Islands' Weekly, September 02, 2014

by Rhea MillerSpecial to the Weekly

Dan Post is best known as the former owner/driver of Lopez Freight, although he is also a Port of Lopez commissioner of 20 years; the fellow trying to save the cannon at Odlin Park; the father of four children; and a faithful member of the Community Church. What people may not know is that, even in retirement, Dan “keeps on truckin’.”

When asked when he first decided to get his com-mercial driver’s license, he responded, “I was the new owner of Lopez Freight and needed a CDL to function. I gave myself the test and signed myself off, since the owner of the company could

do that in those days.” That was the beginning of about 20 years hauling freight for Lopez citizens. Today Dan volunteers to drive the Lopez Solid Waste Disposal District truck hauling our recyclables and garbage to the mainland. “I love driv-ing trucks. It is relaxing and takes my stress away. The best part of it is rid-ing the ferry, and talking to different people. I was riding the ferry about 300 times a year while trucking for Lopez Freight. I wander around the ferry and just sit down and talk with different folks.”

Born on Blakely Island, he spent most of his early childhood years living

by the Sounder Staff

The state’s taxable retail sales totals grew to $27.3 billion in the first quarter of 2014 – Jan. 1 to March 31 – recording a 4.9 per-cent increase over the same period in 2013.

Retail trade, a subset of total taxable retail sales, rose 2.4 percent to $12.3 bil-

lion. The results come from a quarterly report released by the Washington State Department of Revenue of taxable retail sales by indus-try. The report compares the first quarters of 2014 to 2013, which equalizes any seasonal effects of consum-er purchasing habits.

Taxable sales were up in

many sectors:• Construction of build-

ings – 6.1 percent• Furniture and home

furnishings – 6.4 percent• New and used auto

sales – 6.9 percent• E-commerce and mail

order sales – 18.9 percentSome sectors saw a small

decline, including depart-ment store purchases, which dropped 9.5 percent over the first three months of 2013.

This week, the Weekly is running a guest column from San Juan Auditor Milene Henley. (Read more on page 8). She wrote that county revenue out-per-formed both history and expectation in the first half of 2014. Two areas in partic-ular suggest real economic

recovery: real estate and retail trade/tourism.

Real estate activity shows in two ways: increased appli-cations for building permits and land use planning and increased real estate sales.

The sharp drop-off in per-mitting revenue expected after the CAO implementa-tion date did not happen.

Applications slowed to a more normal pace, but remained active enough to suggest that overall activity in Community Development and Planning will beat pro-jection by 40 percent.

Real estate sales also continue to improve. Both number and dollar amount of real estate sales in the second quarter far exceeded the same period last year. As a result, real estate excise

taxes on the sale of property far exceeded expectations in the second quarter.

The San Juan County Land Bank is already at 70 percent of 2014 budget, and is likely to exceed budget by 50 percent or more.

The other type of county revenue that was markedly up through the second quar-

ter of 2014 is sales tax. “We tend to associate

sales tax with visitors and the money they drop while they’re here,” Henley wrote. “But we all pay sales tax year-round, and the increase in sales tax even in the win-ter months this year sug-gests that it’s not just tour-ists spending more money.”

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Community Foundation’s matching program reaches $31,000

The San Juan Community Foundation’s matching pro-gram generated more than $31,000 in donations during

the four-day run of the San Juan County Fair.

Under the program, the foundation matched up to 50 percent of each of the eight separate non-profits repre-sented through the program and their respective project goals, for a total of $44,000 in donations generated at the fair.

At the conclusion of the fair, 2-year-old Gabby Baisch of Friday Harbor reached into a glass jar at the Foundation’s booth that contained names of everyone that made a

donation, and drew the name of Allen Rosenberg. In turn, Rosenberg chose Islands Oil Spill Association as recipient of a $1,000 bonus donation from the Foundation.

