This year marked Laura Fletcher’s third as a pen pal to an English Language Learner student, and she’s still learning as much as her student pen pals are from the experience.
The Marysville Rotary Education Foundation awarded $52,000 in scholarships to 41 students from the Marysville and Lakewood school districts during their 2011 Scholarship Awards Ceremony.
Marysville Rotary Education Foundation President Dr. Tom Albright opened the program at the Marysville Arts and Technology High School on May 25 by telling the scholarship recipients that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” likening their first steps into adulthood to the first step of a bungee jump.
Marysville resident Cheryle Earnheart was recently honored by the Zonta Club of Everett as the recipient of their 2011 Virginia Gullikson Award.
The Virginia Gullikson Award is named for a Zontian and well-known Snohomish County resident who spent her life helping others. Candidates come from within Snohomish County and are volunteers who have worked to improve the legal, political, economic, educational, health and professional status of women within the county.
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna visited the city of Marysville on May 11, meeting with Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring for a tour of a local cutting-edge green businesses and a roundtable discussion with community and business leaders.
The city of Marysville went live with its newly redesigned website to the public on May 12.
The switch from the city’s former website to a new site, designed in cooperation with government website specialists at CivicPlus, took place over the course of several days, as employees worked to finalize the transition.
Officers from the Arlington, Marysville and Tulalip police departments will be joining with other local agencies and the Washington State Patrol this Memorial Day weekend during a DUI & Target Zero Emphasis Patrol funded by a special Target Zero grant from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.
The base commander of Naval Station Everett laughingly warned the members of the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce that they “live in interesting times,” which he admitted he wasn’t sure whether was a curse or not.
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna visited the city of Marysville on May 11, meeting with Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring for a tour of a local cutting-edge green businesses and a roundtable discussion with community and business leaders.
TULALIP — The Tulalip Resort Hotel’s Orca Ballroom was packed with more than 400 diners and auction bidders whose contributions will help the Tulalip Boys & Girls Club keep pace with the needs of the community’s youth.
MARYSVILLE — “I’m still cold now,” said Daniel Anderson, the day after he was rescued from an expedition into the wilderness gone awry.
Anderson, a Marysville resident and Washington State Patrol trooper, was off-duty when he and a few friends ventured east of Darrington, first by biking 11 miles, then by hiking 10 more miles, before camping out in the mountains on May 13. On May 14, Anderson parted company with the rest of his party to continue on to Holden Village.
“I screwed up,” said Anderson, whose military service has included stints in the Marines, the Special Forces and the National Guard. “I was confident in my training, but when you go off on your own like that, just one little thing can leave you so vulnerable.”
It was a trail he’d hiked before, and he’d brought two GPS units to keep himself on course, but the one stopped working and the other began leading him down a questionable path as he continued his hike on May 15. When he set up camp that evening, 800 meters past the wood line, he realized that he’d lost his tent in one of his falls.
“I knew it was an emergency situation,” Anderson said. “It was just a matter of time before hypothermia set in.”
For seven volunteers from the Master Builders Care Foundation, it was a few hours’ free labor on a sunny Saturday, but for 87-year-old Anguess “Hap” Adkins, it’s a lifeline to the outside world.
Members of the Marysville and Tulalip communities teamed up for the second year in a row to take part in a “RED Day,” this time for the Marysville Boys & Girls Club.
Last fall’s “RED Day” saw turnout from the Marysville office of Keller Williams Realty and the Tulalip Tribes’ Adult Education Services Division work to improve the grounds of the Tulalip Homeless Shelter, and on May 12 of this year, volunteers from both organizations improved the grounds and prepared the building of the Marysville Boys & Girls Club for a fresh coat of paint.
Wil and Durla Whetham had only taken three vacations since they opened their mom-and-pop grocery store on May 1, 1972.
