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VOLUME 37, NUMBER 24 • JUNE 17, 2014
Islanders speak out on coal terminal and jets At a recent meeting with Representative Rick Larsen, islanders express concerns Cali Bagby
Islands’ Weekly Editor
Islanders showed up with signs promoting green energy at a recent campaign kickoff for Representative Rick Larsen of the Second District. Orcas Islanders came
equipped to Odd Fellows Hall on June 8 with environmental concerns primarily focused on the proposed coal terminal at Cherry Point. Lopez Islanders also showed up at the meeting expressing concern over the jet noise pollution.
Thank you for supporting myself and my family af ter my accident and during my recovery. We are so appreciative of your healing thoughts and prayers. We are also grateful for the generous donations and gif ts. We are especially grateful to our EMS, Tim Savage, Mitchell Barr, OPALCO and to everyone who held us close to their hearts. It looks like I will be returning to work at OPALCO sometime this summer. A true Miracle!
Coal terminal If approved, the $650 million Gateway Terminal would be the largest bulk export facility on the West Coast, perhaps in the nation. At full capacity, it would be capable of exporting up to 54 million metric tons of coal a year from the plant that SSA Marine, which operates an export terminal at the Port of Seattle and others worldwide, is seek-
– Kevin Zoerb and family
ing to build at Cherry Point, just north of Bellingham. The facility, as proposed, would store coal transported by rail from Montana and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on coal-train caravans, each more than a mile long, circulating daily through the plant. The coal would than be shipped through the Salish Sea and San Juans by cargo ships – many of which
measure more than three football fields in length – to Asian markets, where it would be sold as fuel. Critics contend that the increase in shipping and rail traffic the facility would demand will produce air and noise pollution, traffic congestion and environmental risks and undermine the region’s quality of life and possibly its draw as a tourist destination. Supporters point to the many economic benefits both the facility and its construction will deliver, including up to 2,000 new jobs and a boost to the bottom line of state and local governments. FRIENDS of the San Juans Board Vice President Janet Alderton said her goal at the recent meeting was to inspire Larsen to reconsider his support for the coal terminal. Alderton told Larsen that the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal is "all risk and no benefit" for the islands. Larsen has been vocal about his support for the coal terminal because he says it will create jobs. Alterton voiced her opinion that there are other ways to support job growth through companies that provide solar energy, wind power and other energyefficient services. “These are existing
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Enjoy an evening of readings and conversations with nationally acclaimed poets, Natalie Diaz and Roger Reeves while savoring wine and the Tastes of Lopez dinner prepared by local chefs.Ticket are $60 and are going fast. Stop by the LIFRC office to purchase tickets or call us at 468-4117. Visit our website for more details: www.lifrc.org
‘green’ jobs that will expand as people become better informed about the costs, benefits and incentives,” she told the Weekly. She also told the Weekly that she is concerned about Larsen's support of President Obama's EPA proposals to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. “I told him that it is hypocritical to support the reduction of coal burning in the U.S. but to favor the export of our public coal reserves to be burned in Asia,” she said. Larsen could not be reached for comment by press time.
Jet noise
The other hot topic at the meeting was jet noise on Lopez Island. The noise from thousands of engine tests and training runs by new EA 18G “Growlers” and other planes at Naval Air Station Whidbey and Outlying Landing Field Coupeville has generated concerns. Karen Grimes, Cynthia Dilling and Councilman Jamie Stephens attended the campaign kickoff from Lopez. Dilling had hoped that Larsen would hold meetings on both San Juan and Lopez so he could hear the Growlers and hear from the people. She told the Weekly that Larsen did not respond to her request. “Our issue is to try to mitigate the noise we are receiving from Ault Field, which is affecting our quality of life, sleep, property values, use of our property and peace and quiet on which the economy of our county rests,” said Dilling. She added that she is concerned Larsen’s support of the military and jobs the base in Oak Harbor provides overshadows the problems islanders are facing when it comes to jet noise. This June, Larsen SEE LARSEN, PAGE 5
Community Calendar ONGOING CLASSES: Swimming, Lopez Islander Pool. Five levels of classes. Ages 6 mos. – 3 years, $35. Ages 7-12: $55. Instructor: Berta Vaughn. For info, call the LIFRC at 468-4117 or go to www.lifrc.org. WEDS, JUNE 18 EVENT: Vicki Robin’s Presentation and Book Signing, 7 p.m., Lopez Island Public Library. FRI, JUNE 20 ART: San Juan County Economic Development
Council Nonprofit Board Workshop, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., location TBA. The workshop is open to all nonprofit organization board members, members, and staff serving with any nonprofit in San Juan. For info: www.sanjuansedc.org. ENTERTAINMENT: Lopez Artist Guild Presents: Eric Hopper, Ginny Neece & Martha Garcia, 5 – 7 p.m. at Lopez Center for Community & the Arts. Opening reception on Friday, June 20 from 5-7pm. The show runs until August 4. For more info contact Anne Whirledge-Karp, anne@
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awish.net. SERVICE: A Family Praise & Worship Service, 6:30 p.m., Center Church.
