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I heard coughing in this direction: Public anger over air pollution is be-ing credited with China’s willingness to negotiate a climate change agreement with other nations in Paris last week (Page A5).

Before putting pressure on Chinese o� cials, how-

ever, Chinese citizens � rst had to locate their leaders in a bank of smog.

Maybe I can drive 55: Following the law of supply and demand, tolls for I-405’s “hot lanes” are creeping up as more drivers use them and tolls are adjusted to keep the lanes’ speed above 45 mph (Street Smarts,

Page A3).� e state could take

the guesswork out of it completely and just charge everyone a sliding fee, say a dime for every mph they want to drive.

Pot, meet Kettle: A� er GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz took the lead in Iowa polls, Donald Trump

went on the attack, saying Cruz doesn’t have the tem-perament or judgment to be president and is a “little bit of a maniac” in the Senate (Page A5).

“Now, if you’ll excuse me,” Trump, R-Plank in His Eye, said, “I’ve got another � � h of the world’s population to vilify.”

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By Kari BrayHerald Writer

DARRINGTON — What started as an experiment in outdoor education for a small, rural community has grown into a far-reaching program meant to break down barriers between the classroom and the rest of the world.

� e Darrington Youth Outdoor STEM Pilot Project, launched in August 2014, began as a way to help the Stillagua-mish Valley recover after the deadly 2014 Oso mudslide. � e idea was to capitalize on Dar-rington’s strengths: the area’s abundance of natural resources and recreation spots and the young people who will live and

work in the valley someday. � at project grew into the

Glacier Peak Institute, an orga-nization built with help from the Darrington School District, the town, North Counties’ Family Services and Washington State University Extension.

� e pilot project involved a class of high school students. Now, every grade level in the

425-student school district is participating.

December has been a busy month.

� irty � fth-grade students went to IslandWood, an outdoor school on Bainbridge Island, for three days to study an eco-system di� erent from home.

Success rises from disaster

ANDY BRONSON / THE HERALD Students Aaron Colson (from left) Peyton Young and Darin Sedenius react as they contact businesses to ask them for donations of parts for a solar-powered go-kart while working on STEM projects at Darrington Middle High School on Wednesday. The Darrington STEM pilot project that started more than a year and a half ago has grown quickly. There’s an outdoor elementary school, middle school water research, high school coding and programming mentorships.

By Noah HaglundHerald Writer

EVERETT — Dave Somers has started assembling a team for when he takes o� ce as

Snohomish County executive, but some of the biggest decisions remain.

� e executive-elect has informed three county depart-ment leaders they won’t be

staying on next year. � ey are: planning director Clay White, emergency management director John Pennington and information services director Gage Andrews.

Somers will mull those vacancies as he also rounds out management and advisory positions in his

administration-to-be. He lik-ened it to a new head coach taking over a football program.

“In those three areas, I just felt there needed to be a change. � ey’re all competent and have done positive things for Sno-homish County,” Somers said.

Somers prepping for officeThe next council executive has chosen who won’t be returning but is still considering who will � ll various roles.

STEM project created as a way to help Stilly Valley recover from Oso

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By Chris WintersHerald Writer

EVERETT — All eighth-graders in the Everett School District will have the option of Spanish as an elective in the 2016-2017 aca-demic year, giving them another early shot at earning high school credit.

Some of those eighth-graders might complete their two man-datory World Language credits by the end of their freshman year of high school. But an even better alternative is for those students who stick with the lan-guage through their senior year. � at would make a wider variety of Advanced Placement options available.

� e school board for Ever-ett Public Schools on Tuesday approved the plan, although it was changed from the district’s initial proposal after concerns were expressed about eliminat-ing one semester of mandatory physical education to free up more slots for electives, includ-ing Spanish.

Eliminating one semester of gym class came with the sup-port of some parents who wanted their children to take a full year of some other elective, such as art, music or technology and robotics, in addition to Span-ish, associate superintendent of curriculum, assessment and spe-cial programs Tony Byrd told the board.

Several P.E. teachers pro-tested that plan and the district’s process.

Citing the need for a full year of gym class, Penny Wilder, a P.E. teacher at Evergreen Mid-dle School, told the board, “National data shows obesity continues to rise, with no end in sight.

Early shot at learning SpanishEighth-graders in Everett will have the option of taking it as an elective in the next academic year but some are not happy with the plan.

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Kindergartners had Forest Fridays, where teachers took them outside to observe nature. Darrington is host-ing students and teachers from Tesla High School in Redmond, which special-izes in science, technology, engineering and math. Tesla students plan to teach coding while Darrington students show their guests how to test water quality.

Teamwork has fueled the Glacier Peak Institute’s suc-cess, director Oak Rankin said. He tries to blur the lines between different subjects and between small towns and big cities.

“The amount of time youth spend outside has decreased,” he said. “What’s going up is screen time, and that’s true for rural youth as well as urban.”

He relies on help from organizations such as Tesla and IslandWood. IslandWood focuses on environmental steward-ship and problem solving, said Sapna Sopori, director of the overnight program.

“We encourage students to take academic risks,” she said. “You don’t always have to be right.”

That’s the type of learn-ing being promoted in Darrington, too. Students from kindergarten through high school have gone bug

collecting, water sampling, eagle watching and brush planting. They’ve taken on community projects and finished lessons in the woods on the nearby archery range. It’s different from the rest of the curricu-lum, elementary Principal Tracy Franke said.

“It takes them from skimming the surface to getting more into the top-ics that really impact our community,” she said. “It also gets our kids to see that there’s a world beyond our valley and a lot of opportunities.”

Groups of middle- schoolers picked out year-long projects. Wednesdays are their work days.

Students put the most effort into their own ideas, longtime teacher Chuck Quantrille said.

“What we’ve done in the past is work on little proj-ects, but now they’re doing things that really change the community,” he said.

Several groups are piec-ing together oral histories. They’re gathering stories from people who have lived in Darrington for decades to create a series

of videos. “We’re just a little tiny

town compared to this huge world,” sixth-grader Olivia Slate said. “And we want people to know about our town, too.”

Two teams are building bat houses and track-ing bat populations. Alex Valliere, Jorgan Sedenius, Shane Jacobs and Caleb Rivera plan to build three different types of houses and set up cameras to see which one bats prefer. Kael Lynd, Amanda Brown and Mikah Dewberry plan to put houses in different locations to see if there are more bats by the river, in the woods or near town.

Isabelle Burtenshaw, Hannah Hornick and Eden Dominquez are working with the U.S. Forest Service to try to reintroduce fish-ers to the wild. Fishers are small animals in the weasel family that were nearly wiped out by fur trading and habitat loss.

“They’re really adorable,” Hornick said.

“They were disappearing and we’re wanting to know where they’re at,” Burten-shaw added.

Another group got a grant to buy a robotics kit. “You have to do math and science and reading to build a robot,” sixth-grader Elizabeth Marsh said.

Seventh-grader Darin Sedenius and his friends are working on adapting a gas-powered go-kart to run off solar power. He’s learning about motors, bat-teries and converters as he rounds up supplies.

Teacher Cameron Ross shifts gears on “STEM days” from instructor to sounding board. He encourages students to choose their own ques-tions and find the answers, he said.

Moving forward, Rankin plans to start more after-school activities. He wants students to see themselves as scientists, engineers, art-ists and adventurers.

“The world around them can be a world-class class-room,” he said. “It’s really an empowering model when you interact with a world you didn’t realize was there until you started playing with it as a scientist.”

Kari Bray: 425-339-3439; [email protected].

ANDY BRONSON / THE HERALD Posters explaining steps for thinking critically about STEM projects hang on the wall in a class at Darrington Middle High School.

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“The best analogy I can put on it is that when a new coach comes in, they bring in new coaches who fit the team.”

Somers, a four-term county councilman from the Monroe area, beat incumbent Executive John Lovick in the Nov. 3 election.

The executive is the top elected official for Wash-ington’s third-largest county, responsible for an overall workforce of 2,800 and an annual operating budget of about $230 mil-lion. Departments directly under the executive’s authority include pub-lic works, parks and Paine Field, as well as planning, emergency management and information services.

Turnover is common when a new leader takes over in government.

Lovick kept managers

mostly in place when he was appointed to replace the scandal-ridden Aaron Reardon in 2013. Some of Reardon’s staff left the executive’s office, but landed jobs elsewhere in the county.

The three department heads that Somers is let-ting go all were Reardon appointees.

“It’s not a statement that they did anything wrong or weren’t performing well,” Somers said. “These are very hard decisions and I don’t like affecting peoples’ lives.”

The new executive acknowledged White’s popularity among Planning and Development Services staff since assuming lead-ership of the department in 2010.

“It has been an amazing (five-plus) years and I feel so fortunate and blessed to have been given the opportunity to serve in this

position,” White wrote in a Dec. 7 email to staff.

When White took over, the planning department was still reeling from lay-offs during the recession and the ouster of the for-mer director, Craig Ladiser, who pleaded guilty to a drunken, sexually moti-vated assault of a woman at a building-industry golf tournament.

Pennington was named the county’s emergency director in 2006. Before that, he was a four-term Republican member of the state House who had served with Reardon in the Legislature. He was a George W. Bush adminis-tration appointee in 2001 to serve as director of FEMA Region 10, oversee-ing disaster readiness and response in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska.

Andrews came on to lead the county’s tech depart-ment in 2011 after working

in information technology for the city of Tucson, Ari-zona. He was tasked with streamlining customer ser-vice and other issues, but Auditor Carolyn Weikel identified a host of short-comings in the department while it was under her oversight in 2013 and 2014.

Andrews also had a dual role as the county’s public records officer.

Somers said he’s giving deep thought to his top appointment, the post of deputy executive.

“It’s extremely important to get that right,” he said. “I’m very comfortable tak-ing the time I need until I get the right person.”

He need look no further than the past two county executives to appreciate what’s at stake.

Under Lovick, Deputy Executive Mark Ericks’ heavy-handed style created rifts with a majority of the County Council. Ericks had

a lead role in the county’s courthouse-replacement project, a $162 million debacle that imploded over the summer as crews pre-pared to break ground. He resigned in September.

One Reardon deputy executive, Mark Soine, resigned in 2010 after a consultant found a pattern of sloppy investigations into workplace harassment complaints. Soine’s secre-tive conduct fueled distrust of the executive’s office. The atmosphere improved tre-mendously after Reardon called on then-Edmonds Mayor Gary Haakenson to serve as his second-in-command. Haakenson not only understood how to manage, but also cultivated good working relationships among county leaders.

As he moves forward, Somers said he has sought advice from former County Executive Bob Drewel.

Drewel, the executive from 1991 to 2003, now serves as a senior adviser to the president at Washing-ton State University North

Puget Sound Everett. Dur-ing his tenure as executive he helped steer an expan-sion of commercial airline flights to Sea-Tac Airport instead of Snohomish County, led Sound Tran-sit through a successful ballot measure after an earlier attempt failed, and oversaw a major overhaul of the county campus in downtown Everett. He also picked seasoned govern-ment professionals to serve as his deputy executives: Joni Earl and Gary Weikel.

Drewel said he’s known Somers for at least 15 years and has been happy to offer guidance.

To ensure continuity over the holidays, Somers said he plans to be sworn in during the week leading up to Christmas. A pub-lic ceremony is tentatively scheduled at the county campus along with other newly elected leaders on the morning of Jan. 4.

Noah Haglund: 425-339-3465; [email protected]. Twitter: @NWhaglund.

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SUPER KID

By Diana HefleyHerald Writer

EVERETT — A Seattle man’s legal troubles are adding up after he allegedly rammed a Snohom-ish County sheriff’s deputy’s patrol car last month.

Zachary Manyon, 28, was on community custody under a special sentencing alterna-tive for drug offenders when

the incident happened in south Everett.

He was convicted in 2012 of multiple counts of burglary in King County. He was allowed to serve half his prison sentence out of custody, according to court records.

He is back behind bars in the Snohomish County Jail. Pros-ecutors recently charged him with second-degree assault

in connection with a vio-lent encounter with a sheriff’s deputy.

The incident started out as a traffic stop Nov. 25. A deputy noticed that Manyon was driving a car without a front license plate.

The deputy pulled behind the car as Manyon turned in the parking lot of Wynnwood Con-dominiums in the 900 block of 132nd Street. SW. Manyon drove to the back of the complex and stopped in front of a locked gate that separates two buildings.

Manyon allegedly rammed

the gate and sped through the complex. The deputy was famil-iar with the layout of the parking lot and knew there was only one exit. He met up with suspect at a dead end.

Manyon stopped but put his car in reverse. Instead of backing around the patrol car, Manyon drove at the deputy and slammed into the right front side of the car, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Toni Mont-gomery wrote.

Burglar back behind bars


STANWOOD — A lowland road just east of town is closed indefi-nitely after the bank supporting the pavement gave way during a November storm and subsequent flooding along the Stillaguamish River.

Norman Road needed repairs before the recent damage. It went down to a single lane in January after flooding last win-ter caused the bank to slump and the road to become unsta-ble. A temporary repair was done in February with hopes of a permanent fix in the summer, but that fell through because of permitting and environmen-tal requirements to work in the river. Now the goal is to get permits in time to fix the road this summer, said Owen Carter,

Where the river eats the road

Monroe principal honored

A ceremony to celebrate Monroe’s Sky Valley Educa-tion Center Principal Karen Rosencrans is scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday at the alternative school, 351 Short Columbia St.

Rosencrans was voted best principal in Western Wash-

ington in a contest by Seattle’s “Evening Magazine” television show.

Kid wants a pony? Youth ages 8 to 14 are invited to write a letter to Santa Claus at Horse Country Farm and tell him why they want one of the farm’s three-month destination horse leases for Christmas. The program is aimed at beginners

and includes lessons, trail rid-ing, board, tack and more. The contest deadline is Thursday, Dec. 17. Mail letters to Horse Country Farm, P.O. Box 2, Granite Falls, WA 98252, or drop it in the box in the farm office at 8507 Highway 92.

Filing period opens: The candidate filing period for Snohomish County special

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Candidates can file in the Snohomish County Auditor’s Office, 3000 Rockefeller Ave., Everett from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Dec. 18.

The districts are: Diking Im-provement District 1, Diking District 2, Diking District 3,

Diking District 4, Diking Im-provement District 5, Drain-age Improvement District 7, Drainage District 12, Drainage Improvement District 13, French Slough Flood District, Marshland Flood District, Robe Valley Flood District and Stillaguamish Flood District.

For more information, call Snohomish County elections staff at 425-388-3444.

A Seattle man who was serving half his prison term out of custody is accused of ramming a deputy’s patrol car.

Time is money.The cost of that time

in the I-405 express toll lanes has been climbing since they opened Sept. 27, hitting the $10 maximum for the first time during a post-flood morning commute Thursday.

The vast majority of toll-lane drivers weren’t actually paying $10, a high fee meant to dissuade too many more vehicles from entering the lanes.

Still, it’s a sign that plenty of people are forking over cash to merge left.

Jeryl Garrett commutes from Stanwood to Bellevue once a week and pays to travel the toll lanes. The highest she’s paid is $7.

“If it had been ($10) I would still have taken it — complained and grumbled, but taken it. My commute is just too long not to,” Garrett said.

Brian Derr, of Bothell, has paid as much as $6 for his commute to Kirkland in the toll lanes. “I pay because it can cut my commute in half: from 40 to 20 minutes.”

Expect tolls to keep risingA love for music, history


STANWOOD — Jeb McGlinchy, 18, is a senior at Stanwood High School. He lives on Camano Island and is the youngest of six children. The straight-A student loves music, church and history and mixes independent music lessons with advanced classes.

Question: Can you tell me a little bit about the activities you’re involved in?

Answer: Well, I’m in choir. That’s probably my favorite class. The music teacher, Mr. (Erik) Ronning, is the best music teacher I’ve ever had. I have an independent piano class, it’s my second favorite. I do Knowledge Bowl and Hi-Q starts soon. I’m National Honor Society president. I really enjoy that because I like helping out at the events. I’m also in National English Honor Society. We talked about doing a news-paper and I think that would be kind of fun.

Q: How did you get involved in music?

A: When I was about 5 my sis-ter started taking lessons and I was kind of jealous and I wanted lessons, too. I started when I was 6. I have a piano teacher right down the road. She’s the best. I’ve taken lessons from her for 12 years. It’s not just learn-ing to play songs. She teaches you everything so that, basi-cally, if you wanted you could be a concert pianist. It’s pretty intense but it’s really fun. I play for my church and then I sing at another church in the choir and then I play for another church occasionally. I think that’s why God gave us music. “God gave me music so I can pray without words.” That’s one of my favorite sayings.

Q: What church do you go to?A: Cedarhome Baptist.Q: Is that the church you’ve

been going to all your life?A: Yes. My parents have been

going there for about 30 years. We’re a relatively new family. A lot of the families have gone there forever and it’s a neat community.

Q: Do you hope to make a career out of music?

A: I’m deciding that right now. I would like to. I’m decid-ing whether I should apply to the Conservatory (of Music) at Wheaton (College) to major pos-sibly in performance and music education. Whatever happens, I want to be a musician at my church, I think, wherever that would be.

Q: Do you have any other careers you’re interested in?

A: History teacher. I think it would be fun to be a professor at some point just because the kids that go to universities tend to go there because they want to learn more. At a high school or middle school you have to go so it’s not always that fun.

Q: What do you do for fun?A: I read. And being a total

nerd, this is my bedside table: I have a history of church music and a book of hymns and psalms and then there’s an AP European History book. Yeah, a lot of history books. That and music. In my spare time, I listen to these lectures from a col-lege professor on music history because it involves music theory and history and how music

affects society. And I’m read-ing an art history book, and it’s fascinating all the symbols in art and what they signify. Right now I’m reading about the Renais-sance and you get to see these paintings and they’re cool but then you get to read about what they symbolize and you see another meaning behind the paintings.

Q: What are your most chal-lenging subjects?

A: I’d have to say math and AP physics. The thing with math is I can follow the equations and it’s fine but I guess I don’t really understand it. With history, you can understand why stuff hap-pened. But with math, especially like advanced calculus, it’s hard to understand.

Q: Do you have a favorite song to play or sing?

A: I think my favorite song to play on the piano is “Moonlight Sonata.” Everyone loves that song. It’s slow and it’s beautiful Beethoven. My dad had a stroke three and a half years ago and it took out his right side and his

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DAN BATES / THE HERALDStraight-A Stanwood senior Jeb McGlinchy is interested in pursuing either music or history at the next level.


Donald AbelsSept. 12, 1942 - Dec. 9, 2015

Donald Abels, 73, died on December 9, 2015 at his h o m e i n A r l i n g t o n , Washington. He was born in Arlington, Washington on September 12, 1942. He spent most of h i s l i f e l i v i n g i n t h e Marysville, Washington area. He was the only ch i ld of Louis and Hilda Abels. D o n g r a d u a t e d f r o m Marysvi l le High School in 1961. H e s e r ve d i n t h e A r my Re s e r ve w i t h t h e 4 0 9 t h E n g i n e e r C o m p a n y . H e worked for the Snohomish County PUD for 32 years and retired in 1999. He enjoyed working around home, working in the woods, a n d s p e n d i n g m a n y vacations at Ocean Shores. He was a member of the Stanwood Eagles #3041. Don is sur v ived by Kay Abels, his wife of 49 years; sons, Steven Abels (Karen) and Brad Abels (Sonja), and brother-in-law Jerry Turk. He w a s g r a n d f a t h e r to t w o granddaughters, Kira and Amelia. We would like to sincerely t h a n k t h e s t a f f a t t h e Providence Regional Cancer Partnership. A private family gathering will be held at a later date.

In Loving MemoryFred Strieby1941-2002

Deep in our hearts a memory is kept,

Of one we loved and shall never forget.

Thinking about you today and always.

Love, Mary and kids

James T. Pitts James T. P i t ts , 47 year r e s i d e n t o f L y n n w o o d , Washington passed away December 7, 2015. He was born on June 1, 1918 in Wheaton, Missouri. He lived with his family in Wichita, Kansas for 18 years before moving to Lynnwood in 1968. James grew up as a farmer before joining the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1941 and later that year joining the Army Air Force. He served for four years in t h e S o u t h P a c i f i c a s a m e m b e r o f t h e 2 2 n d Bombardment Group. After leaving the service, James took a posit ion at Boeing where he worked fo r 33 yea r s , sp l i t t i ng h i s t ime between Wichi ta , Kansas and Everett, Washington. James was a member of the Church of Christ. He was a l o v i n g s o n , h u s b a n d , uncle, a beloved father, and a d e a r f r i e n d . H e l ove d s p e n d i n g t i m e w i t h h i s family and friends, building airplanes, fishing and talking politics. James is survived by his son, Mark Pitts of Bellevue, Washington. He is preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Ruby F. Pitts; parents, T.E. and Mary E . P i t ts ; son, Craig P i t ts ; brothers and sisters, Norma Ireland, Rober t Pitts, and Ednabelle Pitts and Marjorie Kelsey. Funeral serv ices wi l l be h e l d a t 2 p . m . o n Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at Purdy & Walters at Floral Hills. Memorial donations made in honor of James may be made to the Museum o f F l i g h t , AC E S c h o l a r s h i p P r o g r a m , 9 4 0 4 E a s t M a r g i n a l W a y S o u t h , Seattle, WA. 98108.

Ona Gayle Helm Ona Gay le He lm, 8 4 o f Kent, Wash. passed away December 5, 2015. A v is i tat ion wi l l be held M o n d a y , D e c e m b e r 14 , 2015, f rom 9:00 - 11:15 a.m. at Schaefer-Shipman F u n e r a l H o m e w i t h a graveside service to follow a t 1 2 : 0 0 N o o n a t t h e Marysville Cemetery.

Marjorie AnnGreathouse

Jan. 10, 1952 - Nov. 3, 2015

Marjorie Ann Greathouse p a s s e d a w a y f r o m complications of cancer on November 3, 2015. Margie was born in South Bend, Wash. on January 10, 1952. She lived in Lynnwood for most of her adult l i fe. She was 63 years old at the time she passed. Margie was a wonder ful wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and aunt. M a r g i e r e c e i v e d h e r A s s o c i a te s D e g r e e f ro m W e s t e r n W a s h i n g t o n University. Margie is survived by her husband, David; her sons, A l l e n a n d B r i a n ; h e r daughter, Laura Merced; her g randch i ld ren , B r i g h ton , K a m r y n , A v a , N a t h a n , Kingston, Jose, El ias, and Liam; as well as her mother, Beatrice Niemi; and sister, Marsha West lund; not to leave out many loved nieces and nephews. M a r g i e i s v e r y d e e p l y missed. She was the heart of our family, a treasure. We wi l l always remember her love for animals and her devotion to her family and friends. Her door was always open and she loved being a mother to all.

Sandra Jean Crippen Sandra Jean Crippen,78, passed away peacefully in the presence of her loving f a m i l y o n D e c e m b e r 5 , 2015. S a n d r a w a s a l i fe l o n g r e s i d e n t o f t h e E ve r e t t , Wash. area and graduated from Everett High School in 1956. She was a proud and active member of the class of ‘56. Sandra’s loving heart s h o w e d t h r o u g h h e r beautiful smile. She held a ve r y c lose kn i t c i rc le o f lifelong friends, of whom she cher i shed . Sandra loved ch i ldren and spent many y e a r s a s a d e d i c a t e d employee of the Girl Scouts o f A m e r i c a u n t i l h e r retirement in 2002. Sandra is survived by her husband of 58 years, Allen; her four daughters: Liz, Judy, Ann and Sally; her f if teen grandchildren; nine great- grandchildren; six siblings a n d n u m e r o u s n i e c e s , nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Kelly and her great-grandson Kash. A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday, January 2, 2016, from 1-4 p.m. at the Knights of Co lumbus Hall, 2913 W. Marine View Drive, Everett. Donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association- Washington State Chapter,

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Peter Moreno commutes with his wife from Marys-ville to the eastside, which before tolling meant a free ride in the carpool lane. They now pay for the same 1.5-hour drive home.

