Whidbey News-Times, February 27, 2013

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 | Vol. 114, No. 17 | www.whidbeynewstimes.com | 75¢

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Federal cuts may affect economy, island families

By JESSIE STENSLAND

Sequestration

The myriad ways the federal government affects the Whidbey Island community are suddenly in a spotlight as the prospects of dramatic cuts loom.

The automatic federal spending reductions, known as sequestration, are set to occur March 1. A wide variety of officials on the island are worried about the effects it could have on the economy, education, public health, housing for the poor and local government coffers.

U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen sent out a staff report Monday detailing the specific impacts sequestration may have on his district, which includes Whidbey Island. The report states that approximately 1,200 civilian employees and contractors at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station will be subject to furloughs.

Doug Merriman, Oak Harbor finance director, said he’s been keeping a close eye on the potential defense cuts.

“The base is such an economic driver for our economy,” he said.

Navy officials say the direct financial impact to Island County is more than $590 million.

Likewise, Elaine Marlow, the Island County budget director, said she’s worried about the potential furloughs.

“There are a significant number of civilian employees

Federal spending cuts will have an impact on the civilian workforce at the Navy base. See story, page A5.

Schools could also lose large amounts of funding.

See story, page A5.

Staff reporter

Justin Burnett / Whidbey News-Times

Capt. Mike “Nort” Nortier, the new commanding officer of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, receives his command pin from his wife, Dianne, at a change of command ceremony Friday. Former base commander Capt. Jay Johnston is in the background.

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NAS Whidbey commander passes reins to helicopter pilot

By JUSTIN BURNETT Staff reporter

directorate in Omaha, Neb., to his most recent post with the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Operations Directorate. During his tenure as Pacific Fleet, Nortier deployed as an Individual Augmentee to the Office of Security Cooperation, where he served as the Director, Senior Advisors Group.

Nortier returned from Iraq in December. He called the past month and a half a “whirlwind” as he prepared to take command on Whidbey Island.

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Capt. Mike “Nort” Nortier, a veteran helicopter pilot, took command of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station Friday.

He relieved Capt. Jay Johnston before a crowd of senior Navy officials, base personnel and Whidbey Island dignitaries in a formal, but light-hearted change of command ceremony on base.

Johnston, who was at the helm for two and a half years, is headed to Washington, D.C. to become the next operations director at Naval Installations

Command headquarters.

Nortier is a longtime helicopter pilot who got his wings in 1991. Over the course of his career he’s racked up more than 4,300 hours of naval flight time, saw service in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Tomodachi, the nation’s relief effort after the tsunami devastated Japan in 2011 – and earned numerous personal military honors and awards.

Nortier has held a range of positions, from Chief of the Joint Readiness Reporting branch at Strategic Command’s J-3 Current Operations

at the base,” she said. “That will impact the amount of discretionary income they will have to spend throughout the county. We could see a dip in sales tax.”

A significant portion of county government revenues, she said, comes from sales tax.

Business leaders are also paying attention.

“Sequestration is bound to have an impact on local businesses,” Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce director Kathy Reed said. “While active duty military personnel won’t be affected, there are as many as 1,200 civilian government employees who could be placed on furloughs that would, in essence, cut their pay by 20 percent beginning in April.”

“So whenever you mess with someone’s income,” she added, “it affects how people spend their money, which in

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Council hearing to revoke nightclub license delayed Element also facing potential liquor violations

By JESSIE STENSLAND Staff reporter

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A cook serves a bowl of steaming mussels during last year’s Penn Cove Mussel Festival.

Mussels feted this weekend

By Megan Hansen Editor

Take a trip to Central Whidbey this weekend and satisfy your chowder-loving taste buds. Penn Cove Mussel Festival starts Friday.

The three-day event stays true to its roots with nearly every Coupeville restaurant offering chowder samplings.

Vickie Chambers, executive director for the Coupeville Historic Water front Association, said the event

started 27 years ago as a food festival.

Over those years it has grown, with an anticipated 4,000 people attending.

This year event planners even increased the number of chowder tasting tickets, but Chambers still warns attendees to come early.

An estimated 32,000 ounces of chowder will be given out by 16 of the 17 Coupeville restaurants.

“It’s all about showing off Coupeville, showing off what

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While the event has grown, it’s still all about the chowder.

“It’s an enormous amount of work for them (the restaurants),” Chambers said.

All the chowder tasters get to vote on the best chowder and at the end of the weekend a winner gets a plaque and picture in the paper.

Most of the cost of producing the chowder also falls on participants.

Chambers said each participant gets potatoes, onions and a gallon of cream provided. The rest is up to them.

Tastings will run Saturday

and Sunday.

The festival also offers activities, mussel related of course.

There will be tours of the mussel rafts leaving every hour from Coupeville Wharf, a mussel-eating contest, children’s activities, live music, a beer garden and more.

Free shuttles will be offered around to town to help people get around.

Some of the events and activities cost money to attend. Tickets will be sold at the Rec Hall on Alexander Street.

For a full schedule of events see the Whidbey Flavor special section inside this edition.

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Members of the Oak Harbor City Council will reschedule a hearing to consider revoking the license of a popular, but troubled downtown bar.

In the meantime, the Element nightclub is facing possible enforcement action from the Washington State Liquor Control Board.

During council meeting last Tuesday night, the council voted to open the quasi-judicial public hearing into the Element’s license and immediately continue it until later in the year.

As part of the motion, the council members asked the city administrator to find a date for the two-day hearing that works for the owner of the Element.

The city administration requested the continuation of the hearing. Police Chief Ed Green said the city officials weren’t ready for the complex proceeding. He said the city’s attorneys delivered “six major binders” on the case that morning.

In a memorandum to the mayor, Green wrote that city officials should consider revoking the Element’s nightclub license based on a series of violent incidents associated with the club, as well as the owners’ failure to follow conditions on the

license.

A nightclub license is a type of city business license and is separate from a liquor license.

Green highlighted the incident involving Oak Harbor resident Chris Cooper, who died as a result of a fight a few blocks away from the Element. The police reported that both Cooper and the man he fought had been drinking at the Element prior to the confrontation, which occurred several blocks away, Green wrote.

The club has also been the source of a multitude of noise complaints from nearby condo residents.

Owner Mike Kummerfeldt, however, consistently defends the club’s reputation and said he’s done nothing wrong. At the city’s request, he installed security cameras and hired additional security people; he claimed the number of complaints are down.

Mikhail Carpenter, a spokesman for the Washington State Liquor Control Board, said the Element has two pending administrative violations.

One alleged violation is for a “minor frequenting” the club. The second, he said, is for a bartender allowing a “bartender license” to lapse and for serving “an apparently intoxicated person.”

A settlement conference is scheduled for March 7.

Carpenter said the bar owner can argue the validity of the pending violation or request mitigation, which means a lesser sanction.

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Former EDC staffer faces theft charge North Whidbey

By JESSIE STENSLAND Staff reporter

The former assistant director of the Island County Economic Development Council is accused of embezzling more than $30,000 from the agency, court documents state.

Prosecutors charged 58-year-old Sharleen Eller in Island County Superior Court Feb. 13 with theft in the first degree, a crime described in court papers as to “embezzle currency via scheme.”

Eller could face up to 90 days in jail if convicted.

Eller was previously a Coupeville resident, but has since moved, according to the prosecutor’s office. She was summoned to appear in court March 4.

Deputy Prosecutor David

Carman said the alleged theft took more than three years to investigate and went through several investigators over that time.

“In a financial case like this, there were a lot, and I mean a lot, of records that needed to be gone through,” he said.

The alleged theft was discovered in September of 2009 after Sharon Hart, the former director of the EDC, hired an outside bookkeeping service. The bookkeeper found that Eller wrote extra payroll checks to herself, according to a report by Deputy Hodges Gowdey with the Coupeville Marshal’s Office.

In addition, the bookkeeper found that Eller didn’t pay taxes to the IRS, which was part of her job. Hart estimated the tax liability at $150,000, the report states.

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The following items were selected from reports made to the Oak Harbor Police Department:

Sunday, Feb. 24 At 3:20 a.m., a caller reported a man, who had been drinking, kept ringing the door bell of a Northeast Second Avenue home.

At 12:23 p.m., a caller reported glass in the roadway at the intersection of Southeast Eighth Avenue and Southeast Atlas Street.

At 5:04 p.m., a caller reported four kids fighting in the middle of the North Whidbey Middle School track.

Saturday, Feb. 23 At 12:38 a.m., a caller reported two women fighting at a Southeast Pioneer Way location.

At 3:04 a.m., a caller reported a loud party taking place at a Northeast Ernst Street location.

At 10:46 a.m., a caller reported someone broke into a Southeast Eighth Avenue home.

At 12:24 p.m., a Southwest Sixth Avenue resident reported her mom is locked in the bedroom.

At 12:48 p.m., a caller reported a sewer drain cover was sticking up in the roadway on southbound Highway 20.

Friday, Feb. 22 At 10:01 a.m., a caller reported an assault took place at a Northeast Barron Drive location.

At 1:33 p.m., a Southwest Kimball Drive resident reported someone is placing a bomb on her front door.

The report indicates that Eller was responsible for writing monthly payroll checks to Hart and herself.

Under the agency’s procedure, Eller would write checks for herself and Hart, then have them signed by an EDC board member. But on 20 occasions from 2003 to 2007, she wrote second checks to herself and asked a different EDC board member to sign, Gowdey wrote.

The total amount of the theft, Gowdey wrote, was $32,000. Carman said the number was “an approximation.”

Gowdey interviewed Eller in 2010. He asked her about the discrepancies and extra checks. She repeatedly said, “I don’t have an explanation for that,” and wouldn’t comment further, the report states.

Ron Nelson, the current director of the EDC, said he was aware of the case, but didn’t know many details. He said the agency currently contracts with a bookkeeping service to handle the books.

“It’s very surprising that a person who had worked here for 10 years could do something like that,” he said.

“It’s very disconcerting, especially for a nonprofit,” he said.

The Island County EDC is a nonprofit organization that encourages economic prosperity and helps business owners. It currently receives $67,000 a year in rural county economic development sales tax, which is a rebate from the state, the county’s budget director said.

Dump truck accident causes backup at Pass

By JESSIE STENSLAND Staff reporter

A dump truck accident at Deception Pass Bridge caused traffic to back up for miles Thursday.

Trooper Mark Francis with the Washington State Patrol said a 58-year-old Everson man was driving a dump truck north on Highway 20 and had just crossed over the bridge when he lost control of the truck.

According to Francis, the man said he reached out for his coffee and the truck swerved to the right. The man overcorrected, driving the truck across the oncom-

ing land and into the log rails that keep cars from plunging down the cliffs at Deception Pass.

The driver wasn’t injured, but the dump truck and the rail were damaged, according to the trooper. The accident occurred at about 2:50 p.m.

Francis said the truck crashed at a pull-off on the side of the road, so it didn’t block traffic until the tow truck arrived. By the time the scene was cleared at 5:15 p.m., traffic was backed up to Jones Road on Whidbey Island.

Francis said the driver was cited for negligent driving in the second degree.

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By NATHAN WHALEN Staff reporter

A man was transported to Whidbey General Hospital Monday night after a fire damaged a home on North Whidbey, according to North Whidbey Fire and Rescue.

Firefighters responded at approximately 9:30 p.m. to a report of a house fire near the intersection of Jones Road and Jack Rabbit Lane, which is located north of Oak Harbor.

When firefighters arrived, a bedroom was engulfed in flames.

Four people were at home when the fire started.

Deputy Chief Mike Brown, with North Whidbey Fire and Rescue, said a man living in the house tried to extinguish the fire. He was transported to Whidbey General Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. The rest of the family escaped the house uninjured.

Firefighters managed to contain the fire to the

bedroom where it started, according to a news release. Once the fire was contained at approximately 10:15 p.m., firefighters worked to protect the owner’s belongings.

Eighteen Nor th Whidbey Fire and Rescue firefighters — using three fire engines, a water tender, two rescue trucks, one ambulance and paramedics from Whidbey General Hospital — responded to the fire. Brown said volunteer firefighters had finished their weekly Monday evening training session when the call for the fire sounded.

The Island Chapter of the American Red Cross is helping the family find housing, Brown said.

The blaze was apparently caused by an overloaded extension cord coiled up in the closet and buried under the residents’ belongings, Brown said.

Monday’s fire marks the second time in recent weeks that an extension cord caused a house fire.

In mid-February, a faulty electrical receptacle and extension cord that ran to a freezer caused a fire that destroyed a home off Ault Field Road near the base.

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Olympians showcase their science know-how Community event tonight features student experiments

By Nathan Whalen Staff Reporter

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Briess Potter and Kelsey Pape, members of the Coupeville High School Science Olympiad, fine tune their vehicle they want to use in the “Gravity Vehicle” competition during the regional competition.

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A small group of student scientists at Coupeville High School are spending their spare time preparing for a regional science competition.

The students, members of Coupeville’s Science Olympiad, are busy rebuilding vehicles, tweaking experiments, and memorizing equations to perform better in an upcoming regional competition scheduled in March. Before that, however, residents and parents can see their projects and experiments during a community night scheduled 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Feb. 27, at the Coupeville Middle School and High School Commons.

Coupeville High School science teacher Dan d’Almeida said Science Olympiad offers a variety of activities that are “in-line with what’s going on in society.”

The competition provides a “higher opportunity” for students interested in science and engineering, d’Almeida said. Science Olympiad helps

students refine their skills a recent visit fine tuning their Maglev project where a tiny before going on to college.

Eighteen students compete vehicle levitates over a track in Science Olympiad and they and is powered by fans.

Junior Brandon Kelly is are updating their projects after competing in an invita- using yak hair for a thermotional that was held recently dynamics project to control at Aviation High School in the temperature of water.

Several students – Manuel Des Moines. They placed Lopez-Santillana, Jared 10th out of 22 teams.

Dickson and Students Ben Haigt Kelsey Pape – were also and Briess “I did it last year and busy getting Potter are I spent so much time tutored by tackling a on it. As a senior, it volunteer gravity projJohn Burks ect, which would be so cool to on equilibrientails buildwin it.” um constants ing a vehicle Briess Potter, and periodic that rolls Coupeville High School senior constants so down a nearto prepare vertical ramp for an event and then has to stop within a specified spot. at the Olympiad. Dickson They are rebuilding their and Haigt also had their machines after their sixth- boomilever, which is one of place performance at the invi- the 23 events in the Science Olympiad, close by and they tational.

“I did it last year and I spent were thinking of ways to so much time on it,” Potter improve their design.

Burks said the concepts are said. “As a senior, it would be ones that would be covered in so cool to win it.”

Pape and Potter were busy a first-year chemistry class. d’Almeida highlighted the installing roller blade wheels to their vehicle in hopes of community volunteers who improving their performance. help the contestants every The wheels had rubber bands year. He mentioned that some wrapped around them for fric- of the experts that give their time work in county offices. tion.

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Civilian employees at base face furloughs under sequestration Cuts could mean less aircraft maintenance

By JUSTIN BURNETT Staff reporter

If sequestration goes into effect this Friday, an estimated 1,200 civilian workers at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station will be subject to furloughs, Navy officials have confirmed.

According to base spokesman Mike Welding, the furloughs would come in the form of one mandatory day off per week, beginning April 1 and running through the fiscal year to Sept. 30.

The furloughs apply to civilian employees only, not the 1,200 civilian contractors who also are employed through the base. Unlike civil servants, they work under contract and it’s unclear how they might be impacted.

“We simply don’t know what’s going to happen with contracts right now,” Welding said.

Among those who will feel the financial sting of the mandatory furloughs are 12 workers at Navy Whidbey Recycle.

“They aren’t happy about it,” said Paul Brewer, who

worked as the recycling facility’s manager for years.

Brewer is not an official spokesman for the base or the Navy and was speaking as a private citizen.

Although the exact amount for each employee will vary slightly, the average worker at the recycle center will see a loss of about $800 per month in wages.

