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MicroGreen closure stuns workers BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
Sports:
Lakewood soccer team still without a win. Page 10
ARLINGTON — Justin Brackett found out he no longer had a job when he woke up and checked Facebook on his phone. Brackett was one of more than 160 employees of MicroGreen Polymers in
Arlington whose employment ended when the company closed suddenly April 3. “I didn’t make much money, but I believed in what I was doing,” said Brackett, a former graveyard shift lead. He joined coworkers at an April 15
WorkSource meeting. “We were treated with respect, not belittled. Whoever you were, your voice was heard. With the work we were doing, for recycling and the environment, it was like jumping into the future. It could have been the start of something huge.”
MicroGreen began recycling plastic products in Arlington in 2002. The company raised more than $40 million from outside investors including the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians and Waste Management. Its “InCycle” recyclable cof-
fee cups were used on airlines including Alaska Air, United and Virgin America. MicroGreen executives were so confident of future expansion that they asked Gov. Jay Inslee to widen Highway 531 in January. SEE WORKERS, PAGE 2 Steve Powell/Staff Photo
Carly McCartney poses with some of her artwork, including a logo, below right, whose figures pay tribute to the five students who died in the shooting tragedy at Marysville-Pilchuck High School six months ago.
Her art ‘influenced’ by tragedy at M-P
Business:
Sale of Salsa in Arlington heats up as firm expands. Page 19.
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MARYSVILLE – It’s been almost six months since the shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, but for senior Carly McCartney it still is fresh in her mind. To honor the victims and all of the people who influence our lives McCartney puts them in her artwork. She first did it to honor the five victims. She donated the work, called “Our Choice,” to a com-
pany that makes T-shirts. Proceeds went to victims’
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