The 2010 Marysville Strawberry Festival April Friesner Memorial Royalty Scholarship Pageant was packed with so many candidates that only six of the 14 Junior Royalty candidates appeared in the speeches and talent portions of the program, which still left those finalists and nine Senior Royalty candidates sharing the stage of the Marysville-Pilchuck High School auditorium March 20.
Four communities came together March 20 to honor the service of America’s military members in a unique ceremony started by an area service member who was home on leave for a couple of weeks.
The Red Caboose at the corner of Cedar Avenue and Fourth Street, which sustained significant damage from a fire July 19 of last year, left the landscape of Marysville March 22.
Marysville Fire District crews were dispatched March to respond to a report of a 3-year-old boy who fell from a second story window, in the 6300 block of 73rd Place NE, just before noon March 23. Paramedics transported the child with serious injuries.
SEATTLE – On Thursday, March 18, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) presented the Ruth Green Award to Christine R. Charbonneau, President/CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest (PPGNW). The award is given to a Planned Parenthood affiliate chief executive chosen by her or his peers for outstanding leadership with board volunteers in planning, public affairs, and fundraising. It is one of the highest honors given to Planned Parenthood Affiliate CEOs for their work in carrying out the mission of Planned Parenthood. The award was presented at PPFA’s National Conference Gala held in metropolitan Washington, DC, and celebrated by over 1,000 Planned Parenthood leaders who work every day to improve the health and lives of women across the nation.
“Chris Charbonneau is a true visionary among health care providers,” said PPFA President Cecile Richards. “Whether she is leading a merger or creating a business model to ensure low-cost contraceptives for hundreds of thousands American women, Chris has an uncanny ability to innovate and create stability for her organization at the same time. Chris’s leadership has been instrumental in putting Planned Parenthood in a better position to deliver more health care to more people in more places.”
The Ruth Green Award was established in 1981 to honor a remarkable and talented CEO who has served Planned Parenthood as a volunteer, an executive director and as an ambassador-at-large for the mission of Planned Parenthood. “Chris Charbonneau is richly deserving of this award and the recognition for a career, and a life, that is committed to the mission of Planned Parenthood,” said Han Nachtrieb, PPGNW Board Chair. “Through her vision, PPGNW is launching a project to serve patients online, implementing electronic medical records, and broadening access to contraception for low income women.”
“Many of the successes mentioned are the cumulative efforts of many, if not thousands of people, all working to the same end. This award honors my 500 employees, and nearly 1000 volunteers who actually do all of the work that we dream up for them to do!” said Charbonneau. “I could not ask for a better team on the ground. As well, our PPGNW Board members are the most astute, risk-taking, nimble people and I am incredibly grateful for their partnership. For the millions of women we all see, the people in the clinics or the classrooms or on the phone ARE Planned Parenthood, not the CEO of an affiliate.”
Chris Charbonneau has been a CEO for Planned Parenthood affiliates for twenty-three years. She began as a volunteer in Seattle in 1982 as a sexuality educator and public policy volunteer. Chris started PP of Greater Arkansas in 1986. She left Arkansas in 1988 and returned to PP of Seattle-King County as COO, directing its 12 health centers.
The Lakewood School District is seeking a new Board member. The district announced Monday, March 22, that Jill Leonard has submitted her letter of resignation from her position on the Lakewood Board of Directors, effective May 19.
Murder and robbery suspect James Fryberg was ordered held on $2 million bail March 16.
Don “Penoke” Hatch Jr. and Mark Hatch were elected as two of the seven members of the Tulalip Tribal Board of Directors March 13, after polling at the Tulalip Resort and 983 votes cast by Tulalip Tribal membership.
The parent corporation that operates Frontier Bank announced Tuesday that it is “critically undercapitalized,” meaning that government regulators could take control of the if it can’t fix the situation within 90 days.
Anyone interested in the salmon and water quality of Quilceda Creek is invited to attend a March 25 Quilceda Watershed Forum at the Marysville School District Service Center.
The Board Room will host the event, which is set to start at 7 p.m. and allow both Quilceda Creek watershed residents and members of the Adopt-A-Stream Foundation to reflect on recent stream restoration efforts.
The third-annual Senior Legacy Auction offered attendees an opportunity to get a hands-on look at one of the learning tools for which funds were being raised.
When Mary Swenson started working for the city of Marysville in September of 1977, the Marysville City Hall and Council Chambers occupied one corner of what’s now the Ken Baxter Senior Community Center, along with the local library and the police department’s offices, dispatch center and jail.
An estimated 50 Marysville Rotarians descended upon the elementary schools of Marysville and Lakewood March 5, bearing hard-bound gifts that they hope will keep on giving the gift of knowledge.