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New rape charges against ex-coach David Etheridge has been in prison since 2004 and has a possible early release date in December.

By Eric Stevick Herald Writer

EVERETT — A sex offender imprisoned for raping and molesting girls on a basketball team he coached in the late 1990s could face more time behind bars after additional charges were filed against him.

David W. Etheridge, 60, is serving time at the Twin Rivers Correc- David tional Center Etheridge in Monroe with a possible early release date of December 2020. He was sentenced in 2004 to 20 years in prison after convictions for first-degree rape, first-degree molestation and possession of child pornography.

The charges involved five girls.

Etheridge used to coach basketball for the Alderwood Boys & Girls Club and Lynnwood Tigers Youth Sports. He coached some of the victims. Others were friends of his family. All were between 8 and 11 years old when he assaulted them, according to court documents.

The newest charges alleging rape and molestation were filed in October and involve an allegation from 1996 and a sixth person. She told a Snohomish County sheriff ’s detective earlier this year that she lied as a child when she denied being abused.

She said she was terrified of Etheridge, was embarrassed by what happened and feared he would not be sent to jail.

During a 2004 evaluation to determine if he was eligible for a lighter sentence and treatment for sexual deviancy, Etheridge admitted fondling the girl “a time or two” when she was a child, according to court papers.

After the evaluation, he was not deemed a good candidate for treatment and was sentenced to the long prison term.

He has pleaded not guilty to the new charges in Snohomish County Superior Court.

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Last year, he was in a coma After never bothering before, this year, he got a flu shot

By Andrea Brown Herald Writer

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Flu shots are available at a variety of places throughout Snohomish County, including this Safeway in Everett.

EVERETT — It’s not only medical experts and proactive HR folks urging people to get flu shots.

Mattress salesman Stewart Patey has

joined the ranks.

The 58-year-old Marysville man said he nearly died from complications of the flu last season.

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Retirement ends electoral era Carolyn Weikel’s tenure as county auditor featured historic ballot battles, persistent efforts to boost voter participation

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Snohomish County Auditor Carolyn Weikel has retired, after joining the office in 2007.

By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer

EVERETT — Carolyn Weikel is loaded with stories.

Like the one about Sacagawea dollars.

When she assumed command of the Snohomish County Auditor’s Office in 2007, her mentor and predecessor, Bob Terwilliger, gave her five for use in the rarest of occasions: to break a tie in an election.

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Through the years, two precinct committee officer contests required a coin flip to settle.

Each time the winner got the post and the loser got a coin.

Then there was the time she was asked about the possibility someone might rappel from the ceiling of a county building to mess with ballot-counting equipment.

This was 2004. Snohomish County used touchscreen voting machines then. They weren’t connected to the internet. Republicans were fine with them, she recalled.

Democrats, however, “were absolutely sure

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they were rigged because there was no paper ballot to count.”

When it came time to download results in the facility, Weikel said, “I was asked how were we sure that people would not come in through the ceiling and tamper with our voting machines. I told them there is a layer of concrete between the ceiling and the floor above it.”

Her tenure featured historic ballot battles, constantly changing primaries and a revolution to make voting easier.

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A seventh person, another former basketball player, also told the detective earlier this year that she, too, was molested by Etheridge as a child.

She said “she was ashamed, never came forward, and spent the last 25 years dealing with it privately,” according to charging papers filed by Snohomish County deputy prosecuting attorney Jarett Goodkin.

Prosecutors were able to file charges involving the first woman, but not the second.

Earlier this year, the Legislature changed the state statute of limitations for firstdegree child rape and firstdegree child molestation to allow prosecution of those crimes over a lifetime.

However, the statute of limitations already had expired under the old law involving allegations of one of the women, who had already turned 30.

In the other case, the charges were filed before the woman turned 30 and they therefore could be pursued under the change in the law, according to court papers.

A judge granted a prosecution request requiring $1 million bail in the event Etheridge is released from prison before his case goes to trial. The trial is now scheduled for June.

In seeking the high bail, Goodkin wrote that Etheridge was a risk to flee, given the possibility of another lengthy prison sentence.

“As stated in the affidavit of probable cause in the case from 2004, Etheridge used (his) position as a father, basketball coach and neighbor to gain access to and ultimately rape and molest numerous young females, who are still coming forward 20 years later,” Goodkin wrote.

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A vehicle is trapped by a pile of tumbleweeds along State Route 240 near Richland on Tuesday evening.

WEST RICHLAND — Some people spent part of their New Year’s Eve trapped on a Washington state highway after tumbleweeds blocked their route, authorities said.

YakTriNews reported that the Washington State Patrol announced via Twitter at about 6:30 p.m. that State Route 240 was closed in both directions near West Richland.

Trooper Sarah Clasen told KAPP-KVEW that vehicles were trapped in a pile of tumbleweeds that stood up to 15 feet tall.

The state Department of

Transportation used snow plows to clear the scene.

Trooper Chris Thorson said it took about 10 hours to clear the road, which opened again around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Thorson says five cars and one 18-wheel semi truck where trapped in the tumbleweeds. No injuries were reported.

“People were still stuck at midnight and rung in the new year trapped under the weeds,” Thorson said.

Thorson said Wednesday that troopers found one abandoned car that was trapped in the tumbleweeds at daylight but no one was inside.

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an absence rate of more than 10% because of influenza-like illness. A long-term care facility also had an outbreak.

Eleven people have died from the flu in Washington, including two children, so far this flu season.

Seven were from influenza B and — Heather Thomas, four from influenza A. Snohomish County Health District spokeswoman The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports about 4.6 million flu illnesses, last year. there were 26 deaths in the county mostly the B variety, so far this “This flu season is rough, espe- and 362 people were hospitalized. season. Of those, 39,000 required cially on the kids and those with There were 367 new confirmed hospitalization and 2,100 people underlying health conditions,” cases of the flu in the county during have died from the flu, including said Heather Thomas, Snohom- the one-week period ending Dec. 22 children, the CDC said. ish County Health District spokes- 21, the latest figures released show, Already, 170.7 million doses of woman. “Getting your flu shot not up from 249 the previous week. flu vaccine have been distributed, only helps strengthen your immune Of the new cases, 306 were for according to the CDC. Last year, the system, but it also makes you less influenza B, the strain causing the total for the entire season was 169.1 likely to spread the virus to others.” most havoc nationwide. Health offi- million.

In Snohomish County, 22 people cials track two main strains of influIt’s not too late to get a flu shot. from infancy to age 91 have been enza, designated as A and B. Andrea Brown: abrown@ PREPARE YOUR Before the holiday break, 12 heraldnet.com; 425-339-3443. hospitalized this flu season, with NOW had FORreported WINTER! no deaths reported. Last season, schools in the district Twitter: @reporterbrown.

“Getting your flu shot not only helps strengthen your immune system, but it From Page A1 also makes you less likely to spread the sepsis to ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome),” Patey said.PREPARE YOUR virus to others.”

“They put me in a drug-induced

coma on March 13. I woke up on May 17.”

Patey never bothered with flu shots before.

“I refused to have them. I rarely had ever gotten sick. I just don’t have time to get sick. I work-workwork. I’m a workaholic,” said Patey, owner of five family-operated Mattress City stores.

He is still recovering from the ordeal and encouraging others to make time to get a flu shot.

“I got one this year,” he said. “Now I am very susceptible. I am doing the best I can to stay away from crowds.”

The 2019-20 flu season started earlier and with more intensity than

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FRONT PORCH A listing of local events and information EVENTS South County Fire open house Meet your local firefighters at South County Fire’s Neighborhood Night Out at Maplewood Fire Station 16.

There will be first-aid lessons and fire engine and medic unit tours.

“Learn about emergency services and programs in your neighborhood and find out how to protect your family from fire and injuries,” a news release said.

The event is 5:30 to 7 p.m. Jan. 9 at the station, 8429 196th St. SW, Edmonds.

South County Fire serves more than 250,000 Snohomish County residents.

More info: www.southsnofire. org/events

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One bullet, one question Brandt Stewart was shot once in the head on a logging road. His sister wants to know why.

By Zachariah Bryan Herald Writer

SKYKOMISH — Two days after the winter solstice, a half-hour before sunrise, a hiker found a man’s body on a logging road

near Skykomish.

His hands were in his pockets, and he had been shot once in the head, according to a King County sheriff’s deputy’s report. A single spent 9mm shell casing was on the ground nearby.

On Dec. 29, detectives arrested the alleged shooter in Northern California. Jeremy Tod Staeheli, 32, was charged in King County Superior Court with seconddegree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm. His

bail was set at $2 million.

Brandt Stewart, 34, grew up in Snohomish. He wasn’t a perfect person, but he didn’t deserve to Brandt Stewart die, said his sister, April Stewart.

He worked off and on, mostly as a contractor installing appliances, she said. He didn’t have a stable housing situation and would

move from spot to spot, and most recently stayed at a shed outside of a church in Snohomish.

Despite living a hard life, Brandt Stewart was often kind and thoughtful, his sister said.

With what little money he had, he would buy presents at the pawn shop for his friends and family. Once, he gave his mother a rock saying the words “I love you.”

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Fun British men The Mossyback Morris Men will perform at a free event at the Everett Public Library at 2 p.m.

Jan. 12 in the auditorium at 2702 Hoyt Ave. Looking like deranged chimney sweeps, the Mossyback Morris Men perform an ancient British form of ritual dance called “The Morris,” which celebrates the good Earth and its seasons. Their spirited dances include large sticks that they clash together, handkerchiefs for flicking the devil in the eye, suspenders, colored streamers and jingling bells on their shins.

The Morris is a mix of street theater and dance that has been performed for centuries to spread good cheer during the darkness of winter.

After their performance, the group will greet the audience and answer any questions about the Morris, life and the universe.

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As others wait on the countdown a swimmer realizes she’s jumped the gun at the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Brackett’s Landing on Wednesday in Edmonds.

‘Something crazy’ to start decade Hundreds of participants splashed into Puget Sound — and into 2020 — at the annual Edmonds Polar Bear Plunge

New exhibit at Schack Art Center Two Washington-based artists will be featured at the Schack Art Center.

Marita Dingus, who uses discarded materials for sculptures, and painter Hoa Hong will have exhibits at the center from Jan. 16 through Feb. 22.

A free opening reception will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Jan. 16.

Dingus, a self-proclaimed African-American feminist and environmental artist, examines political themes in her work. Her exhibit will feature more than 30 sculptures.

Hong, who graduated from the University of Washington, uses a mix of sharp and broken details to contrast ambiguity and contrast.

She will have several paintings and murals on display.

The center is at 2921 Hoyt Ave.

HEADS UP How to get rid of your Christmas tree

Boy Scout Troop 304 in Lynnwood is recycling old Christmas trees Saturday and Sunday.

Drop off trees at the corner of 188th Street SW and 44th Avenue W, across from the Lynnwood Recreation Center.

Remove all decorations, tinsel and tree stands. Trees with any kind of synthetic dust cannot be accepted. Tree chipping is provided by Ecotree NW, and the Boy Scout troop will be accepting donations.

In Arlington, another Boy Scout troop is collecting Christmas trees.

Troop 29 will start making its way around neighborhoods at 9 a.m. Saturday. Place your live tree on the curb outside of your house by then — free of decorations, tinsel, stands and dusting — for the Scouts to pick up.

Residents can also drop off trees at the Legion Park parking lot, 114 N Olympic Ave., Wednesday through Saturday.

Donations may be placed in an envelope and attached to your tree.

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DMONDS — It was a brisk wakeup, like downing a cup of coffee, said Mike Selberg, 53, of Shoreline.

Selberg stood on the beach clutching a spent bottle of Cook’s sparkling wine, among the hundreds of people who dove into a new decade Wednesday at the Polar Plunge in Edmonds.

In one big human wave, the crowd rushed into the gaspinducing waters of Puget Sound, a chilly 47 degrees at showtime in the afternoon. Some held hands with friends. Some went barefoot on the pebbles. Many wore sandals, Crocs or aqua socks. Afterward, they draped themselves in candy-striped beach towels. Many didn’t bother to take off their T-shirts, and wet cotton clung to their baptized skin.

Florida resident Zoe Merrow quickly exits the water as divers in drysuits head into the Sound.

The forecast said rain, but clouds drifted apart and revealed the sun by 1 p.m. at Brackett’s Landing, beside the ferry dock in Edmonds.

The annual event began

13 years ago, imported from Coney Island by New York City expat Brian Taylor, who owns Daphne’s at 415½ Main St. Before the swim, revelers in white bathrobes gathered on

the sidewalk at the tiny bar, with cans of Rainier beer. The Polar Plunge has grown to the point it would probably still happen if Taylor gave up organizing it, he said. He glanced down at the years stitched onto his robe to remind himself when this oncesmall, goofy thing turned into a city tradition. It used to be just a few dozen people. Sometime in the early 2010s, he said, he made the short march from the bar to the beach, turned a corner and saw a crowd of hundreds. For the 20th year, Taylor wants to bring in a full marching band.

“I’ve got seven years to make that happen,” he said.

The atmosphere is part-Halloween.

Dean Olson, 59, of Edmonds, handed out a few cigars — the longest, cheapest kind he could find.

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Get ready for a lot of voting in 2020 It will be a busy year as voters decide the fate of school bonds and help choose the next president.

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LYMPIA — Prepare now for what could be ballot fatigue later.

There are five elections scheduled in the state this year — three for everyone and two for a lot of you.

Here is some of what’s at stake in each one: Feb. 11: Nine school districts in Snohomish County will be asking voters to approve a construction bond, a capital levy or an enrichment levy. The Edmonds School District is going big. It has a $600 million bond measure. If passed, it would

JERRY CORNFIELD provide money to build two new schools, replace three others and make physical improvements on campuses throughout the district. Construction bonds aren’t easy to pass because they require a 60% majority. If any district tries and fails in February, it can try again in April.

March 10: This is the state’s presidential primary. You read that right. It is the earliest ever for the state. And, for the first time,

the Democratic and Republican parties will each allot delegates to candidates based on the results.

In other words, the primary could actually be meaningful. Not so much for Republicans, because their guy, President Donald Trump, will be unopposed. For Democratic candidates, it could matter. It depends on who is on the ballot and still in the race.

April 28: Three aging elementary schools would be torn down and replaced. Thirty-six new elementary classrooms would be constructed. And the vocational building at Everett High School would get a modern makeover.

Those are among the marquee items in a $317.4 million bond measure that voters in the Everett School District will consider.

Two years ago, district voters rejected a $330.6 million bond

measure, two-thirds of which was for a new high school. This year’s measure contains no money for a high school. Rather, it makes improvements on more campuses, which could secure a different outcome.

Aug. 4: It’s the regular primary.

Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee is seeking a third term and should be the top vote-getter. If Tim Eyman is still in the race — hey, he might not file — this would be a day of reckoning. He’s running as an independent. To finish in the top two, he must beat a crowded field of Republicans.

We know how voters across the state feel about his car-tab initiatives. Now we’ll get an idea of how they feel about letting him run the state.

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He had been addicted to drugs much of his life. But he wasn’t violent, April Stewart said. He didn’t own a gun, let alone shoot one, she said.

April Stewart said she wonders why someone would shoot her brother, leaving a young girl without a father.

It’s a question she may never hear answered.

“He just killed my brother for no reason,” April Stewart said.

Detectives found Staeheli within six days. People who knew Brandt Stewart reportedly saw him and Staeheli the night before.

Staeheli was driving a red Ford Mustang, and security footage from a gas station showed the car’s license plate.

In social media posts written after the shooting, Staeheli gave detectives more hints.

On the day Brandt Stewart’s body was found, Staeheli posted a photo of a cemetery, captioned, “Don’t wait on me. One day again.”

Many of the posts were nonsensical and described conspiracy theories.

One commenter asked, “are you okay?”

Staeheli responded: “the state said I have a mental incompetence so I’m playing the (expletive) out of that card. You know an acadamy award winning film so to say… hahahahaba.”

In pending charges in Snohomish County Superior Court for third- and fourth-degree assault, a judge has twice ordered Staeheli to undergo mental health treatment at a state facility for 45 days. He was released from custody in May, under conditions that he attend future court dates, undergo a mental health evaluation and follow treatment recommendations.

On Dec. 28, Staeheli shared on Facebook that he was in Hornbrook, Calif.

King County sheriff’s detectives drove to Northern California, fearing he was trying to escape. They worked with local law enforcement to find a red Ford Mustang at a Hampton Inn & Suites in Red Bluff.

Around 11 a.m., detectives arrested Staeheli as he left the hotel. He reportedly was carrying a 9mm handgun.

Staeheli said he had both the car and the gun for the past two weeks, and that the gun was the same one used in the alleged murder, according to court documents. He reportedly said he knew Brandt Stewart from high school, and that they occasionally smoked methamphetamine together. They grew up in Snohomish.

He claimed that he shot Brandt Stewart in self-defense, according to charging papers. They had gone on a drive and stopped on a forest road to find a place to go to the bathroom. Outside the car, Staeheli said he turned around to see Brandt Stewart holding a knife in his hand. That’s when Staeheli allegedly shot him.

Detectives noted that Staeheli gave details that only the shooter would have known, including that Brandt Stewart had been shot in the forehead.

April Stewart said she didn’t hate Staeheli, but hoped to see him go to prison and get any mental health treatment that he might need.

“I hope he spends life in prison thinking about the bad decisions he made that affects everyone around him, including his own family,” she said.

An arraignment hearing is scheduled for Jan. 13.

Stewart’s family is planning a memorial.

Zachariah Bryan: 425-339-3431; zbryan@ heraldnet.com. Twitter: @zachariahtb.

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Black guest at hotel sues PORTLAND, Ore. — An African American woman who says she was required to sign a “no party policy” when she checked into her Portland hotel filed a $300,000 lawsuit Monday against the Marriott chain, claiming it singled her out because of her race.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Felicia Gonzales claims the front desk clerk at the Residence Inn

by Marriott Portland Downtown/Convention Center told her that all guests had to sign the policy. But Gonzales says she watched white guests check in after her who weren’t required to sign the policy, according to the lawsuit.

Marriott spokesman Jeff Flaherty says the company doesn’t comment on pending lawsuits.

Suspected serial killer faces charge in 1970s case

PORTLAND, Ore. — A suspected serial killer will soon return to Clark County, to be charged with the murder of a teen found dead in the 1970s.

KO I N-T V re p o r t e d Warren Forrest has been behind bars since 1978, serving a life sentence for his conviction in the 1974 murder of Krista Kay Blake.

But he’s suspected of abducting and killing a total of seven women and girls on both sides of the Columbia River. One of those girls was Martha Morrison.

Prosecutors in Clark County recently issued a first-degree murder warrant against Forrest for Morrison’s killing.

D etectives believe Forrest’s first victim was Jamie Rochelle Grissim. She

disappeared after going to school in 1971 and has never been found; however, her school ID turned up along remote Doe Valley Road in Clark County.

Hunters found the bodies of Carol Valenzuela and Morrison nearby in 1974.

In an unexpected discovery revealed in 2017, Morrison’s DNA was found on a dart gun that Forrest admitted to using to attack another woman.

Forrest has never admitted to other killings or if he knows where Grissim’s body is hidden. But Grissim’s sister Starr Lara hopes he can now be convinced to reveal what happened to Grissim while being prosecuted for Morrison’s murder.

Seattle police chase, arrest suspect SEATTLE — Seattle police officers chased and arrested a suspect after they saw

him shoot another man in Pioneer Square.

KOMO-T V reported the officers were patrolling in the area of Occidental Avenue South and South Washington Street at about 1:25 a.m. when they witnessed the shooting, said Detective Patrick Michaud of the Seattle police. The suspect fled on foot.

Officers chased after the suspect and took him into custody without further incident.

Medics rushed the victim to Harborview Medical Center, where he later died due to the severity of his injuries. No other information was immediately available about the victim.

Detectives questioned the suspect in an attempt to determine what led up to the shooting, then booked him into the King County Jail, Michaud said.

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OBITUARIES AND MEMORIALS Charles “Chuck” M. James Jr. Charles “Chuck” M. James J r. , 7 8 , p a s s e d a w a y December 29, 2019.

Ser vices will be held Thursday, January 2, 2019 at 1:00 pm at SchaeferShipman with a Rosar y to follow at 6:00 pm at the Tulalip Gym. A funeral Mass will be held Friday at 10:00 am at the Tulalip Gym with burial to follow at Mission Beach Cemetery.

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Elaine Mae Bogart Elaine Mae Bogar t of Everett, WA, passed away December 24, 2019. Born May 14, 1928 in Hoquiam, WA , t o J o h n a n d Ve r n a l Ginnard.

Preceded in death by husband, George Bogart Sr.; m o t h e r, Ve r n a l G i n n a r d , father, John Ginnard and two brothers and two sisters.

She will be remembered for 50 years of volunteering at the Lake Stevens Grade Schools.

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At a gathering at Daphne’s Bar, Chris and Valerie Kelley take a selfie before joining in the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Brackett’s Landing on Wednesday in Edmonds.

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Under a robe, he wore a patterned tie, a blinding-orange T-shirt and a pink-and-gray swimsuit from the ’80s.

He figured he’d pop out in photos.

“It’s every bad color combination,” he said.

In the screaming and laughing crowd were kids, seniors and everyone in between.

Many swimmers said they didn’t test the water to see how cold it was.

Instead, they’d just jump right in.

What were they looking forward to in 2020?

“Just enjoying life, not worrying about the little things,” Selberg said.

He spent part of last year recovering from a back surgery.

“I’ve been building a business,” said Jami Hammond-Christensen, 40, a Realtor. “It’s been taxing on our family, on me, on everybody. The fruit of all that hard work is coming together. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

“I don’t know,” said Alexavier Pearson, 10, a student at St. Luke School in Shoreline. “More video games?”

“I haven’t really thought too much about it,” said Tom Gaschk, 40, of Edmonds, who works for a candy distribution company. “Just having

As others head in, a man raises his arms in celebration as he exits Puget Sound.

some great success in my career, and a lot of good time with my family.”

Mollie Boyce, who was part of the original group of plungers, said she’s getting married this year.

“Retirement,” said Karen Rautenberg, 57, a librarian at EdmondsWoodway High School. She’s been doing a New Year’s plunge with her faculty friends for about seven years.

“It’s a chance to mark a new day, to start clean and to have good friends to do it with, right?” Rautenberg said.

“And to do something crazy with people.”

Afterward, her group warms up with chowder and chili.

Jill Wright, of Lynnwood, suffered a stroke about four years ago. She did a swim like this on a New Year’s Day before the stroke, and on Wednesday she wanted to try again. She hoped to last maybe 20 seconds in the water.

She’s planning big trips this year, one to Yellowstone and one to a niece’s wedding in Oregon. So there’s a lot to look forward to.

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Nov. 3: Americans pick a president on this day. Four years ago, Trump got the job. He wants another term. He’s brushed off the fact that he’s been impeached by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. He’s counting on being acquitted soon by the Republican-controlled Senate. In this state, the Democratic candidate, whoever it is, will win. As far as the rest of the nation goes, we’ll all watch together as we did four years ago.

