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Fish for Teeth: Great ‘catch’ for free dental care

By Emily Greenberg Journal Reporter

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he scraping of enamel, bright light, poking and prodding isn’t what keeps most people from the den-

tist.

It’s the cost of dental work when you’re uninsured or underinsured that can be more frightening than the sound of the drill.

That’s why Matt and Maureen Marinkovich started Fish for Teeth in 2006 – a non-profit organization that provides dental care to people who can’t afford it.

One day a little girl at the elementary school came out of nowhere and asked Matt if he wanted to see her cavities. The girl had several decaying teeth and Matt realized a need was not being met.

Matt works as a commercial fisherman and came up with the Fish for Teeth idea during a wheel watch shift that lasted for several hours on a longline fishing vessel.

“The nature of the fishing industry is to be an opportunist,” he said. “I saw an opportunity to extract this money out of fishing and put it towards fixing people’s teeth.

Although not targeted, many rockfish are caught during the height of halibut season in the Pacific Northwest. Because releasing rockfish back into the water will kill them the fish are kept and can be sold – but only up to a certain amount. At this point fisherman can chose to keep the fish for food, give them away or the fish can be donated to a charity.

Matt collects over-the-limit rockfish for Fish for Teeth. He has the fish processed at Seafood Producers Co-op in Alaska, and then uses it to make and sell fish tacos in Friday Harbor. The fish taco profits are the primary funds for the organization.

In the early years fish taco sales were good and the Fish for Teeth board was growing to include dentists and the Public Health Department, but there wasn’t enough money to treat people. In 2012 someone from the Health Department heard about Medical Team International’s mobile dental van, and Fish for Teeth set off toward their goal of bringing the van to Friday Harbor.

The dental van comes with all the tools needed for dentistry and costs $1,600 for See CARE, Page 3

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Dental team volunteers give this Fish for Teeth patient the royal treatment. From left, Dr. David Tegrotenhis, Nayibe Tamboer, Jill Aikens, Kathie Raivo.

Local dam removal initiative finds footing in D.C.

By Emily Greenberg Journal Reporter

What started as a petition to be submitted to Washington state congressional representatives will soon find its way to the nation’s capital.

Southern Resident Killer Whale Chinook Salmon Initiative, an organization formed

recently by San Juan islanders, is petitioning for removal of the lower four Snake River dams. The group wants the dams removed to help recover the beleaguered southern resident orca population that rely heavily on Chinook salmon for food. The dams are located in Southeast Washington.

The population of the southern residents sits at 78 whales, a 30-year low.

“The orcas are starving,” said Sharon Grace, organizer of Salmon Initiative. “Breaching the Snake River dams is the most effective means to provide food to the orcas.”

The group’s petition for removal of the Snake River dams was launched on the petition platform Change.org in mid-December.

As of Jan. 22, it’s been signed by over 8,500 supporters.

The petition has gained momentum quickly, which attracted the attention of two major organizations headed to Washington D.C. to lobby for the same cause.

To push for removal of the Snake River dams the local Salmon Initiative is now working with Save Our Wild Salmon, a coalition of conservation organizations and businesses, and Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company with a focus on conservation.

The plight of the orcas, brought to the surface by Salmon Initiative’s petition, will be presented by Save Our Wild Salmon and Patagonia alongside other critical information.

The Southern Resident orca population was declared endangered in 2005, and the National Marine Fisheries Service lists lack of food as one of the major threats to orca survival. There were four orca deaths in 2014 including a pregnant female, J-32, and a newborn calf, L-120.

According to the Center for Whale Research, after necropsy of J-32’s carcass her blubber was observed as thin and dry of oil, consistent with inadequate diet for an extended period.

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Friday Harbor man reports UFO sighting Local man spots three oranges lights Jan. 15 and UFO center encourages him to seek other possible witnesses

By Dennis Box

Journal Correspondent

Jan. 15 began as a typical evening in Friday Harbor for Jim Dunn. He and his wife were driving north on Mullis Street planning to attend a lecture at the University of Washington Laboratories on salmon migration.

At about 6:15 p.m. Dunn noticed three orange lights in the sky. He thought a plane was making a “very low approach” to land at the airport, which he thought was odd. He next assumed the lights must be a helicopter, but there was something weird about the movements.

Dunn said he stopped his car and pulled over by Browne’s Home Center to watch the lights.

“It was three orange lights moving indepen-

dently,” Dunn said. “At first I rationalized it was a drone, but they were moving too rapidly for a drone.”

He said the lights traveled roughly west above Spring Street as if coming from the harbor.

Dunn, a retired architect who has lived on San Juan Island since 2000, said it was the first time he saw something that could be considered a UFO. The next day he contacted air traffic control at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. The controller told Dunn he would check the radar tapes. There was a helicopter listed as being in the area, but it was 45 minutes after the sighting, Dunn said.

Dunn next filed the following report Jan. 17 with the National UFO Reporting Center: “I stopped our car so we could watch since the lights were starting to bob up and down. I said they had to be helicopters. But then they almost appeared to be going down behind the buildings in town. They stopped getting closer and suddenly started climbing at a very high speed headed

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back northwest. They grew dimmer and one at a time, blinked out and were gone.

“The whole duration of this sighting was about two minutes. I kept trying to find an explanation for what we were seeing.

I wish I had immediately reached for my iPhone to get a video.

“I knew they were unconventional aircraft since they didn’t have red and green navigation lights. Then the erratic flight and changing speed ruled out any aircraft I have ever seen.

“My wife and I are both private pilots and have flown into the Friday Harbor airport hundreds of times.”

Dunn was contacted by Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center. He suggested contacting media outlets to see if other witnesses might come forward.

“The information they have might permit triangulation on the object, which would allow calculation of how far away from you it (was), and what its size was,” Davenport said.

Dunn said he did an Internet search and found

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Pilot and retired architect Jim Dunn saw lights moving erratically over Spring Street.

similar descriptions of sightings, but not exactly what he had seen.

He considered it may be a military craft, but if it was the type of drone he is familiar with it would have taken “three separate people to fly it.”

He estimated when the lights moved west and disappeared behind the trees it was traveling more than 100 mph.

“These lights were completely disjoined,” Dunn said. “It was inexplicable.”

If anyone saw the lights on Jan. 15 between 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. contact the Journal at editor@sanjuanjournal.com.

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Meet your local firefighter: Mike MacLellan

transferring to San Juan Island Fire Department at its inception in 2006.

Mike founded and works at MJM f you ask any little boy what he wants to be when he grows up Home Services. He is a licensed many times the answer will be, “I contractor and can turn his hand to almost any job. His wife, want to be a firefighter when Elizabeth, is a member of I grow up.” As far back as logistics team with the fire Mike MacLellan remembers, department. They have two he has always wanted to be a dogs. firefighter.

Volunteering is Mike’s joy.

