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360 Break Dance fetes 10 years in Marysville BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
SPORTS: Boys & Girls Club offers new sports camps. Page10
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Seattle’s Krubel Amare hones his spinning headstands at this year’s 360 Break Dance Competition.
SPORTS: YMCA starts water season with safety focus. Page 10
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Larsen meets about Violence Against Women Act BY KIRK BOXLEITNER
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MARYSVILLE — It started at the Marysville Family YMCA 10 years ago as a way of raising $100 to buy a boom box, and it drew a grand total of 150 attendees. In the years since then, the annual 360 Break Dance Competition has attracted hundreds of contestants each year, scoring its highest turnout in 2007 with 1,000 attendees, and it’s drawn them not only from across the state and throughout the Pacific Northwest, but also from the other side of America and even a few foreign countries. Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring recognized the significance of the event by issuing a proclamation declaring Saturday, June
23, to be Marysville Family YMCA 360 Break Dance Competition Day, and on that Saturday afternoon and evening, the Totem Middle School gymnasium was stuffed to overflowing, not only with b-boys and b-girls going up against each other in breakdancing battles, but also by the spectators who crowded the bleacher seats to watch the teens and young adults show off their skills. The annual event is staged by the Marysville YMCA’s Minority Achievers Program, with Benji Travis taking charge of it since its inception. Travis was only 18 years old when the 360 Break Dance Competition kicked off a decade ago, and this year, he handed off the reins to 20-year-old
TULALIP — When Tulalip Tribal Vice Chair Deborah Parker joined U.S. Senators Patty Murray, Barbara Boxer and Amy Klobuchar in Washington, D.C., to advocate the passage of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act on April 25, the Senate passed the VAWA reauthorization bill by a vote of 68-31 the very next day. When U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen met with Parker and a host of representatives from regional organizations that assist victims of domestic violence on June 12, the news he had to offer on the bill’s progress through the House of Representatives was not nearly as positive.
“In a very partisan vote, House Republicans voted to roll back the protections for Native Americans, immigrants and LGBT individuals that had been part of the Senate’s Violence Against Women Act,” Larsen said. “Because of this failure to include these groups in the House version of the bill, I had to vote against it, because I don’t want to strengthen the hands of abusers.” Parker, a survivor of domestic violence who met with both Murray and U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell just days prior to the Senate vote on the Violence Against Women Act, received so many statistics and letSEE LARSEN, PAGE 2
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U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, left, and Tulalip Tribal Vice Chair Deborah Parker discuss the stalled progress of the Violence Against Women Act through the House of Representatives.
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