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VOLUME 36, NUMBER 39 • September 24, 2013

Great Island Grown Festival coming soon By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter

If you liked the county fair, you will love the fourth annual Great Island Grown Festival. It’s a three island, 13 day extravaganza with a cornucopia of food, farms and friendliness – just the elements that have made the San Juan County Fair the “can’t miss” event in the islands for more than a century. Spearheaded by the San Juan County Agricultural Resources Committee and the revitalized Island Grown in the San Juans program,

the festival “celebrates the bounty of abundant farms and locally-grown food in our beautiful archipelago within the Salish Sea,” according to Island Grown’s extensive new website, islandgrown. net. Food will be the hallmark of the two-week-long event. Each island will provide opportunities to fill your cupboard and yourself with local produce and seafood. All food events have a fee; visit islandgrown.net/festival for details. On Orcas, renowned chefs Christina Orchid and Madden Surbaugh are pro-

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ducing gourmet feasts at Red Rabbit Farm (Oct. 6) and the New Leaf Cafe (Oct. 12), respectively. Orchid’s “Going Whole Hog” will be an all-day event starting at 10 a.m., featuring instruction on butchering, roasting and preserving pork. There will also be an all-day Farm Olympics, with contests such as hay bale lifting and milk pail carrying. Proceeds benefit the Orcas School Farm to Cafeteria Program. Surbaugh’s gourmet Island Harvest Pop-up Dinner at 6 p.m. will feature local ingredients from

Maple Rock Farm, Coffelt Farm, Jones Family Farm and Buck Bay Shellfish. Locally produced beer, wine and San Juan Distillery spirits are included. Lopez feasts include a Lopez Locavores Evening Meal at the School Oct. 3; Lopez on the Halfshell Oct. 4, at 11 a.m. at Sweetwater Farm (with a tour); and a Farms to Feast dinner Oct. 13 at Jones Family Farm, prepared by Chef Derrek Bugge from Frank’s Oyster House and Champagne Bar in Seattle (also with a tour). Vita’s Wildly Delicious and

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watercolorist Tom Hoffman team up Oct. 11 and 12 for a two-day watercolor course followed by a wine-tasting dinner at 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 12. San Juan Island will host its share of gastronomic delights, too. There’s a Chili Cook-off Oct. 6 at the Brickwords; a Bike and Gastronomic Tour the same day, with a lunch at Red Mill Farm; and a Tour the Fields, Taste the Feast event Friday, Oct. 11, with dinner following at Coho Restaurant in Friday Harbor. The Oct. 5 and Oct. 12 Farmers’ Markets on Orcas, Lopez and San Juan islands will be overflowing with freshly harvested veggies and fruits, some of it ready to eat and some ready to cook. San Juan County’s farmers have learned to grow almost everything from spring to fall, so you can choose from a big variety. On Orcas, also Oct. 5 and 12, a Food Masters Workshop can inform you

how the best farmers and processors grow, harvest and preserve. Three workshops, 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. each day, will tell you about sustainable horticultural practices, at the Community Garden, and value-added production, at the Village Green. And what’s a festival without a parade? Sponsored by the Grange No. 966, the Friday Harbor Fall Farm Parade Oct. 5 is a hoot-andholler event, from children with chickens and pets, to farm families with tractors and harvesters parading through Friday Harbor’s main streets to celebrate the resurgence of smalls farms and local food in the San Juans. It starts at the county fairgrounds at 2:30 p.m. and ends at Brickworks. If the islandgrown.net website doesn’t answer all your questions, call Peggy Bill of the Agricultural Resources Committee, 378-6621, or Boyd Pratt at Island Grown, 370-7666.

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Community Calendar weds, sept 25 music: Beppe Gambetta in Concert, 7 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Tickets: PSR, Lopez Center, at the door, www.lopezcenter.org.

