Seems Like Yesterday

Published 10:32 pm Saturday, May 31, 2008

50 years ago (1958)

Among the first to get word of the safety fair that Simpson Paper Company was staging at the American Legion Home on June 14 were safety committee members Pat Bartholomew, Barbara Peterson, Bob Howard, Herb Somes and Nill Thompson.

Snohomish High School student Art Webber showed his first place drop-front desk to runner-up Clyde Moller in the annual Industrial Arts competition sponsored by the Ford Motor Co. Webber’s desk and Moller’s work would be shipped to Dearborn, Mich., for national competition. Their instructor was Charles Sekulich.

25 years ago (1983)

Among the 10 statewide winners of $5,200 worth of groceries each in a contest conducted by Associated Grocers were Bill Rueter of Everett, Betty Paradie of Lynnwood and Charlie Trimmer of Greenbank. In a second drawing, the American Heart of Washington also received a $5,200 donation from Associated Grocers.

Veterans of Foreign Wars member Harry Palmer joined in a color guard to help rededicate the Edmonds Cemetery on Ninth Avenue. The cemetery, first used in 1891, recently was donated to the city and a committee of residents had been searching the records and interviewing people to identify who was buried there.

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