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Local author visits students at Sunnyside BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
SPORTS: Mountain bikers hang tough for first race in 2012. Page 8
COMMUNITY: Rotary
hands out $14,250 for literacy. Page 9
MARYSVILLE — Suzanne Summer’s fifth-grade classroom at Sunnyside Elementary was buzzing with excitement on Friday, March 30, but not just because spring break was around the corner. Summer’s students have been reading the books of Marysville author Victoria Simcox, starting with the fantasy novel “The Magic Warble,” and that Friday saw Simcox visiting Summer’s class to answer students’ questions, not only about her own books, but also about the writing process that students could apply to their own writing. “Now, a lot of our students are reluctant to go back to their older writing,” Summer said, as she and
Simcox sat at one end of the class flanking an entire sheet full of questions that students had come up with beforehand to ask Simcox. “But what she’s saying is that if you want your stories to build on each other, you should refer back to them.” Although the fantasy of “The Magic Warble” was partly inspired by “The Lord of the Rings” — along with similar authors such as C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling — Simcox eschews the worldbuilding approach of J.R.R. Tolkien, favoring a more organic method of developing parts of the story as she tells it, and keeping track of its plot points to ensure they’re resolved by the end. “I’m still figuring out how the teacher got the Magic Warble in the first place,” SEE AUTHOR, PAGE 2
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Marysville author Victoria Simcox, left, speaks to the students of Sunnyside Elementary fifthgrade teacher Suzanne Summer, right, about the writing process and her book, “The Magic Warble,” on March 30.
Armed Forces Reserve Center commissioned BY KIRK BOXLEITNER
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Vol. 120, No. 02 Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo
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 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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