Community Focus
COMPILED BY CAROL SCHMIDT
The Stanwood Community and Senior Center would like to thank the Stanwood Lions Foundation for their generous donation of $1,000. The center appreciates their partnership and support said Michelle Johnson, executive director.
Army National Guard Pvt. KYLE J. BALDA, a 2007 graduate of Stanwood High School, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises. He is the son of Dirk Balda of Stanwood.
Washington State University’s president’s honor roll for the 2009 summer semester lists six local students. Stanwood: JULIE ELIZABETH BRYANT, JANEECE HOGAN ESCOBAR, DANARA CHRISTINA KING, LINDSEY RAE LAWSON. Camano Island: MALOUA LOUISE BECK, MAREN ELIZABETH SWANSON. Summer 2009 graduates include RYAN MICHAEL KLEIN, Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration.
If the BANK OF STANWOOD were still in existence, it would be celebrating its 105th year.
MARY WELSH, a long time resident of the Stanwood and Arlington communities, is a contestant for Miss Washington USA, and would appreciate votes for Miss Photogenic on the misswashingtonusa.com site. Click on contestants, Vote for Miss Photogenic, and then on Mary’s picture. Mary, Miss King County, is a senior at Central Washington State College, and on the Dean’s List for academics. She will receive her degree for early childhood education and education K-12 this winter quarter. Volunteering many hours in classrooms and mentoring students, it is not surprising that she is the youth coordinator for the United Service Organization, and helps a local orthodontist distribute Halloween candy that he collects, to send to service men and women overseas..
