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Boeing in Puget Sound: A Century of Partnership INSIDE Boeing’s impact, contribution to the community See...A12 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2015 | Vol. 91, No. 86 | WWW.SOUTHWHIDBEYRECORD.COM | 75¢ RECORD S OUTH W HIDBEY Ben Watanabe / The Record Sherryl Christie leads a small group during a Clinton Community Council meeting Thursday night with the Island County planning department. Several ideas included ways to attract and keep people in the commercial hub along the highway. Clinton rallies to ready comp plan Absentee property owners, sewers, industry cited as Clinton woes, needs By BEN WATANABE South Whidbey Record Getting people to think about Clinton’s future went hand-in-hand with discussions of current woes and challenges such as a lack of sewers, absentee property own- ers, and needed industry during an Island County planning meeting Thursday night. With about 40 people in attendance, Clinton Community Council leaders set out what Clinton’s rural area of intense devel- opment (RAID) is, why it was established and what it allows. The state-mandated and court-defended area is practically set in stone, said Brad Johnson, principal planner with Island County. There are two zones within the rural area of intense development: rural center (com- mercial) and rural residential. Anything that was already developed within the area, Attorney General’s brief says district judge overstepped By JESSIE STENSLAND Whidbey News Group The state Attorney General’s Office argues that an Island County District Court judge committed “three fundamental errors of law” in awarding reimbursement of legal fees to a hospital administrator acquitted of assault. Stephen Fairchild, assistant attorney general, filed an opening brief in Island County Superior Court this week. It lays out the attorney general’s arguments for appealing the reimbursement decision. The award was so excessive, the brief states, that it was “over five times the amount awarded in any other reported self- defense reimbursement case.” Whidbey General Hospital Chief Nursing Officer Linda Gipson was acquitted during a trial in Island County District Court this summer of assaulting a restrained patient. Following the verdict, district court Judge Bill Hawkins ruled — over the pros- ecutor’s objection — that Gipson’s $250,000 in legal fees should be reimbursed through a special state fund for criminal defendants who are acquitted on the basis of self- defense. Since Whidbey General Hospital paid for Gipson’s attorney fees, the hospital may be out $250,000 if the appeal is successful. Gipson’s attorney, Andrew Schwarz of Seattle, previously emphasized that the appeal only concerns the narrow issue regarding the reimbursement and has nothing to do with his client’s acquittal; double-jeopardy rules prevent her from being tried again. Fairchild argues in his opening brief, however, that Hawkins abused his dis- Hearings board tells county to hurry up, comply By DAN RICHMAN Whidbey News Group A state judicial body last week gave Island County until Nov. 10 to say how and when it will comply with a decision the body issued this summer. But two Island County Commissioners insisted the county will not be pushed. “It has been four months since the final decision and order were issued,” wrote the Growth Management Hearings Board on Oct. 26. That is “suf- ficient time within which to take steps.” The hearings board also required the county to file a status report on Dec. 18, as required in the June 24 order. In that order, the hearings board ruled in favor of Whidbey Environmental Action Network (WEAN), requiring that the county protect its only Natural Area Preserve and follow the state’s Growth Management Act by protecting critical areas using the best available science. Specifically, it ordered the county to safeguard the habitat of rare plants, prai- ries, oak woodlands and the Western Record file photo Island County District Judge Bill Hawkins listens to a recording in a hearing prior to hospital administrator Linda Gipson’s trial. SEE JUDGE, A11 SEE CLINTON, A11 SEE HEARINGS BOARD, A28

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Page 1: Whidbey Crosswind, November 07, 2015

oeing is coming up on a special year. In July, the company will be 100 years old. It’s a great success story, but Boeing didn’t do it alone. They’ve had incredible support from the com-

munity. It’s this special relationship between Boeing and its Puget Sound neighbors that will make its sec-ond century even better for the company and the com-munities where its employees live and work.

Boeing and Puget Sound have come far in their jour-ney together. Today, they’re major partners in interna-tional trade – with aerospace accounting for over half the state’s exports last year. Boeing is the largest single exporter in the U.S. – an important engine of the econo-my and a creator of jobs in the Puget Sound area.

Although Puget Sound is home to a number of major companies, Boeing remains the state’s largest private employer, with over 80,000 employees based here in Washington. In the past five years, Boeing and Ama-zon together accounted, directly or indirectly, for more than 40 percent of the jobs created in the Puget Sound region.

Commercial aviation is growing around the world, and Boeing’s success in global markets supports ris-ing production rates in Boeing factories around Puget Sound. At the same time, as Boeing increases its in-ternational growth, it is also providing support in Puget Sound communities where the majority of its employ-ees live.

Boeing support for Puget Sound communities

Boeing is an important presence in Washington state and in the lives of its residents, and has become a catalyst for positive change in millions of lives.

In 2014, Boeing, its employees and retirees gave more than $50 million to Washington state charities and nonprofit organizations. The continued growth in aviation means the Puget Sound region stands to re-ceive continued strong community support for health and human services, arts, environmental, culture and civic engagement.

Boeing employees are also playing a leadership role in supporting their communities where they live and work. Through the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound, more than $9 million in financial assistance was provided to local nonprofits to boost education, human services and veterans support.

The company is also inspiring the next generation of Puget Sound leaders. More than 650 Everett middle school students have participated in Boeing programs focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Students are also learning about clean energy and en-ergy conservation due in part to a Boeing-funded sci-ence curriculum within the Everett School District.

Boeing partners with Everett Community College to train aviation mechanics, and has contributed more than $9 million to the United Way of Snohomish County and other organizations dedicated to service.

For the past five years, Boeing employees have vol-unteered to encourage recycling, employee engage-ment and community volunteering companywide. The Sustainables, a Green Team based in the Puget Sound, has completed about 80 site-based projects since 2010, contributing to a 74 percent increase in re-cycling and environmental education initiatives at the local sites.

Boeing also supports military personnel and fami-lies. The Employees Community Fund awarded a grant to USO Northwest to support the construction on a new USO Welcome Center at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which will serve more than 10,000 military per-sonnel and their families each month.

Boeing is lead supporter for Rally Point 6, a nonprofit that helps veterans seeking employment, educational opportunities, assistance with benefits, housing or tran-sition advice. Since the center opened in March 2014, more than 1,750 military, veterans and their families have found support.

With Boeing winning in growing the aerospace mar-ketplace, Puget Sound residents will see a win of their own. As the state’s largest employer, Boeing has shown a commitment to giving time, talent and resources to build up the communities its employees call home.

Boeing in Puget Sound:

A Centuryof Partnership

GLOBALCOMMUNITY CONTENT SPONSORED BY BOEING

Boeing is working to significantly expand Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) educational opportunities for Puget Sound youth.

B In 2014, Boeing, its employees

and retirees gave more than

$50 million to Washington

state charities and nonprofit

organizations.

INSIDE Boeing’s impact, contribution

to the community See...A12SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2015 | Vol. 91, No. 86 | WWW.SOUTHWHIDBEYRECORD.COM | 75¢

RecoRdSouth Whidbey

Ben Watanabe / The RecordSherryl Christie leads a small group during a Clinton Community Council meeting Thursday night with the Island County planning department. Several ideas included ways to attract and keep people in the commercial hub along the highway.

Clinton rallies to ready comp plan Absentee property owners, sewers, industry cited as Clinton woes, needs

By BEN WATANABE South Whidbey Record

Getting people to think about Clinton’s future went hand-in-hand with discussions of current woes and challenges such as a lack of sewers, absentee property own-ers, and needed industry during an Island

County planning meeting Thursday night. With about 40 people in attendance,

Clinton Community Council leaders set out what Clinton’s rural area of intense devel-opment (RAID) is, why it was established and what it allows. The state-mandated and court-defended area is practically set in stone, said Brad Johnson, principal planner

with Island County. There are two zones within the rural area

of intense development: rural center (com-mercial) and rural residential. Anything that was already developed within the area,

Attorney General’s brief says district judge overstepped By JESSIE STENSLAND

Whidbey News Group

The state Attorney General’s Office argues that an Island County District Court judge committed “three fundamental errors of law” in awarding reimbursement of legal fees to a hospital administrator acquitted of assault.

Stephen Fairchild, assistant attorney general, filed an opening brief in Island County Superior Court this week. It lays out the attorney general’s arguments for appealing the reimbursement decision.

The award was so excessive, the brief

states, that it was “over five times the amount awarded in any other reported self-defense reimbursement case.”

Whidbey General Hospital Chief Nursing Officer Linda Gipson was acquitted during a trial in Island County District Court this summer of assaulting a restrained patient.

Following the verdict, district court Judge Bill Hawkins ruled — over the pros-ecutor’s objection — that Gipson’s $250,000 in legal fees should be reimbursed through a special state fund for criminal defendants who are acquitted on the basis of self-defense.

Since Whidbey General Hospital paid for Gipson’s attorney fees, the hospital may be out $250,000 if the appeal is successful.

Gipson’s attorney, Andrew Schwarz of Seattle, previously emphasized that the appeal only concerns the narrow issue regarding the reimbursement and has nothing to do with his client’s acquittal; double-jeopardy rules prevent her from being tried again.

Fairchild argues in his opening brief, however, that Hawkins abused his dis-

Hearings board tells county to hurry up, comply

By DAN RICHMANWhidbey News Group

A state judicial body last week gave Island County until Nov. 10 to say how and when it will comply with a decision the body issued this summer. But two Island County Commissioners insisted the county will not be pushed.

“It has been four months since the final decision and order were issued,” wrote the Growth Management Hearings Board on Oct. 26. That is “suf-ficient time within which to take steps.”

The hearings board also required the county to file a status report on Dec. 18, as required in the June 24 order.

In that order, the hearings board ruled in favor of Whidbey Environmental Action Network (WEAN), requiring that the county protect its only Natural Area Preserve and follow the state’s Growth Management Act by protecting critical areas using the best available science.

Specifically, it ordered the county to safeguard the habitat of rare plants, prai-ries, oak woodlands and the Western

Record file photoIsland County District Judge Bill Hawkins listens to a recording in a hearing prior to hospital administrator Linda Gipson’s trial. SEE JUDGE, A11

SEE CLINTON, A11 SEE HEARINGS BOARD, A28

Page 2: Whidbey Crosswind, November 07, 2015

By JUSTIN BURNETT

South Whidbey Record

Tim Callison remains ahead in the race for Langley mayor as are the two Whidbey General Hospital incumbents seeking reelec-tion to the board, according to the latest ballot count.

The Island County Auditor’s Office released updated general election results Thursday evening. Callison had 296 votes, or 53.4 percent, compared to challenger Sharon Emerson’s 258 votes, or 46.5 percent. Callison’s 38-vote lead is six votes less than his 44-vote lead on election night.

In the hospital com-missioner races, Georgia Gardner is still way ahead of

Rob Born in their contest for position 2. Gardner has 8,974 votes, 60 percent, to Born’s 6,058, or 40 percent.

The bid for position 4 is much more narrow. Nancy

Fey has maintained her lead over Erika Carnahan, claim-ing 50.55 percent of the vote, or 6,093 votes. Carnahan has 49.45 percent, or 5,960 — a difference of 133 votes. Though close, it’s not enough to demand a recount.

Back to Langley, the city council will have a new face with the election of Ursula Shoudy. She ran unopposed for position 3, the seat cur-rently occupied by Jim Sundberg. He did not seek reelection. Shoudy got 316 votes.

City Council incumbents Bruce Allen and Robin Black both ran unopposed for addi-tional terms, though Black is expected to resign at the end of the year if Callison maintains his lead; Black is his wife, and she promised to step down if he was elected to settle concerns voiced during

the campaign of a potential conflict of interest.

On the South Whidbey School Board, Shawn Nowlin was elected in an uncon-tested race with 3,158 votes. She replaces Steve Scoles. Incumbent directors Linda Racicot, Julie Hadden and Damian Greene, all of whom ran unopposed, were elected to new terms.

South Whidbey Fire/EMS will see a new face on the board with the successful elec-tion of Frank Mestemacher, with 3,138 votes, as will the South Whidbey Parks and Recreation District with Dennis Hunter; Mestemacher replaces Commissioner Mike Helland, and Hunter will take over for Joel Gerlach. Those races were unopposed.

Jack Ng and Ed Halloran, incumbents Port of South Whidbey commissioners,

were elected to new terms as were South Whidbey Parks and Recreation District incumbent Don Wood.

Similarly, incumbent Freeland Water and Sewer District Commissioner Eric Hansen will have another term earning 196 votes, as will Bob Miller on the Holmes Harbor Sewer District board, 169 votes. Paul Kiernan is new to the board, taking the seat occupied by Stan Walker. Kiernan earned 171 votes.

The port, parks and sewer district races were all uncon-tested.

In other Whidbey races, Bob Severns is handily beat-ing Jim Campbell for Oak Harbor mayor — both are city councilmen — with 62 percent of the vote, or 2,170 votes. Campbell has 38 per-cent, or 1,331. Mayor Scott Dudley did not seek reelec-

tion.Coupeville also has a new

mayor, Molly Hughes. The town councilwoman ran uncontested and brought in 540 votes. She will replace longtime Mayor Nancy Conard, who is retiring at the end of the year.

According to the Auditor’s Office, 22,637 ballots have been counted countywide. There are 50,531 registered voters in Island County, which equals a voter turn-out of 44.8 percent, the office reported.

The office estimates there are no more ballots to count, but is planning another ballot count for any that may come in next week Thursday, Nov. 12. The election results will be certified Nov. 24.

Having successfully moved down the road, the Langley Whale Center will celebrate with a grand re-opening Saturday, Nov. 14.

Meet authors of orca literature, get free posters and children’s temporary tattoos, and meet the staff during the event.

Authors David Neiwert and Sandra Pollard will join Orca Network co-founders Howard Garrett and Susan Berta. Books will be for sale and the authors are happy to autograph theirs works, “Of Orcas and Men,” “Puget Sound Whales for Sale,” and “Orcas in our Midst.”

There will also be music about Lolita, the orca cap-tured in Penn Cove several decades ago, performed by Audri Cooke, the youth docent of the whale center.

A traveling exhibit, “Whales in our Midst,” is on display courtesy of the Bainbridge Historical Society and Center for Whale Research.

The new space at 115 Anthes Ave., has more room for classes, author talks, movies and expan-sion of the Youth Activity Program. There is also a larger gift shop, from which sales help offset operations costs for the Langley Whale Center, according to a press release.

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Members sought for veterans boardThe Island County Veterans Advisory Board is looking

for new members.The group is responsible for communicating to the

Island County commissioners the needs of indigent vet-erans, the resources available to them, and programs that could benefit veterans and their families. Service on the board is voluntary, though expenses are reimbursed.

According to a recent news release, the goal is to have a diverse board of men and women who served in the mili-tary during any past conflict, including Vietnam, the Gulf War, Bosnia and post 9-11 operations, at home or abroad.

Those interested in applying should email Island County Veterans Services Coordinator Dana Sawyers at [email protected] or call her at 360-632-7328.

The Whidbey Veterans Resource Center has announced the start of its fall fundraising drive.

The organization, located in the Bayview area off Highway 525, relies on support from community business-es and residents; their financial contri-butions help keep the doors open for veteran support services, as well as its Swim Free program.

According to a recent news release, more than 13,000 veterans call

Whidbey home — the highest per capita rate in the state. Of these, more than 2.3 are younger veterans and more than 2.5 are classified as disabled.

“Since our opening we have assist-ed vets and their families in accessing services, providing ongoing support groups, and sponsored or supported multiple needed projects,” the release said. “Of special significance, our annual Stand Down this past August

served nearly 70 veterans and their families in accessing much-needed assistance in support services such as housing, clothing, health ser-vices, connecting with VA (Veterans Administration) benefits and assis-tance dealing with trauma.”

To donate to the resource center, email Program Coordinator April Pomeroy at [email protected] or call 360-331-8081.

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There are precious few veterans of the two World Wars around these days, and with the passage of time and the precedence of the last decade’s confl icts in the Middle East, we now hear less from or about our Vietnam vets. But you likely know someone, in your family or through friends, who has done a tour of duty in the war on terror.

