Islands' Weekly, May 15, 2012

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INSIDE Senior Spotlight

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FLIP makes a splash

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Sheriff’s Log

Cali Bagby photo

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Eelgrass – a zoo of strange and small animals

By Russel Barsh and Madrona Murphy

Like true grasses on land, eelgrass responds to longer, warmer days by growing new leaves and sometimes forming small, inconspicuous flowers. Eelgrass competes for light with the mat of algae and diatoms [a single-celled algae] that floats above like green clouds. One native and one nonnative species of eelgrass live side by side

in our waters; the non-native “Japanese” species tolerates warmer, shallower water and expands eelgrass meadows towards shore. Both species are otherwise functionally identical, supporting a zoo of strange and small animals that rely on thickets of eelgrass for food and refuge.

If you run your finger up a blade of eelgrass, you may find something gelatinous

Scholarship Opportunity A $1,000 scholarship is available to a former Lopez High School graduate who is currently a first, second or third year university or college student. For an application contact Jeanna Carter, 468-2202, ext. 2214, Lopez School, 86 School Road, Lopez Island, WA 98261 application deadline May 31st

You may be eligible for the Washington State Food Assistance Program For more information or to apply, call or stop by the Lopez Family Resource Center: (360)468-4117.

Applications are confidential.

This material was funded in part by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Basic Food is available to all regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, religion, or political belief.

Lopez Island Farmers Market Opening Saturday May 19 - Sept. 8 10am-2pm in the Village

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and green with yellow racing stripes.

Shimmering like a melted jellybean, Taylor’s sea hare is actually a sea slug.

It belongs to a primitive family – the Anaspideans – that begin life with a shell like other gastropods [a large class of mollusks] but gradually lose it. Sea hares graze on eelgrass, and the hard-shelled diatoms

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A bay pipefish, shown above, makes its home in shallow kelp. that accumulate on eelgrass. Diatoms have very hard shells made of silica, so Taylor’s sea hare has siliceous teeth lining its stomach wall to grind See Eelgrass, page 5

Speculation continues over sonar practices

By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter

In a game of chicken on the ocean, Navy vs. Orca might be a one-sided contest.

Despite assurances from federal officials, San Juan Island residents and officials seem skeptical that Navy

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Saying the local tourismbased economy is “based on healthy whales,” and that local whales travel all along the Oregon, Washington and even California coasts where Naval exercises take

training exercises adequately protect local whales.

“The people in the San Juans have a special protective feeling about the southern resident orca whales here,” Councilman Howie Rosenfeld told representatives of the Navy at a public meeting in Friday Harbor

Lopez Center

See sonar, page 8

Steinway Piano Series

Saturday May 19th, 7pm

Piano Virtuoso Mark Salman Plays Liszt

Guest Lopez students Gavin Goodrich & Lia Pryce by donation

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Community Calendar tues, march 15

gathering: Party at the Lopez Dump, 5:30- 7p.m. Event to celebrate the conclusion of the Solid Waste petition drive.

Bring a plate of finger food (savory or sweet) to share and hear about the next steps toward creating the Lopez Island Solid Waste Disposal District. Sponsored by SWAP (Solid Waste Alternatives

Program). Call 468-4788 for more info. thurs, march 17

travel: Student’s Travel

Presentations, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Lopez Island students will tell stories and present photos and videos about their recent trips to Japan and France. Past trips will also be reviewed.

Finally, the Lopez Island Foreign

Exchange, an organization founded over 15 years ago to sponsor local student travel, will unveil its new name to the community. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org. fri, may 18 food: Great Pairings, 6 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Brent Charnley, Lopez Island Vineyards’ award winning winemaker will present five of his 2012 releases.

Each wine will be paired with a fabulous menu course created especially for the wine by some of our best local chefs.This year the chefs will be Tim Shea of The Bay, Peter Neal of Islandale’s Southender, Joyce Brinar of Vita’s, and Steve Atkins of The Galley.

