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VOLUME 36, NUMBER 28 • July 9, 2013

New skate park donated to Lopez Island

By Sarah Rabel Special to the Weekly

Shawn O’Day has visited Lopez Island every summer of his life, at first with his mother and grandfather on a 36- foot English cutter.

“One of my fondest childhood memories is coming into the channel every summer and seeing the reef netters,” Shawn said.

As Shawn and his mother continued this annual tradition, his love of the Friendly Isle grew.

“I’d often take the dinghy with my mom out to the entrance of Fisherman Bay. When the Land Bank bought the land there,” he said, “I was very excited, very relieved that it would be preserved for generations to come.”

Now he is preparing to make memories for island kids by donating a fully new Lopez skate park made with his firm’s product that is derived from nearly 100 percent recycled paper.

On August 17, the new park will officially open with a celebration event. Check out the Weekly in the following weeks for more news on this event.

As the third generation in his family business, Shawn – now president – knows about preserving a legacy.

George Baum, his grandfather, started Rainier Plywood in Tacoma in 1943, known now as Richlite.

Shawn “paid his dues” as a teenager, doing truly bottom-level tasks of cleaning dumpsters and storm drains.

When he was hired full time

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to work the floor in 1981, the company produced 12 rolls per month – now 150 rolls per month. That said, he has no assumptions that his children will join the company. He simply wants them to follow their passions as he did.

Through the years, Shawn has seen many changes on Lopez, including the current skate park.

“When I saw the park going in 10 years ago, saw it was our surface being used, I thought wow, this is exciting,” he said.

Flash forward to August 2012, when Shawn and his Scottie dog, Kona, took the first step in what became “a very organic process.”

He walked into the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts and told Robert Harrison and Janet Baltzer that he wanted to donate materials and construction volunteers to the skate park.

Not knowing Shawn, they were unsure what to make of the situation.

“It was quite an experience

Contributed photo/ Shawn O’Day

Right: Shawn’s grandfather’s English cutter The Elmira. to have a stranger offer a massive donation to the community; it was even more amazing when it became clear that Shawn was serious,” said Robert.

Back home, Shawn received a similar response from Richlite’s Marketing Director Don Atkinson, who said, “Donating a skate park is a major undertaking – the planning and the financing of it. At first, I thought Shawn was joking.”

A month later, Shawn told Don that not only would they donate a new skate park but that they would hold their annual distributor’s meeting on Lopez.

To make this big event go smoothly, Shawn has talked at length with the Lopez Fire Department, the ferry system, the County Parks Department, his folks, and California RampWorks.

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When asked what his grandfather would think, Shawn said, “George would’ve embraced this. Part of this is that it’s our 70th anniversary, and I wanted to shift focus back to one of our older markets – Skatelite.”

For more information about the skate park, visit

their page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ LopezSkatePark.

Rabel and her husband, both supporters of the new park, have lived on Lopez for 5 years and have two sons.

Their 9-year-old looks forward to having a new place to skate.

with guest appearance by local artist Lia Pryce

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Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13th, 5-7 pm Show dates: 7/13 - 8/9

Thank you to all the volunteers for your time, enthusiasm and dedication and Thank you to our community for your donations and support!

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Community Calendar july 9, 16 &23 sports: Sailing lessons, Learn to Sail, Islander’s Dock, 5-7 p.m. This three session course is open to ages 13 to adult, $75 fee.

Pre-registration required thru LIFRC, 468-4117, or at www.lifrc.org.

weds, july 10 golf: Business Gold League, Build your own DREAM TEAM and play a 9-hole competition at Lopez Island Golf Course. Members: $5; Non-members $15.

Registration 5 p.m. Tee off 5:30. Contact Esa

Letters

to the Editor

Response to Petcoke letter

Referring to Pat Roe’s letter [July 2 edition of the Weekly] dismissing my June 18 article on petcoke concerns as “inflated,” here is my response.

