Our Towns
Published 9:00 pm Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Arlington
USO show will tour the 1940s
The Stillaguamish Senior Center will present the USO dinner show “In the Mood” by Take a Bough Productions and the Moonlight Swing Orchestra.
The show is a journey back through the 1940s. It starts at 5:30 Saturday at the center, 18308 Smokey Point Blvd.
Tickets can be bought in advance or on the night of the show at the center for $16. Call 360-653-4551 for more information.
Edmonds
Preschool plans
an open house
Meadowdale Preschool will have an open house 6:30-7:30 p.m. Dec. 19 for parents thinking of preschool possibilities for the new year.
Staff and students will talk to visitors, so bring your preschooler.
The preschool is at 6801 N. Meadowdale Road. Call 425-745-5055 for more information.
Everett
Toys for Tots drive in Everett
Everett Transit is helping the U.S. Marine Corps with its annual Toys for Tots program this holiday season. Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union will help collect donations of new unwrapped toys.
You can hand toys to drivers of ET buses and paratransit vehicles or drop them off at Everett Station, 3201 Smith Ave., or in the lobby of the Wall Street Building, 2930 Wetmore Ave. The last day to donate toys is Dec. 21.
You can also help stuff a 29-foot-long bus full of toys 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 20 in the parking lot of Fred Meyer, 8530 Evergreen Way. If that bus fills up, ET will bring in a 60-foot bus.
The program collects toys for children of all ages.
Island County
Daughters of Norway meeting
Daughters of Norway Ingeborg Lodge 43 has scheduled its monthly meeting for 10 a.m. Saturday at Utsalady Ladies Aid Hall, 78 Utsalady Road on Camano Island.
A potluck lunch will follow.
Women, and girls older than 13 of Scandinavian heritage who are interested in promoting and learning about Norwegian culture are welcome.
For more information, call Nina Kurrle at 360-387-4157.
Lake Stevens
Council adopts 2004 budget
The City Council has adopted a $6.7 million 2004 budget, which includes a $2.3 million operations budget.
The budget includes purchase of a new police car; adds eight hours a week to a police clerk’s position, making it full time; and includes money to hire a planning consultant to work on traffic analyses.
Lynnwood
Posadas event at senior center
The Lynnwood Senior Center a Las Posadas celebration to commemorates the biblical tale of Mary and Joseph’s journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem in search of a shelter, or posada, before the birth of the Christ child.
The event will be 11:30 a.m. Monday There will be a taco salad lunch and a program at noon. Cost is $2. Reservations are needed.
The senior center is at 5800 198th St. SW in Lynnwood. For more information, call 425-744-6464.
Marysville
Commissioner is appointed
Mayor Dave Weiser has appointed Toni Mathews, vice president and branch manager of North County Bank in Marysville, to the Marysville Planning Commission.
Mathews has lived and worked in the community for 10 years. She served on the Marysville Strawberry Festival board from 1997 to 2002 and the Marysville Downtown Merchants Association board from 1994 to 1997.
The planning commission helps prepare plans for future activities and development in the urban growth area. Planning commissioners are delegated to propose and recommend new regulations on land use and zoning, and work with the City Council and community development staff.
Mathews succeeds John Carroll, who stepped down in August for health reasons after serving as a commissioner since 1995.
Monroe
Revised ethics code approved
Residents who serve on city boards and commissions will be allowed to do business with the city, but only up to $1,200 worth a year.
The City Council narrowly passed an amended version of the city’s ethics polity, which in some ways is stricter than the state’s ethics code.
The council voted 4-3 on the amended ethics code, with members Jeff Frye, Jim Hunnicutt, Marc Mechling and Tony Balk voting yes and Geoffrey Thomas, Robert Zimmerman and Ken Berger opposed.
Mountlake Terrace
Embattled justice to speak today
State Supreme Court Justice Bobbie Bridge will be the luncheon speaker at noon today at The Rotary Club of Lynnwood.
The rotary meets at the Ballinger Lakes Golf Course, 23000 Lakeview Drive, in Mountlake Terrace.
Bridge’s speech will be on public trust and ethics. Cost is $11.
Bridge was cited for drunken driving and hit-and-run earlier this year. She allegedly had a blood-alcohol content of .21, almost three times above the state legal limit of .08. She ran unopposed to win her seat in November 2002.
Mukilteo
Comprehensive plan on agenda
The Mukilteo Planning Commission will continue its discussion on the city’s bid to update Mukilteo’s comprehensive plan at 7 tonight.
The meeting will be at Fire Station No. 3, 10400 47th Place W., Mukilteo. Call 425-355-4141 for more information.
Snohomish
Democrats to talk shop about 2004
Democrats from the 44th Legislative District will discuss the legislative agenda for 2004 at 7 tonight at the Snohomish School District Resource and Service Center, 1601 Ave. D.
The discussion will be about issues important to the 44th Legislative District for the coming state legislative and federal congressional sessions.
Stanwood
Army Corps finds fault with city
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found the city violated federal rules in October by allowing fill dirt to fall into Irvine Slough, which runs parallel to Highway 532 near the city’s wastewater treatment plant.
The slough drew attention in late October after floodwaters backed up on rural properties and took longer than normal to drain. The slough is important to downtown businesses as well as nearby lowland rural properties because it drains both areas during floods.
Bill Beckman, the city’s public works director, said the dirt was piled up by contractors installing a water pipe along 92nd Avenue NW. Some of the dirt inadvertently fell into the slough.
Beckman said federal engineers thought some of the dirt contributed to the floodwater backup by plugging up a culvert in a small dam across the slough. But city crews said the culprit was flood debris that piled up on a trash gate at the culvert’s entrance.
The city removed the fill and trash gate and is continuing to work with the corps, Stillaguamish Flood Control District and Snohomish County to find a solution, Beckman said.
Tulalip
Shoreline rules meeting tonight
The Tulalip Tribes Planning Commission plans a community meeting tonight to discuss draft shoreline regulations.
The meeting will focus on residents of the Tulalip Bay area, including Mission, Totem and Hermosa beaches and Arcadia.
The meeting will be 6-7:30 tonightat the Tribal Center, 6700 Totem Beach Road.
For information on the draft regulations, call land use planner Joe Sparr at the Tulalip Department of Community Development, 360-651-4025.