“We are closing in on $200 spent on the tolls … We have to pay, otherwise it will take even longer to get home,” he said.

The average toll for the morning commute south-bound I-405 increased from $1.50 the first week of tolling to $3.75 the first week of December as more people started using the lanes. For the evening rush northbound, the average toll went up from $1.25 to $3.

Tolls typically didn’t go above $5 for the morning rush and $4 for evening in November. But those peak price points already were $1 to $2 higher than the typical $3 ceiling logged for October.

“Given the trend … we anticipate that drivers may regularly see higher toll rates during peak periods in the future, as people are willing to pay a higher rate,” said Ethan Berger-son, a spokesman for the state tolling division.

That fits the larger picture.

Experience in our own state and elsewhere shows tolls will continue to go up, testing that $10 ceiling enough times until it is raised even higher.

It’s the principle of toll lanes at work on itself.

Tolls go up over a single morning commute — start-ing at $0.75 at 5 a.m. and reaching $5 by 7 a.m. — as well as over months and years as more people start to see toll lanes as a viable option.

In Atlanta, the maximum toll paid has gradually increased since express lanes opened on 16 miles of I-85 in 2011. Tolls there recently hit a new record at $12.

On Los Angeles County’s I-110, it isn’t unusual for the toll lanes to be packed with folks paying more than $15 to travel the 11-mile route.

Opinion writers for a Florida newspaper say forget “Lexus lanes”; the express lanes on I-95 might as well be “Maserati Lanes” with the maximum

$10.50 toll charged so often.

Closer to home, the Highway 167 high-occu-pancy toll lanes south of Renton see low average tolls — just $1.25 overall in 2014. But those lanes, too, hit their $9 ceiling within a month of opening in 2008, and have hit the maximum toll more frequently since the state in 2012 made it easier for drivers to access the lanes.

A higher toll does not mean faster speeds within the toll lane.

We can look at I-405 to see that.

One month into toll-ing, express lane drivers paid an average $1.60 toll during the evening com-mute to save 17 minutes of travel time, about 9 cents a minute.

Two months in, the rate was up to 15 cents a minute, with a higher toll ($2.20) to save less time (15 minutes).

On that first $10 morn-ing last week, drivers in the lanes were saving 16 minutes — only a minute above the average — for 63 cents a minute.

Up to a point, research shows that the higher the toll, the more willing people are to pay because of the perceived benefit.

It’s like a $50 T-shirt at Nordstrom, or a $5 T-shirt at Value Village of the same brand with last year’s print. They’re both T-shirts. But only one has a certain panache.

Jeff Yirak, of Snohom-ish, understands the math.

“If the (express toll lanes) were moving at 60 mph and the general lanes were crawling, I’d prob-ably be willing to pay $10 per day,” Yirak said. As it is, “there’s little point in paying $7, $8, or $10 to go slow.”

On normal days, though, he and his carpool buddy split the cost of tolls to get home in the same amount of time they did before in the HOV lanes. They’ve paid as much as $6.25.

In the bigger picture, Yirak notes he’s paying to go slower.

Before tolling, it took he and his carpool buddy 30 minutes to get to work. It now takes 40 minutes.

“When I think about paying $50 a week to get to and from work in more time than the trip was tak-ing three months ago, I get a little upset,” Yirak said.

“But I suppose traffic is a fact of life. Until I’m will-ing to move my family and my business away from Snohomish County — or all of western Washington, practically speaking — I just have to deal with it.”

And for a growing num-ber of drivers, traffic is so bad it’s worth paying to beat even a fraction of it.

Dorothy Heiret, of Both-ell, drives the northbound toll lanes daily from work in Bellevue. She usually enters early enough to pay the lowest toll, 75 cents, but she’d likely pay up to $2. The toll lanes get her home an extra 5 to 10 minutes early.

“I know 5-10 minutes doesn’t sound like much, but when you add that to the 15 minutes of attitude adjustment that would have been required after sitting in traffic, it all adds up,” Heiret said.

Katelyn Reilly, of Kirk-land, also travels north in the toll lanes to visit her parents in Mill Creek. So far she hasn’t paid any more than $1.50,

but might pay up to $6. “I don’t mind paying a couple bucks to not have to deal with the stop-and-go of rush hour traffic,” she said.

Cary Granger, of Clear-view, travels to Bellevue most days, typically when traffic is light. “But the few times that I was in a hurry, and the traffic was bad, I used the toll lanes,” he said.

The highest he’s paid is $2.75. How high would he go?

“What I would be willing to pay to use the toll lanes is all dependent on how it will benefit me as to when I get to my destination,” Granger said. “‘Time is money.’”

Time is money. Soon enough, it may be priceless.

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Snohomish County’s deputy director of public works.

There’s a 500-foot crack in the pavement and some of it collapsed into the Stillaguamish near a bend in the river. Water routinely covers parts of Norman and other low-land roads during floods like the one Nov. 18.

“Basically one lane is gone,” Carter said. “The rain just saturated the sand and dirt under the road and it sloughed off into the river.”

The road is closed to all traffic for about a mile, from where it branches off Pioneer Highway to its intersection with 28th Ave. NW.

It’s too soon to know how much it will cost to fix the road, Carter said. County officials are con-sulting with the Army Corps of Engineers, wild-life experts and local Indian tribes on repair plans. They’ll likely use layers of an eco-friendly wrap to stabilize the bank. The soonest work could start is July.

“We have to wait until we can get in the river,” Carter said.

Detour signs are set up on either side of the closure. An average of 19 vehicles use Norman Road each hour, accord-ing to the county. That includes local traffic and trucks that carry farm supplies.

Jeremy Visser has run Natural Milk Dairy on Norman Road since 2007 and moved there with his family about two and a half years ago. The road closure has been a major inconvenience but he’s learned to work around it. The dairy has a pri-vate gravel road that cuts across his fields so he can get equipment and goods in and out.

There are at least four homes along Norman Road where vehicle access is limited by size and weight because of the closure, Visser said. UPS won’t deliver and school buses can’t get by. When he hosted a group of local students for a tour of the dairy, they had to walk about half a mile to get to the farm, he said.

“It’s unfortunate they weren’t able to repair the road” before the November flood, he said. “Now it’s a much bigger fix.”

People still try to navigate around the “Road Closed” signs but are forced to turn back before the wash-out. Visser tries to look on the bright side: he now lives on a very quiet street because there’s never too much traffic. And he counts himself fortunate that his prop-erty wasn’t damaged by the November storm and flood that tore into the road.

“It was just a sleepless night or two,” he said.


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MILL CREEK — A hunt is on for somebody who reportedly opened fire on Mill Creek police officers early Sunday.

The incident occurred while officers were responding to a 1:25 a.m. alarm in the 2100 block of

132nd Street SE, according to a police press release.

Officers said a tan or beige full-sized truck with no canopy slowly rolled up on the scene. There were gunshots but no reported injuries.

“It is unknown if the shooter(s) were specifically targeting the officers on

scene,” police reported.The truck sped away and

officers immediately gave chase but without success. A vehicle matching the description was reported later driving recklessly at the Thomas Lake Shopping Center, where more shots apparently were fired.

Police asked anyone with

information to call 911.“I am proud of our police

force and thankful we had no tragedies as a result of last night’s incident. The city will utilize all of its available resources to identify and prosecute the responsible parties,” City Manager Rebecca Poliz-zotto said.

Shots fired at Mill Creek police

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Russia: Fatal fire at clinicInvestigators say they will have to

study more closely to figure out the cause of a major blaze that left at least 23 people dead at a southwestern Russian psychiatric clinic, local civil defense forces said Sunday. More than 20 others were taken to hospital for smoke inha-lation or burns. The blaze broke out late Saturday in the southern Russian city of Voronezh and took a crew of more than 800 four hours to extinguish, the Interfax news agency reported. A short circuit is the suspected cause of the fire.

France: Far right collapseMarine Le Pen’s far-right National

Front collapsed in French regional elec-tions Sunday, failing to take a single region after dominating the first round of voting, pollsters projected. The con-servatives surged against the governing Socialists, changing the political map of France. The failure of the National Front to gain any of the six regions where it was leading didn’t stop the anti-immi-gration party from looking to the 2017 presidential election — Le Pen’s ulti-mate goal.

Turkmenistan: PipelineLeaders from Afghanistan, India and

Pakistan joined the president of Turk-menistan in breaking ground on a new pipeline intended to deliver natural gas from the energy-rich former Soviet republic to their three countries. Turk-menistan is believed to have the world’s fourth-largest gas reserves, but currently exports mainly to China. Turkmen Presi-dent Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was joined at Sunday’s ceremony by the Afghan president, Indian vice president and Pakistani prime minister. The 1,080-mile TAPI pipeline is intended to carry gas through the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar and end up in the India-Pakistan border town of Fazilka.

Italy: ‘Hot pants’ creator diesMariuccia Mandelli, an Italian fash-

ion designer who electrified the runway with short shorts known as “hot pants,” knitwear whimsically emblazoned with animals and pantsuits for the modern, yet feminine, working woman, died Dec. 6 at her home in Milan. She was 90. Her death was reported by Corri-ere della Sera and other Italian media outlets. The cause was not immedi-ately available. Mandelli was regarded as royalty in Milan, the fashion capital of Italy, for more than half a century. A onetime elementary school teacher, she launched Krizia, her fashion label, in the mid-1950s, drawing its name from a Platonic dialogue about female vanity.

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Texas firm eyes oil drilling in Alaska

ANCHORAGE — Arctic offshore drilling by Royal Dutch Shell PLC drew protests on two continents this year, but a more modest proposal for extract-ing petroleum where polar bears roam has moved forward with much less attention. While Shell proposed explor-atory wells in the Chukchi Sea about 80 miles off Alaska’s northwest coast, a Texas oil company wants to build a gravel island as a platform for five or more extraction wells that could tap oil 6 miles from shore in the Beaufort Sea. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Man-agement is deciding how to assess the environmental effect of a production plan for the Liberty Project by Hilcorp Alaska LLC, a subsidiary of Houston-based Hilcorp Energy Co. A successful well would mean the first petroleum production in federal Arctic waters. Hil-corp’s plan for a 23-acre gravel island, about the size of 17.4 football fields, has drawn mixed reviews from conser-vationists and outright condemnation from environmentalists who believe the oil should stay in the ground.

Calif.: Armed man shotA black man who was fatally shot by

Los Angeles deputies kept holding a gun as he lay dying on the ground, authori-ties said Sunday in response to questions about why they continued to fire on the man after he fell to the pavement. A close-up from security footage showed Nicholas Robertson, 28, stretched out on the ground with a gun in his hand. He died at the scene Saturday morn-ing in the south Los Angeles suburb of Lynwood. Two deputies fired 33 bullets at the man after he refused to drop the gun and walked across a busy street to a filling station where a family was pump-ing gas, homicide Capt. Steven Katz said. Asked if the officers were white, Katz said no but would not elaborate.

By Terrence Dopp and Susan Decker

Bloomberg News

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Car-son said Sunday that talk of a contested convention to select the Republican nomi-nee violates terms of neutrality agreements they made with party leaders not to mount third-party campaigns.

Trump said party leaders need to “get used to” him being in the race, and he hopes that reports that Republican Party officials gathered recently to discuss contesting his nomina-tion — even if he receives the required number of delegates — are incorrect.

“I’ve been hearing about these closed-door meetings and I don’t like that,” Trump told CNN’s “State of the Union With Jake Tapper.” “That wasn’t the deal I made. I signed a pledge, and the pledge was supposed to be a double deal. They were supposed to be honorable, so we’re going to find out. If it’s going to be that way we’ll have problems, but I hope it’s not going to be that way.”

The last so-called brokered convention in U.S. politics took place in 1952, when then-Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson was drafted by the Democratic Party as a compromise candi-date when no one else gained enough support to secure the nomination. Stevenson lost in the general election to Republi-can Dwight D. Eisenhower.

A crowded Republican field for 2016 with more than a dozen hopefuls has meant Trump, along with Carson, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and others, have competed for a fractured party base.

On “Fox News Sunday” the real estate mogul lashed out at Cruz, who has taken a 10-point lead over Trump among Iowa Republicans weeks before the state’s caucuses, according to a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll. Trump said Cruz doesn’t have the right temperament or the right

judgment to be president, and has acted in the Senate “like a little bit of a maniac.”

Carson, a retired neuro-surgeon with no political experience who’s also shown a strong early presence in the race for the party’s nomination, renewed his threat to leave the party if a brokered convention designed to blunt his standing were to take place.

“One of the reasons that I got into this is because I heard the frustration in the people who are so tired of back-room deals, of subterfuge, of dishonesty,” Carson said during an appear-ance on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” “And, you know, if that is the case, then, you know, I’m out of here.”

The Washington Post reported Thursday that 20 Republican party stalwarts discussed the possibility of brokering the convention at a Washington dinner held by Republican National Commit-tee Chairman Reince Priebus. A person who attended the dinner confirmed to Bloom-berg that it took place, and that Priebus, members of Congress, establishment lobbyists and others have held similar dis-cussions for weeks.

Carson said he’s spoken to Preibus and was told that the meeting was a routine one and there are no back-room

deals taking place. “But, you know, the jury is out. We’ll cer-tainly be keeping a close eye on things,” he said.

The Republican establish-ment’s participation in a bid to thwart Trump comes a lit-tle more than three months after the billionaire signed a loyalty pledge presented to him by Priebus. Carson told ABC News Friday he has “no intention of running as an independent” but said he doesn’t “want to be a part of corruption.”

Trump said he agrees with Carson’s positions and sent him a note this week saying so.

Establishment Republi-cans fear a Trump nomination would cause the party to lose

the election and possibly seats in Congress, because he has advocated controversial posi-tions such as rounding up and deporting millions of undocumented workers and a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. A USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Dec. 8 showed that 68 per-cent of Trump’s supporters would vote for him if he broke from the party and ran as an independent.

Trump said on Fox News that party leaders will need to get used to his presence. “I’m supposed to be on the other side writing checks,” he said. “Sorry I did this to you, but you’re going to have to get used to it.”

Candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson bristle at talk of brokered Republican convention.

Potential problems for GOP

RICHARD SHIRO / ASSOCIATED PRESSRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall meeting Saturday in the Convocation Center on the University of South Carolina’s campus in Aiken.

Christie to return to main stageCNN is inviting Gov. Chris Christie back to prime-time in the upcoming Republican presidential debate.The New Jersey governor, who had been dropped from the main stage during the last debate, is one of nine Republican presidential candidates to qualify for the network’s prime-time event Tuesday. Also among them: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who was “on the bubble” of qualifying late last week, the network said.Front-runner Donald Trump will appear at center stage, flanked by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Sen. Ted Cruz, who is surging in Iowa. Other GOP hopefuls who qualified for the main stage include Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

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By Louise WattAssociated Press

BEIJING — China’s push for a global climate pact was partly because of its own increasingly pressing need to solve serious environmen-tal problems, observers said Sunday.

China, the world’s biggest source of climate-changing gases, was blamed for obstruct-ing the last high-level climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009. This time around, it sent strong political signals it wanted a deal ahead of and during the Paris negotiations that ended Saturday with the agreement to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) between now and 2100.

“Environmental issues have become much more impor-tant to the Chinese public and therefore to the Chinese gov-ernment,” said Dimitri de Boer, head of China Carbon Forum, a Beijing-based nonprofit organization.

Since 2009, the public has gone from not knowing much or caring about environ-mental issues “and mainly being focused on wanting to make some money, to now being very concerned with

environmental issues and tak-ing that on par with wanting to make money,” he said.

China’s cities are among the world’s dirtiest after three decades of explosive economic growth that led to construc-tion of hundreds of coal-fired power plants and an increase in car ownership.

China was reminded of its severe environmental challenges during the Paris conference when the capi-tal, Beijing, issued its first red alert for pollution under a two-year system because of heavy smog. The city ordered limits on vehicles, factories and con-struction sites and told schools to close.

China pushed for a deal because of its own problems and because the effects of cli-mate change are becoming clearer each year, said Jiang Kejun, senior researcher at the Energy Research Insti-tute under the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top eco-nomic planning agency.

The message on climate change “is very clear — we must do something — and in the meantime the domes-tic policymaking process is getting more environment-oriented,” Jiang said. The air pollution in Beijing is putting pressure on policymakers and China is moving toward a low-carbon economy anyway, he said.

To build momentum for a deal, China and the United

States, the world’s two biggest carbon emitters, last year set a 2030 deadline for emissions to stop rising. This June, Beijing promised to cut carbon emis-sions per unit of economic output by 65 percent from 2005 levels.

In September, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $3.1 billion to help develop-ing countries combat climate change.

“That’s huge,” said de Boer. “They may well be a devel-oping country, but they are also clearly ready to start sup-porting the least-developed countries in terms of their climate mitigation and adapta-tion efforts.”

Xi attended the opening ceremony of the Paris confer-ence two weeks ago along with other leaders — and made a last-ditch effort in phone talks

with President Barack Obama on Friday to get a global deal, according to China’s offi-cial Xinhua News Agency. He told Obama that their coun-tries needed to work together to ensure an agreement was reached “in the interest of the international community,” Xin-hua said.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that China’s push for a successful conclusion to the Paris nego-tiations “fully shows that China is dealing with climate change issues as a responsible big country.”

Beijing came under criti-cism for obstructing the 2009 Copenhagen talks when some participants complained China and India stymied global emissions reduction efforts, possibly for fear they might hamper economic growth.

The country’s efforts on the historic deal in Paris are partly because of its own pollution.

ANDY WONG / ASSOCIATED PRESSA woman wears a mask Sunday as she rides across a road on a polluted day in Beijing.

China sees climate change more clearly

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session at Columbia College-NS Everett/Marysville is open. The session begins Jan. 11, but students can register through Jan. 13 for online classes and Jan. 15 for in-seat classes. The college offers more than 70 total associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees and offers more than 800 online classes. For more information, go to

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Party City celebrated the relo-cation and grand opening of its Marysville store Dec. 4 at 2559 172nd Street NE in the Smokey Point Town Center. The new store, nearly 12,000 square feet, is equipped with an assortment of party essentials and features an enhanced, self-serving De-sign and Personalization Studio.

Molina Healthcare and Molina Medical are hosting Holiday Giving, a free event for families of the local community. The event is from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 16 at 15 SW Everett Mall Way, Everett. It will include giveaways, raffles, refreshments and more. All giveaways will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.

Seattle Genetics has moved into two buildings in the Canyon Park Business Center. The space previously housed Panasonic Avionics. With the new lease, the company will occupy close to 500,000 square feet in total. Se-attle Genetics is a Bothell-based biotech firm focused on cancer with a product in the market to treat Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It has 600 employees.

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In Ryan Gagnon’s world, weld-ing and metal fabrication give ideas solid form and an industrial edginess.

From gates, stairways and rail-ings, to bar stools, beer towers and stainless-steel counter-tops, to reclaimed-wood tables and wine-bottle holders — the list goes on and on — Gagnon Welding 42 Inc. has been pull-ing objects from the ether for 15 years from its base in Snohomish.

“If you can dream it, we can make it happen,” Gagnon said.

Starting out in late 2000 with a single truck and a trailer, Gagnon, now 43, first worked by himself as a mobile welding and metal-fabricator company. He found plenty of business.

“It’s amazing how, if you just show up on time and you return phone calls, people will use you,” he said.

Within a couple of years, he’d moved to a shop location, started hiring employees, sold his truck-and-trailer combination and bought a bigger truck.

Today he has four “rigs,” nine employees — eight in the shop and one in the office — and is buying the building that houses his shop at 1208 10th St. in Snohomish.

He also recently opened 42 Metal Design a few blocks away, at 905 First St., to display some of the furniture and other creations that come out of his shop.

Store hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; hours will increase as the business grows, Gagnon said.

And grow it surely will, as more people discover what Gagnon Welding 42 Inc. can do. Just ask Mike Lavallee, artist and owner of Killer Paint airbrush studio next door.

“He looks at projects from a different angle,” Lavallee said of Gagnon. “He’s not your ordinary welder.”

He figures it’s Gagnon’s artistic bent that makes them connect so well.

And they trade their talents; Lavallee painted the distinctive flame designs on Gagnon’s work trucks and Gagnon has done projects for Lavallee that include building showcases, security bars, a business sign and the gate in front of his garage.

“If I want anything done, from ordinary welding up to specialty welding, there’s no one else I’d consider,” Lavallee said. “And it’s not just because we’re friends.”

Gagnon learned his trade in a welding course he enrolled in after high school at Lake Washing-ton Technical College in Kirkland, now called the Lake Washington Institute of Technology.

From there, he worked for eight years at Kenworth Truck Company in Renton, welding truck axles and mostly doing the same thing day in and day out.

It was years later that he real-ized his artistic side, after he’d opened his shop. He’d been doing “a lot of gates and rail-ings,” he said, when he met Don Bellis, president and co-owner The Rock Wood Fire Pizza in Washington, where the franchise began. Bellis had been picking up a truck from Lavallee’s Killer Paint airbrush studio.

“He popped next door and said, ‘Hey, are you interested in welding stuff for our restau-rant?’ ” Gagnon said.

That was at about number three for the restaurant chain, which started in Auburn and now has some 20 restaurants ranging throughout the Pacific Northwest — including in Lynnwood and Mill Creek — and as far north as

Alaska and south in Texas.“It went from building little

stuff to helping create everything from tables to beer towers to a crane falling out of the wall,” Gagnon said.

Gagnon Welding 42 Inc. “played a major role in the con-struction of all metal elements in our restaurants,” Bellis wrote in a testimonial on the welding company’s website, going on to say that not only is the company skilled in welding and metal fab-rication, it is also artistic.

“We can simply give Ryan a rough sketch, or idea,” Bellis wrote, “and he transforms that into something cool.”

Gagnon said, “It’s not all me; I also have good employees that help create a vision with me.”

Another plus is that his com-pany sees a project through, from start to finish.

“We’ll come to your house,” he said, “measure it, go over designs, design something, and then we go back to your house and install it.”

For long-distance projects, such as those for The Rock Wood Fire Kitchen in different states, Gagnon said he usually ships his shop’s creations, then he and employees travel to the site “in a pack of four” and install them.

Not so long ago, they traveled

to the Boston area, where Bel-lis — who’d moved back after several years in Washington — bought a house just a few doors down from New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. As a rib to the football rivalry with New England, Gagnon fastened a Seahawks plaque to the inside back of the shipping crate; dis-playing a photo on his phone, he laughed about the reception that must have gotten, though he said Bellis took it like a good sport.

These days his company’s work is apparent in the industrial met-alwork at a variety of restaurants, including the Trails End Taphouse and Restaurant, and The Black Duck Cask and Bottle in Issaquah.

“We’re very fortunate that we got in with different restaurants,” he said, “where people let us design and help create.”

As for the 42 in his company’s name? That’s a creation of a dif-ferent sort, arising from a rowdy night with a snowboarding friend many years ago, Gagnon said. The two were idly wondering how far it was to Mount Baker, where they planned to snow-board the next day, and decided to make a bet. Whoever guessed closest won and the other guy had to buy lift tickets.

“We said, on the count of three say your number,” Gagnon

explained. “And we both said 42.”It’s been a family number ever

since, so much so that his 16-year-old son, Riley, even claimed it for his football jersey. Gagnon also has two daughters: Rainey, 14, and Ria, 11. His wife, Rebekah, works in the shop office.

Employees have come and gone over the years as they’ve moved on to different jobs or locales, but Gagnon said he can think of only one who parted on not-so-good terms. Some have a lot to learn, but he’s willing to teach them, he said, as long as they show up on time every day and are willing to work hard. Sometimes he’ll lend a truck to help them move or give them an extra day off.

