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Shakespeare, just like the ol' days
Leilani Aileene Saper plays Juliet and Brandon Petty is Romeo in the Seattle Shakespeare Company’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” to be presented 7 p.m., Friday, May 16 at the Byrnes Performing Arts Center. The play will be presented earlier in the day for students of Arlington School District. - Aug 28 2008, 5:31 PM ARLINGTON Five actors are playing all the parts in William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," complete with sword fighting and vials of poison, at the Byrnes Performing Arts Center Friday, May 16.

AHS artists, organizations raise funds to help others
Norma Bailey views hand-crafted pavers at the Arlington High School Arts Festival Saturday, May 3. Bailey’s daughter, Kalynn Morcom is not only alternate Dairy Ambassador for the Snohomish County Dairy Association, but she also enjoys the arts, according to her mother. - Aug 28 2008, 5:31 PM Visual artists had a go at using the new Byrnes Performing Arts Center May 3, drawing a big crowd into the lobby to see an impressive exhibit of drawings and paintings along with hand-crafted items such as stained glass, jewelry, garden art and other artistic items crafted by art students at the school.

May is Dogwood month in my book
 - Aug 28 2008, 5:31 PM Gardening with

Harvey exhibits 33 paintings at Lake Steven's City Hall
 - Courtesy Jean Olson Aug 28 2008, 5:31 PM Arlington artist Christina Harvey is showing 33 paintings at Lake Steven's City Hall. Harvey grew up in a family of artists and received a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1976. She worked as a technical illustrator and graphic designer, painting on the side through the years. Now since she retired in 2002, Harvey is very happy to have time to focus on painting, averaging about 18 paintings a year.

Littlefield wins Gold Award
Heather Littlefield’s poster for “Hamlet” at Santa Rosa’s Sonoma Academy won a gold award in the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for 2008. Littlefield is the daughter of Ed Littlefield of Arlington. - Aug 28 2008, 5:30 PM Santa Rosa, Calif. The daughter of an Arlington resident, Heather Littlefield, of Petaluma, Calif., was one of 1,000 students nationwide to earn national recognition from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for 2008.

Cedarcrest welcomes fifth-graders
Aug 28 2008, 5:30 PM Cedarcrest Middle School in Marysville is holding a Fifth-Grade Welcome Night, May 20, 5-7 p.m.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR CENTERS
Aug 28 2008, 5:30 PM For an exhaustive list of events submitted to our Calendar section, please visit our website at www.marysvilleglobe.com and www.arlingtontimes.com.

Global warming debate revives talk of nuclear power
Aug 28 2008, 5:47 PM The debate over global warming is testing long-held positions of politicians and environmentalists. For example, the pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is reviving talk about nuclear power.

Another chance for Arlington
 - Aug 28 2008, 5:47 PM Before Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy, before the turn of the twentieth century, public libraries were a rarity. Large collections of books were for the wealthy, for the intellectual elite, and definitely not for commoners.

However, personal experience prompted the industrialist to realize that libraries created opportunities for the working man, and that opportunities lead to empowerment.

Public libraries are somewhat unique institutions. They're a resource of resources that can literally serve a patron from birth to death.Public libraries can complement one's "formal" education, and do so completely independent from public school systems' whims, petty politics and quality levels. Social hierarchies, economic class distinctions, racism, intolerance and other forms of nonsense end at a library's door. Inside a public library, knowledge is king, and everything else is, at least temporarily, insignificant.

Honor those who have sacrificed for our country
Aug 28 2008, 5:47 PM "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

Joseph Campbell, author

In less than two weeks Americans will be enjoying a three-day weekend which serves as the unofficial start of summer. But for a number of Snohomish County families, Memorial Day has taken on a new and tragic meaning as they commemorate the loved ones lost while serving their country in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.