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Italian bluegrass phenom coming to Lopez

By Gretchen Wing

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Lopez Center Wed, September 25, 7pm

World renown Italian guitarist

Beppe Gambetta

Special to the Weekly

We’ve seen it with jazz, rock, and hip-hop: musicians around the world pick up the American sound and run with it, and we’re flattered. But Italian bluegrass? Never fear: Beppe Gambetta is a master innovator of the acoustic guitar, and the music he brings to Lopez Community Center on Sept.25 at 7 p.m. will dazzle bluegrass and world music fans alike. Tickets are $10-15 for adults and $8 for youth.

Tickets are at Paper Scissors on the Rock, Lopez Center, at the door and www.lopezcenter.org.

There will also be a guitar workshop with Beppe Gambetta on Tuesday, Sept. 24 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Lopez Center. The cost is $25 and you can regsiter at mandolance@yahoo.com.

How does an Italian kid find bluegrass?

“A great music can touch you deeply and call you even if it doesn’t come directly from your culture,” Beppe explains.

“When you hear it, it’s like when you see for the first time the woman of your life.”

As an adolescent, Beppe heard Doc Watson’s flatpicking and felt called to the music.

Home exerted its own influence.

“Genova is the town of the most famous singer-song-

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writers, sort of the Austin of Italy,” so although Beppe had to learn flatpicking on his own, he was surrounded with traditional inspirations: the composer Nicolo Paganini, and Pasquale Taraffo, virtuoso harp guitarist, whose music Beppe later brought back to life with the help of David Grisman.

Beppe proudly notes that his son, Filippo Gambetta, is a rising star of the European diatonic accordion, “so [although] I don’t come from a music family, I did start one.”

In 1985 Beppe made the leap from social worker to fulltime musician: “Since then every year I continue to say ‘one more year’ and I will do it forever.”

Once established, Beppe was able to meet his hero, Doc Watson, and played with him on several occasions. So deep was this influence that when Doc died last year, Beppe traveled to Doc’s hometown in Deep Gap, North Carolina to say goodbye.

Beppe has played with many stars of the folk scene, including Dan Crary (who performed on Lopez in 2010), Pete Seeger, David Grisman, Gene Parsons, Norman Blake and the band Men Of Steel. But among such skilled musicians, Beppe’s performances stand out for their intimate emotion, as he innovates within folk traditions.

One layer of his sound derives from the Gypsy musicians he met in the former Czechoslovakia, experiencing the vibrant bluegrass scene fueling the democratic revolution. His work bridges two continents, a fusion of American roots music and Ligurian tradition, emigration songs and folk ballads, steel string guitars and vintage harp guitars.

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$10-$15 adult / $8 youth Tickets: PSR, Lopez Center, at the door, www.lopezcenter.org

Lopez Artist Guild Art Show

Guitar workshop

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Tuesday, Sept. 24 Lopez Center 6:30-8:30pm $25 fee Registration: mandolance@yahoo.com

To enroll www.medevacmembership.org or 800-966-6914 Look for a brochure in your mailbox.

A GREAT BIG THANKS

to all for making the 2013 and 10th Annual Home Tour a major success! This, the biggest fund-raiser for the Lopez Center for the Community and Arts, is critical as it provides an important portion of the LCCA’s annual operations budget. The proceeds, in turn, allow the LCCA to keep event prices low so all Lopezians can enjoy the varied events.

BUT the success of the Home Tour requires help from a multitude of people and organizations. They include the home owners for providing their houses, the organizing committee and volunteers who spend countless hours before, during, and after the September event, the generous on- and off-island business and individual sponsors, and last but not least the people who buy tickets and visit the homes.

THANK YOU ALL AGAIN FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATION. SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT SEPTEMBER!

Linda Ann Vorobik, Nancy Bingham, Tamara Buchanan, and Tamara Shane

Opening Reception:

Friday, September 20th 5-7:00 p.m.

LCCA

Community Calendar

weds, sept 18 meeting: I-522: Labeling Genetically Engineered Food, San Juan Island Grange Hall. Program begins at 7 p.m., preceded by a 6 p.m. potluck. meeting: Scenic Byway Meeting, 10 a.m., Lopez

Center. Discussion to explore the possibility of adding a Lopez Island route to the San Juan Islands Scenic Byway.