That’s frustrating when it’s the result of disagreement in Washington, D.C., he said.

“I think they ought to lock everybody in a room until it’s done,” Brewer said.

“Cut their pay until the issue is resolved,” he said.

U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, a Second District Democrat and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, held a press conference Monday.

“These automatic spending cuts are not just a Washington, D.C. budget gimmick. These indiscriminate cuts will have real and immediate impacts on families and workers in Northwest Washington,” Larsen said.

“The sequester must be replaced with a balanced plan that cuts the deficit while preserving vital investments that create jobs and expand the economy,” he said.

Larsen’s office released a

report detailing the impacts of sequestration around the region, but in particular those that would be felt in District 2.

The report states that Navy and Marine Corps will be forced to delay or cancel depot maintenance of aircraft — including the EA-6B Prowler, Navy EP-3E, Pacific Fleet P-3 Orion and EA-18 Growler — in the third and fourth quarters of the year, the report said.

Also, the aircraft will not be forward deployed at the current operational tempo and they will be sitting on the tarmac on base instead of with the fleet, which is forward deployed.

“Strategically, delaying or canceling the maintenance of these aircraft will have an impact on the Navy and Marine Corps’ ability to project power to the Pacific Command and Central Command military theaters,” the report said.

Sequestration could also slow the procurement of P-8A Poseidons, the replacement jet aircraft for the turbo-prop Orion submarine hunters.

They are supposed to begin arriving in 2015.

Larsen said he didn’t know if that would translate to a delayed arrival of the aircraft.

School officials wait and see

By NATHAN WHALEN Staff reporter

Oak Harbor school officials are in a wait-and-see mode over looming March 1 sequestration, which could mean hundreds of thousands of federal dollars cut from the district’s coffers.

Because leaders don’t know how much money may be eliminated, they aren’t able to develop the budget for the 2013-2014 school year.

“We don’t know enough to incorporate state and federal funding into our budget process,” Oak Harbor School District Superintendent Rick Schulte said.

A report released this week

by U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen highlighted the reductions that will happen in the Puget Sound Region should automatic federal spending cuts, commonly known as sequestration, take place.

Title I funds, which pro-

vides dollars for programs designed to help low-income students, would be cut by 5 percent. For the 2012 budget year, the Oak Harbor School District received $773,000 in Title I funds and the Coupeville School District received $108,000 in Title I funds, according to the report released by Larsen.

The report states that the Oak Harbor School District could lose an additional $500,000 in Impact Aid for the remainder of the current school year, as well as $1 million in Impact Aid for the 2013-2014 school year.

Impact Aid is federal funding for school districts that have a large population of students from families that live on military property.

Schulte, along with board members Christine Abbott and Christine Cribb and assistant superintendent Lance Gibbon, are traveling to Washington D.C. Monday

to participate in the National Association of Federally Impacted Schools spring conference.

During their visit to the nation’s capital, they will also meet with federal lawmakers. The trip comes after the March 1 sequestration deadline, but before the current stop-gap continuing resolution expires.

Schulte said he has two goals for his trip to Washington D.C. He wants to find more information that will help budgeting and staff projections. He also wants to communicate with lawmakers about the effect the automatic spending cuts would have on the district’s neediest students.

He estimated that the school district could lose around $300,000 through cuts to a variety of programs that help low income students, English language learners and special education.

Whatever the impacts, the congressman said he is confident in the base’s continued presence in Oak Harbor.

“I do not have any concerns about the long-term viability of the NAS Whidbey Island,” Larsen said.

A Navy official said procurement details are still being worked out and would not speculate on possible impacts that might result from a delayed arrival of the P-8A aircraft.

Similarly, it’s not yet clear whether canceled plane maintenance will affect flight operations, such as aircraft carrier training exercises conducted at Outlying Field Coupeville.

Finally, in a statement emailed to the Whidbey NewTimes, base commander Capt. Mike Nortier addressed how the base would manage the potential loss of civil servants who might decide to seek work elsewhere.

“We have not actively surveyed our workforce on their future employment decisions, nor will we speculate on those personal decisions,” he said. “Naturally, we want to retain our highly skilled and dedicated workforce who we are continually communicating with on this important subject.”

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budget CONTINUED FROM A1 turn impacts our business community. How big an impact is something I don’t think we’ll be able to tell immediately. I suspect the effects will be cumulative.”

Then there’s the potential cuts to a diverse number of federal grants, many of which fund programs that help lowincome women and children, as well as victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Keith Higman, director of Island County Public Health, said his department would have reductions in vital federal funding, as well as indirect impacts from cuts in federal agencies.

“It would reduce our capacity to train and prepare for public health emergencies and to provide assistance to income-eligible mothers and children,” he said.

Higman said a range of grants will be reduced by 9 percent if sequestration occurs. They include a public health emergency preparedness grant; the Maternal and Child Health grant that funds public health assistance to income-eligible mothers and to the parents of specialneeds children; and funding that provides income-eligible children with reduced-cost or free vaccines.

Higman said the Women Infant and Children program, commonly known as WIC, would likely face reduced funding. The program provides income-eligible families vouchers for groceries.

Another big loser in sequestration would be Citizens Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, known as CADA. Larsen’s office reported that the agency, which provides services to about 1,000 victims each year, could lose up to $90,000 in federal funds.

The cut would reduce staff

“It would be devastating to our agency.”

Margie Porter, director of CADA

and impact training to law enforcement personnel and prosecutors, the report states.

“It would be devastating to our agency,” Margie Porter, director of CADA, said.

“That’s almost a fifth of our budget. ... Ultimately it would be harmful to the victims.”

The Housing Authority of Island County would lose $342,000, eliminating support for 20 families to help them stay in their homes, the report says.

In addition, the report states that Medicare will face a 2 percent cut, which could translate to a decrease in reimbursement rates to doctors and hospitals.

“These automatic spending cuts are not just a Washington, D.C., budget gimmick. These indiscriminate cuts will have real and immediate impacts on families and workers in Northwest Washington‚“ Larsen said in a press release.

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By Keven graves It’s from the local newspaper, you will learn about births, deaths, high school sports, weddings, engagements, anniversaries, what’s new in business and much more. That’s the sort of news that keeps your hometown homey. Those are the articles you clip from your newspaper and hang on the front of your fridge with a magnet.

From your newspaper you also learn what your government representatives are up to, election news and where crime is happening.

Information is power. By keeping informed, those who read a newspaper have more of an opportunity to influence decisions and change. You have the ability to protect yourselves and remain vigilant. Ignorance is not bliss.

Unfortunately, it’s easy for some to take their local news for granted. Sometimes people forget that a real newspaper employs professional reporters who are bound by a strict code of ethics. News articles aren’t a means of expressing the writer’s personal thoughts and opinions. It’s a reporter’s responsibility to gather facts, contact appropriate sources, air both sides of an issue and present sometimes complicated information in a cohesive, readable format.

By presenting the facts as they’re available, a good newspaper empowers a reader to make up his or her own mind about an issue. A newspaper must respect and trust its readers in that way.

To report the news, a local newspaper functions as a business. In addition to reporters, there are other staffers who keep the operation functioning like clockwork. There’s advertising consultants, customer service, design and production and distribution employees. Advertising not only covers the costs of producing a newspaper, it keeps local businesses that advertise thriving and growing. It’s a win-win relationship that has proven successful decade after decade.

However, the business side and editorial side should never cross lines. Advertising consultants must not trade advertising for articles, and reporters don’t write articles in exchange for advertising. Accepting gifts from sources and advertisers is not allowed. Ethics matter.

There are other publications that describe themselves as newspapers, but consistently trade “positive” coverage for advertising. To describe themselves as newspapers is both a misnomer and an insult to any true journalist and community newspaper that subscribes to a code of ethics.

Being a good newspaper means that not everyone will be happy with articles you publish. However, as a good editor once told me, a reporter must be able to look his or her sources in the eye at the grocery store.

That is my commitment to every reader — to present news that you might not like, but to do it fairly and accurately. Those are the basic tenets of good community journalism.

PUBLISHER’s column

• Keven R. Graves is executive editor and publisher for the Whidbey News-Times. He can be contacted by e-mail at kgraves@whidbeynewstimes.com

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Letters to the editor Levy

Not just property owners support Editor, It’s unfortunate that some readers feel the need to classify renters as lacking the eligibility to vote when property taxes are involved. I’m a homeowner, but at one time I was a renter.

Some people can’t financially afford a home; a lot are military families who may only be here for a three year tour or aren’t sure if they are ready to settle in this area.

But, like homeowners, they have kids in school and they do a lot to support the district as best they can.

These renters may one day be homeowners too.

I would hope that they remember their past and not feel the need to classify their neighbors.

Mike Delaney Oak Harbor

Renters pay taxes in other ways Editor, The school levy vote was no joke. That’s how democracy in 2013 works.

Like Richard Ays, I too long for the good old 1790s when only white male property owners had the right to vote.

Those were good times.

Not so good for the other 90 percent, but great for us.

Let’s put blame where it belongs.

If I own a rental property and can’t charge enough to cover my expenses like taxes, maintenance, mortgage, and the profit I feel I deserve I’ve made a bad investment or am a horrible landlord.

The renter is paying property taxes.

Walt Mistler Oak Harbor

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Litigation?

Prayer violates Constitutions Editor, Last year the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent 900 formal letters to city councils and school boards across America informing them their prayers during meetings were unconstitutional, 140 of them stopped, our Oak Harbor City Council did not.

Not only does the city council’s prayer violate the U.S. Constitution, but it violates the Washington State Constitution too.

The Washington State Constitution states that “No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise or instruction, or the support of any religious establishment.”

Go to www.oakharbor.org/ video-view.cfm?series=23 to

see our city council prayer.

Our council chooses to leave itself open to a lawsuit the people of Oak Harbor don’t need.

Jeff James Oak Harbor

Gun control

Letter writer is confused Editor, I would like to address some assertions by Teresa Dix in a recent letter to the editor that I think are off mark.

First, the concern about how to tell the ‘good guy’ from the ‘bad guy,’ well if someone is open carrying a pistol securely in a holster and are behaving them selves, then they’re probably not a criminal.

Now say if, someone has See Letters, A7

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a gun poorly concealing in their waistband, hiding their face, and are generally acting suspicious, then they may be up to no good.

Second, if someone wave a gun around in public they’re committing a crime.

If they say they’ll harm someone and have a gun in their possession it’s a crime.

If they do anything that makes a reasonable person feel threatened while possessing a gun then it’s a crime.

There is a higher standard for behavior when one is in public and armed.

Third, the states with the most permissive gun laws have some of the lowest crime rates.

Despite the dire warnings about a return to the Wild West mentality when States started passing conceal carry law, the rivers of blood in the street never materialized.

A recent Harvard study on gun ownership levels and crime rates in different nations found no correlation.

The suggestion that more guns results in a more dangerous community is not really supported by fact Fourth, the so-called ‘assault weapons’ were found by the National Institute of Justice to only be used in about 2 percent of gun crimes.

The definition of an assault weapon is very arbitrary and often have little to do with mechanical function but simply the shape of the plastic on the outside of the gun.

Fifth, the ideal number of police officers for a community is considered

to be one for every thousand citizens. They can’t be everywhere and protect everyone simultaneously and paying for adequate funding to try and do so would bankrupt our community.

There are two factors that reduce crime, the first is short term negative consequences and the second, and more powerful, is long term social-economic benefits of not transgressing others, in short, more real economic opportunity less crime.

James Fisher Oak Harbor

Cheers!

Congrats to Oak Harbor author Editor, Congratulations to Brittany Geragotelis for her success in the writing world! And congratulations to her as well for her clear-headed commitment to that success.

As a former writing instructor on Whidbey and current writing coach off-island, I’ve worked with a number of “wannabes” who long for the kind of life Brittany is creating as a writer.

Too many of these folks have the dream but not the commitment and are unwilling to accept and do the hard work that’s involved.

Brittany is a model for every amateur writer who dreams of that big publishing contract in the sky.

Nobody gets one without hard work and some creative marketing of their writing.

Again, congratulations to Brittany. Her own story is a great one!

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Obituaries

Erma Jacobson

Erma Ruth (Lust) Jacobson, 88, peacefully passed away Feb. 2, 2013 at the home of her youngest son in Brier, Wash. She was surrounded by people who loved her when she went home to the Lord. With open arms she joined her husband, Howard. She was born on July 14, 1924 to George and Lydia Lust in Jacobson Kalispell, Mont.

Erma grew up in Kalispell, Mont. and graduated from the University of Montana. On June 23, 1946 Erma married her husband of 54 years, Howard William Jacobson, and the two lived in Helena where she taught elementary school and raised four boys. In 1968 they relocated to Whidbey Island where they lived for 32 years. After Howard’s death in 2000, Erma moved to Bothell.

Erma taught elementary school, including reading at Clover Valley Elementary School in Oak Harbor. Teaching was her passion.

She also taught Sunday school, vacation Bible school, and taught her 10 grandchildren valuable and memorable life lessons whenever she could. She was an active member of Concordia Lutheran Church and a member of Toastmasters International.

In her spare time she enjoyed quilting, crocheting, a rousing game of pinochle, a strong cup of coffee and a good piece of chocolate. Erma was giving, thoughtful, a wonderful mother and grandmother, charming and a little mischievous at times.

After a visit from family or friends, Erma would stand smiling at the window waving her hand until they were out of sight. She said she was waving “hello” for the next time she saw them. For those who knew Erma, her smile will be dearly missed.

Erma is survived by her brother and his spouse, Leonard and Carleen of Richland; and her sister Ada of Kalispell, Mont. She is also survived by her four sons and their wives: Kern and Sima of Los Angeles, Calif.; Allan and Jo of Gig Harbor, Wash.; Dennis and Linda-Ruby of Gilbert, Ariz.; Les and Barb of Brier, Wash. Her grandchildren: Kelton, Kristin, Anne, Jon, Jordyn, Jovanna, Kaelin, Eli, Reid, Shea; and her great grandchildren Lucas and Peyton.

She was preceded in death by her husband Howard and son Douglas.

A special thanks to caregivers Gretchen, Garreth, Barb and all the friends and neighbors for all their love and support.

Graveside funeral service for Erma will be held 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, March 2 at the Sunnyside Cemetery in Coupeville.

Following the graveside service there will be a memorial service 1 p.m. at Pointe of Grace, 5425 Harbour Pointe Blvd in

Mukilteo. Family and friends are invited to a reception immediately following the service.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests remembrances be made to Lutheran World Hunger, the American Cancer Society or to a local charity in Erma’s name. Friends and Family are invited to go to www.ErmaRuthJacobson.com, to sign a guest resister and leave remembrances or just to say “hello” to Erma for the next time you see her.

Louis T. Edwards

Louis T. Edwards, 75, went to his heavenly Father on Feb. 21, 2013 following a brief illness.

He was born May 4, 1937 in Marysville, Mo. to Elmer and Bertha Edwards.

He grew up in Kimberly, Idaho, where he attended Kimberly High School. At Edwards the age of 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. The following year he was married to Patricia Ellsworth in Kimberly.

The U.S. Navy sent them to Rhode Island, Alameda, San Diego, the Philippines, Japan, Alaska, Vietnam and NAS Whidbey in 1970.

With more than 20 years of service, Louis retired from the Navy in San Diego and settled in Jerome, Idaho. He worked as an inspector for Idaho Crop Inspection and the USDA. He then began a second career as a commercial truck driver, spending much of the next 30 years on the road.

In 2012, Louis and Patricia Edwards sold their home in Jerome and purchased a RV and headed for Oak Harbor.

With health issues, traveling became difficult for Louis, so Oak Harbor became home.

Louis was a very active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, First Ward of Oak Harbor. On Sept. 14, 1985, their marriage was sealed at the Boise, Idaho Temple.

He was a member of the North Whidbey Sportsman Club, where he enjoyed shooting at the range, the NRA and the Aviation Ordinance Association of Whidbey. He loved attending all of his grandchildren’s sporting events.