There are different types

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Turunen for more info at 468-3603 or esa. turunen62@gmail.com. food: Cooking class, 4 -6 p.m., Grace Church Hall, $30 fee. Pre-registration required. Call LIFRC at 468-4117 or visit www. lifrc.org. fri, july 12 music: Pianist Dan Kennedy in Concert, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. For more info, visit www.dankennedy.us. july 12 -13 sports: Kayaking lessons, Educational day trip exploring dynamic

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of petcoke. The type used in aluminum or steel smelting industry is called calcined petroleum coke, the production of which requires raw “green coke” with low metals content.

Petcoke generated from refining tar sands oil, however, typically contains too high metals content, can’t be used in aluminum production and is thus destined to be burnt.

Though petcoke produced at the two Anacortes refineries and shipped by rail to BC has been of CPC type, this may change as Alaska

oil production declines and Alberta tar sands extraction increases. The refineries have already started adding small percentages of oil from tar sands in their feed stock.

If the percentages increase, their by-product petcoke will be more toxic and may not be suitable for other uses but as dirty fuel for power plants.

Even if this shift towards greater reliance on tar sands oil never happens in Anacortes or Cherry Point (BP), the booming tar sands oil industry will still gener-

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ate piles of petcoke during the production and refinery process elsewhere (Alberta and beyond). As the industry struggles to find markets for these mounting piles of petcoke, some possibilities include transporting it by rail to Vancouver, B.C. and Cherry Point to be shipped to Asia, as is the design of the Gateway Pacific Terminal.

So regardless of where tar sands oil refining happens, petcoke is “the coal hiding in the tar sands oil boom” and has the potential to turn our surrounding waters into dirty fossil fuel highway to Asia.

Roe complained I offered no solution. In truth, my article listed a few: contact local representatives to voice concerns and demand proper regulations, and make personal steps to wean ourselves from hydrocarbon industry.

Behavioral shifts, such as driving less, eating more locally, are ultimately what is needed to keep the coal in the hole, the oil in the soil, so they won’t pollute our air,

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sat, july 13 hike: Turtleback Mountain Hike, Orcas Island – Leader, Mike Moore. The south trailhead approach gives you immediate views to other San Juan Islands on the south. This is three to six miles, round trip depending. We will car pool from Lopez on an early morning ferry. Sign up with Mike at 468-3622 or Bob Walker at 4683397. art: Opening Reception for “Threads of Light and Color,”5-7 p.m., Chimera Galley. Join us to see new work by Island Fibers and

Olive Glass. Show continues through Aug 9. For more info: see www.

ChimeraGallery.com, 4683265, next to Bucky’s and Cafe La Boheme in the village. sat, july 20 event: Lopez Legends, Myths & Yarns 3, 7 p.m., Port Stanley School.

Tickets are $35, available at the Lopez Historical Museum.

Sat, ongoing market: Farmers’ Market, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Market is next to the Community Center. Runs until Sept. 14.

water and life-sustaining systems. We are all part of the problem, and potentially part of the solution.

tion and maximum property rights. While it is complex and challenges have yet to be ruled upon by the Growth Chom Greacen Management Hearings Lopez Island Board, the county is committed to streamlining regulations and continuing to seek balance.

• Solid waste transition: My thanks to the San Moving from a county-run Juan County citizens, coun- to public-private system has cil members and staff who proven more challenging and helped me keep things mov- taken longer than anticipated, ing forward this past year as but this allowed each island your interim county manag- to come up with its own er. While there are plenty of solution: Lopez Solid Waste items still on the TO DO list, District, the Town/County/ we really had a very success- Lauderback agreement on ful list of goals accomplished: San Juan, and the expanded • Governance transi- ORS service on Orcas.

• SJC3 County Community tions: With the charter amendments approved in Conversations: As part of November, we have now had reviewing county services, three county councilmen and service levels, and reshaping Mike Thomas, the county county government to better administrator. Somehow we meet the needs of residents today and in the future, the made it through.

• Growth Management Conversations held on Lopez, Act Compliance: For the first Shaw, Orcas, and San Juan time in 21 years, San Juan were a great success. The County achieved compli- results provide guidance for ance from the state with the the 2014 Budget and beyond.

I’ll leave it to Council Growth Management Act, which opens additional state Chairman Jamie Stephens grant and funding options to and new County Manager Mike Thomas to address the the county.

