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VOLUME 37, NUMBER 48 • DECEMBER 2, 2014
Five steps to winter happiness
December 6, 2014 - January 5, 2015 Lopez Center for Community & the Arts Opening Reception Saturday December 6, 5-7 pm
Sponsored by the Lopez Island Family Resource Center
♦ Grab a Gift Tag from a Giving Tree at Bay Café, Islanders Bank, Lopez Post Office, The Galley, Grace Church, Sunset Builders, Lopez Library, Southend General Store or Lopez Village Market ♦ Make a donation to the LIFRC Call 468-4117 for more information. Contributions can be mailed to PO Box 732, Lopez, WA 98261.
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To our guests, sponsors, auction donors, entertainers, committee members, and of course all the volunteers who made the Jingle Bell Dinner such a success. Lopez Island Hospice & Home Support
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NEW HOLIDAY Being happy isn’t a mood ft! that is 100 percent ts leachieve k c GIFT IDEAS able 24tihours a day. I like few a t to think of happiness as s Ju something that comes and FROM SWAP! goes. Weekly editor
2014 JUNK BOND by Brenna Jael A 4-color collectible DUMP ART CARDS by Christa Malay 9 different scenes from the Lopez Dump
The important thing about finding happiness is knowing it will always come back.
1. Friends
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was posted, two posts with similar emotions would follow by other people. The study also showed that “each additional positive post reduced the number of negative ones by friends by nearly two-fold, while each additional negative update lowered positive posts by 1.3 times.” So when you get online, spread the love with puppies and rainbows and continue the flow of good vibes. It doesn’t mean that you still shouldn’t let positive emotions spread in real time. So next time you are at the Farmers’ Market, Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony or the Eastsound Art Walk (check out more about these holiday events on page 3), say something
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2. Adventure Exercise can be a dirty word, so I prefer the term “adventure” whenever I am getting my blood pumping whether it’s a hike up Turtleback, going for a jog, kayaking or backpacking in the North Cascades. There are hundreds of ways to be active: rearranging your furniture, dancing or walking a dog at the animal shelter all count. But if you are depressed it is often hard to get motivated to start an “adventure.” “The problem with exercise is that people are often too depressed to get off the couch,” said Dr. Frank James, San Juan County health officer. For people facing that level of lethargy, James recommends seeking medication or talk therapy first and then they should focus on getting exercise back into their lives. The recommended dose of physical activity is 40 minutes a day. James said as long as you are slightly out of breath, but could SEE HAPPINESS, PAGE 4
Community Calendar
WEDS, DEC 3 MEETING: PSM Whidbey Ops EIS Open House Scoping Meeting for Whidbey island EIS EA-18G Growler Airfields Center, 3 p.m., Lopez Center.
MUSIC: Candlelight and Song For the Healing of the Nations, 5 p.m., Center Church. The Lutheran Church in the San Juans and Grace Episcopal Church will present an evening of sung prayer led by Sharon Abreu, with Ginni Keith and Patty Johnson, piano.
THURS, DEC 4 EVENT: “Encounters from a Kayak,” 7 - 8 p.m., Woodmen Hall. From the rocks and tide-races of North Wales to northern Labrador, Nigel discusses kayaking trips around the
Al-Anon: Saturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, Lopez. Call 468-4703.
SAT, DEC 6 EVENT: An open invitation to all Lopez ladies (age 12+). Please join us for the annual Christmas Tea at the Lopez Island Community Church Fellowship Hall, 2 p.m., Our theme this year is God’s Song… “The Music Never Ends,” with special guest speaker, Betsy Laster. Please bring a wrapped baked food item for the
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Family Resource Center Christmas baskets. For more info contact Susan Herrera, 468-2592. ART: Lopez Artist Guild Presents: “Croatia Through Lopezian Artists’ Eyes,” 5 - 7 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Join Anne Whirledge Karp, Ralph N. Bladt and Steve Hill, as they present new visual art from their recent travels in Croatia. For more info, www.lopezartistguild.org.
SAT, DEC 7 MUSIC: Holiday Concert and Christmas Carol Sing-Along, 2:30 p.m., The Gathering Place. Celia Rosenberger and friends perform some holiday music.
