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��ore r ' a reminder Site of unsolved arson stands as eyesore — and focus of grief ,6Y LESIJE MOAIARTY Feb. 8 to demoGsh what remains Heraa wreer of the market, or the.ciry wip tear it down and put a lien on the prop- There's a big reminder in north crty to recover the rnsts of demoli- Everett of just how destruMive fire tion. �0�' Larry CrawFord, the ciry's it's the charred-out remains of director of en�neering and public what was the 19th Street Market, service, edmits tiie two�story at the comer of 19th and Colby wreckege of the building is offen- Avenue. sive.He indicated Wednesday that A high, chain-link fence sur- the owner plans to clear the prop- rounds the rnrne; to Qrotect erty so that a new market can be passersby fiom falling debns, and built. t�mbers brace the teetering walls Choi could not be r uhed for weakened by the Sept. I5 arson comment. fire that killed two people who "The owner is trying to work Gved above the store. with his insurance rnmpany so Although thc fire happened that he can&et funding to do this," more than four months ago, the Crawford sa�d. remains of thc building stand as But on Feb. 7, the day before an eyesore — and unwanted the dcadline, Susan Momeny memorial in an othenvise rypical won't be thir,king about demoh- older downtown neighborhood. • The city has given the owner of See FIRE, the property, Yong Cho�until badc page,this section F' �� biaze, it is being investigated as a For VanNess, the loss of his double Lomicide. Everett police mother was also haroest at spok�smi n Ken Murray said the Christmas. While they weren't a fromFagelA �Be 'onremainsopen. real close family, they did see "We have no new leads," each other each year on holidays. hinking habout herksonS Don!d cl es.We have o s spects or new y about a month "I'd been b Momeny, who would have tumed reasons as to why there was a 6re, ��ore the fire to give her a card 30 on Feb.7. "We have gone back and rein- on her birthday, Aug. 7," he said. Donald Momeny and Marcia terviewed everybody��a��and °She wasn't homd. So [ jusi Yerkes, 50, dicd of smoke inhala- we still rnme up H�th nothing s�pped it under the door." tion in their upstairs apartments. new." "I miss him every day," Mrs. None of that eases the ain that VanNess' mother had been a Momeny said of her son. "It was families oE the victims feelP secretary and previously worked [he first Ihing I thought about °IPs been hard latel ,es eciall �n an Everett bank,but was unem- when .I heard about the fire• because of the recenf h lida sy P�oyed at the time of the fire. She fightcrs who were killed in the Mrs. Momen said. "M husband had lived alone since divorcing in Mery Pan� warchouse fire in still can't really talk about it.And I men�t bove the ma ket inh1992art- Seattle. can't �o down there and look at I thought my son died tha[ tha building.Donaid was our oMy "1 did worry about her some way,and I still don't know why." son." Susan Momeny and Kevin Van- Mrs. Momeny described her b�use I diddt think the place Ness, Yerkes' son, continue to son as a friendl s ad.�1'jYe�es�emPe�d jo'�a loteof question local authorities about worked a[a restaurant �n Eve tt� the cause of the fire. He had lived in the apartment for pjare„tored in and about lhe It's the same story all around," about one year before the fire last VanNess said, "Nobody seems to fall. She had been there to �dsit He leamed about the fire and know anything. They seem to be him and thought it was an "OK his mother's death from his father saying iCs arson,but 'ien they say apartment" later that day. they don't have enough (evidence) The last fime she talked to her "That moming on the way �u to make any anests." son was a few days before the fire. �york I hn.ard abeut a three•alartn In fact, the fire was rvled an "lie called every couple of days fire at 19th and Colby on the car arson soon after the tragedy, to tell us how he was doing,"she radio," he said. "But I didn't put Because two people died in the said. hvo and two together then."