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Parks board to offer voters one-year library levy By Meg Olson The Point Roberts Park and Recreation District will be bumping up against the limit of its taxing authority when they ask voters to approve a one-time levy to top up library construction funds. At the June 13 meeting of park district commissioners, Stephen Falk reported that a revised estimate from architect David King to transform the old Julius fire station into a new library came in at

$870,000. If a number of alternates were included in the project, the budget would run closer to $1 million. “That would be $330,000 more than the friends of the library raised,” Falk said. The Friends of the Point Roberts Library set a fundraising goal of $540,000 in 2011 based on the projected cost of the project at that time. To date they have raised $543,000. Commissioners agreed in April to ask voters to approve a one-time levy not to

Get ready for a lively July 4th (and July 1st) weekend A full schedule of events is being planned for this year’s Independence Day celebrations. The day will begin with the third annual Point Roberts Emergency Preparedness group’s fundraising pancake breakfast at the community center from 7:30 a.m. until noon. During the pancake breakfast, the parks department is sponsoring a flag-raising ceremony at 10 a.m. that will include the national anthems of the U.S. and Canada performed by the Point Roberts Winds.

A veterans honor guard from British Columbia will perform a drill and present the colors. The parade’s theme for this year is the Salish Sea, encouraging all participants to think about the history, ecology and beauty of our local waters. The parade will get started at the end of Gulf Road at noon and make its way along Gulf Road and Tyee Drive to the marina overflow parking lot. Following the parade the Point Roberts Marina is hosting an afternoon of fun including a beer garden, outdoor barbecues,

music and a family fun – including goldfish racing. The evening will end with a fireworks display and a laser light show. July 4 events at the marina will be a reprise of an all-day party held for Canada Day on July 2. Also following the parade, parks commissioner Doug Shier is organizing a community softball game at Baker Field. Beginning at 2 p.m. the game is open to all players, though targeted at adults. (See 4th of July, page 2)

exceed a certain amount. At that time the projected cost of the project was $689,000. The district has until August 2 to submit the language of the levy request to the county for inclusion on the November ballot. Falk said the current estimate included some items that might not be needed, such as a new septic system, but did not include other items, such as additional (See Parks, page 6)

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Whatcom County will take public comment until June 27 on a proposal to reactivate the gravel pit off Roosevelt Road. The 50-acre property, owned by Lori and Jason McDougall, is bounded by Tyee Drive to the west and Province Road to the east, with Roosevelt Drive to the north. Whatcom County received a conditional use permit application on May 5 for a “one-time, low-intensity mining of gravel within an area less than three acres in the center of the property.” The project application specifies mining activity would involve the extraction of rock and sand over three to four months, with a proposed start date of July 2016. Between 50,000 and 100,000 cubic yards of gravel and sand would be extracted, loaded onto dump trucks and taken across the border to the Southlands development off 56th Street. In a phone interview with the APB, McDougall said he saw benefits to the project beyond his own financial gain. “The more we can save trucks from driving 25 miles, it’s better for the environment,” he said. He said some of the material extracted might also be used for projects on the Point, at Seabright and the marina, and local extraction would limit the impact of those projects on the environment and on traffic. The application projects 75 round-trips per day to the Southlands project, or one every four minutes. A new driveway from the property would enter Tyee Drive approximately 600-feet south of the border across from Point Roberts Realty. Sarah Lawley-Wakelin from Canada Border Services Agency said they projected the operational plan they had in place would be able to handle the extra traffic. However, Jason Givens with U.S Customs and Border Protection said, “It is anticipated that this project will have a considerable impact on the port of entry and increase wait times. However, until further

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Letters To The Editor The Editor: I was shocked to read Meg Olson’s article titled “Homeopath to cease practicing” in the June 2016 edition of All Point Bulletin. One thing that stood out was that the writer cited the National Institute of Health (NIH) definition to declare that homeopathy “is a bit dodgy.” Their one-sided description is not based on fact but on allegiance to mainstream medical practices, whereas the Department of Health clearly considers it “the practice of medicine.” What drove Ms. Olson to use the NIH’s biased description? Was it based on Ms. Olson’s own experiences with homeopathy, or perhaps, on hearsay? Did she interview a large enough sample of people who used homeopathy in Point Roberts to arrive at this perspective? My own experiences of homeopathy as administered by Annelle Norman have been excellent and in my opinion, she does not deserve to have her practice curtailed because of a spurious, anonymous complaint. She never purported to be a medical doctor or a naturopath, but was pushed under an “umbrella” definition by the Department of Health. Annelle Norman’s healing methods will be sorely missed in Point Roberts. Judith Mann Point Roberts The Editor: Congratulations to Lynden for hosting Donald Trump. What could have been a contentious political rally similar to the May Day riots in Seattle, was instead an event filled with high energy and enthusiastic people without major disruption from outside protesters. There is a world of difference between listening to 30-second sound bites on cable news and listening to a 45-minute speech. It was worth the wait, and while not a fan of some of his outrageous rhetoric, I think Mr. Trump’s approach to the issues is sound. It makes sense that immigrants are thoroughly vetted, that foreign nations invest financially in international treaties such as NATO and that America demand fair trade agreements worldwide. We need to put policies in place to stem the flow of corporations leaving the United States. I think we need a candidate with strength outside of the political norm to get things done before it is too late. It cannot be a coincidence that Mr. Trump’s intro music is the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want... But Sometimes, You Get What You Need” And what we need is a president who will always go for the “win!” Shelley Damewood Point Roberts The Editor: I am extremely confused by all the negative attacks on Annelle Norman for being a homeopathic practitioner. First of all, there are dozens of homeopathic clinics operating all over the Pacific Northwest. No one is persecuting them, criticizing them or charging them with operating without a license when no license is required in Washington as pointed out in your article. Next, go to a homeopath if you want. Don’t go if you don’t like that type of alternative treatment. It is a free country. If you don’t believe in alternative medicine, get with the program, don’t attack the provider. It has been enormously helpful for so many people that insurance companies are now paying some providers. My last and most important point is that Annelle Norman does nothing more

