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No. 5: “Judge treads lightly on Barefoot Bandit”

After a two-year crime spree including the San Juan Islands, Colton Harris-Moore was dubbed the “Barefoot Bandit” for allegedly going shoeless during some crimes and once allegedly leaving behind chalk footprints as a calling card. On Friday, Dec. 16 the Camano Island resi-dent was sentenced seven years and three months.

No. 4: When Worlds Collide

In the summer of 2009, Susan Bill of Lopez Island, rented a van and drove across Ethiopia’s landscape of desert and rocky terrain. After four hours, Bill’s adopt-ed children, Marta, Solomon and Emebet were reunited with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who they hadn’t seen in years.

The trip inspired the kids to plan a fundraiser on Lopez bringing clean water to their “birth village” in Anasi,

Ethiopia.“We want to connect our

village with this community,” Marta said. “I considered Ethiopia my home and when we left I felt displaced, but now I am going back and doing good things. I feel like my life has purpose.”

No. 3: “Lopez Family Farm’s stand closes after county action”

After two and a half years of operation, Jones Family Farms closed their farm stand, a 200 square-foot build-

ing, which sells live shellfish frozen seafood, meat and pro-duce, on Nov. 30.

They said they are closing because a San Juan County enforcement officer and building official gave notice that the farm stand requires all the commercial building code requirements of a full sized grocery store, restau-rant, or any other commercial enterprise, and that the Jones’ could face prosecution.

The county says no enforcement action has been filed against Jones Family Farms, according to a press release also sent on Nov. 18, prepared by Stan Matthews, county communications man-ager.

The county maintains the stand does require a permit due to the nature of the struc-ture, the electrical hookup and equipment and because customers transact business inside the building.

After reviewing the coun-ty’s press release, the Jones said they “disagree with their summary of events and char-acterization of the issues,” adding that the cost of the permit is irrelevant, it’s the cost of the retrofits required that is the issue. They esti-mate that full compliance with commercial codes would cost at least $15,000.

No. 2: “How solid waste changes affect Lopez”

Public Works Director Frank Mulcahy predicts county residents should see changes in the solid waste system around the end of

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Lopez Island Library Diana G. Hancock, Atty The Bay Café Happy Thoughts The Pie Ladies The Basket Ladies Christ the King Church Lopez Opalco Crew Colin Goode Gallery Group Health Lilies in the Valley Simonian Cabinets Lopez Island Quilters

The Spirit of Giving was a huge success! The Lopez community gave generously to assure everyone on Lopez had a bountiful holiday season. We could never do this without all the many individual donors and we thank each and every one of you. We also want to thank the following businesses, groups and churches: (Our apologies if we have forgotten anybody!)

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6-8pm Photography exhibit &reception “The World Through My Eyes”

TIEMPO DE LOPEZDress in your fi nest/ bring fi nger food to share

FIVE from 2011

The top five stories of

2011, based on local

impact and interest.

Above, contributed photo/ Rocky Wigre

Tex Gieling protests the pav-ing of Watmough Road.

Right, Weekly photo/ Cali Bagby

After county action, Jones Family Farms closed their farm stand Nov. 30.

SEE TOP FIVE, PAGE 8

EVERY DAY

ONLINEWWW.ISLANDSWEEKLY.COM

Contributed photo/

Robert S. Harrison

Lopez Center hosts a pho-tography show on New Year’s Eve. See more info on pg. 5.

Orca J-16 gives birth to fifth calf

NOAA’s NW Fisheries

Science Center and the Center for Whale Research have confirmed that 39-year-old J16 (Slick) gave birth to a new baby calf in Puget Sound on Dec. 17, probably only a few hours judging from the fresh fetal folds, before being seen and pho-tographed by veteran field researcher Candice Emmons of NWSFC.

This makes J16’s fifth calf since her first, J26, was born in 1991. She was the 16th J pod orca photographed and identified by Mike Bigg in

1972, and is among the oldest whose age is known exactly. Her matriline is known as the J7’s after J16’s late mother.

Photos of the family can be found by scroll-ing down the website http://www.whaler-esearch.com/orca_ID_matrilines.html.

Judge treads lightly on ‘Bandit’

The real Colton Harris-Moore bears little resemblance to the image of the brazen Barefoot Bandit who captured world-wide headlines with his

exploits during a two-year crime spree.

