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Benefit for student

Sunnyside Elementary School staff and PTSA offer a spaghetti dinner and auction tonight to benefit a second-grader who has cancer.

It’s 5 p.m. at 3707 Sunnyside Blvd. in Marysville.

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Road rally on Camano: A Camano Island Road Rally begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at Chase Way on Camano Island.

Vintage, modern and electric vehicles and bicycles will travel the recently completed reconstruction of Camano Hill Road.

Island County Commissioner John Dean will be on hand to start the rally.

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Bid farewell to Edmonds school: Woodway Elementary School in Edmonds is hosting a celebration of diversity and history from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

The Edmonds School Board decided to close Woodway as a way to save money and deal with declining enrollment.

Current and former students and staff are invited to attend and recognize Woodway’s contribution to the community.

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New health festival is coming: Marysville’s first-ever Healthy Communities Challenge Day, organized in conjunction with the Get Movin’ fitness program, is planned for June 6.

The Challenge Day event is 1 to 7 p.m. at Allen Creek Elementary School, 6505 60th Drive NE.

A kickoff for Get Movin’, the annual summer program aimed at motivating families to adopt active lifestyles, will run from 1 to 3 p.m. at Marysville-North County YMCA, 6420 60th Drive NE.

For more information, call 360-363-8000.

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