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INSIDE Aging column Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3‘The Bold Ones’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 4Student Nicaragua trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5

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By Emily GreenbergJournal reporter

If the pen is mightier than the sword, can’t it be true for all forms of art?

Perhaps that’s why the Lummi Nation, opponents of the proposed coal termi-nal at Cherry Point, north of Bellingham, carried a tra-ditional totem pole from the far reaches of the Wyoming coal fields to its final resting place in British Columbia in 2014, and made a film about it.

The journey connected tribes, towns, cities and rural communities along the coal-train path to Xwe’chienXen, the name for the ancient Lummi vil-lage site and burial ground located at the proposed Cherry Point coal port. The journey concluded in B.C., where the totem was placed as a symbol of support for the Canadian First Nations’

opposition to the transport of tar sands oil by pipeline across their territories.

“Their fight is against the Keystone Pipeline, we’re fighting the coal terminal,” said filmmaker and Lummi tribal member Freddy Lane. “I’m a storyteller, and the story is about protect-ing the earth and what we have.”

“Our Sacred Obligation” a documentary by Lane, chronicles the 22-day-long totem pole journey, and will screen for free at the San Juan Island Library, March 21, 7 p.m., as part of Ken Crawbuck’s series “Tragedy of the Commons.”

In August 2014, Friends of the San Juans hosted Lummi tribal members at English Camp when they stopped on the island as part of the totem pole jour-ney

“The purpose was to

stand in solidarity with the Lummi Nation and their concerns,” said Friends’ Katie Fleming.

The proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point, if approved, would be capable of exporting 48 tons of coal per year to Asian markets.

According to Fleming, the terminal could increase shipping traffic in the Salish

Sea by nearly 500 ships per year.

While protecting the water, land and sea is at the forefront of Lummi opposi-tion, the fact that the pro-posed site is an ancient cul-tural artifact, and a sacred place, is a huge factor in the fight.

“You have to respect the final resting place of your ancestors,” Lane said. “We

can’t think the dead are not powerful.”

Lane is on his fourth edit of “Our Sacred Obligation,” which premiered for the first time in February at the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival.

When it comes to Crawbuck’s documentary series, “Tragedy of the Commons,” the medium is the message.

“The series is about rais-ing awareness,” Crawbuck said. “We’re participants in the changes going on around us.”

Lummi tribal members, including Lane, and Friends

of the San Juans and the Washington state chap-ter of the Sierra Club will be at the event to answer questions and offer infor-mation on how people can get involved in the fight against the Gateway Pacific Terminal.

“Sometimes our com-munities are so divided,” Lane said. “But we really see them come together to stand up against this coal terminal.”

Totem pole journey, film screening preview

James Leder photo

Above: Master Carver James Jewell at the totem pole rais-ing ceremony.

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THRU MAY 26GAMES: Pinochle card games, 7 p.m., Woodmen Hall. $2 per player.

THURS, ONGOINGEVENT: Thursday Tech Time, 6 - 7 p.m., Library Community Room, led by Library Director Lou Pray.

Lou will be on-hand to help you learn how to use your Kindle, tablet or iPad. She will assist patrons in learning how to download

electronic movies, music and books on to their devices and computers. Lou will tutor patrons in setting up email, operating a smartphone, dropping apps on their devices or designing a presentation. Patrons will be assisted in accessing software at their own speed with Microsoft IT Academy and Lynda.com. Another interesting feature is that the opportunity is mobile. Library is available to come to groups or busi-nesses. Thursday Tech Time is one of the offerings through May 2015 dur-ing the Digital Outreach programming, which will feature Digital Skills Classes. Visit lopezlibrary.org for info. Made possible

by funding provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

MAR. 17 - APRIL 28EVENT: “Years of Living Dangerously” film series and community conversation, 7 - 9 p.m., the Gathering Place at the Hamlet. Showing of “Years of Living Dangerously,” an Emmy-Award winning Showtime nine-week series on cli-mate change from the perspective of people living through its hardships, dan-gers and challenges. Each episode will be followed by special speakers and com-munity conversation.