When he lived in California He loves helping people. one had to go to school to be He volunteers at the a paid firefighter, which did Animal Shelter where he built not fit Mike’s lifestyle at the a kitty camp for their cats. time. When he came back to He helped replace the floor the Island, after being away Mike MacLellan of the stage at The San Juan for some 20 years, Vern Long, Community Theatre. He has the town of Friday Harbor’s helped with the Festival of Trees, and fire chief, asked Mike to volunteer and join the town fire department. Mike was an actor in their production of jumped at the chance. He was with the “The Sound of Music.” He has helped fire department for three years before out with Homes for Islanders, and

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helped build the Thrift Shop’s new building.

“I’m addicted to volunteering,” he said.

He’s taken the ladder truck to help celebrate children’s birthdays, helps at the fire department’s Easter egg hunt, and at the elementary school during safety week. In his spare time, he loves mountain biking, fishing and off-road driving.

By Ayla Ridwan & Blaze Borgquist FHES Sixth Grade Students

The Friday Harbor Elementary School Student Council organized a food drive. Students from every grade were to bring in canned and non-perishable foods. The food drive started on Dec. 10 and ended on the nineteenth.

“We as the student council would like to help all people on this island to get food from the wonderful food bank on this island,” said Blaze Borgquist, student representative.

Students from grades kindergarten to sixth grade brought in a grand total of 1,019 food items. Students were motivated by the wonderful prize of an ice cream party for their grade. Fifth grade brought in an amazing total of 247 food items for the win. The fifth grade will be receiving the ice cream soon. Great job fifth grade.

Student council president Isaac Shaw explained the food drive in his own words, “I think that we did a fantastic job and that it was a great success. I think that the people who get food from the food bank are going to be very jubilant and excited that they have more than 1,000 new items of food.”

Most of the food went the Friday Harbor Food Bank.

The rest of the food went to the Deacon Food Bank at the Presbyterian Church.

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Care: Continued from page 1 two days, and all the dentists volunteer their time.

The fish tacos were always at the forefront of funding, but in order to bring the van to Friday Harbor the Marinkovich’s had to seek funding from local service groups. Funds would not only cover the van but liability insurance, accommodation for the van’s manager and driver, and refreshments for the dental teams.

Now that the Marinkovich’s and their volunteers have been at it a bit longer, the fish taco strategy has become more efficient, and the van is almost entirely funded by taco sales.

“In 2013 we were able to go to the Rotary Club and tell them we no longer need their money,” Maureen said.

“Now they’re able to give that money to someone else.”

During taco days an average of 330 tacos are sold at seven dollars each. Any other funding comes from individual donations, both large sums and small, like someone saying, “keep the change.” The van comes three times per year for two

FHES food drive results

days, and treats about 30 people. That’s up to $16,000 worth of dental work for free.

“The gratitude from the patients is one of the most fulfilling parts of my professional career,” said Dr. Michael Horn, local dentist and Fish for Teeth volunteer.

“I feel like Fish for Teeth is really a win-win. Whenever we finish an event I feel energized and so grateful to be able to help.”

Fish for Teeth was originally intended to treat kids whose parents can’t afford dental care, but the dental van is geared toward adults.

That’s why the group has come up with a sealant program for children in second grade. This age is the best time to have the preventative procedure done and the dental van will have time and space set aside for sealants when it returns in May. Before having their teeth sealed, kids must visit a dentist and have any cavities filled. Fish for Teeth is available to help families obtain funds for the primary dental visit.

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Teeth is that the model can be replicated anywhere, and Matt hopes to see that done in Alaska, where he spends much of his time working.

Matt has a new idea brewing to purchase a historical Bristol Bay Sailboat, which were the only boats used to catch fish in Bristol Bay, Alaska, up until 1952.

He plans to use that boat to fish and put the entire bounty towards setting up a teeth-fixing program in Sitka, AK. The next dental van clinic

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“Science has confirmed the orcas rely heavily on Snake and Columbia rivers’ salmon,” Save Our Wild Salmon Executive Director Joseph Bogaard said. “Salmon numbers have plummeted in the last decade. There’s a lot of reasons to take this seriously, and orcas are one more reason.”

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and maintaining the dams, he said. These factors have prevented the dams from being removed for the last 15 years.

“I can’t believe they want to hang on to these dams when it’s costing this much money,” he said. “Save money, save salmon, save orcas. It’s implausible to think the state of Washington would allow these creatures to go extinct.”

In the last year and a half Wadell has studied the economic effects of the lower four Snake River dams. What he found suggests that the original calculations were off, and the dams are operating at a deficit. He said removing the dams would encourage new enterprises and recreational opportunities, and ultimately benefit the economy by up to $150 million per year.

If salmon populations are not recovered and the southern resident orcas

meet their demise due to lack of food, negative economic impacts of keeping the dams will trickle up to San Juan County.

Grace is grateful to have such strong organizations backing the same initiative, and hopeful that meetings in D.C. prove to be beneficial. For now the local Salmon Initiative is posting flyers around town directing people to the petition, and educating the public on the connection between the Snake River dams and orca survival.

“Those dams will come down,” she said. “They’re old. They don’t make ecological sense. Whether or not they will come down in time for the orcas is the question.”

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Spend time before Super Bowl pruning trees

By Dennis Tompkins Special for the Journal

While we anxiously await the Super Bowl, the winter months provide an excellent time to think about doing some pruning.

Winter is a good time to work on ornamental trees because it is easier to determine what needs to be pruned before new leaves begin to grow. For example, this is the time of the year when I begin in earnest to prune and thin Japanese maples for clients. February through April is the traditional time for pruning fruit trees before they bloom.

Three Rules

There are three major items to consider when planning your winter and spring tree work.

First, fruit trees will benefit from pruning to enhance fruit production; second, pruning ornamental trees is completely different from pruning fruit trees; and third, if hiring someone to do the work, choose a reputable tree service or a professional arborist.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of well-meaning folks who do not possess the knowledge of proper pruning techniques. This is already noticeable when driving by aggressively topped trees, or tree butchery, in landscapes and along streets.

Fruit Trees

If they have been pruned on a regular basis, fruit trees have developed numerous water sprouts. As a general rule, one-third or more can be thinned out. Most of the remaining sprouts should be shortened to 4 to 10 inches.

Careful pruning will help a tree put more energy into developing fruit while controlling its size and making the fruit more reachable.

Trees that have been neglected for several years present special challenges and often require severe pruning.

Treat Ornamental Trees Gently

Severe topping or aggressive pruning of any ornamental tree should be avoided to maintain its natural shape. Not only is topping

ugly, but the resulting water sprouts are a survival response as a tree attempts to replenish the lost food manufacturing branches and leaves.

These fast-growing sprouts can grow up to 5 feet or more a year. This may require annual work by maintenance crews that could have been avoided by proper thinning and pruning.

Responsible tree services and certified arborists will discourage tree topping. The key to successful ornamental pruning is to have the final result look as if very little has been done to a tree.

Overgrown Trees

If a tree is too wide or tall for its space, there are at least two options: • Carefully select some of the longer, unsightly branches. Either remove them by cutting back to where they join a larger branch or the main trunk or lightly trim them to a shorter length.