• Budget stabilization: remaining goals for 2013 and Thanks largely to voter into 2014, but for my part, approval of the Public Safety my thanks to all for your help Sales Tax, we were able to (and constructive criticism) end five years of major bud- along the way.

And thank you for allowget cuts and adopt a stable three year budget forecast ing me to be a temporary island resident and to gain through 2015.

• Critical Areas Ordinance: an understanding of “Island Rejecting a “one size fits all” Quality of Life.”

Bob Jean federal/state approach, the Interim County Manager county adopted a site spe(May 2012 to June 2013) cific approach, trying to balance environmental protec-

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Spotlight on Seniors Carl Bender, Lopez Island

Contributed photos

Left: “Carl today” and right: “Carl in Korea.”

by Gretchen Wing Kids, listen up. You know when your math teacher tells you these equations will really help you one day?

She’s not lying. Look where math took Carl Bender: to the moon.

Okay, maybe not Carl himself. But Carl’s math got the Apollo 8 astronauts around the moon and safely home.

And throughout Carl’s career, math provided his own exciting yet secure trajectory.

Growing up in Grandview, Wash., Carl knew he “wanted to get away from the desert, and the cowboy music…it just wasn’t me.”

The oldest of five, he entered WSU in 1955 planning to become an architect.

But during his interview, the dean showed him an impressive display of balsa-wood models. “He said, ‘This project is from last year’s graduating class, 25 of ‘em. And we can’t find a job for any one of those 25.’”

The dean recommended civil engineering, where the jobs were, and Carl took his advice.

But halfway through his college years, Carl’s parents split, leaving his mother struggling to support five kids. Engineering majors had to take a summer Survey School, and Carl needed to make money, not spend more. So he switched to math teaching.

“That didn’t work too well,” he admits with a smile; “I had to drop out after my junior year.”

His math skills landed Carl a job with Boeing, but leaving school made him vulnerable to the draft. So in 1957, off he shipped for Korea.

Here again, math gave Carl a leg up. As the only infantryman in his group who knew trigonometry, Carl became a specialist, computing the direction of fire. This entailed promotion to sergeant, with accompanying improvements in pay and privileges.

Finishing his two-year stint, Carl returned to the Bay Area, where his father was living, and completed his degree at San Jose State.

He immediately found a job with NASA’s Ames Research Center, which was looking for – what else? – a math

specialist, and worked there for the next five years.

Math was not responsible for Carl’s meeting Mary Anne Nall at a swimming pool in Mazatlan. That luck was due to Mary Anne’s father, who had packed his family into

the car and driven all the way from Alabama. After a year of long-distance relationship, the couple got married and settled in California, where Mary Anne looked for a teaching job.

Because no one was hiring, they moved back to Alabama. Carl began working for Computer Science Corporation in Huntsville, and Mary Anne taught Junior High. Although she describes Huntsville as “not like the rest of the south,” it was the mid-sixties, and she taught on the front lines of school integration.

Carl had his own front line to contend with: the space race. In 1968, NASA was preparing Apollo 8 for the first moon shot. Carl’s team had to compute the spacecraft’s figure-eight trajectory, but, Carl laughs, NASA’s clerks “were using those big ol’ computers to compute the payroll all day, so we were doing our engineering work all night.”

Carl and Mary Anne went

weeks without seeing each other, communicating solely via notes.

Carl’s team did their work well, however. Computer Science Corporation offered one set of data, while the Apollo 8 computer and Houston offered two others. “They would look at the

[vectors], and pick the two that were closest.” Listening in to the astronauts, Carl heard Frank Borman say, from space, “‘Send us up the Huntsville numbers.’ Boy,” says Carl, “that was kind of exciting!”

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‘Critical areas’ hammered at hearings

By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter

The San Juan County Critical Areas Ordinances took a beating during three days of hearings before the state Growth Management Hearings Board on June 23, 24 and 25.

Adding insult to injury, the beating took place in the council’s chambers, where eight months ago the county council ended almost a decade of labor when it passed the massive update to the county land-use regulations.