“Do I have benefit packages like Boeing or Kenworth?” he said. “No. But I have a family atmosphere here.”

Sometimes he needs advice himself on how to do something, such as welding bronze, which is when he calls on mentors like Chris Gallagher, an owner of Metalistics Inc. in Everett, which rolls the metal many fabricators use in their projects.

Gallagher said he is always happy to “pass along our vast, limited knowledge” to other metal fabricators.

“It’s kind of a network of fabri-cators,” he said, “and we all know each other.”

Gagnon “has a lot of creativity” and is very involved in his com-munity, Gallagher said.

“You can’t go anywhere in Snohomish without running into someone who knows him,” Gal-lagher said.

Residents of Snohomish are very supportive of each other, Gagnon said, and 99 percent of his business comes from word-of-mouth.

“The nice thing about the com-munity is, a lot of us, we all use each other,” he said.

Everything he does now is custom-made, but in the future, Gagnon said he’d like to move away from that a bit and sell more out of his 42 Metal Design store.

“I’d love to whip out that fish tank five times,” he said. “I’d love to make a table five times.”

Still, nothing beats the one-on-one with his clients.

“My favorite part of my job is seeing the customer’s face, see-ing the customer happy,” he said. “It’s really cool.”

Snohomish firm works metal magic

GENNA MARTIN / HERALD FILEMichael Callahan builds metal brackets for a wedding chapel at Gagnon Welding in Snohomish on Sept. 14. The company does custom welding for restaurants and businesses, and also produces custom furniture.

By Jim DavisHerald Business Journal

When Whidbey Island Bank merged with Heritage Bank last year, one of the unstated goals was to expand the combined bank’s presence in Seattle.

It made sense geographi-cally. Whidbey Island’s coverage reached from the Canadian border to north King County. Heritage’s area was from Oregon to south King County.

And it made sense financially. Before the merger, the separate banks had about $1.6 billion each in assets. Combined, Heri-tage now has about $3.6 billion in assets, enough to provide the capital for costly projects in downtown Seattle.

“Both banks had some level of activity in King County, but the combined bank gives us size and scale to really handle that market,” said Bryan McDonald, Heritage’s chief lending officer.

That’s why Heritage Bank

planted its flag in a big way in downtown Seattle this summer. The bank in August opened a branch in downtown at 1420 Fifth Ave., Suite 3600, in Seattle. Last month, Heritage Bank expanded the staff at the office and now has 14 bankers at the site. “What we’ve found is a very strong acceptance by the market,” McDonald said. “You never know when you start something new, but this has been a process that has been going on for over a year and at each step we’ve had results stronger than what we originally expected.”

King County is like Snohomish County in that the national banks — the Bank of Americas, the Wells Fargos and U.S. Banks — control most of the market. That’s even more so the case since Washington Mutual Bank closed in 2008 and its assets were purchased by New York’s J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

And that opens the door for a bank like Heritage, which has its roots in community banking.

Heritage, with headquarters in Olympia, has 66 branches mostly up and down the I-5 corridor.

Thirteen of those locations are in Snohomish County and another seven are in Island County.

“I think the loss of WaMu gives an opportunity for a regional commercial bank to increase its presence in (the Seattle) mar-ket,” said Brian Vance, Heritage’s president and CEO. “There are some opportunities for a com-munity bank with size and scale that has the desire to bank that market. As always I think it takes the right team and the right peo-ple to accomplish that and I think Bryan has done an incredible job assembling that team.”

McDonald wouldn’t say that community banks are better than corporate banks, but he did say the banks offer different experi-ences. Community banks tend to be deeply involved in the areas they grew from, he said. Commu-nity bankers are expected to join nonprofit boards and take part in

civic life.“The responsiveness and rela-

tionship between the business owner and the bank is differ-ent,” McDonald said. “You would often have access to the chief lending officer or our CEO where you wouldn’t at (national bank.)”

Banking is a high-touch busi-ness and being able to interact with decisionmakers quickly is important, Vance said.

“I think that’s a key difference between a community bank and a national player,” Vance said.

Heritage Bank doesn’t break out how individual branches do in its earning report.

But earnings are strong for the overall company. Heritage Finan-cial Corp., the holding company for Heritage Bank, reported a net income of $9.5 million, or 32 cents for diluted shares, compared with $7.1 million, or 23 cents a share, for the same quarter last year.

The company’s total assets have increased by $115 million since June. Loans receivable were

up $56 million from the previous quarter.

And McDonald credits part of that to the strategy in Seat-tle, where the bank opened the downtown branch in the City Centre building. (The bank does expect to close a smaller branch in Westlake next year.)

While Seattle and King County has gotten a special focus this year, Heritage Bank has also added personnel and resources in Snohomish and Pierce coun-ties, McDonald said. Those three counties are the fastest-growing counties in Heritage Bank’s cov-erage area.

“If you drive around Sno-homish County and downtown Everett, it’s pretty obvious that people are making investments in the county,” McDonald said.

“I think we’re privileged to do business in some very strong markets,” Vance said. “The Puget Sound markets are doing well and we’re able to capitalize on the growth we’re seeing in the region.”

Heritage continues push into Seattle

Opinion

■ GUN FATALITIES

Ammo purchases no one’s business

Regarding the letter, “Restrict, record all ammo sales”: It appears the writer is a liberal-minded individual trying to impose his will on others. It is none of his busi-ness how many rounds of ammo or guns anyone owns. Is it any wonder so many mass shootings that occur in a gun-free zone? The recent California incident could have turned out differently if only one or two individuals had the ability to be legally armed. Cowards who commit these crimes do so because they are safe. How long before armed help arrived? They were gone by then.

The good news is these ter-rorist lives came to a great resolution within hours. They can terrorize no one else.

How about we tell the let-ter writer how much bread, milk, gasoline, etc., he should be able to buy and have in his possession? I am tired of knee-jerk liberals trying to manage my life. I am 70 years old and will protect what I have, including my family. As good as the police are, there are only so many of them to go around.

Mike MartinEverett

■ CLIMATE CHANGE

GOP needs to get on board

Last September, 12 House Republicans, including Rep. Dave Reichert of Washington, sponsored the Gibson Resolu-tion, supporting conservative environmental stewardship and acknowledging human impact on climate. Rep. Chris Gibson of New York led this effort right before Pope Francis’ visit to Congress.

House Resolution 424 seeks to express the commitment of the House of Representa-tives to work constructively on creating and supporting eco-nomically viable and broadly supported solutions to mea-sured changes in global and regional climates. This reso-lution is currently waiting its turn before the Energy and Policy Sub-Committee.

Rep. Gibson and his co-sign-ing colleagues are showing us that not all Republicans are playing political football with climate change or environ-mental issues.

In contrast, at recent Repub-lican Presidential debates, very few words have been said about climate or environ-mental issues. Example: Sen. Marco Rubio said: “America is not a planet,” suggesting that U.S. policies do not affect our environment or global climate. There seems to be a real unwillingness among Republican political leaders to engage in climate issues.

More congressional Republi-cans have got to step up to a real conversation about environ-mental matters if the national Republican leadership is ever to be taken seriously as a party of governance. Well, at least 12 Republican congresspersons are trying.

Readers should encour-age their congressional delegations to sign the Gibson

Resolution, and to move it to full consideration by the House of Representatives.

For more information, please check out

w w w . c o n g r e s s . g o v /b i l l / 1 1 4 t h - c o n g r e s s /house-resolution/424/text

Charles A. LoPrestiRichland and Bothell

■ TRANSPORTATION

Pay-by-mile just around the bend

In case you didn’t know, Oregon and New Jersey imple-mented a “pay as you go” plan where transponders are con-nected to their cars so the state can track where they go and charge them by the mile. Well, they are planning on doing the same thing to us here in Washington.

Because cars are so fuel effi-cient today, the state “isn’t making enough revenue in “gas taxes.” So, let me get this straight, you wanted us to use gas efficient vehicles so we did, and now we are going to be punished for it?

This is the beginning of the bigger plan which is to force all of us with cars to give in and use public transportation ... doesn’t matter if that doesn’t work for your family ... we are being herded like cattle to follow their agenda. It isn’t bad enough what they are doing to the poor people having to drive I-405 every day, costing as much as $500-plus per month per driver. Now they want to track us and charge us per mile. And just as it started in the beginning of the “Pay as you Go” plan...it was “only” 75 cents, which “wasn’t so bad” but now it’s much more and rising.

How would you like your government to track your

every mile and knowing your every destination? Personally, I will move to another state before allowing “Big Brother” to control where I go and how far I drive to get there and charging me for it.

This is a huge issue, people, but just like most other very important issues, it is being hidden and kept under wraps. Oregonians were told “this is just a 90 day experiment” — big lie. We are told Pay as you Go was affordable — lie! We are never going to stop this if we don’t even know it’s start-ing. Well, now you know.

Susan MartinEverett

■ COLLEGE FOOTBALL

UW evidence of too many bowls

Well, well. Here we go again. The University of Washing-ton Husky football team has been given another “gift bowl.” (Article, “Huskies meet South-ern Miss in Heart of Dallas Bowl.”) How do they do this each year?

Very simple: They manip-ulate their pre-conference schedule, allowing themselves to play and beat weaker teams. Iowa and Baylor do the same.

Does any team with a con-ference record of 5-6 go to a bowl? Not in my camp. How about yours?

And dadgum it, Boise State is being removed from the Husky schedule. How does playing Weber State sound? Huskies “pad” their early games.

And the Cougars are playing in the Sun Bowl. Now there is a team that is worthy.

Bruce A. FergusonSnohomish

IN OUR VIEW | Safe streets

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With Everett’s serious com-mitment to helping homeless people — most notably the approval of Mayor Ray Stephanson’s $1 million in new funding for the “Safe Streets” project — the city can begin with a return to the area that spurred much of this ini-tiative in the first place — the homeless “encampment,” for lack of a better word, near the Everett Gospel Mission.

Last March, the city installed chain-link fences on both sides of Smith Avenue where it runs under I-5, upgraded the lighting in the underpass to make it less attractive to transients, and cleared away the people living there. It was a coordinated effort, part of the earlier Com-munity Streets Initiative that has become the Safe Streets project. The Everett Gos-pel Mission requested help, because the crowded area was without sanitation and replete with drug use.

Over several weeks of out-reach, Herald writer Chris Winters reported, police

officers and workers from the Gospel Mission, Catho-lic Community Services, Cocoon House, Evergreen Manor, Compass Mental Health, Volunteers of Amer-ica, WorkSource Snohomish County and Pioneer Human Services of Skagit County approached people in the area to see if they could con-nect them with some kind of services.

The idea is to help peo-ple, direct them to specific services, rather than arrest-ing people. Some people took up the offer for help, others simply left. The area was cleared out and the fence was put up. Owing to the hugely difficult and ingrained nature of home-lessness, the area was soon repopulated again — the only difference being that the chain link fence pushes them closer to the sidewalk and street, making it very dangerous for everyone when vehicles drive under the overpass.

Now the area seems

even worse than before the fence. For months, busi-ness owners and neighbors have repeatedly reported increases in crime in the area. Recently, a man was arrested for allegedly attacking two people from a church group as they were handing out food near the Gospel Mission, The Her-ald’s Diana Hefley reported. While the church groups are well intentioned, Everett police say the hand-outs add to the area’s problem with trash, and attracting more homeless people to the area. Everett Police Chief Dan Templeman encourages people who want to help the homeless to donate to local groups providing services to the homeless, such as Cath-olic Community Services and Volunteers of America.

“We’ve also learned from our conversations with those on the streets that these direct donations can decrease their motivation to seek services and treatment,” Templeman said.

It’s frustrating to have to start over again, but that’s part and parcel of solving difficult problems.

Outreach and social work-ers are figuring out what works, and what doesn’t, as far getting people off the streets and into some kind shelter. A small percentage of people will always refuse help, but the large number of people found on all the streets, indicates that more and more people become homeless every day, often due to compounding problems like drug addiction or mental illness.

The future will hold more options, as the Safe Streets project includes money to build 20 units of low-barrier supportive housing over the next two years for the chroni-cally homeless. Everett’s outreach workers will have no problem identifying top candidates for such housing. The fence was not a solution, but the outreach was, and remains so. Clean it up and start again.

Start over on underpass On Jan. 1, 30 days before Iowa

caucus-goers cast the first votes of the 2016 presidential race, the state

will gain another national distinction, but of a dubious variety: It plans to launch the most sweeping and radical privatization of Medicaid ever attempted.

In an extraordinary social policy experiment, Iowa’s Republican Gov. Terry Branstad is kicking about 560,000 of the state’s poorest residents out of the traditional Medicaid health care program for the poor and forcing virtually all of them to sign up with private insurers. The trend toward managed-care for Medicaid has been underway for decades and some 39 states do it to some extent. But experts inside and outside government say no state has tried to make such a wholesale change so quickly — in Iowa’s case, launching the program fewer than 90 days after signing contracts with private health care companies.

Iowa is conducting an extreme test of a familiar premise of free-market con-servatism: that the private sector is more efficient at management and service delivery than government. But the results so far should give pause to those who automatically make such assumptions. The transition of Iowa’s $4.2 billion Med-icaid program has made the rollout of HealthCare.gov look orderly.

An Iowa administrative law judge late last month recommended that Iowa throw out the contract it awarded to WellCare, one of the four companies hired to man-age the new program, noting that the company failed to disclose details of its “integrity agreement” with the federal gov-ernment after the 2014 convictions of three former executives involving the misuse of Medicaid money. In addition, WellCare had paid $138 million to resolve claims that it overbilled Medicare and Medicaid.

The Des Moines Register has reported that the four companies selected to oper-ate the Iowa program have had more than 1,500 regulatory sanctions combined and have paid $10.2 million in fines over the last five years. These involved canceled appointments, privacy breaches, untimely processing and failure to obtain informed consent.

The Iowa rollout has been hampered by delays, and some beneficiaries of the program are only now getting their enroll-ment packets, though the deadline for signing up is Dec. 17. Health care provid-ers complain that they are being forced to sign incomplete contracts or face a pen-alty, and that some contracts don’t cover services that had been covered under the existing Medicaid program.

Branstad’s administration has answered critics by saying the new program will save $51 million in its first six months. But he has been unable to come up with docu-mentation to justify the cost savings.

Branstad had the authority to imple-ment the new program without input from the state Legislature. But officials with the Centers for Medicare and Med-icaid Services were in Iowa last week and will make a ruling soon on whether the plan can proceed.

In response to my inquiry, Branstad’s office sent me to the state’s Department of Human Services, where a spokeswoman, Amy Lorentzen McCoy, said all is well. The state, which now has 12 percent of Medic-aid recipients in managed care, would have gone this way anyway, she said, but the urgency increased with the recent Medic-aid expansion (Branstad was one of the few Republican governors to accept the Obam-acare expansion of the program).

As the nation’s attention turns to the Iowa caucuses, Iowans will likely be wit-nessing either a fight between Branstad and Obama (if the federal government forces a delay in the Iowa program) or chaos (if the program is allowed to pro-ceed). Other states, such as Kansas and Kentucky, have tried similar experiments, but they either moved more deliberately or didn’t extend the private program to vul-nerable populations such as the disabled.

“A lot of issues have been raised with the pace of the rollout” in Iowa, said Julia Paradise, a Medicaid expert with the Kaiser Family Foundation. “The provider networks for the plans have not yet been established. There’s a lot of confusion among beneficiaries.”

Branstad could recognize this, and slow things down. In failing to do so, he’s relying more on dogma — faith that the private sector always does things better — than reality.

Dana Milbank is a Washington Post columnist.

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“Many of us felt the deci-sion to add Spanish and cut P.E. was already made, and then our opinions were asked after the fact,” Wilder said.

Her sentiments were shared by the board. Board Vice President Caroline Mason intro-duced an amendment that preserved the full year physical education requirement while also introducing Spanish. The amended version passed unanimously.

Byrd said the result of

that might be fewer stu-dents taking Spanish in the eighth grade.

“It will make it impos-sible for students to take music for a year as well as Spanish for a year,” Byrd said. “There are parents who want to do that.”

Complicating the debate over the Spanish program is the uncertain

funding environment the district faces. At the same meeting, the board also voted to delay implement-ing a 24-credit high school graduation plan until 2021.

That means the current crop of seventh-graders would be the first class for whom 24 credits would be required for graduation, as

opposed to the 22 credits now required.

There were several fac-tors prompting the board to postpone the state-mandated increase, which included the cost of rais-ing the graduation limit (at least $600,000 per year in staffing costs, Byrd said) and the fact that under a 24-credit system,

with six classes in the day, any failing grades would require students to make up the lost credits and would result in them pos-sibly not graduating on time.

A more significant consideration is the dis-trict could lose about $10.1 million if the Leg-islature doesn’t extend an expiring law that increased the amount of levy money that could be used to pay for some expenses, including some salaries.

That happens in 2017. Byrd said it was hard to predict what a $10.1 mil-lion hit to the district’s budget would look like. It would probably most affect programs, mate-rials or professional development because most salaries are set by contracts with teacher unions.

The hit would come at a time when the district is trying to ramp up its lan-guage program.

“Our goal is to launch more language beginning in kindergarten and mov-ing up,” Byrd said.

Other options the dis-trict is considering are establishing a dual-English-Spanish pilot program in one elementary school in the 2018-2019 school year, and expanding high school Chinese classes to Cascade and Henry M. Jackson high schools.

Chris Winters: 425-374-4165; [email protected]. Twitter: @Chris_At_Herald.

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speech. And my sister had had strokes, but I didn’t really understand what happens when you have one. I just remember the day when dad came home and he could just say one word and that was it and then he was not able talk at all. Mom said he prob-ably had a stroke so they went to the hospital and I just stayed at home and played piano and that was the first song that came to mind. So it has a lot of sen-timental value. And then my favorite church song to play is “It Is Well With My Soul.” Just the words are beautiful. It’s funny, but I designate songs to certain people and I give this one to my sister who had the strokes because it’s like, “Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say it is well with my soul.” It’s just whatever happens it’s for a reason and it’s for a good reason, whether you know it or not.


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Manyon drove forward, struck something else and then backed into the patrol car again. The suspect’s car continued backward until it struck something else in its path.

The deputy decided to ram the suspect’s vehicle to stop it from causing more damage or injur-ing anyone, Montgomery wrote.

The deputy hit the driv-er’s side door of Manyon’s car. Manyon jumped out of the front passenger side door and ran. He jumped a fence and was running toward the intersection at 132nd Street SW and Ash Way. He was stopped by the deputy’s dog, Ronin.

The deputy handcuffed Manyon and removed a knife from a sheath in his belt.

The defendant was being held on $100,000 bail.

Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463; [email protected]. Twitter: @dianahefley.

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Food donations� e Lynnwood High School

TriM club organized its fourth annual food drive. TriM stands for “Modern Music Masters,” a music honor society. More than 120 volunteers gave over 450 hours of their time the day before � anksgiving soliciting donations from the community in front of 10 local grocery and drug stores. � ey collected nearly 13,000 food items and $3,700 to bene� t the Lynnwood Food Bank, as well as hundreds of personal care items for the food bank and an Adopt-A-Family event.

Playground mathMembers and leaders of Cub

Scouts Pack 95 spent their � anksgiving weekend painting a “100s” chart on the blacktop out-side the � rst-grade classrooms at Cedar Wood Elementary School.

Now students can experience counting by jumping by tens and � ves, comparing numbers, and exploring other number concepts in an interactive way. First-grade teacher Melissa McMullen came up with the idea. � e PTA helped fund the e� ort, and Stripe Rite Inc. also donated labor and paint.

“In the end we have a full-scale tool to help our students feel and see and experience number sense in a big way. I am excited for the way this project will posi-tively impact students for decades to come,” Principal David Jones said.

“Plus,” McMullen added, “it will help make math so much fun!”

Stocking stuffers� e Nourishing Network

along with Edmonds School District sta� , students and com-munity members came together to stu� over 350 holiday stock-ings for homeless students served in the district through the McKinney-Vento Act. � e stock-ing were � lled with donated toys, Nourishing Network treats and toiletries. Nourishing Network is a weekend meal program for

homeless children in the Edmonds School District.

Let’s Move!Let’s Move! Active Schools

honored Beverly Elementary School in the Edmonds School District with a 2015 National Award. � e award celebrates a school’s commitment to integrat-ing at least 60 minutes of physical activity before, during and after the school day. Beverly was

among 525 schools across the country to receive the honor.

PE teacher Tom Davis led an e� ort to help students develop knowledge, skills and con� dence to be physically active for a life-time. � e early morning “Beverly Big Dogs Fitness Club” has led the way, with over 250 students at times participating.

To submit items for School Winners, email [email protected].

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WOMEN’S GROUPS & CAUSES

AAUW Everett: The American Association of University Women Everett branch meets 10:30 a.m. second Saturdays (September to May) at the Everett Public Library Evergreen Branch, 9512 Evergreen Way. More info: 425-760-9704, [email protected].

AAUW Edmonds: The SnoKing Branch of the American As-sociation of University Women generally meets 10 a.m.-noon second Saturdays (except De-cember, March, July and August) at Edmonds Community College, 20000 68th Ave. W, Lynnwood. More info: [email protected], esk-wa.aauw.net.

Business and Professional Women: The Greater Everett chapter meets 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. fourth Mondays (except July and August) at Bob’s Burgers and Brew, 1611 SE Everett Mall Way, Everett. Women age 18 and older welcome. More info: Joyce Robins at 206-909-6815.

Everett Area Newcomers Club: For women who are new to the area, or who would like to make new friends. More info: 425-347-3471, [email protected], www.eancclub.org.

MOMS Club: Meets 10 a.m. third Thursdays in the Stilly Conference Room at Haller Park, 1100 West Ave., Arlington. Moms Offering Moms Support is a non-religious nonpro� t offering play dates, Moms Night Out, baby-sitting co-op, and more. More info: [email protected].

Republican Women: The Wash-ington Federation of Republican Women has local chapters in Everett (the Evergreen club meets 6:30 p.m. third Thursdays; the Snohomish County club meets 11 a.m. second Thursdays) and on Camano Island (12 p.m. fourth Tuesdays). More info: www.wfrw.org/club-meetings.htm.

Soroptimist International Marysville: Meets 7 a.m. � rst and third Tuesdays at Fanny’s Res-taurant, 505 Cedar Ave., Suite A1. More info: Renae, 425-971-0031.

Utsalady Ladies Aid: The chari-table and historical group meets 1 p.m. second Wednesdays at 78 Utsalady Road, Camano Island. Social hour at 11:30 a.m.; compli-mentary lunch at noon. More info: [email protected].

Zonta Club, Everett: Meetings are held once or twice a month at Legion Memorial Golf Course Greenside Grill, 144 West Marine View Drive, Everett. The group of professionals focuses on advanc-ing the status of women and girls. Reservations required. More info: [email protected].

YOUTH

Beekeeping, youth: Snohom-ish Youth Beekeeping Educa-tion meets 6-7:30 p.m. second Mondays (except December) at the Snohomish Library, 311 Maple Ave. Free community service group for ages 5-19 with hands-on educational activities about pollinators. Underserved and special needs groups encouraged. RSVP required one week before meeting. More info: [email protected].

Show Biz Kids 4-H: Meets 6:30-8 p.m. second Tuesdays at the Horseshoe Grange, 16424 Broad-way Ave., Snohomish. Students in grades K-12 explore various areas of performing arts. More info: 360-668-6681 or 425-357-6044.

MEETING NOTICE

Sno-Isle Libraries: The Board of Trustees meets next in regular session at 5 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Library District’s Service Center, 7312 35th Ave. NE, Marysville.

Other interest groups are listed throughout the month. Send calendar items to [email protected].

