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Spring is here ... Covid-19 vaccinations continue apace B y P a t G r u bb A total of 489 Point Roberts residents have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine as the vaccination program continues to roll along. Seventy-two people are fully vaccinated and 206 will receive their second dose on Sunday, March 28. There were 211 people who received their first dose on March 21. This group will receive their second shot on April 25. There are 100 doses on order for the weekend of April 3 & 4 but no word has yet been received regarding a shipment. There will be no second shots given until next month. Fire chief Christopher Carleton estimates that there is still a significant number of people who qualify for getting a vaccination that have not done so. “There’s over 200 people still on the list wanting to be vaccinated and more people are submitting their names each day. Anyone who is older and qualifies for a vaccination goes to the top of the list,” he said. He urged people to go to the Washington state Phase Finder page (bit.ly/3kXHUhr) to determine their eligibility to get vaccinated, adding that the criteria for receiving vaccinations was in a constant state of flux. Regardless of one’s current eligibility status, residents who are interested in getting vaccinated should email the chief and provide their name, age, phone number and email address (if they have one). Individuals may also provide their eligibility status as provided by the Phase Finder site, if they wish. Carleton said that some people who had signed up using the online survey had provided invalid phone numbers or email addresses, making it difficult if not impossible to contact them. While there have been no new cases of Covid-19 in Point Roberts since two were detected earlier this year, Whatcom County as a whole is considered to be high risk for contracting the disease. The county’s case rate per 100,000 for the last two weeks stands at 123 cases. Email chief Carleton at ccarleton@ wcfd5.com.
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PRCAC members pledge to keep on carrying on By Meg Olson The Point Roberts Community Advisory Committee (PRCAC) is not going into hibernation for 2021 as suggested by Whatcom County executive Satpal Sidhu. Instead, the committee plans to work on Sidhu’s suggestions to make the committee more effective while still focusing on getting local issues the attention they need. “We do not agree the PRCAC needs to be put on hiatus,” stated a memo to Sidhu the committee drafted together at their March 18 meeting. The committee detailed work they have done since Sidhu suggested on January 27 that they should shut down and spend the
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In their memo to Sidhu committee members emphasized that they had a critical role to play making sure Point Roberts issues were’t left to languish. With the ongoing border closure having “devastated the local economy,” an essential role of the committee was to advocate for measures that would ease border restrictions, as well as work with the community of longer-term efforts of economic recovery and attendant code revisions. “There will need to be town hall after town hall meeting to gather input,” Calder said. Discussion of the formation of a working group to tackle economic recovery issues was tabled until the April committee meeting. PRCAC members also agreed to establish three subcommittees. Katherine Smith will head a subcommittee that deals with issues relating to the environment, critical areas, wildlife habitat and conservation. One issue that committee will solicit input on is the possibility of relocating the community fireworks display to Lighthouse Marine Park this year to comply with Bald Eagle protection requirements. Annelle Norman will lead a subcommittee that gathers community input on the maintenance and restoration of facilities at Lighthouse Marine Park. “We are continually losing real estate,” she said. The taxpayers’ association is requesting that the county re-establish the boat launch, whale watching platform and boardwalk at the park. Finally Calder will work with a subcommittee on solutions to ongoing flooding and the degradation of the seawall at Maple Beach.
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suggested they need to meet in order to be legitimate community representatives: a minimum membership, bylaws, regular meetings, written bylaws, record keeping and open meetings. Calder, who represents the Point Roberts Registered Voters’ Association on PRCAC, and Annelle Norman, who represents the Point Roberts Taxpayers association, said they had submitted information to the executive’s office establishing compliance with all five criteria. Tamra Hansen, representing the Point Roberts Chamber of Commerce, said they had submitted information establishing compliance with the first four criteria but that their meetings were open only to chamber members, which is a common practice for all chambers of commerce. “It was a suggestion, not a mandate,” she said of the requirement for open public meetings. Based on feedback received at the February town hall meeting Norman said “the community has expressed a clear preference for elected representatives rather than having them selected by the county on their behalf,” as Sidhu had suggested. With a county ordinance to expand the PRCAC to seven members by the addition of two at-large positions due to take effect at the end of the month, committee members agreed to suggest to Sidhu a May 5 target date for another town meeting and candidates forum. “We need some time to publicize it and get people to put their applications in,” said at-large member Grant Heitman.
