Project Homeless Connect dispenses help, hope and dignity

Julie Muhlstein, The Herald

Helping with life’s basic necessities — food, shelter and medical care — is the main mission, but Project Homeless Connect offers so much more.

It brings together services and people who need them. The annual event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 27 at Cascade High School. For the fourth year at the Everett school, there will be free hot meals, on-the-spot health services, and information about housing and jobs, veterans programs, federal benefits and more.

It’s not all about bare necessities.

For people whose lives are daily struggles, helpers are there to answer intangible needs. By providing things most of us take for granted, volunteers pass along hope and the recognition of dignity in all people.

Suzanne Pate, a spokeswoman for the Snohomish Health District, said 1,000 pairs of shoes have been donated by Redeeming Soles, a Seattle-based nonprofit group. That’s a first for Project Homeless Connect.

Thirty hairstylists will be there, Pate said. Pet care will be available. And a photographer who volunteered last year will again take free family portraits.

“Pictures are so important to me. I take a million pictures of my kids,” said Christy Neigel, of Sultan, who plans to volunteer all day at the event. She will bring her Nikon D3200 camera and a photo printer, and will laminate pictures to make them portable and waterproof.

“It brings me a lot of joy to bring this kind of joy to others,” Neigel said.

Last year, more than 1,100 hot meals were served at Project Homeless Connect, and 670 backpacks and bags with toiletries given out. More backpacks are needed this year. Organizers expect more than 1,200 people, homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, to come to the event. At least 70 agencies and groups will offer help. Eyeglasses and hearing screening, job and education information, substance abuse and mental health services, the list of resources is long.

Held annually since 2008 and at Cascade since 2010, Project Homeless Connect is a collaboration between Snohomish County, the city of Everett and many service organizations. United Way of Snohomish County is the lead agency this year.

Neil Parekh, a spokesman for the local United Way, said the agency’s own United Way employee campaign raised money to bring two dental care vans to Project Homeless Connect this year. Dr. Steven Wolff, branch director of the dental clinic at Naval Station Everett, will be among service providers, Pate said.

Dental professionals will treat emergencies on the day of Project Homeless Connect. For the first time, Parekh said, a dental van will be back at Cascade the following day to treat people who have made appointments the day before, essentially doubling the dental care available in past years. Two denturists also will volunteer this year, another first, Pate said.

The health district will offer HIV and hepatitis tests, and free shots to prevent whooping cough.

Neigel learned about Project Homeless Connect from her husband, Joseph, who works for Snohomish County. She’s not a professional photographer, but hopes to do more charity work with the effort she calls Family Focus Portraits.

She remembers last year taking pictures of individuals, of children whose families couldn’t afford school pictures, and of one large family with three generations.

Neigel had a problem with a computer program at last year’s event, and her husband stopped by to help. “He only helped out a few minutes,” Neigel said.

Not long ago, she said, he was at a bus stop. Someone recognized him from their photo station, thanked him for a picture, and asked if they would be back at Project Homeless Connect this year.

“It makes me feel I’m doing something worthwhile,” Neigel said. “It’s an amazing event.”

Project Homeless

Connect needs items

Project Homeless Connect is scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 27 at Cascade High School, 801 E. Casino Road, Everett. Backpacks and toiletry items are needed. Donations may be dropped off during business hours by June 21 at:

YWCA Pathways for Women, 6027 208th St. SW, Lynnwood; and the Everett YWCA Regional Center, 3301 Broadway, Everett.

To donate money, mail checks made out to Everett Gospel Mission c/o Project Homeless Connect, to P.O. Box 423, Everett, WA 98206-0423.

New support for moms-to-be

Dan Bates / The HeraldAisha Bone, 25, reads "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to her daughter, Paige, who turned 1 on Friday. Bone is expecting her second baby in December and became interested in Providence Regional Medical Center Everett's new prenatal program offering support and education.
Dan Bates / The Herald
Aisha Bone, 25, reads “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to her daughter, Paige, who turned 1 on Friday. Bone is expecting her second baby in December and became interested in Providence Regional Medical Center Everett’s new prenatal program offering support and education.

