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VOLUME 37, NUMBER 4 • JANUARY 28, 2014
Ceramics from WWII displayed at Lopez Library
Russel Barsh brings the struggle between modern artists and the Third Reich to Lopez Library with a exhibit of representative works of German ceramicists who were sacked, expelled, imprisoned, or proscribed in the 1930s. After an opening reception on Friday, Feb. 14, the pieces will be on display to March 31.
Artists included in the exhibit include Martha Katzer, Marguerete Heymann, Augusta Gustl Kaiser, Eva Striker Zeisel, and Kurt Wendler. Heymann was forced to sell her studio and emigrate because she was Jewish. Zeisel, Jewish and communist, fled to avoid concentration camps. Katzer was protected by co-workers
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Right: airbrushed plate by Margarete Heymann, Hael Werkstatte (Marwitz, Germany), about 1930. but died awaiting deportation. Wendler was imprisoned for hiding a Jewish painter. Gustl Kaiser died in poverty, unable to find work because of her openly lesbian relationship with artistic collaborator Hedwig Marquardt. These artists’ works are not only beautiful but also surprisingly “modern,” Barsh says. They anticipate techniques and styles that were widely copied in the 1950s-1960s in the countries to which Zeisel and Heymann fled the United States and United Kingdom. “Idealistic German artists, predominantly young women, many of them Jewish, created the look of everyday objects that most of us grew up with,” Barsh says. SEE CERAMICS, PAGE 4
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Whidbey anti-noise group coming to Lopez By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter
Lopez Island residents, upset about EA-18 “Growler” jet noise from planes at Naval Air Station Whidbey, will meet with Whidbey Island activists on Feb. 12 to discuss the noise issue and what might be
done about it. Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve for a Healthy, Safe & Peaceful Environment (citizensofebeysreserve.com/) will be telling Lopez residents that COER is shifting its focus from the Outlying Field near Coupeville, which COER wants closed, to larger questions of basing the EA-18 at NAS Whidbey and conducting low-level “touchand-go” training exercises at either Ault Field at NAS Whidbey near Oak Harbor or OLF Coupeville.
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In a Jan. 14 press release, COER President Michael Monson announced that the organization is now seeking removal of the jets from Whidbey Island, not just stopping further use of OLF Coupeville for Navy “touch and go” carrier landing exercises. For 2013, the Navy estimated it would conduct more than 31,000 “closed pattern” training operations at Ault Field and OLF Coupeville, including 5,300 operations between 11
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p.m. and 7 a.m. Because the Navy suspended some training operations at OLF Coupeville for about half of 2013, the number at OLF Coupeville was considerably reduced, to about 5,000. “It is now our position that the Growlers must go, and we are making that case to our state and national elected officials and communities throughout the region,” Monson said. Part of “making that case” extends to Lopez and San Juan islands, and to Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula. The meeting in Port Townsend is Jan. 27 at the Cotton Building in Port Townsend; the location of the Feb. 12 meeting on Lopez Island has not been announced. On San Juan Island, former San Juan County Councilman Howie Rosenfeld, a former public health professional, says he has recently heard “loud” SEE NOISE, PAGE 8
Community Calendar TUES, JAN 28 Q&A: School Levy Community Forum, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Lopez Public Library Meeting Room. Come hear about the school replacement levy, ask questions, and become an informed voter! THURS, JAN 30 FOOD: Evening Meal at
School, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., at the Lopez School MultiPurpose Room. The Lopez Locavores invite the community to celebrate a feast of food from our local farmers, who supply us with the season’s best produce. Admission by donation, all are welcome. Please consider bringing a non-perishable food donation for the Food Bank –
this is the hungry time of year on our island.
TUES, FEB 4 MUSIC: Eli West and Brittney Haas Duet of old time fiddle, guitar & vocals, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center. Advanced tickets $13/adult $5/youth. At the door $15/adult $7/ youth www.lopezcenter. org, PSR, Lopez Book Shop. CLASSES: Conversational Spanish for Beginners, Six Tuesdays, 5:15 to 6:30 p.m., at instructor’s house, $40 fee. Instructed by Dandy Porter and Gabby Velazquez. For more information, call the LIFRC at 468-4117 or go to www. lifrc.org.
