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2010/2011 WNPA (Washington Newspaper Publishers Assoc.) has an annual convention where members of the WNPA submit their best work. These are 5 works written by Rebecca Carr for the "Feature writer of the Year" category.TRANSCRIPT
Mukilteo BeaconMukilteo BeaconYour Hometown Newspaper Volume XVIII Number 38
April 14, 2010806 5th StreetMukilteo, WA 98275
Beacon photo by Sara Bruestle
by SARA [email protected]
Right now, many aren’t happy with the city’s business license fee pol-
icy. Smaller, home-based businesses that generate only supplementary income find the annual $113.50 base fee exorbitant; some simply don’t pay it, causing the city to lose revenue.
Those who operate larger busi-nesses find the per-employee fee - one that doesn’t take revenue into account - onerous and confusing.
City officials don’t have much way of tracking that missing and needed revenue at this point, except when people apply for permits, or post signs along the right-of-way.
“I’ve been hoping we would get to this one for years, the fact it comes on the consent agenda without much discussion that I was aware of, we’re doing a bit of a disservice,” council-member Kevin Stoltz said of postpon-ing the issue last week.
“I talked to (Chamber executive director) Shannon McCarty; she said she’d like to see it discussed in detail with Chamber members having more input in the process.”
Under the proposed new fee sched-ule, businesses that generate $5,000 or less in gross revenue each year would pay a flat $25 fee. One-time events such as fundraisers and garage sales would cost $15.
“That seems fair; $113.50 is a sig-nificant percentage of $5,000, of what is essentially a hobby business,” councilmember Jennifer Gregerson said.
“If we charge a reasonable fee now, they’re more likely to start paying the regular rate when their business grows than someone who hasn’t been paying all along.”
The rest would pay $120 for their initial license, and $113.50 annual renewal fees, plus additional rates for full-time equivalent employees.
Other special classifications, such as adult entertainment, pay addi-tional fees as well.
Under the staff proposal, late payers would be charged $25 for the first 5-30 days they’re past due, an additional $25 for 31-59 days past due, and would receive a citation - plus the assessed fees - 60 days after their expiration date.
Stoltz and Gregerson support low-ering the current 10 percent monthly penalty, saying it’s excessive enough to scare people out of coming into compliance after they’ve lapsed.
“The attitude from years ago (be-fore he joined the council), was, ‘We don’t want these businesses sneaking out of paying their fair share,’” Stoltz said.
“I think that is the last thing on business owners’ minds; they want to pay, comply with the law and get back to operating their businesses.”
Stoltz, whose home-based business requires him to be licensed in several cities, said Mukilteo is among the most expensive, and easily the most confusing as to figuring out what to pay.
“I would like to see us be a leader in
Business license fee schedule up for reviewby REbEccA [email protected]
Kindergartener Grace Manimtim and her dad, Tim Manimtim, play bingo together on Family Bingo Night at Picnic Point Elementary. For the full story, see page 8.
I-17! Come on, come on I-17!
Michelle Keller never saw it com-ing. The Harbour Pointe woman
scheduled her routine annual mam-mogram during her children’s spring break, went through the unpleasant test and didn’t give it another thought - until the follow-up call a few days later was anything but routine.
“They asked me to come in at my earliest possible convenience,” she said.
Keller credits the early mammo-gram, and the confirming MRI, with catching a cancer that’s as elusive as it is dangerous.
“There were no red flags, no warn-
ing signs,” she said. “It’s one of those tricky lobular cancers; it lay almost flat between the tissues with no lump.”
Keller returned to the clinic for an ultrasound, then a needle biopsy and MRI.
“We knew conclusively then,” she said.
From that point, Keller recalled, everything kicked into high gear.
“I didn’t really have time to think about it,” she said. “We were forced to go from zero to 60.”
Two things were for sure in the Keller household that night: Michelle was going to survive this, and the family was going to get through it together.
“Dad (Jeff) didn’t want to give the
girls any more than they asked for - when they asked questions, he an-swered at an appropriate (age) level,” Keller said. “He never, ever wavered from saying I would be fine.”
Did she believe him?“At times, no,” she responded hon-
estly. “But those times, my family held me to it.”
This was 2006, and Keller was worried whether she would be there for daughter Jordan’s graduation in 2008.
Telling the girls was the hard part - dad Jeff told oldest daughter Jordan, then 16, and let her break the news to her younger sisters.
Family ties, Locks of Love inspire Mukilteo woman
The fifth graders at Horizon El-ementary didn’t win hockey game
vs. the staff April 8, but they should still be proud.
Horizon won’t be forgetting Thurs-day’s game for a while.
The staff hasn’t lost once since Ho-rizon’s annual hockey games started in 1990, but students put the pressure on this year in a tight 22-29 game
“I think the kids gave the teachers a run for their money this year,” dean
of students Bruce Denton said. “It was tough. Usually the teachers stay in the lead for longer, and this time they got ahead. They made us work for it.”
The staff started the game guard-ing two goals set side by side, while the fifth graders were left to guard just one goal. By the third rotation, the teachers added yet another goal to their two.
The additional goals – not to men-tion teachers’ repeated trips to the penalty box – gave the students an ad-vantage to keep the game fun, but the fifth graders didn’t seem to need the help as much as their predecessors
“That was a good game,” P.E. teacher Jim O’Brien told the students after the game. “I was getting a little nervous, [so] I had to get off the bench and play a little bit. Somebody remind me next year not to start with three goals.”
Five fifth graders and five teachers rotated on and off the floor through-out the game every three or four minutes. In 19 rotations, about 105 students and 70 teachers got to hit a puck around the school gym in front of a roaring student body.
“The games are really loud,”
Hockey game nets school spirit at Horizon Elementary
by REbEccA [email protected]
see LICENSE, page 12see HOCKEY, page 16
see LOCKS, page 6
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Jessica Keller shows the 10 inches of hair she donated to Locks of Love, a nonprofit organization that provides wigs to people who lost their hair to medical condtions or treatments.
Photos courtesy of Keller family
“One thing that’s true in our family is that when some-thing is wrong, we always know there’s a better side,” Jordan, now 20, said.
