By Cali BagbyWeekly editor

Being happy isn’t a mood that is 100 percent achiev-able 24 hours a day. I like to think of happiness as something that comes and goes.

The important thing about finding happiness is knowing it will always come back.

1. FriendsWhile I have a bias for

actually having friends whom I can talk to in per-son, it appears that virtual connections do have a place in the search for happiness.

Time Magazine recently released a story referring to the effects of positive posts on Facebook. Basically, when something uplifting

was posted, two posts with similar emotions would fol-low by other people.

The study also showed that “each additional posi-tive post reduced the num-ber of negative ones by friends by nearly two-fold, while each additional nega-tive update lowered positive posts by 1.3 times.”

So when you get online, spread the love with pup-pies and rainbows and continue the flow of good vibes.

It doesn’t mean that you still shouldn’t let positive emotions spread in real time. So next time you are at the Farmers’ Market, Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony or the Eastsound Art Walk (check out more about these holiday events on page 3), say something

nice and watch the positivity spread.

2. AdventureExercise can be a dirty

word, so I prefer the term “adventure” whenever I am getting my blood pump-ing whether it’s a hike up Turtleback, going for a jog, kayaking or backpacking in the North Cascades.

There are hundreds of ways to be active: rearrang-ing your furniture, dancing or walking a dog at the ani-mal shelter all count.

But if you are depressed it is often hard to get moti-vated to start an “adven-ture.”

“The problem with exer-cise is that people are often too depressed to get off the couch,” said Dr. Frank James, San Juan County health officer.

For people facing that level of lethargy, James rec-ommends seeking medica-tion or talk therapy first and then they should focus on getting exercise back into their lives.

The recommended dose of physical activity is 40 minutes a day. James said as long as you are slightly out of breath, but could

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Lopez Artist Guild Art Show Featuring:

“Croatia Through Lopezian Artists’ Eyes”December 6, 2014 - January 5, 2015

Lopez Center for Community & the ArtsOpening Reception

Saturday December 6, 5-7 pm

SEE HAPPINESS, PAGE 4

WEDS, DEC 3MEETING: PSM Whidbey Ops EIS Open House Scoping Meeting for Whidbey island EIS EA-18G Growler Airfields Center, 3 p.m., Lopez Center.

MUSIC: Candlelight and Song For the Healing of the Nations, 5 p.m., Center Church. The Lutheran Church in the San Juans and Grace Episcopal Church will present an evening of sung prayer led by Sharon Abreu, with Ginni Keith and Patty Johnson, piano.

THURS, DEC 4EVENT: “Encounters from a Kayak,” 7 - 8 p.m., Woodmen Hall. From the rocks and tide-races of North Wales to northern Labrador, Nigel discusses kayaking trips around the

world: people, places, crea-tures, flotsam and jetsam. Lecture and photos. A library event co-sponsored with the San Juan Islands National Monument and Friends of the Lopez Library. Visit nigelkayaks.com for more info.

SAT, DEC 6EVENT: An open invitation to all Lopez ladies (age 12+). Please join us for the annual Christmas Tea at the Lopez Island Community Church Fellowship Hall, 2 p.m., Our theme this year is God’s Song… “The Music Never Ends,” with special guest speaker, Betsy Laster. Please bring a wrapped baked food item for the

Family Resource Center Christmas baskets. For more info contact Susan Herrera, 468-2592.

ART: Lopez Artist Guild Presents: “Croatia Through Lopezian Artists’ Eyes,” 5 - 7 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Join Anne Whirledge Karp, Ralph N. Bladt and Steve Hill, as they present new visual art from their recent travels in Croatia. For more info, www.lopezartistguild.org.

SAT, DEC 7MUSIC: Holiday Concert and Christmas Carol Sing-Along, 2:30 p.m., The Gathering Place. Celia Rosenberger and friends perform some holiday music.

SERVICE: Memorial Service for Darryl Carfrae, hus-band of Jennifer Janeway, and father of Sterling, 2- 5 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Potluck. Bring your favorite dish. The family thanks the community for their sup-port and love during the past two years.

EVENT: The Islander Holiday Craft Fair, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Lopez Islander Resort.

MON, DEC 8MEETING: LCCA December Board Meeting, 5:15 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.

