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VOLUME 38, NUMBER 2 • JANUARY 13, 2015
County elected officials start their terms By Scott Rasmussen Journal editor
Deadlines are nothing new at the assessor’s office. But the responsibility for ensuring those deadlines are met is now in the hands of someone new. John Kulseth, an 11-year department veteran and former chief appraiser, took over the reins at the first of the year with the endorsement of his predecessor and nose to the grindstone, and knowing all too well that whatever changes he’d like to make will have to wait. At least until the first 60 days of 2015 have come and gone. “We have to calculate the levies for all the taxing district by Jan. 15,” said Kulseth, who began a first-ever foray as an elected official at the start of the year. “We can’t do that until we have all the property values and the final assessments are done. People can change the ‘nature’ of their property and make real estate transactions all the way through Dec. 31. And, there’s always a flurry of activity in December.” Property tax statements must be mailed by mid-February. The assessor’s office must first finish its task before the treasurer can get those statements in the mail. Newly elected Treasurer Rhonda Pederson also inherited an assortment of deadlines to keep track of. She uses an electronic calendar and relies on her predecessors as well to remain mindful of the many tasks and dates that
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can’t be missed. A long-time county employee and former auditor’s office chief accountant, Pederson begins her firstever elected tenure well-versed with fiscal operations and systems at work in the county and knowing that the duties of cataloging and oversight of tax monies is the part of the job which will take time to master. To become more familiar with that aspect of the office, Pederson opted to spend her vacation time shadowing her predecessor before the close of 2014. “The first 60 days I think will mostly be about making sure I don’t forget to do something I’m supposed to,” Pederson said. “Everyone makes mistakes, we’re all human. But it’s still hard to swallow that I’ll end up making a mistake.” Kulseth and Pederson join Sheriff Ron Krebs as first-time San Juan County elected officials. Each is slated to serve a four-year term at the top of their respective departments, and together they will manage roughly $6.6 million in budgeted expenses and supervise about 45 employees in 2015. (The sheriff oversees various budgets totaling roughly $4.8 million and the treasurer will oversee a $2.3 million “trust fund” in 2015, a newly created account within the county budget.) The three first-time public office holders join five veteran elected department heads that all begin a new four-year term in 2015: Auditor Milene Henley, County Clerk Joan White, County Councilman Jamie Stephens (Lopez/Shaw), District Court Judge Stewart Andrew and Prosecuting Attorney Randy Gaylord. After a total of eight years in office, Henley, who spent the entirety of her prior professional career in the private sector, mostly self-employed in financial services, begins a third term with a more-seasoned perspective of the public arena’s inner-workings than she had when she first took office back in 2007. Patience and cooperation are key, and change typically occurs in steps, she said, not all at once. “Nothing happens fast in government and that’s by design,” Henley said. “That’s because government is sup-
posed to represent all the people.” Although the pace of change could prove discouraging, she offers this advice to the newly elected: “Keep your eye on the goal and don’t be deterred by the bureaucracy.” Still, the centerpiece of the Krebs campaign in the race for sheriff was a need for change. Islanders may expect nothing less, handing him the election with a 64-percent margin of victory. Since taking office, Krebs has initiated several changes he believes will help “rebuild the foundation of the department.” Krebs said the sworn officers have all read and signed a “mission, vision and values,” statement, equivalent to a “code of ethics” that will serve as a tool to measure “how we conduct ourselves.” The office now operates with a single training officer, and detective Brent Johnson has been appointed undersheriff, the department’s second in command. He said discussions have been renewed with other public safety agencies that could lead to full-scale use of the Sentinel, the newly acquired, multi-purpose public safety boat. Use of the 38-foot boat, featuring greater fire-fighting capacity, landing capability, weather protection and speed, and paid for by a $600,000-plus federal grant, has been restricted by the lack of coordinated and adequate polices, procedures and training. Krebs intends to quickly mend a strained relationship with prosecutors by providing them with better, more complete reports of cases likely to end up in court. He has instituted bi-weekly meetings of department command staff. The pieces are all there, Krebs maintains, with dedicated, skilled and hard-working officers, dispatchers and employees, and that the task is getting everyone onboard and headed in the same direction. “I’ve been working pretty diligently the last two months to figure out what steps we can take to raise the professionalism and morale of the department,” he said. “And I think that’s going to happen really fast.”