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Tourists warned as wildfire danger intensifies

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Stray bullet kills woman ringing in new year

By Edward Johnson Bloomberg News

SYDNEY — Thousands of tourists holidaying on the south coast of Australia have been told to evacuate before the weekend when extreme weather is set to intensify deadly wildfires sweeping through the region.

The Rural Fire Service said anyone in the southeastern tip of New South Wales state should get out in the next two days. The 140-mile stretch from Batemans Bay down to the Victoria state border has been ravaged by fires this week, as infernos turned the sky blood red and rained down embers and ash on communities.

At least seven people have been killed on the south coast of New South Wales this week and hundreds of properties destroyed.

Thousands of locals and tourists have been stranded in the rural, forested region at the peak of the summer holiday season as firefighters try to take advantage of cooler weather Thursday to contain blazes and re-open roads.

Isolated communities in Victoria also remain cut-off, including the township of Mallacoota, where some 4,000 people were forced to shelter on the beach or escape by boat as wildfires swept through.

The scale of the crisis, played out in real-time on social media as people posted footage and images of raging fire-fronts bearing down on communities, has shocked Australia and fueled an emotive debate about the impact of global warming in the world’s driest-inhabited continent. Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government is coming under sustained criticism from environmentalists and the opposition after repeatedly downplaying any links to climate change, and for not taking stronger steps to curb emissions.

At least 16 people have died since fires broke out months ago during the southern hemisphere winter, an unusually early start to the season amid a widespread, prolonged drought gripping much of the nation.

While New South Wales and Victoria have been the hardest hit, fires are burning in all six Australian states.

With several people unaccounted for, authorities fear the death toll will rise. Military helicopters and ships have been scrambled to bring in supplies and for potential evacuations if roads can’t be re-opened.

Residents returned to villages and towns across the southeast Wednesday to find scores of homes destroyed — the New South Wales fire service put the tally of razed properties this week at 176, adding to more than 900 burned since the crisis began.

Social media was awash with images of buildings reduced to charred rubble and burnt-out cars.

Main roads were clogged as people seized the opportunity to move to safer areas.

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Pro-Iranian militiamen and their supporters receive meals from the back of a truck while Iraqi army soldiers and security forces are deployed in front of the U.S. Embassy, in Baghdad on Wednesday.

Militiamen withdraw, but tensions still linger

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Joseph Krauss Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Iran-backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday after two days of clashes with American security forces, but U.S.-Iran tensions remain high and could spill over into further violence.

The withdrawal followed calls from the government and senior militia leaders. It ended a twoday crisis marked by the breach of the largest and one of the most heavily fortified U.S. diplomatic missions in the world.

The attack and its volatile aftermath prompted the Pentagon to send hundreds of additional troops to the Middle East an d U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to delay a European and Central Asian trip.

In an orchestrated assault, hundreds of militiamen and their supporters broke into the embassy compound, destroying a reception area, smashing windows and spraying graffiti on walls to protest U.S. airstrikes against an Iran-backed militia over the weekend that killed 25 fighters.

The U.S. blamed the militia for a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base in the northern city of Kirkuk last week that killed a U.S. contractor.

The protesters set up a tent camp overnight and Wednesday set fire to the reception area and hurled stones at U.S. Marines guarding the compound, who responded with tear gas. There were no injuries on either side and no American staff were evacuated from the compound.

Appeal to withdraw The Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of state-allied militias — many backed by Iran — called on its supporters to withdraw in

response to an appeal by the Iraqi government, saying “your message has been received.”

By late afternoon the tents had been taken down and the protesters relocated to the opposite side of the Tigris River, outside the so-called Green Zone housing government offices and foreign embassies. U.S. Apache helicopters circled overhead.

“After achieving the intended aim, we pulled out from this place triumphantly,” said Fadhil al-Gezzi, a militia supporter. “We rubbed America’s nose in the dirt.” Trump has vowed to exact a “big price” for an attack he blamed squarely on Iran.

Kataeb Hezbollah, the Iranbacked militia targeted by the U.S. airstrikes, initially refused to leave but later bowed to demands to disperse. The militia is separate from the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, though both are backed by Iran.

“We don’t care about these planes that are flying over the heads of the picketers. Neither do we care about the news that America will bring Marines,” said Mohammed Mohy, a spokesman for Kataeb Hezbollah. “On the contrary, this shows a psychological defeat and a big mental breakdown that the American administration is suffering from,” he said, before withdrawing from the area.

Mass protests The violence came as Iran and its allies across the region have faced unprecedented mass protests in recent months and heavy U.S. sanctions have cratered Iran’s economy.

Iraq has been gripped by anti-government protests since October fueled by anger at widespread corruption and economic mismanagement, as well as Iran’s heavy influence over the country’s affairs. Those protesters were not involved in the embassy attack.

The Pentagon sent an infantry

battalion of about 750 soldiers to the Middle East. A U.S. official familiar with the decision said they would go to Kuwait.

Pompeo postponed a trip that was scheduled to start in Ukraine late Thursday so that he can monitor developments in Iraq and “ensure the safety and security of Americans in the Middle East,” said State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus.

Iran denied involvement in the attack on the embassy. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted by media as saying that “if the Islamic Republic makes a decision to confront any country, it will do it directly.”

Iran later summoned the Swiss charge d’affaires, who represents American interests in Tehran, to protest what it said was warmongering by U.S. officials.

Public consular operations at the embassy were suspended and future appointments canceled, it said in a statement.

Back and forth Tensions have steadily risen since Trump withdrew the U.S. from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and embarked on a campaign of maximum pressure through economic sanctions. Iran has responded by abandoning some of its commitments under the deal.

U.S. officials have blamed Iran for the sabotage of oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and a drone attack on Saudi oil facilities in September that caused a spike in world oil prices. But the Trump administration has not responded with direct military action, apparently fearing a wider conflict.

The U.S. has sent more than 14,000 additional troops to the Gulf region since May in response to concerns about Iranian aggression. At the time of the attack, the U.S. had about 5,200 troops in Iraq, mainly to train Iraqi forces and help them combat Islamic State extremists.

Lawmakers pledge ERA will pass in Virginia

By Sarah Rankin and David Crary Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment are so confident Virginia is on the verge of becoming the critical 38th state to ratify the gender equality measure, they are already making plans for how they will celebrate.

But that jubilation could be largely symbolic. Despite broad support for the amendment in the state, the ERA’s prospects nationally are substantially more complicated.

The proposed 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution faces a host of likely legal challenges and vehement opposition from conservative activists who depict the ERA as a threat to their stances on abortion

and transgender rights.

The passage of time is also a factor. When the measure passed Congress in 1972, lawmakers attached a 1977 ratification deadline to it, then extended it to 1982.

While the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is likely to extend the deadline again, the Republican-controlled Senate might balk, increasing the chances of litigation. Lawsuits also could be waged over an attempt by five states in the 1970s to rescind their initial support for the amendment.

At least one legal challenge is already under way. Alabama, Louisiana and South Dakota filed a lawsuit in federal court in midDecember seeking to prevent the U.S. archivist from accepting a new ratification.

In Virginia, the ERA’s future is bright: Democrats who seized control of the state Legislature in November say there is unanimous support in both their House and Senate caucuses.

“It will pass,” Virginia House Speaker-elect Eileen Filler-Corn said pointedly at a recent news conference attended by cheering advocates, some of whom have been working on the issue for decades.

Virginia supporters have framed ERA ratification as a chance to rebut the state’s long history of racist and intolerant policies.

In the past, Virginia “fought against desegregation ... fought against interracial marriage ... fought against women’s right to vote,” said Jennifer Carroll Foy, chief patron of the House

ratification resolution who is also a member of the black caucus and one of the first women admitted to the historically all-male Virginia Military Institute. “And it is only poetic justice that now we stand on the right side of history and finally give women their full constitutional equality.”

After a ratification vote, Virginia is expected to submit copies of the state’s resolution to the U.S. archivist. State Attorney General Mark Herring said when that happens, he will include legal arguments in support of the ERA. But some of the liveliest debate over the coming months will likely deal with two hot-button social issues that have evolved significantly since the ‘70s: abortion access and the rights of transgender people.

HOUSTON — Authorities say a woman ringing in the new year was fatally shot by a stray bullet outside her Houston home.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said 61-year-old Philippa Ashford died after being shot at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. The sheriff’s department said it appears she might have been struck by celebratory gunfire from outside her immediate neighborhood.

The woman’s family and their neighbors were discharging fireworks in their cul-desac when she called out that she had been shot, according to the department. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

AROUND THE WORLD Blaze kills animals at German zoo DUSSELDORF, Germany — Police in western Germany have said that a Chinese lantern released during New Year’s Eve celebrations might have caused a fire in a zoo that killed more than 30 animals.

The fire burned down Krefeld Zoo’s Great Ape House, killing primates including chimpanzees, orangutans and two elderly gorillas.

“It is the worst day in the history of Krefeld Zoo,” the zoo’s director Wolfgang Dressen told reporters Wednesday.

The incident was an “inconceivable tragedy,” the zoo wrote on Facebook. “Our worst fears have come true.”

India plans another shot at moon landing NEW DELHI — India will try to land on the moon this year, after a previous attempt failed just minutes before a scheduled touchdown on the lunar surface, in a bid to restore its credentials as an ambitious space power.

The South Asian nation’s Chandrayaan-3 mission to the moon will consist of a lander and a rover, and will use inputs from an orbiter from the previous mission, K. Sivan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, said in Bengaluru on Wednesday. It has also made progress on India’s first manned space mission by identifying four astronauts, he added.

India and China are both trying to establish a presence in space exploration. While China was the first country to land a rover on the far side of the moon, India had aimed to become the first to the southern pole, the same spot NASA is targeting in 2024 with its Artemis mission.

Hong Kong rings in new year in battle HONG KONG — Hong Kong began 2020 with a familiar sight: tear gas, fires, vandalism and roadblocks in busy downtown areas as protesters vowed to maintain their fight for more democracy and less Chinese control.

Running battles between riot police and demonstrators continued into the night after tens of thousands of mostly peaceful protesters flooded streets from Causeway Bay to Central. Tensions escalated after police abruptly ended the rally following clashes outside of a branch of HSBC Holdings Plc, which had become a target of protesters in recent weeks.

“Instead of celebrating New Year’s Day like the rest of the world, we are out here in the streets fighting for our government to answer our demands,” said Sarah, 28, as a crowd of black-clad protesters sang the anti-government anthem “Glory to Hong Kong.”

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Hiring at Hanford lab targets dangerous radioactive waste

By Annette Cary Tri-City Herald

RICHLAND — The initial staff has arrived at the Analytical Laboratory, the first of the four major facilities at the Hanford $17 billion vitrification plant to have a Washington state permit to operate.

The inaugural team of eight chemists is setting up shop there as the plant prepares to start treating Hanford’s radioactive waste by the end of 2023.

Bechtel National, which is building and starting up the plant, plans to hire 32 more chemists and laboratory staff over the next 18 months to support work at the plant’s Analytical Laboratory.

The lab is one of four major facilities on the 65-acre vitrification plant campus in the center of the Hanford site.

Construction began on the plant in 2002 under a plan to use it to glassify some of the nation’s most dangerous radioactive and

hazardous waste for permanent disposal.

Hanford has 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste held in underground tanks after producing plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program from World War II through the Cold War. The initial lab staff now at the vitrification plant in the center of Hanford began training in 2018 at a lab set up at Columbia Basin College in Pasco to allow them to start training on equipment that was moved to the Hanford laboratory in recent months.

The staff hired for the vit plant lab will work there through startup and commissioning of the lab and could be hired as the plant begins treating tank waste under a contractor yet to be picked.

When the vitrification plant begins treating some of the least radioactive waste in the tanks as required by a federal court deadline of 2023, the lab will be used to

analyze about 3,000 waste samples each year.

The Analytical Laboratory is the size of a football field and stands about four stories high.

Chemists and other lab employees will help develop a “recipe” of glass forming materials for each batch of waste and also confirm that a high-quality glass is produced.

“Our Analytical Laboratory is a key component of meeting regulatory requirements for tank waste treatment,” said Tom Fletcher, the Department of Energy project manager for the vitrification plant.

Over the next few years the staff at the lab will be demonstrating that procedures and instruments are ready to support treatment.

They will be setting up scientific instruments, training new staff and developing proficiency. They will eventually support operation of the plant as it initially is operated with a simulated non-radioactive waste before it begins operations to treat

radioactive waste.

“The chemists represent another group of permanent positions to support plant commissioning, along with 95 commissioning technicians,” said Valerie McCain, Bechtel project director for the vitrification plant.

The commissioning technicians are working in the control room of one of the other four large facilities at the plant, the Low-Activity Waste Facility. Its melters will be used to turn glass-forming materials and waste into a stable glass form for disposal.

The plant also has a Pretreatment Facility and a High Level Waste Facility, where work has been delayed to resolve technical issues related to high level radioactive waste.

It also has multiple support facilities to provide services, ranging from electrical power distribution to fire suppression water to compressed air. The plant is not required to be fully operating until 2036.

In politics, child care still a hurdle Experts predict a large number of women will again run for office in 2020

By Lindsay Whitehurst and Christina A. Cassidy Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — When Kimberly Dudik ran for her fourth term in the Montana House, state officials told her she could not use campaign money to pay for child care for her four young children.

She is now running for attorney general and is trying to visit a big chunk of the sprawling state, spending hours on the road. That means she needs even more help picking up her kids at school and day care when she’s away and her husband has a late night at the office.

“It just seems behind the times,” Dudik, whose family is living off her husband’s income and savings from her work as a lawyer. “When it was a man campaigning, the woman was traditionally the one to stay home and take care of the children.

There is not someone home just taking care of the kids.”

Experts predict a large number of women will again run for office in 2020 like they did in 2018, and child care remains a hurdle for many of them.

A congressional candidate in New York successfully petitioned the Federal Election Commission in 2018 to allow campaign money to help cover child care costs. But it applies only to those running for federal office.

That leaves women in many states who are running for the Legislature, statewide positions like attorney general or local offices to find another way to pay for child care as they campaign, which often requires night and weekend work.

Only six states have laws specifically allowing campaign money to be used for child care.

Five states are considering it. In most states, including Montana, the law is silent on the issue and up to interpretation by agencies or boards. Agencies in at least nine states have allowed child care to be a campaignrelated expense, but those decisions are not law and could be reversed.

Utah is among the states that passed a gender-neutral child care expense law, which went into effect last May. Sponsored by Republican state Rep. Craig Hall, it easily passed the GOP-dominated Legislature.

Luz Escamilla was one of the first candidates to use it as she campaigned to become the first Latina mayor of Salt Lake City.

Escamilla had to take time off from her full-time banking job to knock on doors and shake hands as she made her case to voters.

BIZ BITS The Snohomish Police Department has thanked Fred Meyer in Snohomish for donating $500, the Deputy Sheriff’s Association for donating $1,000 and the Women of the Moose for donating $1,300 to its annual Shop with a Cop event. They also thanked the Snohomish PD deputies, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office deputies, corrections deputies, medical staff and Sheriff’s Office volunteers who assisted.

The City of Marysville has announced the results of three recent children’s coat drives hosted by the Marysville Police Department. More than 600 new coats, as well as other clothing and toys, were donated by the Marysville and Tulalip communities to support local youth in need.

The items were distributed at the Marysville Community Food Bank toy store earlier this month.

The Marysville Food Bank has thanked the Tulalip Tribal Charitable Foundation for a generous donation to support its Holiday Foods program and for its Food For Thought Backpack Program to help with childhood hunger in the community. The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Charitable Foundation was also thanked for a donation to the Food For Thought Backpack Program.

According to a report released Dec. 18 from the Employment Security Department, Washington’s economy gained 12,200 jobs in November and the state’s seasonally adjusted monthly unemployment rate for November fell slightly to 4.4%. In the Seattle/Bellevue/ Everett region, the preliminary unemployment rate for the period was just 2.8% — down from 3.0% the previous month.

The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges has awarded nearly $1.7 million to community and technical colleges as part of Career Launch, an effort that’s part of Career Connect Washington. Career Launch is aimed at preparing young adults for careers by combining highquality on-the-job experience with classroom studies.

WorkForce Snohomish is a partner in the Career Connect network.

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Rep. Kimberly Dudik speaks on the floor of the Legislature holding her newborn son, Marcutio, in Helena, Mont., in 2017. As experts predict another banner year of women running for office, hurdles remain particularly for those like Dudik who have young children.

Without a paycheck, it was hard to cover the cost of child care for her two youngest daughters. After the law was passed, she used about $1,500 in campaign cash over two months to help pay for it. The extra time she could spend campaigning helped propel her to a spot in the general election, though she lost in November.

“Full-time campaigning during the summer with toddlers, it makes it really difficult,” Escamilla said, adding of the law: “It was a great tool in our toolbox.”

Lawmakers in Minnesota added child care as an allowable expense in 2018, while Colorado, New York, New Hampshire and California passed laws in 2019.

Before Colorado allowed campaign cash to be used for child care, Amber McReynolds, a former chief elections official in Denver, was contemplating a bid for statewide office in 2017. The costs of child care were a considerable concern as a single mother of two young children.

For that and other reasons, McReynolds decided against running.

“When we look at the statistics in terms of representatives

in Congress or statewide office and you don’t see single moms in that category, that’s why,” said McReynolds, who’s CEO of a nonprofit. “The circumstances are just that much more difficult when you are in politics.”

The policy also can help fathers running for office in families where both parents work.

Jean Sinzdak, associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, said the record number of women who ran for office in 2018 has helped drive the issue. Still, lawmakers in a number of states have resisted the change.

In Tennessee, the sponsor of a measure to add child care to the list of approved campaign expenses faced a skeptical audience during a subcommittee hearing last spring.

“If they aren’t running for office because they can’t find child care, how are they going to do the job down here?” asked state Rep. John Crawford, a Republican from Kingsport, Tenn.

The sponsor, Democratic state Rep. Jason Powell, said he introduced the proposal after people he tried to recruit to run for City

Council in Nashville declined because child care needs kept them from campaigning.

“I hate that people in our state feel like they can’t run for office because they may or may not be able to use their campaign funds for a child care expense,” Powell said.

The measure failed to advance after a split vote of the all-male subcommittee.

In Louisiana, Democratic state House candidate Morgan Lamandre had her request denied by the state ethics board even though it allowed a Republican man to claim campaign-related child care expenses in 2000. Members, who were not on the panel two decades ago and didn’t have to follow the previous decision, said they were concerned it could be abused.

After a backlash, the board reversed itself.

While she’s used campaign funds to pay for child care a few times, Lamandre said it’s not a panacea for smaller races where candidates might have to choose between paying a baby-sitter or buying basics like lawn signs.

“It’s helpful, but it’s not a slamdunk,” she said.

Illinois begins legal sale of recreational pot CHICAGO — The sale of marijuana for recreational purposes became legal Wednesday in Illinois to the delight of pot fans — many who began lining up hours early at dispensaries. Illinois already allowed medical marijuana, but it is now the 11th state to allow its use and sale for recreational purposes. The law approved by the Democratic-controlled Legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker allows people 21 or older to possess of up to 30 grams (1.06 ounces) of cannabis flower and up to 5 grams (0.17 ounces) of cannabis concentrate. Pamela Althoff, executive director of the Springfield-based Cannabis Business Association of Illinois, said wait times of up to three hours were getting shorter as the day progressed. Police were on-hand at most shops mostly to control traffic.

Holiday markets

U.S. financial markets were closed Wednesday for New Year’s Day and will reopen on a regular schedule today.

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COMMENTARY | Climate change and science

Climate data confirming our fears The data collected this decade show that warming and extreme weather events are linked.

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“This is important because extreme events are really where the impacts of climate change are being felt,” — Benjamin Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

reasonable assumptions. Now there’s evidence to back them.

Over the last decade, climate researchers have been filling in gaps in their data on past temperatures, and improved models that are calibrated against the past to predict the future. That’s led to better predictions for weather as well, thanks to more complete data, better science, and more computer power.

There’s more data on cloud formation, on precipitation, on ground water and on what’s happening underneath ice shelves, said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA-Goddard, Institute for Space Sciences.

All that basic knowledge has come about from an exceptionally productive ten years of remote sensing.

The Arctic is warming faster than lower latitudes, and this is affecting the wind patterns; especially the jet stream. Researchers say that a weakening of those winds is part of the reason storms such as Hurricane Harvey stall, and dry air lingers in

other places for weeks.

Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, now on sabbatical in New Zealand, said that he’s been arguing since 2010 that extreme events are now happening in a different environment.

Because we’ve increased the earth’s atmospheric carbon by more than 40 percent, the oceans are warmer, and the air above the ocean is warmer and wetter, and the sea level is already a little higher. That contributes to making storms more intense, with heavier, prolonged rainfall, as people witnessed with Harvey in Houston and Florence in the Carolinas. The planet’s dry climates are getting drier, and the wet, wetter.

Global warming is also heating the world’s oceans, and this, too, is not uniform.

Trenberth said and they can now track marine heat waves, which are killing coral and sea life from the Gulf of Maine to the Great Barrier Reef. A decade ago they could measure the ocean’s temperature down to 700 meters, he said; now they can track it to 2,000 meters. “We can actually see that heat penetrating down into the oceans.” The oceans have absorbed most of the energy that’s been trapped on Earth by added greenhouse gases. Some are worried they’re losing their capacity to buffer global warming.

A decade ago, there was already more than enough evidence to justify an effort to cut emissions. Scientists had reached a consensus that it

was time to act. But a disinformation campaign was creating a different picture to general public, with hackers stealing scientists’ personal emails, and various bloggers and media outlets launching personal attacks against them.

Adding fuel to the situation was a loss of trust in all of science following the so-called replication crisis, in which social science was exposed as contaminated with flimsy and erroneous results.

Much of established nutrition research was overturned, and many medical findings were deemed impossible to reproduce. But this had nothing to do with basic, wellestablished physics and Earth science. The periodic table didn’t get torn up, electricity still works as predicted, and Einstein’s pedestal has only been elevated.

It was way back in the 1800s that French mathematician Joseph Fourier realized that our planet should be frozen down to the equator, considering it orbits at a distance of 93 million miles from the sun. It didn’t take long to realize that the small fraction of our atmosphere made up of carbon dioxide was keeping our planet warm, and that adding substantially to that will make it a lot warmer.

“What’s notable is what hasn’t changed” over the last 10 years, said Penn State climate scientist Richard Alley.

“Carbon dioxide goes up, the temperature goes up, ice melts, and there’s a migration of plants and animals.”

Faye Flam is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist.

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late-December flurry of articles on a revival of Bernie Sanders’ prospects points to a cardinal rule of political journalism: The story must change. Whether the story has actually changed matters not.

Thus, we had a headline in The New York Times reading, “Why Bernie Sanders Is Tough to Beat,” and one in Politico that said, “Democratic Insiders: Bernie Could Win the Nomination.” The polls, however, have barely budged.

