By MICHELLE BEAHMStaff reporter

Eighth-graders at North Whidbey Middle School got the chance to trace the roots in their family trees.

Then they put the trees on display, roots and all.

Eighth-grade teachers asked their stu-dents to complete a culture project on a part of their families’ history and culture, including a research paper, an interview with a family member and a visual presentation to display for friends and family Wednesday night.

“They pick something from their culture, so a personal part of their background,” said Lindsay Brockett, one of the eighth-grade teachers. “It’s really exciting, and they love it. They really get into it, and they love talk-ing about their background and what they’re passionate about.”

“It reminds us of where we came from, who we are, what makes us, us,” Olivia Rotter said.

Rotter said her ancestors immigrated from Ireland. Now, five generations later, her Irish heritage is still a large part of her family’s life.

“I never really noticed it till I got into my project,” she said. “I was looking around the house for things that I could do for my proj-ect, and I see my dad wearing one of those Irish golf hats, and I’m looking around in our basement and we have tapestries and special knots everywhere.

“It’s all over the house, and I never recog-nized it.”

Not every student displayed the culture of the country their ancestors were from; some took a different approach,

Jeremy Salter presented the history of cooking through the generations in his fam-ily.

“It’s just been in my family for over 100 years,” he said.

His display consisted not only of home-made lasagna handed out to passersby, but also the original recipe from 1954, a 60-year-old roasting pan and more.

There were pictures of him making the lasagna and, of course, his dog watching the process.

He said the project gave him the oppor-

tunity to share a side of his family’s culture.“It helps show a lot of who I am and what

I usually do around the house,” Salter said. “Overall, I feel amazing with all the work that I’ve done in the past month.”

McKenna Ryals presented her art.

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Store gears up for Haggen conversion next weekBy RON NEWBERRYStaff reporter

On his return trip to Bellingham after a visit to Port Angeles Wednesday, John Clougher passed through Oak Harbor with more than just a few community suggestions weighing on his mind.

“I had a truckload of samples that I went home with,” Clougher said.

Clougher, the chief executive officer of

Haggen’s Pacific Northwest division, has been on the go ever since Haggen started convert-ing acquired Safeway and Albertsons grocery stores to its banner earlier this month.

As part of the transition in each new com-munity, the grocery chain is holding public meetings conducted by Clougher and other company executives to answer questions, acquire feedback and mostly to begin the process of forming local partnerships with growers and other food producers.

Oak Harbor’s turn is fast approaching with the conversion from Safeway to Haggen on Highway 20 scheduled to take place over two days next week and the new Oak Harbor grocery store tentatively planning to open its doors at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 5.

Committed to being local through its slo-gan of “Northwest fresh,” the Bellingham-based grocery chain is inviting Whidbey Island farmers, food producers and commu-nity members to attend a meeting March 19 in

Oak Harbor to learn more about partnership opportunities with the Haggen brand as well as to have a chance to ask questions to com-pany executives.

Nonprofit leaders also are invited to learn more about Haggen’s community giving, and small businesses may come to explore co-marketing programs.

The meeting will be held 5-6 p.m. at the

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Estimated cost for new sewage plant skyrocketsBy JESSIE STENSLANDStaff reporter

The price tag for flushing a toilet in Oak Harbor may be much higher than anyone anticipated.

The newest projections from two firms working on the new sewage treatment plant show that the cost may balloon by $40 million, or nearly 50 percent.

In the latest projections by the construc-tion management and project design firms, the plant may cost more than $116 million. The original estimate for constructing the plant without the Navy base partnership was less than $79 million, according to the capital facilities plan.

And the projection doesn’t include the cost

Funding increase to identify beach access points

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By JANIS REIDStaff reporter

Beach access advocates have something to celebrate.

The county has earmarked a total of $175,000 to identify the county’s “hundreds” of beach access points and prioritize them for maintenance and signage.

The lack of county-sanctioned beach access, along with clearly marked kayak access, points have been an ongoing concern for groups supporting public access to the seashore.

“I think this is a good thing,” said Sue Ellen White with Whidbey Island Sea Kayakers Thursday. “We’ve been talking to them for years, and it was kind of like they turned a deaf ear to this.”

Doubling the funding will allow the county

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Photo by Michelle Beahm/Whidbey News-Times

Claire Panitayasuk presents her project, sharing her family’s Thai background, at the Culture Fair Wednesday night at North Whidbey Middle School.

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Hat Island is getting more crowded by the second, according to Apple Inc.

Along with Langley, Whidbey Island is inaccurate-ly listed on the tech giant’s map program for mobile devices. It’s currently listed as being on the tiny isle, also known as Gedney.

Privately owned, Hat is in Possession Sound between Everett and the South End.

Island County Commissioner Helen Price Johnson confirmed Thursday that she was planning to petition the board to draft a formal letter to Apple seek-ing redress of the Langley error when she learned that Whidbey’s location is also misrepresented.

“It needs to be corrected,” Price Johnson said.

The error is on the app “Maps,” which comes pre-loaded into Apple mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads and the company’s lap-top computers. It’s unclear how long either error has existed, but it may have been

as long as three years.Apple used Google maps

for its mobile navigation pro-grams until 2012, when it began using its own system. Riddled with errors, Apple Maps made international headlines and prompted a public apology from company CEO Tim Cook.

Apple’s iPhones claimed about 42 percent of the smart-phone market in 2014 and, according to some reports, are so popular that nearly one in four Americans have one in their pocket.

Repeated requests to Apple’s media department concerning the issue were not returned.

Calculating any economic impacts from the snafu are difficult to quantify, said Ron Nelson, executive director of the Island County Economic Development Council. Last year during July, August and September, Langley raked in $3.6 million in food and accommodation sales, and Island County $28.4 million.

“Would it impact those numbers? Yeah,” Nelson said. “But how much, I don’t know.”

Price Johnson agreed, par-ticularly considering the scale of the errors.

“I wonder how many peo-ple are using Apple Maps if it’s that off,” she said.

She owns an iPhone but said she doesn’t use the Maps program, preferring instead second-party downloaded apps such as Google Maps. She speculated that she’s not alone, that many Apple customers use navigation programs with more reliable reputations, and commenters echoed her sentiments.

Yet, Nelson and the com-missioner said the issue needs to be addressed. Nelson said his office would be sending Apple a letter ask-ing it to fix the problem, and Price Johnson plans to bring the matter to the board at its Tuesday meeting next week. She also encouraged the public to contact Apple. As a private company, Apple has no obligation to make the fix, she said, but more requests won’t hurt.

“If they aren’t responding to newspapers, maybe they’ll respond to more people reaching out to them,” Price Johnson said.