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Letters To The Editor The Editor: As the one-year marker passed for the first Covid-19 case in Whatcom County, the good news is greater vaccination coverage comes as case numbers begin to fall. We still have a lot to learn about SARSCoV-2. But one thing we do know is that studies show doctors should prepare for a significant rise in chronic kidney disease due to the pandemic. As a nephrologist, I know we will grapple with how to deal with the uncertainties of the impact of Covid-19 on kidney function in the long-haul. The Mount Baker Foundation supports a Kidney Health Awareness initiative that encourages proactive approaches to kidney health online at mtbakerfoundation. org. March is National Kidney Month, but the initiative will be on-going. Take a one-minute risk factor quiz: minuteforyourkidneys.org – if the test shows you’re at higher risk, contact your primary care provider for testing. Did you know that the two primary causes of kidney disease are diabetes and high blood pressure? Did you know kidney disease is called “the silent epidemic” because it is typically diagnosed at an advanced stage, when it is more difficult to treat? We can disrupt the progression in many cases of kidney disease to renal failure if we identify early who is at increased risk. One in three of us is at risk. Find out if you’re the one. William E. Lombard, MD Bellingham The Editor: School teaches to the intellect and leaves out the heart. Every child comes into this world created with their own natural gifts and talents, what it is they love to do that stems from the heart. But school has become a drudgery with an overload of too much detailed learning, too much testing and way too much homework. High school seniors can have up to seven hours of classwork and three hours of homework, looking at a computer screen for 10 hours a day. It is no longer a quality education because the quantity of information students are expected to learn is off the charts. When we are stressed, the brain releases different chemicals that doesn’t allow it to focus properly or think clearly. Because of this fact, school undermines its own ob-
Surveys have revealed students have had suicidal thoughts because they were under so much stress and feel hopeless. Those numbers have gone up. Parents, teachers and school administrators … take notice. I am sure you will agree that no amount of education is worth losing a child’s life. Cindy Kisska Birch Bay jectives because of all the stress it creates making it even harder for students to process the information they are expected to learn. It is tragic students are made to feel their worth is based on their grades, and so much pressure to get good grades so they can go on to college. The U.S. now has $1.7 trillion in student loan debt. Fouryear graduates can’t get jobs in their majors so they take minimum wage jobs and owe $100,000 in student loans. “Kids Under Pressure” on NBC Nightly News reported “Most students feel a crushing burden from pandemic learning from the massive work load.” Some Blaine schools have only one counselor overseeing as many as 400 students. This is a tragedy in itself. It reveals a blatant disregard on the part of the schools for their lack of prioritizing the importance of our children’s emotional well-being and mental health.
