Marysville Globe, May 15, 2013

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SPORTS: Lakewood

Cougars win Cascade/Kingco Sub-Districts. Page 8

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SPORTS: Marysville tennis players advance to Districts. Page 8

Grace Academy presents ‘The Mouse Trap’ BY LAUREN SALCEDO lsalcedo@arlingtontimes.com

MARYSVILLE — The drama club at Grace Academy spent more than four months preparing for its performance of Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mouse Trap’ — the play that would also be the last for drama teacher and director Phyllis Rice, who retires at the end of the school year. The Mouse Trap is a murder mystery set in 1950s Britain, the era in which it was written. It has been running continuously since 1952 and is the longest running play in history. Grace Academy ran the play in the gymnasium from May 2-4 at 7 p.m. Grace Academy held auditions before the Christmas break, and began rehearsing in February. “It is always a privilege to

direct a play,” said Rice. “I really enjoy working with the kids. They always give 110 percent on every project. I love to see them grow as actors.” In The Mouse Trap, a murder occurs in London, while a young couple, Mollie and Giles Ralston, are running a guesthouse in a nearby town. Four initial guests arrive — Christopher Wren, Mrs. Boyle, Major Metcalf and Miss Casewell — each with their own distinct personalities. Eventually Mr. Paravicini arrives, claiming to have stalled his car in a snowdrift. Finally, Detective Sergeant Trotter skis through the heavy snowfall to save the guests and hosts from the murderer. A series of unusual situations occur, in which each character lets SEE GRACE, PAGE 2

Lauren Salcedo/Staff Photo

The cast of Grace Academy’s rendition of “The Mouse Trap” performs at their final showing on Saturday, May 4. From left, Josiah Lugg as Detective Sergeant Trotter, Madison Habersetzer as Mollie Ralston, James Timmerman as Giles Ralston and José Flores as Mr. Paravicini.

School boards meet in Arlington

COMMUNITY:

Strawberry Festival hosts Talent Show auditions. Page 7

BY KIRK BOXLEITNER

INDEX

kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

CLASSIFIED ADS 13-15 10 LEGAL NOTICES 5, 11 OBITUARIES 4 OPINION 8 SPORTS 12 WORSHIP

Vol. 121, No. 15 Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo

Dr. Tom Albright, legislative representative for the Marysville School Board, considers the latest draft of a superintendent review rubric proposed by the Washington State School Directors’ Association at a May 11 joint school board meeting.

ARLINGTON — The Marysville School District’s Board of Directors and superintendent met with those of the Arlington, Everett and Mount Vernon school districts on Saturday, May 11, at the Byrnes Performing Arts Center in Arlington to take a tentative new method of measuring superintendent performance out for a test drive. Phil Gore, director of leadership and development services with the Washington State School Directors’ Association, led the school districts’ respective personnel through the six-hour training session, which included a series of simulated scenarios which tasked the boards with evaluating superintendents by applying the latest draft of WSSDA’s proposed rubric. “I hope this can be used more as a training tool,” Marysville School Board President Chris

Nation said at the outset of the exercise. “If the evaluations become inflated, though, it won’t be effective.” “My fear is that this will become just another process, rather than an actual conversation,” said Dr. Tom Albright, legislative representative for the Marysville School Board. Nation also suggested that a continuity of training be instituted, to help bring new school board members quickly up to speed on any such in-depth rubric. Following the case applications, Albright noted the gulf of difference between the relative brevity of such hypothetical evaluations versus a review of an actual superintendent that board members might have worked with for years, while Nation pointed out that certain standards of professionally appropriate conduct can vary regionally between the west and east sides of SEE BOARDS, PAGE 2

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