After 30 years working for the United States Postal Service, John Vistaunet settled on five acres in Marysville to resume a long-neglected art career.
FEDERAL WAY — Marysville swimming standout Trevor LeValley already knew what it was like to win a state event.
Marysville’s Father Daughter Dance on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 21 at Cedarcrest Junior High, 6400 88th St. NE at 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm. is sold out with an extensive waiting list. The first two dances on Feb. 7 were also sold out.
Ed Littlefield Jr. was born to play the pedal steel guitar. He knows how to play the banjo, the mandolin, the guitar, and bagpipes, to boot, but he loves the pedal steel guitar best.
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.
While flying 3,000 miles east, enduring the cold East Coast winter and being packed amongst 1.8 million Americans might sound like a turn-off to some, millions jumped at the opportunity to experience history — the inauguration of our first black president.
Marysville Community Playhouse Association has announced a new play-reading group will meet 7 – 9 p.m., on the first and third Thursdays of each month starting Feb. 5 at Marysville’s United Methodist Church, 5600 64th St. N.E. to read aloud and discuss comedy, drama, farce and other genres of theater. The first play featured will be a comedy by Sam Bobrick called “Getting Sarah Married.” Scripts will be provided and meetings are free. Local playwrights are encouraged to bring their work for the group to read. Experienced actors are also encouraged, as well as those with a secret dream of acting, or any theater lovers in general. For more information, call Karen Davis at 425-238-5109 or Kelly McClain at 360-653-3402.