In a humorous tweet saying, “ThE PriMaRy HaS BeEn A CrAzY UnPrEDiCtAbLe RoLLer CoAsTer RiDe,” statistical analyst Nate Silver compared recent RealClearPolitics averages for Joe Biden and Sanders to those of a year ago. On Dec. 19, 2018, Biden was at 27.5 percent and Sanders at 19 percent. Exactly a year later, Biden was at 27.8 percent and Sanders at 19.3 percent.

The first poll after the December debate, Silver tweeted, showed “not a heck of a lot going on.” Andrew Yang, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg each gained a point.

Bernie and Michael Bloomberg lost one.

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ver the last decade, scientists learned a great deal about the climate, much of it concerning the connection between global warming and extreme events: heat waves, hurricanes, floods, droughts and wildfires.

There has been, for many years, an understanding that a warmer world would be a more temperamental one, and measurements upon measurements show the average temperature is rising in step with those predictions.

But until recently it was hard to prove that our changed atmosphere was having an influence on extreme events, which, after all, have been drowning and parching and starving people long before anyone started burning fossil fuels.

Asking whether climate change caused a particular wildfire or hurricane is the wrong question, said Benjamin Cook, a climate researcher with the LamontDoherty Earth Observatory.

But in the last decade, the ability to model the climate has advanced so much, he said, that people can determine whether human-generated global warming made a storm wetter or a drought longer than it otherwise would have been. Such attribution, he said, is the biggest advance of the 2010s.

“This is important because extreme events are really where the impacts of climate change are being felt,” he said.

It’s not necessarily alarming to hear that global temperatures will creep up another couple of degrees, but it’s another thing to realize that human actvity contributed to a string of deadly heat waves in Europe — with temperatures climbing well above 108 in Paris — as well as the apocalyptic fires that destroyed what had been some of the most beautiful parts of California. “There’s a clear climate change signal,” he said.

If there’s any controversy now among scientists, it’s over whether they were too reluctant to sound the alarm about extreme events in the past. There was a reluctance to make recommendations based on probabilities and

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FROMA HARROP A FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll asked likely Democratic primary voters who won the face-off. Biden got the most votes. Sanders came in second.

Nevertheless, Politico quotes Faiz Shakir, Sanders’ campaign manager, saying that political insiders and pundits are finding it harder and harder to ignore Bernie because “he’s rising in every average you see.”

That would seem at odds with reality, but one must concede that 19.3 percent is better than 19.0 percent.

It’s true that Sanders wasn’t getting a lot of attention in recent months but for two plausible reasons. One is the rise of Elizabeth Warren. The other is his heart attack.

Warren’s numbers slipped after other candidates went after her. Sanders, if anything,

benefited from being left alone.

Sanders loyalists seem to be ignoring that their candidate suffered a heart attack only three months ago. That Bernie is back campaigning is a tribute to his resolve. And we’re pleased to see letters from cardiologists reporting that he is recovering well. But it does not cancel out the seriousness of what happened.

About 1 in 5 people who suffer a heart attack are readmitted to a hospital for a second one within five years, according to the American Heart Association. And a heart attack elevates the risk of a stroke. Sanders is 78.

The Vermont senator’s people insist that Biden’s lead in the polls will narrow or vanish once backers of Warren come over to their man. It is not clear whether they would in large numbers.

Sanders, not unlike President Trump, has a cultlike following, which means few leave him but also few join up.

And while Sanders conceivably could take hard-left support from Warren, Biden could take moderates from Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Yang and Cory Booker.

Referring to Biden, Sanders recently told The Los Angeles Times that Trump will “eat his lunch.” Biden retorted that he will invite Bernie for “dessert” at the White House. Biden does know how to return a punch.

I’d wager that the spate of Bernie-can-win analyses reflects some news sources’ sensitivity to complaints that the “corporate media” is slighting Bernie. That and the need for a new political angle every week.

In a replay of 2016, Sanders and his surrogates are portraying the “Democratic establishment” as the great enemy.

They need reminding that other Democrats have a right to an opinion. Also, not all Democrats love Bernie’s bashing of the leadership or how he slips in and out of the party, reenlisting when an election approaches.

The latest Economist/ YouGov poll, meanwhile, shows Biden ahead of Warren by 11 points and ahead of Sanders by 13. As they say, the more things change …

Follow Froma Harrop on Twitter @FromaHarrop. Email her at fharrop@gmail.com.

wo thousand and twenty will be a year in which American institutions begin to recover from a nasty infection, or to reveal lasting disabilities.

The immediate, televised test will come to a disturbingly weakened U.S. Senate.

This is the one institution that Americans decided the Founders had gotten all wrong. Senators were initially selected by state legislatures as a counterbalance to the direct democracy of the House of Representatives. That changed with the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the MICHAEL GERSON Constitution in 1913.

But the Senate’s immunity from public passions was partially maintained by sixyear terms and by Senate rules allowing filibusters and requiring supermajorities to move forward at key moments. This gave individual senators extraordinary power to shape corporate outcomes and encouraged a healthy institutional arrogance.

The old senate is nearly dead; mortally wounded by majority leaders of both parties who have prioritized efficiency over tradition. The current leader, Mitch McConnell, seems intent on delivering the coup de grace by publicly admitting to coordination with the White House in the impeachment process. This is the effective subordination of the U.S. Senate to the president, leaving a large hole where the Founders intended an immovable object.

We are witnessing the triumph of partisanship over deliberation and senatorial self-respect. In the impeachment process, facts and democratic values apparently mean nothing. The majority leader has announced a verdict before the trial. Among Republican senators, a case that would clearly convict a political opponent is generally (so far) taken as the vindication of a political ally. The obvious hypocrisy is viewed with pride rather than shame. And a vital constitutional process is revealed as a political pretense.

This does more than surrender the dignity and role of the Senate. It betrays the institutional care shown by men and women within the executive branch. Most Republican senators have refused to even engage the damning testimony of people such as National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, vice presidential aide Jennifer Williams, ousted Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, former National Security Council aide Fiona Hill, and former acting Ukraine Ambassador William Taylor. These men and women risked careers — and public slander by the president — to call out a serious abuse of presidential power. So far, virtually no Republican senators are willing to assume any risk to endorse their bravery. GOP senators are not only sacrificing their standards and honor; they are devaluing (to this point) the standards and sacrifices of people with a superior sense of service and honor. That is a crime against courage.

Other institutions are also about to be tested in 2020. Because the president views anyone he can hire and fire as his personal valet, the integrity of federal law enforcement is also under severe stress. President Trump has already secured the appointment of an attorney general willing to polish his shoes, wash his laundry and obscure his scandals. At the president’s direction, the attorney general is investigating members of the FBI who have investigated the corruption that surrounds Trump like a cloud of horse flies. Individuals at the FBI were not faultless in the pursuit of their duties. But given William Barr’s record, the effort seems more like a campaign to bring the bureau under the president’s boot. To a long list of professional milestones, Barr is adding toady, minion and yes man.

A similar type of institutional assault is taking place in the U.S. military. In his cartoonish conception of strength, the commander in chief clearly views members of the armed forces as killing machines who should act without conscience. And so he has upended military discipline to pardon the sentences of members of the military accused or convicted of war crimes. In reality, our military sets a chasm between the justified use of force and acts of savagery and murder. And it takes great care to honor the code and character of those who respect the difference.

In all these cases, a president of crude, cunning and low character is attempting to leave his imprint on important democratic institutions. During 2020, many will resist that influence; not as a “deep state” but as defenders of public integrity. They deserve our support. But only the presidential electorate can prevent four more years of institutional vandalism.

Michael Gerson’s email address is michaelgerson@washpost.com.

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Teen survives 500-foot fall down mountain

By Kate Feldman New York Daily News

A 16-year-old Canadian boy tumbled 500 feet down a snowy Oregon mountain Monday and escaped with just a broken femur.

Gurbaz Singh, a Vancouver native, was leading a group of friends on a trek up Mount Hood near Portland when he slipped on the ice, according to the Clackamas Sheriff’s Office.

Unable to break his fall, Gurbaz fell hundreds of feet

Unable to break his fall, Gurbaz Singh, a Vancouver native, fell hundreds of feet down the mountain from the Pearly Gates down to the unfortunately named Devil’s Kitchen. down the mountain from the Pearly Gates down to the unfortunately named Devil’s Kitchen.

About four hours after the fall, rescuers reached

Gurbaz and were able to stabilize his leg and begin the trek down the mountain to safety.

“He thought he was going to stop somewhere,

and he was trying to arrest the fall with his ax, but it just didn’t happen because he was rolling so fast that he couldn’t do it,” Gurbaz’s father, Rishamdeep Singh, told KATU. “He’s OK with that; he’s not thinking much of it. He’s talking to family and friends. He’s in good spirits.”

Singh said that not only does his son plan to continue hiking, but even intends to go back to Mount Hood once he’s healed.

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Snohomish County auditor Carolyn Weikel holds up three of the five Sacagawea dollar coins given to her by her predecessor for use in deciding election ties. The two that are missing were given to losing candidates after coin tosses decided the winners.

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Weikel, 66, grew up near Boston and graduated from college in Massachusetts with a teaching degree. When she moved to Washington to be closer to siblings in the mid-1970s, the absence of classroom opportunities led her to a job in King County and a career in public service.

The job of county auditor is a bit of an odd gig. There’s no auditing. Overseeing elections is the mosttalked-about task, yet the auditor’s office is where thousands go to license their pets or their vehicles or to record documents.

“It gave me the same satisfaction to help individuals to get what they needed,” she said of the job.

“As I tell my staff, people come to us because they have to, not because they want to. It’s our job to make them leave feeling like they were heard and they were respected, even if they didn’t like what we were saying.”

She supervised the King County auditor’s licensing division before coming to work in Snohomish County in May 1990. She started in the licensing division and became elections manager in 2003.

She captained the elections ship until getting appointed auditor — the first woman to hold the job in Snohomish County — in January 2007. She ran unopposed for a full fouryear term that fall. She won re-election in 2011 and 2015, both times unopposed, as well.

Managing elections proved a good fit.

Growing up, her parents discussed and participated in politics. Her dad, Patrick Fitzpatrick, was an insurance broker who raised money for Republicans.

But because of his name, “people thought he was a Democrat,” Weikel said.

“When I got to elections, it felt very comfortable working with both parties and staying nonpartisan,” she said.

It could have been a smoother start, however.

She assumed command in January 2003 amid a simmering controversy from the election two months earlier. There had been a mess with ballot counting when some machines failed to read voters’ marks because of deteriorating equipment.

Republican observers questioned an anomaly of low totals in one race and, upon further review, “a ton of votes” had to be added, Weikel said.

There were more controversies ahead.

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different colored ballots, one each for the Democratic, Republican and Libertarian parties. If you did not mark the box for a party, none of the votes counted, which peeved a lot of voters.

A few months later came the historic duel between Democrat Christine Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi for governor. It took three tallies of ballots. Gregoire won the last, which was a statewide hand recount.

In the course of the process, Weikel’s team garnered attention. After the initial tally, a couple of her election workers found a mail tray that was supposed to be empty but had a couple of hundred ballots in it.

“I just remember hearing ‘Carolyn’ and looking over to see them standing there, looking down into this tray.

Here was this batch that had never been counted,” she recalled.

In 2005, at Weikel’s direction, the auditor’s office developed the state’s most sophisticated accountability system to enable a ballot envelope to be tracked from the moment it reaches the elections office through tabulation.

The next year the county abandoned polling places and touchscreen voting machines and went entirely to voting by mail.

This past decade, state lawmakers focused on clear impediments to voting. Ballots can be put in a designated drop box or returned by mail, postagefree. And people can now register and cast a ballot on Election Day. It’s been an awesome run. Yet as Weikel departed, she acknowledged frustration with the difficulty of keeping voters engaged year-round, every year.

While turnout is in the neighborhood of 80% for presidential elections, it’s less than half in most oddyear elections and less than a third for many special elections.

“There’s something missing,” she said. “What is lacking is the connection that the water district, the fire district, the city council are all making decisions every day that impacts their lives.”

If schools offered civics lessons on local government, it might help build a stronger foundation for participation, she said. A new law allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to preregister as voters — they’ll automatically get signed up when they are eligible — could provide a boost.

She’s hopeful these changes will lead to a rise in turnout.

If it does, it’ll be a story for the next auditor to tell.

Jerry Cornfield: 360-3528623; jcornfield@herald net. com. Twitter: @dospueblos.

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Pearl Django, known for their gypsy Jazz swing style, will perform Jan. 7-8 at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in Seattle.

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Dan and Claudia Zanes: Jan. 10-11, from $9.

Fisherman’s Village Music Festival: May 14-16, downtown Everett, $69.

Cascade Symphony Orchestra: Jan. 13, $27.

More at www.facebook.com/ EverettMusicInitiative.

Mavis Staples: Jan. 16, from $39.

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Be the Light: A tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 20, $12.

“Call of the Wild”: Jan. 30, $9.

Cascade Symphony Orchestra: Paddington Bear’s First Concert, Feb. 8, $10.

Masters of Scottish Arts Concert: Feb. 14, $40.

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HISTORIC EVERETT THEATRE Chad Prather: The Political Cowboy, Jan. 18, from $20.

Darin Jones and the Last Men Standing: With Low Down Drifters, Feb. 1, $20.

The Yardbirds: With Arny Bailey’s FM-69, featuring Doug Heath of Paul Revere and the Raiders, Feb. 8, from $32.

Best of Seattle Comedy Competition: Feb. 14, $25.

Rear View Mirror: With American Vinyl, Feb. 15, $25.

Tickets at the box office, at 425258-6766 or at www.yourhet.org.

Shaun Cassidy: May 30, from $55.

Billy Ocean: Oct. 23, from $55.

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VILLAGE THEATRE “Guys & Dolls”: Jan. 3-Feb. 2, Everett Performing Arts Center.

“She Loves Me”: Feb. 28-March 22, Everett Performing Arts Center.

MARYSVILLE OPERA HOUSE

“Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Gunter”: April 24-May 17, Everett Performing Arts Center.

Caspar Babypants: Jan. 26, $7.

“The Wedding Singer”: June 26-July 26, Everett Performing Arts Center.

Pearl Django: March 8, $15.

Grafton Street Irish Dance: March 15, $10.

Illusion of Elvis: March 29, $15.

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NORTHSHORE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Josephine: Jan. 25, $42.

Halau O Keikiali’i: Feb. 22, $42.

Rise Up: Hamilton tribute band, March 7, $42.

AbbaFab: ABBA tribute band,

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SEATTLE’S BEST Seattle Art Museum: “Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum,” through Jan. 26; www. seattleartmuseum.org.

Seattle Opera: “Eugene Onegin,” Jan. 11-12, 15, 18, 19, 22, 24-25; www.seattleopera.org.

Seattle Repertory Theatre: “Monsieur Chopin,” Jan. 2-19; www.seattlerep.org.

Pacific Northwest Ballet: “Cinderella,” Jan. 31-Feb. 9; www. pnb.org.

Museum of History and Industry: “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation,” through Jan. 26; www. mohai.org.

Museum of Pop Culture: “Minecraft: The Exhibition,” through Sept. 7; www.mopop.org.

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Seattle Symphony: Jan. 3, Benaroya Hall; www.vividseats. com.

Motionless In White: Jan. 4, Showbox SoDo; www.vividseats. com.

The Close Seconds: Jan. 5, The Sunset Tavern; www.vividseats. com.

Pearl Django: Jan. 7-8, Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley; www.jazzalley.com.

Swindler: Jan. 9, Nectar Lounge; www.vividseats.com.

Evan Flory-Barnes: Jan. 10, Fremont Abbey Arts Center; www. fremontabbey.org.

The Requisite: Jan. 11, Funhouse; www.vividseats.com.

Dice: Jan. 12, The Sunset Tavern; www.ticketweb.com.

Roddy Rich: Jan. 14, Showbox at the Market; www.ticketsmarter. com.

Nada Surf: Jan. 14, The Neptune Theatre; www.vividseats.com.

Itzhak Perlman: Jan. 14, Benaroya Hall; www.ticketcity.com.

YBN Cordae: Jan. 16, Neumos; www.vividseats.com.

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The departed: Horton’s list of actors we lost in 2019 ROBERT HORTON

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he end of the year leads naturally to remembering; and if you love the movies, it’s time to remember some of the actors and actresses who died during 2019.

Here’s an appreciation of those who made an indelible impression on the screen. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive roster, just a group of folks I liked for one reason or another.

Some of them had huge careers, some of them carved out just a little slice of immortality; some quit while they were ahead, some faded away. And some will be known for just one thing, whether it’s being romanced by a prehistoric creature or morphing into a giant blueberry — acting is a funny game.

Doris Day. A major box-office star for more than a decade, Day was also considered kind of a joke for a while because of her squeaky-clean image (“I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin,” quipped one wag).

She quit acting in 1973, but her skills as a singer and deft comic performer have been re-appreciated in recent years — most of which were devoted to animal welfare.

Albert Finney. From his earliest appearances in films such as “Tom Jones” and “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” Finney was a commanding actor, a big, brawny man who spoke in his native NorthernEngland accent when actors were supposed to speak like BBC broadcasters. In his prime he made relatively few films, and turned down some whoppers (“Lawrence of Arabia,” for instance), but he remained

powerful right through his final role in the 007 outing “Skyfall.”

Peter Fonda. Born into a family of actors, Peter did not reach the heights of his father Henry or sister Jane. But he had a quirky career, from biker movies to excellent autumnal roles in “Ulee’s Gold” and “The Limey.” I interviewed him a couple of times, and he was enthusiastic and talkative — quite the opposite of the super-cool wanderer he played in “Easy Rider” (a Hollywood game-changer, which he also produced).

Robert Forster. After years of being in a career wilderness, this actor enjoyed an astounding reversal at age 56, when Quentin Tarantino cast him as a wise, thoughtful bail bondsman in “Jackie Brown.” He had a string of terrific parts after that, most of which drew on his twinkly, down-to-earth charm.

Sue Lyon. Her first movie role, at age 14, was as the title character in Stanley Kubrick’s production of “Lolita,” a controversial way to start. Her next two films were also impressive, John Huston’s “The Night of the Iguana” and John Ford’s “7 Women,” but things went downhill after that, and her oncepromising career came to an end with a small gig in 1980’s “Alligator,” starring Robert Forster.

Robert Walker Jr. Not a household name, except that his father was a big star in the 1940s and early ’50s (his mother was Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones). Junior never broke out, although he did a few hippie-biker pictures and gave an unsettling performance in a classic “Star Trek” episode, as a troubled man with godlike powers — an episode penned by hard-working “Trek” writer D.C. Fontana, who also died in 2019.

John Witherspoon. It’s hard to say why you find some people inherently funny, but Witherspoon was a reliably silly presence in movies, TV episodes and voiceover work. He had a great run in the boomlet of

African-American films in the late ’80s, including his brief but glorious turn in “Hollywood Shuffle” as the proud manager of the Winky Dinky Dog, a nondescript hot dog stand (“It sends chills down my spine, every time I say it: Winky Dinky Dog!”).

Julie Adams. There was just enough of the old Hollywood studio system around in the early 1950s that this aspiring starlet could have her legs insured by Universal for $125,000. Yes, it was a different time. Adams made a great Western with Jimmy Stewart (“Bend of the River”) and tons of TV work as the decades went on, but her claim to enduring fame is getting under the scaly skin of the Gill-Man in “Creature from the Black Lagoon.”

Dick Miller. Not just a durable character actor, but a guy who got associated with a certain kind of wonderful low-budget schlock. He’s especially beloved for his turns in Roger Corman’s films, including the beatnik sculptor (a rare lead role) in “A Bucket of Blood.” He was later cast in films by directors (including Steven Spielberg and James Cameron) who grew up on those movies, guaranteeing him steady employment into his 90s.

Denise Nickerson. A child actress, prominent in the supernatural TV soap opera “Dark Shadows” and in an unjustly forgotten TV-movie, “The Neon Ceiling.” She quit showbiz in 1978, but will live on as long as we watch “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” in which she plays the obnoxious kid who turns into a giant blueberry.

David Hedison. A journeyman actor with a long career, including four years on the frequently nutsy TV series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.” Two footnotes: He twice played James Bond’s American pal Felix Leiter in a pair of 007 flicks and, as the scientist in “The Fly,” he terrified a generation of horror-movie fans by screaming “Help me!” after his tiny human head was transposed on the

body of a fly.

Diahann Carroll, Peggy Lipton, Georgia Engel, Tim Conway. A shout-out here to mainstays of television in the 1960s and ’70s. Carroll broke a color barrier as the lead of the sitcom “Julia,” and was Oscarnominated for “Claudine.”

Lipton was a TV star in her youth as one of the hippie cops in “The Mod Squad,” and later joined the David Lynch universe in “Twin Peaks.” Engel was the tinyvoiced wife to bombastic Ted Baxter in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” a hilarious addition to a great sitcom ensemble. Conway scored laughs in the otherwise bland “McHale’s Navy” and regularly cracked up his fellow players in “The Carol Burnett Show.”

Bruno Ganz. One of Europe’s greatest actors over many years, with strong turns in films such as “The American Friend” and — as the melancholic angel — in “Wings of Desire.” He also gained bizarre internet fame when his scenes in “Downfall” (in which he volcanically played Hitler) became online memes.

That must have been annoying.

Rip Torn. A dangerous and unpredictable presence, this product of the Actor’s Studio survived long enough to become a comedic mainstay on “The Larry Sanders Show”— a true salty dog. He might have been a bigger star, had his temper been more under control; a notorious fight with Dennis Hopper led him to lose his role in “Easy Rider,” which then became the breakout part for the littleknown Jack Nicholson.

Danny Aiello. What’s you favorite Danny Aiello performance? His most famous turn might have come as the exasperated pizzeria owner in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” but I’m going with “Moonstruck.”

As the lovelorn mama’s boy who proposes to Cher, he’s perfectly sincere, and also perfectly out of his league. He was an actor who never let you catch him acting.

Bruno Ganz

David Hedison

Denise Nickerson

Peggy Lipton

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Listings are for movies premiering Friday, and are based on reports provided by theaters. Some movie times may not be listed.