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Whidbey General Hospital is violating the law by not providing abortion services, the American Civil Liberties Union claims.

The civil rights organiza-tion sent letters to Whidbey General and two other hospi-tals and filed a lawsuit against Skagit Regional Health last week in an effort to ensure that public hospitals are com-plying with the state’s abor-tion rights law.

Hospital officials, however, feel they are complying with the law by referring woman seeking abortions to other facilities and that the policy ensures the least amount of delay.

“We take this issue very seriously and are reviewing the details of the ACLU let-ter,” a hospital spokesman wrote in a statement. “We are also ever-mindful of the fact that the law protects the reli-gious and moral convictions of employees. What’s more, it outright prohibits hospitals from discriminating against employees or job candidates

based on those convictions.” Under the Reproductive

Privacy Act, public hospitals that provide maternity ser-vices must also provide “sub-stantially equivalent” services for abortion. It also states that no person may be required by law or contract to partici-pate in the performance of an abortion if the person objects to so doing.

Whidbey General’s “repro-ductive healthcare policy,” which it is required to have by law, states that “women who choose to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy will be provided a referral to a provider outside of Whidbey General Hospital.”

The question likely to be settled in the Skagit County lawsuit is whether referrals to other facilities constitute “sub-stantially equivalent” services.

Leah Rutman, policy coun-sel for the ACLU, said the group argues that they do not and that the services must be offered by the hospital.

Rutman said the ACLU supports women’s right to reproductive health care. She pointed out that the

Reproductive Privacy Act states that “every woman has the fundamental right to choose or refuse to have an abortion.”

While the ACLU has only filed a lawsuit against one of the hospitals, she said others could be filed if the organiza-tion feels it’s necessary.

“Our goal is to ensure that women seeking reproduc-tive healthcare services at Whidbey General Hospital have access to the full range of services as provided by law,” the ACLU letter states.

Rutman said the ACLU is still investigating Whidbey General’s policy, including where women are being referred to. There is no Planned Parenthood facility on Whidbey Island.

A spokeswoman for pub-lic hospitals, however, said Whidbey General and other hospitals understand that women have the right to choose to terminate pregnan-cies and that the policies are meant to ensure women have access to those services in the most timely manner pos-sible.

Mary Kay Clunies-Ross, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Hospital Association, said hospitals would need a team consist-ing of a physician, a nurse, an anesthesiologist and a technician to perform the procedure. She said it may be difficult at small hospitals to find members of the team willing to perform abortions.

In addition, she said women shouldn’t have to wait for the team to assemble.

Clunies-Ross said 99 per-cent of all abortions are done in a clinic setting and only 13 percent of women in the state live in counties without abor-tion providers.

Clunies-Ross said public hospitals would be caught in a “Catch-22” if the courts side with the ACLU. Hospitals with maternity services would have to provide abor-tion services but couldn’t require any employees to participate.

“For hospitals, the only way out of this conundrum may be to not provide mater-nity services,” she said, “and nobody wants that.”

ACLU questions hospital’s policy of referring abortions An Oak Harbor man

found dead in a Clinton ravine this past October died of natural causes, the Island County coroner has determined.

Physical evidence re-vealed Anthony J Speed had cirrhosis of the liver, which resulted in his death, Coroner Robert Bishop said.

Speed was found Oct. 9 in a ravine near Dalton Realty in Clinton. He is believed to have been dead for some time when dis-covered.

According to police, he’d checked himself out of a

Snohomish County hos-pital in September against the advice of medical professionals. He was last seen around 1 a.m. Sept. 18 when a sheriff’s deputy spotted him walking up Highway 525 a short dis-tance from Clinton Ferry Terminal. He reportedly declined a ride, saying he lived in the area.

The discovery of his body weeks later sparked some uncertainty about the cause of his death, but recovered evidence sug-gests only that he died of natural reasons, Bishop said.

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CLARIFICATIONn In a brief about Coupeville Chamber’s Excellence in

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to take a comprehensive look at all the hundreds of beach access points, determine ownership of uplands and tidelands, and prioritize them for future improvements.

Beach access advocates pressed county staff at transportation-related open houses last spring on both the North and South ends of the island. Residents told the county that creating an effective kayak trail would be great for the county’s econo-my and provide protections to public beach access points.

“The one thing everyone overlooks is the economic benefit of that,” said Mike McVay with Island Beach Access. “Everything the chamber puts out brags about our beaches.”

Originally funded at $85,000, an additional $90,000 was made available through federal transportation dollars

and approved by the county’s sub-Regional Transportation Planning Organization Wednesday.

Island County Public Works Director Bill Oakes said counties often struggle to obligate enough federal projects to satisfy the state and are charged to go back and try to find additional qual-

ifying projects. In response, the county has tried to incor-porate additional possibilities, such as the additional $90,000 intended for non-motorized transportation.

“The federal govern-ment wants us to spend the money,” said Todd Carlson, a planning and engineering services man-ager for state Department of Transportation at Wednesday’s meeting. “(However) local govern-ments have a harder time spending it than state govern-ments.”

Oakes made the case that using this for beach access allows the county to address a long-standing community concern.

“The old vision was truly going to be an update of the existing plan,” Oakes said. “It’s time to update, and I’m saying that rather than using the plan to put a check in a box, let’s use it to fix a prob-lem we all have. Getting peo-ple to the water in an island community is important. I think it’s a good investment.”

Oakes said that properties that are under county owner-ship, have good accessibility to the water and have parking possibility would go to the top of the list for improve-ments. While a couple ele-ments of the project must still get past Island County commissioners, Oakes said he felt confident that it would receive support. Commissioners Jill Johnson and Rick Hannold both sit on the sub-RTPO board and voted in favor of the project, and Commissioner Helen Price Johnson has been a longtime champion of beach access.

Langley Mayor Fred McCarthy, who also sits on the sub-RTPO board, said

that a number of people on the South End of the island are passionate about retain-ing beach access and made a motion in support of the update.

The sub-RTPO, compris-ing representatives from Island County’s governmen-tal bodies, approved the updated transportation ele-ment with two abstentions and one dissenting vote by Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley.

Dudley voted against the increased funding because he said he said believes the county is simply scrambling for a reason to spend extra tax dollars and that the board can “choose to give back money we don’t use.”

“My concern was it looked like we felt compelled to find something, anything to throw money at,” Dudley added Thursday. “It’s creating justi-fication in finding a place to throw $90,000.”

Oak Harbor Councilman Rick Almberg, who abstained from voting, said he wasn’t sure the beach access was the best use of the non-motorized funding. The sec-ond abstention was Navy Liaison Jennifer Myers, who always abstains as a non-vot-ing member.