WEDS, FEB 5 EVENT: Zipper Dance: Partner Dancing Through Co-Leadership, 6 p.m., Lopez Center. Admission: by donation. Suggested donation: adult $15, youth $5. SAT, FEB 8 MUSIC: Lane Langford and Friends Concerts, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center. Tickets at the door $15/adult $10/ youth. ART: Chimera Gallery Opening, “Art from the Heart,” 5-7 p.m., Chimera Gallery, Lopez Village Plaza. Join us for new work, drinks and snacks. Show runs from Feb. 8 - March 7.
SUN, FEB 9 FOOD: Lopez Locavores Winter Film Series presents “American Meat,” 4:30 p.m., Port Stanley School. The movie is a solutions-oriented documentary looking beyond our current industrial meat production system, showing how the U.S. can feed itself on more humane, healthier grassbased farms. OUTDOORS: Soggy Bottom Golf Tournament, brunch and sign-in at 10 a.m.; tee off at 11 a.m., Lopez Island Golf Course. Fundraiser for Lopez Island Hospice. Contact Vaughan Williams to register: 468-2922
the proposed changes to the general, wetland, and fish and wildlife habitat conservation area critical area regulations. In response to the planning commission’s recommendation to simplify the site-specific buffer sizing methodology adopted in 2012 and provide better predictability and ef ficiency for landowners and developers, the revised site-specific proposal retains the same buffer types, and replaces the County’s wetland rating system with the State’s Wetland Rating System for Western Washington. This allows further code simplification including elimination of the Tree Protection Zone from the wetland protections because the proposed sys-
tem accounts for the presence of trees. In addition, a site-specific, yet simple and predictable method of determining buffer widths is proposed based upon the appropriate wetland rating, land use intensity, and guidance from the WA Department of Ecology’s Wetlands in Washington State Volume 2. The proposal also includes options to amend the definition of development, regulate new and expanding agriculture, and to establish standards for determining or verifying that there is no practicable alternative to locating certain uses in a critical area or buffer. It amends the impervious surface definition, habitat buffer averaging provisions, general utility exemption, and on-site
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THURS, FEB 13 CLASSES: Learning to Draw, FourThursdays, 3 – 4:30 p.m., at the Lopez Library. $25 if paid by 1/30, $30 after 1/30. Instructed by Sylvia Chesley Smith, sylviachesleysmith.com. For more information, call the LIFRC at 468-4117 or go to www.lifrc.org. SAT, FEB 15 MUSIC: Joe Reilly and Allison Radell with Lopezians Jaime Cordova and Colin Doherty, 4 p.m., Lopez Center. Tickets: $15/adult $5/youth.
Community briefs Common Ground Open House
Come tour the neighborhood. Check out our beautiful houses including the three which are for rent or sale. The available homes are one-bedroom, onebedroom/flex and two-bedroom/flex houses. Located on Lopez Road just north of the village,
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Common Ground is an affordable housing co-op with 11 lovely homes. The comfortable hand crafted houses feature passive solar design, solar power and hot water, rain catchment and strawbale walls. The neighborhood has a play ground and BBQ area (shared with Tierra Verde co-op and Lopez Community Land Trust). The houses have faced
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CAO public hearing in February
The county council will hold a public hearing at or after 9:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4 in the County Council Hearing Room to receive testimony on a proposed ordinance to amend the San Juan County Code critical area regulations. The purpose of the amendments is to comply with a Growth Management Hearings Board’s decision. Members of the public are invited to speak and/or provide written statements regarding
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sewage disposal system requirements. In addition, it deletes the public agency/ utility exception and definition of new and expanding agriculture. Written comments may be submitted in advance of the hearing. Please deliver 5 copies of all written comments to the Clerk of the San Juan County Council at 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor, or mail them to 350 Court Street #1, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. Copies of the ordinance may be inspected or obtained at the Council Clerk’s office on business days between 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It may also be viewed 24 hours a day at the County website at http://www. sanjuanco.com/Council/ PendingOrdinances.aspx. For more information, please contact the Clerk of the County Council at 3707472.
Lopez Vineyards garners big awards
“Best of the Best” Great Northwest Wine Judging results are in. This judging of northwest Gold Medal winning wines is an annual event, where wines of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia are reviewed by an experienced panel of judges. Lopez Island Vineyards’ 2012 Siegerrebe was awarded a double platinum medal. SEE COMMUNITY, PAGE 5 Juan Islands. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Islands’ Weekly, PO Box 758 Eastsound, WA 98245-0758. Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, National Newspaper Association.