SAT, DEC 13EVENT: Contra/Square Dance,

7 p.m., Lopez Community Center. Matt Hummel on fiddle, Carol Noyes on banjo and Dave Marshall on guitar will play the tunes, and Tony Mates of Seattle will call the dances. All of the dances will be taught, no partner needed. All ages are welcome.

ART: Holiday Group Show, 5 - 7 p.m., Chimera Gallery. Raffle winners will be selected with all proceeds going to the Lopez High School Art Program. Show runs through Dec. 29.

EVENT: Christmas cookie sale for the Lopez Senior Services, 10 - 2 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Cookies, coffee and tea. Cookies sold by the pound.

Show the Navy we care

Navy Growler noise and over flights have been increasing over the past year. We have an opportu-nity on Wednesday, Dec. 3, between 3-6 p.m., at the Lopez Center to meet one-on-one with the Navy and express our concerns. This is the first NAVY Scoping meeting to be held in San Juan County. This is a drop-in open-house meeting – not a sit down meeting.

It’s happening because of our county’s support in mitigating the noise, resi-dents’ use of the County Noise Reporting Map,

and Representative Rick Larsen’s intervention.

The Navy is required to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement following its proposal to add up to 36 more Growler jets to the 82 already based Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. At the beginning of an EIS, the “scope” of actions, alternatives and impacts on surrounding communities must be determined.

This is where we all come in. Our attendance at the Dec. 3 meeting will show the Navy that we are impacted and mitigation and alternatives are needed. It’s an important time to ask the Navy leadership ques-

tions, such as “Why is San Juan County considered a “No Significant Impact” area?” Or “Why did the Navy neglect to study the impacts of low frequency noise of the Growlers when it based EA-18G’s in our area?” Or “What are the health impacts of living with 65 - 100 decibels of noise five days a week?” Or “Why does the new EIS not consider other locations for training operations in addi-tion to Ault Field and OLF Coupeville?” Or “How can the flight paths of the jets be shifted so they do not fly over our school and pre-school?”

Your Scoping comments

can be submitted at the meeting, online (www.whidbeyeis.com, or by mail until Jan. 9, 2015. For info, on How to Write Scoping Comments, obtain the web-site for the County’s report-ing noise reporting map, and other contact informa-tion, visit www.quietskies.info. If you would like to be on the “Quiet Skies over San Juan County” mailing list, email: quietskiessan-juan@gmail.com

CHRISTINE KERLIN, TIM MADISON

Lopez Island

Thanks, DistlerI wish to express my

praise and gratitude for Undersheriff Bruce Distler’s years of service for our com-munity. I met Bruce years ago as a prosecutor and have continued to work with him as a private attorney. As Undersheriff, Bruce was usually my initial contact when issues arose involving the Sheriff’s Department.

The most that anyone in my position can ask of a law enforcement officer is that he or she approach the job with integrity. We place a great deal of trust in Sheriff’s deputies and give them a tremendous amount of power.

Bruce deserved every bit

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By Gary AlexanderSpecial to the Weekly

In October, I wrote about the visiting Garfield Band with this opening: “One of the challenges of island life is the expense and time neces-sary to attend a single great musical event in Seattle. You must find a place to stay over-night, negotiate the ferries and the freeways, both ways. Alas, a $25 concert ticket can easily turn into a $250 trip for a music lover. Out of inertia, we generally stay home and dream longingly of the con-certs we could have seen.” My conclusion: “You don’t have to travel to Italy – or even Seattle” to hear great music without leaving the island – one case in point being the Garfield concert.

Now, with the holiday sea-son approaching, the next best offer I can make to Lopez music lovers is a same-day (out and back) ferry ride to nearby Orcas Island to hear a program of Bach’s great music, including the Magnificat and Cantata No. 140 (Sleepers Awake), brought to you by the 50-plus singers of the Orcas Choral Society, along with a full 20-piece Baroque orchestra drawn from Seattle, Orcas and elsewhere, plus the Orcas Boys Choir, and a professional baritone solo-ist, Philip Cutlip, coming to Orcas in collaboration with the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival. In the words of director Roger Sherman, a noted Bach scholar and conductor of the OCS since 2010, “It’s not often you get to hear a chamber orches-tra live in a small hall with a 50-voice choir singing the glorious music of Johann

Sebastian Bach.”Lopez residents can

board the inter-island ferry Sunday, Dec. 7, departing at 11:25 a.m. That allows plenty of time for lunch on Orcas before the 2 p.m. con-cert. (Car-pooling reduces per-person costs.) Then, you can mix at leisure with the singers after the concert and return to Lopez on the 6:45 interisland ferry.