• Remove the tree and plant one that will grow to fill, not overcrowd, a chosen space. This is preferable to doing a severe pruning job.

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I often ask a homeowner what he or she wants a tree to look like. Sometimes I have to explain why their request may not be practical or healthy for a tree and we will discuss some options.

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OPINION Letters to the Editor

Seeking support for sick mother A few weeks ago, my mother, Niki Truesdale, was diagnosed with bronchitis.

After a couple weeks, she was not getting better, so doctors did some x-rays. The very next day (Tuesday, Jan. 13) she went in to discuss these x-rays and while at the doctor she had stroke-like symptoms (very disorientated and confused), so the doctors had an ambulance take her to the hospital on the island.

There, she had a brain seizure, so they flew her off the island and to St. Joseph’s here in Bellingham - where I go to WWU as a sophomore.

Since being here in Bellingham, she has had numerous MRIs, CAT Scans, X-rays, Ultrasounds etc.

They found a brain tumor the size of a thumbnail right on the surface of the left side of her brain. After more tests, they found out she has stage four lung cancer, and it has spread to her brain and possibly her liver.

It seems pretty widespread.

Her heart and lungs are/ were full of fluids, so on Jan. 16, they drained 700 CCs out and we are currently waiting on results (results to see

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which type of lung cancer it is, small cell or non-small cell, so we can know more about treatment).

We have been recently told the estimated life span is 10-12 months, but we are going to fight.

We are seeking as much support as possible.

Please visit this link; https://www.booster.com/ supportnikitruez Thank You. SIERRA ROSE TRUESDALE, San Juan Island/ Bellingham Editors note; an account to benefit Niki Trusedale has been set up at Wells Fargo Bank in Friday Harbor.

A sense of place

Once countless wild salmon replaced by status quo

By Steve Ulvi

Special to the Journal

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ver the last 10 million years of landscape gouging ice fronts, soggy retreat, creeping fronts of forbs, shrubs and forest, uplifting mountain ranges, biblical glacial lake floods, constant predation, drastically raising and lowering sea levels- over and over and over again- salmon flourished.

Wild salmon are surely among the most Steve Ulvi perfect creatures on earth. How many other long, slender branchlets of the magnificent evolutionary tree of life can match the exuberant, fecund and predictably massing salmon? A most amazing, if tenuous, feedback loop of nutrient cycling and bioenergetics.

Early July; cotton grass seeds float in the warm breeze, thunderheads loom, darkness is brief. It is “Luu ah OK” or “time of fish coming upriver,” in guttural Han Athapaskan.

Village by village the vaunted fat-laden, long run Chinook relentlessly fin 25 miles a day, fasting, toward our homestead and family lifeblood.

The iconic silt-laden Yukon River, 500 yards wide 1,250 miles from the Bering Sea, quietly slides by under the midnight sun. Windy Corner close by the International Border.

A few white floats are tugged under the roiling surface along the gently swinging arc of a tattered gill net in our small eddy

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“What we think of salmon normality is an expensive, unsustainable, ghostly reflection of the original abundance...”

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as we cut the 18 hp motor. Finally, several twenty pound frontrunners gift us, the first lively female turned loose in reverence.

First blood. Smiles. Slabs of slick orange flesh exposed by wire-edged knives for the frying pan, cold-smoker, quart jars or village elders. Day after day blood washed from the cutting table, coursing in dendritic patterns in fine beach silt, finds the river again.

From about 4,000 years BC until the late 1800s, nearly all of our Northwest waters teemed with modern salmon species entering nearly every fresh water stream, even journeying far into the arid east side deserts (one of the wonders of the natural world).

Each watery birthplace beyond count created a unique signature of mineral odors, memorized at parts per million, that mix with every other torrent, merging into the salt chuck and invisibly guide unique pulses of a thousand different stocks, unerring in their run-timing and destination.

Big business profit-taking-from-public-resources has turned wild rivers into reservoirs, waterways into chemical toilets. Taken flows for cities and unsustainable dry-land farming, destroyed riparian zones with grazing livestock, placer mining and timbering while filling wetland marshes

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for development. In terms of salmon waters we live on with the ugly, pernicious dark side of unbridled Manifest Destiny.

Our historic failures to respect the powerful intrinsic ecological values of salmon, viewed through the lens of modern sciences, is the poster child of hubris.

Thundering Celilo Falls drowned into silence by the Dalles Dam one dark day in 1957, was the historic center of regional trade and fishing for thousands of years. The “Wall Street” of the immense upper Columbia River drainage. A morality tale, suitably grim, makes that concrete edifice a representative headstone for salmon and the many human cultures that lived with them for so long.

South of Canada wild salmon are now generally outnumbered by artificially-raised hatchery stocks. An idea foisted on the public 100 years ago, following gross over-harvest and waste by cannery interests as a way to have their ship loads of exported cans, and eat it too, without restriction.

Then, as now weak-kneed regulatory agencies capitulated and touted the fool’s gambit of claiming to replace the fecundity of wild rivers with willy-nilly artificial propagation, dismissing the relevance of genetics.

What we think of as salmon “normality” is an expensive, unsustainable, ghostly reflection of the original abundance of countless genetic tribes of salmon stocks. The fog of sliding baseline syndrome, misinformation and the false dichotomy of “the economy or the environment” numbs our proper outrage for the status quo of salmon.

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Legislative priorities for 2015 Olympia session

By Kevin Ranker,

State Senator, D-Orcas

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he 2015 Legislative Session began Jan. 12. Here are my top priorities for this year.

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A balanced budget that funds education while protecting other critical programs. As the No. 2 Democrat responsible for our state’s operating budget, I will work tirelessly to create a budget that successfully balances full funding for K-12 education while protecting other critical programs such as mental health, higher education, foster care and Apple Health for Kids. We must make sure that while we repair vital areas of the state’s budget, we don’t do so at the expense of other areas.

Protect access to contraception and family planning. A handful of us in the Senate Democratic Caucus have spent many months working with our exceptional staff to develop legislation that will virtually eliminate the U.S. Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision in Washington State. That decision allows employers’ beliefs to be put ahead of those of their employees and puts at risk the ability of women across the country to make

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their own reproductive choices. The vast majority of Washingtonians strongly support access to contraception and family planning. Now is the time to pass this legislation and allow women the freedom to make their own health care choices – independent of their employer’s “values.”

Make polluters pay.

We are the first generation to experience the impacts of climate change. Fortunately, we are the last generation with the opportunity to do anything about it. Having worked for years with past Gov. Gregoire and now with Gov. Inslee to advance climate action, this session I intend to prime sponsor comprehensive climate legislation that makes polluters pay when they harm our communities and environment. In what will truly be a win-win, this legislation will not only improve the health of our communities and environment, it will raise a billion dollars a year to help us meet our multi-billion dollar deficit to rebuild our educational and transportation systems.

Protect our communities from dangerous oil trains and increased vessel traffic. During recent years, Washington State has seen a dramatic

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increase in oil trains and vessel traffic. Last year, Senator Christine Rolfes and I introduced the strongest oil response and protection legislation in the nation. While it did not pass last year, we will reintroduce this critical legislation that protects our communities from the dangers associated with these massive increases in dangerous materials going through our communities.