Glenda Pugerude will again create a special dessert pairing and there will also be Holly B’s won-

derful bread. Proceeds from the gala evening will benefit Lopez Children’s Center. Reservations can be made at Paper Scissors or by credit card by calling the Lopez Children’s Center 468-3896. sat, may 19

Classes: Making Great

Compost! With Liz Scranton,

1-4 p.m. Info: 468-4383.

Suggested donation: $10.

Proceeds to benefit: Grow A Row. Max. 8 people.

meeting: The Annual Meeting of the Catherine Washburn Medical Association, 10 a.m.,

library meeting room.

market: Lopez Island Farmer’s

Market, 10-2 p.m., Lopez

Village next to the Community Center. Runs May 19 - Sept. 8.

fundraiser: First Annual

Maroon and Gold Dinner, 5:30

- 8:30 p.m., Lopez Islander Resort and Marina. For more info, email LoboBooster@hotmail.com.

music: Classical Pianist Mark

Salman, 7-9 p.m., Lopez Center

for Community and the Arts.

Admission by donation. For more info, www.lopezcenter.org.

music: Salish Sea Early Music,

7-8:30 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church. “An Evening with Wilhelmine, “with John Schneidermann from San Francisco playing baroque lute, Jeffrey Cohan on the one-keyed baroque flute and cellist John Lutterman. For more info, visit http://www.concertspirituel.org.

outdoors: ‘Go Take A Hike’ –

Mt. Constitution loop hike. We

will car pool from the Lopez ferry dock. Ferry leaves at 6:55 a.m. and returns at 3:35 p.m. This is a sweet hike on great trails that begins next to cascade falls in Moran State Park. From here we head up a little gully stream toward Mountain Lake and the east shore trail. Just past the north end of Mountain Lake we are presented with the smaller Twin Lakes. Then it is up up to the top and the stone tower built by the CCC in the 1930s.

The best return is by the south trail with great views much of the way. This is about an eight mile hike with 1,700 feet of elevation gain. You must sign up in advance with leader Bob Walker at 468-3397.

News Briefs New mail drop box at Islandale/Southender Store

Lopez islanders now have the convenience of a drive up mail drop box located at Islandale/Southender Store, 3024 Mud Bay Road.

Pick up time is noon, Monday through Friday.

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Orcas Homestead Tour coming this June

The Orcas Island Garden Club presents “The Homestead Tour” of five farms and gardens on the east side of Orcas, with emphasis on beauty, history and the sustainable horticulture of fruits, vegetables, herbs and livestock.

The tour is from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24. Three of the homesteads – the Doe Bay Garden, Orcas Farm, and Cherry Hill Farm – date back to the 1880’s. The other two gardens, Seaview Farm and the McCoy Garden, are more recent homesteads but committed to sustainable ecology. Included in the tour are lectures on Orcas Island history, composting, seed saving and elimination of noxious plants.

Cafe Olga and The Doe Bay Cafe are preparing box lunches available by preorder no later than June 8 with an online purchase of tour tickets.

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of several Sylvan Learning Centers.

She will discuss how to help students maintain, and even build, their academic skills and study habits. She will also include tools to help students stay organized and accountable.

Last in the Lopez parCoolidge will direct her presentation to parents/ ent meeting series Thursday, May 24 marks guardians of students of the last in this school year’s all ages.

This parent meeting will series of parent meetings, sponsored by the Lopez be at the Grace Church Fellowship Hall Island Family on Thursday Resource Center May 24, 5:30and the Lopez 7 p.m. A light Island Prevention meal will be Coalition. provided, as N a n c y well as on-site Coolidge will be childcare. speaking at this Please let meeting about the Resource how to help stuCenter know dents avoid sumin advance if mer learning loss childcare will during the break Nancy Coolidge be needed so from school. ar rangements Coolidge is the author of “Good Habits … can be made.

