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Rotarians build schools in Guatemala BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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MARYSVILLE — Half a dozen Marysville residents were among 15 area Rotarians and their guests who took a trek to Guatemala from March 1-10 to improve the lives of two sets of villagers. Marysville Rotary Sergeant-at-Arms Ron Young estimated that he’s gone on at least half a dozen such trips to the rural villages of Guatemala, and helped the villagers build schoolhouses for themselves on all of those trips, but this marked the first time that he’d ever installed stoves in Guatemalan villagers’ homes. “These people live at an elevation of at least 6,000 feet, high enough that some of their corn had frozen when we got there,” Young said. “And yet, all their huts have this 6-inch gap all around, between the top of the walls and the ceilings, and that’s because so many of them make fires in these open pits in their floors. They have to have ventilation to let all that smoke out, but it also lets quite a breeze blow through when it gets cold at night.” As a nurse practitioner, Young was dismayed at the inches-thick layers of black tar soot lining the villagers’ ceilings, because even with ventilation, he knew they were breathing it in. “I could just imagine what the insides of their
Rotarian Mike Stephenson and his daughter Katie build a schoolhouse for villagers in Guatemala.
Hatch retires from Tulalip Tribal Board
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BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Don Hatch Jr. officially retired from the Tulalip Tribal Board of Directors on April 6.
TULALIP — Saturday, April 6, marked the end of an era as Don Hatch Jr. stepped down from the Tulalip Tribal Board of Directors. When Hatch was drafted onto the Board in 1965, by the parents of Little League baseball players whom he’d coached, he was the Board’s youngest-ever member, at the age of 26. At the age of 73, Hatch was the Board’s oldest member when he left, but in the intervening decades his pri-
orities have remained largely the same. “I came onto the Tribal Board the same way I came onto the Marysville School Board,” Hatch said. “People asked why I wasn’t making any motions when I started on those Boards, and I told them that I wanted to learn how they worked first.” The community’s children have remained a major motivator for Hatch, whether through his coaching, refereeing and umpiring of
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