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Top stories FROM 2013 Contributed photos

Far left: Auxiliary volunteer Velma Doty (left) and Cafe Olga owners Bobby Olmsted and Bev Simko watch as Orcas Fire and Rescue crew members worked on the Orcas Artworks building on July 19. Above: A sailboat was towed by a Fish and Wildlife vessel after a collision with the ferry.Left: One of the rainbow flags flying over Labor Day weekend in Eastsound.

A Year in Review At the end of every year, the Islands’ Sounder takes a look at the biggest headlines of the past 12 months. We choose the top 10 list from our most read online stories as well as events we feel impacted our communities.

#1 CenturyLink

week-long outage

Electronic ties that bind the San Juan Islands to the rest of America and the world were disrupted for ten days in November when an underwater fiber-optic cable between Lopez Island and San Juan Island was severed just after 3 a.m. on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Telephone and internet services, including most cellphones, were unavailable to all – except county offices and some businesses utilizing OPALCO Island Network broadband facilities.

By Thursday, CenturyLink, owner and operator of the highcapacity fiber cable, had located the break in San Juan Channel and

had marshaled divers, technicians, a large repair barge with a crane, two tugboats and assorted other crafts and machines to address the break.

CenturyLink informed the media and local officials that it was working “around the clock” to restore service.

Failure of 911 emergency communications was an immediate concern to county public safety officials, who scrambled to alert islanders to the outage and provide patchwork local emergency telephone communications on each island. Use of 911 service was restored by Monday, Nov. 11; no missed emergencies were reported

by EMS or fire departments.

Less than four weeks later, the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, the state agency responsible for regulating the telecom industry, came to Friday Harbor to hold an Internet-streamed hearing that criticized CenturyLink for failure to adequately inform island residents and urged the company to provide redundant

communications channels, which CenturyLink said was already underway.

The cost: replacing the broken cable, $2 million; business interruption and dislocation, $200,000 or more; 15 days of service credits granted by CenturyLink, at least $250,000; loss of trust and goodwill, incalculable.

The “silver lining”: support for OPALCO’s proposal to extend its own fiber-based broadband system increased markedly. Just days later, the OPALCO Board of Directors directed that the company speed up fiber deployment throughout the county as an alternative to, or perhaps in cooperation with, CenturyLink and Rock Island Technology Solutions.

#2 Arsonist wreaks havoc in Olga

Three suspicious fires that occurred over the summer raised concern and fear in the Orcas community. The Orcas Artworks

and an Olga residential structure were both set ablaze in the early morning hours of July 19. There was also another early morning house fire with explosions in Olga’s Willis Lane neighborhood in June that was classified as arson. Officials have still not confirmed that the fires are related.

The incidents are under investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Sheriff ’s Office, the San Juan County Fire Marshal’s Office and all three island fire departments. The Alarm Foundation and the Northwest Insurance Council offered up to $10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of any individual or individuals involved in these incidents.

There was also a private $5,000 cash reward offered as well under the same conditions. So far no one has been arrested for arson.

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OCS student saved by Heimlich maneuver

by COLLEEN SMITH ARMSTRONG Editor/Publisher

Ryan Flint and Cyrus Amour have been friends for years, playing together on the Little League, football and basketball teams.

Their friendship was put to the test in late November when Amour starting choking on a lollipop in their

ninth grade class at the Orcas Christian School.

“He looked like he was trying to swallow it, but his face was bright red,” Flint said. “Then he put his hands around his neck, but everyone was just staring at him.

I was confused, I couldn't tell if he was really choking.”

Flint didn't want to take any chances, so he

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Cyrus Amour (left) was choking on a candy when Ryan Flint (right) performed the Heimlich maneuver. jumped up and performed the Heimlich maneuver (an emergency technique for preventing suffocation when a person’s airway is blocked). He first did it gently, in case Amour was kidding. When he clearly wasn’t, Flint began to squeeze him firmly. The candy then popped out of Amour’s throat, at which point he continued to eat it.

“Why would you waste it?” he said jokingly.

Flint knew how to save his friend’s life after paying close attention in a CPR class last year taught by teachers Bob and Maria

Nutt, who are also EMTs at Orcas Fire and Rescue.

Flint is considering entering the medical field when he grows up.

“I'm proud of my son for

remembering how to do that maneuver,” said Ryan’s dad, Norm. “A lot of people stand by and watch and he jumped right in and helped.

He has good character.”

When asked if he felt indebted to his friend, Amour laughed, “not at all!”

That’s what friends are for, after all.

Strings’ snazzy new uniforms

Students from the Orcas Island Middle School Strings were in a celebratory mood when they tried on their new uniforms for the first time.

They will unveil them in person at their winter concert on January 16. More news about that will be coming next month.

Pictured at left are ladies (back, from left): Olivia Brunner-Gaydos, Amelia Kau, Joanne Mietzner, Alyssa Johns and Katarina Schiller. Gentlemen (front, from left): Nathan Smith, Ronan Kau and Kupono Anuenue. Not pictured: Tashi Litch.

The students are instructed by Pamela Wright, strings director, who took the photo at left.

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Kiwanis of Orcas Island presented Barbara Griffin, pictured second from left, with its Volunteer Recognition Award on Dec. 17. In addition to Griffin’s many volunteer activities, she donates countless hours as the Food Bank Lunch Coordinator at the Community Church.

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Recycle Christmas lights Santa ship delights kids Orcas Recycling Services/The Exchange announces that beginning immediately Christmas lights of all kinds can be recycled for free at the Orcas Transfer Station.

Partnering with Ace Hardware, lights collected at the transfer station will go to Lights For Life, a charity that supports children with cancer. Lights For Life disassembles the lights and recycles the valuable copper wire. This annual campaign runs Nov.1 through February 15, 2014. You can find out more about Lights For Life here: www.lightsforlifeinc.com.

ORS/The Exchange continues to improve service and prices at the Orcas Transfer Station.

Along with Christmas lights, they accept batteries, TVs, monitors, computers, motor oil, antifreeze, cooking oil, and all types of appliances for appropriate recycling.

Prices for regular trash and recycling have been cut by 30 percent since ORS took over in September. The transfer station is also now open five days a week: Thursday through Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

DNR cleans up Orcas land Contributed photo

Left: Crew members from the Department of Natural Resources removes creosote logs from public shoreline on Crescent Beach Preserve.

The San Juan County Land Bank partnered with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources to

remove creosote and collect plastic debris from all of the land bank’s shoreline property on Orcas Island.

“The DNR creosote clean-up program continues to make a positive and lasting impact throughout San Juan County,” said Land Bank Steward Ruthie Dougherty.

“Removing this toxic debris one piece at a time is a nasty task, which these crews tackle with skill and conviction. Their efforts are making Land Bank shoreline areas safer for people and our unique and vulnerable marine ecosystem.”

This is not the first time the Land Bank has worked with the Department of Natural Resources to remove creosote from public beaches. They partnered about five years ago to accomplish the same task.

Last week, the DNR’s debris removal program cleaned up all of the land bank’s public shorelines, including Deer Harbor Waterfront Preserve, Crescent Beach Preserve, Judd Cove Preserve and Eastsound Waterfront Park.

Give gifts that make a difference Still searching for the perfect gift for the person who has everything? The Orcas Island Community Foundation has got you covered. It has an online catalog of gift items for a friend or loved one, and each gift will make a difference right here on Orcas.

This year OICF has partnered with 25 nonprofits to offer gift items such as feeding a family of four through the food bank or sponsoring a sixth grader to go on the Olympic Park field trip, or putting oystercatchers on a live webcam from Indian Island. The gifts are listed by category and support the island’s arts, early education, environment and outdoors, kids and education, and health and human services.

