When that train whistle blows on Crown Ridge Boulevard, it signifies exceptional accomplishment. It represents a touchdown scored, a goal kicked, an accomplishment celebrated. On June 10, 2008, once again the sounding of the whistle represented an exceptional accomplishment, the turning of the tassel for 310 Arlington High School seniors — young men and women moving into the reality of being high school graduates.
It is often said that children are our future, and looking at the students in the Class of 2008 graduating from local high schools, our future looks very bright.
For the past two years, whenever we filled out a reflection sheet for a portfolio entry, we were asked the same question: where are we going? For some of us, thinking about the future was stressful. There were so many choices to make and so many options to choose from.
I’m not sure if any of us have quite realized this, but today we graduate. Today we stroll into a world we know relatively nothing about.
I was stunned. I read it again. Sure enough, there in the How Your U.S. Lawmaker Voted report put out by Roll Call to the media was a listing of the vote in the third week of May on the 2009 military budget. I had quickly scanned the first part. “By a vote of 384-23, the House on Thursday authorized a $601 billion military budget for fiscal 2009, including $70 billion to fund war in Iraq and Afghanistan for part of the year.”
Hello family and friends, faculty and community members of Darrington’s class of 2008. Today you are here to celebrate a great achievement of the 50 seniors of the class of 2008 here today. Over the past 13 years, you have been allowed or privileged, if I may say so, to watch each and everyone of us grow up and grow into the adults we have become.
Stanwood Community and Senior Center, 7430 276th St. NW, 360-629-7403
Janet Myer wants to do it all. She is a multi-talented artist who leaps for inspiration from her Cowlitz Native American heritage to Victorian women dressed in long white gowns. She paints jazz musicians and interesting architecture.
This Friday through Sunday at Legion Park in the north end of Everett is the 11th annual Sorticulture, Everett’s Garden Arts Festival — part art, part horticulture. Sorticulture will showcase artists presenting a variety of handcrafted, locally-made garden embellishments, and specialty nurseries presenting a wide array of rare and unusual plants.
SEATTLE — Musical theater students of Arlington, Marysville and Stanwood were among 2,200 high school students, teachers and parents from across Washington state packed into Benaroya Hall, June 9, for the sixth annual 5th Avenue High School Musical Theatre Awards, sponsored by Wells Fargo.
A participant in the upcoming Art in the Barn, Rocky Barrick won first place in the “works on canvas” category at the Stanwood-Camano Art Guild Spring Show, June 7 and 8, for his work, “Couple of Old Crows.”
Feb. 8
Students from the Arlington area that are graduating in June from the University of Washington are:
