Parking lot closed for sewer project
ARLINGTON — The city of Arlington has announced that the parking lot between the car wash and Legion Park in the 100 block of Olympic Avenue will be used for staging of equipment and supplies for the First Street Sewer Extension Project, beginning this week.
No vehicles will be allowed to park in the lot south of Legion Park during the construction period from Sept. 8 to Dec. 15. Parking is available in the paved lot north of Legion Park throughout the construction period.
For information about the project, call the city’s utilities department at 360-403-3526.
Byrnes Performing Arts
Center commission to
consider strategy
ARLINGTON — The Byrnes Performing Arts Center advisory commission meets at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 17 at the PAC at Arlington High School to discuss with Superintendent Kris McDuffy and Mayor Margaret Larson a strategy for the management of the BPAC after this summer’s resignation of promotions coordinator Cindy Huleatt.
The BPAC commission is made up of representatives from the school district and the city with community members who served on the Arts Alive effort to raise money to complete the BPAC. The BPAC is just beginning its second year in operation. Last year, the city of Arlington employed the promotions coordinator while the school district hired the theater manager, Bob Nydegger, to take charge of the technical direction of the theater.
For information about the BPAC, call McDuffy at 360-4618-6200.
Coho tagging continues on
Stillaguamish River
STILLAGUAMISH VALLEY — Anglers and folks playing on the Stillaguamish River should not be surprised if they see a field crew seining, or a net secured to the shoreline on the river during September.
Tribal field crews, under the direction of state and tribal managers including the Tulalip and Stillaguamish tribes, will be capturing coho salmon with beach seines and hoop nets in the main stem of the Stillaguamish River in a multi-year project to improve the estimation of coho spawning in the Stillaguamish watershed.
The number of tagged and untagged coho recovered during spawning ground surveys throughout the basin will help the managers determine fish population size. The project will update the base year (1977) coho population estimate, which is used to generate annual escapement (number of spawning adults) estimates.
Hoop nets will be set primarily on private property. All field staff and sampling gear will be clearly marked with insignias of the tribes or Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The coho sampled will be anesthetized, measured, jaw tagged, opercle (gill plate) punched and released back into the river. Tag recovery will occur in the many Stillaguamish watershed tributary streams during spawning ground surveys, which occur from November through January.
During this project, anglers may still harvest legal coho after Nov. 1. If an angler harvests a tagged coho, they are strongly encouraged to contact WDFW or tribal project coordinators with tag information (i.e., number, color, harvest date, and location).
Tampering with WDFW or tribal sampling nets is illegal. If an angler encounters a stationary net marked with WDFW or tribal insignias in the Stillaguamish River they must leave it alone.
For information about this project or to report the harvest of a tagged coho, please contact Jason Griffith, of the Stillaguamish Tribe at 360-631-0868 or e-mail to jgriffith@stillaguamish.nsn.us; or Aaron Bosworth, Region 4 Fish Program Manager of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, boswoadb@dfw.wa.gov or call 425-775-1311 ext. 101; or Kari Neumeyer, North Sound Information Officer, of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, kneumeyer@nwifc.org, 360-424-8226, or check the Web site at www.nwifc.org.
Padilla joins American Angus Association
SAINT JOSEPH, Mo. — Cassie Padilla, Arlington, Wash., is a new junior member of the American Angus Association, according to Bryce Schumann, chief executive officer of the national organization with headquarters in Saint Joseph, Missouri.
Junior members of the Association are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association, participate in programs conducted by the National Junior Angus Association and take part in Association sponsored shows and other national and regional events.
The American Angus Association is the largest beef registry association in the world, with more than 36,000 active adult and junior members.
