50 years ago (1955)
Gene Rochon took top prizes at Cedarcrest Golf Club. His net 64 won the first division, and he also ripped the longest drive. Trailing in the first division were Jack Roebuck, Jack Vincent and P. O’Brien. Charles Lowry and Hosmer Brokaw won the second division with Phil Bjorn and Allan O’Brien following. Tom Lewis won the third division.
Helen Chapin opened a six-week lecture course at the Bon Marche attracting a large turnout of women interested in making their own clothing. Among those in attendance were Agnes Drauz and Ethel Koon.
25 years ago (1980)
Jim Casey wrote about “The Everett Gang,” a herd of California sea lions that had taken up housekeeping on the Everett Jetty. Seventy-one of them – all males – fed at Port Susan in the morning and then slept soundly on the old barge.
Still the same Bon Voyage Travel Service customers had always known, the travel agent had moved across Wetmore Avenue from the Bon. Bon Voyage also was located at the Everett Mall.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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