Our Towns: Central County
Published 10:50 pm Monday, September 17, 2007
Everett: Police will get high-tech help
The Everett Police Department is being awarded an $84,755 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to help with high-tech crime fighting.
The funding will be used to buy a Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device (FRED), which can be used by forensic detectives to acquire and store digital evidence from a suspect’s hard drive or other storage device. The grant will also be used to buy other high-tech equipment for the department’s video-digital forensic division.
The City Council on Wednesday is scheduled to authorize Mayor Ray Stephanson to accept the 2007 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Grant.
The grant is named in honor of fallen New York police officer Edward “Eddie” Byrne, who was killed in the line of duty in February 1988 while protecting a witness who had agreed to testify in court against drug dealers.
Funding would help senior center
Everett could get $1.2 million from the federal government to upgrade its senior activities center in downtown and to purchase three diesel-electric hybrid buses.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., included the funding for Everett as part of a $6.95 million package for Snohomish County in a Senate transportation and community investments bill. The bill passed an appropriations committee earlier this month, and will head to the Senate floor at a date that has yet to be scheduled.
Everett Transit also stands to get $600,000 to replace older diesel buses from its fleet with new diesel-electric hybrid buses. The city transit agency has already received more than $1 million in federal transportation money to help add cleaner-burning hybrid buses to its 46-bus fleet.
Lake Stevens: Cheer clinic today
The Lake Stevens High School Viking cheerleaders are planning a Junior Viking Cheer Clinic from 6 to 8 p.m. today and Thursday at Glenwood Elementary School, 2221 103rd Ave. SE.
Junior Vikings are girls in grades K-6 who are given a chance to cheer with the high school cheerleaders. Junior Vikings are scheduled to cheer and dance with the cheerleaders at halftime of the high school football game on Friday.
The cost for the clinic is $50. The doors open at 5:45 p.m.
For more information, call Michelle at 425-299-8385.
Mukilteo: Farmers market ends soon
People have two more chances to visit the Mukilteo Farmers Market before it closes down for the year.
The market is scheduled from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through the end of September outside the Rosehill Community Center, 305 Lincoln Ave. Vendors at the market sell fresh produce, baked goods, arts, crafts and other items.
For more information about the market, go online to www.mukilteofarmersmarket.org, or call 425-750-6945.
Snohomish: Council to discuss annexation
The City Council is set to discuss the city’s annexation policies at 7 p.m. today in the George Gilbertson Boardroom at 1601 Ave. D.
As the city grows, annexations will take place. With each annexation, the council has to determine whether an annexation request is appropriate and timely. But the city has no adopted policies to evaluate such request based on consistent criteria.
The city’s planning commission has recommended annexation policies for the council’s consideration.
For more information, call the city at 360-568-3115.
