Everett Daily Herald, December 28, 2015

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IMPACT ZONES: Everett’s alcohol impact zone, which would ban the sale of certain high-proof types of liquor downtown, gets a final vote Wednesday.

DAVE SOMERS: This week the Snohomish County Council chairman steps up to lead as county executive. He has promised fiscal restraint and more accountability.

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Patrol concerns go beyond pay Planned

By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer

OLYMPIA — Higher salaries alone won’t solve the Washington State Patrol’s problem

with recruiting and retaining troopers.

Dissatisfaction with how the agency is managed is proving a bigger motivator than money in troopers’ decision to sign on

with other law enforcement departments in the state, concludes a new report delivered to lawmakers this month.

The $240,000 study prepared

by Public Financial Management, Inc. burrows deep into the agency’s pay scales, hiring policies and recruitment practices and recommends changes

in all of them to stem the tide of departures and to begin replenishing the ranks.

“There is no one fix. You cannot pay your way out of it,” said former Sacramento police chief Rick Braziel, a member of the consulting team.

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Back to farmland

By Chris Winters Herald Writer

completely covered in weeds,” he said. “I remember driving through that field and the thistles were taller than I was on my tractor.”

Riverbend is surrounded mostly by other farmland.

Neighbors include the popular berry picking spot Biringer Farm and several pumpkin patches that bustle with activity in the fall.

The paved cul-de-sac, utility boxes and wells that were put in to prepare for development seem out of place among the fields, Forterra vice president Michelle Connor said.

EVERETT — Plans to build a community and services center in the Casino Road neighborhood are moving forward.

Volunteers of America Western Washington has led a three-year planning process, soliciting input from the surrounding community as well as other social services organizations like Catholic Community Services, the Boys & Girls Club and Cocoon House.

On Dec. 23, Bob Reese, the regional executive vice president of VOA, showed Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson and the city council what the group calling itself Casino Road Stakeholders came up with.

The plan envisions a $12.8 million facility with a high schoolsize gym, a community kitchen, a police resource officer, classrooms, multi-purpose family and community rooms, and offices for social service providers.

Adults need a place to gather and children need to feel safe, and residents need a place where they can get needed services, Reese told the council.

Some programs in the neighborhood have become quite successful, such as the Casino Road Fútbol Academy, which plays and practices in nearby Walter E. Hall Park.

But other services, such as indoor gathering places for adults and children, are lacking.

“There is a tremendous amount of good taking place, a tremendous amount of community,” Reese said.

“At times it feels like the boy with his finger in the dike because the needs are great and the challenges immense,” he said.

There is a real need for a comprehensive standalone facility in the neighborhood, said Wendy McClure, the city’s Office of Neighborhoods coordinator.

While there are some groups in the area, such as the Boys & Girls Club and the Mukilteo YMCA, “none of those have the capacity for a community gathering space,” she said, which could be used for classes, or for community groups or residential

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Andrew Albert, a third-generation Arlington farmer, plans to create a new farm on former subdivision plots off Highway 530.

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Land near Arlington will be developed ... into a working farm Herald Writer

ARLINGTON — A dirty, drooping banner on the side of a big red barn near the edge of the city advertises “New Homes and Lots” for sale.

It’s been there for nearly a decade, but it’s about to come down.

The lots aren’t for sale anymore. About 150 acres on the south side of Highway 530 had been platted and permitted as a new 15-house subdivision.

One house was built and sold.

Then the rest of the project was foreclosed on after the recession crippled the housing market.

Earlier this month, the Seattlebased conservation group Forterra bought the remaining 140 acres. A conservation easement is being put on the property to protect it as agricultural land and prevent any further development. Forterra plans to sell the acreage, which they’re calling Riverbend Farm, to a young, third-generation farmer who has been growing crops on the land while it was awaiting development.

The farmer, 32-year-old Andrew Albert, also manages and is part owner of a farm down the road from Riverbend.

It’s about a quarter mile as the crow flies, he said. The 140 acres

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he’s buying from Forterra will be the first farmland that’s ever been solely his, though. His dad owns the majority of the stakes in the family farm.

Albert has been farming since he was a teen. As a freshman in high school, he used his dad’s equipment to harvest hay on a school property. A year after graduating, he was farming full time. He grows hay, corn, wheat, spinach and other vegetables.

Albert has big plans for Riverbend Farm. He’ll start by clearing out a field full of thick, tangled blackberry vines so he can make more room for his crops.

“This place, at one point, was

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days, the roads are reserved for natives who grew up with this stuff. (The State Patrol will check your feet to see if your toes are webbed.)

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but he does admire Trump’s ability to connect with people. Colbert also said he dropped his satirical conservative persona because he sensed people were tired of divisiveness (Page B3).

That’s funny; Trump adopted his conservative persona because he sensed people wanted more divisiveness.

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A critical problem is low morale among troopers who told consultants they are underpaid, overworked due to increasing vacancies and ignored by their bosses. In a survey conducted for the report, 64 percent of current troopers and 79 percent of those who have recently left said they would not encourage people to join the Washington State Patrol.

“Your greatest recruiting tool is your troopers,” Braziel told lawmakers at a

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hearing this month.

“They’re just not happy. If they’re not happy, they’re not recruiting.”

The head of the Washington State Patrol Trooper Association says the 188page analysis makes a strong case for a shake-up in the agency hierarchy.

“I think the fact that the management issue came up was a shock to a lot of people,” said association president Jeff Merrill. “Can we continue to operate at a high level under the current command structure? I don’t know.”

But Merrill stopped short of calling on WSP Chief John Batiste to step down.

“I love Chief Batiste. He’s a fantastic person. We have some significant problems under his leadership and they need to be addressed,” he said.

A state patrol spokesman

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associations to hold their own events.

In addition, few of the large apartment buildings that dominate the area have community rooms or other gathering places for the residents, she said.

“That’s one of the things that the community has identified that they’d like to have,” she said.

The Casino Road area is one of the densest parts of the city. The triangle between West Casino

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“The conversion of property in the middle of farmland jeopardizes the rest of the farmland around

welcomed the report’s findings but declined to respond to suggestions it could cost Batiste his job.

“It gave us insights into some of the root causes of why people are leaving and it will help us create a blueprint for the future,” said spokesman Kyle Moore.

“It is a good opportunity to review the way that we are managing people at every level.”

The Washington State Patrol is seeing its ranks depleted faster than can be restocked. At the end of October it had 580 troopers and roughly 110 vacancies.

It is losing about nine more every month, Moore said.

As vacancies mount, the problem is compounded by newer hires leaving in their first five years to take better-paying jobs with local law enforcement agencies.

On top of this, dozens of

veteran troopers are eligible for retirement and as they leave, the situation worsens, the report found.

“Something has to be done,” said Russ Bransom, who directed the study.

Compensation is a major issue. Starting pay for troopers is about 10 percent lower than what deputy sheriffs are paid by the largest counties, including Snohomish, and police officers in largest cities, including Seattle. And after 25 years on the job, the base salary is still lower, according to charts prepared by the consulting firm.

A new state patrol hire will earn a base salary of $54,192. It rises to $72,505 after five years of service and $76,905 when they reach 25 years and can retire. A deputy sheriff in Snohomish County will initially earn $59,240. The salary rises

to $78,991 after five years and $85,439 after 25 years, according to the report.

Consultants suggest an across-the-board pay increase to make salaries more competitive and to consider offering financial incentives to keep retirement-eligible troopers from leaving.

Consultants also suggested retooling elements of the hiring process to boost recruiting.

They found the policy of automatically rejecting applicants with any misdemeanor convictions or past drug use may be too harsh.

The report recommends the circumstances of each case be examined to determine if a past incident makes an individual unfit for hire.

The psychological testing portion needs revamping too, they said. Right now the state patrol rejects

38 percent of its recruits because they fail to pass the agency’s psychological exam. Nationally, the average failure rate for local enforcement is 5 percent, according to the report.

Moore said such changes won’t be done immediately.

“We are definitely going to take all of this under consideration,” he said. “At this point, at least in the immediate term, I don’t think we are going to lower our standards in hiring troopers or cadets.”

Gov. Jay Inslee, in anticipation of the report’s release, put $465,000 in his supplemental budget proposal for 2016. State patrol leaders would decide how to spend it.

The Legislature will consider the report’s findings and the governor’s budget recommendations when the session begins Jan. 11.

Road, Airport Road and Evergreen Way is home to 19,000 people, Reese told the council.

Almost half the familiesintheareaaresingleparent households, and 2,500 kids are living in lowincome families, defined as having annual income below 200 percent of the federal poverty line.

Horizon Elementary has seen its Latino population double from 2001-2013, with its shrinking population of white students now including a growing population of immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and other countries where English isn’t the first language,

Reese said.

The plans presented to the council were just a conceptual design, but one drawn up by ARC Architects, a Seattle firm that also designed the Rose Hill Community Center in Mukilteo and the Domestic Violence Services shelter in Everett.

A proposed timeline would have site selection take place in the first half of 2016, with a potential opening date in mid-2018.

Reese said that he wasn’t asking the city for money yet, but added that there may be things that come before the council as the project develops.

The stakeholders group

will be applying for Community Development Block Grants, among other funding sources, he said.

There are still a lot of uncertainties to work out, most important of which is the location for the future center.

Of four locations suggested by the community so far, none are ideal. The most popular idea, Walter E. Hall Park, has soccer fields built with state funds, and those can’t be repurposed without providing a similar amenity elsewhere in the neighborhood, Reese said.

Nonetheless, residents have been waiting a long time.

Sister Adelaide Mohammed, a longtime resident of the neighborhood who runs a small religious charity, Islamic Resources by Mail, said the community also suffers because most people don’t realize there isn’t already a full-service community center there.

Children in particular do not have adequate resources that a community center could deliver, Mohammed said.

“I am just on pins and needles waiting for its completion,” she added.

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it,” she said. “It also fundamentally changes the nature of the city of Arlington from having farmland at its door to having a subdivision.”

The Riverbend acreage belonged to the largest dairy in Arlington before it was divided up for development and then

foreclosed. The property was scheduled to be auctioned off when Forterra inked a deal to buy it.

There’s a lot of risk in taking on the property, Connor said. Workers removed diesel and gasoline tanks buried in the ground to prepare for development. The work wasn’t properly documented so the state labeled the area as a brownfield, meaning it’s a possible contamination site. Forterra is working on getting that sorted out before selling to Albert, Connor said. None of their examinations have found any contamination but they need the state to confirm their findings.

“No farmer could step into that, so Forterra is kind of stepping into all the risk to protect this farmland,” Connor said.

The organization’s budget for acquiring the property and dealing with legal and environmental entanglements is $700,000, but that could go down as the organization works with the state to resolve concerns such as the brownfield designation.

Forterra also had help from government and conservation groups to cover the costs of wiping out development rights and securing the acreage as farmland.

Snohomish County Conservation Futures contributed $100,000, the Snohomish County Conservation District landed $50,000 from the Washington Conservation Commission and the city of Arlington contributed about $15,000.

“It’s a nice way to end the year, getting this property,” Connor said. “We feel really good about it. It was a tough hill to climb, but it was worth it.”

Forterra also is raising money to pay $30,000 in back taxes. They’d like to sell Albert a farm “with a clean bill of health,” Connor said.

Albert hopes to officially be the owner of Riverbend

Farm by April 1. To him, the property represents solid ground to stand on and space to grow. He’d like to add new buildings, maybe a barn and silo.

The farm he manages for his dad is mostly in the floodplain while Riverbend Farm has room to build on higher ground.

Owning a farm also gives him the ability to control the property’s future.

“It’s security in my business,” Albert said. “This is mine. I can farm this as long as I’m able.”

The average age of farmers in Snohomish County is 55, and Albert jokes that he’s dragging the average down. He wants to continue an agricultural legacy that stretches back to a family farm in Switzerland.

He knows it won’t be easy cleaning up the overgrown Riverbend property and transforming what was ready to become a neighborhood into fields of crops.

Still, he’s hoping to have seeds in the ground in 2016.

“I like fixing things up,” Albert said. “Next spring, coming into Arlington is going to look a lot nicer.”

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Stanwood water, sewer rates to increase Herald staff

In 2016, a typical Stanwood homeowner is expected to pay $5.43 more per two-month billing period, or about $2.71 more per month, for water and sewer than they did this year.

The average combined utility bill in 2015 is $158.85 every other month, finance director Greg Thramer said. It’s going up

STANWOOD — The cost of water and sewer service in the city is going up again in 2016.

It’s the third of six annual increases approved by the Stanwood City Council in 2013. Water rates go up 5 percent each year and sewer rates go up 3.5 percent.

to $164.28.

The increase takes effect Jan. 1.

Over the next four years, the rate increases are expected to generate nearly $600,000 in additional revenue for city utilities compared to what the totals would be without the increases, Thramer said. The money goes toward staff, cash reserves and

maintaining infrastructure such as water and sewer lines.

When the City Council approved the rate increases, staff estimated that the average monthly bill would go from $137.20 every two months in 2013 to $174.22 by 2019.

For most homeowners, “that’ll be in the neighborhood of about

$3 more per bill each year until 2019,” Thramer said.

The city offers reduced utility rates for seniors or people with disabilities who have limited incomes.

More information, including an application for the reduced rates, is available online at ci.stanwood.wa/us.

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50 percent and emergency room visits dropped by 43 percent among patients receiving community paramedic services.

Capt. Shaughn Maxwell, who heads up the fire district’s Emergency Medical Services division, said the program is making a difference.

“We have gotten significantly better at connecting people faster with the resources they need and we are getting better

he California migration to Snohomish County continues — and the Texas migration, Oregon, Arizona, and Florida. But, really, California.

The state Department of Licensing releases monthly summaries of new driver registrations from other states.

In 2014, Snohomish County had 13,021 new driver registrations, representing 13 percent of the state total. Through November 2015, the total new driver registrations in the county for the year was at 12,881, or 12 percent of the total.

California, Texas, Oregon, Arizona and Florida have long represented the Top 5 for inmigration to Snohomish County, mirroring regional and statewide trends. There have been only a few exceptions to that ol’ states club over the last 25 years (most recently, North Carolina edged into the No. 5 spot in 2010), Sometimes Arizona is ahead of Florida, or Texas ahead of Oregon.

But California is always king.

Since 1999, more than 40,000 Californians have moved into Snohomish County. In all, a little under 1 in 4 new Snohomish County residents used to call that single state home.

California migration to Washington peaked in 1990 at more than 39,000 transferred driver registrations. It went down from there before climbing again a decade ago, reaching nearly as high in the booming economic year of 2006. After another dip, the numbers have been climbing again the past two years.

The Puget Sound Regional Council predicts the region’s population will further explode.

King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap counties together can expect 28 percent more people and 40 percent more jobs by 2040.

(A post on the council’s Regional View blog sparked this Snohomish County-focused take, by the way.)

OK, OK, jobs, yes.

But where does my mind really go with all this? Apparently the same place my predecessor Jeff Switzer went in 2008 when talking about a down year for sunny transplants: California drivers.

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Lake Stevens High senior Peter Condyles volunteers at the Marysville Historical Society and wants to pursue a degree in history and work in a museum or in historical preservation. “With history, you never hear the same story twice. It’s always something different, and it’s always something that, in my opinion, is really exciting,” he said.

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Lake Stevens High’s Peter Condyles takes interest in history beyond the classroom

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LAKE STEVENS — Peter Condyles, 17, is a senior at Lake Stevens High School. He’s the associated student body president and a history buff who volunteers at the Marysville Historical Society.

Question: What school activities do you do?

Answer: I’ve been in ASB for three years. I was a sophomore class senator, junior class secretary-treasurer and then I was elected as ASB president.

They try to boil the job down into

a description but you do everything, really. I always say I go to bed tired but really happy and I wake up really happy but really tired. I’m also in the German Club and that’s a lot of fun. It’s my second year in German class. We have a club and we get together and eat a lot of German food and learn about the culture. Also, I’m in the This Day in History Club, which is a new club this year. The purpose is just to get history into the classrooms because that’s kind of an area that’s lacking, we noticed. We’re just getting a little history fact in every day so people know what’s going on.

Q: What are your favorite subjects?

A: History. I love history.

That’s my favorite subject overall. This year I’m taking AP Government and Politics. That’s my favorite class right now.

Q: What is it about history that interests you?

A: History is not like any other subject. History is always different. With, like, math you’re just repeating the same thing over and over again. With history, you never hear the same story twice.

It’s always something different, and it’s always something that, in my opinion, is really exciting.

Q: Do you have a particular time period or event that fascinates you?

A: I like American history, mostly. I’ve taken a European history class, I did world history.

European history is like kings, queens, wars, repeat. Kings, queens, wars, repeat. With U.S. history, it’s always something different. There’s always a new innovation or a new leader.

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Community paramedic programs grow

By Eric Stevick and Rikki King Herald Writers

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LYNNWOOD — While two local agencies expand their community paramedic program aimed at preventing hospital emergency room visits, another is starting one of its own.

The Verdant Health Commission is providing a grant of more than $1 million that will allow Snohomish County Fire District 1 and the Lynnwood Fire

Department to team up and expand their efforts in south county.

At the same time, Camano Island Fire and Rescue expects to launch its own program in early 2016.

The concept of a community paramedic is fairly new. The idea is to try to prevent emergencies before they can happen in the first place.

At Fire District 1, paramedic Shane Cooper has been on the beat in the preventative mode

Grants available The Rotary Club of Everett encourages Everett-area nonprofits and schools to apply for one of its local impact grants. Grants of up to $5,000 each year for three years are available for projects that cover a three-year timeline and are designed to grow a group’s capacity to accomplish its work in the community. Funding after the first year

for two years. He often visits with people who frequently called for 911 services in the past, monitoring their situations and connecting them with social and health care resources aimed at reducing their risks.

An independent study of the first year showed promising results. The number of 911 calls and emergency room visits dropped significantly among the people on Cooper’s case load.

For the first half of 2015, 911 calls were reduced by more than

depends on an evaluation of the previous year’s project. Proposals must serve the greater Everett area.

Projects with matching funds and plans to include Rotary volunteers are preferred. More information is under the “Links” section at http:// portal.clubrunner.ca/270. The application deadline is Jan. 29.

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.trinity lutheranchurch.com.

Ice Age floods: The Puget Lobe Chapter meets next at 7 p.m.

Jan. 4 at the Edmonds Senior Center, 220 Railroad Ave. University of Washington geologist David Montgomery and his wife, environmental planner Anne Biklé, discuss their book “The Hidden Half of Nature” about microbes, soils and health. More info: Dale Middleton, dmiddleton1@earthlink.net or 206-784-3146.

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OBITUARIES AND MEMORIALS

Helen Marie Dow B o r n H e l e n M a r i e L a c h a p e l l e o n Au g u s t 3 , 1917, Helen was raised in a s m a l l “ c o mp a ny ” tow n i n Upper Peninsula Michigan (The Town that Henry Ford Built). When the forest economy faltered, she moved to Milwaukee, Wis., then to the Seattle, Wash. area. Helen enjoyed a long c a r e e r i n b a n k i n g b e fo r e finally retiring to become a “snowbird,” and traveling between her home in Marysville, Wash. and Mesa, Ariz., where she excelled at tournament golf in the sun.

Helen arose as usual at 7:30 a.m. on December 19, 2015, working on the Everett Herald’s crossword puzzle, followed by picking out a lovely colorcoordinated outfit from her closet. She then read her current novel for a while, until she came to the last chapter. This was to be the l a s t t i m e t h a t s h e wo u l d follow what had become her daily routine.

Helen was a beautiful woman; outwardly lovely to look at, and inwardly, with never a harsh word spoken of anyone. She will be missed by both her family, and many good friends. You all know who you are, for your tears will be staining this paper.

Helen was preceded in death by her husband, C. Norman Dow in 1999.

She is sur vived by her d a u g h te r, D o n n a H i l l (Michael); son, James Darby (Sylvia), and step-daughter, Carol Smith (Ralph); grandchildren: Nicole Jacobson (Michael), James Hill (Pam), Scott Lampman, Stephany Cochrane (Jim), and Teri Banks (David); in a d d i t i o n to n i e c e , C h e r y l Palmer (Rick) and nephew, Dick Lachapelle (Linda).

Helen also leaves many adoring, and adorable, great grandchildren.

Ser vices will be held for H e l e n a t A c a c i a Fu n e r a l Home, 14951 Bothell Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98155, at 1 : 0 0 p . m . , Tu e s d ay, December 29, 2015.

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Ronald James Pohle

Sept. 10, 1963 – Dec. 18, 2015

Ronald James Pohle, 52, of Everett passed away on December 18, 2015 after an extended illness. Ron grew up in Monroe, Wash., and worked many years at Boeing. He was a ver y generous person who loved giving out candy to kids on H a l l owe e n , r i d i n g o n h i s Can-Am motorcycle, and was an avid computer geek and gamer.

Ron was preceded in death by his parents, Jim and Mary Pohle.

He is survived by his siblings, Rose (Chuck) Seaburg, Ann (Marion) B a ke r, R ay ( Ro n i ) Po h l e , G a r y ( To n i ) Po h l e , N a n c y (Colin) Nolan, Dennis Pohle; and many nieces and nephews, Josh (Stasia), A m b e r ( J a m e n ) , J e n n i fe r, Ryan, Hunter, Shelby, Jace, Jrake, and Laraine.

Ron was not big on formal gatherings so we are having an Open House at Ray and Roni’s home on Mon, December 28, 2015, from noon-7pm for anyone who’d like to come and share s to r i e s a n d m e m o r i e s o f Ron. In lieu of flowers we ask that you donate to your f av o r i te c h a r i t y i n Ro n ’ s name.

Corey Michael Lee C o r ey M i c h a e l L e e w a s born Februar y 5, 1995, in Everett, Wash. He passed away with his family by his side on December 8, 2015, in Spokane, Wash.