TUES, MARCH 17EVENT: St. Patrick’s Day Dinner, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., Woodmen Hall, $12 adult $20 couple and $6 child under 12.

THURS, MARCH 19MEETING: Friends of Lopez Island Pool Board Meeting, 4 p.m. Lopez Library Meeting Room. The public is invited to share ideas and learn more about the progress of building a pool for Lopez.

FRI, MARCH 20LESSONS: Lopez Island Golf Club, golf instructor Steve Nightingale will offer free golf lessons for kids 12-18 at Lopez Golf Club on

these dates: March 20 (8:30 - noon), March 21 (8:30 - noon), March 27 (3:00 - 5:30) and March 28 (8:30 - noon) Sign up with Richard Tetu at Lopez Island High School or contact Joyce Kruithof at 468-4992.

EVENT: Blood drive, 11 - 5 p.m., Community Church.

SUN, MARCH 22MUSIC: Island Sinfonia, the only classical orchestra in the San Juans, will present a wide variety of familiar music, 3 p.m., Grace Church. No admission fee. This non-profit offers you exciting live performances of beau-tiful music you know and love. If you’d like to hear even more music next year, your tax-deductible con-tributions will be precious and very much appreciated. For more info, call Ginni Keith at 468-4422.

THURS, MARCH 26EVENT: Owls and Woodpeckers of North America, 7-8 p.m., Woodmen Hall. An evening with international award-winning wildlife photographer Paul Bannick who takes us on a mul-timedia tour of the wild habitats of North America through the lives and inter-relationships of owls and woodpeckers. Sponsored by Friends of the Lopez Library, the National Monument and the Lopez Library.

FRI, MARCH 27ART: “No time to WASTE” Art Opening, 5 - 7 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.

SAT, MARCH 28EVENT: Fun and Funky Flea Market, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Community Center.

Community Calendar

AA Meetings:Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterWednesdays - 4 p.m. - Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal ChurchSaturdays - noon at the Children’s CenterCall 468-2809

Al-Anon:Saturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, Lopez.Call 468-4703.

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By Liz TaylorQuestion: My grand-

mother is vicious to my father, her son. He has heart problems, so I’m afraid for his health. She’s 85 and can’t live alone anymore. He tried tak-ing care of her at home, but she complained con-stantly. A couple of months ago she moved to a nice assisted living facility in Anacortes, and now she says the staff mistreat her. Former neighbors learned she made these stories up. How can we protect my dad and make my grand-mother happy?

Answer: Instinct tells me you can’t. You may be able to help your dad, but you’ll never be able to make your grandmother happy. Sometimes the hardest challenge in eldercare is the older person herself.

Three important rules are operating here: One, personalities drive much of what happens to us as we age; our care needs are sec-ondary. Whatever our diag-nosis, how we – and every-one else involved – respond depends on who we are as

people. Two is the “more so theory” – the older we are, the more we stay the same, only more so.

Three, because caregiv-ing is so personality-driven, you as a caregiver must recognize from the start that the only person you can count on or control is you. Once you’ve done as much as you can, you may need to let go.

My guess is that your grandmother has been a complainer all her life. By definition, whatever any-one does for her (especial-ly close family members) is never enough. Even if your dad waited on her hand and foot, she’d be dissatis-fied, then twist the knife by telling him.

Like many chronic com-plainers, she’s also narcis-sistic. Having no empathy, she cannot see the anxiety your dad experiences at fail-ing to please her. Ignoring the sacrifices of others, she dwells only on herself.

In addition, she’s manip-ulative. Making up stories about the mistreatment of staff at the assisted living facility is a good example.

Her purpose is to make your dad feel guilty, make him visit more often or get him to move her home again, where, of course, she would complain that he wasn’t doing enough.