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Lopez Island AA Meetings: 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 Saturdays - noon at the Children’s Center Call 468-2809
world: people, places, creatures, flotsam and jetsam. Lecture and photos. A library event co-sponsored with the San Juan Islands National Monument and Friends of the Lopez Library. Visit nigelkayaks. com for more info.
Navy Growler noise and over flights have been increasing over the past year. We have an opportunity on Wednesday, Dec. 3, between 3-6 p.m., at the Lopez Center to meet oneon-one with the Navy and express our concerns. This is the first NAVY Scoping meeting to be held in San Juan County. This is a dropin open-house meeting – not a sit down meeting. It’s happening because of our county’s support in mitigating the noise, residents’ use of the County Noise Reporting Map,
and Representative Rick Larsen’s intervention. The Navy is required to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement following its proposal to add up to 36 more Growler jets to the 82 already based Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. At the beginning of an EIS, the “scope” of actions, alternatives and impacts on surrounding communities must be determined. This is where we all come in. Our attendance at the Dec. 3 meeting will show the Navy that we are impacted and mitigation and alternatives are needed. It’s an important time to ask the Navy leadership ques-
SERVICE: Memorial Service for Darryl Carfrae, husband of Jennifer Janeway, and father of Sterling, 2- 5 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Potluck. Bring your favorite dish. The family thanks the community for their support and love during the past two years. EVENT: The Islander Holiday Craft Fair, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Lopez Islander Resort.
MON, DEC 8 MEETING: LCCA December Board Meeting, 5:15 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. SAT, DEC 13 EVENT: Contra/Square Dance,
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tions, such as “Why is San Juan County considered a “No Significant Impact” area?” Or “Why did the Navy neglect to study the impacts of low frequency noise of the Growlers when it based EA-18G’s in our area?” Or “What are the health impacts of living with 65 - 100 decibels of noise five days a week?” Or “Why does the new EIS not consider other locations for training operations in addition to Ault Field and OLF Coupeville?” Or “How can the flight paths of the jets be shifted so they do not fly over our school and preschool?” Your Scoping comments
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7 p.m., Lopez Community Center. Matt Hummel on fiddle, Carol Noyes on banjo and Dave Marshall on guitar will play the tunes, and Tony Mates of Seattle will call the dances. All of the dances will be taught, no partner needed. All ages are welcome. ART: Holiday Group Show, 5 - 7 p.m., Chimera Gallery. Raffle winners will be selected with all proceeds going to the Lopez High School Art Program. Show runs through Dec. 29. EVENT: Christmas cookie sale for the Lopez Senior Services, 10 - 2 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Cookies, coffee and tea. Cookies sold by the pound.
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can be submitted at the meeting, online (www. whidbeyeis.com, or by mail until Jan. 9, 2015. For info, on How to Write Scoping Comments, obtain the website for the County’s reporting noise reporting map, and other contact information, visit www.quietskies. info. If you would like to be on the “Quiet Skies over San Juan County” mailing list, email: quietskiessanjuan@gmail.com CHRISTINE KERLIN, TIM MADISON Lopez Island
Thanks, Distler I wish to express my praise and gratitude for Undersheriff Bruce Distler’s years of service for our community. I met Bruce years ago as a prosecutor and have continued to work with him as a private attorney. As Undersheriff, Bruce was usually my initial contact when issues arose involving the Sheriff’s Department. The most that anyone in my position can ask of a law enforcement officer is that he or she approach the job with integrity. We place a great deal of trust in Sheriff’s deputies and give them a tremendous amount of power. Bruce deserved every bit
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An evening of adventure with world kayaker On Thursday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m, Friends of the Lopez Library, the San Juan Islands National Monument and the Lopez Library proudly present a breathtaking evening of adventure with author and world kayaker Nigel Foster. The event will be held at Woodmen Hall. In 1975 Nigel made his first multi-day solo sea kayaking trip on the North coast of Cornwall, rounding Land’s End on Cornwall’s southwestern peninsula. Since then he has adventured and led trips in kayaks to arctic Norway, Scotland, the Faeroe Islands, Newfoundland, Sweden, Finland, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and the English Channel through France down to the Mediterranean. On an epic trip he kayaked solo from Baffin Island to Northern Labrador, a trip that almost cost him his life. He returned in 2004 to the same area with his wife Kristin Nelson (who will attend) dodging polar bears and paddling around Ungava Bay and northern Labrador for five weeks. He is the first and youngest paddler to circumnavi-
gate Iceland by kayak and in 2008, at its Sixth Annual Induction Ceremony, Nigel Foster was inducted into the International Hall of Fame for bicycling, rowing, canoeing and kayaking as a kayaker. He has taught kayaking skills around the rocks and tide-races of North Wales, was an instructor at the National Watersports Center, has coached kayaking internationally and has produced an instructional video series. The author of numerous kayaking books, technical and travel, he has designed kayaks, paddles and PFDs (Personal Flotation Devices). In 2012 he published “Encounters from a Kayak” (Falcon Guides) which gathers 39 illustrated kayaking trips from around the world into sections about people, places, creatures and flotsam and jetsam. His program Dec. 4, “Encounters from a Kayak,” will include lecture and photos. Join us for a winter evening of travel and wanderlust as we eagerly welcome Nigel Foster to our Lopez paddling and reading community. To learn more, visit nigelkayaks.com.
