The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for parts of Western Washington, including Snohomish County.
TULALIP — The Tulalip Amphitheatre is expected to host more than 1,100 walkers for the Walk MS fundraiser on April 2.
The three-mile walk itself is set to kick off at 9:30 a.m., after an 8:30 a.m. registration followed by a short program at 9 a.m.
Walk MS is the largest annual fundraiser of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and MS Society supporters can participate as individuals, join a team or start a team. The public can also support walkers by making donations in their names at www.walkmsnorthwest.org.
Lakeshia and Dennis Drahos got married two months before Dennis joined the Navy six years ago, but this was their first full deployment as a Navy couple.
Petty Officer 1st Class Dennis Drahos Sr. has served on board the USS Abraham Lincoln for the past three years, and when the Lincoln pulled into Naval Station Everett on March 24, he and Lakeshia shared one of the first kisses coming off the brow, as she held nine-month-old Dennis Jr. in her arms.
The city of Marysville’s Parks and Recreation Department is offering cooking, hypnotherapy classes.
Mayor Jon Nehring and Police Chief Rick Smith recently presented Play It Again Sports employee Brie Stewart with a certificate of commendation for foiling a bicycle theft from the store on Feb. 17 that ended in the arrest of a Skagit County man.
Local students earn honors at Gonzaga, Berklee.
MARYSVILLE — Attendance at the city of Marysville’s latest coffee klatch was a bit more sparse than at the previous meeting, but Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring saw it as an opportunity for more in-depth dialogues with those who did attend.
Marysville residents Marv Johnson, Dawn Everett and Margaret Hopkins met with Nehring in the Marysville City Council Chambers on March 22 to raise their concerns about graffiti, green spaces in the city, urban development and the affordability of recreation programs for seniors.
When Marysville Methodists traveled to Haiti, they found a country struggling with shocking poverty, but also one whose citizens still harbor hope.
The eight members of the Marysville United Methodist Church who had taken a mission trip to Haiti from Feb. 27 through March 7 devoted the evening of March 17 to sharing their experiences with fellow church members.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville mom Dani Rice discovered she wasn’t alone when her daughter, Morgan, was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome.
“It’s very common,” Rice said. “There are three other people, just on our street, whose kids also have Asperger’s.”
While children with Asperger’s syndrome are not rare, Rice has nonetheless found it a bit more rare to find places where she can consult with others about the challenges that are unique to raising a child with this syndrome.
Rice and other area parents of children with special needs were able to check out a host of regional resources in a single spot, during the Marysville Special Education PTSA’s Resource Fair on March 9.
“There’s so much that I didn’t know,” said Rice, whose arms were literally overflowing with books, pamphlets and fliers that she’d collected in the Totem Middle School cafeteria that day. “It can be difficult to navigate the system, but there’s so much advocacy here.”
The resource fair was a first for the Marysville School District, bringing together school district personnel with private service providers and non-profit groups under the same roof, so that parents of special education students could access all the resources available to them locally, at one place and time.
Cheyenne Gepner struggled to stay upright as she hefted a plastic bag full of clothes that was almost bigger than she was, but the little girl insisted she didn’t need any help carrying the clothes up the steps into the Kloz 4 Kids offices.
Gepner was one of half a dozen young women who belong to the Everett Eagles Junior Drill Team who stopped by Kloz 4 Kids on the evening of March 9 to drop off an estimated 800 pounds in donated clothing to the non-profit organization behind the Marysville United Methodist Church.
“We’ve got clothes here for preschool through high school,” said Michelle Mullins, youth chair for the Everett Eagles Junior Drill Team. “We hit all the age groups. It’s all been washed and sorted. Nothing needs mending, and a lot of these clothes are brand new.”
Mullins explained, in spite of the group’s name, that a majority of the girls in the Everett Eagles Junior Drill Team either live or attend schools in Marysville, so they’re motivated to help out their hometown. The inspiration to collect for Kloz 4 Kids came from reading an article about the charity in the Aug. 25, 2010, issue of The Marysville Globe.
The Joint Hometown News Service and the Fleet Hometown News Service have released the following information about local service members in the news.
Drivers on State Route 529 will still be using the existing 85-year-old Ebey Slough Bridge between Marysville and Everett for a while yet, but its replacement recently reached another milestone in its construction progress.
MARYSVILLE — Church women from across the state and beyond will be converging on Marysville to ask themselves, “What Are We ‘Bee’coming?”
The Marysville United Methodist Church will serve as the site for a Christian ecumenical gathering of the Washington and Northern Idaho Church Women United, as they conduct their biennial state assembly and leadership council meeting on April 8-9.
According to local Church Women United Vice President Jeannie Lish, the movement is celebrating 70 years of service this year with “fellowship, prayer, advocacy and action for peace with justice.” Among the event’s motivational speakers will be Barbara Moreland of Mukilteo on “Bees and Beyond,” Richard LeMieux of Bremerton on the problem of homelessness, and Tom and Jan Kemp of North Bend asking how to minister to truckers.
