Arlington Times, January 23, 2013

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Students turn solar power into action BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

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SPORTS: Cougars

face Tigers in annual ‘Cat Fight.’ Page 8

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From left, Kent Prairie Elementary fifth-grade students December Brickey, Emma Keck and Shelby Newberg figure out how the close the circuit on their miniature solar-powered device.

Cascade Valley offers flu vaccine, advice BY KIRK BOXLEITNER

kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

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Vol. 124, No. 07 Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo

Marysville’s Aaralyn Martin is checked out by Arlington pediatrician Dr. Doina Stefan to make sure she hasn’t caught the flu since having her adenoids removed.

ARLINGTON — To answer the two questions the staff of Cascade Valley Arlington Pediatrics receives most often, yes, they have flu and whooping cough vaccine, and yes, their doctors recommend that everyone older than 6 months should get vaccinated. Dr. Doina Stefan of Cascade Valley Arlington Pediatrics addressed a number of misconceptions that she’s heard from community members about vaccinations, starting with concerns that getting vaccinated can actually cause illness in otherwise healthy patients, when in many cases, patients were already exposed to the flu or another virus before their vaccinations and simply didn’t know it. “Stomach flu is a different type of flu from influenza,” Stefan said. “It gets confusing

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SPORTS: Coaches vs. Cancer raises $4,000. Page 8

ARLINGTON — When Donnica Farnsworth’s fifth-grade students at Kent Prairie Elementary first learned about solar power, it was a purely abstract concept to them, but two years after the first Snohomish County Public Utility District mini-grant to her classroom, it’s since become a tangible and relevant concern to their own lives. For the second year in a row, the PUD awarded a $500 mini-grant to Farnsworth’s classroom to incorporate energy and water education into her curriculum, this year to fund a Solar Energy Classroom Kit which allows her students to explore how solar energy can be transferred and transformed into other forms of energy. “The first year, we studied how the mechanical energy created by hand-cranks and other such devices could be converted into electricity,” Farnsworth said. “This summer, after attending the PUD’s Solar 101 course, [Public Education Programs Coordinator] Jenni Lamarca loaned me this kit to see if I wanted it. It’s actually a nice

because everything is called ‘the flu.’ Some patients have told me that they’ll get reactions like the chills after being vaccinated, but this is normal and such effects tend to lessen with subsequent vaccinations.” While a number of patients have told her that they don’t get vaccinated for the flu either because they’ve never caught it or they think they can tough out the symptoms, Stefan warned that those who don’t get vaccinated run the risk of infecting those with whom they come into contact, even if they suffer no symptoms themselves. “Younger children and the elderly are especially susceptible,” Stefan said. “We typically see a lot of reports of illnesses after the holidays when everyone in the family has been hugging and kissing. In addition to avoiding crowded places, even if you want to see your SEE FLU, PAGE 2


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