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Crime follows early release

Lombardi’s on the Everett waterfront to feed the homeless and hungry on Christmas Day.

By Chris Winters Herald Writer

EVERETT — Lombardi’s Italian Restaurant on the Everett

waterfront is opening on Christmas Day, but it’s not serving its usual fare.

The restaurant instead is offering a free buffet lunch for

homeless and hungry people from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The restaurant’s suppliers, such as US Foods and the Peterson Co., are donating food and supplies, and about half the restaurant’s staff, including chef Andy Hilliard, also are volunteering their time to serve up to 200

meals of ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetables and dessert.

“If we exceed that, we’re just going to start cooking up normal Lombardi’s penne Siciliana,” general manager Josh Pedersen said.

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First Christmas in a new house has special meaning for a Snohomish family

At least 3 prisoners released because of a state corrections computer error committed new crimes, state officials said Thursday.

By Rachel La Corte Associated Press

OLYMPIA — At least three Washington state prisoners released early because of a computer error committed crimes during the time they should have been behind bars, state officials said Thursday.

During a conference call with reporters, officials from the Department of Corrections could not say whether those prisoners have yet been re-arrested. They also didn’t release specific information on the new crimes, saying they were working to confirm the information.

Corrections officials say the three are among 27 others who have been released since June and potentially need to be arrested and returned to prison because of an error the agency made on calculating sentences.

Earlier this week, Gov. Jay Inslee said that he ordered immediate steps to correct the mistake that has led to as many as 3,200 offenders wrongly released early since 2002. Five prisoners released in error since June already have been re-incarcerated. One man had served time for a 2009 Snohomish County assault conviction.

Corrections officials said Jesse Adams was released in error Dec. 7. His new release date is in February.

Another 3,000 who are still incarcerated also had inaccurate release dates. Officials have said most of the errors were 100 days or less. In some cases, inmates were released just a few days early, but at least one person who is still incarcerated had a release date that was off by about 600 days.

“We’re casting a wide net and doing extensive reviews of each case,” Corrections Secretary Dan Pacholke said Thursday.

Pacholke said that once they have all of the information they need, they will prioritize

PHOTOS BY KEVIN CLARK / THE HERALD

Corbin Phillips (center) has a tickle fit as his father, Josh Phillips, and mother, Heather Phillips, watch a movie at their home in Snohomish on Dec. 17.

Below, daughter Kiera Phillips is grabbed and hugged by Heather, who breathes with the help of an oxygen tank and is having problems following a lung transplant in 2013.

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Heather and Josh Phillips this year took their children, Corbin, 5, and Keira, 4, to a farm to pick out their tree. They cut it down, brought it home and decorated it with white lights and red ornaments.

Heather saved the fancy, fragile decorations for another year, when the kids and Lily, the pug, are older and not so rambunctious.

The family is spending their first Christmas in their new home, a spacious four-bedroom house with a yard, outside of Snohomish. They see the

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me being sick. It’s all they know,” Heather said.

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erboards and the invasion of drones under Christmas trees this morning, that Red Ryder carbine-action, two-hundred shot, range-model air rifle sounds pretty safe right now.

of the classic TV series (The Clicker, Page D6).

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to an oxygen tank, dependant upon it for each breath. She doesn’t get out much because she has to plan trips carefully to make sure she has enough oxygen to last until she gets home.

Doctors can’t explain why she woke up struggling for air during her second pregnancy, in 2011.

“It’s like I’m breathing with a bag over my head,” she said.

The Phillipses expected the lung transplant Heather received in 2013 to bring their battle to an end. Instead, Heather’s body attacked the donated organ.

She has since undergone several bouts of chemotherapy and blood transfusions to stop See GIFT, Page A8

church in Austria (Today in History, Page D6).

Against the instincts of the parish priest, the church’s music director talked the priest into having them play the song with lead, rhythm and bass guitars, a drum set and a horn section with the lyrics displayed on an overhead screen.

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Thursday issued a strong condemnation of modern society’s vices as he urged the faithful to “act soberly” and show compassion in a Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Thousands of people attended the service, one of the grandest in Catholic Church liturgy. The 79-year-old Francis, who said he was suffering from the flu at the start of the week, sounded slightly hoarse and did not appear to have fully recovered.

“In a society so often intoxicated by consumerism and hedonism, wealth and extravagance, appearances and narcissism, (Jesus) calls us to act soberly, in other words, in a way that is simple, balanced, consistent, capable of seeing and doing what is essential,” he said in his homily.

Criticizing “a world which all too often is merciless to the sinner and lenient to the sin,” and “a culture of indifference

which not infrequently turns ruthless,” Francis said “our lifestyle should instead be devout, filled with empathy, compassion and mercy.”

Following tradition, the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics entered St. Peter’s holding a ferula — a silver papal stick with a cross — and preceded by a procession of cardinals and other top prelates.

The service lasted about 90 minutes.

At the start, Francis lifted a cloth covering a baby Jesus figure in a symbolic celebration of his birth, and children from Belgium, Italy, Kenya, the Central African Republic, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, United States and Mexico laid flowers by the shrine.

After Mass, the pontiff picked up the doll-size Jesus figure and, escorted by the 15 children, placed it in a nativity scene inside the basilica. In parallel, a baby Jesus figure was also placed in a life-size creche in St. Peter’s Square.

The pontiff, who on Wednesday was named as the winner of the 2016

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Pope Francis kneels as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, on Thursday.

Charlemagne Prize for acting as Europe’s “voice of conscience,” stressed God’s loving nature in a Twitter message earlier Thursday.

“God is in love with us. He becomes small to help us love him in return,” it said.

Christmas celebrations fall in the middle of the Jubilee of Mercy, a monthslong festival Francis

inaugurated Dec. 8 and running through Nov. 20, which offers Catholics a chance to seek a general pardon for their sins.

They also come amid renewed scrutiny of Francis’ reform efforts following VatiLeaks 2 revelations of Vatican financial scandals, simmering Catholic conservative discontent with

the pope and heightened security in response to terrorist threats.

Celebrations were slated to continue Friday with the traditional Christmas Day Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) message and blessings, which the pope delivers from the central balcony of the Vatican basilica.

Brain scans may reveal who has Christmas spirit

By Allie Shah Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Which one are you: full of the Christmas spirit or Ebenezer Scrooge?

The answer, new research suggests, lies inside our brains, where we have a veritable “Christmas spirit network,” scientists wrote in this month’s issue of The BMJ, a medical journal.

Five distinct areas of the brain were much more

active in people who celebrate Christmas with gusto and have positive holiday memories than in those who don’t have any Christmas traditions.

Scientists from Denmark stumbled onto the idea of testing Yuletide merriment while conducting a larger study about migraines using brain scans.

For the Christmas spirit experiment, they studied 10 people who regularly

celebrate the holiday and 10 who don’t. Participants viewed 84 images — some with clear fa-la-la-la-la themes and others that depicted everyday life.

They underwent brain scans while watching the images.

The brains of Christmas enthusiasts lit up in regions that have been linked with spirituality, experiencing emotions shared with others, and recognizing facial expressions.

But before you say “bah humbug” to the findings, the researchers suggest that holidays, in general, may produce the same effect on the brain.

“Location of the Christmas spirit could also contribute to a more general understanding of the brain’s role in festive cultural traditions,” they wrote, “making a medical contribution to cross cultural festivities and goodwill to all.”

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Bothell residents to vote on fireworks ban Council members want to get the public’s input because they know it’s such a controversial topic.

By Aaron Kunkler Bothell Reporter

Bothell voters will be asked to provide feedback to the City Council on next November’s

ballot concerning a potential fireworks ban.

Council members earlier this month voted to place an advisory vote on the November 2016 ballot, asking voters whether they

would support a fireworks ban.

While the ballot measure would not be binding, council members were unwilling to take an official vote without residents’ input.

“Since it’s such a controversial topic and because people feel so strongly about it, the council decided that (instead of) just enacting a ban, which is in it’s

purview, they want to get a clear understanding from the people what their desire is,” Councilwoman Tris Samberg said.

The issue of a fireworks ban has come before the council in the past, but this year’s intense wildfires and continuing drought have fire officials concerned.

This year’s fire season saw

record-setting property loss across the Northwest states, Alaska and California, resulting in 7.5 million acres burned, Shasky said.

In an email, Bothell Fire Chief Bob Van Horne said on average his department responded to 69 See FIREWORKS, Page A5

From holiday whim to family tradition 2 fire districts to begin merger Monroe, Clearview will combine administrations and share a fire chief.

By Rikki King Herald Writer

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Larry Jackson makes his way around Lake Ki in Lakewood to pick up food donations with the help of his daughter, Shelbey, on Sunday. The Jackson family started the annual Christmas tradition 11 years ago, asking neighbors to leave donations at the end of their docks for them to pick up in their boat. On average, they collect around 1,000 pounds each year, which they then donate to a local food bank.

Neighborly Lake Ki food drive going on 11 years

By Kari Bray Herald Writer

LAKEWOOD — Neighbors yelled encouragement as the silver and white Thunder Jet nosed up to their docks and the crew inside snagged items, loaded them into the back of the boat and motored away.

“Merry Christmas,” they called out. “Thank you for doing this.”

“Eleventh year,” Larry Jackson

replied to one neighbor. “Gotta keep her going.”

Volunteers gathered roughly 1,000 pounds of donated food during the 11th annual Lake Ki Food Drive. Each year, people who live along the lake leave bags and boxes full of nonperishable food out on the ends of their docks. A team in a boat circles the 100-acre lake to pick up the donations. They also put a drop box at Country Burger

on the corner of Lakewood and Freestad roads for anyone who wants to donate but doesn’t have a house on the lake.

Dick Maine and Larry Jackson captained the boat this year while Larry’s daughter, Shelbey Jackson, and her boyfriend, Mark Lelievre, grabbed donations off the docks. On Sunday afternoon, they maneuvered around buoys, diving boards, decorations and some recent windstorm debris.

Shelbey Jackson and Lelievre worked quickly, leaning over the cold gray water to grab bags and boxes, or hopping out of the boat to reach a package, then climbing back in. The pile in the back of the boat grew until it filled one corner and part of another.

Some pick-ups are tricky.

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front porch

train rounds the bend, approaching a sign that says “You are now in Bedford Falls.” Near the scene from the Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” ice skaters glide on the Hidden Pond. At the edge of the fantasy town, a carousel is turning and a Ferris wheel spins.

The lit-up Christmas village is on display in a window near the entrance to Macy’s at Everett Mall. As I walked past, I knew I had seen it before — it’s “Larryville.”

“I’m glad that it lives on,” said Everett’s Larry O’Donnell, 78, who earlier this year donated

JULIE MUHLSTEIN much of his massive holiday village collection to the Everett Mall.

It was Dec. 21, 2012, when O’Donnell’s Larryville village was featured in The Herald. The mini-Christmas wonderland then occupied about 100 square

Emergency shelter on Christmas day The South Snohomish County Emergency Shelter Network activation has been activated for Dec. 25 for all individuals requiring overnight emergency shelter due to anticipated overnight freezing weather. A warming hut also will be open at the Lynnwood Senior Center from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.

feet — much of the dining room and living room — in his big house. To create the display, O’Donnell pushed together a dining table, a ping-pong table, a card table and the kitchen table his parents had when he was a child.

A collector for about a dozen years, O’Donnell stored more than 120 village structures in his basement during the off season — until this year.

This spring, it was time for Larry and Joyce O’Donnell to downsize. After 46 years in their Grand Avenue home, which

The shelter network is open to families, women and men.

Evening and morning meals will be provided. Meet at Lynnwood City Hall, 19100 44th Ave W, Lynnwood, no later than 7 p.m.

People will be shuttled to a local shelter. A second meeting location is located in the Trader Joe’s parking lot on Highway 99 and 196th St SW; be there no later than 7:05 p.m. For more information on the South

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Snohomish County Emergency Shelter Network, contact Mark Waldin, program administrator, at 425-419-7938.

Democracy nominees sought: The League of Women Voters of Snohomish County seeks nominations for its annual Democracy in Action Award. The winner may be a person or group showing exceptional commitment to

ANNIE MULLIGAN / THE HERALD FILE

Larry O’Donnell surveys his “Larryville” Christmas wonderland at his Everett home in 2012. This year, he donated his Christmas village to the Everett Mall.

enhancing democracy in the county. Last year’s recipient was the independent radio station KSER’s public affairs department.

A nominee could be an elected official; someone who has worked to ensure voters’ rights or encourage civic engagement among women; or a person advocating for the league’s positions on natural resources, immigration, international rela-

CLEARVIEW — Two Snohomish County fire districts will start to merge Jan. 1.

Under a new contract, Fire District 3 in Monroe and District 7 in Clearview will combine administrations and share a fire chief.

The contract runs through 2016 and doesn’t change firefighter staffing levels. The districts next year are supposed to work on a permanent merger and eventually become one agency.

The next phase of the merger likely would require approval from voters, at least in the Monroe district, depending on the final details. The earliest voters might see a ballot measure would be August.

The two fire districts share a border along the Snohomish River. Together they will cover 115 square miles and employ more than 130 firefighters. Their governing boards approved the new contract earlier this month.

Clearview’s Fire Chief Gary Meek will become the chief of the combined agency, and current Monroe chief Jamie Silva will become one of three assistant chiefs. The chiefs’ salaries aren’t changing.

The merger is driven by a desire to provide service at a regional level, without concerns of borders and “turf,” Meek said.

“The bigger the area you’re looking at, the better you can plan the resources,” he said.

Under the new agreement, crews will stay at the same stations with the same response areas, as governed by the labor contracts, he said.

Both districts have made compromises to find common ground, Meek said. The chiefs are focused on future savings, and in 2016 plan to share positions in areas such as finance, human resources and fire prevention.

“It’s more cost avoidance than it is cost savings,” Meek said.

Meanwhile, the two firefighters unions already have consolidated, and the crews are in support of ongoing talks with neighboring districts about sharing resources, Union President Michael McConnell said.

He sees the fire service moving away from the historical system of myriad smaller districts.

“Collectively we’re pushing to See MERGER, Page A4

tions, education or health care.

Send nominations, by Jan. 5, to LWVSC, P.O. Box 1146, Everett, WA 98206 or email Snohomish@lwvwa.org. Include nominee’s name, address and phone number, along with a resume, letters of recommendation or reasons for nomination.

Also include the name and phone number of the person submitting the nomination.

Questions? Call 425-334-8922.

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the weather was calm on Sunday, there have been years when rain, wind or snow bombarded the boat.

Still, no one’s ever fallen in during the collection or dropped so much as a single can, Shelbey Jackson said.

She’s been on every Lake Ki Food Drive boat ride.

She helped her grandpa, Robert Freestad, start it in 2004, when she was 13 years old. Maine also was one of the food drive founders.

Freestad had just purchased a new boat. He organized a nighttime Christmas boat parade, where several friends decorated their boats and went around the lake. They offered to pick up food donations if people left them on the docks.

It started as a whim but grew into a December tradition.

The food drive has

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Food donations pile up in the back of the boat on Lake Ki.

changed over the years. It’s no longer a parade. It’s no longer at night. Freestad, who was affectionately known as the mayor of Lake Ki, died in 2007.

His family and friends are determined to keep the food drive going.

“The first few years we did this, we had to explain

it to everyone,” Shelbey Jackson said. “Now they’re like, ‘Oh, when are you doing it this year?’ ” The donations are hauled to a local food bank or nonprofit to distribute. This year, they worked with the Stillaguamish Senior Center in Smokey Point.

They don’t set any particular goal for the food drive, Larry Jackson said.

It’s just something they like to do each December to help families during the holidays.

“You never know. It’s tough for folks,” he said.

“We’re just grateful for whatever we get.”

They have picked up some interesting items in the past. Once, there were leaking sardines, and another time, there was a kitty litter box full of rice.

This year, the donations

Deputy saves man from fire

were more typical: a heavy bag loaded with Campbell soups, boxes of cake mix and Jell-O and a sack full of oranges. Though the fruit is perishable, most food banks take fresh produce, too.

Donors wrapped cardboard boxes and paper bags inside of plastic bags to keep them dry.

“See, people are so kind that way,” Larry Jackson said.

By the time they were halfway around the lake, the crew was in their food drive rhythm. Maine eased the boat in alongside a dock and Lelievre, at the bow, reached over and grabbed two garbage bags stretched by the weight of the food inside. He passed them to Larry Jackson, who handed them off to his daughter so she could settle them among the other donations.

The red plastic ties at the top of the bags waved in the wind as Maine steered the boat toward the next dock.

On the plain white garbage bags, someone had written “Merry Christmas” in big red letters.

Herald staff DARRINGTON — A Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy pulled a man from a house fire Wednesday night.

The 911 call came in around 10:45 p.m.

The deputy and crews from the Darrington-based fire district were dispatched to a home in the 800 block of Givens Avenue.

Arriving first, the deputy found the house full of black smoke and learned a man was still inside, sheriff’s Lt. Scott Parker said.

After breaking windows out of the front of the home, the deputy entered and pulled the man outside. The man was breathing but not conscious and was flown by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Parker said.

The deputy was evaluated for smoke inhalation but was otherwise uninjured.

The fire’s case is being investigated by the Snohomish County Fire Marshal.

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see a more efficient model with less overhead,” McConnell said. “We’re definitely taking a longer view.”

The two fire boards will remain separate legal entities. Joint board meetings will rotate between Monroe and Clearview, according to the legal agreement.

Fire District 7 also remains in negotiations with the city of Mill Creek.

That city’s fire service contract with the district runs out after 2016.

Rikki King: 425-3393449; rking@heraldnet. com.

FUGITIVE WATCH Herald staff The state Department of Corrections’ Everett office has felony warrants for the following offenders. If you have information about them, call police or the Department of Corrections at 425-356-2800. Callers do not have to give their names.

Mason D. Wermy Age: 23 Height: 6 feet 3 inches Weight: 170 pounds Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Wermy has a warMason D. rant for Wermy failing to report to the state Department of Corrections. He is being supervised for seconddegree child molestation.

Wermy is a Level 1 sex offender.

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He is being supervised for failure to register as a felony sex offender. Haddox is a Level 2 sex offender.

If you see these people, do not approach, arrest, detain or follow them. In an emergency, call 911.

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Heavy snow disrupts travel over mountains SKYKOMISH — Heavy snowfall made for a long Christmas Eve wait on one popular mountain pass while closing another one for the entire day.

U.S. 2 over Stevens Pass reopened around 1 p.m. It had been closed for hours in both directions for avalanche control. Chains were required on all vehicles except all-wheel

drive.

Transportation officials said I-90 eastbound was to reopen at Snoqualmie Pass at 7 p.m. Thursday.

The roadway was closed for an 80-mile stretch from North Bend to Ellensburg due to heavy snow fall, trees leaning over the roadway and high avalanche danger.

Officials didn’t say when the interstate would open for those heading west.

More than 25 inches of snow has fallen in the area over the past 24 hours.

Washington State Department of Transportation crews worked throughout Wednesday night and Thursday on avalanche control work, and cleared the roadway of snow and crashes.

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Fireworks: 12 incidents in one year fireworks related incidents a year since 2011, generally brush and grass fires.

From 2011 to 2014, there were eight fireworks incidents within the city limits.

In 2015, there were 12, he said.

This prompted the department to operate an additional engine during this year’s Fourth of July celebrations.

Van Horne also noted a ban has area precedent.

Surrounding cities ban fireworks, “and while

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it does not completely eliminate all fireworks incidents in their cities, it does dramatically reduce the potential of fires or injuries resulting from fireworks. Bothell would likely experience the same reductions,” he said.

Councilman Bill Evans has lived in Bothell since 1972, and remembers lighting off fireworks with his family.

“Way back when I had children at home, we used to have fireworks in our cul-de-sac,” he said, but now that he’s older he sees

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was built in 1905, they moved to a much smaller place near Cascade High School.

“The big house was too much for us anymore,” O’Donnell said. A retired Everett School District administrator, he had coronary bypass surgery this summer. His recovery has gone so well he’s back to taking long bike rides with a group he has ridden with for years.

Before their move, they had a big sale at the house. “We gave stuff away and threw stuff away,” O’Donnell said.

They made a vow not to rent a storage unit. Without room to display or store the holiday village, they didn’t want to sell Larryville piece by piece.

O’Donnell decided the bulk of it should go to a place where many people, children especially, would enjoy it.

He talked with Glen Bachman, the Everett Mall’s general manager.

Both men are members of the Rotary Club of Everett. O’Donnell said Bachman had visited his home during previous

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holiday seasons. “He was very interested. Within that week, we loaded up 90 percent of it. I gave it to the mall,” said O’Donnell, adding that he bought pieces over so many years he doesn’t know their total value.

He kept some pieces for sentimental reasons.

At his home in 2012, the Larryville display included spots named for O’Donnell’s family members.

“Jack’s Auto Parts” was there in honor of O’Donnell’s brother.

Jack O’Donnell, a former teacher, retired a year ago after compiling The Herald’s “Seems Like Yesterday” column for years. Other structures were named for his son, his nephew and a granddaughter.

On Wednesday, shoppers carrying last-minute purchases hurried past the village, which is behind glass to keep pieces from being taken.

“It is absolutely fun,” Bachman said. “It took Larry years to collect what it is you’re seeing, from all his travels around the country.”

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The News Tribune reported the 23-foot-long whale was reported to authorities Dec. 18 and towed across the Tacoma Narrows Wednesday. The whale was to be placed on a flatbed tow truck and driven back to Gig Harbor to a farm.

A crew of volunteers plans to bury the whale in horse manure on the farm to aid its decomposition.

They hope to return next summer to exhume the whale and clean its skeleton, so it can be displayed at the Foss Waterway Seaport.

why residents are concerned about disturbance and fire.

State law requires a one year moratorium before newly passed legislation takes affect. If a fireworks ban was passed in December 2016, after the advisory vote, it would not be enforceable until December 2017.

The advisory vote will coincide with the 2016 presidential election, which city leaders hope will encourage a wider swath of residents to vote on the measure.

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trips together, Larry and Jack O’Donnell visited A Christmas Story House and Museum in Cleveland, the setting for the 1983 movie “A Christmas Story.”

With Larryville, O’Donnell made an idealized version of a bygone world. There are no big-box stores or jammed parking lots in the village now on view in the mall.

O’Donnell will never forget Christmas window shopping in the Everett of his boyhood.

The department store he remembers best was Rumbaugh-MacLain’s, on the corner of Wetmore Avenue and California Street. Later the Bon Marche, it’s now Trinity Lutheran College.

“They had huge displays. I remember Santa in that window,” he said.

His donation is a gift to the whole community. A glimpse of nostalgia, that village is a bit of magic in the midst of modern commerce.

“When I was a kid, that was the sort of thing I could look at for hours,” O’Donnell said.

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Local agencies were not able to help because the boat was stuck in shallow water. No injuries were reported.

Associated Press POCATELLO, Idaho — A southeastern Idaho cafeteria worker said she was fired for giving a student a free

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meal costing $1.70, but the school district offered her the job back after a national outcry.

Dalene Bowden received a termination letter from the Pocatello School District last week after she gave a tray of food to a 12-year-old student who said she didn’t have money for the meal.

The letter cited theft as the reason for her dismissal. Bowden says a supervisor placed her on leave after witnessing what she had done.

“I truly loved my job, and I can’t say that I wouldn’t do it again,” Bowden told news station KPVI-TV in Pocatello.

The district said in a statement Wednesday night that it doesn’t fire workers for single events but offered Bowden her job back in the spirit of the holidays.

It’s not clear if she will return.

The district said it works with various programs to help children who are hungry, need medical care or who are homeless.

It noted that the schools could lose federal money if accounting irregularities show up with missing meals.

“The District jeopardizes its funding for the Federal Food Service Program if its employees do not follow the proper procedures and requirements,” the statement said.

Superintendent Doug Howell has been in contact with Bowden and offered her the chance to return to work, the district’s statement said.

Bowden, who did not return multiple attempts for comment from The Associated Press, said she has worked for the school for three years.

In 2013, Bowden was

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convicted of two theft charges after police found surveillance footage showing her taking money from her employer’s cash register and putting it into her tip jar at a Pocatello golf course.

Bowden was ordered to pay $370 in restitution, according to court documents.

Meanwhile, the city of Pocatello has received so many messages of outrage that it released a statement Wednesday noting that the city and school district are separate entities and no elected officials were involved in the district’s decisions about Bowden.

“Mayor (Brian) Blad and the City feel this is an extremely unfortunate situation,” the statement said.

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the rejection. She gets sick often but has enjoyed a few short stints of feeling well.

Occasionally, she’s able to work as a cocktail server at Seahawks games.

Heather’s body is slowly giving up the fight against her lungs. There’s hope that she will someday be able to breathe on her own again.

Each day brings a tough choice. The couple is never sure if forgoing time together so Josh can provide for the family’s future is the right thing to do.

The 32-year-old spends most days installing and repairing doors to earn money to pay their mounting medical bills and other expenses. He worked another 30 hours a week for almost two years, building their home as part

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“It’ll be a puttanesca Christmas; whatever’s around the kitchen sink,” he said.

Karen Lawler, the marketing and communications director for the restaurant, said the company has promoted the event on social media, leading to a flood of donations.

“It’s just caught on fire,” she said.

The event is not just for the homeless, but for anyone who might need a hot meal on Christmas, she said.

Restaurant staff will also send cars to pick up a few families from Maud’s House in Marysville, a communal home for homeless mothers and their children.

Pedersen said he got the

of the nonprofit Housing Hope’s sweat-equity program.

Josh didn’t let his wife’s lengthy hospital stays or caring for the kids on his own stop him. In August, they moved into their first home. Now, they know their neighbors and can let their kids play outside without having to worry.

“It’s a blessing to have a roof over the family’s head and have our first Christmas here,” Josh said.

“Everyone has a tough time so you have to focus on the beautiful things in life.”

They keep each other centered by letting go of fears about the future and focus on enjoying each day as best they can.

For one, their daughter Keira likes to help wrap gifts. She doesn’t care that Christmas presents traditionally come in red or green packages. She opts for pink paper with Minnie Mouse on it instead.

Her brother Corbin is the family movie buff. He finds favorites, such as “Ant Man” or “The Avengers” for them to watch together as they sip hot cocoa and eat popcorn.

Heather and Josh started their family soon after they married in 2009.

They met at Mountlake Terrace High School, but didn’t get to know each other until Josh went to work for Heather’s dad. At first, she said, she despised him.

Her distaste softened when Josh offered support as she grieved the loss of her 18-year-old brother, Justin Rima, who died after a lung transplant in 2003.

The two became friends, often talking late into the night.

Two months later, Josh’s brother, Adam Phillips, committed suicide at 19.

Heather was there to see Josh through it.

When Heather got sick,

idea for the free meal while pumping gas on Pacific Avenue, when he met a man who hadn’t eaten in a day and a half. He ended up swinging back to the restaurant to pick up four pasta boxed meals for the man and his friend, and talked with him while he ate in Pedersen’s car.

“I’ve been in restaurants for 10 years, and every restaurant I’ve ever managed seems to be in areas where there are high rates of homelessness,” Pedersen said.

As a consequence, he’s developed relationships with the homeless community, sometimes sharing food or hiring people to clean restaurant windows before opening.

He ran the idea of a free Christmas meal by owners Diane and Carrie Symms, and the restaurant’s staff.

What was originally thought to be an event for

50 people took off.

“It seemed like everybody I talked to was willing to help, and I just grew it from there,” Pedersen said.

Customers got wind of the event and started donating socks, hats and gloves and other necessities for a care package each customer will get.

Mahoney Family Dentistry in Edmonds donated 150 sets of toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental floss. Passport Unlimited, a marketing company for high-end restaurants, dropped off about 80 bags already filled with sundries, Pedersen said.

“It’s been an amazing outpouring of love and heart,” Lawler said. The restaurant is located at 1620 W. Marine View Drive.

Chris Winters: 425374-4165; cwinters@ heraldnet.com. Twitter: @ Chris_At_Herald.

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they faced that together, too.

Now, simple things, such as spending Christmas at home as a family, are what matter most. It’s not easy,

but they choose to count their blessings, instead of losing sight of them.

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expediting the arrests of those who committed new crimes. He noted that on average, about 10.5 percent of inmates who are released from prison commit a crime within the first year of their release.

“This group will probably be comparable to that overall statistic,” he said.

The mistake came following a July 2002 state Supreme Court ruling that required the Department of Corrections to apply good-behavior credits earned in county jail to state prison sentences.

However, the programming fix ended up giving prisoners with sentencing enhancements too much so-called good time credit.

Sentencing enhancements include additional

time given for certain crimes, like those using firearms or those committed near schools. Under state law, prisoners who get extra time for sentencing enhancements cannot have that time reduced for good behavior.

Based on another Supreme Court ruling that credits time out to the sentence of prisoners who have been mistakenly released early, most of the affected offenders won’t have to go back to prison.

The Department of Corrections was first alerted to the error in December 2012, when a victim’s family learned of a prisoner’s imminent release. The family did its own calculations and found he was being credited with too much time. However, even though the agency consulted with attorneys regarding the error the

Heather said. “That’s more than a lot of people have.”

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same month and scheduled a fix for the program, it was repeatedly delayed and ultimately, never done. Pacholke said he didn’t learn of the error until last week, and the governor says he didn’t learn of the issue until that same time, when corrections’ officials notified his staff.

Inslee has told corrections officials to stop releasing prisoners affected by the glitch until a hand calculation is done to ensure the offender is being released on the correct date. A broad fix to the software problem is expected to be in place by early January.

Two retired federal prosecutors have been brought in to conduct an independent investigation to determine why the error occurred and went unfixed for more than 13 years.

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The stepped-up effort will target hundreds of families who decided to follow often-dangerous smuggling routes into the U.S., fleeing escalating violence and harsh economic conditions in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, but whose requests for asylum have been denied.

Agents are not planning to return to workplace raids or other dragnet-style tactics that can lead to the indiscriminate deportation of people in the country illegally, according to the officials.

