rlington Mayor Margaret Larson never saw it coming. And when she did, she was nearly speechless. The Arlington Kiwanis dedicated a scholarship in her name during its live auction Monday, July 4, at Haller Field.
For 79-year-old Marvin Simpson, the Arlington Firefighters’ Pancake Breakfast means much more than syrup and strawberries. Nearly 20 years ago, Simpson received news that would shatter anybody. He was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. The doctors gave him a year to live — at best.
On Thursday, June 30, at approximately 4:21 p.m., Arlington Police responded to the Chase Bank branch located in the 3700 block of 172nd Street NE, for the report of a robbery that had just occurred.
ARLINGTON — A team from the city of Arlington, the Arlington School District and the Snohomish Health District recently attended a four-day “Multi-hazard Emergency Planning for Schools” course at the FEMA Emergency Management Institute in Maryland.
The goal of the June 20-23 course was to provide school district teams with the knowledge, skills and tools needed to review, enhance and sustain an all-hazard school emergency operations plan. FEMA covered the travel, registration and lodging fees for the 10-member team.
As volunteers worked on the Cal Kinney baseball field adjacent to the Arlington & Boys & Girls Club, the morning’s gray clouds threatened to prove the point of their construction project. Fortunately for the nearly 50 volunteer employees and family members of the Seattle-based B&B Construction, the weather held out on June 25, and even broke into warm sun in the afternoon, while they completely rebuilt the baseball field’s existing dugouts and batting cages.
Dozens of participants gathered round the Legion Park gazebo for the start of this year’s “Friendship Walk” in support of Village Community Services, raising $1,420 on site for its arts and music programs. Before the roughly one-mile walk set off for its fourth year through the sidewalks of downtown Arlington, VCS’s “Voices of the Village” band performed rock-and-roll hits from the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s to show participants what their contributions will help support.
ARLINGTON — Community Transit’s final open house for its 2012 system changes starts at 5 p.m. on June 23 at the Arlington Boys & Girls Club.
The roughly three-hour open house will not include any formal presentations, but Community Transit staff will be on hand to answer questions and explain the three alternatives for next year’s system changes with maps and information boards.
The doors at the Arlington Windermere office were closed for the day. But if you needed an agent, you could find them sprucing up Centennial Park on Friday, June 17.
A handful of agents, including the owner of the Arlington branch, Gene Bryson, worked diligently on the quaint little park, pulling weeds, trimming hedges and picking up leaves in appreciation of the 19th annual Windermere Community Service Day. The event, which takes place during the third week in June, isn’t exclusive to Arlington. Offices in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho also spent the third Friday in June participating in some sort of community clean-up project.
Olympic Avenue was choked with cars on June 11, but it wasn’t a traffic jam.
Rather than honking their horns or simmering in exhaust fumes, visitors to downtown Arlington that day strolled along the street and complimented one another on their stylized and polished vehicles at the 12th annual Old Town Show ‘N Shine Car Show.
t boasts 79 private treatment rooms which hospital officials estimate will be just enough to keep up with the increased demand that they say has already given the Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett the busiest ER in the state.
Providence’s recently completed 12-story, $460 million Marshall and Katherine Cymbaluk Medical Tower opened on June 14 and is expected to serve close to 120,000 patients within the next year, according to Providence Public Relations Manager Cheri Russum. She pointed out that this represents an increase from the roughly 113,000 patients Providence served last year, but its new tower has plenty of local staff to serve them.
Two seventh-grade students at Haller Middle School recently won second and third place in their category for the 13th annual World Citizen Essay Contest.
ARLINGTON — How does a Relay For Life that set records for the American Cancer Society in its debut manage to top itself in its second year?
The organizers of and participants in the second-annual Arlington Relay For Life did so by raising more than $290,000 through their two-day return to the Arlington High School track and field, beating the American Cancer Society’s goal of $250,000 for the event.
Arlington Relay for Life Event Chair Kerry Munnich explained that 155 teams and 1,849 individuals took part in the walk from June 4-5, and 302 participants signed up on site for the ACS Cancer Prevention Study-3.
After Snohomish County officials reported that Frontier Communications was having issues with 9-1-1 service in parts of Snohomish County, that service appears to have been restored, although officials are not taking any chances.