“We knew (the hospital and
clinic) this was a place for her to get better, not a place for her to be hurt.”
The family attended one
of Keller’s chemotherapy sessions, so they could see it didn’t hurt Mom to go through it, she said.
“I wanted them to see it wasn’t a scary thing,” she
said. Chemotherapy was no pic-
nic, of course, but Keller said it was easier than she thought
- eight rounds spaced 20 days apart, with about three days of misery for each.
“Jessica was my lymph-edema specialist,” Keller said. “She would put lotion on and rub me down at night.’”
“I brought her food and pampered her,” Jessica re-called.
Youngest daughter Sydney, 8 at the time, remembers being asked at school if her mom was going to lose her hair. She didn’t know if she could handle seeing Mom hairless.
Off to the wig shop, which was, of course, a family af-fair.
“You have to have humor to get through something like this,” Keller laughed. “That means everyone tried the wig on, even Dad.”
Jessica not only watched her mother fight breast cancer, but also saw a young friend lose his own cancer battle in March after a pro-longed fight. That inspired her to grow her hair long enough to donate to Locks of Love, a nonprofit organiza-tion that provides wigs for people who lose their hair to medical conditions and treat-ments.
“We watched Brandon go through it for seven years,” she said. “He was just a really neat little kid. His mom is a family friend.”
The family ran together in a Race for the Cure com-petition two years ago, with daughter Sydney doing dou-ble time, skipping back and forth, with “In celebration of my mom” written on the back of her shirt.
“Everyone kept coming up saying ‘God bless you,’ and that I had made them run faster,” she said.
“It’s funny how crystal your life becomes,” Keller said. “The saying, ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff ’ doesn’t come true until you go through some-
thing like this.”You learn to appreciate
the small, daily things in life rather than trying to rush through them, she said.
“People tell you how fast your children grow up. You don’t realize it until you’re almost at the end - middle school, then high school, then it’s over.”
Husband Jeff was a rock throughout, Keller said, never letting her feel overwhelmed.
“He kept it real and in front of me; I never had to do this
alone.”Keller said she’s fully
recovered from her breast cancer, and refuses to let it define her. Her twice-yearly checkups are the only time she gives it much thought.
The good news - yes, there is good news in these situa-tions - is that her cancer was a mutant form rather than hereditary, and her three daughters have no more chance of breast cancer than any other woman.
“I don’t feel this is some-thing I live with,” Keller said. “I treat it as something I’ve beaten, some problematic thing that was a short period of time.”
All three girls are thinking about growing their hair for another Locks of Love dona-tion.
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Celebrating diversity...
Kindergartener Siddiq Khan blows up the origami balloon he folded at the Japanese booth at Odyssey’s Art and Heritage Fair. For the full story, please see page 6.
Josh Holcomb of Harbour Pointe pitches for the Pounders in their 14-2 victory over the A’s Saturday.
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Delivering a Pounding…
Save Our Communities president Don Doran and his group don’t
pull any punches in alleging bias by the Federal Aviation Administra-tion, a government agency that is supposed to be objective, that is cur-rently evaluating whether scheduled passenger air service would have a negative impact on the surrounding community.
“We strongly believe this process was not on the up and up,” he told Mukilteo City Council Monday.
Evidence in the form of e-mails and phone conversations turned up in January that suggests both Paine Field officials and FAA representa-tives were working toward a desired outcome. SOC uncovered that in-formation through the Freedom of Information Act.
Even as FAA reviews the 900-plus comments – 2,000 pages worth – of pub-lic input on its recent Environmental Analysis, SOC continues to encour-age Paine Field Airport becoming a center of aerospace significance.
This is a strategy that would hope-fully discourage scheduled passenger air traffic while recruiting companies that bring higher wage technical jobs to Mukilteo and the surrounding community.
“I am thrilled,” Doran said of the voluminous public input. “Gosh, even if you’re for it, tell them – the best de-cision-making comes from knowing all sides.”
Doran painted a dire picture at Monday’s meeting of what could hap-pen should Horizon and Allegiant airlines set up business at Paine Field and ramp up to full capacity.
Allegiant’s numbers only go out five years, but project as much as a 400-percent increase in that time pe-riod, Doran said, and it’s reasonable to expect Horizon will have the same success.
“They don’t go out further than five years, but you’d either believe they hit the ceiling then, or will continue to expand,” he said.
At some point, the airport will cross a line where demand for runway space exceeds capacity, he cautioned.
“Either Boeing or the airlines will need to go legal at that point,” he said.
Doran cited a one-runway airport in California (Paine Field has three runways but only one large enough to accommodate either commercial passenger flights, or Boeing’s ongo-ing test flights of new aircraft),that he said is operating at capacity.
There, he said, flights leave every 2 ½ minutes, for 16 hours each day.
“Very bad things will happen to your neighborhood if planes are tak-ing off every 2 ½ minutes,” he said. “Sure, it will take a long time to get to that point, but things are changing.”
It would be onerous to have that in
SOC alleges FAA bias; readies for next round of battle
by REbECCA [email protected]
see SOC, page 16
Larry Busch by all accounts was the best friend, best son and best big
brother anyone could hope for – un-less you were unfortunate enough to be sitting across from him in a poker game. Even then he’d have your back – but don’t expect any slack at the card table.
Busch died Friday morning of complications from the accident in 2006 that paralyzed him, according to sister Teri.
“I’m going to miss everything about him,” she said. “We were very close and did a lot of things together.”
That would, of course, include al-ways telling her what to do, like a big brother does.
“He was a good big brother, prob-ably the best ever,” she said. “He took care of me a lot, both before and after the accident.”
The 2002 Kamiak graduate was nearing the end of his senior year at University of Washington in March of 2006, celebrating spring break with his Zeta Psi fraternity brothers at Flamingo Beach in Costa Rica.
Horsing around in the waves, Busch came up from a headfirst tumble float-ing face down. He would later learn he had shattered his spine at the C-5 level.
Lying on the beach awaiting the ambulance, Busch had no feeling or movement from the chest down, yet still had the presence of mind to reassure his fraternity brothers with jokes.