Bach’s Magnificat on Orcas Steven Hill honored at Zion By Gary Alexander Special to the Weekly
In October, I wrote about the visiting Garfield Band with this opening: “One of the challenges of island life is the expense and time necessary to attend a single great musical event in Seattle. You must find a place to stay overnight, negotiate the ferries and the freeways, both ways. Alas, a $25 concert ticket can easily turn into a $250 trip for a music lover. Out of inertia, we generally stay home and dream longingly of the concerts we could have seen.” My conclusion: “You don’t have to travel to Italy – or even Seattle” to hear great music without leaving the island – one case in point being the Garfield concert. Now, with the holiday season approaching, the next best offer I can make to Lopez music lovers is a sameday (out and back) ferry ride to nearby Orcas Island to hear a program of Bach’s great music, including the Magnificat and Cantata No. 140 (Sleepers Awake), brought to you by the 50-plus singers of the Orcas Choral Society, along with a full 20-piece Baroque orchestra drawn from Seattle, Orcas and elsewhere, plus the Orcas Boys Choir, and a professional baritone soloist, Philip Cutlip, coming to Orcas in collaboration with the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival. In the words of director Roger Sherman, a noted Bach scholar and conductor of the OCS since 2010, “It’s not often you get to hear a chamber orchestra live in a small hall with a 50-voice choir singing the glorious music of Johann
Sebastian Bach.” Lopez residents can board the inter-island ferry Sunday, Dec. 7, departing at 11:25 a.m. That allows plenty of time for lunch on Orcas before the 2 p.m. concert. (Car-pooling reduces per-person costs.) Then, you can mix at leisure with the singers after the concert and return to Lopez on the 6:45 interisland ferry. Another option is to attend the free Pre-Concert Audience Seminar on Tuesday, Dec. 2, noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Emmanuel Church parish hall. Lopezians can take the 9:55 a.m. ferry to Orcas, returning at 3:10 p.m. Even though rehearsals involve overnight stays on Orcas for Lopez singers, three Lopez vocalists have joined the Orcas Choral Society for this concert – Ginni Keith, Gary Vaughn and yours truly. For years, I have encouraged Island concert promoters to seek an inter-island audience by creating an option for same-day ferry round-trips to musical events on neighboring islands. I have also urged singers and other musicians to make the effort to hear other-island concerts, reasoning that if we want a good audience for our own events, it helps to “pay it forward” by honoring other singers with our presence. One example of crossisland collaboration came last year, when OCS Director Roger Sherman played organ in “Carols and Lessons” on Lopez. Sherman is an ideal director for the Orcas singers,
especially when channeling J.S. Bach’s genius. Sherman won a music scholarship to Oberlin Conservatory, where he received a bachelor of arts in music theory and history. He has been associate organist at St. Mark’s Cathedral since 1985, in addition to serving as president of Cathedral Associates (a concert presenting organization). Since 1993, Sherman has produced and hosted a Sunday evening radio show “The Organ Loft” on KINGFM (98.1). After moving to Orcas 14 years ago, he developed Loft Recordings and then The Gothic Catalog, a mail order catalog focused on organ and choral music. As director of Orcas Choral Society since 2010, he says “I feel very fortunate for the opportunity to make music with such talented and interested people. I love choral music; there’s nothing like it in the whole world.” He says singing is communal spiritualism. “All singing is spiritual in nature.” Come to Orcas on Dec. 7 to see (and hear) Bach’s glorious “Magnificat” and “Sleepers Awake.”
