Islands' Weekly, January 10, 2012

By Scott FinleySpecial to the Islands’ Weekly

Transportation makes up more than one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emis-sions. The average American household burns over 1,000 gallons of gasoline and emits 21,000 pounds of CO2 annu-ally from its 1.85 vehicles, and spends nearly a fifth of its income doing so.

These startling numbers were brought up in a lively dis-cussion after the first showing of the Locavore’s film series, presented in November. The featured documentary “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil,” is an invaluable look at the cre-ative resilience of Cuba after the U.S. oil embargo forced it to make radical changes in every aspect of lifestyle and economy. The film inspired Lopezians to start talking and

then brainstorming about a more sustainable and energy efficient island.

“It was an inspiring film and discussion,” said Chom Greacon. “And we actually came away with concrete steps we could take to strengthen the community, conserve energy and reduce our carbon footprint.”

Personal carbon footprint is the total amount of green-house gas emissions you con-tribute to the environment. Your carbon footprint may be a size EEE Sasquatch, or if you have taken steps to reduce your energy use, and consequently your car-bon emissions, your footprint may be closer to a size 3 ballet slipper. You can reduce your footprint by insulating your house, growing and eat-ing local, organic food as well as changing your transporta-

tion habits. “Living Well, Living Green,”

the useful booklet produced by Transition Fidalgo and Friends, lists several ways to reduce the amount of energy we use transporting ourselves: combine errands in one trip, keep your car tuned and tires inflated, or leave the car at home – hop on a bike, walk or share rides with others. Lopez Rocks, www.LopezRocks.org, has a link called “Off-Island Ride Share” which makes it very easy to pre-arrange a ride with others when leaving the Island or returning.

A culture of ride sharing or hitchhiking has been in place on the islands for years.

“We used to hitch rides home from Lopez Elementary School all the time back in the 70’s,” Faith Van De Putte said. “We’d hope for a pickup truck so we could all ride together.”

Ron Metcalf has recently

started hitching rides, follow-ing up on a New Year’s reso-lution to do more walking and less driving, and has found it efficient and convenient.

But Metcalf hasn’t been doing much walking because he usually gets picked up by the first or second car pass-ing by.

And he has discovered an additional benefit to hitchhik-ing.

“The best part of doing this is that I get to spend time with those I already know and meet those I don’t,” said Metcalf.

The after-film discussion group pounced on the idea

of reducing GHG emissions by ride sharing, and came up with a plan. They formed an impromptu committee call-ing itself Lopez Island Free Transit, or LIFT, committed to expanding island transpor-tation options by facilitating our existing ride share sys-

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Friends of Woodmen Hall’sAnnual Spaghetti Dinner

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Monday January 16, 4:30 pm & 6 pmTake out available starting 3:30 pm; seatings start 4:30 & 6

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Show dates:Jan. 14th - Feb. 10th

Extension programs are available to all without discrimination. Evidence of noncompliance may be reported through your local extension offi ce.

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Happy New Yearand thank you for allyour encouragement

and support.

The Lopez Liquor Store hopes to continue to serve

you for many years to come.

~ Marc and Margie

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On a rainy and cold day, Ron Metcalf demonstrates how to hitch a ride on Lopez.

SEE LIFT, PAGE 5

By Scott RasmussenEditor of Journal of the San Juan Islands

Not all misdemeanors are created equal.

And the prosecution of some mis-demeanor charges might fall by the wayside beginning this year, as the San Juan County prosecuting attorney’s office shifts priorities in anticipation of a $30,600 cut in its 2012 budget.

That’s according to Prosecuting

Attorney Randy Gaylord, who, in a pre-pared statement released Dec. 20, said to offset that pending $30,600 cut he will be forced to reduce the hours of the attorney assigned to handle misde-meanor cases by half.

Gaylord said the department will take the first two months of the year to trim down the District Court caseload, where most misdemeanors are prosecuted, and to implement new guidelines for

handling future misdemeanor cases. The cut is slated to take effect March

1. “We will refocus on those cases that

involve injuries to people, and especially domestic violence, driving under the influence, and other serious charges involving reckless and damaging con-duct,” Gaylord said. “My goal is to keep the community safe, but it is not practi-cal to expect that offenders will be held accountable in the same way that we have been able to do in the past.”