More than 100,000 families from Central America

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Some have won permission to stay, but many have cases that are pending.

The deportation effort

by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removal officers would target Central American migrants who have arrived in the U.S. recently, whose requests for asylum have been denied and who have received a so-called “final order of removal” since Jan. 1, 2014, the officials said.

The new push is intended to send a signal to people thinking of making the treacherous journey to the U.S. from Central America that they won’t be able to stay if caught.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has repeatedly said that those who came to the country illegally and didn’t meet requirements for protection would be deported.

But there have been few public signs that officials were actually willing to follow through.

Officials fear that current policies have done little to deter Central American migrants, who illegally entered the U.S. in record numbers last year.

Court decisions over poor conditions for families in immigration detention facilities have limited the number of Central American parents with children who are kept in custody after being apprehended by border officials. Thousands of people have been released into the U.S. with a notice to appear later before an immigration judge.

Over the past two years, immigration officials have boosted the number of detention beds for families, but the facilities have been criticized as too harsh for children and are overtaxed.

“As secretary Johnson has consistently said, our border is not open to illegal immigration, and if individuals come here illegally, do not qualify for asylum or other relief, and have final orders of removal, they will be sent back consistent

with our laws and our values,” said Gillian Christensen, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The reported plans drew sharp criticism from immigrant rights groups, who say that immigration court proceedings that lead to deportation orders are often flawed.

Michelle Brane, an advocate for immigrant rights at the Women’s Refugee Commission, said many refugees fleeing violence in Central America are not given enough information about how to describe why they left home and qualify for protection in the U.S. “It is outrageous that the Administration plans to conduct raids on families who have fled persecution and violence,” Brane said Thursday.

“Instead of focusing on deporting families, the administration should finally recognize what this influx is about: refugees seeking protection at our border who, instead of

being locked up, should be given a real chance to find a lawyer, understand how the process works, and make their case for asylum before a judge,” Brane said.

The push to increase the pace of deportations comes in the middle of a heated election cycle that has seen immigration become a flash point on the campaign trail. GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for deporting all 11 million people in the country illegally.

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who is seeking the Democratic presidential

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New rules have truck drivers more monitored than before For his entire career in truck driving, Bryan Spoon has tried to move toward being his own boss.

A third-generation trucker, he started driving in the military, which lasted 10 years. After leaving the service, he bought his own truck in 2004, and leased it to one company for a while.

Then he became independent, picking up jobs on the spot market, hauling loads from as far south as Georgia all the way up to New England and out to Kansas City, Missouri.

But now, a new federal regulation is making him feel as if that freedom is being taken away. Under final rules published this month, he and more than three million other drivers have until the end of 2017 to buy and install an “electronic logging device” that connects to his engine and broadcasts his speed and location to the shipper, replacing the log sheet that truckers have kept for decades.

“I run a safe, compliant business. I never had any issues with hours of service.

So what does the government get out of monitoring me?” Spoon says. The government won’t actually be looking over his shoulder day-to-day, but could ask for the records if it suspects he’s violated rules that govern the hours he can spend on the road. He’s more worried about shipping companies tracking his every move.

“Why are you stopping?”

“These ELDs are going to allow the company to say, ‘why are you stopping?’ ” Spoon said. He thinks that could be the final straw for truckers who’ve grown more impatient with each new restriction — and indeed, some polling shows that the mandate is broadly unpopular, since it represents a loss of control. “The industry is going to lose a whole section of very safe drivers who could work for a few more years and are just going to call it quits.”

Spoon isn’t installing the electronic logs just yet, though. The day after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published the new rule, on Dec. 11, the Owner Operator Independent Driver Association petitioned for review by the 7th Circuit

The technology is used simply to push drivers. You can call that harassment or coercion, but it is absolutely the opposite of safety.

— Todd Spencer, Owner Operator Independent Driver Association

Court of Appeals. It worked the last time around: In 2012, courts vacated the agency’s first attempt at a rule, saying it hadn’t done enough to prevent harassment of drivers.

The new regulation comes with stronger protections against coercion and harassment, allowing drivers to report any attempts by trucking companies to make them spend more time on the road than is allowed. Still, the drivers association said pressure can come in more subtle forms that wouldn’t necessarily constitute a violation.

“The technology is used simply to push drivers.

You can call that harassment or coercion, but it is absolutely the opposite of safety,” said Todd Spencer, the association’s executive vice president. “They will certainly imply that ‘you’re creating a very, very bad situation for us, and if you don’t get from A to B to C, there might not be a load waiting for you when you get there.’ ”

A long time coming If it sticks, the mandate will have been a long time in coming — and the independent drivers are basically the only ones who have opposed it. Highway safety advocates and the American Trucking Associations, which represents many large trucking companies that have already adopted electronic monitoring, say the mandate will enhance compliance with hours-of-service rules by preventing drivers from falsifying their log books. That had been a widespread practice in the past, as truckers might fudge times slightly to avoid having to spend an extra night somewhere if they had reached their hours limit.

“The industry turned a blind eye to all that. In today’s environment, there is no blind eye,” says David Roush, president of a consulting firm called KSM Transportation Advisors.

Plus, from the company’s

standpoint, knowing what drivers are up to allows them to maximize the efficiency of each trip. “By having transparency into what the true situation is, companies are more able to ensure time that the driver is spending is productive, and not just sitting around,” Roush said.

New market opportunity Meanwhile, the new mandate creates a new market opportunity for companies that manufacture the devices and software that crunches the mountains of data they will create. Keeptruckin, a startup with seed funding from Google Ventures that offers a free app for drivers to track their hours, is testing a hardware device that hooks into the truck’s motor to comply with the new rule.

“Regulation is looked at in a negative way by Silicon Valley,” says Shoaib Makani, Keeptruckin’s CEO. “But we view it as incredibly positive, as an accelerant.”

Makani even thinks that having access to data could empower drivers, by allowing them to demand compensation for the time they spend waiting to deliver a load, for example. But that’s far from inevitable — it’s currently not standard practice for truckers to be paid for anything other than the miles they’ve traveled. They’re even carved out of federal labor laws that entitle most workers to overtime pay.

Fatigue and unsafe behavior That’s why Karen Levy, a post-doctoral fellow at New York University’s Information Law Institute who has extensively studied electronic monitoring of drivers, thinks the devices won’t solve the fundamental problems that have made life difficult for truckers. “There is widespread feeling that ELDs crack

down on drivers while missing a lot of what really drives fatigue and unsafe behavior,” she said, mentioning stressors like the difficulty of finding parking, and the incentive to spend as much time on the road as possible.

“It’s basically a similar dynamic as what’s occurring throughout all kinds of low-wage labor contexts,” Levy says. “Tech enables much more granular and real-time supervision in the name of productivity, which makes those jobs less livable for workers.”

And companies do have an interest in not ticking off drivers too much. The new mandate comes at a time when the trucking industry is voicing alarm at what it calls a potentially catastrophic driver shortage, projecting that there will be 174,000 fewer drivers than are needed by 2024.

Companies are offering higher salaries and better benefits to retain drivers, but analysts warn that the temptation to use monitoring to maximize efficiency could make the profession less appealing.

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Aug. 15, 1945-Oct. 25, 2014

Missing you still As we always will.

You live on in our hearts everyday, Memories of you will forever stay.

Merry Christmas Honey from your loving family.

Forever Loving and Missing you, Linda Eric, Alicia, Ethan, Kieran Kari

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Minnie (Bonneywell) Carpenter

1905-1990 Glenn Carpenter 1935-1970 Grace (Carpenter) Van Dalen 1946-2007 Charles K. Davis 1932-2011 George E. Carpenter Jr. 1928-2015

“Part of the problem is that we have a mentality out there that if we’re going to be cost competitive, we have to micromanage the driver. We want he or she to be in the right hand lane doing 62 miles an hour in a speed-governed truck while we’re monitoring his or her fuel efficiency,” said John Larkin, head of Stifel Transportation Research.

“This is not the kind of job that the swashbuckling truck drivers of years gone past would have any interest in, and that’s part of what makes it so difficult.”

That’s essentially what Bryan Spoon is worried about. “I wouldn’t recommend anybody getting into this industry,” he says. So why hasn’t he left?

Well, he might have — driving a truck isn’t much of a living, and keeps him away from his family for weeks at a time. But there aren’t a lot of other jobs in his tiny hometown of Grandy, North Carolina, and this one at least keeps food on the table back at home.

“I think about it almost every day,” says Spoon, of quitting. “But I’ve been in it a long time, and maybe it’s a little pride in not wanting to give in.”

Gary Dalton passed away suddenly on December 21, 2015, at Swedish Hospital in Edmonds, WA. G a r y i s s u r v i ve d by h i s l o v i n g w i fe o f 6 2 y e a r s , Shirley A. Dalton. He is also survived by three sons: Dan (Paula), Rick (Eileen), D e Way n e ( We n d y ) ; s eve n grandchildren, six great grandchildren; five sisters; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister and two brothers.

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Christmastime tornadoes kill at least 14 in the South Associated Press ASHLAND, Miss. — Instead of doing some last-minute shopping or wrapping gifts, families across the South spent Christmas Eve taking stock of their losses after an unusual outbreak of December tornadoes and other violent weather killed at least 14 people and damaged or destroyed dozens of homes.

“Santa brought us a good one, didn’t he?” Bobby Watkins said as he and his wife took a walk amid the destruction in rural Benton County, Mississippi, where four people — including a married couple and two neighbors on the same street — were confirmed dead and their homes destroyed. “I may have lost some stuff, but I got my life.”

Unseasonably warm weather Wednesday helped spawn twisters from Arkansas to Michigan.

The line of springlike storms continued marching east Thursday, dumping torrential rain that flooded roads in Alabama and caused a mudslide in the mountains of Georgia.

Authorities confirmed seven deaths in Mississippi, including that of a 7-year-old boy who was in a car that was swept up and tossed by a storm. Six more died in Tennessee. One person was killed in Arkansas.

Dozens more were injured, some seriously, said Greg Flynn, spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

Search teams combed damaged homes and businesses for people still missing, including at least one man in hard-hit Benton County. The hunt was made complicated because so many had left for the holidays.

“Until they know for sure where those folks are, they’re going to keep looking, because we’ve had in some cases houses leveled, and they’re just not there anymore,” Flynn said.

In Linden, Tennessee, Tony Goodwin ducked into a storm shelter with seven others as the storm passed. He emerged to find his house had been knocked off its foundation and down the hill.

He managed to climb inside and fetch some Christmas gifts that had been under his tree.

Goodwin’s neighbors weren’t so fortunate. Two people in one home were killed.

“It makes you thankful to be alive with your family,” he said. “It’s what Christmas is all about.”

Chris Shupiery grabbed his Santa hat along with a chain saw as he set out to help clean

Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Northerners accustomed to cozying up to a roaring Yuletide fire in a bulky sweater with a mug of hot chocolate may have to open the windows on Christmas.

Record-shattering temperatures in the 60s and 70s settled over the Northeast on Christmas Eve, allowing many people to trade coats and scarves for shorts and T-shirts and go jogging and golfing.

Some announced plans to grill steaks in the backyard instead of putting a Christmas ham in the oven.

Depending on whom you asked, the weather outside was either frightful or delightful.

Not even overcast skies in Philadelphia on Thursday could dampen Michael Craven’s spirits. Walking home after running errands in shorts

FedEx admits that it is running late MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Unlike Santa Claus, Federal Express conceded it wasn’t able to make all its scheduled deliveries Christmas Eve. FedEx is hoping to ease the disappointment by delivering packages on Christmas Day and opening counters at its Express offices across the U.S. so customers can pick up gifts themselves. The carrier blames the delays on inclement weather in parts of the U.S. and a last-minute surge of holiday shopping. The counters at the Express offices will be open Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. FedEx’s other offices will be closed. Customers can find out if their delayed shipment is scheduled for Christmas day delivery or available for pick up by checking at fedex.com or calling 800-463-3339.

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Diana Davis looks for family photos at her father-in-law’s home in Lutts, Tennessee, on Thursday after a tornado tore through the area Wednesday.

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Trista Boga helps salvage what she can from a friend’s home in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on Thursday.

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Postal workers and inspectors sift through what is left of the post office in Lutts, Tennessee, on Thursday.

up Thursday. He cut up fallen trees not far from Goodwin’s home.

“This was just the right thing to do, come help a family in need,” Shupiery said. “Suit up, try to cheer people up and try to make them feel a little better with Christmas coming around.”

In Benton County, Mississippi, relatives helped Daisy and Charles Johnson clean up after the storm flattened their

house. They carried some of the couple’s belongings past a Santa Claus figure on a table.

Daisy Johnson, 68, said she and her husband rushed along with other relatives to their storm shelter across the street from the house after they heard a twister was headed their way.

“We looked straight west of us and there it was. It was yellow and it was roaring, lightning just continually, and it was making a terrible noise,”

she said. “I never want to hear that again for as long as I live.”

Mona Ables, 43, was driving home when the storm hit.

She abandoned her car, ran to a house and banged on a window, seeking shelter.

The startled man inside couldn’t open the door, which appeared to be blocked, Ables said. She huddled next to the house as another stranger pulled up, also looking for shelter.

“He and I just huddled together and saw trees fly past us, and a shipping container flip over,” Ables said. “And as the debris started hitting us, he just covered me, and within a minute it was all over and there was destruction all around us and we were fine.”

Peak tornado season in the South is in the spring, but such storms can happen at any time.

Exactly a year ago, twisters hit Mississippi, killing five people and injuring dozens.

Glenda Hunt, 69, was cooking chicken and making dressing Wednesday night at her Benton County home, where Christmas Eve lunch is a family tradition, when her daughter called to warn her of the approaching storm.

Hunt and her husband ducked into their storm shelter and wrestled the door shut against the wind’s powerful suction. She started praying when she heard sheet metal hitting trees.

On Thursday, heavy farm equipment and corn were strewn across the couple’s property. Their house sustained heavy structural damage but was still standing.

“We’re OK and that’s all that matters,” Hunt said. “But the Lord did save my furniture.”

Northeast gets a wacky winter El Nino, the warming of the Pacific Ocean near the equator, is partly to blame.

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and a T-shirt, he exclaimed with a huge grin: “It’s beautiful out!”

“I’m ecstatic. I am not a fan of winter,” he said. The Christmas spirit “is the people, not whether it’s cold or not. I think people are in better spirits because it’s warm out. They’re on the streets. You’re still able to eat outside at some of the restaurants.”

While the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest have been getting heavy rain and snow, and the South has been hit by deadly tornadoes, much of the East Coast is in for balmy, springlike weather over the next few days.

Forecasters said El Nino, the warming of the Pacific Ocean near the equator, is partly to blame. The weather phenomenon is pushing the jet stream northward, bottling up the cold arctic air that often flows down into the U.S. from Canada.

Meteorologists said some Christmas Eve records could be broken by as much as 10 degrees.

“That’s one thing about the temperature especially today — a lot of places will blow away their previous record highs,” said Bob Oravec, a National Weather Service forecaster in College Park, Maryland.

The weather forced some traditional winter destinations to improvise. In the Adirondack Mountain village of Lake Placid, New York, home of the 1980 Winter Olympics, free golf was added to the list of holiday activities, and snow was trucked in so that people could go sledding.

Without the usual winter wonderland, some people clung to tradition to get in the mood.

Dozens skated at the ice rink in Cincinnati’s Fountain Square, where the temperature was in the 50s. Many of them were part of the annual Mechley family Christmas Eve morning gathering.

“Ironically, it’s the first year we had rented the warming hut,” said Camille Gartner, who was part of the group.

In Warwick, Rhode Island, Stephen Malloney took advantage of the warm weather — the temperature hit a record of at least 65 in Providence — by playing a round of golf.

“Once I looked at the forecast, I packed my clubs,” said Malloney, who was in town from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, visiting family.

More than 50 surfers took to the waves on a 72-degree Christmas Eve in Manasquan, New Jersey, and 5-year-old Clare Tiedemann dug in the sand with the same toy shovel and pail she used over the summer at the beach.

In New York City, the noontime temperature in Central Park was 72, crushing the record of 63 degrees, set in 1996. Dozens of people in shorts and tank tops went running in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

“It’s kind of like this is our little gift for the last two winters,” said Carlie Buccola at the National Weather Service in Upton, New York.

Bond was denied Thursday for a man accused of shooting and wounding two police officers in what became a nine-hour standoff at an Odessa apartment complex. Roy Daniel Garza was arraigned Thursday on eight counts of attempted capital murder of a peace officer. He also faces a previous warrant for aggravated robbery. Police said Garza wounded the officers Wednesday as they tried to serve a warrant on him.

He didn’t surrender until 9 p.m.

California: Actor pardoned Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned Robert Downey Jr. on Thursday for a nearly 20-year-old felony drug conviction that led to the Oscar-nominated actor’s imprisonment for roughly a year.

Downey was among 91 people granted pardons for criminal convictions after demonstrating they had rehabilitated themselves and been out of custody for at least 10 years, Brown’s office said. The pardon does not erase records of a conviction but is a public proclamation that the person has remained out of trouble and demonstrated exemplary behavior, Brown said.

Alaska: Palin gives birth Bristol Palin is a mother for the second time. Palin, who launched an abstinence campaign after giving birth as an unwed teenage mother, posted on Instagram Thursday that she gave birth to a girl, Sailor Grace, on Wednesday.

It’s the second child out of wedlock for the daughter of 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. A family attorney said he could confirm only that the Instagram account was Bristol Palin’s. Palin was an 18-year-old unwed mother when she launched the abstinence campaign soon after giving birth to son Tripp in December 2008.

Iowa: Quick draw shooting Des Moines police said an officer accidentally fired his gun while practicing his “quick draw.” A police report said Officer Brady Pratt “unknowingly” had his finger on the trigger when he drew his gun from his holster, and he fired a round Wednesday inside an office at the Des Moines airport. The bullet hit a ceiling tile above a door before it landed in a ceiling tile in the hallway. No one was hurt. The officer, 23, reported the incident to his supervisor.

AROUND THE WORLD Belgium: Terrorism arrest Authorities announced Thursday the arrest of a ninth suspect linked to the terrorist attacks in Paris last month, a Belgian man whom they said had been in contact several times with the cousin of the suspected ringleader. The federal prosecutor’s office identified the man only as Abdoullah C, born in 1985. It said he was arrested Tuesday, the same day an arrest warrant was issued against him for terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization.

S. Arabia: Hospital burns A fire that broke out overnight at a hospital killed at least 31 people and injured over 100, the government said Thursday. The blaze broke out in the early hours Thursday around the hospital’s intensive care, maternity and neonatal care wards in Jizan. The cause remained unknown by Thursday afternoon, a Civil Defense spokesman said.

There was no immediate breakdown of the victims or further details available.

The health ministry said an investigation is under way to find out the causes of the fire. All babies in incubators were rescued, the ministry said.

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Mitsubishi delays regional jet The firm hopes to win 20 percent of the global market for single-aisle, regional passenger jets.

By Elaine Kurtenbach Associated Press

TOKYO — Mitsubishi, a maker of the World War II-era Zero fighter, said Thursday it plans to postpone by one year its deliveries of its new regional jet, to mid-2018.

The jet recently made a successful maiden flight that “confirmed the basic characteristics to be satisfactory,” the company said in a statement. But it said several issues need to be addressed so the jet’s development schedule was revised.

The company did not provide details about those issues.

Industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi aims to reclaim Japan’s one-time status as an aviation power some 70 years after the country suspended making planes following its defeat in

World War II. While it holds advanced knowhow in avionics, materials and other key aircraft-related knowhow and products, Japan has yet to integrate them into its own 21st century passenger aircraft with modern electronics and leadingedge technology.

The project by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is the successor to an unsuccessful attempt in the 1960s

by Japan to break into the international market with the 64-seat turboprop YS-11. The aim this

time is to secure a foothold in the lucrative but highly competitive commercial passenger jet market.

Mitsubishi says it hopes to win 20 percent of the global market for single-aisle, regional passenger jets.

It had been scheduled to make its first delivery to leading customer All Nippon Airways in the spring of 2017.

Earlier, the project suffered delays in deliveries of aircraft parts, about 70 percent of which are sourced from overseas.

Have gift card sales peaked?

Los Angeles Times As last-minute shoppers scramble to find Christmas presents, many will choose a reliable standby: the gift card.

Nearly three out of four Americans are expected to buy the cards this holiday season, with overall gift-card sales totaling $26 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. The trade group also forecast that consumers will spend an average $153.08 on the cards this season.

But there are signs that Americans might be hitting a saturation point. This year’s average gift-card spending is expected to drop 11 percent from the average $172.74 spent last year, the first annual decline since 2009 when the severe recession hit, the NRF said.

Audrey Guskey tracks the gift-card industry as an associate professor of marketing at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and we asked her to walk us through the business. Here’s an excerpt: What’s the brief history of the cards?

Gift cards basically started in 1994. Blockbuster was offering paper gift certificates and some customers were able to duplicate them as counterfeits, so Blockbuster created this plastic card that we all now know as a gift card. Shortly after that, Neiman Marcus followed with a card as well. In the next couple of years it just blossomed to what it is now.

Why are they so popular?

It makes logical sense. When they initially came out, people associated them with money, so giving a gift card was like giving cash. Then consumers were able to personalize and customize gift cards. You could pick one from a certain restaurant or department store or from a particular golf course if you had a golfer in the family, for example.

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We’re spending about $800 on gifts this holiday season on average and about $160 of that, or 20 percent, is going to be on gift cards.

They also make it easier for the gift giver, right?

It takes a lot of the guesswork out of making purchases for someone. They’re especially helpful for procrastinators.

But gift-card sales are expected to fall this year. Has the business topped out?

We’re going to get to a point of saturation sometime but it’s too early to say when. We may have peaked this year. I don’t know.

But nearly 60 percent of consumers said they would like to receive a gift card this year, and it’s been the most requested gift for nine years in a row.

We’re spending about $800 on gifts this holiday season on average and about $160 of that, or 20 percent, is going to be on gift cards.

What might be causing giftcard sales to level out?

I know they’re only 21 years old and people still want them, but gift

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cards are getting old and they’re not as fun or as exciting for the receiver as they once were. Perhaps the gift-card industry needs to do more to energize the business. They’ve already customized the cards, and they’ve made the cards more mobile and virtual.

What do you mean, more mobile and virtual?

You don’t need to have an actual card to give someone.

You can print a card from your computer or email a gift card to someone and they can print it from their computer.

You believe in buying gift cards at a discount, right?

Consumers should never pay full price for a gift card. There are discount websites out there such as Monstergiftcard.com, Giftcardzen.com or Cardpool.com.

Sometimes you can get 5 percent off or even 25 percent off. If you’re buying a $100 gift card and you’re only paying $75, that’s a

pretty decent discount, yet the face value for the gift’s receiver is still $100.

What laws regulate gift cards?

Every state has different laws and regulations, but at the federal level there was a bill passed in 2009 that basically limits expiration dates on the cards for at least five years.

Some prepaid debit cards could have different expiration dates and an activation fee that might be two or three dollars.

Also, some gift cards that retailers give out as a loyalty reward or a bonus for shopping there — as opposed to the general gift cards you purchase for their stores — might expire sooner or have fees.

Finally, you want to make sure the gift card is not a gift for the retailer. Consumers are sloppy using gift cards. If you get one, make sure you use the full value at some point.

JAMES McCUSKER into focus.

One dimension of the changing economy can be seen in the employment picture — not in the weekly or monthly ups and downs that capture the headlines and roil the financial markets, but in the fullness of the year’s trajectory.

The U.S. Commerce Department, for example, recently reported that over the past year (November 2014 to November 2015) the economy added 638,000 jobs in the education and health care sectors. Most of these were in the health care industry and were the resultant of two factors: increased availability of funds; and increased demand.

The increase in the health care industry’s available funds probably stemmed from the rising payments for health insurance, and the increased demand is one of the consequences of our aging population. Pew Research analysts estimate that approximately 10,000 people in

the U.S. reach age 65 each and every day — just one product of the “geezerization” process that is gradually but relentlessly reshaping our economy. These forces will undoubtedly reshape health care in our country but it is not certain just what the end result will look like. Much of the health care industry is still going through the motions of being a market-driven, free enterprise system. But at present it has the headaches and the risks without the freedom which is increasingly constrained by the government’s bureaucratic edicts.

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Expect your cable TV bill will go up, again Bloomberg Your cable bill is going up.

Again.

While facing a growing number of consumers who drop pay-TV for cheaper online alternatives, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network

Jobless benefit applications fell in the last week The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week, reflecting a job market that continues to look persistently healthy.

Applications for jobless aid declined 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 267,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The less volatile 4-week average ticked up slightly to 272,500. Over the past 12 months, the number of people collecting benefits has dropped 7.7 percent to 2.2 million. The U.S. job market continues to appear strikingly robust. Applications for benefits are often a proxy for layoffs, so the decline indicates that employers are holding onto their workers and potentially looking to expand their payrolls. Net job growth has been robust. Employers are hiring 210,000 workers a month so far this year. And unemployment last month remained at a seven-year low 5 percent.

Claims have been below the critical threshold of 300,000 for the past 42 weeks.

Japan’s Cabinet OKs record defense budget

Changes require staying true to our values he Christmas story would have been different if the world hadn’t been changing at the time. If there had been stability there wouldn’t have been a need for a census or special tax collection, no need to travel to Bethlehem in winter, no inn, and no manger. These are just circumstances, certainly, but they are part of the story as Charlie Brown’s friend, Linus, knew and remembered it.

Our world is changing, too, and many of the changes either begin in the economy or show up there — immediately or eventually. And as we grow near to the end of 2015, the changed picture over the past 12 months comes

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and AT&T are all planning to increase their prices early next year — at the risk of turning off more subscribers fed up with the rising cost of television.

It’s part of the vicious circle at the heart of the U.S. media industry’s current troubles.

To attract viewers who are

migrating to Netflix and Amazon.com, programmers are spending billions of dollars on developing scripted shows and on the rights to air sporting events — one of the last things that people still watch live. They are passing on those costs to cable- and satellite-TV providers

by charging higher fees to carry their channels. Those providers, in turn, are passing on some of those costs to consumers.

In the coming weeks, Time Warner Cable is raising its sports programming fee by $2.25 to $5 See CABLE, Page A12

Japan’s Cabinet approved a record-high military spending plan Thursday, endorsing proposals to purchase pricey U.S. surveillance drones and F-35 fighter jets as Tokyo steps up cooperation with Washington amid China’s increasingly assertive activity in regional seas. The $42.1 billion proposal is part of an $800 billion national budget plan for the year beginning April 2016, also an all-time high. The entire package requires parliamentary approval. Japan is bolstering defense of its southern islands, where it has a territorial dispute with China.

The budget plan also includes the purchase of an advanced Aegis radar-equipped destroyer with missile defense capability, submarine construction and sonar development. Japan’s Defense Ministry plans to spend $118 million next year for part of a multibillion-dollar, multiyear purchase of three “Global Hawk” unmanned drones, as well as $1.1 billion for six F-35 fighter jets and $190 million for a Boeing KC-46A midair refueling aircraft.

TSA finds ice pick in handle of cane Authorities said a New Jersey man tried to bring a cane with an ice pick in its handle through security at Newark Liberty International Airport.

The Transportation Security Administration said the man, 72, was stopped Thursday at the New York City-area airport. They said the steel ice pick was concealed in the handle of the wooden cane. A TSA officer staffing an X-ray monitor detected something unusual in the cane’s handle and twisted and pulled it off to find the ice pick. A Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokeswoman said authorities determined the man needed the cane for mobility and didn’t arrest him.

They gave him a different cane from the lost and found and returned the one with the ice pick to his wife.

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per month and its broadcast programming fee by $1 to $3.75. Comcast, the biggest U.S. cable company, will increase its broadcast fee by $1.75 to $5 and its regional sports fee by $2 to $3. Phone and satellite companies are planning similar increases, which vary depending on the package. All say the moves are because of the rising cost of carrying broadcast and sports networks.

For consumers, higher bills have become an annual routine, giving them added incentive to cancel

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service and join the legions of so-called cord-cutters who piece together their entertainment habits with a growing array of online streaming services. The industry is experimenting with new models to attract them. In the past year, Time Warner’s HBO, CBS Corp.’s Showtime and others have introduced online versions of their networks that don’t require cable or satellite subscriptions.

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WASHINGTON — A federal regulator Thursday issued a safety warning on shipping hoverboards after hundreds of the selfbalancing scooters were found improperly labeled and packaged in cargo containers.

The toys — based on the floating scooter in “Back to the Future II” — are popular gifts this holiday season. But they also can be dangerous.

The scooters are powered by lithium batteries, which can spontaneously overheat and explode.

Recently, investigators with the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration intercepted 32 cargo containers filled with hoverboards that were “improperly prepared for

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will pay $2 to $8 more per month on TV packages.

AT&T’s U-Verse customers will see a monthly increase of between $2 and $4, while satellite-TV provider DirecTV, bought by AT&T this year, will increase its monthly bill between $4 and $8.

Overall, Comcast customers’ bills will increase on average by 3.9 percent in 2016, spokeswoman Jenni Moyer said. At Cablevision Systems, it’s 2.9 percent on average.

Cable and satellite companies say the higher prices cover some but not all of the higher programming costs. The amount that Time Warner Cable pays local broadcast channels has risen 85 percent in the past two years, while its costs for carrying sports networks have increased 116 percent since 2008, according to spokesman Bobby Amirshahi.

shipment of a hazardous material,” the agency said.

The discovery led to a formal safety alert Thursday.

“Safety is our top priority. So, while we know that hoverboards are among this year’s most-requested gifts, the potential for danger cannot be ignored,” said Marie Therese Dominguez, the agency’s administrator.

The batteries need to be properly handled so they don’t get damaged and cause a fire or are shipped with other items that could cause the batteries to overheat, agency spokeswoman Artealia Gilliard said.

The safety alert is targeted mainly at manufacturers and shipping firms, but it also applies to consumers sending them as gifts, Gilliard said.