C o r e y w a s a n accomplished athlete who loved the outdoors and always enjoyed an adventure. He liked to ski, h i ke , a n d f i s h . H e l ove d family and friends and could always spin a tale or make you laugh. Corey had a kind h e a r t a n d b l e s s e d m a ny people with his friendship.

He had a knack for making everyone feel like someone and he will always live on in our hearts and memories.

Corey is sur vived by his mother and father, Catherine a n d D a v i d L e e ; b r o t h e r, Cameron; grandparents and many aunts, uncles, cousins and loved ones.

A memorial service will be held at Immaculate Conception Church, 2509 Hoyt Ave in Everett on M o n d ay, D e c e m b e r 2 8 , 2015, at 1:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family has asked you make a donation to the non-profit foundation: choicesforachange.org which they have created to continue helping people as Corey had always done.

Donations can be made in Corey’s name at any Banner Bank or at: www.gofundme.com/creatin gpathways.

Danny Lee DeFreece Sr. Dan DeFreece Sr. (Big Dan) of Snohomish, Wash., age 74 , d i e d D e c e m b e r 1 9 , 2015, with his family surrounding him in Evergreen Hospice, Kirkland, Wash. Dan was born in West Seattle, Wash. December 16, 1941, and grew up and graduated in La Conner Washington.

Dan was preceded in death by m a te r n a l p a r e n t s a n d paternal parents and a brother, Mickey.

Dan served as President of PMAW and Propeller club and was a true shepherd and Overseer of the Clearview Gospel Hall Assembly.

Dan was sur vived by his wife, Eunice DeFreece, of 54 years of marriage; two sons, one daughter; 11 grandchildren, one great g r a n d s o n ; a b ro t h e r a n d three sisters.

His Funeral is scheduled for January 2, 2016, 11:00 a . m . a t A r l i n g to n G o s p e l Hall, 323 S. Stillaguamish Ave. Arlington, WA. 98223.

Dan will be laid to rest in the Arlington Cemetery immediately following the funeral.

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period, it probably would be the 20th century. I enjoy the World Wars and Cold War period, from World War II on to about the ’70s and the growth of the suburbs. How family life became what it is today is really interesting to me.

Q: So you’re hoping to turn history into a career?

A: Yes. I want to go to college and get a degree in history, then work in a museum, be a curator at a historic place or get into historic preservation.

I volunteer at the Marysville Historical Society right now. We’re getting our museum done. I’ve been learning not only about history but about the museum business itself. I really like that activity and all of the people there.

Q: How did you start volunteering in Marysville?

A: I was in fifth grade on

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I grew up in Washington, and I remember the grumbling of the 1990s when “all those Californians” were moving into town and driving up home prices, even in sleepy little Monroe. By the time I was getting a license, “a California stop” was part of my accepted (if not legal) driving vernacular.

So today, are Californians the reason we have a law about texting and driving?

Is their propensity to skip turn signals and jockey for space the real reason behind our “Seattle Freeze” reputation?

Toll lanes?

Earthquakes?!

OK, geophysics probably has more to do with that last one.

This is decidedly tongue-in-cheek, folks.

I married a Californian, and he is the safest and most polite driver I know.

One of my dearest friends is another transplant and calmly ferries her kids in their minivan.

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terrible with math. I’ve always done pretty well in most of my classes, but math is hard for me.

My brain is much better for history. I can remember names, dates, places, events, but math you have to build on and if you don’t learn this, you can’t learn that. And also just being able to be me, I guess, because as a freshman I wasn’t very assertive. I didn’t have much self confidence.

One day I just kind of said no more, no more letting people walk all over me.

Q: What advice would you give to new students?

A: Get involved now. Go to all the games. Get in a club, get in an activity. The last few years, I’ve gone to the games and done those things, but I wasn’t as involved as I could have been. This year I started doing all this stuff. I’ve had so much fun and I’m thinking, “Why didn’t I do this sooner?” My sister’s a sophomore so I’m trying to get her to go to all of this stuff with me. I’m like, “You’ll thank me later. I promise.”

But admit it, some of you got a twinge of angsty affirmation reading that list. An anti-California vibe was thoroughly imbued in Pacific Northwest life from the 1970s to the 1990s, a tough legacy to shake.

Perhaps enough former Californians have moved here now that we can move past such artificial divisions and recognize that we’re all migrants from somewhere down the line and what really matters is that we all call this beautiful area from Salish Sea to Stevens Pass our home.

That said, I do blame Californians for traffic.

Now, get out of my way.

from parking within this neighborhood. The ‘residents only parking’ signs have no legal impact for enforcement purposes … City police have been working with the School District to address off-site parking issues and to fully utilize the on-site parking available at the school.

City police have patrolled the area in question and have not found any illegally parked vehicles, nor an excessive number of vehicles parked in the neighborhood, so we believe the signs are performing as the city intended.”

This is different from formal residential permit parking zones, such as those used in Everett.

Everett requires residential parking permits near Everett Community College, for example, which allows residents to avoid being ticketed for parking longer than the time limit allowed.

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Off-campus parking dissuaded by signs Josh Hardy of Marysville writes about a sign he saw in a residential area at 88th Street NE and 81st Street NE: “Can cities enforce ‘residents only parking’ on public streets?”

City engineer Jeff Laycock responds: “The signs were posted as a result of neighborhood complaints, and as a deterrent to ward off Getchell High School students

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Sharon Lou Rasmussen Sharon Rasmussen, 78, of Lynnwood, Wash. joined our Lord December 17, 2015, af ter a courageous battle w i t h c a n c e r. S h e r r y, a s eve r yo n e c a l l e d h e r, wa s born January 20, 1937, in Minnesota. Her infectious laugh will always be remembered.

Sherry leaves behind her husband of 58 years, Jerry; three children, eight grandchildren, seven greatgrandchildren; and her best f r i e n d o f ov e r 4 0 y e a r s , Barb.

Sherry was laid to rest on December 23, 2015.

In remembrance of Sherry, a donation to any local cancer research organization of your choice is appreciated.

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the student newspaper, so I interviewed (former) Mayor Dennis Kendall. He turned out to be a huge mentor for me. He invited me to come to City Council meetings. He helped me get involved in different things in the city. Then I found the Marysville Historical Society and that’s kind of been my home ever since. Everyone there is just wonderful.

Q: What do you do for fun?

A: The historical society is my hobby. It’s so much fun. I find when I have time to relax I watch way more TV than I should.

I’m a huge fan of “Law and Order: SVU.” I really like going up to see my grandparents in Bellingham. They’re a huge part of my life. I hang out with my friends a lot. All of my friends are so busy, we do our different things, but every Tuesday we get together for trivia at Razzals.

Q: What has been your biggest challenge or obstacle in high school so far?

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In the past, Verdant provided money for separate community paramedic programs with Lynnwood and District 1. Now, they will combine efforts. They will call themselves the South Snohomish County Community Resource Paramedic Task Force.

“Working together creates efficiencies and opportunities for this program to have a greater impact in the communities we serve,” Lynnwood Fire Chief Scott Cockrum said.

Cooper will work with Lynnwood paramedic Dan Grantier as well as Kristen Thorstenson, who will focus on preventing falls, a leading cause of referrals. The grant also includes money for a parttime worker to enter data, run reports and build files so the others can spend more time in the field working with patients.

On Camano Island,

Ken Drewry, a paramedic who serves as the district’s medical services officer, is coordinating the new program. It’s called CARES, an acronym for Community Assistance, Referral and Education Service.

“We can actually provide solutions instead of just putting a Band-Aid on someone’s problem,” he said. “This will reduce non-emergency calls to 911 and lower emergency service costs for the community.”

The program will focus on the elderly, people living with chronic illnesses and the homeless. Those groups can include people with mental health issues or substance abuse.

Camano assistant fire chief Levon Yengoyan said Drewry is one of the district’s most experienced medics.

“He’s just got a passion for wanting to find a better way of serving or a different way of serving, Yengoyan said.

The assistant chief described the new program as a community effort that takes into consideration 911 data and examines patient fall numbers. It’s a departure from the status quo.

“We’re happy to do that and that’s the job we have, but at the same time, are we really doing what’s right for the patient?” he said. “Is there another service we can provide to them before they have that fall or that fourth (fire department) trip out of their house in the same day?”

The Camano district plans to monitor the community impact and potential cost savings during the next few years.

Some things might be less quantifiable, but Drewry knows the program could make a difference in quality of life.

“It is important for people to be able to age in place,” he said. “Community paramedics can help them make the connections they need to remain in their homes as long as possible.”

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Future of death penalty in doubt

By Matt Pearce Los Angeles Times

If you want to see what’s happened to the death penalty in the United States, you might look toward Oklahoma, where Richard Glossip was hours from execution twice in one month — and survived.

As a lethal injection loomed Sept. 16, an Oklahoma appeals court granted Glossip a twoweek reprieve so it could review his murder conviction for orchestrating the 1997 death of motel owner Barry Van Treese. Glossip was convicted largely on the word of the man who carried out the killing and has always maintained he is innocent.

Then, when Glossip’s death sentence wasn’t overturned, he narrowly avoided the needle again Sept. 30, when Oklahoma officials realized they didn’t have the correct drugs.

Now, Glossip’s execution — and all others in Oklahoma — are on hold indefinitely while the state reviews its procedures, throwing uncertainty into one of the nation’s last death-penalty strongholds.

Capital punishment continued a years-long decline in 2015 as America carried out its fewest executions in 24 years, and opponents say there are strong signs that the long-term future of the death penalty is in doubt.

The new year might provide significant support for forces seeking to end capital punishment. The South has largely been an exception to the diminishment of the death penalty, but even in that region there have been some signs of uncertainty about its use.

The 28 inmates executed in the U.S. this year mark a precipitous fall since the modern peak of 98 executions in 1999, when the nation’s homicide rate was much higher and the public voiced stronger worries about crime.

While a majority of Americans still favor capital punishment, surveys from Gallup and the Pew Research Center this year showed public opposition to the death penalty at its highest levels in four decades — about 37 percent, both groups found.

Some of the nation’s top officials have also registered unusual concern. President Barack Obama made headlines in October when he called the implementation of the death

Powerful storms leave 43 dead, with dozens more injured DALLAS — At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in strong tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area and caused substantial damage this weekend, while 13 people died in flooding in the Midwest. It was the latest of a succession of powerful weather events across the country, from heavy snow in New Mexico, west Texas and the Oklahoma Panhandle to flooding in parts of the Plains and Midwest. Days of tumultuous weather have led to 43 deaths overall — those in Texas, plus five in Illinois, eight in Missouri and 19 in the Southeast.

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This 2010 photo shows the death chamber of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California.

penalty “deeply troubling” in the wake of several lethal injections in 2014 that did not kill inmates as quickly or peacefully as intended.

Meanwhile, two liberal members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also signaled they would be open for a historic challenge to capital punishment.

Breyer called the death penalty “unfair, cruel and unusual” in dissent to the court’s 5-4 ruling in June that approved the chemicals Oklahoma used in its execution procedures.

While thousands of deathpenalty cases across the nation remain mired in delays and appeals, six death row inmates won exonerations this year after proving they were wrongfully convicted, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

In Alabama, Anthony Ray Hinton was 29 when he was sent to death row after being convicted of killing two fastfood workers in 1985. He was 58 when he walked free in April after experts determined they couldn’t link the bullets from the shooting to the gun that Hinton owned.

There was no other evidence that tied him to the crime.

“All they had to do was to test the gun, but when you think you’re high and mighty and you’re above the law, you don’t have to answer to nobody,”

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In this Sept. 16 photo, Robert Patton, director of the Oklahoma Department of Prisons, announces that the execution of Richard Glossip had been stayed.

Hinton told reporters after he was released, according to CNN. In the long term, the drop in executions also looks to continue due in part to state officials and local prosecutors.

U.S. states issued just 49 new death sentences in 2015, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center — the fewest since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1973.

Several states are struggling to import the needed chemicals for the few lethal injections that do have the legal approval to go ahead.

Texas, the state that regularly

carries out the nation’s most executions, handed down just two new death sentences this year. The Texas Tribune reported that it also was Texas’ lowest number of new sentences since the 1970s.

The number of states that allow executions also diminished this year as elected officials reconsidered the death penalty on moral and practical grounds.

Outgoing Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley commuted the death sentences of the state’s last four remaining death-row inmates in January — the state had already banned any more death penalties — and Connecticut’s Supreme Court banned its death penalty in August.

Legislators in Nebraska overrode a governor’s veto to successfully ban the death penalty in May, making Nebraska’s the first conservative-dominated Legislature to outlaw the death penalty since North Dakota in 1973.

But the question isn’t entirely settled.

Death-penalty supporters gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot, and Nebraska will host what promises to be a widely watched November showdown that will test the extent to which voters in a conservative state still favor capital punishment.

It’s almost a litmus test more than anything: Nebraska hasn’t executed anyone since 1997.

Dangerous bird strikes on the rise

By Joan Lowy Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The crew of a Dallas police helicopter was searching for a capsized boat last March, when there was a loud explosion and wind rushed through a huge hole in the windshield.

The pilot, Sgt. Todd Limerick, put a hand over one eye, his face covered in blood and Plexiglass shards. He kept his other hand on the controls until the co-pilot, Cpl. Laurent Lespagnol, took over and landed the aircraft.

“My first thought was that we had been shot. My second was the engine blew up,” Lespagnol said in an interview. It wasn’t until they had landed that they found the cause wedged between the cockpit seats — a 3-pound American coot, a duck-like bird.

Reports of helicopter bird strikes are up dramatically in recent years, including incidents that damage the aircraft and create the potential for crashes, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. In 2013, there were 204 reported helicopter bird strikes, a 68 percent increase from 2009 when there were 121 reports and an increase of over 700 percent since the early 2000s, said Gary Roach, an FAA helicopter safety engineer.

The increase is due partly to greater awareness among

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In 2004 photo, Parkview Samaritan helicopter pilot Brad Wilson checks the rotor blade for damage after being struck by a bird while flying, just one mile from Community Hospitals of Williams County.

pilots about the importance of reporting bird strikes since the January 2009, when US Airways Flight 1549 was ditched in New York’s Hudson River after the airliner’s two engines sucked in geese.

But another reason is that populations of large bird species are generally on the rise in North America, creating the potential for more dangerous strikes.

The Canada goose population in the U.S. and Canada increased from about 500,000 in 1980 to 3.8 million in 2013, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. During the same time period, the North American snow goose population increased from about 2.1 million to 6.6 million.

Other large-bird species with

rising populations include bald eagles, wild turkeys, turkey vultures, American white pelicans, double-crested cormorants, Sandhill cranes, great blue herons and ospreys.

Despite the increase in big birds and overall bird strikes, the number of incidents in which airliners and other fixed-wing planes suffered serious damage from a bird strike has been dropping, in part because of efforts to keep airports and their surroundings free of large birds. The reverse is true of helicopters, which fly at lower altitudes around lots of birds.

“We’re getting more severe damage, more frequent cases of birds penetrating the windshield and the risk of pilot incapacitation that could

cause fatalities for everybody there,” Roach told a recent meeting of FAA’s aviation rulemaking advisory committee.

He cited the example of a helicopter pilot in the Gulf Coast region who was flying at about 1,000 feet and 115 mph when two ducks slammed through the windshield and hit him in the face. The pilot had so much bird gore on his face, he couldn’t immediately breathe or see. Some of his teeth were knocked out, his jaw wouldn’t close for a month and he needed stitches. But he still managed to land the helicopter without injuring any of the other five people on board.

The report on the incident read: “Bird strike. Landing uneventful,” Roach said.

“But that really didn’t represent what was going on in the cockpit.”

One of the most deadly helicopter bird strikes occurred on Jan. 4, 2009, when a red-tailed hawk smashed through the windshield of a Sikorsky S-76C ferrying oil-rig workers. Damage created by the bird shut off fuel to the aircraft’s engines, sending it spiraling into a Louisiana swamp and killing eight of the nine people on board.

An engineer for the Helicopter Association International, which represents operators, told the advisory committee that air medical services are reporting about one helicopter bird strike a week.

Grieving relatives and friends of two people shot and killed by Chicago police said Sunday the slayings raised concerns about why officers “shoot first and ask questions later,” adding that law enforcement officials had failed the city’s residents. Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was killed early Saturday by police responding to a domestic disturbance, along with downstairs neighbor Bettie Jones, 55, police said. Jones was hit accidentally by the gunfire, police said.

Both victims were black.

Calif.: Cinematographer dies Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood’s most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the Woody Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93. Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Jeff Wexler, said. A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscarwinning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

AROUND THE WORLD Germany: ‘Mein Kampf’ returns in new edition For 70 years since the Nazi defeat in World War II, copyright law has been used in Germany to prohibit the publication of “Mein Kampf” — the notorious anti-Semitic tome in which Adolf Hitler set out his ideology. That will change next month when a new edition with critical commentary, the product of several years’ work by a publicly funded institute, hits the shelves.

While historians say it could help fill a gap in Germans’ knowledge of the era, Jewish groups are wary and German authorities are making it clear that they still won’t tolerate any new “Mein Kampf” without annotations.

Nigeria: Boko Haram attack kills 15 people Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and two female suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 15 people were killed. As people fled, a woman ran into a suburb yelling “Boko Haram, Boko Haram.” She detonated herself, according to village head Bulama Isa. As a rocket-propelled grenade exploded, a second woman blew herself up, according to Isa. The village chief, 10 of his children and others were killed in Duwari, an outlying suburb of Maiduguri, according to residents Ahmed Bala and Umar Ibrahim.

Iraq: Forces taking Ramadi Islamic State fighters are putting up a tough fight in the militant-held city of Ramadi, slowing down the advance of Iraqi forces, a senior Iraqi commander said Sunday. Iraq launched the operation to retake the Anbar provincial capital, which was captured by IS militants in May, but after an initial push across the Euphrates River, their progress stalled. Gen. Ismail al-Mahlawi, head of the Anbar military operations, said the advance was hampered by suicide bombers, snipers and booby traps.

Al-Mahlawi cited residents in the area as telling his troops that the IS militants had withdrawn from the neighborhood of Albu Alwan, adjacent to the complex.

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Coffeehouse quality comes home

By Melissa Crowe For The Herald Business Journal

LYNNWOOD — At Seattle Coffee Gear, a coffee geek’s paradise, you can have your espresso and drink it, too.

Victor Gehlen, president and founder of the company, is helping people find the answer to making excellent coffee at home.

“There’s no wrong way to make coffee you love,” Gehlen said.

But when it comes to diluted and bitter coffee water, “it can be so much better than that,” he said.

In November, Seattle Coffee Gear opened The Wall, a new feature at its flagship location in Alderwood mall.

It’s a multi-roaster concept designed to address the foundation of good coffee: good beans.

Offering more than 30 specialty roasts ready to sample via pour-over or espresso brew method, Gehlen said the goal is to help people make coffee they love at home.

The business started nearly 10 years ago.

Gehlen, who had a latte-a-day habit, was frustrated at the lack of options for home kitchens.

“I’d buy at least one coffee a day, and that’s a lot of money,” he said.

He recalls his failed efforts to find decent at-home gear. He picked out a $300 machine, the most expensive on the shelf at a department store, hoping for the best only to have his dreams of full-bodied espresso crema shot down.

“I said, ‘This is going to work,’ but I made one shot and I could never get another good one,” he said.

After an endless and disappointing search, Gehlen saw an opportunity. He left his corporate job and opened his own

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Joe Kalal brews samples for customers at Seattle Coffee Gear at Lynnwood’s Alderwood mall.

business, aiming to give people tools and knowledge to make better coffee.

What started in his Lynnwood garage in 2006 has blossomed into the nation’s second-leading independent online espresso machine dealer and retail locations in Lynnwood, Bellevue and Portland, Oregon.

The first store opened in 2007 in Alderwood Mall. Gehlen had purchased a set of machines to get “hands-on experience” when the company’s vice president, Gail Williams, came on board.

With enough product to show customers, a store made sense.

As the industry grows into more of an experience-based business much like wineries and craft breweries, Seattle Coffee Gear could be headed to other markets

The Wall offers more than 30 specialty roasts available for sampling at Seattle Coffee Gear at Alderwood mall.

including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York,

Gehlen said.

“People’s tastes have matured,

especially in Seattle,” Gehlen said.

For $7,000, you can go home with the La Marzocco GS/3 Espresso Machine, featuring dual stainless steel boilers, powerful steaming action, and more gizmos than any caffeine-fiend could wish for.

It may sound pricey, but people already spend a lot on their coffee fix, Gehlen said.

A 12-ounce vanilla latte costs about $4. One every workday over a year adds up to about $1,000 not including tips, gas, parking and other expenses.

But Gehlen knows not everyone’s budget is the same and a good cup of coffee isn’t about how much you spend on it.

The Chemex classic glass and wood pour-over vessel runs about $40 and is one of the staff picks for coffee gear.

Brendan Field, a marketing communications specialist with the company, said he considers a good burr coffee bean grinder the most important asset to a good cup of coffee. The starting price is about $30 and goes into the thousands.

His favorite coffee is a pourover weighed and brewed to perfection.

“I like the process of it,” he said.

Kaylie Kipe, marketing director for the company, said the company even offers in-person classes and online videos to teach people how to pull the perfect shot or pour exquisite latte art.

Whether shoppers are looking for a simple dripper or the Rolls Royce of espresso machines, the staff prides itself on ensuring people spend their money wisely and end up with a cup of coffee they’ll crave every morning.

“At the end of the day, they should enjoy their cup of coffee,” Gehlen said.

KSER host shares his passion for finance

By Quinn Russell Brown For The Herald Business Journal

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EVERETT — Chuck Noel looked down at a page full of grocery ads, scanning the vibrant checkerboard for deals.

