MARYSVILLE — Gloria Kymn stepped in as the new pastor of the Marysville United Methodist Church after Tom Albright stepped down this June, but she’s been serving as a pastor since she was still attending school during the 1990s.
Kymn was accustomed to city living, so she wasn’t sure at first how she might handle her new hometown, but as far as she’s concerned now, she needn’t have worried.
“It’s been a match made in Heaven for me,” Kymn said. “I’m loving it. Marysville has the charming feel of a small town, with its caring and hospitality. I’m the first ethnic woman pastor at this church, but they’ve just welcomed me into their lives. That says a lot about both the congregation and the community.”

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ARLINGTON — Open Door Theatre, a local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is staging a garage sale starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, in the parking lot of Pioneer Elementary in Arlington, located at 8213 Eaglefield Dr., just west of Highway 9, at the entrance to the Gleneagle housing development. The semi-annual homeowners association garage sale at Gleneagle will be underway on that same day.

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MARYSVILLE — Last year, close to 250 volunteers spruced up Jennings Park as part of the National Day of Service and Remembrance.
This year’s Day of Service for Marysville will take place on Sept. 17 at the Doleshel Tree Farm Park, located at 9002 67th Ave. NE.
Christina Foley, media relations specialist for the Marysville Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explained that the church is sponsoring the project, which starts at 9 a.m. She asked that volunteers show up at 8:45 a.m. for sign-in registration and to pose for a group photo, and added that Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring planned to attend.

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Minutes after its official ribbon-cutting ceremony, area youths were already making themselves at home in the Marysville YMCA’s new Youth Development Center. The 3,400-square-foot building that once served as the home for the Marysville Community Food Bank now houses program space for the “ACT!” — “Actively Changing Together” — youth obesity program and the “Exercise and Thrive” cancer survivorship program, but on Aug. 31, it was the Youth Development Center’s computer lab and teen recreation features that attracted the most attention from its young patrons.

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The Marysville Library’s summer reading program for this year wrapped up in a grand fashion for 10-year-old Luis Lopez. Lopez, who went back to school at Cascade Elementary on Sept. 6, received a cookie “the size of his head” and a life-sized poster of him holding his favorite book on Aug. 20 from Kathy Smargiassi, the children’s librarian at the Marysville Library.

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MARYSVILLE — It was a day of firsts in many ways for many Marysville parents.
The first day of the 2011-12 school year for the Marysville School District also marked the first year that the students of Tulalip Elementary went to the Quil Ceda Elementary school building.

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SMOKEY POINT — On Sept. 2 at approximately 10:10 a.m., Arlington Police responded to the Whidbey Island Bank branch located in the 4200 block of 172nd Street NE for the report of a robbery that had just occurred.
A suspect entered the bank presenting a robbery note that implied he was armed with a firearm. The suspect then fled the area on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Witnesses described the suspect as a heavyset white man between 25-30 years of age, standing approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall and wearing small silver-framed reading-type glasses, a light blue windbreaker, khaki pants and a light-colored baseball cap.

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