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By Scott RasmussenIn the event that a reservation
system proves to be a poor fit for the San Juan Islands, Washington State Ferries is prepared to drop the idea.
So says the ferry system’s chief executive, Assistant Secretary David Moseley, who last week pledged at a series of commu-nity meetings that Ferries would
abandoned its quest to establish a reservation system in the San Juans if the logistical hurdles are too high, or if the community just
Skeptics welcome
By Scott RasmussenAlthough 99 had crossed the threshold before it,
the Friday Harbor High School Class of 2012 showed no hesitation in branding itself unique, and then delivered on its bravado.
“We may not be the most brilliant or athletic, but we’re undoubtedly the most unique class this stage has ever seen,” Gabrielle Rishel declared to an audi-ence full of family, friends and well-wishers that packed themselves into Turnbull Gym to celebrate the Class of 2012’s commencement and graduation
ceremony, Saturday. Together with Stewart Bell and Jenny MacDonald,
Rishel helped set the tone for the evening as the trio, a drummer, sailor and horseback rider, shared in introducing the class to the crowd. Bell noted the irony that the soon-to-be graduates were the “stars” of the show, even if just for the night.
“We’re standing before you when you’ve been the ones standing behind us all these years,” he said.
While the trio offered up its non-traditional introd-
By Steve Wehrly Journal Reporter
It’s a giant old tree that nobody wants to cut down, but the Bigleaf maple that towers over the Royal Marine Barracks at English Camp is dead—and dan-gerous to the historic barracks and to park visitors.
So, according to National Park Service arborists, it needs to be removed. Which is just what a San Juan National Historical Park maintenance crew will do on June 20.
“This is not an action we under-take lightly, as this particular maple is nearly 300 years old and has cultural as well as natural signifi-cance,” said Parks Superintendent Lee Taylor. “However, it is essen-
End draws near for Bigleaf Maple
Contributed photo / Kelsey KennedyFriday Harbor High School Principal Fred Woods reflects on the antics and achievements of the Class of 2012, Saturday, at graduation ceremony in Turnbull Gym.
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Moseley: reservation system not a done deal, but obstacles can be overcome
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cution, salutatorian Shaughn Anderson embodided the col-lective off-beat nature of the 47 graduates with an ode to “Second Place”, nearly Lincolnesque both in brevity and weight.
“I think that it’s great that the school has asked me to speak today even though I did not get first in anything, because it allows me to share this with you,” Anderson said. “I feel lucky to be here and I know that 1st is important but so is 2nd and 3rd and 4th and every other place. It takes courage to participate and ‘to do’ and I think everyone on this stage has worked hard to be here and all the contri-butions everyone made on the way are equally important.
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2 — Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Law & Justice The Journal of the San Juan Islands | SanJuanJournal.com
A San Juan Island woman is bound for prison on the heels of her most recent felony drug conviction.
On June 4, Chelsea Sue Rogers, 25, was ordered to serve 13 months in prison
after pleading guilty in San Juan County Superior Court the previous week to two counts of delivery of cocaine, a Class B felony. She was also ordered to pay $1,430 in fines and fees.
In mid-February, Rogers was sentenced to nine months in jail following a conviction for attempt-ing to buy $14,000 worth of Oxycodone, a prescrip-tion painkiller, from an informant posing as a drug dealer as part of a federal Drug Enforcement Administration undercov-er operation.
She was also ordered at that time to forfeit the $14,000 cash and the Lexus SUV she was traveling in the day of her late October arrest near the ferry land-ing in Friday Harbor.
Rogers’ brother, Jesse, was also arrested and pros-ecuted for his role in the attempted prescription painkiller buy, and later
pled guilty to a felony drug crime as well.
According to court documents, Rogers sold a gram of cocaine to an informant working under-cover with the San Juan County Sheriff ’s depart-ment on two separate occasions while out on bail and awaiting trial on the Oxycodone case.
She was taken into cus-tody in early May after local authorities concluded their investigation into the alleged cocaine sales. She
was serving part of the ear-lier sentence, on electronic home monitoring, at that time.
A Class B felony, deliv-ery of cocaine carries maximum penalties of 20 years in prison, a $50,000 fine, or both. However, the standard range of sentenc-ing set by the state is 12-20 months in prison.
Rogers was credited with having served 45 days of the 13-month pris-on term.
— Scott Rasmussen
SJ woman gets 13-month prison term for most recent drug conviction25-year-old admits to twice selling cocaine while awaiting trial on a felony drug case
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Burlington man arrested in obscene phone call caseA 35-year-old Burlington
man accused of making dozens of obscene phone
calls to women in the San Juan Islands over the past two months was arrested
June 4 by authorities in Skagit County.
Eric N. Lawson, a resident of Skagit County, was appre-hended at his Burlington home and escorted to the San Juan County Sheriff ’s office in Friday Harbor, where he was held on a $5,000 arrest warrant issued in San Juan County District Court.
San Juan County Sheriff Rob Nou said Lawson was taken into custody on 19 counts of telephone harass-ment, a gross misdemeanor. Each count carries maxi-mum penalties of one year in jail, a $5,000 fine, or both.
Lawson, who pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of phone harassment, was in custody at the Sheriff ’s office on $2,000 bail as of Monday. He is slated for trial Aug. 6.
The Sheriff ’s Office responded to roughly 20 complaints of sexually explicit telephone calls since mid-April.
The majority of calls came in the middle of the night and from a man, using a restricted or private number, who addressed his female victims by name.
The majority of those calls came from a cell phone, according to Sheriff Rob Nou.
Lawson will be pros-ecuted in Superior Court because two of his alleged victims are district court employees, according to deputy criminal prosecutor Charlie Silverman.
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By Steve WehrlyThe owners of five neighboring businesses
between 260 and 280 Spring Street in Friday Harbor have weathered the rains of winter and recession.
All five are very different small businesses with five very different owners—and five very differ-ent responses to the Great Recession. But all five have one common theme song: things will get better now that the tourists are back in town and the whales back in Haro Strait.
Art For The Sake Of ArtIsland Studios, 270 Spring Streetn She was a successful businesswoman in
California for many years, managing an escrow company and a travel insurance agency.
"I liked business, did glass artworks on the side, and bought all kinds of art for myself and for gifting," said Claudia Fullerton, owner of Island Studios, a fine arts and crafts retailer.
When Pat Lawrence told her in 2007 that Island Studios was for sale, Fullerton jumped at the opportunity, even volunteering to work on the floor to learn the business.
"It's a lot more fun than insurance," said Fullerton. "I get to deal in artworks and even dis-play and sell some of my own fused-glass art."
All the art is on consignment and it's all from local artists.
"It's a pleasure dealing with artists from around here,” she said. “The diversity of talent is amazing and the uniqueness of the art is a major selling point. The only problem I have is the space to display all the art."
Fullerton doesn't think the recession has been much of a problem, at least not at Island Studios. She says business has been steady all along.
"We've added nearly 100 artists to our con-tributors over the last five years and doubled the number of sales," she said.
Her only concessions to the recession have been to increase the selection of lower-priced items and, because website sales have increased, to shop around to keep packing and shipping costs under control.
"More tourists mean more appreciation, and more income, for the artists here. That's what's important to me," Fullerton said.
"I'd rather be fishing."Nash Brothers Sporting Goods, 280 Spring
Street.n David Nash has fished for nearly 40 years. In 2005, he used money earned from fishing to
open Nash Brothers Sporting Goods, though his twin brother Paul isn't involved in the business.
"I've made a living at this, but nothing like what I used to make from fishing before Exxon Valdez," Nash said.
The recession hit hard in 2010 and 2011, partly, Nash thinks, from fewer tourists, and partly from tourists and local residents being more careful with their money.
Tourists provide 75 to 80 percent of his sales, Nash says.
"I don't know if fewer tourists came to San Juan Island last year, but I do know that fewer tourists came in my store," he said.
Nash figured he needed to shift his invento-ry, moving away from sporting goods like camp-ing equipment and fishing and crabbing gear, to
goods that cost him and the customer less. "We used to be 30 percent clothing," he said,
"But now we're 80 percent clothing—and not name brands, but good quality, moderately priced hats, shirts, jackets and shorts."
And almost every item says "Friday Harbor" or "San Juan Island" on it, or has an image of a killer whale.
"No question that the recession has hurt sales, but this year, things are picking up," Nash said.
"My sales for April are almost double what they were for April of last year. I'm not sure the national recession is ever going to end, but I'm looking forward to saying after Labor Day that the recession has ended for the Nash family."
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Riding out the Recession on FH ‘Main Street’Part 4 and 5 of a five-part series of portraits in perseverance on Main Street in Friday Harbor
Journal photo / Steve WehrlyDavid Nash.
