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THE STAFF AT THETHE STAFF AT THETHE STAFF AT THE LOPEZ FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERLOPEZ FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERLOPEZ FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER would like to thank all of the volunteers, participants

and instructors who made these workshops so successful & for the generous financial support of

many community members. A special thank you to the Lopez Islander Resort, Lopez School, United Way of San Juan County, Grace Church, Lopez Lions Club, Thrift Shop, Sunset Builders, Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Lopez Library, Lopez Island Yacht Club, Spencer’s Landing, Lopez Seafaring & Voyaging Program, and Sail Lopez!

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12TH

Lopez Home Tour

12TH ANNUAL

Visit 7 distinctive homes while bene� tingTHE LOPEZ CENTER FOR COMMUNITY & THE ARTS

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SAVE the DATESLet’s Talk Lopez –All community members are invited to participate in these critical conversations• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Thursday, August 27th• Meth Thursday, September 3rd• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Wednesday, September 9th• Meth Thursday, September 17th• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Wednesday, September 23rd

All Meetings Held at Woodmen Hall from 6 to 8 pm

Fire on Cousins RoadEyewitness account

When the Cousins Road grass fire started on Aug. 18, Jenny Natapow, who lives at Mossyrock Farm where the fire began and other islanders, started a bucket brigade.

“It was a sight to behold watch-ing the fire crew and EMTs arrive and spring into action,” she said. “I was so impressed. We also had a citizen effort going before they arrived and one fireman even told us that he was so impressed that we had water on the fire before they did.”

Natapow also said:“My favorite stories around the

fire involve the cows that had to be freed and are now in green-er pasture. A team was even out yesterday, not only still dealing with residual smoldering, but also reuniting a heifer with her calf.

The pasture is in a neighbor’s yard. Steven Sullivan is nicely let-ting the cows stay.

“There was also a family from

France staying at Mossyrock farm. They were part of the hose and bucket brigade. The fire was burning at the woods edge where

a fawn had been safely bedded down for the day. When the fire broke out she did not know which way to run and was trapped. A

man actually put the hose on the deer, as well as the fire, to encour-age the fawn to run into the woods – which she eventually did.”

By Dennis BoxSpecial to the Weekly

The Washington state Supreme Court let the

hammer fall today in the McCleary education case ordering the state to pay $100,000 a day and calling for Gov. Jay Inslee to call

the Legislature into special session to resolve the issue.

The order stated the “remedial penalty” of $100,000 per day beginning

Aug. 13 until the Legislature “adopts a complete plan for complying with article IX, section 1 by the 2018 school year.”

The Article IX pre-amble in the Washington Constitution states, “It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders, without distinction or pref-erence on account of race, color, caste or sex.”

The Court ruling stated the fine is to be placed into a “segregated account for the benefit of basic education.”

The Supreme Court found the state in contempt on Sept. 11, 2014, but held back sanctions until the completion of the 2015

Legislative Session.“After the close of that

session and following mul-tiple special sessions, the State still has offered no plan for achieving full con-stitutional compliance by the deadline the legislature itself adopted,” the Aug. 13 Court order stated.

The Court ruled because the state has not complied with the 2012 McCleary rul-ing to fulfill its Constitutional obligation to fund educa-tion, “this court must take immediate action to enforce its orders.”

Supreme Court fines state $100,000 per day over school ruling

Lopez Artists’

Studio Tourwww.lopezstudiotour.com

Labor Day WeekendLopez Center: Preview Gallery: Aug. 26 – Oct. 19

Opening Reception: Friday, Sept 4, 5-7 p.m.

Meet the artists!

Rock TerraLopez Center • Outdoor Concert

Adv. tickets $12/adult $5/youthDoor $14/adult $6/youth

PSR, Blossom, Lopez Bookshop, LCCA & lopezcenter.orgBring chairs. Beer Garden.

Saturday, Aug. 29th, 7:30 pm

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THURS, ONGOINGEVENT: Coffee With The Birds, 9:30 – 11 a.m., Spencer Spit State Park Nature Center on campground. Join Eric Setterberg and Laurel Vukovic at Spencer

Spit State Park for a relax-ing morning of birding. Bring your coffee mug and we’ll supply the fresh-brewed coffee, cream and sweetener! (Hot choco-late for the kids.) Enjoy a slidshow of birds found on Spencer Spit, and then explore the marsh, shore-line and forest in search of birds. Contact Tina O’Brien at 468-2251 or email [email protected].