Lopez Island Artist, Steven R Hill, who participated at the sixth annual Zion National Park Plein Air Painting Invitational (Nov. 2-10) was honored with a major purchase and cash award for his painting titled “Soft Glow” done in Zion Canyon, Nov. 5. The Hill painting was purchased by the park to become part of their permanent art collection, as the “Superintendent of Zion National Park Purchase Award” where it will reside. The modern collection at Zion houses works from former artists’ in residents at the park, and other past award winners and Zion artists, including Maynard Dixon, Jim Jones, Suze Woolf (Seattle artist), John Cogan, Cody Delong, Gloria Miller Allen, and others. This was Hill’s second consecutive invitation to the annual Zion event. Park Superintendent Jeffrey Bradybaugh, said: “I was particularly impressed with Hill’s use of the human figure in his painting, which catches three hikers in the mid-ground, reflected in the river . . . and gives a great sense of scale to the distant canyon walls. It’s what this park is all about – the interaction of people getting out here and truly enjoying the canyon lands.” Hill exhibits his work in the San Juan Islands at Crow Valley Gallery (Orcas) and Windswept Fine Art Gallery, (Lopez) plus other galleries in the U.S. He also teaches annual plein air painting workshops at Dakota Art Workshops in Mt. Vernon, and overseas. For more information, visit his website: www.windsweptstudios.com
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still maintain a conversation, then you are at the right level of physical exertion. If you can get outdoors during the day and combine light exposure while raising your heart rate, that is ideal, said James.
3. Comfort zone
Routine can be good. You read the paper in the morning, head to work and look forward to curling up with your favorite book in the evening, but can this pattern create stagnancy in your life? According to an article on Life Hacker’s website, the anxiety that comes from stepping out of your comfort zone may actually be good for you. The article points to benefits like extended creativity and the ability to cope with unexpected change. Of course everyone’s comfort zone is different and you have to find what
is a healthy level of stepping out. For many of us, learning a new discipline like yoga or learning to play an instrument may be enough to jump start our lives. It’s important to gradually step out of your comfort zone and remember you can always come back to your creature comforts.
4. Probiotics
Any RadioLab podcast fans out there? In their episode “Guts,” hosts Jad and Robert refer to a study on mice that were given probiotics known as Lactobacillus. The question was: if you feed mice a lot of probiotics, would it change their personality? Half of the mice were given probiotics and the other half were not. The mice were dropped in water in a bucket that they could not get out of. The mice that were not on probiotics swam for a little while, but within four minutes gave up and started to float. The mice that were taking Lactobacillus continued to swim for six minutes, which is when researchers removed the mice from the bucket.
Overall, the study, which measured the animals’ stress hormones, found that mice who had been given probiotics suffered less stress, anxiety and depression-related behavior. Conclusion: I keep a bottle of probiotics near my desk.
5. Meditation Numerous studies suggest that meditation not only creates relaxation and stress reduction, but can also bring you general peace of the mind. According to the Mayo Clinic, “meditation can give you a sense of calm, peace and balance that benefits both your emotional well-being and your overall health. And these benefits don’t end when your meditation session ends. Meditation can help carry you more calmly through your day and may improve certain medical conditions.” If you want to dive into meditation, try a guided recording by Dr. Ronald Siegel, an assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School at www.mindfulness-solution.com.
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Lytton to tackle leadership role in state House State Representative Kristine L ytton (D-Anacortes, 40th District) was elected majority floor leader of the state House of Representatives by her colleagues in Olympia, Nov. 18. “With education funding, the entire state budget, and a number of other key issues set to dominate,” Lytton said in a press release. “I’m expecting this to be one of the busiest and most significant sessions in recent memory.” Lytton served as assistant majority floor leader during the 2013-14 legislative session, and will now take full responsibility for managing the floor calendar and structuring debate on bills that come up for a vote by the full House of Representatives. A former vice-chairwoman of both the House Education and Agriculture & Natural Resources committees, as well as a member of the budget-writing Appropriations Committee, Lytton was reelected to a third term in the House by
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State Representative Kristine Lytton the voters of her northwest Washington district in the Nov. 4 election, winning 70 percent of votes cast in San Juan County. “I’m honored to be given this role,” she said. “I look forward to working inclusively with my Republican counterpart to get the people’s work done in a respectful and timely manner.” The 2015 legislative session, slated to last 105 days, gets under way at the state capitol Jan. 12.
