FREE SAFETY FAIR The annual Health & Safety Fair is this Saturday. This fun-filled event is free for the whole family. READ MORE ON PAGE 12 June 7, 2017 Edition 2 Issue 24 PO Box 349 Lake Stevens, WA 98258 LakeStevensLedger.com LOWERTAXES? Bill Bryant shares his ideas for fund- ing education while lowering taxes. Read our Guest Editorial. READ MORE ON PAGE 10 ENGINEERING KIDS LSHS students were awarded with an award for their engineering skills. Find out who inside. READ MORE ON PAGE 8 LOCAL CLIMBER One local climber is raising funds for charity by climbing Mount Rainier this summer. READ MORE ON PAGE 2 Power lines came down around Lake StevensWar Memorial after renovation (top) and the old memorial on the bottom. Photo by Tom Thorliefson SEE SCOUT ON PAGE 4 PAM STEVENS Sarah Schroeder at her sheep farm in Lake Stevens. Contributed Photo PAM STEVENS MEDICAL LOANS The Senior Center has a medical equipment Loan closet you can donate or borrow. READ MORE PAGE 3 SEE MEMORIAL PAGE 2 Some of you may have seen the “Lake Stevens Legion” Facebook page a few weeks ago that showed damage to the War Veterans Memorial plaque. Two pieces of granite finally broke loose from wear and tear (NOT vandalism) that started several years ago from a small crack caused by an accident. This crack multiplied and expanded, causing the two chunks to fall off on April 27.  Veterans in the area have been carefully monitoring this slight scar to the Memorial and were aware that one day it would need to be repaired or replaced. A couple of good citizens from North Lake Middle School noticed it and report- ed it to Jennie Fenrich at City Hall. Fenrich went to the Memo- rial and retrieved the pieces for safekeeping. She gave them to American Legion member Tom Thorleifson the next day, Friday. Arrangements were made for a temporary fix, and an- other Legion member, Don Lake Stevens War Memorial granite plaque replaced CONTRIBUTED Mulder, glued them back into place on Saturday. Unfortu- nately, there were many tiny fragments from around the edges that were missing. After a few days for the glue to cure, the temporary fix looked ok from a distance. However, in spite of Mulder’s efforts, it was obviously in need of replacement when viewed close enough to read. After getting a quick re- sponse from the Trustees of the Lake Stevens War Veterans Memorial Charitable Foun- dation, they contacted Chris Green from Pacific Coast Memorials (PCM) about the problem. He and the rest of PCM staff and crew communicated quickly, were committed to a speedy replacement, and of- fered an extremely enticing price in their bid. Isaac from PCM replaced the memorial panel on Friday, May 19, in plenty of time for Memorial Day services. Stop by the War Veterans Memorial sometime in the next few days to see this beau- SEE FARMER ON PAGE 2 Sherwood Community Ser- vices in Lake Stevens provides services to children and adults with disabilities throughout Snohomish and neighboring counties. Hunter Thomas, an aspiring Eagle Scout, chose to complete his Eagle project at a place that gave to him in his early years. Thomas, 18, who has lived his whole life in Lake Stevens, led a team of 40 volunteers to build a set of wood stairs in- cluding hand railing, as well as a raised planted box.  “I decided to complete my project at the Sherwood Com- munity Services Center of Lake Stevens because, as a child, I attended Sherwood’s birth to three Program that helped with my cognitive delay, and it is my honor to give back to Local Scout gives back with his Eagle Scout project this organization as they have helped me,” Thomas said. Lance Morehead, Executive Director of Sherwood Com- munity Services, was much appreciative for the hard work that Thomas and his team did for them. “Hunter and his parents ap- proached Sherwood several months ago to propose and Eagle Scout Project. Hunter re- ceived services from Sherwood when he was a toddler so it was a very nice connection to say yes, let’s pursue this,” More- head said. “We came up with a project building a large planter box and steps to benefit kids in the Sunnyside Preschool program. The kids in the pre- school will be able to learn about gardening as a result and a safety concern was addressed Horses, buffalo and cows! Oh my! These are all animals we have seen around Lake Stevens, but did you know we also have a sheep farmer living among us? Sarah Schroeder and her husband Gary have been farm- ing sheep near Lake Cassidy for the past five years and have loved every minute of it. Schroeder, a retired nurse, has lived in Lake Stevens for the past 28 years but sheep farming is a new adventure for her. She and her husband have a 7.5 acre farm where 15 adult sheep and 13 lambs live. They have grown their flock from just three sheep. Schroeder was knitter for years and wool yarn was a sta- ple in her crafting supplies. “I started knitting about 10 years ago.   