Johnson, who chairs the sub-RTPO, pointed out that the project could cause “potential conflicts” with adjacent property owners. In addition, Johnson was con-cerned that new information on “cloudy titles” will force the county to “look the other way” if they don’t have the resources to follow through on the legal ramifications.

The county is currently in litigation regarding a public access point on Wonn Road, where a neighbor claims to own the tidal lands.

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Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley said he’s frustrated that his own staff seems to be in the dark as to why this has happened.

“My main concern is that no one seems to be focused on keeping this under bud-get,” he said.

Dudley said he heard about the new price tag a couple of weeks ago and asked staff members to figure out what’s happening and to get back to him this week. After the meet-ing Tuesday, he said his ques-tions still weren’t answered.

Dudley said staff members involved in the project were supposed to give a presen-tation about the status of the project at a workshop Wednesday, but they can-celed it because there were too many questions they could not answer.

Councilman Rick Almberg said Thursday that he heard from city staff that there

wasn’t a finalized estimate yet. He speculated that there might be a lot of reasons for an early number to be inflated, including nonessen-tial add-ons and large contin-gency funds. He also pointed out that the project is going to be built in phases.

Dudley, however, said he worries that sewer rates may go through the roof; the proj-ect is funded by the sewer rates residents pay each month. Under the original estimate, rates are scheduled to gradually climb from the current $57.50 a month for residential customers to $97 a month in 2021.

“We’re about to build the most expensive per capita wastewater treatment plant in the state,” he said.

The firm Carollo Engineers has been working with the city since nearly the begin-ning of the project. The firm helped identify six possible sites for a treatment plant to replace the aging plant in Windjammer Park and the treatment lagoons on the Navy Seaplane Base.

In the end, officials chose between sites on the north side of Crescent Harbor Road or at Windjammer Park. The firm estimated that construc-

tion costs would be about the same at the two sites with the membrane bioreactor tech-nology.

Dudley broke a tie vote in favor of the Windjammer site because operating costs would be higher at Crescent Harbor, while Almberg warned about unforeseen geotechnical and archaeo-logical costs.

The City Council decided to construct the treatment plant through a general contrac-tor/construction manager process in order to increase efficiency and control costs by having the construction company involved during ear-lier phases of the project.

Over the years, a lot of dif-ferent numbers have been discussed.

The project is currently at

the 30 percent design phase.Two years ago, Carollo

estimated that the project would cost $78.9 million if the Navy doesn’t partner on the project. The city and the Navy currently partner on sewage treatment, but Navy officials decided not to work with the city on the new plant because of concerns over the cost.

In its request for proposal for the construction manager last summer, the city esti-mated the project would cost $67.7 million.

Then on Feb. 6, the city received a cash-flow projec-tions from the construction management firm, Hoffman Construction Company, stating that it was estimat-ing the project to cost $116 million and that Carollo had

increased its estimate to $95 million.

Then in an email to City Engineer Joe Stowell, Brian Matson of Carollo wrote that the firm’s current estimate matches Hoffman’s at $116.5 million.

Matson wrote that increase all comes from construction, not from “soft costs.”

He outlined possible rea-sons for the increase. Among the reasons he cited are the complexity of the geotech-nical issues, archaeological concerns, increased costs of materials and labor, and addi-tions to the project itself — such as a proposed 200-seat training facility, the extension of Bayshore Drive along the southern frontage of the site and improved solids handling technology.

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Oak Harbor City Council MEETING AGENDA

6:00 p.m.Tuesday, March 3, 2015

1. CALL TO ORDERInvocation/Pledge of AllegianceExcuse Absent Councilmembers

2. HONORS AND RECOGNITIONSa. Proclamation of St. Patrick’s Dayb. Fire Department Employee Recognition for Years of Service:- Steve McCalmont – 25 years- Angela Braunstein – 10 years - Shannon Holcomb – 10 years

3. PRESENTATIONSa. Marine Corps League - Dutch Strehle (Commandant)b. Update on the 2015 Whidbey Island Marathon

4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

5. CITIZEN COMMENT PERIOD

6. CONSENT AGENDAa. Minutes of the Special City Council meeting held February 20, 2015 and Workshop held February 25, 2015b. Approval of Accounts Payable and Check Numbersc. Update to the Transportation Element of the Comprehensive Plan - Consultant Request for Proposald. Wastewater Treatment Plant – Construction Management for Request for Proposalse. Authorization to Bid - One (1) Front Load Refuse Truckf. Application for For Hire (Taxi) License - All Island Express Taxi, LLCg. Whidbey Pedestrian Crossing – Consultant Request for Proposalh. Waterfront Trail Repair - Consultant Request for Proposali. Authorize the Mayor to sign CWSRF Funding Agreements with Department of Ecology

7. STAFF, MAYOR AND COUNCIL COMMENTSa. City Administratorb. Mayorc. Councilmembers

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Coming from a “long line of artists,” Ryals loves art and enjoyed showing it.

She said that a lot of her family paints, but she prefers a different medium: colored-pencil drawings. She also cre-ates animations, which was a part of her presentation.

“I love everything about art,” Ryals said. “It’s beauti-ful; it’s a way to get your emo-tions out. It’s awesome.”

For her, projects like this

are important because it gives students “a chance to be creative.”

“It just lets them dig into their past and everything, so they get to learn a little more about their family,” Ryals said, “sometimes stuff that they never actually knew.”

Other projects included sports, food, military heri-tage, horses and more.

“I think it connects them to their background,” Brockett said, “and a lot of these peo-ple find out about stuff in their family that they’ve never known before, and that’s what’s really exciting.”

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Parents across our nation are raising concerns about the overemphasis on standardized tests for students, includ-ing our state’s new Smarter Balanced Assessments.

They worry that developing a love of learning is being sacrificed for test preparation and that the pressure of state-mandated exams is draining the joy out of classrooms. 

I share these concerns, both as a parent and an educator.

This year, the online Smarter Balanced tests based on the Common Core standards will be given in Washington State.

Unfortunately, students have not had even one year of instruction under the new standards.

In fact, this is the third set of new standards and tests we’ve seen in six years. In a 2014 national pilot of the new tests, only 40 percent of students passed.

Nevertheless, current 10th-graders will be required to achieve certain scores on these tests to graduate. 

When I ask adults what they remember most from their school days, tests rarely come up.

What they recall are individual teachers, class projects, school performances, sports, activities; and, most of all, mentors who believed in them. This is what leaves a lasting impact on students and helps shape who they will become.

In Oak Harbor, we believe our students benefit most from balanced and varied learning opportunities that meet their individual needs and interests.

Thanks to our community’s investment, we have been able to enhance the development of strong math and lit-eracy skills with engaging academics, career technology classes and elective opportunities that help students dis-cover and pursue their passions.