The prosecuting attorney’s office will begin 2012 with a budget of $954,783 and, according to Gaylord, a total of 8.5

Cuts put justice on the ropesProsecutor and sheriff grapple with 2012 budget

SEE BUDGET CUTS, PAGE 6

What’s happening with salmon?

Lopez Island’s own intrepid volunteer researchers make their fourth annual report on the abundance, diet and

health of juvenile salmon summering at Watmough Bight.

Find out how La Nina helped salmon find plenty of fish to eat ... how salmon compete with seabirds for food ... and what makes flies so appetizing to Kings.

Join us for local wine, food, and music as we share what we have learned, celebrate salmon, and recognize the spirit of Lopez citizen-scien-tists.

And buy local art to help finance supplies and equip-

ment for the 2012 field sea-son.

Noted speaker at Parkinson meeting on Orcas

We are fortunate to have Dr. Monique Giroux as our guest speaker at the Orcas Island Parkinson’s support group on Jan. 18 at 1 p.m. at the Orcas senior center. Dr. Giroux is a Movement Disorder

Specialist and Medical Director of the Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation. She is a national leader in compre-hensive patient-centered care for Parkinson’s and related movement disorders. Dr. Giroux has developed com-prehensive care programs for people with Parkinson’s and focuses on positive well-ness and attitude while living with this disease. It is a baf-fling and chronic disease, for which there is no known cure; however, with a combination of physical therapy, diet and control of stress in addition to medication, symptoms can be controlled to varying degrees. Regular exercise is absolutely essential!

We have two Parkinson’s support groups in the islands. The Orcas group was recent-ly started by Ted Grossman and usually meets the 3rd Tuesday at 1 p.m. The Lopez

group has met informally for about two years, but now usu-ally meets at 4:30 p.m. on the 3rd Monday of the month. However, this month we are all going to Orcas to hear Dr. Giroux speak. We will be sharing rides to that meeting. Anyone interested in joining us can call Jackie Ashe at 468--2435. This meeting is open to anyone interested in Parkinson’s Disease.

Marijuana Initiative?

Sponsors of a marijuana initiative delivered what they say are roughly 341,000 sig-natures to the elections office Olympia on Dec. 29. The initiative campaign plans to bring in 10,000 more signa-tures by Friday — the dead-line.

Initiative to the Legislature 502 would authorize the state Liquor Control Board to regulate and tax marijuana for those 21 and older. The legislature would decriminal-

ize production, possession, delivery, distribution and sale of marijuana. Sponsors say it would generate at least $215 million a year in tax revenue, roughly $80 million for the state treasury, and the rest for research, health care and related purposes.

If I-502 is certified with more than 241,153 valid signatures, it will be submit-ted to the legislature in the upcoming session. There it will be passed into law; ignored or rejected, sent into the fall 2012 statewide bal-lot; or it will be sent into a legislative alternative to the statewide ballot next fall.

TUES, JAN 10

MEETING: Enchanted Quilters Monthly Meeting, 9:30 -11:30 a.m., Woodmen Hall. Kitty Sorgen will be presenting a power point program featuring photos of her Mission Work in Akutan, Alaska. She will discuss how she stores and uses her scraps. No host lunch at the Islander following the meeting.

WEDS, JAN 11

CLASSES: Free senior tai chi, 9-10 a.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.

MEETING: Ferry Advisory Meeting, 1:30 -3:30 p.m., library.

SPORTS: High School Basketball Games, Home against Concrete, 5--8 p.m., Lopez High School. Girls Game at 5 p.m., Boys Game at 6:30 p.m.

THURS, JAN 12

MEETING: Port of Lopez Monthly Meeting, 7 p.m., library meeting

room. For more info, visit www.portoflopez.com.

MEETING: Garden Club Meeting, 10 a.m., Woodman Hall, 4102 Fisherman Bay Road. Diane Dear of Lopez Island T & D Farms will be the featured speaker. Her topic is “Let’s Get Started,”a talk about starting seeds at home for your garden. She will tell you everything you need to know for success. Sponsored by Lopez Island Garden Club.

FRI, JAN 13

READING: Sleepy-time Storytelling, 6:30 -7:30 p.m., Lopez Island library. Wear you pjs and bring your teddy bear for lullabies and storytelling with Rosie. Toddlers to six years.

