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Volpone,or T he FoxBy Ben Jonson

May 2-5, 7:30 pmThursday, May 2 – Sunday, May 5Matinee 2 pm Sunday, May 5

Lopez Center for Community and the Arts

A Lopez Community Theater ProductionBenefi tting the Lopez Historical SocietyAge recommendation: 13 and above

April 27th 2013Bicycle Tour of Lopez ➢ Please Share the Road

presented by the Lopez Chamber o f Commerceand thank you to our business sponsors below:

FREE Parking in Anacortesfor participants; Thurs-Sun

Live music by theLucky Dawgs

Beer Garden

Lunch by The Galleyat the Lopez Community Center

More in fo atwww.Lopez I s land.com

Do you have questions about your child’s . . .

Speech? ■ Hearing?Vision? ■ Development?

Social/Behavioral?Lopez Island School District will provide a free clinic forchildren aged birth through � ve years to screen development in communication, motor, and adaptive skills.When: Friday, May 3, 2013 Where: Lopez Elementary School

Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pmHow: Please call Laurie at 468-2201, x 2127 during school

hours, to make an appointment.

By Cali BagbyWeekly editor

It all started with an idea. Daren Holscher thought other cycling events in the state were successful so why not hold one on Lopez. Becky Smith recalls that the Chamber of Commerce was interested in the event. And so the Tour De Lopez was born.

“We started talking about bicycling because it is one thing people come here to do – the terrain makes it an ideal location,” said Smith, chamber vice-president and Tour de Lopez coordinator.

This year marks the tenth

anniversary for the non-com-petitive ride that is still going strong.

Registration has closed

for the ride, but you can still jump aboard for the lunch the day of the ride, April 27, at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts with a beer gar-den while listening to the music of the Lucky Dawgs from 12-3 p.m.

For visitors, there is free parking in the upper lot at the Anacortes Ferry Terminal, Thurs.-Sun., courtesy of Washington State Ferries and Diamond Parking. WSF also offers an extra unsched-uled sailing from Anacortes to Lopez at 7:35 a.m. on

Saturday to accommodate riders coming for a day trip.

There are four routes (5, 12, 17 and 31 miles) that begin from the ferry land-ing or Lopez Village and are marked with “unique” recy-cled bikes.

The event started as a way to help the chamber pay for operation and maintenance of the public restrooms and

You are greatly appreciated by theLOPEZ SCHOOL FACTS COMMITTEE

T hank YouTo our wonderful supporters of the stand

we all took on the school bond issue.

Paid for by Lopez School Facts Committee, 856 Shark Reef Road, Lopez, WA. 98261, [email protected]

Tour de Lopez celebrates 10 years

See Tour, paGe 6

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A look at riders during last year’s Tour de Lopez.

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fri, april 26meeting: Grief and Loss Support Group, 10 a.m., Hospice and Home Support Office. 178 Weeks Road. For info call 468-4446 or email [email protected].

sat, april 27tour: 10th Annual Tour de Lopez, For info, visit www.lopezisland.com or call the chamber office 468-4664.

sun, april 28lecture: Beth Terry, author of “Plastic Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How you Can Too” gives presentation, 5:30 p.m., Woodman Hall.

tues, april 30due date: Nominations for directors’s positions for Catherine Washburn Medical Association, The board nominates Don

Poole, Sherry Brummell and Ron Shively. Nominations must be postmarked by April 30, 2013 and sent to CWMA PO Box 309, Lopez Island, WA 98261.

thurs, may 2theater: “Volpone,” 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Runs from Thursday May 2 through Sunday May 5 at 7:30 p.m. with a spe-cial matinee at 2 p.m. on Sunday May 5.

fri, may 3screening: Child Development Screenings, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., Lopez Elementary School. Parents of young children (birth to 5 years), Do you have ques-tions about your child’s

Speech? Hearing? Vision?, Development? Motor skills? To make an appointment for a free screening. Call Laurie at 468-2201 ext. 2127.

sat, may 4fundraiser: Lopez Island Community Fireworks Presents a Mexican Dinner and Live Auction Fundraiser, 5- 9 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Begins at 5 p.m. with auc-tion preview and drinks. Authentic Mexican three-course meal including beer, wine and margaritas avail-able to purchase. For more info, visit www.lopezfire-works.com.

