Everett, Wash. Published: Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Hundreds of Monroe kids get backpacks
More than 490 Monroe area students recently received backpacks filled with school supplies in the Sky Valley Food Bank School Days Rule Days program in Monroe.
Volunteers Marti de Lisle and Marge Ferrel helped coordinated the effort. Monroe High School class of 2008 graduates Kelsie Brown and Lauren Rosenthal spent dozens of hours helping organize and distribute the backpacks.
Judd & Black awards $3,000 to kids club
Judd & Black recently donated $3,000 to the North Everett Boys & Girls Club. The award was presented at the conclusion of the company's annual charity golf tournament at Battle Creek Golf Course.
Mukilteo teen earns Eagle Scout rank
Chris Smart, 16, of Mukilteo recently was honored at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor at Mukilteo's Harbour Pointe Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America.
Chris led 41 volunteers, working together to refurbish trails, construct trail markers and a kiosk and to create a plant identification booklet for an outdoor classroom at Columbia Elementary School.
Chris is the son of Lori and Doug Smart. He is a member of Troop No. 189 chartered by Harbour Pointe Evangelical Lutheran Church. The troop is led by scoutmaster Doug Smart.
Chris earned 37 merit badges and served in various leadership positions within his troop. Chris attended the 2005 National Scout Jamboree in Virginia and the 2007 World Scout Jamboree in England. Chris is a junior at Kamiak High School, where he is involved in the Kamiak Show Band.
Edmonds arts volunteer honored
Eleanor Granmo, also known as "Wheels," recently was honored by friends and family at a surprise birthday party at Anthony's Home Port for her longtime support of the arts. Granmo has been a supporter of the arts in Edmonds since 1980, the year she "took retirement."
During her volunteer career, Granmo served as the director of performance entertainment for the Edmonds Arts Festival until 2001.
In 1984 Granmo began an eight-year run on the Edmonds Arts Commission, where she helped develop the program now known as the Summer Concerts in the Park and helped select Tony Angell's "The Snowy Owl" sculpture, which was installed at the Frances Anderson Center. She also served two years as the commission chairman.
Eleanor is a retired banker.
Stillaguamish give $30,000 for fire truck
The Stillaguamish Tribe recently donated $30,000 to help the North County Fire Emergency Medical Services buy a new truck slated to be used for special rescue responses such as water rescue calls.
The department bought the truck on state bid. North County Fire Chief Dale Fulfs received the new 2009 Ford F250 from Stillaguamish chairman Shawn Yanity at the Angel of the Winds Casino.
The Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians has been working in a partnership with North County Fire-EMS to help provide emergency services to north Snohomish County residents.
Snohomish group helps school
The Snohomish Kiwanis Club recently held a work party at Little Cedars Elementary School, where volunteers helped install playground equipment. The volunteers worked with parents and the Little Cedars Parent Teachers Association to complete the work.
Firefighters hold Teddy Bear Clinics
Snohomish County Fire District No. 1 recently held Teddy Bear Clinic open houses at its four fire stations, including Hilton Lake Fire Station, Mountlake Terrace Fire Station, Lake Serene Fire Station and Silver Firs Fire Station.
At the open houses, children were invited to watch as teddy bears "patients" were helped by firefighters. Firefighters demonstrated how they use the equipment in the medic unit to help people on aid calls.
According to the district, about 80 percent of the 13,500 calls that firefighters responded to in Fire District No. 1 last year were for emergency medical aid. All Fire District No. 1 firefighters are certified as either emergency medical technicians or paramedics, and respond to both fire and medical aid calls.
Fire District No. 1 is the largest provider of fire and emergency medical services in south Snohomish County serving more than 160,000 residents in the neighborhoods of Silver Firs, Eastmont, Mariner, Lake Serene, Picnic Point, Martha Lake, Lake Stickney, Norma Beach, Hilltop, Hilton Lake, Pioneer Trails and the cities of Mountlake Terrace and Brier.
Edmonds group helps burn victims
Members of the Edmonds Daybreakers Rotary Club recently helped welcome about 30 young people to Camp Phoenix, a camp for children who have suffered various degrees of burns. The Sea Gals, the Seahawks Blue Thunder drummers, Blitz and several motorcyclists were also on hand to welcome the young people.
The camp is sponsored by the Burned Children Recovery Foundation, which is a beneficiary of funds from the Edmonds Jazz Connection, an Edmonds Daybreakers Rotary Club event held Memorial Day weekend each year.
Members of the Edmonds Daybreakers Rotary Club also participated in a career day at Camp Phoenix, where Rotarians explained their career experiences.
Mountlake Terrace fire station gets art
The Mountlake Terrace City Council recently selected artwork by sculptor Louise McDowell of Seattle for Fire Station No. 19. McDowell plans to create a bronze statue of a firefighter dressed in bunker gear, sitting on a bench, leaning to place a fire hat on a child.
The Arts Advisory Commission recommended the artwork to celebrate firefighters' service to their community and the passing down of tradition from one generation to the next.
The work is expected to take up to a year to complete and is slated to be installed near the flagpole in front of Fire Station No. 19 along 232nd Street, Mountlake Terrace.
The artwork and installation is expected to cost roughly $25,000 and is slated to paid for by the 1 percent for the arts program from monies set aside from construction costs when the new Mountlake Terrace fire station was built in 2005.
McDowell also created a bronze sculpture of children watching chickens, titled "Gentle Encounter," which was installed at Heritage Park in Lynnwood.
