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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 49 • December 4, 2012
The power of light and darkness A look at how artificial light affects animals and people By Russel Barsh and Madrona Murphy Special to the Weekly
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As descendants of sun loving, fruit-eating primates whose worst enemies were the large cats, humans have long feared the night. And ever since humans first discovered how to make
and manage fire, hundreds of thousands of years ago, we have pushed back the darkness. Today our city lights can be seen from space, and even here on Lopez, our nighttime skies have a soft red glow punctuated by glare from cars, yellow outdoor bulbs and the flickering of television screens. The benefits of artificial lighting seem obvious to most people, but what does it cost? A great deal of electricity, for one thing, which in most states means burning fossil fuels. Most electricity in Washington is hydroelectric, although that also has
impacts on our environment (think dams and salmon). As our population grows, moreover, we must either reduce per capita energy consumption, or increase production – which in the short term means using fossil fuels. There is an aesthetic and some would say spiritual dimension, insofar as lighting obscures the stars and planets, and with them, unmistakable evidence of the immensity of the universe. The proportion of our species that can see the Milky Way from their homes continues to diminish. But darkness is also an important factor in human health. Our bodies’ molecular
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Circadian (literally: “daily”) clock is set by the light falling on our eyes, in particular the shorter blue wavelengths. We can become disoriented if actual day length is a lot longer or shorter than our internal clock says it should be: jet lag, for example, or the effects of working long hours in artificial light. Even low levels of artificial light at night interrupt sleep as well, and loss of sleep in turn can cause depression and even learning disorders. Artificial light also appears to disrupt the body’s Circadian-regulated DNA repair cycle, resulting in higher mutation rates and greater cancer risk. During the day, humans and other animals metabolize food, producing free radicals that damage molecules within cells. Cells repair the damage at night. Darkness activates the repair function. Plants also experience this repair problem and they cannot shut the blinds at night. Furthermore, plants use day length or night length to decide when to grow, flower, or die back and go into dormancy. The pupae of moths and butterflies use day length to decide when to metamorphose and emerge as adults. Many birds use day length to decide when to migrate. Indeed, many birds, fish, and sea turtles also navigate by the moon or stars. Artificial lighting can disrupt life cycles and migrations throughout the food web. Nocturnal animals are losing the darkness they use to cloak themselves as hunters, or to avoid being detected and hunted. Bats have eyes but use sonar to find insects and navigate around barriers. Bright lights confuse bats, causing crash landings and missed meals! Moths attracted to lights are more likely to be eaten by visual predators such as amphibians and small mammals. Here, too, artificial lighting alters food webs. See power, page 5
Community Calendar sat, dec 1
meeting: Fireworks
Committee General Meeting, 9 a.m., Lopez Golf Course.
movie: Saturday Matinee, 2-4 p.m., Lopez Library.
santa: Santa Claus is
coming to town, 10 a.m. - noon, school library during the annual Thrift Shop Christmas Sale. Santa will be visiting Lopez for your annual Christmas photographs with your kids, your pets (or even YOU). All proceeds will benefit the Lopez Children’s Center.
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music: Tidings of Joy, 6
p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, Adults $10 and students of all ages free. Islands A Cappella, directed by Angel Michaels, presents a festival of songs for the holidays. mon, dec 3
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It is with regret and concern that I write this letter to you. We had an unfortunate and serious bullying issue take place at our school, and many rumors are flying in our small
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workshop: Intermediate Facebook for Business, 6-9 p.m., Lopez Library. This hands-on workshop will explore features like Timeline, Events, Photos, & Groups to help promote your business. Students must have a FB page and business page. Laptops available for use or bring your own along with questions for
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and concerned community. Earlier this week, we received a phone call alerting us to a bullying incident that had occurred at school. We immediately took action with an investigation and gave full due process to those involved. The investigation did result in consequences, per our policies, with suspensions from school and athletics. We are also taking action to support students involved through counseling, in the ways appropriate for them, as we move forward following the incident. While I cannot disclose the confidential information of those involved or details of our school investigation, I know there are many rumors floating with incorrect information. Facts I can give to dispel the rumors are this: this incident occurred among middle school boys only; there were no sexual crimes committed. As a fellow parent of a student and as the principal in this great school, I understand the emotion and concerns about student safety. Please know that we are taking action to address student safety, physically and emotionally, as we process and deal with this
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instructor Susan Young. For more details call LIFRC. At 468-4117 or visit www.lifrc. org. Fee $30. Pre-registration required. thurs, dec 6
meeting: Scoping Comment Writing Party/workshop, 3 p.m., Lopez Island Library meeting room. Come, research, brainstorm, and learn how to craft effective prose about the impacts of the proposed coal terminal at Cherry Point and coal shipping through our waters. fri, dec 7
art: Lopez Artist Guild is
featuring the Photograph of Steve Horn, “Gratitude for the Gift of Sight,” Photography Across the Years, 5 - 6:30 p.m., The Gathering Place, Lopez Hamlet.
