THE NEWSPAPER AT THE HEART & SOUL OF OUR COMMUNITY
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012 WWW.ARLINGTONTIMES.COM 75¢ 2011 GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER
Scan this code and start receiving local news on your mobile device today!
Sound Garden blooms in Arlington BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
INSIDE: A complete
guide to Arlington’s Fourth of July, Fly-In and more.
SPORTS: Volleyball
camp serves summer fun. Page 8
ARLINGTON — “The first time we heard of it, we both wondered, ‘What the heck is a Sound Garden?’” said Jeff Swanson, who nonetheless found himself helping his 14-year-old son, Trey, install the first piece of the Arlington Arts Council’s planned Sound Garden in Legion Park this summer. Trey Swanson was looking for an Eagle Scout project when he contacted city of Arlington Recreation Coordinator Sarah Lopez to see what he could do for the community this summer, but the Sound Garden has been on the Arlington Arts Council’s books for quite a while before that. “We’ve been discussing it since at least 2004,” said Jean Olson, treasurer for the Arlington Arts Council.
“When I first heard about it, I thought that it would be like wind chimes. I didn’t know they were going to be interactive musical instruments.” Although the Swansons just recently installed “The Swirl,” an oversized xylophone that stands straight up and comes with two attached mallets with which to play it, Olson and Arlington Arts Council President Sarah Arney joined the Swansons in reporting having seen and heard a number of passersby trying their hands at the instrument already. “One person happened to be walking along Centennial Trail, right next to it, and stopped to play for what must have been an hour,” Arney said. “We wanted to SEE SOUND, PAGE 2
Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo
Arlington Boy Scout Trey Swanson, 14, tests out ‘The Swirl,’ the first piece in the Arlington Arts Council’s Sound Garden, that he helped install.
Naval Station Everett fetes ‘Freedom Fest’ BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
INDEX CLASSIFIED ADS 12-15 7 LEGAL NOTICES 4 OPINION 7 OBITUARY 8 SPORTS 11 WORSHIP
Vol. 123, No. 40 Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo
Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Clark explains the inner workings of the computer-guided 5-inch 62-caliber gun near the forecastle of the USS Shoup on June 30.
EVERETT — While the weather on Saturday, June 30, made much of Naval Station Everett’s annual “Freedom Festival” a soggy affair, the day’s ship tours still filled up their allotments of 40 visitors for each of the larger ships every half hour, and 30 visitors for each of the smaller ships every half hour, drawing more than 1,500 visitors to the decks of the four ships in port, in spite of the rain and the absence of the USS Nimitz depressing those attendance numbers relative to the event’s sunnier years, when its carrier has been in port. Families from the local area and throughout the region made the USS Shoup the most popular destination of
the four ships offering tours that day, as crew members explained aspects of day-to-day operations on board ship with which many civilians were unfamiliar. Petty Officer 3rd Class Lavahita King explained the importance of not wearing rings, wristwatches or other jewelry while raising and lowering the ready boats that are used to recover torpedoes and men overboard. “If those items get caught in the line, they’ll rip your skin off,” King said. “That’d be a bad day for everyone.” Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Clark explained the inner workings of the computer-guided 5-inch 62-caliber gun near the forecastle of the ship, which fires 20 rounds a minute at a distance of 13 miles. SEE FREEDOM, PAGE 2
644678
GET OUR FREE MOBILE APP