“I think we’re going to be better on the first day of this season than we were at the end of last season,” said Arlington girls soccer coach Nathan Davis, with a week of practices in the books.
For a team that graduated four all-league players last year, Marysville volleyball has a lot to be happy about.
It’s been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the U.S. First, NASA had to correct its earlier claim that the hottest year on record in the contiguous U.S. had been 1998, which seemed to prove that global warming was on the march. It was actually 1934. Then it turned out the world’s oceans have been growing steadily cooler, not hotter, since 2003. Meanwhile, the winter of 2007 was the coldest in the U.S. in decades, after Al Gore warned us that we were about to see the end of winter as we know it.
The parking lot was jammed, every computer station was taken. Only at one table was there room for my stuff. That wasn’t unusual at Marysville’s public library where a high-decibel toddler was testing his lungs while momma checked out a small mountain of kiddy-literature. Good for her. I’m sure she was hoping her child wouldn’t scream and listen to stories at the same time.
Repeat after me: September is late summer, late summer, late summer. The soil is still warm, the nights are cool and the plants are programmed to put down roots. From a horticultural perspective, this is a perfect time to plant. It’s like a mini-spring to the plants. Some rhodies actually re-bloom in late summer and many hedge plants put on another flush of growth. Even the lawn starts to grow again and look green for a change. The plants are excited about the season and you should be, too. There’s lots of great stuff to plant and lots of reasons to be optimistic. So forget any of this fall nonsense, it’s just late summer.
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ARLINGTON — According to the play, what one uses to fly is fairy dust.
MARYSVILLE — With one of the biggest Hawaiian transplant populations in the country, the Seattle area has a plethora of traditional activities to engage active types in the island culture.
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4:57 p.m.: Graffiti Reported on the 500 block of State Avenue.
• The Marysville Police Department needs volunteers to help fight crime in its Marysville Volunteer Program. Volunteers get First Aid and CPR training and learn how to use the police radio. Volunteers must pass a background check, get fingerprinted and be able to physically perform the duties as required. Call the Marysville Police office 360-363-8325, leave a message if no one is there or email msac@marysillewa.gov or visit www.ci.marysville.wa.us to download an application.
Air Force Cadet Joshua J. Clifford has graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The graduate received a bachelor of science degree and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