THURS, AUG 27EVENT: “Cell Towers: How to Maximize the Best of the Technology and Minimize the Negative Health Impacts,” Citizens for Safe Technology presents Patrick G. Andre, 7:30 p.m., Lopez library. André received his phys-ics degree in 1982 from Seattle University. He has worked in the EMC field for over 25 years. He is iNARTE Certified as both an electromag-netic compatibility engineer (#EMC-001335-NE) and an electrostatic discharge engineer (#ESD-00076-NE). In 2011, he became a certified electromagnetic compatibility master design engineer (#EMCD-00053-ME). He has worked in the military and aerospace environment for almost 30 years, and worked in the commercial electronics environment for the last 15. Specialties include inductor and capacitor usage, filter design, cable routing and wiring issues, and shielding, both design and material usage.

SAT, AUG 29EVENT: Author Michael N.

McGregor reads from “Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax,” 1 p.m., Lopez Library Community Room. Poet Robert Lax’s quest to live a true life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and a host of other writers and artists. McGregor’s book is an inti-mate look at an extraor-dinary but little-known life and a testament to the lib-erating power of living an uncommon life. Presented by Friends of the Lopez Island Library.

MUSIC: Live in Concert with ROCK TERRA, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center. Tickets in advance are $12 for adults, $5 for youth. Buy tickets online at lopezcenter.org or at Lopez Center Office, Paper Scissors on the Rock, Blossoms Organic Grocery or Lopez Bookshop for youth. Tickets at door are $14 for adult, $6 for youth. The orchestration of the band’s talents and musi-cal content is a reflection of the eclectic styles of its individual members with the synchronization

of a well-tuned machine. Each show is creative and enjoyed by all, integrating audience energy in their performance and satisfying everyone’s taste.

SUN, AUG 30MUSIC: A Summer Afternoon of Classical Music with John Ditto and Ginni Keith, 4 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church. All proceeds from this beautiful concert will benefit the Friends of the Lopez Island Library. Ditto and Keith, two favorite musicians, will be per-forming Bach and Handel as well as Romantic and Contemporary compos-ers including the famous Charles-Marie Widor “Toccata” from his Fifth Symphony. Keith will be performing vocal music by G.F. Handel and a flute sonata by J.S. Bach. A $5 donation per person is appreciated. Reception fol-lows in the Grace Church Parish Hall.

THURS, SEPT 10MEETING: Lopez Island Garden Club, 9:30 a.m., Woodmen Hall. “Planting Wildlife in Your Garden,”

Join Miles Becker as he dis-cusses the important role that home gardens have in creating valuable habitat. He has written articles for Seattle-based magazines “Conservation” and “YES!” and taught wildlife ecology at Western Washington University in Bellingham. Becker has worked one-on-one with the island’s many stewards as a certi-fied arborist for his local business, Skookum Tree Care.

WEDS, SEPT 26 EVENT: Chain Lakes Loop. We go past Upper and Lower Bagley Lakes plus Iceberg, Hayes and Mazama Lakes, all within the 7-mile hike. This is a one-way hike either starting or finishing at Artists Point, with up-close views of Mt. Shuksan and Mt. Baker. We will car pool from Lopez on the first or sec-ond ferry to Anacortes. Contact Bob Walker for further info, and sign up at 468-3397 or [email protected].

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Pharmacy future?Just think how this would

be. Are you ordering your meds on the Internet or

buying them on the main-land?

You think you are saving money but it is not some-thing that helps the island community to be self-suf-ficient.

Transition is the orga-nization that wants to help Lopez Island Community to be self-sufficient as much as possible.

We appeal to you to be willing to make a small sac-rifice to support our local businesses.

Not having a pharmacy available would mean that the clinic could no longer phone through prescrip-tions. You would have to go to Friday Harbor or Anacortes to have them filled. Just imagine if it were

at night that you needed an urgent order, what would you do?

The pharmacy is suffer-ing because their income is steadily dropping, and they, like all of us, deserve to be supported sufficiently by the community. Please rethink your priorities.

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The San Juan County Sheriff ’s Office responded to the following calls.

Aug. 12• A deputy received a

report of a car prowl and theft at the Lopez Island ferry terminal. The report-ing person stated an unidentified person entered his unoccupied vehicle and removed several items, after he parked it so he could travel off island. No sus-pects or witnesses have been identified.

• An attorney turned in an accordion file full of Narconon books and docu-ments found in the bushes next to the courthouse in Friday Harbor. There was no identifying information in it. It will be held for pos-sible return to the owner.

• A San Juan Island depu-ty observed a subject exiting a vehicle. The subject had a newly issued department of corrections warrant for his arrest. He was arrested without incident.

