News Files
COMPILED BY CAROL SCHMIDT
100 YEARS AGO (1910)
Frank Nicks will haul children from Dist. 4 to Stanwood schools. The farming demonstration train was in Stanwood where 500 people visited. Speeches on women’s suffrage were given at Silvana’s T.U. hall.
90 YEARS AGO (1920)
Rev. Berge was the pastor at Village Tabernacle in Cedarhome.
80 YEARS AGO (1930)
The Stillaguamish River was dredged up to the Clough Mill, straightening the channel. Roller skating was held every night in East Stanwood Commercial Club Hall.
70 YEARS AGO (1940)
Music for dancing at the Dalifresh Fountain was furnished by an electrically-operated phonograph that was set in motion with a coin.
60 YEARS AGO (1950)
Vsetkystens Nordmorslag had its annual “Sommerstvne” attended by Stanwood Scandinavians. Washington University students surveyed Camano to determine likely spots where relics of an almost vanished race might be found near Madrona Beach. The Stanwood firemen’s carnival was at Stanwood City Hall.
50 YEARS AGO (1960)
The new Cedarhome Seventh-day Adventist Church was dedicated. Ray Brandstrom of East Stanwood was elected chief of the newly consolidated fire department. Ground-breaking rites were at Freeborn Lutheran Church for its twostory addition.
40 YEARS AGO (1970)
Victory Ranch northeast of Stanwood was presented with an American flag that flew over the U.S. Capital. Three new concession buildings were constructed on the fairgrounds.
30 YEARS AGO (1980)
The Stanwood Women’s Clinic opened. Whitney Fidalgo Seafoods Inc. installed a fish repacking line in the old Stokely-Van Camp building on SR 530. Brandy Joy Baerbalck of Warm Beach took third place in the Baby Miss America State Pageant.
20 YEARS AGO (1990)
The food bank desperately needed a new home. Camano residents want more specifics, more proof of benefits for the proposed Camano Island cityhood. An eight-year-old jumped in Martha Lake to save a sixyear old who was drowning. Dozens of teddy bears were donated to the sheriff’s office on Camano. Stanwood Eagles played donkey baseball at the fairgrounds as a fund-raiser.
10 YEARS AGO (2000)
A $400,000 mistake in the school district budget forced a last-minute revision. Ground was broken for the new senior center on Camano.