SNOHOMISH COUNTY Alderwood, 425-776-3535 Cats (PG) 10:00-12:45-3:35-6:459:55 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:00-12:55-3:50-6:30-10:10 Knives Out (PG-13) 10:15-1:15-4:157:15-9:40 Little Women (PG) 11:15-2:35-6:009:00 Spies in Disguise (PG) 10:50-2:004:45-7:30-10:15 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 10:30-11:45-1:45-3:20-5:307:00-9:20-10:20 Alderwood Mall, 888-262-4386 21 Bridges (R) 11:00 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (PG) 9:45-4:00 Bombshell (Not Rated) 10:20-1:003:45-6:30-9:15 Cats (PG) 10:50-2:20-5:00-8:0010:50 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 12:30-9:50 Frozen II (PG) 8:45-11:20-2:00-4:407:25-10:00 Good Newwz (Not Rated) 10:201:30-4:35-7:35-10:40 The Grudge (PG-13) 9:30-12:002:30-5:10-7:45-10:10 Ip Man 4: The Finale (Not Rated) 10:45-1:20-4:25-7:40-10:15 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 9:15-10:15-12:15-1:10-3:15-4:156:15-7:15-10:45 Knives Out (PG-13) 10:30-1:40-4:507:10-10:20 Little Women (PG) 8:30-10:1011:30-1:15-2:45-4:20-6:45-7:509:30 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 8:00-11:00-11:45-3:00-3:306:00-7:00-7:30-9:45-10:30-11:15 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker -- The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) 9:00-12:45-4:30-8:30 Uncut Gems (R) 10:00-1:00-4:107:20-10:35 Cinebarre Mountlake Terrace, 425-672-7501 Schedule not provided by theater; call theater for movies and times.

Edmonds Theater, 425-778-4554 Schedule not provided by theater; call theater for movies and times.

CALENDAR Teen Movie Matinee: Showing at 2 p.m. Jan. 2 is “MIB: International,” the newest of the Men in Black films, at the Mukilteo Library, 4675 Harbour Pointe Blvd., Mukilteo. Enjoy snacks and crafts with the movie. The film is rated PG-13. Call 425-493-8202.

Sno-King Meaningful Movies: 6:30 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Congrega-

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Hong Kong martial arts superstar Donnie Yen stars in “Ip Man 4: The Finale,” now showing at the Alderwood Mall theater.

Everett Stadium, 844-462-7342 Bombshell (R) 1:20-4:15-7:10-10:05 Cats (PG) 12:40-3:30-6:50-10:00 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 10:20-1:505:30 Frozen II (PG) 10:50-1:40-4:207:00-9:40 Good Newwz (Not Rated) 11:506:20 The Grudge (R) 11:30-2:10-5:107:40-10:20 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:10-1:00-2:00-4:10-7:20-8:5010:10 Knives Out (PG-13) 11:20-2:406:00-9:00 Little Women (PG) 12:00-3:206:40-9:20 Pain and Glory (R) 3:00-9:30 Richard Jewell (R) 9:35 Spies in Disguise (PG) 12:10-2:505:40-8:30 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 10:00-10:30-11:00-11:4012:20-2:30-3:10-3:50-5:20-5:506:30-7:30-9:10-9:50

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 3D (PG-13) 1:30-4:50-8:20 Uncut Gems (R) 11:10-2:20-6:109:25 Galaxy Monroe, 360-863-0909 Bombshell (R) 11:15-2:30-5:25-8:1010:45 Cats (PG) 11:45-5:45 Frozen II (PG) 10:30-1:05-4:006:45-9:20 The Grudge (R) 11:30-2:15-5:007:30-10:00 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:05-1:00-2:50-3:55-7:15-10:10 Little Women (PG) 10:10-1:15-4:207:20-10:25 Spies in Disguise (PG) 10:15-12:453:30-6:30-9:05 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 10:00-10:00-11:00-2:002:00-3:10-6:00-6:00-7:00-8:309:30-9:30 Uncut Gems (R) 10:45-1:50-5:158:20-10:25 Marysville, 360-659-1009 Bombshell (R) 12:00-2:45-4:20-

7:20-10:10 Cats (PG) 11:30-12:50-3:30-6:2010:30 Frozen II (PG) 10:40-1:15-3:506:50-9:45 The Grudge (R) 10:20-2:20-4:157:00-10:30 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:30-12:40-1:30-4:30-6:30-7:309:40 Knives Out (PG-13) 10:20-1:205:30-9:50 Little Women (PG) 11:40-2:506:00-9:10 Richard Jewell (R) 3:45-9:20 Spies in Disguise (PG) 11:00-1:404:50-7:40-10:20 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 11:20-11:50-12:20-2:403:10-3:40-6:10-6:40-7:10-8:309:30-10:00 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 3D (PG-13) 10:50-2:10-5:40-9:00 Uncut Gems (R) 11:10-2:30-5:509:05 Stanwood Cinemas, 360-629-0514

Schedule not provided by theater; call theater for movies and times.

tion, 8109 224th St. SW, Edmonds.

When President Trump declared after withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement that he represents Pittsburgh, not Paris, the mayor of Pittsburgh responded that his city is honoring the agreement. “Paris to Pittsburgh” documents how cities and towns across America are developing solutions to the climate crisis in spite of federal inaction. More at www.meaningfulmovies.org.

Edmonds Diversity Film Series: The third season continues with “The Florida Project” on Jan. 18 at the Edmonds Theater, 415 Main St., Edmonds. Free. The story is about a mother who lives with her 6-year-old daughter in a budget motel along one of the commercial strips catering to the Walt Disney World tourist clientele outside Orlando, Florida.

Next up are “13th” on Feb. 15, “In the Family” on March 21 and “Fat Boy Chronicles” and

“On Beauty” on April 18. More at www.diversity.edmondswa.gov.

p.m. Jan. 19. A full series pass is $115, with options for individual or groups of films. More at www. whidbeyislandfilmfestival.org.

Whidbey Island Film Festival: The festival runs Jan. 17-19 at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. Themed “The Master of Suspense,” the screenings are: “Rear Window,” 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17, “Rebecca,” 3:30 p.m. Jan. 18, “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” noon Jan. 19, “Vertigo,” 2 p.m. Jan. 19, and “North by Northwest,” 4:30

KING COUNTY Crest Cinema, 206-781-5755 Dark Waters (PG-13) 2:05-4:406:45-9:30 The Good Liar (R) 1:50-4:25-7:159:35 Harriet (PG-13) 1:40-4:15-7:00-9:20 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (PG) 1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00 Meridian, 206-223-9600 The Grudge (R) 12:00-2:30-5:007:30-10:00 Oak Tree, 206-527-1748 A Hidden Life (PG-13) 11:00-2:456:30-10:10 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:00-1:45-4:50-7:40-10:30 Knives Out (PG-13) 10:45-1:50-4:307:30-10:30 Little Women (PG) 9:45-1:00-4:107:15-10:20 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 10:30-1:00-3:45-4:30-7:008:00

Sunday Films at the Library: 2 p.m. Jan. 19, Everett main library, 2702 Hoyt Ave. Showing is “The Third Murder,” a drama mystery made in 2017 by Hirokazu Kore-eda of Japan. The event is free. The movie is not rated but includes adult content. Japanese with English subtitles. Leading

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 3D (PG-13) 12:30-10:30 Pacific Place, 888-262-4386 American Factory (Not Rated) 10:25 For Sama (Not Rated) 11:00 Knock Down the House (PG) 4:45 Maiden (PG) 7:20 Midnight Family (Not Rated) 1:30 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 11:30-1:10-4:50-7:00-9:40 Seattle 10, 206-633-0059 The Grudge (PG-13) 4:35-7:00 Thornton Place Stadium 14 + Imax, 206-517-9953 The Grudge (R) 11:00-1:40-4:207:00-9:40 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 10:20-1:40-5:00-7:00-8:15 Varsity, 206-781-5755 Woodinville, 425-482-6538 Bombshell (Not Rated) 9:50-12:403:50-6:40-9:30 Cats (PG) 9:40-1:00-4:00-7:10-10:00 Frozen II (PG) 8:50-10:10-12:503:40-6:50-9:40 The Grudge (PG-13) 11:40-2:205:00-7:40-10:10 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:20-1:20-4:30-7:40-10:40 Knives Out (PG-13) 12:30-3:30-6:4510:00 Little Women (PG) 8:40-12:00-3:106:30-9:50 Spies in Disguise (PG) 8:30-2:007:20-10:00 Spies in Disguise 3D (PG) 11:10-4:40 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 8:00-9:00-10:00-11:4012:30-1:40-3:20-4:10-5:20-7:008:00-9:00-10:45 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 3D (PG-13) 8:30 Uncut Gems (R) 9:10-12:20-3:407:30-10:50

SKAGIT AND ISLAND COUNTIES Blue Fox Drive-In, 360-6755667 Schedule not provided by theater; call theater for movies and times.

Cascade Mall, 360-707-2727 The Grudge (PG-13) 4:50-7:15 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) 10:45-12:30-2:00-3:45-5:157:00-8:30-10:15 The Clyde, 360-221-5525 Schedule not provided by theater; call theater for movies and times.

Lincoln Theater, 360-336-2858 Schedule not provided by theater; call theater for movies and times.

Oak Harbor Plaza, 360-279-2226 Schedule not provided by theater; call theater for movies and times.

attorney Shigemori takes on the defense of murder-robbery suspect Misumi, who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case seem low. His client admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted.

As the attorney digs deeper into the case, he begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all. Call 425-257-8000 or go to www.epls.org.

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Wait is over for Santa Fe Mexican Grill in downtown Edmonds

By Sharon Salyer

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I had so looked forward to the opening of the Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina in Edmonds.

I kept watch over the summer as the space formerly occupied by El Puerto near the downtown fountain underwent a major conversion. Brown paper covered the windows, and a sign said the new restaurant would open soon.

Santa Fe opened Nov. 18 after six months of top-down renovation that included new plumbing and electrical systems, a new bar and changing out the interior seating and decorations.

I will preface my comments about the restaurant with two caveats. When writing dining reviews, it’s good practice to give a restaurant about six months of shakedown time, allowing it to get its culinary sea legs.

If you’ve ever known anyone who owns, manages or works at a restaurant, you know what a demanding and frenetic business it is. Getting all the pieces of cooking and serving to run smoothly can be like putting together a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle.

Second, my friends and I went there on Dec. 26, important because the place was absolutely

CALENDAR Pancake breakfast: Monroe Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7511 will host a pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Jan. 11 at the Rock Church, 16891 146th St. SE, Monroe. The menu includes buttermilk pancakes, link sausages and scrambled eggs.

The suggested donation is $6 for adults and $3 for children 6 and younger. More at bit.ly/35fjSoi. Norwegian pancakes: A Nor-

Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina, 423 Main St., Edmonds, is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Call 425-245-7916 or go to tinyurl.com/ FBSantaFeEd for more information.

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This fajita burrito at Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina in Edmonds is made with chicken and sauteed bell peppers and onions.

jammed. Who wants to cook the day after Christmas?

There are no dinner reservations, so you take your chances on having to wait for a table. (Through the luck of the draw, I didn’t have to wait.)

The staff obviously had its hands full dealing with a packed house. So I was surprised when one of the servers, without being asked, plunked down a much-appreciated appetizer: tortilla chips with a dip of diced avocado tossed with onions, tomatoes, cilantro and lime ($7) as I waited for my friends.

When they arrived, they agreed it was a wonderful

wegian pancake breakfast is set for 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Jan. 18 at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 2111 117th Ave. NE, Lake Stevens. The breakfast includes all-you-caneat Norwegian pancakes with strawberries, syrup and sliced ham. Coffee, tea, orange juice and hot chocolate will also be served. Proceeds will benefit the Lake Stevens Food Bank. Cost is $6 per person. The pancake breakfast is held the third Saturday of each month, September through May. Call 425-334-0421.

Santa Fe Mexican Grill’s plate of chicken enchiladas is served with the customary side of rice and beans.

introduction to the meal.

My friend Barbara Purrington ordered chicken enchiladas ($14). The chicken, she said, was especially tasty.

Mike Forrester ordered a

fajita burrito ($18.95) with chicken, sauteed with bell peppers and onions. He dispatched it so thoroughly and with such quick efficiency he could have been appointed a member of

Fundraiser breakfast: Breakfast is 8 a.m. Jan. 18 at the Monroe Community Senior Center, 276 Sky River Parkway, Monroe.

Pancakes, French toast, eggs, sausage and ham will be served.

Cost is $6. Kids 10 and younger eat free. The breakfast is held on third Saturdays and supports the Monroe Community Senior Center. Call 360-794-6359.

Help send culinary students to the National Food Show in May by dining on fresh seafood and prime-grade beef from Le Bistro, a student-run fine dining restaurant. Cost is $20. Call 425356-1705.

Surf and Turf: Sno-Isle TECH Culinary Arts’ fundraiser is at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 24, at Le Bistro, 9001 Airport Road, Everett.

The Art of Food & Wine: This event for foodies and wine lovers is Feb. 8 from 5 to 9 p.m. and a fundraiser for community art projects at the Lynnwood Convention Center, 3711 196th St. SW, Lynnwood. Tickets are $20-$50.

More at www.lynnwoodcc.com.

the Clean Plate Club on the spot.

I wanted to try something different, so I ordered the coctel de camarones — shrimp, avocado, onions, tomatoes and cilantro in a tomato broth ($18).

Restaurant manager Ricky Bobadilla said the dish draws on one of the traditional dishes found in his father’s former neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The server said it is served cold, warm or hot. I opted for warm, but to my taste, it was in the cool range and would have benefited from the serving temperature being warmer. I also found the shrimp a little tough.

And since readers have asked me to include such information in our reviews: Yes, there are vegetarian options.

Our biggest complaint, and one you’ll find in online comments as well, was the noise. It was impossible to have a conversation. It was

Clam Chowder Cook-Off: The fifth annual Edmonds Clam Chowder Cook-Off is set for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Edmonds Yacht Club, 326 Admiral Way, Edmonds. The event, a fundraiser for Fourth of July festivities, will include 10 local contestants, including Calypso Edmonds, Bar Dojo and Emory’s on Silver Lake. Tickets are $12.50-$20. More at www. edmondscookoff.com.

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so loud that as soon as we finished our meal, we paid the bill and adjourned to a nearby coffee shop where we could sit and talk.

Bobadilla said he’s aware of the noise issue, and that it has since been addressed.

Sound pads have been installed in the dining room and some sections are being added under the booths to help absorb sound. “We noticed a big difference during the lunch rush,” he said.

The business also is beefing up its online presence, with more information on the Edmonds location to avoid confusion with sibling eateries in Shoreline, Totem Lake and Renton Highlands.

At the Edmonds restaurant, the seating layout best accommodates groups of four, possibly up to six. “To be totally honest, we’re not ideal for big groups,” Bobadilla said.

He said plans already are under way for some additions, including oncea-week tequila tastings, extended summer hours and specialty menus with more seasonal offerings.

“It’s been an amazing welcome,” he said. “There’s absolutely been a buzz.

We’re super-grateful.”

Sharon Salyer: 425-3393486 or salyer@heraldnet. com.

ish County will host its 28th annual gala April 3 at the Tulalip Resort Casino, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip. Features handmade chocolates, sparkling wine, plus live and silent auctions.

This event sells out every year.

Proceeds go to victim resources and services. Ticket prices TBD. Call 425-259-2827, ext. 1013 or go to www.dvs-snoco.org.

Email event information for this calendar with the subject “Food” to features@heraldnet.com.

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Get artsy with your food at this Bothell workshop

By Evan Thompson Herald Writer

Anya Toomre is a foodie, but not in the snap-aphoto-of-your-dinner kind of way.

She’s a sketchbook artist who loves to draw food with pencil, pen, watercolor and inks. She once filled a sketchbook with sketches of tacos for The Sketchbook Project, a permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library.

“The nice thing about drawing food is that every apple and every orange is going to be different from every other one,” she said.

“There’s a lot of ins and outs and misshaped things. For me, there’s a lot less pressure drawing food. You can just have fun.”

Toomre, 55, is an instructor at Cloud 9 Art School in Bothell. Her workshop, “Playing with Your Food in a Sketchbook,” will be held Wednesday evenings from Jan. 8 to Feb. 12. The workshop will cover different ways to draw food with ink and watercolor.

Toomre said drawing in sketchbooks isn’t hard. Her sketches are often rough outlines of shapes, lines, curves and colors that make up a place, person or a thing.

If you’re new to sketching and watercolors, the key word you’re looking for is “rough.” You need to let go of high expectations and focus on silencing your inner critics.

CALENDAR MUSEUMS/EVENTS Schack Art Center: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday; 2921 Hoyt Ave., Everett. Admission is free. In the main gallery through Jan. 4, is the

Toomre likes to sketch colorful foods such as the Chinese daikon radish featured in her drawing “Watermelon Radish.”

Anya Toomre’s “Veggies” sketch with watercolor and ink is an example of what students will draw in her “Playing with Your Food in a Sketchbook”workshop.

“It’s nice to have technique and skills, but really, you should be enjoying it,” Toomre said. “Then you’ll want to do more and more.”

Sketchbooks give artists far less to angst about.

“It’s just a piece of paper,” she said. “If what you’re doing is not so great, you can just turn the page and start over.”

Toomre’s sketches typically start with pen or pencil. Then, after she’s drawn her subject, she fills in the shapes with watercolors and waterproof inks, as if it were a page in a coloring book.

The colors themselves don’t even need to be all that complex.

“Watercolor is an art media that can be quite

daunting,” she said.

“There’s a whole beautiful range that people do. But on the beginner side, if you have a couple reds, blues, yellows and greens, you don’t have to mix them.

You can start there, and with time, you’re watercolor skills can improve and branch out.”

Toomre treats her sketchbooks — she has

more than 35 of them — as if they were visual journals.

Unlike canvases, which are handled meticulously by painters, her sketchbooks are far less rigid.

One recent work is made up of tiny blotches of yellow, green, red and orange. A line points to a handwritten description that reads “Pico de gallo — chopped tomatoes, onions,

cilantro.”

Toomre, who has been teaching the workshop two years, said one of the most enjoyable things about drawing food is that it invites you to revel in the past. She often asks her students to record how certain foods make them feel, including favorite dishes from their childhoods.

“A drawing has more meaning if it brings back memories from childhood,” she said. “That’s part of what makes it more interesting and rich. You have these connections because food is often eaten with other people.”

Evan Thompson: 425-339-3427, ethompson@ heraldnet.com. Twitter: @ByEvanThompson.

Schack’s annual “Holiday Show” featuring the Colored Pencil Society of America, as well as 3D art such as glass and pottery from more than 70 regional artists. Or visit the Emerging Young Artists Gallery and the Willits Gallery.

From Jan. 16 to Feb. 22, showing in the main gallery will be “Marita Dingus and Hoa Hong.”

Marita Dingus is a mixed media sculptor who uses discarded materials to create her works of art. She was a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1999. Hoa Hong is a figurative painter and muralist based in Seattle. Hoa’s painting style mixes abstraction and realism using a mixture of sharp and broken details. For

more information, call 425-2595050 or go to www.schack.org.

of Washington state’s gay and lesbian artists. The annual holiday show, “Vintage Christmas Cards by Northwest Artists,” with works from the 1900s to the ’90s, also is on display through Jan. 26. The museum, at 190 Sunset Ave. S., Edmonds, is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Admission for

members and students is free, adults $10, military and seniors $7, and families (two adults and up to three children) $25. Free during Art Walk Edmonds, third Thursdays, 5 to 8 p.m. More at 425-336-4809 or www.cascadiaartmuseum.org.

If you go The “Playing with Your Food in a Sketchbook” workshop is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Wednesdays from Jan. 8 to Feb. 12 at Cloud 9 Art School, 18414 103rd Ave. NE, Bothell. The six-week course costs $200.

Deadline to register is Jan. 7. Go to www.anyatoomre. com/workshops for more information.

Cascadia Art Museum: Through Jan. 26, on display is “The Lavender Palette: Gay Culture and the Art of Washington State.”

This groundbreaking exhibition and catalogue, the first study of regional gay culture in the United States, documents the activities

“Lunch at the French Bakery” includes sketches of a baguette sandwich and a vanilla latte.

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Photographer’s animal pics show their personalities

By Evan Thompson Herald Writer

Kiah Helms of Mountlake Terrace appreciates animals with loads of personality, but they can be hard to photograph.

Helms, 21, had a fun challenge with a baboon.

She snapped more than 100 pictures of the primate’s face during a visit to the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona. She hoped one or two might hit the mark.

The baboon moved so quickly that capturing the beast’s expressions — confusion, happiness or sadness — took some time.

“You never know what they’re going to do,” said Helms, who has been practicing photography since she was 13. “I just wanted to make sure it was perfect, not blurry, and the animal was in the right position.”

Helms’ persistence paid off. Her photograph, “The Noble Protector,” won second place in the

digital art category at the Edmonds Art Festival in 2018. The close-up highlights the baboon’s vibrant nose, deep, focused eyes and vividly colored fur.

Her animal photography, including the baboon photograph, is featured in an exhibit on display through Jan. 31 at the Mountlake Terrace Library. The display was organized by the Mountlake Terrace Arts Advisory Commission.

“Kiah has a lot of talent,” said Judy Ryan, chairwoman of the commission. “She just has a way of capturing things. When you look at these animals, you see these beautiful colors.”

In addition to the critters, Helms’ exhibit includes an imposing shot of the Eiffel Tower and sweeping vistas of French countrysides. She captured the scenes while on trips to visit her grandparents, who live in the picturesque town of Argenton-surCreuse in central France.

Kiah Helms’ photography exhibit runs through Jan. 31 at the Mountlake Terrace Library, 23300 58th Ave. W., Mountlake Terrace.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Call 425776-8722. Find Kiah Helms Photography on Facebook.

Kiah Helms’ photograph of a baboon, titled “The Noble Protector,” won second place in the digital art category at the Edmonds Art Festival in 2018.

Helms has loved photography ever since her parents bought her a digital camera for Christmas when she was 13 years old, Her vacations to France provide endless inspiration.

“I went on a vacation to France and I just started taking photos,” she said.

“From then on, I realized I had some talent for it. It was a lot of fun to express

things from an artistic side.”

Helms, a business student at Edmonds Community College, has accomplished some of her best works while traveling. She was awarded honorable mention at the Edmonds Art Festival in 2016 for “Roosters in the Field,” which shows two roosters grazing in a French countryside.

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Aside from a photography class and a couple of workshops, Helms is mostly self-taught. She said she has high standards and a willingness to learn through trial and error.

But she doesn’t stress out over her photography.

“I normally just do it on vacation,” she said. “I want to keep it as a hobby, just for the fun aspect of it.”

Helms is especially excited to show her animal photography in the Mountlake Terrace exhibit.

“I hope that people will enjoy the beauty in the animals and the emotions that each individual one has,” she said.

Evan Thompson: 425-339-3427, ethompson@heraldnet.com.

Hibulb Cultural Center: 6410 23rd Ave. NE, Tulalip; 360-7162635; www.hibulbculturalcenter.org. Interactive displays introduce you to the legacy of the Tulalip people by giving you a historic perspective of the bands that make up the Tulalip Tribes. These stories are told in Lushootseed and English. In the main gallery is “Interwoven History: Coast Salish Wool.” Since time-immemorial, Coast Salish people have relied on natural resources to create textiles that communicate status, wealth and functionality. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; noon to 5 p.m. weekends. Free first Thursdays until 8 p.m.

Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday through Sunday at 703 S. Second St., La Conner. Admission is $7, with discounts for students, children, military and members. Formerly the La Conner Quilt Museum, the organization is celebrating 20 years with numerous new exhibits. Through Jan. 26, showing is “Inside Outward: The Art of Sara Joyce.”

