Islands' Weekly, May 15, 2012

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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 20 • MAY 15, 2012

Lopez Island Farmers MarketOpening Saturday May 19 - Sept. 8

10am-2pmin the Village

Equine Facilitated TherapyPersonal Healing with Horses

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Lopez Center

Saturday May 19th, 7pmSteinway Piano Series

Saturday May 19th, 7pmSteinway Piano Series

Piano VirtuosoMark SalmanPlays Liszt

Guest Lopez studentsGavin Goodrich

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Eelgrass – a zoo of strange and small animals

By Russel Barsh and Madrona MurphyLike true grasses on land, eelgrass

responds to longer, warmer days by grow-ing new leaves and sometimes forming small, inconspicuous flowers. Eelgrass com-petes for light with the mat of algae and dia-toms [a single-celled algae] that floats above like green clouds. One native and one non-native species of eelgrass live side by side

in our waters; the non-native “Japanese” species tolerates warmer, shallower water and expands eelgrass meadows towards shore. Both species are otherwise function-ally identical, supporting a zoo of strange and small animals that rely on thickets of eelgrass for food and refuge.

If you run your finger up a blade of eel-grass, you may find something gelatinous and green with yellow racing stripes.

Shimmering like a melted jellybean, Taylor’s sea hare is actually a sea slug. It belongs to a primitive family – the Anaspideans – that begin life with a shell like other gastropods [a large class of mol-lusks] but gradually lose it. Sea hares graze on eelgrass, and the hard-shelled diatoms

that accumulate on eelgrass. Diatoms have very hard shells made of silica, so Taylor’s sea hare has siliceous teeth lining its stom-ach wall to grind

Scholarship OpportunityA $1,000 scholarship is available to a former Lopez High School graduate who is currently a first, second or third year

university or college student. For an application contact Jeanna Carter,

468-2202, ext. 2214, Lopez School, 86 School Road, Lopez Island, WA 98261

application deadline May 31st

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State Food Assistance Program For more information or to apply, call or stop by the Lopez Family Resource Center: (360)468-4117. Applications are confidential.

This material was funded in part by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Basic Food is available to all regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, religion, or political belief.

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A bay pipefish, shown above, makes its home in shallow kelp.

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By Steve WehrlyJournal reporter

In a game of chicken on the ocean, Navy vs. Orca might be a one-sided contest.

Despite assurances from federal officials, San Juan Island residents and officials seem skeptical that Navy

training exercises adequate-ly protect local whales.

“The people in the San Juans have a special protec-tive feeling about the south-ern resident orca whales here,” Councilman Howie Rosenfeld told representa-tives of the Navy at a public meeting in Friday Harbor

two weeks ago.Saying the local tourism-

based economy is “based on healthy whales,” and that local whales travel all along the Oregon, Washington and even California coasts where Naval exercises take

Speculation continues over sonar practices

SEE Sonar, pagE 8

New mail drop box at Islandale/Southender Store

Lopez islanders now have the convenience of a drive up mail drop box located at Islandale/Southender Store, 3024 Mud Bay Road.

Pick up time is noon, Monday through Friday.

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tues, march 15gathering: Party at the Lopez Dump, 5:30- 7p.m. Event to celebrate the conclusion of the Solid Waste petition drive. Bring a plate of finger food (savory or sweet) to share and hear about the next steps toward creating the Lopez Island Solid Waste Disposal District. Sponsored by SWAP (Solid Waste Alternatives

Program). Call 468-4788 for more info.

thurs, march 17travel: Student’s Travel Presentations, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Lopez Island students will tell stories and present photos and videos about their recent trips to Japan and France. Past trips will also be reviewed. Finally, the Lopez Island Foreign

Exchange, an organization founded over 15 years ago to sponsor local student travel, will unveil its new name to the community. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org.