• An Orcas Island woman arrived at the Orcas Island substation and reported a weapon offense. Deputies completed an investigation and documented their find-ings in a report.

• An Orcas deputy responded to a potential residential burglary in prog-ress on Lloyds Lane. It was determined that no bur-glary had occurred and that the suspicious circumstanc-es that were found by the reporting person when he arrived home were caused by an injured house pet.

• A citizen contacted the Orcas substation regarding a cyberstalking case. The suspect is known.

Aug. 13• A Lopez Island dep-

uty was called to an early morning disturbance when an intoxicated man woke neighbors while trying to call his missing dog by yelling and blowing an air horn. The deputy con-

vinced the man to call it a day, and the dog would probably return on its own by morning.

• A deputy responded to Ferry Road on Lopez Island after a vehicle struck a construction road flag-ger. Although there was no evidence of negligence, the vehicle driver was arrested due to an outstanding arrest warrant. He posted bail and agreed to attend a future court hearing.

• A Lopez deputy was dis-patched to a reported car prowl. The victim’s vehicle was entered over the week-end at the Lopez Ferry terminal and the stereo removed. No suspect infor-mation.

• A San Juan Island resi-dent turned in a Sig model 15 .22 LR handgun, which had been in the family for many years. The weapon was no longer wanted in the home so it was turned over to the Sheriff ’s Office to be disposed of according to law.

Aug. 14• The manager of an

apartment complex in Friday Harbor reported a theft of coins from laundry room change collectors and miscellaneous towels. The suspect was seen on the sur-veillance cameras.

• An Orcas Island man reported seeing someone remove his crab pot from the water in front of his resi-dence. The person taking the crab pot was contacted and it was determined there was a misunderstanding on

who owned the pot. • A Friday Harbor busi-

ness reported that a cus-tomer came in and took 12 manila envelopes without paying.

• An Orcas Island woman called the police to report an unwanted person at her residence that she had asked to leave. The subject eventu-ally left prior to the deputy’s arrival.

• Money in an envelope was turned into the Sheriff ’s Office in Friday Harbor.

• A Deputy spoke with a Lopez Island resident regarding several miss-ing prepaid visa cards. The reporting person stated he suspected a friend of his

stole them from his car while he was giving them a ride. The investigation con-tinues.

• Two deputies respond-ed to a vehicle prowl in Eastsound. Someone entered and disabled a vehicle. A suspect may be known and related to two other cases. A report was taken.

• An Orcas deputy inves-tigated a report of apparent malicious mischief. Further investigation revealed that a there was probable cause to believe that a male had committed the crime of malicious mischief, vehicle


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Everyone passes “those cute cottages” coming to and from the Village, but the question comes up surprisingly often, what are they and who lives there?

The answer: The Hamlet Cottages are beautiful small homes for rent to people age 55 and over. Before the cottages were built, Lopez Islanders who wanted to downsize had no good options. Most moved off island to find what they were looking for, a serious loss for both those doing the moving and the community of friends they left behind.

The issue was solved beautifully when The Cottages opened in 2008.

While the cottages feel spacious thanks to excellent design (think skylights, cathedral ceilings, sunny living rooms, porches front and back, separate laundry room, etc.), in reality they were built for those wanting to give up the big family house for simplicity. The footprint of the 2-bedroom cottages is a lean 990 square feet. What to do when all the kids want to come by for family dinner or it’s your turn to host the book club?

Good planning back in the day solved that one. The Gathering Place, the large building on the west end of the Hamlet Green, is the residents’ “community living room.” Spacious and gracious, all sorts of fun happens here from private parties and family dinners to art openings (Lopez Artists Guild provides art shows throughout the year, if you haven’t seen Heather Gladstone’s current photography exhibit, you should.) The Gathering Place is also the venue for lectures and concerts that are open to the public. Often there are impromptu resident events like last weekend’s salmon and crab dinner – thanks again to the generous local fisherman who dropped by with “more than he could possibly eat” and offered his bounty to the Cottagers. Wow!

Today this vibrant little community proves, once again, that Lopez islanders live life with flair, ingenuity and style.

If you’re someone who drives by and wonders what’s happening here, wonder no more. Please stop in! The office, located in The Gathering Place, is open most weekdays 10 am – 3 pm. Or better yet, pick up a ticket to the LCCA Home Tour. Ed and Diana Sheridan’s lovely cottage home is featured this year, a great opportunity see this very special Lopez community for yourself.

Community & Connection, Lopez-Style

by Migael SchererThe Lopez Island Home Tour offers so much:

an up-close look at hidden away properties; design ideas; a day’s entertainment. This year’s tour is September 12th, from 11-4 pm.

