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By Kari Bray Herald Writer

OLYMPIA — Students and their parents can expect to learn how they did on the state’s new standardized test next month, but initial results show that several Snohomish County school districts exceeded statewide success rates while others struggled to keep up.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn on Monday morning released results from the first Gov. Inslee official round huddles of Common with lawmakers Core testing to discuss court for math and sanctions on English. The education state piloted the new funding, A3 Smarter Balanced Assessment with about a third of Washington students in 2014, then rolled out the test for all students this year.

Statewide, more than half of students in third through eighth grade met the threshold to be considered “on track for college and career readiness” in English, according to Dorn’s office. That means they landed in the three or four range of the test results, which break scores down on a scale of one to four. In math, slightly less than half of students

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Rob Hammond and his daughter, Lauren Hammond, pose for a photo in Lauren’s backyard in Lynnwood last week. To cope with depression and anxiety, Rob spent the past six months walking the 3,000 miles from his home in Arizona to his daughter’s house to be there for her upcoming wedding.

Man hikes from Arizona to Lynnwood to shake depression, anxiety

By Andrea Brown Herald Writer

LYNNWOOD — REI is known for its great return policy, and Rob Hammond proves it.

He recently took a pair of khaki hiking pants he’d worn since January to the Alderwood REI. “I said, ‘I’ve been hiking and these show

the dirt a lot and I really wanted green,’ ” Hammond said. “They said, ‘Go get another pair.’ ” He’d worn the pants for more than six months straight, while pretty much walking for six months straight. He left Arizona in January and arrived in Washington in late July.

He took it one step at a time.

“I like walking, so why not walk to Seattle?” said Hammond, 58, interviewed last week at his daughter Lauren Hammond’s Lynnwood home wearing his new green pants.

He took byways, highways, trails, random detours and “shortcuts that weren’t such a

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Stolen ashes returned to Snohomish family SNOHOMISH — Joyce Graham sees it as a brave and noble act.

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“We were delighted,” she said Monday. “Hallelujah.”

Her family gathered for breakfast Sunday morning. They transferred the ashes from the box into the urn — a Jim Beam

decanter shaped like a car, because Richard “Dick” Graham was a car salesman.

He died in July, at 84, after years of struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. The couple’s son Troy, one of four kids, had picked up the ashes from the funeral

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shortcut,” he said. “It adds up to about 3,000 miles.”

He left Arizona on a twofold mission.

One: So he wouldn’t commit suicide, he said.

And two: To make it to Lauren’s wedding in Seattle

by September.

The hike was Hammond’s extreme attempt to cope with depression and anxiety. He’d dealt with mental illness for years, he said, but never sought treatment. Hiking was his way of keeping it at bay before it ultimately took him down.

His inspiration: Robin Williams.

“Because Robin Williams died, I get to live,” he said. “Had he not done that, I don’t know ... I could relate completely with his illness.”

Hammond was on a downward spiral of his own Aug. 11 last year when Williams took his life. It made him realize the devastating impact suicide has on survivors.

“I said, ‘I have to live and don’t want to,’ ” said Hammond, who had an insurance business in Arizona. “I went to work and said, ‘I’m done.’ ” He took his starched white shirts and salesman ties to Goodwill and got rid of most everything he owned.

On Jan. 15, after a few rounds of beers at a saloon in the desert town of New River, Arizona, he hit the road with a 50-pound backpack. As he tells it, he spent 80 miles bushwhacking, 310 miles on secondary roads then about 25 miles on the interstate before starting the Pacific Crest Trail in Campo, California, on Feb. 20. He strayed far from the trail at intervals, such as a 200-mile walk along the Pacific Coast Highway and

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Rob Hammond stands at Kearsarge Pass at 11,709 feet in the Sierra Nevada of California in early April.

hitchhiking back to Arizona for two weeks to see his 18-year-old son, Dillon, graduate from high school.

Along the trek, he endured shin splints, blistered feet, body odor, heat and cold. He arrived in Washington a leaner version of his former self.

He has what he calls “Popeye” calves to show for it under those zip-off REI pants.

“I was 210 when I started and I’m 175 now, and that’s what I weighed when I got out of boot camp,” Hammond said. He served a two-year stint in the Coast Guard.

The half-year hike was the boot camp for the war that raged within him.

Lauren Hammond said she worried about her father’s plans to walk to Washington, but she didn’t discourage him.

“He talked about making a change and not wanting to do what he was doing anymore,” she said. “He was better off out there than at home, isolated and depressed. It was a legitimate fear of mine that he would eventually kill himself.”

But walk it off?

“A lot of it sounded pretty crazy,” she said. “At first I thought he was joking.”

It sure sounded like he was.

“Originally I was going to do it with a pack mule and name it ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ to bring awareness to depression,” Hammond said, “but the logistics were impossible.”

So he became the pack mule, bearing the weight of his mental illness through the multi-state odyssey.

“I had a lot of time to think,” he said. “You get on that trail and it goes somewhere. Just like life there’s obstacles in the way. As long as you stay on that trail you’re going to get there. The goal is reached, no matter how miserable it is. Same thing with life.”

Life was often a “living hell,” said Hammond, a successful insurance broker who had two daughters by two different women during his 15 years in Seattle after moving here in 1977. They stayed here when he moved back to Arizona in 1992.

“At that time, I was hitting the cocaine pretty heavy so I had to make a change and get away from that crowd,” he said. “I’ve battled it all my life. Like a lot of people with anxiety and depression, they cover it up. They get lonely. They get frustrated. By doing drugs or alcohol, what it did for me is I could forget.

For a bit there is no pain, then the pain is 10 times

worse afterwards.”

Hiking was a positive vice.

“I would hike on weekends and it would kind of relax me,” he said. “When Lauren was a little baby I would put her in a backpack and we’d walk all over the place.”

The outdoor ventures continued whenever Lauren, now 33, visited him in Arizona. “I have fond memories of learning about nature from him,” she said.

On his half-year hike Lauren tracked his progress on social media and insisted he regularly check in with her.

Hammond packed the essentials: A tent. One shirt. One pair of underwear. Four pairs of socks.

One pair of pants, in khaki, because the REI in Arizona didn’t have green in his size when he left.

“Every couple days you find a creek and wash your clothes,” he said.

Hammond, a talkative guy, made friends on the walk, including some who were far away, supporting him through his GoFundMe account, which raised $1,400. As he wrote in a post: “The sights, the people, the kindness and generosity has overwhelmed me.

These experiences have transformed me from an unhealthy, callous and miserable ‘ghost of a man’ into a healthy, positive and caring man.”

He didn’t walk to

Lynnwood, as planned.

Instead, Lauren picked him up near Auburn to shave off a couple days of walking.

Hammond arrived two days after his third grandchild was born to his younger daughter, Caige Mullen, 28, who lives in Lake Stevens. In recent years, other family members moved here from the Southwest, including his mom, Waldtraut “Wally” Hammond, of Marysville.

He plans to stick around this area.

“I’ve never been closer to anybody. Especially Mom. She was my biggest fan,” Hammond said.

The last few weeks have been spent doing odd jobs for family members and praising Lauren’s cooking.

“Every meal I’m still like, ‘This is delicious.’ ” Lauren said her dad now talks openly about depression, which he never did before. He made an appointment to see a mental health therapist at the VA clinic.

“Depression was my buddy. I’ve lived with it so long I was used to it. Now I know what life is like without it. I get anxious, but I’m not depressed,” he said.

“The hike made me want to do stuff again. I’m more excited about things. I’m starting over. Completely over.”

New pants and all.

Andrea Brown: 425339-3443; abrown@ heraldnet.com. Twitter: @ reporterbrown.

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‘Stihl book’ burglar gets 19 months

By Eric Stevick Herald Writer

EVERETT — A man who kept a ledger describing his stolen wares is headed to prison and drug treatment.

Joseph Nasby, 26, on Monday was sentenced to 19 months in prison, a sentence that includes drug treatment under close supervision when he gets out. If he fails to stay clean and meet a long list of conditions for another

19 months, he will be sent back to prison.

In July, Nasby pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree burglary and two counts of residential burglary in Snohomish County Superior Court. He faced a maximum standard sentence of about 3.5 years in prison, but he qualified for an alternative sentence that allows punishment and treatment over the next three years.

In early January, a Snohomish

County Sheriff’s Office patrol deputy stopped a car near Marysville. Nasby ran off.

Deputies found heroin, methamphetamine and a notebook titled the “Stihl book” in the car.

Stihl is a brand of chain saw. The book included a ledger listing more than 100 makes and models of different chain saws, weed eaters, leaf blowers and other equipment.

Nasby and a woman he was with reportedly were taking the

stolen goods to a Marysville-area businessman who allegedly was running a chop shop for stolen equipment. Nasby’s alleged accomplice and the businessman — known on the street as “the saw guy” — are awaiting trial.

Detectives believe the business owner and a co-worker would break apart many of the chain saws brought to them and sell the parts.

Deputy prosecutor Matt Hunter recommended the prison

sentence along with drug treatment, noting that Nasby had no previous felonies but was part of “a huge spree involving a whole lot of people.”

Defense attorney Jennifer Symms said the defendant has never had drug treatment, which could get to the root of why he’s committing crimes.

“He recognized that he made grave decisions,” she said.

Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446; stevick@heraldnet.com.

Benatar, Giraldo cancel fair show

Good to go, weather-wise

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With clear blue sky above downtown Everett, a layer of fog still hangs over the Snohomish River as a pedestrian crosses Pacific Avenue toward the courthouse Monday morning. Sunny skies are expected to continue Tuesday, with temperatures topping out in the mid-80s. See Page C6 for the forecast.

Inslee presses need for ed funding plan

By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer

SEATAC — Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday called on legislative leaders to begin working vigorously on a school funding plan that will end a $100,000a-day fine imposed by the state Supreme Court.

He said hopes lawmakers can “tee up a solution” to pass quickly in a special session but made clear he won’t bring them back unless there is something to be voted on.

“There’s some hard work to be

done and we should expect the lawmakers to put in that hard work,” Inslee said. “It is my hope lawmakers can fashion a plan that can pass in both chambers.”

Inslee’s comments to reporters came after he met for an hour with Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate and Attorney General Bob Ferguson. The meeting took place at SeaTac City Hall.

The purpose of the gathering was to begin diagramming a response to the sanctions imposed by the court Aug. 13.

Justices imposed the fine

because lawmakers had failed to submit a plan on how the state would meet its obligations to amply funding public schools by the 2018 deadline in the court’s McCleary decision.

That ruling, issued in 2012, found lawmakers were failing to carry out the state’s paramount and constitutional duty to cover the cost of a basic education for 1 million elementary and secondary schools.

The Legislature has pumped money into public schools in each of the last two budgets. But the court noted there is still no

plan that will reduce local school districts reliance on property tax levies to pay for such things as teacher salaries — which will cost as much $3.5 billion per budget cycle.

The court ordered the Legislature to rebalance the system by the 2017-18 school year and committed to monitoring lawmakers’ progress. As part of the monitoring, in January 2014, justices demanded lawmakers show them a plan and in September found the state in See SCHOOLS, Page A4

Suspect held for package thefts in Mill Creek

By Eric Stevick Herald Writer

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EVERETT — Police in Mill Creek believe they have caught up with a package thief.

The suspect, 30, was arrested Friday and booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of trafficking in stolen property and theft after packages left at four Mill Creek homes

were stolen in July.

The suspect also is under federal investigation for allegedly producing counterfeit $100 bills, according to a police report.

Police believe the suspect was driving a gold 2000 Ford Focus when he allegedly pilfered the packages. In one instance, a car matching that description was recorded on video outside of one of the victim’s homes. Police said

the video shows a man walking up to the porch and taking the package.

The suspect allegedly was traced through an OfferUpnow. com account. He allegedly sold a stolen dirt scooter and also listed a stolen pressure cooker through that account.

Police gathered more evidence after the man was being evicted from a Mill Creek

Backpacks needed in Granite Falls

or about the Back to School Fair, call 360-386-9282.

The Granite Falls Family Support Center is collecting donations of new backpacks for the Back to School Fair on Thursday. People can drop off backpacks at the support center, 9424 Portage Ave., up until Thursday morning. For more information about donating

Snohomish mulls budget: Snohomish is holding a budget workshop at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Snohomish School District administration office, 1601 Ave. D. Among the agenda items that are expected to affect the 2016 budget is the voters deciding

apartment complex.

At the time, employees were cleaning out his unit when they found cardboard boxes with the UPS and FedEx labels attached.

The labels matched the stolen package items from four Mill Creek homes, according to a probable cause statement.

Bail for the suspect is $25,000.

Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446; stevick@heraldnet.com.

against the creation of a metropolitan parks taxing district on the Aug. 4 primary election ballot.

City Manager Larry Bauman estimated that the proposed tax increase could have brought in up to $834,000 annually for the city’s parks.

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MONROE — Pat Benatar and Neil “Spyder” Giraldo, the headlining performers for this year’s Evergreen State Fair, have canceled their concert here.

The rockstar couple announced Monday morning that they were calling off a dozen tour dates, including the Aug. 31 concert in Monroe, due to health concerns, said Troy Kleine, the fair’s marketing specialist.

Giraldo injured his Pat Benatar eye earlier this month and needs time off to recover from an emergency surgery, according to information posted on the couple’s Facebook page and website. He is expected to make a full recovery.

The fair had already sold 1,202 tickets to the concert in Monroe.

People who paid for tickets with a credit or debit card will be automatically refunded, Kleine said.

Those who paid cash can come to the fair box office or call 360805-6710 for a refund.

Organizers were scrambling Monday afternoon to find a new performer to play on Aug. 31 with short notice, fairgrounds manager Hal Gausman said.

They were looking into similar acts that might attract the same “older rock” crowd, he said.

Benatar and Giraldo started working together 35 years ago on their debut album, “In the Heat of the Night,” which featured the breakthrough song, “Heartbreaker.”

Benatar went on to become one of the most successful singers of the 1980s, with songs, such as “Love is a Battlefield” and “Hit Me with Your Best Shot.”

Giraldo backed her up on guitar and wrote and produced her music.

The couple made history with the hit song “You Better Run,” which was the second music video played on MTV, right behind the Buggles’ song “Video Killed the Radio Star.”

Together Benatar and Giraldo have sold more than 26 million albums and charted 19 Top 40 singles since 1980. They’ve won four Grammy Awards and three American Music Awards.

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to serve on the Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve Trust Board. The term for the seat, representing Island County, runs through Oct. 1, 2017. The deadline to apply is 4:30 p.m. Sept. 21.

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Forum on parking Man arrested in City officials will be holding a forum on parking in downdrive-by shooting public town Everett at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

EVERETT — An 18-year-old man is in custody in connection with a drive-by shooting that injured a 15-year-old boy Sunday night.

The shooting was reported to have occurred around 10:30 p.m. north of 112th Street SW on Fourth Avenue W, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Shari Ireton said.

The victim was found in the 12600 block of Eighth Avenue W by Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with a gunshot wound. He was reported in stable condition.

The suspect was apprehended by officers around 11 p.m. near the intersection of Center Road and Admiralty Way. He was booked into the Snohomish County jail for investigation of first-degree assault and drive-by shooting.

Deputies recovered a rifle from the suspect’s vehicle, which had both driver-side windows broken out. The incident remains under investigation.

The purpose of the forum is to present data gathered so far on parking downtown and chart out the next steps of the city’s planned parking study this fall.

Issues to be addressed include what parking management strategies would improve parking downtown, whether Everett needs paid on-street parking, and where customers, visitors and downtown employees should park.

The forum is to be held in the Weyerhaeuser Room of Everett Station, 3201 Smith Ave. The city is asking those who wish to attend to register online at everettparking forum.eventbrite.com.

Edmonds: Police probe shooting; no injuries Police are investigating after shots were fired in Edmonds early Saturday morning.

“We have a lot of questions still unanswered,” Sgt. Shane Hawley said. The incident was reported just before 3:15 a.m. in the 24000

That stretch of the highway, between Everett and Lynnwood, is one of the deadliest places for pedestrians in Snohomish County, according to state accident data.

Lake Stevens: Cause of fire still unknown

Lynnwood: Everett man struck by car cited

An Aug. 8 fire in a Lake Stevens mobile home remains under investigation.

The Lake Stevens Police Department is the lead agency on the case, and detectives continue to conduct interviews, Chief Dan Lorentzen said Monday.

The fire is believed to have been intentionally set, officials said. No new information on the cause has been made public.

Flames were reported shortly before 1 a.m. at a seniors mobile home park in the 8400 block of 15th Place SE, according to a news release sent out by the fire district three days later.

A woman in her 50s was rescued by a neighbor and taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. She asked the hospital not to release updates on her condition.

From Herald staff reports

An Everett man suffered broken bones Friday after being struck by a car on Highway 99 north of Lynnwood.

The man, 20, was in stable condition when he was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to police. He was cited for illegally crossing the street outside of a crosswalk. He has since been released from the hospital, officials said Monday.

The driver, a 20-year-old Bothell man, was unhurt. He isn’t expected to face any charges, said trooper Mark Francis with the Washington State Patrol.

The crash happened shortly after 2 p.m. in the northbound lanes of Highway 99 near 148th Street SW.

Schools: $15 million in fines possible by Jan. 11 From Page A3

contempt when nothing had been turned in.

They gave lawmakers until the 2015 session to complete the task and when they didn’t they

levied the fine. Justices want the money put in a separate account and spent on education.

Inslee said Monday the court may only be seeking a plan on what will be paid for and when and not how.

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Early information indicates the gunfire may have come from a theft suspect who was being pursued by the victim. No injuries were reported, Hawley said Monday. No additional details were provided.

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That would allow lawmakers to avoid debating how to raise that $3.5 billion.

In his view, the court is “asking for a plan for a solution not total implementation by yesterday.”

House Minority Leader Dan Kristiansen, RSnohomish, said he got the impression in the meeting that legislative leaders are not about to be pressured into moving too swiftly.

“I’m more concerned about doing this right rather than doing it expeditiously,” he said.

Lawmakers will be in Olympia on Nov. 19 and 20 for their annual committee days. If there’s something

to vote on, that might be the time to do it, he said.

“All of us in the room believe we are making good headway in the education funding issue,” he said. “We know what needs to be done. It’s not the calendar. It’s not the court. It’s which route do we follow to try to solve the problem.”

If Inslee calls a special session, lawmakers will have up to 30 days to act.

If nothing happens until the next scheduled legislative session starts Jan. 11, the state would rack up roughly $15 million in fines. That’s a fraction of the roughly $9.1 billion the

state will spend on public schools in each of the next two fiscal years.

Meanwhile, there are questions about how to deal with the fine.

Kristiansen said attorneys for the four caucuses, the governor’s office and the attorney general’s office met together Monday morning to wrestle with that process.

It’s generally believed lawmakers will need to take action to appropriate the money to pay the fine and to direct it to be spent on schools required by the court.

Jerry Cornfield: 360-3528623; jcornfield@heraldnet. com.

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Seed plan aims to protect land after natural disasters

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an Everett woman and her sister were out for a walk at a local cemetery. They saw the box, which was covered with a velvet bag.

They brought it to funeral home staff. The woman who found the box declined Monday to be interviewed by a reporter.

The police called Troy, and delivered the ashes to him, Joyce Graham said.

Her son “brought them right over,” she said. “He said he wasn’t going to leave them anyplace.”

The car, a white, fourdoor 1999 model, with Washington license plate

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AKG1121, hasn’t been found. Detectives are working on it, officer Aaron Snell said Monday.

“A note was with the urn requesting the remains be returned to the family but it is unknown who left the urn or wrote the note,” he said.

The tin box that held the ashes was missing its lid, Joyce Graham said.

The box was banged up and had been opened.

She was married to Dick for 61 years.

Now his urn is on her mantle, “right where it’s supposed to be,” she said.

As for the person who returned the ashes?

“Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

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Anne D. Simon

Anne Grace, passed away August 1, 2015 at Providence Regional Medical Center, Everett.

Born November 13, 1924 to father, Jeptha R. Dawson a n d m o t h e r, G r a c e M .

Suddeth in Athens Georgia.

Anne attended school in Winterville, Georgia.

She was preceded in death by daughter, Barbara Bradley (James).

She is sur vived by her husband of 62 years, Fr a n c i s “ Fr a n k ” S i m o n ; sons, Dana C. and Francis J. Simon (Linda); daughter, Gina M. Simon; grandsons, Alan (Jill), Michael (Kristie) Ridlehoover, Brian A., Isaac D. B u c k h a m ; a n d g r e a t grandchildren, twins, Grace and Hunter Ridlehoover.

Anne was an ardent quilter and former member of Camano Island Quilters. She wa s a l i c e n s e d cosmetologist while residing in Virginia, Oregon and Washington.

Anne was an avid thrift store shopper, and was very involved in researching her family histor y. Cremation was performed August 5, 2015 She will be greatly missed.

Betty J. Stecher

Ronald McKay

Betty J. Stecher, 83 of Everett, Washington died August 13, 2015.

She was born October 1, 1931 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Carl and Zita (Baragary) Larsen. An Everett High School graduate of 1950, Betty later became a Claims Adjuster at State Farm. She loved her family, special friend, Bridgette Joy and enjoyed crocheting and ceramics.

Betty is sur vived by daughter, Zita (Alan) Grey; sons, Rober t Stecher Jr, Jerry (Kathy) Stecher; Curtis Stecher, Leeon (Lorriane) Stecher ; brothers, Carl (Sharon) Larsen and Gar y (Annette) Larsen; ten grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She is also sur vived by many cousins, nephews and nieces.

She is preceded in death by loving husband, Rober t John Stecher; her parents; and brother, Stan.