Despite the state’s failing to implement the new stan-dards in a thoughtful or measured manner, we must move forward and are committed to maintaining balance between strong academics, enrichment opportunities and mandated assessments.

We must ensure each student graduates from Oak Harbor possessing both the skills necessary to be success-ful and a love of learning. Along the way, we hope they create and cherish many lasting memories of their time in our schools.

n Lance Gibbon is superintendent for Oak Harbor Public Schools.

Preserving the love of learning with lasting memoriesSOUND OFFBy DR. LANCE GIBBON

Kraken

What are guidelines that define ‘art’?Editor,

Having viewed the front page of your Feb. 21, 2015, edition, “Kraken Released” puts me at a loss to under-stand the standards used to classify something as “art.”

If I took a piece of a two-by-four lumber and hammered a large nail in it and said I was trying to “Drive a point home,” would the city pay me $33,000 and put it on display as “art?”

Just what is “art”? Is there a written directive that provides guidelines to what is “art?”

If the city is going to blow my tax money, I would like to know the guide-lines by which my tax dollars are used.

I see road repair, utility workers out clearing power lines and police control-ling traffic, and I understand how my tax dollars are being put to use. But I do not see how my tax money is helping the city when used on a kraken.

I’ve had a lot of people say I am not very smart, and I guess this proves their point.

Robert D. BrownOak Harbor

In response

WGH needs a reminder of public responsibilityEditor,

Does Ms. Tarrant of Whidbey General Hospital Board of Directors understand that WGH is a public hos-pital and telling a reporter, “she consid-ered it ‘inappropriate’ for a newspaper

reporter to ask her questions about the new CEO’s contract,” is, in my opinion, inappropriate.

Once that contract is signed, that contract becomes public information anyway.

It is only natural that a reporter would ask the question.

The hospital continually asks the vot-ers for more money — we care where that money is spent.

The fact that the hospital has not fol-lowed state law by not reporting their financial information to the state for several years alone makes me want to know where the money is being spent.

My next question would be, Since Mr. Tomasino is leaving earlier than anticipated, what will be his severance package?

Will you spend taxpayers’ money to pay him through October?

Donna TaylorFreeland

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Ronald Andrew Buzard passed away surrounded by family Feb. 2, 2015, after a brief illness. He was 83 years old.

Ronald Buzard was born the second of four children in Seattle June 17, 1931, to Lyman and Frances Buzard. Ron graduated from Seattle Preparatory School and com-pleted his Catholic education at Seattle University. A career in the Air Force ignited a love of flying, and he owned two Mooney airplanes during his

Buzard

OBITUARIES lifetime.Ron’s impressive sales

career started early with the family-owned Bar S and Cudahy Meats, continued into retail swimsuit sales, tran-sitioned to real estate sales and concluded in vacation ownership. His sales accom-plishments span decades: He sold lots at Holmes Harbor Golf Club, Ocean Shores and Sudden Valley in the 1960s and 1970s; he was developer of The Glen at Maple Falls; and he was integral to devel-oping Thousand Trails and American Adventure. In the early 1980s, Ron completed a lifelong dream, opening “Buzz’s Wharf,” his own res-taurant complete with a piano bar located at beautiful Bush Point on Whidbey Island.

Ron’s career culminated at Trendwest Resorts with his good friend and longtime col-league Bill Peare. Together, their team grew the com-pany exponentially, becom-ing Trendwest/Worldmark shortly before going public. Ron served as the vice presi-dent of sales and broker of record, overseeing sales and real estate operations for the entire company. Ron’s integ-rity, mentorship and passion for customer service inspired the Ron Buzard Service Award, awarded annually to the Trendwest sales office with the highest customer satisfaction rating.

Ron loved being sur-rounded with family and friends. His favorite places were Whidbey Island, where he and wife Lori retired, and Maui. Some of his most trea-sured memories are family trips to Hawaii with his wife, daughters and grandchil-

‘Coach’ Eric Lindberg

‘Tough Guys Win!’(Carl) Eric Lindberg was

born Oct. 7, 1934, to Gus and Lilly Lindberg in Bellingham, Wash. Eric passed away sud-denly with his family by his side Feb. 9, 2015, shortly after a diagnosis, battle and ensuing treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Eric’s parents had emigrat-ed from Sweden to the U.S. shortly before the birth of their children. When Eric was 2 years old, the family moved back to Umeå Sweden, and Swedish became Eric’s first language. Two years later, the family moved back to the U.S. when Eric was 4 years old and settled in Everson, Wash., where Eric’s father had been offered employ-ment and eventual part-nership with the Everson Implement Company. There, Eric became a proud gradu-ate of Nooksack Valley High School and kept in contact with his fellow graduates and classmates, to whom he felt an endearing connection.

Following high school, “Coach” enrolled at Western Washington University and began many years of com-mercial fishing nearly every summer in Alaska and peri-odically in Puget Sound. Fishing income helped him finance his college education and supplement his teaching income through the summer of 1994. He was honored to interrupt his college years to enlist in the U.S. Army, serv-ing as a medic stationed in Augsburg, Germany.

After an honorable dis-charge from the Army, Eric re-enrolled at and graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A. in edu-cation and began his teach-ing and coaching career in Portland, Ore., then Pe Ell, Wash., and eventually settled in Oak Harbor, Wash., in 1962. During summer school in 1962, mutual friends intro-duced Eric to undergradu-ate Barbara Dowen, whom he eventually married July

Lindberg

6, 1963, after she graduated from Western. Barbara joined Eric in teaching and raising a family in Oak Harbor for the next 50 years. This past summer they celebrated their 51st wedding anniver-sary aboard a European river cruise on a three-week tour through six countries.

Eric taught and coached a variety of athletics in elemen-tary, junior high and high school. As for the classroom, he found his passion teach-ing senior World Problems at Oak Harbor High School, specializing in Russian history and culture, and went on to develop a very detailed curriculum, includ-ing numerous student and adult cultural exchange trips to Russia and China. As for coaching, he helped with many sports, finding his call-ing as head track and field and cross country coach in 1968. His coaching résumé also included a one-year sab-batical that he took in 1972-73 to study at Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore., where he earned a master’s degree in history. While at Linfield, he was also head cross coun-try coach and assistant track and field coach, specializ-ing in training quarter-mile sprinters. Over many years, Eric also taught college-lev-el classes for WWU, SPU, Embry Riddle, Humboldt and Linfield College, ulti-mately retiring from teach-ing in 1990. However, he could not shake his love for coaching, and he continued to coach in a variety of capaci-ties up until his diagnosis in December, including Oak Harbor High School cross country, Coupeville High School track and field, pri-vate coaching and mentor-ing with both students and adults, and, most recently, coaching javelin, shot put and discus throwers at Edmonds-Woodway High School as an assistant track and field coach. Eric received numer-ous awards over many years in recognition of his teams’ many successes in the field of competition and for his dedi-cation to student excellence over five decades of work, including induction into the Washington State Track & Field Coaches’ Hall of Fame, Washington State representa-tive to the National Track & Field Coaches’ Convention, Skagit Valley Herald Coach of the Year, Northwest District Cross Country Coach of the Year, and Northwest League Track & Field Coach of the Year.