than the staff at Wellspring Health Food Store or even Thrifty’s in Tsawwassen. She will point you in the direction of supplements that will help you feel more comfortable - and there is no law against that. Annelle has done nothing but embrace this community, get involved with making it a better place to live and being a huge asset to Point Roberts. There are only a handful of people here who care enough to take action to help our elderly, visit the sick and raise money for various nonprofit charities. It makes my blood boil that she is attacked when she should receive the citizen of the year award. Pamala (“Auntie Pam”) Sheppard Point Roberts The Editor: I was truly dismayed to read your story regarding Annelle Norman’s practice here in Point Roberts. Since coming here five years ago she has helped many people in the community, which has been especially valuable given the general hit-and-miss level of medical care we are subjected to here on the Point. My objection has nothing to do with the practice of naturopathy or homeopathic medicine, but with the personal nature of the story, which read like an attack. I fear Ms. Norman has fallen victim to one or two small-town gossips and busybodies determined to make trouble for her, and this is all the more disturbing when a newspaper so obviously takes sides. Your story did not cite any complaints about Ms. Norman or her practice, so what prompted such actions by the state? I suspect this is more connected to people resenting Ms. Norman’s efforts on the Character Plan Committee. It is sad that the All Point Bulletin is being used to mount such an unwarranted smear campaign against her. John Sheppard Point Roberts The Editor: The “verdict” reached by the Department of Health (DOH) actually had nothing to do with the complaint that was filed. An investigator drove to Point Roberts from Tukwila, interviewed me for over two hours and concluded that the complaint was spurious and he was going to recommend that the case be closed. Over the past year I have been informed by several friends that they had heard a Point Roberts resident boast that he was getting even with me for the trouble he was having as a result of his property being reported to the county for code violations. Apparently this person was under the mistaken opinion that my role as chair of the PR Character Plan Revision Committee meant that I was the person responsible for his woes with Whatcom County. Instead, the cease and desist order is the result of the very belated interpretation on the part of the DOH that the practice of homeopathy is the practice of medicine and that, therefore, a homeopathic practitioner must be licensed either as a medical or a naturopathic physician. I began asking the DOH for clarification on this back in 2011 prior

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to moving to Point Roberts and again in 2012 when their first investigation was closed for “lack of evidence.” To clarify, the DOH does not issue separate licenses for homeopathy. My licensure was issued by the UK college from which I graduated in 1999. In order to sit the exam for Naturopathic licensure in Washington State, one must have attended one of three U.S. universities. Following is the DOH definition of the practice of medicine: A person is practicing medicine if he or she does one or more of the following: Offers or undertakes to diagnose, cure, advise or prescribe for any human disease, ailment, injury, infirmity, deformity, pain or other condition, physical or mental, real or imaginary, by any means or instrumentality... If you read this definition carefully you will see that it is so broad that anyone who advises you to use herbs, vitamins, essential oils or even get a massage based upon any medical complaint “physical or mental, real or imaginary” could be brought before the DOH and issued a cease and desist order. I find this very disturbing. Do you? Due to this definition, I am no longer able to practice homeopathy in Washington. I hope this information has been valuable for the reader in understanding “the rest of the story” of how I found myself the object of a cease and desist order. I moved here to Point Roberts five years ago with the sincere desire to serve this community with my knowledge and skills. It is very sad to me that a spurious complaint and a broad interpretation of the “practice of medicine” prevents me from doing so. I am happy to discuss this matter with anyone with questions or concerns. Annelle Norman, BSc (Hons) LCH Point Roberts The Editor: Once again I go to Baker Field tonight and notice a new pile of plywood, etc., dumped in the parking lot. You people make me sick – too cheap to take your trash to the transfer station. At our next month’s Point Roberts park board meeting, I will move to purchase two motion-sensor cameras to be placed in the parking lot of Baker Field. Then maybe we can put your picture in the paper! Doug Shier Point Roberts Parks and Recreation Board Commissioner The Editor: Today, sheriff’s deputy T. McCarthy, #6A070, issued me a deserved off-leash dog citation at Lighthouse Marine Park. That is not what I write about, but rather Deputy McCarthy’s refusal to move his car when a park patron asked him to in order to leave the park. Deputies are public servants, but in this case he found it acceptable behavior to wrongfully and unnecessarily block a patron’s car. It would be reckless of me to speculate the reasons for this offensive and inappropriate behavior on the part of a public servant but I am challenged to respect a public servant who clearly does not respect those he was sworn to protect and serve. This treatment of an innocent bystander is unacceptable and I call upon the management of the Whatcom County (See Letters, page 7) Please send letters to editor@allpointbulletin.com

