BELLINGHAM – Lummi Nation carvers were able to retrieve two more logs Thursday to use as part of a totem pole project that will memorialize people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Pentagon.
Earlier Wednesday, loggers successfully cut down a 200-foot western red cedar for the project, said Lummi carver Jewell James.
On Thursday, the loggers were able to retrieve two additional logs from a logjam that was beached on Forest Service property along the Skagit River, southwest of Concrete, during flooding last October, James said.
The logs will be carved into “Liberty” and “Freedom” totems that James and other artists from Lummi’s House of Tears carving group will create this summer. The totems will be two 13-foot-high carved bears connected by a 34-foot cross beam carved with eagles, the moon and the sun.
The Bellingham Herald
Bremerton: Bank struck twice by same suspect
It looks like the same man robbed the same bank for the second time this year, according to Bremerton detectives. He got away Wednesday with an undisclosed amount of cash from the Kitsap Bank on Marine Drive shortly before 4 p.m. Both the man’s description and that of his vehicle closely match those from a robbery on Feb. 25, detectives said. The man was described by witnesses as olive-skinned, in his late 30s or older, about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and of medium build. He handed a teller a note demanding money, received it, then walked from the bank across the street to a parking lot where he got into a maroon minivan with wood paneling and drove toward Kitsap Way.
The Sun
Kent: Sound Transit debates regional ballot
Sound Transit officials need more time to decide whether to add light rail projects and taxes to a $12.4 billion tri-county roads ballot slated for November, they said Thursday. Regardless of the delay, a tri-county committee will finalize a list of major highway and other projects on April 29 without Sound Transit projects, said Gary Nelson, chairman of the tri-county Regional Transportation Investment District behind the ballot effort. Nelson’s committee has asked Sound Transit to add one-tenth of a cent sales tax revenue to the tri-county ballot measure to build light rail north of downtown Seattle. The move would add a major transit component to a measure criticized by some as “roads-heavy.”
King County Journal
Spokane: Driver sought who ran over partygoer
One man was stabbed and another run over by a truck early Sunday morning during a party in northwest Spokane, said police, who arrested one man and are seeking another. The incident began just after midnight, after several fights ensued during the party involving alcohol at 1114 N. Elm Street, police spokesman Dick Cottam said. One man was stabbed in the arm and stomach, and was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, Cottam said. His alleged assailant was arrested. Shortly after the stabbing, another man was run over by a truck, witnesses said. The driver of the truck yelled to a man to get out of his way, then accelerated and ran over him, Cottam said. The victim was taken to a hospital, where he was held overnight and released.
The Spokesman-Review
Edgewood: Protests erase racy billboards
For one Edgewood resident, a pair of billboards that recently sprouted along Highway 161 were an eyesore that crossed the centerline of public decency. “Harder, faster, louder,” the lettering declared under the bare backs of three attractive women, a black censor bar covering their rear ends. “It was just distasteful to drive by and see that,” said Steve Cope, who was in the car with his wife and two of their six children the first time he saw the billboard. But for the radio station manager behind the signs, they are a sight for sore eyes. “The reality is, there are a lot of guys in their 20s and 30s who love them,” said Dave Richards, manager of KISW-FM. “There are a lot of people who look at them and say, ‘That’s cool. I get it.’” Nevertheless, the city persuaded KISW to take down the billboard.
The News-Tribune
Leavenworth: Baby drowns in river wreck
Medical workers couldn’t save a baby girl who was in a vehicle that careered off U.S. 2 and sank in the Wenatchee River on Friday morning. Kaya K. Sterner of Spokane, who was born Feb. 26, was in the frigid waters above Tumwater Dam for about 48 minutes before being pulled from the river about 7:10 a.m. Emergency medical workers tried for three and a half hours to revive the child. She was pronounced dead at Central Washington Hospital at 10:45 a.m., a State Patrol trooper said. The baby’s mother and the vehicle’s driver, Kristi M. Sterner, 32, of Spokane also was taken to the Wenatchee hospital with bruises and cuts to her face, the trooper said. Sterner was able to swim to shore after the sports utility vehicle plunged into the river, about four miles from Leavenworth.
Wenatchee World
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