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Southwest to fly out of Bellinghan In need of a vacation? Southwest Airlines has announced it will start flights out of Bellingham International Airport (BLI) before the end of the year. “We can’t wait to welcome Southwest Airlines to Bellingham,” Ken Bell, Port of Bellingham’s commission president, said in an announcement. “Southwest’s daily flights will deliver frequent and reliable value service connecting our corner of the Pacific Northwest with the rest of North America, bringing low fares to Bellingham and our neighbors in British Columbia.” The port operates the Bellingham airport, located at 4255 Mitchell Way. Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said in a message to his employees that the compa-
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By Meg Olson Whatcom County enforcement staff are looking into expansive road and drainage work proceeding without permits at the intersection of APA Road and Tyee Drive. Annette Collins, a planner with the county’s code enforcement office, said she first visited the site on February 26 in response to an enforcement request from a citizen. She is returning for a follow up visit on March 25 after seeing photographs
Keep looking for the giant hornets! By Grace McCarthy It’s that time of year again: The days are getting longer, spring flowers are blooming and Asian giant hornets are waking up from winter hibernation. Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) asks residents to continue reporting sightings of the world’s largest hornet now that queens are expected to emerge any day from their winter nests. In the springtime, the queens will search for a nest location, forage and prepare for workers expected to start emerging in July. “We want to make sure we continue with our messages of, ‘If you see it, report it,’” said WSDA managing entomologist Sven-Erik Spichiger. Although the first nest in the U.S. was eradicated in east Blaine last October, WSDA officials warn more could still be in the area. Spichiger previously said they found the nest just in time because new queens were preparing to leave and start their own nests. Entomologists said during the press conference it is also possible if two additional nests exist after hornet sightings in Birch Bay and Blaine proper last year. Not including the hornets found in the eradicated nest, there were 31 confirmed hornet sightings in the U.S. last year – 15 trapped by WSDA and 16 found by Whatcom County residents. All of the six confirmed hornet detections in B.C. and half of Washington’s detections came from public reporting, WSDA public engagement specialist Karla Salp said during a media conference. “The importance of participation from local residents really cannot be overstated,” Salp said. WSDA asks for people with suspected sightings of Asian giant hornets, dead or alive, to submit a report forum to bit.ly/ 3cYpOId, email hornets@agr.wa.gov or call 800/443-6684. When reporting a hornet sighting, WSDA asks for people to include their name, contact information, location and date of the sighting, direction the hornet was seen flying away, and a photograph of the hornet. If there is no photograph, WSDA asks for a description of the hornet.
sent by the All Point Bulletin showing that work has advanced substantially since her initial visit and conversations with representatives of the property owner. There are no permits on record with Whatcom County for work at the location. “If a determination of violation is made, a notice of violation and order to correct may be issued,” she said. The property in question is owned by MDI-Point Roberts LP, which owns four parcels totaling over 40 acres to the north and west of the drainage canals beginning at the intersection of Tyee Drive and APA Road that were created during the development of the marina. Work to date includes drainage ditches and road work. According to the Washington Secretary of State’s office, MDI-Point Roberts LP is owned by Mykyte Development Inc., for which Stephen Brisbane and Holly Mykyte are listed as governors. Holly Mykyte is president of E. Mykyte Developments in B.C. Property taxes on the four properties have not been paid since 2018.
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hat do you do if you’ve been holding the longest race in North America since 2015, one that won’t let you use an engine, that presents some of the trickiest sailing challenges such as tidal currents running at 16 knots with whirlpools 30 feet across and six feet deep, that crosses two international borders and a pandemic shows up that forces those borders to close? Yup, that’s what happened to R2K, otherwise known as Race to Alaska, using whatever power source someone chooses as long as it isn’t engine powered. Well, anyone crazy enough to come up the idea for R2K is not going to be stopped by a little border closure. Nope, those folks at the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend scratched their heads for a bit and came up with WA360, a 360-mile race that goes counterclockwise from PT up to the buoy off Point Roberts down to Olympia and back to the PT. How you do it is up to you, whether it’s a sailboat, kayak, standup paddle board or any other kind of non-motorized boat thingie. The race starts on June 7 and you’ve got two weeks to finish it. You start at Port Townsend, head south to Olympia, turn around and go north until you get to the buoy off Point Rob-
erts, turn around again and head for the finish line which used to be the starting line at PT. Not including the start and finish line, there are four waypoints you need to get by but remembering them will definitely be the easiest part of the race. Fun dilemma: Which way do you want to go, through Deception Pass or the Swinomish Slough? There are three classes: the go fast, the go hard and the go slow and you get to choose which to enter. Hint: rowboats and SUPs generally don’t fit with the go fast crowd. The application period ends on April 15 and it costs $550 per team plus $50 per additional team member. As WA360 says, “Teams are vetted, because we’re foolhardy, but not completely stupid. We review your application, and you are either accepted or will be asked some clarifying questions or to make some modifications before you are accepted. In some cases, we won’t be able to accept you at all.” You can take a look at your competition – as entrants sign up, they get promenaded on the WA360 website. The first thing that’s obvious is, you’ll need to come up with a good name, you should have a sense of humor and it definitely helps to have a few screws loose. Some raring to go include Larry Baxter in Team Lost Cat who will be rowing a 17-footer;