fri, may 18food: Great Pairings, 6 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Brent Charnley, Lopez Island Vineyards’ award winning winemaker will pres-ent five of his 2012 releases. Each wine will be paired with a fabulous menu course created especially for the wine by some of our best local chefs. This year the chefs will be Tim Shea of The Bay, Peter Neal of Islandale’s Southender, Joyce Brinar of Vita’s, and Steve Atkins of The Galley. Glenda Pugerude will again cre-ate a special dessert pairing and there will also be Holly B’s won-

derful bread. Proceeds from the gala evening will benefit Lopez Children’s Center. Reservations can be made at Paper Scissors or by credit card by calling the Lopez Children’s Center 468-3896.

sat, may 19Classes: Making Great Compost! With Liz Scranton, 1-4 p.m. Info: 468-4383. Suggested donation: $10.Proceeds to benefit: Grow A Row. Max. 8 people.

meeting: The Annual Meeting of the Catherine Washburn Medical Association, 10 a.m., library meeting room.

market: Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, 10-2 p.m., Lopez Village next to the Community Center. Runs May 19 - Sept. 8.

fundraiser: First Annual Maroon and Gold Dinner, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m., Lopez Islander Resort and Marina. For more info, email [email protected].

musiC: Classical Pianist Mark Salman, 7-9 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Admission by donation. For more info, www.lopezcenter.org. musiC: Salish Sea Early Music, 7-8:30 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church. “An Evening with Wilhelmine, “with John Schneidermann from San Francisco playing baroque lute, Jeffrey Cohan on the one-keyed baroque flute and cellist John Lutterman. For more info, visit http://www.concertspirituel.org.

outdoors: ‘Go Take A Hike’ –

Mt. Constitution loop hike. We will car pool from the Lopez ferry dock. Ferry leaves at 6:55 a.m. and returns at 3:35 p.m. This is a sweet hike on great trails that begins next to cascade falls in Moran State Park. From here we head up a little gully stream toward Mountain Lake and the east shore trail. Just past the north end of Mountain Lake we are presented with the smaller Twin Lakes. Then it is up up to the top and the stone tower built by the CCC in the 1930s. The best return is by the south trail with great views much of the way. This is about an eight mile hike with 1,700 feet of elevation gain. You must sign up in advance with leader Bob Walker at 468-3397.

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Orcas Homestead Tour coming this June

The Orcas Island Garden Club presents “The Homestead Tour” of five farms and gardens on the east side of Orcas, with emphasis on beauty, history and the sustainable horti-culture of fruits, vegetables, herbs and livestock.

The tour is from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24. Three of the homesteads – the Doe Bay Garden, Orcas Farm, and Cherry Hill Farm – date back to the 1880’s. The other two gardens, Seaview Farm and the McCoy Garden, are more recent homesteads but committed to sustain-able ecology. Included in the tour are lectures on Orcas Island history, composting, seed saving and elimination of noxious plants.

Cafe Olga and The Doe Bay Cafe are preparing box lunches available by pre-order no later than June 8 with an online purchase of tour tickets.

Tickets are $20 (tour only) or $30 (by online order through June 8 plus box lunch). Order tickets online any time at brown-papertickets.com or at OrcasIslandGardenClub.org.

Last in the Lopez par-ent meeting series

Thursday, May 24 marks the last in this school year’s series of parent meetings, sponsored by the Lopez Island Family Resource Center and the Lopez Island Prevention Coalition.

N a n c y Coolidge will be speaking at this meeting about how to help stu-dents avoid sum-mer learning loss during the break from school.

Coolidge is the author of “Good Habits … Great Grades,” and she is a respected columnist, radio personality, class-room teacher, and director

of several Sylvan Learning Centers.

She will discuss how to help students maintain, and even build, their academic skills and study habits. She will also include tools to help students stay orga-nized and accountable.

Coolidge will direct her presentation to parents/guardians of students of all ages.

This parent meeting will be at the Grace Church

Fellowship Hall on Thursday May 24, 5:30-7 p.m. A light meal will be provided, as well as on-site childcare.

