzling array of culinary treats from the most unexpected of (mobile) kitchens. One day only, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., downtown. Just follow your nose.

The public memorial for a beloved Snohomish High teacher and coach is Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the school gym.

Today the governor meets with lawmakers to determine how to respond (special session?) to the court-imposed S100,000-a-day fine over state education funding.

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Teacher’s conduct faulted he had inappropriate relationships with two teen girls during the past two school years. The Snohomish School Board is now considering a new policy to protect students from inappropriate behavior by adults. The proposed change comes after the district hired a Bellevue attorney to look into accusations that surfaced in February about Nicolay, documents obtained by

After the district spent thousands of dollars, it found Bill Nicolay again acted inappropriately with a student. By Amy Nile Herald Writer

SNOHOMISH — The Snohomish School District is tacking two paid weeks onto a teacher’s summer vacation after an investigation found

evidence of misconduct with students for the second time in his career. The district is suspending Snohomish High School teacher Bill Nicolay with pay after it spent four months and thousands of dollars probing accusations that

The Herald through state records laws show. The investigation of the teacher, who’s also been the debate coach since 2003, cost more than $23,468. The district paid another $9,518 in attorneys fees that were at least partly related. Nicolay, 53, was put on paid See CONDUCT, Page A2

Getting kids geared up

the Everett School District whose families can’t afford school supplies. The Everett Public Schools Foundation sponsored the event and relied on help from volunteers, including teachers, bus drivers and Boeing employees. They set a goal of collecting 1,700 backpacks and enough supplies to fill all of them. On Sunday afternoon, the

CHELAN — Fire officials are hoping calmer winds Sunday will aid fire crews using air tankers, helicopters and bulldozers to attack several large fires burning in the Chelan area that have destroyed more than 50 structures. Fire incident spokesman Wayne Patterson said Sunday that more fire crews, including from the Washington National Guard, are being mobilized to fight six fires burning in the area. Together, the Reach, Wolverine and other blazes in the area have scorched more than 155 square miles, forced about 1,500 residents to flee their homes and caused power outages. “It has helped tremendously,” Patterson said. “If we had the same winds from Saturday, we would have double the acreage that we have now.” On Saturday, winds were blowing at 15 to 20 mph, he said. Sunday morning, they were down to 5 to 10 mph. “Now we are at the point of fighting fires on a lot of different fronts,” Patterson added. “We have strategies in place and crews in place to start moving from structure protection to trying to attack the fires.” Patterson said air tankers have established lines to keep the flames from reaching downtown Chelan, a popular central Washington resort town. Helicopters have been dipping into Lake Chelan to pull up water to battle blazes north of the lake. On Saturday, 150 more personnel arrived to fight the fire, putting the total personnel count at 727, said Patterson, information officer for Pacific Northwest Incident Management 2, a Type 1 team that is currently based in Chelan Falls. That team is managing six fires: Wolverine, Reach, First Creek, Black Canyon, Squaw Creek and Blankenship. Good news also is coming from Holden Village, where fire crews

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PHOTOS BY KEVIN CLARK / THE HERALD

Stuff the Bus campaign collects supplies for needy students Herald Writer

the buzz

Heather Paddock (left) looks on as Jerry Gadek donates school supplies Sunday with Diane Gadek outside Fred Meyer during the Stuff the Bus campaign in Mill Creek.

All’s fare Ticket to ride: Everett Transit has amassed a sizable collection of foreign currency and car wash tokens, thanks to riders who figure any ol’ round object will do in the bus fare box (Page A3). Meanwhile, Island Transit must decide whether restarting the express bus between Camano Island and Everett is worth breaking its

EVERETT — The big yellow school buses parked at local stores over the weekend had no room left for children. Instead, the seats were filled with boxes of notebook paper, bags of pencils and piles of backpacks. The sixth annual Stuff the Bus for Kids event gathered thousands of donations for children in

tradition of not collecting fares (Page A3). Perhaps Island Transit can satisfy the state’s farecollection requirement by charging 1/20th of a cent for the ride, payable by ChuckE-Cheese video arcade tokens, Canadian pennies, or bitcoin. Lofty advice: Owners of small businesses can learn much from the Wright

Brothers’ example, says Pat Sisneros of Everett Community College (Page A6), who quotes the brothers’ biographer David McCullough: “Be a gentleman or lady, be polite, have courtesy and good manners.” Which, of course, would get you fired instantly on “The Apprentice.” Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1982,

Three fires near Chelan have burned more than 155 square miles, destroyed more than 50 structures and forced 1,500 residents to evacuate. Herald news services and Associated Press

Volunteer Daryl Hanauer loads school supplies into a bus outside Fred Meyer during the annual Stuff the Bus campaign Sunday afternoon in Mill Creek. The Everett Public Schools Foundation sponsored the event, with a goal to collect 1,700 backpacks and enough school supplies top fill them.

By Kari Bray

Light winds aid wildfire battle

the first commercially produced compact discs, of “The Visitors,” ABBA’s synthesizerheavy final studio album, were pressed at a factory in West Germany (Today in History, Page B4). Eighteen months later, those very same discs became the first CDs to wind up in a “50-75 percent off ” cut-out bin at a shopping mall record store.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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