The 360 area code is filling up and the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) will roll out a new area code in fall 2017. The 564 area code will overlay the existing 206, 253, 425 and 360 area codes in western Washington. As numbers in those area codes are exhausted, new numbers with the new area code will be assigned. Chris Burns, chief operating officer with Whidbey Telecom, said the change is unlikely to have an impact on phone numbers in Point Roberts, which share the 945 prefix. “Because Point Roberts is so small and we’ve had that block of numbers for so long I don’t think it will affect numbering in Point Roberts. A prefix’s numbering space is 10,000, and there are currently 1,320 lines in service on the Point.” However, like the rest of the state, the Point might be required to dial 10-digit numbers for local calls to accommodate the new area code. Burns said they are in conversation with the WUTC to determine whether that will apply to local calls (from one 945 number to another), given that the new area code will most likely not be used here.

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Sheriff’s Department to reprimand Deputy McCarthy for this abuse of power and harassment of a park patron and innocent victim. Additionally when I tried to engage on a different topic, the patrol of speeders on Marine Drive, which is a serious problem, Deputy McCarthy refused to engage with me. Should I ever need assistance from the sheriff’s department I would shudder and be fearful should Deputy McCarthy arrive at the scene. Protect and serve or harass and intimidate? Clearly the latter. Point Roberts residents should again loudly protest Deputy McCarthy’s unprofessional and abusive behaviors towards park patrons and innocent bystanders. I apologized to the gentlemen in the car on behalf of Point Roberts with embarrassment that Deputy McCarthy represents us. Those patrons had a negative experience in our community at the hands of Deputy McCarthy. We must continue to loudly voice our objections and concerns about his unprofessional actions and behaviors. By the way, I will be paying my citation promptly. Holly Robinson Point Roberts The Editor: I read your descendant of Henry Roberts piece in the All Point Bulletin today with interest, and not a little excitement. I, too, am a relation of Lieut/Captain Henry Roberts, after whom Point Roberts is named. Although, as some of my ancestors married late in life, I am therefore much more closely related to Henry Roberts than your Garry Roberts featured, in terms of generations away. I believe I counted 15 generations in your list of sons in Garry’s line. I am just five generations away from Captain Henry Roberts. I too hope to visit Point Roberts one day. As a genealogist, I too have researched my Roberts family tree extensively, however, it is a very wide and large tree.

There is a community of us Roberts, who are related to Henry, and we all have basically the same names on our trees. I wonder, did Garry Roberts give you any indication which son of Lieut/Capt Henry Roberts he descended from? This information would be very useful to us, to complete all our trees, as we don’t have this information. Did Garry Roberts give you any kind of detail of his section of the tree? The importance of this missing information to the Roberts community cannot be over exaggerated. We all have been waiting for someone like Garry Roberts who will have worked backward to get to his Lieut/Capt Henry Roberts ancestor, whereas we all have had to work forward from Lieut/ Capt Henry Roberts, with patchy records existing, which means there is a gap there. Garry Roberts may not know of our existence. Also, in one of your photos of Garry Roberts, he is holding a portrait, head and shoulders of (I assume) Lieut. Capt. Henry Roberts. This particular portrait I have not seen before, and wonder if a copy of it is available to purchase? I particularly want to compare family features on such a close up picture of Henry. Eileen Jones-Hill Yorkshire, UK (Publisher note: Jones-Hill has been in contact with Garry Roberts.)

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details become available, such as time of year, hours per day, etc., it is difficult to judge the scope of the impact.” McDougall said that while there were a lot of trips per day, they would be very short duration. “There will only be three or four trucks hauling so the most trucks you’d see in the lineup would be two,” he said. “To the extent it causes congestion we would cut the number of trucks operating to two.” Surface mining is permitted as a conditional use in rurally zoned areas of the county, such as the property in question, if the extraction site is limited to three acres, and only one permit for each parcel may be obtained to prevent sequential extraction at one site. In addition, only one three-acre extraction site is allowable within the boundaries of the original property if it has been subdivided since the rule was put in place. Whatcom County planner Amy Keenan said they would be asking for additional information from the applicant about when the eight parcels now owned by McDougall were subdivided from the gravel pit’s original 30- and 20-acre parcels. McDougall said at this time he only has plans for this one-time extraction and it was his understanding if he wanted to apply for another permit the only parcel that would qualify would be where the family’s home now sits. “Eventually I want to reclaim the site and put a lake in there with some nice building sites around it,” he said. He added that $25,000 to $50,000 of the proceeds from this project would be donated to the library construction fund. “Whatcom County Library System was very helpful for us in the process of homeschooling our children and it’s very close to our hearts,” he said. Whatcom County planner Amy Keenan said notifications were sent to neighbors within 1,000 feet of the property and Point Roberts Community Advisory Committee chair Joel Lantz on June 1, and legal notice of the application was published in the Bellingham Herald. Notice was not sent to the All Point Bulletin, despite assurances by the county assistant planning director Mark Personius and permit center specialist Nick Smith at the July 2015 taxpayers association general meeting that this would become part of the county’s practice