“I guess I’ll never be the Dancing Queen now,” he told them wryly.
“Larry was a true scholar with a tiny impish side to him,” Kamiak guidance counselor and family friend Alison Mead said. “If there was fun
Mukilteo loses a friend; Larry Busch remembered for his kindness and strength
see BUSCH, page 5
by REbECCA [email protected]
A contractor laying sidewalk at Lighthouse Park Monday
avoided serious injury when he acci-dentally drove a metal stake through a 1200-volt power line. Residents of nearby Losvar Condominiums, and waterfront businesses Diamond Knot Brewery and Woody’s Market were without power for several hours; a few residences and businesses in Old Town (including the Beacon) lost power for about a minute.
“A worker on our project, while setting forms for some of the con-crete work, drove a steel form stake through one of the conduits that run power through the area,” public works director Larry Waters said.
While the man wasn’t injured, the accident could have been much worse, Waters said.
“Hammering a steel stake into a live high voltage power line can have very negative consequences, one might say deadly consequences,” he said.
It’s unclear why the man wasn’t electrocuted, Snohomish County PUD spokesman Neil Neroutsos said Tuesday.
“He may not have made full contact with the wire,” he said. “We were sur-prised it wasn’t a worse situation.”
Archeological requirements meant the power lines were installed close to the surface – about six to eight inches
Power line cut, waterfront loses power temporarilyby REbECCA [email protected]
see POWER, page 6
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by CHUCK [email protected]
ChuCk’sWorld
ChuCk’sWorld
I don’t mind weeds, not really. For one thing, they’re a sure sign of spring, and spring is one of my favorite seasons.
Easily in my top five, anyway.Weeds also represent Life, Nature and The Cycle of Every-
thing, although maybe I’m thinking of “The Lion King.” At any rate, my attitude towards weeds varies from year
to year. There are summers when I have a lot of energy and time, when I spend hours outside messing with lawn stuff, mowing, planting and trimming. Other years, I settle for a more passive, humanist philosophy. Sometimes it depends upon what kind of season the Mariners are having.
But it’s spring at my house and there are weeds, and once again I have some major decisions to make. Once again my neigh-bors wait anxiously for me to make them.
A few years ago I bought a gas-powered weed trimmer, unusual for me. I tend to go with electric, not because of environmental concerns (although I do think of this) but because of a natural suspicion of power tools. Sure, they LOOK nice, but my res-ervations come with solid credentials (on my birth certificate, for instance, is a small notation that says, “Do not use while operat-ing heavy machinery”). If you’ve ever seen me try to dance, you’d know. You’d KNOW.
So I’m cautious, but that year the weeds were killing me. I bought this fancy piece of equipment, then, and began a frontal assault. It did the job, although it was noisy and I’d end up with a sore back, and then of course I slacked off and eventually my weed trimmer stopped work-ing. It just sat there in my garage, looking powerful, while I asked my tool-using friends for advice and read many Web pages on weed trimmers, more than really necessary.
The consensus eventually was that I’d broken it. Maybe I hadn’t quite grasped the sensitive oil-gasoline mixture process, something. The possible solutions included getting professional help or rebuilding the carburetor, neither of which I was interested in, so I did nothing.
And one day I noticed it was gone. I guess it’s possible it ran away from home, but since I’d left the garage door open I assumed that a prowler had been snooping around for something of value and made off with my still-shiny weed trimmer. It gave me a lot of pleasure to picture some lowlife skulking through my neighborhood in the dead of night, hauling a stolen gas-powered, heavy and awkward piece of lawn equipment that didn’t, in fact, work. I think it may have been the best day of my life.
I’m comfortable with my tool limitations, and I’ve yet to find someone who knows me and thinks I should expand my inventory. I’m good with a shovel. I’m comfortable using a garden hose. I’ve been known to use a rake. From time to time I throw caution to the wind and take out a hoe.
All of these are sufficient to deal with a few weeds. On the other hand, I have blackberry bushes in my yard, on which no power tool has an effect anyway. I don’t have to tell you about blackberries. We’ve all had to deal with them, fight them, fail and eventually just live with them. We’ve all heard the stories of small children wandering into the brambles and getting lost, stumbling back out 15 years later, grunting like an animal and looking sort of scratched. Blackberries are a superior life form and in all likelihood will be here long after humans have become extinct, if they don’t get ambi-tious before then.
People in other parts of the country don’t understand. “But I like to eat blackberries,” they say, and I have to assume they’d also eat a shiny apple given to them by a nice old woman who stopped by their cottage in the woods. You and I, we understand. We know that no fear – not earthquakes, not terrorism, not axe-wielding maniacs wearing hockey masks – can match the fear we experience on spotting a blackberry vine nonchalantly wrapping itself around a piece of lawn furniture or a small animal.
I had a neighbor once who noted my blackberry problem and offered to loan me his machete. I declined, not wanting to make them mad and having some concerns about accidental amputations. I did wonder why he owned a machete in the first place, and whether he might also have a hockey mask somewhere around the house.
Anyway, I’m a noncombatant, and so far I’ve survived. My tools remain simple, powered by either electricity or me. My weeds stay manageable, my neighbors seem content, and I still smile, all these years later, when I think about the weed trimmer thief. Being incompetent has its own rewards, life is too short to spend it pulling cords, and I’d like to note for the record that I for one welcome our new blackberry overlords.
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to be had, Larry was always right in the middle.”
Even in the hospital, still in critical condition, Busch made a point of telling each of his fraternity brothers the accident was not anyone’s fault.
“Even after Larry’s acci-dent, he was always the one during a visit to keep the conversation going and make people feel at ease,” Mead said. “He loved being with his friends and family more than anything else.”
While Busch’s family said he had outstanding care in San Jose, Costa Rica, the hospital was a 5- to 6-hour ambulance ride away, over hellishly bumpy roads. Sur-geons removed broken bone fragments and replaced parts of his spine with bone from his hip, securing sections of it with metal rods. Despite their efforts, Busch came home a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.
Rather than folding up the tent and quitting, Busch con-tinued to be as active as pos-sible and to pursue his many interests, Teri Busch said.
“He got to do a lot of things most people never get to do,” she said.