Louis is survived by his wife of 57 years, Patricia; their three children, Anita Wolfe of Twin Falls, Idaho, Paul Edwards and wife Sue of Iowa City, Iowa and Gaylynn Draves and husband William, also of Twin Falls and by nine grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, his sister Ethel and brother Elmer Edwards, Jr. Funeral services for Louis Edwards will be held at the Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint 10 a.m. Friday, March 1 with Bishop Reed Hopper officiating.

Interment will follow at Maple Leaf Cemetery.

Friends and family are encouraged to offer condolences and share memories utilizing the Memory Book hosted by Wallin Funeral Home at www.wallinfuneralhome.com.

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Oak Harbor, Coupeville add new coaches for spring

By JIM WALLER Sports editor

Oak Harbor and Coupeville high schools each made a change in their coaching lineup this spring.

David Smith is now in charge of the Oak Harbor High School boys golf team, and Amy King joins her husband David as co-coaches of the Coupeville softball squad.

Oak Harbor High School also announced the hiring of a new girls soccer coach, Mike Lonborg, who will guide the Wildcats when they return to the field next fall.

Smith mixes passions of teaching, golf When Smith saw the job opening for coach of the Oak Harbor High School boys golf team, he saw the opportunity to blend his love for golf, teaching and coaching.

Smith takes over the Wildcat program this spring, replacing Jeff Pryor, who ran the squad for two seasons.

Smith said, “I have always enjoyed coaching and teaching kids, and now that I am really starting to enjoy golfing, I though why not combine the two.”

In the past, Smith coached middle school boys and girls basketball for four years and spent one year as a high school assistant softball and football coach.

Smith, a causal golfer for years, became more serious about his game when he joined the Whidbey Golf and Country Club eight years ago.

David Smith “The competition and pressure of playing in tournaments has really made me want to improve my game,” Smith said.

With that improvement came an increase in knowledge of the sport and the confidence that his skill level was “high enough to coach varsity athletes.”

His primary goal for his golfers will be to have fun.

“If they aren’t enjoying golf,” he said, “then they aren’t going to get better.”

He added that he would like his players to work on their weaknesses and “improve their abilities in those areas by the end of the season.”

As for the team, he would like to see it “come together as a unit.”

He added, “Even though golf is an individual sport, I want this season to be about teamwork. That may mean the more skilled players are helping out the less skilled, or that we just all encourage each other to become better golfers and play good rounds.”

Smith said he would also like to emphasize golf etiquette and treating the course and members of the Whidbey Golf and Country Club with respect.

“Whidbey Golf and Country Club and its members are very supportive of the OHHS golf program,” he said, “and I want to show them that the kids appreciate that support.”

Touching on his coaching philosophy, Smith said one of the most important parts of a player’s game is course management.

“I know many times there is a desire to hit that once-ina-lifetime shot,” Smith said, “but most of the time that shot doesn’t work out.”

He said it is a matter of minimizing the potential for bad shots and playing to one’s strength.

Smith, who has been a teacher at Midway School for 16 years, said he is grateful for the help he has received so far from Andy Wesley (the OHHS girls golf coach), John Matzen (a former OHHS golf coach) and David Phay (WG&CC pro).

“Without their support I know this coming season would be much more stressful,” Smith said.

Kings to lead Coupeville softball team The Coupeville High School softball team will have a new co-coach tandem this spring, but working together is nothing new for the pair -- they’ve been married for

sports in brief Oak Harbor’s Long calls state games Oak Harbor won’t be without a representative at the state basketball tournaments this week.

Jay Long, long-time public address announcer for Oak Harbor High School football and basketball games, has been invited once again to work the championship tournament at the Tacoma Dome.

Long, who also announced regional games last week, will work several 3A boys games Thursday and the third-place 3A boys game

Saturday.

He will call the two 4A girls semifinal games Friday, then do the girls 4A championship contest Saturday.

CW continues spring soccer registration Registration for Central Whidbey Soccer Club spring recreational soccer is open through March 4.

The season runs from April 13 through June 8 and is open to age groups U5 to U13.

For additional information,

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David and Amy King over 25 years.

David King, who coaches the girls basketball team, and his assistant hoop coach, wife Amy, will join forces to led the Coupeville fastball team this spring.

The Wolves adopted the co-coach format last year when David King and Jackie Calkins shared the duties.

Jackie Calkins stepped down and King’s life partner stepped up to help.

Amy King was a volunteer assistant in 2012.

David King was reluctant at first to continue with the softball program after handling the basketball duties and the “various things that take away from being able to coach.”

He talked it over with Amy, players and parents and decided to return, saying, “Last year some good things happened and the returning group is hard working and is willing to put in the time to help us get better.”

Amy King, too, was reluctant. She not only coached basketball with David, but coached middle school volleyball earlier in the year.

She called coaching “very time-consuming and a huge commitment,” adding that the “unforeseen political-type circumstances really wear on a person.”

Amy King added, “We are doing it for the girls. (They) are a good returning group.”

The Kings decided to be co-coaches because work commitments in Oak Harbor make it difficult for each to be present all the time, particularly at the beginning of practice.

David King said, “We are both very lucky that the company we work for allows us to give back to the community and allows us to coach.”

Having worked together for many years, the pair share similar coaching philosophies.

They will divide respon-

visit coupevillesoccer.org, or email jcopenhaver@pioneernet.net.

Email northwhidbeysoccerclub@ gmail.com for more information.

Registration open for NW spring soccer

NW Little League finishes evaluations

Registration is currently open for North Whidbey Soccer Club spring recreational soccer.

The season runs from April 13 through June 8 and is open to ages U6 to U15. Games are played on Saturdays.

The registration fee is $75 by Feb. 28, and late registration begins March 1 ($80 by March 22).

No registrations will be accepted after March 22.

Find additional information and register for all NWSC programs online at www.nwhidbeysoccer.org.

North Whidbey Little wraps up evaluations for the upcoming baseball and softball season this weekend.

Baseball evaluations take place at Windjammer Park, Field A, Saturday, March 2: 11- and 12-yearolds, 9 a.m.; 9- and 10-year-olds, noon.

Softball meets at Volunteer Park on Sunday, March 3: 13- to 16-year-olds, 1 p.m.; 11- and 12-year-olds, 2 p.m; and 9- and 10-year-olds, 3 p.m.

New players can still regis-

sibilities as appropriate and both will work on developing skills.

Amy King said, “David is great at strategizing and I’ll be there as a sounding board and support. I’ll take on the responsibilities of the scorebook and help with the behind the scenes (duties).”

So, can a married couple co-exist in the coaching box?

David King said, “I am the lucky one!” He added that they work well together and are “able to talk things through” because “the communication is very open.”

Amy King chipped in: “And since I’ve been brainwashed to believe David is always right, it’s really not a problem.”

On the field, the Kings will emphasize defense and its key component, pitching.

Off the field, the Kings will “teach the importance of classwork, sportsmanship and being a good representative for the school and community.”

They see a bright future for the Wolves, noting the many good things that happened last season and the potential to build even more.

The players have a great knowledge of the game, according to the Kings, and have played and worked hard in off season to develop their skills.

David King said, “We do have a strong nucleus of players that are willing to put in the time and effort to make this a good season. They know our coaching style and understand what we are trying to accomplish as a team.”

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ter and find forms at www.north whidbeylittleleague.org and at Big 5, McDonald’s, Dairy Queen, Wendy’s and Burger King. Call 360679-1522 for more information.

Babe Ruth schedules baseball tryouts Tryouts for the 2013 Babe Ruth baseball team will be 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3, at the Oak Harbor High School baseball diamond.

The Oak Harbor teams are primarily for 13- and 14-year-old players who want to play in the competitive Skagit Babe Ruth League.

For more information, contact coach Bill Young at 360-679-4843.

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Lonborg takes over Oak Harbor girls soccer program It seemed like a natural progression for Lonborg.

Lonborg was recently named the new Oak Harbor High School head girls soccer coach, replacing Jeff Laiblin.

Lonborg said, “I know many of the present players on the team and many of the future players coming up through the system. I applied for

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the job because I feel like I have a unique opportunity after coaching many of the girls at younger ages and helping them grow through the system.”

Lonborg, too, grew up playing soccer on North Whidbey, eventually competing for select teams and becoming one of the first Islanders to go Premier. Now he is back to lead the Wildcats.

Lonborg has coached for the North Whidbey Soccer Club for about 10 years, starting, as so many do, when his children entered the program.

He began coaching competitive teams six years ago in addition to the select teams and the recreation teams of his younger daughters.

The past two years he has volunteered with the Oak Harbor High

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School girls team, and this spring he will help with the boys club.

Lonborg, who has helped build the OHHS feeder program as a board member for the North Whidbey Soccer Club, said he would like to “steer the high school program back in a more positive direction.”

The Wildcats have struggled in recent years collecting wins, and Lonborg said the team “needs to get back to basics.”

He added, “We need to focus on fundamentals and fitness. I feel like we need to set our expectations higher, and we, as a program, need to work hard to achieve those expectations.”

Confidence, Lonborg said, will be a key factor: “If the girls feel like they are capable of achieving those

expectations and we give them the training to succeed, then they will.”

Things are already heading in the right direction, Lonborg said, as many of the players are now playing on club teams. He also plans to start a summer program.

Along with soccer, academics and accountability will be emphasized, Lonborg said.

“We have a great group of young ladies that will be returning next fall, and a great incoming class of ninth graders,” Lonborg said.

“We will focus more on team play versus individual play. We have some good players, but our strength will need to be playing together instead of one or two players carrying the rest of the team.”

Oak Harbor dominates final JROTC divisional meet

By JIM WALLER Sports editor

The Oak Harbor High School NJROTC drill and rifle teams finished the regular season with outstanding performances at the final nine-team Olympic Division meet at Marysville-Pilchuck High School Saturday, Feb. 23.

Next up is the regional

meet at Graham Kapowsin High School Saturday, March 16.

At regional, Oak Harbor will face the best of the three divisions, 32 schools in all.

The regional teams represent Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps JROTC and are located from Oak Harbor to Oregon City, Ore. In the team competition at Marysville-Pilchuck, Oak

Harbor earned firsts from the armed drill team, rifle team No. 1 and physical strength No. 1.

Color guard No. 1, color guard No. 2, unarmed drill team and rifle team No. 2 picked up seconds, and physical strength No. 2 was third.

Oak Harbor also grabbed four individual firsts: Robert Simmons, armed drill down; Jason Salas, rifle; Mariel

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Oak Harbor dominated the 59-person rifle competition. Following Salas were Haruka Earney in second and Angela Morse in third. Wiatt Charlesworth was sixth.

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Sassy revue

All-black cast for ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ shakes things up at Whidbey Playhouse

By RON NEWBERRY Staff reporter

The idea was tantalizing to Allenda Jenkins.

But she knew that putting together the right cast to perform the challenging jazz musical revue, “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” would be no small feat.

“I always loved this musical and wanted to do this for a while,” Jenkins said. “A lot of it was finding the right pieces.”

The pieces Jenkins assembled will be on stage this week as “Ain’t Misbehavin’” opens at the Whidbey Playhouse Friday night in Oak Harbor.

The off-season production, inspired by the music

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Anjelica Glasgow talked her husband into auditioning for the cast before he deployed. of Thomas “Fats” Waller, will be the first show to feature an all-black cast in Whidbey Playhouse history, according to Jenkins.

“I didn’t set out to do an all-black production,” said

Jenkins, who is both director and cast member of the musical as well as president of the Whidbey Playhouse.

“It just turned out that way.

It was an open casting to whoever wanted to audition.

Then (afterward), I said, ‘Wait a minute, we’ve got something here.’ This way, I could even spin it as a first.

And this is Black History Month.”

Jenkins, who grew up in Oak Harbor, also sees the show as a gift to the community. She smiles widely when she talks about the musical that is highly acclaimed and a tribute to black musicians who were part of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s and 30s.

“Ain’t Misbehavin’” got its name from 1929 song written by Waller.

“It’s extra special,” Jenkins said. “It’s something just to pass on to the community. A gift of something unique, something different.

We are here. We’re part of the community so let’s celebrate this little treasure that we have.

“This show is a Tonyaward winning show on Broadway. It’s a really good piece of work. I kind of see it as a gift. I grew up here, went away and studied, went to Los Angeles, came down the coast and came back.

The timing and the people just aligned at the right time for us to do it.”

The musical revue runs until March 17 at the Whidbey Playhouse then will be performed March 22-30 at Outcast Productions

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Germaine Kornegay, left, and Anthony Caldwell perform during a rehearsal for “Ain’t Misbehavin’” at the Whidbey Playhouse. in Langley.

The five-person cast that Jenkins assembled consists of three actors from Oak Harbor, one from Langley and another from SedroWoolley.

The show will mark the acting debut of Joseph Glasgow, 25, who is stationed at National Air Station Whidbey Island. Glasgow’s wife, Anjelica Glasgow, is an experienced actor of community theater who also is part of the cast. She asked her husband to audition for the performance once he returned from an 11-month deployment.

“I told her I would, halfheartedly,” Joseph said with a laugh. “I finally came in and did audition. When I did it was kind of cool. The positive feedback was empowering.”

Jenkins had heard Anjelica sing the praises of

her husband for months, then finally heard for herself.

“All along she kept telling me, ‘You’ve got to meet Joey.

Joey can do this,’” Jenkins said. “Joe was deployed a good portion of the time that I knew her. When Joey came back and came to audition, I was like ‘Anjelica, you were right. I needed to meet Joey.’ This wasn’t just pride in her husband. He really is good.”

Also performing in “Ain’t Misbehavin’” is veteran actress Germaine Kornegay, who lives Sedro-Woolley and is originally from Philadelphia. Jenkins met Kornegay during the production of “Hair Spray” in Mount Vernon.

But the cast still wasn’t complete. Jenkins said the final piece was landing Anthony Caldwell, an actor from Langley who’s

performed at Outcast Productions.

“People said, ‘Oh, you’ve got to meet this guy. You’ve got to meet this guy,’” Jenkins said. “So we went down and met him. That’s how we all came together.

“I think we’ve got the right mix.”

Jamar Jenkins joins his wife on the show as the musical director.

The musical revue is a high-energy event featuring 32 songs from group numbers, duets, trios and solos.

“It’s like an evening at the club,” Allenda Jenkins said. “If you had come to the Cotton Club this would be these show that you would see. So we’re there at the club, performers at the club, partying at the club.

“With this show, it’s all about having fun and having a good time. And just throwing it all out in the wind and

letting it rip and roll. That’s the outlook that Fats had on life. That’s what we want to bring. Let’s have a good time.”

Get your tickets Tickets for “Ain’t Misbehavin’ are now available at the box office, 730 S.E. Midway Blvd., in Oak Harbor or by calling 360679-2237. The show opens March 1 and runs through March 17 at the Whidbey Playhouse. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees begin at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets are $14. There are special discounts for military and groups of 10 or more.

“Ain’t Misbehavin’” resumes at Outcast Productions in Langley from March 22-30.

Holland-America club offers opportunity to share tales of Dutch roots

By RON NEWBERRY Staff reporter

The concept already was dancing in Jan Ellis’ head when she was approached last spring.

“Somebody came up to me with a Dutch name at Holiday Happening and said, ‘How come there’s not a Holland-America club here on

Whidbey Island,’” Ellis said, unable to recall his name. “It’s been in the back of my mind the last few years.”

So Ellis acted. She started a social club for locals of Dutch descent, calling it the HollandAmerica Koffie Klets.

The group meets for coffee and conversation once a month in Oak Harbor and

share stories about their Dutch roots.

Six showed up for the first meeting last month. Ellis is trying to get word out in case others are interested.

The group’s next gathering is at Thursday, Feb. 28, at 2:30 p.m. at Whidbey Coffee, 31299 W. Pioneer Way. “The intent was not to

be a branch of the HollandAmerica Club and have things so structured and having to have a meeting,” Ellis said.

