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Changes for the county By Steve Wehrly Journal editor
A newly established policy that ushered in term limits to San Juan County’s
numerous advisory committees could lead to a major overhaul of the Marine Resources Committee. Eight positions on the
Theo, Lorna’s boon companion for eight years, is gone. Go in peace, Sweet Pie
MRC will be appointed by the county council in the coming weeks and a new MRC coordinator will soon be announced. On July 30, Philip Green, Robin Hirsch and Chuck Schietinger were appointed to MRC positions 2, 1 and 4, respectively. The appointments were made without notice or prior naming of the candidates during the final agenda time, titled “County Manager Clerk Updates.” Other appointments, including three to the Veterans Advisory Board and one to the Agricultural Resources Committee, were on the agenda with names of the appointees. A week later, Councilman Rick Hughes gave the
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A pro BMXer shows off his style at the Retreat in Lopez Village last weekend. To see more scenes from this huge event, see page 8.
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The stories that a home can tell By Lorne Reese Special to the Weekly
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You may be eligible for the Washington State Food Assistance Program.
For more information, to apply or reapply, call or stop by the Lopez Island Family Resource Center: (360)468-4117
Applications are confidential. This material was funded in part by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Basic Food is available to all regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, religion, or political belief.
In 1971, the Hoedemaker family bought an old Lopez farmhouse, built in 1913. “You have no idea what a mess we found when we opened up all those rooms that had been closed off for years,” said Linda Hoedemaker, daughter of
the purchasers. “The house hadn’t been painted since the 1930s. The building was basically being used for storage. The hay barn was falling down, but the milking parlor, granary and piggery were in good shape and remain today.” She and her brothers, John and Stephen, inherited the property when their
mother died in 2005. As only the second family to own the historic property, the Hoedemakers carried on the farming traditions of the Davis ancestors. Today, the family is committed to preserving and maintaining their historic property and use the old homestead as a quiet retreat from their busy lives in Seattle.
“We’ve only changed a few light fixtures,” said Linda. “We don’t want to make changes. Our children like it this way.” This is the story of just one of the houses on the tenth annual Lopez Center Home Tour. There are seven more stories like this one, including Bill and Marty Holm’s 16 by 20-foot weathered cabin overlooking Rosario Strait, the iconic water tower that served for years as the Lopez Thrift Shop and its adjacent Sears and Roebuck kit bungalow, and a stylish makeover for a 1976 house. If you’ve experienced one of Lopez Center’s Home Tour fundraisers, you know those tickets offer a oncea-year opportunity to drive down roads you don’t normally travel, enjoy views you’ve never witnessed before and visit eight unique and thoroughly original homes, all reflections of those who live in them. “It’s a chance to see outstanding homes of every size and shape on our island home and help support Lopez Center -- the community’s house,” says Jan Sundquist about the upcomSee Stories, page 6
Community Calendar aug 31 & Sept 1 art: Lopez Island Studio Tour 2013, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Lopez Island art studios. For more info, visit www.lopezstudiotour.org.
adaptation from “The Thousand and One Nights.” Will Aladdin & the Princess, with the help of the Genie and his lamp, outwit the evil plots of the Sorcerer?
sun, sept 1 show: Carter Family Puppet Show “Aladdin and his Magic Lamp,” 2 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Tickets available at Blossoms, Islands Bookstore and at the door. The Carters and their favorite clown, Pulcinella, transport you to the exotic land of ancient Persia in this
mon, sept 2 event: Labor Day Street Dance, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m., Former Lopez Village Market parking lot. Free. For more info, visit www. lopezsolidwaste.org.
