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The bee savers
Health trumps honey when Valley beekeepers domesticate a wild Carnation colony BY SETH TRUSCOTT
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Jerri Johnson walks right up to the hives, abuzz with hundreds of thousands of bees. No mask. No gloves. No bee suit. And he’s as calm as can be. “We’re in harmony,” says Johnson, who keeps four hives in his sprawling Snoqualmie garden. “I would never be a threat to them. They’re not a threat to me. I can get just as close as I want.” Like any beekeeper, Johnson occasionally gets stung. The last time was a few hours ago. It didn’t faze him, and he approaches one busy hive without mask or gloves to make a point: that these wild bees are pretty cool. Next to two standard honeybee hives, some darker, mellower bees are doing their thing inside a brightlypainted stack of boxes.
Carnation Fourth of July parade, event schedule Pages 7-14
SEE BEE HIVE, 2
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Beekeeper Jerri Johnson inspects the comb of a wild beehive in Carnation. Johnson and fellow Snoqualmie Valley Beekeepers removed the hive from the Carnation property, where owners didn’t want it, and resettled 50,000 bees at his Snoqualmie garden. “I’m a guardian” of bees, Johnson says.
Mount Si grad Rachel Mallasch helps teens drive safer Page 3
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After 12 years in North Bend, new role calls at Swedish Foundation BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor
Gregory Malcolm makes his way past the row of summer campers, with their water bottles, toys and finished robot drawings, as
they await pickup from parents. The kids, he says, have always been his favorite part of the job at Encompass Northwest. He’s not a teacher or a specialist. Until yesterday, Malcolm’s role at Encompass was always to make sure money flowed in, to keep the programs running and children growing. SEE MALCOLM, 15
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Jarred hangs out with dad Todd Wingerson, who broke his neck in an accident at home. Wingerson is among those being helped by the Carnation Fourth of July.
Opinion 4 5 Obituaries On the Scanner 5 15 Movie Times Classifieds 15-18 19 Calendar
Carnation Fourth to help local family with lifechanging accident
Vol. 101, No. 6 Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
Gregory Malcolm, outgoing Encompass Northwest executive director, tours the school as campers depart Friday, June 28. He left June 30 for a new job with the Swedish Medical Center Foundation.
The Valley’s Fourth of July festival, happening Friday, will help a Carnation family whose lives were forever changed by a home accident. SEE BENEFIT, 3
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