Jacques Brunisholz trading town council time for out of town time

Jacques Brunisholz once completed a demanding 500-mile hike on the famed Pacific Crest Trail. Years before he trekked across much of the globe, including a stop in Afghanistan nearly a half century ago.

But given his passion for public service it likely was harder for him to step away from the La Conner Town Council last week.

Still, the retired La Conner High School foreign language and art teacher hardly broke stride in choosing to resign his long-held council seat, a tenure begun about 2008, during the town’s famed flap over the status of a wild turkey flock it then hosted.

Brunisholz had h...