Arlington
Make photo prints from old slides and negatives
The Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society wants to help people preserve important family photos.
Slides and negatives can be brought to the society’s library from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday and photo prints will be made at the time. The cost for each 4-by-6-inch photograph is $1.
Society librarian Mary Buzell plans to be available to do the photo work the second Thursday of each month at the society library, 135 N. Olympic Ave., downtown Arlington.
More info: 360-435-4838.
Senior center’s renovation halts dinners
Chicken dinners at the Stillaguamish Senior Center have been suspended for two months while renovations to the center’s main hall are completed this summer.
The old-fashioned chicken dinners set for June 29 and July 27 have been canceled. The center plans to serve a chicken dinner at the end of August, center director Jo Olson said.
“I know people who will be very upset about this,” Olson said.
A new floor, new walls, an electrical upgrade and the installation of new heating and air conditioning systems are part of the renovations being made to the center’s main hall, Olson said.
More info: 360-653-4551.
Highway restriping starts near Arlington
Restriping crews from the state Department of Transportation will work from Arlington in north Snohomish County to Blaine at the Canadian border from Monday to June 27.
Crews will restripe I-5 and highways 9, 11, 539 and others in and north of Snohomish County.
The paint is reflective to increase visibility. Crews can paint only when the road is dry and temperatures are above 50 degrees.
Drivers should watch out for “wet paint” signs and give road workers plenty of space. Drivers who ignore “wet paint” signs and drive over the lines should not be surprised if their vehicles are splattered with paint.
More info: 206-768-5882.
Darrington
State continues Acme elk relocation program
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has worked throughout the spring to continue relocating elk from the Acme area in Whatcom County to an area of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest near Darrington.
The project began late in 2006, when crews from the state worked with the Stillaguamish, Upper Skagit, Swinomish and other tribes to catch elk in passive traps in the Acme area, where they were damaging crops in nearby fields.
The elk were moved to the forest near Darrington to save the crops and give the elk a less-populated environment in which to live.
In March, crews captured and moved five cows from the Acme area, according to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. The cows will allow the new herd near Darrington to grow.
Tribal leaders hope to conservatively hunt the herd once it’s large enough.
Marysville
Summer movies in the park are scheduled
The Marysville Parks Department has set the schedule for its Popcorn in the Parks movie series through the summer.
The first movie was shown last weekend in Jennings Memorial Park. The next one is scheduled for dusk on June 28 at Foothills Park on 59th Street NE.
The series is made possible by a donation by the Snohomish-Camano Island Board of Realtors. The organization put up $12,995 for an inflatable, 16-by-9-foot CineBox movie screen.
The series is scheduled to rotate between parks on most Saturday evenings through Sept. 13.
More info: 360-363-8000 or www.ci.marysville.wa.us.
Oak Harbor
Island Red Cross to honor volunteers
The Island County Chapter of the American Red Cross plans to recognize its volunteers at a special event.
The chapter’s annual volunteer recognition and membership dinner is 5 p.m. June 24 at Family Bible Church, 2760 Heller Road, Oak Harbor.
More info: 360-675-2912.
Stanwood
Quilters for veterans to meet Saturday
The Stanwood-Camano Hero Quilters group is continuing its effort to make quilts for wounded veterans through the American Hero Quilts project.
The group plans to meet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the cafeteria on the lower level of the Stanwood Senior Center, 7430 276th St. NW.
In May, the local quilters delivered 44 quilts and quilt tops to the American Hero Quilts project, group leader Sharon Szekely said. The Wounded Warrior Unit at Fort Lewis is asking for 100 quilts a month, according to the quilt project manager.
More quilters are needed for the effort, which is explained at www.americanheroquilts.com.
More info: 360-387-4800 or sharonsseams2b@peoplepc.com.
Workshop planned for small businesses
Small-business owners can learn about tax strategies at a workshop being planned by the Stanwood Chamber of Commerce.
The workshop is 9 a.m. to noon June 19 at the Stanwood-Camano School District board room at 26920 Pioneer Highway. The event is free for Stanwood and Camano Island chamber members. Others can attend for $25.
Instructors from a certified accounting firm are planning to lead the workshop. The workshop is to be the first in a series sponsored by the Stanwood Chamber of Commerce.
More info: 360-629-7136.
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