“Coach” had many person-al interests. Most notably, he was an insatiable reader of both history and politics, pos-sessing a very large library. As a coach himself, he was an avid sports fan and a UW

Husky football season ticket holder for more 40 years, attending both home and away games with Barbara over the years. He was also a charter member of both the Navy League and Elks Club in Oak Harbor, a mem-ber of both the Oak Harbor and Lynnwood Rotary Clubs, American Legion, Oak Harbor Excellence in Education Committee, the Wildcat Booster Club, Oak Harbor Educational Foundation, Oak Harbor Lutheran Church, and Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood.

Eric was a consummate lifelong learner, both person-ally and professionally. He felt a calling not only to instill this passion in each of his students, but also to model life skills to them as well — be honest, dependable, loyal, trustworthy and ethical in your dealings with all people. And, in whatever path you choose for your life, always strive to be the very best that you can be, both personally and professionally.

Eric was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Ingrid Dahlgren. He is survived by wife, Barbara, in Lynnwood; his son, Christian (Lisa), and granddaughter, Annika, in Edmonds; his daughter, Erin Berg (Halvard), and grand-son, Henrik, in Sammamish; his sister’s family in Forks, Wash., including his brother-in-law, Joel Dahlgren; numer-ous nieces and nephews and their families; and cousins in Sweden, Anders Jörlen, Hans Jörlen, Kerstin Bridgeman-Williams and Barbro Balkö.

Donation: In lieu of flow-ers, the family asks for consideration of a contribu-tion to the Coach Lindberg Memorial Scholarship for Oak Harbor High School, where Eric spent 30 years teaching, coaching and vol-unteering. Tax-deductible donations can be made out to Oak Harbor Educational Foundation, noted for the Coach Lindberg Memorial Scholarship, and mailed to P.O. Box 1801, Oak Harbor, WA 98277.

Private interment and com-mittal at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Wash. Arrangements provided by the National Cremation Society in Tukwila, Wash. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 6215-196th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036. Reception (following memo-rial) at the Edmond’s Yacht Club, 326 Admiral Way, Edmonds, WA 98020.

The family wishes to extend its sincere gratitude to Dr. Amir Modarressi of Group Health Oncology in

Bellevue, Wash., and the staff of Dr. Elihu Estey at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Eric maintained an amazing atti-tude throughout his illness, and their care and attention to his needs were instrumen-tal to this. Their medical sup-port of Eric over the last two months was remarkable, and their grace in supporting all of us will not be forgotten.

dren. His tight-knit group of friends — known as the “Golf Group” — used golf as an excuse to travel together several times a year, playing golf on beautiful courses and fully enjoying life. Ron was loving, wise and respected by all who knew him. He “never met a stranger,” and those fortunate enough to call him a friend were lucky indeed.

Ron loved to build things, as evidenced by his custom shop and extravagant tool collection. As soon as the sun started shining, you could find him on his John Deere mowing his beautiful lawn or driving his golf cart to and from the beach in pursuit of Dungeness crab.

Ron is survived by his loving wife of 20 years, Lori Longwood Buzard; daughters, Lori Buzard Reece, Mindy Buzard Babb, Catherine Crosslin, Kelly Crosslin Frere (husband Chris); beautiful grandchil-dren, Isabella Babb, Gracen Babb, Bailee Frere and Brooks Frere; numerous nieces and nephews; brother, Cliff Buzard (wife Diana); and sister, Mary Coupe (hus-band Tom). He was preceded in death by his brother, Gene Buzard.

A memorial and remem-brance for Ronald Buzard will be held at noon Friday, March 20, at St. Hubert’s Church in Langley on Whidbey Island. Reception to follow at Useless Bay Golf & Country Club.

Memorials may be made in Ron’s name to The Whidbey Animals’ Improvement Foundation (WAIF), www.waifanimals.org

By JIM WALLERSports editor

Their success in run-ning has earned them trips to California, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina and Virginia.

Now Oak Harbor High School seniors Jonalynn Horn and John Rodeheffer hope their legs will carry them to somewhere closer to home ---- to the podium at the Washington state high school track championships in Tacoma in May.

Horn and Rodeheffer are two of the most successful long-distance runners in Oak Harbor High School history. They begin their final Wildcat season when spring sports start Monday, March 2.

Rodeheffer is the more decorated of the two, pil-ing up ribbons and awards in both cross country and track. Horn is one of the most accomplished OHHS cross-country runners ever and hopes to add to those

achievements this spring in track.

Rodeheffer grew up in a running family. His parents, Bill and Catie Rodeheffer, were successful runners dur-ing their high school and col-lege years. His father also coached high school track for 10 years. They, however, did not “push” their son into run-ning, John said. When he was 11, he discovered a passion for the sport, ironically, while competing in swimming.

“During dry-land condi-tioning, the running part was the part I liked best,” John Rodeheffer said.

From that point, he switched his focus from the pool to the track.

A year later, Bill and Catie Rodeheffer started the Whidbey Island Running Club, which eventually morphed into Running Unlimited Fitness. They started the club, in part, to give John someone to train with and to help him enjoy the camaraderie of a team atmosphere.

John Rodeheffer quick-ly became one of the best Washington runners in his age group, qualifying for numerous national champi-onship junior Olympic meets in cross country and track and earning trips across the United States.

His success continued once he hit high school. In his seven seasons (four in cross country and three in track), Rodeheffer has quali-fied for state each season and has been named to the all-Wesco first team five times; he was second team his freshman year in both sports.

He is a two-time league and district champion in cross country and in the 3,600 meters in track, as well as the defending league and district 1,600 champion.

Last fall, he set a course 3A record at the district cross-country meet and then finished fourth in the state meet. The fourth place tied Gary Lineburg’s effort in 1965 as the highest fin-ish ever for an Oak Harbor High School male runner. Unfortunately for Rodeheffer, the 3A field was the most talented at the Washington championships. Based on his time, Rodeheffer would have most likely won in any of the other classifications.

A few weeks later, he finished fifth in the BorderClash, which featured the top cross-country run-

ners from Washington and Oregon.

In track, Rodeheffer fin-ished sixth in the state 3,200 as a sophomore, break-ing Lineburg’s 1966 school record of 9:26 (converted from the two mile) with a time of 9:20.19.