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Council’s would-be moratorium smacks of self-interest, defies voter mandate
Initiative 502 was a vote about the use, marketing, and cultivation of cannabis. It was passed last year by 68 percent of San Juan County voters; the highest percentage in the state of Washington. If we understand a mandate as the authority given to officials by a majority of the electorate to carry out a specific policy, then the passage of 502 was clearly a mandate. The county has officially responded to this mandate. San Juan Island Council member Bob Jarman has proposed a moratorium against growing cannabis. A second council member, Jamie Stephens, from Lopez, has signed on, assuring its passage. By this unilateral action, these reps are telling voters that our overwhelming mandate does not count. The aggressiveness implicit in their preemptive move also implies that they believe we voters need to be protected from ourselves. The logic for the moratorium is weak.
rural character of the valley and negatively impacts property values. Her writing is passionate, but the reader is left with the distinct suspicion that she would not be spreading fears about eyesore greenhouses if the crop was tomatoes. Her conclusion is that no one in the county wants a cannabis farm in their neighborhood. This NIMBY generalization (Not In My Backyard) has midwifed the moratorium. Unfortunately, the moratorium is undeniably unfair in its blanket generality. Her county councilman husband could have channeled his and his wife’s passion to closely examine whether existing regulations for impacts on environment, light, noise, water, farmland, wetlands, etc. are sufficient as is. Instead he proposed the moratorium, with the help of a few outspoken property rights conservatives looking over his shoulder. We citizens are left to play defense against a process right out of Alice in Wonderland: moratorium motion first, discussion after.
One published defense expresses a dystopian fear of acres of glowing greenhouses someday covering San Juan Valley. Another argument insists that this measure protects everyone’s property rights. In fact, the moratorium assuredly protects the property rights of a vocal minority lining up against cannabis farming in their own neighborhoods. To protect those few, the moratorium assuredly voids the property rights of the farmers involved. Mr. Jarman’s wife is among the most outspoken critics of cannabis farms. Her writings describe a fierce motivation to protect an historical family connection in San Juan Valley as the basis for inveighing against one cannabis farm in her daughter’s neighborhood. She declares that this particular grow operation ruins the
Even if a lively county-wide discussion had found the current regs insufficient, due process still demands that, first, existent regs be adapted to fit a county-wide need. Instead, the county council hands us a closure that oppressively victimizes farmers already invested in a highly regulated vocation, and whose fatal mistake was following existing regs. Appearances are everything in politics. To conflate one’s own private property issue with everybody else’s leaves the impression that hubris has trumped due process. It’s too easy to draw a straight line between the wife’s complaint and the husband’s moratorium. That line is a glaring indicator of a conflict of interest. In a fair world, legislation should never have the lookand-feel of a NIMBY action that turns a deaf ear to a voters’ mandate. In a fair world, San Juan County rep Mr. Jarman,
By Jim Nollman Special to the Weekly
Seeds of self-interest in would-be legislation
Cart before regulatory horse
OPALCO’s Internet pilot projects and staff Submitted by OPALCO
At the October meeting of OPALCO’s Board of Directors, it was announced that Island Network will be re-created as a new entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of the co-op to provide Internet services. Gerry Lawlor has been hired as Manager of the new entity along with Alan Smith, Field Superintendent and Tom Schramm, Operations Superintendent. In early 2015, the new entity will emerge with a new name and office location – as well as a robust menu of Internet and voice services. Currently, new connections are being planned in some of our more notorious “communication black hole” areas where OPALCO is upgrading our grid con-
trol backbone to improve field communications for our line crews and other emergency first responders. The first five projects are: Cattle Point/Cape San Juan, Doe Bay/Eagle Lake, South Lopez, Deer Harbor/Spring Point and Mt. Dallas/San Juan Island West. These locations also have strong neighborhood associations that are organized and ready to connect. “Our community truly needs OPALCO’s broadband option: we have families with NO Internet service at all, including a family with school-aged children,” reported Jim Hooper, Cape San Juan Homeowner Association president and past San Juan County Economic Development
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of that trust. In my conversations with Bruce, I got the sense that “doing the right thing” was always in the forefront of his mind. Whether informally or on the witness stand, Bruce was always willing to speak the
