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<< Previous   of   Next >> (click to enlarge) The Camp Fire USA Snohomish County Council celebrated construction on a new multipurpose pavilion at Camp Killoqua. Pictured from left to right: Shawn Yanity, chairman and fisheries manager of the Stillaguamish Tribe; Pete Baffaro, a capital campaign co-chairman; Larry Austin, camp committee; Dottie Piasecki, board president; Krissy Davis, co-chairwoman; Carol Johnson, director of camp and Camp Fire programs; and Cheri Ryan, co-chairwoman. (click to enlarge) Marissa Lyons, (click to enlarge) The Horseshoe Grange in Snohomish received a second-place award and $400 in the Grange Hall Improvement Contest. (click to enlarge) Conor Lawler (front, center) and Kaylan Gillihan (front, right) were named Everett Elks No. 479 Mother's Day essay winners. Also pictured are Grace Kelly Lawler (left), Elks chairwoman Ann Hall and Kristi Gillihan.   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Robert Frank, City Editor frank@heraldnet.com   Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008 Applause Camp Fire celebrates new pavilion The Camp Fire USA Snohomish County Council recently hosted a "Beginning Construction Celebration" for the new multipurpose pavilion at Camp Killoqua. Dottie Piasecki, board president; Peter Baffaro, capital campaign co-chair; and Shawn Yanity, chairman and fisheries manager of the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians were speakers. A $250,000 leadership gift by the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians will be honored by putting the tribe's name on the building. The Boeing Co. and the Norcliffe Foundation each donated $100,000 and will have naming opportunities in the building. Camp Fire USA Snohomish County Council has raised $1,766,623 of the $2.7 million goal. There have been two gifts of $250,000 each. The pavilion is one of five new structures being built by the Snohomish County Camp Fire council as part of its Camp Fire Delivers capital campaign. Funds from the campaign are expected to add 100,000 hours per year of service and to increase the number of youth served from 8,400 to 12,000 per year. About half the youth served by Camp Fire receive financial assistance. Camp Fire's "community phase" of the campaign will launch in July with co-chairs Cheri Ryan and Krissy Davis. It will allow other community members to leave their name at Camp Killoqua. For information on the Camp Fire Delivers capital campaign, call 425-258-5437. Everett students win Mother's Day contest Kaylan Gillihan and Conor Lawler of Everett recently were named Everett Elks No. 479 Mothers Day essay winners. Kaylan and Conor read their essays on Mother's Day at the Everett Normanna Lodge, where they and their families enjoyed breakfast. The students also presented their mothers with a bouquet of flowers. Snohomish Grange wins second place The Horseshoe Grange in Snohomish recently received a second-place award and $400 in the Grange Hall Improvement Contest. In addition to the cash awards, winning granges also receive a plaque. Each grange entering the contest is given a large metal grange logo sign that can be used indoors or out. Awards will be presented in June at the state grange convention in Colville. Horseshoe Grange is at 16428 Broadway in Snohomish. For their second place award, members of the Horseshoe Grange oversaw more than $350,000 worth of hall improvements. They completed a number of projects, including replacing a badly crumbling wood fence with a chain-link fence, paving the parking lot, repainting the exterior of the building and removing 11 overgrown black cottonwood trees at the back of their property. Local Boy Scouts refurbished the flagpole. Last year Horseshoe was fourth-place winner in the contest and in 1998 they were awarded an honorable mention. College sophomore wins scholarship Marissa Lyons, 20, the granddaughter of Steve and Barbara Mustach of Everett and the daughter of Kathy and Mark Lyons of Mukilteo, recently was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Everett Emblem Club No. 523. She also received a $1,000 scholarship from the State Emblem Clubs. A sophomore at Pacific Lutheran University, Lyon's majors are biology and psychology. She would like to pursue a Ph.D in neuroscience. Ruth Herren, state president-elect of the Emblem Clubs and Corky Lyman of the scholarship committee presented the award. The Everett Emblem Club is an auxiliary of the Elks. Everett Rotary to award scholarships High school students from nine area high schools are set to receive scholarships from the Rotary Club of Everett at 11:30 a.m. May 20 at the Rotary's lunch meeting in the Commons Building at Naval Station Everett. 35 scholarships, worth a total of $262,000, will be awarded. The "Partners in Excellence" annual fund raising culminates with the award of scholarships to local high school students. Last year, 33 young men and women received scholarships totaling nearly $200,000. Scholarships can be for more than one yeary. To become a scholarship donor and be eligible for a Rotary match, call 425-212-4056. Everett teen named conservation fellow Daniel Tonnes of Everett recently was among 17 other conservation leaders from 10 countries named a Kinship Conservation Fellow. Tonnes is scheduled to attend a monthlong fellowship in Bellingham in July to explore market approaches to environmental issues. This was the seventh cohort of Kinship fellows. Fellows receive a $4,500 stipend for lodging and meals. Of the 18 fellows, eight come from the United States, while the others hail from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Namibia, Nicaragua and Russia. The fellows plan to gather at Western Washington University's Bellingham campus from June 25 to July 25 to develop leadership skills, interact on a one-to-one basis with an elite faculty, develop a project of importance to their work and enjoy the fellowship of a dynamic learning community. Tonnes, a biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will use some of his time in Bellingham to work on a project exploring how to create land banks for floodplains and estuaries in the Pacific Northwest. Bagpipe band heads to championships Seven Snohomish County youth who are members of the Northwest Junior Pipe Band are among the more than 30 youth from Washington state who plan to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, in August. There are 12 young people from Snohomish County who are members of the band. Those who plan to participate in the world championships are: Matt Alger, 14, Marysville, bagpipes. Cheyenne Camp, 13, Bothell, snare drum. Lochlynn Camp, 9, Bothell, tenor drum. Katie Hadley, 15, Bothell, snare drum. Alexander Schiele, 12, Snohomish, bagpipes and tenor drum. Morgan Schiele, 14, Snohomish, snare and bass drum. Stephen Severson, 16, Everett, bagpipes. Other Snohomish County youth members are Diego Alvarez-Lorant, 13, Mukilteo, bagpipes; Marcus De Vight, 10, Mukilteo, bagpipes; Robbie Graham, 9, Lynnwood, snare drum; Angus Hamill, 14, Lynnwood, snare drum; and Austin Rojan, 13, Edmonds, snare drum. Northwest Junior Pipe Band instructors with ties to Snohomish County are Marcie MacRae, Everett, lead mid-section instructor, tenor and bass drum, and Steve Roy, Lynnwood, drumming director, snare drums, At the world championships, the band plans to perform in solos and in various competitions around Scotland including one that draws 200 international pipe bands yearly. Northwest Junior Pipe Band is a nonprofit bagpipe band for kids under age 18 from Puget Sound. This is the first time the band plans to compete in the world championships. A youth band from the Seattle area has not visited Scotland since 1969, when the Seattle Scottish Boys Pipe Band won the Scottish Championships at Edinburgh. The Northwest Junior Pipe Band also finished its 2007 season as first runner up in the Washington State Championships at the Skagit Valley Highland Games and was ranked fourth of 18 pipe bands that competed at eight events between Portland, Ore., and Courtney, B.C. The band also fields a beginning level group, which was undefeated in all its 2007 competitions.

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