BBB hosting Shred Day on Saturday; cell phone & blanket donations being taken

BBB hosting Shred Day on Saturday; cell phone & blanket donations being taken

Saturday is the day to get rid of all of those records that you no longer need or are required to keep.

The Better Business Bureau is hosting a Shred Day on Saturday at the Harbour Pointe Retirement and Assisted Living Center, located at the corner of Harbour Pointe Boulevard and Harbour Place, just east of the Mukilteo Library. It will go on from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

People will be able to bring up to three bags or boxes of paper to be shredded on site by American Data Guard. The shredding will be done free of charge. No three-ring binders or cardboard will be taken.

The event is also taking donations for unwanted cell phones and blankets. The donated cell phones will be wiped out of all data and donated to HopeLine, who will then distribute them to victims of domestic abuse who need ways to stay in contact.

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4A softball: M-P, Monroe make district final, qualify for state

4A softball: M-P, Monroe make district final, qualify for state

After the dust cleared on Tuesday night after eight games in the District 1 4A softball tournament in Monroe, Marysville-Pilchuck and the host Bearcats were able to punch their ticket to the state tournament.

The Tomahawks and Bearcats, lower seeds from the Wesco 4A North, both qualified for the state tourney by winning twice on Tuesday at Sky Valley Park and making the district title game. The top two teams from the district automatically qualify for state, which is May 25-26 in Spokane.

Marysville-Pilchuck, the #3 seed from the Wesco 4A North, made it to the final by beating Kamiak 6-3 in the first game and Wesco 4A North champion Arlington 2-1 in the semifinals. Monroe, the Wesco 4A North's #4 seed, beat Wesco 4A South champion Cascade 7-0 in their first game, then held off Snohomish, the #2 seed from the North, 11-8 in the semifinals.

The first round scores from Tuesday were:

  • Arlington 6, Edmonds-Woodway 0
  • Marysville-Pilchuck 6, Kamiak 3
  • Snohomish 15, Jackson 5
  • Monroe 7, Cascade 0

The semifinal results were:

Everett Transit holding public meetings on updated service change proposal

Everett Transit holding public meetings on updated service change proposal

Everett Transit has updated its proposed service changes for August, with five public meetings set to discuss the changes.

The first one is Tuesday night at Everett Station from 6-7 p.m., with another meeting from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the Carl Gipson Senior Center in downtown Everett.

After the five meetings, the Everett City Council will take up the proposal at its June 6 meeting. The council will likely hear final comments at that meeting, which will also consider a fare increase in January from 75 cents to $1. Sunday service would also be preserved, but at a reduced level.

The changes have been proposed to try and make up a budget shortfall at the city agency, having brought in $3 million less in tax revenue in 2011 than in 2008, with less expected in 2012. Initial meetings were held in March and April, with Everett Transit adjusting its initial proposal to try and reflect some of the concerns made at the earlier meetings.

Two weeks of Fire District 1 responses - 2 juveniles rescued from church roof

Two weeks of Fire District 1 responses - 2 juveniles rescued from church roof

There were a total of 690 calls to Snohomish County Fire District 1 in the last two weeks from April 26th through May 9th.

The week of April 26th though May 2nd, the calls included 256 emergency medical aid calls, 14 fires, 15 motor vehicle collisions, five service calls, 10 automatic fire alarms, one natural gas leak and one carbon monoxide alarm. Following this report, the week of May 3rd through the 9th included 322 emergency medical aid calls, 24 motor vehicle collisions, 16 fires, 7 service calls, 2 natural gas leaks and 17 automatic fire alarms.

Firefighters had to rescue two juveniles on May 5th who had climbed to the roof of the Grace Baptist Church in the 17000 block of 13th Avenue W east of Lynnwood who were unable to get down on their own. Firefighters used a ladder to rescue them.

The full reports can be seen here.

 

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Chase, Holcomb, Utter running for vacant 1st Congressional seat

Chase, Holcomb, Utter running for vacant 1st Congressional seat

The special election for Jay Inslee's former seat in Congress finally has its first candidates.

Carin Chase announced on Tuesday that she will be running for the seat in the "old" 1st Congressional District that Inslee vacated to run for governor. The daughter of State Sen. Maralyn Chase, she is currently the chair of the 32nd District Democrats.

A Bainbridge Island man, J. Byron Holcomb, has also filed to run for the seat. He is a lawyer on the island, which will no longer be a part of the district after January. He will also run as a Democrat. Another Democrat, former Lynnwood City Council member Lisa Utter, is collecting signatures so she can be put on the ballot, as well.

She is running to finish Inslee's term in Congress. Whomever wins the special election for Inslee's seat will only serve for a month, as redistricting has created a new 1st Congressional District. Many of the cities that will vote in the special election for Inslee's seat, including Lynnwood, Edmonds, Shoreline, Poulsbo and Mukilteo, will be in new congressional districts for 2013.

In a statement, Chase said that the important thing was that Inslee's seat stay in his party.

MSD: Search for burglar put 3 schools, district office in modified lockdown

MSD: Search for burglar put 3 schools, district office in modified lockdown

Three schools and the offices of the Mukilteo School District were briefly in a modified lockdown on Monday morning as Everett police were looking for a suspected burglar.

MSD spokesman Andy Muntz said that the lockdowns happened around 9 a.m. As police were looking for the burglary suspect, the modified lockdowns (which means the exterior doors are locked, but all goes on as normal inside) were called for at Challenger Elementary School, Explorer Middle School, ACES High School and the district offices.

The lockdown was called off after about 20 minutes, as police determined that the suspect had left the area.

4A district softball tourney begins Tuesday in Monroe

4A district softball tourney begins Tuesday in Monroe

Sky River Park in Monroe will be the site of the District 1 4A softball tournament that begins on Tuesday afternoon.

Eight teams have qualified for the double-elimination tournament, which begins at 3 p.m. All teams will play two games on Tuesday, with the season ending for those who lose twice.

The top two teams in the tourney are guaranteed spots in the state tournament, which will be held on May 25-26 in Spokane. The third-place team in the tourney will play a KingCo team on Saturday afternoon for a state tournament spot.

Here's the schedule for the first games of the tourney:

  • Edmonds-Woodway vs Arlington, Field 1
  • Marysville-Pilchuck vs Kamiak, Field 2
  • Jackson vs Snohomish, Field 3
  • Monroe vs Cascade, Field 4

Fifteen minutes after the last first round game ends, the second round of games for today begin. Those match-ups are as follows: