Community Focus
Customers and employees of TOP Food & Drug and Haggen Food & Pharmacy stores, including Stanwood, recently raised $16,905 for World Vision’s relief efforts in Haiti, which was devastated by a Jan. 12 earthquake. World Vision, based in Federal Way, is using cash donations to send the most urgent of life-saving supplies, such as water and medicine, to Haitian victims of the earthquake. Full Story
Spelling bee
Stanwood Middle School students participated in the school-level spelling bee Jan. 29. Back row: Danielle Fortin, Jakob Keizer (runner-up), Julia Hamilton (winner), Caitlin Lingrey, Charlie Vail. Full Story
Go team!
Lynette Cole made the cheerleading squad at Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore. where she is a freshman. She is planning to major in elementary education. Full Story
WSP seeks witnesses of two collisions
The Washington State Patrol Major Accident Investigation Team is investigating two serious injury collisions involving commercial vehicles that occurred in Snohomish County recently. Full Story
Births
Cascade Valley Hospital, Arlington:
Cristina Chavez of Stanwood, a boy, Jan. 14, 2010.
Providence Everett Medical Center, Everett:
Amy and Ben Bryan of Stanwood, a boy, Jan. 9, 2010. (First New Year’s boy!) Full Story
News Files
EARLY HISTORY
C.D. and Nora Kimball of Mount Vernon loaded the only piano in town on board a boat to go to Utsalady where they played at dances, stayed overnight in the hotel, then loaded the piano on the boat to go home the next morning.
100 YEARS AGO (1910)
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What toys do at night
One of the mysteries of what stuffed animals do at night when their owners are asleep, was answered by this recent hidden camera photo. Staff at the Stanwood Library offered a Stuffed Animal Sleepover Feb. 5, when children brought their favorite stuffed animal for story time, then left the animals overnight, to be picked up Saturday morning. Full Story
Meditation
‘Abide in Me’
When I was a child I watched the movie “Wizard of Oz” almost every year. The film seems to build towards the meeting with the all-wise and powerful Wizard of Oz. Dorothy and her three friends appear before the Wizard in a large emerald chamber. He appears in a large and intimidating face on a screen. Full Story
Award for excellence
LTJG Johannes Schonberg, who has Stanwood roots, was given the Admiral Arleigh Burke Surface Warfare Operational Excellence Award in Washington, D.C. last month.
The commanding officer of the USS THACH, on which Schonberg served, wrote, “LTJG Schonberg has served superbly as operations officer after his department head was sent on temporary assignment elsewhere.” Full Story
A visit to the Senate
Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen stands with Pastor Dan Sailer of Stanwood, on the Senate floor Friday. Full Story
Utsalady Elementary leaders
Several different awards were given to the following students from Utsalady Elementary for the month of January. Full Story
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