THURS, sept 19 meeting: OPALCO meeting, OPALCO Board of Directors regularly sched-

uled meeting at Woodmen Hall, 4102 Fisherman Bay Road, Lopez Island, 8:15 a.m. Members are welcome to attend. For info, call Bev Madan at 376-3549.

fRi, sept 20 art: Lopez Artist Guild Art Show, 5 - 7 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Opening Reception for Linda Ann Vorobik, Nancy Bingham, Tamara Buchanan, and Tamara Shane.

Sat, sept 21 party: Lopez Children’s

Center celebrates 10 years, 12 - 3 p.m., 160 Village Road. Refreshments will be served.

mon, sept 23 event: Nicaragua Slide Show and Craft Sale, 7 8:30 p.m., Grace Church meeting hall. Slideshow and crafts from the Center for Development in Central America. Becca Mohaly Renk will present a slideshow and provide info. weds, sept 25 music: Beppe Gambetta in Concert, 7 p.m., Lopez

Center for Community and the Arts. Tickets: PSR, Lopez Center, at the door, www.lopezcenter.org.

There will also be a guitar workshop with Beppe Gambetta on Tuesday, Sept.

24 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Lopez Center. The cost is $25 fee and you can regsiter at mandolance@ yahoo.com.

fri, sept 27 meeting: BLM Hosts San Juan Islands National Monument Public Meeting, 6-8 p.m., Woodmen Hall.

Public discussion of the

newly established San Juan Islands National Monument.

sat, sept 28 hike: Yellow Aster Butte, off Hwy 542 Mt. Baker – Leader, Chris Coiley. On the north side from Mt. Baker, this is an all day event that is considered moderately strenuous with an eight-mile round trip trail hike gaining 2,200 feet. For info including car pool arrangements and sign up call 468-4090. For info, check mountain guide books or the web.

News briefs Hospice offers volunteer training

For the first time, Hospice of San Juan’s volunteer training is open to new and current volunteers with Lopez Hospice and Home Support.

Most of the two-weekend program will be presented by the Whatcom Hospice team, including nurses, physicians and social workers. Topics will include communication/ listening skills, empathy, confidentiality, self-care, being

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with the dying, bereavement and grief support.

Volunteers are the backbone of the LIHHS team, providing companionship, comfort, and a variety of services for Lopez residents who are faced with illness, injury and dying. As the community ages, there is a continuing need for new volunteers. While training is not offered every year, there is now an opportunity to join the team by participating in the fall training. It will be held at the Mullis Senior Center in Friday Harbor October 19-20 and 26-27. There is no requirement to commit to volunteer time in order to participate. If you are inter-

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ested in this exceptional learning opportunity and the possibility of becoming a LIHHS volunteer, contact Lynne Keeley (468-4446 oradmin@lihhs.org).

Parks volunteers celebrate successes

Parks volunteers gathered around a bonfire on Saturday, sharing stories, laughing, and celebrating the season’s accomplishments. Volunteers at Odlin Park logged over 425 hours of service this year, in addition to the work of volunteers at Day Parks such as Agate Beach. Odlin Park hosted a Volunteer Appreciation Party to celebrate the work done by all San Juan County Parks volunteers on Lopez Island.

Lopez Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings: Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Center Wednesdays - 4 p.m. Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal Church Fridays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Center Saturdays - noon at the Children’s Center Contact phone number 468-2809

Al-Anon: Saturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, Lopez.

Contact phone number 468-4703.

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Odlin Park Assistant Manager Sara Waugh said, “Your hard work, enthusiasm, and dedication to the county parks on Lopez have made a huge difference to the parks, to the community, to visitors, and to staff.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you have done, and I look forward to working with you in the future.”

Volunteer accomplishments this season at Odlin Park included campground improvements such as construction of foot bridges and a bike rack, new signage and new posts, trail building, and trail maintenance.

Day Parks volunteers maintained and monitored outer sites. Volunteers enjoyed gathering around a fire at the Odlin Group Site fire

pit, celebrating their season and enjoying pizza, salad and homemade cookies.

