Year in review

The past year was an active one in the cities of Lynnwood and Mountlake Terrace. Following is a summary of issues and events that came up during the year, in rough, subjective order of significance and/or publicity they received.

Lynnwood mayor, ex-fire chief face accusations

The Lynnwood mayor’s office and fire department administration received a lot more press than they might’ve liked this year.

In April, a whistleblower complaint from a firefighter led to an investigation of the fire department’s records. Results of the investigation still haven’t been revealed.

The complaint accuses the fire chief at the time, Bob Meador, of falsifying documents including time sheets, all of which Meador denied.

The possibility that Meador had allowed firefighters to work during their disability and then save their hours for future payment, bothered Lynnwood Mayor Mike McKinnon. McKinnon said he had warned Meador not to allow the practice to happen. Former Lynnwood Mayor Tina Roberts-Martinez also said Meador had done it in previous years.

In August, a building permit was being considered for Seaview Chevrolet Pontiac.

Meador was put on indefinite paid administrative leave on Aug. 28 and escorted off city property as a result of a dispute over a fire lane design needed for the permit. When Meador refused to sign off on the permit, he was put on leave by McKinnon who, with the approval of the city attorney, then approved the plans as acting fire chief.

Meador filed two complaints to the city’s Ethic’s Board and the City Council had a “fact finding mission” investigation of McKinnon.

By December, the Ethic’s Board found that McKinnon didn’t violate city ethics rules while the City Council went ahead and reprimanded McKinnon.

McKinnon said he did learn to listen more to his experienced professionals, plus getting more input from his department heads.

Anastasia King: Not just another missing person

Mountlake Terrace Police Department detectives suspected foul play early in their investigation into the disappearance of mail-order bride Anastasia King

Investigators persistently questioned the missing woman’s husband, Indle Gifford King, Jr. They secured several statements from King, establishing a case that eventually helped them charge him with first-degree murder. King, a 40-year-old Mountlake Terrace resident, is in prison after a jury found him guilty Feb. 21 of helping to strangle his wife on Sept. 22, 2000.

Mountlake Terrace Police Detective Julie Jamison was on the front lines of the lengthy and emotional murder case.

Jamison spent 17 months working on the case nearly full time. She became involved when frantic friends of Anastasia King called to say the 20-year-old woman from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, was missing.

The young woman had not reported to classes at the University of Washington on Sept. 25, 2000, as scheduled, and didn’t pick up a check from her employer, a restaurant in Seattle. She hadn’t called her mother in Bishkek when she returned to Mountlake Terrace on Sept. 22.

Police checks within 24 hours of taking the case revealed that Anastasia King had returned with her husband from a visit to her parents on Sept. 22, Jamison said.

The first interview with King was on Oct. 3, Jamison recalled. Indle King told her that Anastasia King had stayed behind in Russia. From the outset, Jamison suspected it was not true.

A month later, Jamison said she made a promise to King.

“I told him that I’d already spent several hundred hours of investigation and wasn’t going to stop until I found her,” Jamison said.

Anastasia King’s body was found in late December, 2000 in a shallow grave near Marysville.

The case took many twists and turns. Three convicted murderers testified, including Daniel K. Larson, 21, the co-defendant who pleaded guilty to helping King strangle his wife. Jurors heard of supposed jailhouse confessions and threatening letters, as well as schemes by King to have a friend create a bogus alibi for him.

Medic 7 medics

to be city employees

A change for Medic 7 was in the works for years but it wasn’t until 2002 that Medic 7 paramedics and citizens of Lynnwood, Edmonds and Woodway finally pushed the plan through.

An ongoing debate between Medic 7 Board members from the cities of Lynnwood, Edmonds, Woodway as well as Steven Hospital continued through the first part of the year. Opinions and an unsigned firefighter union contract bogged down the talks.

The issue came to a head when the board representatives from Edmonds, Woodway and Steven Hospital, along with the board’s lawyer had a meeting that didn’t include the Lynnwood board representative.

The meeting seemed to break the talks’ logjam.

With Edmonds ready and waiting to take in eight of the 16 Medic 7 medics as it’s own employees, the Lynnwood City Council waited for it’s fire union and city administration to sign a contract and then include the medics. When they did this fall, the Medic 7 board announced it would separate the 16 medics into Lynnwood and Edmonds fire departments as of Jan. 1.