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SCHOOL WINNERS

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOSMembers and leaders of Cub Scouts Pack 95 spent their Thanksgiving weekend painting a 100s chart on the blacktop outside the � rst-grade classrooms at Cedar Wood Elementary School. Left: Ethan Solie celebrates the last coat of paint. Right: Jason Solie helps Aidan Hamilton spray paint numbers using stencils.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOThe Lynnwood High School TriM club raised nearly 13,000 food items and $3,700 during a Thanksgiving drive for the Lynnwood Food Bank.

Right: Martha Woods took this photo on an icy morning on Lowell Snohomish River Road.

Below: From Artist’s Point and with a telephoto lens, Sandra Peery took this photo of on of the craggy peaks

in the distance.

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DAILY CROSSWORDB2 Monday, 12.14.2015 The Daily Herald

This is the third and final install-ment of my “Wrong Things Experts Have Said (and Still Say)” series. Thus far: I’ve debunked the myth that a consequence must be delivered immediately in order for a child to make the misbehavior-consequence connection; exposed the detrimental nature of high self-esteem; laid bare the falsehood that behavior modification works on human beings; and outed Freud for the fraud that he actually was.

The next psychological sacred cow in my shooting gallery is the notion that when it comes to consequences, parents must be consistent. Supposedly, a child should always be able to accurately predict the consequence his par-ents (or teachers) are going to apply to misbehavior. He should know, for example, that when he calls his mother a foul name, she is going to put him in time-out for five minutes (because he’s 5 years old). Suppos-edly, a child’s inability to accurately predict consequences causes some sort of potentially ego-threatening psychic disturbance, generally referred to as “confusion.” And as anyone with a full complement of common sense knows, children should never experience any form or degree of psychic disturbance. (Full disclosure: There was a time when yours truly believed this

claptrap.)The truth is that when a conse-

quence is predictable — when the consequence is employed over and over and over again — it’s very likely that the child in ques-tion will become immune to it, and fairly quickly so. This explains why parents commonly report that a certain consequence worked for a time and then stopped working. Sometimes, parents will say that the child seemed to stop “caring” that he received the consequence.

Precisely! The child became immune to the consequence. It became humdrum because he knew exactly what his parents were going to do if he misbehaved. At some point, and fairly early on, the consequence becomes meaning-less. He learns how to entertain himself so as to make the five, or 10, or 15 minutes of time-out go by quickly. Thus, being put in time-out

(or losing television for the rest of the day, going to bed early, writing sentences, etc.) becomes a game.

To prevent immunization and the possibility that punishment becomes a game, I recommend that parents employ what I call the “Consequence Grab-Bag.” Put 10 consequences in the grab-bag. When misbehavior occurs, close your eyes, reach down into the grab bag, and pull one out. Surprise!

“Guess what, Billy! You’re going to your room for the rest of the day!”

“What!” Billy exclaims, shock written all over his cute face. “That’s not fair!”

“Fair?” says Billy’s mom. “This is December. The fair never comes in December.”

When I refer to the grab bag, I’m speaking figuratively, but I do know of some parents who put each of 10 consequences on pieces of paper the size of Chinese cookie fortunes. Each “fortune” (in a sense, they were) was folded and put in a fish-bowl. When their son misbehaved, he had to go to the fishbowl and pick out a consequence.

A year later, this approach con-tinued to be — according to the son — unfair. In other words, it contin-ued to work!

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‘Confuse’ your child with random punishments

Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: PENEach answer is a word that be-

gins with “pen.” (e.g., Italy and Jutland are examples. Answer: Peninsula.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL1. One of the original 13

colonies.2. A piece of jewelry that hangs

from a chain around your neck.3. A five-sided building near

Washington, D.C.GRADUATE LEVEL4. Engaged in deep and seri-

ous thought.5. It is known as a “truth

serum.”6. Just before the last in a

series.PH.D. LEVEL

7. French physicist Michel Foucault had one named in his honor.

8. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains.

9. It is considered the first true antibiotic.

ANSWERS: 1. Pennsylvania. 2. Pendant. 3. Pentagon. 4. Pensive. 5. Pentothal. 6. Penultimate. 7. Pendulum. 8. Pennyweight. 9. Penicillin.

SCORING: 18 points — con-gratulations, doctor; 15-17 points — honors graduate; 10-14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4-9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1-3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the ques-tions to you?

SUPER QUIZSinger-actress Abbe Lane is 84. Actor Hal

Williams is 81. Actress-singer Jane Birkin is 69. Actress Patty Duke is 69. Pop singer Joyce Vin-cent-Wilson (Tony Orlando and Dawn) is 69. Entertainment executive Michael Ovitz is 69. Actress Dee Wallace is 67. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ronnie McNeir (The Four Tops) is 66. Rock musician Cliff Williams (AC/DC) is 66. Actor-comedian T.K. Carter is 59. Rock singer-musician Mike Scott (The Waterboys) is 57. Sing-er-musician Peter “Spider” Stacy (The Pogues) is 57. Actress Cynthia Gibb is 52. Actor Archie Kao is 46. Actress Natascha McElhone is 46. Actress-comedian Michaela Watkins is 44. Actress-co-median Miranda Hart (TV: “Call the Midwife”) is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer Brian Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 40. Actress KaDee Strickland is 40. Actress Tammy Blanchard is 39. Actress So-phie Monk is 36. Actress Vanessa Hudgens is 27. Rock/R&B singer Tori Kelly is 23.

Thought for Today: “The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.” — Paul Valery, French philosopher (1871-1945).

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Dear Abby: After a mar-riage of many years, I have come to realize ours has become simply one of convenience. My husband is a negative, controlling person who gripes about everything. He has devel-oped no friendships or interests of his own, and I have to battle with him to even have a day to myself.

How many other women are like me — stuck in love-less marriages without the resources to live on our own (at least in the lifestyle we are accustomed to)? Any advice for me? — In Limbo Out West

Dear In Limbo: If my mail is any indication, you have lots of company. Many women stay because they are afraid to live alone or see nothing better on the horizon. No third party can or should answer this question for you.

Make a list of the pros and cons of your marriage, tally them up and weigh the cons against how you feel living the life you are living now. A licensed counselor may be able to steer you in the right direction — which may entail marriage counseling and/or consulting a lawyer or your CPA about what other options you may have.

Dear Abby: I’m a busy sixth-grade girl who has played piano for seven years. But my schedule gets in the way of piano because I have to prep for competi-tions. I love the piano, but I need to keep up with my school schedule.

If I tell my grandma I want to quit piano, she’ll be disappointed. I already quit violin in orchestra. This means my music life will be over. Should I do it or not? — Stressed Out Musician

Dear Musician: Unless your music causes your grades to drop, continue the piano for as long as you can. There may come a time

when other things must take precedence, but you never can tell how beneficial your musical education may be when you’re an adult.

Let me share a true story with you: A man in Los Angeles studied classical piano for many years. He had talent, but didn’t con-sider himself good enough to make it his career. He married, went to law school, passed the bar — and wound up becoming one of the most successful lawyers in town represent-ing musicians and other entertainers.

You never can tell where life may lead, so the more talents you nourish, the wider your options will be.

Dear Abby: My husband demands we give our first child the name “Junior” as his legal first name, sup-posedly to honor the baby’s paternal grandpa, who is also called Junior.

I am vehemently opposed to it because Junior is a title, not a name, and also because Grandpa is a notorious drunk, crimi-nal and adulterer. I am open to ANY other name my husband may want, but he won’t budge. Who should win out? — Due Soon In Syracruse

Dear Due Soon: You should! Naming a child after someone is, indeed, sup-posed to be an honor, and from your description, your father-in-law isn’t someone who deserves one.

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ACROSS 1 Game in which to cry

“You’re it!” 4 Mark of disgrace10 Curiosity rover

launcher14 Campus in Troy, N.Y.15 Blunders16 Got a hole in one on17 Nest egg inits.18 Period of undivided

attention, as with a spouse or child

20 Addled22 Band aide23 Emcees’ deliveries24 One of six allowed to

an N.B.A. player25 Very, in music26 Springsteen’s “Born

in the ___”28 Detroit ballplayer32 Noted Max Planck

contribution to physics

35 Post-E.R. locale37 Desert refuge38 “Norma ___” (Sally

Field film)

39 Skill useful for handling an emergency

44 Chrysler 300 or BMW 740

45 Born, in bios46 Refrigerates49 The “M” in Y.M.C.A.51 ___ Mae

(government lender)52 ___ metals (periodic

table group)55 Mr. Scrooge57 1/24 of an

octave59 Bullring bravo60 Golden rule

preposition61 Babies (aww …)

… or an aural hint to 18-, 32-, 39- and 57-Across

62 Chaney of chillers63 Ripens, as cheese64 Disgorges65 Blow away

DOWN 1 One of the Nixon

daughters 2 Things cooks wear 3 Creature that

attacked the Nautilus in “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”

4 Tree whose name contains all five vowels

5 Tie up, as a turkey 6 “Dies ___” (Latin

hymn) 7 Top prize at the

Olympics 8 Diagnostic scan,

briefly 9 “The Jetsons” dog10 Actress Portman11 The “A” in DNA12 Final Four game13 “Zip-___-Doo-Dah”19 One’s early years

21 Mrs., in Munich24 Period of widespread

food shortage26 Residents of Provo

and Salt Lake City27 “Wake Up Little ___”

(#1 Everly Brothers hit)

29 Italian blue cheese30 Alternative to All31 Bread for a Reuben33 “Believe It or ___!”34 Condescending cluck35 Stats for Mensa36 Actor’s prompt40 Sporty Chevys41 Prepared to propose,

in the traditional way42 Extremely aloof

demeanor

43 Alternative to all

47 Stay out of sight, as a criminal

48 Tranquil

50 Aunt and uncle’s little girl

51 French playwright Jean

52 & 53 Pioneering mechanical breathing apparatus

54 Actress Winslet

55 Suffix with major

56 ___ de Boulogne (Parisian park)

58 As snug as a bug in a ___

12-14-2015 #1109 PUZZLE BY PAWEL FLUDZINSKI

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THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLEWoman weighs the price of a marriage of convenience

Cy the Cynic says that if you’re having second thoughts about something — anything — you’re two thoughts ahead of most people.

At today’s four hearts, South took dummy’s ace of spades and cashed the K-A of trumps. When West threw a club, South began to have sec-ond thoughts about his play, but he drew East’s trumps, led a club to the ace and returned a diamond: ten, queen, ace.

South ruffed the next spade, conceded a diamond

and ruffed the third spade with his last trump. He took the king of clubs but lost the rest to West. Down one.

South almost surely needs a 3-2 diamond break to succeed (and West might have led a singleton diamond). Even so, South will have trump-control issues if trumps break 4-1. So South should start the dia-monds at Trick Two.

When West wins and leads a second spade, South ruffs, concedes a diamond, ruffs the next spade and concedes a diamond. If the defense leads a fourth spade, South can ruff in dummy, draw trumps and claim.

DAILY QUESTIONYou hold: ♠ 9 ♥ A Q J 10 9 8

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Monday’s highlights on TV include:

All good things must end, don’t ya know? And so it is that the anthology series “Fargo” wraps up a superb second season. After stirring up all sorts of bloody mayhem, Peggy and Ed Blumquist (Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons) look to make a break for it. We don’t know if they’ll escape unscathed, but we do expect the body count to rise. The best news? “Fargo” already has been renewed for a third season. 10 p.m., FX.

“The Expanse” is a 10-episode thriller that

whisks viewers 200 years into the future. There, a hardened detective (Thomas Jane) investi-gates the mysterious case of a missing heiress and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that could threaten humanity. 10 p.m., Syfy.

“Adele Live in New York City” is a new special that has the Brit with the big pipes saying “Hello” to fans at Radio City Music Hall. She belts out tunes from her wildly popular new album, “25.” 10 p.m., NBC.

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THE CLICKER

Today is Monday, Dec. 14, the 348th day of 2015. There are 17 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight:On Dec. 14, 1799, the

first president of the United States, George Washington, died at his Mount Vernon, Virginia, home at age 67.

On this date:In 1819, Alabama joined

the Union as the 22nd state.In 1911, Norwegian

explorer Roald Amund-sen and his team became the first men to reach the South Pole, beating out a British expedition led by Robert F. Scott.

In 1918, “Il Trittico,” a trio of one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini, pre-miered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. (The third opera, “Gianni Schicchi,” featured the aria “O Mio Babbino Caro,” which was an imme-diate hit.)

In 1939, the Soviet

Union was expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish the U.N.’s headquarters in New York.

In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, ruled that Congress was within its authority to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against racial discrimination by private businesses (in this case, a motel that refused to cater to blacks).

In 1972, Apollo 17 astro-nauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan con-cluded their third and final moonwalk and blasted off for their rendezvous with the command module.

In 1975, six South Moluc-can extremists surrendered after holding 23 hostages for 12 days on a train near the Dutch town of Beilen.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift is releasing a live concert special from her star-studded “1989 World Tour” exclusively on Apple Music.

The pop star announced Sunday, on her 26th birth-day, that she will release the “The 1989 World Tour LIVE” on the streaming platform Dec. 20. It will not be available for purchase, but it is free for streaming for Apple Music users.

The concert, directed by Jonas Akerlund, features Swift’s performance in Sydney, Australia, at the ANZ Stadium, taped on Nov. 28. It will also include appearances from the many celebrities and musicians who surprised fans on the tour, from Justin Timberlake to Mick Jagger to Kobe Bryant.

Apple Music is cur-rently the only streaming platform where Swift’s best-selling “1989” album is available. Swift, who wrote a critical Tumblr post in June about Apple’s

initial decision to not pay artists during its free, three-month trial launch of Apple Music, said Apple contacted her about cap-turing one of her concerts for a special.

“I think I’d be leaving a huge part out if I didn’t mention the blog post that I wrote . I think that is probably the starting point because I didn’t have a personal relationship with Apple until that point,” Swift said in an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music’s Beats 1 Radio (the interview airs Monday at noon Eastern). “I’m sure there are better ways to introduce yourself than to say, ‘This is what I’m upset about, please think about our industry.’ It got more attention than I thought it would because I’d been echoing those sentiments for years.”

Apple changed its deci-sion to pay artists, but Swift said she was a bit terrified after posting the letter.

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Apple Music gets Swift’s ‘1989’ tourMUSIC

INVISIONTaylor Swift performs during the “1989” world tour at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Aug. 22. Swift is releasing a live concert special Dec. 20, from her star-studded “1989 World Tour” exclusively on Apple Music

PASSAGES

LOS ANGELES — Mar-jorie Lord, the Broadway and film actress who became a TV star on the sitcom “Make Room For Daddy,” has died. She was 97.

Her family said she died Nov. 28 at her Bev-erly Hills home. In two 1943 films — “Shanty-town” and “Sherlock Holmes in Washington” — Lord appeared with

her first husband, John Archer, who died in 1999. Their daughter is the film star Anne Archer.

Lord was best known as Danny Thomas’ loyal wife on the popular sitcom that first aired in 1953.

After retiring from acting in the late 1980s, Lord became a devoted philanthropist, raising money for arts causes.

Associated Press

’Make Room’ star Lord dies at 97

DENVER — Rose Sig-gins, who played a legless character on “Ameri-can Horror Story: Freak Show,” died Saturday in Denver, a representative said.

Siggins, whose character on the show was named Legless Suzi, was 43.

The FX network show announced her death on its Facebook page, saying: “We are saddened to learn

of the passing of Rose Siggins. She was beloved by everyone in the AHS family. She was a kind person, a loving mother and a very talented actor. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends at this time.”

James Mullen, one of her agents, confirmed the death to The Associated Press.

Associated Press

‘Horror’ actress Siggins dies at 43

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CITY OF LYNNWOOD On the 23rd day of November, 2015, the City Council of the City of Lynnwood, Washington, passed ordinance 3164. A summary of the content of this ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as follows:

ORDINANCE NO. 3164AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION AND ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 2.47 TO THE LYNNWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE.

The full text of this ordinance will be mailed upon request. DATED this 7th day of December, 2015.

Debbie Karber, Deputy City ClerkPublished: December 14, 2015. EDH673549

CITY OF MILL CREEKNotice to all persons who have furnished labor or supplies to Rodarte Construction, Inc. located at 17 East Valley Highway East, Auburn WA 98092 for the City of Mill Creek’s 2015 Storm Pipe Repair project: The City of Mill Creek has determined the project to be complete and accepted as of December 8, 2015. Therefore, pursuant to RCW 60.28.011, you have 45 days to provide your notice of lien to the City or your lien rights shall be barred by RCW 60.28.011. Please contact the City of Mill Creek Engineering Department at 425-921-5708.Published: December 14, 2015. EDH673376

ORDINANCE NO. 3469-15OF THE CITY OF EVERETT, WASHINGTON

On the 2nd day of December 2015, the City Council of the City of Everett passed Ordinance No. 3469-15. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as follows: AN ORDINANCE approving the appropriations of the 2015 revised City of Everett budget and amending Ordinance No. 3449-15

The full text of this ordinance will be mailed upon request.Dated this 9th day of December 2015City Clerk, Sharon Fuller2930 Wetmore AvenueEverett, WA 98201(425) 257-8610Published: December 14, 2015. EDH673340

ORDINANCE NO. 3470-15OF THE CITY OF EVERETT, WASHINGTON

On the 2nd day of December 2015, the City Council of the City of Everett passed Ordinance No. 3470-15. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as follows: AN ORDINANCE adopting the budget for the City of Everett for the year 2016 in the amount of $499,760,249

The full text of this ordinance will be mailed upon request.Dated this 9th day of December 2015City Clerk, Sharon Fuller2930 Wetmore AvenueEverett, WA 98201(425) 257-8610Published: December 14, 2015. EDH673343

Cause No. 15-4-00470-5PROBATE

NOTICE TO CREDITORSRCW 11.40.030

IN THE SUPERIOR COURTOF THE

STATE OF WASHINGTONIN AND FOR

THE COUNTY OF BENTONIn the Matter of the Estate of:DANIEL J. McKEE,

Deceased.The personal representative n a m e d b e l ow h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d a s p e r s o n a l representative of this estate. Any person having a claim aga ins t e i the r deceased must, before the t ime the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of l imitations, present the c l a im i n t he manne r as provided by RCW 11.40.070 by serving or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s a t to r ney a t t he add ress stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceed- ings were commenced. The c la im must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days a f t e r t he pe rsona l representat ive ser ved or mai led the not ice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) Four months after the date of the first publication of the notice. I f 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 the deceased party’s probate and non-probate assets.DATE OFFIRST PUBLICATION: November 30, 2015 PATRICIA J. KLEM, Personal RepresentativeAddress forMailing or Service:

Jan R. ArmstrongArmstrong, Klym, Waite,Atwood & Jameson, P.S.660 Swift Boulevard,Suite ARichland, WA 99352

Court of ProbateProceedings andcase number:

Benton County Superior Court7122 West Okanogan Place, Building AKennewick, WA 99336Case No: 15-4-00470-5

EDH671229Publ ished: November 30; December 7, 14, 2015.

NO. 15 4 01751 4NOTICE TO CREDITORS

(RCW 11.40.030)IN THE SUPERIOR COURT

OF THE STATE OFWASHINGTON

IN THECOUNTY OF SNOHOMISH

In the Matter of the Estate of:JOHN W. SAUBER,

Deceased. The Personal Representa- tive named below has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the deceased must, before the t ime such claim would be bar red by any o therwise applicable statute of limita- tions, present their claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving or ma i l i ng t o t he Pe rsona l R e p r e s e n t a t i v e o r t h e personal representat ive’s a t torneys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The c la im must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days a f t e r t he pe rsona l representat ive ser ved or mai led the not ice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the c l a im i s fo reve r ba r red , except as otherwise provided i n R C W 1 1 . 4 0 . 0 5 1 a n d 1 1 . 4 0 . 0 6 0 . T h i s b a r i s effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.Date of first publication: December 7, 2015Date of filing copy of Notice to Creditors: December 4, 2015Personal Representative: Heidi Sauber-CornelisonAttorney forPersonal Representative:

Jonathan C. Hatch, WSBA No. 4641152 Third Ave. S,Suite 104Edmonds, WA 98020

EDH672388Published: December 7, 14, 21, 2015.

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BALTIMORE — Frozen in bronze and in time, Johnny Unitas is anchored outside

the Baltimore Ravens’ stadium in his customary pose, arm cocked, looking downfield for an open receiver.

Ignoring the fact that he never played for the Ravens, he was the heart of Baltimore as a Colt, and ushered the National Football League into the modern era of passing offenses and televised drama.

They cast statues of you for that kind of a career.

The game was different back then, no question. But even the iconic Johnny U. never went on a

streak as hot as Seahawks quar-terback Russell Wilson is on now (16 touchdowns and no intercep-tions over the past four games).

Wilson added five of those touchdowns to his total in the 35-6 win over Baltimore on Sunday.

Of course, few NFL quar-terbacks ever have been this

productive. Joe Montana, Brett Favre, Dan Marino never went four games without an intercep-tion while throwing as many as 16 touchdown passes.

It’s been done: Tom Brady went 26 TDs-0 INTs in a wicked 11-game stretch in 2010; Peyton Manning went 16-0 in the first four games of 2013. And Aaron Rodgers matched the 16-0 but needed five games to do it in 2014.

I’m not saying Wilson is a Hall of Famer yet, or necessarily destined to join that pantheon. A lot can happen. The point here is that his current streak of accu-racy and efficiency is approached only by some of the greats of the game.

INSIDE: Huskies football, C2 | Cougars basketball, C2 | College football, C2 | Weather, C8

NFLThe Panthers improve to 13-0, the Bengals’ Andy Dalton breaks his thumb and Johnny Manziel leads the Browns to victory, C6-7

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Beats goes on

NICK WASS / ASSOCIATED PRESSSeahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin loses his helmet as he is hit by Ravens free safety Kendrick Lewis while Baldwin scores on a 22-yard touchdown pass during Sunday’s game.

GAIL BURTON / ASSOCIATED PRESSSeahawks rookie running back Thomas Rawls broke his left ankle in the first quarter after rushing for 44 yards on six carries.

Seahawks’ Wilson and Baldwin ‘are really clicking’

✓ Hawks’ defense has allowed 59 rushing yards in past 2 games, C4✓ Seahawks success starts with offensive line, C4✓ Michael Bennet says Russell Wil-son has been “spectacular,” C5

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By Gregg BellThe News Tribune

BALTIMORE — They came next door to baseball’s Camden Yards, down the street from a marker com-memorating a mammoth home run Ken Griffey Jr. hit 21 years ago that Dave Niehaus called for the Mari-ners. They were Seahawks-version reminders of what Seattle’s late, great baseball voice once famously proclaimed.

“It just continues! My, oh my!”Russell Wilson to Doug Baldwin. Touchdown. Three

more times.Wilson threw five TD passes to tie his career high

Wilson throws 5 TD passes, 3 to Baldwin


BALTIMORE — Thomas Rawls made so much noise in his rookie season.

But it ended for him here in somber silence outside the visiting locker room.

That’s where staffers helped him onto the back of a motorized cart Sunday afternoon. The running back who burst into the NFL this fall, going from an undrafted free agent to Marshawn Lynch’s heir apparent for years to come in the Seattle Seahawks’ backfield, grimaced with a bowed head.

