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Published 9:00 pm Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Recognizing the need for chore services in Snohomish County, a group of Archbishop Murphy High School students worked more than 300 hours of their summer break to provide yard maintenance through the local Catholic Community Services volunteer chore services program. The students’ goal was to clean up the landscapes of people with disabilities or elderly residents who need assistance to be able to stay in their own homes.
The group’s primary project was for a 92-year-old woman in the Mukilteo area. With her family living in another state, the woman depends on others to care for her yard. The Archbishop Murphy team mowed, weeded and pruned, cleaned porches and decks, painted, repaired fences and laid beauty bark. Marjorie, who for safety reasons used only her first name, was very appreciative and played the piano for the students while they worked.
Participating on the work crew were Charlie Dire, Geoff Hunter, Dejan Sughrim, Taylor Metsker, John-Paul Blair, Nikki Baehm, Van Weller, Nick Anderson, Nick Pursley and Andrew Perez. Adult volunteers were Mike Dire, Cathy Dire, Mike Byrnes, Sherry Metsker, Barry Metsker and school counselors Jane Brown and Tim Blair.
To volunteer for chore services in your Snohomish County neighborhood, call Patty Crum, program coordinator, at 425-257-2111, ext. 3303.
Everett High School student Drew Revord, 14, had a charitable ambassadorship established in his name at the 2006 Washington State Auto Dealers Association’s annual convention in May. When he turns 17, Drew will present his first grant to a charitable or non-profit organization of his choice. His ambassadorship will provide a grant with a minimum value of $1,000 every three years in perpetuity.
Drew is the son of Mark and Vicki Revord and the grandson of Clyde Revord. The Revords are co-owners of Clyde Revord Motors in Everett. Drew has helped his mother with her work for the Assistance League thrift shop and Operation School Bell. He already is giving serious thought to where he will direct his first grant, perhaps to a local school, his father said.
Like his father and grandfather, Drew loves cars, his father said, and has expressed interest in working in the family business. The Washington State Auto Dealers Association raises money for charitable, medical and educational organizations.
Nicholas Anderson has achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. The son of Donald and Carla Anderson of Everett, he is a student at Archbishop Murphy High School.
Anderson is a student body officer, honor roll member, letterman in three sports, a team captain, sportsmanship award winner, a volunteer at Camp Prov for disabled children and a member of Crew 23, Faith Lutheran Church, Everett.
For his Eagle project, Anderson built a planter at Immaculate Conception School where he had been a student. His hope is that first graders there will use the planter to study plant life cycles. Helping with the project were Dave Dorsett, Nick Spencer-Berger, Arne Roe and the Rev. Dennis Robb.
Since 2002, American Legion Post 234 of Mountlake Terrace, through its Special Needs Committee, has donated 115 computers, complete with monitors and printers, to veterans homes in the state as well as to individuals recommended by the Veterans Administration.
Those involved in the computer donation project have included Ralph Allrud, Ralph Pfister, Helen Lamb, Frank Murphy, Frank Hutchins, Diane Murdock, Mark Jensen, Rick Adams, Barbara Culley, Catherine Shaw and Lynne Zemke.
A group of Snohomish County student ambassadors recently returned from a trip to Europe through the People to People program. Begun by President Eisenhower, People to People is a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote international goodwill. Participants are chosen for the trip through a selection process.
The delegation included Robert Beadles, Abby Beauchamp, Dane Bettger, Ashley Braid, Erik Clark, Tamara Click, Erica Cochrine, Kellie Davies, Anthony Gaskin, Kailah Glenn, Alexis Hauser, Jodi Jackson, Mallory Malone, Ashley Petersen, Amira Orange, Eric Otten, Pichy Promsatit, Brandon Rock and Evan York. Leaders were John Hewitt and Adam Othman. Along with touring in Italy and France, the students stayed with families in Malta, where most of the program’s cultural exchange took place.
“The homestay was the most rewarding experience of the trip,” said Ashley Baird of Everett. “Not only because of all the things (the families in Malta) did for us, but because of all they taught us about life on the other side of the world.”
Nancy Franke and Tom Nygard have been named Snohomish County 4-H Leaders of the Year by their peers. They will be recognized at the county 4-H award ceremony at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Evergreen State Fair.
Franke has been a 4-H leader for more than 12 years. Her involvement began as the parent of a 4-H participant and quickly evolved into a variety of leadership roles. At the county level, she has been a leader in the rabbit program, including her hard work at the fair. Even though her daughter is now in college, Franke continues to serve 4-H kids and their families.
Nygard, who joined 4-H when he was 8 years old and remained active through high school, has been a 4-H leader since 2001. He runs the largest 4-H swine club in Snohomish County, the Hope 4’S Hog Wild of Stanwood. Nygard also is involved in state livestock judging contests, the Silvana Fair and Stanwood-Camano Island Fair, where he built a new swine showing arena. As a boy, Nygard was an award-winning member of the Silvana Lads and Lassies and the Hope 4 Beefers clubs, involved in livestock and dairy projects.
The Everett Area Newcomers club’s new officers are president Deanna Dunkin Smith; first vice president Lynne Westwood; second vice presidents Edith DeWitt, Bg Garton and Judy Powers; secretaries Colleen Casler and Celeste Denecke; and treasurer Edith Fleischer.
The club has 85 members participating in 15 monthly activities offered to develop new friendships in homes and businesses in Everett, Mukilteo, Mill Creek and Lynnwood.
At the group’s Sept. 14 luncheon, a program about the history of KSER (90.7 FM), Everett’s community radio station, will be presented by Becky Passarella, For a newsletter, contact everettnewcomers@yahoo.com.
