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By Gene Helfman Special to the Islands’ Weekly

Lopez celebrated homecoming with a 56-12 blow out victory over Clallam Bay on Saturday, Sept. 24.

Lobo scoring was led by Vinny, Eddie and Tommy Kramer with Tommy mak-ing four touchdowns. Keldon Jardine ran for one touchdown and passed to Tak Peralta for another score.

Coach Larry Berg gathered both

teams at midfield after the game. He thanked the 11-man Clallam Bay

squad for making the long trip here, congratulated them on their effort, and reminded everyone that Lopez has field-ed similarly small teams in the past.

The Lobos are now 3 and 0, having bested Lummi JV and Muckleshoot in earlier games.

Halftime Homecoming festivities included fundraising to bring a score-board to the Lobo football and soccer

field. The new scoreboard is being driven

4,126 miles from Oklahoma. Transport costs are being met through donations (make checks out to “The Pack” and send them to P.O. Box 446, Lopez, WA 98261).

Photos from the Clallam Bay and other football games, plus volleyball and soccer matches, are posted on the Lobo Pack Facebook page (www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1500297009).

by Chom Greacen and Lopez Community Land TrustSpecial to the Islands’ Weekly

Soon Lopez gardeners and farmers will have a Seed Library where the public can have access to seeds that are locally grown and adapted to our local climate and tastes.

Saving seeds and sharing them are a critical step towards a more resilient food future for Lopez Island and beyond.

The Seed Library is a project of the Lopez Community Land Trust. Located next to the LCLT office, the library will provide a temperature and humidity-controlled vault for seed storage.

LCLT Board member, David Zapalac, designed and installed a passive cooling system for the seed library, which has a slab floor and an area for cleaning and milling seed, such as local wheat from LCLT’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) grain project. Protocol for identifying seed, germination, and lending are being developed.

On Nov. 19, LCLT will host a seed saving workshop by Ana Malinoff, who makes her living selling saved seed grown in her garden on Lopez.

Magically contained in each seed is the blueprint of life of a plant or tree that grows to offer sustenance to us and other liv-ing creatures. Though much older than the human race itself, these little blueprints of life are now under grave threat.

Thousands of years of evo-lution and our ancestors’ labor resulted in a massive diversity of plant varieties adapted to differing localized growing conditions. This diversity is rapidly being lost, with an

estimate of approximately 97 percent of U.S. Department of Agriculture lists having disappeared in the last 80 years.

Of the remaining seeds in the worlds, 98 percent are now in the hands of just six companies: Monsanto, DuPont, Aventis, Dow, Syngent and Mitsui. Monsanto alone accounts for almost one-quarter of the global proprietary seed market.

These big agrichemical corporations have been buying up seeds and systematically reducing natural seed stock. A seed company, later acquired by Monsanto, eliminated 2,000 variet-ies of seeds from its inventory. The seeds being eliminated are the older, open-pollinated, heirloom varieties.

What these corporations are creating instead are seeds that are reliant on chemical or cannot be saved and propa-

gated (hybrid, patented and genetically modified seeds). This business model of man-ufactured seed poverty and oligopoly control of mutant seed stock has no logic other than maximum profits for the companies.

With more and more culti-vars disappearing, both pur-posely and through neglect, it is more important than ever to keep varieties of seeds alive and available for future generations. There is much diversity and strength found in local seed.

The Lopez Seed Library is funded by contributions from the community members.

Fire Prevention WeekOctober 9th – 15th, 2011

San Juan County Fire District 4Would like to thank the following Lopez Island Firefighters for their Time,

Effort and Commitment to their Lopez Island Community!

The following students are training in the Fall Recruit Class:James Brant, Eryn Dye, Michael Reeve, Samantha Swanson,

Patience Taylor, Risto Turunen

HEY KIDS 3RD GRADE TO AGE 19...