Terrace still watching

Brightwater project

The regional Brightwater wastewater project came in like a lion and seems to be going out like a lamb in 2002.

In December 2001, the Metro King County Council fanned the flames of furious Edmonds residents by not only denying a request to remove the Point Edwards Unocal property from the final list of possible sites for a regional sewage plant but by narrowing the list to Unocal and a site on Highway 9 north of Woodinville.

In 2002, Mountlake Terrace joined the opposition bandwagon when the city became part of a possible route for pipelines running to either Puget Sound or a plant in Edmonds.

Early in the year, the strategy of Edmonds opponents, in concert with city officials, was to push for legislation in Olympia requiring jurisdictions to obtain consent to cite a facility in another jurisdiction. Despite backing from several area legislators, the legislation did not make it to a vote.

In another element of the strategy, Edmonds officials spent the first half of the year stonewalling King County attempts to do soil testing on city property as part of its environmental analysis.

Meanwhile, Unocal went on record as opposing the plant and had discussions with condominium developers about selling the site once the environmental cleanup of the former oil processing facility is complete. The city enacted a rezone that would pave the way for the condominiums.

In June, nearly 300 people attended a Brightwater hearing and open house in Edmonds and about 180 attended a similar meeting in Mountlake Terrace in July.

In August, based on preliminary information gathered in the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) King County Executive Ron Sims announced his preferred site as Highway 9 and that North 195th Street in King County was the preferred route for a tunnel to take treated sewage to Puget Sound.

The DEIS released in November confirmed the preferred alternatives. Attendance at DEIS hearings in December was low compared with earlier turnouts, but opponents say they remain vigilant. The final EIS is expected to be released in summer, 2003.

Alderwood Mall

unveils expansion plan

Alderwood Mall will grow one-third larger by the end of 2004, according to mall officials.

On May 23, General Growth Properties announced plans to add 300,000-400,000 square feet of shopping space to the mall.

The owners also announced the first tenants to fill the new space will be Border’s Books, Claim Jumper restaurant, California Pizza Kitchen and Gene Juarez Day Salon &Spa.

Loews Cineplex Entertainment also will operate a 16-screen theater complex at the mall, officials said.

The changes will “really redefine Alderwood as … a destination for shopping, dining and entertainment,” mall manager Barry O’Connor said. The first phase of the expansion should be ready in time for Christmas shopping in 2003, he said.

Voters don’t pass

all school levies

Voters passed the Edmonds School District’s operations replacement levy in the Feb. 5 election but a technology levy and construction bond failed to win 60 percent support.

The $110 million capital construction bond received 54 percent “yes” vote and a four-year $24 million technology levy received 57 percent.

The School District will try again for the funding from the citizens at another election on Feb. 4, 2003.

Washington, D.C. sniper

part of Lynnwood’s past

In a brush with the Washington, D.C., sniper case, Lynnwood city officials confirmed Oct. 29 that a suspect in the shootings, John Allen Muhammad, had once fixed city cars and could be responsible for shooting up the Lynnwood Police Department in April 2000.

After Muhammad was arrested, some city employees recalled his name and face as being familiar, Lynnwood police along with the FBI continue to investigate whether Muhammad had any hand in the still open case of shooting at the police department in 2000.

Police go undercover

at Scriber Lake Park

He knows what he’s looking for when he enters Scriber Lake Park, and he knows he’ll find it eventually.

It’s not the turtles sunning on a log in the lake or a rare bird hidden in a cluster of branches that camouflage the unique, secluded trail maze. He’s watching for a distinctive look or a gesture and waits to be approached for sex by one of the men who loiter there during the day.

When it happens, he reveals his badge as an undercover Lynnwood police detective.

Discreetly, the plainclothes officer and suspect leave the wooded area or secluded trail end and the man is arrested, said Lynnwood Police Sgt. Patrick Fagan.

While many parks and other areas nationally have been known to have this kind of illegal activity, Scriber Lake Park is “select,” according to a website on the Internet which notes the park visible from 196th Street SW as a “great place” for men to find men for sex.

Lynnwood police and city parks officials say they are aware of the Internet site, the activities at Scriber Lake Park and other areas noted on the site in the area, said Lynnwood Police Chief Steve Jensen. The two departments have been working together to prevent the illegal activity since it started, Jensen said. The activity was most prevalent in the mid 1990s, a few years after the historical landmark was restored.