sun, may 5fundraiser: “Dinner on the Move: An Elegant

Evening on the Rock for an Exceptional Cause” for DVSAS, 4- 9 p.m., Lucky participants will be chauf-feured through a five-course meal prepared by Lopez chefs at three locations. 28 tickets are left. For tickets and info, contact Kim Bryan at 468-3788 or email [email protected].

thurs, may 9meeting: Lopez Island Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale and Silent Auction, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Bring a box to take home all your new plants. Donated plants can be dropped off Wednesday, May 8 from 3-5 p.m.

thurs, may 18meeting: Annual meeting of the Catherine Washburn Medical Association, 10 a.m., Lopez Library meeting room. Reports will be pro-vided and directors elected to three vacant positions as specified in the By-laws. The board nominates Don Poole, Sherry Brummell and Ron Shively. Nominations will be taken from the membership; nominees must be members of CWMA, permanent resi-dents of Lopez Island, and have the written endorse-ment of ten CWMA mem-bers. Nominations must be postmarked by April 30, 2013 and sent to CWMA PO Box 309, Lopez Island, WA 98261.

CommunityCalendar

Lovel, Lisa & Jamie for council

The upcoming election is a critical one for San Juan County, and we want to

express our strong support for Lovel Pratt, Lisa Byers and Jamie Stephens for coun-ty council.

We believe that these three individuals are the most like-ly to work as a team to return good, thoughtful governance to San Juan County, free of the negativity and acrimony we have experienced in recent times. All have demonstrated leadership and management

skills, are good listeners, and have a wealth of experience in working with and for the County.

Lovel has represented the County in Olympia and has the trust and confidence of our elected representatives there, Lisa has successfully managed affordable housing efforts on Orcas Island, and Jamie has worked tirelessly to improve the quality of life

for all Lopez residents--and ably serves as the current council chairman.

Please join us in support-ing Lovel, Lisa and Jamie for county council.

John and Carol Whetten

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Support for ByersI have known Lisa for

many years and worked with her on several county wide projects. Lisa has a remarkable ability to work with divergent points of view, listen carefully and help everyone in the group thoroughly understand the situation then come to useful and effective solutions. Even folks who have a different point of view understand the reasons the choices were made. She is very much a systems thinker who deeply

respects the individual.This is a much needed

trait in our council member as every policy decision made at this level has many seen, and too often unseen, consequences through-out the county leading to contradictory or confusing policies. Lisa brings this strength of clarity to every conversation and decision making task. She has dem-onstrated exceptional mana-gerial experience as director of Opal and in every other position she has held.

We could not find a bet-ter qualified candidate than Lisa Byers to lead the county through the coming years of lean budgets and the need to integrate and streamline county policies so residents have a clear path to permits and all other ways citizens interface with county govern-ment. Identifying and solving these problems are long over-due. We will get a balanced budget and more effective and efficient county govern-ment if we elect Lisa Byers.

Carol steCkler lopez island

Yes for School BondI would like to share why I

intend to vote in favor of the proposed school renovation bond. This is not a decision I came to without a great deal of thought, and I believe it is the right decision for Lopez.

I served on the Lopez

Island School Board for six years, and I have been awed by the wonderful support this community has always shown for the school district.

I have been equally awed by the important role the school has played in the life of the students and their families.

This is an opportunity to once again show that incred-ible support and connection between school and com-munity.

I have worked with the members of the current School Board, and I have observed first hand the com-mitment and dedication with which these volunteers do their job, often without any thanks or recognition.

I know for a fact that this board spent many hours working to bring forward a bond proposal that they sin-cerely believe will for many years serve the school, its students and staff and the Lopez community.

I have read and listened to the opinions on both sides of the bond proposal. I know and have great respect for those on both sides of this issue.

Everyone recognizes the bond, if approved, will require a significant finan-cial contribution by the taxpayers. I believe it is a contribution worth making, and I hope you will join me in voting yes.

diana G. hanCoCklopez island

Letters to the EditorLetters to the editor must be no more than 350 words in length and

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Annual world production of plastics exceeds 300 million tons and continues to grow. That’s about 100 pounds of new plastics per year for every human on earth. Of course, plastic use is not evenly distributed.

