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VOLUME 36, NUMBER 46 • NOVEMBER 12, 2013
School board re-elected, solid San Juan County crafts budget for the coming year waste levy is passed, I-522 fails By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter
Everything you want to know about San Juan County government and the proposed 2014 budget can be found in 153 pages of the county preliminary budget document prepared for the County Council by Auditor Milene Henley. These documents, which will be revised when the County Council approves the budget after a series of public hearings over the next several weeks, can be found at sanjuanco.com/Budget2014/ docs/2014Preliminar y_ Budget_Book_Complete. pdf. Ever ything, that is, except the “Non-General
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Fund” budget, which totals $32,987,817 - more than half of the total county budget of $53,326,315. The “NonGeneral Fund” accounts apply to certain dedicated funds which have their own sources of revenue, including dedicated taxes, grants from various sources, intergovernmental transfers, fees and other sources. These receipts and expenditures will be included in the final budget documents. The preliminary budget summary, which will be presented to the council on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 4 and 5, by Auditor Henley and County Manager Mike Thomas, shows a General Fund total of $20.4 million. Most of that amount comes from real estate and sales taxes, although various grants and transfers are also included in the General Fund, as they are in the nongeneral fund totals. The preliminary budget for 2014 represents a decrease of about $1 million from the all-funds estimated 2013 total expenditures, although final 2013 expenditures won’t be available for several months. Because tax and grant receipts will
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vary through 2014, some supplemental and emergency appropriations may still be made by the council as the year progresses. The preliminary budget for 2014 represents a decrease of about $1 million from the all-funds estimated 2013 total expenditures, although final 2013 expenditures won’t be available for several months. Because tax and grant receipts will vary through 2014, some supplemental and emergency appropriations may still be made by the council as the year progresses. The preliminary budget document reviews all county departments and agencies and includes extensive documentation of departmental functions, personnel and activities. For instance, County Council projected expenditures of about $493,000 is about $24,000 less than 2013, possibly reflecting the recent charter amendments reducing the council from six members to three members. Other functions facing cuts in budgets include both “county administraSEE COUNTY, PAGE 6
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In the race for Lopez School District Directors the current school board was re-elected. For position 1, incumbent John Helding received 55 percent of the vote while his opponent Joe Thornton received 45 percent. For position 2, incumbent Clive Prout received 68 percent of the vote while his opponent Jay Brant received 32 percent. For position 3, incumbent Del Guenther received 53 percent of the vote while his opponent Teddy McCullough received 47 percent. For position 4, incumbent Dixie Budke received 62 per-
cent of the vote while his opponent Paul Berg received 38 percent. Dan Post won the race for Lopez Port Commissioner 3 with 59 percent. His opponent Bob Porter received 41 percent. The Fire District 4
Commissioner seat was won by Rebecca Smith with 72 percent and Richard Bangsund came out with 27 percent. The Lopez Solid Waste Disposal District Prop. No. 1 concerning a oneyear levy to fund solid waste disposal activities passed with 78 percent of the vote. The county Prop. 1 amendment concerning the charter failed with only 35 percent of the vote. Locally, I-522, the measure concerning the labeling of GMO foods, was approved at the county level. But statewide, it was rejected by 55 percent.
New signs put up on Lopez Island What are all those paint marks on the pavement? Why are there wooden stakes on the shoulder? Beginning in early November, San Juan County Public Works will begin installing new Regulatory and Warning signs on Lopez Island’s County Roads. Regulatory signs include stop, yield, and speed limit signs. Warning signs include turn/curve, pedestrian warning, school bus stop ahead, and Chevron signs. These signs are being installed as part of a federal mandated program to improve safety by replacing traffic signs nationwide with more reflective signs. Increasing reflectivity is important because most accidents occur at night. The “Run-Off Road and Intersection Safety Project – Sign Replacement Program” is a federally funded grant program that will bring the County into compliance with nation-
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al sign standards. These standards increase awareness at the most accident prone sites and critical areas, create consistency in sign placement and usage, and increase sign visibility for older drivers and night time driving. Through this program the county will reduce the number of Regulatory and Warning signs on Lopez by 22 percent, from 519 to 405. Before installing new signs, all utilities must be located to make sure that none of them are hit. This includes placing a stake where the sign is to be installed and spray painting white locate marks on the road’s shoulder. The various utilities use orange, red, blue and green paint. That is why there are so many marks on the road. Installation is expected to last for approximately one month and is being carried out by county personnel.