You receive a tax receipt and the recipient receives a gift card notifying them of your generosity, valuable programs get financial support – and the whole island benefits.

Contact OICF if you have any questions at info@oicf.us or 376-6423. The Orcas Opportunities gift catalog is open online at www.oicf.us now through Jan. 1.

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The Lions Club Christmas Ship arrived at the Orcas Ferry Landing on Dec. 15 to a crowd of eager children and parents. The Santa Ship has been sailing the waters of Northern Puget Sound since its inception in 1947, when islanders first asked a ship’s captain to bring Santa to them because it was difficult to get their children to Santa on the mainland.

Participants enjoyed refreshments and presents from Santa and Mrs. Claus.

Holiday schedule for county offices San Juan County’s office will be closed on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, and New Year’s Day, Jan. 1.

On all other days during this holiday season, county services will be available on their regular schedule with the following exceptions: The District Court office will be open regular business hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the week of Dec. 23 and the week of Dec. 30.

The court will conduct arraignment hearings on Thursday Dec. 26 at 8:30 a.m. All other hearings will be held at the regularly scheduled day and time.

The San Juan County Fair office will be closed the week of Dec. 23-27. All inquiries related to the fairgrounds should be made to the Parks Administration office at 378-8420.

As always the County Sheriff ’s office and emergency services dispatch center will be in operation around the clock.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013 • The Islands’ Sounder

Editorial

How Christmas “as we know it” came to be

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t the Sounder, we are well aware of the powers of the pen. So it came as no surprise to learn that Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” was one of the major influences that has instilled the idea of Christmas as a celebration of family and friends in addition to it being a religious day.

John Jordans, who heads the Dickens project at UC Santa Cruz, said in an NPR radio show several years ago that “the Cratchit family or Scrooge’s nephew are models for how to hold a one-day family celebration with the goose or the turkey or whatever.”

“A Christmas Carol” was published in 1843 just before Christmas on Dec. 17. Despite selling out in just three days, Dickens made just £130 profit, according to an article in “The Telegraph.”

In 1853, 10 years after the book’s publication, Dickens began performing readings and was known as a great actor bringing each character to life.

Due to the popularity of the tale, Dickens was also asked to write Christmas stories almost every year up until 1857. It’s amazing that now, 143 years after Dickens’ death and 170 years after “A Christmas Carol” was published, the story lives on.

There have been opera and ballet versions, a musical called “Comin’ Uptown” in 1979, and even a 1973 mime adaptation for the BBC starring Marcel Marceau. “A Christmas Carol” has been adapted to film more than 200 times and has even been made into a muppets’ movie.

So what is the lesson that Dickens left with us? As we celebrate Christmas it’s a time to remember that Dickens’ notion of the holiday was not the dread of family feuds, bright lights on our eaves, loads of presents or even decorating a tree, but a story of redemption, love and the meaning of life. Dickens’ book is not only a way to celebrate Christmas, but a way to reflect on our purpose in this life.

With that, we at the Sounder wish you a Merry Christmas and a life of good cheer.

A short history of winter celebrations Compiled from History.com

Centuries before the arrival of Jesus, early Europeans celebrated the winter solstice. In Scandinavia, the Norse celebrated Yule from Dec. 21, the winter solstice, through January. The tradition involved fathers and sons bringing home large logs to burn. People would celebrate and feast until the log burned out.

In Germany, the god Oden was honored during the mid-winter. He was a terrifying god who decided who would perish or prosper as he flew over the sky at night.

The Romans celebrated the week leading up to the winter solstice and continued for a full month. At this time, food and drink were plentiful and the normal Roman social order was turned upside down. For a month, slaves would become masters and peasants ran the city.

To the Editor: Thank you, Orcas, for all of the support We have been overwhelmed by the love and kindness our community has shown us.

We have received food, phone calls and lots of hugs. We can’t thank you all enough, it means a lot.

Mandy, Charlie, Alexa, Tyler and Bella Nigretto and Jim Nicol Eastsound

Thank you from Mia’s A heartfelt thank you from Mia’s Cafe to everyone whose generous donations made it possible for us to donate over $500 to the Orcas Food Bank. And thank you to Dimitri Stankevich for supplying us with bowls.

Mia Kartiganer Orcas

Lifeline under attack in Farm Bill in D.C America’s most effective antihunger initiative is SNAP (food stamps).

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In Washington, the 15th hungriest state in the nation, it helps put food on the table for 1.1 million hungry people, providing about $1.40 per person, per meal.

That may not sound like much, but to a hungry family with children, SNAP makes all the difference in the world.

SNAP helps families stay on their feet as they find work and put their kids through school. For many, SNAP means they can pay rent and cook dinner in their own home. For others, SNAP means being able to afford childcare for working parents and provide their kids with a nutritious breakfast.

For far too many, SNAP means they can make ends meet with their full-time jobs that don’t pay enough otherwise. The problem of hunger and food insecurity on early childhood development is real and research has shown a lasting impact on academic and life success.

Yet in Farm Bill negotiations, Congress is now proposing changes to cut another $8.6 billion from SNAP. This, just after Congress already cut $11 billion when they let economic stimulus spending for SNAP lapse on Nov. 1.

Turning to our hungry children and low income working families – again – to solve budget problems is no solution. Currently 15.8 million children experience hunger in the

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US (21.6 percent of all children) and 30.5 million (42.1 percent) of all children under 18 live in families with incomes below 185 percent of the federal poverty level.

We as a nation need to protect our most vulnerable, and passing a Farm Bill that increases hunger among children, seniors and veterans is not an option.

Let your legislators know SNAP is part of our vital safety network helping nourish our children and provide them with opportunities to be successful in school and life.

Kristen Rezabek San Juan Island (Editor’s note: Rezabek is executive director of Nutrition First, a San Juan Island-based nonprofit.)

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Obituaries

Robert Arthur Anderson

Michaeline “Binka” Nicol Michaeline “Binka” Nicol, age 69, of Eastsound, Wash., passed away suddenly on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bellingham, Wash.

She was born to Raymond and Statia (Doraz) Brogi on Feb. 8, 1944 in Fall River, Mass. She worked for many years at Sylvania alongside her mother.

Binka had two children, Mandy and Janis, before moving to Orcas Island, Wash., in 1983. Once on Orcas she worked at La Famiglia Ristorante owned by her brother and sisterin-law, Raymond and Patty Brogi. She also worked at the Lower Tavern as a bartender and was especially well known for her excellent cooking.

In 1985 she met and eventually married James Nicol. They have been married for 23 years and spent 15 of those years as care-

takers of property in West Sound. Binka was an animal lover and was a strong supporter of the Eastsound Off-Leash Dog Park. She could often be found there tossing the ball for her dog, Cooper, and making many new friends.

After retiring, Binka focused on her candy making that had been passed down to her by her mother.

Many of her friends have wonderful lasting memories of buying her toffee at holiday bazaars and experiencing her contagious smiles and laughter.

Binka is survived by her husband, James Nicol; two daughters, Mandy Nigretto of Eastsound and Janis Dufresne of Marysville, Wash.; a stepdaughter, Carol

Pierce, of Wenatchee, Wash.; a stepson, Tim Nicol of Republic, Wash.; her many grandchildren, Alexa, Tyler, Isabella, Asacia, Aiden, Brianna, Cody, Conner, Aliandra, and Ryan; and her three brothers, Raymond, Peter and John Brogi.

A Memorial Service for Binka will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the Eastsound Off-Leash Dog Park, P.O. Box 764, Eastsound, WA 98245.

Arrangements are in the care of Evans Funeral Chapel and Crematory, Inc., Anacortes, Wash., and the San Juan Islands. To share memories of Binka, please sign the online guest register at www.evanschapel. com.

