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Local home and business owners take a bow this week at the annual awards for great curb appeal. See Home & Garden on Thursday.
The 2015-16 term begins today, with high-profile cases over affirmative action and congressional district redraws in the wings.
The UW football team goes up against its former coach, Steve Sarkisian, as the Dawgs face USC on Thursday. All the details in Sports on Friday.
The former Hawk wide receiver is wearing a different shade of blue now, and faces the Legion of Boom for the first time tonight as a Detroit Lion. The story is on Page C1.
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Koster files $950K claim The former ombudsman says his free speech rights were violated when Lovick urged council members to oust him. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
EVERETT — John Koster is seeking nearly a million dollars in damages from Snohomish
County over his abrupt ouster last year as ombudsman. Koster is accusing Executive John Lovick and his administration of violating his free speech rights by urging County Council
members not to support his reappointment. Lovick had taken issue with a fundraising letter critical of union leaders that Koster signed in his personal capacity for the Freedom Foundation, a conservative Olympia think tank. Koster lost his job at the end of December following a council vote.
“I didn’t take filing a claim against the county lightly,” Koster said last week. “I thought about it long and hard and it’s not right (what happened to me). Someone told me once you don’t have rights if you’re not willing to stand up for those rights.” See KOSTER, Page A2
Driver wipes out 5 cars Someone smashed into vehicles at a repair shop — then took off
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Martin Consul (left) and his dad, Joe Consul, show some of the damage caused to vehicles by a hit-and-run driver at around 3 a.m. Sept. 27. The person drove over the curb and struck cars on the Consul family’s business, Maynila Auto Services on Evergreen Way in Everett.
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EVERETT — At 22, Martin Consul watches his dad toil beneath the hoods of various cars and pickup trucks at the mom-and-pop auto shop on Evergreen Way. Joe Consul works long hours, typically six, sometimes seven days a week. He grew up in the Philippines, where he became a
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mechanic. In Everett, he started a decade ago with one lift and a yellow toolbox, gradually building up a base of loyal customers. His hands and coveralls are smudged with streaks of black. Clarita, Joe’s wife, handles the books for the family business, Maynila Auto Services. “It has been 10 years,” Joe said. “I think it is working.” His hope is to turn the garage over to his son some day.
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Martin absorbs his father’s knowledge, both inside and outside of the garage. One lesson he learned long ago was to own up to his mistakes. He just wishes that whoever crashed a black pickup into their parking lot in the 6900 block of Evergreen Way would do the same. It is hard for him to comprehend someone causing so much damage and driving off.
Wait til next year Hey, they were still playing in October? After finishing yet another disappointing season Sunday, the Seattle Mariners await an anticipated makeover by new general manager Jerry Dipoto (Page C1). The team now goes their separate ways: to winter ball, Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B6
Neighbors living in a nearby apartment complex reported hearing the screech and sound of crumpling metal around 3 a.m. Sept. 27, a Sunday. Days later black skid marks could still be seen on the roadway leading over the high curb and through the low bushes into the parking lot. Five vehicles were damaged. Two — a green
In The Buzz’s day, National Walk to School Day was held in January. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.
Shake a leg: Students in Mukilteo, Lynnwood and elsewhere in Snohomish County are lacing up their shoes for National Walk to School Day on Wednesday (Street Smarts, Page A3).
Don’t know much about history: In the vice presidential debate on this day in 1988, after youthful Republican Dan Quayle compared himself with John F. Kennedy, Democrat Lloyd
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Area nonprofits and agencies are recognized Saturday during the tribes’ “Raising Hands” gala. By Chris Winters Herald Writer
TULALIP — The Tulalip Tribes gave $5.8 million in charitable donations to over 360 organizations in the past year. On Saturday, the tribes celebrated those recipients in their annual “Raising Hands” gala. Over the past 23 years, the tribes have given $69.5 million to numerous causes around the region. At the annual banquet, the tribes usually highlight a small number of nonprofits that have been doing exemplary work. Tribal chairman Mel Sheldon Jr. said that the community is stronger because of the work done by these organizations. “We also know we have a responsibility to give back, to say thank you for the good that comes our way,” Sheldon said. He alluded to last year’s banquet, which came less than a week after the shootings at Marysville Pilchuck High School and tore a wound in the TulalipMarysville community. “We thank you for standing with us during some of the toughest times in Tulalip history,” Sheldon said. At the banquet at the Tulalip Casino and Resort Saturday, the Tulalips called attention to six nonprofits or agencies: ■ Sound Action, an environmental watchdog group based in Vashon; ■ The Snohomish Regional Drug and Gang Task Force, the multi-jurisdictional effort to combat drug trafficking and gang violence and enhance local cooperation; ■ The Washington state chapter of Alzheimer’s Association, which supports research and care for patients and families of those with the disease; ■ Horses Healing Heroes, a Monroe nonprofit that provides horse See HANDS, back page, this section
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Bentsen responded: “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.” (Today in History, Page B4). One would say that Quayle was “pwned,” but Al Gore hadn’t invented the Internet yet.
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