“These things are important,” he said. “Not just coupons, but sales.”

Chex Mix comes in 8-ounce bags, he explained, which retail for a little over $3. But time it right and you can get them for a buck.

Noel eats one of those bags a week. That’s more than 50 bags a year, which, at full price, would cost him around $175. But he never pays full price for Chex Mix. “If I’m getting them for a buck, I’m gonna only pay 50 bucks. So I just saved myself $125,” he said, then rattled off other products commonly on sale: Cheerios, Wheat Thins, eggs. “You do that with 10 different items, all of a sudden you’ve got more than a thousand dollars in savings.”

Last time Chex Mix went on sale, Noel bought 10 bags. He also scored lower-level symphony tickets for $25 apiece, and by sticking to second-run showings at Crest Cinema in Shoreline, he never shells out more than $4 for a film (“The last time I went to a regular theater, it was $4,” he said).

Since 1991, Noel has shared this passion for penny-pinching on his radio show, “Getting Your Dough to Rise,” which airs once a month on KSER 90.7 FM. Some of his talking points, such as couponing, may sound a bit oldfangled to younger listeners.

But others, like explaining how Facebook bought the mobile messaging company WhatsApp, are as millennial as it gets.

The hourlong show, an unpaid gig for the 73-year-old Noel, features guests from around the financial world. He’s interviewed Ken Fisher, a Forbes Magazine columnist and billionaire investment analyst; Paul Kangas of PBS Nightly Business Report; Paul Solman of PBS News Hour; and Richard Thaler, best-selling author and University of Chicago economist.

Local guests have included business journalists, faculty from the University of Washington and the director of the Washington State Lottery (Noel asked her about her retirement plan).

His method for securing sources: Call them up and ask.

How he tells if they’ll be good for the show: “If it fits.”

Tom Clendening, KSER’s station manager, credits Noel’s lineup of heavy hitters to his three decades of financial experience: “He knows an awful lot of people. He’s got a pretty good web of influence — a pretty good Rolodex.”

He’s also got a pretty good audience. “Getting Your Dough to Rise” is one of KSER’s most popular programs with callers, both during the live broadcast and in the weeks leading up to it (“When’s Chuck on again?” is a common query).

Added Clendening: “He sounds like you’re sitting down at a bar with a guy who’s got a lot of information and can give it to you

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Chuck Noel, who hosts KSER’s “Getting Your Dough to Rise,” has spent nearly 25 years giving financial advice over the airwaves in Everett.

pretty straight.”

“I assume there’s always someone listening for the first time,” Noel said. “Concepts like paying yourself first, planning for emergencies, the basic steps of a financial plan — I like to get that out.”

Noel’s interest in the almighty dollar traces back to majoring in economics at Brown University.

The undergrad degree took him nine years to complete thanks to a hiatus spent working at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, in a naval shipyard and as a plaster pattern maker at Boeing. “I was still in the early age of exploring and going where the winds blew,” he said.

After graduating, he worked at IBM and as a headmaster at a secondary school in Kenya. An ailing mother brought him back to Everett, and after she passed

veloping land in the greater Puget Sound area for more than 35 years.

Thanks to a grant from the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), sponsored by the USDA, 24.64 KWH of solar equipment will be installed at Rents Due Ranch in Stanwood. Fire Mountain Solar of Mount Vernon will oversee the installation. Farmer Mike Shriver of Rents Due Ranch

in 1982, he shifted his career to financial advising.

The first episode of “Getting Your Dough to Rise” aired soon after KSER launched in 1991.

Noel, who lived near the station at the time, heard they were looking for someone with an interest in music and a big record collection. He owned a few hundred vinyl LPs, so he went in to talk. He walked out set to host a show on finance.

“I don’t quite remember how that conversation evolved, but it worked out fine,” Noel said.

The early shows were taped in advance. “Mainly for my benefit, since I didn’t feel confident enough to go live,” he said. But they weren’t easy to put together.

Noel was a perfectionist, so after recording a show he would go through and slice out all the “um’s” and “ah’s,” then piece it back together.

These days the show airs live with all its imperfections.

When he speaks both on and off the air, Noel is quick to draw from a bank of one-liners. You might call them Noelisms, had he been the one to come up with them.

“The more I know, the more I know the less I know,” he said, paraphrasing Einstein. “I think that’s mine, but somehow I might have taken that from someone else. You’ve never heard that before, right?”

Whatever will be, will be. The earlier the better. The past doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Ancient Greek philosophers

completed the application last spring and in October learned the farm had been awarded a grant.

Any Lab Test Now in Everett has announced that Eliza “Leah” Neel is the recipient of the 2015 Medical Assistant of the Year award. Neel will receive a cash award as part of the recognition.

She joined Any Lab Test Now in 2011.

are a common source. “One of the key things they came up with was, ‘Everything in moderation,’” Noel said. “Socrates came up with it. But I’m sure he stole it from someone.”

Perhaps his favorite adage of them all: “If it’s trite, it’s probably right.”

Trite means overused, Noel explained, but that’s only because people aren’t listening.

“When you tell someone they should stop drinking because they might be an alcoholic, maybe they’ve heard it over and over again, but they didn’t stop,” he said.

In other words, the formulas for financial success are out there — pay yourself first, don’t familiarize yourself with debt — it’s just about sticking to them.

Noel retired from financial advising five years ago. It didn’t make sense to seek out new clients as he neared his 70s. His old ones had been reliable over the years, but they couldn’t stick around forever.

“My income was falling off due to different reasons, including things like deaths,” he said. “I figured it was a good time to pack it in.”

As for the radio gig, he’s staying put for now. It’s entertaining and he enjoys the company, and that fulfills another would-be Noelism: “Do the things you want to do.” It’s not the most original piece of advice, but it can’t hurt to hear it. After all, Chuck Noel might be trite, but people are listening.

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Stick to the facts on proposal store. Such a “clinic” isn’t a health system, or a hospital, or a pharmacy. The proposed partnership doesn’t include Providence taking over or running Walgreens pharmacies.

Which negates the expressed concern about the availability of prescription and over-thecounter contraception and abortion drugs in Walgreens stores and pharmacies. In 2013, the FDA mandated that the sale of the morning-after pill known as Plan B should be available without a prescription for teenagers starting at age 15. That means it’s available over the counter, or should be. That has everything to do with drug stores, in this case Walgreens, and nothing to do with a Providence walkin clinic inside stores.

The groups’ most disingenuous, and harmful, argument, however, is that a Providence walk-in clinic, (or a clinic run by anyone, for that matter)

located inside a drugstore, would ever be involved, in any way, in a terminally ill patient obtaining a prescription to end his or her life through Washington or Oregon’s “death with dignity” laws. One does not go to a walk-in clinic in search of a physician to ask for a prescription to end their lives. That sounds like propaganda from those who were opposed to Washington and Oregon’s laws.

To end one’s life in this manner requires meeting extremely stringent eligibility rules, and requires two separate doctors to determine that all the criteria have been met.

Terminally ill patients already have doctors; these are the people they would need to help them make use of this measure.

The letter also asked whether Walgreens would continue to serve all customers equally, regardless of sexual

orientation or gender identity, the AP reported. It questioned whether transgender men or women would be able to get a prescription for hormone therapy at the clinics.

Again, this confuse the proposed clinics with the existing pharmacies. If one’s doctor prescribed hormone therapy, yes, one can pick that up at a Walgreens pharmacy.

But doctors in walk-in clinics, regardless of who runs them, treat colds, sprained ankles or other minor illnesses.

Which is pretty much what Providence said in response to the letter. It also noted that clinic doctors can refer patients to primary or specialty care providers. Walgreens said it had no plans to change its current policies.

Watchdog groups play a crucial role in all areas of life.

But stirring up scary scenarios based on bad assumptions is harmful and unhelpful.

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Milbank snarkier than commenters The Everett Herald shuts down the public commenting site claiming people are not living up to its standards of nicety, and then the Opinion page prints a column of snarky, hateful comments by Dana Milbank. (“GOP must rally around an alternative to that putz.”)

Quality journalism.

Nick Shultz Lake Forest Park

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A few gift ideas for Clinton In reference to Jennifer Rubin’s Dec. 23 commentary, “If they make ‘nice’ list, some gift ideas”: I think that a similar list for Hillary should include: 1. Flak jacket and helmet: Should she come under sniper fire again.

2. Goodwill gift card: Being “so broke” after leaving the White House.

3. Gift certificate for drivers’ school: In case she decides to get behind the wheel after 25 years of not driving.

4. Softball: To help her answer questions during Democratic debates and fawning media interviews.

5. Russian language lessons: To understand the proper translation of “reset.”

6. Minimum wage of $15 an hour: Should she give a speech in the town of SeaTac. 7. Get out of jail free card:

Which any of us would need if we committed as many security breaches as she did with her personal email account and private server.

I am sure that with these gifts under the Clinton tree, it will be a wonderful and joyous holiday.

Tony Fortino Everett

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Despite reports, it’s not succeeding The Obama administration is touting early success in enrollment for Obamacare for 2016. (Dec. 18 article, “Obamacare enrollment surges to nearly 6 million.”)

In truth, the program is headed toward anything but success. During this year we

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have heard that more than half of the 23 approved health-care cooperatives are planning to close up shop due to substantial losses. In addition to this, one of the country’s largest for-profit Obamacare insurer, United Health Care. plans to opt out in 2017 because of large, projected losses, as well. Many more insurers will follow.

The reason for these losses

are many fold, but are mainly because of the government subsidies, in the event they had operating losses were only a fraction of what they were promised. They are between a rock and a hard place in that they dare not raise their already sky high deductibles and premiums to cover these losses. Another reason is, as we expected, the plans have attracted an unusual number of sick and Medicaid enrollees in states that did not expand Medicaid. It looks like the more people that sign up for the Affordable Care Act the more the insurance companies lose. I’ve long said that it was evident that this whole scheme was designed to fail so the Democrats could come to the rescue with a government “single payer system” We are well on our way toward that prediction.

Don Williamson Arlington

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More young adults enroll in Obamacare

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olitics aside, the success of Obamacare has always depended mainly on economics: If it can’t attract the right mix of customers, the program is doomed. On this score, the latest figures from the Department of Health and Human Services are encouraging, even if it’s too soon to declare victory.

More young people — who on average are in good health, and who help defray the cost of insuring the sick — are enrolling in Obamacare.

Almost 1 million new customers age 34 or younger had signed up for coverage starting Jan. 1, 2016, an increase of almost 50 percent compared

with the same period last year.

That age group made up 41 percent of first-time enrollees, up from 38 percent year ago.

But the department also announced Tuesday that 8.3 million people in total are enrolled for coverage in 2016 on the 38 state exchanges operated by the federal government, almost 2 million more than at the same point last year. Given that the Congressional Budget Office initially projected that 21 million people would be enrolled by this point, it’s hard to say the program is going according to plan.

Nonetheless, getting more young people to sign up is crucial. Youth is a proxy for cost: Because people in their 20s and early 30s generally use fewer medical services

than those who are older, their participation helps keep per-person expenses — and, by extension, premiums — down.

True, the failure to sign up young people wouldn’t by itself cause Obamacare to fail. The program partially reimburses insurers that lose money on the exchanges, and federal subsidies help defray the cost of higher consumer premiums. But a failure to attract young, healthy customers would make Obamacare more expensive to taxpayers.

It’s not clear what’s driving young people to sign up in greater numbers. One incentive is probably that the penalty for being uninsured will increase next year to at least $695. Or maybe they’re realizing that coverage isn’t

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

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IN OUR VIEW | Providence-Walgreens partnership

It should be reassuring, in a watch-dog, checks-andbalances kind of way, that the American Civil Liberties Union and 18 other groups are concerned about the national drug store chain Walgreens’ plan to partner with Providence Health, a Catholic health system, to run in-store health clinics in Washington and Oregon. The ACLU’s stated concerns, however, are off the mark, and not reassuring, in that they don’t correspond at all to the actual proposal.

The groups sent a letter to Walgreens, the Associated Press reported, asking whether the clinics would allow access to contraception, abortion drugs and prescriptions to help terminally ill patients end their own lives, which is legal in both states.

The problem: Those aren’t the services provided by walkin clinics housed inside a drug

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as expensive as they thought.

At any rate, this development diminishes the danger that state exchanges will collapse under the weight of lopsided risk pools, rising premiums and declining consumer demand.

In any case, the White House can’t afford to get complacent about Obamacare. The trend of rising copayments, deductibles and other out-of-pocket payments remains a concern with exchange coverage. But the most lethal threat to the viability of reform — a dearth of youngsters with any interest in health insurance — appears to be subsiding.

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bout the Obamacare website rollout: So-rry.

Yes, it’s a mess. Tears of apology have flooded the streets of Washington, raising the Potomac to dangerous levels.

But the federal health plan’s website will be fixed.

(The state exchanges seem to have it right.)

Once Americans can get inside the doors, most should FROMA HARROP appreciate their options.

To use real estate parlance, Point is, Obampolicies are acare is not currently a being canceled “drive-by.”

Between because they now and then, though, don’t offer the expect basic coverage continued required under histrionics as only the new law.

Washington can do them.

Republicans frame the program as a disaster, and Democrats are into a defensive crouch, as they are wont to do. But when the situation resolves itself, most Americans will forget what they were mad about.

Some non-website concerns do deserve a respectful explanation right away. It is true that a small percentage of people are seeing their private policies canceled. This does not affect the great majority — those covered by their employer, in Medicare or Medicaid, or with a high-quality private plan. Some may have to pay more for better coverage — or possibly not. They’d know if the damn HealthCare.gov site were functioning.

Critics are correct that the president was — how shall we put it? — inaccurate in assuring the public that the Affordable Care Act would not affect people happy with their current private coverage. Point is, policies are being canceled because they don’t offer the basic coverage required under the new law. And more to the point, many who bought these policies are being cheated and don’t know it.

We speak of the cheap mini-med insurance plans that, Consumer Reports writes, “may be worse than none at all.” They are often issued by big-name insurance companies, leaving buyers the impression that they have serious coverage.

Sure, Fox News can dredge up lots of “victims” to insist they were happy with their substandard coverage.

That’s because they haven’t had a medical crisis yet.

Consumer Reports offers the example of Judith Goss of Macomb, Michigan. The 48-year-old was calmly going through life with a $65-a-month policy from Cigna’s Starbridge plan. Then she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Goss found herself facing a $30,000 hospital bill, with medical “coverage” limiting payments to $1,000 a year for outpatient treatment and $2,000 for hospital care.

Frightened by the cost, the former Talbots saleswoman put off treatment until after her tumor had tripled in size.

So what was Goss getting for her $780-a-year premiums? If she’d had no insurance, at least she’d have known she wasn’t covered for cancer. Depending on income, someone in her position might now qualify for subsidies to bring the premiums for good coverage way down. And yes, under Obamacare, an insurer can’t turn anyone away because of a pre-existing condition.

On to the other complaint: Obamacare makes those with decent incomes help the worse-off obtain health coverage. Not a terrible thing, in this opinion, but also not the full story. We who pay full freight have already been subsidizing the uninsured who show up at hospitals for “free” care.

Now most everyone will have insurance.

And even the wealthy may come out ahead, as the reforms force some sanity into our ludicrously wasteful health care system. For those in fine health or with high incomes, one can envision the money saved from the efficiencies eventually exceeding the cost of the subsidies.

Foes and even some friends of the reforms are calling those compelled to pay more for coverage or subsidize others “losers” in Obamacare.

“Loser today, winner tomorrow” may not be the most inspired rallying call. And the breakdown of the federal website sure hasn’t helped the education process.

But all shall be repaired. Once the reality sinks in, eyes will dry.

Email Froma Harrop at fharrop@gmail. com.

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ROOTS Genealogy, Arlington: The Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society meets 1 p.m. second Tuesdays at Arlington Free Methodist Church, 730 E. Highland Drive. The library is open select days at 215 S. French Ave. More info: 360-435-4838, www.stillygen.org.

Genealogy, Snohomish: The Genealogy Workgroup meets 10 a.m. fourth Saturdays at the Snohomish Library, 311 Maple Ave. Genealogy, south county: Sno-Isle Genealogical Society meets 6:30 p.m. first Wednesdays (except July and August) in room 13 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Family History Center, 22015 48th Ave. W, Mountlake Terrace. On Jan. 6,

Sara Jane Ruggles discusses recording your family history. Research library open 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesdays, Thurs-

days and Saturdays at 19827 Poplar Way in Lynnwood’s Heritage Park. More info: 425-775-6267.

Genealogy, Whidbey: Whidbey Island Genealogical Searchers meets 1-3 p.m. second Tuesdays (except July and August) at Fire Station 25, 2720 Heller Road, Oak Harbor. More info: Ruth Hancock, 360-675-4086.

Historical Society, Granite Falls: Meets next at 7 p.m. the last Monday of the month (except August) at The Village retirement center, 302 N Alder Ave. All welcome. No cost to attend.

LODGES Daughters of Norway: A sisterhood aimed at preserving Norwegian heritage. Thelma Lodge 26 in Everett meets 10 a.m. third Saturdays (except June through August) at Normanna Lodge, 2725 Oakes Ave. Ingeborg Lodge 43 in Stanwood meets 10 a.m. second Saturdays (except July and August) at Sons of Norway Hall, 9910 270th St. NE. More info: www.daughtersofnorway.org.

Steve Felker took this photo of a chilly-looking hummingbird in north Everett.

Elks: A fraternal order focused on charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity with an emphasis on patriotism and belief in God. Lodge 479 in Everett meets 7 p.m. first and third Thursdays at 2802 Hoyt Ave. Lodge 2171 in Lynnwood meets 7:30 p.m. first and third Wednesdays at 6620 196th St. SW. More info: www. elks.org, 425-252-4179 (Everett), 425-776-2171 (Lynnwood).

Fraternal Order of Eagles: “People Helping People” in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice and equality. Local Aeries are in Everett, Snohomish, Lynnwood, Granite Falls, Stanwood and Sultan.

More info: www.foe.com.

Freemasons: The Masonic Fraternity claims to be the oldest Fraternity in the world and seeks men (Masons) wishing to become better men through service and self-improvement. Local Lodges are in Arlington, Edmonds, Everett, Granite Falls, Marysville, Monroe, Snohomish and Stanwood. More info: freemason-wa.org.

Knights of Columbus: A Catholic fraternal benefit society.

There are Councils in Everett, Marysville, Mill Creek and Snohomish, as well as Assemblies in Everett and Lynnwood. More info: www.kofc.org.

David W. Rash stopped to reflect and take this photo on the Tommy Thompson Trail in Anacortes.

Shriners: Fraternity based on fun, fellowship and the Masonic principles of brotherly love, relief and truth. The local temple is Nile Shriners, 6601 244th St. SW, Mountlake Terrace. More info: 425-774-9611, www.nileshrine.org.

SCHOOL WINNERS delivered it all before leaving for winter break.

Marketing teacher Ty Payne and his DECA students hold a holiday food drive each year. This year’s drive broke all previous records.

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Claire Dobler and Sam Watson from Marysville Pilchuck High School were honored at a recent Marysville School Board meeting as the Soroptomist Students of the Month for November.

MPHS Soroptimists Claire Dobler and Sam Watson from Marysville Pilchuck High School were honored as the Soroptimist Students of the Month for November. They each received $100 scholarships.

Dobler has a 3.99 GPA and is a member of the senior class cabinet, Honor Society, special needs prom committee, and was a Homecoming court nominee.

Watson has a 3.9 GPA and has been involved in football and track all four years of high school. He also is a member of the senior class cabinet and Honor Society.

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Arlington High School DECA students (from left) Edward Radion, Isaac Buchanan, Ayrieann Cisneros, Abigail Palmer, and Cameron Davis package a room full of food donations for delivery to local families and the Arlington Food Bank. It was a recordbreaking year for the DECA club’s annual holiday food drive.

DECA spreads cheer Arlington High School DECA students collected 22,937 food and grocery items as well as $8,307.19 as part of an annual holiday food drive.

The donations helped provide meals and gifts to 32 families. Leftover food donations were given to the Arlington Food Bank. Pet food donations were given to the Everett Animal Shelter.

And excess monetary funds were given to the family of a classmate who lost their home in a fire earlier in December.

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Arlington High School DECA students Autumn Doyle (left) and McKenna Hering move a box assembled with donated food from the club’s recordbreaking holiday food drive.

with donations, which teens collected from the community at the Arlington Walmart and the Arlington and Smokey Point Safeway stores.

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Jack Zhou of Edmonds, who attends King’s High School in Shoreline, has been awarded a $20,000 Jack Zhou scholarship through the H&R Block Budget Challenge.

The personal financial education program rewards students for mastering real-world budgeting and personal finance decisionmaking. In the simulation, students paid virtual bills, saved for retirement and repaid student loans.

Zhou was one of 66 winners nationwide.

Schools of Distinction The Center for Educational Effectiveness named its 2015 School of Distinction Award Winners. The schools showed the most improvement over a five-year period in reading and math, and in graduation rates for high schools. Statewide, 90 schools were named award winners.

Local winners were Garfield Elementary School (Everett School District), English Crossing Elementary (Lakewood), Bio Med Academy on the campus of Marysville Getchell High School (Marysville), and Cathcart Elementary and Machias Elementary (both in Snohomish). Bio Med Academy was a repeat winner.

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Many of the schools face challenges that are associated with lower test scores. Seven out of 10 students at Garfield Elementary, for example, qualify for free or reducedprice meals based on family income. Many are still learning to speak, read and write in English.

“Improving scores one or two years in a row is an accomplishment,” Everett Superintendent Gary Cohn said. “Holding and achieving that continuous improvement standard for five years is very difficult.”

Sons of Italy: The Mille Cugini Lodge meets 7-9 p.m. third Wednesdays at the Red Barn in Jennings Park, 6915 Armar Road, Marysville. Meetings conclude with a pasta dinner and raffle.