By Sharon Salyer, The Herald

With her second child due in December, Aisha Bone is something of a veteran when it comes to pregnancy and delivery.

Yet the Everett mom, 25, was quick to sign up when she heard about a new group being formed for expectant mothers.

The Centering Pregnancy program provides moms the opportunity to attend 10, two-hour sessions where they can spend time with a nurse midwife.

It substitutes the typical prenatal office visit of about 15 minutes with a two-hour session each time the group meets. Moms can ask questions and learn from each other, said Jamie George, a certified nurse midwife who will lead the group.

Over the course of the pregnancy, that adds up to about 20 hours of personal attention.

“That’s a huge difference in the face-to-face time you have with your provider,” George said.

The ongoing series of classes begins June 18 at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. Moms join when they’re about six months from their scheduled delivery date.

New groups are scheduled to start each month. The groups are kept small, with about a dozen members, so that each woman can get personal attention. The group meets monthly for four months, then every two weeks after that.

Over the next year, the classes, which are covered by insurance, could serve up to 400 women. Services also will be provided on a sliding-fee scale. No one will be turned away for lack of ability to pay.

Moms practice the breathing techniques used during birth and get questions answered about topics such as the aches and pains of late-term pregnancy and tips on breast-feeding.

“I think it opens your mind up to different things that you may not have thought about compared to if it was just you and the midwife,” Bone said. “If someone else has a question, it may make you think about something you may never have thought of before.”

There will be belly checks to monitor the baby’s development, checks of the mom’s weight and blood pressure, and listening to the fetal heartbeat.

The sessions also will provide friendship and emotional support for mothers. This can be especially important for women who don’t have family nearby or those who are separated from their spouses through military deployment.

“It can be a scary thing if you’re pregnant to be alone,” Bone said. “To have that support system is good for the mom as well, not just for the child.”

For this reason, contacts are being made with Naval Station Everett to inform women about the program. Information also is being provided to the Tulalip Health Clinic. The Tulalip Tribes are the state’s second largest tribal group.

The program was begun in Everett through a $20,000 grant from the March of Dimes. The goal is to reduce premature births and low-birth weight babies, who can develop physical and developmental problems.

In Snohomish County, nearly 9 percent of all babies are born prematurely and nearly 5 percent have lower that normal birth weights, according to the state Department of Health.

A birth is considered premature if it occurs three weeks before the typical 40-week pregnancy.

Infants born prematurely often have compromised lungs, problems with feeding and other medical problems, said Lori Wilson, a physical therapist at Providence Children’s Center.

The babies also are at higher risk for developmental problems.

Everett joins Centering Pregnancy programs that are now offered in nearly every state. In Washington, Madigan Army Medical Center has been offering the program for a number of years, said Gina Legaz, director of program services for the March of Dimes.

The state chapter began offering start-up grants for Centering Pregnancy programs in 2011, including one to the Columbia Health Center in South Seattle.

Bone said she was familiar with the Everett hospital’s midwifery program, where her first child, Paige, was delivered by a midwife.

“I liked the idea of having the best of both worlds,” she said. “The midwives were respectful, but in the off chance that something did go wrong, I would be at the hospital and have great health care resources.”

Sharon Salyer: 425-339-3486; salyer@heraldnet.com.

Centering Pregnancy

The first Centering Pregnancy group begins June 18 at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. New groups are scheduled to start monthly, with the next beginning July 15. For more information, call 425-303-6500.

Dedication of interpretive panels Wednesday in Everett

-The Herald

The public is invited to a dedication at 5 p.m. Wednesday of three interpretive panels depicting the early culture and history of the Snohomish peoples at Legion Park Bluff, 140 Alverson Blvd., Everett.

The late Hank Gobin and staff at the Hibulb Cultural Center in Tulalip provided source material for artist Jim Englehardt’s renditions of life on Port Gardner and the Snohomish River and estuary.

