The Arlington Community Food Bank was literally singing with holiday cheer on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Richard Daniels’ guitar-strumming and crooning lent a festive musical accompaniment to volunteers from the Lifeway Foursquare Church and the Rocket Alley Bar & Grill serving meals to Food Bank clients while they waited in line outside to pick up their Christmas meal baskets inside.
The former executive director of People Helping Horses in Arlington has recently settled with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office after an investigation into the Snohomish County horse rescue’s management, and following the installation of new controls on the organization’s fundraising and financial practices, but the non-profit’s ousted leader still takes issue with the allegations levied against her.
The Rotary Club of Arlington made more than $5,000 worth of groceries disappear in less than three hours on Thursday, Dec. 20.
Arlington firefighters collected 5,800 pounds of food and $611.75 for the Arlington Community Food Bank over the course of 10 nights through this year’s “Santa Run” food drive, which made its way through the town’s neighborhoods from Friday, Dec. 7, through Sunday, Dec. 16.
STANWOOD — Safe Harbor Free Clinic, a state-of-the-art walk-in clinic providing professional health care and referral services to uninsured and under-insured patients, has been open on Saturday mornings twice a month since December of 2012, and is accepting patients by appointment only, who are not seen at its weekly Friday night clinics. As many as 6-8 patients are treated at each Saturday clinic, which is conducted at the Skagit Regional Clinic in Stanwood.
Snohomish County PUD offers the following advice to save energy, stay safe and be comfortable in your home during winter storms:
ARLINGTON — Although a much lighter level of snowfall has been predicted for this winter, the city of Arlington is still prepared in case it becomes a repeat of last winter, when the three-day weekend for Martin Luther King Jr. Day turned into a full week’s worth of snow-days for many Arlington residents.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington Police Department is aiming to keep an existing citizen education program going while starting another in the new year.
Three police officers from Arlington were joined by one each from Stanwood and Edmonds, as well as three Snohomish County Sheriff’s deputies, in helping 14 Arlington children celebrate the winter holidays as a season of giving.
The city of Arlington will be taking part in a joint regional fire services cooperative effort study, along with half a dozen other agencies, thanks to a unanimous vote of the Arlington City Council on Monday, Dec. 17.
The Stillaguamish Senior Center’s monthly pancake breakfast fundraiser benefitted from a special guest in the form of Santa Claus this December, who appeared whenever Recency Care Center Administrator Mike Shaw seemed to be absent.
The driver who was shot by a Washington State Patrol trooper on Sunday, Dec. 16, has been booked into the Snohomish County Jail on Tuesday, Dec. 18, for attempting to elude and second-degree assault. The 50-year-old Federal Way man was discharged from Harborview Medical Center earlier that same day.
Representatives of the Marysville and Arlington school districts have joined county, state and national officials in reacting to the shooting on the morning of Friday, Dec. 14, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., which killed 26 people total, including 20 children.
