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ARLINGTON — The Arlington Kiwanis Club and the Friends of the Arlington Library deliv-ered some presents to

third-grade students in the Arlington, Lakewood and Darrington school districts just before the winter holi-days.

On Dec. 9, the Kiwanis Club and the Friends of the Library conducted their

third annual distribution of dictionaries to third-graders in all three school districts, with Arlington Kiwanis Club President Jim Chase estimating that approximately 410 diction-aries went to Arlington

students, 130 went to Lakewood and 90 went to Darrington.

“That’s more than 600 total, about the same as last year,” Chase said. “The Kiwanis pay for half and the Friends of the Library pay for the other half.”

This year’s dictionaries only cost $780, less than $1.25 per dictionary, a thrifty price which Chase attributes to shopping smartly for dictionaries online.

“The kids are always very responsive to receiving

these dictionaries,” Chase said. “They’re especially thrilled to get them as a gift before Christmas. We had conversations in their classrooms about what dic-tionaries can be used for, and about language issues such as words that sound alike but are spelled the same. It was all very fun and interactive, so the teachers were pleased, plus a lot of the kids had heard about the dictionaries from their older brothers and sisters getting them last year or the year before.”

The Arlington KiwanisClub’s main fundraiser for the dictionaries is its Fourth of July auction, but it also conducts smaller fundraisers throughout the year, to support both the purchase of the dictionaries and charitable community projects such as its high school scholarships.

“Knowing the English language well doesn’t just help you out in school,” Chase said. “It also helps you advance further in whatever your future career will be after school.”

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BELLEVUE — Two Arlington High School Band members will be get-ting their chance to shine on a broader stage Feb. 20.

Flute-player Savannah Leavitt has been selected for the Washington Music Educators Association All-State Band, while clarinet-player and fellow AHS junior Andrew Clark has been selected for the National Association for Music Education All-Northwest Band. Both bands will begin rehearsals in Bellevue Feb. 17 to prepare for their con-certs there on Feb. 20.

Leavitt took up the flute in fifth grade after hear-ing her cousins play, while Clark credited his school music teachers with feeding his interest in the clarinet since he started playing in sixth grade.

“Once I started taking les-sons, I didn’t want to stop,” Leavitt said. “I wanted to join the band right away. The flute is so light and cheerful, but there’s a lot that you can do with it as an instrument. It’s a challenge.”

“I love being able to play well,” Clark said. “The feel-ing is indescribable. I had some natural talent, but I always kept trying, even when it was tough. There

have been different steps of difficulty throughout. The clarinet has a low and a high section, so if you go over the break, you make a high squeaking sound that’s dis-gusting to hear.”

Clark has nonetheless progressed far enough in his clarinet skills that he can play the clarinet slide, a rare feat. While this year marks his first time as part of the All-Northwest Band, Leavitt is an old hand at participat-ing in the All-State Band, having previously appeared in its lineup last year and in eighth grade.

“They’re looking for you to play with musicality and technical skill,” Leavitt said.

Both Leavitt and Clark began practicing last sum-mer for their respective All-State and All-Northwest band auditions that fall, and received word of their acceptance before the win-ter holiday break.

“Waiting to get the results back was the hardest part for me,” Leavitt said. “I enjoy being able to play with other people. Working hard to develop my skills has helped me learn a lot about dealing with stress.”

“I’m lucky I don’t have to force him,” laughed Linda Clark, Andrew’s mom. “When your kids are this much into something, you can’t complain as a parent.

I remember being in band as a kid, and we were kind of geeks, but now, being in band is very cool. You see all

these kids at sporting and other events, and you real-ize that it’s a whole different ball game.”

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uty director of the Office of Financial Management. “We had one facility that’s been scheduled to be closed for the last two years and when it was explained how much money it would cost to mothball it, she asked us why we shouldn’t just sell it instead. From there we drew up a list of proper-ties that have been closed or surplused in the past several years that would be good candidates to sell.”

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department is corresponding with a commercial real estate broker to facilitate these sales. Although state surplus prop-erties must first be offered to other government agencies, Erskine acknowledged that few city or county govern-ments were likely to have the money to spare to purchase these properties during the current budget crunch. As of press time, the city of Arlington has not stated any interest in purchasing the property.

“It may take a little time for it to move,” Marshburn said. “In the past, we may have just kept properties like this indefinitely, but we can’t sit on these assets anymore.”

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From left, Arlington High School senior Annalisa Patzer holds up a pig for Assistant Principal Vonni Walker to give it a quick smooth during the AHS Future Farmers of America chapter’s “Kiss a Pig” fundraiser Jan. 7

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ARLINGTON — The Arlington High School chapter of the Future Farmers of America raised roughly $200 just prior to the school’s winter sports assembly by promising their classmates that at least one school staff member would be forced to kiss a pig.

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raiser is a tradition at AHS, and it drew donations from Jan. 4 through the assembly on Jan. 7, as students voted for one of 10 school staff members who they wanted to see sharing a smooch with a pig.

“We took turns collect-ing tickets all week during lunch,” said Erin Peek, a 15-year-old AHS sopho-more. “It was great to see the teachers wince every time they saw a student

drop a couple (of tickets) into their jar.”

In the end, AHS Assistant Principal Vonni Walker wound up with the most tickets in her jar. She stoi-cally applied a fresh layer of lipstick and puckered up as the assembled students whooped and hollered in anticipation.

“It was so cute,” Jordan Rengen, a 16-year-old AHS sophomore, said of the pig. “I wanted to kiss it myself.”

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