A trio of juniors at Marysville’s Grace Academy have decided that that the only way for them to do community service is to go big.
MARYSVILLE — Marvin Johnson has been playing Canasta “since it was invented,” at least 50 years ago, and for the past several years, he’s been playing it with fellow visitors to the Ken Baxter Senior Community Center, at 514 Delta Ave.
Marine Corps Sgt. Chris M. Loveless, a 2000 graduate of Marysville High School, Marysville, Wash., along with more than 6, 000 Marines and sailors of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), Norfolk, VA, and embarked 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., recently began a seven-month deployment to the Navy’s 5th and 6th Fleet area of operations in support of Maritime Security Operations and the Global War on Terror.
ARLINGTON — A 16-year-old home-school senior from Arlington, Ian Frye, has secured a $14,000 Mind and Heart Scholarship at Whitworth University which is renewable for four years.
MARYSVILLE — For Marysville resident Nancy LaMont, the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life in North Snohomish County is not just a cause to support, but a benchmark of her personal struggles.
The offices of the Snohomish County Republican Party in Marysville played host to one of the Puget Sound Blood Center’s collection vehicles Jan. 14, as donors both young and old turned out for six hours to give of themselves, literally.
Snohomish County’s Department of Emergency Management is working with local communities and garbage hauling companies to clean up storm debris in neighborhoods following recent flood activity.
MARYSVILLE — Water damage might not be the primary problem you’d associate with a fire, but for the Jones and Co. Pet Store on State Avenue, the water from their sprinkler system did more damage to their store and its merchandise than the fire that the sprinklers activated to put out.
Marysville Jones and Co. Pet Store Manager Loraine DeMars explained that their Jan. 13 fire began sometime before 1 a.m., in the back room they used to store quarantined fish.
For Oosterwyk’s Dutch Bakery, it was “the fire that wasn’t,” not that passing motorists would have known it from the line of emergency response vehicles parked on the street.
MARYSVILLE — Sprinklers saved the Jones and Co. Pet Store, at the intersection of State Avenue and 76th Street, according to Kristen Thorstenson, public education specialist and public information officer for the Marysville Fire District.
ARLINGTON — Kim Mosley is impressed with the commitment of people in Arlington. A recent arrival from California, she’s not so crazy about the weather, but she loves the community.
TULALIP — When the Marysville School District chose to dedicate the new gymnasium on the Tulalip Heritage campus, it was no accident that they chose to schedule the ceremony for a league basketball game between Lummi and Tulalip Heritage.
As flood waters begin to recede throughout north Snohomish County, the American Red Cross offers some safety tips to help residents who are returning to their homes or work after flooding.