SAT, JUNE 21 EVENT: Shantala Kirtan Devotional Singing & Chanting: Celebrate Summer Solstice evening with sweet, peaceful live music. 7:30 p.m., at Center Church. Call and response and sing-a-long welcome. With suggested donation $14-$25 at the door. For info email: whispersofnature@gmail.com. JUNE 24-26 OUTSIDE: Golf clinic, 2 - 4 p.m., Lopez Golf Course. Learn the fundamentals of golf. $50 thereafter. Age
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SAT, JUNE 28 ENTERTAINMENT: Saturday Concert, 2 p.m., at the Gathering Place, Lopez Hamlet. Celia Rosenberger directs the Lopez Chamber Orchestra and the Lopez Youth Orchestra for a
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TUES, JUNE 24 CLASS: Birds & Habitat: Making the Connection, 7- 10 a.m., Meet at Village Parking Lot and carpool. Join Kathleen Foley (San Juan Preservation Trust) on a south end birding adventure! $25. Age 6-adult. For info, call 468-4117 or go to www.lifrc.org.
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program of classical favorites, American songs and fiddle tunes celebrating the 4th of July. For info: Lopez Hamlet, lopezhamlet@ rockisland.com, 468-2620. Free. INFO: Lopez Master Gardeners will have an Information Table, 10 - 2 p.m., Sunset Builders Nursery Area. Bring a gardening question. If you have a plant or insect you would like to have identified, bring in a plastic bag.
TUESDAYS IN JULY CLASS: Tots at the Beach, 10 -11 p.m., Odlin Park to meet new friends and play in the sand. Open to tots two and under with parent. JULY 1 -2 CLASS: Get Your Hands Dirty
with office billing, research for my patients, personal contacts with family and friends and some online shopping , I must spend at least 2 hours a day on the computer. I choose to use my computer both at home and at work from a corded DSL ethernet connection. I choose to have a corded connection because at the point of exposure on a laptop or tablet I am exposed to microwave radiation similar in strength to that of a cell phone tower only 100-200 meters away. This is because the signal strength falls off in proportion to the square
from the distance of emission i.e. very rapidly. The distance from a tower is measured in hundreds of meters, but from a WIFI antenna it is only a few meters, and from a laptop or tablet it is measured in just inches. Spending 2 hours a day on a wireless computer connection via WIFI exposes me to even more microwave radiation than I would from 2 hours a day on a cell phone because the device is sending radiation over my entire head and torso and pelvis. OPALCO ‘s broadband would be a wonderful asset to our island community if
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with Clay - Olders, 1 -4 p.m., Josh Ratza’s studio. Learn basic to intermediate hand building skills. Make a pitcher, four to six cups, and a small serving platter, $75 fee expires June 23, $85 thereafter. Age 12-adult. For info, call 468-4117 or go to www.lifrc.org.
JULY 1 - 3 CLASS: Puppet Adventures with Rod-Marionettes, 9:3012:30 p.m. at Lopez School Art Room. Create your own rod-marionette with help from Dmitri, one of the puppeteers with Carter Family Marionettes. $75 fee expires June 23, $85 thereafter. Age 5-adult. For more info, call the LIFRC at 468-4117 or go to www.lifrc.org.
