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Marysville observes ‘Days of Caring’ BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Marysville’s first ‘Art Walk’ draws crowd to downtown. Page 7
MARYSVILLE — Pinewood Elementary, the Tulalip Boys & Girls Club and Allen Creek were just a few local focal points of the United Way of Snohomish County’s 19th annual “Days of Caring” volunteer event on Friday, Sept. 21, and Saturday, Sept. 22. “Each year, 1,000 volunteers serve more than 6,000 hours at more than 70 project sites benefiting nonprofits throughout the county,” said Neil Parekh, vice president of marketing and communications for United Way of Snohomish County. “Local companies, service clubs, families, individuals and even nonprofit groups come together to volunteer in Snohomish County.” On Sept. 21, Pinewood Elementary received a visit
from an estimated 40 volunteers who focused on rehabilitating the school’s disused garden and cleaning up its campus, while a number of the school’s students volunteered to help paint a mural designed by Beth Ha, the Pinewood Elementary PTSA secretary, Reflections chair and art docent who coordinated the day’s labors with United Way and its volunteering organizations. “One way to make sure we don’t get graffiti is to show people how much we care about this school,” Ha said to a student painter when she asked why the mural was an important project. Ha clarified when speaking to adults that the garden “is probably our main project for today,” due to its demonstrated value in SEE CARING, PAGE 2
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From left, Pinewood Elementary fifth-graders Jakob Van Marter and Xavior Curry do their part for the United Way of Snohomish County’s ‘Days of Caring’ on Sept. 21 by struggling to uproot some deep-seeded weeds.
Windermere employees turn out to help food bank
SPORTS: Lakewood looks for success on the pitch. Page 8
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Stephen Smith, left, and Lisa Davis scrub the soap off one of the cars that stopped by the Sept. 22 fundraising wash for the Marysville Community Food Bank at Windermere Real Estate.
MARYSVILLE — While Windermere Real Estate at 801 State Ave. is a regular contributor to the Marysville Community Food Bank, they tried a new tack to raise funds and generate food donations on Saturday, Sept. 22. Although the day’s morning rain threatened to put a damper on Windermere’s first-ever car wash fundraiser for the food bank, event organizers reported that the skies cleared early enough for the brief good weather to draw even more cars to their wash than they suspect they would have received otherwise.
According to Dan Peterson, the managing broker for Windermere in Marysville, he and his fellow volunteers from that branch had raised $350 of their $500 goal for the five-hour event with nearly two hours left. “We had one person just hand us $250 worth of groceries that they’d bought at the local Safeway,” said Connie Redden, a realtor and broker at Windermere in Marysville. “A lot of folks have been dropping off food without even caring whether they get their cars washed or not.” Peterson estimated that his volunteers had washed 25 cars in the first three hours SEE FOOD, PAGE 2
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