Islands' Weekly, December 17, 2013

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Removal of creosote pilings and a pier in Barlow Bay. Read more about this project on page 2.

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Complaints, losses, frustration aired over telecom outage among a long list of complaints and problems brought before the state Utilities and Transportation Commission Monday, Dec. 9, as part of its investigation into the widespread outage and the response by CenturyLink, the single-largest provider of telecom services in the San Juans and owner and operator of the underwater fiber-optic cable that rup-

By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter

As many as 50 local businesses suffered combined losses totaling $175,000 or more during the 10-day telecommunications failure of early November, according to Brendan Cowan, director of emergency management for San Juan County.

The monetary losses of local businesses was

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tured and shutdown much of the islands voice, internet and 9-1-1 services starting in the early morning hours of Nov. 5. A lack of information about the outage itself and what steps were being taken to repair the cable proved a source of frustration for many.

Friday Harbor Town Administrator Duncan Wilson said CenturyLink showed a “lack of initiative” in getting information out to the public and the news media, calling the information that was provided “muddled at best.”

Roche Harbor Resort General Manager Brent Snow was even more emphatic.

“Communication [with CenturyLink] was weak and unacceptable,” Snow said.

The UTC spent almost three hours reviewing the

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Right; State Sen. Kevin Ranker, and David Danner and Phillip Jones of the Washington State Utilities Commission, listen to a hearing Monday, in Friday Harbor. facts and frustrations of the outage. David Danner, chairman of the commission, said the hearing was part of a “thorough investigation of the cause of the service disruption and of the adequacy of the emergency preparations and response” of CenturyLink, especially focusing on the disruption to 911 emergency services in the county. Economic Development Council Executive Director Victoria Compton said economic damages, including two real estate transactions that were

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CenturyLink will be issuing will be for 15 days for both phone and internet,” according to Jan Kampbell, spokeswoman for CenturyLink. The company also said that the bill for fixing the fiber-optic cable totals about $2 million to this point. Neither the credit nor the cost did much to mollify more than a dozen islanders who came forward to testify.

“Failure to communicate” and “redundancy” were common themes raised at the hearing, which the UTC convened at 6 p.m. in the county SEE OUTAGE, PAGE 6

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lost and business relocation expenses in response to the outage, might well be significantly larger that Cowan’s estimate. Mike Greene, president of Rock Island Technology Solutions, believes his company, a reseller of CenturyLink internet services, will have to refund $14,000 to customers and may suffer direct and indirect losses of about $31,000.

At the hearing, CenturyLink announced it would credit its business and residential customers for the loss of service during the outage.

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SAT, DEC 21 EVENT: Winter Solstice Concert, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center for Community

and the Arts. Stanley and Kip Greenthal, with special guests Christos Govetas and Kim Goldov will per-

form spirited instrumentals with traditional and original songs of the season. For more info, visit http://www. lopezcenter.org/.

SUN, DEC 22 EVENT: Holiday Concert at The Hamlet, 2 p.m., The Gathering Place, Hamlet Cottages. Celia Rosenberger and friends present a holiday concert

of chamber music and carols. This event is free.

FRI, DEC 24 SERVICE: Candlelight Christmas Eve Service, 9 p.m., Center Church.

Co-sponsored by the Lutheran Church in the San Juans and Grace Episcopal Church.

SERVICE: Christmas Eve Service, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.,

Lopez Community Church.

An informal time of worshiping and focusing on the gift of the Christ Child.

FRI, DEC 27 EVENT: Sangster Family Band, 7 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.

Admission: by donation.

SAT, JAN 4 EVENT: Retirement Party

and Spirit Award Recipient, 5 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.

Organizers are looking for volunteers to help set up and clean up for this event.

Please call Shawn 468-4389 or Suzanne 468-3074. Also If you have a story or letter of appreciation that you’d be willing to send in advance, email Liz Malinoff at jlmal@rockisland.com.