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ArriveCAN? Who knows? B y P a t G r u bb Whether or not Point Roberts residents seeking to transit B.C. to the mainland U.S. are required to use Canada’s new ArriveCAN app appears to depend on who they encounter at the border – some say you should use it while others threaten travelers with $3,000 fines for failing to use it. Most officers say nothing. Matters aren’t much clearer in Ottawa, either. For one thing, the app appears designed for travelers who are entering Canada to stay as it asks for information regarding your purpose in entering Canada and nothing about transiting it. As well, the Order in Council (OIC) that requires that visitors submit a recent Covid-19 test and submit their travel and quarantine plan electronically exempts all habitual residents of Point Roberts transiting B.C. from the order at the very beginning of the OIC, long before the requirements for electronic reporting are specified. When asked in early March about the reporting requirement, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) media spokesperson Jacqueline Callin wrote, “Travelers are required to use ArriveCAN (mobile app or web portal) to submit their contact and quarantine information in advance of arriving at the land border. ... In instances
where a traveler has not submitted their contact and quarantine information prior to arrival at a land port of entry as required, border services officers will input the required information on the traveler’s behalf using a desktop application at the primary inspection lane.” (Emphasis added.) In a March 24 email to Callan, the APB related the variation in the instructions given by CBSA personnel and pointed out that the reporting requirements presumably only applied to those persons not exempt from the OIC’s authority. At time of press, the APB has not received clarification from the CBSA media office.
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Spring is here, however it is not our typical spring that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb! Instead, we have been gifted with wonderful, mild weathered, sunny days. Or as our Kindergarten class is tracking and graphing; a lot of lamb days. In fact, so far this month we have had 16 lamb days and 0 lion days! As the days have become both brighter and longer, the students have enjoyed some special projects. Each of our classes created art centered around rainbows this month. Some of our Kindergarten and first grade students made gigantic watercolor rainbows while some of our first, second and third graders created watercolor rainbows and wrote similes to go with each color of the rainbow.
s Captain Henry Roberts, whose name was bestowed on Point Roberts; map of the Guianas in South America.
A special anniversary for Point Roberts LAMB & LION GRAPH
Individual similes were taken to create a collaborative class example:
A RAINBOW IS… As RED as an apple As ORANGE as the sunset As YELLOW as the sun As GREEN as a pine tree As BLUE as the Pacific Ocean As INDIGO as a stormy night As VIOLET as a flower
Lamb Days
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Rainbow Watercolor by Cedar Strub
During the week of Saint Patrick’s Day, the students read stories about how to catch or trap a Leprechaun. Next our first, second and third graders used their own creative skills to draw diagrams, write material lists and step by step directions for their own traps. Students assembled their traps Rainbow by Dylan DeHaan at home during a home learning day and finally presented their project during a class show and tell. I really enjoyed seeing the students’ creativity as they combined skills in the areas of reading, writing, science, art and language!
By Mark Swenson April 2021 is a special anniversary in the wider contextual history of Point Roberts. George Vancouver named Point Roberts for his friend Captain Henry Roberts, who was supposed to have used the Discovery on his own mission to Antarctica (with Vancouver as his First Lieutenant), but the Discovery was reassigned at the last minute to Vancouver to explore the Salish Sea and defend against the Spanish. Henry Roberts was reassigned to a mission to capture the three western provinces of Guiana from the Dutch. This month is the 225th anniversary of Henry Roberts' success in that mission in South America, which eventually resulted in the new colony of British Guiana, today's independent nation of Guyana. Sadly, Roberts never made it back to Britain; he died four months later at age 40 of yellow fever in the Caribbean, essentially giving his life for Guiana to be British. The story gets more ironic for Point Roberts. Once secured for the British, Britain needed colonists to settle in Guiana to
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Health and Safety Reminders As we round the corner into the last season of the 2020-2021 school year we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all that you have done and continue to do to support the health of our community. Being vigilant to the health and safety guidelines outlined by the Whatcom County Health Department allows us to offer in person learning for our students. Please continue to do your part to support our community and students by abiding by those non-pharmaceutical interventions that have been shown to slow down the spread of COVID-19 by honoring group size and distancing recommendations, wearing masks, washing hands, and thorough cleaning. We have done such a great job so far and we want to continue to message the importance of these things not only in school but also in the larger community of Point Roberts and Whatcom County to model for our students the power of working together.
