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Help Boeing design the look of airliners

The Future of Flight Aviation Center &Boeing Tour is showcasing a new feature that will use visitor input to help shape the future design of airliner interiors.

Boeing is gathering comments on how airliner interiors of the future could look and feel.

Included in the Shape the Future tour, which lasts two hours, are a brief guided tour through the Future of Flight Aviation Center’s gallery, a passenger research session lasting approximately 20 minutes in the Passenger Experience Research Center and a visit to the Boeing 747, 777 and 787 assembly lines.

The Passenger Experience Research Center is in the Future of Flight Aviation Center’s gallery and will be used by Boeing to study reactions from the public to various airplane interior concepts and innovations.

For information, go to www.futureofflight.org.

Learn how to be a master gardener

The Washington State University extension office is accepting applications for master gardener training.

The 12-week course costs $150. Applications are due by Oct. 31, and space is limited.

Call 425-338-2400 for an application or go to www.snohomish.wsu.edu.

Arlington garden club workshops set

The Arlington Garden Club will offer its Turn Your Thumb Green workshops this winter. These workshops are free to members, $3 for nonmembers.

The public is welcome.

The workshops are 10 to 11:30 a.m. the second Saturday of the month at the Arlington Boys &Girls Club, 18513 59th Ave. NE, Arlington.

For more information, go to www.arlington gardenclub.org.

Marysville to offer basketball league

The Marysville parks department is offering a basketball league for kids in first through eighth grades.

Practices begin the first week of December and games start the first week of January. Volunteer coaches are needed.

Registration runs from Sept. 2 to Oct. 4. Fees are $66 for each first family member, $60 for each additional family member.

For more information call 360-363-8400.

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