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Steve Braun Triathlon The 15th Annual Steve Braun Memorial Triathlon, sponsored by Friends of Moran on Orcas, is on Sunday, Sept. 1. Teams are welcome and Duathlon racers (doing
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at Lopez Island Golf Course. Members: $5; Non-members $15. Registration 5 p.m. Tee off 5:30 p.m. Contact Esa Turunen for more information at 468-3603 or esa.turunen62@gmail. com.
fri, sept 6 art: Lopez Artist Guild Show Opening for Mary Bywater Cross, 5 - 7 p.m., The Hamlet in Lopez Village. Mary Bywater Cross opens her show of fine woolen quilts, which will be on display at the Hamlet until October 31.
wed, sept 11 meeting: Lopez Artist Guild Membership Meeting, 7 - 9 p.m., Lopez Library Meeting Room The focus of the meeting will be a follow up to the Studio Tour and LAG Art Shows. New members are welcome. Refreshments served.
sat, sept 7 info: The Master Gardeners’ Program Information Table, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., Sunset Builders. Bring questions, samples in a sealed plastic bag of unknown plants, plant problems or pests for identification and recommendations.
sat, sept 14 Event: Home Tour, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. This years’ Home Tour will feature eight distinctly different homes. Tickets on sale now at Farmer’s Market. Tickets will also be available at the Center on the morning of the tour. Lunches for sale at Center and selected homes on the day of the tour/$5. Tickets in advance: adult $30. Available from: Community Center office, and online. Tickets at Door: Adult $3.
just one or two legs of the race) are encouraged. Registration is at 7:30 a.m and the pre-race meeting is at 8:30 a.m. at the Cascade Lake Day Use Shelter. The race starts at 9 a.m. Preregister online at www. friendsofmoran.com/sbmt. All proceeds benefit Moran State Park. There are prizes from local businesses and the first
100 athletes will receive a SMBT 2013 stainless steel water bottle. They’ve also asked the “Jellyfish warm up Master” to join this year. The course includes a swim, bike ride and run. It’s a half-mile swim in Cascade Lake; the start area is 50 yards north of the fishing dock. The water temp is typically 60 degrees – wetsuits are permissible and
Lopez Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings: Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Center Wednesdays - 4 p.m. Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal Church Fridays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Center Saturdays - noon at the Children’s Center Contact phone number 468-2809
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fri, sept 27 meeting: BLM Hosts San Juan Islands National Monument Public Meeting, 6-8 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Public discussion of the newly established San Juan Islands National Monument.
favored by many. The 15-mile bike ride is along a scenic and very rural county chip sealed road. From the lake you will head south and out towards Doe Bay. You will encounter hills and slopes of varying degrees (up to 10 percent grade to and from Olga) and a few hairpin corners. Organizers have taken extra precaution by placing road
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an over-the-top performance both entertaining and inspiring. Thank you for your creative energy and dedication and for making TrashionFashion 2013 a rousing success and huge amount of fun. Thank you once again to Robert Herrmann and Joel Bruce for taking on the challenge of emceeing the show, to Timothy Maxson for expert coordination, to the amazing Decor Group who once again transformed Lopez Center into a quirky visual delight, to Todd Goldsmith for handling sound and lights, and to the many other conscien-
sat, sept 28 hike: Yellow Aster Butte, off Hwy 542 Mt. Baker – Leader, Chris Coiley. On the north side from Mt. Baker, just east of the town of Glacier, this hike has meadows, rock tarns, ponds, wild blueberries and mountain views galore. This is an all day event that is considered moderately strenuous with an eight-mile round trip trail hike gaining 2,200 feet of elevation. For more information including car pool arrangements and sign up call Chris at 468-4090. Also, for more info about this very popular hike check mountain guide books or the web. Sat, ongoing market: Farmers’ Market, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Market is next to the Community Center. Runs until Sept. 14
safety signs, volunteers and advising local traffic of the event. They strongly suggest that cyclists ride single file except to pass due to the narrow shoulders. The 3.5-mile run is around Cascade Lake. The trail is primitive, not gravel, with some short hills and slopes. Hazards include tree roots and uneven footing. Letters to the editor must be no more than 350 words in length and must be signed by the writer. Include address and telephone number for verification purposes. Anonymous letters will not be published. Send your letters via e-mail to: cbagby@islandsweekly.com.
