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The passage of a state bill impacts the amount of income residents can receive to qualify for the property tax exemption for senior and disabled people.

No action is required by you if you are already receiving an exemption. The Island County Assessors Office has placed you in the appropriate level, the office reported in a press release.

Qualifications for filing are: 1. Age 61 or over by Dec. 31 (of last

year) or 100 percent military service connected disability or disabled and unable to be gainfully employed.

2. Own and occupy the home in Island County. You must occupy the home more than six months out of the year.

3. Your annual combined disposable income cannot exceed $35,000 for 2014 income and previous or $40,000 for 2015 income.

If you believe you qualify for the program based on the above criteria please come to the Assessor’s Office and bring with your income documentation.

Information is also on the Assessor’s website at www.IslandCountyAssessor. com/exemptions/seniordisabledexemp tion.

To reach the Senior Citizen/Disabled Exemption Coordinator, call Kristina Mayhew directly at 360-678-7853.

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“This is a significant development considering transportation limitations and the challenge of travel to the community-based outpatient clinic in Mount Vernon, the Seattle VA hospital and even farther to American Lake VA facilities,” said Dana Sawyers, Veteran’s Service Coordinator

for Island County.

The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 in part establishes a temporary program to improve veterans’ access to health care outside the VA system. The VA will provide a Choice Card to all veterans enrolled in the VA health care system as of August 2014 and to recently discharged combat veterans.

In Island County there are multiple providers in primary care, women’s health and behavioral health, Sawyers said.

That list is growing. Go to www.va.gov/opa/apps/locator to find a provider. If the one you wish to visit isn’t on the list, she suggested calling the Choice Program call center at 866-606-8198.

Vet board needs volunteers The Veteran’s Advisory Board needs you.

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GIFT from the heart Retired Navy captain from Oak Harbor helps wife’s ailing best friend since elementary school by donating kidney

By RON NEWBERRY The first time Anne Langer met John Geragotelis, she butchered his last name.

It was 1986. She was on her way to the World’s Fair in Vancouver, B.C., when she stopped in Oak Harbor to visit her best friend and meet the man she’d only heard about.

She immediately spotted the embroidered writing on his flight suit, and blurted out what proved to be a mouthful, missing the mark by a syllable or two.

“I didn’t say it right,” she said. “I do remember that.”

Langer laughs at the memory, amazed at how young she was at the time and how simple life seemed to be.

Any thought that the man with a funny name standing before her would profoundly impact not only the life of her best friend, but hers as well, was inconceivable back then.

Last April, John Geragotelis gave Anne Langer a gift so vital that she will forever be in his debt.

He gave her one of his kidneys.

For years, he and his wife, Diane Geragotelis, felt helpless watching the health and lifestyle of their longtime friend from California decline from two diseases that caused her kidneys to fail.

Langer’s kidney function deteriorated to the point where she knew that she would soon need an organ transplant to keep her from

going on dialysis.

Fearing that her kidneys might not hold out long enough after she qualified to get on a waiting list, she learned about a way to receive a new kidney that didn’t involve waiting for someone to die.

She learned about living kidney donations and how a healthy person who has a matching blood type and meets other criteria could be a candidate to help those facing uncertain futures like her.

Since the first successful living donor transplant in 1954, more than 50,000 procedures involving kidneys have been performed.

The living donor program gave Langer a new reason to hope, offering a refreshing departure from some of the grim statistics she’d read about those on kidney transplant lists.

According to statistics kept by the National Kidney Foundation, more than 101,000 in the United States alone are currently awaiting kidney transplants.

The wait can last years.

An average of 12 people die each day awaiting a donation.

John and Diane Geragotelis pledged to do anything in their power to not let Langer meet that fate.

After Langer’s husband and a childhood friend didn’t meet certain criteria, Diane Geragotelis stepped forward to undergo testing to see if she was a match, but her husband interceded.

He knew she feared needles but also knew she’d do

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John Geragotelis of Oak Harbor visits Anne Langer in her hospital room at Stanford Hospital the day after kidney transplant surgery in April. Geragotelis’ blood type and other matches and good physical fitness made him a successful donor candidate. anything to help her best friend since grade school.