Sara Joyce (1923-2011) was born in California and grew up during the Great Depression, learning the virtue of thrift and the skills to be self-reliant, such as cooking and sewing, during her early years. This is the premiere showing of her personal clothing.

Call 360-466-4288 or go to www. qfamuseum.org for more.

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Cafe Zippy: 1502 Rucker Ave., Everett; 425-303-0474. Acoustic open mic Saturday. Badd Chicken, Jan. 3. Jim Page, Jan. 4.

Tingstad and Rumbel: Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel’s “Twelfth Night Tradition” concert is at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 4 at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley.

The Grammy-winning new-age folk duo will play holiday tunes in the community where their career began about 30 years ago.

Tickets are $25 for adults; ages 18 and younger get in free. Call 360-221-8262. More at www. wicaonline.org.

Cliffhanger Sports Bar & Restaurant: 17525 Highway 99, Lynnwood; 425-967-5781. New Venture, Jan. 2. Guy Johnson Band, Jan. 3. Lori Hardman Band, Jan. 4.

Conway Boxcar: 8630 271st St. NW, Stanwood; 360-629-0651.

Free Harmony, Jan. 3.

Emory’s: 11830 19th Ave. SE, Everett; 425-337-7772. Lyle Ronglien, Jan. 3.

Engel’s Pub: 113 Fifth Ave. S., Edmonds; 425-778-2900.

Tuesday open mic with Dano & Friends. Thursday karaoke with Miss Julia. Polly O’Keary & the Rhythm Method, Jan. 3. The Rooners, Jan. 4.

Grazie Ristorante: 23207 Bothell-Everett Highway, Bothell; 425-402-9600. Edward Paul Trio, Jan. 3-4.

Mirkwood Public House: 117 E. Division St., Arlington; 360-4039020. Open mic Wednesdays with Jim Caroopmas. Raw Dogs, Proud Failures, Bug Hunt and Damned To Death, Jan. 3.

Oxford Saloon: 913 First St., Snohomish; 360-243-3060; www.oxfordsaloonsnohomish. com. Acoustic open mic Mondays. Acoustic open mic Tuesdays hosted by Jerry Battista.

Thursday jam night hosted by Cuzins Of It. Swingtime Express, second and fourth Sundays. The Rooners, Jan. 3. Cloud Cover, Jan. 4. Nick Denke, Jan. 5.

Peabo’s Sports Bar & Grill: 1700 132nd St. SE, Mill Creek; 425-337-3007. Blues jams

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Dan and Claudia Zanes, who play children’s music and folks and blues classics, will perform Jan. 11 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts.

Sundays. The Bel Reds, Jan. 3.

Slacker, Jan. 4.

Port Gardner Bay Winery: 3006 Rucker Ave., Everett; 425-3 390293; portgardnerbaywinery.com.

Open mic Thursdays. Soul Shack, Jan. 3. Doug Williams, Jan. 4.

Pub 282: 370 NE Camano Drive, Camano Island; www.pub282. com. Cory Vincent, Jan. 3. Jeremy Abbott, Jan. 4.

Quil Ceda Creek Casino: 6410 33rd Ave. NE, Tulalip; 888-2721111; www.qcccasino.com. The Retros, Jan. 3. Highway 9, Jan. 4.

The Restaurant at Rhodes River Ranch: 22016 Entsminger Road, Arlington; 360-474-8313; www.rhodesriverranch.com.

Sheri Roberts Greimes, Jan. 3.

The Jim McLaughlin Quartet, Jan. 4.

Rocko’s Fireside: 7520 Beverly Blvd., Everett; 425-347-7700; www.facebook.com/rockosfireside. The Industrials, Jan. 3.

SnoTown Brewery: 511 Second

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St., Snohomish; 425-231-8113.

Open mic Thursdays. The Harness Band, Jan. 3.

Tony V’s Garage: 1716 Hewitt Ave., Everett; 425-374-3567.

Open mic Wednesdays. Velvet Jupiter, Creamsicle, Soul Instinct and Noot, Jan. 3. Seed, Testing Trinity and Pride Fails, Jan. 4.

Tulalip Resort Casino: 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip, 360716-6000; www.tulalipresortcasino.com. Afrodisiacs & Mr. Pink, Jan. 2. Second Sting (Scorpions tribute) and M-80’s, Jan. 3. Midlife Crisis & the Alimony Horns and Fade to Black, Jan. 4.

Zep69 (Led Zeppelin tribute), Jan. 5.

Village Taphouse & Grill: 1204 Third St., Marysville; 360-6592305; www.villagetaphousegrill. com. Jam night Mondays. Polly O’Keary & the Rhythm Method, Jan. 4.

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Dan and Claudia Zanes: The Grammy Award winner and Haitian-American jazz vocalist will perform at 11 a.m. Jan. 11 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds.

The duo will perform Zanes’ children’s music at the Saturday matinee, as well as folk and blues classics from their songbook, “Dan Zanes’ House Party!: A Family Roots Music Treasury.”

Tickets are $10. Call 425-2759595. More at www.ec4arts.org.

Cascade Symphony Orchestra: The Edmonds’ orchestra’s “Happy Birthday, Ludwig!” concert is at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds.

The program includes Debussy’s “Printemps, Suite Symphonique,” Shostakovich’s “Gadfly Suite” and Beethoven’s “Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano.” Featured performers are Mae Lin on violin, Eric Han on cello and Jessica Choe on piano.

Tickets are $27 for adults, $22 for seniors, $15 for students and $10 for youth. Call 425-275-9595.

More at www.ec4arts.org.

Mavis Staples: The renowned R&B and gospel singer will perform at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds.

Staples is known for hits such as “Your Good Fortune,” “I’ve

Learned To Do Without You” and “I’ll Take You There.” Tickets are $39-$74. Call 425-275-9595.

More at www.ec4arts.org.

Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave., Everett. Tickets are $20. Call 425-258-6766. More at www.yourhet.org.

Shesh Besh: The Arab-Jewish ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. There will be a pre-show talk at 6 p.m. Tickets are $19-$49. Call 425-275-9595.

More at www.ec4arts.org.

Loverboy: The longtime Canadian rock band will perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 8 at Tulalip Resort Casino, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip. Loverboy is best known for such hits as “Working for the Weekend,” “Turn Me Loose” and “The Kid is Hot Tonight.” Tickets are $55-$65. Call 888-2720-1111.

More at www.tulalipresortcasino.com.

Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas: Fraser, on fiddle, and Haas, on cello, will perform at 2 p.m. Jan. 19 at Coupeville High School, 501 Main St., Coupeville.

The duo has toured together for more than 20 years. Tickets are $23 for adults, $20 for seniors and $18 for youth and can be purchased at the door or via Brown Paper Tickets. Call 425334-7951. More at www.nwscottishfiddlers.org.

“A Tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”: A tribute with song, spoken word and dance is 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. Featuring Stephen Newby, Josephine Howell, Barclay Shelton Dance Center and Price Arts Dance. Advance tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for students, or $15 the day of the event. Call 425-275-9595. More at www.ec4arts.org.

Linda Allen: The songwriter, performer and educator will present a musical tribute to the 100th anniversary of suffrage for women at 2 p.m. Jan. 26 in the Everett Public Library auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Ave., Everett.

Free. “Here’s to Women!” will feature songs, stories and images relating to 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Call 425-257-8000 or go to www.epls.org.

Darin Jones and the Last Men Standing: Jones and his band will play southern rock ‘n’ roll country at 8 p.m. Feb. 1 at the

Cascade Symphony Orchestra: The orchestra’s annual children’s concert will be performed at 3 p.m. Feb. 8 at Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. Featuring Herbert Chappell’s “Paddington Bear’s First Concert” with Dave Dolacky as the narrator, as well as the Cascade Percussion Ensemble and the Rising Star winner. Tickets are $3-$10. More at www.cascadesymphony.org.

Everett Philharmonic Orchestra: “That Magnificent Mozart!” concert is 3 p.m. Feb. 9 at the First Presbyterian Church, 2936 Rockefeller Ave., Everett.

Program includes Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Symphony No. 41 in C Major (Jupiter).” Featuring “Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola” with John Scanlon on viola. Tickets are $10-$25.

Children 12 and younger get in free. Call 425-585-8975. More at www.everettphil.org.

Pacifica Chamber Orchestra: The Sunshine concert will be performed at 3 p.m. Feb. 9 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 2301 Hoyt Ave., Everett. Program includes Carl Neilsen’s “Humorous Bagatelles Op. 11 for Winds” and “Sinfonia No. 31 Op. 294 for Strings” by Alan Hovhaness.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students and seniors. Call 425-743-0255. More at www. pacificachamberorchestra.org.

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family fun CALENDAR Virtual Reality at the Library: From 1 to 4 p.m. every Saturday from Jan. 4 through March 28, Evergreen Branch Library, 9512 Evergreen Way, Everett.

The library will be offering free virtual reality demonstrations for adults and teens ages 14 and older. Try out the VR headsets, on loan from the Washington State Library. Call 425-257-8250 or go to www.epls.org/VR. Walking Talk: Explore the Focke-Wulf 190 A-5 at 1 p.m.

Jan. 11 at the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum at Paine Field, 3407 109th St. SW, Everett. The German fighter plane from World War II was one of the most feared in the war and the most advanced of its time. The tour and 30-minute talk led by docent Glenn Humann is free with admission to the museum. Tickets are $18 adults or $12 youth. Children 5 and younger get in free. Call 206-342-4242 or go to www. flyingheritage.org.

The Mossyback Morris Men: 2 p.m. Jan. 12, Everett Public Library auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Ave. in Everett. The Morris is a colorful mix of street theater and dance that has been performed for centuries to spread good cheer within the darkness of winter. Their spirited dances include large sticks which they clash together, handkerchiefs for flicking the devil in the eye, and jingling bells on their shins.

The event is free. Call 425257-8000 or go to tinyurl.com/ Ev-Mossy.

Starlight Beach Walk: Join Discovery Programs staff and the WSU Snohomish County Extension Beach Watchers for an evening of winter discovery under the stars from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 21 at Olympic Beach, 200 Admiral Way, Edmonds.

Meet at the base of the fishing pier. Explore the beach as the tide goes out, then go to the visitor station to enjoy hot beverages to take the chill off.

Bring a flashlight and dress for the weather. Sturdy footwear or rubber boots are recommended. The event is free. Call 425-771-0227.

Learn to play the ukulele: The Everett Public Library will host two free all-ages ukulele classes on Jan. 25. Classes are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. at the Evergreen branch, 9512 Evergreen Way, Everett, and 2:30 p.m. at the main library, 2702 Hoyt Ave., Everett. The teacher is Aaron Canwell of the Oregon-based band Micah and

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stage Me. There will be 25 ukuleles available to play in each session. You’re welcome to bring your own ukulele. Call 425257-8000 or go to tinyurl.com/ PlayUkuleleEV. “Here’s to the Women!”: Linda Allen will present a musical tribute to the 100th anniversary of suffrage for women at 2 p.m.

Jan. 26 in the Everett Public Library auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Ave., Everett. The event is free.

When the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920, women were granted the right to vote — but the fight for women’s suffrage was both protracted and bitter.

Allen, a songwriter, performer and educator, has worked with numerous organizations to promote women’s history, including the Washington Centennial Commission. Call 425-257-8000 or go to tinyurl. com/EvWomensVote.

Kidstock!: The eighth annual arts celebration for kids is 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 1, Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. Featuring music, dance and theater performances, art workshops and children’s activities. The line-up includes Recess Monkey, Northwest Tap Connection, Bailadores de Bronce, CHIKIRI & The School of TAIKO, and The Not-Its! Go to tinyurl.com/KidStockED for more information.

Groundfrog Day: The local alternative to Groundhog Day. Will Snohomish Slew predict an early spring? Events are scheduled from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Feb. 2 along First Street in Snohomish, starting at the Avenue A Gazebo. Events include the annual Frognostication and Lazy River Frog Race. Race tickets are $5.

More at www.snohomishcoc. com/groundfrog.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Schack Art Center: 2921 Hoyt Ave., Everett; 425-259-5050. Mark your calendar: Teen Nights are

from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 20, March 19, April 30 and May 21. Or sign up for Schack classes, which include drawing, printmaking, basketry, jewelry and metalsmithing, encaustic painting, fused glass and blown glass.

Go to www.schack.org to learn more.

Imagine Children’s Museum: The museum offers hands-on exhibits for kids 1-12, plus a water-play area and a rooftop playground. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. Each third Friday of the month are free admission nights. Play indoors from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at no cost.

More at www.imaginecm.org or 425-258-1006.

Museum of Pop Culture: The museum (formerly EMP) at the Seattle Center, 325 Fifth Ave. N., has exhibits about science fiction and fantasy, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, “Star Trek,” indie games, horror films and more. The newest exhibit is “Minecraft: The Exhibition,” open through Sept.

7. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. More at www.mopop.org.

MOHAI: The Museum of History & Industry is at 860 Terry Ave., at the south end of Lake Union, Seattle. Through Jan. 26, “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation,” explores that rich heritage and the diverse contributions of Indian immigrants and their descendants.

More at www.mohai.org.

Hibulb Cultural Center: The interactive displays introduce you to the legacy of the Tulalip people by giving you a historic perspective of the bands that make up the Tulalip Tribes.

These stories are told in Lushootseed and English. Currently in the main gallery is “Interwoven History: Coast Salish Wool.”

Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday; noon to 5 p.m. weekends. Free first Thursdays until 8 p.m.; 6410 23rd Ave. NE, Tulalip; 360-716-2635; www.hibulbculturalcenter.org.

CALENDAR THEATER Village Theatre: Everett Performing Arts Center, 2710 Wetmore Ave.; 425-257-8600; www.villagetheatre.org/everett.

The 1950 Broadway hit based on short stories by Damon Runyon,“Guys & Dolls,” is showing Jan. 3-Feb. 2. The musical won five Tony Awards and was turned into a film in 1955.

Tickets are $45-$85.

Red Curtain: The Red Curtain Arts Center, 9315 State Ave., Suite J, Marysville (in the Goodwill shopping center, behind the Everett Community College cosmetology school); 360-322-7402; redcurtainfoundation.org. In “A Funny Thing Happened…,” showing Jan. 17 to Feb. 2, Don and Karla experience a unique and volatile bond in the hospital room where their mothers are being treated for cancer.

General admission is $20 and $17 for students, seniors and the military.

Phoenix Theatre: 9673 Firdale Ave., Edmonds; 206-533-2000; www.tptedmonds.org. ​Staging Feb. 7 to March 1 is the offBroadway show “Wonder of the World.” A firm believer in fate, Cass leaves her husband and boards a bus to Niagara Falls, where she checks items off her list of “things to do in life.” Tickets are $25 adults, $20 seniors, students, military.

Edmonds Driftwood Players: Wade James Theatre, 950 Main St., Edmonds; www.edmondsdriftwoodplayers.org; 425-7749600. “Pride and Prejudice,” showing Feb. 14 to March 1, is a new and fast-paced adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic 1813 novel about the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. Tickets are $28 adults and $25 for seniors, juniors and military.

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Village Theatre’s production of the musical “Guys & Dolls” opens Jan. 3 at the Everett Performing Arts Center.

YOUTH THEATER Kamiak High School: “She Kills Monsters” is staging 7 p.m. on Jan. 10-11 and 17-18 at Kamiak High School’s Performing Arts Center, 10801 Harbour Pointe Blvd., Mukilteo.

Agnes Evans is dealing with the untimely death of her teenage sister, Tilly. Agnes learns more about her sister upon entering the fantasy game of Dungeons & Dragons. Tickets, sold at the door, are $10 adults and $5 students and seniors. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

“Call of the Wild”: Jack London’s classic tale comes to life on stage Jan. 30 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. The Theatre Heroes production combines performance and storytelling with projected illustrations to tell the story of Buck, the magnificent offspring of a St. Bernard and Scottish Collie. Show starts at 10 a.m. Tickets are $9.

Call 425-275-9595 or go to www. edmondscenterforthearts.org.

COMEDY Comedy Garage: A weekly comedy showcase and open mic held Mondays at Tony V’s Garage, 1716 Hewitt Ave., Everett. Features regional comedians working out their longer sets and local

amateurs trying new material.

The headliner on Jan. 6 is Tambre Massman. No cover. All ages. Sign up at 7:15 p.m.; show is at 8:30 p.m. Find Comedy Garage on Facebook for more information.

Everett Comedy Night: Emory’s on Silver Lake, 11830 19th Ave. SE, Everett, hosts a second-Sunday monthly comedy night. Tickets are $10. All ages. The evening begins at 8:30 p.m. and features touring and local comedians. On Jan. 12, the headliner is Kermet Apio. To reserve a table, call 425337-7772. Find Everett Comedy Night on Facebook for more information.

Chuckles on the Pilchuck: Collector’s Choice Restaurant, 215 Cypress Ave., Snohomish, hosts a third-Tuesday monthly comedy show. The headliner for the Jan. 14 show is Monica Nevi. No cover.

Must be at least 21. The show starts at 8 p.m. and showcases the talents of Northwest comedians.

Find Chuckles on the Pilchuck on Facebook for more information.

Chad Prather: The comedian, armchair philosopher, musician and observational humorist will perform 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18 at the Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave., Everett. Prather is often referred to as a modern-day Will Rogers. Tickets are $20-$35.

Call 425-258-6766. More at www. yourhistoriceveretttheatre.org.

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facts about the Eagles The Seahawks’ 1st-round playoff opponent has been on a roll over the past month.

By Adam Jude The Seattle Times

Here we go again.

For the second year in a row, the Seattle Seahawks will head out on the road to open the playoffs against an NFC East opponent.

Last year, it was a trip to Dallas — and the Seahawks’ earliest playoff exit in seven previous postseason appearances under Pete Carroll.

This week, the Seahawks are flying to Philadelphia for the second time in six weeks, with an opening-round playoff game against the Eagles. Kickoff is set for 1:40 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.

In eight road games, the Seahawks (11-5) won a franchiserecord seven of them this season.

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Sophomore-to-be Jacob Sirmon, a Bothell High School alum, is the early favorite to be Washington’s starting quarterback next season.

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By Mike Vorel The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — Jacob Sirmon had a plan.

It was Dec. 13, 2015, and Sirmon — who had just wrapped up his sophomore season at Bothell High School — was ready to make a commitment. It didn’t matter that his signing day was still more than two years out. It didn’t matter that Washington’s next verbal commit in the 2018 class — his cousin, linebacker Jackson Sirmon — wouldn’t make that pledge until more than a year later. It didn’t matter that, as a strong-armed four-star quarterback, more scholarship offers were inevitable.

Jacob knew where he wanted to go. So why wait to commit to Washington?

“I know some people might look at this and think it’s a little early (to make a commitment), but to me it’s 100% — I’m certain that the University of Washington is the place for me,” Sirmon said in a phone interview when he committed. “There’s no doubt in my mind.

Honestly, why wouldn’t I commit when I know this is the place I want to be? I love Coach (Chris) Petersen and this staff; the program is going in the right direction; I’ll be close to my family and I’ll stay in contact with them, watching my brothers grow throughout their high school careers.

“Everything I want was right here.”

Including an opportunity to play early.

When Sirmon verbally committed, Jake Browning had just wrapped up his freshman season as Washington’s starting quarterback.

Assuming that Browning would stay in Seattle through his senior season in 2018, that would mean …

“His senior year will be my true freshman year,” Sirmon said when he committed, “and I’ll probably redshirt my first year and then have a chance to compete for the job my redshirt freshman year.”

Of, course we know now that Sirmon’s plan was not written in permanent marker. Washington signed a second quarterback, four-star

recruit Colson Yankoff, in the 2018 class.

Former five-star Lake Stevens signal-caller Jacob Eason transferred from Georgia to UW prior to the 2018 season, and promptly won the job this summer. The offensive coordinator Sirmon committed to, Jonathan Smith, is currently the head coach at Oregon State. Likewise, Petersen stepped down following UW’s win in the Las Vegas Bowl last weekend.

And on the same day last spring, both Sirmon and Yankoff entered their names in the transfer portal. Yankoff ultimately landed at UCLA, while Sirmon opted instead to stay in Seattle.

When he cryptically confirmed that decision on May 1, Sirmon did so by tweeting a Bible verse: Jeremiah 29:11. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, “‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”

Russell Wilson played perhaps his worst game of the season in a 17-9 victory at Philadelphia on Nov. 24. He completed a seasonlow 13 passes, on 25 attempts, with one touchdown, one interception and one wild incompletion over the head of wide-open tight end Jacob Hollister in the end zone.

The Seahawks’ defense, meanwhile, played perhaps its best game against the Eagles, forcing a season-high five turnovers and keeping Philadelphia out of the end zone until a garbage-time score with 20 seconds remaining.

“The great thing is we are playing great, but the greater thing is we can play even better,” Wilson said after the game. “That’s the scary part. That’s the scary part for the NFL and a great thing for us. We’re ready to roll and we’re ready to keep getting better.”

Eagles QB Carson Wentz, throwing to a skeleton crew of wide receivers, was 33-for-45 for 256 yards, with one TD and two interceptions against the Seahawks.

2. Flying high After the loss to the Seahawks, the Eagles went to Miami and were upset by the Dolphins, 37-31.

That was the nadir for the Eagles, who dropped to 5-7 with that defeat.

“I have a lot of faith and a lot of belief in the guys that we have,” Wentz said after the game, via the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Could the Eagles still rally to make the playoffs?

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Former NBA commissioner Stern dies at age 77 Stern, who spent 30 years as the head of the league, suffered a brain hemorrhage on Dec. 12 and never recovered.

By Brian Mahoney Associated Press

NEW YORK — David Stern, the basketball-loving lawyer who took the NBA around the world during 30 years as its longest-serving commissioner and oversaw its growth into a global powerhouse, died Wednesday. He was 77.

Stern suffered a brain hemorrhage on Dec. 12 and underwent emergency surgery. The league said he died with his wife, Dianne, and their family at his bedside.

“The entire basketball community is heartbroken,” the National Basketball Players Association said. “David Stern earned and deserved inclusion in our land of

giants.”

Stern had been involved with the NBA for nearly two decades before he became its fourth commissioner on Feb. 1, 1984. By the time he left his position in 2014 — he wouldn’t say or let league staffers say “retire,” because he never stopped working — a league that fought for a foothold before him had grown to a more than $5 billion a year industry and made NBA basketball perhaps the world’s most popular sport after soccer.

“Because of David, the NBA is a truly global brand — making him not only one of the greatest sports commissioners of all time, but also one of the most influential business leaders of his generation,” said

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Thriving on good debate in the boardroom and good games in the arena, Stern would say one of his greatest achievements was guiding a league of mostly black players that was plagued by drug problems in the 1970s to popularity with mainstream America.

He had a hand in nearly every initiative to do that, from the drug testing program, to the implementation of the salary cap, to the creation of a dress code.

But for Stern, it was always about “the game,” and his morning often included reading about the previous night’s results in the

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newspaper — even after technological advances he embraced made reading NBA.com easier than ever.