“We just have a get-together for coffee.”

Ellis, 80, is long associated with Oak Harbor’s Holland Happening Festival, which is a celebration of residents’ Dutch heritage. The event is

April 26-28 this spring.

Ellis has been on the entertainment committee for all 43 years of the festival’s history.

Ellis’ parents immigrated from the Netherlands to California. Her maiden name is van Slageren.

“Slageren is plural for butchers,” she said. “I came from a family of butchers.”

Ellis said she was pleased with the Holland America Koffie Klets’ first gathering.

“We were just fascinated with stories everyone had about their roots,” she said.

“It was a delightful coffee hour.”

For more information about the club, Ellis may be contacted at 360-675-2552.

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“Buying local makes sense for anybody who cares about the health of their customers and the health of our local economy.”

Neil Coburn, owner of Neil’s Clover Patch Café in Bayview

Betty Freeman photos

Above: Chef Gordon Stewart of Gordon’s on Blueberry Hill restaurant in Freeland demonstrates using fresh market ingredients to produce a delectable dish. Right: A variety of local produce can be found at farmers markets throughout Whidbey Island.

Locavores choose seasonal meals

By Betty Freeman

The locavore movement is gaining momentum on Whidbey Island, fueled by foodies who love the local farmers and want fresh homegrown food.

Locavores are people who pay close attention to where their food comes from and

make a commitment to eating local foods whenever possible.

It doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing adventure.

Most locavores try to eat foods grown or raised within a 100mile radius of their homes.

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Instead of buying them in January, think about the luscious local strawberries, kissed by Northwest rain, that will be ready for eating next June, fresh from a local farm.

“All foods in their proper season” is the locavore’s mantra.

Here on Whidbey Island, with the mild marine climate good for growing vegetables and fruit, an abundance of farms and farmers markets and local seafood readily available, being a locavore is a pleasure.

Here are some ways to focus on eating locally: • Visit farmers markets every week. Get to know the growers, ask questions and learn how to use their

products in new ways through chef demonstrations or collecting recipes.

On Whidbey Island, there are several farmers markets to choose from in spring, summer and fall.

Three-Sisters Farm in Oak Harbor and Bayview Market also offer indoor markets in November and December.

The Oak Harbor Public Market opens in June and runs through September on Thursday afternoons.

The new market in Clinton is open Thursday evenings in July and August.

Langley offers a Farmers Market on summer Friday afternoons.

The Coupeville and Bayview Farmers Markets are open April to October on Saturdays.

Tilth Market on South Whidbey and the Greenbank Farm Market are open Sundays.

• Ask about local foods offered at the

supermarket and when eating in Island restaurants. Let your servers know that you appreciate locally grown and raised meats, seafood, cheeses, vegetables and fruits. Patronize businesses that support local farmers.

• Find a local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm and sign up for weekly deliveries of fresh vegetables and other farm products.

Go to whidbeyisland farmandfoodnews. blogspot.com for listings of local food events and a chart featuring CSA farms on the Island.

• Join the Slow Food Whidbey Island (SFWI) group, which meets at Deer Lagoon Grange.

SFWI sponsors the Taste of Whidbey, an annual event bringing together nearby farmers, chefs, vintners, brewers and eaters to sample the bounty of Whidbey Island. They also publish a quarterly

newsletter “Whidbey Nibbles,” and sponsor themed potluck tables, as well as lectures and field trips. Ask for more info at SFWIFeedback@ whidbey.com.

• Grow your own vegetables and fruit, and learn how to preserve your garden’s bounty by canning or freezing. Buy veggie starts or seeds from local growers at farmers markets and garden centers, or talk to the experts at the annual Whidbey Island Garden Workshop on Saturday, March 9 in Oak Harbor. For information go to county. wsu.edu/island/ gardening • Become a label reader. Since most food travels an average of 1,500 miles to reach you, local food has a much lower impact on our environment. By selecting foods that come from this region, you’ll get the freshest, healthiest and most flavorful products of every season.

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Blessing the hands that feed us

By Betty Freeman

$5 a pound!”

“I’m the original tightwad,” said Robin, whose bestselling 1992 book “Your Money or Your Life” launched her writing career and her abiding interest in sustainability issues.

“But then I factored in the cost of raising that grass-fed, local

as sweets, processed foods, and even milk Could we feed ouruntil she discovered a selves on Whidbey local “secret” source Island if some calamity for cow’s milk. forced us to rely on “I learned to make our own resources? my own butter from That’s the question the cream on the raw Vicki Robin answered milk,” she said. “Just with an experimenput some cream in a tal 10-mile diet she jar and shake it for imposed on herself about 15 minutes. It’s in September 2010. good arm Drawing exercise a 10-mile “I found that I now prefer to eat too!” circle foods grown by my neighbors.

Robin with her allowed herIt feels intimate and cozy, and Langley self three makes me happy.” home at exceptions, Vicki Robin, author the cenwhat she ter, she termed set out to “exotics” discover if chicken from egg to – coffee, oil and salt – she could limit herself my table, and I realbut otherwise stuck to eating only foods ized $5 a pound was to her 10-mile rule. grown or produced a fair price for that One happy day, she within that circle for 30 kind of quality and as discovered she could days. compensation for the get honey from Island Robin’s experimenfarmer’s investment,” Apiaries. tal 10-mile diet arose she said.

Robin found herself from a conversation Robin has studied being creative and with her friend, Tricia the data on climate resourceful with her Beckner, owner with change, peak oil and food, another bonus of partner Kent Ratekin over-use of resources the 10-mile diet. of Cedar Circle Farm for 20 years. She has “I learned I couldn’t on Wilkinson Road come to the conclucook from recipes near Langley. sion that food security because I was restrictRobin bumped into involves empowering ed to only local ingreBeckner at the 2010 local communities to dients, but I could Maxwelton Fourth grow more of their combine unusual texof July parade. While own food. tures and tastes,” said they sampled the “I believe we’re in a Robin. “For example, potluck picnic fare, state of collective deni- almost every morning Beckner asked Robin al about our ability to I had a frittata with if she thought she feed ourselves if [and local eggs and any vegcould limit herself when] our resources gies I had on hand.” to eating veggies run dry,” she said. “We While writing one and eggs and maybe think the food system day, she found herself a chicken from is the store, when in “craving crunch,” Beckner’s farm for a reality the store is a so she invented month. stage set for the last “Zackers,” thin zuc“Saying yes at that stop in the industrial chini slices dried in a moment was simple food system.” dehydrator she scored as pie. So Tricia and “My 10-mile diet from Good Cheer.

I began our journey gave me an almost Other results of together,” wrote Robin microscopic view of the 10-mile diet in her blog 10milediet. my food system, and included the loss of wordpress.com. allowed me to see six pounds, lowering “For a while, my what it takes and who her bad and raising only protein was it takes to feed me,” her good cholesterol, eggs,” said Robin. she said. and a deal with her “Then I discovered For 30 days, Robin’s publisher, Viking/ that Long Family diet depended on Penguin to produce Farm’s beef was within regular produce a book about her dismy 10-mile radius. I boxes and eggs from coveries. The book, also bought a roasting Beckner. Since no which will appear in chicken from a local grain is grown within January 2014, is called farmer, but initially I her 10-mile radius, “Blessing the Hands balked at the price – bread was out, as well that Feed Us – What

Betty Freeman photo

In her Langley kitchen, author Vicki Robin talks about her 30-day experiment in only eating locally produced foods.

eating closer to home taught me about food, community and our place on Earth.”

“This experiment helped me feel like I belonged here like I

never did before,” said Robin, who has lived on South Whidbey for eight years.

“This is my place on Earth, and it needs to flourish, “ she said. “I

found that I now prefer to eat foods grown by my neighbors. It feels intimate and cozy, and makes me happy.”

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Tours will 5:30-8:30pm Coupeville Rec Hall The Steve Trembley Band • 5:30 – 9:00pm be led by Penn Cove Shellfish staff and will leave from the Coupeville Wharf.

MUSSEL EATING COMPETITION Length of tour is 1 hour.

SAT., MARCH 2, 2013 3-3:30pm Coupeville Rec Hall • ($5) MUSSEL COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS You do not want to miss this! Who will MUSSEL CHOWDER TASTING 10:00am-3:00pm (Rec Hall) take home the coveted MusselFest 11:30am-3:30pm ($10) FEATURING GUEST CHEFS: Crown? Whoever can eat five 16 oz. cups Sample local restaurant's secret mussel 10 am Steve Clarke of steamed mussels first! Space is limited chowder recipes and vote for your Executive Chef, Penn Cove Shellfish favorite! Chowder tasting tickets sell out 11 am Larry Cordova, QUICKLY, so purchase before 1pm.

Executive Sous Chef, Microsoft Catering 12 pm Chris Garr, WATERFRONT BEER GARDEN Executive Chef, Ivar’s Acres of Clams 11:30am-3pm 1 pm Jeff Maxfield, Sponsored by the Coupeville Historic Executive Chef, Seattle Space Needle Waterfront Association 2 pm Steve Anderson, Executive Chef, Ivar’s Salmon House LIVE MUSIC MUSSEL FARM TOURS 10am-5pm (Tickets $10) Cruise aboard the Glacier Spirit and visit the Penn Cove Shellfish Farm. Tours will be led by Penn Cove Shellfish staff and will leave from the Coupeville Wharf.

Length of tour is 1 hour.

WITH DILLINGER'S CLAMBAKE (1pm-3pm)

MUSSEL EATING COMPETITION 3-3:30pm Coupeville Rec Hall • ($5) You do not want to miss this! Who will take home the coveted MusselFest SUN., MARCH 3, 2013 Crown?

Whoever can eat five 16 oz. cups MUSSEL COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS of steamed mussels first! Space is limited 10:00am-3:00pm (Rec Hall) MUSSEL CHOWDER TASTING to 30 contestants.

FEATURING GUEST CHEFS: 11:30am-3:30pm ($10) 10 am Steve Clarke, Sample local restaurant's secret mussel Executive Chef, Penn Cove Shellfish chowder recipes and vote foryour 11am Larry Cordova, favorite! Chowder tasting tickets sell out Executive Sous Chef, Microsoft Catering QUICKLY, so purchase before 1pm.

12pm Chris Garr, Executive Chef, Ivar’s Acres of Clams PENN COVE SHELLFISH MUSSEL 1pm Jeff Maxfield, & BEER GARDEN Executive Chef, Seattle Space Needle 12-9 pm (Located across from the Rec Hall ) 2pm Steve Anderson, Sponsored by Penn Cove Shellfish Executive Chef, Ivar’s Salmon House Amazing steamed mussels served from 12-5 pm

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On the Pier in Coupeville 26 Front St

We’re The “Mussel” For Your Business

360-678-3648

A lovely cafe over the water with great views, great coffee, locally made goods, roasted coffee, lavender scented candles, and local artwork, and

Stop in during the MusselFest and have a cup!

natical items.

Thank you for supporting us for over 35 years!

Penn Cove Shellfish, LLC

Fresh from the water, not the warehouse!

Coupeville • 360-678-4803 • 888-743-2033 www.penncoveshellfish.com

Kapaws Iskreme

21 Front St, Coupeville (360) 929-2122 Kapaws.com

Elkhorn Trading Company & Salmagundi Farm Sales We Are Always Buying & Selling Antiques, Bygones, Junk & Jewels 15 Front St NW, Coupeville & 3 miles south of Coupeville on Highway 20, open weekends, where there’s always parking

our muss Flex y et treaetlss!

Swe ys & , to gift veryone s e r o f !

Honey Bear

We put Muscle in your insurance!

Enjoy the 2013 MusselFest, be safe.

Home • Business • Auto Shelli Trumbull, Owner/Agent

• Appts available to fit your schedule •

404 S. Main St., Coupeville • 360-682-2162 www.cascadeinsuranceagency.com

Fresh Penn Cove Mussels all year ‘round!

408 S. Main St. • Coupeville • 678-5611 Mon-Sat: 7:00am - 9:30pm • Sundays & Holidays: 8:00am - 9:00pm

Who’s gonna wear that MusselFest crown this year?

The

candy • gifts • toys • cards • books

Open daily 10:30–5:30 • 23 Front St. • Coupeville • 360-678-6122

LB Construction of Whidbey Island, Inc.

POLE BUILDINGS Barns • Shops • Garages • Concrete Projects • Storage Buildings • Living Spaces

Manny & Janet Rojas Past Mussel Eating Contest Winner Manny Rojas

FISH & CHIPS!

Espresso, Ice Cream & Chowder

360-678-5470

www.lbconstructionofwhidbey.com LBCONW19680W

Enjoy Musselfest at

Mussels from the Paella Pan

2013 MUSSEL FESTIVAL EVENTS

FRI., MARCH 1, 2013

MUSSEL FARM TOURS Performances by: 10am-5pm (Tickets $10) TASTING PENN COVE: Marcus Whiting • 2 – 2:30pm Cruise aboard the Glacier Spirit and visit COUPEVILLE’S MUSSEL MINGLE The Orville Johnson Band • 2:30 – 5:30pm the Penn Cove Shellfi sh Farm.

Tours will 5:30-8:30pm Coupeville Rec Hall The Steve Trembley Band • 5:30 – 9:00pm be led by Penn Cove Shellfish staff and will leave from the Coupeville Wharf.

MUSSEL EATING COMPETITION Length of tour is 1 hour.

SAT., MARCH 2, 2013 3-3:30pm Coupeville Rec Hall • ($5) MUSSEL COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS You do not want to miss this! Who will MUSSEL CHOWDER TASTING 10:00am-3:00pm (Rec Hall) take home the coveted MusselFest 11:30am-3:30pm ($10) FEATURING GUEST CHEFS: Crown? Whoever can eat five 16 oz. cups Sample local restaurant's secret mussel 10 am Steve Clarke of steamed mussels first! Space is limited chowder recipes and vote for your Executive Chef, Penn Cove Shellfish favorite! Chowder tasting tickets sell out 11 am Larry Cordova, QUICKLY, so purchase before 1pm.

Executive Sous Chef, Microsoft Catering 12 pm Chris Garr, WATERFRONT BEER GARDEN Executive Chef, Ivar’s Acres of Clams 11:30am-3pm 1 pm Jeff Maxfield, Sponsored by the Coupeville Historic Executive Chef, Seattle Space Needle Waterfront Association 2 pm Steve Anderson, Executive Chef, Ivar’s Salmon House LIVE MUSIC MUSSEL FARM TOURS 10am-5pm (Tickets $10) Cruise aboard the Glacier Spirit and visit the Penn Cove Shellfish Farm. Tours will be led by Penn Cove Shellfish staff and will leave from the Coupeville Wharf.

Length of tour is 1 hour.

WITH DILLINGER'S CLAMBAKE (1pm-3pm)

MUSSEL EATING COMPETITION 3-3:30pm Coupeville Rec Hall • ($5) You do not want to miss this! Who will take home the coveted MusselFest SUN., MARCH 3, 2013 Crown?

Whoever can eat five 16 oz. cups MUSSEL COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS of steamed mussels first! Space is limited 10:00am-3:00pm (Rec Hall) MUSSEL CHOWDER TASTING to 30 contestants.

FEATURING GUEST CHEFS: 11:30am-3:30pm ($10) 10 am Steve Clarke, Sample local restaurant's secret mussel Executive Chef, Penn Cove Shellfish chowder recipes and vote foryour 11am Larry Cordova, favorite! Chowder tasting tickets sell out Executive Sous Chef, Microsoft Catering QUICKLY, so purchase before 1pm.

12pm Chris Garr, Executive Chef, Ivar’s Acres of Clams PENN COVE SHELLFISH MUSSEL 1pm Jeff Maxfield, & BEER GARDEN Executive Chef, Seattle Space Needle 12-9 pm (Located across from the Rec Hall ) 2pm Steve Anderson, Sponsored by Penn Cove Shellfish Executive Chef, Ivar’s Salmon House Amazing steamed mussels served from 12-5 pm

...providing peace of mind with your own branch office

360.678.7543

7 S. Main Street, Suite B, Coupeville

Enjoy the Food & Fun at Mussel Festival!

