Anna Belle Volk died peacefully in her sleep at Mountain Glen Retirement Home in Mount Vernon, Wash., where she has lived for the past several years.
Children and their parents packed the San Juan Island Grange Saturday for “Christmas Island,” three hours of Christmas cookies, face painting, picture coloring, and pictures with St. Nick.
Julie Seadrick’s fiancé had just gotten his check and his Christmas bonus from work, and she carefully separated the money for bills and holiday shopping and went to the Friday Harbor Thrift House to buy gifts. But as the young couple did their annual holiday gift shopping, a Grinch was lurking in the shadows: Seadrick says her purse was stolen as she tried on a sweater for her mother.
Friday Harbor Mayor David Jones presided over his last scheduled Town Council meeting Thursday. His term ends at 11:59 p.m. Dec. 31. Carrie Lacher, who took the oath of office Thursday, becomes mayor Jan. 1. Councilwoman Carrie Brooks wrote this tribute to Jones, a retired Navy officer who served on the Town Council from Jan. 1, 2002 to Dec. 31, 2005, and then as mayor from Jan. 1, 2006 through the town’s centennial year.
Initially, the clock seemed to be working against the Nichols Street farmers market proposal. The Friday Harbor Town Council, feeling pressed to commit lodging tax funds to the project despite unanswered questions as a Dec. 18 deadline approached, almost backed out of the deal Dec. 3. Thursday, the project went into extra innings. And the project took on new life.
Island churches are celebrating Christmas with special services next week. — Calvary Chapel: A special pre-Christmas service is scheduled Sunday,…
Former Friday Harbor Wolverine Fletcher Vynne is advancing in his baseball coaching career. Vynne, a graduate assistant baseball coach at Seattle University, will join the West Coast League’s Wenatchee AppleSox as an assistant coach in summer 2010. Like teams in the Alaska League and the Cape Cod League, West Coast League teams consist of college players. As college players, they are not compensated but are housed with host families. Many West Coast players go on to play professionally.
Warehouse Coffee has a new name: Solid Grounds Coffee Shop. Solid Grounds is located at 301 Tucker Ave. It is owned by Clinton Mills, who bought it in September from Dwight Ware.
The San Juan Singers present a choral concert Saturday, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, 2 p.m., at the San Juan Community Theatre. Featured this winter is John Rutter’s extended work, “Magnificat.” Directing will be Yariv Aloni of the Victoria Chamber Orchestra.
Wear black, wear white, wear black and white. You don’t have to wear a tuxedo. But the dinner and event is classy enough to be formal. And the proceeds support a good cause. The Whale Museum’s Black & White Night is Thursday, 5:30 p.m., beginning at Friday Harbor House. Proceeds benefit the museum’s education and research programs.
The Friday Harbor Wolverines hope to begin playing baseball at the Carter Avenue sports fields beginning March 2011.
The school district has been notified by St. Francis Church, owner of Hartman Field, that it plans to build a fellowship hall and that the field will be needed to accommodate parking and stormwater retention.
In other words, the 2010 baseball season will be the Wolverines’ last at Hartman Field.
A resident of San Juan Island since 1989, Virginia died on Dec. 14, 2009 at Islands Convalescent Center after a brief battle with cancer. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 19, at St. David’s Episcopal Church.
The San Juan Cruisers, led by President David Stegman, has donated the $3,000 required to significantly remodel the Friday Harbor High School Tech Building. The Tech Building hosts most of the school’s technology classes. The Cruisers wanted to support the Auto Tech program and learned that funding was an obstacle to adding a garage door and some partitions to the building.
