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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
• 2008 Continued from page A1
• look back at sore,' ,,J tn,00 top storie ,,f 2008
of a pair of ballot issues
benefitting the Lakewood
School District.
In this case, the school
issues are a replacement
program and operations
levy and a smaller teCh-
nology levy.
Feb. 20
"At this point, we're
kind of in a holding pat-
tern," said city Chief
Administrative Officer
Mary Swenson. "We're
in kind of a 'wait and see'
mode."
Swenson was refer-
ring to the city's long,
but on-going efforts to
land a proposed branch
campus of the University
of Washington. Those
efforts underwent sort of
a sidestep last week. At a
hearing Feb. 12, the state
Senate Ways and Means
Committee put on hold
three pieces of legisla-
tion connected to the con-
struction of the potential
campus.
According to Swen-
son and others, the move
means there is little chance
of the campus earning
legislative approval in the
Senate anytime soon.
Feb. 27
The election won't be
certified until March, but
Lakewood Superintendent
Larry Francois said he is
feeling pretty good about
the numbers coming from
the Snohomish County
Board of Elections.
"We're reasonably con-
fident," Francois said.
Lakewood had two lev-
ies on the Feb. 19 ballot.
Proposition 1 is a main-
tenance and operating
levy that would replace an
existing levy set to expire
at the end of this year.
Proposition 2 will give
the district additional dol-
lars for what officials call
technology improvements
at the schools.
According to unoffi-
'cial numbers released by
the elections board Feb.
22, Lakewood Proposi-
tion 1 was passing with
1,779 votes in favor and
1,236 votes against, or 59
percent for to 41 percent
against.
Voters also were show-
ing support for Prop 2, if
to a smaller extent. The
issue was passing 1,657
to 1,349, or 55 percent to
44 percent.
March
March 5
Staged early the morn-
ing of Feb. 29 in the Crys-
tal Masonic Lodge on
Fifth Street, the actual
presentation was quick
and to the point.
With the help of one of
those oversized checks
good for photo ops, Marys-
ville Rotary President
Gordy Bjorg presented
the local historical society
with a quarter-million dol-
lar shot in the arm.
The $250,000 funding
is aimed at the society's
proposed $3 million
museum.
Besides the check pre-
sentation, the morning
also featured a keynote
speech from Washington
Secretary of State Sam
Reed, a big supporter of
preserving the state's
heritage.
"It's exciting," Marys=
ville Historical Society
President Ken Cage said
of the Rotary's donation.
With the Rotary con-
tribution and some oth-
ers the society hopes
to receive shortly, Cage
believes fundraising for
the proposed museum
will top $1 million within
the next few weeks.
March 12
"I believed I was going
to die from the grief,"
said one-time Marysville
resident Jenny Wieland
Ward.
Ward's daughter Amy
Ragan was murdered
at age 17 in an Everett
apartment on Nov. 21,
1992. During the lengthy
course of the trial of her
daughter's accused killer,
the Snohomish County
Prosecutor's Office
referred Ward to an advo-
cacy agency, Families arid
Friends of Missing Per-
sons and Violent Crime
Victims.
Eventually, as you
might expect, Ward
became a volunteer for
Friends and Families,
taking the required 40-
Kip Killebrew, left, of the
tor David Roon.
hour training course to
become a facilitator for
support groups. In 1994,
she founded her won orga-
nization, Mothers Against
Violence in America. But,
in July 2002 her returned
to Friends and Families,
this time as executive
director.
March 19
"All in all, we were very,
very lucky," said Lt. Jeff
Goldman, spokesperson
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File photo
Stillaguamish Tribal Hatchery talks over the condition of local salmon with visi-
for the Marysville Police
Department, referring to
the early morning colli-
sion between a train and
semi-truck in Marysville,
March 17.
Late the afternoon of
March 17, after jumping
their tracks, the rem-
nants of three locomotive
engines and one train car
sat looking like something
out of a movie on the west
side of the 133rd block of
State Avenue.
