Beacon photo by Rebecca Carr

Mukilteo 5th grader Annamarie Cao stands outside City Hall, where she’ll reign as 2010 Mayor for a Day in Beacon Publishing and Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival’s first essay contest. Cao beat out a lot of outstanding young writers in town to earn the honor, and will ride next to Mayor Joe Marine in the festival parade Saturday.

 

In this story, I will be telling you why I just love living in Mukilteo. Let’s get started!

In Mukilteo you can go to the beach and go swimming or just play on the playground. The beach is fairly new because they just finished working on it.

Another reason is because you can go on ferries to different islands. Going on ferries is a really fun experience.

If you’re walking to the beach and you hear a rumbling coming from your stomach, you don’t have to worry; there are many restaurants to go to.

If you feel like you’re getting as fat as a walrus, then you should go to the YMCA. I call the YMCA the Y for short.

The Y has a swimming pool, a gym, an exercising room and a room to take care of your kids and other people’s kids. The Y also has many activities. The Y also has sports so you can sign your kids up for basketball or soccer if you have kids or a kid.

There are a lot of parks in Mukilteo. So I’m going to tell you about two parks. One park is Edgewater Park. I live right near it. At Edgewater Park you can play tennis on the tennis court, or basketball on the basketball court.

You can also play soccer on the grass.  If you get hungry you can get a snack at the deli.

The last park is on 92nd Street and is called the 92nd Street Park. There are two playgrounds, and one is for babies and the other is for bigger kids.

You can also go hiking with a friend or by yourself. The last thing you can do there is have a nice picnic.

That is why I just love living in Mukilteo with my family!

 Other mayoral candidates speak up

Thank you to all of the kids who participated in the first Mayor for a Day essay contest. We enjoyed reading all of the creative entries and have gained even more appreciation for our beautiful city after seeing it through your eyes.

Camden Thorngate – you’re right, Henry’s has the best doughnuts! Best of luck at Stanford.

Maeve Heard – Mukilteo is funny to pronounce, isn’t it?

Yalda Talebanfard – Traxx makes for a great birthday!

Matthew Merk – Keep supporting Japanese Gulch – it needs friends like you.

Errynn Cominsky – It’s prettier than Texas up here, isn’t it? And usually not as hot or cold.

Faith Kinnear – It’s fun watching you kite flyers at Lighthouse Park.

Mason Richardson – There is a lot to learn at our beaches.

Annamarie Wight – What has more colors – our skies and sunsets, or Woody’s ice cream selection?

Max Manalo – School and the pool are very cool!

Karina Stangeland – Wouldn’t an eating tour of Mukilteo be fun?

Payton McLeod – You’re right - Japanese Gulch wouldn’t be the same filled with concrete.

Giullianna Castelli – Welcome to your new home. You’re going to meet even more great people.

Sam Brooks – Starbucks is the star!

Ayden Chandler – Mukilteo is like nowhere else on earth.

Deryck Marks – When is the next race?

Jada Berry – Pizza in the Gulch – what a combination!

Tiasa Kim – Barbecue tastes best on the beach!

Maneula McCarthy – What color of wristband do you wear?

Alex Lam – What is your high score in rock skipping?

Nicholas Paschalis – Hang on tight to that hamburger – the seagulls are hungry!

Justine Faller – Lots of things make Mukilteo paradise.

Diego Condit – Keep having fun in school; it’s the best way to learn.

Josh Goodwin – Practice those football tackles; the Knights will need you in a few years.

Jack Mudge – Fun at the beach is as easy as falling off a log.

Claire C. Choi – Autumn leaf colors in our sunsets – what an image!

Andrew Lee – Reading books is fun year round, not just during school.

Haley Gilbert – Reading about tinfoil dinners in the campfire is making me very hungry!

Samantha Kim – We need more sandcastle competitions in town.

Brennan Wiedrich – You could learn to fly those vintage aircraft one day.

Iris Zhou – That rain is what makes the clean air you appreciate.

Angela Park – A ferry ride is beautiful and fun any time of year.

Claire McCallick – That lighthouse tower is a climb, but what a view at sunset!

Cecilia Hollowell – Those trains are fun to watch, as long as you don’t get too close.

Alexis MaCula – How many different animals have you found here so far?

Gurleen Birk – The lighthouse is awesome at night, isn’t it?

Kristine Tandoc – Even birds can’t resist a good smore.

Hahnum Osara – Life is more fun when you have a cheerful heart.

Annamarie Cao – What is more fun, eating the great food, or working it all off?

Sabrina Eyre – That’s one powerful lens at the Lighthouse.

Jayda Becerra – A world filled with soft ice cream cones sounds pretty special.

Molly Goodrich – The Lighthouse Festival has the best fireworks, doesn’t it?

Kelly Houston-Ogg – We’ve never seen a blue jellyfish; did you get a picture?

Erika Sears – There’s no shame in taking second place to Disneyland

Georgia Victor – Broccoli cheddar soup over a pizza bagel? Hmmmm…

Alexander Constanzo – Keep practicing your art talent, it can take you places.

Tanner Daniels – Paintballs are always better to give than receive, aren’t they?

Isaiah Williams – Sierra is lucky to have such a great best friend to take her to the beach.

Rachael Berger – Why do sea lions come every winter?

Elias Hernandez – Those trails are going to lead you to some special places in life.

Addie Weiss – Keep paying it forward – you are what makes Mukilteo special!


Two entries that arrived without names:

1-Wahoo, Mukilteo is a fun place, isn’t it?

2-Biking through the Gulch is also great exercise, and good preparation for climbing those lighthouse steps.