Busch had a chance to match his poker skills up against some of the best when his family took a five-day road trip to Las Vegas earlier this spring.
“He won more than I lost, so we came out even,” Teri laughed.
The weekly poker games were an integral part of life at the Busch house, Teri Busch said. Friends who’d become family over the years brought dinner each week and every-one gathered around the food
and cards while Larry decided whose money he’d take.
“We want to thank everyone for all of their help and support over the years,” she said. “Every-one was so helpful and made it all so much easier.”
The Busch fam-ily – Larry, Teri and mom, Peggy – has no other rel-atives this side of the Mississippi, Teri said, so their close circle of friends is family.
“The last four years were a blessing to Larry; he did everything he could do,” Teri Busch said. “That was the biggest lesson I learned from him.”
“The Busch household has always been a Mecca for young adults and that continued up through last Friday night at the final weekly poker party that had the usual large at-tendance,” Mead said.
“That house was always filled with people; his friends were always around with support and ready to help,” council president and former coach Randy Lord said. “They really dedicated their lives to being there for Larry.”
That’s the kind of friend Busch was, both before and after his accident, Lord said.
Busch recently had joined the newly formed commu-nity group Friends of the Waterfront and served as an advocate and consultant for disability access as the city develops the north end of town.
An avid sportsman and sports fan, he attended as many Sounders FC and Se-
ahawks games as he could and watched the rest on TV.
“Larry had a huge heart and handled all the challeng-es in his life with grace and compassion,” Mead said. “He will forever be in the hearts of those who knew him and for his mother and sister, their hearts will always beat as one.”
He was finishing up his ac-counting degree at UW when he passed away; he’d been one quarter away from graduat-ing when he had his accident and was taking a political sci-ence class this term.
“He was the best storyteller ever, and the most hardwork-ing,” Teri Busch said. “He had such a passion for life; he lived every day.”
“Since my daughter was in the same grade as Larry, I watched him grow and mature into a fun loving, competitive, talented young man,” Mead said.
The Busch family will hold a memorial service at 4 p.m. Saturday, at Mukilteo Pres-byterian Church, 4514 84th Street SW.
BUSCH, from page 1
Larry Busch
STEPPING OuT
It’s 1944 and WWII is on, but sailors Ozzie, Chip and Gabey have 24 hours of leave to pack in as much living as they can before reporting back to the ship. The boys hit Manhattan and Coney Island; ride the subway; get chased by cops, nuns, and love-starved women; and find, then lose, then find love again, all in their one-day furlough.
On the Town is part of Seattle’s three-month tribute to composer/conductor Leon-ard Bernstein, and features his lively musical score. The musical is the cornerstone of a series of concerts and other events throughout Seattle running through June.
The story starts out in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with the boys and their shipmates cartwheeling and dancing off of the ship ready to take on the town. The citizens of New York join Ozzie, Chip and Ga-bey in I Feel Like I’m Not Out of Bed Yet and New York, New York.
5th Avenue Theatre veter-ans Greg McCormick Allen (Ozzie) and Matt Owen (Chip) join newcomer Joe Aaron Reed (Gabey) and each play the eager, sweet, young sailors with personality and energy.
On the subway ride, Gabey spots – and helps himself to – a promotional poster of Miss Turnstiles, aka Ivy Smith. Falling head over heels for the beautiful woman portrayed, Gabey coerces his buddies to do the impossible – find Miss Turnstiles somewhere on the streets of New York. But not before a frantic chase through New York by cops and angry subway employees trying to get their poster back.
Chip has problems of his own, trying to fight off the aggressively amorous Hildy Esterhazy, who, despite los-ing her job for sleeping in her cab yet again, decides to make this afternoon one to remember.
5th Avenue Theatre veter-an Sarah Rudinoff captures Hildy’s sweetness under her tough shell. Rudinoff shows her singing chops with I Can Cook, Too and makes her
amorous intentions obvious when she joins Reed in Come Up To My Place.
Meanwhile, Ozzie has his own hands full what with fall-ing for Claire, who unfortu-nately is engaged to the ever understanding – until he isn’t – Judge Pitkin W. Bridgework. Allen Fitzpatrick plays Judge Bridgework’s milquetoast personality perfectly – we see his rude awakening coming, but are surprised when it finally does. Billie Wildrick somehow manages to make even Claire likable.
The ensemble – even the nuns – dons Navy costumes for the final number, New York, New York, in the Brook-lyn Navy Yard before the boys race back onto their ship.
Does Gabey meet – and win – his true love, Miss Turn-stiles? Do his buddies, Chip and Ozzie win the women of their dreams? Watch On the Town and find out for your-self !
On the Town plays at the 5th Avenue Theatre through May 2. For ticket information, visit www.5thavenuetheatre.org, or call (206) 625-1900.
Go out ‘On the Town’ at 5th Avenue Theatreby REbECCA [email protected]
Fourth-grader Johnny Lovick rolled out of bed in the early
morning cold in his grandmother’s ramshackle home in the middle of a Louisiana cotton field.
School wouldn’t start for hours, but in the dirt-poor South, everyone had a job to do, no matter how old or young.
Cotton had to be picked and chopped, chores had to be done. No matter how cold or hot it was, no matter how miserable the boy felt, the work never stopped.
With sparse food, no running wa-ter, no electricity, and an outhouse 100 feet away from the tiny share-cropper’s shack Lovick called home, life looked bleak.
Nobody looking at the boy would see a future state legislator, a city councilman, state patrolman or a county sheriff.
Nobody, that is, until a sheriff came to talk to Lovick’s class. “Never give up,” he told the students.
“He looked directly at me, and said, ‘I don’t want you to give up.’” Lovick recalled. “He knew where I lived. He knew exactly how incred-ibly poor we were.”
Lovick took that advice to heart, graduating high school at the age of 17, joining the Coast Guard, then spending three decades with Wash-ington State Patrol before being elected Snohomish County Sheriff in 2007.
During that time, Sheriff Lovick also served five years on the Mill Creek City Council, then joined the Washington State Legislature.
Last week, Lovick talked to stu-dents at Harbour Pointe Middle School about the importance of his
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Think $20 doesn’t buy what it used to?