Planning for 2021-2022 We are continuing to plan for the return of all students to full-time instruction every day in the 2021-2022 school year. It has been encouraging to hear that consideration will be given at the state level to the mandate for six-foot social distancing in the classroom. If you are new to Point Roberts and have a student in grades K-3 for the 2021-2022 school year, please reach out to the school to let us know that you are here. We would love to welcome you to the community and answer any questions you may have about our school.
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secure its claim. James Douglas, the future Father of British Columbia, was born in 1803 in Guiana to parents who had resettled there from Barbados. Fast-forward 54 years to the Fraser Gold Rush. Douglas, as Governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, required miners to get permits at Fort Victoria. However, our first townsite, called Roberts Town, sprung up in 1857, and many American miners used Roberts Town as their last stop before heading up the Fraser River to the goldfields, bypassing the pesky permit process at Fort Victoria. Douglas sat on a warship off Point Roberts, just inside British waters, blocking access to the mouth of the Fraser River, to check miners leaving Roberts Town for their permits. The irony is Governor Douglas blockaded the town named for the man (Roberts) who gave his life to liberate the land of Douglas' birth! Learn more about our namesake Henry Roberts, and the significant role Point Roberts played in the Fraser Gold Rush, at the Point Roberts History Center on Gulf Road, now open Saturdays 12–3 p.m.
Whatcom County parks staff is getting Lighthouse Marine Park ready for a busy summer season, though that may not happen if current border restrictions remain in place. “Staff is making preparations for the campground to reopen once the travel restriction is lifted,” said Christ Thomsen, operations manager with the county parks department. “Efforts include de-winterizing facilities, replacing aging campground furnishings, and recruiting seasonal staff to assist with campground and facilities maintenance and management.” Currently, reservations for the campground are not being accepted and the campground remains closed. “Right now
we’re holding off on reservations until we know more on what’s going to happen after the 21st of April,” when the current border restrictions expire, said county parks director Michael McFarlane. The closure of the U.S./Canada border to non-essential travel has now been extended 12 consecutive times since March 2020 and could be again. “We’re planning on a limited opening if the border restrictions aren’t lifted,” McFarlane said, “and if it does open, we’ll be ready to go as normal.” McFarlane said they would need to hire at least two seasonal workers for Lighthouse Marine Park and the other three properties on the Point operated by county parks. Candidates can apply online at whatcomcounty.us/1675/Current-Job-Openings.
S A dozen or so volunteers showed up with their rakes for a clean-up day at Point Roberts Cemetery on March 13, filling bags with grass clippings. Another one will be scheduled later in the spring. Photo by Louise Mugar
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Brainstorming and visioning a care center into existence By Annelle Norman Over the last month, since their annual general meeting on February 21, Circle of Care has hosted three sessions of brainstorming and planning, involving over 50 participants in the process of visioning a community-based care center into being. Long-standing residents have found themselves collaborating with newly arrived residents, in the hopes of creating a facility here in Point Roberts where young and old, the healthy and the infirm can gather, and perhaps even live in community. Will it look like a “Golden Girls/Guys” community home or a retirement/assisted living facility? Will it occupy existing buildings or be purpose-built? There are many questions yet to be answered and plans are currently in place to conduct both an online as well as person-to-person survey of what the community needs and wants. Just a few of the ideas for creating a Center for Community Care that have come out of these sessions are: • Intergenerational care/respite care/pet care (adult/child/pet daycare) • Health/activity center for exercise & community well-being (Senior Center) • Online computer services for outreach • Care navigator (referral center for mental health, Medicare/aid, social services)
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WCLS opens online store for county residents By Conor Wilson The Whatcom County Library System (WCLS), in partnership with Friends of the Library volunteers and the county library foundation, have opened a new online bookstore for county residents. The Friends of the Library online bookstore started earlier this month, and allows residents to support the WCLS through purchases of books and DVDs, costing between $1 and $5, and tip donations. The store will feature hundreds of items and be updated with new items each week. “I think it’s great,” said Debby Farmer, the branch manager at the Blaine library. “The Friends of the library volunteers obtain, transport and photograph each book before it goes online.” The store is an online equivalent of the Friends in-library bookstore, which was created as a way to promote the growth of library services and projects not supported by property taxes. Revenue from the store will be allocated between programs. Customers looking to purchase a book through the website will select a pickup date and location at one of five WCLS branches, including Blaine, Everson, Ferndale, North Fork and South Whatcom. All books available for purchase are stored at the Friends of the Everson Library warehouse and distributed to the branch selected at checkout. To view the online store, visit wcls.org/ friendsbooks.