House fire erupts on Lopez By Scott Rasmussen Journal editor
Authorities found human remains inside a Lopez Island home in the aftermath of a fire and series of explosions that lit up the Mud Bay Road neighborhood in the early morning hours of Monday. Although the body was burned beyond recognition, according to the San Juan County Sheriff’s Department, the remains are believed to be that of
the homeowner. “The only thing we can say for sure right now is that there was a fire and that there was a person inside,” Sheriff Ron Krebs said. “It was a very hot fire.” Krebs said the home was completely destroyed. He described the building, at 3146 Mud Bay Road, as a two-plus bedroom home that’s somewhat larger in size than a cabin. The owner of the home is John Robert Droubay,
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according to county assessor records. Krebs said that officers are working with presumed family members of the deceased so the body can be properly identified. DNA samples are being provided to aid in the identification, he said. Firefighters, deputies and emergency medical personnel responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call at about 1:30 a.m. Monday. The caller reportedly alerted dispatchers about the fire and series of loud explosions. Krebs said the explosions may have been caused by scuba tanks, but nothing is certain at this point. According the sher-
iff’s department, an initial investigation at the scene revealed nothing that appeared “suspicious” in nature. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, and a forensics investigation of the remains will be conducted by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner, Krebs said. Mud Bay is located at the southeast end of the island, near the area known as Islandale. Mud Bay Road is the primary route connecting the south end to Lopez Village, the island’s commercial core and cultural center. – Weekly editor Cali Bagby contributed to the article.
Community Calendar
SAT, JAN 17 CLASSES: Creating a Business Marketing Plan, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., library. Breakout Session time TBA. Come think outside the box with business coach James Dunn as he helps you create a business marketing plan! Ages 18 and up. Workshop only: $45. Workshop plus Breakout Session: $75. Registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.
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MON, JAN 19 MEETING: Lopez Community Land Trust Board of Directors meeting, 4 - 6 p.m., LCLT office, 25 Tuatara Road.
THURS, JAN 22 CLASSES: Conversational Spanish for Advanced Beginners, 5:15 - 6:30, at Grace Church. For those with prior class or practical experience who want to improve skills and grammar. Ages 18 and up. $30 if paid by Jan. 15, $35 thereafter. Registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.
SAT, JAN 24 CLASSES: Windows 8.1, 1 - 3 p.m., at the Lopez Library. Have a new PC with Windows 8.1? Learn how to navigate your new “Tiles” system using either a touch screen or a mouse. Ages 18 and up. $20 if paid by Jan. 16, $25 thereafter. Preregistration required; visit www.lifrc.org. CLASSES: Warm Hands, Warm Heart, 1 - 3 p.m., at the Lopez School Art Room. Upcycled sweater hand warmer making class. Keep your hands warm and cute this winter, while doing something great for the planet! Ages 12 and up. $25 if paid by Jan. 16, $30 thereafter. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc. org. CLASSES: Session 1: Fruit Tree Care, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m., at
Letters
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A look at cannabis
Since the discussion regarding growing mari-
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juana in San Juan County is complicated and multifaceted, I would like to start a conversation with one concern at this time. I would like to make a case for considering cannabis as an agricultural crop. Let’s compare apples to apple (cider), so to speak. Question: Can you think of a plant that is now legal to be grown, processed and sold in San Juan County in a form that can get you high and is regulated by the Liquor
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Midnight Farm. Learn pruning basics, growth habits of trees, common soil issues and selection and care of pruning tools. Ages 18 and up. $15 for this class, $50 for all four sessions (see LIFRC website for details). Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc. org.
TUES, JAN 27 CLASSES: Conversational Spanish for Beginners, 5:15 - 6:30 p.m., at instructor’s home. A class for those with little or no exposure to the Spanish language who want to learn basic cultural expressions, grammar and more! Ages 18 and up. $30 if paid by Jan. 15, $35 thereafter. Preregistration required; visit www.lifrc.org.