5- 7 p.m., Chimera Gallery. A New show will be in place Dec. 9 with holiday gift items “Lopez Style”, runs through Jan. 11.
Holiday Shopping, 10 a.m. 3 p.m., Port Stanley School on 2970 Port Stanley Rd. The fair features 11 local crafters.
sun, dec 9
event: Annual Christmas
Tea, 10 - 11:30 a.m., Church Fellowship Hall. Lopez Island Community Church invites the women of Lopez to our Annual Christmas Tea. Bring a plate of wrapped baked goods (sized for a family) to be donated to the Family Resource Center’s Holiday Baskets. Questions? Contact Susan Herrera, 468-2592.
music: Community
Performance Night, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. By donation. See more on page 8.
crafts Fair: Stress Free
art: Opening Reception: The Dramatic Conclusion of the Silent Auction and the Art Scholarship Raffle Drawing,
incident. We are doing the following to keep students safe at school: • Increased staff supervision in the hallways, locker rooms, and playground/playing fields during lunch. • Increased staff awareness and diligence in not allowing physical horseplay or games that allow tackling of students when out on the playing field or playground. • Continuing ongoing bullying/bystander/reporting education among all students, using researched based curriculum, small group and individual counseling (with both school counselors and contracted therapists, as appropriate), and role playing through our experiential based off island overnight trips. • Increasing small group bullying education among middle school students through literacy based units. • Continuing and increasing parent communication about bullying or harassing behaviors among students. • Increasing the communication, visibility and role modeling of our student leadership groups (Natural Helpers, Student Council) for peer support and education around bullying. Lopez community, we need your help. The education around bullying behaviors and how to deal with bully-
ing behaviors will always be ongoing. This is not a problem unique to Lopez School. We need to keep in perspective that we have good kids, good families, and a strong supportive community that demands high expectations of respect for and among our diverse collection of individual members. This stands true for our school community, as well as our larger Lopez community. This incident demands that we remain partners in education of our children to teach the importance of respect and to talk to our youth about reporting bullying, and what behavior and language crosses the line into teasing, harassment and bullying. The developmental age of middle school students is a crucial time to instill exactly what behavior is appropriate and what is not. This education is an on-going, and constant process. They need us more than ever as they navigate the complicated social norms, and continue the path to be the citizens we all want them to be. Listed below are ways that community members can also help us educate our children about bullying. It will take all of us. We can all help by: • Talking with children about what is happening at school. • Communicating with
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school staff when students share incidences of harassment and bullying; please do not assume students will tell us, or that we know. • Talking with children often about how to treat others with respect and how to solve conflict. • Talk with parents in our community. • Be clear with children about what disrespectful behaviors are. • Transparent, honest and clear communication with children. • Talk openly about what is bullying and how to speak up if you are a bystander or hear of bullying incidences; this takes incredible courage for students and is very difficult at this developmental age. • Communicate openly and frequently with school staff. • Pay attention to the good behaviors when we see them and let kids know that is the expectation. Contact us with any questions or concerns. You can reach us at 468-2202. Lisa is at extension 2250, Jeanna at extension 2214, and Bill at extension 2350. Principal Lisa Shelby Counselor Jeanna Carter Superintendent Bill Evans
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Are you concerned about how a lack of natural darkness may affect your health?
