Seems Like Yesterday

Published 9:18 pm Monday, December 31, 2007

50 years ago (1958)

Nat Brook, Dale Good, Glenn Brooke, Duke Demiglio and “Crocky” at Radio KRKO wished all a happy new year. The Everett station offered international, national and local on-the-spot news as well as the sweetest sound for miles around with Top-40 tunes.

Work was progressing on schedule on an 8,000-foot-long piling at Cavalero’s Corner to support the Everett Water Department’s new 48-inch transmission line. It was the first construction activity in a $3.8 million project to install a fourth water transmission line and to rehabilitate existing water department facilities.

25 years ago (1983)

The close of 1982 and the beginning of 1983 marked special times in the congregational life of First Baptist Church of Everett. The Rev. Ernest Hastings was honored recently on his 14th anniversary here. This Sunday the church would honor a man Hastings brought to Everett as the music director, the Rev. John Sinkevitch.

Local families adjusting to triplets were Lorraine and Jerry Cunningham and big sister Amy of Everett and Linda and Dennis Hansen and big brother Kyle of Bothell. The families were adjusting to more activity and less sleep, but were really enjoying themselves.

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