THURS, JAN 29 CLASSES: Evening Meal at School, 5:30 - 7 p.m., Lopez School Multi-Purpose Room. Please consider bringing a donation of non-perishable food for the Lopez Food Bank at Grace Church. The Lopez Locavores invite the community to share a delicious meal made with organic, Lopez-produced food. See what can be produced, even in the winter months! Pay what you can. THURS, ONGOING EVENT: Thursday Tech Time, 6 - 7 p.m., Library Community Room, led by Library Director Lou Pray. Lou will be on hand to help you learn how to use your Kindle, tablet or iPad. She will assist patrons in learning how to download free electronic movies,
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Control Board? Apples, hops, grapes, berries, barley, potatoes, cherries, etc. are all well established as agricultural crops. Along with cannabis they are all processed to make recreationally intoxicating products for grownups. Our local distilleries and wineries are praised in the press. Marijuana has the same potential as an apple or a grape. Distilling is an agricultural practice RCW 66.24.145 (5). While cannabis and alcohol both intoxicate, the LCB does not require the same level of security for distilleries or wineries as the newer cannabis operations. Perhaps the centuries have already shown that intoxicants are not going to destroy the moral fabric of our society. Perhaps we still need to learn that it is prohibition that leads to black markets and increased crime.
These are my thoughts, offered to the community to start the conversation. Hopefully a county-wide polite discussion will help set standards we can all live with. Farmers should be involved, since regulations could affect growing practices of many other legal crops. DENISE CLARK Lopez Island
How to be a good neighbor A number of events occurring on our islands as I was reading “Six Degrees” by Mark Lynas has me thinking – how can we be a better community in this new year and beyond? Here are a few thoughts: Remember the Jazz Festival? Remember the year they ran out of beer? Friday Harbor wasn’t supposed to be dry … but it was. We live on islands. That small scenario of scar-
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music and books on to their devices and computers. Lou will tutor patrons in setting up email, operating a smartphone, dropping apps on their devices or designing a presentation. Patrons will be assisted in accessing software at their own speed with Microsoft IT Academy and Lynda.com. Another interesting feature is that the opportunity is mobile! The library is available to come to groups or businesses,.Thursday Tech Time is one of the offerings through May 2015 during the library’s Digital Outreach programming, which will also feature a roster of Digital Skills Classes. Pick up a brochure locally or visit lopezlibrary. org for info. Made possible by funding provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. city could expand. Learn to love greenhouses. Even unheated ones can grow crops year-round. Let’s be a resilient community. Know your neighbors. At your next association meeting or neighborhood get-together, consider inviting the Department of Emergency Management to give a presentation. They can help develop plans for assisting each other in case of disaster (the latest prediction for the 9.0 “Big One” is 40 percent by 2060). Know and follow the rules for building. Consider new ones very carefully; we live with the results. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” If you think the neighbor’s place is ugly, talk to them about mitigation measures and/or build or grow screening. Trying to pull political clout to stop legal actions is unfair and disrespectful. If you suspect illegal building activity, don’t just call the Planning Department - talk with your neighbor; that can save aggravation and tax dollars. Don’t sue your neighbor for building legally; it shows spite and wastes money. If what they put on their land is that important, read SEE LETTERS, PAGE 4
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Spotlight on Lopezians by Gretchen Wing
Jim Yalden, Lopez Island Once this article is widely read, Jim Yalden may regret the interview. Given his technical skill set and his extraordinary energy level, this recent arrival to Lopez will likely find himself in demand by various boards and volunteer coordinators. Despite traveling halfway around the world, Jim still spends his days the way he began them in Australia: making himself handy. Jim started life in 1926 on a dairy farm in Grafton, New South Wales, on land bought by his English father in 1908. While Jim was “quite keen” to pursue a career in butter- and cheesemaking, history had other plans. First the family lost their land in the Great Depression, becoming share farmers. Then World War II broke out, just as Jim graduated from high school, “and ever ything fell apart.” Instead of agriculture, Jim pursued an interest in radio, which took him much farther from home. One of Australia’s largest newspapers, the Sydney Sun, printed a radio magazine, and hired Jim – from 200 applicants – as a “technical journalist,” to construct radio projects. “But I hated the city,” he says. So he was pleased to hire on with the Australian Broadcast Commission (a national enterprise) which sent him to south Albury, New South Wales. They needed a 24-hour technician, and Jim was their man, traveling the state at all hours to keep the circuits connected. In 1948, Jim went into business for himself, in
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Left: Jim flying in Wollongong, 1994. Above: New businessman, Glen Innes, Australia, 1949.
