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Students return to Arlington schools BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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ARLINGTON — The first day of school is enough to make any kid a bit nervous, even if she’s a veteran of first days of school like Kent Prairie Elementary fourthgrader Makenzie Leathers. “I’m kinda scared,” Makenzie said, shrugging her shoulders. “Isn’t the teacher your best friend’s mom, though?” asked Makenzie’s mom, Heidi Clark, whose son Joseph starts his junior year at Arlington High School this year. As Makenzie bid farewell to her parents, Heidi Clark and Jason Leathers, on Sept. 7 for the first day of the 2011-12 school year in the Arlington School District, dad Jason laughed as he admitted to looking forward to more free time, while mom Heidi noted that her volunteer work at the school
will mean that she’ll still see her kids, and plenty of others, during the day. “It’s always an exciting feeling,” Heidi said. “I look forward to them growing up into little people.” Fellow Kent Prairie student Jessica Henry claimed not to be nervous at all as she started her first day of first grade. “I’m excited to see my friends,” Jessica said, as mom Cathy and sister Brenna helped her get settled into her classroom. Brenna started fourth grade at Kent Prairie this year and is looking forward to reading and math. “I’d glad to get back into a routine,” Cathy said, before laughing, “No more summer.” “It’s such a milestone,” said fellow Kent Prairie mom Dinnette Jeffrey, as she SEE SCHOOLS, PAGE 2
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Zhanna Andreyanov, left, supervises daughter Ella’s coloring during the first day of school on Sept. 7.
Sarvey looking to modernize facility BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Tammie Rohr, administrative director for the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center, shows off the dark, cramped animal enclosures of its current educational facilities.
ARLINGTON —The Sarvey Wildlife Care Center is hoping to bring its facilities into the 21st century, but it needs the community’s help to do it. “Before 1994, we didn’t have any educational facilities,” said Tammie Rohr, administrative director for Sarvey. “Our educational animals were sharing space with our rehabilitation animals, which wasn’t ideal. Thanks to a donation from the Chris Smith family, which was matched by Microsoft, we were able to make our non-releasable birds visible to the public.” While this represented a step up for
Sarvey, they’ve struggled ever since with the fact that the educational facilities’ hallways and animal display enclosures are so small that they can only accommodate as many as 10 people at a time for viewings. “The typical Washington weather has also taken its toll,” said Rohr, who explained that Sarvey has already secured wildlife trust fund dollars to start construction this past winter on an “educational meadow,” which will allow groups of 20 or more visitors at a time to check out the animals. “The roofs of the new structures won’t be solid coverings, so plants will SEE SARVEY, PAGE 2