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Students return to Marysville schools BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Pioneer Elementary fifth-grader Thomas Nieser starts his first assignment on the first day of school in Marysville, Sept. 6.
COMMUNITY: Day of Service returns Sept. 17. Page 8
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Vol. 119, No. 30
MARYSVILLE — It was a day of firsts in many ways for many Marysville parents. The first day of the 2011-12 school year for the Marysville School District also marked the first year that the students of Tulalip Elementary went to the Quil Ceda Elementary school building. Luis Alvarado escorted his daughter, fourth-grader Valentina, and his son, first-grader Luis Fernando, to the Marysville Secondary Campus on Sept. 6 for the first time, where he expressed his concerns about the schools’ Adequate Yearly Progress. To that end, he hopes to enroll his kids in the Marysville Cooperative Education Program. Until this year, all seven of Samantha Jimicum’s children had gone through the
former Tulalip Elementary campus. While three of her kids have since entered high school and two are in middle school now, she dropped off the remaining two at the Quil Ceda Elementary school building where she and Quil Ceda Elementary parent Winona Shopbell commiserated over how the first day of school hasn’t gotten any easier for either of them. “I always cry,” Jimicum laughed. “This summer went by way too fast. I don’t know what I’ll do with myself. I’ll have to clean the house by myself.” Shopbell has four children, but this year marked the first that Shopbell’s daughter wasn’t able to attend elementary school alongside her cousins, who started seventh grade at Totem Middle School this year. SEE SCHOOLS, PAGE 2
Methodists welcome Pastor Kymn BY KIRK BOXLEITNER
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MARYSVILLE — Gloria Kymn’s road to Marysville began in Seoul, South Korea. Kymn stepped in as the new pastor of the Marysville United Methodist Church after Tom Albright stepped down this June, but she’s been serving as a pastor since she was still attending school during the 1990s. Her father was a Methodist minister for 40 years, but because Kymn grew up without women ministers as role models, she saw herself going into teaching before she received her calling. “I was even a fashion photographer in the ‘80s,” Kymn laughed. “I eventually responded to my call very reluctantly, but God has
affirmed that call every day since.” Kymn described herself as the child of a family of achievers, including doctors, lawyers, engineers and four other pastors. She attributed much of her faith to her family, but also credited the many mentors she had through seminary and the process of ordination with helping to strengthen her sense of the church itself as an extended family. “I’ve been blessed with the people I’ve had in my life,” Kymn said. “I see it as my role to help provide a family of God through the church, that’s unconditionally loving and accepting.” Kymn has since mentored seminarians of her own, which she considers easier than SEE KYMN, PAGE 2
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Gloria Kymn feels that her role as pastor at the Marysville United Methodist Church is “a match made in Heaven.”