This project is a collaboration between the Northwest Neighborhood Association and Historic Everett. It was funded by the Tulalip Tribes, the city of Everett Parks Department and Cultural Commission.

 

First Neighbors, Dedication to Snohomish Peoples

First Neighbors

Historic Everett and the Northwest Neighborhood Association will be honoring the earliest inhabitants of the Everett community with the installation of three interpretive signs depicting the early culture and history of the Snohomish Peoples.

Legion Park Bluff, June 5th, 2013 at 5PM

140 Alverson Boulevard, Everett WA

 

 

Reardon’s run as county executive to end today

By Noah Haglund and Scott North,The Herald

EVERETT — The Aaron Reardon era is expected to end for Snohomish County government at 5 p.m. today.

Reardon, 42, was in the office Thursday, keeping a low profile but speaking with television reporters.

“I’m probably the most thoroughly vetted candidate in the United States of America,” he told King 5. For months Reardon has refused interview requests from The Herald.

In keeping with the county charter, Deputy County Executive Gary Haakenson said he expects to take over after midnight Friday and will serve as acting executive until a new executive is appointed and sworn in. That could happen early next week.

Reardon was 33 when he first took county office in 2004, then the youngest county executive in the nation. He was re-elected to a third and final term in 2011, despite word that he was the focus of a Washington State Patrol investigation into his use of public money in pursuit of an extramarital affair with a county worker.

Reardon emerged from the investigation claiming he’d been exonerated after Island County’s prosecutor determined there was insufficient evidence to bring charges. The probe documented Reardon’s affair and also turned up evidence that Reardon used public resources in his campaign. The state Public Disclosure Commission is investigating.

On Feb. 21, Reardon used his 10th State of the County speech to announce he was stepping down. His prepared remarks were slim on details but full of blame. Reardon claimed political enemies had peppered him for years with what he called “false and scurrilous allegations.” The cost of defending himself from the attacks, he said, had just become too high.

Reardon’s resignation announcement came the day after the County Council voted unanimously to remove his authority over the county’s public records and computer system.

That happened as the council called for an independent investigation into evidence that two people on Reardon’s staff were behind a series of anonymous public records requests, attack websites and other activities targeting people considered the executive’s political rivals.

As The Herald reported Feb. 14, those on the receiving end believed they’d been subjected to attempts at harassment, surveillance and retaliation. A number of those targeted had cooperated with the patrol’s investigation. It is against the law to harass witnesses in criminal cases.

The King County Sheriff’s Office is now investigating whether any laws were broken. Reardon’s legislative aide, Kevin Hulten, and his executive assistant, Jon Rudicil, were placed on administrative leave in March.

At least for now, Rudicil remains on the county payroll. Hulten resigned earlier this month after sexually explicit images, including homemade porn, were found on the hard drive of a county laptop computer he’d been assigned. The device, which was checked as part of the King County investigation, also contained “background check” files on County Council members, records show.

In his television interview, Reardon denied misusing any taxpayer money for campaigns or on an affair. He wasn’t asked to explain bills from his government phone showing hundreds of calls during business hours to his 2011 campaign staff and to people who contributed financially to his re-election effort.

Reardon was coy with the TV reporter about his future plans.

“I’m an elected official today, I’m a private citizen on Saturday,” he said. “I’m going to elect to keep that private.”

Reardon is a Democrat in a partisan elected office. In keeping with the law, Snohomish County Democrats on Saturday were scheduled to pick three nominees to replace him. The special caucus is open to the public, and is set for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Everett Labor Temple’s Warren Rush Hall, 2812 Lombard Ave., Everett.

The party’s central committee will forward the names to the County Council, which then has 60 days to agree on a successor. The council has scheduled public interviews with the nominees for 8:30 a.m. Monday.

Whomever is picked to follow Reardon will serve unchallenged at least into November 2014, when results are certified in a special election expected next year.