Special thanks to Lopez Village Market and to individuals who made donations for the party.

Music line-up for Backhoe Hoedown

The featured musicians for the Backhoe Hoedown at Lopez Center on September 29 are JP and the OK Rhythm Boys.

JP and the OK Rhythm Boys play “mostly swing, generously salted with jazz standards, waltzes, polkas, 60’s rockers, and originals, all done in fun fiddling style.”

They are all members of the Olga Symphony and have played together casually for several years

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The Hoedown is presented by Solid Waste Alternatives Program as the finale to their campaign to buy a backhoe for the Lopez Dump. The celebration, 5:30-8:30 p.m., will include a chili feed with cornbread, slaw, and apple crisp.

“We’re thrilled to be introducing Lopez to this Orcas group who are generously contributing their time and talent to this event,” said SWAP board member Sarah Eppenbach. “We invite everyone to pull on their boots and share in the celebration.”

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I am writing to support the re-election of John Helding to the Lopez School Board. John helped me prepare for the SATs during my junior year and then assisted me in applying to college. He read countless drafts of my senior essay, spent hours teaching me to take the SAT and I am so appreciative of his willingness to help me as well as many other Lopez Island students. I recently left Lopez to begin college and I believe that I am able to follow my dreams at Mount Holyoke College because of all the support I received from community members, such as John, who gave me the resources and encouragement I needed. While in high school, I often saw John eating lunch in the cafeteria connecting with students of all ages. John clearly is dedicated to improving Lopez School and supporting its students and I believe he will continue to be an excellent school board member.

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Nicaragua slide show

By Iris Graville Special to the Weekly

It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to live and work in the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, but that’s just what small groups of Lopez High School Spanish students have done every other year since 2001. And because of the school’s long-standing connection with the students’ host, the

Center for Development in Central America, the Lopez community has gotten to know about some of the realities of the struggles and victories of this small Central American country.

Later this month, Becca Mohally Renk from the CDCA will show slides to update the community about current issues and the organization’s work. Her presentation, “Another World is Possible… And Already Being Built

Update on a pool for Lopez Submitted by FLIP

“Where’s the pool?”

“How’re you doing with funding?” “When will you start construction?” These are questions about a community pool for Lopez that greet FLIP volunteers at Friends of Lopez Island Pool public events.

“Everyone wants to swim in a community pool,” commented Leslie Quenell, who staffed the FLIP Farmers’ Market booth for two summers collecting support and distributing pool information. Grass-roots island support has accompanied each development phase, from the first SPLASH friend-raiser through construction and operation feasibility studies, facility design, zoning approval and donation of the pool land on Center Road.

FLIP-sponsored Lopez Kids Swim days at Fidalgo Pool now introduce the island’s many young non-swimmers to water safety each year, while individually sponsored swimmers don wetsuits and bravely cross chilly MacKaye Harbor to raise funds and interest. Supporters throughout the island also showed their stuff by posing for the 2014 FLIP Calendar (available at Paper Scissors, the Bookshop, and the Southend General Store).

This June FLIP commissioned a planning study guided by professional campaign counsel, the first step of its capital campaign to raise construction funds and a healthy operating endowment. The study tested a number of funding and construction scenarios among a population

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of development-savvy islanders, including the use of a junior taxing district for 50 percent of the funding, and a less expensive single outdoor pool rather than a 30 by 40-foot therapy/rehab pool paired with a 75-foot fourlane lap pool available yearround. Study participants indicated concerns with the overall project cost, ongoing operating expenses, use of a new tax district for part of the funding, and the need to support already existing services on the Island. These concerns were too much to offset a nearly unanimous desire among participants to have a pool, or the respect the community has for FLIP’s work to date.

“It’s clear that Lopez Island would enjoy having and using a community pool,” campaign counsel Brent Hafele reported. However, his confidential interviews brought into the light issues of more pressing community priorities, along

with a slowly recovering economy, as concerns that would block the feasibility of funding a pool at this time.

The Friends of Lopez Island Pool learned from recently received results that project costs were unlikely to be sufficiently funded as currently presented.