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Lummi against coal terminal By Barbara Keller of San Juans Alliance and Kurt Russo of Lummi Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office
For over a year concern about the impacts of the Northwest’s largest proposed coal terminal north of Bellingham has brought together people wanting to ensure that this project does not destroy our ecosystems. The group with the longest standing claim to Xwe’chi’eXen (Cherry Point) is the Lummi people. Over the last months, the Gateway Pacific Terminal plan has been undergoing the beginning of a mandated environmental review. As part of this process the Lummi submitted a list of concerns. Most
recently they wrote the Army Corps of Engineers stating their “unconditional and unequivocal opposition.” Jay Julius, a Lummi Councilman, has been at the forefront of drawing the line based on treaty rights and the protection of sacred lands and waters. The Lummi people have created a tradition of carving totem poles for areas in need of hope and healing. Now Lummi community’s sacred landscape at Xwe’chi’eXen needs hope, healing and protection. Today Master Carver Jewell Praying Wolf James, who carved totem poles for each of the 9/11 sites to help heal the American Nation and the National Library of Medicine, is
carving a new totem pole. The Kwel hoy’ totem pole he is now completing will, in September, start a 1500 mile journey through tribes, towns, and cities along the rail line from the Powder River basin to Xwe’chi’eXen, the same journey the coal trains will make. Along the way, tribes and ranchers, workers and communities along its path will have a chance to tell their story, hear how this project will impact others, unify the west, and help to “draw the line.” The new totem pole will focus discussion on the impacts and concerns in the plains, on the Columbia, in the cities of the train route and the shipping lanes of
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our islands. And of course, to Cherry Point. As Julius has said, “ “Xwe’chi’eXen is our Arlington, our Gettysburg, our Jerusalem, our Holy Ground.” To learn more about the Totem Pole Journey or make a taxdeductible donation please go to
Totem carving Master Carver Jewell Praying Wolf James.
www.totempolejourney.com. For more information on the No Coal issue go to www.powerpastcoal. org.
Move for more access to women’s reproductive services By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter
Local public hospital districts that provide reproductive services or information must also offer access to contraceptive and abortion services and information consistent with the “fundamental rights” to birth control and abortion guaranteed by Initiative 120, according to a legal opinion issued Aug. 21 by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. The opinion was requested in April by state Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas, in response to questions raised in 2012, prior to the opening of Peace Island Medical Center in Friday Harbor, a unit of PeaceHealth, a system of medical centers affiliated
with the Roman Catholic Church. The district, supported by local property taxes, provides about $1 million in annual funding to Peace Island under an operating agreement. The formal legal opinion, which the attorney general’s press release says is not legally binding but is given “great weight” by the courts, said in part: “If the state provides, directly or by contract, maternity care benefits, services, or information to women through any program administered or funded in whole or in part by the state, the state shall also provide women otherwise eligible for any such program with substantially equivalent benefits, services, or information to permit them to voluntarily
terminate their pregnancies.” The opinion applies to public hospital districts providing “benefits, services or information” covered by Initiative 120 “directly or by contract.” It does not apply to “purely private” health care institutions, but appears to apply to situations, such as in San Juan County, where the San Juan Island hospital district provides substantial funding for health care services to Peace Island medical center. Local health care activist Monica Harrington termed the opinion “an important first step” – an opinion reiterated by the ACLU, which has long been active in the reproductive rights issue and has recently become
active in issues involving hospital mergers with religion-based institutions, such as PeaceHealth. The ACLU response to the AG opinion states: “It addresses only obligations to provide reproductive services covered by I-120, and does not address the obligations of private entities outside of the public hospital district context.” Jim Barnhart, chief administrative of ficer of Peace Island Medical Center, said that “PeaceHealth is carefully considering the implications of the opinion and will have a full response in the near future.” Alison Shaw, practice administrator of Orcas Medical Center, said she has not yet reviewed the
opinion. Orcas Medical Center operates under a contract between the Orcas Medical Foundation, which owns the OMC building, and Island Hospital of Anacortes. Island Hospital, Skagit Valley Hospital and Cascade
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Carter Family’s newest production draws on the ancient culture of Persia – it’s music, miniature paintings, costumes and dance to create a beautiful and magical world. The event is Sept. 1, 2 p.m., at the Lopez Community Center (outdoors, weather permitting). Tickets are available at Blossoms, Islands Bookstore and at the door. Carved hand and rod puppets and painted backdrops combine with the Carter’s signature style of adventure, fantasy and humor to create a show that will interest all ages, while exposing them to Middle East culture. The exotic beauty and magic of this beloved Persian tale come to life with handcarved puppets, beautiful scenery and special effects and plenty of laughs. Will Aladdin and the Princess, with the help of the Genie of the Lamp, be able to outwit the evil plots of the Sorcerer?