JOIN THE LOPEZ 4-H CLUBMany fun projects to choose from: Photography, Horse, Sheep, Goats, Swine, Dogs, Cats, Rabbits, Cavies,

Poultry, Gardening, Cooking, Clothing, Art projects & More

Come to our Membership Meeting Monday, October 10, 2011

7:00 pmLopez Firehall Training Room

All family members welcome at our meetings

For more information call 468-2707

Contributed photo/ Cali Bagby

Tak Peralta gathers in a touchdown pass from Keldon Jardine in the Lobos’ 56-12 win over Clallam Bay.

Lopez Lobos in rout, 56 to 12

Seeds of hope

Contributed photos

Above, residents of Common Ground at the new Seed Library.

SEE SEEDS, PAGE 8

TUES, OCT 4

MEETING: SJC Council meeting Citizen’s Access, 10 - 11 a.m., library.

THURS, OCT 6

MEETING: Village Planning - Sub area Plan, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m., library meeting room.

MEETING: The League of Women Voters’ “General Election Forum,” 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church. Invitations have been issued for the contested posi-tions of School Board Director 2, Port Commissioner 1, Port Commissioner 2; Pro and Con speakers for Solid Waste and the Land Bank ballot measures.

FRI, OCT 7

MEETING: LCTN Steering Committee, 8:30 - 10 a.m.,

library.

MEETING: Library Board of Trustee, 2 - 4 p.m., library.

SAT, OCT 8

MEETING: Chimera Gallery’s October show, reception and opening, 5 - 7 p.m., Chimera Gallery in Lopez Village Plaza, next to Bucky’s, Holly B’s, and Cafe La Boheme. Meet artists Tina Finneran (jewelry), Gerry Newcomb (cast glass), and Linda Vorobik (botanical art; hand-painted silk scarves). Call 468-3265 for more info.

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

MUSIC: Garfield High School Jazz Band I, 2:30 - 4:15 p.m., Woodmen Hall.

SUN, OCT 9

MUSIC: Guitar Singing Group, 7:30 - 10 p.m., library. For more info, call Steve Ruegge.

MON, OCT 10

MEETING: Thrift Shop Board Meeting, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.,

library.

CLASSES: Beginning Excel Workshop, 1 - 3 p.m., library. Runs for three consecutive Mondays. $35 fee. Instructor Susan Young will teach how to create and format multiple sheet workbooks, use formulas and templates. Pre-registration required at Lopez Family Resource Center. For more info www.lifrc.org or call 468-4117.

CLASSES: Desktop Publishing with Microsoft Word, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Runs for three consecu-tive Mondays. $35 fee. Learn to create your own professional brochures, newsletters, and forms using Microsoft Word as a Desktop Publisher with instruc-tor, Susan Young. Pre-registration required at Lopez Family Resource Center. For more info www.lifrc.org or call 468-4117.

TUES, OCT 11

READING: Page Turners Writers

Group, 6 - 8 p.m., library. For more info contact Kathy Holiday, 468-3192.

WEDS, OCT 12

MEETING: Meet the candidate, 4:30 p.m., library. Meet Steve Adams - Port Commissioner, Position 2 (The library does not endorse the viewpoints of meet-ing room users)

THURS, OCT 13

MEETING: Port of Lopez Monthly Meeting, 7 - 9 p.m., Lopez Island Airport.

MEETING: Lopez Gardeners Meeting, 9:30 a.m., Woodman Hall. Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott from the WSU Research and Extension Center and the Urban Horticulture Program will be the featured speaker. The topic is: “Sustainable Landscaping - Easy on your back, your wallet, and the environment.”

Community Calendar

News briefsHamlet singing

Lopezians are invited to join the residents at The Hamlet at 3pm the second Monday of every month to sing old time songs. Maureen Rogers plays the piano and Marybell Deach is the Page Turner Extraordinaire. The next session is Monday, October 10th and lasts for about 45 minutes. Songsbooks are provided.

Dr. George Keeler has been singing there for about a year and says “it’s one of the highlights of my month to be able to belt some of these old-ies but goodies.”