Tell that to Norman and Deb Webb, the proud – and lucky – owners of a 1961 Chevrolet Corvette.
Norman Webb wrote his annual check to Valley General Hospital’s fundraiser raffle and, like the previ-ous eight years, never gave it another thought beyond the good cause to which his family contributed.
In 2001, things went a little differ-ently. That year, wife Deb wrote the check and sent it off.
“All of the sudden, I hear Deb screaming, ‘We won the car! We won the car!’” Webb recalled. “I thought it was a joke, or someone was scam-ming us.”
No joke, no scam – the Webb fam-ily was now the proud owner of the vintage Corvette, a dream come true for lifelong gearhead Norm.
“I’ve always been a car nut, always
wanted to own an old Corvette, but it was always just out of reach,” Webb
Diane Navicky has been down this road before. Not the highly pub-
licized annexation issue that has put her residence stability in the cross-hairs once again, but the unpleasant reality of being forced to relocate and losing her home in the process.
Navicky lives at Carriage Club Es-tates, a manufactured home complex in the area that Mukilteo may annex.
Right now, the property is in unin-corporated county and protected by a zoning change the county adopted last year to protect such vulnerable homeowners.
The county created manufactured home zoning, changing the property from multi-family zoning.
Unless Mukilteo adopts a similar ordinance if and when it annexes the area, Navicky said she and her neigh-bors could be forced to relocate again – challenging enough under ordinary circumstances, even tougher when you have to bring your home with you, or worse, pay for its destruction.
“I am definitely on board with that,” Councilmember Jennifer Gregerson said of Mukilteo adopt-ing similar policies. “This serves an important need (affordable housing) for our city.”
“We have no desire to kick them out,” Mayor Joe Marine said. “Cur-rently, our laws don’t allow mobile home parks; we’ve tried to discourage them in the past.”
Annexation is different, however, Marine said. And inheriting CCE is not like inheriting a casino or other property some see as undesirable for the city, he explained.
As more and more manufactured home complexes are sold for other de-velopment, those owning the mobile
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Calling all (classic) cars
Do you have a classic car, or know someone who does?
Get out that soap, water and wax, and get your prize baby ready for Mukilteo Chamber’s first car show! The show runs from 10 to 3 Saturday, June 26, at Kamiak, 10801 Harbour Pointe Blvd. For more infor-mation, or to register your car, contact Mukilteo Cham-ber, [email protected], or (425) 347-1456.
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see CLASSIC CARS, page 12
Norm Webb shows off his $20 Corvette, a raffle prize from Valley General Hospital’s annual fundraiser. Webb has entered his 1961 classic in Mukilteo’s first car show. Mukilteo Chamber is organizing the event, to run 10 -3 Saturday, June 26, at Kamiak High School.
Beacon photo by Rebecca Carr
Jim Brice of Mukilteo Seniors will drive a shuttle between Lincoln Courtyard, the farmers market at Lighthouse Park and the art building on Second Street,
between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., for Waterfront Wednesdays. Suggested donation: $1.
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DDFF formula – determina-tion, discipline, faith and focus.
Without those factors, he said, he never would have overcome the crushing pov-erty of his early years.
Without that sheriff years ago believing in a determined little boy sitting in a Louisi-ana classroom – and Lovick believing in himself – he never would have realized his own childhood dream of becoming a sheriff.
“Everything I tried to do, I’d go for it all out,” he said. “You would have to tie my hands behind me and my feet to my hands to stop me once I’m determined to make it.”
Students should come to
class focused entirely on learning, Lovick told them.
“That’s your job here,” he said. “Never mind that bad guy from last week (the report of a man with a rifle that put HPMS, Kamiak and Columbia on lockdown). You come to learn, focus on study-ing, and be determined to succeed.”
Lovick showed teacher Amy De Klyen’s sixth grade students a large photo of the now-vacant shack where he grew up.
“There was a tank right here,” he said, pointing to the lower right corner. “The wa-ter would run down the gut-ters from the roof, and that was our drinking water.”
Those electrical wires didn’t exist when Lovick lived and worked there, he said.
It was discipline and de-termination that helped the young Lovick see a world be-yond that crushing poverty, he said.
Lovick told the Harbour Pointe sixth graders how important it is to never lie, al-ways tell the truth, no matter what, even when they make a mistake – in fact, especially when they make a mistake.
He pointed to former leg-islative colleague and now state superintendent Randy Dorn. Every student knew of Dorn’s highly publicized “mistake” of driving under the influence of alcohol.
While some parents and taxpayers at the time were ready to crucify Dorn, Lovick admired his courage.
“His lawyer said he could have his punishment reduced, or plead not guilty and have a good chance of getting off,” Lovick said.
“But Randy Dorn knew he was guilty. He knew he had made a mistake, and he wanted to admit it and make amends.
“I think mistakes improve performance,” he said. “Su-perintendent Dorn is now visiting classrooms, talking to the students about what he did and why it was wrong – he’s not hiding from what he did.”
That brings up another F – forgiveness, Lovick told the students.
“We all make mistakes. You can’t live without mak-ing mistakes, “ he said. “The important thing is to admit it, to always tell the truth, to make amends and move on.”
It’s as important to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, he said.
“You can’t cry over spilt milk. We all have to move ahead,” he said. “Life is about moving forward and feeling good about the good things we’ve done.”
SHERIFF, from page 1
Above - Harbour Pointe Middle School sixth-grader Komal Mand holds a photo of the share-cropper shack in the middle of a cotton field, where Sheriff John Lovick grew up in poverty. A message of hope and an admonition to never give up, no matter how hard the path, inspired Lovick to realize his goals – including his boyhood dream of becoming sheriff. Top right - Har-bour Pointe Middle School sixth-grader Merrick Corpening talks about Sheriff John Lovick’s goal-reaching strategies of determination, discipline, faith and focus.
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and she immediately jumped on board.
“I wasn’t nervous at all,” he said of voluntarily head-ing to the principal’s office. “I just told her my idea, and she said she would talk to the staff. She said everyone liked the idea.”