Review of county finances

by MILENE HENLEY SJC Auditor

Third quarter is the neglected stepchild of quarterly financial reporting. During the time when I should be reporting on the county’s third quarter results, I am instead immersed in preparation of the next year’s budget. With all eyes on next year, third quarter gets short shrifted, and, unless there is something dramatic going on, we don’t make much of it.

Fortunately, the only news in the third quarter of 2013 was good. Sales tax revenue, which had lagged through the first half of the year, finally took off. An extraordinary July – caused by use tax (on goods or certain services in Washington when sales tax has not been paid) reporting of some large purchases – followed by an excellent August put us back on track to finish the year on budget.

Total revenues for both the general fund and all county funds are on track to finish the year just above budget.

Expenditures are also in good shape. In Washington State, expenditures are not allowed to exceed appropriations; that is, we can’t spend more than budget. Because we budget at the fund level, we watch each fund individually. A couple of county funds will bear watching at year-end, but most, includ-

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ing the general fund, are comfortably within budget.

With little quarterly news to report on, we can look instead to next year. It took some judicious trimming, but the adopted 2014 general fund budget came in virtually identical to the 2013 budget. The adopted budget is almost three percent less than in 2013.

A better measure of whether operations are decreasing, increasing, or remaining stable is headcount: how many people does the county employ?

We measure employees in full-time equivalents. Since some employees are fractional – a person who works half-time, for example – we add all those fractions together to get total FTEs. For 2014, we have budgeted 219.735 FTEs. Yes, we get down to some pretty small fractions for our seasonal staff, such as in Parks and Fair. That number represents a decrease of just over 6 FTEs from 2013. While

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there are minor changes here and there, the difference is primarily attributable to the closure of County Solid Waste operations.

Fortunately, there were no layoffs: the former employees of our transfer stations either joined the roads department (without an increase in roads FTE, by the way), or joined the private entities that took over the transfer stations.

So we’re really looking at a business-as-usual year in 2014.Unfortunately, because expenditures tend to increase faster than revenues, business as usual will not be sustainable. I encourage you to let the county know which services you value, and which ones you think we could do without.

For me, new years are a time of hope and promise.

My hope is that you enjoy the holidays, and look forward to a year of hopes realized and promises fulfilled.

Robert Arthur Anderson died on Dec. 15, 2013. He was born on Aug. 22, 1926 in Detroit, Mich.

Robert was raised in Detroit during the city’s glory years and then at the age of 16 relocated with his family to Pasadena, Calif. At 17 years old with World War II in progress, Robert volunteered for the Navy. He was deployed on the Sitcoh Bay spending 10 months sailing the Pacific and encountered his first round of combat in Okinawa. When Robert returned from overseas, he attended Pasadena JC. In 1952 the Army deployed him as a 3rd Class

Petty Officer. Robert ended up stationed in Trieste, Italy from July 1952 to October 1953 as part of a peace keeping force. Robert graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He eventually worked as a probation officer with the County of San Diego and retired after 21 years of service.

In 1987 Robert relocated to Orcas Island, Washington and lived on “his beloved island” the rest of his life.

Robert’s memorial ser-

vice will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 26 at Emmanuel Episcopal Parish of Orcas Island Eastsound, 242 Main Street, Eastsound, Washington 98245.

A reception hosted by the Orcas Hotel is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. A private interment will be held at Woodlawn Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Lighthouse Mission Ministries, 910 W. Holly Street, Bellingham, Washington 98225.

Arrangements are in the care of Evans Funeral Chapel and Crematory, Inc., Anacortes, Wash. and the San Juan Islands. To share memories of Robert, please sign the guest register at www.evanschapel.com.

Concern over jet noise

by ANDE FINLEY

Citizens in the San Juans have recently learned about an Environmental Impact Study that is being conducted by the Navy to evaluate the potential environmental and health effects of adding 10 Growlers (EA-18G electronic attack aircraft) to the expeditionary force and 3 Growler aircraft to the training squadron at NAS Whidbey in Oak Harbor.

The Navy is also proposing to continue and increase Growler operations at both Ault Field in Oak Harbor and OLF Coupeville and has agreed to a three-year program training Australian pilots to fly EA-18G’s, which will bring an additional 12 aircraft to NAS Whidbey.

Earlier this year Coupeville’s Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve were successful at getting a temporary suspension of flight training at OLF Coupeville by filing a lawsuit, alleging that the field, built for World War II planes, does not meet Navy requirements for use with modern jets and has dangerous crash zones overlapping with homes and businesses.

The flights at OLF increased from 3,200 in 2010 to 13,300 in 2012 and that number is likely to go up with additions of new squadrons.

Their website (http://citi-

zensofebeysreserve.com/ Issues.html) characterizes the Central Whidbey experience of frequent flyovers with higher noise levels than ever before as “living underneath a full-time highvelocity runway.”

Lopez southenders are all too familiar with the impacts of the NAS Whidbey Growler program. Flights can occur any day of the work week, and the invasive noise can go on until well after midnight, rattling windows at potentially damaging decibel levels even inside buildings.

Concerns among the island communities are not limited to the effects of noise levels. There have been eye-witness reports of jet fuel dumping over Smith and Minor Islands west of Whidbey, both National Wildlife Refuges surrounded by the largest kelp beds in

the Salish Sea.. Impacts of jet fuel exhaust and emissions on air and water quality and agricultural activities need to be considered as well as the incompatibility of jet noise with the beauty and quiet on which the San Juan economy, based in great part on tourism, depends.

As with the recent Cherry Point coal export terminal EIS, scoping is an early and open process where the public is invited to help identify issues to be studied.

The scoping period ends on Jan. 3, 2014.

If you share any of these concerns, make your voice heard at www.whidbeyeis. com and write your state and federal congressional representatives and your county council member. For sample scoping comments letter, contact Cynthia Dilling at seraphim@rockisland.com.

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TOP STORIES FROM 1 Two other fires this year made headlines. An 85-foot luxury yacht was almost completely destroyed July 10 after flames grabbed hold of a below-deck cabin at the front end of the vessel, which was moored at Roche Harbor Resort marina on San Juan Island. The yacht was estimated to be valued at $5.4 million making it stand as the largest singleloss in dollar value on San Juan Island.

Just a few months later, a swift moving fire tore

through the interior of the Downriggers Restaurant in the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 17, leaving the Friday Harbor waterfront eatery in ruins. A team of investigators later determined that the cause was an electrical problem within a wall near the kitchen area.

#3 Pride flags

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Coleman, it outlined negative feedback that new Eastsound bakery owners David Ellertsen and Lee Horswill received about flying a pride flag in front of their business.

They were told “numerous” but anonymous islanders felt it was inappropriate.

The couple was told: “We’re okay that you’re gay, but don’t throw it in our faces.”

They were warned it would damage their business. As a result, they removed the rainbow flag.

The letter attracted the most attention in Sounder online history with more than 100 responses from community members and more than 600 people “liking” the letter on the social networking site Facebook.

The Sounder also penned an editorial on the topic entitled “Intolerance should not be tolerated.”

Outraged locals headed directly to Ellertsen and his fiancé Horswill at their bakery to show support. The letter also prompted businesses to unite and take a stand together by raising rainbow flags over Labor Day weekend. The couple printed rainbow bracelets that said “Celebrate Orcas Island” that were distributed around town. The story was also covered in “The Stranger” in Seattle.

#4 Sailboat

sinks after ferry collision

A 28-foot sailboat sank after it was struck by the

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Firefighter Doug Maya (left) and assistant chief Mik Preysz at the Exchange fire.

