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Sports: Arlington
Eagle girls remain unbeaten after 14 games. Page 10.
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Ryleigh Busted plays video games while Matt Kaska plays a football toss game at the Arlington Boys and Girls Club.
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ARLINGTON — The final stretch of fundraising for the Arlington Boys & Girls Club’s expansion is set to kick off with team pictures Jan. 23. What began in 2014 as a way to commemorate the club’s 40 years in Arlington, by doubling its gym size and adding a teen center, expanded to serve an even broader community after the Oso slide in March that year.
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paign will have raised $2.9 million. The final phase of the campaign has been branded “Stilly 200,” because it’s asking 2,000 people to donate $250 each to meet its fundraising goal. Those donors will have the names of their choice engraved on a donor wall at the club, as well as at Quake Field. Bill Kinney, unit director of the Arlington club, recalled that it opened as the Arlington Boys Club in 1974, when Arlington
had a population of about 2,000 people. By contrast, Kinney estimated the club now boasts around 2,200 members. Even when the club opened its current facility in 1992, the town’s population was roughly 4,600 people. “We’ve grown a lot since then, and there’s literally not enough room for us here now,” said Kinney, who started basSEE CLUB, PAGE 2
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City studies facility for homeless women, children BY STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com
Vol. 126, No. 23
The Oso slide prompted the fundraising campaign to prioritize the family resource center ahead of the originally planned teen center, so the club still needs about $500,000 to add the teen center and a third half-court gym space, in addition to completing the renovations to Quake Field. In addition to artificial surfacing Quake Field’s baseball and softball fields, the campaign will build two new ballfields. In the end, the cam-
In an attempt to make more balanced and safer leagues, plus a better playoff system, Northwest high school athletic directors are seeking to implement footballspecific leagues. The plan calls for combining the football teams from the Northwest Conference, the Cascade Conference and the Wesco 4A and 3A into five classification-specific leagues. While unofficial, the unnamed leagues are all but a certainty, with the athletic directors hoping to finalize schedules by next month. Lakewood’s 2A Coach Dan Teeter is glad the leagues are thinking of safety. In one instance last season, Lakewood had to play three games in nine days. “To me that doesn’t make a lot of sense. It’s not in the best interest of the kids,” Teeter said. Under the plan, all of Snohomish County’s football leagues will undergo at least a slight change. In 3A, the Wesco North will add Ferndale and Squalicum to go along with Arlington, Marysville
MARYSVILLE – Homeless women and children may be getting a place to stay in Marysville soon. City, faith and social service representatives met recently to talk about the need and potential solu-
tions. Mayor Jon Nehring said the city owns a house on Third Street that could be used for such a place temporarily, but that a huge transportation project will lead to its demise in probably less than two years. He said he hopes the faith com-
munity can come up with a different home by then. Chief Administrative Officer Gloria Hirashima said that would be a logical extension. “Churches often take in families and help,” she said. “We can partner and facilitate.”
Hirashima said the idea actually came from a local pastor, and the city stepped in to help get it going. Organizers got the Everett Gospel Mission involved, since they are the local experts on the topic of homelessness. They want to model it after the Lydia
House in Snohomish. The difference would be it would be run by local churches, not the mission or the city. “Every community is touched by the homeless epidemic,” Nehring said. The mayor emphasized SEE WOMEN, PAGE 9