The Journal of the San Juan Islands’ Citizen of the Year for 2009 is announced in the newspaper’s Wednesday edition. The edition will be on newsstands late Tuesday and in subscribers’ mailboxes Wednesday.
The days of the ubiquitous polystyrene “to-go” container are numbered in San Juan County. The County Council voted today to ban nearly all forms of expanded polystyrene food containers. The ban takes effect on April 22, Earth Day. A similar ban approved earlier by the Friday Harbor Town Council also takes effect that day.
Two people who have helped chart the course for natural resource management in San Juan County are looking for new jobs. “The completion of the San Juan Initiative means that my time at the Puget Sound Partnership has come to an end,” wrote Amy Windrope, who coordinated San Juan Initiative’s contributions to the regionwide plan to improve the health of our marine waters by 2020.
Only one of three Town Council members on the November ballot had an opponent in the election. But five Friday Harbor residents have filed for appointment to the Town Council position vacated by Carrie Lacher, who became mayor Jan. 1. The deadline for letters of interest was Dec. 30.
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Logic and accuracy tests for vote-counting equipment which will be used to tally mail-in ballots for the Feb. 9 Special Election are scheduled for Jan. 5. The tests will take place at 10 a.m. in the Elections Office located at 55 Second St., Suite A, in Friday Harbor. The tests are open to the public.
Cattle Point Lighthouse is one of the most photographed historic structures in the San Juans. A neighbor believes it’s also one of the most threatened. Anne Haskins said she and her husband Ken take frequent walks to the lighthouse and were so shocked this week by the cumulative erosion that she was prompted to call the U.S. Coast Guard. Wind has eroded sand from beneath a portion of the 74-year-old structure. Concrete has broken away from the foundation.
The days of the ubiquitous polystyrene “to-go” container appear all but numbered in San Juan County.
The County Council voted Dec. 15 without dissent to approve a final version of legislation which would ban nearly all forms of so-called expanded polystyrene products as food containers.
Year 2010 is just around the corner. In its Dec. 30 edition, The Journal of the San Juan Islands takes a look at some of the stories that affected and shaped the community: The Top 10 Stories of 2009.
As a precaution, please lock your doors and windows. Take note of any suspicious activity, vehicle or persons in your neighborhoods. Get to know your neighbors and communicate with each other. Let your neighbors know if your house will be unoccupied and for how long. Request that they notify the Sheriff’s Office of any suspicious activity.
San Juan Island resident Marjorie Puckett and her Haflinger horse Marico will ride in the Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., New Year’s Day. They departed from San Juan Island earlier this month to join seven other Haflinger horses and their owners in California.
“I hope Marico isn’t too nervous moving between the towering bleachers packed with a live audience of more than one million,” Puckett said. “We were asked to participate last March, after Marico earned two National Haflinger Awards, but there is no real preparation for something like this.”
San Juan County health officials say local residents need not be concerned about the recall of several lots of H1N1 vaccine announced Tuesday. About 400 doses of the recalled vaccine were received and administered here in October and November.
Icy road conditions are being blamed for an early-morning rollover crash on Beaverton Valley Road in which two OPALCO employees escaped with minor injuries.