The man most Lopezians know as “Grampa” actually is one – to 21 grandkids, and 27 great-grandkids. But John Severa wears other hats: unofficial caretaker of Hummel Lake, loyal fixture at the Take It or Leave It, Halloween “treater” for kids (40 pounds of candy last year). John’s most important hat, though, is the cap on his head, which states: “Fishing is not a matter of life and death – it’s much more important than that.” That cap doesn’t lie. John caught his first fish at age nine, in the coastal town of Crocket, Calif. “Sand shark, six feet long,” he says. “My dad helped me … I’ve been fishing close to every day of my life.” His dad, a welder, later operated a party boat as a business, and John and his brother lived in a stilt-house on the water. That life left its mark. Today, you can find John out at Hummel Lake any day of the year. Need a boat and life jacket? John will set you up. Forgot your fishing gear? John can equip you. Catch a fish? John will take your picture. Perhaps your luck was bad or you have no time to fish; you’re welcome to any that John has caught. “I don’t eat fish,” he laughs. But he gives away several pounds each week, both to locals and to the Sisters at St. Mary-on-the-Lake in Bellevue, Wash., thanks to the delivery service of Sister Judy Tralnes. John came to Lopez from Seattle six years ago, to join granddaughter Samantha Taylor and great-grandkids Damien, Dalton, and Patience. The “Lopez Wave” took him by surprise, but now, “I wave at everybody.” A familiar figure at Neil’s Mall, “Grampa” is often mistaken by tourists as a manager. “I’ve had people come up to me, ‘I want this shirt, how much?’” he laughs. His home is now filled with treasures from the Dump: a dozen fantastic clocks; dancing toy hamsters, and a new collection of talking “Furbies” (after he sold his old collection for $600). Lopez weather suits John
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The body of an Orcas Island woman was discovered on Nov. 22 after she was reported missing the day before. Orcas Island Fire and Rescue worked with the San Juan County Sheriff’s Department to find Maria Massey, 26, of Deer Harbor, who went missing in the early morning hours of Nov. 21 after her vehicle, a 2010 Hyundai Accent, was found crashed into a tree in the 2600 block of Crow Valley Road. She was not found at the site of the accident. Massey, according to the Sheriff’s Department, had reportedly left her house sometime around midnight and had not been seen or heard from since. The Fire Department organized a search party on Nov. 21 and 22 with more than 40 volunteers along with trackers and two dog teams from Kitsap and Snohomish Counties. Her body was found at 9:05 a.m. close to a pump house in a wooded area near the edge of the forest close to the 2300 block of Crow
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An outpouring of loving messages have flooded Massey’s Facebook page with words like, “We will always remember you Maria!” and “I’ll miss you and your headstrong smile.” She was described by many as sweet, beautiful, dynamic, passionate, unique and creative. Flowers and a sign adorned with a drawing of the “tragedy and comedy” masks of theater and the words “Maria J. Massey – rest in peace” have been placed at the site of the accident.
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Endangered no more? Petition prompts review of killer whale listing Prompted by a petition by the Pacific Legal Foundation, federal officials will take another look to determine whether the killer whales of Puget Sound deserve protection as an endangered species. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, parent agency of the National Marine Fisheries Service, a petition filed by the California-based Pacific Legal Foundation in August presents information published in scientific journals that address killer whale genetics and how
closely related the southern resident killer whales are to other populations, and that meets the agency’s criteria for review of the population’s status as a federally endangered species. Listed as endangered in 2005, the Southern residents consists of three closely related clans, J, K and L pods, and the population totals 86 animals with the addition of a newborn, J-49, in early August. It consisted of 88 animals when the population was declared endangered in 2005.
“The petition asserts that the southern resident killer whales are actually part of a much larger population and are, therefore, not in danger of extinction,” NOAA noted in a Nov. 26 press release announcing it would conduct a review. In qualifying as endangered under the federal law, the southern residents were determined to be a “distinct population segment” of killer whales, with a unique dialect, a unique genetic line and the only orca population to feed extensively on salmon. Acceptance of the
petition does not suggest that a proposal to delist will follow, according to NOAA. The petition was filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of the Center for Environmental Science Accuracy and Reliability and two California farms, Empresas Del Bosque and Coburn Ranch. The Southern residents are a “major” focus of the environmental assessment now underway for the Gateway Terminal Project proposed at Cherry Point, near Bellingham, which, if constructed, would
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FIRE DISTRICT FINANCIAL OFFICER Orcas Island Fire and Rescue District #2, located in San Juan County, is looking for a district financial officer to maintain financial, accounting, administrative and personnel services in order to meet legislative requirements and support district operations. Preferred qualifications include a degree in business administration or management and a minimum of five year related experience. For more information or to submit an application, go to: http://www.orcasfire. macwebsitebuilder.com/ job-opportunities.html or call 360-376-2331 http://www.orcasfire.macwebsitebuilder.com/job-opportunities.html
