Articles from the May 23, 2018 edition
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10th Biennial Poetry Festival a hit
La Conner, flooded with poets and students from eight area school districts, hosted the 10th Biennial Skagit Valley Poetry Festival last weekend. The Poets Table Soiree kicked off the event Thursday...
School District names and dedicates 'Bruce Performing Arts Center'
Tim Bruce was back on the La Conner School District campus last Wednesday. Some 50 friends, colleagues and past school board members came to cheer and applaud as School Board President Kate Szurek announced, “it is with great appreciation that we...
Thanks for food donations
To La Conner Food Bank Friends: Over 3,400 pounds a week. That is how much food your neighborhood food bank distributes to families each Monday. That is why the 905pounds of donations, through the post office’s Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, were so...
Great Guitar Festival
What a fantastic, well prepared, fun event Shirley and Brent brought to La Conner! This event brought the nicest, coolest people to town! Thank you Shirley and Brent from all of us at La Conner Pub & Eatery. Julie Lennartz...
First Street Tribe property ideas
How sad that the Tribe has not cleaned up their eyesore property on 1st Street. Apparently, they have no interest in developing its commercial value. Why not partner with the Town of La Conner in developing some kind of Tribal cultural park? Provide...
Shabbat service and thanks
Shalom Circle is a liberal Jewish Community founded and co-led by Cantor Miriam Fein and Simme Bobrosky. We share spirited services, classes and festival celebrations. Our gatherings are filled with song, story, ritual and fellowship. Together we...
Musings -- on the editor's mind
The Skagit River Poetry Festival was nigh, and so the volunteers came, fluttering in, silently, unsung, no trumpets, just a steady trudging from one venue to another. They planted signs of poetry, literally, and an occasional feather left in a room,...
Gatherings brought voices offering blessings and truths
Last week art, ceremony and truth telling were ongoing in our little town. Significant voices spoke on both sides of the Swinomish Channel. On the Reservation Thursday the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community welcomed everyone to a luncheon feast and...
Swinomish photographer Matika Wilbur brings her journey to Shelter Bay
In a stirring and powerful presentation at the Shelter Bay clubhouse last Saturday, Matika Wilbur shared her vision and her ongoing quest “To Change the Way We See Native America” with over 80 people, primarily Shelter Bay residents and family...
La Conner Elementary students take victory laps
Call it a win-win situation. La Conner Elementary students raised money for supplemental learning materials and classroom supplies while getting exercise at Whittaker Field Friday afternoon. It was...
Blessed event: Swinomish host annual salmon celebration
What’s old is new again. And, in the case of the Swinomish Tribal Community’s Blessing of the Fleet and First Salmon Ceremony last Thursday, it was a case of perfect timing. Ideal weather...