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Concerns about WiFi exposure
Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Center Wednesdays - 4 p.m. Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal Church Fridays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Center Saturdays - noon at the Children’s Center Call 468-2809
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we could bring the fiber optic connection to each home. But if the broadband is only sourced from wireless towers those like me who spend at least two hours a day on the internet will be exposing ourselves daily to radiation at levels that will cause adverse biological health effects. Right now our students at the Lopez School and our health team at the Lopez Medical Clinic are increasingly under hours and hours of harmful exposure from wireless connections to laptops and tablets. Below is a list of the most recent papers finding adverse biological effects or damage to health from Wi-Fi signals, Wi-Fi-enabled devices or Wi-Fi frequencies (2.4 or 5 GHz). Papers listed are only those where exposures were below 16V/m. Someone using a Wi-Fi-enabled tablet computer can be exposed to electromagnetic fields up to 16V/m. JULIENNE BATTALIA Lopez Island
A spring ramble The invitation reads “A Spring Ramble,” and attracts twenty eager hikers who gather at the trailhead of Lopez Hill. Curious wan SEE LETTERS, PAGE 3
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Car crash on Lopez National Trails Day was a success June 7 was National Trails Day, a national event sponsored by the American Hiking Society. Three events were planned for the San Juan Islands that day: a Lopez Farmer’s Market booth with five agencies represented, a Boy Scout group who worked at Patos Island Lighthouse and a group of Waldorf school students working at the south end of Lopez with Nick Teague and the BLM.
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Two islanders were injured after a single car accident in the intersection of Dill Road and Fisherman Bay Road last week. Three paramedics, 12 EMTs and 10 firefighters arrived at the scene of the accident at about 12:30 a.m., on June 8. The two patients were transported by helicopter to Harborview Hospital. They have been released from the hospital and are recovering on island. The Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident.
Farmer’s Market
Five local agencies with interests in trails staffed two adjacent stalls at the Farmer’s Market with maps of trails, brochures, trails policy papers, trails mix and punch. Nick Teague of the Bureau of Land Management San Juan Islands Monument planned the event which brought together Lopez
Community Trails Network, San Juan County Land Bank, San Juan County Parks and Washington State Parks at the Farmer’s Market to meet with visitors to discuss trails, trail development and other trail activities (building, maintaining, planning). Over 170 people stopped by to visit. LCTN promoted this year’s Lopez Walkabout and signed up 24 new members, required for participation in the September full-length hike of Lopez Island. Tina O’Brien of Spencer Spit State Park showed up in her full uniform adding the air of authority to the proceedings.
Patos Island
Included in the National Trails Day celebration were 12 local Boy Scouts from San Juan Island, Troop 4094 and 4090. The Boy Scouts were working on Patos Island
on trail and recreation site maintenance. Patos Island is BLM administered land and cooperatively managed with the Washington State Parks and is part of the San Juan Islands National Monument. The Troop camped overnight on Friday and was supported by the Washington State Parks with tools, materials and supplies
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Also as part of our San Juan Islands National Trails Day event, Nick Teague with BLM San Juan Islands National Monument worked with a team of 11 young, Waldorf School volunteers from Olympia performing trail maintenance on the south end of Lopez. A member of the Waldorf School volunteer team said “I was surprised to learn how many other National Events were
taking place across the United States, I’m glad we came out here to be part of this big event”. In total approximately 200 people participated in the local NTD event that included a number of volunteers hosting the Saturday Market booth. Kirm Taylor, founder of Lopez Community Trails Network said: “Trails provide a deeper connection with nature and our community. We were happy to pull together for this event to share our love of trails with everyone.”
