January 2, 2013

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LA CONNER WEEKLY NEWS VOL. 5 • NO. 37

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2013

No time like present for historic La Conner

WINTER WHITE – Swans spend their summers in Alaska and flock to the Skagit Valley each fall and stay until the local foothills shed their winter quilt of snow in spring.

– Photo by Don Coyote

Town utilities climb again

By Sandy Stokes In what has become a yearly ritual, water that La Conner residents used on New Year’s Day costs more than the water they used on Christmas.

The Town Council postponed a vote on approving a recommended 4 percent water rate increase for 2013, but in keeping with a perpetual price raising ordinance, the base charge and the price of water actually used will go up whether the council does anything or not.

The price will go up at least in an amount consistent with a Consumer Price Index percentage increase.

Likewise for the sewer rate.

The drainage utility, which also appears on town water bills, will get the biggest boost. It is set to go up according to the Consumer Price Index plus another 5 percent.

But the figure used in the town’s cost-boosting ordinance – the December Consumer Price Index for the Seattle area – has not yet been published by the U.S. Department of Labor.

So unless the council acts in January to raise the rates by the 4 percent it decided on when it adopted the town’s 2013 budget, residents in La Conner won’t know how much their water costs until early February, when the bills for water and sewer service used in January arrive in the mail.

In August, the CPI rate increase was 2.7 percent, which is the amount the town used when figuring raises for its employees in 2013.

In 2012, a La Conner home using 500 cubic feet of water per month would have a total bill of around $85 per month, which includes about $49 in fixed standby charges and the fee for the town’s drainage utility.

Should the council raise the water rate by 4 percent, let the sewer rate and drainage fee automatically rise by the CPI, the total monthly bill for residents in the town of La Conner would be in the neighborhood of $89.

People outside town who buy water only and do not pay sewer and drainage would see a bill for 500 cubic feet of water go up by about $1.50.

The rising costs of water and drainage are to help the town save up money for public works projects that include replacing a clay water main and the pumps that keep low spots in town from turning into big ponds during heavy rains.

The 4 percent increase in the town’s water rates is on the Jan. 8 Town Council agenda.

Home grown bacon

After years of dormancy, the old smokehouse on the Mesman farm just outside La Conner is back in use. On Friday night Alan Mesman and Kevin Morse loaded it up with slabs of bacon to finish curing.

Morse, who grew up spending summers at his Italian grandparents’ butcher shop in upstate New York, raises pork on Hedlin’s farm in La Conner.

– Photos by Kirsten Morse

The tree gets it

By Sandy Stokes A Douglas fir growing through the deck of the former Kerstin’s Restaurant is a goner.

At a special meeting Friday morning the La Conner Planning Commission voted to grant building owner Michael Felt a tree removal permit.

Resident Jean Wharton pleaded for the tree’s life – and not just for her enjoyment of its beauty, but also for the heron who likes to perch there.

Nevertheless, commission members Mike Carlisle, Linda Talman and chair Bill Stokes concluded that Felt had met the requirements of the town code that allows significant trees in the town’s Historic District to be removed when they present a threat to a structure’s integrity and safety.

The tree has started to damage the building and buckle its foundation, said Gary Sturdy, a structural engineer. And an arborist who consults for the town has said the tree, which is now 75 feet tall and in excellent health, will continue to grow to at least 100 feet and it’s trunk will keep getting bigger.

The tree has been incorporated into the building and two times since 1995 Felt has had to enlarge the opening for the trunk to pass through the deck.

Town Administrator John Doyle said Felt, “has done an exemplary job of trying to maintain the tree,” over the years.

But now the tree is becoming too costly to keep.

“As trees mature in this area we’re going to have continual

By Bill Reynolds It could’ve been the end of the world, but few in La Conner had time to ponder the unthinkable.

Most were too busy living in the present. And, in the process, they made even more local history.

Such was life in La Conner in 2012.

Thankfully, the Mayans didn’t get it right. So many here did, though.

Like those members of local panels who joined forces to plan ambitious thematic streetend parks to coincide with La Conner’s ongoing waterfront boardwalk project.

The series of summer workshops brought together civic leaders who might not always have a lot in common.

Yet this was a mission on which they gladly worked for the common good.

Even folks from far-flung places like Hollywood, Chicago, and the other Washington acknowledged in 2012 that La Conner is still a great place to dream big.

As evidence, the community was chosen by some major filmmakers and ad reps as the backdrop for commercial spots touting the timeless viability of the American Dream.

The choice seemed fitting given that just weeks earlier Town and Skagit Port officials realized their seemingly impossible dream of securing federal funds to dredge Swinomish Channel, assuring mariners continued unimpeded access to the vital waterway.

The nearly $2.3 million allocated for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project was again the result of common interest winning out over special interests.

“This funding,” U.S. Rep. Rick Larson, D-Everett, said at the time, “is a major boost for western Skagit County, which depends on Swinomish Channel as an economic driver.”

La Conner Mayor Ramon Hayes echoed that sentiment, praising bi-partisan political support that made possible the long-sought channel dredging.

“It takes a team,” Hayes told La Conner Weekly News reporter Adrian Sharpe. “All of us contacting our local and state representatives. It’s a testament to what can be done when we work together.”

As with sports, rosters in the public arena are fluid.

The team to which Hayes referred has a new face in State Sen. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, who in November defeated veteran lawmaker Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island, whose budgetary expertise often freed up dollars for La Conner and the surrounding area.

One incumbent who survived at the polls was U.S. President Barack Obama. Shortly after his re-election, Obama was formally introduced by Swinomish Tribal Senate Chairman and La Conner High alum Brian Cladoosby during a Native American leadership conference at the White House.

A clip of Cladoosby introducing the president aired on news programs around the country.

That moment in the national spotlight helped Tribal members work through lingering grief in the aftermath of the accidental

SAD REMINDER – This baseball floated up on a beach north of La Conner. It is among the many mementos mourners tossed off the Rainbow Bridge in memory of a young man who drowned in 2012 after he jumped off the bridge for sport.

– Photo by Don Coyote

August death of Swinomish resident Chase Cuny. The popular 27-year-old, whose public memorial drew hundreds of mourners, died in a fall from Rainbow Bridge.

Cuny, an avid baseball player, apparently “jumped off the bridge on a lark,” La Conner Weekly News reported at the time. “Authorities say it’s a stunt athletic young men in La Conner have done before and lived to talk about.”

Later there was plenty of talk about the exploits of a current crop of La Conner athletes.

The Braves’ football team won its first league title in a dozen years and advanced to the State semifinals for just the third time in school history.

The first La Conner grid team to reach the playoffs did so in 1973, during the height of the Arab oil embargo, which saw reduced hours and long lines at La Conner’s three fuel stations.

The last of those, Morris Street Station – formerly Zimmerman’s Shell – received its final shipment of gasoline in November.

Local motorists now fuel up at Swinomish Village Chevron or elsewhere outside town.

Bank of America customers found themselves in the same boat – if not vehicle – as Morris Street Station patrons. The local branch, site of downtown banking and financial services for decades, closed in October.

Nostalgia, though, fueled one of La Conner’s top feel-good stories of 2012.

A former La Connerite was able to “catch up to her past” last spring when a box of treasured family keepsakes – missing for nearly two decades – was discovered in a barn near town and shipped to the woman at her present home in Central Texas.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Milet Hopping said, “when I opened the box and saw what was inside.

I must’ve stayed up until after one o’clock that night going through it.”

Hopping said she is forever grateful to Ed and Mary Baumeier for having found the lost items, which included family photos, yearbooks, and school report cards.

“I so appreciate them for what they’ve done,” she said, “What they’ve done is given me back important parts of my childhood and family heritage.”

All of which have even greater value going forward as the page turns once more on non-Mayan calendars.

problems with them,” noted Stokes.

Setting precedent for more tree removal requests is something that worries Wharton. “I think if you grant this permit to remove this tree, we’ll have a slew,” she said.

Though the tree that has been part of a restaurant for years is doomed, Wharton had an idea that drew praise from the commissioners as it could help property owners keep their trees in the future.

She suggested that town residents who value the trees as much as she does could work to establish a fund and a committee to oversee it to help owners shoulder the cost of maintaining their big, beautiful and expensive- NO GAS – La Conner’s last gas station quit selling fuel in 2012. to-live with trees.

The little mini-market is still open, however.

– Photo by Nick Damski

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Last Week’s Answers (12/26/12) Last Week’s Answers (12/26/12)

Nuggets from Norway

Joy Neal woods. When an elderly couple Director is found slaughtered and Brianne I know some of you probably goes missing, Val finds herself got new gadgets or computers for in a nightmare much worse Likewise, when we travel to Christmas. We will be setting up than anything she could have Norway, we have more than

By Mickey Bambrick some gadget nights again as well anticipated. a suitcase full of foods from Whenever we travel home from America that we can’t get there, as starting up another series of Nano by Robin Cook: After basic computer classes. Look for a tumultuous year in which her Norway, I always bring back our as even my most basic recipes more information soon or call us mentor is murdered and her favorite Norwegian foods like include items not available in and we can put you on a list to estranged father comes back into blueberry flavored Jell-O and Norway. be called when we have set the her life, Pia Grazdani decides to Vanilla Sauce – things we can’t Chocolate chip cookies, for dates. take a year off from her medical get in America. example, are impossible to Vanilla Sauce is Norway’s most make without importing vanilla, Next time you are in the studies and escape New York library, check out one of these City. Intrigued by the field of beloved dessert topping that tastes brown sugar and chocolate chips new books. medical technology, Pia takes like the vanilla custard inside a – none of which are found in Dying on the Vine by Aaron a job at Nano, LLC, a lavishly donut, only better. Norwegians stores anywhere in our part of Elkins: It was the custom of funded nanotechnology institute are always shocked when they the country. When I mention Pietro Cubbiddu, patriarch of in the foothills of the Rockies. hear we don’t have that stuff in this fact to Norwegians they get Tuscany’s Villa Antica wine But the corporate campus is a every store in America. They very defensive and tell me how empire, to take a solitary month- place of secrets. She’s warned are under the impression that they do too have vanilla (but long sabbatical at the end of the by her boss not to investigate America has everything. I think it’s powdered, not liquid) and early grape harvest. His wife the other work being done at they are delighted to realize they brown sugar, but it’s more like would drive him to an isolated the facility, nor to ask questions have something so wonderful all raw sugar than the soft, squishy mountain cabin in the Apennines about the source of capital that to themselves. variety we have in America, so it We’ve also brought home dried doesn’t work the same in recipes. and return for him a month funds the research. fish a few times. Usually it’s for They fail to comprehend the later. So it went for almost a my husband, but this year it was differences. decade – until the year came for our neighbor whose ancestors when neither of them returned.

I’m certain someone could hail from Iceland.

Months later, a hiker stumbles make a lot of money if they The only problem with bringing started importing chocolate chips on their remains. The carabinieri that stuff home is that it stinks up to Norway. Every time I’ve made investigate and release their the luggage so badly that it takes chocolate chip cookies, there is findings: —3— it was a murder-suicide. forever to air out. I’m happy this non-stop chatter about how good Not long afterwards, Gideon year it all went to our neighbor they are and everyone wants Oliver and his wife, Julie, are in just so we could get that smell the recipe. Then I have to tell Tuscany visiting their friends, period. Any suggestions?

Railroad China them out of our house. the Cubbiddu offspring. The theRob, sadMetarie, news that Railroad China — La. it’s just My husband broke tooth on renowned Skeleton Detective is not possible without I ahave several Van Dyke’s imported Restordried fish one year when we of werechina I have several asked to reexamine the bones. pieces ingredients. ers has an impreswrite the corporate headPuppy-Mill Dog in Norway.

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Braves ride depth to dis-similar twin wins

MEN IN BLACK – The Braves donned black uniforms for last week’s Jack Pearson Memorial Classic at Menlo-Willapa Valley.

Fittingly, La Conner center Jonah Cook, number 33, had a “lights out” tourney, scoring the winning basket Thursday night with a tip-in at the buzzer.

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By Bill Reynolds The La Conner Braves took two very different routes to reach Victory Lane during their road trip last week in southwest Washington.

The Braves edged host MenloWillapa Valley 49-47 Thursday on a dramatic eight-foot tip-in at the buzzer by Jonah Cook, then romped past South Bend 62-39 in a Friday matinee showing that was pretty much over by intermission.

Cook, who joined La Conner teammate Spencer Novak as a Jack Pearson Memorial Basketball Classic All-Star selection, capped a superb effort in the tourney opener with his lastsecond fadeaway tip, providing one of the more thrilling Braves’ wins in recent seasons.

“The end was kind of like an NCAA Tournament game,” La Conner assistant coach Dustin Swanson said afterward. “After Jonah hit that tip, our whole bench mobbed him on the floor.”

The 6-8 Cook, who had drawn three first half fouls in an often strangely called game, took care to avoid contact on the final sequence. He controlled with one hand a La Conner shot that had glanced off the iron and pushed it back to the hoop while falling backward.

The buzzer sounded just after the ball left Cook’s hand.

Cook finished with 12 points, 12 rebounds, five blocked shots, and four assists---most of the latter coming on pinpoint passes from the high post to Braves’ frontliner Tyler Howlett, who delivered eight points and a half dozen boards for the victors.

La Conner had trailed much

of the game before making a late surge.

Anthony Williams gave La Conner a 45-42 lead with just over a minute left when he drilled a clutch jumper near the top of the key.

Valley responded with a pair of charity tosses – a not too unfamiliar scene on this night.

La Conner extended the margin to 47-44 moments later when Cook hit a soft bank shot just outside the lane.

But, again, Valley came back.

The Vikings hit a trey with 14 seconds remaining that knotted the score at 47-47, and set the stage for Cook’s last-second heroics.

“I remember thinking after Anthony hit his shot, which was huge, that it would take two more scores for us to win,” said Swanson. “Then Jonah hit his bank shot and his tip ended up being the second score.”

Novak paced La Conner with 15 points, including two treys.

He also dished off three assists and matched Howlett with six rebounds.

Braves head coach Scott Novak pointed to his club’s defensive pressure in the third quarter, applied primarily by Hudson Zavala and Jamall James, as being key factors in a 14-6 La Conner run that changed the game’s momentum.

Zavala scored eight points, but more importantly pocketed three steals. James parlayed a steal into a transition layup and also chipped in three assists.

“I thought we did a great job of playing through some adversity to come up with a big win,” coach Novak stressed. “You have to

Rally at Valley: Lady Braves save best for last

By Bill Reynolds The La Conner High Lady Braves were wedded to success in Pacific County last week thanks to a time-tested formula.

They relied on their better half.

In this case, the second half.

La Conner used two second half comebacks to post successive wins Thursday and Friday during the Jack Pearson Memorial Classic at MenloWillapa Valley.

The Lady Braves defeated Valley 48-38 on Thursday, then forged a narrow 37-35 triumph over South Bend in Saturday’s tourney finale.

Neither win came easy for La Conner, which improved to 8-2 on the season.

The first game, in particular, was a grinder. And despite the physical nature of the contest, there were few trips to the foul line for La Conner.

“It looked like we were getting bumped all over the place,” Lady Braves head coach Scott Novak said of a physical first half in which La Conner trailed 25-20 and had trouble getting untracked.

“I know some of it had to do with Valley’s style of play,” said Novak, “but I think it was also a case of it being our first game back after Christmas and coming after a long bus ride.”

The Braves got in gear after the break when Katie McKnight hit eight of her team-best 12 points.

McKnight did a nice job of moving without the ball and scoring off feeds from Kelley McClung, who paced the victors with three assists.

McKnight was also effective on the perimeter, twice hitting long jumpers that appeared to be three-pointers but were ruled deuces.

It was one of those buckets by McKnight that put La Conner on top 37-35 at the outset of the final period, a lead the Lady Braves wouldn’t yield.

They closed out the game with a 13-3 run, pretty much clinching matters when Katie Novak – who tallied nine points – buried a deep trey that gave La Conner a 44-36 lead with 3:33 left.

“I thought the difference,” coach Novak reflected afterward, “was we increased our defensive intensity at the start of the second half.”

The Lady Braves forced three Valley turnovers in the first 90 seconds of the third quarter.

La Conner’s Aubrey Stewart set the tone by picking off a Lady Viking pass and hitting McClung

for a transition score.

McClung and Alyssa McCormick, who controlled play in the paint, finished with eight points apiece.

Taysha James, who pulled down three offensive rebounds, added four points, as did Stewart.

The Lady Braves failed to help themselves with their rare opportunities at the charity stripe, hitting just three of 11 freebies.

Lauren Reynolds hit two foul shots to give La Conner a brief 14-13 edge late in the first frame.

Emma Christianson later buried a free throw that put the Lady Braves in front 35-33 with 2:15 left in the third quarter.

La Conner scored all its points in the final 10 minutes from the floor.

The Lady Braves followed a similar format against South Bend, relying on a 17-7 outburst in the third period to offset another slow start.

Katie Novak, who was named to the tourney All-Star squad, led La Conner with 15 points. Nine of her points came from beyond the trey arc.

McKnight chipped in seven points, none more important than the trio that came on a long jumper that pulled the Lady Braves within 21-20 with 1:51 to play in the third period.

A baseline floater by McKnight, trey from Novak, and inside hoop by James off a nice interior pass from Christianson – all within a minute – gave La Conner a 27-23 lead going into the final stanza.

From that point, the Lady Braves didn’t look back.

La Conner padded its cushion on a pair of short jumpers by Reynolds and a Novak threepointer, taking a 36-31 lead in the waning moments.

The Lady Braves then withstood a brief 4-1 South Bend flurry.

“It was good that we were tested twice on this trip and were able to win both games,” said coach Novak. “That should help us as we look ahead to Orcas.”

La Conner travels to Orcas this Friday, Jan. 4, for the Lady Braves’ league road opener.

In a related Lady Braves’ hoop note: *The Valley coaching staff included Matt Bannish, who starred on the 1981 Viking State title team and later resided in the La Conner area with the Weidenbach family while attending and playing basketball at Skagit Valley College.

give Valley a lot of credit. They definitely played very well and brought a lot of energy to the gym, especially in the first half.

“This,” he added, “is a game that hopefully we’ll learn a lot from going forward.”

The immediate lesson involved how to grind out a win on an opponents’ floor at the end of a five-hour bus ride.

“It was hard to establish any kind of offensive rhythm,” coach Novak conceded. “Valley shot great all night and yet they only scored 47 points. We shot over 50 percent, but just didn’t get that many looks. Neither team was really able to get into much of a flow.”

It was a far different story for La Conner on Friday.

The uptempo Braves routed South Bend in an easy runaway.

Novak ignited the attack with a game-high 10 assists, several of the no-look variety.

Cook, with 13 points and 12 rebounds, was the main beneficiary of Novak’s passes.

James also ended up in doubledigits, with 10 points.

Skylar Krueger added eight points, six of which came on a pair of perimeter treys.

Howlett and Cameron Sherman contributed six points apiece.

Zavala finished with four points. Taylor Swanson hit a running jumper, while Sean Hulbert meshed a free throw as nine Braves landed on the scoring

column.

South Bend was led by the aptly named Miles Davis, who jazzed things up with an array of long three-pointers en route to a game high 21 points.

With the non-identical twin wins, La Conner improved to 100 on the campaign.

But the best, many courtside observers feel, is yet to come.

“This is a team that’s still searching for its identity,” Braves’ alum Greg Edwards said Friday. “Give them a month and I think you’ll really see this group start to come together.”

In the meantime, La Conner resumes action this Friday, Jan. 4, at Orcas.

In a related Braves’ basketball note: • Valley was coached by Viking alum Jon Pederson, who formerly led Concrete High, and hasn’t slowed a bit in terms of his animated sideline approach.

Games at a Glance

LA CONNER 11 14 14 10 -- 49 VALLEY 14 16 6 11 -- 47 (LC)—Novak 15, Cook 12, Howlett 8, Zavala 8, Williams 4, James 2.

LA CONNER 21 12 23 6 -- 62 SOUTH BEND 11 10 10 8 -- 39 (LC)—Cook 13, Novak 12, James 10, Krueger 8, Howlett 6, Sherman 6, Zavala 4, Swanson 2, Hulbert 1.

Braves still piling up football honors

The La Conner Braves fell just short in their quest for a State grid title, but team members are standing tall in the eyes of Washington media outlets.

La Conner’s Wil James and Dahlton Zavala were recently named to the Associated Press All-State Football Team.

James, a junior, was a first unit All-State pick at linebacker and a second squad All-State choice as an offensive lineman.

A senior, Zavala was an All-State second squad selection at running back after having led La Conner in rushing for a second straight season.

The Braves, under head coach Johnny Lee, finished the 2012 campaign with an 11-2 mark, advancing to the State semifinal round for the first time in a generation.

IN GOOD HANDS – The La Conner High football team is still scoring points, even after the season has ended. Braves players Dahlton Zavala, number 15, and Wil James, number 63 have received Associated Press 2B All-State honors.

– Photo by Lauren Reynolds

• SCHOOL LUNCHES •

January 4 through 10 FRIDAY, JAN. 4 Turkey Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Whole Grain Rolls, Honey Dilled Carrots, Apples, Milk, Juice.

MONDAY, JAN. 7 Skagit Beef Nachos, Refried BRINGING THEIR “A” GAME – La Conner’s Aubrey Stewart, Beans, Salsa, Fresh Pineapple, shown above drawing a shooting foul, played a key role in the Milk, Juice.

TUESDAY, JAN. 8 Lady Braves’ two-game sweep of last week’s holiday tournament Baked Skagit Spuds, Cheese action in Pacific County.

– Photo by Bill Reynolds

Games at a Glance

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LA CONNER 14 6 15 13 -- 48 VALLEY 15 10 10 3 -- 38 (LC)—McKnight 12, Novak 9, McCormick 8, McClung 8, Stewart 4, James 4, Reynolds 2, Christianson 1.

LA CONNER 7 3 17 10 -- 37 SOUTH BEND 9 5 9 12 -- 35 (LC)—Novak 15, McKnight 7, James 6, Reynolds 4, Stewart 3, McClung 1, Christianson 1.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR COMING UP Friday Jan 4

10:30 a.m. – Story Time: For all preschool ages (babies too!). Sing, move, listen to books, dance, interact with your child, and pop bubbles! La Conner Regional Library.

Sunday Jan 6

3 p.m.– Ish River Poets’ Circle: Come listen to fine poetry featuring Rachel Rose, Renee Saklikar, Roaul Fernandes, & Jen Cumin, well-known poets from Vancouver B.C. La Conner Civic Garden Club. Suggested donation: $5. More info: 360-391-3225.

Monday Jan 7

2 to 3 p.m. – Food Bank: La Conner Sunrise Food Bank is located in the Garfield Masonic Lodge behind the Methodist Church on S. 2nd Street on the hill. All are welcome: those who need groceries and those with food to share.

Tuesday Jan 8

12:30 to 2 p.m.– Post-Surgery: If you are planning on knee or hip replacement surgery, this class will show you how to transition back to your independent lifestyle after surgery. Island Hospital, 1211 24th St. Anacortes. Registration is required, 299-4204. Free.

Wednesday Jan 9

5 p.m. – Library Board: The La Conner Library Board of Trustees meets at the library.

7 p.m.– Holy Land, Whose Land?

Author Dorothy Drummond discusses the conflict­ing claims of the Israelis and Palestinians as well as the issues preventing peace in the region. Free.

Anacortes Library, 1220 Tenth St. For info call 293-1910.

Friday Jan 11

10 a.m. – Watershed Hike: Gentle 1 ½ mile walk through woodland and wetland; learn about beaver & waterfowl.

For adults and seniors. Meet at end of 32nd St. off D Ave, Anacortes. More info: 293-3725 or info@friendsoftheacfl.org 7 to 8:30 p.m.– Wildlife Network: Discover the hidden treasures of the National Wildlife Refuge System in this Beach Watcher lecture “From Satellite to Salish Sea.” This immense network covers 150 million acres of conservation lands across the USA, including the Salish Sea area. Free. NW Educational Service District Bldg, 1601 R Ave. Anacortes. More info, contact Matt Kerschbaum, cherrytree2@comcast.net

Saturday Jan 12

2 to 5 p.m. – Opening Reception: Winter Exhibitions at the Museum of Northwest Art – “Eduardo Calderón: Portraits of 20 Northwest Artists” and “Black and White Color Study from the Permanent Collection.”

Located at 121 S. First St. More info: www.museumofnwart.org or 466-4446.

7:30 p.m. – A Cappella Concert: Via Voice, male quartet sings jazz from the first half of the 20th century and rock from the second half.

Tickets: $15 & $17 at Maple Hall.

Advance tickets: Next Chapter Bookstore 466-2665.

Sunday Jan 13

2 to 3 p.m.– 2nd Sunday Jazz: Get jazzed at this free live performance by Trish Hatley with Phil & Hans. Anacortes Public Library, 1220 Tenth St. More info: 293-1910x21.

Monday Jan 14

2 to 3 p.m. – Food Bank: La Conner Sunrise Food Bank is located behind the Methodist Church on S. 2nd Street on the hill. All are welcome: those who need groceries and those with food to share.

call Gil Gillmor at 360-420-0558. Mail cash donations to La Conner Sunrise Food Bank, P.O. Box 922, La Conner, WA 98257. The food bank is open only between 2 and 3 p.m. on Mondays behind the Methodist Church on S. 2nd Street on the hill in La Conner.

HELP KIDS: The La Conner Boys Wednesday Jan 16 & Girls Club needs volunteers to help 10 a.m. to noon – Grief Workshop: youth with homework and teach special Six-week widowed support workshop skills such as knitting, art techniques and begins. Free. Meetings at Burlington chess. In order to create the best match, Senior Center, 1011 Greenleaf volunteers are required to complete an Avenue, each Wednesday. For more info application, participate in an interview or to register, call Mary at (360)848-1872 and have a background check. To find or go to skagitwss.org. out more, please contact Unit Director 7 p.m.–Lose Weight w/o Dieting: Noah Bannister at (360) 466-3672 or by Nutrition counselor Sharon Swan offers e-mail at cvaldez@bgcskagit.org. the perfect post-holiday program: how BE PART OF HISTORY: Skagit to lose weight slowly and permanently. County Historical Museum has openings Free. Anacortes Public Library, 1220 for lots of volunteers including, school Tenth St. For info: 293-1910 Ext. 21. tour docents and people to help with clerical work, maintaining the collections, Friday Jan 18 10:30 a.m. – Story Time: For all maintaining the buildings and helping preschool ages (babies too!). Sing, with special events. Call 466-3365 to find move, listen to books, dance, interact out how you can help.

ASSIST ARTISTS: The Museum with your child, and pop bubbles! At La of Northwest Art needs volunteers to Conner Regional Library. assist art instructors during Family

Art Days, one Saturday each month.

Volunteers participate in the workshops and gain admission to the museum at no LA CONNER QUILT & TEXTILE charge. Call 466-4446, ext. 106, or email MUSEUM: Located in the historic jasminev@museumofnwart.org.

Gaches Mansion at 703 S.Second St. JOIN SEARCH & RESCUE: Skagit The museum will be closed for interior Bay Search and Rescue is a volunteer restoration from January 1 through organization with three dedicated boats mid-February. For more info: www. to provide assistance to the Sheriff’s laconnerquilts.com or 466-4288.

Office in search and rescue situations on MUSEUM OF NORTHWEST Skagit Bay. Volunteers receive on-theART: Winter Exhibitions – “Eduardo water and classroom training monthly.

Calderón: Portraits of 20 Northwest Interested? Call Sharon Sharpe 466Artists” – Calderón interviewed a cross 3118. section of Northwest artists ranging BENCH PLAQUES: The beautiful in age, background, and media used bandstand benches in Pioneer Park are and photographed each in their home. the perfect setting to honor a family or “Black and White Color Study from the loved one. For a $500 donation to the Permanent Collection” – This exhibition Save Our Bandstand Fund each large, offers an atypical look at the Northwest split log bench can be dedicated with an palette from the diversity of artworks attractive four-by-eight inch plaque. Call in the collection including science and Bud Moore, 466-4583. history behind black and white. Open: BUY A BENCH: The Town of La Sunday & Monday - Noon to 5p.m.; Conner has waterfront locations perfect Tuesday thru Saturday - 10a.m. to 5p.m. for commemorative benches made of Located at 121 S. First St. For more info: powder coated cast iron and designed www.museumofnwart.org or 466-4446. to last for generations that the Parks SKAGIT COUNTY HISTORICAL Commission wants to install. For a MUSEUM: From parlors to plows, Native donation of $2,100, the town can buy a American baskets to Shirley Temple bench and have a plaque installed on it dolls, the museum galleries tell the rich honoring any person or occasion of the and intriguing stories of Skagit County’s donor’s choosing. Call the town at 466vibrant past . Open Tuesday - Sunday 11 3125. a.m. to 5 p.m. Located at 501 S. Fourth FIREFIGHTERS NEEDED: The St. at the top of the hill. For more info: La Conner Volunteer Fire Department www.skagitcounty.net/museum or call is recruiting healthy men and women 466-3365.

18 years and older to help save lives and property in La Conner. The town’s firefighters are professionals who receive BOOSTER PAVERS: Show your many hours of training and respond Brave Pride with the La Conner High to emergencies day and night. To be School Booster Club’s paver project. A considered for a position as a volunteer quad in front of the school is covered firefighter, pick up an application packet in tiles to memorialize alumni, families, at Town Hall. Applicants must pass a special occasions and businesses. background check, driving record check Tiles are $75 for two lines with up to 20 and a physical, all paid for by the town. characters each and additional lines can Firefighters meet 7 p.m. each Wednesday be purchased. Order forms are available at the Fire Station on Chilberg Road just at the La Conner Weekly News office east of town. For information call 466or call Nancy Anderson at 466-4068 or 3125.

Kelly McKnight at 466-3482.

RECYCLE ELECTRONICS: Help HELP THE HUNGRY: Hunger the La Conner Kiwanis earn cash by is becoming an everyday state of recycling empty inkjet cartridges, used emergency. You can help. Your cell phones, laptops, PDAs and Palm community food bank needs some Pilots, iPods, digital cameras, video very special people: board members, games and video game systems. Droporganizers, program coordinators, offs are located at the Shelter Bay Office, teachers, drivers, workers – including Key Bank, Washington Federal Savings, strong and flexible people – and writers La Conner Drug Store, Swinomish Tribal and photographers to tell our story. If you Administration Office and La Conner would like to volunteer, please call Gil Potlatch. The program benefits local Gillmor at 360-420-0558. youth.

SUNRISE FOOD BANK: To volunteer

Tuesday Jan 15

8 to 11 a.m. – Screening for cholesterol and glucose at Island Health Resource Center, 1211 24th St. Anacortes. Requires 12-hour fast. Cost is $10. First come, first serve.More info: 299-1309.

ARTS/ MUSEUMS

HELP OUT

The Poet’s Place

American Life in Poetry

From Ted Kooser U.S. Poet Laureate A friend saw a refrigerator magnet that read, PARENTING: THE FIRST 40 YEARS ARE THE HARDEST. And lots of parents, thinking their children have moved on, discover one day that those children are back. Here Marilyn L. Taylor, Poet Laureate of Wisconsin, writes of that.

Home Again, Home Again

By Marilyn L. Taylor The children are back, the children are back— They’ve come to take refuge, exhale and unpack; The marriage has faltered, the job has gone bad, Come open the door for them, Mother and Dad. The city apartment is leaky and cold, The landlord lascivious, greedy and old— The mattress is lumpy, the oven’s encrusted, The freezer, the fan, and the toilet have rusted.

The company caved, the boss went broke, The job and the love affair, all up in smoke.

The anguish of loneliness comes as a shock— O heart in the doldrums, O heart in hock.

And so they return with their piles of possessions, Their terrified cats and their mournful expressions, Reclaiming the bedrooms they had in their teens, Clean towels, warm comforter, glass figurines.

Downstairs in the kitchen the father and mother Don’t say a word, but they look at each other As down from the hill comes Jill, comes Jack.

The children are back. The children are back.

Poem copyright ©2009 by Marilyn L. Taylor. Ted Koozer’s “American Life in Poetry” is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of “Poetry” magazine.

CLUBS

ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT: Alzheimer’s Association caregiver support group meets at Westminster Presbyterian Church at 1 p.m. on the second and third Monday of each month. The church is located at 9th and M Avenue in Anacortes.

Call (360) 299-9569 for information.

BILLIKEN LADIES: La Conner’s Billiken Ladies meet at Noon the second Monday of each month. Contact Barbara Sanford at 466-3483 or Dorothy Dalan at (360) 707-0536.

DAR: The Daughters of the American Revolution, Ann Washington Chapter, meets at the Good Shepherd Hall, Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church, 1511 East Broadway at 11:30 a.m. For information 360-629-9937 or 360-466-3430.

DRAGON BOAT CLUB: The North Puget Sound Dragon Boat club dedicated to cancer awareness, fitness and fun through paddling meets monthly at the Skagit Valley College Oak Harbor Campus and goes paddling every Saturday. New members and visitors are always welcome. For information contact Cathie Harrison (360) 678-9003.

FIDALGO ISLAND QUILTERS: Fidalgo Island Quilters Guild meets the first Monday of each month at the New Hope Community Church, 1319 35th St., Anacortes. The Suns afternoon group meets at 12:30 p.m. and the Stars evening group meets at 7 p.m. For more information go to www. fidalgoislandquilters.com.

GARDEN CLUB: La Conner Civic Garden meets each month at the Garden Club building on South Second Street.

Visitors are always welcome. Call Susie Deyo at 466-3258 for more information.

GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: The Skagit Valley Genealogical Society meets 7 p.m. fourth Tuesday of each month at the Burlington Community Center, 1011 Greenleaf Ave., Burlington. For more info, call 360-424-4427, or email: genealogy0715@gmail.com or visit www.rootsweb/ancestry.com/~wasvgs .

GOP WOMEN: The West Skagit County Republican Women’s Club meets the second Wednesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. at the San Juan Lanes in

Anacortes. For more information call Pat Essig at 293-3483 or Pat Stowe at 2934147.

GRIEF SUPPORT: Hospice of the Northwest sponsors informal grief support groups open to anyone dealing with a loss. Anacortes group: noon to 1:30 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at Westminster Presbyterian, located at 1300 9th St. in Anacortes. Mount Vernon group: 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at the Hospice office, 819 S. 13th St. in Mount Vernon. Anyone who has experienced the death of a child of any age can call 360-814-5589 for information on an ongoing group for people who have lost a child.

HARMONY NORTHWEST CHORUS: The Harmony Northwest Chorus, which sings 4-part harmony and barbershop style, rehearses 7 to 9:30 p.m. each Monday at the Mount Vernon Community Center, at the corner of Cleveland and Hazel. For information call Judy at (360) 707-2895.

HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION: The Skagit Hearing Loss Association meets at 1 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at the Anacortes Senior Center to provide support for people with hearing loss and their families. The senior center is located at 1701 22nd St., Anacortes. Contact: Jerry Olmstead at jolmst623@aol.com;or Joanna Olmstead at 299-3848.

KIWANIS: The Kiwanis Club of La Conner meets 7:50 a.m. each Wednesday at La Conner Retirement Inn, 204 N. 1st St. Community members are welcome to attend and enjoy a free breakfast. For information call Secretary Garry Cline at 466-1071.

LA CONNER ROTARY: The La Conner Rotary Club meets 6 p.m. every Monday at the Farmhouse Restaurant located at Highway 20 and La Conner Whitney Road.

LIBRARY FRIENDS: The Friends of the La Conner Regional Library meets the third Monday of each month at the 9 a.m. at the La Conner Retirement Inn. LIONS CLUB: Burlington Lions meet at 7 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month at the Farmhouse Inn on La Conner Whitney Rd. Call Rock White at 755-1362 or Jerry Hedbom at 7570107.

LIONS CLUB: Mount Vernon Lions meet at 7 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at Denny’s Restaurant located at 300 East College Way, in Mount Vernon. For information call Robert Foster at 424-1888.

LOW VISION GROUP: Skagit County’s Low Vision Support Group meets the first Tuesday of the month through May at 1 p.m. at the Burlington Senior Center, 1011 Greenleaf Ave. in Burlington. For more information, call Collene at 360-336-5436 or Dick at 360757-0723.

SEA SCOUTS: Winter meetings of the Sea Scouts are held at the W. T. Preston Sternwheeler in Anacortes on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. The Sea Scout schooner “Rejoice” is now back in La Conner tied up to her old moorage. Call Skipper Jim Taylor for more information: 360-299-9040.

SEWING GUILD: The La Conner Neighborhood Group of the American Sewing Guild meets monthly. For information call Gale Thomas 466-2027 or Sue Donaldson 466-3032.

SOROPTIMISTS: The La Conner Soroptimist International club meets 5:30 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month at the Swinomish Yacht Club, 310 N. First St., La Conner. For club information, please contact President Ellie Baugh at 360-420-9448.

SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: The new Surface Design Association of Skagit and Whatcom counties meets at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Monday of each month at the Gail Harker Creative Studies Center, 12636 Chilberg Road, La Conner. Everyone interested in fiber or textile arts is welcome. For information call Diane S. Learmonth at 360-5888594 or Susan Lenarz at 360-422-8187.

TOPS: La Conner TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets each Thursday from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Hope Island Fire Station. For information call (360) 2937347.

WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS: Skagit Widowed Support Services, a group for those who have lost a spouse, meets regularly to socialize. Prospective members are always welcome. For information please call Zerma, 4663525. To learn about 6-week GRIEF WORKSHOP starting Jan. 16, call Mary at (360)848-1872 or check our website SkagitWSS.org Put your listing in the Community Calendar: Please email your event notice to News@LaConnerNews.com.

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CHARLES DURNING Two well-respected actors died this week, Charles Durning and Jack Klugman.

Even though I worked often with Charlie and very briefly with Jack, I learned something profound about both of them in their obituaries this week.

Durning was 89, Klugman 90.

I had a very brief encounter with Klugman. I was directing “Everybody’s Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure.” This was a challenging film because everyone in the world knew the ending. But the script focused on all of the rescuers and we understandably wanted to cast very accessible, likeable actors to play the real life heroes of the story.

We cast Klugman to play the Sheriff, even though he didn’t seem much like a Texan to me.

The network wanted some names and Jack had become a very familiar face in the television version of “The Odd Couple” playing Oscar Madison, the carefree sportswriter who roomed with uptight Felix Unger, played

by Tony Randall.

We assembled the whole cast a few days before we started shooting for a table reading of the script. Klugman acted like he didn’t want to be there and barely mumbled his lines. He hardly said a word to me or anyone else for that matter.

At the end of the read through, I explained to all of the actors that we would be doing a “John Ford call” every day, which is to say that every actor would be called in to work first thing every morning.

No special treatment because everyone was surrounding the hole that Baby Jessica fell into and I would be seeing everyone in every scene.

Later that day, we got a phone call from Klugman’s agent saying that he was not going to the film.

No explanation.

We scrambled and cast Beau Bridges, who I had worked with before, so no harm done.

I assumed Jack didn’t like me or the character or the Texas accent or the early call times.

How wrong I was. In reading his obituary in the New York Times this week, I found out the real reason he behaved the way he did.

Klugman, a heavy smoker, had throat cancer. Who knew!

He had dropped out to go through treatment, which included having a vocal cord removed and he thought he had recovered enough to go back to work. As is often the case, the agents play down the illness because they know how something like that can prematurely end someone’s career.

Obviously, Jack was still struggling with his voice and he realized that as we were reading through the script.

In fact, it would take awhile before he could really work again, and from then on, he did so with a very gravelly voice.

Charlie Durning and I hit it off from the get-go.

We were both New Yorkers and I loved what a self-effacing, down to earth man he was. The first time we worked together, he played the adopted father of a girl who has cancer and needs a stem cell donor in a television movie, “A Perfect Match.” The problem is that the only match is her biological mother and her adopted parents have never told her she is adopted.

Because I am curious to a fault—some would say “nosey”—I would pester Charlie about his life story. I knew he was a World War II veteran and that he had landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. But Charlie

wouldn’t elaborate. He just said, “Yes, I was there.”

The last time I saw him we were staying in the same hotel in New York because he was doing a play at Lincoln Center.

He looked and sounded great— upbeat and grateful to be alive and still working at his age.

It was only when I read his obituary this week that I realized why Charlie felt so lucky to be alive.

He was born into poverty in upstate New York in 1923, the ninth of ten children. His father was sickened by mustard gas and lost a leg in World War I. Five of his sisters died of smallpox or scarlet fever in childhood, three of them within two weeks.

After many odd jobs, he was on his way to becoming an actor when World War II broke out and he enlisted in the Army. He was in the first wave of troops to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day and he was his unit’s lone survivor of a machine-gun ambush.

In Belgium he was stabbed in hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier, who he bludgeoned to death with a rock.

Fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, his whole company was captured and forced to march through a pine forest. He was one of the few to survive a massacre when the Germans opened fire with a machine gun.

Charles Durning was awarded a Silver Star for valor and three Purple Hearts and spent months in military hospitals where he was treated for psychological trauma. Who knew!

Instead of going through life self-pitying, he was one of the most remarkably positive people I have ever met. He loved to dance, he loved his family, he loved to work.

He became a prolific, blue collar actor, with showy roles in movies like “Tootsie” and “The Sting” and memorable Broadway appearances in “The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas” and “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.”

The next time we start to feel sorry for ourselves, let’s just think of Charles Durning and pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off and start all over again!

• Senior Lunch Menu •

for Tuesday, January 8 Chicken Tetrazzini Carrot Raisin Salad Lunch is served at 11:45 a.m. at the La Conner Senior Center at Maple Hall. Donation is $3 to $5 for seniors 60 and over, and $6 for younger folk.

La Conner Senior Center Calendar Tues., Jan. 8

104 E. Commercial

• 8 - 9:15: Rise and Shine Yoga.

• 8:20 - 8:50: Morning Walk.

• 9 - 11:30: Mahjong.

• 9 - 11:30: Stone Soup Discussion Group.

• 9:30 - 11:30: Canasta.

• 11:15 - 11:45: Open Meeting • 12 - 12:30: Senior Services Hot Lunch. Donation requested.

• 12:30 - 2: Mexican Train Dominoes. Come join in!

• 12:30 - 3: Knitting Group.

• 2 - 4: Creative Non-Fiction Writing with Claire.

• 3 - 3:45: Yoga for Every Body.

Classes and programs open to all ages.

Contact person: Janna Gage, 466-3941

We accept MasterCard® & Visa®!

Call LWN at (360) 466-3315

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• LEGAL NOTICE •

King Features Weekly Service

December 31, 2012

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December 31, 2012

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You younger than “full” serve a copy of your answer better price guides.

I upon the West, a distance of 489.79 feet to can help me. — Bill, Oak to use and I think accurately two million children, get Social who are please keep Chipper.

Even ing, talk to your vet about manufactured between especially contact a dogfor trainer who use should we is do?

— Taken Park, Ill. undersigned attorney for Plaintiff, the East line of the West 30.00 feet like the Warman can apply benefits, the age, which 66 for reflect marketplace values.

Security survivors benefits. retirementthough he is not the perfectly has experience treatment dealing and with payment and is1935.

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To head off potendifficult dogs. dead end ander you hope owner of the Chicago trustyou for advice.

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— Bill, Oak Old Telephone Company, more, you a in case of your failure parallel with the West line of said *** tostated; use andand I think accurately please keep Chipper. Even ments to ask@pawscorner. contact a dog trainer who acom.replacement Medicare and card, means $1ment will deducted from he sells older, Park,restored Ill. tobe bring petnot into your their lives.

Write to Larry Cox in socare to marketplace do, judgment values. will be rendered Lot 1, a distance of 79.94 feet to the reflect For pet carethough heais the perfectly hasmore experience dealingtelephones with to the public. of King Features Weekly home, and$2 youearned should stick and much more.

You’ll find each over Myth: I don’t need to save benefits for related advice and informaRichard March is against you according to the demand Northeast corner of said West 30.00 You also should find a dealpuppy you expect- difficult dogs.

His address is 1446 Tram- Service, P.O. Box 536475, withhealthy that promise. tion,all visit— www.pawscorner. it along with answers owner of the Chicago of the Complaint, which has been feet and the terminal point of this line er you trust for advice. ed, it’s not his fault.

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Orlando, FL 32853-6475, Send questions or comTelephoneor Company, filed with the clerk of said court. description. TOGETHER WITH a to yourments questions — at www.

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Due to Write to Larry care socialsecurity.gov. com. For more pet Road, care- P.O. Box 70, Galestelephones to the thelarge public. judgment and to foreclose volume ofofmail he Features home, and you should stick related advice and informaKing Weeklyon a Deed and through that portion of a 100 ville, WI 54630. receives, Mr. Cox is unable to P.O. His address is 1446 Tramof Trust on real property located in foot diameter circle lying Southerly with that promise.

Service, Box 536475, LAtion, CONNER TOWN visit www.pawscorner. answer all Skagit reader County, Washington including of the above described line, the *** way, Sanford, personally NC 27332.

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Orlando, FL 32853-6475, Do not send any I am For restoring parts, I questions. recommend all claims about what happened. Com- COUNCIL AGENDA send e-mailoftoDefendants questions- and “all center of said circle is described as two older dress- materials requiringor return Tues., Jan. 8 6 p.m.

Phoneco, Inc. 19813 E. Mill other persons or Due partiesto unknown follows: Beginning at the Northwest © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc. plain to store management, forcox@aol.com. ers from the early 1900s. mail.

Upper Maple Center I would like to Road, P.O. Box 70, Gales- theclaiming any right, title,he estate, lien corner of said Lot 1; thence North find hardlarge volume of mail 1. Opening Ceremonies ville, WI 54630. © 2012 King Features Synd., orInc. interest in the real estate,” ware appropriate to the receives, Mr. Cox is unable to which 83°04’34” East along the North line real property is all commonly a. Roll Call personally answer reader known of Lot 1 and Lot 2 of said Short Plat *** as 32810DoSouth Skagit b. Call to Order not send anyHighway, No. 161-79, a distance of 199.80 I am restoring questions.

Sedro-Woolley, Washington, NHN feet; thence South 6°55’26” East, a c. Flag Salute requiring return two older dress- materials South Skagit Highway, Sedro- distance of 119.91 feet to an existing ers from the early 1900s. mail. d. Review and Approval of Woolley, Washington, and 32828 well and the center of said circle.

I would like to find hardAgenda South Skagit Highway, Sedro- Situate in the County of Skagit, © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc. ware appropriate to the e. Approval of Minutes Woolley, Washington, and is legally State of Washington. PARCEL “C”: period. Any suggestions? f. Approval of Accounts Railroad China described as follows: PARCEL “A”: That portion of Lot 3 of Short Plat — Rob, Metarie, La. Payable Those portions of Lot 1 and Lot 2 No. 161-79 as recorded in Volume have several g. Approval of IPayroll Van Dyke’s Restor—32— and Lot 3 of Short Plat No. 161-79, 4 of Short Plats, at page 57 under pieces of china ers has an impresthe corporate head2. Reports as recorded in Volume 4 of Short Auditor’s File No. 8003280008, Puppy-Mill Dog write made for the New York sive inventory, including quarters, if there is one, and Plats at page 57, under Auditor’s records of Skagit County, a. Community CentralComments Lines in Syracuse. such hard-to-find items as Not So Chipper complain to the Better BusiFile No. 8003280008, records of Washington, lying Northerly of the b. Chamber Report Whom can I contact about dresser pulls, cabinet hardSkagit County, Washington, lying following described line: Beginning DEAR PAW’S COR- ness Bureau. c. Revenue/Expenditure current values? — Patri- ware and even Victorian Pet stores and breeders Southerly and Westerly of the at the Northeast corner of Lot 3 of NER: This Christmas, we Report cia, Fowlerville, Mich. doorbells and light brackfollowing described line: Beginning said Short Plat No. 161-79; thence thought we bought the must be licensed by the d.

Department Reports Douglas McIntyre ets. The address is P.O. 52, at the Northeast corner of Lot 3 of South 00°44’58” West along the perfect puppy for our son. USDA to sell pets, and are c. Mayor’s Report is the author of “The Louisiana, MO 63353. said Short Plat No. 161-79; thence—32— East line of said Lot 3, a distance of “Chipper” looked ador- supposed to be inspected d. Council Committee Reports Official Guide to Railroad South 00°44’58” West along the 286.50 feet; thence North 72°13’02” *** able and healthy at the pet regularly. You can contact 3. Unfinished Business Dining Car China,” one of East line of said Lot 3, a distance of West, a distance of 489.79 feet to the I recently purstore when we picked him the local SPCA, the Humane the better reference a. Ordinance - Water Rates books 286.50 feet; thence North 72°13’02” East line of the West 30.00 feet of chased some glassout. However, a couple of Society of the United States in this- LCMC field. Since it is ware from a neighbor, b. Ordinance AmendWest, a distance of 489.79 feet to the Lot 1 of said Short Plat No. 161-79; days after we brought him (hsus.org) or the ASPCA an 15.10.125 expensive Bed book, East line of the West 30.00 feet of thence North 00°47’36” East & try to including some stunning home, Chipper got very (aspca.org) if you think ments: request15.20.055 a copy through your pieces of Stueben, Lalique Lot 1 of said Short Plat No. 161-79; parallel with the West line of said ill; he was lethargic and Chipper came from a puppy Breakfast, regional public library. Rob- and Boehm. I got the items thence North 00°47’32” East Lot 1, a distance of 79.94 feet to the vomiting. We took him to mill.

Administrative Appeals ert D’Archille is a serious at such a reasonable price Again, please keep him Conditional parallel with the West line of said Northeast corner of said West 30.00 the vet right away, where Use Permits, collector who also might be that I wonder if I should Lot 1, a distance of 79.94 feet to feet and the terminal point of this line he remains, recovering if at all possible. Too many 15.12.130 Appeal of Ad-is 3972 helpful.

His address the Northeast corner of said West description. Situate in the County of simply hold on to them from several issues the vet puppy-mill dogs wind up ministrative Decision, NY Route 26, and Whitney until economic conditions 30.00 feet and the terminal point of Skagit, State of Washington. said are typical of puppy- in shelters, or are eutha- 15.60.020 Point, Trees NY 13862. this line description. EXCEPT that DATED this 10th day of December, improve. — Betty, Waco, mill dogs. He also said nized, due to health and 4. New Business portion of Short Plat No. 161-79 as 2012. *** Texas that puppy-mill dogs can behavioral problems that a. Boardwalk Bid Acceptance recorded in Volume 4 of Short Plats, SKAGIT LAW GROUP, PLLC I have been searchhave behavioral problems their owners didn’t want You might begin by b. Mayor Pro-tempore at page 57 under Auditor’s File /s/ Craig E. Cammock, WSBA #24185 ing for- Sixseveral as well. Now I’m not sure to deal with. If his health purchasing some of No. 8003280008, records of Skagit Attorney for Plaintiff appointment older telephones that were the better price guides. I we should keep him. What issues become overwhelm- month County, Washington, described as 227 Freeway Drive, Suite B manufactured between especially like the Warman c. Council Vacancy Appointshould we do? — Taken ing, talk to your vet about treatment and payment ment1925 and 1935. I’m at a follows: Beginning at the Southwest P.O. Box 336 for a Ride in Pennsylvania guides published by options. To head off potencorner of said Lot 1; thence North Mount Vernon, WA 98273 dead end and hope you 5. Community Comments Krause, since they are easy DEAR TAKEN: First off, tial behavioral problems, 00°47’32” East along the West line Telephone: (360) 336-1000 can help me.

— Bill, Oak 6.

Miscellaneous to use and I think accurately please keep Chipper. Even contact a dog trainer who of said Lot 1, a distance of 299.09 Facsimile: (360) 336-6690 Park, Ill. reflect marketplace values. though he is not the perfectly has experience dealing withMayor/Council Roundtable feet; thence South 51°39’15” East, a Published in La Conner Weekly Richard March is You also should find a dealhealthy puppy you expect- difficult dogs.

7. Executive Session distance of 46.33 feet; thence South News, December 19, 26, 2012 and owner of the Chicago er you trust for advice. ed, it’s not his fault. FurtherSend questions or com-There may be an executive 8°30’53” West, a distance of 273.34 January 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2013.

Old Telephone Company, more, you made a commit- ments to ask@pawscorner.session immediately preced*** feet to the point of beginning of this he sells older, restored ment to bring a pet into your com. For more pet care-ing or and Write to Larry Cox in care following the meeting description. SUBJECT TO a well telephones to the public. home, and you should stick related advice and informaof King Features Weekly protection easement over, under and as allowed by RCW42.30.110 His address is 1446 Tram- Service, P.O. Box 536475, with that promise.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, tion, visit www.pawscorner.and as announced by the prethrough that portion of a 100 foot way, Sanford, NC 27332.

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Orlando, FL 32853-6475, STATE OF WASHINGTON, diameter circle lying Southerly of siding officer.

For parts, I recommend or send e-mail to questionsabout what happened. ComSKAGIT COUNTY the above described line, the center Phoneco, Inc. 19813 E. Mill forcox@aol.com. Due to © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc. plain to store management, Town of Concrete, of said circle is described as follows: Road, P.O. Box 70, Gales- the large volume of mail he Claimant, Beginning at the Northwest corner of ville, WI 54630. receives, Mr. Cox is unable to vs. said Lot 1; thence North 83°04’34” personally answer all reader *** Earl A. Dyer III and Daphne W. East along the North line of Lot 1 and I am restoring questions. Do not send any Dyer, fka, Daphne W. Kullos, a Lot 2 of said Short Plat No. 161-79, a two older dress- materials requiring return marital community, distance of 199.80 feet; thence South ers from the early 1900s. mail.

6°55’26” East, a distance of 119.91 Fremont Investment & Loan, U.S. I would like to find hardPermanent & Guest Moorage feet to an existing well and the center Bank, N.A., Trutee relating to J.P. © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc. ware appropriate to the Morgan Mortgage of said circle. TOGETHER WITH Dry Boat Storage • Launching Facilities Free Estimates Defendants. that portion of Government Lot 8, Concierge Service 30 yrs. experience Case No.: 12-2-02014-3 Office: 613 N. Second St. • (360) 466-3118 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION 466-2628 The State of Washington to the NOTICE OF ments: None required. www.DesignTechniquesNW.com said: Earl A. Dyer, Daphne W. APPLICATION Consistency Overview: The pur- Dyer, fka, Daphne W. Kullos, and The Town of La Conner is pro- pose of this provision of the La ConJ.P. Morgan Mortgage.. You are cessing a permit application for the ner Municipal Code is to establish hereby summoned to appear within following project that may be of a means to protect all trees within sixty days after the date of the first interest to you. You are invited to the town rights-of-way and minipublication of this summons, to wit, comment on the proposal. mize the loss of existing significant within sixty days after the 26th day Over 20 Years Experience Custom Designed Marine Canvas —32— Date: January 2, 2013 trees due to development within the of December, 2012, and defend the & Interior Upholstery, Auto, Household & RV Marine Engine Repair File Number: 12-45T town boundaries, where feasible, above entitled action in the above Project Applicant: Steve Erickson and provide guidance on removal 601-C Dunlap entitled court, and answer the FACTORY TRAINED Project Description: The applicant and replacement where necessary. A La Conner Marina complaint of the claimant the Town YANMAR & VOLVO TECHNICIAN is proposing to remove an atlas ce- significant tree is defined as an everof Concrete, and serve a copy of Ask for Lee 466-3295 We service all brands. dar tree, 37.8” in diameter. Urban green or deciduous tree at least six your answer upon the undersigned next door to Boater’s Discount Forestry Services assessed the con- inches in diameter at a point five feet 466-4636 • 612 N. Dunlap, Suite E attorneys for plaintiff David L. Day, dition of the tree and is recommend- above ground level. at his office below stated; and in case ing removal because the root growth Preliminary determination of the of your failure to do so, judgment will has caused damage to the floor and development regulations that will be be rendered against you according to chimney of the carport. used for project mitigation: the demand of the complaint, which Project Location: 212 Calhoun Town of La Conner LCMC ahs been filed with the clerk of said Street, La Conner, WA §15.60 - Trees www.laconneryachtsales.com court.

