October 19, 2022 North County Outlook

Orca Recovery Day comes to M'ville

By Christopher Andersson christopher@northcountyoutlook.com

Local families and in dividuals helped improve salmon habitat at Straw berry Fields Athletic Park as part of this year’s Orca Recovery Day.

This year’s event was on Oct. 15 and was hosted by the Snohomish Conserva tion District and the city of Marysville.

Volunteers were invited to plant trees along the creek which coho salmon use as a habitat.

“I think people seem to be enjoying being out here and enjoying this beautiful site and contributing to the health of the ecosystem,” said Linda Lyshall, execu tive director of the Sno homish Conservation Dis trict. “It’s going great. There’s a wonderful turnout."

Volunteers said they wanted to do their part to better the local environment.

Local firefighters promote smoke alarm preparedness

By Christopher Andersson christopher@northcountyoutlook.com

Marysville and Arling ton firefighters helped lo cal families get free pizza as part of National Fire Pre vention Week this year.

The Marysville Fire Dis trict and North County Fire and EMS partnered with Domino’s Pizza as part of a promotion during Fire Pre vention Week.

Firefighters from the two agencies went out with pizza deliveries and showed up to houses with their fire engine to surprise local resi dents.

They then checked the smoke alarms in those houses.

If the smoke alarms

PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER ANDERSSON Joel Smith, battalion chiefin-training with North County Fire and EMS, checks a smoke alarm on Oct. 12 at the residence of a Smokey Point family during National Fire Prevention Week.

worked, the resident would receive their pizza for free, and if they didn’t firefighters would put in new batteries or install new alarms.

“It was a lot of fun,” said Christie Veley, public edu

Arlington Community Haunted House returns

By Christopher Andersson christopher@northcountyoutlook.com

Locals can walk through a haunted house organized by Arlington residents as part of this year’s Arlington Community Haunted House from Oct. 14 to 31.

The community-organized event has been a tradition for a number of years, al though it has missed the last few years.

“This is a haunted house that we start ed together as a family because when we moved here no one wanted to trick-or-treat here because we live in the middle of no where,” said Jackie Murray, one of the lead organizers of the event. “We got an idea one year that to motivate people to come here we could put on a haunted house and it just grew from that."

Murray had previously been on a mis sion to Vietnam and then the pandemic happened, which caused the haunted house to skip a couple of years.

“So, this year we decided to run the haunted house again,” said Murray. “I’m really excited. It’s so much bigger than we thought.”

Proceeds from the event are donated to groups such as local athletic clubs and the AFJROTC program at Arlington High School.

“We are donating our proceeds to differ ent organizations that have helped us,” said Murray.

The haunted house is open Mondays

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Volunteers and organizers of this year’s Arlington Community Haunted House on Oct. 14.

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Volunteer Selena Dias plants a tree at Strawberry Fields Athletic Park on Oct. 15 as part of Orca Recovery Day.See ORCA on page 2

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Firefighters joined with Domino's Pizza for a promotions for National Fire Prevention Week

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“I think it’s really im portant to contribute to the health and development of our planet,” said volunteer Selena Dias, who was out with a group of exchange students for the event.

Volunteer Lisa Tart brought her family out for the event.

“We want to get the chil dren involved in conserva tion and in nature activi ties to let them know how important it is to protect the environment for their future,” she said.

This was the fifth year for Orca Recovery Day, which was started after a local orca mother’s calf died shortly after being born and she carried the dead calf for 17 days.

The event received na tional attention at the time.

Local environmental or ganizations across the Puget Sound came together to talk about what they could do to promote orca recovery and decided to promote an ‘Orca Recovery Day.’

“The orca whales are en dangered and one of their primary food sources is salmon. Primarily Chinook

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cation and information spe cialist with the Marysville Fire District. “Our firefight ers were able to help Domi no’s Pizza deliver some piz zas and check some smoke alarms."

Steve Goforth, fire mar shal with North County Fire and EMS, said they are happy to participate in National Fire Prevention Week, which was started

but they also eat coho salm on,” said Lyshall.

Planting trees near wa terways helps improve the water quality for salmon.

“In any area along the stream they will help to fil ter the water and reduce the amount of pollutants,” said Lyshall.

Toxic conditions in wa ter are a big cause of salmon dying before making it to the ocean.