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The Bainbridge Island Review, a weekly community newspaper located in western Washington state, is accepting applications for a parttime general assignment Reporter. The ideal candidate will have solid reporting and writing skills, have up-to-date knowledge of the AP Stylebook, be able to shoot photos and video, be able to use InDesign, and contribute to staff blogs and Web updates. We offer vacation and sick leave, and paid holidays. If you have a passion for community news reporting and a desire to work in an ambitious, dynamic newsroom, we want to hear from you. E.O.E. Email your resume, cover letter and up to 5 non-returnable writing, photo and video samples to hr@soundpublishing.com Or mail to BIRREP/HR Dept., Sound Publishing, 19351 8th Ave. NE, Suite 106, Poulsbo, WA 98370. Employment Media
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OUR BEAUTIFUL AKC puppies are ready to go to their new homes. They have been raised around young children and are well socialized. Both parents have excellent health, and the puppies have had their first wellness vet check-ups and shots. The mother is a Red Golden and the father is full English Cream Golden. $800 each. For more pictures and information about the puppies and our home/ kennel please visit us at: www.mountainspringskennel.weebly.com or call Verity at 360-520-9196
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RARE 1991 BOSTON Whaler 16SL. Dual console, 90 HP: 2 stroke Mercury, 8 HP Mercury Kicker, EZ Steer, dual down riggers, water-ski pylon, depth finder, canvas cover, anchor with rode, anchor buddy, & EZ Loader Trailer. Safety equipment including fire extinguisher, throw cushion & more. One owner! Professionally maintained! Located in La Connor. $8,500. 206726-1535. Automobiles Ford
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al and explores her life’s journey with its triumphs, undoing’s and quest for meaning. Ginni Keith has done vocal solo work in major concerts with the Orcas Island Choral Society, the San Juan Singers and Victoria Chamber Orchestra, and the Island Sinfonia. She is also a founding member of the Five Bells Brass Quintet, and a regular member of the Grace Church music staff. Ever since moving to Lopez, 12 years ago, Keith has immersed herself in sound, even adding a few instruments to her repertoire. “Now I just can’t get enough,” she said. “I practice eight hours a day and if I get sick of playing one instrument I just move on to the next.” As with all community performance nights, entrance is by donation.
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Sea-Tac, which worked well. Both daughters got married early and moved on, but life got tougher due to health problems. John “retired” into full-time care of Jan, whose diabetes was affecting her kidneys. He had to check the motor of her monitoring machine every hour, day and night. After about six months, at age 54, Jan died in her sleep, next to her husband. “It took me five years to sleep more than five hours,”
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John says, “’cause I kept waking up every hour.” They had been married 20 years. Afterwards John carried on, but realistic dreams of Jan affected him so badly, he moved north to start over. Fifteen years later, after living in Everett and Seattle, he came to Lopez. John’s greatest joy is helping others to fish – locals, tourists, or the middle school class teacher Greg Ewert brought out to the lake a few years ago. In 2008, the Lopez Lions presented John with their Community Service Award. The award states,
“John Severa has shared his angling experience and skills with the island youngsters … John’s service is much appreciated by the whole Lopez community.” Asked for words of wisdom, John immediately responds, “Teach your kids how to fish. They’ll stay out of trouble.” Perhaps someday someone will print those words on a cap.
Lopez Center Open House and Membership Meeting The Lopez Center for Community and the Arts will be holding their annual membership meeting this Sunday, Dec. 9, from 5-7 p.m. at the Lopez Center. All residents of Lopez are automatically members and all are welcome. There will be a presentation about the past year at the center, slideshow, information about upcoming events, vote on proposed bylaw amendments and slate of new board members. The board of trustees of the LCCA recommends the following individuals be elected to serve three year
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modern tunes with accompanist Grace McCune on piano. Bagby is an operatically trained soprano, who studied music and journalism at the University of Oregon, She sang in the Eugene Symphony Chorus and the Eugene Opera Company before moving to the San Juans and becoming the editor of the Weekly. “I am excited because it is a chance for me to share one of my passions with the community and meet more Lopezians,” Bagby said. Grace McCune will also be singing a few numbers from her newest project, called “From the Direct Box of the Soul.” She currently lives, performs and teaches music in the San Juan Islands. Her recordings consist of two studio albums titled “Grace” and “Enchantment.” Her songwriting is deeply person-
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The Lopez Center is hosting the last community performance night of the year this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. The evening will feature Cali Bagby, Ginni Keith, Grace McCune. Cali Bagby, the Islands’ Weekly editor, will sing a mix of classical music and
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terms on the board of trustees: Georgeana Cook, Todd Twigg, Keersten Brown, Lexi Taylor and Karen Barringer. This will provide a chance to meet the LCCA staff and board and talk about the community center. The LCCA will be serving a free pizza dinner (Pizza’s by LVM), with salad and desserts made by our board members. There will be a no-host bar as well. For more information or to review our bylaw amendments please visit www.lopezcenter.org.