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derers, we soon brush by salal and the trail narrows with its closeness of green undergrowth braided together. We all pause when Odlin Parks’s ranger, David St. George, abruptly stops, and his astute hearing teases out the mating song of a Townsend’s warbler, the first of many birds on this day’s journey. As we meander along, we cross one of nature’s bridges chiseled from a fallen tree covering a soggy spot. In a grove of alders, we note surrounding hemlocks scarred by lightning strikes. Our steps take us over a grand root of cedar, re-bronzed by the wear of feet traipsing this way. Our eyes capture the hardened curve of parasites hugging tree trunks and a bed of deer bones left in the lee of a tree, remnants of a harsh winter storm. Our botanists, Adrienne Adams and Beth St. George, offer names of wildflowers. Some nestle in swaths of carpeted moss, others cling to rocks at path’s edge: Siberian miner’s lettuce, foam flower, great camas, spotted coralroot, and a heart-leafed twayblade. In the absence of the familiar vine maple is the largerleafed Rocky Mountain maple tree, another haven for birds. We sprint on, ascending
through the wind-blown and gnarled branches of native shrubs, to the top of Lopez Hill. More wildflowers greet us, poking up from the edges of flat rock formations, large shards of ancient sea ledges. Here we also find an unexpected hammock offering rest to the weary hiker. After a brief respite, we descend with our guides, Mike Moore of the Lopez Island Trails Network and Tim Clark of the San Juan County Land Bank. Reaching the parking lot, thanks to a system of color-coded signs, we part ways, sheathed now by the tranquil beauty of one of Lopez’s finest treasures. Thanks to the collabora-
tive efforts of the Friends of Lopez Hill, the BLM and the Land Bank, islanders and our summer visitors will shape their own sense of place and spirit as they hike this stunning hillside wilderness.
DIANA SHERIDAN, Lopez Island
A great success Two weeks ago the BLM hosted gatherings to enlist aid from our communities in composing the San Juan Islands National Monument interim management policy. Three meetings were well attended and wholly participant it was a great success. With the Resource Management Plan completion possibly
four years away, it’s important for everyone to know the solid ground we stand on to ensure that the best can happen, and to understand how to bring that about. We learned a great deal. Every one of the gatherings brought useful and unique contributions to the draft and there were lots of thought-provoking conversations that are applicable to day to day actions.I want to thank you all for your participation and investment If you haven’t had a chance to look this draft through, please feel free to review it on line and email your suggestions to me by June 20. A draft document with all contributions will be posted, as well as a final
policy. This is such a great community to be part of! What mindful stewards and committed agents. We are very grateful for your participation in conserving this lovely landscape. Marcia deChadenedes Monument Manager
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Aerial demonstration is extravagant Ranker re-appointed Submitted by Citizens of Ebey's Reserve The Navy at NASWI is assigning pilots and military aircraft to an Aerial Demonstration in the Strait of Juan de Fuca as part of a Family Day aboard the aircraft carrier the Nimitz on Friday the 13. Although the types of aircraft are not mentioned, this seems an extravagant use of public military funding to provide entertainment for a picnicking crowd of invited guests barbecuing on the flight deck. Military funding today accounts for well over 50 percent of the Federal Budget. The fuel consumption rate of the EA-18G Growler is 1,304 gallons per hour (source: Department of Defense: Selective Acquisition Report), and the pilots make about $120,000 per year. Performing for their families is not a part of their regular service. There are groups inside the military that do provide exhibitions for the public, like the Blue Angels who were temporarily grounded during the recent sequester as a non-essential activity. During a time of fiscal constraints on all civilian activities and lack of funding for even our most deserving veterans, isn’t this a poor use of public (OUR) money? Don’t the families already get enough services provided for them from public funds, such as use of the Navy commissary for all of their shopping needs, and the use of our local hospital and
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Noise from Navy ‘Growlers’, like the one pictured above, are the focus of rising opposition on Whidbey Island and in the San Juans. mental health resources? “Puget Sound is not a playground for the Navy and its personnel, and using military equipment for pleasure seems counter-intuitive,” stated Ken Pickard. The Navy and its Growler noise expansion is an increasingly destructive and divisive problem on the Islands in Puget Sound, pitting Island communities against each other. For more information about Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve, refer to their website at www.citizensofebeysreserve.com.
