By Rebecca GourleyWNPA Olympia News Service

The push to label geneti-cally modified organisms – termed GMOs – is back on the table in Olympia.

But the focus is on geneti-cally engineered, or trans-genic, fish.

A transgenic animal has had one animal’s DNA spliced with another to create an animal with new

characteristics. House Bill 2143 proposes to ensure that consumers will know exactly what kind of fish they are purchasing at the supermarket – wheth-er it’s farm-raised, wild-caught or “genetically engineered.”

Before a Jan. 17 hear-ing on the bill in the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, bill spon-

sor Rep. Cary Condotta, R-East Wenatchee, said he plans to introduce two amendments that would more clearly define several terms in the proposed leg-islation. Under the amend-ments, the bill’s definition of genetically engineered would be changed to “transgenic” and it would target only fish raised in natural freshwater, such as lakes and streams, rather than enclosed tanks.

The changes would address two concerns raised at the hearing by John Dentler of Troutlodge, the oldest aquaculture company

in Washington. Troutlodge, headquartered in Bonney Lake, Pierce County, pro-duces triploid trout eggs. With three sets of chromo-somes instead of two, the fish are sterile.

Dentler says the bill is vague in its definitions and it doesn’t address the triploid fish. Dentler also said that the bill’s defini-tion of “state waters” is not defined well enough and may encompass fish research performed by the University of Washington and Washington State University.

Prior to the hearing, Condotta recognized these concerns and said they would be addressed in the coming amendments. However, the bill would still prohibit the production of transgenic fish in freshwa-ter net pens.

One concern the bill aims to address is the risk of transgenic fish escaping into native-fish habitats. Condotta said he questions

By Lopez School’s LEGO Robotics teamSpecial to the Weekly

Imagine Lopez Island hit by a severe windstorm. Power is out, and so is the water pump. How long will you survive? How can you prepare for such a situation?

These are research questions the Lego Robotics team members of Lopez Elementary and Middle School sought to find answers to. After some research and talk-ing to local experts, the team created a website and made educational movies to share what they learned

about emergency pre-paredness.

Calling themselves “Stormcrafters,” the team members presented their project at the regional First LEGO League tournament on Jan. 19.

In addition to research projects about natural disas-ters – the theme of the FLL tournament this year—a main area of competition is a robot game: building and programming robots to complete assigned missions.

The Lopez “Stormcrafters” came in fifth out of 50 teams on the robot game. They also scored highly in the

other areas: core values (teamwork and gracious professionalism), robot design, and research proj-ect. The team was chosen to compete in the semi-final tournament on Feb. 9 in Mill Creek, and so was the team from Waldron Island. Another team from the San Juans, the Shaw Island team, received an award for project research.

Lopez’s FLL Robotics is coached by parent Ingrid Vliet and comprises third-eighth grade students: Kai Di Bona, Jaden Eaton, Ty Greacen, Canyon Hernandez-Doherty, Indigo

Luckhurst, Brandon Miller, Aaron Vliet and Naomi Vliet.

To learn about their proj-ect and emergency pre-

paredness, visit their web-site, stormcrafters.weebly.com. The site features fun brick-film animation movies about how to, and not to,

prepare for a storm, as well as an educational “adven-ture map” for fans of a popu-lar computer game called Minecraft.

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What are our rights?After enjoying a slight

respite from jet noise last

autumn, it seems in the past few weeks the jets are back in full force, and seem to be louder than ever. I just found out the reason.

In mid-2013, Citizens of Ebey Reserve, a Coupeville group committed to getting the Navy to remove the EA-18G Growler jets from NAS Whidbey, succeeded in getting a temporary sus-pension of flight training at OLF Coupeville. Their lawsuit alleged that the field, built for World War II planes, does not meet Navy

requirements for use with modern jets and has dan-gerous crash zones overlap-ping with homes and busi-nesses. That suspension ended and the jets started flying again out of OLF on Jan. 6.

The Navy is proposing to continue and increase Growler operations at both Ault Field in Oak Harbor and OLF Coupeville. Since 2008, the flights at OLF increased 368 percent, and that number is likely to go up. COER poses the ques-tion on their website, “what rights do communities have today in regards to the mili-tary and government since 9-11? Are citizens required to allow their lives, environ-ment, and livelihoods to be disrupted or even destroyed with no say in the matter?”

