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Hooray! Yeah, I’m happy to see and read the recent communications between community members and members of leadership in this sweet little seaside town. Thank you to Brian and Whitney for your letter to us, the readers of La Conner Weekly News. Thank you, Mr. Stern, for doing your best at putting us locals in your heart. Your job has not been easy, you’ve learned a lot, as I’m sure you will continue to do. I appreciate your ability to put up with a person as prickly as me, it says a lot about the patience of you.

Lots of us are doing good things, yet it still seems like we have much to do. We are an amazing community, as diverse as any around, sometimes we struggle to understand what’s going on, so any time I read what’s been well written that brings some clarity to our confusion, I’m happy; Hooray!

With that, let’s agree to work together on our most pressing issues. The ring dike must come before the library is built in harm’s way. The water line needs to be prioritized also, probably before that elevator repair in Maple Hall. It is a very expensive project, as they all are.

But then who am I, just a guy with a wish to get our community to come together to teach our kids how to raise fish, for ourselves and the Orcas also. There’s no good reason why we shouldn’t and there’s certainly no reason why we couldn’t, the kids in Onalaska, Washington have been doing it for years!

Us ‘La Connerites’ should be embarrassed by the ‘smeltless’ smelt derby, and the’ salmonless’ channel, especially since we have the infrastructure already built, but then that’s just another opinion by me, a fantastical fantasizer of futures full of fish, friends, fine food and drink, not to mention music in the streets.

Your ‘prothetic’ poet,

Glen S. Johnson