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New journey awaits Class of ‘14 By Scott Rasmussen Journal editor
By Scott Rasmussen Journal editor
On the heels of recent rulings in federal court, San Juan County and its Sheriff ’s Department are joining a rapidly expanding list of cities and counties limiting how far they will go to assist in rounding up those suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. As of May 23, the San Juan County Sheriff ’s Department ended its long-standing policy of honoring what is now viewed as a request by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that anyone taken into custody, and who is suspected of being in the country illegally, be detained for up to 48 hours, long enough for immigration enforcement agents to presumably pick them up. “It means that once we’re done with them on the local level, they’re free to go,” Sheriff Rob Nou said of the change in policy. The County Council is prepared to solidify that change in sheriff department policy by crafting it into a binding resolution, which is expected to be approved at the June 17 council meeting. At the June 3 council meeting, Nou said that in a recent court decision, involving a case out of Clackamas County, Ore., a federal judge ruled Immigration and Customs See ‘HOLDS’, Page 4
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Spring Street International School’s Jed Lewis and Gita Roloff are greeted with applause and handshakes at the Class of 2014 commencement ceremony Saturday, June 14, at Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church.
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See CLASS OF ‘14, Page 5 Wooden frames at the site of the former Spring Street Landing Building, known as “story posts” depict the size and shape of the new building the Port of Friday Harbor plans to construct.
By Scott Rasmussen Journal editor
The wooden frames at the site of the former Spring Street Landing Building, once the home of Downriggers restaurant, are not expected to convey exactly what the structure that the Port of Friday Harbor plans to build there will look like. Not by themselves. Still, Town of Friday Harbor officials thought those frames, known as “story posts,” would offer a decent representation of
They’re more well-traveled than most, it’s safe to say. That’s part of the plan. But the passage over the horizon may have been the shortest trek of all. In quite likely their last trip together, the 14 graduates of Spring Street International School’s Class of 2014, one of the school’s largest ever, took a short stroll down the aisle, sat patiently on the stage of Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church for about 90 minutes on a sunny Saturday afternoon, and then they emerged in the world beyond, diplomas in hand, bound for new and different challenges across the continent and elsewhere around the globe. For Class Valedictorian Starla Cosgrove, it’s the perfect fit of personalities and ties that bind, strengthened and steeled by journeys abroad, and enriched by the shared experience of harnessing a myriad of academic rigors closer to home, that will leave a lasting impression. “Together we make up something amazing,” Cosgrove said in the address to her classmates. But that’s not all. Cosgrove paid tribute to the courage, and to the passion displayed by
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building and its impact on the waterfront and views around it. The port was asked to put them up in prelude to the town council’s June 26 public hearing, in which the council will review the project and consider whether to grant it a
permit, town Administer Duncan Wilson said. “The town is looking for public input, we thought the story posts would help,” Wilson said. The new building, with its twoSee WATERFRONT?, Page 3
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