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Ex-cop speaks in his defense
New helistop for hospital One or two people a month at Cascade Valley Hospital and Clinics need to be quickly transported to another facility. By Kari Bray Herald Writer
ARLINGTON — Cascade Valley Hospital and Clinics is getting a new helistop in hopes
of cutting down transportation times for patients who need critical care. Construction starts Monday across Stillaguamish Avenue from the main hospital building,
in a grassy field next to the employee parking lot. The helistop is expected to be done in four to six weeks. The hospital this year has seen an average of 1,850 visitors to the emergency room each month. Of those, one or two people per month generally need care beyond what the
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hospital can provide, assistant administrator Heather Logan said. Cascade Valley works with Airlift Northwest, part of UW Medicine, to transport patients by air to a Level 1 or Level 2 trauma center when needed. See HELISTOP, Page A6
Getting a piece of the music
In testimony, Carlos Alberto Martinez says he did nothing wrong and the sexual relationship with the girl started when she was 18.
Retired composer brings zombie-themed work to Woodside Elementary
By Scott North Herald Writer
See MUSIC, Page A6
See TRIAL, Page A2
PHOTOS BY KEVIN CLARK / THE HERALD
Tricia Hill and retired composer Rick Brown lead her choir class in “Spook Walk” on Tuesday morning in Mill Creek. Brown is visiting Hill’s class at Woodside Elementary, talking about music and teaching the kids to play his composition. Amandeep Basmal (below left) makes the evil laugh, much to the amusement of Kathryne Schlutt, during Brown’s visit.
By Chris Winters Herald Writer
MILL CREEK — The kids gathered in the gym at Woodside Elementary School on Oct. 27 are excited and fidgety, even though it’s an hour and a half before school starts and it’s still dark outside. About 80 fourth- and fifthgraders are part of Tricia Hill’s elementary choir. They got a unique opportunity Tuesday to meet the composer of a piece they’ve been working on. The song is called “Spook
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Walk,” a Halloween-themed choral arrangement. The composer, Rick Brown, retired to Everett after a career teaching music in schools around the country. He wrote the music for “Spook Walk,” he explained to the choir, 20 years ago for a Halloween concert in a school in Albuquerque. Ten years later, while teaching in Portland, he wrote the words for a choral arrangement. “So it took you about 20 years
EVERETT — A former Monroe police sergeant spent much of Friday on the witness stand insisting there was nothing sexual about his hiding cameras in his bathroom in 2004 and secretly recording a 15-year-old babysitter while she undressed and used the shower. Carlos Alberto Martinez told a Snohomish County Superior Court jury he was looking for evidence the teen was cutting herself, and he stopped the surveillance as soon as he was convinced there was no reason for worry. Martinez also acknowledged that he developed a strong sexual attraction to the young woman. He said that didn’t happen, however, until she touched him when they rendezvoused at a Spokane motel in early 2007, about a month after she turned 18. At the time, she was a senior in high school. Martinez was 52 and married. Now 61, Martinez is charged with voyeurism and possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, both felonies. Prosecutors allege the videotaping was a crime because the former babysitter, now 26, was unaware Martinez was recording her, and that he created and kept the videos for years for his sexual gratification. Although the trial has probed the defendant’s sexual connection to the young woman, the key questions in the case increasingly appear to focus on the reason Martinez made the recordings and how the former babysitter learned of their existence. Martinez on Friday testified that he wasn’t sexually interested in the babysitter when he created the videos. Further, he said that he told her about them in July 2007, months after they’d begun having an affair.
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