Apparently, word of the surveillance has gotten around on the trail, too, because on the X-rated website, Scriber Lake Park is “alerted.” Police and parks employees continue to patrol and cleanup the park.

Terrace’s ‘Pride’ program gets mixed reviews

In February, more than 100 parking tickets were written in a short time in an effort to instill some ownership by the community with Mountlake Terrace’s “City Pride Program,” city officials said. In addition to the tickets there were also flyers handed out to residents warning them to cleanup or pay up.

A group of residents opposed the strict regulations of their properties and made it clear they wanted the City Council to leave them alone.

The effort, cleared the city of more than 100 non-working vehicles among other nuisances.

INS and Lynnwood Police team make big arrest

A seizure of false identification documents in Mountlake Terrace and Shoreline in September is believed to be the largest in Washington state and Immigration and Naturalization Service history.

The seizure, by a team of INS agents and Lynnwood Police detectives, included fraudulent permanent resident visas, or green cards; Mexican birth certificates; U.S. Social Security cards; Washington driver’s licenses; and close to $95,000 in cash.

The investigation started at a Lynnwood business in February. On Sept. 11, search warrants were served at a Mountlake Terrace home and at an apartment in Shoreline. A 34-year-old Mexican national living in Shoreline was arrested and charged with 99 counts of producing and possessing fake documents.

Police expose meth lab

while gasin’ up

Lynnwood Police detectives were fueling their vehicle just after 2 p.m. on Feb. 22 at the Mr. Kleen Car Wash 76 gas station on 44th Ave. W. when they stumbled upon a mobile methamphetamine lab.

Two Lynnwood Police detectives saw a truck that looked like it was having radiator problems parked at the gas station. The truck had a broken window so the officers thought it might have been stolen and the man and a woman inside also looked suspicious, officers had said. Further investigations revealed a mobile methamphetamine lab. The vehicle was cordoned off and hazardous materials crews closed down the station while they cleaned up the suspects.

SNOCOM celebrates

30 years, new building

Your baby’s choking or your house is being burglarized and they’re there with you.

Before emergency professionals even arrive at your door dispatchers on the phone are there to be a friend, provide information and to calm 24 hours a day seven days a week.

Those dispatchers at SNOCOM, Southwest Snohomish County Public Safety Communications Agency were happier than ever in April when they celebrated 30 years as an organization and a larger more technological center at a secure location in Mountlake Terrace.

PFD buys Convention Center property

Members of the South Snohomish County Public Facilities Board started making way for the “gateway to Lynnwood,” the Lynnwood Convention Center in April.

The convention center is planned for the corner of 196th Street SW and 37th Avenue W. According to PFD officials and property owners, negotiations for some those properties are still in progress.

The district’s plan is to build a 50,000-square-foot conference center. The PFD purchased the 12-acre Alderwood Village site behind that corner in February for $8.5 million.

Church makes way

for Terrace businesses

In May, Calvary Fellowship in Mountlake Terrace, sold many of their business properties housed in the downtown area of the city Terrace to Richard Davis, 31, owner of Richie D’s American Grill and Sports Bar.

Davis bought the building his restaurant/bar is in and the businesses next to it at 23200 block of 56th Avenue W.

School boundaries and transfers approved

The Edmonds School Board in March approved all proposed boundary and population changes for five elementary schools over the objections of many parents.

The changes were necessary, officials said, because while Initiative 728 lowered class size, it has also created new classes at the schools which were already overcrowded. Several classes at Spruce, Lynnwood, College Place, Beverly and Seaview elementary schools had been meeting in flex space or hallways.

Parents of children affected by the changes were not happy, and several told the board so in public forums and at school board meetings.

Seaview, Beverly and College Place elementary schools were closed to this year to transfer students. Seaview Elementary’s boundary changed to move students to Lynndale Elementary. Boundaries of Spruce and Lynnwood elementary schools changed to move some students to Cedar Valley Community School.

At Beverly, transfer students in grades one through three next year were removed and sent back to their neighborhood schools. Grades four through six were grandfathered in. At College Place Elementary, kindergarten transfer students were returned to their neighborhood schools.

School district cuts

some bus service

Some elementary school students in the Edmonds School District are having to walk to school, transfer buses or provide their own transportation to school this year after the district cut back its bus service because of budget cuts.