Journal photo / Steve WehrlyClaudia Fullerton.
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The Bigleaf maples (Acer mac-rophyllum) at English Camp are some of the oldest and largest living things on San Juan Island. One still-extant tree, near the camp’s Formal Gardens, was once claimed to be the “world’s largest” until lightning strikes claimed part of the crown and several large branches.
That still-massive tree might yet be “world’s oldest”: a bore/core sam-ple taken 50 years ago supports a current age of 339 years.
The maple that will be removed, and many others of its genus, is actually a cluster of several trees that have grown together over the centuries. It’s not the biggest or oldest in the world, but it is among the most beloved on the island and has served as the background for many photographs.
One such photo shows the pioneer-era Crook fam-ily and friends posing in the massive trunk among limbs rising 80 feet or more into the summer sky. Taylor said the park hopes to commem-orate the tree in some way.
“We were thinking it might be fun if we could find carvers who could fashion crafts that could be
sold in the site’s gift shop area when it is open during the summer sea-son,” she said. “We plan to leave the old stump in place and either grow a new tree out of that stump or right next to it.”
According to Mike Vouri, the park’s chief of interpretation, the heartwood is a light reddish-brown
in color, fine-grained, moderately heavy, hard and strong.
“It will take a high polish and is known for grain pat-terns simi-lar to Curly or Bird’s Eye maple,” V o u r i said in an NPS press release.
V o u r i says he’d like to hear from island woodwork-ers and artists and how they
might use the wood in creative ways. Contact Vouri at (360) 378-2240, extension 2227.
Maple:Continued from page 1
That still-massive tree might yet be “world’s oldest”: a bore/core sample taken 50 years ago supports a current age of 339 years.
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can’t get onboard. “If we can’t work out the
issues that come up as we try to develop a set of business rules then we’re not going to do this,” he said. “Washington State Ferries has no inter-est in losing ridership with a reservation system.”
Reservation system or not, ridership has been on the decline systemwide over
the past decade. In 2011, the ferry system carried 22.2 million riders across all routes, roughly 2.8 million fewer than in 2002, and four million fewer than in its peak year, 1999. While the drop has been less dramatic on San Juan routes, which consistently carry about 1.7 million riders a year, long lines and long wait-times are not uncommon, partic-ularly on summer holidays and weekends.
Moseley said that since
Ferries lacks the financial clout to increase the size of its fleet by building more boats -- new boats are intended to replace older vessels slated for retirement -- a reservation system is expected to help manage growth over the next 20 years by encouraging riders to travel at times when the demand is lighter.
“We have plenty of room for passengers,” he said. “Our constraint, particu-larly during peak hours, is on our car deck.”
While skepticism may run deep, Moseley, now in his fourth year at the helm of the nation’s largest ferry system, believes that even the most hardened critics might be willing to give res-ervations a try, after all sides are able to sit down togeth-er for an open, honest and constructive “conversation” about obstacles and about
solutions. That’s mostly because,
Moseley said, he’s seen it happen before.
“I’ve seen twice now where people who did not think this could possibly work change their point of view based on the busi-ness rules we were able to develop and put in place,” Moseley said.
Summer brings changeThough not starting com-
pletely from scratch, state Ferries will embark on a new era of reservations through an expansion and enhance-ment of its current system, beginning with the switch-over to its summer sailing schedule on June 17. Those traveling on the Coupeville/Port Townsend route and on the international run, Anacortes to Sidney, B.C., will be able to reserve space online -- starting June 13 -- on any summer sailing
through WSF’s website and its “Save a Spot” reservation function.
In addition, Ferries also revamped its system of reservations long used by commercial customers in the San Juans. Pat McKay of Island Concrete, which often makes 4-8 reserva-tions a day, depending on the season, believes the changes will prove benefi-cial if they work as touted. Not only will the company be able to directly alter its reservations online, elimi-nating the need to rely on fax machines and Ferries’ staff, it no longer will be required to pay $500 a year to have access to commer-cial reservations with each change of the sailing sched-ule.
“The biggest thing I can see is we’ll be able to mod-ify our reservations online instead of having to fill out
paperwork and then fax it to them,” McKay said. “It’s a new system so there’s bound to be some bugs in it, but we’re hoping for the best.”
Moseley said WSF found no shortage of skeptics when it first rolled out the con-cepts of a reservation sys-tem as part of a study of the Edmonds/Kingston route in 2009. It faced similar oppo-sition several years later during the first community meetings in Port Townsend and in Coupeville as well, he said.
In the end, Moseley said that skeptics and supporters in those communities were able to bridge their differ-ences and to help Ferries piece together a plan that most believe could prove beneficial. The ferry sys-tem intends to host similar “community conversations” in the islands beginning sometime in the fall.
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Port of FH poised to earn lion’s share of 2260 fund
By Steve WehrlyJournal reporter
Leaving money on the table does not happen often in gambling or in local gov-ernment budgeting.
But some $64,000 was left unallocated after the county Public Facilities Financing Assistance Program Review Committee on June 5 rec-ommended funding four requests totaling $130,188 out of $193,990 available to the county. That’s in addi-tion to a $55,700 set-aside for the San Juan County Economic Development Council.
The money comes from a .09 percent sales-tax kick-back first authorized by the Legislature in 1997 for eco-nomic development in rural counties.
Two entities submit-ted a total of four projects for funding, and the full amount sought by each was
recommended by the review committee, consisting of Friday Harbor Mayor Carrie Lacher, County Council Chairwoman Patty Miller, Auditor Milene Henley and Economic Development Council Board President Jim Hooper.
Established by the Legislature in 1997, the Public Facilities Financing program, also known as the 2260 fund, provides rural counties that plan under the state Growth Management Act with a .09 percent kickback on local sales tax receipts, and allows that revenue to be distrib-uted to economic develop-ment projects sponsored by publicly-owned agen-cies. To qualify for fund-ing, an agency must also be included in the county’s overall economic develop-ment plan.
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submitted three projects, all of which were recommend-ed for approval: $6,000 for design of a commercial kitchen, bathrooms and storage in the Marie Boe building at the fairgrounds; $15,900 to pave the parking lot adjacent to the Family & Skate Park; $24,000 to con-nect the Lopez Village park restrooms to Fisherman Bay Water System. The commit-tee also backed a $84,288 request by the Port of Friday Harbor for construction of a center for pilots and visitors near the Mullis Street gate at the northeast end of the airport.
The County Council is expected to give final approval of the 2012 allo-cations at a June 26 public hearing.
In addition, the Town of Friday Harbor is allo-cated 25 percent of the total amount available each year, $83,000 this year.
Since 2001, much of the money allocated to the town has been dedicated to retir-ing debt for construction of
the town sewer treatment plant; $73,000 will be used
for that purpose. The town will distribute $10,000 to
the EDC, Administrator King Fitch said.Port, SJC Parks only applicants for
county economic development dollars
Mottice named BLM director
Mike Mottice has been named acting direc-tor of the Bureau of Land Management’s Oregon and Washington region.
As such, the 32-year BLM veteran will manage more than 16 million acres of public land until a perma-nent director is named.
Mottice will be the focal point for efforts by islanders to protect more than 1,000 acres of land in the San Juans as a National Monument.
Congressman Rick Larsen and U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell have intro-duced legislation to desig-nate numerous small islands
and plots of land on Orcas, Lopez and San Juan islands as a National Conservation Area, but that effort stalled in Congress.
Supporters of the idea, at the urging of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, have petitioned President Obama
to issue an Executive Order declaring the lands a National Monument, a designation that does not require congressional approval. That petition was supported by the San Juan County Council in a letter recently sent to Salazar.
Coal: dirty biz headed our way
SSA Marine in conjunc-tion with Peabody Coal is planning to build a coal terminal at Cherry Point in order to ship 54 metric tons of coal from Wyoming through the Columbia Gorge scenic area, and up the coast of Washington where it will then be shipped to China.
At Cherry Point, a wet-land of over 162 acres would be filled in to hold the coal waiting to be shipped. People living all along the train route will be impacted as well as rivers, wetlands, streams and soil.
The wide-ranging health dangers of coal dust include exposure to toxic heavy met-als, such as lead, selenium and mercury. Coal dust leads to increased asthma, wheez-ing and coughing in children. Toxic pollution from diesel exhaust is linked to stunted lung development, increased probability of heart attacks, lung cancer, worsening asth-ma and infant mortality.
According to BNSF’s website, these 15,000-ton trains will lose 3 percent of their load in transit, or 1,780,000 short tons of coal dust spread annually from the Powder River Basin to the terminal.