Consumers should let the shipper know it contains lithium batteries, she said.

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experiencing the flip side of this demographic change, as fewer young children are being added to our population. This will gradually be felt as a decreased demand for public schools, first in the primary grades, and gradually working its way through to the college and university level.

Another major change with long lasting consequences is the hollowing out of the middle class. Its share of our economy’s total personal income shrank from 62 percent in 1970 to 43 percent in 2014.

Exactly why, and how, the middle class has contracted is not known with certainty, although some key factors have been identified. One of those is the loss of middle income jobs, first and most visibly in manufacturing, which was, and still is, a target for outsourcing offshore. More broadly throughout the economy though, there has been a shrinking of the number of middle management positions.

We normally don’t think of inflation as a major change since price shifts, large and small, up and down, have been with us from the very beginning of our country. And what is different today goes beyond the obvious inadequacies of our inflation measures, which can understate the impact of price rises on specific groups — older Americans, for just one example.

What is different now is that inflation is an integral part of our economic policy. Economists have convinced policy-makers that our economy cannot prosper and grow without inflation. The Federal

Reserve’s monetary policy targets 2 percent as the inflation rate most consistent with our growth and price stability goals.

Still, it has effects. At a 2 percent inflation rate, for example, the federal government can pay off a 20-year Treasury at with money that is worth about half the money it originally borrowed. Over that same period, though, individuals paid annual income taxes as if the dollar had a constant value, which erodes the value of our take-home pay and lowers the value of the government’s tax receipts.

Both household and federal budget-writers are left chasing phantom costs created by our own economic policy.

Employment patterns, our aging population, the shrinking middle class, and inflation are all powerful changes, each capable by itself of reshaping our lives, our economy, and our country. Certainly that is especially true of the shrinking middle class, the group that has traditionally been the vault where American values were stored. If our values seem to be changing, or under siege, one contributing cause may very well be the class’s diminished numbers.

The core value of the Christmas story survives even though surrounded by change. And if we remain true to our nation’s values we will survive even the worst that powerful changes can throw at us. Take heart.

James McCusker is a Bothell economist, educator and consultant.

He also writes a column for the monthly Herald Business Journal.

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Dickens of a time with Trump It would be easy and gratifying to wish a visit of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future on any number of political and other public figures in the news currently.

Yes, there is one in particular we have in mind.

Ebenezer Scrooge is not alone — prior to the spirits’ intervention — in his character traits as a “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner.”

This is not to label anyone a “Scrooge” simply because of disagreements over the

political direction of the country and how best to serve and balance the interests of liberty and security; faith and freedom; generosity and thrift.

Scrooge, it’s assumed, remained a capitalist after his conversion; but more Warren Buffett than Martin Shkreli.

Nor would we suggest there isn’t a place for anger in politics. Anger over a denial of self-governance inspired those who founded our nation. It helped free those who were enslaved. It gave women the right to vote.

But we can hope for a change of spirit among those who seek to elevate themselves by mocking and belittling others, particularly over issues of gender, sexual identity, race, religion, economic status, genuine political beliefs and more, and then cynically propose ideas based on those prejudices.

Such attitudes and the

vitriolic attacks they inspire could be ignored were it not for their contagious nature.

To be specific, the frequency and coarseness of Donald Trump’s attacks during his campaign and his defense that to oppose him is just so much “political correctness” have encouraged uglier comments and even violence by some of his supporters.

There are plenty of examples of similar behavior on the left and the right, and it didn’t start with Trump, of course; it’s as old as politics itself.

But Trump has learned how to turn dissatisfaction and fear of “the other” into political support, giving no concern for where that could lead the country.

Absent a Dickensian transformation, Trump will still be Trump. And his supporters will excuse anything he says or proposes as their guy “speaking his mind,” as

if candor were any sort of justification.

Many, particularly those in the Republican Party, assumed Trump would at some point say something that would knock his own feet out from under him. With months remaining in the campaign, that’s still a possibility. But he is nothing if not resilient.

There are others among the Republican candidates who better represent the party and its ideals, and do so without seeking to inspire violence and use hatred to gain support.

The lessons of Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” are likely lost on Donald Trump; Bob Cratchit, in his eye, is a loser.

Same goes for that crippled kid of his.

Scrooge’s lessons don’t have to be lost on us.

And so, as Tiny Tim observed, “God bless us, everyone!”

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Young carolers brought such joy To the sixth, seventh and eighth grade students at Immaculate Conception School: On the first day of your Christmas vacation you shared Christmas Carols with us. It was so special!!

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Democracy difficult online I was both relieved and saddened by The Herald’s decision to close public comments on its website — relieved to see the end of all the mean-spirited and egocentric attacks; saddened at the demise of what could be a vibrant forum for thoughtful dialogue in our community.

While I hope this closure is temporary, it reminds me of the real limitations of doing democracy online. Democracy requires a sincere effort to understand and learn

from each other in a climate of mutual respect. While the darker aspects of our human nature are often tempered during face-to-face encounters, these ignoble tendencies may be exacerbated by the distance and anonymity of online discussions.

The Internet may be a convenient way to do our holiday shopping or pay our bills, but it is not a great way to do democracy. We are our best selves when we are looking each other in the eye.

Jim Strickland Marysville

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COMMENTARY | Caring for others

How Christmas brightens lives at any age

By Sally Friedman The Philadelphia Inquirer

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he tree is up in the lobby. This year, it’s a sturdy little specimen, complete with glittering golden ornaments on its upper branches.

As I wheel her past it — and she strains to see it clearly — I know she longs once again for the gift of speech. She yearns for the simple pleasure of saying to someone, “Oh look!

How lovely!”

But the stroke has left my old neighbor without voice, without movement and on her worst days, I sense, without hope in the year of her 87th Christmas.

She lives now in a place with a lyric name, a place where they are kind to her and see to her physical needs because she no longer can.

They dress her in the pretty nightgowns and robes her daughters have sent from across the country. Today, they’ve even styled the hair that was once her crowning glory.

That’s on the outside, so I can’t help but wonder what’s going on within the withered body that houses her, and on her mind, which still registers pain, pleasure and so many other feelings. There, too, a spirit lingers on to remind her of the renunciations, of the yesterdays when tomorrow still had glorious meaning.

I push her wheelchair into the game room where the rest of the bathrobe army sits, a battalion of battle-weary soldiers gazing into space.

Through each long day, they wage war against the tyranny of aging.

As I settle her in one of the rows of wheelchairs, I wonder what she’s thinking. Whether she is remembering rainbows and sunsets, and the whispersoft touch of a baby’s cheek.

I wonder what she dreams at night.

Once, we talked about books and politics, travel and raising children. I loved her wisdom and her grace.

Minutes pass. But time in this room is somehow timeless.

Suddenly, something is different. Recreation aides in their pale yellow uniforms bustle about, and the janitor makes mysterious adjustments to the ancient microphone.

And miraculously, there is a new sound. Laughter.

Children’s rollicking, rolling, swelling laughter chases the clatter of trays and the muffled announcements.

My 87-year-old friend is instantly alert, remembering that sound of children and embracing it like lost love.

There are throngs of them — rosy-cheeked, wide-eyed, noisy young ones. They fill the room, and their radiance shines through like a remembered sunrise. Jumbles of sturdy arms emerge from jackets, hands slip out of mittens.

I watch her watch them. I sense that, for her, they are as glorious as a troupe of circus acrobats in spangled tights, so far removed from this place where endings live.

I’m sure she would love to join their circus. I squeeze her hand, trying to tell her that I understand.

Josh O’Connor, Publisher Jon Bauer, Editorial Page Editor Neal Pattison, Executive Editor Carol MacPherson, Editorial Writer

FRIDAY, 12.25.2015

IN OUR VIEW | Election 2016

“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew. ...”

— Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol”

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There is a scramble for places in the recreation room as the teacher arranges her small charges, and the inevitable inequity that leaves one small boy too far back to be seen.

And then there is the first elusive note. When it comes, the children’s sweet voices flood the room. Nothing else exists, or ever did.

They sing of white Christmases and silent nights and good kings. Their faces shine with the joy and peace and beauty that is Christmas.

And they seem so proud that they have learned not only all the words, but motions, too.

My old neighbor seems so enchanted — so lost in their faces, their voices, their message of love and hope — that she is startled when I lean over gently to wipe away the tears of gratitude that stream down her cheeks in the year of her 87th Christmas.

Sally Friedman is a writer in Moorestown, New Jersey. She wrote this for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

‘Gluten-free’ joins food fads we’ll all outlive

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hen the federal government’s 1980 “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” warned about the baleful effects of saturated fats, public interest activists joined the fight and managed to persuade major food companies to switch to the shiny new alternative: trans fats.

Thirty-five years later, the Food and Drug Administration finally CHARLES determined that trans KRAUTHAMMER fats are not just useless but unsafe, and ordered them removed from all foods. Oops.

So much for settled science. To tell the truth, I never paid much attention to the fat fights in the first place. From my days as a medical student (and prodigious consumer of junk food), I’ve seen so many solemnly proclaimed “findings” come and go that I decided long ago to ignore — and outlive — them all.

So far, I’m ahead. Never had an egg substitute in my life. I figured trans fats were just another fad waiting to be revoked and renounced. Moreover, if I was wrong, the green eggs and ham would take so long to kill me anyway that I was more likely to be hit by a bus first. Either way, win-win.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t advocate this kind of jaunty fatalism for everyone. This is a private affair. I do, however, preach skepticism. Remember that most venerable piece of received medical wisdom — 98.6 degrees as the average adult human temperature? In 1992, three researchers bothered to measure — and found that the conventional wisdom (based on an 1878 German study) was wrong. Normal is 98.2.

After that — 114 years of error — one is inclined to embrace Woody Allen’s “Sleeper” theory that in 200 years we’ll discover that smoking is good for you, fruits are not. I still love peaches, but I eat them for the taste — and the memories — not because they might add a month to my life (in the ICU when I’m 90).

I don’t mean to be cynical, just realistic. Take fish oil. For at least 10 years the National Institutes of Health has strongly recommended omega-3 fatty acids and fish oil for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

I held out, trusting both my gastronomic prejudices (more turf than surf) and my faith that time ultimately undoes all of life’s verites. I waited. My orneriness has not been fully vindicated — NIH still recommends dietary fish oil — but it does find omega-3 supplements to be useless.

Exhibit A for medical skepticism, however, remains vitamin C. When Linus Pauling, Nobel laureate in chemistry (not nutrition), began the vitamin-C megadose fad to fend off all manner of disease, the whole thing struck me as bizarre. Yes, you need some C to prevent scurvy if you’re seven months at sea with Capt. Cook and citrus is nowhere to be found. Otherwise, the megadose is a crock. Evolution is pretty clever. For 2 million years it made sure Homo erectus, neanderthalensis, sapiens, what have you, got his daily dose without having to visit a GNC store.

Sure enough, that fashion came and went. But there are always new windmills to be tilted at. The latest is gluten.

Now, if you suffer from celiac disease, you need a gluten-free diet. How many of us is that? Less than 1 percent. And yet supermarket shelves are groaning with products proclaiming their gluten-freedom. Sales are going through the roof.

Another crock. Turns out, according to a massive Australian study of 3,200 products, gluten-free is useless. “The foods can be significantly more expensive and are very trendy to eat,” says Jason Wu, the principal investigator. “But we discovered a negligible difference when looking at their overall nutrition.”

Told you so.

Why then am I not agitating to have this junk taken off the shelves? Because of my other obsession: placebos. For which I have an undying respect, acquired during my early years as a general-hospital psychiatrist. If you believe in the curative powers of something — often encouraged by the authority of your physician — a sugar pill or a glass of plain water can produce remarkable symptom relief. I’ve seen it. I’ve done it.

So I’d never mess with it. If a placebo can alleviate your pain, that’s better than opioids. If going gluten-free gives a spring to your step, why not? But please, let the civility go both ways. Let the virtuous Fitbit foodie, all omega-3’d and gluten-free, drop the self-congratulatory smugness.

And I promise not to say it’s all in his head.

Live and let eat. Merry Christmas.

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com.

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2016 Kia Optima SX-L Limited: refined sport design, ride ROAD TEST

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K

ia continues to gain market share in the United States, despite the fact it has morphed over the years – from a no frills entry-level manufacturer to a well-respected, nameplate that competes with virtually anyone, anywhere.

Every time I test drive a product produced by this South Korean company, I come away with a higher opinion. The completely redesigned 2016 Kia Optima SX-L Limited, which is now produced in the United States, was no exception.

Optima, Kia’s best-selling nameplate has matured into an expertly crafted sedan that defies the staid mid-size sedan segment with its exquisite design, abundance of premium convenience features, and exceptional refinement, delivering a “class-up” experience to those looking for higher levels of sophistication in their day-to-day driving.

“The all-new Optima encompasses everything the outgoing model did so well but does it even better, said Orth Hedrick, vice-president of product planning for Kia Motors America. “It has matured in all the right

ways, from the European sport-sedan design to the premium materials to its improved ride and handling.

We’ve literally improved everything, providing more space, better ergonomics, more technology and greater refinement.”

My tester was powered by a 2.0-liter turbo that generated 245 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 260 lb.-ft. of torque at 1,350 rpm. The engine was mated to a sixspeed automatic transmission with Sportmatic shifting, and paddle shifters to mimic manual shifts.

The engine have been re-tuned for fuel economy – 32 miles per gallon down the highway – and better performance and drivability with

maximum torque now available at a lower rpm.

The all-new Optima is boldly designed to be functional and sporty with exterior dimensions that are marginally longer, taller and wider. The end result is increased interior space and a little more room for junk in the trunk.

Exterior highlights include 18-inch alloy wheels, panoramic sunroof, sport LED rear taillights, HID headlights with auto-leveling and dynamic bending, and a spiffy coat of “Horizon Blue” glossy paint.

The interior has so many comfort and convenience amenities, I’m not sure where to start. Nappa leather heated, ventilated, and adjustable

seats are near the top of the list. A Harmon Kardon premium surround sound audio system belted out Christmas tunes with a clarity that exposed every nuance. The navigation system was displayed on an eight-inch screen with rear-view camera. Dual-zone automatic temperature control allows both front passengers to be happy at the same time.

On the safety side of the ledger, Optima is once again optimal. Standard features included a front collision warning system, blind-spot detection system, rear cross-traffic alert, rear parking-assist system, lane-departure warning system, advanced smart cruise control and an autonomous emergency braking system.

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he Honda Pilot is one of the more successful midsize crossover utility vehicles (CUVs) on the market. Introduced in 2003, it featured that era’s mainstream styling. But the second-generation model launched in 2009 was a shocker.

It had truck-like, boxy styling because, Honda argued, its customers wanted their CUVs to look like truck-based SUVs. As a bonus, the designers managed to engineer modest off-road capability. It could actually handle some towing and off-road obstacles.

The Pilot has been a success.

Through the first quarter of 2015, sales totaled 1.5 million. That’s not a rusting hulk. Nevertheless, the powers at Honda decided that the squared-off SUV look had run its course. Now the line is that styling had turned off some customers.

Enter the 2016 Pilot, which slips again into the mainstream lines. Traditionally, the company with styling that is different eschewed the practice of offerbut still resembles other CUVs. ing models with extensive option Observers can be forgiven if they lists in favor of a less confusing, mistake it for a Chevrolet Traverse smaller number of packages. A or Nissan Pathfinder. customer for a DX, LX or EX knew Nevertheless, theWITH new Piexactly what he was getting. lot has attractive styling in the The 2016 Pilot, however, has modern idiom: streamlined WITH body, 17 trim lines if you count frontintegrated rooftop spoiler, LED and all-wheel drive separately. taillights and front running lights, They start with the front-drive LX, and a choice of models with at $30,875, and range up to the 18- or 20-inch alloy wheels.

Touring Elite with all-wheel drive In typical Honda practice, at $47,300. the new Pilot offers myriad trim In between, there’s the EX, EX

2016 Honda Pilot:

Popular mainstream crossover with Honda Sensing, EX-L with leather upholstery, EX-L with Honda Sensing, EX-L with a rearseat entertainment system, Touring (tested here), and Touring Elite. The last comes with every available feature.

Honda Sensing is the company’s suite of safety enhancements: adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, road-departure mitigation, collision mitigation braking, forward collision warning, blind-spot information system and rear cross-traffic

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Although the Pilot is designed mainly for on-road operation, the sophisticated all-wheel drive can handle moderate off-road duty, including mud and snow as long as they’re not too deep.

The Pilot comes with eightor seven-passenger seating; in the latter, two captain’s chairs substitute for the three-passenger bench seat. Either way, Honda incorporates a clever mechanism to fold the second-row seats. Simply press a button on the outboard sides of the seats and they flip forward for access to the third row. A three-year-old could do it.

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he highly popular and stunningly beautiful Audi TT is all-new for 2016.

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The styling has been updated, without losing the appeal of the original TT models. The new design is characterized by the use of innovative technologies that are focused on the driver. Perhaps the most noteworthy and innovative feature is the all-new “virtual cockpit,” which is an entirely digital instrument cluster that revolutionizes driver interaction with the vehicle.

Replacing traditional gauges and interfaces with a customizable instrument display, this unique, 12.3-inch TFT screen combines the functions of a central system with a traditional-looking panel of gauges featuring crisp, clear 3D graphics, including Google based navigation with turn-byturn instructions.

Also featured is Audi Connect, offering such infotainment features as 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot connectivity for personal devices, streaming audio, social networking, external voice recognition, over-theair map updates and INRIX XD Traffic.

Power for both the Audi TT Coupe and

Audi TT Roadster is provided by a 2.0-liter, turbocharged TFSI four-cylinder engine with valve lift system that produces 220 horsepower in a range from 4,500 to 6,200 rpm, while also developing 258 lb.-ft. of torque from 1,600 to 4,400 rpm.

Power from the engine reaches the driving wheels through Audi’s Quattro all-wheel-drive system, via a six-speed S tronic DCT automatic transmission with steering-wheel-mounted paddle shifters.

A new Quattro all-wheel-drive system varies the delivery percentage of torque from front-to-rear by measuring the traction coefficient at all four wheels with 150 readings every 10 milliseconds.

The TT Coupe and Roadster are identical in nearly every detail, the only exceptions being the top configuration, curb weight, drag coefficient, and 0-60 times.

The digital climate controls eliminate the necessity for a conventional dash console, and integrate fan speed, air vent selection, and temperature directly into the center of three central vents, along with the respective heated seat controls into each side vent.

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In the rear are centrally mounted twin round tailpipes and an electrically operated rear spoiler. In back are LED taillights with dynamic turn signals, and rear-parking sensors.

Front sport seats provide four-way power lumbar adjustment. Dressing up the cabin, is a three-spoke, flat-bottom, multifunction sport steering wheel with shift paddles; aluminum drift inlays; an aluminum shift knob; and a black leather package for the door armrests and center console. Fine Nappa leather is optional.

My preference for open cars is nearly overcome by the classy, aerodynamic design of the new third-generation Audi TT Coupe.

During the national press introduction, my test version 2016 Audi TT Coupe wore a Tango Red Metallic exterior finish, while the interior featured black quilted seating surfaces. The base price was set at $42,900, while the options including the Tango Red Metallic paint, the Technology Package, 19-inch wheel package, S Sport seat Package, Bang & Olufsen Sound System, and destination charge elevated the final sticker to $50,600.

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The car performs beautifully in the normal or comfort mode, but is most enjoyable when placed in dynamic sport mode with Quattro engaged. Steering is spot-on and instantly responsive, the ride quality is firm but not punishing, and best of all, the TT sticks like glue to the road when pushed vigorously, with nary a peep from the Bridgestone Potenza tires. The car’s light weight (thanks to its all aluminum body construction) allows it to be tossed about with abandon.

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One would be hard pressed to find a more enjoyable sports car than the 2016 Audi TT in either Coupe or Roadster form that embodies sexy, appealing styling and confidence-building handling. The 2016 Audi TT is the best yet, but if a higher performance level is desired, the Audi TTS Coupe is sure to satisfy when it becomes available soon.

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No. 15-4-01523-6 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR SNOHOMISH COUNTY In re the Estate of: Patricia Imogene Hetzler, Deceased.

MICHAEL HETZLER has been appointed and has qualified as personal representative of the above captioned estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be b a r r e d by a ny o t h e r w i s e applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attor ney at the address stated below, a copy of the claim and ďŹ ling the original of the claim with the court. The c l a i m mu s t b e p r e s e n t e d within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal r e p r e s e n t a t i ve s e r ve d o r mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3): or (2) four months after the date of ďŹ rst publication of the notice.

If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the c l a i m i s fo r ev e r b a r r e d , except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: 12/25/15 PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: MICHAEL HETZLER ATTORNEY FOR P E R S O N A L REPRESENTATIVE: YEVGENY (JACK) BERNER WSBA No. 30660 Attorney for Personal Representative Address for Mailing or Service: Berner Law Group, PLLC Attn: Yevgeny (Jack) Berner Attorneys at Law 3112 Rockefeller Avenue Everett, WA 98201 SNOHOMISH COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CAUSE NO. 15-4-01523-6 EDH675324 Published: December 25, 2015; January 1, 8, 2016.

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PROBATE NO. 15-4-01873-1 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS (R.C.W. 11.40.030) (NTCRD) IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR SNOHOMISH COUNTY In Re The Estate Of: WILLIAM FRANKLIN LITTLE, Deceased.

The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in R.C.W. 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and ďŹ ling the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The c l a i m mu s t b e p r e s e n t e d within the later of: (1) Thirty (30) days after the personal r e p r e s e n t a t i ve s e r ve d o r mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under R.C.W. 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four (4) months after the date of ďŹ rst publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in R.C.W. 11.40.051 and R.C.W. 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of First Publication: December 11, 2015 WILLIAM A. LITTLE, (PR) 4020 - 192nd Street Southwest Lynnwood, WA 98036-5627 LYLE K. WILSON, WSBA #06321 Attorney for Estate 15408 Main Street, Suite 105 Mill Creek, WA 98012-9025 (425) 742-9100 Published: December 11, 18, 25, 2015.

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NO. 15-4-07087-5 SEA NONPROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.42.030 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KING In Re the Estate of THELMA JEAN JOHNSTON, Deceased.

The notice agent named below has elected to give notice to creditors of the above-named decedent. As of the date of the filing of a copy of this notice with the court, the notice agent has no knowledge of any other person acting as notice agent or of the appointment of a personal representative of the decedent’s estate in the state of Washington. According to the records of the court as are available on the date of the ďŹ ling of this notice with the court, a cause number regarding the decedent has not been issued to any other notice agent and a personal representative of the decedent’s estate has not been appointed.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.42.070 by serving on or mailing to the notice agent or the notice a g e n t ’s a t t o r n e y a t t h e address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the cour t in which the notice agent’s declaration and oath were ďŹ led. The claim must be presented within the later of: ( 1 ) T h i r t y d ay s a f t e r t h e notice agent served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.42.020(2)(c); or (2) four months after the date of ďŹ rst publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the c l a i m i s fo r ev e r b a r r e d , except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.42.050 and 11.42.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE: December 18, 2015 The notice agent declares under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of Washington on December 8, 2015, at Mountlake Terrace, Washington that the foregoing is true and correct.

KATY JOHNSTON, Notice Agent Notice Prepared by: HELSELL FETTERMAN LLP LAURA E. HOEXTER, WSBA #23246 Attorneys for the Notice Agent 1001 Fourth Avenue, Suite 4200 Seattle, Washington 98154 Telephone No. (206) 292-1144 Facsimile No. (206) 340-0902 EDH674248 Published: December 18, 25, 2015; January 1, 2016.

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CITY OF ARLINGTON SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE ADOPTION You are hereby notified that on December 7, 2015, the City Council of the City of Arlington, Washington, did adopt Ordinance No. 2015-028 entitled, “AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2.04 OF THE ARLINGTON MUNICIPAL CODE TO CLARIFY SALARIES AND EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT AS ESTABLISHED BY THE CITIZEN SALARY REVIEW COMMISSION�

This ordinance is effective five days from passage and publication, except as otherwise speciďŹ ed in the ordinance.

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KRISTIN BANFIELD City Clerk City of Arlington Published: December 25, 2015.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Housing Authority of the City of Everett (the “Authorityâ€?) will hold a public hearing on Friday, January 8, 2015, at 11:00 a.m., at the ofďŹ ces of the Authority located at 3107 Colby Avenue, Everett, Washington, on the proposed issuance by the Authority pursuant to chapter 35.82 RCW and a plan of ďŹ nancing with respect to the project described below (the “Projectâ€?) of certain obligations the interest on which will be excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes pursuant to Sections 103 and 142 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Codeâ€?).

1VCMJD /PUJDFT CITY OF ARLINGTON SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE ADOPTION You are hereby notified that on December 21, 2015, the City Council of the City of Arlington, Washington, did adopt Ordinance No. 2015-029 entitled, “AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2015 ANNUAL BUDGET OF THE CITY OF ARLINGTON BY PROVIDING SUPPLEMENT THERETO; PROVIDING TRANSFER AND ADJUSTMENT AUTHORITY AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY�

And Ordinance No. 2015-030 entitled, “AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ARLINGTON, WASHINGTON REGARDING WATER AND SEWER CONNECTION CHARGES�

These ordinances are effective five days from passage and publication, except as otherwise speciďŹ ed in the ordinance.

The full text of the ordinances is available to interested persons and will be mailed upon request.

KRISTIN BANFIELD City Clerk City of Arlington Published: December 25, 2015.

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NOTICE OF CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING MUKILTEO CITY COUNCIL Downtown Waterfront Master Plan NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Mukilteo City Council that a Public Hearing (which was opened and continued on October 5, 2015 and November 2, 2015) will be held at the regular meeting of January 4, 2016 that begins at 6:45 P.M. in the City Hall Council Chambers, located at 11930 Cyrus Way, Mukilteo, Washington.

The purpose of the continued public hearing is to consider the Downtown Waterfront Master Plan. The City’s busy waterfront will be undergoing signiďŹ cant changes in the next few years.

With the relocation of the ferry terminal and the transfer of the Tank Farm property, the 1999 Downtown Waterfront Master Plan is out of date. To ensure that the waterfront is developed according to a common vision, the City began working on a new Master Plan. The Master Plan creates a promenade along the entire waterfront; focuses on expanding recreational uses such as kayaking, paddle boats, and ďŹ shing west of the ferry terminal building; and improving natural habitats east of the ferry terminal building by daylighting Japanese Gulch Creek, creating viewpoints, adding picnic areas, and keeping a natural shoreline through restoration. All suppor ting documents are available at City Hall for public review.

For additional infor mation, please contact Patr icia Love, Community Development Director at (425) 263-8041. Persons interested in commenting may provide oral or written comments at the hearing. Written comments will be accepted at City Hall, located at 11930 Cyrus Way, until 4:30 P.M. the day of the hearing.

If you have a disability which may limit your participation in the hearing process, please contact the City Clerk’s office at 425.263.8005 at least three (3) business days in advance of the hearing so that we can arrange a reasonable accommodation for you.

Published: December 25, 2015.

EDH675337 PUBLIC NOTICE Sheng Tai, Inc, 150 120th Ave NE #110, Bellevue, WA, 98005, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit.

The proposed project, Marysville Senior Living Facility, is located at 11013 State Ave in Marysville, in Snohomish County.

This project involves 5 acres of soil disturbance for residential, parking and utility construction activities.

The receiving water is an unnamed tributary to West Fork Quilceda Creek.

Any persons desiring to present their views to the department of Ecology regarding this application may do so in writing within thirty days of the last date of publication of this notice. Comments shall be submitted to the department of Ecology. Any person interested in the department’s action on this application may notify the department of their interest within thirty days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest according to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173201A-320.

Comments can be submitted to: Department of Ecology Attn: Water Quality Program, Construction Stormwater PO Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Published: December 25, 2015; January 1, 2016.

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Project Description: Finance the acquisition and rehabilitation of four apartment complexes containing a total of 204 dwelling units, to provide housing for low-income persons Maximum Amount of Obligations: $16,000,000 Project Operator: EHA Senior Housing I LLLP, a Washington limited liability limited partnership of which the Authority is the sole general partner Project Locations: Meadows I 1115 Rainier Avenue, Everett, Washington 98201 Meadows II 1123 Rainier Avenue, Everett, Washington 98201 Meadows III 1131 Rainier Avenue, Everett, Washington 98201 Lake Wood II 12404 19th Place West, Everett, Washington 98204 The public is invited to attend the hearing and present oral or written testimony regarding the project, or to submit written comments to the Authority at the above address to be received no later than the time of the hearing. The hearing shall constitute the public hearing required by Section 147(f) of the Code. The Authority is committed to providing equal access to individuals with disabilities, consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act and other state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Anyone requiring an accommodation to participate in this hearing or to obtain information subject to this notice should contact the Authority, at least 24 hours prior to the time of the hearing, at (425) 258-9222. /s/ Ashley Lommers-Johnson, Executive Director Published: December 25, 2015.

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4VNNPOT IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH JUVENILE COURT SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TERMINATION THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN AND TO: 1. Cesar Lemus Equihua, alleged father of Alexis Lemus Delgado, d.o.b.02/23/10, Termination Petition 15-7-00778-1 ďŹ led 11/02/15.

2. Unknown biological father of Alexis Lemus Delgado, d.o.b.02/23/10, Ter mination Petition 15-7-00778-1 filed 11/02/15.

3. Cesar Lemus Equihua, alleged father of Jonathan Lemus Delgado, d.o.b.06/21/08, Termination Petition 15-7-00777-3 ďŹ led 11/02/15.

4. Unknown biological father of Jonathan Lemus Delgado, d.o.b.06/21/08, Ter mination Petition 15-7-00777-3 filed 11/02/15.

5. Cesar Lemus Equihua, father of Dallan Rose Lemus-Delgado, d.o.b.09/15/06, Ter mination Petition 15-7-00776-5 filed 11/02/15.

6. Jose Guzman Nava, father of Johanna Joselyn Guzman Delgado, d.o.b.05/02/12, Termination Petition 15-7-00779-0 ďŹ led 11/02/15.

