Rotary District 5050, which includes Marysville and Arlington, has already partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for years on eradicating polio overseas, but the Gates Foundation’s latest matching grants will help District 5050’s 27 local clubs alleviate the problem of family homelessness in their own backyards.
SAN DIEGO — Arlington’s Lori Burke paid for a seven-day cruise ship vacation trip to the Mexican Riviera.
Instead, she found herself “roughing it” after her first night on board, along with the nearly 4,500 passengers and crew members of 952-foot cruise liner, when it went adrift without power adrift about 200 miles south of San Diego and 44 miles off the coast of Mexico.
For Ron Southworth the most important value championed by his church is that of hope.
Southworth is the president of the newly created Arlington stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and he recalled a recent dinner he’d conducted with the mayors of Arlington and Marysville, as well as with officials from various area school districts, to discuss problems facing their communities.
ARLINGTON — A two-alarm blaze that broke out at the National Foods Corporation plant right around 2 p.m. Nov. 10 will have fire crews working overnight to prevent the fire from spreading to adjacent buildings, according to Arlington Fire Department spokesperson Christine Badger.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington Free Methodist Youth Center will be working to help feed “Children of the Nations” Nov. 13.
ARLINGTON — Area veterans and civilians alike will have opportunities to honor and socialize with past and present military members in the Arlington and Marysville communities, courtesy of the American Legion.
The members of Arlington American Legion Post 76 will be lining up entrants at 10 a.m. Nov. 11 for their veterans’ parade starting at 11 a.m.
With Halloween falling on a Sunday this year, the Arlington community opted to offer more of its seasonal events on “Halloween Eve” Oct. 30, as the city’s downtown came alive — or perhaps “undead” — with ghosts and ghouls of all ages.
The new Arlington Walmart store rolled out a two-tiered greeting to the community Oct. 26-27, by dispensing a number of grants to community organizations and giving a select number of community members a sneak preview of its selection and layout on the evening of Oct. 26, before its official grand opening on the morning of Oct. 27.
She may have been forced to slow down her hectic pace, but Virginia Hatch still plans to stay active in the Arlington community, and Hatch’s tireless spirit was one of the reasons cited for awarding her this year’s Kiwanis Club of Arlington’s Community Service Award.
The season of auctions is now well underway, as the Arlington Arts Council’s Oct. 16 “Fall Into Art” fundraiser auction was followed Oct. 23 by the annual “Spooktacular” fundraiser auction conducted by Soroptimist International of Marysville.
A proposed redevelopment of the Smokey Point Transit Center was presented to the public by Community Transit representatives to solicit the community’s input.
Arlington’s Hometown Halloween celebration promises to offer familiar favorites and new attractions this year on Oct. 30.
City of Arlington Recreation Coordinator Sarah Higgins explained that the Downtown Arlington Business Association started the annual event which has returned to Olympic Avenue so many times that she admitted she couldn’t even remember when it started.
ARLINGTON — Its goals are green, but its members are increasingly gray, by their own admission.
The Arlington Garden Club drew roughly half a dozen volunteers to help spread wood chips around their community garden Oct. 16, including two Arlington High School students, but the rest of its workers that morning were not quite as spry.