Coupeville is dealing with safety issues and the dam-

aging effects of ongoing, high decibel noise on sleep, children’s behavior, hearing loss, and general health, issues that we on Lopez may want to pay attention to. The community has also noticed the severe repres-sion of property values and effects on tourism and the economic well-being of their town.

On Feb. 12, Lopezians will have a chance to meet with the Citizens of Ebey Reserve.

For more information on how a regional effort might be able to convince the Navy to make some radical changes to its future plans and policies, join the representatives of Citizens of Ebey Reserve at Grace Church on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 4:30-6 p.m.

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CLASSES: Conversational Spanish for Beginners, Six Tuesdays, 5:15 to 6:30 p.m., at instructor’s house, $40 fee. Instructed by Dandy Porter and Gabby Velazquez. For more infor-mation, call the LIFRC at

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THURS, FEB 6MEETING: Caregiver Support Group, 1 p.m., Lopez Island Hospice and Home Support Office, 178 Weeks Road. For more info, call 468-4446.

EVENT: Zipper Dance: Partner Dancing Through Co-Leadership, 6 p.m., Lopez Center. Admission: by donation. Suggested dona-tion: adult $15, youth $5.

SAT, FEB 8MUSIC: Lane Langford and Friends Concert, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center. Tickets at the door $15/adult $10/youth.

ART: Chimera Gallery Opening, “Art from the Heart,” 5-7 p.m., Chimera Gallery, Lopez Village Plaza. Join us for new work, drinks and snacks. Show runs from Feb. 8 - March 7.

SUN, FEB 9FOOD: Lopez Locavores Winter Film Series presents “American Meat,” 4:30 p.m., Port Stanley School. The movie is a solutions-ori-ented documentary look-ing beyond our current industrial meat production system, showing how the U.S. can feed itself on more humane, healthier grass-based farms.

OUTDOORS: Soggy Bottom Golf Tournament, brunch and sign-in at 10 a.m.; tee off at 11 a.m., Lopez Island Golf Course. Fundraiser for Lopez Island Hospice. Contact Vaughan Williams to register: 468-2922 or vewil-liams@centurytel.net.

EVENT: 4-H Bingo for Pies, 2 - 4 p.m., Lopez Grange Hall. Come support the 4-H and have fun playing Bingo at the same time. All donations of baked goods gratefully accepted.

WEDS, FEB 12CLASSES: Less Noise Meeting, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., Grace Church Meeting Room. Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve for a Healthy Safe and Peaceful Environment will present their view of NAS Whidbey today, the pro-jected growth (addition of

EA-18G’s AND P-8A’S) by 2016 and how this growth will affect San Juan County and the region.

THURS, FEB 13CLASSES: Learning to Draw, FourThursdays, 3 – 4:30 p.m., at the Lopez Library. $25 if paid by 1/30, $30 after 1/30. Instructed by Sylvia Chesley Smith, syl-viachesleysmith.com. For more information, call the LIFRC at 468-4117 or go to www.lifrc.org.

MEETING: The Lopez Island Garden Club, Woodmen Hall on Fisherman Bay Road. Coffee and goodies at 9:30 a.m., the meeting begins at 10 a.m. Kris Bayas from the WSU Extension Office of San Juan County will be speaking on “Compost: Best Practices.”

FRI, FEB 14EVENT: Opening reception and talk by Russel Barsh for an annotated display of German modernist ceram-ics, 6 - 8 p.m., Lopez Island Library. The ceramics are from the 1920s and 1930s by artists that were banned, imprisoned or deported for making “entartete Kunst” (degen-erate art) by the Third Reich, many of whom inspired artists in the countries to which they were forced to flee.

SAT, FEB 15MUSIC: Joe Reilly and Allison Radell with Lopezians Jaime Cordova and Colin Doherty, 4 p.m., Lopez Center. Tickets: $15/adult $5/youth.

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By Rick LarsenSpecial to the Weekly

Growing up in Arlington, a lot of my friends worked minimum-wage jobs. I worked at a bookbindery during high school, pulling in about $3.50 an hour dur-ing the summer break.

That image of a high school student working a few hours a week for some extra cash is the idea that a lot of us get when we think about the minimum wage. Opponents of rais-ing the minimum wage use that antiquated portrait to oppose wage increases today. They say a higher wage hurts businesses only to put a few extra bucks in the pockets of teenagers.