Hyak ferry on Sept. 13. The sailboat’s lone occupant, a man in his mid-60s, did not sustain major injuries.

A Fish and Wildlife boat towed the sailboat away, but it later sank in 250 feet of water. The accident forced the cancellation of that day’s next inter-island boat and was a disturbing sight for many people on board the ferry watching the accident occur.

Wa s h i n g t o n State Ferries removed the captain and the second mate from duty onboard the Hyak and placed the two on administrative assignment.

In November, Washington State Ferries convened a board of inquiry to investigate the collision. They concluded that human error was responsible for the accident.

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On May 23, the northern section of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Mount Vernon collapsed.

The incident was caused when a southbound Mullen Trucking Company truck hauling a large housing for mining equipment clipped one or more load-bearing supporting struts as it crossed the bridge.

The over-height truck was accompanied by a pilot car with a vertical measuring pole, which, according to witnesses, also struck the bridge in front of the truck following behind.

Three people were rescued from two vehicles that plunged into the water along with the bridge. All three were unharmed and released from local hospitals after being checked out and warmed up. A temporary bridge was erected on June 19 allowing thru traffic on I-5.

Local business owners in the Skagit Valley and surrounding areas, including the San Juans, were concerned that the bridge collapse would negatively affect business. In response to this concern, $150,000 was released from the strategic reserve account to support economies in impacted areas.

Businesses impacted by the collapse were encouraged to report economic losses to county emergency management officials.

#6 Man pleads guilty to rape

A 21-year-old Kirkland man faces up to five years in prison on two separate sex crimes after admitting that he raped two teenage

girls in the haze of a latenight alcohol-fueled party in Eastsound a year ago in mid-October.

On Nov. 18, Peter John Anderson pleaded guilty in San Juan County Superior Court to two counts of third-degree rape, a Class C felony. Anderson, who will be required to register as a sex offender as a result of the conviction, is slated to be sentenced on Feb. 28.

According to court documents, prosecutors accused Anderson of forcing himself upon two 15-year-old girls and of sexually assaulting each at separate times on the same night. In addition to being under the age of consent, both girls reportedly were incapacitated by a combination of alcohol and marijuana at the time each was sexually assaulted.

Anderson was 20 years old at the time.

It is not the first time the 21-year-old has been prosecuted in local court for an alleged sex crime.

In June 2010, Anderson, then 18, was charged with second-degree rape for an alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. The case was dismissed six months later after the girl, reportedly fearful of the potential of confrontational court proceedings, opted against taking the witness stand to testify at trial.

#7 Exchange

burns down; ORS takes over On Feb. 9, Orcas Island’s beloved recycle and reuse center dubbed “The Exchange” burned to the ground in a five-hour blaze. The fire came after the Exchange, a popular reuse facility, made headlines

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TOP STORIES FROM 6 with its grassroots movement to take local control of solid waste on the island.

Orcas Recycling Services, which runs the Exchange, received a unanimous vote from the San Juan County Council in November to be the sole operator of the Orcas Island transfer, recycling and reuse facility starting March 31.

After the fire, islanders expressed their reactions with words like – “historic tragedy,” “very sad,” and “the Orcas community will mourn this passing and stand to support the metamorphosis of the spirit of the Exchange.”

Officials deemed the fire accidental.

ORS, which officially opened for business on Sept.

6, is planning on building a reuse facility on the site but first expects to complete a site master plan. ORS has not yet proposed a schedule for construction of the reuse facility.

#8 Three-person council elected

San Juan County’s legislative and executive branches began a new chapter on April 23.

Voters backed the reelection bids of three county council incumbents in the first county-wide election in seven years.

Bob Jarman beat Lovel Pratt to represent District 1, Rick Hughes won for District 2 against Lisa Byers and Jamie Stephens beat Brian McClerren for District 3.

The new three-person council was enacted after county charter changes were approved by voters in November. The changes reduced the size of the council from six elected officials to three, redrew the council legislative districts from six to three, and instituted county-wide elections for each of those three newly created council positions.

Changes to the charter also turned the three council positions into full-time jobs, eliminated the position of county administrator, and delivered into the hands of the council the responsibility for both legislative duties and dayto-day management of the county. Council members are paid an annual salary of $75,000, plus benefits.

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the whales?

Curiosity turned into a growing sense of unease by mid-July.

As a record-low number of sightings of southern resident killer whales off the west side of San Juan Island, in the waters of Haro Strait, stretched into its fourth month, even those who watch them most couldn’t help but ask: “Where are the whales?”

The spring and early summer of 2013 now stand as the lowest of low-water marks in more than 20 years of tracking the Southern residents in Haro Strait – and dramatically so.

Between April and late July, a member of J, K or L pods had been sighted on any one of only 17 days, less than half the average for that period and 12 days fewer than the previous low.

Some blamed a dismal return of Chinook salmon to the Fraser River. And while sightings became more frequent in late summer and even more so in the fall, the slow start foreshadowed dispiriting news to come.

Four members of the endangered population remain missing, including an 80-year-old female, J-8, and are believed dead.

The loss of eight orcas over the past three years, the population now totals 80 animals, prompted some to call for greater protections in the federally managed recovery plan that’s supposed to help bring the population back from the edge of extinction.

sex offender moves to FH

In the wake of an outpouring of opposition, neighborhood protests and a series of tense town hall meetings, San Juan Island got what proved to be a twoyear reprieve from being the home of San Juan County’s only Level III sex offender.

That was back in early 2011.

But by February 2013, the state Department of Corrections no longer had authority to tell David Franklin Stewart where he could or could not live. Freed from courtordered residential oversight, the 60-year-old former Snohomish County resident and convicted child rapist opted to move into the home that he and his wife purchased six years earlier in San Juan Island’s Bridal Trails neighborhood.

As a registered sex offender, Stewart was required to notify the Sheriff ’s Department within three days of moving to his San Juan Island home, which he did. He served seven and a half years in prison and two years probation for first-degree child rape. Neighbors reported seeing Stewart at his San Juan Island home Feb. 17.

Currently, San Juan County is home to 20 registered sex offenders, 18 of whom, at Level I, are considered low-risk to reoffend.

Stewart, who because of his classification is considered at high-risk to reoffend, remains the only Level III sex offender in San Juan County.

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Island Air San Juan County residents have been concerned and confused by the emergence of a second emergency transport aircraft.

The Airlift Northwest helicopter has been serving island residents for many years, but Island Air Ambulance fixed-wing arrived on the scene last year in tandem with the opening of PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center in 2012.

There are a number of differences in equipment and services available from each program, the primary one being that Airlift Northwest helicopters fly directly to hospitals with landing pads, while fixed-wing planes must land at airports. The Air Ambulance service results in no out-of-pocket costs to residents of San Juan Island or residents within the taxing district that supports San Juan Island EMS. Orcas and outer-island residents have wondered if Island Air could put Airlift Northwest out of business, leaving them with much

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The 12-foot sixgill shark that washed ashore in Argyle Lagoon. fewer options when it comes to emergency transport.

Shark washes ashore The waterfront of San Juan Island became a makeshift laboratory when the body of one of the more poorly understood creatures of the deep washed

up in Argyle Lagoon June 26. Faculty and students of University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs rushed to the scene to take advantage of a rare chance to poke, prod, examine, dissect and carry back parts of a recently deceased sixgill shark.

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Island tradition: Annual Polar Bear Plunge

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The 2012 Polar Bear Plunge at Cascade Lake. This year’s theme is “The Morning After.”

Call 376-2561 for an appointment with Dr. Camille Fleming Orcas Medical Center is now scheduling appointments with Camille Fleming, MD, MBA, who is joining the Dr. Fleming with Quinn and Sofia. medical staff in January.

She will begin seeing patients on January 7.