No matter the setting for their service, retiring or returning members of the military must eventually face the challenge of redefi ning themselves as civilians — especially those who have been in high-risk combat situations. Whether career soldiers or whether they simply answered a call of conscience to serve our country for a few years, veterans need to know that the community appreciates their personal contributions.

Let’s make sure we do what we can to help veterans reintegrate into our town, fi rst of all, by understanding that it might be hard for them to see themselves as anything but soldiers. Basic training, esprit-de-corps, and especially war will do that to a person. Don’t be shy about greeting retirees or returning soldiers with a word of thanks for their service. If your personal and political convictions won’t allow

for that, nothing is stopping you from a simple, “I’m glad you’re home safe.”

Issues such as boredom, post-traumatic stress, physical injury, and even just feeling out of synch with age-group peers might complicate an individual veteran’s ability to reintegrate. Keep that in mind, and at work, at college, and at home, step up to an opportunity to off er support, understanding, and encouragement to a veteran.

Veterans group seeks funds for programs

Page 4: Whidbey Crosswind, November 07, 2015

Two-car crash snarls highway

A two-car crash shut down Highway 525 in Freeland for more than three hours Thursday night.

The crash occurred at about 5 p.m. when a woman driving a Subaru was exiting the Eagles Aerie and struck by a southbound Dodge Caravan. After the impact, the Subaru slid off the road and into an embankment on the side of the road, emergency responders said.

Both drivers were able to exit their vehicles. A man driving the Caravan was transported to Whidbey General Hospital. Medical respon-dents were still examin-ing the woman for inju-ries after the accident.

“I think every airbag deployed, the vehicle did its job,” said Mike

Cotton, deputy chief of South Whidbey Fire/EMS. “Both drivers stepped out of their own cars. What does that tell you? (Cars) are getting better to protect you and me. Unfortunately, stuff like

this happens. But the cars are doing their jobs to protect the passengers.”

Cotton said the acci-dent closed the road until 8:30 p.m.

Wreck closes Fish Road on Friday

Traffic was closed on Fish Road after a two-car collision in Freeland Friday morning.

The crash occurred at about 8:30 a.m. Nov. 6 at the intersection of Fish and Woodard roads.

According to South Whidbey Fire/EMS Deputy Chief Mike Cotton, a Chevrolet Astrovan driven by a woman and carrying three children was driv-ing toward Freeland on Fish when the vehicle collided with a Toyota, which was headed toward Freeland on Woodard Road. The man driving the Toyota was assumed to have missed the stop sign, Cotton said.

Cotton said the woman complained about some

neck pain, but that the children were unharmed. He also said the man driving the Toyota appeared to be OK.

“There were three little kids in the van,” Cotton said. “They were all belt-ed and they’re all fine.”

Another similar acci-dent happened at the same intersection in mid-October; a woman reportedly ran a stop sign on Woodard and struck a vehicle headed toward Freeland.

Design board adds new member

Langley’s design review board has a new member with an interest in prop-erty.

The city council, upon Mayor Fred McCarthy’s recommendation, approved Dan Gulden’s appointment to the Design Review Board at its Nov. 2 meeting. Gulden also attended.

McCarthy said he had a long career in real estate as a broker and a builder, and would bring a valu-able voice to the citizen group responsible for guiding the city’s look.

Gulden joins a group that includes Bob Dalton, the chairman of the board, Cathy Rooks-Waymire, Janet Ploof and Kari Gunderson, the

alternate. The board is undergo-

ing a potential change in its responsibilities. At a previous city council meeting, the board requested the author-ity to review the city’s design standards and amend them with poten-tially more well-defined rules for the commercial and multi-family devel-opments.

Library loading zone gets solution

A temporary parking spot for book deliveries to the Langley Library is becoming an issue for the city and Sno-Isle.

The library is part of the Sno-Isle Library System, and has no dedi-cated parking spots. A persistent problem has been the need to enforce a load/unload spot out front, which at times gets used for regular parking. When that happens, the library delivery driver has parked the large truck elsewhere, taking up a couple of spaces.

The headache came to a head recently, said library manager Vicki Welfare at the Nov. 2 city council meeting. A Langley police officer confronted the driver.

“Unfortunately, the driver made a bad choice and we had to take action,” Police Chief Dave Marks said.

He was asked to move. Welfare and some

council members asked if it was possible to block off the load/unload spot during a two-hour window for the book deliveries. Marks OK’d the request; the police department has ticketed drivers, and even towed one car, for parking in the load zone.

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A Toyota crashed into a Chevrolet Astrovan carrying three children on Fish Road on Friday morning. No one was injured.

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Sweet Mona’s Chocolate Boutique, an award-winning sweets shop in Langley, will host two gingerbread and sugar cookie decorating classes next month.

They are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, at the shop, located at 221 Second Street in Langley. All supplies will be provid-ed, cost is $25 per person.

Reservations are required.

Sweet Mona’s is a gour-met specialty chocolate shop featuring handmade chocolates, confections, gelato, espresso, and class opportunities. The store’s chocolates have won several awards including Most Luxurious Chocolate Experience at the Seattle Chocolate Salon.

For details and to RSVP, call shop owner Mona Newbauer at 360-221-2728.

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Overgrown grasses and dead or dying vine maple trees on Second Street became enough of an eye-sore that a Langley commu-nity organization has come forward and offered to redo the city garden on its own.

The Langley Main Street Association presented its design for renovating the garden that was only built and planted in June 2014. It was promptly approved by the city council and mayor at the council’s Nov. 2 meet-ing.

Janet Ploof, president of the association, said the group’s volunteers were prepared to remove the existing plants, tend to the soil and prepare it, plant new sedge and iris variet-ies, and put in a small path-way through the length of the garden. The new plants would be better selections for the space, she said.

“It doesn’t grow and flop over,” Ploof said at the coun-cil meeting.

The city council asked the mayor to make it happen at its meeting Monday. As of Thursday, city Public Works employees had removed the sedges and trees, leaving the 600-square-foot garden a long, brown streak of dirt.

Having an outside group take over a task that appeared to be solely in the domain of the city’s pub-lic works department was not unusual. Mayor Fred McCarthy and Public Works Director Stan Berryman

said there has been a long history of cooperation between residents and the city, with some services pro-vided by both. That includes Main Street.

“These are the people that put so much work into the other gardens and bumpout spaces, so the city can show its support,” McCarthy said.

Other cities have grap-pled with the worry over workers’ rights and having labor undermined by vol-unteer efforts. In Langley’s case, there was a legacy of shared responsibility between residents and gov-ernment.

“We’ve had several collab-orative projects with Main Street,” Berryman added.

The project was part of a $2.2 million redesign of Second Street between Anthes and Cascade ave-nues in 2014. The sidewalks were widened, a plaza in the middle of the road sec-tion was installed as a place-making feature in front of Callahan’s Firehouse, utility lines were replaced and a new road surface installed.

The rain garden was built by KPG, the firm contract-ed for the entire project. Located near the Anthes Avenue intersection, just in front of Windermere Real Estate and the Langley Village, storm water from Cascade Avenue flows down to Second Street and col-lects at the rain garden. Plants help store and filter it before rejoining the creek that lets out at Seawall Park.

As a rain garden, it func-tioned well, said McCarthy,

when the issue first came to light in August. But after a prolonged hot and dry summer, the sedges grew long and could not support themselves erect. Falling over, the rain garden looked like an out-of-control lawn.

Even the mayor acknowl-edged that the rain garden, the only one in town not managed or planned by the Langley Main Street Association, looked out of place; the mayor called it the “poor stepsister.”

All of the new rain garden

work will be accomplished for about $1,500, Ploof said. She asked the city to con-sider paying for the plants, which will be purchased at a discounted rate through one of its members. As with past tasks handled by the Langley Main Street Association, the money will be reimbursed from the city’s public works budget. There was enough money in 2015 coffers to cover the cost, said Berryman, and will not impact any other work in the city.

Berryman said the plant costs for the original veg-etation are comparable to

the Langley Main Street Association proposal.

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Thanks Opportunity Council celebrates 50 yearsEditor,

In our fast-paced world of constant change and new challenges around every corner, it is easy to overlook the constant pillars in our commu-nity.

For the past 50 years, Opportunity Council has been one of those pillars in Island, San Juan and Whatcom counties, providing resources and services to people in need.

The Opportunity Council was organized in November 1965 by a group of citizens and recognized by the federal government as the local “community action” agency.

Agencies like this started all across the country when President Lyndon B. Johnson declared unconditional

“war on poverty.” President Johnson outlined initia-

tives aimed at addressing poverty, including establishing local commu-nity action agencies.

It’s easy to romanticize that President Johnson’s actions flipped a switch and the war on poverty started here and across the county. But the driving force was really a groundswell of concern and caring by community leaders to do right by their fellow citizens by addressing poverty and inequities.

So where are we after 50 years? Has the war been won?

In 1964 about 19 percent of the total population was living in poverty in the U.S. Today, about 15 percent are living in poverty.

While that number is decreasing, it is still too high. Much too high. Each percentage point represents millions of lives. We must remain steadfast in our work with families and individu-

als who are struggling to meet their basic needs daily.

We also focus on systemic change. We’re making a difference through supportive early learning programs, child care resources, and working with families to address issues of generational poverty. We know that sometimes the long-term answers rest in changing policies and percep-tions that maintain inequities in our society.

We also know we don’t do any of this work alone.

Our success, and the success of all community action programs, is grounded in community involvement, people caring and individuals willing to take action. Our partner agencies, state and local government, busi-nesses, schools, supporter, utility companies, many, many individuals

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Old growth presents new park challenges

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By SUE ELLEN WHITEI am a fourth-generation

Pacific Northwesterner.My earliest and strongest

memories are tied to our family place at Welches, Oregon along the Salmon River in the shadow of Wy’East (Mt. Hood). It is where our extended family gathered summers, holidays and weekends amid the pri-meval forest with the wood-land floor of moss, nurse logs, ferns and berries and with towering trees above.

Our playground as kids was this old-growth forest and the river bank. We were

what is now termed “free-range” children who came back to the rambling cabin when we got hungry.

A year or so after I moved to the island in 1970 I discov-ered South Whidbey State Park.

It was different from the woods I’d roamed here. The trees were huge and the trail and camp area reminded me of the forest of my youth.

Later, I was one of those who worked to stop the clearcutting of the 255-acre forest, known as Classic U, in 1977. The campaign continued for 15 years, culminating in the addition of this forest to South Whidbey State Park. More than a thousand local folks got involved in one way or another. The groundswell of our community was heard all the way to Olympia. Along the way, the expanded park lodged itself into the collective soul of the community.

The forest at Classic U was unlike any other place on South Whidbey with the smells, sounds and particular light of my childhood, resonating deep in my bones.

Several years ago, in response to the Legislature’s deci-sion to shrink tax support to our state parks, the Friends of South Whidbey State Park was formed. I became a member.

The nonprofit’s mission is to support the park and the much-reduced park staff with work parties, summer pro-grams and events.

Our volunteers have enjoyed the remarkable diversity of South Whidbey State Park with its lush woods, scenic trails, spacious campgrounds, magnificent wetlands, expansive beach and all else that it has to offer. And, we’ve had darn good times at our numerous work parties and

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events.With the closure of the

campground this year new challenges face the Friends — and the community.

Based on the presence of diseases and declining old-growth tree health in the campground, a long-range planning process was begun by state parks to identify the best options for managing the future

use of the park. Should the old-growth trees be left standing, or should they be removed to allow the campground to be re-opened? Are there better alternatives that should be considered? These are just a few of the choices to be made. The eventual plan will direct what happens at the park for the next gen-eration.

South Whidbey State Park is the jewel of our community and everyone is invited, indeed encouraged,

to participate.Washington State Parks

has held one community meeting and all the infor-mation from it is online at http://bit.ly/sowhidbey parkplan. There are links where you can read about the diseased trees, how the process will work and how to participate. Send your ideas and comments to [email protected]. The next meeting will be in January after all your com-ments have been gathered.

Please join the Friends of

South Whidbey State Park at www.foswsp.org; find us on Facebook or send an email to [email protected].

See you on the trails.

Editor’s note: Sue Ellen White is the president of the Friends of South Whidbey State Park

create a collective energy that drives change.

Today, the ongoing chal-lenge is adapting to the changing needs in our communities. Many fami-lies have been affected by a slow economic recovery, the price and availability of housing, and a changing job market. Each community

and neighborhood has its own challenges.

We’re up for the chal-lenge. Together with our community partners, we’ll continue to provide people a hand up out of poverty. We will strive to help peo-ple be more self-reliant and adaptable to the changes around them. And we’ll con-tinue to care for our senior neighbors and people with disabilities who need our help.

With 50 years in the

rearview mirror, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank you — our commu-nity partners — who help do this work.

We can be proud of the progress that has been made, what we have learned and how we have helped change people’s lives and our community for the better.

DAVE FINETOpportunity Council

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is executive editor for the Opportunity Council.

Rod, gun club aided in auction success Editor,

On behalf of the Ryther Mardi Unit of South Whidbey, we want to thank the entire staff of the Holmes Harbor Rod & Gun Club for their excel-lent dinners, time and ser-vice at our Ryther dinner/

auction on Oct. 24, 2015. Also thanks to our auction-eer, Mike McInerney, for a great job.

Our unit is proud of the success that our auction/dinners have had as the

proceeds support the chil-dren of Ryther 100 percent.

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Our Last Phase!

Robert A. Engle Robert Alan “Bob” Engle died

on Oct. 31, 2015, at Whidbey General Hospital at the age of 74.

Bob was born on Oct. 1, 1941, at the Polly Harpole Maternity Home in Coupeville, to Robert E. and Iris I. (Minahan) Engle. Bob lived his entire life in Coupeville, except for the six months he was stationed at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Bob attended Coupeville High School and graduated in the Class of 1959.

Bob was a farmer all of his life and proud to call himself a farmer. He started working the family farm as a young boy. At the age of 14, he joined his father and brother Len, forming Robert Engle and Sons Farm. Bob became the fourth-generation

farmer to work the family farm that was begun by his great grandfather W.B. Engle and was carried on by his grandfather Carl T. Engle and his father, Robert E. Engle.

Bob was called to active duty with the United States Army in 1964 and was honorably discharged six years later after serving his country in the Army Reserves. Upon completion of basic training in Kentucky, Bob returned to Coupeville via a cross-country road trip with his soon-to-be fiancé and in-laws. Bob proposed to Cheryl Sherman in Pierre, S.D. He then returned to work on the farm; on June 25, 1966, he and Cheryl were mar-ried, bringing together two of the largest farm families on the Prairie.

Bob was committed to farm-ing, but he was always ready to lend a hand to anyone. Whether it was helping with the Methodist Church addition or taking in cat-tle from the Skagit Valley when the farms were flooded; he was there to support his community. Bob loved tractors, big trucks, anything John Deere and country music; but most important to him was his family.

Bob Engle is survived by his wife Cheryl of 49 ½ years; by three children and their spouses, Robert W. and Mary Engle and grandchildren Justin and Harley Engle of Coupeville; Donna and Russell Bailey Jr. and grand-daughters McKayla, McKenzie and Mollie, also of Coupeville; and Bonnie and Scott Bennett and granddaughter Sydnie of

Orange, Calif.; and by his siblings and their spouses, Jim and Joyce Engle of Port Townsend, Len and Terri Engle of Coupeville, Ellen Derkland of Burlington and Jan and Dan Olson of Mount Vernon. Numerous nieces and nephews and a wealth of cousins also sur-vive.

Bob was preceded in death by his parents Robert and Iris Engle, his father and mother-in-law Wilbur and Grace Sherman and three brothers-in-law, Edward Morgan (Susan), Roger Purdue (Sara) and Don Derkland (Ellen).

Graveside funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Nov. 14, at Sunnyside Cemetery in Coupeville with Rev. David Engle and Rev. Jin Ming Ma officiating.

A tractor procession will begin

at 12:30 p.m. at the lumber yard behind Red Apple Market. Friends of Bob are invited to join the procession with their tractor or truck. A celebration of life and reception will follow at the Coupeville High School Commons with Gary Wallin, life celebrant, officiating. Please visit Bob’s page in the Book of Memories at www.wallinfuneral home.com to share memories and condolences. Memorials may be made to Island County 4-H in Bob’s name.