for significant project’s on the Point. Smith has since indicated steps were being taken to ensure this did not reoccur. A very similar application in 2000 did not move forward faced with widespread opposition from both sides of the border. Tony Slater, who owns a neighboring property, said they had the same concerns then about noise, dust, traffic and visual blight as they did then. “We’ve dealt with this before,” he said. The 2000 application also proposed a three-acre excavation site and road access via Tyee Drive, which proponent Gordon Green said was the recommendation from the county. He had proposed using Roosevelt Drive to directly access the border crossing. Green’s proposal was also primarily to use extracted material to supply sand for the Point Roberts Golf Course. At the time the county zoning code allowed the extraction of sand and gravel “with the added provisions that in order to protect the nonrenewable resources and to protect future availability of these resources for future projects at Point Roberts the hearing examiner shall find that sand and gravel being extracted pursuant to this section shall be used only for specific identified projects at Point Roberts.” That section of county code was removed by ordinance in 2002. “There’s a lot of value sitting there,” Green said of the site. “Maybe a million yards of good material.” The sand on the western side of the proposed extraction site is of a special grade that can be used for septic systems and sells across the border for up to $20 a cubic yard. The remaining bank sand will sell for up to $10 a yard in Delta, where bank sand is unavailable locally. Keenan said the official comment period for the project will close June 27, but that there were opportunities to comment up until the actual hearing. “I will always accept your comments and concerns and we’ll address them as well as we can,” she said. Their review of the application and possible impacts of the project will get under way at the close of the official comment period. Application documentation is available at bit.ly/1UEgarC. Comments can be submitted to Whatcom County Planning and Development Services at 5280 Northwest Drive, Bellingham, WA, 98226. Project planners Andy Wiser or Amy Keenan can be reached at 360/778-5900, awiser@ whatcomcounty.us or akeenan@whatcomcounty.us.

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s Above, the right bank is the site of the gravel that will be mined shown in the circled area on the site plan, top. An existing road connects to Roosevelt Drive to the north while a new road will be cut through to Tyee Drive if the project is approved by the county.

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Pit property owner paints a different picture B y P a t G r u bb A roomful of anxious residents turned out to learn about the proposed gravel mining project but left feeling like they knew even less than they did before they arrived at a special Point Roberts Community Advisory Committee (PRCAC) board meeting on June 14. The meeting was held after the community learned that a conditional use permit (CUP) application for the project was scheduled to be heard by the Whatcom County Hearing Examiner. Although PRCAC chair Joel Lantz was given notice of the project on June 1, the meeting was not scheduled until after significant concern about the project’s impact had been expressed by Point Roberts residents. What attendees heard bore little resemblance to the project as described in the application filed with the county. Property owner Jason McDougall spoke extensively at the meeting, answering audience questions about the scale and extent of the project scope. Addressing an occasionally frosty audience, McDougall said, “I’m not the kind of person to send a lawyer to a meeting like this. I want to come to answer questions and dispel misinformation.” He added that there would not be 10 or so trucks waiting to access the commercial lane at the border, “there will just be one or two trucks.” McDougall said no contracts had been signed to supply any projects north of the border, such as the Southlands project. Despite the fact that the application describes the project as being three to four months in length, he said it was their intent to continue operation indefinitely. Local Mark Robbins pointed out that the CUP application was very clear on

what the project entailed and McDougall’s description appeared to be completely different from the application. His comments were echoed by several other questioners, among them Renée Coe and Doreen Trudel who said, “I just question why this has turned from a limited operation to a completely open-ended project.” Heidi Baxter commented, “It sounds like this has not been fully thought-out. I urge you to consider a more peaceful use for the property.” She suggested a park. Others expressed concern that while they might favor a more limited gravel operation, the hearing examiner was going to be reviewing a much more elaborate, existing application and suggested residents should make their comments, objections and observations based upon the application in hand. Following up, Arthur Reber asked McDougall to withdraw his current application and submit a new one based upon “what it is you really want.” Lantz proposed to the committee that PRCAC motion to ask that the county planning department require McDougall to re-apply based upon his description of the project. The motion passed unanimously. The official comment period closes on Monday, June 27.

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s Open to the general public, the Point Roberts Homegrown Coop offers fresh-picked, chemical-free fruits and vegetables for sale. The farm is holding an open house on Saturday, July 2 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tour the farm and see composting and water wise gardening demos and tools. Bring a picnic and meet the rescue horses. Located at 1702 Benson Road, the farmstand is also open every Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

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June 20 and 21 marked a celestial event not seen in 70 years: the occurrence of a full moon on the summer solstice. For those who walked the beaches to observe this, it was a beautiful sight. The skies were still faintly light from the late sunset, and the rising moon illuminated a delicate pattern of cloud across the sky. The moon’s trajectory was low, in contrast to the climactic high arc of the sun on the longest day of the year. While these events are sublime to some, they may pass unnoticed by others. Indeed, the rhythms of the heavens are awe-inspiring. Our ancestors planted crops and predicted tides by the moon, marked time with the sun and navigated voyages by the stars. These were the celestial gifts of God to their daily lives, and sometimes to their survival. We have mechanical and digital aids in these times, yet we are still captured by a blood moon, an eclipse, a meteor shower or a rainbow. They remind us how small we really are, and how unique and precious is this life on our small, magical planet. The inventions of our human minds are dwarfed by the infinite structure of the universe. Consider yourself invited to bask in the glow of the waning moon, consider the visible stars and those we cannot see. Google images from the Hubble Telescope and marvel at the birthplaces of the stars. Then read Psalm 18:1-6: “The heavens declare God’s glory, the firmament proclaims God’s handiwork...” July is just around the corner and Point Roberts is humming. This Saturday night, June 25 at 7 p.m. the Trinity Concert Series presents an Evening with Brahms and Friends, Christopher Knopp on piano and Robin Black on clarinet. Their talents have been described as “brilliant!” July is just packed with fantastic music. On July 3 at 4 p.m. we have an Afternoon

