Everett Daily Herald, December 31, 2015

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Everett limits alcohol sales Deputy Specific brands are being pulled from areas of the city in an effort to reduce problems, including littering and theft. By Kari Bray

City Council decision Wednesday evening. The City Council voted unanimously in favor of the rule change. Mayor Ray Stephanson and Councilmen Ron Gipson and Jeff Moore were not at the meeting.

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EVERETT — Certain beers and malt liquors are to be pulled from the coolers in stores downtown and in several other neighborhoods after an Everett

In April, the city created an “alcohol impact area” for its core commercial neighborhoods in hopes of reducing problems associated with people consuming cheap, strong alcoholic beverages. That includes littering, trespassing, criminal mischief and theft, according to the city. Compliance with the alcohol impact area was voluntary, meaning officials asked store

owners within the boundaries to stop selling certain types of beer and malt liquor. The list of restricted products is focused on beverages that typically cost as much as or less than a can of beer but pack more of a punch in terms of alcohol per volume. City officials determined that 20 items on the list See ALCOHOL, Page A2

crash under review

Fish plant plans stir worry

The county has been working with a man who lost his legs after an officer ran a stop sign April 17, setting off a series of events.

Residents in Mukilteo concerned about traffic, noise and smells

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Workers prepare Atlantic salmon at Pacific Seafoods’ Washington Distribution Center in Mukilteo on Tuesday. The company is planning to build a new processing facility near the Harbour Pointe area of Mukilteo.

MUKILTEO — Plans to build a seafood-processing plant across the street from a Mukilteo neighborhood have left some area residents upset with the city. Pacific Seafood, which is trying to build the facility near the Hilltop area, organized a Tuesday meeting to discuss the project and listen to concerns. It’s set for 7 p.m. at Mukilteo City Hall on 11930 Cyrus Way. A meeting is required as part of a development agreement the company and the city are trying to reach. The company

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agreed to organize a second meeting after neighbors complained the city provided insufficient notice for an earlier meeting in November. “One of our biggest gripes is we’re just not getting information,” said Ron Johnson, who lives about three blocks away. That’s not their only worry. They’re also skeptical about increased traffic and noise they expect from trucks serving the new plant from early morning to late at night; light from the parking lot; and the potential for fishy smells wafting over their homes. See FISH, Page A7

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EVERETT — Snohomish County quietly has been helping a man who lost his legs after being struck by a deputy’s patrol car earlier this year. An initial police report on the April 17 crash in north Everett concluded that the sheriff ’s deputy ran a stop sign. That caused a chain-reaction pile-up that crushed a construction worker who was standing nearby, leaving him with severe leg injuries. The investigation into the collision is ongoing, more than eight months later. In that time, the county has been working with the injured man’s lawyer on compensation, county Risk Manager Keith Mitchell said. Two other people have filed legal claims against the county regarding the crash, public records show. One was a driver whose car was totaled. The other was a witness in a case, who at the time was being driven by the deputy. That man is seeking up to $1 million in damages. The crash at 23rd Street and Rockefeller Avenue is still being examined by the Washington State Patrol’s Major Accident Investigation Team, which is tasked with making sense of the most complicated collisions. It could be several more months before the case is forwarded to prosecutors for review, trooper Mark Francis said. An internal investigation will follow at the sheriff ’s office. The initial collision report and the legal claims were obtained by The Herald through a public records request. Francis noted that state law requires initial reports be filed quickly and that early findings don’t always match detectives’ final conclusions. The crash happened at 11:45 a.m. on a Friday. The deputy, John Sadro, 54, was southbound on Rockefeller Avenue. He reportedly ran the stop sign and his Ford Crown Victoria was struck by a westbound Honda Element, which didn’t have a stop sign.

Columbia River steelhead are weighed.

So long, 2015 It must be true; it’s on the interwebs: It’s shocking, we know, but Facebook’s Mark Zukerberg isn’t really giving away $45 billion in Facebook shares to 1,000 random people on the social network if they just “copy and paste this message into a post IMMEDIATELY and Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . B4

tag 5-10 friends” (Page D6). It’s not really a scam but a new app that Facebook recently purchased from a developer that shows you which of your friends is really that gullible. Not-so-bitter herbs: A New York company is preparing to offer a kosher medical marijuana product that con-

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forms to Jewish dietary law. The nonsmokable cannabis will be grown and processed according to kosher standards (Page A8). And it’s great on a bagel with a schmear of cream cheese. And extra caviar: The 18-year-old Texas man who fled to Mexico after he was Short Takes . . .D6 Sports . . . . . . . C1

put on juvenile probation, claiming “affluenza” was responsible for a fatal drunken driving accident, is awaiting extradition in Puerto Vallarta. Police were alerted to his location after he ordered a pizza (Page A8). The dead-giveaway was that he ordered the pizza with upper crust.

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