Contact Mikah Smith Great Grades,” and she is a respected columnist, at 468-2201 ext. 2109 or radio personality, class- msmith@lopez.k12.wa.us. room teacher, and director The first few attendees at the meeting will receive a free copy of “Good Habits…

Great Grades.”

Tickets are $20 (tour only) or $30 (by online order through June 8 plus box lunch). Order tickets online any time at brownpapertickets.com or at OrcasIslandGardenClub.org.

Lopez Alcoholics Anonymous 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 Fridays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Center Saturdays - noon at the Children’s Center Contact phone number 468-2809

Al-Anon: Fridays - 9:00 a.m. at the Grace Church Hall, Lopez Saturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, Lopez.

Contact phone number 468-2510.

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27.1 tons of hazardous waste collected

A total of 251 island householders and 31 businesses safely disposed of flammable, toxic, corrosive or reactive materials at this spring’s hazardous waste collection events.

Clean Harbors Environmental Services exported 27.1 tons of hazardous waste for either recycling, special incineration in Arkansas or Utah, or reuse to fuel the contractor’s mercury reclamation plant in Arkansas.

Businesses paid a total of $8,700 this year to dispose of 1,740 gallons. Hundreds of fluorescent tubes were also collected from islanders to recycle their mercury content.

County officials said the solution to the problem of health risks and contamination from hazardous wastes is reduction. Islanders are urged to only buy the amount you need, use the least toxic product possible for the job, share any excess with others, and recycle as much as possible before safe disposal.

San Juan County’s Hazardous Waste and Waste Reduction thanks Islands Marine Center, Lopez Island School District, San Juan County Parks and Start to Finnish Painting.

For more info, call Helen Venada, San Juan County’s Hazardous Waste and Waste Reduction coordinator at 370-0503 or helenv@ sjcpublicworks.org or Brian Rader, the Pollution Prevention specialist at 370-7581 or at brianr@sanjuanco.com.

Spotlight on Seniors

by Gretchen Wing

Andre Hirss Lopez Island An old photo shows Andre Hirss, age four, skiing with his family in Switzerland in 1940, but it was no vacation.

Andre’s father, a Russian Latvian, knew what life under Soviet rule boded, so he smuggled the family out of Latvia just ahead of the war. From Norway they fled to Switzerland, and after a year, began a new life in New York.

“I had no concept of war,” Andre says. “I knew only that I was being moved around. But in Switzerland I experienced something that really resonated in me …

I sensed at that time that I was empowered through skiing, at age four.”

When Andre and his wife, Holly Bower, had children, “I understood that our kids needed to be empowered, and skiing became that venue.”

Despite disliking school, Andre skipped two grades to graduate at sixteen.

He kept feeling that “the life I was being programmed for, I didn’t have much control over.”

But Haverford College provided an escape from his strict father, and his roommate introduced him to western Washington. “I fell in love with it immediately.”

Andre also fell in love with a Bryn Mawr student, who became his first wife and mother of his first child, Andrew.

After two years in the military, he found himself finishing a Masters in English Literature at Michigan and feeling out of control again.

“So I ran away from my wife and kid. I did not want a

house, I did not want a family, I did not want responsibility.” He laughs, and sighs.

“I was 22, 23.”

Once more Andre began a new life, this time of his choosing, in Seattle.

Receiving his teaching certificate from the University of Washington, he found teaching an even better fit than he had realized: he could ski again.

In the late 60s, he and a friend started a ski school on Crystal Mountain – the perfect weekend backdrop for a teacher. But the public high school where he taught was focused on keeping potentially explosive kids quietly in their seats.

The familiar thought, “This is not what I signed up for!” sent Andre to an alternative school, Nova – later renamed Summit.

At Summit, Andre could offer kids what they needed: freedom and responsibility.

Contributed photo

Little Andre and family skiing in Switzerland.

He took them on months-long trips, selffunded, self-administrated, focused on communication and problemsolving.

Eight years at Summit crystalized his views on teaching: “You can’t teach.

People learn.”

This philosophy applied equally to the ski hill.

