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Show ‘N Shine packs Olympic Avenue BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
SPORTS: Milless sparkles on the diamond. Page 10
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Marysville’s Don McCann dusts off his restored 1933 Ford ice truck on Arlington’s Olympic Avenue on June 11.
SPORTS: Two Arlington golfers earn All-Wesco honors. Page 10
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Vol. 122, No. 47
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Providence opens 12-story medical tower BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
EVERETT — It boasts 79 private treatment rooms which hospital officials estimate will be just enough to keep up with the increased demand that they say has already given the Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett the busiest ER in the state. Providence’s recently completed 12-story, $460 million Marshall and Katherine Cymbaluk Medical Tower opened on June 14 and is expected to serve close to
120,000 patients within the next year, according to Providence Public Relations Manager Cheri Russum. She pointed out that this represents an increase from the roughly 113,000 patients Providence served last year, but its new tower has plenty of local staff to serve them. “We have 537 employees living in Marysville,” said Russum, who added that 315 of their employees reside in Arlington. “Our EMS bay will probably be receiving about 70 emergency vehicles a day. We’ve gone from two
to four trauma rooms which are located right close to the x-ray machine and CT scanner. That shaves minutes off our care, since those machines are usually on another floor.” Russum touted the trauma room’s patient-centric features, from aesthetics such as teddy bears and lavender color schemes, to doors which open between the trauma rooms to allow patients to see each other, in instances when the patients know each other and want to be able to SEE TOWER, PAGE 2
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ARLINGTON — Olympic Avenue was choked with cars on June 11, but it wasn’t a traffic jam. Rather than honking their horns or simmering in exhaust fumes, visitors to downtown Arlington that day strolled along the street and complimented one another on their stylized and polished vehicles at the 12th annual Old Town Show ‘N Shine Car Show. Event Chair Marilyn Bullock estimated that this year’s show drew more than 300 entrants, beating last year’s count of 297, but she couldn’t even begin to guess at how many attendees showed up that day. “We have a contingent from Canada that comes down every year, and the furthest away that any of our
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Providence Regional Medical Center x-ray technologists Desiree Dunham, left, and Val Buma test out the moving C-arm on the x-ray machine in the Marshall and Katherine Cymbaluk Medical Tower.
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