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By EVAN THOMPSON

South Whidbey Record

South Whidbey cross country runners Mallorie Mitchem and Elizabeth Donnelly may have traveled two different paths to qualify for state at the District 1 Cross Country Championships on Saturday at the high school, but the reward was much the same.

Mitchem, a senior, cruised to the front of the pack in the Class 1A girls competi-tion and maintained her pace all the way to a seventh-place finish. She also set a personal best on South Whidbey’s home course with a time of 20:40:89.

Donnelly was roughly five places away from finishing inside the state-qualifying top-20 with around 500 meters left to go when she heard Falcon head coach Doug Fulton shout to her.

“You gotta pass five or you’re not going to get top 20!” Fulton said.

Donnelly turned on the afterburners when she reached the track and tapped the same energy which led to a second-place finish in the state 1A track and field cham-pionships in 2014. Donnelly passed the pack in front of her and then some, placing 17th with a time of 21:21:58 for her personal best on the course.

“I didn’t think I was going to make it for a really long time in the race,” Donnelly said. “Once I got on the track, I knew I could make it. There’s no way I’m missing it by one spot.”

Donnelly and Mitchem will be the lone representa-tives for South Whidbey at the Class 1A State Cross Country Championships in Pasco on Nov. 7.

Falcon girls Annika Hustad, Iona Rohan, Clara Martin, Anna Justus, and Bethany Justus also com-peted in the district meet, but placed outside of the

top-40. The team placed sev-enth overall with 167 points. Northwest took the girls team title with 52 points.

The narrow margin which kept the South Whidbey’s boys team from qualifying for its third consecutive trip to state was a tough pill to swal-low, Fulton said.

The Falcons’ 160 points fell just four points shy from the top-four, which is the cutoff for advancing to the state meet as a team. South Whidbey was led by junior Cory Ackerman, who fin-ished just five positions away from a state berth after run-ning the course in 18:15:18. Senior Evan Mellish, who was South Whidbey’s front runner throughout much of the season, finished 28th with a time of 18:17:27.

“I think (Mellish) got a side stitch during the race,” Fulton said. “That hit him and he ran with everything he could.”

Fulton said Mellish han-

dled the disappointment well. Mellish will be the only boys runner to graduate in the spring.

Falcon junior Justin Gonzales placed 33rd after running the course in 18:26:25, and junior Will Simms finished close behind in 35th with a time of

18:31:34. Junior Collin Burns rounded out the top-40 with a 39th-place finish and a time of 18:39:11.

Fulton said a few of the runners were dinged up, including Gonzales, who sat out the conference meet on Oct. 24 with a hip injury.

“It’s just unfortunate they

couldn’t be on their A-game,” Fulton said.

Fortunately for the Falcons, Mitchem and Donnelly had the best races of their sea-sons. For Mitchem, it will be her fourth consecutive trip to the state meet.

“Most people don’t get to state at all, let alone four years in a row,” Fulton said.

Mitchem’s experience was evident during Saturday’s race, where she knew she had to keep her pace and intensity high to avoid allow-ing a pack to sneak up from behind and pass her.

But Mitchem wasn’t just running for herself.

“You’re running for each other, and the only way some people can get to state is with a team,” Mitchem said. “You’re running for your teammates. In the trails, I’m telling myself, ‘Pick it up for the team,’ just running it through my head.”

Though Mitchem and Donnelly’s performances

were not enough to advance the rest of the girls team to state, it was a strong indica-tor that they have a chance to compete well on Nov. 7.

Mitchem currently ranks 29th on South Whidbey’s all-time list for girls state cham-pionship times, after plac-ing 13th overall at the state meet in 2014 with a time of 19:58.02.

“I really want to have fun and enjoy the course and run my hardest on it,” Mitchem said.

Though Donnelly has experience at the state level in track and field, it will be Donnelly’s first state experi-ence in cross country.

“I don’t know if it will be like track at all,” Donnelly said. “Once you’re there, you know you have to do this now; it’s going to be a good race. Everyone is there to do the same thing as you are and just run really fast.”

The Falcons left for the state meet Thursday.

“I know they’re going to run well,” Fulton said. “I’m just looking forward to them having fun and them experi-encing the fun. It’s going to be exciting to see. Mallorie has a shot to get back on the podium, I know that’s her goal.”

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Falcon sophomore Elizabeth Donnelly finished 17th over-all at the 1A district meet and advanced to the state meet on Nov. 7 in Pasco.

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Falcon senior Evan Mellish runs the course of the 1A District 1 Cross Country Championships on Oct. 31.

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By DAN RICHMANWhidbey News Group

After five years of work, Island County has a new plan governing development and permitted activities along its 207 linear miles of seashore and lakefront. The Island County commissioners this week unanimously approved a Shoreline Master Program, also unanimously approv-ing adoption of countywide policies dealing with planning development, transportation and housing.

“We are incentivizing soft shore armoring that will enhance our near-shore habitats,” said Commissioner Helen Price Johnson after the program was approved. “We’re exempting agricultur-al activities in the shoreline zoning areas. We’re providing environmental protection for unstable slopes, feeder bluffs and geological hazardous areas.”

Shoreline master programs are required by state law and are long-range planning docu-ments that guide growth and development along the water-front.

The county’s adopted pro-gram also designated some

beachfront communities as historic and created a new permitting process for canal communities, Price Johnson said. Perhaps most nota-bly, it bans fin-fish farming, a provision the county won after years of wrangling with the state’s Department of Ecology.

The county’s planning department will shortly cre-ate a guide to implementing the master program and will conduct training for home-owners, contractors and staff, principal planner Brad Johnson said.

Work began on the new master program in 2010. The state Shoreline Management Act, adopted in 1971, requires cities and counties to create such plans. The county’s nine-member civilian Planning

Commission in early October unanimously recommended that the commissioners accept the plan; they did so with only one minor change.

The newly approved countywide planning poli-cies, required by the state’s Growth Management Act, are intended to guide the cre-ation of county and munici-pal Comprehensive Plans, which that act also mandates. They were last revised 16 years ago. The current revi-sion, a 34-page document, received input from several public meetings and from roughly 15 meetings among the planning departments of Coupeville, Langley, Oak Harbor and the county over a two-year period.

By DAN RICHMANWhidbey News Group

The public will get a chance next month to weigh in on Island County’s deci-sion whether to spend as much as $818,000 this year conserving land and improv-ing a natural area.

The Board of Island County Commissioners last week set 10:30 a.m. Nov. 10 for a public meeting to dis-cuss using the Conservation Futures Fund to underwrite five conservation-related investments on Whidbey and Camano islands.

The meeting, which will include short presentations on each proposed project, will take place in the com-missioners’ Hearing Room, located downstairs in the Courthouse Annex Building, Room No. B102, 1 N.E. 6th Street, Coupeville.

Last month, the Citizens’ Advisory Board for the Conservation Futures Fund voted to give the five proj-ects the full amounts their sponsors were seeking. It also ranked the project from most deserving to least.

The three projects on Whidbey Island are as fol-lows:

• Whidbey Camano Land Trust is seeking $500,000 this year, and will seek another $500,000 next year, toward buying a conserva-tion easement on Fakkema Farm. The 377-acre property stretches from Oak Harbor’s city limits to Swan Lake. The easement would pro-tect 300 acres. An additional $3 million toward the ease-ment would come from the Navy and from the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

• The land trust also wants $30,000 to keep open for agricultural and open-space use two properties, totaling 56 acres, on the north side of Dugualla Lake, northeast of Oak Harbor. The land includes or is adja-cent to working farmland, a freshwater lake and critically important habitat. The Navy may contribute toward the purchase because it wants to remove development rights to the area, which lies just east of a major runway at Ault Field.

• Finally, the land trust wants $165,000 toward pro-tecting from development 30 acres of productive farmland along Lone Lake’s south shoreline. The properties are an important north-south corridor between Lone Lake and Deer Lagoon, the orga-nization said in its applica-tion.

Two projects are pro-posed on Camano Island.

• Island County’s Parks and Recreation Department seeks $85,000 to protect 4.8 acres adjacent to the Island County Parks property of Camano Ridge, on Camano Island. This is known as the Dillon property.

• The county’s noxious weed control board seeks $37,900 for suppressing weeds in 2016 and 2017 at Camano Island’s Iverson Preserve. Weeds to be controlled on the property, which was bought in 1999 with Conservation Futures Fund money, include Scotch Broom, Canadian thistle, bull thistle and poison hem-lock.

Using a highly detailed scoring system, the advisory board in a Sept. 24 memo ranked the Fakkema Farm

acquisition as the most important project among those before it. After that, in descending order, came Lone Lake, Dugualla Lake, the Dillon property and the noxious-weed project.

“The advisory board feels that the three Whidbey Island projects in particular met the goal stated by the commissioners of ‘funding of projects that jointly protect conservation and economic resources,’ ” it wrote. “The goal of conserving land for public use and enjoyment will take some properties out of development poten-tial, but the increase in liv-ability will far outweigh any setbacks in development.”

The commissioners on Wednesday questioned whether the advisory board had used the scoring system properly, noting it was the first time that system had been used. They expressed concern at widely varied scores given to the same project on the same criteria, and at high scores given to criteria that seemed inappli-cable to a project.

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WICA hosts comedy competition, workshop, open mic By BEN WATANABE

South Whidbey Record

Making people laugh is a matter of truth for Ron Reid.

At least, that’s where a great joke should begin. From there, a solid setup can go anywhere it needs to as long as it ends up being unexpected.

“There are two sorts of laughter: laughter of sur-prise and laughter of recog-nition,” said Reid in a phone interview Thursday. The former is preferred after setting up the latter; get the audience to nod in agree-ment a couple of times, then pull the rug out.

An example of laughter of surprise is one of the competition’s comedian’s tweets: “Who do you think would win in a fight between 100 duck-sized horses and my crippling fear of emotional intimacy?”

Reid is hosting 16 stand-up comedians at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts next Saturday, Nov. 14 as part of the 36th Seattle International Comedy Competition. As the pro-ducer of the event, which started Nov. 4 and runs through Nov. 22, spanning 22 shows at 19 venues, he implored people to attend the Whidbey Island tour stop before the comedians became “too expensive.”

South Whidbey is one of those venues, which include Portland, Seattle, Spokane, and Vancouver, B.C. The competition has rented the Langley theater as part of its month-long contest for the past five years straight. Crowds hover between 100 and 200 for the full com-petition show, said WICA production director Deana Duncan. Other people arrive only for the free Brew HaHa! before.

“We’re lucky enough that the Seattle International Comedy Competition con-siders us a strong enough venue and South Whidbey a strong enough audience to call us,” Duncan said.

“That little South Whidbey is on that list is pretty cool,” she added.

The comedy show is part of a night filled with laughter at WICA. Prior to the competition, Diamond Knot Brewery is releasing its Storm Surge Winter Ale during an open mic.

Reid will impart wisdom to a dozen or so stand-up hopefuls, prior to the eve-ning show, with a 90-minute workshop. As a professional comedian with more than two decades of stand-up experience, Reid knows well both a room of roaring laughter and of deafening silence.

Comedy is an art form, he said. That means, like any art, people like it, people loathe it and people love it. It also means people may not understand it. Like any artist, stand-up comedians can only control themselves.

“You have to settle for as good as you can be,” Reid said.

“Comedy is like any art form,” he added. “It takes a while, it takes time.”

Where comedy differs is in its preparation and deliv-ery. Standing on a stage and telling jokes is an inher-ently lonely performance. There may be thousands of smiling, staring faces, but there’s only one comedian.

“The difference between being a painter or a fine artist is when you are a per-forming artist, you are part of what you do,” Reid said.

“You have to be judged by what the audience does. That does not mean your sole reason for doing it is to get a reaction.”

His hope, in addition to seeing a sold out crowd, is to have some of the work-shop students get up during the open mic. The first step is doing it, he said.

Those willing to try their hand at stand-up should do so with Reid’s advice.

Have fun. If the per-former is not enjoying their

material or their time on the stage, the crowd will follow. Likewise, if the performer smiles and engages the crowd, the audience will respond in kind.

Be honest. Start with

a truth before moving to something made up or fan-tastical.

“At some point, people know when it’s fake,” Reid said.

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Comedians pose after their sets at the Seattle International Comedy Competition in 2014 at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts. The series returns next Saturday, with an open mic and Diamond Knot Brewing Company beer release before the show from 6-7:30 p.m. The main show begins at 7:30 p.m. and costs $22.

A barrel of laughs and a barrel of beer

Brew HaHa! and Seattle International Comedy Competition

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts is opening its doors and its stage for laughter Saturday, Nov. 14.

A stand-up comedy workshop led by veteran comedian Ron Reid is open to 12 students. It costs $25 and runs from 4-5:30 p.m.

Diamond Knot Brewing Company is hosting an open mic and beer release, the Brew HaHa!, for its Storm Surge Winter Ale, from 6-7:30 p.m.

Purchase tickets online at https://tickets.wicaonline.com/public, by phone at 1-800-638-7631 or 360-221-8268, or at the box office at 565 Camano Ave., Langley.

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cretion in failing to recuse himself and that the superior court “should reverse both the trial outcome and the award, and remand for a new trial before a different District Judge.”

In response to a request to clarify the statement, a spokesperson for the Attorney General’s Office indicated that the office could not comment beyond what was in the brief.

Schwarz did not respond to a request for comment on the brief.

In the brief, Fairchild argues that Hawkins should have disqualified himself from hearing the case because of the appearance of potential bias. He wrote that Hawkins himself acknowledged that the fact that his wife works for Gipson at the hospital “would lead a reasonable observer to question” his impartiality, but he refused to disqualify himself.

The brief notes that Hawkins himself expressed uncertainly about whether it would be “appropriate for him to hear the case.” In open court, Hawkins said his wife works under Gipson and they sometimes have conserva-tions and work on the same committees. He said he didn’t know “if it would be appropri-ate” for him to hear the case, the brief states.

Based on Hawkin’s com-ment, the prosecutor moved for Hawkins to voluntarily dis-qualify himself.

Hawkins denied the motion, saying that his wife

and Gipson “never worked in close proximity and rarely have contact.”

In court, Schwarz argued that it was not necessary for Hawkins to disqualify himself from hearing the case.

“A motion for recusal is a rarely made, extraordinary motion used only if there is strong evidence of bias or the appearance of bias in a judi-cial officer,” he wrote in an earlier email. “Such a motion is rarely made and even more rarely granted.”

In addition, Fairchild argues that Gipson did not qualify for the reimburse-ment fund because she didn’t assert self defense, but that the jury found her actions were a lawful use of force in restraining a mentally ill person.

“The self-defense reim-bursement statute’s lan-guage, structure, and history are crystal clear: The statute permits reimbursement only for self-defense, not lawful use

of force generally,” the brief states.

Fairchild also argues that Hawkins erred by awarding Gipson attorney’s fees when she did not incur the costs since the hospital picked up the bill.

Fairchild notes that Gipson would “receive a windfall at taxpayer expense” since the $250,000 reimbursement would go to her, not the hos-pital. Schwarz said Gipson intends to pass the money to the hospital, but the pros-ecutor argued that there was

nothing compelling her to do so.

In addition, Fairchild argues that the fee award was unreasonable not only because it is excessive but because Hawkins did not adequately examine the bill-ing records. The brief states that some entries in the bill are not permitted under the “lodestar method,” such as billing for the time to review news articles and take tele-phone calls from the media.

which is roughly the stretch along Highway 525 from the ferry to just past Bob Galbreath Road, can remain what it is or have a similar function. If a single family residence is within the rural center, it can remain even if destroyed, Johnson said. But an undeveloped lot within the rural residential cannot be developed into a commercial use.

Only a few restrictions exist within the rural cen-ter area: no salvage yards, no single-family residences, and no buildings larger than 15,500 square feet. So don’t expect a Walmart or Cabela’s in Clinton any time soon.

“There’s a lot of flexibility in the uses,” he said.

The building size restric-tion was a major impedi-

ment to attracting anchor businesses, Maury Hood said. As a commissioner of the Clinton Water and Sewer District and a Clinton Community Council mem-

ber, he asked if and how some of the restrictions and regulations could change to better attract a large busi-ness to the area.