But what’s it like for those whose homes are on the tour? What motivates them?

“We were excited to be living on Lopez full-time, and proud of our new home,” Marney Reynolds says of her and Page Read’s then newly-built house, shown on the 2009 Tour. They’d moved to the island knowing just a few people, and their first winter was “a bit lonely.” The Home Tour connected them to Lopez right away. Becky and Steven Tilles, whose home was shown last year, agree. “Although we don’t live here full time, it made us feel part of the Lopez community.”

Homeowners also cite the importance of supporting the Community Center. As one of its primary fundraisers, the Tour nets about $20,000, roughly 10% of the Center’s annual budget. In a very real sense participating in a Home Tour forges a strong link to Lopez.

Committee members do everything they can to support homeowners, including a dinner the night before with tours of each other’s homes. Docents and helpers arrive early on Home Tour morning and stay to clean up. “Our house looked better after the Tour than before,” a 2014 homeowner reported. “Support and communication was excellent,” says another. “We’d do it again in a second!”

What about strangers walking through your home? Though the Tour is only advertised locally, some owners feel apprehensive before the event—but not during and after. “We recognized many of our visitors,” recalls Jeanne DiNicola, whose home was shown in 2012. Visitors described people who had previously lived there, stories that made the house “seem to have a life of its own.” “We felt good about people’s curiosity,” said Bill and Marty Holm of their 2013 experience. “They asked many questions and appeared to enjoy the conversations and explanations.”

Of course, getting ready takes work. Most owners clean their homes from top to bottom. Raiti Waerness had wanted to have her house repainted for the 2012 Tour. “But it was too late,” she says. “So I decided I wasn’t going to worry about it.” Having a friend rearrange her art had the most impact. “I ended up with a better home.”

For Marney Reynolds and Page Read, the Home Tour was a great motivator to complete their new house. “We finished all the small things that hang on after a building project, that you say you’ll get to someday, but never do.” She and Page did it all themselves, “even the windows.”

And what do this year’s owners have to say as they prepare for the Home Tour? “I get to complete the things I never got around to for years,” says Kirm Taylor, laughing. “We’re getting rid of piles of junk. When it’s done it won’t be a showpiece—it’ll look like a home that we’re very pleased to share.”

A homeowner’s view of the Lopez

Home Tour

Sheriff’s Log

SEE SHERIFF’S LOG, PAGE 8

Nestled in a lightly wood-ed area, just north of the Lopez Community Land Trust office, is the new co-op neighborhood, Salish Way. Three new homeown-ers, three women and three children welcomed over 100 visitors to view their homes at their Open House on July 19. Two of the women grew up on Lopez and now, they in turn, are raising their children here.

The homeowners, togeth-er with their building part-ners, put in over 1,200 hours of sweat equity, alongside interns and professional car-penters. This represents the sixth neighborhood devel-oped by LCLT over the last 26 years.

Two of the homes are con-

sidered “tiny houses” with a footprint of 390 square feet. The third home has two bedrooms plus a flex room, with a footprint of 870 square feet. These homes are designed to be net zero-that is, utilizing no more energy than is produced on site. Solar panels of 6.5 kilo-watt for the homes were placed on LCLT’s nearby office buildings in order to capture horizon-to-horizon sun. Each home has high-efficiency windows, insu-lated blinds, an air-to-water heat pump for hot water and an air-to-air heat pump for indoor heating. The walls contain blown cellulose for insulation, rigid foam under the slab and “super tight” air sealing.

Guests were greeted with finger foods, a slideshow of the construction pro-cess and the unique decor of each homeowner. A rain shower that afternoon did nothing to dampen the spir-its of the homeowners or their guests. Each home gives the sensation of priva-cy, despite the density, and an attractive cedar fence surrounding the neighbor-hood is being built.

Guests were struck by the individual arrangements and colors of the homes, from the deep yellow of the interior walls of one of the studios to the baby blue of another. Ample natural light pours through windows from all four directions in each home. The view

of rooftops and a forested ridge above Fisherman Bay is visible from the south-facing living areas, and from the west one can see the rich sunsets of the island.

One homeowner said that she feels as if her house is “on top of the world.” The children of Salish Way will join others at the adja-cent Common Ground and

Tierra Verde playground. Future homes are planned

for farther down Salish Way. For more information, see www.lopezclt.org or email [email protected].

Community Land Trust’s Salish Way Open House


Life is not a sitcom, where problems are solved in less than 30 minutes and some-where in between commercials, particularly when it comes to the issues of mental health and substance abuse.