Instead, his defense attor-neys, a forensic psychia-trist and even prosecutors described him as a painfully shy young man who survived a horrendous childhood, is

embarrassed by media atten-tion and does not consider himself a folk hero.

Harris-Moore stared at his feet during most of his sen-tencing hearing that spanned Friday morning and most of the afternoon in Island County Superior Court in Coupeville.

The stories of Harris-Moore’s trials and tribula-tions apparently swayed Judge Vickie Churchill, who pointed out that she had sen-tenced him in a different case four years ago.

She balanced the sentenc-ing recommendations from the defense and prosecu-tion and came down in the middle, sending the former Camano Island resident to prison for seven years and three months.

Before the sentencing, Harris-Moore pleaded guilty to a total of 16 counts from Island County, including theft of a firearm and residential burglary.

Then the hearing contin-ued with Harris-Moore plead-ing guilty to 17 counts from

San Juan County.See full story at www.

islandsweekly.com.

Salmon Hatchery gifted $6,900

Puget Sound Anglers Resurrection Derby donates $6,900 to Orcas Island Hatchery.

The San Juan Islands Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers donated the proceeds from the 2011 Resurrection Salmon Derby to Long Live the Kings Glenwood

Springs Hatchery On Dec. 15. The gift of

$6,900 represents $100 out of each entry fee for the 69 teams who entered the tour-nament.

These funds will go toward keeping the hatchery pro-gram going amid state and federal funding cuts.

Representatives from the derby hope to show the importance of propagating vital salmon stocks through healthy hatchery practices, as well as habitat restora-tion. Glenwood Springs is a pioneer in “natural rearing” salmon producing techniques that mimic nature.

Each year the facil-ity host hundreds of guests from school, camp and tour groups. The hatchery made news earlier in the year with an unprecedented return of 2,200 Chinook Salmon.

Friday Harbor’s Resurrection Derby is the last stop of the year for the Northwest Salmon Derby Series.

FRI, DEC 30

ART: Winter Storytelling & Music, 7-8 p.m., library. Join Kip, Stanley, Rosie, and Alie for holiday sto-ries. to warm you up this winter.

CLASSES: Drop- in Computer Training, 10 -11 a.m., library community meeting room.

OUTDOORS: The Fisherman Bay Marine Health Observatory Bird Survey, 2-4 p.m., Fisherman Bay Preserve parking area. This ongoing weekly survey is in its second year. Surveyors travel to seven sites around Fisherman Bay to observe seabirds and waterfowl. FBMHO is a collab-orative initiative between Kwiaht

and WSU Beach Watchers in cooperation with the San Juan County Land Bank, and these weekly bird surveys are part of a larger effort to establish baseline data on the health of Fisherman’s Bay.

SAT, DEC 31

MUSIC: Lopez Photography Show and Tiempo de Lopez New Year’s Concert, 8 p.m., Lopez Center. To submit photos, contact Carolyn Cameron at bearpaws@gmail.com for more info.

PARTY: New Year’s Eve Party at the Lopez Islander Resort Restaurant, 5 p.m. - 1 a.m., Lopez Island Resort. For more info, visit

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PARTY: New Year’s Eve Party - Karaoke, 9 p.m. -1 a.m, the Galley.

MON, JAN 2

READING: Adult Winter Reading Program Begins, 10 a.m., library. Program runs until March 3. Win prizes by writing short reviews of what you read. For more info, visit www.lopezli-brary.org.

TUES, JAN 3

MEETING: SJC Council Citizens Access, 10 -11:30 a.m., library.

THURS, JAN 5

MEETING: Monthly Lopez Grange Meeting, 7 -9 p.m., Lopez Island Grange.

FRI, JAN 6

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

SAT, JAN 7

MUSIC: JEM Jazz Trio, 7 p.m., Lopez Center for Community

and the Arts.

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

MON, JAN 9

MEETING: LCCA Board Meeting, 9:15 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. If you would like to address the board please contact either Janet Baltzer (director) at director@lopezcenter.org or Lexi Taylor (chair) at sealexi@gmail.com. or call 468-2203.

MEETING: 4-H Meeting, 7-9 p.m., Lopez Firehall. Kids 3rd grade thru 12th can join. Many projects to choose from.4-H general meetings are held the 2nd Monday of every month at 7:00 pm at the Lopez Firehall. All family members welcome to attend. For more information call Delores at 468-2707.