She had her blood tested anyway and wasn’t a match.

“Diane has a huge heart,” John Geragotelis said.

Soon it was determined that John Geragotelis’ blood was a match.

A retired Navy captain who spent 26 years in military service, Geragotelis maintained optimal physical fitness so he felt he was as good a candidate as any. He underwent extensive testing at Stanford Hospital, which initially revealed an issue with blood vessels around one kidney. Doctors gave him a 10 percent chance of being approved as a donor.

“I came back and Anne was a little disappointed,” Geragotelis said. “Of course, I kept praying through all this. I’m a very religious person.”

He told Langer not to worry and a week later got word that he was approved.

A week after that, he was

back at Stanford Hospital having his kidney removed while Langer was in another room waiting to receive it.

had become so debilitating, and her energy level so low, that she could no longer work.

ing for her. I don’t want to say, ‘life saving.’”

Geragotelis remembers phoning Langer to tell her that he had been approved and they began talking about the surgery date and recovery schedule. Langer mentioned an upcoming 40th high school reunion in Pinole, Calif.

Geragotelis, who also has recovered well and is able to function normally with one kidney, remembers seeing the life come back to Langer’s face the first time he saw her the day after surgery.

“He saved my best friend’s life,” she said. “It’s kind of amazing to me that the guy I fell in love with that is my best friend also saved the girl who I’ve known since we were 10 and I love her dearly.”

“I said, ‘Anne, what are you waiting for? This is a matter of life or death. Who cares about the high school reunion,’” Geragotelis said.

“She said, ‘You’re right.’”

Langer, 58, made the reunion and is making an exceptional recovery.

She was told that she had only days until dialysis would have been a necessary part of her life. The combination of an autoimmune disease and type 1 diabetes had taken a major toll on her kidney functioning.

A former lab technician at Stanford, her condition

“She had a million IV’s coming out of her,” Geragotelis said. “You could tell already she had this glow about her. It was really special.”

Geragotelis’ surgery took five hours and left him with a 5-inch scar on his stomach and considerable discomfort in his abdomen for about two weeks.

But he said he’d do it all over again.

“I wish I had three kidneys so I could do it again,” he said. “The sacrifice for me was 10 weeks of exercise with leisure golfing. The effect it’s made on Anne’s life has just been life chang-

Diane Geragotelis begged to differ.

Langer’s impression of John Geragotelis three decades ago when she couldn’t pronounce his name was favorable. It continues to be.

“I think this is really consistent with his character.

He’s that kind of guy,” she said. “He’s very brave. He’s flown missions with the Navy off aircraft carriers.

He was saying, ‘I’ve done a lot of things that I’ve needed to be brave for but this was nothing.’ Well, I don’t think it’s nothing. He’s so matter of fact. He has a good heart.

He prayed about it, thought about it and didn’t have a doubt. So I didn’t have a doubt.”

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Quilters honor island veterans

By KATE DANIEL

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heryn WeiserRoosenRunge wrapped the soft red, white and blue quilt around the shoulders of her 7-yearold grandson, Weston Klamm, and planted an affectionate kiss on his cheek.

More than a source of warmth and comfort, the quilt enveloped Klamm in the love sewn by each of the quilters who crafted it.

Klamm and WeiserRoosen-Runge are the grandson and wife of veteran Kord Roosen-Runge, who served in the Army infantry in Berlin from 1961-1964. He was one of three veterans to receive a

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Anita M. Smith (right) presents a quilt to veteran Terri Desrosiers on Veterans Day at the Langley Good Cheer Thrift Store. quilt in his honor as a part of this year’s Veterans Day services on Whidbey.

Roosen-Runge himself is incapacitated with cancer

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and was unable to attend the quilt-giving at the American Legion Hall in Bayview. His wife and grandson received the quilt on his behalf.

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to show their gratitude by taking part in the project.