Date of Permit Application: DePublic Hearing - Planning ComThe object of this action is cember 4, 2012 mission foreclosure of a municipal utility lien Toll Free: 800-232-8879 • Fax: 466-3533 Date of Determination of Com• Date: January 15, 2013 recorded on March 1, 2011 relating pleteness: December 28, 2012 • Time: 6:00 p.m.

611 N. Second St., LC Marina Bldg. to the property described as: Required Permits: The following • Location: Upper Maple Center Ȥ Since 1971 Ȥ Lot 4, “CEDAR PARK PLAT,” local, state and federal permits/apComments: Comments on the as per plat recorded on June 5, provals are needed for the proposed above application must be submitted 2002 under Auditor’s File No. project: in writing to John Doyle, Planning 200206050104, records of Skagit • Tree Removal Permit Town of Director, PO Box 400, La Conner, County, Washington.

Between the marinas on the Swinomish Channel La Conner WA 98257, by 4:30 PM on January Situate in the County of Skagit, Complete range of marine supplies and Existing Environmental Docu- 14, 2013. Anyone submitting comState of Washington. electronics. Propane tanks filled. ments will automatically become a Dated this 19th day of December, Clothing • Accessories • Souvenirs • Charts • Books party of record and will be notified In Delaware it is illegal to fly over of any decision on the project. If you 2012.

David L. Day, WSBA #8361 any body of water, unless one is have any questions concerning this Attorney for Plaintiffs, carrying sufficient supplies of food proposal, please contact John Doyle 601 Dunlap St. • 466-3540 Published in La Conner Weekly and drink. Also getting married on a at (360) 466-3125. www.boatersdiscountcenter.com News, December 26, 2012 and Published in La Conner Weekly January 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2013. dare is grounds for an annulment.

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“History taught us that these people were going to drive anyway,” said Captain Rob Huss, commander of the State Patrol’s Office of Government and Media Relations. “The Ignition Interlock License gives them a way to drive legally, but gives the rest of us some assurance that they’re sober and safe.”

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Skagit County Community Action Agency, for the first time since its beginning in 1979, has changed its name to Community Action of Skagit County. The change will help to stress the non-profit group as a private, community based nonprofit agency, who works with community volunteers, donors and partners.

“Our friends in the community and the people we serve have always referred to is as ‘Community Action,’ so we believe the name change simply affirms this. Our Board also thought the new name better emphasized that we are a community based nonprofit,” Said Bill Henkel, Community Action’s Executive Director.

“We have always been proud of our ability to attract millions of dollars in outside funding to Skagit County, and that will not change,” says Henkel. “But as need rises and resources dwindle, we rely on our community to meet our mission of moving individuals, families and our community itself toward prosperity. We can’t solve poverty on our own, and we never could.

Changing our name is one small way of acknowledging this.”

In the last year Community Action has helped over 37,000 Skagit County residents, with over 35 programs aimed at helping people help themselves and each other. The agency’s volunteers have donated 117,817 hours of service to Skagit County, conservatively valued at $2,621,945.

Community Action of Skagit County serves as an administrative “umbrella” for a variety of local programs that support the public need. The flexibility in services, responsiveness to community need, and local control make Community Action Agencies increasingly attractive to local leaders.

SpamSoldier attacks

A powerful spam-sending application is attacking the most common smartphone operating system.

“Before you click on a link that is texted to you, understand it’s probably going to cost you,” says Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna. “That text that appears to come from a reputable retailer is usually a trick to take your money, install a virus, or both.”

As reported by The Next Web, SpamSoldier “spreads through SMS messages that advertise free versions of popular paid games like Angry Birds Space.”

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Use Gift Cards Before They’re Worthless Did you get gift cards for Christmas? If so, did you slide them into your wallet or the bottom of your purse, thinking to save them for later?

While gift cards are like cash in that they allow you to buy things, they’re not like cash in that they often come with restrictions. The Gift Card Federal Law Act, passed in 2010, covered a number of problems with gift cards, but it did not cover all possible contingencies.

For example, if a card hasn’t been used with a year, unlimited charges can be deducted from the card. An

purpose” card issued by a bank, as opposed to one that is specific to a store, you might be charged a purchase fee.

If you have a store-specific card and the business goes bankrupt, you’re out of luck.

The card itself can expire even if it still has a cash amount available on it. You might have to pay to have the card replaced.

“Gift cards” that really aren’t gift cards aren’t protected under the new rules.

These can include loyalty or promotional cards that aren’t labeled or sold as gift cards.

On the positive side: Any expiration date must show on the card or package.

Charges cannot be deducted for one year on any inactive card, and then not more than once in a month.

Your best bet: If any packaging came with your gift card, read the fine print.

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third party app stores. Once it’s infiltrated an Android handset, it uses the subscriber’s allotment of text messages to put its tentacles on more targets.

The Next Web says SpamSoldier’s texts include messages telling consumers they’ve won a $1,000 Target gift card or provide an opportunity to download free games such as Grand Theft Auto 3. Someone who clicks on the link might actually receive a free game. But they will also install an application that in coordination with a kind of mother ship — a server somewhere in cyberspace — seeks to reproduce itself.

Detecting SpamSoldier can be difficult because the app is programmed to intercept responses to its texts before consumers see them. Still, those who pay by the text or have a limited number per month will eventually notice the activity.

To avoid SpamSoldier and other malicious apps only download them from reputable vendors such as the app store pre-installed on your phone.

Do not download apps from a vendor who sends you a text and don’t fall for texts saying you’ve won something. Also, check bills with an eye for texts you do not remember sending or for charges you did not authorize. You can check your smartphone’s security by visiting the FCC’s fcc.gov/ smartphone-security.

Social Security benefits go up

By Kirk Larson Social Security Western Washington Public Affairs Specialist As we ring in a new year, we can expect to see a number of changes. Social Security is no exception: in 2013, people who receive Social Security or Supplemental Security Income payments will see their benefits increase.

Beginning in January, a 1.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment was applied to all Social Security and SSI payments.

The average monthly Social Security benefit for a retired worker in 2013 is $1,261 – up from $1,240 in 2012 – and the average monthly Social Security benefit for a disabled worker in 2013 is $1,132 – up from $1,113 in 2012.

These changes were reflected in SSI payments dated December 31, 2012 and Social Security payments dated in January 2013.

For people who receive SSI, the maximum federal payment amount has risen to $710, up from $698.

There are other Social Security changes in 2013 also worth noting.

For example, a worker now pays Social Security tax on up to $113,700 of annual income. In 2012 the ceiling was $110,100.

A worker earns one credit after paying taxes on $1,160 in earnings in 2013, which is up from $1,130 last year. As always, a worker may earn a maximum of four credits each year and a person generally needs 40 credits – or ten years of work – to be eligible for retirement benefits.

To learn more about these and other changes for 2013, visit the Social Security website at www. socialsecurity.gov.

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“We’ve even heard stories of people trying to use portable air compressors to take the test.”

Washington acknowledges that accused or convicted impaired drivers have jobs and family obligations that require a car, and the Interlock device allows those drivers to continue using their vehicle as long as they can pass the breathing test that allows their car to start.

Failures or attempts to tamper with the device are recorded by the machine’s software, then the company which leases the interlocks, downloads the information and turns it over to the State Patrol.

“We do make personal visits to drivers if we have evidence they have tried to fool the machine,” Sharpe said. “Having the picture will the best possible evidence

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DUI ignition locks

As of yesterday, Washington State driver’s who have an Ignition Interlock License to prevent driving while under the influence of alcohol, will now be posing for a picture when they breathe into the machine installed in their vehicle.

The new photo feature has been designed to prevent impaired drivers from having others perform the breath tests for them.

A camera will now snap a picture each time the machine is used, verifying that the driver is the person who took the test.

“We’ve had cases where the impaired drivers asked passengers, friends or even children to take the test for them,” said Lt. Rob Sharpe, commander of the Washington State Patrol’s Impaired Driving Section.

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Aqiimuk’s Kitchen

By Patricia Aqiimuk Paul, Esq. Clam fritters are one of the traditional foods of the Coast Salish peoples, from Canada, down the coast of Washington.

The tribes have a saying, “when the tide is out, the table is set.”

Clam fritters are one of my favorite foods at the long buffet lines during a tribal gathering. Most recently, I feasted on them at a family funeral at Musqueam, Vancouver, BC, Canada. When I cooked these for breakfast recently, I asked Kevin, when was the last time he ate homemade clam fritters and he replied, when made by his later mother, Isabelle Yakanak.

Clam Fritters

Ingredients 1/3 cup minced clams 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk 3/4 cup flour Black pepper Dried parsley Olive oil Preparation This meal took two separate preparations. First, I received 5 horse clams from Freddie Lane at Lummi, who had harvested them at Portage Bay. They were full of sand, so took careful cleaning.

I decided to chop up the neck and part of the foot and discard the rest. They required rinsing, soaking and rinsing to clean out the sand. I chopped and placed in two small zip lock bags and then placed those into a larger zip lock bag and froze. It’s best to use any frozen seafood within 6 months, so I took these out at the 6 month mark for the final preparation. My husband, Kevin, had found an old fashioned metal food grinder for $9.50 at Shipwreck Days in Anacortes. I washed it carefully before use. It attaches to a shelf. I ground up the chopped clams and they yielded about ⅓ cup. In a separate bowl, I whipped up two eggs, added the milk and then stirred in the flour, half at a time, until there was a consistency of a pancake batter. I added black pepper and dried parsley and stirred again. Last, I added the minced clams and carefully stirred them all around. In a hot fry pan, coated with olive oil, I ladled the batter in and browned both sides. This yielded 7 fritters, about four inches in diameter.

CHANNEL VIEW – The town of La Conner under a steely winter sky as a Dunlap Towing Company tug pulls a log barge through the Swinomish Channel.

– Photo by Don Coyote

The Plant Lady

Fragrant Sweet Box, Sarcococca

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December 31, 2012

By Sue Phillips I awake to a new dawn, a new day and a New Year. Last year was filled with fantastic adventures, great joy and a few tears. The world didn’t end when the Mayans said it would.

By Samantha Weaver I survived hosting Christmas dinner and with any luck at all • It was American humor- boy had to witness every will do the whole thing again ist and columnist Josh Bill- one. It wasn’t until the ripe next Christmas.

In the garden all is quiet ings who made the follow- old age of 12 that he began ing sage observation: “Rea- to take over the full duties of and calm as the plants wait for spring. Bare branches glisten son often makes mistakes, the office. but conscience never does.”

• When famed inventor with morning dew and stately • You think there are a lot Alexander Graham Bell evergreens persist in shades of of lawsuits being heard in died in 1922, he was dictat- green to dark green and bronzy the courts these days? Sta- ing a memo. His final words green. Well mulched perennial tistics show that half of the were, “So little done, so gardens wait for the soil to warm enough for the new pips to suits filed never even make much to do!” emerge. Seed pods left from last it to court.

• If you’re a fan of big year’s blooms are visited daily by • In France in the 1700s, brass, you might want to hungry birds looking for food. capital punishment was head to Millersville, Pa., It may be cold outside but the not uncommon, and crimi- in May. Every year dur- garden always draws me out. No nals thus condemned were ing that month, the town month goes by without a treasure decapitated by the country’s celebrates International to behold. Sarcococca, Fragrant Chief Executioner. This Tuba Day, with some 50 Sweet Box calls to me with its position was hereditary, tuba players on hand to ser- fantastic fragrance. Sweet scents suggest a sunnier season. Though which posed a problem enade the crowd. when, in 1726, the holder • There’s been much pub- I have shared information about of that title, Charles-Jean- lic conversation about the this plant with you in the past it is Baptiste Sanson, suffered growing girth of Americans certainly worth revisiting. Few an early death, leaving his in recent decades. It’s not plants bring greater pleasure to 7-year-old son, Charles, to just people who are gaining the winter pallet than Sarcococca with its dark evergreen leaves take up the grisly duties. weight, though; between and alluring perfume.

It was obvious to all that 1996 and 2006, the average It is hard to imagine that so a child could never wield motor vehicle made in the much fragrance could come from the heavy axe required for U.S. gained 500 pounds. a plant with blossoms that you the decapitations, so it was practically need a magnifying *** deemed acceptable for a glass to see. They don’t have Thought for the Day: “If visible petals; instead clusters of helper to actually perform the executions. Only the you obey all the rules, you four perfume-packed pistils with official office-holder could miss all the fun.” — Katha- protruding stamens. The power of this plants perfume suggests put the official seal on the rine Hepburn you should plant it where you © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc. act, however, so the poor can enjoy its fragrance often. A good place is near the front door or along a shady drive where you get out of the car. Sarcococca is so sweet it is sometime referred to as Vanilla Plant.

Sarcococca, Fragrant Sweet box, is a genus of 16 to 20 species of flowering plants in the family, Buxaceae, the Boxwood Family.

It is native to eastern and southeastern Asia and the Himalaya. Sarcococca is a slow growing evergreen shrub with dark green, glossy foliage and incredible perfume emanating from tiny white dangling flowers nestled in the leaf axels.

They make great companions in the woodland garden for Rhododendrons, Mahonia, Camellia, Kalmias and other shade loving plants.

There are two varieties of Sarcococca that are commonly grown here in the Pacific Northwest: S. ruscifolia and S. —21— hokerana humilis.

The species S. ruscifolia grows slowly to 3 to 5 feet in height with a 3 to 7 foot spread. The oval to elliptical, dark green undulating WHAT ARE YOU LOOKIN’ AT? leaves are 2 inches long and – Photo by Don Coyote

densely set on the branches.

Lovely red fruit adorns the plant after the flowers fade.

If the plant is grown against a wall it will form a natural espalier, with the branches fanning out to create a pleasing pattern. It also shines as an entry way plant, in containers or may be used for foundation plantings.

Sarcococca hokerana humilis is a low spreader that seldom grows over 12 to 18 inches high and spreads to 8 feet or more.

The branches are thickly set with pointed 1 to 3 inch long green leaves followed by glossy blue black fruit. It makes a great ground cover, fits well in rockeries, low borders and works well as a foundation planting.

Both these plants are true treasures in the winter garden.

They are broadleaf evergreens, they flower during the winter, they have great fragrance, and they grow in the shade. What could be better?

We have enjoyed the many attributes of Sarcococca for many years. This Central China native was first collected in Hubei Province in 1887 by the Scottish physician and amateur botanist, Augustine Henry, 1857-1930. It was collected again in 1901 by the botanist Ernest H. “Chinese” Wilson, 1876-1930.

It became well known in English and American gardens in the mid 1900’s soon after the Royal Botanical Society funded new quests into Yunnan Province seeking garden worthy plants, bringing back seeds gathered at high elevations from plants with especially strong cold hardiness.

Fragrant Sweet box is very hardy once its extensive root system is well established in an organically rich soil with ample moisture. In the Northwest it can be somewhat drought hardy, though during long dry spells in the summer it does demand weekly watering in order to remain at its year round best.

The prolific garden writer John Beverly Nichols, 18981983, said, “To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat”.

May I be defeated again and again by the fragrance of flowers…may the sweet scent of Sarcococca sooth my savage soul…

Skagit Co. Sheriff’s Office POLICE BLOTTER Wednesday Dec. 19

11:08 a.m.: Drifting – Sheriff’s officers and the United State Coast Guard responded to a call for a 60-foot fishing vessel that ran aground on William Rocks near Allan Island, after high winds caused the vessel to drift free from it moorage. The same vessel ran aground this summer, at Similk Beach. The owner of the vessel was able to retrieve the boat during the summer incident.

The Department of Natural Resources is working to recover the vessel from the William Rock incident. No one was aboard during either event.

2:19 p.m.: Free sailing – The Department of Natural Resources were making efforts to retrieve a 32-foot sailboat, as a derelict vessel. The sailboat pulled free from its moorage during high winds and drifted from the Coronet Bay area out through Deception Pass.

business in the 400 block on Morris Street. The driver noticed the damage to his vehicle after he returned home from the store.

Deputies are investigating it as a hit and run on private property.

No further details at press time.

Monday Dec. 24

9:00 a.m.: Death threat – A Fir Island resident reported that he had received a call from someone threatening to kill him.

No report was available at press time.

10:24 a.m.: No bartering – Officers responded to a business in the 300 block of Morris Street in La Conner for a civil dispute concerning the value of a consignment item the shop had for sale.

1:23 p.m.: Channel suite – A Channel Drive resident was concerned for the safety of persons aboard a boat that was moored in the channel overnight.

Thursday Dec. 20

4:04 p.m.: Holiday blues – Deputies checked on a La Conner woman after receiving a call from her 15-year-old daughter, who was concerned about her mother’s health. Officers discovered the mother was fine and the daughter was upset about having to leave the area for the holidays.

Saturday Dec. 22

5:04 p.m.: Early sleepover – Tribal police responded to a call for an intoxicated male sleeping on the side of Pioneer Parkway near the west side Rainbow Bridge.

7:40 p.m.: Crash Course – The driver of a VW Passat struck a pole and rolled into a ditch on Dodge Valley Road near La Conner. The male driver was not injured in the accident.

Sunday Dec. 23

2:41 p.m.: Street pharmacy – A bag containing approximately 100 small canisters of Nitric Oxide (Nitrogen Monoxide) was turned over to officers.

The canisters were found along Caledonia Street in La Conner.

Small doses of Nitric Oxide are essential to humans and other mammals, but in large quantities can become unstable and emit highly poisonous gas. Nitric Oxide is used for the reduction of blood pressure and in cancer prevention. Deputies have not located the owner of the canisters and are uncertain as to their intended use.

4:51 p.m.: Hit and run – A driver reported damage to his car after being parked at a La Conner

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2. ANATOMY: What is another name for an erythrocyte?

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4. HISTORY: In what century was the Erie Canal constructed?

5. MUSIC: Which composer wrote more than 400 waltzes, including “The Blue Danube”?

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7. LITERATURE: Which sister is the oldest in the classic book “Little Women”?

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9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the common birthstone for May? 10. GAMES: What color is the No. 3 ball in billiards?

Answers 1. Clarence Odbody 2. Red blood cell 3. Italy 4. Early 19th century 5. Johann Strauss 6. Rita Hayworth 7. Meg 8. Karen 9. Emerald 10. Red © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

La Conner Institute of Performing Arts presents

Via Voice Four male voices blend in a cappela harmony performs at 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Jan. 12 Maple Hall

The quartet will sing jazz from the first half of the 20th century and rock from the second half.

Reserve tickets by calling The Next Chapter Bookstore: (360) 466-2665. Tickets: $15 - $17. Tickets also available at the door. Youth (under 18) admitted free.

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