“We can’t get a Trader

Joe’s with a (15,500) square foot limit,” Hood said.

After a short presenta-tion by Johnson and some of the council members, the crowd was split into a few small groups to think about what Clinton needs in the next 20 years. One of the guiding questions was about which properties may be poorly categorized with-in the rural center or rural residential. In previous meetings, properties along the east side of the high-way, just up from the ferry terminal, have been cited as examples of an incor-rect designation. Currently some of the properties have single family residences on them, and that is not likely to change any time soon.

But a passing glance at many of the small groups’ poster sheets instead focused on some of the blights plaguing Clinton’s commercial heart. A com-

mon concern was the lack of a draw. Why would some-one walk over on the ferry from Mukilteo, a few people asked?

Finding businesses and industries that make sense for Clinton is the focus of a study being conducted on behalf of the Port of South Whidbey. The port district contracted a La Conner-based firm, Beckwith Consulting Group, to review shopping, living and busi-ness potential in Clinton. One of its upcoming major undertakings is a 12-hour session with several focus groups Thursday, Dec. 3 at the Clinton Community Hall.

“It’s not just about who lives in Clinton, it’s about everything that affects Clinton,” said Steve Price of Beckwith Consulting Group.

According to Island

County projections, South Whidbey is not expected to see much population growth over the next two decades. The majority of that growth is expected in the Freeland and Langley areas. Without much growth expected, the lin-gering question for Clinton and county leaders is what to do with the existing land.

The non-elected, volun-teer Clinton Community Council is trying to gather input and help give voice to the unincorporated area’s interests. A unified voice is stronger, said President Jack Lynch and Curt Gordon, a port commission-er who also serves on the council. Offering opinions and desires of residents and business owners is encour-aged by the council, which meets the last Monday of each month.

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oeing is coming up on a special year. In July, the company will be 100 years old. It’s a great success story, but Boeing didn’t do it alone. They’ve had incredible support from the com-

munity. It’s this special relationship between Boeing and its Puget Sound neighbors that will make its sec-ond century even better for the company and the com-munities where its employees live and work.

Boeing and Puget Sound have come far in their jour-ney together. Today, they’re major partners in interna-tional trade – with aerospace accounting for over half the state’s exports last year. Boeing is the largest single exporter in the U.S. – an important engine of the econo-my and a creator of jobs in the Puget Sound area.

Although Puget Sound is home to a number of major companies, Boeing remains the state’s largest private employer, with over 80,000 employees based here in Washington. In the past five years, Boeing and Ama-zon together accounted, directly or indirectly, for more than 40 percent of the jobs created in the Puget Sound region.

Commercial aviation is growing around the world, and Boeing’s success in global markets supports ris-ing production rates in Boeing factories around Puget Sound. At the same time, as Boeing increases its in-ternational growth, it is also providing support in Puget Sound communities where the majority of its employ-ees live.

Boeing support for Puget Sound communities

Boeing is an important presence in Washington state and in the lives of its residents, and has become a catalyst for positive change in millions of lives.

In 2014, Boeing, its employees and retirees gave more than $50 million to Washington state charities and nonprofit organizations. The continued growth in aviation means the Puget Sound region stands to re-ceive continued strong community support for health and human services, arts, environmental, culture and civic engagement.

Boeing employees are also playing a leadership role in supporting their communities where they live and work. Through the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound, more than $9 million in financial assistance was provided to local nonprofits to boost education, human services and veterans support.

The company is also inspiring the next generation of Puget Sound leaders. More than 650 Everett middle school students have participated in Boeing programs focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Students are also learning about clean energy and en-ergy conservation due in part to a Boeing-funded sci-ence curriculum within the Everett School District.

Boeing partners with Everett Community College to train aviation mechanics, and has contributed more than $9 million to the United Way of Snohomish County and other organizations dedicated to service.

For the past five years, Boeing employees have vol-unteered to encourage recycling, employee engage-ment and community volunteering companywide. The Sustainables, a Green Team based in the Puget Sound, has completed about 80 site-based projects since 2010, contributing to a 74 percent increase in re-cycling and environmental education initiatives at the local sites.

Boeing also supports military personnel and fami-lies. The Employees Community Fund awarded a grant to USO Northwest to support the construction on a new USO Welcome Center at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which will serve more than 10,000 military per-sonnel and their families each month.

Boeing is lead supporter for Rally Point 6, a nonprofit that helps veterans seeking employment, educational opportunities, assistance with benefits, housing or tran-sition advice. Since the center opened in March 2014, more than 1,750 military, veterans and their families have found support.

With Boeing winning in growing the aerospace mar-ketplace, Puget Sound residents will see a win of their own. As the state’s largest employer, Boeing has shown a commitment to giving time, talent and resources to build up the communities its employees call home.

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Is Boeing the largest building on earth?TRUE. Guinness World Records list the Boeing Everett factory as the largest manufacturing building in the world by volume at 472 million cubic feet (13.3 million cubic meters).

Is Boeing a city?TRUE. The Everett factory is like a small city, requiring its own fire department, security force, fully equipped medical clinic, electrical substations and water treatment plant.

The Boeing Factory employees 100,000 people.FALSE. There are about 35,000 employees working at the Everett facility, and they work in three shifts around the clock.

The Boeing Factory is so big that it rains in the factory.FALSE. Although the factory is the world’s largest building, it does not rain nor does it create any cloud/rain inside the factory building. However, when the factory was first built, clouds actually formed near the ceiling. The weather cleared when an air-circulation system was installed.

Is there a maze of walkways running below the factory?TRUE. There are 2.33 miles or 3.7 kilometers of pedestrian tunnels running below the factory. The tunnels are also utilized for operating the utilities and comes in handy during winter when getting around in the cold and snow can be a challenge.

Boeing employs more than 165,000 people worldwide.TRUE. Their workforce is a combined total from within the United States and in more than 65 countries.

The have the largest mural in the world.TRUE. According to Guinness World Records, the mural on the six factory doors is the largest digital graphic in the world.

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China becoming powerful catalyst for Puget Sound economic growth

hina is projected to become the world’s largest commercial air-

plane market by 2030, creating opportu-nities worth billions for the Puget Sound region.

The country is already Washington’s largest trading partner, with nearly a quarter of all the state’s exports headed for Chinese markets. In 2014, more than $20.7 billion in goods were exported, in-cluding apples, cherries, hops and wine. Topping the export list is the aerospace industry and Boeing.

China’s rapidly growing aviation market plays a crucial role in Boeing’s current and future success, said Boe-ing Chairman Jim McNerney in a news release.

Boeing projects Chinese markets will need 6,330 new planes worth $950 bil-lion by 2034, making them the compa-ny’s largest potential customer.

While Boeing makes up more than 50 percent of the Chinese commercial airplane market, the company is in a stiff competition to win Chinese orders against European plane-maker Airbus.

The European company opened an airplane completion facility in Tianjin, near Beijing, in 2008 for the A320, and announced plans this summer to open a facility to finish interiors of the twin-aisle A330 in China. Boeing is leveling the

competition with its Sept. 23 announce-ment to open a similar facility in China.

The company’s 40-year business re-lationship with China, which helped de-velop its aviation industry, could give the Puget Sound region an added advan-tage to come out on top.

An investment treaty between China and the U.S. could provide a framework

for broader investment in U.S. and Chi-nese economies, according to previous reports.

Supporters say, if signed, an agree-ment with China would create “a powerful catalyst for more economic growth,” ac-cording to The Daily Herald. The agree-ment would open up more of its market to American companies, provide clearer rules for Chinese investment in the U.S. and create jobs on both sides. Nonethe-less, both sides have a long way to go in negotiating any investment agreement.

With Boeing’s announcement to build a China-based delivery center – the first of its kind outside the U.S. – job creation will be on the rise and employment on the 737 line in Washington will not be re-duced, according to a memo from Ray Conner, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The deal an-nounced Sept. 23 also involves deliver-ing 300 Boeing jets worth $38 billion, nearly double last year’s record delivery of 155 airplanes to China.

Despite the competition and obsta-cles before them, Randy Tinseth, Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ vice president for marketing, said in a Sept. 16 Daily Herald report, that selling in the Chinese market depends on the same fundamen-tals as in others: relationships, patience and investment.

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Q: What is the most important thing people need to know about China and Boeing?

A: Boeing is competing hard to win sales in China because China will become the world’s largest airplane market in the coming years, and our success there is vital to Boeing pro-duction and employment in the Unit-ed States and Puget Sound. This year, Boeing will deliver about 25 percent of all the airplanes we pro-duce, including about one in three 737s built in Renton, to China. And, over the next 20 years, Boeing has forecast demand there for more than 6,300 new airplanes valued at near-ly $1 trillion. One reason why China’s airlines are growing so rapidly is that its middle class is as large as the en-tire U.S. population yet, on average, people in China travel on airplanes a tenth as often as Americans.

Q: The Chinese economy seems to be struggling. Could this hurt Chinese demand for orders from Boeing?

A: Our forecast for airplane de-mand accounts for fluctuation in markets over a 20-year period. We’re confident that China’s economy and aviation sector will continue to see strong growth over the long term.

Q: What are the factors that de-termine whether Boeing or your competitor sells more airplanes in China?

A: First and foremost, Boeing has to deliver the best and most fuel-efficient airplanes and services to support our customers’ business

plans. In addition, we must continue to grow our 40-year presence and collaboration with China’s aviation industry because this supports our sales opportunities, market access and long-term growth. This is not surprising: Just as Americans like to buy products made in the USA, China and other countries expect Boeing to partner with their industry and contribute to their economies.

Q: Why has Boeing decided to establish a 737 finishing and de-livery center in China?

A: China is the key international market for the 737: This year, Chi-nese carriers will take delivery of one out of every three 737s that our employees build in Renton. With this in mind, a 737 completion and deliv-ery center makes sense for several reasons: it serves Chinese custom-ers by bringing the 737 closer to home, it adds capacity that will en-able our planned production-rate increases in Boeing’s 737 factory in Renton, and it allows us to col-laborate with Chinese industry in a way that supports our access to the China market.

Q: Will this new facility in China cause layoffs in the Puget Sound?

A: No. This facility in China in-creases Boeing’s 737 production capacity and will not result in layoffs or reduce employment for the 737 program. In addition, significant 737 sales to Chinese customers com-bined with this new China-based facility will enable higher 737 pro-duction rates on the 737 program in coming years.

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Boeing is a key driver of strong employment growth in the Seattle region over the past five years, according to a new economic study.

he Seattle metro area has experi-enced an impressive 15.5 percent

growth in employment since 2010, with 43 percent of jobs generated by two of the area’s largest employers: Boeing and Amazon, according to a Septem-ber report by the Seattle City Budget Office. In comparison, Washington State has seen 12.5 percent job growth and the U.S. overall 9.7 percent growth during that same time period.

Boeing and Amazon, both of which have had a long-established presence in the Puget Sound area (founded in 1916 and 1994 respectively), are re-

sponsible for the creation of high-skill, high-wage jobs with an average an-nual salary of $100,000 in Seattle and the surrounding areas. The economic robustness of these two major employ-ers over the past five years has been directly linked to the addition of thou-sands of other secondary and tertiary jobs, such as in construction, retail and service sectors, that, when combined, account for a substantial amount of job growth in the region. In light of this, en-suring Boeing and Amazon’s continued success will be a key factor in maintain-ing a healthy regional economy.

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ike many Boeing people, 777/777X new hire mechanic Oleksandr

Shevchuk is passionate about air-planes. But what makes him – and 30 other recent hires – different is be-ing part of the inaugural class of high school and skill center graduates join-ing Boeing through a new accelerated hiring and training program.

“Making it to Boeing wasn’t easy,” Shevchuk said. “But as the saying goes, ‘hard work pays off,’ and I’m real excited to be here.”

During a high school career day and tour of the Sno-Isle Tech Skills Center in Everett, Shevchuk caught the aero-space bug. When he graduated in 2015 from high school in Edmonds, while also attending Sno-Isle Tech, he competed in the Washington state Skills USA Aircraft Mechanic Competi-tion and won. He finished top 10 nation-ally in the Skills USA competition.

This all from someone who spoke almost no English when he immigrated to America in 2008. He now speaks, reads and writes in Russian, Ukrainian and English.

He is currently pursing an Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) license and illus-trates the type of talent Boeing needs, Boeing leaders say.

“Today’s manufacturing tools and processes means our workforce must

continually learn and adapt to be suc-cessful,” said Walt Odisho, vice presi-dent of Manufacturing and Safety for Commercial Airplanes. “We can do a better job of attracting top talent and providing opportunities for current and new employees to develop the skills needed to succeed. If we do that, we can extend our reputation as a major hub for aerospace talent while provid-ing great jobs and careers.”

Record produc-tion levels coupled with worker retire-ments on the ho-rizon means Boe-ing expects to hire many more people for manufacturing jobs in Washing-ton state through the end of this de-cade. Boeing is also making invest-ments in advanced manufacturing that will transform the nature of manufac-turing jobs. Those

investments mean more preparation and training for current employees and future hires.

“We are working with our partners to help develop people with the skills needed by aerospace companies,” said Michelle Burreson, senior manager, Workforce Development & Integration at Commercial Airplanes. “By sharpen-ing existing academic partnerships and creating new ones, we can make sure the school curriculum matches the skill needs of employers. So far, we have partnerships with 29 high schools, skill

centers and community and technical colleges in specific skill areas to ensure new hires are career ready.”

Boeing recruiters also have acceler-ated their efforts at Puget Sound schools with strong aerospace programs. In addition to career fairs, information sessions and factory tours, job offers are now presented more quickly to qual-ified individuals. Once hired, employ-ees participate in a five-day enhanced orientation focused on quality and safety followed by hands-on training with Airplane Programs or Boeing Fabrica-tion. The second wave of more than 30 new hires from high schools and skills centers start the program this month.

“The goal of the Pierce Coun-ty Skills Center is to prepare stu-dents for high-wage, high-demand careers,” said Michelle Ledbetter, director, Pierce County Skills Center in Washington state. “Our aerospace manufacturing students are excited about the opportunity to start their ca-reers in manufacturing at Boeing. These are viable, well-paying jobs with great opportunities for professional develop-ment and advancement.”

Shevchuk echoed that senti-ment. “I’m looking forward to starting my Boeing career and taking on some new challenges. And, at some point, pursue a college degree on the company.”

Earlier this year Ray Conner, Commercial Airplanes president and CEO, spoke to more than 50 community college and high school educators about working together to build the future manufacturing workforce in the Puget Sound region.

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t’s a video message they will likely nev-er forget. Teenagers involved in more

than half-a-dozen, youth-focused orga-nizations in Washington state learned through a short video message that they’re among the recipients selected to join the Legion of Youth Powered by Boeing this year. The Legion of Youth is a unique community program created in 2014 to provide tickets to the National Football League’s Seattle Seahawks home games to community organiza-tions that serve young people through-out the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

The news was delivered in a video featuring Pete Carroll, Seahawks head coach, and Ray Conner, Boeing Com-

mercial Airplanes president and CEO. Empowering local young people is part of Boeing’s long-standing commitment to giving back to the communities where employees live and work.

“Legion of Youth Powered by Boeing is really a special way for us to recognize local students like you who are commit-ted to school, demonstrating leadership, are active in your local communities and are setting a great example for your peers,” Conner said in the video. “That’s why we’re so excited to let you know that the youth-focused organization you are part of has been selected as one of our 2015 Legion of Youth recipients.”

During each of the eight regular sea-son games at CenturyLink Field in Se-

attle, 25 young people each will receive four game tickets and the opportunity to meet a former Seahawks player. They also are given concession vouchers and a Legion of Youth Powered by Boeing sweatshirt while at the game.

“Legion of Youth is an outstanding program that recognizes students who make positive contributions in the class-room and in the community,” Seahawks President Peter McLoughlin said. “We are pleased to partner with Boeing to provide tickets for deserving youth to be among the 12s on game day at Centu-ryLink Field.”

The Seahawks and Boeing select the community groups that receive the tickets.