In the end, I believe strongly that it is possible to give our kids access to a world-class education while making sure

they have a healthy home, breathable air and freedom from want. From making sure we protect reproductive choices and family planning to ensuring our communities are safe from potentially dangerous oil trains, there are many critical issues that the vast majority of Washingtonians expect the legislature to address.

We are presented with great opportunities to work together on behalf of our state. I for one do not intend to miss that opportunity.

Please feel free to con-

For the Record n In the Dec. 24, 2014 Community Highlights article, it was reported there was a donation from the Town of Friday Harbor to Island Rec for the Friday Harbor Fields project. The donation was received by Friday Harbor Athletics. Island Rec is not building the fields but working with the athletic association and the school district. n

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My office phone number is 360-786-7678 and my email is kevin.ranker@leg. wa.gov.

PUBLIC MEETINGS n Port of Friday Harbor Commission, Jan. 28, 4-6 p.m., San Juan Island Yacht Club, 273 Front St. n SJI Hospital District Commission, Jan. 28, 5 p.m., Frank Wilson EMS Building, 1079 Spring St. (PIMC campus) n Veterans Advisory Board, Jan. 30, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Orcas Hotel, 18 Orcas Hill Rd., Orcas Village n Marine Resources Committee, Feb. 4, 8:30 a.m., County Legislative Building, 55 Second St. (streamed live) n Friday Harbor Town Council, Feb. 5, noon & 5:30 p.m., Town Council Chambers, 60 Second St. n Noxious Weed Control Board, Feb. 9, 8:30-10:30 a.m., WSU Extension, Skagit College Campus, 221 Weber Way n San Juan County Fair Board, Feb. 9, 9-11 a.m., Fairgrounds Building, 846 Argyle Ave., Friday Harbor n Housing Bank Commission , Feb. 11, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Health & Community Services, 145 Rhone St.

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It’s time for the annual native plant sale

By Jane Wentworth Master Gardener

It’s time to think about what to plant in late winter and early spring as we pour over plant and seed catalogs.

The San Juan County Master Gardener Foundation and the Conservation District can help with your planning at the annual native plant sale. The sale is scheduled for March 21, 9-12 p.m., at the Grange Hall.

Native plants are beautiful in the garden and landscape, beneficial for wildlife, and improve habitat and plant diversity. This year we are offering 17 species of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, including favorites like Western Red Cedar, Vine Maple, and Red Flowering Currant, and some new and noteworthy additions. For the first time we are offering Pollinator and Rain Garden kits. Each kit contains two plants of five different shrubs carefully selected to attract and benefit pollinators, or to serve as rain gardens.

Also save the date for a native plant workshop on March 7, at the Grange Hall. This free workshop is open to everyone and is co-sponsored by the Conservation District and the Master Gardener Foundation. Come learn about native plants and how to use them in gardens, landscapes, and rain gardens.

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Bitter cherry (Prunus emarginata), a deciduous small tree or shrub, often multi-trunked and varying in height up to 30 feet. White to pinkish blossoms appear from mid spring to early summer. Small fruits or drupes are red to almost black when ripe. The leaves turn yellow in autumn. Birds relish the cherries. This is a pretty tree or shrub for open places in a woodland garden setting.

Golden currant (Ribes aureum), a thornless, deciduous shrub with golden yellow, sometimes fragrant, tubular flowers that bloom in mid to late spring. The flowers turn orange as they age. Red to purplish berries follow the flow-

Birding workshop offered San Juan Island National Historical Park and San Juan County Land Bank will host two free introduction to birding workshops at 11 a.m., Jan. 31 and Feb. 7, at the Library.

Raena Parsons and Tanja Williamson will teach attendees how to participate in the 2015 Great Backyard Bird Count.

The second half of the workshop is geared specifically toward those who know little about birding,

but have always wanted to learn.

Basics such as what to look for when identifying a bird, how to use a bird guide and binoculars, and other keys to help you become a better birder will be discussed.

To register call 370-7655.

Volunteers needed for trail work

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Golden Currant, one of the many plants for sale at the annual Native Plant Sale on San Juan Island.

ers. More common east of the Cascades, this shrub will also do well on the westside. It’s a fine choice for a hedgerow or wildlife garden. Hummingbirds like the flowers, and fruiteating birds will enjoy the berries.

Twinberry (Lonicera involucrata), an upright, deciduous, fast-growing shrub up to about 9 feet. Yellow, tubular flowers appear in pairs in mid spring to late summer, followed by a pair of shiny black berries in shallow cups that are formed by the bracts. The flowers of this handsome shrub are excellent for hummingbirds and the berries, while inedible to humans, are relished by fruit-eating birds, such as cedar waxwings.

For the best selection you can preorder plants up to March 12. To print an order form, or to order online, visit www.sjislandscd.org. For more information call 378-4414.

GO HAWKS!

The Land Bank and San Juan Island Trails Committee are working together on the development of the American Camp trail.

The organizations are hosting work parties to build just over a quarter of a mile of new trail along Cattle Point Road, thanks to the donation of a recreational trail license from the property owner. At request of the land owner, the first work sessions will be spent salvaging native plants from the trail corridor.

The Land Bank will provide snacks and tools, but additional tools like battery powered drills could be useful.

The dates and tasks are as follows: Plant Salvage, Jan. 28, 1-4 p.m.

Plant Salvage, Jan 30, 1-4 p.m.

Trail Construction, Jan. 31, 1-4 p.m.

Trail Construction, Feb. 3, 1-4 p.m.

Wear sturdy boots, gloves and weather appropriate clothing. For more information and to RSVP call 370-7654.

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ISLAND SCENE

Around Town Fantastical fairy tale for adults hits the stage PAGE 10

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Wednesday, Jan. 28 Get Started Using Computers, Skagit Valley College, 3 p.m., free. Ongoing sessions.

First get comfortable using the machine, then move on to programs.

Register at library. Info, 378-2798, www.sjlib.org

Thursday, Jan. 29 Whiteley Lecture Series, Friday Harbor Lab Commons, 7 p.m.

Free. Derek Smith, Ph.D. student will present pictures and stories of his shipwreck diving adventures in Europe and the San Juans. Info, 378-3646, science@sjnature.org Adult Indoor Soccer, Fairgrounds, 6:30-8 p.m. Ages 16 and up; $2 drop-in fee. Info, 3784953, www.islandrec.org

Friday, Jan. 30 IMA Artists’ Registry Show, IMA, 540 Spring St., 11-5 p.m., Fri.-Mon. Annual showcase in new IMA gallery, museum. Info, 370-5177, r.parks@sjima.org

By Emily Greenberg Journal Reporter

F

rom a small farm in Northern California, to the high-end fashion industry of San Francisco and New York—artist Jill Bliss is getting back to her roots.

Her shelves are lined with plant and bird identification books. Her fridge is filled with live spouts.

