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Arlington may get new, fixed-up libraries By Kirk Boxleitner
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Jonayln Woolf-Ivory
ARLINGTON — Sno-Isle Libraries is looking to fill in a service gap in the Smokey Point/Lakewood areas, and help the Arlington Library meet its future needs. Jonalyn Woolf-Ivory, executive director of SnoIsle Libraries, presented a 10-year draft capital facilities plan to the Arlington City Council May 16.
She advocated for creation of a new library for the underserved Smokey Point/ Lakewood area, especially given population growth expected in the next 10 years. Woolf-Ivory suggested a “pilot demonstration” library to show locals the benefits of having a library closer to home. “The owner of the complex in Camano where we sited the demonstration
library saw changes in the levels of traffic and businesses opening there,” Woolf-Ivory said. “It helped foster economic development.” She suggested that a pilot library could make the area safer, and possibly even persuade voters to approve a bond for a more-permanent facility. Woolf-Ivory explained that Sno-Isle’s two-step pro-
cess started in September with data-gathering — determining exactly who is using the libraries, how they’re being used and what locations — and moved into drafting a plan this year. She asserted that a 10-year timetable works better than a longer-term plan because of the rapid pace of changing technology, which she said “makes it difficult” to anticipate a
facility’s tech needs much more than a decade down the road. She reported that the Arlington Library, a 5,055-square-foot facility built in 1981, sees an average traffic of roughly 13,000 visitors a month. Woolf-Ivory identified Arlington as a “top priority” for renovation and expanSEE LIBRARY, PAGE 2
Grieving family wants answers to fatal accident By Steve Powell
spowell@marysvilleglobe.com
TULALIP – Tammie Metzger and her five children want answers. Her husband and their father, Greg, was killed in a motorcycle accident on Sunnyside Boulevard eight months ago, on Sept. 20, 2015. He was 41. The county prosecutor has the case, with Marysville police recommending a charge of vehicular homicide. But Metzger said officers have told her “not to get her hopes up.” Metzger, 40, was told the charge may not stick because of a lack of witnesses. She is hoping two people interviewed by police that night might come forward, or anyone else who may have seen or heard the crash. Police dismissed one witnesses statement. They said there is no way he saw
Savannah, Tammie, Alexus and Geoseph Metzger and dog Storm sit on the family couch. what he thought he saw. “To get answers I guess,” Metzger said this week. “Did somebody see something others didn’t?” She and her husband of almost 16 years were together for 23 and have children ages 21, 18, 14, 12 and 10. She has read through the more than 100 pages of accident reports
made by half-a-dozen officers. She said the information is so different that it is hard to figure out the truth of what happened. “They got my statement wrong,” she said. “The stories don’t match up in the police reports.” The three youngest kids talked about their dad, who had been a long-haul truck
driver before getting a job with local concrete company so he could be at home more with his family. Savannah, 14, said she liked to wrestle and play football with him, along with watching TV. Alexus, 12, said she liked to go fishing and tent camping to places like Winthrop and Port Susan.
The tree where Greg Metzger died is adorned with a wooden cross, Seahawks flag and hat, teddy bears and other memorabilia in a makeshift memorial. Tammie and Greg Metzger in their wedding photo. Geoseph, 10, misses playing videos with his dad. “We were always a close SEE GRIEF, A16