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DECEMBER 9, 2016 State suing
Extension center celebr rates
facility’s 10-year anniver rsary Monsanto over AND
PCB pollution
Skagit River among water
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bodies listed in suit
MOUNT VERNON • ANACORTES • BURLINGTON • LA CO ONNER • SEDRO-WOOLLEY Thursday became the first U.S. state to sue INSIDE
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington on
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the agrochemical giant Monsanto over
pervasive pollution from PCBs, the toxic
industrial chemicals that have accumu-
lated in plants, fish and people around the
globe for decades.
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Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee and Attor-
ney General Bob Ferguson announced the
lawsuit at a news conference in down-
town Seattle, saying they expect to win
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dollars from the company.
TOP-OF-
“It is time to hold the sole U.S. manu-
facturer of PCBs accountable for the
Visitors and Newcomers Guide to a Special Corner of NW Washington hundreds of millions or even billions of NEIGHBORHOOD P . 4
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significant harm they have caused to
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our state,” Ferguson said, noting that the
chemicals continue to imperil the health
of protected salmon and orcas despite the
tens of millions of dollars Washington has
spent to clean up the pollution.
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County farmer Dave Hedlin during an open house Tuesday at the Washington State University Mount Vernon Research and
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of death increase
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Extension Center.
During her time as interim
director from 2004 to 2008, In-
By AARON WEINBERG the center’s productivity. By MIKE STOBBE P . 8
@Aaron_SVH glis guided the center through Associated Press
a transition that included
NEW YORK — A decades-long trend of
MOUNT VERNON —
ending: It declined last year and it is no bet-
Debra Inglis said when she construction of a new facility rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be 6 SHOCkING
and hiring more employees.
took the job as interim direc-
ter than it was four years ago.
On Tuesday, Inglis and
tor of the Washington State about 200 guests attended OPEN HOUSE FACTS FACING
In most of the years since World War II,
University Mount Vernon Re- an event celebrating the 10th life expectancy in the U.S. has inched up,
search and Extension Center
anniversary of the facility on
in 2004, she worked in an old,
“We created a vision for
run-down building. Memorial Highway. FEATURE campaigns and better nutrition and educa- FIRST-TIME
tion. HOME:
“There were cracks. It was
old and antiquated,” Inglis expanded staff and grad 22622 But last year it slipped, an exceedingly rare HOME BuYERS
students,” said Inglis, now a
thanks to medical advances, public health Sat. December 3, 1-3PM
said. Her task was to lead professor at the center. “The e studen SCOTT TERRELL / SKAGIT VALLEY HERALD event in a year that did not include a major
disease outbreak. Other one-year declines
ts tha
a revitalization effort at helped make this possible.” off Tuesday eggplants that were grafted onto tomato occurred in 1993, when the nation was in P . 9
plants at the Washington State University Mount
the center by replacing a
the throes of the AIDS epidemic, and 1980,
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community came together and Horticultural graduate student Sahar Dabirian shows N. STARBIRD ROAD, MOUNT VERNON
60-year-old facility with a More WSU | A6 Vernon Research and Extension Center. JAMIE yANTIS the result of an especially nasty flu season. SEE PAGE 3 FOR MORE
modern one that could boost causes of death rose. Even more troubling to $575,000 CLASSIFIEDS
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health experts: the U.S. seems to be settling
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“With four years, you’re starting to see
some indication of something a little more
ominous, ” said S. Jay Olshansky, a University
“Reince Priebus has done
of Illinois-Chicago public health researcher.
native and father of two
An American born in 2015 is expected
said in a statement to
among some Trump loyalists
Priebus, a Wisconsin RealEstateweekly
the White House with no
By JULIE PACE stems in part from a belief an outstanding job,” Trump young children, comes to to live 78 years and 9½ months, on aver- l
that the outgoing
AP White House Correspondent
significant experience in
age, according to preliminary data released
The Associated Press.
Republican Na-
is look at all of the
WASHINGTON — When tional Committee “ All you have to do foreign and domestic policy. Thursday by the Centers for Disease Contro
He has close ties with House
could expect to live about month longer, and
President-elect Donald chairman expected Republican victories Speaker Paul Ryan and other and Prevention. An American born in 2014 merican
even an American born in 2012 would have
and one in particu-
GOP congressional leaders.
Trump to lose the
Trump tapped Reince Prie-
been expected to live slightly longer. In 1950,
And he’s seen by those who
election. They resent
bus as his chief of staff, Re-
lar.”
If Trump runs
A supplement to the Skagit Valley Herald and the Anacortes American
PUBLISH
SKAGITPUBLISHING publican leaders cheered the the president-elect Priebus his White House have worked with him previ- life expectancy was just over 68 years. DeceMBeR 2– 8, 2016
“rewarding people
prospect of a close ally having
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The United States ranks below dozens of
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other high-income countries in life expec-
a top White House job.
like past presi-
manager with little appetite
who thought he
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tancy, according to the World Bank. It is
dents — and that’s
wasn’t going to win,”
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