“My grandma made quilt after quilt after quilt,” said Weiser-Roosen-Runge, “I appreciate every loving piece of it put together and all the loving hands that contributed.”

What began as a handful of women gathered at the fairgrounds in 2013 sewing quilts for veterans expanded to become a larger event, the Veteran Quilt Sew-a-thon at the 2014 Whidbey Island Fair.

The makers of this and the two other quilts presented to Whidbey veterans Nov. 11 were a collective of dedicated volunteers, consisting of both seasoned quilters and members of groups such as Applique on Whidbey and Quilters on the Rock, as well as novices, several of whom took up the craft specifically

“He was very moved,” she said.

To express his gratitude, Roosen-Runge penned a letter addressing both the Veterans Resource Center, as well as the quilters.

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Men, women and children of all ages took part in the sew-a-thon, with more adept quilters assisting eager beginners.

The quilts produced during the event were donated to veterans admitted at Madigan Army Hospital near McChord Air Force Base.

After garnering a significant amount of interest at the sew-a-thon, group facilitator Anita M. Smith began a monthly gathering at Deer Lagoon Grange.

An average of about 20 volunteers — some of whom are veterans themselves — have attended each month to contribute to the making of the three completed quilts distributed Nov. 11. About seven more are nearly finished, and will also be donated to veterans upon completion.

“Many people touched this quilt; many put love into it,” Smith said of the quilt presented to Weiser-RoosenRunge and Klamm, noting the diverse group of volunteers who contributed to its making.

The group’s youngest regular volunteer is Ellie Brockenbrough, who travels each month with her mother Ann Brockenbrough from Seattle in order to take part in the effort.

Each quilt was tagged with a note which reads, “This quilt was made by many quilters who gave fabric, time and love in gratitude for your service.”

The second quilt presented was in memoriam of Wheeler Nichols, who passed away from an unknown neurological condition while serving SEE QUILTS, PAGE 5

QUILTS CONTINUED FROM 4 in the Air Force in 2014. He was 20 years old. Nichols’ parents, Russell and Barbara Nichols, received the quilt on his behalf.

Russell Nichols is also a veteran, having served in the Korean War. “Wheeler Nichols loved the Air Force,” his father said tearily, adding that he and his wife are greatly appreciative of the gesture, having only recently moved to Whidbey.

Ellie Brockenbrough, age 11, travels from Seattle each month with her mother, Ann Brockenbrough, to join in the quilting at Deer Lagoon Grange. the Langley Good Cheer white and blue and bearing thrift store, to present her images such as eagles or flags. with the quilt.

Desrosiers’s included the

“He was a great California American kid for all those years, and then we lost him,” Nichols said. “We really appreciate so much that you have recognized our son.”

Though each quilt was one of a kind, composed of a medley of donations of materials and time, all were also clearly representative of their patriotic purpose crafted in red,

The third recipient, Terri Desrosiers, is a veteran who served in the Army from 1975 to 1982. Smith and a few fellow quilters joined friends of Desrosiers’s at her workplace,

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Desrosiers, too, expressed a great deal of gratitude to the group.

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A day for veterans Oak Harbor celebrated Veterans Day in many ways this year. Among the public tributes was the Veterans Day Parade downtown on Nov. 7, which featured a flyover of a MH-60S Knighthawk helicopters this year. The high school held a special assembly for students on Nov. 10. On Veterans Day, the Oak Harbor Area Council and the Navy League held a ceremony for the community to honor those who serve or have served.

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Veterans and their families were treated to a program at Oak Harbor High School Nov. 11.

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By Ron Newberry

In the final hours of his life, Bob Engle told his son how much he would have liked to get on a tractor one last time and take a ride around the field.

Engle never got that chance before he died on Oct. 31.

His son, however, made sure that he’d get one more trip through the prairie and countryside where he’d spent his entire lifetime farming.

Engle was escorted to his burial site at Sunnyside Cemetery Saturday by a procession of tractors, trucks and other vehicles that got in line as a tribute to the fourth-generation Coupeville farmer.

