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Stillaguamish Senior Center attendees pledge they are “All In” during a video supporting community members fighting crime.
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ARLINGTON — The National Night Out Against Crime not only spread out to several neighborhoods Aug. 5, but also received two nights of sequels. There were community crime prevention meetings at the Stillaguamish Senior Center Aug. 6 and Haller Middle School Aug. 7. City Public Safety Director Bruce Stedman spent all three nights explaining the fivepronged response of the City Council, police, city staff, citizens and businesses that he believes will make Arlington a national role model. He also reiterated his goal of reducing crime by 30 percent in three years. “The reason I think it can be a national model is because, as an outsider who came from Southern California, I’ve seen what this community can do, in how you responded to the Relay *
For Life and the Oso slide,” said Stedman, who filmed seven neighborhoods and two crowds of community meeting attendees taking the pledge to go “All In” on Arlington’s crime prevention efforts. Some neighborhoods’ efforts stalled at the starting gate. Christy Barnett of Heartland Homes acknowledged that their first Night Out was less than successful, drawing only a couple of attendees. Moreover, she doesn’t expect that they’ll start a Neighborhood Watch anytime soon. “The lesson this year was to be better organized and get the information out to homeowners sooner,” said Barnett, who pointed out that the neighborhood only decided two weeks before the event that it wanted to participate. Barnett reported a number of petty crimes in her neighborSEE CRIME, PAGE 2
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Arlington Police Cmdr. Rian DeWitt gives Levi Near a crime prevention sticker Aug. 5.
DARRINGTON — Dignitaries statewide converged on Darrington Aug. 7 to celebrate the role of Washington State University in facilitating the community’s recovery from the March 22 Oso slide. WSU Snohomish County Extension Office Director Curt Moulton played a video in which WSU interns Elizabeth Norris and Anna Larson expressed their appreciation at being able to return to Darrington, where they’d grown up, to pitch in. “WSU was an amazing partner from early on in the process,” Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert said. “They helped us meet needs we hadn’t even conceived of, and started us thinking about the next steps to recovery.” “Between its tuition and internship programs, I’m really pleased by how much WSU came forward,” Darrington Mayor Dan Rankin said. “They’ve helped us build a road to the future.” WSU President Elson Floyd noted that the university had offered tuition waivers as a form of relief to those impacted by the slide. “The strength of this state is in its human resources, and there is no stronger cohort that I’ve met in my life than exists here in this SEE OSO, PAGE 2
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