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BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
SMOKEY POINT — Ask bus commuters who have used the Smokey Point Transit Center since its Jan. 31 opening, and it’s a good
Dress exchange key for proms
Sports: Girls off to state. Page 8.
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Cinderella:
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bet most will cite increased safety as one of its benefits. “Thank God for it,” Arlington’s Victoria Welch said, as she bundled her fellow passenger, her 8-year-old Schnauzer dog Sky, in her jacket
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ARLINGTON — The Prom Dress Exchange of North Snohomish County is adopting a back-to-basics approach for its fifth year. While previous years included extravagant fashion shows, planning committee member Jeanne Watanabe explained that the exchanges on the Saturdays of March 14 and April 11 would focus simply on outfitting young women for their proms. “We just want to get as many girls dresses as we can,” Watanabe said. “We’ve changed the structure of the
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M-P’s Jordan Reynolds, MG’s Emily Zimmerman and AHS’s Alexis Miller model prom dresses.
‘Unity in the Community’ BY STEVE POWELL
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another retired Arlington resident, take regular trips to Everett for shopping and Seattle for medical treatments, so the bus is a necessity
event so we can sustain it without all the hoopla.” The Arlington Kids’ Kloset at 135 S. French Ave. will still host the exchanges, which will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. both Saturdays. “We’ll have racks of free dresses, as well as dresses available for checkout,” Watanabe said. In the meantime, those who wish to donate dresses may drop them off at either Kids’ Kloset or PaZazz! Hair Design at 517 N. Olympic Ave. in Arlington, or Trusty Threads at 1515 Third St. or the Living Room Coffee
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while they waited for the next bus home. “I couldn’t keep count of how many times I could have died crossing that busy street from the old bus stop.” Both Welch and Joyce Griffin,
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Marie Zackuse says the closing prayer at the event.
MARYSVILLE – Instead of tearing the community apart, the school shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck last October has brought about “unity in the community.” Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring said the area has a “special appreciation for goodness” after the high school shooting, and he is thank-
ful for that. “It could have gone a much different direction,” he said at the Interfaith Candlelight Prayer Service in the M-P auditorium Feb. 24. Pastor Terry Kyllo of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church brought 18 spiritual leaders together on the four-month anniversary of the shooting. Each leader had a topic to talk and pray about, but the overall theme was “For Healing and Community.”
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Nehring said Oct. 24 was the “worst humanity had to offer. Now it is the best humanity has to offer.” Tulalip Tribes Vice Chairman Les Parks added, “We are in this together.” Kyllo said he wanted the event not to remind people of the trauma, but to help them grieve and to respect their feelings. SEE UNITY, PAGE 2