OUTDOORS: The Fisherman Bay Marine Health Observatory Bird Survey, 2-4 p.m., Fisherman Bay Preserve parking area.

SPORTS: High School Basketball

Games, Away against Lummi, 3:30 --- 6 p.m., Lopez High School. Girls Game at 3:30 p.m., Boys Game at 5 p.m.

SAT, JAN 14

MOVIE: Free Saturday Movie, 2- 4 p.m., library.

MOVIE: Contra Dance, 7- 9 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.

ART: ”Let the Rumpus Begin!,” 5- 7 p.m., Chimera Gallery. The first of Chimera Gallery’s Group Shows that celebrates this cooperative gallery’s 25th anni-versary year. The shows will be honoring and commemorating our past and present members and the success of our gallery over these many years. If you are a past member of the gallery, please contact us at 468-3265 if you would like to show your work. For more info, visit www.ChimeraGallery.com.

MON, JAN 16

CLOSED: Library closed for Martin Luther King Day.

MEETING: Lopez Community Land Trust Board of Directors Meeting, 4-6 p.m., LCLT office, 25 Tuatara Road.

MEETING: Lopez Island Hospice And Home Support Annual

Meeting, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., library meeting room. For more info, call 468-4446.

MEETING: The Friends of Woodmen Hall’s second annual Spaghetti Dinner, 4:30 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Tickets will be on sale after Christmas.

WEDS, JAN 17

SPORTS: High School Basketball Games, Home, Against Highline 5 --- 8 p.m., Lopez High School. Girls Game at 5 p.m., Boys Game at 6:30 p.m.

WEDS, JAN 18

CLASSES: Free senior tai chi, 9-10 a.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.

FRI, JAN 20

MUSIC: Community Performance Night, 7-9 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Performers include Run Deep — Psychedelic rock. Cafe style seating, no-host bar of beer, wine and juice. Popcorn and tea pro-vided. This event is free to the public. Donations are accepted.


SPORTS: High School Basketball Games, Away, Against Tulalip, 3:30

--- 6 p.m., Lopez High School. Girls Game at 3:30 p.m., Boys Game at 5 p.m.

SAT, JAN 21


REPORT: SalmonAtion, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. See below for more info.

TUES, JAN 24

MEETING: Parent Night, 5:30 -7:30 p.m., Grace Church Fellowship Hall. For more info, contact Mikah Smith at 468-2201 ext. 2109 or [email protected].

FRI, JAN 27


SAT, JAN 28


SUN, JAN 29

MOVIE: “Cafeteria Man – Changing the Way Kids Eat at School,” 4:30 p.m., Pt. Stanley School, with discussion to fol-low. Presented by the Lopez Locavores.

NOTICE: Lopez Island Hospice

and Home Support sponsors a Caregivers’ Support Group every other Thursday, 1pm, at the LIHHS office in the Gathering Place. All caregivers on the island are welcome. Call Mary O’Bryant for more information – 468-2421.

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By Doug PooleMember of the Islands’ Energy Coalition

Happy New Year from the Energy Matters crew.

With the holidays behind us and winter in full swing, we thought it would be a good time to talk a little about home heating.

The steps to saving energy are often small and incre-mental, so let’s look at how we can ratchet down heating energy one click at a time. Reducing your home’s energy use for heat-ing can save you money, i m p r o v e health, and even increase your home’s comfort.

According to the Department of Energy, heating is the biggest piece of the home energy pie and accounts for around 45 per-cent of our total energy con-sumption.

Reducing the energy used for home heating is the single most effective way to save money and ease your home’s contribution to global envi-ronmental concerns.

There are many benefits to keeping your home warm in the winter, beyond your obvi-ous comfort.

When outdoor tempera-tures drop, our homes need to be kept warm to prevent mold and mildew growth. Cold indoor temperatures can more easily reach dew point, creating unhealthy condensation.

To keep the air healthy, indoor temperatures in the winter should range between 65-70 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity levels 30-60 percent.

How can we reduce our heating bills while effectively maintaining health and com-fort?

We have two options: repair or replace.

There are three aspects to any heating system that can be fixed or changed out: source, distribution, or con-trols. It is important to focus on the big picture. Don’t

simply swap out that old fur-nace (source) without sealing your ductwork (distribution), or you will just keep sending expensive heat into the crawl-space through all the duct leaks (dollars).