“The game is what brought us here. It’s always about the game and everything else we do is about making the stage or the presentation of the game even stronger, and the game itself is in the best shape that it’s ever been in,” he said on the eve of the 2009-10 season, calling it “a new golden age for the NBA.” One that was largely created by Stern during a three-decade run that turned countless ballplayers into celebrities who were known around the globe by one name: Magic, Michael, Kobe, LeBron, just to name a few.

Stern oversaw the birth of seven new franchises and the creation of the WNBA and NBA Development League, now the G League, providing countless opportunities

After down season, Pac-12 back with high expectations The league has strong teams at the top and more depth than in previous seasons heading into league play.

By John Marshall Associated Press

PHOENIX — The Pac-12 has gone through a couple of rough seasons the past few years. The conference went 0 for 3 in the in 2018 NCAA tournament and last year looked like it may have only one team in the bracket of 68 before the selection committee pushed three through.

This season, the Pac may be back.

Bolstered by loaded teams at the top and with depth nearly all the way through, the Pac-12 is poised to be among college basketball’s elite conferences again as the season turns to league play this week.

“There are times when we’ve had a very good upper tier or a couple of teams that really could challenge deep into the NCAA tournament, but maybe the bottom team or a couple teams at the bottom almost acted as an anchor against all of us,” Arizona coach Sean Miller said. “But this year, I don’t believe that’s the case. I think the middle has never been stronger. It’s hard to differentiate maybe between the very top teams and maybe four through eight, four through nine.”

The Pac-12 has two ranked teams heading into conference play: No. 4 Oregon and No. 25 Arizona, with Washington and Colorado just barely on the outside looking in. The conference has a combined winning percentage of .740 through Tuesday’s games and had three wins over top-15 teams in a span of a week in late December.

Every Pac-12 team has a winning record except 6-7 California and five teams have double-digit wins.

Pac-12 teams could end up beating up on one another during the conference season, as has happened in the past, but the league appears to be in good

to pursue careers playing basketball in the United States that previously weren’t available.

Not bad for a guy who once thought his job might be a temporary one.

He had been the league’s outside counsel from 1966 to ‘78 and spent two years as the NBA’s general counsel, figuring he could always go back to his legal career if he found things weren’t working out after a couple of years.

He never did.

After serving as the NBA’s executive vice president of business and legal affairs from 198084, he replaced Larry O’Brien as commissioner.

Overlooked and ignored only a few years earlier, when it couldn’t even get its championship round on live network TV, the NBA saw its popularity quickly surge thanks to the rebirth of the Lakers-Celtics rivalry behind Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, followed by the entrance of Michael Jordan just a few months after Stern became commissioner.

Under Stern, the NBA would

shape for a strong showing in March.

Here’s a few things to know as the Pac-12 gets ready to kick off its conference season:

Soaring Ducks Oregon was picked to win the Pac-12 in the preseason media poll and has lived up to expectations so far.

The Ducks (10-2) have three wins over ranked opponents, including a one-point road victory over then-No. 5 Michigan, and their only losses are to top-ranked Gonzaga and North Carolina.

Payton Pritchard has been superb to start his senior season, averaging 19.6 points and 4.3 rebounds, and Oregon has four players averaging at least 10 points. The Ducks also got huge boost in early December, when 6-foot-11 freshman N’Faly Dante became eligible after reclassifying as a 2019 signee.

Other teams to watch Washington generated plenty of preseason buzz after coach Mike Hopkins landed a stellar recruiting class, led by Isaiah Stewart and Jaden McDaniels.

The 6-foot-9 freshman duo has lived up to expectations. Stewart is averaging 19.2 points and 8.8 rebounds while shooting 61% percent. McDaniels is putting up 14.4 points and 5.6 rebounds for the Huskies (10-3).

Arizona (10-3) got off to a stellar start behind the freshman trio of Nico Mannion, Josh Green and Zeke Nnaji. The Wildcats stumbled with losses to Baylor, Gonzaga and St. John’s but have the type of roster that could make a deep March run.

Colorado (11-2) dropped out of the AP Top 25 after losses to No. 5 Kansas and Northern Iowa, but has plenty of talent and a veteran roster. Point guard McKinley Wright and forward Tyler Bey are the type

play nearly 150 international games and be televised in more than 200 countries and territories, and in more than 40 languages, and the NBA Finals and All-Star weekend would grow into international spectacles. The 2010 AllStar game drew more than 108,000 fans to Dallas Cowboys Stadium, a record to watch a basketball game.

“It was David Stern being a marketing genius who turned the league around. That’s why our brand is so strong,” said Johnson, who announced he was retiring because of HIV in 1991 but returned the following year at the All-Star Game with Stern’s backing.

“It was David Stern who took this league worldwide.”

He was fiercely protective of his players and referees when he felt they were unfairly criticized, such as when members of the Indiana Pacers brawled with Detroit fans in 2004, or when an FBI investigation in 2007 found that Tim Donaghy had bet on games he officiated, throwing the entire referee operations department into turmoil.

of players who could lead the Buffaloes back to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2016.

Surprising Stanford Stanford didn’t have many outside expectations heading into the season. The Cardinal were young, struggling with injuries and picked to finish 10th in the preseason poll.

So far, Stanford has been the surprise of the Pac-12. The Cardinal (11-2) had as many wins as any team in the conference and their only losses were by one to No. 12 Butler at a neutral site and by 16 to No. 3 Kansas.

Junior big man Oscar da Silva has been terrific so far this season, averaging 17.6 points and 6.0 rebounds while shooting 61%.

Inconsistent teams UCLA may need a little time to find its footing under first-year coach Mick Cronin.

The Bruins (7-6) lost at home to Hofstra, went 1-2 at the Maui Invitational and closed out the nonconference season with a home loss to Cal State Fullerton.

Arizona State (9-4) got off to a strong start with a win over St. John’s in New York and shut down Georgia star freshman Anthony Edwards.

The Sun Devils followed with an ugly 40-point loss to Saint Mary’s and a home loss to Creighton before beating Texas Southern to close out the nonconference schedule.

Oregon State (10-2) has one of the Pac-12’s best players in Tres Tinkle and rolled through most of a relatively easy nonconference schedule. The Beavers followed with a clunker against Texas A&M, scoring 49 points in a 15-point loss.

Utah (9-3) has one of the Pac-12’s best wins so far this season, knocking off then-No. 6 Kentucky in Las Vegas. The Utes also have losses to Coastal Carolina and Tulane and scored 52 points in a blowout loss to No. 15 San Diego State.

With his voice rising and spit flying, Stern would publicly rebuke media outlets, even individual writers, if he felt they had taken cheap shots.

But he was also a relentless negotiator against those same employees in collective bargaining, and his loyalty to his owners and commitment to getting them favorable deals led to his greatest failures, lockouts in 1998 and 2011 that were the only times the NBA lost games to work stoppages.

Though he had already passed off the heavy lifting to Silver by the latter one, it was Stern who faced the greatest criticism, as well as the damage to a legacy that had otherwise rarely been tarnished.

Stern also oversaw the relocation of the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City in 2008.

“As tough an adversary as he was across the table, he never failed to recognize the value of our players, and had the vision and courage to make them the focus of our league’s marketing efforts — building the NBA into the empire it is today,” the NBPA said.

EDMONTON, Alberta — The Everett Silvertips jumped out to a two-goal lead after the first period, but ultimately fell to the Eastern Conference-leading Edmonton Oil Kings 4-3 in a shootout on Wednesday at Rogers Place.

Gage Goncalves and Michal Gut scored in the first as the Silvertips raced out to and early lead against the team with the best record in the Western Hockey League.

But Dylan Guenther and Carter Souch each scored in the second period as the Oil Kings pulled even at 2-2 heading into the intermission.

The teams traded third-period goals, Liam Keller for Edmonton and Bryce Kindopp for Everett, before a scoreless overtime sent the game to a shootout, which the Oil Kings won 2-1.

Keegan Karki stopped 42 of 45 shots as the Silvertips (25-8-21) came away with a point in the tough road matchup.

Sebastian Cossa stopped 34 of 37 shots for Edmonton (25-7-52), which earlier in the day swung a big trade to acquire 20-year-old goaltender Beck Warm from the Tri-City Americans.

1956 World Series hero Larsen passes away at 90 NEW YORK — Don Larsen, the journeyman pitcher who reached the heights of baseball glory in 1956 for the New York Yankees when he threw a perfect game and the only no-hitter in World Series history, died Wednesday night. He was 90.

Larsen’s agent, Andrew Levy, said the former pitcher died of esophageal cancer in Hayden, Idaho. Levy said Larsen’s son, Scott, confirmed the death.

Larsen was the unlikeliest of characters to attain what so many Hall of Famers couldn’t pull off in the fall classic. He was 81-91 lifetime, never won more than 11 games in a season and finished an unsightly 3-21 with Baltimore in 1954, the year before he was dealt to the Yankees as part of an 18-player trade.

Redskins hire Rivera as new head coach WASHINGTON — The Redskins hired Ron Rivera as their coach on Wednesday in owner Dan Snyder’s latest step to try to turn around the wayward franchise.

Washington announced the move two days after Snyder fired president Bruce Allen following a decade of futility. The former Carolina Panthers coach quickly emerged as the Redskins’ top candidate and inherits a team that went 3-13 this season and hasn’t made the playoffs since 2015.

The 57-year-old of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent is the first minority to be named fulltime coach in Redskins franchise history. Rivera is the seventh coach hired by Snyder in his two decades of ownership that have included just five playoff appearances.

Within hours of becoming head coach of the Redskins, Rivera made his first big hire, adding former Jacksonville Jaguars and Oakland Raiders head coach Jack Del Rio as defensive coordinator.

Herald news services

David Joel Stern was born Sept.

22, 1942, in New York. A graduate of Rutgers University and Columbia Law School, he was dedicated to public service, launching the NBA Cares program in 2005 that donated more than $100 million to charity in five years.

He would begin looking internationally soon after becoming commissioner and the globalization of the game got an enormous boost in 1992, when Jordan, Johnson and Bird played on the U.S. Olympic Dream Team that would bring the sport a new burst of popularity while storming to the gold medal in Barcelona.

Stern capitalized on that by sending NBA teams to play preseason games against other NBA or international clubs, and opened offices in other countries. The league staged regularseason games in Japan in 1991 and devoted significant resources to China, and Stern’s work there would pay off in 2008 when basketball was perhaps the most popular sport in the Beijing Olympics.

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Herbert, Oregon run past Badgers The Ducks’ quarterback ran for 3 touchdowns in his final collegiate game, as Oregon held off Wisconsin for 28-27 Rose Bowl win.

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ABOVE: Oregon’s Justin Herbert runs away from Wisconsin’s Jack Sanborn for a touchdown during the Ducks’ 28-27 win over the Badgers in the Rose Bowl on Wednesday in Pasadena, California. BELOW: Herbert (right) and Brady Breeze celebrate with the trophy after the Ducks’ win.

La’Mar Winston Jr. said. “He runs in practice and torches, so I told him, ‘Man, pull that thing and get loose.’ Stiff-arming dudes. Juking dudes. Is he a running back or a quarterback? We don’t know.”

Winston’s praise aside, Herbert had only 10 rushing touchdowns in the first 41 starts of his career. He turned into a big-play ball-carrier on Arroyo Seco’s hallowed ground, and Oregon improbably relied on its quarterback’s long legs to grind out a landmark victory under second-year head coach Mario Cristobal, Herbert’s third coach in four years.

Herbert scored on runs of 4 and 5 yards in the first half, stiffarming Wisconsin defenders on both runs. After his go-ahead TD, Herbert got back to what he normally does best: He made a key 12-yard throw to Mycah Pittman for a first down with 1:51 to play, and his 28-yard throw to Juwan Johnson with 1:03 left let the Ducks run out the clock.

“We knew coming in that he was athletic,” Sanborn said. “We didn’t have good angles and miscommunications. Something we have to be better at in a game like this. It’s not the first game he ran with the ball.”

Three years after coach Mark Helfrich was fired when the Ducks went 4-8 in Herbert’s freshman season, Oregon held off the Badgers to cap a Pac-12 championship campaign with its 12th win in 13 games and the fourth Rose Bowl victory in school history.

“To realize where we were, and where we are now, it’s been a great journey,” Herbert said. “For us to stick together through those tough times is just a testament to all the guys on the team, and all the hard work we’ve put in.”

Aron Cruickshank returned an early kickoff 95 yards for

a touchdown for the Big Ten runner-up Badgers (10-4), but they lost in their fourth consecutive trip to Pasadena over the last 10 years, including two losses to Oregon.

Jonathan Taylor rushed for 94 yards and Quintez Cephus caught seven passes for 59 yards and a touchdown, but Wisconsin quarterback Jack Coan’s offense couldn’t capitalize on its considerable advantages in both time of possession (38:03-21:57) and total yards of offense (322-204).

“There’s a slim chance you could win, but it definitely puts you in a tough position when you have self-inflected penalties, special teams problems, turnovers,” said Taylor, who is likely headed to the NFL. “When you’re playing an elite team like Oregon, a great team like that, they’ll capitalize on those mistakes.”

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All these unforeseen developments weren’t part of the original plan. But, come Sept. 5, 2020, Sirmon could still be UW’s starter.

That became increasingly more likely last week, when Eason announced that he’ll enter the 2020 NFL draft. It appears Washington will open spring practice with just three scholarship quarterbacks: Sirmon, redshirt freshman Dylan Morris and true freshman Ethan Garbers. Of those three, the 6-5, 234-pound Sirmon is the only one who has thrown a pass at the collegiate level; he was 2-for-3 for 19 yards in five games this past season.

When he announced Eason as UW’s starting quarterback last summer, Petersen also said that “Jacob Sirmon did a tremendous job (in the competition). He’s right there. And for Dylan Morris to be a freshman, he can go out there and operate, which most freshmen can’t do with the reps that he got.”

Still, handicapping UW’s impending quarterback competition is a futile exercise until new head coach Jimmy Lake names an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. It’s safe to assume that Sirmon will take the first starting reps of the spring. But Morris — another in-state four-star quarterback — earned rave reviews during his redshirt season as well.

The offseason transfers of Yankoff and redshirt sophomore Jake Haener vaulted Morris immediately into the third-string role, and the extra reps on scout team may pay dividends this spring and fall.

In four seasons as GrahamKapowsin’s starter, Morris threw for 9,815 yards and 99 touchdowns, while completing 62.3%

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Alabama tops Michigan in Citrus Bowl Associated Press

By Greg Beacham PASADENA, Calif. — Justin Herbert faked a handoff and went on the run of his life in the fourth quarter of the Rose Bowl.

Oregon’s 6-foot-6 quarterback gracefully stiff-armed Wisconsin linebacker Jack Sanborn at the line of scrimmage. He surged downfield, found his blockers and sprinted to the green-painted end zone, even absorbing a very late hit from the frustrated Badgers as a reward.

The Eugene kid who took over his beloved hometown team during its worst season of this century had just scored the decisive touchdown of the biggest win of his career.

A few minutes and a couple of big passes later, the Ducks all celebrated amid confetti and roses at midfield after Herbert’s final college game.

“I wish it wasn’t over,” Herbert said. “This has been the best four years of my life. I’ve been honored to be a part of this team.”

Herbert scored his third rushing touchdown of the 106th Rose Bowl on that thrilling 30-yard run with 7:41 to play Wednesday night, and No. 7 Oregon held off No. 11 Wisconsin 28-27 to win its third straight trip to the Granddaddy of Them All. Herbert passed for just 138 yards without a touchdown, and Oregon (12-2) managed just 204 yards of offense — the fewest by any Rose Bowl team in 40 years.

The Ducks still managed to win yet another frenetic edition of this venerated bowl game, surviving six lead changes and big special-teams mistakes by both schools.

While the offense sputtered, the Ducks scored 21 points off the Badgers’ four turnovers, including Brady Breeze’s early 31-yard fumble return for a TD off a botched punt.

And on the next snap after Breeze forced another fumble in the fourth quarter, Herbert rambled through the Wisconsin defense for that 30-yard score in what’s sure to be the signature moment of the four-year starter’s career.

“I’m going to be honest with you, we’ve been telling him to run all year,” Oregon linebacker

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Dylan Morris, who will be a redshirt freshman next season, will be in the competition to be Washington’s starting quarterback after the departure of Jacob Eason.

of his passes. When he signed with Washington in December 2018, 247Sports national editor Brandon Huffman said that “Dylan was never really this big guy. He was 6-1 as a freshman and 6-1 as a senior. Didn’t have the physical tools Eason did, but really from a quarterback makeup standpoint had what you want. He was able to process things. He was able to read defenses.”

Added Huffman: “When you talk to kids that played 7-on-7 with Dylan, they loved him … Guys that didn’t play with him on that circuit but played against him loved him.”

Like Sirmon, Morris — who his teammates voted Offensive Scout Squad MVP this season — was the first commit in his class. And, like Sirmon, he never saw the need to wait.

“Once I committed I knew that was the best decision I was going to make and I never wavered from it,” Morris, who’s officially listed at

6-0 and 196 pounds, said before he signed. “I’ve wanted to be a Dawg my whole life, and I’m going to be a Dawg my whole life.”

But will he be the starter?

Besides Sirmon, Morris will have to fend off four-star freshman and early enrollee Garbers this offseason. The 6-3, 193-pound Garbers led Corona Del Mar High School to a perfect 16-0 record and a California state title in his senior season, completing 69.6% of his passes while throwing for 5,035 yards with a whopping 71 touchdowns and six interceptions. He ran for 573 yards and 12 touchdowns as well.

In fact, his high school statistics, measurables and playing style could draw some comparisons to Browning, who threw for 91 touchdowns with seven picks in his senior season at Folsom (Calif.)

High School in 2014.

But, like Browning, does Garbers have what it takes to make an immediate impact?

“He didn’t flinch when Chris (Petersen) resigned. He didn’t flinch when Sam Huard committed,” Pac-12 Network analyst Yogi Roth said of Garbers before he signed with Washington this month. “I’m a big fan, and I think he’ll have a chance if Jacob (Eason) leaves to play as a true freshman there. He’s going to be the best passer in the meeting room.”

That’s assuming Washington doesn’t also add a graduate transfer like Stanford’s K.J. Costello, who has thrown for 6,151 yards and 49 touchdowns with 18 interceptions in 29 career games. In the past, it has been nearly impossible for graduate transfers to qualify academically at UW. But, considering Stanford’s academic standards, perhaps Costello would be fortuitous exception.

UW’s starter — whoever he is — will be tasked with adjusting to a new head coach, a new coordinator, a new quarterbacks coach and a new offensive system. He’ll also have to operate behind an offensive line replacing three starters, including All-Pac-12 first-team performers Trey Adams and Nick Harris. He’ll have a young, talented receiving corps at his disposal that includes seniors Ty Jones and Jordan Chin, junior Terrell Bynum, redshirt sophomores Marquis Spiker and Austin Osborne, sophomore Puka Nacua and true freshmen Jalen McMillan, Rome Odunze and Sawyer Racanelli (not to mention junior tight end Cade Otton).

Washington’s roster remains stocked with formidable offensive weapons. Now all the Huskies need is a quarterback. And, perhaps, a new plan.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Mac Jones threw three touchdown passes, Jerry Jeudy became the first Alabama player to top 200 receiving yards in a bowl game and the ninth-ranked Crimson Tide topped No. 17 Michigan 35-16 on Wednesday in the Citrus Bowl.

Jones connected with Jeudy for an 85-yard score on Alabama’s first snap, DeVonta Smith and Miller Forristall added touchdown grabs in the second half for the Crimson Tide (11-2), which trailed 16-14 at the break. Najee Harris ran for 136 yards and two touchdowns for Alabama.

Jeudy finished with six catches for 204 yards. His previous careerhigh for yards was 147 set last season against Missouri, and the Alabama bowl record had stood for more than a half-century — Ray Perkins had 178 yards against Nebraska in the 1967 Sugar Bowl.

Jones — who took over as Alabama’s starter when Tua Tagovailoa was lost for the season with an injury in November — completed 16 of 25 passes for 327 yards.

Shea Patterson completed 17 of 37 passes for 233 yards and a touchdown for Michigan (9-4), which dropped its fourth consecutive bowl game. Quinn Nordin kicked three field goals for the Wolverines, including a schoolrecord-tying 57-yarder to end the first half and give Michigan the lead.

The Crimson Tide had two touchdown drives of 90 seconds or less — Jeudy’s score on Alabama’s first play and a long go-ahead touchdown grab by Smith early in the third quarter. They were quickstrike all season long, with 22 TD drives taking 1:30 or less and 38 TDs coming in 2:00 or less.

And the last of those was the one that put this game away for Alabama with 10:01 left.

Facing third-and-11 from its own 8, Jones connected with Jeudy for 14 yards. On the next snap, Jones and Jeudy hooked up for 58 more yards. And the next snap was a 20-yard scoring pass to a wideopen Forristall.

Outback Bowl TAMPA, Fla. — Tyler Johnson had 12 receptions for 204 yards and two touchdowns Wednesday to become Minnesota’s career receiving leader and propel the 16th-ranked Gophers to a 31-24 victory over No. 9 Auburn in the Outback Bowl.

Johnson broke Eric Decker’s school record for receiving yards on his second catch of the day and became Minnesota’s alltime leader for scoring receptions on a one-handed, 2-yard TD catch that put the Gophers (11-2) up 24-17 at halftime. His 73-yard catch-and-run put his team ahead for good early in the fourth quarter.

Minnesota, which began the season with nine straight victories before losing two of its last three to Big Ten rivals Iowa and Wisconsin, finished with more than 10 wins for the first time since 1904. Auburn (9-4) concluded a season in which all four of its losses came against opponents ranked in the Top 25.

Tanner Morgan completed 19 of 29 passes for 278 yards, one interception and both of the TDs to Johnson, who finished with 3,305 receiving yards and 33 TD catches in his career. Receiver Seth Green tossed a 1-yard touchdown pass to Bryce Witham on fourth-and-inches midway through the second quarter.

Noah Igbinoghene, whose mother and father were both Olympic track and field athletes in Nigeria, returned a kickoff 96 yards for Auburn’s first touchdown. Bo Nix threw a 37-yard TD pass to Sal Cannella and JaTarvious Whitlow scored on a 3-yard run that made it 24-24 heading into the fourth quarter.

Morgan broke the tie with his second TD throw to Johnson, who posted the 16th 100-yard game of his career and caught at least one TD pass for the seventh straight game, tying a another school record.

The Gophers dominated on the ground, too, outrushing Auburn 215 yards to 56. Mohamed Ibrahim ran for 140 yards on 20 carries, and Rodney Smith finished with 69 on 16 attempts.

Nix was 17 of 26 for 176 yards, one TD and no interceptions.

