Laurence “Larry” Bauer died Tuesday, April 6, at Swedish Hospital, Seattle, from complications related to a severe stroke. His children, Sara and Laura, and their mother, Ingrid, were with him when he died. His death was peaceful. He was 69.
Gayle Ann Williams of Cape San Juan is the author of “Tsunami Blue,” a paranormal romance just released by Dorchester Publishing. New York Times bestselling author Stella Cameron (“Out of Body,” “Cypress Nights”) said “Tsunami Blue” is “an intriguing mile-a-minute adventurous tale of sexy survival in a paranormal world.” “Tsunami Blue” is Williams’ debut novel. It was chosen for publication after winning Dorchester’s Shomi Writing Contest.
A fresh breeze of sweet acoustic folk sounds flows into Friday Harbor when The Wailin’ Jennys grace San Juan Community Theatre’s Whittier stage on Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Winners of Canada’s 2005 Juno Award for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year, the group has been gathering a large following as it has embarked on North American and European tours (“quiet, warm, subtle, mellifluous, almost too good to be true,” noted British daily The Independent). In fact, they appeared in March on Garrison Keillor’s national radio program, “A Prairie Home Companion.”
How do you read a book? Are you looking for beautiful prose or gripping action that makes you turn the pages? Do you crave characters that make you weep or a setting in a landscape or time far, far away? Or are you, like one of my favorite characters, Alice, looking for conversation? Do you like to peruse the pictures and perhaps the captions and maybe only then read the text if your interest is piqued? Sam Connery is the kind of writer that visually oriented readers will like.
The San Juan Islands Museum of Art & Sculpture Park (IMA) is sounding the call to Washington, Oregon and British Columbia artists to enter IMA’s juried visual arts competition, “Green: On the Edge.” The upcoming summer exhibition asks artists to tackle the question, “What does ‘green’ mean to you?”
The bounds of reality are dissolved in the latest offering from theater company Island Stage Left. Within the solid reality of the venue, San Juan County Fairgrounds, Sarah Ruhl’s “The Clean House” is due to be performed in all its original playfulness. “She has enormous imagination,” director Helen Machin-Smith says of the playwrite. Ruhl, who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize two years in a row, is stylistically drawn to allegory and magic-realism.
Doors open 5 p.m. Friday at Roche Harbor Pavilion for a spaghetti feed and auction to benefit Sophia Grace Krieg, a 6-month-old who is awaiting a heart transplant. Sophia is the grand-niece of Debbie Sandwith.
Friday Harbor’s Kasey Rasmussen will have one more shot at the state title. An eighth-grader at Friday Harbor Middle School, Kasey earned a third consecutive trip to the state Geographic Bee finals on the strength of a competitive written exam.
It’s as if that pile of pretty cupcakes had Shelby Dunn’s name on them. The 5-year-old girl from Fremont, Calif. visited San Juan Community Theatre on Saturday with her family for Elegant Edibles, and wasn’t in the theater lobby for five minutes before picking the Easter goodies in the annual benefit bake sale.
Army Sgt. Tom Bauschke of Friday Harbor has received the Bronze Star for “Valorous and Meritorious actions while engaged in direct combat operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom on 1 May 2009.”
SanJuanJournal.com stories about the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Anacortes-Sidney ferry route — make that the 50th anniversary of the Sidney ferry landing at its current location — spurred response from readers and, now, a history lesson from Elaine Walker of The Anacortes American. She is the American’s news editor.
Maintaining the international sailing was a theme of the speeches given in Sidney. Sidney Mayor Larry Cross, Anacortes Mayor Dean Maxwell and state Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-San Juan Island, all spoke of the ongoing efforts to keep the route going. “As long as I’m in the Legislature, I will continue to fight as hard as I can to protect this run,” Ranker said.
The Journal’s annual April Fool’s section, The Gerbil, is included in this week’s edition. The Gerbil’s top story: Public Works will take our trash to an island the county bought and renamed Someplace Else Island, to satisfy the demands of islanders that the new solid waste transfer station be built someplace else.