News briefs Removal of toxic creosote from Barlow Bay

Friends of the San Juans partnered with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the Tulalip Tribes to remove creosote pilings and a pier in Barlow Bay off of Lopez Island.

This project improves water quality, eelgrass growing conditions, and upper beach habitat at a document-

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ed Pacific sand lance spawning site. Creosote-treated wood was commonly used in marine structures throughout the Salish Sea for more than a century during a period of rapid development and industrial expansion. Like other chemical compounds that were innovations in their time, creosote was broadly used without knowledge of its long-term consequences.

It is now known that creosote contains more than 50 carcinogens and is toxic to marine fish and other wildlife.

“Research has shown that herring eggs exposed to creosote have a high mortality rate,” said Tina Whitman,

Carol Weiss, MA Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

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Friends’ science director.

“Chemicals found in creosote also affect juvenile salmon that migrate through contaminated estuaries by reducing their growth and altering immune function.”

Twenty-six in-water creosote pilings and approximately 1,200 square feet of remaining overwater structure (pier decking) was removed from Barlow Bay. In addition, 200 square feet of upper beach habitat will be unburied by removing rock and fill, as well other debris including concrete, creosote and tires.

DNR’s Creosote Removal Program is leading the effort to remove treated wood from public and private property throughout the Salish Sea. Since the program began in 2004, DNR and partners have removed more than 14,000 tons of derelict pilings;

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250,000 square feet of treated overwater structures such as docks and piers; and 2,700 tons of treated beach debris.

“We’re having great success removing these toxic materials from Washington’s marine waters,” said Monica Shoemaker, manager of DNR’s Creosote Removal Program. “We’re well on the way to achieving cleanup goals laid out in the Puget Sound Action Agenda, thanks to great partners such as the Friends and the Tulalip Tribes.”

“Prior to purchasing our property in 1986 we were told that the Tulalip Tribe would prove good neighbors and that Friends was working to protect the environment we cherished,” said Hank Landau, a neighbor of the property on Barlow Point. “We are pleased to see that the work of both organizations on behalf of natural resources and future generations continues.”

For more information about this project, contact Whitman at 360-378-2319.

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Kwiáht to help new conservation corps

The Department of Agriculture and Department of the Interior have announced that Kwiáht is one of 91 organizations nationwide approved so far to help implement the Obama Administration’s 21st Century Conservation Service Corps, a national collaborative effort to put America’s youth and veterans to work protecting, restoring, and enhancing our country’s natural and cultural resources.

Kwiáht Director Russel Barsh welcomed the announcement as “a breakthrough in our efforts to bring island youth and Tribal youth together to protect and enhance the new National Monument and other federal lands, shorelines, and small islands in the San Juan archipelago.”

Barsh says that the first steps will include identifying priority actions with federal agencies, and devising recruiting strategies with high schools and colleges serving the islands and Tribes with historical ties to the islands.

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“it’s a question of how much money the Administration will be able to send our way, which in these difficult times may not be anywhere close to what we could put to good use.”

The 21CSC targets young Americans aged 15-25, and veterans up to age 35, with the aim of providing them with meaningful work, gaining important personal and professional skills, and reinforcing their connection to the outdoors. Eligible activities include enhancing recreational access, protecting wildlife, restoring degraded watersheds, removing invasive species, reducing wildfire risks, preserving historic or cultural sites, and collecting monitoring data.

All 21CSC member organizations emphasize diversity and inclusion.

Kwiáht has offered youth apprenticeships in ecology and conservation since 2006, and partnered with the youth conservation corps programs on Orcas and Lopez. Kwiáht also recently launched a joint program with the Swinomish Tribe growing camas, a traditional Coast Salish food crop.

“We will continue working and sharing with our existing partners,” Barsh says, “and encourage them to seek their own accreditation with 21CSC.” The 21CSC is coordinated by a national council that includes representatives of USDA, the Interior Department, the Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA, the Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Council on Environmental Quality. For more info on the national initiative, visit www.21csc.org, and for information on activities in the San Juan Islands, write to kwiaht@gmail.com.

