EDMONDS — Mayor Gary Haakenson said the city has completed the purchase of the Marina Beach property from the Union Oil Co. of California, also known as Unocal.
The 4.5-acre site has more than 1,000 feet of Puget Sound shoreline and is adjacent to almost 16 acres of state Department of Natural Resources public tidelands.
The price was $3.1 million, which is less than the appraised value of between $3.4 million and $4.7 million. The state also provided some funding.
For 10 years, the city has held a lease to the land, which has been used as a park visited by an estimated 100,000 people each year.
The city now has seven public parks along its downtown waterfront.
Unocal operated an oil and gas mixing plant on its property from the 1920s to 1992. Marina Beach has been thoroughly tested and is considered free of pollution, officials said.
Marysville
Service for fire victim: A public memorial service for Jesse King will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Schaefer-Shipman Funeral Home, 804 State Ave.
King, 47, an employee of Unique Interiors in Arlington, was working in a bathroom in a Marysville-area home Monday with his son Jake, 20, when vapors from a cementing material were ignited by the pilot light and caused a flash fire. Both men were severely burned. Jesse King died early the next morning.
A memorial fund has been established for the King family at Washington Mutual Bank. Donations may be made at any branch.
Granite Falls
Two drivers injured: Two drivers were injured Sunday afternoon when their cars collided on Highway 92 southwest of Granite Falls, the State Patrol reported.
Tara Bennett, 28, of Snohomish, and Christopher Nolan, 29, of Everett were treated at Providence Everett Medical Center’s Colby Campus. Both of their cars were totaled in the accident that occurred at 4:30 p.m. on Highway 92 near 75th St. NE.
From Herald staff reports
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