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Boeing makes $15 million investment in STEM learning

oeing Commercial Airplanes Pres-ident and CEO Ray Conner an-

nounced that Boeing is providing $15 million to create the Boeing Academy for STEM (science, technology, engi-neering and math) Learning at the Mu-seum of Flight . An additional $15 million match was announced by the family of the late Bill Boeing Jr., son of the com-pany founder, bringing the total invest-ment in the museum to $30 million.

The academy being created with the company’s investment represents a vigorous, new STEM-focused edu-cation initiative that aims to double the number of students served by the mu-seum’s immersive programs over the next two years — particularly from com-munities under-represented in STEM fields — and connect them to fulfilling, in-demand careers.

Washington state leads the United States in creating STEM-related jobs, but, by 2017, an estimated 45,000 jobs requiring STEM education in Washing-ton will go unfilled because of a lack

of qualified candidates, according to Washington STEM, a nonprofit organi-zation advocating for increased invest-ment in STEM education.

“This academy will help close that gap, and we are confident the Museum of Flight is the perfect partner to help us expand the pipeline of diverse, talented young STEM professionals in Washing-ton and beyond,” Conner said. “Wheth-er they choose aerospace or not, we’re happy to provide the opportunity, ac-cess and education that will enable them to develop their talents and grow their skills.”

The Boeing Academy for STEM Learning at the Museum of Flight will significantly expand STEM opportuni-ties for Washington’s youths, company and museum officials said. The number of students served by the museum’s educational program is expected to double by 2017 and double again by 2019. Additionally, at least half of those students will be young women, stu-dents of color or economically disad-vantaged, which makes it possible for

young people across the spectrum of the community to develop their talents and share in the promise of a better fu-ture, officials said.

“It allows us to reach more kids, al-lows a lot more kids to be involved in programs that we’ve already done and allows us to expand the program dra-matically to reach underserved audi-ences,” said Doug King, CEO of the Museum of Flight, about Boeing’s in-vestment. “What we find in our immer-

sive programs at the high-school level is that two-thirds of those kids end up go-ing into STEM careers, and more than half of those are aerospace related.”

Meanwhile, June Boeing represent-ed her late husband, Bill Boeing Jr., in announcing the $15 million match.

“He cared so deeply about the edu-cational mission of the museum,” she said of her husband. “He would smile most brightly when in the midst of our eager young learners.”

Children toss paper airplanes to celebrate the announcement of the Boeing Academy for STEM Learning at the Museum of Flight near Seattle.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner and Seahawks’ Coach Pete Carroll announce groups to receive home game tickets in special video message.

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The Greater Trinity Academy’s new bus purchased with grant money from ECF funds. The bus will be used to transport students who are a part of the GTA Before and After School Program to local schools.

EVERETT — The Greater Trinity Academy (GTA) in Everett re-ceived a $40,000 grant to purchase a new bus to transport stu-dents who are a part of their Before and After School Program to local schools. The bus will also be used to transport GTA students to field trips and other educational opportunities in the community. GTA serves underprivileged kids and families that cannot meet the financial demand of providing quality early childhood education.

SKAGIT — A special funding grant of $17,000 was granted to Community Action Agency of Skagit County, the fiscal agent for Skagit Project Homeless Connect (PHC). PHC is an annual, one-day event that brings together, in a single location, a wide vari-ety of volunteers and free services for homeless people. Direct services provided on site include: hot meals; medical and dental care; vision screening and eyeglass vouchers; haircuts; mental health assessments; substance abuse screening and housing referrals. The funds from ECF will cover the costs of the medi-cal screenings, volunteer t-shirts with the ECF logo, intake forms and tent rentals for the service providers.

$40,000 grant for Greater Trinity

Mary’s Place increases its reach

Giving Back...Boeing employees are making a significant difference in communities where they live and work. Through the Employees Community Fund (ECF) of Boeing Puget Sound, employees contribute funding for training for veterans, food for seniors, early learning for low-income children – and much more. Last year, more than $9 million in grants were awarded to community non-profits throughout the Puget Sound region. Here are some recent grant recipients.

Grant allows EFP’s food storage capability

to expand

$17,000 grant for homelessKING COUNTY — The Emergency Feeding Program (EFP), located in Renton, was granted $40,000 to purchase new warehouse equipment that will expand its ability to store more food, stock inventory of packaging materials and stage food drives. EFP packs and distributes distinct, ethnically sensitive and nutritionally focused bags of non-perishable foods for those in immediate hunger by collaborating with over 200 dis-tributor partners throughout King County. Last year, EFP and their partners packed and delivered over 20,000 bags of food serving over 45,000 people in the Puget Sound region.

SEATTLE — Mary’s Place Seattle was provided $15,000 by Boeing employees for new refrigerators and freezers at their Day Center for home-less women. Mary’s Place empowers homeless women and children to re-claim their lives by providing shelter, nourishment, resources, healing and hope. The new freezers and refrigera-tors replace inadequate equipment and will help Mary’s Place continue to serve its patrons at the Day Shelter and the Night Shelters, and increase their reach to potentially support addi-tional night shelters.

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Sue Frause’s ode to oysters, wine

Kitsch ‘n Bitch: Oysterfest will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.

Sue Frause will host this ode to oysters’ featuring special guests Bill Whitbeck and Kevin Lungren, with Rita and Carl Comfort at the bar and musical guest Nancy Nolan.

Topics of discussion will include farming and shuck-ing.

All seats cost $15. Zech Hall Piano Bar will

be open one hour before the show.

Visit www.wicaonline.org or call 800-638-7631 or 360-221-8268 to purchase tickets.

Whidbey Art Gallery ArtWalk

Whidbey Art Gallery will host an art-walk from 5-7 p.m. Nov. 7 at 220 Second St. in Langley.

The gallery will feature original hand-carved birds by guest artist Pam Taylor. Several gallery members will be featured in a group exhibition featuring the artists’ impressions of fall themes.

Visit www.whidbeyartists.com for more information.

Whidbey Young Life fundraiser

A Sample Sale Fundraiser for Whidbey Young Life will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 7, and noon to 4 p.m. Nov. 8, at 14596 Highway 525 in Langley.

All items are new and are available in limited quantities. Items include home accents, vases, wall decor, Christmas ornaments, snow globes, music boxes, candles, pic-ture frames, accessories, jewelry, journals, station-ary and more.

One-hundred percent of proceeds go to support Whidbey Young Life.

Autumn spirits, wine and art tour

The Autumn on Whidbey Wine, Spirits and Art Tour will take place

from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 7-8 at five tasting rooms on Whidbey.

Enjoy hand-crafted wines and spirits made on the island, as well as art by local artisans. Some tasting rooms will also offer food and live music. Participating vendors are: Comforts of Whidbey, Spoiled Dog, Blooms Winery, Whidbey Island Distillery and Holmes Harbor Cellars.

Tickets cost $20 in advance or $25 the day of the event and can be purchased at participating venues or online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1577923.

For more information, call 360-321-0515 or visit the association website at www.whidbeyislandvint ners.org.

2nd Amendment forum planned

Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, and Keely Hopkins of the National Rifle Association, will speak at a forum on gun rights at 1 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Best Western Hotel and Conference Center in Oak Harbor.

Bring questions and concerns and be updated on current events in gun legislation.

Alaskan-style home-made chili, coffee, tea and hors d’oeuvres will be pro-vided by the Republicans of Island County.

Admission costs $20 per

person. Email [email protected] or call 360-341-2355 to register.

Library holds used book sale

The Friends of the Freeland Library Used Book Sale will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Freeland Library.

Hundreds of books will be for sale at bargain pric-es. All proceeds benefit the library.

Call 360-331-7323 for more information.

Cartooning the Evergreen State

Political cartoonish Milt Priggee will give an enter-taining presentation at 10 a.m. Nov. 7 at the Langley Library.

This presentation is designed to invite debate. Priggee challenges audi-ence members’ personal beliefs on local issues by sharing a collection of images specifically to explore what is consid-ered acceptable commen-tary in the 21st century. Learn how the elements of political commentary are changing as the medi-um moves from print to digital platforms, and how critical thinking remains essential in an ever-changing democracy.

Call 360-221-4383 for more information.

Animal clinic holds open house

The South Whidbey Animal Clinic will hold an open house from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 8.

Meet the pet stylist, LaDawn, meet Dr. Patrin and Dr. McClain and tour the facility.

Call 360-341-1200 for more information.

Meet artist Antonia Price

Have tea and chat with 2015 Artist Trust Fellow Antonia Price at 4 p.m. Nov. 8 at Blue School Arts in Clinton.

Price will discuss her work as a fiber artist and her experience working on “Vernae,” a series of installations, performanc-es and a film directed by Seattle filmmaker Ethan Folk. In addition, she will discuss her work in a residency program in Belgrade, Serbia.

Authors Steinem, Strayed to speak

Hedgebrook and Elliott Bay Book Company will present Gloria Steinem in conversation with Cheryl Strayed at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 at

Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The event will com-

memorate the release of Steinem’s new book, “My Life on the Road.” The book was penned by Steinem largely at Hedgebrook’s Whidbey Island retreat.

For more information, visit www.hedgebrook.org.

AA group meets at Whidbey General

Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 in the Whidbey General Hospital conference room.

Email Tim M. at timmon [email protected] or call 360-320-8936 for more information.

Society to discuss immigration

The Genealogical Society of South Whidbey Island will meet at 11:45 a.m. Nov. 9 at the intersec-tion of Highway 525 and Woodward Avenue in the Freeland Trinity Lutheran Church community build-ing.

The monthly program is entitled “Five Strategies for Finding Ancestors in their Homeland.” The meeting will include the Genealogy Basics Class, Diving into Parents, Grandparents, etc. led by Melissa Russell and Graham Johnson; and the Beyond Basics Class, Intermediate DNA, led by Eric Stroschein.

Stroschein serves on the Records Preservation and Access Committee for the Federation of Genealogical Societies. He is also a board member of the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History.

Contact Janice Martin at [email protected] or 360-678-2059 for more information.

Meet author Cynthia Trenshaw

Meet Cynthia Trenshaw, author of “Meeting in the Margins: An Invitation to Encounter Society’s Invisible People,” at 1 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Freeland Library. She will reprise her visit at 6:30 p.m. Nov.

10 at the Freeland Library. Call 360-331-7323 for

more information.

Learn personal rebranding

Personal Rebranding for Career Transitions, an informational presenta-tion, will take place at 10 a.m. Nov. 9 at the Langley Library.

Since the advent of the Internet age, many changes have occurred in business practices and the methods by which new employees are recruited.

Lori Morefield-Berg will discuss how to effectively utilize on-line resources, print materials, and networking to make a

smooth career transition.

Artist to hold demonstration

Pastel artist Teresa Saia will demonstrate at the Artists of South Whidbey meeting at 1 p.m. Nov. 10 at Trinity Lutheran Church in the Community Building.

Saia is a recognized workshop instructor in the United States and Europe.

Find more information about Saia at www.teresa saia.com.

Painters of all levels and media are invited. The day will begin with a sack lunch at 11:30 a.m. followed by a meeting at noon. Bring artwork to share.

Call Gaylen Whiteman 360-331-2603 for more information.

One can live well with diabetes

Senior Services of Island County will pres-ent “Living Well with Diabetes or Pre-Diabetes” from 1-3:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Dec. 8 at the Coupeville Library. The workshop is designed to offer practical skills to individuals living with diabetes and their fam-ily members, friends and caregivers.

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Cynthia Trenshaw is the author of a new book, “Meeting in the Margins; An Invitation to Encounter Society’s Invisible People.” The public will have a chance to meet her and discuss the book at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, and Saturday, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at Freeland Library.

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Registration is required. New participants will not be admitted after Nov. 10.

Call 360-321-1600, ext. 23 or email [email protected].

Minister speaks on life, religion

Imam Jamal Rahman, a Muslim Sufi, minister at the Interfaith Community Sanctuary in Seattle, will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Fellowship Hall of Langley United Methodist Church.

Rahman’s talk is entitled “The Life-Giving and Life-Denying Qualities of Religion.” He will join Dr. Duncan Ferguson in a conversation on the topic of interfaith understand-ing, and what makes a religious faith life-giving and what makes it dan-gerous and life-denying.

All are welcome. Visit www.langleyumc.org for more information.

How to have mud-free livestock

The Freedom from Mud workshop will take place at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Freeland.

Learn how to create long-lasting mud free areas for livestock. If there

is enough interest, bulk orders of building materi-als may be available.

R.S.V.P. at www.whidbey cd.org or call Sarah Cassatt of the Whidbey Island Conservation District at 360-678-4708.

Write-in at NILA for NaNoWriMo

NILA will host a write-in for NaNoWriMo participants from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each Wednesday in November.

During NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), writers work to complete a 50,000-word novel during the month of November.

Wednesdays are co-working days for writers at NILA.

Whidbey General hosts AA meetings

Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 11 in the Whidbey General Hospital conference room.

Email Tim M. at tim [email protected] or call 360-320-8936 for more information.

Suicide grief support group

The Suicide Grief Support Group meeting will take place at 6 p.m. Nov. 11 at Hospice of Whidbey General.

This is a time for indi-viduals who have lost a loved one to suicide to meet with others and learn coping strategies and methods of moving forward through grief and other feelings.

Register by contacting Dave Bieniek, bereave-ment coordinator, at [email protected] or 360-321-1372.

Ready Readers story time set

Ready Reader: Preschool Storytime will take place at 10 a.m. Nov. 11 at the Langley Library.

Let imaginations run wild with fun books, sing-alongs and creative activi-ties that prepare young minds for the adventures of reading.

Play time or crafting

may follow. Call 360-221-4383 for

more information.

Langley commerce meeting set

The Langley Chamber of Commerce will meet at 9 a.m. Nov. 11 at Prima Bistro.

This month’s meeting will include a look back at Langley history with Bob Waterman of the South Whidbey Historical Society.

Coffee, tea and pastries will be served.

Contact Michaleen McGarry at langley@whid bey.com or 360-221-6765 for more information.

NWLA, center plan open house

The Northwest Language Academy and Cultural Center will host an open house and happy hour at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 12.

This is also an oppor-tunity to give thanks to NWLA volunteers.

Meet new friends and learn about NWLA programs and volunteer opportunities.

Call 360-321-2101 or visit www.nwlacc.org for more information.

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South WhidbeyCHURCH DIRECTORY

To list your religious services here,call 360-221-5300 or 877-316-7276

$10 for 10 lines and a $1 for each additional line

Assembly of God360-221-16565373 Maxwelton Road, Langleywww.swag-online.orgLoving God, Loving People, Serving the WorldSunday Worship Services8:30AM & 10:30AMBoth services offer, nursery for infants and toddlers & kids classes for 3yrs to 4th gradeMatt Chambers, PastorDareld Chittim, Associate PastorMark Brinkman, Youth PastorHome of Island Christian Academy360-221-0919

Calvary Chapel of Whidbey IslandTeaching through God’s Word360-579-25703821 E. French Road, Clintonwww.ccwhidbey.comSunday Services 9 & 11AM

Christian Science Church321-4080 or 222-3182 • Langley15910 Hwy 525 at Useless Bay RdSunday Church Service: 10:30AMWednesday Service: 7:30PM

1st Wednesday of the month

Christian Life Center360-331-5778Loving God... Reaching People!1832 Scott Rd., FreelandProfessional CenterSunday Morning Worship 10:00AMNursery & Sunday School

through 8th GradePastor Andy Voelkerwww.clcwhidbey.com

The First Baptist Churchof South Whidbey islandCelebrating Our 51st Yearwww.� rstbaptistsouthwhidbey.com2277 Newman Road, LangleySunday School 9:30AMMorning Worship Service 11:00AMEvening Service 6:00PMWed. Evening Bible Study & Prayer 6:00PM

360-321-4457

The Island Church of WhidbeyChristian & Missionary Alliance Church360-221-69806th & Cascade, Langley“Loving Christ and Others Well”Sunday Worship 10:30AMwww.islandchurchofwhidbey.org

Langley United Methodist Church360-221-4233 • 3rd & [email protected] Service 9:30AM

Nursery and Sunday School for grades K-12 during serviceAdult Forum class 11AM

Rev. Mary Boyd, PastorBetsy Arand, Ass’t Music DirectorAngie Ramsey, Family Program Associatewww.Langleyumc.orgA Greening, Reconciling & Advocating Congregation“Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors”

South Whidbey Church of Christ360-341-2252 • BayviewSenior Service Center - BayviewSunday Worship: 9:30AMSunday Bible Classes: 10:30AMCall regarding Wednesday Bible Class

St. Hubert Catholic Church804 Third Street, Langley360-221-5383Masses:Saturday 5:00PMSunday 8:00AM and 10:30AMMon, Tues, Thurs and Fri. 8:15AMWednesday 10:30AMFr. Rick Spicer, pastorE-mail [email protected]

South Whidbey Community ChurchA place to begin… A place to belong!360-221-1220 • Langleywww.whidbeychurch.orgSunday Morning Worship 10:00AMAdult Sunday School 9:00AMDeer Lagoon Grange5142 S. Bayview Road, LangleyHome Bible Studies availableDarrell Wenzek, pastor

Unitarian UniversalistCongregation of Whidbey Island360-321-865620103 State Route 525, FreelandSunday Service at 10AMValues-Based Religious Education Sept-JuneChildcare Year-RoundEveryone welcome!Minister: Rev. Dennis Reynoldsemail: [email protected]: www.uucwi.org

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Unity speaker to ponder with congregation ‘What’s it all about?’