Too Much Fun? Our ER is Always Open!

❤

606 N Main St, Coupeville 10am-6pm Tues-Sat (360)861-6466

Healthcare Excellence Close to Home

8 am to 6 pm Daily (Sun. 10 am to 6 pm)

360-678-6603

101 NW Coveland St. • Coupeville www.bayleaf.us

Try our chowder!

Vote for us this year!

107 S Main St, Ste B-101 at Coupe’s Village 678-3200

Mmm-mmm-mmm

Mussels!

360-678-4222 • 8 NW Front Street • www.tobysuds.com

March 8 - April 29

DON’T MISS THE GRAY WHALES

Military — $10 off regular rate* AAA — $5 off regular rate* (*discounts cannot be combined)

Reservations:

1-800-308-9387

www.mysticseacharters.com Departs: 228 Wharf St. Langley, WA

2012 Chowder Contest Winner!

www.lavenderwind.com 15 Coveland St., Coupeville | 360.544-4132

Wine by the glass or bottle

GRAY WHALES 100' MYSTIC SEA

COFFEE & BISTRO

LSeeavender Wind it, Smell it, Savor it, Taste it

Signature Sandwiches

Fresh Steamed Mussels • Seafood • Burgers • Clam Chowder

to 30 contestants.

Lavender Mussel Chowder

You’ll love our bread, you’ll love our chowder!

Across from the Keystone Ferry • COUPEVILLE • 360-678-5396 THURS-SUN • 8 AM-6 PM • Open Friday, Mar 1 ‘til 7:30 PM!

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And for your continued support since the boat fire last year.

WE’RE BACK!

www.WhiDBEYNEWSTIMES.com

We Love MusselFest!

Thank You Coupeville Restaurants!

Try our chowder & vote for us again!

200 S Main St, Coupeville

360-682-5832

2 Front Street • Coupeville 360-678-0664

A Taste of Europe!

Dutch/German foods and gifts.

35 types of Licorice!!!!

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1. First step is to peel the skin off the high quality throat fat.

2. Pork meet is run twice through a grinder.

3. Twice ground meat is finely ground a third time in a food processor turning it into a pork sausage paste.

4. Spices and pistachios and ice water are mixed in by hand.

5. The is sausage is ready to put into the casing.

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6. A hand-cranked machine extrudes the sausage paste into the casing.

7. Trussed sausage in its casing is ready for slow poaching.

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Doug and Betsy Hofius and their neighbors Carol Flax and Ed Fickbohm spent Super Bowl Sunday making two kinds of pork sausage from pigs raised on the Hofius farm.

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Clinton neighbors go whole hog

By Betty Freeman

It was Super Bowl Sunday, but two families in Clinton had another game plan that day.

Doug and Betsy Hofius and their neighbors Carol Flax and Ed Fickbohm spent Super Bowl Sunday making two kinds of pork sausage from pigs raised on the Hofius farm.

Hofius raised three pigs last season, bought last June as weaners from a Freeland family. Two little girls from that family gave them names: Ginger, Pepper and Jellybean.

The pigs had a good life on the Hofius farm, eating organic feed and prep scraps from the Braeburn Restaurant in Langley.

“They eat what we eat, but they’re not as picky,” said Hofius.

The pigs could be safely moved around the fields using a pig tractor, and, in turn, they helped plow land with their natural rooting instinct.

“They dug up our nettle roots for us as well as fertilizing our fields for the sheep and chickens,” said Doug Hofius.

When killing time came in January, Hofius hired Vashon resident Brandon Heard of Farmstead Meatsmith, who practices traditional methods of slaughter, butchery and charcuterie, the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products, such as bacon, ham, sausage, terrines, galantines, pâtés and confit, primarily from pork.

On Heard’s website farmstead meatsmith.com, he writes: “We specialize in educating farmers in the preparation of their animals for full culinary use, from grass to butcher block to table.”

Doug Hofius shares Heard’s philosophy of offering gratitude to the animal for the sacrifice of their lives to provide food for families.

“When we moved to Whidbey nine years ago, I wanted to raise our own food,” said Hofius. “So the point of what we’re doing making sausage today is that we’ve put in the time and effort to raise these animals well, and by using all their parts, we’re honoring their sacrifice.”

Neighbors Flax and Fickbohm

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Neighbors Ed Fickbohm, Doug Hofius, Betsy Hofius and Carol Flax spent Super Bowl Sunday making two kinds of sausage at the Hofius farm in Clinton.

raise beef cattle on nearby acreage, and together the two families purchased a quality meat grinder. The couples shared the meat from one pig this year. They’ve made sausage together before, but this was the first time they’d tried mortadella and liverwurst, made from recipes Doug gleaned from the Internet.

The Hofius family has made sausage for the past five years.

“Every year there’s something new to try,” said Doug. “We’ve gotten better at it every year. You’ve got to get the fat content just right, because fat adds flavor and juice to the sausage. It’s an art, not an exact science.”

Making mortadella di Bologna carries on the tradition of Italian pig farmers for whom nothing edible on the pig is wasted.

Finely ground pork is mixed with high quality diced fat (usually from the throat), and for this recipe, pistachio nuts were added, along with a blend of kosher salt, freshly ground peppercorns, cinnamon,

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Using both the meat grinder and a food processor, the meat and fat is finely ground before adding the spices and pistachios. During grinding, the meat tends to warm up, so while the spices are measured, the ground meat is cooled in the refrigerator.

Spices are mixed in a jar with ice water and incorporated into the meat by hand.

The mixture is then stuffed into a beef or pork casing, tied off and slowly poached according to weight.

After cooking, the mortadella is cooled to stabilize the sausage and give it firmness.

To make liverwurst, the couples used fresh pork liver and heart, as well as ground pork shoulder, finely chopped red onion and spices.

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by hand and the mixture chilled between steps.

“It’s really important to keep the meat cold,” said Fickbohm.

Hofius agreed. “The idea is to mix cold meat and fat together so it emulsifies, like mayonnaise,” he said.

To make sure the spices are in the proper proportions, it helps to cook and taste a sample of the sausage before stuffing the casings.

They purchased beef casings from a butcher’s supply house. A simple, hand-cranked sausage-stuffing machine made quick work of stuffing the casings for both types of sausage.

Both families are relative newcomers to farming, and have learned through hands-on experience.

Betsy and Doug Hofius have raised pigs, sheep, chickens, turkeys and bees on their 12.5 acres, as well as keeping up a vegetable garden and orchard.

Fickbohm and Flax raise beef cattle and chickens and also have an orchard and veggie garden.

It’s a great neighborhood for sharing food and the labor it takes to produce and preserve it.

In the summer, Doug celebrates his birthday with a pig barbecue.

Other neighbors, Sara and Marty Benum, host a Zucchini Fest in honor of the ubiquitous vegetable, with a sculpture contest, relay games, music and wacky prizes.

The Hofius pigs benefit from the zucchini used for games and sculptures after the party, so nothing is wasted.

In the fall, neighbors get together at the Hofius’ farm to make apple cider, and also gather for pumpkin carving.

“We all eat pretty well here,” said Flax. She said she enjoys the communal sharing of work with friends as well as the delicious output from their neighborhood.

So does Betsy Hofius, plus she’s pleased that growing and preserving food makes Doug so happy.

“I like learning and I like food,” said Doug Hofius. “Our lives should be about learning something new each day.”

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Families make baking a family affair

By Betty Freeman Is there anything more enticing than the smell of freshly baked bread?

Recently, I went on a quest to find out what’s baking at three storefront bakeries on Whidbey Island.

When I visited P.S. Suisse Bakery in Langley, I was specifically looking for fresh bread to serve with soup.

Their small baguettes were the perfect size for a twoperson dinner and had a fresh, yeasty taste, fine crumb and easyto-chew crust. Plus the price, $1.25 each, was a pleasant surprise for fresh European-style bread.

In addition to bread, P.S. Suisse’s owners, Sandi and Peter Boden, serve up elegant Swiss pastries, chocolates, lunch specials, sandwiches, soups, salads,

espresso and tea – all created in their corner shop, tucked away in Langley Village on Second Street.

The Boden’s opened their bakery in 1997. They’re open Wednesday through Saturday, from 9:30 to 5 p.m. For lunch, try the fresh daily soups or bratwurst and homemade sauerkraut. Finish with an exquisite Swiss pastry.

In Coupeville, Brett’s Breads is a welcome new addition to the year-round food scene.

Brett Rebischke-Smith opened his storefront Dec. 1, 2012, in a small house at 606 N. Main St. He got his start in Coupeville selling his baked goods at the Coupeville Farmers Market.

“The farmers market made us,” said Rebischke-Smith. “Not only were we successful selling bread, but

we had great family times there and made a lot of friends.”

Gail and Brett Rebischke-Smith have two children, Marenna, 11, and Ricky, 9, who often help out in the bakery after school and on weekends.

Best sellers at Brett’s Breads include his great Aunt Thelma’s unique challah, Amish white bread, and cinnamon rolls slathered with rich cream cheese icing.

Lately, Brett has been experimenting with making French bread.

“I’ve been learning and experimenting as I go,” said RebischkeSmith.

He uses local ingredients in season whenever he can, such as blueberries from Hunter’s Moon Farm and Five Acre Farm, and raspberries from Milepost 19 Farm. He

Betty Freeman photo

Peter and Sandi Boden display St. Galler bread made fresh that morning in their P.S. Suisse Bakery in Langley.

also features jams and syrups from Mile Post 19.

Brett’s Breads is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. As a stay-at-home dad, Brett gets to the bakery about 9 a.m. so early afternoon is the best time to find that day’s fresh baking.

Another familyowned and operated bakery opened in Oak Harbor last July.

Kakie’s Bakery & Deli is owned by two sisters, Dianne Varshock and Karen Hossfeld.

Karen’s daughter Dianne makes breads and pastries and her other daughter Carmen specializes in cookies and muffins.

Karen’s nickname as a child was “Kakie,” hence the name of their family bakery.

“Karen always wanted to have a bakery since she went to culinary school,” said

Varshock, who moved to Oak Harbor last year from San Diego to join her sister in the new business venture.

In addition to donuts, maple bars, cookies and cakes, the full-service bakery offers New York style bagels that are “like a soft pretzel,” said Varshock. They come in a host of flavors ranging from jalapeno cheese to cinnamon raisin.

Every day of the week has its bread specialty. Tuesdays and Saturdays, customers can find fresh sourdough breads. On Wednesdays, try the cheese bread, and on Thursdays, sample the white or wheat breads.

On Friday, experience the special recipe Jewish Rye bread.

Saturdays also feature Sweet Orange bread made with orange juice and zest.

On Thursdays,

the bakery offers gluten-free breads and donuts.

Aside from using seasonal fruits from local farms such as Crescent Harbor, Honey Moon Bay and Five Acre Farms, Varshock said the bakery also makes muffins and pies from Sherman Farms Hubbard squash and pumpkins. Rhubarb from Case Farm will make an appearance this spring.

“We try to be as local as we can be,” said Varshock.

The bakery is now offering deli sandwiches, soups, and Whidbey Island Coffee in addition to a delicious array of baked goods.

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Ready Readers Baby and Me Storytime, 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Feb. 13, Oak Harbor Library, 1000 SE Regatta Drive. Newborns through 24 months enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and activities that inspire a love of reading. Caregiver required. 360-675-5115; snoisle.org

Play Reading for Fun Troupe, 5-8 p.m. Feb. 27, Oak Harbor Library, 1000 SE Regatta Drive. Share ideas and read scripts for the Whidbey Playhouse. No experience necessary. 360544-8668.

Science Olympiad Community Night, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m., Feb. 27, Coupeville High School Commons.

Free. 360-672-0915.

Feb. 28

Thurs.

Beach Watcher Training Course deadline, noon, Feb. 28, Coupeville, 2013 WSU Island County Beach Watchers training course. Course takes place two days per week in April and October. Cost: $75.

360-240-5558, county.wsu. edu/island Ready Readers Preschool Storytime, 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Feb. 28, Oak Harbor Library, 1000 SE Regatta Drive; 9:30 a.m., Coupeville Library, 788 NW Alexander St. Ages 3-5 enjoy books, songs and activities that prepare young minds for reading. Caregiver required. 360-675-5115; snoisle.org Holland-America Koffie Klets meets, 2:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at Whidbey Coffee, 31299 W. Pioneer Way. Call Jan at 360-6752552.

Mystery Book Lovers, 3 p.m. Feb. 28, Oak Harbor Library, 1000 SE Regatta Drive, Oak Harbor. Discuss mysteries by Susan Wittig Albert. 360-675-5115; snoisle.org

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Drop in for free job-seeking help. 1000 S.E. Regatta Dr. 360-675-5115, or www.snoisle.org Citizenship class, March 4, 6 p.m., Oak Harbor Library. Free series of six classes beginning March 4. Preregistration required.

360-675-5115, or www.snoisle.org United States Citizenship Classes, 6:30 p.m.

Mondays March 4-April 8, Oak Harbor Library 1000 SE Regatta Drive, Oak Harbor. Series of classes prepares you for citizenship.

Free. Register: 360-6755115; sno-isle.org

AARP Tax-Aide Free Tax Preparation, 10 a.m.5 p.m. Feb. 27, Coupeville Library, 788 NW Alexander St., Coupeville. Schedule an appointment by calling 360678-3000.

North Whidbey Lions Club Meeting, 11:30 a.m.1 p.m. Feb. 27, CPO Club, 1080 Ault Field Road, Oak Harbor. The Lions Club is looking for new members; if interested, call around 7 p.m. 360-240-0843.

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Erica Wasinger and Lynn Goebel, co-chairs for Citizens for Better Schools, receive collages highlighting the campaign that helped sway voters to approve a levy increase that benefits the Oak Harbor School District. They attended the Monday evening Oak Harbor School Board meeting to thank the teachers, students, administrators, board members, business leaders and residents who participated in the levy campaign. “Window on Whidbey” is a regular photo feature of the Whidbey News-Times. Readers may submit pictures by email to mhansen@whidbeynewsgroup.com.

North Whidbey Coupon Club, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Fridays, Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce, 32630 Highway 20, Oak Harbor.

All are welcome to learn about coupon-clipping and money saving. Donate coupons at Oak Harbor Senior Center or Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce.

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March 1

Fri.

Spring Studio Tour, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. March 1-3, studios throughout Whidbey Island. Meet artists in their studios and watch them work. Free, self-guided tour. whidbey workingartists.com Pacific NorthWest Art School Annual Meeting, 4:30 p.m. March 1, Pacific NorthWest Art School, 15 NW Birch St., Coupeville.

New kinetic sculpture unveiled during membership night and volunteer appreciation.

Child Screening, by appointment March 1, Coupeville Elementary School.

Families living in Coupeville School District can have children ages birth-21 screened for developmental delays in motor, communication, problem solving, self help and social skills. Make an appointment: 360-6784409 ext. 3023.

Featured artists at Garry Oak Gallery, 5-7 p.m., March 1. Meet glass artist Ron Apgar and artist, illustrator and author Kim

Niles and see their work.

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Oak Harbor Library. 360675-5115, or www.sno-isle.org

Whidbey Allied Artists Show, March 1-3, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 11 N.W. Coveland, Coupeville. Artists are having a show and sale. 360679-1881.

Whidbey Art Gallery guest artists, 5-7 p.m., March 2, Whidbey Art Gallery, 220 Second St., Langley. Glass maker Aaron LaChausee and landscape painters Joyce Donaldson, Ginger Schmidt on hand.

March 2

Sat.

MusselFest Book Sale, March 2, Coupeville Library, community meeting room.

Used book sale benefiting library. 360-678-4911.

OHHS PTA Fashion Show Auction, 1 p.m.

