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Teacher contract OK’d Educators in Everett will receive an incremental pay raise along with time Fridays to allow them to engage in professional development. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
EVERETT — The Everett School District Board of
Directors approved a new threeyear contract with its teachers Tuesday ensuring classes could begin Wednesday as planned. The contract, which teachers ratified a week ago, will provide salary increases that assure the district’s 1,075 certificated instructors remain among the best paid in the state based on their experience. It also sets the school calendar. And there’s a big change this year: students will be released 75
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development activities. Time will be added to other school days. “The community has a long supportive commitment with our teachers,” said Pam LaSesne, school board president. “This contract will say to our teachers we appreciate you and we value what we do.” A teacher’s salary is paid from two different pots of money.
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Memories of a lifetime ago Family who fled Saigon 40 years ago reunites with man who welcomed them
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Van Dinh-Kuno (far left), her mom, Hoc Pham, 87, dad, Hoi Dinh, 85, are able to laugh with retired minister David Pearson about some of the things the trio has gone through since fleeing Vietnam 40 years ago, during a reunion at Dinh and Pham’s Mountlake Terrace home. Pearson helped them find a home in the United States.
By Julie Muhlstein Herald Writer
It was a reunion 40 years in the making. The Minnesota couple and the family from Vietnam had almost nothing in common the day they met in 1975. On a recent day in Mountlake Terrace, they had much in common — memories, laughter and an enduring friendship. When they first met, the Vietnamese family had been through hell.
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By the time Hoi Dinh, his wife, Hoc Pham, 10 of their children, and three other relatives arrived in Minnesota, they had fled Saigon fearing the worst. They had nearly starved on a harrowing voyage to the Philippines. With thousands of other Vietnamese refugees, they had spent months at an Army base in Arkansas. It was September 1975 when the family stepped off a plane in Brainerd, Minnesota. The small city in the Upper Midwest was nothing like their Saigon home.
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Language, culture, religion, everything was foreign. David and Judy Pearson will never forget that day. “They all came off a small plane from Minneapolis. I remember they were all dressed so nicely,” said Judy Pearson, 72. It’s been 40 years, but the goodwill of that day came back easily as the Pearsons visited Dinh’s Mountlake Terrace home at the end of August. Dinh, 85, and his 87-year-old wife served jasmine tea and shared stories of
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another time. David Pearson, a 79-year-old retired Lutheran minister, was pastor of the Brainerd church that sponsored Dinh’s family after the Vietnam War ended. The Pearsons found a house big enough for 15 people, helped them get jobs, and welcomed them at the First Lutheran Church of Brainerd — although they were Buddhist. See REUNION, back page, this section
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Car strikes, kills boy, 17 The teen was crossing Highway 9 when he was hit by a Monroe-area man, who stayed at the scene and cooperated with police. By Rikki King Herald Writer
LAKE STEVENS — A 17-yearold Lake Stevens boy died Tuesday morning after being struck by a car. The crash happened just after 6 a.m. on Highway 9 near Hillcrest Elementary School and Fourth Street SE, Lake Stevens Police Help Chief Dan L o r e n t z en the said. family The teen’s name was A spaghetti not released feed fundpending an raiser for the autopsy by boy’s family is the Snohomplanned from ish County 5 to 7 p.m. M e d i c a l Saturday at E x a m i n e r ’s Office. the Eagles He was a club, 402 N. former Lake Granite Ave., Stevens stuGranite Falls. dent who for the past three years had attended Crossroads, the alternative high school in Granite Falls. Two younger siblings attend schools in Lake Stevens, officials said. The Granite Falls School District found out about the death Tuesday morning, and a team of counselors was made available to students and staff, spokeswoman EB Holderman said. “Crossroads’ staff have been in regular contact with the family and will continue to offer support,” Holderman said. “Staff are currently working to arrange a fundraiser to help with meals for the family and for the memorial service costs. There are no details to share regarding a service at this time.” Parents of students affected by the death should keep them on their regular schedules and keep an eye out for signs of grief, Holderman said. “We are all very saddened by this tragic loss,” she said. “Please keep the family in your thoughts during this difficult time.” See TEEN, Page A2
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