There will be a workshop on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 6:308:30 p.m. at Lopez Center. Cost is $25, regsiter at mandolance@yahoo.com.

thurs, sept 26 meeting: Lopez Solid

Waste Disposal District Managing Board Meeting,, 3 -5 p.m., Lopez Fire Hall.

fri, sept 27 meeting: BLM Hosts San Juan Islands National Monument Public Meeting, 6-8 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Public discussion of the newly established San Juan Islands National Monument. sat, sept 28 hike: Yellow Aster Butte, off Hwy 542 Mt. Baker – Leader, Chris Coiley. On

the north side from Mt. Baker, this is an all day event that is considered moderately strenuous with an eight-mile round trip trail hike gaining 2,200 feet. For info including car pool arrangements and sign up call 468-4090. For info, check mountain guide books or the web. event: Fall Tea, 2- 4 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church. Event is hosted by the Ladies of Grace Church for the women of Lopez Island. RSVP to Ann Warsen

(468-2691) or the Grace Church Office (468-3477) by Sept. 24. event: National Public Lands Day, 10 - 4 p.m., Watmough Bay Preserve.

sun, sept 29 party: Backhoe Hoedown and Chili Feed Featuring JP and the OK Rhythm Boys, 5:30 p.m, Lopez Center. Admission by Donation. weds, oct 2 open house: Open HouseLeadership San Juan

Islands, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m,, Grace Episcopal Church Parish Hall. For info, visit www.lsji.org.

fri, oct 4 music: Sharon Abreu soprano with accompanist Marianne Lewis, 7:30 p.m,, Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Tickets in advance: Adult $15, Youth $8. Available from: Community Center office, and online at lopezcenter.org.

First for San Juan County – Martindale picked for state arts commission By Scott Rasmussen Journal editor

To find a large stack of mail to sift through after returning from a long-overdue vacation was to be expected. But within that stack was one letter that caught Diane Martindale, shown right, almost completely by surprise. “I had resigned myself to ‘well that didn’t happen’,” Martindale said of an appointment to the Washington State

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Arts Commission. “I thought the time period of when the appointments would be made and announced had already passed. And I hadn’t heard anything.” Instead, the governor’s office just hadn’t gotten around to considering applications or new appointments to various state boards because of unfinished state budgetary business that prompted a special six-week session of the state legislature and interrupted a timely appointment process. Martindale opened the envelope to discover that, by appointment of Gov. Jay Inslee, she is now San Juan County’s first-ever representative on the state Arts

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Commission. “I’ll say that I was pleasantly surprised, to say the least,” she said. “I take it as an indication about how much art goes on here and the level of talent, and how much the arts contribute to the islands economically.” Created in 1961, the Washington State Arts Commission reviews applications and approves grants to organizations and communities large and small in the visual and performing arts, and in writing. Its mission is to speak to the value of public art, build leadership from and for the arts, strengthen art education in the schools, document the

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economic impact of the arts, and acquire and care for artwork in the official state art collection, much of which is on display at the state’s K-12 public schools, colleges, universities and state agencies. Although skilled in the craft of quilt making, Martindale, owner of Acquisitions, an art consulting business, downplays her artistic talents. But as an advocate of the arts, Martindale believes that

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“In my cover letter with my application I said that there are probably plenty of people more qualified than me for the position,” Martindale recalls. “But I also said that my dedication and enthusiasm for the arts would rival just about anyone’s.” The state arts commission consists of 19 appointees who serve three-year terms. Martindale, one of four new commission appointees, expects to begin her tenure at the panel’s first meeting in November. She anticipates being inundated with homework, grant applications will need to be reviewed, to get up to speed and to be prepared for that meeting. And that’s precisely where she had hoped to be. “The arts are always changing,” she said. “You just never get bored.”

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her enthusiasm and energy would rival anyone’s. A former marketing consultant specializing in the medical equipment industry, Martindale is chairwoman of the San Juan Library’s art committee, a member of the Island Arts League board of directors and the San Juan County Arts Council, an advisor to the San Juan Islands Museum of Art (she authored and landed grants to fund IMA’s public schools art education project and Family Arts Days), and a supporter of the 100 Friends of Old Island Barns. She also volunteers with the Community Arts Theatre Society, is a member of Women in the Visual and Literary Arts and was a board member of the Houston Ebony Opera Guild before relocating to San Juan Island.