Another option is to attend the free Pre-Concert Audience Seminar on Tuesday, Dec. 2, noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Emmanuel Church parish hall. Lopezians can take the 9:55 a.m. ferry to Orcas, return-ing at 3:10 p.m.

Even though rehearsals involve overnight stays on Orcas for Lopez singers, three Lopez vocalists have joined the Orcas Choral Society for this concert – Ginni Keith, Gary Vaughn and yours truly.

For years, I have encour-aged Island concert promot-ers to seek an inter-island audience by creating an option for same-day ferry round-trips to musical events on neighboring islands. I have also urged singers and other musicians to make the effort to hear other-island concerts, rea-soning that if we want a good audience for our own events, it helps to “pay it forward” by honoring other singers with our presence.

One example of cross-island collaboration came last year, when OCS Director Roger Sherman played organ in “Carols and Lessons” on Lopez. Sherman is an ideal direc-tor for the Orcas singers,

especially when channeling J.S. Bach’s genius. Sherman won a music scholarship to Oberlin Conservatory, where he received a bach-elor of arts in music theory and history. He has been associate organist at St. Mark’s Cathedral since 1985, in addition to serving as president of Cathedral Associates (a concert pre-senting organization).

Since 1993, Sherman has produced and hosted a Sunday evening radio show “The Organ Loft” on KING-FM (98.1). After moving to Orcas 14 years ago, he devel-oped Loft Recordings and then The Gothic Catalog, a mail order catalog focused on organ and choral music.

As director of Orcas Choral Society since 2010, he says “I feel very fortunate for the opportunity to make music with such talented and interested people. I love choral music; there’s nothing like it in the whole world.” He says singing is communal spiritualism. “All singing is spiritual in nature.”

Come to Orcas on Dec. 7 to see (and hear) Bach’s glorious “Magnificat” and “Sleepers Awake.”

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On Thursday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m, Friends of the Lopez Library, the San Juan Islands National Monument and the Lopez Library proudly present a breathtaking evening of adventure with author and world kayaker Nigel Foster.

The event will be held at Woodmen Hall. In 1975 Nigel made his first multi-day solo sea kayaking trip on the North coast of Cornwall, rounding Land’s End on Cornwall’s southwestern peninsula.

Since then he has adventured and led trips in kay-aks to arctic Norway, Scotland, the Faeroe Islands, Newfoundland, Sweden, Finland, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and the English Channel through France down to the Mediterranean. On an epic trip he kayaked solo from Baffin Island to Northern Labrador, a trip that almost cost him his life. He returned in 2004 to the same area with his wife Kristin Nelson (who will attend) dodging polar bears and paddling around Ungava Bay and northern Labrador for five weeks.

He is the first and youngest paddler to circumnavi-

gate Iceland by kayak and in 2008, at its Sixth Annual Induction Ceremony, Nigel Foster was inducted into the International Hall of Fame for bicycling, rowing, canoeing and kayaking as a kayaker.

He has taught kayaking skills around the rocks and tide-races of North Wales, was an instructor at the National Watersports Center, has coached kayaking internationally and has produced an instructional video series. 

The author of numerous kayaking books, technical and travel, he has designed kayaks, paddles and PFDs (Personal Flotation Devices). In 2012 he published “Encounters from a Kayak” (Falcon Guides) which gathers 39 illustrated kayaking trips from around the world into sections about people, places, creatures and flotsam and jetsam. 

His program Dec. 4, “Encounters from a Kayak,” will include lecture and photos.  Join us for a winter evening of travel and wanderlust as we eagerly welcome Nigel Foster to our Lopez paddling and reading community. 

To learn more, visit nigelkayaks.com.

An evening of adventure with world kayaker

Lopez Island Artist, Steven R Hill, who participated at the sixth annual Zion National Park Plein Air Painting Invitational (Nov. 2-10) was honored with a major purchase and cash award for his painting titled “Soft Glow” done in Zion Canyon, Nov. 5.

