The Mount St. Helens recovery plan

Ashes to cashes: Ash spewed by a volcanic eruption on the tiny island nation of Iceland has disrupted air travel throughout Europe.

The good news for economically depressed Iceland is that it will soon be able to surpass Washington state in the production of glass ornaments made from volcanic ash.

  • And it’s backward cap night: The Seattle Mariners resume play tonight against Detroit. The Herald’s Kirby Arnold profiles M’s rookie relief pitcher Kanekoa Texeira.

    Don’t forget: It’s Ken Griffey Jr. bobblehead doll night at Safeco Field, the first in a series of special promotions involving Griffey. Tonight’s bobblehead shows him as a rookie standing in front of the Kingdome. Other dolls in the series include a torn-hamstring doll and a dislocated-shoulder doll.

  • Aged like a fine wine: Two sanitation workers in Missouri are suspected of taking 50 cases of Budweiser and Michelob beer that had passed the expiration date and were taken to the landfill. Officials watched video to see who took the beer.

    The probe also solved the mystery of the disappearance of 50 cases of corn chips and 10 cases of bean dip that also were past their pull dates.

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