Certified as an examiner of ski instructors, Andre became an influential change agent, skewing instruction back towards students.

Contributed photo Summit changed more Andre with his wife, Holly Bower. than Andre’s philosophy.

Holly Bower was a stuunorthodox education has the Methow has replaced dent there, and after she Stevens Pass, and, as graduated, she joined him clearly succeeded.

“Holly and I are proud of Technical Director of the on trips with the kids.

One of these trips came them because they are lov- Loup-Loup Ski Bowl, Andre to Lopez Island. Sharing ing people who enjoy life,” skis more cross-country and less downhill these days. the belief that a good life says Andre.

Last year he taught a Holly B’s remains the means doing what you love, the couple sought a way to center of Andre and Holly’s Lopez life, but a cabin in See Hirss, page 8 make a life here.

Holly’s own dream proved the ticket, and she began Worship Services in the Islands baking at the Richardson Store, later opening Holly LOPEZ IsLand B’s when the store burned down. Andre helped run the Christ the King Community ChurCh, Now bakery, and focused on parmeeting at 10:00 AM at the Lopez Elementary School enting when the kids came in the multi-purpose room. Find us on the web: www. along.

CTKonline.com/lopez or email lopez@CTKonline.com After Andre moved his ski instruction to Stevens Pass, graCe episCopal ChurCh, welcomes the family shifted with the you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:00 seasons. Ty and twin brotham.

Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane. ers Rom and Galen skied as soon as they could walk, 468-3477. Everyone welcome! helped out at the bakery lopez island Community ChurCh, 91 Lopez before they could reach the Road. Sunday School: pre-school through adult 9:30 am; counter, and taught skiing by age 13.

Worship at 10:30 am. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877.

All three eventually lutheran ChurCh in the san juans, Sundays switched to home-schooling to accommodate their at 11:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in mobile lives, and their parFriday Harbor at 9:15 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at ents – though appreciating 2:00 p.m. in Emmanual. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025. “fantastic” Lopez teachers Greg Ewert and Dale QuaKer Worship group Meetings will be Sundays Shreve – encouraged them at 10 am at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman to choose their paths.

Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone Since all three sons 468-2129. Email: lopezfriends@gmail.com achieved top certification in ski instruction by age 19; st. FranCis CatholiC ChurCh Come worship since Ty is also a baker with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome in his own right; and since you to join us for Mass at 10:30 am on Saturday. Call 378the twins bought their own house at age 20, their 2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

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FLIP makes a splash with eelgrass ‘Kids Will Swim Day,’ May 24 CONTINUED FROM 1 The Friends of Lopez Island Pool is starting the 2012 season off with a big splash. In collaboration with Lopez Elementar y School and Fidalgo Pool, FLIP is sponsoring the first “Lopez Kids Will Swim Day” at Fidalgo Pool, Anacortes, Thursday, May 24.

Kids, parents and chaperones will board busses and private transportation at Lopez School in the morning, to arrive at Fidalgo Pool for a 1-2:30 p.m. private reserved swim Contributed photo time. Fidalgo Pool is providing swim equip- 11-year-old “Safe Swimmer” Kaylee ment and pool toys. All Thornton joins Grandma Robin participating children Bergstrom in a Club 468 Swim. will require signed permission slips returned at MacKaye Harbor on to the school. Call Lopez Sunday, May 27. The “wetSchool at 468-2201, for more suit library” is growing, so info. Participation is limited if only the lack of a wetsuit to 125 swimmers. has prevented you from parAdditional volunteer chap- ticipating, call Linda Barton erones are sought for the at 468-4655 to see what is day and will get an opportu- available for checkout. nity to swim in warm water.

For more information Call Linda Barton, 468-4655 about the planned Lopez to volunteer.

