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By EMILY GILBERT egilbert@whidbeynewsgroup.com

It’s a scene you could probably see at a lot of places on the island – a handful of old guys sitting around a table with coffee and some cookies. But this group is a little different from some of the rest.

Veterans Coffee Club is a casual, weekly time for military veterans and their spouses to talk about their time in the service and catch up on what people are doing in their lives afterward.

“We joke a lot,” Louis Muehlausen, a retired Marine, said.

Jaque Guthrie, whose husband served in the military, said that one person would start a story on their end of the table, and other people would add details to it as it went along. By the time the story was finished, the group would find out that some of them had been in the same places in different planes from each other, she said.

“I think its terrific that there’s so much history here,”

Guthrie said.

The group first started meeting in the mid-2000s in the old Safeway (now Haggens) on Thursday mornings and it grew as members told their friends.

The group is not as large as it once was since some members have passed away or moved.

Over the years, they’ve met people who’ve been all over the world.

One man, Harold Johnson, was a World War II veteran who had been on

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Louis Muehlhausen, Steve DeAvilla, Jim Ramler, and Frank Walls (left to right) meet on Thursday mornings to talk about their time in the service and life afterward as part of Veterans Coffee Club, open to all veterans, their spouses, and active military members. Below, the group sets up a memorial every week for Harold Johnson. a battleship in Guadalcanal and then was sent to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska two days later. Johnson died in 2016, but the group fondly remembers him and sets up a memorial for him every week at the chair at the head of the table where he used to sit.

The group also remembers another man named Franz

who had been through Hitler’s youth camps as a child.

“He could tell us about the other side of the war,” Guthrie said.

The couple hours spent each week over coffee are special to the people who come regularly.

“With other vets we can talk to each other comfortably,” Steve DeAvilla, retired Navy, said.

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A 2011 Oak Harbor High School graduate and Oak Harbor native is serving in the Navy, living on the coast of Spain and participating in a critical NATO ballistic missile defense mission while assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook.

The easement, which covers 2,481 acres of aquatic bedlands, prohibits new construction such as wharfs, piers, platforms and structures for industrial use.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Omani Welch is a logistics specialist aboard one of the four advanced warships forwarddeployed to Rota, Spain, a small village on the country’s southwest coast 65 miles south of the city of Seville.

Serving in the Navy is a continuing tradition of military service for Welch, who has military ties with family members who previously served.

“My mother and father were officers who served 30-plus years,” said Welch.

“My parents are go-getters and very successful at everything they do. It was easy for me to decide to serve.”

A Navy logistics specialist is responsible for keeping inventory and ordering high-priority supplies for the ship.

The Navy will pay DNR $342,000 for the easement, which is fair market value.

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Omani Welch is an Oak Harbor native. town that I’ve applied to my career is to treat everyone like family,” said Welch.

“Growing up in a small town really makes you appreciate people and how everyone is different.”

be more able to make quick decisions, regarding the work environment,” she said. “I like getting my work done right, so cutting corners is never an option for me.

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“The best part of serving here is the travel and seeing different cultures.

Seeing this part of the world is truly humbling and I am beyond blessed to serve my country, but while doing it in different places.”

Welch said she credits success in the Navy with lessons learned growing up in Oak Harbor.

Welch added she is proud that she earned a letter of recognition for hard work as well as advancing in rank.

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“This partnership strengthens our military preparedness and strengthens our waterways by protecting critical habitat in Hood Canal,” said Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz. “This is truly an example of mutual benefit for our Navy, communities and public waters.”

Hood Canal is a “Military Operating Area” for Naval Base Kitsap. Limiting disruption in this area is critical for Navy operations, including research, testing and training.

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“Through this agreement, the Navy will be able to continue training and testing at Naval Base Kitsap for decades to come.”

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September is National Disaster Preparedness Month, and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island is working to ensure locals are prepared in case a disaster strikes.

The NAS Whidbey Fleet and Family Support Center is teaming with the NAS Whidbey Emergency Management office to offer a free, two-hour disaster preparedness seminar for military members and their families.

The seminar will be on 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Bakerview Restaurant (CPO Club) Ballroom in Oak Harbor.

The seminar, in its third year, will focus on the making a plan of action in case of an emergency, ideas for building a disaster kit and resources to stay informed before, during and after an emergency.

Donald Allman, director of NAS Whidbey Emergency Management, will discuss man-made and natural hazards that occur on Whidbey Island, and Jim Reynolds, director of the Fleet and Family Support Center’s Emergency Family Assistance Center, will discuss the center’s importance in a disaster as well as the Navy Family Accountability and Assistance System.

“We’ll also have a panel of first responders there to answer questions,” Reynolds said. The groups attending will include the Oak Harbor Fire Department, NAS Whidbey Federal Fire Department, Whidbey Health EMS, Island County Sheriff ’s Office, American Red Cross, Island County Amateur Radio Club, Island County Emergency Management and local Community Emergency Response Team.