More info: riccivilla@hotmail.com, www.glnw.org/millecugini. htm.

Sons of Norway: A fraternal group focused on preserving Norwegian heritage. Lodges are in Bothell, Edmonds, Everett and Stanwood. More info: www.sofn.com.

THIS & THAT Ice Age Floods: The Puget Lobe Chapter meets next at 7 p.m.

Jan. 4 at the Edmonds Senior Center, 220 Railroad Ave. University of Washington geologist David Montgomery and his wife, environmental planner Anne Biklé, discuss their book “The Hidden Half of Nature” about microbes, soils and health. More info: Dale Middleton, dmiddleton1@earthlink.net or 206-784-3146.

Sisco Heights Community Club: Meets first Friday, except December at the Club House, 13527 99th Ave. NE, Arlington.

Potluck dinner at 6 p.m.; regular meeting, 7:15 p.m. Games and music follow. More info: Don King, 360-658-8107.

Toastmasters: There are multiple local chapters of this nonprofit club that helps members improve speaking and leadership skills. More info: www.toastmasters.org.

Willow Place: Activities for adults with developmental disabilities are offered 9 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays at Quilceda Community Services, 9610 48th Drive NE, Marysville. Exercise, crafts, games and music. Cost is $15. More info: 360-653-2324.

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Kiwanis: There are multiple local chapters of this international service club. More info: http://locator.kiwanis.org/FindAClub.

Daryn Bundy (right) and Mitch DePriest of the Marysville Rotary recognize Marysville Pilchuck High School student Tiffany Johnstone for her school involvement and volunteer activities.

Lions Club: There are multiple local chapters of the world’s largest service club organization. More info: directory.lionsclubs.org.

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Boeing: The Boeing Retiree Volunteer Program Sno-King Bluebills chapter meets 1 p.m. fourth Thursdays most months, with a social at 12:30 p.m., at the Boeing Activity Center, 6400 36th Ave. W., Everett. More info: www.bluebills.org, 425-259-4309.

Tiffany Johnstone, a Running Start student from Marysville Pilchuck High School, was recognized by the local Rotary Club for her commitment to community service as an AVID tutor at the high school and middle school levels, Rotary auction volunteer, and Marysville food bank volunteer. Johnstone also is a commander with the school’s Navy Junior ROTC program.

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Rotary: There are multiple local chapters of this international service organization of business and professional leaders. More info: www.rotary.org.

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NARFE: The National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees meets 12:30 p.m. third Wednesdays (except June to August) at Evergreen Lanes, 5111 Claremont Way, Everett. Lunch at 11:30 a.m. More info: www.2.whidbey.net/fredt/membership193.htm, or Linda Cline at 360-794-5851.

Public employees, Everett: The Retired Public Employees Council of Washington Chapter 6 (Everett area) meets 1:30 p.m. first Tuesdays (September to June) at the Carl Gipson Senior Center of Everett, 3025 Lombard Ave. More info: Jim Brandley, 425-337-0884.

Public employees, Lynnwood: The Retired Public Employees Council of Washington Chapter 37 (Lynnwood area) meets 1 p.m. first Thursdays (September to June) at the Mountlake Terrace Library, 23300 58th Ave. W. More info: Brenda Williams, 425-4865051.

Other interest groups are listed throughout the month. Send calendar items to newstips@heraldnet.com.

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Homeless families face a ‘vicious cycle’

By Patty Hastings The Columbian

COLUMBIA — Kaylin Tompkins sits cross-legged on the carpet surrounded by her four children. She tickles them, cuddles them and asks them questions in that high-pitched mom voice reserved for little ones.

Karly, 7, sits quietly, hands folded, on her mom’s leg while 1½-year-old AJ dives into his mom’s lap. The twins — Kamryn and Kristina — lie on their stomachs, giggling.

“I know, I don’t have enough lap for you all,” Tompkins says.

This floor where they play is not their floor. The toys around them are not their toys. The beds where they rest their heads at night, along with all of the other furniture in this basement, are not theirs, either. The lit Christmas tree and stockings on the mantle were a surprise gift from the family that lives upstairs and owns the house they’re staying in.

Tompkins’ family of five may not look it, but they’re homeless.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. While at the Longview Emergency Support Shelter a couple of months ago, Tompkins, 29, got a housing voucher that would partially cover rent while she dug herself out of poverty. But she couldn’t find a landlord that would accept her voucher before the family’s two-month stay at the shelter ended. She thought she would fare better in Clark County.

They have lived in the Bonnin family’s basement ever since.

“It makes me as a parent feel kind of like a failure,” Tompkins said.

But she is far from alone.

Miles away, Donna Pinaula and two of her children sleep at a Vancouver homeless shelter. Another family, the Hilenskis, stay in a room at the Woodland Motel 6. All three of these families are among the hidden homeless — people in temporary indoor living arrangements who are struggling to improve their situations. Compounding their crisis is the very nature of those temporary arrangements. Eventually, for one reason or another, they have to move on and start over again.

Homelessness, whether people are indoors or outdoors, is transient.

With rising rents and vacancy rates estimated to be less than 2 percent in Clark County, those on the bottom financial rung have been squeezed out of the rental market. That relationship between homelessness and affordable housing is clear to Andy Silver, who has headed the Council for the Homeless for more than three years.

“We built a homelessness system that is almost 100 percent reliant on the private rental market.

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Kaylin Tompkins gives her twins bottles in the waiting room of a doctor’s office in Portland, Oregon, on Nov. 9.

The private rental market dynamics right now don’t support that relationship,” said Silver. “The housing market broke the homelessness system.”

Lingering impacts Ideally, Tompkins would’ve smoothly transitioned from the shelter to affordable subsidized housing. Maybe, in a perfect world, the family never would’ve had to go to the shelter to start with. The steps built into the homeless system are supposed to limit the amount of time that families are exposed to homelessness, as the experience has adverse impacts on people whatever their age.

Even resilient youngsters, like Tompkins’ happygo-lucky 7-month-old twins, carry the stress of homelessness.

That’s a cost that the community and its taxpayers will have to bear down the road, Silver said. The more people who are priced out of housing and end up homeless, the greater the cost.

“Kaylin and her kids are going to pay for it in the stress and the horrible experience they’re having right now,” he said. “We’re also going to pay for it in the community in the costs of any sort of negative health outcomes that her kids have or negative education outcomes. All those things cost the community more and more money because we didn’t provide them the support they needed at the beginning.”

‘This is hard times’ Becoming employed is tough for 38-year-old Pinaula. She’s been unemployed since 2012, having last worked at the now-shuttered bakery at Albertsons.

She’s been in and out of shelters and stayed outside in tents.

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Donna Pinaula (left) helps her children Johnny Pinaula, 7, and Shyanne Tanguileg, 16, get ready as they slowly wake up at 6:45 a.m. Nov. 17 after sleeping on the floor of the St. Andrew Lutheran Church gym in Vancouver.

“I’m showing my kids this is hard times. This is no lifestyle for anybody,” Pinaula said, who’s a mother of six.

“This is the last time we’re going to be homeless ever again.”

Securing housing wouldn’t solve all of Pinaula’s problems. It wouldn’t erase her poverty or her gaps in employment. But, it could provide the stability she needs to pursue a more meaningful job search and offer a brighter future for her children, Silver said.

“There’s the clear role that stable housing plays in helping people live whole, successful lives,” he said.

“You can see all of the things that happen when that stability isn’t there — all the things that are made harder, more expensive, more stressful for families.”

During the day, Pinaula takes the bus wherever she needs to go, whether she’s dropping off a résumé, going to her support group at the YWCA, getting food, washing her clothes at a laundromat or getting things out of storage. All the travel eats up time that could be used to better her situation.

“What it means is people are spending their entire days just trying to scrape by with the very, very basics,” Silver said.

Vicious cycle The Hilenski family, who live in a single room at the Motel 6, are up for leaving and going somewhere they can afford. It doesn’t matter if they have to leave Woodland.

“I want to go where you can be human. I don’t feel like we’re human,” said Barbara Hilenski, 55. They don’t go to many places outside of the motel room; they can’t afford to, after all.

The family of four can’t find a landlord that will rent to them because they have an eviction and bad credit on their record. With such a high demand for rentals, landlords have options and are more likely to pick tenants with better history.

So, they’re holed up in a small hotel with a small array of options.

“Motels are getting filled up with people who are homeless, basically,” Silver said. “They’re burning through money that could be used as a security deposit. So, it creates this cycle.”

Mission-driven The region needs someone who makes it their mission to break the cycle by renting to families like these, Silver said.

“Most landlords are doing it as their job, as a business, as a way to feed their families,” he said. If we don’t have other people in the market who are missiondriven and doing it to give families a safe, stable place, then their experiences are just going to happen over and over again across our community, Silver added.

“We have some gaping holes in our community around who’s really looking at funding sources outside our community to help,” said Jennifer Rhoads, president of the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington.

It could be that the Council for the Homeless leads that charge, or an existing housing nonprofit such as Second Step Housing or Columbia Non-Profit Housing could get additional support, in terms of funding and talent, to support more, bigger projects.

“I think we’re going to have more clarity over the next six to 12 months,” Rhoads said. “As much as we all want to fix the problem, this is a kind of complicated, long-term problem. Some people probably think, ‘Why is this taking so long?’ We will be having this conversation for years, but I think there’s really good movement right now.”

The Community Foundation educates philanthropists on ways to invest their charitable dollars for the biggest impact.

Private donors are interested in doing something about the housing crisis and have their checkbooks ready once the best path forward becomes clear, Rhoads said.

2 states, 1 problem Part of the problem — and part of the solution — can be found south of the Columbia River. High rents in Portland and its suburbs are driving people

to seek cheaper rents in Clark County. As the renter population grows, it puts pressure on the market and rents go up. Low-income families are priced out. Any stark changes in the rental market that happen in Portland trickle down to Clark County.

Yet, learning from and creating partnerships with Portland could help Clark County better manage the housing crisis. As a larger, more established city, Portland comes with a larger support system, including more housing nonprofits.

“We don’t have that in southwest Washington,” Rhoads said.

But what southwest Washington also doesn’t have is access to public funding from Oregon.

“People don’t care about the river. People don’t care about Oregon versus Washington. People just want to have a place to live,” Rhoads said. “But that river and that state line is a big thing when it comes to funding sources, especially governmental funding sources and city resources.”

Government dollars may not be able to cross the river, but nonprofit dollars can, Rhoads said. It means more paperwork and a more complicated funding system, but there is a small and growing number of Portland-based housing organizations who’ve decided to serve the whole region, including Clark County.

‘Regional issue’ REACH Community Development is working on its first affordable apartment complex, being built in central Vancouver.

The Portland nonprofit inherited the 49-unit Isabella Court project after merging with Affordable Community Environments, which was a small housing nonprofit based in Clark County, in 2013. ACE didn’t have the finances to properly sustain itself and its projects, said Lauren Schmidt, fundraising and public relations coordinator at REACH. “We are a metro-wide nonprofit housing organization and view ourselves as part of the Vancouver and Clark County communities,” Schmidt said.

Proud Ground, a Portland-based nonprofit that makes home ownership more affordable for lower-income families, started serving Portland in 1999, then expanded to all of Multnomah County, Oregon in 2010, with Clackamas and Washington counties following suit a couple of years later. It expanded to Clark County last year.

“It’s a regional issue. It’s a regional crisis,” said Kathy Armstrong, deputy director of Proud Ground. “It just makes sense to serve as much of the region as possible.”

Robert Spitzer, ‘most influential psychiatrist,’ dies at 83 Associated Press SEATTLE — Dr. Robert Spitzer, a psychiatrist who played a leading role in establishing agreed-upon standards to describe mental disorders and eliminating homosexuality’s designation as a pathology, died Friday in Seattle. He was 83.

Spitzer died of heart problems, said his wife, Columbia University Professor Emerita Janet Williams.

Dr. Spitzer’s work on several editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the D.S.M., defined all of the major disorders “so all in the profession could agree on what they were seeing,” said Williams, who worked with

him on D.S.M.-III, which was published in 1980 and became a best-selling book.

“That was a major breakthrough in the profession,” she said.

Spitzer came up with agreed-upon definitions of mental disorders by convening meetings of experts in each diagnostic category and taking notes on their observations, the New York Times reported.

“Rather than just appealing to authority, the authority of Freud, the appeal was: Are there studies? What evidence is there?” Spitzer told the New Yorker magazine in 2005. “The people I appointed had all made a commitment to be guided by data.”

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Dr. Robert Sptizer died Friday in Seattle. He was 83.

professor emeritus of psychiatry at Duke University and editor of a later edition of the manual, told the Times that Spitzer “was by far the most influential

psychiatrist of his time.”

Gay-rights activists credit Dr. Spitzer with removing homosexuality from the list of mental disorders in the D.S.M. in

1973. He decided to push for the change after he met with gay activists and determined that homosexuality could not be a disorder if gay people were comfortable with their sexuality.

At the time of the psychiatric profession’s debate over homosexuality, Dr. Spitzer told the Washington Post: “A medical disorder either had to be associated with subjective distress — pain — or general impairment in social function.”

Dr. Jack Drescher, a gay psychoanalyst in New York, told the Times that Spitzer’s successful push to remove homosexuality from the list of disorders was a major advance for gay rights. “The fact that gay marriage is allowed

today is in part owed to Bob Spitzer,” he said.

In 2012, Dr. Spitzer publicly apologized for a 2001 study that found so-called reparative therapy on gay people can turn them straight if they really want to do so. He told the Times in 2012 that he concluded the study was flawed because it simply asked people who had gone through reparative therapy if they had changed their sexual orientation.

“As I read these commentaries (about the study,) I knew this was a problem, a big problem, and one I couldn’t answer,” Dr. Spitzer told the Times.

“How do you know someone has really changed?”

Dr. Spitzer and his wife moved to Seattle from New Jersey this year.

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TELEVISION their next high. 9 p.m., HBO. “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown”: The ol’ blockhead hunkers down with some choice Tolstoy during these Peanuts festivities. 8 p.m., ABC. From Herald news services

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Monday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2015.

There are three days left in the year.

Today’s highlight: On Dec. 28, 1945, Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.

On this date: In 1612, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed the planet Neptune, but mistook it for a star. (Neptune wasn’t officially discovered until 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle.)

In 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down because of differences with President Andrew Jackson.

In 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.

In 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton, Virginia.

In 1895, the Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, held the first public showing of their movies in Paris.

In 1917, the New York Evening Mail published “A Neglected Anniversary,” a facetious essay

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In 1944, the musical “On the Town,” with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics

by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, opened on Broadway.

In 1945, Fritz Lang’s film noir, “Scarlet Street,” starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett, was released by Universal Pictures. Author Theodore Dreiser, 74, died in Hollywood.

In 1961, the Tennessee Williams play “Night of the Iguana” opened on Broadway. Former first lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington at age 89.

In 1975, the “Hail Mary pass” entered the football lexicon as Dallas quarterback Roger Staubach tossed the ball to Drew Pearson for an improbable 50-yard touchdown with 24 seconds left to help the Cowboys come back to edge the Minnesota Vikings 17-14.

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What to look forward to in 2016

By Verne Gay Newsday

A new year is nearly upon us while TV is nearly ready to submerge us: 2016 will have more series — and more new series — than ever before, a historic watershed that should beggar the imagination and attention spans. Streaming services will mostly contribute to this population boom, as channels like Crackle and Pivot struggle to get out from under the growing shadows of Netflix and Amazon Prime. In this movable and viewable feast, there will be gems worth savoring and watching. There always are. Just don’t be too surprised if they’re harder to find in the crowd.

THE LAST SEASON OF “AMERICAN IDOL”: The 15th and final season begins Jan. 6 and a part of TV history starts to wind down. The questions: Will a “superstar” be discovered? (At long last — or at least since Carrie Underwood?) What surprises remain, if any?

“DOWNTON ABBEY” WRAPS: Season 6 bows Jan. 3 on PBS, and the countdown to the end begins. This will go awfully fast, I’m afraid — just eight episodes (and a Christmas special), which means the most successful series in public TV history will end before spring begins.

“VINYL”: The last time Terry Winter and Martin Scorsese teamed up, we got “Boardwalk Empire,” so reasonably sky-high

NOMINATIONS sought for…

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“Downton Abbey” cast members gather for a photo at an event Dec. 7 in New York. From left: Allen Leech (Tom Branson), Elizabeth McGovern (Cora Crawley), Hugh Bonneville (Robert Crawley), Michelle Dockery (Mary Crawley), Jim Carter (Mr. Carson), Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes )and Kevin Doyle (Mr. Molesley).

anticipation seems warranted for this HBO period drama about the record biz in the 1970s (Feb. 14).

Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde and Ray Romano head the cast. (And Mick Jagger is credited as a co-producer.)

BIG MINISERIES: Most specifically, the “Roots” remake, to air on History, A&E and Lifetime, stars Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and more, more, more. Levar Burton, who played Kunta Kinte in the 1977 original, is co-executive producer. Also: ABC’s mini on Bernard Madoff, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner, Charles Grodin and Lewis Black, begins Feb. 3 (and this is one of two TV projects on Madoff, the other forthcoming on HBO). And, of course, the O.J. Simpson trial mini, which will

inaugurate Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s FX anthology, “American Crime Story” (Feb. 2).

“PREACHER”: Added to this list with a mix of trepidation but also genuine curiosity, born perhaps of the urgent question: Just how far will (or can) AMC go? Developed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen — neither renowned for restraint — “Preacher” is an adaptation of the comic series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Expect a phantasmagoria of violence, mayhem, monsters, men and God — also men of God. Even “The Walking Dead” seems subdued by contrast. (Airdate TBA) JON STEWART COMES TO HBO: Election coverage will be a huge part of our lives in 2016, and hopefully an antidote to some of its gaudier or more ridiculous excesses will be supplied

by this guy, who will produce short-form streaming programs for HBO. Start date to be determined.

REMAKES GALORE! Obviously, let’s all get especially excited about HBO’s “Westworld,” based on the 1973 sci-fi Western, and starring Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, Jamie Marsden, Thandie Newton.

Netflix has promised us “Gilmore Girls” and “Fuller House.” Fox’s limited series return of “The X-Files” is just around the corner Jan. 24.

WOODY ALLEN AMAZON PROJECT: Still doesn’t have a name, or start date.

But — assuming the news release wasn’t issued by mistake or Allen forgot he’s on the hook for this — Amazon has the most intriguing show, TV or streaming, of the entire year.

Stephen Colbert on Trump: I respect his populist appeal

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have decided that he’s not going to.”

The “Late Show” host has feasted on the New York businessman’s campaign. And he makes it clear that he disagrees with many of Trump’s “more than a little shocking” policy proposals.

After a fast start in September, Colbert’s been sagging in the ratings against competitors Jimmy

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Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. A poll found Colbert is more popular among Democrats than Republicans, perhaps a vestige of his character as a blowhard political commentator on “The Colbert Report.”

Colbert said one of the reasons he ended “The Colbert Report” was a sense that people were getting tired of divisiveness.

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Think twice before taking photos of kids bathing

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Q: My 7-year-old recently had his 9-year-old friend over to spend the night. At their request, I let them take a bubble bath together.

I supervised, of course. They had fun squirting one another with water pistols, throwing bubbles at one another, and pretending to swim. They were having so much fun I took a photo. Later, I showed it to a “friend.” She became angry and told me that letting two boys that age take a bath together and then taking a photo of them bordered on pedophilia. She threatened to report me to the authorities. Do you agree with her?

A: The fact that pedophiles might enjoy looking at a photo of two young boys taking a bath together does not mean that a responsible adult who allows that and takes a photo of the ensuing fun has done something morally wrong. Motive is everything. In this instance, several considerations are relevant: 1. You were not motivated by prurient inclinations. That’s a reasonable assumption, given that you showed the photo to another responsible person.

2. The boys’ request to bathe together was not motivated by inappropriate intent.

JOHN ROSEMOND LIVING WITH CHILDREN Children do not announce to adults their intention to do what they know is wrong.

3. The children did not object to your supervision. That’s further evidence they were not attempting to do something they knew was inappropriate.

4. Nothing about your description of the boys’ behavior suggests anything more than two boys wanting to have some childish fun. That there are still completely innocent children in the world is rather refreshing to know.

5. I’m assuming, again, that the photo in question was not “revealing.” Bubbles would have effectively prevented the photo from being salacious.

With all of that in mind, your friend’s reaction to the photo was a tad over the top. Nonetheless, it is understandable given that general awareness of and sensitivity

SUPER QUIZ Subject: PROVERBS Provide a proverb with the given meaning. (e.g., A friend is never known until you have need. Answer: A friend in need is a friend indeed.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Alike people get along well.

2. If you are in a bad situation, you must be content with whatever help you can get.

3. A person who often threatens rarely carries out his threats.

GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Focus on a problem the moment you are facing it, and not earlier.

5. Never criticize gifts.

6. Don’t make a big deal out of a little thing.

BIRTHDAYS PH.D. LEVEL 7. An unpopular person will always return to the place he came from.

8. Being cautious is better than to merely be courageous.

9. Don’t reject an idea entirely because parts of it are bad.

ANSWERS: 1. Birds of a feather flock together. 2. Beggars can’t be choosers. 3. Barking dogs seldom bite.

4. Don’t cross a bridge before you come to it. 5. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

6. Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill. 7. A bad penny always turns up. 8. Discretion is the better part of valor. 9. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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to the issue of sexual exploitation of children has risen significantly in the last thirty years or so. That sensitivity is not, however, equally distributed throughout the population. Some folks are sensitive to the point of being unable to make reasonable distinctions. Despite good intentions, they conflate apples and oranges. (By the way, wrongful accusations of child abuse not only hurt those wrongfully accused, they also have the potential of doing significant emotional harm to the children in question.)