But the reality is that picture falls terribly short in illustrating the reality of the low-wage labor market today. So let’s debunk that myth now. The truth is that low-wage workers are older and often the sole breadwin-ners to support their fami-lies. Here are the stats, from the Center for Economic and Policy Research:

In 1979, 27 percent of low-wage workers were teenag-ers. Today just 12 percent are. The average age of low-wage workers is 35 years old.

One in 10 low-wage work-ers are college graduates, double the number from 1979. Women, who make up 49 percent of the workforce,

account for 56 percent of low-wage earners.

Here’s another fact: work-ing full time at the minimum wage is not enough to keep families out of poverty. That $3.50 an hour I was making back in the early 1980s may not sound like much, but the sad truth is that is actu-ally more than minimum wage workers are earning around the country today, when adjusted for inflation.

It is unacceptable that millions of people are work-ing full time at the minimum wage but still fall under the poverty line. Clearly it’s time for a change.

A few weeks ago, I joined more than 170 of my col-leagues to co-sponsor the Fair Minimum Wage Act. This bill will raise the fed-eral minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 and tie future increases to keep pace with inflation. Independent economists estimate such a change would lift 4.6 million people out of poverty.

Six years after the Great Recession hit, economists agree that the United States is on a strong rebound. The economy is growing, com-panies are hiring, and the stock markets are soaring.

But dig a little deeper into the data and you will find some troubling facts. The vast majority of income increases in the last few years have gone to the top earners. According to research at UC Berkeley,

the top 1 percent of income earners took home 95 per-cent of the income increas-es between 2009 and 2012.

Earlier this week, The Bellingham Herald report-ed that with half of all Whatcom County’s jobs in low-paying retail and ser-vice industries, the county’s wages have stagnated lower than state and national levels for the last decade. Middle-class jobs that were axed in the recession are being replaced by low-wage jobs.

That makes it all the more important to raise the mini-mum wage. But there are other reasons to do it, too. Raising the minimum wage does more than help low-wage workers. Low-wage earners spend a far greater percentage of their pay-check than higher earners, meaning that most of the increased wages would be

injected directly back into the economy. Economists estimate that an increase to $10.10 an hour would gener-ate $22 billion in increased economic activity, creating 85,000 new jobs.

We need to do a lot more than raise the mini-mum wage to truly com-bat rising income inequal-ity. One of the first things that Congress needs to do is extend emergency unem-ployment insurance that Congressional Republicans let expire last month. These benefits are often the last thing stopping people who are looking for work from falling into poverty.

We need to invest in education, so the next gen-eration of workers can get the best jobs and grow the economy for all.

And of course we need to stay focused on creat-ing good-paying, middle-class jobs by investing in transportation infrastruc-ture, fueling small business growth and finding new markets to sell American-made products.

It is not a very compli-cated idea: In the largest economy in the world, peo-ple should be able to get a good education, find a job and be paid a salary that lets them feed and house their families. Making sure that a minimum wage pays enough to keep families out of poverty is an important first start to getting there.

— Editor’s note: U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Everett, represents the 2nd District, which includes parts

of Bellingham, Sudden Valley, San Juan, Island, and portions of Skagit and Snohomish counties.

By Chom GreacenSpecial to the Weekly

Here is a confession: I LOVE the Take-It-Or-Leave-It!

My love affair with Take-It-Or-Leave-It dates way back. But now I want to come clean because I finally have some data to retroac-tively justify my behavior.

It all started with my fas-cination with stuff!

We all need and want stuff.

Electronics, clothes, refrigerators, furniture, cars

and building supplies, con-sumer goods and products as well as their associated packaging are an essential part of our daily life. Along with food, shelter, and trans-portation, products (stuff!) are the spoils of an indus-trial economy that fulfill the needs and wants of so many of us.

What do you think is the largest contributing source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions? It is not heat-ing and cooling of buildings. Nor transportation or food

production. It’s production of all the stuff we consume.

From mining of raw materials and minerals, to turning them into finished products, wrapping them in protective, attractive pack-aging, and shipping them from factories (mostly over-seas) to our local stores or homes, the entire process of buying and using products account for 44 percent of our country’s total carbon footprint.