For the past three years, Bliss has been wandering through the islands in the Pacific Northwest and landed in the San Juans, where she finally gets to live in the landscapes that inspire her art instead of just visiting them.

“I’m going to live by the sea, in a cabin in the forest,” Bliss said. “That was my dream as a little kid.”

Bliss is a nature artist. Her work is inspired by animals, plants and ecosystems.

She’s well known for her recent collection of ecosystem drawings, where she outlines a living creature and draws everything that contributes to its life inside the lines. She has been getting to know the local resident orcas, and is creating designs of her new friends.

She has a series of flora and fauna drawings local to the Bay Area in California. She drew the plants and animals that surrounded the city as a way to teach herself about them. The drawings were picked up by a publishing company, printed on stationary and sold throughout the country.

Lately her inspiration is drawn from the Salish Sea and its surrounding landscapes, like mushroom medleys and underwater scenes from sunrise kayaking and afternoon hikes.

“I’ve always drawn the things around me,” she said. “It’s how I understand how the world works.”

One of her earliest memories is setting out to explore the 45-acre family farm she grew up on, that was surrounded by a 1,000-acre cattle farm.

Everyday when her chores were done she’d pack her backpack and set off with a sandwich, water, and art supplies.

So it’s no surprise that when she did make her way to the San Juans, she first lived on an off-grid property on Waldron Island where she had to hike two miles just to reach the Post Office and County Dock, the height of civilization on the small island.”

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last year.”

“I didn’t want to be 40-years-old in the fashion industry and superficial like those ladies,” she said.

Clad in muck boots and hiking pants with a streak of green in her hair, Bliss has made good on her promise to herself.

With a master’s degree in design theory, Bliss resided in Portland and continued designing and selling her own products, and taught as an adjunct professor at Portland State. She was growing her own food and taking excursions to the mountains and ocean to research. Her job, after all, is capturing nature on the page. She was getting closer to her roots and the pace of life she truly desired but city life was, well, unnatural.

Finding Home

Classic Film Series, Library, 7 p.m., free. “It Happened One Night,” starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert. Host Therese Finn provides movie history & fun facts. Refreshments.

Info, 378-2798, www. sjlib.org

Scooter & Skate Night, Fairgrounds, Scooter and trike 5:30-6:30 p.m., $2 per rider, $5 per family. Open Skate, 7-8:30 p.m., $3 per rider, $8 per family. Info, 378-4953, www.islandrec.org

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Nature artist Jill Bliss in her San Juan Island studio works on her new orca whale series. Left, Bliss gets ready to go kayaking, a daily ritual that inspires her seascapes.

Nature artist, city life

But it wasn’t always seascapes, flora and fauna for Bliss. Her family sold the farm when she was in high school and moved to the suburbs.

She attended college and studied fashion design, which led to a five-year career in San Francisco as a production manager for high-end women’s fashion companies.

This set her on a 15 year journey living from city to city, including a stint in New York where she refused to wear black. It was there she swore off the fashion industry for good, when she witnessed two women in their 40’s talking about each other’s clothing with remarks like “that’s so

Three years ago she sold nearly everything she couldn’t fit into her van and headed North to the islands on a self-imposed sabbatical. While her sabbatical is officially over, what she found in the Salish Sea has become a way of life.

She focuses her art on forests, farms, and the ocean--her life on simplicity, self-reliance, and taking things slow.

“My art and life are more integrated,” Bliss said. “Here I get to live in the landscapes that I’ve always depicted in my artwork” While the stresses of life haven’t disappeared completely since Bliss left the city, they certainly are more manageable. She’s learned to live just about anywhere, and with less.

Since arriving in the islands, Bliss has hopped around to homesteads on Whidbey Island and Cortes Island in Canada. Her first place in the San Juans was on Waldron, where she was a caretaker of an off-grid property and learned how to fix the systems herself. Her studio was a tent, her neighbors a family of eagles. Growing her own food when she can or belonging to the local CSA, Bliss cans her food and takes aspects of all her different living situations on her journey toward self-reliance.

She currently resides on San Juan where she sells her art prints through her online store, at the summer Art Markets, and at art trade shows on the mainland. She’s also a trained naturalist.

For Bliss, everyday is an adventure in freedom. Even if it just means packing her backpack with water and a sandwich and heading out to one of the many forest trails on San Juan, just like when she was a kid. One could say her life is quite blissful. And yes, that is her real last name.

To contact Bliss or to see her designs visit www.jillbliss.com.

—Editor’s note: Background image design courtesy of Jill Bliss.

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Around Town Free tarot night

sponsored Whiteley Lecture Series is Derek Smith, Ph.D. student, Jan 29., 7 p.m.

Smith is a veteran diver, and underwater photographer.

During his presentation, entitled “Shipwrecks: artificial habitats for marine communities,” Smith will talk about his European adventures exploring ancient shipwrecks.

Smith is conducting similar research on San Juan Island and will share his latest discoveries.

Lavendera Day Spa will host a free evening of Tarot, Numerology and Astrology with Maria, Jan. 29, 6:30 p.m.

Maria will use these tools to offer insights into what is happening in your lives here and now.

She will also discuss the Year of the Sheep and the opportunities and possibilities that lie within it.

Lavendera is located at 285 Spring Street. For info email lavenderadayspace@ gmail.com or call 378-3637.

Free reader’s series at SJCT

The next lecture in the San Juan Nature Institute

Onbook! Readers Theatre is an ongoing series at the community theatre. The next reading will be “One Blue Tarp,” written by Travis

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“One Blue Tarp,” tells the tail of David Stillman, who believes he has the right to have a big pile of junk under a blue tarp in his front yard, even if it’s an eyesore to tourists and his wife.

Hear energetic readers bring the script to life Feb. 4-5, at 7 p.m.

This is a free event.

‘Trails’ potluck date announced

San Juan Island Trails Committee has spring fever.

Save the date for the annual Spring Potluck Dinner, March 19, 6 p.m. at the Grange Hall.

Bring a dish. See old friends and make new ones.

Guest speaker Tim Seifert will introduce a new land acquisition project taking shape on San Juan.

For more information email sjitrails@rockisland. net.

Fantastical dance production hits the stage San Juan Island’s first and only professional dance company presents its first full length contemporary ballet, an adult fairy tale.

“Prince of the Rain Realm,” written and choreographed by La Danse de la Mer’s director Lina Downes, will premiere for one night only at San Juan Community Theatre, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.

The contemporary ballet will feature world-touring dancers and brothers Sylvain and Danny Boulet, principal dancer Andrew Hallenbeck, contemporary dancer and ballerina Caitlyn Ross who is formerly from New York, and contemporary dancer Kerry Ratza.

Also featured are Julie Hagn, Joely Loucks, Stephen Moore, Michelle and Ian Randall and Amani and Ferah Bakuy.

The contemporary ballet includes diverse selections of music from Pink Floyd to Mozart and a good versus evil theme.

“If you like Tokien’s Ring, Harry Potter and even Wagner’s Ring, you’ll love this fantastical production,” Downes said.