Pool, visit the FLIP booth at FLIP is focusing on the Saturday Market, across opportunities to teach water from Vita’s, and check our safety and water confidence website: www.lopezislandwhile fundraising for a pool.org. We urge friends Lopez Aquatic and Wellness of the pool to volunteer at Center on Lopez, a few our booth on Saturdays, steps from Lopez School. to include training in pool K-12 Principal Lisa Shelby progress. Call Micki Ryan, echoes FLIP’s concern for 468-4442 to volunteer for a water-surrounded island two-hour shift. kids.

“I believe, as an educator and parent, that learning to swim is an essential life skill for students,” she ® said. “Learning the basics of swimming and water survival may help save a child’s life, and being comfortable in water will benefit them for a lifetime.”

FLIP is also launching another season of Club 468 wetsuit swimming

to nearly two feet in length. Females implant their eggs in a tumescent, swollen brood patch on the belly of the male, who broods the eggs for up to six weeks, then shepherds and protects the juveniles. Bay pipefish can also make homes in shallow kelp. Pick one up and it may make a sharp snapping or popping sound. It wants to eat you!

High-speed videos have shown that bay pipefish suck their prey into their tubular “beak” with almost explosive force.

Great blue herons are known to hunt bay pipefish in the eelgrass. They also hunt slippery lime-green pinpoint gunnels. This eel-like fish can attain a length of 18 inches, and like pipefish, are attracted to the abundance of shrimp and other

up its food. Newly hatched sea hares do not float around in the plankton but settle right in with the adults, so numbers can increase very fast in a suitable eelgrass patch.

Run a sieve or scoop net through the eelgrass and you will almost certainly find another group of tiny green animals, so clear that you can see through them: an entire menagerie of shrimp no bigger than common insects. Most are members of the genus Heptacarpus, which can change color to match their surroundings: green, red, brown, or even colorless. These diminutive scavengers scour the eelgrass for even tinier animals and plants, and in turn, they feed visiting fish like surfperch, smelt, and herring.

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The bright green, and sometimes rust red, color of penpoint gunnels is due to carotenoids, a family of chemical compounds ordinarily found only in plants.

Gunnels do not appear to obtain their colors from plants, however; rather, they choose their homes in vegetation that matches their own birth colors.

You can see bay pipefish and sea hares in eelgrass meadows at the Indian Island Marine Health Observatory near Eastsound. Visit indianisland.info for summer research schedules.

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Sheriff’s Log San Juan County Sheriff’s Depar tment repor ted responding to these calls: April 18: An Oakville, Wash. man was apprehended on an arrest warrant issued in King County in the wake of a late-night boating mishap near the mouth of Lopez Island’s Mackaye Harbor. The 60-year-old was among a group of people who reportedly abandoned ship and scrambled into a skiff after their sailboat struck an unidentified object in the water and became unseaworthy at about mid-

night. The man was taken into custody shortly after the group made it safely back to a boat ramp in the harbor.

April 27: Local authorities shipped 255 pounds of discarded medication to the mainland to be destroyed following the most recent six-month roundup of unwanted medication.

Expired or unwanted medication can be disposed of at local pharmacies or at the San Juan County Sheriff’s Department.

May 1: Entirely naked and

reportedly wielding a knife, an Orcas Island woman was disarmed, apprehended and arrested following an early afternoon altercation with deputies outside her Green Cow Lane home.

The 22-year-old, who was taken into custody at about 1:30 p.m., was immediately shuttled by boat to a Skagit County hospital for evaluation. A neighbor reportedly notified authorities that the woman was outside her home, sitting naked in her car and behaving oddly, as if she were on drugs.

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May 2: A late-night altercation prompted the arrest of a Renton man accused of striking his girlfriend at a westside Orcas Island resort.

May 5: A tip about a possible drunk driver prompted the arrest of a Bothell man for DUI following a lateafternoon traffic stop in the

200 block of Lovers Lane.

