The kudos continue to come in for Lisa Blix and Jessica Swint.
The pair saved the life of a man who collapsed from a heart attack in the county courthouse June 22.
On Wednesday, the Snohomish County Council passed a resolution honoring the two county employees. But first, there were a few quips for the lifesavers.
Councilman Jeff Sax said the council could use the pair’s help from time to time.
“We’ve stopped a few hearts in this council chamber,” Sax said.
“I put both your numbers on my speed dial,” added Councilman Kirke Sievers.
Discount drug cards
Snohomish County will join other counties in a pilot program that will distribute discount cards for prescription drugs.
The National Association of Counties is launching the program later this year, and people who use the cards are expected to get discounts of 14 percent to 35 percent of the costs of their prescriptions.
Getting the county on board early was the idea of Councilman Dave Gossett. He said the cards especially would be helpful for people who don’t have insurance and pay the full cost of their prescription drugs.
Tucker time: Strider Construction Co. Inc. of Bellingham will build the first phase of Willis Tucker Community Park. The firm will be paid about $3.6 million for construction of the 24-acre park on the south side of Cathcart Way. The work includes two ball fields, a play area and a new administration building for the county parks department.
Great pumpkins: The county council approved the spending plan for $20,000 in hotel-motel taxes. Recipients include: the Snohomish Farm Bureau, $2,5000 to promote the Festival of Pumpkins in the Skykomish Valley; the county’s tourism bureau, $8,000 to help rent softball fields for the NSA Girl’s Fast Pitch Western World Series this month; and the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce, $5,000 to make a video of this year’s fly-in at the Arlington airport.
Trail talk: The county council has agreed to let Mill Creek extend North Creek Trail from the Heatherwood subdivision through the county’s McCollum Park. Mill Creek will maintain that part of the trail.
Claim of the week: A Snohomish woman wants the county to fix her driveway and pay $600 for a new fence. The dispute began in early June, when a county road crew trimmed trees near the front of her property to improve visibility along the road. In her complaint, the woman was obviously irritated about the crew’s leader.
He was a former lumberjack, and that was not OK: “It seems obvious to me that an ‘old logger’ (the brush cutting foreman) and a Sierra Club member (me) would have very different ideas about trees and vegetation. To him they are something that needs to be torn down and conquered. To me they are to be protected, revered and enjoyed as God made them.” The woman hopes the fence will stop the county’s “pruning impaired brush crew” in the future.
Next week: The county council holds a hearing on the creation of a flood control district in Robe Valley.
How you can get involved: The public hearing is 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Jackson Hearing Room, sixth floor of the county administration building.
Reporter Brian Kelly covers county government for the Herald. He can be reached at 425-339-3422; .
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