Let’s play with some num-bers. If you connect a new 90 percent efficient furnace to an old duct system that is

only deliver-ing 70 percent of its heat, the effective effi-ciency of your new system is only 64 per-cent.

Also, make sure your installer calcu-lates the size of the system properly, so that the out-put matches the heat loss of your home.

An oversized heating system does not optimize efficiency, and if undersized you will not stay comfortable.

And don’t forget to take steps in reducing heat loss by air sealing and insulating floors, walls and ceiling.

If you’re interested in a low investment with a quality ben-efit, consider replacing your older thermostat (control). Newer thermostats ensure a higher degree of tempera-ture accuracy and keep the heat more even in the house.

Programmable units will allow you to set lower tem-peratures in your absence or at night.

An 8 degrees Fahrenheit decrease from your typi-cal setting can save energy and money. There are even “smart” new controls that will learn your habits and antici-pate your heating adjust-ments for you. Kinda creepy, but cool.

A significant energy reduc-ing step can be found by uti-lizing Heat Pump technology. A heat pump works just like a refrigerator, but in reverse. An air-source heat pump can deliver 1.5 to 3 times more heat energy to a home than the electrical energy it con-sumes. This magic is possible because a heat pump moves heat rather than converting

it from a fuel. Air-source heat pumps are ideal for our climate.

A heat pump is a good choice when replacing your existing ducted furnace. Or if your current system does not have ducts, such as baseboards or wood heat, a ductless mini-split heat pump provides a very efficient alter-native or addition.

While heat pumps are a significant investment, in many cases OPALCO offers rebates to help offset the cost. As an added perk, on the five days in the year we could benefit from cooling our homes, you can run it backwards as an air condi-tioner.

Keep in mind that your most cost effective mea-

sures might be found in adding i n s u l a t i o n and air or duct sealing, and that many heating systems require regular servicing in order to maintain maximum efficiency.

For guidance with your specific system, begin with the professional advice avail-able from a $25 OPALCO snapshot or a licensed pro-fessional. You can find great tips on saving energy at ener-gystar.gov or feel free to call me at 298-1313.

However you choose to improve upon your current heating system, remember you will be living more com-fortably and consuming less energy. Happy heating.

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Happy home heating

Contributed photos

Above, a pie chart from Energy Star showing typi-cal household energy use.

Below left, a low invest-ment requires replacing your older thermostat with a newer model to ensure a higher degree of temperature accuracy and keep the heat more even in the house.

Below, right, a look at a disconnected duct, which is sending hot air — and essentially your money — into the crawl space rather then into your house.

Reducing the energy used for home

heating is the single most effective way to save money and ease your home’s contribution to

global environmental concerns.

Some eco-friendly steps to keep warm in these colder months

January 10, 2012 –

SudokuFill in the blank cells using numbers 1 to 9. Each number can appear only once in each row, column, and 3x3 block. Use logic and process of elimination to solve the puzzle. The diffi culty ranges from 1-10 (easy) 11-15 (moderate) and 16-20 (hard). Today’s puzzle is level 13.Sudoku and Crossword answers on page 8

For the second year, the Friends of Woodmen Hall are sponsoring an evening of good food, music and the opportunity to enjoy one of Lopez’s great traditions, a community gathering at Woodmen Hall, Jan. 16.

Again this year, Jim Ghinazzi will prepare his famous traditional Italian spaghetti sauce and Lance Brittian and Friends will pro-vide the music. The menu will include spaghetti, bread, salad, dessert, and coffee or

juice. Beer and wine can be purchased. Glutton free pasta will be available.

Over the years, The Friends have sponsored sev-eral fundraisers helping to provide a commercial kitch-en, bathrooms, a well, stage improvements, and electrical updates.

Future projects include more gravel, cleanup of the upstairs, and improved ener-gy efficiency of the building as well as some outdoor seat-ing and dining areas.

The hall has been a part of island life for over 100 years now. In 1898, it was built by The Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal and an insurance organization.

It was then sold to the Lopez Island Commercial Club. After World War II, it was purchased by the Hoey-

Kjargaard American Legion Post 185.

