Our Towns
Published 10:58 pm Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Arlington
Join Legion walkers Saturday
American Legion Family Post 76 in Arlington is looking for walkers for a five-mile walk-a-thon at 8 a.m. Saturday. The event is a fundraiser for Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle.
Registration will be at Post Middle School, 1220 E. Fifth St.
All children 12 and younger need to be accompanied by an adult.
For more information, call Bill Lloyd at 360-435-3248 or 360-435-5551.
Everett
Open house for Firefighters Hall
The Everett Firefighters Association has a new home and is inviting the public to an open house to show the new Firefighters Hall from 1 to 3 p.m. July 9 at 2411 Hewitt Ave.
The new hall features a tumbled-brick fire station facade, restored wooden fire station doors from the old fire station at 2801 Oakes Ave., and huge photographs of two antique fire trucks.
The building also features a spacious kitchen, men’s and women’s restrooms, assembly space for up to nearly 200 people and cutting-edge video and sound systems.
The Everett Firefighters Association is a nonprofit organization of Everett firefighters dedicated to historical preservation of Everett fire equipment.
The association also leases and donates meeting space to community groups and charities.
Plese call Dave DeMarco at 425-239-0717 for more information.
Island County
Dance at senior center Friday
A dance is planned for 7 to 10 p.m. Friday at the Camano Senior and Community Center, 606 Arrowhead Road. Tickets are $5.
For more information, call 360-387-0222.
Lake Stevens
Students collect for food bank
The staff and third-graders at Hillcrest Elementary School recently raised $488 and collected 858 food items for the Lake Stevens Community Food Bank.
The results far surpassed the goal of 600 food items and $330, according to food bank volunteer Dona Ferro.
Marysville
Winners of trike races announced
Winners of the 2007 Marysville Rotary Strawberry Festival Adult Trike Race have been announced.
The races took place June 15 at Marysville’s Waterfront Park. Four-member relay teams of employees from local businesses competed on a circular obstacle course of more than 100 yards.
Each business had multiple teams. Roy Robinson No. 1 – a team for the car dealership – took first place in the all-male competition division, doing the course in 5 minutes, 19 seconds.
Golden Corral No. 3 took first place in the 50-50 division made up of equal numbers of men and women with a time of 6:02.
Kelly Peterson DDS No. 1 took first place in the powder puff division of all women, in 7:46.
Winners received trophies and cash prizes of up to $200.
Monroe
Center offers free hearing clinic
The East County Senior Center offers a free hearing clinic from 1 to 2 p.m. on the second and fourth Mondays at 276 Sky River Parkway. Appointments are required. For information, call the center at 360-794-6359.
Snohomish
Senior center offers art class
The Snohomish Senior Center plans to play host to a free eight-week collage art class, taught by illustrator Constance Perenyi, 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays from June 27 to Aug. 22 at St. Michael’s Church, 1514 Pine Ave. Materials provided.
There will be no class July 4.
Class size is limited to 15 people. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 360-568-0934.
Stanwood
Signals in synch on Highway 532
Drivers headed through Stanwood on Highway 532 should save six minutes in the afternoon and two minutes in the morning, thanks to improved traffic signal timing, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
Crews recently completed work to improve the timing of six traffic signals from Sunrise Boulevard on Camano Island to 72nd Avenue NW in Stanwood, a stretch of about six miles.
The signals are now connected and synchronized through a central computer system that is supposed to keep them coordinated.