Recipes for LIFE The Lopez Island Farm Education program, which consists of the Elementary Garden Enrichment, Middle School Garden Elective, HS Farm Class and the Farm/ Garden to Cafeteria Program, is putting together a 'homegrown cookbook' to help fund our programs. We hope to collect recipes from the community that reflect our wonderful local food options! Do you have a favorite way of preparing the boundless zucchini flowing from your garden? What do you do with fresh-caught salmon or Jones' Farm oysters? We would love to learn your grandmother's bread recipe, your uncle Harvey's famous pickle recipe, or your special way of making wild
Crossword Puzzle Across 1. Ten years 7. Bus tokens 15. Deserved 16. Underwater researcher 17. Strained 18. Clear-cut 19. Babysitter's handful 20. Place 22. Hindu queen 23. Arctic dwellers 25. Litmus reddeners 27. "Catch-22" pilot 28. Ashtabula's lake 29. It's a piece of cake 30. Copy 31. Emaciated 33. Baggage handler 35. Amount of work 36. 100% 37. Compliance 40. Cloche ribbons 44. Attack 45. Exorbitant rate of interest 47. Convene 48. Bottom line 49. Control, symbolically 50. Grave marker 51. Mourning armband (var. spelling) 53. Coil of yarn 55. Family head 56. Become dormant in summer 58. Showing courage or strength 60. Wizard 61. Excite
Washington state Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island, has been re-appointed as an advisor to President Barack Obama’s National Ocean Council. The Ocean Council is charged with implementing National Ocean Policy. Ranker was first appointed to the council in 2011 and is excited to continue his work with the advisory group. “From emerging threats from increased vessel traffic to massive changes locally and globally due to climate change, our oceans and the thousands of jobs that depend on them are under threat," Ranker said in a prepared statement. "Our state’s coastline and maritime industries are the lifeblood of our economy. I’m honored to be a voice for our Washington in the other Washington.” Ranker was re-appointed to the council's Governance Coordinating Committee, which includes 18 thought-leaders from across the country who serve as advisors to the ocean council. The GCC serves as the coordinating body on interjurisdictional ocean policy issues.
strawberry jam. There will be a place for anecdotes about the recipes, and we encourage you to include a little something about where the recipe came from or what it means to you. We need recipes from 250 people to be able to publish this cookbook. Look for recipe collection forms at the Lopez Library, Blossom, the Lopez Village Market, the South End grocery store and the Lopez plaza. Fill out the form and return it back to the folder, or send your recipes to lopezrecipesforLIFE@gmail.com. Thank you so much for supporting LIFE! With your help, we will be able to continue to provide healthy, sustainably grown foods for all the students at Lopez School.
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Indonesia 40. Haunches 41. Necessary 42. Remove lice 43. Brand of hand tools 46. Female sibling 49. Face an embankment with stones 50. Animal catcher 52. Ancient Briton 54. Mosque V.I.P. 57. "___ we having fun yet?" 59. Affirmative action
Answers to today's puzzle on page 8
Fill in the blank cells using numbers 1 to 9. Each number can appear only once in each row, column, and 3x3 block. Use logic and process of elimination to solve the puzzle. The difficulty ranges from 1-5 (easy) 6-10 (moderate) and 11-15 (hard). Today’s puzzle is level 10. Sudoku and Crossword answers on page 8
Coal opposition events on Lummi This coming Tuesday, the Lummi Nation is hosting a few important events to highlight their opposition to coal and oil projects as a part of the 68th Annual Stommish Water Festival. The Sacred Obligations Summit, Walk and Rally to Protect Cherry Point will all take place on June 16 and 17, with the Rally at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 17 at the Stommish Grounds (map here: https:// goo.gl/maps/CiEGl). Fur ther details are below and at https:// w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / events/816285828382736/ Sacred Obligations Summit, Monday, June 16, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wexliem House, Blackhawk Way, Lummi Nation This event will feature
tribal leaders from all over the region speaking to the issues facing first nations communities and our natural environment. Please join to learn more about the important battles going on right now to protect our future. Food will be served, and a $10 donation is suggested. Sacred Talk featuring Winona LaDuke, Monday June 16, 6 p.m., Wexliem House, Blackhawk Way, Lummi Nation Native American civil rights and environmental justice activist Winona LaDuke will be visiting the Lummi Nation on June 16 to offer a special presentation as part of the Stommish Festivities. The event is free and open to the public.
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has once again shown its commitment to NAS Whidbey Island.” Larsen has also served on the House Armed Services Committee since he came to the House of Representatives in 2001. “My impression is that Representative Larsen is so deeply enmeshed with the military and the jobs it supplies for Boeing and the $1 billion that flows into Oak Harbor, it is hard for him to hear and respond to our concerns,” said Dilling.
