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Lopez Lobos in rout, 56 to 12 By Gene Helfman Special to the Islands’ Weekly
Lopez celebrated homecoming with a 56-12 blow out victory over Clallam Bay on Saturday, Sept. 24. Lobo scoring was led by Vinny, Eddie and Tommy Kramer with Tommy making four touchdowns. Keldon Jardine ran for one touchdown and passed to Tak Peralta for another score. Coach Larry Berg gathered both
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Tak Peralta gathers in a touchdown pass from Keldon Jardine in the Lobos’ 56-12 win over Clallam Bay.
teams at midfield after the game. He thanked the 11-man Clallam Bay squad for making the long trip here, congratulated them on their effort, and reminded everyone that Lopez has fielded similarly small teams in the past. The Lobos are now 3 and 0, having bested Lummi JV and Muckleshoot in earlier games. Halftime Homecoming festivities included fundraising to bring a scoreboard to the Lobo football and soccer
field. The new scoreboard is being driven 4,126 miles from Oklahoma. Transport costs are being met through donations (make checks out to “The Pack� and send them to P.O. Box 446, Lopez, WA 98261). Photos from the Clallam Bay and other football games, plus volleyball and soccer matches, are posted on the Lobo Pack Facebook page (www.facebook. com/profile.php?id=1500297009).
Seeds of hope by Chom Greacen and Lopez Community Land Trust Special to the Islands’ Weekly
Soon Lopez gardeners and farmers will have a Seed Library where the public can have access to seeds that are locally grown and adapted to our local climate and tastes. Saving seeds and sharing them are a critical step towards a more resilient food future for Lopez Island and beyond. The Seed Library is a project of the Lopez Community Land Trust. Located next to the LCLT office, the library will provide a temperature and humidity-controlled vault for seed storage. LCLT Board member, David Zapalac, designed and installed a passive cooling system for the seed library, which has a slab floor and an area for cleaning and milling seed, such as local wheat from LCLT’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) grain project. Protocol for identifying seed, germination, and lending are being developed. On Nov. 19, LCLT will host a seed saving workshop by Ana Malinoff, who makes her living selling saved seed grown in her garden on Lopez. Magically contained in each seed is the blueprint of life of a plant or tree that grows to offer sustenance to us and other living creatures. Though much older than the human race itself, these little blueprints of life are now under grave threat. Thousands of years of evolution and our ancestors’ labor resulted in a massive diversity of plant varieties adapted to th differing localized growing conditions. This diversity is rapidly being lost, with an
Fire Prevention Week October 9th – 15 , 2011 San Juan County Fire District 4
Would like to thank the following Lopez Island Firefighters for their Time, Effort and Commitment to their Lopez Island Community!
The following students are training in the Fall Recruit Class: James Brant, Eryn Dye, Michael Reeve, Samantha Swanson, Patience Taylor, Risto Turunen
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Above, residents of Common Ground at the new Seed Library.
estimate of approximately 97 percent of U.S. Department of Agriculture lists having disappeared in the last 80 years. Of the remaining seeds in the worlds, 98 percent are now in the hands of just six companies: Monsanto, DuPont, Aventis, Dow, Syngent and Mitsui. Monsanto alone accounts for almost one-quarter of the global proprietary seed market. These big agrichemical corporations have been buying up seeds and systematically reducing natural seed stock. A seed company, later acquired by Monsanto, eliminated 2,000 varieties of seeds from its inventory. The seeds being eliminated are the older, open-pollinated, heirloom varieties. What these corporations are creating instead are seeds that are reliant on chemical or cannot be saved and propagated (hybrid, patented and genetically modified seeds). This business model of manHEY KIDS 3RD GRADE TO AGE 19... ufactured seed poverty and oligopoly control of mutant seed stock has no logic other than maximum profits for the Many fun projects to choose from: companies. Photography, Horse, Sheep, Goats, With more and more cultiSwine, Dogs, Cats, Rabbits, Cavies, vars disappearing, both purPoultry, Gardening, Cooking, posely and through neglect, Clothing, Art projects & More it is more important than ever to keep varieties of seeds Come to our Membership Meeting alive and available for future Monday, October 10, 2011 generations. There is much diversity and strength found 7:00 pm in local seed. Lopez Firehall Training Room The Lopez Seed Library is All family members welcome at our meetings funded by contributions from the community members.
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