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several Memorial Day
services last Monday to honor and
celebrate those who have given
their lives to ensure our freedoms
in this country.
The American Legion Post 181 and
the Women's Auxilliary handed
pop'pies out at local stores.
Donations accepted.
The poppies to in the poem
In Flanders are a
to the profusion of poppies which
sprouted in Flanders in the dis-
turbed earth of the battlefields and
cemetaries war casualites
buried during World War l.
American Legion Post 181 also held
a Memorial Day service at the War
Memorial (left) in downtown Lake
Stevens on Monday.
After the service at the War Memo-
rial there was also a full service at
the Machias Cemetary which also
included the playing of “Taps” as
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Team represents L.S. in the Red Bull Soapbox Races
BY PAM STEVENS I MANAGING EDITOR
Shelby Stong, 27, from Lake
Stevens, Derek Strong, 24, the
driver is from Lynnwood along
with Grant Hawley, 27, from
Seattle and Scott Hanson, 39,
the co-pilot who is also from
Seattle and E.Z., 28 from Seattle,
decided they were going to build
a soapbox car to enter into the
Red Bull Soapbox Race which
took place in Los Angeles on
Saturday, May 21. .
“We are a team of fabricators
who love going out and having
fun," Shelby Stong said. “I saw
the advertisement for the race
in Seattle in 2007 and I had to
enter, this is what I do. When
this race came around I had to
tryagain since the last event was
so much fun."
Their team, the Bigfoot Ban-
dits was one of 40 teams to be
chosen out of hundreds of ap-
plications. Their soapbox car
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The Bigfoot Bandits as hey crash in their Red Bull Soapbox.
is inspired by the large, hairy,
bipedal humanoid also known
as Big Foot. It is thought that
Sasquatch inhabits forests,
mainly in the Pacific Northwest
region of the United States,
namely Granite Falls.
The team had to build their
car entirely from scratch, which
closed for repairs
The City of Lake Stevens will
be performing road work on
20th Street SE over the weekend
bringing with it road closures and
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they did in Stong’s garage.
“Grant, Derek and I grew up
together on the same block in
Lynnwood and I have known
them since I was five. We have
been building bikes, cars, and
anything else we can conjure up
since then," Stong said. “When I
applied for this race we were in
man 'Fallsliirés new
Superintendent
The GFSD announced a new
Superintendent to replace retir-
ing Superintendent Karen Ko-
schak. Linda Hall will take over
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Grant Hawley, Derek Stong, Scott Hanson and Shelby Stong.
a tight spot with busy schedules
and a quick deadline so I needed
some experienced fabricators to
help us whip out a craft.”
According to the rules, teams
were judged on three criteria:
speed, creativity and showman-
ship.
All soapboxes must be human
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the last few months sending care
packages to sailors on the USS
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powered, meaning no engines
or external energy sources. Pre~
fabricated cars are not accepted.
All vehicles must be less than
six-feet wide and sevenafeet
tall, less than 20 feet in length
and no more than seven inches
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album nationwide
Lake Stevens resident and
christian singer songwriter Sha'
Ree released her new album Jesus
Save Me from Tate Music Group
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