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U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen speaks at the Stillaguamish Senior Center on May 16.
Larsen visits senior center
SPORTS: Lakewood girls golf claims conference title. Page 8
BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
job field.” Plenty of prospective pilots even younger than Guthrie found their enthusiasm for flying awakened by the annual Airport Appreciation Day, even as a low storm ceiling kept the day’s planned flights on the ground through the morning. Only 30 of the 80 children who had signed up for flights that day were able to go up in the afternoon. Northwest Experimental Aircraft Association Executive Director Barbara Tolbert, whose organization sponsors the free Young Eagles flights, noted that this still
SMOKEY POINT — U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen wanted his senior constituents to know that he hears their concerns about health care. “I care because you care,” Larsen told his audience at the Stillaguamish Senior Center on May 16. “These are issues you want to have addressed.” Larsen fielded questions from an audience that was already receptive to his message of protecting health care for seniors, as he joined representatives of the AARP in discussing the potential impact of federal budget cuts on Medicare. “The Affordable Care Act that was passed under President Obama is one step on the road to closing the donut hole,” Larsen said, referring to the gap in health care coverage that many seniors suffer from. He like-
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Arlington’s Makenzie Pierce tests out the controls of the “cub car” at her first Arlington Airport Appreciation Day on May 7.
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Arlington Airport Appreciation Day carries on despite downpour BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
ARLINGTON — At this year’s Arlington Airport Appreciation Day, Austin Guthrie got a chance to try out a seat that he hopes to fill as an adult. “I wish I could fly this,” said Guthrie, a 16-year-old Arlington resident, as he got comfortable in the pilot’s seat of the Arlington Airlift helicopter on May 7. “Search and rescue can be dangerous, but it’d be thrilling to help out others.” Guthrie, an Arlington resident, has been interested in flying since he was a small child, and is looking at different
branches of the military through which he could achieve his dream. He spoke with Airlift Northwest flight nurses, such as Tia Barrett and L.T. Arnold, about their jobs during the Arlington Airport’s annual day of educational activities for the whole family. “We have everything we need to take care of patients right here, including ventilation, defibrillation, suction, oxygen and an isolette stretcher,” Barrett said. “We can handle cardiac and highrisk obstetrics. We all come in with a minimum of five years of training at an ICU or ER, but many of us have had far more to make us competitive for this
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