Approximately 1,600 of the 9,000 students who ride the bus each day were affected.

District officials have dealt with about a $4.1 million hole in the budget this school year. The shortfall comes from $1.8 million in state budget cuts, cost-of-living increases promised by voters, health-benefit costs negotiated by the district with the teachers union and reductions in federal funding.

The bus-run reductions and route changes will save the district approximately $93,000, district officials said.

The transportation changes affected students who attend Martha Lake Elementary, College Place, Hazelwood, Hilltop, Mountlake Terrace, Oak Heights elementary schools, and Terrace Park K-8. Students attending the district’s choice programs at Madrona School, Maplewood Parent Cooperative and Challenge at Terrace Park, are also be affected.

Fire leaves Lynnwood Businesses out of work

Everyone inside the business strip at 196th Street SW and Highway 99 escaped a fire without injuries in May.

The cause was some type of electrical or mechanical malfunction at the ceiling level of the chiropractic office in the strip of businesses, according to fire officials

Highway 99 was closed for more than an hour from 196th Street SW to 200th Street SW while emergency crews from Lynnwood, Edmonds and Mountlake Terrace fought the blaze.

Customers and employees of Jimbo’s Family Restaurant which is located right in front of the businesses noticed the fire right away.

The affected businesses all eventually relocated to different areas in Lynnwood.

State buckles up

new child seat laws

Motor vehicle crashes are the single largest cause of child fatalities in the country, officials said.

However, proper child seat safety can reduce the risk of injury or death by 70 percent, officials added.

New state booster seat laws which went into effect July 1.

The new law, which Washington was the first to pass, requires children between four and six-years of age and/or 40 to 60 pounds to ride in a seat-belt adjusting booster seat.

Lynnwood Police have certified five technicians to help parents and caregivers be sure their children are as safe as possible.

Technicians are now available for free car seat checks every Wednesday from noon to 8 p.m. at the Lynnwood Police Station at 19321 44th Ave. W. An appointment is necessary. Checks take about 30 to 45 minutes to complete and it is best to have the child there for the check, officials said.

School district budget loss requires layoffs

The Edmonds School Board approved in May a plan to lay off three part-time instructors in dealing with budget shortfalls for the coming year.

All three instructors work in career and technical education for the district. This number is down from an earlier proposal to cut five part-time positions.

The board is dealing with a $4 million shortfall in its $152 million budget, caused in part by budget cuts approved this year by the state Legislature, cost of living increases promised by voters, rising health benefit costs and loss of some federal funding, school officials said.

Man caught after trying

to rape woman in park

Because of a Lynnwood woman’s calm bearing and the quick actions of some strangers the woman is safe after an attempted rape in Scriber Lake Park.

The woman said she saw the unknown man walk into the park, behind her and was “immediately fearful of him and thought he was crazy,” according to police reports.

When she saw him approaching her from behind she started to walk faster, but the man caught up with her and asked her if she had a cigarette. When she said ‘no,’ he asked her if she wanted to have sex. Trying to be calm, she said “No, I’m on my way to work.”

That’s when, she said, the man grabbed her and put the knife he was carrying to her throat, according to police reports. Afraid for her life, she noticed a couple walking in the distance and cried out for help.

The couple came rushing to her aid and the man ran off. They hurried to the small parking area at the front of the park, called 911 and took down the only other car license plate in the lot. A man was found, identified and arrested soon after the incident.

Lynnwood landmark, historical building for sale

The owner of Lynnwood’s Keeler’s Korner, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, put it up for sale in June.

The Korner is known for its distinctive Mobil Gas Pegasus and almost two acres.

“I hope that the buyer has an appreciation of the value that a historical building like Keeler’s Korner has to the community,” said Marie Little of the Lynnwood Historical Committee and the Alderwood Manor Heritage Association.

Keeler’s Korner, at 16401 Highway 99, was constructed in 1927 and was one of the first gas stations along Highway 99, according to Little.

The concern about the possible sale of the property is that although the building is nationally registered, there is nothing to prevent a new buyer from tearing it down and building something else, according to Louise Lindgren, senior planner for historical preservation for Snohomish County.

The property is still for sale.