“There has been a lot of research that has been hap pening in the past few years about the effects of storm water runoff and we’re see ing coho die off because of that,” said Lyshall.

The Tulalip Tribes and King County are monitor ing the Marysville stream at Strawberry Fields Athletic Park and are seeing local coho salmon die-offs.

“They’re attributing it to the tire dust from vehicles and cars. Tires wear and the dust is on the road and the rainwater flushes that into the streams,” said Lyshall.

Trees also improve the habitat for insects, which are a food source for salmon.

“They also provide shade because we want the water temperature to be cool for the salmon,” said Lyshall.

The stream at the Straw

to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire.

“It’s a great way to get the community involved and provide some pizza,” he said.

Domino’s Pizza has of fered the promotion for a number of years and Go forth has participated when he was in a previous posi tion in the Everett Fire De partment.

“I like the outreach, the smiles, and we’re not going out there in an emergency

berry Fields Athletic Park has been receiving support for a number of years as lo cal organizations hope to improve the stream.

“Adopt-a-Stream Foun dation is a partner on this and they’re actively work ing to restore this area,” said Lyshall. “It’s improving for sure, and I know Marysville is interested in improving

mode and just an educa tional mode,” he said. "Be ing able to see the kids and to interact with them is good, too.”

This is the first year the Marysville Fire District and North County Fire and EMS joined in with the Domino’s promotion.

Valey said it was fun for Marysville firefighters as well.

“Firefighters always enjoy getting out into the community and meeting

the water quality as much as possible so they’ve been a great partner."

Rebuilding environ ments for salmon is a lengthy process, said Ly shall.

“Salmon recovery is not an easy task and we’ve been working on it for a long time with multiple organi zations,” she said.

people,” she said. "This time they got to make sure peo ple are safe and there was pizza involved as well.”

The event also helps fire district officials get the word out about smoke alarms. “It was a really great way to get the message out that smoke alarms save lives,” said Veley.

The ability to alert your family quickly is important in the event of a fire.

“They lower your risk of dying in a house fire greatly … they are a critical part of any home fire safety plan,” said Veley.

Smoke is one of the deadliest parts of a house fire.

“Fire is hot, dark and smoky, and a lot of times it will actually be the smoke that will get people before the fire ever approaches,” said Goforth. “Those toxic chemicals that come with the smoke can cause disori entation so the prevalence of smoke alarms is really what has caused the decrease in fire deaths in the home."

Officials encourage resi dents to check their smoke alarms regularly.

“We really encourage everyone to go out and test their smoke alarms,” said Veley.

Goforth said it is a good idea to change the batteries once every six months and recommended doing it on Daylight Saving Times days.

“They also need to be re placed every 10 years even if they are working,” said Veley.

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Volunteer Edward Tart helps to plant a tree at Strawberry Fields Athletic Park on Oct. 15 as part of Orca Recovery Day.

New business offers artists gift shop, classes

By Christopher Andersson christopher@northcountyoutlook.com

Arlington locals will be able to take art classes or browse items from local artists at the new gal lery and gift shop Hodonadies.

The business is open at 20265 74th Ave NE #103, Arlington. They held their grand opening on Oct. 13.

“We’ve been here for a while but this is the first day we’re offi cially open,” said co-owner Hans Angelin.

The business held its official first day on Oct. 13, but did hold some classes and craft groups be fore then.

“We would just come down here and hang out and make things, which is fun,” said co-own er Kelly Severson.

Angelin and Severson said they both have a passion for art.

“It’s something for the commu nity that we both feel we want to share,” said Angelin, a retired ar chitectural designer who studied fine art in college before immedi ately going into the architecture trade.

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through Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on Fri days and Saturdays from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

“There is very limited parking,” said Murray.

The city does allow haunted house visitors to park at the gravel lot across the street from Napa Auto Parts at 220 NW Ave., Ar lington.

A shuttle is then avail able to take families and individuals to the haunted house.

Many families and vol unteers come together for the event every year.

“I love the community aspect. I used to live in Ar lington and I know Jackie really well, and it’s really fun to see what she’s created and I’m glad to be a part of it,” said volunteer actor Evelyn Frenzel.

Volunteer Olivia Dean said she participates in the haunted house to help her sister.

“I like the sense of com munity. Everyone knows each other and it’s really nice and comfortable here,” she said.