Dr. Fleming is an experienced family physician with a passion for promoting wellness, developing a relationship with each patient, and providing high-quality health care throughout the life span. As a mother of three children – Anneke 13, Sofia 10, and Quinn 7 – she understands the needs and concerns of parents and families. She has a strong interest in women’s health and pediatrics and plans to provide prenatal care on the island.

Orcas Medical Center is at 7 Deye Lane, next door to Orcas Center.

Call 376-2561 for appointments.

Start the New Year with a jolt and take part in a wonderful Orcas tradition: Orcas Island Rowing’s “Polar Bear Plunge.”

The hearty souls of Orcas charge headlong into Cascade Lake en masse. Within a few seconds they re-emerge shocked into a clearer perspective on the world and ready for what 2014 may bring. The plunge is open to all comers.

The event starts very promptly at 11 a.m. on New Year’s day. It is too cold to stand around in your skivvies, so be there early and ready to go.

This year the theme for the 17th annual event, should you choose to accept your assignment, is “The Morning After.” There will be a hot fire and hot drinks to help with recuperation after the deed is done.

This year the plunge will move back to the traditional location at the “swim area” at the north end of Cascade Lake. Easier access and parking and the big fireplace in the day use shelter make for a more comfortable location when there is a big crowd.

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Donations are accepted at the Plunge. Each year a commemorative tee shirt is created.

This year features a very cool design by one of the team’s rowers Jay Zier. The tee shirts will be available at the Plunge, or by contacting the club. Some rare historical shirts from past years will also be available at the event. There are sponsorship forms available from the rowing club website, www. orcasislandrowing.org, in case you need some motivation to “take the Plunge.” Let your friends and family know how brave you are and raise a few bucks for the junior rowing club. The club is always in need of funds.

The first plunge was on Jan. 1, 1998. That year local sheriff ’s deputies Ray Clever, Ed Commet and Herb Crowe were auctioned off to jump in the lake. Since then there has been a theme for each event.

To buy shirts call Jay Zier at 376-4507 or email jayzier87@gmail.com.

For information about the Plunge event call Martin Taylor 376-6935, email martin@ orcasdigerati.com or check on the club website www.orcasislandrowing.org.

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very fall, they burst through the ground, uprooting moss and dirt, to pepper the pathways of island forests. Appearing in a variety of colors, mushrooms are a delight to look at – and sometimes eat.

“The sheer diversity of fungi in our area ranges from the familiar mushrooms to jelly fungi, earth tongues, coral fungi, and many more that do not look like mushrooms or cannot even be seen without a microscope,” said Russel Barsh director of Kwiaht, a Lopez-based science laboratory.

Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of the mushroom organism. They are designed to produce and disperse spores, which are one-celled, seed-like reproductive cells.

“So they are like the apples on a tree,” said Western Washington University Professor and Mycologist Fred Rhoades.

The “tree part” is called the mycelium, a net-like web of tiny threads (called hyphae) that lives in the habitat. Fungi can’t make their own food like plants, so they depend on getting it from other organisms. Mushroom mycelia are usually decomposers (breaking down dead plant parts to get their food) or they are mycorrhizal (forming partnerships with tree roots and helping the trees get minerals in exchange for carbohydrates given by the tree).

For the gilled mushrooms and their allies, the mycelium is perennial, meaning it lives year-round – some for hundreds or thousands of years – but puts up mushrooms once a year, usually in the fall following the start of the rains and decreasing temperatures. The spores are often wind-dispersed and grow into a new mycelium in the fall on the right habitat. Rhoades says he has found 350 species of mushrooms in the San Juans – many are edible and many are not. He recommends a local guide by Steve Trudell and Joe Ammirati entitled “Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.”

Do not attempt to identify an edible mushroom by matching the photos alone.

Never experiment with a mushroom that you can’t positively identify. The notable edible varieties here are: Agaricus augustus, Agaricus campestris, Boletus edulis, Boletus mirabilis, Cantharellus formosus, Cantharellus subalbidus, Chlorophyllum rhacodes complex, Coprinus comatus, Hydnum repandum, Lactarius rubrilacteus, Lepista nuda, Morchella species (in the spring), Pleurotus pulmonarius, Russula xerampelina, and Sparassis crispa.

Local projects Biomachine at Ray’s Pharmacy Kwiaht Scientist Nathan Hodges designed and built a biomachine at Ray’s Pharmacy with Orcas High School marine technical students and teacher Marta Branch last May. Pharmacy owners Rick and Marlace Hughes offered their

Eastsound property as a “laboratory” for the students to learn about stormwater runoff issues and design a raingarden with oyster mushrooms.

“The students did a great job with a master plan design for the whole parking area that included lots of pocked raingardens and swales to treat the water,” Hodges said.

The idea is that during the summer months and on dry windy days the particulates from cars get blown up onto the roofs of Eastsound. When it rains that pollution is washed off the roof and makes its way into the storm drains. The raingarden they built is designed to intercept that flow of polluted rainwater and, using a mixture of physical and biological filtration, capture the pollutants in the raingarden, keeping them out of the larger ecosystem.

The students designed a “lasagna” system where different layers of material in the raingarden perform different functions.

On the bottom is a layer of igneous scoria, which is a type of volcanic rock that is full of microscopic holes, sort of like pumice.

Those holes can host bacteria, capture sediments, and also make the rocks much less dense, allowing good drainage through the bottom of the raingarden. Then they put in a layer of landscape fabric, a mixture of sand and compost and a selection of native woodland plants that would tolerate flooding in the winter and dry soils in the summer.

Then the class spread out mats of straw that the students and Kwiaht’s geneticist Madrona Murphy had inoculated with oyster mushrooms earlier in the year followed by a layer of wood chips.

“Oyster mushrooms have been shown to be able to break down some hydrocarbons, especially motor oil,” Hodges said.

He says the key to a functional biomachine is a “robust” microbial community present that not only can actively break down Contributed photo some of the oils, pesticides, and roofing byproducts but can create a functional living system that has the capacity to absorb and filter pollutants from the stormwater. Bacteria, fungi, and archeabacteria are the foundations of such a system.

Mushroom farm Orcas Islander Jonathan Calhoun is using fungi as part of a new business venture.

He has been practicing mycology as a hobby for around 10 years, and in the spring of 2012 he decided to start a small farm, North Beach Mushrooms.

“It has been a wonderful learning experience, and we are currently in the process of moving and trying to scout new locations for the farm to increase production,” Calhoun said.

So far they have offered oyster mushrooms to local restaurants and at the Orcas Island Farmers Market. Once he finds a new spot for the farm, they will have shiitake, lion’s mane, king oyster, pink and golden oysters and many others including medicinal mushrooms. The varieties are all grown under controlled conditions using natural substrates. Mushrooms grow on all sorts of agricultural waste products

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Measuring nearly 12 feet in length, the carcass of the female, estimated at 25-50 years of age, was nearly in tact. Named for its distinctive feature, all other sharks have five, sixgills are slow-moving predators typically found in the outer ocean and in waters of up to 3,000 feet deep. While little is known of their behaviors, due to the depth at which they live, the prevailing theory is that female sixgills venture into the more protected, shallow waters of Puget Sound to give birth.

Labs’ shark specialist Adam Summers said the female was not carrying “pups” and the cause of its death remains unknown.

“It might just be a case of old age,” he said.

OPALCO looks at Broadband Orcas Power and Light Cooperative unveiled a proposal in Feb. 2013 to build a hybrid fiber-wireless system that would serve 90 percent of San Juan County.

In June, OPALCO scaled back the plan after only 900 members signed up. It closed the sign-up process and returned deposits to those who pre-subscribed. Its more conservative plan included delivering better broadband, at lower risk, by sharing its infrastructure with all of the other Internet service providers.

