May 31-June 13, 2012 NORTh COUNTY OUTLOOK 3 www.northcountyoutlook.com Local NewsNorth County

North County Outlook is published every other Thursday and mailed direct to households and businesses in Marysville, Arlington, Smokey Point, Tulalip and Quil Ceda Village. Letters to the editor, community news and story ideas may be e-mailed to editor@northcountyoutlook.com, or sent to the mailing address above. The Publisher reserves the right to edit material for content, grammar, taste, style or length, and all submitted items are published at the discretion of the Publisher.

News Deadline:Monday noon before publicationeditor@northcountyoutlook.com

Contributing WritersKatie BourgBob ConnallySteve SmithTulalip Chefs

Ad Deadline:Thursday before publication 5 PMsales@northcountyoutlook.com

Printing and Direct Mail Services provided by Pacific Publishing Co.Member Washington Newspaper

Publishers Association

Publisher and Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beckye RandallWriters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Arney, Brady Pierce,

Christopher AnderssonAdvertising Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sue StevensonAd Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brenda FelderAd Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Debbie GliddenGraphic Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carrie HarrisPage Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beckye RandallProofreading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anita Wuellner

P.O. Box 39 • Marysville, WA 982701331 State Ave. #B • Marysville, WA

(360) 659-1100 • Fax (360) 658-7536www.northcountyoutlook.com

To Advertise in this GuideCall Debbie 360-659-1100

Presents

Fall

SPORTS!

Registration Deadline July 16 • Call 425-512-9628 • www.i9sports.com

Boys & Girls

FLAG FOOTBALL Ages 4-14 Marysville Middle School

SOCCER Ages 4-10 Grove Elementary School in

MarysvilleMust contact league office for the

special offer and registration

$99 Special!Flag Football Program

Outlook�orth�orth �ounty

Children’s Summer Art Camps

Where Creativity Comes Alive206-510-1085

Local Studio on Camano Island • www.artysmarty.net

Under the Sea, Art from the KitchenBiddy Camp - 4-6 Years

Elementary Camp1st - 5th Grade

Meet the Illustrator, Magical World of FaeriesMythical Creatures

Tween/Teen Camp4th - 8th Grade

Studio ArtPassion for Fashion

Limited Space - Sign Up Early!

Teaching Christian Values for Over 37 Years

Now Enrolling!

Bethlehem Christian School

PRE-SCHOOL • PRE-KKINDERGARTEN

Certifi ed Teachers & AssistantsMusic, Art, Spanish • Small Classes

Indoor/Outdoor Play Area

7215 51st Ave NE • Marysvillewww.bethlehemlutheran.com

Call 360-653-2882

PetBuilding A Bond For Life.

Open Monday - Friday, 11-6 and weekends from 11-5.31300 Brandstrom Road • Stanwood • 360-629-7055

Visit us on the web at www.thenoahcenter.orgemail: adopt@thenoahcenter.org

Hi there, I am Bob, and I like to go go go. I am really hoping that I will fi nd a home with someone who is as busy as I am, so that we can go everywhere together. I love people, and will smother you with attention all the time. So if you want someone to make you feel like you are the best thing in the world, then come and take me home today, I promise you will never be bored again!

Bob

PROPANE$1.699

Per Gallon*

*500+ GallonsPrice subject to changeCall for current quote

Locally Owned & OperatedBest Propane Value in the NW

1-800-929-5243

Owned Tanks500 Gallons + ....... $1.699

300 Gallons + ....... $1.799

150 Gallons + ....... $1.999

Leased Tanks500 Gallons + ....... $1.799

300 Gallons + ....... $1.899

150 Gallons + ....... $2.099

Special Pricing for Commercial CustomersNeighborhood & Group Deliveries • Guaranteed Price Plans

Visit us at www.apppropane.com

107 N. Olympic • Arlington360-435-3939

www.olympictheatre.net

ADMISSION:Matinees - All Ages - $4.50Evenings - Adults - $7.00

Children & Sr. Citizens - $5.50

Now Showing

OLYMPICTHEATRE

Men In Black 3 - PG137:30 pm thru June 7th

2pm & 5:15 pm Sat/SunNo Tuesday Bargain

June 8 - 21

7:30 pm Daily 5:15 pm June 8 - 17

2pm Matinees Sat/SunNo Tuesday Bargain

Rated PG

on to his ankle or placing it in a locking compartment in the driver’s door, the .38-cali-ber revolver was placed in an open bin on the floor of the van, between the two front seats, designed to hold cups and keys.

While the Carliles were outside the van having a brief conversation with artist Jack Gunter and delivering some business cards to him, they heard a “thud” coming from the van. They assumed one of the children kicked the side of the vehicle, but soon the 5-year-old girl got out of the van and “said something about the boy, Jenna and a gun.”

The children had been unsupervised in the van for up to five minutes at the time of the accident.

Carlile rushed to the vehi-cle and found his 7-year-old daughter “slumped over in the middle of the bench seat, still buckled in.” He imme-diately began administering aid while his wife and Gunter

called 911.Jenna Carlile was taken

by ambulance to a nearby hospital, then transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, but she died short-ly after midnight.

The Smith & Wesson weapon was found to have a key lock safety feature, which was in the “off ” position when police found the gun in the van. It was fully loaded with five rounds of ammu-nition, although one of the rounds was spent.