For Murray the commu nity event also has personal connections as she used to plan it with her oldest sister before she passed away in 2018.

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Severson is an accountant who also wanted a place to practice art.

“He was retired and wanted to do art and I said ‘I always wanted to have a shop where I could sell my stuff and feature local artists,’” she said.

The gallery will host many classes.

“We want people to come in, sit at the table and learn some thing new,” said Severson. “I’ve always loved to do crafts and I got really involved in jewelry making and leather."

During the holiday season she plans to have some classes for decorations and other items.

“During Christmas I show people from beginning to end the pom pom trees,” said Severson.

They have also been teaching homeschool kids in art and music appreciation classes.

Current classes include water color, painting, and wood burn ing, among other craft and art classes.

Outside teachers are also in volved at the store with classes such as sewing.

planning meeting for the haunted house,” said Mur ray.

They had initially wanted to shut it down but Murray said the community came to their aid to help organize it that year.

“We had an amazing group of people that encir cled us with love and their support,” she said.

This year, two days be fore the anniversary of her sister’s death, Murray said her godmother passed away.

“We had called the

“That is something that is missing in young people today,” said Angelin, who is glad to be able to provide space for that kind of learning.

He hopes to inspire local cre ativity.

“We encourage people to take

mayor and just said ‘we’re super overwhelmed and don’t know if we can do it again this year,’ and she told us who to talk to and who could help us,” said Murray.

She said that 23 different families came together to help organize it this year.

“This is bigger than we have ever done it before and it was amazing to see every one come together again,” said Murray.

More information and reservations are available at arlingtonhauntedhouse.com.

classes in art, not as an academic and technical practice, but as a creative process,” said Angelin.

“I like helping that inspiration, so that’s where I’m at,” he added.

The gift shop at the business will also feature many items available to buy.

“Local artist items will be in the gift shop area,” said Sever son. Items include jewelry, wood burned art pieces, handbags and paintings.

More information about the local business is available at hodonadies.com.

PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER ANDERSSON Co-owners of new Arlington art gallery Hodonadies Hans Angelin, center left, and Kelly Severson, center right, cut the ribbon to their business on Oct. 13 with Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert, left, and City Council member Don Vanney.

ASD officials talk about results of 2022 summer school

By Christopher Andersson christopher@northcountyoutlook.com

Arlington School Dis trict officials talked about the 2022 summer school programs as they hope that summer support helps stu dents catch up from pan demic losses.

Staff members talked about the results of this year’s program during the Sept. 26 school board meeting.

The high school credit retrieval remains one of the district’s main programs for the summer

“As we look at credit re trieval and on-track num bers, 88 percent of our sophomores are on track to graduate, 77 percent of

our juniors and 78 percent of our seniors are on track to graduate,” said Marilee Herman, principal for Ar lington High School.

She noted that some of those students are only 0.5 credits behind being on track.

“Perhaps lower than we have seen in the past, but as we’re looking at COVID recovery those are pretty solid numbers,” she said.

The high school is still looking at options to help students catch up on lost credits.

“We’ll be looking at get ting the next steps,” she said.

This year the lack of bus drivers during the summer limited transportation for

some students.

“We did have the same transportation issues as last year,” said Herman.

An online option was available for students who could not get to school during the summer.

“I think that was one factor that made it a little hard for some of our kids,” said Herman.

Another program the district hosted this year was an eighth to ninth grade transition program.

“It was unique to host that in Arlington High School this year,” said Her man.

The program allows students just entering high school from middle school an opportunity to get com

fortable at their new school.

“It’s not just an aca demic boost,” said Karl Ol son, director of categorical programs at the Arlington School District, who added the program also gives kids familiarity with Arlington High School.

“One of the ways [the teacher] would do this is to do a math scavenger hunt with clues all over the school,” said Olson.

The activity helped kids with their math and also al lowed them to explore the school.

Students at the program took lessons in a number a subjects.

“We did have a focus on writing stamina,” said Ol son.

The district also contin ued programs for younger students as well, such as the Cool Bus, which was for merly the district’s Math bus and Bookmobile pro grams.

“This time we combined the programs and did have higher attendance, so that was helpful,” said Olson.

The bus saw about 60 to 90 kids each day, which was an increase from last year.