Due to mature themes, parental guidance is suggested.

Contributed photos

Top, ‘Prince of the Rain Realm’s’ Caitlyn Ross.

Below, Sylvain Boulet.

Tickets cost $17 for adults, and $9 for students reserved. Visit www.sjctheatre. com for more information or call the box office at 378-3210.

Local cyclists get together and ride every weekend Spandex, helmets and cycling shoes is the attire you’ll see leaving the post office every Sunday at noon.

Every Sunday local cyclists, who ride for fitness and fun meet for a community ride on the island.

On Jan. 25 the group had a record nine riders hit the road for a brisk pedal.

All cyclists are welcome.

For more information email John Stimpson at jkstimpson@rockisland.com.

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Local cycle group after its weekly Sunday ride, Jan. 25.

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Sunday, Feb. 1 Classic Film Series, Library, 7 p.m., free. Host Therese Finn presents “The Awful Truth,” starring Irene Dunne & Carey Grant. Info, 3782798, www.sjlib.org

Monday, Feb. 2 KYI Talk, Library, 6:30 p.m., free. Meet Jim Stegall, who walked with a fellow legallyblind man from the top of Columbia to Argentina.

His story will be illustrated through maps and pictures.

Info, info@sjitrails.com Contra Dance, Grange Hall, 7:30 p.m., free. Instruction provided. Called by Mike Cohen of the Contra Band.

Info, nature@interisland.net, 378-6313 Drop-in Badminton & Ping Pong, Turnbull Gym, 8-10 p.m. Ages 16 and up; $2 drop-in fee. Info, 378-4953, www.islandrec.org

Tuesday, Feb. 3 Roller Hockey, Fairgrounds, Youth, 5:30. Teen, 6:30.

Adult, 7:30. Info, 378-4953, www.islandrec.org

Saturday, Feb. 7

Wednesday, Feb. 4

Scooter & Skate Night, Fairgrounds, Scooter & trike 5:30-6:30 p.m., $2 per rider, $5 per family. Open Skate, 7-8:30 p.m., $3 per rider, $8 per family. Info, 378-4953, www.islandrec.org

On Book! Readers Theatre, SJCT, 7 p.m. Free. Island actors get together to read “One Blue Tarp.” Info, 3783210, www.sjctheater.org

‘Prince of the Rain Realm,’ SJCT, 7 p.m. Full-length contemporary ballet featuring professional dancers in an adult fairy tale. Written, directed & choreographed

by Lina Downes. Adults, $17, students, $9. Info, 378-3210, www.sjctheater.org

Thursday, Feb. 5 Adult Indoor Soccer, Fairgrounds, 6:30-8 p.m.

Ages 16 and up; $2 drop-in fee. Info, 378-4953, www. islandrec.org On Book! Readers Theatre, SJCT, 7 p.m. Free. Island actors get together to read “One Blue Tarp.” Info, 3783210, www.sjctheater.org

Sunday, Feb. 8

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FHHS seeks mentors for students

Contributed photo

KYI Talks’ Jim Stegall.

Bolshoi Ballet Only in Cinemas, SJCT, 2 p.m. White swan by day, human by night, ‘Swan Lake’ streams live to the theatre. Adults, $20, students, $10. Info, 3783210, www.sjctheater.org

Friday Harbor High School is seeking mentors for students in the service-learning class, beginning Jan. 27. This class utilizes committed adult mentors who will guide students through the completion of a service project related to community improvement, both locally and globally.

This is a great opportunity for partnerships between students and local organizations.

If you have a community improvement service project in mind, a fifteen minute in-class presentations time can be arranged between 1-1:50 p.m,.on Jan. 29 and 30, or Feb. 2.

Contact Jenny Wilson at jwilson@sjisd.wednet.edu, for more information.

Dance classes for kids at Dance Happy Creative Dance, ages 2 1/2-4, Tuesdays, 4:10-5:10 p.m.

L’il Starz Tap & Pre-ballet, ages 4-5, 4:10-5:10 p.m.

Info, Bill & Rita Ament, 378-9628,

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IMA Artists’ Registry Show, IMA, 540 Spring St., 11-5 p.m., Fri.-Mon. Annual showcase in new IMA gallery, museum. Info, 370-5177, r.parks@sjima.org Joe & Paula McHugh present ‘Green Fields of America’, Library, 7 p.m., free. An event for all ages, the McHugh’s blend storytelling, banjo duets & original artwork. Info, 378-2798, www.sjlib.org

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This position is located in Friday Harbor, WA. This part-time position, 20 hours per week, includes paid vacation, sick and holidays.

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Lawn & Garden Sales Ace Hardware of Friday Harbor is looking for enthusiastic sales associates who want to provide legendary customer service and enjoy a team work environment.

Sales Associates will have opportunity to develop lasting relationships with team members and customers. If you take pride in the work you do and want to give back to the San Juan Island community, Ace of Friday Harbor just may be “The Place” for you!

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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.

HEARING NOTICE SAN JUAN COUNTY NOXIOUS WEED CONTROL BOARD ANNUAL PUBLIC HEARING ANNOUNCEMENT PURPOSE: To review and adopt the San Juan County Noxious Weed List for 2015 and to discuss noxious weed control priorities and weed law enforcement guidelines for 2016.

RCW 17.10.090 directs each county weed board to create its own noxious weed list within ninety days of the adoption of the state noxious weed list. This county weed list automatically includes all Class A noxious weeds and all Class B noxious weeds that have been designated in that county for control by the State Weed Board.

WHEN: Monday, February 9, 2015 at 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM. WHERE: Community Room, Skagit Valley College, 221 Weber Way, Lower Level, Friday Harbor.

The Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board has added four new species (or groups) for the 2015 Noxious Weed List, one of which is designated for control: Ravenna grass, Saccharum ravennae, is a Class A noxious weed.

Eradication is required.

Pampas grass, Cortaderia selloana, is a Class C noxious weed.

Jubata grass, Cortaderia jubata, is a Class C noxious weed.

Italian arum, Arum italicum, is a Class C noxious weed.

Shiny geranium, Geranium lucidum, is reclassified from a Class A to a Class B noxious weed, designated for control by the WSNWCB everywhere except Clark County.

Scientific names of three species will be updated: -Cardaria draba à Lepidium draba -Cardaria pubescens à Lepidium appelianum -Centaurea jacea x nigra à Centaurea x moncktonii Finally, State Weed Board officer terms will increase from one year to two years under WAC 16-750-130(4).

In order for this list to become accepted for San Juan County, it must be approved by the County Noxious Weed Control Board based on public

input received at this meeting. Current and future operations of the County Noxious Weed Program will also be discussed. Also, the Board is requesting public participation so that we can gather more information about local weed distributions as well as suggestions for the 2016 weed list.

For further information, contact the County Noxious Weed Control Program at (360) 376-3499 or by e-mail at judy@sanjuanweeds.org or jason@sanjuanweeeds.org LEGAL NO. SJ610979 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder January 28, February 4, 2015.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN JUAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON SHERIFF’S PUBLIC NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY ONEWEST BANK, FSB, its successors in interest and/or assigns, Plaintiff, v.

