by Marvin J. Folkertsma
The taste of Maryfest 2007 bore a hint of strawberries. Time was when Marysvilles annual festival had everything to do with strawberries. Strawberry fields took up a significant percent of the now-developed acreage surrounding the town and instead of stuffing mattresses, the business at Fourth and Cedar was processing truckloads of strawberries.
Another Snohomish County resident has made the ultimate sacrifice while in service to this nation, joining the list which already includes five people from Snohomish County, 82 from the state of Washington and 4,023 names of men and women nationwide killed while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.
Back in May when I had my first cataract surgery, I told you that after Id had the other eye done, Id review the process, since this is an operation many seniors eventually need and know little about.
by Don C. Brunell
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The fate of Referendum 67 on Nov. 6 will depend, I suspect, on whether you have ever been involved in dealings with your insurance company over an accident, an injury, a fire or loss of some kind and if you came out of it thinking you got a square deal.
by Don C. Brunell
In a recent column I focused on the many ways Marysville citizens deal with PNW winters, like snuggling up to the fireplace, challenging the out-of-doors or fleeing southward. After building a case for toughing it out in the Northwests winters wonderland, my wife and I cashed in our Northwest Airlines flight-miles to fly south to join the escapists for eight days.
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Now that Anna Nicole Smith has been laid to rest, the media can return to its second most popular subject, global warming.
We now will have a law saying that if a Washington school teaches sex ed it has to teach about contraceptives as well as abstinence. And we have had serious moves to eliminate the necessity of a supermajority vote to pass school bonds and levies that as yet is not law (ESJR 8207/EHJR 4204).
I use up a lot of notebooks. Being cursed with a memory that never was what it used to be, I have to keep a 5×8 spiral notebook close at hand. And dog-eared little pocket notebooks and pens are stuffed in my gym-bag, golf bag, car and wherever.
