Everett Daily Herald, October 07, 2015

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WEDNESDAY, 10.07.2015

EVERETT, WASHINGTON

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Review shuns Paine idea Using part of the field to build an aviation center would not provide an economic boost to the county, study finds. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer

EVERETT — A new study questions the wisdom of setting aside land at Paine Field for a nonprofit historic aircraft aviation center that could attract

exhibits — and tourists — from around the globe. Aircraft collector John Sessions has been pursuing the idea for about two years. Several elected leaders in Snohomish County and local cities have endorsed it.

When Sessions made a formal pitch to council members in August, however, airport director Arif Ghouse called it “a bad proposal — a really bad proposal — for Paine Field.” The review Ghouse submitted to council members Monday fell in line with that negative view. It casts doubt on claims the Sessions’ facility would provide an economic boost by attracting

150,000 new visitors to the area. It suggests the county would be better off leasing the land at market rate for corporate jet hangars or some other business use. “Forecasting visitors to new museums is notoriously difficult,” Ghouse told council members, later adding, “There See PAINE, back page, this section

The former sergeant’s lawyer says his client’s rights were violated after a prosecutor looked at emails she didn’t have permission to.

He really likes them apples Modern-day Johnny Appleseed grows more than 150 types on 25 trees

By Scott North Herald Writer

EVERETT — A Snohomish County judge was expected to rule Wednesday morning whether a prosecutor’s review of emails between a divorce lawyer and a former Monroe police sergeant accused of sex crimes was a harmless intrusion on attorneyclient privilege or an error that has hopelessly undermined the defendant’s right to a fair trial. Carlos Alberto Martinez, 61, is facing multiple counts of child molestation and other offenses. His lawyer, longtime Everett defense attorney Mark Mestel, has asked Superior Court Judge Michael Downes to dismiss the case. Mestel maintains that Martinez’s constitutional right to legal counsel was violated Sept. 10 when deputy prosecutor Lisa Paul reviewed emails between Martinez and a civil attorney. The lawyer had represented the defendant in a 2010 divorce and the emails were among thousands of records seized under a search warrant. Downes last week ruled that Paul did not have permission to review the material. “It is up to the state to show there is no prejudice in this case,” Mestel told Downes during a hearing Tuesday. He said case law is clear that prosecutors must demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt — the same legal standard they must prove to win a conviction — that Martinez’s rights to a fair trial were not compromised. That’s impossible, Mestel said, because there is no verifiable way to show which emails Paul examined. A Lynnwood police detective’s forensic examination of the digital records Paul reviewed didn’t resolve the controversy. Paul on Tuesday continued to maintain that Mestel had given her tacit approval to examine the emails, all of which focused on Martinez’s divorce. The prosecutor said she stopped looking when one of the messages she saw made reference to a videocassette tape.

PHOTOS BY KEVIN CLARK / THE HERALD

Jerry Hilson transfers washed apples during his annual apple-pressing party at his home in Everett. The modern-day Johnny Appleseed, and his wife, Helga, grow more than 150 varieties of apples on his 25 trees. Below, grandkids Gabi Wolfe, 14, and Nik Gibson, 13, fill the press.

By Julie Muhlstein Herald Writer

EVERETT — The afternoon was golden. Guests didn’t wait for drinks to be poured at the Hilsons’ backyard party Saturday. Fresh-pressed apple cider was flowing. One only needed to hold out a cup. An apple-pressing party is an autumnal rite for Jerry and Helga Hilson, whose home in the Boulevard Bluffs neighborhood includes a carefully tended orchard. In the early 1800s, when most apples were used for hard cider, John Chapman changed the landscape of the American frontier by planting orchards from seeds. His real name isn’t well-known, but his

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effort — which a 2014 article in Smithsonian magazine said was about alcohol, not fruit to eat — became legendary.

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We know Chapman as Johnny Appleseed. Helga Hilson said that nickname fits her husband, too.

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“He’s a modern Johnny Appleseed,” she said. Jerry Hilson, 77, grows more than 150 types of apples on about 25 trees on the couple’s roughly half-acre property. In 1992, when they moved to their home south of Mukilteo Boulevard, there was just one tree growing big King apples. Hilson planted the others, and through grafting has cultivated dozens of varieties. That first tree alone has been grafted to grow 40 types of apples. Hilson calls it his “confused mother tree.” Silvery tags, like little Christmas ornaments, mark spots on the branches where grafts have taken hold. See APPLES, back page, this section

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