Hot weather tended to drive down the attendance numbers again, but this summer did not have as many days of extreme heat, said Olson.

Three hundred students also signed up for the dis trict’s Literacy Camp pro gram and about 200 of

those students attended three or more times.

Olson said some of those students started at tending other summer camps or went on vacations with their family.

“One of the things were looking for is how do we get that commitment,” said Olson, who said that the initially high class sizes did make some parents hesitate.

Olson said students read novels, did reading activi ties and took a trip to the library to get their library cards.

They also made friends and had a lot of support from their peers.

“That’s a little harder to measure with a firm num ber on a test,” said Olson.

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Hometown Halloween returns Oct. 29

By Christopher Andersson christopher@northcountyoutlook.com

The pumpkin roll, costume contest and downtown trick-ortreating will return this year at the annual Hometown Halloween event in Arlington on Oct. 29.

The event will take place that morning and afternoon, and fea ture many of the classic events that are held each year.

“I think that people like the tradition of it, coming down every year and enjoying the events,” said Diane Krieg, executive director of the Stilly Valley Chamber of Com merce and one of the organizers of the event.

“We have the farmers market that day as well,” added Krieg. The Arlington Farmers Market will be at Legion Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Families can stop by many of

the local booths which will have candy.

“There will be trick-or-treating available at many of the merchants there,” said Krieg.

The pumpkin carving contest will be held at the farmers market this year and is sponsored by mar ket vendor You Are What You Eat Fish, Grovery Outlet, and the Coop.

“We will be giving prizes for different categories and age groups,” said Krieg.

Judging begins at noon and drop off can happen Friday after noon or that Saturday.

Categories include ‘most cre ative,’ ‘scariest’ and ‘fan favorite,’ which is awarded by a public vote.

The Third Street Hill will have pumpkins racing down it as part of the free pumpkin roll sponsored by Stilly Valley Youth Dynamics.

The pumpkin roll will begin at 11 a.m. and offers children the

chance to push their pumpkin down the street and watch it race others.

“I used to host exchange stu dents and I would take them ev ery year to the pumpkin roll and watch their faces light up,” said Krieg.

She said she is glad the event returns every year as part of Hometown Halloween.

“Where else do you get to roll pumpkins down a big hill?” she said.

Participating businesses along Olympic Avenue will also be pro viding kids with candy as part of the event.

“There will be trick-or-treating at the downtown business from noon to 1 p.m.,” said Krieg.

The street is typically full of families for the hour as kids go from one business to the next.

“People like seeing all of the

Children push their pumpkins down Third Street as part of the pumpkin roll at Arlington’s Hometown Halloween on Oct. 30, 2021.

kids in costume filling the down town area and lining up all up and down the street,” said Krieg.

Finally, the Arlington Arts

Council will hold their annual costume contest at 1 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for different age groups at the Legion Park stage.

Marysville will host drive-thru Trick-or-Treat

By Christopher Andersson christopher@northcountyoutlook.com

Local families will be able to get into the Hallow een spirit a couple of days early as the city of Marys ville holds their free Hal loween Drive-Thru Trickor-Treat on Oct. 27.

The event will be from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Delta Plaza, which is in front of the new Marysville Civic Center at 501 Delta Avenue.

“This is being hosted by the city of Marysville and the police department,” said Bridgette Larsen, commu nications specialist with the city of Marysville.

Families can take their car through the Delta Plaza to look at the spooky deco rations and receive candy as part of the event.

“We’ll put putting up Halloween displays and be handing out a lot of Hal loween candy,” said Larsen. “We’re excited for everyone to come and enjoy the Hal loween event."

The city hopes to provide a safe environment for kids to come and get some candy while enjoying the holiday.

“We are having some fun trick-or-treating for the kids and providing this safe Halloween event for them,” said Larsen.

City staff are also excited as the Delta Plaza contin ues to open up for events. City officials hope the area, near Comeford Park, will become one of the regular gathering spots for Marys ville events.

“This will be the first big event in front of the Marys ville Civic Center,” said Larsen.

The Marysville Fire Dis trict also hosted their Sept. 11 ceremony in the plaza,

but the Halloween event will be the first event meant for families to come and en joy themselves there.

“Cars will be able to drive through the front of the Civic Center,” said Larsen. “Alongside the dis

plays the kids will be able to get candy as they drive through."

