Meditation
Cleverly invented stories
The day after the U.S. and Canadian Olympic hockey teams played each other for Olympic gold, a wide-smiling Canadian friend of mine brought me a newspaper from Vancouver, B.C., with highlights of the game as a souvenir.
Millions saw the game and I now possess a written record of it. Full Story
Innovative curriculum brings generations together
Graceful snow geese glide through the Stanwood Community and Senior Center to the delight of the audience. Grandmotherly exclamations of love erupt from the group watching a dance recital portraying the journey of the snow goose. Full Story
Camwood Players opens “The Foreigner”
Exaggeration of human nature is often the core of comedy, and it’s the case in “The Foreigner” by Larry Shue, presented by The Camwood Players this month.
Shue’s contemporary comedy exploits the naïve, the slow-witted and the scavengers of society for a pretty good laugh. Full Story
News Files
EARLY HISTORY
G.D. Hines and Thos. O. Stine were teachers at Cedarhome School, 1890.
100 YEARS AGO (1910)
Mr. and Mrs. John Christensen came to Cedarhome where they were to remain for almost 40 years, with 11 children born to their union.
90 YEARS AGO (1920)
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Engagement
Aubrey Edwards and Danny Luce are engaged to be married May 30 in Cincinnati, OH. The couple met on the track team at Washington University in St. Full Story
Happy 85th birthday!
Lois Jean Rice-Chadwick will celebrate her 85th birthday Tues, March 9. Her family helped her celebrate with a brunch Sun, March 7 at her home. Full Story
New location
Hair stylist Alyssa Gilfeather, formerly of It’s a Hair Thing, has moved to Eastside Salon, located at 27500 102nd NW, Stanwood, adjacent to North Sound Physical Therapy. Full Story
Community Focus
AMANDA BARTLETT, a Stanwood High School graduate, will have her shot at TV fame Tues, March 16, when she appears on KING 5 TV Evening Magazine with host Meeghan Black. Amanda was interviewed while watching the Mariners play the Padres in Peoria, AZ last Friday, “just laying in the sun by the fence near Ichiro,” she says. Full Story
Miss Evergreen State Teen winner
Chantel Clifford of Stanwood has been chosen to represent the state of Washington as the 2009-2010 Miss Evergreen State Teen at the International Scholarship Competitions in Orlando, Fl. in July. She is a 16-year-old honor roll freshman at Skagit Valley College where she is studying towards becoming a child psychologist. Full Story
Local essay winner
Teague Nelson, (second from left), a senior at Stanwood High School, submitted the winning entry in the annual DAR Good Citizen 500-word essay contest, sponsored by Ann Washington Chapter of the Daugh Full Story
Ellen Wise competes at Poetry Out Loud state finals
After winning among friends at Stanwood High School and in the bigger fish bowl at regional competition at Skagit Valley College, Ellen Wise will compete against 11 students from across the state in the national poetry recitation contest, Poetry Out Loud. Full Story
A psychedelic senior project
While “Alice in Wonderland” stole first place at the box office last weekend,
Celeste Glover (left) borrowed the former Cravings building and transformed
it into a psychedelic tea party. Full Story
Scholastic Art Awards
Two SHS students bring home ‘best in show’
The writing is on the wall… next to award-winning artwork by Stanwood High School (SHS) students, that is.
Jenny Allison and Reanne Lee won American Vision best of show awards in the Scholastic Art Awards of 2010, presented by Arts Council of Snohomish County.
Only five best of show winners are chosen out of 500 entries, said their teacher, Gail Merrick. Full Story
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