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The collapsed roof was expected to be peeled back from the wreckage last Tuesday, allowing fire investigators to begin sifting through fire-ravaged Downriggers Restaurant in search of clues. San Juan Island Fire Department Chief Steve Marler has a strong suspicion where the answer might be found to the cause of the blaze that destroyed the long-standing waterfront restaurant in the early hours of Aug. 17. “My guess is we’ll be focusing in on the kitchen,” Marler said. “Our initial attack crews say that’s where the fire appeared to be focused in the early stages.” Flames quickly grabbed hold of the ceiling shortly after the first wave of fire fighters arrived at the scene, at about 2:40 a.m. They were forced to evacuate the building only minutes later, as the fire spread rapidly across the ceiling from one end of the building to the other, posing a risk of collapse. Over the next three hours, the inferno devoured the interior of the restaurant while firefighters prevented it from reaching offices of three other business headquartered on the bottom floor. Firefighters were still hosing down numerous hot spots and outbreaks of fire
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in the ceiling of the splitlevel Front Street building nearly five hours after the blaze was first reported. Firefighters from Orcas and Lopez islands, and later from Anacortes, arrived in Friday Harbor to provide backup and support in battling the blaze. As of this writing, the cause of the fire remains a matter of speculation. But the reality is that it left a summertime crew of roughly 50 Downriggers employees, along with restaurant owner Debbie Rishel, owner of the restaurant for more than 20 years, without jobs, as well as displacing Friday Harbor Marine, San Juan Excursions and San Juan Safaris from their home base. Makeshift accommodations were made Saturday by the Town of Friday Harbor and the Port of Friday Harbor, owner of the fire-charred building, so that three ground-floor businesses could continue operating over the weekend. Town officials allowed the two whale watch companies to set up along the sidewalk near Memorial Park as a base of operations, despite town regulations. “We felt overall that it was the right thing to do,” said town Administrator Duncan Wilson, who intends to issue temporary permits to authorize use of the sidewalk through the Labor Day See fire, page 6
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Solid Waste Alternatives Program will host the traditional end-of-summer street dance and celebration in the parking lot of the former Lopez Village Market from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2. Isle ‘Zen, a local band directed by Albert Leo will be donating their time to play a blend of country and high-energy rock. There will be food available for purchase from Taste of Persia and Love Dog Café (including pizza by the slice) and tables set up outside. Everyone is welcome to bring a chair, enjoy the company and the music, put on their dancing shoes, and wave goodbye to another fabulous summer on Lopez.