March 2, Best Western, 33175 Highway 20, Oak Harbor. Oak Harbor High School Parent-Teacher Association holds auction of dresses of all sizes and styles. Contact Christie to donate dresses: tiegertime@ yahoo.com. 805-233-0651.

Whidbey Western Games, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., March 2, Island County Fairgrounds. Cost: $25. 360630-4506.

Whidbey Allied Artists Show, March 1-3, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 11 N.W. Coveland, Coupeville. Artists are having a show and sale. 360679-1881.

Saturday matinee at Oak Harbor Library: “Moonrise Kingdom.” March 2, 2 p.m. The movie tells the story of two 12-yearolds who fall in love and run away to the wilderness and the search for them. Rated PG–13. Refreshments provided by the Friends of the

March 3

Fri.

MusselFest Book Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., March 3, Coupeville Library, community meeting room. Used book sale benefiting library.

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Whidbey Allied Artists Show, March 1-3, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 11 N.W. Coveland, Coupeville. Artists are having a show and sale. 360679-1881.

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Mon.

AARP Tax-Aide at Oak Harbor Library, March 4, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Free tax preparation; priority for age 60 and up. 360678-3000 for appointment.

First Monday Knitting Group at the Oak Harbor Library, March 4, 10 a.m. Knitters of all levels welcome. Share knowledge and build skills. Beginners, please bring a pair of #8 or #9 needles and a skein of worsted–weight yarn. 360675-5115, or www.sno-isle.org Job Club, 3 p.m. March

Island County Astronomical Society, 6:30 p.m. March 4, First United Methodist Church, 1050 SE Ireland St., Oak Harbor. Anyone interested in astronomy welcome to attend. 360-679-7664; icas-wa. webs.com First Monday Bunko, 7 p.m., March 4, hosted by Oak Leaf Rebekahs at IOOF Hall, 721 SE Barrington Drive, Oak Harbor. $10 donation requested. Prizes awarded. 360-675-0128.

Sustainable Small Scale Farming in Thailand, 7 p.m. at Deer Lagoon Grange Hall on Bayview Road. Free. 360-321-4027.

Divorce: What You Need to Know, 5:30-7 p.m. at Coupeville Library, 788 N.W. Alexander St. snoisle.org

required. 1000 S.E. Regatta Dr. 360-675-5115, or www. sno-isle.org DIY Teens: Tangle– Free Tech Cords at the Oak Harbor Library, March 6, 3 p.m. Bring your USB or other tech cords and learn how to personalize them with just a simple knot and colorful thread.

360-675-5115, or www.snoisle.org “Moonrise Kingdom” film viewing, 5:30 p.m., March 6, Coupeville Library community meeting room.

Wednesday Night with the Stars film about two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make secret pact and run away together in the wilderness, PG-13 movie. Free.

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March 7

Thurs.

Coupeville Garden Club meeting, 10 a.m., March 7, Coupeville Recreation Hall, 920 N.W. Alexander. Nancy Lane speaks about Hellebores.

Greenbank Garden Club meeting, 10 a.m., March 7, Greenbank Progressive Club, Bakken and Firehouse roads, Greenbank. Doug Kirk of Kirk’s Nursery in Clinton will speak about “A Happy Garden equals a Happier You.” 360-579-5880.

Tues.

For Your Health public talk, Whidbey Island Holistic Health Association, 6:30 p.m., March 4, at Coupeville Library. An introduction to CranioSacral Therapy with Lynne Donnelly. Free. 360544-8445.

AARP Tax-Aide at Oak Harbor Library, March 5, 1-6 p.m. Free tax preparation; priority for age 60 and up. 360-678-3000 for appointment.

Disabled American Veterans Chapter 47 meeting, 7 p.m., March 7, new location at Oak Harbor Elks Lodge. Open to all veterans. 360-257-4801.

Ready Readers: Toddler Storytime at the Oak Harbor Library, March 5, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Playtime or craft follows. For children ages 24 months to 36 months.

Caregiver is required. 1000 S.E. Regatta Dr. 360-6755115, or www.sno-isle.org

Ready Readers: Preschool Storytime at the Oak Harbor Library, March 7, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Playtime or craft may follow. Program for ages 3 to 5 years and a caregiver is required. 1000 S.E. Regatta Dr. 360-675-5115, or www. sno-isle.org

March 6

March 8

Ready Readers: Baby & Me Storytime at the Oak Harbor Library, March 6, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Playtime follows. Program for newborns through 24 months with a caregiver

Passion for Peru Benefit Concert, 6:30-8 p.m. March 8, Family Bible Church, 2760 Heller Road, Oak Harbor. Admission is by donation. 360-720-6729; pottershouseband@gmail.com

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Wed.

Fri.

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CALL TO ORDER ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE INVOCATION ROLL CALL MINUTES

Minutes of the Regular City Council meeting held February 19, 2013

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2. Public Hearing and Adoption of Resolution 13-08 Adoption of the 2013 Comprehensive Plan Docket 3. Ordinance 1652 Relating to the Keeping of Back Yard Chickens 4. Resolution 13-09 Supporting Constitutional Amendment to regulate corporate spending and campaign financing OTHER BUSINESS FUTURE CITY COUNCIL PENDING ITEMS-In Packet CITY ADMINISTRATOR COMMENTS COUNCILMEMBER’S COMMENTS MAYOR’S COMMENTS ADJOURNMENT

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he is already well aware of the base’s “incalculable value” to the nation and Whidbey Island.

There are challenges ahead, such as sequestration, but he expressed confidence that Team Whidbey, a leadership model instituted and continued by his predecessors, would remain successful.

“It truly is about a team effort,” he said.

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Nortier said he never thought his career would take him to Whidbey Island.

He said he has big shoes to fill and is both “excited” and “humbled” to be taking over for Johnston.

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“That’s the Navy in our community,” Johnston said.

He addressed the many challenges of his tenure at the base, including encroachment issues at the Boardman Bombing Range in Oregon and the securement of plans to bring four squadrons of P-8A Poseidon aircraft to Whidbey Island.

“The future of Whidbey Island is bright and I’m excited. My only regret is a I won’t be here to see it,” Johnston said.

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Senior Services of Island County, Time Together Adult Day Services has a 2 day position open, 6 hours per day, Tues. & Weds. Excellent communication skills, assisting individuals with special needs, planning and facilitating activities.

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PG. 96 Notice of Trustee’s Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation.

DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR O R A N AT T O R N E Y L I CENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING A S S I S TA N C E H o u s i n g counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telep h o n e : To l l - f r e e : 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663). Web s i t e : http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Telephone: Tollfree: 1-800-569-4287. Web site: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Te l e p h o n e : To l l - f r e e : 1-800-606-4819. Web site: http://nwjustice.org/whatclear. I. On March 8, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. outside the main entrance of the Island County Annex Building near the Veteran’s Memorial at 1 NE 6th Street in the City of

Coupeville, State of Washington, the undersigned Trustee (subject to any conditions imposed by the Trustee) will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at time of sale, the following described real property “Property”, situated in the County(ies) of Island, State of Washington: Lot 1 of Short Plat No. 013/94.R23223-208-4510 as recorded in Volume 3 of Short Plats, Pages 96 and 97, being a portion of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 23, Township 32 North, Range 2 East W.M. Commonly known as: 942 Valerie Drive Camano Island, WA 98282 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 10/21/09, recorded on 11/06/09, under Auditor’s File No. 4263260, records of Island County, Washington, from Carl E. Werner, a single person, as Grantor, to Northwest Trustee Services, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation “Obligation” in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Beneficiary. *The Tax Parcel ID number and Abbreviated Legal Description are provided solely to comply with the recording statutes and are not intended to supplement, amend or supersede the Property’s full legal description provided herein.

II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the Obligation in any Court by reason of the Grantor’s or Borrower’s default on the Obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Amount due to reinstate by 10/29/2012 Monthly Payments $19,653.60 Late Charges $786.15 L e n d e r ’s F e e s & C o s t s $ 7 3 . 3 5 To t a l A r r e a r a g e

$20,513.10 Trustee’s Expenses (Itemization) Trustee’s Fee $543.75 Title Report $764.00 Statutory Mailings $30.00 Recording Costs $14.00 Postings $ 7 0 . 0 0 To t a l C o s t s $1,421.75 Total Amount Due: $21,934.85 Other known defaults as follows: IV. The sum owing on the Obligation is: Principal Balance of $203,770.50, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument evidencing the Obligation from 07/01/11, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Obligation, and as are provided by statute. V. The Property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the Obligation as provided by statute. The sale will be made without representation or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, encumbrances or condition of the Property on March 8, 2013. The default(s) referred to in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances costs and fees thereafter due, must be cured by 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire balance of principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any made pursu-

ant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME AND ADDRESS Carl E. Werner 942 Valerie Drive Camano Island, WA 98282 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Carl E. Werner 942 Valerie Drive Camano Island, WA 98282 Carl E. Werner 1677 South East Camano Drive Camano Island, WA 98282 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Carl E. Werner 1677 South East Camano Drive Camano Island, WA 98282 Carl E. Werner PO Box 214 Silvana, WA 98287 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Carl E. Werner PO Box 214 Silvana, WA 98287 by both first class and certified mail, return receipt requested on 09/14/12, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and on 09/14/12 Grantor and Borrower were personally served with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted on a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee, whose name and address are set forth below, will provide in writing to anyone requesting it a statement of all costs and trustee’s fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and a l l t h o s e w h o h o l d b y, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the Property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by this reference.

You may also access sale status at www.northwesttrustee.com and www.USAForeclosure.com. EFFECTIVE: 10/29/2012 Northwest Trustee Services, Inc., Trustee Authorized Signature P.O. BOX 997 Bellevue, WA 98009-0997 Contact: N e a n g A v i l a (425) 586-1900. (TS# 7023.102771) 1002.227623 -File No. LEGAL NO. 454256 Published: Whidbey NewsTi m e s , S o u t h W h i d b e y Record. February 6, 27, 2013.

S8110-00-09014-0/378718 Abbreviated Legal: Lot 14, Block 9, Scatchet Head Addn. Div. 1 Notice of Trustee’s Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telephone: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663). Web s i t e : http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Telephone: Tollfree: 1-800-569-4287. Web site: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Te l e p h o n e : To l l - f r e e : 1-800-606-4819. Web site: http://nwjustice.org/whatclear. I. On March 8, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. outside the main entrance of the Island County Annex Building near the Veteran’s Memorial at 1 NE 6th Street in the City of Coupeville, State of Washington, the undersigned Trustee (subject to any conditions imposed by the Trustee) will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at time of sale, the following described real property “Property”, situated in the County(ies) of Island, State of Washington: Lot 14, Block 9, Scatchet Head Addn - Div. 1, according to the Plat thereof, recorded in Volume 8 of Plats, Pages 3, 4, 5 and 6, Records of Island County, Washington.

Situated in Island County, Washington. Commonly known as: 3665 Harper Street Clinton, WA 98236 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 07/14/08, recorded on 07/17/08, under Auditor’s File No. 4233057, records of Island County, Washington, from Stephanie L. Fooks, an unmarried woman, as Grantor, to Chicago Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation “Obligation” in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for First Horizon Home Loans, a division of First Tennesse Bank N.A., its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for First Horizon Home Loans, a division of First Tennesse Bank N.A. to MetLife Home Loans, a division of MetLife Bank, N.A., under an Assignment/Successive Assignments recorded under Auditor’s File No. 4309819. *The Tax Parcel

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ID number and Abbreviated Legal Description are provided solely to comply with the recording statutes and are not intended to supplement, amend or supersede the Property’s full legal description provided herein.

II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the Obligation in any Court by reason of the Grantor’s or Borrower’s default on the Obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Amount due to reinstate by 11/02/2012 Monthly Payments $10,232.10 Late Charges $400.59 L e n d e r ’s F e e s & C o s t s $119.51 Total Arrearage $10,752.20 Trustee’s Expenses (Itemization) Trustee’s Fee $875.00 Title Report $611.98 Statutory Mailings $50.00 Recording Costs $14.00 Postings $70.00 Sale Costs $0.00 Total Costs $1,620.98 Total Amount Due: $12,373.18 Other known defaults as follows: IV. The sum owing on the Obligation is: Principal Balance of $125,779.28, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument evidencing the Obligation from 01/01/12, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Obligation, and as are provided by statute. V. The Property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the Obligation as provided by statute. The sale will be made without representation or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, encumbrances or condition of the Property on March 8, 2013.

The default(s) referred to in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances costs and fees thereafter due, must be cured by 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale.

The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire balance of principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME AND ADDRESS Stephanie L. Fooks 3665 Harper Street Clinton, WA 98236 Stephanie L. Fooks 5177 Lola Lane Langley, WA 98260-9212 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Stephanie L. Fooks 3665 Harper Street Clinton, WA 98236 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Stephanie L. Fooks 5177 Lola Lane Langley, WA 98260-9212 Stephanie L. Fooks P.O. Box 1348 Langley, WA 98260 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Stepahnie L. Fooks P.O. Box 1348 Langley, WA 98260 Stephanie L. Fooks 4352 Meadow Lane

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Clinton, WA 98236-8408 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Stepahnie L. Fooks 4352 Meadow Lane Clinton, WA 98236-8408 Stephanie L. Fooks 1401 Cedar Avenue Marysville, WA 98270 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Stepahnie L. Fooks 1401 Cedar Avenue Marysville, WA 98270 by both first class and certified mail, return receipt requested on 09/07/12, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and on 09/07/12 Grantor and Borrower were personally served with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted on a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee, whose name and address are set forth below, will provide in writing to anyone requesting it a statement of all costs and trustee’s fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the Property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants.

After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by this reference. You may also access sale status at www.northwesttrustee.com and www.USA-Foreclosure.com. EFFECTIVE: 11/02/2012 Northwest Tr u s t e e S e r v i c e s , I n c . , Trustee Authorized Signature P.O. BOX 997 Bellevue, WA 98009-0997 Contact: Vonnie McElligott (425) 586-1900. (TS# 7043.22822) 1002.226969File No. LEGAL NO. 454254 Published: Whidbey NewsTi m e s , S o u t h W h i d b e y Record. February 6, 27, 2013.

DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. C O N TA C T A H O U S I N G COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telephone: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663). Web s i t e : http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Telephone: Tollfree: 1-800-569-4287. Web site: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Te l e p h o n e : To l l - f r e e : 1-800-606-4819. Web site: http://nwjustice.org/whatclear. I. On March 8, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. outside the main entrance of the Island County Annex Building near the Veteran’s Memorial at 1 NE 6th Street in the City of Coupeville, State of Washington, the Trustee (subject to any conditions imposed by the Trustee) will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at time of sale, the following described real property “Property”, situated in the County(ies) of Island, State of Washington: All that portion of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 31 North, Range 3 East W.M., described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of said Section 30; thence North 89 degrees 1 6 ’ 0 0 ” We s t a l o n g t h e South line of said section, a distance of 665.22 feet to the True Point of Beginning; thence continue North 89 degrees 16’00” West along the South line of said section, a distance of 312.44 feet; thence North 0 degrees 46’57” East a distance of 348.19 feet; thence South 89 degrees 23’57” East a distance of 312.44 feet to the East line of the West half of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 30; thence South 0 degrees 46’56” West along said East line a distance of 348.91 feet to the South line of said section and the True Point of Beginning; Except that portion deeded to Island County for road purposes by instrument recorded February 23, 1966, under Auditor’s File No. 180502, Records of Island County, Washington. (Also known as Lot 2 of Island County Short Plat No. 79/058.3.30/31/3, approved May 4, 1979 and recorded May 7, 1979, under Audit o r ’s F i l e N o . 3 5 1 8 1 7 , records of Island County, Washington.) Situate in the County of Island, State of Washington. Commonly known as: 348 Raintree Lane Camano Island, WA 98282 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 03/26/01 and recorded on 04/04/01, under Auditor’s File No. 20028780 loan modified 7/1/2010, records of Island County,

Washington, from Luigi A. Patricelli and Dee D. Patricelli, husband and wife, as Grantor, to Land Title Company of Island County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation “Obligation” in favor of Whidbey Island Bank, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by Principal Residential Mortgage, Inc. to CitiMortgage, Inc. successor in interest to Principal Residential Mortgage, Inc., under an Assignment/Successive Assignments recorded under Auditor’s File No. 20030674. *The Tax Parcel ID number and Abbreviated Legal Description are provided solely to comply with the recording statutes and are not intended to supplement, amend or supersede the Property’s full legal description provided herein. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the Obligation in any Court by reason of the Grantor’s or Borrower’s default on the Obligation. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Amount due to reinstate by 01/22/13 Monthly Payments $12,300.00 Late Charges $458.25 Lender’s Fees & Costs $410.40 Total Arrearage $13,168.65 Trustee’s Expenses (Itemization) Trustee’s Fee $612.50 Title Report $0.00 Statutory Mailings $20.00 Recording Costs $0.00 Postings $70.00 Sale Costs $500.00 Total Costs $1,202.50 Total Amount Due: $14,371.15 Other known defaults are as follows: IV. The sum owing on the Obligation is: Principal Balance of $134,128.63, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument evidencing the Obligation from 10/01/11, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Obligation, and as are provided by statute. V. The Property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the Obligation as provided by statute. The sale will be made without representation or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, encumbrances or condition of the Property on March 8, 2013.

