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A Kamiak grad was killed Thursday night when a Jeep struck a guardrail

on Mukilteo Boulevard.Paul S. Linari, 21, died after he was

ejected from the Jeep when it crashed in the 3100 block of W. Mukilteo Boulevard. A woman associated with the vehicle sus-tained minor injuries.

The Snohomish County Medical Exam-iner said Linari died of blunt force inju-ries and ruled the collision as an accident.

Everett police were summoned around 10:15 p.m. on March 13, when neighbors

heard a collision on the roadway, said Everett offi cer Aaron Snell.

The Jeep apparently drifted into oncom-ing traffi c and hit another vehicle along W. Mukilteo Boulevard before crashing into a guardrail. No one was injured in the vehicle that was clipped.

Neighbors found Linari lying in the road near the Jeep and performed CPR. Linari died at the scene, Snell said.

“The Jeep was traveling westbound on W. Mukilteo Boulevard when it side-swiped an eastbound vehicle and veered back through its lane before striking the guardrail on the north side of the road,” Snell said.

As offi cers approached, another man ran from the Jeep. Offi cers searched for him with police dogs, but without im-mediate success. He was found about an hour later and detained for questioning, Snell said.

A woman associated with the Jeep is also being questioned, Snell said. She was transported to a hospital for treatment of injuries that weren’t believed to be life threatening.

“We believe the victim was involved with the Jeep itself, as a driver or pas-senger, and that there were three people in the Jeep,” Snell said Tuesday.

Ages and hometowns of the two others

involved in the crash were not available, as no arrests have been made. No charges have been fi led, Snell said.

The roadway was closed until about 1:15 a.m. while police gathered evidence from the crash scene. Everett detectives continue to investigate the collision, Snell said.

Linari, of Everett, graduated from Ka-miak High School in 2011.

A candlelight vigil for Linari was held Friday night at the corner of Ocean Av-enue and Mukilteo Boulevard.

A memorial service is set for 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 29 at First Baptist Church, 1616 Pacifi c Ave., Everett.

Kamiak grad dies in collision on Mukilteo BoulevardBY SARA BRUESTLE

MUKILTEOEDITOR@YOURBEACON.NET

It started with a fi re. A fi re ripped through the

kitchen of Linda An-tognini’s home in outside Philadelphia, forever chang-ing her life and her art.

Three years ago, as the Antognini family was preparing to relocate to Mukilteo from the East Coast, the gas stove caught fi re. No one was hurt, but the blaze caused extensive smoke and fi re damage to the home.

During the long process of restoring the home, An-tognini worked closely with local crews. As they worked, Antognini often had music playing, a constant battle between her rock ‘n’ roll and the crew’s hip hop.

One of the crew said one of his favorite songs was Tupac’s “Me Against the World.”

“I hadn’t listened to his music in years, but when I listened to the song, the words resonated with me and I was very emotional,” she said.

As Antognini listened to more of Tupac’s work, she found herself wanting to express what she was feeling, picking up her paintbrush.

“It was so powerful,” she said. “I started listening to random songs and I could just feel something powerful shifting in me.”

Antognini started to think about why Tupac’s music and words, though he died

Mukilteo artist shares her vision of Tupac’s music

BY MEGAN MANAGANREPORTER@YOURBEACON.NET

see TUPAC page 15

Bev Schreiber, a local histo-rian and renowned artist

whose favorite subject to draw was the Mukilteo lighthouse, died of cancer on March 9. She was 65.

Beverly “Bev” Schreiber was born on June 11, 1948, in Rolling Meadows, Ill., near Chicago.

She attended the Chicago Art Institute and the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. She took any and all art classes available while in school, which instilled in her a passion for drawing and painting.

Though she quit school to marry and raise two sons, it did not stop her from becoming an artist. She did and taught cross-stitch for several years, but soon returned to the drawing and painting she loved.

Her subjects of choice were historical buildings – houses, barns, train stations and the like. Above all, her favorite to draw and paint were light-houses. In time, she refi ned her technique into pen and

ink drawings with watercolor washes.

