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The Greater Marysville Artists’ Guild has announced the deadline is May 15 for applications for grants-in-aid and scholarships in the visual arts.
Last year I spent my summer vacation landscaping our backyard. Not exactly an exotic destination but it was something the Missus and I had wanted to do for several years. Up to that point a failing drain field had forced us to delay the project. In our planning phase we both considered what we wanted in the garden area we were creating. Perennials for cutting, some small shrubs for spring blooms, fall color and winter interest, espaliered fruit trees, some berries, and of course lots of pots overflowing with seasonal color. And most important for me, some raised boxes for planting vegetables.
Arlington High School has a fun day planned from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 3, with the annual Art Festival, which showcases the school’s artists with art for sale and a fine art exhibit, musical entertainment by young musicians, pastries and baked goods by the school’s culinary class and plants for sale by the horticulture program. The AHS Key Club has added a fundraiser to the event with a silent auction and a bake sale in the AHS library to benefit the people of Sri Lanka. For information call the high school at 360-618-6300.
Come have fun with other Mothers of Preschoolers. The children have a fun and structured time separate from the moms.
As preparation for this year’s spring play. “Our Town,” students from Arlington High School took a tour of the Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Museum recently. They were escorted through the museum by pioneers Ruth and Harry Yost, who showed them furniture, tools and various equipment the students had never seen before.
Vanessa Thompson and her dad, Jim Thompson, are busy planning her CD release party which will be in the Baltic Room in Seattle Thursday, April 24. The first half of the event is by invitation only, but it will be opened to the public at 9:30 p.m. Admisssion is $5.
A new monthly cabaret variety show starts April 26 at the Mirkwood’s Shire Cafe, 117 E. Division St. The Indigo Gypsy Cabaret is presented by Indigo & Razi Gypsy Cabaret and features belly dancing, music and a variety of dance performers from all over the Pacific Northwest.
A hard-rock, new grunge band called Black Light, comprised of Ty Gaynor, Alex Kay Anthony and Joe Jarvis, has scored a gig in Seattle. They will be performing Sunday, April 27, at El Corazon in an Explore Music Festival that features more than 20 Northwest punk and alternative bands.
Featuring the master mind of John Fosdick, Dog Leg Preacher will be performing Saturday, April 26, at the Spar Tree in Granite Falls.
A member of Arlington Boy Scout Troop No. 29, Zach Tankersley finished his Eagle Scout project just in time for Presidents Elementary School’s carnival.
Okay everybody, let’s all chime in together in four-part harmony and sing the praises of our delightful spring weather. Hasn’t it been just glorious, the weeks after blessed weeks of non-stop precipitation and perpetual overcast? Just when I think it is finally going to warm up an be nice we get another cold front blowing in, the daytime temps drop down to the low 40s and the nights border on freezing. Let me tell you, while this is hard on the plants, it is murder on the gardeners.
Two Marysville-Pilchuck High School students won prizes at the national level of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program, a program that identifies and develops creative teenagers.
