The San Juan County Economic Development Council and Agricultural Resources Committee will host an open house on Dec. 16, 3-5 p.m., at their offices, 540 Guard St., Suite 110. Refreshments will be served. The EDC will introduce its new executive director, Victoria Compton. She is the founder of At Home magazine and former director of Westcott Bay Institute. She succeeded Bill Watson, who retired from the position. Her first day on the job was Dec. 1. The ARC will introduce its new coordinator Peggy Bill. She succeeded Eliza Buck, who left to pursue a master’s degree.
The way Jim Cumming put it, those two last pins finally fell over only because they were tired of wobbling. But the record books will say this: Perfect game. Cumming bowled the first 300 game in the history of Paradise Lanes Monday night, rolling 12 consecutive strikes in the second game of last night’s league play. For the feat, he will receive a ring from the United States Bowling Congress, the game’s governing body. He also wins prizes from local merchants.
The state Supreme Court has appointed Island County Superior Court Judge Alan Hancock to perform judicial duties in San Juan Superior Court, succeeding John Linde, who died Dec. 3. Linde, 62, died of apparent cardiac arrest while vacationing in Hawaii. Memorial service is Dec. 12, 11:30 a.m., at Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church.
This year’s Festival of Trees was a luminous event of festive decoration, fine wines and fund raising.
Islanders will gather in Friday Harbor Dec. 13 to participate in a worldwide event. The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting takes place around the world at 7 p.m. local time. The event unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor and remember children who have died at any age from any cause. As candles are lighted at 7 p.m. local time, creating a virtual wave of light, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor children in a way that transcends all cultural, ethnic, political and religious boundaries.
Do you know me? I was hiding under a porch of some very nice people near San Juan Valley. I got frightened and was under their porch for three days until the girls from the Animal Shelter crawled under the house and comforted me and coaxed me out. Now I’m trying to remember where I live.
Memorial service for Superior Court Judge John Linde is scheduled for Dec. 12, 11:30 a.m., at Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church. A reception will follow at 1 p.m. at the San Juan Island Yacht Club. Linde, 62, died Dec. 3 while vacationing with his wife and two friends in Hawai’i. He had been snorkeling with a friend in Anaeho’omalu Bay — described by Hawai’i Police Sgt. Kenneth Quiocho as “pretty calm” — until the friend returned to shore sometime between 9:30 and 10 a.m.
Thomas Elton Hartman, loving father and friend, son of Glen E. and Mary Lee Hartman, lived Nov. 14, 1931 to Nov. 30, 2009. Throughout his life, he had a passion for automobiles, airplanes, and motorcycles. He graduated with a masters in engineering physics from the University of Oklahoma in 1956, where he was president of Phi Kappa Sigma and voted “Big Man on Campus.”
Dennis Brooks of Mount Vernon was the top fisherman and Scott James of Arlington was tops in poker in Roche Harbor’s first annual Hook ’em & Hold ’em Salmon Derby and Texas Hold ’em Tournament. Thirteen fish were weighed in on Friday, four were weighed in on Saturday.
For a moment this morning, San Juan County Superior Court was still. No gavel, no opening statements, no questions, no testimony. Judge John Linde’s courtroom opened at 9 a.m. today with a moment of silence in his honor, the county communications office reported. Linde, 62, died Dec. 3 while vacationing in Hawaii. He had been snorkeling with a friend; an autopsy was scheduled.
Thursday night, as every night before retiring, I check my e-mails and the online Journal of the San Juans for messages and late news. Helen and I had returned from a great night of trivia at the Ale House when our team, the Hellbox, took second place among 10 teams, after never getting one of the top three prizes in months. We were happy at our resurrection. Then the hammer fell: News of the tragic loss of Superior Court Judge John Linde, 62, in Hawaii. My attorney and friend for some 30 years.
In San Juan County Superior Court, where John Linde presided over such controversial matters as civil complaints, felonies, and land use disputes, Nov. 20 was undoubtedly a joyful day for the career lawyer and judge. On that day, Linde finalized an adoption, uniting a child with his new parents. It was the first county participation in National Adoption Day, a collective national effort to raise awareness of children in foster care waiting to find permanent families.
Superior Court Judge John O. Linde has died. Linde, 62, was found Thursday morning floating in a South Kohala bay about 75 yards off the Big Island of Hawaii, where he and his wife, Carol, were vacationing with friends John and Becky Bird.