A detail-oriented artist, Sch-reiber would fi rst photograph 90 percent of the buildings she drew, no matter how far away. She considered the travel as one of the perks of her career.

During her lifetime, she visited hundreds of lighthouses all around the world.

“Any time spent on any shore and by any lighthouse is my idea of a great time,” she once said.

The family moved to Washing-ton in 1978.

Widowed and her sons grown, in 1997 Schreiber moved her stu-dio to Connecticut to be closer to many more lighthouses – her new subjects.

In 2006, a longing for family and friends drew her back to Washington, where she settled in Everett.

She was a member of the Mukilteo Historical Society and an active volunteer at her favorite lighthouse – the Mukilteo Light Station – where she shared her knowledge and passion for lighthouses.

“She spent countless hours in Mukilteo on the gift shop and exhibits,” said Nancy Joao, a close friend and member of the Historical Society. “She was on the board for many years, and as anyone will tell you, that re-quires a lot of work. She was a buyer for the gift shop all of the

Renowned artist Bev Schreiber dies at 65BY SARA BRUESTLE

MUKILTEOEDITOR@YOURBEACON.NET

BY SARA BRUESTLEMUKILTEOEDITOR@YOURBEACON.NET

Artist Beverly “Bev” Schreiber passed away on March 9.

see SCHREIBER page 16

A fi re in the fi replace of a Mukilteo home set the chim-

ney ablaze Sunday afternoon.At 12:54 p.m., fi refi ghters were

called to a house on the 8800 block of 46th Place West in Mukilteo for a chimney fi re.

When fi refi ghters arrived, fl ames had climbed about 15 feet above the chase of the chimney, Mukilteo Assistant Fire Chief Brian McMahan said.

The resident was burning wood in the fi replace, which had been lit for about an hour. They were notifi ed of the spreading fi re by a neighbor, McMahan said.

Neighbors called 911. The fi re was upgraded to a house fi re at 12:56 p.m. when a neighbor saw that the wooden chase was burn-ing.

Eighteen fi refi ghters from Mukilteo, Snohomish County Fire District 1 and Everett re-sponded to the scene. The fi re was knocked out by 1:04 p.m., McMahan said.

No residents were displaced in the fi re. No one was injured.

“The fi re was quickly knocked down from the exterior, stopping the spread of the fi re,” McMahan said. “The residents were able to

go right back inside the house.”External damages were esti-

mated at $7,000. The fi re caused no internal damage to the home or the contents.

The cause was determined to be accidental in nature from a fi re in the fi replace igniting creosote in the chimney fl ue, Mukilteo Fire Marshal Jim Thomas said.

“If you burn lots of paper or you burn wood that isn’t really dry, and you don’t clean it, it cre-ates a fi lm that gets stuck in the chimney fl ue over time,” McMa-han said. “The creosote builds up in there like an artery before a heart attack.

“That’s all combustible mate-rial that builds up, and when you have a hot fi re, the heat ignites that inside.”

McMahan recommends that residents have their chimneys cleaned and inspected at least once a year by a qualifi ed profes-sional.

He said that most of the time if you have a chimney fi re, where fl ames climb up to the top of the chimney, you won’t know unless your neighbors tell you.

“Unless you hear it, you don’t know you have a chimney fi re,” McMahan said. “Your neighbors tell you because they see the fl ames coming out the top.”

Chimney fi re damages Mukilteo home

Beacon photo by Megan ManaganMukilteo artist Linda Antognini’s interpretation of Tupac’s ‘Dear Mama’ sits in her living room next to the words to the song. Antognini has done 19 paintings based on songs by the artist.

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18 years ago, continued to be relatable.

“Every life situation you could think of, he sang about,” she said. “In my investigating who he was, my world opened up.”

A life-long artist, Antognini came up with the idea of painting what she felt after listening to one of Tupac’s songs. Her first painting was “Dear Mama,” coupling her painting with the words to the song in 2012.