The FLIP Board has accepted the study’s recommendations to postpone efforts to build a pool. While this decision was clear given the study results, it was also hard to accept given many years of effort and the support of hundreds of island residents and visitors of every age.

Lopez School third grader Rylee knows how hard it is: when it came time to get out of the water at the last Lopez Kids Swim day at Fidalgo Pool, Rylee sobbed, “This is the most fun I’ve had all year, and now it’s over.”

Read this story in its entirety at www.islandsweekly.com.

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.

in Nicaragua” is scheduled for Grace Church Social Hall on Monday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m.; the event is free and open to the public.

Renk also will have Nicaraguan craft items and coffee available for purchase; all proceeds benefit the work of the CDCA. Lopez students, staff, and chaperones have talked passionately over the years about the life-changing experiences they’ve had in Nicaragua working with the Center for Development in Central America. The CDCA is a project of the Jubilee House Community, a nonprofit organization that works in partnership with communities and cooperatives, enabling them to find their own solutions to the problems they identify and connecting them with resources to solve their problems.

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The next Lopez High School trip to Nicaragua is scheduled for February 2015, and students are already gearing up for it with fundraising activities and language study.

“We’re excited to see Becca here on Lopez,” Spanish teacher Lisa Geddes says. “She and the entire CDCA make a big difference in the lives of Nicaraguans as well as students here in our own community.”

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LOPEZ 2013 Fall

Building for the future

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Back row: Mike Hobi, Rande Gruenwald, Adam Brezniak, Chris Henninger, Christian Maas, Jonathan Bumiller, Pepe Pozo. Middle Row: Head Coach Larry Berg, Coach Jimmy Jones, TJ Hobi, Edwin Kramer, Chase Schober, Vinny Kramer, Conor Dye, Coach Aaron Dye, Coach Nate Borg. Front Row: Manager Anchor Brant, Harrison Goodrich, Kevin Dye, Miguel Velazco, Brytton Weber, Coach Dwight Lewis. Not pictured: Erik Jonasson.

By Deanna Brant

Special to the Weekly

The 2013 Lobo Football team has been busy building.

Not houses or cars or machines, instead they’ve been busy building their football program.

Under the guidance of Head Coach Larry Berg, they began with spring practice at the end of last school year, even before last year’s senior class (which made up nearly one-third of the team) had graduated.

Spring led to summer and the team continued to build with strength training and conditioning at Island Body and Fitness, where student athletes are offered a discount for keeping their grades up at school.

Rising before the sun came up, even the team manager and coaching staff joined in to build stronger bodies and a more unified team. Some team members attended football camps together over the summer, building on their ever growing knowledge base and returned home ready to share what they’d learned with the rest of their team.

Home Games

Date Sept. 10 Sept. 13 Sept. 17 Sept. 27 Oct. 10 Oct. 17 Oct. 18

Opponent Orcas Highland Christian Grace Tulalip Lummi Skykomish Providence Christian

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Opponent Wishkah Valley Lummi JV Tulalip

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When the time came for fall practice to finally begin, the team was ready. Stronger physically, better conditioned, and with new players to add to the roster the team has the opportunity to continue to build on the successes of past Lobo football teams, while building for the future as well.

Volleyball team dreams big

By Marne’ Cook Special to the Weekly

Bump! Set! Spike!

Girls from Lopez Island High School give it their all in practice in order to perfect these three fundamentals, fundamentals that

could take them all the way to the State Championship.

The high school volleyball team on Lopez Island has been practicing for the past couple weeks to prepare for their upcoming season. There was no time to

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A strong and determined team

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Back row, left to right: Coach Shawn Westervelt, Sarah Reeve, Emebet Bill, Axel Rendon, Seaton Newman, Lachlan Fisher, Dylan Moore.

Front row, left to right: Sam Heller, Fletcher Moore, Will Fields, Cosmos Cordova.

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The Lobos Varsity Soccer team this year is going to be a pleasure to watch.

With four strong and seasoned seniors, five talented juniors and some promising new players joining the team, the biggest challenge for the Lobos this year will be having a small ball club with minimal subs. They will have to work harder than most teams to keep

a dominant presence on the field especially in the second half.