Guest Column
In memoriam: Tribute to Speiden
By Libby Baldwin Special to the Weekly
You could always hear her coming. When orca whales surface for a breath, they emit a highly audible “pfft” sound. These exhalations are powerful, traveling at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour in some cases, and can be heard from miles away on a calm day. Orca enthusiasts always jump at the sound, sometimes the first indication that orcas are present. All orcas’ breaths sounds pretty much the same – except for one very special female, Speiden. Hobbes Buchanan has worked on the water as a captain and naturalist for 10 years, three of those running his own operation, San Juan Island Whale and Wildlife Tours. He has fond memories of J-8, Speiden, missing since the latter part of last year and now presumed dead. “She was the old girl, the one we called the ‘old wheezer’,” Buchanan said. “She was so friendly and curious, and easy for people who have trouble with ID’ing whales, because you could hear her.” Speiden was the secondoldest whale in the southern resident killer whale community, trailing only J-2, or Granny. Researchers estimate she was born in 1933. Whale-watchers in the San Juans have always felt great affection for the venerable orca, whose exhalation was
Contributed photos/ top, Jeanne Hyde, bottom left, Libby Baldwin, courtesy of San Juan Excursions
Right, J-8, aka Speiden, frolics off San Juan Island. Above, the familiar sight of J-8’s dorsal fin. always accented by that distinctive wheeze. It will be notably absent from the Salish Sea this coming summer, when J, K, and L pods hopefully return to our area to feast on Chinook salmon and delight visitors and residents alike. Unfortunately, the most significant word in that sentence is “hopefully.” There is a tall tale propagated by some of the eldest fishermen of the Pacific Northwest. They say once upon a time there were so many salmon in the inland waters of what is now the Salish Sea that one could walk across their backs. This abundance of food brought great numbers of orcas here, too. That vision certainly doesn’t match up with reality. The summer of 2013 held the lowest number of orca sightings since tracking began over three decades ago. The southern resident community of killer whales was at an all-time peak of 98 individuals in 1995, and then
abruptly suffered a significant drop of 20 percent from 1996-2001, which prompted their listing as an endangered species. During the last few years, the population has steadily declined. 2013 ended with a just 80 orcas, a dangerously low number. Only 16 of those are breeding-age females, making it almost impossible for the orcas to reproduce fast enough to keep the population stable. To make matters worse, 2013 brought four deaths and zero births. The folks who run the whale-watching boats here – the captains and naturalists who have watched the population sink closer and closer to extinction – have only become more concerned and stewardshipminded over the years. “I’ve seen the industry do a total 360 in the ten years I’ve been doing this,” Buchanan said. “Everybody’s on their best behavior now, and working hard to ensure that these whales continue to be protected.”
A coastline of ‘critical’ habitat? By Scott Rasmussen Journal editor
The amount of critical habitat afforded to the southern resident killer whales will grow by leaps and bounds, if the Center for Biological Diversity has its way. The center last week filed a formal petition with the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect more critical habitat for the endangered southern resident population of killer whales. If successful, the proposal would extend Endangered Species Act protection to the whales’ winter foraging range off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and
California. That’s roughly 700 miles of coastline earmarked for protection in the center’s petition, and the boundary would extend about 76 miles out to sea, the center’s senior attorney Sarah Uhlemann said. Uhlemann notes that new research, including satellite tracking data from the first half of 2013 (see map, at right) reveals that the whales travel extensively along the West Coast during the winter and early spring, regularly congregating near coastal rivers to feed on migrating salmon. The Center’s petition seeks to protect these areas off the coasts of Washington, Oregon
and California as critical habitat. “At this point we’re asking that the whales entire migratory path be included as critical habitat,” she said. “We know that Fisheries has had it on their mind and we’re hopeful the agency will agree with us.” In response to a petition from the center and allies, the Fisheries Service determined in 2005 that southern residents are in danger of extinction. Although the agency has protected portions of the population’s summer habitat in the Puget Sound, important offshore habitat areas have SEE HABITAT, PAGE 4
If you want to help the orcas, there are several ways to start. Choose wildcaught salmon over farmraised. The chemicals and antibiotics used to regulate production in fish farms are toxic to the surrounding wild ecosystem; not enough Chinook salmon are spawning, which is leading to a total collapse of the orcas’ primary source of food. When you go whalewatching, be sure to choose a company that is a member of the Pacific Whale Watch Association. These operators have all agreed to follow a strict set of “whale-wise” guidelines, including staying 200 yards away from the whales at all times, watching them from a parallel angle rather than blocking their path, and not staying with any one group of whales for more than an
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hour at a time. Even the choices you make in household products can affect the whales. By choosing “green” cleaning products such as dish soap, laundry detergent, and household cleaners, you can ensure that the products going down your sink won’t end up in the orcas’ systems. There is nothing quite like the magnificent sight
of those sleek black fins sluicing through the surface of the water, in perfect harmony with one another. When visitors witness their beauty and complex social behaviors and leave with a new awareness of the natural world, it’s easy to see the importance of preserving our orcas. The start of 2014 is the perfect time to start making sure that we keep them there.
