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Monroe first Baptist church rebuilding project receives help from Katrina victims
First Baptist Church in Monroe usually is on the giving end of building assistance. But this summer, the church is on the recieving end. First Baptist Church of Monroe is building an addition due to attendance growth. The project is being aided by various groups around the country, including helpers from Hattiesburg, Miss., an area hit by Hurricane Katrina. First Baptist has a history of helping with disaster relief. Several church members went down to help with the Katrina disaster, according to First Baptist’s associate pastor Robert Whitehead. Read Story
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Vol.118, No. 28, July 8, 2008
The Voice of The Sky Valley Since 1899
The Snohomish County Explosion, Monroe’s professional basketball team, might have no home next year.
The team, which moved to Monroe last autumn from Everett, played its first Monroe season in the Monroe High School Sports Arena.
The team, which is a non-profit organization, traded about $30,000 worth of equipment to the arena, including enhanced audio and visual electronics, for the access to the gym for Saturday night games.
That was in lieu of the roughly $9,000 the team would otherwise have had to pay for the arena space rental. The team still paid for janitorial fees and other fees.
The team only planned to occupy the space for one year. In 2009, the team hoped to be playing in a larger building that they believed the county was planning to build on the Evergreen State Fairgrounds. But the county, which last year was considering constructing such a building, decided to hold off.
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Speed, failure to yield may have been factors in fatal motorcycle collision
Speed may have been a factor in a Tualco Valley collision between a motorcycle and a car last week that killed two people and left a third badly wounded.
Monday, June 30, at about 7:33 p.m., Myka Brianne Campbell, 17, of Everett, was turning onto SR 203 off of Tualco Road in an older model Pontiac Grand Am when a Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by Thomas Walter Devine, 44, of Newcastle struck the driver’s side.
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