The 22-year-old was pulled over at about 5:30 p.m., shortly after leaving Moran State Park. He was tracked down and then pulled over after park rangers notified authorities about a possible drunk driver. – An Orcas Island man was slapped with a criminal citation for hauling an unsecured load following a dangerous mid-morning mishap in the 700 block of Orcas Road. The 33-yearold was hauling a rickety load on a flatbed truck

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when an old wooden cabinet fell off the truck and onto the roadway, and then struck the front end of a car in the oncoming lane. A piece of plywood from the cabinet reportedly impaled itself into the windshield of the oncoming car, causing shards of broken glass to strike the face of a 60-yearold man behind the wheel, who suffered minor injuries. The driver of the flatbed faces up to 90 days in jail and a fine of $250.

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Navy spokesman John Mosher told the council he did not know how many bomb tests have been requested by the Navy over the next few years, but that “nine or 10” are currently permitted as part of training exercises.

Mosher said the Navy is now going through the environmental review process “to support Navy at-sea training and testing activities in the Northwest for the 2015-2020 time frame.”

The Navy must secure re-authorization under the ESA by the National Marine Fisheries Service for any Naval activities that may impact local marine wildlife.

Because southern Puget Sound orcas are an endangered species, no killing – accidental or not – is permitted, and non-lethal contacts are severely restricted. The death of even one whale from testing or training could be a major impediment to the Navy’s authorization and

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clinic as part of a “Local Legends” series (having made the national demo team in 1968), but age and illness are cutting into his stamina, so he may be done with teaching.

Looking back, Andre sees abandoning his first wife and child as a painful “survival tactic,” but reconciling with Andrew has erased the pain. He is now a close member of the family. Now,

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place, Rosenfeld asked, “What chance do the whales have? If there’s a conflict, who’s gonna win?”

The U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet environmental program manager, three other managers and a Navy lawyer came to the island on May 1, telling the San Juan County Council and an overflow audience that testing and training in local waters are critical to the mission of the fleet.

Navy officials discussed the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement they must prepare to comply with major U.S. environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act. The Friday Harbor council wanted to talk about whales, specifically southern resident killer whales that spend their sum-

mers along local shores.

Councilwoman Lovel Pratt charged that of 60 local whale deaths documented over the past 15 years, only 35 would be expected from natural causes. During this same time frame, Pratt said, the Navy detonated an estimated 150 bombs in local waters as part of its training exercises.

Council members cited the death of whale L-112, the 3-year-old female found dead off the Washington coast in February.

Navy spokesman John Mosher, environmental program manager, said the Navy is studying the death but was not engaged in training or using sonar or explosives in the area at the time. But according to reports, two Canadian naval vessels were training in the Strait Juan de Fuca when explosions and sonar “pinging” were heard, a few days before the dead orca was found.

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Kristin Twigg, shown left, was awarded $400 for designing the official 2012 Lopez Island Farmers’ Market poster. Her poster was chosen from a competitive field of 10 adult and nine youth artists.

Twigg will be selling handmade screen printed linens for the home at the Lopez Farmers’ Market, which starts May 19, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. next to the Lopez Center for the Community and the Arts. She also designs paper-goods including custom wedding stationery. Some of her work can be seen at www.kristintwigg.com.

Twigg and her family moved to Lopez Island in 2011. The poster will be sold at the market and Twigg will be available to sign it at the first market.

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Twigg named designer of the 2012 Farmers’ Market poster

permitting process.

Mosher invited the council to submit their suggestions for the scope of the EIS study.

After more questions from the council, Chairwoman Miller promised further input to the Navy.

Andre has “no regrets, and no misgivings anymore.”

“This last phase of my life, with Holly, is the most satisfying…We were both following a dream, and we were drawing the kids in with us. The kids were an expression of our lives.”

His sons’ empowerment through skiing embodies Andre’s satisfaction. Now magnify that satisfaction times the thousands of kids (and adults) Andre has helped to empower on the slopes over the years, and one can truly understand Andre’s sense of fulfillment.

A Huge Thank You to everyone (two-legged and four-legged) who helped make the Lopez Lamb, Wool & Goat Festival such a success It was a bla-a-a-ast!

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