Besides breathing coal dust, there will be the added hazard of diesel fuel exhaust from the 40 trains daily.
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Having used all last year’s various donations and funding sources, the volun-teer Friends and Neighbors Program was just about to end last December.
Fortunately, the commu-nity stepped up with gifts directly and through United Way to keep our small pro-gram viable.
Statistics show that about 30 elderly and disabled indi-viduals are affected each month by referral to volun-teer servers.
Requests for rides to appointments or for shop-ping and other small ser-vices such as one neighbor will do for another come in to the Senior Center. Those requests are researched and carefully matched with someone who lives nearby and has offered to help.
The match does not hap-pen without a professional, experienced coordinator.
In addition, we have been successfully funding a few free taxi vouchers each month to needy seniors who do not drive. Then they contact the private company directly and arrange trans-port on their own time as needed.
Thanks again to the United Way of San Juan County and all the caring donors who keep this volun-
teer Friends and Neighbors Program in our island social services tool kit.
Curt VanHyningSan Juan Island— Editor’s note: Curt
VanHyning is coordina-tor of San Juan Island Senior Services
Wakeup call in Wisconsin recall
I would like to con-gratulate the taxpayers of Wisconsin. And to the elite union members with their Cadillac health and retire-ment plans, I say welcome to the real world. Soon you will be on your own, like most Americans.
Local governments are beginning to realize their relationships with public unions are bankrupting them, and like San Jose, San Diego and the state of Indiana, more and more local governments will be examining their relation-ship to public unions.
Even the left’s hero, FDR, opposed public union col-lective bargaining as an incestuous process that would lead to unfair results.
In a 1937 letter to the president of The National Federation of Federal Employees, he wrote: “All Government employees should realize that the pro-cess of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the pub-lic service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limita-tions when applied to public personnel management.
The very nature and pur-poses of Government make it impossible for adminis-trative officials to represent
fully or to bind the employ-er in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.”
Governor Gregoire and local government should take a lesson from these recent events.
Don AntonioSan Juan Island
Get to know your Land Bank
I have just finished read-ing the extremely impres-sive brochure which came recently in our U.S. Mail.
If you missed it, find one and take time to learn from it. There is an honest, forth-right and informative letter written by the chairman of the San Juan County Land Bank, Tom Cowan.
There is a list of projects and a map of preserves and conservation easements. There are highlights about
places that all of us may visit. There is information about the Land Bank people who can help us. All of this is ours and it belongs to us.
I feel proud to live in San Juan County.
Eileen DrathFriday Harbor
Marathon winner has Lopez ties
We were delighted when our grandson, Tim O’Brien, called to tell us that he had won the men’s race in the recent Kings’ Market San Juan Island Marathon. It was the first marathon he had entered.
Tim is a mainlander and lives in Maple Valley with his wife, Melynda, and 6-month old son, Finn. However, some of his roots go way back on Lopez Island. Four of his great-great grandpar-ents moved to Lopez in the
late 1800s and early 1900s. They were in the McCauley, Gallanger, Cochran and McNallie families.
Tim’s great-grandpar-ents, Lew McCauley and Glee (Gallanger) McCauley were both born and raised on Lopez Island. His grandmother, Marlene (McCauley) Martin was also born on the island.
The current generation still has a house it uses on Lopez that has been in the family for many years. Tim usually goes there several times a year to enjoy the island. Tim’s great-great-aunt, Winnie Kalberg, and her daughters, Connie (Erickson) Redling, JoAnn Johnson, and Karen King were all long time residents on San Juan Island.
We thought this island connection may be of some interest.
Marlene (McCauley) Martin/Lopez Island
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Editorial
What does dad want?Fathers aren’t what they used to be.
In our islands and across the country, they seem more engaged in family mat-
ters than prior generations of dads.Many have gone beyond coaching Little
League to coaching for the SATs and college admissions, staying home with a sick child while mom goes to work, going to parent-teach-er conferences —sometimes even without mom.
We figure modern dads don’t smoke cigars (at least, not at home), wear bow ties or turn over their daughters’ problems to mom. Advice, not admonishment, might be more in the spirit of Dr. Phil than Dr. Spock.
Or are we barking up the wrong tree? You tell us.
Tell us whether your thinking and your fatherly feelings have evolved. Whether your relationship with your father has changed since you became a father. Whether you treat your kids, male and female, differently than your dad treated you.
We’re interested partly because we don’t fully understand “fatherhood”, and partly because we’re not sure what to write about it. We don’t even know what fathers really want for Father’s Day.
Do you?So tell us what it means to be a father. Tell us
what Father’s Day means to you, or if you want a card or a gift or maybe a hug and “I love you” from your son or daughter.
Send trenchant, or even humorous, com-ments to [email protected]. Maybe we’ll learn something, and maybe we can get enough good material to put your comments together into a meaningful editorial about fathers and about Father’s Day — even if it is after the fact.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
As I See It
’Critical’ resources poorly spent
By Sam BuckDo we have environmental issues facing us that are criti-
cal to address? Yes.If I were in charge of managing the available financial
resources both from tax revenue and what may be gleaned through private donation, I would declare that it was criti-cal to prioritize those resources based on where they would have the greatest impact.
For instance, there is a strong consensus from both those who see the importance of protecting land rights and those who are openly promoting the great loss of land rights, that rain water run off from the highest traffic areas—with little or no chance for vegetation to absorb the pollutants—is dumping raw and very toxic pollution into the waters that we all love and live from. How much of the total tax dollars spent (I’ve heard close to $800,000) by San Juan County towards dramatically restricting land rights was spent towards actually mitigating such toxins?
There can also be little argument that because of house-hold toxins and medicines, the greatest source of pollution into our local waters, is from our municipal sewage plant. Think of the ongoing real benefits to the marine environ-ment that could have happened if those (now lost) local and state tax dollars had been used to identify and educate us about how to reduce that toxic load?
I call that a critical loss of funding that would have benefited all with out end. Since building new or making additions requires updated highly effective septic technol-
ogy, where is the tangible evidence of any real contribution towards the degradation of the marine environment from new development? Overly dramatizing a few blatant failures from the distant past is disingenuous.
Actually helping the marine environ-ment has been co-opted for an unstated “no growth” agenda, so using logic for the stated goal meets with unresponsive
blank faces from otherwise intelligent people and that has been so frustrating.
Has the older development (with new septic technology) that is located above spawning habitat been proven to be contributing toxins or critically destructive? No.
It is all conjecture or based on decades old development. Most people rarely visit their own beaches. Is the supposi-tion that we can hardly wait to destroy important habitat?
Since the greatest tax dollars and greatest contributions to non-profits come through wealthy property owners, does it make sense to dramatically degrade their use and financial resources for unproven benefits?
We are downstream from Vancouver (Canada) and many other smaller cities, so let us keep perspective. If there is a real problem it would be exceedingly rare to find a property owner who did not care, and through innovation win-win solutions can become blueprints for the future.
I think it is critical to the survival of a balanced commu-nity and nature that we actively engage creative solutions for actual problems.
Is the word ‘critical’ being overused or underused? Perhaps it’s some of both
— Sam Buck is a third-generation islander, realtor and author of “Believe Your Own Experience”
Sam Buck
Guest Column
By Richard/Rita WeisbrodWhat is the problem that the new
Critical Areas Ordinance process will fix? “What did we do wrong? We fol-lowed the rules.”
As a local land surveyor and land use consultant since the 1970s, Tom Starr (“CAO: big fix for undefined problem”, April 25, pg. 8), and other recent writ-ers, question the need for new ordi-nances to protect critical areas for the future. To answer, we should note that no blame is being placed on anyone for past actions. We cannot re-write the past, but when things change, policies must adapt to those changes.
If you viewed the San Juan Islands from the air, as we did many times over these years, the difference from 1970 to the present is dramatic. In fact, popula-tion growth in San Juan County has been explosive.
U.S. Census data for San Juan County shows the population in the county was essentially stable at around 3,000 people from 1900 up to 1960, when the economy centered on agriculture and natural resources (fishing, logging). In 1970, the population was 3,856, dou-bling to 7,838 by 1980, then increas-ing to 10,035 by l990, to 14,077 by 2000, and to just under 16,000 in 2010.
Looking at housing units in the county, 66 percent have been built since 1970 (and 23 percent of these since 1990).
What has been the result on the land of this increase in population? Deforestation, increased water use, increased sewage volume, increased herbicide and pesticide use, more roads and trails, more paving of the land sur-face, and more shoreline developments, including more stairways and docks.
History is full of examples of civiliza-tions that flourished and then disap-peared because they ran out of neces-sary resources. As a county of islands our resources are very limited, and we need to husband what we have left. Water in our dry summers is now a problem we all live with.
