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YMCA opens Youth Development Center BY KIRK BOXLEITNER boxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Kona Blanchard uses one of the computers in the Marysville YMCA’s new Youth Development Center to look up information on the Y itself on Aug. 31.
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District, teachers agree on contract BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE — One day after a majority of the Marysville Education Association’s members agreed to its terms, the Marysville School District Board of Directors unanimously voted to approve the MEA contract for the 2011-12 school year, thereby ensuring that Marysville’s school year would start on Sept. 6. MEA President Arden Watson and MSD Superintendent Dr. Larry Nyland both described their respective organizations’ biggest challenges in coming to an agree-
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MARYSVILLE — Minutes after its official ribbon-cutting ceremony, area youths were already making themselves at home in the Marysville YMCA’s new Youth Development Center. The 3,400-square-foot building that once served as the home for the Marysville Community Food Bank now houses program space for the “ACT!” — “Actively Changing Together” — youth obesity program and the “Exercise and Thrive” cancer survivorship program, but on Aug. 31, it was the Youth Development Center’s computer lab and teen recreation features that attracted the most attention from its young patrons. While 12-year-old middle school students Lauren Edgar and Lily Fleshman
played foosball hockey and table tennis in turns, 16-yearold Marysville Getchell High School students Mark Guba and Stan Kolomeyetz faced off across the pool table. Meanwhile, 16-yearold Navdeep Manhas and 13-year-old Kona Blanchard were among the first to take advantage of the Internetready computers. “I’ve been coming to the Marysville Y for the past 10 years,” Manhas said. “I like hanging out with my friends here. The new computers and ping-pong table seem pretty nice.” Blanchard, who was invited to speak to the crowd that had assembled for the ribbon-cutting, recalled how his own family first started using the Marysville Y more than six years ago. “All those classes have
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ment as stemming from tough economic times and recent actions by the state Legislature, the latter including a 1.9 percent reduction in state funding for teacher salaries. “The Legislature declined to reduce the school year or make a state-wide decision,” Nyland said. “Therefore, 296 districts across the state have had to negotiate separately with each bargaining unit how each district would address the legislative budget cuts.” At the Aug. 31 Marysville SEE CONTRACT, PAGE 2
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Marysville School District Board President Cindy Erickson, left, and Superintendent Dr. Larry Nyland prepare to take a vote on the Marysville Education Association contract for the 2011-12 school year.
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