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For the Class of 2018, it was one last time to enjoy the moment. Still, in that moment – one extending over a two-hour period – La Conner High seniors alternately reflected fondly upon the past while guardedly taking measure of the future ahead. The school’s annual Commencement Exercises last Thursday drew a large audience to Landy James Gymnasium and featured a program that elicited both tears and cheers. In short, there was something for one and all. Valedictorian Emma Lee, r...
I went to Vancouver, Canada Thursday to preview “Cabin Fever,” now open at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Read the article on page five. It was the most different day I have had in the Pacific Northwest since I moved here. The $44 (Canadian) parking fee was the least of it. There were all those people out on the streets downtown. It seemed that more were on one block than in all of La Conner. And all of them were walking. The very noticeable demographics of the population jumped out: all sexes, ages and colors and different clothing styles and lan...
Fish issues have been completed by John Doyle this past week and painting/sealing will begin next week. Stop by over the next several days, take a slide and it will be ready for all to use real soon. We are sorry for any inconvenience and we are looking forward to having the Fish ready for the summer. Ollie Iversen La Conner Parks Commission...
Monday the Swinomish Golf Links closed so repairs to the course’s greens could begin. The course is owned by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Its Chairman, Brian Cladoosby, said “Because of the actions of an individual or individuals, a golf course that is enjoyed by many residents, starting today, will be shut down for a period of time, to be determined, for the tearing up of all 18 greens and replacing them with sod.” Sometime in late mid-May at least two people systematically spray...
This is an election year, for newly turned 18 year olds and the rest of us older than 18. Besides political offices, constitutional and charter amendments will be on the ballot, if each collects the required signatures. That’s the reason they are called “initiatives.” In this state, relatively late to join the union, 1889, the constitutional founders took their fellow citizens seriously, respecting them, and did not “in any way limit the initiative and referendum powers reserved by the people.” That is the sole sentence of the first section a...
Todd Hinderman, Steve DeLeon and Ari Landworth, science teachers at La Conner’s high and elementary schools, are regional winners in the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge. Sponsored by Shell Oil Company and administered by the National Science Teachers Association, the competition encouraged K-12 science teachers who have found innovative ways to deliver quality lab experiences with limited school and laboratory resources, to share their approaches for a chance to win a school science lab m...
“When I first heard about returning to Japan, I wanted to say two prayers. The first – to forgive the Japanese for the way the POWs were treated; the second – to pray for my friends who suffered and died there. The starvation, long hours of working in the mines, the beatings and other sufferings were just plain unimaginable. All of these memories were brought back to life as I stood in front of the Hosokura mine for the first time in seventy years. As I prayed my entire body shook an...
The Vancouver Art Gallery’s “Cabin Fever” is a celebration of the cabin as an icon in the United States and Canada. The large exhibit does a captivating job of presenting the cabin as a visual art piece that has shaped our countries and our cultures. Much as barns, cabins represent the homestead and exploratory aspects of westward movement. While the barn represents stability of place, the cabin represents temporary shelter during migration and search for home. One of the first pieces in the show takes up an entire room. It consists of a large...
Some artists realize their roles as canaries in our coal mines. Others pass. Robert McCauley told how he volunteers for the job, sharing his prophecies with an attentive audience of 25 Saturday, as his exhibit, “American Fiction” was about to close after 10 weeks at the Museum of Northwest Art. McCauley, a Mount Vernon native whose father and grandfather logged the Cascades, uses his art, as a prophet, informing viewers that we are out of chances as well as resources. Reviewing slides of paintings in and out of the exhibit, he shared his per...
