Indians in the Pacific Northwest feel a new era of respect and collaboration is here, and we’re ready to get to work with the new administration.
Imagine a family walk through an interesting area you’ve never been, your goal a box of hidden treasure. Your route is directed by the GPS in your hand. Your kids are bursting with excitement as they eagerly run ahead, thrilled by the prospect of finding a treasure first. As you near the treasure, the GPS gives an upbeat sound announcing your arrival at the search zone. After searching around the underbrush, you unearth the treasure.
In 2001, the Seattle Mariners tied the major league record for most regular season wins with 116. They did it with what manager Lou Pinella called “small ball.”
Hola fellow gardeners. I have just returned from a three week trip to Costa Rica where I labored day after day exploring local nurseries and gardens with an occasional trip to the white sand beaches and local restaurants. Or was it day after day to the beaches and restaurants and an occasional trip to a nursery? Ah, what’s the difference? What’s important is that I spent three weeks somewhere other than here where it was still the dead of winter with cold, foggy days and even colder nights. I am thinking I might have to do this again next year, just to keep myself current with tropical foliage trends of course.
Everyone knows that laughter is good.
But it took a yoga practitioner in India, Madan Kataria, to develop the international Laughter Club to make use of that fact for the benefit of health.
An Arlington area counselor who has done social work and massage in the past, Betsy Wright Loving recently decided that counseling is her true calling and she leads a new Laughter Club in Arlington for free.
Her counseling service is based at Points and Pathways Clinic in Smokey Point, but the free Laughter Club is held at the Mirkwood and Shire Cafe, on Division Street at the north end of North Olympic Avenue at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesdays.
Loving has led introductions to laughter therapy for private groups including a group of 60 at a special event at the Stillaguamish Senior Center once.
EVERETT — Woodland owners from around the Puget Sound region are invited to attend a nine-week course on forest stewardship starting Feb. 24 at the WSU Snohomish County Extension Cougar Auditorium in McCollum Park, 600 128th St SE, Everett.
The Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society and the Marysville Historical Society were two of four organizations nominated for the 2008 Malstrom Award, but they lost to a collaborative project of the Stanwood Area Historical Society and Stanwood Public Library, “Setting the Stage for ‘The Last Town on Earth’ Panel Discussion Program.”
The winners of the region’s 2009 Scholastic Art Awards have been announced by the Arts Council of Snohomish County and several Arlington and Marysville students have won Gold and Silver Key awards.
• Arlington Garden Club members Carol and Leroy Jacques will present a slide show on their trip to gardens in Italy at the next Turn Your Thumb Green workshop, 10 – 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 14 at the Arlington Boys & Girls Club, 18513 59th Ave. NE, in Arlington For information see the Web site at www.arlingtongardenclub.org send an email to events@arlingtongardenclub.org or call Judy Ness at 360-403-0820.
Citizen Faculty
MARYSVILLE — They left the evening of Jan. 17 and were back home by Jan. 25, but for the students, staff and parents of Totem Middle School, their week-long trip will remain one of the most memorable moments of their lives.
MARYSVILLE — The district wrestling tournament didn’t hold a lot of surprises for the Tomahawk wrestling team.
While a Feb. 5 apartment fire only resulted in smoke damage and one displaced resident, a Feb. 7 mobile home fire was followed by the death of that structure’s resident.