An election for a full, four-year term is expected in 2015.

The likely nominees are: Sheriff John Lovick of Mill Creek; state Rep. John McCoy, D-Tulalip; and Everett attorney Todd Nichols, a longtime Democratic Party leader at the state and county level.

Lovick is said to have locked up support from a majority of local Democrats. On Wednesday evening, he was the opening speaker at “Humanity not hatred,” gathering sponsored by the Snohomish County Human Rights Commission. Lovick told the crowd he was asked to stand in for Reardon at the event.

Everett gives OK for new owner to take over riverfront land

By Noah Haglund, The Herald

EVERETT — Developers got the go-ahead Wednesday to sell more than 100 acres of former industrial land along the Snohomish River, after a City Council majority endorsed the deal.

With the city’s OK, Polygon Northwest of Bellevue is on track to take over the Riverfront property by early July from San Diego developer OliverMcMillan.

Millions of dollars in taxpayer money have been invested in hopes of transforming the former industrial wastelands off I-5 into a dynamic retail zone buffered by new neighborhoods.

The deal comes with plenty of strings attached — for the city and developer alike. The council’s support of three documents was necessary to transfer rights and responsibilities from one owner to the next.

Wednesday’s council vote was 6-1 in support, despite the late discovery of an apparent conflict of interest involving a city consultant that council members called an unfortunate “black cloud.”

“I’m personally not worried about this in terms of the broader picture,” said Councilman Scott Bader, who expressed confidence in Polygon’s ability to do the work.

When the meeting concluded, Polygon’s principals said they were excited to begin and demonstrated as much by applying for grading permits. The company wants to break ground on single-family houses by next year.

The Riverfront area stretches from Lowell north to Pacific Avenue. The largest part is the former city landfill, which covers about 60 acres. South of the landfill property lies the 40-acre site of the former Simpson Paper Co. mill, to the north the 17-acre site of the former Eclipse Mill.

At total buildout, zoning there allows up to 1,400 homes plus nearly a million square feet of commercial space.

Under the city-developer agreements, Polygon must build at least 400,000 square feet of retail space on the former landfill site by mid 2017. By that same deadline, the builder also must construct small shops and at least at least 100 homes or hotel rooms.

Those benchmarks are intended to give the community its money’s worth for all of the public investment.

The city has shepherded along cleanup efforts at two former mill sites and the old city dump where the Everett Tire Fire broke out in 1984.

The city built the new 41st Street overpass and a roundabout at the south end of the property. It’s working on a new access road from the north.

At the old landfill, the city performed extensive work to stabilize the ground though a process called surcharging, city public works director Dave Davis said. The process involves layering on dirt to compress the refuse and underlying peat.

In 2008, OliverMcMillan paid Everett $8 million for the property. It was the culmination of a carefully structured deal meant to ensure an appropriate mix of businesses and neighborhoods.

After the recession hit, progress slowed.

OliverMcMillan did grade the southern portion of the property, Davis said. It also completed creek and wetland mitigation as well as engineering and planning work.

In the weeks leading up to Wednesday’s vote, city leaders received a series of assurances – from city staff, consultants and the Bellevue developer’s representatives — that Polygon is up to taking over.

A problem with one of those reports arose at this week’s council meeting. It involves a business relationship that Jim Reinhardsen of Seattle-based Heartland LLC has with Polygon.

Reinhardsen on May 15 gave a glowing presentation about Polygon to the City Council. As it turns out, Reinhardsen is assisting Polygon with a potential land purchase in another county.

“This transaction has no relationship to the Everett Riverfront transaction nor did it influence our conclusions with respect to Polygon’s fit for the Riverfront project,” Reinhardsen wrote in a letter to the city.

Everett had paid him $23,000 to assess Polygon’s reputation with cities, lenders and other business partners from its past developments, city finance director Debra Bryant said. Reinhardsen has performed $1.3 million in consulting work for Everett since 1997.

Councilwoman Brenda Stonecipher said Reinhardsen’s competing business connections would be unacceptable in any context.

