50 years ago (1964)
Members of Everett Kiwanis Club were treated to a demonstration of gymnastics by the Everett High School gym team. Demonstrating the side horse were Steve Eadie and Buck Olsen.
A new comic strip with a “wayout” sense of humor began today in The Herald. Called “Wayout,” it was written by Ken Muse, a new kind of cartoonist who worked from a light box instead of a drawing board, a method he picked up from animating figures for television. It was just his art alone, his humor was unusual.
25 years ago (1989)
Selecting food for the Volunteers of America food bank at Olson’s Foods were Jeff Wyson, of Everett; Kenyon Martin, of Edmonds; local actress IvyAnn Schwan, who had a supporting role in “Parenthood;” and actor Tony Romano, a regular on the CBS series “Wiseguy.”
Osey C. Helton, of Darrington, wanted to become the state’s first bonafide moonshine dealer with his “Ma and Pa Helton’s Spring Water Moonshine Whiskey.” A transplant from North Carolina’s hill country, Helton said there probably wasn’t a similar distillery west of the Mississippi.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library.
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