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Participants engage in 11 sessions from January to May. If you have ever had thoughts of becoming more knowledgeable and skilled at getting things done in the county, come to the 10th Anniversary Open House. The event on Lopez is Wednesday, October 2, 6:308:30 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 70 Sunset Lane. Businesses and agencies across the county play an essential part in the success of the program. Individuals

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Spotlight on Seniors by Gretchen Wing

Doug Allan, Lopez Island Metallurgy, n. 1. The technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain shapes or properties. Doug Allan is a man of metal. From high school shop to apprenticeship, from soldier to salesman to business owner, Doug has built his career around the fact that metal molecules rearrange themselves in high heat, and toughen up. Shortly after Doug was born in Aberdeen in 1924, his dad was killed in an auto accident, so Doug and his mother moved to Bellingham where his grandmother ran a boarding house. There his mother, a teacher, met and married Mitch, another teacher, but Doug was already forging his independent spirit and didn’t bond tightly with his new stepfather. “I basically took care of myself from the age of eight,” he says. The small unit –“my mom and Mitch and I,” Doug says,

avoiding the word “family” – moved next to Sunnyside, in Yakima County, where Doug’s mother and Mitch cotaught in a two-room rural school. Doug liked school just fine, but childhood memories don’t elicit any specific passions or delights. “Survival,” he says, “was more important.” In his teen years, Doug moved back north, attending Everett High and working in the new family business, a service station. His future wife, Barbara, would stop in to have her bike tires filled, but Doug is all business with these memories. School, then work, squeezing in homework between customers – those were his life rhythms. Then, during his junior year, he moved in with his aunt and uncle in Mt. Vernon and went to work in their machine shop. Doug “didn’t like machining worth a damn,” but the blacksmith shop called to him. Forging metal – now that was something. A football scholarship – Doug’s a big guy – led back to Bellingham and Western Washington University, but Doug only stayed there a year before enlisting in the Army. It was 1943, and his skills were in high demand. His unit followed the troops into Europe six days after

D-Day, working to repair jeeps and trucks as fast as they broke down. During the Battle of the Bulge they came under fire, but Doug doesn’t care to talk much about the war. More important is the fact that, after a short stint at Everett Community College, he finished his degree in industrial management at University of Washington, and there he met Barbara. This time he remembered her as more than the girl who came in to fill her tires, and the two married, in 1949, as soon as he graduated. In the postwar economy, Doug found a job right away… but not in metal. In sales. Of ketchup. Or Heinz 57, to be exact. The Allans settled in Bremerton and started a family as Doug drove and drove and drove. This was the beginning of “thousands of miles” of sales-related travel – yet another part of Doug’s personal refining process. But after a year and a half, he switched to selling a more familiar commodity: welding equipment and oxygen tanks. Metal called once more. And when a bankrupt metallurgy company became available for sale, Doug answered the call. The result was the Allan Family LLC in Kirkland,

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Right: A photo of Doug and Barbara Allan and a 47-year career of heattreating steel to meet the demands of aircraft. The process, Doug explains, “is the same today as it was 300 years ago.” When steel is heated to 1,500 degrees, molecules move, and when quenched in oil and water, added alloys are bonded tightly enough to withstand the 300,000 pounds-per-square inch of pressure that some airplane parts require. Doug rattles off these statistics as though we were discussing the weather, defining the process of metallurgical transformation as “increasing the tensile strength of metal” – and he makes sure the interviewer can pronounce the word “metallurgical.” Now this is a comfortable topic. But the interviewer, of course, wants to know how Doug and Barbara came to Lopez. As with many Lopezians, their foothold began as a vacation cabin back in 1985, and they and their four daughters spent an increasing number of weekends learning to feel at home here. Not until 2010 did the couple become full-timers, after Doug had sold the family business to his eldest daughter, who still runs it along with her son.

Until recently, the Allans made regular trips back to Seattle for Husky football games. Now, as they deal with Barbara’s Alzheimers, the Allans are considering a permanent move there, for more comprehensive care. With “nine or ten” grandchildren, their Lopez house will probably stay in the family, but, as Doug says, “Whatever