If ever there was a vicious circle, your grand-mother and dad are danc-ing in it. Chances are, he’s been doing it his entire life and doesn’t see how he enables her to set him up.

The solution? Well, your grandmother isn’t going to change. At 85, no amount of talking, cajoling or reason-ing will make her behave differently. It’s your father who needs to understand the dynamics here and learn how to respond to his

mother differently. That’s not easy, but it’s imperative for his health.

Your father has been con-ditioned to respond to his mother’s manipulations, so he needs to un-learn these responses and adopt new behaviors. He probably has no idea where to begin – and will even feel disrespect-ful not to behave as before.

With such a long-stand-ing pattern, I think a coun-selor would be well worth the investment – to talk through what’s happen-ing here and explore new behaviors.

If you have a question about an aging issue, write Liz at [email protected].


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Protecting our parents – is it possible?

Thank you to the United Way for ongoing financial support

“Investing in early learning is not only the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing. Research shows that for every dol-lar invested in high-quality preschool programs, at least $7 is saved in future costs related to social services, remedial education, public safety, and juvenile justice.”

– Thrive by Five Washington Foundation for Early Learning

Lopez Children’s Center believes that early childhood education develops skills for school and for life. It also builds community by enabling families to live and work, keeping Lopez Island diverse and vibrant.

Lopez Children’s Center offers quality education and care to the children of Lopez Island, Monday–Friday, 8:30 am–5 pm through our preschool, ages 3–5, and play and learn program, ages 2 and half to 6. Our staff of dedicated, caring, well-trained teachers ensures children learn cru-cial life skills: sharing, patience, problem solving, conflict resolution, self regulation, friendship, and motor skills. Our curriculum — art, music, early literacy, math, and science activities — prepare children for kindergarten and beyond.

Thank you, United Way — and our Lopez community — for continuing to support Lopez Children’s Center. It makes a world of difference!

Sincerely,THE BOARD OF THE LOPEZ CHILDREN’S CENTER:

SHANLEY LETT, SHERRY BRUMMEL, JULES MCLELAND, CAROLE WHITE AND JANE HOBBS,

DIRECTOR

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor must be no more than 350 words in length and must be signed by the writer. Include address and telephone number for verification purposes. Anonymous letters will not be published. Send your letters via e-mail to: [email protected].

Two emerging leaders, Tannur Ali, a poet per-former, social artist and founder of iLOGIC in her Georgia neighborhood, and Antonio Gutierrez, a hous-ing activist from Chicago, will be speaking at the 25th Annual Meeting of Lopez Community Land Trust, Monday, March 23 at 7 p.m.

Ali leaves audiences spellbound with her poetry performances. Living in the projects of one of America’s poorest communities, Albany, Ga., Ali brings her insights to us on Lopez Island. At the age of 14,

she self-published a chap-book entitlted “Rhymin’ with Reason.” As the found-er of iLOGIC (Institute for the Love of Genius in Communities), she lives her life as a public servant, pro-viding workshop, events, classes and spaces where people can “Get unPlugged and find themselves plugged in.” She has been a winner of the Judith Stark Creative Writing Award

and herself created the Pen Stroke National Poetry Festival. She is the mother of three children.

Antonio Gutierrez was born in Guadalajara Mexico. He received a full scholar-ship to the Illinois Institute of Technology where he received a degree in archi-tecture.

“My family almost went through a foreclosure on our home a few years back. I know how the working-class view homes as their American Dream, but that dream can be easily bro-ken and taken away,” he said. “The working-class live paycheck to paycheck and having savings for life’s

situations is not really an option. I believe in human rights and that’s why I do the work I do.”

Gutierrez is the housing coordinator for Centro in Chicago.

These are both gifted leaders who link us to other parts of the coun-try. Everyone is welcome, and LCLT encourages all ages to attend. The eve-ning will feature a dessert auction and election of a new board member, Maija Wilder.

