Mayor Jon Nehring has announced Doug and Leslie Buell as community Volunteers of the Month in July for their work maintaining and improving Strawberry Fields for Rover Off-Leash Park and their popular annual Poochapalooza outdoor dog event that raises money for park improvements.
United Way of Snohomish County is taking its mission on the road, partnering with Sno-Isle Libraries to listen to people in communities throughout the county and share news of United Way’s new 10-year goals to advance the common good.
Three of the region’s top watercraft riders pulled four World-Famous Suicide Race competitors to shore Thursday night, Aug. 11, plucking them from the fast-moving Okanogan River.
Seventeen people died in Snohomish County in driving under the influence crashes last year. In an effort to save lives, extra officers from a variety of law enforcement agencies, including Marysville and Arlington, will be looking for DUI drivers between Aug. 19 and Sept. 5 during the annual Drive Hammered, Get Nailed campaign.
Michael Lewis of the Marysville Fire District has completed the UW/Harborview Medical Center Paramedic Training Program, along with 14 other paramedic students from around the Puget Sound region.
SMOKEY POINT — With a few shovels of turned earth, the goal of an I-5 over-crossing at 156th Street came one step closer to reality on Aug. 11.
“By next year we should be able to traipse over it for the first time,” said Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring, who was joined at the official groundbreaking ceremony at 156th Street NE and Smokey Point Boulevard by members of the Marysville City Council and city staff, as well as guests such as former Marysville Mayor Dennis Kendall and representatives for U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen.
Nehring recalled how the City Council had approved a construction bid of approximately $9.7 million by Renton-based Guy F. Atkinson Construction in June, as well as how Larsen had visited the planned construction site in February with city staff, including Marysville City Engineer John Cowling.
By connecting Smokey Point Boulevard to Twin Lakes Avenue across I-5, Nehring hopes not only to improve public safety and emergency response times, but also to ease traffic congestion on 172nd Street NE and provide another access point to attract as many as 10,000 light industrial and manufacturing jobs in north Marysville.
Due to high fire danger and expected hot and dry weather conditions, a modified outdoor burning ban for unincorporated areas of Snohomish County is now in effect.This restriction bans outdoor burning except for recreational fires. All outdoor burn permits, including permits issued by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency for agricultural burning, are suspended until this ban is lifted.
Marysville firefighter Ray Hancock was diagnosed more than a year ago with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as “Lou Gehrig’s disease,” but he hasn’t given up hope yet, and neither have his friends and fellow firefighters.
Marysville Police Lt. Jeff Goldman found himself suiting up some aspiring officers who were much younger than even the freshest recruits out of the academy. “When I’m not wearing it, I weigh about 195 pounds,” Goldman said, as he slid a bulletproof vest onto Matthew Bailey, helping the 7-year-old get his head and arms through the right holes. “When I put it on, my weight goes up to about 223 pounds.”
Monica “Mo” Olason was recently named a city of Marysville “Volunteer of the Month” for coordinating this year’s Marysville-Tulalip “Relay for Life” for the American Cancer Society.
MARYSVILLE — On the morning of July 28, Dell Deierling arrived at the Marysville Community Food Bank to find that supplies had been stolen from its storage shed.
On the morning of Aug. 8, Deierling arrived at the food bank to find a message from the local Home Depot on his phone.
Quanah Blaine, manager of the Quil Ceda Village Home Depot, had called Deierling, director of the Marysville Community Food Bank, offering to replace the lawnmower, leaf-blower and two cans of gasoline that were stolen from the food bank’s storage shed, which a neighbor reported was open on July 27.
“Quanah told me to come on by that same day,” Deierling said. “It was like a shopping spree. I got a really nice Honda lawnmower, Toro leaf-blower and two new containers for gasoline, plus a better, more durable, more secure door hasp and lock, to replace the padlock that went missing from our door.”
MARYSVILLE — When Dell Deierling arrived at the Marysville Community Food Bank on the morning of Thursday, July 28, he found a Marysville police officer’s card on the door.
That was how he found out that a lawnmower, a leaf-blower and two cans of gasoline had been stolen from the food bank’s storage shed.
MARYSVILLE — After writing a letter to JPMorgan Chase Bank, whose Marysville branch was the site of a protest by “OUR Marysville” and Working Washington on June 24, asking them to fund the Marysville School District for $5 million, Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring is continuing to work with OUR Marysville to encourage Chase Bank to support school programs due to be cut in Marysville.
On Aug. 9 at 2 p.m., Nehring and OUR Marysville will be meeting at Comeford Park to call on Chase again to support the struggling schools of Marysville.