Having said all that, I would have advised you not to let the boys take a bath together, even if the other boy had called his parents and they had given permission directly to you over the phone. One cannot be too cautious about such things these days, especially given that with investigating reports of child sexual abuse the default position of many child protective service agencies is to assume guilt.

Whether that’s generally good or bad can be argued, but it is what it is.

In short, assuming you are representing the situation accurately, you are definitely guilty of a lapse of common sense, but nothing more.

Comic book creator Stan Lee is 93. Former United Auto Workers union president Owen Bieber is 86. Actress Nichelle Nichols is 83. Actress Dame Maggie Smith is 81. Rock singer-musician Charles Neville is 77. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., is 71. Former Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., is 69. Rock singer-musician Edgar Winter is 69.

Funk musician Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste (The Meters) is 67. Actor Denzel Washington is 61. Actor Chad McQueen is 55. Country singermusician Marty Roe (Diamond Rio) is 55. Actor Malcolm Gets is 51. Actor Mauricio Mendoza is 46. Actress Elaine Hendrix is 45. Comedian Seth Meyers is 42. Actor Brendan Hines is 39. Actor Joe Manganiello is 39. Actress Vanessa Ferlito is 38. Rhythm-and-blues singer John Legend is 37.

Actor Andre Holland is 36. Actress Sienna Miller is 34. Pop singer Kasey Sheridan (Dream) is 29.

Actor Thomas Dekker is 28. Actress Mackenzie Rosman is 26. Pop singer David Archuleta is 25.

Actor Miles Brown (TV: “black-ish”) is 11.

Thought for today: “There is no luck except where there is discipline.” — Irish proverb.

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Dear Abby: My father died last month. He’d had a massive stroke and was incapacitated for the last 10 days of his life and was on life support.

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upsetting, to say the least.

Not only was I losing my father, but I never thought he could keep a secret of this magnitude from me.

Because I was angry, I wasn’t friendly toward her.

Should I initiate a relationship with this woman?

I’m 38. My siblings and I were born during my parents’ marriage. This woman’s mother is someone he had an affair with before, during and after his marriage. I have mixed emotions because I feel loyal to my mother, and I’m devastated by my father’s deception regarding this child. — Upset In Georgia Dear Upset: I doubt your mother will welcome this person’s presence in her life, so at least for now, I think reaching out would be a mistake. Your mother might perceive it as almost as much of a betrayal as your father’s was with his girlfriend. Before going further, the question you need to ask yourself is, “Would the benefit outweigh the cost?” Until you can answer that, my advice is to do nothing.

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Dear Abby: I’m a 20-year-old college student. I have never dated anyone besides my current boyfriend, “Cody.”

He’s my first-ever boyfriend. I met him in high school, but we ran into each other in college and quickly began a relationship. We’re now into our third year together.

We have professed our love for each other. He never said “I love you” to any of his past girlfriends, and I’m happy he said it to me.

My concern is that we talk like we’ll be together forever. I think I’d be happy, but should I worry that I’ll never know if there may be other guys I feel a stronger connection to? Or if I have enough experience to know what love is? — Just Thinking In Florida Dear Just Thinking: If you’re writing to me, you ARE worrying. While for many couples their first love is also their last one, for many others it isn’t, which may be why there are so many exes in this world.

My advice is to tell Cody that while you care for him, you feel it would be better for both of you to take a break and see other people. In some cases, it can cement a relationship.

In others, it can destroy it.

Going that route can be risky, but if either partner is having any doubts, that’s the road to take.

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No. 15-2-05522-2 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR LEHMAN XS TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-4N, its successors in interest and/or assigns, Plaintiff, v.

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF RALPH GRAHAM WARNER; SUSAN J. NORTON; KENNETH G. WARNER; GREGORY WARNER AKA GREGGORY G. WARNER; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC.; STATE OF WASHINGTON; OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMISES, Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANTS Unknown Heirs and Devisees of Ralph Graham Warner, Susan J. Norton, Kenneth G. Warner, Gregory Warner aka Greggory G. Warner, and Occupants of the Premises: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty (60) days after December 21, 2015, and defend the real property foreclosure action in Snohomish County Superior Court, and answer the complaint of U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Lehman XS Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-4N, (“Plaintiff”). You are asked to serve a copy of your answer or responsive pleading upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff at its office stated below. In case of your failure to do so, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court.

The purpose of this lawsuit is to obtain a judgment, and if not immediately paid, to be satisfied through the foreclosure of real property located in Snohomish County, Washington, and legally described as follows: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 13, B L O C K 2 , FA I R M O U N T, AC C O R D I N G TO T H E P L AT THEREOF, RECORDED IN VOLUME 10 OF PLATS, PAGE 91, RECORDS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON, THENCE NORTH 181 FEET, T H E N C E W E S T 8 6 F E E T TO T H E T RU E P O I N T O F BEGINNING, THENCE EAST 86 FEET, THENCE SOUTH 181 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 13, THENCE WEST 150 FEET, THENCE NORTH 143 FEET, THENCE EAST 39 FEET, THENCE IN A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH, STATE OF WASHINGTON Commonly known as: 1121 113th Street Southwest, Everett, WA 98204 DATED this 17th day of December, 2015.

RCO LEGAL, P.S. By: LAURA COUGHLIN, WSBA #46124 Attorney for Plaintiff 13555 SE 36th Street, Ste 300 Bellevue, WA 98006 EDH674758 Published: December 21, 28, 2015; January 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016.

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At Wave, our number one goal is creating happy, long-term customers. We work diligently on our customers’ behalf to manage TV programming costs, while seeking more choices. Unfortunately, cable television networks continue to increase their fees and require us to bundle their channels together which limits your choice in selecting the programming you want to watch. For more information on the costs associated with TV programming, please visit www.wavebroadband.com/content.

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TS #60128-24689NJ-WA APN #29061600301200 Title #70001313 Reference Number: 200710010163 Abbreviated Legal: PTN 16-296 Grantor: Robert W Goodwins and Linda M Goodwins Grantee: Nor th Cascade Trustee Ser vices Inc. Original Beneficiar y: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., S O L E LY A S N O M I N E E F O R I N DY M AC B A N K , F. S. B. , A F E D E R A L LY C H A RT E R E D S AV I N G S B A N K N OT I C E O F TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER 61,24 ET. SEQ. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation.

DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help.

SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telephone: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663). Web s i t e : h t t p : / / w w w. d f i . wa . g ov / c o n s u m e r s / h o m ew ow n e r s h i p / post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm. The United States Department of Housing and urban Development Telephone: Tollf r e e : 1 - 8 0 0 - 5 6 9 - 4 2 8 7 .

W e b S i t e : http://www.hud.gove/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListActio n=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Telephone: Toll-free: 1-800-606-4819. Web Site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear. I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee will on January 4, 2016, at the hour of 10:00 AM at Snohomish County Courthouse, on the steps in front of the North entrance, 3000 Rockefeller Avenue, Everett, WA 98201 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County of Snohomish, State of Washington, to-wit: SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT “A” LEGAL DESCRIPTION PARCEL A The Northerly 450 feet of the Northeast quarter of the Southwest quarter of Section 16, Township 29 North, Range 6 East W M, EXCEPT the Westerly 485 feet thereof, (ALSO KNOWN AS Parcel D of Survey recorded under Recording No 7611080240) Situate in the County of Snohomish, State of Washington PARCEL B An easement for ingress and egress and utilities over, under and across the following described 6 tracts The Southerly 30 feet of the Northeast quarter of the Southwest quarter, THENCE Northerly 30 feet of the Southeast quarter of the Southwest quarter, THENCE Southerly 30 feet of that portion of the Northwest quarter of the Southeast quarter lying Westerly of the Westerly right of way line of the Bonneville Power Administration Transmission Line Easement as described is “Tract MCLJ-378” in document filed under Recording No 2183273, The Northerly 30 feet of that portion of the Southwest quarter of the Southeast quarter lying Westerly of the Easterly right of way line of said Bonneville Power Administration Transmission Line Easement, That portion of said Bonneville Power Administration Transmission Line Easement, That portion of said Bonneville Power Administration Line Easement lying within the Westerly 500 feet of the Northwest quarter of the Southeast quarter, That portion of said Sonneville Power Administration Transmission Line Easement lying within the Northeast quarter of the Southwest quarter, Except any portion lying within above described Parcel A, All in Section 16, Township 29 North, Range 6 East W M Situate in the County of Snohomish, State of Washington APN: 29061600301200 More commonly known as: 116 140th Ave NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated September 25, 2007, recorded October 1,2007, under Auditors File No. 200710010163, records of Snohomish County, Washington, from Robert W Goodwins and Linda M Goodwins, husband and wife, as Grantor, t FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE CO., as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR INDYMAC BANK, F. S. B. , A F E D E R A L LY C H A RT E R E D S AV I N G S B A N K a s Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY as Trustee for J N DY M AC I N DA M O RT G AG E L OA N T RU S T 2 0 0 7 - . A R 8 , MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES Series 2007-AR8 under an Assignment recorded on November 6,2014 under Auditors File 201411060090 in the official records in the Office of the Recorder of Snohomish County, Washington. II. No action commenced by the current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Interest Due $65,678.75 Escrow Payment $19,218.58 Grand Total $84,897.33 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $504,412.84, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on January 4, 2016. The defaults referred to in paragraph III must be cured by December 24, 2015 (11 Days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before December 24, 2005 (11 days before the sale date), the defaults as set forth in paragraph III are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashers’ or certified check from a state or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after December 24, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses: Linda M Goodwins 116 l40th Ave NE Lake Stevens, WA 98258 Robert W Goodwins 116 140th Ave NE Lake Stevens, WA 98258 Occupant 116 140th Ave NE Lake Stevens, WA 98258 by both first-class and certified mail on July 10, 2015, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally ser ved, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale, VII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenantoccupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 6124.060. To access sale information, please go to salestrack.tdsf.com or call the automated sales line at: 888-988-6736. Dated: August 27, 2015 Nor th Cascade Trustee Services Inc. Duly Appointed Successor Trustee

By Taylin Schalow, Authorized Signatory 801 Second Avenue, Suite 600 Seattle, Washington 98104 Telephone 1-855-676-9686 TAC: 984018 PUB: 12/07/15, 12/28/15 Published: December 7, 28, 2015.

EDH672485

$2,248.65 Proper ty Inspection Fees $462.75 Title Search $1,209.99 Interest Due $67,875.20 Owner’s Policy $811.41 Appt. of Substitute Trustee $48.00 Legal Filing Service $435.00 Grand Total $74,176.13 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $325,800.00, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on January 4, 2016. The defaults referred to in paragraph III must be cured by December 24, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale.

The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before December 24, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), the defaults as set forth in paragraph III are cured and the Trustees fees and costs are paid Payment must be in cash or with cashiers’ or certified check from a state or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after December 24, 2015(11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses: Eldon R Nickens 7603 Lower Ridge Rd Everett, WA 98203 Sharon L Nickens 7603 Lower Ridge Rd Everett, WA 98203 Occupant 7603 Lower Ridge Rd. Everett, WA 98203 by both firstclass and certified mail on July 10. 2015, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to these objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTJCE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under chapter 59. 12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. To access sale information, please go to salestrack.tdsf.com or call the automated sales line at: 888-988-6736. Dated: August 27, 2015 North Cascade Trustee Services Inc., Duly Appointed Successor Trustee By Taylin Schalow, Authorized Signatory 801 Second Avenue, Suite 600 Seattle, Washington 98104 Telephone l-85-676-9686 TAC: 984021 PUB: 12/07/15, 12/28/15 Published: December 7, 28, 2015.

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No. 15-2-05873-6 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007-NC2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007- NC2, its successors in interest and/or assigns, Plaintiff, v.

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF DAVID ALADINO ROMANI; DAVID ALLEN ROMANI; VICKY L. ROMANI; BOEING EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION; CAPITAL ONE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMISES, Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANTS Unknown Heirs and Devisees of David Aladino Romani, and Occupants of the Premises: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty (60) days after December 21, 2015, and defend the real property foreclosure action in Snohomish County Superior Court, and answer the complaint of Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee, in trust for the registered holders of Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2007-NC2, Mor tgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007- NC2, (“Plaintiff ”). You are asked to serve a copy of your answer or responsive pleading upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff at its office stated below. In case of your failure to do so, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court.

The purpose of this lawsuit is to obtain a judgment, and if not immediately paid, to be satisfied through the foreclosure of real property located in Snohomish County, Washington, and legally described as follows: LOT 4 OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY SHORT PLAT NO 531(1277), RECORDED UNDER RECORDING NO 197801260253, RECORDS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON. Commonly known as: 12811 Machias Cutoff Road, Lake Stevens, WA 98258 DATED this 17th day of December, 2015.

RCO LEGAL, P.S. By: LAURA COUGHLIN, WSBA #46124 Attorney for Plaintiff 13555 SE 36th Street, Ste 300 Bellevue, WA 98006 EDH674757 Published: December 21, 28, 2015; January 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016.

1VCMJD /PUJDFT CITY OF BRIER ORDINANCE 420.A AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BRIER, WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE 2015 BUDGET, AND INCREASING THE E X P E N D I T U R E S F RO M F U N D # 2 0 0 L I B R A RY D E B T SERVICE WAS APPROVED BY THE BRIER CITY COUNCIL AT THEIR REGULAR MEETING DECEMBER 22, 2015. THE FULL TEXT WILL BE MAILED UPON REQUEST. Paula Swisher City Clerk Published: December 28, 2015.

EDH675410 CITY OF EVERETT, WASHINGTON SPECIFICATIONS FOR PACIFIC & BROADWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS FEDERAL FUND#: HSIP-000S(331); COE# 3523 CITYWIDE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS FEDERAL FUND#: HSIP-000S(330); COE# 3524 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals for the Pacific & Broadway Safety Improvements, and Citywide Safety Improvements, will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 1st Floor Wall Street Building, 2930 Wetmore, Everett, Washington 98201, until 2:00 p.m., on Tuesday, January 26, 2016.

At the appointed time, all bids will be opened and publicly read aloud in the Public Hearing Room on the 8th Floor of Wall Street Building.

The engineer’s estimate for this project is $884,000.

The work includes, but is not limited to: improvement of curb ramps, pedestrian signals, lighting, radar speed signs, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, speed enforcement lights, and pavement markings at various intersections and streets within the City of Everett.

Plans, specifications, addenda, and plan holders list for this project may be viewed on line at http://www.everettwa.org/bidscontracts/bids.asp.

Plan sets may also be purchased for reproduction costs at Bill’s Blueprints (425) 259-0859 at 2920 Rockefeller Avenue, Everett, WA 98201.

The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and waive any irregularities or informalities. No bidder may withdraw his bid after the hour set for the opening thereof. The City further reserves the right to make the bid award as deemed in the best interest of the City. The right is reserved by the City to postpone the award for a period of forty-five (45) days after bid opening.

The Contractor will be required to comply with all local, State, and Federal laws and regulations pertaining to equal employment opportunities.

The City of Everett in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Depar tment of Transpor tation, subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, Part 21, nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises as defined at 49 CFR Part 26 will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or sex in consideration for an award.

By order of the City Council, Everett, Washington.

Dated at Everett, Washington.

SHARON FULLER, CITY CLERK Published: December 28, 2015; January 4, 2016.

EDH675414 RESOLUTION NO. 6928 OF THE CITY OF EVERETT, WASHINGTON On the 9th day of December 2015, the City Council of the City of Everett passed Resolution No. 6928. A summary of the content of said resolution, consisting of the title, provides as follows: A RESOLUTION announcing a public hear ing c o n c e r n i n g t h e c i t y ’s i n t e n t t o a s s u m e t h e E ve r e t t Transportation Benefit District. The public hearing will be held December 30, 2015 at 6:30 pm at the Everett City Council Chambers, 3002 Wetmore Avenue, Everett, WA 98201.

The full text of this ordinance will be mailed upon request.

Dated this 17th day of December 2015 City Clerk, Sharon Fuller 2930 Wetmore Avenue Everett, WA 98201 (425) 257-8610 Published: December 21, 2015.

EDH674756

#JET 3'2 T 3'1 T PUBLIC NOTICE EVERGREENHEALTH MONROE AFFILIATION GOVERNANCE BOARD MEETING DATES FOR 2016 EvergreenHealth Monroe will hold the Affiliation Governance Board M e e t i n g s fo r 2 0 1 6 a t 3 : 0 0 p m i n t h e G o d a r d R o o m a t EvergreenHealth Monroe, in Monroe, Washington, as follows: January 6, 2016 July 6, 2016 February 3, 2016 August 3, 2016 March 2, 2016 September 7, 2016 April 6, 2016 October 5, 2016 May 4, 2016 November 2, 2016 June 1, 2016 December 7, 2016 Published: December 28, 2015.

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#JET 3'2 T 3'1 T PUBLIC NOTICE SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT NO. 1 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETING DATES FOR 2016 Snohomish County Public Hospital District No. 1 will hold the Board of Commissioners Meetings for 2016 at 5:30 pm in the G o d a r d R o o m a t E ve r g r e e n H e a l t h M o n r o e , i n M o n r o e , Washington, as follows: January 28, 2016 July 28, 2016 February 25, 2016 August 25, 2016 March 31, 2016 September 29, 2016 April 28, 2016 October 27, 2016 May 26, 2016 December 8, 2016 June 30, 2016 Published: December 28, 2015.

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'PSFDMPTVSFT TS #60128-24423-NJ-WA APN #004741-005-003-00 Reference Number: 200611301098 Abbreviated Legal: LOT 3, BLOCK 5, HILLWOOD PARK DIV, 2, VOL 15, P 36 Grantor : Fred M Havellana and Jackie Havellana Grantee: North Cascade Trustee Services Inc. Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC RGISTRATION SYSTESMS, INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPORATION NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER 61.24 ET. SEQ. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation.

DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help.

SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telephone: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663). Web s i t e : http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homewownership/post_purchase _counselors_foreclosure.htm. The United States Department of Housing and urban Development Telephone: Toll-free: 1-800-5694 2 8 7 .

W e b S i t e : http://www.hud.gove/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListActio n=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Telephone: Toll-free: 1-800-606-4819. Web Site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear. I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee will on January 4, 2016, at the hour of 10:00 AM at Snohomish County Courthouse, on the steps in front of the North entrance, 3000 Rockefeller Avenue, Everett, WA 98201 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County of Snohomish, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 3, BLOCK , HILL WOOD PARK DIVISION 2, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN VOLUME 15 OFPLATS,.PAE 36, RECORDS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON, S I T UAT E I N T H E C O U N T Y O F S N O H O M I S H , S TAT E O F WASHINGTON. A PN: 004741-005-003-00 More commonly known as: 6616 183rd Street SW, Lynnwood, WA 98037 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated November 30, 2006, recorded November 30, 2006, under Auditor’s File No. 20061130109S, records of Snohomish County, Washington, from Fred M Havellana III, a married man, as Grantor, to THE TALON GROUP, as Tr ustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPOR/TION as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY as Trustee for SECURITIZED ASSET BACKED RECEIVABLES LLC TRUST 2007-BR2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-BR2 under an Assignment recorded on August 18, 2011 under Auditor’s File 201108180232 in the official records in the Office of the Recorder of Snohomish County, Washington. II. No action commenced by the current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mor tgage. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Payments $10,688.18 Interest Due $15,681.52 Escrow Payment $10,328.06Grand Total $36,697.76 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $234,032.29, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured, and V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy’ the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on January 4, 2016. The defaults referred to in paragraph III must be cured by December 24, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before December 24, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), the defaults as set forth in paragraph III are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid Payment must be in cash or with cashiers’ or certified check from a state or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after December 24, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses: Fred M Havellana III aka Fred Havellana aka Federico M. Havellana III 6616 183rd street SW Lynnwood, WA 98037 Jackie Havellana 6l6 183rd Street SW Lynnwood, WA 98037 Unknown Spouse of Fred M Havellana III aka Fred Havellana aka Federico M Havellana III 6616 183rd Street SW Lynnwood, WA 98037 Unknown Spouse of Jackie Havellana 6616 183rd Street SW Lynnwood, WA 98037 Occupant 6616 183rd Street SW Lynnwood, WA 98037 by both first-class and certified mail on June 12, 2015, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the abovedescribed property. Such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61 24 130 Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants.

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See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telephone: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1877-894-4663). Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/ homewownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm. The United States Department of Housing and urban Development Te l e p h o n e : To l l - f r e e : 1 - 8 0 0 - 5 6 9 - 4 2 8 7 . W e b S i t e : http://www.hud.gove/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListActio n=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Telephone: Toll-free: 1-800-606-4819. Web Site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear. I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee will on January 4, 2016, at the hour of 10:00 AM at Snohomish County Courthouse, on the steps in front of the North entrance, 3000 Rockefeller Avenue, Everett, WA 98201 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County of Snohomish, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT(S) 69, TUSCANY, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN VOLUME 61 OF PLATS, PAGE(S) 194 THROUGH 201, I N C L U S I V E , R E C O R D S O F S N O H O M I S H C O U N T Y, WASHINGTON SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH, S TAT E O F WA S H I N G TO N A P N : 0 0 8 5 7 0 0 0 0 0 6 9 0 0 M o r e c o m m o n l y k n ow n a s : 8 6 2 1 7 6 T H AV E N U E N O RT H E A S T Marysville, WA 98270 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated July 13, 2005, recorded July 20, 2005, under Auditor’s File No. 200507200974, records of Snohomish County, Washington, from DARLA IMHOFF, UNMARRIED WOMAN, as Grantor, to OLD REPUBLIC TITLE, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPORATION as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee, for New Century Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-4 under an Assignment recorded on April 15, 2014 under Auditor’s File 201404150521 in the official records in the Office of the Recorder f Snohomish County, Washington. II. No action commenced by the current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage.