Visitation will be held from the hours of 4 and 7 p..m.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015, at Purdy and Walters with C a s s i d y, 1 7 0 2 P a c i f i c , Everett, WA. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 1:00 p.m.

We d n e s d a y, A u g u s t 1 9 , 2015, at Immaculate Conception Church, 2501 Hoyt, with burial following at Evergreen Cemeter y 4504 Broadway at 4:00 p.m.

Ronald “Scotty” McKay, 72, passed away peacefully w h i l e s u r r o u n d e d by h i s family at his home in S n o h o m i s h , Wa s h . o n Tuesday July 21, 2015.

Ronald was preceded in death by his father, Hugh, mother, Elizabeth; brothers, Hugh, Ian; and mother-inlaw, Fae Ekerson.

Ronald is survived by his wife of 42 year s, Cathy; sons, Ian (April) and Duncan (Jodi); grandchildren, Katie, Connor and Paige; sister-inlaw, May McKay (U.K.) and her three children Andrew (U.K.), Colin (U.K.) and Janice (U.K.).

Ronald was the best husband, brother, father and friend that we could have asked for. We are blessed to have had him in our lives and are grateful that others feel the same way.

The McKay family will hold a celebration of life for Ronald at 601 Hillcrest Dr, Snohomish, WA on August 22, 2015 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. All are welcome.

Dr. James Junkichi Tazuma Dr. James Junkichi Tazuma passed away peacefully on August 5, 2015.

James was born in Seattle, Wash. on July 17, 1924. He graduated from Washington Jr. High and Broadway High School in 1944. He was interned with other American Japanese at Camp Harmony i n P u y a l l u p , Wa s h , a n d Minidoka in Idaho. He graduated with his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Washington in 1952. After almost 30 years as a research organic chemist for Goodyear of Akron he returned to Seattle in 1988.

He is predeceased by his parents, Bunshiro and Sawano Tazuma; his older brothers, Elmer (Masako) and Noboru (Miyoko) and Toshio.

He is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Frances; his sons, Bob (Adarsh) and Mike (Gail); and three grandchildren.

A brief service will be held at the family graveside at Evergreen Washelli at 11:00 am on Saturday, August 22, 2015.

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February 11, 1950-July 24, 2015 Don Moe touched many lives in many ways. As his wife, I ask all whom felt him in their life to please share a memor y as I will cherish each one because he was that special. Thank you, all. http://www.becksfuneralho me.com/obituary.php?id=23 07#

Charles Richard Bush Charles peacefully passed away at home in the early morning hours of August 15, 2015, sur rounded by his loving family.

He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Muriel; their children, Lorraine Barnett (Charles) and Lynn Kirkbride; along with five grandchildren, nine greatgrandchildren; and his brother, Eric Bush.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Lottie and Bob Bush; brother, George Bush and sister, Margaret Donnor.

C h a r l e s w a s b o r n November 24, 1927, to Bob and Lottie Bush in Snettisham, Norfolk England. When Charles was about the age of ten he and his family moved to Cobham Sur rey, south of London.

Charles had two older brothers who both served in the British Royal Navy. Even though his eldest brother wa s k i l l e d i n t h e D - D ay invasion, Charles could not wait to serve his country like his brothers and talked his parents into signing a waiver to allow him to enlist at age 17.

At the age of 21 he married the love of his life, Muriel Zeacle, November 12, 1949. They would have two daughters Lorraine and Lynn who were the apples of his eye. In 1967, the family moved to the U.S and settled in the Edmonds, Wash. area where he found work as a house painter.

Shortly after, he started his own painting business and due to his hard work and rapport among all he met it was greatly successful.

Char les enjoyed many things in life. Working in the garden, playing cribbage, crossword puzzles, and supporting the Tulalip Tribe.

However, what he enjoyed most was being around his family. In his own words “Bill Gates may be one of the richest men in the world, but he will never be as wealthy as I.” At Charles’ request there will be no service. He would want you to spend time with the ones you love.

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In Memory of Ashton Rose Dry

Dec. 20, 1991-Aug. 18,1999 It’s been 16 years since we last saw your smile that lives forever in our hearts.

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BOISE, Idaho — Federal authorities announced a plan Monday to produce massive quantities of seeds from native plants that can be quickly planted to help land recover from natural disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes.

The program will make landscapes more resilient and healthier, especially Western rangelands where massive wildfires have been an increasing problem, the U.S. Department of the Interior said.

“We’ve learned a lot based on where we have had successes and where we’ve had failures,” said Steve Ellis, deputy director for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, as he announced the plan at the agency’s regional seed warehouse in Boise. “It isn’t as simple as we grab some seed off the shelf and go out there.”

Officials hope to create a national network of seed collectors, growers and storage facilities so enough native seeds are available immediately after disasters to avoid erosion and prevent invasive species from moving in. The window to plant desirable species after a disaster can be less than a week and involve hundreds of square miles.

The strategy targets Western rangelands, where drought-stricken terrain fuels huge wildfires that have destroyed homes and key animal habitat. A blaze on the Idaho-Oregon border had consumed by Monday nearly 450 square miles of rangeland needed to feed cattle and habitat for sage grouse, a bird being considered for federal protection.

That fire has been fueled by cheatgrass, a fire-prone invasive species that moves in quickly and pushes out native plants, then dries out and burns easily. The new seed strategy is intended to prevent that from happening.

Besides wildfires, federal officials also noted the

widespread damage that Hurricane Sandy caused in 2012 to native plant habitats on the East Coast that stabilize soil and absorb storm surges. A shortage of native seeds left the area vulnerable to erosion and invasive plants, federal officials said.

“Having the right seed in the right place at the right time makes a major difference in the health of our landscapes,” Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said in a statement.

The strategy unites 12 federal agencies with tribes, states and local and private entities, and a key to its success will be the ability of growers to produce enough seeds.

Risa DeMasi, chair of the American Seed Trade Association and partner of Grassland Oregon, said at the announcement that seed growers are eager to help. But she also said producing the quantities of seeds needed after disasters will hinge on bolstering native seeds with regionally adapted species that do well in specific areas.

“That can be a very effective tool,” DeMasi said. “We can start planning for that because then we can meet the needs in a much broader region.”

Greg Mueller, vice president of Science at the Chicago Botanic Gardens, where research is done on restoring habitats, said the plan should remove some of the unpredictability of current restoration efforts.

“We can be geared up and ready to go rather than this boom-and-bust activity that is happening now,” he said.

Scientists and land managers for decades have been unable to stop the advance of cheatgrass, a big target of the plan. But Tim Murphy, the BLM’s Idaho director, said hopes are high that the seed strategy will succeed.

“I don’t think we’ll ever see 100 percent removal of cheatgrass,” he said.

“What we are going to see is cheatgrass being a minor component of the rangeland in the future.”

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Military drone flights to increase Pentagon reacts to growing security threats from China, Russia

By Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press

JOINT BASE LANGLEYEUSTIS, Va. — Faced with escalating aggression from Russia and China, the Pentagon is planning to increase its use of drones by about 50 percent over the next several years, using the Army and civilian contractors to put more of the unmanned aircraft in the air.

The decision to add Army and civilian-operated missions to the mix was triggered because the Air Force — which had been running about 65 combat air patrol missions a day — asked to decrease that number to 60 because of stress on the force.

But 60 patrols don’t come close to meeting the demands of top military commanders facing growing security threats around the world.

Senior U.S. officials said that while drones have been used largely to target terrorists and collect intelligence over combat zones, those needs may shift in the coming years.

Top military leaders, including the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, have named Russia as the nation’s most serious security threat.

And China’s rising military power and island-building program in the South China Sea have increased tensions and

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prompted a greater demand for U.S. surveillance and intelligence across the Pacific.

One senior defense official said Pentagon leaders are taking those security challenges into account as they decide how armed and unarmed drones will be used across Europe and the Pacific. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the issue publicly.

Pentagon leaders have been wrestling with the problem for some time, as the need for more airstrikes and surveillance by drones over Iraq and Syria to battle the Islamic State group offsets a

decline in unmanned flights over Afghanistan as the war there winds down.

Under the plans laid out by senior defense officials, the Air Force would continue to provide 60 daily drone missions, while the Army would conduct about 16, and U.S. Special Operations Command and civilian contractors would do up to 10 each.

“It’s the combatant commanders, they need more.

They’re tasked to do our nation’s business overseas so they feel that stress on them, and it’s not getting better,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. J.D. Harris, Jr., vice commander of Air Combat Command at Joint

Base Langley-Eustis. “There’s just not enough of the Air Force to go around.”

The civilian contractors would fly surveillance drones, not the armed aircraft. But senior defense officials said they need at least a small contractor contribution in order to reach the total of 90 combat air patrols per day.

The key unanswered questions, however, are how the Pentagon will pay for the additional patrols and how the military will sort out and analyze the growing torrent of data pouring in.

Officials said some of the costs could be borne by war funding — the overseas contingency operations in a separate account approved by Congress.

The account funded some of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as some counterterrorism operations in the Middle East and Africa.

The use of the Army and contractor flights will give the Air Force time to recover and rebuild its drone staffing.

To relieve the burden on the Air Force, the military has already begun using Army Gray Eagle drones in Afghanistan and could expand to other regions as required.

But, as the missions increase, the amount of video and other data being funneled to analysts will also spike.

Bombing at Bangkok shrine kills 18

By Jerry harmer and Anusonadisai Nattasuda

Possible classified data in 305 Clinton emails WASHINGTON — The State Department said that the review of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails has found as many as 305 of the messages could contain classified information requiring further review by federal agencies.

In a filing Monday as part of a lawsuit against the State Department, officials told a U.S. District Court judge in Washington they would be able to meet an existing schedule to release copies of Clinton’s emails because only about 5 percent of the messages reviewed so far contain possible secret information.

The agency said those 305 emails with potential classified data were among more than 1,500 documents analyzed so far.

Clinton has contended that she never sent or received any emails that had information clearly marked classified.

Traffic deaths up sharply Traffic deaths were up 14 percent nationally in the first six months of this year and injuries were up by a third, according to data gathered by the National Safety Council. All told, nearly 19,000 people across the country lost their lives in traffic accidents through June, and the tally doesn’t include two of the historically highest months for traffic deaths, July and August, the council said.

Hawaii: 2 fall from dorm Two men fell from the 14th floor of a University of Hawaii dormitory — one of them to his death while trying to pull the other from a ledge, Honolulu police said. The 24-year-old man who died was trying to bring inside an apparently distraught 19-year-old who went out a window onto the ledge early Sunday, authorities said. The 19-year-old was critically injured. Neither man was a UH student, the school said.

N.Y.: No Trump jury duty Donald Trump, billionaire and Republican presidential candidate, reported for jury duty in Manhattan on Monday and spent much of the day like everyone else, filling out forms. By late afternoon, he was released without getting selected for a trial. Trump arrived at the courthouse and was met by camera crews, reporters and onlookers.

Some booed, while others greeted him with fist bumps and books for him to sign. Inside, a lawyer posed for a selfie with him, a sketch artist presented him with a drawing to sign, and a bystander exhorted him to “save this country!” “It’s a system, and we go through it. And it’s a great system. It’s a system that works,” Trump said at midday. “They do a fantastic job, and I met some wonderful people.”

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BANGKOK — Police on Tuesday combed through shattered glass and other debris from a Bangkok bomb blast that killed at least 18 people and injured more than 100 the night before, trying to determine who set off the most devastating single attack in the capital’s recent history.

The explosion at a central Bangkok popular shrine in next to one of the city’s busiest intersections went off around 7 p.m., as the upscale area was filled with tourists, office workers and shoppers.

“We cannot say anything right now because there’s no conclusion yet” and investigators were continuing to gather evidence, national chief of police Somyot Poompanmoung said Tuesday morning.

With a powerful flash caught on security video and a boom heard blocks away, the blast from the improvised explosive device scattered body parts across Rachaprasong intersection, spattered blood, blasted windows and burned motorbikes to the metal.

Video shortly after the blast depicts a scene of shock and desperation: people running for their lives and crying amid the debris.

An emergency worker is seen in an ambulance, frantically pounding the chest of a victim.

No one claimed responsibility for the bombing.

“Those who have planted this bomb are cruel,” Somyot said. “They aim to kill because everyone knows that at 7 p.m. the shrine is crowded with Thais and foreigners. Planting a bomb there means they want to see a lot of dead people.”

At least 18 people were confirmed dead and 117 injured, according to the Narinthorn emergency medical rescue center. The dead included Chinese and a Filipino, Somyot said.

Police and soldiers guarded the area Tuesday morning as onlookers stood behind police tape to take pictures. Barricades were set up outside five-star hotels in the neighborhood and security stopped cars to inspect trunks before letting

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Police investigate the blast scene at the Erawan Shrine.

them pass.

More than 12 hours after the blast, onlookers dashed for safety as shards of glass fell to the ground from windows of a nearby building.

As a single, devastating blow to this Southeast Asian metropolis, Monday’s bombing has no equal in recent history, though Thailand is no stranger to violent attacks. A more-thandecade-long insurgency by southern Muslim separatists has left more than 5,000 dead far from the capital. In Bangkok, politically charged riots centered on this very intersection in 2010 killed more than 90 people over two months.

Police said the bomb was made with a pipe wrapped in cloth. Police said it was too soon to determine the motive.

“We still don’t know for sure who did this and why,” Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon told reporters. “We are not sure if it is politically motivated, but they aim to harm our economy and we will hunt them down.”

The bomb detonated at Erawan Shrine, which is dedicated to the Hindu god Brahma, but is extremely popular among Thailand’s Buddhists as well as Chinese tourists. Although Thailand is predominantly Buddhist, it

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has enormous Hindu influence on its religious practices and language.

Throngs of tourists come there to pray at all hours, lighting incense and offering flowers purchased from rows of stalls set up on the sidewalk along the shrine.

The site is a hubbub of activity, with quiet worshippers sometimes flanked by Thai dancers hired by those seeking good fortune.

Bangkok has been relatively peaceful since a military coup ousted a civilian government in May last year after several months of sometimes violent political protests against the previous government.

Anusit Kunakorn, secretary of the National Security Council, said Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former army chief who orchestrated the May 2014 coup, was closely monitoring the situation.

At the same time, the military government has tightly controlled dissent, arresting hundreds of its opponents and banning protests.

Tensions have risen in recent months, with the junta making clear that it may not hold elections until 2017 and wants a constitution that will allow some type of emergency rule to take the place of an elected government.

S. Sudan: No peace deal South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir refused Monday to sign a peace agreement with rebel forces, saying he needs more time, mediators said Monday.

Kiir said he needs 15 days before he will sign the agreement with rebel leader Riek Machar, according to mediators in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.

Machar has signed the accord. Mediators had expressed hope that Kiir and Machar would sign a “compromise document,” including provisions on how to share power and the composition of a coalition government.

Indonesia: Search on hold Rugged terrain and bad weather Tuesday prevented rescuers from reaching the site where an Indonesian plane with 54 people on board crashed two days ago. Wreckage of the Trigana Air Service turboprop plane was spotted from the air Monday in the province of Papua. There was no immediate word of any survivors. Passengers aboard the ATR42-300 twin turboprop included four postal workers who were escorting $468,750 in cash government aid for poor families to help offset fuel prices.

China: Moment of silence Firefighters, police and officials held a moment of silence Tuesday for victims of last week’s huge explosions at a warehouse in the port city of Tianjin that killed at least 114 people and left 70 others missing. The ceremony marks the sixth day after the disaster, the first observance in the 49-day traditional mourning cycle.

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Shell gets OK for Arctic drilling The final permit to drill below the Arctic Ocean floor is approved by the federal government.

By Dan Joling Associated Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The federal government on Monday gave Royal Dutch Shell the final permit it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast for the first time in more than two decades.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced that it approved the permit to drill below the ocean floor after the oil giant brought in a required piece of equipment to stop a possible well blowout.

The agency previously allowed Shell to begin drilling only the top sections of two wells in the Chukchi Sea because the key equipment, called a capping stack, was stuck on a vessel that needed repair in Portland, Oregon.

Because the vessel arrived last week, Shell is free to drill into oilbearing rock, estimated at 8,000 feet below the ocean floor, for the first time since its last exploratory well was drilled in 1991.

“Activities conducted offshore Alaska are being held to the highest safety, environmental protection, and emergency response standards,” agency Director Brian Salerno said in a statement Monday. “We will continue to monitor their work around the clock to ensure the utmost safety and environmental stewardship.”

The Polar Pioneer, a semisubmersible drilling unit that Shell leases from Transocean Ltd., began work July 30 at Shell’s Burger J site. It completed what’s called a mud-line cellar, a

Airbus lands 250 jets Associated Press PARIS — Indian budget airline IndiGo finalized an exceptionally large order for 250 single-aisle Airbus A320neo jets on Monday to keep up with rapid growth in the country’s air travel.

IndiGo, India’s largest domestic airline, had signed a preliminary order last year and firmed it up Monday, Airbus said in a statement.

Airbus called it the biggest ever order by number of jets for the planmaker based in Toulouse, France.

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20-by-40-foot hole at the top of the well that will hold a blowout preventer, and continued drilling into rock above the petroleumbearing zone.

Smith said it’s possible Shell will complete a well this summer.

But he declined to say how deep the Polar Pioneer has drilled or exactly when drill bits might enter the petroleum-bearing zone.

“It’s information that we consider proprietary and therefore not something we would release,” Smith said.

Environmental groups oppose Arctic offshore drilling, saying industrial activity will harm polar bears, Pacific walrus, ice seals and threatened whales already vulnerable from climate warming and shrinking summer sea ice.

They say oil companies have not demonstrated that they can clean up a spill in water choked by ice.

Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune said in a

statement that President Obama’s decision to grant Shell the final drilling permits goes against science, the will of the people and common sense.

“Granting Shell the permit to drill in the Arctic was the wrong decision, and this fight is far from over,” he said. “The people will continue to call on President Obama to protect the Arctic and our environment.”

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that U.S. Arctic waters hold 26 billion barrels of recoverable oil, and Shell is eager to explore in a basin that company officials say could be a game-changer for domestic production.

Shell bid $2.1 billion on Chukchi Sea leases in 2008 and has spent upward of $7 billion on exploration there and in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s north coast.

Shell hopes to drill two exploration wells during the short 2015

open-water season. It has until late September, when all work must stop. It has two drill vessels and about 28 support vessels in the Chukchi Sea. The permit to drill deep into the ocean hinged on the arrival of a capping stack, which is a roughly 30-foot device that can be lowered over a wellhead to act like a spigot to stop a blowout.

The government requires Shell to have the device ready to use within 24 hours of a blowout.

The capping stack sits on a 380foot icebreaker that suffered hull damage July 3 as it left Dutch Harbor, a port in the Aleutian Islands.

The vessel named the Fennica was repaired in Portland, Oregon, and briefly delayed from leaving July 30 by Greenpeace protesters in climbing gear hanging from a bridge over the Willamette River.

The Fennica reached the drill site 70 miles off Alaska’s northwest coast Aug. 11.

Seattle’s Zulily sold for $2.3B

By Anne D’innocenzio and Michelle Chapman Associated Press

NEW YORK — Zulily, which offers flash sales of products like toys and children’s clothing geared to young moms, now has a parent.

Liberty Interactive Corp., which owns home shopping network QVC, announced Monday that it’s buying the Seattle-based Zulily in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $2.32 billion. The deal will create a company with combined revenue of more than $10 billion and 230 million products shipped globally to 19 million customers in 85 countries.

QVC will better be able to reach younger shoppers while Zulily hopes to pump up sales growth, which has slowed. Zulily’s sales topped $1 billion last year, but its shares have been in decline since February 2014.

The per-share price paid by

QVC is below the $22 Zulily got during its initial public offering in November 2013, and far lower than the $73.50 that company shares hit a short time later.

Liberty Interactive Corp. will pay $9.375 in cash and 0.3098 newly issued shares of QVCA for each Zulily share. The transaction is valued at $18.75 per share.

That’s a 49 percent premium to Zulily’s Friday closing price of $12.57.

The companies put the transaction’s value at $2.4 billion.

Shares of Zulily’s shares rose nearly 50 percent, or $5.93, to $18.50 Monday.

The acquisition comes at a challenging time for flash sales sites, which began to pop up right when the recession hit. As the housing crisis went into full swing and the labor market was upended, operators like the Gilt Group would buy the excess inventories of retailers who could no longer sell the volume of goods that they once had.

Inventory levels have since equalized, however, and retailers have grown more mindful of the amount of goods they keep warehoused.

Flash sites are now competing with big names like TJX Cos., which has the clout to work with suppliers that the smaller flash sites do not.

Zulily has a network of 10,000 vendor partners and offers thousands of products. About 56 percent of its orders are placed over mobile devices.

Moody’s said both brands should benefit from combined sourcing, distribution and technology.

Zulily Inc. will keep its headquarters in Seattle, with Darrell Cavens remaining as CEO. The company will become part of the QVC Group, which includes QVC Inc. and its interest in HSN Inc. The boards of both companies have approved the deal, which is targeted to close in the fourth quarter.

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lready this summer, I’ve written a couple of columns about financial favoritism by parents. And the debate is still raging.

The discussion was kicked off following a question I received from a reader who felt that his parents are disproportionately generous to his two spendthrift

Kudos Monroe’s Wet Noses Organic Dog Treat Company has earned Non-GMO Project Verified status for its 100 percent, USDA-certified organic treats. The status was awarded after completion of the NonGMO Project’s review process for GMO (genetically modified

sisters. Despite his high earnings and major savings chops, the reader believed he, too, deserved money from his parents.

I urged him to be grateful that he was doing so well, which prompted a slew of notes from people who thought I wasn’t fair.

I let people have their say in a follow-up column. And yet the

organisms) avoidance best practices.

