Remembering 1916
Historic Everett, a non-profit preservation group, will present a program titled, “The Everett Free Speech Fight of 1916,” at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Everett Public Library Auditorium.
David Dilgard, a history specialist at the library, will share his expertise on events that led to the Nov. 5, 1916, violence on the Everett waterfront that became known as the Everett Massacre. The library is at 2702 Hoyt Ave.
Dilgard’s free talk will explore an Everett mill worker strike that year and an outside labor group’s efforts, before gunfire exploded on the waterfront, to deliver its message on Everett’s “free speech corner” at Hewitt and Wetmore avenues. At least seven people, including two local deputies and five members of the Industrial Workers of the World, died on what is described as Everett’s “Bloody Sunday.”
Roundabout completed: The city of Edmonds is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the completion of the Five Corners roundabout Friday at 2 p.m. at the Calvary Chapel, 8330 212th St. SW. A short ceremony will be followed by the ribbon cutting at the roundabout. Refreshments provided by Calvary Chapel will be served.
Change your clocks: Sunday at 2 a.m. is the official rule for clocks to “fall back” an hour for Daylight Saving Time. Lake Stevens firefighters remind folks it’s also a good time to check smoke alarm batteries.
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