People in North America, Europe and Japan con-sume about two-thirds of the world’s plastics. Even in wealthy countries, less than half of the plastic produced is recycled.

The rest is destined for landfills, officially; but a great deal of it ends up in the oceans. No one can say just how much or how it gets there. Illegal dumping almost certainly accounts for more than half of it.

The fate and impact of marine plastic debris depends a great deal on the types of plastics that are involved. To a chemist, we are talking about “thermoplastics,” materials

that soften and flow when heated, so they can easily be molded. Most thermoplastics are polymers simply com-posed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, although other compounds or metals are added to them to alter their elasticity, strength, stability or color.

Five polymers account for nearly all thermoplastics in use today. Polyethylene is manufactured from petro-leum and is a bit less dense than water, so it floats. Low-density PE is used in food wrapping and plastic bags; high-density PE is used for home insulation (Tyvek) among other things. Sunlight slowly de-polymerizes PE and bacteria metabolize it into carbon dioxide and water.

Polypropylene, used for packaging, textiles and bot-tles, is manufactured from natural gas. Like PE, PP floats and slowly breaks down into

carbon dioxide and water. Both PE and PP are easily recycled.

Polystyrene, used in dis-posable utensils, jewel cases, Styrofoam cups and packing peanuts; and polycarbonate, used in CDs, electronics and windows; are denser than water and tend to sink unless “puffed up” with air. They are relatively stable and do not degrade in the environment, just abrade into smaller and smaller pieces, producing plastic sand.

In last place is polyvinyl chloride or PVC used exten-sively for plumbing. It sinks and is very stable chemically, but if burned it releases carci-nogenic dioxins. PS, PC, and PVC are not often recycled, and tend to account for a disproportionate amount of micro-plastic debris.

Significant accumulations

of plastic debris can be seen on some south-facing San Juan County beaches, depos-ited by high storm tides and winds. With the help of Marta Branch, her high school class, and Orcas intern Quinn Freedman, we studied the plastic “midden” on the public beach at Eastsound in summer 2012.

Although thousands of pre-consumer plastic pellets (nur-dles) were recovered, most of the plastics we sifted from the sand and woody debris were post-consumer: bags, candy wrappers, bottles, house-wares, and an astonishing

variety of fibers from clothing and other textiles – exactly what would be expected in a landfill. Candy wrappers and bottles enabled us to deter-

mine that some of the plastic debris had been thrown away as early as the 1960s.

The impact of marine plas-Plastic feast

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SHARK REEF Literary Magazine and the Lopez Library invite poetry lovers to a reading by four poets on Thursday, April 25, at 7 p.m.

at the library to commemo-rate National Poetry Month. Lopez poet John Sangster, a past poetry co-editor of SHARK REEF, will introduce

fellow poets, Tom Aslin, Gary Thompson, Gayle Kaune and Lopezian Ande Finley.

Aslin and Thompson are currently serving as poetry co-editors for SHARK REEF. Finley has been published in the magazine.

“I met Tom at the Centrum Writer’s Conference several years ago,” said Sangster. “When Elizabeth Landrum and I were ready to pass on the poetry co-editor baton, I thought of him. He, in turn, brought in Gary Thompson, both of them graduates of the University of Montana. SHARK REEF editor Lorna Reese and I thought it would be fun to do a SHARK REEF poets, plus one, event for the next reading.”

Recently retired from driv-ing Metro buses in Seattle, Aslin published a chapbook,

“Sweet Smoke” (Red Wing Press, West Sacramento, CA), and a full-length collection, A Moon over Wings (Clark City Press). A Moon over Wings will be re-issued in a new edi-tion later this year from Tebot Bach, Huntington Beach, CA. That book was a finalist for the 2009 Washington State Book Award. Aslin holds an Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Montana where he studied with the late Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees.

“I enjoy public readings,” Aslin says. “I just remember that everyone comes because they want to. It’s not like teaching 7th or 8th graders where most of them probably wish to be anywhere else.”