Help 24/7 at libraryResidents of Lopez Island

can now receive assistance from librarians at the Lopez Island library even if they can’t visit the library in per-son. And the librarians are available anytime day or night.

Anyone who needs infor-mation by a librarian may submit questions on the library’s web site. Questions are answered by staff at the Lopez Island Library or by any librarian participating in

our worldwide network of ref-erence librarians.

“The service is very easy to use. All you do is click on the ‘Ask a Librarian 24/7 button,’ and you’re on your way,” said Library Director Lou Pray. “In response to our users’ growing use of online resources and internet access, the Lopez Library has implemented this on demand reference service. We now pro-vide reference over the Web in addition to the more tradi-tional modes of phone, email, or in person requests for information. Our reference service spans all hours of the day or night, whether or not the physical library is open. In fact, our library is never closed to people who need

information – they just enter through a different door.”

The Lopez Island Library provides this reference ser-vice through QuestionPoint, developed by OCLC Online

Computer Library Center, the Library of Congress and the 24/7 Reference Cooperative.

In addition to providing access to librarians 24 hours a day, the service includes a global

network of cooperating librar-ies that work together to pro-vide authoritative answers to reference questions.

If staff members at the Lopez Library are unable or unavailable to answer a ques-tion, it can be sent to experts at another library, even if those experts are across the country or around the world.

“Just think about all the possibilities,” Pray said. “If you have a question about New Zealand, you could actu-ally get your answer from an expert in New Zealand.”

Residents of Lopez may submit questions to the ser-vice at www.lopezlibrary.org.

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.

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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,

11 am at historic Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also on

Sundays at 9:15 am at St. David’s in Friday Harbor, and on 1st

& 3rd Mondays at 10 am at Emmanuel Church in Eastsound.

Pastor John Lindsay, 378-6310. All are welcome!

QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Meetings will be Sundays

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

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

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ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship

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

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

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By Dean JacobsenSpecial to the Islands’ Weekly

On Saturday, Oct. 8 at 2:30 p.m. the Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble with direc-tor Clarence Acox, returns to Woodmen Hall for their fourth annual performance.

This appearance is to raise money in support of my wife Carolyn’s and my effort to enhance elementary, middle and high school music.

On it’s past European tours the band has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, Jazz a Vienne, France, The North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherlands, festi-vals in Italy and more.

For two of Garfield’s past three visits to Lopez, we heard the bands that took first place in Wynton Marsalis’ Essentially Ellington compe-tition at the Lincoln Center in New York. 2008 (1st) 2009 (2nd), 2010 (1st).

Acox believes that music is an essential life experience for all students. He has been to Lopez School for clinics,

bringing the regions top pro-fessionals. You can see and listen to his past activities here at www.livemusiconlo-pez.com.

Many exciting things are happening with music this school year. Instruments will be gifted by the Foundation to each fourth grade student on Oct. 17.

An Aide is being provided by the Foundation to assist Ann Marie Fischer and Lisa Geddes with their enthusi-astic students. Lessons and guidance to individual stu-dents will be provided.

Creating musicFisherman Bay Sewer

District is recognized for the third consecutive year as an “Outstanding Plant” by the Washington State Department of Ecology.

This award acknowledges a record of no water quality permit violations and com-plete and timely administra-tive submissions.

“It’s nice that the department recog-nizes all the work entailed to get this award,” said Peggy Gordon, the dis-trict’s clerk. “There are so many papers to file, it’s really a lot of work to run a sewer, even on a small scale.”

About one third of the wastewater plants statewide receive this award in any given year. The Lopez sewer district has made great strides since the late nine-ties when non-compliance was a frequent occurrence. According to the district’s superintendent, informed

use of the system by custom-ers and efforts by the Board of Commissioners, past and present, the staff, and the district’s engineers, have resulted in a plant that con-sistently exceeds its water quality permit requirements and an organization that pro-vides reliable and responsive service to its community.