Good deeds

The Ram Restaurant and Brewery has joined the third annual Ales for ALS fundraising and awareness campaign to help find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A special small batch ale will be at

all Washington RAM locations and $1 from each pint will be donated to research firm ALS TDI.

Events

Economic Alliance Snohomish County is holding its summer networking event from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Strato Deck, 8415 Paine

comments keep coming.

The remarks I’ve been getting are indicative of a culture where the haves want more even though they have a lot.

“Financial favoritism has become an interesting topic in your columns,” one reader See SINGLETARY, Page A8

Field Blvd., Mukilteo. More than 350 business and community leaders are expected to attend. There will be free tastings of local wines, beers and spirits and. Purchase tickets at www. economicalliancesc.org/events/ summer-networking/.

Send your business news to businessnews@heraldnet.com.

BRIEFLY

Millennials stuck renting WASHINGTON — Home ownership is increasingly on hold for younger Americans.

Short of cash, burdened by student debt and unsettled in their careers, young adults are biding time in apartments for longer periods and buying their first homes later in life.

The typical first-timer now rents for six years before buying, up from 2.6 years in the early 1970s, according to a new analysis by the real estate data firm Zillow. The median first-time buyer is age 33 — in the upper range of the millennial generation, which roughly spans ages 18 to 34.

A generation ago, the median first-timer was about three years younger.

IRS: Breach is bigger A computer breach at the IRS in which thieves stole tax information from thousands of taxpayers is much bigger than the agency originally disclosed. An additional 220,000 potential victims had information stolen from an IRS website as part of a sophisticated scheme to use stolen identities to claim fraudulent tax refunds, the IRS said Monday. The revelation more than doubles the total number of potential victims to 334,000.

Firms suspend work after Tianjin blast Foreign companies have suspended operations around the Tianjin port as officials scramble to contain the toxic fallout of last week’s deadly chemical explosions, which dealt a blow to northern China’s emerging economic hub.

Toyota said more than half its China production capacity would be offline at least through Wednesday. The company said Monday that it had suspended three production lines, which can produce 530,000 vehicles a year.

Scope maker faulted Federal regulators have uncovered new violations by the manufacturer of medical scopes recently linked to outbreaks of deadly “superbug” bacteria at U.S. hospitals.

Olympus Corp. failed to alert regulators to a cluster of 16 infections in patients who underwent procedures with the company’s scope in 2012, according to a warning letter posted online Monday by the Food and Drug Administration. Olympus did not report the problems to the FDA until 2015, when the company was already under scrutiny for a more recent outbreaks.

Bomber’s costs botched The Air Force misstated the 10-year cost for research, procurement and support of its new long-range bomber in annual reports to Congress.

Last year, the Air Force estimated the cost of the top secret Long-Range Strike Bomber at $33.1 billion from fiscal 2015 through 2025. This year, it reported the fiscal 2016-2026 cost as $58.4 billion. The Air Force said that both numbers were wrong — and the correct ones were $41.7 billion for each period. Northrop Grumman is competing against Boeing and Lockheed Martin to make the bomber.

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Chg Chg Chg 49.09 49.09 49.09 20.07 20.07 20.07 19.80 19.80 19.80 18.21 18.21 18.21 17.73 17.73 17.73

LOSERS LOSERS LOSERS Spanish SpanishBroadcasting BroadcastingSystem SystemCl Spanish Broadcasting System ClCl Payment Data Systems (PYDS) Payment Data Systems (PYDS) Payment Data Systems (PYDS) Magellan Petroleum (MPET) MagellanPetroleum Petroleum(MPET) (MPET) Magellan Energy EnergyFocus Focus(EFOI) (EFOI) Energy Focus (EFOI) Eleven ElevenBiotherapeutics Biotherapeutics(EBIO) (EBIO) Eleven Biotherapeutics (EBIO)

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IN OUR VIEW | Land and Water Conservation Fund

Fund saves urban forests, too U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene stood in the forest with volunteers and other public officials among Douglas fir and western red cedar, sword ferns and vine maples, both Washington Democrats renewing calls for reauthorization of the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The fund, created 50 years ago, uses fees paid by oil companies for offshore oil drilling leases, rather than taxpayer support, to fund grants and projects to safeguard natural areas and water resources, protect cultural heritage sites and farmland and provide recreational opportunities in all 50 states. The program, however, must be reauthorized before the end of September.

With Congress not returning to work until after the Labor Day holiday, there’s little time left to get that work done.

Murray, noting it was good to come home to Washington

state and breathe some fresh air, said she wished she could bring the entire Senate to where she stood to breathe some of that air.

The forest that was shading Murray, DelBene and others last week wasn’t in a national park or in a wildlife preserve or wilderness area. There are no campgrounds, no tourist attractions; yet the forest has benefitted from three grants from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, DelBene said.

The group stood in the North Creek Forest just a few hundred yards from a residential street in Bothell, Murray’s hometown.

Its 63 acres are billed as Bothell’s Last Great Forest. Look at a map and it’s easy to see how it earned that designation: North Creek Forest is a thin oasis in a sea of development, bordered

by I-405 to the east, neighborhoods to the west, Canyon Park Junior High School to the north and extending south into King County.

Logged a century ago — you can still see massive rotting stumps now feeding young trees — the forest is the last bit of undeveloped land in the area, and was threatened with development as late as the early 2000s. But an effort by the Friends of the North Creek Forest put hundreds of hours into advocating to save the forest and applying for grants and other fundraising that brought in $500,000, allowing the Bothell to purchase the first 35 acres in 2011. More land followed, and an effort remains to purchase another 22 acres in King County to further expand it, said Emily Sprong, the forest group’s executive director.

Not yet officially open until the Bothell parks and recreation department finishes a master plan, the North Creek Forest often sees volunteers who have been rehabilitating the forest, pulling out invasive ivy and other nonnative plants as well as removing decades

of dumped debris. And, Sprong said, the forest already has provided an important resource to public schools for environmental field trips as well as for students at the nearby Bothell campus of the University of Washington and Cascadia College.

The forest also contributes to the health of its nearby namesake North Creek, filtering and cooling runoff that feeds the tributary of the Sammamish River and aids the health of salmon.

As a beneficiary of the conservation fund, the North Creek Forest isn’t as well known as Mount Rainier National Park or the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, but urban forests like North Creek are just as important to preserve because of their location and their more immediate effects on where we live and breathe.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund is necessary to saving more like them.

the primary election. The Times mentioned Lovick’s law enforcement experience with the Washington State Patrol, which in my opinion, is no more than being a AAA responder with a gun. His tenure as sheriff resulted in Snohomish County rising to the No. 1 county in the state in heroin use and overdose deaths. His lack of experience in good decision making and leadership on county issues as Snohomish County Executive has been and will continue to be, if re-elected, unnecessarily costly and injurious to our citizens and to the future of our county. Lovick is a very nice person, but isn’t time to quit placing people in jobs who are not qualified?

things lie at our fingertips every day. But what we are finding is that when the creation and assembly of that food is further out of our individual control, and our hunger for less nutritious food grows stronger, we become less healthy. After consideration of this, we consciously make the choice to turn off the ads, to keep less processed foods in our cupboards, and to return to a way of eating that makes us feel good again.

It’s time to make our past and current hard work pay off in a way that provides true food for future generations.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ■■SNOHOMISH SCHOOLS

What does it take to fire teacher?

You would think that with all the sexually inappropriate behavior by school teachers that has come to light in the past that the Snohomish School District could recognize grooming for sexual contact. Teacher Bill Nicolay’s behavior as described in The Herald on Monday is clearly grooming behavior. (Article, “Snohomish teacher suspended after probe finds misconduct.”) I’d like to know who made the decision not to fire him. Does a teacher have to actually touch a student sexually before it’s reaches the level of firing? This teacher has been caught doing this before in 2005 and received a reprimand after sleeping in a tent with a student! He wasn’t fired for that? Amazing! Now he gets caught again. And trust me, he wasn’t dormant for 10 years, he just didn’t get caught and no one complained.

If I was a parent of a Snohomish High student, there is no way I would have my child sit in one of his classrooms; bad enough that he has to be in the school. He doesn’t need a two week suspension — he needs to be fired. Those who groom kids for sexual contact can be extremely patient.

Snohomish School District — his next victim is on your shoulders.

Lee Wilner Everett

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All bad deeds go unpunished Sometimes, in The Daily Herald, my head spins with what I read. On Sunday, concerning the Denny Juvenile Justice Center, and Monday, the “Teacher’s conduct faulted” article.

The Denny Juvenile Justice Center reported that Ron Gipson has not worked since February 2014 and has been paid while being investigated for sexual harassment charges.

Now we read that he also was paid $23,865 for “overtime he most likely would have gotten” if he were working. Are you kidding me?

Monday I read that Snohomish School District has paid $33,000 for an investigation of teacher Bill Nicolay’s inappropriate contact with a student. This was his third offense since 2005, and includes sleeping in a tent with a high school girl. He gets paid time off during the

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investigation. He is found guilty and ... wait for it ... he gets two more weeks paid time off when school starts! What a punishment!

This is just the tip of the iceberg! Another example are the officers at Monroe prison, lying and falsifying records to cover their butts after the murder of Jayme Biendl. Yep, jobs back and back pay for all!

Apparently all bad deeds go unpunished and paid for within the public unions’ stranglehold on the taxpayers.

How did we give them so much power? Is no one held accountable for their actions?

Why are these public employees still working? Makes me sick!

Kay Heller Arlington

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We can’t afford more of Lovick

I was blown away by the endorsement of the Seattle Times of John Lovick’s opponent for Snohomish County Executive in

Jim Tagart Snohomish

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Local should win over technology We are getting distracted by the cry of jobs, jobs, jobs.

Because of the technology we have developed it is easier than ever before for us to choose a way of making a living and to actually create employment that can support ourselves and probably a good number of others as well. So why do we need huge corporations that will swallow up our kids and cast them off when machines can do stuff cheaper? Why do we need mega projects like the Gateway Pacific Terminal, that will store toxic coal to be shipped through endangered waters, that would be the largest coal port in our nation?

Just because we have been on this bullet train of “progress,” why do we just keep having to have more and more and bigger and bigger stuff?

We love our comfort food, we love delectable sweets. Many of us have been lucky enough to experience an age where these

Dena Jensen Birch Bay

■■MARIJUANA

Time to dispel myths for good After so many myths about “The Marijuana Menace” have been exposed as total nonsense, along comes Mark Staab to assert that not only is marijuana the gateway drug to all the others, but that it is addictive as well. (Sunday letter, “Drug problem begins with pot.”) He also claims that the federal government keeps it illegal for this reason. Not true!

The government’s reasons are not nearly that altruistic. Most of the police and other authorities that I have talked with over the years have a different opinion than that stated by the letter writer. Quite the opposite in fact.

Marijuana does have one serious problem: It will make a lazy person even lazier, and hungry for quick, high-calorie, low nutrition food. This can be unhealthy. I have smoked marijuana for the past 48 years and have learned not to smoke it unless I have absolutely nothing of importance to do. This includes driving the car.

Herron Dawson Stanwood

Clinton can blame herself for email flap

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his isn’t about whether Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, which is likely. It isn’t even about whether she becomes our next president, which she has a better chance of doing than anyone else.

It’s about basic respect — for us and for the truth.

Why, when she took office as secretary EUGENE ROBINSON of state, did she decide to route official emails through a server in her suburban New York mansion? There is just one plausible explanation: She wanted control.

Clinton was no stranger to the rules of the federal government. She had to know that if she used a State Department account, her 60,000-plus emails would become part of the official record. She certainly knew, without any doubt, that her political opponents would delight in rummaging through her communications.

Let’s be honest: Hillary and Bill Clinton do have enemies, lots of them, who show no compunction about launching unfair and vicious attacks. She must have wanted to make sure they never got the chance.

But all of that is beside the point. If you accept the job of secretary of state, you inevitably surrender some of your privacy.

Any public official’s work-related emails are the modern equivalent of the letters, memos and diaries that fill the National Archives. They tell our nation’s history and belong to all of us. Even if your name is Clinton, you have no right to unilaterally decide what is included and what is not.

So I wish Hillary Clinton would be respectful enough to say, “I’m sorry. I was wrong.” I wish she wouldn’t insult our intelligence by claiming she only did what other secretaries of state had done. None of her predecessors, after all, went to the trouble and expense of a private email server.

I wish she would explain why, after turning over to the State Department the emails she deemed work-related, she had the server professionally wiped clean. The explanation that she didn’t want people prying into private matters such as “planning for [daughter] Chelsea’s wedding ... as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes” is unconvincing. Does she have some secret yoga move she doesn’t want the world to know about?

And I wish I could be sure that Clinton is now, finally, doing everything in her power to ensure that any extant emails are turned over to the State and Justice departments. Unfortunately, I can’t.

She stonewalled for so long that recent pledges of openness and cooperation ring hollow.

If Clinton now has political problems because of the emails it’s her own doing.

I have no reason to believe the controversy is enough to derail the Clinton locomotive’s progress toward the nomination. She still leads Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont by more than 30 points in an average of recent national polls. Her strength among women and minorities looks overwhelming. Even if Vice President Joe Biden were to enter the race, Clinton’s “first mover” advantage means her campaign has most of the political talent and key endorsements locked up.

And as she proved in 2008, she is a better candidate when under duress. In recent campaign appearances she has been passionate, unscripted and dynamic.

At the Iowa State Fair, she was as much of a rock star as Donald Trump.

If Clinton makes it to the general election, however, she has needlessly handed her Republican opponent a weapon. Her trustworthiness, as measured by polls, was always a relative weakness. Even if Democrats accept that the email flap is a partisan witch hunt, the GOP nominee will try to persuade independents otherwise.

The legal questions could prove more troubling. It should come as no surprise to anyone with a brain that the work-related emails of the secretary of state would contain sensitive information. Clinton surrendered more than 30,000 messages to the State Department, and an initial review of just 40 emails revealed two that reportedly should have been deemed top secret. Unconfirmed reports — and common sense — suggest there are more.

Were the questionable emails sent to her by others, meaning the responsibility to flag them as classified was not hers? Was the information considered secret at the time?

Was having these emails on her server — and on a thumb drive in her lawyer’s office — at least a technical violation of the law?

Clinton shouldn’t have to answer such questions. It’s her own fault that she does.

Eugene Robinson’s email address is eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

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Percentage of students who met standards on 2015 Smarter Balanced test. Results for 11th grade reflect high refusal rates. *denotes not reported.

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in most grades scored a three or a four.

In Snohomish County, the Everett and Lake Stevens school districts exceeded statewide success rates for the English and math tests at all grade levels. At least six out of 10 students in grades 3 to 8 scored a three or higher in English, and more than half of them scored a three or higher in math.

The Edmonds and Arlington school districts also surpassed state averages for English but struggled a bit in math.

Stanwood-Camano students, on the other hand, excelled in math rather than English.

Marysville, Granite Falls, Sultan and Darrington schools fell below state proficiency rates at most grade levels for English and math.

Lakewood and Mukilteo students were below the state average for the rate of students scoring well in English but varied by grade level in math. Monroe and Snohomish students fell below the math average and varied by grade level in English.

Catherine Matthews, director of assessment at Everett Public Schools, was happy with Everett students’ test performance.

The district spent 18 months training educators and families on the new test format and making sure the Google Chromebooks used for testing and schools’ wireless Internet systems were up to par.

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4th grade

5th grade

6th grade

English

Math

English

Math

English

Math

English

7th grade

8th grade

11th grade

Math

English

Math

English

Math

English

Math

Everett

60.6

62.4

64.2

61.8

70

56

68.1

51.9

72.2

57.6

72.1

56.3

37.3

22.2

Lake Stevens

65.7

67.1

67

62.5

71.2

62.7

61.9

52.5

60.9

56.4

65.7

65

45

35.5

Mukilteo

47.5

51.8

53.4

53.7

57.3

51.9

53.6

45.7

59.9

48.1

60.2

50.9

10.9

7

Edmonds

58.3

58.8

57.3

52.3

61.4

50.3

62.1

54.1

60.4

52.4

61.9

45.6

7.8

5.3

Arlington

51

54.7

58.3

48.9

62.7

50.1

62

47

73.4

50.3

70.8

44.5

49.8

18.3

44.6

50.3

48.3

47.2

46.5

37.1

39.8

26.8

42.3

31.2

45.5

28.5

18.3

5.3

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46.1

42.6

50.4

46.9

58.2

50

55.9

42.5

53.6

45.5

58.4

42.2

12

6.3

Snohomish

56.8

60.4

54

50.2

58.7

47.3

57.2

50.8

47.7

40.5

51.5

41

9.9

7

Lakewood

48.8

51.9

48.1

56.9

57.2

48.8

35.2

27.8

60

44.6

50.3

37.5

23.8

23.6

Sultan

51.4

56.6

50.3

50.9

56.6

44.1

49

39.3

44.1

34.8

50.3

30.1

31.1

14.3

24

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32.2

45.1

41.6

22.2

28

32

37.8

19.4

50

38.2

33.3

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Granite Falls

51.2

65

54.7

41.2

46.1

34.6

39.8

23.3

62.3

34.3

49

27.5

26.9

13.8

Stanwood

54.4

64.6

71.1

68.9

65.3

57.6

52

50.2

55

50.1

55.7

47.1

11.6

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Statewide

52

57

55

54

58

48

54

46

57

48

57

46

26

14

Darrington

results, this year isn’t any different than past years, Matthews said. She and her staff plan to review the results and figure out where students did well and where they need help.

“That work is just beginning,” she said.

In Lake Stevens, Gina Anderson works with teachers and administrators throughout the year to review results not only from state tests but from classroom projects and exams.

Anderson, the executive director of assessment and student learning, expected Lake Stevens students to outperform the state average but was surprised by how well they did. Students and parents should be able to check online in September to see if they scored in the 1, 2, 3 or 4 range of the test. Detailed individual scores are expected to be

given to families soon after.

The Marysville School District struggled to meet state testing standards this spring. That’s not a surprise to district leaders, assistant superintendent Ray Houser said. An internal audit last fall found that the district’s curriculum, teaching methods and testing expectations did not line up, he said.

“Our focus over the next few years is working with the standards and making sure that those pieces are aligned,” he said.

That means revamping the curriculum and reviewing studentteacher interactions in the classroom.

“We’ve taken steps to correct things, but it’s going to take time,” Houser said.

State officials repeatedly have urged parents, students and educators

not to compare students’ scores on the Smarter Balanced test to scores on past exams. The new test is more rigorous and this was the first year students across the state were required to take it.

“I want you to know that this transition period was not easy,” state Superintendent Dorn said.

Overall, the test results “far exceeded what I thought we would do,” he said.

High school sophomores took the English test as a graduation requirement, and 80 percent of them met the minimum score set by the State Board of Education. The 10th grade graduation threshold is lower than the standard for college and career preparation.

The percentage of high .... who passed school juniors the tests are much lower.

Roughly 26 percent scored a three or four in English, and only 14 percent did so in math. State officials credit the low scores to the high number of 11th graders who refused to take the tests. It was not a graduation requirement for them.

“When you factor in that we had to put in zeros for students who refused, that does skew our data,” Gil Mendoza, deputy superintendent of K-12 education, said.

When students who refused to take the test are removed from the data, the passing rates double: roughly 52 percent of 11th graders who took the English test and 29 percent of those who took the math test scored a three or higher.

Mendoza doesn’t expect to see many juniors opting out next year.

“This was an anomaly,”

he said. “We expect every student to take it (next year) that didn’t take it.”

The low turnout of 11th graders could cost the state some federal funds, Dorn said.

Washington obtained a waiver from some requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law because this is the first year the state has used the Smarter Balanced Assessment. However, as a condition of the waiver, statewide participation had to be at least 95 percent.

The high refusal rate of 11th graders pulled Washington’s total below that mark.

“We expect there will be some ramifications from the U.S. Department of Education,” Dorn said. It’s unclear what those will be.

Herald reporter Jerry Cornfield contributed to this report.

Chelan wildfires threaten homes, tourism, apple industry SPOKANE — Big wildfires threatened the Lake Chelan resort region Monday after driving away tourists, destroying a warehouse filled with nearly 2 million pounds of apples and forcing thousands of residents to flee.

The several large fires burning near the town of Chelan have scorched more than 155 square miles and destroyed an estimated 75 homes and businesses Friday and Saturday, officials said. Scores of homes remain threatened, and mandatory evacuation

orders remained in effect for more than 2,700 people in the Chelan area.

The Chelan fires were just some of the many destructive blazes burning throughout the Northwest.

In northern Idaho, more than 40 homes were lost near the town of Kamiah, and in Oregon a lightning-sparked blaze on the Malheur National Forest has grown to more than 60 square miles and has destroyed at least 26 homes.

So many fires are burning across the West that the National Interagency Fire Center announced Monday that 200 active-duty military troops were being

called in to help. They will be sent to a fire Aug. 23.

The blazes near Chelan are burning through grass, brush and timber, fire spokeswoman Janet Pearce said. The uncontained fires were being battled by more than 900 firefighters, she said.

“Today our focus is on structure protection,” she said Monday.

Air tankers established lines to keep the flames from reaching downtown Chelan, fire officials said.

The flames come in the midst of the summer tourist season in the scenic town located along Lake Chelan.

But lots of tourists left

Chelan after the fires broke out on Friday, said Mike Steele, director of the Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce. It’s too early to determine the economic impact, but Steele said it would be “significant.”

“We’re working hard to get our feet back on the ground,” Steele said, noting that many of the people who would serve tourists have either had to leave or lost homes.

“We’ll be welcoming visitors back here very shortly,” Steele said. “That’s our goal.”

