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Fly-In popular in spite of storms BY KIRK BOXLEITNER
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SPORTS: Stilly Valley All-Stars win championship. Page 8
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After being unable to make it last year, the World War II B-17G bomber ‘Sentimental Journey’ made its return to the Arlington Fly-In this year.
hosts Track and Field Camp. Page 8
Rain doesn’t dampen spirits at Street Fair BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
INDEX CLASSIFIED ADS 12-15 7 LEGAL NOTICES 4 OPINION 5 OBITUARY 8 SPORTS 11 WORSHIP
Vol. 123, No. 42
SEE FLY-IN, PAGE 2
ARLINGTON — In spite of a rainy start, the Arlington Street Fair packed Olympic Avenue with crowds of both first-time attendees and returning regulars from July 13-15. While Friday the 13th proved to be unlucky in weather, skies had mostly cleared by midday on Saturday, July 14, in time for the Legion Park gazebo to host 13-year-old Bellevue and Issaquah magician Matt Wells to perform at noon, followed by countrywestern band Newt Bell at 2 p.m. and a Bad Company tribute band playing at 5 p.m. Arlington’s Ryan Pettit has been attending the Street Fair with his family for four of his 13 years, and as he does every year, he had his hand cast in wax and plaster by fellow
Street Fair returnee John Pleakley, a familiar novelty vendor at the event. “He does the hand thing every year,” said Andrea Pettit, Ryan’s mother. “Last year, I just got my hand cupping a turtle,” Ryan said. “This year, I got it with two plastic eyes attached, like a creature.” “I like coming out to support my hometown,” Andrea said. While Denise Verducci lives in Arlington, this year marked her first Street Fair. By contrast, Sylvia Guzman lives in Skagit County, but has still made the trip to visit the Street Fair for the past few years. “There’s always a lot of variety in the vendors,” Guzman said, after she and Verducci had received samples of Corium 21 Aloe Vera Skin Cream from vendor Veronica SEE FAIR, PAGE 2
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Marysville’s James Mills demonstrates how he makes his “Arcane Glass” artwork during the Arlington Street Fair on July 14.
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ARLINGTON —Attendance was lighter than in previous years, and the weather presented a number of problems for event attendees and organizers alike, but the Arlington Fly-In still drew sizable crowds of both spectators and aviators to the Arlington Municipal Airport from July 11-15. Barb Tolbert, executive director of the Arlington Fly-In, explained that heavy rain not only soaked the crowds on Friday, July 13, but also brought with it lightning that shorted out the Fly-In’s office computers that day. “Even during the thunderstorms, though, we still had plenty of planes arriving for the event,” Tolbert said. “This event has grown considerably over the years, but while we might have gotten 1,200 planes in a previous year, we might have received just a little more than 900 this year.” Although traffic on the tarmac and at the gates on the ground was less busy, Tolbert praised the number of attendees who braved the downpour on Friday the 13th to continue camping out in tents for all five days.