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Mistakes prove costly as Seahawks lose 27-17,
POPE FRANCIS: The very
poplar pontiff kicks off his U.S. tour in D.C. on Tuesday, where he will meet with the president and become the first pope to address Congress.
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SILVERTIPS: The season begins Friday; you can catch up on the team, its prospects and ticket information in our special preview section available in The Herald on Thursday. WSU AT EVCC: The university breaks
ground on a new building Tuesday, marking the beginning of construction of a permanent Everett home for the school. MONDAY, 09.21.2015
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Boeing putting best face on Fire China’s president is expected to announce new orders during his visit. Then it’s first flight for the Air Force’s KC-46. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
EVERETT — It’s a big week for the Boeing Co., which will be on display for two of its biggest customers: China and the U.S. Air Force. Both are key cash sources for
Boeing in coming years. Thousands of jobs in the area depend on the Chicago-based company keeping both customers happy. China Pres. Xi Jinping will visit Boeing’s Everett plant Wednesday during a three-day stopover in the area on his way to a state visit in Washington,
D.C. The day after his Boeing 747 takes off from Paine Field for the East Coast, Boeing’s new KC-46 aerial refueling tanker is slated to make its first flight, nine months behind schedule. China is quickly becoming the world’s biggest market for jetliners. Boeing and its European rival, Airbus Group, compete fiercely for orders for the country’s burgeoning commercial air travel industry. China’s breakneck
economic growth of the past 20 years has led to a middle class that is still getting bigger and is flying more. Much has been made about recent missteps in China’s economy, such as the dramatic recent drop in the country’s Shanghai Stock Exchange. “There’s been a slowing of See BOEING, back page, this section
A series of fortunate events
merger talks stalled Marysville and the Marysville Fire District couldn’t decide who would be in charge if they formed a new government body. By Rikki King Herald Writer
known for its alpine lake. “I love the outdoors,” Newcombe said. Her daughter was home for a few weeks before starting a master’s degree program at Oxford. “We hiked up and made the loop around the lake. We had our lunch on a boulder. It was beautiful,” she said. They headed back down the trail in the early afternoon. About five minutes after they began their descent, as Newcombe
MARYSVILLE — Talks of forming a regional fire authority in Marysville have cooled off. The city and the fire district met for months to talk about creating a fire authority, a new government body that would levy taxes and provide fire protection and emergency medical services in the city and surrounding area. Fire authorities have become a fashionable idea in Snohomish County that often flounders on the details. Such a move requires the consolidation of money and power. The talks in Marysville got hung up on the issue of who would be in charge. The current fire board is run 50-50 by the city and the fire district. The city wanted more representation on the fire authority board. “It was not a contentious discussion. It just wasn’t moving forward,” city administrator Gloria Hirashima said. “We felt we needed to explore and analyze things further.” Since 1991, the city and the Marysville Fire District have worked together under a contract. On July 30, the city sent the fire district notice that it intends to terminate the contract, which requires three years’ notice. Now the city is considering starting its own fire department from scratch. It still could form a regional fire authority or seek a new contract with the fire district. The current contract is not financially sound, Hirashima wrote in the July letter. “It is clear from our recent joint discussions that both parties recognize a need for change,” she wrote. The fire commissioners are hopeful that the fire authority model will prevail, though a new
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The story of 2 paddles, a roll of duct tape and a group of strangers By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer
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avid Herring walked to a recycling bin carrying two aluminum paddles that had been used with a rubber raft. He shoved them into the container, then something made him reconsider. “I just couldn’t do it,” he said. “I pulled them back out and stuck them in a corner of the garage.” Herring, who lives in Sedro-Woolley, took
them out a few months later and decided to fashion them into hiking sticks. He grabbed them as he and his wife, Linda, headed out for a hike over Labor Day weekend to Lake 22 off the Mountain Loop Highway. Neither had any reason to believe that the poles would play a key role in a trail rescue. The Saturday of Labor Day weekend was warm and sunny. In Edmonds, Lynn Newcombe and her 24-year-old daughter, Suzanna Fritzberg, were considering where to go for a day hike. They got a recommendation to try the Lake 22 trail,
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Hello, nurse This may sting a bit: Among recent celebrity apologies was one from hosts of “The View” for ridiculing a Miss America contestant who dressed in her nurse’s scrubs (Page B4). Don’t you want to be there when “The View” hosts get their next flu shot? Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8
Life in the fast lane: Want to use the joint carpool and toll lanes on I-405 when the change takes effect Sept. 27? It’s simple: Wait in line to buy a sticker or transponder, set up a Good to Go account online, load it with money, and if you’re in a carpool and don’t want to pay the toll, remember to flick the switch on your
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Opinion. . . . . .A9 Short Takes . . . B4
car’s transponder. To pay the toll, just consult the digital signs to find out what you’ll pay, remembering to keep enough in your online account to cover your tolls (Street Smarts, Page A3). Or give up and take the bus. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1897, the New York Sun ran Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . . B1
its famous editorial, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” (Today in History, Page B4). Virginia immediately replied, writing, “Thanks, but you do realize it’s only September? Why the rush? I know I’m only eight years old, but even I can read a calendar. ”
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Lynn Newcombe went for a hike at Lake 22 over Labor Day weekend, fell and broke her hip. It took a group of people to bring her down the mountain.
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