Many hours of community meetings have gone into the vital work needed to find solu-tions to mental health, substance abuse and the meth problem on Lopez. Earlier this summer over 150 members of the Lopez community met in various meetings to dis-cuss concerns and solutions related to the support and protection of community mem-bers affected by these concerns.

“It’s exciting to report that great things have come out of the ‘Let’s Talk Lopez’ community meetings,” said Georgeana Cook, executive coordinator of the Lopez

Island Prevention Coalition, organizer of the meetings. For those who have participated thus far - their efforts, ideas and continued diligence have made a difference. The feed-back has been positive and changes are beginning to happen.

“The deputies report that since our early summer meetings the tip line calls to the Sheriff’s Office have increased. Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it, is what I hear from law enforcement.”

Less obvious changes are also being noted. What has been done on Lopez is now part of county-wide conversation about resources. A grant has been received to address youth mental health through a free community-wide training, and anyone who works with youth is invited to participate.

Youth in the community are stepping for-ward as they ask for help for their friends who need help with substance abuse. The ripple of conversation has begun a wave of change.

With the end of summer in sight and fall just around the corner, it’s time to move for-ward with the great ideas and suggestions that have been presented. Thursday, Aug. 27 will mark the first of the second series of meetings for the broader issues of mental health and substance abuse. All who were previously involved are invited, and those who would like to participate are welcome.

Solid feedback and great ideas have also laid the foundation for those focusing on meth, and their next series of meetings will begin Thursday, Sept. 3. All meetings will be held from 6-8 p.m. at Woodmen Hall. ALL community members are invited to participate.

Mental health and substance abuse meetings will be held on the following days: Thursday, Aug. 27, Thursday, Sept. 9, and Wednesday, Sept. 23. Meth meetings-Thursday, Sept. 3 and Thursday, Sept. 17.

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Newly released data from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission shows that mari-juana is increasing as a factor in deadly crashes. The number of drivers involved in deadly crashes who tested positive for marijuana increased 48 percent from 2013 to 2014.

“We have seen marijuana involvement in fatal crashes remain steady over the years, and then it just spiked in 2014,” said Dr. Staci Hoff, WTSC Data and Research Director.

From 2010-2014, nearly 60 percent of drivers involved in fatal collisions were tested for drugs. Among these tested driv-ers, approximately 20 percent (349 drivers) were positive for marijuana.

However, just testing positive for mari-

juana doesn’t necessarily indicate if a driver was actually affected by the drug at the time of the crash since marijuana can be detected in a person’s blood for days (possibly weeks) after a person uses the drug. This new data is able to distinguish between drivers who test positive for tetrahydrocannabnol, better known as THC, the impairing substance in marijuana and those who have residual mari-juana in their system from prior use which may have occurred days ago.

The number of drivers testing positive for active THC has steadily increased, from less than half of marijuana positive drivers in 2010 up to almost 65 percent of drivers in 2013. In 2014, an alarming 85 percent (75 of 89 drivers) of drivers testing positive for marijuana were positive for impairing THC.

“With this data we are finally able to see who was high during the crash versus which drivers had used marijuana in the past few days,” said Hoff. “The answer in 2014 is most of them were high.”

Approximately half of these THC-positive drivers exceeded the 5 ng/ml THC per se limit. (A “per se” limit is the amount of a substance in a person’s blood that accord-ing to Washington law makes the person DUI notwithstanding other evidence.)

Marijuana-positive drivers increased in 2014

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Contributed by LIFRC StaffIt’s the last week of July,

and we’re busy at the Lopez Island Family Resource Center. We’re in the midst of preparing for over 75 kids to join us for five dif-ferent workshops at Lopez School this week. In addi-tion, six middle-schoolers will be leaving midweek for the Seafaring, Voyaging and Camping trip, a Sea Kayaking Fundamental Skills class for adults will be taking place, a free “open gym” will take place Thursday night, and we are co-sponsoring a Barn Dance with Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival. It’s going to be a fun-filled week!

One of our largest classes this week is the Girl’s Circus Camp, based out of Eugene, Ore. Darcy, the energetic and charismatic leader of this camp, talks a lot about “GIRL POWER!”, and with 25 girls in this camp, we can see why. Darcy and her assistant teach the kids a variety of skills, includ-ing baton tricks, hula hoop stunts, acrobatics, juggling, tumbling, theatrics and, of course, teamwork! One game involves the girls forming a tight circle togeth-er, carefully leaning back, bending their knees, and ultimately the group is all sitting on each other’s laps in a circle formation. Darcy informs me they are the first of her camps this season to successfully accomplish this! On confidential sur-veys given out to the girls at the end of camp, responses varied from, “I would sug-gest having this camp for two weeks instead of one because it was so fun!” to “I got much stronger and flex-ible in my body,” to simply, “I LOVE IT!!!!!!”

