As an Everett resident for the past 35 years, and a Washington resident my entire life, I think it’s about time to again honor the city’s most famous and native son in a big way.
My proposal? It is that we make a well-deserved name change to a well-travelled street that could really use one. The street? Everett Mall Way. Why not change it to Henry M. Jackson Parkway? I mean, why not? All across our great land are cities and towns with hometown heroes who have left great legacies and as a result have had streets, avenues and boulevards named in their honor. Why not Everett? Now, I am fully aware of a high school, park and a side street or two named in Scoop’s honor, plus several references to him in other entities, but why not Everett Mall Way? Stealing an identity from a street that depicts a shopping mall at one end of it hardly seems a crime. This major arterial is way overdue for a name change, why not make it a meaningful one?
I think it only fitting that this great statesman from Everett be remembered in a way that future generations could learn of one man’s commitment to a lifetime of serving those who voted him into office to help make this county, state and nation the greatest on earth, not only for the then and now, but for the future as well. Can you think of anyone from our local community more deserving of remembrance? Well, neither can I.
Kenneth Campbell
Everett
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