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recently been documented. Today, the population, which consists of the members of J,K and L pods, totals 81 animals, about four fewer than in 2005, the year the endangered listing was announced. The population, which most recently peaked at 99 in 1995, plummeted to 79 over the next six years, and has hovered in the mid80s during its tenure on the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The three biggest threats to the popula-
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Far right; members of the endangered Southern resident killer whales ply the waters. Area of critical habitat proposed by Center for Biological Diversity in map. tion’s long-term sur vival are lack of prey (salmon), pollution and disturbance from boats, according to NMFS. In August, federal officials authorized spending roughly $900,000 for “onthe-water enforcement” for additional protection of the killer whales in response to a grant application by
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the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife Critical habitat designations prevent the federal government from undertaking or approving activities that reduce an area’s ability to support an endangered species. Studies show that species with designated critical habitat are more than twice as likely to exhibit improving popula-
tion trends than those without this additional protection. “Killer whales are important to the identity and spirit
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of the Pacific Northwest, and beloved by people across the country,” Uhlemann said. “If this population of amazing, extremely intel-
ligent animals is going to survive for future generations, we need to do more to protect their most important habitat.”
CERAMICS
disillusioned nationalists.” Hitler had been a failure as a painter, which he blamed on Jewish academics and new arts movements. When he came to power in 1933, state control of the arts became a mainstay of Nazi policy. Jews were forced out of teaching positions, the Bauhaus art school was closed, studios owned by Jews were confiscated, and the works of some artists smashed as Entartete Kunst (“Degenerate Art”). Better known on Lopez as an ecologist and science educator, Barsh had formal training in industrial ceramics in high school, and began collecting historically interesting ceramics as a university student.
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German decorative arts in the Weimar period (19191933) attracted large numbers of women, who were still excluded from participating professionally in the fine arts and who adopted utilitarian philosophies that created collaborative bridges with Soviet artists, Barsh explains. “This demographic and political movement brought fresh energy and ideas to German art,” Barsh says, “but it identified new art styles with the enemies of Germany’s most angry and
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Letters
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Deputy deserves apology for hasty conclusions
I’d like to apologize to Deputy Menjivar for jumping to conclusions upon hearing the first reports of the traffic incident on Christmas Eve. From reading the full accounts of Deputy Menjivar and especially
Deputy Korth, a completely different picture emerges. AARON SHEPARD Friday Harbor
Whole-hearted support for Whidbey Jets Contrary to more than one recent letter, I wholeheartedly support the need for Whidbey jets to prac-
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tice. That does not indicate I want war – it means I want to be defended if war comes to us. That’s my security out there, keeping in shape with regular training. I also feel strongly that this training has never been a secret. Did you not discover it before making the decision to come to Lopez Island? Did you decide that once
you are here, ever yone else’s agenda needs to change to fit yours? That’s so myopic and self-centered. You have the choice to move to where your own needs are met. So you chose Lopez, and now want the world altered to fit your style. Sorry, it doesn’t always work that way. LYNN KING Lopez Island
SJ Port moves forward on waterfront plan By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter
It didn’t take long for the Friday Harbor Port Commission to order the first major change in the Spring Street Landing replacement building plan. Instead of an east-west building orientation, perpendicular to the waterfront at the south side of the property, the design team is being told by the commission to return to the northsouth orientation of the present burned-out building, and move the building a few feet north and a few feet closer to the waterfront. Commission Chairman Greg Hertel explained that the best view from the building decks, especially from the restaurant deck, must include the boat activity in the bay and the ferry coming and going from the ferry dock. “It would be a major mistake to take that wonderful harbor view away,” said
Hertel, even recognizing that the original orientation would provide a nice park from the street to the water’s edge. The revised plan would also move the planned small second building from the north end of the property, next to Fairweather Park, to the south side of the replacement building. Although this smaller building will be included in the plans for permits, construction may be postponed depending on funding availability. Part of the commission’s idea is also economic, Hertel said. “We need to maximize the commercial areas to support the public areas,” said Hertel, who thought the revised plot plan would yield a better long-term revenue stream. The commission also approved a $75,000 contract with MEM Enterprises of Friday Harbor for demolition of the burned-out building, without chair-
man Hertel’s amendment that demolition should begin immediately. Port Director Marilyn O’Connor explained that the insurer needed “a few more days” to finish their work on the old building, but that “demolition should start after the holidays and be finished in about two weeks.” Revised conceptual drawings should be available for public comment and commission action in January. “We’ve got to decide on the scope of the building and site plan and get the permit process started or we won’t be able to start construction in September and finish before summer 2015,” Hertel said. The port has hired three teams to work on three aspects of the overall project. J.A. Brennan Associates, landscape architects of Seattle, Moffatt & Nichols engineers of Long Beach, Calif., and Makers planning and urban design of Seattle
will collaborate on the master plan for the waterfront. PND Engineering of Seattle will design the rebuilt bulkhead. And BC&J architecture and construction management of Bainbridge will produce the plans and oversee construction of the new Spring Street Landing buildings. The commission’s current schedule calls for at least one commission meeting, with public input, on January 27 to review preliminary drawings and plans, with a commission meeting in March to approve final plans. Meanwhile, the commission has given port staff authority to plan for temporary space for former tenants (including space for a food truck for Downriggers Restaurant, from April or May through September, when construction, which will continue for about eight months, is expected to begin.
Research award for Gaydos Dr. Joe Gaydos, of the SeaDoc Society on Orcas, is being honored with the 2014 Seattle Aquarium Conser vation Research Award at the annual Chairman’s Dinner on Jan. 16 at the aquarium. As a symbol of the Seattle Aquarium’s commitment to and participation in scientific research, each year Contributed photo the board of directors makes a research grant to the Dr. Joe Gaydos Seattle Aquarium Research Center for Conservation and Husbandry in honor of an individual who demonstrates leadership in his or her field. This award of $10,000 is given in the recipient’s name. The SeaDoc Society, founded in 1999, conducts and sponsors scientific research in the inland waters of the Pacific Northwest, also known as the Salish Sea. SeaDoc strives to find science-based solutions for marine wildlife in the Salish Sea using a multi-species approach. For more information, visit www.seadocsociety.org/.
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This island grown varietal has been a consistent award winning wine over the years. The wine judges describe this wine as follows: “One of the rarest grapes in the Northwest is Siegerrebe, a white German variety. A bit is planted in the Puget Sound region,
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where it is able to ripen most years. Owner and winemaker Brent Charnley consistently crafts one of the most delicious examples we’ve seen. This opens with beautiful aromas of spice, apple and white flowers, followed by long, lush flavors of ripe stone fruit, honeysuckle and Asian pear. Rated Double Platinum by Wine Press Northwest magazine. For more info, contact winemaker Brent Charnley 468-3644.