Recipients of the Foundation matching pro-gram donations, and respec-tive projects, are:

• Friday Harbor Animal Protection Society: a new ani-mal shelter

• Islands’ Oil Spill Association: a new supply trailer

• Museum of History & Industry: exhibit expansion project

• Community Foundation: Scholarship Fund

• Islands’ Museum of Art: new building

• Family Resource Center:

mentoring program• Community Foundation

Women’s Fund: membership drive

• Friday Harbor Band Families & Friends: musical instrument repair and acqui-sition

For info visit, www.sjicf.org.

Two car collision on Bailer Hill Road

At 4:55 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, a two-vehicle collision occurred on Bailer Hill Road north of Kanaka Bay Road resulting in minor injuries to a Friday Harbor woman.

The collision occurred when a Subaru Forrester was attempting to turn into a driveway on Bailer Hill, and the driver failed to see an oncoming car.

As the Subaru began to turn, it collided with the left side of a Ford Fusion. The Fusion left the road and struck a tree. The driver of

the Fusion was transported to the hospital by ambulance. The driver of the Subaru was cited for failure to yield right of way.

Two SJ Islands’ crab fishing areas open past Labor Day

Two areas near the San Juan Islands will remain open for recreational crab fishing while all others in the Puget Sound region will close at sunset on Labor Day (Sept. 1), with summer catch reports due by mid-night Oct. 1. The only two areas of the Sound that will remain open to crab fishing after Labor Day are marine areas 7-North and 7-South near the San Juan Islands. Sport fishers who crab in those two areas after Sept. 1 must record their catch on winter catch record cards.

All sport fishers licensed to

fish for Dungeness crab any-where in Puget Sound have through Oct. 1 to submit summer catch reports to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).

“Catch reports play a major role in determining how much crab is still avail-able for harvest during the winter season,” said Rich Childers, WDFW’s shellfish policy lead. “It’s important that we receive reports from everyone licensed to fish for crab in Puget Sound – wheth-er or not they caught crab this year.”

Childers said WDFW will announce winter crab sea-sons for Puget Sound in early October, after completing its assessment of the summer fishery.

Crabbers can submit catch record cards to WDFW by mail at CRC Unit, 600 Capitol Way N., Olympia, WA 98501-1091. They can also report their catch online at https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov/wdfw/puget_sound_crab_catch.html from Sept. 2 through Oct. 1.

Crabbers who fail to file their catch reports on time will face a $10 fine when they purchase a 2015 Puget Sound crab endorsement.

Sport crabbers who fish for Dungeness crab in any area of Puget Sound after Sept. 1 must record their harvest on winter catch record cards, Childers said. Winter cards, which are free to those with crab endorse-ments, are available at sport-ing goods stores and other license vendors across the state.

For more info, see http://wdfw.wa.gov/.

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TUES, SEPT 2DANCE: West Coast Swing, 6 p.m., Lopez Center, $12. Anthony a former music video choreographer/dancer will be hosting a four-week West Coast

Swing session. No partner necessary. All levels wel-come. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org.

THURS, SEPT 4OUTDOORS: Coffee with the birds, 9:30 a.m. - 11 p.m.,

Spencer Spit State Park at the Nature Center. Bring your coffee mug; we’ll supply the fresh brewed coffee, cream, and sweet-ener! (Hot chocolate for the kids). We’ll enjoy a slideshow of birds found on Spencer Spit, and then explore the marsh, shore-line, and forest in search of birds. Led by Spencer Spit Interpretive Hosts Eric Setterberg and Laurel Vukovic.

TUES, SEPT 9MEETING: Enchanted Quilters Join us for our first meet-ing of the year! 9:30 am coffee & goodies 10 am Program : Drawing for the winners of the raf-fle quilts; “Bring a Shoebox (or equivalent)): Take a Box” Fill your box with community quilt fabric. Find out the details at the meeting. Get inspired wit our “Show and Tell’ quilts! Everyone is welcome.

THURS, SEPT 11MEETING: Lopez Island Garden Club , Woodmen Hall on Fisherman Bay Road. Program: Judy Jackson, Field Coordinator for the San Juan County Noxious Weed Control Board, presents “Noxious Weeds – Identification, Methods of Control, Prevention, and Removal”. The Garden Club is partic-ipating in making noxious weed awareness a commu-nity-wide commitment.

