Arlington Times, February 08, 2012

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ARLINGTON — Although the year’s first snowfall forced them to push back their plans, Marysville youths still took “a day on, not a day off ” to help out an Arlington woman in need, as part of a broader campaign to honor the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Saturday, Jan. 28, half a dozen teen volunteers from the Marysville YMCA Minority Achievers Program visited the Arlington home of disabled senior Sandee Wynkoop, joining the more than 200 student and adult volunteers to take part in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service that was organized by the United Way of Snohomish County and had originally been scheduled

for Monday, Jan. 16, on this year’s observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For Jennifer Cabrera and Leticia Aparicio of the Bio-Med Academy at Marysville Getchell High School, this marked their second Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on behalf of Wynkoop, a 58-year-old who’s undergone multiple surgeries and stays in both hospitals and nursing homes as a result of her degenerative disc disease and osteoporosis since 2009. “My spine is basically crumbling,” Wynkoop said, as the students performed a number of household chores that she once took for granted that she could complete on her own. “The first time these kids came here, I didn’t have any inSEE SERVICE, PAGE 2

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Because Arlington senior Sandee Wynkoop, left, suffers from degenerative disc disease and osteoporosis, it takes teen volunteers such as Edgar Carretero, of the Marysville YMCA Minority Achievers Program, to help her with household chores such as hanging her own pictures on the wall.

McDuffy gives State of the District

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Sherry Anderson, left, speaks with Arlington School District Superintendent Dr. Kris McDuffy after the Jan. 31 State of the District address.

ARLINGTON — In her fourth year as superintendent of the Arlington School District, Dr. Kris McDuffy reiterated her belief that teaching children is “the world’s most important, challenging and rewarding work” during her annual State of the District address on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Before she outlined “the seven Cs” of education to an audience of school district staff and parents that evening in the commons of Weston High School, McDuffy elaborated that she believes not only in holding students and educators alike to high standards, but also in providing them both with environments in which they can achieve and succeed best. To that end, McDuffy touted the value

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