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The 75¢ Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Vol. 104 Issue 48
of the San Juan Islands
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Will islands face disaster?
SJPT places 2nd in nation
The potential impacts of an earthquake or tsunami on San Juan
By Colleen Smith Armstrong Islands’ Sounder Editor
By Meredith Griffith Islands’ Sounder Reporter
The tsunami devastated the coast of Japan, washing away homes and killing 1,000 people. It was the year 1700. Japanese history calls it “The Orphan Tsunami” because it seemed to birth itself; they felt no warning for the earthquake. The Pacific Coast has no such comprehensive written history, and for a long time quake experts believed that the closest fault, the Cascadia subduction zone, was safely aseismic. That was until they found mysteriously sunken Northwest forests that appeared to have been killed by salt intrusion in the year 1700. And before scientists doing horizontal geodetic modeling discovered that the Olympics are creeping languidly toward Tiger Mountain. It turns out that the eastwardmoving Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is not sliding smoothly beneath the westward-moving North American plate; instead, it’s bunching up, building up tremendous pressure that scientists believe will eventually let loose in the space of a few minutes. If the fault’s five segments all “go off ” at once, a 9.0-plus magnitude megaquake could launch See TSUNAMI, Page 5
Above, Journal photo / Cali Bagby
Above, Barbara Cable — this year’s winner of King’s Market annual shopping spree — smiles after collecting goods, which will be donated to the Friday Harbor Food Bank. Below, Cable surveys the aisles while the Lions Club’s Jim Cox assists Below, contributed photo / Bill Waxman with a shopping cart.
Food Bank wins big at spree Barbara Cable gathers $736.33 worth of goods — all for Food Bank
See TRUST, Page 4
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By Cali Bagby
Camera lights flashed and the crowd cheered as Barbara Cable, adrenaline pumping, rushed through each aisle, strategically pulling items — like cake mix, laundry detergent, mayonnaise and Hamburger Helper — off the shelf. “Four minutes goes by really fast,” Barbara Cable said smiling as she looked over the shopping carts overflowing with paper towels and toilet tissue. Cable — this year’s winner of King’s Market annual four-minute shopping spree sponsored by
Despite a recession, land preservation seems to be holding strong — at least in our neck of the woods. The National Land Trust Census, a report released this month by the Land Trust Alliance, shows that voluntarily protected land increased 27 percent between 2005 and 2010. Locally, the San Juan Preservation Trust worked with private land owners to permanently protect 3,681 acres in the San Juan Islands, a 36 percent increase since 2005.
How to reach us the San Juan Island Lions Club on behalf of the Friday Harbor Food Bank — collected a total of $736.33. And all of the merchandise will go to the Friday Harbor Food Bank. “The Food Bank plays a really important role in the community,” Cable said. “I want to support
them as much as possible.” Cable’s grand total is the highest amount that Lion J.T. Towson can recall since the event started about 15 years ago. He said the sprees generally total around $500. Last year, Rusty Argall gathered $593 worth of goods in the spree and See SPREE, Page 5
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