Investigators: State agency breaks laws, robs foster child of stable home
This is the story of a 4-year-old foster child nicknamed “Poca,” who’s about to be torn away from the people she calls mom and dad. Her entire life she’s lived with a Snohomish County family who considers her one of their own. KING 5 Investigator Susannah Frame exposes how the state has made mistakes, stonewalled the court system, and broken laws in this heartbreaking case.
The Chicken is back strutting around in a new suit of colors. I can’t say for certain but I think the Chicken has left its perch again either on the account of being snatched up or the city being heavy handed towards the new owner. More details to come…
The second incarnation of the famous Lake Stevens Chicken Drive-In rooster — stolen from its perch nearly a year ago — has turned up.
Last week a man was driving in the Frontier Air Park, a community built around an airstrip north of Lake Stevens, when he spotted the bird in some bushes on a dead-end road, according to Frank McDaniel, a former owner of the drive-in.
The man loaded the 7-foot fiberglass fowl into his truck and dropped it off at the convenience store McDaniel owns in downtown Lake Stevens, next to the Chicken Drive-In.
The man didn’t leave his name or any contact information, according to McDaniel, who said he wasn’t at the store at the time and got the information second-hand.
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With good grades, a knack for soccer and basketball and a growing interest in music, the ninth-grader’s future seemed promising, but something wasn’t right. He had trouble standing. During class in Lake Stevens, he felt like was going to topple over.
Yet emergency room doctors said he seemed healthy.
A week later, Smith’s doctor ordered a CT scan. A tumor the size of a golf ball was growing beneath his skull.
The tumor wasn’t cancerous, but because it was close to vital areas of Smith’s brain, surgeons wanted to operate soon.
Over the next few years, Smith spent weeks in the hospital. He endured several surgeries, including a risky 16-hour operation that could have left him paralyzed or deaf. Instead, he temporarily lost his voice and the ability to swallow — not good for an aspiring musician . . .
LAKE STEVENS — The chicken is flying high once again.
The fiberglass fryer with a prank-pocked past spent Thursday suspended in a cage held aloft by a crane truck, 30 feet above the Lake Stevens High School parking lot.
It got some attention.
“I thought it was pretty amazing,” said junior Noble Larson, 17.
With a newer incarnation of the rooster stolen several months ago and still missing in action, two plucky Lake Stevens High School seniors took matters into their own hands.
They got a hold of the original bird, the poultry that perched atop the Chicken Drive-In from 1968 to 1995. Dave Huber, who acquired the rooster when he bought the drive-in property, gave his permission . . .
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ~ Walt Witman US poet (1819 - 1892)
