Out of the Blue Aviation wants the prospective pilots of the future to know that they still have openings available at the Young Aviators Summer Camp at the Arlington Municipal Airport. Out of the Blue’s program is open to young adults aged 12-17 and offers aviation activities over the course of the next two weeks. Young aviators can choose to do one or both of those remaining weeks, with classes running from July 25-29 and Aug. 8-12.
Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects of the annual Frontier Days Fourth of July celebration in Arlington is how smoothly it manages to happen each year. “Everyone and no one is in charge of it,” city of Arlington Recreation Coordinator Sarah Higgins laughed. “Each organization handles its own events, but there’s no overall committee.”
If Lyle Forde was hoping that his retirement from teaching at Arlington High School would free up his schedule, he wasn’t counting on having such a busy summer. After 35 years of leading the choral program at AHS, Forde not only was honored with a retirement concert at the Linda M. Byrnes Performing Arts Center on June 18, but he’ll also be serving as the grand marshal for this year’s Frontier Days Fourth of July Grand Parade.
Lyle Forde prefers to stay out of the spotlight and for more than three decades he’s done a good job doing so.
But on Saturday, June 18, Forde couldn’t escape the glare as students, former students, family and friends made the popular music teacher the center of attention by honoring him with a tribute retirement concert at the Arlington High School auditorium.
Volunteer receptionists and vet clinic assistant help is urgently needed to support the N.O.A.H. Animal Adoptions Center and Low Income Spay/Neuter Clinic in Stanwood. Knowledge of N.O.A.H. desired.
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.
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.
The Arlington Garden Club will conduct its annual “June Fling” on June 13 this year, starting at 11:30 a.m. at the Gleneagle Family Restaurant, located at 7619 E. Country Club Drive in Arlington.
Juicy ripe peaches, snapping fresh green beans, sweet raspberry jam, and crunchy dill pickles – nothing tastes better than home-preserved foods. In addition, a well-stocked pantry is a big step towards ensuring your family always has plenty of healthy food available. However, safely preserving fruits, vegetables, and meats requires a bit of knowledge, some time set aside, and a small investment in equipment.
It was like I’d hit some kind of lottery,” laughed Rebecca Martinez, a mother and former nurse at the Regency Care Center of Arlington.
In spite of the comparison, they’re the sort of unlikely odds that no one wants to get. Martinez had no history of cancer in her family, and when she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in August of last year, she was told that only 4 percent of people younger than 65 ever get it.
Arlington community members will be able to benefit the Arlington High School music program while enjoying the fruits of their labors in the process.
Highland Christian School is presenting “The Pilgrim’s Progress” as a play on May 12, 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m., with an additional matinee showing at 3 p.m. on May 14.
