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Published 5:55 pm Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Church members take part in day of service

Hundreds of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregations on Sept. 12 fanned out for a Day of Service in their local neighborhoods.

Volunteers painted a fence by a food bank community garden in Maltby, cleaned up parks and trails in Monroe, tidied cemeteries in Sultan and Monroe, helped prepare land for a new park in Marysville, and spruced up Centennial Trail in Lake Stevens.

Like other service projects across Snohomish County that weekend, the LDS projects coincided with the 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance, a tribute to the victims, survivors, and those who rose up in service in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Elks take veterans on charter fishing trip

The Everett Elks received a grant to take 10 disabled veterans to Westport for a bottomfish charter fishing trip, Sept. 1-2. The 10 veterans and two Elks members spent a full day on the water and went home with plenty of fish, including lingcod and yellowtail. The grant paid all expenses for the veterans, including a rental van, motel stay, food and charter boat.

Check helps move food bank building along

The Kiwanis Club of Lake Stevens recently presented a $1,940 donation to the Lake Stevens Community Food Bank building committee. The money will help the food bank’s capital campaign to build a new facility by summer 2017.

The food bank has outgrown its leased space at Ebenezer Lutheran Church. The food bank was started by church members nearly 40 years ago before becoming its own nonprofit.

People can donate money online at www.lakestevensfood bank.org or by sending a check marked “Building Fund” in the memo field to P.O. Box 1031, Lake Stevens, WA 98258.

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