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Marysville Reserve unit comes home BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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SEATTLE — Boeing Field served as the site for multiple family reunions on the evening of Wednesday, July 25, as nearly 100 soldiers stationed in Marysville finally made their way home. The 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command is a U.S. Army Reserve unit based out of Marysville, and its troops were mobilized for overseas service on July 28 of last year, deploying to Kuwait and Afghanistan in support of Operation New Dawn and Operation Enduring Freedom in September. While they returned to the United States on July 15, their unit underwent demobilization activities at Fort Bliss, Texas, until their return to the Puget Sound region.
The returning reservists were greeted by cheering relatives, waving signs and snapping shots of their loved ones while they waited for luggage to be offloaded and caught up with each other. “These folks don’t have anything on their minds other than getting home to be with their families,” said Col. Phillip Jolly, commander of the 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, who’d taken part in the official opening of the Marysville Armed Forces Reserve Center in the spring of this year. Indeed, the 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command managed to accomplish its mission of helping to direct the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq two weeks ahead of SEE HOME , PAGE 2
Residents cry foul over proposed odor study BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Four-month-old Olivia Buckley of Everett was just a newborn the last time she saw her father, Sgt. 1st Class Eddie Buckley of the 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, a U.S. Army Reserve unit based out of Marysville.
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Tulalip Tribal Chair Mel Sheldon Jr. shares his concerns about a proposed odor study during a July 24 public meeting conducted by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
MARYSVILLE — When the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency explained its plans to launch a study of the odor that’s been reported by residents of Marysville and Everett over the past four years, it drew sharp criticism from nearly all of the roughly 100 attendees from those same communities who took the time to speak at a public meeting on Tuesday, July 24. Craig Kenworthy, executive director of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, was met by citizens who not only claimed the study was unnecessary, given
that the agency’s own inspectors have connected the odor to the Cedar Grove Composting facility on Smith Island enough for it to levy fines twice on the Everett plant, but also questionable in its methodology. The study, which would likely commence near the close of this year and last through 2013, would take round-the-clock readings of the air through eight “e-noses,” four of which have already been purchased by Cedar Grove for $200,000 and installed on its property, and all of which are manufactured by Odotech of Montreal, Canada. Susan Thoman, director of communications and pub-
lic affairs for Cedar Grove Composting, denied that Cedar Grove made any attempt to influence the selection of a consultant to carry out the work, and specified that “the only relationship that exists between Cedar Grove and Odotech is for system maintenance,” but officials from the city of Marysville and the Tulalip Tribes voiced their disapproval of the study in part because they do not believe the research will be objective, given the connection between the two companies. “In my 22 years in public service, this is the most disappointSEE ODOR, PAGE 2
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