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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015 | Vol. 91, No. 26 | www.SOUTHWHIDBEYRECORD.com | 75¢
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Adam Fawcett leads an early beginning-of-the-day exercise routine at Nichols Brothers Boat Builders in Freeland. The program is mandatory and cut injuries by half.
Nichols workers stretch to better health 10-minute exercise routine cuts injuries in half
By JUSTIN BURNETT South Whidbey Record The crew at Nichols Brothers Boat Builders are tough, grizzled, even burly. With calloused hands and scuffed-up hard hats, these no-nonsense Americans know what it means to show up day after day, work hard and get the
job done. They’re the quintessential shipyard workers, which makes picturing their 10-minute morning exercise routine a bit hard to image. In dirty overalls and leather welding jackets, these rough-and-tumble men and women will be found with hands on their hips and dipping one knee, and
then the other; throwing their hands above their heads and then swinging them back down behind them; reaching forward with one arm while stretching the opposite leg back. Those are just a few of the moves in Adam Fawcett’s SEE NICHOLS, A13
Undersea gardeners take note: Parks to offer oyster farming class By BEN WATANABE South Whidbey Record
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Kevin Lungren, a Freeland private oyster farmer, holds up his harvest.
Kevin Lungren considers himself similar to Ciscoe Morris or any other gardener, only his garden is underwater most of the time. He and many others are part of a growing group of people
on Whidbey Island and around Western Washington taking up oyster cultivation, commonly called oyster gardening. Kurt Johnson, a biologist who specializes in shellfish, will lead a three-day oyster gardening class through the South Whidbey Parks and Recreation District in
May. Already eight spots have been taken in the 15-student crash course in bivalve cultivation. It involves a lot less maintenance than growing green beans and tomatoes. But it also SEE OYSTER, A20