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The heart of carving By Cali Bagby Weekly editor
Bob McCabe started carving when he was 30. Now many years later he still gets lost in the art form. It’s a passion, he said, that keeps him going. “They say the symptoms of Parkinson’s disappears when you do something that you love,” he said. McCabe was diagnosed with the disease in 2000, but that has not kept him from carving. According to Mayo Clinc staff, Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder of the
nervous system that affects your movement. Over the last eight months McCabe has devoted his free time to creating a King salmon out of old growth red cedar that came from the Olympic Peninsula. “Everyone should have something they are passionate about,” McCabe said. “Everyone has something they could do well if they started and repeated.” McCabe also builds driftwood furniture. He created the outdoor driftwood altar and two benches that are now an integral part of the
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Right: Bob McCabe, his King salmon and Colin Goode. Memorial Garden alongside the Grace Episcopal Church. “Bob’s work was very impressive,” said Colin Goode, a local art gallery owner. A few weeks ago McCabe came into the Colin Goode Art Gallery in Lopez Village and asked if the gallery would show his salmon. “The gallery is mainly committed to showing wall art but I thought the salmon was so ‘Lopez’ and so wonderfully carved that I couldn’t resist showing it,” Goode said. The piece was installed in the gallery last week with the help of Paul Dolan, McCabe’s New York cousin. Beyond woodwork, McCabe enjoys whitewater rafting, traveling, shrimping and fishing. He chose the King Salmon as the subject for his latest carving because
of his love of fish. “If I can’t catch them, I carve them, “ he said. “That’s my motto.” He has a whole wall of wood fish at his Davis Head home that he shares with
his wife Pamela. He has also presented each of his seven grandchildren with a carving. In the future, McCabe wants to make more bowls and carve different types of fish like halibut.
He describes his Parkinson’s symptoms as a general malaise. “I don’t feel good and that goes away when I’m carving,” he said. “Any shaking at all definitely stops.”
Lopez native finishes sixth in race Brian Pal, of Lopez Island, recently completed the Tour Divide self-supported, single-stage mountain bike race. He finished sixth overall and as the first American, on July 1 after completing 2,859 miles in 17 days, nine hours and 28 minutes. “Every person who has followed the race has been capti-
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vated by the sense of adventure and the amazing character qualities it takes in order to compete,” said Tammy Pal, who is Brian’s mom and a Lopez resident. Normally the race is 2,745 miles but this year there were two detours around forest fires, which extended the route to 2,859 miles with 200,000 feet of elevation gain. Starting in Alberta, Canada, and ending in Antelope Wells, New Mexico, riders go through five states. The route is a mixture of forest service roads, single track trails, ATV trails and pavement. There are rivers to cross and a wall to climb, along with every kind of terrain imaginable. According to the Tour Divide website, the theme of the race is “to keep moving and be moved; exist well outside one’s comfort zone in tackling a cross-continent bike packing odyssey; finish as fast as possible without cracking.” See Race, page 8
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