But what does climate change have to do with Take-It-Or-Leave-It?

Because most of the car-bon footprint from consum-er goods is from extraction

and production of new prod-ucts, Take-It-Or-Leave-It has helped me and many oth-ers on Lopez to reuse and repurpose items, extend their lives, reduce the need for new stuff and hence reduce our collective car-bon footprint.

I am immensely grate-ful to Neil Hanson for his vision in founding Take-It-Or-Leave-It (Neil’s Mall) over two decades ago, and to all of the volunteers who help maintain it. Take-It-Or-Leave-It provides a huge service to our community. It takes over 50 pairs of helping hands to run the operation for both Leavers

and Takers to be able to reuse and recycle stuff.

The presence of volun-teers has helped to dras-tically reduce the cost of disposing trash that comes into Neil’s Mall. Each year, moldy, broken-beyond-repair and unwanted items cost the dump thousands of dollars to dispose of. As we become more careful about what we leave, we help bring down costs and improve the experience for us all.

I’m proud of Take-It-Or-Leave-It as an iconic, endearing Lopez institution, a great, shining example of gift economy, and a great

support system that enables me to become less attached to owning and consuming things. With its “free take-it” and “return” policy, Neil’s Mall has enabled me to address my weakness for stuff without depleting my pocketbook or the world’s resources.

I am even more proud of the Lopez community for voting overwhelmingly to create Lopez Solid Waste Disposal District and to tax ourselves to help fund its operations so we can move towards the zero waste goal. Deep gratitude to such a great, visionary community. Thank you.

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By Cali BagbyWeekly editor

Lang Langford likes to create benefit shows for one main reason — it makes him happy.

“I do it because I don’t want to make money for myself, I want to make money for someone else, it just makes me feel better to do it that way,” said Langford, shown right.

With that belief in mind, Langford is presenting his third show benefitting the Lopez Island Family Resource Center and the Children’s Center. The show, called “Warmth In The Depth Of Winter” will be at the Lopez Center, Saturday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m.

At last year’s performance, Langford and several of his fellow music makers raised about $2,000 for the Lopez Island Family Resource Center and the Children’s House.

Langford said he wanted to do a benefit for LIFR and the Children’s House because of the importance of young people in society.

“I see that having children in the world is human-ity’s greatest sign of hope. I’ve always believed that,” said Langford. “I love organizations that foster that hope for kids and families through education and food … things that keep

families together.”For the last three months, Langford has been busy pull-

ing everything together including a great line-up of per-formers joining him for the concert.

His long-time friend Byl Leonard will perform a few solo numbers and Byl’s brother James Leonard is coming to work the sound and make a recording of the performance. Other musicians will be Geoff Heard, Todd Goldsmith, Colin Doherty, Bill Johnson, Sand Dalton, Becky Johnson, Nick and Susie Teague, Libby Valluzzi, JC Marean, Helen Sanders, and Dave Rucker will be working the lights.

“There will be totally different music from last year,” said Langford. “The music ranges from folk country to spiritual to rock to jazz to ballads. There will be all sorts of different music, it will be like letting a Beatles record spin, every song will be a different one than you heard before.”

Langford will also perform several songs he has written.He said he likes to have variety in his shows because “a

song is similar to a snapshot of life.”“If you can write a song that captures an emotion that

makes it timeless,” he said. “Music can make us feel we are not so alone, that we are all sharing the same emotion

through a song. If I have written or peformed something that makes people laugh or cry, I have succeeded.”

CD’s will be available for sale to help with the cost of air-fare for musicians in the show traveling from Hawaii.

Tickets at door: adult $15, youth $10.

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League of Women Voters’ meeting

The upcoming general meeting of the League of Women Voters of the San Juans will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the Garden Room at Key Bank (lower level) on San Juan Island from noon to 2 p.m.

Our speaker will be Dr. Frank James, Health Officer with the County Department of Health and Community Services. James will speak to us about

the public health threats he sees in our county.

Our county has one of the lowest rates of immuniza-tion in the state. In view of recent outbreaks of chicken pox and whooping cough in the islands, is this a statis-tic we should be concerned about? This and other health matters will be discussed at this important meeting. The public is welcome to join our members.