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responded to the Navy’s decision to base six P-8A squadrons at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island by saying, “I have been a determined advocate to bring the P-8As to Whidbey Island. They will serve a critical role in our country’s pivot to the Asia-Pacific region as a focus for security and economic interests. I am pleased the Navy
Sacred Walk, Tuesday, June 17, 12 p.m., Slater Road and Haxton Way, Lummi Nation Lots of detail about this portion of the Stommish Festival is available on our Facebook page. Community activists are invited to join leaders of the Lummi Nation in a march from Slater Road to the Stommish Grounds, which are near the ferry terminal. We'll meet runners from Cherr y Point at noon, who will be carrying one part of a twopiece staff carved by Jewell James. Rally to Protect Cherr y Point, Tuesday, June 17, 4 p.m., Stommish Grounds, Lummi Nation Marchers at the end of the Sacred Walk will
meet canoers traveling from Cherry Point at the Stommish Grounds, near the ferry terminal on the Lummi Reservation. In a ceremony on the Stommish Grounds, the canoers and walkers will join the two-piece staff carved by Jewell James and be invited to participate in a rally to protect Cherry Point. Please join them to support this important action. These events will both be preceded and followed by a number of other festivities associated with Stommish, but these will be important highlights for community participation. Those interested are asked to register: https://fs6.formsite. com/jonesd21/for m18/ index.html
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Correction The caption on last week’s Spotlight on Lopezians omitted the following: L-R, back row: Lynn Vance, Eddie Newcomb, Frank Skidmore, Mary Skidmore, Robert Proctor, Hal Foster.
GO PAPERLESS: GET FREE Wi-Fi AT INTERISLAND FERRY LANDINGS OPALCO members who sign up for SmartHub (eBill) and choose to GO PAPERLESS can now access FREE WiFi at the ferry landings. Learn more at www.opalco.com or call 376-3500. Working cooperatively to serve YOU with
➊ safety and ➋ connection to ➌ improve the quality of our lives and the sustainability of our island communities.
IT’S ELECTRIFYING! SEVEN STEPS TO ELECTRICAL SAFETY OPALCO Linemen are first responders for public safety. You can count on your Co-op to take care of downed lines and other power emergencies. If you see downed lines or other power emergencies, be a hero: call 911. OPALCO is serious about safety. Did you know? Some of our power lines are energized at 69,000 volts. That is nearly 300 times more than the voltage in the wires of your home. Electricity is a part of our everyday lives and must be treated with respect. Everyone should know the 7 Steps to Electrical Safety. Learn them and pass them on. Remember, they don’t call it power for nothing!
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Stay back at least 30 feet from any fallen power line or exposed underground cable. NEVER try and touch or move downed power lines. Call 911 and OPALCO will respond.
2. Look up and live When working outside: look up, check and keep equipment clear of overhead power lines. 3. Know your limits When using equipment in the vicinity of power lines, always maintain the limits of approach: keep at least 10 feet back. Electricity can arc and make contact if too close. 4. Don’t hang around operating equipment Stay at least 30 feet from operating equipment, in case it contacts an energized line. 5. Shuffle or hop - don’t step If your vehicle makes contact with an energized line, remain inside until help arrives. If you must get out due to fire, jump out with your feet together. Then shuffle away, keeping both feet close together. Never contact the ground and your vehicle at the same time. 6. Call before you dig To avoid contacting underground power lines, before you dig, call 811. 7.
Don’t become a victim Always call 911 when someone is injured in an electrical accident. Do not touch the victim!
Please visit us at the County Fair to learn more about electrical safety — and call 376-3537 to invite us to speak to your classroom, civic club or community group.
