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Marysville celebrates Strawberry Festival BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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The Marysville Strawberry Festival Senior Royalty cruise down State Avenue on their float during the June 16 Grand Parade.
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Marysville Getchell celebrates graduates BY KIRK BOXLEITNER
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MARYSVILLE — Overcast skies that opened up in the afternoon might have quelled some enthusiasm for some events on Saturday, June 16, but spirits stayed strong for the Marysville Strawberry Festival’s climactic weekend this year. Marysville’s Khoosnam Commissariat brought her daughter Ava, 19, and son Cyrus, 14, to this year’s Funtastic Carnival in the Marysville Middle School playground, as she has done for the past decade, and the mother even beat her two kids at one of the games to win a prize. “I like all the games and the rides,” Khoosnam Commissariat said. “I just love that Marysville has
something like this.” The Portland Royal Rosarians also paid their compliments to the Marysville Strawberry Festival during their roseplanting ceremony in the Totem Middle School rose garden at 3 p.m. that day, which saw Maryfest President Debbie Libbing honored with the planting of Royal Rosarian roses to commemorate the latter group’s 100th anniversary this year. Aivars Saukants, royal gardener for the Portland Royal Rosarians, explained that his group travels across the Pacific Northwest to bestow similar honors on various festivals throughout the region, and cited his own connections to the local community.
EVERETT — The four Small Learning Communities of Marysville Getchell High School marked their first commencement ceremony independent of Marysville-Pilchuck High School on Wednesday, June 13, as the Everett Community College Fitness Center hosted graduating seniors from Marysville Getchell for the first time that evening. The MGHS Class of 2012 was heralded by a host of speakers, including not only valedictorians and senior class officers from each of the four SLCs, but also reflection speeches by two SLC principals, one of whom will not be returning to the school in the fall.
Academy of Construction and Engineering Valedictorian J.D. Talamayan has already learned the importance of connections as a fulltime Running Start student during high school. “Staying connected has helped me get to where I am today, and in the future it will help as well,” Talamayan said. “After graduation, while you are getting a job or attending college or doing whatever else you choose to do, make as many connections as possible. You never know how the connections you make will resurface in your life.” Bio-Med Academy Valedictorian Celeste Bryant believes that the life SEE MG, PAGE 2
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Marysville Getchell High School Class of 2012 graduates throw their caps in the air at the close of their commencement on June 13 in the Everett Community College Fitness Center.
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