The default(s) referred to in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances costs and fees thereafter due, must be cured by 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale.

The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire balance of principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust.

VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME AND ADDRESS Luigi A. Patricelli 348 Raintree Lane Camano Island, WA 98282 Dee D. Patricelli 348 Raintree Lane Camano Island, WA 98282 Luigi A. Patricelli 401 West Stanley Street Granite Falls, WA

98252 Dee D. Patricelli 401 West Stanley Street Granite Falls, WA 98252 by both first class and certified mail, return receipt requested on 06/18/12, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and on 06/18/12 Grantor and Borrower were personally served with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted on a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it a statement of all costs and trustee’s fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor, and a l l t h o s e w h o h o l d b y, through or under the Grantor, of all their interest in the Property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by this reference.

You may also access sale status at www.northwesttrustee.com and www.USAForeclosure.com EFFECTIVE: 01/22/13 Northwest Tr u s t e e S e r v i c e s , I n c . , Trustee Authorized Signature P.O. BOX 997 Bellevue, WA 98009-0997 Contact: Vonnie McElligott (425) 586-1900. (TS# 7307.25990) 1002.220120File No. LEGAL NO. 454252 Published: Whidbey NewsTi m e s , S o u t h W h i d b e y Record. February 6, 27, 2013.

your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telephone: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663). Web s i t e : http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Telephone: Tollfree: 1-800-569-4287. Web site: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Te l e p h o n e : To l l - f r e e : 1-800-606-4819. Web site: http://nwjustice.org/whatclear. I. On March 8, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. outside the main entrance of the Island County Annex Building near the Veteran’s Memorial at 1 NE 6th Street in the City of Coupeville, State of Washington, the undersigned Trustee (subject to any conditions imposed by the Trustee) will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at time of sale, the following described real property “Property”, situated in the County(ies) of ISLAND, State of Washington: Lot 5, Second Addition to Where Ships Pass, according to the Plat thereof recorded in Volume 4 of Plats, Page 25, Records of Island County, Washington. Situated in Island County, Washington.

Commonly known as: 5803 Cameron Road Freeland, WA 98249-9802 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 10/08/07, recorded on 10/16/07, under Auditor’s File No. 4214333, records of ISLAND County, Washington, from Kimberly M. McLain, as her separate estate, as Grantor, to Chicago Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation “Obligation” in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB, its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB. to M&T Bank, under an Assignment/Successive Assignments recorded under Auditor’s File No. 4323680. *The Tax Parcel ID number and Abbreviated Legal Description are provided solely to comply with the recording statutes and are not intended to supplement, amend or supersede the Property’s full legal description provided herein.

II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the Obligation in any Court by reason of the Grantor’s or Borrower’s default on the Obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Amount due to reinstate by 10/30/2012 Monthly Payments $8,259.12 Late Charges $338.04 Lender’s Fees & Costs $60.44 Total Arrearage $8,657.60 Trustee’s Expenses (Itemization) Trustee’s Fee $875.00 Title Report $586.98 Statutory Mailings $20.00 Recording Costs $28.00 Postings $70.00 Sale Costs $0.00 Total Costs $1,579.98 Total Amount Due: $10,237.58 Other known defaults as follows: IV. The sum owing

on the Obligation is: Principal Balance of $115,408.30, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument evidencing the Obligation from 01/01/12, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Obligation, and as are provided by statute. V. The Property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the Obligation as provided by statute. The sale will be made without representation or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, encumbrances or condition of the Property on March 8, 2013.

The default(s) referred to in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances costs and fees thereafter due, must be cured by 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale.

The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire balance of principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME AND ADDRESS Kimberly M. McLain 5803 Cameron Road Freeland, WA 98249 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Kimberly M. McLain 5803 Cameron Road Freeland, WA 98249 Kimberly M. McLain P.O. B o x 9 5 4 F r e e l a n d , WA 98249 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Kimberly M. McLain P.O. B o x 9 5 4 F r e e l a n d , WA 98249 by both first class and certified mail, return receipt requested on 09/19/12, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and on 09/19/12 Grantor and Borrower were personally served with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted on a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee, whose name and address are set forth below, will provide in writing to anyone requesting it a statement of all costs and trustee’s fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and a l l t h o s e w h o h o l d b y, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the Property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and any-

one having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by this reference.

You may also access sale status at www.northwesttrustee.com and www.USAForeclosure.com. EFFECTIVE: 10/30/2012 Northwest Trustee Services, Inc., Trustee Authorized Signature P.O. BOX 997 Bellevue, WA 98009-0997 Contact: Vonnie McElligott (425) 586-1900. (TS# 7699.20231) 1002.228116File No. LEGAL NO. 454255 Published: Whidbey NewsTi m e s , S o u t h W h i d b e y Record. February 6, 27, 2013.

7307.25990 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. CitiMortgage, Inc. successor in interest to Principal Residential Mortgage, Inc. Grantee: Luigi A. Patricelli and Dee D. Patricelli, husband and wife Ref to DOT Auditor File No.: 20028780 loan modified 7/1/2010 Original NTS Auditor File No. 4320601 Tax Parcel ID No.: R331300204700/509514 Abbreviated Legal: Section 30, Township 31 North, Range 3 East, Ptn SE SE Amended Notice of Trustee’s Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME You have only 20

7699.20231 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. M&T Bank Grantee: Kimberly M. McLain, as her separate estate Ref to DOT Auditor File No.: 4214333 Ta x P a r c e l I D N o . : 0000427498 Abbreviated Legal: Lot 5, Second Addition to Where Ships Pass Notice of Trustee’s Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining

BAYVIEW BEACH WATER DISTRICT PUBLIC NOTICE Commissioner position Notice is hereby given that Bayview Water District has an opening for a Commissioner. All interested par ties should submit a resume and letter of interest including your qualifications to Bayview Beach Water District. (Financial and engineering expertise as well as prior water district experience are of particular interest.) Applicant must be a current resident of Bayview Beach Water Distr ict.

Please mail to: Bayview Beach Water Distr ict, PO Box 667, Freeland, WA 98249. All resumes and letters of interest must be postmarked by Apr il 1, 2013. Please contact me at 331-4522 if you have any questions.

LEGAL NO. 460149 P u bl i s h e d : W h i d b ey News-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 23, 27, March 2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, 2013.

7763.10615 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee for Wamu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2005-PR1 Trust Grantee: Benita Maria Briones, also shown of record as Benita M. Briones, as her separate estate Ref to DOT Auditor File No.: 4114881 Tax Parcel ID No.: R13313-030-1990 Abbreviated Legal: Ptn SE-SW Sec 13-33-1 Notice of Trustee’s Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. I. On March 8, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. outside the main entrance of the Island County Annex Building near the Veteran’s Memorial at 1 NE 6th Street in the City of Coupeville, State of Washington, the undersigned Trustee (subject to any conditions imposed by the Trustee) will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at time of sale, the following described real property “Property”, situated in the County(ies) of Island, State of Washington: A portion of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 13, Township 33 North, Range 1 E.W.M., described as follows: Commencing at the Southwest corner of said Southeast Quarter; thence North 20

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feet to a point on the North line of county road, said point also being the South line of Parcel A, described in Deed to Ronald L. Collins, under Auditor’s File No. 239218; thence Easterly along said South line 430.02 feet to the Southeast corner of said Collins property and being the true point of beginning; thence Northerly along the East line of said Collins property 540 feet more or less to the South line of the North 760 feet of said Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter; thence South 87 degrees 58’15” East along said South line 470.02 feet; thence South 1 degree 28’02” West 544.15 feet to the North line of county road; thence North 87 degrees 56’36” West along said North line 470.02 feet to the true point of beginning. Except that portion along the South line thereof, described in Deed to the State of Washington for Roadway purposes under Auditor’s File No. 94008.

Situate in the County of Island, State of Washington.

Commonly known as: 251 Moonstone Place Oak Harbor, WA 98277 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 09/27/04, recorded on 10/08/04, under Auditor’s File No. 4114881, records of Island County, Washington, from Benita M. Briones, as her separate estate, as Grantor, to Land Title Company, a Texas corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation “Obligation” in favor of Washington Mutual Bank, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, successor in interest by purchase from the FDIC as Receiver of Washington Mutual Bank to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee for Wamu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2005-PR1 Trust, under an Assignment/Successive Assignments recorded under Auditor’s File No. 4326996. *The Tax Parcel ID number and Abbreviated Legal Description are provided solely to comply with the recording statutes and are not intended to supplement, amend or supersede the Property’s full legal description provided herein.

II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the Obligation in any Court by reason of the Grantor’s or Borrower’s default on the Obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Amount due to reinstate by 11/23/2012 Monthly Payments $19,324.12 Total Arrearage $19,324.12 Trustee’s Expenses (Itemi z a t i o n ) Tr u s t e e ’s F e e $67.50 Statutory Mailings $30.00 Recording Costs $30.00 Postings $70.00 Total Costs $197.50 Total Amount Due: $19,521.62 Other known defaults as follows: IV. The sum owing on the Obligation is: Principal Balance of $144,203.37, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument evidencing the Obligation from 01/01/11, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Obligation, and as are provided by statute. V. The Property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the Obligation as provided by statute. The sale will be made without representation or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, encumbrances or condition of the

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Property on March 8, 2013.

The default(s) referred to in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances costs and fees thereafter due, must be cured by 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale.

The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after 02/25/13 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire balance of principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME AND ADDRESS Benita Maria Briones 251 Moonstone Place Oak Harbor, WA 98277 Benita Maria Briones 2179 21st Avenue San Francisco, CA 94116 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Benita Maria Briones 251 Moonstone Place Oak Harbor, WA 98277 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Benita Maria Briones 2179 21st Avenue San Francisco, CA 94116 Benita Maria Briones 602 Madison Street Santa Rosa, CA 95401 Unknown Spouse and/or Domestic Partner of Benita Maria Briones 602 Madison Street Santa Rosa, CA 95401 by both first class and certified mail, return receipt requested on 07/18/12, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and on 07/19/12 Grantor and Borrower were personally served with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted on a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee, whose name and address are set forth below, will provide in writing to anyone requesting it a statement of all costs and trustee’s fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and a l l t h o s e w h o h o l d b y, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the Property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a ten-

ant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by this reference.

You may also access sale status at www.northwesttrustee.com and www.USAForeclosure.com. EFFECTIVE: 11/23/2012 Northwest Trustee Services, Inc., Trustee Authorized Signature P.O. BOX 997 Bellevue, WA 98009-0997 Contact: Heather L. Smith (425) 586-1900. (TS# 7763.10615) 1002.223075File No. LEGAL NO. 454253 Published: Whidbey NewsTi m e s , S o u t h W h i d b e y Record. February 6, 27, 2013.

The Estate Administrator named below has been appointed as administrator of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Administrator or the Administrator’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court.

The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Administrator served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided u n d e r R C W 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

D a t e o f f i r s t publication: February 27, 2013 E s t a t e Administrator: Jayme V. Carter C/O CHRISTON C. SKINNER 791 SE Barrington Drive Oak Harbor, WA 98277 360-679-1240 Attorney for Administrator: C H R I S TO N C .

SKINNER 791 SE Barrington Drive Oak Harbor, WA 98277 360-679-1240 LEGAL NO. 460179 P u bl i s h e d : W h i d b ey News-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 27, March 6, 13, 2013.

ington, or by placing said notice in the U.S. Mail addressed to Jacob Cohen, P. O. Box 889, Oak Harbor, WA 98277, on or before the following time and date on which the sale will be made: 10:00 a.m. on February 28, 2013.

All bids or offers must be in writing and must be left at the place designated in this Notice. /s/ JACOB COHEN JACOB COHEN, WSBA #5070 Attor ney for Guardian Deborah McAninch LEGAL NO. 456521 P u bl i s h e d : W h i d b ey News-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 13, 20, 27, 2013.

(Contractors) to provide food services according to Local Education Agency (District) specifications.

Detailed specifications may be obtained from and proposals must be filed with: Janet Wodjenski Administrative Assistant Coupeville School District 501 S. Main St., Coupeville, WA 98239 360-678-4522 jwodjenski@coupeville.k12.wa.us Sealed proposals must be received no later than T h u r s d ay, M a r c h 2 7 , 2013 at 2:00 PM. Proposals received after scheduled closing cannot be considered.

The District reserves the right to accept any proposal it deems most favorable to its interests. It also reserves the right to waive any informalities and irregularities and reject any and/or all proposals or any por tion of any proposal submitted which in their opinion is not in the best interest of the District.

A pre-bid conference will be held on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 1:30 PM, beginning in Annex Room 307 at the address listed above. Each Contractor is limited to a maximum of two representatives. Attendance at the pre-bid conference is strongly recommended if you wish to submit a proposal. The purpose of this conference is to answer questions related to our food service program.

No bidder may withdraw or alter his proposal after the time set for opening thereof, unless award of contract is delayed for a period of more than forty-five (45) days from the date of opening.

LEGAL NO. 460208 P u bl i s h e d : W h i d b ey News-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 27, March 6, 2013.

ence Is strongly recommended if you wish to submit a proposal. The purpose of this conference is to answer questions related to our food ser vice program and provide knowledge concer ning the district to each bidder. No bidder may withdraw or alter his proposal after the time set for opening thereof, unless award of contract is delayed for a period of more than forty-five (45) days from the date of opening.

Oak Harbor School District No. 201 Island County, Washington LEGAL NO. 459686 P u bl i s h e d : W h i d b ey News-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 23, 27, 2013.

any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage.

I I I . T h e d e fa u l t s ) fo r which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts w h i c h a r e n ow i n a r r e a r s : $ 3 6 , 9 4 6 . 8 9 I V. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $67,869.27, together with interest as provided in the Note from the 8/1/2010, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. T h e a b ove - d e s c r i b e d real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Tr u s t a s p r ov i d e d by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 3/8/2013. The defaults referred to in Paragraph I I I mu s t b e c u r e d by 2/25/2013 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time b e fo r e 2 / 2 5 / 2 0 1 3 ( 1 1 days before the sale) the default as set for th in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank.

The sale may be terminated any time after the 2/25/2013 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and adva n c e s, i f a ny, m a d e pursuant to the terms of t h e o bl i g a t i o n a n d / o r Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): MARIA C. D E L O S S A N TO S, A SINGLE WOMAN 324 N O RT H E A S T E R N S T S T R E E T, O A K H A R BOR, WA 98277 by both first class and certified mail on 10/2/2012, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally ser ved, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property descr ibed in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this s a l e o n a ny g r o u n d s whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 6 1 . 2 4 . 1 3 0 . Fa i l u r e t o bring such a lawsuit may

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ISLAND In the Matter of the Estate of: JOHN F. HOFFELT, Deceased.

