Seems Like Yesterday

Published 11:13 pm Monday, October 29, 2007

50 years ago (1957)

To raise funds to help the handicapped, a banquet at the Elks Home was sponsored by Snohomish County Coordinating Council for Handicapped Children and Adults. In charge were Alice Carpenter, Ray Howell, Edwina Mincks, Dorothy Bennett, Glenn Carpenter, Bob Newell, Lillian Newland and Lee McIntosh.

One of the upcoming features of World Community was the dedication of gifts and clothing for war refugees around the world. Isabella Holtum, general chairwoman, and Ruth Dinwiddie, program chairwoman, were busy packing bags of clothing for their program at the First Baptist Church.

25 years ago (1982)

Lt. Art Iverson of the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office likened a recent crime to something that read like a story from of Mad magazine. Three burglars were caught because they were using two-way radios they had stolen. Meanwhile one of their cars was being broken into by juveniles stealing a stereo. All were arrested.

As a truck loaded with late-season hay rumbled across the Lewis Street bridge in Monroe, several fishermen tried their luck in the Skykomish River where silver salmon were running. These sunny autumn days were numbered with the cold rains of November just around the corner.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library