WEDNESDAY • FEBRUARY 11, 2015 TACOMA, WASHINGTON • $1.00 T H E N E W S PA P E R F O R T H E S O U T H S O U N D THENEWSTRIBUNE.COM NATION & WORLD, A12 NBC suspends Brian Williams as anchor and editor for 6 months AT HOME: Flower & Garden Show ready to bloom, C1 SPORTS: Seahawks in talks with Lynch, Wilson, B1 Remains from the deep give Olympia family closure Dome roof could blossom with Warhol flower Arts boosters plan to seek $5.1 million in private money to display decal BY KATE MARTIN Staff writer The Tacoma City Council gave the nod Tuesday to supporters of a plan to wrap the Tacoma Dome in a brilliant flower designed by world-renowned artist Andy Warhol. But will the plan blossom? That’s what petal pushers want to DEVELOPMENT DISPUTE Lawmakers add pressure in Ruston STEVE RINGMAN The Seattle Times Kathy Meincke, shown at her Olympia home with a portrait of her son, Jeff, said after some of his remains were recovered that “I figure Jeff wanted to come home. I consider this a miracle.” Jeff died in 2001 when his trawler, the Arctic Rose, sank in the Bering Sea. The exact cause of the accident never was determined. April 2, 2001 BY HAL BERNTON AND MIKE CARTER The Seattle Times Six days before Christmas 2014, the doorbell rang at Kathy and David Meincke’s Olympia home. Two women were at the door, FBI agents, who pulled out their badges to identify themselves and gave the couple some stunning news. Five years earlier, fishermen had brought up three bones from the bottom of the Bering Sea. One bone, a tibia, had been finally identified through DNA analysis. It was the remains of the Meinckes’ son, Jeff, the FBI agents told them. He died on April 2, 2001, when The 92-foot 1 trawler Arctic Rose sank at around 3:30 a.m. Of the 15-man crew, only Dave Rundall’s body, the skipper, was recovered from the water. BERING SEA Arctic Rose Aleutian Basin A Coast Guard submersible located the Arctic Rose, sitting upright on the sea floor, 428 feet below the surface. 482 feet ALASKA 9,842 ft. 2 1 3 Distress beacon located by satellite July 18, 2001 Zhemchug Flats Nu Nunivak Is Island BERING SEA B BE EA St. Paul Island St Zhemchu Zhemchug hemchug ugg u Canyon Aleutian Basin 2 Pribilof P ib bil Islands St. George Island sland Unalaska Bristol Bay The search for the Arctic Rose The Seattle-based longliner Blue Gadus recovered three bones (a right and left tibia and a left fibula) from a tarp or trawl netting which was tangled in the longline hooks. DNA tests confirmed one of them to be from deck-hand Jeff Meincke; the other two have yet to be tested. 3 Seattle Times graphic MORE TOP STORIES TACOMA What to do with billboards Tacoma’s advisory group for billboards released its report Monday. It says billboards should be OK in commercial areas of the city but design is still in question. A3 See RUSTON, A18 TACOMA SCHOOLS LARRY LARUE Keeping up with kids Making things right Tacoma Public Schools sees growth ahead and wants to be ready with more plans in place for innovative schools like the four it already has. A3 1542138-01-1 ONLINE CONVERSATION Re: Toll hike of 50 cents in consecutive years is best case for Tacoma Narrows Bridge users “This is the very reason that I rarely go over the bridge into Tacoma.” – Heather Thompson BRAD BARKET Associated Press file, 2011 Comedy Central announced Tuesday that Jon Stewart will leave “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” later this year. Story, A12 An area man who has a history with hockey has returned a player’s jerseys years after they were left at a dry cleaner because his team couldn’t pay the bill. A3 SERVED IN VIETNAM Evergreen instructor may have overstated military decorations BY ADAM ASHTON Staff writer The Evergreen State College is investigating a long-time instructor who appears to have embellished his military record in campus course catalogs by claiming to have been awarded medals for valor and combat wounds. The college has not announced whether it will take disciplinary ON THE WEB EVENTS CALENDAR Looking for something to do tonight? Check out calendar.thenewstribune.com to search for arts, entertainment and community events throughout the region. Do you have an event to promote? You can submit the information through our online system for inclusion in our print and digital calendars. 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He also did not provide any information to the newspaper or to the Evergreen administration to See MEDALS, A18 19 $ 1536631-01 Family notified 13 years after son’s trawler sank in Bering Sea squall BY JORDAN SCHRADER Staff writer State lawmakers inserted themselves Tuesday into a squabble between the $1.2 billion Point Ruston waterfront development and the city of Ruston, population 749. Developers are building apartments, condominiums, stores, restaurants and a hotel on the site of a shuttered copper smelter that has one foot in Ruston and one foot in Tacoma, population 203,446. Developers want Tacoma to extend its borders to take in the whole 97-acre site. Under state law, annexation requires the blessing of both municipalities, which Ruston find out. The project is anticipated to cost $5.1 million, but Tacoma officials say none of it will come from city coffers. 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