This is the second year that Marysville police will be giving out candy during Halloween.

“The police department

held a drive-thru trick-ortreat event last year at the old police building,” said Larsen.

Police staff were glad to be able to help put on the event again.

“Our police officers en

joy engaging with our com munity and creating a fun event,” said Larsen.

This year’s event is more of a joint effort between city and police.

“This will be the first time that we have hosted

with both the city of Marys ville and the police depart ment together though,” said Larsen.

More information about city of Marysville events is available at marysvillewa. gov.

Traditional knowledge protects environment for next generations

At the rate populations are growing and the climate is changing, it’s getting harder and harder to be op timistic about what will be left for future generations.

Last year, we saw salmon and shellfish die before our eyes as a result of recordbreaking temperatures in the Pacific Northwest.

In her last Being Frank column before she passed away last year, NWIFC Chairperson Lorraine Loo mis wrote: “We’re all paying the price of a steady decline in the ecosystems that sus tain us and our economies. Tribes are facing immediate loss of our treaty-protected rights to fish, hunt and gather.”

Lorraine’s life’s work — like Billy Frank Jr.’s and like mine — was to fight to protect those treaty rights.

Lorraine was a fierce advo cate for the restoration of salmon and shellfish popu lations to harvestable levels for all tribes.

She also was fisheries manager for the Swinom ish Tribe, where one of her long-term goals took shape last month on the shore of the Kukutali Preserve.

Lorraine’s grandson Tandy Grossglass placed the first rock to form the foundation of a clam gar den, a traditional practice that dates back thousands of years. It is the only known modern clam garden in the United States.

As the tribal commu nity tends to the garden over time, broken shells, sediment and gravel will fill in a terrace behind the

wall, increasing the space where first foods such as clams, oysters, sea urchins, crabs and kelp can thrive. A generation from now, there could be harvestable amounts of shellfish on Ku kutali.

This endeavor is an ex ample of the way tribes look to traditional knowledge when planning for the next seven generations.

The clam garden is part of the Swinomish Tribe’s larger climate resilience strategy. In 2009, a climate impact assessment found that the reservation’s tra ditional shellfish harvest areas, such as those on Kukutali, were at risk of permanent inundation and potential loss.

Thousands of years ago, tribal communities used clam gardens to increase lo cal food security and were able to modify the system to adjust to changes in sea levels. Increasing biodiver sity also leads to a more resilient ecosystem, and the decomposing shells could help shellfish survive in creased ocean acidification.

Tribes are leaders in climate science, we always have been. Our traditional knowledge benefits ev eryone. Our 2016 Climate

Change report outlines our work to prepare for the inevitable by developing adaptation and mitigation plans.

We need more allies like U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who visited my tribe on the Quinault Reservation after last year’s heat wave, saying, “As our coastal communities face the increasing threats of rising seas, coastal erosion and storm surges, our focus must be on bolstering cli mate resilience.”

During the lowest low tides of the hottest days of the 2021 heat dome, tribal shellfish biologists were among the first to report the deadly impacts — shell fish were being cooked alive on the beaches.

Biologists from the Swinomish, Jamestown S’Klallam and Skokomish tribes partnered with the University of Washington and others to analyze the damage in real time. In the publication of the results in the journal of the Ecologi cal Society of America, it was noted, “Were it not for these observations, exper tise gained over many years, and stewardship since time immemorial, this project would not have been pos sible.”

The heat dome was yet another warning sign that we can expect more fre quent extreme heat events, leading to shellfish deaths like these, as well as the mass salmon die-off that we saw on the Nooksack Riv

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Tennis players prepare for the playoffs

By Nathan Whalen nathan@northcountyoutlook.com

With the regular season con cluding, boys tennis players from Arlington and both Marysville schools are prepping for the Wes co North Championships, which started Oct. 18 at Snohomish.

“I have a nice group of kids who have been here all four years,” Marysville Getchell tennis coach Steve Uppendahl said.

In singles, senior Mason De vereux and Colby Price will com pete in singles at the Wesco North Championships. In doubles, Kane

Selapack and Marshall Campbell, along with Keegan Brennan and Connor Olmsted are on tap to compete for the Chargers.

Marysville Getchell won two matches, one of those wins com ing against Marysville Pilchuck, on the season.

