OPINION
8 — Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Friends:
Continued from page 7 asm, how she rallied the entire Islander’s Bank family together into a fantastic Denim Finish on February 28,” said Stacy, a longtime Islanders Bank customer and fan. Other totals collected and contributed include San Juan County Courthouse, with 334 pounds, Friday Harbor Pet Supply, with 284 pounds, APS Shelter , with 220 pounds, Islands Veterinary Clinic, with 110 pounds, The Barking Bird with 45 pounds, and Windermere San Juan Island, as The TopPaw, with 1,338 pounds, topping their 2012 collection total of 1,000 pounds. “The promise of the
TopPaw Title, a gourmet lunch as well as putting our best paws forward for island families, pets and our community was all the inspiration we needed to get onboard with the challenge again this year,” said Gary Franklin, managing broker for Windermere San Juan Island, when asked why his office is continuously so enthusiastic and committed to the Community Pet Food Drive. As for what is on the menu for that gourmet lunch at Windermere, shelter Director Leslie Byron said it would include her famous chocolate mousse cake. Once again the APS-FH sends sincere gratitude to its Family and Friends, local businesses and their teams that participated and all for the help and support.
“The level of passion and commitment of our islanders to keep families together and happy pets in their homes, is how the APS-FH can accomplish as much as we do,” said APS shelter Administrator Jan Murphy. “Thank you all so very much for your role in creating a better Island for people and pets.” For more information on the Community Pet Food Drive and other fundraisers, shelter business, volunteering and adoptions, log on to www.apsfh.com, check out the APS Facebook page or just drop by 111 Shelter Road, just past the end of the airport runway, where Mullis becomes Cattle Point Road.
— Editor’s note: Tawney Martel Galligan is a member of the Animal Protection Society board of directors.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE Across 1. Ground cover 4. "___, humbug!" 7. Lawn mower's path 12. "God's Little ___" 13. Absorbed, as a cost 14. Coin 15. Flour container 17. Sampler 18. Micronutrient (2 wds) 20. Santa's reindeer, e.g. 21. Any thing 22. "Them" 25. Bassoon, e.g. 26. Curb, with "in" 27. Not on deck 29. Canvass using a questionnaire 31. Bring up the rear 34. Be bombastic 35. Bedspread 39. Bind 40. First-rate (hyphenated) 41. Bed board 45. Big ___ Conference 46. Fluff 47. Abreast (of) 48. Most perfect embodiment of a thing 51. Improvement 54. Exactly (3 wds) 55. Liquid and solid waste in drains 56. "___ moment" 57. Bills, e.g. 58. ___ dark space (region in a vacuum tube)
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Ferry Home Companion
‘We Serve’... good motto for any group
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ast week at the Friday Harbor Lions Club we had a business meeting, no speaker. It was interesting as we went through results of projects of the past year and planned for the next. Mainly things have gone well. Greatest achievement probably is the continuing growth of the Leo’s club at Friday Harbor High School. Journal photo / Howard Schonberger It’s now one of the largest in the state, if not the nation, with over 50 From left; Evan Hendrickson, president A&H stores, young lads and lasses helping out Christine Bentley, manager Friday Harbor Drug, Dr. with community projects in and Cris DuVall, A&H VP Charles Sizemore. out of school, and with or without great assistance of its parent group. Lion John Towson and John Bostrom have put in a ton of hours as principals in guiding this group during the last few years. It’s heartening to us oldsters to see more than one generation following the Lions motto: “We Serve.” The very next day I saw an example of a retail organization following that motto when the executive committee of A&H Stores came to Friday Harbor Drug Store to introduce Dr. Cris DuVall to our island as its newest pharmacist. The president and Howard vice president had decided to combine this happy occasion with a survey of Schonberger customer-patients regarding their interColumnist est in improving of store services; Four specifics that management had in mind were: home delivery, test notification, immunizations and health classes. Visitors were asked to rate those needs on a scale of 1 to 5: “Low Interest” to “Some Interest” to “High Interest”. A drawing for a free Kindle HD and a $50 gift certificate to Cask & Schooner were won by Paula Richardson and Suzan Erickson, respectively. Happy as they were, I felt very good about one additional feature of the drawing sheet entitled “Other Comments”. Having lived on the west side, having had frequent hospital helicopter rides, I can testify to the wonderful EMT service. But only elderly couples looking for necessary medicines 10 miles away by car after stores are closed know how handy that home delivery could be. Of course, it also was nice meeting Dr. DuVall, newest pharmacist at the oldest store on the island. We’ve come a long way since the Nash family delivered drugs by boat to all of the islands decades ago. It is so reassuring to have a firm continuing the patronoriented owners of the past. — Go with the F.L.O.W. (Ferry Lovers Of Washington).
Sudoku 59. 40 winks 60. QB's cry Down 1. Short in supply 2. Victorian, in a way 3. Made free of frost 4. Diminish 5. Artist's studio 6. Inquisition target 7. Attention ___ 8. ___ Bank, along the Jordan River 9. Appear 10. 20-20, e.g. 11. "___ Town Too" (1981 hit) 12. Tom Cruise, e.g. 14. Check 16. Undertake, with
"out" 19. Computer list 22. Dart 23. Exude 24. Female sheep 26. Anger, with "up" 27. In need of resupply, maybe 28. Victorian, for one 29. Commend 30. "The ___ Ranger" 31. Strengthen, with "up" 32. Archaeological site 33. Amazon, e.g. 35. Director's cry 36. Drops from the sky
37. Seaplane float 38. Feeler 41. Address 42. Four-wheeled carriage with a divided roof 43. Buttonhole 44. Choppers, so to speak 46. Ancestry 47. ___ Wednesday 48. Campus area 49. Advocate 50. Increase, with "up" 51. Cable network 52. Ballpoint, e.g. 53. Pair Answers to today's puzzle on page 15
Fill in the blank cells using numbers 1 to 9. Each number can appear only once in each row, column, and 3x3 block. Use logic and process of elimination to solve the puzzle. The difficulty ranges from 1-5 (easy) 6-10 (moderate) and 11-15 (hard). Today’s puzzle is level 15. Sudoku and Crossword answers on page 15