7. Clark Allen Hutchinson, father of Clark James Hutchinson, Jr., d.o.b.02/08/15, Ter mination Petition 15-7-00762-5 filed 10/21/15.

8. B l a i r R ay A n n L o u i s e K n e r r, m o t h e r o f C l a r k Ja m e s Hutchinson, Jr., d.o.b.02/08/15, Termination Petition 15-700762-5 ďŹ led 10/21/15.

9. Chad M. Rober tson, father of Chase Michael Boggs, d.o.b.11/03/14, Ter mination Petition 15-7-00687-4 filed 09/10/15.

10. Jessica Michelle Boggs, mother of Chase Michael Boggs, d.o.b.11/03/14, Ter mination Petition 15-7-00687-4 filed 09/10/15.

11. Francesca Marie Era Thompson, mother of Christian Carter Kascheyev, d.o.b.02/17/14, Termination Petition 15-7-00408-1 ďŹ led 04/15/15.

12. Kylie Marie Evans, mother of Ava Marie Ebert, d.o.b.07/19/14, Termination Petition 15-7-00573-8 ďŹ led 07/15/15.

13. Shawn Lee Jacobs, father of Arianna Elizabeth Coffman, d.o.b.09/01/08, Ter mination Petition 15-7-00476-6 filed 05/20/15.

A Termination Hearing will be held on February 16, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. at Snohomish County Juvenile Justice Center, 2801 10th Street, Everett, Washington 98201. You are notiďŹ ed that a petition has been ďŹ led in this matter requesting that your parental rights to the above-named child be terminated. You have important legal rights and you must take steps to protect your interests. This petition could result in permanent loss of your parental rights. THE ABOVE NAMED INDIVIDUALS ARE SUMMONED TO APPEAR at said hearing regarding your child. If you fail to appear at the hearing, the court may take evidence against you, make ďŹ ndings of fact, and order that your parental rights be terminated without further notice to you. To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Termination Petition, and/or to view information about your rights in this proceeding, go to www.atg.wa.gov/TRM SONYA KRASKI, Clerk of the Superior Court; T. BREDESON, Deputy Clerk Published: December 11, 18, 25, 2015.

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Eventual winner Jordan Spieth tees off on the 15th hole during the final round of the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay in University Place in June. The event was the first U.S. Open golf tournament ever held in the Pacific Northwest.

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ere are five things that were a hoot in Seattle sports in 2015, along with five things that were like licking the bottom of the ocean.

THE BEST U.S. Open at Chambers Bay: Northwest Passage A former gravel pit turned British links course on the shores of Puget Sound hosted, just eight years after it opened, the biggest show in golf — a Northwest first. A global TV audience watched over four days as the warmest summer on record baked the course from green to brown while the sport’s newest star, Jordan Speith, a 21-year-old Texan, cooked the field.

OK, the greens turned into broccoli.

The rest of the event was a rollicking return of big-time golf to the Northwest.

Dipoto began a purge reminiscent of the old Soviet government whenever a fiveyear plan failed. It’s way too early to tell whether the overhaul will work, but the mere acknowledgement that persistent, remorseless franchise dithering had to end was breathtaking.

Husky football: Awash in frosh Freshmen were more common on the University of Washington football team than Amazon blue badges were on the streets of South Lake Union. Two youths were noteworthy: QB Jake Browning, from Sacramento, became the first true freshman quarterback in Huskies history to start a season, then set numerous marks for first-year QBs as he grew into the job. RB Myles Gaskin, from Seattle’s O’Dea High School, was the first true freshman in UW annals to rush for 1,000 yards. After a 45-10 win in the Apple Cup over Washington State to finish the season 6-6, the Huskies, under trickmaster coach Chris Petersen, are generating some old-school UW arrogance among fans for next season.

Russell Wilson: King of Seattle sports drama, and his queen

Seahawks win NFC: A secular religious experience The 28-22 victory over Green Bay that sent the Seahawks to Super Bowl XLVIX was the best five-turnover-making, fat-guy-touchdown-scoring, onside-kick-recovering, Jermaine-Kearse-failing-and-soaring, Russell-Wilson-blubbering game you will see in the lives of your children’s children’s children. And it went overtime. Bruthas and sistahs, may I have an amen?!

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Linebacker Bruce Irvin was as shocked as anyone when the Seahawks squandered a chance to win Super Bowl XLVIX in February in Glendale, Arizona.

Mariners’ purge: Z gets X’ed The seven-year tenure of general manager Jack Zduriencik had two winning seasons and no playoffs. The Mariners’ 14-year absence from the postseason is the longest in MLB. His firing — along

with manager Lloyd McClendon, who didn’t deserve it but amounted to collateral damage — brought as replacements an advanced analytics student, Jerry Dipoto from the Anaheim Angels, and his acolyte, manager Scott Servais.

Biggest non-game tension of the Seattle sports year was whether the Seahawks bosses and and their star QB would reach agreement on a long-term contract extension. They did. Then came the worry by some that Wilson’s romance with popstar diva Ciara was responsible for his substandard start. It wasn’t. By December, after a four-game winning streak, the 12s’ hand-wringing had changed to fist-pumping. Wilson, behind an offensive line with no pedigree but a splendid capacity for learning, became the NFL’s highest-rated passer. And the Seahawks are playoff-bound to resume The Quest for the Lost Yard.

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Huskies’ Gaskin learned from his older brother Washington freshman running back Myles Gaskin, who is from Lynnwood, grew up watching, learning and “rastlin” his older brother Ivan.

Washington freshman running back Myles Gaskin rushed for 1,121 yards and 10 touchdown for the Huskies.

By Christian Caple The News Tribune

SEATTLE — The two boys played rough at their family’s home in Lynnwood, where Myles Gaskin grew up three years younger than brother Ivan.

They played football in the yard, pounding on each other until it was time to play something else. Basketball, maybe. Or, more likely, wrestling.

Actually, hold on, Ivan clarifies. It’s called ‘rastlin’. There is a difference.

Make sure you spell it right.

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“Rastlin,” Ivan says. “With an R.” Those who grew up fighting with siblings — so, those who grew up with siblings — are likely familiar with this spirited, lawless form of combat.

“Just boys being boys,” Ivan said, laughing.

As they grew, they pushed each other, and now both can claim significant achievement: Ivan is nearing graduation from Morehouse College, a small, liberal-arts school in Atlanta that he attends on scholarship (he See GASKIN, Page C2

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SEAHAWKS | Notebook

FRI SAT DECEMBER 25 26 Next game: St. Louis 1:25 p.m., Sun., Dec. 27

Next game: at Vancouver 2 p.m., Sun., Dec. 27 Southern Mississippi 11:20 a.m.

ESPN Miami 11 a.m.

CBS,7 Next game: Santa Barbara 8 p.m., Mon., Dec. 28 UW MEN UW MEN

Next game: at WSU 8 p.m., Tue., Dec. 29 UWWOMEN WOMEN UW

Next game: UC-Davis 7 p.m., Mon., Dec. 28

Next game: at Oregon 6 p.m., Mon., Dec. 28

New Mexico 10 a.m.

ESPN3 WSU MEN

Next game: at Santa Clara 2 p.m., Thu., Dec. 31 GONZAGA MEN

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TELEVISION TODAY BASKETBALL 9 a.m.

ESPN New Orleans at Miami 10 a.m. ESPN3 N. Mexico vs. WSU 11:30 a.m. ABC,4 Chicago at Okla. City 2 p.m.

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2:45 p.m. ESPN Tulsa vs. Virginia Tech 5:25 p.m. NFL Washington at Philadelphia 6:15 p.m. ESPN UCLA vs. Nebraska HOCKEY 4 p.m.

CBUT Montreal at Washington 7 p.m.

CBUT Edmonton at Vancouver SOCCER 6:55 a.m. NBCS Manchester City

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USA English Premier League 9:30 a.m. NBC,5 Newcastle vs. Everton 11:30 a.m. NBC,5 Southampton vs. Arsenal 9 a.m.

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BASKETBALL 710 WSU vs. New Mexico

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Southern Mississippi 5:25 p.m. 950 Washington at Philadelphia 6:15 p.m. 710 UCLA vs. Nebraska

PREPS TODAY No events scheduled

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BOYS BASKETBALL Non-League—Glacier Peak vs.Antioch at MaxPreps Holiday Classic in Palm Springs, Calif., 9:30 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Non-League—Bonney Lake at Glacier, 7:15 p.m.

76ers release Wroten Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — The NBAworst Philadelphia 76ers waived guard Tony Wroten on Thursday.

Wroten, who played at the University of Washington and Garfield High School, has been bothered by injuries all season and averaged 8.4 points in just eight games.

Wroten averaged 16.9 points in 30 games last season.

The 76ers also acquired point guard Ish Smith from the New Orleans Pelicans for two secondround draft picks.

Smith averaged 8.9 points and 5.7 assists in 27 games. He is the only player this season who has averaged at least 150 assists while committing at 45 or less turnovers.

Smith will return to Philadelphia, where he played 25 games last season and averaged 12 points, six assists and three rebounds.

The 76ers are 1-30.

Second chance for Michael Running back Christine Michael, a second-round draft pick by Seattle in 2013, was traded to Dallas, cut by the Cowboys and Redskins before returning to the Seahawks and rushing for a team-high 84 yards against the Browns.

By Nick Patterson Herald Writer

RENTON — One moment Christine Michael was cutting on a dime and bursting through a hole at the line of scrimmage.

The next he was lowering his shoulder and blasting into a defender, picking up extra yards after contact.

Wait a minute. Christine Michael?

The same Christine Michael who during his first two-year stint with the Seattle Seahawks was known mostly for failing to live up to expectations?

The same Christine Michael who had the plug pulled on his Seahawks career just before the season began, losing his roster spot to an undrafted rookie?

The same Christine Michael who just earlier in the week had been released from Washington’s practice squad?

Yep, that Christine Michael.

Michael received his chance at redemption last Sunday, and he put on a display that indicates he’s determined to make the most of his second chance.

“Seeing Mike back out there was exciting,” Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson said. “I know that for him it’s been a journey, and it’s been a journey that’s been well-traveled.”

The Christine Michael who showed up Sunday at CenturyLink Field for Seattle’s 30-13 victory over the Cleveland Browns was not the same Christine Michael who was a disappointment in his first stint with the Seahawks. This was the Michael Seattle envisioned when it selected the Texas A&M product in the second round of the 2013 draft.

“I’m just staying focused and taking advantage of the opportunity,” Michael said. “I’m staying focused and going out there and giving it all I have. I’m being patient and knowing my assignment.”

Michael began Sunday’s game as just one part of Seattle’s threeheaded committee at running

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majors in computer science with a minor in mathematics). And as the Washington Huskies prepare to finish the 2015 season with Saturday’s Heart of Dallas Bowl game against Southern Mississippi, Myles is perhaps the most proven embodiment of the Huskies’ hopeful future.

As a true freshman, he rushed for 1,121 yards — most ever by a UW freshman — and 10 touchdowns in 12 games. He averaged 5.6 yards per carry and became the first UW freshman to rush for 100 yards in consecutive games — he actually eclipsed that mark seven times, including two separate, three-game stretches. ESPN named him to its true-freshman All-America team. By any measure, he was the team’s most pleasant surprise, and also its most consistent offensive player.

He was a pleasant surprise, anyway, to those who don’t know him.

“In all honesty,” Ivan said, “watching his preparation, knowing him, knowing where he comes from, as far as the work ethic my mother and father instilled in us, and that hustle ... I wasn’t surprised.”

Their parents, Scott and Robbie, also taught them humility, and so Ivan is reluctant to accept any kind of credit for what Myles has become. But you should know that Myles watched his brother, studied him, learned from him, mimicked him. If he lost a ‘rastlin’ match — that happened a lot during their younger years, Ivan says — Myles wanted to know which move Ivan had used to whip him.

Then he’d use it, too.

“He does some stuff to you, winning a fight or something like that, then you try to do it to him the next time you fight, and that translates to everything,” Myles said. “You see your older brother do something that worked for him, you try to take it and make it yours and just get better at it.”

His brother, Myles said, is

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Christine Michael (32) led the Seahawks in rushing with 84 yard on 16 carries against the Cleveland Browns in last Sunday’s game.

back. With Marshawn Lynch (abdomen) and Thomas Rawls (ankle) both out injured, it was left to a hodgepodge of fullback Derrick Coleman and desperation free-agent signings Michael and Bryce Brown to carry the load on the ground.

Michael was the last of those three to handle the ball Sunday.

However, he ended the game as Seattle’s primary back, finishing with a team-high 84 yards on 16 carries. He helped the Seahawks rush for 182 yards as a team — with a group plucked off the scrap heap.

“What I really liked was that he was doing things right, and I really liked the tenacity he was running with,” Seattle offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell said.

“He was running very hard, he was lowering his pads, he was running behind his pads. Obviously he’s got the quickness and the speed. But he kind of had a fierceness to him in that game, and that’s something I like to see.”

Said Michael: “I was just along with all of it, man. We were just an outcome of the offensive line. Me, Bryce, Derrick Coleman, we’re just all doing our job and trying to help contribute as much as possible so we could get the victory.”

Michael didn’t get much of a chance to contribute during his first two seasons in Seattle. No

one questioned Michael’s tools, as at 5-foot-10 and 221 pounds he has all the power and speed one could want from a running back. But just about everyone questioned his ball security and his attitude. Michael was given just 52 carries during his first two seasons in Seattle, with most of those coming once the games were long decided.

The Seahawks were hoping year three would be when Michael would finally show signs of reaching his potential.

But an indifferent preseason littered with poor body language, combined with Rawls’ eye-opening performances, saw Michael shipped to the Dallas Cowboys for the measly price of a conditional seventh-round draft pick.

Upon leaving Seattle Michael proved unable to convince two other organizations of his worthiness, being released by both Dallas and Washington.

But Rawls’ season-ending ankle injury left the Seahawks in a bind, and with few options available they decided to bring Michael in for another look. It was a different, humbler Michael who showed up back in Seattle.

“He’s very determined to be right where he’s supposed to be,” Seattle head coach Pete Carroll said. “Not in stuff on the outside, not having too much fun with what’s going on, just being in the moment. His mindfulness

observant, and he is rational.

Ivan played running back and safety at O’Dea, just like Myles.

“One of those people that waits and sees what everybody else is doing, and just being very observant in all sorts of things in life,” Myles said. “And just try to put that into football, family life, school, everything — just observing and taking it all in before you act on anything.”

And maybe that’s how Myles developed his most valuable trait as a football player. Ask anyone with a vested interest in the Huskies’ success for an assessment of their starting tailback, and invariably they point to the same thing.

He is so, so patient. He understands blocking. He knows he has to wait for a crease to appear before bursting through it, that full-speed-ahead is not a viable strategy for a running back in the Pac-12.

So Myles picks and prods, and accelerates only when the time is right. Ivan doesn’t necessarily agree with the idea that his brother acquired this trait from watching him play — “I did play sports, but was not that kind of athlete,” he says — but whenever he’s asked about his football skills, Myles brings the conversation back to his brother.

It’s obvious he revered him as a kid. Wanted to be like him.

Wanted to play with Ivan’s friends, because it was apparent early that Myles was too talented to seek competition within his own age group. That led, inevitably, to little brother taking some lumps.

“He didn’t really win too much when we were younger at all,” Ivan said. “I think that taught him a lot. He has a very unique work ethic.”

Ivan says his brother is “very intellectual” — Myles describes Ivan the same way — and the collision of two young, sharp minds often produced banter that evolved into physical confrontation.

“A lot of times, the root of the rastlin’ got started with a fairly intellectual conversation we

could not agree on,” Ivan said, “and may sort of turn into some sort of semi-conflict.”

That is perhaps what Ivan most wants you to know about his brother — that as much natural talent as he might possess, Myles has worked and studied hard for what he has, and that his dedication to being a great running back has never wavered.

In high school, he stayed up all night before games, watching YouTube highlights of other running backs — Jacquizz Rodgers, Jahvid Best — trying to pick up a move that he might use against O’Dea’s opponent the next day.

At practice, O’Dea coach Monte Kohler says, “whatever coaches asked, he did, and then he always did more. If we were doing a drill taking the ball 20 yards, he’d go 40 yards. He just always wants more. He’s disappointed if other kids won’t push him or work hard.”

He was part of a group of three players who were the first fouryear lettermen in O’Dea football history — and O’Dea has a fair bit of football history. As a senior, Myles rushed for nearly 1,567 yards and 25 touchdowns, and averaged 14.4 yards per carry.

He was a track star, too, winning the 3A state championship in the 100-meter dash as a senior with a time of 11.02 seconds, and also ran the 200, the 400 and a pair of relays, in addition to competing in the shot put.

A “relentless” approach to the weight room, Kohler said, allowed him to build the kind of frame that has been able to withstand the burden of carrying the football 201 times against Division 1 opponents.

“People want to make Myles out to be just this talent,” Ivan said, “but Myles has been a student for longer than anyone gives him credit for.”

At first, Myles said, he marveled at how much faster college players move than the highschool kids he used to run past at O’Dea. In his collegiate debut, he rushed for only five yards on five carries in UW’s season-opening loss at Boise State, and says now

has really shown up, trying to be there for his teammates. He demonstrated that throughout.

He cherishes this opportunity more than he ever has, I think.

This is the most important opportunity he’s ever been faced with and he appreciates that.”

Michael’s had just one good game. It remains to be seen whether he can repeat his performance. But Rawls is done for the year and it’s still unknown when Lynch will be able to return.

Michael should continue to get his chances, and it’s possible the Seahawks will be the beneficiaries of a Michael who’s undergone a maturing process.

“It’s a small sample size, but I think that he’s grown up a little bit,” Bevell said. “He’s kind of been through some different situations by going to other places, been in two other places, got to see what it’s like on the other side, got to understand maybe how valuable the opportunities are that you can get and how those opportunities can be gone rather quickly. So he’s making the most of it. He’s focused in on the job and the task at hand. Like I said, it’s a small sample size, but he did a great job with it last week, and hopefully for his sake and our sake he’ll continue to do that.”

Injury update Carroll said Thursday that receiver Doug Baldwin (hamstring) could be a game-time decision for Sunday’s home game against St. Louis.

Baldwin is in the midst of a historic stretch, having caught 10 touchdown passes over the previous four games, so if he can’t play Sunday it will be a significant blow for Seattle’s offense.

Carroll also described tackle Russell Okung (calf) as questionable, while strong safety Kam Chancellor (tailbone) made no more progress in his recovery Thursday after taking good strides Wednesday. Cornerback DeShawn Shead (ankle) is expected to be at full strength Sunday.

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that he was “all jumpy, eyes wide open. I can only imagine, just looking at myself.”

But he quickly learned how to adapt. This, in part, is how he describes the adjustment, and it provides an interesting glimpse inside an analytical mind: “I think you can kind of see the defense pursuit angles. So, say you break a big run. You probably know who’s coming next, like a linebacker’s going to be on your heels, or a backside corner, or you can probably get somebody to overrun you sometimes, so you cut back on them. Just knowing how fast everybody is and just being able to kind of game-plan for it before it actually happens.”

The highlights began to accumulate. Did you see that jump-cut he made at USC? That juke he used to score UW’s first touchdown at Stanford? That quick, subtle move he used to slide past an oncoming defender before he sprinted for a 72-yard touchdown run against Oregon?

Myles himself brushes off the accolades: “All the records, I really give to the O-line.”

And that’s befitting his laidback personality. Hanging out at home with his parents is among his favorite activities. He returned to the O’Dea campus a couple of times during the season, just to visit. His roots are important to him.

“He’s never big-timed anybody,” Kohler said. “He loves people. When he was a senior, he would talk to the freshmen.

Just a great kid. Always had a smile on his face, very respectful, appreciative of everything that he has.”

With a bowl game still on the schedule, Myles says he isn’t yet thinking about what the future might hold for the young Huskies offense, which returns a core of promising freshmen and sophomores next season.

Instead, he’s focused on Southern Miss, the next team tasked with trying to ‘rastle him to the ground.

They might want to consult Ivan on that one.

The Daily Herald Friday, 12.25.2015

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Golden State’s Stephen Curry and the Warriors play the Cleveland Cavaliers today.

Who is the better shooter?

The Warriors’ Stephen Curry grew up playing H-O-R-S-E against his father Dell, a former NBA player.

By Kent Babb The Washington Post

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — They slip off into the backyard sometimes, father and son, or sneak onto the floor of an empty arena.

Dell Curry, the former NBA player, knew years ago that the time had come to stop playing his sons in one-on-one games. He was aging, and his sons were young and hungry. But during quiet times, Dell and his two boys — Stephen Curry, the NBA’s reigning most valuable player and one of the game’s biggest stars, and younger brother Seth, who plays for the Sacramento Kings — still occasionally find a place to slip away, away from the crowds and cameras, for a game or two of H-O-R-S-E, that casual contest in which players attempt to make shots their foes can’t duplicate.

“I can still hold my own,” Dell Curry, now 51 and more than 13 years removed from his final NBA game, said of recent games against his boys.

These days, the elder Curry is mostly known throughout the country simply as Steph’s dad. He said he doesn’t mind that. But in Charlotte, where he broadcasts Hornets games and was honored by the team during a halftime ceremony earlier this month while Steph’s Golden State Warriors were visiting, he remains a local legend. During the Hornets’ golden age, the man could make anything — acrobatic, off-balance three-pointers from any angle or distance.

No wonder where his older son gets it.

“Being able to shoot the ball,” Steph Curry said recently, “I saw him do it for years and years and years.”

Not only that, but the younger Curry used to challenge his old man. And Dell Curry would oblige, his competitive drive intersecting with a desire to teach his sons the family business, grabbing a ball and heading toward the nearest basketball goal.

Fifteen or so years ago, when Steph was approaching his teenage years, the games were easy. The young man could make a few shots in those days, but he wasn’t strong enough to keep up with his father. And he had one glaring weakness, which his father didn’t mind exploiting: The kid who would one day become the NBA’s deadliest 3-point shooter — who has, in recent years, somehow made the 3-pointer cooler than the dunk — couldn’t make a shot outside the arc.

“I had fun; I played with him,” Dad said. “But I played to win.”

The back yard goal was sealed in the ground by concrete, and the 3-point arc was from NBA range. Dell, who made better than 40 percent of his 3-point attempts during his 16-year NBA career and whose 47.6 percent 3-point accuracy in 1998-99 is still ranked 25th all-time, was good from most any distance. Steph, at 12 or 13, simply didn’t have the lowerbody strength to match his father’s longest-range shots.

They’d play, Steph hanging a few letters on his dad, but the winner was always the same. Then they’d laugh about it, the

youngster vowing to win someday. Sure, Dell would say playfully, and then they’d play again.

When the backyard games finally ended, Dell the undisputed household champion, Steph and Seth might follow Dell to Charlotte Coliseum, the Hornets’ arena in those days, and watch their dad work. The boys paid attention to how Dell practiced and played, the routines the elder Curry had honed for himself, the shots he had learned not in contests against his own father years earlier in Harrisonburg, Virginia, but in taking shot after shot on a rim attached to his high school coach’s barn.

Steph, unbeknownst even to his father, was absorbing his dad’s teachings and would use many of them when he became an NBA player himself.

“Just the way you handle yourself in the NBA lifestyle,” Steph, now 27 and the league’s scoring leader, said recently, “and the schedule that we have and just the stresses of the NBA life, I got to see it firsthand, up until I was about 13 or 14. I remember those things.”

Steph Curry kept growing — though his dad still has an inch on his 6-foot-3 older son — and became stronger. Suddenly the games became closer, more competitive; Dell had to get creative to continue winning, to keep fending off a son who by age 13 had become the family’s best golfer.

They played again and again, Dell attempting deeper threes, from more unusual angles.

“I was trying to win,” Dell recalled playfully, “and he struggled a little bit.”

By the time Steph was a senior at Charlotte Christian School in 2006, his father having retired four years earlier, the back yard games had become more competitive. Steph hoped to attend Virginia Tech, where his dad still holds several career records, but the Hokies offered only the chance to walk on. He decided to accept a scholarship at nearby Davidson College, and sometime during Steph’s senior year, he played his father again in the back yard.

Dell tried his usual strategy. Deep prayers and ridiculous angles, the letters collecting on each side. Steph kept making his shots, no matter the distances, no matter his dad’s experience or past dominance. Finally, there it was: He made the shot that Dell couldn’t match.

“I remember,” he said with a smile, “that I didn’t like that very much.”

They laughed about it, like usual, and recounted the game’s finer points — Dell insisting this time that it was an aberration a high school player had beaten a former NBA star. Long before Steph’s trophies and commercials, before Dell stood on a platform and described his son’s smooth shot as it sunk his hometown Hornets, before Dell was honored at halftime and Steph draped an arm over his mother’s shoulder and watched the spotlight find his dad, a father and son agreed that there was only one solution to this outcome.

They needed to play again.

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(ABC) Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Tulsa (6-6), 2:45 p.m.

(ESPN) Foster Farms Bowl Santa Clara, Calif.

Nebraska (5-7) vs. UCLA (8-4), 6:15 p.m.

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Raiders come back, beat Chargers 23-20 in OT

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Seahawks lose Super Bowl: The play that can never be unseen

OAKLAND, Calif. — Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 31-yard field goal in overtime and the Raiders got a defensive stop to seal what might have been the final game ever in Oakland with a 23-20 victory over the San Diego Chargers on Thursday night.

Derek Carr threw a touchdown pass and led the winning overtime drive for the Raiders (7-8), who could be moving to the Los Angeles area after the season. It also made Charles Woodson a winner in his final home game with the Raiders as he will retire after his 18th NFL season.

Philip Rivers threw for 277 yards and a touchdown for the Chargers (4-11). They lost their seventh straight division game.

Never in sports-championship history has near-certain victory turned so abruptly into certain defeat. The Russell Wilson-toRicardo Lockette pass from the 1-yard line that wasn’t, became the single most stunning play in Super Bowl lore. Coach Pete Carroll insisted it wasn’t the worst call, only the worst outcome. It may be true, but from shepherds in Mongolia to Bedouin chiefs in the Saudi desert came the same cry: “Give it to the Beast!” Seared in the Seattle sports memory until the sun goes supernova, it can only be overcome by this season’s pursuit of redemption, “The Quest for the Lost Yard.”

Mariners’ season-long trudge: Can’t anybody here hit with men on base?

Expectations for playoffs were strong when the Mariners left spring training armed with fearsome newcomer Nelson Cruz, good starting pitching and a bullpen that was among the American League’s best in 2014. But not once did the 76-86 Mariners engage the forward thrusters. The longest winning streak was five games, they never saw .500 after 24-24 and, remarkably for a mostly veteran crew, persistently blundered in the field, basepaths, batter’s box and dugout. They weren’t getting blown out — they played more oneand two-run games (91) than all but one team in MLB, and led the majors in most extra-inning games (23). But they consistently failed in the crucible, squandering a great opportunity in a fairly mediocre league. Thus, the widespread use of the postseason guillotine (see previous Mariner item).

Sounders fail again: All that money, yet the Timbers win MLS Cup By far the most consistently successful operation in the history of American soccer, the Sounders have never matched business wizardy

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Seattle Sounders forward Nelson Valdez (left) goes down after colliding with FC Dallas midfielder Victor Ulloa (8) during the first half of an MLS Western Conference semifinal match in November. Dallas eliminated Seattle from the playoffs in a shootout

with success on the pitch. With perhaps more talent than any MLS team, the Sounders plunged from the summit in the summer before rallying to their seventh playoff berth in seven years. But falling in a playoff shootout in Dallas meant no advance to the championship match, also for the seventh year in a row. Then, horror of horrors, the vile, despicable, contemptible vermin from Portland, the little brothers who couldn’t, did — the Timbers won the first MLS Cup for a Northwest team. The shrieks, lamentations and recriminations have barely subsided.

Husky basketball: They nearly join the Sonics in leaving town Already seven years without a pro basketball team, Seattle nearly lost its top college basketball team. Eight players, including star guard Nigel Williams-Goss, and an assistant coach left the program following a 16-15 season (5-13 in the Pac-12 Conference) that missed the NCAA tournament field for a fourth consecutive year. The worst crisis in Lorenzo Romar’s 13-year

tenure in Montlake started 11-0, then collapsed with the midseason ouster of shot-blocking center Robert Upshaw, reportedly over a failed drug test. Cries for Romar’s ouster were parried by a contract that pays him through 2020 and by a recruiting class ranked in the top 10 nationally. At least the university didn’t threaten to move to Oklahoma City.

WSU coach Mike Leach: Be happy he chose football for a career, not medicine In helping create Washington State’s best football season (8-4) since 2003, Leach worked wonders.

In attempting to be more than a cretin, he worked blunders. If he wants to engage in little-kid-style secrets regarding player injuries, well, OK. But when his star QB is knocked cold and carted off the field to a hospital, don’t tell a national TV audience, “He’s healthy as can be. We just rested him in the second half.” When it comes to the health of college kids, especially regarding head injuries, there’s zero tolerance for sarcasm, mockery, self-aggrandizement or recklessness.

San Diego State rolls to 42-7 win over Cincinnati in Hawaii Bowl Associated Press HONOLULU — Rashaad Penny returned the opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown and San Diego State routed Cincinnati 42-7 in the Hawaii Bowl on Thursday.

The Aztecs (11-3) won their final 10 games to match the longest winning streak in school history.

Penny had his third kickoff return for a score this season — and second 100-yarder — and broke the Hawaii bowl record for the longest return before a sparse crowd of 14,537 at Aloha Stadium.

San Diego State rushed for 207 yards, topping the 200yard mark for the 10th consecutive game, and finished with 336 yards of total offense.

Donnell Pumphrey, the Mountain West offensive player of the year, had 99 yards on 25 carries. He threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Dakota Gordon and had a 1-yard scoring run early in the fourth quarter. Gordon also had a 1-yard run and finished with four catches for 58 yards.

Cincinnati finished 7-5.