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Landon Martin: Landon moved to Point Roberts in 2006 and after attending Sacred Heart school in Ladner he headed for the Blaine school district in 8th grade. During his high school years, Landon played football for the Borderites as well as the South Delta Rams. Academically, he earned awards of excellence in Chemistry, Biology and Spanish. He also took third place in Microsoft Office Specialist State Championship (Microsoft Excel 10). He studied Tae Kwon Do in White Rock, earning a black belt. In the fall, Landon will attend Skagit Valley Community College to study environmental conservation. Passionate about animals and wildlife conservation, he hopes to pursue a career as a game warden.

Vanessa Myers Vanessa has attended Blaine schools from kindergarten through graduation. In high school she played Special Olympics soccer for two years and thrived in the school’s culinary arts program. “I’m going to Bellingham Technical College to continue studying culinary arts in the fall,” she said. She especially enjoys baking, specializing in elaborate cakes, and has plans to become a professional pastry chef. “I already have a job offer to start at Semiahmoo once my classes are underway in the fall,” she said.

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Alexis McGill-Lujan Alexis came to Point Roberts at age 11 from Sacramento and started as a fifth grader at Blaine Elementary School. During her high school years she enjoyed art, especially sculpting in clay. As a junior and senior she was part of the theater program, performing in the musicals “Beauty and the Beast” and “Guys and Dolls.” Like generations of grads before her she identified the bus ride to Blaine as the most challenging part of being a student from the Point. “It was never easy to make plans with friends,” she said, or to participate in school activities. In the fall Alexis will attend Bellingham Technical College to study Phlebotomy. “It’s a service that there will always be a need for so I thought it would be a good career,” she said.

Marisa Jacks Marisa started her schooling at Point Roberts Primary and moved on to the Blaine campus in third grade. In the ninth grade she began attending South Delta Secondary School. She worked hard academically and maintained straight As in all courses throughout her school years. Throughout middle and high school she ran recycling programs and worked as a peer tutor with special needs classmates. “I am passionate about preserving the environment and helping animals and people,” she said. Marisa’s goals are to work and travel before settling on a career path, with an interest in environmental sustainability, mental health or addiction counseling.

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In The Garden By Peg Keenleyside Is it too late to plant in July? If you took in the fabulous Point Roberts gardens on the Garden Club tour on June 26, you may be itching to emulate a few ideas you saw. You might also just be opening up the cottage for the kids summer school break and want to jazz the place up a bit with some flowers. In either case, the short answer is yes! I spoke with Darlene Gibbs, the owner of Point Roberts’ Lady Bug nursery recently, and she still has lots of stock available, both annuals and perennials. Her nursery is also carrying pre-made patio planter pots and also offers a bespoke service where you can get planters made up with plants of your own choosing. Lady Bug is located on a lovely property on Windsor Drive, and well worth a visit. Get there by heading to Benson Road, turning onto Mill Road and watch for the Lady Bug sign at Austin Road corner where you will turn left and then a quick left again onto Windsor Drive. You can visit the Lady Bug Facebook page or call the nursery at 360/945-0832 for more information. Darlene will be happy to show you around the growing business she started in 2009 with a love of plants and a very green thumb. Talk with her about the kinds of plants that will bloom in the late summer and that are heat-tolerant. One of the strongest El Niño events on record has been influencing weather patterns across Canada, the U.S. and around the globe for the past couple of years. This weather phenomenon occurs at two- to seven-year intervals and starts with the warming of the ocean surface in the Pacific Ocean. This in turn changes the dominant pattern of the water cycle and northerly wind flows. Here in the Pacific Northwest the El Nino effect means we’ve had milder winters and hotter, drier, summers than usual. You’ll have no doubt noticed that the result is plants, trees and shrubs are all blooming

and bearing fruit earlier. So even though summer is only just officially begun, now’s the time to shop for some late summer and fall blooming plant options. You’ll find the hot color palette just coming into display now in plants like big fuchsia-pink perennial coneflower (Echinacea), the scarlet red flowers of crocosmia, the yellow-golds of black-eyed Susan (Rudbekia), bright yellow coreopsis, and the purples of fall-flowering Asters. In pots, contrast hot color blooms with some cool lime green or dark purple foliage like trailing potato vines (Impomea). Sages - in all their many varieties are also good choices for the late summer garden. If you’re not seeing that plant you really have your heart set on at Lady Bug, you’re planning a new hedge or want to buy a nice specimen tree, Darlene offers a custom ordering service. Place an order before the end of September this year for 6-12 of a plant or shrub and she can get it put on her order for delivery in spring 2017. She can also take orders for individual trees, including fruit trees (many of which you cannot import from Canada). She also says she brings in new plants every year. “If I have customers asking for a certain plant, then I will always bring some of those in the following year,” she says. Lady Bug has a nice display of glazed ceramic pots perfect for the deck or as a visual pick-me-up for a garden bed that may be looking a little weary in the heat of the summer. These pots are priced individually or by sets of three. “It’s one of these things you never stop learning,” Darlene said about her love of gardening and her philosophy about her nursery. Drop by Lady Bug with your plant concerns and ideas and she will do her best to help you out. Lady Bug’s summer hours are Thursday–Monday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. What a great gardening resource to have in our community!

