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Krista Sunday doesn’t have to consider getting up on weekends or any other day of the week to staff her Vintage Market on Morris Street. And she has stopped wondering if she will lose $9,000 this winter. Sunday, instead, is looking toward five days in Reno mid-month and the possibility of gaining cash at casinos there. After four-and-one-half years, she closed her consignment and used vintage goods store Friday. “Losing money is not why I come to work every day,” she said, standing behind a whi...
For over 40 years fishery biologists and other scientists have been working in collaborative efforts to improve salmon fisheries in the Skagit River. Since 2003, the Skagit River System Cooperative, a partnership between the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, has included ten governmental agencies, universities and non-profit organizations in its efforts. A cooperative in name but not in organizational structure, the SRSC started in 1976 with a third Washington treaty tribe, the Upper Skagit. Steve Hinton,...
Elevated levels of Paralytic Shellfish Toxin (Red Tide) have been found in several recreational harvest locations throughout Skagit County. In response, the Washington State Department of Health closed Fidalgo, Padilla and Samish Bays and Guemes Channel south to Rosario Head, including Guemes, Burrows and Allan islands to recreational shellfish harvesting Sept. 28. The expanded closure was announced Friday. These areas are closed until additional sampling indicates toxin levels have declined. Early symptoms of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning...
Dolores and John retired to Shelter Bay in 1992. She loved gardening and boating and she was a great 1st Mate. John and Dolores were charter members of the Shelter Bay Yacht Club. She loved to travel, and Hawaii and Arizona were a few of her favorites from her world travels. Dolores was a member of the Ann Carlson Orthopedic Guild, Seattle Ryther and the Ballard Elks Emblem Club. Dolores is survived by her spouse John, daughter Karen (Malcolm) Unseth, son John F Bratland, grandson Matthew (Christena) Unseth, 2 great-granddaughters, sisters...
Science is hard to understand and even when people know the facts, they don’t act, explains Skagit County Science Consortium Director Carol MacIlroy. Her Seattle house is on an earthquake fault, yet she has not reinforced it. “Climate change has created a lot on anxiety in the public, with all this information but people don’t know what to do about it,” she says. Art might offer an entry in. Thus “Surge,” opening at the Museum of Northwest Art Sat. at 10 a.m. From “a sense of curiosity” fr...
I have had the distinct pleasure of meeting and working with Rosemary Kaholokula through our mutual participation in Rotary I initially met Rosemary while searching for a district youth protection officer in my role as the Rotary District 5050 chair of the youth services committee. Our mission was to re-write the youth protection policy and then enforcing it among the 56-plud clubs in the district. This included training on the policy with the sole purpose being to protect all children that our members encounter. Rosemary is the right...
I would like to send prayers and blessings to our wonderful Mayor, Ramon Hayes and his family and send wishes for a speedy recovery. Love, Jean Wedin...
So, there it goes, the silt we need for building our dike, out to deep water, five million dollars away from where it should have went. Yep, enough money could have been saved, to pay for the water line, but what the heck, it’s only a debt that our kids will pay. Nope, no matter how much I begged and prayed the agencies, county and port, couldn’t get a permit to recycle it, I’m just out of touch and in the way. I’d wished to be a property owner, and live here full time one day, but this here lunacy makes me realize that a smart sentien...
Sometimes you have to face the truth. Sometimes reality is really real. Sometimes the evidence is indisputable. As Thoreau wrote, “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” Sometimes rants and screeds are necessary. The Supreme Court has never been nonpartisan and seldom on the side of the common person. There’s why it is called supreme. It is the court of final appeal to save the hides of the ruling class. The Court did that in 1857 when it ruled that Dred Scott would be returned to slavery. In 1881...
Citizens will have an opportunity to hear the 28 District 1 freeholder candidates at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at a forum at Maple Hall organized by the La Conner Weekly News. This article finishes the responses candidates made to three questions posed to them in September. The first two questions and candidate responses are in the Sept 19 and 26 Weekly News. The earlier questions: What will be your chief contribution to making the process of developing the charter successful? What is the one key factor that qualifies you to be a freeholder? Below are the...
It’s international Co-op month. Here in the United States and around the world people are recognizing cooperatives as humane economic engines in their communities. Co-ops mean, fundamentally, “I belong.” To their members, co-ops mean “I matter” and “I count.” Co-ops are owned by their members, whether it is the fairly small Anacortes Food Co-op or the gargantuan Boeing Employees Credit Union, BECU. Everyone in a co-op belongs because each person made the choice to join. Everyone matters because co-op members own equal shares of the business....
Sy Montgomery took this call on her friend’s cell phone in a car somewhere in the San Francisco Bay area. She is on a book tour promoting “How to Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals,” her twenty-first. Her favorite animal is Thurber, her border collie “with a big stripe down his face like a lightning bolt down in front of his nose and a blind eye,” she says. Why? “He has taught me that no matter how hopeless things look there could be a miracle around the corner,” she said. Montgom...
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso It is a rainy, Sunday afternoon. The sky is the color of metal but there is one place along Morris street that stands out, lit up with its colorful pots of cheerful flowers and its turquoise trimmed porch. It is The LUX, the new arts center at 603 Morris Street. Rebecca Strong, its creative director, is getting ready for a new art opening. She assists the two local artists, Janet Laurel and Barbara Silverm...