Please let the Resource Center know in advance if childcare will be needed so ar rangements

can be made. Contact Mikah Smith

at 468-2201 ext. 2109 or [email protected]. The first few attendees at the meeting will receive a free copy of “Good Habits… Great Grades.”

27.1 tons of hazardous waste collected

A total of 251 island house-holders and 31 businesses safely disposed of flam-mable, toxic, corrosive or reactive materials at this spring’s hazardous waste collection events.

Clean Harbors Environ-mental Services exported 27.1 tons of hazardous waste for either recycling, special incineration in Arkansas or Utah, or reuse to fuel the contractor’s mercury rec-lamation plant in Arkansas. Businesses paid a total of $8,700 this year to dispose of 1,740 gallons. Hundreds of fluorescent tubes were also collected from island-ers to recycle their mercury content.

County officials said the solution to the problem of health risks and contamina-tion from hazardous wastes is reduction. Islanders are urged to only buy the amount you need, use the least toxic product possible for the job, share any excess with others, and recycle as much as possible before safe disposal.

San Juan County’s Hazardous Waste and Waste Reduction thanks Islands Marine Center, Lopez Island School District, San Juan County Parks and Start to Finnish Painting.

For more info, call Helen Venada, San Juan County’s Hazardous Waste and Waste Reduction coordina-tor at 370-0503 or [email protected] or Brian Rader, the Pollution Prevention specialist at 370-7581 or at [email protected].

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Lopez Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings:

Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterWednesdays - 4 p.m. - Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal ChurchFridays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterSaturdays - noon at the Children’s CenterContact phone number 468-2809

Al-Anon:Fridays - 9:00 a.m. at the Grace Church Hall, LopezSaturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, Lopez.Contact phone number 468-2510.

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An old photo shows Andre Hirss, age four, skiing with his family in Switzerland in 1940, but it was no vacation. Andre’s father, a Russian Latvian, knew what life under Soviet rule boded, so he smuggled the family out of Latvia just ahead of the war. From Norway they fled to Switzerland, and after a year, began a new life in New York.

“I had no concept of war,” Andre says. “I knew only that I was being moved around. But in Switzerland I experienced something that really resonated in me … I sensed at that time that I was empowered through skiing, at age four.”

When Andre and his wife, Holly Bower, had children, “I understood that our kids needed to be empowered, and skiing became that venue.”

Despite disliking school, Andre skipped two grades to graduate at sixteen.

He kept feeling that “the life I was being programmed for, I didn’t have much con-trol over.”

But Haverford College provided an escape from his strict father, and his room-mate introduced him to west-ern Washington. “I fell in love with it immediately.”

Andre also fell in love with a Bryn Mawr student, who became his first wife and mother of his first child, Andrew.

After two years in the mil-itary, he found himself fin-ishing a Masters in English Literature at Michigan and feeling out of control again. “So I ran away from my wife and kid. I did not want a

house, I did not want a fam-ily, I did not want responsi-bility.” He laughs, and sighs. “I was 22, 23.”

Once more Andre began a new life, this time of his choosing, in Seattle. Receiving his teaching cer-tificate from the University of Washington, he found teaching an even better fit than he had realized: he could ski again.

In the late 60s, he and a friend started a ski school on Crystal Mountain – the perfect weekend back-drop for a teacher. But the public high school where he taught was focused on keeping potentially explo-sive kids quietly in their seats.

The familiar thought, “This is not what I signed up for!” sent Andre to an alternative school, Nova – later renamed Summit.

At Summit, Andre could offer kids what they needed: freedom and responsibility.

He took them on months-long trips, self-funded, self-administrat-ed, focused on commu-nication and problem-solving.

Eight years at Summit crystalized his views on teaching: “You can’t teach. People learn.”

This philosophy applied equally to the ski hill. Certified as an examiner of ski instructors, Andre became an influential change agent, skewing instruction back towards students.