The fires also threaten apple orchards and packing warehouses in the heart of the state’s apple locally owned and operated

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Washington farmers grossed about $2 billion from the apple crop last year, and late-season apples tend to sell at a discount as buyers are waiting for new fruit, he said.

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The employees are being sent to Chelan Fruit’s other facilities in the region, Riggan said. “Our other plant in Chelan is fully operational,” he said.

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Atsuki Toritani hands a dish to a customer at his food truck at the Snohomish Farmers Market on Thursday.

Purple food truck is a dream come true for Gold Bar man

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WHAT’S UP WITH THAT

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tep up to this Japanese food truck and smell the bacon.

As in bacon fried rice, bacon yakisoba and bacon sushi.

What’s up with that?

“People here like bacon very much,” explained Atsuki Toritani, who takes his purple sushi-mobile to events and farmers markets around Snohomish County.

This Saturday, he’ll join a brigade of about 20 other food trucks in downtown Everett.

Wait, food trucks in downtown Everett? That’s a double what’s-up-with-that. Foodies usually have to go to Seattle or Bellevue for their food truck fix.

It’s the annual Everett Food Truck Festival. Toritani will be there in his 24-foot purple truck festooned with Mount Fuji and pink cherry blossoms.

You can’t miss it. And you won’t want to. This guy isn’t just a cook. He’s a chef.

Toritani, 61, of Gold Bar, opened Atsuki’s Food Truck in March, after more than a year of planning. The truck’s previous owner served soul food in Spokane. The rig came equipped with griddle, burner, fryers, prep table, freezers, fridge, sink and storage cabinets. “Right now, I have put $82,000 in it,” Toritani said.

He grew up working at his family’s three restaurants in Hiroshima. He graduated from college with degrees in engineering and teaching high school chemistry, a sure ticket out of the dining industry.

“But I felt the food business was much better for me than an engineering department,” he said.

He took over one of his parents’ restaurants.

At age 29, he moved to Washington. “I wanted to take a year vacation before my 30th birthday,” he said. “I went to Edmonds Community College and I stayed with an American

Atsuki’s Food Truck sits on the street at the Snohomish Farmers Market on Thursday.

host family. That was the beginning of my life; that was 1983.

After I finished the ESL program, my host father told me to get a helicopter license. And my father wanted me to be a pilot. So I did. I taught. We used Boeing Field, Paine Field and Renton. We had lots of Japanese students.”

He was vice-president of the helicopter business when it closed nine years later.

His next career was on the ground, behind the wheel. “I used to drive the access bus for the senior people and disabled,” he said.

After five years, he returned to his first love: food. He cooked at several downtown Seattle restaurants and was a sushi chef at Tulalip Casino before starting a food truck.

He wanted to be his own boss. The truck was a perfect fit.

He had the culinary skills and after driving a mobility bus, he knew how to handle big rigs in bad traffic and tight parking.

Toritani expanded his fare beyond sushi.

“I made quite a few menus and used lots of people for tasting,” he said. “When I opened in Sultan, people were not all that familiar with sushi, so a friend recommended Polish sausage.”

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He put it on the menu board.

It didn’t go well. Neither did the Japanese fusion of a hamburger that used a pork cutlet.

Sushi, curry, teriyaki and anything bacon are the best sellers.

Flying a helicopter is easier than driving a food truck in Washington road traffic, he said. Due to the long hours, manning a food truck is no picnic, either. Still, it’s his dream job.

“You can see customer reactions directly,” he said. “That makes me really happy.”

Toritani cooks everything fresh. He’s attentive to the wait.

“Three to five minutes is my goal. When they line up, I tell them, ‘Thank you for your patience. Soda pop is on me.’ If you’re not friendly, people will not come back.”

The demands of a food truck put a damper on his annual trips to Japan, but he’s heading there in October.

“My father passed away. My mother is 92. I better come to see her,” he said. “I send her chocolate every month. Twenty pounds. Shipping costs about $85.”

Her favorite?

“Rolos. She shares it with the people who care for her. My mother is showing off.”

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Where’s Atsuki?

The purple sushi truck often parks at the Chevron gas station in east Sultan.

It’s at Snohomish Farmers Market on Thursdays and Marysville’s market most Saturdays. Look for it soon at the University of Washington Bothell one day a week. For more, go to www.atsukisfoodtruck.com or to the Atsuki’s Food Truck Facebook page.

Food truck fest The Everett Food Truck Festival is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday on Colby Avenue between Everett Avenue and 25th Street.

Another Snohomish County truck is Big Dog’s, the blue-and-green Seahawksthemed hot dog joint with a logo that boasts to have the “Biggest Weiner Around.”

Read more in Friday’s Herald A&E section or go to www. everettfoodtruckfestival. com.

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By day, Wahl, 45, leads the journalism and media communication program at Everett Community College. By night, he’s a comic-book historian. He has two daughters, Katja Wahl, 16, and Anastazia Burnett, 25, and a grandson Dax, 2. He has read 20,000 comic books, and counting.

What does the T stand for?

Theodore. Dad is also a Theodore so I’ve always gone by my middle name, Andrew.

You’re sitting down with a new comic book: Where are you and what are you drinking?

That’d be my front porch. I bought one of those zero-gravity chairs and it’s perfect for reading (and napping). As for beverages, I tend to go unleaded, so ice water or Diet Snapple are my go-to drinks during summer.

If you could have a ​beer with anyone in history who would it be?

No question: Benjamin Franklin! He was one of my first inspirations as a journalist and editorial cartoonist, and there are few characters in history more interesting.

Besides teaching, what’s your dream job?

Not to sound cheesy, but I’ve got my dream jobs. It’s always been journalism and comic books for me. I published my first newspaper, The Shooting Star, at age 5, and my first comics when I was 10. Journalism ended up paying the bills first (I was a newspaper editor before teaching journalism), and comics and comic-book history became the side gig.

Fill in the blanks: People think I am an extrovert but I am really an introvert.

My mom is a quiet homebody and, in reality, I actually take after her. But Dad is a big-time extrovert, and I’m able to tap into those tendencies when I need to, which is handy for someone who gives public presentations on a regular basis.

Favorite superhero?

Kitty Pryde of the X-Men. She debuted in 1980 and was my point-of-view character into the X-Men and the Marvel Universe.

My teenage daughter, Katja, is actually named after her. I convinced her mother about the name before telling her where it came from.

Most proud moment?

Every time I think about what amazing young women my daughters have become. I’m not usually one to live vicariously through others, but my girls make me beam with pride.

One thing you (and others) wish you’d stop doing/saying?

“Back when I was at the newspaper ...” But it’s unlikely I’ll ever stop saying it because I believe passionately in the mission of newspapers and the work that journalists do.

Pet peeve?

Generation Z’s lack of understanding about why the news is important. It kills me! As a group, they care about issues — global warming, human trafficking, equal rights — but are painfully disconnected with politics and the process, and don’t understand the important role journalists play as watchdogs.

Who do like more, Betty or Veronica?

Betty. No question. I was raised by working-class Democrats.

They would have frowned on me dating Veronica.

— Andrea Brown, Herald writer Do you know someone we should get to know better?

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BF’s emails to ex still bothering her

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Carolyn Hax is away. Here is an encore column from her archive.

Dear Carolyn: I just found out my boyfriend and his ex-girlfriend have been emailing every so often, prompted by my boyfriend.

I told him it made me uncomfortable, and he’s stopping. So why do I feel slimy?

— Washington Because the emailing was either innocent, and you seized control for no other reason than your own insecurity — or it wasn’t innocent, and your crackdown doesn’t change the fact that they were emotionally entwined.

So, you intervened and have nothing — no truth, no assurances — to show for it. That could make one feel slimy.

Go back to him, and find out why he reached out to her. Make it clear you want the whole truth, not just what he thinks he should say.

He may still withhold information to protect himself, but if you listen carefully with your mind open to everything his words, face, attitude, even history are saying (instead of throwing up a bunch of must-save-this-relationship defenses), I think you’ll get a good fix on his trustworthiness.

If you can trust him, then certainly he can send an occasional e-mail to the occasional ex. And if you can’t trust him, then you

CAROLYN HAX TELL ME ABOUT IT need to be the next ex in his contact list.

Re: Must-save-this-relationship defenses: My husband cheated on me. He has owned up, is doing the soulsearching and counseling, and we’ve both grown a lot. I still don’t fully trust him and wonder if I ever will again.

We have lots of great things in our relationship. Is that enough? Will I be able to trust again, or am I just trying to save the relationship?

— Anonymous Ask yourself what it will take for you to trust him again. Is it a clear goal he can actually achieve? Say, hitting the one-year mark without suspicious behavior? Three years?

Five?

If it’s just a matter of waiting for the other shoe to drop, then it doesn’t sound as if you’ll be trusting him any time soon. Staying married on those terms wouldn’t be fair to

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3. The vast majority of the Aegean Islands belong to what country?

6. Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was on an Aegean island?

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Patmos. 8. Delos. 9. Santorini.

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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter is 88. Movie director Roman Polanski is 82. Olympic gold medal decathlete Rafer Johnson is 80. Actordirector Robert Redford is 79. Actor-comedian Martin Mull is 72. Comedian Elayne Boosler is 63. Actor Denis Leary is 58. Actress Madeleine Stowe is 57. Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is 54. ABC News reporter Bob Woodruff is 54. The former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, is 53. Actor Craig Bierko is 51. Actor Christian Slater is 46. Actor Edward Norton is 46.

Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner is 45. Actress Kaitlin Olson is 40. Actor-writer-director Hadjii is 39.

Rock musician Dirk Lance is 39. Actor-comedian Andy Samberg (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 37.

Actress Mika Boorem is 28. Actress Maia Mitchell is 22. Actress Parker McKenna Posey is 20.

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either of you.

Since my opening question is actually a trick question — there is no such achievable “goal,” since you can’t prove a negative — I would argue the person you need to trust is yourself.

You need to trust whether you’ve married a good person, trust your ability to sense deception, trust yourself to handle it if you get more bad news, trust your priorities.

The last one is the heart of this issue. Your concerns suggest that having a faithful spouse is among your top priorities. Is that the right call? Forget society — I mean for you.

Anyone who enters a marriage needs to ask him- or herself whether infidelity would be the end. I’m guessing you would have said yes, as so many do — and yet, obviously, it wasn’t the end for you.

As it isn’t for so many. So, would another infidelity seal it, or does your idea of marriage allow for nuance? Even trade-offs?

Every culture seems to have its own approach to fidelity, and that alone suggests there’s room for complicated views. Revisiting your ideals with reality in mind will give you a better understanding of what you need, and can expect, from your marriage. Taking charge beats waiting for shoes to drop. (c) 2015, Washington Post Writers Group

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Woman stung by man’s ‘murder’ accusation Dear Abby: Two years ago, I met a gentleman, and he eventually decided we were “soul mates.” I agreed. Over time, we shared our life stories, good and bad. I confided that I’d had an abortion at the age of 18, which has haunted me all my adult life.

Recently he was reciting a chronology of my life. When he got to the abortion, he said, “... and then you became a child murderer.” His comment stunned me. He finds nothing wrong with it. Was this total disrespect, or am I overreacting? — Stunned In Pennsylvania Dear Stunned: That “gentleman’s” remark was not only disrespectful, but also incredibly insensitive and wrong. It is not against the law to terminate a pregnancy in this country. It is a right that many women — and men — fought hard to achieve.

Because each woman’s circumstances are unique, this deeply personal decision is made for a variety of reasons. Like yourself, women experience a range of emotions afterward — including feelings of sadness and anger, but also relief. For this person to have made such an insensitive comment should be a clue that he may not be your soul mate after all.

Dear Abby: I’m a 33-year-old man in academia, and it has been two years since my last relationship ended. (Her name was “Erica.”) I have always been with older women, the most significant ones being 10 and eight years older. One ended because, in a night of depressed, alcohol-fueled self-loathing, I cheated on her. I don’t make those choices anymore.

I have had chances to RIP HAYWIRE

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DEAR ABBY date, but none has drawn my interest the way Erica did — until recently.

“Angie” is a sweetheart with a good sense of humor. When I’m around her, I start feeling twinges of how Erica made me feel.

I’m surprised by my attraction to Angie because she is only 19. Previous older mates were in education as I am, and Angie is, well, 19. I can’t figure out if this is a genuine attraction, or if I’m trying to prove to myself that I can be involved with someone younger. I admit I’m intrigued by the idea of assuming the role of teacher instead of student.

I don’t want to see Angie hurt by a mistake in judgment on my part. Is it healthy for a 19-year-old to be interested in significantly older men? Should I stop overanalyzing this and give it a try? — Mr. X In Michigan Dear Mr. X: I think it depends upon what you mean by “it.” Young women can be attracted to older men for a variety of reasons. If Angie is one of your students, I’d advise against a romantic involvement until after she has left your class to avoid any possible accusations of favoritism or even sexual harassment.

Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Ely Culbertson was North, which gives you an idea of the deal’s vintage. Dick Frey was South.

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DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ 7 4 ♥ 9 6 3 ◆ A K J 6 3 ♣ J 7 3. The dealer, at your left, opens one club.

Your partner doubles, and you respond one diamond.

Partner next bids one spade.

The opponents pass. What do you say?

ANSWER: Because your partner doubled before bidding a suit, he promises substantial extra strength: 17 or more points. Your hand was almost worth an invitational jump to two diamonds, hence you need to make an aggressive move now. Bid three diamonds.

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It didn’t happen that way.

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South won in his hand and unsuspectingly tried another diamond. West showed out, and East got four diamonds.

In 10 years, contract bridge will celebrate its 100th birthday. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been involved in the game for more than half its existence.

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, August 18, the 230th day of 2015. There are 135 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight: On August 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born in present-day America, on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina.

(However, the Roanoke colony ended up mysteriously disappearing.)

On this date: In 1838, the first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government set sail from Hampton Roads, Virginia; the crews traveled the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information.

In 1846, U.S. forces led

by General Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I. In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing all American women’s right to vote, was ratified

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as Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.

In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada.

In 1955, the romantic drama “Love Is a ManySplendored Thing,” starring William Holden and Jennifer Jones, had its world premiere in New York.

In 1963, James Meredith became the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, wound to a close after three nights with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.

In 1976, two U.S. Army officers were killed in Korea’s demilitarized zone as a group of North Korean soldiers wielding axes and metal pikes attacked U.S. and South Korean soldiers.

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‘Blunt Talk’ tests Stewart’s comic chops

By Scott Collins Los Angeles Times

“I’ve done things in the last three weeks,” Patrick Stewart was saying, “I’ve never thought in my life I would do on-camera.”

Coming from Stewart, that statement demands attention. On “Star Trek: The Next Generation” — the sci-fi series that made him a household name — Stewart played Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, the cerebral spaceship commander who, among other unlikely events, survived a stab to the heart during battle and had his body taken over by aliens.

But those were heroic things. For his latest project, the 74-year-old Shakespearean-trained actor is exploring new frontiers of outrage. On the new Starz comedy “Blunt Talk,” Stewart plays Walter Blunt, a blustery, self-obsessed but essentially goodnatured British-born host at a cable news network beset by ratings worries.

The series, which also features Jacki Weaver, Adrian Scarborough and Dolly Wells, premieres Aug. 22.

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In “Blunt Talk,” Patrick Stewart plays Walter Blunt, a Piers Morgan-like British-born host at a cable news network beset by ratings worries.

Viewers may see parallels with Piers Morgan and CNN. But it’s a safe bet Morgan doesn’t go home like Blunt does and chase a butler around a dining room table with a ninja bokken, a la Peter Sellers in “The Pink Panther” movies.

“Blunt Talk” is Stewart’s first TV comedy beyond guest roles here and there. “This is a new world for me,” he said, lounging between takes in

an elegant bathrobe and slippers on a soundstage in Santa Clarita, California, where the Starz show was being filmed this year.

The bathrobe was for the next scene, when Blunt would scuffle in the dining room with his servant and sparring partner Harry, played by the English actor Adrian Scarborough. His signature bald pate and regal bearing made Stewart look as fit for a revival

Guinness: 26-year-old cat in Oregon is world’s oldest alive SISTERS, Ore. — A 26-year-old cat in Oregon has been named the oldest living cat by Guinness World Records.

The cat named Corduroy is owned by a family in the central Oregon city of Sisters. His owner, Ashley

Reed Okura, has had him since he was a kitten and she was 7.

It’s the second time Corduroy has claimed the title. He was first recognized last year until officials discovered another cat, Tiffany Two,

which lived to be just over 27.

Corduroy reclaimed the title after Tiffany Two’s death.

Okura told The Oregonian that Corduroy is still active and in good health, except for some kidney

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No. 15-4-01090-1 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR SNOHOMISH COUNTY In Re the Estate of: CONSTANCE MCKAY MILLER NEARING, Deceased.

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court. The c l a i m mu s t b e p r e s e n t e d within the later of: (1) Thirty d ay s a f t e r t h e Pe r s o n a l Representative ser ved or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice.

If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, exept a s o t h e r w i s e p r ov i d e d i n RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of First Publication: August 4, 2015.

BRETT MILLER Personal Representative Attorney for Personal Representative: P. Jayson Thibodaux Law Office of P. Jayson Thibodaux PLLC 116 Avenue A, Suite B Snohomish, Washington 98290 (360) 568-2831 Published: August 4, 11, 18, 2015.

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NO.: 15-4-01096-0 NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.010 & .015) IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH IN THE ESTATE OF Daniel Patrick Graham Deceased.

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative of this estate. Persons having claims against the decedent must, prior to the time such claims would be barred by a ny o t h e r w i s e a p p l i c a bl e statute of limitations, serve their claims on the Personal Representative or the attorney of record at the address stated below and file an executed copy of the claim with the Clerk of this Court within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or within four months after the date of the filing of the copy of this Notice with the Clerk of the Court, whichever i s l a t e r o r, ex c e p t u n d e r those provisions included in RCW 11.40.011 and 11.40.013, the claim will be

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Date of filing copy of notice to creditors: 8-5-15 Date of first publication: 8-11-15 Jo Anne Graham Personal Representative 9230 - 56th Ave W Mukilteo, WA 98275 Susan M. Weber Attorney 3327 NW 70th Street Seattle, WA 98117 (206) 612-0589 Published: August 11, 18, 25, 2015.

EDH650848 NO. 15 4 01220 2 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR SNOHOMISH COUNTY In Re the Estate of: ALAN RICHARD CARNES, Deceased.

The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The c l a i m mu s t b e p r e s e n t e d within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal r e p r e s e n t a t i ve s e r ve d o r mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice.

If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the c l a i m i s fo r ev e r b a r r e d , except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of First Publication: 8-4-2015 MARK R. CARNES Personal Representative Attorney for Personal Representative Deane W. Minor, WSBA #12756 TUOHY MINOR KRUSE PLLC 2821 Wetmore Avenue Everett, WA 98201-3517 Published: August 4, 11, 18, 2015.

EDH649438 NO. 15-4-01282-2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH In re the Estate of: VIVIAN MAXINE NORDSTROM Deceased.

The Personal Represen-tative named below has been appointed and has qualified as personal representative of this estate. Persons having claims against the deceased must, prior to the time such claims would be barred by a ny o t h e r w i s e a p p l i c a bl e

statute of limitations, serve their claims on the personal representative or the attorneys of record at the address state below and file an executed copy of the claim with the Clerk of this Court within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or within four months after the date of filing of the copy of this notice with the Clerk of this Court, whichever is later or, except under those provisions included in RCW 11.40.011 or RCW 11.40.013, the claim will be forever barred. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

DATE OF FILING COPY OF NOTICE TO CREDITORS with Clerk of the Court: August 14, 2015.

DATES OF PUBLICATION: August 18, 2015 August 25, 2015 September 1, 2015 Dated: August 14, 2015.

Respectfully Submitted by: BRIAN L. DUCE, WSBA 24613 Attorney for Estate Personal Representatives: Larry Tiffany Address: 7313 69th Ave NE Marysville, WA 98270 Attorney for Estate: BRIAN L. DUCE Address: 1701 Grove Street Marysville, WA 98270 Telephone: (360) 659-9210 EDH652198 Published: August 18, 25; September 1, 2015.

NO. 15-4-01283-1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH In re the Estate of: THELMA JEAN HOLLAND Deceased.

The Personal Represen-tative named below has been appointed and has qualified as personal representative of this estate. Persons having claims against the deceased must, prior to the time such claims would be barred by a ny o t h e r w i s e a p p l i c a bl e statute of limitations, serve their claims on the personal representative or the attorneys of record at the address state below and file an executed copy of the claim with the Clerk of this Court within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or within four months after the date of filing of the copy of this notice with the Clerk of this Court, whichever is later or, except under those provisions included in RCW 11.40.011 or RCW 11.40.013, the claim will be forever barred. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

DATE OF FILING COPY OF NOTICE TO CREDITORS with Clerk of the Court: August 14, 2015.

DATES OF PUBLICATION: August 18, 2015 August 25, 2015 September 1, 2015 Dated: August 14, 2015.

Respectfully Submitted by: BRIAN L. DUCE, WSBA 24613 Attorney for Estate Personal Representatives: Kimberly Dorn Address: 6121 209th St. NE

Unit A Arlington, WA 98223 Attorney for Estate: BRIAN L. DUCE Address: 1701 Grove Street Marysville, WA 98270 Telephone: (360) 659-9210 EDH652199 Published: August 18, 25; September 1, 2015.