Woman killed

in Lynnwood apartment

A 911 call May 29 led Lynnwood police to the Lynnview Apartments in Lynnwood and the body of Angela Martin, 21.

Investigations lead police to her 22-year-old boyfriend, Leogardo Serezo.

Serezo pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in August for killing Martin, who was attempting to leave him.

Serezo was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison.

Highway 99 back

on the fast lane

City staff and Highway 99 businesses along with commuters were happy to see the overdue Highway 99 construction project finished.

After the city had to terminate its contractor and pick up the year late pieces, the overlay process for the busy thoroughfare was back on the road by the end of summer.

196th Street SW I-5 off ramp construction started

State Department of Transportation (DOT) crews continue working on another section of the Interstate 5/196th Street SW interchange project.

Eventual changes include:

• The southbound I-5 exit being realigned to improve traffic flow and to allow westbound drivers to move along 196th without an immediate off-ramp street signal.

• A new ramp allowing southbound I-5 drivers to merge onto 196th Street without a street signal until 36th Avenue for westbound drivers or at Poplar Way for eastbound drivers.

The changes will reduce travel time and improve road visibility with the installation of new lights and signals, according to Dave Lindberg, DOT project engineer, and Dale Lydin, Lynnwood project liaison. Pedestrians and bicyclists will benefit from new sidewalks and bike lanes, they added. Environmental concerns will be addressed as workers construct three detention ponds for better storage and rainwater runoff treatment, Lydin said.

Meadowdale Neighborhood Park opens

One year later than originally scheduled, the Meadowdale neighborhood will celebrated the opening of its new 5.6-acre park in June.

Funding details and wet weather delayed construction last year, parks officials had said.

The park, located at 5700 168th Street SW (just east of Meadowdale High School), has a lot to offer the community that helped create it, according to parks officials.

Teens punished

apologize to moms

Mothers Taunia Varn and Tresa Laird weren’t having a nightmare the evening of July 17: their children really didn’t come home.

Calvin Robinson, 13, and Aaron Laird, 14, weren’t concerned about worrying their moms when they didn’t come home that night — they were thinking about girls.

Armed with extreme anxiety and a mini-van with three sleeping children, the boy’s mothers spent the night searching for them and pondered what they’d do to them if and when they found them.

The two Lynnwood moms came up with a doozie of a punishment, one that made the news from here to Florida.

The mothers put their sons at the I-5 exit off-ramp on 196th Street SW July 18, donned with signs apologizing to “all moms” as punishment for staying out all night.

Local developer

Ron Gregory dies

Ron Gregory, husband of Christine “Kitsy” Gregory, father of Nicole and Deana and the chairman and chief executive officer of the Olympic Capital Group, Inc. in Lynnwood, died July 19 after complications from heart surgery. Gregory was a developer and responsible for much of the economic growth of South Snohomish County.

Local firefighters show their stuff in calendar

There is a tradition in fire departments: If any firefighter is to get their photo in the newspaper, that person has to buy ice cream for the whole crew.

Just ask Lynnwood firefighter Kevin Miller or Shoreline firefighters David Engler and Craig Overfield what they’ll have to do for the crew after photos of their shirtless bodies are pinned up on over 25,000 walls… in the form of the 2003 Washington firefighter calendar.

On Sept. 6, the three local firefighters along with 22 others from Washington (including two women) danced and auctioned off the shirts off their backs as a fund-raiser for the Washington State Council of Firefighter’s Burn Foundation.

Racial justice studied

in Lynnwood

They came together to make a difference and they had only one common ground rule: respect.

Faces of different colors, backgrounds, professions and ages came together in Lynnwood Aug. 22 and 28 to “promote racial justice.”

Lynnwood is one of two cities in the state that was chosen by the Association of Washington Cities to be a pilot city and receive funding in an effort to help the “changing faces” of Lynnwood get more involved in their community and/ or city government at all levels.

MLT and Brier

EMS levies passed

Voters in both Mountlake Terrace and Brier have approved a permanent EMS levy for their cities at the primary polls Sept. 17.

According to the Snohomish County Auditors Office, more than 64 percent of Mountlake Terrace voters said “yes” to an early replacement EMS levy which will continue the current tax rate of 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value, the maximum allowed by state law, but now on a permanent basis. Just over 35 percent of Mountlake Terrace voters said “no.” This will start in 2004.