The 3-year-old was de-scribed as an active boy who often played with toy guns and knew how to pull a trig-ger.

“Though the undeniable tragedy and grief that has stricken the defendant and his family is staggering, com-passion must be balanced with accountability for the acts which caused it,” wrote Paul in the affidavit.

“The defendant,” Paul claims, “failed to heed or be aware of a substantial risk that death would occur when

he placed and left his loaded, unsecured revolver in an en-closed van with four children inside. The defendant’s failure to be aware of this substan-tial risk was a gross deviation from the standard that a rea-sonable person would exer-cise in the same situation.”

In a prepared statement, Carlile’s attorneys David Al-len and Cooper Offenbecher indicate that the police of-ficer takes full responsibil-ity for his daughter’s death but that his actions were not criminal.

Because he is not consid-ered a flight risk or a danger to the community, prosecu-tors don’t plan to ask for bail and Carlile, who lives on Ca-mano Island, will be free on his own recognizance while awaiting trial.

He is on paid administra-tive leave from the Marys-ville Police Department.

Death: Family tragedy continuesContinued from page 1

Arlington City Coun-cil members got some good news Monday, May 21, when Eric Scott, from the city’s Public Works department, announced that easement agreements from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad had been signed that day.

“We should receive them tomorrow,” Scott said.

Signed agreements in-clude a temporary construc-tion easement for the inter-section of Lebanon Street with the railroad, a perma-nent easement for the Cen-tennial Trail’s intersection with the railroad, and an agreement on the cost of con-struction of the intersection. The easements are required for the ongoing 67th Avenue improvement project.

When Councilmember Chris Raezer asked why the city’s project had to pay for the BNSF crossing, Scott ex-plained that it was the city’s project.

“It’s for our use,” he said. A lease agreement for

a sliver of BNSF property along the retaining wall at 211th Street is still outstand-ing, Scott said.

Sales tax increase for public safety?

At its May 7 council meeting, a resolution for a ballot measure to raise sales tax by one-tenth of 1 percent, specifically for public safety, faced opposition by six out of seven council members.

Councilman Chris Raezer’s motion to approve the resolution heard no sec-ond.

Councilman Steve Baker objected to seeing the reso-lution on the agenda without any workshop discussion.

Assistant administrator Kristin Banfield noted that the council had discussed during the budget discus-sions in November about presenting the proposal to voters in 2012.

City officials discovered

that sales tax increase pro-posals had to run on the pri-mary or general election bal-lots.

“Things have changed since then,” said Council-woman Marilyn Oertle. “I did vote for the concept in November, but that was to balance the budget. We need to explore every option. I don’t think raising taxes is the way to go.”

She suggested streamlin-ing the budget and looking for other resources.

Raezer objected.“We should let the voters

decide,” he said.Raezer pointed out that

the city is short of funds, and is currently borrowing from fund to fund.

Mayor Barbara Tolbert reminded council of the 75 day notice required by the state to raise or lower taxes. May 11 was the deadline to run the tax measure on the primary ballot in August. It could also run on in the gen-eral election in November.

Progress on 67th Ave. projectBy Sarah Arney

Staff Writer

Cedar Grove Compost-ing has decided to shelve-for now-plans to pave 170,000 square feet of land and add an anaerobic digester at its Smith Island location in Ev-erett, following a determina-tion by the City of Everett and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency that a full en-vironmental impact study would be required for the project.

After months of discus-sions, hearings and thorough arguments against the pro-posed expansion submitted by the City of Marysville and the Tulalip Tribes, the joint agencies ruled on May 23 that Cedar Grove would be required to complete a strin-gent environmental review before beginning the pro-duction of biofuel.

Many residents breathed a sigh of relief upon hear-ing the news, including Mike Davis, chair of Citizens for a Smell-Free Snohomish County.

“If nothing else, [the deci-sion] will bring Cedar Grove to the table with a reasonable expectation of a solution,” said Davis.

The original permit for

Cedar Grove’s operation, is-sued in February 2004, al-lowed the company to pro-cess 123,000 tons of waste each year. However, because the estimated time for “cur-ing” compost was decreased through new technology, and traffic impacts were less than initially anticipated, the company has successfully gained incremental permis-sion to increase its output to 228,521 tons per year with-out undergoing any supple-mental review.

Cedar Grove was seek-ing approval to fill 6 acres of wetland, pave over 170,000 square feet of open land, and add the digester equip-ment. The company’s earlier application for this expan-sion, which was withdrawn and scaled back, would have asked for permission to pro-duce 620,000 tons of com-post per year. The permit ap-plication, which was filed in 2008, refers to the company’s eventual plan to install sev-

en anaerobic digesters and three Gore pads, all designed to turn food and yard waste into compost while captur-ing a biogas byproduct, al-though the application spe-cifically mentions only one digester.

In its May 23 ruling, Ever-ett and PSCAA determined that the digester plan is “part of a probable full build-out of the site.” The agencies agreed that “the impacts, including cumulative impacts, should be analyzed in a single envi-ronmental document.”

The composting opera-tion has never been the sub-ject of an environmental im-pact study.

Marysville officials were pleased with the determina-tion of significance. Mayor Jon Nehring has stated that Cedar Grove’s operation should be considered a re-gional waste management facility, subject to utilities commission review and oversight.

cedar Grove growth put on holdBy Beckye Randall Staff Writer/Editor