As volunteers worked on the Cal Kinney baseball field adjacent to the Arlington & Boys & Girls Club, the morning’s gray clouds threatened to prove the point of their construction project. Fortunately for the nearly 50 volunteer employees and family members of the Seattle-based B&B Construction, the weather held out on June 25, and even broke into warm sun in the afternoon, while they completely rebuilt the baseball field’s existing dugouts and batting cages.
Dozens of participants gathered round the Legion Park gazebo for the start of this year’s “Friendship Walk” in support of Village Community Services, raising $1,420 on site for its arts and music programs. Before the roughly one-mile walk set off for its fourth year through the sidewalks of downtown Arlington, VCS’s “Voices of the Village” band performed rock-and-roll hits from the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s to show participants what their contributions will help support.
The players that took to the Marysville-Pilchuck High School football field on June 17 were a bit older and less practiced than the usual teams, but they took the game seriously enough to impress their coaches, and they helped raise money for the regular players.
Olympic Avenue was choked with cars on June 11, but it wasn’t a traffic jam.
Rather than honking their horns or simmering in exhaust fumes, visitors to downtown Arlington that day strolled along the street and complimented one another on their stylized and polished vehicles at the 12th annual Old Town Show ‘N Shine Car Show.
t boasts 79 private treatment rooms which hospital officials estimate will be just enough to keep up with the increased demand that they say has already given the Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett the busiest ER in the state.
Providence’s recently completed 12-story, $460 million Marshall and Katherine Cymbaluk Medical Tower opened on June 14 and is expected to serve close to 120,000 patients within the next year, according to Providence Public Relations Manager Cheri Russum. She pointed out that this represents an increase from the roughly 113,000 patients Providence served last year, but its new tower has plenty of local staff to serve them.
Two seventh-grade students at Haller Middle School recently won second and third place in their category for the 13th annual World Citizen Essay Contest.
ARLINGTON — How does a Relay For Life that set records for the American Cancer Society in its debut manage to top itself in its second year?
The organizers of and participants in the second-annual Arlington Relay For Life did so by raising more than $290,000 through their two-day return to the Arlington High School track and field, beating the American Cancer Society’s goal of $250,000 for the event.
Arlington Relay for Life Event Chair Kerry Munnich explained that 155 teams and 1,849 individuals took part in the walk from June 4-5, and 302 participants signed up on site for the ACS Cancer Prevention Study-3.
After its absence last year, Arlington High School’s “Rock the Nest” concert returned this year with two rock bands that brought together AHS students and alumni.
The stage of the Linda M. Byrnes Performing Arts Center hosted bands Sound Puppets and Dandy Lion on June 1, with many members of those bands applying lessons they’d learned in the AHS Jazzmine program under director Lyle Forde, who’s retiring at the end of this school year.
Before its recently completed renovations, the look of the “Mud Hut” in downtown Arlington reflected its name in some less than aesthetically appealing ways.
“This used to be all brown,” said Stuart Delony, director of Arlington Youth Dynamics, which runs the Mud Hut on the top floor of the American Legion building on Olympic Avenue.
One local bank branch changed hands over the Memorial Day weekend, while another bank with two branches in the area is on its way toward a merger, but representatives of both banks want their customers to remain assured that their service will remain the same.
Columbia State Bank assumed all the deposits of First Heritage Bank, whose Arlington branch reopened on May 31 as a branch of Columbia State Bank. Also on May 31, the shareholders of Cascade Financial approved the merger of Cascade Bank, which has branches in Marysville and Smokey Point, with Opus Bank.
After 35 years of leading the choral program at Arlington High School, Lyle Forde will bid farewell to the school only a few days after this year’s graduating class does the same.
AHS will be hosting Forde’s retirement concert and reception starting at 7 p.m. on June 18, and while Forde acknowledged his reservations about the impacts of state budget cuts to school music programs, he emphasized that he’s leaving the school pleased with what he was able to accomplish with the support of his students, fellow staff members and the surrounding community.
Jerry Mathews stood on the sidewalk of Olympic Avenue in his dress blues, waiting for the parade at 10 a.m.
“I just think I’m lucky to be an American,” said Mathews, who served 42 years and three months in the U.S. Naval Reserves. “When you see the rest of the world, you realize how fortunate we are to celebrate holidays like this.”
It was an ordinary day of care and treatment for the patients of Cascade Valley Hospital.
At the same time, the hospital was responding to a disaster whose impact had affected five counties and a dozen hospitals in the state.