“It’s flabbergasting that this would happen,” she said.

Stonecipher ended up the only vote opposed, saying she wanted more time for review.

“At this point, this is kind of like ‘Trust us, we’re going to do something really neat,'” she said. “That may very well be, but we don’t have very many details on that.”

Councilman Scott Murphy and other colleagues echoed Stonecipher’s disappointment with Reinhardsen, but said the overall evidence suggests Polygon is up to the job.

“From my point of view, I didn’t place much weight on his report because it was very general in nature and not very specific,” Murphy said.

The council also heard from an accountant who gave Polygon high marks for its financial capabilities.

While primarily a home builder, Polygon does have experience teaming up with commercial developers. The communities it has built dot Snohomish County, and can be found in Bothell, Lake Stevens and Mill Creek. The company also has worked throughout in King County, where one project, in Kent, also occupies a former landfill. Polygon also has been active in Oregon as well.

Under the new agreements, Polygon is to pay the city $350,000 for closing costs and other provisions. Also, Polygon will agree to build some improvements that were previously city obligations. They include some recreational trails that connect into the existing trail system, as well as picnic shelters and wetlands.

Transferring the work will save the city an estimated $875,000, said Tim Benedict, an attorney for the city.

As part of the deal, OliverMcMillan will certify that the Riverfront property’s sale price will not exceed what it’s already spent to buy, develop and improve the land.

Polygon is not disclosing the price.

“I think that this is a better deal for the city than the deal we had with OliverMcMillan,” Councilman Paul Roberts said. “I think the uncertainties are real, but I think we had the same kind of uncertainties with OliverMcMillan.”

Sorticulture, Everett’s Garden Arts Festival

Sorticulture, Everett’s Garden Arts Festival

2013 festival June 7, 8 and 9

Legion Memorial Park

145 Alverson Blvd. at W. Marine View Dr.

Everett, Washington 98201

FREE ADMISSION

Sorticulture hours:

Fri: 10 am – 8 pm

Sat: 10 am – 6 pm

Sun: 10 am – 4 pm

 

Please park at Everett Community College’s North Broadway
parking lot
and take the bus that runs every 15-20 minutes.
Regular fares apply. You can return to the park with your car
to pick up purchases.

Dogs are allowed on leashes

Sorticulture unites art and the garden in a celebration of creative outdoor living. Our featured artists create distinctive hand-crafted garden art and our nurseries produce a wide variety of plants to transform your backyard. Learn tips and tricks from top regional gardening experts including KING 5’s Ciscoe Morris. Sorticulture also features display gardens, food fair, wine garden, live music and free activities for the kids.

 

Summer concert series planned for Everett’s new downtown plaza

Jennifer Buchanan / The HeraldArtist Linda Beaumont is reflected in part of her mosaic installation at the new Wetmore Theater Plaza in downtown Everett.
Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald
Artist Linda Beaumont is reflected in part of her mosaic installation at the new Wetmore Theater Plaza in downtown Everett.

By Theresa Goffredo, The Herald

Wetmore Theater Plaza, the new community space in downtown Everett, is getting its first official event — a summer concert series.

The Sets in the West concerts kick off July 10 with 10 weeks of live music from some top shelf, emerging bands from Seattle, Bellingham and Everett.

The free shows start right after work at 5 p.m. There’s a wine and beer garden and food for anyone who wants to buy a drink or a snack.

Bands include Hot Bodies in Motion, a soul-bluesy band from Seattle, and River Giant, whose lead singer is from Lake Stevens and who play folk Americana stuff, which has been compared to Neil Young.

The city of Everett wanted to have a concert series at the plaza this summer but didn’t have the staff to devote to such an event. So the city asked the Everett Music Initiative to make the series happen.

The Everett Music Initiative started out in 2012 and has successfully brought new bands to downtown Everett. The group’s goal was to bring the local pool of musical talent here because music is a critical cultural element to a thriving downtown, said Ryan Crowther, founder of Everett Music Initiative.

