The Tulalip Amphitheatre hosted its second annual National Night Out Against Crime Aug. 3, as the Marysville and Tulalip Tribal police departments teamed up with other area law enforcement, emergency response and community organizations.
With the cancellation of this year’s Poochapalooza, the third annual Scrub-a-Mutt fundraiser at the Strawberry Fields Park Aug. 21 is taking up many of that event’s activities, from pet-related merchant booths to “best in show” dog contests.
The dog wash fundraiser, which runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this year, was created to support Old Dog Haven, the Northwest Organization for Animal Help and the Marysville Dog Owners Group.
MARYSVILLE — After more than a decade of traveling, Arlington-raised Brooks Smothers is glad to be back in his old hometown, working as a creative graphic artist for The Marysville Globe and The Arlington Times.
MARYSVILLE — The Summer Jubilee was started more than a decade ago to provide school supplies for children in the community who otherwise would have been unprepared for their first days of school, and the organizers of the event this year will be expanding its locations while getting it “back to basics,” in the words of Stacy Henrichs.
MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Rotary and the Marysville Community Food Bank are teaming up at the Marysville Safeway to promote their community projects Aug. 13-14.
The Safeway plaza at 1258 State Ave. will host Food Bank volunteers and Rotarians from 3-7 p.m. Aug. 13 and from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 14, as they answer questions at information tables at both doors of the Safeway store about the Food Bank’s “Giving Gardens” campaign to receive donations of homegrown surplus produce, as well as about the Rotary’s sales of raffle tickets for a 2010 Camaro donated by Roy Robinson Chevrolet.
Outgoing Marysville Mayor Dennis Kendall was honored by friends, neighbors and colleagues at a dinner at the Cedarcrest Golf Course July 28 and a roast at the Tulalip Resort Casino July 30.
It’s a bit late for a spring cleaning, but Totem Middle School is set to receive a late-summer sprucing-up on Aug. 21.
MARYSVILLE — Katie Edmonds is only 17, but she’s already come close enough to losing someone she loves that she’s willing to do her part for the loved ones of others.
“In 2007, my mom was diagnosed with cancer,” said Edmonds, speaking at the July 28 meeting of the Marysville Rotary. “I was terrified that I was going to lose my mom. We were lucky that it was detected and removed early, and that she’s been cancer-free since.”
MARYSVILLE — Although the Ken Baxter Senior Community Center has only been going for 12 years, its 13th annual senior picnic barbecue kicks off at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 10.
Senior Community Center Coordinator Maryke Burgess explained that the yearly tradition began before the center even existed. Organizers are selling tickets this year for a suggested donation of $3 each until Aug. 5. Seating is limited to the first 300 people aged 55 year or older who purchase tickets, which will not be sold the day of the event.
Arlington’s Lawrence Pederson can attest to the value of the Marysville Goodwill’s computer classes.
The Marysville Goodwill’s Job Training and Education Center will conduct registrations Aug. 2 for its free eight-week session of classes starting on Aug. 9, and Pederson assured prospective students that, if he can learn how to use a computer from the Goodwill’s courses, anyone can.
MARYSVILLE — Long before he became the teacher at Kung Fu 4 Kids in Marysville, Carlton Doup was a kid whose friends were all breakdancers, and he wants to use his role in the community to help out the breakdancers of today.
MARYSVILLE — What hurts Marysville resident Kris Raymond the most about the July 24 theft of her late husband’s chair isn’t the monetary cost, but the loss of something that meant so much to the man she loved.
MARYSVILLE — Although he doesn’t start serving in his new office until Aug. 2, Marysville City Council member Jon Nehring was officially sworn in as the new mayor by outgoing Mayor Dennis Kendall at the July 26 City Council meeting.
The evening proved to be a tribute to Kendall’s time in office, as Council member Jeff Seibert introduced a unanimously approved resolution honoring Kendall for his “distinguished service” to the city of Marysville as its mayor, which city of Marysville Chief Administrative Officer Gloria Hirashima followed by naming Kendall the City Employee of the Month for July of this year.
