July 3, 2013
The Arlington Times • The Marysville Globe
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Lions Club cleans up Terrace Park Toys for Tots collects for food banks BY KIRK BOXLEITNER
BY KIRK BOXLEITNER
ARLINGTON — The evening of Wednesday, June 26, marked the return of the Arlington Lions Club to Terrace Park for its annual cleanup. Arlington Lions Club members Jim Knight, Ruth Munizza, Karen and Randy Tendering, and Maxine Jenft spent an estimated three hours on weeding and tidying up the park’s flowerbeds, as well as picking up trash and the larger tree limbs that had come down during recent rainstorms. According to Jenft, the Arlington Lions Club had adopted Terrace Park several years ago, not long after the city of Arlington had pitched the “Adopt-A-Park” concept to its local businesses and service organizations. “We’re there at least once a year, in the late spring or early summer, before the Fourth of July,” Jenft said. “It can be a challenge to choose a dry day, as well as to get enough people together to do the cleanup, since everyone is so busy, but it’s so rewarding to see the beforeand-after of the flowerbeds. It’s a busy park that always has kids there with their
MARYSVILLE — Randall Murphy served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2002-06, but hasn’t been active duty in the seven years since. And yet, when Toys for Tots needed his help, he donned his sergeant’s dress blues to stand outside the Grocery Outlet in Marysville in the hot summer sun on Saturday, June 29, collecting food and financial donations for four Snohomish County food banks. “Who wouldn’t want an excuse to put their Marine Corps uniform back on?” Murphy laughed, as he was handed enough bags of donated food to fill two shopping carts. “I also did the Toys for Tots toy drive last fall, so any time they need me to come volunteer, I’m there.” Mary Butler, the local community organizer for the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation of Snohomish County, explained that this was their first time sponsoring their own summer collection drive for area food banks, including not only Marysville, but also Everett, Lynnwood and Shoreline.
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Karen Tendering pitches in with her fellow Arlington Lions Club members to spruce up Terrace Park on June 26.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY parents, swinging and going on the merry-go-round.” Jenft noted that Lions Club International gave the Arlington Lions Club a grant to fund repairs to the merry-go-round which were completed several months ago. She also encouraged those who are taking part in Arlington’s Fourth of July festivities to check out
the Arlington Lions Club’s booth in Legion Park that day, where they’ll be selling fresh apple pie with hot caramel sauce and whipped cream. “I just want to say thank you to the Lions Club for getting Terrace Park spruced up for all its upcoming events,” said Sarah Lopez, recreation manager for the city of Arlington.
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Marysville Grocery Outlet shopper Kay Kynaston donates a bag of food to Marine Corps Sgt. Randall Murphy during Toys for Tots’ June 29 collection drive. “Of course, we’ve supported other organizations’ food drives,” Butler said. “The support we’ve gotten from the community here has been amazing, which is the usual for Toys for Tots collection drives, so we never thought it would be anything less.” Butler’s purview extends from Smokey Point to the King County line, so especially given that significant coverage area, she wants people to keep in mind
that the food banks within that area are facing greater demand over the summer months, as children who receive free and reducedprice meals at school find themselves growing hungry. “We feel it’s important to give back to the community that’s given so much to us,” said Butler, who touted Toys for Tots’ back-to-school collection drive at the Tulalip Walmart on Aug. 3. “And this is one incredibly generous community.”
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