Summit changed more than Andre’s philosophy. Holly Bower was a stu-dent there, and after she graduated, she joined him on trips with the kids.

One of these trips came to Lopez Island. Sharing the belief that a good life means doing what you love, the couple sought a way to make a life here.

Holly’s own dream proved the ticket, and she began baking at the Richardson Store, later opening Holly B’s when the store burned down. Andre helped run the bakery, and focused on par-enting when the kids came along.

After Andre moved his ski instruction to Stevens Pass, the family shifted with the seasons. Ty and twin broth-ers Rom and Galen skied as soon as they could walk, helped out at the bakery before they could reach the counter, and taught skiing by age 13.

All three eventually switched to home-school-ing to accommodate their mobile lives, and their par-ents – though appreciating “fantastic” Lopez teach-ers Greg Ewert and Dale Shreve – encouraged them to choose their paths.

Since all three sons achieved top certification in ski instruction by age 19; since Ty is also a baker in his own right; and since the twins bought their own house at age 20, their

unorthodox education has clearly succeeded.

“Holly and I are proud of them because they are lov-ing people who enjoy life,” says Andre.

Holly B’s remains the center of Andre and Holly’s Lopez life, but a cabin in

the Methow has replaced Stevens Pass, and, as Technical Director of the Loup-Loup Ski Bowl, Andre skis more cross-country and less downhill these days.

Last year he taught a


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]

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you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:00

am. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane.

468-3477. Everyone welcome!

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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

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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 am on Saturday. Call 378-

2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

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Andre HirssLopez Island

by Gretchen Wing

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Little Andre and family skiing in Switzerland.

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Andre with his wife, Holly Bower.

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up its food. Newly hatched sea hares do not float around in the plankton but settle right in with the adults, so numbers can increase very fast in a suitable eelgrass patch.

Run a sieve or scoop net through the eelgrass and you will almost certainly find another group of tiny green animals, so clear that you can see through them: an entire menagerie of shrimp no bigger than common insects. Most are mem-bers of the genus Heptacarpus, which can change color to match their sur-roundings: green, red, brown, or even colorless. These diminutive scavengers scour the eelgrass for even tinier ani-mals and plants, and in turn, they feed visiting fish like surf-perch, smelt, and herring.

Camouflaged in the eel-grass and waving slowly in time with shifting currents, our only native seahorse and the bay pipefish, also feast on Heptacarpus shrimp. Gold, bronze, and emerald green in colors, which vary individu-ally, the pipefish can grow

to nearly two feet in length. Females implant their eggs in a tumescent, swol-len brood patch on the belly of the male, who broods the eggs for up to six weeks, then shepherds and protects the juveniles. Bay pipefish can also make homes in shallow kelp. Pick one up and it may make a sharp snapping or popping sound. It wants to eat you! High-speed videos have shown that bay pipefish suck their prey into their tubu-lar “beak” with almost explosive force.

Great blue herons are known to hunt bay pipefish in the eelgrass. They also hunt slippery lime-green pinpoint gun-nels. This eel-like fish can attain a length of 18 inches, and like pipefish, are attract-ed to the abundance of shrimp and other

small crustaceans in eelgrass. They lay their eggs in rocky reefs, and young gunnels can often be found hiding under rocks when the tide goes out. A neat trick: they are adapted to breathing air. The bright green, and sometimes rust red, color of penpoint gunnels is due to carotenoids, a family of chemical com-pounds ordinarily found only in plants. Gunnels do not appear to obtain their colors from plants, however; rather, they choose their homes in vegetation that matches their own birth colors.

You can see bay pipefish and sea hares in eelgrass meadows at the Indian Island Marine Health Observatory near Eastsound. Visit indianisland.info for summer research schedules.

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The Friends of Lopez Island Pool is starting the 2012 season off with a big splash. In col-laboration with Lopez Elementary School and Fidalgo Pool, FLIP is sponsoring the first “Lopez Kids Will Swim Day” at Fidalgo Pool, Anacortes, Thursday, May 24.