The problem is not that any one of us alone has caused any specific envi-ronmental change that has occurred. It is the combined impact of all of us that has changed the islands. Garrett J. Hardin called this effect the “Tragedy of the Commons.”
An example is False Bay on San Juan Island [the largest watershed in the county]. When we arrived in the early l970s, sand dollars were com-mon, and eel grass reached well into tidal streams; there were many spe-cies adapted to sandy substrates where children played and built sand castles at low tides.
What do we see now? The sand dol-lars are gone, none since the late 1990s, and eel grass is restricted to the bay’s mouth. The bay has silted in from run-
off, mostly from the now seasonal False Bay Creek (a former salmon stream) and smaller temporary streams. Now we have a mud-silt tide flat with very different species.
This degradation of False Bay did not occur because of what any who live on False Bay did, nor is it a result of the development actions of any one person or any one development within the watershed. It is the result of accu-mulated impacts from many individual sources.
We need to look ahead to resources we will all need in the future, and we must begin where we are now, not as we were at some point 30 or 40 years in the past.
What the CAO process must do for future development is try to minimize further damage and mitigate environ-mental change that will protect the critical resources we share and leave them intact for coming generations. We need new regulations because the land and its resources have changed. We have changed it—collectively.
While it is true that land use regula-tion restricts your freedom to do what you personally want to do with your land, that same land use regulation also protects you from the harm that your neighbors can do to your land and to our shared critical resource areas... the commons.
Shared resources threatened by growth
— Editor’s note: Rita Weisbrod is a profes-sor of sociology, emeritus; Richard Weisbrod retired from the US Geological Survey as a research zoologist.
Degradation of False Bay reveals need for ‘critical areas’ protection
By Scott RasmussenOnce the dust finally settled on the 2012
spring prep sports season, the Wolverines had another two league championships in the bag, a sixth-place finish in the women's golf division at State, two State Track & Field appearances, a third consecutive berth
in the Tri-District tennis tournament and an academ-ic champion to round out those on-the-field accom-plishments.
But that's not all. For the second year in a row, the Friday Harbor softball team snared the Northwest 1A/2B League's top award, as junior Jean Melborne was named the league's Most Valuable
Player. She joins Elle Guard, who was awarded the top league award in 2011.
Over the course of the 2012 rain-marred season, Melborne struck out 78
would-be hitters and walked only 19, and notched a 11-1 record in league in leading the Wolverines to a second-straight league champion-ship. Just getting the ball in play was the key, Melborne said.
"I'm the one person who has the ball but I knew if I could get them to hit it to my teammates they would take care of it," she said. "We all worked so hard together and we wanted it. I think we peaked at the right time." In her debut season, Coach
Nickie Davis, who guided Friday Harbor to its second straight championship, was named league Coach of the Year. Emily Guard, Kaylen Meeker and senior Liz Taylor earned league First Team honors; Ashleigh Brown and Sierra Truesdale were named to the Second Team, and sophomore Isabel Place earned Honorable Mention.
Four Friday Harbor baseball players earned First Team honors; Austin and Brandon Lambright, Amer Melic and Otis Cooper-West; Gavin Guard and Gabe Lawson were named to the Second Team and senior Hayden Place earned Honorable Mention.
On the tennis court, senior Rebecca Leff qualified for a third consecutive appearance at the Tri-District tournament, while soph-omore golfer Kendra Meeker, netted a sec-
ond straight appearance at State. Junior Aaron Prager and fresh-man Willie B l a c k m o n notched an appearances at State in track.
In addition to individual honors for a c h i e v e -ment on the
field, the Friday Harbor boys soccer team,
which had a collective GPA of 3.67, was named a State Academic Champion.
The girls track team and the girls ten-nis team earned Outstanding Recognition
for their classroom achievements, 3.57 GPA and 3.53 GPA, respectively. The boys track team, the softball team and the baseball team gar-nered Distinguished Recognition, as each finished the season with a collective GPA of more than 3.0.
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11:30 A.M. Pig War PicnicAt the Historical Museum
Food, Music, Children’s Activities, Silent AuctionSponsored by the Kiwanis Club
6 P.M. Rock The DockAt the Waterfront
8th Annual Rock the Dock Family Street DanceFamily oriented music and comedy
Food, Beverages, Ice Cream, Beer Garden Sponsored by the Rotary Club of San Juan Island
FIREWORKS!!!At the Waterfront, at Dusk
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Wolverines reap harvest of spring post-season awards
Journal file photo Brandon Lambright.
Rebecca Leff
Journal file photoJean Melborne.
Journal file photoCoach Nickie Davis signals a play with Kaylen Meeker, at third base, in scoring position.
By Steve WehrlyJournal reporter
Freshman Willie Blackmon and junior Aaron Prager made track coach Darrin Scheffer “extremely proud” at the
high school 1A/1B/2B State Championship meet in Cheney May 25 and 26. Both say they want to return to the championship meet next year.
Blackmon, one of only
five 1A freshmen compet-ing in Cheney, finished the 300 meter hurdles in 43.33 seconds. Although he told Scheffer he was a “little dis-appointed” he didn't match his school record of 42.41 seconds in the hurdles, Blackmon said he “learned so much and would be much more ready next year.”
Prager long-jumped a personal best 19'8.25", finishing ninth among 1A athletes. “I was thrilled to be there,” he said and he intends to “stay in shape and trust in God” to reach the 20-foot mark.The Wolverines will have three of four team award winners back next year. Scheffer told the Journal that the coaches will con-fer “Most Valuable” honors on Willie Blackmon, “Most Inspirational” recognition on senior Lucas Jagel and sophomore Alaina Scheffer, and “Most Improved” designation on freshman Genevieve Gislason.
Scheffer hopes to take a larger squad to State next year.
“We had such a young team this season,” said Scheffer, who thinks many of the returning track squad will “tap into the potential I know they have inside them.”
Prager notches ‘PR’ at State; Blackmon shy of record
Melborne, 11-1 in league, named 2012 MVP
Thursday, June 14Friday Harbor Art Market, 5-8 p.m., Brickworks Plaza, 150 Nichols St. Showcase of local art and music; market open Thursdays through Aug. 30. (360) 472-0216, [email protected].
‘Is Your Passion on Hold?’, Lavendera Thursday, 7 p.m., Lavendera Massage, 285 Spring St., free. Sharon Hooper presents vision Mapping Strategies, and more. Info, 378-3637, www.lavenderadayspa.com.
Performers Showcase, 7 p.m., Isle Be Jammin’, 310B Spring St. Singer-songwriter Hank Harris of Deadwood, Colo., blends jazz, blues, swing and originals; special guest, Susan Osborn. Tickets, $10. Info, 378-5151.
Friday, June 15Art Exhibit Opening, 6-8 p.m., The Bean Cafe, 150B 1st St. Maritime models, sculptures, impressionistic oil paint-ings by Phil Tate, Robin Meyer-Tate. Music by Oliver Strasser. Info, 378-2797.
Kickoff Summer Reading: Dream Big, 7-8 p.m., library, free. Stories, inspiration, craft of making dream catchers; led by artist-educator Alice Hibberd. All ages. Info, 378-2798, www.sjlib.org.
Saturday, June 16Forest Ecology of Turtleback Mountain, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Turtleback Mt., Orcas. Guided 4-mile walk with forester and restora-tion ecologist Carson Sprenger. Water, lunch, binoculars, appropriate footwear recommended. 376-3384, [email protected].
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Dance Happy28th annual dance extravaganza, Friday, 7 p.m.
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What’s Happening!
See CAlEnDAR, Page 10
By Scott RasmussenIt doesn’t take a genius to figure
out that science and music are somehow inter-connected.
Maybe it’s the scales? On Saturday, however, it’s your
chance to see and hear just how tightly woven together music and science can be, and delivered in a bright package, as the 12th annual Jazz at the Labs takes center stage at San Juan Island’s world renown
marine science center. Hosted by Friday Harbor Laboratories, Jazz at the Labs is part
musical entertainment and part fundraiser. Proceeds from the event benefit the Labs K-12 Science Outreach Program. The pro-gram unites scientists and students and offers elementary to high school-age children a first-hand glimpse into the world of marine science.
The event features tunes by the island’s own pillar of jazz, the San Juan Jazz Quintet, with vocals by local songstress Jill Urbach (who played the role of Maria in San Juan Community Theatre’s recent production of The Sound of Music), followed by the Seattle-based jazz group, Jazz Coalescence, led by musician—and scientist—Chris Amemiya.
The evening also includes silent and live auctions. KPLU Jazz host Dick Stein will be back to emcee the event and Friday Harbor’s Farhad Ghatan will key up the live auction, which takes place between sets.