Meanwhile, kids at Lego VEXIQ are creating some impressive robots. As one of us watched, Willem Scholten (who coaches one of Seattle’s top perform-ing Lego Robotics teams) helped a child program a robot to pick up and throw a ball into a goal. A kid cheered as his robot made

the perfect shot. We could see why, according to Scholten, Lego Robotics “…is a perfect way to teach students teamwork and to have kids experience the wonders of applied math, physics, biology and the sci-ences in general as well as computers [STEM].” This workshop, as well as the afternoon Lego WeDo class, appears to be teaching the kids in a hands-on, acces-sible and exciting way, and the kids just love it! As one child put it, “This [camp] was amazing.”

In the Music Room, Rachel Buchman is running two music camps, one for 3-4-year-olds and another for 5-6-year-olds. Buchman has twice been a Grammy award semi-finalist for children’s music, and is the current

teaching artist for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival. Due to popularity, the camp was lengthened this year to four days, and kids seem to still be eager for more. The class that one of us observe starts off with a focus on learning musi-cal scales in a fun, simple way. As Buchman plays an ascending scale on the piano and sang “Will you please stand up?,” the kids stood up together. As the scale descended and Buchman sang “Will you please sit down,” the kids collapsed in giggles on the floor. We love how fully present and engaged the kids were! My favorite part of the class was when Buchman set each child up with an instrument – such as a drum or marim-ba – and had them play along to a song they previ-ously learned to sing. She also made sure that they rotated instruments, so that they could try everything!

A lot of the kids from the Music Camp also show up for the Barn Dance. Kids love “riding” the hay bale

horses (complete with sad-dles), and Buchman, accom-panied by local musicians ages 11 to adult, calls a vari-ety of dances that are great for all ages. Children skip around the room with each other, with their parents and with their adult friends. Buchman does some silly

dances, but then also does some more classic folk dances, and the room reso-nates with song and dance.

At the end of the week, we are all happily exhausted, and surveys are showing positive responses. By mid-August, we will have pro-vided a total of 84 summer

workshops, had over 385 people in our workshops, and filled 743 spots. With community support, we will have provided over $7,000 in scholarship money to 63 local children and teenag-ers, so that they were able to have a fun, educational sum-mer alongside their friends.


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LOPEZ ISLANDCHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY CHURCH, There’s

Always a Place for You! CTK gathers at 10:00 a.m. in the

school multi-purpose room at 86 School Road. Come as

you are! More info at www.ctkonline.com/lopez. Email:

[email protected] Phone: 888-421-4CTK ext. 819.

COMMUNITY CHURCH, Please join us Sun. mornings.

Adult Bible study, 9:30. Worship Service, 10:30. Nursery (birth-

3 yrs) and Jr. Church (4-12 yrs) provided during worship service.

Small groups meet throughout the week. 91 Lopez Rd., in the

village. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877. www.ourlicc.org.

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes

you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:00

a.m. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane.

468-3477. Everyone welcome!

LOPEZ QUAKER, meeting Sunday mornings, 10 a.m.,

6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s Program. www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/lopez-island-preparative-meeting

LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS, (ELCA)

Please join us for worship and children’s Sunday School at

9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in

Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound

at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanuel. Pastor Beth Purdum, 370-0023.

ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH, Come worship

with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome

you to join us for Mass at 10:30 a.m. on Saturdays. Call

378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

A week in the life of the LIFRC summer workshopsContributed photo

Seventy-five kids will join LIFRC for five differen sum-mer classes.


At home in her beloved San Juan Islands, Barbara Jean Fleming passed away on Lopez Island on Aug. 15, 2015 following a long and heroic stare-down with ovarian cancer. She was 80 years old.

Born in Swedish Hospital to Samuel and Agnes Fleming on May 14, 1935, Barbara grew up in Seattle and graduated from Franklin High School in 1953 before enrolling in the nursing program at the University of Washington. Her college experience served as the catalyst for a life commit-ted to public health, as well as the beginning of many deep and lasting friendships. After graduating from UW and eventually earning a master’s degree from Santa Clara University, her career took her from Seattle to San Jose to Santa Cruz, where she served as a public health nurse with a focus in commu-nicable diseases. Her clients and her assignments were diverse, but she was particu-larly gratified by the contri-butions she made to the lives of her low-income, immigrant and AIDS patients.