‘Warmth In The Depth Of Winter’ returns

By Scott RasmussenJournal editor

Nearly a decade after the southern resident killer whales were listed as endangered under federal law, the U.S. Fisheries Service is now proposing to give Lolita -- the orca captured 44 years ago in Penn Cove and sold to a Florida aquarium – protection of the Endangered Species Act as well.

On Jan. 16, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration backpedaled from its previous stance and recommended that Lolita, also known as Tokitae, be includ-ed along with its Southern resident cousins on the ESA. The agency will accept public comment on the proposal until March 28 and then begin a months-long exploration as to what type of protection such a designation would afford to the captive killer whale.

But if you think that means the captive orca will be released from Miami Seaquarium and reintroduced to the waters off Washington state, don’t hold your breath. That might take awhile, if ever.

Lynne Barre, branch chief for protected resources at the National Marine Fisheries Service, said the Lolita’s proposed listing under the ESA includes language in which reintroducing the orca into the wild could be considered a “take,” creating potential harm to the animal, which in itself would be a violation of the ESA. Still, she said that the agency will consider comments about a possible relocation as part of its upcoming evaluation.

Barre noted that other animals afforded protection under the ESA remain in captivity for various reasons, as part of breeding programs, because of injuries or because they have never been acclimated to the wild. Examples include monk seals, sturgeon and small-tooth sawfish, as well as chimpanzees.

She said the Fisheries Service is collaborating with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is faced with a similar dilemma following its proposal last year to list chimpanzees under the ESA.

“We’ll be collaborating with our colleagues at Fish and Wildlife about how the ESA applies to captive animals,” she said. “Because of the similarities we may look to each other for guidance.”

Barre said that although the Endangered Species Act has been in effect now for 40 years, circumstances arise, such as management and treatment of captive ESA animals, where there’s uncertainty about what the interpretation of that law means.

Declared endangered by the U.S. in 2005, the southern residents consist of three closely related clans, J, K, and L pods, which make the waterways of the San Juan Islands a seasonal home. The population, believed to have been historically in the 100s, plummeted to 71 by 1973 following the captures for marine parks, which ended in the 1970s. It rebounded to 80 in 2002, and has hovered in the mid-80s since that time. The southern residents are also considered endangered in Canada.

Scientists believe a prolonged decline of the killer whales’ preferred prey, Chinook salmon, disturbance from vessels, and pollution are the leading threats to the population’s survival.

Lolita is the only survivor of 45 southern resident orcas once held in captivity. She is believed to have been about six years old when she was captured in 1970, along with six other southern resident whales, and has lived her entire life in a pool at Seaquarium in Miami, Fla. Lolita has not had the companionship of another killer whale for more than 30 years, since her pool mate, Hugo, died in 1980 after repeatedly slamming his head against the side of the pool he shared with Lolita for two years.

Orca advocates, along with several prominent animal rights groups, such as the Animal Legal Defense Fund and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, have sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees living conditions of animals held in captivity, like Lolita, over the living conditions of the captive killer whale. In addition to being denied companionship, the lawsuit argues that the

tank in which Lolita is held is too small for its size. Miami Seaquarium maintains the whale’s living condition comply with or exceed the Department of Agriculture’s regulations.

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the sterility of the trans-genic fish and doesn’t want to take the chance of them escaping and possibly cross-breeding with other salmon.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve genetically engi-neered fish for human con-sumption, but some in the industry expect that policy to change soon.

A q u a B o u n t y Technologies, based in Massachusetts, is producing its genetically engineered fish, AquAdvantage Salmon, at a facility in Canada because Environment Canada, that country’s government agen-cy on everything related to the environment, said they pose no risk to the environ-ment. This decision was recently challenged by Ecology Action Centre and Living Oceans Society, two nonprofit activist groups in Canada.

The lawsuit says Environment Canada acted “unlawfully” when they approved AquaBounty’s product. AquaBounty is seeking FDA approval to raise transgenic salmon in the United States for human

consumption. The fish would all be sterile females and would be produced in landlocked freshwater tanks, FDA spokesperson Theresa Eisenman said.

AquaBounty’s method of altering the DNA of the Atlantic salmon is to take a growth gene from the Chinook salmon and “splice” it with the DNA of the Atlantic salmon. This creates a fish that reaches maturity much faster than its natural counterparts, and therefore can be sold for food more quickly.