New York Times best-selling author comes to Lopez By Lou Pray Library director

Every now and then there is a novel I find myself perusing long after I’ve finished it, or re-read some section that moved me or made me laugh. The first Karen Joy Fowler book I read back in 2004, the New York Times best selling “The Jane Austen Book Club,” is that rare one I’ve read cover-to-cover several times. The plot is centered around a book club that was formed to discuss each of Austen’s novels which loosely mirror events going on in the life of

the book club members. For me, it was all about the love of reading and that the best way to understand human nature is through great literature. I went out and read all her other books and have thoroughly enjoyed her variety, since she started out as a sci-fi/fantasy writer (another genre I love). The library is thrilled to bring her to Lopez on Oct. 5, 4 – 5:30p.m. at the Gathering Place at the Hamlet in Lopez Village for a reading and discussion of her newest book, We are all completely beside ourselves. We’ll have a Q&A after, for questions. Fowler is the author of six

novels and three short story collections. “The Jane Austen Book Club” spent 13 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel “Sister Noon” was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel “Sarah Canary” was a New York Times Notable Book, as was her second novel “The Sweetheart

Season.” In addition, “Sarah Canary” won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, and was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collection “Black Glass” won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection “What I Didn’t See” won the World Fantasy Award in 2011.

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Public Lands Day volunteers act locally Lopez groups dedicated to preserving island life through land stewardship and environmental education have teamed up to host a National Public Lands Day event at Watmough Bay Preserve on Sept. 28 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. “We’re excited to continue this tradition of celebrating the outdoors and engaging the community with National Public Lands Day,” said organizer Sara Waugh. “The day will offer opportunities for outdoor fun, education and stewardship on these treasured Lopez lands.” Local conservation experts agree. National Public Lands Day is intended to get people who think globally to act locally. Tim Clark of Lopez

has been a preserve steward with the San Juan County Land Bank since 2008. Clark said, “Public lands may seem to happen, but their care takes an unbelievable amount of time and energy. Get outside on National Public Lands Day. These places need you. They need an involved public, or else your favorite places may become just memories.” Fellow preserve steward Doug McCutchen agreed with Clark’s appeal. “We encourage you to take some time to explore a new public place or visit a favorite haunt. Take time to consider what role the physical landscape plays in your experience living in the islands,” said McCutchen.

“Imagine what changes might be in store and how we can work together as a community to hold onto the core values that make these islands so incredible.” Volunteers will come to Lopez for outdoor games, interpretive walks, tide pool exploration and marine ecology education stations. Maintenance projects will address invasive weeds and beach cleanup. Volunteers are asked to come with a lunch, water, and all-weather clothing. Families and children are welcome. Clark insists there will be enough “walks, talks, and work available for everyone” at Watmough Bay Preserve.

National Public Lands Day is the largest single-day volunteer event for public lands in the nation. Photos from around the country will be posted on various social media sites using the hashtag #NPLD20 to signify the 20- year anniversary of the national event. Volunteers at the Lopez event will be posting day-of photos of the event in progress to Facebook. The event’s partners are the BLM, SJC Land Bank, Kwiaht, Lopez Community Trails Network, Lopez Island Conservation Corps, Keepers of the Patos Light and the San Juan Preservation Trust. For more info about NPLD call Nick Teague at the BLM 468-3754.

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Walkabout 2013

Did you see 25 tired and hungry hikers in the village Sept. 7? On a two-day trek from the ferry landing all the way south to a point near Iceberg Monument, the intrepid group was making a pit stop at the Farmers’ Market for food and drink. Their goal: walk the entire length of Lopez and stay off roads. There were challenges. They had to cross both private and public lands. With the support of 27 private property owners and 5 public agencies, the hikers covered almost 16 miles north to south in two days. “We were able to walk 85 percent of the time off the roads”, said Charlie Janeway, treasurer of LCTN, a Walkabout veteran. The September pilot hike was a test intended to see if it could be done and to explore the issues and possibilities for walking Lopez. They began at the Ferry Landing and walked up Penny Lane above the headland. From this northernmost point on Lopez, they proceeded south onto both private and public lands, walking through Odlin Park and Odlin South, using an LCTN built trail by the Labyrinth, over Preservation Trust land, then through Lopez Vineyards into the valley on an OPALCO easement. After their respite at the Farmers’ Market, the hikers headed south paralleling Center Road on private driveways and trails, encountering beautiful trees, fields and a spectacular view. Crossing another Preservation Trust parcel they emerged on Dill Road and ended the first day at the school having walked five and a half hours and about nine miles. The second day they climbed southeast up Lopez Hill where they picked up Lopez Sound Road (hardly a road at that point), then backtracked southwest to use another OPALCO easement to Cousins Road. A third OPALCO easement led to another driveway, then across a private trail (LCTN spruced this one up for the owner), out to Mud Bay Road using yet another OPALCO easement and onto the Public Works property. They continued down Mackaye Harbor Road along the water to a drive that took them back into the woods wending behind Agate Beach Park. After four and a half hours See walk, page 8