Barbara lived in Seattle, Mercer Island, Los Gatos,

Calif., and Capitola, Calif., before retiring in the San Juan Islands. Once at home in the islands, she became very active in her Orcas and Lopez Island communi-ties, serving on a number of nonprofit and public boards while testing her Master Gardner’s skills every year in an epic struggle to main-tain a vegetable garden in the parched sandy soils of her family’s Waldron Island retreat.

Along the way, Barbara devoted herself to raising a family that included her children Tim Seifert (Sonya Erickson), Mike Seifert (Anne) and Nancy Sunitsch (Scott). She voted for Richard Nixon and Barack Obama, she experimented with nud-ism and Buddhism (among many other diversions that delighted her friends and puzzled her children), and through her experiences as a public health official became a fierce advocate for women’s health issues. But she found her true calling in her seven grandchildren (Madeline, Samantha, Matthew, Scott, Catherine, Grace and Eva), who found in their “Nonnie” a patient playmate, a confi-dential friend and a wise and

loving role model.Predeceased by her par-

ents and her youngest sister, Sally Foertsch (Rick), she is survived by her sister Susan Bethke (Bob), her children and grandchildren, and her many devoted nieces and nephews. The family would like to express special thanks to Dr. Hank Kaplan and his staff at Swedish, everyone at Hamlet House on Lopez, Lola Deane and Gale McCallum (superstars to the end), and her many friends that provid-ed love and comfort during her final days. A memorial service will be held at Grace Episcopal Church, Lopez Island, on Thursday, Aug. 27 at 2 p.m. The family suggests remembrances be made to The San Juan Preservation Trust at www.sjpt.org or to The Hamlet, PO Box 785, Lopez Island, WA 98261.

Love you forever, Nonnie!

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CREATIVE ARTISTSound Publishing, Inc and The Whidbey News Times, a twice-weekly community newspaper located in Coupeville, WA, has an immediate opening for a full-time Creative Artist. Duties include performing ad design, designing promo- tional materials, providing excellent inter- nal and external customer service. Requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a fast paced deadline-oriented environment. Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign, Photo- shop, Illustrator and Ac- robat strongly preferred, as is newspaper or other media experience. Must be able to work independently as well as part of a team. We offer a great work environment, health benefits, 401k, paid holidays, vacation and sick time. Please e- mail your resume, cover letter, and a few samples of your work to:

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EDITORSound Publishing has an immediate opening for Editor of the Journal of the San Juans in the beautiful San Juan Is- lands of Washington state. This is not an en- try-level position. Re- quires a hands-on leader with a minimum of three years newspaper experience including writing, editing, pagination, photography, and InDesign skills. editing and moni- toring social media including Twitter, Face- Book, etc.

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· SENIOR SERVICES SPECIALIST FOR ORCAS ISLAND

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Health Care EmploymentCaregivers

FT and On-CallCAREGIVEROPENINGS

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CLINICAL SUPPORT POSITION

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Business Opportunities

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1932 Chevrolet Confed- erate Coach “Elliott”, fully restored with less that 50,000 original miles. $39,950. (360)378-4575

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AKC English Mastiff Kennel has 5 week old puppies available. Ac- cepting deposits now. Great purebred family pets. Ideal security dogs. Perfect show dogs. Ex- tremely gentle & patient. 3 boys & a girl. Colors are an Apricot Male, a Red-Brindle Male, a Brindle Male & a Fawn Female. Kingston. $2500. Francis 360-535- [email protected]

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By Gretchen WingSpecial to the Weekly

Asha Lela, Dennis and Meg Ryan, and Lexi and Kirm Taylor are just a few Lopezians who are grate-ful for the beautiful natural haven they found on Lopez. And all of them honored the island by building their homes with materials from their land.

Lela, the Ryans and the Taylors own three of the seven homes on this year’s 12th annual Lopez Island Home Tour, the primary fundraiser for Lopez Center. The theme this year, if there WERE a theme, could easily be “Living the Dream,” as all seven sets of homeown-ers moved to Lopez from

elsewhere. Their gratitude prompted them to integrate Lopez’s past, both natural and cultivated, into their homesteads, as well as to provide amenities for the next generation.

Back in the late ‘70s, Lela named her property “Ravens Rook” in a nod to her winged Shark Reef Road neighbors. She cut and hand-peeled the rafter poles for her octagonal home from the forest around her; other trees were milled for lumber. Both Lexi and Kirm Taylor’s two-story home, and the new bunk-house on Dennis and Meg Ryan’s property, follow that building model, incorporat-ing on-site cedars and firs.

