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‘Rock the Nest’ returns to Arlington BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Dandy Lion guitarist Dillon Decker has been playing guitar for half his life, and cited it as an important means of self-expression for him.
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Vol. 122, No. 47
ARLINGTON — After its absence last year, Arlington High School’s “Rock the Nest” concert returned this year with two rock bands that brought together AHS students and alumni. The stage of the Linda M. Byrnes Performing Arts Center hosted bands Sound Puppets and Dandy Lion on June 1, with many members of those bands applying lessons they’d learned in the AHS Jazzmine program under director Lyle Forde, who’s retiring at the end of this school year. Andrew Algard graduated from AHS in 2009, but when his brother asked him if he could assemble a band for a local battle of the bands in the spring of last year, Algard thought of Ben Tapper, a fellow guitarist
who graduated from AHS in 2010. “After three months, we hadn’t done anything, so the week before the battle of the bands, we just busted out the sickest songs we could,” Algard said of the genesis of Sound Puppets. “We sounded so good we won second place, even with a substitute drummer and only four days of practice, so if we actually worked at it we knew we could be something.” The five-member Jazzmine alumni band is rounded out by AHS sophomores Jesse Driscoll, also on guitar, and Landon Tapper on drums, with graduate Jacob Wikan playing the electric keyboard well enough to deliver rousing renditions of both “The Office” theme song and SEE ROCK, PAGE 11
Local bank changes hands, another to merge BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
SMOKEY POINT — One local bank branch changed hands over the Memorial Day weekend, while another bank with two branches in the area is on its way toward a merger, but representatives of both banks want their customers to remain assured that their service will remain the same. Columbia State Bank assumed all the deposits of First Heritage Bank, whose Arlington branch reopened on May 31 as a branch of Columbia State Bank. Also on May 31, the shareholders of Cascade Financial approved the merger of Cascade Bank, which has branches in Marysville and Smokey Point, with Opus Bank.
The Washington Department of Financial Institutions closed First Heritage Bank, noting that its capital has been depleted by large loan losses associated with land development and construction lending. According to Gloria McVey, acting director of DFI’s Division of Banks, the bank’s management was unable to raise sufficient capital to remain viable. “The closure of a Washington state chartered bank is never a welcome event,” DFI Director Scott Jarvis said. “However, a very positive signal is sent when Columbia, a financially strong state-chartered bank with an excellent reputation, steps up to acquire a failSEE BANKS PAGE 2
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On May 31, First Heritage Bank reopened all its branches, including the one in Arlington, as Columbia State Bank.