His left leg was encased in a walking boot, but he wasn’t walking. He propped a crutch onto the back of the cart and was then driven out down a service

Rookie RB Rawls out for season with broken ankle

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PATRICK SEMANSKY / ASSOCIATED PRESSSeahawks quarterback Russell Wilson celebrates a touchdown pass to wide receiver Doug Baldwin during the second half.See BOLING, Page C5

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BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEETING

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DECEMBER 15, 2015CONVENE REGULAR MEETING - 9:00 a.m. - Commission Meeting Room1. CEO/GENERAL MANAGER BRIEFING AND STUDY SESSIONRECONVENE REGULAR MEETING - 1:30 p.m. - Commission Meeting Room2. COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC3. CONSENT AGENDA A. Approval of Minutes for the Regular Meeting of December 1, 2015 B. Bid Awards, Professional Services Contracts and Amendments C. Consideration of Certification/Ratification and Approval of District Checks and Vouchers D. Consideration to Prequalify Contractors as Bidders for Electrical Line Work for the District During 20164. PUBLIC HEARING AND ACTION A. Disposal of Surplus Property – 1st Quarter 2016 B. Consideration of a Resolution Ordering, Approving, Ratifying, and Confirming the Construction and Installation of the Plan or System of Additions to the District’s Water Utility, as Adopted on November 17, 2015, and Applicable to the Local Utility District Hereinafter Described, Forming Local Utility District No. 58 of Snohomish County, Washington, and Confirming the Final Assessment Roll C. Consideration of a Resolution Declaring Certain Vacant District Property (Tax Parcel No. 29051700213200), Located at the Northeast Corner of 13th Street and an Unnamed Alley, Everett, Washington, to be Surplus and Authorizing the Sale of the Property D. Consideration of a Resolution Adopting the 2016 Budget for Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington5. ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION A. Consideration of a Motion Accepting the Annual Financial Planning and Budgeting Monitoring Report B. Consideration of a Resolution Authorizing the CEO/ General Manager to Execute the 2015-2017 Energy Matchmakers Sponsor Agreement with the State of Washington Department of Commerce C. Consideration of a Resolution to Ratify the Execution of the Reliability Coordinator Funding Agreement with Peak Reliability D. Consideration of a Resolution Adopting a Strategic Plan 2016-20206. COMMISSION BUSINESS A. Commission Reports7. GOVERNANCE PLANNING A. Adoption of the 2016 Governance Planning CalendarADJOURNMENT

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PRELIMINARY CITY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA – 7 p.m. ADMINISTER Oaths of Office to New and Re-elected CouncilmembersPRESENTATION - Appreciation of Paul KaftanskiACTION ITEMSa. APPROVE Appointments to Open Government Committee b. AUTHORIZE City Manager to Sign Professional Services Agreement for Facilitation of Open Government Committee c. AUTHORIZE City Manager to Sign Professional Services Agreement with Strategies 360 for Focus Groups d. DECLARE Disaster for November 2015 Storm – PASS Resolution 1337 e. APPROVE Combining City Clerk/Human Resources Manager Job Descriptions DISCUSSION ITEM – REVIEW Special Event Permit FeesCONSENT ITEMSa. CONFIRM Mayor’s Reappointment to Parks and Recreation Board b. APPROVE Appointment of Monroe Councilmember Jeff Rasmussen as Representative to Board of Healthc. AUTHORIZE City Manager to Sign Lease for Carnegie Annex Building EXECUTIVE SESSION – Collective BargainingADJOURN

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Alabama’s Henry headlines AP All-America teamAssociated Press

Heisman Trophy winner Der-rick Henry of Alabama and finalists Deshaun Watson of Clemson and Christian McCaffrey of Stanford highlight The Associ-ated Press All-America team.

The team released Sunday features Henry and Leonard Four-nette of LSU as first-team running backs. Watson is the quarterback on the first team. McCaffrey, who

set an NCAA record for all-pur-pose yards this season, made the first team as an all-purpose player.

No. 2 Alabama and No. 18 Bay-lor have the most players on the first team with three apiece. Join-ing Henry from Alabama are linebacker Reggie Ragland and defensive lineman A’Shawn Rob-inson. Baylor is represented by receiver Corey Coleman, offensive tackle Spencer Drango and defen-sive tackle Andrew Billings.

Clemson (Watson and defen-sive end Shaq Lawson), Stanford (McCaffrey and guard Joshua Garnett) and Ohio State (safety Vonn Bell and tackle Taylor Decker) each had two players on the first team.

The Southeastern Conference had the most players on the first team with six, followed by the Big Ten with five.

For the complete teams, see the Scoreboard on Page C3.

By Christian CapleThe News Tribune

SEATTLE — When Jimmy Lake wants to show the Washington Huskies’ defensive backs how to properly execute a certain cov-erage or technique, he turns, as most assistant coaches do, to his “teach tape.”

This is simply a series of clips of defensive backs playing with proper fundamentals.

This year, that tape doubled as a Sidney Jones highlight reel.

Lake so frequently uses Jones’ steady play as a teaching tool that some of his teammates have started calling him “Sidney Lake,” a playful poke at what can seem at times to be a teacher’s-pet-like relationship between player and coach.

“This is how you do it. This is what it looks like,” Lake tells the group. “If you want to do a really good job of this certain bump coverage that we teach, here is Example A, and it’s usually Sidney.”

Jones, a sophomore from Dia-mond Bar, California, now has the accolades to reinforce his coach’s praise: along with sopho-more safety Budda Baker, Jones was named first-team All-Pac-12 after anchoring a UW secondary that finished the regular sea-son with 15 interceptions and allowed just nine touchdown passes.

Jones had the best statistical season of any defensive back on the team. He intercepted four passes — one shy of the Pac-12

lead. He forced three fumbles — tied for the Pac-12 lead — and recovered two. And he tied for the Pac-12 lead with 13 passes defended.

Simply put, the sophomore has developed into perhaps the league’s best cover corner, an ascent hastened by his work ethic. After he started 12 games as a true freshman last season, Jones said Lake challenged him to “take your game to the next level.”

That, he said, meant watching even more film — the two already meet for additional one-on-one sessions in Lake’s office — look-ing even closer for tendencies he could exploit on the field.

“Freshman year was just watching it, looking at the play and just not too much thinking it through,” Jones said. “This year is just looking at my matchup, looking at his release and just dis-secting that player, and the other players if they come to my side. Just put it together from there.”

It is this kind of study that led to what Jones considers his biggest improvement: play recognition. As he puts it: “Being able to know when plays are about to occur and what’s about to come to me.”

Lake sees this, too.“He’s running the route for the

receiver before the guy’s even breaking, off his film study, from splits to the formation they’re in,” Lake said. “And then once he sees it, his burst and his athleticism that gets him to the ball so quick — he’s so technically sound.”

And patient. This is some-thing Jones said he learned

from watching film of Seattle Seahawks All-Pro Richard Sher-man, and it’s something his teammates identify as one of Jones’ more valuable skills.

“That’s something that takes repetition,” junior cornerback Kevin King said. “That’s some-thing that takes practice and practice, over and over again. You have to train your mind, train your body to, in a real pressure situation, be able to relax and get that done and have that type of patience out there.”

King said he knows when Jones is watching film, because Jones will send him Snapchat videos of plays he found interesting or offensive tendencies he noticed.

“He’s already probably even watched every game Southern Miss has played, and we haven’t even really started game plan-ning on that,” King said of UW’s bowl opponent.

Another lesson Jones has learned is to shake off failure. The game does not reward those who sulk, and Jones seems to grasp that concept.

“He’ll get a couple balls caught on him, and it doesn’t matter,” Lake said. “He just moves on, next play, and then he’ll get an interception for a touchdown.

In the offseason, Jones said, he watches film of previous UW games, just like the rest of his teammates. But he also watches NFL games, particularly those of the league’s top corners. Despite their proximity, Jones said he and Sherman are not yet acquainted.

“I worked out with him in high school one time,” Jones said, “but he probably doesn’t remember.”

In time, Sidney Jones’ name might be difficult to forget.

A student of the gameA strong work ethic and diligent film study have turned UW’s Sidney Jones’ into an All-Pac-12 cornerback.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL | Roundup

COLLEGE FOOTBALL | Notebook

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PULLMAN — The Washington State men’s basketball team aced its last test on the court before

final exams week kicks off Monday, downing UTEP 84-68 Sunday afternoon at Friel Court.

The Cougars recorded season bests in shooting

from the field and from 3-point range against a Miners squad that was ranked 18th in the nation in defending both types of shots.

WSU post Josh Hawkin-son, a graduate of Shorewood High School, led all players with 17 points and 14 rebounds. Conor Clifford, another effective post player for WSU (6-2), made all five of his field-goal tries and all five of his free throws for 15 points.

“They thoroughly domi-nated us with their two big men inside,” UTEP coach Tim Floyd said.

The Cougars shot 55.3 percent from the field, including 50 percent from beyond the 3-point arc (8-for-16). Reserve swing-man Derrien King, a junior-college transfer who had five points and one rebound in brief appear-ances in three games, buried all three of his first-half shots — all from 3-point range — and fin-ished with 10 points and six rebounds.

“My teammates just did a really good job of finding me when I was open,” King said, “and coach (Ernie Kent) had a lot of confi-dence in me.”

Said Kent: “I’m really proud and happy for Der-rien, because he’s another piece to the puzzle that joined the party in this game. There’s a couple more guys sitting over there, when they get on their games, this team has a chance to be really good offensively.”

The Cougars are already faring quite well, averaging 78.4 points per game and

shooting 50.2 percent from the floor.

“They shot the ball extremely well,” UTEP point guard Dominic Artis said, “and they were able to get to the free-throw line and get their rhythm there.”

In addition to their impressive offensive per-formance, the Cougars held UTEP (6-3) to 36.5-percent shooting from the field, including 22.7 percent on 3-pointers (5-for-22). Lee Moore led UTEP with 13 points, but he was 4-for-16 from the field.

UAB 79, Seattle 73BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —

Chris Cokley tied his career-high with 25 points, including a key 3-point play with 44 sec-onds remaining, to lead UAB past Seattle.

Robert Brown added 18 points, and William Lee and Denzell Watts had 11 apiece for UAB (6-3).

UAB carried a 37-24 advan-tage into halftime but had to hold off a second-half Seattle surge that cut the gap to 72-71 on Manroop Clair’s 3-pointer with 1:03 to play. After Cokley put UAB up 75-71, Hakeem Baxter and Nick Norton sealed the win with four free throws.

Clair and William Powell led Seattle (3-6) with 15 points apiece.

WOMENSpokane 84, Everett 55

EVERETT — Spokane Com-munity College defeated Ever-ett Community College 84-55 in the championship game of the Everett Community Col-lege Women’s Classic at EvCC.

Breezy Shore (Monroe High School) led the Trojans with 20 points and Lauren Allison (Stanwood) added 16. Shore and EvCC’s Lily Hildebrand were named to the all-tourna-ment team.

EvCC fell to 4-4. Spokane CC improved to 7-2.

Hot-shooting Washington St. bests UTEP

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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Defensive end Carl Nassib of Penn State has won the Lott IMPACT Trophy as the college defensive player having the biggest influence on his team.

The other finalists were Duke safety Jeremy Cash, Temple line-backer Tyler Matakevich and Ohio State linebacker Joshua Perry.

Nassib received the award Sun-day night during a banquet at the

Pacific Club. The former walk-on led the

nation in sacks and recently won the Lombardi Award. UCLA’s Eric Kendricks won the award last year.

E. Carolina hires MontgomeryGREENVILLE, N.C. — East Carolina

has hired Duke offensive coordinator Scottie Montgomery as its head coach.

Athletic director Jeff Compher an-nounced Montgomery’s hiring Sunday night. The new coach will be introduced Monday and will start his new job Jan. 1.

Montgomery, 37, has served two stints at Duke with a three-year run on

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EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBToronto 16 9 .640 —Boston 14 10 .583 1½New York 11 14 .440 5Brooklyn 7 16 .304 8Philadelphia 1 24 .040 15

Southeast Division W L Pct GBCharlotte 14 9 .609 —Miami 13 9 .591 ½Atlanta 14 11 .560 1Orlando 12 11 .522 2Washington 10 12 .455 3½

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 15 7 .682 —Chicago 13 8 .619 1½Indiana 13 9 .591 2Detroit 14 11 .560 2½Milwaukee 10 15 .400 6½

Sunday’s gamesPhoenix 108, Minnesota 101Toronto 96, Philadelphia 76Miami 100, Memphis 97Oklahoma City 104, Utah 98, OT

Monday’s GamesToronto at Indiana, 4 p.m.Orlando at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Chicago, 5 p.m.Washington at Memphis, 5 p.m.Miami at Atlanta, 5 p.m.Utah at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.Phoenix at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.Houston at Denver, 6 p.m.New Orleans at Portland, 6 p.m.

College men’s scoresSunday’s games

EASTBoston College 91, Maine 60Boston U. 64, Quinnipiac 57Colgate 75, New Hampshire 59Fordham 92, Coppin St. 55Monmouth (NJ) 73, Wagner 54Pittsburgh 72, Morehead St. 62Saint Joseph’s 66, Temple 65, OTScranton 76, Merchant Marine 72Seton Hall 72, St. Peter’s 46St. John’s 84, Syracuse 72Villanova 76, La Salle 47West Virginia 100, Louisiana-Monroe 58

SOUTHAlabama 51, Clemson 50Alabama St. 63, Jacksonville St. 60Berea 97, Ohio Mid-Western 59Coll. of Charleston 89, North Greenville 52East Carolina 71, NC A&T 60Elon 106, Wesley 77Florida Gulf Coast 77, UMass 76Florida St. 75, SE Louisiana 58High Point 111, Virginia-Wise 74Kentucky Wesleyan 84, Ill.-Springfield 72N. Kentucky 81, Norfolk St. 60NC State 65, South Florida 46Southern U. 96, Ecclesia 69St. Andrews 86, Reinhardt 85UAB 79, Seattle 73UNC Asheville 80, Campbell 60Virginia Tech 88, Lamar 53W. Kentucky 75, Indiana St. 62

MIDWESTIllinois St. 63, Murray St. 61Iowa St. 78, Ark.-Pine Bluff 64Miami (Ohio) 72, Wright St. 67Milwaukee 125, Judson 74Nebraska 70, Rhode Island 67Northwestern 77, Chicago St. 35Notre Dame 81, Loyola of Chicago 61S. Dakota St. 86, UC Santa Barbara 68Tulsa 70, Missouri St. 61Wayne (Mich.) 77, Michigan Tech 64

SOUTHWESTHouston 105, LSU 98, OTTexas St. 68, Texas Rio Grande Valley 59

FAR WESTArizona 88, Missouri 52Denver 69, Weber St. 68Montana St. 91, San Jose St. 83N. Colorado 73, Colorado St. 64Nebraska-Omaha 108, Grand Canyon 104,

OTSouthern Cal 68, Yale 56Washington St. 84, UTEP 68Wyoming 62, New Mexico St. 59

WSU 84, UTEP 68UTEP (6-3)

Vint 4-8 2-2 10, Artis 3-9 1-2 9, Moore 4-16 4-5 13, Caldwell 1-1 0-0 2, Morris 4-13 4-6 12, Thomas 1-2 1-2 3, Flaggert 1-3 0-0 3, Winn 4-7 4-5 12, Mbachu 0-1 1-2 1, Touchet 1-3 0-0 3, Venegas 0-0 0-2 0, Romine 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-63 17-26 68.

WASHINGTON ST. (6-2)Hawkinson 7-10 3-6 17, Clifford 5-5 5-5

15, Iroegbu 2-2 4-4 8, Callison 2-9 1-2 6, Johnson 3-6 3-4 11, King 3-5 1-2 10, Suggs 2-5 3-5 9, Redding 0-0 1-2 1, Daniels 0-1 0-0 0, Longrus 1-2 1-2 3, Franks 0-1 0-0 0, Boese 0-0 0-0 0, Izundu 1-1 2-4 4. Totals 26-47 24-36 84.

Halftime—Washington St. 39-33. 3-Point Goals—UTEP 5-22 (Artis 2-5, Flaggert 1-3, Touchet 1-3, Moore 1-4, Mbachu 0-1, Vint 0-1, Morris 0-5), Washington St. 8-16 (King 3-4, Johnson 2-3, Suggs 2-5, Callison 1-3, Daniels 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—UTEP 36 (Moore, Winn 7), Washington St. 38 (Hawkinson 14). Assists—UTEP 10 (Artis 5), Washington St. 15 (Callison 7). Total Fouls—UTEP 23, Washing-ton St. 24. A—1,917.

UAB 79, Seattle 73SEATTLE (3-6)

Westendorf 3-9 0-0 9, Cohee 5-8 2-2 12, Powell 6-8 3-3 15, Crook 4-9 3-4 11, Menzies 1-2 0-0 2, Montoya 2-3 0-0 5, Chibuogwu 0-1 0-0 0, Shaughnessy 1-2 2-2 4, Clair 5-9 0-0 15. Totals 27-51 10-11 73.

UAB (6-3)Baxter 1-3 2-2 4, Norton 0-3 2-2 2, Cokley

10-14 5-7 25, Brown 6-14 0-1 18, Mehinti 2-4 0-0 4, Watts 4-6 0-0 11, Williams 2-8 0-0 4, Madison 0-0 0-0 0, Lee 5-6 0-0 11, Sullivan 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 30-60 9-12 79.

Halftime—UAB 37-24. 3-Point Goals—Se-attle 9-17 (Clair 5-8, Westendorf 3-5, Montoya 1-2, Chibuogwu 0-1, Cohee 0-1), UAB 10-25 (Brown 6-11, Watts 3-5, Lee 1-1, Norton 0-3, Williams 0-5). Fouled Out—Crook. Re-bounds—Seattle 29 (Crook 9), UAB 26 (Lee 6). Assists—Seattle 15 (Westendorf 7), UAB 22 (Williams 5). Total Fouls—Seattle 17, UAB 14. A—3,587.

College women’s scoresSunday’s games

EASTBoston College 71, New Hampshire 51Duquesne 64, Ohio 47George Washington 78, Villanova 70Gonzaga 80, Colgate 50Iona 62, North Texas 51Rutgers 65, Savannah St. 26Saint Joseph’s 53, Drexel 46West Virginia 66, Marshall 60

SOUTHBerry 62, NC Wesleyan 50Clemson 71, Tennessee Tech 53Delaware St. 66, Wagner 44ETSU 62, Armstrong St. 52Elon 69, NC State 66Florida 79, Robert Morris 52Georgia Tech 66, Samford 55Jacksonville St. 74, Tuskegee 47James Madison 73, Richmond 47Kentucky 68, Middle Tennessee 52LSU 68, UC Santa Barbara 50Louisville 70, IUPUI 61Mercer 86, Faulkner 33Mississippi St. 93, Louisiana Tech 63Mount Olive 54, St. Augustine’s 48N. Kentucky 92, W. Virginia St. 47South Carolina 86, Winthrop 37South Florida 61, Chattanooga 33St. John’s 70, UCF 42Tennessee St. 77, Lipscomb 65UAB 53, South Alabama 39UNC Wilmington 61, Norfolk St. 57VCU 63, Md.-Eastern Shore 39Virginia Tech 72, Coppin St. 39Wofford 69, Bluefield 58Wright St. 71, E. Kentucky 69

MIDWESTButler 63, Arkansas 57Central Arkansas 63, Southeast Missouri

54Green Bay 72, Wisconsin 58Iowa St. 70, Ark.-Pine Bluff 41Kansas 61, Navy 54, OTKansas St. 102, FAU 53Marquette 70, Auburn 69, OTMichigan St. 82, Oakland 62Michigan Tech 71, Wayne (Mich.) 65N. Illinois 68, Illinois St. 59N. Iowa 59, Akron 49Northwestern 81, Loyola of Chicago 72Ohio St. 89, NC A&T 56Purdue 73, Ball St. 63SIU-Edwardsville 90, Nebraska-Omaha 86,

OTStetson 68, E. Illinois 66UCLA 86, Michigan 77Xavier 65, Cincinnati 56

SOUTHWESTBaylor 105, McNeese St. 46Oklahoma 80, UTSA 41Texas 77, Stanford 69Tulsa 74, UALR 63W. Kentucky 73, Texas-Arlington 64

FAR WESTBoise St. 84, Concordia (Ore.) 77Colorado St. 90, Panhandle St. 45E. Washington 68, Cal St.-Fullerton 57Sacramento St. 92, UC Davis 77Southern Cal 69, Long Beach St. 43

FOOTBALLCollege Bowl Schedule

Saturday, Dec. 19Celebration Bowl

AtlantaNC A&T (9-2) vs. Alcorn State (9-3), 9 a.m.

New Mexico BowlAlbuquerque

Arizona (6-6) vs. New Mexico (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN)

Las Vegas BowlBYU (9-3) vs. Utah (9-3), 12:30 p.m. (ABC)

Camelia BowlMontgomery, Ala.

Ohio (8-4) vs. Appalachian State (9-2), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Cure BowlOrlando, Fla.

San Jose State (5-7) vs. Georgia State (6-6), 4 p.m. (CBSSN)

New Orleans BowlLouisiana Tech (8-4) vs. Arkansas State (8-3),

6 p.m. (ESPN)Monday, Dec. 21

Miami Beach BowlSouth Florida (8-4) vs. Western Kentucky

(11-2), 11:30 a.m. (ESPN)Tuesday, Dec. 22

Famous Idaho Potato BowlBoise

Akron (7-5) vs. Utah State (6-6), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Boca Raton (Fla.) BowlTemple (10-3) vs. Toledo (9-2), 4 p.m. (ESPN)

Wednesday, Dec. 23Poinsettia Bowl

San DiegoNorthern Illinois (8-5) vs. Boise State (8-4),

1:30 p.m. (ESPN)GoDaddy Bowl

Mobile, Ala.Bowling Green (10-3) vs. Georgia Southern

(8-3), 5 p.m. (ESPN)Thursday, Dec. 24

Bahamas BowlNassau

Middle Tennessee (7-5) vs. Western Michi-gan (7-5), 9 a.m. (ESPN)

Hawaii BowlHonolulu

Cincinnati (7-5) vs. San Diego State (10-3), 5 p.m. (ESPN)

Saturday, Dec. 26St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl

Marshall (9-3) vs. UConn (6-6), 8 a.m. (ESPN)Sun Bowl

El Paso, TexasMiami (8-4) vs. Washington State (8-4), 11

a.m. (CBS)Heart of Dallas Bowl

Washington (6-6) vs. Southern Mississippi (9-4), 11:20 a.m. (ESPN)

Pinstripe BowlBronx, N.Y.

Duke (7-5) vs. Indiana (6-6), 12:30 p.m. (ABC)

Independence BowlShreveport, La.

Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Tulsa (6-6), 2:45 p.m. (ESPN)

Foster Farms BowlSanta Clara, Calif.

Nebraska (5-7) vs. UCLA (8-4), 6:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Monday, Dec. 28Military Bowl

Annapolis, Md.Navy (9-2) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4), 11:30 a.m.

(ESPN)Quick Lane Bowl

DetroitCentral Michigan (7-5) vs. Minnesota (5-7),

2 p.m. (ESPN2)Tuesday, Dec. 29

Armed Forces BowlFort Worth, Texas

Air Force (8-5) vs. California (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN)

Russell Athletic BowlOrlando, Fla.

North Carolina (11-2) vs. Baylor (9-3), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Arizona BowlTucson

Nevada (6-6) vs. Colorado State (7-5), 4:30 p.m. (TBA)

Texas BowlHouston

Texas Tech (7-5) vs. LSU (8-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN)Wednesday, Dec. 30

Birmingham (Ala.) BowlAuburn (6-6) vs. Memphis (9-3), 9 a.m.

(ESPN)Belk Bowl

Charlotte, N.C.NC State (7-5) vs. Mississippi St. (8-4), 12:30

p.m. (ESPN)Music City BowlNashville, Tenn.

Louisville (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 4 p.m. (ESPN)

Holiday BowlSan Diego

Wisconsin (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Thursday, Dec. 31Peach Bowl

AtlantaHouston (12-1) vs. Florida State (10-2), 9

a.m. (ESPN)Orange Bowl (Playoff Semifinal)

Miami Gardens, Fla.Clemson (13-0) vs. Oklahoma (11-1), 1 p.m.

