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DECA takes over Safeway
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BY LAUREN SALCEDO lsalcedo@arlingtontimes.com
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AHS DECA members, from left, Carlee Torres, Amy Kratz, Megan Percy and Sadee Wakefield sell root beer floats for $1 at the Smokey Point Safeway store to raise money for juvenile diabetes research.
Limberg gives State of the Station address BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Vol. 123, No. 36
SEE DECA, PAGE 2
TULALIP — Cmdr. Dan Limberg, executive officer of Naval Station Everett, credited the surrounding community with contributing to the station’s success during his “State of the Station” address to the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce on Friday, May 18. Limberg delivered the annual address on behalf of Naval Station Everett Commanding Officer Capt. Michael Coury, and explained how the station and its ships are helping to serve the Navy’s missions of maritime security, threat deterrence, sea control and power projection.
The USS Nimitz has replaced the USS Abraham Lincoln which is no longer home-ported at Naval Station Everett after it departed the station for the last time near the end of last year to cruise through the Pacific and Indian Oceans as part of its six-month global deployment, before pulling into its new homeport at Norfolk, Va., for a 40-month overhaul and refueling of its nuclear reactors. Last year, the USS Ingraham deployed to and coordinated with Latin American and Caribbean countries to combat trafficking of narcotics and other contraband, and aided in intercepting 450 kilograms of
such illicit materials in the process. “This enhances our regional security,” Limberg said. Limberg described the Asian Pacific region as “a strategic pivot point” that accounts for 30 percent of global weapons sales. The ships in the aircraft carrier battle group hosted by Naval Station Everett patrol as far as the Strait of Hormuz, through which Limberg noted that 20 percent of the world’s crude oil is shipped from the Persian Gulf to world markets. The USS Shoup’s seven-month dry-dock maintenance follows SEE STATION, PAGE 2
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Cmdr. Dan Limberg, executive officer of Naval Station Everett, discusses the station’s role in the Navy’s global missions during a May 18 Business Before Hours meeting of the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce.
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SPORTS: Arlington track headed to state meet. Page 8
SMOKEY POINT — Those shopping at the Smokey Point Safeway store on Saturday, May 19, may have noticed an influx of workers buzzing around the place. That’s because the Arlington High School DECA club was taking over the store for the day in order to learn the skills of running a business and to also raise money for a nonprofit organization, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Safeway was filled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. with local high school students learning everything from baking cookies, sorting meats, stocking shelves and bagging groceries. “Safeway is a huge sponsor of DECA,” said AHS senior and DECA chairwoman Allison Langley, who saw this event as a way of helping their sponsor as well as the club. “We come here to learn how to run a business, and we take the skills we learn here and bring them back to our student