Hours: Monday, Wednesday - Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.Community

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Lopez IslandAA Meetings:

Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterWednesdays - 4 p.m. - Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal ChurchSaturdays - noon at the Children’s CenterCall 468-2809

Al-Anon:Saturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, Lopez.Call 468-4703.

Lopez Business HoursGalley

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Breakfast Daily 8:30 a.m. - 11 a.m.

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Southend RestaurantOpen Everyday12 p.m. - 8 p.m.

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SAT, SEPT 13Chimera Gallery reception for Summer Moon Scriver, Iris Graville, and Sheila Simpson-Creps, 5 - 7 p.m. Their show “Re-Vision” runs through October 10th; don’t miss it! And join in celebration of their works at the reception. Chimera Cooperative Gallery, Village Plaza, 468-3265. .ChimeraGallery.com.


By Steve UlviSpecial to the Weekly

Most of us find indescrib-able solace in the mysteries of the natural world.

We seek rejuvenation in the suspension of human clock-time in favor of natu-ral sensory time. Time out rekindles our sense of humility and respect for the larger community of life to which we are linked. If only for a moment, a sunset, a week or perhaps a lifetime.

Immersion experiences in wild places—“breaking the suction of town”—can run the gamut—tranquil-ity, exhausting climbs, wading swollen creeks, the endless play of light and clouds, pitch darkness, hun-kering under a tarp in a downpour, darkness, senses heightened and evidence all around of the ephemeral nature of life.

Our reverie is sometimes overcome by imaginary and very real fears that release hard-wired reptilian brain-stem reactions.

Let’s pause our har-ried lives and celebrate the 50-year anniversary of a unique social construct; The Wilderness Act of 1964, a profound idea born in the crucible of American hyper-development and social upheaval in the post-WWII boom years. Places preserv-ing solitude, natural sounds and a tactile sense of the “forest primeval” were dis-appearing as quickly as Bob Marshall’s prosaic “snow bank in August.”

My first serious brush

with designated wilderness came in a week-long sum-mer backpacking hump through the Desolation Wilderness in the Sierras.

Shouldering a heavy bor-rowed pack, a short fishing pole, plenty of granola and brown rice, haiku and Gary Snyder paperbacks, my four outdoorsy teenage pals and I crossed the high Sierras under our own power. Exuberant souls stripped bare by the awesome pow-ers of the natural world.

Like the billowing after-noon thunderstorms that slammed our granite world that week, my life’s course was profoundly altered by flashes of hope and ener-gized aspirations. I badly needed the confidence of primitive self-reliance. I knew that I had to turn the clock back to a simpler time and live counter to main-stream culture.

After years of backpack-ing all over the West, while living among the “madding crowd,” an insatiable child-hood itch landed my com-panions and I in Interior Alaska in 1974 to hand-build cabins and live on the fabled Yukon River.

Enthralling tales of grit and perseverance from the pages of Service, London and others leapt into multi-dimensional reality by lamp light. A winter-dominant landscape of unimaginably vast taiga, emitting the bare-ly discernible deep thrum of primeval quiet.

My foolish notions and fantasies faded. There,

small outposts of humanity are surrounded by vast wild landscapes, opposite the proportion of the “civiliza-tion” of my upbringing.

The Wilderness Act was the direct result of a key association of America’s most forward-thinking adventurers and advocates for voiceless nature who formed the Wilderness Society. They understood the future of rampant, front-country development, uncertainty in industrial roading and logging within public parks and forests, and fought to preserve some measure of wildness.

The key definition for designated wilderness, which only Congress would forever be able to designate or take away, is elegantly simple: “A wilder-ness, in contrast with those

Guest Column

The mysteries of the world

Contributed photo

Steve Ulvi

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Aug. 13: A deputy con-tacted a homeowner on San Juan Island concern-ing a reported trespass-ing. A male subject came to the property to discuss an alleged problem, which could not be proven.