(ESPN)Cotton Bowl Classic (Playoff Semifinal)

Arlington, TexasAlabama (12-1) vs. Michigan State (12-1), 5

p.m. (ESPN)Friday, Jan. 1Outback Bowl

Tampa, Fla.Northwestern (10-2) vs. Tennessee (8-4), 9

a.m. (ESPN2)Citrus BowlOrlando, Fla.

Michigan (9-3) vs. Florida (10-3), 10 a.m. (ABC)

Fiesta BowlGlendale, Ariz.

Notre Dame (10-2) vs. Ohio State (11-1), 10 a.m. (ESPN)

Rose BowlPasadena, Calif.

Iowa (12-1) vs. Stanford (11-2), 2 p.m. (ESPN)

Sugar BowlNew Orleans

Oklahoma State (10-2) vs. Mississippi (9-3), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Saturday, Jan. 2TaxSlayer Bowl

Jacksonville, Fla.Penn St. (7-5) vs. Georgia (9-3), 9 a.m.

(ESPN)Liberty Bowl

Memphis, Tenn.Kansas St. (6-6) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 12:20

p.m. (ESPN)Alamo BowlSan Antonio

Oregon (9-3) vs. TCU (10-2), 3:45 p.m. (ESPN)

Cactus BowlPhoenix

West Virginia (7-5) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 7:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Monday, Jan. 11College Football Championship Game

Glendale, Ariz.Orange Bowl winner vs. Cotton Bowl winner,

5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

AP All-America TeamsFIRST TEAM

OffenseQuarterback — Deshaun Watson, sopho-

more, Clemson.Running backs — Derrick Henry, junior,

Alabama; Leonard Fournette, sophomore, LSU.

Tackles — Taylor Decker, senior, Ohio State; Spencer Drango, senior, Baylor.

Guards — Joshua Garnett, senior, Stanford; Landon Turner, senior, North Carolina.

Center — Jack Allen, senior, Michigan State.

Receivers — Corey Coleman, junior, Baylor; Josh Doctson, senior, TCU.

Tight end — Hunter Henry, junior, Arkansas.All-purpose player — Christian McCaffrey,

sophomore, Stanford.Kicker — Ka’imi Fairbairn, senior, UCLA.

DefenseEnds — Shaq Lawson, junior, Clemson; Carl

Nassib, senior, Penn State.Tackles — A’Shawn Robinson, junior, Ala-

bama; Andrew Billings, junior, Baylor.Linebackers — Reggie Ragland, senior, Ala-

bama; Tyler Matakevich, senior, Temple; Jaylon Smith, junior, Notre Dame.

Cornerbacks — Desmond King, junior, Iowa; Vernon Hargreaves III, sophomore, Florida.

Safeties — Jeremy Cash, senior, Duke; Vonn Bell, junior, Ohio State.

Punter — Tom Hackett, senior, Utah.SECOND TEAM

OffenseQuarterback — Baker Mayfield, junior, Okla-

homa.Running backs — Dalvin Cook, sopho-

more, Florida State; Ezekiel Elliott, junior, Ohio State.

Tackles — Jack Conklin, junior, Michigan State; Ronnie Stanley, senior, Notre Dame.

Guards — Sebastian Tretola, senior, Arkan-sas; Pat Elflein, junior, Ohio State.

Center — Ryan Kelly, senior, Alabama.Receivers — Will Fuller, junior, Notre Dame;

JuJu Smith-Schuster, sophomore, Southern Cali-fornia.

Tight end — Jake Butt, junior, Michigan.All-purpose player — Morgan Burns, senior,

Kansas State.Kicker — Jake Elliott, junior, Memphis.

DefenseEnds — Joey Bosa, junior, Ohio State; DeFor-

est Buckner, senior, Oregon.Tackles — Robert Nkemdiche, junior, Missis-

sippi; Sheldon Day, senior, Notre Dame.Linebackers — Joe Schobert, senior, Wis-

consin; Kentrell Brothers, senior, Missouri; Eric Striker, senior, Oklahoma.

Cornerbacks — Jourdan Lewis, junior, Michi-gan; Jalen Ramsey, junior, Florida State.

Safeties — Trae Elston, senior, Mississippi; Jayron Kearse, junior, Clemson.

Punter — Drew Kaser, senior, Texas A&M.THIRD TEAM

OffenseQuarterback — Keenan Reynolds, senior,

Navy.Running backs — Royce Freeman, sopho-

more, Oregon; Larry Rose III, sophomore, New Mexico State.

Tackles — Jason Spriggs, senior, Indiana; Vadal Alexander, senior, LSU.

Guards — Dan Feeney, junior, Indiana; Joe Thuney, senior, North Carolina State.

Center — Austin Blythe, senior, Iowa.Receivers — Laquon Treadwell, junior,

Mississippi; Roger Lewis, sophomore, Bowling Green.

Tight end — Austin Hooper, junior, Stanford.All-purpose player — Jakeem Grant, senior,

Texas Tech.Kicker — Adam Schneider, sophomore, Or-

egon.Defense

Ends — Shilique Calhoun, senior, Michigan State; Myles Garrett, sophomore, Texas A&M.

Tackles — Jonathan Bullard, senior, Florida; Kenny Clark, junior, UCLA.

Linebackers — Su’a Cravens, junior, Southern California; Blake Martinez, senior, Stanford; Anthony Walker, sophomore, North-western.

Cornerbacks — Mackensie Alexander, sophomore, Clemson; Shawun Lurry, sophomore, Northern Illinois.

Safeties — Eddie Jackson, junior, Alabama; Darian Thompson, senior, Boise State.

Punter — Hayden Hunt, junior, Colorado State.

All-America selection panelKirk Bohls, Austin (Texas) American-

Statesman; Scott Hamilton, Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Journal; Jon Wilner, San Jose (California) Mercury News; Matt Charboneau, The Detroit News; Steve Layman, WTVF-TV Nashville, Tennessee; Dave Reardon, Honolulu Star-Advertiser; Bob Asmussen, Champaign (Il-linois) News-Gazette; Tim Griffin, San Antonio Express-News; Brian Howell, Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado); Sam Werner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Eric Hansen; The South Bend (Indiana) Tribune; Sam McKewon, Omaha (Ne-braska) World-Herald; John Adams, Knoxville (Tennessee) News Sentinel; Garry Smits, The Florida Times-Union; Keith Sargeant; New Jer-sey Advance Media.

GOLF

Father/Son ChallengeSunday

At Ritz-Carlton Golf ClubOrlando, Fla.

Purse: $1,085,000Yardage: 6,852; Par: 72

FinalScramble (Father listed first)

Team Wadkins won on first playoff holeLanny-Tucker Wadkins, $200,000 61-63—124Larry-Drew Nelson, $62,147 62-62—124Fred-Taylor Funk, $62,147 62-62—124Davis-Dru Love, $62,147 61-63—124Lee-Connor Janzen, $48,500 62-63—125Vijay-Qass Singh, $48,500 59-66—125Tom-Thomas Lehman, $46,500 63-63—126Bernhard-Jason Langer, $46,500 63-63—126Mark-Shaun O’Meara, $44,750 63-64—127Stewart-Connor Cink, $44,750 63-64—127Hale-Steve Irwin, $43,500 64-64—128Nick-Matthew Faldo, $43,500 62-66—128Steve-Sam Elkington, $43,500 61-67—128Lee-Daniel Trevino, $42,000 66-63—129Jack-Gary Nicklaus, $42,000 64-65—129Raymond-Ray. Floyd Jr., $42,000 63-66—129Fuzzy-Gretchen Zoeller, $40,750 66-64—130Dave-Dave Stockton Jr., $40,750 64-66—130Curtis-Tom Strange, $40,250 64-67—131Nick-Greg Price, $40,000 69-64—133

HOCKEYNHL

WESTERN CONFERENCEPacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GALos Angeles 29 19 8 2 40 75 61Arizona 30 14 14 2 30 81 95Vancouver 31 11 12 8 30 79 86San Jose 29 14 14 1 29 75 78Calgary 29 13 14 2 28 78 103Edmonton 30 13 15 2 28 82 90Anaheim 29 11 13 5 27 56 73

Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas 30 22 6 2 46 102 79Chicago 31 17 10 4 38 85 75St. Louis 31 17 10 4 38 78 75Minnesota 28 15 7 6 36 73 66Nashville 30 15 10 5 35 80 79Winnipeg 30 14 14 2 30 82 91Colorado 31 14 16 1 29 85 88

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAMontreal 31 20 8 3 43 100 70Detroit 30 16 8 6 38 78 77Boston 28 16 9 3 35 91 77

Ottawa 30 15 10 5 35 92 90Florida 30 14 12 4 32 76 74Tampa Bay 30 14 13 3 31 71 68Buffalo 30 12 15 3 27 72 83Toronto 28 10 13 5 25 64 76

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 28 20 6 2 42 85 62N.Y. Islanders 31 18 8 5 41 89 72N.Y. Rangers 31 18 9 4 40 90 72New Jersey 30 15 11 4 34 74 75Pittsburgh 28 15 10 3 33 67 67Philadelphia 30 12 12 6 30 62 83Carolina 30 12 14 4 28 74 92Columbus 31 11 17 3 25 74 93

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s gamesN.Y. Islanders 4, New Jersey 0Colorado 3, St. Louis 1Chicago 4, Vancouver 0

Monday’s GamesEdmonton at Boston, 7 p.m.Washington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Tampa Bay at Columbus, 7 p.m.Los Angeles at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.Buffalo at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

WHLU.S. DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtSeattle 30 18 10 2 0 103 87 38Everett 29 17 10 0 2 78 62 36Spokane 31 16 12 2 1 104 104 35Portland 30 15 15 0 0 103 96 30Tri-City 31 12 18 1 0 93 118 25

B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtKelowna 31 23 7 1 0 122 90 47Victoria 32 20 10 1 1 110 73 42Prince George 31 19 10 1 1 104 89 40Kamloops 28 14 10 3 1 105 92 32Vancouver 33 10 19 2 2 94 120 24

EASTERN CONFERENCEEAST DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtBrandon 32 19 10 1 2 120 90 41Prince Albert 31 18 10 2 1 96 94 39Moose Jaw 31 16 10 4 1 112 101 37Regina 32 15 13 2 2 97 107 34Saskatoon 30 11 16 3 0 87 124 25Swift Current 31 10 17 3 1 74 96 24

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtCalgary 35 21 12 1 1 116 108 44Red Deer 32 21 11 0 0 117 92 42Lethbridge 31 20 11 0 0 127 95 40Edmonton 33 13 17 3 0 92 111 29Medicine Hat 31 10 18 2 1 99 126 23Kootenay 33 6 25 2 0 62 140 14

Sunday’s gamesSaskatoon 2, Regina 1 OTMedicine Hat 5, Edmonton 4Vancouver 4, Victoria 2Calgary 5, Red Deer 2

Monday’s gamesNo games scheduled

Tueday’s gamesKamloops at ReginaKelowna at Swift CurrentLethbridge at Prince AlbertMedicine Hat at EdmontonRed Deer at KootenayPrince George at SeattlePortland at Tri-City

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NFLFAVORITE Today UNDERDOGNY Giants 2½ at MIAMI

DEALS

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Recalled F James Ennis from Iowa (NBADL).

FOOTBALLNational Football League

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed DB Nick Perry to the practice squad.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned G Kristers Gudlevskis to Syracuse (AHL). Recalled G Andrei Vasilevskiy from Syracuse.

ECHLELMIRA JACKALS — Released F Phil Bron-

ner.RAPID CITY RUSH — Released G Cody Lind-

horst as emergency backup.COLLEGE

EAST CAROLINA — Named Scottie Mont-gomery football coach.

SeahawksC4 | THE DAILY HERALD | WWW.HERALDNET.COM | MONDAY, 12.14.2015

Game statisticsSeahawks 35, Ravens 6Seattle 7 7 7 14 — 35Baltimore 0 6 0 0 — 6

Scoring summaryFirst Quarter

Sea—Lockett 8 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 5:08. Drive: 11 plays, 80 yards, 6:18. Key Plays: Rawls 16 run; Wil-son 12 pass to Kearse. Seattle 7, Baltimore 0.

Second QuarterBal—FG Tucker 28, 13:39. Drive: 5 plays, 32 yards, 2:31.

Key Plays: Clay 10 punt return to Seattle 42; Clausen 23 pass to Butler; Clausen 10 pass to Allen. Seattle 7, Balti-more 3.

Sea—Baldwin 14 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), :38. Drive: 2 plays, 14 yards, 0:09. Key Play: Wagner fumble recovery (Allen). Seattle 14, Baltimore 3.

Bal—FG Tucker 30, :00. Drive: 5 plays, 68 yards, 0:38. Key Plays: Clausen 37 pass to Aiken; Clausen 21 pass to Aiken; Avril 12-yard personal foul penalty. Seattle 14, Bal-timore 6.

Third QuarterSea—Baldwin 22 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick),

8:54. Drive: 11 plays, 80 yards, 6:06. Key Plays: Wilson 17 pass to Helfet; Wilson 8 pass to Baldwin on 3rd-and-5; Jernigan 13-yard personal foul penalty. Seattle 21, Balti-more 6.

Fourth QuarterSea—Lockett 49 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick),

14:53. Drive: 9 plays, 86 yards, 5:01. Key Plays: Wilson 11 pass to Kearse; Wilson 5 pass to Lockett on 3rd-and-4; Wil-son 6 run on 3rd-and-3. Seattle 28, Baltimore 6.

Sea—Baldwin 16 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 8:55. Drive: 4 plays, 38 yards, 2:21. Key Plays: Sherman 4 interception return to Baltimore 38; Wilson 20 pass to Ke-arse; Levine Sr. 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Seattle 35, Baltimore 6.

A—71,179.

Team stats Sea Bal

FIRST DOWNS 28 16Rushing 8 0Passing 17 13Penalty 3 3THIRD DOWN EFF 8-12 3-11FOURTH DOWN EFF 0-0 0-1TOTAL NET YARDS 424 302Total Plays 69 55Avg Gain 6.1 5.5NET YARDS RUSHING 123 28Rushes 36 14Avg per rush 3.4 2.0NET YARDS PASSING 301 274Sacked-Yds lost 0-0 1-0Gross-Yds passing 301 274Completed-Att. 24-33 23-40Had Intercepted 0 1Yards-Pass Play 9.1 6.7KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB 6-6-6 2-2-2PUNTS-Avg. 3-51.0 5-45.2Punts blocked 0 0FGs-PATs blocked 0-0 0-0TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE 4 46Punt Returns 1-0 3-46Kickoff Returns 0-0 0-0Interceptions 1-4 0-0PENALTIES-Yds 6-42 9-94FUMBLES-Lost 1-1 1-1TIME OF POSSESSION 35:43 24:17

Passing

Seattle C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT SACKS QBR RTGRussell Wilson 23/32 292 9.1 5 0 0-0 97.2 139.6Tarvaris Jackson 1/1 9 9.0 0 0 0-0 99.9 104.2

Baltimore C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT SACKS QBR RTGJimmy Clausen 23/40 274 6.8 0 1 1-0 52.1 68.1

RushingSeattle

Car Yds Avg TD LGThomas Rawls 6 44 7.3 0 16DuJuan Harris 18 42 2.3 0 6Derrick Coleman 1 19 19.0 0 19Fred Jackson 7 15 2.1 0 5Russell Wilson 1 6 6.0 0 6Tarvaris Jackson 3 -3 -1.0 0 -1

Baltimore Car Yds Avg LG TDTerrance West 5 16 3.2 0 17Javorius Allen 8 14 1.8 0 5Jimmy Clausen 1 -2 -2.0 0 -2

ReceivingSeattle

Rec Yds Avg TD Lng TgtsTyler Lockett 6 104 17.3 2 49 7Doug Baldwin 6 82 13.7 3 22 9Jermaine Kearse 7 74 10.6 0 20 8Cooper Helfet 2 20 10.0 0 17 2Fred Jackson 1 8 8.0 0 8 4Luke Willson 1 8 8.0 0 8 2Kevin Smith 1 5 5.0 0 5 1

Baltimore Rec Yds Avg TD Lng TgtsKamar Aiken 5 90 18.0 0 37 7Jeremy Butler 7 72 10.3 0 23 10Daniel Brown 5 47 9.4 0 31 6Javorius Allen 5 44 8.8 0 17 9Chris Matthews 1 21 21.0 0 21 2Chris Givens 0 0 0.0 0 0 5Kyle Juszczyk 0 0 0.0 0 0 1

Punt returns

Seattle No. Yds Avg LG TDTyler Lockett 1 0 0.0 0 0

Baltimore No. Yds Avg LG TDKaelin Clay 3 46 15.3 24 0

Kickoff returns

Seattle No. Yds Avg LG TDNone

Baltimore No. Yds Avg LG TDNone

Defense/special team statsSeattle

Tackles Assists SacksK.J. Wright 8 5 0Bobby Wagner 6 2 0Earl Thomas 4 4 0Michael Bennett 4 3 1Jeremy Lane 3 3 0Kelcie McCray 3 3 0Brandon Mebane 3 2 0DeShawn Shead 3 2 0Richard Sherman 2 2 0Cassius Marsh 2 2 0Cliff Avril 2 1 0Ahtyba Rubin 2 0 0Mike Morgan 1 1 0Bruce Irvin 1 1 0Marcus Burley 1 1 0Frank Clark 1 1 0A.J. Francis 1 0 0

BaltimoreShareece Wright 9 7 0Daryl Smith 8 0 0C.J. Mosley 7 3 0Lardarius Webb 5 4 0Jimmy Smith 5 4 0Zachary Orr 5 3 0Brent Urban 4 3 0Lawrence Guy 4 2 0Za’Darius Smith 4 2 0Timmy Jernigan 4 1 0Courtney Upshaw 3 2 0Kendrick Lewis 3 1 0Kyle Arrington 2 2 0Chris Canty 2 1 0Brandon Williams 2 1 0Elvis Dumervil 2 0 0Marshal Yanda 1 1 0

Interceptions

Seattle No. Yds Avg LG TDRichard Sherman 1 4 4.0 4 0

Baltimore No. Yds Avg LG TDNone

Punts

Seattle No. Yds Avg TB In 20 LongJon Ryan 3 153 51.0 0 0 63

Baltimore No. Yds Avg TB In 20 LongSam Koch 5 226 45.2 1 3 5

Kicking

Seattle FG Pct Lg Xp PtsSteven Hauschka 0/0 0.0 0 5/5 5

Baltimore FG Pct Lg Xp PtJustin Tucker 2/2 100.0 30 0/0 6


BALTIMORE — Michael Bennett has a refrain that’s as familiar this time of year as hol-iday wreaths, Christmas trees — and the Seattle Seahawks winning.

“I always say, man, ‘It’s the pretenders in the beginning of the season, then it’s the contenders at the end of the season,’” Seattle’s defensive end said Sunday following a 35-6 steamrolling of the Baltimore Ravens, the fourth consecu-tive victory for the two-time defending NFC champions.

“The great teams play great football in December.”

Seattle is now 14-2 the last three seasons in December.

The defense is back play-ing as great as that record in this month of Santa Claus and Seahawks victories. With Ben-nett and fellow defensive end Cliff Avril continuing their Pro Bowl-caliber seasons of zoom off the edge and tackles Ahtyba Rubin and Brandon Mebane devouring blockers inside so All-Pro middle linebacker Bobby Wagner can clean up on tackles behind them, Seat-tle has allowed 59 total yards

rushing on 30 carries the past two weeks.

Baltimore, missing lead back and former Seahawk Justin Forsett (broken arm), had just 28 yards on 14 running plays. That was a season low against Seattle. Ravens offensive coor-dinator Marc Trestman basically quit running. That left the game in the arm of third-string quar-terback Jimmy Clausen.

Yes, that worked out well for the Seahawks.

“This week we just wanted to hit our gaps,” Wagner said. “We felt if we stop the run game fast that was going to force them to throw. And we felt like we liked our chances with that.”

Clausen is now 1-12 in his journeyman career as a starting quarterback. He’s 0-2 this sea-son against the Seahawks.

He became the sixth quarter-back to start two games against the same opponent in an NFL season; he had filled in for injured Jay Cutler when Chi-cago lost 26-0 at Seattle on Sept. 27. After Baltimore punted the first two times it had the ball on Sunday, all 13 drives Clausen had led in two games against the Seahawks this season had ended with punts.

Clausen didn’t produce a

touchdown on 20 drives against Seattle this season.

Seattle is now allowing 83.2 yards rushing per game. That includes holding league rush-ing leader Adrian Peterson to 18 yards the previous week. The Seahawks entered Sunday third in the league in run defense, then their average allowed dropped almost 5 more yards.

During the four-game win-ning streak, the Seahawks have held San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Minnesota and Baltimore to an average of 44 yards rushing per game.

The plan is to gang up on running backs and lanes, then force second- and third-tier quarterbacks to try to beat them with Avril and Bennett flying at them with no thought of having to stop the run. That plan will continue the next two weeks. Seattle hosts Cleveland (3-10) and Johnny Manziel this coming weekend, then St. Louis (5-8) and likely Case Kee-num on Dec. 27.

“We pride ourselves up front, the front seven, to try to stop the run,” Avril said. “That’s our big thing, making them one-dimensional.

“We just need to keep chop-ping away.”

Run stoppersSeattle’s defense has allowed 59 rushing yards on 30 carries in the past two games.

PATRICK SEMANSKY / ASSOCIATED PRESSSeahawks middle linebacker Bobby Wagner (54) celebrates with cornerbacks Richard Sherman (25) and Jeremy Lane (20) after Wagner recovered a fumble to set up a Seattle touchdown during the first half.

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hallway to the team’s bus to its flight home from this 35-6 rout of the Baltimore Ravens.

Paging the suddenly-urgently needed Lynch.

Rawls, Lynch’s replacement for the last month, will miss the rest of the season after suffering a broken ankle and torn ligaments in Sunday’s first quarter.

“I think the ligaments are really the problem,” Seattle head coach Pete Carroll said. “I don’t think he’s going to have to have an operation, from what I understand.

“Thomas has had a fantastic rookie season. Just exemplifies what we are all about: toughness, and hard-nosed and committed and grit and all that stuff. We love the guy, and we’re really going to miss him.”

Rawls had 47 yards on his first five carries of the Seahawks’ fourth straight victory. He was plowing through Ravens like he had Bengals, 49ers, Steelers and Vikings before them. But on his sixth carry of Seattle’s opening drive he got trapped behind the line and engulfed by a swarm of Ravens. His left ankle bent under the pile. The Seahawks’ medical staff ran onto the field followed close behind by Carroll. They knew almost immediately Rawls’ impressive debut season was over, after 830 rushing yards.

“I just talked to him for a sec-ond. He’s such a stud kid that he’s trying to fire me up,” Carroll said.

“I’m sure it’s tearing him up inside because he would love to continue with his teammates.”

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson said he prayed for Rawls.

“That was tough,” Wilson said. “He’s played such a great season, rushing for almost 1,000 yards this season. I think he’s done just a phenomenal job. He’s worked so hard. Just praying for him that he gets back quickly.”

Rawls walked off the field slowly with a limp. He was replaced by DuJuan Harris, who was on the practice squad until eight days ago.

Carroll said the next move for the team will be to see how close Lynch is to returning from abdominal surgery Nov. 25.

“We have to see where he is. He has a chance to get back. It’s all about getting back in shape and getting right,” Carroll said. “I don’t know what that timetable is at this point; our trainers can’t tell yet. But that would be the next thing that we are looking at, to see how that works.

“In the meantime, we’ll figure it out.”

Of course, if Wilson continues to play as he has — 16 touch-downs, no interceptions in his past four games, and if the offensive line continues its pass blocking — no sacks allowed Sunday, only eight allowed in the last six games after 31 in the first seven — the Seahawks may be able to withstand yet another injury at running back.

Harris signed with Seattle’s practice squad Nov. 24, a day before Lynch’s surgery. The Seahawks promoted him to the active roster in time to backup Rawls last week at Minnesota.

