May 23, 2007
It is with much gratitude and excitement that I write this letter, thanking the Arlington School Board, Arlington Education Foundation and especially the Arts Alive! Committee for their dedication, perseverance, hard work and countless hours given toward making the Linda M. Byrnes Performing Arts Center a reality.
Happy Holidays, Winter Celebration and Spirit of the Holidays giving programs are politically correct sayings for corporations, governments, civic organizations and schools attempting to eliminate the words, Merry Christmas. The organizations painfully strive to be so inclusive, yet, they are taking away from the actual reason for the celebration and holiday, Christmas.
The Marysville Strawberry Festival would like to thank the Marysville Parks Department for the great job they did on the Merrysville for the Holidays parade. We would especially like to thank the hearty souls that came out to watch the parade. We were astounded at the amount of people that attended the parade. With the cold and snow and sleet that we experienced during the time we were waiting for the parade to start, we expected only a few people along the route.
I support Dennis Kucinich for President because he is the only candidate in either party with a plan for universal, single-payer, not-for-profit health care that will protect all Americans. And it will be cheaper and better than the crazy system weve got today.
I am absolutely thrilled with the Marysville Globe and Arlington Times taking the progressive step of delivering their excellent newspapers free to our community. I am a long-time Marysville resident, mother, grandmother, public school teacher and community activist and have long appreciated the excellent news coverage of the papers as well as their dedication to community building. I was gratified to read Bob Graefs excellent and tolerant piece on the Ruckus over Illegal Immigrants and was so excited that it would be read by many more people because of this bold move for free subscriptions by our home-town newspapers.
A public media article of 11/29/07 started with the quotation U.S. fourth graders have lost ground in reading ability compared with kids around the world Let this be the epitath to the political careers of public school educrats and school board members.
As a staff member at Archbishop Murphy High School, I feel compelled to respond to three claims in a recent sports opinion article (Football Karma? Nov. 28).
Punitive laws often remain on the books long after their usefulness. The 3-Strikes laws are a case in point if, in fact, they were ever useful. Some 22 states that had adopted them have since changed them when they realized the injustices and the extreme expense connected to them.
Our Arlington Library gives us access to large collections of books, newspapers, magazines, movies and music. It hosts book clubs, performances and art, all for our education and entertainment and all free to use. We have important reasons to support funding a new library.
As a child growing up in Seattle I was always fascinated by the downtown library on Fourth Avenue. Even though I did not check anything out, I enjoyed wandering through and just looking at all of the books on the shelves.
Three members of the Snohomish County Council took a very difficult stand this week and tried to institute a moratorium on Fully Contained Communities, Brian Sullivan, Dave Somers and Mike Cooper.
I strongly support the Arlington Library bond and ask all concerned citizens to do so.