But wait. There’s more. The price of admission, $40, includes dinner along with an evening of music and entertainment. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., dinner served at 6 p.m. For info and reservations, call 378-2165, ext. 0.
Bellingham-based singer-songwriter Dana Lyons has traveled great distances since his 1996 release of “Cows with Guns” put him on the musical map.
But the Kingston, New York native, and Swathmore College graduate, and noted environmental troubadour, always seems to find his way back to San Juan Island. This year is no exception.
Lyons will unveil a long list of outrageous musical material, as well as an array of more traditionally penned songs, in a one-time performance, June 28, at San Juan Island Library.
While Lyons may be best known for “Cows with Guns”, a YouTube favorite, he has also gained traction among critics and environmental music fans for such hits as “Ride
the Lawn” and “RV”, and “Our State is a Dumpsite”.A global and Internet sensation, “Cows with Guns” was
the No. 1 song on the Dr. Demento show the year of its release, rose to No. 2 on the Australian Country music charts and spent 10 months on Seattle’s Top 40 radio play list.
Lyons has nine albums and musical discs to his credit, and has performed in a wide range of premier venues, such as Farm Aid, with Willie Nelson and Neil Young, and the Harley Davidson Festival in Sturgis, S.D., where he shared the stage with 70’s rockers Blue Oyster Cult, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Steppenwolf.
Lyons’ performance at the library begins at 7:30 p.m. For more info, 378-2798 or www.sjlib.org.
Lyons return: June 28, at the SJ library
Contributed photos Far right, Jon Hama strums the standup bass; middle band leader Chris Amemiya belts out a tune on the trombone; top right, vocalist Jill Urbach carries a melody.
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Dance Happy, 7 p.m., SJCT. Island’s annual dance extravaganza, hosted by Bill and Rita Ament. Tickets: $16 adults, $8 student reserved, $5 Rush. 378-3210, www.sjctheatre.org.
2012 Orcas Sing with City Cantabile Choir, 7 p.m., Lime Kiln State Park. (See story, pg. 16). Info,
378-4710, ext. 30.
Third Saturday Contra Dance, 7-9 p.m., Grange Hall. Karen Marshall call-er, music by Hands Four. No experience required. By donation, $10, stu-dents half price. Info, 378-3836.
Monday, June 18Auditions for SJCT’s fall production: The Crucible, 7 p.m., PARC Building, 70 Saltspring Drive. Auditions Monday, 6/18 thru Wednesday, 6/20. Directed by Susan Williams; cast to include 12 men, ages 30-plus, and 10 women, ages 15-70. Scripts available at SJCT; info, 378-3210, www.sjctheatre.org
Tuesday, June 19Daughters of American Revolution, month-ly meeting, 11:30 a.m., Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church, 425 Sprint St. Brown Bag Lunch, R.S.V.P., [email protected], 378-5442.
Wednesday, June 20WWII style USO Dance/fundraiser, 4:30-8 p.m., Mullis Community Senior Center, 589 Nash St. Fundraiser for Senior Center features The One More Time Band, Swing Dance demon-stration by Bill & Rita Ament, spaghetti dinner, prize for best ‘40s attire. Capacity, 100; tickets, $25. Info, 378-2677.
Thursday, June 21
Own the Night Bowling, 7 p.m., library, free. Library sponsored Teen Summer Reading Program outing; own the night and go bowl-ing, grades 6-12. Register at 378-2798, [email protected].
Literary Salon, 7 p.m., library, free. Visit with library director Marjorie Harrison and other avid readers, and chat about books; each
third Thursday, ‘round the fireplace. Info, 378-2798, www.sjlib.org.
Friday, June 22Spiritual Celebration (kir-tan), 7 p.m., XYZ Movement Arts Studio, 689 Airport Center Road. Features musi-cal duo, Shantala, percus-sions, song. Open to all faiths, participation optional. Tickets, $15 at XYZ, $17 online at shantala music, $20 on celebration day. Info, 378-2524.
Saturday, June 23Know Your Island Walk, 1-4 p.m., English Camp, SJI National Historical Park, free. A 1.5-mile tour of English Camp with National Parks Historian Mike Vouri, (dogs on leashes only, chil-dren must be accompanied by adult). Info, 378-4953, www.islandrec.org.
Chamber Music San Juans, 7:30 p.m., San Juan Community Theatre. Artistic director Patricia Kostek presents strings, wood-winds, piano in CMSJ’s 25th season. Tickets; $26 adults, $13 student reserved, $5 stu-dent RUSH. Info, 378-3210, www.sjctheatre.org.
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By Teddy DeaneIn the last article I asked the question
“Is there a San Juans Style?”I was (am) looking for something that
sets all of our art here apart from any-where else and gives it a special meaning or character. I got several replies, including one from San Juan County Arts Council member Thrinley DiMarco, which I’ve excerpted below. Hopefully I can address other replies in upcoming articles.
“The past history of the Skagit Valley area was a loosely knit group of mysti-cal painters and sculptors. They didn’t particularly like being called mystics but their work certainly did give that feel-ing. I think the soft light, the mists and diffuse lighting, nature, the influence of the symbolism of the first peoples of the land all had a very big influence. Here in the San Juans we aren’t isolated from the rest of the world, so we are aware of what the rest of the artistic world is doing... However, I do think that all of the above considerations have a stronger influence.
I find myself still looking intently at the cloud formations in the sky and the many moods of the water, the plant life, the rocks and natural forms all around me. I still want to celebrate them; call others into the circle of magic and mys-tery and join in the celebration!
When my sculptures are successful, I feel as though they grow from the earth itself and that they recall images and myths that reach back to the earliest times. I see my latest work as power-ful, simple and organic, like beautiful stones or bones. The images come from a lifetime of observing how nature has worked the earth and how those ancient people I feel so connected to have spo-
ken of their lives and to their gods.” —Thrinley DiMarcoPlease send me your thoughts on art coming from the
San Juans, and if you’re an artist, how living here has influ-enced you and/or your work.
—Teddy Deane is president of San Juan County Arts Council
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Contributed photo Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., July 9-13 and July 16-20. children 6-14, see above, can learn elements of acting and improv, as well as basics of stagecraft, at San Juan Community Theatre’s Summer Theatre Day Camp, led by writer/director Penelope Haskew (“Oh No! Granny’s got the Remote”). Register at SJCT Box office ($130 per week; $15 off by registering by June 15), 378-3210, www.sjctheatre.org.
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Press Release: 06/04/2012On June 20th, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Yacht Club, the Port of Friday Harbor staff and Commissioners invite the public, air-port tenants and businesses and other interested parties to attend the final public hearing for the Friday Harbor Airport Master Plan Update. This will be the final session for airport tenants, busi-nesses and the public to comment on the pro-posed changes to the Airport Master Plan Update Project. Master planning engineers from the firm of Bernard-Dunkelberg and from Reid-Middle-ton Engineers will be there to answer questions and to provide information. Topics will include: Capital Improvement Projects funded through the FAA and the Port for the next 5-10 years including hangar and taxiway/ taxi lane con-struction, land purchases, miscellaneous airport improvements and the likely sequence of events in which these projects will occur and how they will be funded. We welcome your comments and look forward to seeing you there.
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Pioneer underwater photographer, educator, diver, and ambassador to the marine environment, Ernest H. Brooks II, will bring his vision of the world beneath the sea to life in both a multi-media presen-tation and a photography exhibit.
On Thursday, June 21, the multi-media pre-sentation, “Silver Seas: Ernest H. Brooks II, A Photographer’s View of Marine Stewardship” will be shown at the San Juan Island Community Theatre, 7-9 p.m.
On Friday, June 22, Sept. 8, the photography exhib-it “Silver Seas: Ernest H. Brooks II, A Retrospective” will be on display at The San Juan Islands Museum of Art, 235 A Street, Friday Harbor. Opening reception with the artist is 5 - 8 p.m.
For more information on Brooks and related events, visit www.sjima.org, call 370-0035 or email [email protected].
Eateries offer specials for ‘Brickworks’
A dozen different restuarants are cooking up culinary delights in the month of June in support of Brickworks
Each restaurant will fea-ture a “Brickworks appe-tizer” or specially designed menu item throughout the month, and those items
are likely to vary or change during the course of the fundraiser. Proceeds from the month-long culinary fundraiser will used to help renovate the Brickworks building, 120 Nichols Street, owned and oper-ated by the San Juan Islands Agricultural Guild.
“We’re thrilled to have so many restuarants partici-pating,” said the Ag Guild’s Jane Burton-Bell.
