Throw suspicious tomatoes in trash
Rita Smith, community education coordinator with Waste Management, has a request.
Because of the possible presence of salmonella in some tomatoes, Waste Management requests that all residential and business customers put suspicious tomatoes and suspect raw tomato products such as salsa in the garbage, not in curbside yard or food carts.
Anyone using a backyard compost bin is encouraged to follow this same advisory and not put them with compost. Same goes for worm bins.
Free vitamins and fluoride available
Haggen Food &Pharmacy and TOP Food &Drug stores in Snohomish County offer free prenatal vitamins and fluoride for those who come to the stores with doctor’s prescriptions for those products. There will be no charge for the prescriptions.
Dave Brumbaugh with Brumbaugh Co. said the retail value of the prenatal vitamins before and during a pregnancy can be about $200.
Haggen stores are in Marysville, Arlington, Lake Stevens and Stanwood. TOP Food stores are in Everett, Edmonds and Snohomish.
File online graffiti report in Marysville
The Marysville Graffiti Task Force offers an online form for submitting reports of graffiti vandalism in the city.
The task force is a group of residents, business owners and officials fighting graffiti in the city who hope the online forms can speed removal of graffiti.
A law approved by the city last year allows the city to levy fines of $25 for anyone who does not clean graffiti from their property within four days.
The new online form also provides a way to submit photos.
It can be found at www.ci.marysville.wa.us.
Children’s museum revs up for fathers
Imagine Children’s Museum will offer a Father’s Day celebration from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at 1502 Wall St., Everett, for hands-on, racing-themed activities.
Drivers and cars from the Monroe Mini Stock Car Club plan to be at the museum, along with the Nintendo Mario Kart Wii car.
Activities include getting behind the wheel of a race car, meeting race-car drivers and making “Woobleracer” race cars to take home.
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