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Sheriff's new public safety boat in port, ready for duty Sheriff’s Department took possession of its new public safety boat, “Sentinel,” Monday morning at the Port of Friday Harbor. Funded by a $600,000-plus federal grant and built by Burlington-based Munson Boats, the Sentinel and its arrival in Friday Harbor signal an end to a twoyear bureaucratic odyssey for
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the Sheriff’s Department and the beginning of a new era of public safety out on the water. “I am elated to see this come to fruition,” Sheriff Rob Nou said. The sheriff’s department will maintain and operate the Sentinel in partnership with the San Juan Island fire department and Shaw Island fire department. Previously, officials of the fire districts on Lopez and Orcas islands, and San Juan Emergency Medical Services, opted out of joining what initially had been conceived as a maintenance and operation agreement between all the county’s public safety agencies. Nou earlier estimated that maintenance of the department's fleet will be about $100,000 per year - although some of that cost will be allo-
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at the scene of the collision. He was 56. "Those of us who worked with Mike appreciated his intelligence, his sense of humor, and his practical and down-to-earth nature," county Manager Mike Thomas said in a statement posted on the county website shortly after the fatal crash. "It was a pleasure to work with him, and he will be sorely missed by his fellow employees and those in the community that he served." According to trooper Mark Francis of the Washington State Patrol, Copas was attempting to pass a vehicle at a point where the two lanes of the southbound on-ramp merge into one, at about 5:15 p.m., when he failed to negotiate a right-hand bend in the roadway. He crossed the two lanes of traffic on southbound I-5 before striking a guardrail in the meridian that separates the north and southbound lanes at a high-rate of speed, Francis said. Copas joined San Juan County in 1995, starting out on the road crew, then as an engineering technician, responsible for utilities inspections. He was promoted to ER&R Fleet Manager in 1999. Prior to joining San Juan County's Department of Public Works, Copas worked as a facilities project manager at Boeing. — Scott Rasmussen
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A bald eagle at Crescent beach.
Most of the fish were shiner perch, a schooling fish species that congregates each summer around Indian Island to reproduce. According to Barsh these small fish are especially vulnerable to low oxygen levels. He added that birds are not in danger by eating the
fish. The organism causing the fish to die off is not toxic, just a physical problem affecting the gills of fish. Barsh has sent samples to NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center for further study. What can be harmful to the eagles is the influx of
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people watching the eagles in action. Shona Aitken, education coordinator for Wolf Hollow, warns islanders to be aware of the birds while driving as they are prone to swooping down and could be injured by your windshield. She also recommends not getting too close to the animals especially since it's breeding season and many eagles are bringing food back to their young. “Use a long lens so you are not affecting their behaviors,” said Shona about photographing wildlife. She added that these birds may be beautiful to observe, but they are also fierce predators. The biggest birds are females and the average weight of local bald eagles is about 10 to
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Dozens of eagles have been spotted swooping over the waters of Crescent Beach with their talons outstretched and their beaks ready to carry off shiny perch. Local photographer Amy Masters spent three days capturing the eagles on her Nikon. She counted as many as 23 eagles at one point. “As a person, it will be one of the moments I will remember for the rest of my life,” she said. “We truly live in paradise.” According to Russel Barsh, director for the Lopezbased laboratories Kwiaht, the eagles, seagulls and herons are gathering on the beach to feed on fish killed
by a massive algal bloom. Barsh who sampled and analyzed the bloom on Sunday, said it was made up almost entirely of Heterosigma akashiwo, a tiny organism implicated in fish kills in western Washington and the Pacific Coast. A bloom also occurred on Shoal Bay on Lopez last week. “It is unclear how or why Heterosigma kills fish,” Barsh said in a recent press release. “One possibility is that dense clouds of this tiny organism simply pack up inside the gills of fish, like a sand storm, and make breathing difficult.” Kim Secunda, a volunteer for Kwiaht’s Indian Island Marine Health Observatory, saw at least a dozen eagles feasting on dead fish along the tide line last Monday.
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12 pounds. “People are pretty amazed when they hear that,” she said. She guesses that these predators of the sky will be seen at Crescent Beach until the fish are gone. “They are taking advantage of this bonanza,” she said.
Lopez Island Family Resource Center celebrates the 6th Annual Fundraiser Taste of Lopez on Friday, June 27, 6:30 p.m. at the Lopez Center. Enjoy an evening of readings and conversations with nationally acclaimed poets Natalie Diaz, bottom right, and Roger Reeves, top right, while savoring wine and dinner prepared by local chefs. Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, Calif. Her debut collection, “When My Brother Was an Aztec,” allows the reader to see inside the intimate moments of family life while it passionately narrates an investigation of one’s cultural myths and darkest histories. Roger Reeves is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His powerful debut collection, “King Me,” examines the eroticism of language and the complexities of relationships with a timeless voice, one that holds its own among poetry’s greats. Tickets are $60 and go on sale June 9. Stop by the LIFRC office to purchase tickets or call us at 468-4117. Visit our website for more details: www.lifrc.org.
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