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DECA students serve the community BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE — A proclamation by Marysville’s mayor kicked off a full week of community service by local DECA students. At the Oct. 10 Marysville City Council meeting, Mayor Jon Nehring designated Oct. 9-15 “DECA Week,” with half a dozen Marysville-Pilchuck High School DECA students in attendance, before 16 DECA students descended upon the Marysville Community Food Bank the next day, Oct. 11, to help the food bank’s volunteers sort and dispense food items to their clients. After a number of students took part in the Susan G. Komen breast cancer awareness day by wearing pink to the M-PHS student store on Oct. 12, where they could also buy special cookies to support breast cancer
awareness, a trio of DECA students showed up to the Merrill Gardens Retirement Community on Oct. 13 to deliver fall-themed treats and inspirational messages that were made by close to a dozen other DECA students to the assisted living residents. The DECA students’ week of activity culminated in a cleanup at Jennings Park on Oct. 14, during which nine students filled up trash bags. M-PHS junior Kaelah Dahl serves as the president of her DECA chapter and was one of the few DECA students who was able to participate in all the week’s events. Like William Hill, the DECA faculty advisor for M-PHS, she noted the difficulty of finding times during which all the students could meet, due to their athletic requirements, the PSAT that SEE DECA, PAGE 2
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Marysville-Pilchuck High School DECA senior Kenidy Wolfington grabs some pasta sauce for a client at the Marysville Community Food Bank on Oct. 11.
Marysville focuses on illegal drugs BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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From left, Marysville Police Chief Rick Smith, School Resource Officer Bronwyn Kieland and Lt. Darin Rasmussen inform Marysville residents about the impacts of illegal drug use on their community on Oct. 11.
MARYSVILLE — Illegal drug use received a spotlight during the first in a planned series of public interest forums for the Marysville community. Marysville Police Chief Rick Smith noted that the drug overdose death of a Marysville Getchell High School junior in June of this year demonstrated that illegal drug use is indeed a problem in Marysville, as it is across the country. “In countless TV shows
and movies, illegal drug use is glorified and treated as part of our culture,” Smith said. “Drug abuse perpetuates other crimes, as addicts steal to buy their drugs. When cops have to deal with drugrelated crimes, that leaves them with less time and resources to deal with others. It takes away from the safety of a community.” Marysville Police Sgt. Brad Akau, of the four-member N.I.T.E. team — with “N.I.T.E” standing for neighborhood livability, intelligence and investigations,
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