THURS, JAN 12

MEETING: Port of Lopez Monthly Meeting, 7 p.m., library meeting room. For more info, visit www.portoflopez.com.

FRI, JAN 13

MUSIC: Community Performance Night, 7-9 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Cafe style seating, no-host bar of beer, wine and juice. Popcorn and tea provided.

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

Rosie. Toddlers to six years.MON, JAN 16

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

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“If it hadn’t been for my high school biol-ogy teacher, I would

never have considered going to medical school,” said Lopez resident, Gerhard Hoffman. “As the son of German immigrants, college seemed unlikely.”

Hoffman was born in 1930, in Sheboygan, Wis.

His father had been spon-sored to come to America by a family relative and was employed by the Kohler Company.

While Hoffman was still an infant, Kohler employees went on an extended strike so the family moved to Jamestown, N.D., where his father worked in a creamery as buttermaker.

Young Hoffman found summer employment in creameries from the age of 14 and throughout his school years.

At sixteen he had his own truck route delivering milk, ice cream, and beer.

“During World War II, help was scarce. I could hold the creamery job and shock wheat and oats after hours on farms,” Hoffman said.

Both of Hoffman’s parents spoke with a heavy German accent, so he was harassed during the war years.

“Calling me a Nazi led to fights,” Hoffman said. “I

was told not to start a fight but not to let myself get beaten up. I learned a lot about racism even though I was white.”

There was a lack of money everywhere dur-ing the depres-sion.

On one mem-orable occasion while living in J a m e s t o w n , Hoffman, age six, was sent to the store with a dime in his mit-ten to buy a loaf of bread.

When he got to the store, he couldn’t find the coin.

“The following spring,” Hoffman said, “I found the dime in melting snow on the sidewalk leading to our house.

It was too late. The spanking was long

past.”At sixteen, Hoffman moved

to Everett, Washington, with his family.

“I didn’t want to move,” he said, “but I was very glad we were away from the winter blizzards and summer heat

and humidity. The moun-tains and forests reminded my folks of their home in Germany. I thought the mountains were clouds as we drove toward them. I couldn’t believe land would

be sticking up that high.” Hoffman had planned to

go into the creamery busi-ness after high school gradu-ation.

“My most encourag-ing teacher, biologist Andy Holland, told me I should be a doctor,” he said. “He helped

me obtain scholar-ships to Everett Junior College for two years. It was a surprise to learn he was living on Lopez when I moved here. He was the kind of teacher and mentor that many students need.”

Hoffman trans-ferred to church-based North

Central College, in Naperville, Illinois.

Following their outstand-

ing pre-med program, Hoffman was accepted by the University of Washington Medical School.

A two-year draft for eligible men to serve in the military was in effect during the Korean War.

H o f f m a n obtained a defer-ment while he was in college and medical school.

“To fulfill my military ser-vice,” he said. “I spent 6 and a half years in the U.S. Public Health Service that provided care to the Coast Guard and

Merchant Marine. For six weeks, I was on a Coast Guard ship in the North Atlantic that gave navigational aid to all trans-Atlantic flights including Kruschev’s legend-ary trip to the U.N. when he pounded the desk with his shoe.”

Hoffman com-pleted his radiol-ogy residency at Staten Island, New York, and a fellow-ship at Columbia P r e s b y t e r i a n Hospital in upper Manhattan during his service time.

During his first marriage and with four children,

Hoffman went into private practice in Mt. Vernon, Wash., for 20 years.

After selling the practice, Hoffman became Medical Director of Radiology at Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls, Idaho, for ten years.

“I obtained licenses in six states and did locum tenens work after retire-m e n t . ” H o f f m a n said. “Since I had been a solo prac-titioner, I appreciated their need. I liked filling in for doctors who could

not leave their practices oth-erwise. It was delightful to practice radiology without the stresses of personnel and paperwork.

“I started with plain X-ray film, G.I. and kidney studies, some cancer therapy, and iso-tope imaging,” Hoffman said about his specialty. “The field rapidly moved to using ultra-sound, CT, MRI, and PET scans. Continuing education courses kept me extremely busy but it was always stimu-lating to learn from the wiz-ards in those fields.