III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Payments $56,321.26 Late Charges $5,708. 05 Escrow Advances $10,873.02 Suspense Balance $-28.48 Fees $725.00 Recoverable Balance $3,068.50 Grand Total $76,667.35 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Tr ust is: Pr incipal 220,628.80, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured, and such other costs and fees as arc due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on January 4, 201 6. The defaults referred to in paragraph III must be cured by December 24, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before December 24, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), the defaults as set forth in paragraph III are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers’ or certified check from a state or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after December 24, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses: DARLA IMHOFF 862176TH AVENUE NORTHEAST Marysville, WA 98270 Unknown Spouse of DARLA IMHOFF 8621 76TH AVENUE NORTHEAST Marysville, WA 9 8 2 7 0 O c c u p a n t 8 6 2 1 7 6 T H AV E N U E N O RT H E A S T Marysville, WA 98270 EDWARD LOHRE, MEMBER HIGHLINE TREE FARM. LLC C/O B. CRAIG GOURLEY LAW OFFICE 1002 TENTH STREET SNOHOMISH, WA 98290 EDWARD LOHRE, M E M B E R H I G H L I N E T R E E FA R M , L L C P. O. B OX 1 0 9 1 SNOHOMISH, WA 98290 by both first-class and certified mail on July 10, 2015 proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally ser ved, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address arc set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who held by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having-any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICEI TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the properly on the 20th day following the sale, as against the grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. To access sale information, please go to saiestrack.tdsf.com or call the automated sales line at: 888-988-6736 Dated August 26, 2015 North Cascade Trustee Services Inc., By Ryan Watkins, Authorized Signatory 801 Second Avenue, Suite 600 Seattle, Washington 98104 Telephone1-855-676-9686 TAC: 984022 PUB: 12/07/15, 12/28/15 Published: December 7, 28, 2015.

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NFL WEEK 16

St. Louis Rams 23, Seattle Seahawks 17

Rams stun Hawks

The Rams' Trumaine Johnson intercepts a pass intended for the Seahawks' Tyler Lockett as the Rams Cody Davis (left) looks on during Sunday's game at CenturyLink Field.

INSIDE ✓ Another record setting day for Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin, C4 ✓ Rams-Seahawks game stats, C4 ✓ Rams shut down Seahawks running game, holding Seattle to 60 yards rushing, C5 ✓ Seahawks center Patrick Lewis apologizes for two bad snaps, C5 ✓ Seahawks grades, C5 ✓ Seahawks playoff scenarios, C5

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Seahawks ‘can’t get out of our own way’ in loss to St. Louis

By Rich Myhre Herald Writer

SEATTLE — The raindrops were not the only thing falling Sunday afternoon at CenturyLink Field.

With a chance to pad a lateseason winning streak while gaining additional momentum for their upcoming playoff push, the Seattle Seahawks instead went ker-splat against the visiting St. Louis Rams, turning a bunch

of miscues and otherwise lackluster play into a 23-17 defeat in the team’s regular-season home finale.

For the Seahawks, who had won five straight games and seven of their last eight to clinch a playoff spot a week ago, it was a cold and sobering slap in the face.

“That was a day that you want to forget,” said Seattle head coach Pete Carroll. “We couldn’t get out of our own way from the start.

Really, it just made it so difficult

for our guys to win.”

The stat sheet made it clear how poorly the Seahawks played.

They turned the ball over three times (including one fumble the Rams ran back for a touchdown), were penalized 10 times for 83 yards, and let the St. Louis pass rush pummel quarterback Russell Wilson — four sacks and nine other QB hits.

“When you turn the ball over like that and the penalties happen like they did, and then we

really had a difficult time at the line of scrimmage moving the football and protecting, it’s just really hard (to overcome),” said Carroll. He added, “I’m not going to take anything away from (the Rams). They had a nice win today. ... (But) I think it was very much our doing it to ourselves.” “(St. Louis) showed up and we didn’t,” said Seattle offensive Garry Gilliam. “They came to play See SEAHAWKS, Page C4

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EATTLE — Was CenturyLink Field the site of an NFL football game Sunday afternoon? Or was it really a gigantic time machine that transported the 69,080 fans sitting in the stands 10 weeks into the past?

It sure looked like the Seattle Seahawks of early October on the field as opposed to the Seattle Seahawks of December.

Sunday’s game against the St. Louis Rams was a blast from the past for the Seahawks. But not in the retro 80s new wave sort of way, a sound that gets everyone on the dance floor during weddings. Instead it was more like the cheesy disco of the 70s, which only harkens the horrifying image of John Travolta in a

leisure suit.

It was that sort of throwback day for the Seahawks’ offense.

Seattle’s offense spent the NICK PATTERSON previous five games doing a different kind of time traveling, channeling its Sunday adversary from 15 years earlier, St. Louis’ “Greatest Show on Turf.” That’s when the Rams seemingly scored at will with a high-octane offense that carried St. Louis to the 2000 Super Bowl championship. Quarterback

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Russell Wilson and receiver Doug Baldwin were doing their best impersonations of Kurt Warner and Isaac Bruce, accomplishing things that were unique in NFL history. The Seahawks were blowing out opponents and emerging as the fashionable pick as Super Bowl favorites.

This was in stark contrast to how the offense looked early in the season. Seattle was largely stuck in second gear through the first half. Critics were ready to write off the offensive line experiment as a failure, as Wilson suffered 31 sacks through the first seven games and often found himself running for his life.

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Next game: at Arizona 1:25 p.m., Sun., Jan. 3

Next game: at Kelowna 7:05 p.m., Wed., Dec. 30 Santa Barbara 8 p.m.

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Bajkov’s two goals are not enough in Everett’s 4-2 loss to Vancouver.

WSU 8 p.m.

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Oregon 6 p.m.

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Non-League—Kamiak vs. St. Stephens in San Diego, 10 a.m.; Glacier Peak vs. St. John Bosco in Palm Springs, California, 1:15 p.m.; Lake Stevens vs. Lathrop in San Diego, 2:45 p.m.; King’s vs. Interlake at Bellevue College, 3 p.m.; Oak Harbor vs. Skyline at Mount Vernon H.S., 3:45 p.m.; Sammamish vs.

Shorecrest at Bothell H.S., 5:30 p.m.; Granite Falls vs. Lord Tweedsmuir, B.C., at Blaine H.S., 5:30 p.m.; Marysville Pilchuck at Ferndale, 6 p.m.; Lambrick Park at Lakewood, 7 p.m.; Monroe vs. Inglemoor at Bellevue College, 7:30 p.m.; Jackson vs. Newport at Bothell H.S., 8:30 p.m.

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Cold Spring in Phoeniz, Ariz., 12:45 p.m.; Oak Harbor vs. Vashon Island at Mount Vernon H.S., 2 p.m.; Lakewood vs. Squalicum at Port Townsend H.S., 2:15 p.m.; King’s vs.

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This photo from Oct. 11, 2009 shows former Boston Red Sox outfielder Dave Henderson walking onto the field to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 3 of an American League Division Series game between the Red Sox and the Los Angeles Angels. Henderson, who started his major-league career with the Seattle Mariners, died Sunday in Seattle after suffering a heart attack.

Ex-Mariner David ‘Hendu’ Henderson dies at age 57

By Bob Dutton

The ‘Hendu’ file

The News Tribune

SEATTLE — Former outfielder and broadcaster Dave Henderson, known forever as “Hendu” and for his irrepressible nature, died Sunday at Harborview Hospital in Seattle after suffering a heart attack.

He was 57 years old.

Tributes rolled in immediately from all corners.

“Dave Henderson was one of those guys you don’t come across enough in life,” Hall-of-Famer and former teammate Rickey Henderson said.

“He energized you and made you laugh.”

Henderson was the Mariners’ first-ever draft pick in 1977 and reached the majors in 1981. He spent six big-league seasons with the club before an Aug. 19, 1986 trade sent him to Boston and set the stage for his career highlight.

The Red Sox were one out away from elimination in the 1986 American League Championship Series when Henderson hit a two-run homer off California Angels reliever Donnie Moore. Boston went on to win that game in extra innings, then won the next two games in the series to advance to the World Series.

“People bring up the home run all the time,” Henderson recalled years later, “and I still think about it a lot. How can I not think about it? It changed my life. It turned my career around.

“I’m not exactly sure where it ranks among the greatest and most dramatic home runs, but I know it’s right up there with Bobby Thomson, Bill Mazeroski, Carlton Fisk, Kirk Gibson and Joe Carter.

“I always thought of Thomson’s as the biggest or Mazeroski’s and even Carter’s because they won a pennant and World Series. But mine is up there.”

Henderson’s death came two months after he underwent surgery for a kidney transplant. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and his sons, Chase and Trent.

“On behalf of the Seattle Mariners,” club president Kevin Mather said in a statement, “I want to extend our deepest sympathies to Chase and Trent and Nancy and to Dave’s many friends.

“He was a devoted father to his two sons and always willing to help someone in need. Dave was one of the most popular Mariners in our history, but Dave was also one of the most popular player’s in Red Sox and A’s history.

— Born July 21, 1958, in Merced, California — Drafted in the first-round of the June 1977 Major League Baseball draft (26th overall) by the Seattle Mariners.

— Made his major-league debut April 9, 1981, with the Mariners.

— Played for five major-league teams: Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, Oakland and Kansas City.

— Played his last major-league game on July 29, 1994, for the Royals.

— Had his best season in 1988 when he hit .304 with 24 home runs and 94 RBI for Oakland.

Finished 13th in the American League MVP voting that season.

— Died Dec. 27, 2015, in Seattle.

“He had a special ability to connect with people, both inside the game and in the communities in which he lived. I never saw him at the ballpark, or on the golf course, without a big smile on his face.”

Henderson played 14 big-league seasons for five clubs — Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, Oakland and Kansas City — before retiring in 1994.

He finished with 197 home runs, 708 RBI and a .258 average in 1,538 games. He helped the Oakland A’s win the 1989 World Series.

The Mariners hired Henderson as a broadcaster in 1997, and he spent 10 years in the position. He returned for a one-year run in 2011. He was also active in real estate and fantasy baseball camps for the A’s and Mariners, and worked to raise awareness for Angelman Syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects his son Chase.

Henderson also helped Mariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs found a program to acquire toys to distribute to under-privileged children at Christmas. Rick’s Toys for Kids recently marked its 20th year and has raised $2.5 million and purchased more than 100,000 toys for kids in the greater Seattle area during the holidays.

In everything, Henderson is recalled for being upbeat and positive. As he once quipped after emerging from a rough stretch at the plate: “I wasn’t in a slump. I just wasn’t getting any hits.”

VANCOUVER, B.C. — The Everett Silvertips have recently been at their best away from Xfinity Arena.

That was not the case Sunday afternoon, however, as the Tips allowed four consecutive goals in a 4-2 Western Hockey League loss to the Everett Giants in front of 5,089 fans at Pacific Coliseum.

The Tips (19-12-0-2, 40 points) lost for the first time in their past six road games, and lost their second straight game overall to Vancouver (13-19-3-2, 31 points). Though the Giants are in last place in the Western Conference, they’ve won seven of their past 11 games and took Everett to overtime on Dec. 18 in Vancouver.

Consequently the Giants earned five of a possible six points in the standings during what was a threegame set against Everett.

Patrick Bajkov scored twice for the Silvertips. However, in between Bajkov’s tallies the Giants scored four times to turn a 1-0 deficit through one period into a 4-1 advantage through two.

The Tips took the lead with less than a minute remaining in the opening period. From the right corner Graham Millar found Bajkov on the left side of the crease, and Bajkov tapped the shot past Vancouver goaltender Ryan Kubic for the 1-0 advantage at 19:14 in the first.

That’s how it stayed until the Giants struck three times in a span of 2 minutes, 48 seconds in the second period to flip the 1-0 deficit into a 3-1 advantage.

Ty Ronning scored first off tictac-toe passes from Carter Popoff and Trevor Cox as he put the puck past Everett goaltender Carter Hart at 8:37 in the second. It was Ronning’s team-leading 21st goal of the season.

Matt Barberis added a powerplay goal on a rebound at 10:54, and Owen Hardy pushed the advantage to 3-1 at 11:20 in the second with a top-shelf goal from a tight angle against Hart.

Vancouver’s Alec Baer scored off his own rebound at 16:01 to make it 4-1. Bajkov answered with his second goal of the day 12 seconds later to cut the deficit to two, but that was as close as the Tips got.

Matt Fonteyne had two assists and Hart finished with 27 saves for Everett.

Cox and Chase Lang each had a pair of assists, and Kubic had 32 saves for his second straight win over the Tips.

Everett out-shot Vancouver 34-31. The game featured a single penalty called on each team. Vancouver converted its chance while Everett was 0-for-1.

The Tips return to action Wednesday, traveling to Kelowna to take on the defending WHL champion Rockets at 7 p.m.

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Fist Period—1, Everett, Bajkov 8 (Millar, Fonteyne), 19:14.

Penalties—No Penalties Second Period—2, Vancouver, Ronning 21 (Popoff, Cox), 8:37. 3, Vancouver, Barberis 6 (Lang, Cox), 10:54 (PP). 4, Vancouver, Hardy 2 (Foster, Plouffe), 11:20. Penalties—Millar Evt (interference), 10:10; Flaman Van (interference on goaltender), 13:48.

Third Period—5, Vancouver, Baer 11 (Lang, Menell), 16:01.

6, Everett, Bajkov 9 (Fonteyne, MacDonald), 16:13. Penalties— No Penalties Shots on Goal—Everett 15-6-13-34. Vancouver 10-11-1031.

Power Play Opportunities—Everett 0 / 1; Vancouver 1 / 1.

Goalies—Everett, Hart 19-11-0-2 (31 shots, 27 saves). Vancouver, Kubic 8-9-2-0 (34 shots, 32 saves).

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Peyton Manning denies report he obtained PEDs The source for the Al Jazeera story tells ESPN he made up the allegations.

Associated Press ENGLEWOOD, Colo.

— Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning said a report by Al Jazeera suggesting he obtained performance-enhancing drugs was “completely fabricated, complete trash, garbage.”

The report, which was set to air Sunday, alleged Manning used human growth hormone (HGH) in 2011. The report is based on secret recordings made of a former intern at an Indianapolis

anti-aging institute who now says he fabricated the allegations.

Al Jazeera sent British hurdler Liam Collins undercover to expose performance-enhancing drug use in sports. Collins made secret recordings of Charles Sly, a former intern at the Guyer Institute, where Manning was treated in 2011 following four neck surgeries.

Sly has recanted the claim that Manning used HGH. Sly, who also named other high-profile athletes on the secret recordings, told Al Jazeera the statements attributed to him “are absolutely false and incorrect.” Sly told ESPN that he fabricated the allegations to test Collins’ legitimacy.

In an interview with ESPN on Sunday morning, Manning denied ever using PEDs and blasted the report for suggesting he got drugs that were shipped to his wife, Ashley.

“I can’t speak for any other athlete. I know what I’ve done, I know how hard I’ve worked in my 18 years of playing in the NFL. There are no shortcuts in the NFL. I’ve done it the long way, I’ve done it the hard way.

And to insinuate anything otherwise is a complete and total joke, it’s defamation and it really ticks me off,” Manning told ESPN. The Broncos and Colts also issued statements Sunday

morning in support of Manning.

“Knowing Peyton Manning and everything he stands for, the Denver Broncos support him 100 percent,” the team said.

“These are false claims made to Al Jazeera, and we don’t believe the report.”

The Colts, whom Manning played for from 1998-2011, issued a statement calling the report “utterly ridiculous.”

“We are thoroughly familiar with Peyton’s tireless work habits, his medical history, and, most importantly, his integrity,” the Colts said.

“We also note that the ‘source’ of this allegation has since recanted his story.”

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LEAGUE | Standings NATIONAL CONFERENCE West W L T Pct y-Arizona 13 2 0 .867 x-Seattle 9 6 0 .600 St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 San Francisco 4 11 0 .267 East W L T Pct y-Washington 8 7 0 .533 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 Dallas 4 11 0 .267 South W L T Pct y-Carolina 14 1 0 .933 Atlanta 8 7 0 .533 Tampa Bay 6 9 0 .400 New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 North W L T Pct x-Green Bay 10 5 0 .667 x-Minnesota 10 5 0 .667 Detroit 6 9 0 .400 Chicago 6 9 0 .400 AMERICAN CONFERENCE West W L T Pct Denver 10 4 0 .714 x-Kansas City 10 5 0 .667 Oakland 7 8 0 .467 San Diego 4 11 0 .267 East W L T Pct y-New England 12 3 0 .800 N.Y. Jets 10 5 0 .667 Buffalo 7 8 0 .467 Miami 5 10 0 .333 South L T Pct W Houston 8 7 0 .533 Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 Tennessee 3 12 0 .200 North W L T Pct y-Cincinnati 11 3 0 .786 Pittsburgh 9 6 0 .600 Baltimore 5 10 0 .333 Cleveland 3 12 0 .200 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s game San Diego at Oakland, 5:25 p.m.

Saturday’s game Washington at Philadelphia, 5:25 p.m.

Sunday’s scores Houston 34, Tennessee 6 Kansas City 17, Cleveland 13 N.Y. Jets 26, New England 20, OT Indianapolis 18, Miami 12 Detroit 32, San Francisco 17 Buffalo 16, Dallas 6 Chicago 26, Tampa Bay 21 Atlanta 20, Carolina 13 Baltimore 20, Pittsburgh 17 New Orleans 38, Jacksonville 27 St. Louis 23, Seattle 17 Arizona 38, Green Bay 8 Minnesota 49, N.Y. Giants 17 Monday’s game Cincinnati at Denver, 5:30 p.m.

Next Sunday’s games Jacksonville at Houston, 10 a.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 10 a.m.

Washington at Dallas, 10 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 10 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 10 a.m.

New England at Miami, 10 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 10 a.m.

New Orleans at Atlanta, 10 a.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 10 a.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.

St. Louis at San Francisco, 1:25 p.m.

San Diego at Denver, 1:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 1:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 5:30 p.m.

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PA 277 271 311 371

PF 354 342 390 252

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PF 309 303 370 275

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PLAYOFF PICTURE Slowly, the field is taking shape for the NFL playoffs.

On a day when both the Carolina Panthers and New England Patriots blew chances to clinch homefield advantage throughout the postseason, here’s a look at the playoff picture with nine of 12 spots decided: AFC With their ninth straight win on Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs are in. That leaves five teams — the New York Jets, Pittsburgh, Denver, Houston and Indianapolis — still in contention for three remaining spots.

Already in are New England, Cincinnati and Kansas City.

The Jets and Steelers are trying for a wild card. Either the Texans or Colts will wind up as the AFC South winner. The Broncos have three possibilities — division champs, wild card or out completely.

The Bengals are at the Broncos on Monday night to help sort out some postseason seeding. If Cincinnati wins, Houston wins its division; the Texans also can take the AFC South with a victory against Jacksonville next Sunday.

Also next weekend, the Jets are at Buffalo, the Steelers are at Cleveland, Denver is home to San Diego and the Colts play Tennessee. The Jets are in with a win.

NFC The NFC field is set: Carolina, Arizona, Minnesota, Washington, Green Bay and Washington are in.

The Vikings clinched a playoff berth with a 49-17 victory over the New York Giants on Sunday night.

They visit Green Bay next weekend with the division title on the line, with the loser receiving a wild card.

Despite their first loss of the season — to the Falcons— the Panthers are NFC South champs with a first-round bye. They close the season at home against Tampa Bay. The Cardinals, NFC West winners, clinched a firstround bye with their win over Green Bay and close the regular season at home against Seattle.

The Redskins won the NFC East with their win at the Eagles on Saturday night, and play their regularseason finale at Dallas next week.

Seattle is in as a wild card despite its loss to St. Louis on Sunday.

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SUNDAY | Stars PASSING Drew Brees, Saints. Brees was 25 for 36 for 412 yards and three touchdowns, leading New Orleans to a 38-27 victory against Jacksonville.

Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jets. Fitzpatrick passed for 296 yards and three touchdowns in New York’s 26-20 overtime win against New England.

Matthew Stafford, Lions. Stafford completed 29 of 37 passes for 301 yards and two touchdowns, powering Detroit to a 32-17 victory against San Francisco.

Matt Ryan, Falcons. Ryan was 23 for 30 for 306 yards and a touchdown, leading Atlanta to a 20-13 win over Carolina.

Blake Bortles, Jaguars. Bortles passed for 368 yards and four touchdowns, but Jacksonville lost 38-27 to New Orleans.

RUSHING Adrian Peterson, Vikings. Peterson had 22 carries for 104 yards and a touchdown, leading Minnesota to a 49-17 victory against the New York Giants.

Tim Hightower, Saints. Hightower had 27 carries for 122 yards and two TDs, helping New Orleans to a 38-27 win against Jacksonville.

RECEIVING Julio Jones, Falcons. Jones had nine receptions for 178 yards and a touchdown in Atlanta’s 20-13 victory against Carolina.

Brandin Cooks, Saints. Cooks made five grabs for 123 yards and a 71-yard touchdown, helping New Orleans to a 38-27 win against Jacksonville.

DeAndre Hopkins, Texans. Hopkins had seven catches for 117 yards and a touchdown as Houston won 34-6 at Tennessee.

Brandon Marshall, Jets. Marshall made eight catches for 115 yards and two TDs in New York’s 2620 overtime win over New England.

Doug Baldwin, Seahawks. Baldwin had eight receptions for 118 yards and a TD in Seattle’s 23-17 loss to St. Louis.

Jarvis Landry, Dolphins. Landry caught seven balls for 111 yards, but Miami lost 18-12 at Indianapolis.