The music initiative has partnered with Experience Everett, the city’s new tourism initiative, and together with support from the city’s cultural arts department, the experiment to bring new music to downtown Everett has been a success.

“They saw a need, took the initiative and brought some very new music to Everett and started gaining really good crowds,” said Carol Thomas, the city’s cultural arts manager. “We asked them to bring their talents to a concert series that would feature new and emerging artists, a genre they know and love.”

The city already sponsors Music at the Marina concert series that kicks off June 27 and those concerts start a little later Thursday evenings. But the new plaza concert series happens right after work for a more “appropriate urban feel so people can get off work and enjoy the music,” Thomas said.

The city also provides a children’s concert series Thursday mornings at Thornton A Sullivan Park at Silver Lake. which kicks off July 11.

In addition to the concert series, Village Theatre’s Kidstage program will be presenting six live theater performances at noon Fridays at the Wetmore Plaza. That series kicks off June 28 with “A Year with Frog and Toad.”

The plaza, situated between the Everett Performing Arts Center and Village Theatre’s Second Stage kids’ theater, can accommodate more than 400 people and, with a packed crowd, can give the downtown that kind of needed energy that comes from community events such as concerts and theater performances, Thomas said.

“The next step after making the plaza is activating it,” Thomas said. “And we are working hard for that.”

The plaza isn’t officially complete. Whidbey Island artist Linda Beaumont continues work on the undulating mosaic wall that anchors the plaza and frames the area into a seated amphitheater.

Beaumont is expected to be working on that mosaic into next year. The piece is handmade and completely original, Thomas said.

“Art takes time,” Thomas said.

But the public doesn’t have to wait to use the plaza. In fact, the city wants people to use the plaza now. And the concert series is a good starting point, said Steve Graham, a member of Everett Music Initiative.

“This is going to be a great chance to showcase some great music, how beautiful downtown Everett and our new Wetmore Plaza (are),” Graham said.

Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; tgoffredo@heraldnet.com.

New series

The new Sets in the West series kicks off July 10 and runs through Sept. 11 at Wetmore Theatre Plaza, 2710 Wetmore Ave., Everett. For a complete schedule of bands, go to www.everettmusicinitiative.org.

21st Annual Hibulb Powwow May 11 at EvCC

Source: Everett Community College Press

 

EVERETT, Wash. – “Keeping Our Traditions Alive” is the theme of the 21st annual Hibulb Powwow May 11 at the Everett Community College Fitness Center, 2206 Tower St. in Everett.

“The powwow honors cultural survival and the perseverance needed to celebrate and maintain Native identity into the 21st century,” said Paula Three Stars, EvCC’s 1st Nations Club advisor.

The Hibulb (pronounced hee bulb) Powwow features traditional Native American dancing, drumming, singing, arts and crafts. Grand entries are at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. The Powwow is free and open to the public.

The event will honor the foster care program “Our Shared Children and their Caretakers,” Native American children who are in the foster program and cared for by non-Native families.

“It’s our hope and the hope of the state Department of Social and Health Services employee Lisa Powers  that we keep our shared children in touch with their tribal affiliations and encourage them to participate in cultural activities,” Three Stars said.

This year’s head dancers are Reuben Twin Jr. and EvCC student Christine Warner. The master of ceremonies will be Arnold Little Head. Tony Bluehorse will serve as the arena director. The host drums are Young Society and Eagle Warrior.

The Hibulb Powwow was founded in 1990 to honor Native ancestors who once lived near the mouth of the Snohomish River. Hibulb was of the stronghold of the Snohomish peoples that thrived in the site just below Legion Park in Everett. Hibulb had an estimated population of 1,200 and was once the largest trading center in the Pacific Northwest.

Descendants of the people of Hibulb live today in the neighboring community of Tulalip as well as other nearby tribal reservations representing many different tribal bands.

For more information, contact Paula Three Stars at 425-388-9281 or Matt Remle at 360-657-0940.

