Ticket to ride: Everett Transit has amassed a sizable collection of foreign currency and car wash tokens, thanks to riders who figure any ol’ round object will do in the bus fare box. Meanwhile, Island Transit must decide whether restarting the express bus between Camano Island and Everett is worth breaking its tradition of not collecting fares.
Perhaps Island Transit can satisfy the state’s fare-collection requirement by charging 1/20th of a cent for the ride, payable by Chuck-E-Cheese video arcade tokens, Canadian pennies, or bitcoin.
Lofty advice: Owners of small businesses can learn much from the Wright Brothers’ example, says Pat Sisneros of Everett Community College, who quotes the brothers’ biographer David McCullough: “Be a gentleman or lady, be polite, have courtesy and good manners.”
Which, of course, would get you fired instantly on “The Apprentice.”
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1982, the first commercially produced compact discs, of “The Visitors,” ABBA’s synthesizer-heavy final studio album, were pressed at a factory in West Germany.
Eighteen months later, those very same discs became the first CDs to wind up in a “50-75 percent off” cut-out bin at a shopping mall record store.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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