The Hill painting was purchased by the park to become part of their permanent art collec-tion, as the “Superintendent of Zion National Park Purchase Award” where it will reside. The modern collection at Zion houses works from former artists’ in residents at the park, and other past award winners and Zion artists, including Maynard Dixon, Jim Jones, Suze Woolf (Seattle artist), John Cogan, Cody Delong, Gloria Miller Allen, and others. This was Hill’s second con-secutive invitation to the annual Zion event.

Park Superintendent Jeffrey Bradybaugh, said: “I was particularly impressed with Hill’s use of the human figure in his painting, which catches three hikers in the mid-ground, reflected in the river . . . and gives a great sense of scale to the distant canyon walls. It’s what this park is all about – the interaction of people getting out here and truly enjoying the canyon lands.”

Hill exhibits his work in the San Juan Islands at Crow Valley Gallery (Orcas) and Windswept Fine Art Gallery, (Lopez) plus other galleries in the U.S. He also teaches annual plein air paint-ing workshops at Dakota Art Workshops in Mt. Vernon, and overseas.

For more information, visit his website: www.windsweptstudios.com

Steven Hill honored at Zion

still maintain a conversation, then you are at the right level of physical exertion.

If you can get outdoors during the day and combine light exposure while raising your heart rate, that is ideal, said James.

3. Comfort zoneRoutine can be good. You read the

paper in the morning, head to work and look forward to curling up with your favorite book in the evening, but can this pattern create stagnancy in your life?

According to an article on Life Hacker’s website, the anxiety that comes from stepping out of your com-fort zone may actually be good for you. The article points to benefits like extended creativity and the ability to cope with unexpected change.

Of course everyone’s comfort zone is different and you have to find what

is a healthy level of stepping out. For many of us, learning a new discipline like yoga or learning to play an instru-ment may be enough to jump start our lives. It’s important to gradually step out of your comfort zone and remem-ber you can always come back to your creature comforts.

4. Probiotics Any RadioLab podcast fans out

there? In their episode “Guts,” hosts Jad and Robert refer to a study on mice that were given probiotics known as Lactobacillus. The question was: if you feed mice a lot of probiotics, would it change their personality?

Half of the mice were given probiot-ics and the other half were not. The mice were dropped in water in a buck-et that they could not get out of. The mice that were not on probiotics swam for a little while, but within four min-utes gave up and started to float. The mice that were taking Lactobacillus continued to swim for six minutes, which is when researchers removed the mice from the bucket.

Overall, the study, which measured the animals’ stress hormones, found that mice who had been given pro-biotics suffered less stress, anxiety and depression-related behavior. Conclusion: I keep a bottle of probiot-ics near my desk.

5. Meditation Numerous studies suggest that

meditation not only creates relaxation and stress reduction, but can also bring you general peace of the mind.

According to the Mayo Clinic, “meditation can give you a sense of calm, peace and balance that benefits both your emotional well-being and your overall health. And these benefits don’t end when your meditation ses-sion ends. Meditation can help carry you more calmly through your day and may improve certain medical con-ditions.”

If you want to dive into meditation, try a guided recording by Dr. Ronald Siegel, an assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School at www.mindfulness-solution.com.

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State Representative Krist ine L yt ton (D-Anacortes, 40th District) was elected majority floor leader of the state House of Representatives by her col-leagues in Olympia, Nov. 18.

“With education fund-ing, the entire state bud-get, and a number of other key issues set to domi-nate,” Lytton said in a press release. “I’m expecting this to be one of the busiest and most significant sessions in recent memory.”

Lytton served as assis-tant majority floor leader during the 2013-14 legisla-tive session, and will now take full responsibility for managing the floor calen-dar and structuring debate on bills that come up for a vote by the full House of Representatives.

A former vice-chair-woman of both the House Education and Agriculture & Natural Resources com-mittees, as well as a mem-ber of the budget-writing Appropriations Committee, Lytton was reelected to a third term in the House by

the voters of her northwest Washington district in the Nov. 4 election, winning 70 percent of votes cast in San Juan County.

“I’m honored to be given this role,” she said. “I look forward to working inclu-sively with my Republican counterpart to get the peo-ple’s work done in a respect-ful and timely manner.”

The 2015 legislative ses-sion, slated to last 105 days, gets under way at the state capitol Jan. 12.

