Marysville Globe, April 11, 2015

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Program helps kids find jobs By STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com

Section: Health and Wellness means you have to get moving, but you can still have fun. Inside.

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TULALIP – Everyone knows most teenagers love to eat. But it’s not just food they crave. “Students are hungry for other ways to learn,” said Donneta Oremus, CTE coordinator for the Marysville School District. She was referring to students at the Arts and Tech

High School on the Tulalip campus. Many take Career and Technical Education classes, and 33 seniors are part of a district pilot program called JAG, for Jobs for America’s Graduates. All of the programs there are an effort to keep students from dropping out. Jesse Petitte, Addison SEE JOBS, PAGE 2

Ed Lozeau wants the homeless out of the woods near Marshall Elementary School.

They’re baaack Signs of drugs, alcohol right near grade school

Sports:

MarysvillePilchuck High School picks up another win on the baseball diamond. Page 10.

BY STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com

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MARYSVILLE – Like a bad cold, it just won’t go away. It is the homeless camp in the tree stand just north of Marshall Elementary School on 116th and 44th streets. The city cleans it up every once in awhile, and police clear out the homeless but in a few months it returns. Neighbor Ed Lozeau, who has lived in the area for more than 20 years, said he hates to say it but the only permanent solution is to take down the trees. Lozeau said “it’s hard to see” because his children went to school there and his granddaughter will. He said there always have been issues there, but it just used to be “kids’ smokin’.” Now, there are homeless people living there almost

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Shabbir Bala’s LVAD keeps his heart pumping electrically.

Man needs a heart BY STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com

Beer cans, drug needle.

Many trees are tagged.

as soon as school is out, he said. They leave empty beer cans everywhere, graffiti on trees, and Lozeau recently found a drug needle. What really upsets him is how close it is to the school. Last Saturday a makeshift shelter of branches was actually inside the tree line, less than 40 yards from a

portable classroom. “They don’t need to be exposed to this already,” Lozeau said of the grade schoolers. He said alcohol and cigarette stores nearby, plus the recent addition of a multi-million dollar apartSEE CLEAN, PAGE 7

MARYSVILLE – Shabbir Bala has a big heart. Even strangers to his restaurant Boondocker’s Cafe can tell that. But he needs a new one. He’s been on the transplant list since November, and he’s still waiting. “It could come at any time, day or night,” he said optimistically, adding he would have a three-hour window. “It could come tomorrow.” Bala, 64, has been living

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with a bad heart since New Year’s Day 2001, when he suffered a heart attack. He’s had a bunch of work done on it, so the only option now is a transplant. “The bottom part has permanent damage. There’s nothing else they can do,” he said. First a stint was put in. Then a defibrillator, which did not go off for about eight years. He received a second defibrillator, and it went off a few times, so a SEE HEART, PAGE 7

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