Glen Innes, back in northern New South Wales. Besides fixing regular radios, Jim sold two-way radios and other electronics, and his business grew until he had a partner, specializing in industrial refrigeration, and 15-20 employees. He also found himself a wife, Margare or Marg, and the couple soon had a son and, later, an adopted daughter. Life was full. But by 1970, Jim was itching to immerse himself in a technology still unknown in Australia: color TV. Here a brief history lesson arises in the interview: “Did you know that the first color TV in the world was in England? Actually, the first TV was in England, long before the War.” Most people back then rented their TVs, and Jim went to work for Visionhire in Southampton, after a sixweek sea voyage with his wife and daughter. Jim, the son of an Englishman, felt an instant connection: “I adored it.” In his Lopez home, a chunk of stone from the old Winchester Cathedral symbolizes this attachment. While in England, Marg suffered a major stroke,
but the family held together. When Visionhire singled Jim out to introduce the company in Australia, they sent him first to train employees in Hong Kong, and Marg and their daughter Rhonda came along. “Those Chinese guys were really great,” Jim says. Most technicians rode bikes, but the Yaldens got chauffeured to lunch daily for several weeks. Back in Australia, Jim helped Visionhire get a foothold, but then went back into solo business. In 1980, Jim’s wife Marg passed away after eight years of care. In the aftermath, Jim met Gwen, a distant cousin visiting from America, also widowed. The two were married in Gig Harbor, then settled in Milton, in southern New South Wales. Back in the 1960s, an interest in health administration started Jim serving on the local hospital board. Now, he was appointed to the Health Board of Illawarra, New South Wales. What began as a small commission reorganized and grew, until Jim found himself overseeing a two hundred million-dollar budget. Twice a week Jim headed
committees which audited finances and appointed doctors to the Health Service, all while managing his own business and working at a radio station at Nowra. “I’d be getting up at two in the morning,” Jim mentions, adding that he has never needed more than four to five hours of sleep per night. Eventually, Gwen longed to be closer to her children, so in 1995 the couple moved to Sedro-Woolley. Approaching 70, Jim got his green card and went to work for Cascade Job Corps, teaching kids job skills for the next 14 years. When Gwen died in 2008, Jim did not consider moving back to Australia. “I don’t believe in going back,” he says “It’s never the same.” Instead he became an American citizen. A keen sailor, Jim had logged many miles around the San Juans during his
Sedro-Woolley years, and his stepdaughter, Anne Winfrey, had worked on Lopez. Impressed with the facilities available in the village, Jim added Lopez citizenship to his collection in 2014. Jim has already become involved in maintenance
around the Hamlet, fixing large appliances. But putting down new roots does not mean forgetting old ones, and Jim stays in touch with Australian family and friends. Reviling the “pathetic” quality of Skype, Jim uses a British website to make phone calls to Australia for 1 cent per minute. So if this high-tech, highenergy octogenarian ends up teaching workshops in technology, don’t be surprised. Sign up.
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Join Camp Nor’wester celebration of 80 years Camp Nor’wester is hosting a Reunion Tour show in the islands on the following dates: Lopez Island - Wednesday, Jan. 14, 6:30 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church (70 Sunset Lane). Orcas Island – Thursday, Jan. 15, 6:30 p.m. at the home of Jeff and Jennifer Pietsch. Call 376-2707 for directions. San Juan Island – Friday, Jan. 16, 6:30 p.m. at Friday Harbor Middle School Commons (85 Blair Ave., Friday Harbor). Call the camp office (425) 670-1935 for directions.
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We’re kicking off our 80 Years Strong celebrations and showing the 2014 Camp Movie. Bring a friend who would like to learn more about Nor’wester. New families welcome. All 2014 campers and staff in attendance will receive their copy of the summer movie at the show before the rest are mailed out in late January. For more info, visit http://norwester. org/ or like our official Facebook page to see our tour schedule or to learn more about other “80 Years Strong” events. Also coming up is Camp Nor’wester’s 80th Reunion event on April 26, 2015. Consider joining us at camp for an Alumni Weekend: Sept. 4-7.