Michael Floyd, Cardinals. Floyd had six receptions for 111 yards in Arizona’s 38-8 win against Green Bay. Asociated Press

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Panthers quarterback Cam Newton sits on the bench in the closing seconds of the second half in Carolina’s 20-13 loss to the Falcons.

Bid for perfection ends Falcons hand Panthers first loss of season, win 20-13

By Charles Odum Associated Press

ATLANTA — For the first time this season, there was no big comeback for Carolina. No clutch play at a key moment.

No costly mistake by its opponent in the last few minutes.

The perfect start is over for Cam Newton and the Panthers.

After Julio Jones’ spectacular 70-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter gave Atlanta the lead, the Panthers came up empty in two possessions in the final three minutes as the Falcons held on for a 20-13 victory on Sunday.

Carolina (14-1) got the ball for the last time with 90 seconds left and no timeouts remaining. Newton completed a 19-yard pass to Corey Brown on first down but fumbled when stripped by Vic Beasley Jr. on the following play. Adrian Clayborn recovered for the Falcons, wrapping up the win.

It was Carolina’s first regularseason loss since Nov. 30, 2014, at Minnesota. The Panthers did not get into the end zone after their opening drive.

“That’s unacceptable, particularly at this time of the year,” Newton said.

Newton said head coach Ron Rivera said the team played as if it was waiting for a turnaround that never came.

Newton, the Panthers’ MVP candidate with the Superman celebration pose, was just OK. He threw for 142 yards and was held without a touchdown pass for only the second time this season. He ran for 46 yards, including an 8-yard scoring run on the Panthers’ opening drive.

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Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones catches the ball despite the efforts of the Panthers’ Luke Kuechly on a 70-yard TD pass in the third quarter.

second-half field goals from Graham Gano.

Carolina’s 13 points set a season low. The Panthers had scored at least 24 points in 13 straight games.

“We’re 14-1 now,” Newton said. “We put ourselves in a situation that we can use this as fuel to the fire.”

The Falcons (8-7) spoiled the Panthers’ bid for a perfect season only two weeks after being humbled in a 38-0 loss at Carolina.

“I viewed this game as a measuring stick for us,” Atlanta head coach Dan Quinn said.

“I wanted to see how our team would respond after the game up there.”

Matt Ryan threw for 306 yards and one touchdown for the Falcons. Devonta Freeman ran for 73 yards and a TD.

Carolina needed a win or tie or an Arizona loss or tie against Green Bay to clinch home-field advantage for the NFC playoffs. But the Cardinals (13-2) cruised to a 38-8 victory over the Packers.

Jones got the best of his much-anticipated matchup with Carolina cornerback Josh Norman. Jones had nine catches for 178 yards, including the dramatic touchdown catch.

Jones reached above linebacker Luke Kuechly for the catch as Panthers safety Kurt Coleman slipped, leaving a clear path for Jones to the end zone. The play put Atlanta ahead to stay at 14-10.

“Julio made a great play on it,” Kuechly said. “That’s really all there is. I thought I was in a good spot, but he went up and got it.”

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals flattened Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.

That makes it nine straight wins for the Cardinals, who think they’re still gaining steam.

“You want to play your best ball at the end of the season,” Arizona defensive lineman Calais Campbell said, “and I think this is the best game we’ve played.”

The Cardinals sacked Rodgers eight times and returned two of his fumbles for touchdowns in a dominant 38-8 victory.

Carson Palmer threw for 257 yards and two touchdowns for the Cardinals (13-2). The winning streak is the franchise’s longest since the 1948 Chicago Cardinals won 10 in a row.

Green Bay was without starting left tackle David Bakhtiari with an injury and lost starting right tackle Bryan Bulaga to an ankle injury during the game.

So the Packers (10-5) were in no position to slow the rout.

“They were very aggressive to the line of scrimmage,” Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy said. “They played very well and took advantage of it.”

In all, Packers quarterbacks were sacked nine times in their most one-sided loss of the season. Dwight Freeney had three and Campbell 21⁄2. Cory Redding rambled 36 yards with one of the fumbles for a score, and Jerraud Powers took another 5 yards for a touchdown.

The Packers dropped into a tie with Minnesota for the NFC North lead when the Vikings cruised to a 49-17 victory over the New York Giants on Sunday night. Green Bay hosts Minnesota in its regular-season finale next Sunday.

“This was a playoff-style game and we played terrible,” Rodgers said, “but we have won a lot of games here. When you play long enough you are going to be on the wrong side at times, but I am confident that we have guys and myself that, when it matters for all the marbles, guys will show up.”

The nine sacks were the most for the Cardinals since they had 10 against Philadelphia on Dec. 7, 1986, two years before the franchise moved to Arizona.

Arizona clinched at least the No. 2 playoff seed in the NFC. It still can take the No. 1 seed with a win over Seattle and a Carolina loss to Tampa Bay next weekend.

“We still really haven’t done anything other than get a bye,” Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said. “You don’t get rings for byes; you only get T-shirts and hats.”

Palmer completed 18 of 27 passes and was intercepted once.

Michael Floyd caught six passes for 111 yards for the Cardinals.

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Vikings rout Giants 49-17, clinch playoff spot Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings didn’t get the help they needed in the afternoon to secure their place in the postseason, so they ventured outside in the cold and took care of it themselves with a resounding victory.

In the playoffs for the first time in three years, they’re playing as if they’re poised for more than a token appearance.

Adrian Peterson ran for 104 yards and a touchdown over three quarters, Harrison Smith took one of Eli Manning’s three interceptions into the end zone and the Vikings clinched at least a wild-card spot with a 49-17 victory over the listless New York Giants on a frigid Sunday night.

“We like to handle business ourselves. We know we right our own ship,” said cornerback Captain Munnerlyn, who picked off Manning’s pass midway through the third quarter to set up Peterson’s score that made it 29-3.

Teddy Bridgewater turned in another sharp December performance, Blair Walsh chipped in five field goals and the Vikings

(10-5) set up an NFC North championship game next week at Green Bay. That game, like this one, was moved to the Sunday night slot.

“I think we’re playing with confidence right now. I think our guys feel good about the things that we’re doing, and I think they believe,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. “Half the battle is believing.”

Manning badly missed suspended wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and his 1,396 yards and 13 touchdowns. Manning dismissed the notion that Beckham’s suspension hung over the team this week.

“We just didn’t play well,” Manning said, “and they did.”

Jets 26, Patriots 20 (OT) EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Eric Decker’s 6-yard touchdown catch on the first drive of overtime — after New England chose to kick off — lifted the Jets into position to make the playoffs.

A win next week at Buffalo gives the Jets a wild-card berth.

New England (12-3) won the OT coin toss and surprisingly elected to give the ball to the Jets (10-5). New York used a career-long 48-yard re-

ception by Quincy Enunwa and a 20-yard pass to Brandon Marshall to move into scoring position. And then, Ryan Fitzpatrick hit Decker on a fade behind Super Bowl hero Malcolm Butler for New York’s fifth straight victory.

Chiefs 17, Browns 13 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Smith threw two touchdown passes as the Chiefs won a team record-tying ninth consecutive game. Smith threw for 125 yards and ran for 54, helping Kansas City (10-5) clinch a playoff berth when Pittsburgh lost to Baltimore moments later.

Ravens 20, Steelers 17 BALTIMORE — Ryan Mallet threw for a career-high 274 yards in his first start with Baltimore in leading the Ravens to one of the biggest upsets of this contentious rivalry. Baltimore swept Pittsburgh (9-6) for the first time since 2011. The Steelers remain in playoff contention.

Texans 34, Titans 6 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brandon Weeden scored his first career rushing touchdown and threw for two more as Houston took a big step toward clinching the AFC South , Houston (8-7), which wraps up the regular season by hosting Jacksonville, couldn’t clinch outright when Indianapolis beat Miami 18-12.

Colts 18, Dolphins 12 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Thirdstring quarterback Charlie Whitehurst came off the bench again for Indianapolis, which made a last-minute defensive stand to keep alive their faint playoff hopes. The Colts (7-8) would have been eliminated from the playoff race with a loss.

Bills 16, Cowboys 6 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Buffalo rookie Mike Gillislee ran 50 yards for a touchdown with 2:25 remaining to secure the win for the Bills.

Bears 26, Buccaneers 21 TAMPA, Fla. — Ka’Deem Carey caught a touchdown pass from Jay Cutler and the third-string running back also scored on a 1-yard run to help Chicago end a three-game losing streak.

Lions 32, 49ers 17 DETROIT — Matthew Stafford threw for two touchdowns, including one to Calvin Johnson early in the fourth quarter for Detroit.

Saints 38, Jaguars 27 NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees passed for 412 yards and three touchdowns despite his injured right foot. Brees, who tore his plantar fascia ligament during a loss to Detroit last Monday, showed no ill effects of the normally painful injury while completing 25 of 36 passes.

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Game statistics

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Rams 23, Seahawks 17

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St. Louis Seattle

10 0

7 3

0 7

7 — 7 —

23 17

Scoring summary

First Quarter StL—FG Zuerlein 42, 8:10. Drive: 5 plays, 25 yards, 2:41. Key Play: Keenum 16 pass to Austin. St. Louis 3, Seattle 0.

StL—Ayers 45 fumble return (Zuerlein kick), 6:34. St. Louis 10, Seattle 0.

Second Quarter StL—Britt 28 pass from Keenum (kick failed), 6:43.

Drive: 1 play, 28 yards, 0:06. Key Play: Austin 21 punt return to Seattle 28. St. Louis 16, Seattle 0.

Sea—FG Hauschka 26, :15. Drive: 16 plays, 72 yards, 6:28. Key Plays: Johnson 15-yard personal foul penalty on 3rd-and-6; Wilson 11 pass to Michael; Wilson 12 pass to Baldwin on 3rd-and-10; Wilson 16 pass to Lockett; Michael 1 run on 3rd-and-1; Wilson 13 pass to Baldwin on 3rdand-3. St. Louis 16, Seattle.

Third Quarter Sea—Baldwin 25 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 8:23. Drive: 11 plays, 67 yards, 6:37. Key Plays: Donald 15yard roughing the passer penalty on 3rd-and-7; Wilson 28 pass to Baldwin; Wilson 13 pass to Helfet on 4th-and-3. St. Louis 16, Seattle 10.

Fourth Quarter StL—Gurley 2 run (Zuerlein kick), 10:34. Drive: 11 plays, 62 yards, 5:19. Key Plays: Keenum 8 pass to Cunningham on 3rd-and-5; Gurley 20 run; Gurley 10 run. St. Louis 23, Seattle 10.

Sea—Kearse 18 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), :17.

Drive: 4 plays, 35 yards, 0:50. Key Play: Wilson 13 pass to Helfet on 3rd-and-6. St. Louis 23, Seattle 17.

A—69,080.

Team stats

StL 14 6 7 1 5-12 0-0 207 53 3.9 104 30 3.5 103 0-0 103 14-23 0 4.5 5-1-1 6-40.0 0 0-0 49 2-24 2-25 1-0 5-60 2-0 27:54

FIRST DOWNS Rushing Passing Penalty THIRD DOWN EFF FOURTH DOWN EFF TOTAL NET YARDS Total Plays Avg Gain NET YARDS RUSHING Rushes Avg per rush NET YARDS PASSING Sacked-Yds lost Gross-Yds passing Completed-Att. Had Intercepted Yards-Pass Play KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB PUNTS-Avg. Punts blocked FGs-PATs blocked TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions PENALTIES-Yds FUMBLES-Lost TIME OF POSSESSION

Sea 18 3 13 2 8-17 1-1 313 67 4.7 60 22 2.2 253 4-36 289 25-41 1 5.6 4-2-1 5-40.4 0 0-0 126 2-20 4-106 0-0 10-83 5-2 32:06

Passing Seattle C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT SACKS QBR RTG Russell Wilson 25-41 389 7.0 2 1 4-36 45.4 88.4

St. Louis C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT SACKS QBR RTG Case Keenum 14-23 103 4.5 1 0 0-0 57.2 86.0

Seattle Car 6 2 7 6 1

Russell Wilson Fred Jackson Bryce Brown Christine Michael Will Tukuafu

Yds 39 11 9 6 -5

St. Louis

Car Todd Gurley 19 Tavon Austin 3 Case Keenum 4 Tre Mason 3 Benjamin Cunningham 1

Yds 85 12 4 3 0

Avg 6.5 5.5 1.3 1.0 -5.0

TD 0 0 0 0 0

LG 21 7 4 5 -5

Avg 4.5 4.0 1.0 1.0 0.0

LG 1 0 0 0 0

TD 20 8 4 5 0

Receiving Rec Yds 8 118 4 43 5 43 3 38 3 33 2 14 0 0 0 0

Doug Baldwin Cooper Helfet Fred Jackson Jermaine Kearse Tyler Lockett Christine Michael Bryce Brown Luke Willson

St. Louis

Rec Yds Kenny Britt 3 49 Tavon Austin 3 16 Benjamin Cunningham 3 14 Todd Gurley 1 7 Brian Quick 1 6 Jared Cook 1 5 Wes Welker 1 3 Tre Mason 1 3 Lance Kendricks 0 0 Bradley Marquez 0 0

Avg TD 14.8 1 10.8 0 8.6 0 12.7 1 11.0 0 7.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0

Lng Tgts 28 10 16 6 14 8 18 5 16 7 11 2 0 1 0 1

Avg TD 16.3 1 5.3 0 4.7 0 7.0 0 6.0 0 5.0 0 3.0 0 3.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0

Lng Tgts 28 4 16 7 10 3 7 1 6 1 5 2 3 1 3 1 0 2 0 1

Punt returns Seattle No. 2

Tyler Lockett

Yds Avg 20 10.0

LG 13

TD 0

Yds Avg 24 12.0

LG 21

TD 0

Yds Avg 106 26.5

LG 34

TD 0

LG 18 7

TD 0 0

St. Louis No. 2

Tavon Austin

Kickoff returns Seattle No. 4

Tyler Lockett

St. Louis No. 1 1

Benjamin Cunningham Tavon Austin

Yds Avg 18 18.0 7 7.0

Defense/special team stats Seattle

Tackles 11 10 6 5 4 4 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1

Bobby Wagner Kelcie McCray K.J. Wright DeShawn Shead Brandon Mebane Ahtyba Rubin Richard Sherman Jeremy Lane Cliff Avril Earl Thomas Michael Bennett Clint Gresham Bruce Irvin Mike Morgan Cassius Marsh

Assists 9 5 4 3 4 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0

Sacks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

7 4 3 2 2 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1

3 0.5 0 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

St. Louis

William Hayes Akeem Ayers Maurice Alexander James Laurinaitis Eugene Sims Trumaine Johnson Janoris Jenkins Mark Barron Rodney McLeod Aaron Donald Lamarcus Joyner Michael Brockers Daren Bates Chris Long Christian Bryant

9 8 7 7 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2

Interceptions Seattle No.

None

Yds

St. Louis No. 1

Johnson

Yds 0

Avg

LG

TD

Avg 0.0

LG 0

TD 0

Punts

Johnny Hekker

No. 5 No. 6

Seattle Yds 202

Avg 40.4

St. Louis Yds 240

Avg 40.0

TB In 20 Long 0 2 45 TB In 20 Long 0 2 50

Kicking Seattle Steven Hauschka

FG Pct 1/1 100.0

St. Louis Greg Zuerlein

Another TD for Baldwin Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin has 11 touchdown catches in the past five games, something that has been done just four times in NFL history.

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Jon Ryan

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Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin caught eight passes for 118 yards and a TD against the Rams.

Rushing

FG Pct 1/1 100.0

Lg 26

Xp 2/2

Pts 5

Lg 42

Xp 2/3

Pt 5

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SEATTLE — The Seattle Seahawks five-game winning streak may have come to an end Sunday, but wide receiver Doug Baldwin extended his streak of being the best wide receiver in the National Football League for at least one more week.

Baldwin caught a touchdown for a fifth consecutive game and now has 11 touchdowns in those five games, something that has been done just four times in NFL history. The only other players with that accomplishment are San Francisco 49er great Jerry Rice in 1987, Oakland’s Art Powell in 1963 and Green Bay’s Sterling Sharpe in 1994.

Baldwin’s touchdown in Sunday’s 23-17 loss to the Rams was his 14th of the season and set the Seahawks’ record for touchdown receptions in a season, surpassing Daryl Turner’s mark set in 1985.

“To score 14 touchdowns, he’s an All-Pro type receiver, obviously,” Seahawks’

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Questions were raised weekly about the team’s inability to convert on third down or in the red zone.

Seattle turned a corner in its Week 11 victory over San Francisco. The much-maligned offensive line underwent a sudden transformation, giving Wilson the time to find a rhythm. Wilson proceeded to lead the Seahawks on a romp that saw Seattle average 444.8 yards and 34.2 points over a fivegame stretch.

But on Sunday the Seahawks looked like the unfortunate Seattle of old. Wilson once again found himself constantly on the run. He was sacked four times and suffered 13 quarterback hits, numbers that weren’t even approached the previous five games. The player who so comfortably completed 74 percent of his passes the prior five weeks was forced to throw on the run

quarterback Russell Wilson said. “His stats show it. It’s hard to cover him.”

What is perhaps most remarkable about Baldwin’s past five games is Sunday’s game is the only one in which he didn’t have multiple touchdown receptions. The streak started with three against the Pittsburgh Steelers and continued with two against the Minnesota Vikings, three against the Baltimore Ravens and two against the Cleveland Browns.

Baldwin caught eight passes for 118 yards to go along with his touchdown and became the first Seahawks’ receiver to go over 1,000 yards since Bobby Engram in 2007.

“It was so exciting,” Wilson said. “I told him after the game that I was really happy for him.

Doug Baldwin’s work ethic is unrelenting. He’s a true champion on and off the field.

“You watch him and his ability to make plays and all of that, you’re not surprised,” Wilson added. “For him to go over 1,000 yards is exciting for him, I know that. He doesn’t care

from awkward positions as he was doggedly pursued by Rams rushers. Is it any wonder several of his passes sailed high and wide of his intended targets?

“I think we just had some bad plays in there all across the board,” said Wilson, disagreeing with the notion the game resembled those from the first part of the season. “It starts with me, just making sure that we’re doing the right things, making sure we’re on the same page and all of that.”

But weren’t those the same sort of words Wilson uttered following losses to Cincinnati and Carolina earlier in the season?

And hadn’t the Seahawks supposedly solved the problem of not being on the same page?

Even the postgame interviews provided a sense of deja vu.

It’s possible the Seahawks suffered an emotional letdown from having clinched a playoff berth a week earlier. Through nine games Seattle was 4-5 and in danger of being left behind in the playoff race. The Seahawks deserve credit for turning their

about the personal accolades or anything like that.”

After holding a lead in 62 consecutive regular-season games, an NFL record, Seattle never led Sunday, but Baldwin kept his team in the game.

Trailing 16-3 early in the third quarter, Baldwin caught a 28-yard pass on a 3rd-and-31 to move the ball to the St. Louis 30-yard line. Baldwin sacrificed his body at the end of the play with an acrobatic dive that would have been good enough for a first down had he not stepped out prior to the leap.

The big play gave the Seahawks a manageable attempt at a fourth-down conversion and Wilson was able to convert with a 13-yard pass to tight end Cooper Helfet.

Three plays later Baldwin caught his lone touchdown on a 25-yard pass from Wilson.

While Wilson had plenty to say about his star receiver, Baldwin, as usual, downplayed his accomplishments and said he won’t be reflecting on them any time soon.

“I’ll think about it when I retire,” Baldwin said.

season around with their exhilarating five-game winning streak, and it’s natural for a team to let up when it no longer faces a must-win situation. Indeed, the only thing Seattle had left to play for was whether it finished with the fifth or sixth seed in the NFC, hardly high stakes.

Yet Seattle head coach Pete Carroll was vehement that wasn’t the case.

“There was no sign in preparation, there was none of that,” Carroll said. “We had a great week. We’ll see what this means.

We have to look at the film and figure it out. Why we had so many problems up front, I don’t know.”

The bigger worry for the Seahawks is whether the Rams exposed flaws in Seattle’s offense that potential playoff opponents could exploit. St. Louis regularly rushed five defenders when the Seahawks passed, putting Wilson under the type of pressure he hadn’t seen since Week 7.

Seattle, at least on this day, had no answer.

Not every team has the talent

and we didn’t.”

“The ball bounced the other way, but ultimately we had multiple chances to win the game,” said defensive end Michael Bennett.

“We really can’t make any excuses.”

The outcome was a costly, but not crippling setback to Seattle’s upcoming playoff chances. The Seahawks had already clinched a postseason berth and Arizona had clinched the NFC West title.

Seattle will be a wild-card team, meaning either a No. 5 or 6 seed, with the final placing to be determined next week.

The Seahawks (9-6) close at Arizona while Minnesota (10-5) visits Green Bay (10-5). If Seattle loses to the Cardinals, it will be the NFC’s No. 6 seed. If the Seahawks win and Minnesota beats the Packers, Seattle will also be the No. 6 seed since Green Bay has the tiebreaker against Seattle. The only way the Seahawks can nab the No. 5 spot is to beat Arizona and have Green Bay beat Minnesota, with Seattle holding the tie-breaker against the Vikings.

“If we’re going to do what we want to do, we have to win out,” said Seattle defensive end Cliff Avril.

“We just have to make it happen.”

“It seemed like the ball loved (the Rams) more than the ball loved us today,” said Seahawks safety Earl Thomas. “The good thing is that we’re in the playoffs.”

Sunday’s game started badly for the Seahawks with St. Louis taking advantage of a short field to drive for an early field goal, and then scooping up a fumble

by Seattle fullback Will Tukuafu for a 45-yard touchdown return

by Rams linebacker Akeem Ayers.

The halftime deficit was 16-3, though Seattle pulled within 16-10 midway through the third quarter on a 25-yard pass from Wilson to wide receiver Doug Baldwin.

