Arlington Times, May 16, 2012

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BY LAUREN SALCEDO lsalcedo@arlingtontimes.com

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ARLINGTON — The Arlington Cocoon House, a local emergency housing facility for teens in need, received picnic tables, a new vegetable garden and a barbecue just in time for summer, as part of the Keller Williams Realty’s annual RED Day event on May 10. RED Day stands for “Renew, Energize and Donate” and aims to be an annual show of commitment to local communities by Keller Williams associates who donate their time to help the cause. “We try and do something different every year,” said Mary Nemeth of the Marysville Keller Williams. In past years, Keller Williams has donated time

to the Boys and Girls Clubs in Arlington and Marysville, the Arlington Food Bank and to the home of a man battling cancer. “We were touched by the fact that this is such a lovely house, but there’s nothing to do outside,” Nemeth said, of the Cocoon House. “It’s exciting to think about the kids sitting around here this summer, with the benches and the barbecue.” The Cocoon House is a nonprofit organization with headquarters in Everett that provides assistance for teens with a variety of life issues, including homelessness, drug addiction, mental health concerns and family troubles. The Arlington facility is a six-bed emergency housing facility, while SEE TEENS, PAGE 2

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Tasha Currie prunes a plant at the Cocoon House in Arlington as part of the Keller Williams Realty RED Day community service event on May 10.

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Volunteer Kelly Marlo weighs bags of food during the May 12 National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive at the Arlington Community Food Bank.

ARLINGTON — The Arlington Community Food Bank continued to benefit from its town’s generosity even after the annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive on Saturday, May 12. Sharon Moon, administrator and project manager for the Arlington Community Food Bank, reported that they received 12,653 pounds of food that Saturday, but added that they were still counting further donations made on Monday, May 14. “That’s 4,000 pounds more than we received last year, but still less than the average for the past several years before that,” Moon said. Volunteers at the Arlington

Community Food Bank and the Arlington Post Office on Olympic Avenue agreed with Moon that this year’s haul represented a welcome recovery from last year’s relatively low take, but still represented a down year compared to the years prior. “This year’s been pretty good,” said Morris Thomas, a retiree who joined three other volunteers at the Arlington Community Food Bank in sorting through the trucks of food that they received throughout the day. “It’s a lot like fishing, though. You don’t know what’s coming in, or when, and when it does come in, it’s either all or nothing,” he laughed. Thomas agreed with Mary Jo Schoeben, who helped him bring in SEE CARRIERS, PAGE 2

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