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Marysville Getchell welcomes students BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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MARYSVILLE — It was not only the first day of the 2010-11 school year for all the schools in the Marysville School District, but it was also the first day of school ever for the Marysville Getchell High School campus. Academy of Construction and Engineering Principal Shawn Stevenson acknowledged that the yet-tobe-completed Ingraham Boulevard caused some traffic congestion on the morning of Sept. 7, but pointed out that four of the school’s bus routes arrived at the campus 10 minutes early. “We’re looking at shrinking those travel times over the course of the next week,” Stevenson said. “Some of the buses got here a little late, and there was some confusion about drop-offs that led to traffic backing up to 84th Street, but overall it went extremely well. The SEE STUDENTS, PAGE 3
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Clockwise from bottom left, Marysville Getchell High School junior Nick Fay and sophomores Rebecca Bradley, Eryka Alexander, Alex Wilson and Mikayla Hood discuss their class schedules halfway through their first day of school Sept. 7.
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From left, Mario Pedroza, supervising inspector for the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, speaks with Marysville resident Suavek Lobrow after the Sept. 9 meeting of the “Citizens for a Smell Free Marysville” group at the Marysville Boys & Girls Club.
MARYSVILLE — “If you want to visit a house where there is a sustained odor, I have it down to a schedule when we smell it, and you are more than welcome to come to my house,” Marysville resident Suavek Lobrow said at the Marysville Boys & Girls Club Sept. 9. “I’m not going to sit on your front doorstep and wait for the smell,” said Mario Pedroza, supervising inspector for the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. “You wouldn’t be sitting outside, because I’d invite you in for tea or coffee,” Lobrow said, drawing laughter from Pedroza and the rest of the attendees of that evening’s meeting of the “Citizens for a Smell Free Marysville” group. Lobrow was not the only area resident to invite Pedroza and his inspectors to camp out at their
house, after Pedroza told the crowd that, out of 457 recorded complaints and more than 100 investigation visits for odor in Marysville and Everett from June 29 to Sept. 1, Clean Air inspectors were not able to document any violations against the alleged source of the smell, Cedar Grove Composting on Smith Island in Everett. “We conducted enhanced patrols in late July and August,” Pedroza said. “We responded to some complaints within 10 minutes. None of them took us longer than 30 to 40 minutes to respond to, unless it was when there was just no one around to respond. What we always heard was, ‘I wish you’d been here five or 10 minutes ago.’” Although Citizens for a Smell Free Marysville also gave Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring and pulmonary disease specialist Dr. David SEE ODOR, PAGE 5