The Stillaguamish Senior Center’s monthly pancake breakfast fundraiser benefitted from a special guest in the form of Santa Claus this December, who appeared whenever Recency Care Center Administrator Mike Shaw seemed to be absent.
Post Middle School and the Arlington Community Food Bank have added up the collection totals of the school’s holiday collection drive for the Food Bank, and while the school’s take was impressive, the Food Bank could still use some support for the increased need of the holiday season.
For the past eight years, ever since their 26-year-old son Cameron passed away from cancer, Magic Shears co-owners Randy and Debbie Howell have donated items to the oncology department of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center of Seattle, but as they planned their collection drive for this year, the Arlington couple decided to focus on the needs of those a bit closer to home.
The Arlington City Council voted unanimously on Dec. 3 to adopt the ordinance setting the city’s 2013 budget, marking the conclusion of a process that Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert and several Council members alike deemed at once challenging but efficient.
ARLINGTON — For the second year in a row the Arlington Farmer’s Market has hosted Handmade Holiday, a craft and local goods market at the Co-Op, on Saturday, Dec. 1, during the city of Arlington’s Hometown Holidays celebration.
At the start of this school year, the Leadership class at Arlington High School was tasked with going big for their annual food drive.
Arlington’s annual “Hometown Holidays” will once again be commemorated on Olympic Avenue with the Santa Parade starting at noon on Saturday, Dec. 1.
ARLINGTON — After a public hearing on Nov. 5 and further discussion during a workshop meeting on Nov. 13, the Arlington City Council voted unanimously to increase the city’s general property taxes, by the allowable 1 percent in 2013, during their regular meeting on Nov. 19.
Gary Ray, the pastor of the Oso Community Chapel who started the Trafton Community Co-Op with his daughter Randi, sees both organizations as serving the needs of large numbers of people who, if only due to where they live, would otherwise go woefully underserved.
As Studio 5 Hair Design prepares to celebrate its 10-year anniversary in Arlington in January, its employees are devoting this fall and winter to showing the local community how much they appreciate their support.
While many holiday shoppers are already gearing up for “Black Friday,” the Marysville and Arlington communities are asking that they keep “Small Business Saturday” in mind as well on Nov. 24.
While the weather outside was less than hospitable, the inside of the Lakewood School District bus parked in front of the Arlington Walmart on Saturday, Nov. 17, stayed busy with activity from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., as the second annual “Stuff the Bus” food drive looked likely to exceed last year’s collection totals.
ARLINGTON — While several more weeks of landscaping still lie ahead, the concrete and lane striping on the new roundabout at the intersection of state routes 9 and 531 were all but completed by Friday, Nov. 9.