Longtime popular ranger retires By Meg Olson Longtime park ranger Ben Van Buskirk has resigned from Whatcom County Parks and Recreation and will spend the summer as a park aide in Bellingham to put in the last six months he needs to work in order to collect his pension. “It just got to be too much,” VanBuskirk said. “They had too much on my plate.” Starting in 1989 as the live-in ranger at Lighthouse Marine Park managing all county parks on the Point, VanBuskirk took the position of lead ranger for the northwest region in 2004, managing 20 parks from Point Roberts to Ferndale. Since then, he said, he has seen a sharp decrease in full-time staff for the west county parks, from 10 full-time employees in operations in 2006 to two full-time and seven seasonal in 2016. Decreasing staff meant increased responsibilities for VanBuskirk. At the end of 2014, when the lead ranger for the southwest region resigned, the regions were combined, leaving VanBuskirk responsible for the operation of 40 parks in the western half of the county, stretching from Point Roberts to Lake Samish and including wedding halls, historic homes and 40 miles of accessible trails. “The expectations were unattainable,” he said. “I didn’t feel the administration

was giving me the support I needed to succeed.” Without the time and staff to keep things up, VanBuskirk said infrastructure was degrading. “Things that aren’t getting done are just piling up, and it’s not just weeds,” he said. He also said his inability to keep up his parks was too stressful. “I love being a park professional; I love working with people,” VanBuskirk said. “I just felt we were all competing for scarce resources rather than working towards our mission. We need an infusion. We can’t even keep up with what we have on our existing operational budget.” Whatcom County Parks and Recreation director Michael McFarlane was not available to comment on the need for additional operational staffing and funding to keep up the county’s parks. VanBuskirk, who lived in the house at Lighthouse Marine Park with his family for 20 years before moving to Blaine, wanted to especially thank the community of Point Roberts for making his career there a pleasure. “I went to Point Roberts in the ’80s trying to get my foot in the door and I fell in love,” he said. In leaving his position with county parks VanBuskirk said he was glad to be leaving Point Roberts parks in the care of ranger Aaron Johnson. “You’re in good hands there,” he said.

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The Point Roberts Taxpayers’ Association will welcome Vicki Huntington, member of the legislative assembly for South Delta, as the keynote speaker at its annual general meeting. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 27 in the banquet room above the Compass Rose restaurant at the Point Roberts Marina, with the social hour beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the keynote speech to follow at 6 p.m. “She was very supportive of the Coalition to Stop the Towers and she has expressed an interest in having a continued cross-border relationship on issues that Tsawwassen and Point Roberts share,” said association board member Mark Robbins about selecting Huntington as this year’s speaker. Following the keynote speaker there will be a report on the association’s activities over the last year and election of officers. Three regular positions on the board and four alternate positions are up for election. ❦ The Point Roberts Arts and Music Festival is looking for volunteers and vendors for this year’s event, which will be moving to the Point Roberts Marina for 2016. The festival is scheduled for July 30 and 31 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. As usual the event will be two days filled with live music, dance, handmade art and food. Organizer Craig Jacks said the move to the marina will provide a much more professional performance space to enjoy the show. There will also be a beer and wine garden and a barbecue. This year the festival will feature a Point

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Roberts Got Talent contest, with auditions at Lighthouse Marine Park on Saturday, July 23 from 3 to 6 p.m. Email Gail Pueyo at basqubebe@gmail.com to register. Pueyo is also looking for volunteers to help on the day of the festival. Vendor space is still available and interested parties can contact Jacks at craigjacks@pointroberts.net. ❦ Whidbey Telecom is looking for local artists to vie for the cover of the 20162017 telephone directory. This year’s theme is “what brings you happiness” and artists are being asked to “depict what inspires you to enjoy life here in the Northwest.” The deadline for submissions to the annual art contest is July 15, and works are being solicited in any visual medium including photography, watercolors, oil, charcoal, pencil, pastel or mixed media. The winner of the contest will receive $500 and be featured on the front cover of the 15,000 copies of the Whidbey Telecom directory. Visit whidbey.com/covercontest for complete rules and entry forms. ❦ Point Roberts Dollars for Scholars is accepting applications for scholarships to assist with back-to-school costs. Visit pointroberts.dollarsforscholars.org, complete an application and submit by June 30 for consideration. A small local jury will then score the applications blindly and award the available scholarships in mid-July. Scholarship funds are forwarded directly to the educational institution you are attending. To be eligible, you must be a Point Roberts resident (or your family if you are attending school away from home) and pursuing post-secondary education. For more information contact pointrobertsdfs@gmail.com.