Unity of Whidbey will hold service at 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 8 at the church, 5671 Crawford Road.

The day’s speaker is Barbara Johns, and the title of the talk is “What’s it all About?”

Johns joins the congregation this week to report on the Parliament of Religions event that was recently held in Salt Lake City and attended by 10,000. Why was this an important event? Why does it mat-ter to people on South Whidbey Island? Johns will share her perspective as a grateful participant. Julie Pigott will bring the musical inspiration and Donna Vanderheiden will be the platform host.

Visit www.unityofwhidbey.org for details.

Understanding, making choices and deciding “Who ye will serve”

The Christian Science Society will hold service at 10:30 Sunday, Nov. 8 at 15910 Highway 525, just north of Bayview and across from Useless Bay Road.

Making choices that daily affect one’s health, har-mony, and productivity begins with the first choice of determining “whom ye will serve” (Joshua 24), a choice that reflects the Christian Science emphasis on thought. This Sunday, the Christian Science service discusses such a choice within the two opposing cre-ations in the Bible (Genesis) and how imperative it is to make a positive choice in founding an understand-ing of God.

Peace, love, unity; a guiding message with Whidbey Quakers

“We are a people that follow after those things that make for peace, love, and unity,” according to early Quaker Margaret Fell.

Whidbey Island Friends Meeting (also known as Quakers) holds its regular gathering for worship 4 to 5 p.m. every Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist build-ing, 20103 Highway 525.

The group meets in silent worship together and worship may include spoken messages.

For details, visit www.whidbeyquakers.org or email Tom Ewell at [email protected].

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An open bid auction will be held at Chr ist ian’s Towing, 685 Chr ist ian Road, Oak Harbor, WA. 98277 on Wednesday NOV 11, 2015. Viewing w i l l t ake p lace f rom 12:00 to 3:00 PM. Auc- tion begins at 3:00pm.80 DODGE D1PU D14JEAC120748 B95834S88 FORD RANGER 1FTCR11TXJUB72967 C35140C90 FORD PU 1FTHX26G0LKA15458 B11796G93 FORD AERO 1FMDA41X6PZA52204 AAR3325Legal No. WCW667190 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.November 11, 2015.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

2016 Preliminary Budget on file with City Clerk

Please take notice that the City of Langley 2016 Preliminary Budget has been filed with the City Clerk/Finance Director and the City Council will hold Public Hearings on the final budget on No- vember 16th for the pur- pose of taking publ ic comment on the budget.The hear ing wi l l take place during the regular- ly scheduled City coun- cil meeting of November 16, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. and will be continued at the next meeting if need- ed. Copies of the Pre- liminary budget will be available at City Hall, 112 Second St., P. O. Box 366, Langley, WA 98260. (360) 221-4246.Dated this 29th day of October, 2015.Posted: City Hall City LibraryCity Post OfficePublished:South Whid- bey Record Legal No. WCW661321 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.November 4, 7, 11, 14, 2015.

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CITY OF OAK HARBOR PLANNING

COMMISSIONNOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARINGPC# 11-24-15

Notice is hereby given that the Planning Com- mission will conduct its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, November 24, 2015. Staff will con- duct a pre-meeting brief- ing with Planning Com- miss ion beginn ing at 7:00 pm in the Council conference room. The business meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be h e l d i n t h e C o u n c i l Chambers at City Hall, 865 SE Barrington Drive, Oak Harbor WA. The Planning Commission will consider the follow- ing: C O M P R E H E N S I V E PLAN TRANSPORTA- TION ELEMENT - Public MeetingThe Planning Commis- sion will have an oppor- tunity to review the draft goals and policies being prepared for the update to the Transpor tat ion Element of the Compre- hensive Plan. The city’s transpor tation consul- tants, Fehr & Peers, will be in attendance.2 0 1 6 C O M P R E H E N - SIVE PLAN UPDATE -

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Public MeetingStaff will provide an up- date on the progress of the 2016 Comprehen- sive Plan update. The major scope of the 2016 Comprehensive Plan up- date includes updates to the Land Use Element, Housing Element and the Transportation Ele- ment.All meetings of the Plan- n ing Commission are open to the public.Legal No. WCW667393 Published: The Whid- bey News Times, The South Whidbey RecordNovember 7, 2015

City of Oak HarborSummary Ordinances

On the 4th day of No- vember 2015, the Oak Ha rbo r C i t y Counc i l adopted the following:-Ordinance No. 1745: entitled “Maritime Dis- trict”, Its Purpose and In- tent, Principal Permitted Uses, Accessory Permit- ted Uses, Condit ional Uses, Uses Prohibited, Density Provisions, Con- ditions Governing Per- mit ted Uses and Si te Plan and Design Review Requ i r ed , amend ing Oak Harbor Municipal Code Sect ion 19 .20, adding a New District.-Ordinance No. 1749:

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entitled “Relating to the Waterworks Utility of the City; specifying, adopt- ing and ordering the car- rying out of a system or plan of additions to and betterments and exten- sions of the combined water and sewer utilities of the City; providing for the issuance, sale and delivery of a bond antici- pation note in an aggre- gate pr incipal amount not to exceed $10,000,000 to provide inter im f inancing with which to pay or reim- burse a por tion of the costs of carrying out the Project and to pay the costs of issuance of the note; fixing or setting pa- rameters with respect to certain terms and cove- nants of the note; ap- pointing the City’s desig- nated representative to approve the sale of the note; creat ing a note debt service fund; and providing for other relat- ed matters.The full text of any ordi- nance will be mailed or g i ven to any pe rson without charge who re- quests the same from the city clerk. Requests may be made to: City Clerk, athompson@oak- harbor.org or by calling 360-279-4539.Legal No. WCW667511 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.November 4, 2015.

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Public Hearing NoticeOak Harbor City Council

NOTICE is hereby given that the Oak Harbor City Council will hold a public hearing in the City Hall Council Chambers, 865 SE Barrington Drive, on November 17, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter, to consider adoption of Ordinance 1747: Proper ty Tax to IPD - .251% and Ordi- nance 1748: Proper ty Tax Levy to 1% Maxi- mum. Anyone wishing to sup- port or oppose this item or provide other relevant comments may do so in writing or appear in per- son before the Oak Har- bor City Council at the time and place of said public hearing. To assure disabled per- sons the opportunity to participate in or benefit f r o m C i t y s e r v i c e s , please provide 24-hour advance notice to the City Clerk at (360) 279- 4539 for additional ar- r a n g e m e n t s t o r e a - sonably accommodate special needs.Anna M. Thompson, City ClerkLegal No. WCW666956 Published: The Whid- bey News Times, The South Whidbey RecordNovember 7, 2015

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FILING OF PROPOSED BUDGETWhidbey Island Public

Hospital DistrictNotice of Filing

Proposed BudgetNotice is hereby given that the Whidbey Island Public Hospital District, a municipal corporation, has p repared a p ro - posed budget of contem- plated financial transac- tions for the year 2016 and the budget is on file in the records of the Commission in the Dis- trict offices.Notice is fur ther given that a Public Hearing on said proposed budget shall be held on Novem- ber 18, 2015 in Confer- ence Room A o f the Whidbey General Hospi- tal in Coupeville, Wash- ington, at 9:00 am, on said date. Any taxpayer m ay a p p e a r a t s a i d Hearing at said time and p l a c e a n d b e h e a r d against the whole or any par t o f the proposed budget.WHIDBEY ISLAND PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICTBoard of Commission- ers:Anne TarrantRon Wallin Grethe Cammermeyer, PhDNancy FeyGeorgia Gardner, CPALegal No. WCW667018 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South

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Whidbey Record.N ove m b e r 4 , 7 , 1 4 , 2015.

PORT DISTRICT OF SOUTH WHIDBEY

ISLANDNOTICE OF

PRELIMINARY BUDGET HEARING

AND REGULAR MEETINGNovember 10, 2015,

at 6:00 p.m. -- Budget Hearing

Notice is hereby given that a Preliminary Bud- get for the Port District of South Whidbey Island for the f iscal year of 2016 has been prepared a n d i s o n f i l e a n d available in the Port of- fice at 1804 Scott Rd., Suite 101, Freeland, WA or at www.portofsouth- whidbey.com. A public hearing will be held by the Port Commission of South Whidbey Island on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, at 6:00 p.m., at the South Whidbey Parks & Recreation Dis- tr ict Meeting Room at 5475 Maxwel ton Rd., Langley, WA, where any person may appear in suppor t of or against said budget. The Regular month ly meeting will be held on November 10, 2015, and wil l fol low the Budget Hearing at approximate- ly 6:30 p.m.Questions regarding the meeting may be directed to the Por t o f f i ce a t (360) 331-5494.Legal No. WCW665850 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.October 31, November 7, 2015.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR

ISLAND COUNTY, WASHINGTON

SECRETARY OF VETERAN AFFAIRS OF WASHINGTON, D.C.,Plaintiff,vCHERYL GROVES; GREGORY R. GROVES; EVERETT A S S O C I AT I O N O F

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ARIESThere is a lot of emotion in the air;you’ll be easily moved. You maywell take the first steps to buying ahome, even if it’s just by finding thefinancing.

TAURUSIt’s important to gather together allthe necessary information beforecoming to a decision, even if you’reunder pressure. Think about yourchoice before making any sort ofannouncement.

GEMINIYou have a lot of work to do and asmall cold might slow you down.Try not to neglect your sleep, andtake some extra steps to be care-ful about your health.

CANCERYou’re sure to be the centre of at-tention as you use humour to lightenthe mood. A well-kept secret maybe revealed to you.

LEOYou hurry to draw up a list of giftsfor your loved ones now that theholiday spirit is in the air. You alsostart making a few preparations forthe festivities.

VIRGOIf you don’t want to go around incircles, take a good map and a GPSwith you when you use your car.You get some acknowledgementfrom important people.

LIBRAYou should finally receive a sumof money that has been owed toyou for a while. You may win a ru-ling involving a refund or an insu-rance case.

SCORPIOYou’re sure to have ringside seatsfor all kinds of events. You’re alsothe best person to take the initiativeso that everything goes smoothly.

SAGITTARIUSThe week begins with a bit of con-fusion. You may need a second cupof coffee; otherwise you run therisk of procrastinating. You seem tohave your head in the clouds someof the time.

CAPRICORNYour colleagues or some friendsentrust you with the organizationof all sorts of events when youwould have preferred to stay in thebackground. Try to be more self-confident.

AQUARIUSYou’re sure to feel a bit stressedout if the company you work for isdoing some restructuring. Fortuna-tely, you manage to advance signifi-cantly within the hierarchy.

PISCESTravelling is in the air. You may besuddenly motivated by a trainingprogram that can lead you towards amore exciting career.

ARIESIt is important to rest and rechargeyour batteries after undergoing amassive dose of stress. If you tryto limit yourself to fairly passiveactivities, you recover even moreeffectively.

TAURUSYou’re able to expand your networkof contacts. You enjoy the companyof new friends even though it’s in aprofessional context.

GEMINIYou might consider going to liveabroad for a while. At work, you’reput in contact with people of variousnationalities, and this is beneficialfor you.

CANCERIf your partner is from a differentbackground, it’s possible that youboth have to make some adjust-ments. A better balance of res-ponsibilities at home would be ap-preciated.

LEOYou may feel very emotional thisweek. These feelings really stimu-late the artist within. You have awell-developed sense of detail andrefinement.

VIRGOAt work, you must negotiate eventhe smallest details before con-cluding any sort of agreement.Where feelings are concerned, yoursoul mate reveals him- or herselfin a spectacular manner.

LIBRAYour self-esteem grows, allowingyou to aspire to a more prestigiousrole at work. Some effort is re-quired to maintain a more activesocial life.

SCORPIOYou win some sort of popularity con-test. You’re surrounded by peoplewho are very attentive to everythingyou say, however silly it may be.

SAGITTARIUSThere are lots of comings andgoings because of your work oryour health or the health of a lovedone. You should also expect nume-rous arguments.

CAPRICORNGenerally speaking, money is al-ways an extremely important factorin your life; this week you assuresome guarantees for the future. Itmay be that you prepare a projectfor your retirement.

AQUARIUSYour young children are quite ahandful, but that doesn’t prevent youfrom spoiling them and loving themdeeply. You may get a nice raiseat work.

PISCESSome thinking is required beforemoving from words to action. Ifyou’re not happy on a professionallevel, you have a brain wave thatenables you to embark on a bril-liant career.

Week of November 15 to 21, 2015 Week of November 22 to 28, 2015Week of November 8 to 14, 2015

ARIESIf you’re in a precarious financialsituation, you should be able to findthe winning formula in order to solvethe problem with panache. You cer-tainly have a lot to say for yourself.

TAURUSYour brain is spinning with ideas.You may start a few things withoutnecessarily completing them. Youalso suggest numerous activitiesto your friends.

GEMINIYou feel drained by all the stress inyour life, so it’s important to rest. Youalso need to take steps to makesignificant changes to your lifestyle.

CANCERYou could benefit from a busier so-cial life. Even if you’d like to bealone for a while, there will still besomeone there to keep you com-pany and make you smile.

LEOYou may be responsible for an eventthat gathers together quite a fewpeople. You manage to combine bu-siness with pleasure, and fun takesover the whole office.

VIRGOYou can get away for a vacation atthe last minute, even though it’s notsomething you were thinking aboutdoing. Try to stay focused regardingsome sort of learning experience.

LIBRAYour emotions are fairly dominantthis week. You have to learn to letgo more and deepen your spiritualknowledge.

SCORPIOYou’re not always as patient as youshould be with your lover. Breakthe routine of your life together andexperience some exciting new ad-ventures as a couple.

SAGITTARIUSIt seems you’re the first person totake care of any emergencies thatarise. This is ultimately quite bene-ficial to you at work.

CAPRICORNThere may be some friction bet-ween you and your life partner; how-ever, you quickly make some ad-justments. You create a respectfulenvironment and feel rather proudof yourself for it.

AQUARIUSYou need to show a little patiencewith a family member. You mightget out the holiday decorationsand make your house shine likenever before.

PISCESThere are numerous comings andgoings on your agenda, either forbusiness or in your personal life.By speaking out you resolve a con-flict that’s been dragging on for along time.

ARIESYou accomplish a feat you can bereally proud of. This improves yourself-esteem, which is absolutely es-sential to your well-being.

TAURUSYou’ll reach your goals much fasterif you make a change in your diet.You’re very tempted to start asmall business that you can runfrom home.

GEMINIYou have a lot to say this week. Inaddition, the phone won’t stop ring-ing as your many friends call to inviteyou to some interesting activities.

CANCERDon’t be surprised if you’re givena promotion that makes you veryhappy, especially because of thesalary. Be careful though, becausesome people you work with aregoing to be jealous

LEOLots of action is in store for you.You spend a lot of time with peopleyou love. If you get organized, you’llbe able to transform some obliga-tions into fun times with the family.