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Boston 23 8 .742 — Toronto 23 11 .676 1½ Philadelphia 23 13 .639 2½ Brooklyn 16 16 .500 7½ New York 10 24 .294 14½ Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Miami 24 9 .727 — Orlando 15 19 .441 9½ Charlotte 13 23 .361 12½ Washington 10 23 .303 14 Atlanta 7 27 .206 17½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Milwaukee 31 5 .861 — Indiana 22 12 .647 8 Chicago 13 21 .382 17 Detroit 12 22 .353 18 Cleveland 10 23 .303 19½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Houston 23 11 .676 — Dallas 21 12 .636 1½ San Antonio 14 18 .438 8 Memphis 13 21 .382 10 New Orleans 11 23 .324 12 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Denver 23 10 .697 — Utah 21 12 .636 2 Oklahoma City 18 15 .545 5 Portland 14 21 .400 10 Minnesota 12 21 .364 11 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB L.A. Lakers 26 7 .788 — L.A. Clippers 24 11 .686 3 Phoenix 13 20 .394 13 Sacramento 12 22 .353 14½ Golden State 9 26 .257 18 Wednesday’s games Orlando 122, Washington 101 New York 117, Portland 93 Milwaukee 106, Minnesota 104 Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, late Today’s games Charlotte at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

Denver at Indiana, 4 p.m.

Toronto at Miami, 4:30 p.m.

Golden State at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Utah at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at Sacramento, 7 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.

Men’s College Scores Wednesday’s games SOUTH ETSU 49, Wofford 48 Furman 89, VMI 73 Samford 69, The Citadel 68 UNC-Greensboro 72, Mercer 63 MIDWEST Cincinnati 67, UConn 51 Creighton 92, Marquette 75 Fort Wayne 70, South Dakota 59 Wichita St. 75, East Carolina 69 SOUTHWEST SMU 82, South Florida 64 FAR WEST Boise St. 65, Wyoming 54 San Diego St. 61, Fresno St. 52

Women’s College Scores Wednesday’s games SOUTH Lipscomb 86, Queens University of Charlotte 45 UNC-Greensboro 84, Lenoir-Rhyne 59 MIDWEST South Dakota 62, Fort Wayne 41 SOUTHWEST Cent. Arkansas 63, Houston Baptist 39 FAR WEST Colorado St. 75, Nevada 70 Fresno St. 79, San Diego St. 54 North Dakota 90, Denver 82 San Jose St. 81, New Mexico 80 UC Davis 96, William Jessup 32 UNLV 60, Utah St. 46 Wyoming 73, Boise St. 68

FOOTBALL NFL Playoffs Wild-card Round Saturday’s games Buffalo at Houston, 1:35 p.m. (ABC/ESPN) Tennessee at New England, 5:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday’s games Minnesota at New Orleans, 10:05 a.m. (FOX) Seattle at Philadelphia, 1:40 p.m. (NBC) Divisional Round Saturday, Jan. 11 Philadelphia, Seattle or Minnesota at San Francisco, 1:35 p.m. (NBC) Houston, Buffalo or Tennessee at Baltimore, 5:15 p.m (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 12 New England, Houston or Buffalo at Kansas City, 12:05 p.m. (CBS) New Orleans, Philadelphia or Seattle at Green Bay, 3:40 p.m. (FOX)

College Bowls Wednesday’s games Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. Alabama 35, Michigan 16 Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla. Minnesota 31, Auburn 24 Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon 28, Wisconsin 27 Sugar Bowl New Orleans Georgia vs. Baylor, late Today’s games Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Cincinnati (10-3) vs. Boston College (6-6), noon (ESPN) Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Indiana (8-4) vs. Tennessee (7-5), 4 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday’s game Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise Ohio (6-6) vs. Nevada (7-5), 12:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday’s game

Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Southern Miss (7-5) vs. Tulane (6-6), 8:30 a.m. (ESPN) Monday’s game Lendingtree Bowl Mobile, Ala. Miami (Ohio) (8-5) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (10-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 13 College Football Championship New Orleans Clemson (14-0) vs. LSU (14-0), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 18 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, noon (NFL) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

American vs. National, 2 p.m. (FS1) Saturday, Jan. 25 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 11:30 a.m.

Sunday, Jan. 26 Hula Bowl At Honolulu East vs. West, 7:30 p.m.

FCS Playoffs Championship Saturday’s game At Toyota Stadium Frisco, Texas North Dakota St. (15-0) vs. James Madison (14-1), 9 a.m. (ABC)

GOLF Battle Creek Men’s Club Substitute Par Dec. 17 Net—John Shields 68, Rich Brown 69, Paul Roop 69.

Low Net Dec. 19 Paul Roop 68, Rich Brown 73, Gary Baunsgard 73.

Substitute Par Dec. 22 Net—Gary Baunsgard 65, Charlie Hanks 67, Paul Roop 67.

3’s & 5’s Dec. 24 Net—Mark Sauter 34.5, John Shields 37.5.

Better Nine Dec. 26 Net—Paul Roop 33, Herb Barstad 33.5.

Easy 9 Holes Dec. 28 Net—Scott Yanagida 30.5, Paul Roop 32, Cameron Klundt 33.

3’s, 4’s & 5’s Dec. 29 Net—Graham Herring 30.5, John Shields 33.5, Paul Roop 35.

Camaloch Men’s Club Low Gross/Net by Flight Dec. 18 1st Flight (0-16.9)—Gross: Joe Day 71, Steve Penry 73. Net: Steve Epperson 62, Jason Hannum 66, John Hamlin 66, Duane Holtmann 66, Jim Hopper 68, Patrick Ladd 68. 2nd Flight (17-up)—Gross: Bill White 83, Steve Precup 84. Net: Phil Trautman 65, Mike Evans 65, Mark Randall 66, Ron Reeder 66, Joe Defelice 67, John Gildow 67, Charles White 67, Dave Smith 67.

Snohomish Men’s Club 9 Hole Eclectic Dec. 22 11-under—Gross: Rick Bullatt 31. Net: Jeff Himple 26. 12-up—Gross: Greg Ruthruff 32.

Net: Bill McNeil 24.5.

Sub Par Dec. 28 11-under—Gross: Rod Kawachi 72. Net: Jeff Himple 65. 12-up—Gross: Greg Ruthruff 81. Net: Bill McNeil 71.

Sub Par Dec. 29 11-under—Gross: Dylan Minogue 69. Net: John Tangeman 66. 12-up—Gross: Greg Ruthruff 76. Net: Bill McNeil 65.

Hole-In-One Lynnwood Golf Course Gary Smyres of Lynnwood aced the 115-yard No. 12 hole on Dec. 27 with a pitching wedge.

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 41 24 7 10 58 138 105 Toronto 41 22 14 5 49 146 132 Tampa Bay 38 21 13 4 46 137 120 Florida 39 20 14 5 45 139 134 Montreal 40 18 16 6 42 131 131 Buffalo 41 17 17 7 41 121 131 Ottawa 40 16 19 5 37 111 132 Detroit 41 10 28 3 23 89 157 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 41 27 9 5 59 146 122 N.Y. Islanders 38 25 10 3 53 114 100 Pittsburgh 39 24 11 4 52 136 104 Carolina 40 24 14 2 50 136 112 Philadelphia 40 22 13 5 49 127 118 Columbus 40 18 14 8 44 105 112 N.Y. Rangers 39 19 16 4 42 129 132 New Jersey 39 14 19 6 34 102 138 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 41 26 9 6 58 128 107 Colorado 40 23 13 4 50 144 119 Dallas 41 23 14 4 50 111 103 Winnipeg 40 22 15 3 47 125 120 Minnesota 41 19 17 5 43 126 137 Nashville 39 18 15 6 42 134 131 Chicago 41 18 17 6 42 118 132 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 43 22 15 6 50 134 125 Arizona 42 22 16 4 48 118 108 Vancouver 40 21 15 4 46 132 119 Edmonton 42 21 17 4 46 125 134 Calgary 42 20 17 5 45 114 127 Los Angeles 42 17 21 4 38 109 132 Anaheim 40 16 19 5 37 103 124 San Jose 41 17 21 3 37 109 139 Tuesday’s late games Chicago 5, Calgary 3 Edmonton 7, N.Y. Rangers 5

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The Seahawks, we know, have dealt with an unusually high number of injuries in the past few weeks, particularly on offense.

They will get no sympathy from the Eagles, who have had seven of their Week 1 offensive starters go down with significant injuries.

The latest injury is to Brandon Brooks, the Eagles’ Pro Bowl offensive guard. He suffered a season-ending shoulder injury against the Giants on Sunday.

Another major injury to monitor this week: Pro Bowl tight end Zach Ertz missed Sunday’s game after suffering cracked ribs and, according to multiple reports, a lacerated kidney against Dallas a week earlier (and then played the second half against the Cowboys with those injuries).

Ertz had 12 catches for 91 yards and a TD in the first meeting, and Pederson has not ruled Ertz out this week.

With Ertz out Sunday, former University of Washington tight end Josh Perkins had a season-high four catches for 50 yards and a TD for the Eagles.

“I’ve seen crazier (things),” Wentz said.

Not so crazy now.

The Eagles won their final four games to finish 9-7 and claim the NFC East. The beat the Cowboys, 17-9, to wrestle away control of the division in Week 16, then closed out the regular season Sunday with a convincing 34-17 victory over the New York Giants.

3. Wentz heating up Wentz is in the midst of the best stretch of his career.

He’s thrown seven touchdown passes with no interceptions during the Eagles’ four-game winning streak.

He is the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than 4,000 yards without a wide receiver with more than 500 yards, per the Inquirer.

Wentz has been sacked just two times in the past two games, and he’s always shown a willingness to use his feet more to escape the pocket when need.

“We’ve got to continue to find ways to do that, and help the offensive line that away, as well,” Philadelphia coach Doug Pederson said Monday. “That’s what

4. Injury-plagued Eagles

5. Jones emerging at corner Another former UW standout, Sidney Jones, has

Wednesday’s game Dallas 4, Nashville 2 Today’s games Columbus at Boston, 4 p.m.

Edmonton at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Montreal, 4 p.m.

New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m.

San Jose at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.

Florida at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m.

Toronto at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at Arizona, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Calgary, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Colorado, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Vegas, 7 p.m.

WHL WESTERN CONFERENCE U.S. Division GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pts 35 25 6 1 3 130 78 54 36 25 8 2 1 121 89 53 36 20 11 4 1 131 102 45 34 13 16 4 1 90 122 31 35 13 19 2 1 92 130 29 B.C. Division

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pts Kamloops 36 22 11 2 1 142 95 47 Victoria 34 20 12 2 0 90 86 42 Kelowna 35 19 13 1 2 100 104 41 Vancouver 35 17 16 1 1 90 91 36 Prince George 35 9 21 2 3 73 116 23 EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pts Winnipeg 37 23 13 1 0 132 131 47 Prince Albert 37 20 12 4 1 127 98 45 Saskatoon 36 17 16 1 2 103 124 37 Brandon 37 17 17 1 2 133 114 37 Regina 34 11 19 3 1 94 127 26 Moose Jaw 32 10 20 2 0 78 136 22 Central Division

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pts Edmonton 39 25 7 5 2 145 107 57 Lethbridge 38 23 10 0 5 147 102 51 Medicine Hat 36 23 11 1 1 150 111 48 Calgary 34 18 11 4 1 118 105 41 Red Deer 35 13 19 0 3 103 142 29 Swift Current 34 7 24 1 2 67 146 17 Tuesday’s late games Portland 3, Seattle 2 Tri-City 5, Spokane 4 (OT) Wednesday’s games Winnipeg 6, Saskatoon 1 Calgary 4, Medicine Hat 2 Edmonton 4, Everett 3 (SO) Victoria 1, Vancouver 0 Regina 2, Prince Albert 1 (OT) Today’s games No games scheduled

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WHL Scoring Leaders Through Tuesday

G A. Beckman, SPO 28 Z. Franklin, KAM 20 J. Hamblin, MH 19 O. Centazzo, KAM 24 A. Protas, PA 20 C. Zary, KAM 22 B. Kindopp, EVT 27 D. Cozens, LET 20 R. Sawchuk, EDM 14 C. Fonstad, EVT 7 O. Okuliar, LET 23 B. Kemp, MH 16 C. McClennon, WPG 19 R. Hughes, KAM 15 R. Newkirk, POR 14 E. Zummack, SPO 12 O. Wiesblatt, PA 15 J. Neighbours, EDM 13 A. Cotton, LET 11 L. Burzan, BDN 18 S. Mutala, TC 11 J. Williams, EDM 16 G. Goncalves, EVT 18 R. Chyzowski, MH 18 B. McCartney, BDN 15 C. Sillinger, MH 12 R. Korczak, MJ 9 R. Stotts, CGY 16 J. Gricius, POR 12 B. Watts, PA 16 T. Nielsen, VAN 16 S. Jarvis, POR 15 C. Reinhardt, BDN 22 S. Moe, PA 15 B. Tracey, MJ 13 L. Barlage, LET 13 M. Kastelic, CGY 18 N. Foote, KEL 15 O. Wiesblatt, CGY 12 I. Johnson, WPG 12 W. Wylie, EVT 9 M. Martin, KAM 6 T. Fizer, VIC 11 J. Finley, SPO 7 M. Teply, WPG 13 R. Greig, BDN 13 B. Hughes, SPO 13 A. Pratt, REG 12 F. Král, SPO 9 J. Sourdif, VAN 13 A. Kukuca, SEA 11 J. Ludvig, POR 11 C. Addison, LET 7 K. Korczak, KEL 6

A Pts 30 58 35 55 35 54 26 50 29 49 25 47 19 46 26 46 32 46 37 44 19 42 26 42 22 41 26 41 27 41 29 41 25 40 27 40 29 40 21 39 28 39 22 38 19 37 19 37 22 37 25 37 28 37 20 36 24 36 19 35 19 35 20 35 12 34 19 34 21 34 21 34 15 33 18 33 21 33 20 32 23 32 26 32 20 31 24 31 17 30 17 30 17 30 18 30 21 30 16 29 18 29 18 29 22 29 23 29

LINE COLLEGE FOOTBALL Today FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Birmingham Bowl Cincinnati 7½ Boston College Gator Bowl Tennessee 2½ Indiana Friday Potato Bowl Ohio 8 Nevada Saturday Armed Forces Bowl Tulane 7 Southern Miss Monday LendingTree Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 14 Miami (Ohio) Jan. 13 National Championship Game At New Orleans LSU 5 Clemson NFL Saturday FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at HOUSTON 2½ Buffalo at NEW ENGLAND 4½ Tennessee Sunday at NEW ORLEANS 8 Minnesota Seattle 1½ at PHILADELPHIA

been revived in the Eagles’ secondary.

Jones tore his Achilles during the final drill of UW’s Pro Day workout in March 2017, causing him to slip to the second round of the 2017 draft.

He has battled injuries throughout his NFL career, and even when healthy he hasn’t established himself in Philadelphia. He was a four-game starter earlier this season, but was benched after that. He was a healthy inactive against Miami a month ago.

But much has changed for him in the past several weeks. Jones broke up a pass late in the Eagles’ victory over Dallas, then had a game-clinching interception Sunday against the Giants.

“It’s pretty crazy to think about,” Jones told NBCSports Philadelphia last week.

He credited teammates for their support.

“They know it’s been rough,” he said. “They know it’s been a little disappointing for myself and everybody else to be honest. It’s just life. It’s adversity. It’s going to come at different times for everybody. Mine just happens to be in this early process of my career.

Just battling. You get hit with adversity at the beginning, you can’t fold. You just gotta keep bouncing back.”

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After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hale will be unveiled this week, and scholars hope they will reveal the extent of a relationship that’s been speculated about for decades.

Many consider Hale to not only be his close friend, but also his muse, and they hope their correspondence will offer insight into the more intimate details about Eliot’s life and work. Students, researchers and scholars can read the letters at Princeton University Library starting Thursday.

“I think it’s perhaps the literary event of the decade,” says Anthony Cuda, an Eliot scholar and director of the T.S. Eliot International Summer School. “I don’t know of anything more awaited or significant. It’s momentous to have these letters coming out.”

Lifelong friends, Hale and Eliot exchanged letters for about 25 years beginning in 1930. The two met in 1912 in Cambridge, Mass., but did not rekindle their friendship until 1927.

Eliot was already living in England and Hale taught drama at U.S. universities, including Scripps College in California.

In 1956, Hale donated the letters under an agreement they wouldn’t be opened until 50 years after either her or Eliot’s death, whichever came second. Eliot died in 1965. Hale died PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY four years later.

Emily Hale and T.S. Eliot pose in a 1946 family photo in Dorset, Vt. After more Biographers say Eliot ordered Hale’s than 60 years of sitting sealed up in a storage facility at Princeton University letters to him to be burned.

Library, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hale Their relationship “must have will be unveiled. been incredibly important and their correspondence must have been remarkably intimate for him to be so what might have been with his muse. concerned about the publication,” The poem is named after a home in Cuda says.

England that Eliot visited with Hale T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, in 1934.

Miss., in 1888 and gained notoriety “His relationship with her seems to as a poet early in life. He was only be deep and meaningful and it’s a door 26 when “The Love Song of J. Alfred he chose not to open,” she said.

Thursday’s highlights on Prufrock” became his first professionThe letters could also reveal details TV include: ally published poem. about Eliot’s conversion to Anglican■■ In the Season 8 opener Eliot’s 1939 book of whimsical ism, something he deeply cherished, of Tim Allen’s “Last Man poetry, “Old Possum’s Book of PractiDickey says.

Standing,” Mike helps cal Cats,” was adapted into “Cats,” the Dickey, who served as one of the Vanessa deal with empty award-winning musical by Andrew editors on “The Complete Prose of nest syndrome, while KrisLloyd Webber. The play opened in T.S. Eliot”, said the poet was deeply tin announces her pregLondon first in 1981 and then on ashamed of his marriage to his first nancy to the family and Broadway the next year. It was then wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood, whom unknowingly upsets Mandy turned into a feature film starring he was with for more than 15 years. in the process. (8 p.m., Fox). an ensemble cast that includes Judi Dickey said the letters could reveal just ■■ Stephen Dorff stars Dench and James Corden just released how close he and Hale were and if the in the new crime drama in December. two ever considered marriage.

“Deputy.” He plays a fifthHis best known works include “The “Was this an epistolary romance generation lawman thrust Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men” and they would carry across the Atlantic?” into leading the Los Ange“Four Quartets.”

Dickey said. “What role did she play in les County Sheriff’s DepartThe first poem in the “Quarhis emotional life?” ment after his boss dies The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation tets” series, called “Burnt Norton,” Eliot’s letters to Hale began after that Avenue, New Whatever York, N.Y.else 10018 unexpectedly. (9 p.m., Fox). piques the interest of enthusiasts of620 Eighth first marriage ended.

Forshe Information Call:a 1-800-972-3550 — Chuck Barney, the poet, says Eliot scholar Franwas, Hale was link to the life Eliot For had Release Thursday, 2, 2020 East Bay Times ces Dickey, because of lines that left behind in theJanuary United States as suggest missed opportunities and a young man, Dickey said.

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Q: My children’s father died last week. He was 55 and no one expected it — most unexpectedly, me, and I am surprised how hard I am taking it. We had both moved on to happy relationships and remained congenial for the kids, but his passing has thrown me.

I’m not sure how I should be feeling or what to do.

Do I reach out to his wife?

Do I attend the funeral?

Of course, I’m there for our children, but how do I handle my own grief? Being divorced, I feel like I don’t deserve to be so upset, but I am. More importantly, I regret that I will never be able to apologize for my part in our horrible divorce.

What’s good ex-etiquette?

A: Ah, good ex-etiquette and regret. That is a tough one. How many letters have I received like yours… the key phrase that always stands out is something to the effect of what you said — “ Being divorced, I feel like I don’t deserve to grieve.”

The feelings attached to an ex are very complicated.

Many continue a love/hate relationship years after the break-up, if not out and out for all to see, in their mind, and as time passes, they forget to resolve them — “It’s over, I’ll just move on.”

But, like most unresolved feelings, at some point, they creep back into our psyche, and then you add regret to the feelings you harbor.

Although the 10 rules of good ex-etiquette seem almost naive when you read them, there was a reason each one was included. Strong feelings of regret are difficult to overcome and slows down the healing process. That was the reason behind including, “Don’t be spiteful,”

and “Don’t hold grudges,” as rules 5 and 6. Holding grudges and being spiteful keeps you stuck in the past. Good ex-etiquette is all about moving forward — and forgiveness. Forgiveness allows you to move forward. Holding grudges fuels the regret. You never know when the unexpected will happen.

That said, from a practical standpoint, the questions you asked, “Do I reach out to his wife?” etc., are great ones. The answer is, of course you do. I would treat the passing just as you would with anyone.

A heartfelt card, even a phone call if you were cordial, would certainly be appropriate. After all is said and done, this was the father of your children.

Should you attend the funeral? If your children would like your support, then it would be appropriate. But his wife should be made aware of your intent and do your best to stay in the background. You’re there to support your children and offer your sympathies. He had a wife and she should be offered the respect she deserves.

For all I often reference my own experiences in this column, so I can tell you when my own daughter’s father passed far too soon, I did have the opportunity to write him a letter explaining things that had never been discussed and offering my apologies for my contribution to our divorce. It was cathartic for both of us and a great healer for that regret we both felt. The one who thanked me for writing was not my ex, but his wife, and THAT certainly was good ex-etiquette.

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time wasn’t a good fit for her, then you did this family a huge favor, all of them.

Hi Carolyn: That she chose a I am a stay-at-home path different from mom of three chilyours says nothing dren — 9, 7 and 4. My about the validity of brother and his wife either path. I didn’t had their first baby choose to become a CAROLYN HAX three months ago. lawyer after extensive TELL ME ABOUT IT Before the baby was research, including born, my sister-inthrough some of my law, “Sue,” told me she was thinking closest friends; I don’t fancy myself of staying home full time and asked too good to be a lawyer! I don’t think me to share any thoughts and tips lawyers are beneath me, and I’m not I had. I spent the next few months opposing them in a cosmic Us vs. introducing her to other moms in my Them, Lawyers vs. Writers, Worky local SAHM community and offerWars death match. ing up every piece of advice I had so This is a “mommy war” only if you she would feel supported if she joined make it one. in. I really would have loved to have Don’t make it one.

Sue become a permanent part of our Instead, congratulate Sue on workcommunity. ing so hard to make an informed She announced last week she’s choice, and be grateful you live at a going back to work and leaving the time when youhave choices. baby with a nanny for “a variety of And if I caught your harrumphreasons” (not financial). ing between the lines in “leaving the For some reason, I am feeling very baby with a nanny,” then everyone hurt. I really threw myself into trying who knows you will, too. Just stop. to welcome her into SAHM life, and “Because she wants to” is reason I feel she surveyed the resources I enough, and it doesn’t mean such showed her and decided they simply parents don’t love their children as weren’t good enough. Worse, I feel much as others and it doesn’t mean she is judging me in a way she didn’t they look down on you for your before, now that she has met my choices. It means the adults involved friends and knows more about my have agency and aren’t afraid to use daily life. it. Repeat as needed till there’s a truce How to get past these feelings? for the war in your head.

