Folks gauge the success of Super Bowl by television viewership, the success of commercials and if your team wins.
It’s all about pizza snacks at Grocery Outlet in Marysville.
Manager Steve Gates was anxious to ring up Saturday sales to stock up for Sunday parties, because the day before Super Bowl last year was their best sales day of 2007.
This year didn’t match up, but it was a good day, Gates says. Sales were great for quick and easy foods including bratwurst, party trays, chips, dips, beer and wine.
There is no rest in the grocery business. Candy sales should be brisk next week.
Karen Harper, 58, who lives in Stanwood, says it’s too bad we don’t honor our young people when they come of age, referring to my Monday column about a kit sold to aid parents discussing menstruation with their daughters.
“It’s sad there is a kit for shy parents,” Harper says. “This was not a hidden thing in our household.”
Her mother was a nurse, she said, and they discussed any topic.
Bothell’s Jessica Simpson look-alike, Lynsey Nordstrom, recently appeared at Quilceda Creek Casino in Marysville.
“We had quite a turnout,” says Jeff Aaron with NorthSound KRKO (1380 AM). “She looked quite a bit like Jessica, in the photos, as she knows how to pose. A sweet girl, but I think her 15 minutes of fame will soon be over.”
It will cost $85 to enter the Hold’em for a Hog poker tournament at 5 p.m. Saturday at Hawthorn Suites in Smokey Point. It’s sponsored by Sound Harley-Davidson and Marysville Professional Firefighters Local 3219.
It benefits the North Sound Chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
It costs $85 to play, because that’s the amount that covers one minute of research towards finding a cure for MD, says organizer Jeff Bilow.
Fun Fact: Kevin W. Zobrist, 30, forest stewardship educator with Washington State University’s Snohomish and Skagit County Extension Office, says he may be the only forester in the state who is afraid of chain saws.
He prefers cameras when he’s hiking in national parks.
“It drives my wife crazy,” he says. “We can never go on a hike without my stopping every five feet to try a different angle, light, filter, etc.”
Hiking can be a challenge; Zobrist had two grapefruit-sized tumors carved out of his right hip and has overlapping 12-inch scars to prove it.
The surgery hasn’t stopped him. He’s carried his camera to 16 national parks, from Alaska to Maine, and will add four parks more to his list by summer’s end.
Columnist Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451 or oharran@heraldnet.com.
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