50 YEARS AGO (1958)
A better than 20-foot replica of Santa Claus was erected at The Bon Marche, California Street and Wetmore Avenue. The voice of Santa issued forth via a public address system. Making last-minute adjustments on Santa’s writing pad was Pat Crane of the store staff.
Getchell Home Demonstration Club was making plans for its annual Christmas dinner in the home of Irene Robertson. Each member would take a prospective new member as her guest to the dinner meeting.
25 YEARS AGO (1983)
Mean storms turned the holiday into a turkey. Winds up to 70 mph bent utility poles almost to the ground near the corner of 24th and Walnut streets. A police records room clerk said Everett police received about 200 calls about wind damage. Lonnie Davis of Snopac emergency dispatch said she’d never seen anything like it.
Students at Sultan Elementary now had a publishing center. Teachers Karl Verta and Mary Ann Thompson had experimented with the publishing projects in their fourth-grade classrooms for several years. Principal Tom Sofie said the publishing would be there year after year.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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