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Arlington teen earns state-level recognition for her baking skills BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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ARLINGTON — At the Petite Sweet Bakery on Olympic Avenue, 17-yearold Arlington High School senior Kat Nixon is honing the culinary skills she’s been dabbling in since the age of 4 and developing professionally since the age of 14. “I’ve always loved baking,” Kat Nixon said. “I never liked playing outside. I’ve always loved feeding people.” “We could never eat as many cookies and cakes as she baked, so she’s always taken them to school,” said Betsy Nixon, Kat’s mom. “It was when she made the transition to middle school
that she really gained a reputation among her classmates and teachers for her incredible recipes. I think the momentum from that definitely kept her going.” Kat’s hard work has paid off, not only by helping her get hired at Petite Sweet close to a year ago, but also by earning her distinction at the Puget Sound regional and Washington state SkillsUSA commercial baking competitions for two years in a row. Last year, she took second in regionals and third in state, but this year, she scored first in the regionals at Renton on Feb. 11, where she’ll be returning on April 12-14 for this year’s SEE SWEET, PAGE 2
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Kat Nixon puts the final touches on a tray of cupcakes at Petite Sweet.
Helping Hands finds new home BY KIRK BOXLEITNER
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Helping Hands’ Etta Melhart, left, and Lana Lasley are all smiles over their latest load of donated items for the thrift store.
ARLINGTON — Near the end of last year, the Helping Hands thrift store, next to the Arlington Community Food Bank near Haller Park, was facing the very real likelihood of not having a home. While the Food Bank had found funding and facilities to relocate to in the business park east of the Arlington Municipal Airport, Helping Hands still needed to find an affordable place to house their donated wares, which they sell to raise proceeds to give back to the community. In the new year, not only is construction underway on a new building for Helping Hands, but thanks to
The Point Church the thrift store has somewhere they can hang their hat, along with all of their other clothes, for a full year in the meantime. “It was the end of January, only three weeks ago, when we put out the call to help us move,” said Lana Lasley, treasurer and store manager for Helping Hands on Friday, Feb. 17. “That last Saturday of January, we had so many volunteers show up that we actually had to turn some away. They came in like gangbusters and got it all done in one day.” While Helping Hands’ address is new — 16910 59th Dr. NE in Arlington — its hours remain the SEE HOME, PAGE 2
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