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Fire department gets a look New A draft report stirred controversy by suggesting Everett close two of its six working stations and reduce staffing. By Rikki King Herald Writer
EVERETT — The City Council is rethinking the size and shape of the Everett Fire Department. Everett paid a consulting firm $66,400 to study the issue, and
a draft report went before the council in August. The 216-page report did not make any final recommendations. Controversy, though, has stirred from suggestions in the document to close two of Everett’s six working fire stations,
reduce the number of firefighters on staff, and rework how firefighter shifts are scheduled. The council isn’t expected to make any decisions for several months. The city had asked the Missouri-based consulting firm Fitch and Associates to study two issues, said Guillermo Fuentes, a partner at the firm. The first was to create a breakdown
of Everett’s emergency risks — day-to-day medical calls as well as major disasters — and what’s needed to keep people safe. The second issue was whether there might be cheaper, more sustainable ways to deliver the same services. The consultants relied on data, fire station visits See FIRE, back page, this section
Everett logo a no go The one chosen last year in a public contest bore a striking resemblance to the one used by a financial services firm and was nixed.
Submerged in art
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d’Elaine Johnson, a prolific artist in Edmonds, never knew life without her art. Scuba diving in the 1950s inspired her creations.
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Scuba diving opened a world of new ideas for artist d’Elaine Johnson By Rikki King Herald Writer
EDMONDS — More than 60 years ago, d’Elaine Johnson decided to create the life she wanted. She could have taken over her parents’ variety store. She could have listened to the people who said women only should teach elementary school, or the official who denied her a job, saying
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track of her work in galleries around the world. She likes to tell people she was born in the parking lot of the Puyallup fairgrounds. The land was once her grandfather’s farm. Her parents would bring their baby girl to their store, keeping her in makeshift playpens made from the merchandise boxes. d’Elaine went to college on art scholarships and became a teacher, self-supported by age 22.
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they needed “to keep the arts masculine.” It’s hard to believe those memories from the woman with the house on a bluff overlooking Puget Sound, whose paintings are scheduled to hang at the downtown Seattle Macy’s later this year, and who has devoted her life to creation and reflection. At 83, d’Elaine is busier than ever. She paints five days a week, does her own framing and keeps
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“As much as I hated that store, it gave me a second education on how to deal with people and how to run a business,” she said. It’s quiet on the bluff in Edmonds, where she keeps an eye on the sequoias and where guests rarely leave before the sun sets behind the Olympics. Her husband, John, was a claims adjuster who specialized in
EVERETT — The city of Everett launched a new website in March, and by many accounts it’s doing the job it should: being easier to navigate and manage. But one element that was promised — a new city logo — never showed up, and now it’s certain that it won’t. The city was caught flatfooted when it chose a logo in a public contest last year It has that was met an re ma rk ab l y to untimely similar one used by the financial end services firm at this Envestnet. The city point. and its cultural arts — Meghan commission Pembroke, huddled and Everett city communications tried to figure out what director went wrong where, talking with the artist who submitted the winning entry. When the website launched, the logo was absent. On Oct. 14, city communications director Meghan Pembroke, who oversaw the website redesign, told the City Council that the logo would not, in fact, be used any time in the near future, and the city would continue to use its old one. “Unfortunately, it has met an untimely end at this point,” Pembroke said of the new logo. Of the process of selecting a logo, she added, “It’s point was to engage the community. On that point, it was overwhelmingly successful.”
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