VIRGOYou’re going through a period wheresome calm reflection is needed.You’re also very creative, and youfeel a real need to get out of thehouse.

LIBRAYou receive several invitations togo out if you’re single. Your focus ison your social circle, and everyonewants to spend time with you. Thismakes you very happy.

SCORPIOYou have to shoulder a fair amountof obligations and responsibilities.Fortunately, your organizational skillsblossom and you can be highlyeffective.

SAGITTARIUSA travel project should be takingshape. Dreaming won’t be enough,so focus on positive thoughts inorder to find the way to treat your-self to a great vacation.

CAPRICORNThere’s a lot of emotion in the air,which is great for your creativity.You have to take care of a lovedone with whom you might developa better relationship.

AQUARIUSIt’s always easier to get along withpeople with whom you’re not emo-tionally involved. One of your chil-dren knows how to play with yourfeelings in order to get a favour.

PISCESFor one reason or another, the sligh-test discomfort could be felt acu-tely. Fortunately, you see the rightspecialists quickly in order to be gi-ven the right treatment.

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CREDIT MEN INC. ; MID AMERICA GROUP, L.P.; STATE OF WASH- I N G T O N E M P L O Y- M E N T S E C U R I T Y ; ALSO ALL PERSONS O R PA R T I E S U N - K N O W N C L A I M I N G ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LI EN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DE- SCRIBED IN THE COM- PLAINT HEREIN ,Defendant s .ICSO LOG NO. 15R-0417NO. 14-2-00447-2SHERIFF’S PUBLIC NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTYTO: CHERYL GROVES; GREGORY R. G ROV E S ; E V E R E T T A S S O C I AT I O N O F CREDIT MEN INC.; MID A M E R I C A G R O U P, L.P.; STATE OF WASH- I N G T O N E M P L O Y- M E N T S E C U R I T Y ; ALSO ALL PERSONS O R PA R T I E S U N - K N O W N C L A I M I N G ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LI- EN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DE- SCRIBED IN THE COM- PLAINT HEREIN;The Superior Court of Is- land County has directed the undersigned Sheriff of Island County (through his designee) to se l l the proper ty de- scribed below to satisfy a judgment in the above entitled action:S I T U AT E I N T H E COUNTY OF ISLAND, STATE OF WASHING- TON:LOT 20, PLAT OF SIER- RA PARK, DIV IS ION NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN VOL- U M E 9 O F P L AT S , PAGE 45, RECORDS OF ISLAND COUNTY, WASHINGTON.Also commonly known as 1480 E Sierra Park LN, Camano Island, WA 98282.P a r c e l N o . S 8 1 6 5 - 0 0 - 0 0 0 2 0 - 0 . Proper ty Identification No. 394905.The sale of the above- described property is to take place:TIME: 10:00 a.m.DATE: Fr iday, Novem- ber 20, 2015PLACE: FRONT STEPS ISLAND COUNTY LAW AND JUSTICE CENTER101 NE 6TH STREET, COUPEVILLE, WASH- INGTONThe judgment debtor/s can avoid the sale by pay ing the judgment amount of $168,57 4.84, together with interest, costs and fees before the sale date. For the exact amount, contact the Sheriff through his designee at the address stated below.Dated this 19 day of Oc- tober, 2015.MARK C. BROWN, SHERIFFISLAND COUNTYBy: Wylie FarrWylie Farr, Chief Civil DeputyICSO/Law & Justic Cen- ter101 NE 6th StreetPO BOX 5000Coupeville, Washington 98239-5000360-678-4422ICSO Docket No. 15-R0018Legal No. WCW664488 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.October 24, 31, Novem- ber 7, 14, 2015.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE

OF WASHINGTONCOUNTY OF ISLAND

In the Matter of the Es- tate of

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RONALD NICHOLAS HEITER,Deceased.NO. 15 4 00283 1PROBATE NOTICE TOCREDITORSRCW 11.40.030The Personal Represen- tative named below has been appointed as Per- sonal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, be- fore the time the claim would be barred by any o therw ise app l i cable statute of l imi tat ions, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serv- ing on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Repre- sentative’s attorney at the address stated be- low a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court. The claim must be pre- sented within the later of: (1) thir ty days after the Personal Represen- ta t i ve has ser ved or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided un- d e r R C W 1 1 . 4 0 . 0 2 0 (1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of f i rst publication of the notice. If the claim is not pre- sented within this time frame the claim is forev- er barred, except as oth- erwise provided in RCW 11 .40 .051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is ef- fec t i ve as t o c l a ims against both the dece- dent’s probate and non- probate assets.Date of filing copy of No- t ice to Credi tors with Clerk of Court: 10/22/15 Date of first publication: November 7, 2015Personal Representa- tive:/s/Christy Leigh HeiterCHRISTY LEIGH HEITERAttorneys for Personal Representative:/s/Patrick J. McGowanPatrick J. McGowan, WSBA #1190111120 N.E. 2nd St., Suite 200Bellevue, WA 98004Telephone:(425)452-4930Fax: (425) 450-3310Legal No. WCW667052 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey RecordNovember 7 , 14, 21, 2015.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE

OF WASHINGTONFOR ISLAND COUNTY

In the matter of the es- tate of:DONALD EUGENE PETERSEN,Deceased. NO. 15-4-00292-1N OT I C E TO C R E D I - TORSRCW 11.40.030The Personal Represen- tative named below has been appointed as Per- sonal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, be- fore the time the claim would be barred by any o therw ise app l i cable statute of l imi tat ions, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serv- ing on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Repre- sentative’s attorney at the address stated be- low a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be pre- sented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the

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notice. If the claim is not presented wi th in th is time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11 .40 .051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effect ive as to claims against both the dece- dent’s probate and non- probate assets.Date of first publication: November 7, 2015Personal Representa- tive: Marilee Petersen5012 Chipshot WayFreeland WA 98249Attorney for Personal Representative: Kathryn C. Loring 791 SE Barrington Drive Oak Harbor, WA 98277 Tel. 360-679-1240Legal No. WCW666984 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.November 7 , 14, 21, 2015.

LEGAL NOTICEPUBLIC NOTICE

The Solid Waste Divi- sion of the Island County Depar tment of Publ ic Works is applying for continued coverage un- der the State of Wash- ington General Permit for Biosolids Manage- ment for i ts Septage Treatment Facility 20062 SR-20, Coupeville, WA. Contact is Joantha Guth- r i e , D e p t . o f P u b l i c W o r k s , B o x 5 0 0 0 , Coupeville, WA 98239. The Department of Ecol- ogy’s Northwest Region- al Biosolids Coordinator, A m b e r C o r f m a n , 3190 160th Ave. NW, B e l l e v u e , W A 98008-5452 is the con- tact for this permit. Spe- c i f ic appl icat ion si tes h a v e g o n e t h r o u g h SEPA review and public not ice. Any proposed sites will follow the same process. Permitted land application sites for certi- fied Class B supernatant applied at evapo-transpi- ration rates are on forest land ad jacent to the

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Coupeville facility. Land application of cer tified Class B b iosol ids on non-food crops from the Coupeville facility are at one or more of the fol- lowing locations: Arnold Farm, Zylstra Road and Bell Farm, West Beach Road, Coupeville, WA; Sherman Field Olson Road, Oak Harbor, WA. The faci l i ty t reatment process includes manual and automated screens, aerated gr i t chamber, and an aerated digestion t r e a t m e n t p r o c e s s . Treated biosolids are la- bo ra to r y t es ted and stored in lagoons for dry season appl icat ion at calculated agronomic uptake rates by field gun or tanker on non-food crops. Soils are tested annually prior to applica- tion. Test results deter- mine application rates. Any person who wants to comment on this pro- posal or wants to re- quest a public hearing or meeting must do so in writing within 30 days of this notice. Comments should be addressed to the Ecology contact list- ed above. If you wish to be included on an inter- ested parties list to re- ceive notification of ac- tivit ies relating to this project, please notify the Publ ic Works contact noted above in writing and written confirmation will be provided by certi- fied mail, return receipt requested, to each inter- ested person or organ- ization that their name has been placed on the list.Legal No. WCW663235 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.November 7, 2015.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

On November 24, 2015 at 10:15 a.m., the Board of Island County Com- missioners wil l hold a

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public hearing at the Is- land County Board of County Commissioners Hear ing Room (Room #102B), located in the Is land County Annex B u i l d i n g , 1 N E 6 t h S t r e e t , C o u p e v i l l e , Washington, to consider adoption of Resolution No. C-116-15 Amending the 2015 Island County Budget. Resolut ions C-116-15 would amend the 2015 Island County Budget and would recognize un- foreseen changes in rev- enues and expenditures that have occurred since adoption of the County’s annual budget. The full text of the pro- posed Resolution may be obtained by calling 360-679-7397, or drop- ping by the office of Is- land County Budget Di- rector during normal of- f ice hours. Interested persons may appear at the public hearing and g ive test imony for or against the proposed Resolution. Persons re- quiring auxiliary aids/ser- vices should call Island County Human Resourc- es a t 679 7919, 629 4522, Ext. 7919, or 32l 5111, ext . 7919 (use whichever number is ap- plicable for the area) at least 24 hours prior to the meeting.Debbie ThompsonIsland County Clerk of the BoardP. O. Box 5000C o u p e v i l l e , W A 98239-5000360-679-7385360-321-5111Legal No. WCW666997 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.November 7, 14, 2015.

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE

OF WASHINGTONFOR ISLAND COUNTY

In Re the Estate ofWILLIAM E. HAMM,Deceased.NO. 15-4-00250-5AMENDED NOTICE TO CREDITORSRCW 11.40.030The personal represen- tative named below has been appointed as per- sonal representative of

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this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, be- fore the time the claim would be barred by any o therw ise app l i cable statute of l imi tat ions, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serv- ing on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal repre- sentative’s attorney at the address stated be- low a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate pro- ceed ings were com- menced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal repre- s e n t a t i ve s e r ve d o r mailed the notice to the creditor as provided un- d e r R C W 1 1 . 4 0 . 0 2 0 (1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of f i rst publication of the notice. If the claim is not pre- sented within this time frame, the claim is forev- er barred, except as oth- erwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is ef- fec t i ve as t o c l a ims against both the dece- dent’s probate and non- probate assets.Date of First Publication: Saturday, October 24, 2015.Personal Representa- t i ve : Ch r i s t ophe r W. HammAttorney for Personal Representative:M. Douglas Kelly, Kelly, Arndt & Walker, PLLP, LLP, PO Box 290, Clin- ton, WA, 98236. (360) 341-1515.DATED this 1st day of September, 2015./s/Christopher W. Hamm Christopher W. Hamm, Personal Representative Attorneys for Personal Representative:/s/M. Douglas KellyM. Douglas Kelly, WSBA#6550Kelly, Arndt & Walker, PLLPAttorneys for Personal RepresentativeP.O. Box 290

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ACROSS1. Placido

Domingo, e.g.6. Copy9. Do arithmetic12.Oyl of

“Popeye”13.Nothing14.To’s opposite15.On a regular

basis16.Emerald, e.g.17.Adapted18.Zero20.“____ Got

Sixpence”21.Sicknesses24.Building wing26.Cut down27.Dove’s noise

28.Classify30.Master32.Boll ____36.Screamed38.Mine’s output39.Confront42.Corn portion43.Overwhelmed44.The total

amount45.Employed47.Life story,

for short48.Crazed50.Zest54.Junior55.Work by Keats56.Pasted57.Snaky letter58.Berth

59.High-spiritedhorse

DOWN1. Excessively2. Santa’s

staffer3. Young louse4. Bread

bakers5. Gambling

town6. Celestial

beings7. Baked fruit

dessert8. Kind of tree9. Fasten10.Long golf

shot11.Loved a lot

19.Cuddle21.Drink cubes22.Cured salmon23.Crop25.Brings down26.Feasted28.Exist29.Ruby31.View33.Oath34.Bitter

resentment35.Directed

37.Praised39.Aesop’s

specialty40.False name41.Bumpkins43.Mature46.Easter edibles48.Riot crowd49.Thirst

quencher51.Take to court52.Golf

accessory53.Uncanny

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ACROSS1. Hive dwellers5. Point a gun8. ____ eagle12.Poison-ivy

result13.Not an

amateur14.Certain

woodwind15.Throb

painfully16.Day after

today18.Abbreviate20.Fleshy21.Tavern feature22.Takes a

spouse23.Type of paint26.Bo Derek’s

number

27.Leaders30.Touched

ground31.Chef’s need32.Broth, e.g.33.As ____ your

request34.Destroy the

interior of35.Cheerful36.Shoot forth38.Fake hair39.Beasts of

burden41.Umbrella’s kin45.Desk toppers47.Thumbs-up

review48.Fancy gold

fabric49.Lay odds

50.December24 and 31

51.Ogler52.Quick

farewell53.Shelters

DOWN1. Prejudice2. Carve3. Resound4. Fruit-

flavored ice5. More prone6. Curling

device7. Dad’s

companion8. Weary9. Scrape10.Burglar’s

goods

11.Moist, as alawn

17.Foretellingsign

19.Incomefollower

22.Soggy23.Once around

the track24.Brewery

specialty25.Tedious26.Kindergartner28.Sister29.Undercover

man

31.Position32.Candied34.Meaning35.Mister37.Parking timer38.Garbage39.Up to the job40.Do in, as a

dragon41.Hunter’s

quarry42.Collect43.Cake cooker44.Without46.Ease off

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ailment14.Be indebted

to15.Church

platform16.Retriever,

for short17.Chess pieces18.Tavern

request19.In the know21.Henhouse site24.Inquires27.Paddle’s

cousin

30.Verse work32.Dance move33.Folds35.Mountainous37.Strain38.Child’s toy:

hyph.40.Massachusetts

cape41.Posted42.“On ____

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chemical53.Renoir’s forte54.Fruit drink55.Above,

to bards

56.Doctor’scharge

57.Come toterms

58.Casey’s club59.Paving liquid60.Garden

invaders

DOWN1. Large mop2. Ceramic

square3. Poker starter4. Winter

accessory5. That

woman’s6. Blazing7. Crab’s

appendage

8. Oompah horn9. Native10.Overwhelm11.Fox’s home20.Coarse file22.Likely23.Optimistic25.Game of

chance26.Disobeyed

highway signs27.Selects28.Burn soother29.Place within

again31.BLT spread34.Voice range

36.Bud’s comicpartner

39.Pearl source43.Cheek

reddener45.Loony46.Locale48.Muck’s

partner49.Glazed50.Crossed

letters51.High tennis

shot52.Affirmative

vote54.Mouth bone

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ACROSS1. Tacks on5. Duo number8. Rug type12.Gator’s

relative13.Not me14.Summon15.London

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18.Sound system20.Erie’s

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hazardous

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Bible2. Doggone it!3. ____ on

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4. Scanty5. Errors in

print6. Pursue7. “____ Town”8. Search over

9. Mane10.As well11.Singer

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33.Chunk ofeternity

38.Kind of type39.Old-fashioned40.Roadway

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Clinton, WA 98236Legal No. WCW664597 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey RecordOctober 24, 31, Novem- ber 7, 2015.

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In Re the Estate ofBETTY J. ELLIOTT,Deceased.NO. 15-4-00261-1AMENDED NOTICE TO CREDITORSRCW 11.40.030The personal represen- tative named below has been appointed as per- sonal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, be- fore the time the claim would be barred by any o therw ise app l i cable statute of l imi tat ions, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serv- ing on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal repre- sentative’s attorney at the address stated be- low a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate pro- ceed ings were com- menced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal repre- s e n t a t i ve s e r ve d o r mailed the notice to the creditor as provided un- d e r R C W 1 1 . 4 0 . 0 2 0 (1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of f i rst publication of the notice. If the claim is not pre- sented within this time frame, the claim is forev- er barred, except as oth- erwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and

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11.40.060. This bar is ef- fec t i ve as t o c l a ims against both the dece- dent’s probate and non- probate assets.Date of First Publication: Saturday, October 31, 2015.Personal Representa- t i ve : Jenn i fe r Haase MorrisAttorney for Personal Representative:M. Douglas Kelly, Kelly, Arndt & Walker, PLLP, LLP, PO Box 290, Clin- ton, WA, 98236. (360) 341-1515.DATED this 23rd day of October, 2015./s/Jennifer Haase Morris Jennifer Haase Morris, Personal Representative Attorneys for Personal Representative:/s/M. Douglas KellyM. Douglas Kelly, WSBA#6550Kelly, Arndt & Walker, PLLPAttorneys for Personal RepresentativeP.O. Box 290 Clinton, WA 98236Legal No. WCW665421 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey RecordOctober 31, November 7, 14, 2015.