Thompson’s latest book of poems, “To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us,” published by Turning Point in 2008, joins three previous collections. He also holds an Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Montana and remembers fondly those Hugo-DeFrees-Kittredge days.

He taught in the creative writing program at California State University, Chico, for over 25 years. He and his

wife Linda have lived in the Northwest for fourteen years and, five years ago, moved to San Juan Island, bringing their old trawler, Keats, home to the waters they have come to love. Fish Bay on Lopez is one of their favorite stop-overs.

Kaune has won several Washington Poets Awards, a Ben Hur Lampmann Award, and has been nominated for Pushcart and Pulitzer priz-es. Her books include “Still Life in the Physical World,” published by Blue Begonia Press and the chapbook Concentric Circles, which won the Flume Press Award judged by Gary Thompson. Her newest book, “All the Birds Awake,” was published by Tebot Bach. Kaune met John Sangster and Tom Aslin at the Centrum Writer’s Conference and finally met Gary Thompson this past year when he came to her home town, Port Townsend, to give a reading.

Lopez poet Finley, who has been writing most of her life, confesses she imagined early

on she would someday be a famous novelist. After dab-bling a while with children’s books, poetry became her imaginative focus. Living on Lopez has nurtured the pas-sionate connection with the natural world that shows up in many of her poems.

“In our forest, I often get the feeling I’m merely a con-duit for the creative energy swirling around out there,” she says. “It’s endlessly inspiring.”

Finley admits the support-ive audiences at well-attended Lopez Writers Read events help her overcome her intense performance anxiety.

“Rain or shine, Lopez always comes out for poets,” says Sangster. “We get big-ger audiences than they do at Elliott Bay Books and I expect this event will prove just as popular. These are wonderful poets and great readers so I’d recommend you get there early to get a good seat.”

SHARK REEF Poetry reading at Library

Your opinion counts... with Island Hospital.

Since 1962 Island Hospital has served San Juan County with high-quality facilities and a compassionate, professional staff. Our Board of Commissioners and Administration would like to hear from our fellow, neighboring island communities about a major undertaking now in process.

Island Hospital has teamed with Skagit Valley and Cascade Valley hospitals to seek a collaborative health system to improve our delivery of healthcare. The three hospitals recently sent a request for proposal (RFP) to regional healthcare systems to establish a beneficial relationship.

We encourage you to share your suggestions, comments or concerns with us. Please find the RFP and email addresses for our elected Commissioners at www.islandhospital.org, then click on “About Us”, then “Leadership”.

Thank you for helping us provide the very best possible healthcare to the communities we serve.

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The Salish Sea Early Music Festival pres-ents a quartet of international soloists includ-ing leader of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and violinist Ingrid Matthews, baroque cel-list and director of the Montreal Baroque Festival Susie Napper, harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor from Lübeck, Germany and baroque flutist and festival artistic director Jeffrey Cohan in the Baroque Trio Sonata.

The show is Saturday, May 4 at 7 p.m.

at Grace Church, 70 Sunset Lane in Lopez Village.

The performance of some of the greatest baroque chamber music by outstanding com-posers of the baroque includes Jean-Baptiste Lully, Arcangelo Corelli, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann

Suggested donation is $15 or $20, 18 and under are free.For info, visit www.salishseaf-estival.org or call 468-3477.

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The Lopez Community Theater production opening on May 2 will be “Volpone,” or The Fox, a classic but sel-dom performed comedy by Shakespeare’s con-temporary and friend, Ben Jonson. The pro-duction will be directed by Meredith and Steve Young, a father-daughter team. Steve has been an actor in a number of Lopez productions, and this marks his return

to directing after many years. Meredith has joined the team from Los Angeles, where, after graduating from Cal Arts with a degree in direct-ing, she has been working as an editor in film and television.

The cast includes both seasoned veterans of the Lopez Theater like Josh Eide, George Keeler, and Mary Wondra, and intro-duces some newcomers, notably Kestrel Arps, and

Mike Hobi, as Corvino.“Volpone” is a timely

satirical play which brings to life the ridiculous antics of characters who will do anything in their pursuit of wealth, and presents what may be the earliest example in literature of the Ponzi scheme.

