Community Focus
COMPILED BY CAROL SCHMIDT
Fourteen students from the Stanwood area have been named to the Dean's List at the University of Washington for spring quarter. Freshmen: JACOB AARON CROFOOT, NOLAN DAVID HEINTZ. Sophomores: GRANT MARCUS BOURSAW, SCOTT PATRICK COLLINS, RYAN CHRISTOPHER KNOTT, BRODY GORDON LUND. Juniors: JACOB GREGORY LENZ, KELLY COVENTRY SHEEHAN. Seniors: RYAN CHRISTOPHER BOYCE, KYLE BOONE BUTLER, DAMARA ANNE HADZARIGA, GRACE NICOLE KIDD, CANDICE MARIE MORRIS, FRANZ MICHAEL RUIJTERS.
The Board of Directors of Providence Hospice & Home Care of Snohomish County has announced that SUE GAMMELL of Stanwood, who is vice president at Banner Bank in Everett was voted in as Immediate Past Chair for the nonprofit corporation Providence Hospice & Home Care. Gammell has served the community since 1978 and has 230 employees, 350 volunteers, and provides Snohomish County residents with patient programs for hospice services, home health care, Lifeline, Partners In Palliative Care, and the pediatric Carousel Program.
Coast Guard Seaman ALEXANDER H. FRANZESE, a 2008 graduate of Stanwood High School, recently graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N. J.
During the eight-week training program, Franzese completed a vigorous training curriculum consisting of academics and practical instruction on water safety and survival, military customs and courtesies, seamanship skills, first aid, fire fighting and marksmanship.
A major emphasis is also placed on physical fitness, health and wellness. Franzese and other recruits also received instruction on the Coast Guard's core values -- honor, respect and devotion to duty -- and how to apply them in their military performance and personal conduct. Franzese will join 36, 000 other men and women who comprise Coast Guard's force. Men and women train together from the first day in the Coast Guard just as they do aboard ships and shore units throughout the world.
To reinforce the team concept, Franzese, and other recruits were trained in preventing sexual harassment, drug and alcohol awareness, civil rights training and the basics of the work-life balance, as well as total quality management.