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Separate entrance. Must Modern GATED see now. H.R.I. Inv. Inc. All age park, near down1-800-241-7800 town, 1999 Palm Harbor, 3 Br., 2 ba, 1,296 sf with new paint/car pet and move in ready! Fenced backyard, covered parking near bus line and shopping, medical offices. Asking $82,500. Financing available OAC. Smokey Pt 55+ Others Available Bank owned, like new, We Specialize and well built. 2005 KarCall Randy McMillan sten mfg home, 1300sf 425-327-9015 3bd, 2ba, located in acRealityOne Group, Preview tive senior park w/ club house, pool, reasonable lot rents. Home features wa l k - i n p a n t r y, l a r g e shower stall, shed, large deck. $62,500 Financing available (O.A.C).

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For Sale: BRADFORD Exchange Collectibles in original boxes. Details 360-659-1746 Home & Dorm DECOR SILVANA VINTAGE & ART 1401 Pioneer Hwy (Downtown) Silvana I-5 exit #208, 2mi. W 360-652-5590 Tue-Sat 10-6, Sun 4 SUMMER SALES

2 Adj Burial Lots Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Evtt; Catholic sec., $2500. 360.659.1478 2 PLOTS, 15B 5 & 6 Floral Hills, Camellia Garden, Orig $6,000/ ea.

Asking $9900/ both.

785-294-1158 4 Family Plots- Floral H i l l s C e m e t e r y, E a s t Heather Garden, $22K obo 425-252-3388 Floral Hills, 4 plots side by side. Serene, Rhododendron Garden, 2 adj. sites, $12,000 or all 4, $20,000. 425-231-2473

APPLIANCES: We have the largest selection of W/D sets, Fridges, Standard & SXS Ranges and Dishwashers. Star ting @ $75/ea. All come with a full warranty and delivery available. Some o n l y 6 m o s. W H I T E , BLACK, STAINLESS STEEL and ALMOND 360-568-6003

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10ft Fiberglass Werner Ladder. $90. Exc. Condition. 360-652-9114

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2007 King Galvinzed Boat trailer, like new w/loading bunks, $999 425.308.5930

Broyhill headbrd., Nightstand, and armoire. Oak Dining Tbl w/ 2 ext.’s. 6 Chairs, a hutch. Qn sz.

Oak headbrd. with 2 FLORAL HILLS, Rhodo- night stands and more dendron Grdn, 2 plots. misc. furn. 425.290.3426 Both $10,500, incl. $150 trnsfr fee. 530-301-0936 Colorful Twin Comforter Very Nice. 425.252.7530 $20 Call between 9a-5p Desk Older 5 Drawers, 6 legs, good con. $50 COMPUTER: 27� LCD Call between 9am-5pm monitor, HP HNVY, 18 425-252-7530 mo. old. $200.

Loveseat, real nice, like (360)572-4445 new & Couch, real nice l i k e n e w, $ 4 0 0 / b o t h ; 206.953.3246 Bone dry hard wood mix, Cut & split, $275/cord; $750/3-cords text/call Craig 425-348-8665

LOG TRUCK LOADS OF FIREWOOD Cords avail.

1-800-743-6067

Estate Dryer, $75. Frigid FRESH, WHOLE Air refrigerator, $75. Syl- Albacore Tuna or Blast va n i a 4 2 � P l a s m a T V Frozen, $2.80/lb $225 Call 425-876-1197 I deliver! 360-789-8172 Whirlpool Dryer, white, approx 10 mo. old. Moving must sell. $75 Text me at: 360-399-3786

FREE Couch Good cond, w/recliners on end, needs cleaning. Uload, U-Haul. Contact: arlenekh@aol.com

FLORAL HILLS, Camellia Garden, two plots, LOT-15, 1 & 2. Retail value $12,000. Asking, $5,995 OBO. 425-7459086 or 425-760-1053

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MOVING SALE: Every thing new. Newer stainless steel refrigerator, $500. Stainless steel glass-top range, $500.

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China hutch/buffet, excellent condition, $350.

Dinette set, very nice, new, 6 chairs, must see, $700. Queen bedroom set, headboard, pillowtop mattresses, night stands, dresser, $1,200.

Plants, pottery, pictures and lots, lots more .

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AKC BLACK LAB PUPPIES 8 weeks old, both parents great hunting dogs, first shots and wormed $800.00 425-263-7112 CHIHUAHUA/ French Bulldog. 2 F born 6/18. 1 black ($350), 1 brindle ($300). 425.334-0864 Lab Retriever Pups, pointing labs, AKC, fantastic hunting lines, great family dogs, 36 mo guar. Yorkies - Born 6/14/15 $800. 360-631-2391 2 Female $700 - 4 Male $600; Available 8/9/151st shots & wormed. Call (206)310-6285 or email: aguilarid@me.com

2 PINTO Pony Geldings, P a t r i o t i c S i b e r i a n 1 p a ck h o r s e, 1 p e t , Husky Pups. Born on Both older. $1,500 each the 4th of July, blue OBO. (360)668-1109 eyed & beautiful, AKC $1500 360-668-2496.

$1000.00 Reward for Missing Yorkie Mix Missing from his home in Shoreline, WA on 6/27.

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Please contact us if you’ve seen him or know where he is.

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Puppies!!

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S. Snohomish involved in controversy South Snohomish is accused of losing its game on purpose at Little League Softball World Series.

By David Krueger Herald Writer

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Washington’s Dexter Charles, who played at Stanwood High School, started 30 games for the Huskies.

Huskies’ Charles retires Washington’s Dexter Charles, a senior from Stanwood High School who was expected to start at right guard for the Huskies, is retiring from football because of a lingering knee injury.

By Rich Myhre Herald Writer

Dexter Charles’ dream of playing in the National Football League came to an abrupt and disappointing end on Monday when the University of Washington announced that he would be retiring from football due to a lingering knee injury.

The 6-foot-5, 313-pound Charles was preparing to play his senior season at Washington.

He was expected to be the team’s starting right offensive guard.

UW head coach Chris Petersen said in a statement that Charles’ injury “won’t allow him to continue to play. I’m grateful for his

dedication and hard work, and very pleased that he earned his degree (Charles graduated with a degree in anthropology in the spring). He’s interested in the coaching profession and I wish him nothing but the best.”

Charles, a 2011 graduate of Stanwood High School where he was a first-team All-State selection as a senior, could not be reached for comment on Monday.

In his four years at Washington, Charles dealt with a series of painful and often nagging injuries. In the offseason before last season he had two surgeries on his right shoulder and another on his left shoulder, all within the

space of two months. He missed four of the team’s 14 games in 2014 due to injuries.

Charles redshirted as a true freshman in 2011 and then became a starter the following season. He started 30 games in three seasons, and the games he missed were the result of injuries. “(Getting injured) is frustrating,” Charles said in an interview before the 2014 season, “but you also have to come to the realization that this is the sport we play.

You’re not going to get through it (totally) healthy. Nobody gets through it like that.”

Injuries no doubt kept Charles from earning the kind

of postseason honors that likely would have been his had he stayed healthy. Still, in his redshirt sophomore season of 2013 he was an honorable mention All-Pacific 12 Conference selection.

In the 2014 interview, Charles confirmed that his goal was to play in the NFL someday.

“I grew up around football and I love it,” he said. “And when I was a little kid I’d think, ‘I want to play in the NFL.’ If I can make money playing a game, I’m going to play that game as long as I can. ... I live for football and that’s definitely my ultimate goal, to get (to the NFL).”

PORTLAND, Ore. — A complicated playoff scenario at the Little League Softball World Series became even more confusing Monday amid an accusation that the South Snohomish team purposefully lost its final game in pool play.

South Snohomish, representing the West Region, lost to the Southeast champion — Salisbury, North Carolina — 8-0 Monday to finish pool play with a 3-1 record and in a three-way tie for first place in Pool B. The top two teams in the pool advance to Tuesday’s semifinals based on a predetermined tiebreaker.

According to WHO TV, an NBC affiliate in Des Moines, Iowa, South Snohomish’s loss denied Slater, Iowa, the Central regional champion which also had a 3-1 record, a semifinal berth. South Snohomish beat the Iowa team 4-3 in pool play on Sunday.

If South Snohomish had scored at least three runs Monday, the tiebreaker — based on a runs-allowed-per-inning ratio — would have allowed the Iowa team (3-1) to advance to the semifinals, according to WHO. “It was very evident when they did the starting lineups that their four best players were on the bench and they were going to be the reserves,” Central head coach Charlie Husak told WHO. “It was very evident right away what was going on. They weren’t striving to win. We saw that and (our) girls — you could see — it took about a half an inning for them to catch on. We were trying to keep it from them, but you could see when they caught on that the tears started to pile up and it was pretty emotional.”

According to the WHO report, the South Snohomish players “were bunting with two strikes, trying to get out on purpose, and swinging at balls in the dirt on purpose to record outs intentionally.” South Snohomish failed to record a hit in the game.

South Snohomish Little League president Jeff Taylor denied any wrongdoing, saying South Snohomish head coach Fred Miller opted to rest some starters who had been playing in tournaments for more than three months.

“The only thing I would say is that Fred fielded a lineup playing some girls that hadn’t gotten to have much playing time,” Taylor said. “It wasn’t a game that we absolutely had to win and the Central Iowa team took exception to that because the outcome was that they got knocked out. So they called foul, because they said we didn’t play our best players.

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Seahawks O-line shuffle: Britt to left guard, Gilliam to right tackle

By Gregg Bell The News Tribune

RENTON — One preseason game. Just two drives of that one exhibition, actually.

That’s how long it took for the Seahawks to go to Plan B to fix their biggest issue for 2015: settling on five starters for their offensive line.

Quarterback Russell Wilson got sacked on each of the starters’ two possessions during Friday’s 22-20 exhibition loss to Denver. In the first practice after that, Seattle had previous starting right tackle Justin Britt starting

at left guard on Monday. Former backup left tackle and college tight end Garry Gilliam was the starting right tackle.

Drew Nowak, a college defensive lineman who was a practice-squad guard last season, was the first-team center as offensive line coach Tom Cable said this was Nowak’s week. Lemuel Jeanpierre started at center against the Broncos, then the blockers’ chief communicator said afterward he thought the line was slow and needed to communicate better.

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“We couldn’t wait too much longer to do this,” Carroll said.

“It’s a really important week for us. We have to make strides.

We have to get better. We can’t go out there and struggle early in games and take some hits that we don’t need to take. We’ve got

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The Seahawks’ Justin Britt, who was Seattle’s starting right tackle during his rookie season in 2014, was moved to left guard on Monday.

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Texas 11:05 a.m.

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Texas 5:05 p.m.

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Spokane 7:05 p.m.

Next game: Indiana 7 p.m., Fri., Aug. 21

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NBCS English Premier League Midnight ROOT UEFA Champions League SOFTBALL 4 p.m.

ESPN2 Little League World Series 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 Little League World Series 5 p.m.

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FS2 C.D. Olimpia at Seattle 11 p.m.

ROOT UEFA Champions League 1 a.m.

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Big fan turnout greets Rams in S. California Associated Press

OXNARD, Calif. — If the Rams are headed back to Southern California, their long-suffering local fans are ready to welcome them home.

The St. Louis Rams were greeted by a huge contingent of jerseywearing, flag-waving fans chanting “L.A. Rams!” as they took the practice fields Monday in Oxnard, an hour west of Los Angeles.

The Rams are in Ventura County for three days of workouts at the Dallas Cowboys’ training complex, but they’re also providing a tantalizing appetizer for fans who know the franchise is weighing a return to Los Angeles, its home for 49 years until 1995.

Two decades away haven’t dimmed the passion of the fans whose shouts of “Whose house?

Rams’ house!” echoed through an Oxnard crowd packed with jerseys of players ranging from Los Angeles favorites Vince Ferragamo and Jack Youngblood to St. Louis stars Robert Quinn and Nick Foles.

Even Rams owner Stan Kroenke was spotted at the Cowboys’ training complex, which encompasses most of a hotel just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean.

Kroenke, the billionaire who lives much of the year in Malibu, rarely attends camp in Missouri. He has purchased land in Inglewood and partnered with developers to build a palatial football stadium capable of housing two NFL teams — but done it all without explicitly saying he intends to move the Rams.

The Rams traveled to Los Angeles after a preseason loss in Oakland last Friday, and they had the weekend off from practice.

Many players spent the weekend checking out the town: Linebacker James Laurinaitis ran into Arnold Schwarzenegger while working out at the famed Gold’s Gym in Venice, and running back Benny Cunningham hit Hollywood’s famed Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles.

Seahawks free safety Earl Thomas (29), who is coming off shoulder surgery, has not practiced during training camp.

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By Gregg Bell The News Tribune

RENTON — Who are these guys?

That’s the state of Seattle’s renowned “Legion of Boom.” At least for another couple weeks.

Head coach Pete Carroll said Monday the Seahawks are busy planning the next steps in AllPro free safety Earl Thomas’ recovery from shoulder surgery in February. The idea is to get Thomas back to practice far enough in advance of the regular season that he will extend his streak of consecutive starts to begin his career to 91 regularseason and postseason games in the Sept. 13 opener at St. Louis.

“Matter of fact we are on it right now and trying to gauge how many days it will take to get him back and do this with him,” Carroll said after Thomas watched the team’s 13th practice of training camp. “That’s very much a topical issue for us right now, making sure we get enough days to get him right, get him the work that he needs so that he can play. Shooting for the opener.”

So Thomas playing in that first game is realistic?

“Yes,” Carroll said, “still realistic.”

Expected, even.

Until then, it’s an almost daily parade on the first defense of fill-ins.

Hold-out strong safety Kam

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to get off better than that. So we’ll see. We’re going to make it a good hard week for those guys and really challenge them to elevate their play.”

Britt hasn’t played left guard since his freshman year at Missouri five years ago. But he and Cable talked about this as a potential move back in May around the time Seattle was drafting linemen to potentially replace two-time Pro Bowl center Max Unger (traded to New Orleans in March for tight end Jimmy Graham) and departed left guard James Carpenter (to the New York Jets in free agency).

Cable said of last week’s exhibition: “I did not like the pass protection. At all.”

What else is new? The Seahawks have often won in spite of its pass blocking the last two seasons. They’ve relied on and excelled with Wilson’s unique ability to escape charging defenders and make improbable scramble runs and pass completions on plays that weren’t designed to happen the way they often have ended up.

But now they’ve gotten Graham and the potential for a newly reloaded passing game to compliment Marshawn Lynch’s power running. If they can give Wilson the time to find him and wide receivers Doug Baldwin, Jermaine Kearse and rookie

with the third-team offense.

Chancellor blew off his 18th consecutive day of camp in his dug-in stance against his $4.55 million contract for this season.

Monday, All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman was still out watching with a hip-flexor strain.

Nickel man Will Blackmon, subbing because Jeremy Lane (broken arm, reconstructed knee) may not be back until October or later, was out Monday with a groin strain.

So the first-team secondary was Cary Williams and Marcus Burley at cornerback, Dion Bailey at strong safety, undrafted rookie Ronald Martin from LSU at free safety and rookie fifthround pick Tye Smith as the nickel, fifth defensive back.

Good thing it was only Aug. 17.

Asked for anything new on Chancellor, Carroll said: “Just that our conversations continue, and nothing has changed. We’re in communication regularly.

“Knowing Kam and knowing how strong-minded he is, I think he’s made that statement that he’s really got a thought here that he’s holding onto. We’ll see how it goes.”

The fines the Seahawks could give are now up to a maximum of $740,000, not that they will enforce that.

The secondary is so thin rookie Jeremy Crayton signed as a cornerback in the morning and was the second-team guy outside a few hours later. Crayton, a 6-foot,

190-pound undrafted free agent from Southern Arkansas, was in Seattle’s rookie minicamp in May. The Seahawks also signed defensive back Keelan Johnson.

Undrafted from Arizona State in 2013, he has been with Dallas, Miami and Philadelphia.

The team released linebacker Dakorey Johnson, signed last week, and defensive tackle Jimmy Staten.

Reserve cornerback Tharold Simon, a part-time starter as an injury fill-in for Byron Maxwell last season, did some individual drills for the first time since offseason shoulder surgery. Carroll said Simon is basically back.

Simon won’t play Friday at Kansas City, but the coach expects Simon to play in the third exhibition game Aug. 29 at San Diego.

B.J. Daniels made a few more noticeable catches downfield as a reserve wide receiver, then took a few snaps as the No. 3 quarterback.

That’s because Tarvaris Jackson has what Carroll described as a highankle sprain that could keep the veteran and Seattle’s starter in 2011 out of practice for at least two weeks.

Carroll said the team is shopping for a potential new, third quarterback behind Russell Wilson and R.J. Archer. Seattle held a try out for a quarterback on Monday.

Carroll praised Archer for how he played Friday in the preseason opener against Denver. The former Arena League QB was 11 of 20 passing for 110 yards and a touchdown while playing all but the first drive of the second half

LB Kevin Pierre-Louis returned to practice after a shoulder injury, doing some individual drills. He had risen to splitting time with K.J. Wright on the first-team defense last week before he got hurt. ... DE Demarcus Dobbs returned on a limited basis. ... DT Julius Warmsley returned to practice after being out a couple weeks. ... Carroll said top rookie draft pick Frank Clark, so fast and effective against Denver at DE, played through a sore ankle Friday.

He played in all four quarters in fact, so that’s why the ankle is still sore. ... TE Anthony McCoy had a tough game Friday with two drops and a penalty. On one of his first scrimmage plays Monday he missed a block on a wide-receiver screen. He clapped his hands together in frustration over that. Yet Cooper Helfet remains sidelined with a cracked rib, so McCoy keeps getting chances behind Jimmy Graham and Luke Willson. ... CB Douglas McNeil (sore ankle) watched practice. So did LB Brock Coyle, DE Obum Gwacham, DT Jesse Williams (sore knee, likely back Tuesday), OT Kona Schwenke and CB Mohammed Seisay (slight groin strain). ... Asked how he was feeling after he ran into a sideline official during rookie Tyler Lockett’s 103-yard kickoff return against the Broncos in Friday’s game, Carroll smiled and said: “Good. Good.

Bouncing around.”

Tyler Lockett, that is.

Britt got beaten outside by the speed of Denver’s Von Miller on the second play of Friday’s exhibition. Miller sacked Wilson and caused a fumble the Broncos recovered at the Seattle 11 for a gift field goal.

Then with the Seahawks driving for a possible touchdown with the first unit on the second drive, right guard J.R. Sweezy got pushed back and Okung got turned around. That sack of Wilson made Seattle settle for a field goal.

Cable said Monday’s moves are more about getting the quick, athletic Gilliam, an undrafted free agent last year out of Penn State and surprise inclusion on the 53-man roster at the end of 2014’s preseason, among the starting five than it is unhappiness with Britt.

Gilliam played right tackle his senior year at Penn State, after three years at tight end. He can run — fast enough to get behind Green Bay’s defenders to catch a touchdown pass from holder Jon Ryan on a fake field goal for Seattle’s first score of January’s NFC championship game.

“He’s at 308 (pounds and 6 feet 5), something like that. He’s plenty big enough,” Carroll said of Gilliam. “He looks like the kind of exciting prospect you want for the position. We do cherish guys who get off the ball quickly.

“He had a terrific offseason and has come back firing. He’s smart, he’s athletic, all the good

stuff ahead of him. We see a lot of promise in that so we’ll give him a shot.”

It’s been quite an 18 months for Gilliam. Quite a life, actually.

His mother, Thelma Shifflett, raised him and his special needs older brother Victor by herself in the crime-filled Hill neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s capital city. To give Garry a future she didn’t think she could provide as a single mother in such a longodds place, Shifflett sent Garry away from the Hill when he was 7 years old, away and alone to Milton Hershey School. The cost-free, prekindergartenthrough-12th grade home and school is for children from families of low income.

Gilliam is only the second person to make it through both Milton Hershey and college to play in the NFL. Joe Senser graduated from MHS in 1974 and played tight end for the Minnesota Vikings.

“I never forget where I came from,” Gilliam said Monday. “I went to obviously a little boarding school in Hershey, you know, to go to Penn State and be here across the country is huge for me.

“I’ve been given the opportunity to do something, so I’m going to take it.”

Bailey lost 25 pounds to get down to 325 this offseason and onto the inside track to replace Carpenter at left guard. But it now seems the coaches don’t see him as one of their best five

linemen.

In some ways, the undrafted free agent in 2013 could be more valuable as the swing backup at tackle, guard and center that he was last season — especially given how fluid this line may prove to be this season.

“He certainly does have value in that regard,” Carroll said.

“There are very few guys that can just readily do that. He’s a real bright kid and all. That’s a real plus and all.

“We’re trying to get our best five and see what’s the right combination. When you get down to nine guys or eight guys sometimes during the season, guys have to be flexible.”

Britt started all 16 games at right tackle last season as a rookie second-round pick. He often plowed defenders in run blocking but struggled to be quick enough to get out on faster edge rushers.

Now he will be getting his hands on pass rushers far more quickly immediately after the snap, since his assigned defenders are no longer lining up 3 or 4 yards outside of him.

“It’s quicker. There’s no kick, kick and punch (as there is at tackle),” Britt said.

“We’ll find out what’s the best combination.”

Asked how soon he expects to settle on five starters for the regular season, Cable said: “We think we are really close ... after this week or the middle of next week.”

For Wilson and the passing game, it can’t be soon enough.

Jackson out at least 2 weeks

Matthews could return soon Carroll said wide receiver Chris Matthews has a sprained shoulder joint but could return in 10 days.

That is better news than it appeared it might be when he got hurt covering a punt against Denver.

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TONIGHT’S GAME Spokane at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Radio: KRKO (1380 AM) Probable starting pitchers: Sox left-hander Nick Wells (1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. right-hander Luke Lamphere (3-0, 2.42)

Probable starting pitchers: M’s righthander Hisashi Iwakuma (4-2, 3.86) vs. left-hander Chi Chi Gonzalez (2-4, 4.22).