For further information, LCLT can be reached at 468-3723 or [email protected].

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Far right: Tannur Ali and right, Antonio Gutierrez.


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the back (pl.)6. A secret scheme or

plot11. Adage14. Roswell crash

victim, supposedly15. Invitation heading16. Amateur video

subject, maybe17. Impulse to steal19. Bathtub liquid?20. Put (away)21. Designate23. Slow-moving, tree-

dwelling mammal (pl.)

26. Holes in the head27. Affairs30. Sundae topper,

perhaps31. Any thing32. Open, as a bottle34. Cut, maybe36. Alliance acronym39. Overindulgence in

food41. Taking the form of

a chevron43. Boris Godunov, for

one44. "Beat it!"46. Hung around47. "Yes, ___"49. Bluenose51. Dash lengths52. Circuit54. Hitchcock classic56. Country whose

capital is Kishinev58. Overseas62. Hawaiian dish63. Seedless citrus fruit

with depression at apex

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68. In base 869. Chair part70. Conductor

Koussevitzky71. A form that coils or

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(abbrev., pl.)5. Pronghorn6. Cirque7. "Bingo!"8. Elaine ___

("Seinfeld" role)9. "Mi chiamano Mimi,"

e.g.10. Absorbed, in a way11. Tree whose sap is

made into syrup12. All excited13. Student who

studies obsessively (pl.)

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speak25. Coal carrier27. A cloud of fine, dry

particles28. ___ probandi29. Climbing hurriedly31. "___ alive!"33. Yellow35. Key material37. Abound38. "What are the

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concerned with flight (acronym)

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53. Bond player54. Machine used to

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Crossword Puzzle

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San Juan County Open House Public Works is hosting an Open House on Lopez Island

Tuesday, March 31, 2015Woodmen Hall4102 Fisherman Bay Rd.3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015Woodmen Hall4102 Fisherman Bay Rd.3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Come learn about the following projects and programs:• Hunter Bay Dock, Float, Ramp Replacement• Odlin Park Float and Pile Replacement• Chip Seal Schedule for Lopez & Shaw Island• Non-Motorized Safety Improvements• Intersection Geometry Improvements• 6-Year Transportation Improvement Plan

Please plan to stop by, meet sta� , and give us your thoughts on our upcoming projects.Lopez Open House – Tues, March 31; San Juan Open House – Wed, April 1; Orcas Open House – � urs, April 2

Meet “The Bold Ones” at Lopez Community Land Trust meeting

Got a nit to pick, a joke to share, a song to sing? Whatever is on your mind, “LOPEZ Talks” wants to hear from you.

As part of the Leadership San Juan Islands program (learn more at www.LSJI.org), this year’s team from Lopez will hold its first but not the last “LOPEZ Talks” on Saturday, April 25 in the school’s multi-purpose room from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

The idea is simple: on this late Saturday afternoon 20 or so different people will get on stage and talk for three to five minutes about something they love, hate, do, did, know, care about, obsess over or think about. No topic is too mun-dane or politically incorrect — except no selling or bigotry.

They’re not looking for polished speakers, just ordi-nary folks who want to tell their neighbors something. Multi-media, such as slides, PowerPoint and video will be welcome. If you have an inkling to participate, contact Bob O’Connell to learn more at [email protected] or 468-3318. Deadline is April 1.

The event is being hosted and put together free of charge by the Lopez Cohort of Leadership San Juan Island.

‘LOPEZ Talks’ event, April 25

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Six Lopez Island High School students traveled to Nicaragua this February as participants in the school’s eighth Nicaragua Service Learning Trip. Following a year of fund-raising activities, Lachlan Fisher, Harrison Goodrich, Maggie Heard, Dylan Moore, Kevin O’Bryant, and Brianne Swanson trav-eled to Nicaragua to spend two weeks living and work-ing with the Center for Development in Central America, just outside of Managua. The focus of the biannual trip is to partici-pate in service projects in some of the poorest com-munities in the country. In addition to the work, the

students take part in mini-classes about the history and culture of Nicaragua, as well as travel to a remote

organic coffee cooperative, where they learn first-hand about sustainable, fair-trade coffee production.