At no time during three days of hearings on critical areas ordinances did anybody suggest that the contentious litigation would be decided when the Growth Management Hearings Board issues its verdict, expected in September.

GMBH panel chairman William Roehl

set the tone early. Within a few minutes of calling the hearings to order, Roehl reminded the petitioners’ attorneys (Sandy Mackie, for the Common Sense Alliance and P.J. Taggares Co.; Kyle Loring, for the Friends of the San Juans) that they must overcome a presumption of validity and prove the county action was “clearly erroneous in light of the goals and requirements of” the state Growth Management Act. That “presumption of validity,” relied upon by Assistant County Prosecutor Amy Vira, is a tougher standard to meet than the usual civil litigation standard – “proof by the preponderance of evidence.”

But the high bar didn’t even make Mackie or Loring blink.

The very complexity of the CAOs,

mentioned several times by all present, makes experienced land use attorneys like Mackie and Loring confident.

Each of them took turns shredding different parts of the statute, but both hammered in the same nail: the complex statute was “clearly erroneous” and must be returned to the council for revisions.

Mackie’s most pointed attack was aimed at the “designation” of county shorelines as critical areas. The “best available science” relied upon by the county led inexorably to “flaws” in the process and in the critical areas designations themselves, Mackie said.

The flaws did not comply with the framework of the state’s goals and requirements, they unfairly damaged his clients property rights, and were See hearings, page 5

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Council aims to protect Salish Sea Jamie Stephens, at the direction of the San Juan County Council, recently co-signed a letter with the Islands Trust, a federation of local Canadian governments within the Salish Sea, to the Tanker Safety Panel Secretariat in Ottawa. This letter expressed their shared concerns about oil and coal spill risks posed by maritime shipping and the deficient state of Canadian readiness to respond to a major Salish Sea spill.

The letter informed the panel about the unique characteristics of our area which they described as home to some of the most productive and biologically-diverse ecosystems on earth. A spill in the Salish Sea, unlike a more exposed ocean environment, will rapidly disperse on our swift tidal currents onto our complex shorelines.

Because of these unique conditions and ecological values, and because oil spills do not stop at international boundaries, enhanced levels of spill prevention and response resources, and

regulations, are necessary from both Canadian and U.S. governments.

Since the Expert Tanker Safety Panel is tasked with assisting Canada’s marine oil spill response regime, the letter identified six immediate needs to improve spill response capability, including ongoing funding for response resources and vessel traffic control, and research on the heavy, toxic, sticky tarsands oil such as diluted bitumen (Dilbit) in marine waters. Public disclosure of risks by regulators and industry and regulatory rationality between all agencies, including tribal and local governments, nonprofits and communities were also mentioned.

Their letter concluded with the hope that the panel will develop recommendations to help both countries provide the best possible protection for our region’s ecology, economy, and cultural resources.

The letter expressed the concerns of many San Juan County citizens and our Canadian neighbors. I thank the council for taking a leadership role in protecting the Salish Sea from the dangers associated with increasing vessel traffic.

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Sheriff’s Log San Juan County Sheriff’s Department reported responding to these calls: June 12: A Friday Harbor man was given 30 days to pull up anchor and leave the area off the northwest side of Brown Island where he has been illegally moored for more than a year.

The 66-year-old, whose boat is reportedly attached to an unregistered buoy, denies the accusations of nearby property owners who claim to have seen the man dumping waste into the harbor and that he runs his generator all night long.

June 13: An alert about an intruder at a Lopez Island man’s front door prompted a late-night search for a woman with no clothes after she wandered away from the 83-year-old’s Jackrabbit Lane home. The 59-year-old, found

later at her nearby home, was first examined by paramedics and then flown to a Bellingham hospital for further evaluation.

June 16: A San Juan Island woman was ticketed for a public nuisance violation after her dog reportedly attacked and injured a neighbor’s dog. The 39-year-old pet reportedly has a reputation for wandering loose in the Timber Lane neighborhood and for acting aggressively.

June 22: A single shot from an unknown type of firearm shattered a glass door and panel of deck-glass railing in an apparent act of vandalism on Brown Island.

