Marysville Globe, April 18, 2012

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‘Graffiti Paint-Out’

Volunteers concentrate clean-up efforts in hardest hit areas of downtown BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

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MARYSVILLE — Last summer’s “Graffiti PaintOut” saw close to 100 volunteers tackling five zones covering the entire city of Marysville, with each zone containing an average of eight graffiti-prone fences. This year’s event on Saturday, April 14, drew more than 140 volunteers, divided them up into seven teams and concentrated four of those teams in the downtown Marysville area from First through Ninth street, between the railroad tracks to the west and 47th Avenue to the east. City of Marysville Parks

Maintenance Manager Mike Robinson noted that the volunteers were armed with 150 gallons of paint, 80 paint rollers, 120 roller pads and 40 brushes. While they touched up homeowners’ street-side fences as far north as 116th Street, Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring acknowledged that much of this year’s “Graffiti Paint-Out” is also intended to complement the downtown revitalization that he deemed a key priority for the city in 2012. “This doesn’t happen without the community coming out to support it,” said Nehring, who joined SEE GRAFFITI, PAGE 2

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Jesse Vaughan, 14, removes graffiti tags from a city of Marysville dumpster on April 14.

Local Democrats caucus in Arlington BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

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 cauKirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo cuses for Legislative Districts Marysville’s Rick Bligh speaks on a resolution in 38, 39 and 44 in Marysville, but favor of amending the U.S. Constitution to reserve the Democrats from Arlington, Constitutional rights for people, not corporations, at the Marysville, Darrington, Granite 39th Legislative District Democrats’ precinct caucuses Falls and other surrounding areas who turned out that on April 15.

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 peoSEE CAUCUS, PAGE 2

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