50 YEARS AGO (1960)

Haskell Corp. of Everett was awarded a contract to build a new steam plant at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe. Ed Haskell said today that the contract involved about $500,000. The project called for the construction of a complete new boiler plant for the reformatory.

Containers not intended for flowers would be used in the arrangements for the meeting of Marysville Garden Club. Such containers could be old shoes, piggy banks, coin purses and recipe covers. The meeting would be in the home of Ethel Palmer with Goldie Siggins co-hosting.

25 YEARS AGO (1985)

Dr. Leeon and Virginia Aller of Snohomish received Providence Hospital’s Johnson Award for community service named for the late Dr. Jack Johnson. The Allers had helped raise more than 48 foster children and had made trips to Africa and Central America to help educate and bring medical care to the underprivileged.

Most of Warren Preboski’s career as a funeral director had been spent at Purdy &Walters with Cassidy. He managed the funeral home and helped people with their funeral planning needs. Everett-area baseball fans remembered him from his years of coaching youth baseball and umpiring.

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