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High hopes for a tight team Home Games in bold Date

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By Cali Bagby Weekly editor

Coach M.R. Buffum has a big goal every year to get his players to win the league title.

“We want to make the playoffs and keep improving and peak at the end of the season,” he said.

This is Buffum’s 22nd year coaching boys basketball on Lopez and he

has seen Lummi win the league title for the last seven years.

He has also seen the Lobos finish in second place three times and win third place once.

He knows what it takes for a strong finish. Last year, the Lobos finished fourth in the league and lost two games in the playoffs.

Contributed photo / Deanna Brant

Back Row, Left to Right: Coach M.R. Buffum, Vinny Kramer, Chase Schoeber, Mike Hobi, Eric Jonasson, Fletcher Moore, Rande Gruenwald, Pepe Pozo. Front Row: Jonathan Bumiller, Harrison Goodrich, TJ Hobi, Austin Reinmuth, Brytt Weber.

Despite losing a lot of seniors from last year he says this year’s team has the advantage of height, are shooting extremely well and have a good team foundation.

“They all played football, but one guy, so they have all been together doing sports,” said Buffum. “They

are a tight team.”

This year’s team is 14 players strong including four seniors, four juniors, five sophomores and one freshman.

As far as improvement, Buffum said that the team can work on their defense strategies and deployment.

For instance, rebounding

is something Buffum predicts will be a skill the boys will have to work on.

“We didn’t rebound last year really well,” he added.

“It was a thorn in our side.”

Assistant Coach Tak Peralta, a former player, is in his second year of helping Buffum with the team.

Buffum describes Peralta

as working really well with younger members of the team.

“He got good by working hard so he is trying to get them to work hard and be more assertive,” he said.

“Hopefully we will reach our potential,” said Buffum.

“And it’s about having some fun.”

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Life lessons learned on the court

By Cali Bagby Weekly editor

Girls’ Basketball Coach Nate Borg describes his team as having great potential and gaining confidence

every year. Last year the team averaged 49 points a game compared to 28 points a game in 2011.

“That was fantastic,” said Borg. “Last year we

got a lot of compliments that our girls played like boys because they were really aggressive and really smart.”

Borg added that the girls

almost went to state last year, which was the teams’ goal.

Every year Borg has the girls write down their top ten team goals and five per-

sonal goals. And the most popular team goals are tallied up as goals for the entire group.

“Goals that are not written down are daydreams,” said Borg, who has high hopes for the season.

The year’s team consists of nine players: four seniors, three juniors and two sophomores.

Borg said the team’s strengths are that a few of the girls have taken on leadership roles and the there is strong teamwork between the players With small numbers everyone on the team has an important function.

“We gotta be smart and be in shape because of our numbers and our height,” he said. “We were short last

year and we’re even shorter this year.”

The girls know their strengths and weaknesses and are up to the challenge, added Borg.

The coach’s wife Melisa will again be the assistant coach and “team mom.”

“I wouldn’t do it without her,” he said.

Throughout the season the Borgs will help the girls not only learn the skill of the game, but teach them larger lessons.

“As a coach you get to find ways to show these girls that they can do extraordinary things that they never thought they could do on the court,” he said. “They can apply that lesson on the rest of their life.”

Home Games in bold

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Back Row: Assistant Coach Melisa Borg, Riley Magnuson, Shelby Prewitt, Sara Reeve, Anja Suhih, Bree Swanson, Autumn Gruenwald. Front Row: Manager Jana Gruenwald, Maddie Fisher, Mattie Jordan. Not Pictured: Coach Nate Borg, Emalie Hobi, Sophie Burton.

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This Category 5 storm caused more than 5,000 fatalities and left devastation in its wake. Survivors faced immediate threats from lack of food, shelter, and water.

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throughout the world have begun to ease the effects of this tragedy. Rotary International and many of its local clubs are involved in the challenge of providing safe drinking water to the Philippine people.

