10 years ago 1997
ARLINGTON The eighth-annual Military Day at the Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Hall and Museum Dec. 7 was an appropriately historic-minded occasion, coinciding as it did with the anniversary of Pearl Harbors bombing. The event allowed attendees to reflect on the nations past and present armed conflicts. It also gave former military members the opportunity to trade personal war stories over cookies and punch.
ARLINGTON They raised more than 900 pounds of food two years ago, but after barely more than a week of collecting for local families in need this year, Arlington Cub Scouts of America Pack 92 had already surpassed its goal of 1,500 pounds of food for this holiday season.
ARLINGTON The Arlington Times, seeking to meet the needs of its community, is continuing a survey of its readers to measure the shopping patterns and media habits of local residents.
ARLINGTON The Arlington Rotary Club will be continuing its annual holiday tradition of assembling and delivering food baskets for families in need Dec. 20.
Arlington High School 1980 graduate Kenneth Boulton, a classical pianist who performed in Arlington during the grand opening celebration of the Byrnes Performing Arts Center in June of this year, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in this years 50th anniversary competition.
10 Years Ago 1997
SMOKEY POINT For the Gutierrez family, charity has become a tradition, over the course of the past four decades, and since they run their own chiropractic clinic, its a tradition that theyve been able to share with their patients and the surrounding community.
ARLINGTON The first signs of progress in the downtown Arlington renovation project occurred in Legion Park recently, when city parks staff removed two diseased pine trees and a bulldozer rolled in to start leveling out the playing field, so to speak.
ARLINGTON The observance of Memorial Day falls on May 28 this year and Jim Barron wants the community to know that they will have a Memorial Day street parade, regardless of the ongoing street construction on Olympic Avenue.
ARLINGTON Esther Vanderberg believes that the city of Arlington should more aggressively pursue the new four-year college campus that the state of Washington has decided to build somewhere in the Northwest corner of the state.
ARLINGTON Mothers from Arlington, Stanwood and Camano Island descended upon Terrace Park April 3, to help fix up the place that a number of them visit with their children.
From left, Craylise Jacobsen, fifth-grade; Martin Boyl-Davis, eighth-grade; Josh Lorenzen, ninth-grade; Hannah Lobban, 12th-grade; Erin Lorenzen, ninth-grade; Michael Sweeney, 11th-grade; Monica Sykes, eighth-grade; and Crissie MacNeill, sixth-grade, of Arlington Christian School, placed third in a district competition when eight students from fifth through 12th grades represented Arlington Christian School at the Association of Christian Schools International District Science Fair
