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M’ville middle schoolers into robotics By STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com
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Robotics entertain school officials.
Military: Surprise at parade. Page 9.
MARYSVILLE – Better than video games? That’s what Rob Hollis thinks anyway. Hollis is a parent adviser to the Cedarcrest Middle School robotics club. He and club members appeared before the Marysville School Board Nov. 17 and entertained everyone. Cedarcrest expected maybe 20 in the program, but 100 students
are taking three classes on robotics. There’s even an after-school club that competes against other schools. It’s the only middle school in town with such a program. “It’s better than them playing video games” because they can learn a skill, programming, that could help them get jobs that start at $50,000 a year, Hollis said. In the main vote of the night, the school board approved the
use of the state schools office’s “Since Time Immemorial” Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum. Kyle Kinoshita, executive director of learning and teaching, said he hopes teachers will start using the program second semester. Materials are available online at www.indianed.org. Teachers at all grade levels will have the flexibilSEE ROBOTS, PAGE 2
It’s colder for homeless BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
Sports: MG diver wins state. Page 10.
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Winter weather hit Marysville and Arlington early this year, and those without a place to sleep found themselves seeking shelter. The journey to homelessness can be a surprisingly short one. Jacob Williams had to bed down at the Damascus Road Church in Marysville after he was no longer able to stay at the place he’d been renting. For the family in the back room, that the church reserves for women and children, a succession of medical ailments and job losses rendered them homeless. Rose Marie’s ability to work was impeded by knee surgery and treatment for a blood clot. She was already asthmatic and coping with pneumonia. Her daughters Michelle, 23, and Jasmine, 19, each tried to support the family, but wound up losing their jobs due to chronic conditions of their own. “I have a pinched nerve,
plus the anxiety from my stress has given me muscle spasms, so I have an involuntary twitch now,” Michelle said. Even Raphael, one of Rose Marie’s twin 12-yearold boys, broke his foot. “We have relatives in the area, but we can’t stay with them because they have landlords,” Rose Marie said, while her husband slept on a mattress with the other men near the church’s front entrance. “It’s hard to slow down and take care of your children when you can’t give them a roof over their heads.” Although the Damascus Road Church serves as the site for Marysville’s cold-
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Colder-than-normal temperatures at times this month have led to the opening of homeless shelters in Marysville and Arlington. Sandy Norquist prepares dinner, above left. Daughters Michelle and Jasmine join their mother, Rose Marie, on the mattresses at the Marysville shelter at the Damascus Road Church, above. And Jacob Williams beds down for the night, left. weather shelter, several other churches contribute to its continued operation. The Mar ysville Soroptimists recently contributed nearly $200 in supplies to the shelter, for cooking, cleaning and laundering clothes.
Shelter director Zoe Wlazlak and church coordinator Doug Brown both admitted that they’d been guilty of judging homeless people for their plight in the past, but as they enter their second year of operating the shel-
ter, they expressed empathy for those who often have nowhere else to go. “For many of them, bedding down at the shelter is the first time they’ve felt safe all day,” Wlazlak said SEE COLD, PAGE 8
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