The work assignments vary each trip, depending on the local needs at that time. This year’s group spent the majority of time working on an addition at the Nueva Vida health clin-ic, which involved digging holes, mixing concrete and mortar, and laying the foun-dation and blocks for the

walls. The students also got to visit a local elementary school and work as dental hygiene assistants for an afternoon. “We worked hard, learned a lot, and came home with our eyes opened just a little bit wider, which is what this trip is all about,” said Lisa Geddes, Lopez School Spanish

teacher and trip leader.The students will share

stories and photos of their travels, along with a Nicaraguan dinner, on Wednesday, April 1starting at 5:30 in the Multi-Purpose-Room at Lopez School. Cost is $8 for ages seven-teen and up; $5 for ages five through 16; and $2 for

children under five. Organizers want to thank

Lopez International Student Travel Education Program (InSTEP) as well as the community, family, and friends for helping to make this trip, and others possible for Lopez students.


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 WORSHIP GROUP Please join us Sunday mornings, 10 a.m., at Sunny� eld Farm, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 468-2406. Email: [email protected].

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 1:15 p.m. on Saturday starting January 3. Call 378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

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The San Juan County Sheriff’s Department Marine Division and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary will be offering an opportu-nity to attend a free boating safety education class.

The class will be held on March 21 at the Orcas Ferry Landing meeting room (next to Eclipse Charters).

The class will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and only one six-hour class is required to complete certification.

Pre-registration is required, and space is lim-ited. Contact David Tribolet at 376-3994.

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Howard M. Harris, age 94 of Lopez Island, Wash., passed away on February 6, 2015.

Howard was the only son born to Leland and Florence

Harris in Covina, Calif. on Oct. 3, 1920. He was raised on Lopez Island and finished high school there. After graduating he served in the United States Coast Guard for the duration of the WWII.

In 1944, he married the love of his life Mary MacLeod and shortly after that they moved from Lopez Island to Bellingham. They had four children.

After starting his career at Hillyard Motor Company, a Cadillac Studebaker dealer, he began to buy Union Oil 76 Service Stations. Over the years he owned and operated

four separate Union Oil loca-tions in Bellingham.

Howard’s work carried over into his hobbies as he was a member of the Studebakers Drivers Club, following them to car shows all over the United States.

Howard was preceded in death by two daughters. He is survived by his loving wife of 70 years, Mary, daugh-ter Laura Mae Sela, son Norman MacLeod Harris (wife Sheila), grandson Ryan MacLeod Harris and many loving family and friends.

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Dudley “Six” Lapham passed away on Dec. 12, 2014, three months shy of his 94th birthday.

He was born in Stockett, Mont., on March 13, 1921, to Pearl Beatrice Mann and Ray Lloyd Lapham, both of whom taught in the local schools.

Before his first birthday the fam-ily moved to the wilds of Eastern Oregon, where his dad Ray earned a Master’s degree from the University of Oregon and ran a school district in Crane.

One stormy January night, four- year-old Dudley was “hauled out of my warm bunk…and deposited on the front passenger seat of the Model T. – a crinkled black, high-haunched, isinglass curtain[ed], hand cranked, running boarded, huge headlighted, stuttering, shud-dering, quintessentially beautiful darling.”

His mother was deposited into the back seat, well wrapped up. Dudley helped with the inside mechanisms, while Ray turned the outside crank to start the beast and off they went. At some point during the journey the headlights gave out and a flashlight was rigged to the front of the car. They made it over the thirty mile stretch to Burns where the nearest doctor lived, just in time for Dudley’s little sister, Rosemary, to be born.