The resturants are: Cafe Demeter, Cask & Schooner, Coho, Downriggers, Duck Soup, Market Chef, Pablito’s, The Bluff, The Place and Vinny’s Ristorante.
Chamber Music SJ’s embarks on 25th season
That sound of strings, woodwinds and piano can mean only one thing: Chamber Music San Juans is back and ready to roll.
Artistic director Patrica Kostek will bring musical favorities together for CMS’s 25th season, beginning with the group’s June 23 perfor-mance, at 7:30 p.m., at San Juan Community Theatre.
Tickets are $26 adults, $13 student reserved, and $5 student RUSH on the day of the show.
For info or tickets, 378-3210, or www.sjctheatre.org.
XYZ Arts hosts ‘Kirtan’ event
XYZ Movement Arts Studio will host a musical
evening of sacred chanting (kirtan), June 22, 7 p.m.
Kirtan is a celebration of spirit through the chanting of sacred names. The concert features Benjy and Heather Werthemeir, as well Sean Frenette on bass and three string guitar. Werthemeir and Benjy together lead kirtan worldwide as the duo, Shantala. Shantala has recorded and performed internationally with sacred music luminaries such as Krishna Das, Deva Premal and Miten, and Jai Uttal. They were named one of the top “Wallahs to Watch” by ‘Yoga + Joyful Living” in 2008.
The concert is open to experienced chanters and beginners, and to people of all faiths.
Tickets, available at XYZ studio, $15, or $17 online at shantalamusic.com, or $20 at the door. Info, 378-2524.
English Camp next up in ‘Island Walk’ series
San Juan Island National Historical Park’s Mike Vouri will lead a walk at English Camp in the next install-
ment of the Know Your Island Walk series.
The 1.5-mile walk (that’s roundtrip) begins at 1 p.m. and is slated to end at 4 p.m.
Vouri, the Historical Park’s historian and chief of interpretation, will describe life in the camp, where the officers lived and the English Camp’s historical and cultural history.
Meet at the English Camp parking lot, off West Valley Road. The terrain is wooded trail and grass, and consid-erated moderate. Dogs, on leashes, are welcome; chil-dren must be accompanied by an adult. Info at www.sanjuanislandtrails.org
‘Dance Happy’ takes SJCT stage, Saturday, 7 p.m.
Buckle in and hold on tight, the range of emotions is extreme.
The 2012 Dance Happy troupe is guaranteed to have you laughing, crying, giggling, smiling, wiggling, clapping, cheering and in stitches.
Led by Bill and Rita Ament, this year’s annual island dancing extrava-ganza— No. 28 and count-ing — will feature a cast of
60 island performers, from ages two to adults, enter-taining with both dance and song.
The performance, spon-sored by Kings Market,
begins at 7 p.m., Saturday, at the San Juan Community Theatre.
Tickets: $16 adults, $8 chil-dren, $5 RUSH. Info, 378-3210, www.sjctheatre.org.
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1949 CHEVY 1/2 Ton, 5 window pickup. Excep- tional condition. Full frame off restoration ap- prox. 15,000 miles ago, and well cared for since. Cosmetically superb (no dents, damage or rust) and runs better than it looks! Continuously stored in garage. 3 speed with overdrive. Very nice for highway driving. Original working tube radio. Finished oak bed. Looking for a fun old truck that looks and runs great? This is it! Asking price $14,500. Contact Info: 206-780- 0235, 206-321-4075 or [email protected]
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1973 DODGE Charger. One owner, engine re- built to approx. 340, au- tomatic transmission, complete service records, original paint and top. New Edelbrock carburetor, radiator, al- ternator, electronic igni- tion, power steering pump, battery, rear springs. Great drive. Many other items rebuilt or replaced. $15,500. Contact Al 360-678- 0960 Whidbey Island
1981 MERCEDES 380 SL Convertible. Cream colored, tan leather in- terior, dark brown cloth top. Lovingly cared for, always garaged. Power windows, air condition- ing. All service records available. BEAUTIFUL! $9,750. 206-842-5301 (Bainbridge Island)
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1977 CHEVY NOVA, 2 door. 250 straight, 6 cy- lindar and 350 turbo auto transmission. Only 114,000 original miles. Lots of new parts includ- ing recent rims and tires! Runs and drives great! Nice Blue metallic color. Original interior; small driver seat tear, but oth- erwise excellent! $4,500. For details call 360-632- 3663. Coupeville, Whid- bey Isl.
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1991 CORVETTE Coupe. Only one owner! Low miles, just 5,850. 4 speed automatic, 5.7 li- ter & V8. Bright Red col- or, no one will miss you driving by! 6 way driver & passenger adjustable seats. Luxurious red leather interior. All extras including Selective ride and handling. Two tops, Delco Bose Sound Sys- tem and more. Window sticker: Showroom. Ask- ing $18,950 or offer. 360-378-4825. San Juan [email protected]
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2002 PT CRUISER Hatchback. Gold, moon roof, 83,000 miles. Lug- gage rack, folding seats, automatic. Has all the goodies! $4,200. 360- 675-4040 or 250-580- 6102 (Oak Harbor)
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2006 FORD FOCUS ZX4 SE. Nice, smooth ride! Metallic grey with grey upholstered interior! 5 speed standard shift, 4 door, new tires. Low miles, only 83,800, used very little! Mostly towed behind our motor home. Excellent condition! Only owner. Dealership main- tained. Records includ- ed. $7,500. Coupeville. Call Bill 360-720-6283.
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1981 HONDA Accord. Automatic transmission, 4 door, family owned since new. Green. Low, low 97,000 miles. No rust, no body damage. All records, well main- tained. $4000 or best of- fer. Contact Janet, 360- 307-8295 (Bremerton)
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2002 HYUNDAI Accent, 2 Door Hatchback. 5 speed manual, 37 MPG, 94,000 miles, much new work done. Nice body, clean interior. $3,700. 360-678-1053
Pickup TrucksChevrolet
1994 CHEVY 1/2 TON 4x4 Truck; Extended Cab, 6.5’ bed. Power windows, power locks, AT, AC, CC & CB Radio. Well maint., 145,000 miles and reliable. Green exterior with grey upholstered interior. Good condition! It all works! $3,700. Clinton, Whidbey Island. Call Garth 360-320-0150.
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2000 FORD F-250 ex- tended cab with short bed. 93,500 miles, V-10 6.8L, AT, 4WD Lariat. Many options. Remote start, alarm system, air conditioning, power win- dows, power door locks, power/leather seats, cruise control, power steering, sliding rear window, rear air bag shocks, tow package, sprayed bed liner. $9,965. (206)567-4222 Vashon
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8’ SIDEKICK Cab-Over Camper, 1984, fits long bed truck. Must see to appreciate! Great for camping, fishing, & sum- mer getaways. Self con- tained including bath- room, stove, sink and bed. Sleeps 2 to 3 peo- ple. Great condition! All records included. Only second owners. $1,300 obo. Port Orchard. 360- 895-4202.
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COUPEVILLE2007 HONDA VT100C Shadow Spirit with wind- shield. All Silver and chrome. Excellent condi- tion with only 5,761 miles. Rides nice and handles well! Perfect for your summer road trip! Only owner, well main- tained & garaged. Ready to go! Double seat. NADA average retail: $5,274. Asking only $4,585. Coupeville. Call Art 360-678-5603.
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30’ TRAVEL QUEEN Motor home. Very clean all fiberglass! Fully self- contained, ready to roll! Built in blender, perfect for margaritas making. Twin roof air condition- ers, built-in vacuum cleaner system, 65 KW generator & 440 Dodge engine. Sleeps 7 com- fortably. Priced to sell quick $2,500 obo. Coupeville. Call Richard 425-218-0213.