Bahamas Bowl

Western Michigan 45, Middle Tennessee 31 NASSAU, Bahamas — Jamauri Bogan rushed for 215 yards and four touchdowns Thursday, powering Western Michigan past Middle Tennessee 45-31 in the Bahamas Bowl for its first bowl victory.

Western Michigan (8-5) had lost its previous six bowl games.

The Broncos ended a four-game winning streak for Middle Tennessee (7-6).

Western Michigan’s Corey Davis finished with eight catches for 183 yards and a touchdown. Daniel Braverman had five receptions for 101 yards and a score.

Richie James had two touchdown catches and one touchdown run for Middle Tennessee. Brent Stockstill threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns to go with his interception.

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OPPORTUNITIES Walk: Enjoy ‘fern grotto’ on Camano Join Friends of Camano Island Parks members on a guided community walk Jan. 2 at Camano Island State Park, 2269 Lowell Point Road. Meet at 9:50 a.m. at the picnic shelter near the boat ramp.

The 2.6-mile walk features excellent views of Saratoga Passage and Elger Bay and also a beautiful “fern grotto” and ravine.

The walk is mostly level, with two elevation gains of about 50 feet. The walk should take about two hours. No dogs are allowed.

Trail booklets are available for a suggested $1 donation. A parking pass is required, but those without can use a temporary one provided by the parks booster group.

More info: www.friendsofcamanoislandparks.org

Unload: Where to get rid of the tree When Christmas is over, here are some places to off-load that tree. Trees must be free of decorations, tinsel and other non-biodegradable materials. No flocked trees are accepted.

Boy Scouts of America troops across much of Snohomish County take trees from curbs or collect at drop-off points as part of an annual service fundraiser.

Most troops will work Jan. 2 and suggest a donation of $10 or more. Specifics vary by troop.

Most are listed at www.dryneedles.com.

Everett Community College will recycle trees free Jan. 4-29.

Drop off between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at Parking Lot F on the campus at 2000 Tower St. More info: 425-388-9070.

Cedar Grove offers free Christmas tree recycling to Everett and Marysville city residents (one per household; additional $5 each).

Bring trees Dec. 28-Jan. 8 to the Everett facility, 3260 36th Place NE. Driver’s license or other ID showing address required. More info: 877-764-5748.

Move: Exercise class for Parkinson’s patients The Edmonds Senior Center helps support a movement and exercise class along with Parkinson School For Change to help Parkinson’s patients get control of their movement again. Classes are held 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays at the Senior Center, 220 Railroad Ave., and cost $5 for members and $8 for nonmembers.

Consistent exercise is recognized as a productive way to manage Parkinson’s disease symptoms. Each class includes stretching, exercising from a chair and walking practice.

More info: jennifer@ParkinsonSchoolForChange.org or 206-920-1151

Volunteer: Adults needed on MLK Day On Jan. 18, a Monday, high school and middle school students from all over Snohomish County will participate in a Day of Service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory.

This is a collaborative project of the United Way, the YMCA Minority Achievers Program, and Catholic Community Services’ chore and Retired Senior Volunteer programs.

The event seeks adult volunteers of all ages to meet the students at the work sites, introduce them to the person or organization receiving help, and be available as a mentor or coach. Your role is to be with them as they do their project, making sure they stay safe and stay on task. Service hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

A training session is scheduled for 5:30-6:30 p.m. Jan. 13 at United Way, 3120 McDougall Ave. in Everett.

More info: John McAlpine at johnm@ccsww.org, 425-3746374 or 888-240-8572.

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Sgt. Ryan Irving (left) laughs as John Chitwood, 8, browses the aisles during the annual “Shop With A Cop” at the Walmart in Monroe on Dec. 16.

Monroe police ‘shine a light’

Kids give and receive through the “Shop With A Cop” charity event

By Rikki King Herald Writer

MONROE — The three brothers have a special connection with the Monroe Police Department.

It was Monroe officers who found the boys in October and contacted social workers.

That led to them being placed with foster parents Lisa and Ryan Sankey, of Marysville.

Isaiah Vigil is 9, John Chitwood is 8 and Ares Adams is 6. They are busy boys, but they are good boys, Lisa Sankey said.

On Dec. 16, the brothers rejoined Monroe officers for “Shop With A Cop,” a charity event for kids at the Walmart along N. Kelsey Street.

“For the last two days, all they could talk about was what they’re going to do, shopping with the police,” Lisa Sankey said.

She encouraged them to buy gifts for each other, and not just for themselves.

“I’m excited that I’m here,” Isaiah told her.

“I like my brothers. Seriously.”

About a dozen children each got to spend $100 during the event. The officers aimed to help them select both toys and needed practical items, such as clothes and shoes.

For kids that age, aim for shoes a half size big, officer Jason Southard told his co-workers.

The families were chosen through referrals, said detective Spencer Robinson, who organized this year’s event. Sponsors included Walmart, Speedway Chevrolet, Five

Isaiah Vigil, 9, looks over the store flyer with Officer Derrick Lether at Walmart.

Guys Burgers and Fries, the Monroe Police Officers Association and private donors.

“In this job, you see a lot of darkness,” Robinson said. “You see a lot of sad things that shouldn’t have to happen. I look at this

as a small way you can shine a light in these kids’ lives.”

Officer Derrick Lether helped Isaiah shop.

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Singer brings in donations for food bank Monroe High School graduate and country music singer Dakota Neuman held a holiday concert fundraiser Dec. 5 to benefit the Sky Valley Food Bank. The event brought in 114 pounds of food and $1,050.

Lynnwood families Shop with a Cop The Lynnwood Police Department hosted its annual Shop with a Cop event Dec. 10 at the Lynnwood Fred Meyer. This year’s event benefited 21 mothers and 36 children from YWCA’s Pathways for Women. Lynnwood Police officers and the families ate dinner and shopped together to celebrate the season.

This event was made possible with funding provided by Lynnwood Fred Meyer, the Lynnwood Police Officers Association, and individual donations received throughout the year and during the event. More than 30 officers and public safety volunteers donated their time.

Several area police departments hold similar events this

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time of year (read more about the Monroe Police Department’s event in today’s Herald).

Everett police held their Heroes and Helpers event Dec. 16 at the Everett Target store, helping over 65 Snohomish County children. The event include pictures with Santa, pizza and cookies along with shopping. The Everett event is sponsored by the Everett Police Officers Association, the Everett Police Department, and Everett Target. Participation and donations also came from the Mill Creek Police Department, Snohomish County Corrections Deputies, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, Washington State Patrol, civilian employees, and family members of local police officers.

Santa Run brings in festive haul For the 25th annual Santa Run, Arlington firefighters, their families and friends escorted Santa through Arlington neighborhoods on a decorated fire engine for 10 evenings and gathered 7,531 pounds of food and $2,014 in cash for the Arlington

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Jesus, 12, and Maria, 15, get ready to shop with Lynnwood Police Sgt. Dan Snow as their mom, Patricia, looks on during the Dec. 10 Shop with a Cop event at the Lynnwood Fred Meyer.

Food Bank.

“Thanks for everyone’s help,” said Capt. Dave Kraski, who coordinated the program this year.

Kids stuff the Club for food bank Kids from the Monroe Boys and Girls Club collected boxes of stuffing for the Sky Valley Food Bank. On Dec. 18, with

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staff, they delivered 176 boxes of stuffing to the food bank.

“It was so much fun and rewarding to watch these kids come into the Club with bags full of stuffing. They all knew of the impact that they were having too,” said Jeff Rasmussen, unit director of the Monroe Boys and Girls Club.

Monroe Walmart employees also pitched in.

To submit news for Applause, email newstips@heraldnet.com.

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Stateside housing allowances to rise only 3.4%

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asic Allowance for Housing (BAH) paid to a million service members living off base in the United States will rise an average of 3.4 percent on Jan. 1, which for a second straight year will not be enough to match rising rents and utility costs nationwide.

Defense pay officials are executing a five-year plan, which Congress approved, to dampen stateside housing allowances gradually, so that by 2019 members will be paying five percent of housing costs out of pocket.

In 2016, the “cost share” for BAH recipients will be two percent of national average housing costs for their pay grade. It was one percent in 2015. The negative impact of BAH cost sharing on purchasing power will range from $24 to $57 a month, depending on rank and family status.

In a statement, Defense officials called the computation for slowing overall compensation growth “fair, responsible and sustainable…[T]he overall military pay and benefits package remains robust and healthy.”

TOM PHILPOTT MILITARY UPDATE Starting in 2015, BAH recipients lost more value from their housing allowances, about $300 annually, when the rate-setting formula no longer included dollars to cover the cost of renters’ insurance, which military folks often buy to protect their personal affects from theft, fire or other risks.

BAH payments in 2016 still will total more than $21 billion.

Rates will rise across most of more than 300 Military Housing Areas. The average monthly increase, despite “cost sharing,” will be $54. Actual increases for individuals will vary based on where members are assigned, rank or pay grade, and whether

IN UNIFORM Veterans news Everett native Donald Melby was among three veterans recognized during a medal presentation ceremony Dec. 18 at the Robert Jack Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1322 in Van Buren, Ark. VFW Post Commander Earl Duty read letters of commendation from U.S. Sen. John Boozman before “bestowing these symbols of a grateful nation.”

Melby, now of Van Buren, was born May 13, 1946, in Everett. He joined the Army Sept. 4, 1964. He served three years in Germany and one year in Vietnam with Military Advisory Command as a military adviser. He served in the military for a total of eight years, eight months and four days.

Melby received the Bronze Star Medal, Good Conduct Medal (second award), National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with four Bronze Service stars, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Ribbon with Device (1990) and Marksman Badge with Auto Rifle Bar. Homeless, unemployed veterans can get help through Workforce Snohomish. Help includes employment assistance, support services, help with VA benefits and housing. Call Gordon Meade at 425-921-3478 or write to gordon.meade@workforcesnohomish.org.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars posts and auxiliaries of

Michael Shillingford and Jignette Shillingford Lucia Ward Alvarado and Jesus Alvarado Gutierrez Lisa Byrns and Robert Byrns Michele Rimmele and Carl Rimmele Paul Jacobson and Aimee Jacobson Donnamae Shaw and David Shaw Allen Smith and Amy Smith NKA Christensen Magdelena Villapondo and Hector Mujica Warren Rainville and Aileen Macgregor Tanecha Walker and Michael Walker Brittney Ristau and David Ristau Ryan Morgen and Stephanie Morgen Deborah Vanvradenburg and Elias Vanvradenburg Paul Hays Jr and Gigi Hays Michael Aspen and Sheri Aspen Matthew Cantoni and Kelly Cantoni Richard Chapman and Danielle Chapman April Yalowitz and Richard Yalowitz Gretchen Perkins and David Perkins Emelline Notarte and Ericson Notarte Chris Hobbs and Cathy Hobbs

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(electricity, heat, water and sewer) for six housing profiles — a combination of dwelling type (apartments, townhouses or single family homes) and number of bedrooms. Individual rates reflect local costs for housing appropriate for each pay grade, with and without dependents.

Some areas will see sharp BAH hikes, such as an average increase of 12.2 percent in Everett, Wash., and a 7.9 percent jump in Panama City, Florida.

But BAH for new arrivals will fall in other areas, including by 3.1 percent in Gulfport, Mississippi, and by 2.2 percent at Fort Riley, Kansas.

When the BAH program was established for setting stateside housing allowances, initial rates covered only 80 percent of members’ rental costs. More than a decade ago, Congress decided to phase out that onerous 20 percent cost-sharing formula and completed the task in 2005.

Last year, accepting military leaders’ argument that they needed to free up housing allowance dollars for other readiness needs, Congress began to reverse

course on full BAH and to slow automatic growth in rates.

Service members living off base overseas don’t receive BAH. Instead they get an Overseas Housing Allowance based on what individual members actually pay to rent local housing.

OHA gets adjusted periodically to keep pace with the dollar’s changing value against local currency.

Food allowances: Also Jan. 1, new basic allowance for subsistence (BAS) rates take effect but the change is very modest. The monthly food allowance for officers will be $253.63 per month, a 25-cent increase. Enlisted BAS will be $368.29, a 37-cent increase.

BAS adjustments are linked to changes in food prices as measured by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s cost of food at home index, which only the last year rose by only 0.1 percent.

Send comments to Military Update, P.O. Box 231111, Centreville, VA, 20120, email milupdate@aol.com or twitter: Tom Philpott @Military_Update

information, call 800-336-4590 option 1 or go to esgr.mil.

Adjutant Bob at 360-863-3544, www. americanlegionmonroe.org.

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Veterans groups Disabled American Veterans, Martin T. Sofie Sunshine Chapter 13: 7 p.m. first Tuesdays, dinner at 6, at the Lynnwood Eagles, 19223 Highway 99. More info: 425-299-3373, davsunshine13@ gmail.com.

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Donald Melby (left), originally of Everett, receives medals from Post Commander Earl Duty during a medal presentation ceremony Dec. 18 at the Robert Jack Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1322 in Van Buren, Arkansas.

Snohomish County are looking for new members. Needed is your last separation certification or other proof of eligibility. Auxiliary members are wives, widows, mothers, etc. For more information, call 425-337-1559.

Active Duty U.S. Air Force Airman Stanley Parong graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. Parong is the son of Heherson Parong and the former ward of Juliet Parong, both of Everett. He is a 2010 graduate of Everett High School.

Employers Support of the Guard and Reserves supports the men and women of the Guard and Reserves, including employer and supervisor awards programs, under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. For more

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members qualify for the higher “with dependents” BAH. Service members can find individual 2016 rates online at: http://www.defensetravel.dod. mil/site/bahCalc.cfm .

In some areas, BAH rates will fall Jan 1. The BAH program, however, continues to provide individual rate protection so no current recipients will see their BAH fall to revised rates. Rate protection recognizes that members commit to multi-year leases or contracts and need a stable allowance, unaffected by falling markets or the new cost-share formula, at least until they move to new assignments or their dependency status changes.

To recalculate rates annually, Defense officials gather rental cost data from across the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. Local military housing offices provide critical help by directing data collection away from apartment complexes and individual housing units unsuitable for the military.

Rates are reset based on median current market rents and average utility costs

Steven Hoover and Karen Hoover Nicholas Mcgillivray and Sierra Mcgillivray Teresa Courtney and Herbert Courtney Tonya Perez and Everardo Perez Michael Cavelero and Angela Cavelero Hailey Oneal and Michael Richardson Nahoko Simpson and Joseph Simpson Jr Amadou Cham and Sophia Johnson Sarah Macdonald and Jason Macdonald Joy Lange and John Lange Dawn Akers and Scott Akers Howard Bono Jr and Barbara Bono Lisa Bertrand Moore and Michael Moore Katie Workman and Dennis Workman Erin Lavery and Renee Perez Kathryn Elliott-Young and Robert Young Jr Lisa Goldman and Brent Palmer Sonja Hutchens and Randy Brooks NKA Hailey Brooks Vadad Soleimanzadeh and Pedram Hakimi Emily Hill and Barry Ehrlich Joann Decoste and Gerald Decoste Melissa Stenberg and Scott Stenberg Russel Boknecht and Mary Boknecht Susan Knutson and Neil Knutson Barbara Bosworth and Ralph Bosworth

Fleet Reserve Association Branch 170: 5 p.m. second Wednesdays, 6802 Beverly Blvd., Everett. More info: 425-353-2600.

The Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter 12: 7 p.m. fourth Tuesdays, Lynnwood Elks Club, 6620 196th St. SW. More info: Dennis C. Adams, 206280-0022.

Coast Guard Auxiliary: 7 p.m. second Tuesdays, Port of Everett Conference Center, 404 14th St. More info: Marie Porterfield, 425-629-3241, 509-949-6715, Marie.

Porterfield64@gmail.com.

Fleet Reserve Association and Ladies Fleet Reserve Association Unit and Branch 18: Lunch noon, meeting 1 p.m. second Saturdays, 23003 56th Ave. W., Mountlake Terrace. More info: 425771-2774.

Veterans: An unaffiliated group of veterans of wars in foreign lands meets at 1 p.m. second Wednesdays, Carl Gipson Senior Center, 3025 Lombard Ave., Everett. More info: 425-257-8780.

American Legion Arlington Legion Post 76 and Auxiliary: Arlington Post 76 and auxiliary meetings, 7 p.m. second Tuesdays. SAL meetings 6 p.m. first Thursdays. All meetings are downstairs at 115 N. Olympic Ave. Breakfast is served from 8 to 10:30 a.m. the first Saturday of each month for $6 a plate. More info: 360-435-2492.

Arthur Kincaid Legion Post 58: 7 p.m. third Tuesdays, Brookdale Senior Living, 15465 179th Ave., Monroe. More info:

DEATHS Abels, Donald, 73, Arlington, Dec. 9 Anderson, Roger, 80, Lynnwood, Dec. 5 Astel, William, 88, Lynnwood, Dec. 11 Avilla, Scott, 52, Bothell, Dec. 3 Bailey, Lori, 56, Arlington, Dec. 10 Baird, Lee, 60, Darrington, Dec. 13 Barlow, Pauline, 60, Stanwood, Dec. 14 Barros, Elsie, 84, Everett, Dec. 10 Bartholomew, Theodore, 96, Everett, Dec. 10 Bartlett, Tamera, 57, Marysville, Dec. 9 Blubaugh, Felix, 91, Stanwood, Dec. 10 Bogus, Linda, 64, Marysville, Dec. 11 Bowser, Frieda, 96, Everett, Dec. 10 Boyd, Ronald, 70, Santa Ana, CA, Dec. 8 Britton, Becky, 51, Granite Falls, Dec. 15 Carman, Kelly, 55, Marysville, Dec. 13 Carson, Mary, 78, Marysville, Dec. 9 Chen, Shu Yun, 82, Lynnwood, Dec. 10 Daley, Ida, 84, Marysville, Dec. 7 Dattilo, Robert, 69, Lynnwood, Dec. 9 Davis, Jeffrey, 52, Mukilteo, Dec. 8 Davis, Troy, 89, Everett, Dec. 13 Davis, Ronald, 73, Brier, Dec. 15 DeWott, Dorsey, 70, Granite Falls, Nov. 29 Duke, Danny, 72, Stanwood, Dec. 9

Bothell Legion Post 127: 7 p.m. second Wednesdays, 21920 Highway 9. Service officer available to help with veterans issues. More info: Commander Burt Marsh, 206-999-3254.

Earl Winehart Legion Post 96: 7 p.m. second Tuesdays, Legion Hall, 1201 First St., Snohomish. More info: 360-568-5340.

Frank Freese Legion Post 66: 6 p.m. third Mondays, Post Hall, 117 S. Sixth St., Edmonds. Light meal served at 5:15 p.m.

More info: Les, 206-546-6831.

Frank H. Hancock Legion Post 92 and Auxiliary: 7 p.m. second Mondays, 26921 88th Ave. NW, Stanwood. Prime rib dinner, 4:30 p.m. third Fridays. Service office open 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays. More info: 360629-8021.

Lake Stevens Memorial Legion Post 181: 7 p.m. second and fourth Thursdays, Lake Stevens Community Center, 1812 124th Ave. NE. More info: Tom at 425-3145865, Tony at 360-631-3242, or Vern at 425-343-9637; info@post181.org; www. post181.org.

Lynnwood Legion Post 37: 7 p.m. third Thursdays, Lynnwood Elks Club, 6620 196th St. SW. More info: 425-585-0279.

Marysville Legion Post 178 and Auxiliary: 7 p.m. third Thursdays, Post Hall, Second Street and Cedar Avenue. Social hour at 6 p.m. Service officer hours are 12-4 p.m. fourth Mondays at the Post Hall. More info: 360-653-0155, legionpost178wa@gmail. com, americanlegion178wa.cfsites.org.

S. Al Wilcox Legion Post 234: 6 p.m. social hour, 7 p.m. meeting, second Mondays, Legion Hall, 22909 56th Ave. W., Mountlake Terrace. More info: americanlegionpost234.org, americanlegionpost234@gmail.com, 425-776-5490.

Sen. Henry M. Jackson Legion Post 6: 6 p.m. second Thursdays, Fleet Reserve Association Club, 6802 Beverly Blvd., Everett. More info: Marvin, 425-923-8172.

Endler, Coral, 69, Edmonds, Dec. 6 Ennaro, Frank, 96, Marysville, Dec. 15 Fitzgerald, Robert, 91, Everett, Dec. 14 Fleming, Jack, 78, Everett, Dec. 14 Flynn, Margaret, 71, Marysville, Dec. 11 Folsom, Riley, 91, Stanwood, Dec. 13 Fortnum, Virginia, 85, Lynnwood, Dec. 10 Freeze, William, 74, Mountlake Terrace, Dec. 9 Garden, Patric, 72, Everett, Oct. 3 Geiger, Imogen, 89, Mill Creek, Dec. 14 Gerrard, Kathryn, 58, Lynnwood, Dec. 8 Gimness, Stephen, 51, Arlington, Dec. 13 Graham, Stella, 82, Marysville, Dec. 9 Hagedorn, Eileen, 95, Lynnwood, Dec. 10 Hancock, Evelyn, 89, Everett, Dec. 11 Harpin, Lenna, 94, Lynnwood, Dec. 9 Hollenbeck, Katrina, 42, Lynnwood, Dec. 8 Johnson, Marie, 88, Everett, Dec. 9 Johnson, Wallace, 53, Edmonds, Dec. 10 Kester, Alfred, 94, Edmonds, Dec. 8 Kirk, Iris, 93, Brier, Dec. 12 Kolsky, Doris, 97, Mountlake Terrace, Dec. 10 Laski, Patricia, 73, Norwalk, CA, Dec. 9 Lingren, Michael, 52, Lynnwood, Dec. 11 Lopez, Phillip, 41, Everett, Dec. 8 Lowery, Ralph, 81, Marysville, Dec. 2 Maccharulo, Helen, 90, Lynnwood, Dec. 8 Madsen, Robert, 76, Everett, Dec. 11 McMillan, Manono, 65, Bothell, Dec. 12 Merritt, Brian, 46, Lake Stevens, Dec. 11 Miller, Frank, 66, Everett, Nov. 15 Moell, James, 57, Everett, Dec. 6 Munoz Martinez, Flora, 92, Lake Stevens, Dec. 13 Nearing, Lois, 87, Snohomish, Dec. 9 Netherton, Dane, 19, Monroe, Dec. 14 Palmer, Tommy, 69, Sultan, Dec. 12 Pascua, Fred 65, Marysville, Dec. 11 Patrick, Robert, 76, Arlington, Dec. 7 Pepperell, Nicholas, 28, Snohomish, Dec. 14 Plummer, Nathalie, 95, Everett, Dec. 13 Powell, Ray, 80, Mtlake Terrace, Dec. 3 Pulliam, Barbara, 85, Marysville, Dec. 11 Reed, Joan, 78, Snohomish, Dec. 9 Roake, Frances, 68, Edmonds, Dec. 3 Rumble, John, 81, Marysville, Dec. 11 Schierholz, Robert, 76, Everett, June 11 Sim, Vans, 82, Lynnwood, Dec. 8 Singleton, Sr, Herbert, 84, Marysville, Dec. 10 Smith Dale, 89, Arlington, Dec. 14 Sornberger, Jean, 96, Bothell, Dec. 9 Strong, William, 89, Everett, Dec. 13 Sutherland, Dottie, 93, Snohomish, Dec. 14 Tate, Ivory, 74, Everett, Dec. 10 Taylor, Phillip, 61, Everett, Dec. 5

Arlington Boyer-Daniel VFW Post 1561: 7 p.m. first Tuesdays. More info: 425-232-8453, 360-435-6677 or vfw1561. org.

Edmonds VFW Post 8870: 6 p.m. second Tuesdays, with a light supper at 5:15 p.m., Edmonds American Legion Hall, 117 Sixth Ave. S. More info: Fred at 206-9407502, dennisvfw8870@gmail.com, www. vfw8870.org. Ladies Auxiliary: Noon second Fridays at the Edmonds Senior Center, 220 Railroad Ave. Everett Old Guard VFW Post 2100: 6:30 p.m. third Tuesdays, 2711 Oakes Ave. More info: Don Wischmann, 425-7609031, www.vfwpost2100.org. Ladies Auxiliary: 6:30 p.m. second Mondays.

More info: 425-337-1559.

Gold Bar Martin-Osterholtz VFW Post 9417: 6 p.m. first Thursdays, 301 Third St. More info: Doug White, 425870-7298. Ladies Auxiliary: 3 p.m. first Thursdays. More info: Arden King, 360-793-2786.

Lynnwood Walter A. Deebach VFW Post 1040: 7 p.m. first Thursdays, Alderwood Boys and Girls Club, 19619 24th Ave. W. More info: Frank, 425-697-4102.

Ladies Auxiliary: Same as Post. More info: Myra Rintamaki, 206-235-0348.

Monroe VFW Post 7511: 7 p.m. second Thursdays, IOOF Hall, 610 Lewis St. More info: Ken, 425-315-3509.

Oak Harbor Whitehead-Muzzall VFW Post 7392: 360-675-4048 or vfwpost7392.org.

Snohomish Gay Jones VFW Post 921 and Auxiliary: 1 p.m. second Saturdays, Boys & Girls Club, 402 Second St. More info: 425-397-7111.

Sultan VFW Post 2554 and Ladies Auxiliary: 7 p.m. second Thursdays, Volunteers of America Community Center, 605 First St. More info: 425-870-0235.

To submit news for this column, contact reporter Melissa Slager: mslager@heraldnet. com.

Thatcher, JoAnne, 71, Marysville, Dec. 14 Thompson, James, 94, Little Falls, Minnesota, Dec. 12 Vinokurov, Anna, 88, Bothell, Dec. 14 Ward, Jeanette, 85, Everett, Dec. 9 Watkins, David, 72, Marysville, Dec. 11 Wedlock, Patricia, 94, Lynnwood, Dec. 7 Yeow, Yew Thye, 67, Everett, Oct. 26

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EVENTS Tour of Lights: The city of Marysville’s Holiday Tour of Lights concludes with a grand finale, 6-9 p.m. Dec. 26 at Cedarcrest Golf Course, 6810 84th St. NE. Ride the Marysville Noon Rotary train for a 20-minute tour of lighted holiday displays. Hot chocolate, music, s’mores and more. Suggested donation is $5, $3 children, $20 family. More info: marysvillewa.gov, 360-363-8400.

Animals in Winter: Migrate, hibernate or camouflage? Children ages 5-11 are invited to learn how animals survive the winter by moving to warmer climates or adapting to their environment, 2 p.m. Dec. 30 at the Mukilteo Library, 4675 Harbour Pointe Blvd. Come as your favorite animal. More info: 425493-8202 ext. 3232.

Peace Parade: The annual Caroll Cochran Index Peace Parade is held 1-3 p.m. Jan. 1 in Index, starting from the old Fire Hall. Costumes, signs and instruments are encouraged. Anyone is welcome, just show up. More info: 360-793-0983.

Pancakes, Snohomish: 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Jan. 2 (first Saturday) at the Snohomish Senior Center, 506 Fourth St. Pancakes, French toast, sausage, ham, biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs and more. Cost is $5, $3 for kids.

Pancakes, Bothell: 8-11 a.m.

Jan. 2 (first and third Saturdays) at the Northshore Senior Center, 10201 E Riverside Drive. Cost is $5.

More info: 425-487-2441.

Winter walk: Join Friends of Camano Island Parks members on a guided community walk Jan. 2 at Camano Island State Park, 2269 Lowell Point Road. Meet at 9:50 a.m. at the picnic shelter near the boat ramp. The 2.6-mile walk features excellent views of Saratoga Passage and Elger Bay and also a beautiful “fern grotto” and ravine.

No dogs. More info: www.friendsofcamanoislandparks.org.

Genealogy 101: Sno-Isle Genealogical Society offers a free beginning genealogy class, 10 a.m.-11 a.m. Jan. 2 (first Saturday) at the SIGS Research Library, 19827 Poplar Way in Lynnwood’s Heritage Park. More info: 425-775-6267.

WAYS TO HELP Socks on Saturday: The Arlington Community Resource Center seeks donations of heavy warm socks. Donations will be accepted through Dec. 31 at City Hall, 238 N Olympic Ave., or at ACRC, at the northwest side of the senior center complex at 18308 Smokey Point Blvd. More info: 360-386-7989.

Teen service hours: Middle school students (grades 6-8) can earn community service credit by helping out at the Mukilteo

Library, 4675 Harbour Pointe Blvd.

Volunteers will prepare crafts for library programs, pick up and clean up, sort books, and more. No need to sign up. Meet 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Jan. 2 (first Saturday, September to May) in the teen area.

Light a light: A living fir tree strung with lights stands at the entrance of the Frances Anderson Center (700 Main St.) through Jan. 2 before being planted at Yost Park.

Donate $5 per light in honor of someone and the donation will be posted on the main floor bulletin board. Proceeds go to the city’s Youth Scholarship Fund for parks and recreation programs. More info: 425-771-0268.

MLK Day volunteers: Adult volunteers are needed to work with and mentor students on a Day of Service in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 18 at locations around the county. Service hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. A training session is set for 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Jan. 13 in Everett. More info: John McAlpine at johnm@ccsww.org, 425-374-6374 or 888-240-8572.

Shelter volunteers: The South Snohomish County Emergency Cold Weather Shelter opens at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood when the temperature is forecasted to fall below 34 degrees for four or more hours overnight. Volunteers are needed to help open the shelter, stay overnight, prepare meals, drive the shelter van, or offer security screening. More info: 425-7782159 ext. 8 or www.trinitylutheranchurch.com.

Volunteer at Habitat store: Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County seeks volunteers to help staff its stores in Everett (2302 Broadway) and Lynnwood (16929 Highway 99, Suite 100).

Shifts are for four hours between 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. More info: 425405-7770, cwatkins@habitatsnohomish.org.

Hospital gift shop, Monroe: The gift shop at EvergreenHealth Monroe needs reliable volunteers to work three-hour shifts. The gift shop is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays. More info: Janie, vghgiftshop@gmail.com.

