The Marysville Care Center invited city officials, care center residents and physical therapists to celebrate the grand opening of its new outpatient therapy gym.
Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring took part in the gym’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 14, which was followed by an open house showcasing the facility’s benefits to the community.
TULALIP — The Boom City Swap Meet will open for business on May 7 and continue on Saturdays and Sundays from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Swap Meet welcomes a variety of vendors, offering goods ranging from antiques and handmade crafts to traditional salmon dinners.
After years of witnessing the aftermath of poor driving decisions, three Arlington Police Officers have decided to try and instill good driving habits into young drivers from the start.
Peter Barrett, Ronnie Johnstone and Seth Kinney plan to open the Marysville branch of the 911 Driving School by this May, but their journey toward their new business began two years ago when Kinney first suggested that they get certified as driving instructors.
TULALIP — “Every legislative session has its own pace,” said Gary Chandler, vice president of government affairs for the Association of Washington Business. “This one hasn’t found theirs yet.”
Chandler told the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce on March 25 that he hopes the 2011 session of the state Legislature will meet their goal of completing a budget draft before Easter, because he doesn’t see the next forecast getting any better than the most recently released one.
“We’re going to be $5.1 billion short in the next biennium,” Chandler told the Chamber during its monthly Business Before Hours meeting. “We told the legislators this was coming. We told them that the housing market was a false economy and that they needed to hang onto that money.”
During his “Eye on Olympia” presentation, Chandler identified the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, as well as U.S. military intervention in Libya, as factors which are already compounding the pre-existing economic recession, by driving oil prices even higher and hindering imports and exports to and from Japan.
John McKeon, CEO of McKeon Financial, has earned a top-20 spot on the top producers list, based on the highest levels of production, with his broker-dealer, Independent Financial Group (IFG). IFG is based in San Diego, CA and has approximately 430 representatives. McKeon has achieved the top producers list two years running.
MARYSVILLE — Rick Haverty wishes he’d discovered Dunn Lumber sooner.
“I came by here to finish a project a while ago,” Haverty said to Dunn Lumber employee Chad Burke on March 18, as he browsed through the store’s stock while he still could. “You guys sold me on your service. You checked the boards that I bought before I left with them. At other stores, you just get what they give you. I had to buy more at those stores just to make sure I’d have enough.”
After March 31, Haverty will no longer be able to continue his now-habitual visits to Dunn Lumber, because by then, the staff and inventory of its Marysville branch are set to be relocated to Mill Creek, marking the end of the store’s 44 years on Grove Street in Marysville.
“We’ll be sharing that property with Parker Lumber,” said Mike Dunn, president of Dunn Lumber. “Frankly, we’ve been losing money here the last few years. The total level of business in this area hasn’t been enough to sustain us, and the economy has only exacerbated that.”
MARYSVILLE — E-Waste’s first electronics recycling collection drive in Marysville went so well that both the Lynnwood company and the Marysville company that hosted it expressed the desire to team up again.
“We’re been doing these ‘e-cycles’ throughout Snohomish County and Seattle for the past three years, but never before in Marysville,” said Craig Randall, a consultant on environmental issues for the Lynnwood-based E-Waste, as he segregated different types of old, broken or used electronics into different stacks outside of Marysville’s Pacific Power Batteries on March 12. “We hope to do it again soon.”
“It gives us a chance to help offer a good service from a good company,” agreed Chris Canavan, a battery salesman for Pacific Power Batteries at 720 Cedar Ave.
MARYSVILLE — The Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce will soon begin its 2011 Board nomination process.
Business owners and leaders interested in serving on the Chamber’s Board of Directors should apply to the Chamber no later than March 14.
What’s left Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring most impressed about Play It Again Sports’ newly opened branch in Marysville is its hockey equipment.
MARYSVILLE — Covey’s Auto Parts in Marysville is giving Isuzu and Suzuki owners a chance to refurbish their automobiles while supporting those in need in the community at the same time.
MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Goodwill Job Training and Education Center, located at 9315 State Ave., will register people from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 13-15 for free classes in the eight-week session that runs from Jan. 4 through Feb. 24 of next year.
With the first snowfall of the winter comes many motorists’ first concerns about making their vehicles better prepared to drive in ice and snow, and area tire centers have seen their business boom as a result.
A Nov. 22 fire at the 9500 block of State Avenue in Marysville appears to be bringing two of that building’s businesses closer together.