It was the way that Engle wanted to go to his grave, his casket resting on a flatbead trailer, pulled by the first John Deere tractor he ever owned.

His son, also named Bob

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Engle, led the procession aboard the restored and freshly painted green tractor, fulfilling a wish his father had communicated years ago.

er round,’” Engle said. “He didn’t get to do that, but we did give him a tractor ride. I hope he’d be very proud of that.”

The elder Engle, who was 74, loved farming and was particularly fond of John Deere tractors.

Engle’s casket was draped by an American flag, reflecting his patriotism and six years spent in the U.S. Army Reserves.

“My dad told me years ago that was how he wanted to come up there,” said the younger Bob Engle. “That was truly an honor for me to do that. He also told me hours before he passed that all he wanted was to get on a tractor and go another round in the field. I kind of felt I was giving him that last ride.”

The younger Engle tried to stay composed as he shared the conversation he had with his dad in his final hours.

“He told me, ‘I guess I’m not going to make my goal.

I just want to get back on the tractor and plow anoth-

Tractors started arriving near the Prairie Center Red Apple Market shortly after noon as did a hearse from Wallin Funeral Home that was carrying Engle’s casket.

The casket was transferred to the trailer that was attached to Engle’s first John Deere tractor. Family and friends that included the younger Engle’s brother-inlaw Rusty Bailey and Main Street Collision, had worked in the days leading up to the memorial service to restore the tractor, and it shined like new Saturday.

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Bob Engle escorts his father, who died Oct. 31, through Ebey’s Prairie to Sunnyside Cemetery during the tractor procession.

Tractors and trucks were invited to follow Engle across the countryside to the cemetery on the hill.

The younger Engle counted 17 tractors in all and four semi-trucks, although other rigs followed, including engines with Central Whidbey Fire & Rescue. In total, there were roughly 50 vehicles that joined in to pay tribute to a man from one of Whidbey Island’s early pioneer families.

One onlooker called it a

once-in-a-lifetime event.

“Only in Coupeville,” said another.

Church. “It was so touching.

It was about community, family and love.

At one point, Cook Road was covered from end to end in vehicles before tractors began climbing the cemetery’s hillside to meet a large gathering that waited near Engle’s final resting place.

“People will not forget this one.”

Gary Wallin, funeral director and owner of Wallin Funeral Home, guessed there were close to 400 people in attendance.

“It was amazing,” said Rev. Dave Engle, who officiated his cousin’s service along with Rev. Jin Ming Ma from Coupeville United Methodist

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Veteran helps others navigate system Advocate has helped 1,000 families find housing

By Chris Winters, Herald Writer

MARYSVILLE — Raymond Miller would like to retire.

He’s dedicated his life to helping out veterans. After serving in the U.S. Air Force for 14 years, he went to work for the Veterans Administration as a clerk in 1984.

When veterans came through the door looking for assistance, Miller was often the first person they talked to.

“All these guys were still fighting the war,” Miller said.

“I just wanted to understand what was happening with these guys,” he said.

He remained active in the veteran’s community, helping start up the Washington

state command council of the National Association of Black Veterans in 2002 and functioning as a service officer for them until he left to get a master’s in clinical psychology a few years later.

Starting in 2009, he worked as a veterans service officer under the name of Vets Place Northwest/ Welcome Home out of the Everett offices of Therapeutic Health Services.

It was an outreach and referral program, ensuring veterans would get the care they needed and helping negotiate the oftentimes Byzantine bureaucracy of social services.

Those needs include filing for disability benefits, getting into the VA system, getting psychiatric evaluations, treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, finding housing ... whatever a veteran needs.

He estimates over the years he’s helped more than 1,000 veterans and their families go from homelessness into stable housing, or even own-

“For a lot of people, readjustment to civilian life is traumatic.”

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black veterans groups.

February was when Miller, 65, decided to retire.

“I think half of America knows it,” he said. “I get at least two calls a day from veterans.”

Only thing is, work won’t let him.

“It seems like a lot of veterans keep calling me,” Miller said.

