50 years ago (1961)
4-H Club leaders Elmer Norgaard, Velma Strand and W.D. “Doug” Larson were busy readying the 4-H Grounds at Marysville’s Memorial Park for the forthcoming Snohomish County 4-H Club Fair in August.
Moving one of 16 Lions-built picnic tables into a Lions-provided shelter at Hill Park on Blackman Lake north of Snohomish were David Cooperman, Harris Freal, H.J. McGee and Ray Dunklefson. Harry Dunbar chaired the Lions project for the new tables.
25 years ago (1986)
Developers were seeing pie-in-the-sky in projects that never happened. On the drawing board were a 15-story office building on the northeast corner of Hewitt and Colby avenues, a 25-story structure near the northeast corner of Rockefeller Avenue and Wall Street and a major office and shopping complex at the northeast corner of California Street and Colby Avenue.
A new 30,000-square-foot recreational field was now open at Camp Fire’s Camp Killoqua, thanks to memorial donations to the Marie Weeks Varley Camp Fire Foundation. It was named for Knut Kravik, who spent many years working on behalf of the organization.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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