The five candidates for San Juan County Sheriff participated in the Friday Harbor Fourth of July Parade. Deputies Jeff Asher and Felix Menjivar rode in classic convertibles. Adult Probation Officer Brad Fincher and Detective Brent Johnson walked the parade route; Johnson handed out candy to children. Deputy Rob Nou waved from the back of a pickup truck.
Former Burns, Ore., mayor Laura Van Cleave has praise for her former police chief Rob Nou’s skills as a law enforcement administrator. “If you’re looking for a good sheriff, he would be perfect. I’d vote for him in a minute.”
San Juan Heating has new offices: on Web Street, next to The Big Store. San Juan Heating was founded in January by Kevin McCullough, a career electrician and certified “refrigeration guy.” McCullough, 33, grew up in San Antonio, Texas, where he learned his trade from his father. He was a certified refrigeration technician at 18, and worked as a self-employed electrician on San Juan Island for 12 years before starting San Juan Heating.
Island Rec issued this press release July 7 regarding Tracy Roberson’s appointment to the Island Rec Board of Commissioners.
Two Friday Harbor residents have applied for appointment to the Friday Harbor Town Council.
Alan Dortch has withdrawn his application for appointment to Carrie Brooks’ position on the Friday Harbor Town Council. He submitted this letter to The Journal explaining his decision.
Congratulations to King’s Market manager John McBride and others, for working to discontinue the use of styrofoam in his operations. Hopefully many others in San Juan County and beyond will follow his example.
Mike Kaill, president of Friends of the San Juans, seems to support “Big Dumb Buffers,” and he is spending time criticizing Citizens Alliance for Property Rights San Juan and Island County for not embracing blanket buffers. CAPR San Juan will continue to look for exceptional ideas and ways to protect our island environment.
Operation Gratitude is asking knitters to make scarves to be included in 60,000 care packages being sent to our military overseas for the winter season ahead. Spread the word for those that enjoy knitting. The instructions are easy and you can get the yarn and instructions at the yarn shop opposite King’s Market in town.
Stop, read no further if you require modestly restrained “thank you” notes with wilting roses. What follows, shortly, is nothing short of an unrestrained geyser of adoration and love. This letter is an unstopped spigot of “thank you” and “hallelujah” for the San Juan Island Library.
In response to this story (“3-year-old bitten in face by dog on First and Spring,” page 24, June 30 Journal): A dog in new and unnerving surroundings tied to a bench so humans can go shopping and leave a nervous dog unattended … a 3-year-old left unattended while her parents shop, leaving her to entertain herself. Who knows if she knows how to be around dogs?
On June 25, under the light of the full moon closest to the summer solstice, millions of new lives began on the beaches of the San Juan Islands. On that night, surf smelt, a species of small forage fish, spawned at the peak of high tide. Their eggs are now deposited along the high water mark, and in as little as 14 days, these eggs will hatch, and the larval fish will return to the Sound with the tide.
Some San Juan County residents are concerned about the ease with which the County Council majority is passing their responsibility for upland and shoreline planning to the state’s Department of Ecology, the Department of Commerce, the department of Fish and Wildlife and the ubiquitous Puget Sound Partnership’s Local Integrating Organization, (LIO).
