While community volunteers, merchants and city of Marysville employees pulled together last April to give downtown Marysville a successful once-over spring cleaning to polish its image during Clean Sweep Week, there were plenty of citizens and business owners throughout the community putting hard labor into their own yards, homes and store fronts to usher in spring.
Partnerships with our community — now more than ever — help us through tough times.
Marysville-Pilchuck High School will graduate the class of 2012 on June 11. Marysville Getchell follows on the 13th. I have no idea who has been chosen to speak at the ceremonies but for graduation speakers across the nation, it’s going to be a challenge this year. I’ve been bothered by the question, what would I say if called upon to speak?
Memorial Day, which will be celebrated on May 28, 2012, was instituted in 1868 to honor America’s dead in battle, but today I want to write about the living. About examples of living World War II veterans and about the Honor Flight Program.
Attention employers! Are you looking for better margins, higher productivity, and employees who really care about their work? Then you need to meet Randy Lewis and hear what he has to say about what happened when his company began hiring people with disabilities. We’re talking about Walgreens, the largest drugstore chain in the United States with annual sales of $72 billion and the razor-thin margins characteristic of most retail business.
It seems that when some processes get started there’s no stopping them. It’s not that they‘re unstoppable. Rather, we don’t muster up the gumption to pull their plugs. Crab traps for instance: not crab-rings or the fold-up kind, but rigid traps that lure crabs in to the bait but don’t let them out again.
As someone who has relatives, friends and co-workers who have fought courageous personal battles against cancer, I urge you to join me in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Marysville/Tulalip as we come together as a community on June 9 to celebrate survivors, remember those who are no longer with us and raise money to find a cure.
Yes, Marysville School District is all about literacy, math and graduation. In addition, our mission statement says “Every student … 100 percent … prepared for success in college, career and responsible citizenship”.
Seeds of Socialism are being sowed in every pre-school and kindergarten in Snohomish County. You find them reflected in children’s progress reports as, “Has learned to share toys.” Kids who carry that attitude through life might even fall for radical ideas like sharing a medical system. Lucky for conservatives that not every child goes to kindergarten.
It’s encouraging to see the state’s unemployment rate drop to 8.2 percent in February. That’s down almost a full percentage point from February 2011 when unemployment was at 9.1 percent. It demonstrates our state’s economy is slowly showing signs of recovery.