Lytton to tackle leadership role in state House

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Saturday, December 6, 2014 • 2:00 pmReception Follows, Please RSVP

As the holidays approach, memories come to mind

of seasons past.

Memories hold us close tothose we love. Remembering

is a part of healing.

With this in mind, we inviteyou and your family to join

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Submitted by OPALCOAt the October meet-

ing of OPALCO’s Board of Directors, it was announced that Island Network will be re-created as a new entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of the co-op to provide Internet services. Gerry Lawlor has been hired as Manager of the new entity along with Alan Smith, Field Superintendent and Tom Schramm, Operations Superintendent. In early 2015, the new entity will emerge with a new name and office location – as well as a robust menu of Internet and voice services.

Currently, new connec-tions are being planned in some of our more notori-ous “communication black hole” areas where OPALCO is upgrading our grid con-

trol backbone to improve field communications for our line crews and other emergency first responders. The first five projects are: Cattle Point/Cape San Juan, Doe Bay/Eagle Lake, South Lopez, Deer Harbor/Spring Point and Mt. Dallas/San Juan Island West. These locations also have strong neighborhood associations that are organized and ready to connect.

“Our community truly needs OPALCO’s broad-band option: we have families with NO Internet service at all, including a family with school-aged chil-dren,” reported Jim Hooper, Cape San Juan Homeowner Association president and past San Juan County Economic Development

Council board member. “Our overall quality of life, connections to the world – and even real estate values – require better access to Internet services today.”

The five initial projects are projected to serve approximately 300 locations in this first phase. Island Network has identified another 2,500 potential con-nections by working with neighborhood associations where density and location allow the most members to benefit in the shortest time frame. The goal is to get the new entity (previously known as Island Network) to its financial break-even point: 2,000 to 3,000 connec-tions – and then let it grow based on member demand.

Members who want

to connect should do two things: 1) fill out a “Request for New Service” form online http://islandnet-work.opalco.com/contact/request-service/) to put your location on the map for future connection; and, 2) talk to your neighbors. If you are a member of an organized association, approach your group’s lead-ership and contact us about putting together a plan to connect. If you are not part of a group, talk it over with your neighbors and see if you can establish an infor-mal group. Once you have established a group, contact the team at connect@island-network.net.

By Jim NollmanSpecial to the Weekly

Initiative 502 was a vote about the use, marketing, and cultivation of cannabis.

It was passed last year by 68 percent of San Juan County voters; the highest percentage in the state of Washington. If we understand a mandate as the authority given to officials by a majority of the electorate to carry out a specific policy, then the passage of 502 was clearly a mandate.

The county has officially responded to this mandate. San Juan Island Council member Bob Jarman has proposed a moratorium against growing cannabis. A second council member, Jamie Stephens, from Lopez, has signed on, assur-ing its passage.

By this unilateral action, these reps are telling voters that our overwhelming mandate does not count. The aggres-siveness implicit in their preemptive move also implies that they believe we voters need to be protected from ourselves.

The logic for the moratorium is weak.Seeds of self-interest in would-be legislationOne published defense expresses a dystopian fear of

acres of glowing greenhouses someday covering San Juan Valley. Another argument insists that this measure protects everyone’s property rights.

In fact, the moratorium assuredly protects the property rights of a vocal minority lining up against cannabis farm-ing in their own neighborhoods. To protect those few, the moratorium assuredly voids the property rights of the farm-ers involved.

Mr. Jarman’s wife is among the most outspoken critics of cannabis farms. Her writings describe a fierce motivation to protect an historical family connection in San Juan Valley as the basis for inveighing against one cannabis farm in her daughter’s neighborhood.

She declares that this particular grow operation ruins the

rural character of the valley and negatively impacts prop-erty values. Her writing is passionate, but the reader is left with the distinct suspicion that she would not be spreading fears about eyesore greenhouses if the crop was tomatoes.

Her conclusion is that no one in the county wants a canna-bis farm in their neighborhood. This NIMBY generalization (Not In My Backyard) has midwifed the moratorium.

Unfortunately, the moratorium is undeniably unfair in its blanket generality.

Her county councilman husband could have channeled his and his wife’s passion to closely examine whether existing regulations for impacts on environment, light, noise, water, farmland, wetlands, etc. are sufficient as is. Instead he proposed the moratorium, with the help of a few outspoken property rights conservatives looking over his shoulder.

