Put your garden worms to work. Demonstrations at Sorticulture, Everett’s annual art and garden party, will show you how to get results.
Representatives of the Everett Public Works Department will show gardeners how to turn their kitchen scraps into rich, organic compost in worm bins. Worms consume the scraps, and their castings can be used as mulch, to enhance soil or with potting mix.
Kids will be able to play with the worms and take a worm home.
Three-tray stacking worm bins from the Worm Factory will be available for $38, complete with starter worms.
Sorticulture hours are 4 to 9 tonight and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at American Legion Memorial Park, 145 Alverson Blvd., Everett.
No concert in Stanwood
Stan-Wood-Stock, an alcohol-free concert in Stanwood, has been canceled due to a lack of insurance. It had been scheduled for Saturday.
Organizer Rob Freeman plans to hold the concert later this summer, possibly in August.
Car wash will help Little Sister
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Snohomish County plan a benefit car wash from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Cost Cutter, 10011 Evergreen Way in Everett, with proceeds helping a Little Sister whose Big Sister recently died.
Correction
Lynnwood racer Barry Martinez is competing in the Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup at Skagit Speedway in Alger. Martinez’s first name was incorrect in an item in the Flash column on Page A1 Thursday. The Dirt Cup continues through Saturday.
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Victims sought
Police are asking victims or anyone with information about alleged child molester Dean Schwartzmiller to call the San Jose Police Department’s child exploitation division at 408-277-4102. People who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 408-947-STOP.
Alleged molester has local ties
* Police in California believe there may be thousands of victims of 63-year-old man.
Associated Press and Herald staff
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A convicted child molester with ties to Snohomish County, Idaho and Oregon may have committed sex crimes against thousands of victims, police said Thursday after finding computers, notebooks and meticulous, handwritten lists with more than 36,000 boys’ names and codes apparently indicating various sex acts.
Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller, 63, is “one of the most active child molesters we’ve ever seen,” said San Jose Police Lt. Scott Cornfield. Characterizing the case as “horrendous,” he appealed for help from the public in identifying more of his victims.
With Schwartzmiller behind bars – held without bail on one count of aggravated sexual assault on a child under 14 and six counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child under 14, with each count alleging multiple victims – police were trying to reconstruct his movements over the past 30 years.
Schwartzmiller was arrested by Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies May 23 in Snohomish after an old friend became concerned and called police.
He was extradited to San Jose June 7. He’s also wanted in Oregon on felony sexual assault charges involving a minor. He also served prison time in Idaho for child molestation in the late 1970s. He then lived in Brazil, but was extradited from there to Idaho again in the late 1980s, serving more time there, Cornfield said.
Lynda Pichler of Snohomish said Schwartzmiller showed up on her doorstep and asked to stay one night. She said he’s an old friend of her father and she’s known him all her life.
San Jose police compiled a list of possible places here where he might go and alerted local sheriff’s deputies. When officers first knocked on her door, she denied he was there. Officers also went to neighbors, who later told Pichler of the allegations.
Pichler then called San Jose to confirm the allegations, and told them Schwartzmiller was at her home.
Sheriff’s deputy Rich Niebusch said officers responded immediately and found Schwartzmiller walking in the 500 block of 124th Place SW.
Pichler also said her daughter inadvertently grabbed a notebook thinking it was empty. She took it to school and found lots of children’s names, chapter titles and descriptions of sex acts.
Schwartzmiller is no stranger to Snohomish County authorities. He was charged with three child molestation counts and communicating with a minor for immoral purposes in 1997. A jury acquitted him of all counts in November 1998.
Two Everett boys had accused Schwartzmiller of improperly touching them.
A message left for Schwartzmiller’s public defender, Irma Gallardo, was not immediately returned Thursday.
KIRO TV reporter Kyle Moore contributed to this report.
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