Marysville Globe, May 17, 2014

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Letter carriers collect for food bank BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

SPORTS: M-P upset, but wins 2 to advance in playoffs. Page 10

MARYSVILLE — Even as the annual Letter Carriers’ Food Drive May 10, yielded a generous haul for the Marysville Community Food Bank, its director, Dell Deierling, acknowledged that a pressing degree of need remains. Although the drive generated an estimated 23,600 pounds of food, this amount is 8 percent less than last year’s drive, even though the food bank is serving 5 percent more families than this time last year. While Deierling couldn’t say for sure what led to this slight year-to-year decline, he did suspect that the needs of the Oso slide survivors might have tapped some donors. “I totally understand people placing a priority on supporting those survivors first,” Deierling said. “Our food bank has joined others in pitching in for those folks from Oso and Darrington.” Still, Deierling emphasized the importance of the Letter Carriers’ Food Drive to the Marysville food bank’s operations throughout the year. “What we got this past Saturday, in many ways, has to sustain us until at least September, if not the winter holidays,” Deierling said. “We do get a bit of a boost when kids head back to SEE FOOD, PAGE 2

SPORTS: MG softball goes to playoffs for 1st time. Page 10

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George Donaldson and Dennis Trautman sort donations at the Marysville Post Office during the May 10 Letter Carriers’ Food Drive.

Larsen visits Marysville Middle School BY KIRK BOXLEITNER

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Marysville Middle School eighth-grader Peyton Draper explains his robot to U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen on May 15.

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MARYSVILLE — When U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., made a tour through Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education sites in Snohomish County on May 15, the students of Marysville Middle School were able to teach him a few lessons. MMS Principal Susan Hegeberg proudly pointed to the 2012 Washington Achievement Award that her school had received from the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, for

ranking among the top 5 percent of middle schools in the state for closing the achievement gap. Hegeberg attributed this success to a curriculum that makes STEM subjects hands-on and accessible, with MMS science and math teacher Robert East citing his project-based lessons to the students of Tulalip Heritage High School as an inspiration for his eighth-graders’ current lessons. “Whatever the skills we want to develop in these kids, we have them apply those,” East said. “Once you get the

kids engaged and involved, there’s a big turnaround.” Hegeberg cited the dramatic gains that MMS students have made in meeting state math standards. “You’ll have these students who might be disengaged from regular math or science lessons, but they’ll spend hours after school building robots,” Hegeberg said. “You can give them a foundation on how things work, and they’ll think they’re just playing with Legos.” MMS eighth-grader Peyton SEE LARSEN, PAGE 2


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