“We’ve been in a lot of match es. We just haven’t pulled out as many as we wanted,” Uppendahl said. He added the Chargers have 11 seniors on the team – 10 on varsity and one on junior varsity.

Arlington finished in third place in the Wesco North, but

coach Ben Mendro said he hoped the Eagles would have challenged for the league title.

“This season has honestly been a little disappointing,” Mendro said. “We’ve played some tough matchups.” He cited matches against Snohomish, Monroe, Lake Stevens and Shorewood.

Mendro is reshuffling the line up for the Wesco North Cham pionships. Ty Rusko and Coo per McBride, who have been the team’s number-one and numbertwo singles during the season, will play doubles. Tyler Uffens and Bookie Cramer will com prise the Eagles' second doubles team. Mendro said the singles entries, as of press time, is to be determined.

“They have a decent chance of winning it if they play really well,” Mendro said of Rusko and McBride.

Marysville Pilchuck will have Jon Disney Cerrillo and Daniel Calle compete in singles with the teams of Sebastian Gomez/ Gabriel Bradley and Ethan Al berts/Cal Higgins competing in doubles.

Tomahawks' tennis coach Evan Shaw said in an email that the expectations at Wesco North is for the players to compete smart and get past the first round of play-in matches.

Marysville Pilchuck started the season with six players on the roster but added players un til they reached a full team of 14 players, Shaw said. Eight players are first-time tennis players.

Lakewood finished its tennis

PHOTO BY NATHAN WHALEN Marysville Getchell’s Mason Devereux hits a volley Oct. 13 against a play er from Cascade.

season after competing in the District 1 2A tennis tournament Oct. 15 at Sehome.

Even though players didn’t ad vance to the second day, “some of our players played their best ten nis of the year,” Lakewood tennis coach Lorne Schut said.

He added almost the entire team will return next year.

“This year’s success is likely to translate into the strongest team the school has ever had,” Schut said.

Junior Jack Williams came close to advancing at the tour

nament, Schut said. Freshman Dayton Lewis had never played tennis before joining the team, but his game grew quickly over the course of the season. Schut also highlighted the efforts of Harrison Wear and Aiden James along with the team’s only senior — Kaison Parks.

“He played the best tennis of his high school career,” Schut said.

“We had a lot of success in dividually and as a team,” Schut said. He hopes Lakewood will see more victories in tennis next year.

Swimmers get ready for postseason

By Nathan Whalen nathan@northcountyoutlook.com

High school swimmers from Marysville are wrap ping up their regular sea son and getting ready for the postseason.

The teams from Marys ville Pilchuck and Marys ville Getchell will head to WEST Coast Aquatics in Mill Creek on Oct. 20 to compete against Arch bishop Murphy and give the swimmers another chance to qualify for the postseason.

“We have a lot of new people on our team this year,” coach Meredith Jenks

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said, adding there’s strong veterans on the team too. The two girls teams, which have a combined roster of 35 swimmers, practice together and com pete at the same meets to gether.

Nanako Kempma, a ju nior at Marysville Getchell, is an all-around swimmer, Jenks said.

“Her sprint free style has really been blossoming this year,” Jenks said.

On Sept. 22 against Mariner, Kempma broke the school record in the 100-yard freestyle. Then, during a meet against Gla cier Peak Oct. 13, she was

on the team that broke the school record in the 400yard freestyle. Also on Marysville Getchell’s relay team was senior Lorelei Pringle, freshman Natalie Benett and freshman Milee Yanagida.

Kempma has qualified for district in every event, but Jenks said Kempma will be able to compete in two individual events and on two relay teams. Jenks said Kempma isn’t sure yet on the events she’ll choose.

Jenks also compliment ed the efforts of Pringle at Marysville Getchell, who is also the team captain.

“She’s an amazing athlete and leader.”

Marysville Pilchuck has several swimmers hop ing to qualify for districts before the end of the sea son. Jenks said Marysville Pilchuck’s junior Bri Zan der, sophomore Madison Cook, sophomore Maddie Chabot and sophomore Kenzie Collins hope to earn a spot to district.

The two school’s dive teams are brand new. They have a new coach, Lauren Carson, and a new group of divers. “She’s teaching the basics,” Jenks said of Carson.

Zia Murry, a freshman

at Marysville Pilchuck, has learned six dives, but she needs to learn 11 dives to qualify for district.