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s Charley Cragg. Charley Cragg July 1,1995- February 11, 2021 Charley was lost to the sea on February 11. He leaves behind his parents Genevieve and Philip, his brother Max, partner Jennie, grandparents John and Olga, uncles Mike (Rachel) and Edo (Marie), aunt Anne (Ron), many cousins and dear friends. Charley was a mariner. He loved the ocean and everything she had to offer. His zest for life and adventure whether at sea or in the mountains was who he was to the core. He loved, he laughed, and he played. I believe it would be Charley’s wish that we all continue to set goals, seek adventure and strive to be the best that we can be. To be kind, positive, non-judgmental and above all, have fun. It goes without saying, that he leaves an enormous hole in our hearts. Charley was a large man and held the world in the palm of his hand. Rest in peace, Charley.
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History Center: Open Saturdays 12-3 p.m. ongoing. Masks required. Hand sanitizer available at the door.
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s Another view of the Lily Point slide from closeup.
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723 Walters Lane, Point Roberts
$799,000
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4735 S. Golf Course Drive, Blaine
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$630,000
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1668 Kingsley Avenue, Blaine
$800,000
Benson Road, Point Roberts
$305,000
1.90 acres waterfront land with old brick building; marine views.
8206 Birch Bay Drive, Blaine
$472,500
4.99 acres wooded residential land.
1437 McKenzie Way, Point Roberts
$200,000
.25 acres residential lot; partial marine view.
5523 Whitehorn Way, Blaine
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5158 Heronswood Drive, Blaine
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chapter, after his arrival in Jerusalem for the Passover, pilgrims from Greece ask to see Jesus. He understands this request as a sign that indeed, his “Hour had come.” The events that unfold from this moment are the ultimate revelation of Jesus’ highest and deepest purpose on earth. He declares that now, finally, «The hour has come for the Son of Man to be truly glorified.” And now we have the moment when Jesus finally reveals the purpose of his death and resurrection: “…unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” Curiously, this teaching is an allegory from agriculture, of all things. But it is such a powerful metaphor: that its profound, life-changing, even history-changing implications echo the truths of Creation. The focus is not on the death, but on what the death makes possible: They thought they were burying a body, but they were planting him like a seed. They thought they were ridding themselves of a political nuisance; in fact, they were sowing for a harvest beyond any hopes or imaginings. Now the preaching, the teaching, the healing, the miracles, are not just the work of one man, but of a world of people living lives of compassionate, sacrificial love in light and in truth. Why are we life and death and life people? Because we know the value of planting seeds and seeing through the guise of death. We are a resurrection people. A Happy Easter to all.
Rumor squashed Point Roberts Marketplace owner Ali Hayton wants to dispel rumors in the community that the local grocery store will be closing if the border isn’t open by May. “As difficult and trying as the past year has been, we are increasingly grateful for our devoted and dedicated employees and our fabulous and supportive customers,” Hayton said. Despite an over 70 percent decrease in revenue Hayton said they had aggressively pursued funding to keep the store afloat, such as the federal Paycheck Protection Program and state and federal grant opportunities. “We will continue to apply for grants and subsidies to get us through this so that we may be a source of stability for everyone here on the Point. We are so grateful for the support and encouragement and trust bestowed upon us by this loving community.”
Sheriff’s Report
February 24, 10:33 a.m.: Civil prob-
March 9, 2:25 p.m.: Security check
lem on Tyee Drive.
on Diane Circle.