Hospital gift shop, Everett: The nonprofit Providence General Children’s Association needs volunteers at the Providence Regional Medical Center Pacific and Colby campus gift shops for four-hour shifts, day or evening, one or more times per month. Gift shop proceeds benefit Northwest children in need. Must complete hospital volunteer forms, TB test, background check and training. More info: Maureen Welly, 425-348-9433.

Assist with equine: All Breed Equine Rez-Q in Marysville seeks

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Kids from the Monroe Boys & Girls Club on Dec. 18 delivered 176 boxes of stuffing for the Sky Valley Food Bank that they collected for a Stuff the Club service project. a variety of volunteers. More info: 425-263-6390, 206-933-0327, allbreedhorserescue.com.

Help wildlife, Arlington: Sarvey Wildlife Care Center, located in Arlington, seeks volunteers to help in its wildlife care clinic. Volunteers must be at least 14 years old.

More info: www.sarveywildlife.org or info@sarveywildlife.org.

Help wildlife, Lynnwood: PAWS Wildlife Center in Lynnwood seeks volunteer wildlife care assistants. More info: www.paws.org or volunteers@paws.org.

Book sale donations: The Friends of the Edmonds Library seeks donations to its ongoing book sale, including gently used books, CDs, videos, DVDs, sheet music, magazines and computer software. Proceeds from the ongoing sale benefit the Edmonds Library and the scholarship fund.

A drop box for donations is in the foyer of the library, at 650 Main St. Eyeglasses, hearing aids: Lions Clubs are collecting used eyeglasses and hearing aids. Donations may be made at Everett Public Libraries, PUD main office and most opticians and eye doctors. More info: Everett Central Lions Club, Art Ruben at since1965@aol.com or 425-387-9256.

Hope Unlimited: Hope Unlimited includes the Stanwood Camano Incident Support chaplains.

Volunteering opportunities include teaching and cooking. More info: 360-387-1512.

SENIORS Peer support group: Meets 10:30-11:30 a.m. second and fourth Wednesdays at the Stillaguamish Senior Center, 18308 Smokey Point Blvd., Arlington.

More info: 360-653-4551.

Lunch, Lake Stevens: A light lunch for seniors is served at 11:20 a.m. every Wednesday at the Lake Stevens Senior Center, 2302 Soper Hill Road. Cost is $2.50 for members, $3.50 for non-members. More

info: 425-335-0345.

Lunch, Granite Falls: Noon Thursdays at the Granite Falls Senior Center, 302 S Granite Ave. Cost is $3 seniors and disabled, $6 others.

Penny bingo follows. More info: 360-691-7177.

Gift shop: The Carl Gipson Senior Center gift shop is open to all, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Find Seahawks items, handmade cards and inexpensive and nice gifts for anniversaries, baby showers, birthdays and more. The senior center is at 3025 Lombard Ave. More info: 425-257-8780.

ASSISTANCE Health insurance: People wishing to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act will find assistance through January at three libraries. First-come, first-served with WithinReach staff. Mountlake Terrace Library: 2:30-5:30 p.m. Jan. 8, 15, 22 and 29. Marysville Library: 3-5 p.m.

Dec. 30; Jan. 13 and 27. Lynnwood Library: 2-4 p.m. Mondays through Jan. 25. More info: 360-651-7081.

Dental Clinic: The Sno-Isle Technical Dental Clinic in Everett will be open Wednesdays and Thursdays through March 31. Limited openings by appointment at 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. for reduced-cost services. For $75 (cash or check only) per appointment, clients will receive full mouth X-rays, an exam from a licensed dentist, and a cleaning. Cavities diagnosed may be composite restored in a followup appointment for an additional $75. More info: 425-348-2240.

Employment Network: 10 a.m.noon Fridays at the North Creek Presbyterian Church, 621 164th St. SE., Mill Creek. Free help with job searches, resume writing and interviewing. More info: 425-743-2386.

Head injury support group: Meets 6:30-8:30 p.m. first Tuesdays on the second floor of Swedish/Edmonds Medical Center, 21601 76th Ave. W., Edmonds.

Group supports brain-incident survivors and their caregivers. More info: Lou Nash, 425-776-7264 or lou_nash@frontier.com.

Lymphedema support group: Meets 6-8 p.m. third Thursdays in conference room B at Providence Regional Medical Center, Pacific Campus, 916 Pacific Ave., Everett.

More info: kim@kimsfocus.net.

MS self-help group, Lynnwood: Meets 1-2:30 p.m. third Fridays in the group room at the YWCA Village, 19703 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood. More info: Sharon Todd, 360-651-9720.

MS self-help group, Marysville: Meets 10:30 a.m. to noon second Saturdays at Cascade Christian Reformed Church, 13908 51st Ave. NE. More info: Nancy Toth, 360-435-6111.

Ostomy Support Group: The United Ostomy Associations of America, Snohomish County Chapter, meets 1-3 p.m. second Mondays, except July, at the United Methodist Church, 3530 Colby Ave., Everett. The group’s purpose is to help in the rehabilitation of people with ostomies. More info: Cathryn, 425-610-3770.

Parkinson’s disease: A support group meets 2-4 p.m. fourth Saturdays at the Rainier Room, 1330 Rockefeller Ave., Everett. More info: 425-317-9103.

Vision Loss Support Group: A group for the blind and visually impaired meets 10 a.m. third Mondays at the Carl Gipson Senior Center of Everett, 3025 Lombard Ave. More info: 425-257-8780.

Caregivers, Lynnwood: A family caregiver support group meets 6:30-7:30 p.m. second Wednesdays at Gencare Scriber Gardens, 6024 200th St. SW, Lynnwood.

Refreshments provided. More info: 425-673-7111.

Cocaine Anonymous: A nonprofit recovery program for those seeking sobriety or support in staying sober from cocaine and

other mind-altering substances.

For program information and local meeting times and locations in Snohomish County, visit www.caofwa. org. More info: 425-244-1150.

Drug abuse family support: A support group for those affected by someone else’s drug addiction meets 9 a.m. Saturdays in the Monte Cristo Room at Providence Regional Medical Center’s Pacific Campus, 900 Pacific Ave., Everett.

More info: www.nar-anon.org.

Grandparents: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren meets 6 p.m. second Tuesdays at the Boys and Girls Club of Lake Stevens, 1609 E. Lakeshore Drive. Childcare provided. Dinner at 5:30 p.m. More info: Kelli Lynn, 425-212-1919 or KelliLynnEvents@gmail.com.

Parenting: A drop-in parenting group meets 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesdays at the YWCA Family Village at 19703 68th Ave. W in Lynnwood. Discuss common parenting challenges, ask questions, practice new techniques. More info: 425-412-2360 ext. 2435 or 2433.

Parents, behavioral: A support group for parents of children with behavioral problems meets 6:30-9 p.m. Thursdays at Zion Lutheran Church, 4634 Alger Ave., Everett.

Peer-to-peer support for parents struggling with children exhibiting risky behaviors such as drug or alcohol use. Confidential and free.

More info: 888-468-2620 or www. cpsn.org.

Parents, special education: A support group for special education parents in the Everett School District meets 6:30-8 p.m. third Wednesdays, except December, at View Ridge Elementary School, 202 Alder St., Everett.

Parents, LGBTQ: The Everett chapter meets 7 p.m. third Mondays at the Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave. Group unites people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer with families, friends and allies. More info: www.pflag.org.

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Isaiah Vigil, 9, browses the aisles with Officer Derrick Lether during the annual “Shop With A Cop” at the Walmart in Monroe on Dec. 16.

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The boy had his eye out for a train set, in particular an old-fashioned steam engine. Earlier in the day at school, he had made a sled out of gym mats, he said.

“I’ve always wanted a train set ever since I was little, when I was 5 years old,” he said. “I just want an engine with smoke coming

out of it.”

Isaiah’s brother, John, was paired with Sgt. Ryan Irving. The sergeant fished out a lime green ball from a container full of different colors.

John also picked out a toy car for one of his brothers.

“What’s cool about that one?” Irving asked.

“It’s a Camaro. He likes Camaros,” John said.

Meanwhile, 6-year-old Ares chose a toy ship. “It’s two and two,” he told Sgt.

Rick Dunn, reading aloud the price tag of $22. Dunn then read him the features listed on the box: “It includes hydro wheels.”

Ares kept finding items he thought his older brothers would like.

Dunn asked him, “Are you going to get anything for yourself?

No, the boy replied.

“I think you’re starting to be one of my favorite kids,” the sergeant said.

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Q: I recently reserved a midsize rental car in Shannon, Ireland, for myself, my wife and another couple through Hertz. At the airport, a Hertz representative upgraded us to an SUV, which sounded bigger, but was not.

We were given the keys to an Opel Mokka, which was so small we could not fit our bags into it without putting two of them on our laps.

I have driven a stick-shift car for the past 53 years, but when I started driving this car, I had trouble getting it into gear. I must say I was a bit frazzled, since the car was so small and there were four of us in it. I did get it going, but noticed a smell coming from the car right away, so I drove it around the airport block back to Hertz. I had the car for 15 minutes max.

Hertz claimed that I ruined the clutch. They “upgraded” me to an automatic for 50 euros more a day.

I did not have any problems with that automatic Audi. But when I turned in the car, I was charged an additional fee of 802 euros for damage to the Opel Mokka’s clutch, so my total cost was much more than the 268 euros that I had been quoted.

I did not get the Hertz rental car insurance because of the cost, and I felt that I was already covered. I

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had expected my car insurance, or my Platinum American Express card, or my USAA travel insurance with rental car coverage to cover the damage, but none of them would; the first two do not cover Ireland, and the latter does not cover mechanical damage.

At this point, I do not have any other solution to this charge, which equaled the whole cost of our trip, less airfare. This is a very big expense for us, as you can imagine. I would appreciate anything you can do, since I think the clutch was already defective.

— Robert Pascal, Bellevue, Washington A: Hertz was generous to upgrade you to an SUV. I would hate to see what a midsize car would have looked like, or how your party of four would have handled your luggage. But the

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2. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

3. “Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.”

GRADUATE LEVEL 4. “Always winter but never Christmas.”

5. “So this is Christmas, and what have you done?”

6. “One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair.”

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“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” 7. “Do They Know It’s Christmas.” 8. “The Polar Express.” 9. “Love’s Labour’s Lost.”

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Actor Dick Miller is 87. Author Anne Roiphe is 80. Actress Hanna Schygulla is 72. Rhythmand-blues singer John Edwards (The Spinners) is 71. Actor Gary Sandy is 70. Singer Jimmy Buffett is 69. Pro and College Football Hall-of-Famer Larry Csonka is 69. Country singer Barbara Mandrell is 67. Actress Sissy Spacek is 66. Former White House adviser Karl Rove is 65. Actress CCH Pounder is 63. Singer Annie Lennox is 61.

Reggae singer-musician Robin Campbell (UB40) is 61. Singer Shane MacGowan (The Pogues, The Popes) is 58. Baseball Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson is 57. The former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, is 57. Actress Klea Scott is 47. Rock musician Noel Hogan (The Cranberries) is 44. Singer Dido is 44. Rock singer Mac Powell (Third Day) is 43. Rhythmand-blues singer Ryan Shaw is 35.

Thought for today: “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.” — Andy Rooney, CBS News commentator (1919-2011).

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The transmissions on European cars don’t always work the same way as they do on American vehicles. If you don’t believe me, try putting that European rental into “reverse.” I will gather a few car rental employees so we can watch you.

My point is, Hertz should tell its American customers about any idiosyncrasies with its cars’ transmissions before they drive away.

And you should ask. Otherwise, you could end up with a burnedout clutch, which is what Hertz claims you did. Was that your fault or the previous renter’s? It’s hard to know for sure. But it happened while you were driving it, which means you’re responsible.

I’m surprised Hertz didn’t require you to purchase its insurance. Ireland is among the countries that more or less require you to buy the car rental company’s expensive insurance option. You must have shown the representative proof of comparable coverage, which should have covered this event.

I contacted Hertz on your behalf. It insists you damaged the transmission, but agreed to refund half of the repair bill, or 401 euros.

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When we go to dinner over there, it is expected that the women will clean up and do the dishes while the men sit and talk at the table. I have never seen him lift a finger to help, and he frequently makes demeaning comments about his wife’s cooking, among other things. He considers himself an expert on everything and frequently interrupts people (mostly women) to prove he “knows better.” His behavior is rude and I am offended by it.

I am pregnant with my first child — a daughter — and I’m concerned about her growing up in this atmosphere. I don’t want her raised thinking that men know better than women and that women are supposed to wait on men. My husband doesn’t want to confront his father over this. How do we handle the situation?

— First-Class Citizen In Florida Dear First-Class: It appears your husband is as cowed by his father as your mother-in-law is or this wouldn’t be happening. He could have put a stop to it years ago by simply getting up from the table and helping you and his mom clear the dishes while Dad kept himself company.

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Pee-wee made a giant of a Christmas special

By Geoff Edgers The Washington Post

You’ve got 18 Bob Hope Christmas specials, 19 of Bing Crosby’s and 20-plus from Perry Como. But the best ever? We’ll hang our mistletoe on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special,” the 1988 NBC production now streaming on Netflix.

A quick primer for those who don’t remember the brilliance of the gray-suited, “luckiest boy in the world” played by former Groundlings member Paul Reubens: By 1988, this manic manchild had crashed into the mainstream. He’d hosted “Saturday Night Live,” starred in two feaSHOUT! FACTORY ture films and had his “Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special” is currently streaming on Netflix. own Saturday morning children’s series. He was a throwback with a naughty “That show was so and twisting the concept long that was. I haven’t wink, toasting Howdy much fun to do,” says Pru- of this time-tested, holitimed it recently. I did Doody and the Mickey dence Fenton, who won a day TV staple. name every single person Mouse Club as he juggled pair of Emmys as the aniJust consider the way in the Playhouse. Even the the innuendo-filled Easter mation and special effects the cast is introduced, food in the refrigerator.” eggs (does Cowboy Curtis producer on the Playwith the massive list of There is so much to really sleep in the nude?) house. “It was like getting guest stars — Charro, love. The show opens inside his wildly enterpaid to eat ice cream.”

Joan Rivers, Dinah Shore, with a performance by a taining, self-contained The Christmas special the Del Rubio Triplets, choir of Marines — except universe of colors, sounds, is its own beast, capturing Whoopi Goldberg, Magic they aren’t Marines; and animated chairs, the spirit of Pee-wee and Johnson, K.D. Lang, they are the UCLA men’s STRIP AD 6 col.his (10 in.) x 1 in. doors and windows. crew while tweaking Oprah, Zsa Zsa Gabor, choir dressed in Marine Little Richard — billed uniforms. alongside the slew of aniWe watch beach party mated oddities (Chairy, stars Frankie Avalon and Mr. Window) that occuAnnette Funicello put to pied the Playhouse. work making Christmas “I love that, that (the cards. When they comcast list) goes on and on plain of hunger, Pee-wee and you think it’s over provides them with a loaf and then it goes on more,” of bread and water. In a Don‛t miss Reubens told The WashSkype precursor, Dinah ington Post in a recent Shore calls Pee-wee in his our special phone interview. “I actuphoto-slash-video booth keepsake pages ally used to know how and begins to sing an STRIP AD

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endless version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” before Oprah cuts in with her own call. She delivers a perfect Pee-wee laugh, staccato and nasal, and is put on hold as Pee-wee, desperate to get back to the action, installs a dummy in front of the screen. Shore continues singing.

Whoopi calls to ask to be on the special. “I might be able to squeeze you into the Christmas special two years from now,” he offers.

Cher arrives — her management demanded she be unbilled, Reubens says — and cheerfully helps Pee-wee select the day’s “special word.”

Grace Jones emerges from a mailing crate addressed to the White House.

“You’re not the president, you’re Pee-wee Herman,” she declares.

If the idea of a towering, Jamaican supermodel with a penchant for going topless presenting herself to Ronald Reagan isn’t strange enough, the music kicks in. Jones performs a synth-soaked version of “Little Drummer Boy.” Reubens says the arrangement came from none other than David Bowie.

“Grace told me she was on a plane with David Bowie and she told him she was doing my Christmas special,” Reubens says. “I’m not sure if she said she wanted to do ‘Little Drummer Boy’ or if he suggested it, but that’s his arrangement.”

There were stars and there were stars. Reubens says he was stunned to learn that William Marshall, the actor cast as the “King of Cartoons,” was admired for playing the title role in the 1972 blaxploitation classic, “Blacula.”

“All the African-American celebrities and Laurence Fishburne (a regular cast member) freaked out about that one,” Reubens said. “It was like people were meeting the pope. ‘Oh my God, William Marshall.’

And I would watch these huge celebrities talking to William Marshall in a completely reverential way. I had a new understanding of him.”

Pee-wee’s Christmas show also featured a special Hanukkah sequence.

We learn about the holiday from Mrs. Rene before a group of stop-motion dinosaurs (are they Jewish?) play with dreidels.

Alas, Whoopi wouldn’t get a shot on a future Christmas special. The 1988 edition would be the last, as Reubens decided to wrap the Playhouse in 1990. (He would also spend years recovering from the fallout of his 1991 arrest for, effectively, going to a dirty movie.)

Now 63, Reubens has thankfully brought his signature character back, first on stage and soon on the big screen. “Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,” which Judd Apatow helped produce, will premiere on Netflix in March.

THE CLICKER Friday’s highlights on TV include: Are you up for a return trip to Mayberry? “The Andy Griffith Show Christmas Special” basically packages a couple of episodes from the classic series. The bad news?

Colorization will make

Andy and the gang look like they just got back from the embalmers. 8 p.m., CBS. “Call the Midwife Holiday Special”: The nuns and nurses prepare for Christmas 1960. 9 p.m., PBS. From Herald news services

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Friday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2015.

There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day. Today’s highlight: On Dec. 25, 1818, “Silent Night (Stille Nacht)” was publicly performed for the first time at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.

On this date: In A.D. 336, the first known commemoration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome.

In 1776, Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey.

In 1995, singer Dean Martin died at his Beverly Hills home at age 78.

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‘The Big Short’: You’ll laugh, then you’ll seethe

By Brian Miller Seattle Weekly

Outrage can be expressed in different ways. There have been many sober books and an angry, analytical documentary — Charles Ferguson’s Oscar-winning 2010 “Inside Job” — about the subprime mortgage debacle and ensuing global financial crisis. J.C. Chandor’s 2011 drama “Margin Call” then took us inside the Wall Street collapse. This year, as the economy has improved for some (the haves, not the have-nots), we saw Ramin Bahrani’s “99 Homes,” which illustrated Florida’s boom-and-bust. And now comes an entirely novel approach — the madcap comedy of Adam McKay, best known for the “Anchorman” movies and Funny or Die videos made with Will Ferrell. If this seems inappropriate, remember that the Marx brothers’ “Duck Soup” can be understood as a comedy about war and fascism.

To be sure, “The Big Short” has its roots in Michael Lewis’ serious financial reporting for his 2010 book of that name, a typically smart chronicle of several investors who bet against the housing boom. Yet McKay still faces the challenge of relating a lot of esoteric financial detail. (The complexity, as many have noted, was partly a way of avoiding the scrutiny of regulators, journalists, and institutional investors who should’ve known better.) Those toxic CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) and bundled bond tranches McKay will later explain in zesty terms. First, however, he

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Christian Bale plays an eccentric money manager focused on the junk being peddled by Wall Street.

introduces three separate teams who begin to doubt the solidity of the housing market — which proves to be two teams too many.

1) In California, eccentric money manager Michael Burry (Christian Bale) is essentially a team of one: heavy-metal drummer, non-practicing neurologist, and probably a high-functioning Asperger’s case. His focus on the junk — subprime

mortgages bundled into securities — that Wall Street is peddling makes him an enormously unpopular contrarian.

Bale’s tightly hidden smile, however, indicates that Burry would be happy in no other place. He’s an obsessive who’s surrendered to his obsession, an OCD total-focus pariah.

In New York, we have 2) successful but neurotic hedge-fund manager

Mark Baum (Steve Carell), who’s no stranger to shorting (i.e., betting against prevailing market sentiment). He and his team are being wooed by cheerfully smarmy banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling, regularly breaking the proscenium to help narrate the story of how “a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could”). New to Wall Street are 3) an affable pair of tyro money managers (Finn Wittrock and John Magaro) who get financial backing from ornery retired banker/disasterprepper Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt, beard gone gray, wearing his father’s aviator glasses from the 1970s).

There is much to entertain here as McKay, the merry ringmaster, zips us from one piece of the puzzle solving to the next. (“The Big Short” is in some sense a detective story, only no one finally goes to jail.) Mark’s team interviews strippers and investigates forlorn Florida

cul-de-sacs with alligators snapping in the fetid pools. Arrogant bankers — oh, how this movie hates bankers! — laugh in Michael’s face when he purchases credit default swaps from them — a bet on a housing downturn that they believe will never happen. Cranky old Ben behaves like Howard Hughes, both encouraging his two Colorado minions and heaping contempt upon the whole rotten system.

All three teams were correct in retrospect, we know, but as Ben sternly explains, their triumph (and huge profit) means financial disaster for millions of ordinary Americans: economic suffering, bankruptcy, even death. When Burry warns of the mortgage market, “It’s a time bomb,” we know that bomb will eventually explode and cause great carnage. (When the teams visit a 2007 mortgage-banking conference in Vegas, sharp eyes will see a Washington Mutual booth.)

And it’s that foreknowledge that can make McKay’s comedy burn like bile in your throat, however zany the tone. Full of side notes and direct address, “The Big Short” will suddenly stop to say of some arcane financial instrument, “Here’s Margo Robbie in a bubble bath to explain.”

Along with “Carol” (period plea for gay rights) and “Concussion” (indictment of the NFL), “The Big Short” is one of the few big holiday movies with something important to say. Though it comes late to the subprime bonfire and is scattered in its storytelling, it settles on a proper note of disgust

“The Big Short” ★★★ Wall Street drama paints a funny but infuriating portrait of the greed and mendacity that triggered the 2008 collapse.

Rated: R, for profanity and some nudity and sexuality.

Showing: Alderwood Mall, Everett Stadium, Galaxy Monroe, Thornton Place, Woodinville, Cascade Mall.

(sometimes a cause of laughter). McKay takes a looser, bro-ier approach than Lewis, but his lessons need to be sold differently at the multiplex. The mass audience isn’t made of financial analysts or hedge funders; it’s made of the folks whom Wall Street swindled, who lost their homes, their credit ratings, their 401(k)s, and their jobs.

And McKay, in his very broad American way, knows and respects those people. That’s why he concludes his movie with angry speeches and dire warnings. Banks won’t admit fault; they’ll just “blame immigrants and poor people” for taking out all those loans. A postscript reminds us that just one banker in an entire industry went to jail. Wall Street ducks meaningful regulation, again. The homeless are living under freeway ramps. And the final toll is $5 trillion lost, eight million jobs, six million homes. Unusually and admirably for a professional funnyman, McKay ends his film not with a punch line, but with a punch to the gut.

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Will Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, a pathologist who incurred the wrath of the NFL by linking football with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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Despite stuffiness, ‘Concussion’ could spur debate

By Robert Horton

“Concussion” ★★½

Herald Movie Critic

“Concussion” joins the small collection of investigative films arriving at the end of 2015, with “Spotlight” and “Truth” and the German picture “Labyrinth of Lies.” This one might actually move the needle on its subject.

The true story chronicled here looks at Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian-born forensic pathologist who established a connection between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. That research has already led to changes in NFL rules and increased scrutiny of former players.

All those shots to the head, all those concussions — acknowledged or, frequently, not — have created a class of

A low-key, even stuffy account of the pathologist (Will Smith) who first made the correlation between playing football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy — much to the NFL’s chagrin. Not an exciting movie, but one that might actually move the needle on its subject.

Rating: PG-13, for subject matter Showing: Alderwood, Everett Stadium, Galaxy Monroe, Marysville, Stanwood Cinema, Pacific Place, Woodinville, Thornton Place, Cascade Mall.

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Alec Baldwin plays a doctor who is sympathetic to Dr. Bennet Omalu’s (Will Smith) cause.

ex-players struggling with depression, erratic behavior and memory loss.

The film casts Will Smith as Omalu, a gentle but determined soul working in a pathology lab in Pittsburgh. That’s how he gets a look at the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster (played, hauntingly, by David Morse),

who died at age 50 in 2002.

From there, Omalu faces an obstacle course erected by the National Football League, which comes to resemble Big Tobacco in its dogged attempts to deny something that is increasingly obvious: that a career in football is a deadly

gamble.

Writer-director Peter Landesman takes a nicely low-key approach to some of this, but the subplots feel like Hollywood string-pulling: the shy Omalu takes in a fellow immigrant (splendid Gugu Mbatha-Raw, from “Beyond the Lights”) and slowly falls for her, while the NFL’s flunkies apparently wage a campaign of bullying and intimidation

against him.

The film is respectable to the point of stuffiness.

Even Will Smith’s effortless movie-star charisma can’t enliven his saintly character (neither Albert Brooks nor Alec Baldwin, as sympathetic doctors, generate much liveliness).

“Concussion” has one interesting running theme, about how America has stopped being the place of fulfilling dreams,

for immigrants or others.

When that disenchanted mantra keeps getting repeated in a wide-release picture starring Will Smith, something may really be up.

But I wish the film had pursued its story’s other implication, which suggests the way we’d all rather embrace fantasy than face reality — this is, after all, a movie about science denial, that maddeningly timely subject.

This extends not just to the NFL’s attempts to sidestep CTE data but to fandom as well. I’m a lifelong football fan, but the CTE stuff has made me queasy at times while watching the Seahawks flying around the field. On that score, it’ll be interesting to see whether people actually turn out to see this bearer of bad holiday tidings.

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QT’s motormouth shifts to overdrive in ‘Hateful Eight’

By Robert Horton Herald Movie Critic

What’s he done this time?

As a filmmaker who creates experiences that aren’t remotely like anything else out there, Quentin Tarantino has earned the curiosity.

Like ‘em or loathe ‘em, Tarantino’s movies exist in their own distinctive, vacuum-packed world, strange missives from an unfettered imagination.

He’s unfettered because his movies keep making money, but I wonder what the faithful will think of “The Hateful Eight,” a typically outrageous but even-chattier-than-usual extravaganza.

Most of the film’s 187 minutes (with an intermission) take place inside a snowed-in frontier trading post, although the scenes outside Minnie’s

Haberdashery are just as talkative and — despite the Western vistas in the background — claustrophobic.

Bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell, as attached to his fur coat as Cate Blanchett in “Carol”) is transporting a valuable prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), so she can be properly hanged. Ruth’s stagecoach reluctantly picks up a colleague, Marquise Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), and a small-town sheriff, Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins, the film’s secret weapon), before the blizzard sets in and Minnie’s provides shelter.

But not much comfort: A bedraggled group of strangers waits there, and something seems wrong from the start — where’s Minnie? Is somebody in cahoots with Daisy, waiting to get the drop on Ruth?

And why is the coffee so bad?

(This being a Tarantino movie, the coffee thing has multiple ramifications we can’t possibly predict at first.)

Tarantino bounces these disreputable varmints off one other like the puppetmaster at a blood-soaked Punch and Judy show.

The abuse heaped on Daisy gets less funny every time somebody clobbers her, and I had the nagging feeling that the usual Tarantino soliloquies were not quite as soaring as usual, not quite as precisely sculpted to find mad poetry in the profane. (Granted, Marquise has one monologue that vies with Christopher Walken’s “Pulp Fiction” pocketwatch speech for sheer cuckoo-bird craziness.)

The other members of the unsavory octet are a lustily racist Confederate general

(Bruce Dern), a Mexican ranch hand (Demian Bichir), an English hangman (Tim Roth), and a brooding cowboy (Michael Madsen).

Strewn throughout the movie are pointed references to race and Manifest Destiny, but Tarantino is too confident to need to lecture us about it.

This is a slyly anti-romantic Western by a filmmaker who loves Westerns; it makes you remember how the world’s most famous movie geek has actually been a debunker this whole time.

What redeems the sourness of “The Hateful Eight” is the pleasure in yarn-spinning (and tangling); the director himself is heard halfway through as an offscreen narrator, as though unable to resist horning in to relish the ways the plot details are beginning to pay off. Incorrigible.

“The Hateful Eight” ★★★ Another one-of-akind offering from Quentin Tarantino, this time a threehour opus mostly set in a snowed-in frontier trading post. The amazing Samuel L. Jackson soliloquies don’t soar quite as much as they usually do in QT’s work, but the film’s sourness is redeemed by the bloody joy in storytelling. With Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Rating: R, for language, violence, subject matter Showing: Pacific Place

‘Carol’: Production design is star of 1950s lesbian romance

By Robert Horton Herald Movie Critic

“The Price of Salt” is a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith (using the pseudonym Claire Morgan) about a lesbian romance. It sold a lot of copies in an underground way, and must’ve had great subversive punch as both a tale about “a love that dare not speak its name” and one in which the gay protagonists were not subjected to either a straightening “cure” or guilt-ridden suicide.

In 2015, that layer of illicit discovery is impossible for Todd Haynes’ movie adaptation to resurrect. The Portland, Oregon-based director instead presents a period piece that offers its passions in impeccably

“Carol” ★★★ A lushly photographed tale of lesbian romance in the early 1950s, with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara both excellent as the hesitant lovers. Director Todd Haynes plays this with remarkably few surprises but an abundance of gorgeous production design.

Rating: R, for nudity, subject matter Showing: Guild 45th

designed scenes that contain remarkably few surprises.

The romance simmers between Therese (Rooney Mara), a department-store salesgirl with

vague notions of becoming a photographer, and Carol (Cate Blanchett), an elegant lady currently divorcing her respectable husband (Kyle Chandler).

The unformed Therese has a boyfriend (Jake Lacy) but is stirred by Carol’s fur-swaddled allure; they meet in Manhattan during Christmas season 1952 and a slow-burning attraction develops.

