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SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015 | Vol. 91, No. 50 | www.SOUTHWHIDBEYRECORD.com | 75¢
WGH expansion design plans take next step By MEGAN HANSEN Whidbey News Group Whidbey General Hospital is one step closer to construction this summer of a $50 million expansion project. Hospital staff were issued a certificate of appropriateness by the Ebey’s Landing Historic Preservation Commission Thursday after making several design changes following a March pre-application presentation. SEE HOSPITAL, A11
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The hospital made changes to the building expansion to help break up an industrial look. The new wing will be divided into three pods and the designer took influences from the area’s historic blockhouses.
Freeland city study passes first step with reluctant OK By JUSTIN BURNETT South Whidbey Record Justin Burnett / The Record
Joe Wierzbowski displays a freshly cooked lunch from his food truck in Langley Thursday. The new business has come under fire from neighboring buisness owners and members of the city council.
Food Truck debut leaves some with sour taste By JUSTIN BURNETT South Whidbey Record For a parked food truck, The Big Wierzbowski’s first week in Langley has been one bumpy road. The new business, the first in a commercial experiment approved by the city council earlier this year, rolled into
town last week on Thursday and it was trouble from the start. With no electricity, firing up the grills meant firing up a generator — people complained about noise. Though the food truck was parked in the spot designated by the city at the entrance to Seawall Park — people complained the truck blocked the view.
The awning is too low, the truck is too long, it’s white and had no decorations or menus, there was no garbage or recycling — the list of gripes from neighboring business owners and even two city council members was SEE FOOD TRUCK, A11
Absolutely not. Well, maybe. OK fine, let’s send it to the Island County commissioners and let them figure it out. That was the course of a turnaround discussion Wednesday by members of the Island County Council
of Governments (or COG) about a proposal to fund a Freeland incorporation feasibility study. Despite just about every member giving reasons why it seemed liked a bad idea, the quorum of seven unanimously consented to move the proposal forward to the board for final SEE FREELAND, A10
Langley man may lose arm after hit, run crash By BEN WATANABE South Whidbey Record A Langley man was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday night after a hit-and-run crash in SEE CRASH, A13