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Bringing the pumpkin patch to the kids BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE — For close to 100 special needs students at Marshall Elementary, the Rotary Club of Marysville’s pumpkin patch at The Plant Farm in Smokey Point was just a bit too far afield, so the Marysville Rotary teamed up with staff and parents from Marshall Elementary and the Marysville Cooperative Education Program to bring the pumpkin patch to those kids. For more than four hours on Thursday, Oct. 25, special education students ranging from preschool to fifth-grade classes ventured out into the soccer fields of Marshall Elementary to pick out their own small pumpkins, out of a field of about 100 pumpkins light enough to lift but heavy enough to
require both hands. Kelli Marble is both a developmental preschool teacher at Marshall Elementary and the parent of a child with special needs, so she understands the challenges of raising kids who might react poorly to Halloween novelties such as jack-o’-lanterns and spooky skeleton decorations. “What we did before we even went out to our own pumpkin patch was to show the children that our bones are just what’s inside of us, and to have them cut into pumpkins to empty out the seeds,” Marble said of her special education students. “We wanted to demystify the unusual aspects of it, but we were also facing the reality of trying to transport our kids to the Rotary pumpkin SEE PATCH , PAGE 15
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Marshall Elementary special education preschoolers Logan Derment, left, and Jaden deAsis beam proudly as they heft their pumpkins at the school’s pumpkin patch on Oct. 25.
Brownfields cleanup grant focus of meeting BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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From left, Pam Jensen and Angie and Harold Cody express an interest in the city of Marysville’s plans to revitalize its downtown by removing contaminated soil from the Geddes Marina property during the Brownfields cleanup grant meeting on Oct. 24.
MARYSVILLE — Four members of the public attended the city of Marysville’s open house on Wednesday, Oct. 24, to discuss a federal grant for cleaning up the Geddes Marina property, but that was four more than had attended the most recent previous meeting on another such grant. As such, city Land Use Engineering Services Manager Shawn Smith considered it progress, especially since the evening’s attendees were already asking questions before the meeting had even officially begun. “This is the fourth time we’ve applied for a Brownfields grant,” Smith said in the large meeting room of the
Marysville Library. “We’re just going to keep trying on this one.” The city of Marysville’s application for a $200,000 Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields cleanup grant that would be used to remediate contaminated ground at the five-acre site, on the Ebey waterfront, that the city bought in July of 2010. The property contains some types of chemicals and pollutants typical of the timber industry and marine operations that have existed along the waterfront since the late 1800s. Smith explained that the city had previously applied for two other $200,000 EPA Brownfields cleanup grants, as well as a $550,000 EPA SEE GRANT, PAGE 2
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