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‘Red Day’ tackles Comeford Park BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Toby Barnett of the Marysville branch of Keller Williams does weeding in the landscaped garden areas of Comeford Park as part of the May 10 ‘RED Day.’
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Letter carriers collect for food bank
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MARYSVILLE — More than two dozen volunteers from the Marysville branch of Keller Williams and their associates teamed up to tackle Comeford Park as part of their fourth annual “RED Day” international day of service. Eddie Quintero has been in real estate since 1991, but Thursday, May 10, marked his first RED Day — which stands for “Renew, Energize and Donate” — as a Keller Williams managing broker. “The easiest part has been pulling weeds,” Quintero said. “The hardest has been doing the edge work between the grass and the pavement, as we’ve had a few malfunctions there,” he laughed. “None of this has been hard at all, though. It’s
wonderful to give back to the community, and this is the perfect day for it.” Miguel Lugan of LeaderOne Financial was also excited to be taking part in his first RED Day, even though he found aspects of the work challenging. “These shrubs are prickly, so I get stuck by them every time I try to prune them,” Lugan laughed, before turning serious. “Like Keller Williams, LeaderOne Financial wants people to know that we care about the community that we’re part of.” Realtor Sandy Chambers has been doing RED Days since they started, and has managed to rope her son Tony into roughly half of them. Tony took advantage of his summer break from
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MARYSVILLE — In spite of volunteer support that included local students from as far away as Lakewood High School, the annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive on Saturday, May 12, yielded a slightly smaller haul for the Marysville Community Food Bank than previous years. Marysville Community Food Bank Director Dell Deierling reported that they received 24,997 pounds of food that Saturday, down 7 percent from the 27,013 pounds of food in 2011, 32,300 pounds in 2010 and 40,000 pounds in 2009.
“Although it is a decrease, it breaks the trend of the 20 percent drops which took place between 2009 to 2010, as well as 2010 to 2011,” Deierling said. “Unfortunately, the number of folks coming to the Marysville Community Food Bank has increased each of these years, and is up by 8 percent this year alone.” Deierling nonetheless expressed his gratitude to all those who took the time to donate food or sort it at either the Marysville Community Food Bank or the Marysville Post Office on State Avenue, the latter of which saw a number of Marysville and Lakewood
high school students turn out to take part, including members of the Marysville-Pilchuck High School Naval Junior ROTC. “There’s been a great sense of cooperation and teamwork between the volunteers and the letter carriers,” Deierling said. “The entire rest of the year, the adults who have volunteered here will still be talking about the great work these kids have done.” Rural letter carrier Jackie Engle echoed Deierling’s assessment. “It’s an amazing outreach,” Engle said, after a group of stuSEE CARRIERS, PAGE 2
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Marysville-Pilchuck High School Naval Junior ROTC cadet Dillon Ahola, at left in the red shirt, and Marysville Getchell High School’s Chanel Valladighan unload the collected food from a letter carrier’s vehicle on May 12.
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