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Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt
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Event raises approximately $1,500 to support Arlington’s Relay For Life
today!
BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
ARLINGTON — About 300 Easter egg hunters gathered on the track of Haller Middle School on the evening of Saturday, March 31, to help support the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life, all while scoring a few seasonal goodies for themselves. Heidi Clark, who organized what she hopes will be the first in an annual series of flashlight Easter egg hunts, estimated that the event raised roughly $1,500 for this year’s Arlington Relay For Life. Clark came up with the event for her own Relay team, Friends For Life, and for her 10-year-
SPORTS: Arlington track defeats Snohomish. Page 8
old daughter Makenzie Leathers’ team, Friends For Life Youth, three months before Easter egg hunters descended upon the Haller Middle School stadium. “I’m glad everyone came,” said Clark, whose team has dedicated this year’s efforts in honor of the mother of one of Clark’s friends, who passed away from cancer, and two members of the team, who have survived their own battles with cancer. “With all the rain earlier in the day, I was scared they wouldn’t.” Clark and her crew of nine volunteers filled 1,600 plastic eggs with $500 worth SEE HUNT, PAGE 2
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Shoreline’s Danial Wanke elicits awe from daughter Alyssa as he cracks open her plastic prize eggs during the flashlight Easter egg hunt for the Arlington Relay For Life on March 31.
Armed Forces Reserve Center commissioned
Arlington’s Ryan celebrates 100th. Page 9
BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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From left, Maj. Gen. Glenn Lesniak of the 88th Regional Support Command, Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring, Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert, Col. Phillip Jolly and Command Sgt. Maj. Vicki Briggs cut the ribbon for the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Marysville on April 1.
MARYSVILLE — Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert and Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring not only delivered speeches and cut a ceremonial ribbon to commission the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Marysville on Sunday, April 1, but they also dedicated it by making some noise in a more boisterous way. Under close supervision, Tolbert and Nehring took three tugs each at their respective cannons, to help render a 21-gun cannon salute just outside the $33 million facility, which boasts a 160,000-square-foot training center and an approximately 20,000-square-foot vehicle maintenance shop to support approximately
1,200 members of the National Guard and Army Reserve. The local Armed Forces Reserve Center was built within 22 months and co-located the more than 250 soldiers from the headquarters of the Army Reserve’s 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, formerly located at Fort Lawton in Seattle, and the approximately 300 National Guardsmen formerly stationed at the Everett National Guard Armory, as well as Department of the Army support activities and offices. Capt. Allen Toepfer, who announced the arrival of the official party and introduced distinguished visitors, explained that the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission SEE CENTER, PAGE 2
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