The goal was 1,000,000 math problems, but first McVey had to work out how to divide up the total among Discovery’s 24 classrooms.
“We had to sit down and do it all on paper first,” he said.
No, that extra work didn’t count toward the million.
“I did that part with a calculator, so that meant it didn’t count,” he said. “We had to do all of the problems ourselves.”
“Each classroom had a stu-dent add the number of math problem for their class,” Schott said. “We did have a goal for each classroom to
reach – but it soon had a life of its own! Everyone contrib-uted.”
Each classroom computed the number of problems as well, Schott said, as well as their after-school math pro-gram work.
“It was great!” first grader Marcus McIver said. “My job was to add up all the math problems our class did each day, and that was a math problem.”
Aaliyah Magee said the project made her feel smart-er.
“Kids were motivated to work at home on the week-ends and in the evening,” Schott said. “This is the re-ally cool part – it gets parents on board, and kids love the idea of keeping track of how many they did.”
“It was fun and helped us learn more strategies to solve all sorts of math problems,” fifth grader Bryce McVey said.
Pierce McVey said his fa-
vorite subjects are math and science, and he does math problems at home just for the fun of it.
“He’s now multiplying up to a million just for fun,” mom Amy said.
“My teacher, Mr. Church, really makes math fun,” McVey said. “He’s a really fun guy. He lets us win prizes and build a remote control Lego project where we use our math.”
Schott kept track of the math problems and an-nounced the running total on the public address sys-tem each Monday morning, McVey said.
“I wasn’t worried at all (about making the goal). When we heard we were almost halfway through, I knew we were going to do it,” he said of finishing the goal.
The most fun part about the challenge?
“Doing the math. That was even more fun than the candy,” McVey said.
MATH, from page 5
Discovery Elementary second grader Pierce McVey passes out candy to his fellow students, in celebration of the school achieving his goal of correctly solving 1,000,000 math problems. McVey said he read a book in which a character inspired his school, and knew Discovery could meet the challenge as well. Pictured with McVey are mom, Amy, and Discovery parent/Olivia Park paraeducator Susan Davis.
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When Jack Kniseley start-ed his teaching career,
they handed him a roster and some textbooks, showed him his room and essentially said, “Have at it, buddy!”
With no experience, or even specialized training, he walked into that Los Angeles classroom where 40 boys sat staring at him expectantly, waiting to be taught.
“I never did student teach-ing, never took education classes,” he said.
Back then, they didn’t have the many continuing educa-tion resources and work-shops available to today’s teachers, or the student
teaching program that puts soon-to-graduate teachers in classrooms to learn hands-on from veterans.
Today, 45 years later, Kamiak’s assistant principal Kniseley has a computer on his desk, a Blackberry in hand, a multi-view security monitor mounted on the wall of his office, a closed-circuit television and a DVD player.
Back then it was a box of chalk and a lone mimeograph machine that teachers had to crank by hand, when they got their turn at it.
“If you didn’t have purple mimeograph ink all over your fingers at the end of the day, you weren’t doing your
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job,” Kniseley laughed. This marks Kniseley’s last
year in education after an im-pressive career in which he served as teacher, principal, assistant principal, coun-selor and superintendent at various points.
Technology has made some aspects easier than when Kniseley started; others more challenging.
Teachers not only compete with cell phones and iPods for students’ attention, but have to ensure their students aren’t giving themselves an unfair advantage during tests.
“We leave it up to the indi-vidual buildings and teach-ers, of what kids are allowed to have in class,” Kniseley said. “Some teachers think phones are a necessary com-munication link between students and parents.”
A lot has changed since that day in 1965, and not just in the area of technology.
Beyond the random fire drill to break the monotony of the day, today’s students practice earthquake drills, lockdowns, evacuations, intruder drills and more. In fact, Kamiak was in its second lockdown in a couple of weeks when this reporter interviewed Kniseley.
How do teachers find the
time?“Teachers are troopers,”
Kniseley said. “There is prob-ably no other profession with such a versatile population, none so important as the business of caring and teach-ing.”
Back when Kniseley start-ed, kids with developmental delays and other issues weren’t in the public school system. Now they’re inte-grated into the classrooms with their mainstream peers.
“That has changed dra-matically,” he said.
Today, teachers and admin-istrators focus more on keep-ing students in school. Back then, students could drop out and go to work if they chose. Today, it’s next to impossible to find a job without a high school education.
“You had material you had to cover; you just covered it,” he said of the old days. “The students knew what was ex-pected of them, and they did it.”
“Those were the days you could swat kids who didn’t do what they’re told,” he said. “Teachers never did, of course; the administration did.”
Kniseley didn’t have to re-sort to corporal punishment. Kids who didn’t cooperate in English or math knew they’d face an irate coach Kniseley on the gridiron at practice
that afternoon. “Their behavior was never
an issue,” he said.Kniseley said he enjoyed
those early years, both work-ing with the young people and meeting the parents.
“It was just a fun begin-ning experience,” he said. “The pay was not good, but the work was rewarding.”
Teacher pay is consider-ably better these days, if not commensurate with the hours put in. Kniseley’s windfall that first year? $4,200. That jumped to a comparatively ro-bust $10,000 annually when he switched to the public school system a few years later.
“People don’t go into teach-ing to become rich. You have to have a love for young peo-ple and a desire to help them learn,” he said.
“There is no other profes-sion where the rewards are so positive. Seeing young people graduate and move on with their lives and become productive citizens is the payoff.”
Kniseley said he has many fond memories and high-lights, but after 45 years, it’s time to go.
“I only leave with fond memories of my years in education. The last 16 years at Kamiak were very reward-ing,” he said.
“We have a wonderful staff, great kids. This is a very
productive, high achieving school, with very support-ive parents and successful programs in sports, music, debate, dance.”
Having worked at Kamiak for 16 years, Kniseley said he enjoys seeing his former students teaching in the Mukilteo School District and working with them in the business world.
“We have kids who gradu-ated from Kamiak whose own children now attend,” he said.
KNISELEY, from page 7
Jack Kniseley, retiring assistant principal
Tax help for senior groups
The Internal Revenue Service will soon begin
accepting applications for the Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) and Volun-teer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) grant programs, which will allow some organizations to apply for annual funding for up to three years.
