Kaitlyn Toomey and her mom, Candy, became homeless when Kaitlyn was in the sixth grade.
“Technically, I still am,” said Kaitlyn, now 14, who’s living in Arlington. “I still wanted to help out other kids.”
Coach Shelly Johnson expects the best from the Marysville-Pilchuck High School volleyball team this year due to their track record, training and years of experience.
MARYSVILLE — Last year’s Scrub-a-Mutt fundraiser at the Strawberry Fields Park washed a total of 77 dogs for various animal charities.
This year, the third annual event took up many of the activities from this year’s cancelled Poochapalooza and washed more than 260 dogs Aug. 21, collecting more than $4,000 that day alone.
MARYSVILLE — For many people, living in the same town for more than 60 years means you were probably born there.
For Verna Gibson, her years in Marysville add up to barely more than half her life.
Gibson celebrates her 100th birthday Sept. 1, and while her friends and neighbors help her with food shopping and other errands, she’s lived on her own in the same apartment for the past 15 years.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville’s Katherine Whitmore created her recently released first novel, “Rhythm of Redemption,” during a dark time in her life.
MARYSVILLE — Like many area business owners, Mark Badgley feels like he’s at the end of his rope.
Badgley has already overcome significant obstacles in his life, but the owner of Snoopits on State Avenue feels especially tested now.
Badgley started Snoopits, a thrift store that started a campaign to supply diapers to the Marysville and Arlington food banks, because he wanted to give back to the community.
MARYSVILLE — Ken Cage wants people to bury the “u” that many try to put in Asbery Field.
Search for Marysville’s Asbery Field online, and you might find sites listing it as “Asbury Field.”
Cage, the president of the Marysville Historical Society, wants Marysville residents to know from which family the field just south of Totem Middle School got its name.
MARYSVILLE — The Coca-Cola workers strike in western Washington has hit Marysville as well, which is one of the six strike locations where approximately 500 Coca-Cola employees went on strike at 5 p.m. Aug. 23.
Teamsters Local 38 represents 37 of those striking workers, who were picketing the Marysville Coca-Cola facility in shifts starting Aug. 24. Local 38 workers were joined by members of Teamsters Local 117, based out of Tukwila.
MARYSVILLE — “Kloz 4 Kidz” opened in the portable building behind the Marysville United Methodist Church on Aug. 18, 2008, and on Aug. 28 of this year the non-profit organization will be commemorating its two-year anniversary with a garage sale fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the church, located at 5600 64th St. NE.
This year’s Summer Jubilee ran from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 21 at three different Marysville schools, and by about the halfway mark of the event, those distribution sites were already starting to run out of school supplies.
At the age of 84, Tulalip Tribal elder Stan Jones Sr. got to see close to 200 Tribal children doing something on Aug. 19 that he was forbidden from doing during his entire childhood — learning the Lushootseed language.
The Battle of Nations Stick Game Tournament drew 177 teams, for an estimated 1,500 attendees, to the Tulalip Amphitheatre Aug. 20-22, as even event organizers expressed amazement at the turnout.
When asked how many Native American tribes might be represented, event organizer and Colville Tribal member Rusty Farmer laughed and said, “Your guess is as good as mine, so good luck. It’s four times the size of any other event like this.”
The parking lot of O’Reilly Auto Parts at the intersection of Fourth Street and State Avenue became a bustling car wash Aug. 21, as the chief petty officer selectees of the USS Abraham Lincoln scrubbed down vehicles to raise money for their ship’s chief’s mess.