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required notice of reconsideration of the July 30 appointments. The following day, citing “discomfort” with the summary procedure and with his own lack of familiarity with the candidates, Hughes moved for reconsideration. Hughes and Jarman voted to reconsider the Green, Hirsch and Schietinger appointments and scheduled another vote for Aug. 20 at the council meeting on Shaw Island. Hughes insists he has no specific problem with the three candidates and nobody in mind to nominate instead. “I just wanted to take the time to do my homework to make sure that we were getting the appropriate balance on the committee,” he said. “The council has made major changes in the appointment process for all the advisory committees and the MRC is one of the
most important, so I just wanted to take the extra time to do it right.” Councilman Bob Jarman made similar comments before voting with Hughes to reconsider the appointments. The local MRC, the first in the nation created under the Northwest Straits Initiative and one of seven local MRCs working under the aegis of, and with funding provided by, the Northwest Straits Commission, consists of 15 San Juan County residents chosen to bring a diversity of scientists, conservationists, sports and commercial fishermen and water-intensive business interests together to plan and administer a variety of programs and projects to restore the northern Puget Sound to ecological health. Council Chairman Jamie Stephens, who is council liaison to the MRC, voted against reconsideration, saying he did so because he had proposed the appointments on July 30, an abbreviated process necessary to assure that the MRC meet-
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ing scheduled for Aug. 7 would have a quorum to choose a new chairperson. On July 30, Stephens also suggested that current committee members Tina Whitman, Jim Slocumb and Mike Durland be reappointed to new terms, but acceded to a request by Hughes that the reappointments be for 30 days, pending receipt of applications from new potential members. Five other residents - Ed Kilduff of Lopez Island, Laura Severson of San Juan, Margaret Manning of Orcas, Thomas Temple of Crane, and John Geniuch of San Juan – have applied. Under new appointment procedures for advisory committees instituted in early spring by the former six-person council, Whitman, Slocumb and Durland, having served more than two terms on the MRC, were term-limited unless no other qualified prospective appointees applied. The three had reapplied to serve an additional term. The prior MRC chair-
man, John Aschoff did not reapply. On Aug. 6, after all appointments were reconsidered, the terms of Whitman, Slocumb and Durland were again extended until Aug. 30, again to assure that the MRC meetings would have a quorum, and the council agreed. However, a quorum was not present at the MRC’s Aug. 7 meeting, precluding any formal action, including the planned selection of a new chairman. An Aug. 21 MRC meeting has been cancelled. Hughes and Jarman reiterated their desire for a balance of perspectives and skills on the committee. No mention was made of any specific political or ideological balance. Two applicants for positions, Manning and Kilduff, have been critical of county actions and policies regarding planning and land use; two other applicants, Severson, of Crane Island and Temple, of San Juan, have been active with the Island Oil Spills Association. Temple, who has a science background and experience producing and ship-
Using art to mark Lopez Village waterways A series of brightly colored silk panels created by local artist Linda Vorobik have begun fluttering over the remains of a seasonal stream that once flowed through the grounds of Lopez Center. Gracefully painted with images of birds, dragonflies, reeds and flowers, the silk panels recall a time before streets and businesses, when Lopez Island’s “Urban Growth Area” was still mainly wetlands and lagoons. “My aim is to increase local appreciation for the diversity of and beauty of natural wetlands, and how selective restoration projects can not only benefit native species and increase natural plant and wildlife habitat, but it can enrich
and beautify our neighborhoods,” Vorobik says, Vorobik’s Silk Stream is the second in a series of public art installations sponsored by the nonprofit conservation laboratory Kwiaht called Village at the Edge of the Sea, which focuses on the protection of water quality and wildlife in Fisherman Bay. The first installation was Nancy Bingham’s sculpture Raven Woman, at the water tower park. Village at the Edge of the Sea recalls the history of wetlands and waterways in Lopez Village, from 19th century dikes designed to build salt hay fields, to the network of drainage ditches that barely succeed in keeping the Village from flooding in winter storms
today. Dikes, ditches and diversions have left a sea of lawn grass, and where water still collects seasonally, invasive European reed canary grass. “Paving, buried pipes and barely vegetated ditches next to the roads are all designed to move water to the bay as quickly as possible,” says Kwiaht Director Russel Barsh. “Why send contaminants straight into Fisherman Bay, when we could use runoff to build parks, using species that can degrade, or at least filter out the contaminants?” In the progression of panels that form Silk Stream, Vorobik anticipates the recovery of native wetlands, and the return of native species. Her art invites the
community to begin replacing paving and sewer pipes with gardens, frog pools See waterways, page 8
ping salmon, has not been contacted since he applied. Barbara Marrett, a Port of Friday Harbor commissioner, was reappointed July 30 to a four-year term.
