Articles written by Anne Hays
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Help for the vegetable garden novice
Now that I live in the beautiful, abundant Skagit Valley after thirty-plus years in an Alaskan coastal rainforest, I have the climate and desire to learn how to grow a vegetable garden. I turned to fellow Master Gardener Cathy Markham and asked her...
Master gardeners plant sale a great success
Skagit County WSU Extension Master Gardeners hosted their annual Welcome Summer Plant Fair May 13. This was the 29th year the Master Gardeners have held the Plant Fair and again, it was a rousing success. Every year on the Saturday before Mother’s D...
Wilbur presentation shows Natives through new lens
Shelter Bay welcomes nationally recognized artist and lecturer Matika Wilbur sharing an exhibit of her award-winning photography and a lecture in the Shelter Bay Clubhouse on May 19 at 4 p.m. Matika is a member of the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes...
Search and rescue call becomes great trial run
All’s well that ends well! A call to Shelter Bay staff Saturday reported that a group of children were seen playing in the water around Martha’s Beach when the tide was out on Saturday, but were not seen returning after the tide had come in lat...
60 miles leaves sore feet and a healing heart
On a leisurely cruise back to Alaska to attend our youngest son’s wedding, we were notified that our middle son’s wife, Bree, had taken a turn for the worse in her 16-year battle with breast cancer. B...