NOTICE TO CONSIDER AN ORDI- NACE MODIFYING THE BOUN- DARIES OF THE EXISTING SAN JUAN COUNTY SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL DISTRICT, ESTABLISHING THE LOPEZ SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL DISTRICT AND AMENDING CHAPTER 8.12 OF THE SAN JUAN COUNTY CODE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the San Juan County Council will con- duct a public hearing for the purpose of receiving testimony on a proposed Ordinance modifying the boundaries of the existing San Juan County solid waste disposal district, establishing the lopez solid waste disposal district and amending chapter 8.12 of the San Juan County Code. The public hearing will be held in the Council Hearing Room at 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor, Washington on Tues- day, June 26, 2012 beginning at 10:15 AM. The hearing may be continued from time to time and place to place as may be desired by the Council without additional written notice.At the hearing, members of the pub- lic will be invited to speak and/or pro- vide written statements regarding the proposed Ordinance. After the pub- lic testimony portion of the hearing has ended, the Council will deliber- ate and consider modifications to the Ordinance that are proposed by members of the public, county em- ployees or the Council. The pro-
posed Ordinance may then be adopted with or without modifica- tions.Ordinance Summary: Solid Waste Disposal Districts are authorized by RCW 36.58.100 for all or a portion of the County. In 1996, the County es- tablished a solid waste disposal dis- trict for the entire county. This ordi- nance will modify the boundaries of the existing solid waste disposal dis- trict to remove Lopez Island from the district and to rename the district the “General District”. Part 1 of this Or- dinance modifies and adds defini- tions in SJCC 8.12.010. It also up- dates the description of existing solid waste facilities to include the Sutton Road property owned by the County and the adjacent property owned by the Town of Friday Harbor. Other changes are made to the regulation provisions to recognize that the Lo- pez District will serve as the operator of disposal sites on Lopez Island. Part II amends the existing Solid Waste Disposal District boundaries to remove Lopez Island and makes the appropriate determinations and findings in support of this change. The new amended district is called the General District. Amendments are made to clarify the role of the County Council, as ex-officio the governing body of the General Dis- trict and modifies the purposes for which a solid waste excise tax may be used and to eliminate the restric- tion that such a tax be used only for
capital improvements of solid waste facilities. Part III establishes the Lo- pez District and makes the appropri- ate determinations and findings in support of this action. The Ordi- nance sets out authority to impose a solid waste excise tax and sets forth procedures and policies with respect to this tax. Part III also provides de- tails on the rights reserved to the Council as the governing body of the Lopez District and also specifies that the Lopez District will be managed by the Lopez District Managing Board with powers, duties and re- sponsibilities as set forth in the Ordi- nance. The Ordinance also includes transition provision that will delay the implementation until the electors who reside on Lopez Island have an op- portunity to vote on a property tax measure to provide a diverse funding program for the Lopez District, and calls for continued operations of Lo- pez by the County Solid Waste Divi- sion until this transition is completed during the time of December 2012 through March 2013. All persons wishing to be heard on this matter are encouraged to attend. Written comments may be submitted in advance of the hearing by mail or at the hearing by delivery in person. Please deliver 8 copies of all written comments to the Clerk of the San Juan County Council at 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor or mail to 355 Court Street#1, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. The Ordinance is filed at the
Office of the County Council, 55 Sec- ond Street, Friday Harbor, WA and may be inspected and copies ob- tained at the Council offices during each business day between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The Ordinance/Resolution may also be viewed 24 hours a day at the County website at http://www.sanju- anco.com/Council/PendingOrdinanc- es.aspx. A copy of the proposed Or- dinance/Resolution will be mailed without charge upon request. For more information please contact the Clerk of the County Council at 360-370-7472 and/or LEGAL NO. J395664Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, June 13, 2012
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO REVIEW & CONSIDER A FUNDING
PROPOSAL FOR THE 2012 SJC PUBLIC FACILITIES FINANCING
ASSISTANCE PROGRAMNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the San Juan County Council will con- duct a public hearing to consider a funding proposal for disbursement of monies for grants or revolving loans for projects funded by the SJC Public Facilities Financing Assistance Pro- gram and to receive comments on those applications and proposed funding awards. The public hearing will be in the Council Hearing Room at 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor,
Washington on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 beginning at 10:15 AM. The hearing may be continued from time to time and place to place as may be desired by the Council without addi- tional written notice.At the hearing, members of the pub- lic will be invited to speak and/or pro- vide written statements regarding the proposed funding awards. After the public testimony portion of the hear- ing has ended, the Council will delib- erate and consider modifications to the funding awards proposed by members of the public, county em- ployees or the Council. The pro- posed awards may then be awarded with or without modifications.All persons wishing to be heard on this matter are encouraged to attend. Written comments may be submitted in advance of the hearing by mail or at the hearing by delivery in person. Please deliver 8 copies of all written comments to the Clerk of the San Juan County Council at 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor or mail to 355 Court Street#1, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. The Ordinance is filed at the Office of the County Council, 55 Sec- ond Street, Friday Harbor, WA and may be inspected and copies ob- tained at the Council offices during each business day between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
San Juan County, as an Equal Opportunity Employer, does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status in the provi-sion of services, in programs or activities or employment opportunities and benefits. Direct inquiries to Administrative Services at (360) 378-3870. TTD relay at 1-800-833-6388.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR KING
COUNTYIN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFCLARK BELSLEY PHILLIPS,Deceased.No. 12-4-03205-7 SEAPROBATE NOTICE TO CREDI- TORSRCW 11.40.030CYRENA ANN PHILLIPS has been appointed as Personal Representa- tive of this estate. Any persons hav- ing a claim against the decedent must, prior to the time such claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serv- ing on or mailing to the personal rep- resentative or the personal represen- tative’s attorney at the address stat- ed below a copy of the claim and fil- ing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceed- ings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided un- der RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of the first pub- lication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the probate assets and nonpro- bate assets of the decedent.Date of Filing Notice with Court:June 7, 2012Date of first publication:June 13, 2012CYRENA ANN PHILLIPSPersonal RepresentativePamela McClaranFoster Pepper PLLCAttorneys for Estate1111 Third Ave., Suite 3400Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 447-4400LEGAL NO. J395395Published in the Journal of the San Juan Islands. June 13, 20, 27, 2012.
SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR KING
COUNTYIN PROBATE
Estate ofFRANCES EVELYN McDANIEL,Deceased.NO. 12-4-00555-6 SEAPROBATE NOTICE TO CREDI- TORSRCW 11.40.030The personal representative named below has been appointed as per- sonal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limita- tions, present the claim in the man- ner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the per- sonal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the ad- dress stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal repre- sentative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publica- tion of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonpro- bate assets.Date of First Publication: June 13, 2012Personal Representative: Greg Berk- manAttorney for Personal Representa- tive: Wendy S. GoffeWSBA #21815
Address for Mailing or Service: Stoel Rives LLP600 University Street, Suite 3600Seattle, WA 98101-4109Court of Probate Proceedings Cause No.: King County Superior CourtCause No. 12-4-00555-6 SEALEGAL NO. J395820Published: Journal of the San Juan Islands. June 13, 20, 2012.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURTOF WASHINGTON
FOR SAN JUAN COUNTYIn the Matter of the Estate:JULIE ANN TAYLOR, Deceased Probate No. 12-4-05026-9PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDI- TORSRCW 11.40.030The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Per- sonal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limita- tions, present the claim in the man- ner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Per- sonal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorneys of record at the address stated below, a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty (30) days after the Person- al Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four (4) months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the probate as- sets and nonprobate assets of the decedent.
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: June 6, 2012.Travis Mager, Personal Representa- tivec/o Law Offices of William J. Weis- singer425-B Caines StreetFriday Harbor, WA 98250Attorney for Personal RepresentativeWilliam J. WeissingerWSBA #19332425-B Caines StreetFriday Harbor, WA 9825012-0518\NOT-CREDLEGAL NO. J394089Published: Journal of the San JuansJune 6, 13, 20, 2012.