In 2004, the building was purchased by the San Juan County Senior Services Council and today the Lopez Senior Services are housed there providing twice weekly lunches and many other ser-vices for our local seniors.

Woodmen Hall is also a meeting place for several organizations such as The Garden Club, Lopez Quilters, and The Birthday Club.

In addition, the hall is also available for rental. It has housed wedding recep-tions, birthday parties, baby showers, memorials, music events, book signings and much more.

For rental info, contact Gordon Eustis at 468-3537 or Lopez Senior Services at 468-2421.

The Friends invite you to join them on Monday night, Jan. 16, to enjoy this island treasure, and to have a fabu-lous dinner. Tickets are $25 per couple, $15 for a single adult and $4 for youth, 5 to 17 years.

They are available at Paper Scissors on the Rock and at Woodmen Hall during Senior Services business hours. We will also be selling tickets at Lopez Village Market the week before the dinner.

There will be two settings available, 4:30 and 6 p.m. Take out dinners will be ready for pick up between

3:30 and 4:30 p.m. For more info, call Virginia

Palmer at 468-2738 or Connie

Kyser at 468-3275 or visit www.friendsofwoodmenhall.org.

Spaghetti, music, friends and more

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Friends of Woodmen Hall’s Annual spaghetti dinner on Jan. 16 helps raise money for Woodmen Hall

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School bond on February ballotThe Lopez Island School

District will have a mea-sure on the Feb. 14 Special Election ballot.

The district is seeking voter approval to issue bonds for the purpose of repayment of a $1 million line of credit obtained in October 2009 to address two critical facility issues.

In the fall of 2009 the dis-trict established a line of credit with Cashmere Valley Bank to fund the emergency replacement of a failed fire suppressant sprinkler system at Lopez Elementary School and to continue work on the upgrade of the heating and ventilation (HVAC) system.

The fire sprinkler system is required to keep the school

open. The district’s insurance

carrier denied coverage for the costs of replacing the fire sprinkler system, and other alternative funding sources explored by the district required repayment from dis-trict funding categories that would have potentially under-mined funding for services to students and for district operations.

The repayment of this credit is due Dec. 2012. School districts are permit-ted by state law to incur non-voted debt in instances such as this, and repayment of that debt by the issuance of voter-approved bonds is acceptable and frequently utilized.

The annual individual cost

to district tax payers for this bond measure will be approxi-mately seven cents per $1,000 of assessed property value, or approximately $21 per year on a $300,000 home and $35.00 on a $500,000 home. The bond repayment period is projected to be approxi-mately 15 years.

The district has received recommendations from its financial consultants that this is a very good time for this measure, due to historically low interest rates.

The district’s excellent bond rating will allow the dis-trict to secure bonds at these very low interest rates to fur-ther reduce the tax burden to its taxpayers.

The district is also faced with facility and educational needs and will likely seek further voter-approved bond funding in the near future to address those needs.

Voter approval of the February bond is sought sep-arately from future requests because of the current favorable interest rates and because the district needs more time to fully investigate and develop its capital and educational needs and the estimated cost of meeting those needs.

The district is also separat-ing these requests out of a strong ongoing commitment to the community to be very clear and straightforward about its financial needs and requests.

“We want to be very clear and straight-up with our vot-ers and get this line of credit dealt with, without the poten-tial confusion of multiple proj-ects” said Superintendent Bill Evans. “Our community is so supportive of its schools and we want to respect that support by being clear and succinct in our requests for additional financial support.”

LOPEZ ISLANDCHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY CHURCH, Now

meeting at 10:00 AM at the Lopez Elementary School

in the multi-purpose room. Find us on the web: www.

CTKonline.com/lopez or email [email protected]

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes

you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:30

am. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane.

468-3477. Everyone welcome!

LOPEZ ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH, 91 Lopez

Road. Sunday School: pre-school through adult 9:30 am;

Worship at 10:30 am. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877.

LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS, Sundays

at 11:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in

Friday Harbor at 9:15 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at

2:00 p.m. in Emmanual. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025.

QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Meetings will be Sundays

at 10 am at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman

Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone

468-2129. Email: [email protected]

ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship

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

you to join us for Mass at 10:45 am on Saturday. Call 378-

2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

Worship Services in the Islands

By Julie SummersSpecial to the Islands’ Weekly

In September, the Lopez Island Prevention Coalition hosted its annual Stone Soup Supper.