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WEDS, NOV 13 DANCE: Contra Dance - George Marshall and Perpetual E Motion, 7 p.m., Lopez Center. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter. org. $10 (youth $8) tickets at the door. THURS, NOV 14 MEETING: Lopez Island Garden Club meeting,
Coffee & Goodies 9:30 a.m., the meeting begins at 10 a.m., Woodmen Hall on Fisherman Bay Road. Our guest is John Christianson of Christianson’s Nursery. John will bring a highly anticipated selection of fine plants, noteworthy enthusiasm, and immense local horticultural knowledge.
SAT, NOV 16 MUSIC: Concert Gretchen Wing and Friends/KLOI Annual Meeting, 7 p.m., Lopez Center. Suggested Donation: adult $10, youth $5. CLASS: Using your iPad -
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Outrage against anti I-522 ad
How much money did you receive for the full, page ad against 522? How much of that money was from out of state?? For shame! I and many other
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readers are sorely disappointed that our local rag has given in to the corporate powers. Despite the letters supporting 522 the full page ad in the Weekly make the paper appear hypocritical. The Seattle Times did the same thing with two reports on how out-of-state money was harming our society and then giving in to big money and going against the initiative. In the
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SUN, NOV 17 WALK: Luminary Labyrinth Walk, Dusk to 9 p.m., Whispers of Nature Labyrinth. Join our third annual Full Moon evening walk amongst the 400 flickering lanterns to light your way in and out of the spiraling pathway. There will be an
SAT, NOV 23 MUSIC: Sing me to Heaven, 6 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Suggested Donation: adult $10, youth $8.
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An unfair report
In the October 26 issue, Steve Wehrly reported Washington Wire’s claim that “the typical family of four would pay an additional $490 a year for groceries.” What was not reported, and what voters would have needed to know, is that the No side bought and paid for their cost studies. As Trudy Bialic of Puget Consumers Co-op points out, “there’s no evidence of food costs rising in 64 countries where labeling is required, so the No side had to pay the Washington Research
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Council, a conservative think-tank, to say what they wanted to it to say.” Conversely, an independent study by the Alliance for Natural Health found that I-522 will not substantially increase food costs, Bialic said. Food manufacturers change labels frequently, every year or so, without raising prices. As Jerry Greenfield, coowner of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, said recently, “Think about it: why would adding 5 words to a label increase costs?”
10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Center Church. Proceeds to go support Center Church and Union Cemetery. FUNDRAISER: Used Book Sale! Friends of the Library, 9 a.m., Lopez Community Center.
NOV 29 - 30 FUNDRAISER: Lopez Island Preschool Holiday Bazaar, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Lopez School Gymnasium. SAT, NOV 30 FUNDRAISER: Lopez Island Hospice and Home Support’s Jingle Dinner and Silent Auction, 6 p.m., Lopez Community Center.
Bialic also points out the cost to farmers of NOT labeling. When experimental GE wheat was found in an Oregon farmer’s field, Japan and Korea suspended purchases causing prices for Washington wheat to fall $.60 per bushel. Although buying has now resumed, prices have not bounced back to previous levels. And now the farmers have to pay new fees for testing their wheat. Unfortunately, the Yes side of the food costs issue was not adequately covered in Wehrly’s report, giving an unfair advantage to the No side. CHARLES MISH Lopez Island
Local student receives ‘Commended Student’ Fletcher Moore has been named a Commended Student in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and
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Bay pipefish, a native seahorse, are declining at Indian Island.