In Brier, more than 69 percent of voters said yes to an early levy which will also raise their tax from 35 cents to the maximum 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value permanently. This will start in 2003.

Lynnwood and fire union finally pass contract

After two and half years of difficult negotiations and just short of going to arbitration, Lynnwood and the firefighters union, signed a contract for 2001-2003 in September.

The points of contention revolved around base pay and extra pay for senior firefighters.

According to fire union officials, Lynnwood has the highest fire-call volume in South Snohomish County for a department its size. Lynnwood firefighters, however, get paid the ninth lowest out of 10 comparable fire departments. The new contract brought base wages nearer, a little below the 50 percent range.

PFD Board’s

closed session taped

An employee of a video electronics chain was cited for secretly recording a closed-door executive session at a South County Public Facilities District meeting Sept. 18, police said.

Jerold McGlothlin, vice president of sales for Seattle-based Video Only, was cited with a gross misdemeanor after PFD board members saw a running tape recorder sticking out of a briefcase he had left in the room where the executive session was being held.

Ehl resigns

from school board

Edmonds School District Board of Directors President Larry Ehl resigned during the Sept. 24 school board meeting.

He said his reasons for resigning were two-fold; his position as federal liaison for the state Department of Transportation requires him to travel to Olympia at least three days a week, and the additional travel from his home in Edmonds has started to cut into his personal time.

Since his triple bypass surgery in June, Ehl said he is “really committed” to spending more time with his family, including three young children, and exercising. Though he is now full recovered, he says he does not want to go through that experience again.

The Board unanimously appointed Patrick Shields as Director District 5 to replace Ehl at the Nov. 19 board meeting.

Mountlake Terrace police have singing detective

From the time Don Duncan was a child, he always dreamed about either writing songs and sharing them with a crowd or helping people as a police officer. Duncan is living his dream today— doing both.

Mountlake Terrace Police detective, Duncan is also known as “Duncan Shadrack” who has recently released his first compact disc called “This Side of Trouble.”

Duncan has also won a contest in November to possibly be part of a singing “reality” television show called Nashville Star. Regional auditions will be the beginning of 2003.

INS releases family from detention

Hanan Ismail has only seen her 9-month-old grandson in pictures.

On Feb. 22, Edmonds business owners Safouh Hamoui, his wife Hanan Ismail and their 20-year-old daughter Nadin Hamoui were taken from their Lynnwood home and placed in detention for alleged immigration violations.

Late November, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service released Ismail and her daughter Nov. 18 for humanitarian reasons. Ismail was released under supervision, while her daughter, was released on $5,000 bail.

Although family members were celebrating the release of the women, their focus remained on the father, Safouh Hamoui, who was released a month later on Dec. 17. A former pilot in the Syrian Air Force, Hamoui was released from the INS Detention Center in Seattle under an Order of Supervision. In reaching the decision, INS officials considered many factors including the humanitarian aspects of continued detention, lengthy court actions, the Hamoui’s long-standing tenure in the local community, and the clean criminal history, as well as family unity during the holiday season.

New Support 7 van

goes on the road

Support 7 and its aging 1974 van, a remodeled Edmonds Fire Department Medic unit, has helped thousands of people since the program started in 1986.

The Support 7 van — a rolling canteen, office and living room for people in crisis — has responded to house fires, search-and-rescue missions and many other grim scenes in south Snohomish County.

On Nov. 24, the van was replaced by Support 7 II, a new mini motor-coach equipped with a large seating area, restroom, shower, refrigerator, stove, sophisticated communications equipment and fold-down canteen. It also stores a tent that can be set up for firefighters and police.

The larger vehicle will allow the team of volunteers and chaplains, who are available seven days a week, 24 hours a day, to respond to more communities in South Snohomish County. For information how you can help support the non-profit organization Support 7 contact Ken Gaydos at 425-774-9544.

Heritage Park

breaks ground

City officials broke ground to begin construction of the long-awaited Heritage Park this month with an estimated finish time of phase one in the summer of 2003.

Heritage Park will be located at the southeast corner of Poplar Way and Alderwood Mall Parkway near the location of the original Demonstration Farm. “Heritage Park will be the first thematic based park in the City of Lynnwood,” parks officials said. “The park will celebrate the history of Alderwood Manor, now a part of Lynnwood, which saw tremendous growth in the 1920s.”