February 26, 11:19 p.m.: Assist agen-
March 9, 4:20 p.m.: Forgery on Cal-
cy on Benson Road.
gary Way.
February 27, 11:43 a.m.: Security
March 10, 12:09 p.m.: Forgery on
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Book Review By Margot Griffiths Lord Don’t Want Me Devil Won’t Take Me, The Life and Times of a Tsawwassen Legend, recounts the life and crimes of Pansy May Stuttard. Tsawwassen historians Jim Dwight and Gary Cullen have gathered extensive family memorabilia, newspaper articles, photos and verbal accounts to create a portrait of a woman fiercely devoted to breaking the law. Previous tales of Pansy May have been marked by inaccuracies. Not so with the meticulous research of Dwight and Cullen. And they haven’t confined themselves to just one crook’s life. Sketches of other characters from Tsawwassen and Point Roberts flesh out this journey back to the first half of the last century. Pansy May Stuttard was born in New York state in 1873, just eight years after the end of the civil war. At 16, she began work as a stenographer but was soon laying the foundation for a more lucrative future. In 1895, she opened her first brothel. With her husband as accomplice, it wasn’t long til they were caught. He spent one year in jail, she spent five, an inequity fueled by the lawyerly notion that those extra years in prison would keep her off the streets and she would be “bettered.” Thus provoked, Pansy May ramped it up and on her death at 89, she could look back on a career of prostitution, procuring, robbing, shooting, bootlegging – with a side of arson. Three times she set fire to a neighbor’s home, to settle a score. By 1905, the madam was running from the law again, and made her escape to Canada. She eventually landed in Vancouver and opened a brothel in the red light district. When US prohibition began in 1920, Pansy’s smelled new opportunity. With unerring instinct, she moved to Tsawwassen to get as close to the U.S. border as possible. At the south end of English Bluff Drive, next to Point Roberts’ Monument Park, she built a 150-foot long “lodge” with 16 rooms. Woods shroud-
ed her “House of Disrepute, where you could get anything you wanted,” in those days, providing cover for her brothel and for the cable tram that ran from her house down to the bottom of the cliff. “A sizeable cable, used for hauling booze up or down the bluff was fastened to an upright log on the beach just below Pansy’s property,” the book reads. While this is chiefly the saga of Pansy May, the authors touch on other legends, including the Reifel family, of bird sanctuary fame. Their earlier “fame” was due to bootlegging of an altogether higher magnitude. “The Reifels were amongst the largest brewery owners in British Columbia and also the largest of the rum runners.” Reports were they “indirectly shipped liquor worth over ten million dollars into the US during prohibition.” Though the Reifels were fined over 17 million dollars by U.S. officials, only half a million was ever paid. When prohibition ended in 1933, taverns began to appear in Point Roberts, and Pansy moved her establishment to today’s location of Fred Gingell Park on English Bluff Drive. The authors have researched a trove of gossipy stories of the Point, and the photos and newspaper articles bring them to life. In June, 1934, a report in Vancouver’s Province newspaper told of 5,000 Canadians descending on the taverns of Point Roberts, leading to the chaos that led to the construction of our first, two-room jail. My favorite photo, also from 1934, is of a cramped tent propped up by roughly-hewn tree boughs. The first U.S. Customs office. In Dwight and Cullen’s view, Pansy May’s life was more reflective of a man’s. Few women of her time were this self-sufficient, few so shrewd in business. “She was a survivor in what was very much a man’s world.”
Though unencumbered by a moral code, she is described somewhat fondly by the authors, with anecdotes of those who spoke kindly of “Pistol Packin’ Pansy.” The outlaw loved dogs. A “vibrant, free-wheeling, roughneck,” she would be satisfied, I think, with this colorful and accurate account of her life.
“Lord don’t want me, devil won’t take me,” are Pansy May’s own words and are clues, perhaps, to a prescient self-awareness. “Lord Don’t Want Me, Devil Won’t Take Me” is available online through blurb.com or blurb.ca and Black Bond Books in Ladner. All profits from this book go to the Delta Heritage Society.
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