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In Re the Estates of:HAROLD WILLIAM STONEBRIDGE,andPHOEBE KATHERINE STONEBRIDGE,Deceased.NO. 15-4-00278-5AMENDED NOTICE TO CREDITORSRCW 11.40.030The Administrator named below has been appointed as Administra- tor of the above named estates. Any person hav- ing a claim against the decedents must, before the time the claim would

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be barred by any other- wise applicable statute of l imitations, present the claim in the manner as p rov ided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Admin- istrator or the Adminis- trator’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and fil- ing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate pro- ceed ings were com- menced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Administrator served or mailed the no- tice to the creditor as prov ided under RCW 11.40.020 (1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. lf the claim is not presented within t h i s t ime f rame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise pro- vided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the dece- dents’ probate and non- probate assets.Date of First Publication: November 7, 2015.Administrator: Jerry B. StonebridgeAttorney for Administra- tor : M. Douglas Kelly, Kel ly Arndt & Walker, PLLP, PO Box 290, Clin- ton, WA, 98236. (360) 341-1515.DATED this 2nd day of November, 2015./s/Jerry B. StonebridgeJerry B. Stonebridge, AdministratorAttorneys for Administra- tor:/s/M. Douglas Kelly M. Douglas Kelly, WSBA # 6550Kelly Arndt & Walker, PLLPP.O. Box 290Clinton, WA 98236Legal No. WCW666950 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey RecordNovember 7, 14, 21, 2015.

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T r u s t e e S a l e # 0 1 5 7 4 2 - WA T i t l e # 02-14013611 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAP- TER 61.24 ET. SEQ. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DE- L AY. C O N TA C T A HOUSING COUNSE- LOR OR AN ATTOR- N E Y L I C E N S E D I N WASHINGTON NOW to assess your s i tuat ion and refer you to media- tion if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in deter- mining your rights and oppor tuni t ies to keep your house, you may contact the fol lowing: The statewide foreclo- sure hotline for assis- tance and referra l to housing counselors rec- ommended by the Hous- ing Finance Commission T e l e p h o n e : 1-877-894-HOME(1-877 -894-4663) . Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeowner- ship/post_purchase_cou- nselors_foreclosure.htm The United States De- partment of Housing and Urban Development T e l e p h o n e : 1 -800-569-4287 Web site: http://www.hud.gov/offic- es /hsg / s fh /hcc / f c / i n - dex.cfm?webListAction= search&searchs ta te= WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid

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hotl ine for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and a t to r neys Te lephone: 1 -800-606-4819 Web s i t e : h t t p : / / n w j u s - t i c e . o r g / w h a t - c l e a r I.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the under- signed, CLEAR RECON TRUST, 9311 S.E. 36th Street, Suite 100, Mer- cer Island, WA 98040, T r u s t e e w i l l o n 11/20/2015 at 10:00 AM a t AT THE ISLAND COUNTY FRONT EN- T R A N C E T O C I T Y HALL, 865 SE BAR- R I N G TO N D R , OA K HARBOR, WA 98277 sell at public auction to the highest and best bid- der, payable, in the form o f cash, or cashier ’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale, the follow- ing described real prop- e r t y, s i t ua ted i n the County of Island, State of Washington, to-wit: P A R C E L A : T H E SOUTHWEST QUAR- TER OF THE SOUTH- WEST QUARTER OF T H E S O U T H W E S T Q UA R T E R O F T H E SOUTHEAST QUAR- TER OF SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 33 NORTH, R A N G E 2 E A S T O F THE WILLIMETTE ME- RIDIAN. (ALSO KNOWN AS LOT 39E OF IS- LAND COUNTY SHORT PLAT NO. 77 /28.4 .34 /33/2E AS APPROVED JULY 29, 1977, AND RECORDED U N D E R AU D I TO R ’ S F I L E N O . 3 1 7 5 8 4 , RECORDS OF ISLAND COUNTY, WASHING- TON.) PARCEL B: AN EASEMENT FOR AC- CESS AND UTILITIES RECORDED UNDER AUDITOR’S FILE NO. 278981, RECORDS OF I S L A N D C O U N T Y, WASHINGTON; ALSO AN EASEMENT FOR INGRESS, EGRESS, AND UTILITIES OVER, ACROSS, AND UNDER A S T R I P O F L A N D 30.00 FEET IN WIDTH, LYING 15.00 FEET ON EACH SIDE OF THE NORTH 360.38 FEET OF THE EAST LINE OF T H E S O U T H E A S T Q UA R T E R O F T H E SOUTHEAST QUAR- TER OF THE SOUTH- WEST QUARTER OF SECTION 34, TOWN- S H I P 3 3 N O R T H , R A N G E 2 E A S T O F THE WILLIMETTE ME- R I D I A N . S I T UAT E I N THE COUNTY OF IS-

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L A N D , S TAT E O F WASHINGTON. Com- monly known as: 1404 EAGLE RIDGE RD OAK HARBOR, WA 98277 APN: R23334-024-2830 Key 108626 which is subject to that cer tain Deed o f Tr us t da ted 2 /21 /2008 , reco rded 2/28/2008, as Auditor’s F i l e N o . 4 2 2 2 7 8 9 , r e c o r d s o f I s l a n d Coun ty, Wash ing ton , from ROBERT D. DICKIN- SON AND HEATHER L. DICKINSON, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Gran- tor(s), to LAND TITLE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGIS- TRATION SYSTEMS, I N C. , A S N O M I N E E FOR BANNER BANK, I T S S U C C E S S O R S AND ASSIGN, as Bene- ficiary, the beneficial in- terest in which was as- s igned by U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIA- TION, under an Assign- ment recorded under A u d i t o r ’ s F i l e N o 4330178. II. No action commenced by the Ben- eficiary of the Deed of Trust or the Beneficiary’s successor is now pend- ing to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this fo rec losu re i s made is/are as follows: PROMISSORY NOTE INFORMATIONNote Dated: 2/21/2008Note Amount: $304,000.00Interest Paid To: 7/1/2012Next Due Date: 8/1/2012PAYMENT INFORMA- TIONFROM-THRU/NO.PMT/ AMOUNT/TOTAL8/1/2012-7/31/2013/ 12/$2,018.68/$24,224.168 / 1 / 2 0 1 3 - 7 / 3 1 / 2 0 1 4 / 12/$2,074.22/$24,890.648/1/2014-/11/$2,033.25/ $22,365.75ADVANCES/LATE CHARGESDESCRIPTION/TOTALE S T I M AT E D F O R E - CLOSURE FEES AND COSTSDESCRIPTION/TOTALTrustee’s Fee’s/ $1,215.00Posting of Notice of De- fault/$125.00Record Appointment of Successor Trustee/

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$14.00T.S.G. Fee/$1,043.52Title Datedown Fee/ $54.35Mailings/$65.40TOTA L D U E A S O F 6/23/2015/$73,997.82IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The pr inc ipal sum of $302,704.98, together with interest as provided i n t h e N o t e f r o m 8/1/2012, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. The above descr ibed real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as prov ided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, re- garding title, possession o r encumbrances on 11/20/2015. The de- faults referred to in Para- graph III must be cured by 11/9/2015, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and ter- minated if at any time before 11/9/2015 (11 days before the sale) the default as set for th in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Pay- ment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be termi- nated any time after the 11/9/2015 (11 days be- fore the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the or the Grantor’s suc- cessor interest or the holder of any recorded junior l ien or encum- brance by paying the principal and interest se- cured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees and advances, i f any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust and curing all other de- faults. VI. A written No- tice of Default was trans- mitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Bor- rower and Grantor at the fol lowing address(es): SEE ATTACHED EX- HIBIT “1” by both first class and certified mail on 5/6/2014, proof of which is in the posses- sion of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Gran- t o r we r e p e r s o n a l l y served, i f appl icable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was

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posted in a conspicuous place on the real proper- ty descr ibed in Para- graph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trus- tee whose name and ad- dress are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of al l costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Gran- tor and al l those who hold by, through or un- der the Grantor of al l t he i r i n t e res t i n t he above-described proper- ty. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sa le on any grounds whatsoever will be af- forded an opportunity to be heard as to those ob- jections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for inval- ida t ing the Trus tee ’s sa le . X . NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TEN- ANTS - The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, in- cluding occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occu- pants who are not ten- ants by summary pro- ceedings under chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant- occupied proper ty, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written no- tice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. If you are a servicemember or a dependent of a servic- emember, you may be entitled to certain protec- tions under the federal Servicemembers Civi l Relief Act and any com- parable state laws re- garding the risk of fore- closure. If you believe you may be entitled to t h e s e p r o t e c t i o n s , please contact our office immediately. THIS IS AN AT T E M P T TO C O L - L E C T A D E B T A N D A N Y I N F O R M AT I O N OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR- POSE. Dated: 6/30/2015 CLEAR RECON TRUST, as Successor Trustee For additional information or service you may contact: Clear Recon Corp. 9311 S.E. 36th Street, Suite 100 M e r c e r I s l a n d , WA 98040 Phone: (206) 707-9599 EXHIBIT “1” NAME/ADDRESSBanner Bank/570 NE Midway Blvd. Oak Harbor, WA 98277Banner Bank/P.O. Box 907Walla Walla, WA 99362HEATHER L. DICKIN- S O N / 1 4 0 4 E A G L E RIDGE RDOAK HARBOR, WASH- INGTON 98277HEATHER L. DICKIN- SON/ PO BOX 2042OAK HARBOR, WASH- INGTON 98277ROBERT D. DICKIN- S O N / 1 4 0 4 E A G L E RIDGE RDOAK HARBOR, WASH- INGTON 98277ROBERT D. DICKIN- SON/ PO BOX 2042OAK HARBOR, WASH- INGTON 98277Legal No. WCW646719 Published: The Whidbey N e w s T i m e s , T h e South Whidbey Record.October 17, November 7, 2015.

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Finally, I have time to write after a very busy sum-mer seeking out, enjoying and monitoring birds. And spending time with family.

Early last summer my husband and I added seven new bird species to our list while bicycling in Provence, France. Highlights were a sacred ibis, red-crested pochard, European bee-eater and hundreds of greater flamingos.

Near the end of the sum-mer we spotted common eiders, black guillemots along with cardinals, wrens and blue jays while vaca-tioning in Maine. Closer to home we enjoyed magpies, wild turkeys and a ruffed grouse on several trips to the Ellensburg area.

But, most of the sum-mer was consumed right here on Whidbey Island with the Whidbey Audubon Pigeon Guillemot breeding bird survey, a project that has spanned more than a decade. Guillemots are black seabirds with bright-white wing patches and fire-engine-red feet and legs. Every spring, approximately 1,000 of these engaging seabirds settle into the waters around Whidbey and claim burrows high in our steep, erosional bluffs.

Beginning in June, about 50 volunteers weekly monitor the 25 bluff colonies where these birds gather to lay eggs and raise their young. They spend one hour per week quietly sitting on the beach noting bird activity. This year those vol-unteers watched about 260 burrows, recording when the birds enter and leave. After the eggs hatch, the volunteers observed the fish delivered to the burrows as food for the young.

Most of those fish are large-headed sculpins (what we called bullheads when I was a kid) or longer, sleeker members of the gunnel/prickleback families.

Gathering all those data together we’ve determined that over the past 10 years our guillemot colonies are holding strong; we have seen no statistically signifi-cant change in populations and number of burrows with fish deliveries.

Perhaps you remember the article in The Record last summer announcing that guillemots were spotted hanging around the Langley Marina? We were not able to verify any nesting there, but are hopeful that a small colony may develop in the next few summers.

Guillemots often sniff out unusual places to breed. They need a burrow that will protect their eggs and young from predators, and have acclimated to manmade nest-ing boxes.

One adventurous pair spied an open porthole in a sailboat moored in Holmes Harbor and deposited two eggs inside the boat before the owners returned and discovered the make-shift nesting burrow.

If you’d like to learn more about these birds and locate a guillemot colony near where you live, check out

our general website www.pigeonguillemot.org or for a recap of the data, www.pigeonguillemotdata.org.

Although most of the guillemots exit our waters in the fall, they are replaced by a large number of other seabirds — loons, ducks, mergansers, geese, scoters and grebes. These birds spend their breeding season in Canada and Alaska, then many of them pour into our protected Puget Sound waters to feed and spend the winter.

This is an excellent time of year to wander out to our beaches and do some seabird watching. Two of my favorite places are Deer Lagoon (both inside the lagoon and along the outer beach) and the spit at Crockett Lake.

If the weather turns bad, take your binoculars to the

Ott & Murphy Winery tast-ing room in Langley and enjoy their view out over the Langley harbor. The num-bers of birds won’t be as dra-matic as the ones seen along our west side beaches, but it’s a good place to study the

flocks of American wigeons, mallards, and grebes that gather there.

Oh, and all those black, duck-like birds that hover in the water around the Clinton Ferry Dock? Most are surf scoters with a few white-

winged scoters mixed in.

Frances Wood can be reached at [email protected] and Craig Johnson is at [email protected].

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toad. It required the county to regulate the removal of beaver dams and to clarify under what circumstances farmland can be abandoned for more than five years and still remain exempt from crit-ical-area regulations, accord-ing to WEAN.

The county has resisted obeying the June 24 order, WEAN said. It failed to cre-ate a schedule or a work plan

for complying with the order. Then the county prosecutor, charged with acting as the commission-ers’ lawyer, botched an attempt to appeal the order, fail-ing to file it in a proper and timely manner with the county’s superior court. The court never got a chance to rule on the appeal’s merits.

Commissioner Jill Johnson earlier this week emphati-cally refused to promise

compliance with the H e a r i n g B o a r d ’ s deadlines.

“If I were WEAN, I w o u l d n ’ t a s s u m e the county is going to

just lie down,” she wrote in an email. “We will develop policy that is pragmatic, rational and

respectful of our community, and if we need to take time to do that, then in my opin-ion that’s what we will do. Balance is not found by suc-cumbing to the desires of a special-interest group.”

Some of the hearings board’s rulings — particu-larly those dealing with buf-fers and with protecting flora — work to the disadvantage of property owners, she said in a later interview.

“The average property owner counts on the com-missioners to be fair and bal-anced,” she said. “The hear-ings board has an agenda and made broad misinterpreta-tions. In this instance, they’re way out of line.”

She lamented the county’s bungled appeal, calling it “mind-boggling” and writ-ing that “it left the citizens of Island County subject

to some over-reaching and unprecedented policy inter-pretations that needed to be reviewed by a higher court.”

Johnson predicted that the issues will be revisited when the county completes its comprehensive plan, which is due June 30.

“I assume we’ll get sued after the comp plan,” she said. “This time we’ll get our appeal in on time and we’ll go to a higher court for interpre-tation, because these ques-tions set precedent.”

Commissioner Rick Hannold said the litigation is derailing the county’s plan-ning efforts.

“Every time WEAN throws an administrative roadblock in the way, it takes time away from people trying to revise the comp plan,” he said in an interview earlier this week.

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and other issues will be the topic of a series of public meetings U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen will hold this month.

The Second Congressional District Democrat announced the meetings this week, saying he wants feedback about the trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other coun-tries. The congressman will take questions from constitu-ents on other topics as well.

The meetings will occur throughout the district, which includes all of Island and San Juan counties and neighbor-ing areas on the mainland from Bellingham to Lynnwood. A meeting on South Whidbey is set for 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14 at the Clinton Community Hall, 6411 South Central Ave. in Clinton.

Other meetings are planned for Anacortes, Bellingham, south Snohomish County and Friday Harbor.

“If I were WEAN, I wouldn’t assume the county is going to just lie down.”

Jill Johnson, Island County commissioner

Congressman plans public meetings on trade agreement