MARYSVILLE — On the morning of July 28, Dell Deierling arrived at the Marysville Community Food Bank to find that supplies had been stolen from its storage shed.
On the morning of Aug. 8, Deierling arrived at the food bank to find a message from the local Home Depot on his phone.
Quanah Blaine, manager of the Quil Ceda Village Home Depot, had called Deierling, director of the Marysville Community Food Bank, offering to replace the lawnmower, leaf-blower and two cans of gasoline that were stolen from the food bank’s storage shed, which a neighbor reported was open on July 27.
“Quanah told me to come on by that same day,” Deierling said. “It was like a shopping spree. I got a really nice Honda lawnmower, Toro leaf-blower and two new containers for gasoline, plus a better, more durable, more secure door hasp and lock, to replace the padlock that went missing from our door.”

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MARYSVILLE — When Dell Deierling arrived at the Marysville Community Food Bank on the morning of Thursday, July 28, he found a Marysville police officer’s card on the door.
That was how he found out that a lawnmower, a leaf-blower and two cans of gasoline had been stolen from the food bank’s storage shed.

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It was a great day for a car show, especially one supporting the Susan G. Komen “3 Day for the Cure” breast cancer research fundraising walk this fall.

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MARYSVILLE — With the deadline to mail in primary ballots on Aug. 16, The Marysville Globe asked the four candidates for the Marysville School District Board Director 3 race two questions. The following are their answers. Darci Becker and Rod Rieger did not submit responses.

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MARYSVILLE — Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna wanted the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce to know that he’s touted their communities as a success story to other state organizations, even as he acknowledged that the state government needs to step up parts of its service to citizens of Marysville, Tulalip and beyond.
McKenna opened his remarks at the Chamber’s July 29 Business Before Hours by describing Silicon Energy, which he visited with city of Marysville officials on May 11, as one of the companies that “wants to be in Marysville,” due to the city’s business-friendly climate. He likewise praised the Marysville Arts & Technology High School as an example of the “innovation in education” that he sees being done by the Marysville School District.

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TULALIP — The Tulalip Boys & Girls Club was hopping with activity on July 22 as more than two dozen area kids were on their feet even more than their often stubborn warty partners during the Club’s ninth annual Bullfrog Jumping Contest in its gymnasium.

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Chelsea Scott has had to paint over graffiti in her own neighborhood before, but July 23 marked the first time she was able to do so alongside sailors, city of Marysville staff members and police officers. Scott will be entering the U.S. Navy as a seaman, and she was one of nearly 20 volunteers from Navy Recruiting District Seattle to join roughly 30 city employees and their families in grabbing paint brushes and rollers for the city’s first “Graffiti Paint-Out” that morning.

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Automobile and motorcycle enthusiasts didn’t let the weekend downpour stop them from supporting the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. Sound Harley-Davidson drew an estimated 14 entrants for its July 16 bike show and 26 entrants for its July 17 car show, both of which raised funds for NMCRS.

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