Articles from the November 29, 2017 edition
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LOIS GRABKE -- The Legacy of Mom
I received the dreadful news in the middle of the night. News I knew I could expect. All the same, it smacked me in the face. Shock. My healthy though declining – as age tends to do for us... Full story
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Holiday wish is for a Morris Street Wonderland
Perhaps Morris Street is this town’s Rodney Dangerfield, not able to get respect. Is First Street the blond muscle boy, kicking sand in scrawny Morris’s face? Morris, the street with the long ter...
Waterfront Cafe serves turkey on Thanksgiving: feeding the soul
Football is always on the menu for Thanksgiving. But, in La Conner, it’s just the appetizer. That’s because Guy and Marla Vallee and the folks at Waterfront Cafe make it possible to feast on fellowship and a free five-star turkey dinner as well. It’s...
Local ultra-marathoner still blazing trails
Exercise is just what the doctor ordered for Yvonne Naughton. It’s advice she doesn’t ignore because she literally wrote her own prescription. The 40-year-old Irish-born doctor, who had been an awa...
Breakfast with Santa Dec 2 at Maple Hall
La Conner Rotary’s own Santa, president-elect John Milnor, is once again suiting up for photos with Santa during the club’s 13th annual Santa Breakfast at Maple Hall Saturday, 8:30-11 a.m. Pet photos...
From the editor - Truth of land and water
Of all the true stories we need to hear, the one of the fragility and failing of the fishes of the Salish Sea is one of the most important and yet faintest. For fifteen weeks this fall, KNKX, public radio from Seattle, brought a variety of stories to...
Musing -- on the editor's mind
I contributed to the overflow crowd at the all school band and choir concert two weeks ago. There weren’t 76 trombone and no attempt at a parade of any size, but all 51 fifth graders were on stage at the start. That is quite an accomplishment and o...
Radio series emphasizes fragility of our Salish Sea
“Water and sky, mountain and forest, clad in sunshine and clouds, are composed in landscapes sublime in magnitude, yet exquisitely fine and fresh, and full of glad, rejoicing life.” A tender, gen...