Rodeheffer was eighth in the state 3,200 last spring and was unable to lower his own school mark.

“I plateaued a bit last year,” he said. “I was a little disap-pointed I didn’t improve at state.”

His goal this year is to finish in the top three and go under nine minutes.

Last year’s performance is giving him “motivation to train for this year,” he added.

Rodeheffer placed 11th and 12th in the past two state 1,600-meter races.

Rodeheffer’s parents also had a hand in Horn’s suc-cess.

When Horn was 12, her brothers were high school cross-country runners and her father asked her if she wanted to run as well. She did, so her father signed her up for the Rodeheffers’ run-ning club.

“It was fun,” she said, and that was the beginning of a steady improvement that led to qualifying for several USA Track and Field national meets.

In high school, Horn has excelled in cross country, where most courses are about 5,000 meters.

She is the only Oak Harbor female runner to finish in the top 12 in the state cross country meet twice, running eighth as a junior and 12th

last fall. Her eighth-place finish

is the second best in Oak Harbor High School history.

She is a two-time first-team, all-Wesco runner and earned second-team honors as a sophomore.

Horn gradually improved through her high-school years, climbing from 24th, to 13th, to seventh, to first in the Wesco meet. She finished second in the district meet last fall.

Horn has a knack of run-ning best when the most is on the line. As a sophomore and junior, she placed higher at the district meet than at the league meet although all of the same runners (and more) took part.

She is now working to find the same success in track, where the races are shorter.

In track, she has lettered all three years and finished fifth in Wesco in both the 1,600 and 3,200 as a junior, just missing a state trip.

“My goal is to qualify for state in the 3,200, which is my strong point,” Horn said. “I’m hoping for the 1,600, too.”

Upon high school gradu-ation, both Rodeheffer and Horn will head to Idaho to continue their running careers.

Rodeheffer has committed to Boise State University, and Horn has signed a letter of intent to compete for Idaho State University.

However, before adding another state to their running passport, the Oak Harbor seniors are looking to con-quer their own in May.

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Jonalynn Horn and John Rodeheffer, two of Oak Harbor’s best long-distance runners, will hit the track Monday in a quest to add to their already outstanding list of accomplishments.

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By RON NEWBERRYStaff reporter

Raindrops and gray skies couldn’t keep Linda Bartlett from venturing out to the back of

her Coupeville farm to check on her garlic crop Wednesday.

She and farmhand Jason Espozito worked together, pulling away hay that was used to insulate the garlic from the winter chill.

It’s a method she’s used for years at the organic fruit-and-vegetable farm she co-owns known as Rosehip Farm and Garden.

“This is pretty much a year-round crop,” Bartlett said. “It went in in November. We weed it and feed it and start harvesting it early July. We pick it, sell it, store it, then plant it again.”

“Eating from Your Garden Year-Round” is the topic of a class Bartlett will teach at the well-attended Whidbey Gardening Workshop Saturday, March 7, at Oak Harbor High School.

Forty-four classes in all, including 20 new ones, will be offered over three sessions during an event that is geared toward gardeners new to Whidbey Island as well as those more seasoned looking to learn something new or refine their skills.

The workshop is put on annually by the Washington State University Island County Master Gardeners.

The cost is $40 for those who register online by 11 p.m. Sunday, March 1, or is $45 for walk-ins.

One may register online and check out all the class offerings by going to www.whidbeygardening workshop.org/2015

“One of the things we have learned is that generally a third of the attendees could be new to gar-dening on Whidbey Island,” said C-J Nielsen, chair of the Whidbey Gardening Workshop. “We then have veterans who understand some of the gardening challenges — the good, the bad and the ugly. We try to balance the content in class so there’s something for everybody.”

Because there are three sessions, the class schedule allows one to dig deeper into a certain area of study.

“It’s quite a balanced lineup that basically follow what I call tracks,” Nielsen said.

She said these tracks allow attend-ees to take multiple classes in the same subject area.

This year, the tracks are: garden design, gardening basics, ornamen-tals, garden maintenance and sus-tainability, and growing fruits and vegetables on your own.

“Growing food has become a pretty hot deal,” Nielsen said. “A lot of people want to garden and grow things that they can eat and preserve.”

Sort of like Bartlett and her garlic crop.

February is the time she comes out of a brief hibernation to start the growing season all over again.

She’s getting things started in greenhouses using seed trays warmed underneath by electric mats with long fluorescent lights hovering closely overhead.

Already, she has lettuce, mesclun, peas and other plants sprouting an inch out of the soil.

“The soil temperature outside is not as warm enough yet for the seeds to germinate,” Bartlett said. “In the trays, I can manipulate that

earlier than I do out in the garden.“I’m trying to get a head start.”Some of this produce will be ready

for the first Coupeville Farmers Market of the season, April 4.

Bartlett also grows for local resi-dents as part of a community-sup-ported agriculture program.

In her class at the workshop, she’ll share techniques and tips to help gardeners enjoy success growing their own food and have produce available at all times of the year.

Other classes that will be taught range from “What’s Bugging You: Insect Identification and Control,” by Sharon Collman, to “Cohabitating

with Wildlife: Coping with Animals in the Garden,” by Steve and Martha Ellis.

Beverly Gerdeman, a research entomologist at Washington State University, will teach a class titled, “Nature’s Balance: Understanding and Attracting Beneficial Insects.”

Other subjects cover compost-ing, herb gardens, lavender, berries, pruning, slugs, roses, tomatoes, drainfield landscaping tips, soils, plant propagation and more.

Nick Bond, the state climatologist for Washington, will be the keynote speaker.

His topic will be “The Changing

Climate and the Gardener: What Should We Expect?”

Bond’s talk will kick off the work-shop at 9 a.m. Classes will go from 10:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Photos by Ron Newberry/Whidbey News-Times

Linda Bartlett, co-owner of Rosehip Farm and Garden in Coupeville, pulls off hay Wednesday that she uses to insulate her garlic crop over the winter. Bartlett will be among the speakers at the Whidbey Gardening Workshop, March 7 at Oak Harbor High School, where she’ll talk about “Eating from Your Garden Year-Round.” Below, some pea plants she started indoors earlier this month and farmhand Jason Espozito working through weeds with a wheel hoe.

