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As usual, Charity Jordan spelled trouble for her rivals. For the judges she spelled everything else. Letter perfect, at that. The poised and humble La Conner eighth grader won her third straight regional Spelling Bee championship at Skagit Valley College in March. That secured her a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the Washington, D.C. area for a third consecutive spring. Charity will compete against the country’s top student spellers starting May 27 in National Harbor, MD. Yet her rare regional three-peat isn’t all that makes Cha...
THERE’S CANDY IN THERE SOMEWHERE – Harlee Hankemeier, 6, knows there is treasure in that hay. She and her family joined the 300 or so people at Pioneer Park for the La Conner Easter Egg Hunt, even though last Saturday was cool and damp. But there were 180 dozen eggs – over 2,000 eggs – coffee, hot chocolate and cookies. – Photo courtesy of Stephanie Hankemeier...
Greg Robinson, a former director of the Museum of Northwest Art, offered a different kind of homecoming last Saturday: He opened MoNA’s “Robert McCauley: American Fiction” with a 45-minute slide lecture to an appreciative audience of about 50 people, most of them getting a different view of MoNA: they had just attended the annual membership meeting. McCauley, the son of generations of Mount Vernon loggers, accompanied his dad into the woods. Born in 1946, he “grew up watching forests fall. T...
Close to 100 people from the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community gathered with handmade signs at the SITC’s gym March 27. Holle Edwards, march coordinator said, “this is the fourth (annual) March (on Drugs) …. it was really empowering … the youth center made signs with the kids the day before the March that said things like ‘Say No to Drugs’ and ‘Do Drugs and Your Brain Turns into Slugs.’” The tragic loss of family members and friends due to opioid deaths has reached frightening a...