Kids, parents and chaperones will board busses and private transportation at Lopez School in the morning, to arrive at Fidalgo Pool for a 1-2:30 p.m. private reserved swim time. Fidalgo Pool is providing swim equip-ment and pool toys. All participating children will require signed per-mission slips returned to the school. Call Lopez School at 468-2201, for more info. Participation is limited to 125 swimmers.

Additional volunteer chap-erones are sought for the day and will get an opportu-nity to swim in warm water. Call Linda Barton, 468-4655 to volunteer.

FLIP is focusing on opportunities to teach water safety and water confidence while fundraising for a Lopez Aquatic and Wellness Center on Lopez, a few steps from Lopez School. K-12 Principal Lisa Shelby echoes FLIP’s concern for water-surrounded island kids.

“I believe, as an educa-tor and parent, that learn-ing to swim is an essential life skill for students,” she said. “Learning the basics of swimming and water sur-vival may help save a child’s life, and being comfortable in water will benefit them for a lifetime.”

FLIP is also launching another season of Club 468 wetsuit swimming

at MacKaye Harbor on Sunday, May 27. The “wet-suit library” is growing, so if only the lack of a wetsuit has prevented you from par-ticipating, call Linda Barton at 468-4655 to see what is available for checkout.

For more information about the planned Lopez Pool, visit the FLIP booth at the Saturday Market, across from Vita’s, and check our website: www.lopezisland-pool.org. We urge friends of the pool to volunteer at our booth on Saturdays, to include training in pool progress. Call Micki Ryan, 468-4442 to volunteer for a two-hour shift.

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11-year-old “Safe Swimmer” Kaylee Thornton joins Grandma Robin Bergstrom in a Club 468 Swim.

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San Juan County Sheriff’s Depar tment repor ted responding to these calls:

April 18: An Oakville, Wash. man was apprehend-ed on an arrest warrant issued in King County in the wake of a late-night boat-ing mishap near the mouth of Lopez Island’s Mackaye Harbor. The 60-year-old was among a group of people who reportedly abandoned ship and scrambled into a skiff after their sailboat struck an unidentified object in the water and became unseaworthy at about mid-

night. The man was taken into custody shortly after the group made it safely back to a boat ramp in the harbor.

April 27: Local authori-ties shipped 255 pounds of discarded medication to the mainland to be destroyed following the most recent six-month roundup of unwanted medication. Expired or unwanted medi-cation can be disposed of at local pharmacies or at the San Juan County Sheriff’s Department.

May 1: Entirely naked and

reportedly wielding a knife, an Orcas Island woman was disarmed, apprehended and arrested following an early afternoon altercation with deputies outside her Green Cow Lane home. The 22-year-old, who was taken into custody at about 1:30 p.m., was immediately shuttled by boat to a Skagit County hospital for evalua-tion. A neighbor reportedly notified authorities that the woman was outside her home, sitting naked in her car and behaving oddly, as if she were on drugs.

– A backpack, a chainsaw, a necklace with a gold cross and a bottle of prescription painkillers disappeared from a pickup in an appar-ent theft outside an Orcas Island home.

May 2: A late-night alter-cation prompted the arrest of a Renton man accused of striking his girlfriend at a westside Orcas Island resort.

May 5: A tip about a pos-sible drunk driver prompted the arrest of a Bothell man for DUI following a late-afternoon traffic stop in the

200 block of Lovers Lane. The 22-year-old was pulled over at about 5:30 p.m., shortly after leaving Moran State Park. He was tracked down and then pulled over after park rangers notified authorities about a possible drunk driver.

– An Orcas Island man was slapped with a crimi-nal citation for hauling an unsecured load following a dangerous mid-morning mishap in the 700 block of Orcas Road. The 33-year-old was hauling a rickety load on a flatbed truck

when an old wooden cabi-net fell off the truck and onto the roadway, and then struck the front end of a car in the oncoming lane. A piece of plywood from the cabinet reportedly impaled itself into the windshield of the oncoming car, causing shards of broken glass to strike the face of a 60-year-old man behind the wheel, who suffered minor inju-ries. The driver of the flat-bed faces up to 90 days in jail and a fine of $250.