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the county permit applications. Better yet, come to know your neighbors. Share ideas, thoughts, hopes, plans. Let yourselves understand and respect each other. Share the road. County or private, respect the right of passage for living, farming and business needs. Save complaints and lawsuits for unnecessarily disruptive activities. Don’t feel left out if you don’t own property here; tell us when we’re being silly. Neighborliness boils down to these three: Respect. Care. Communicate. Happy New Year, and may we all be good neighbors, ALISON LONGLEY Friday Harbor
Crossword Puzzle Across 1. To play a trick on 6. Copy 11. Ceiling 14. Ancient assembly area 15. Graceful bird 16. 30-day mo. 17. Feeding on plants 19. "___ Cried" (1962 hit) 20. Indic language spoken in Katmandu 21. Part of process of gamete formation 23. Hogan dweller 26. Amount of hair 27. Store convenience, for short 30. Bottom 31. Back 32. Gutteral sound from hostile dog 34. "Don't go!" 36. Plug 39. Resort area along Mediterranean coast 41. Clear up 43. Not "fer" 44. Combustible heap 46. Ashes, e.g. 47. ___ cheese 49. "What's gotten ___ you?" 51. Cal. col. 52. Swiss city 54. Edible mushrooms 56. Unoriginal work 58. Insight 62. Bank offering, for short 63. To bring about prematurely 66. Balloon filler 67. Large mammal of Africa
OPALCO’s new rates are unfair The worst thing about OPALCO’s new “rate structure” is how grossly unfair it is. For example: With the higher “facility charge” added to the kilowatt-hour charge a typical small user of 400 kilowatt-hour per month would pay $34 for power plus the $38.90 facility charge, a total of $72.90 divided by 400 equals 18.2 cents per kilowatt-hour. A heavy user of 1,500 kilowatt-hour would pay a total of $166.40, divided by 1,500 equals only 11 cents per kilowatt-hour. (The actual cost to OPALCO of delivering this power is less than 12 cents per kilowatt-hour.) In effect, OPALCO is punishing the poor, the thrifty, part-time residents and those trying to “do their part” by saving energy. At the same time they’re subsidizing the heavy users, (dare I say “the wealthy”). OPALCO has always done this to some extent, but now they’re making it much
worse. There are lots of ways to arrange prices to be fair to all users. Remember, OPALCO is a cooperative – “non-profit, member-owned, democratically controlled, etc., etc..” None of this is true now, if it ever was. Cooperatives began 200 years ago as a way to protect common folk from the exactions of greedy merchants and corporations, but OPALCO is running just like any ordinary corporation, always seeking more sources of wealth to appropriate, usually from those with the least to spare. They didn’t hesitate to violate State law (RCW 24.06) or their own bylaws (Article VIII Sect. 3) when they decided, on a whim, to get into the Internet supply business and to lay all the cost on the members without getting the required permission. An electrical cooperative would be a great thing to have in San Juan County. We should see what we can do to turn OPALCO into a real one. STEVE LUDWIG Lopez Island
The San Juan Islands Conservation District election scheduled for February 2, 2015 has been cancelled. The incumbent has been reelected by reason of being the only person filing for the position and no poll site, mail, or absentee balloting will be performed. 68. Indications 69. ___ gestae 70. "Paradise Lost" character 71. Tablelands Down 1. Chemistry Nobelist Otto 2. Arch type 3. An association of individuals (abbrev.) 4. Concentrated, in a way 5. Having qualities to move over water 6. Density symbol 7. Always, in verse 8. Spot broadcast, often 9. Cad
10. At the scene 11. Glass baking dishes with lids 12. Vegetable crop pest 13. Iron 18. Cheer starter 22. Henry Clay, for one 24. Test, as ore 25. Boeing 747, e.g. 27. City on the Yamuna River 28. H.S. class 29. Cinema celebrities 31. "The Catcher in the ___" 33. Plant that coils around something 35. "Gladiator" setting 37. Eye layer 38. Makeup, e.g. 40. Engine speed, for
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short 42. Indifference to pleasure or pain 45. Fix, in a way 48. Hebrew letters 50. Mouth, in slang 52. Pipe material 53. Cliffside dwelling 54. Crack 55. Adorable one 57. "Mi chiamano Mimi," e.g. 59. Periodicals (slang) 60. "Empedocles on ___" (Matthew Arnold poem) 61. 1987 Costner role 64. Bean counter, for short 65. Carbonium, e.g. Answers to today's puzzle on page 8