That jumble was in
addition to the remains of
a semi-trailer load of fro-
zen food that was flung
here and there along the
street.
Nevertheless, Gold-
man said no one was seri-
ously injured, there were
no fires and no explosions
when the northbound
train collided with the
westbound semi about
5:50 a.m., March 17. Gold-
man noted high tension
power lines near the Bur-
lington Northern Santa
Fe tracks were complete
unscathed.
According to Goldman,
the tractor-trailer was on
a private drive pulling into
the industrial park near
the Pacific Grinding Co.,
13120 State Ave., when it
was struck by the Burling-
ton Northern train.
March 26
Because it's fun and it's
cool. Oh, and the possibil-
ity of picking up $3,000 in
scholarship money doesn't
hurt. Those three reasons
were at or near the top of
the lists given by all five
of the local teens vying
in the April Friesner Roy-
alty Scholarship Pageant
of the Marysville Straw-
berry Festival.
They were Lfla Hart,
Michelle Giesler, Danielle
Wilcoxson, Che Renouard
and Michael Running. In
the end, Wilcoxson was
named Queen and Hart
and Renouard were named
Princesses.
April
April 2
Launched in the 1990s
as Project Salmon and
aimed at preserving and
enriching the history
and culture of the Tulalip
Tribes, the appropriately
named Heritage High
School now has a perma-
nent home.
The Marysville School
District opened the doors
to that new home for 86
Native American stu-
dents March 17. Heritage
is the second building to
become operational on
the district's so-called
options campus off 27th
Avenue on the Tulalip Res-
ervation.
April 9
Among the dozen or
so volunteers on hand,
the consensus seemed to
be the first attempt would
take at least an hour.
Still, when the brand
new 2008 Marysville
Strawberry Festival float
rolled down the ramp from.
the trailer that will house
and carry from event to
event, the time needed
to fully assemble the cre-
ation was about half those
initial estimates.
Reflecting the "Wish
Upon a Berry" slogan for
this year's festival, the
whimsical float bears a
genie and fanciful Middle
Eastern theme. A man-
sized strawberry, com-
plete with arms, legs and
a smiling face, rides a
magic carpet in the center
of the float
April 16
With the opening last
month of its seventh "mid-
major" anchor tenant,
the city's biggest retail
development to date is
essentially complete in its
spot on Twin Lakes Bou-
levard.
President of Lakewood
Crossing owner Powell
Development, Peter Pow-
ell said only one major
tenant has yet to arrive.
He added a lease has
been signed clearing the
way for development of an
IHOP restaurant on the
last of the center's four
restaurant "pads."
Another of those pads
was filled earlier this
year with the arrival of
Boston's Gourmet Pizza.
The restaurant opened
Jan. 21.
Discount retailer Mar-
shalls filled Lakewood
Crossing's last remaining
anchor space, opening in
mid-March. Powell Devel-
opment Vice-President
Don Barker said Mar-
shalls claimed the sev-
enth and last mid-sized
anchor space available in
the center's current con-
figuration.
April 23
Obviously interrelated,
water quality and salmon
were probably the two
most popular topics of dis-
cussion during the Earth
Day Celebration April 19
along the city's stretch of
Ebey Slough.
Standing by a small
aquarium filled with
various types of young
salmon, Kip Killebrew of
the Stillaguamish Tribal
Hatchery said everything
from lawn fertilizers to
the types of plants lining
local waterways could
affect local salmon.
He added that unfor-
tunately, hatcheries such
as that run by the Still-
aguamish are necessary
to keep up the numbers of
fish in local waters.
File photo
With some possibly jealous onlookers in the back-
ground, Dayne Meyer, 6, shows off his catch during the
weekend fishing derby.
April 30
With an emphasis on
preparing for the upcom-
'ing annexation of some
20,000 new residents,
Police Chief Rick Smith
last week unveiled a
detailed "business plan"
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