Two con men played by Kestrel Arps, and Mosca, his side-kick, played by Josh Eide, pretend that Volpone is fabulously wealthy, deathly ill and has no heirs. Wealthy Venetians (and a silly English tourist) visit Volpone daily, bringing him gifts, encouraged by Mosca to believe that they will inherit all Volpone’s treasure.

As Mosca and his patron devise ever more complicated schemes to fleece and humiliate their victims, more and more characters are drawn into the scam, until they all end up in court, and justice (of a kind) is done. Jonson’s brilliant language reveals a group of complex char-acters that move beyond comic stereotypes and

reveal, in their twisted dreams and frantic strata-gems, how the desire for wealth can degrade an entire community.

All performances will be at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, from Thursday May 2 through Sunday May 5 at 7:30 p.m., with a spe-cial matinee at 2 p.m. on Sunday May 5.

General Admission Tickets: $15, available for advance sale at Paper, Scissors on the Rock, Blossom, and Islehaven Books. All proceeds from the production will ben-efit The Lopez Historical Society. Suitable for ages 13 and up.

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tic. Some species of seabirds and sea turtles ingest large quantities and variety of plas-tic debris, but direct evidence of widespread mortality is limited so far to Skuas, a fam-ily of gull-like marine birds that may prey preferentially on some plastics. Sea turtles ingest a wide range of debris, including

plastics, all of which may retard their growth by “dilut-ing” their diet with indigest-ible gut packing. By contrast, our researchers have found plastics in only a handful of over two thousand juvenile salmon we have gut lavaged since 2008, and only one of hundreds of otter scat we have examined.

It is fair to say that any species that routinely mis-takes plastic debris for food will suffer dietary dilution to some degree, whether or not it is fatal.

Scientists also suspect that plastic debris is rich in toxic chemicals it has “scrubbed” out of seawater.

In our Kwiaht laboratory we use a PP fabric to extract pollution from seawater for testing; the fabric absorbs several times its weight in oil and oily contaminants. Plastic debris may not kill wildlife outright, but con-demns animals that ingest it to unhealthy, shorter life-times.

Regardless of its toll on wildlife, marine plastic debris is evidence that we make more plastic than we can afford to dispose of. If disposal costs were included in pricing plastics, we would probably use less and recycle more of it.

It would also make the fast-degrading polylactide fam-ily of thermoplastics more attractive. Manufactured from sugar or starch rather than petroleum, PLA can be composted safely.

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Always a Place for You! CTK gathers at 10 a.m. in the

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graCe episCopal ChurCh, welcomes

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Worship at 10:30 a.m. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877.

lutheran ChurCh in the san juans, Sundays

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Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at

1:15 p.m. in Emmanual. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025.

QuaKer Worship group Meetings will be Sundays

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Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone

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you to join us for Mass at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Call

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shower in Village Park. “Until the Tour de Lopez we were

trying to fund that out of our dues and it got to the point that we could not do that anymore,” Smith said.

The success of the tour has elimi-nated the chamber’s concern about funding and has even gone a step fur-ther. The tour brings tourism without detriment to Lopez’s landscape.

“Bicyclists tend to be very conscien-tious of their impact,” said Smith. “It is a good match … by Sunday morn-

ing you would never know 900 riders were on the island. We also wanted to come up with an event for the island to bring tourists here at the end of April – a time when things are pretty slow.”

Smith who has helped coordinate the event from the beginning has watched the ride grow to more than 900 riders each year and she has learned a thing or two along the way. For instance one year she replaced Holly B’s baked treats at the rest stations with trail mix and fruit. But many of the participants complained about that decision and the baked goods were back at the stations the next year.

Then there was the year that they

used chalk to point out the routes, but the rain washed it all away. Smith’s solution was to get old bikes at the dump, decorate and paint them and use the bikes as markers.

“They are unique and people love them,” said Smith.

She added that Christa Campbell and the 50 or so dedicated volunteers that help out each year make the event successful.

“We couldn’t do this without volun-teers; it’s a group effort,” Smith said. “Just ask my family, they get recruited every year.”

For more information about the tour, visit www.lopezisland.com.

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by Lynne Keeley, Lopez Island Hospice & Home Support

Look around you. Chances are a family member, a friend, or a neighbor volunteers for a nonprofit organization on Lopez. Perhaps you have the satisfaction of serving our community in this way too.