The Seahawks’ next two possessions ended in punts, and in the meantime St. Louis tacked on another touchdown. With time waning Seattle made another march into Rams territory, only to have this one snuffed by a Wilson fumble and a St. Louis recovery.

Remarkably, Seattle still had a chance to win in the late seconds.

After Wilson connected with wide receiver Jermaine Kearse for an 18-yard touchdown pass with 17 seconds remaining on the clock, pulling the Seahawks within six points, their hopes depended on a successful onside kick and then a desperation pass to the end zone.

Instead kicker Steven Hauschka’s onside kick try bounded out of bounds, giving the Rams the ball.

The Seahawks will have one final chance before the playoffs to correct their flaws and deficiencies. It will come at Arizona next week and it will be “another opportunity for us to play Seahawks football,” Baldwin said.

“As cliche as it sounds, we always say it’s another championship opportunity, and that’s what it is.”

“Hopefully, this (loss) isn’t a sign of anything other than we have to put it behind us and get moving forward,” Carroll said.

“We rarely look like this, so we’ll see if we can get it all squared away and fixed when we go to Arizona.”

on the defensive line St. Louis possesses. But it’s telling that it wasn’t Pro Bowler Aaron Donald or first-round picks Michael Brockers or Chris Long who did the heavy damage. It was the unheralded William Hayes, filling in for the injured Robert Quinn, who finished with three sacks and six quarterback hits.

“You win some, you learn some,” Baldwin said about the loss. “We’ll take this time to look at the film and get better. Some people can say it’s a bad thing that we lost. I like to look at the positive in everything. This shows us that there are some things we still need to correct. I’m glad we did it now during the regular season than in the playoffs.”

And hopefully for the Seahawks’ sake, that time machine will bring Seattle’s offense back to the present instead of leaving it stranded in the past.

Check out Nick Patterson’s Seattle Sidelines blog at http://www.heraldnet.com/ seattlesidelines, and follow him on Twitter at @NickHPatterson.

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Report Card Here’s how the Seattle Seahawks grade out in their 23-17 loss to the St. Louis Rams on Sunday:

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Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll doesn’t look happy during Seattle’s loss to the Rams on Sunday.

Offense

What happened to the D+ offense that dominated the opposition the past five weeks?

Seahawks running back Christine Michael rushed for six yards on six carries in Sunday’s game against the Rams.

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Rams stuff Seahawks’ run game Seattle’s three running backs combine for 26 yards on 15 carries

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SEATTLE — A week ago Christine Michael and Bryce Brown had fans believing it didn’t matter who lined up at running back for the Seattle Seahawks, helping the team rush for 182 yards in a victory over the Cleveland Browns.

After Sunday’s 23-17 loss to the St. Louis Rams, many of those same fans are wondering when and if Marshawn Lynch might be able to return to the field.

Lynch hasn’t played since a week 11 loss to the Arizona Cardinals and underwent surgery for a sports hernia on Nov. 25.

When asked after Sunday’s loss to the Rams, Seahawks’ head coach Pete Carroll was noncommittal about the possibility of Lynch returning to practice this week.

Behind a career-high 84 yards from Michael and 43 yards from Brown, the Seahawks rushed for 182 yards against the Browns.

Michael’s performance earned him his first career start Sunday, but he came nowhere close to duplicating that effort. Michael finished with just six yards on six carries and the Seahawks rushed for just 60 yards as a team.

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Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson hands off to running back Fred Jackson during Sunday’s game against the St. Louis Rams.

“It’s one of those days,” Michael said. “Kind of a struggle.

We tried our hardest to bounce back and we did toward the end of the game. We just have to get those things corrected at the beginning.”

Quarterback Russell Wilson led the Seahawks in rushing with 39 yards on six carries. Fred Jackson led all Seattle running backs with 11 rushing yards, which came on just two carries.

“You’ve got to give those guys credit,” Jackson said. “(The Rams’) front four did a tremendous job of showing up to stop (the run). Their linebackers

played well. We just had too many self-inflicted things going on that we couldn’t overcome today.”

Jackson also caught five passes for 43 yards and was the lone bright spot among Seattle running backs.

With the running game struggling, the Seahawks were forced to rely on the pass. Wilson completed 25 of 41 pass attempts for 289 yards, but threw his first interception since a loss against the Cardinals on Nov. 15 and also lost a fumble late in the game, which secured the victory for the Rams.

“When you become onedimensional, it becomes easy for a defense to focus on that one dimension,” Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin said. “It was tough on us. ...

We’ve got to give a lot of credit to the St. Louis Rams. Their front seven and their defense is really good.”

Carroll put some of the running backs’ struggles on the offensive line, which also allowed Wilson to be sacked four times.

“We didn’t block very well today,” Carroll said. “They had penetration and made some plays in the backfield early on.

When we run the ball for 60 yards, we’re not on it, we’re in bad shape at the line of scrimmage and we have to do a lot better than that.”

With just one more regular season game before the playoffs, it remains to be seen if Lynch will be able to return this season to add stability to the running game.

“I hope he comes back, we miss him, but reality is what reality is,” free safety Earl Thomas said. “All we can do is go out there. If he comes back, which I hope (he does), I’ll be full of joy, but if not, we’ve got to stick with the guys that we have now.”

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Seattle’s running game, which came into the contest ranked second in the NFL, was non-existent — running backs Christine Michael and Bryce Brown combined for a paltry 15 yards on 13 carries. Meanwhile, quarterback Russell Wilson was back in scramble mode, with the Rams’ defensive line tearing the Seahawks’ offensive line apart, and Seattle turned the ball over three times.

Defense

Seattle’s defense was fine.

B Though the Rams’ offense scored three times, two of those

came on short fields, and the Seahawks held St. Louis to just 207 total yards. The timing of the Rams’ one good offensive drive, however, was poor for Seattle as it came just when the Seahawks had a glimpse at getting back on top, and it chewed up a lot of clock in the process.

Special teams

It was something of a mixed C bag for the Seahawks on special teams. Tyler Lockett had some

decent returns, but nothing that broke open the game. Punter Jon Ryan had a good day when it came to pinning the Rams deep, but he had an awful day when it came to changing field position, getting no long punts when Seattle had to punt from deep in its own territory.

Coaching

The Seahawks were never Cable to come up with the adjustments needed to negate St.

Louis’ pass rush, which gave Seattle fits throughout the game. However, there’s only so much the coaches can do when the team is losing the line of scrimmage. Seattle also lost both of its challenges, leaving the Seahawks with no ability to challenge a call late in the game.

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Overall

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SEATTLE — There were a lot of unhappy faces in the Seattle locker room after Sunday’s 23-17 loss to the St. Louis Rams, but certainly no Seahawk was more visibly unhappy than center Patrick Lewis.

Lewis was not only part of a Seahawks offensive line that struggled against the Rams, but he also committed two costly errant shotgun snaps. The first came in the game’s early minutes and sailed over the head of Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson. Though the loose ball was recovered by the Seahawks, it resulted in a 6-yard loss.

The second bad snap was even more grievous. Trailing 23-10 early in the fourth quarter, Seattle had a third-and-2 at the St. Louis 34-yard line. This time the snap squirted along the ground back to Wilson, and although the Seahawks won a scramble to recover the ball the loss was 15 yards, forcing a Seattle punt.

“I apologize to my teammates, the fans, and anybody that’s got anything to do with the Seahawks,” said a red-eyed Lewis after the game. “I’ve got to

Seahawks playoff scenarios One week remains in the NFL season and the Seattle Seahawks know they will be one of the NFC wild card teams. However, with Minnesota routing the New Your Giants in Sunday’s late game, Seattle still has three possible opponents for the first round of the playoffs: Minnesota, Washington and Green Bay. There are two games that matter next Sunday with regards to Seattle: Seattle at Arizona, 1:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Here’s the outcome of each result scenario: • If Seattle wins and Green Bay wins, the Seahawks are the No. 5 seed and travel to play Washington.

• If Seattle wins and Minnesota wins, the Seahawks are the No. 6 seed and travel to play Minnesota.

• If Seattle loses and Green Bay wins, the Seahawks are the No. 6 seed and travel to play Green Bay. • If Seattle loses and Minnesota wins, the Seahawks are the No. 6 seed and travel to play Minnesota.

Nick Patterson, Herald Writer be better in these (rainy) conditions. But regardless of what the atmosphere was like, who I was lined up against, the conditions outside, (those mistakes are) just uncalled for.”

His voice breaking with emotion, Lewis closed by saying, “I’ll go to work on it (today) and

all this (coming) week.” He then declined further questions.

Injury update The Seahawks had two players — wide receiver Tyler Lockett and tight end Luke Willson — leave the game for concussion examinations. Only Lockett returned.

“Lockett got banged up, but he

came back and played OK,” said Seattle head coach Pete Carroll. As for Willson, “I don’t know how serious it is. He couldn’t come back.”

Defensive end Cassius Marsh (ankle) and tight end Cooper Helfet (thigh bruise) had minor injuries, but both returned.

As for the return of running back Marshawn Lynch, who has not played since a Nov. 15 game vs. the Cardinals — he underwent subsequent sports hernia surgery — Carroll said, “We’ll see in the next couple of days what that means.”

Popped by the punter Had the game turned out better for the Seahawks, it might have been the game’s most amusing moment.

The Rams punted early in the second quarter with Seattle making a fair catch.

As the play wound down, Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril was blindsided and knocked off his feet by a St. Louis player. It turned out to be punter Johnny Hekker, who was flagged 15 yards for unnecessary roughness.

To say the least, such penalties for punters are rare indeed. Rare enough, in fact, that Avril managed a smile when asked about it after the game.

“That was a stupid move by him,” Avril said, adding, “It took some discipline, for sure, not to chase him down and do something crazy. But we still got the yards (from the penalty), so it was a positive for us, I guess.”

Hekker sought out Avril and, according to the Seattle player, apologized after the game.

After five high-flying wins in a row, this one was a letdown for Seattle. The Seahawks made critical errors early in the game to put themselves into a 16-0 hole, and the offense was never able to achieve the heights from the previous five games in order to dig out of that hole. Seattle now is in a dependent position with regards to whether it earns the NFC’s fifth or sixth seed to the playoffs.

— Nick Patterson, Herald Writer

Seahawks schedule (Home games in bold)

Sept. 13: Rams 34, Seahawks 31 (OT) Sept. 20: Packers 27, Seahawks 17 Sept. 27: Seahawks 26, Bears 0 Oct. 5: Seahawks 13, Lions 10 Oct. 11: Bengals 27, Seahawks 24 (OT) Oct. 18: Panthers 27, Seahawks 23 Oct. 22: Seahawks 20, 49ers 3 Nov. 1: Seahawks 13, Cowboys 12 Nov. 15: Cards 39, Seahawks 32 Nov. 22: Seahawks 29, 49ers 13 Nov. 29: Hawks 39, Steelers 30 Dec. 6: Seahawks 38, Vikings 7 Dec. 13: Seahawks 35, Ravens 6 Dec. 20: Seahawks 30, Browns 13 Dec. 27: Rams 23, Seahawks 17 Jan. 3: at Arizona, 1:25 p.m.

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Navy set to bid farewell to ‘very successful’ senior class 2015 Military Bowl

The Washington Post When the current seniors on the Navy football team arrived for plebe summer in 2012, the Midshipmen were coming off their first losing season in nine years. A disheartening byproduct included a second straight year without the Commander-inChief’s Trophy that again belonged to Air Force.

Circumstances deteriorated even more when then-starting quarterback Trey Miller hurt his ankle in a 50-10 season-opening loss to Notre Dame in Dublin. The Midshipmen followed that dud with a 34-7 loss to Penn State and fell to 1-3 by the end of September.

Trailing Air Force by eight points late in the next game, Coach Ken Niumatalolo turned to quarterback Keenan Reynolds, then a freshman. Reynolds entered with 9 minutes, 3 seconds remaining in regulation and scored the tying touchdown before directing the decisive drive in overtime for a 28-21 triumph.

Also contributing to the season-saving win were nose guard Bernard Sarra and defensive end Will Anthony, classmates with Reynolds who would go on to join the record-setting Heisman Trophy candidate as the foundation of one of the most accomplished groups of seniors in program history. The Class of 2016, comprising 32 seniors, has 35 wins, tied for the most in the modern era at Navy.

A victory over Pittsburgh in Monday’s Military Bowl at Navy-Marine Corps

Navy (10-2) vs. Piitsburgh (8-4) Monday, 11:30 a.m.

TV: ESPN Radio: KRKO (1380 AM)

Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland, would move this senior class into a tie with the Class of 1909 for most wins in school history. The No. 21 Midshipmen (10-2) also would set the single-season program record for victories and win three straight bowl games for the first time.

“It’s always hard,” Niumatalolo said of the final game for the seniors. “Especially this group, they’ve been very successful both on and off the field. It’s a really good group of guys. Hopefully we can send them out the right way.”

The senior class has been as determined to deliver Niumatalolo a victory on the heels of several days of drama involving a potential coaching change in Annapolis.

The winningest coach in school history told the team 48 hours before playing Army he would be exploring the then-vacant job at BYU. Niumatalolo traveled to Provo, Utah, the day after beating the Black Knights, 21-17, for a 14th straight time and last Monday spoke with BYU officials about the position that opened when Bronco Mendenhall announced he was leaving for Virginia.

Following two days of consideration, Niumatalolo opted to remain at Navy, much to the relief of his players as well as the athletic administration and school officials.

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BASKETBALL NBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 21 10 .677 — Utah 12 16 .429 7½ Portland 13 20 .394 9 Denver 12 19 .387 9 Minnesota 11 19 .367 9½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 28 1 .966 — L.A. Clippers 18 13 .581 11 Sacramento 12 18 .400 16½ Phoenix 12 20 .375 17½ L.A. Lakers 5 26 .161 24 Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 26 6 .813 — Dallas 17 13 .567 8 Memphis 17 16 .515 9½ Houston 16 16 .500 10 New Orleans 10 20 .333 15 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 19 12 .613 — Boston 18 13 .581 1 New York 14 18 .438 5½ Brooklyn 8 22 .267 10½ Philadelphia 2 30 .063 17½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 20 12 .625 — Miami 18 11 .621 ½ Orlando 17 13 .567 2 Charlotte 16 13 .552 2½ Washington 14 14 .500 4 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 19 9 .679 — Indiana 17 12 .586 2½ Chicago 16 12 .571 3 Detroit 17 14 .548 3½ Milwaukee 12 19 .387 8½ Sunday’s games Memphis 112, L.A. Lakers 96 Oklahoma City 122, Denver 112 Boston 100, New York 91 Portland 98, Sacramento 94 Monday’s Games Atlanta at Indiana, 4 p.m.

New Orleans at Orlando, 4 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Washington, 4 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Charlotte, 4 p.m.

Brooklyn at Miami, 4:30 p.m.

Toronto at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Utah, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.

Men’s College Basketball Sunday’s games EAST Fairfield 101, Bucknell 91 Syracuse 80, Texas Southern 67 SOUTH Maryland 87, Marshall 67 Radford 123, Cent. Pennsylvania 63 VCU 85, Liberty 57 MIDWEST Marquette 84, Presbyterian 66 Northwestern 74, Loyola (Md.) 59 Ohio St. 73, SC State 57 S. Dakota St. 65, Middle Tennessee 61 SE Missouri 94, Harris-Stowe 84 FAR WEST Fresno St. 89, Pacific Union 46 Stanford 83, Carroll (Mont.) 38

Women’s College Basketball Sunday’s games SOUTHWEST Oklahoma St. 76, Savannah St. 48 Texas 83, Sam Houston St. 49

FOOTBALL College Bowl Schedule

Monday’s games Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Navy (10-2) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4), 11:30 a.m.

(ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Central Michigan (7-5) vs. Minnesota (5-7), 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Tuesday’s games Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Air Force (8-5) vs. California (7-5), 11 .m.

(ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl Orlando, Fla. North Carolina (11-2) vs. Baylor (9-3), 2:30

p.m. (ESPN)

Arizona Bowl Tucson Nevada (6-6) vs. Colorado State (7-5), 4:30 p.m. (ASN) Texas Bowl Houston Texas Tech (7-5) vs. LSU (8-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday’s games Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Auburn (6-6) vs. Memphis (9-3), 9 a.m.

(ESPN) Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. NC State (7-5) vs. Mississippi St. (8-4), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

Louisville (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 4 p.m.

(ESPN) Holiday Bowl San Diego Wisconsin (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday’s games Peach Bowl Atlanta Houston (12-1) vs. Florida State (10-2), 9 a.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl (Playoff Semifinal) Miami Gardens, Fla. Clemson (13-0) vs. Oklahoma (11-1), 1 p.m.

(ESPN) Cotton Bowl Classic (Playoff Semifinal) Arlington, Texas Alabama (12-1) vs. Michigan State (12-1), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Friday’s games Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla. Northwestern (10-2) vs. Tennessee (8-4), 9 a.m. (ESPN2) Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. Michigan (9-3) vs. Florida (10-3), 10 a.m.

(ABC) Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

Notre Dame (10-2) vs. Ohio State (11-1), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif.

Iowa (12-1) vs. Stanford (11-2), 2 p.m.

(ESPN) Sugar Bowl New Orleans Oklahoma State (10-2) vs. Mississippi (9-3), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday’s games TaxSlayer Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Penn St. (7-5) vs. Georgia (9-3), 9 a.m.

(ESPN) Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn.

Kansas St. (6-6) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 12:20 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl San Antonio Oregon (9-3) vs. TCU (10-2), 3:45 p.m.

(ESPN) Cactus Bowl Phoenix West Virginia (7-5) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 11 College Football Championship Game Glendale, Ariz.

Orange Bowl winner vs. Cotton Bowl winner, 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

HOCKEY

Tampa Bay Buffalo Toronto

36 18 15 3 39 92 84 35 15 16 4 34 85 92 34 13 14 7 33 89 94 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 34 26 6 2 54 108 72 N.Y. Rangers 36 20 12 4 44 104 93 N.Y. Islanders 36 19 12 5 43 97 85 New Jersey 36 17 14 5 39 84 90 Pittsburgh 35 17 15 3 37 79 86 Philadelphia 35 15 13 7 37 76 96 Carolina 36 15 16 5 35 85 103 Columbus 38 13 22 3 29 92 120 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s games Ottawa 3, Boston 1 Florida 3, Columbus 2 Toronto 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Dallas 3, St. Louis 0 Carolina 2, Chicago 1 Winnipeg 1, Pittsburgh 0 Arizona 2, Colorado 1, OT Anaheim 4, Philadelphia 2 Calgary 5, Edmonton 3 Monday’s Games Washington at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Colorado at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.

WHL

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL GF Seattle 19 12 3 0 113 Everett 19 12 0 2 91 Spokane 18 13 3 1 117 Portland 17 16 1 0 118 Tri-City 14 19 2 0 109 B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 36 26 9 1 0 135 Victoria 36 22 12 1 1 123 Prince George 35 21 12 1 1 120 Kamloops 33 17 12 3 1 118 Vancouver 37 13 19 3 2 106 EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 36 22 11 1 2 137 Prince Albert 35 21 11 2 1 114 Moose Jaw 35 18 12 4 1 121 Regina 36 15 16 3 2 110 Saskatoon 34 13 18 3 0 104 Swift Current 35 10 21 3 1 78 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Lethbridge 36 25 11 0 0 153 Red Deer 36 24 12 0 0 132 Calgary 38 23 13 1 1 127 Edmonton 37 14 19 4 0 103 Medicine Hat 35 12 19 3 1 112 Kootenay 37 6 29 2 0 70 Sunday’s games Vancouver 4 Everett 2 Brandon 6 Regina 3 Moose Jaw 4 Swift Current 0 Calgary 4 Kootenay 0 Red Deer 5 Edmonton 4 (OT) Lethbridge 5 Medicine Hat 4 (OT) Prince Albert 6 Saskatoon 2 Portland 5 Tri-City 4 (OT) Spokane 3 Seattle 0 Kelowna 2 Kamloops 1 Victoria 6, Prince George 2 Monday’s Games Kootenay at Calgary Red Deer at Edmonton Prince George at Victoria Kamloops at Kelowna GP 34 33 35 34 35

Pt 41 40 40 35 30

GA 102 87 101 103 129

Pt 53 46 44 38 31

GA 102 104 107 127 144 113

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NHL

WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts Los Angeles 34 21 11 2 44 Arizona 35 17 15 3 37 Vancouver 37 14 14 9 37 San Jose 34 17 15 2 36 Calgary 35 17 16 2 36 Edmonton 37 15 19 3 33 Anaheim 34 13 15 6 32 Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 37 27 7 3 57 St. Louis 38 22 12 4 48 Chicago 37 20 13 4 44 Minnesota 34 18 10 6 42 Nashville 35 17 12 6 40 Colorado 36 17 17 2 36 Winnipeg 35 16 17 2 34 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 36 20 12 4 44 Detroit 35 18 10 7 43 Montreal 37 20 14 3 43 Boston 35 19 12 4 42 Ottawa 36 18 12 6 42

GA 102 74 117 112 135

GF 88 95 93 93 96 95 66

GA 79 109 104 94 116 113 87

GF 129 95 97 92 92 100 93

GA 91 90 89 83 89 99 104

GF 98 92 106 108 108

GA 83 91 92 94 105

FAVORITE

College Football Monday’s Games

UNDERDOG Military Bowl At Annapolis Navy 3 Pittsburgh Quick Lane Bowl At Detroit Minnesota 4½ Cent. Michigan Tuesday’s Games Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth California 7 Air Force Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando North Carolina 3 Baylor Arizona Bowl At Tucson Colorado St 3 Nevada Texas Bowl At Houston LSU 7 Texas Tech NFL Monday’s Game FAVORITE UNDERDOG at DENVER 3 Cincinnati