I HATE the idea of being part of And whenever you can choose not the so-called “mommy wars,” and to take offense, please do. resenting a beloved sister-in-law just because she is a working mom and Re: “going back to work”: I’m not.

So is your brother. He also had a — Hurt choice to stay home and he didn’t take it. But I bet that doesn’t bother you.

— Anonymous This has nothing to do with you.

She asked for your help, and you See, I missed that. Completely. I’ve gave it, and you made her decision a got work to do myself. more informed one. Good stuff.

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FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Second largest island in the world.

2. Second planet from the sun.

3. How many seconds in one round of boxing?

GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Second-most populous Chinese city.

5. Second person to walk on the moon.

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2020.

There are 364 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight: On Jan. 2, 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts launched his successful bid for the presidency.

On this date: In 1900, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the “Open Door Policy” to facilitate trade with China.

In 1935, Bruno Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, New Jersey, on charges of kidnapping and murdering the 20-monthold son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was found guilty, and executed.)

In 1959, the Soviet Union launched its space probe Luna 1, the first manmade object to fly past the moon, its apparent intended target.

In 1967, Republican Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as the new governor of California in a ceremony that took place in Sacramento shortly just after midnight.

In 1981, police in Sheffield, England, arrested Peter Sutcliffe, who confessed to being the “Yorkshire Ripper,” the serial killer of 13 women.

In 1983, the original Broadway production of the musical “Annie” closed after a run of 2,377 performances.

Today’s birthdays: TV host Jack Hanna is 73. Actress Wendy Phillips is 68. Baseball Hall of Famer Edgar Martinez is 57. Actress Tia Carrere is 53. Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is 52. Model Christy Turlington is 51. Actor Taye Diggs is 49.

Actress Paz Vega is 44. Country musician Chris Hartman is 42. Pop singer-musician Ryan Merchant (Capital Cities) is 39.

Actress Kate Bosworth is 37.

Thought for today: “Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden — it’s something you have to make.

And you must use your imagination too.” — Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish author (1888-1957) — Associated Press

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Thursday, 01.02.2020 TODAY

Northwest Weather

43°40°

City

Bellingham 44/41

Washington Bellingham Colville Ellensburg Everett Forks Friday Harbor Moses Lake Ocean Shores Olympia Port Angeles Pullman Spokane Seattle Tacoma Walla Walla Wenatchee Yakima

Cloudy and cooler

TOMORROW

53°40°

Mount Vernon 44/42

Windy with rain

SATURDAY

Oak Harbor 48/45

46°41° 46°39°

Mostly cloudy with a little rain

46°41°

MONDAY

Cloudy

Granite Falls 42/41

Marysville 43/41

Langley 45/42

Windy with rain

SUNDAY

Stanwood Arlington 45/42 43/40

Lake Stevens Everett 42/41 43/40 Snohomish Sultan 44/41 44/41

Mukilteo 45/43

Mill Creek Monroe 43/41 44/41 Kirkland Redmond 45/43 45/42 Seattle 46/44 Bellevue 45/43 Port Orchard Auburn 44/42 47/44

Tides Everett Low High Low High

Almanac

Time

3:04 a.m.

10:17 a.m.

5:04 p.m.

10:10 p.m.

Feet 2.9 11.0 4.9 7.0

City

Index 42/40

Shown is today’s weather.

Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Tacoma 45/43

Port Townsend Low High Low High

Time

2:05 a.m.

9:46 a.m.

5:08 p.m.

9:22 p.m.

Feet 2.2 8.9 4.0 5.0

Sun and Moon

Everett

Arlington

High/low ..................................... 51/43 Normal high/low ....................... 44/36 Records (1918/1979) ................. 60/11 Barometric pressure (noon) ... 29.83 S 24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.11” Month to date ............................. 0.11” Normal month to date ............... 0.14” Year to date ................................. 0.11” Normal year to date ................... 0.14”

High/low ..................................... 53/48 Normal high/low ....................... 44/36 Records (2020/1979) ................... 53/7 Barometric pressure (noon) ... 29.83 R 24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.22” Month to date ............................. 0.21” Normal month to date ............... 0.19” Year to date ................................. 0.21” Normal year to date ................... 0.19”

Air Quality Index

Weather History

Weather Trivia

Yesterday’s offender ....... Particulates

The temperature at Haleakala’s summit dropped to a frigid 14 on Jan. 2, 1961. Hawaii is known as a tropical paradise, but the high mountains can be surprisingly cold.

Q: How fast does a large snowflake fall?

through 5 p.m. yesterday

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Good: 0-50; Moderate: 51-100, Unhealthy (for sensitive groups): 101-150; Unhealthy: 151-200; Very unhealthy: 201300; Hazardous: 301-500 WA Dept. of Environmental Quality 0

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Sunrise today ....................... 7:59 a.m.

Sunset tonight ..................... 4:27 p.m.

Moonrise today ................. 12:07 p.m.

Moonset today ............................ none

Road Reports:

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Avalanche Reports:

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Burn Ban Information: Puget Sound: 1-800-595-4341 Website: www.pscleanair.org Forecasts and graphics, except the KIRO 5-day forecast, provided

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Idaho Boise Coeur d’Alene Idaho Falls Lewiston Sun Valley Twin Falls Oregon Astoria Bend Eugene Klamath Falls Medford Newport Ontario Pendleton Portland Salem

45/31/pc 38/33/pc 27/20/c 47/36/c 32/17/c 36/27/c

47/36/pc 44/35/c 28/15/c 51/39/sh 33/24/sn 41/29/pc

48/46/r 44/36/c 52/38/c 45/24/c 49/33/c 50/47/c 46/27/pc 46/40/c 48/43/c 50/41/c

54/42/r 54/31/pc 55/41/r 50/29/pc 52/35/r 54/43/r 42/32/pc 57/40/c 55/42/r 54/41/r

Today Hi/Lo/W Fargo 28/16/c Fort Myers 83/69/s Fresno 57/40/pc Grand Rapids 43/33/pc Hartford 45/34/s Honolulu 82/69/pc Houston 65/53/r Indianapolis 51/45/sh Jackson, MS 67/55/t Kansas City 51/31/pc Knoxville 49/46/r Las Vegas 59/40/s Little Rock 55/50/r Los Angeles 68/50/s Louisville 54/50/r Memphis 56/52/r Miami 81/73/s Milwaukee 45/31/pc Minneapolis 36/22/c Mobile 74/61/t Montgomery 71/63/t Newark 49/42/s New Orleans 78/61/t New York City 49/43/s Norfolk 61/51/pc Oakland 61/42/pc Oklahoma City 57/37/pc Omaha 43/27/c

Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 26/10/sn 84/72/pc 63/42/s 40/29/c 44/36/r 82/71/pc 64/44/s 52/31/r 66/43/sh 42/23/c 60/48/r 57/39/s 59/35/sh 71/48/s 58/38/r 60/36/sh 84/72/pc 36/27/c 29/16/c 65/47/r 67/51/r 51/45/r 69/50/sh 50/47/r 71/56/r 60/48/s 48/29/pc 37/19/c

City

Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W

California Eureka 55/39/c Redding 64/39/pc Montana Butte 29/16/c Great Falls 38/26/sf Helena 39/27/sf Libby 38/28/sf Missoula 35/26/sf Alaska Anchorage 9/3/sf Barrow -11/-19/pc Fairbanks -3/-17/sf Juneau 35/21/sn British Columbia Kelowna 38/33/sn Vancouver 41/38/r Victoria 44/41/r

Today Hi/Lo/W Albany 43/35/s Albuquerque 40/22/c Amarillo 46/27/c Anchorage 9/3/sf Atlanta 55/53/c Atlantic City 53/45/s Austin 67/44/r Baltimore 52/45/s Baton Rouge 75/58/t Billings 44/26/pc Birmingham 64/58/t Boise 45/31/pc Boston 47/39/s Buffalo 46/40/pc Burlington, VT 40/35/pc Charlotte 55/45/c Cheyenne 35/18/pc Chicago 46/32/pc Cincinnati 52/47/r Cleveland 48/43/pc Columbus, OH 49/44/r Dallas 67/44/c Denver 41/18/pc Des Moines 44/26/c Detroit 44/39/pc El Paso 54/32/pc Evansville 53/48/r Fairbanks -3/-17/sf

Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 43/36/r 40/23/s 47/26/s 9/-1/pc 65/51/r 54/47/r 63/36/s 57/49/r 69/45/pc 45/38/sf 64/47/r 47/36/pc 47/41/r 45/35/sh 43/31/r 66/54/r 36/28/c 38/27/c 55/40/r 51/40/sh 53/43/r 54/36/pc 42/27/c 36/22/c 46/32/r 52/28/s 55/31/r -14/-25/pc

City

City Orlando Palm Springs Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, ME Portland, OR Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Sacramento St. Louis St. Petersburg Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Stockton Syracuse Tallahassee Tampa Topeka Tucson Wash., DC Wichita Yuma

First Jan 2

Full Jan 10

Last Jan 17

New Jan 24

Billings 44/26

Minneapolis 36/22

City

Today Hi/Lo/W Amsterdam 45/42/pc Athens 47/42/pc Baghdad 65/43/pc Bangkok 93/74/s Beijing 40/18/pc Berlin 42/32/pc Buenos Aires 75/67/s Cairo 61/48/pc Dublin 53/38/sh Hong Kong 69/65/pc Jerusalem 53/42/c Johannesburg 80/61/t London 53/48/pc

San Francisco 59/44

Today Hi/Lo/W 81/67/pc 72/48/s 50/43/s 61/40/s 49/42/s 41/31/pc 48/43/c 46/38/s 60/49/pc 41/20/pc 53/30/c 61/37/pc 56/40/c 79/69/s 38/27/c 67/47/c 65/49/pc 59/44/pc 62/42/s 62/40/pc 49/38/pc 74/64/c 79/69/s 50/31/pc 58/33/s 54/47/pc 50/32/pc 69/44/s

9/-1/pc -15/-20/pc -14/-25/pc 28/18/sn 42/33/sh 50/41/r 51/42/r

Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 84/70/pc 72/47/s 53/47/r 62/41/s 52/44/r 42/32/sh 55/42/r 48/40/r 71/57/sh 36/24/pc 56/35/pc 60/42/s 44/29/r 80/69/pc 39/28/c 62/37/s 68/50/s 60/50/pc 65/47/s 63/41/s 46/35/sh 75/56/r 80/68/pc 45/24/c 61/36/s 60/51/r 47/24/c 67/41/s

Washington 54/47

Kansas City 51/31

Los Angeles 68/50

Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Madrid 52/31/pc 49/31/pc Manila 89/78/pc 88/76/pc Mexico City 68/47/sh 69/45/pc Moscow 35/32/sf 36/28/pc Paris 49/44/c 53/37/c Rio de Janeiro 87/76/t 81/75/t Riyadh 76/59/pc 86/66/s Rome 57/36/s 57/41/pc Singapore 86/77/t 87/77/pc Stockholm 45/37/pc 47/31/c Sydney 75/71/c 81/71/s Tokyo 51/40/pc 52/40/s Toronto 42/37/pc 45/30/c

New York 49/43

Chicago 46/32

Denver 41/18

Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 50/39/sh 51/40/pc 68/44/s 93/76/pc 43/22/pc 46/35/c 77/67/s 58/50/c 45/41/pc 72/65/s 48/40/s 82/60/t 50/38/c

36/21/sn 46/40/r 41/30/sn 42/28/c 40/27/c

Detroit 44/39

Atlanta 55/53

El Paso 54/32

World Weather

60/42/c 56/43/pc

Seattle 46/44

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Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W

A: Three or four mph.

through 5 p.m. yesterday

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City

National Weather

Gold Bar 44/41

Lynnwood 43/41

Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W

Houston 65/53

City

Fairbanks -3/-17 Anchorage 9/3

Juneau 35/21

Miami 81/73

Honolulu 82/69 Hilo 82/67

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.

Temperature bands are highs for the day.

National Extremes

(for the 48 contiguous states) High: Hollywood, FL ........................................................ 82

Low: Waverly, CO ........................................................... -32

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ALDERWOOD WATER & WASTEWATER DISTRICT S1915 QUEENSBOROUGH SEWER REHABILITATION PROJECT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ADVERTISEMENT Alderwood Water & Wastewater District is requesting proposals f r o m q u a l i f i e d c o n s u l t a n t s fo r i t s Q u e e n s b o r o u g h S ewe r Rehabilitation Project. The project includes the necessar y professional services associated with the design and engineering to rehabilitate a sanitary sewer interceptor damaged by an incised stream, restore and stabilize the stream, and improve site access.

The Request for Proposals and relevant and relevant information are available at: www.awwd.com under Projects for Bid. Project Title: S1915 Queensborough Sewer Rehabilitation Project Proposals Due: 10:00 a.m., January 16, 2020 Location: Alderwood Water & Wastewater District, 3626 156th St. SW Lynnwood, WA 98087-5021 Any firm failing to submit information in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Request for Proposals may not be c o n s i d e r e d r e s p o n s i ve a n d m ay t h e r e fo r e b e s u b j e c t t o disqualification by the District.

Questions concerning this request should be directed to Don R a n g e r, P r o j e c t E n g i n e e r, a t ( 4 2 5 ) 7 4 3 - 4 6 0 5 o r dranger@awwd.com.

Published: December 18, 2019; January 2, 2020.

EDH884820

Bids, RFQ’s, RFP’s CALL FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEARBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by Lake Tyee Recreational Community in Concrete, WA for the following: SMALL SYSTEM WATER PLAN The bid should address all aspects of Small Water System, for Lake Tyee, a 520-acre RV Park established in 1976. Community currently has 829 Water connections, Primary Well House and 2 Booster Pump Stations, 2 Reservoirs: one 59,400-gallon cement tank, and additional 74,700gallon cement tank.

Bid to include: An inventory of water system facilities. Evaluation of the present system. Evaluation to include supply, transmission, storage and fire demands projected in the future, capital improvement element, capacity analysis, hydraulic model, inventory and review of existing equipment with life cycle analysis and recommendation for projection of system future projects and costs.

SEALED BIDS DUE: January 13th, 2020 Not later than 11:30am Late submissions will not be accepted. Further specifications may be obtained in person from the Lake Tyee Business office, address below; or by calling 360-853-7020 Sealed Bids must be delivered before due date & time either: 1. By hand to the Lake Tyee Business office 4571 Burpee Hill Rd. Concrete, WA 98237 or 2. By mail to the attention of: Lake Tyee Board of Directors, 4571 Burpee Hill Rd. Concrete, WA 98237 Lake Tyee retains the right to not select a bidder.

Published: December 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 2019; January 1, 2, 3, 2020.

EDH885165

Public Notices CITY OF MUKILTEO SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM FINAL ACTION PUBLIC NOTICE The Washington State Depar tment of Ecology (Depar tment) hereby provides notice, as required by the Shoreline Management Act (RCW 90.58.090(8)), that the Department has taken final action and approved amendments to the City of Mukilteo (City) shoreline master program.

This action completes the City’s periodic review under RCW 90.58.080(4).

Per RCW 90.58.090, the effective date of the City’s shoreline master program amendment is January 2, 2020.

Per RCW 90.58.190(2) and RCW 36.70A.290, petitions of appeal must be filed with the Growth Management Hearings Board within 60 days of publication of this notice. More info: 425-649-4309 or https://ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Shoreline-coastalmanagement/Shoreline-coastal-planning/Shoreline-MasterPrograms-amendments.

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Published: January 2, 2020.

EDH886064 PUBLIC NOTICE City of Lake Stevens, Jill Meis, 1812 MAIN ST LAKE STEVENS, WA 98258, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit.

The proposed project, Frontier Heights Park, is located at 8801 Frontier Cir W in Lake Stevens in Snohomish county.

This project involves 7.1 acres of soil disturbance for Other (Park Development) construction activities.

The receiving waterbody is Ebey Slough.

Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State Depar tment of Ecology regarding this Application, or interested in Ecology’s action on this Application, may notify Ecology in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest according to Tier II anti-degradation requirements under WAC 173201A-320.

Comments can be submitted to: Department of Ecology Attn: Water Quality Program, Construction Stormwater P.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Published: December 26, 2019; January 2, 2020.

EDH885584 December 16, 2019 NOTICE TO SUBCONTRACTORS AND MATERIALMEN The State of Washington, University of WA Bothell, acting by and through the Department of Enterprise Services, Engineering & Architectural Services, hereby advises all interested parties that Contract No. 2019-012 G (1-1), for 2018 Lighting Upgrades & Boiler Replacements, Bothell, WA, with Ameresco, Inc., 222 Williams Avenue South Suite 100, Renton, WA 98057, has been accepted as of 12/16/19.

The lien period for filing any liens against this contract’s retained percentage is now in effect. Any liens filed after 1/30/20 shall be filed as not valid.

State of Washington Department of Enterprise Services Engineering & Architectural Services Published: December 18, 2019; January 2, 2020.

EDH884763

Public Notices CITY OF LAKE STEVENS SEPA MITIGATED DETERMINATION OF NON-SIGNIFICANCE

Issuance Date: January 2, 2020 Project Name (No.): Callow Road Drainage Improvement (LUA2019-0155) Lead Agency/Applicant: City of Lake Stevens Description of Proposal: The City of Lake Stevens is proposing drainage improvements to the roadside condition and discharge location of an existing partially-piped watercourse (Stream C, tributary to Lundeen Creek) and to design/permit preferred drainage improvements along Callow Road due to seasonal flooding and sediment deposition of the watercourse emanating west of Callow Road that has caused property damage. The City proposes to address the issue by collecting flow from the stream in an improved sediment pond and piping the flow north along the east side of Callow Road and west along the southern portion of Parcel #00385500402100 and the northern portion of Parcel # 00385500402000 to a discharge feature in Wetland A near Stream A (also tributary to Lundeen Creek). Impacts to existing wetlands are proposed to be mitigated. The city is consulting with other agencies to determine if watercourse mitigation is necessary other than restoration of disturbance areas.

Project Location: The project area is in the City of Lake Stevens between tax parcels 00385500402000 and 00385500402100 approximately 1,600 feet north of Lundeen Park Way on Callow Road.

Contact Person: Melissa Place, Senior Planner Phone: (425) 622-9433 Threshold Determination: The City of Lake Stevens, acting as lead agency for this proposal has determined that it does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. Pursuant to WAC 197-11-350(3), the proposal has been clarified, changed, and conditioned to include necessary mitigation measures to avoid, minimize or compensate for probable significant impacts. An environmental impact statement is not required under RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c). This decision was made after review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file with the lead agency. This information is available to the public upon request. This MDNS is issued under 197-11-340(2); the lead agency will not act on this proposal for 14 days from the date of issuance.

Mitigation Measures: 1. Construction of the project may not commence until the proposed easement on Parcel # 00385500402100 is executed.

2. The applicant shall obtain a 404 permit from the Army Corps of Engineers (if applicable) prior to construction.

3. The applicant shall an HPA permit from WDFW (if applicable) prior to construction.

4. An Inadvertent Discovery Plan (IDP) shall be prepared for the project and shall be part of construction documentation.

5. Temporary erosion and sediment control (TESC) best management practices (BMP) shall be implemented to protect against erosion.

6. Appropriate seed for erosion control shall be provided for site restoration pursuant to Department of Ecology seed specifications.

7. Traffic control shall be provided during construction to minimize transportation impacts.

8. A temporary sidewalk closure shall be considered and implemented, if determined necessary, for public safety.

9. Fencing for pedestrian safety in the Callow Road right-ofway next to the sidewalk shall be considered and installed (if deter mined to be required). Fencing shall meet pedestrian guardrail specifications, not exceeding 42 inches in height.

10. The proponent or successor is responsible for obtaining all other state or federal regulatory permits, as applicable.

SEPA Responsible Official: Russ Wright, Community Development Director Comments on the Threshold Determination: Written comments should be sent to the address below by January 15, 2020 (14 days from issuance). The Responsible Official may incorporate any substantial comments into the MDNS. If the MDNS is substantially modified, it will be reissued for further public review.

Appeals: You may appeal this determination of non-significance by submitting an appeal to the address below no later than 5:00 PM, January 15, 2020 (14 days from issuance). The appeal must be in written form, contain a concise statement of the matter being appealed and the basic rationale for the appeal. A fee is required per the City’s Fee Resolution. Please note that failure to file a timely and complete appeal shall constitute a waiver of all rights to an administrative appeal under City code. All comments or appeals are to be directed to City Hall, P.O. Box 257, Lake Stevens WA, 98258, Attn: Melissa Place.

Published: January 2, 2020.

EDH886060

No. 19-4-23039-5 SEA PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF KING Estate of: RALPH E. BLANCH, Deceased.

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed and has qualified as the Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be b a r r e d by a ny o t h e r w i s e applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by: (1) serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attor ney at the address stated below a copy of the claim; and (2) filing the original of the claim with the cour t in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: ( 1 ) t h i r t y d ay s a f t e r t h e Pe r s o n a l R e p r e s e n t a t i ve served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of publication in Snohomish County: December 19, 2019 Personal Representative: Yvonne Dawn Blanch Attorney for the Personal Representative: Angela Macey-Cushman Address for Mailing or Service: Angela Macey-Cushman Somers Tamblyn Isenhour Bleck, P.L.L.C. 701 Pike Street Suite 1510 Seattle, WA 98101 DATED: December 18, 2019.

SOMERS TAMBLYN ISENHOUR BLECK, P.L.L.C. s/ Angela Macey-Cushman Angela Macey-Cushman, WSBA No. 38320 Attorney for Personal Representative Somers Tamblyn Isenhour Bleck, P.L.L.C. 701 Pike Street, Suite 1510 Seattle, Washington 98101 Telephone: (206) 340-2200 Fax: (206) 232-4049 EDH884944 Published: December 19, 26, 2019; January 2, 2020.

No. 19-4-23040-9 SEA PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF KING Estate of: YVONNE T. BLANCH, Deceased.

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed and has qualified as the Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be b a r r e d by a ny o t h e r w i s e applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by: (1) serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attor ney at the address stated below a copy of the claim; and (2) filing the original of the claim with the cour t in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: ( 1 ) t h i r t y d ay s a f t e r t h e Pe r s o n a l R e p r e s e n t a t i ve served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of publication in Snohomish County: December 19, 2019 Personal Representative: Yvonne Dawn Blanch Attorney for the Personal Representative: Angela Macey-Cushman Address for Mailing or Service: Angela Macey-Cushman Somers Tamblyn Isenhour Bleck, P.L.L.C. 701 Pike Street Suite 1510 Seattle, WA 98101 DATED: December 18, 2019.

SOMERS TAMBLYN ISENHOUR BLECK, P.L.L.C. s/ Angela Macey-Cushman Angela Macey-Cushman, WSBA No. 38320 Attorney for Personal Representative Somers Tamblyn Isenhour Bleck, P.L.L.C. 701 Pike Street, Suite 1510 Seattle, Washington 98101 Telephone: (206) 340-2200 Fax: (206) 232-4049 EDH884946 Published: December 19, 26, 2019; January 2, 2020.