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‘Pumpkins for Literacy’ Rotary’s annual event raises money for Marysville, Arlington and Lakewood school districts BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Xander Albright, 4, does his best to heft one of the larger pumpkins at the Plant Farm at Smokey Point.
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Vol. 119, No. 34
LAKEWOOD — The Plant Farm at Smokey Point is once again covered in pumpkins, but the Rotary Club of Marysville’s annual “Pumpkins for Literacy” program has a few new wrinkles this year. “We’ve got four weekends instead of three this year for our pumpkin patch,” Marysville Rotary Past President Gayl Spilman said of the event, which kicked off on Oct. 8 and runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week, through Halloween, Oct. 31. “We still have the bouncy houses and the hay and train rides, though.” “We’re aiming for about 260,000 pounds of pumpkins this year, even though I heard they’re having a pumpkin shortage in Canada,” Marysville Rotary Vice President Daryn Bundy SEE LITERACY, PAGE 2
Pinewood students get active after school BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE — Since the last week in September, Pinewood Elementary has been conducting an experiment in health and fitness, and to judge from the response of the more than 50 students who have chosen to turn out for the twice-weekly all-volunteer program, many of the school’s fourth- and fifth-graders are ready to embrace it. Pinewood Elementary teachers Jason Fallihee and Dan Perkins meet with a number of fourth- and fifthgrade students at the playground after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays to split them up into two groups — one of which stays outside to run the
track, with the other going into the gym to complete a circuit of more than a dozen exercise stations — with those two groups switching locations halfway through athletics sessions that last between half an hour to an hour each. “The reason we started this was to emphasize health and fitness, rather than just sports,” said Fallihee, who’s traded titles from “PE teacher” to “health and fitness teacher.” “This is how we do PE during the day now too. We do a lot of muscular endurance and cardio work. We still include sports in our programs, but we want to expand personal fitness SEE ACTIVE, PAGE 12
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Autumn Perkins, left, and Caitlin Fallihee lift weights in the Pinewood Elementary gym on Oct. 4.