Council board member. “Our overall quality of life, connections to the world – and even real estate values – require better access to Internet services today.” The five initial projects are projected to serve approximately 300 locations in this first phase. Island Network has identified another 2,500 potential connections by working with neighborhood associations where density and location allow the most members to benefit in the shortest time frame. The goal is to get the new entity (previously known as Island Network) to its financial break-even point: 2,000 to 3,000 connections – and then let it grow based on member demand. Members who want
truth, including in one instance admitting to a jury that he had made a mistake. On top of it all, he always brought a positive interaction to every conversation I had with him, especially these last years as Undersheriff. In my opinion, Bruce has shown everyone what a law enforcement officer should be. I will miss him. STEPHEN A. BRANDLI Brandli Law
to connect should do two things: 1) fill out a “Request for New Service” form online http://islandnetwork.opalco.com/contact/ request-service/) to put your location on the map for future connection; and, 2) talk to your neighbors. If you are a member of an organized association, approach your group’s leadership and contact us about putting together a plan to connect. If you are not part of a group, talk it over with your neighbors and see if you can establish an informal group. Once you have established a group, contact the team at connect@islandnetwork.net.
would recuse himself. The citizens of this county may indeed want a discussion about the future oversight of cannabis farming. But let’s first eliminate the heavy-handed threat of moratorium so it doesn’t loom over the proceedings like a loaded weapon.
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What might be discussed? Although current regs are exhaustive, some unanticipated issues have indeed come to light since the farms actually plopped down in certain neighborhoods, altering prior conceptions of the landscape. For just one example, are these really farms, or are they farms in name only, in the way a salmon farm is not a farm? Some argue that they are so dependent on high-energy production methods that light industry might be a more accurate designation? If such issues as this one do prod us to a next discussion, let’s be sure it’s not more of what we’ve had so far: a gambit where the complaints of a few produce self-serving regulations. That next discussion needs to start with the fact that cannabis is legal. Can we all agree that any effort to make it illegal, again, is a different discussion? Tell the council how you feel; email addresses here: bobja@sanjuanco.com jamies@sanjuanco.com Rickh@sanjuanco.com — Editor’s note: Author, musician, and acoustician, Jim Nollman’s most recent job was as consultant on a U.S. Navy program to protect whales during sonar exercises. His family has lived on San Juan Island since before “the boom,” and identifies an “ignored mandate” as motivation for weighing in on the issue of marijuana in San Juan County.
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the first to inhabit Easter Island, destroyed their environment. It’s said they cut down all of their trees for agriculture, multiplied too quickly and over-exhausted their resources, until there were no trees left at all. Words like “eco-cide” are often used, placing blame on the inhabitants, not the environment. More than 1,000 giant, ancient statues known as Moai were constructed by the Rapa Nui people out of volcanic rock. As legend has it, the island’s trees were cut down to make movers for the Moai, and transport hundreds of statues throughout the island. “But that’s not the real truth,” Gossen said. Through a series of lake cores (the process of extracting sediments from extensive depths) and scientific analysis, Gossen found that between the years of 1390 and 1505 there was an extreme cold and dry event that lasted for 115 years. According
to the archeologist, these conditions were unfavorable to the island’s trees, and aided in their disappearance. She also said that the trees were the largest palms on the planet with six foot diameters and 80 feet tall, but were full of sugarwater, not hardwood, so using them to transport the Moai was unlikely. In an excavation project launched in spring of 2014, Gossen and her team found planting pits--indicating that the Rapa Nui were trying to rebuild the failing ecosystem and save the palms. Evidence also points to “lithic mulch” watering systems, where volcanic rocks were placed strategically around plants to heat up from the sun and create moisture. “This shows adaptation and innovation, not collapse,” she said. “There was a climate event that caused the change, and they were trying to adapt to it.” The failing with the Rapa Nui culture is that their sto-
ries were not passed down to successive generations and, as a consequence, were lost. In the 1800s, out of only a few thousand remaining Rapa Nui people, 1,400 were stolen by slave ships, including all of the medicine people and the last king, according to Gossen. By demand of the Tahitian King to return the Rapa Nui slaves, months later only 15 remained alive, but with their return and the onset of colonization came disease. With no one left to tell the true story of the disappearing trees, Gossen feels she must continue to uncover the truth--and take on the role of storyteller. Thousands of miles away in Friday Harbor, she is writing grant requests in hope of returning to the southern hemisphere in 2015, and brainstorming ways to entice philanthropists to invest in the practical application of a sustainable energy plan on Easter Island.