We have always had cows and when my hus- band saw how much yarn I was buying he thought we should just raise the animals ourselves,” she said. “He grew up on a daily farm in Min- nesota so he had always been around livestock and farming. It came very naturally to him.” Their Blue Faced Leicester and Gotland sheep are long wool animals, which comes in handy when you need yarn to knit. While her husband grew up farming, she didn’t so she has Sheep farming in Lake Stevens, who knew? , OCR Text: FREE SAFETY FAIR The annual Health & Safety Fair is this Saturday. This fun-filled event is free for the whole family. READ MORE ON PAGE 12 June 7, 2017 Edition 2 Issue 24 PO Box 349 Lake Stevens, WA 98258 LakeStevensLedger.com LOWERTAXES? Bill Bryant shares his ideas for fund- ing education while lowering taxes. Read our Guest Editorial. READ MORE ON PAGE 10 ENGINEERING KIDS LSHS students were awarded with an award for their engineering skills. Find out who inside. READ MORE ON PAGE 8 LOCAL CLIMBER One local climber is raising funds for charity by climbing Mount Rainier this summer. READ MORE ON PAGE 2 Power lines came down around Lake StevensWar Memorial after renovation (top) and the old memorial on the bottom. Photo by Tom Thorliefson SEE SCOUT ON PAGE 4 PAM STEVENS Sarah Schroeder at her sheep farm in Lake Stevens. Contributed Photo PAM STEVENS MEDICAL LOANS The Senior Center has a medical equipment Loan closet you can donate or borrow. READ MORE PAGE 3 SEE MEMORIAL PAGE 2 Some of you may have seen the “Lake Stevens Legion” Facebook page a few weeks ago that showed damage to the War Veterans Memorial plaque. Two pieces of granite finally broke loose from wear and tear (NOT vandalism) that started several years ago from a small crack caused by an accident. This crack multiplied and expanded, causing the two chunks to fall off on April 27.  Veterans in the area have been carefully monitoring this slight scar to the Memorial and were aware that one day it would need to be repaired or replaced. A couple of good citizens from North Lake Middle School noticed it and report- ed it to Jennie Fenrich at City Hall. Fenrich went to the Memo- rial and retrieved the pieces for safekeeping. She gave them to American Legion member Tom Thorleifson the next day, Friday. Arrangements were made for a temporary fix, and an- other Legion member, Don Lake Stevens War Memorial granite plaque replaced CONTRIBUTED Mulder, glued them back into place on Saturday. Unfortu- nately, there were many tiny fragments from around the edges that were missing. After a few days for the glue to cure, the temporary fix looked ok from a distance. However, in spite of Mulder’s efforts, it was obviously in need of replacement when viewed close enough to read. After getting a quick re- sponse from the Trustees of the Lake Stevens War Veterans Memorial Charitable Foun- dation, they contacted Chris Green from Pacific Coast Memorials (PCM) about the problem. He and the rest of PCM staff and crew communicated quickly, were committed to a speedy replacement, and of- fered an extremely enticing price in their bid. Isaac from PCM replaced the memorial panel on Friday, May 19, in plenty of time for Memorial Day services. Stop by the War Veterans Memorial sometime in the next few days to see this beau- SEE FARMER ON PAGE 2 Sherwood Community Ser- vices in Lake Stevens provides services to children and adults with disabilities throughout Snohomish and neighboring counties. Hunter Thomas, an aspiring Eagle Scout, chose to complete his Eagle project at a place that gave to him in his early years. Thomas, 18, who has lived his whole life in Lake Stevens, led a team of 40 volunteers to build a set of wood stairs in- cluding hand railing, as well as a raised planted box.  “I decided to complete my project at the Sherwood Com- munity Services Center of Lake Stevens because, as a child, I attended Sherwood’s birth to three Program that helped with my cognitive delay, and it is my honor to give back to Local Scout gives back with his Eagle Scout project this organization as they have helped me,” Thomas said. Lance Morehead, Executive Director of Sherwood Com- munity Services, was much appreciative for the hard work that Thomas and his team did for them. “Hunter and his parents ap- proached Sherwood several months ago to propose and Eagle Scout Project. Hunter re- ceived services from Sherwood when he was a toddler so it was a very nice connection to say yes, let’s pursue this,” More- head said. “We came up with a project building a large planter box and steps to benefit kids in the Sunnyside Preschool program. The kids in the pre- school will be able to learn about gardening as a result and a safety concern was addressed Horses, buffalo and cows! Oh my! These are all animals we have seen around Lake Stevens, but did you know we also have a sheep farmer living among us? Sarah Schroeder and her husband Gary have been farm- ing sheep near Lake Cassidy for the past five years and have loved every minute of it. Schroeder, a retired nurse, has lived in Lake Stevens for the past 28 years but sheep farming is a new adventure for her. She and her husband have a 7.5 acre farm where 15 adult sheep and 13 lambs live. They have grown their flock from just three sheep. Schroeder was knitter for years and wool yarn was a sta- ple in her crafting supplies. “I started knitting about 10 years ago.   We have always had cows and when my hus- band saw how much yarn I was buying he thought we should just raise the animals ourselves,” she said. “He grew up on a daily farm in Min- nesota so he had always been around livestock and farming. It came very naturally to him.” Their Blue Faced Leicester and Gotland sheep are long wool animals, which comes in handy when you need yarn to knit. While her husband grew up farming, she didn’t so she has Sheep farming in Lake Stevens, who knew? , Lake Stevens Historical Society,Newspapers,Lake Stevens Ledger,2017,June 7, 2017.pdf,June 7, 2017.pdf Page 1, June 7, 2017.pdf Page 1