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Football team visits Snohomish Chalet
By KEN HAMMOND
guest writer
The boys on Centennial Middle School’s eighth-grade football team learned an important life lesson during their last scrimmage of the season. It was at the Delta Rehabilitation Center, also known as the Snohomish Chalet. After arriving from their school bus, suited up in green and white, the football team pushed the wheelchairs of the residents, who helped the Patriots play football on a brisk fall day.
The residents were lined up alongside the field with official Centennial football playbooks. Head coach Tuck Gionet would ask each of the residents which play they wanted to see run. Gionet would bark out the play to the offense who would run the play. Many of the plays would end up in touchdowns — and afterward the players would run over with a commemorative T-shirt to thank the resident for calling the right play.
Since 1975, the Chalet on Terrace Avenue in Snohomish has been home for people who suffered traumatic injuries to their central nervous system and need specialized services.
This is the ninth year Gionet has brought the football team to play at the Chalet.