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modate rising demand. Reservations are, in effect, viewed as a way to better utilize the resources WSF has on the ground today by creating incentive for riders to arrive for and travel on sailings that historically have been in less demand. A reservation system has been in operation for commercial customers in the San Juans for nearly two
decades, and more recently on the international run as well. Back to the mechanics. Reservations are not required to travel in the San Juans, but they may prove strategic. That’s because 90 percent of a boat’s auto-deck will be available for reservations up to two days prior to any sailing. Thirty percent becomes available with release of a new schedule, another 30 percent is available two weeks before a sailing and 30 percent more becomes available two days prior to any sailing. It’s a 30-30-30 staggered release. The final 10 percent is held for priority travelers, mainly medical emergencies, and for stand-bys or drive-ups. Reservations can be made online or over the telephone. An online account can be created for sake of speed and convenience. A credit card, debit card or prepaid credit
gift card is required as a safeguard against no-shows; a $10 no-show fee is applied if a reservation is not redeemed for travel at anytime on the day of a reservation (detailed info is at www.takeaferry. com). Hutchinson said the no-show rate on the Port Townsend-Keystone run dropped from 39 percent to 14 percent after a no-show was implemented and that “overload” sailings have decreased by 18 percent since the reservation went into effect even though ridership has risen overall on that route. The reservation system for Port TownsendKeystone differs from the San Juans in that 90 percent of auto space becomes available when a new schedule is released, as opposed to the San Juans’ staggered release, he added. Ticket payment is done
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She came to camp and convene with the orcas once a year for the past 17 years, but she never thought she would stay. Yet that’s exactly what environmental archaeologist Candace Gossen did, choosing San Juan Island as the place to decompress from her latest adventure, and to plan the next one— or did the island chose her? Half a world away from the place in which she’s dedicated her life’s work, San Juan has been a constant reminder that her job there is not yet complete.
For over 12 years Gossen has been digging in the dirt on Easter Island, a southern hemispheric province of Chile, unearthing its rich history. She’s uncovered an untold story of the native Rapa Nui people, and developed a strong desire to help restore harmony to their intrinsic culture. The driving force to remain on San Juan came during her visit in May of this year, when she connected with the Whale Museum. She was invited to return in August to discuss her work on Easter Island. Currently commissioned to help write the energy plan for the San Juan Islands Conser vation District, Gossen keeps the Chilean province in mind. “I get to work here on this island that could be self-sustainable. I could bring that plan back to Easter Island, “ she said. “It’s a very injured place.” As the story is often told, the Rapa Nui people, Polynesian in descent and
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She would like to core a lake on San Juan Island one day, as she sees similarities geographically, historically and perhaps the same climate patterns as on Easter Island. In the front yard of her rental house stands a Monkey-Puzzle tree, the national tree of Chile. She wonders if it’s a sign that Easter Island is a part of her, and if her work there will truly ever be finished-a daily reminder, perhaps, of the place that needs her voice. For more info, visit www. blackcoyotemedicine.org.
separately from reservations. Which is one reason why reservations can be made for a sailing that departs either from Friday Harbor or Orcas Island (reservations for departures from Lopez and Shaw are not available at this time). Reservations can be made for all sailings leaving Anacortes. Perhaps the biggest key for WSF to achieve one of its stated goals, reducing congestion, lies in travelers’ confidence in the system itself. Riders will be advised to arrive at a terminal no less than 30 minutes and no more than 90 minutes prior to departure. In that way, WSF hopes that those infamous lines that snake back all the way back to the Anacortes Safeway will truly become a historical footnote. “One of the reasons to have reservations is to get rid of that line,” said WSF consultant Fauna Larkin, hired to help WSF get the word out about the reservation system. “With reservations, cars can arrive at different times so the lines should be reduced. We have to have that happen.” For more info, visit www. wsdot.wa.gov/ferries and click on “vehicle reservations” or call 1-888-808-7977.