Applications will be ac-cepted through through July 9.
Previous grant recipi-ents have the option to ap-ply for up to three years of annual funding, which would reduce the amount of paperwork they must complete over a three-year period. This annual fund-ing will also help recipients with budget planning.
The 2011 application packages and guidelines are available on the IRS
website effective June 1. More information about the TCE and VITA grants is available in Publication 4680, TCE & VITA grant programs.
The IRS in 2010 awarded 24 TCE grantees $6.1 million and 147 VITA grantees $7.44 million. Through mid-May, they filed more than 2.1 mil-lion returns at almost 9,000 sites nationwide.
The TCE program was established in 1978 to pro-vide tax counseling and return preparation to per-sons age 60 or older and to give training and technical assistance to the volunteers who provide free federal in-come tax assistance within elderly communities across the nation.
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Fourth-grader Johnny Lovick rolled out of bed in the early
morning cold in his grandmother’s ramshackle home in the middle of a Louisiana cotton field.
School wouldn’t start for hours, but in the dirt-poor South, everyone had a job to do, no matter how old or young.
Cotton had to be picked and chopped, chores had to be done. No matter how cold or hot it was, no matter how miserable the boy felt, the work never stopped.
With sparse food, no running wa-ter, no electricity, and an outhouse 100 feet away from the tiny share-cropper’s shack Lovick called home, life looked bleak.
Nobody looking at the boy would see a future state legislator, a city councilman, state patrolman or a county sheriff.
Nobody, that is, until a sheriff came to talk to Lovick’s class. “Never give up,” he told the students.
“He looked directly at me, and said, ‘I don’t want you to give up.’” Lovick recalled. “He knew where I lived. He knew exactly how incred-ibly poor we were.”
Lovick took that advice to heart, graduating high school at the age of 17, joining the Coast Guard, then spending three decades with Wash-ington State Patrol before being elected Snohomish County Sheriff in 2007.
During that time, Sheriff Lovick also served five years on the Mill Creek City Council, then joined the Washington State Legislature.
Last week, Lovick talked to stu-dents at Harbour Pointe Middle School about the importance of his
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Think $20 doesn’t buy what it used to?
Tell that to Norman and Deb Webb, the proud – and lucky – owners of a 1961 Chevrolet Corvette.
Norman Webb wrote his annual check to Valley General Hospital’s fundraiser raffle and, like the previ-ous eight years, never gave it another thought beyond the good cause to which his family contributed.
In 2001, things went a little differ-ently. That year, wife Deb wrote the check and sent it off.
“All of the sudden, I hear Deb screaming, ‘We won the car! We won the car!’” Webb recalled. “I thought it was a joke, or someone was scam-ming us.”
No joke, no scam – the Webb fam-ily was now the proud owner of the vintage Corvette, a dream come true for lifelong gearhead Norm.
“I’ve always been a car nut, always
wanted to own an old Corvette, but it was always just out of reach,” Webb
Diane Navicky has been down this road before. Not the highly pub-
licized annexation issue that has put her residence stability in the cross-hairs once again, but the unpleasant reality of being forced to relocate and losing her home in the process.
Navicky lives at Carriage Club Es-tates, a manufactured home complex in the area that Mukilteo may annex.
Right now, the property is in unin-corporated county and protected by a zoning change the county adopted last year to protect such vulnerable homeowners.
The county created manufactured home zoning, changing the property from multi-family zoning.
Unless Mukilteo adopts a similar ordinance if and when it annexes the area, Navicky said she and her neigh-bors could be forced to relocate again – challenging enough under ordinary circumstances, even tougher when you have to bring your home with you, or worse, pay for its destruction.
“I am definitely on board with that,” Councilmember Jennifer Gregerson said of Mukilteo adopt-ing similar policies. “This serves an important need (affordable housing) for our city.”
“We have no desire to kick them out,” Mayor Joe Marine said. “Cur-rently, our laws don’t allow mobile home parks; we’ve tried to discourage them in the past.”
Annexation is different, however, Marine said. And inheriting CCE is not like inheriting a casino or other property some see as undesirable for the city, he explained.
As more and more manufactured home complexes are sold for other de-velopment, those owning the mobile
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see SHERIFF, page 2
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In Mukilteo, then out again?That’s what mobile home owners are fearing
Calling all (classic) cars
Do you have a classic car, or know someone who does?
Get out that soap, water and wax, and get your prize baby ready for Mukilteo Chamber’s first car show! The show runs from 10 to 3 Saturday, June 26, at Kamiak, 10801 Harbour Pointe Blvd. For more infor-mation, or to register your car, contact Mukilteo Cham-ber, [email protected], or (425) 347-1456.
by REbECCA [email protected]
see CLASSIC CARS, page 12
Norm Webb shows off his $20 Corvette, a raffle prize from Valley General Hospital’s annual fundraiser. Webb has entered his 1961 classic in Mukilteo’s first car show. Mukilteo Chamber is organizing the event, to run 10 -3 Saturday, June 26, at Kamiak High School.
Beacon photo by Rebecca Carr
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said, pointing to family obli-gations and other priorities.
“When we got this one, it was meant to be,” he said. “I attribute winning to Deb’s good luck!”
One of the most fun aspects of owning a classic? Match-ing paint jobs and pistons with other gearheads at car shows.
Up until now, Webb has had to travel to Everett, Mon-roe and other points beyond to showcase his classic and meet other car buffs.
This year marks Mukilteo Chamber’s first car show, Saturday, June 26, in Kamiak High School’s parking lot, and Webb said he’s excited to finally have a chance to show off his wheels and admire other classics right here in
town.“I enjoy talking to all the
other gearheads and car nuts, about cubic inches and the many aspects of car collect-ing,” he said. “It’s fun to get together, compare notes, talk about what we’ve done with our cars over the winter.”
Under that Corvette’s freshly waxed hood lurks a formidable 283-horsepower engine with dual-quad carbu-retor, Positraction (Chevro-let’s limited slip differential) and a four-speed manual transmission.
How fast will it go?“What’s the speed limit?”