We citizens are left to play defense against a process right out of Alice in Wonderland: moratorium motion first, discussion after.

Cart before regulatory horseEven if a lively county-wide discussion had found the cur-

rent regs insufficient, due process still demands that, first, existent regs be adapted to fit a county-wide need. Instead, the county council hands us a closure that oppressively vic-timizes farmers already invested in a highly regulated voca-tion, and whose fatal mistake was following existing regs.

Appearances are everything in politics. To conflate one’s own private property issue with everybody else’s leaves the impression that hubris has trumped due process.

It’s too easy to draw a straight line between the wife’s complaint and the husband’s moratorium. That line is a glaring indicator of a conflict of interest.

In a fair world, legislation should never have the look-and-feel of a NIMBY action that turns a deaf ear to a voters’ mandate. In a fair world, San Juan County rep Mr. Jarman,

would recuse himself.The citizens of this county may indeed want a discussion

about the future oversight of cannabis farming. But let’s first eliminate the heavy-handed threat of moratorium so it doesn’t loom over the proceedings like a loaded weapon.

New frontier for agricultureWhat might be discussed?Although current regs are exhaustive, some unantici-

pated issues have indeed come to light since the farms actually plopped down in certain neighborhoods, altering prior conceptions of the landscape. For just one example, are these really farms, or are they farms in name only, in the way a salmon farm is not a farm?

Some argue that they are so dependent on high-energy production methods that light industry might be a more accurate designation?

If such issues as this one do prod us to a next discus-sion, let’s be sure it’s not more of what we’ve had so far: a gambit where the complaints of a few produce self-serving regulations.

That next discussion needs to start with the fact that can-nabis is legal. Can we all agree that any effort to make it illegal, again, is a different discussion?

Tell the council how you feel; email addresses here:bobja@sanjuanco.comjamies@sanjuanco.comRickh@sanjuanco.com— Editor’s note: Author, musician, and acoustician, Jim

Nollman’s most recent job was as consultant on a U.S. Navy program to protect whales during sonar exercises. His family has lived on San Juan Island since before “the boom,” and identifies an “ignored mandate” as motivation for weighing in on the issue of marijuana in San Juan County.

Council’s would-be moratorium smacks of self-interest, defies voter mandate

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of that trust. In my conversations with Bruce, I got the sense that “doing the right thing” was always in the forefront of his mind. Whether informally or on the witness stand, Bruce was always willing to speak the

truth, including in one instance admitting to a jury that he had made a mistake. On top of it all, he always brought a positive interac-tion to every conversation I had with him, especially these last years as Undersheriff.

In my opinion, Bruce has shown every-one what a law enforcement officer should be. I will miss him.

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The Islands’ Weekly • www.islandsweekly.com • December 2, 2014 – Page 6

Laurence Paul “Barney” Fullerton left us Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 at the age of 100. He celebrated his milestone birthday on Lopez with family and friends coming from across the state to help him celebrate at Woodmen Hall.

Barney was born on April 1, 1914 in Waitsburg, Wash., the son of Orville and Zelma Fullerton. He attended school in Waitsburg, receiving awards for his spelling and math skills. He played basketball on the high school team and graduated with the class of 1931. He loved horses and rode to school, often returning home after dark following basketball practice.

After high school he attended Business College in Seattle and worked at a restaurant in Pike Place Market. He later returned to the Waitsburg area where he worked on the fam-ily’s farm and lumber mill.

In 1942 Barney enlisted into the U.S. Army Air Force, where he served his country as a radio telegraph operator while stationed in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines. After

his discharge in 1945 he returned to Waitsburg to again assist on the family farm and meet his future wife, Isabelle. They were married in Yakima September 4, 1948, honeymooned in Seattle and then returned to Huntsville to make their home.

In addition to his work at the family orchards and mills, he worked full time for Columbia County Grain Growers where he served as manager until his retirement at age 68. He con-tinued farming until his late 90’s.

Barney was well-known for his musical abilities, singing at many weddings, funerals and special occasions over the years. He was a handsome, witty man with a yen for crossword puzzles, Gonzaga basketball and a good joke.

In the year following their 65th wedding anniversary his wife Isabelle passed, just as they were selling their farm and home to join their daughter and son-in-law, Jeff and Lorena Daggett on Lopez.