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TONIGHT’S GAME

Seattle at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

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AquaSox 5, Indians 0 Spokane Day lf Yrizarri ss Clark cf Moore 2b Potts rf Caraballo 1b Sanchez c McDonald dh Forbes 3b Totals Everett D. Jackson ss Bishop lf Nieto c Simpson dh A. Jackson rf Liberato cf Calderon 1b Cowan 2b Hale 3b Totals Spokane Everett

AB 3 4 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 32 AB 4 4 4 4 3 2 4 3 3 31

R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 R 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 5

Rangers 4, Mariners 3 H 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 H 2 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 8

BI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BI 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4

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BB 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 BB 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 3

SO 1 1 0 3 2 0 3 1 1 12 SO 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 5

Seattle K.Marte ss Seager 3b N.Cruz rf Cano 2b Gutierrez lf A.Jackson cf Trumbo dh 1-B.Miller pr-dh Morrison 1b Zunino c Totals Texas DeShields cf Choo rf Fielder dh Beltre 3b Moreland 1b Andrus ss Odor 2b Gimenez c a-Napoli ph B.Wilson c Strausborger lf Totals

0 41 5 80

E—Moore (8). LOB—Everett 7, Spokane 10. 2B—Bishop (7). Forbes (7) HR—A. Jackson (5). SB—D. Jackson (36), Bishop (9), Yrizarri (8), Clark (21). SAC— Hale Spokane IP H R ER BB SO Davis (L,1-1) 5 5 3 2 1 2 Lopez 3 3 2 2 2 3 Everett IP H R ER BB SO De Los Santos (W, 2-0) 5 4 0 0 2 6 4 Pistorese (H, 3) 3 0 0 0 1 Cano 1 0 0 0 0 2 WP—Davis 2, De Los Santos 2. HBP—Clark (by De Los Santos), Day (by De Los Santos), A. Jackson (by Lopez).

PB—Nieto 3. T—2:41. A—2,692.

Herald staff EVERETT — Braden Bishop had two hits and three RBI and three AquaSox pitchers combined to pitch a four-hit shutout as Everett beat the Spokane Indians 5-0 in a Northwest League baseball game on Monday night at Everett Memorial Stadium.

AquaSox shortstop Drew Jackson was 2-for-4, raising his league-leading average to .390.

Jackson also scored two runs, including scoring in the first inning on a wild pitch to give Everett a 1-0 lead.

Alex Jackson hit his fifth home run of the season in the second inning to increase the AquaSox lead to 2-0. Bishop hit an RBIdouble in the fifth inning and a two-run single in the seventh to give Everett a 5-0 lead.

AquaSox starter Enyel De Los Santos (2-0) picked up the win, pitching five shutout innings.

De Los Santos allowed four hits, walked two and struck out six.

Everett’s Joe Pistorese pitched three scoreless innings of relief, walking just one and striking out four. Joselito Cano pitched a scoreless ninth and struck out two.

Yanks’ Mitchell hit in face with line drive Associated Press NEW YORK — New York Yankees rookie pitcher Bryan Mitchell sustained a nasal fracture when he was hit in the head by a line drive Monday night, forcing him off the field with a towel over his bloody face.

The injury occurred in the second inning and Mitchell was taken to a hospital. In the sixth, the Yankees said he had been released from the hospital and would be monitored for the possibility of concussion symptoms.

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Mariners relief pitcher Fernando Rodney walks off the mound after walking in the winning run on Monday.

Rodney happens

M’s reliever walks in winning run in 4-3 loss to Texas

By Bob Dutton The News Tribune

ARLINGTON, Texas — This was ordinary heartbreak in the Seattle Mariners’ playbook. A mere walk-off loss by a club that has perfected the art over the years. Routine stuff.

The deciding factor Monday night was an inability to handle bunts, which fueled Texas’ winning rally in the ninth inning, along with a lack of command from All-Star closer Fernando Rodney.

It was a potent combination.

The end came when Adrian Beltre, the one-time Mariner, drew a five-pitch walk with the bases loaded from Rodney.

Texas 4, Mariners 3.

“It’s a good thing I didn’t swing the bat,” deadpanned Beltre, who had a pair of RBI doubles earlier in the game. “I don’t know what they would have done to me.”

It was the Mariners’ ninth walk-off loss of the season, which leads all American League teams and is tied with Cincinnati for the most in the majors. It is their 64th walk-off loss since the start of the 2010 season.

That’s easily the most in either league.

“I say this all the time,” manager Lloyd McClendon said.

“It’s never one thing that causes you to lose a game. We had opportunities to drive in runs and we didn’t get it done.

“We had some plays we should have made it early that we didn’t make. They threw us out on the tag play, they threw us out on a bunt play, I mean, we just didn’t play well tonight.”

But the ninth inning was a fitting climax.

Ryan Strausborger led off with a bunt single that got past Rodney.

“When he came to home plate,” Rodney said, “I saw (he might bunt). I decided to throw the first ball up. But on the second one, I didn’t check, and it was low. I tried to get a strike. It was a very good bunt.

“The only chance I had was to try to flip it. That’s what I tried to do.”

Delino DeShields then put down a sacrifice bunt, which Gold Glove third baseman Kyle Seager fielded and looked briefly at second before throwing to first.

DeShields beat the throw.

The Rangers had runners at first and second with no outs.

The Mariners challenged, but the replays were inconclusive, i.e., the call stood after a delay of 3 minutes, 30 seconds.

“He was getting down the line pretty well,” Seager said, “and I hesitated a little too much. If you have a play at second, that’s the priority out, but you have to make sure of one out there.”

When play resumed, Rodney (5-5) hit Shin-Soo Choo with a first-pitch fastball. Bases loaded with no outs. Prince Fielder struck out, but Beltre walked on five pitches — and it was over.

“I think I made good pitches to try to get out of the inning,” Rodney said. “That’s baseball.

Sometimes when you think it’s a good pitch, close to the strike zone, but they’re not (called) strikes.”

The Mariners had a chance in their ninth after Austin Jackson led off with a single up the middle against Texas closer Shawn Tolleson.

After Brad Miller struck out, Logan Morrison hit a soft grounder to short that moved Jackson to second. But Tolleson (5-2) ended the inning by retiring Mike Zunino on a grounder to first.

Right-hander Taijuan Walker gave up 10 hits in six innings but limited the damage to three runs. He handed off a tie game to just-recalled Edgar Olmos in the seventh.

“I felt like I didn’t have my best stuff today,” Walker said.

“They got a lot of hits, infield hits and stuff. It was just a tough one.”

Texas lefty Cole Hamels, in his third start since arriving from Philadelphia, squandered leads of 2-0 and 3-2 before departing after seven innings.

It was 2-2 when Elvis Andrus led off the Texas sixth with a single. Rougned Odor followed with a bunt single when Walker failed to make a clean pick-up.

Chris Gimenez’s sacrifice bunt almost turned into a base-hit, but second baseman Robinson Cano made a nice catch at first on Walker’s low throw.

Texas got the go-ahead run on Strausborger’s sacrifice fly to center, but the Mariners answered against Hamels in the seventh after Mark Trumbo singled and Morrison walked.

After Miller replaced Trumbo as a pinch-runner at second, Zunino put down a sacrifice bunt that moved the runners to second and third.

Ketel Marte tied the game with a single that fell in front of Choo in right, but Seager’s fly to right resulted in an inningending double play when Choo threw out Morrison at the plate.

That didn’t set well with McClendon: “I saw (Choo) double pump, and I saw him shuffle” and still throw out Morrison.

Instead of taking the lead, the Mariners settled for being tied — which only set them up for another date with misery in the ninth.

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LOB—Seattle 6, Texas 11. 2B—Gutierrez (8), Beltre 2 (20), Odor (13). RBIs—K.Marte (3), Seager (48), Gutierrez (19), Beltre 3 (38), Strausborger (2). SB—Seager (5). S— Zunino, Gimenez. SF—Strausborger. Runners left in scoring position—Seattle 4 (Trumbo 2, N.Cruz, Zunino); Texas 6 (Andrus 3, Moreland, DeShields, Napoli). RISP—Seattle 3 for 10; Texas 1 for 9. Runners moved up—Morrison, Moreland. GIDP—N.Cruz, Zunino, Beltre, Gimenez. DP—Seattle 2 (K.Marte, Cano, Morrison), (Seager, Cano, Morrison); Texas 3 (Beltre, Odor, Moreland), (Beltre, Odor, Moreland), (Choo, Choo, Gimenez).

Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA T.Walker 6 10 3 3 1 3 96 4.60 0 0 0 20 0.00 Olmos 12⁄3 1 0 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 5 4.15 Wilhelmsen 1 ⁄3 2 1 1 1 1 14 5.19 Rodney L, 5-5 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hamels 7 7 3 3 4 8 100 5.23 S.Dyson 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 1.00 Sh.Tolleson W, 5-2 1 1 0 0 0 1 14 2.65 Inherited runners-scored—Wilhelmsen 1-0. HBP—by Rodney (Choo), by Olmos (Fielder). T—2:51. A—19,880 (48,114).

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M’s bring up Olmos from AAA Tacoma ARLINGTON, Texas — It’s seems fitting, somehow, that Edgar Olmos’ return to the big leagues came Monday when the Mariners opened a three-game series at Texas.

Had things gone differently this spring, Olmos might have been occupying a spot in the Rangers’ bullpen.

Texas acquired him in a February waiver claim before getting the deal voided when a routine exam revealed a shoulder injury “I let the Mariners know in January that it wasn’t feeling 100 percent,” Olmos said. “We did some pre-hab stuff with it just to keep it under control and to see what it was. It just got a little worse.

“When I went over to Texas, that’s when the doctor found out it was posterior cuff impingements. So they sent me back here. I got healthy, and now I’m happy.”

The Mariners recalled Olmos, a 25-year-old lefty, on Monday from Triple-A Tacoma to aid a relief corps suffering from fatigue and shell shock after a rough weekend in Boston.

The bullpen worked 19 innings over the three previous games while allowing 20 runs and 31 hits. The Mariners recalled Danny Farquhar on Saturday morning, and he pitched 3-plus innings over the next two games.

Olmos is next in line after putting together 13 scoreless innings over his last five appearances at Tacoma, including two spot starts.

“I don’t really know Olmos,” manager Lloyd McClendon conceded. “I didn’t see him much in spring training.

They tell me he’s pitching well and throwing strikes. We need a pitcher.

He’s the obvious choice.”

The Mariners cleared space by optioning lefty reliever Rob Rasmussen to the Rainiers.

Bob Dutton, The News Tribune

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BASEBALL American League West Division W L Pct GB 64 55 .538 — 61 57 .517 2½ 60 57 .513 3 55 64 .462 9 51 69 .425 13½ East Division

W L Pct GB New York 65 52 .556 — Toronto 65 54 .546 1 Baltimore 61 56 .521 4 Tampa Bay 59 59 .500 6½ Boston 52 66 .441 13½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Kansas City 71 46 .607 — Minnesota 59 59 .500 12½ Detroit 56 61 .479 15 Chicago 55 61 .474 15½ Cleveland 55 62 .470 16 Monday’s games N.Y. Yankees 8, Minnesota 7, 10 innings Baltimore 4, Oakland 2 Cleveland 8, Boston 2 Texas 4, Seattle 3 Tampa Bay 9, Houston 2 L.A. Angels 2, Chicago White Sox 1 Today’s games Minnesota (Pelfrey 6-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-9), 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (deGrom 11-6) at Baltimore (Gausman 2-4), 4:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 7-10) at Philadelphia (Nola 3-1), 4:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 9-9) at Boston (E.Rodriguez 6-5), 4:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Volquez 11-7) at Cincinnati (R.Iglesias 3-4), 4:10 p.m.

Detroit (An.Sanchez 10-10) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 6-5), 5:05 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 4-2) at Texas (Ch.Gonzalez 2-4), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 6-6) at Houston (Feldman 5-5), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 6-9) at L.A. Angels (Richards 11-9), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 10-6) at Oakland (Doubront 1-1), 7:05 p.m.

Houston Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

Shreve 11⁄3 2 1 1 1 3 Ju.Wilson 1 3 1 1 0 3 2 Warren ⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Betances 21⁄3 1 0 0 0 3 A.Miller W,1-2 1 0 0 0 0 2 Gibson pitched to 1 batter in the 6th.

O’Rourke pitched to 2 batters in the 7th.

T—4:13. A—38,493 (49,638).

National League

W L Pct. GB Okla. City (Dodgers) 74 48 .607 — Iowa (Cubs) 67 54 .554 61/2 Omaha (Royals) 67 56 .545 71/2 Col. Springs (Brewers) 51 71 .418 23 American South Division

W L Pct. GB R. Rock (Rangers) 68 55 .553 — Memphis (Cardinals) 62 61 .504 6 Nashville (Athletics) 55 68 .447 13 N. Orleans (Marlins) 51 72 .415 17 Monday’s games Reno 3, Colorado Springs 2, 1st game Reno 7, Colorado Springs 3, 2nd game El Paso 5, Nashville 1 Oklahoma City 2, Tacoma 1 Albuquerque 4, Memphis 2, 11 innings Salt Lake 11, Omaha 10 Fresno 10, New Orleans 4 Sacramento 11, Round Rock 0 Iowa at Las Vegas, late Today’s games Albuquerque at Memphis, 5:05 p.m.

Tacoma at Oklahoma City, 5:05 p.m.

El Paso at Nashville, 5:05 p.m.

Reno at Colorado Springs, 5:35 p.m.

Omaha at Salt Lake, 6:05 p.m.

Round Rock at Sacramento, 7:05 p.m.

New Orleans at Fresno, 7:05 p.m.

Iowa at Las Vegas, 7:05 p.m.

West Division W L Pct GB 67 51 .568 — 64 54 .542 3 58 59 .496 8½ 57 62 .479 10½ 48 68 .414 18 East Division

W L Pct GB New York 63 55 .534 — Washington 58 59 .496 4½ Atlanta 53 65 .449 10 Miami 48 70 .407 15 Philadelphia 46 72 .390 17 Central Division

W L Pct GB St. Louis 76 42 .644 — Pittsburgh 69 47 .595 6 Chicago 67 49 .578 8 Cincinnati 51 65 .440 24 Milwaukee 51 69 .425 26 Northwest League Monday’s games Arizona 4, Pittsburgh 1 North Division St. Louis 2, San Francisco 1

W L Pct. GB Miami 6, Milwaukee 2 Everett (Mariners) 11 8 .579 — San Diego 5, Atlanta 3 Spokane (Rangers) 9 10 .474 2 Today’s games x-Tri-City (Padres) 9 10 .474 2 Arizona (Ch.Anderson 5-5) at Pittsburgh Vancouver (Blue Jays) 9 10 .474 2 (Liriano 8-6), 4:05 p.m.

South Division N.Y. Mets (deGrom 11-6) at Baltimore

W L Pct. GB (Gausman 2-4), 4:05 p.m. x-Hillsboro (Dbacks) 12 7 .632 — Toronto (Dickey 7-10) at Philadelphia (Nola Eugene (Cubs) 11 8 .579 1 3-1), 4:05 p.m.

Salem-Keizer (Giants) 10 9 .526 2 Kansas City (Volquez 11-7) at Cincinnati Boise (Rockies) 5 14 .263 7 (R.Iglesias 3-4), 4:10 p.m. x-clinched first half Detroit (An.Sanchez 10-10) at Chicago Cubs Monday’s games (Hammel 6-5), 5:05 p.m.

Eugene 7, Boise 4 Miami (Conley 1-0) at Milwaukee (Cravy Hillsboro 8, Salem-Keizer 3 0-4), 5:10 p.m.

Everett 5, Spokane 0 San Francisco (Leake 9-6) at St. Louis (Lynn Vancouver 7, Tri-City 3 9-7), 5:15 p.m.

Today’s games Washington (Zimmermann 8-8) at Colorado Eugene at Boise, 6:15 p.m.

(Hale 3-4), 5:40 p.m.

Hillsboro at Salem-Keizer, 6:35 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 10-6) at Oakland Spokane at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Orioles 4, Athletics 2 (Doubront 1-1), 7:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Vancouver, 7:05 p.m.

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W L Pct GB GBlanc cf 4 0 0 0 MCrpnt 3b 3 0 1 0 Vogt c 1 0 0 0 Clevngr dh 4 1 1 3 x-Minnesota 18 7 .720 — MDuffy 3b 4 1 1 0 Wong 2b 3 0 0 0 BButler dh 4 0 0 0 JHardy ss 4 1 1 0 Phoenix 15 9 .625 2½ Belt 1b 4 0 1 0 JhPerlt ss 4 0 1 0 I.Davis 1b 2 0 0 0 Urrutia lf 4 0 0 0 Tulsa 11 14 .440 7½ Pence rf 4 0 0 0 Heywrd cf 1 0 0 0 Semien ss 3 0 0 0 Joseph c 4 0 1 1 Los Angeles 8 16 .333 9½ BCrwfr ss 4 0 2 1 Pham cf-lf 3 0 0 0 Sogard 2b 3 0 0 0 San Antonio 7 18 .280 11 Susac c 3 0 0 0 Molina c 3 1 1 1 Totals 28 2 3 2 Totals 34 4 7 4 Seattle 7 19 .269 11½ J.Perez pr 0 0 0 0 Pisctty rf 4 1 2 0 EASTERN CONFERENCE Maxwll lf 3 0 0 0 Moss lf 2 0 1 0 Oakland 010 001 000—2

W L Pct GB Posey ph 1 0 0 0 Rosnthl p 0 0 0 0 Baltimore 000 301 00x—4 New York 16 7 .696 — Tmlnsn 2b 2 0 1 0 Rynlds 1b 3 0 0 1 Indiana 14 9 .609 2 E—Sogard (6), Canha (3), Semien (31), JoHeston p 1 0 1 0 Wacha p 2 0 0 0 Washington 14 9 .591 2 seph (2). DP—Baltimore 2. LOB—Oakland 4, Y.Petit p 0 0 0 0 Siegrist p 0 0 0 0 Chicago 15 11 .577 2½ Baltimore 8. 2B—Joseph (14). HR—Canha (9), Lollis ph 1 0 0 0 Bourjos ph-cf 0 0 0 0 Connecticut 12 12 .500 4½ Valencia (11), Clevenger (1).

Affeldt p 0 0 0 0 Atlanta 9 15 .375 7½

IP H R ER BB SO Strckln p 0 0 0 0 x-clinched playoff spot Oakland Totals 31 1 6 1 Totals 28 2 6 2 2 Monday’s games S.Gray L,12-5 5 ⁄3 7 4 1 2 5 No games scheduled San Francisco 000 001 000—1 Pomeranz 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 Today’s games St. Louis 000 100 01x—2 Scribner ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Phoenix at Tulsa, 5 p.m.

Venditte 1 0 0 0 0 0 DP—St. Louis 1. LOB—San Francisco 6, St. Indiana at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

Baltimore Louis 9. 2B—B.Crawford (27). 3B—Piscotty (1).

Tillman W,9-7 7 3 2 2 3 3 HR—Molina (3). CS—Reynolds (3). S—Heston, O’Day H,11 1 0 0 0 0 1 Wacha.

Britton S,29-31 1 0 0 0 1 0

IP H R ER BB SO T—2:35. A—22,766 (45,971).

San Francisco NFL Preseason Heston 42⁄3 4 1 1 5 4 NATIONAL CONFERENCE Angels 2, White Sox 1 Y.Petit 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 1 West Affeldt ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Chicago Los Angeles 2

W L T Pct PF PA Strickland L,2-2 1 ⁄ 3 1 1 1 1 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Arizona 0 1 0 .000 19 34 St. Louis Eaton cf 4 1 1 0 Victorn lf 4 0 0 0 San Francisco 0 1 0 .000 10 23 Wacha 7 6 1 1 1 6 Abreu 1b 2 0 0 0 Calhon rf 4 0 0 0 Seattle 0 1 0 .000 20 22 Siegrist W,4-0 1 0 0 0 0 1 MeCarr lf 4 0 0 0 Trout cf 2 0 0 0 St. Louis 0 1 0 .000 3 18 Rosenthal S,37-39 1 0 0 0 1 1 AvGarc dh 3 0 2 0 Pujols dh 3 1 1 1 East T—2:40. A—40,088 (45,399).

LaRoch ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Cron 1b 3 1 2 1

W L T Pct PF PA TrThm rf 2 0 1 0 Aybar ss 3 0 0 0 Washington 1 0 0 1.000 20 17 Shuck ph-rf 1 0 1 0 Giavtll 2b 2 0 0 0 Padres 5, Braves 3 Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.000 36 10 AlRmrz ss 4 0 1 0 C.Perez c 3 0 1 0 Dallas 0 1 0 .000 7 17 Atlanta San Diego Saladin 3b 3 0 0 0 RJcksn 3b 1 0 0 0 N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 10 23 ab r h bi ab r h bi Flowrs c 3 0 0 0 South Bourn lf 3 0 0 0 Solarte 3b 4 0 0 0 CSnchz ph 1 0 0 0

W L T Pct PF PA Maybin cf 4 2 2 1 Spngnr 2b 3 0 0 0 GBckh 2b 4 0 0 0 Atlanta 1 0 0 1.000 31 24 Markks rf 4 1 1 0 Barmes ph-ss 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 1 6 0 Totals 25 2 4 2 Carolina 1 0 0 1.000 25 24 Przyns c 3 0 1 1 Kemp rf 3 1 2 1 New Orleans 0 1 0 .000 27 30 AdGarc 3b 4 0 0 0 Upton lf 3 1 2 0 Chicago 001 000 000—1 Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 16 26 JPetrsn 2b 4 0 1 1 Alonso 1b 4 2 2 1 Los Angeles 010 000 10x—2 North Swisher 1b 4 0 1 0 Gyorko ss-2b 3 0 0 0 E—Giavotella (11). DP—Chicago 1, Los An W L T Pct PF PA ASmns ss 4 0 1 0 DeNrrs c 3 1 1 1 geles 1. LOB—Chicago 8, Los Angeles 3. 2B— Minnesota 2 0 0 1.000 40 19 WPerez p 1 0 0 0 Venale cf 3 0 2 2 Av.Garcia (14). HR—Pujols (32), Cron (9). CS— Chicago 1 0 0 1.000 27 10 Mrksry p 0 0 0 0 Benoit p 0 0 0 0 Trout (5). S—R.Jackson.