AquaBounty’s website says its fish should not be labeled “genetically engi-neered” because “the nutri-tional and biological com-position of AquAdvantage salmon is identical to Atlantic salmon.” The FDA agrees.

“In September 2010…based on the data and infor-mation received to date, food from AquAdvantage salmon appears to be as safe to eat as farmed, con-ventionally bred Atlantic salmon,” Eisenman said.

Condotta disagrees. “This is not similar,” he said. “This is a different product entire-ly and it should require its own label.”

Some large retailers such as Target, Trader Joe’s and

Whole Foods have stated they won’t sell the trans-genic fish even if the FDA approves it. Washington’s existing fish-farming indus-try also has concerns, Condotta said.

“People might reject farmed fish not knowing if they are buying GMO,” he said.

However, at the hearing on Friday, Alan Cook of Icicle Seafoods said he was opposed to the bill, even though they have no plans to rear transgenic fish.

“It’s already prohibited according to state regula-tions,” he said. “This law is not required.”

The production of trans-genic fish is already banned in Washington’s marine waters, said John Kerwin, fish health program man-ager for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Kerwin said that this bill would extend WAC 220-76-100 to include fresh-water.

Sen. Maralyn Chase, D-Shoreline, has introduced an identical bill, Senate Bill 6184. She also testified at the hearing Friday.

“It’s vital that we send the message to the federal government that we do not want this ‘new animal drug’ turned loose in our market,”

Chase said.The FDA has classi-

fied genetically modified animals as a “new animal drug.” Some in the industry say this categorization is its own problem.

“They [the FDA] doesn’t have the framework for genetically engineered ani-mals,” said Trudy Bialic, spokesperson for PCC Natural Markets in Seattle.

“This is a gross concern,” she continued. “The criteria for the assessment is less strict than for food addi-tives.”

Bialic was also a strong supporter for Initiative 522, the GMO Initiative, but believes this more narrow approach will be a better fit for Washington.

Condotta said he hopes consumers will be more sup-portive of this bill because it focuses on fish, rather than all GMOs. Last year, Washington voters rejected I-522, 49 to 51 percent.

— Editor’s note: News and information from the state capitol is provided to Sound Publishing, parent company of the Journal, through its affiliation with Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. Repor ter Rebecca Gourley is an intern with the WNPA Olympia News Bureau.

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Request for Proposalsfor San Juan County 2015

Lodging Tax Facilities Grant ProgramSan Juan County has established a tourism facilities program,

funded by a portion of the revenue collected under the State Lodging Tax excise statutes and is seeking proposals from qualified entities interested in 1) funding single project proposals concerned with acquiring, improving or developing facilities for enhancing the tourism experience; and/or 2) matching grants for operating tourism facilities that enhance the tourism experience; and/or 3) matching grants for events that draw tourists; and/or 4) projects that carry out the goals of the San Juan County LTAC Tourism Master Plan. The contract year will begin on January 1, 2015. The expected outcome of the funded activities is to increase economic activity in San Juan County in 2015 and beyond through the overnight lodging of tourists, through tourism-related expenditures, and construction of tourism-related facilities. Program categories are:

• Emphasis on Tourism facilities capital program (only for facili-ties in which the County has an ownership position):

• Construction • Improvement • Renovation• Matching grants for Tourism Events and Festivals designed to

attract tourists• Matching Grants for operation of existing eligible tourism fa-

cilities that meet the criteria of this RFP and the long-range tourism plan (including, but not limited to historic museums, performing arts, visual arts)

• Special Investments that help to accomplish objectives of the LTAC Master Plan (available online at: http://sanjuanco.com/LTAC)

The total available funding for 2015 will be approximately $480,000. Proposals are due no later than 4:30 p.m., April 11, 2014. For information and an application packet, visit the LTAC website: http://sanjuanco.com/LTAC or contact Sue Kollet at the office of County Council (360) 370-7470. Packets may be picked up from the Council Office at 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor, WA. Requests by mail should be sent to:

San Juan CountyLodging Tax Facilities Grant Program350 Court Street #1Friday Harbor, WA 98250.

By Steve WehrlyJournal reporter

The lawsuit against the Tesoro Corporation by fami-lies of seven workers killed in the 2010 Anacortes refin-ery explosion was settled in December for $39 million.