In addition to his daughter and son-in-law, Barney is survived by his step-daughter, Shirley Shears of West Virginia; 6 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren; 2 sisters-in-law, and many nieces and nephews. Besides his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents, two grandsons, John and Danny, a brother, Wayne Fullerton and 2 sisters, Pauline Kendall and Martha Krause. Upon his request, no funeral services will be held. Graveside services will be held at a later date. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Lemley Chapel, Sedro-Woolley. Please share memories of Barney and sign the online guest register at www.lemleychapel.com.

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(Editor’s note: An out-dated article about ferry reservation accidentally ran last week. Here is the correct story.)

The big payoff isn’t expect-ed until the summer sailing season, when demand is at its peak, lines are long and it’s pretty much anyone’s guess how early one should show up to catch a ferry headed

to or leaving the San Juan Islands.

In the meantime, island-ers, along with everyone else, will have back-to-back sail-ing schedules – winter and spring – with which to experi-ment following the debut of Washington State Ferries’ new and expanded, and San Juans-customized, reserva-tion system. Beginning Dec. 2, along with release of the

wintertime lineup of sailings, the light turns green on mak-ing travel plans in what is undoubtedly the slowest of sailing seasons.

Still, if the Port Townsend-Keystone run is of any mea-sure, WSF’s Reservations Manager Dwight Hutchinson believes that the ability to secure travel space ahead of time should prove a bless-ing rather than a burden for islanders and visitors alike once the much busier sail-ing seasons roll around. Ridership is up, he said, while congestion is down at the ferry terminals in Port Townsend and Keystone (Whidbey Island), where a reservation system some-what similar to the San Juans went into effect two years ago.

“One of the amazing things that’s happened at the Keystone-Port Townsend run is that ridership is up, but the line is way down,” Hutchinson said at an infor-mational forum Saturday, Nov. 15, in Friday Harbor. “People aren’t showing up way ahead of time hoping that they’re early enough to get on a boat.”

The mechanics of mak-ing a reservation are fairly straight forward, and the state ferry system has invest-ed in getting the word out, in staffing and hardware as well, like a new telephone system, all in effort to make reservations as user-friendly as possible. More on the that in a moment; a little history first.

The driving force behind the reservation system rests not with the state ferry sys-tem itself, but rather with the legislature. Ferries was given

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by Emily GreenbergJournal reporter

She came to camp and convene with the orcas once a year for the past 17 years, but she never thought she would stay.

Yet that’s exactly what environmental archaeolo-gist Candace Gossen did, choosing San Juan Island as the place to decompress from her latest adventure, and to plan the next one—or did the island chose her?

Half a world away from the place in which she’s dedicated her life’s work, San Juan has been a con-stant reminder that her job there is not yet com-plete.

For over 12 years Gossen has been digging in the dirt on Easter Island, a south-ern hemispheric province of Chile, unearthing its rich history. She’s uncovered an untold story of the native Rapa Nui people, and devel-oped a strong desire to help restore harmony to their intrinsic culture.

The driving force to remain on San Juan came during her visit in May of this year, when she connect-ed with the Whale Museum. She was invited to return in August to discuss her work on Easter Island.

Currently commissioned to help write the energy plan for the San Juan Islands Conservation District, Gossen keeps the Chilean province in mind.

“I get to work here on this island that could be self-sus-tainable. I could bring that plan back to Easter Island, “ she said. “It’s a very injured place.”

As the story is often told, the Rapa Nui people, Polynesian in descent and

the first to inhabit Easter Island, destroyed their envi-ronment. It’s said they cut down all of their trees for agriculture, multiplied too quickly and over-exhausted their resources, until there were no trees left at all. Words like “eco-cide” are often used, placing blame on the inhabitants, not the environment.

More than 1,000 giant, ancient statues known as Moai were constructed by the Rapa Nui people out of volcanic rock. As legend has it, the island’s trees were cut down to make movers for the Moai, and trans-port hundreds of statues throughout the island.

“But that’s not the real truth,” Gossen said.