Detroit 1 0 0 1.000 23 3 Ciriaco ph 1 0 0 0 Kimrel p 0 0 0 0

IP H R ER BB SO Green Bay 1 0 0 1.000 22 11 Moylan p 0 0 0 0 Rea p 0 0 0 0 Chicago AMERICAN CONFERENCE BNorrs p 0 0 0 0 Rodon L,5-5 8 4 2 2 3 5 West UptnJr ph-cf 1 0 0 0 Los Angeles

W L T Pct PF PA Totals 32 3 7 3 Totals 28 5 9 5 Heaney 6 5 1 1 1 4 Denver 1 0 0 1.000 22 20 Atlanta 000 101 001—3 Salas W,3-1 1 0 0 0 0 2 Kansas City 1 0 0 1.000 34 19 San Diego 030 010 01x—5 J.Smith H,26 1 1 0 0 0 0 Oakland 1 0 0 1.000 18 3 Street S,28-32 1 0 0 0 0 2 San Diego 1 0 0 1.000 17 7 DP—Atlanta 4. LOB—Atlanta 5, San Diego HBP—by Salas (Abreu), by Heaney (Abreu, SalaEast 4. 2B—Alonso (15). HR—Maybin (10), Kemp dino). T—2:32. A—36,491 (45,957).

W L T Pct PF PA (14), Alonso (5). CS—Bourn (1). S—W.Perez, Buffalo 0 1 0 .000 24 25 Rea. Miami 0 1 0 .000 10 27 Rays 9, Astros 2

IP H R ER BB SO New England 0 1 0 .000 11 22 Atlanta Tampa Bay Houston N.Y. Jets 0 1 0 .000 3 23 1 W.Perez L,4-4 6 ⁄3 7 4 4 4 2 ab r h bi ab r h bi South 2 Marksberry ⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 Guyer rf 3 1 1 0 Altuve 2b 5 0 2 0

W L T Pct PF PA Moylan 1 2 1 1 0 0 Jaso ph-rf 1 0 1 1 Tucker lf 4 0 1 0 Houston 1 0 0 1.000 23 10 San Diego Loney 1b 1 0 0 0 MGnzlz ph 1 0 0 0 Jacksonville 1 0 0 1.000 23 21 2 Rea W,2-0 5 ⁄3 5 2 2 1 4 DJnngs lf 5 0 1 0 Correa ss 4 0 1 0 Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 10 36 B.Norris H,1 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 Longori 3b 5 2 3 0 Lowrie 3b 4 0 0 0 Tennessee 0 1 0 .000 24 31 Benoit H,22 1 0 0 0 0 1 Forsyth dh 3 2 1 0 CGomz cf 4 1 1 0 North Kimbrel S,34-36 1 2 1 1 1 2 ACarer ss 4 2 2 3 ClRsms rf 4 0 0 0

W L T Pct PF PA WP—W.Perez.

T—2:58.

A—23,716 TBckh 2b 5 1 1 3 Gattis dh 3 1 2 1 Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 30 27 (41,164).

Nava 1b-rf 5 1 3 0 Valuen 1b 2 0 0 0 Cincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 23 10 Kiermr cf 4 0 1 0 Mrsnck ph 1 0 0 0 Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 17 20 Casali c 5 0 1 2 JCastro c 2 0 0 0 Diamondbacks 4, Pirates 1 Pittsburgh 0 2 0 .000 24 37 Carter ph 1 0 0 0 Thursday’s games Arizona Pittsburgh Totals 41 9 15 9 Totals 35 2 7 1 Detroit at Washington, 4:30 p.m. ab r h bi ab r h bi Buffalo at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Inciart lf 4 0 0 0 GPolnc rf 5 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 400 011 003—9 Friday’s games Pollock cf 4 1 1 0 SMarte lf 4 0 1 0 Houston 010 100 000—2 Atlanta at N.Y. Jets, 4:30 p.m.

Gldsch 1b 4 0 0 0 McCtch cf 3 0 0 0 Seattle at Kansas City, 5 p.m.

E—T.Beckham 2 (7), Col.Rasmus (3). DP—HousDPerlt rf 4 1 2 1 ArRmr 3b 4 0 1 0 Saturday’s games ton 1. LOB—Tampa Bay 10, Houston 9. HR—T. WCastll c 4 0 1 1 Kang ss 3 0 0 0 Baltimore at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Beckham (6), Gattis (18). SF—A.Cabrera.

JaLam 3b 4 1 1 1 Blanton p 0 0 0 0 Miami at Carolina, 4 p.m.

IP H R ER BB SO Owings 2b 3 1 1 0 Morse ph-1b 1 0 1 0 New England at New Orleans, 4:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay Ahmed ss 3 0 1 0 NWalkr 2b 4 0 1 0 Chicago at Indianapolis, 4:30 p.m.

E.Ramirez W,10-4 52⁄3 6 2 2 2 2 Hllcksn p 2 0 1 1 PAlvrz 1b 4 1 2 1 Jacksonville at N.Y. Giants, 4:30 p.m.

Geltz H,16 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 Delgad p 0 0 0 0 Soria p 0 0 0 0 Oakland at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

B.Gomes 1 0 0 0 0 2 Sltlmch ph 1 0 1 0 Cervelli c 2 0 0 0 Denver at Houston, 5 p.m.

Romero 1 1 0 0 1 2 Hessler p 0 0 0 0 G.Cole p 2 0 0 0 San Diego at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Houston A.Reed p 0 0 0 0 Flormn ss 0 0 0 0 Sunday’s games Kazmir L,6-8 51⁄3 9 6 6 3 6 DHdsn p 0 0 0 0 Ishikaw ph 1 0 1 0 2 Green Bay at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m.

J.Fields ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 Ziegler p 0 0 0 0 SRdrgz pr-ss 1 0 0 0 Dallas at San Francisco, 5 p.m.

Sipp 2 1 0 0 1 3 Totals 33 4 9 4 Totals 34 1 7 1 St. Louis at Tennessee, 5 p.m.

O.Perez 1 4 3 0 0 1 Arizona 210 100 000—4 Monday’s game T—3:23. A—16,256 (41,574).

Pittsburgh 000 010 000—1 Cincinnati at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

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CS—D.Peralta (3), Owings (4).

WESTERN CONFERENCE Lindor ss 4 0 1 0 B.Holt 2b 4 0 1 0

IP H R ER BB SO

W L T Pts GF GA Brantly dh 5 1 2 1 Bogarts ss 4 0 0 0 Arizona Los Angeles 12 7 7 43 44 31 CSantn 1b 5 2 2 1 Ortiz dh 4 0 1 0 Hellickson W,9-8 5ª 3 1 1 1 4 Vancouver 13 9 3 42 37 26 Almont cf 3 1 1 1 Rutledg pr 0 1 0 0 2 Delgado H,7 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Sporting K.C. 11 4 7 40 37 25 YGoms c 3 1 0 0 HRmrz lf 3 0 1 0 1 Hessler H,1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 Portland 11 8 6 39 26 28 Chsnhll rf 4 2 2 3 De Aza pr 0 0 0 0 2 A.Reed H,6 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 FC Dallas 11 7 5 38 33 29 Sands lf 4 0 0 1 Sandovl 3b 4 0 0 0 D.Hudson H,12 1 2 0 0 0 1 Seattle 11 12 2 35 30 27 Aviles 3b 4 1 2 1 T.Shaw 1b 4 1 2 2 Ziegler S,21-23 1 0 0 0 1 0 Houston 8 9 7 31 30 30 Hanign c 4 0 0 0 Pittsburgh San Jose 8 10 5 29 24 29 BrdlyJr rf 1 0 0 0 G.Cole L,14-7 62⁄3 9 4 4 1 5 Real Salt Lake 7 10 8 29 27 38 Totals 36 8 10 8 Totals 32 2 6 2 1 Blanton 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Colorado 5 9 9 24 20 25 Soria 1 0 0 0 0 1 Cleveland 000 511 001—8 EASTERN CONFERENCE PB—Cervelli.

Boston 001 000 001—2

W L T Pts GF GA T—3:27. A—27,365 (38,362).

D.C. United 13 8 5 44 35 29 E—B.Holt (8). DP—Cleveland 1. LOB— New York 11 6 6 39 38 25 Cleveland 5, Boston 6. 2B—Brantley (36), Columbus 9 8 7 34 38 39 Marlins 6, Brewers 2 Chisenhall (12), Aviles (7), B.Holt (21), H.Ramirez New England 9 9 7 34 34 36 (10). HR—C.Santana (13), Chisenhall (6), T.Shaw Miami Milwaukee Toronto FC 9 10 4 31 37 41 (5). SB—Jo.Ramirez (9), Brantley (13). CS—Lin ab r h bi ab r h bi Montreal 8 9 4 28 29 31 dor (2). S—Lindor.

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COUGARS | Notebook

Cougars’ Lewis likely to start at receiver this season

By Jacob Thorpe The Spokesman-Review

LEWISTON — Washington State’s smallest offensive player made the biggest play of the 2014 season.

And he didn’t even have the football.

Vince Mayle caught a pass from Connor Halliday on a routine slant route and quickly raced upfield. Utah defensive back Justin Thomas had a clear route to the receiver and if he caught Mayle, it would still be a big play for the Cougars, but not a decisive one.

But 5-foot-9, 162-pound Robert Lewis sent Thomas flying, clearing the way for an 81-yard touchdown to give the Cougars a lead on the road against a Utah team that had a 21-0 lead after the first quarter.

Lewis’ block on Thomas, who had around 16 pounds on the receiver, was a snapshot effort play, a moment of dominance over a bigger opponent thanks to effort that kept fans in a tizzy for a week afterward.

“I get it all the time,” Lewis said. “‘Oh, the smallest guy on the team making the big block.’” I think people didn’t expect it.”

He’s probably correct.

When Lewis committed to play for WSU as a senior in high school, he was a scant 140-pounds. He was so light that the Cougars

asked him to delay his enrollment for a season, a process called “gray shirting” to allow him to gain some weight.

After a redshirt season in which he added more size, Lewis debuted for the Cougars last fall and made three starts. He’s now listed at 170-pounds and appears physically ready to hold up to taking hits from Pac-12 defenders.

But he will always be one of the smallest players on the field.

“I’ve always had that,” Lewis said. “I’m pretty much used to it. I’ve always heard I’m too little. That just makes me go harder and know that people are going to underestimate me. That’s why I go hard.”

Lewis made one of the most impressive plays during WSU’s preseason camp on Monday, turning around a defender on a wheel route to give Luke Falk plenty of room to hit the receiver on his way to the end zone.

Falk’s pass was overthrown and seemed well out of reach of the speedy receiver. But Lewis dove forward with arms outstretched to secure the pass in his fingertips even as his entire body hung horizontal above the end zone.

“Every time I’ve thrown to him, I’ve been impressed,” quarterback Peyton Bender said. “He’s a really fast player and a

real playmaker.”

Now, he appears set to start for the Cougars at the H-receiver position, because of his speed, his concentration and, yes, his blocking ability.

Coach Mike Leach says that Lewis is among the best blockers in WSU’s receiving corps.

“Blocking is really about position first,” Leach said.

“It’s nice to be big and strong but you have to be in good position.”

Interestingly, the undersized Lewis is now in a good position because of his blocking.

Camp notes The Cougars have won an appeal with the NCAA on behalf of receiver Kyrin Priester to waive the requirement that he sit out the season after transferring from Clemson. Priester was dismissed from the Clemson football program and signed financial aid papers with WSU last year, participating in spring practices. Priester has been one of WSU’s most impressive players during the Cougars preseason camp and would likely make an immediate impact if his appeal is successful. … Erik Powell appears to have an edge on Meadowdale graduate Brett Schafer in the competition to be WSU’s field goal kicker in 2015. Powell has been the more accurate kicker through five days of camp, and made a 45-yard field goal during Wednesday’s practice with plenty of room to spare. Powell started two games for the Cougars last season and went 2-of-5 on field goal attempts with a long of 26-yards.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL | Notebook

Northwestern football players cannot form union Herald News Services Northwestern University football players cannot form a union, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, overturning a March 2014 decision and ending the players’ bid to change the college sports landscape.

In its unanimous decision, the labor board skirted the issue of whether the players are employees and left open the door to other college athletes winning the right to unionize.

The board cited the unique nature of college sports in saying it would foster instability to permit Northwestern football players to form a union while players elsewhere in the National Collegiate Athletic Association are not.

“Our decision is primarily premised on a finding that because of the nature of sports leagues ... it would not promote stability in labor relations to assert jurisdiction in this case,” the decision said.

This was the first case before the NLRB involving college athletes of any kind, and it’s the first time the board has been asked to certify a single-team unit in any sport. Of the 125 football programs in

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that that was unfair.

“It came down to they hit our pitcher,” Taylor said. “We made a lot of good plays. We didn’t go up there trying to strike out, like they’re trying to imply. We made a lineup that rested some of our players that had been playing for three months.

To try to downplay the accomplishments of these girls is unfair.”

the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision, the top echelon, just 17 are private schools and Northwestern is the only one in the Big Ten Conference. The NLRB only has jurisdiction over private schools, while state labor boards oversee public institutions.

Northwestern is pleased by the decision and considers its athletes to be students first and foremost, Vice President for University Relations Alan K. Cubbage said in an emailed statement.

“Northwestern’s position remains that participation in athletics is part of the overall educational experience for our studentathletes, not a separate activity,” he said.

Former UCLA football player Ramogi Huma, founder of College Athletes Players Association, which was trying to organize the Northwestern players, declined to comment before reading the ruling.

The unionization effort, along with recent lawsuits seeking to increase college players’ rights, had the potential to upend the business of college sports.

Schools in college football’s top division turned a $1.4 billion profit on $3.4 billion in revenue in the fiscal year

ended June 2014, according to data schools submit to the U.S. Department of Education.

The NLRB’s decision leaves no recourse for Northwestern players to appeal.

“That is it,” Doug Allen, a labor-relations professor at Penn State University who was assistant executive director of the NFL Players Association from 1982-2007, said about such an outcome prior to the NLRB review. “That’s a final and binding result.”

In response to the uproar, Little League officials decided Monday that South Snohomish and Slater, Iowa, will participate in a one-game playoff at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning to determine the No. 2 seed from Pool B into the semifinals.

Miller did not return several phone calls Monday night. Taylor said the West coach was protesting Little League’s decision to institute a play-in game.

“At this point we’re trying to get across the point that we didn’t break any

rules,” Taylor said. “Coach (Miller) has the right to put up any lineup that he feels has the chance to benefit our girls the most.

He did the lineup that he felt did that.

“It was to give starters some rest. That’s purely the situation there. It wasn’t about trying to knock Central Iowa out,” Taylor said. “... So they opted to set up a play-in game for us to play Central Iowa again. The team we beat (Monday) night. ...

And that’s why it’s under protest.”

Alabama QB injured TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama quarterback Jake Coker could miss a few days of practice with a foot injury.

Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said in a statement Monday that Coker’s injury is minor and doctors believe he will make a full recovery. Saban says the senior quarterback is expected to miss “several days” of practice. Saban didn’t say when or how Coker was hurt.

Coker is among the contenders to be Alabama’s starting quarterback for the opener Sept. 5 against Wisconsin. He’s battling redshirt freshman David Cornwell, along with Alec Morris, Cooper Bateman and freshman Blake Barnett.

Coker is the only one of the group to have thrown a pass in college. He’s a Florida State transfer who backed up Blake Sims last season.

The Daily Herald Tuesday, 08.18.2015

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Rookie Fisher impresses Sounders coach Schmid

By Don Ruiz The News Tribune

TUKWILA — With stars such as Obafemi Martins, Nelson Valdez and Roman Torres all appearing in the Seattle Sounders’ first 11 on Sunday, it was easy to overlook the rookie penciled in at left back.

There, Oniel Fisher slipped in at a spot earlier this season manned primarily by veterans Leo Gonzalez and Dylan Remick. Gonzalez was unavailable Sunday with a hamstring strain and Remick wasn’t 100 percent either but coach Sigi Schmid had been talking up the progress Fisher has been making and he backed that

up with the starting assignment in what proved to be a 4-0 win over Orlando City SC. “We like him,” Schmid said. “That’s the reason we drafted him. In preseason I remember saying to (sporting director) Chris Henderson and (general manager) Garth Lagerwey that this guy is going to help us — as the season goes on there will be a time he is going to be able to help us.”

That time didn’t come immediately. Fisher, the 40th overall selection of the 2015 SuperDraft, got most of his early minutes with the S2 developmental team.

Over the first 16 games of the MLS season, he played

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Orlando City’s Adrian Winter (left) tries to move the ball away from Sounders’ left back Oniel Fisher in the first half of Seattle’s 4-0 win on Sunday.

four minutes. In June, he got back-to-back starts against Philadelphia and Portland.

And this month he got 30

minutes at Los Angeles before his third career start Sunday.

“I didn’t mind that I had

to go into training every day and just work hard,” Fisher said. “Put it in their minds that, ‘Yeah, he’d probably be ready now to get out there and play some minutes and help the team as much as he can.’ That’s what I put in my mind, and that’s what I surely put in the coaches’ mind, that ‘Yeah, he’s ready to go, so we’re going to test him and see what he has.”

Fisher has speed and ball skills from his time in midfield at the University of New Mexico. He’s naturally right-footed, but comfortable enough with either foot to play right or left back. And there’s more.

“What I like about Oniel is that he’s not in awe of

the situation,” Schmid said.

“He’s going to come in and battle.”

Even once Remick and Gonzalez return to full health, Fisher hopes he will continue to gain game experience over the final nine matches of the MLS season and the final three group-stage games in CONACACAF Champions League.

“There’s always stuff that I can improve on, and I look forward to improving,” he said. “… Getting the minutes will also help with that – the experience – knowing when to do stuff, when not to do stuff. Getting those minutes would be very important for me.”

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City of Mukilteo, Washington 11930 Cyrus Way 425-263-8000 NOTICE OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE, PUBLIC HEARING AND DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS) Notice of Application Issued: August 18, 2015 The City of Mukilteo issued a Notice of Proposed Ordinance, Public Hearing and a Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for an ordinance to amend Mukilteo Municipal Code (MMC) 17.52A related to geologic sensitive area regulations DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL: An amendment to MMC 17.52A, Geologic Sensitive Area Regulations, to • Allow the city to require a third party review of Geotechnical Reports at the expense of the applicant.

PROJECT NAME: Geologic Sensitive Area Code Amendment Ordinance (File No. CA-2015-002) PROPONENT: City of Mukilteo LOCATION OF PROPOSAL: Citywide LEAD AGENCY: City of Mukilteo After review of the completed environmental checklist and other infor mation on file with the City, the City of Mukilteo has determined that this proposal will not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment.

Copies of the DNS are available from the City of Mukilteo Department of Planning & Community Development, 11930 Cyrus Way, Mukilteo, WA 98275, (425) 263-8000. The public is invited to comment on this DNS by submitting written comments no later than Tuesday, September 1, 2015, to the City of Mukilteo Department of Planning & Community Development at the above address.

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At a State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) hearing, all testimony shall be “under oath”. You should be prepared to make specific factual objections. Contact the Planning Department to read or ask about the procedures for SEPA appeals.

Published: August 18, 2015.

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EVERETT PUBLIC SCHOOLS The Board of Directors of Everett Public Schools, Snohomish County, Washington, will meet for the purpose of fixing and adopting the budget of the district for the ensuing fiscal year on Tuesday, August 25, 2015, at 4:30 P.M. This meeting will be held in the board room at the Community Resource Center, 3900 Broadway, Everett, Washington. The district has completed the budget, placed it on file in the school district administrative office and is available for review. Any person may attend this meeting and be heard for or against any part of the budget.

Submitted by, JEFF MOORE Executive Director, Finance and Business Services jmoore@everettsd.org 425-385-4150 Published: August 11, 18, 2015.

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Notice of Intent to Request Release of Funds August 18, 2015 Snohomish County Office of Housing and Community Development 3000 Rockefeller Ave., M/S 305 Everett, WA 98201 (425) 388 - 3260 Snohomish County receives funds for various affordable housing and community development projects and activities, under programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (“HUD”). Under these programs, HUD has delegated to Snohomish County the responsibility for environmental review and decision making under the National Environmental Policy Act and other applicable Federal laws and Authorities. On or about August 26, 2015 Snohomish County will submit a request to Washington HUD for the release of HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds under Title 1 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, to undertake a project known as Kennedy Court Improvements. Housing Hope, is proposing replacement/enhancement of various interior unit finishes; building envelope preservation upgrades consisting of siding, roofing, and window replacements; conversion of an underutilized community room to a common laundry area; redesign/implementation of an upgraded common courtyard area; installation of new concrete slab for trash enclosure; parking lot demolition and addition of parking stalls; installation of a new play area, re-landscaping; and addition of a new sidewalk. The project is located on three connected parcels in the City of Everett, WA 98201. The specific addresses are 3228, 3330, and 3232 Norton Avenue. Snohomish County has completed all individual activities and logical review of the described project, to which the County intends to make an award of HUD, 2012 AND 2013 HOME funds in the amount of $428,298.