The Friday Harbor club wired $2,000 to two California clubs who are coordinating plans to purchase table top water filters for immediate and long term use.

The value of clean water cannot be overestimated in the midst of the Typhoon Haiyan tragedy. Thousands were left with contaminat-

ed water supplies and the threat of cholera. The problems are beginning to ease with the relief provided by the United States and other countries.

San Juan Island Rotarians join Rotary International in offering sympathy and support to all those who are suffering. Water and sanitation are international Rotary imperatives supported by the Friday Harbor club.

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council’s hearing room in Friday Harbor. “Frustration” at the lack of information was mentioned by many who testified.

Tim Grigor, Vice President and General Manager for Centur yLinks western Washington region, and Tim Reynolds, regulatory affairs manager, gave an account of the outage from its inception in the early morning hours of Nov. 5 to restoration of full service by Nov. 15. Reynolds noted the company provided 18 press releases during the outage, and participated in a conference call with state and local agencies every morning at 10 a.m.

Grigor said the company has been planning, and is now implementing, “diversity of service” options to the islands, but did not specify the capacity or schedule for the redundant service.

CenturyLink spokeswoman Kampbell reiterated that “we are working on this and will continue to work on it and share our progress as we have something to report.”

Grigor thanked OPALCO for its assistance, but did not comment on offers of assistance from Rock Island Technology. In closing, he expressed appreciation for its customers and for the problems caused by the service interruptions, saying more than once that the company “valued” its customers and would work to provide the highest quality of future service to the islands.

At the conclusion of the hearing, Danner thanked the audience for “valuable contributions” and said the commission would report on its conclusions early next year.

The UTC has broad regulatory authority to act, especially regarding emergency communications. The commission can order a future rule-making proceeding regarding the adequacy of CenturyLink plans and facilities to ensure that public safety requirements are met by companies providing emergency communications services.

The UTC can assess monetary penalties for rule violations, and can order credits for missed telephone service, but the commission did not comment on any future actions it might pursue.

The commission cannot rule on or assess damages for loss-of-business or other expenses arising out of the service disruptions.

Kampbell confirmed that: “I do not believe businesses can make claims to CenturyLink for lost business, extra expenses or other damages.”

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Items from large vessel for sale in FH. All are OBO and you remove from vessel: Kitchenaid Superba, brushed chrome side-by-side refrigerator, looks great but old, food insideneeds deodorizing/ cleaning $350; Marcy Home Gym MP-2500 looks good and seems complete $400; Sleep Number, double mattress w dual controls, UFCS3, looks like new $200; built-in W/D $100; sink and cabinet combos $100 each. More. Call JR 206-999-0547 SPINNING WHEEL by Ashford Country $400 obo. $2 / ounce for clean raw New Zealand carded fleece (30 lbs). $1.50 / ounce for assorted raw dyed & natural fleece.

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touched, changed and often saved the lives of so many in our community,” said Shawn Westervelt, LCCA board member.

Basically a quiet person, all the attention is a bit overwhelming for Marty. But she’s accepting the spotlight with her usual grace.

“I have great admiration for all who received this award in the past. I knew Dolly and Andy well, so it’s a particularly meaningful to receive this award.”

Marty started volunteering as a Lopez EMT in 1977, when nationally the EMT program was still in its infancy. By 1980 she was ready for advanced training and began her coursework at Skagit Valley Hospital.

She became Lopez’s first certified paramedic in 1981.

It was a volunteer position.

She was offered full-time paid employment with the Lopez Fire Department in February 1991 and has been serving as a professional paramedic ever since.

While medicine has seen many advances since those early days, medical care on Lopez is still classified as ‘rural, remote.’ “With no hospital out here, we provide a lot more care and treatment than our counterparts on the mainland.

We have to stretch. What the EMTs and paramedics do now is amazing. It’s been intense and extremely rewarding.” Marty continues, “I get really close to

San Juan Islands Conservation District Board of Supervisors Has Two Open Positions in 2014 The San Juan Islands Conservation District is currently accepting applications for open positions on its Board of Supervisors.

