As the 164 members of the Lakewood High School Class of 2011 assembled forthe last time before becoming graduates on June 13, they received a three-part series of helpful tips for the future from their peers.
In spite of gray skies and occasional rain, the final weekend of this year’s Marysville Strawberry Festival still drew crowds who were ready to get into the spirit of the annual event even though more than a few felt let down by the cancellation of the Adult Trike Races due to a lack of participants on June 17.
In keeping with this year’s theme of “Berrywood,” the 2011 Marysville Strawberry Festival Fashion Show employed local luminaries as models for its outfits. According to Maryfest Vice President Elect Bobbi Young, the June 14 Fashion Show’s lineup of local celebrities drew an estimated 260 attendees to its annual location at Leifer Manor.
The Marysville Strawberry Festival Talent Show struggled to contain 30 performing acts on a single stage. The Marysville-Pilchuck High School auditorium hosted more than two hours of competition that kicked off at 6:30 p.m. on June 16.
The players that took to the Marysville-Pilchuck High School football field on June 17 were a bit older and less practiced than the usual teams, but they took the game seriously enough to impress their coaches, and they helped raise money for the regular players.
MARYSVILLE — Lisa Sledge’s family reported her as a missing person on Dec. 12, 1997, and at 10:30 p.m. on June 17 and 18, “Washington’s Most Wanted” on Q13 will be covering her case.
MARYSVILLE — Local families looking to adopt healthier lifestyles were able to learn and stay active in the summer sun without even a cloud in the sky this year.
The annual Healthy Communities Challenge Day returned to the fields of Allen Creek Elementary on June 10, drawing an estimated 3,000 attendees and registering 764 people for the Get Movin’ summer fitness incentive program. City of Marysville Recreation Coordinator Andrea Kingsford noted that this was about the same size as last year’s crowd, and that they were able to visit close to 75 exhibitors on site this year.
MARYSVILLE — As he neared his own retirement as pastor of the Marysville United Methodist Church, Dr. Tom Albright repeated a refrain to the nine Marysville students that he’s told several graduating seniors this year.
“You’re approaching not only your graduation, but your commencement,” Albright told the nine recipients of scholarships from Soroptimist International of Marysville and the Marysville Kiwanis Club on June 7. “This is not an ending, but a beginning.”
What’s become an online business started out when Marysville’s Tara Bruley realized that she could use a special sort of support as the mom to a teenage girl.
As so many Sunday services are, it was a day of reflection, celebration, laughter and remembrance for the congregation of the Marysville United Methodist Church.
What made June 12 different from any other Sunday service at the church for the past 11 years was that it would be Dr. Tom Albright’s last one as pastor.
Arlington and Lakewood high school teachers worked up a sweat to raise funds for some charitable causes.
At AHS, it was called the “Murrathon” in honor of coach Jon Murray, while at LHS, it was called the “Marathon Powered by Sowards,” in honor of coach Jeff Sowards, but in both cases, the two teachers ran the distance of a marathon on treadmills at their respective schools on the morning of June 3.
“This will be the first, last and only graduation of this type,” Marysville-Pilchuck High School Principal Andrew Frost said to the graduating class of 2011.
This year marked Laura Fletcher’s third as a pen pal to an English Language Learner student, and she’s still learning as much as her student pen pals are from the experience.