“This infrastructure provider concept means that we will offer access to our data networking infrastructure through leasing agreements,” said OPALCO representatives at the time.

The need for better county-wide communications became even more apparent after a week-long CenturyLink outage (see page one) this fall.

In late November, in front of a packed room at their regularly scheduled meeting in Friday Harbor, the OPALCO Board issued and approved the following motion: “Our island communities are suffering economic damage and safety issues caused directly by inadequate phone and Internet infrastructure. Therefore, OPALCO shall accelerate expansion of our local memberowned, robust and reliable high-speed data infrastructure to provide Internet, phone and emergency communication services

One of the many historic sites in the San Juan Islands National Monument, Patos Lighthouse sits at the water's edge of Haro Strait, with the grandeur of snow-capped Mount Baker in the background. to our members. Deployment will be supported and funded by OPALCO assets, including equity and rates.”

This acceleration does not mean that OPALCO will necessarily provide broadband services directly to members.

Other co-op members and ISPs such as CenturyLink and RockIsland can take advantage of OPALCO’s infrastructure and accelerated expansion to provide broadband services directly to members.

San Juans designated National Monument More than 1,000 acres on dozens of the San Juan islands were designated as National Conservation Lands by President Barack Obama on March 25.

Second Congressional District Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Everett) and U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell previously introduced legislation in Congress to designate about a thousand acres of land scattered through the San Juans as a National Conservation Area, but the bill stalled in Congress, leading them to ask President Obama to declare the lands as a National Monument by executive order under the Antiquities Act. Both the designation as a national monument and as a NCA drew the support of former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

Sally and Tom Reeve of Lopez Island and a dozen other islanders formed and led a citizen action group to promote the project, and several of them accompanied San Juan County Councilman Jamie Stevens to Washington, D.C., to advance the cause.

The designation as National Conservation Lands under the Antiquities Act of 1906 means that the lands join 103 other parcels of public land as National Monuments.

Although there are millions of acres of National Conservation Lands, National Monument status is “much more significant,” according to Meghan Kissell of the Conservation Lands Foundation.

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Fungi, insects, and forests

by RUSSEL BARSH AND MADRONA MURPHY of Kwiaht

Like humans, many insects love to dine on fungi. Some grow their own fungi. And some have fungi growing inside them.

Insects help spread fungal spores, cultivate the fungi they find most tasty, and sometimes become meals for fungi themselves.

Pick an older, fully opened mushroom and slice it lengthwise with a sharp knife. You are likely to find many tiny pinholes in the flesh tunneled by insect larvae, mainly the “maggots” of midges, gnats and flies (Diptera). You may also see even tinier juvenile springtails (Collembola, a primitive insect order). As the mushroom ages, these small insects will literally eat its flesh from the inside out before they mature and fly away (or hop, in the case of springtails), carrying microscopic fungal spores that can begin new fungal communities.

Collembola not only eat macrofungi (mushrooms) but graze on the microscopic films of fungi and bacteria that grow on decaying plant material, leaving a trail of well-fertilized fungal spores behind them as they work their way through the leaf litter.

Mushrooms that smell bad are usually using strong

odors to attract flies. Look closely at the cap from two or three feet away and you may see a cloud of small flies or springtails, nibbling and depositing eggs.

Mushrooms harness the mobility of flies and springtails by making strong smells the way flowering plants use sweet smells and fruit to attract birds, bees, and mammals to help pollinate them. Similarly, some mushrooms use mild aromas and flavors to harness the mobility of mammals including humans. In our area, chipmunks and squirrels distribute the spores of many fungi.

One of the most interesting gut-fungus partnerships, recently in the science news, is between red turpentine beetles, a widespread native North American pine borer, and the gut fungus that enables it to digest cellulose. These beetles were somehow introduced into Chinese forests about a decade ago, and their gut fungi mutated in response to new trees in their diet.

Here’s the most interesting part: the Chinese variant of the gut fungus causes host trees to release large quantities of a volatile carene that attracts more beetles, causing worse infestations than have ever been recorded on the beetles’ native continent.

Entomopathic fungi turn the table on insects by colonizing them, growing on their exoskeletons, and eventually invading and consuming their soft tissues, killing their host. There are hundreds of species of insect-eating fungi in the Orders Entomophthorales and Hypocreales, each specializing in different species of moths, flies, aphids, ants, or other insects.

Insects try to groom fungal conidia or spores from

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themselves, and social insects such as termites and ants groom each other.

Aphid-tending ants, common in the islands, have been observed carefully removing conidia from their aphids. Some entomopathic fungi short-circuit this protective behavior by poisoning their insect host, incapacitating it and preventing it from returning to its hive or colony.

The most bizarre insecteating fungi belong to the genus Ophiocordyceps, which has about 140 described species that eat insects. Several eat neotropical carpenter ants, first turning them into “zombies” that climb trees before they die. This ensures that the fungal spores dribbling from the decaying ant get well distributed!

Unfortunately, we have no mushroom-cultivating ants or termites in our relatively cool, northerly climate. Nor do we have any zombie-making fungi, although we do have a related entomopathic fungus, Ophiocordyceps myrmecophila, which eats formicine ants such as carpenter ants (genus Camponotus), and aphidtending ants.

Island forests also exhibit some elegant three-way partnerships of trees, fungi, and insects. Mycorrhizal macrofungi such as Russulas, Laccarias, and Suillus form extensive flushes beneath the tree canopy in our rainy season and are essential for tree growth. The fungi collect water and minerals (including phosphorus) and convey them to the roots of trees. In exchange, the trees share some of their sugars from photosynthesis.

In some species of mycorrhizal fungi such as Suillus tomentosus or poor-man’s slippery Jack, widespread in our area, the fungus also has a bacterial partner that fixes nitrogen. What a deal for the trees!

Where do insects fit into the picture? Springtails graze on the fungal mycelia around the tree roots, and spread the fungus throughout the forest.

Recent research found that this is the main way that some mycorrhizal fungi get around. At the same time, tiny springtails are prey for larger insects, birds and even freshwater fish.

They form a bridge between plants, fungal decomposers and nutrient recycling, and the animal food web.

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‘cookie-cutter’ approach

National Theatre Live’s Encore of the critically acclaimed dynamic and contemporary production of “Hamlet” opens the 2014 season at Orcas Center on Thursday, Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Olivier Award-winning actor Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in an exciting new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition.

Following his many celebrated performances at the National Theatre (“The Last of the Haussmans,” “Othello”) and in film (“James Bond: Skyfall, Quantum of Solace”), Rory Kinnear is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia). Hamlet is directed by Nicholas Hytner.

Tickets are $18, $13 for students, $2 off for Orcas Center members, and may be purchased at www.orcascenter.org or by calling 376-2281 ext. 1 or visiting the Orcas Center Box Office open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from noon to 4 p.m.

by STEVE WEHRLY Journal reporter

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Church Family Center.

WEDS., DEC. 25

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 5:30

HOLY EUCHARIST: 10 a.m., Emmanuel Episcopal Parish.

FRI., DEC. 27

YULETIDE BAROQUE CONCERT:

Jeff Cohan, Martin Lund and Linda Tsatsanis, 4 p.m., Emmanuel Episcopal Parish.

SUN., DEC. 29

MAGIC SHOW: Thirteen-yearold Matthew Laslo will step onto the big stage at the SeaView theatre at 7 p.m. for his first full-length illusion show. Doors open at 6 p.m. for a reception in the Marquee Lounge. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for 12 and under and available online at: http://goo.gl/ LFUFXV, SeaView Theatre and at Darvill’s Bookstore.