Deputies suspect someone either deliberately took aim at the glass fixtures or accidentally shattered them with a shot fired from a trail near

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therefore “clearly erroneous,” he said.

Arguing for Friends of the San Juans, Loring hammered the county on the “results of the process,” not the process itself. He said some of the results that needed correction were “too many exemptions, not enough buffers, unproven mitigation, and inadequate implementation.”

“An abundance of science revealed that wetlands, fish, and wildlife are suffering current harm and the CAO would fail to protect them from additional injury in the future,” added Friends Executive Director Stephanie Buffum Field, who assisted Loring.

After every attack from Mackie or Loring, Vira compared the county’s stat-

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Benders moved to D.C. where Carl worked at the Goddard Space Center. The focus was unmanned missions, but no less vital in the Cold War. “Those were heady days,” Carl says.

The Apollo program ended in the mid-70s, so Carl came back to Boeing, and the Benders settled in Kent.

15 years ensued, during which Carl entered politics, working on a state Senate campaign, and helping to

the water’s edge. The projectile that caused the damage has yet to be recovered.

– An Orcas Island man was arrested for DUI after he reportedly missed the entrance to his driveway and drove into a ditch.

The 58-year-old, who was attempting to free his 4-door Mercedes sedan at the time of the arrest, was taken into custody outside his Orcas Road home at about 10:30 p.m.

– An Orcas Island man was arrested for DUI following a late-night misadventure in the parking lot of Island Market. The 42-year-old, who was taken into custody at about 2:30 a.m., was reportedly trying to exit the parking lot but drove his vehicle nose-first into a ditch instead.

– Two warrants led to the

ute to the controlling state regulations and statutes, saying that because the county’s results were consistent with the law, the county’s results were clearly not erroneous.

Vira, however, faces her own tough precedent. A review of Hearings Board decisions shows that the board rarely validates a first attempt by any county at writing CAO updates or other development regulations. The “good ones” simply don’t get challenged.

And even if Mackie or Loring – attacking the CAOs from opposite points-ofview – can’t convince the three-member hearings board, each of them can still appeal any board decision in superior court and the state Court of Appeals.

Whether the county council or superior court is the next venue for “Friends of the San Juans, et al., v. San Juan County,”

arrest of an Orcas Island woman who authorities had been unable to locate for the past two months.

The 24-year-old, accused of a local felony offense, was taken into custody without incident at her Geiser Way home at about 8 p.m.

June 23: A 4-year-old boy was shaken but not injured after his family’s van drifted backwards down a hill, across a roadway and came to a stop after smacking into a maple tree in Lopez Village.

The boy, whose father had gotten out of the van to throw away a dirty diaper at the time, reportedly put the gear shift into neutral or reverse and the van began to roll. The father reportedly switched the engine off before exiting the van.

June 24: A Lopez Island woman was warned to cease

the CAO still has months or years of further arguments ahead.

After 20 hours of hearings, presiding officer Roehl called a halt to the hearings within minutes of the scheduled time – a schedule that made sure the board could make the afternoon ferry to Anacortes.

Roehl praised parties and their attorneys, saying the arguments were “very well done” and “everyone did an excellent job.”

But he wasn’t going to just let anybody think that “Friends of the San Juans, et al., v. San Juan County” was all wrapped up.

“Because of the complexities of the ordinances and the depth of the arguments,” Roehl said, the board might request supplemental briefs on one of more issues.

It doesn’t sound like the hearings board feels the case is almost over. The attorneys probably don’t think so, either.

and desist strolling along the waterfront by Otis Perkins Park following complaints by a neighbor about trespassers on her private beach. Though reportedly aware the beach is privately owned, the 68-yearold noted she has been walking that same stretch of waterfront for 35 years.

June 25: What was reported as the theft of a boat and trailer from an Orcas Island marina turned out to be a brazen move by an Everett woman in the midst of divorce proceedings with her estranged husband. The 33-year-old drove away from Brand’s Landing

with the 17-foot vessel in tow, boarded a ferry and was later pulled over and questioned by authorities in Anacortes. The woman, part owner of the boat, reportedly told officers that she has no intention of returning the vessel.

