Warren Eugene Stanton of Friday Harbor, Wash., died Friday, Jan. 2, 2009 in Friday Harbor. He was 66. He was born on Sept. 13, 1942 in Portland, Ore., the son of Howard and Rhea (Conn) Stanton.
Fall 2009 will see a new fact in the hallways and playgrounds of Lopez School. There will be a new principal, serving kindergarten through 12th grade, replacing current principal Roland MacNichol, who will be retiring at the end of the current school year.
I am trying to imagine how it would feel to be told, in your early 30s, that “you might end up in a wheelchair by your 50s.”
The holidays are over and I would like to thank the generous people who turned in “Turkey Cards” to King’s Market for the Friday Harbor Food Bank. We were given 125 turkeys to give out to our customers and the balance from the cards toward hams we gave out for Christmas.
In a special session today, the San Juan County Council voted 4-2 to grant a $3 dollar-per-parcel increase in the Noxious Weed Control Levy. The new annual levy will total $6.25 per parcel of non-forest land, plus 62.5 cents per acre.
If you can remain calm while all around you there is public outrage, then perhaps you don’t fully understand the situation. I don’t know what happens to people when they go to work for the government but it seems that they must be de-programmed and re-booted with fuzzy logic. It seems to me that since our newfangled form of leadership, “Home Rule,” we have created even more layers of government nitwitians.
The Winter Farmers Market is Jan. 3, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday Harbor High School Commons (enter on Guard Street). “Hypnotic New Year’s Resolutions” is Jan. 3, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Lopez Island Library.
Entries are being accepted for the Chili Cook-Off to be held at the San Juan County Fairgrounds on Jan. 24, 2-6 p.m. Entrants will offer their most delicious creations in vying for bragging rights to the best chili on the island, as well as a first prize of $200. The competition is open to individuals, groups, organizations and professionals. Families and chili fans will be able to sample all of the fare and cast their votes for their favorite concoction.
She is now living at the Village at the Harbour, Friday Harbor’s elegant new assisted-living apartments. Flossie, who used to teach bridge at the old Grey Top Inn, was eagerly awaited by the other bridge players at the Village.
The required number of signatures for a citizen initiative to the ballot this year is 241,153, which, under state law, is the required 8 percent of the total number of votes cast in the November 2008 gubernatorial race.
O. Christian Nelson of Friday Harbor, a retired interpreter with East Bay Regional Parks in Oakland, Calif., is the recipient of the National Association for Interpretation’s Outstanding Senior/Retired Interpreter Award for 2008.
Dr. Edwin Dolan, resident of Lopez Island and author of books and articles on banking, monetary policy and environmental issues, leads a free seminar titled, “Understanding the Financial Crisis — Past, Present and Future Realities,” three days on three islands this month.
The Island Museum of Art starts the new year with a new name and a new mission. The name: Its parent organization is now the San Juan Islands Museum of Art and Sculpture Park, or IMA — the result of the merger of Westcott Bay Institute for Art & Nature, which operated the museum and Westcott Bay Sculpture Park; and the Visual Arts Museum of San Juan County, which had proposed building an accredited art museum in the San Juans. The immediate mission: To find a new museum site. The museum moved Dec. 31 out of the former Spring Tree Restaurant building, owned by David and Cloud McCauley, who had allowed the museum free use of the space for the last couple of years.