“It was our goal to bring the community together to celebrate the amazing amount of volunteer work being done around our island,” said LIPC Executive Coordinator Georgeana Cook.

Out of that event emerged questions from locals about what exactly the coalition does and why it is interested in recognizing volunteers.

Cook hopes to answer both those questions with the coalition’s latest endeavor, a quarterly newsletter entitled “Stone Soup Stories.”

LIPC’s mission is to build community collaboration as a way to reduce substance use and abuse by youth.

Promoting and celebrating volunteerism in the Lopez community is a significant strategy for reaching that goal, said Cook.

She cites a recent study from the University of Missouri that found that ado-lescents in rural areas who engage in pro-social behav-

iors, like volunteering, are less likely to use substances as young adults.

“We believe prevention is a holistic endeavor, ideally one in which the entire commu-nity is invested,” she said.

Stone Soup Stories takes its name from a well-known folk story in which each mem-ber of a village contributes a single ingredient, resulting in a bountiful stew.

Cook believes the story of stone soup encapsulates the spirit of the Lopez com-munity.

“On Lopez, the way things get accomplished is by every-one contributing a little bit. It’s the same with prevention. Whether they realize it or not, anyone involved in vol-unteering in this community is helping create a positive, service-oriented community culture, which is a protec-tive factor against substance use.”

Each edition of Stone Soup Stories will tell sto-ries of Lopezian volunteers, highlight current volunteer opportunities, and promote community-wide events relat-ed to volunteerism.

The first edition of Stone Soup Stories features an

article about the Lopez Island Family Resource Center’s Mentor Program to coincide with National Mentoring Month.

The newsletter also highlights the Lopez Library’s cur-rent need for new volunteers.

Cook said one crit-icism she has heard about the LIPC’s volunteer apprecia-tion efforts is that Lopezians do not

want or need recogni-tion for their volunteer efforts.

“We understand and appreciate that,” she said. “Our intention is not to place anyone on a pedestal, but to affirm the importance of ser-vice and the power of sharing our stories with each other.”

Copies of “Stone Soup Stories” are available at locations around the vil-lage, at the LIPC, and online at lopezislandpre-ventioncoalition.com.

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‘Stone Soup Stories’ celebrates volunteerism on LopezContributed photo

Debbie Collins and Alyssa Gallagher, a mentor/ment-ee match with the LIFRC’s Mentor Program. The LIFRC’s Mentor Program is featured in the first edition of Stone Soup Stories.

tem. San Juan Ride Share is a

county-wide program has established a series of stop sites — signs at locations similar to bus stops where people who need a ride can safely wait, and drivers can safely pull over to offer rides.

The program currently has four such sites in Friday Harbor and one on Lopez Island, in front of Grace Church. LIFT is exploring an expansion of stop sites, which they are calling “thumb stops,” to include additional

strategic locations, such as the Village, Hummel Lake, school, ferry terminal and Islandale store.

Additional ideas from LIFT include making available static windshield stickers to indicate a driver’s participa-tion in the program. Another proposal is to sponsor a kickoff event in the Village, which islanders would be encouraged to hitchhike to and from.

LIFT encourages people to save fuel and reduce emis-sions — if you are on the road, look for fellow travelers and be ready to pick them up. Or next time you have an errand to run, stick out your thumb and catch a LIFT.

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funded through the county general fund, which, along with $3 million in outside grants, totals roughly $16.9 million in 2012.

The sheriff’s department, funded largely through the general fund as well, will oper-ate next year with a $110,000 cut in a budget that totals $2.4 million.

Sheriff Rob Nou said the department will be unable to fill a deputy position on Orcas Island, which at this point remains vacant, and must do without a part-time dispatch-er, also an unfilled post.

However, Nou said the department’s deputies and detectives will continue to pursue investigations and enforce the law regardless

of any priority shifts by the prosecutor.

“It isn’t really going to change the way we do busi-ness,” he said. “We’re still going to investigate crimes, do our reports and make arrests like we always have. We’re going to do our level best to hold people account-able for their behaviors as best we can.”

Though it may take some time, Nou believes the department will be able to restore itself to full strength in the future.