Carol’s custody battle with her husband — a man more bewildered than evil — is affected by her sexual orientation, but Haynes is less interested in the social-issue aspects of the story than in the hesitant intimacy between the two women. This plays out against luscious production design, which frankly overwhelms the people — were the Fifties really

this relentlessly arranged?

— like a visual reminder of the constraints on this romance.

Haynes re-calibrated the midcentury melodrama in “Far from Heaven,” but “Carol” is less artificial than that exercise.

His best borrowing here explicitly lifts a storytelling device from the classic “Brief Encounter” — beginning the film with the romance’s end (trampled on by a boorish bystander), and then flashing back so that when we return to the scene 90 minutes later we understand what was really happening. The twist on “Brief Encounter” is that these characters do not have to be martyred on the altar of propriety.

Blanchett rises from the screen like a careful layout

from a glossy magazine, all Joan Crawford-style mask — with only the occasional side glance to suggest uncertainty.

Mara, the tranquil star of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” brings her tiny intensity to bear on a character who remains quiet (Phyllis Nagy’s screenplay is short on spelling out meanings).

If “Carol” feels less adventurous than Haynes’ previous forays into upending Hollywood styles, it still maintains a pulse because Blanchett and Mara are superb at executing one of the cinema’s great gifts: the exchanged glance, held long enough to scorch even the well-mannered Fifties.

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‘Joy’: Messy first half is best part of Miracle Mop drama

By Brian Miller Seattle Weekly

Intentionally or not, “Joy,” David O. Russell’s pleasing new empowerment-com, is perfectly represented by its emblem, the Miracle Mop. The movie begins as an enjoyable mess, with a broken/imperfectly mended Long Island clan incessantly squabbling, four generations under one leaky roof. “I don’t want to end up like my family,” despairs Joy (Jennifer Lawrence), the tireless Ms. Fix-It and conciliator of the Manganos, her blouse stained and hair mussed, her prospects sadly diminished from childhood promise. Then that mess is miraculously mopped

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Jennifer Lawrence plays an entrepreneur selling mops on Bradley Cooper’s home shopping cable network in “Joy.”

up by our heroine. Order is established, a fortune is made, and Joy finally triumphs as a successful 1990s businesswoman.

Yet I prefer the mess of “Joy’s” first half, and that’s where Russell and his fine cast — including Bradley Cooper, Robert De

Niro, Diane Ladd, Édgar Ramírez, Isabella Rossellini and Virginia Madsen — do their best work. The director is famous for shouting off-camera suggestions and lines at his performers. If the dialogue track is later stripped of this coaching, you can imagine his

instructions. “Jennifer, hit the floor harder with that claw hammer!” “Bobby, play it bigger and broader!”

“Ms. Rossellini, could you make the Italian accent more hammy?” So noisy and fractious (both Joy and her mother are divorced), these scenes achieve an unlikely comic harmony.

Joy is understandably frustrated with this pandemonium, which the movie contrasts with the soapopera fantasies — starring Susan Lucci! — watched obsessively by her housebound mother (Madsen).

These soaps haunt Joy’s dreams until her Miracle Mop gains her access to the dream factory of QVC, the Pennsylvania studio run by retail maestro Neil (Cooper). Together they

will sell cleanly domestic fantasy via phone bank. (Al Gore hasn’t invented the Internet yet.)

Indefatigable Joy’s determination never really falters. Even as the movie bogs down in product development, supply chains, manufacturing molds, and patent law, the outcome is never in doubt. Joy steamrolls every obstacle; and as she tidies up, “Joy” becomes less anarchic and interesting. Russell obviously means his movie to be a salute to strong, can-do women who succeed without men. “Joy” is relentlessly positive and uplifting, well-timed to the holidays, yet it’s honest enough to admit that no

“Joy” ★★½ Jennifer Lawrence plays the matriarch of a family business dynasty.

Directed by David O. Russell.

Rating: PG-13, for language.

Showing: Alderwood Mall, Everett Stadium, Galaxy Monroe, Marysville, Meridian, Pacific Place, Thornton Place, Cascade Mall, Woodinville. holiday gathering is ever going to be perfect. What you like best here are the family imperfections that Russell transforms into strengths.

Ferrell-Wahlberg team still clicks in ‘Daddy’s Home’

By Robert Horton Herald Movie Critic

Will Ferrell hasn’t exhausted the comedy of emasculation just yet — his argyle-sweater-vestclad persona still has some comic juice.

Still, it was probably wise to re-team him with his “Other Guys” costar Mark Wahlberg, as the latter’s Alpha Male swagger seems to bring out the best in Ferrell’s passive-aggressive boob.

In “Daddy’s Home” the comedy is strictly PG-13, and even that seems overly protective.

Brad (Ferrell) works at a smooth-jazz radio station — the movie gets points just for that glorious touch — and is determined to be the world’s best stepdad to the two dismissive kids of new wife Sarah (Linda

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Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg shine, but Linda Cardellini’s gifts are wasted in “Daddy’s Home.”

Cardellini).

The little tykes can’t stand his chipper enthusiasm for family bonding.

Enter Dusty (Wahlberg), Sarah’s tattooed, chopperridin’ ex, who blows in from parts unknown and

might want to re-enter the family portrait.

It’s a formula situation, right down to the way Brad’s insensitive boss (expertly turned by Thomas Haden Church) constantly reminds his

employee of how fantastically cool his rival really is.

And at this point, relegating someone as good as Linda Cardellini to wifely support is inexcusable; except for a couple of craftily wistful glances in her was-band’s direction, she doesn’t have much to do. Director Sean Anders (“That’s My Boy”) sticks to sitcom set-ups, and the jokes tend toward the obvious.

But compared to, say, the shapeless “Sisters,” “Daddy’s Home” at least has structure, and even some sincerity behind its ultimately sweetnatured story. (Don’t get me wrong: There are still jokes about genitals, albeit tamer here.)

The movie’s goodhearted ending and its ironic coda are authentically funny; comedies

should build as they move forward, and this one peaks at just the right time. Nobody does abject humiliation quite like Ferrell, and he and Wahlberg are well-matched in one-upmanship — even if nothing here is quite as soaringly daft as the “lions vs. tunas” exchange in “The Other Guys.”

And give Anders credit for allowing in the surreal: an apparently throwaway bit about a home repairman (comedian Hannibal Buress) turns into an unexpected but welcome running gag when the guy just never seems to leave the house. (Brad doesn’t want to be taken as racist by asking him to leave.)

There’s just enough of that kind of oddness to keep “Daddy’s Home” recognizably, and acceptably, Ferrellesque.

“Daddy’s Home” ★★½ Nice-guy stepdad Will Ferrell is tested by Alpha Male dad Mark Wahlberg, in a comedy that taps the “Other Guys” vibe these two developed. The jokes are obvious, but at least the film builds nicely to a genuinely sweet and funny ending.

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MOVIE TIMES SNOHOMISH COUNTY Alderwood, 425-776-3535 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (PG) 11:30-12:00-1:50-2:254:10-4:50-7:20-9:50 Concussion (PG-13) 12:25-3:356:30-7:00-9:30-10:00 The Good Dinosaur (PG) 11:40-2:054:35-7:10 The Night Before (R) 10:10 Point Break (PG-13) 2:15-7:45 Point Break 3D (PG-13) 11:30-5:0010:30 Sisters (R) 12:10-12:40-3:20-3:506:45-7:30-9:40-10:20 Alderwood Mall, 888-262-4386 Bajirao Mastani (Not Rated) 7:0010:45 The Big Short (R) 9:10-12:20-3:407:20-10:40 Creed (PG-13) 4:40-7:55 Daddy’s Home (PG-13) 9:20-10:4011:50-1:20-2:30-4:10-5:10-6:407:40-9:20-10:15 The Danish Girl (R) 10:10-1:10-4:107:10-10:10 Dilwale (Not Rated) 6:00 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (PG-13) 11:20-2:40-6:20-9:30 In the Heart of the Sea (PG-13) 10:20-1:40 Joy (PG-13) 9:50-10:50-12:50-1:503:50-4:50-6:50-7:50-9:50-10:50 Krampus (PG-13) 9:40-10:55 The Peanuts Movie (G) 11:10-1:454:15 Spectre (PG-13) 11:00-2:30 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG13) 9:30-11:30-12:00-1:00-3:003:30-4:30-6:30-7:00-8:00-10:0010:30-11:30 Star Wars: The Force Awakens — An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) 9:00-12:30-4:00-7:30-11:00 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D (PG-13) 10:00-10:30-1:30-2:005:00-5:30-8:30-9:00-12:00 Cinebarre Mountlake Terrace, 425-672-7501 Schedule not provided by theater; call theater for movies and times.

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Concussion (PG-13) 12:20-3:306:50-9:50 Creed (PG-13) 12:10-9:40 Daddy’s Home (PG-13) 2:00-4:305:00-7:10-7:40-10:15 The Good Dinosaur (PG) 1:30-4:00 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (PG-13) 12:10-3:10-6:30-9:40 Joy (PG-13) 1:10-4:20-7:30-10:30 Krampus (PG-13) 8:15-10:40 Point Break (PG-13) 1:40-7:50 Point Break 3D (PG-13) 4:50-10:45 Sisters (R) 12:45-3:40-7:00-10:10 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG13) 1:50-3:50-7:10-10:00 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D (PG-13) 12:00-12:30-1:20-3:204:40-5:10-6:40-8:00-8:30-10:3011:20 Stanwood Cinemas, 360-6290514 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (PG) 4:15-6:35-8:45 Concussion (PG-13) 3:50-6:40-9:30 Sisters (R) 4:10-6:50-9:25 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG13) 3:55-6:45-9:20-9:35 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D (PG-13) 3:40-6:30

KING COUNTY Crest Cinema, 206-781-5755 Goosebumps (PG) 1:30-4:15-7:00 The Intern (PG-13) 1:45-4:30-7:159:40 The Martian (PG-13) 1:15-6:45 The Martian 3D (PG-13) 4:00-9:20 Room (R) 2:00-4:45-7:30-9:55 Steve Jobs (R) 9:50 Guild 45th, 206-781-5755 Carol (R) 1:45-4:30-7:15-9:45 Trumbo (R) 4:15-9:40 Youth (R) 1:30-7:00 Meridian, 206-223-9600 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (PG) 12:05-2:25-4:45-7:059:25 The Big Short (R) 12:40-1:30-3:404:30-6:45-7:30-9:50-10:40

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (PG-13) 12:10-3:15-6:15-9:15 In the Heart of the Sea (PG-13) 12:50-9:40 Joy (PG-13) 12:10-1:10-3:10-4:106:20-7:20-9:30-10:20 The Martian (PG-13) 1:00-4:107:15-10:15 Spectre (PG-13) 12:45-3:50-7:0010:10 Spotlight (R) 1:40-4:35-7:25-10:15 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG13) 11:30-1:50-3:50-6:00-7:108:50-10:00 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D (PG-13) 12:00-12:30-1:20-2:102:40-3:20-4:40-5:10-5:30-6:408:00-8:30-9:20-10:30-11:20 Youth (R) 3:45-6:45 Oak Tree, 206-527-1748 Bajirao Mastani (Not Rated) 4:1510:05 Brooklyn (PG-13) 10:15-1:30-7:30 Creed (PG-13) 1:00-10:00 The Danish Girl (R) 10:20-1:20-4:207:20-10:10 Joy (PG-13) 10:00-10:45-2:00-4:005:00-7:10-8:00-10:25 Point Break (PG-13) 11:00-4:5010:45 Point Break 3D (PG-13) 1:50-7:45 Spotlight (R) 10:40-1:40-4:40-7:4010:30 Pacific Place, 888-262-4386 Brooklyn (PG-13) 1:40-5:30-8:159:20 Concussion (PG-13) 11:00-2:005:00-8:00-10:30 Creed (PG-13) 10:30-1:30-4:307:40-10:40 Daddy’s Home (PG-13) 11:45-2:154:45-7:15-9:45 The Good Dinosaur (PG) 10:4012:10-2:50 The Hateful Eight (R) 11:00-3:007:00-10:45 Krampus (PG-13) 10:55 Mojin: The Lost Legend (Not Rated) 11:20-2:10-5:10-8:00-10:50

Mr. Six (Not Rated) 1:10-4:15-7:2010:45 Point Break (PG-13) 11:00-1:45-7:30 Point Break 3D (PG-13) 4:30-10:15 Sisters (R) 10:30-11:30-1:20-2:204:20-5:20-7:20-8:15-10:20 Surprise (Not Rated) 11:20-4:256:50-11:00 Seven Gables, 206-781-5755 Mustang (PG-13) 2:30-4:45-7:009:15 Sundance Cinemas Seattle, 206-633-0059 Schedule not provided by theater; call theater for movies and times.

Thornton Place Stadium 14 + Imax, 206-517-9953 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (PG) 10:20-1:40-3:50-6:008:40 The Big Short (R) 10:00-1:10-4:207:30-10:30 Concussion (PG-13) 12:30-3:306:30-9:30 Daddy’s Home (PG-13) 10:00-11:501:20-2:40-4:00-5:20-6:20-8:109:10-10:40 The Good Dinosaur (PG) 10:501:20-3:40 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (PG-13) 11:40-3:10-6:20-10:30 In the Heart of the Sea (PG-13) 10:40 The Martian (PG-13) 10:30-11:30 Sisters (R) 1:40-4:30-7:50-9:20 Spectre (PG-13) 6:00-10:50 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG-13) 10:30-11:00-12:30-1:502:30-3:50-5:00-6:00-7:10-8:159:20-10:00-10:20-11:20 Star Wars: The Force Awakens — An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) 10:10-1:20-4:40-8:00-11:20 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D (PG-13) 10:15-10:50-12:00-2:003:20-5:10-6:40-7:20-8:30-10:3011:30 Woodinville, 425-482-6538 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road

Chip (PG) 9:30-12:00-2:30-5:007:30-9:50 The Big Short (R) 9:30-12:40-3:457:20-10:20 Concussion (PG-13) 9:45-1:10-4:007:00-9:50 Daddy’s Home (PG-13) 11:30-2:004:20-7:15-10:00 The Good Dinosaur (PG) 9:1512:50-3:30 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (PG-13) 6:50-10:00 Joy (PG-13) 10:50-1:40-4:40-7:3010:30 Point Break (PG-13) 11:15-2:157:45 Point Break 3D (PG-13) 5:00-10:30 Sisters (R) 10:30-1:30-4:10-7:1010:10 Spectre (PG-13) 11:30 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG13) 9:00-11:00-12:15-2:30-3:455:45-7:00-9:00-10:15 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D (PG-13) 10:00-1:15-3:00-4:306:00-8:00-9:30-11:00

SKAGIT AND ISLAND COUNTIES Blue Fox Drive-In, 360-6755667 No films showing today Cascade Mall, 360-707-2727 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (PG) 10:40-1:15-2:10-3:456:40-9:15 The Big Short (R) 11:30-2:50-6:309:50 Concussion (PG-13) 10:20-1:254:20-7:15-10:20 Creed (PG-13) 8:00-11:00 Daddy’s Home (PG-13) 9:50-12:303:00-5:50-8:20-10:50 The Good Dinosaur (PG) 11:45-2:20 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (PG-13) 12:10-3:20-7:1010:40 Joy (PG-13) 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:009:50 Krampus (PG-13) 4:45-11:00 Point Break (PG-13) 11:10-4:5010:30 Point Break 3D (PG-13) 2:00-7:45 Sisters (R) 9:40-12:40-3:40-5:106:50-9:45 Spotlight (R) 10:50-8:00 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG13) 10:15-11:00-1:30-2:30-5:005:45-8:15-9:00 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D (PG-13) 9:30-12:00-12:50-3:304:10-6:45-7:30-10:00-11:00 The Clyde, 360-221-5525 The Good Dinosaur (PG) 7:30 Lincoln Theater, 360-336-2858 No films showing today Oak Harbor Plaza, 360-2792226 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (PG) 4:15-6:50-8:55 Daddy’s Home (PG-13) 4:00-6:308:40 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG13) 3:45-6:40-9:30

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8 Friday, 12.25.2015 The Daily Herald

The year in dining, from pub grub to white napkins ‘T

is the last week of the season of holiday hoopla galore.

Time to get out and let someone else do the cooking.

Try something you’ve never had before. Splurge on white linen. Get up early enough (or stay out late enough) for breakfast. Indulge in a decadent meal that will motivate you to go to the gym.

Here’s a look at some restaurants, new and old, that were reviewed in 2015 — and a few of our favorites from 2014. What better way to cap off the old year and ring in the new?

For links to the full reviews, see the online version of this story at www.heraldnet.com/dining.

Breakfast Mukilteo’s Speedway Cafe Specialty: Diner fare From grandkids to granddads — and everyone in between — Speedway Cafe is a huge hit.

11707 Mukilteo Speedway, Mukilteo, 425-347-2000, mukilteospeedway. cafesinc.com Willow and Jim’s Country Cafe Specialty: Breakfast and diner food The food is still amazing at the renovated Willow and Jim’s Country Cafe in Silvana.

1420 Pioneer Highway, Silvana, 360-652-0372 Torch Grill Specialty: Breakfast/ Italian/Mediterranean/ American Torch Grill is a sure bet for your taste buds.

Inside Quil Ceda Creek Casino, 6410 33rd Ave. NE, Tulalip; 360-716-1700; www.quilcedacreekcasino. com/dining/torchgrill

Lunch Curries Specialty: Indian food Curries gets Indian food just right and you can easily order ahead.

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Everett, 425-265-1200, curriesineverett.com Moonshine BBQ Specialty: Barbecue Don’t miss this authentic barbecue restaurant in Lynnwood.

4911 196th St. SW, Lynnwood; 425-672-9592; moonshine-bbq.com

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Server Sara Chain grabs an order from owner Michelle Bradley during breakfast on April 3, the first day of service at Bradley’s Diner in Darrington.

Snohomish Pie Co. Specialty: Pies and more Snohomish Pie Co. is a great addition to Mountlake Terrace’s foodie block.

5602 232nd St. SW, Mountlake Terrace, 425-582-8018 Buck’s American Cafe Specialty: Comfort food Whatever day of the week it is, Buck’s delivers good food and service.

2901 Hewitt Ave., Everett; 425-259-1351; www. bucksamericancafe.com Asian Wok Speciality: Chinese Dine-in or carry-out, Asian Wok hits home with affordable and favorite Chinese fare.

6815 196th St SW, Lynnwood; 425-771-5838; www.asianwoklynnwood. com

Dinner Salt & Iron Specialty: Fine dining This Edmonds hot spot focuses on Northwest

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The sashimi combination dish at Ho Sushi Bistro in Everett.

cuisine done right.

321 Main St., Edmonds, 425-361-1112, www.saltniron.com China City Specialty: Asian fusion Asian fusion and a huge selection of wine to go with it.

Mill Creek Town Center, 15402 Main St., Building L #101, 425-337-3600; www. chinacityrestaurant.com Roger’s River View Bistro Specialty: Farm-to-table cuisine Farm-to-table cuisine is fresh and local at Roger’s River View Bistro.

1011 First St., Snohomish, 360-563-2800, rogersriverview.com

Prima Bistro Specialty: French French-style food meets the Pacific at Langley’s Prima Bistro.

201½ 1st Street, Langley; 360-221-4060; primabistro@whidbey.com Ho Sushi Bistro Specialty: Japanese Ho Sushi Bistro crafts beautiful and tasty sushi.

They even deliver.

617 128th St. SW, Suite 103-104, Everett, 425-4053917, hosushi.menucities. com Grouchy Chef Specialty: Fine dining Mukilteo’s Grouchy Chef creates affordable gourmet food. You just have to read

Scott’s Bar and Grill Specialty: Northwest regional comfort food Get special attention at Scott’s Bar and Grill, an Edmonds’ institution.

8115 Lake Ballinger Way, Edmonds, 425-7752561, scottsbarandgrill. com Bradley’s Diner Specialty: Diner food Feel right at home at Darrington’s Bradley Diner.

1215 Highway 530, Darrington; 360-436-9345 Costco food court Specialty: Lunch fare 10200 19th Ave. SE, Everett; 425-379-7463; www.costco.com Quick, cheap and delicious means it must be Costco.

Secret Garden Korean BBQ and Buffet Specialty: Korean BBQ Find Korean comfort and variety at Lynnwood’s Secret Garden. You won’t leave hungry.

21025 Highway 99, Lynnwood; 425-771-5546 Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Specialty: Barbecue.

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit knows how to do brisket and smoked meats right.

617 128th St., Everett; 425-265-0041; www.dickeys.com

I’ll drink (and eat) to that Route 2 Taproom and Grazing Specialty: Craft beer and barbecue

The Route 2 Taproom brings great craft beer to the burgeoning Monroe scene.

19837 State Route 2, Monroe, 360-863-2036, www.roadtriptaprooms. com Sound Check Bar & Grill Specialty: Pub grub and cocktails Day or night, Sound Check cranks it up to 11.

19720 44th Ave. W, Lynnwood, 425-582-8808, www.soundcheckbar.com Beardslee Public House Specialty: Pub grub and beer Beardslee really knows how to do upscale pub grub and beer.

19116 Beardslee Boulevard, Bothell, 425-286-1001, www. beardsleeph.com The NYP Bar & Grill Specialty: Pub grub Great beer and food, plus the fun atmosphere, make NYP a solid hangout.

1321 SE Everett Mall Way, Everett, 425-3157540, www.nypbarandgrill. com The Anchor Pub Specialty: Pub food The Anchor Pub is all jazzed up. And it’s way more than just the famous “train beers.”

1001 Hewitt Ave., Everett; 425-374-2580 The Duvall Tavern Specialty: Pub food After an overhaul inside, outside and on the menu, Duvall Tavern is in great shape.

15807 Main St., Duvall; 425-318-6277; www. duvalltavern.com

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Barney back in business after traffic mishap

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David Barney runs a pastrami shop by himself in Everett.

The pastrami king of Everett is back in the building.

His hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop, Barney’s Pastrami, 5130 Evergreen Way, was often closed since mid-August.

A Herald reader concerned about David Barney asked the paper to please investigate. “I simply want to make sure he is OK,” he wrote.

Barney, who runs the place solo, said he has been recovering from a

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10 Friday, 12.25.2015 The Daily Herald

Twelve options for ringing in the new year

By Gale Fiege Herald Writer

You won’t be in Manhattan for the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square?

Oh, well.

The following is a list of just some of the New Year’s Eve happenings around Snohomish County.

New Year’s Eve show: Arguably Snohomish County’s best classic rock cover band, the Arlington-based Strutz plays a New Year’s Eve show at 9 p.m. Dec. 31 at the Medallion Hotel, 16710 Smokey Point Blvd., Arlington. Bad Company bassist Lynn Sorensen will join the band. Tickets are $50 each and a limited number are available.

Cost includes an hors d’oeuvres buffet. Tickets are available at the Medallion, 360-657-0500.

Drummer Toby Strotz (pronounced like his band Strutz) and some of his band mates — Dave Pettigrew, Deanne Hansen, Carol Harvey, Paul Christie and Mike Brandvold — were school mates at Arlington High School.

“Having Lynn Sorensen performing with us is going to be a real treat,” Strotz said.

Everett Music Initiative’s Music at the Ballroom New Years Eve Party begins at 9 p.m. Dec. 31, Hansen Conference Center, Xfinity Arena, Hewitt and Broadway, Everett.

More information is at everettmusicinitiative. org. Heritage Distilling sponsors the event, which features the bands SISTERS and Lemolo with KEXP DJ Michele Myers. Tickets are $20

The Arlington-based Strutz plays a New Year’s Eve show at 9 p.m. Dec. 31 at the Medallion Hotel, 16710 Smokey Point Blvd., Arlington.

The band SISTERS plays for the Everett Music Initiative: Everett New Years Eve Party, starting at 8 p.m. Dec. 31, Xfinity Arena, Hewitt and Broadway, Everett.

in advance, $25 that evening. Information is at xfinityarenaeverett.com. SISTERS is an orchestra of two, and the Seattle duo played the inaugural Fisherman’s Village Music Festival, Sasquatch Music Festival, Bumbershoot and Capitol Hill Block Party.

Seattle musician Meagan Grandall formed Lemolo in 2009 and the band has since been named one of the Best Seattle Bands by Seattle Magazine.

New Year’s Eve show: The Historic Everett Theatre has developed a reputation for hosting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members. Roger Roger Fisher Fisher, a founding member of the band Heart, will perform for the HET’s NYE show at 8 p.m. Dec. 31 at the theater, 2911 Colby Ave., Everett. If purchased ahead, tickets are $50 a couple, otherwise $30 each. Call the box office at 425-258-6766. The show benefits the nonprofit

For reservations call 425-258-6100 or go to prohibitiongastropub.com.

Born in New Orleans, Milton has been a drumming touring musician since he was 15. He’s appeared at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, was a session drummer in the 1960s in Los Angeles after meeting producers Bumps Blackwell and Quincy Jones, and has been playing gigs around the Puget Sound since 1977. A Washington Blues Society Living Legend, he met Kurath in the late 1990s and formed the band Star Drums and Lady Keys.

Traditional New Year’s Eve: A Black and White Ball with the 16-piece big band Camano Junction is set for 8 p.m. Dec. 31 at the Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. Tickets are $25, including snacks and champagne toast. Cash bar. Tickets are $25. Call 360-387-0222 for more information.

Hang with the Norwegians on New Year’s Eve when Normanna Lodge No. 3 hosts its annual party with music by the Pickled Herring Band

Marketplace Children’s Foundation. Also on the program are Rockin’ Roni Lee and the band Medicine Hat, whose members include Bryan Olson, Marty Hoyle, Greg Blanke, Don Bostwick, Craig Russell, Brad Russell, Gary Toothaker and Rick Boice.

A New Year’s Eve concert for the Northwest Music Foundation is set for Dec. 31 at Loco Billy’s Wild Moon Saloon, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood.

The bands performing are Nashville Northwest, and Jessica Lynne & The Cousins. Reserved seats are $45 each with buffet. General admission is $15 in advance or $20 at the door.

Party favors and champagne toast included. For more information, go to www.locobillys.com or www.nwmusicfoundation. org or call 425-737-5144.

Leslie “Star Drums” Milton and Gael “Lady Keys” Kurath are playing for a New Year’s Eve party at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 31 at the Prohibition Gastropub, 1414 Hewitt Ave., Everett. Tickets are $50 each and include a threecourse champagne dinner.

at 7 p.m. Dec. 31 at the lodge, 2725 Oakes, Everett.

Tickets are $30 each and include a light buffet and champagne at midnight.

Reserve a place at the Viking Lounge by calling 425-252-0291.

A New Year’s Eve Ball (black tie optional) at Bluewater Distilling is set for 7:30 p.m. Dec. 31 at the distillery, 1205 Craftsman Way, Waterfront Center, Port of Everett.

The Jeff Busch Jazz Quartet, featuring Grammy award-winning singer Carlos Cascante, performs.

Tickets are $50 each, and include a five-course dinner and champagne toast.

Cocktail pairings and full no-host bar will be available. Call 425-404-1408 or go to bluewaterdistilling. com.

The New Year’s Eve Gala at The Hayloft Dance Hall is on Dec. 31 at 15320 35th Ave. W., Lynnwood. Costs $35 if paid in advance at seattledanceinfo.com. More information is at www. hayloftdance.com. Tickets at the door are $40 for a night of dancing, appetizers, desserts, balloon drop and a photo booth.

The Seattle Symphony’s New Year’s Eve Concert, Countdown & Celebration begins at 8 p.m. Dec. 31 at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Conducted

by Andrew Grams, the concert features a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The post-concert party includes a glass of champagne, dancing to live music by electroswing band Good Co, party favors and a midnight countdown. Ticket prices begin at $50. Call 206-215-4747.

For kids Rockin’ New Year’s Eve Daytime Party, from noon to 4 p.m. Dec. 31 at Imagine Children’s Museum, 1502 Wall St. Everett.

Reserve a spot by calling 425-258-1006. Celebrate New Year’s Eve Around the world with music and dance. Make party accessories including glasses, crazy hats, party poppers and noise makers. More at www.imaginecm.org.

Seattle fun: And if your kids can stay up and you don’t mind traffic, there’s always New Year’s Eve at the Seattle Center, beginning with festivities in the Armory at 8 p.m. Dec. 31. Then join thousands around Seattle to ring in the new year at one of the world’s largest structure-launched fireworks displays. “New Year’s at the Needle” starts just before midnight and can be seen from dozens of places in the city. More at www. seattlecenter.com.

If all else fails, watch the ball drop in Times Square at 9 p.m. our time and then go to bed.

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Setzer to wind up holiday tour with Seattle gig

By Andy Rathbun

He’ll be joined by Eric Prydz for his New Year’s Eve show in Seattle. The Swedish-based producer has made a name by creating club-ready tracks that work a wide range of samples.

Tickets are $92 at ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.

Herald Writer

The end of Christmas isn’t quite in sight today — not if you believe the concert calendar.

No, the holiday won’t end until Sunday night at least.

That’s when the Brian Setzer Orchestra will wind down its annual “Christmas Rocks!” tour with a stop at Benaroya Hall in Seattle at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Setzer, the pompadoured pop icon, got his start leading a rockabilly revival in the 1980s with the Stray Cats. Then, in the late 1990s, he rejuvenated swing music with an 18-piece orchestra. Now, he’s on the holiday circuit, bringing his own distinct take to Christmas carols and seasonal favorites like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and “The Nutcracker Suite.” So fans may take a little comfort in hearing “Jingle Bells” one last time before taking a break from all the Christmas music.

Tickets are $40 to $100 at seattlesymphony.org.

New Year’s Eve also offers up a host of options to celebrate, with several shows competing for crowds.

The popular acapella act Straight No Chaser will head to McCaw Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday.

The group got its start at Indiana University in 1996, but didn’t land a record deal until YouTube clips of the act started drawing attention a decade later.

Since then, the act has released a smattering of albums, some interpreting holiday favorites and others tackling pop music.