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Ranker sponsors new bill Weapons training draws rebuke Telecommunication companies would be required to credit customers for service outages for which they are responsible and that exceed more than 12 hours in a monthly billing cycle as part of a bill under consideration in Olympia. Sponsored by state Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island, and co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of 24 fellow lawmakers, Senate Bill 6197, which would add a new chapter to the state Telecommunications Consumer Fairness Act, is intended to bring a little more fairness to the rela-
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The use of automatic weapons with killer whales nearby could lead to a tragic outcome. So, believing that the U.S. military was conducting “war games” off the west side of Whidbey Island Tuesday morning, Jan. 21, with members of the southern residents killer whales in the area, a commercial whale-watch operator sounded the alarm. Meanwhile, at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, troops were involved in small-arms training on the base, using 9-mm caliber ammunition as part of a monthly routine exercise, according to NAS public affairs officer Mike Welding. The training area, Welding said, includes a 2,000-foot safety zone, in case of a ricochet, that extends out into the water and that the Coast Guard routinely notifies boaters when the training exercise is in progress. Back on San Juan Island, Captain Hobbes Buchanan of San Juan Island Whale & Wildlife Tours & Water Taxi
Services alerted the U.S. Coast Guard to the potential dangerous mix of weapons and whales moments after his VHF radio lit up at about 10 a.m. Tuesday with a warning from the Coast Guard to mariners to stay clear of the area because the firing of weapons was about to commence. “Live firing? I couldn’t believe my ears,” Buchanan said. “We had southern resident orcas out there. I looked at my AIS (automated identification system) and it was lit up like a Christmas tree, military vessels everywhere.” Howard Garrett of Whidbey Island-based Orca Network said that J-pod and the L-12s were somewhere in the vicinity of the island’s west side, most likely south of the naval base, Tuesday morning. “That area is right where the whales were headed yesterday,” Garrett said. Welding said the training exercise began and 9 a.m. and ended at 3 p.m., as scheduled. He said that people and cameras are stationed around the training area to monitor the safety
Worship Services in the Islands LOPEZ ISLAND CHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY CHURCH, There’s Always a Place for You! CTK gathers at 10:00 a.m. in the school multi-purpose room at 86 School Road. Come as you are! More info at www.ctkonline.com/lopez. Email: lopez@ctkonline.com Phone: 888-421-4CTK ext. 819. GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane. 468-3477. Everyone welcome! HARBOR OF HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH, invites you to worship at 10 a.m. Sundays beginning Oct. 27 at 1145 Channel Road. Please check at www.theharborofhope.com for information on “The Bulletin Board,” or call Pastor Don 468-4019. LOPEZ ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH, 91 Lopez Road. Sunday School: pre-school through adult 9:30 a.m.; Worship at 10:30 a.m. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877. LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS. Join us Sundays at 9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanuel. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025. QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Meetings will be Sundays at 10:00 a.m. at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 468-2129. Email: lopezfriends@gmail.com ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome you to join us for Mass at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Call 3782910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.
zone when the base is conducting its small-arms training. There is no report of a killer whale or marine mammal in the area during the exercise, he said. “If they saw any person, vessel or killer whale, or any marine mammal, we would immediately stop the training,” he said. In a statement released Wednesday by the Pacific Whale Watch Association, Buchanan said that he next called Lynne Barre of the National Marine Fisheries Service, the federal agency tasked with protecting the endangered southern residents, to alert her to the military exercise. He said that Barre knew nothing about it. On Wednesday, Barre said the only information that she had about Tuesday’s exercise was what she had received from Buchanan. She noted that the military, as part of “mitigation” measures to protect the endangered orcas, has protocols in place to monitor for killer whales and other marine mammals during its exercises. The protocols adhered to will depend on the type of activity the military is conducting, she said. Whale Watch Association Executive Director Michael Harris chastised the Navy and NMFS over Tuesday’s exercise, calling use of weapons in the vicinity of the southern resident “inexcusable.” “A generation ago, the military used our orcas as target practice and effectively they got strafed again today,” Harris said. “You can’t bring this population back by shooting rounds over them. Sure, it’s a mistake, and after today it probably won’t happen again – we hope.”
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From left to right: Eli West and Brittany Haas. 17, she released her debut self-titled solo album, produced by Darol Anger and featuring Bruce Molsky, Mike Marshall, Alison Brown and others. At Princeton University, she majored in biology but minored in music performance, composing with professor Dan Trueman, and joining seminal chamber-grass band Crooked Still. She has toured with them since, also performing with Yonder Mountain String Band, Tony Trischka, Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas (her cellist sister), Abigail Washburn, and The Waybacks. Brittany played her fiddle on Steve Martin’s Grammy Awardwinning CD, “The Crow,” and joined his band on Letterman and Saturday Night Live. Eli West is a Seattle-based multi-instrumentalist and interactive graphic designer. His angular phrasing and innovation within the traditional parameters of bluegrass and old time music
create a guitar style that has been called both strange and strong in the same breath. Eli has released three records as half of the duo Cahalen Morrison and Eli West, which tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. Eli is also a key member of Jamie Stone’s Lomax project, which includes Tim O’Brien, Bruce Molsky, Margaret Glaspy, and Brittany Haas. Eli plays regularly with mandolin great John Reischman, who played on Lopez in 2012, and is featured on his latest record, Walk Along John. In 2013, West and Haas
(with Cahalen Morrison) filled Woodmen Hall, and everyone who attended filled the ears of all their friends with glowing reviews of the evening. This year, at the Lopez Center, there will be room for even more future fans. Advance tickets are $13/adults, $5/youth, on sale now at Lopez Center office, Paper Scissors On the Rock, Lopez Book Shop and at www.lopezcenter. org .Tickets at the door will be $15/adult, $7/youth. A full house will ensure that West and Haas continue to bring their flying fingers and sweet harmonies to Lopez in years to come.