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Dispose of unwanted medicines on National Drug Take-back Day, April 27

Correct disposal helps prevent unintentional poisonings

Source: Snohomish County Health District

SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. –Unintentional poisonings are at a record high in Snohomish County. The most recent information shows that in 2011 the number of such poisonings affected 150 county residents– more than triple the 46 reported in 2000. You can help reduce the chance of unintentional poisonings by disposing of your unwanted medicines on National Drug Take-back Day, April 27 at multiple locations in Snohomish County.

“Unintentional poisonings frequently involve prescription drugs,” said Dr. Gary Goldbaum, Health Officer and Director of the Snohomish Health District. He said they not only harm people, but improperly discarded drugs can also harm the environment when they enter septic systems and household trash.

To help protect the public’s safety and health, area law enforcement agencies and Bartell Drug will participate in National Drug Take-back Day, Saturday, April 27 at sites throughout the county.  Find locations and hours on the Health District’s website, www.snohd.org, or call 425.388.3199. The sites accept unused, expired and unwanted prescription drugs, including narcotic painkillers and other medications.

All police departments in the county have drop-boxes available year-round, Monday through Friday, including the NCIS office at Naval Station Everett, the Washington State Patrol office in Marysville, and tribal police stations on the Tulalip and Stillaguamish reservations. Additionally, two Group Health locations and many Bartell Drugstores accept unwanted vitamins, pet medications, over-the-counter medications, inhalers and unopened EpiPens year-round.

Only law enforcement locations can accept controlled substances, such as Ativan and OxyContin. Leave all items in their original containers.

The Saturday drug-return hours support the US Drug Enforcement Agency’s “National Drug Take-back Day,” through participation by the Snohomish County Partnership for Secure Medicine Disposal. Partnership members include the Snohomish Health District, Snohomish County, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s office, the Snohomish Regional Drug and Gang Task Force, the Washington State Patrol, and all local law enforcement agencies.

Established in 1959, the Snohomish Health District works for a safer and healthier Snohomish County through disease prevention, health promotion, and protection from environmental threats. Find more information about the Health Board and the Health District at http://www.snohd.org.

 

Drop-Off Locations and Hours

The Snohomish County Partnership for Secure Medicine Disposal provides residents with secure medicine drop-off locations year-round. The hours listed below are for the Saturday, April 27 National Drug Take-back Day.

 

City: Arlington

Time: 10  am – noon

Location: Arlington Police Department

110 East Third Street

Arlington, WA 98223

 

City: Edmonds

Time: 10  am – 2  pm

Location: Edmonds Police Department

250 Fifth Avenue North

Edmonds, WA 98020

 

City: Everett

Time: 8  am – Noon

Location: Everett Police Department – North Precinct

3002 Wetmore Avenue

Everett, WA 98201

 

City: Lake Stevens

Time: 10  am – 2  pm

Location: Bartell Drugs (hosted by Lake Stevens Police Department)

621 SR 9 NE

Lake Stevens, WA 98258

 

City: Lynnwood

Time: 8 am – noon

Location: Lynnwood Police Department

19321 44th Avenue West

Lynnwood, WA 98036

 

City: Lynnwood

Time: 10  am – 2  pm

Location: Home & About Home Care (hosted by Snohomish Regional Drug & Gang TF)

15121 Hwy 99

Lynnwood, WA 98087

 

City: Marysville

Time: 9  am – 1  pm

Location: Marysville Police Department

1635 Grove Street

Marysville, WA 98270

 

City: Mill Creek

Time: 9  am – 1  pm

Location: Snohomish County Sheriff – South Precinct

15928 Mill Creek Blvd

Mill Creek, WA 98012

 

City: Mountlake Terrace

Time: 10 am – 2  pm

Location: Mountlake Terrace Police Department

5906 232nd Street SW

Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043

 

City: Snohomish

Time: 8  am – noon

Location: Snohomish Police Department

230 Maple Avenue

Snohomish, WA 98290