“I bought property on Lopez in 1966 and had a cabin built,” Hoffman said. “It was accessible, and a delightful change of pace. The beauty here is very spe-cial. I met and married my second wife, Rita, in Twin Falls, we expanded the cabin and moved here in 1992. The friendships and activities on

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Spotlight on SeniorsGerhard Hoffman, Lopez Island

by Rita Larom

Contributed photos

This week’s Spotlight on Seniors features Gerhard Hoffman shown then and now.

LOPEZ ISLANDCHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY CHURCH, Now

meeting at 10:00 AM at the Lopez Elementary School

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

CTKonline.com/lopez or email lopez@CTKonline.com

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes

you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:30

am. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane.

468-3477. Everyone welcome!

LOPEZ ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH, 91 Lopez

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

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

LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS, Sundays

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

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

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

QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Meetings will be Sundays

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

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

468-2129. Email: lopezfriends@gmail.com

ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship

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

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

2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

Worship Services in the Islands

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Did you shoplocally this winter?

“I bought property on Lopez in 1966 and had a cabin built. It was accessible, and a delightful change of pace.

—Gerhard Hoffman

art in viewo n l i n e a t

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By Cali Bagby

With the beating of congas and bongo, and voices sing-ing, the Lopez new year will be rung in with hip-shaking and toe tappin’ tunes.

The local band Tiempo de Lopez, who plays “Hot Caribbean” dance music, will be performing Saturday, Dec. 31, 8:30 p.m. a the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.

“With the community we are bringing in the new year 2012 and everything that goes with it,” said Jaime Alarcon, on lead and backup vocals and percussion. “It is a time of change, the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new one. Hopefully there will be more balance in the new year and in the universe.”

Tiempo de Lopez formed in 2009 after a similar group — Santos de Lopez, which played on the island in the last 80s and early 90s, dis-banded.

“Our intention as a band is to sing songs about healing, empowerment, taking care of earth, and generations to come,” said Alarcon.

Musicians Hawk Arps, Deborah Boneville, Jaime Cordova, Lark Dalton, Sand Dalton, Colin Doherty, Christy Johnson, Donnie Poole, and Steve Sovelove will be seen on stage with various instruments includ-ing the vibraphone, bongo, trumpet, saxophone and many more.

The Lopezian musicians sing in Spanish and English, and perform a range of

genres from “soca” played in Trinidad, to “reggae” played in Jamaica, to New Orleans style music and “mambo.”

The group’s name Tiempo de Lopez translates to The Lopez Time, which Alarcon

said is not a reference to tempo or the speed, but rath-er the idea of living in the present.

“If you just live in the pres-ence you would never age,” said Alarcon. “Because there

is no past or future just the now.”

He adds that the New Year show will be filled with lots of dancing, families, the spirit of community and the band’s enthusiasm.

“The band is like a fam-ily,” said Alarcon. “We all love each other and like to be together. It’s a very sweet band.”

Their Facebook site is already full of comments like “Lucky us,” I’m looking for-ward to a night of dancing,” and “you rock.”

Concert goers are urged to bring a dessert or finger food to share. Beer, wine, juice and tea are available for sale.

For more info, visit w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m /events/243450555723305.

Tickets in advance and at the door are $10 for adults and $5 for youths, and are available from the Lopez Center office, online at www.lopezcenter.org and at Paper Scissors on the Rock, and Blossom Organic Grocery. Youth five years and under are free.

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Tiempo de Lopez rings in the new yearContributed photo

Members of the band Tiempo de Lopez, who will play “Hot Caribbean” dance music on Dec. 31.

By Carol RondelloSpecial to the Islands’ Weekly

Thanks to all who rolled up their sleeves to donate at the Lopez Island Community Blood Drive on behalf of patients in our community’s hospitals, I wish to extend our thanks.

During your blood drive on Dec. 16, Puget Sound Blood Center registered 35 people to donate blood.

This will bring health and comfort to many patients. Your blood drive has helped us build up the blood supply for the holidays.

The blood donations col-lected at the blood drive are critical in order to maintain a stable blood supply for sur-geries, medical emergencies, and for supporting patients battling life-threatening ill-nesses like cancer and leu-

kemia.Thanks to all donors who

took time out of their busy day to donate blood. With great appreciation to Lopez Island Lions Club for blood drive sponsorship, Don Langrock for organizing the drive and fellow Lions Club members for their assistance, the Community Church for providing the blood drive site, and the volunteers who

helped on the day of the drive. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Each weekday, 900 people must donate blood to meet the needs of patients in west-ern Washington hospitals. Your blood drive has played an important role in helping meet that goal.