How to sign upOnline registration for the

Whidbey Gardening Work-shop, which costs $40, ends at 11 p.m. Sunday. The cost is $45 at the door of the March 7 event at Oak Harbor High School. Go to www.whidbeygar deningworkshop.org/2015

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Island County Ama-teur Radio Club Meet-ing, 9 a.m., Feb. 28, at the

Island County Commis-sioners’ Hearing Room. A top policymaker with the nation’s largest association of amateur radio operators will update Whidbey radio buffs about the hobby’s growth in the U.S., upcom-

ing radio events and legisla-tive efforts. Volunteer radio license examiners will be on site to provide information and to administer federal ham radio operator exams for interested persons. Visit www.w7avm.org or email

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bey Prairie, 9 a.m. to noon, Feb. 28, at Sunnyside Overlook parking lot area on Sherman Road, Coupe-ville. Explore some of the most scenic areas on Whid-

bey Island — Sunnyside Cemetery, Ebey’s Bluff and Crockett Lake — with Kim Shepard of the Whidbey Audubon Society. This field trip begins with a walk on the paths of the old cem-etery looking for little birds then heads down the trail past the Jacob Ebey house to Ebey’s Bluff. Learn some pioneer history while scan-ning fields and farmlands (protected from develop-ment in the Ebey’s National Historic Reserve). www.whidbeyaudubon.org

“American Idol” Final-ist Angie Miller Perfor-mance, 7 p.m., Feb. 28, at the First Reformed Church, Oak Harbor. Angie Miller is an independent American singer/songwriter. She has a new EP that just released and she has co-written all of the new material. She’s striving to show all sides of her personality in an in-tricate and artistic manner in which she feels current mainstream music largely lacks.

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AARP Tax-Aide, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays and 1-7 p.m. Tuesdays, at the Oak Harbor Library. Free tax-return preparation and e-filing for taxpayers with low and moderate income, especially those age 60 and older. Call 360-678-3000 to schedule an appointment. Supported by AARP Foun-dation.

Native Peoples - Na-tive Places: A Canoe Culture, 1:30-3:30 p.m., March 2, at the Coupeville Library. Find out about the new permanent exhibit at the Island County Museum and the restoration of the iconic 160-year-old Snake-lum Family Canoe. Pre-sented by Rick Castellano, executive director of the Island County Museum.

Ebey’s 101, 5:30-7:30 p.m., March 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 and April 6, at the Coupeville Library. This six-week course explores Ebey’s Landing by using pri-mary documents, so we can hear first-hand the voices of our ancestors. Focus will be on European explorers, American settlers, estab-lishing the territory and state, the commercialism of Coupeville, and the connec-tion of Whidbey Island to the U.S. Presented by Lynn Hyde, Historic Whidbey.

Tuesday March 3

Ready Readers: Tod-dler Storytime, 9:30-10:15 a.m. March 3, and 9:30-10:15 a.m. and 10:30-11:15 a.m. March 10, at the Oak Harbor Library Meeting Room. Stories, music and movements that nurture the desire to read in toddlers. Playtime or craft may follow.

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Living Well with Chronic Pain, 1-3:30 p.m., March 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 and April 7, at the Coupeville Library. This workshop offers practical skills for living a less stress-ful life while managing one or more chronic conditions like arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure, pain, fibro-myalgia, etc. Peer facilita-tors will lead participants through Stanford Univer-sitiy’s program for dealing with frustration, fatigue, isolation, medication, pain management, food choices for better health, decision making and problem solving, and communication with family, friends and medical personnel. Space is limited for those 18 years of age and older. This free program is sponsored by Senior Ser-vices of Island County and the Friends of the Coupe-ville Library. Preregistration is required. Call 360-321-1600, ext. 23.

Wednesday March 4

Baby and Me Story-time, 9:30-10:15 a.m. and 10:30-11:15 a.m., March 4, 11 and 18, at the Oak Har-bor Library Meeting Room. Stories, songs, rhymes and activities that inspire a love of reading. Playtime follows. For newborns through 24 months. Caregiver required. Free. www.sno-isle.org

AARP Tax-Aide, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesdays, at the Coupeville Library. Free tax return preparation and e-filing for taxpayers with low and moderate income, especially those age 60 and older. Call 360-678-3000 to schedule an appointment. Supported by AARP Foundation.

Whidbey Reads Film Festival, 2-4 p.m., March 4, at the Oak Harbor Library Meeting Room. Based on a true story, this Oscar-winning film is the drama of two very different men who compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics. It stars Ben Cross and Ian Charlson. Popcorn provided.

Whidbees Bee Club Meeting, 7 p.m., March 4, at the Freeland Library. Around the world, hon-eybees are dying, with one-third of colonies col-lapsing each year. For this reason, Dan Harvey of Olympic Wilderness Apiar-ies, is breeding “survivor” honeybees. Harvey bases his breeding stock on wild honeybees he captures in the forests of the Olympic Peninsula. For more in-formation, contact Kathy Maxwell at 360-331-1315 or kadamax@msn.com

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BIRD TOUR: Winter Birding Tour, 9-11 a.m., Feb. 28, at Crocket Lake, Coupeville. Walk approximately two miles on mostly easy and flat terrain. With tour leader and local expert Ann Casey, you will look for migratory ducks and waterfowl like pintails and ruddy ducks. Other birds you may see include Northern harriers, short-eared owls and migratory shorebirds like Dunlins. This event is free, but prior registration is required, as space is limited. Please register at www.wclt.org or call 360-222-3310.

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word17.Helping

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Marci Kim Wolff, Petitionerand Stephen Charles Wolff, Respondent

Order Setting Hearing Pursuant to the Rules of Practice of the Ninth Ju- dicial District of the State of Montana, in and for the above-entitled Court and upon the request of the Petitioner:It is ordered that the par- ties in the above-cap- tioned cause appear be- f o r e t h e C o u r t o n Tuesday, the 24th day of March, 2015, at 1:30 o’clock p.m. at the Teton County Cour t room in Choteau, Montana for a show cause hearing on the Petition for Contempt (Failure to Follow Pa- renting Plan.)Dated th is 12 day of February, 2015. Robert G. Olson District County JudgeLegal No. WCW616341 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.February 28, March 7, 14, 2015.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN

AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ISLAND

U.S. BANK, NATIONAL A S S O C I AT I O N , A S TRUSTEE UNDER THE POOLING AND SER- VICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRU- ARY 1, 2007, GSAMP T RU S T 2 0 0 7 - N C I ,

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M O R T G A G E PA S S - THROUGH CERTIF I - CATES, SERIES 2007- NC1, Plaintiff, VS. S H AW N P. D OY L E ; KATHLEEN K. DOYLE; AMERICAN GENERAL FINANICAL SERVICES, INC.; ALSO ALL PER- S O N S O R PA RT I E S UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LI- EN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DE- SCRIBED IN THE COM- PLAINT HEREIN, Defendant(s). S H E R I F F ’ S P U B L I C NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTYNO. 14-2-00324-7 TO: SHAWN P. DOYLE; KATHLEEN K. DOYLE; AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.; ALSO ALL PER- S O N S O R PA RT I E S UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LI- EN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DE- SCRIBED IN THE COM- PLAINT HEREIN, De- fendant(s) and judgment debtor(s) and any other persons or par ties un- k n ow n c l a i m i n g a ny right, title, estate, lien or interest in the personal and/or real property de- scribed herein:The Superior Court of Is- land County has directed the undersigned Sheriff of Island County (through his designee) to se l l the proper ty de- scribed below to satisfy a judgment in the above entitled action:Legal Description