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PRIME INDUSTRIAL property along I-5 in Olympia, WA to be sold by unreserved auction -- June 14, 2012. 62.94 +/- acres total. Details at rbauct ion.com/reales- tate.

Vacation/Getaways for Sale

1 BD CABIN with beauti- ful view of Mt. Higgins. sleeps 6. Approx 900 sq. ft. Cozy living room with fireplace. New ce- dar deck facing French Creek. Large lot / out- buildings. Lovingly cared for & well maintained. 50 miles N. of S. Everett. $98,500 cash or possible part financing by owner. 425-512-9993. Recreational Opportu- nities Abound!

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Real Estate for RentSan Juan County

EASTSOUND SMALL 1 + BEDROOM Partially furnished mother in law. Quiet area near beach & town. Easy to heat or cool, well insulated! Shared utilities. Small pet negotiable. No smoking. $500/ mo 360-376-9020.

RESIDENTIALS FOR RENT:

LOPEZ ISLAND

Island Hideaway – Set on private 12 acres with rocky outcroppings, this recently remodeled A- Frame has 1 BR, 1 BA plus large upstairs loft which could be used as the bedroom, office or wonderful artist studio. Plenty of windows + hardwood floors, and covered wrap-around porch. Spend quiet mo- ments on the 1 mile cir- cle drive. W/D, N/S, Pets negotiable, F/L/S. $1100

Call Carol Gorton(360)468-3177

or email [email protected]


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FRIDAY HARBORESTABLISHED Restau- rant site in historic building! Includes deck & am- ple parking. Affordable terms! Contact owner for details 1-858-454-9463.

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LOCAL PRIVATE IN- VESTOR loans money on real estate equity. I loan on houses, raw land, commercial property and property develop- ment. Call Eric at (800) 563-3005. www.fossmortgage.com


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Announcements

21st ANNUAL SAN JUANISL. ARTIST

STUDIO TOUR

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Visit 20 working Studios with

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ANNOUNCE your festival for only pennies. Four weeks to 2.7 million readers statewide for about $1,200. Call this newspaper or 1 (206) 634-3838 for more details.

Lost

ISLAND PETS lost/ found. On Lopez call Jane 360-468-2591; Joyce, 360-468-2258; Sheriff’s Office 360-378- 4151. Lopez Animal Pro- tection Society, PO Box 474, Lopez, WA 98261. On Orcas call 360- 3766777. On San Juan call the Animal Shelter 360-378-2158

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General

FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS SEEKS

Community Engagement Director.

Part-time position based in Friday Harbor, WA . Responsible for annual fundraising and commu- nications. 2 years experience in major giving, marketing, communica- tions, and community or- ganizing. For more information visit

www.sanjuans.org


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REPORTER

The Bainbridge Island Review, a weekly community newspaper located in western Washing- ton state, is accepting applications for a part- time general assignment Reporter. The ideal can- didate will have solid reporting and writing skills, have up-to-date knowl- edge of the AP Style- book, be able to shoot photos and video, be able to use InDesign, and contribute to staff blogs and Web updates. We offer vacation and sick leave, and paid holi- days. If you have a pas- sion for community news reporting and a desire to work in an ambitious, dy- namic newsroom, we want to hear from you. E.O.E. Email your re- sume, cover letter and up to 5 non-returnable writing, photo and video samples to

[email protected] mail to

BIRREP/HR Dept., Sound Publishing, 19351 8th Ave. NE, Suite 106, Poulsbo,

WA 98370.