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF JOHN VAN NORTWICK; TINA L. LEGEUNE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES; SNUG HARBOR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION; OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMISES; and any persons or parties claiming to have any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real property described in the complaint, Defendants.

CAUSE NO. 12-2-05105-5 JUDGMENT RENDERED ON 08/11/2014 ORDER OF SALE ISSUED 12/29/2014 DATE RECEIVED 12/29/2014 To: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF JOHN VAN NORTWICK; TINA L. LEGEUNE; and OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMISES: The Superior Court of San Juan County has directed the undersigned Sheriff of San Juan County to sell the property described below to satisfy a judgment in the above entitled action. If developed the property address is: 87 Snug Harbor Drive, Lo-

pez Island, WA 98261.

The sale of the above described property is to take place: Time: 10:00 am Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 Place: Inside Main Entrance, San Juan County Courthouse, 96 Second St., Friday Harbor, WA The judgment debtor can avoid the sale by paying the judgment amount of $360,383.62 together with interest, costs, and fees before the sale date. For the exact amount, contact the Sheriff at P.O. Box 669, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, 360-378-4151 or 360-370-7622.

Ron Krebs, Sheriff San Juan County, Washington By: Kim Ott, Chief Civil Deputy LOT 19, FIRST ADDITION TO SNUG HARBOR, A PRIVATE SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED IN VOLUME 3 OF PLATS, PAGES 34 AND 34A, RECORDS OF SAN JUAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON. Tax Parcel Number: 140850019000 If developed the property address is: 87 Snug Harbor Drive, Lopez Island, WA 98261.

LEGAL NO. J612336 Published in The Journal of the San Juan Islands January 28th, 2015, February 4th, 11th, 18th, 2015.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S NOTICE TO JUDGMENT DEBTOR OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY ONEWEST BANK, FSB, its successors in interest and/or assigns, Plaintiff, v.

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF JOHN VAN NORTWICK; TINA L. LEGEUNE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES; SNUG HARBOR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION; OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMISES; and any persons or parties claiming to have any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real property

described in the complaint, Defendants.

CAUSE NO. 12-2-05105-5 JUDGMENT RENDERED ON 08/11/14 ORDER OF SALE ISSUED 12/29/14 DATE RECEIVED 12/29/14 DATE OF LEVY 01/21/2015 STATE OF WASHINGTON ) ) SS. COUNTY OF SAN JUAN ) TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF JOHN VAN NORTWICK; Any persons or parties claiming to have any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real property described in the complaint: judgment debtor(s).

The Superior Court of San Juan County has directed the undersigned Sheriff of San Juan County to sell the property described below to satisfy a judgment in the above-entitled action. The property to be sold is described on the reverse side of this notice.

The sale of the above-described property is to take place: Time: 10:00 AM Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 Place: Inside Main Entrance, San Juan County Courthouse, 96 Second St., Friday Harbor, WA The judgment debtor can avoid the sale by paying the judgment amount of $360,383.62 plus fees and interest accruing at the rate of 12% per annum from date of judgment until paid in full before the sale date. For the exact amount, contact the sheriff at the address stated below: This property is subject to: (check one) [ ] 1. No redemption rights after sale.

[X] 2. A redemption period of eight months which will expire at 4:30 p.m. on the 13th day of November, 2015. [ ] 3. A redemption period of one year which will expire at 4:30 p.m. on the ……… day of …….., 20…

The judgment debtor or debtors or any of them may redeem the above described property at any time up to the end of the redemption period by paying the amount bid at the sheriff’s sale plus additional costs, taxes, assessments, certain other amounts, fees, and interest. If you are interested in redeeming the property contact the undersigned sheriff at the ad-

dress stated below to determine the exact amount necessary to redeem.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: IF THE JUDGMENT DEBTOR OR DEBTORS DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY BY 4:30 p.m. ON THE 13th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2015, THE END OF THE REDEMPTION PERIOD, THE PURCHASER AT THE SHERIFF’S SALE WILL BECOME THE OWNER AND MAY EVICT THE OCCUPANT FROM THE PROPERTY UNLESS THE OCCUPANT IS A TENANT HOLDING UNDER AN UNEXPIRED LEASE. IF THE PROPERTY TO BE SOLD IS OCCUPIED AS A PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE BY THE JUDGMENT DEBTOR OR DEBTORS AT THE TIME OF SALE, HE, SHE, THEY, OR ANY OF THEM MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO RETAIN POSSESSION DURING THE REDEMPTION PERIOD, IF ANY, WITHOUT PAYMENT OF ANY RENT OR OCCUPANCY FEE. THE JUDGMENT DEBTOR MAY ALSO HAVE A RIGHT TO RETAIN POSSESSION DURING ANY REDEMPTION PERIOD IF THE PROPERTY IS USED FOR FARMING OR IF THE PROPERTY IS BEING SOLD UNDER A MORTGAGE THAT SO PROVIDES. Ron Krebs, Sheriff, San Juan County Washington Kim Ott, Chief Civil Deputy PO Box 669 Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-370-7622 LOT 19, FIRST ADDITION TO SNUG HARBOR, A PRIVATE SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED IN VOLUME 3 OF PLATS, PAGES 34 AND 34A, RECORDS OF SAN JUAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON. Tax Parcel Number: 140850019000 If developed the property address is: 87 Snug Harbor Drive, Lopez Island, WA 98261.

LEGAL NO. J612335 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands January 28th, 2015, February 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th, 2015 and March 4th, 2015.

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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.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE NORTH LOPEZ SERVICE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the San Juan County Council will conduct a public hearing for the purpose of receiving testimony on a proposed North Lopez Service Franchise Agreement. The public hearing will be held at the Legislative Hearing Room, 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor, WA on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 beginning at 9:15 AM. The hearing may be continued from time to time and place to place as may be desired by the Council without additional written notice.

At the hearing, members of the public will be invited to speak and/or provide written statements regarding the

proposed Agreement.

After the public testimony portion of the hearing has ended, the Council will deliberate and consider modifications to the Agreement that are proposed by members of the public, county employees or the Council. The proposed Agreement may then be approved with or without modifications.

All persons wishing to be heard on this matter are encouraged to attend.

Written comments may be submitted in advance of the hearing by mail or at the hearing by delivery in person.

Please deliver 5 copies of all written comments to the Clerk of the San Juan County Council at 55 Second Street, Friday Harbor or mail to 350 Court Street #1, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. The Agreement is filed at the Office of the County Council, 55 Sec-

ond Street, Friday Harbor, WA and may be inspected and copies obtained at the Council offices during each business day between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

For more information please contact the Clerk of the County Council at 360-370-7470 or the County Engineer at 360-370-0500.

LEGAL NO. SJ612003 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder January 28, February 4, 2015.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) For San Juan County Hearing Examiner The San Juan County Council requests proposals for the services of a qualified Land Use Hearings Ex-

aminer for San Juan County. The Hearing Examiner will preside over public hearings and make decisions on permits and appeals of administrative decisions on certain land use matters affecting the unincorporated area of San Juan County. Only proposals which conform to the submittal requirements contained in the information packet will be accepted.

