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BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
ARLINGTON — Close to three dozen volunteers gathered at Legion Park on Saturday, April 14, to help install a rain garden by the new restroom and visitor information facility on Centennial Trail. City of Arlington Natural Resources Manager Bill Blake explained that the city was commemorating Arbor Day not only through the installation of this rain garden, which should allow potentially problematic runoff from the new building’s roof and walkways to soak into the ground and be filtered by the soil and plants, but also through the workshop on rain gardens that immediately preceded the installation, during which attendees learned how to install rain gardens in their own yards. Linden Mead, of the state Department of Natural Resources, took advantage of this event to present city of Arlington repre-
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sentatives with the city’s 10th annual Tree City USA designation from the Arbor Day Foundation. “Arlington is a real star child in this program,” said Mead, who noted that, in order to qualify for the Tree City USA title, the city had to establish a tree care ordinance, a tree board or department, a community forestry program with annual expenditures of at least $2 per capita, and an Arbor Day observance and proclamation. “We go everywhere from upland to tideland to focus on forests, but the forestry of the urban community is no less important, because these are the trees that we live with every day, in our parks and on our streets.” Not only were Blake and city of Arlington Recreation Manager Sarah Lopez present to receive the award, but so was City Council member Marilyn Oertle, whom Blake credSEE GARDEN, PAGE 2
Local Democrats caucus in Arlington BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Kaleb Lasalata, 11, digs planting holes for trees and shrubs at the site of the Legion Park rain garden on April 14.
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Area caucus coordinator Mike Dumovich of Arlington explains the procedures of the 39th Legislative District Democrats’ precinct caucuses at Arlington High School on April 15.
ARLINGTON — Attendees of the 39th Legislative District Democrats’ precinct caucuses on Sunday, April 15, laughingly conceded that their proceedings were perhaps not as dramatic as the March 3 Republican caucuses for Legislative Districts 38, 39 and 44 in Marysville, but the Democrats from Arlington, Marysville, Darrington, Granite Falls and other surrounding areas who turned out that Sunday afternoon nonetheless touted the civic value in their event. Although the Democratic Party’s nominee is incumbent President Barack Obama, as opposed to the host of Republican challengers that the earlier caucus had to choose between,
more than a dozen area Democrats met at Arlington High School to submit resolutions that they wish to see carried on into the county, state and national Democratic caucuses. Marysville’s Rick and Vickie Bligh, like many of the day’s caucus-goers, first became active in local caucuses four years ago, due to their enthusiasm for Obama as a candidate, and while they remain steadfast in their support of him as president, the Blighs also came armed with a resolution in favor of amending the U.S. Constitution to reserve Constitutional rights for people, not corporations. “Vermont passed a similar resolution a few days ago,” Rick Bligh said. “Given that corporations have subSEE CAUCUS, PAGE 2
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