The Taylors’ big fireplace is made of stones from their five-acre parcel.

Those homes not built of Lopezian materials still emphasize Lopezian beauty, like Anne Hietbrink and Beth Shirk’s “jewel box” home on Bayshore Road, built by Mike Krajack. They say their second-floor master bedroom feels like sleeping in a tree house. The homesite maintains its original trees, including two majestic madronas which dominate their water view. Laura and Curtis Walker’s Fisherman Bay house fea-tures wrap-around decks, allowing them to enjoy both sunrise and sunset as well as the abundant wildlife that visits their low-bank beach. They left the shake siding

unpainted to better blend in with their beach environ-ment.

Lopez’s historical heri-tage is another prominent facet of some of this year’s homes.

At the old Iowa-style farmhouse Kip Greenthal’s family bought in 1960, they had to peel off seven lay-ers of wallpaper to restore the original wood panel-ing! Large, paned windows frame the fields, the barn and the old orchard, show-casing nearly 135 years of cultivation. The Ryans’ farmhouse, north of the village on Fisherman Bay Road, dates from 1914, and in completing its recent ren-ovation, they honored the building’s original design.

Some homes on this year’s tour reflect Lopezian culture in more subtle ways.

The Walker home’s original owner asked a Seattle archi-tect to create a barn-like effect, tall and shake-sided. And in the village center, Diana and Ed Sheridan’s Hamlet home sits within strolling distance of nearly every cultural amenity on the island.

Another common aspect of many of this year’s tour homes: welcoming the next generation to Lopez. Lela’s home contains her child-hood piano, now played by all four of her Lopezian grandchildren. The Taylors’ home contains a down-stairs study that doubles as a video or game room for grandkids. And the Ryans are doing their part to make sure their house will be there for future gen-erations, no matter what Mother Earth has in store for Lopez: their home and studio building are made with insulated panels and rammed earth walls, mak-ing them virtually fire, water

and earthquake-proof.Speaking of her home,

Lela says, “I see a reflec-tion of my dreams and of myself manifested in a form that has a permanence that shaped my life.” That senti-ment likely extends to all of this year’s homeowners. So perhaps “Lopez: Past Meets Future” is a more appropri-ate theme, if there WERE a theme.

The Home Tour takes place on Saturday, Sept. 12, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with all proceeds benefitting Lopez Center. Well over half the funds the Lopez Home Tour Committee raised from the tour comes from sponsors, whom the com-mittee wishes to thank: 87 sponsors this year, 14 more than 2014! Tickets for the tour are available at the Saturday Market, on the LCCA website or at the center.


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prowl and theft.• An Orcas deputy

stopped a vehicle at North Beach and Mt. Baker Roads for a taillight out and expired registration. The driver was cited for expired registration.

Aug. 15• A deputy was dis-

patched to the Friday Harbor area in reference to a prowler call. The report-ing deputy arrived and found the residence secure. Contact was made with the residence and the incident was unfounded.

• A deputy responded to a report of more than 50

loose cows in the yard of an elderly Orcas Island woman. The deputy responded and contacted the owner, which resulted in getting the cows back into their field.

• A Lopez Island deputy took two dogs into custody for running at large after they followed a jogger for about 1.5 miles and refused commands to “go home.” The dog owner was cited for dog at large.

• A motorcycle operator was cited for passing in a no passing zone.

• A deputy responded to a report of an unwant-ed person in Eastsound. After further investigation, the unwanted person was located and told not to have any further contact with the complainant.

• A Friday Harbor person heard suspicious noises in and around his/her apart-ment.

• A Lopez Island deputy was called to investigate the killing of three chickens by a dog running at large in the area. The dog was seen by the owner of the chickens, but could not be caught.

• A deputy was contacted at the Sheriff ’s Office in ref-erence to malicious mischief that occurred in the Friday Harbor area. The report-ing deputy took photos of the damage and the victim provided a statement and a case number for insurance purposes.

• A deputy received a theft complaint from a Lopez Island resident. The reporting person stated an

unidentified person stole his bicycle after he left it in the bushes on Fisherman Bay Road. No witness or suspect was identified.

Aug. 16• A deputy was dis-

patched to a disturbance call in the Port of Friday Harbor area. The reporting deputy arrived and made contact with the caller. The reporting deputy checked the area for the suspect and then returned to normal duties.

• A restaurant on Blaire Ave. in Friday Harbor was broken into. Cash and other items were removed. The scene was processed for evidence and witness state-ments were taken. This is an ongoing investigation.

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