Mostly, they’re getting referred to him via word-ofmouth, although he’s sure his phone number is still listed on some referral services’ website.

One client told him he got a referral from his mailman, who was himself a formerly homeless veteran with PTSD. Other times, he’d get referrals from the local chapters of the NAACP or local

So he keeps working out of his Marysville home, or occasionally going out to meet clients at a nearby coffee shop.

That’s what he did Friday with Joshua Wixson, meeting at an Everett Starbucks store.

Wixson, a Navy veteran who lives in Everett, has been struggling with a mixture of symptoms since he left the service four years ago. He’d filed a claim with the VA a year ago, he said, but had not heard back, and was looking to see what he could do.

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Wixson struggled with an inability to sleep, anxiety and other issues since shortly after enlisting. He was involved in anti-piracy actions in the Gulf of Aden, but his symptoms gradually grew worse. He could not get medication while still in the service, and only recently started up on some.

“On a personal level I probably need to see a shrink,” Wixson said. He added that during a 90-minute conversation with Miller he was given a number to another VA facility in Mount Vernon, which he intends to contact soon.

He’s already on partial disability, Miller said, adding “he probably should be at 100 percent disabled.”

Miller estimates that he’s met 15-20 people since he “retired” in February, helping them work the VA system or obtain other benefits.

“For a lot of people, read-

justment to civilian life is traumatic,” Miller said.

He said there are 75,000 veterans living in Snohomish County, and while most of them probably don’t need critical help, the county only has two veterans service officers on its staff.

“We’re not maximizing our effort, in my opinion,” he said.

He has dialed back his work, in that he’s no longer visiting homeless shelters or looking for people in marginal circumstances.

“But if they come to me, get my phone number and give me call, I’m going to keep putting them in the right place,” Miller said.

“Those are our brothers and sisters, and we’re in the same sorority or fraternity,” he said.

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“This man was not a politician,” Wallin said. “He wasn’t a corporate president or anything like that. He was a farmer. We had probably close to 400 people there. That just says so much about his character. These people gave up their day to come up and honor him. That says so much about the character of the whole family and especially Bob. It was just an incredible showing of love and support.”

Retired farmer Al Sherman said he saw people from Skagit County and other places that he hadn’t seen in decades.

Sherman said he farmed in the same prairie with Engle his whole life. The two farming families merged in 1966 when Bob Engle married Cheryl Sherman, his wife of 49 1/2 years.

Al Sherman said the tractor procession and celebration of life that followed depicted Engle.

“He loved tractors,” Sherman said. “The whole memorial was about farm-

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He was a farmer.”

At the service, some were reminded of another unique farmer funeral procession that occurred at Sunnyside Cemetery nearly a half century ago.

On April 8, 1970, the casket of well-known rancher and farmer Knight Smith was transported by a wagon led by a team of horses from his nearby farm to the cemetery.

Members of the Island County Sheriff’s Posse, which Smith was a part of, escorted Smith to his burial site alongside two riderless horses.

Wallin also was on hand to see that.

“He was an original down there too,” Wallin said.

The tractors, however, were a first, Wallin said, calling the entire tribute “fascinating.”

“It was one of largest gatherings in years and years and years,” Dave Engle said. “It’s the largest service I remember for a farmer.”

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Pictures for illustration purposes only. Subaru, Outback, Forester, Legacy, and Impreza are registered trademarks. *A documentary service fee of up to $150 may be added to the sale price of the capitalized cost. Ask dealership about available accessories. VIN numbers posted at dealership. One only at this price. *Subaru will donate $250 for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased from November 19, 2015, through January 2, 2016, to four national charities designated by the purchaser or lessee, up to $15,000,000 in total. Preapproved Hometown Charities may be selected for donation depending on retailer participation. Certain participating retailers will make an additional donation to the Hometown Charities selected. Purchasers/lessees must make their charity designations by January 31, 2016. The four national charities will receive a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000 each. See your local Subaru retailer for details, or visit subaru.com/share. All donations made by Subaru of America, Inc. Ad Expires December 3, 2015.

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