ARLINGTON — The Arlington City Council has approved a timeline for filling the seat left vacant by Council member Scott Solla’s passing.
The city of Arlington is calculating their 90-day window to select a new Council member to serve out Solla’s term retroactive from Sept. 3 of this year, which would give the Council a deadline of Dec. 1 to appoint Solla’s successor.
ARLINGTON — With a fundraising total of more than $7,000 for the day, organizers of the Gleneagle Golf Course’s first 9/11 memorial tournament on Sept. 11 of this year hope to see the event become an annual affair.
Gleneagle Golf Course General Manager Mike Simpson took pride in raising the funds for 9/11 memorial at Arlington Firehouse 46 through a combination of hole sponsorships, string and mulligan sales, and other donations.
MARYSVILLE — The Arlington community observed Sept. 11, 2011, not only as the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but also as a day for their firefighters to rededicate themselves and their “house.”
Arlington Firehouse 46 was thronged with crowds well before the Blackjack Squadron flew a “Missing Man Formation” in the skies overhead, to honor the 2,977 lives lost 10 years ago, after which Arlington Deputy Fire Chief Tom Cooper opened the day’s ceremonies shortly after 11 a.m. by reflecting on where he was when the planes struck the Twin Towers.
ARLINGTON —The Sarvey Wildlife Care Center is hoping to bring its facilities into the 21st century, but it needs the community’s help to do it.
To that end, Sarvey is inviting the community to attend a fundraiser for these facilities at Craven Farms in Snohomish on Sept. 18 from 4-7 p.m. Tickets for this “Whiskey Barbecue” are only $50 each and are available by contacting Sarvey by phone at 360-435-4817 or via email at margie@sarveywildlife.org. Included in the ticket price are hors d’oeuvres, two drink tickets and a barbecue dinner. Additional drink tickets will be available for purchase.
ARLINGTON — The first day of school is enough to make any kid a bit nervous, even if she’s a veteran of first days of school like Kent Prairie Elementary fourth-grader Makenzie Leathers.
“I’m kinda scared,” Makenzie said, shrugging her shoulders.
“Isn’t the teacher your best friend’s mom, though?” asked Makenzie’s mom, Heidi Clark, whose son Joseph starts his junior year at Arlington High School this year.
As Makenzie bid farewell to her parents, Heidi Clark and Jason Leathers, on Sept. 7 for the first day of the 2011-12 school year in the Arlington School District, dad Jason laughed as he admitted to looking forward to more free time, while mom Heidi noted that her volunteer work at the school will mean that she’ll still see her kids, and plenty of others, during the day.
Six months of planning and coordination served as the capstone for Ryan Guentz’s 13 years in the Boy Scouts, on a project that benefited the local American Legion as well.
Those who plan on visiting downtown Arlington during the weekend of Sept. 10-11 should wear their walking shoes, since both days will be packed with activities for pedestrians, including commemorations of the 9/11 attacks 10 years ago.
n addition to their own respective commemorations, the Arlington and Marysville communities will be coming together during the week of Sept. 11 to honor the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Duane Weston has volunteered countless hours of community service over the course of several decades in Arlington, and for his efforts he’ll be receiving the Stillaguamish Senior Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Presidents Elementary once again found its playgrounds packed with local families in need of supplies to start the school year as the second annual “Back2School Rally” drew more than 500 attendees. Event coordinator Brandie Broadhead, the children’s pastor at the Arlington Assembly of God Church, explained that backpacks containing school supplies were made available not only to the 510 pre-registrants for the event on Aug. 28, but also to as many as 100 walk-ins that same day.
The seventh annual “Taste of Washington” fundraiser for the Arlington-based Kids’ Kloset returned to the home of John and Kimberly Meno as the event’s 75 attendees donated through live and silent auctions on the evening of Aug. 27.
A joint appearance by Arlington Mayor Margaret Larson and U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen was merely the midpoint of a day of public tours dedicating the city of Arlington’s wastewater treatment plant and stormwater wetland on Aug. 24.
Area readers can swing by the Arlington Library to stock up on books and support the library’s programs at the same time. The Friends of the Arlington Library are conducting a book and media sale to raise funds for the library and its programs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 10.