On Jan. 29, the federal Chemical Safety Board issued a draft report detail-ing extensive lapses in safety by Tesoro, by indus-try support groups such as the American Petroleum Institute and by state and federal regulatory agencies.

According to the report, the explosion and fire at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes “was caused by damage to the heat exchanger, a mechanism known as ‘high temperature hydrogen attack’ or HTHA, which severely cracked and weakened carbon steel tub-ing leading to a rupture.”

The rupture leaked highly flammable naph-tha, which self-ignited and caused a massive explosion and fire. Two people were

killed instantly, five others died later in the hospital and one contract employee sur-vived with major injuries.

The report noted “a considerable frequency of significant and deadly acci-dents at refineries over the last decade.”

The draft report, which must still be formally approved by the CSB, pro-posed more than 40 safe-ty recommendations to Washington’s legislature and governor, to state and federal regulatory agen-cies, and to Tesoro and the American Petroleum Institute.

David Beninger of the Luvera Law Firm, attorney for the plaintiffs, said that funds had been disbursed to his clients and that a companion lawsuit against Lloyds Register Energy, an inspection contractor, had not been settled and would proceed to trial.

Congressman Rick Larson, whose district includes the refinery and who has been pressing the CSB to finish and release the report, issued a statement that said, “This long overdue report tells us this accident was not only tragic, it was preventable. It is totally unacceptable that Tesoro management allowed non-standard safety practices to become routine.”

On Thursday, Jan. 30, the Chemical Safety Board held a “listening session” to accept pub-lic comments. The report can be accessed at www.c s b . g o v / a s s e t s / 1 / 1 9 /Tesoro_Anacor tes_2014-Jan-29_Draft_for_Public_Comment.pdf.

San Juan County Clerk of the Court Joan White is in the race.

A two-term incumbent, White was first elected to the position in 2005 and ran unopposed in 2010. A former longtime clerk of the court department assistant, she took over the position following a successful first-time bid for elected office after the retirement of former clerk Mary Jean Cahail.

The duties of the court clerk include management of business affairs of superior and juvenile courts, and fam-ily law matters, maintaining legal files, collection of court-ordered fines and fees, and coordinating purchase and renewal of U.S. passports.

“In addition to assisting the superior court in addressing the needs of our community, meeting the challenges of new laws and harnessing the benefits of new technology, my office has improved citizens’ access to the court by provid-ing user-friendly legal packets for many procedures, and making court documents readily accessible to the public,” White said.

White currently supervises 3.4 employees. The position pays $75,000 a year.

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GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane. 468-3477. Everyone welcome!

HARBOR OF HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH, invites you to worship at 10 a.m. Sundays beginning Oct. 27 at 11:45 Channel Road. Please check at www.theharborofhope.com for information on “The Bulletin Board,” or call Pastor Don 468-4019.

COMMUNITY CHURCH, Please join us Sun. mornings. Adult Bible study, 9:30. Worship Service, 10:30. Nursery (birth-3 yrs) and Jr. Church (4-12 yrs) provided during worship service. Small groups meet throughout the week. 91 Lopez Rd., in the village. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877. www.ourlicc.org

LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS. Join us Sundays at 9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanuel. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025.

QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Meetings will be Sundays at 10:00 a.m. 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 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Call 378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

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AKC FEMALE ENGLISH Mastiff. Beautiful Fawn, 2 years old and never had a litter. Full breeding rights incl. These are the perfect giant security show dogs! World Win- ners are these dogs family tradition! Stud dog services too. Whidbey. $1500. Call Rich 253- 347-1835.www.worldclassmastiffs.comWorldClassMastif@aol.com

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12’ PENN YAN. Built in late 40s. Only 1 previous owner. Current selling owner purchased in 2013 and rarely used. Includes oars and cover. Boat located in Friday Harbor. $2,700. Ask for Thomas, 360-298-5082.

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The much-debated updates to San Juan County’s Critical Areas Ordinance will take effect on March 1, 2014, and all permit applications submit-ted on or after that date will have to meet the new standards. Permits submit-ted prior to March 1 will be reviewed in line with regu-lations in effect when the application was submitted.

