News Files
COMPILED BY CAROL SCHMIDT
EARLY HISTORY
Tomas Hoines, born in Skudeness, Haven, Norway, Jan. 19, later came to Stanwood and founded the Perpetual Care Fund for Freeborn Lutheran Cemetery.
100 YEARS AGO (1910)
Jan. 28, The Peoples Bank in East Stanwood opened with capital stock of $15,000.
90 YEARS AGO (1920)
Ella and Louis Hovig were married this year, and to their union were born five children.
80 YEARS AGO (1930)
A frigid wave of cold weather with 4 degrees hung on for two weeks. Island road crews put through over two miles of new road to Camano Head. Students studying foreign languages at the high school corresponded with students from Honduras, Chile and Hamburg, Germany.
70 YEARS AGO (1940)
W.P.A. workers pushed through the road between Marysville and Warm Beach to be known as Marine View Highway. Every ski fan in Stanwood and the Twin Cities area turned out to witness the Pacific Northwest Ski Championships at Leavenworth when Tony Knutsen, representing the Fjeld Ski Club of Stanwood, was competing.
60 YEARS AGO (1950)
Approval of final plans by the state department of Education for a vocational building, music studio and general purpose cafeteria, was received by the school board. The Stanwood Cardinals (today’s Spartans) were red-hot, winning again and again.
50 YEARS AGO (1960)
Petitions for the consolidation of the Twin Cities were signed at three locations in East Stanwood.
40 YEARS AGO (1970)
The flu bug caused an abnormally high rate of absenteeism in schools. A gale force wind whipped over Camano. A $25,000 drainage project went into service on Florence Island, helping rid the low-lying terrain of surplus water, and increasing farm production.
30 YEARS AGO (1980)
Two Laotian families arrived at Warm Beach. The Western Auto and Home store moved into the former Pearson Variety building in East Stanwood on main street.
20 YEARS AGO (1990)
Stanwood Boy Scouts had their 80th anniversary. Winds pummeled this area with trees crashing through powerlines, knocking out electricity and rerouting traffic. Freshman ag class members got on-thejob training by pruning fruit trees around the community.
10 YEARS AGO (2000)
Islanders had to decide: sales tax increase or fewer bus runs? A new EMS system was on the way. The school district conducted its first “Yellow Bus Tour” for the public to see building sites of 4 schools. Camano was declared to be one of the safest places to live in the state.
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