• A deputy responded to a reported act of van-dalism. After the investiga-tion it was determined the damage to the car window was caused by flying debris from a weed eater.

• Deputies responded to the area of the fair-grounds in Friday Harbor on a reported dog bite and aggressive dogs. Deputies had to deploy a taser at the dog as he rushed toward the deputy. The animal was not injured.

Aug. 15: A deputy responded to a report of a stolen vehicle on Orcas Island. The vehicle was recovered a day later. No suspects at this time.

• A deputy responded to a reported residential bur-glary on San Juan Island. Prescription medications were reported missing.

Aug. 16: A deputy responded to a reported altercation at the golf course on Lopez Island. Two male subjects were allegedly involved in a physical altercation. When the deputy arrived nei-ther party wanted to press charges against the other.

• A deputy responded to a reported burglary at the Orcas Elementary School. The school building was entered by unknown

means and then several interior doors were pried open. Further investigation is required.

• A deputy responded to a parking problem. While en route to the location the deputy received informa-tion that the vehicle was a stolen vehicle. It was recov-ered and towed.

Aug. 17: Deputies responded to a reported assault on Lopez Island. When they arrived, the suspect had left the area. The suspect had knocked on the door and then, with-out permission, entered the residence. When asked to leave by the prop-erty owner, the suspect “shoved him” and then left. Deputies attempted to locate the unidentified sus-pect without success.

Aug. 18: While a deputy was conducting a check of the Orcas School grounds with a member of the mainte-nance staff, they discovered the band room door had been pried open and a com-puter was taken. This contin-ues the series of burglaries at the school grounds.

• A deputy responded to the Outlook Inn wedding chapel area on the report-ed theft of a generator. The investigation is ongoing.

•A Lopez deputy responded to the call of an animal problem. A dog escaped its enclosure and then chased and report-edly bit another dog. The owners of both animals engaged in a verbal dis-pute.

Sheriff’s log

on Spencer Spit before it became a state park. Kate and Ray Spencer were his aunt and uncle, and most of the time his sister and he had the whole beach to themselves.

His father was a commer-cial gillnetter and he spent lots of time at MacKaye Harbor when it was a vibrant fishing port. He would take

Dan out fishing as early as Dan can remember. Dan has gillnetted locally now for 30 years and plans to con-tinue many more. “I taught all my kids about gillnetting and am sad but kind of glad that none have taken it up. Fishing is poor this year but next year is the big year.”

Dan went to Lopez School from first through twelfth grade. Dan joined the Army at 18 and served 16 years as a soldier, including three years in Korea, and various locations across the U.S. He

then followed with six more years for the Army as a civil-ian at Rock Island Arsenal, Iowa. His job was to shoot guns all day, testing weapons before turning them over to the army. “It was a great job,” says Dan with a smile.

He returned to Lopez, needed a job, and noticed that Gary Berg was selling the freight business. He bought the business and he and his wife Linda raised four children on the island, three of whom graduated from Lopez High School, and the fourth homeschooled and graduated through what was then Lopez’s indepen-dent school program. He has two and a half grandkids--“one is in the hopper,” as he says. His daughter Rachel is teaching first grade at the Lopez school, Danny is in the Army at Ft. Riley as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot,

oldest son Jim works for Lowe's Hardware in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Ed works for Rockwell Collins also in Cedar Rapids.

Dan volunteers a lot in the community, from doing maintenance work at the airport to driving recy-clables and garbage to the mainland – for free. Why does he do these things? “It makes me feel good,” says Dan without hesita-tion. “I've been trying to get the county to be more cost effective for 20 years, back when Neil first started working at the dump. The county was never coopera-tive. Now, with the Lopez Solid Waste Disposal District, I can drive truck, help the dump be more cost efficient, and further recy-cling.”

And the Lopez commu-nity is glad of it.

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Norma & Richard Peal

Norma and Richard Peal met in kin-dergarten—Eldorado, Kansas, 1937—but their romance took forever to bud…well, till eighth grade, anyway. “He was cutting up and making fun, and I took a book and hit him over the head with it,” says Norma. Marriage was inevitable.

