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MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 18, 2021 435 Edmonds Daybreakers charter member Jim Blossey presents Lawless with the 2020 Professional of the Year Award. Past Rotary District Governor Mike Montgomery presents the Paul Harris Fellow Award to Jim Lawless as Jim Blossey looks on. Fiancée Jenny Henderson attaches the Paul Harris Award recognition pin to Lawless’s shirt. The couple are planning a July wedding. Lawless (right) pauses for a photo with Edmonds Police Cpl. Aaron Greenmun (center) and past Rotary District Governor Mike Montgomery (left).
It was a double honor for former Edmonds Police Department Acting Chief Jim Lawless as he was named both the 2020 Professional of the Year and the newest Rotary Paul Harris Fellow at a special Tuesday morning meeting of the Edmonds Daybreakers Rotary, the first large meeting to be held at the new Edmonds Waterfront Center.
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Equity, race, policing and social justice: The nationwide debate has come to Edmonds. The city’s search for a new police chief, the Equity and Social Justice Task Force report and an upcoming police department audit have quickly sharpened that debate locally.
Rep. Lillian Ortiz-Self
State Rep. Lillian Ortiz-Self, who represents the 21st District that includes Edmonds, put it this way: “This is probably the safest place I have ever lived.” But, she said, “systemic racism is built into our systems; the system was not made to work for everyone and those outside it struggle to fit in and struggle to succeed.”