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“I couldn’t believe my good luck,”said Diane Mooney as a contractor deposited the glacial erratic on her lawn in Edmonds. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
EDMONDS — Up the street and around the block from where Diane Mooney lives is a yard with a very large rock deposited during the last Ice Age. Whenever she passes by that glacial erratic, she wistfully thinks how much she’d like one of her own. “How could one get a rock like that? You can’t unless it landed in your yard during the Ice Age,” she said. Now one has landed in her yard. Well, sort of. Unloaded is more accurate. Friday morning a city-hired contractor plopped a 15-ton boulder on her property in the old Seaview neighborhood. It was unearthed during a repaving project on 220th Street SW and 80th Avene W. The city decided it was less costly to give away than dispose of and Diane and Kevin Mooney couldn’t be happier to adopt it. “I couldn’t believe my good luck. Doesn’t everybody want a rock like this?” she said of the geologic specimen that is around seven-feet long, six-feet wide and close to five-feet tall. “It’s even more fabulous than I could have imagined. It is a thing of beauty.” Moving it to the Mooneys’ property will cost the city about $8,500, said Ed Sibrel, the city’s capital projects manager. That’s cheaper than what the contractor would charge to haul it to their yard in Monroe where they would then try to blow it up into smaller pieces, he said. The contractor, Lakeside Industries, didn’t want to do that, he said. The city announced the giveaway in a Facebook post crafted by Sibrel that generated 50,000 views and 50 requests. There were 10 conditions a recipient had to meet. For example, they had to live in the city, and the boulder’s prospective showplace had to be on the homeowner’s property. The site had to be easily accessible to heavy equipment that would be used to deliver it. Other conditions Sibrel put in his post: “You darned well better See ROCK, Page A2
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Progress slow and steady The biggest repairs are out of the way, and officials are optimistic Highway 2 will reopen sooner than thought. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
EVERETT — Repair crews are working night and day to restore power to thousands of Snohomish County PUD
customers still without electricity after Tuesday’s devastating windstorm. The Public Utility District hopes to have power restored to everyone by Sunday. Though that could take longer if
unexpected complications come up, PUD spokesman Neil Neroutsos said. The number of outages peaked Tuesday evening when about 150,000 customers lost power. As of Friday afternoon, repair crews working around the clock pared that number down to 19,000. Repairing the storm damage
likely will cost the utility millions of dollars. For comparison, six days of repair work following a storm in 2006 cost about $6.3 million. And 10 days of repairs after a 2008 storm cost about $6.5 million, he said. The PUD has not tallied the cost of repairs for the Aug. 29 See POWER, Page A2
Forever families are made National Adoption Day celebrated at Snohomish County Courthouse
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Kalionna Davis (center), 9, gets some encouragement from Judge David A. Kurtz to use his gavel to make the adoption of her and her siblings, Kale (left), 5, and Kierra, 7, official during National Adoption Day celebrations at the Snohomish County Courthouse in Everett on Friday. Forty-eight children were adopted by 32 families Friday as part of the event. Below, Naomi Miller, 7, with Antioch Adoptions’ Tamara Geddes, looks through photos taken of her during the celebrations.
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EVERETT — Chauntelle and Miker Davis aren’t interested in being empty-nesters. After raising two children, now grown and gone, the Arlington couple started over Friday as new parents. On National Adoption Day, they were thrilled as three young siblings officially joined their family. Kalionna, 9, Kierra, 7, and 5-yearold Kale were dressed up and ready as Snohomish County Superior Court Judge David Kurtz conducted adoption proceedings — and let the kids strike the gavel. “Whatever you do, enjoy this very special occasion,” Kurtz told the
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Davises, who were joined by relatives and other supporters carrying balloons. “This is the best Christmas present in the whole world,” Chauntelle Davis said. She is 46 and her husband is 50. As they approached a time in life when some start to think of retirement, neither relished the prospect of a household without children. “We wanted to have kids,” said Chauntelle, who works at an Everett medical office. They were among 32 families adopting 48 children at Friday’s local observance of National Adoption Day. Events here, including adoptions and a short program with gifts See FOREVER, Page A2
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