Actually, Richard had noticed Norma while baling hay on her dad’s farm. A year out of high school, the couple married and entered junior college. Richard finished up at Kansas State with an electrical engineer-ing degree, while Norma worked in the student counseling office, and life began to accelerate.

In 1954, a job with RCA brought the Peals to Camden, New Jersey. That same year, their first child arrived, and Richard was informed of his impending draft. The Peals decided that Richard would volunteer rather than wait, and Norma returned to Kansas to live with her parents, for support with their baby daughter.

Luckily, Richard’s first orders after basic training were to Fort Monmouth, back in New Jersey, where Norma and the baby could join him. But in short order, Richard’s engineering skills got him assigned to a mis-

sile guidance course in Huntsville, Alabama, so the young family headed there.

In 1957, Alabama was a bit of a shock. On Memorial Day, the Peals decided to visit the military cemetery to pay their respects and “see the pretty flowers on the graves,” Norma says. “There wasn’t a flower in the cemetery. We came back home and told our landlord, and he said, ‘That’s a g-d Yankee holiday. We don’t do that in the South.’” “It was an education,” Richard muses. “Nice people, but…if you came from the North, you were never ‘in.’” The couple was relieved to be sent back to New Jersey after a few months (though they did develop a taste for barbeque). Norma had their second child; Richard became a missile instructor.

The Cold War was a great employer. In 1956, Boeing offered Richard a job in Wichita working on the Bomarc missile, close to home. Although the Bomarc was never produced, Richard found work inte-grating new technology into B-52s and proposing designs for other new Boeing aircraft. Norma’s job: two new daughters.

In 1962, thanks to Boeing, the Peals became Northwesterners. After a brief stint in Federal Way, the family moved to a neigh-borhood in Bellevue. Other Midwesterners

lived there, so the Peals felt right at home. They had barbecues; their kids played soc-cer. The northwest offered “so much to see and do,” Norma says. When the pos-sibility arose of moving back to Kansas, Richard laughs, “Norma says, ‘If you go back to Wichita, that’s fine, but send money and write—in that order.’” Washington was home. “My hay fever completely disap-peared!” Norma adds. In the 1980s, she worked as an assistant to the elderly, then kept books for a Japanese petrochemical company.

Lopez entered the Peals’ lives via Jean and Phil Weinheimer, who invited them for a visit. “It’s kind of a Kansas culture,”

says Richard. “The pony farm was here, over a hundred ponies…it felt like stepping out of Bellevue into Kansas.” They found a place by the water near the ferry, and spent all their free time improving it. When Richard retired in 1996, the Peals became full-timers.

Classic Lopezian “retirees,” Norma and Richard threw themselves into volunteering. Richard became site manager for construc-tion of Lopez Community Center, among other jobs. Norma developed programs for the Garden Club, then got involved with the Thrift Shop. Noticing how often other volunteers missed their shifts, Norma made herself coordinator, with true Midwestern efficiency. The task could be exhausting. “I’d start calling around five o’clock,” she says. “Sometimes you’d have to call six, eight people a night,” trying to fill a shift. For years, “I donated my time every night, watching her call,” Richard deadpans. “It’s just amazing how many volunteers there are on this island,” he adds. “It just grabs you.”

The payoff for all those hours comes on July Fourth, when the Peal family drives the Thrift Shop T-shirt truck in the parade. Those hurled T-shirts you try to catch, stomping some poor tourist family in the process? Each one has been rolled and bagged by Norma. Twenty-five T-shirts to a bag, the truck bed three-deep in bags. How many shirts total? The Peals estimate close


San Juan County Human Services Transportation Plan Update Request for Proposals

San Juan County is seeking letter proposals to update our Human Services Transportation Plan (HSTP) in compliance with Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) requirements. The County is seeking a qualified Consultant to submit a letter proposal presenting an efficient approach to updating our HSTP with limited funding that focuses specifically on the needs of persons with disabilities, older adults and individuals with lower incomes within San Juan County. With an updated HSTP, the County will be able to apply to continue applying for funds that improve transportation services for the targeted populations to effectively coordinate transportation resources. All consultant applications shall be evaluated on the following:

