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Thieves steal from helpless BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
Sports: Arlington softball team excels. Page 10.
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Helping Hands director Lana Lasley stands next to donation bin hit by thieves recently.
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Go see ‘The Princess Bride’ in Lakewood if you wish. Page 15.
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Vol. 125, No. 40
Sunday, May 10
Top educator a regular mom BY STEVE POWELL
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ARLINGTON — For the past month, thieves have been helping themselves to the community’s donations to the Helping Hands thrift store of Arlington. Helping Hands director Lana Lasley reported that security cameras caught a woman filling a white truck with bags that had been dropped off in one of the store’s donation bins on the morning of May 4. On May 5, Lasley and her fellow volunteer store staff members opened that same bin to find it stuffed with garbage. This comes after a series of nearly nightly visits from
MARYSVILLE – Becky Berg has a doctorate from Columbia University, and as Marysville schools superintendent has one of the most-prominent jobs in the city. But when it comes to being a mom, she’s no different than most. “I don’t know if I’m really that good at it,” she said a few days before her three children were going to visit for Mother’s Day. “As a parent there were some things I would have done differently.” Her stepson, Graham,
is 26, a University of Washington graduate who works for Starbucks; her daughter, Abigail, is 22 majoring in art history at Seattle Central Community College; and her stepdaughter, Annie, is 20 and attends Spokane Community College. Berg’s been married to retired firefighter Grant Cragun for 15 years. Berg is close to her kids. They have season tickets for Husky football games and often have tailgate parties. They went to a Marc Kohn concert at Woodland Park Zoo last summer. SEE MOM, PAGE 2
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Quake strikes
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Becky Berg with family photos of stepson Graham, right, and at left the rest of the family: husband Grant, daughter Abigail and stepdaughter Annie.
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ARLINGTON — At least 80 Arlington residences were awaken by tremors from a 3.7 magnitude earthquake eight miles north of the city at 1:42 a.m. May 7. About eight hours later a 3.4 quake hit the nearby Mount Vernon area. Bill Steele, communications officer with the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, said aftershocks could take place for up to two days. No calls were received regarding damages or injuries, Arlington public safety director Bruce Stedman said. The U.S. Geological Survey says the people in Arlington reported on the USGS website that they felt it.
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a red, late-1990s Subaru Legacy, whose three occupants also were recorded raiding the bin by security cameras. “We always tell people, and have signs posted, that if you need something, but don’t have the money, just ask,” said Lasley, who touted the store’s policy of not charging anything to customers who have been impacted by last year’s Oso slide. “We still get families from that area who come in, just looking for clothes to wear, because what they had went down the river. When they’ve tried to pay, I’ve told them, ‘Your money is no good here.’”
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