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Car show benefits ‘3 Day for the Cure’ BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
COMMUNITY: Bullfrog jumping contest draws record crowd. Page 5
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Larry Zappone, left, describes the restoration history of his 1956 Chrysler DeSoto to Gary Ackley.
SPORTS: Shake N’ Bake captures city kickball title. Page 8
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Vol. 119, No. 24
MARYSVILLE — It was a great day for a car show, especially one supporting the Susan G. Komen “3 Day for the Cure” breast cancer research fundraising walk this fall. The Kumon Math and Reading Centers’ Marysville branch hosted the event at their new location on Delta Avenue, while their event co-sponsors, Fenders and Fins Inc., drew more than a dozen classic car owners to the site after putting out the call to their clientele, but in spite of the bright, warm weather on July 30 that finally felt like summer, the turnout was sparser than the event’s organizers had hoped for. Gwen Lewis, owner of the Marysville Kumon branch, explained that the car show was also intended to rein-
troduce their business to the community after its first full month in its new location, while her son and coworker at the Marysville branch, Ivan Lewis, deemed the car show their first step in increasing their involvement in the local community. “We’ve been in Marysville for 15 years,” Ivan Lewis said. “We can’t just sit here. We’ve got to reach out.” Ivan and his wife Amanda will be taking part in the “3 Day for the Cure” in Seattle this September, so they decided to get a head start on their fundraising. Amanda’s father John Carson, owns Fenders and Fins, so he was able to recruit a number of his customers, from as near as Marysville and Everett to as far as Bothell and Kenmore. SEE KOMEN, PAGE 2
McKenna addresses Chamber BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE — Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna wanted the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce to know that he’s touted their communities as a success story to other state organizations, even as he acknowledged that the state government needs to step up parts of its service to citizens of Marysville, Tulalip and beyond. McKenna opened his remarks at the Chamber’s July 29 Business Before Hours by describing Silicon Energy, which he visited with city of Marysville officials on May 11,
as one of the companies that wants to be in Marysville, due to the city’s business-friendly climate. He likewise praised the Marysville Arts & Technology High School as an example of the innovation in education that he sees being done by the Marysville School District. “Not everyone in the state is as effective as Marysville, though,” McKenna said. “We have a statewide achievement gap that’s unacceptable. By current estimates, it’d take us 105 years to close it.” At the same time that McKenna objected to the shrinking percentage of state funding that’s devoted to education, he cited the accomplish-
ments of Washington educators by noting that the state of Louisiana and the New York public schools have hired experts from the University of Washington to address their own achievement gaps. Moving on to what the state government has accomplished for its citizens, McKenna touted 44 bills that the state Legislature passed which were written by his office covering areas ranging from consumer protection to public safety. He explained that inmates who file more than three suits deemed frivolous in state courts will be forced to pay their own filing fees on future SEE MCKENNA, PAGE 2
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Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna tells members of the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce on July 29 what his office has done for consumer protection and public safety.