Indian Island volunteers will make their annual report on the health of Indian Island and celebrate five years of community monitoring and stewardship on Thursday, Nov. 21 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Orcas Center. Enjoy a slideshow by Kwiáht director Russel Barsh, displays by local students, a musical medley by Sharon Abreu and Mike Hurwicz, a light savory buffet by the Orcas Store, desserts made by community scientists and opportunities to contribute to the conservation of Indian Island as a donor or a volunteer. Admission is free. This year volunteers invite you to adopt one of Indian Island’s rare and charming fish, birds, or marine invertebrates as your own special New Year’s project. For a modest donation, you will receive a button featuring your choice of Indian Island “foster child,” and personal updates on its status and current research. For a little more, there will be a number of exclusive naturalist talks and picnics and recognition in future Indian Island publications and events. Islanders can also support days of interpretive services on Indian Island for just $75 per day via the Orcas Island Community Foundation’s new Orcas Opportunities Catalog 2013, available online at www.oicf. us/catalog. “Never has the need for community participation been greater,” says Indian Island program coordinator Kelly Rose. Summer visitors have been increasing since the Indian Island program began in 2009. In addition to monitoring marine life, wildflowers, and birds, volunteers personally greeted over 4,100 visitors to the island in 2013. Volunteers also built a “driftwood trail,” distributed field guides, supervised school groups, rescued stranded wildlife, and helped prevent visitors from being stranded
by flood tides. The driftwood trail has been an unqualified success, Barsh says. Wildflowers on most of the island are already recovering. At the end of the 2013 season, the Indian Island program and Orcas Island Youth Conservation Corps carefully removed a truckload of English ivy, Himalayan blackberry and other invasive plants by hand. Seasonal restrictions to protect nesting seabirds were successful in 2012, but when restrictions were eased in June 2013 so that visitors could watch nests from a high point on the island, black oystercatchers lost all their eggs to predators and did not lay another set. “We’re still looking for the right balance of public enjoyment and seabird sur-
vival,” Rose says. Another concern is a fouryear decline in Bay pipefish, which Barsh says may be due to an outbreak of a parasitic copepod that attaches itself to gills. “At this stage, it’s more likely that pipefish are dying from parasites than from contaminants, but toxics can depress the immune system of fish and leave them less able to survive parasitism,” he said. Other indicators of ecosystem health, such as eelgrass density, have remained steady, however. The task of monitoring contaminants for the Indian Island program has been given to Orcas students. Kwiáht is working with Laura Tidwell’s Orcas Middle School students on a novel approach to monitoring lubricating oils and other automotive contaminants in Eastsound street runoff. Bundles of polypropylene fabric are hung in storm drains for several weeks, where they absorb any floating oils. When they are removed, the oils are rinsed off and measured in a spectrophotometer. Plans are also underway
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to expand volunteers’ monitoring of algal blooms in East Sound and to use other plankton species as indicators of toxic stress, hypoxia, and changes in temperature and acidity. Kwiáht is seeking funds to equip local schools to participate in an expanded plankton survey. In March 2013, President Obama signed an Executive Order creating the San Juan Islands National Monument, which includes Indian Island. Kwiáht and Orcas volunteers are working on a formal agreement to continue the local stewardship of Indian Island and perhaps other small, uninhabited islands that are now part of the monument such as Skull Island and Twin Rocks. One expression of local control will be an interpretive sign overlooking Indian Island on Main Street across from the Outlook Inn. The sign is a collaboration of the National Monument, the San Juan County Land Bank and Kwiáht funded by the county’s Lodging Tax, illustrated by Orcas fifth-grade students. A mock-up will be displayed at the event on Nov. 21 with blank spaces for suggesting the sign’s messaging. Learn more about Eastsound’s “window on the sea” by joining Kwiáht and the Indian Island Health Observatory on Nov. 21.
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Obituaries
John Sangster John was born on June 2, 1937 in Seattle, Wash., and passed away on Nov. 2, 2013. He was the loving husband of his wife of 55 years, Patsy Lloyd Sangster. John treasured his three children, sons Jim (Gretchen) and Johnny (Lene) Sangster and daughter Annie Carrino and his seven grandchildren, Lila and Sam, Malcolm, Stella and Owen and Luke and Nico. John graduated from the Lakeside School in 1955 where he was president of the student body. He continued his education at Colorado College where he earned his bachelor of arts in 1959 and subsequently a business degree from Stanford University. Upon graduating from Stanford, John worked in Seattle for Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart. He then joined his father-in-law J. Collins Lloyd at Lloyd Plywood Co. Later he continued his career as a business consultant. John served on the board of directors of
Epiphany and Overlake Schools and was a member of the Seattle Golf Club, the Seattle Tennis Club and the Men’s University Club. John retired to Lopez Island, Wash., with his family to devote more time to his true interests. There, John served on the board of the San Juan County Land Bank and was an active member of the Audubon Society. The outdoors and all it had to offer was an inspiration to John. He loved boat racing, skiing, golfing and hiking and birding. Influenced by his love of nature, writing and poetry became a major of focus of his life and he published many poems and prose. Music was always an integral part of his being and was a passion which he shared with his children and grandchildren. John was blessed to have his family, his beloved wife and partner in life, Patsy, and so many friends from diverse walks of life who loved him. His good humor, quiet integrity, and gentle ways will be so greatly missed. Memorial Services will be held at Epiphany Parish 1805 38th Ave, Seattle, Wash., on Monday, Nov. 25, 4:30 p.m.