Through a series of lake cores (the process of extracting sediments from extensive depths) and sci-entific analysis, Gossen found that between the years of 1390 and 1505 there was an extreme cold and dry event that lasted for 115 years. According

to the archeologist, these conditions were unfavor-able to the island’s trees, and aided in their disap-pearance. She also said that the trees were the largest palms on the planet with six foot diameters and 80 feet tall, but were full of sugarwater, not hardwood, so using them to transport the Moai was unlikely.

In an excavation project launched in spring of 2014, Gossen and her team found planting pits--indicating that the Rapa Nui were trying to rebuild the failing eco-system and save the palms. Evidence also points to “lithic mulch” watering sys-tems, where volcanic rocks were placed strategically around plants to heat up from the sun and create moisture.

“This shows adaptation and innovation, not col-lapse,” she said. “There was a climate event that caused the change, and they were trying to adapt to it.”

The failing with the Rapa Nui culture is that their sto-

ries were not passed down to successive generations and, as a consequence, were lost. In the 1800s, out of only a few thousand remaining Rapa Nui peo-ple, 1,400 were stolen by slave ships, including all of the medicine people and the last king, according to Gossen. By demand of the Tahitian King to return the Rapa Nui slaves, months later only 15 remained alive, but with their return and the onset of colonization came disease.

With no one left to tell the true story of the disappear-ing trees, Gossen feels she must continue to uncover the truth--and take on the role of storyteller.

Thousands of miles away in Friday Harbor, she is writing grant requests in hope of returning to the southern hemisphere in 2015, and brainstorming ways to entice philanthro-pists to invest in the practi-cal application of a sustain-able energy plan on Easter Island.

She would like to core a lake on San Juan Island one day, as she sees similarities geographically, historically and perhaps the same cli-mate patterns as on Easter Island.

In the front yard of her rental house stands a Monkey-Puzzle tree, the national tree of Chile. She wonders if it’s a sign that Easter Island is a part of her, and if her work there will truly ever be finished--a daily reminder, perhaps, of the place that needs her voice.

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modate rising demand. Reservations are, in effect, viewed as a way to better utilize the resources WSF has on the ground today by creating incentive for riders to arrive for and travel on sailings that historically have been in less demand.

A reservation system has been in operation for com-mercial customers in the San Juans for nearly two

decades, and more recently on the international run as well. Back to the mechan-ics. Reservations are not required to travel in the San Juans, but they may prove strategic. That’s because 90 percent of a boat’s auto-deck will be available for reserva-tions up to two days prior to any sailing. Thirty per-cent becomes available with release of a new schedule, another 30 percent is avail-able two weeks before a sailing and 30 percent more becomes available two days prior to any sailing. It’s a 30-30-30 staggered release. The final 10 percent is held for priority travelers, mainly medical emergencies, and for stand-bys or drive-ups.

Reservations can be made online or over the telephone. An online account can be cre-ated for sake of speed and convenience. A credit card, debit card or prepaid credit

gift card is required as a safe-guard against no-shows; a $10 no-show fee is applied if a reservation is not redeemed for travel at anytime on the day of a reservation (detailed info is at www.takeaferry.com).

Hutchinson said the no-show rate on the Port Townsend-Keystone run dropped from 39 percent to 14 percent after a no-show was implemented and that “overload” sailings have decreased by 18 percent since the reservation went into effect even though rid-ership has risen overall on that route. The reservation system for Port Townsend-Keystone differs from the San Juans in that 90 percent of auto space becomes avail-able when a new schedule is released, as opposed to the San Juans’ staggered release, he added.

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separately from reservations. Which is one reason why res-ervations can be made for a sailing that departs either from Friday Harbor or Orcas Island (reservations for departures from Lopez and Shaw are not available at this time). Reservations can be made for all sailings leaving Anacortes.

Perhaps the biggest key for WSF to achieve one of its stated goals, reducing congestion, lies in travelers’ confidence in the system itself. Riders will be advised to arrive at a terminal no less than 30 minutes and no more than 90 minutes prior to departure. In that way, WSF hopes that those infamous lines that snake back all the way back to the Anacortes Safeway will truly become a historical footnote.

“One of the reasons to have reservations is to get rid of that line,” said WSF con-sultant Fauna Larkin, hired to help WSF get the word out about the reservation system. “With reservations, cars can arrive at different times so the lines should be reduced. We have to have that happen.”

For more info, visit www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries and click on “vehicle reserva-tions” or call 1-888-808-7977.

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