For thousands of Americans, the month of October means donning pink shirts, pink shoes, pink ribbons and more as part of their effort to support National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The American Cancer Society is known for their community events bringing awareness and funding to cancer research, and in Snohomish County one of those events is the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk.
On Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 at approximately 8:00 p.m., Arlington Police responded to the Subway Restaurant located in the 16800 block of Smokey Point Boulevard for the report of a strong-armed robbery that had just occurred.
Their fire engines will remain the same colors, but the firefighters of Marysville and Arlington will be wearing pink with their uniforms throughout the month of October in recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The city of Arlington proclaimed October of 2012 to be National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with the help of a city employee who’s already well aware of breast cancer.
Nearly two dozen walkers made their way from the former site of the Arlington Community Food Bank, at Haller Park, to its new location at the Arlington Municipal Airport, to signify their support for those in need in the community.
“Look at all of them,” Chris Ray said, as her own children and at least a dozen others descended upon the playground sets outside of the former Trafton School house. “It’s almost like old times.”
ARLINGTON — Detectives arrested a 53-year-old Arlington man in connection with the injured woman who was found on the Mountain Loop Highway near 119th Street NE on the evening of Monday, Oct. 1.
ARLINGTON — For Barbara Parkhurst and her colleagues at Senior Aerospace AMT in Arlington, United Way’s Days of Caring took on a special significance this year.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington Police Station at 110 E. Third St. will serve as a collection site for old prescriptions that citizens need to dispose of from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 29.
Dozens attended the fifth annual Friendship Walk and Car Wash on Saturday, Sept. 22, at Legion Park, and raised more than $2,500 for Village Community Services and its Village Music and Arts Program.
Former Arlington Mayor Margaret Larson was treated to more than a few memories of her years of service with the Arlington School District and the city as the awardee of this year’s Lifetime Achievement breakfast ceremony at the Stillaguamish Senior Center on Wednesday, Sept. 19.
Hundreds of cars drove through the Arlington High School parking lot for the 16th annual car wash-a-thon hosted by the AHS bands, on Saturday, Sept. 22.