We don’t know exactly how many individuals volunteer here or how many hours are

given, but we do know this island would not be what it is without the generosity and dedication of volunteers. It’s time to celebrate them dur-ing National Volunteer Week, April 21 – 27.

National Volunteer Week is about the people who make it possible for so many of us to stay on the island. It’s about taking action in the commu-nity. And it’s about encourag-

ing individuals to volunteer. Do you ever wonder

what living on Lopez Island would be like without vol-unteer Emergency Medical Technicians and Firefighters? Fifty-two of your neighbors respond to emergencies day or night, rain or shine, to try and make what may be the worst day of your life better.

“Our volunteers dedicate themselves to you because they love living on Lopez Island like we all do, and they make this a better place to live,” said Fire Chief Jim Ghiglione.

Mary O’Bryant, Manager of Client Services at Lopez Island Hospice and Home Support, says “I can’t tell you how much we appreciate what our volunteers do. Many of our clients would not be able to stay at home without their help. Our great thanks go out to them all.” Gale McCallum has been a volunteer for Hospice and Home Support since its inception in 1997. She understands the returns in being a volunteer.

As she commented, “You get back so much more than you put into it.”

During National Volunteer Week, take a moment to thank the volunteers who work with so many organiza-tions on Lopez Island. And please consider becoming a volunteer yourself.

As it’s said, “To the world you may be one person. But to that one person you may be the world.”

As the needs of local families grow and we continue to expand our programming, United Way funding remains vital to our success. Our programs like Lopez Fresh, Family Support and Primary Intervention Program are made possible through the ongoing support of United Way. Thank You United Way of San Juan County! From the Board and Staff of the Lopez Island Family Resource Center

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Lopez Fire is considering their role in the San Juan County Sheriff Department’s plan for a new emergency vessel.

“It’s really a financial issue,” Lopez Fire Chief Jim Ghiglione said.

In November, the Sheriff’s Office was awarded a Federal Port Security Grant of up to $785,000 to acquire an emer-gency response boat for fire agencies and emergency medical services as well as law enforcement. The grant

requires a local match that can be satisfied by staff time and other planned expendi-tures that should not increase costs to local taxpayers.

The Marine Operations User’s Group includes all the public safety organizations in San Juan County and is tasked with overseeing the marine operations program. As a financial participant, OIFR would have been responsible for approximate-ly $25,000 per year in mainte-nance and operational costs for the program.

“We know that for Lopez we can’t rely on the ferry sys-tem for transport of patients by boat and transport of firefighting personnel inter-island,” Ghiglione said. “We need a cooperative agree-ment with other agencies, but it’s such a small issue for us – we have 1.6 boat transports per year. So is this a good use of taxpayers’ money?”

Ghiglione says the new PeaceHealth hospital on San Juan is also an option for patients instead of St. Joseph’s in Bellingham.

“If the helicopters can’t fly and the Navy or Coast Guard isn’t available, we are more than likely going to take them across the pond over to San Juan,” he said. “Plus, before we go to the boat, we explore every air aspect first. Air is our primary method of transporting patients.”

The Lopez Fire board will discuss the matter at its May 13 board meeting.

Homesteaders,Indian Wives & Second Sons

April 27 - September 29Noon to 4 • Wednesday through Sunday

Museum Members ReceptionApril 26 • 5-7pm

Generously sponsored by: Islanders Insurance, Spencer’s Landing Marina,Richardson Fuel, Lopez Island Pharmacy, Lopez Village Market, Mitrebox Contracting,

Jamie & Lauren Stephens, Cloud Islands, Edenwild Inn, Hayward Design & Construction, Doug James Floor Coverings, Karen Rousseau, Lopez Sand & Gravel,

Steve Horn Photography, Ralph Bladt & Barbara Fulton, Mike Halperin & Jodi Green, Nancy & Charles Givens, Spud & Karen Grimes, Gary & Karen Alexander,

Ken & Linda Rose, Duane & Audrey Bordvick, Dianne Pressenda, Raiti Waerness.With additional support from Humanities WA

Lopez Island Historical Society 468-2049

Emergency vessel update

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