Net Proceeds will benefit Orcas Open Arts.

SAT., JAN. 4

BIRD COUNT: San Juan Islands Audubon Society is holding its annual Christmas Bird Count on Lopez, Shaw, Orcas and San Juan.

Hundreds of people have participated over the years by either walking, driving, or going by boat. For more information and to join, call Barbara Jensen at 378-3068.

SAT., JAN. 11

TUCK AND PATTI: Orcas

Open Arts presents jazz

duo Tuck and Patti at the Seaview Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20 in advance at Smith and Speed and Brownpapertickets.com or $25 at the door.

SUN. – ONGOING

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Benson Hall, Emmanuel Church.

ADULT VOLLEYBALL: Adult rec volleyball indoors. Play every Sunday, Wednesday, 7 to 9 p.m., Old Gym, $2.

MON. – ONGOING ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 5:30

to 6:30 p.m., Benson Hall, Emmanuel Church.

AL-ANON: 7 p.m., 197 Main Street, Benson Hall, Emmanuel Church.

WEDS. – ONGOING to 6:30 p.m., Benson Hall, Emmanuel Church.

LIONS CLUB: Weekly lunch, 11:45 a.m., Legion.

THURS. – ONGOING AL-ANON: 5:30 p.m., Benson

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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: 5:30 p.m., Orcas Longhouse, 236 Prune Aly, Eastsound.

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The proposed changes were fashioned in response to issues raised by the Growth Management Hearings Board in its decision on appeals filed earlier this year by Friends of the San Juans, the Common Sense Alliance and others. The GMHB essentially ruled in favor of contentions of Friends, but both Friends and the Common Sense Alliance have appealed the GMHB decision to the San Juan County Superior Court.

The ordinances were passed after a contentious six-year process and must now be amended and returned for review by the GMHB in order for the county to achieve compliance with the state Growth Management Act. The wetland protection buffers were, and still are, among the most foughtover parts of the ordinances.

The county council in 2012 decided not to follow state Department of Ecology guidelines, but the planning commission decided during its November deliberations to adopt the DOE’s method of determining water quality buffers.

The staff presentation to the council says the planning commission’s recommendation addresses the GMHB’s decision in four ways: critical areas are protected within the “Best

Available Science” range included in the CAO adoption record; the lower pollution percentage removal and the controversial methodology originally adopted by the county in the CAO are eliminated; using the DOE guidance establishes buffers, a so-called “one-size-fits-all or “cookie-cutter” approach, which comport with best available science; and the risk for failure to protect critical areas is reduced from “high” to “moderate”.

Friends attorney Kyle Loring applauded the recommendation in a statement: “By using one of Ecology’s standardized, sitespecific buffer methods, the county can rely on a tested model that increases predictability and lowers costs for landowners while at the same time providing better protection for our wetlands, streams, and seas, and the critters that need them.

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Dave Cable, president of the Common Sense Alliance, said that he was “a little disappointed” in the planning commission plan and that CSA’s appeal to the Superior Court would continue.

The council continues to follow its schedule for compliance with the GMBH decision, which includes another hearing on Dec. 17 on the recommended changes, a public hearing on Feb. 11, council deliberations and decision on Feb. 18 and filing of the revised CAO with the Hearings Board no later than March 5.

Both the original CAO and the revisions are intended to become effective March 1, although the CSA has asked the Superior Court to freeze the effective date of the CAO until all appeals are finally decided.

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As uncertainty in pricing and power supply dominate the energy landscape, OPALCO is building on its strong foundation of energy efficiency and conservation programs to activate the Co-op community towards greater action and reward.

The 2014 budget has allocated $100,000 in matching grant funds which will be awarded to local nonprofit organizations that can expand our education and outreach efforts – and funding potential – in the areas of energy efficiency and conservation and to incentivize energy saving building retrofits.

Energy efficiency and conservation activities and gains are the key to managing our co-op energy load and mitigating the rising cost of power.

Northwest Power and Conservation Council states, “Nearly 60% of the region’s new demand for electricity over the next five years, and 85% over the next 20 years could be met with energy efficiency.”

“During the last rate period (FY 2012-13), OPALCO’s energy efficiency and conservation programs, funded

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That is a significant impact, and I’m proud of our staff and members – but we can and should do more.”

This fall, a group of members already engaged in energy efficiency and conservation activities began to meet and discuss what could be accomplished while working together under OPALCO’s Sustainable Energy Grants Program. A roundtable of interested nonprofits met with OPALCO leadership in December to discuss projects and the potential for cooperation between the groups to make best use of resources and accelerate progress toward a more sustainable energy future.

The participating groups include Island Stewards, San Juan Islands Conservation District, Solar Gardens and the Opportunity Council.

Members of Islands Energy Coalition and Gray Cope, who are considering participation, were also in attendance.

Eligible organizations must have a board that includes representation from all ferry served islands.

Cornelius welcomed the groups to the table, thanked them for their commitment to sustainable energy and made it clear that this work takes top priority at OPALCO: “This work is critical to our mutual success and a healthy future for our island communities. OPALCO is committed to working side by side with you on creative solutions for energy efficiency

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“We’re all in this together,” said Adrienne Reed of Island Stewards.

“It’s exciting to imagine what we can accomplish working in collaboration – with each other and with OPALCO.” Stay tuned for more information as the work of these cooperating nonprofit organizations takes shape.

And, stay tuned for information on OPALCO’s Community Solar Initiative. Although not included in the matching grants program, OPALCO has committed sites on three islands for community solar projects.

Qualified nonprofits will install, operate and maintain solar arrays and market to OPALCO members who want solar power, but can’t or don’t want to make the investment themselves.

OPALCO Board directives and policies are available online at www. opalco.com under “About/Board of Directors” and “Members/Member Service Policies.”

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SAN JUAN COUNTY PUBLIC NOTICES San Juan County, as an Equal Opportunity Employer, does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status in the provision of services, in programs or activities or employment opportunities and benefits.

Direct inquiries to Administrative Services at (360) 378-3870. TTD relay at 1-800-833-6388.

LEGAL NOTICE San Juan County Public Works 2014-2015 Motor Fuel Bid Date: January 8, 2014 REQUEST FOR BIDS PROJECT NAME: 2014-2015 Motor Fuel BIDS DUE: January 8, 2014 at 3:00 PM Public notice is hereby given that the San Juan County Public Works has issued a Request for Bids to provide Motor fuel for 2014-2015 on San

Juan, Orcas and Lopez Islands.

Specification packets are available at the San Juan County Public Works Department, 915 Spring Street, PO Box 729, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 Phone (360) 370-0500 or online at http://www.sanjuanco.com/publicworks/Bids-and-Specs.aspx.

LEGAL NO. SJ533375 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder.

December 18, 25, 2013.

LEGAL NOTICE San Juan County Public Works 2014-2015 MAINTENANCE MATERIALS- AGGREGATES Bid Date: January 8, 2014 REQUEST FOR BIDS PROJECT NAME: 2014-2015 MAINTENANCE MATERIALS- AGGREGATES BIDS DUE: January 8, 2014 at 3:15 PM Public notice is hereby given that the San Juan County Public Works has

issued a Call for Bids to provide Maintenance Materials for 2014-2015 Specification packets are available at the San Juan County Public Works Department, 915 Spring Street, PO Box 729, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 Phone (360) 370-0500 or online at http://www.sanjuanco.com/publicworks/Bids-and-Specs.aspx.

LEGAL NO. SJ533377 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder

December 18, 25, 2013.