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ing tenth annual Tour on September 14. Jan and husband Bob’s former and current houses have both been part of past tours. “We’ve been sponsors of the tour since it began and will continue to sponsor into the future,” says Lauren Stephens whose former home was also on the tour. “We also think tickets to the tour make a nice
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talkies, mowing the fields, creating and placing signs in strategic places. You may notice booties available to put over your shoes outside every house but won’t think about the fact that there is something to sit on while you do so. When you enter the homes, you’ll ooh and ahh at what meets your eye but may not think about the fact that poster boards offer additional historical and construction information about the home you’re visiting. Over the years, the com-
gift for people looking for ideas on how to decorate or design a home.” Now you know what you’ll see. Here’s what you won’t see: innumerable details attended to by a Home Tour Committee of close to 20 who have met for months to iron out every single aspect, plus another 30 volunteers on top of that. You might, for example, notice people helping with parking but you likely won’t stop to think what went into just that one element of the tour -- like obtaining walkie
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mittee has considered and refined countless particulars and planned for everything to make visitors’ experiences as easy, pleasant and seamless as possible. In recent years, the Home Tour Committee has even arranged for inexpensive and easy-to-eat lunches available for purchase at Lopez Center as well as some of the homes. Here’s what Lopez Center director Janet Baltzer noted recently to the Home Tour Committee: “I want you all to know how much the community, whether they are aware or not, appreciates what you are doing to help the Center stay afloat and thrive. Recently, we hosted celebrations with 500 (mostly local) people and another with 350. The list goes on.” “I’ve been on all the tours,” says Nancy Caleshu, “and I’ve volunteered for them, too. The tour has developed into an annual event, eagerly anticipated every September by our community.” Tickets are available at Lopez Center (lopezcenter. org), Paper, Scissors on the Rock, the Lopez Bookshop and the Farmers’ Market.
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lutheran ChurCh in the san juans. Join us Sundays at 9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanuel. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025. QuaKer Worship group Meetings will be Sundays at 10 a.m. at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 468-2129. Email: lopezfriends@gmail.com st. FranCis CatholiC ChurCh Come worship with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome you to join us for Mass at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Call 378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.
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weekend, at least. Several local restaurants have reportedly offered jobs to many former Downriggers workers. The Port purchased the building in 1994 for just under $1 million. Its ceiling has been either remodel or added onto numerous times over the years. Chief Marler noted the restaurant, whose original construction predates today’s town building standards, operated without a sprinkler system. Port Director Marilyn O’Connor said the port commissioners will meet Wednesday (4 p.m. at San Juan Island Yacht Club) to discuss options for the future of the building and of the waterfront lot. For more information, contact Journal of the San Juans Editor Scott Rasmussen at srasmussen@sanjuanjournal.com or 1-360-378-5696.
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AnnuAl MeetIng August 30, at 10 am at the lopez Island library All stockholders and customers are invited to attend the meeting
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and sloughs filled with rushes and cattails. As a first step, Kwiaht will build a demonstration street-side bio-remedial garden in the Village with the help of local students, and a grant for materials from the Atlanta based Captain Planet Foundation. It will use native wetland plants to detain copper, a major threat to fish. Earlier this year, Kwiaht landscape ecologist Nathan Hodges and Orcas Island students built a demonstration “biomachine” within an Eastsound parking lot that uses plants and fungi to break down motor oil. Silk Stream panels can be viewed on the Lopez Center grounds through August 30. They will be at Greene Partners: Architecture and Design, 2585 Fisherman Bay Road for the Studio Tour on August 31 and September 1; Lopez Island
travel around Lopez Village from September 2 to19; and return to Lopez Center for the Lopez Artist Guild Opening on September 20, where it will be joined by other works celebrating local wetlands. You can learn more about Silk Stream at www. VorobikBotanicalArt.com. 180’ WATERFRONT Price Reduced $199,000
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