Webb answered, laughing.All fun aside, Webb said
he enjoys cruising and isn’t looking for speed when he takes the Corvette out during nice weather.
“You have to remember, this car is in its golden years; I definitely baby it,” he said.
That includes taking the car out only on sunny days. The seals around the windows are the original equipment and, pushing a half-century old, they leak in bad weather.
Wife Deb likes to drive the Corvette, although Norm Webb said his teenage daugh-ter prefers to ride in style, not yet having mastered the manual transmission.
Absent also are the modern conveniences of power steer-ing and power brakes.
“It’s a little bit of work to drive it,” Webb said.
Webb mostly takes the car around town to visit friends and family, and, of course, to all of the local car shows.
While a group of car buffs meets Saturday evenings at Shawn O’Donnell’s restau-rant in Everett, Webb said he’s looking forward to hav-ing those conversations – and seeing the many classics that local residents own – in Mukilteo.
“We’ve been trying to put this together for a couple of years now,” he said. “It wasn’t until this year that Shannon (McCarty, Chamber executive director) was able to get the city to help fund it.”
Classic car owners can
show their wheels and com-pete for prizes in categories such as crowd favorite, best paint job, best chrome and others, Webb said.
Car buffs can vote for their favorites, admire the hard work of the gearheads that own them, and ask questions about maintenance and the challenge of finding parts for older cars.
“Since this is our first year, we’re learning as we go,” Webb said. “Next year will be even bigger and better as the word gets out. We’ll fine tune it as we go.”
Stray Dogs Catering will provide barbecue, and Mukilteo Kiwanis will grill hotdogs for the hungry car buffs. Mukilteo Chamber asks everyone to bring a non-perishable food item for the Mukilteo Food Bank.
CARS, from page 1
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“Shall I title this ‘Easy ways to drop five pounds’ or ‘Healthy ways to drop five pounds,” I asked my daugh-ter.
“Healthy ways to drop five pounds. Because it’s not easy,”
Chelsea an-swered.
T h e beauty of a five-pound weight loss program is that success comes more q u i c k l y than with l a r g e r goals. Then you can just repeat
the process for the next five pounds.
Dr. Oz suggests using a ‘robust reward’ system. Set a reward for each five pounds. Celebrating with a pedicure, movie date, massage, etc. trig-gers your brain chemistry to help you succeed.
Because eating frequent
light meals is better for our bodies, keep healthy snacks at hand. Here are some lighten up favorites.
·Hardboiled eggs.·Celery sticks and Laugh-
ing Cow low fat Swiss cheese.·Protein bars.·Protein powder mixed in
skim milk or juice.·A small handful of raw or
dry roast nuts.·Trail mix.·Banana. ·Apple with Jarlsburg lite
swiss cheese.·Tuna fish with fat free cot-
tage cheese instead of mayo.
Fruit smoothies
1 ½ cup frozen or fresh fruit and berries
1 cup low fat vanilla yogurt (9 g. protein)
1 cup low fat soy milk (5 g. protein)
Blend until smooth.Save time! Place a second
batch of ingredients in cov-ered container, refrigerate and blend tomorrow. (For
fresh taste, don’t blend until ready to drink.)
Psyllium seed husk for internal cleansing
20 oz. water or diluted fruit juice.
Place ¼ teaspoon fiber in mouth and wash it down with liquid. I prefer diluted fruit juice.
Repeat four times until you have taken one teaspoon psyl-lium and have downed 20 oz liquid. Repeat three times per day. While you’re drinking the liquid, take an acidophilus or probiotic tablet to maximize absorption of nutrients, and two of Trader Joes’s Very Green capsules.
After your body adjusts to the extra fiber you can take ½ teaspoon, drink and repeat to total a heaping teaspoon.
CAUTION: Never swallow too much psylliun powder at once because it expands, and you want that to happen in your stomach, NOT in your throat or esophagus. Take fiber on an empty stomach. ALWAYS drink the 20 oz
Lighten up! Healthy ways to drop five poundsliquid so the psyllium will not harden (think cement) in your intestines.
Each individual succeeds differently. Choose one of these tried and true tips:
·Eat what you want but eat less. Cut your portions in half.
·Cut out sugar, fried foods and white flour.
·Be sure your plate is filled with 2/3 fruits and veg-etables.
·Use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate. That way you can still fill your plate.
·Skip the candy counter. Use sweets as a reward, not as a staple.
·Eat every three or four hours.
Fat cells contain toxins. When I drop a few pounds at first I usually feel a little achy or sluggish. That’s because my body is now filtering waste products out. So be sure to drink at least 64 oz of filtered water daily, add fresh lemon and take 2000 units of Ester-C. Packets of Emergence-C are perfect for adding vitamin C and valuable minerals and nutrients.
Lemon is a must for cleans-ing the liver, purifying the intestines and improving digestion. Use 1-3 fresh lem-ons daily. My favorite way is to juice 5 lemons with an electric citrus juicer. (Black and Decker citrus juicers sell for $15- $20.) Place in glass jar, stir in 1 tsp. honey and refrig-
erate. Pour a tablespoon or more into water or diluted fruit juice. Delicious!
Thirty minutes of walking is a daily requirement to help with weight loss.
Deep stretching also helps increase circulation and remove toxins. Gentle spinal twists squeeze wastes from the internal organs, increase metabolism and stimulate nerve flow. You can also squeeze and massage fatty areas on the tummy or thighs to detoxify and help them shrink.
Fire up your fat-burning lean muscles by strengthen-ing with hand weights.
Do pay more attention to your energy level and to your clothes getting looser than to the scales. Muscle is heavier than fat.
If you lose five pounds of fat but gain two pounds of fat burners, a.k.a. muscle, your scales will tell that you have only lost three pounds.
As you lighten up, your energy and vitality will carry you through our beautiful Northwest summer looking and feeling great.
Kay Wagner LMP, is a NASM certified personal trainer, yoga and Pilates in-structor. Her massage/fitness studio is located at 828 2nd St, ste H in Old Town Mukilteo. For more information, call (425) 353-4545,email [email protected] or visit www.kaywagnerwellness.com