Seems Like Yesterday

Published 9:00 pm Sunday, November 23, 2003

The North Broadway Lions Club held a meeting where Jim Simington said they would put a new roof on the Baker Heights YMCA. Art Assink showed "The Everett Story," a filmed review of the city’s industrial, business and social life. Other visitors were Maxwell Sherrell, Dr. R.G. Lewis and Morris Webster. Ed Tutland was given a bird.

Pitzer Paint &Wallpaper Store at 2110 Broadway advertised decorating ideas at budget prices. They offered paperhanging services and matching wallpapers and fabrics.

Susan Russel, art teacher at Lake Stevens High School, taught an after-school workshop on turkey-quill writing after student Russell Regnere brought in turkey feathers from a nearby farm. Joy Law practiced her calligraphy skills with a pen fashioned from one of them.

A contested freeway interchange north of Snohomish would be debated before the Snohomish County Planning Commission. The interchange was being proposed for the new Snohomish bypass where it crossed the Snohomish-Machias Road.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library