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Vol. 5 No. 23 n AUGUST 9-AUGUST 22, 2012P.O. BOX 39 n MARYSVILLE, WA 98270 www.northcountyoutlook.com

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Marysville’s big street fair, the HomeGrown Festival, has expanded to three days this year-August 10, 11 and 12. The 27th annual event takes over Third Street in downtown Marysville begin-ning at State Avenue and fill-ing several blocks with more than 90 vendors, street enter-tainment, food and more.

The hours of operation have also been expanded, with the festival open Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sat-urday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Vendors who participate in the HomeGrown Festival are required to offer hand-made art and craft items or homegrown produce or flowers. Imported goods are not allowed, giving buyers a chance to support local arti-sans and small businesses.

Buyers can shop for one-of-a kind handmade crafts which include soaps, cloth-ing, jewelry, fused glass, paintings, artworks, flowers and produce while feasting on tasty food and enjoying local entertainment.

A host of new artisans will

HomeGrown brings 3 days of hand-crafted funBy Beckye Randall Staff Writer/Editor

Special to the Outlook

By Beckye Randall Staff Writer/Editor

n Aniya and Aven Woodard of Lake Stevens enjoyed the kid-friendly fun at HomeGrown last year.

be on hand this year, accord-ing to organizers, including Frontier Flyers Honey which offers blackberry, fire weed and lavender-flavored honey. The Snoqualmoo Nation will

present a food booth featur-ing salmon dinners, smoked salmon, frybread and clam chowder.

This year marks the first microbrewers concession,

which will be in the Carabin-ieri lot on Friday and Satur-day, featuring cold beer and wine.

Music and entertainment will also fill Third Street,

with Friday’s lineup of Jes-sica Jackson, The Jug Ban-ditos, Randi Ray, The Thou-sand Years, and Red Sea. The night is capped off with The Carabinieri’s Outercourt, a selection of local talent.

On Saturday, Jed Skenan-dore kicks off the day at 11 a.m., followed by The Tar-antellas, Rootbox, Monkey Bat, Ali Marcus, and Bring Tha Noize. The West Coast Women’s Blues Revue head-lines the evening’s roster, be-ginning at 6:30 p.m.

The Right Price Roundup, Marysville’s first live game show with fantastic prizes and fun for all, takes place Sunday at noon. Contestants will participate in games fashioned after TV game shows, with prizes supplied by the Downtown Marysville Merchants Association.

Following the game show, musical entertainment re-sumes with an acoustic set by Pride Fails. Sawdust Creek will finish off the afternoon.

There is no fee to attend the festival, which is spon-sored by the Downtown Marysville Merchants Asso-ciation.

For more information, visit marysvillemerchants.com or call 360-653-3538.

Representatives of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agen-cy (PSCAA) met with nearly a hundred skeptical residents at Allen Creek Elementary in Marysville on July 24 to talk about the agency’s plans to conduct a one-year study to identify and track odors in north Everett and Marysville, followed by another year of analysis and negotiation.

Most of the people in the room, including officials with the City of Marysville and the Tulalip Tribes, were un-convinced about the study’s need and its validity.

“Your own inspectors say that Cedar Grove (Compost-ing) is the problem,” said Mike Davis, founder of Citi-zens for a Smell-Free Sno-homish County. “This study just puts things off for anoth-er two years.”

Craig Kenworthy, execu-tive director of PSCAA, out-lined the study’s parameters, which will include the place-ment of eight odor monitors called “e-noses” at or near suspected odor-generating

Residents question odor study

Marysville’s neighborhood beauties recognized

n Mayor Jon Nehring (right) presented Zed and Jan Long with the first residential Pride of Marysville award for their cozy bungalow (top).

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Marysville homeowners with a well-kept house and yard, a real estate office that shines with curb appeal, and a trendsetting commercial building in the downtown district were honored by the mayor and City Council re-cently as recipients of the first-ever Pride of Marysville neighborhood improvement awards.

The city invited the pub-lic to nominate their favor-ite homes and businesses around Marysville starting last March, with nominees judged on visual enhance-ment, preservation of the character of their neighbor-hood, and improvements to building and landscaping, officials said. In all, 20 nomi-nations were received.

“We didn’t have to look far to find ‘role model’ homes and businesses that embody the Pride of Marysville award

program’s goals,” said Mayor Jon Nehring, who initiated the new award program. “These recipients’ efforts re-flect well on our commu-nity, enhancing Marysville’s appearance, and hopefully will inspire others to do the same.”

