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MARCH 3, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 9
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Chamber names person, business of the year
FALLING AWAKE PAGE 4
By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
For the first time at its history, the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce expanded its awards ceremony to include a Person of the Year and a Business of the Year to recognize the contributions of both individuals and merchants in the community. In a virtual awards ceremony, Feb. 23, the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce presented the 2020 Person of the Year award to Cheryl McQuiston and 2020 Business of the Year to Modele’s Home Furnishings. The winners were nominated by the community and voted upon by the Magnolia Chamber Board of Directors. “The two recipients personify exemplary leadership while actively demonstrating good works that build a stronger sense of community,” according to a release from Magnolia Chamber Executive Director Jason Thibeaux. 2020 Person of the Year McQuiston has been very busy in the past few years. As
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Photo by Jessica Keller Modele’s Home Furnishings’ employee Rob Whitson, from left, Deb Bluestein, Modele’s owner, and Cheryl McQuiston, Magnolia Beautification Committee chair and Magnolia Chamber of Commerce ambassador, sit at one of the tables that was installed during the streetscape improvements made in Magnolia last year. Modele’s Home Furnishing and McQuiston were named the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce’s 2020 Business and Person of the Year, respectively. the chairman of the Magnolia Beautification Committee, she has been the face of the Reimagine Magnolia Village fundraising
campaign to make the neighborhood’s business center more attractive to residents and visitors. In the first phase of the campaign,
which was completed last spring,
SEE AWARDS, PAGE 2
Washington State Senate approves ‘duty to intervene’ legislation Sen. Dhingra’s bill is in response to demands for police reform By Ruairi Vaughan Contributing writer
The Washington state Senate signed off on a bill, Feb. 23, that would require law enforce-
ment officers to intervene against wrongdoing by fellow officers. Senate Bill 5066, introduced by Sen. Manka Dhingra (DRedmond), comes in response to demands by activists in Washington state — and across the nation — for meaningful police reforms in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May and the ensuing protest movement. The bill details a variety of situations in which police officers would be legally obligated to act
against fellow officers. Broadly speaking, the bill breaks down into three parts. It legally requires officers to intervene directly when they see a fellow member of law enforcement using excessive force and to give first aid to people injured because of that force. The bill also obliges police officers to report wrongdoing by their colleagues to their supervisors and forbids agencies from punishing the reporting officer. Finally, the bill orders Washington’s law
enforcement agencies, and other organizations representing officers, to create and implement “duty to intervene” policies by June of next year. While Washington will be one of the first states to codify the “duty to intervene” into law, if approved, police departments and agencies across the nation have begun adopting the idea into their internal policies. Dhingra, a former King County
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