The focus of play this year will be on maintaining possession with a tight smart passing game, a tactical and commanding defense, and meeting offensive opportunities with quick, strong attacks.

Come on out this season and let the ladies and gentleman of the Lobos show you why soccer is the worlds favorite sport.

We wish the Lobos a great season!

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Home Games

Date Sept. 17 Sept. 25 Oct. 1 Oct. 4 Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 18 Oct. 22

Opponent Grace Academy Bear Creek Orcas Island Mount Vernon Christian Cedar Park Shoreline Christian Providence Christian LaConner

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waste as their first game crept up on them, which took place at the school gymnasium on Tuesday, September 10.

This is the second year Jeremiah Johnson will be coaching the High School Volleyball team.

He optimistically states, “I have a

great group of girls to work with. We are all working hard to reach a higher level of play this year. I definitely think we can go all the way this year.”

Seniors include Lena and Nikki Turunen, Autumn Gruenwald, Sarah Reeve, Andrea Rendon and Mattie Jordon. Juniors include Anja Suhih,

Riley Magnuson and Shelby Prewitt.

Sophomores include Mackenzie Kelley and Mikayla Johnson. There will be no freshmen playing this year.

For more information about times and dates of upcoming games, visit the school website lopezislandschool. org.

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21 from noon to 3 p.m. with cake and lemonade. If you haven’t visited our beautiful center, drop in for a tour.

A little background on our Lopez Children’s Center: The Lopez Cooperative Preschool started in a small building on the Lopez School property on Center Road in 1965. The Preschool is a two-year program for children ages three to five.

That small window for preschool-age children didn’t provide care for children outside of this age range, so in 2001 a group of dedicated visionaries came together to form a Project Development Committee. The goal was to create a safe and caring early education center for Lopez Island’s children, ages two to six years, who are younger than preschoolage or need child care while parents work. Before Lopez Children’s Center became a reality, parents were left with few choices for child

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care. Although family child care provides a safe, nurturing environment, it may not provide opportunities for independent assessment of a child’s social/emotional/ physical development that

the advantages offered by the close relationship with Lopez Elementary school and Lopez Island Family Resource Center, providing wrap around services for the children and fam-

can carry over to the public school system. And a child may not have opportunities for diverse social interactions in a home environment that a formal setting can provide.

Since the Lopez Children’s Center opened its doors in September 2003, we have served over 350 children and their families in the Cooperative Preschool and the Play & Learn program, offering full- or part-time child care.

One of the major benefits of having a child attend Lopez Children’s Center are

ilies. The Play & Learn child care program offers before- and after-kindergarten care; Lopez Island School District provides bus transportation to and from LCC. LISD Special services and Lopez Children’s Center work together to screen children for speech and developmental delays, enabling them to receive services at an early age, if necessary. LISD Special Services staff work with the children in their preschool or PAL classroom.

Although Lopez Children’s Center and LIFRC are two

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and seeing my friends that live on other islands,” said Ava ( shown right).

She plans on attending the fair next year and encourages other kids to get involved.

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Ava Franklin, age 11, won Reserve Champion for Showmanship, Grand Champion for Market Lamb and Red Gate Farm award for Grand Champion Market Lamb.

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separately funded, non-profit organizations, we work closely to support island families. Sharing a building (LIFRC rents space from Lopez Children’s Center) enables us to collaborate, to provide access to resources and assistance for families and children. The Special Friends PIP program, run

by Susie Teague through LIFRC, is especially beneficial to many of the children, who take time out of their classroom to visit and play with Susie.

According to a Seattle Times’ guest column “Early Learning is a Crime Fighter” (Seattle Times, Opinion, July 17, 2013): “Not only is [early learning] one of the best ways to lower future crime, but it is also the way to address the ‘opportunity gap’ in our state and nation.

Research and compelling evidence show that children who participate in quality learning programs achieve better academic results in their K-12 studies and also have practiced good habits of goal-setting, self-discipline, problem-solving, and effective collaboration with others.” The article continues, “According to a recent report by the business leaders group, America’s Edge, children with positive earlylearning experiences are far more likely to graduate on time from high schools and subsequently enter the workforce with higher level skills and earn more as adults.”

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