A selection committee that included the mayor, City Councilmember Mi-chael Stevens, Parks director Jim Ballew, Information Of-ficer Doug Buell and citizen

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locations to collect real-time data for a year. At the same time, PSCAA will rely on in-formation from trained com-munity observers, whose reports will help correlate community impacts with odor sources.

“Part of this project asks you to participate, to use your noses,” said Kenworthy. “If we’re going to be able to make any demands on on-going operations, tell some-one to change their business practices, we have to have the data to make that case.”

The data collection meth-od itself is a source of conten-tion for many. The PSCAA has decided to use e-nose equipment and monitoring provided by Odotech, a com-pany that already contracts with Cedar Grove.

The eight e-noses, four of which already belong to Ce-dar Grove and are located at the company’s Smith Island facility, would also likely be placed at the Marysville sew-age treatment lagoon, Pacific Topsoils and other suspected

odor sources. Marysville mayor Jon

Nehring was visibly upset by the arrangement. “Odotech is a vendor of Cedar Grove. It’s a stretch to ask our com-munity to trust their report-ing, and we’ll likely just waste another two years on this.”

Kenworthy assured the crowd that PSCAA had looked at options provided

by other companies, but “all roads lead to Odotech.” The Canadian company, said Kenworthy, is the only one that’s set up for the kind of commercial use and real-time monitoring the study requires.

“We consider Odotech to be the only company we are aware of that offers the type of technology and services

desired for this project, and they are qualified to do this work,” said Kenworthy in a followup email. “We are aware of other companies that offer e-noses that can be used for certain purposes, but Odotech offers a unique combination of commer-cialized continuous e-nose monitoring for odor sources and meteorological data col-

lection to support the project through modeling and data management.”

Marysville officials dis-agree with that assertion, and both Nehring and members of his staff recounted their efforts to develop a more in-dependent and objective so-lution, one that focused on enforcement.

In fact, Gloria Hirashima, the city’s development direc-tor and chief administrator, said the process of develop-ing the odor study criteria was “the most disappointing public process I have seen in 22 years of public service.”

“I have spent hundreds of hours on this project,” said Hirashima, “and I am con-vinced that the process was pre-determined to select the Cedar Grove vendor.”

After the city’s objections to Odotech were made, Hira-shima said she received a let-ter from Kenworthy agreeing with the complaints and say-ing “our (the city’s) concerns were valid.” In that letter, the PSCAA exec said the agency had decided not to go for-

ward with the study.A few days later the city

learned the study was back on, using Odotech as the pri-mary vendor.

“We are very disappointed in PSCAA,” said Hirashima. “We’re back at ground zero now. We’ve wasted time.”

The odor study is expect-ed to cost $375,000, with $200,000 of that cost paid by Cedar Grove. A portion of that amount, $119,000, is already owed to PSCAA as a result of two previous air quality fines. Other study funders are the City of Seat-tle ($100,000), King County ($50,000) and the PSCAA, which will cover $25,000 of the cost.

Several citizens asked about Cedar Grove’s com-pliance—or lack thereof—with operational permits is-sued by PSCAA and the City of Everett. The composting company’s grinder, which processes food and other or-ganic waste, was required to be covered in the original permit, issued in 2004, yet it still operates in the open air.

In 2011 the PSCAA or-dered Cedar Grove to enclose the grinder building, but al-lowed open air grinding to continue until May of 2012. That deadline has come and gone with no change.

Steve Gobin, business manager for Quil Ceda Vil-lage, argued, “Cedar Grove has been out of compliance every month since they opened up. We’re not trying to shut down their business, but they need to act respon-sibly and mitigate these is-sues.”

Marysville City Coun-cilmember Jeff Seibert of-fered a compromise to Ken-worthy. “Why don’t you buy the equipment from Odo-tech, but train someone from PSCAA to collect the data and monitor the results?”

“Odotech won’t sell the equipment without the mon-itoring contract,” Kenworthy replied.

The study is slated to get underway this fall, ending in late 2013.

A group of community volunteers will be recruited to augment the data collect-ed by the electronic equip-ment, and Kenworthy in-vited those who might be interested in the project to contact PSCAA.

“The agency will be hold-ing a public meeting in the near future for people in-terested in more informa-tion about volunteering,” said Kenworthy. “The date of the meeting is yet to be de-termined, since we are still finalizing the details of our contract with Odotech.”

In the meantime, resi-dents can learn about proj-ect updates, including public meetings and recruitment for community odor moni-toring volunteers, by email-ing [email protected] to request notifications.

PSCAA: Residents think odor study is a stall tacticContinued from page 1

n Kelli Goldsbury (standing) echoed the doubts and frustrations of many others when she asked PSCAA executive Craig Kenworthy “Are you going to buy my house?” in regards to ongoing odor issues.

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