The group’s artful mashups of modern hits like “I’m Yours” and old classics like “Somewhere Over the

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Digable Planets, seen here in their 1990s heyday, have reunited and will perform Wednesday at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle.

Dillon Francis, the Los Angeles-based producer, brings his Resolution 2016 dance music to the WaMu Theatre in Seattle on Thursday.

Rainbow” have made them a hit among many ages.

The group is touring now behind “The New Old Fashioned,” a disc that found the act covering Otis Redding, Radiohead and the Weeknd, among others.

brings his dance music to Seattle for his Resolution 2016 concert at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday.

Francis has a quick appeal. His sardonic sense of humor is obvious on albums like “Money Sucks,

Tickets are $53.50 to $82 at ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.

Dillon Francis, meanwhile, will headline the WaMu Theatre, as the Los Angeles-based producer

Friends Rule,” while his beat-heavy dance music has an approachable edge. Hits like “Get Low” and “Coming Over” have helped push him to the top of the charts, racking up millions of plays online.

The Neptune Theatre, meanwhile, will host two days of music, with Digable Planets playing the venue at 9 p.m. Wednesday, followed by Shabazz Palaces at 9 p.m. Thursday.

Digable Planets made its name in the early 1990s with its mix of jazz and hiphop, offering a welcome alternative to the gangsta rap ruling the charts at the time. But the group called it quits in the mid-1990s.

Since then, the band has reunited, teasing fans with the promise of a new album for nearly a decade and releasing a collection of its hits. Live shows are a rarity, though. The Seattle stop marks the trio’s first concert in four years.

Tickets are $23.50 for the show at stgpresents.org or 877-784-4849. Fans can also buy a $40 ticket which includes the Shabazz Palaces show on Thursday.

Shabazz Palaces was formed by Ishmael Butler, one of the founding members of Digable Planets and the first hip-hop act to sign to Seattle’s storied indie rock label, Sub Pop Records. The group traffics in the more atmospheric and artistic corners of the hip-hop world, but nonetheless have found a wide audience, with tracks like “They Come in Gold” becoming favorites of fans.

Tickets also are $23.50 for the show, or $40 for a two-day ticket to both shows, at stgpresents.org or 877-784-4849.

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CALENDAR Messiah Sing Along: St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church sponsors this eighth annual community event at 7 p.m. Dec. 29 at the church, 1318 Highway 532, Camano Island. Directed by Steven Jensen and accompanied by the Overman Family Orchestra, the concert is a sing-along open to all. No charge to participate, but an offering will be taken. Reception to follow.

Tingstad & Rumbel: Whidbey Island Center for the Arts presents the folk duo Tingstad and Rumbel in a “Twelfth Night Tradition” at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 2 at WICA, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. For the past 29 years, Grammy Award-winning artists Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel have been home for the holidays, creating a long-standing concert tradition with Northwest families. All seats $22, available online until noon the day of the show at www.wicaonline.org, by calling the box office at 800638-7631 or in person two hours before any show.

Seattle Symphony: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 30, 8 p.m. Jan. 2, 2 p.m. Jan. 3, at Benaroya Hall, downtown Seattle.

Conducted by Andrew Grams, the concert features soloists Caitlin Lynch, Sasha Cooke, Daniel Shirley, Corey McKern and the Seattle Symphony Chorale. Beethoven’s masterpiece for the ages is a wonderful way to end the year or begin the new one. Information about the orchestra’s season and tickets is available at www.seattlesymphony.org.

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held at First Presbyterian Church, 2936 Rockefeller, Everett.

Everett Philharmonic Orchestra:

Sno-King Community Chorale: The chorale’s season continues at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

March 19 with a concert version of the musical “Phantom of the Opera” at Trinity Lutheran Church, 196th Street SW, Lynnwood. See the concert version of the musical “Carousel” at 3 or 7 p.m. June 11 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts.

More at sno-kingchorale.org.

■ The Philharmonic’s annual “That Magnificent Mozart!” concert is 3 p.m. Jan. 31 with mezzo soprano Gail Neil at First Presbyterian Church, 2936 Rockefeller, Everett.

■ The “Listener’s Choice” concert is 7 p.m. May 14 at Everett Civic Auditorium, featuring Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5:” with sopra no Ellaina Lewis, and pianist Alexander Ardakov performing the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor. Tickets are available online at www.everettphil.org.

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts presents the folk duo Tingstad and Rumbel in a “Twelfth Night Tradition” at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 2 at WICA, 565 Camano Ave., Langley.

Blanchard: Luquette, a local bluegrass boy, and Blanchard, from Portland, perform at 4 p.m. Jan. 3 at Tim Noah Thumbnail Theater, 1211 Fourth St., Snohomish. Tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com or call 360-568-9412. Cost is $17 in advance or $20 at the door. Luquette performs with Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen, and was a founding member of popular Northwest bluegrass band Northern Departure. Blanchard performs with Slipshod and was with Prairie Flyer for many years.

Mukilteo Community Orchestra: The next free concert is 2 p.m.

Jan. 17, featuring the Snohomish

County Music Teachers Association Concerto soloist winner. Other concerts are March 6 and May 22, all at Rosehill Community Center, 304 Lincoln Ave., Mukilteo. More at www.mukilteoorchestra.org.

set for May 9. All concerts are at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N. For ticket infor-

Evergreen Community Orchestra: More about the Everett-based orchestra is at evergreencommunityorchestra. weebly.com.

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Pacific Chamber Orchestra: The season continues at 3 p.m. Feb. 14 with erhu soloist Warren Chang.

On April 10, the chamber group performs Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ and Strings with organist Youngjjn Joo. The season finale on June 5 features Block’s Concertino for Flute, Viola and Strings with flutist Lynn Douglas-Nicolet and violist Agnes Chen. More information is at www.pacificachamberorchestra.org. All performances are

Everett Chorale: The chorale’s 50th anniversary season continues with “Celebrate and Shout” and a guest performance by the Snohomish County Children’s Choir at 7 p.m. April 16 and 3 p.m. April 17 at the Everett Performing Arts Center, 2710 Wetmore Ave. “Celebrate and Sing” is 7 p.m. June 11 and 3 p.m. June 12, featuring a collage of American choral music performed over the past 50 years. For tickets, call 425-257-8600. More at everettchorale.org.

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Cascade Symphony Orchestra: The remainder of the CSO season includes its 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18 concert, featuring Duane Hulbert performing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto. The “Peter and the Wolf” Children’s Concert is on Feb. 20.

Eric Han performs the Dvorak Cello Concerto on March 14, the CSO Ensemble Concert is April 17, and the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony with soloist Kimberly Giordano is

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By Gale Fiege Herald Writer

MARYSVILLE — The Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts has heard from Santa, says foundation board member Beckye Randall.

Randall, the director of Red Curtain’s recent successful production of

“It’s a Wonderful Life,” announced earlier this week that the foundation has a new home at 9315 State Ave., Suite J, in the Goodwill retail center behind the cosmetology school.

“It’s not much to look at now, but it has great potential,” Randall said in her announcement.

The Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts stepped up a few years ago to provide community theater in north Snohomish County after the loss of several theater groups in the area.

The Red Curtain center had been housed in the former lumber store building on Grove Street.

The group had rented the

building for two years, but it has been sold and Red Curtain has until the end of the year to move out.

The new center — a 6,000-square-foot warehouse — will provide space for performances, rehearsals, classrooms, a lobby and storage, Randall said.

It will take about nine

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Village Theatre: The remainder of the 2015-2016 season in Everett includes “Crimes of the Heart,” Beth Henley’s Southern Gothic comedy, March 4 through 27; “My Heart is the Drum,” an inspiring new musical, April 29 to May 22; and “Billy Elliot,” the Broadway sensation with music

by Elton John, July 8 through 31, all at the Everett Performing Arts Center, 2710 Wetmore Ave. Tickets and more information are available by calling 425-257-8600

at another location in Marysville.

A five-year lease of the new building requires a larger financial commitment, but offers stability and continued cultural service to the community, she said.

To find out how to help, go to www.redcurtainfoundation.org.

call the box office at 206-6251900 or visit the theater at 1308 Fifth Ave., Seattle.

206-443-2222 or online at www. seattlerep.org.

“A Christmas Carol”: A Contemporary Theatre presents its 40th anniversary production of this 90-minute holiday tradition,

by Charles Dickens, adapted by Gregory A. Falls and Adam Stern, through Dec. 30 at ACT’s Allen Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle.

Tickets start at $37 for adults and $27 for children. Call 206-2927676 or go to www.acttheatre. org.

Theater Lerner & Loewe’s “My Fair Lady”: Village Theatre brings the classic musical to Everett from Jan. 8 through Feb. 7 at the Everett Performing Arts Center. Ticket prices range from $36 to $68. Call the box office at 425-257-8600.

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” the musical tells the story of a lowly Cockney flower girl and her unlikely run-in with a linguistics teacher who wagers he can transform her into a proper lady. The musical is directed by Issaquah native Brian Yorkey, who is known for writing the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical “Next to Normal” and the recent Broadway hit “If/Then.” Allison Standley and Mark Anders play Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins.

Performances are 8 p.m. Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays (only a matinee on Feb. 7), 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, as well as Feb. 2, at 2710 Wetmore Ave.

months to get the place ready, Randall figures, but that gives the Red Curtain board time to raise money, write grant applications and plan for expanded programming after the September opening.

Plans are in the works to continue the current concert and theater season

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A Contemporary Theatre presents its 40th anniversary production of “A Christmas Carol,” through Dec. 30 at ACT’s Allen Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. or online at www.villagetheatre. org/everett.

Red Curtain: The Marysville foundation’s 2015-2016 theater season of classics includes “Arsenic and Old Lace,” with a run date to be announced; “You Can’t Take It With You,” March 25 to April 10; and “The Fantasticks,” June 3 to 19. More information is available at www.redcurtainfoundation.org.

Edmonds Driftwood Players: The 57th main stage season at Driftwood continues with Neil Simon’s comedy “Proposals,” Feb. 19 through March 6; “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” musical comedy, April 22 to May 8; and “Suite Surrender,” an homage to the farces of the 1930s and ’40s. Driftwood also produces Theatre of Intriguing Possibilities, short runs of new plays, throughout the year. All at Wade James Theatre, 950 Main St., Edmonds. For tickets

and information, go to www. edmondsdriftwoodplayers.org or call 425-774-9600, option 3.

Phoenix Theatre: The comedy theater company has listed its 2015-2016 shows. See “Communicating Doors” by Alan Ayckbourn, Feb. 5 through 28; “The Dixie Swim Club,” April 8 through May 1; and “Becky’s New Car” by Steven Dietz, June 2 through 26. The theater is at 9673 Firdale Ave., Edmonds. Call 206-533-2000 or go to www. phoenixtheatreedmonds.org

Dance Mossyback Morris Men: Everett Public Library brings the Mossybacks back to celebrate the new year, and this time the Morris Men might bring their antlers. They look like deranged chimney sweeps, but the Mossyback Morris Men are just performing an ancient British form of ritual dance called “The Morris,” which celebrates the good

Earth and its seasons. The antlers are for the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, performed in Anglo-Saxon times to ensure good hunting. The program begins at 2 p.m. Jan. 10 in the library auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Avenue in Everett. The event is free.

The Morris is a colorful mix of street theater and dance that has been performed for centuries to spread good cheer within the darkness of winter. Mossyback Morris has danced in the Puget Sound region since 1980. After their performance, the group will greet the audience and happily answer any questions about the Morris, life and the universe.

SEATTLE Theater Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music”: The blockbuster musical plays the 5th Avenue Theatre through Jan. 3.

Tickets start at $29. For information, go to www.5thavenue.org,

“Hollywood Nights”: Teatro ZinZanni rolls out the red carpet.

Old Hollywood glamour reigns supreme in the new show under the big top venue at 222 Mercer St., Seattle. When a famous movie director makes reservations at a local fine dining establishment, the restaurant scrambles to get everything in tip-top shape; little do they know that they will soon play a major role in his upcoming film. Show runs through Jan. 31.

Tickets start at $99. For more, call 206-802-0015 or visit zinzanni. com/seattle.

“The Book of Mormon”: The musical by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone plays the Paramount in Seattle, Dec. 29 through Jan. 10. Tickets start at $35, available online at stgpresents.org and tickets.com.

Seattle Repertory Theatre: The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Disgraced” by playwright Ayad Akhtar, plays Jan. 8 through 31 in the Bagley Wright Theatre.

Directed by Kimberly Senior, who piloted this provocative play from Chicago to its triumphant run on Broadway. Tickets available now through the box office at

Dance Pacific Northwest Ballet: The new Nutcracker, featuring choreography by George Balanchine and set design and costumes by children’s author Ian Falconer, runs through Dec. 28. For information and tickets, go to www. pnb.org or call 206-441-2424.

“Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker”: Ballet gets a bawdy makeover, through Dec. 27 (no show Dec. 25); The Triple Door, 216 Union St., Seattle. Tickets $35 to $65. More at thetripledoor.net.

Opera “Marriage of Figaro”: Seattle Opera offers Mozart’s comic masterpiece from Jan. 16 through 30 at McCaw Hall, Seattle Center. The production features new-to-Seattle sets and costumes. The opera has it all: True love, half-baked schemes, mistaken identities, long-lost relatives, teenage angst and a wedding. For information and tickets, go to seattleopera.org. “Figaro” marks the debut of new Seattle Opera Director Aidan Lang.

“Figaro” preview in Everett: The latest edition of Seattle Opera’s preview series focuses on Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” at 2 p.m.

Jan. 8 in the Everett Public Library Auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Ave. No knowledge of music or opera is expected. The event is free. “The Marriage of Figaro” has been a cornerstone of the standard operatic repertoire for more than two hundred years. It was first performed in Vienna in 1786.

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Holiday Carousel: Outdoor, old-fashioned carousel through Jan. 1, Westlake Park Winter Village, 401 Pine St., Seattle. Live music, soundreactive holiday lighting, doughnuts and hot chocolate, children’s activity area. Cost is $3 suggested donation.

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Reading with Rover: 11 a.m.

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The theme of this year’s Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel is “May The Holidays Be With You” and is inspired by scenes from the “Star Wars” movies. aloud to a loving canine listener.

The community-based literacy program, Reading with Rover, helps kids strengthen reading skills and improve reading confidence. Lego Lab: 2 to 4 p.m. Jan 22. Build to your heart’s content using Lego, Roylco Straws, K’Nex and more.

activities, food and overnight getaway options. In addition to the general festival, there’s a dinner theater and Sunday dessert matinees, this year featuring an original production, “The Christmas Changeup.” More at www. thelightsofchristmas.com.

HOLIDAY EVENTS

Marysville’s Holiday Tour of Lights: grand finale 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 26 at Cedarcrest Golf Course, 6810 84th St. NE. Ride the Marysville Noon Rotary train for a 20-minute tour of lighted holiday displays. Hot chocolate, music, s’mores and more. Suggested donation is $5, $3 children, $20 family. More info: marysvillewa.

Warm Beach Camp’s The Lights of Christmas: 5 to 10 p.m. Dec. 26 through 29. More than a million Christmas lights displayed over 15 acres at Warm Beach Camp and Conference Center, 20800 Marine Dr., Stanwood.

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Seattle Center Winterfest: Lots of free and affordable holiday activities and entertainment, through Dec. 31, Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St., Seattle. Skate at the ice arena, drive a miniature locomotive through a turn-of-thecentury village inside the Armory, watch ice sculpting demonstrations, listen to Dickens carolers and see performances by more than 100 different student groups. Fireworks show and concert on New Year’s Eve. All activities are free except ice skating. More at seattlecenter.com/ winterfest.

Gingerbread Village: Sheraton Seattle Hotel Lobby, 1400 Sixth Ave., Seattle, through Jan. 3. Larger-thanlife gingerbread creations follow the theme “May The Holidays Be With You,” inspired by scenes from Star Wars movies. Free, with donations accepted for the Northwest Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. More at www.sheratonseattle.com/gingerbread-village.

Teddy Bear Suite: Big bears, little

“WildLights”: Through Jan. 3, Woodland Park Zoo. Electrifying after-hours displays of wild animals and exotic destinations including “African Water Hole,” “Jungle Lights” and “Northern Lights.”

A visit from Santa’s reindeers.

Zoomazium will be transformed into Snowmazium which will be open every night for storytelling and faux snowball fights. More at zoo. org/wildlights.

STAGE Performing Arts Show Biz Kids 4-H Club: 6:30 to 8 p.m. second Thursday of each month, Horseshoe Grange, 164th and Broadway, Cathcart/Clearview area. Call Jan Bond at 360-668-6681 or the 4-H office at 425-357-6044. The grange also is the home of drama, guitar and line-dancing lessons.

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Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. Each third Friday of the month is the museum’s free night. Play indoors with the kids from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at no cost. For more, visit imaginecm. org or call 425-258-1006.

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“New Year’s Eve, A Family Night to Remember”: At Imagine Children’s Museum, families can party like they are in Times Square and do it on New York City time, which is three hours ahead of Pacific time. The traditional New Year’s Eve countdown will feature a lighted ball, 3 feet in diameter, that will be lowered 40 feet outside the museum at 1502 Wall St. in Everett. Party starts at 7 p.m. Dec. 31 with ball drop at 9 p.m. Family activities for all ages. Crazy hair stations, crazy glasses, glow bowling, balloon art and a scavenger hunt throughout the museum. Performers include musicians Cowboy Buck and Elizabeth and comedian/juggler Eric Haines. Advance admission is $10 for museum members, $15 for non-members; at the door, tickets are $15 for members and $20 for non-members. Free for ages 12 months and younger. The museum opens at 10 a.m., and a daytime New Year’s Eve party will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Dec. 31. For information, call 425-258-1006 or go to imaginecm.org.

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Arlington Community Dance: 6:30 p.m. third Saturday of the month, Sisco Heights Community Center, 13527 99th Ave NE, Arlington. No partner or lessons needed. All ages welcome.

Live band and caller will teach all dances; contra, lines, circle and square dance. Cost is $5 per person, $15 for family. For more information, call 425-232-7237.

Ballroom dance: 1 to 3 p.m.

Wednesdays, Northshore Senior Center, 10201 E. Riverside Drive, Bothell; dance lessons with extra charge and dancing with a live band; $4 members, $6 nonmembers; 425-487-2441; www. northshoreseniorcenter.org.

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Dudes and Dolls Square Dance Club: Square and round dancers; Cedar Valley Grange, 20526 52nd Ave. W., Lynnwood; $6 at the door. Lessons 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays starting Jan. 5, 2016. $90 for 16 lessons or $6 per lesson. www.dudesanddolls. com. 206-423-6193.

Edmonds Senior Center: Fling dance with live bands, 1 to 3 p.m.

Fridays, Edmonds Senior Center, 220 Railroad Ave.; $3 donations, no partners necessary; $5 for a sampler class of foxtrot, swing and waltz on Monday afternoons; 425-774-5555.

Dance party classes: Learn the party dances you need to know for weddings, reunions and cruises; instructor is Eleanor Leight, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, Snohomish Senior Center, 506 Fourth St., Snohomish; all ages, no partners needed; $25 a month; 360-568-0934.

Freewheelers Square Dance Club: Freewheelers’ dances are at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center, 23000 Lakeview Drive. Dances are 7 to 10 p.m. first, third and some fifth Sundays. Cost is $7. Partners are not required. A beginner’s dance classes will be offered Wednesday nights, 7 to 9 p.m. $7 per class. For more information, contact Trisha, 206-523-1769 or seattlesquare@aol.com for classes or Janice, 206-992-4932 or freewheelerssquareedance@ gmail.com for dances.

Darrington Community Dances: 5:30 p.m. potluck, 7 p.m. instruction, 7:30 dancing on the second Saturday, October through April; Mansford Grange, 1265 Railroad Ave., Darrington.

206-402-8646; $7 requested donation. Jan. 9: TBA with caller Joe Michaels. Feb. 13: Northern

Happy Hoppers Square Dance Club: Square and round dancers, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., first and third Saturdays, Stillaguamish Senior Center, 18308 Smokey Point Bvd., Arlington. Guest callers and cuers. Singles and couples welcome. For more info, call 425397-0535 or email squaredance-

Normanna Hall: 1 to 3:30 p.m.

Mondays and Thursdays; dance to Bob’s Swing Band; $5; Normanna Hall, 2725 Oakes, Everett.

Sit Down and Tone Up: Chair dancing is a seated exercise program that combines the health benefits of a total workout with the fun of moving to music. Classes offered Monday and Thursday, 1 to 2 p.m. at the Stillaquamish Senior Center, 18308 Smokey Pt. Blvd., Arlington; $3 per class (first free). For more information, call 425-232-7237.

Skandia Folkdance Society: First Friday dance, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 to 11 p.m. dance, first and third Fridays, Cedar Valley Grange, 20526 52nd Ave. W., Lynnwood; $10 nonmembers, $7 members; www.skandiafolkdance.org or 206-784-7470.

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Veterans of Foreign Wars dances: Potluck dinners 6 to 7:30 p.m. last Saturdays; $5; free lessons 6:30 p.m., music and dancing 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesdays, Eddy Fukano Band performs; $5; VFW building, 2711 Oakes Ave., Everett; year-round; 425-2522100.

Woodinville Square Crow Dance Club: Plus dances at 7 p.m., mainstream dance at 7:30 p.m. fourth Saturdays starting Jan. 23 at the Sammamish Valley Grange Hall, 14654 148th Ave NE, Woodinville. Call Alice at 425-319-1093 or go to www. squarecrows.org. Lessons from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. starting Jan. 5. $5 per class. First lesson is free.

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December show is “Gifts of the Season.” The work of 20 local artists will be available.

Special exhibit

Glass Quest Studio: 31808 W. Lake Ketchum Road, Stanwood; www.glassquest.com; 360-6297005.

The Art Workshop: The Snohomish County Arts Commission is exhibiting art work during regular business hours through December in the lobby of the Drewel Building on the county campus. The free show features pen and ink, acrylic on canvas and reverse glass painting from students whose ages range from 6 to adult. Christine Awad Schmalz is their instructor and she serves on the arts commission.

A Guilded Gallery: 8700 271st St., Stanwood; 360-629-2787; www.stanwoodcamanoarts.com; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. December features smaller pieces handcrafted by local artists.

Galleries/museums

Arts of Snohomish Gallery: 1024 First St., No. 104, Snohomish; 360-568-8648; www. artsofsnohomish.com; noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

Gallery artists present a “Giftworks Show” of small works and Joan Pinney presents Snohomish Homes and Scenes.

Cascadia Art Museum: The new museum, located at 190 Sunset Ave., Edmonds, currently shows paintings featured in the Northwest Watercolor Society’s new book celebrating its 75th anniversary. The show runs through Jan. 3. Through Jan. 10, also see rare, vintage Christmas cards made in block print, silkscreen, watercolor and oil by famous Northwest artists including Paul Horiuchi, Yvonne Twining Humber, Danny Pierce and many

Edmonds artist Judith Perry’s oil paintings, including “The San Juans,” are displayed at the Edmonds Library through Jan. 29. others. Admission is $10. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, until 8 p.m. on Thursday and closed Mondays and Tuesdays. More information is at cascadiaartmuseum.org.

“Looking Back, Moving Forward: A centennial tribute to Nellie Cornish and Cornish College of the Arts” opens Jan. 14 and runs through May 1. Delving deep into public and private archives, Cascadia presents historic artwork, dance films, costumes and more, by key Cornish figures such as Merce Cunningham, Robert Joffrey and Mark Tobey.

Cole Gallery: 107 Fifth Ave. S., Edmonds; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 3 p.m. Sunday; 425-697-2787; www. colegallery.net. Pam Ingalls, Angela Bandurka, Cary Jurriaans, Lori Twiggs and selected Cole Gallery artists are involved in the current exhibit through Dec. 30, “A Joyful

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Edmonds Historical Museum: 118 Fifth Ave. N., Edmonds; 425774-0900; historicedmonds.org.

1 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. Suggested donation is $5 for adults, $2 for children.

Edmonds Community College art gallery: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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Through December, see Inger Hutton’s realistic and colorful butterfly medium watercolor, Janet Meyer’s whimsical oils and Sandra Kramer’s acrylic color composition.

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Edmonds Library Gallery: 650 Main St., Edmonds; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m.

Sundays. Edmonds artist Judith Perry’s oil paintings are exhibited through Jan. 29. She studied art at PLU, UPS, Chicago Art Institute and Honolulu Arts Academy. She is a signature member of the Women Painters of Washington and the Hawaii Watercolor Society. Born and raised in Raymond, Perry says being back in the Northwest brings a wave of nostalgia. “I recall the lush forests of Pacific County, the beaches, picking blackberries, the rain and the softness of no sound.” For more about the artist, go to judithperryart.com. For more about the arts commission, go to edmondsartscommission.org Everett Community College: The Russell Day Gallery, 2000 Tower St.; 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Mondays and Wednesdays, noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays; closed Saturdays and Sundays; www.everettcc.edu.

Gallery North: 401 Main St., Edmonds; 425-774-0946; gallerynorthedmonds.com; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. The

Hibulb Cultural Center: 6410 23rd Ave. NE, Tulalip; 360-716-2635; www.hibulbculturalcenter.org.

“Natural Wanderment: Stewardship.

Sovereignty. Sacredness” features the work of Matika Wilbur and her photographic Project 562. Wilbur, of the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes, is crisscrossing the nation photographing people in each of the federally recognized tribes.

Lynnwood Library Gallery: 19200 44th Ave. W.; 425-6705518; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.

Mountlake Terrace Library Gallery: 23300 58th Ave. W., Mountlake Terrace; 425-776-8722; www.sno-isle.org; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays; 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.

Ellen Busteed has exhibited her work in Washington and Utah, including in local shows such as the Edmonds Art Festival, Kenmore Art Show and Arts of the Terrace.

Her paintings are displayed at the library through Jan. 31.

including 28 available wood block prints from “A Catalogue Raisonne of the Block Prints of Legendary Northwest Artist Guy Anderson,” as well as several large scale, never before exhibited paintings.

The Sisters: 2804 Grand Ave., Everett; 425-252-0480; www. thesistersrestaurant.com; 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Janet Myer, local painter of American Indian heritage, shares the current exhibit with Eusha, a Russian-born artist who moved to Everett 20 years ago. Though of different origins, their cultures intersect in art, and art making.

Both women find inspiration in the beauty of nature around.

Through Jan. 8.

ISLAND COUNTY Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park: 2345 Blanche Way, Camano Island; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends, weekdays by appointment; 360-387-2759; www.matzkefineart.com. “Honey, I Shrunk The Art,” the 25th annual small-works show features 40 artists working in glass, oils, acrylic, ceramic, watercolor, mixed media, stone and metal. Over 150 pieces of art. The show continues through Jan. 10.

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Red Cup Cafe: 619 Fourth St. Mukilteo; 425-348-4825.

Museum of Northwest Art: 121 S. First St., La Conner; www. museumofnwart.org. “Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977-2015” through Jan. 3. Features more than 40 well-known artists from tribes throughout the region.

The artists include Matika Wilbur (Tulalip/Swinomish) and Hank Gobin (Tulalip).

Rosehill Community Center: 304 Lincoln Ave., Mukilteo. For more information, call 425-263-8180.

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Schack Art Center: 2921 Hoyt Ave., Everett; 425-259-5050; www. schack.org. The new year begins with a show by 18 artists who live or work in Skagit County, who have joined together to produce a suite of original prints for “Skagit Women Print,” on exhibit Jan. 7 through Feb. 27. Also see an exhibit of block prints by renowned Northwest painter Guy Anderson,

Seattle Art Museum: Go to www.seattleartmuseum.org.

“Intimate Impressionism — From the National Gallery of Art” through Jan. 10. “Inopportune: Stage One,” the largescale installation by renowned Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, will be coming down beginning Jan. 19.

Port Gardner Bay Winery: 2802 Rockefeller Ave, Everett; 425-339-0293; www. portgardnerbaywinery.com.

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Emory’s on Silver Lake: 11830 19th Ave. SE, Everett; 425-3377772; www.emorys.com. Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve Celebration with Ventura Highway Revisited.

Angel of the Winds Casino: 3438 Stoluckquamish Lane, Arlington, 360-474-9740; www. angelofthewinds.com. Acoustic Thursday 7 p.m. every Thursday.

Live music 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights. Dec. 25 and 26: 8 Second Ride.

Engel’s Pub: 113 Fifth Ave. S., Edmonds; 425-778-2900. Dec. 26: The Shortcutz, 9 p.m. Dec. 30: Mary McPage & The Assassins, 8 p.m. Dec. 31: Dirty Rice Band, 8 p.m.

The Conway Muse: 18444 Spruce and Main, Conway; 360445-3000; www.conwaymuse. com. Dec. 31: New Years Bash with Prozac Mountain Boys, 7:30 p.m., Yogoman, 9 p.m., $25.

Firewheel Community Coffeehouse: 2727 Colby Ave., Everett; 425-374-7946. www. firewheelcc.net.

Rhodes River Ranch Restaurant: 22016 Entsminger Road, Arlington; 360-474-8313; www. rhodesriverranch.com. Live music

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begins at 6 p.m. Dec. 26: The Packstring.

Tony V’s Garage: 1712 Hewitt Ave., Everett; 425-374-3567. Live music Friday and Saturday begins at 9 p.m. Dec. 30: The Mentors, Omega Moo, Monobosco, The TBA, Sticky Situation.

The Popoffs, 10 p.m. Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve party with Harmonious Funk, 9:30 p.m.

White Horse Saloon: 304 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 360-435-

Tulalip Resort Casino Canoes Cabaret: Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip, 360-716-6000; www.tulalipresortcasino.com. Free unless otherwise noted. Dec. 25: Night of the Stars, 7 p.m., $10. Dec. 26: The Wingmen, 5:30 p.m.; Oncore, 9:30 p.m.

Dec. 27: Whiskey River (Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute), 8 p.m. Dec. 29: Comedy Night with Wayne Jackson and Bri Pruett, 8:30 p.m.;

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