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This year’s summer program will be all about the ocean, according to leader Dori Sargent. “We will have all sorts of art and learning using things we can find at the seashore,” she said. “There will be lots to choose from!” Sponsored by the Point Roberts Park and Recreation District, the program will run from June 27 to July 20 at the community center on Mondays and Tuesdays with a field-trip day on Wednesday. The program will not be held July 4. The mornings from 9 to 11:30 a.m. are for kids ages 6–9 and the afternoons from 1 to 3:30 p.m. are for kids ages 10–13. Sargent, 54, holds a masters degree in therapeutic counseling with a specialty in children and youth. She has previously run therapeutic foster homes and was looking for another opportunity to work with children. She will be working with a team of seven counselors. On Mondays and Tuesdays at the community center she is planning art projects related to her ocean theme, including T-shirt painting and shell crafts. Ideas for Wednesday’s field trip activities include a treasure hunt and some beach art. “I think it would be great if, as a team, we built a great big orca on the beach,” Sargent said. She also wants the summer to be an opportunity for some learning. “It would be good to learn a little about the whales that come by here,” Sargent said. Registration for the program will occur on the first day or as kids want to join.

Lighthouse Marine dock set to go into water The dock is set to go back in at Lighthouse Marine Park, this time built to last. Whatcom County Parks and Recreation design and development director Rod Lamb said the remanufactured wave attenuation chambers for the dock were in the hands of contractor H.B. Hansen and would be delivered to the Point on June 27. “We plan on installing the dock that week or the week after,” he said. The dock failed a month after it was installed last summer under moderate wind and wave conditions. The wave attenuation chambers have been redesigned and remanufactured to be able to handle typical weather at the site, and all parties have split the cost of the fix.

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Grandstands dropped from school construction plans By Oliver Lazenby Crews will break ground this summer on a $38 million Blaine High School remodel, but it’s not quite what citizens voted on last February when they passed a $45 million bond to fund the project along with some other school district work. Bids on the project came in well over budget, so to keep the project in reach, the Blaine school district board of directors has voted to drop plans to replace grandstands that were originally part of the project. It would cost $3.4–4.2 million to keep them in the project. The decision, made unanimously at a June 8 special meeting, will push back grandstand construction for at least three years. Spee West Construction of Bothell won the contract with a bid of $29.75 million and will break ground at the high school this summer. The decision was made in a boardroom packed with high school football players, parents and other fans of Blaine athletics. Meeting attendees pointed out that the grandstands were presented as part of the bond, which voters passed by 70 percent last February. “Voters got this phenomenal colored brochure with the grandstand included in the items that we were going to build for our children, and now it’s completely on the back burner?” Angela Abshere asked at the meeting. Others expressed similar opinions. Several of the 20-plus football players in attendance said they would feel cheated if they voted on a bond and the construction didn’t include all the promised projects. “While we certainly understand the frustration and we feel it as well, the consequence of waiting longer is that all of this is going to cost even more,” district superintendent Ron Spanjer told the audience. “We do not want to be building an inferior facility that staff and the community are going to have to live with for generations. That’s the delicate balance in this.” Spanjer recommended that the board award the lowest bid and delay the grandstand project because the other option – redesigning the high school to pull out money for grandstands – would delay the whole project and likely make it more expensive. Any redesign would set the project back at least a year, since utilities will be turned off for weeks in the first phase of construction, Spanjer said, and that can’t be done during the school year. The district had budgeted $38 million of the $45 million bond money for work on the high school, including construction of a concrete grandstand. The high school remodel will result in a facility that is all under one roof. The high school currently has 46 separate entrances, making it difficult to secure, Spanjer said. The remodeled building will have just three entrances. Other elements of the high school remodel include updates to antiquated heating, cooling and ventilation systems, band and choir space (students currently go to the middle school for band and choir) a cafeteria, cameras, electronic doors, and specialized classrooms for horticulture, construction skills classes and other career and technical education programs. The district budgeted $25.8 million for construction on the core high school facility and $2.6 million for grandstand construction, for a total of $28.4 million. The rest of the $38 million is for non-construction costs such as architectural and design fees, sales tax, permitting, project management, landscaping, equipment and furnishings. Spee West bid $34 million for the high school and grandstand construction, about

