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Bark for Life raises $5,000
BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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MARYSVILLE — The annual Marysville Bark For Life at Asbery Field raised an estimated $5,000 on Saturday, May 18, with 52 dog-walkers who signed up online and roughly another 20 who showed up the morning of the event with their canine companions in tow. Joann Knott walked the track that day with her daughter’s dog Hoodie, a 4-year-old mixed breed, but it was her mother’s dog Daisy, who was also in attendance, that was foremost on her mind. “My mother passed away from ovarian cancer last July,” said Knott, who started “Team Daisy” in honor of both her mother, Lafern Lian, and her mother’s dog.
“When she found out it was inoperable, the first thing she said was, ‘What about Daisy? Who’s going to take care of her?’” Jodee Ensman’s daughter was more fortunate, although it might not have seemed that way at first. “She broke her leg and had a CAT scan to check if there were any blood clots,” said Ensman, while she walked her own dog Petunia. “That was how they caught her kidney cancer in the early stages, since it’s one of the hardest cancers to detect otherwise. It was a good break.” While Stephanie Earling of the American Cancer Society won the smallest dog contest for her 4-yearold Chihuahua Cricket, Lisa Bartholomew’s 2-year-old SEE BARK, PAGE 2
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Stephanie Earling’s 4-year-old Chihuahua Cricket won the smallest dog contest at the May 18 Bark For Life, while Lisa Bartholomew’s 2-year-old Greater Swiss Mountain Dog Kahne won the title of the largest dog at the event.
Community engagement guides district’s transition BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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From left, Andrew Frost, Janelle McFalls and Jim Baker introduce themselves at the start of the Marysville School District’s May 16 community engagement event.
MARYSVILLE — The Marysville School District’s community engagement events on Tuesday, May 14, and Thursday, May 16, drew as many as 70 and 50 attendees, respectively, as part of what MSD Board President Chris Nation deemed “phase two” of the district’s current transition. “Phase one was the superintendent search,” said Nation, who hopes that the two meetings will help generate a transitional document for incoming MSD Superintendent Dr. Becky Berg, in time for her to start the job on July 1. “We want to give her some idea of what we’ve done over the course of the past nine years with Dr. Nyland, in terms of how we’ve improved stu-
dent achievement and community relations, as well as feedback from the community about what they think we should be doing next.” Pam Posey, who served as the community engagement events’ facilitator, framed the discussions in terms of “roots and wings,” from the roots of positive past accomplishments that the community would want to build on, to their dreams of achievements that they hope will be able to take wing in the future. “Each table had a mix of school staff members, parents and community members,” Posey said. “Each table was designed to be a microcosm of the larger community, and our goal is for all the community’s input to be SEE DISTRICT, PAGE 2
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