He lost a fumble at the 5-yard line in the second quarter Sun-day, or the rout of the Ravens would have been even worse.

“I have to be better,” a glum Harris said repeatedly.

He played 15 games for Green Bay last season, and nine com-bined for the Packers and Jacksonville in the 2012 and 2011 seasons, respectively.

Seattle got another key injury Sunday when Kam Chancellor sus-tained “a bruised back side” in the second quarter and did not return. Special-teamer Kelcie McCray replaced him at strong safety.

Chancellor was on an exercise bike on the sidelines for some of the rest of the game after he got hurt. He walked out of the locker room carrying his own bag fol-lowing the game.

The Seahawks have a policy of injured players being off-limits to talk to the media.

“He was really uncomfortable today,” Carroll said, “(but) we think he has a chance to get back next week.”

The Seahawks (8-5) host Cleve-land (3-10) next Sunday. The Browns ended a seven-game losing streak by beating San Francisco.

By Dave BolingThe News Tribune

BALTIMORE — Almost no interview in the Seattle Seahawks locker room after the 35-6 win over Baltimore finished without a few verbal bouquets being tossed in the direction of the offensive line.

That’s not bad for a unit that had been figuratively chased around Seattle by critics with pitchforks and torches in the first half of the season.

Their improving play coin-cides with the streak of Seahawks’ success.

In the past six games, five wins, Seattle quarterbacks have been sacked eight times, after being sacked 31 times in the first seven.

They Hawks also topped 400 yards in total offense four times in those six games.

“I can’t start it without talk-ing about the offensive line,” head coach Pete Carroll said. “These guys protected all day long. Russell (Wilson) had a great opportunity to sit back there and do his stuff.”

Wilson was untouched in 32 pass attempts versus Baltimore, and he responded by staying in a clean pocket and passing for five more touchdowns.

“The offensive line was unbe-lievable,” Wilson said. “They

opened holes and protected me well. That’s as good as it gets.”

Carroll said it’s been a matter of the line maturing together, but many credit the change to the insertion of Patrick Lewis into the role of starting center six games ago.

“They give me too much credit,” Lewis said. “As a group, we watch a lot of film together. Russell (Wilson) is on it and he’s making the right checks and getting everybody in the right spot. Overall, it’s just a lot of communication. That’s been the main thing lately.”

Given how well he had played in a stretch late last sea-son, Lewis was considered a front-runner for the starting job in training camp. But unproven Drew Nowak was given the job even though he was more of an unfinished prospect.

“That happens,” Lewis said when asked how he reacted to being on the bench. “It moti-vated me to keep working on the things I needed to. I just waited my turn and when I got it I tried to do my best. I love this game and I try to put my all into every play whether I’m on the bench or on the field.”

Right guard J.R. Sweezy said Lewis’ play has “been big; he has a lot of experience and has been able to step in there and

run the show.”Lewis offered an interest-

ing insight into the unity of the offensive line, deflecting credit to backup center/guard Lem-uel Jeanpierre.

Although Jeanpierre is another who contended for playing time at center, he’s been a mentor to Lewis.

“He’s always in my ear, keep-ing me at the top of my game,” Lewis said. “We watch a lot of film together and he helps me out. He’s been that way since I got here. He’s a great leader on this team and I look up to him.”

Jeanpierre laughed when he heard Lewis. “You do whatever you can, even if I’m not play-ing I can be an asset. Pat’s doing really well, doing a great job, and he’s going to keep doing it.”

Tackle Russell Okung cited the quick release of Wilson’s passes as helping their pro-tection. But he also touted Wilson’s level-headed support of the linemen.

“He’s always been con-sistent since Week 1 in his language, how he talks and how he believes in us,” Okung said of Wilson. “He never changes; he’s true to who he is. He’s never hard on us, always believes in what we can do.”

And, in the last six games, he has reason to believe in them.

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Offense

A Seattle’s running game was largely nullified once Thomas

Rawls left injured in the first quarter, but it didn’t matter one iota. Quar-terback Russell Wilson continued his scorching stretch by going 23-for-32 for 292 yards and five touchdowns with no interceptions, and Doug Baldwin caught three more TD passes to bring his total to eight in the past three games. The Seahawks were also fantastic on third down (8-for-12) and in the red zone (4-for-5).

Defense

A- Baltimore quarterback Jimmy Clausen surprisingly passed

for 274 yards after managing just 63 when he started for Chicago against Seattle earlier in the season. But the Seahawks completely shut down the Ravens’ running game, and Seattle’s defense has now gone two full games without allowing a touchdown.

Special teams

B There weren’t a lot of opportuni-ties on special teams, as Seattle

attempted no field goals, had only one return opportunity and punted just three times. Steven Hauschka booting every kickoff out of the end zone was useful. The punt cover-age was not great on one occasion when the Ravens had a 24-yard return.

Coaching

A The offensive play calling contin-ues to work to perfection, with

Wilson getting rid of the ball quickly (Baltimore had no sacks) and constantly having open receivers to throw to. After Clausen started finding a rhythm in the first half the Seahawks dialed up the blitz to good effect. Seattle seemed well prepared for its second straight trip back east for a 10 a.m. PST game.

Overall

A This was Seattle’s second straight dominating victory and

fourth win in a row. The Seahawks now occupy the NFC’s first wild-card spot and are playing as well as any team in the NFL. The only downside was the loss of Rawls, who suffered a broken ankle and torn ligaments and is done for the season. But even Rawls’ loss had no effect on Sunday’s outcome.

— Nick Patterson, Herald Writer

Seahawks schedule(Home games in bold)

Sept. 13: Rams 34, Seahawks 31 (OT) Sept. 20: Packers 27, Seahawks 17Sept. 27: Seahawks 26, Bears 0Oct. 5: Seahawks 13, Lions 10Oct. 11: Bengals 27, Seahawks 24 (OT)Oct. 18: Panthers 27, Seahawks 23Oct. 22: Seahawks 20, 49ers 3Nov. 1: Seahawks 13, Cowboys 12Nov. 15: Cards 39, Seahawks 32Nov. 22: Seahawks 29, 49ers 13Nov. 29: Hawks 39, Steelers 30Dec. 6: Seahawks 38, Vikings 7Dec. 13: Seahawks 35, Ravens 6Dec. 20: Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.Dec. 27: St. Louis, 1:25 p.m.Jan. 3: at Arizona, 1:25 p.m.

Here's how the Seattle Seahawks grade out in their 35-6 victory over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday:

Report Card

PATRICK SEMANSKY / ASSOCIATED PRESSSeahawks quarterback Russell Wilson talks to Seattle head coach Pete Carroll during the second half.

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BALTIMORE — Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson’s 23-for-32 passing day for 292 yards against the Balti-more Ravens on Sunday leaves him with 3,289 yards passing this season.

He is 186 yards from his career high set last season — with three regular-season games still remaining.

Wilson was 11-for-18 for 121 yards and touchdowns to Doug Baldwin and rookie Tyler Lockett in the first half. His passer-rating in the half was 118.1.

Baldwin had his first drop of the season, on an inside-then-out route like the one on which he scored his second-quar-ter touchdown. Luke Willson dropped a pass in the end zone. And Fred Jackson, the 34-year-old third-down back, allowed an accurate Wilson pass to go through his hands over the middle to end a 2-minute drill before halftime.

Without those drops Wilson

would have had a perfect rating of 158.3 in the half.

“So many people wrote so many things about Russell Wil-son, saying, ‘Can he play in the NFL? Can he do that?’” defen-sive end Michael Bennett said. “Then he comes out and puts this type of season together: Spectacular.”

Matthews strikes backChris Matthews made his Bal-

timore debut when the Ravens signed him off their practice squad and made him active for Sunday’s game. You may remember the 6-foot-5 wide receiver as the break-out star of February’s Super Bowl with his first four catches and NFL touchdown for the Seahawks.

Seattle released him Nov. 17.Matthews had one catch for 21

yards in two targets while mostly lining up opposite Seahawks cor-nerback Richard Sherman. In the fourth quarter Ravens quarterback Jimmy Clausen badly overthrew Matthews near the sideline. Sher-man easily grabbed his second interception of the season — but went down not-so easily. Matthews pulled him to the turf by Sherman’s long, dreadlocked hair that sticks out the back of his helmet.

How much did Sherman like that?

“I like it as much as kids like get-ting coal for Christmas,” he said.

Sherman said Matthews apolo-gized. He added it was the third time that’s happened to him in a game, an opponent pulling his hair, but the first time he’d been tackled by such a tug.

Extra pointsWhy the 141 points the last four

games? Sustained drives. Seattle is 32-for-52 (62 percent) converting third downs. That number was 37 percent for the season last month. ... New starting cornerback De-Shawn Shead got beaten on con-secutive long throws down the side-line in the final minute of the first half to set up Baltimore’s second field goal. Then he left the game with a sprained ankle. He returned as the nickel defensive back in the second half — when Marcus Bur-ley sprained his ankle. Head coach Pete Carroll said both “turned their ankles a little bit.” He said Shead be-ing able to come back in the game “was a good sign” for the upcoming game. ... Bennett left briefly with a jammed toe he’s had before, but returned. ... Kelcie McCray, usually a special-teams standout, played the final three quarters at strong safety after Kam Chancellor bruised his tailbone. “He fit in fine,” Carroll said. “For the most part it looked like he was on his stuff.”

‘Spectacular’ WilsonSeahawks QB is 186 yards shy of matching single

season-career high of 3,475 yards with 3 games to play

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— from three weeks ago. He has 16 touchdowns with zero inter-ceptions the past four games. Three of his scoring throws on Sunday went to a wide-open Baldwin. The wide receiver has eight touchdown receptions in the past three games.

That was more than enough to overcome a season-ending ankle injury to running back Thomas Rawls and bury Baltimore with its third-string quarterback, Jimmy Clausen. Seattle rolled to its fourth consecutive victory, 35-6 at M&T Bank Stadium on a Maryland day that was as unsea-sonably warm as the Seahawks are unbelievably hot.

Seattle has scored 141 points in its past four games. It’s out-scored the last two, steamrolled opponents by a combined 73-13.

“Seattle Seahawks, back to doing what they do,” All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman said after his interception — on which he got pulled down by his hair — helped Seattle (8-5) hold its second consecutive foe with-out an offensive touchdown.

“Let’s call all those people who wrote us off — and call for their jobs.”

Wilson could have had a Seahawks-record six TD passes

if tight end Luke Willson hadn’t dropped the quarterback’s lofted throw in the end zone in the sec-ond quarter.

The Elias Sports Bureau says Wilson is the first player in NFL history to have four consecutive games with at least three touch-down passes, zero interceptions and a completion rate of at least 70 percent.

“It really is like watching Russell at practice,” All-Pro line-backer Bobby Wagner said.

Yes, Wilson is playing games like there’s no defenders hit-ting him and nobody in pads. Or even helmets.

Baldwin, whose career-high 11 touchdown catches this sea-son equals that of his three previous seasons combined, continues to be impressed by his quarterback.

“It’s been amazing the past few games,” Baldwin said.

“He’s playing unbelievable right now. ... He’s doing it all. It’s Russ right now. He’s ballin’.”

Seattle’s defense is equally impressed.

“Spectacular,” defensive end Michael Bennett said of Wilson.

So are the Seahawks. Once 0-2, 2-4 and 4-5, they won their fourth game in a row to seize the fifth seed in the NFC’s six-team playoff standing. Home games against Cleveland and St. Louis plus a finale at Arizona Jan. 3 remain.

“Remember the stories y’all were writing!” Bennett bellowed across the locker room as the media filed in. “Don’t write good stories now. You’ve got to write good stories now.”

Wilson is 89-for-118 (a com-pletion rate of 75.4 percent) for 1,171 yards with those 16 TDs and no interceptions in the past four games. That’s a per-fect passer rating of 158.3 in that span, one of the best such stretches in NFL history.

And it’s happening with star tight end Jimmy Graham plus top two running backs — Marshawn Lynch, and now Rawls — out.

His teammates may be impressed, but Wilson isn’t.

“No, I’m not surprised,” the unflappable QB said. “On to the next game.”

Rawls had 47 yards on his first five carries, bulling through defenders as usual, before he his left ankle was broken under a pile of Ravens at the end of a 3-yard loss at the Baltimore 8-yard line. He walked off slowly with a limp. He was replaced by DuJuan Har-ris, who was on the practice squad until eight days ago.

Harris had 42 yards on 18 carries. He lost a fumble at the Ravens 5 in the second quarter when his grip on the ball loosened as he made a cut left in traffic.

Meanwhile, Wilson was exqui-site — again — behind his improved offensive line.

Right tackle Garry Gilliam, a college tight end at Penn State making his NFL debut at the position this season, stymied Bal-timore’s elite pass rusher Elvis Dumervil. Gilliam repeatedly warded off the rushing outside linebacker with hand shivers then shuffled his feet quickly. That kept a sturdy edge to Wilson’s front side of that passing pocket.

“Tight and firm,” Gilliam said, repeating what the credo for pocket protection has been for the offensive line the last month.

Seattle allowed zero sacks on Sunday. It has given up just eight in its last six games. That’s after an NFL-high 31 sacks in the first seven games, when the Seahawks were 3-4.

That’s the underlying story to this turnaround.

“What they are doing is unbe-lievable,” Wilson said of his linemen. “All the plays, all the throws, are all because of them.”

Without three drops, includ-ing Willson’s in the end zone, Wilson’s passer rating in the half would have been 158.3. That’s officially, statistically perfect.

Just like his — and the Seahawks’ — past four games.

Not to mention their chem-istry barreling toward another postseason.

“I’m sure you can feel it. And you can probably see it the way we’ve been playing,” Wilson said. “I don’t know if it can be much better.”

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And as was the case with Unitas, most of the great quar-terbacks had a security-blanket receiver, a go-to guy with whom he shared a special connection.

For Unitas, it was Raymond Berry. For Russell Wilson, it’s Doug Baldwin.

Baldwin has eight TD catches in the past three games — more than half of his total in the first four seasons of his career (15).

“I think Doug’s playing phe-nomenal football ... Pro Bowl, All-Pro type of play,” Wilson said.

All six of Baldwin’s catches against the Ravens went for first downs, and three for touchdowns of 14, 16 and 22 yards.

“It’s been amazing the past few weeks,” Baldwin said. “I have to give a lot of credit to Russ; he’s playing unbelievable. I know he’ll come up here and say nothing’s different, but he’s been playing his tail off, unbelievable. I can’t say enough about what he’s doing right now for us.”

Baldwin’s best catch on Sun-day didn’t even count, and it was perhaps the day’s best example of the Wilson/Baldwin extrasensory interplay. Under heavy pressure in the Red Zone, Wilson spun away from trouble and almost blindly winged it to the corner of the end zone where Baldwin pulled it in. He was knocked out of bounds in the process, so it was ruled incomplete.

It was evidence of the special, almost telepathic, communica-tion Wilson and Baldwin share.

“A lot goes into it,” Baldwin said. “It’s him knowing my body language, knowing when I’m going to cut, knowing what I’m going to do. Like I said last week (against the Vikings) I ran the wrong route but he put the ball in the perfect spot because he was reading my body language.”

When players are that in-tune, two wrongs it seems, can make a touchdown.

“(It’s) the nuances, the subtle-ties that come with the game,” Baldwin said. “We’re finally on the same page.”

Not just on the same page, but off the charts.

As always, Wilson tried to give credit to every receiver on the roster when asked specifically about Baldwin, but he admitted that the two “are really clicking.”

Wilson is probably the first to bring Baldwin into the Pro Bowl conversation. It’s hard for a receiver on a run-first team to build the kind of numbers needed.

But Baldwin has been crucial in helping Wilson boost his stats to career-high levels, and that scores points.

It’s too early to start sculpting any statues yet, but this special connection between Wilson and Baldwin is going to make the Seahawks very dangerous down the stretch of this season and into the future.

NICK WASS / ASSOCIATED PRESSSeahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett (16) celebrates with wide receiver Jermaine Kearse (15) and quarterback Russell Wilson (3) after Lockett scored on a 49-yard touchdown pass in the second half.

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LEAGUE | StandingsNATIONAL CONFERENCE

West W L T Pct PF PAx-Arizona 11 2 0 .846 405 252Seattle 8 5 0 .615 340 235St. Louis 5 8 0 .385 210 271San Francisco 4 9 0 .308 188 315

East W L T Pct PF PAWashington 6 7 0 .462 281 307Philadelphia 6 7 0 .462 301 322N.Y. Giants 5 7 0 .417 307 296Dallas 4 9 0 .308 230 305

South W L T Pct PF PAy-Carolina 13 0 0 1.000 411 243Tampa Bay 6 7 0 .462 288 322Atlanta 6 7 0 .462 279 295New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 323 397

North W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 9 4 0 .692 317 245Minnesota 8 5 0 .615 258 255Chicago 5 8 0 .385 272 314Detroit 4 9 0 .308 267 336

AMERICAN CONFERENCEWest

W L T Pct PF PADenver 10 3 0 .769 281 225Kansas City 8 5 0 .615 331 243Oakland 6 7 0 .462 299 326San Diego 3 10 0 .231 250 334

East W L T Pct PF PAx-New England 11 2 0 .846 402 253N.Y. Jets 8 5 0 .615 325 256Buffalo 6 7 0 .462 316 301Miami 5 7 0 .417 240 300

South W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 6 7 0 .462 275 356Houston 6 7 0 .462 259 291Jacksonville 5 8 0 .385 326 357Tennessee 3 10 0 .231 253 326

North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 10 3 0 .769 354 229Pittsburgh 8 5 0 .615 344 260Baltimore 4 9 0 .308 278 326Cleveland 3 10 0 .231 240 357

x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

Last Thursday’s gameMinnesota at Arizona, 5:25 p.m.

Sunday’s scoresSt. Louis 21, Detroit 14Kansas City 10, San Diego 3Washington 24, Chicago 21Philadelphia 23, Buffalo 20Cleveland 24, San Francisco 10New Orleans 24, Tampa Bay 17N.Y. Jets 30, Tennessee 8Pittsburgh 33, Cincinnati 20Jacksonville 51, Indianapolis 16Carolina 38, Atlanta 0Seattle 35, Baltimore 6Oakland 15, Denver 12Green Bay 28, Dallas 7New England 27, Houston 6

Monday’s gameN.Y. Giants at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday’s gameTampa Bay at St. Louis, 5:25 p.m.

Saturday’s gameN.Y. Jets at Dallas, 5:25 p.m.

Next Sunday’s gameChicago at Minnesota, 10 a.m.Atlanta at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.Houston at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.Carolina at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.Tennessee at New England, 10 a.m.Buffalo at Washington, 10 a.m.Kansas City at Baltimore, 10 a.m.Cleveland at Seattle, 1:05 p.m.Green Bay at Oakland, 1:05 p.m.Miami at San Diego, 1:25 p.m.Cincinnati at San Francisco, 1:25 p.m.Denver at Pittsburgh, 1:25 p.m.Arizona at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Next Monday’s gameDetroit at New Orleans, 5:30 p.m.

SUNDAY | Stars

SUNDAY | Injuries

By Steve ReedAssociated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam Newton raced from one end of the Carolina Panthers’ side-line to the other in the final moments of a 38-0 rout of the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, raising his arms to the crowd as fans cheered on their emo-tional MVP candidate.

“I believe right now it’s our moment as Panthers,” Newton said with a smile as he praised the team’s fan base following his victory run. “We try to seize it as much as possible.”

Newton — and the fans — had plenty of reason to celebrate.

The fifth-year quarterback completed 15 of 21 passes for 265 yards and three touch-downs, and the unbeaten Panthers clinched a first-round bye in the NFC playoffs in what Newton described as the team’s most complete game.

It’s hard to argue that.The Panthers outgained the

Falcons 424-230, forced four turnovers and matched the franchise’s largest margin of victory.

It was never close.Jonathan Stewart ran for a

1-yard touchdown and New-ton connected on scoring strikes of 74 and 46 yards to Ted Ginn Jr. as the Panthers (13-0) scored on their first three possessions to take 21-0 first quarter lead.

Newton also threw a 4-yard TD pass to Ed Dickson in the final seconds of the first half before leaving for good at the end of the third quarter with Carolina up 38. He finished with a career-high quarterback rating of 153.3, and the Pan-thers won their 17th straight regular-season game.

“Don’t ease up on the gas,” Newton said. “... We want to be considered finishers.”

Carolina’s defense had two interceptions, two fumble recoveries and registered five sacks — two by defensive tackle Kawann Short — while limiting struggling Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan to 224 yards passing. The Panthers played inspired football after allowing Drew Brees to throw for three TD passes last week in a narrow escape.

It was a devastating loss for the slumping Falcons (6-7), who started 5-0 but have lost six straight.

“It was about as badly as we

can play,” Ryan said. “That’s frustrating.”

Falcons coach Dan Quinn called the loss “unacceptable.”

“We look for smart, tough and finish,” Quinn said. “That’s what I expect from our club. When that doesn’t happen, yes, I have a lot of disappointment.”

The two teams meet again on Dec. 27.

The Panthers can clinch the No. 1 seed before then if they beat the New York Giants and Arizona loses.

It seems the biggest issue the Panthers might have between now and the playoffs will be balancing winning and staying healthy.

There were some scary moments for Carolina on the injury front.

Stewart (left ankle), who ran for 75 yards, and tight end Greg Olsen (left knee) left the game in the second quarter and did not return. Coach Ron Rivera said both players could have returned to the game, but were held out because the team had a commanding lead.

However, Rivera said starting cornerback Bene Benwikere broke his left leg and is done for the season.

Panthers rout Falcons Carolina wins 38-0 , clinches first-round bye in playoffs

SUNDAY | Roundup

PASSINGRussell Wilson, Seahawks. Wilson completed 23

of 32 passes for 292 yards and five touchdowns in a 35-6 victory at Baltimore.

Cam Newton, Panthers. Newton threw for 265 yards and three touchdowns, leading Carolina to a 38-0 win against Atlanta.

Drew Brees, Saints. Brees was 31 for 41 for 312 yards and two touchdowns as New Orleans won 24-17 at Tampa Bay.

Blake Bortles, Jaguars. Bortles was 16 for 30 for 250 yards and accounted for four TDs as Jacksonville rallied past Indianapolis for a 51-16 win.

Jay Cutler, Bears. Cutler was 19 of 31 for 315 yards and two touchdowns in Chicago’s 24-21 loss to Washington.

Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jets. Fitzpatrick passed for 263 yards and three TDs as New York beat Tennessee 30-8 for its third straight win.

RUSHINGTodd Gurley, Rams. The rookie had 16 carries for

140 yards and two touchdowns as St. Louis held on for a 21-14 win against Detroit.

Isaiah Crowell, Browns. Crowell had 20 carries for 145 yards and two touchdown, leading Cleveland to a 24-10 win against San Francisco.

Eddie Lacy, Packers. Lacy had 24 carries for 124 yards and a touchdown in Green Bay’s 28-7 win over Dallas.

DeAngelo Williams, Steelers. Williams rushed for 76 yards and two touchdowns to help Pittsburgh to a 33-20 win at Cincinnati.

Chris Ivory, Jets. Ivory rushed for 101 yards on 22 carries, helping New York to a 30-8 win against Tennessee.

Darren McFadden, Cowboys. McFadden had 111 yards on nine carries in Dallas’ 28-7 loss at Green Bay.

RECEIVINGTyler Lockett and Doug Baldwin, Seahawks.

Lockett and Baldwin combined for 12 receptions for 186 yards and five touchdowns as Seattle won 35-6 at Baltimore.

Ted Ginn Jr., Panthers. Ginn had two receptions for 120 yards and two TDs in Carolina’s 38-0 victory over Atlanta.

Jordan Reed, Redskins. Reed made nine catches for 120 yards and a touchdown as Washington won 24-21 at Chicago.