20 percent more than the district budgeted. “It was disappointing, certainly, because we know that puts us in a position of having to modify or adjust the product,” Spanjer said in an interview. “It’s very disappointing.” Spee West’s bid to build just the core high school facility with no grandstand for $29.75 million, the lowest of four bids, slightly exceeded the district’s budget. “I don’t want to prioritize one over the other but we need to get going on this educational facility and that’s the bottom line,” Spanjer said. About $2.1 million in the budget is set aside as contingency money and will be put toward the grandstand or other projects originally in the bond proposal if it’s still available after construction. If no money is left over, the district will have to find another way to fund the grandstands. “Absent the contingency money there’s no funding in this budget for the stadium,” project manager Jim Kenoyer said at the board meeting. The board could also consider cheaper options for replacing the grandstand. The current plan calls for a concrete structure that Kenoyer said would be the best in the county, other than Civic Field in Bellingham. School district officials anticipated that, due to market conditions, bids would come in over budget. So in the weeks before putting it out to bid they cut certain specifications to the plans, Spanjer said. They tweaked the school’s roof profiles, exterior coverings, heating and air-conditioning systems and other elements that saved nearly $4 million in construction costs, Spanjer said. Making more alterations to the core facility would require a redesign. “We would be into design changes at this point – floor plan changes, size of classrooms, downsizing common areas like the cafeteria, maybe eliminating something like a theatre,” Spanjer said. “We don’t want to put this back out to bid only to get a higher price for a lesser product and put ourselves in the position of not having the money to do the core facility.” Redesign would come with its own costs, in addition to the higher prices that will likely result from waiting longer, Spanjer said. Multiple school construction projects are in the works in the county, including several in the Nooksack Valley and Bellingham school districts. That’s one reason that bids on the project were higher than the district estimated, Kenoyer said. Another is that all four firms that bid on the project use the same subcontractors for mechanical, plumbing and electrical work, so there’s no cost competition in that aspect of the project, he said. “The inclination to get that pencil really sharp just isn’t there,” Kenoyer said. New building codes also drove up high school expenses in the past year. One example, Kenoyer said, is that since the district budgeted the project the number of toilets required in a building the size of the high school has more than doubled. “There now have to be 38 toilets rather than 16,” he said. That’s just one example, and if the project stalls for a year there could be more new codes to contend with, Kenoyer said. The original estimates for the high school project and grandstand were derived by the architect and from dollar-per-square-foot figures from the state superintendent’s office. It’s a formula that worked for the primary school project, which is nearly complete and came in $2 million under budget. “We felt really good about the formula. (See Construction, page 20)

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The district has been trying to pass a bond for high school improvements since 2008. Then, the district estimated that the high school project, including work on the stadium, would cost $28 million. That bond failed to pass. “That gives you some idea of how the cost variables have increased in an 8-year period. It went from $28 to $38 million with no significant differences in the project,” Spanjer pointed out. In 2011, the district proposed a scaledback bond that would have raised $32 million for just the core high school facility rebuild with no grandstands. That bond election received just under the 60 percent of votes it needed to pass. A committee proposed a $3 million bond for 2012 with only the most critical project – the science building, a few security updates and ventilation work. That bond passed. The $45 million bond may have passed in 2015 because, by some measures, the economy was recovering. But since that’s the case throughout the county, other districts also began working on big capital projects and

there’s work to go around for contractors equipped to do those projects, Spanjer said. “It’s kind of like going from zero to 60,” Spanjer said. “Bonds aren’t passing and projects aren’t in play and then all the sudden there’s a number of them in the county.” Spanjer summed up the board’s options before the vote: it could award the contract without a new grandstand, or decide to go back and redesign the facility, which would take months, push back the project a year, and come with the risk of getting less high school facility for a higher cost, he said. “Angela’s absolutely right – we made a commitment to voters and we need to make every effort to get a grandstand in place there, but there are some risks involved in starting over that could significantly compromise what we have,” Spanjer said. While not all sports fans were pleased with the outcome, Abshere said she came away from the meeting feeling like the board did care about the grandstand. “After speaking with the individual board members I feel that they’re as passionate as I am that it is going to happen,” she said. “It’s just going to take a little longer.”

Free at last, dogs get the run around Point Roberts Parks and Recreation District commissioners have officially designated all of Baker Field and surrounding forested land owned by the district as an off-leash area. At their June 13 meeting commissioners all agreed that, with increased enforcement of leash laws by sheriff’s deputies and county parks staff, the Point needed a place where dogs could legally be exercised off-leash. They also acknowledged the need to establish limitations that could create conflicts with other user groups. “I think it needs to be specific and not just at any time,” said commission chair Linda Hughes. “There are potentials for conflicts with equestrians and concerns from parents.” Commissioner Mary Edgley said she had checked with county officials and the district had the authority to make the rules for off-leash use of the park. The land is zoned recreational and open space, and off-leash areas are a permitted use, the county planning and development services confirmed. “We just need to decide how we want to manage it,” Edgley said. Commissioners agreed to set time limits for off-leash use, and employ signage, rather than fencing, to increase the flexibility of the property and cut costs. “If people get used to the concept you can have multi-use areas that really work,” Edgley said, citing examples such as Lake Padden in Bellingham and the Delta Watershed area north of the border.

Edgley suggested off-leash times in the morning and afternoon. “That way if you’re a parent and you don’t want your child around dogs you can choose all other times,” she said. Commissioners agreed to establish before 10 a.m. and after 5 p.m. as off-leash times from April through October. The area will be designated multi-use at all times for the remainder of the year, with later limitations to be established during school hours. Commissioner Bennett Blaustein will be drafting rules for off-leash use of the park, first and foremost being that dog owners clean up after their dogs. “So far the offleash people who have been using the park have been really good about this,” he said. “If it becomes an issue, we’ll have to look at it again.” Other rules will include that dogs be under owner control at all times and owners are responsible for the actions of their animals. “If you can’t control your dog, it shouldn’t be there,” he said. The district will also reserve the right to require that dogs be leashed during special events.

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LARGE COTTAGE IN QUIET WOODSY SETTING. New laminate floors, paint, counter tops and fully remodeled bathroom. Price includes the subdivided lot next door. $159,000

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