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Lake Stevens gets a casino - 2004-01-09
When construction workers began erecting a new building near his condominium last year, Bob Atkinson hoped it would be a new family restaurant.

His curiosity about what will be opening there increased as the project progressed. Then, recently,
a new sign was put up on the side of the structure, declaring the new arrival of a minicasino.

The Highway 9 Casino, which is scheduled to open in about a month just south of Frontier Village, is the first such business on the east side of the U.S. 2 trestle.

Randy Williams, general manager and part-owner of the new casino, said he thinks there's an untapped market in Lake Stevens and surrounding areas. Those residents wanting to play blackjack or poker have had to travel across the Hewitt Avenue into Everett to find the nearest minicasino.
Read the full story at Everett Herald

The illustrating men - 2004-01-09
In May of 1980, "Fat Joe" Scapini established Jade Dragon Master Tattooing behind a single storefront on West Belmont. Since then, his idea has become tremendously successful, world-renowned, and -- with 22 staffers, 14 work stations and a significantly expanded floorplan that encompasses 3,300 square feet -- bigger than he ever imagined.

On a recent afternoon, Fat Joe, indeed quite a beefy chap as his supremely confident nickname connotes, sat poker-faced and largely motionless before his billion-gigabyte computer on whose high-def, 21.5-inch, flat-panel monitor he designs Jade's print promotions (including an unmissable Yellow Pages behemoth). Nearby, Cindy Scapini, his wife, made phone calls, conversed with employees and chatted up a slow trickle of visitors.
Read the full story at Chicago Sun Times