1. Demonstrated ability to successfully complete a HSTP, particularly in Washington State

2. Experience working in San Juan County

3. Knowledge of the transportation issues and challenges associated with the targeted populations in San Juan County

4. Approach to updating the HSTP and leveraging available funds and resources to obtain Final Draft by November 2014, including tabulation of level of effort per task and list of recommended stakeholders

5. List of references knowledgeable of quality of work in similar areas

The County will provide GIS/graphics assistance and facilitate public meetings.

Please submit one electronic copy of your letter Proposal with a maximum page limit of 6 pages (three double-sided pages), in addition to a cover letter that lists your business license with the state, a list of references and project schedule to:

Christopher Aiken, Mobility ManagerSan Juan County Health and Community [email protected]

All submittals must be received by Wednesday, September 17, 2014 . No submittals will be accepted after that date and time. Any questions regarding this project should be directed to Christopher Aiken (360) 370-7512.Subsequent phone interviews may be required with successful applicants. Successful applicants must also be able to meet all County contracting requirements.San Juan County encourages disadvantaged, minority, and women-owned consultant firms to respond. San Juan County assumes no obligations of any kind for expenses incurred by any respondent to this invitation.

Spotlight on Lopezians

by Gretchen Wing

Contributed photos

Left: Norma and Richard Peal’s wedding. Right: The Peal family.

SEE SPOTLIGHT, PAGE 6

where man and his own works dominate the land-scape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visi-tor who does not remain”.

Wilderness areas (some 750 areas in 44 states) are a unique “geography of hope” within the American landscape. We now know that most areas are smallish islands of scenic, high eleva-tion “rock and ice” limited in biological richness and diversity. Not so in the huge and uniquely Alaskan areas created in 1980.

The complex histories of millennia of human use and occupation there still unfolds along side mod-ern recreational pursuits. There, the immutable laws of mountains, glacier ice, rushing rivers, endless for-est, lashing storms, danger-ous wildlife and gritty physi-cal challenges reign.

Danger makes you dig deep.

I have felt the dank breathe of the Pleistocene raising the hairs on my neck thousands of times in the wilds of the West and Alaska. I trust that you too feel deeply indebted to wild places.

— Editor’s note: Steve Ulvi worked on the management team for the 7.1 million acre Gates of the Arctic National

Park Wilderness in Alaska for more than 15 years before retiring in 2006. He and his wife are finishing a self-built homestead on San Juan Island. Ulvi’s previous guest column, published July 2 by the Journal, pg. 7, is entitled, “A little humility; good place to start.”

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Carol Weiss, MALicensed Marriage and

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For many of us who haven’t spent our entire lives on Lopez Island, it is difficult to imagine the island without its vibrant, artistic community.

Seattle ar tist Phil Fagerholm grew up on

Lopez in the 1950s when farming and fishing seemed to be the only two career options available to him. Phil began taking art les-sons at Solymar [Sun & Sea], an art studio estab-lished in 1950 by Bruce and Jane Johnston. The studio building still stands today just north of Islands Marine

Center on Fisherman Bay. Phil realized that he wanted to become an artist and as soon as he was able, he said he left Lopez and “never looked back”.

The Johnstons, both rec-ognized Seattle artists, set up Solymar as a weaving and design studio, offer-ing one week workshops

which included accommo-dations. Course instruc-tions were offered in color; design; weaving; dyeing; drawing and composition. Their workshop brochure stated that their instruction “aims at widening the visual experience of the individual and at directing his work toward sound contempo-rary result”. Course tuition for the week was $25.00 plus a small supplies fee.

Bruce Johnston, born in Pennsylvania in 1905, was a craftsman and painter. He was known in the Northwest as a designer and a weaver of fabric for clothing. In 1949 he had an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. The Otto Seligman Gallery in Seattle featured his weav-ing in May 1956.