The following patients are just a few of the many who have received blood from Puget Sound Blood Center in the past few days. The blood was available for them, thanks to blood drives like yours:

· 12 day old infant patient: Open Heart Surgery. Patient used: 13 units Red Blood Cells, 4 units Plasma, 3 units Platelets and 2 units Cryoprecipitate.

· 65 year old patient: Liver Failure. Patient used: 14 units Red Blood Cells, 12 units Plasma and 2 units Platelets.

· 51 year old patient: Heart Transplant. Patient used: 32 units Red Blood Cells, 28 units Plasma, 10 units Platelets and 2 Cryoprecipitate Pools.

· 34 year old patient: Aortic Aneurysm. Patient used: 16 units Red Blood Cells, 20 units Plasma, 8 units Platelets and 5 Cryoprecipitate Pools.

50 year old patient: Gastro-intestinal Bleeding. Patient used: 16 units Red Blood Cells, 11 units Plasma, 1 unit Platelets and 2 Cryoprecipitate Pools.

Next blood drive is on Friday, March 16.

— Carol Rondello is the mobile representa-tive for the Puget Sound Blood Center

Lopez blood drive helped to save lives

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Lopez Center for Community and the Arts will host a photography show “The world through my eyes” on New Year’s Eve, from 6-8 p.m., which will be followed by a con-cert by Tiempo de Lopez.

Local Lopez photographers will showcase their work, which is lim-ited to two framed images on the wall and two matted images in bins.

At the time of this writing photogra-phers include Robyn Minkler, Cali Bagby, Nancy Edwards, Steve Horn, the Ewert family, Scott Hatch, Gregg Blomberg, Carolyn Cameron and Robert S. Harrison.

The subject of the photos will range from locations near and far. Scott Hatch will present the scenery of Lopez, Robert S. Harrison will dis-

play his photographs of the pilgrimage from the Camino de Santiago in Spain, Carolyn Cameron will show images of Barbados, and Islands’ Weekly Editor Cali Bagby will present images of her time Afghanistan.

Contact Cameron at bear-paws@gmail.com for more info.

‘The world through my eyes’ at Lopez Center

Contributed by Robert S. Harrison

Pilgrim placing a stone at the Cruz de Ferro at sunrise. Pilgrims traditionally bring a stone or item from their home to place at this cross, which is the highest point of the pilgrimage.Weekly photo/ Cali Bagby

An Afghan girl in the southeast region of Afghanistan. When asked if she would ever want to go to America she confidently shook her head no.

the island add to the richness of living here.”

“Faith, family, and friends give meaning to my life and its vagaries,” Hoffman con-cluded. “Happiness requires peace with oneself and the discovery of joy and humor in life as it really is.”

—This is my last regular column. My appreciation is extended to all who were inter-viewed during the past three years and an extra thank-you to my readers for their encour-agement.

HOFFMANCONTINUED FROM PAGE 3

“How many a [person] has dated a new era in life from the reading of a book.”

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We would like to thank County Council mem-

bers Fralick, Miller, Pratt, Rosenfeld, and Stephens for their decision on Dec. 5 not to support an effort by Councilman Peterson to weaken the proposed update to our county's exist-ing critical areas ordinance.

“Critical Areas” consist of wetlands, fish and wildlife

habitat, aquifer recharge areas, geohazardous areas, and frequently flooded areas.

Specifically, Mr. Peterson suggested modifying, without any support from the other five council mem-bers, the obligation of property owners to mitigate future damage to critical areas resulting from chang-

es to the development and use of their properties. (The updated CAO will contin-ue to grandfather existing structures and uses.)

Mr. Peterson proposed that owners be allowed to offset any harm they cause by taking offsetting credit for the unrelated voluntary preservation and restoration of critical areas, performed anywhere in the county, by any public or private orga-nization or individual, such

as the Land Bank, the San Juan Preservation Trust, the National Park Service, Friends of the San Juans, and other entities engaged in salmon recovery efforts.

Our preservation lands and projects

should not become a miti-gation piggy bank for new activities that harm criti-cal areas. If Mr. Peterson’s effort had been successful, the result would have been unfair and poor public pol-icy.

