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Festival of the River
Annual event hosted by the Stillaguamish Tribe highlights natural resources, watershed BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Tanya White, 14, has been dancing at Pow Wows since she was three years old and participated again during the 2012 Festival of the River..
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Vol. 123, No. 46
ARLINGTON — An estimated 1,200 attendees turned out for the Friday, Aug. 10, concert of the 23rd annual Stillaguamish Festival of the River, and Stillaguamish Tribal Chair Shawn Yanity believes the Festival’s three days at the River Meadows County Park this year more than kept pace with last year’s Festival. The 2011 Stillaguamish Festival of the River marked the debut of a third day, Friday, to serve exclusively as a concert day, and the three-day event drew approximately 18,000 visitors over the weekend last
year. “We brought back Buffy Sainte-Marie, to help represent the indigenous people,” Yanity said of the musical acts that performed on the main entertainment stage from Aug. 10-12. “We really mixed up the list to offer some diversity.” The country and classic rock musicians who put in appearances this year included Dave Mason, Dr. John, LeRoy Bell & His Only Friends, Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Los Lonely Boys, Jana Kramer, Brett Eldredge and Lee Brice. At the same time, the Festival’s Pow Wow on SEE FESTIVAL, PAGE 2
Arlington gathers for a night against crime BY LAUREN SALCEDO lsalcedo@arlingtontimes.com
ARLINGTON – The National Night Out Against Crime is an annual event where communities gather to get to know one another and put a stop to neighborhood crime. “We want to be a part of interfacing with the community,” said Jim Rankin, president elect of Arlington’s Kiwanis Club. “This event is about the unification of our community.” This year marked a small change in the annual event, which was moved from the Food Pavilion parking lot to the field adja-
cent to the Stillaguamish Athletic Club on 172nd Street. “We’ve been doing this for more than five years,” said Paul Ellis, assistant to the Arlington City Administrator for capital projects. Ellis noted that the event’s location was originally set downtown, before moving to Smokey Point, and ultimately 172nd Street. “The turnout has been really good,” he said. “We like to make it a part of the Smokey Point area and this is really visible with a lot of room to expand.” And expanding is exactly what he hopes will happen for this event, which aims to SEE CRIME, PAGE 2
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Chad Martin, left, and Makenna Martin greet Annie, a 5-year-old chocolate lab who works as a K-9 officer with the Arlington Police Department, during the National Night Out Against Crime.
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