After the regular season, the junior varsity cham

pionships take place Oct. 27. Wesco 3A districts take place Nov. 2, Nov. 4, and Nov. 5. Girls swim state championships take place Nov. 10 through Nov. 12.

Annual Craft Bazaar & Bake Sale

Glenwood Mobile Estates 5900 64th St. NE

Saturday, October 22nd 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lunch Will Be Available For Purchase

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er. More than 2,500 chinook salmon died before they could return to their hatchery, killed by diseases caused by high water temperatures and low streamflow.

We have not yet experienced the full effects of those mortalities. The high temperatures killed shellfish dur

ing a time when they should have been reproducing. The hatchery salmon were on their way to be spawned as part of the Lummi Nation and Nook sack Tribe’s recovery program to bring South Fork Nooksack chinook back from the brink of extinction. We’ve lost generations of shellfish and salm on because of one extreme heat event.

That’s why climate resilience proj ects like the Swinomish clam garden are essential. By looking back on thou

sands of years of traditional knowl edge, the Swinomish Tribe is looking ahead to protect shellfish for future generations.

Being Frank is a column written by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a state ment from the NWIFC chairman, the column represents the natural resources management concerns of the treaty In dian tribes in western Washington.

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Marysville Getchell’s Ethan Downing hits a backhand shot against a player from Cascade.

This fall has been frustrating

In talking to many of my gar dening friends, there seems to be a common thread weaving through our conversa tions… this fall has been frustrat ing. Summer just doesn’t want to end. It is a real co nundrum! Take my 106 Ge raniums for example…

By Steve Smith

As I shared earlier this year, I went the simple route this season and filled almost all of my containers with a vibrant mix of Gerani ums. It was a very cohesive look against, what some might consider, an exces sive amount of variety in the rest of my garden. As much as I have enjoyed them over this summer, and as much as they were still looking good, I finally gave in this last week

and ripped them all out. In their place I have now planted roughly the same number of assorted Pan sies and Violas, under which I have tucked in a generous layer of Tulip, Daf fodil, and Hyacinth bulbs. Again, it is a simple and uni fying look that quiets down what I like to refer to as my “organized chaos” gardening style.

What I find so amazing about the above activity is how cathartic it has been. No longer am I being held back by the feeling that I have to keep nursing my summer flowers along, coaxing out every last blossom in the name of “getting my money’s worth”. I have closed that door and it is a very liberat

ing feeling. I am also sur prised about how quickly I have forgotten about all of the joy those Geraniums brought me and how now, those very same pots (filled with the happy faces of Pan sies and Violas), are just as joyous and will only get bet ter by spring when the bulbs start to bloom. Maybe it is my addictive personality and the need to move from one dopamine hit to the next, but pitching those Geraniums and replacing them with Pansies and Violas was the right thing to do.

While this has been a lovely summer (once it got here), it is time to embrace the season and get into the spirit of fall. The Burning Bushes are having their two weeks in the spotlight, my Katsura tree is filling my garden with the smell of

cotton candy, the neighbor’s Eastern White Pine is per forming its annual shedding of the two-year-old needles all over my lawn, the Asters are in full color in shades of blue, purple, pink, and white (offering a nice contrast to the last fading blooms of the Rudbeckias and Heleniums), and the spent Hydrangea flowers are shifting to the pinkish-red spectrum - all signs that despite the warm weather, fall is all around us.

As for the rest of my gar den, now that the Geraniums are gone, I need to tackle the shade bed where my “still looking voluptuous” Coleus and Begonias are next on the hit list. Then it’s down with the 3 remaining hang ing baskets, which I will un ceremoniously deconstruct, pitching out everything but the Bolivian Begonias. They

Pansies are a good replacement for the geraniums in your garden

will be allowed to dry out and placed in my cool garage to go through the required dormant period before they wake up again in February.

If you too are feeling a lit tle frustrated with our end less summer, then do what I did with my 106 Geraniums and change out those sum mer annuals. Not only will your garden look fresh, but

you will also feel a sense of relief and renewal with a newfound determination to leap into those fall chores and ready the garden for the fall rainy season, that is if it ever shows up.

Steve Smith represents Sunnyside Nursery in Marys ville and can be reached at sunnysidenursery@msn.com.

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