At this year’s 18th annual Military Appreciation Picnic hosted by the Oak Harbor Navy League and the Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce, service members and their families will be honored.

The public event will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, on Highway 20 at the property next to the Chamber.

“Great food, great times,” Navy League president Steve Bristow said.

“It will show the sense of how Oak Harbor and Whidbey Island have high opinions of the military families.”

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“We have four fault lines that run right through this little place we live on,” Reynolds said. “There’s a bridge, a ferry, we’re surrounded by water and there’s volcanoes. It’s not a matter of if, but when.”

It takes about 40 to 50 volunteers to run the event, with assistance from the local Orion Squadron of the Sea Cadets. They are hoping to have 3,000 guests attend throughout the day, Bristow said, up from last year’s showing of 800 due to the rain.

There will be free food, including BBQ pulled pork, hamburgers and hot dogs. Live music will play, featuring soft rock and country.

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or some, the career change from pilot to winemaker would be a rough transition. For Greg Martinez, “it just made sense.”

Martinez grew up in southern California and joined the Navy in 1987. Before he started flying as a Navy pilot, he earned a degree in dairy manufacturing from UC San Louis Obispo and studied enology at UC Davis.

He joined the Navy a month after graduating from college.

“I just fell in love with flying,” Martinez said.

He was sent to NAS Whidbey in 1989. Although he had never heard of Whidbey Island before he joined the Navy, once he was sent here, he fell in love.

He also trained pilots for over 20 years. He was a flight instructor with the VAQ-129 squadron and trained pilots on EA-6B Prowler when the Navy still used them, and he was in charge of Growler simulations. Now he is a commercial airline pilot, having left active duty in 1996.

His transition to winemaking was a smooth one. He drew from his background in food science and 20 years experience helping a friend

brew beer at Captain City Brewing in Coupeville before it closed. Since he liked wine better, he decided to switch to winemaking, he said.

and if a pilot has too much power they’ll catch the fourth – but they’ll be right on the edge of the landing strip, he said.

Now he and his wife, Theresa, have owned Holmes Harbor Cellars outside of Langley since 2005. The European-looking estate looks like something you would find in Italy.

Then there are separate grades for a landing, “no grade, fair and OK,” which are all kept on a board, he said. “No one is going to say that a landing was ‘excellent’ – the best you’ll get is an ‘OK 3-wire,’’ he said.

“I designed it while in Afghanistan on mission,” he said.

Martinez said he and his wife are a good team. Theresa has a masters degree in chemistry and knows the science behind the wines. She manages the finances and coordinates events. Martinez plays the role of winemaker, mixing the blends and picking the ones he likes, and is the outward-facing representative of the winery.

Martinez said he can make the wine by himself after receiving grapes from Washington vineyards in Walla Walla, Chelan and Yakima Valley. He said the most fun part of the winemaking process is blending.

“We never say wine tastes like grapes,” he said with a laugh, and explained the different flavors that appear in the wines. His process of deciding which blend to use takes days and multiple varia-

Martinez’s 3 Wire is an earthy blend with notes of black currant, black cherries, licorice and truffles.

He said he likes the 2012 Le Annate right now, a red Bordeaux blend that won bronze from the Seattle Wine Awards. But “they’re all my babies,” he said.

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Greg Martinez served in the Navy for 28 years. He and his wife own Holmes Harbor Cellars winery in Langley. tions. “Some days the palate is shy” and the time between tasting helps clarify which blends to use, he said.

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Change of command: Arny takes over for Moore my mentor told me how great a place this was and he definitely was not wrong,” Moore said. “Before I started my journey up here to the Pacific Northwest, he gave me three pieces of advice — one, focus on supporting the operational readiness of the units assigned to the installation; two, build a strong sense of community; and three, take care of the Navy families. That guidance has served me well through my time here.”

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It’s time for Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and the surrounding community to say goodbye to Commanding Officer Capt.

Geoff “Jefe” Moore and welcome aboard a new leader, Capt. Matthew “Flounder” Arny.

At a change of command ceremony in August at the base’s Indoor Wash Rack Facility, the transfer of authority to the new commanding officer was made official.

Guest speaker Rear Adm. Dell Bull spoke about the symbiotic relationship between the base and the local community and told Arny that he is welcome as the new commanding officer.

Moore led NAS Whidbey Island for two and a half years, in which time the base was chosen by Installations Command as the top large Navy installation in the country for 2016 and 2018. The base also won numerous other high-level Navy awards.

“I couldn’t be more happy that you’re going to take on the legacy that Jefe left behind and the wonderful commanding officers before him to run the best base on the planet,” Bull said. “Lord willing, the

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Capt. Geoff Moore addresses the base for the final time as Commanding Officer. unique capability of this base and this base’s community will continue for many years to come.”

Moore was presented with a Legion of Merit award in honor of his service.

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