Public NoticeSan Juan Island School District # 149The San Juan Island School District No. 149 will be completing a 2012 - 2013 Budget and 2011 - 2012 Capi- tal Projects Fund Budget Extension, and have placed the same on file in the school district office Monday June 11th, 2012, and a copy thereof will be furnished to any person who will call upon the district for it. At a regular meeting of the Board of Di- rectors on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 6:00 p.m., in the High School Library, the board shall hold a bud- get hearing and may adopt the 2012 - 2013 General Fund, ASB Fund, Capital Projects Fund, Debt Service Fund, and Transportation Vehicle Fund budgets; and the 2011 - 2012 Capital Projects Fund Budget Exten- sion. Any person may appear at the meeting to be heard for or against the budget or any part thereof.San Juan Island School District No. 149LEGAL NO. J392955Published in The Journal of the San Juan Islands. June 6, 13, 2012
SAN JUAN ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT
The San Juan School District is ac- cepting bids for the following surplus tech equipment. Sealed bids will be accepted until noon, Friday, June 22, 2012 at the District Administrative Office, 285 Blair Street P.O. Box 458, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. Dell Optiplex GX260 Desktop......32 (31 Still in use)Gateway ESX_E4000........18Gateway ESX_E4100........8Gateway LX2 E6000.........1Gateway MDP_E4100.....2Gateway PBI E4500D......1Gateway WSP_E4100..........1HP d220mt Desktop.........10HP dx2000mt Desktop..........28 (still in use)HP Compaq Desktop D530-SFF....11(No software or operating systems are included)LELY Brand seed/fertilizer spreader (marginally functional)CYBEX- exercise bike (not function- al)Contact Maude Cumming, Admin Assistant San Juan Island School District (360) 378-4133, maudecum- [email protected] for more in- formation.LEGAL NO. J392958Published in The Journal of the San Juan Islands. June 6, 13, 2012
MISCELLANEOUS LEGAL NOTICES
The applications and proposed awards may be viewed 24 hours a day at the County website at http://www.sanjuanco.com. A copy will be mailed without charge upon request. For more information please contact the Clerk of the County Council at 360-370-7472 and/or County Administration at 360-378-3870.LEGAL NO. J395674Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, June 13, 2012
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Vendor Selection Commit- tee, appointed by the San Juan County Council to recommend an operator of the Orcas Island Solid Waste Facility, will conduct a meet- ing on June 13, 2012, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon, in the Orcas Landing Conference room located at 8368 Orcas Road in Orcas Village. Agen- da items include establishing criteria for ranking vendor proposals.LEGAL NO. SJ395695Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder. June 13, 2012
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING to Consider an Ordinance Amending San Juan County Code Sections 10.16.030, 10.16.040, 10.16.050,
10.16.060, 10.16.070 and 10.28.015 and Repealing Sections 10.16.010
and 10.16.041NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the San Juan County Council will con- duct a public hearing for the purpose of receiving testimony on a proposed Ordinance regarding parking; Amending San Juan County Code Sections 10.16.030, 10.16.040, 10.16.050, 10.16.060, 10.16.070 and 10.28.015 and repealing sections 10.16.010 and 10.16.041.The public hearing will be held in the Council Hearing Room at 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor, Washington on Tues- day, June 26, 2012 beginning at 10:15 AM. The hearing may be continued from time to time and place to place as may be desired by the Council without additional written notice.At the hearing, members of the pub- lic will be invited to speak and/or pro- vide written statements regarding the proposed Ordinance. After the pub- lic testimony portion of the hearing has ended, the Council will deliber- ate and consider modifications to the Ordinance that are proposed by members of the public, county em- ployees or the Council. The pro- posed Ordinance may then be adopted with or without modifica- tions.
Summary: The ordinance is pro- posed to eliminate obsolete parking regulations, update outdated statuto- ry references and clarify parking reg- ulations in the San Juan County Codes, Chapters 10.16 (Stopping, Standing, and Parking) and 10.28. (Watercraft Regulations). The ordi- nance is also proposed to establish a restricted parking zone with time lim- its on County Road rights-of-way in Orcas Village on Orcas Island.All persons wishing to be heard on this matter are encouraged to attend. Written comments may be submitted in advance of the hearing by mail or at the hearing by delivery in person. Please deliver 8 copies of all written comments to the Clerk of the San Juan County Council at 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor or mail to 355 Court Street#1, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. The Ordinance is filed at the Office of the County Council, 55 Sec- ond Street, Friday Harbor, WA and may be inspected and copies ob- tained at the Council offices during each business day between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The Ordinance may also be viewed 24 hours a day at the County web- site at http://www.sanjuan- co.com/Council/PendingOrdinanc- es.aspx. A copy of the proposed Or- dinance will be mailed without charge upon request. For more in-
formation please contact the Clerk of the County Council at 360-370-7472 and/or Rachel Dietzman at 360 370 0500. LEGAL NO. J395666Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, June 13, 2012
NOTICE OF REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING:
The San Juan County Land Bank Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting on Friday, June 15th the Craft Room, Mullis commu- nity Senior Center 589 Nash Street, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island.The meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. Public comment time is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. The public is welcome at every monthly Land Bank Com- mission meeting. Judy CummingSan Juan County Land Bank350 Court Street #6Friday Harbor, WA 98250LEGAL NO. J395681Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands. July 13, 2012
NOTICESan Juan County, 915 Spring Street, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 is seeking modification of coverage under the Washington Department of Ecology’s NPDES General Permit for Stormwa- ter Discharges associated with In-
dustrial Activities at the industrial site, known as the San Juan Island Drop Box Facility located at 212 Sut- ton Road, Friday Harbor, WA 98250.The activity requiring permit modifi- cation is an extension of the deadline to complete Level 3 Corrective Ac- tions - Stormwater Treatment Best Management Practices from Sep- tember 30, 2012 to September 30, 2013. Any person desiring to present their views to the Department of Ecology concerning this application may notify Ecology in writing within 30 days from the last date of publica- tion of this notice. Comments may be submitted to: Washington Dept of Ecology, Water Quality Program – Industrial Stormwater, PO Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696LEGAL NO. SJ393129Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder. June 6, 13, 2012
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REVIEW BOARDWednesday, June 13, 2012, 7:00 PM
7:00 PM Call to Order / Roll Call / Ap- proval of draft HPRB meeting minutes for 04.11.2012 meeting.7:05 PM Communications from the Town & Citizens7:10 PM New Business: Design Review-Brickworks Stage
7:30 PM Old Business:Preservation Month Review & CommentHistoric Preservation Ordinance Discus- sion Continued8:50 PM Staff Reports & Announcements8:55 PM Board Reports and Announce- ments9:00 PM AdjournLEGAL NO. J395650Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands. June 13, 2012
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Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 5:30 PMTown Council Chambers -
60 Second Street5:30 PM Call to Order / Roll Call / Ap- proval of May 10, 2012 Draft Minutes5:35 PM Discussion of possible recom- mendations to the Town Council regard-
6:00 PM Review 2012 Requests for Changes to the Town’s 2002 Comp Plan6:15 PM Non-Agenda ItemsAdjournLEGAL NO. J395655Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands. June 13, 2012
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Recovery of the southern Puget Sound resident orca population is the theme for the 13th annual “Orca Sing.”
Scheduled for Saturday, June 16, at Lime Kiln State Park, this “musical celebration of the environment” fea-tures music by the City Cantabile Choir, directed by Fred West. Music starts at 7 p.m.
Participating organizations are People for Puget Sound, The Whale Museum, the American Cetacean Society of Puget Sound, Friends of the San Juans, the Whale Trail, the Orca Network, Killer Whale Tales and Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Members and experts from these groups will be available to talk about the health of the whales and the environmental conditions of the Salish Sea.
The event is free and family-friendly. Donations to cover expenses will be solicited.
Parking is very limited, but transportation to and from the Whale Museum in Friday Harbor will be provided. Call 360-378-4710, extension 30,for shuttle information.
Questions? Call Friends of the San Juans, 360-378-2319 or visit www.sanjuans.org.
San Juan Island Parks and Recreation District has added JD Bister and Jason Davis as recreation specialists to replace recently-resigned Rebecca Clarke. Each will work three-fourths time.
Bister has experience with parks and recreation departments in Federal Way, Burien and Tacoma. He earned a degree in recre-ation management in 2006 from Central Washington University.
For Island Rec, Bister will work on sports, outdoor, adult and fitness programs. He's new to island living.
Davis, originally from Alaska, received a BA in Youth Services from WWU/Fairhaven in 2011. He spent
2009 working with chil-dren's programs in India and Nepal on an interna-tional study grant, was a site director with Whatcom YMCA children's programs and has done volunteer rec-reation work for the Lummi Nation School and the Brigid Collins Family Support Center in Bellingham.
Davis' focus for Island Rec will be on youth and family programs. He's been an on-and-off islander for nearly twelve years.
Island Rec offers more than 60 programs in San Juan County. For more information, stop by the office, weekdays at 580 Guarnd Street or go to www.islandrec.org.
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Contributed photoJason Davis, left, and JD Bister join Island Rec as the agency’s newly hired recreation specialists.
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‘Orcas Sing’, Sat
cution, salutatorian Shaughn Anderson embodided the collective off-beat nature of the 47 graduates with an ode to “Second Place”, nearly Lincolnesque both in brevity and weight.
“I think that it’s great that the school has asked me to speak today even though I did not get first in anything, because it allows me to share this with you,” Anderson said. “I feel lucky to be here and I know that 1st is important but so is 2nd and 3rd and 4th and every other place. It takes courage to participate and ‘to do’ and I think everyone on this stage has worked hard to be here and all the contributions
everyone made on the way are equally important.
Of the 47 graduates, 40 planned to stay in-state to pursue a college degree or to enter the work force.
Many will have a boost of financial support to help them along the way. A total of 37 groups pre-sented members of the class with more than $100,000 in scholarships and financial awards. (A total was unavail-able by the Journal’s Monday press deadline.)
Class Valedictorian Audrey Olshesfsky, bound for M.I.T., beamed with excitement at a post-gradu-ation get together.
“I’m just really happy,” she said. “I love my class.”
— See next week’s edition, SanJuanJournal.com, for coverage of Spring Street International School and Griffin Bay High School graduation.
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