Sudoku 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 1. Sudoku and Crossword answers on page 8
Bar Association meeting The 43-member San Juan County Bar Association held its annual meeting and lunch in Friday Harbor on Dec. 12. San Juan Island attorney John Chessell was elected to a third term as president, and attorney Stephen Brandli of Friday Harbor was again elected treasurer. Friday Harbor attorney Kathryn Loring, Orcas attorney Thomas Fiscus and (nonmember) Friday Harbor attorney Lawrence Delay were recognized for their contributions in 2014 to the bench. Attorneys Douglas Strandberg and Karen Vedder of Friday Harbor were recognized for their work in preparing a legal education sem-
inar in late 2013 on behalf of the San Juan County Land Bank and the San Juan Preservation Trust. Attorney Carla Higginson of Friday Harbor was recognized for her continuing dedication to the high school “Moot Court” program. Treasurer Brandli was recognized for his continuing participation in the association. A special vote of thanks was commended for his office manager and legal secretary B.J. Brandli, who voluntarily administers the SJCBA’s financial records. For more information, call 317-5951 or sjcba@rockisland.com.
New year, new laws enacted Starting in 2015, there are several new laws that are going into effect. Minimum wage has increased 15 cents per hour in Washington state, bringing it to $9.47 an hour. That is the highest in the country by 22 cents. Washington is one of nine states that raises the minimum wage based on an adjustment for yearly inflation. New employer provisions under the Affordable Care Act require companies of
a certain size to provide health care coverage to employees. The law was set to go into effect last year but was postponed to start in 2015. The price of compact flourescent light bulbs has increased in Washington. Every retailer in the state will charge an additional $0.25 per light bulb sold. This increase will go to a new compact flourescent light bulb recycling program. Since 2013, a state
law has prohibited throwing CFL bulbs in the trash. Now you can keep your license plates for as long as you own your vehicle. Previously, car owners had to replace plates ever y seven years. Plates will not transfer with a car that is sold, but owners can keep license plates from previous cars and transfer them to the new car for $10. Information compiled from King 5.
Lummis Nation requests permit denial for proposed coal terminal The Lummi Nation, in a strongly worded letter, asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) to take immediate action to deny a permit to build North America’s largest coal export terminal at Cherry Point, citing significant impacts to treaty rights and irreparable damage to important crab and salmon fisheries. In a letter sent today to Colonel John Buck of the Seattle District of the Corps, Lummi Chairman Tim Ballew II said the impact of the proposed bulk coal terminal at this historic location cannot be mitigated. “The Lummi people have harvested fish at this location for thousands of years,” Ballew said. “We have a sacred obligation to protect this location for its cultural and spiritual significance.” The proposal to build North America’s largest coal export terminal in Whatcom County on the shores of the Salish Sea has brought sharp criticism from tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. The site is a rich fishing ground that supports hundreds of family fishing businesses. In addition to providing more than a thousand jobs, fishing is also a vital part of the cultural heritage of area tribes and Lummi is working hard to preserve their language, resurrect traditional fishing traditions and educate Lummi youth about their culture. “As one of our tribal fishermen said, ‘it’s like putting a freeway inside the reservation,” Chairman Ballew said. “The vessel traffic would contaminate our fish and shellfish and severely limit the ability of our tribal members to exercise their treaty rights.” The Lummi have asked the federal government to uphold their legal obligiation to protect their tribal treaty rights, lands and resources. To approve the permit, the tribe argues, would be a violation of these treaty rights. “The Corps has an obligation to uphold our treaty rights and comply with the federal laws regarding Lummi rights to fish at Cherry Point,” Chairman Ballew said. “Our waters are a way of life and survival for our people. The bottom line is, you can’t mitigate or buy your way out of the damage that this proposed shipping facility would cause.”