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COMBINED NOTICE OF APPLICATIONS & HEARINGS Permit Number

Project Description

Tax Parcel Number, Project Location, and Island

Applicant/Agent Name and Address

Date of Date Other Application Complete Required Permits*

SEPA Suggested Existing Threshold End Date Project Environmental Determinat for SEPA Comments Documents -tion Comments End Date**

Hearing Body

Hearing Place

Hearin g Date

Enter the Farm and Ag Conservation 252442001, Fred and Barbara Ellis, Council POPNSP Planning Land taxation 777 Lopez Sound PO Box 730, Friday Harbor, 10/31/13 12/2/13 Hearing 2/21/14 Exempt 1/15/14 -13-0005 Commission program (current Road, Lopez Island WA 98250 Room use open space) SEPA Determination: San Juan County has determined that the projects SEPA Comments: Anyone desiring Application Comments: Any file may be NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS: Hearing Examiner noted above with a DNS or MDNS will not have probable significant adverse to comment on the Threshold examined by appointment during regular business meetings on San Juan Island start at 10:00 a.m., in the impacts on the environment and has issued a Threshold Determination Determination can do so by hours at the San Juan County CD&P, Courthouse Islanders Bank Admin. Building downstairs meeting pursuant to Sections 197-11-310 and 197-11-340 WAC. An Environmental submitting a written statement to Annex, Friday Harbor. Anyone desiring to room, 225 Blair Street, Friday Harbor. Planning Impact Statement will not be required under Section 43.21C.030 (2)(c) RCW. CD&P, P. O. Box 947 (135 Rhone comment on the Notice of Application can do so by Commission meetings begin at 8:45 am. Any person This determination was made after review of the environmental checklist and Street), Friday Harbor, WA. 98250 no submitting a written statement to CD&P no later desiring to comment prior to the hearing shall submit a other environmental information on file at Community Development and later than the comment date specified than the end date for project comments specified statement in writing to CD&P, PO Box 947, Friday Planning (CD&P). The County has determined that the requirements for above. The Threshold Determination above. Anyone who desires to provide testimony Harbor, WA. 98250. Written comments may also be environmental analysis, protection, and mitigation measures have been may be appealed by submitting a in the public hearing or desires a copy of the submitted at the hearing. A copy of the staff report for adequately addressed in the development regulations and comprehensive written statement of appeal along with decision for this project may do so by requesting this hearing may be obtained generally 7 days prior to plan adopted under Chapter 36.70A RCW, and in other applicable local, the basis for the appeal and a fee to such from CD&P. A copy of the staff report for this the public hearing from CD&P at the address above. state, or federal laws or rules, as provided by Section 43.21C.240 RCW and CD&P within 21 days after the end of project may be obtained from CD&P generally 7 * As directed by applicant, per UDC18.80.030.A.3.f Section 197-11-158 WAC, or as may be conditioned within any MDNS. the SEPA comment period. days prior to the public hearing. ** Per UDC 18.80.030.B.

NOTICE OF DECISIONS: Hearing Examiner decisions are posted on the County website at: sanjuanco.com/cdp/hearingexdecisions.aspx LEGAL NO. SJ950691 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder, MONTH DD, 2013

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN JUAN In Re: The Estate Of EMERY BOSTON EMMES, Deceased.

NO. 13-4-05061-5 NONPROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.42.030 The notice agent named below has elected to give notice to creditors of the above-named decedent. As of the date of the filing of a copy of this notice with the court, the notice agent has no knowledge of any other person acting as notice agent or of the appointment of a personal representative of the decedent’s estate in the state of Washington. According to the records of the court as are available on the date of the filing of this notice with the court, a cause number regarding the decedent has not been issued to any other notice agent and a personal representative of the decedent’s estate has not been appointed.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.42.070 by serving on or mailing to the notice agent or the notice agent’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the notice agent’s declaration and oath were filed. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the notice agent served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.42.020(2)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW

11.42.050 and 11.42.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of First Publication: December 25, 2013.

The notice agent declares under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of Washington on December 18, 2013, at Eastsound, Washington, that the foregoing is true and correct.

Signature of Notice Agent Notice Agent: Stephen Emmes Address for Mailing: P.O. Box 1, Olga, WA 98279 Address for Personal Service: 1 0 0 Olga Cemetery Road, Olga, WA 98279 Agent’s oath and declaration filed in San Juan County Superior Court Cause No. 13-4-05061-5.

LEGAL NO. S534619 Published: The Islands’ Sounder.

December 25, 2013 and January 1,8, 2014.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN JUAN In Re: The Estate Of JOHAN GERARD KOOYMAN, Deceased.

NO. 13-4-05066-6 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the

claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced.

The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.

Date of first publication: December 11, 2013 Personal Representative: Theo Mirani Notice Agent and Attorney for Personal Representative: Derek Mann Address for Mailing: P.O. Box 399, Eastsound, WA 98245 Address for Personal Service: 2 9 6 “A” Street, Eastsound, WA 98245 Theo Mirani, Administrator of Estate of Johan Gerard Kooyman Derek Mann, Attorney for Administrator of Estate Derek A. Mann Attorney for Administrator WSBA No. 20194 P.O. Box 399 Eastsound, WA 98245 (360) 376-3299 LEGAL NO. S532444 Published: The Islands’ Sounder.

December 11, 18, 25, 2013.

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 LEGAL NO. S533058 Published: The Islands’ Sounder December 18, 2013.

The OPALCO Board of Directors has set Saturday, May 3, 2014 for its Annual Meeting and election of directors from District 1 (San Juan, Pearl, Henry, Brown and Spieden islands).

No later than January 3, 2014 the directors will appoint a Nominating Committee consisting of three to five OPALCO members from Voting District 1. The Committee will nominate two to five members as candidates for each of two positions for Director from District 1. A list of director candidates will be posted in the lobby of the Eastsound office no later than March 4, 2014. Fifteen or more members from District 1 may make other nominations by signed petition filed at the Eastsound office no later than March 19, 2014. If you are an OPALCO member living in District 1 and are interested in serving on the Nominating Committee or the OPALCO Board of Directors, please contact Bev Madan at 376-3549 or bmadan@opalco.com.

LEGAL NO. SJ533040 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder.

December 18, 25, 2013 and January 01, 2014.

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Office Closure The Sounder office will be closed on Tuesday, Dec. 24 and Wednesday, Dec. 25 for the Christmas holiday.

EASTSOUND The Barnacle Tapas bar and restaurant 249 Prune Alley Open 5 pm to midnight, Closed Mondays Enzos Caffe (376-3732) N. Beach Rd Open daily 7:30 to 4 pm Creperie open Saturday and Sunday from 9 to 3 pm Lower Tavern (376-4848) Lunch & Dinner 46 Prune Alley Opens daily at 11 am Food to 10 pm (Sun – Thurs) Food to 11 pm (Fri & Sat)

Mijitas Mexican Kitchen (376-6722) Dinner 310 A. Street (at N. Beach Rd) Tuesday-Saturday 3pm-8pm Happy Hour 3-5:30 pm (Tue-Sat)

The Madrona Bar & Grill (376-7171) Lunch & Dinner 310 Main Street 11:30 am – 9 pm (Sun - Thurs) 11:30 am - 10 pm (Fri & Sat) 3 pm - 6 pm Happy Hour (M-F)

Pizzeria Portofino 376-2085 Dine-In/ Take-Out 274 A St (Off N. Beach Rd.) Open Daily at 4:30 pm Closed Sunday

To advertise, call Colleen, 376-4500 • Cost: $12 per listing, 6 lines max.

TeeJay’s Tacos Oddfellows Hall, 376-6337 Thurs and Fri, Noon to 6:30 pm Saturday, 11 am to 3 pm

WEST SOUND West Sound Cafe (376-4440) Dinner 4362 Crow Valley Road 5 pm – 8:30 pm (Thurs-Sat)

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