A.J. Green, Bengals. Green had six grabs for 132 yards and a touchdown in Cincinnati’s 33-20 loss to Pittsburgh.

Brandon Marshall, Jets. Marshall had six catches for 125 yards and a touchdown, helping New York to a 30-8 win over Tennessee.

Allen Hurns, Jaguars. Hurns grabbed three balls for 105 yards and a touchdown in Jacksonville’s 51-16 win over Indianapolis.

Alshon Jeffery, Bears. Jeffrey had six catches for 107 yards and a TD in a 24-21 loss to Chicago.

T.Y. Hilton, Colts. Hilton made four receptions for 132 yards, but Indianapolis lost 51-16 at Jacksonville.

Robert Woods, Bills. Woods had five catches for 106 yards in Buffalo’s 23-20 loss at Philadelphia.

Marques Colston, Saints. Colston caught two touchdown passes in New Orleans’ 24-17 win at Tampa Bay.

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Patriots beat Texans 27-6, clinch playoff spotAssociated Press

HOUSTON — Tom Brady got Rob Gronkowski back and it helped the New Eng-land Patriots return to the win column and clinch a playoff spot.

Brady threw for 226 yards and two touch-downs and the Patriots snapped a two-game skid with a 27-6 win over the Houston Texans on Sunday night.

The Patriots (11-2) moved ahead of the Denver Broncos and the Cincinnati Bengals in the race for the top AFC playoff seed and can clinch the AFC East with one win, or with one loss or tie by the New York Jets. New Eng-land hasn’t lost three straight games since 2002.

Brady threw TD passes to Keshawn Mar-tin and Gronkowski in the first half to help New England build a 17-6 lead. Gronkowski had four receptions for 87 yards and a touch-down in his return after missing last week’s game with a knee injury.

Texans quarterack Brian Hoyer was sacked five times and left the game to be evalu-ated for a concussion with about 9 minutes remaining. The quarterback already missed a game this season after getting a concussion on Nov. 16.

Raiders 15, Broncos 12DENVER — Khalil Mack had five sacks of Brock

Osweiler, including one in the end zone for a safe-ty, and Derek Carr bounced back from an awful first half.

Carr threw two touchdown passes and the Raiders (6-7) beat the Broncos for the first time since Sept. 12, 2011, despite being held to mi-nus-12 yards in the first half — the worst perfor-mance by a team heading into halftime in nearly a quarter-century.

The Broncos (10-3) failed to hold onto a 12-0 halftime lead or several on-target throws from Osweiler, including two big drops by Demaryius Thomas, one for a touchdown and another for a late first down.

Redskins 24, Bears 21CHICAGO — Kirk Cousins threw for 300 yards

and a touchdown and the Redskins hung on to beat the Bears after Chicago’s Robbie Gould missed yet another late field goal.

Washington, which came in tied with Philadel-phia and the Giants for the NFC East lead, went ahead early in the fourth quarter on Dustin Hop-kins’ 47-yard field goal. The Redskins (6-7) broke a nine-game road losing streak dating to last season.

The Bears (5-8) were in position to score after Jay Cutler hit Alshon Jeffery with a 50-yard pass that put the ball on the Washington 35. The usually reliable Gould, who missed the potential winner at the end of regulation in last week’s overtime loss to San Francisco, got a chance to redeem himself.

His 50-yard attempt wasn’t even close as it sailed wide right.

Jaguars 51, Colts 16JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Blake Bortles threw

three touchdown passes and ran for a score — all in the second half — and the Jaguars ended the Colts’ 16-game winning streak in the AFC South.

Indianapolis’ division streak was the longest in NFL history. The Colts’ previous loss against the AFC South came on Dec. 16, 2012, at Houston.

Chiefs 10, Chargers 3KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs kept San Di-

ego out of the end zone twice in the final seconds for their seventh consecutive win.

Alex Smith threw for 191 yards and a touch-down, along with his first interception after a fran-chise-record 312 attempts. But it was a banged-up defense that held San Diego without a touchdown for the second time this season that allowed the Chiefs (8-5) to escape.

The Chargers (3-10) took over at their 11 with 5 minutes left and quickly moved into Kansas City territory, converting fourth down three times. But after San Diego was called for delay of game at the Chiefs 1 with 5 seconds left, Philip Rivers threw in-complete into the end zone.

San Diego still had 2 seconds left, and an in-complete pass that would have ended the game was blown dead for a false start. With the ball pushed back to the 11-yard line, Rivers scrambled to his right and threw to the end zone, where his pass final pass fell incomplete.

Jets 30, Titans 8EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Ryan Fitzpatrick

threw three touchdown passes and New York’s stingy defense stifled Marcus Mariota and the Ti-tans’ offense for most of the game.

Saints 24, Bucs 17TAMPA, Fla. — Drew Brees threw a pair of

touchdown passes to Marques Colston and the Saints stopped a four-game losing streak, Brees completed 31 of 41 passes for 312 yards without an interception.

Rams 21, Lions 14ST. LOUIS — Todd Gurley ran for 140 yards and

two second-half touchdowns, and the Rams end-ed a five-game losing streak.

Seahawks running back Thomas Rawls. The rookie broke his left ankle in Seattle’s 35-6 win over the Ravens.

Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton. Dalton broke his right thumb after making a tackle following his interception to Pittsburgh defensive end Stephon Tuitt on a shovel pass in the first quarter of the Steel-ers’ 33-20 victory Sunday.

Carolina cornerback Bene Benwikere. Benwik-ere is likely out for the season after breaking his left leg in the fourth quarter of a 38-0 win against Atlanta.

Cleveland receiver Brian Hartline. Hartline is out for the season after breaking a collarbone in a 24-10 win over San Francisco. He had eight catches for 107 yards when he got hurt, and the Browns were already missing receivers Andrew Hawkins and Taylor Gabriel because of concussions.

Indianapolis quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. Has-selbeck left a 51-16 loss to Jacksonville with a rib injury. There was no update on his condition after the game.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. — With his offense mired by inconsistency this season, Packers coach Mike McCarthy decided to make a change this week.

He’s calling the plays again in Green Bay.

Eddie Lacy ran for 124 yards and a touchdown and fellow run-ning back James Starks added two scores in the Packers’ 28-7 win over the Dallas Cowboys.

Green Bay (9-4) has a one-game lead in the NFC North over Minnesota after its second straight victory following a 1-4 slide.

“It’s definitely a springboard for us,” Lacy said. “We have three games left, we’ve got to finish these games out.”

With 435 yards and 29 first downs, the Packers got better balance and production out of an offense that still struggled at times with penalties and short-yardage situations. The defense and running game came up with big plays in the fourth quarter.

The biggest change for the Packers this week was McCarthy taking back play-calling respon-sibility from associate head coach Tom Clements. He called it a tough personal decision to make with a long-time assistant.

“But professionally it was what I felt I needed to do,” McCarthy said.

Instead of suggesting plays to Clements, as he had the past four weeks, it was now Clements sug-gesting plays to McCarthy.

So there was McCarthy again, communicating the final calls to quarterback Aaron Rodgers, a combination that had worked so well for so many years.

“But I don’t think it’s been about the play-calling,” quarter-back Aaron Rodgers said. “It’s been about the execution. We haven’t executed really well. Today was a little better.”

Whatever the reason, the Pack-ers pulled away in the end.

Dallas’ touchdown came on Robert Turbin’s 7-yard run mid-way through the third quarter to make it 14-7.

The Cowboys (4-9) suffered a setback to their chances of win-ning the mediocre NFC East.

“These teams, teams like Green Bay, they’re going to go to another level here as they get on near the playoffs,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. “That’s the way you do it in the NFL, and we weren’t up to it tonight.”

Rodgers threw for 218 yards and two scores. But all the Pack-ers really needed from their star quarterback late in the game was to hand off the ball.

Lacy, Starks lead Packers past Cowboys

MIKE MCCARN / ASSOCIATED PRESSPanthers quarterback Cam Newton, who completed 15 of 21 passes for 265 yards and three touchdowns, celebrates during Carolina’s 38-0 victory over the Falcons on Sunday.

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DAVID RICHARD / ASSOCIATED PRESSBrowns quarterback Johnny Manziel completed 21 of 31 passes for 270 yards and a touchdown with one interception as Cleveland defeated the 49ers 24-10 on Sunday.

Johnny B. GoodManziel helps Browns snap seven-game

losing streak with 24-10 victory over the 49ersBy Tom Withers

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CLEVELAND — Sitting on the sideline, Johnny Manziel was angry and frustrated.

More importantly for the Cleveland Browns, he held himself accountable.

Upset for throwing an inter-ception late in the first half, Manziel vented by bashing a tablet on his head before recov-ering to throw a touchdown pass in the second half and leading Cleveland to a 24-10 win on Sunday over the San Fran-cisco 49ers, ending the Browns’ seven-game losing streak.

“I probably overreacted a lit-tle bit,” Manziel said.

Johnny Football finally accepted some blame.

Manziel passed for 270 yards, delivering a quality per-formance he and the Browns (3-10) desperately needed. He tossed a 2-yard TD pass to Gary Barnidge in the third quarter as Cleveland won for the first time since Oct. 11 and took some pressure off coach Mike Pettine.

Isaiah Crowell rushed for 145 yards and had two short TD runs for Cleveland, which won its first

game in December since 2012.The inept 49ers (4-9) allowed

nine sacks and managed just 127 yards on offense before a 94-yard drive in garbage time.

“Maybe we did take them a little light,” said Niners line-backer Ahmad Brooks. “We got the win last week and maybe we got a little big headed.”

Manziel was back on the field after being benched two games by Pettine for partying during Cleveland’s bye week after he had promised not to be a dis-traction. The 23-year-old was thankful to get a second chance and made the most of it while giving the Browns hope he may still blossom into a franchise QB.

Manziel overcame his one glaring mistake, accurately found wide-open receivers and looked more like an NFL starter that at any point in his two sea-sons as a pro.

“I’ve only gotten to play six or seven games,” said Manziel, who went 21 for 31. “The num-ber is starting to climb but for me, these mean a lot to me. I still have a lot to prove. I feel like I’m just getting started.”

Making his first start since throwing for a career-high 372

yards on Nov. 15 at Pittsburgh, Manziel was sharp in the first half with the exception of one bone-headed play.

With the Browns near mid-field, Manziel was forced from the pocket and scrambled near the Browns sideline. But instead of running out of bounds or throwing the ball away, Manziel forced a pass over the middle that was inter-cepted by Niners safety Jaquiski Tartt, who returned it 25 yards.

Manziel stormed off the field and slammed his helmet to the ground. He took a seat, and when he reviewed the play on one of the sideline tablets, he saw that Barnidge had come open on the play. That’s when he had his temper tantrum.

“I probably shouldn’t have overreacted the way I did, but it’s the NFL and when those chances are there, you’ve got to make the most of them,” he said.

“It was a natural reaction, he knew he messed up,” Pettine said. “It would bother me more if he just ‘whatever’ and walked off. If it’s towards himself over frustration from doing some-thing bone-headed, I have no problem with it.”

By Joe KayAssociated Press

CINCINNATI — Andy Dalton’s right thumb hurt a bit as he came to the sideline. He gripped a foot-ball to gauge how much he had hurt his passing hand while mak-ing a tackle.

One painful squeeze told him something was badly wrong.

Dalton broke his thumb while making a tackle after his inter-ception on Sunday, turning Cincinnati’s season upside-down in an instant. With a chance to clinch the AFC North at home, the Bengals lost their quarterback and got blown out, too.

The Pittsburgh Steelers bat-tered backup AJ McCarron while pulling away to a 33-20 victory that left the division and the top AFC playoff seed up for grabs.

“It’s huge frustration,” Bengals left tackle Andrew Whitworth said.

Cincinnati (10-3) is just waiting to see how long it will be without Dalton, who had the NFL’s top passer rating heading into the game. He will see a specialist on Monday to get a better idea of the treatment options.

ESPN.com reported Dalton will miss the rest of the season, according to team sources.

“Mentally I’m fine,” said Dal-ton, wearing a black cast. “It’s unfortunate it happened at this point in the season. I’m doing all right. There are a lot of people who are way worse off than I am.”

The Steelers (8-5) rumbled with the Bengals during pregame warmups and then led the whole way, sending Cincinnati to its first lopsided loss of the season.

William Gay returned one of McCarron’s passes 23 yards for a touchdown, and Pittsburgh’s resurgent offense kept rolling. Pittsburgh has scored 30 points in five straight games, a franchise record.

The game — and potentially Cincinnati’s season — turned on one interception. Stephon Truitt picked off Dalton’s shovel pass in the first quarter, and Dalton got hurt while making the tackle.

Dalton has been one of the NFL’s most durable quarterbacks, missing only half a game dur-ing his five seasons because of injury. Now, the Bengals’ chances are in the hands of a second-year quarterback from Alabama who missed all of his rookie season with a sore passing shoulder.

“If you don’t (have confidence) you’re doomed,” said McCarron. “I’ve always believed in myself when I’ve stepped between those white lines where it’s a nasty and dirty game. If you lose confidence it can go bad for you real quick.”

Dalton breaks thumb, Bengals lose to Steelers

By Rob MaaddiAssociated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Sam Bradford and a tenacious defense ruined LeSean McCoy’s homecoming.

Caleb Sturgis kicked a 30-yard field goal with 3:26 left, Ed Reyn-olds intercepted Tyrod Taylor’s pass in the final minutes and the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Buf-falo Bills 23-20 on Sunday.

McCoy had 74 yards rushing and 35 receiving in his return to Philadelphia. The two-time All-Pro kissed the Eagles logo at midfield before the coin toss and hugged owner Jeffrey Lurie.

He was the first player off the field after the game, sprinting toward the locker room immedi-ately when the clock expired and slammed his helmet into the wall.

“I got nothing to say,” he told a crowd of reporters around his locker.

The Eagles (6-7) and Redskins (6-7) are tied atop the NFC East. The New York Giants (5-7) could make it a three-way tie with a win at Miami on Monday night.

The Bills (6-7) fell two games behind in the AFC wild-card race.

Taylor’s streak of 222 passes without a pick ended when his deep pass went right to Reynolds with 1:16 remaining.

Bradford threw for 247 yards, including a 53-yard TD to Nelson Agholor. The Eagles are 6-2 in the past eight games Bradford has started and finished.

“I feel more comfortable, more confident in what we’re doing,” he said.

McCoy, the Eagles’ all-time leading rusher, was dealt to Buf-falo for linebacker Kiko Alonso last March. He was bitter about the trade and criticized coach Chip Kelly several times afterward.

He never approached Kelly after saying last week he didn’t want to shake his hand or talk to him.

Fans gave McCoy a mixed reac-tion before the game with some cheers and a few boos. Many wore No. 25 jerseys in Bills and Eagles colors.

The Bills rallied from a 20-10 deficit in the third quarter.

One play after Taylor ran 14 yards on third-and-13, Mike Gil-lislee had a 19-yard TD run to tie it at 20-20.

Bradford tossed a 41-yard pass to Zach Ertz on third-and-3 to set up Philadelphia’s go-ahead field goal.

“Sam played outstanding,” Kelly said.

“I thought we were the better team, but obviously we got beat,” Bills coach Rex Ryan said. “We have ourselves to blame.”

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WashingtonBellingham 44/32/c 44/33/pcColville 39/23/c 33/21/pcEllensburg 40/22/pc 38/27/pcForks 46/30/pc 46/33/cFriday Harbor 43/33/c 44/36/pcMoses Lake 43/23/pc 36/25/sOcean Shores 48/38/c 48/43/cOlympia 45/28/c 43/31/pcPort Angeles 45/29/c 45/33/cPullman 36/27/pc 34/27/pcSpokane 37/26/c 33/24/pcSeattle 45/33/pc 44/36/pcTacoma 46/29/pc 44/34/pcWalla Walla 42/30/sn 39/32/pcWenatchee 43/25/pc 35/25/sYakima 46/22/pc 40/27/pcIdahoBoise 38/24/c 35/22/pcCoeur d’Alene 38/29/sn 34/27/sfSun Valley 33/19/c 26/7/pcOregonAstoria 50/36/sh 49/39/cBend 34/14/c 33/24/pcEugene 46/33/sh 45/36/pcKlamath Falls 35/17/sn 31/16/sMedford 42/31/r 40/24/sPortland 47/34/sh 43/38/pc

Albany 59/52/c 56/37/cAlbuquerque 47/22/pc 38/20/sAmarillo 58/30/s 47/21/pcAnchorage 25/23/sf 29/24/snAtlanta 68/49/r 71/48/sAtlantic City 64/57/c 60/45/sAustin 72/47/s 70/43/shBaltimore 67/53/r 62/39/sBaton Rouge 74/45/s 76/55/pcBillings 35/21/sn 27/16/snBirmingham 68/45/s 71/47/sBoise 38/24/c 35/22/pcBoston 55/51/r 61/39/pcBuffalo 67/48/r 50/37/pcBurlington, VT 55/50/r 53/33/cCharleston, SC 80/58/c 77/51/sCharleston, WV 71/48/r 57/38/sCharlotte 70/46/r 71/41/sCheyenne 40/16/pc 22/16/snChicago 54/39/sh 45/40/sCincinnati 60/45/sh 54/41/sCleveland 62/44/r 52/41/sColumbus, OH 61/45/r 52/39/sDallas 67/49/s 70/42/pcDenver 43/21/pc 26/16/snDes Moines 47/35/c 47/41/cDetroit 60/44/r 50/41/pcEl Paso 64/36/s 50/26/sEvansville 56/42/pc 58/45/pcFairbanks 7/-1/pc 7/1/cFargo 35/27/c 34/27/snFort Myers 82/68/pc 83/69/pcFresno 49/31/pc 48/29/sGrand Rapids 57/42/r 49/40/pcGreensboro 70/50/r 69/42/sHartford 58/55/c 60/36/pcHonolulu 85/73/sh 84/74/sHouston 71/47/s 75/53/pcIndianapolis 56/42/sh 52/42/pc

Jackson, MS 69/42/s 73/49/pcKansas City 49/35/s 56/35/sKnoxville 68/45/r 64/39/sLas Vegas 51/35/pc 50/32/sLittle Rock 64/39/s 68/49/pcLos Angeles 61/39/pc 61/38/sLouisville 61/47/pc 60/45/pcLubbock 67/36/s 54/26/sMemphis 62/43/s 69/51/pcMiami 83/71/pc 84/72/pcMilwaukee 54/38/r 42/39/sMinneapolis 40/32/sn 40/35/cMobile 71/46/s 74/53/pcMontgomery 69/43/pc 73/47/sNewark 66/57/c 64/42/pcNew Orleans 74/51/s 73/59/pcNew York City 63/56/c 61/44/pcNorfolk 74/61/sh 69/47/sOakland 56/37/pc 56/36/sOklahoma City 60/39/s 63/31/sOmaha 42/32/pc 44/32/cOrlando 85/65/pc 82/67/cPalm Springs 62/39/pc 60/37/sPhiladelphia 68/58/c 62/44/sPhoenix 57/37/pc 55/36/sPittsburgh 64/47/r 54/40/pcPortland, ME 48/42/r 56/32/rPortland, OR 47/34/sh 43/38/pcProvidence 59/56/r 61/37/pc

Raleigh 74/54/sh 71/44/sRapid City 34/21/c 28/17/snReno 34/18/c 34/14/sRichmond 73/57/sh 68/40/sSacramento 54/34/pc 54/30/sSt. Louis 56/40/s 58/49/sSt. Petersburg 81/69/pc 81/70/cSalt Lake City 36/25/sn 32/19/sfSan Antonio 73/50/s 72/47/pcSan Diego 62/45/pc 62/43/sSan Francisco 55/42/pc 55/41/sSan Jose 55/37/pc 54/35/sStockton 54/31/pc 52/28/sSyracuse 63/50/r 53/34/cTallahassee 79/58/pc 75/62/shTampa 82/69/pc 82/70/cTempe 55/32/pc 52/30/sTopeka 50/33/pc 57/33/cTucson 53/30/r 51/26/sTulsa 59/41/s 67/37/sWashington, DC 69/54/r 64/43/sWichita 51/33/s 55/29/pcWinston-Salem 70/51/r 69/42/sYuma 64/40/pc 59/37/s

High: Naples, FL ............................... 85Low: Walden, CO ............................ -15

Intervals of clouds and sun-shine today. Partly cloudy to-

night; cold near the Cascades. A shower in the area tomorrow

afternoon.

A snow shower today. Snow levels around 1,500 feet. Partly

cloudy tonight. Partial sunshine tomorrow. Wednesday: mostly

cloudy.

Clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight.

Sunny to partly cloudy tomorrow. Wednesday:

mostly cloudy. Thursday: a bit of snow.

Clouds and sun with a shower

Times of clouds and sun

Isolated showers

Cloudy with a touch of rain

through 5 p.m. yesterday through 5 p.m. yesterdayHigh/low ..................................... 46/41Normal high/low ....................... 43/35Records (2010/1978) ................. 54/23Barometric pressure (noon) ... 29.57 S24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.68”Month to date ............................. 4.99”Normal month to date ............... 2.57”Year to date ............................... 44.16”Normal year to date ................. 43.94”

High/low ..................................... 47/42Normal high/low ....................... 45/35Records (1952/1972) ................. 62/17Barometric pressure (noon) ... 29.56 S24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.39”Month to date ............................. 2.46”Normal month to date ............... 1.02”Year to date ............................... 22.92”Normal year to date ................. 19.20”

Low 12:13 a.m. -1.2High 7:32 a.m. 12.2Low 1:12 p.m. 6.6High 5:51 p.m. 9.6

High 7:14 a.m. 9.3Low 12:10 p.m. 6.4High 4:54 p.m. 7.4Low 11:50 p.m. -1.2

through 5 p.m. yesterdayHigh/low ..................................... 46/42Normal high/low ....................... 43/35Records (1995/1972) ................. 57/13Barometric pressure (noon) ... 29.54 R24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.16”Month to date ............................. 5.23”Normal month to date ............... 2.16”Year to date ............................... 29.40”Normal year to date ................. 32.96”

Yesterday’s offender ....... Particulates Sunrise today ....................... 7:51 a.m.Sunset tonight ..................... 4:16 p.m.Moonrise today ................. 10:06 a.m.Moonset today ..................... 8:07 p.m.

Amsterdam 46/39/pc 47/44/cAthens 60/47/pc 58/47/pcBaghdad 62/46/r 62/43/cBangkok 94/77/s 94/75/sBeijing 43/26/s 37/23/sBerlin 40/35/pc 42/33/cBuenos Aires 83/63/t 85/63/sCairo 68/51/pc 67/52/pcDublin 50/47/r 53/50/shHong Kong 71/60/pc 70/56/pcJerusalem 51/43/pc 54/44/pcJohannesburg 80/57/c 79/59/pcLondon 51/48/c 56/53/sh

Madrid 55/44/sh 59/40/pcManila 92/80/c 83/77/rMexico City 72/45/pc 73/43/pcMoscow 31/25/c 29/23/snParis 47/43/pc 51/49/shRio de Janeiro 90/76/t 91/75/tRiyadh 72/50/pc 66/45/sRome 59/40/pc 58/40/sSingapore 86/75/c 86/76/cStockholm 28/22/pc 30/25/cSydney 85/67/s 84/68/cTokyo 56/50/c 57/51/pcToronto 57/47/r 49/32/pc

TODAY

TOMORROW

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

43°33°

41°34°

41°32°

41°37°

47°39°

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45/3346/29

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36/2226/15

27/11

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31/1732/23

34/14

47/33

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50/39 35/17

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Forecasts and graphics, except the KIRO 5-day forecast, provided

by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015

Wind north 4-8 knots today. Seas 3-5 feet. Partly sunny.

Wind southeast 3-6 knots tonight. Seas 1-3 feet. Partly

cloudy.

43/33

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Periods of rain

44/33

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everett daily herald, december 14, 2015

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