It is unreasonable to argue that property own-ers should be subsidized by the good works of unrelated organizations and individu-

als that have conducted, and will conduct, work to preserve and restore our county's critical areas and salmon habitat.

If his proposal had been accepted, all of the preser-vation and restoration work performed in our county by public and private organi-zations, since their found-ing, would have been at risk of being offset by damage done by property owners who would no longer be motivated to avoid harm to critical areas.

Our county would have taken a huge step backwards in protecting the environ-ment we all cherish.

Moreover, had Mr. Peterson’s effort been suc-cessful, there would likely have been a negative impact on potential funding sourc-es, which would be reluctant to finance future restoration projects serving as a — “get out of jail free” card — for property owners who harm critical areas.

In the recent debate about renewal of the real estate tax that funds the Land Bank,

Mr. Peterson and many of his supporters criticized the Land Bank, claiming it had strayed from its char-ter and founding principles. It is reasonable to assume that he and most of his sup-porters voted against the renewal.

Apparently, these same individuals now believe it is acceptable for the efforts of the Land Bank to be used to benefit private landowners.

Do they now believe this is consistent with the Land Bank’s charter and founding principles?

We encourage all council members to continue their efforts to reach a consensus on a balanced and reason-able outcome to the update of the critical areas ordi-nance and not to weaken the preservation and pro-tection of our critical areas.

— Contributed by Marilyn Gresseth, Gretchen Gubelman, Clare Kelm on San Juan, Sharon Abreu, Irmgard Conley, Marta Nielson on Orcas, and Dixie Budke, San Olson Lopez.

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Happy 17th Birthday Everett-XOXO

August.The changes follow the

Nov. 8 election when voters rejected a proposal for a par-cel fee to help fund the finan-cially troubled county solid waste utility.

The rejection was con-strued as a vote for “Plan B” — which ends the county’s operation of solid waste facili-ties and moves to roadside pickups for almost all resi-dential trash and recycling.

Two years prior, a group called Take Back The Dump formed and studied the Lopez Transfer Station opera-tions and financial feasibility of local control.

The Port of Lopez is sched-uled to have an agreement with the San Juan County Council approving the lease terms by the first week of February, probably taking over operations by the end of summer, according to Port Commissioner Dan Post.

No. 1: “End of the road for Watmough”

Despite the cold wind whipping hair across their faces, the protesters’ tears were visible. In dismay, one man turned his back, refus-ing to look. With a furrowed

brow, one woman watched as she gripped a sign reading “Pavement is forever.”

“Where is the democracy in this?” asked protester Tex Gieling, who has lived near the Lopez Island rural road since 1955. Over those years she watched the road change from one lane to two lanes and from dirt to gravel.

Nearly 30 Lopezians gath-ered near Watmough on Aug. 8 and 9 to peacefully protest the chip-sealing of Watmough Head Road, a stretch of road just under a mile on the south end of Lopez Island.

To many residents the fail-ure to stop the chip-sealing, a pavement surface treatment combing asphalt and aggre-gate, represented something larger than the state of the

road: it indicated a failed sys-tem of a government meant to act on behalf of the people.

Honorable mention“Jack Sovelove earns hon-

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Secretary of State, Sam Reed presented fifth grader Jack Sovelove with a certifi-cate of award and honorable mention for his art featured in the 3.5 million copies of the 2010 statewide Voters’ Pamphlet.

“Lynn and Marlys Waller win 2011 Spirit Award”

The Lopez Community Center Association awarded Lynn and Marlys Waller the 2011 Dolly and Andy Holland Lopez Spirit Award. Established in 2000, the Spirit

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Cyrus Froning said his favorite comic strips are “Calvin and Hobbes,” “Garfield” and “Wizard of Id.” The nine-year-old like comics that are funny, but also have a storyline.

Cyrus has been drawing

for years, but tried his hand at comics around October. The cartoon, shown above, was inspired by his mother who asked him to create a Christmas themed comic, which he did.

Samy the Squid was an

ideal first character because “it’s the easiest to draw,” he said.

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Samy the Squid by Cyrus Froning

Contributed photo

Susan Bill’s adopted chil-dren, Marta, Solomon and Emebet walk across Ethiopia’s landscape to be reunited with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who they hadn’t seen in years.

Above, Journal photo/ Cali Bagby

Left, contributed photo/ Cyrus Froning

Cyrus Froning, shown above, is the author of the comic strip, shown left.

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