The Depression years did not prevent kids from having a happy childhood, although Rosemary (Rosie) remembers her big brother

taking odd jobs to help fill the family coffers. The family moved to Walla Walla in 1928, where their dad was an English professor at Whitman and Dudley attended Green Park Grade School, taking courses such as physiology, civics and geometry.

He was the go-to boy for the telegraph office in town, delivering telegrams to the penitentiary on his bicycle, delivering the Seattle PI, mowing lawns and picking berries. Huckleberries were his favorite.

He and Rosie spent the rest of their adolescent years in Oregon. Dudley attended high school in Eugene, then Portland, and then onto Reed College in 1939. At that time, Reed’s tuition was $250/year, which he was able to pay with his paper route and campus odd jobs.

At Reed he acquired his nick-name by wearing a football jersey with a big yellow 6 on it which he earned as a high school quarter-back. The name stuck for the rest of his life.

His college career at Reed was interrupted, along with countless other students’, by the attack on Pearl Harbor. He joined the U.S. Army, achieving the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. During the war he mar-ried fellow Reed College student, Constance (Connie) Sumner. After his honorable discharge, he and Connie moved to California where he earned a bachelor of arts in polit-ical science from Pomona College on the GI Bill and began his 42 year

career in city administration. At a time when California was

undergoing rapid development and building new cities, Six worked for the cities of Alhambra, Long Beach, La Mesa, Garden Grove and Seaside, near Monterey.

He remembered attending the ribbon-cutting for the planned city of Irvine. Each city he worked for was the better for his management. Connie helped by volunteering on library boards and city plan-ning commissions. Additionally, he taught political administration at local community colleges. In addi-tion to their civic duties, Six and Connie managed to raise a couple of kids. According to Six he made sure they all became “card carrying greenies,” taking the family camp-ing every summer to his beloved Northwest woods.

After his retirement from city gov-ernment, he worked part time as a consultant, as a volunteer docent at the newly established Monterey Bay Aquarium and as the director of a federally funded program to clean up Monterey Bay.

He helped implement a waste-water program to irrigate the arti-choke fields in Castroville, Calif., one of the first projects of this kind in the world.

Connie and Six moved back to the Northwest in the early 1990s. They lived in Friday Harbor, Marysville and Stanwood, and despite Connie’s need for nursing home care, they

spent each day together continuing their lifelong loving banter. They both loved to write. Six helped Connie continue gardening articles for the Monterey Bay Herald after she could no longer complete them herself.

Six moved to Lopez Island to live with daughter Rosie in 2000 and lost his beloved Connie in 2001 after 58 years of marriage.

He returned to the mainland where he found loving companion-ship with his friend Joy Price. They lived together until health condi-tions caused them to part and Six moved back to Lopez to reside at the newly established adult fam-ily home, Hamlet House, in 2009. He regularly attended Creaky Yoga classes and started a memoir writ-ers’ group that continues to honor his memory. Six made many friends on Lopez. According to Diana Bower, he had a way of welcom-ing you with a look in his eye that included you in the great humor of being alive.

His daily outing, using a walker, inspired the Lopez Trails Network to build a trail between Hamlet House and the clinic. Six and daugh-ter Rosie made a habit of enjoying Sunday afternoons at Odlin Park, keeping an eye on the sandy kids on the beach and the boats going by.

Six leaves behind a legacy of goodwill, a deep love, respect and protective attitude for the great outdoors and a sense of cheerful

determined resiliency. He admitted that the hardest job he ever tackled was that of growing old and becom-ing more dependent upon the help of others. He knew he was lucky to tackle this on Lopez Island, sur-rounded by people who loved and appreciated him so well.

He is survived, and very much missed, by his sister Rosemary, of Lake Oswego, Ore., his daugh-ter Roseamber, granddaughter Madrona and grandson Kiba, all of Lopez Island, his son Roger, of Dalian, China, his grandson Babylon (Andy) and his great granddaugh-ter Hattie, of Coshocton, Ohio.