Spencer SpitState Park

has 2 Park Aide posi- tions open. 40 hours per week. Pay $10.13 per hour. Call Tina or Del at: 360-468-2251


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San Juan County Auditor seeks a

CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

to serve the public, pri- marily in the areas of Li- censing and Recording. Requires a HS diploma or equivalent with three years office experience and excellent communi- cation and computer skills. For job descrip- tion and application visit

www.sanjuanco.comor contact

Human Resources at(360)370-7402

Screening begins 5/18/12. EOE.

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JANITORIALSERVICES

Orcas Power & Light is accepting appications for janitorial services. Work to be done at our Lopez office. For questions or to submit application contact: Rich Lartz

4232 Center Rd.or email:

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May 24th, 2012.

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It was a bla-a-a-ast!

Kristin Twigg, shown left, was awarded $400 for designing the offi-cial 2012 Lopez Island Farmers’ Market post-er. Her poster was cho-sen from a competitive field of 10 adult and nine youth artists.

Twigg will be sell-ing handmade screen printed linens for the home at the Lopez Farmers’ Market, which starts May 19, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. next to the Lopez Center for the Community and the

Arts. She also designs paper-goods including custom wed-ding stationery. Some of her work can be seen at www.kristintwigg.com.

Twigg and her family moved to Lopez Island in 2011. The poster will be sold at the market and Twigg will be available to sign it at the first market.

place, Rosenfeld asked, “What chance do the whales have? If there’s a conflict, who’s gonna win?”

The U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet environmental program manager, three other manag-ers and a Navy lawyer came to the island on May 1, telling the San Juan County Council and an overflow audience that testing and training in local waters are critical to the mission of the fleet.

Navy of ficials dis-cussed the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement they must pre-pare to comply with major U.S. environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act. The Friday Harbor council wanted to talk about whales, specifical-ly southern resident killer whales that spend their sum-

mers along local shores.Councilwoman Lovel Pratt

charged that of 60 local whale deaths documented over the past 15 years, only 35 would be expected from natural causes. During this same time frame, Pratt said, the Navy detonated an estimated 150 bombs in local waters as part of its training exercises.

Council members cited the death of whale L-112, the 3-year-old female found dead off the Washington coast in February.

Navy spokesman John Mosher, environmental pro-gram manager, said the Navy is studying the death but was not engaged in training or using sonar or explosives in the area at the time. But according to reports, two Canadian naval vessels were training in the Strait Juan de Fuca when explosions and sonar “pinging” were heard, a few days before the dead orca was found.

Navy spokesman John Mosher told the council he did not know how many bomb tests have been requested by the Navy over the next few years, but that “nine or 10” are currently permitted as part of training exercises.

Mosher said the Navy is now going through the environmental review pro-cess “to support Navy at-sea training and testing activi-ties in the Northwest for the 2015-2020 time frame.”

The Navy must secure re-authorization under the ESA by the National Marine Fisheries Service for any Naval activities that may impact local marine wildlife.

Because southern Puget Sound orcas are an endan-gered species, no killing – accidental or not – is permit-ted, and non-lethal contacts are severely restricted. The death of even one whale from testing or training could be a major impediment to the Navy’s authorization and

permitting process.Mosher invited the council

to submit their suggestions for the scope of the EIS study. After more questions from the council, Chairwoman Miller promised further input to the Navy.

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clinic as part of a “Local Legends” series (having made the national demo team in 1968), but age and illness are cutting into his stamina, so he may be done with teaching.

Looking back, Andre sees abandoning his first wife and child as a painful “sur-vival tactic,” but reconcil-ing with Andrew has erased the pain. He is now a close member of the family. Now,

Andre has “no regrets, and no misgivings anymore.”

“This last phase of my life, with Holly, is the most satisfy-ing…We were both following a dream, and we were draw-ing the kids in with us. The kids were an expression of our lives.”

His sons’ empowerment through skiing embodies Andre’s satisfaction. Now magnify that satisfaction times the thousands of kids (and adults) Andre has helped to empower on the slopes over the years, and one can truly understand Andre’s sense of fulfillment.

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