The Journal’s series of Candidate Q&As continues with candidates for 40th District state Senate. The 40th District comprises San Juan County and parts of Whatcom and Skagit counties, from Bellingham/Lake Whatcom to Mount Vernon. Senators serve four-year terms. Their annual salaries are $42,106 and they receive health benefits.
Norman Franklin Mills passed away peacefully, surrounded by love, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2008 at the wonderful age of 94. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 at Valley Cemetery in Friday Harbor, Wash., with a reception to follow at Elements Hotel & Spa, 410 Spring St., Friday Harbor, Wash.
San Juan County Councilman Kevin Ranker has been endorsed by The Bellingham Herald for 40th District state Senate.
Ranker is a Democrat. Also on the ballot is Republican Steve Van Luven, former state representsative from Bellevue now living on Samish Island.
The Bellingham Herald cited Ranker’s ability “to spell out a clear potential answer” for most problems in the district. Read the endorsement here http://www.bellinghamherald.com/315/story/598064.html
Ven. Lama Pema Wangdak, one of the first young monks sent by the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism to the West, is at Sakya Kachod Choling Tibetan Buddhist retreat center on San Juan Island today through Oct. 21.
Washington has just set a new record for voter registrations, topping the 3.5 million figure set in the hotly competitive 2004 election year.
The latest number, reported by the Elections Division of the Secretary of State’s Office on Oct. 7, is 3,515,393. The tally is expected to grow each day as crews process registration applications that were submitted by the major deadline Oct. 4.
The Green Party of San Juan County announced the following endorsements in the Nov. 4 general election
Rep. Jeff Morris, D-Anacortes, will participate in Orcas Power & Light Cooperative’s annual Ambassador’s Legislative Kick-Off meetings scheduled on Lopez, Orcas and San Juan islands.
Washington is making dramatic and steady progress on cleaning up the state’s voter registration rolls, particularly in removing duplicate or deceased voters from the lists, but the difficult task of culling ineligible felons remains a challenge, the state Elections Division reported.
If you aren’t currently registered to vote in Washington and want to vote in the Nov. 4 general election, you have until the Oct. 20 deadline to so in person at your county elections office. Secretary of State Sam Reed is urging eligible residents to register in person to vote by Monday’s deadline so they can take part in the election.
Reunion for the Friday Harbor High School Class of 1998 — titled “10-Year Reunion Done ‘Island Style'” — is Saturday, Oct. 18, noon at Cady Seiler’s House, 625 Park St., Friday Harbor.
In the high school halls, Wolverine pride is running deep as students gear up for two days of Homecoming events — beginning Friday, with the ever popular parade of floats, and ending Saturday, with a traditional Homecoming dance. King and queen will be crowned during the pep rally at Turnbull Gym Friday afternoon. Wolverine spirit spreads into the evening at a local church, Friday Harbor Presbyterian, where high school students will gather for a tasty bowl of chili, card games and more.
It was just six months ago that the U.S. Border Patrol’s second-highest ranking official in the region was in Friday Harbor defending citizenship spot checks at the Anacortes ferry terminal and the agency’s enforcement of federal immigration law. Now, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent Joseph Giuliano has trouble with the law of his own.
The community sports fields project at the end of Carter Avenue is on the 50-yard line, with curbs, gutters, roads and sidewalks completed and the clubhouse under construction. Donny Galt Jr., president of the Friday Harbor Athletic Association, put the value of the work to date at $1.3 million — funded through private donations and volunteer labor. Now under way: grading the sports fields and completion of the clubhouse.