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The Lopez community did itself a huge favor last March when it hosted Bluegrass virtuosos Eli West and Brittany Haas for a concert: they liked it so much here, it took less than a year to woo them back. They will play at Lopez Center on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Cahalen Morrison will not accompany them as he did in 2013, but West and Haas have more than enough chops
between them to ensure a rousing evening of old-time fiddle, guitar and vocals. California-born Brittany Haas is widely regarded as one of the most influential fiddlers of her generation. She grew up honing her craft in fiddle camps nationwide, and came to her unique sound through the old-time fiddling of Bruce Molsky and the innovative stylings of Darol Anger. A prodigy, she began touring with Darol’s Republic of Strings at the age of 14. At
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Native plant sale 2014 is now taking orders With the New Year rolled over and the seed catalogues arriving daily in the mailbox, gardeners are making their to do list for the perfect dream garden. The Master Gardeners of San Juan County have a suggestion: The Annual Native Plant Sale. Nothing is better for the garden, for your environment and the community, or for your back, than planting native plants. The Master Gardener Annual Native Pant Sale is now taking orders for plants to be delivered on March 29 on San Juan Island, Orcas Island, and Lopez Island. Orders are filled on a first come, first serve basis. Order now for the best selection. Certain popular species sell out quickly. Some trees such as Alaska yellow cedar, doug fir, and gary oak sell out each year. Other shrubs, such as evergreen huckleberry, Oregon grape, red flowering currant and serviceberry are gone before you know it. This year they have
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jet noise “from over the horizon” at his home in Friday Harbor and is interested in finding out more about the issue, especially because he once lived on Whidbey Island and remembers the noise problems. Other COER meetings have been scheduled on Guemes Island, Jan. 28, and at Langley on Whidbey Island, Feb. 15. Also important to making
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the case, according to Ken Pickard, an environmental attorney who lives near the OLF, was for COER to do its own noise testing and obtaining scientific input on health effects from environmental health specialists. The health effects, according to Pickard, are “extensive and serious.” Pickard also said that COER is attempting to interest U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray in the issue but has heard only from Cantwell’s office. Congressman Rick Larsen,
some new stock including quaking aspen, rocky mountain maple and silk tassel as well as all time favorites red osier dogwood and pacific crabapple. Find the entire list of plants and print out an order form at http://sanjuan.wsu.edu/mastergardeners/index.html. Don’t miss the chance to get the perfect plant for that hard to plant space in your garden, say organizers. If you cannot access the Internet, call the WSU Extension Office at 378-4414 and ask that an order form be sent to you. Deadline for ordering is Monday, March 24. Plants are available for pick up on Saturday, March 29 at: San Juan County Fairgrounds on San Juan Island, the Orcas Grange on Orcas Island, and Sunset Builders on Lopez Island. Questions? Call Kris Bayas, 378-4414 or email Jane Wentworth (janew@ckwentworth.com).
who was instrumental in keeping the base open in the face of attempts to close it, commented that he “supports the Navy entering into an environmental review process to take all issues under consideration.” After COER filed a lawsuit in federal court in Seattle, the Navy suspended training flights at the Coupeville airfield and announced the EIS. The training flights were resumed in the last few days. While awaiting the EIS results, expected in 2015, the lawsuit has been “suspend-
ed,” according to COER. In response to requests from San Juan County Councilman Jamie Stevens and others, the Navy extended the comment period for scoping phase of the Environmental Impact Statement being conducted to study the impacts of adding an additional squadron to the fleet of EA-18s at NAS Whidbey. That additional comment period ends Jan. 31. The Navy says additional meetings would not be added to the three scoping meetings held in 2013.