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TRACT 16, DEER LAKE ESTATES DIV. NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RE- CORDED IN VOLUME 8 OF PLATS, PAGE 31, RECORDS OF ISLAND COUNTY, WASHING- TONSITUATED IN ISLAND COUNTY, WASHING- TONAlso commonly known as 6373 Cedar Cove L a n e , C l i n t o n , WA 98236 Parcel No. S6460-00-00016-0The sale of the above- described property is to take place:TIME: 10:00 a.m.DATE: March 20, 2015PLACE: FRONT STEPS ISLAND COUNTY LAW AND JUSTICE CENTER 101 NE 6TH STREET, COUPEVILLE, WASH- INGTONThe judgment debtor/s can avoid the sale by pay ing the judgment amount of $348,492.64, together with interest, costs and fees before the sale date. For the exact amount, contact the Sheriff through his designee at the address stated below.Dated this 9th day of February, 2015.MARK C. BROWN, SHERIFF ISLAND COUNTYBy:/s/Wylie Farr Wylie Farr, Chief Civil Deputy ICSO/Law & Justice Center101 NE 6th Street PO BOX 5000 Coupeville, Washington 98239-5000

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360-678-4422ICSO Docket No. 15R-0201Legal No. WCW615233 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.February 14, 21, 28 and March 7, 2015.

SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ISLAND

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., its successors in interest and/or assigns,Plaintiff,v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND D E V I S E E S O F CHARLES H. CURF- M A N ; C H A R L E S H . CURFMAN; BETTY JO- VITA CURFMAN AKA JOVITA S. CURFMAN; T O D D C U R F M A N ; G R E G C U R F M A N ; S H A N E C U R F M A N ; BANK OF AMERICA, NA; MIDLAND FUND- ING LLC; OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMISES,Defendants.No. 14-2-00576-2SUMMONS BY PUBLI- CATIONTO THE DEFENDANTS Unknown Heirs and De- v isees o f Char les H. Cur fman; Char les H. Curfman; Betty Jovita Curfman aka Jovita S. Curfman; Todd Curfman; Greg Curfman; Occu- pants of the Premises; and any persons or par- ties claiming to have any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real prop- er ty descr ibed in the complaint:You are hereby sum-

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moned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publica- tion of this summons, to wit, within sixty (60) days after February 7, 2015, and de fend the rea l property foreclosure ac- tion in Island County Su- perior Court, and answer the complaint of Wells F a r g o B a n k , N . A . , ( “P la int i f f ” ) . You are asked to serve a copy of your answer or respon- sive pleading upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff at its office stated below. In case of your fai lure to do so, judgment wi l l be ren- dered against you ac- cording to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court.The purpose of this law- suit is to obtain a judg- ment, and if not immedi- ately paid, to be satisfied through the foreclosure of real property located in Island County, Wash- ington, and legally de- scribed as follows:L O T 1 3 , P L AT O F PENN COVE PARK, DI- VISION NO. 2, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN VOLUME 4 OF PLATS, PAGE 74, RECORDS OF ISLAND COUNTY, WASHINGTON. S I T U AT E I N T H E COUNTY OF ISLAND, STATE OF WASHING- TON.Commonly known as: 854 Burroughs Avenue, O a k H a r b o r , W A 98277-7413.DATED this 2nd day of February, 2015.RCO LEGAL, P.S.By/s/Laura Coughlin [X]Laura Coughlin, WSBA #46124[ ]Synova M. L. Edwards, WSBA #43063[ ]Eric D. Acuario, WSBA #47852Attorneys for Plaintiff13555 SE 36th Street, Ste 300Bellevue, WA 98006Legal No. WCW613782 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.February 7, 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2015.

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rely on independent distribu-tors. We actually are big with direct store delivery. If some-body has enough product to supply just one store, that’s an opportunity. It doesn’t have to be a chain-wide client.”

Earlier this month, Haggen started the process of acquir-ing 146 stores in five states as part of the divestment pro-cess required by the Federal Trade Commission after the mega-merger of Safeway and Albertsons.

In Oak Harbor, the change will take two days with Safeway shutting its doors at 6 p.m. Tuesday then re-open-ing with a Haggen banner roughly 46 hours later.

Haggen is retaining the employees and managers at Safeway and will con-

tinue in-store relationships with Starbucks and Alaska Federal Credit Union.

However, Haggen will no longer run the gas station on the property or offer a gas rewards program, Clougher said. The gas station will remain open but under a new “national brand.”

“We’re grocery opera-tors,” he said. “We don’t have expertise in gas.

“What I would say in our approach to Safeway stores is to simplify. While we may not have the gas rewards pro-gram, we’re also not going to require any type of card to get discounts.”

As part of each store open-ing, Haggen is partnering with five local nonprofits.

The Boys & Girls Club of Oak Harbor has been des-ignated to receive a $1,000 donation. Four other nonprof-its will be selected after the community meeting with 2 percent of the store’s sales on four consecutive Saturdays earmarked to be donated.

In Oak Harbor since 1967, Safeway will eventually replace the nearby Albertsons store on Southwest Erie Street in a move planned for this summer.

The Oak Harbor Albertsons was not part of the Haggen acquisition.

When the move takes place, Albertsons employees will remain under the new Safeway banner, Safeway

spokesperson Sara Osborne said.

Clougher said that the Haggen store that opens its doors next week in Oak Harbor will only be a start-ing point to what it will grow into over time through local partnerships.

“We want to begin a pro-cess around evolving our local food supply chain,” he said. “We’re trying to be very honest that we don’t know everything. And we’re try-ing to start the exploration of growers, food manufactur-ers, fishermen, spice makers, things like that.”

The prospect of a first store on Whidbey Island is exciting to the company, he said.

Haggen was founded in Bellingham in 1933 and, with the acquisitions, is growing from 18 stores in the Pacific Northwest to 164 stores in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and Arizona.

“I think everybody in the organization loves to try new things,” Clougher said. “It’s a great opportunity for us to get to know the island and just places you’ve never seen, so it’s definitely exciting.

“I definitely appreciate that it’s close enough to Bellingham. I don’t think it’s right next door, but it’s close enough for us to get there. We don’t know what we don’t know, and I think that’s a level of excitement.”

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