This week’s watchwords Double debates
Veterans Day
Vaping vote
Both Democrat and Republican candidates for president will meet to debate this week: GOP on Tuesday in Milwaukee, airing on Fox Business Network; Dems on Saturday in Des Moines, televised on CBS.
An Arlington parade, free admission to the Flying Heritage Museum and various other ceremonies and celebrations will honor our veterans Wednesday. A list ran in The Herald on Saturday; check heraldnet.com.
The Snohomish Health District board will vote on a countywide ban on vaping at work sites and in public places on Tuesday. See The Herald Wednesday for the outcome.
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Researchers and experts plan to hike the area in an effort to come up with suggestions for how to deter people from going inside. By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
VERLOT — The U.S. Forest Service plans to bring together a team of trail builders, landscape architects and social scientists to look for ways to deter hikers from venturing into the deadly Big 4 Mountain Ice Caves. The trail leading to the caves likely will be reopened next year despite three deaths from collapsing ice during the past five years. Before then, researchers and trail experts from Seattle and Portland are expected to hike the trail and make suggestions. “We are still trying to sort out how we proceed forward,” said Peter Forbes, district ranger for the half-million acre Darrington Ranger District in the Mt. BakerSnoqualmie National Forest. “I’m hoping we can open it by next summer. “The landscape up there would allow us some relocation of the trail,” Forbes said. “If we identify something we can do, we have to figure out how are we going to fund it.” This was a particularly dangerous year at the ice caves, the most popular hiking attraction in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The caves draw thousands of visitors each year, particularly in the late summer. They are at the bottom of Big Four Mountain, and form from compressed, melting avalanche debris. With this year’s limited snowpack and hot, dry weather, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office was warning people away almost as soon as the trail was open to hikers. By May, sections of the caves were collapsing. On July 5, large chunks of ice fell from the front of the cave, forcing people inside to scramble out.
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Snohomish County sheriff’s Sgt. Ian Huri speaks with Rochelle Hammond at a homeless encampment in Everett in August. Sgt. Huri and social worker Jesse Calliham had been working with Hammond and other residents to get them connected with social services. Story, Page A5.
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Netanyahu reportedly feels the same way about Obama. The fake smiles at this photo op will be so rigid that both men will look like they just returned from their weekly Botox treatments.
from best to worst (Short Takes, Page B4). The Buzz sampled song No. 23, “The Man With the Golden Gun,” on YouTube. For the first time ever, we’re sorry we clicked “Skip this Ad.”
Somebody had to do it: A writer at Newsday in New York has ranked all 23 James Bond movie theme songs,
Lost on the bus: Community Transit has compiled a list of the most unusual lost and found
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Keaton Farris, 25, was in a mental health crisis when he died from dehydration and starvation inside the Island County Jail. His death illustrates why more must be done to protect people living with mental illness from winding up in jails.
items on buses (Street Smarts, Page A3), including a playpen, a portable dance pole, a backpack with 15 bongs, a bag of marijuana and a bondage kit. To paraphrase Maj. T.J. “King” Kong from “Dr. Strangelove,” a fella could have a helluva weekend in Vegas with that stuff.
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