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China comes to town President Xi chooses to land at Paine Field, and while the visit may be less festive than those of his predecessors, it’s still significant, says former Gov. Christine Gregoire. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
EVERETT — The last time a president of China came to town there was a party going on at Paine Field. It was April 2006. President Hu Jintao was feted at a luncheon in a decked-out Future of Flight museum. He delivered a rousing speech President to 600 people and Xi Jinping joined then-Gov. Chris Gregoire in a coffee toast with Starbucks mugs. That day he also toured the Boeing Co.’s 747 assembly line, tooling around the world’s largest building by volume in the back of a modified golf cart. He spoke to 5,000 Boeing workers, warmly embracing one who came on stage to present a company baseball cap as a gift. Alan Mulally, the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes at the time, ended the ceremony with an exuberant shout of “China rocks!” This week’s visit by President Xi Jinping will be much lower key as most of the party is moving to Seattle’s Westin Hotel. Gregoire said Friday no one See VISIT, Page A7
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Watershed patrolman Joe Dreimiller leaves the diversion dam near Lake Chaplain after patrolling it on Aug. 19.
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He watches over our crucial water supply — all 90 square miles of it By Rikki King Herald Writer
SPADA LAKE — He goes where most people can’t. He sees what most people don’t. A dog’s paw print in the mud. The flap of a gray wing in the trees. A bullfrog tadpole idling over a rock. Joe Dreimiller’s job is to keep an eye on the local drinking water supply, a task that covers 90 square miles of massive pipelines, hiking trails, dams and deep backcountry. As a watershed patrolman for the city of Everett, he deals with both nature and mankind, and each has a destructive side. He patrols city, county, state and federal lands, all with different rules to enforce. Dreimiller, 55, replaces the locks people cut, fixes the barbed wire they snip and
mends the gates they break through. He photographs native plants, pulls noxious weeds and stops his Ford F-150 on a gravel road to let a garter snake glide past unharmed. After all, he wanted a job where he could wear shorts.
Not the fearful type They’re green, those shorts, worn with a khaki shirt, long black socks and hiking
shoes. He owns rain pants, too. Spada Lake, about 13 miles north of Sultan, gets roughly double the rainfall that Everett does. Its normal elevation reaches 1,450 feet when there isn’t a drought. He manages plants and animals over two watersheds — Spada Lake, which is open to the public, and Lake Chaplain, which is not. Together, the two lakes provide the drinking water for much of Snohomish County. Dreimiller is one of two patrolmen. He drives up to 100 miles in the watersheds each day, not including his commute from Mukilteo. He walks a lot on the job, kayaks, and in the winter, cross-country skis. He often finds cougar tracks that cross his own. Originally from New York, Dreimiller started at Spada Lake in 2003, after nearly seven years as a park ranger in Everett. He See PATROL, Page A6
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“There are bears at Spada that won’t run away from you. They’re big, 300, 400 pounds, and they know they’re the king.”
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Joe Dreimiller, City of Everett watershed patrolman
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