“Receiving this award is a remarkable achievement and testament to the capabilities and dedication of treatment plant staff at Fisherman Bay

Sewer District,” said Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, water quality section management of the DOE.

Weekly photo/ Cali Bagby

Fisherman Bay Sewer District’s three awards

Contributed photo

Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble

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“This was a wonderful oppor-tunity for people to connect with their public lands,” said Tim Clark of the San Juan County Land Bank, who participated in the National Public Lands Day celebration at Watmough Bay and other Bureau of Land Management properties on September 24.

Clark led two maintenance proj-ects and a walk during the day. Participants completed public lands maintenance projects, attend-ed a bird watch and tide-pooling activity, and participated in talks on the Chadwick settler family, eel-grass in Watmough Bay, and the Watmough wetlands.

“I was extremely pleased by the amount of work volunteers accomplished and the amount of positive feedback we received on our environmental education stations and talks,” Event Organizer Sara Waugh said. “We had a great turn-out, people had a lot of fun, and we were lucky to have sunny weather all day.”

Volunteers at Point Colville collected a truck-load of beach litter and deposited it at the dump.

Teams at Watmough laid gravel on the southern ridge trail and brushed blackberries

back from another trail. The Chadwick Hill team made sure the

trails were clear of overgrowth and debris. Workers at Chadwick Marsh removed non-native ivy and holly.

“Scouring the forest for holly sure is a great activity to get one looking at all the different plant species,” said Volunteer Ben Ruckle.

A variety of wildlife was seen during the day. Bird watchers at Chadwick Marsh spot-ted green-winged teals, evening Grosbeaks, belted Kingfishers and a Virginia rail. Event attendees at Watmough viewed great blue herons in flight, river otters fishing, a mink

running on the beach, a large number of turkey vultures circling on thermals of hot air, mollusks, eelgrass, and a variety of seaweeds. Kids and adults enjoyed tide-pooling and splashing in the water.

“The tide-pooling station led by Susie Teague was one of the most popular spots dur-ing the day — people could ask questions, explore the water, or browse through the different resource materials available,” Waugh said.

Event leaders and their sponsoring organizations were: Nick Teague and Sara Waugh with the Bureau of Land Management, Charlie Behnke, Tom Snowden and Amanda Wedow with the Lopez Island Conservation Corps, Tim Clark with the San Juan County Land Bank, Mike Higgins with the LopezCommunity Trails Network, and Susie Teague with Whispers of Nature.

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I heard the Lopez community express a strong desire to have a solid waste system that includes comprehensive recycling, encourag-es reuse of materials and minimizes disposal waste.

I suggested last year that the Port could take over the opera-tion of our facility. As Chair of the Port Commission I have investigated options for the Port to contract with San Juan County to run our facility. At my initiative, a citizens commit-tee was formed to evaluate the operational and financial issues for the Port and to also gather input from our residents. I am extremely well informed on the issues about our transfer station.

ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF THE PORT DIRECTLY MANAGING THE LOPEZ FACILITY? IF SO, IS IT A LONG-TERM OR SHORT-TERM COMMITMENT?

I am leading negotiations with the County for the Port to directly manage the Lopez Transfer Facility. In the short term, I believe direct manage-ment by the port is the best option. In the longer term, it may well be in our best inter-est for the port to subcontract the operation to a commu-nity organization. In either case the port would retain a long term commitment to ensuring that solid waste and recycling is operated in the best way possible for Lopez Island residents and the envi-ronment.

LOCAL CONTROL OF THE LOPEZ TRANSFER STATION IS A BIG ISSUE ON THE ISLAND: HOW HAVE YOU KEPT YOUR-SELF INFORMED ON THIS ISSUE?

I like to think that I have been one of those doing the informing. I served on the County’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee . I was one of the leaders of the grassroots Take Back the Dump movement. I was chosen by the Port to serve on their solid waste Citizen Advisory Committee. I have gone to extraordinary lengths to learn about the solid waste system, and more importantly, to share what I have learned.

ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF THE PORT DIRECTLY MANAG-ING THE LOPEZ FACILITY? IF SO, IS IT A LONG-TERM OR SHORT-TERM COMMITMENT?

I am in favor of the PoL managing our facility. I have explored other options, too. For TBTD, I even drafted a bal-lot initiative that would have set up separate disposal districts for each island; however, it received little community traction. Some Lopezians have suggested Local Improvement Districts as a solution, but LIDs are just junior taxing districts that cre-ate no change in management or governance.

As Yogi Berra says, “It’s hard to make predictions, espe-cially about the future,” but I think the shift to the PoL will be permanent. Perhaps the county might reform itself and one day be trusted with serving the public good again, but in the meantime, we can run the facility ourselves.

Q&A: Port Commissioncandidates position 1 and 2


The first question I asked regard-ing the Port of Lopez taking over solid waste was, “Can the PoL do better than the county?” As a long time supporter of recycling, I want success. In July, the PoL’s “Citizens Advisory Committee” recommended a plan to locally operate solid waste. I reviewed this report then talked with members of the CAC. I attended both port and CAC meetings. I talked with current and past County and Port Commissioners and employees from solid waste. I talked to Lopez citizens who love and use our dump, citizens who haul their waste off-island and people who use San Juan Sanitation. I called and talk-ed to people from San Juan Sanitation and Skagit County Solid Waste. This will not be an easy task and will require experienced leadership.

ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF THE PORT DIRECTLY MANAGING THE LOPEZ FACILITY? IF SO, IS IT A LONG-TERM OR SHORT-TERM COMMITMENT?

After careful review, I fully support the PoL managing Solid Waste on a long term

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I have a strong interest in our Lopez Solid Waste facility and have attended every meeting I’ve known about since Take Back the Dump began. I’ve been excited to see the strong public response on this issue.

ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF THE PORT DIRECTLY MANAG-ING THE LOPEZ FACILITY? IF SO, IS IT A LONG-TERM OR SHORT-TERM COMMITMENT?

Yes, I am in favor of the port directly managing the Lopez facility as a long term commitment. I would like to see a Lopez Solid Waste Advisory Committee formed

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Lopez Island Conservation Corps recently wrapped up its fifth annual summer youth program. The crew spent nine weeks working hard, learning and having fun outdoors as they helped to maintain and improve public lands in the county. This sea-son LICC was contracted by Bureau of Land Management with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to perform extensive trail build-ing and maintenance. With the guidance of crew leaders Amanda Wedow and Charlie Behnke the crew went above and beyond their call of duty, working six miles of trails on the south end of Lopez and Patos Island.

A workday with the LICC crew looks something like

this: The group meets up and carpools to the job site. Van is loaded with necessary tools, equipment, and a well-prepared crew. They arrive at the site and have a check in circle.

“Where’s your head, where’s your heart?” the crew leader asks.

They wipe the last of the sleep from their eyes as back-packs are donned and tools divided. Off they go, some-times hiking miles to get to their work site, a perfect time for some environmental education. Once at the site, a base camp is established, tasks are delegated and the

work gets done. The day flies by and it is time to pack up, hike out, and have a closing circle to talk or write about the day.

The LICC summer youth program aims to accomplish

several objectives. The physical work accom-

plished is important, needed, and well appreciated, how-ever it is not the sole purpose for the organization. Perhaps even more important is the opportunity to engage young people outside, to help them deepen their connection with place, and to foster environ-mental and community stew-ardship.

The program is also valu-able for skill building and as a first time job opportunity, a fantastic addition to a resume or college application. For more information contact Program Leaders Amanda Wedow and Charlie Behnke at [email protected] or 468-2951.

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LCLT has so far raised about $4,000 primarily through the sale of raffle tickets. The raffle prize, a cute yel-low electric car/truck, will go to the winner whose name will be drawn at the Annual Harvest Dinner at the Lopez Community Center on October 22.

LCLT is selling raffle tick-ets until then, hoping to raise another $3,000 to bring the Seeds Library project to com-pletion.

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