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Katharine Graham, then CEO and chairwoman of the board of The Washington Post Co., looks over a copy of The Daily Herald with Larry Hanson, then The Herald’s publisher, during her visit to Everett on Sept. 20, 1984. The Washington Post Co. owned The Herald from 1978 until 2013. (Herald archives)

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Everett’s brush with Katharine Graham, leader of ‘The Post’

Retired Herald publisher Larry Hanson recalls The Washington Post publisher’s visits.

Madison Young, 16, (foreground) works with other students, following the lead of instructor Andrew Faulkner in a hip hop dance class at Northwest Dance & Acro at Smokey Point in Arlington Thursday night. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Photographer captures pirouettes in the nation’s parks

Among Jonathan Givens’ subjects in his new book is Madison Young, a Marysville Pilchuck sophomore.

Police and social service workers search under an Everett overpass during the 2015 Point in Time survey. This year’s one-day count, which estimates the number of homeless people and works to provide services, is scheduled for Jan. 23 across Snohomish County. (Mark Mulligan / Herald file photo)

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County’s annual survey of homelessness planned Jan. 23

The numbers are key to securing funding to help the area’s most vulnerable people.

DanVo’nique Bletson-Reed sings with the MLK Celebration Choir during the 2012 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in Everett. The Marysville woman will again be part of the choir at the 2018 Greater Everett Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration 3 p.m. Sunday at Everett’s Bethany Christian Assembly. (Herald file)

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Keeping the dream alive at events through the weekend

Spencer Haywood is among those scheduled to speak in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Rev. David Sommer is the priest at St. Thomas Orthodox Church in Snohomish. On Sunday, the church will mark the Theophany of the Lord, the baptism of Jesus, with a water blessing at Blackman Lake. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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St. Thomas Orthodox Church in Snohomish observes an ancient faith

“There’s definitely a difference between this and a rock ’n’ roll church,” St. Thomas’ priest says.

Nick Spicher, a new program innovation manager at Everett’s Imagine Children’s Museum, talks with Ezra Tamas, 5, Wednesday, while the youngster builds things with educational toys called brackitz. Ezra, who will turn 6 in a few days, goes to the museum nearly every week with his mom, Estera Tamas. Spicher has become a media sensation after appearing on “Jeopardy!” (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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This Everett ‘Jeopardy’ contestant wasn’t ‘gangsta’ enough

But with just one misspoken word, Nick Spicher became a media sensation.

Dr. Art Grossman, a longtime Everett family practice physician, soccer coach and YMCA fitness instructor, died Dec. 21 of ALS. Grossman is seen here in 2013, stopped along Marine View Drive in Everett with his bike. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Everett doctor diagnosed with ALS didn’t need a bucket list

Virginia Grossman said her husband, Art, who died Dec. 21, planned to keep doing what he loved.

History buffs, say it 3 times real fast: Quasquicentennial

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History buffs, say it 3 times real fast: Quasquicentennial

Historic Everett’s yearly calendar marks the city’s 125th anniversary. As always, it’s full of nostalgia.

Sarah Reyes, a city of Everett communications officer, is an avid Cougar fan. Her 10th-floor city office space is pretty much tricked out in Cougar colors. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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WSU and UW football fans are bowled over

Graduates who span the ages are showing their support as their schools head into games this week.

Leroy McVay, 85, of Everett makes wooden toys to donate to Volunteers of America. He uses a wood-burning pen to write “Santa’s Workshop, Everett Division” on the bottom of all his trucks and trains. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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This Santa’s helper has his own workshop in Everett

Leroy McVay makes wooden trains, trucks, tractors and other toys for deserving children in Everett.

Longtime train buff Mark Garcia, of Everett lost two friends who were fellow rail enthusiasts in Monday’s Amtrak derailment south of Tacoma. Those friends, Jim Hamre and Zack Willhoite, had often taken train trips with Garcia, shown here Thursday as an Amtrak train leaves Everett Station for Vancouver, B.C. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Everett train buff lost two friends in DuPont derailment

Mark Garcia had many railroad adventures with fellow enthusiasts Jim Hamre and Zack Willhoite.

After first asking, Christmas House volunteer Claire Horton, who works at Wells Fargo Bank, hugs Barbara Diaz, a mother of three who has had three brain surgeries in the past year. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Families talk about their gratitude toward Christmas House

The Snohomish County nonprofit helps put toys and other gifts under the tree.

The Everett Museum of History has purchased this building at 2939 Colby Ave., which from 1905 until 1956 was home to The Everett Daily Herald. The museum has never had a permanent home, and hopes to open here as early as 2019. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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A Christmas present for the keepers of Everett’s past

The Everett Museum of History has purchased a noteworthy building for its permanent home.

Community Transit bus driver Paolo Stracqualursi, who plays Santa every night until Christmas in Everett’s Fir Grove neighborhood, arrives on a golf cart-sleigh to pass out candy canes and collect canned food and cash donations for Volunteers of America. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Fir Grove strings up Christmas cheer to replenish food bank

Neighbors use thousands of holiday lights to raise thousands of dollars for the hungry.

Snohomish political gadfly John Patric, pictured with his typewriter and a bag that carried his self-published newsletter, is the subject of a five-part Everett Public Library podcast. It focuses on a 1958 Snohomish County Superior Court case in which Patric defended his sanity. (Courtesy: Everett Public Library)

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In a podcast, the tale of a true Snohomish eccentric

The Everett Public Library revisits John Patric’s successful fight in 1958 to prove he wasn’t insane.

For modern women, 98-year-old rejection letters still sting

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For modern women, 98-year-old rejection letters still sting

In a stark new video, female Boeing engineers break the silence about past inopportunity.

Heather Lopez (third from left), received bad news about new brain tumors, and was advised to do what she wants and what matters—now. Lopez and her fiance, Jimmy Absher (second from left), have changed their wedding date from April to Dec. 17. Here, the couple and their family, Heather’s son, Landon Tarpenian, 10, (left), her mom Marsha Lopez (middle), her sister’s son, Gavin Goodman, 8, sister’s husband Brooke Goodman and her sister Jennifer Goodman gather on Mukilteo beach so photographer-friend Tessa Burrus can take family pictures. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Doctor’s orders: ‘You need to do what matters’

Heather Lopez, diagnosed with cancer, and her fiance move up their wedding date.

Ann Phelps, a United Way Day of Caring volunteer in 2015, repairs fences at the All Breed Equine Rez-Q. The land, located along 116th St. NE in Marysville, has been a haven for abused and unwanted horses, but the lease is not being renewed. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Rescued horses in Marysville need to find greener pastures

The land occupied by All Breed Equine Rez-Q is owned by the school district, which plans to sell…

Chief Ed Hartin, of Central Whidbey Fire & Rescue, trains people in the community in CPR and using an automatic external defibrillator. That training recently helped save a bike rider who suffered a cardiac arrest.

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More everyday heroes of 2017: Rescuers and volunteers

Meet more of the ordinary people who are to be honored for acting in extraordinary ways.

Tragedy inspired parents to evangelize for smoke detectors

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Tragedy inspired parents to evangelize for smoke detectors

After their son, Greg Gibson, died in a house fire, Gerry and Bonnie Gibson sounded the alarm.