– An altercation onboard a ferry led and a call from a bystander led to the arrest of an Orcas Island accused of assaulting his wife while the boat was docked at the ferry terminal at Orcas Village. The 33-year-old was taken into custody at the couple’s Deer Harbor home at about 8:30 p.m.

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challenge the mid-90s Newt Gingrich wave.

In 1995 Carl retired and the couple moved to Lopez, but Carl expanded his political involvement, representing the San Juans at the state Democratic Convention. Then, as a member of the Humphrey Head Owners Association, he took classes to become certified in water distribu-

tion, and has run the HHOA water system for ten years.

Keeping that math focus, Carl also tutored middle and high schoolers. One girl used to say about Carl, “‘My wizard here just taught me…’”

Mary Anne’s work at the Senior Center drew “wizard” Carl onto the Advisory Board for the Northwest Regional Council on Aging.

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He now attends monthly meetings of the Governor’s State Council in Sea-Tac, working to expand senior programs. His civic involvement doesn’t leave much spare time, but Carl does enjoy the quieter pursuits of oil-painting and woodworking.

After all, even left-brained wizards need to exercise that right brain now and then.

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Ferry fares to increase Death and taxes.

They’re the only two things in this world Benjamin Franklin famously said that one can be certain of.

Had he lived in Puget Sound, Franklin might have added ferry fares going up to the list.

The price of riding on Washington State Ferries is slated to go up by 3 percent for vehicles and 2 percent for passengers as part of a proposal backed by the Washington State Transportation Commission. If adopted, the across-the-board increase in fares

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would go into effect beginning Oct. 1, and would then be followed by a 2.5 increase on vehicles and 2 precent increase for passengers on May 1, 2014.

As proposed, the uptick in fares is designed to meet a ferry-fare-revenue target set by the Legislature and recently enacted as part of the 2013-2015 state transportation budget. That targeted amount — $328 million — represents a 6-percent increase over the $310 million in fare revenue that WSF was expected to generate in the previous two-year transportation budget.

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The Islands’ Weekly • www.islandsweekly.com • July 9, 2013 – Page 6

The Transportation Commission will be seeking input on its proposed fare increase at a series of public meetings, beginning Monday, July 8, in the San Juan Islands and in Anacortes. The meeting in the San Juans will be onboard the inter-island ferry that departs Friday Harbor at 11:35 a.m.

The commission proposal also includes: Vehicles under 14 feet would be charged 70 percent of the standard vehicle fare (14 feet to less than 22 feet), elimination of a surcharge for oversized motorcycles, and a reduction in the youth discounted fare from its current 20 percent down to 50 percent off full-fare price.

Following the public meetings, the Transportation Commission is expected to make a final decision when it meets

Tuesday, July 30, at Union Station in Seattle, beginning at 3 p.m.

Comments can on the proposal can be made by emailing transc@wstc.wa.gov, or by calling 360-705-7070, or by mail, WSTC Fare Proposal, PO Box 47308, Olympia, WA 98504-7308.

More details can be found on the commission’s web site at: www.wstc.wa.gov — Scott Rasmussen

Worship Services in the Islands LOPEZ IsLand

Christ the King Community ChurCh, There’s Always a Place for You! CTK gathers at 10 a.m. in the school multi-purpose room at 86 School Road. Come as you are! More info at ctkonline.com/lopez. Email: lopez@ctkonline.com Phone: 888-421- 4CTK ext. 819. graCe episCopal ChurCh, welcomes you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane.

468-3477. Everyone welcome! lopez island Community ChurCh, 91 Lopez Road. Sunday School: pre-school through adult 9:30 a.m.; Worship at 10:30 a.m. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877. lutheran ChurCh in the san juans. Join us Sundays at 9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanuel. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025.

QuaKer Worship group Meetings will be Sundays at 10 a.m. at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 4682129. Email: lopezfriends@gmail.com st. FranCis CatholiC ChurCh Come worship with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome you to join us for Mass at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Call 378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

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5. Kind of line 10. Synthetic thermoplastic material (acronym) 13. "Miss ___ Regrets" 14. Series of six balls bowled from one end of a cricket pitch (pl.)