Jane Givan Johnston, born in Seattle in 1909, was featured in an article titled “Icons for the Home” in a Seattle Times Sunday Pacific Northwest Living magazine in the late 1950s. Her chosen subjects, saints and Madonnas are strik-ingly similar to works cre-ated today by Lopez art-ist Tamara Shane. The Johnstons gathered drift-wood, stones, shells and moss for the icons.

Jane was a designer (costume; textile; fash-ion illustrator), painter (Japanese brush painting, decorative painting in tem-pera), decorator and flow-er arranger. She studied at Cornish Art School in Seattle and later taught at the school.

Living as artists on Lopez, Bruce and Jane Johnston were a little ahead of their time and were not well-received by the small island farming and fishing community. They remained at Solymar on Lopez until at least 1958 and then moved to Port Townsend.

While working at the Lopez Island Historical Museum for twenty four years, I never came across any information about the two artists. After I left the museum, fellow his-torians and founders of Orcas Island’s Crow Valley Pottery, Richard Schneider and Bud McBride, began sending me bits of informa-tion about the Johnstons, as they began downsizing and preparing to move back to Orcas Island full time. They would send me a pho-tograph, a workshop bro-chure, a small weaving, a gallery flyer, whenever they

came across them. They even gave me a delightful piece of art, three nude fig-ures dancing on a piece of driftwood board. I continue to look for additional infor-mation about the Johnstons to flesh out their Lopez story. I sometimes won-der if any of their art still remains on the island today.

Nancy McCoy continues to work as an independent historian. As Museum Director/Curator at the Lopez Island Historical Museum, she chaired their fundraising auction for 22 years and was involved in restoring the historic Port Stanley School, listing it on the National Register of Historic Places.


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GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane. 468-3477. Everyone welcome!

COMMUNITY CHURCH, Please join us Sun. mornings. Adult Bible study, 9:30. Worship Service, 10:30. Nursery (birth-3 yrs) and Jr. Church (4-12 yrs) provided during worship service. Small groups meet throughout the week. 91 Lopez Rd., in the village. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877. www.ourlicc.org.

LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS (ELCA) Please join us for worship and children’s Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanuel. Pastor Beth Purdum, 370-0023.

QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Meetings will be Sundays at 10:00 a.m. at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 468-2129. Email: [email protected].

ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome you to join us for Mass at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday starting April 12. Call 378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

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Recently, Norma gave up volunteer coordinating. Richard is now confined to a wheelchair, requiring full-time support. But there’s Book Club, and Creaky Yoga, and family. With 10 grand- and five great-grand-children, “something’s always going on.” All but one of their kids’ families lives in Washington, so vis-its are constant. But Norma is still at the Thrift Shop every Monday, rolling those T-shirts. Next time you leap to catch one, think of all the hours of work behind that flying shirt—unvaunt-ed, practical, neighborly, Kansan work.

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The Wooden Boat Society of the San Juan Islands is hold-ing the 13th Annual Wooden Boat Rendezvous Sept. 1-3 at Deer Harbor and Orcas Island. The Rendezvous is a low-key

celebration of wooden boats, held in one of the most scenic harbors in the Pacific Northwest. All wooden boats are wel-come: oar, power and sail. Wooden boats of all sizes attend the Rendezvous, from rowboats to motor launches, and daysail-ers to historic tall ships. Most of the boats moor at the Deer Harbor Marina, and are available for public viewing through-out the gathering.

If you have questions, or would like to volunteer call the Deer Harbor Boat Works: 360-376-4056.

We encourage participants to make moorage reservations with Deer Harbor Marina at 376-3037. Tell them you are coming to the Rendezvous to get the reduced moorage rate.

by Kate Yturri, Judy Winer and Gwen StammWSU Master Gardeners

Tansy ragwort is a win-ter annual, biennial or short-lived perennial that can grow

up to six feet tall. It is easily recognized

by its bright yellow flower heads, with each flower bear-ing about 13 petals (ray flo-rets), and by its soft, deeply lobed leaves. It is easy to spot

when it is in bloom around this time of year. You can also see smaller plants setting up for next year’s bloom.