The county council is expected to put final touch-es on the Critical Areas

regulations in February, bringing the updates into compliance with the latest Growth Hearings Board rul-ings on legal challenges to the proposed updates. The final public hearing on the CAO is scheduled for the Feb. 4 council meeting.

The CAO updates were produced under a Growth Management Act mandate requiring periodic reviews of the regulations protecting the county’s most essential assets. The process was

required to consider wheth-er CAO regulations make sense in light of current con-ditions and the best scientific information that is available.

Among the updates which will go into effect March 1 are:

· Protections for a num-ber of endangered, threat-ened and sensitive plants, animals and important hab-itats. Previously, the bald eagle was the only animal receiving special protection.

· Increased wetland habitat

buffers, based on updated the State Wetland Rating System, and new requirements for buffers along streams.

· More stringent require-ments for shoreline modifica-tions (docks, bulkheads, etc.).

More information about the CAO, and helpful links to resources are contained in an information bulletin created by the Department of Community Development and available on the County website at http://san-juanco.com/cdp/CAO_ImplemenationDocs.aspx

People planning con-struction or development projects can contact the San Juan County Community Development and Planning Department at (360) 378-2354 for additional informa-tion or to arrange a pre-application meeting and site inspection.

By Robert HarrisonSpecial to the Weekly

For the eighth year in a row, Joe Reilly will pack

his bag and head for Lopez Island. His annual concert has become a joyful, inter-generational celebration of

life and music. Last year Joe made his first appear-ance at the Lopez Center and was met with a warm Lopez reception. This year he returns to the center on Feb. 15.

Allison Radell, a pianist and singer, made her Lopez debut with Joe last year. The duo will be joined onstage this year by Jaime Cordova and Colin Doherty. Jaime will be playing the conga, bongo and cajon, while Colin will join in on the bass.

Joe’s songs feature his trademark environmental tunes and songs of connec-tion. At the center of his heartfelt music is the invi-tation to heal relationships with ourselves, each other and the earth. Joe released his seventh album last year,

“Greyhound Bus Tour,” on the Earthwork Music label.

Allison is working on her debut album “Peachy Keyn,” which she hopes to release in late 2014. About the album Allison says, “It is inspired by the diverse land-scape of my life growing up in Metro Detroit.” It will feature the “Detroit Suite,” which Allison debuted on Lopez last year.

Joe and Allison look for-ward to returning to Lopez

for another fun family-friendly concert for all ages.

The concert will be on Saturday, Feb. 15, 4-6 p.m. Tickets will be avail-able online at lopezcenter.org and at the door: $10-15 donation for adults, $5 for youth (17 and under), free for children under 3 and $25 for the whole family.

“In a way, this is my thank you to Lopez,” says Joe. “I’ve been embraced and held by the loving support of this community from the begin-ning. Lopez helped me grow my music and my career.”

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FEBRUARY SHOWOpening Reception:Saturday, Feb. 8th, 5-7 pm (Show runs through Mar. 7th)

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Allison Radell and Joe Reilly.

EIGHTH ANNUAL LOPEZ FARMER’S MARKET2014 POSTER CONTEST

Finished poster size should be 11 X 17, be in full color, with a minimum 1/2 inch wide on all sided for printing

The following information needs to be incorporated into the design:Lopez Island Farmer's Market 2014

May 17 - September 6, 2014 Saturdays 10 - 2 in the Village

The winning poster will be used to promote the 2014 market season and also will be available for sale at the market. The Lopez Island Farmer’s Market will have exclusive rights to use the original art work for one year after which the art work and the rights to the art work will return to the artist.

Deadline:Finished posters, camera ready, must be submitted no later than February 28, 2014 to: Martha Garcia, 49 Woodhaven Ln., Lopez Is, WA 98261 (468-2411) This submission should be accompanied by artist contact information (name, address, phone #, email)

Jurying:The submitted posters will be hung in the Lopez Post Of�ce for the month of March. Community members are encouraged to submit a vote into the available box at the Post Of�ce. The Farmer’s Market Board will submit the posters with the most votes to the Farmer’s Market members for a �nal vote at their Annual Meeting in April 2014.

Prize:The winning artist will receive a $400 cash prize and recognition as the 2014 Lopez Farmer’s Market Poster Artist. The winning Artist will be asked to attend a poster signing event at a scheduled Saturday Market in 2014.

CAO changes effective March 1