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Or do some investments (e.g. procurement of the 700 MHz frequency) make sense only if you count their nonelectricity benefits -- while making electricity users shoulder the costs? If some of these investments only are viable with a cross-subsidy, are we okay with that? If so, to what extent are we willing to cross-subsidize? Can OPALCO show a cost-benefit analysis to ensure our padded electricity costs do not exceed benefits to local economic development? And even then, we need to acknowledge equity issues: winners and losers are not necessarily the same. Perhaps it’s wise to pause and re-think the board’s decision. Put the 700 MHz frequency procurement process on hold until its economic

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procure 700 MHz frequency. 2) the Board voted that these “backbone” costs are to be underwritten 100 percent by members through electricity rates, instead of being partially recovered from Century Link, ISPs and broadband users through lease or network fees. $5 million amounts to roughly a 2.9 percent “tax” on the entire OPALCO membership assuming these costs are paid over 10 years. We want fast, reliable internet, too. But we have questions and concerns. Are we happy about our electricity rates being “padded” to subsidize broadband and cellular users? Specifically, are each of the “backbone” network investments justifiable as an improvement in the electrical system?

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lutheran ChurCh in the san juans. Join us Sundays at 9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanuel. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025. QuaKer Worship group Meetings will be Sundays at 10 a.m. at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 468-2129. Email: lopezfriends@gmail.com st. FranCis CatholiC ChurCh Come worship with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome you to join us for Mass at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Call 378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

Ron was a skilled mechanic and an avid fisherman, two traits that he blended successfully to design and bring to market his own brand of northweststyle boat: the Ocean Sport Roamer. Coming up on hull #100, this unique brand was a source of great pride for Ron as he actively engaged his favorite pastime – fishing trips to Barkley Sound. Ron was born Feb. 06, 1954, in Seattle, Wash., to Godan and Florence Meng. He spent his youth in the Normandy Park neighborhood of Seattle, moving to Lopez Island in 1972. The next year, Ron married Jennifer Collman, also of Lopez. The couple started their business, Islands Marine Center, the same year. Ron is survived by his wife of 40 years, Jennifer Meng, his daughter Christine Meng, his granddaughter Madeline Anderson, his niece Amanda, his parents Godan and Florence Meng, his brothers, Eric, Dennis and Bob, his sisters Lori and Karen, and many much-loved nieces and nephews. A celebration of his life will be held at Woodman Hall on Sunday, September 29 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Friends of Woodman Hall, P.O. Box 424, Lopez Is., WA 98261.

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seven miles, turning onto the Reeves driveway the group was greeted by a huge sign saying “Almost There” on a table festooned with a large bowl of oranges, chocolates and several bottles of sparkling wine. A fitting finish, a welcome repast and a most hospitable welcome as the hikers celebrated the rest of the day at a potluck with the Reeves. The LCTN group dedicates their efforts to “non-

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Meg Lainson (formerly Jessica Porter), Ross Lockwood and Shona Aitken completed a 30-mile walk/run to celebrate Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center from Sept. 5 through 7. Lopez Island The event was in honor of the center’s 30th birthday and to raise funds for the organization. The trio ran 10 miles on Orcas, Lopez and San Juan Island. They say they enjoyed every step and raised more than $3,000. Susen Oseth, Carol Parrot and Sarah Kwon acted as a “support crew” on the different islands. 180’ WATERFRONT Lopez Acupuncture Price Reduced $179,999 “And thank you to every& Integrated Health West facing 2.7 acres of oldone who sponsored us, growth fir forest, with driveway. Julienne Battalia LAc, LMP providing a nice ‘birthday Water, power and phone at lot “Walk In” Clinic: gift’ for Wolf Hollow,” said Wednesdays, 3pm-6pm, $30 line. Septic permit. Small cabin Aitken. and mooring buoy. (360)468-3239 360-468-2052

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