15. Pink, as a steak 17. Detachment 19. Original matter prior to the Big Bang 20. Modified car for speed (2 wds) 21. Dance bit 23. "To Autumn," e.g.

24. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (acronym) 25. Professional beggar 28. Course 29. "Seinfeld" uncle 30. Setting at an oblique angle 31. Whirring sound 32. Shallow dishes mounted on a stem and foot 33. Hand sewing items (3 wds) 39. Brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry 40. Ashtabula's lake 41. Usurps forcefully 43. Drink from a dish 44. Priestly garb 48. 45 degrees clockwise from N 50. All excited 51. "A Nightmare on ___ Street" 52. Australian runner 53. Aviator

8. Pie chart, e.g.

9. Cockeyed 10. Be nosy 11. Assign a value to 12. Sideboard 16. Came out 18. Family head 22. Mollify 25. "Buona ___" (Italian greeting) 26. Dogwood trees, e.g.

Down 1. Used to express lack 27. Back of interest (2 wds) 29. Deception 31. Cheerful 2. Good-for-nothing 33. Quality of just 3. Tailor, at times coming into being 4. Religious community 34. One registered in a where Hindu holy class man lives 35. For a limitless time 5. 128 cubic feet 36. Biblical verb 6. Egg cells 37. "Dang!"

7. "What's ___?"

54. Coin opening 56. Chinese characters, e.g.

59. Arid 60. Church donation 61. Same: Fr. 62. Moray, e.g.

63. Character 64. Flight data, briefly (pl.)

38. End 42. Arab, e.g.

44. House with steeply angled sides (hyphenated) 45. Marine gastropod with low conical shells 46. Creator god in Hindu 47. Has a hunch 49. Sit in on 50. Balloon filler 53. Long, long time 55. ___ el Amarna, Egypt 57. Addis Ababa's land: Abbr.

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Summer scenes at Shark Reef and beyond

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Contributed photos/ Noel McKeehan

Above: A panoramic view of a beautiful sunset on a Lopez Beach.

Below: Scenes from Shark Reef last week.

Summer is the best time to make energy efficiency improvements in your home - and lay the groundwork for energy savings all year round.

Call OPALCO today to schedule a Home Snapshot Energy Assessment.

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Pianist Dan Kennedy to play at Community Center

Lopez Legends, Myths & Yarns 3

Dan Kennedy describes his music as “New Age steeled with jazz and rock.”

Originally a classically trained composer, Dan,

Live Performances • Dramatic readings from Lopez settler diaries & letters After-dinner delectables & desserts • Music • Prizes • Fun

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An evening of memorable entertainment to support your Historical Society

Saturday ➺ July 20 ➺ 7 pm Port Stanley School

Tickets: $35 available at the museum Sponsors: Islanders Insurance, Spencer’s Landing Marina, Richardson Fuel, Lopez Island Pharmacy, Lopez Village Market, Mitrebox Contracting, Jamie & Lauren Stephens, Cloud Islands, Hayward Design & Construction, Karen Rousseau, Lopez Sand & Gravel, Mike Halperin & Jodi Green, Nancy & Charles Givens, Spud & Karen Grimes, Gary & Karen Alexander, Duane & Audrey Bordvick, Raiti Waerness

Lopez Island Historical Society • 468-2049 The Islands’ Weekly • www.islandsweekly.com • July 9, 2013 – Page 8

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shown right, got his start in jazz playing evenings of improvised piano music while a student at Oberlin College.

Dan’s current release, intuition, hit number eight on the ZMR Top 100 New Age Chart for the month of May. On July 12, Dan will bring his unique sound to Lopez Center stage for one performance

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only on his tour of western states.

A commissioned composer, Dan’s music has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Essex Chamber Music Players, at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance, and at the Aspen Music Festival.

He will be playing at Lopez Center for Community and the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on July 12. Admission is by donation. Local teenage pianist, Lia Pryce, will also open the evening with a performance of “Graceful Ghost Rag” by William Bolcom.