“When I did the first one, it just kept coming,” she said of the inspiration. To date she has done 19 paintings connected to songs by Tupac.

After completing several paintings, Antognini felt the need to learn more. She said she still wasn’t sure, in the middle of 2012, exactly how everything tied together, but felt the pull to learn.

She attended the Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference in Atlanta that September, hoping to simply learn and talk to people about her burgeoning project.

“People there were very supportive,” she said. “No one questioned me or my authority to be doing this. They were very supportive and encouraging.”

It was here the idea that started with the fire in her kitchen earned the name Project Tupac.

Slowly, as Antognini contin-ued painting and talking about the project, word began to spread.

In 2013, she was invited to do a small show at the African Diaspora World Tourism Awards in Atlanta. The ADWTA is an annual awards benefit that recognizes leaders in field of black culture and heritage as an influence on tourism.

In Atlanta for the benefit, An-tognini showed six paintings, each coupled with the music the piece was inspired by.

“Many of them had to have tissues,” she said. “It was a very moving and powerful experi-ence.”

What began to astound her were the connections she made with others based on one man’s music, such as Vadim Novo.

One afternoon, Antognini, her husband and several friends sat in Arnie’s, when Novo came in, wearing headphones. Naturally curious, Antognini summoned the stranger over to their table and asked what he was listening to and if he ever listened to Tupac.

As chance would have it,

Novo, who is originally from Russia, did know Tupac, and had his own deep connection with the music.

“When I was a kid, I listened to him,” said Novo. “I had a pretty emotional connection to his music. My cousin listened to him, we were very close, and he always listened to Tupac. He died. It was interesting because even though I hadn’t listened to it in years, it could still cause a reaction.”

When Antognini invited Novo to her house to see her paintings, he felt the pull to be involved.

“When I saw her paintings, I thought that it was brilliant, putting together the music and art,” he said. “I loved how she could amalgamate the two very powerful experiences together. It was eye opening that some-thing like this doesn’t exist. I wanted to be a part of it.”

Antognini has now started the Friends of Project Tupac, which brings together people like Novo interested in the project and expanding its reach.

“We’re continuing to work toward what’s next and grow,” she said. “Person after person are telling me how much what I’m doing is affecting them, but they are affecting me.”

Antognini and Novo said they would like to make the group a non-profit to help build the project.

“In the future, our goal is to get a group going so we can work with UW, maybe as visiting professors, and go to other states for presentations,” said Novo.

Antognini has also been volunteering at Cocoon House, something she’s started recently, helping kids learn to paint.

“I’m volunteering twice a month, doing a two-hour paint-ing session,” she said. “We’re just there to paint.”

Becoming a non-profit would help Antognini raise money for painting supplies used during those sessions, as she currently pays for everything her self.

Though Antognini has no plans to sell any of the Project Tupac paintings, she would like to work toward hosting local events and shows so people can see the work.

“There are so many places in the states that want to be able to see it,” she said. “As interest grows, I’d like to grow with it.”

To learn more about Project Tupac and Antognini, visit her website www.dirtybrushdes-gins.com.

from TUPAC page 1

The Sno-Isle Libraries is seeking to fill two positions on the Mukilteo Library Advisory Board. Board members advise the regional Sno-Isle Libraries Board of Trustees.

One position is for a three-year term, beginning in June. The second position is to fill an unex-pired term ending in December.

Qualified residents must re-side within the Mukilteo School District.

Applications are available at the Mukilteo Library, at 4675 Harbour Pointe Blvd., or online at www.sno-isle.org/mukilteo/board/recruitment.

For questions regarding va-cancies, contact Jane Crawford, managing librarian of Mukilteo Library at 425-493-8202. For ques-tions about the application pro-cess or to request an application packet, contact Penny Holland at 360-651-7122 or 1-877-SNO-ISLE ext. 7122.

Applications must be post-marked by March 27. They may be mailed to Penny Holland, Sno-Isle Libraries, 7312 35th Ave. N.E., Marysville, WA, 98271-7417.

-Edited by Beacon staff

New members sought for Library Advisory Board