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Arlington celebrates ‘Pioneer Days’
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BY KIRK BOXLEITNER
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ARLINGTON — The Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Hall and Museum welcomed visitors to celebrate the return of their annual “Pioneer Days” on Saturday, Sept. 15. While the hands-on activities and artifacts drew attendees of all ages, what amused many parents and grandparents was how quickly their kids and grandkids took part in interactive demonstrations that the older folks had performed as chores when they were children themselves. Alan and Miranda Hernandez of Hamilton, Wash., happened to be visiting their grandparents, Leighton and Christi Talbott of Silvana, when they decided to check out the exhibits and experts on early pioneer
life in the region. Joann Gray guided Alan, 8, through cleaning clothes against a washboard before running them through a wringer by hand, while Ray Miller grabbed the other end of an old-fashioned saw so that he and Alan could cut firewood-sized logs together. “I want to wash the clothes again,” Alan Hernandez told Joann, before scrubbing and wringing dry the demonstration clothes a second time. “I don’t like to fold laundry, but I like washing it.” “This brings back a lot of memories,” Leighton Talbott said as he watched his grandson work. “We had a lot of these old things as toys that we handmade ourselves.” Not only did Miller make SEE PIONEER, PAGE 2
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From left, Ali Pater helps her son Colt grind flour as Renee Miller supervises during the Sept. 15 ‘Pioneer Days.’
Freedom Festival returns to Arlington BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Musician Elias Ka’uhane, left, and Lt. John Hosey of the Gadsden Sea Cadets were all smiles during the Sept. 15 Freedom Festival in downtown Arlington.
ARLINGTON — Legion Park in downtown Arlington once again drew crowds ready to cheer on their country and its service members on Saturday, Sept. 15, as Operation Homefront conducted its annual Freedom Festival to memorialize the military’s sacrifices and help show support for its members in the wake of the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. After an opening invocation by Pastor Chad Blood of the Lifeway Foursquare Church in Arlington, Col. Jeffrey Sabatine of the Washington Army National Guard reminded those in attendance of the nation’s prisoners of war and missing in action troops,
and cited U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens — who was killed on Sept. 11 of this year in the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya — as another example of Americans who have sacrificed in service to their country. “He was assisting a country that does not enjoy the freedoms we sometimes take for granted,” Sabatine said, before calling upon the crowd to observe a moment of silence “in honor of our generation’s day that will live in infamy, 9/11, and of the victims and surviving families of that day.” Arlington City Council member Ken Klein praised Operation Homefront for its support of service members’ families, and echoed Sabatine in referencing that week’s SEE FREEDOM, PAGE 2
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