Articles from the April 18, 2018 edition
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Former MoNA board president resigns
Gary Molyneaux, board president of the Museum of Northwest Arts for the last two years and the longest continuous serving board member, resigned from MoNA’s board of trustees last Thursday. “As long as one or two individuals become focal points lea...
'Impromptu Parade' takes La Conner by storm
It didn’t rain on La Conner’s parade last Saturday. Instead it rained beforehand and afterward. The US Bank-sponsored Kiwanis Not-So-Impromptu Tulip Parade – which, quite fittingly, started 15 m...
Famed animator traces success to La Conner roots
His animated characters are known and loved around the globe. But there was a time La Conner was the hub of Craig Bartlett’s world. His parents, the late Glen and Kay Bartlett, were key players in the 1970s revitalization of La Conner. That campaign,...
Popular science: La Conner campus hosts mobile lab
La Conner Elementary School has gotten learning down to a science. This came after a campus visit last week by Dr. Alex Chang and his team aboard the 45-foot state-of-the-art mobile lab made...
North First Street park improvements possible
Town leaders caught a glimpse of the future last Wednesday morning. Designer Curt Miller shared drawings at a Town Parks Commission meeting for improving the Jordan Street pocket park on North First...
Rain adds to joy blooming at Tulip Town
Thousands of people of all ages visit Tulip Town every day. By 11 a.m. on a cold, blustery and rainy Monday morning this week the parking lot was filling up and hundreds of people were touring the...
RHODA HAZEL CLAASSEN LINDSTROM
Rhoda Hazel Claassen Lindstrom of Shelter Bay died Sunday, April 8th, 2018 at Island Hospital following a battle with heart failure. She was 95. Rhoda was born December 26, 1922, in Akron, Ohio to Arthur and Letha Claassen. In 1942 she married Edwin... Full story
LISA DAWN WOODING
Lisa Dawn Wooding was born on October 25, 1964 in Anacortes, Washington to Bill Wooding and Kaaren Wooding Malson and was joined by siblings: sister, Kari and brother Brent Wooding a few years later. After fighting a long lingering infection Lisa... Full story
Parking problems letter
I think we can all agree that parking in La Conner, especially during special events, is a challenge, but I would like to disagree with the statement made in the “Parking Problems” Letter to the editor (April 4). At the town meeting there was dis...
Musings - on the editor's mind
Here it is, halfway through national poetry month and I have read only one poem and have not written any. Of course, neither have I drawn or painted anything or played any music or created any art of any sort. While I, like all of us, have art in my...
Earth Day every day, for our kids
Earth Day might be the most informal of our nation’s holidays. This weekend Future Fest is on in Anacortes. Special days are times to reflect on the work of our fore-parents, those that have gone before, taking chances and making stands for our own g...
'The Hollow' a solid who-done-it at Whidbey
Murder mysteries are a stock item of community theatres everywhere. The Whidbey Playhouse’s “The Hollow,” playing through April 29 displays the features of this Oak Harbor company: a large cast, good production values (costumes, lighting and set)...
Who am I? Poetry and art with a local connection
A child huddles over a paper, pencil in mouth, brow furrowed in concentration. Another child, half a world away, glides his pen rapidly, eager to jot down the thoughts, feelings and images that...
Skagit steelhead open for catch-and-release angling
A catch-and-release fishery for wild steelhead is open this week and next, April 18-22, and 25-29, for the first time since 2009 in sections of the Skagit and Sauk rivers. Fishing was allowed last weekend, following the April 12 announcement from...
