50 years ago (1956)
Work on the replacing of the gill-net line at 14th Street would soon be finished. Dredging work was completed, pile driving was nearly finished and the main floats were ready to go. The project would restore the fishermen’s moorage area to 700 feet.
Despite its outstanding traffic record for the month of July, Everett lost out to Yakima in the two cities’ monthly traffic safety contests. Both passed the month without a fatality, but Yakima showed a 43 percent reduction in the number of injury accidents. That meant Everett had to mail back the white safety flag and accept in return the black skull-and-crossbones flag.
25 years ago (1981)
Charles and Marilyn Sontag were arriving in town Saturday via Amtrak from Wisconsin to visit her mother, Florence Peterson, and to attend her 25th Everett High School reunion. They would be in Everett for about a week.
Master woodcarver Carl Lasater of Everett, whose work could be found all over the country as well as in Europe and Asia, was taking on his most ambitious project. He and fellow carver Oley Shearer of Marysville were carving Smokey Bear for the Verlot Ranger Station.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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