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Two hundred people sang, prayed and rallied at March Point, marching for an “Oil Free Salish Sea” Saturday, Oct. 7, a cold, rainy day. “This is to open people’s hearts, eyes, and spirit – to break from fossil fuels,” said Ronald Day from Swinomish, one of the organizers of the event. The scent of cedar, sage, sweet grass, and tobacco gently fanned with an Eagle feather mingled with the sounds of fuel-thirsty traffic on Highway 20. Environmentalists, activists, Greenpeace, kayaktivi...
Hunger often goes unnoticed. Some ration their food to make it last. For others, it could just be another day without eating. People in this predicament benefit from donated groceries and other household items. Brenda Williams is a Swinomish tribal member who knows that more food will benefit her community. She has developed a long-term project that will help provide a solution to hunger on her Reservation. Following in her mother’s, and community leader, Susan Wilbur’s footsteps, Williams organ...
Yes. It is worth the drive to Langley to see three very good teen actors and a good supporting cast in “The Fantasticks.” Annika Hustad, as Luisa, in particular, has an expressive face ranging from naive cuteness to cynical weariness. Her voice is equally impressive. Liam Henry (El Gallo) brings a deep voice and a quiet bandit’s bravado to his role. Austin Moorehouse’s Matt pairs well with his peers, especially in the duet “I can See It” with El Gallo. The supporting cast are fine elders. The dads plot, thinking they can control the future, but...
The mad experiment of bringing Mel Brooke’s “Young Frankenstein” to life is a great success at Anacortes Community Theatre. Using wires, electricity and make up, the production brilliantly recreates Marty Feldman’s Igor (channeled by Tim Brown) and Gene Wilder’s Frederick Frankenstein (Stu Marshall, clone). This live version of the 1974 movie is much bawdier: both the script and the castle’s door knockers are explicitly sexual. “Deep Love,” sung by Elisabeth (broadly played and well sung by Eva Nelson) and the Monster (the hugely successf...
The greatest co-op ever seems to be the La Conner Co-op Preschool. Lori Buher’s sentiment was shared by every person asked to comment. “One of the most important parts for me and a lot of the moms was the friendships we developed among ourselves and the support we gave each other. It was nice to have other people to talk to about raising your kids. We made lifelong friendships and it’s the same with the kids: a lot of lifelong friendships.” Buher’s three children attend-ed between 1987 and 1994,...
The bullets rained down on Las Vegas, and tears flowed in La Conner. In a terrible twist of fate, the tragic mass shooting of outdoor concert-goers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival inflicted painful wounds here as well. Among the 58 innocents killed as a result of Stephen Paddock’s horrific rampage was 31-year-old Carrie Parsons, recently engaged in Hawaii to Randall Alvord, whose dad, Doug, co-owns the La Conner Brewing Company, on First Street with his wife, Pam. Parsons, from Bainbridge Island, worked in Seattle at a staffing agency. She was...