An information packet may be obtained from the Office of the San Juan County Manager, 350 Court Street #5 (mail only), 55 Second Street, Suite 203 (office location), Friday Harbor, WA 98250; www.sanjuanco.com (website); or by calling (360) 378-3870. Questions may be directed to Mike Thomas, County Manager at (360) 378-3870.

Proposals must be received by the

County Manager’s Office by the close of business (4:30 p.m.) on Tuesday, February 10, 2015.

LEGAL NO. SJ610964 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder January 21, 28, 2015.

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COMBINED NOTICE OF APPLICATIONS & HEARINGS Permit Number

PSJ00014-0017 PPROV0 -15-0001 PPROV0 -15-0002

Other Existing SEPA SEPA Date of Date Required Description Environmental Threshold Comments Application Complete Permits, If Documents DET End Date known HPA; Orcas Vision Preserve c/o BE; Cultural Nationwide Remove bulkhead; Rosie Donovan, DeForest Resource 261724001, 131 enhance shoreline; 12/12/14 12/18/14 27 ACE; MDNS 2/11/15 th survey; Env. Carousel Rd, Orcas Arch, 106 NW 36 St, Seattle, 401 Water add stairs Checklist WA 98107 qual, DOE Angela Burch 352850012, 99 North 21818 NE 69th St. Vacation rental 1/16/15 1/16/15 None NA Exempt Star Lane, San Juan Redmond, WA 98053 Travis & Barb Burney 170752028, 71 23495 Bassett Rd. Vacation rental 1/20/15 1/20/15 None NA Exempt Lodge Lane, Orcas Sedro Woolley, WA 98284 Tax Parcel Number, Project Location, and Island

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LAND USE DECISIONS Hearing Examiner Decisions: www.sanjuanco.com/cdp/hearingexdecisions.aspx Planning Commission decisions: http://www.sanjuanco.com/planning/planningcommissionactions.aspx County Council decisions:http://www.sanjuanco.com/council/ordinances.aspx and http://www.sanjuanco.com/council/resolutions.aspx

BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED

Permits issued by the Department of Community Development are searchable at https://services.sanjuanco.com/Default.asp. Select “Citizen Services,” then “Permits and Inspections,” then “Permits Inquiry” and enter search parameters To search a date range, use two periods between the date entries, i.e., after “Issue Date,” enter 11/17/2014..11/21/2014 and after “Permit Status,” select “Issued.” This will return a table of permits issued for the date range in question.

There is no need to enter a permit type, unless you want to narrow your search. There are also links available on our website. (San Juan County is providing this information as a public service, in recognition that there will be occasional down times due to system updates.)

SUBMITTING COMMENTS AND/OR OBTAINING INFORMATION SEPA Determination: San Juan County has determined that the projects noted above with a DNS or MDNS will not have probable significant adverse impacts on the environment and has issued a Threshold Determination pursuant to Sections 197-11-310 and 197-11-340 WAC. An Environmental Impact Statement will not be required under Section 43.21C.030 (2)(c) RCW. This determination was made after review of the environmental checklist and other environmental information on file at Community Development. The County has determined that the requirements for environmental analysis, protection, and mitigation measures have been adequately addressed in the development regulations and comprehensive plan adopted under Chapter 36.70A RCW, and in other applicable local, state, or federal laws or rules, as provided by Section 43.21C.240 RCW and Section 197-11-158 WAC, or as may be conditioned within any MDNS.

SEPA Comment and Appeal: Anyone desiring to comment on the SEPA Determination can do so by submitting a written statement to Community Development, PO Box 947 (135 Rhone St), Friday Harbor, WA. 98250 no later than the comment date specified above. The SEPA Determination may be appealed to the Hearing Examiner pursuant to SJCC 18.80.140 within 21 days of the date of the SEPA Determination.

Application Comments: Any file may be examined by appointment during regular business hours at the Community Development, located at 135 Rhone Street, Friday Harbor. Comment on Notices of Application can be submitted in writing to Community Development at P. O. Box 947, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, no later than the end date for project comments specified above.

Requests for copies of project decisions or staff reports or requests to provide testimony in a public hearing for a project, may be made by contacting Community Development: (360) 378-2354 * (360) 378-2116 * Fax (360) 378-3922 dcd@sanjuanco.com

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS: Hearing Examiner meetings on San Juan Island start at 10:00 a.m., in the Key Bank downstairs meeting room, 225 Blair Street, Friday Harbor. Planning Commission meetings begin at 8:45 am. Any person desiring to comment prior to the hearing should submit a written statement to Community Development, PO Box 947, Friday Harbor, WA. 98250. Written comments may also be submitted at the hearing. A copy of the staff report for a hearing may be obtained from Community Development seven days prior to the hearing.

NOTICE OF PERMITS: Information regarding all land use and building permits is available on the County’s website. A link is available on the Community Development homepage at: sanjuanco.com/cdp LEGAL NO. SJ1232135 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder, JANUARY 28, 2015

MISCELLANEOUS LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO APPROPRIATE PUBLIC WATERS TAKE NOTICE: That Nakatomi LLC of Friday Harbor, WASHINGTON on December 8, 2014, under Application No. G1-28794 filed for permit to appropriate public waters, subject to existing rights, from a well in the amount of 20 gallons per minute (gpm) each year, for multiple domestic supply.

The source of the proposed appropriation is located in NW ¼ SW ¼ Section 20, Township 35N, Range 3W, W.M., San Juan County.

Protests or objections to approval of this application must include a detailed statement of the basis for objections: protests must be accompanied with a fifty-dollar ($50.00) NONREFUNDABLE recording fee (PLEASE REMIT CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY) and filed with the

Department of Ecology at the address shown below, within thirty (30) days from January 28, 2015.

DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY CASHIERING OFFICE - NWRO-WR PO BOX 47611 OLYMPIA WA 98504-7611 LEGAL NO. J610884 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands.

January 21, 28, 2015.

SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON, COUNTY OF PIERCE ESTATE OF BRUCE ALLEN KINGLAND, Deceased.

NO. 15-4-00063-5 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 (NTCRD)

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 nonprobate assets.

Date of First Publication: January 28, 2015.

Personal Representative: MARY M. KINGLAND Attorney for the Personal Representative: A. EUGENE HAMMERMASTER/DAVID C. HAMMERMASTER Address for Mailing or Service: 1207 Main Street Sumner, WA 98390 Pierce County Superior Court Cause Number: 15-4-00063-5 /s/Mary M. Kingland MARY M. KINGLAND, Personal Representative Attorney for Personal Representa-

tive: HAMMERMASTER LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/A. Eugene Hammermaster A. Eugene Hammermaster 1207 Main Street Sumner, WA 98390 (253) 863-5115 LEGAL NO. J611586 Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands.

January 28, February 4, 11, 2015.

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