Doug Cowan Doug Cowan, 90, a 37 year resident of Lopez Island, passed from this life into the next on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 with family at his side. He was born January 6, 1923 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Lee and Laura Cowan. He was the beloved husband of Millie for 64 years prior to her passing in October of 2006. Doug served his country flying for the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific during WWII. As part of the “Greatest Generation” he was proud to serve his country. Passionate about the game of golf, Doug could often be found at the Lopez Golf Course where he frequently “shot his age.” He loved to garden and cook, was
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an avid fly fisherman and a lifelong devotee to the hobby of model railroading. Doug also served for a number of years on the Lopez Island School Board. A relatively quiet man, Doug listened well, thought carefully and answered wisely. His advice was always worth considering and usually worth taking. He was known around Lopez Island as a gentleman’s gentleman. Doug is survived by his sons Doug, Jr. with wife Corinne of Bellevue and Tom with wife Tammy of Lopez, daughter Claudia with husband Bob Bushey of Renton, along with his favorite niece Penny Hastings with partner Mike Daniels of Santa Rosa, Calif. Doug is also survived by his brother Richard Cowan and his sister Jean Simpson. He is also survived by grandchildren Kristina Muse, Matt Cowan, Scott Cowan, Trisha Snyder, John Cowan, Eric Bergman and
Greg Cowan and 14 greatgrandchildren and one great-great grandchild. He will be greatly missed for his wisdom, humor and loving nature. A memorial service for Doug will be held at the Lopez Island Golf Club on Sunday, Nov. 10, at 2:30 p.m. The family suggests memorials be made to the Catherine Washburn Medical Association in Doug’s name. Arrangements are in the care of Evans Funeral Chapel and Crematory, Inc., Anacortes, Wash., and the San Juan Islands. To share memories of Doug please sign the online guest register at www. evanschapel.com.
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38. Robust good health 39. Looked lecherously 44. Animal house 48. Made over 49. Ornamental embroidery 51. Corpulent 52. Conical tent (var. spelling) 53. "Idylls of the King" character 54. Blue hue 55. Acad. 56. Air force heroes 57. Allocate, with "out" 59. ___ green Answers to today's puzzle on page 8
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“Magnolia Blossom Tower of Jewels 1925,” an estate print by famed photographer Imogen Cunningham. age consists of a night at the Majestic Hotel, breakfast at Dad’s Diner, dinner at Adrift, a treatment at Apothecary Spa, and gift certificates for many Anacortes businesses. Tickets to the Jingle Bell Dinner are $50, available exclusively at Paper Scissors on the Rock. All proceeds from the dinner and silent auction will benefit Lopez Island Hospice & Home Support. For more information or a sneak peak at the auction catalog, contact Lynne Keeley at 468-4446, admin@ lihhs.org. Here’s your chance to own a piece of photographic history – come to Lopez Island Hospice and Home Support’s Jingle Dinner and Silent Auction, Nov. 30, 6 p.m. at the Lopez Community Center. This year special emphasis has been placed on acquiring some truly wonderful items, including the crown jewel of the auction, “Magnolia Blossom Tower of Jewels 1925,” an estate print by famed photographer Imogen Cunningham. The photograph is printed from Cunningham’s original negative by the Cunningham Trust, and stamped with her facsimile signature and chop, authenticating that the print has been made and approved by the Trust. Printed by hand in a traditional darkroom process, this silver gelatin print is mounted and overmatted on 100 percent cotton rag museum board, and professionally framed with non-reflective glass.
