Everett Daily Herald, November 16, 2015

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Seahawks close major gap to take lead, but lose 39-32,

HUNGER GAMES: The

fate of Panem hangs in the balance. “Mockingjay Part 2,” the film last installment of the blockbuster series, is in theaters this weekend. The review is Friday in A&E.

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WAYS TO GIVE: With the holidays fast

approaching, The Herald’s annual profiles and lists of charitable organizations run Sunday.

HOUSING FORUM: A community forum

tonight at 6:30 at the Historic Everett Theatre will look at options for sheltering the homeless. The creator of a successful Utah program will be on hand to answer questions. MONDAY, 11.16.2015

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Claim filed for PUD worker Watch The man says that ever since he raised the issue of no-bid contracts, he’s been harassed and retaliated against. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer

EVERETT — A Snohomish County PUD whistleblower says he has been harassed and endured retaliation at the utility

district since bringing attention to a series of no-bid contracts given to a former district employee. The whistleblower’s concerns prompted an independent ethics investigation this past spring,

which found that the PUD and the former employee had broken district policy. Since then, the Public Utility District employee, Anthony Curtis, has faced a “pattern of retaliation,” his attorney, Elizabeth Hanley, said in an interview with The Daily Herald. She filed a claim Tuesday with the PUD Board of

Commissioners, claiming that Curtis was recently passed over for promotion. He has asked the PUD to pay him lost wages from the denied promotion and attorney fees and costs. “The retaliation against Curtis for reporting governmental misconduct has had a chilling effect See CLAIM, Page A2

Food banks ramping up Number of people being served is level, but money doesn’t go as far

what you harvest So far this year, the poison center in Seattle has received 16 calls dealing with people from this county who have eaten poisonous mushrooms. By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer

in Marysville, Tulalip and Lakewood to take home on weekends. Across Snohomish County, most food banks have seen a about the same number of visitors compared to last winter. Key items are hard to come by this

The annual fall mushroom picking season has begun and the Washington Poison Center is warning people to carefully check wild fungi before eating them. So far this year, the state’s poison center in Seattle has received 16 calls from Snohomish County with reports of people who ate a mushroom and developed symptoms such as nausea or vomiting, said Alexander Garrard, the poison center’s clinical managing director. Eleven of the 16 cases could be managed at home without a hospital visit. Five people were treated at hospitals, he said. There were no reports of major health problems or deaths. Statewide, there have been 279 calls to the poison center this year from people who ate a mushroom and had some symptoms, he said. No serious poisonings recently have been reported. But calls to the center peak in the fall and spring, when people are out foraging. The poison has issued a health alert discouraging people from eating wild mushrooms unless they’ve positively identified them as safe to eat. Even though most of the state’s wild mushrooms aren’t toxic, there are several poisonous species that can cause serious health problems if eaten. They can cause nausea, vomiting and sometimes even kidney and liver damage. Kim Traverse, president of the Puget Sound Mycological Society said that many mushrooms look alike. That can fool even more experienced mushroom hunters, he said.

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MARYSVILLE — Dell Deierling and his team of volunteers are putting together about 700 bags of Thanksgiving. The bags are full of food: flour, sugar, stuffing, fruit, vegetables, margarine, milk and eggs. Then

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there are turkeys and chickens. They try to have a pie for every family, too. It’s a busy start to the holiday season at the Marysville Community Food Bank, one of a couple of dozen food banks around the county that together serve thousands of people every week.

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“It’s shaping up pretty good,” Deierling said of the Thanksgiving bags. “You never know what your demand is going to be until it walks through the door.” The food bank serves 260 families each week, down about 5 percent from last year. Volunteers also fill backpacks with food for 350 children

Naps, too? Plays well with others: Owners of small businesses can learn much from a recent article in The New York Times titled “Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work,” writes Everett Community College’s Pat Sisneros (Page A6). Who knew that the Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B5

“M” in “MBA” stands for Montessori? Surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Adolf Hitler’s final day is recounted in “The Day Hitler Died,” a documentary based on filmed interviews in 1948 with members of his inner circle; the interviews proved the Nazi dictator

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did not escape from his underground bunker at the end of WWII (Short Takes, Page B4). The 1948 films also prove that, counter to today’s Internet culture, Hitler did not spend his final days expressing angst about everything from the Burning Man ticket lottery to the latest Twitter outage. Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . . B1

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1914, in a move that rankles today’s Libertarian Party, the newly created Federal Reserve opened banks in 12 cities (Today in History, Page B4). “Affix black crepe streamers to flagpole” tops today’s to-do list for retired Congressman Ron Paul. — Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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At the Marysville Food Bank early Thursday morning, volunteer June Snook (right) hands an 8-pound bag of food to volunteer Karen Hammontree, who is organizing them in boxes so they can be delivered to schools. The morning provided a chaotic scene with what appeared to be more than two dozen volunteers with the Backpack Ministry working fast and furious to get 349 bags loaded and delivered. The ministry was started at St. Mary’s three years ago by Darlene Fails.

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