Tansy is toxic to horses and cattle whether fresh or dry, causing irreversible liver damage. It spreads aggres-sively and seeds prolifically, with seeds remaining viable in the soil for 10 years.

Also, bees collect the pol-len from tansy flowers. The

honey that is made from these flowers can have an off taste. Milk collected from tansy-browsing cows can also have an off flavor.

When dealing with the plant, be sure to wear protec-tive gloves and consider a face mask if you are sensitive to tansy ragwort’s allergens.

Small patches or isolated plants can be hand-pulled or dug with a shovel. Before bloom they can be discard-ed in the trash or left on the ground to decompose. However, if the plant is in bloom, the flowers and seed

heads need to be bagged and taken to the solid waste facil-ity for no charge.

Mowing is not recom-mended, as plants will just re-flower at a height shorter than the mower blade. In addition, cut plants will re-sprout in the following sea-son with even more vigorous and multiple stalks.

For large infestations, selective herbicides can be effective. Contact the County Noxious Weed Program for specific herbicide informa-tion at 376-3499.

by F. Milene HenleyCounty auditor

Feel that buzz around

town? It’s more than just tourists. Economic activity is picking up in San Juan County.

As the auditor, I tend to focus on county govern-ment. But there’s a bigger picture to be considered. Economic recovery in the community must precede economic recovery of coun-ty government, and many of the early signs of economic recovery do not directly boost county revenue.

Rent is an example of income that does nothing for the county, at least not directly. At the height of the recent recession, both commercial and residen-tial vacancy rates climbed. As vacancies fill, there is more revenue to landlords, but that revenue does not translate directly to county revenue, since most rent is not subject to sales tax.

Professional services and financial services are other areas where increased activ-ity serves the populace well, but not directly the county government.

Indirectly, of course, it is true that “a rising tide floats all boats.” When individu-als earn more money, they spend more, leading to sales tax revenue. When they become settled, they may build (permit revenue, sales tax revenue) or buy (real estate excise tax revenue).

They also buy cars, which must be titled and regis-tered; travel, needing pass-ports and immunizations; and park illegally, resulting in fines.

As a community shifts from the hunker-down men-tality of recession to the beehive activity level of a healthy, vibrant community, local government prospers as well.

Indications are we’ve reached the beehive. County revenue out-performed both history and expectation in the first half of 2014. Two areas in particular suggest real economic recovery: real

estate and retail trade/tour-ism.

Real estate activity shows in two ways: increased appli-cations for building permits and land use planning and increased real estate sales.

The sharp drop-off in per-mitting revenue expected after the CAO implementa-tion date did not happen.

Applications slowed to a more normal pace, but remained active enough to suggest that overall activity in Community Development and Planning will beat pro-jection by 40 percent. The beehive is buzzing.

Real estate sales also continue to improve. Both number and dollar amount of real estate sales in the second quarter far exceeded the same period last year. As a result, real estate excise taxes on the sale of property far exceeded expectations in the second quarter.

The San Juan County

Land Bank is already at 70 percent of 2014 budget, and is likely to exceed budget by 50 percent or more.

The other type of county revenue that was markedly up through the second quar-ter of 2014 is sales tax. We tend to associate sales tax with visitors and the money they drop while they’re here.

But we all pay sales tax year-round, and the increase in sales tax even in the win-ter months this year sug-gests that it’s not just tour-ists spending more money. Again, the beehive is buzz-ing.

Most other areas of the county are buzzing as well. Even fines and interest income are up.

The hope is that the hive will continue to flourish and county revenue, a mere by-product of true economic recovery, will follow suit.


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From the auditor: the San Juans’ economy is improving

Noxious weed alert: tansy ragwortContributed photos

Far left: Tansy ragwort. Left: A smaller plant setting up for next year’s bloom.

13th Wooden Boat Rendezvous on Orcas

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