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The gift of fatherly advice by CALI BAGBY Staff reporter
Christopher Peacock has had years to perfect the art of fathering, from raising three kids to working in management. “I think of myself as not only a father to my own family, but when I give advice to my 120 employees,” said Christopher, who is general manager at the Rosario Resort. Sitting down with him to talk about his experiences as a dad, I get some insight to his personality. After briefly mentioning how I used to play the piano, he doesn’t hesitate to say, “Just keep playing, don’t let it die.” This is the kind of gentle and supportive gesture that paints a picture of what kind of a father Christopher is to his children and
anyone he runs into. Being a dad came naturally – and suddenly – to Peacock in 1984 in Hawaii when he met and fell in love with Jaylin. Her son, Kawika, was three years old and Christopher describes him as being “so cute and good” that it was easy for him to move into the step-father role. “Christopher stepped up and became a role model, a friend, and a father,” Kawika, 32, said. “He was there in hard times to guide me with tough love and in good times to laugh and support me with a pat on the back.” Christopher and Jaylin married and a few years later they had two children – Jenole, 26, and Cara, 23. “The role of the father changes as the kids change,” said Christopher now that all his kids
The Peacock family, left to right: Christopher, Jaylin, Jenole, Kawika, Kai, Meagan, Bane and Cara. are in their mid-twenties and early thirties. Now Christopher is stepping into new territory – being a grandfather. “Anyone in the family will tell you that I’m really a child at heart,” said Christopher. “I’m just
as goofy as the children running around.” Recently, Kawika and his wife Meagan have decided to live on the island with their two kids, a one-and-a-half and a four-yearold. Christopher remembers feeling honored when Kawika told
The return of the tent caterpillars by CALI BAGBY
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They seem to be everywhere – appearing in wriggling masses from out of the blue. And, when spied, islanders want to know one thing: how these tent caterpillars can be destroyed. “The outbreak – at least on Orcas, Lopez and Waldron - is not as bad this year as last year – though we are still in a peak caterpillar year,” said Madrona Murphy, a botanist at the Lopez-based laboratory Kwiaht. The western tent caterpillar, with its orange and black markings, is an unpopular visitor to the islands. Periodic caterpillar outbreaks result in defoliation, minor branch dieback, and in some cases, tree mortality, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The peaks or “outbreaks” are cyclical, tend to occur every six to 11 years and can last up to four years. These eruptions are generally regulated by weather and temperature. “After an outbreak the population collapses and there are years in which the caterpillars are
A large clump of tent caterpillars on a tree trunk.
hard to find,” Murphy said. This insect, which is four to five centimeters long, gets its name from the “tents” it spins on the tips of branches. Eggs hatch in early spring, and then larvae begin feeding. Young
tent caterpillars usually eat all of the leaves on one branch before moving on to the next. They spin their cocoons in mid-June, and the adult moths emerge in seven to 10 days. Murphy said that this year some caterpillars hatched late and may keep eating until July. “We don’t know if it is due to changes in the climate, but it looks like the tent caterpillar season may be longer this year than normal,” she added. The good news is that caterpillars do not transmit diseases to humans and do not bite, according to Sharon J. Collman of Washington State University’s Extension Master Gardener Program in her article “Biology and Control of Tent Caterpillars.” The bad news is a single tent may result in 20 percent defoliation of a small tree. Established
SEE CATERPILLARS, PAGE 6
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him that he couldn’t imagine raising his kids anywhere else. After watching all three of his kids go from kindergarten to high school on Orcas, Christopher says the benefit of having kids in a small
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