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In messages ordered released by a judge, Jaylen Fryberg’s ex-girlfriend tried to tell his father about his state of mind. By Diana Hefley, Scott North, Rikki King and Eric Stevick Herald Writers
EVERETT — The girl sent Jaylen Fryberg’s dad a text message, asking him to make sure his son
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just kidding. Jaylen’s former girlfriend was worried that he wasn’t thinking straight. That morning, Jaylen sent the girl’s sister a picture of a handgun. He said he wanted to talk to his former girlfriend. “So I called him. And told him to stop,” the former girlfriend See MPHS, Page A2
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Ron and Gayle Chew are this year’s Centennial Farm Family of the Evergreen State Fair.
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GRANITE FALLS — There are a lot of memories on the Chew family farm. It’s a slice of the scenic land Francis Henry Small and his wife, Elvira, homesteaded in 1888. It’s where Wesley “Uncle Wes” Chew milked 13 cows by hand and left the jugs alongside the rural road for the Darigold truck to pick up. There once was a large vegetable garden the Chew children weeded for 5 cents per bucket. The family rescued their old barn from clinging blackberry bushes and decorated their yard with
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didn’t do anything stupid. When she sent that text, at 10:43 a.m. on Oct. 24, she didn’t know that Jaylen, a 15-year-old freshman, already had shot five of his friends and killed himself in a Marysville Pilchuck High School cafeteria.
She and Jaylen had ended a long-term relationship the weekend before after going together to the homecoming dance. In the days after, he’d been texting her and sending messages through friends, insisting that she return his calls. At times he was angry. At times he was sad and apologetic. He repeatedly threatened to kill himself — and then said he was
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By Jerry Cornfield EVERETT — State attorneys went after Tim Eyman’s bank records Thursday as they investigate whether he allegedly helped move money among two initiative campaigns in 2012, earning tens of thousands of dollars in the process. A motion filed in Snohomish County Superior Court seeks to compel the Mukilteo resident to turn over records to the Public Disclosure Commission. It’s trying to determine if a series of transactions involving Eyman and a signature-gathering firm violated any election laws. The PDC has been seeking the records since December 2013. Eyman has been ordered to appear in court Sept. 22 to respond. Eyman declined to comment Thursday, but he previously testified under oath that he did nothing wrong. His attorney, Mark Lamb of Bothell, said he had not seen the filing. “Tim has cooperated to date. We have provided a voluminous amount of information,” he said. “It appears they are seeking additional information.” Thursday’s filing is part of the PDC’s probe of allegations that some of the money Eyman helped raised in support of Initiative 1185 was improperly used for the gathering of signatures for another ballot measure he backed, Initiative 517. Under state election law, money can be moved from one political committee to another but it must be disclosed in reports to the commission. And the sources of the money that is getting shifted must be revealed as well. Initiative 1185, which required any tax increase to be passed by a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate, was approved by voters in November 2012. It has since been struck down by the state Supreme Court.
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the antique tractors Ron Chew collects. This year, the Chews were recognized by Snohomish County as the Centennial Farm Family, an award given out since 2000 during the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe. The award recognizes farms that have been in continuous operation and owned by the same family for 100 years or more. Ron, 69, and his wife, Gayle, Chew, 68, live on the farm now. They raise 15 beef cattle and host their growing family — three adult children and six grandchildren — at a long dining table in their bright kitchen. The Chews
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have been married for 45 years. They moved to the farm on 159th Avenue NE in Granite Falls in 1975 after Ron served in the Navy. “It’s a good life,” Gayle said. “It’s a good valley. Everybody works together.” There used to be a number of family farms in the area. There are fewer now, but they still share the road with a couple of others. When their kids were younger, the Chews raised extra pigs for the next door neighbors and the neighbors raised chickens for them. They shared in the labor and the rewards. The Chews also had horses, and Ron did custom
dispensing “his own brand of industrial justice” (Page C2). Along with reversing the suspension, the judge ordered that any future penalties imposed by the NFL will be subject to automatic instant-replay review. It’s like you’re really there: Berlin is hosting Europe’s
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biggest technology expo this week. Among the new gadgets on display is a small PC on a memory stick that plugs into most TVs, allowing the TV to be used like a computer (Page A9). Because who hasn’t always wanted to go through their email spam folder or play Solitaire on a 56-inch high-def flat-screen? Sports . . . . . . . C1 Stocks . . . . . .A10
hay cutting and baling for other farms when he wasn’t working the night shift for Everett Transit or keeping up with his own land. Their kids learned to drive by steering tractors around the driveway with their dad. The farm has changed over the years. The original homestead was parceled out when Francis Small, Ron Chew’s great-grandfather, moved back to Minnesota. The family kept 40 acres. That land has been used as a dairy farm, to raise pigs, to grow crops for Biringer Farm and now to raise beef cattle. See FARM, Page A5
Call Me Bwana: The director of Taylor Swift’s new video, set in 1950s Africa, is defending the video after it was criticized for a lack of black Africans (Page D6). The director disagreed, pointing to a clip of Africans wearing grass skirts and bones in their noses, cooking Swift in a big kettle.
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