No. 13-4-00026-3 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any o t h e r w i s e a p p l i c a bl e statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided u n d e r R C W 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of this notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of First Publication: February 20, 2013 /s/ MICHAEL M. WALLER, WSBA No. 6310 Law Offices of Skinner & Saar, P.S. Personal Representative 791 SE Barrington Drive Oak Harbor, Washington 98277 Cour t of Probate Proceedings: ISLAND COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT Cause No. 13-4-000263 LEGAL NO. 458390 P u bl i s h e d : W h i d b ey News-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 20, 27, March 6, 2013.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR ISLAND COUNTY In the Matter of the Guardianship Of ELAINE MARIE PHILLIPS, An Alleged Incompetent Person.

No. 12-4-00128-8 NOTICE OF PRIVATE SALE OF GUARDIANSHIP REAL PROPERTY COMES NOW the Guardian Deborah McAninch and hereby gives notice of her intent to sell real property owned by the Ward Elaine M. Phillips located at 2946 Newell D r i ve , O a k H a r b o r, Washington and more specifically described as the following real property situated in the County of Island, State ofWashington: Lot 2, Block 1, except the North 65 feet thereof as measured perpendicular to and parallel with the Nor th line thereof; and the Nor th 182.96 feet of Lot 3, Block 1, as measured along East line thereof, all in the Plat of Patton’s Retreat, Division No.1, recorded in Volume 10, Page 60.

Subject to and together with all reservations, restr ictions, easements and covenants of record.

Situate in the County of Island, State of Washington.

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Tax Parcel Account No. S7695-00-01002-0 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE Anyone desiring to purchase the said real propOF WASHINGTON FOR ISLAND COUNTY erty must submit a bid or In the matter of the es- o f fe r t o t h e g u a r d i a n Deborah McAninch tate of: through her attorney JaJAMES K. CARTER, Deceased. N O . cob Cohen by delivering said notice to Jacob Co12-4-00276-4 N OT I C E TO C R E D I - hen’s office at 520 E. Whidbey Avenue, Ste. TORS 201, Oak Harbor, WashRCW 11.40.030

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ISLAND In the Matter of the Estate of: BETTY M. WALTER, Deceased.

No. 13-4-00027-1 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any o t h e r w i s e a p p l i c a bl e statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided u n d e r R C W 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of this notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of First Publication: February 27, 2013 /s/ MICHAEL M. WALLER, WSBA No. 6310 Law Offices of Skinner & Saar, P.S. Attorneys for Personal Representative 791 SE Barrington Drive Oak Harbor, Washington 98277 /s/ KAREN W. JENNINGS, Personal Representative Cour t of Probate Proceedings: ISLAND COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT Cause No. 13-4-000271 LEGAL NO. 460220 P u bl i s h e d : W h i d b ey News-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 27, March 6, 13, 2013.

NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR FOOD MANAGEMENT SERVICES The Coupeville School District No. 204 (District) is accepting written food service proposals from qualified food ser vice management companies

NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Oak Harbor School District #201 (District) is accepting written food service proposals from qualified food ser vice management companies (FSMC) to provide professional food services management according to District specifications.

Detailed specifications may be obtained trom and proposals shall be filed with: Name: Renee Wolfgang Title: Assistant Business Director School District: Oak Harbor School District No. 201 A d d r e s s : 3 5 0 S. O a k Harbor Street, Oak Harbor, WA 98277 Te l e p h o n e : 3 6 0 2 7 9 5028 Sealed proposals must be received no later than 3:00 pm, March 22, 2013. Proposals received after scheduled closing will not be considered. The District reserves the right to accept any proposal which it deems most favorable to the interests of the District. It also reserves the right to waive any informalitias and irregUlarities and reject any andlor all proposals or any portion of any proposal submitted which in their opinion Is not in the best interest of the District. A pre-bid conference will be held on March 7, 2013, 9:00 am at the address listed above. Each FSMC is limited to a maximum of two representatives. Attendance at the pre-bid confer-

N OT I C E O F T RU S TEE’S SALE Pursuant to t h e R ev i s e d C o d e o f Washington 61.24, et s e q .

T S N o. : WA-10-405444-SH APN No.: S7285-21-00009-0 Title Order No.: 4788116 Grantor(s): MARIA C. DELOS SANTOS Grantee(s): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGIST R AT I O N S Y S T E M S, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL NETWORK, INC. Deed of Trust Instrument/Reference No.: 4070630 I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, the u n d e r s i g n e d Tr u s t e e, will on 3/8/2013, at 10:00 AM At the main entrance to the City Hall located at 865 SE Barrington Drive, Oak Harbor WA 98277 sell at p u bl i c a u c t i o n t o t h e highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in t h e fo r m o f c a s h i e r ’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of ISLAND, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 9, REPLAT OF PORTION O F N E I L H . KO E T J E 2 N D A D D I T I O N TO OAK HARBOR, ACCORDING TO THE P L AT T H E R E O F, R E CORDED IN VOLUME 5 O F P L AT S , PAG E 3 , RECORDS OF ISLAND C O U N T Y, WA S H I N G TON. SITUATED IN ISLAND COUNTY, WASHI N G TO N . M o r e c o m monly known as: 324 N O RT H E A S T E R N S T S T R E E T, O A K H A R BOR, WA 98277 which is subject to that certain D e e d o f Tr u s t d a t e d 8/5/2003, recorded 8/13/2003, under 4070630 records of ISLAND County, Washington, from MARIA C. DELOS SANTOS, A SINGLE WOMAN, as Grantor(s), to CHICAGO TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGIST R AT I O N S Y S T E M S, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL NETWORK, INC., as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by MORTGAGE ELECT RO N I C R E G I S T R A TION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL NETWORK, INC. (or by its successors-in-interest and/or assigns, if any), to Nationstar Mortgage LLC. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Tr ust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in

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result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invali d a t i n g t h e Tr u s t e e ’s sale. NOTICE TO OCC U PA N T S O R T E N ANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summar y proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenantoccupied proper ty, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help.

SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and oppor tunities to keep yo u r h o u s e, yo u m ay contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assist a n c e a n d r e fe r ra l t o housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commiss i o n : To l l - f r e e : 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or W e b s i t e : http://www.dfi.wa.gov/co n s u m e r s / h o m e ow n e r ship/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: T o l l - f r e e : 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: h t t p : / / p o r tal.hud.gov/hudport a l / H U D o r fo r L o c a l counseling agencies in W a s h i n g t o n : http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=searchand a m p ; s e a r c h s t a t e = WA a n d a m p ; f i l terSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorn e y s : Te l e p h o n e : 1-800-606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If y o u h a v e p r ev i o u s l y been discharged through b a n k r u p t c y, yo u m ay have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders

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right’s against the real property only. THIS OFFICE IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL B E U S E D F O R T H AT PURPOSE. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Dated: NOV. 02, 2012 Quality Loan Ser vice Cor p. of Washington, as Trustee By: Tricia Moreno, Assistant Secretary Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service C o r p. o f Wa s h i n g t o n C/O Quality Loan Service Corp. 2141 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101 (866) 645-7711 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 19735 10th Avenue NE, Suite N-200 Poulsbo, WA 98370 (866) 645-7711 Sale Line: 714-730-2727 Or Login to: http://wa.qualityloan.com TS No.: WA-10-405444-SH AFN4316088 02/06/2013, 02/27/2013 LEGAL NO. 452877 Published: WhidbeyNews-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 6, 27, 2013.

S TA R M O R T G A G E LLC, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by MORTGAGE ELECT RO N I C R E G I S T R A TION SYSTEMS, INC., (“MERS”), AS NOMIN E E F O R N AT I O N STAR MORTGAGE LLC (or by its successors-ininterest and/or assigns, if any), to Nationstar Mor tgage LLC . II. No action commenced by the Beneficiar y of the Deed of Tr ust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage.

III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts w h i c h a r e n ow i n a r r e a r s : $ 2 2 , 7 6 8 . 4 4 I V. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $249,208.07, together with interest as provided in the Note from the 12/1/2011, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. T h e a b ove - d e s c r i b e d real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Tr u s t a s p r ov i d e d by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 3/29/2013. The defaults referred to in Paragraph I I I mu s t b e c u r e d by 3/18/2013 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time b e fo r e 3 / 1 8 / 2 0 1 3 ( 1 1 days before the sale) the default as set for th in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank.

The sale may be terminated any time after the 3/18/2013 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and adva n c e s, i f a ny, m a d e pursuant to the terms of t h e o bl i g a t i o n a n d / o r Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following a d d r e s s ( e s ) : S C OT T FIECHTNER AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY 1077 CASCADE LANE, CAMANO ISLAND, WA 98282 by both first class and certified mail on 10/26/2012, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real proper ty descr ibed in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Tr u s t e e w h o s e n a m e and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to de-

prive the Grantor and all t h o s e w h o h o l d b y, through or under the Grantor of all their intere s t i n t h e a b ove - d e s c r i b e d p r o p e r t y. I X .

Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130.

Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a wa i ve r o f a ny p r o p e r grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summar y proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenantoccupied proper ty, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help.

SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and oppor tunities to keep yo u r h o u s e, yo u m ay contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assist a n c e a n d r e fe r ra l t o housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commiss i o n : To l l - f r e e : 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or W e b s i t e : http://www.dfi.wa.gov/co n s u m e r s / h o m e ow n e r ship/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: T o l l - f r e e : 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: h t t p : / / p o r tal.hud.gov/hudport a l / H U D o r fo r L o c a l counseling agencies in W a s h i n g t o n : http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=searchand a m p ; s e a r c h s t a t e = WA a n d a m p ; f i l terSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorn e y s : Te l e p h o n e : 1-800-606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The

purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If y o u h a v e p r ev i o u s l y been discharged through b a n k r u p t c y, yo u m ay have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. THIS OFFICE IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL B E U S E D F O R T H AT PURPOSE. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Dated: NOV. 27, 2012 Quality Loan Ser vice Cor p. of Washington, as Trustee By: Michael Dowell, Assistant Secretary Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service C o r p. o f Wa s h i n g t o n C/O Quality Loan Service Corp. 2141 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101 (866) 645-7711 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 19735 10th Avenue NE, Suite N-200 Poulsbo, WA 98370 (866) 645-7711 Sale Line: 714-730-2727 Or Login to: http://wa.qualityloan.com TS No.: WA-12-502733-SH AFN4327381 02/27/2013, 03/20/2013 LEGAL NO. 458388 P u bl i s h e d : W h i d b ey News-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 27, March 20, 2013.

To receive notification of the decision on this proposal, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and request a Notification of Decision for Short Plat SPL-13-01 from the City of Oak H a r b o r, D eve l o p m e n t Ser vices Depar tment, 865 SE Barrington Drive, Oak Harbor, WA 98277 APPLICATION: Shor t Plat SPL-13-01 PROJECT PROPOSAL AND LOCATION: The proposal is to divide an already developed area comprised of three existing lots with two duplexes on each lot and create a total of six lots with one duplex on each.

No demolition or constr uction is proposed with this application. The project location is 676, 698, 732, 760, 729, and 757 Paragon Place, parcels R13334-727-1220, R13334-288-1220, and R13334-228-1120.

DETERMINATION OF COMPLETENESS: Shor t Plat SPL-13-01, submitted on February 6, 2013 by Mr. George Churchill has been deter mined complete for the purpose of processi n g o n Fe b r u a r y 2 0 , 2013.

Lisa Bebee Permit Coordinator LEGAL NO. 460189 P u bl i s h e d : W h i d b ey News-Times, South Whidbey Record. February 27, 2013

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T S N o. : WA-12-502733-SH APN No.: S831500000660 Title Order No.: 6502895 Grantor(s): SCOTT FIECHTNER Grantee(s): MORTGAGE ELECT RO N I C R E G I S T R A TION SYSTEMS, INC., (“MERS”), AS NOMIN E E F O R N AT I O N STAR MORTGAGE LLC Deed of Tr ust Instr um e n t / R e fe r e n c e N o. : 4292100 I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, the u n d e r s i g n e d Tr u s t e e, will on 3/29/2013, at 10:00 AM At the main entrance to the City Hall located at 865 SE Barrington Drive, Oak Harbor WA 98277 sell at p u bl i c a u c t i o n t o t h e highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in t h e fo r m o f c a s h i e r ’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of ISLAND, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 66, THUNDER RIDGE ESTAT E S , D I V I S I O N 1 , ACCORDING TO THE P L AT T H E R E O F, R E CORDED IN VOLUME 1 1 O F P L AT S , AT PAGE 7, RECORDS OF I S L A N D C O U N T Y, WA S H I N G TO N S I T U ATE IN THE COUNTY OF ISLAND, STATE OF WA S H I N G TO N M o r e c o m m o n l y k n ow n a s : 1077 CASCADE LANE, CAMANO ISLAND, WA 98282 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 3/9/2011, recorded 3/14/2011, under 4292100 records of ISLAND County, Washington, from SCOTT FIECHTNER AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY, as Grantor(s), to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, as Tr ustee, to secure an o bl i g a t i o n i n favo r o f MORTGAGE ELECT RO N I C R E G I S T R A TION SYSTEMS, INC., (“MERS”), AS NOMIN E E F O R N AT I O N -

Paragon Place Short Plat NOTICE OF APPLICATION This notice of application is for a Short Plat in the City of Oak Harbor. The applicant is proposing to divide an already developed area comprised of three existing lots with two duplexes on each lot and create a total of six lots with one duplex on each. The newly created lots will range in size from approximately 8,000 to 11,000 square feet and are located in the R-2 zone where minimum lot sizes are 6,000 square feet. Please note that no demolition or new construction is proposed with this application. The project location is 676, 698, 732, 760, 729, and 757 Paragon Place, parcels R13334-727-1220, R13334-288-1220, and R13334-228-1120.

Plans for the proposal are available for review at the City of Oak Harbor’s Development Services Department, located in City Hall. For more information, please call (360) 279-4510.

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: If you have questions regarding the proposal, please contact the Development Services Dep a r t m e n t a t (360) 279-4510, bet we e n 8 : 0 0 a . m . a n d 5:00 p.m., Monday thru Friday.

To make written comments on this proposal, please mail or hand-deliver specific comments to: City of Oak Harbor, Development Ser vices Depar tment, 865 SE Barrington Drive, Oak Harbor, WA 98277, no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 15, 2013..

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Student rep honored Nathan Whalen/Whidbey News-Times

Oak Harbor High School senior Morgan Young, accepts a certificate of appreciation and a golden apple from school board president Gary Wallin for her service as student representative. She finished a one-year term as student representative. She was replaced by Jacob Nelson.

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NAS Whidbey sailor to appear on Price is Right

By RON NEWBERRY Staff reporter

Spinning the wheel on the Price is Right isn’t as simple as it might seem.

“It’s actually quite heavy,” said Brandon Lewis.

Lewis speaks from experience.

Lewis, an E-5 sonar technician stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, was a contestant on the Price is Right last month. The show appears Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 10 a.m. on CBS. Lewis, 26, isn’t allowed to publicly reveal how he fared until after the show airs.

Rumors have circulated on base about one of their own being a contestant on the show.

Lewis, who’s from Irvine, Calif., grew up interested in being on the Price is Right.

His mother landed the tickets to get in the audience for the Jan. 7 taping. Lewis was part of a group of 18 that included family and friends, including two of his Navy pals.

Brandon Lewis Lewis said the show screened audience members the morning of the show, looking for excitable personalities. He said it was so loud in the studio that he couldn’t even hear his name being called.

“My name flips up on a card,” he said. “I’m staring at it (and thinking), ‘That’s my name! Holy crap, that’s my name!’”

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