For more than seventy five years, Cunningham explored the creative use of the camera. Her botanical prints and portraits are represented in major collections and museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and the Library of Congress. There is an abundance of other great auction items including pottery, jewelry, sculpture, and paintings by talented and generous local artists. Bid on Mariners tickets, a firehouse birthday party, and a kitchen dinner party at Vita’s. In addition, the “Seattle Spree” package includes tickets for two on Kenmore Air, overnight accommodations at Gaslight Bed and Breakfast, dinner at Serious Pie, Tom Douglas’s renowned pizza restaurant, and a gift certificate to Pie Bar, recently featured in Sunset Magazine. The “Play for a Day (or Two) in Anacortes” pack-
Join us to begin your holiday season joyfully. Islands A Cappella presents choral works composed by artists from the 16th century to modern times in our program, “Sing Me to Heaven.” Under the direction of Angel Michaels, the concert features songs by modern choral composers Stephen Chatman and Morten Lauridsen, jazz musician Thad Jones, and the prophet of music, Claudio Monteverdi. Holiday favorites mixed with some year-round favorites will certainly put you in the mood to celebrate. Concerts are offered on three islands: Friday, Nov. 22, 4 p.m., at Rosario Resort on Orcas Island. The Orcas Boy Choir will join us for this concert only. Saturday, Nov. 23, 6 p.m. at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts on Lopez Island. Finally, on Sunday, Nov. 24, on San
Juan Island at 3 p.m., the performance is at St. David’s Church in Friday Harbor. Donations of $10 for adults and $5 for students and youth are appreciated. Young chil-
dren are free. Tickets are available at the door of each venue. Join us for a heart-filling, musical treat as we “Sing You to Heaven.”
Notice of the Intent to Adopt an Election Resolution. The San Juan Islands Conservation District intends to have a meeting at 530 Guard Street, Friday Harbor WA 98250 on November 20th, 2013, 8:30-10:30 AM at which the date, time, place and manner of the 2014 annual election will be set.
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FH engineer plots a course for the moon NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer was able to get from the launching pad, Sept. 6, to its lunar commissioning orbit five weeks later, Oct. 13, thanks in large part to Friday Harbor’s Mike Loucks. Owner of Friday Harbor-based Space Exploration Engineering Corporation, Loucks designed and helped implement the trajectory used to send the Environment Explorer into orbit. He designed the translunar and lunar orbit capture portion of LADEE’s trajectory.
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pany and his family to Friday Harbor in 2001. The progress of the LADEE spacecraft along its trajectory was chronicled by Loucks and fellow “astro-gator” John Carrico during the trans-lunar portion of the mission on the “Astrogator’s Guild” blog (www.astrogatorsguild.com). The two were featured in an Oct. 8 article in the Christian Science Monitor, “Moon mission LADEE arrives after an ‘amazingly precise’ looping flight,” written by Liz Fuller-Wright and appearing in the online version of the publication. LADEE (pronounced like “laddie”) is a robotic mission designed to orbit the moon and to gather detailed information about lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. It also carries an innovative lunar laser communication demonstration instrument, which is designed to transmit data at a rate of 622 megabits per second, about five times the current state-of-the-art from lunar distances. LADEE is managed by NASA’s Ames
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revealed—to cheers or groans, depending on how well each team listened to its experts. Need another question to practice? 2. What is written on Hildegard Goss’s gravestone? A) When I grow old I’ll wear purple B) Life is art C) Your turn to walk the dog D) There goes the neighborhood Lopez Trivia began in 1994, at the Lopez Community Land Trust annual meeting, the brainchild of Sandy Bishop, and continued through 1996. Appropriately, Sandy will be this year’s emcee, along with a mystery assistant. OK, last chance: 3. Joan Baez once sung backup to a Lopezian. Who was that Lopezian and what was the song? A) Lisa Geddes –
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911 working on Lopez, Orcas and Shaw The San Juan County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed that 911 emergency dispatch service is again working for residents of Lopez and Shaw Islands. At this time, it appears that on-island telephone service is functioning with on-island phone calls and 911 service on Orcas Island. However, given the unstable service
situation, OIFR recommends the following steps to report all emergencies: 1. First, dial 911 from a land line 2. Then try OIFR direct at 376-2331 from a land line 3. You can email 911@sanjuanco.com An apparent failure in an underwater data cable at 4 a.m. on Tuesday disrupted
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