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Helping others as long as he can
Tulalip Police officer continues to serve students as he battles ALS BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
TULALIP — Larry Groom isn’t sure how much time he has left, but the school resource officer for the Tulalip Police Department wants to keep doing what he’s doing until his time is up. “I want to be the first cop in a walker,” laughed Groom, who was diagnosed a little more than a year ago with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as “Lou Gehrig’s disease.” “I hope to work until I can’t.” ALS is caused by the degeneration of motor neurons, the nerve cells in the central nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement. Groom praised the resiliency of Marysville firefighter Ray Hancock, who was diagnosed with ALS in April of last year, but he also noted that ALS affects each person in a unique way. While Hancock’s symptoms to date have ranged from weakness in his arms to the loss of manual dexterity, Groom’s symptoms have struck his throat and lungs. “Those are usually the last symptoms to develop, but it attacks everyone differently,”
SPORTS: Sports
SEE GROOM, PAGE 2
reporter Travis Sherer picks his Top 5 games of 2010. Page 7
OPINION: The Northwest Center’s Tom Everill writes about ‘Another day in the office.’ Page 6
INDEX CLASSIFIED ADS 12-14 5 LEGAL NOTICES 15 OBITUARIES 4 OPINION 7-9 SPORTS 11-12 WORSHIP
Vol. 118, No. 47
Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo
From left, Marysville Arts and Technology High School student Mandy Klesick visits Tulalip School Resource Officer Larry Groom to give him some pumpkin rolls shortly before the holiday break.
The Year in Review
A look back at some of the top stories of 2010 BY THE MARYSVILLE GLOBE STAFF
MARYSVILLE — When looking back at 2010, people will remember it for a variety of reasons. The following are just some of the stories which appeared on the pages of The Marysville Globe.
January
With 15 years of living in Marysville and 14 years of working with the Marysville School District under his belt, Chris Nation became the board’s newest member. Nation had defeated
Heather Thweatt in the Nov. 3, 2009 General Election to replace retiring board member Donald Hatch Jr. When members of the Marysville School District Board of Directors toured Marysville Middle School, they found outdated original mechanical and electrical systems, out-of-date fire exiting and Americans with Disabilities Act codes, an absence of fire sprinklers, flooded fields and an energy inefficient, 49-yearold structure. The school inspection was part of the board’s tour of district facilities that would be replaced by a proposed construction bond. John Koster acknowledged that he’d just finished his campaign for his SEE 2010, PAGE 2
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From left, Marysville Community Food Bank interim co-directors Mary Haynes and JoAnn Sewell are filling former director Joyce Zeigen’s shoes until the board selects a new long-term director.