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J-pod welcomes newborn at end of December her newborn baby, off the south shores of North Pender Island in Canadian waters Dec. 30. The baby, known as J-50, is the second calf to be born in 2014, after a two-year lull of no births among the southern resident killer whales. The calf appeared to be healthy and energet-
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whale may have had to use its mouth to help pull the baby out of its mother’s uterus. Balcomb said the baby also exhibited unusual behaviors in the first days after its birth. For the first week or so of life orca calves and their mothers usually maintain eye contact while swimming along. For the first month of life, the two are relatively inseparable. Neither of these normal behaviors were displayed by J-50. He said the calf was seen swimming away from J-16 and had to be corralled back to its presumed mother by other members of J-pod. These behaviors could indicate that J-36 is the mother, and the calf was swimming away because its mother was several miles behind. If J-36 is the mother, this would be her first known calf. But because orcas can spontaneously abort a fetus, it’s impossible to rule out previous pregnancies. While the nearly fullterm pregnant female, J-32, was found dead in December with the first “known” calf was in her uterus, her ovaries had evidence of prior pregnancies, Balcomb said. Even when the question of “who is the mother of J-50” is answered, the fate of the baby orca will remain uncertain. Its chance for survival depends on whether or not the mother has a sufficient food supply. Orca calves need to nurse for about one year. If there’s not enough food, there’s not enough milk for the calf. “I’m emotionally tied to trying to get our politicians and the public to attend to the food supply,” Balcomb said. “The whales simply will not be here if they don’t have food.”
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of current and upcoming vacancies: •Agricultural Resources Committee Position #7 – four-year term. Position #13 – four-year term. Position #15 – four-year term. Position #11 – four-year term. • Board of Equalization Alternate, #4. Alternate, #5 – three-year term. Alternate, #6 – three-year term. • Building Advisor y Council
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San Juan County’s 2015 Point in Time Homeless Count will be conducted on Thursday, Jan. 29. Count organizers and volunteers work with local family resource centers, food banks, churches, healthcare providers, senior centers, libraries, the sheriff’s office and many other community support service providers to conduct the count. The count, initiated by the state of Washington in 2005 (RCW43.185C.030), is conducted annually at the end of January. Agencies not open on the day of the count are authorized to conduct the survey on their business day closest to Jan. 29. Last year’s San Juan County count identified 65 individuals, 44 of whom were living out-of-doors, in vehicles or in abandoned buildings. The remaining 21 people were staying in temporary, unstable living arrangements, often with friends or family. Results of previous counts can be viewed at: www. commerce.wa.gov/Programs/housing/Homeless/Pages/ Annual-Point-In-Time-Count.aspx. If you have questions or would like to help, contact Melanie Rollins at 378-4474 or melanier@sanjuanco.com.
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Camp Nor’wester Reunion/Open House Shows Lopez: January 14th, 6:30 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church Orcas: January 15th, 6:30 p.m., At the home of Jeff & Jennifer Pietsch San Juan: January 16th , 6:30 p.m., FH Middle School Commons
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The Indian Island Marine Health Observatory officially launches its 2015 research season on Jan. 19, with an annual nighttime low-tide exploration of Eastsound’s very own special island. “Different animals visit Indian Island in winter,” says Indian Island lead scientist Russel Barsh, “and when it’s cool and dark, more animals stay above water when the tide goes out.” Nighttime winter surveys often encounter octopus, giant sunflower stars and a wide variety of colorful sea slugs that are rarely if ever seen by visitors in summer. “One question on everyone’s mind is whether Indian Island’s ochre stars,
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much reduced by Wasting Syndrome last summer, will rebound this winter,” Barsh says. Many small ochre stars were seen around Indian Island in late August, which suggested the re-colonization of the island by a new generation, unaffected or less affected by the Sea Star Wasting Disease. The low tide on Jan. 19 will make it possible for researchers to find out how well these young stars are faring. Another important research question is year-to-year variation in sea slug species at the island. For example, thousands of warty dorids were seen around Indian Island in January 2013, feasting
on barnacles and covering the rocks with creamy colored eggs. A year later, they were mostly gone, replaced by a small red sea slug species that only eats sponges. At least in some species, adults or young are attracted to rocky shores where their favorite foods are especially plentiful. Curious adults and families with children are welcome on nighttime low-tide surveys. Absent high winds or heavy rains, this event will begin at 9 p.m. in front of the Outlook Inn. Tall rubber boots are recommended, as well as lamps and flashlights. For more information, write to kwiaht@gmail.com.