The project is Categorically Excluded Subject To Section 58.5 (CEST) and cannot convert to exempt because asbestos and lead based paint mitigation is required.

Public Comments Any individual, group, or agency may submit written comments on the ERR to Snohomish County, Office of Housing and Community Development, 3000 Rockefeller Ave., M/S 305, Everett, WA 98201.

All comments received by 5:00 PM on August 25, 2015 will be considered by the Snohomish County Office of Housing and Community Development prior to submission of a request for release of funds.

Release of Funds Snohomish County certifies to U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Washington that John Lovick, in his capacity as County Executive consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. HUD, Washington’s acceptance of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and allows Snohomish County to use Program funds.

Objections to Release of Funds HUD, Washington will accept objections to its release of funds and Snohomish County certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if it is on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of Snohomish County; (b) Snohomish County has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c) the grant recipient has incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds

by U.S. HUD, Washington; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58) and shall be written and addressed to U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Develop-

ment, Attention: Office of Community Planning & Development, 909 First Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104-1000. Based on Snohomish County’s intent to submit the Certification to HUD on August 26, 2015, it is estimated that the end of HUD’s fifteen day period for considering objections will be September 10, 2015. No objection received by HUD, Washington after that date will be considered.

Anyone with questions about any part of this notice and comment procedure may also contact Snohomish County’s Office of Housing and Community Development staff by telephone, at (425) 388-3260. Potential objectors should contact the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Attention: Office of Community Planning & Development, 909 First Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104-1000 to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

John Lovick, County Executive 95795 Published: August 18, 2015.

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EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 15 UPDATED MEETING NOTICE Revised 2nd Reading/Adoption Date: The Board of Directors of Edmonds School District No. 15 met in the Board Room of the Educational Ser vice Center, 20420 68th Ave W Lynnwood, Washington on Tuesday July 7, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. for the purpose of the first reading and public hearing of the Budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year. The purpose of the public hearing was for the Board to gather public input before the Board’s second reading and final adoption. Any taxpayer was invited to appear thereat and be heard for or against any part of the said Budget. The Budget has been prepared, copies are on file in the Business Office and any taxpayer will be furnished a copy upon request. The Board of Directors will meet again in the Board Room on August 25, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. for the purpose of fixing and adopting the Budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year. Nick J. Brossoit, Ed. D. Secretary for the Board of Directors Edmonds School District No. 15, Snohomish County, Washington.

Published: August 11, 18, 2015.

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NO. 14-4-01023-6 NOTICE OF SALE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH IN THE GUARDIANSHIP OF GLORIA WAGNER, An Incapacitated Person.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Frank Sargent, guardian of the person and estate of Gloria Wagner, will sell by negotiation the real property located at 26923 Fern Bluff Rd., Monroe, Washington 98272, legally described as: Lot 3 of Survey Recorded in Volume 11 of Surveys on Page 13, Recorded under Recording No 7911070231, Records of Snohomish County Auditor; Situate in the City of Monroe, County of Snohomish, State of Washington , for a selling price of $339,000.00 cash.

Said sale can be confirmed after August 28, 2015.

DATED this 13th day of August, 2015.

THOMPSON & HOWLE

KAREN MARIE THOMPSON, WSBA #8197

Attorney for Guardian

University District Office

4115 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite B

Seattle, Washington 98105

(206) 545-7777 Fax 206.545.0777 Published: August 18, 2015.

EDH652088 NOTICE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF A MODIFICATION OF COVERAGE UNDER THE SAND AND GRAVEL GENERAL PERMIT Cemex - Woodinville (Applicant) has filed an application requesting modification to their existing coverage under the Washington State Depar tment of Ecology’s Sand and Gravel General Per mit (SGGP). The facility/site is located at 6014 238th Street SE, Woodinville, WA. The proposed modification includes the addition of a hot asphalt plant and a discharge of Type 3 stormwater to Little Bear Creek.

Pollutants will be controlled using Best Management Practices (BMPs). Stormwater will be discharged to ground water and surface water according to the SGGP’s effluent limitations. Ecology developed the SGGP with the expectation that sites covered under this per mit will meet water quality standards including the antidegradation requirements. Any persons desiring to present their views to the Depar tment of Ecology regarding this modification, or is interested in the Department’s action on this application, may notify Ecology in writing within 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology will review all public comments regarding this proposed modification. Submit comments to the Department of Ecology at: Tricia Miller, Water Quality Permit Coordinator, Department of Ecology, Northwest Regional Office, 3190 - 160th Avenue SE, Bellevue, WA 98008-5452 Published: August 11, 18, 2015.

EDH650838

Summons NO. 15-7-00371-3 Notice and Summons by Publication (Dependency) (SMPB) SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SKAGIT JUVENILE COURT Dependency of: ALEXZANDRIA DAWN SPIERS DOB: 04/30/15 To: RICHARD C. LINDBLOOM AND ANY AND ALL PUTATIVE FATHERS OR ANY PERSON CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN ALEXANDRIA DAWN SPIERS: A Dependency Petition was filed May 5, 2015; A Fact Finding hearing will be held on this matter on: September 1, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. at Skagit County Superior Court, 205 West Kincaid Street, Mount Vernon, WA 98273. You should be present at this hearing.

The hearing will determine if your child is dependent as defined in RCW 13.34.050(5). This begins a judicial process which could result in permanent loss of your parental rights. If you do not appear at the hearing, the court may enter a dependency order in your absence.

To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Dependency Petition, call DSHS at (360) 416-7200.

To view information about your rights, including right to a lawyer, go to www.atg.wa.gov/DPY.aspx.

Dated: July 28, 2015.

By direction of the Honorable

Brian L. Stiles

Mavis E. Betz, Clerk

By: Linda Petrzelka, Deputy Clerk Published: August 4, 11, 18, 2015.

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Tuesday, 08.18.2015 The Daily Herald TODAY

Western WA Northwest Weather

83°59°

Abundant sunshine today. Very warm and pleasant on the Olympic Peninsula; pleasant near the coast. Mainly clear tonight.

Bellingham 83/58

Sunny and very warm

TOMORROW

83°61° Mostly sunny, staying warm

THURSDAY

Mountains

Stanwood 78/57

Arlington Eastern WA 85/54 Granite Sunshine today; pleasant Falls in the east. Mainly clear Marysvile 85/55 tonight. Partly sunny 82/56 tomorrow; hot. Thursday Langley EVERETT Lake Stevens and Friday: partly sunny.

83/59 76/59 85/55 Mukilteo Snohomish Gold Bar 78/61 86/59 89/61 Lynnwood Mill Creek Index Monroe Sultan 81/61 90/62 81/61 86/59 89/61

70°58° 71°57°

Kirkland 84/62

Chance of a few showers

SATURDAY

74°57° More weekend sunshine

Mount Vernon 82/55

Oak Harbor 71/58

More clouds, cooler

FRIDAY

Brilliant sunshine today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine across the north tomorrow; partly sunny in the south.

Seattle 87/62

Redmond 85/61

Bellevue 84/64

Port Orchard 87/56

Puget Sound

Everett Low High Low High

Almanac

Time

2:00 a.m.

7:42 a.m.

1:53 p.m.

8:21 p.m.

Feet

3.5 9.0 2.1 10.5

Wind northwest at 7-14 knots today. Seas 2-4 feet. Visibility clear. Wind northwest 7-14 knots tonight. Seas 3-5 feet.

Mainly clear.

Port Townsend Low High Low High

Time

1:03 a.m.

7:01 a.m.

12:53 p.m.

7:48 p.m.

Feet 3.2 6.5 1.9 8.0

Everett

Arlington

Whidbey Island

Air Quality Index

Pollen Index

Sun and Moon

Yesterday’s offender ....... Particulates

Today

Sunrise today ....................... 6:07 a.m.

Sunset tonight ..................... 8:17 p.m.

Moonrise today ................. 10:15 a.m.

Moonset today ..................... 9:58 p.m.

through 5 p.m. yesterday High/low ..................................... 75/54 Normal high/low ....................... 73/55 Records (1967/1969) ................. 89/43 Barometric pressure (noon) ... 30.15 S 24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.00” Month to date ............................. 1.00” Normal month to date ............... 0.52” Year to date ............................... 12.69” Normal year to date ................. 19.16”

Good: 0-50; Moderate: 51-100, Unhealthy (for sensitive groups): 101-150; Unhealthy: 151-200; Very unhealthy: 201300; Hazardous: 301-500 WA Dept. of Environmental Quality

More Information Road Reports:

www.wsdot.wa.gov

Avalanche Reports:

www.nwac.noaa.gov

Burn Ban Information: Puget Sound: 1-800-595-4341 Website: www.pscleanair.org Forecasts and graphics, except the KIRO 5-day forecast, provided

by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015

through 5 p.m. yesterday High/low ..................................... 79/50 Normal high/low ....................... 73/55 Records (2012/2011) ................. 88/47 Barometric pressure (noon) ... 30.13 F 24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.00” Month to date ............................. 1.14” Normal month to date ............... 0.71” Year to date ............................... 21.85” Normal year to date ................. 26.70”

World Weather City

Today Hi/Lo/W Amsterdam 63/56/sh Athens 92/76/s Baghdad 116/85/s Bangkok 99/80/t Beijing 91/66/t Berlin 75/57/c Buenos Aires 66/46/pc Cairo 98/77/s Dublin 69/55/pc Hong Kong 91/82/c Jerusalem 94/73/s Johannesburg 76/49/s London 70/56/pc

through 5 p.m. yesterday High/low ..................................... 68/47 Normal high/low ....................... 67/52 Records (1977/1966) ................. 90/41 Barometric pressure (noon) ... 30.19 S 24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.00” Month to date ............................. 0.61” Normal month to date ............... 0.41” Year to date ................................. 9.79” Normal year to date ................. 11.01”

First Aug 22

Source: NAB

Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 69/56/sh 93/75/s 118/86/s 100/80/t 78/65/pc 77/55/s 57/45/pc 99/78/s 66/54/r 92/81/t 91/71/s 77/52/s 71/61/pc

Full Aug 29

Last Sep 5

City

n Tryouts for the Seattle Tides Baseball Club’s 16-U and 18-U teams are scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon on Aug. 22 at Kamiak High School. For more information, visit www.seattletides.org. n The City of Edmonds is offering Fall Adult Softball Leagues. Both men’s and coed divisions are available. League play starts Aug. 25, with all games at Meadowdale Playfields. The team fee is $570. For more information, visit www.reczone.org or call Todd at 425-771-0229.

Basketball n The City of Edmonds is offering a 3-on-3 Half Court Basketball League on Wednesday nights. Games start Sept. 30.

The team fee is $265. For more information, visit www.reczone.org or call Todd at 425-771-0229.

Golf n The first annual Todd Evans Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament is scheduled for noon on Sept. 13 at Gleneagle Golf Course in Arlington. The format is a fourperson scramble. The entry fee is $80 and includes golf, a cart and dinner. The proceeds go toward scholarships for Arlington High School seniors. For more information, call Mike Evans at 425-319-7513 or Tom Bosket at 425-923-5853.

Hockey n Everett Youth Hockey is offering a Try Hockey for Free Day at 2:15 p.m. on Sept. 12 at the Xfinity Community Ice Rink in Everett. The event is for players ages 4-9. Protective gear will be provided free of charge by

New Sep 12

Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Madrid 91/66/s 92/67/pc Manila 92/80/t 90/81/t Mexico City 74/54/t 77/57/t Moscow 58/49/c 64/45/pc Paris 72/55/pc 77/59/pc Rio de Janeiro 82/71/pc 84/68/sh Riyadh 111/82/s 111/80/s Rome 82/64/s 79/62/t Singapore 89/78/pc 89/79/pc Stockholm 72/51/s 71/49/s Sydney 60/47/s 63/48/pc Tokyo 90/79/t 89/78/pc Toronto 83/66/t 84/68/t

COMMUNITY | Bulletin Board Baseball/Softball

Washington Bellingham Colville Ellensburg Forks Friday Harbor Moses Lake Ocean Shores Olympia Port Angeles Pullman Spokane Seattle Tacoma Walla Walla Wenatchee Yakima Idaho Boise Coeur d’Alene Sun Valley Oregon Astoria Bend Eugene Klamath Falls Medford Portland

the EYH Booster Club. Participants should arrive 60 minutes early in order to check in and be issued gear. For more information or to register, visit www.eyhbc.org or send an e-mail to info@eyhbc.org.

Pickle Ball n The City of Edmonds is offering Adult Pickle Ball Leagues on Monday nights (singles) and Tuesday nights (doubles).

Men’s, women’s and mixed divisions are available. League play starts Sept. 14.

The costs are $35 for residents and $40 for non-residents. For more information, visit www.reczone.org or call Todd at 425-771-0229.

Tennis n A free Tennis Camp for athletes with disabilities of any kind is scheduled from Aug. 31-Sept. 2 at Snohomish High School. Sessions are from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Racquets will be provided. For more information, call Drake at 425-377-2140 or Kirsten at 425-308-0048, or e-mail mrboombiewilson@yahoo.com.

Volleyball n The City of Edmonds is accepting registration for its Adult Co-Rec Competitive Volleyball Leagues on Tuesday nights at Edmonds Community College. Play starts Oct. 6. The team fee is $290. For more information, visit www.reczone.org or call Todd at 425-771-0229.

Items for the Bulletin Board can be submitted by e-mail (sports@heraldnet.com), by fax (425-339-3435) or by mail (P.O. Box 930, Everett, Wash.). The deadline is noon Sunday.

City

Vancouver

78/60

Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 83/58/s 88/57/s 95/56/s 87/53/s 81/53/s 92/56/s 78/59/s 89/54/s 78/54/s 85/49/s 86/60/s 87/62/s 86/56/s 91/64/s 94/66/s 94/56/s

Everett 83/59

Port Angeles

91/64/s 89/58/s 80/51/s

Calgary 68/45

83/58/s 89/53/s 99/57/s 94/50/s 105/64/s 98/65/s

76/58/pc 91/53/s 96/56/s 93/48/s 103/61/s 95/61/pc Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 87/70/t 91/61/s 73/53/pc 68/49/s 85/71/t 83/73/pc 97/73/t 82/71/t 84/75/t 78/55/s 84/70/t 91/64/s 85/68/pc 86/67/t 90/71/t 88/75/t 84/70/t 88/71/t 69/46/pc 77/57/t 81/60/t 87/63/t 85/65/t 84/66/t 73/53/pc 72/56/pc 84/64/t 99/72/s 80/60/t 55/46/sh 68/50/pc 90/77/t 102/70/s 80/60/t 84/71/t 88/67/pc 89/77/pc 91/77/t 80/60/t

Redding 107/68

Roseburg Salem Montana Butte Great Falls Missoula Alaska Anchorage

101/62/s 99/62/s

99/60/s 96/58/pc

68/38/s 67/45/pc 78/46/s

76/41/s 82/52/s 84/49/s

68/52/sh

68/49/s

Today Hi/Lo/W Jackson, MS 92/73/t Kansas City 76/56/t Knoxville 80/70/t Las Vegas 107/79/s Little Rock 92/73/t Los Angeles 83/65/pc Louisville 87/73/pc Lubbock 94/63/s Memphis 89/73/t Miami 92/79/t Milwaukee 79/68/c Minneapolis 67/58/r Mobile 86/75/t Montgomery 89/74/t Newark 95/73/s New Orleans 88/78/t New York City 91/75/s Norfolk 88/72/pc Oakland 76/60/pc Oklahoma City 90/61/t Omaha 75/56/t Orlando 91/75/t Palm Springs 111/79/s Philadelphia 93/74/t Phoenix 107/85/s Pittsburgh 81/68/r Portland, ME 85/64/pc Portland, OR 98/65/s Providence 88/70/t

Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 90/72/t 74/55/pc 82/70/t 106/79/s 84/64/t 81/65/pc 82/64/t 77/57/s 83/67/t 91/79/t 76/59/t 62/55/r 87/74/t 88/73/t 85/72/pc 87/78/t 84/74/pc 84/73/t 76/61/pc 69/53/t 73/57/pc 92/75/t 111/79/s 85/74/t 106/84/s 85/69/t 83/64/pc 95/61/pc 84/67/pc

City

Barrow 37/32/sh Fairbanks 61/50/sh Juneau 62/53/r British Columbia Chilliwack 90/59/s Kelowna 84/52/s Vancouver 78/60/s Victoria 81/56/s City

Today Hi/Lo/W Raleigh 80/70/t Rapid City 59/45/r Reno 98/62/s Richmond 88/70/t Sacramento 97/61/s St. Louis 88/69/t St. Petersburg 89/76/t Salt Lake City 84/58/s San Antonio 97/79/s San Diego 79/68/pc San Francisco 76/60/pc San Jose 85/60/pc Stockton 100/61/s Syracuse 88/69/pc Tallahassee 91/76/t Tampa 89/77/t Tempe 105/81/s Topeka 76/58/t Tucson 103/77/s Tulsa 86/63/t Washington, DC 92/74/t Wichita 83/59/t Winston-Salem 77/69/t Yuma 112/82/s

38/33/c 55/46/sh 62/51/sh 86/57/s 92/54/s 76/59/s 77/55/s Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 86/72/t 68/45/pc 98/60/s 83/72/t 93/59/s 76/60/t 89/77/t 87/64/s 97/78/t 78/68/pc 74/61/pc 82/61/pc 96/59/s 87/71/t 92/76/t 89/78/t 105/80/s 74/55/pc 102/76/s 69/56/t 84/76/t 74/56/t 84/70/t 109/83/s

Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

National Extremes (for the 48 contiguous states) High: Death Valley, CA .................. 122 Low: Wisdom, MT ............................ 27

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.

Cornett shoots 74 at U.S. Amateur Herald staff

Kyle Cornett of Mill Creek opened with a 4-over-par 74 Monday during the first of two stroke-play rounds at the United States Amateur golf tournament at Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Ill. Cornett, playing the North Course in Monday’s round, had bogeys on the fourth and fifth holes and a birdie at No. 6 to make the turn at 1-over. But he had bogeys on three of his last five holes.

Cornett is tied with 33 other golfers for 151st place after the first round.

Matt NeSmith of North Augusta, South Carolina shot a 65 to take the lead after the first round. NeSmith played on Olympia Fields CC’s South Course.

The 20-year-old Cornett, a 2013 graduate of Jackson High School and a junior-to-be member of the Seattle University golf team, will play Tuesday’s second round on Olympia Fields CC’s South Course.

The tournament began with 312 golfers representing 20 countries. After today’s second round, the field will be cut to 64 and the tournament will continue in a match-play format with a champion decided Sunday.

Woods to play in Wyndham Championship Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — Tiger Woods will play the Wyndham Championship for the first time.

In an email to The Associated Press on Monday, agent Mark Steinberg confirmed that Woods will play in Greensboro this week.

That ends a few days of uncertainty around Sedgefield County Club, the site of the final tournament of golf’s regular season.

Woods created a stir by entering the field just ahead of the deadline last Friday.

But after closing out a 73 and missing the cut at the PGA Championship in Sheboygan,

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Kelowna 84/52

83/56

89/60/s 85/53/s 80/48/s

Today Hi/Lo/W Albany 91/70/s Albuquerque 97/63/s Amarillo 89/55/s Anchorage 68/52/sh Atlanta 85/72/t Atlantic City 85/74/s Austin 97/75/s Baltimore 89/70/t Baton Rouge 89/76/t Billings 67/48/pc Birmingham 84/71/t Boise 89/60/s Boston 88/71/t Buffalo 83/69/pc Burlington, VT 90/70/t Charleston, SC 85/75/t Charleston, WV 82/69/pc Charlotte 82/71/t Cheyenne 65/43/t Chicago 82/68/c Cincinnati 84/68/pc Cleveland 82/67/t Columbus, OH 81/70/pc Dallas 98/78/s Denver 72/48/t Des Moines 74/57/t Detroit 82/70/t El Paso 101/76/s Evansville 86/72/t Fairbanks 61/50/sh Fargo 67/54/sh Fort Myers 92/76/t Fresno 104/69/s Grand Rapids 82/70/t Greensboro 77/69/t Hartford 92/69/t Honolulu 89/75/sh Houston 94/78/t Indianapolis 84/69/pc

Bellingham

83/58

78/54 81/59/s Medicine Hat Seattle 68/45 92/60/s 87/62 Libby Spokane Tacoma 96/63/pc 83/46 86/60 86/56 77/55/pc Yakima Coeur d’Alene 94/56 76/52/s Portland 85/53 98/65 Great Falls Walla Walla 95/60/s Newport Lewiston Missoula 67/45 91/64 73/57/pc 70/53 91/61 78/46 Salem 90/55/pc 99/62 Helena Pendleton 76/54/s 70/45 90/59 90/56/s Eugene Bend 99/57 Butte 90/62/s 89/53 68/38 Ontario 88/59/pc 93/56 Medford 90/57/pc Boise 105/64 96/69/s 89/60 Klamath Falls 96/69/pc Eureka 94/50 Idaho Falls Twin Falls 98/60/s 70/54 78/45

National Weather

Auburn 87/59

Tacoma 86/56

Tides

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Wisconsin, he hedged a bit. He said he would “go through it with my team” to “see if that’s the right move or not.”

On Monday morning, Wyndham tournament director Mark Brazil sent out a brief tweet: “Bam! Tiger is coming!”

The first round begins Thursday.

The Wyndham annually is the last chance for the PGA Tour’s bubble players to play their way into the FedEx Cup playoffs. They begin next week at The Barclays in New Jersey.

Woods — who’s at No. 187 on the points list — comes to Greensboro rather far from the bubble.

Only the top 125 players reach the playoffs.

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