@Drop cap Minion:Arlington High School students turned to their grand and great grandparents for information and inspiration.
After all, kids today don’t know anything about bebop, a style of jazz born in the 1940s.
Members of Arlington High School’s Jazzmine group did their homework in fine style and will play music from the Roaring 20s on through today’s hits at a performance called Blast to the Past.
Credentials indicate it should be a swell show. The Jazzmine group was recently named most inspirational at the Pacific Vocal Jazz Festival at Bellevue Community College, a competition of vocal jazz choirs from around the Northwest.
Soloist Erica Ewell won the outstanding soloist award. She recently wowed crowds as Captain Hook in the school production of “Peter Pan.”
See the show at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27 and 28 and March 6 and 7, and at 2 p.m. March 8 at Byrnes Performing Arts Center at Arlington High School, 18821 Crown Ridge Blvd. in Arlington.
For more information, go to www.byrnesperformingarts.org.
They had a sky-high idea, but no one came through for the Arlington Municipal Airport.
Airport runways were closed for several days during the December snowstorms. During snow removal operations, airport employees worked in shifts using two snowplow trucks, a front-end loader for moving snow drifts, and shovels for clearing off runway lights.
The staff was hoping someone took aerial photographs of the Arlington area covered in snow.
Photos were to be sent to airport@ci.arlington.wa.us. Joe Alexander, airport coordinator, says nobody turned in any photos.
Too bad the plea got a cold shoulder.
The Electric Beach tanning salon has vacated in Stanwood. If you need office space in Viking Village, next to the Uff Da Shoppe, check it out.
The Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation is renting space in the former tanning salon for small offices.
For more information, e-mail Theresa Metzger at theresa@s-caf.org or call 360-629-6878.
Linda Lee Martens of Coupeville was known for her acts of kindness.
The Island County Community Health Advisory Board offers a Linda Lee Martens Health Hero Award of Island County. It’s for those who go the extra mile helping others in need, health officer Dr. Roger Case said.
Before her death in 2000, Martens was the executive secretary of the health department and a former president of Soroptomists International.
“And memorable participant in many local activities,” Case said. “An ordinary person with an extraordinary love for others.”
Former winners were recognized for promoting child-abuse prevention, fostering children, working to reduce substance abuse, addressing environmental issues, helping the elderly find health care and enhancing community health in other ways.
“While Linda Lee was quite active in several community groups, the services for which this award was established were mostly personal one-on-one acts of kindness — activities that would reach the attention of others by word of mouth, very low key, but which were just part of who she was,” Case says. “Her motto was ‘Dare to be a fool.’ She was one of the most genuine persons I have ever known.”
For more information, call 360-679-7350.
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
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