“The ground keeps mov-ing under our feet constant-ly,” he said of budget woes that plague the state and the county. “I don’t expect the revenue problems the county faces right now to be per-manent. I expect to fill those positions when we can.”

Gaylord anticipates many lower level misdemeanors will be “dismissed outright”

or resolved with pre-filing diversion.

He said those cases receiv-ing the lowest priority will be: animal cases that do not involve injuries to people, commercial and recreational hunting or fishing violations, killer whale or boating offens-es, criminal code-enforcement offenses, public nuisance and so-called “status” offenses, such as public intoxication, possession of small amounts of marijuana and driving with a suspended license.

In addition, he said cases of misdemeanor theft, shop-lifting and mischief will be referred back to the report-ing party along with a refer-ral to small claims court as a means of recovering whatev-er loss a business or property owner may suffer.

Gaylord said although it may be unusual to announce what crimes will be consid-ered a low priority, that “pub-

lic safety may require some exceptions,” and, “citizens deserve to know what a bud-get cut means.”

He added that what it will mean is that the criminal jus-tice system will be “unbal-anced” as more cases are sent to the prosecutor than can be handled.

“This is a sad day for San Juan County criminal justice,” Gaylord said. “An unbalanced system with an overloaded deputy prosecutor will lead to inequality, unfairness, and a lot of unhappy people.”

San Juan County’s 2012 budget, which totals $51.2 million across all funds, and includes a $10.4 million road fund, was approved by the County Council Nov. 29.

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It was Saturday afternoon and Steve Anderson was bored with just hanging out at his house. So he grabbed his camera and headed to South Beach at the San Juan Island National Historical Park. When he parked near Redoubt Road, he spotted one owl perched on a fence post. It was white, and its body was practically covered with black streaks.

It wasn’t until he got home and researched the bird he had seen that Anderson real-ized he had documented a juvenile snowy owl on San Juan Island — a raptor that rarely stops on the islands.

John Jensen a master bird-er, confirmed the bird in the

photo as a snowy owl.“I was shocked,” said

Anderson, who has been photographing wildlife for the last five years. “Everyone I’ve shown the picture to is really surprised … it was a treat.”

Anderson took multiple photos by crawling along the beach and “making himself as small as possible” to not threaten or disturb the bird.

Anderson’s photos were taken Dec. 3 right around the time of the snowy owl irruption occurring cross the country.

Barbara Jensen, President of the San Juan Audobon Society, recently confirmed a separate juvenile snowy owl sighting on Lopez that also

occurred in early December.According to Jensen,

one or two snowy owls usu-ally show up on San Juan in November during an irrup-tion year, which refers to an abnormally large number of birds.

But Jensen doesn’t see the islands as an ideal place for snowies — the birds prefer wide open spaces and even pastures in the San Juans don’t harbor many rodents, while other areas are too marsh-like.

“They just don’t stay here for long,” said Jensen.

Read more about the irrup-tion in “Snowy owls on the San Juan Islands?” at www.islandsweekly.com.

Contributed/ Steve Anderson

The snowy owl confirmed on South Beach at the San Juan Island National Historical Park.

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Trevor Snapp, who grew up on Lopez Island, has recently covered breaking stories in Egypt, Libya and Sudan.

He has a wealth of first-hand knowledge of evolving events in these regions, and his reporting has been fea-tured in The Guardian, BBC.com, Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times. He also reports via radio and film. At the upcoming event, Snapp will announce details about his next project.

Benedicte Desrus covers breaking news for Reuters and has worked through-out Europe, East Africa, the U.S., and Latin America. She focuses on humanitarian and social issues and is concen-trating on a long-term docu-mentary project. Her work has been published in major media and she has earned numerous awards. She is rep-resented by Sipa Press. The Lopez slide show will be the

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Ringing in the new year with photography and musicAs the band Tiempo de

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The photography show “The world through my eyes,” from 6-8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve featured the images of more than ten local Lopez photogra-phers.

Tiempo de Lopez, who plays “Hot Caribbean” dance music, performed at 8:30 p.m. to an enthu-siastic crowd who shook their hips right into 2012.

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Members of the community danced until the new year with the music of Tiempo de Lopez.

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Lopezians filled the lobby of the photography show at the Lopez Center for Community and Arts.

Contributed photo/ Trevor Snapp

Cattle camp fashion in a remote part of South Sudan.

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