Six was particularly fond of Walt Kelly’s Pogo, and we remember him with this quote, given to him on a birthday card from cherished friend Molly Fromm: “Don’t take Life So Serious, Son. It Ain’t Nohow Permanent.”

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Initiated March 9 in San Juan County Superior Court, the lawsuit filed on behalf of Community Treasures, formerly known as Consignment Treasures, contends the county Community Development and Planning Department col-lected fees in excess of what is allowed under state law over a three-year period and that applicants that paid those fees are entitled to a collective refund of no less than $1.2 million.

Friday Harbor attorney Nicholas Power said in a press release announcing the lawsuit that state law, in general, requires fees associated development applications be set at a “reasonable” amount and that the revenue generated by such fees is to be used solely to cover the cost of processing applications, reviewing plans and conducting inspections.

That law, RCW 82.02.020, is designed to prevent govern-mental entities from using permit fees to cover the cost of unrelated programs and expenses, Power said.

“The intent of this law is clear and it is there precisely

to prevent local government from using permit fees as clandestine and non-legislative taxes, which in all fairness should be borne democratically,” he said.

The lawsuit comes on the heels of a whistleblower claim, filed in early February, in which CDPD’s chief building official contends the price of development-application fees exceed the cost of service and the department used rev-enue generated by the fees to pay for programs unrelated to the building division.

The building official, represented also by Power in a labor dispute, was placed on paid administrative leave Feb. 11 pending the outcome of management review of alleged employee misconduct.

Power said the court must first determine whether the complaint filed on behalf of Community Treasures warrants “class-action” status before such a lawsuit can proceed. If it does, the plaintiff would then be ordered to notify anyone that could be a party to the suit and to explain the circum-stances of the legal action.

A date for the determination hearing has yet to be set, Power said.

Friends of the Lopez Library and the San Juan Islands National Monument proudly present “Owls and Woodpeckers of North America”, an evening with international award-winning wildlife photographer Paul Bannick.

For the Lopez Island program at Woodmen Hall, 7 p.m. on March 26, Paul Bannick takes us on a mul-timedia tour of the wild habitats of North America through the lives and inter-relationships of owls and woodpeckers.

Paul’s intimate and beau-tiful photos bring forward the diversity of these two bird families and the fasci-nating ways their life his-tories are intertwined with one another and with their environment.

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and the Woodpecker” pub-lished by The Mountaineers Books in October of 2008, continues to be one of the best-selling bird books in North America, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award for gen-eral non-fiction.

The University of Washington’s Burke Museum created a travel-ing exhibit based on “The Owl and the Woodpecker” which began touring North American cities in March of 2011.

In 2011 Paul took first place among profes-sionals in the “Birds and their Habitat” category in Audubon Magazine’s pres-tigious annual photography

contest. In June of 2012, Paul

was awarded the Canon prize in the International Conservation Photography Awards, an award selected by Art Wolfe from among thousands of entries world-wide, for the photo that best exemplifies the mission of

the ICP Awards. Paul’s work can be

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His work has been fea-tured in a variety of publica-

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He has appeared on NBC Nightly News, Evening Magazine, King 5 and on

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San Juan County sued over alleged over-billing, misuse of building fees

Here is an opportunity to recognize exemplary members of our community who have shown their commitment to preserving and protecting the San Juan Islands. Each year the Stewardship Network of the San Juans presents Good Steward Awards to islanders, and we need your nominations. Submit your nomination by April 3, 2015. Nominations will be accept-ed in the following eight categories: Shoreline Stewardship, Farmland Stewardship, Woodland Stewardship, Village Stewardship, Business Stewardship, Individual Stewardship, Youth Stewardship and Educator Stewardship.

For info, visit stewardshipsanjuans.org. Results will be announced in the media in June.

Time to nominate a good steward

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