Supervisor Responsibilities and Requirements: • Supervisors must be registered voters and reside within the boundaries of San Juan County.

• Supervisors must attend monthly Board meetings to discuss and approve policy, plans, and budget.

• Supervisors serve without compensation.

Elected Position: The San Juan Islands Conservation District will hold an election for one open position of District Supervisor with a term of three years to begin May 15, 2014. The position is currently held by Jerry Rasmussen whose term expires May 15, 2014. The SJICD Board of Supervisors has appointed Linda Lyshall to serve as the election supervisor.

To Vote: To vote in person, please come to the San Juan Islands Conservation District office on February 10, 2014 between the hours of 12:30 PM and 5:30 PM at 530 Guard Street, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. To vote by mail, please request a ballot by sending an email to info@sjislandscd.org or call 360-378-6621. Mail-in ballots must be requested between 1/1/2014 and 1/31/2014. All ballots must be received no later than 2/10/2014.

To File as a Candidate: Please request an application by emailing info@ sjislandscd.org or call 360-378-6621 by 1/3/14. Candidate filing deadline is 1/10/2014.

Appointed Position: There is also one appointed position open, vacated by April LaLande.

To Apply for an Appointed Position: Please request an application by emailing info@sjislandscd.org or call 360-378-6621. Preference will be given to applications received by 1/17/14 with appointment likely in March 2014. Applications may be submitted in person or by mail to either of the following organizations: San Juan Islands Conservation District Mailing Address: 350 Court St, #10, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 Office: 530 Guard Street, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 Washington State Conservation Commission Mailing Address: PO Box 47721, Olympia, WA 98504-7721 Office: 300 Desmond Drive SE, Lacey, WA 98503 Phone: 360-407-6200 The Islands’ Weekly • www.islandsweekly.com • December 17, 2013 – Page 8

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“Marty has done so much for this island over the years, it will be great to say thanks for all she means to us,” says one long-time friend.

Established in 2000 by the Lopez Community Center, the Spirit Award is given each year in honor of Dolly and Andy Holland, two islanders known for giving their time, talents and money to support the Lopez community.

Recipients, often considered “unsung heroes,” are selected because of their history of giving to the community in extraordinary ways.

“The outpouring of nominations this year for Marty was moving. It was an honor and a pleasure to hear the stories of how she has

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patients. They become dear, important people to me.

There are people I treated when they were babies.

When they grew up, I treated their babies.”

Some colleagues on the mainland envy her intimate role on the island. “There’s a television show called Rescue 911 that reunites patients and their rescuers – EMTs, medics and such. My mainland friends sometimes grump: ‘No one ever gave me a picnic!’ I tell them that’s because they’re done in 10 or 15 minutes at the most.

Out here on Lopez, we get the picnic. I remember after treating someone early one morning, five or six of us went to The Galley for breakfast. The patient walked in and picked up the tab!”

“When I look back on my time in the department, what’s kept me going are primarily the EMTs and firefighters I work with. In a sense we’ve been through a war together. Our work creates a very strong bond, that’s what I’ll miss most.”

Marty hopes that the party will be a time for volunteers, fire fighters, EMTs, patients and her colleagues to have a photo together.

Dr. Wilson has worked with Marty since 1997.

“Marty is incredibly capable, brave and calm. If her spleen was on fire, you wouldn’t know it! No matter what she faces, she’s completely dedicated to the patient. This is a person you never have a doubt about, ever.”

The Spirit Award Celebration & Retirement Potluck is at Lopez Center, Jan. 4, 5 – 9 p.m. Bring your own place setting.

Volunteers for set up/ clean up, call Shawn at 4684389 or Suzanne, 468-3074.

Organizers are planning a photo book. If you have a story, photo or letter, email Liz Malinoff at jlmal@rockisland.com or bring it to the party.