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VOLUME 38, NUMBER 32 • AUGUST 11, 2015

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It all started with a camping trip and ended with a life hanging in the balance.

While on vacation, Ben Heege had no idea that he would saving a man’s life with the use of CPR.

“He would have done the same,” said Heege. “It feels like one human taking care of another.”

On July 23, Heege and his family headed to Spencer Spit on Lopez Island to enjoy the beautiful island scenery. During their stay they visited a friend who lives part-time on the island.

When the Heeges arrived at the home of Joey Johnson they exchanged greetings. But within minutes of their arrival Johnson collapsed. They would later learn that Johnson was suffering from cardiac arrest. Johnson’s wife dialed 911 and Heege began to give CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscita-tion) using techniques he had learned 10 years ago.

“I felt scared for him and his family, but I felt like [CPR] was the one thing I could do,” said Heege trying to recall what he was thinking as those minutes passed. “I went into the zone, I thought I was doing the right thing.”

After 12 minutes of CPR, Lopez EMS

arrived on the scene and continued resus-citation efforts, including defibrillation, intu-bation, IVs and various cardiac medications before flying the patient to a mainland hospital.

“Without his help and initiating CPR we would have had a much longer shot at sav-ing this man’s life,” said one of the paramed-ics on the scene.

Johnson was released from the hospital last week and is expected to make a full recovery.

“It basically came out of nowhere,” said Johnson, who has been athletic and healthy his entire life. “It was less terrifying to me at the time because I don’t remember it.”

Johnson said it’s hard to comprehend the whole ordeal at this time, but that he is grateful to Heege and the EMS teams whose efforts saved his life. His wife plans on getting CPR-trained in the near future.

For Heege, the day seemed fated. He hap-pened to be at Johnson’s house at the right time. If Heege had not been there to per-form CPR, Johnson may not have survived.

“I guess it’s a little hard to fully compre-hend, but it’s definitely a good feeling,” said Heege.

To receive CPR training on Lopez Island, call the fire station at 468-2991. CPR classes must have at least five people enrolled. The cost is $20.

CPR training: How you can save a life

By Meredith M. GriffithSounder contributor

Ferry fares will be going up again this fall.

The Washington State Transportation Commission voted unanimously on Aug. 4 to raise ferry fares, spurred on by a direc-tive in the 2015-2017 state transportation budget that requires Washington State Ferries to generate an addi-tional $8.1 million between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2017.

“I think people under-stand that the legislature sets the expectation for how much ferry users need to contribute to ferry opera-tions,” Paul Parker, the commission’s deputy direc-tor, told the Sounder. “The question facing the commis-sion is, how is that $8.1 mil-lion raised?”

Beginning on Oct. 1, car and driver ferry tickets will cost 2.5 percent more, and passenger tickets will cost 1 percent more. The fares are scheduled to see an identical increase again in May 2016. The commission expects the fare hikes to help generate the $357 mil-lion required by the 2015-17 state transportation budget.

The commission’s stated goal is to increase walk-on ridership over vehicles by raising passenger fares less than vehicle fares. This differential fare increase was proposed in 2013. In October 2013, vehicle fares were raised 3 percent, while passenger fares only rose by two percent. In May 2014, vehicle fares rose another 2-and-a-half percent, while passenger fares rose just 2 percent.

“Growing the gap between vehicle and pas-senger fares is following the Washington Transportation Plan and the WSF/WSTC Joint Recommendations on Operational and Pricing Strategies,” noted the com-mission in its Aug. 4 pre-sentation.

Parker said that most Ferry Advisory Committee members publicly opposed the differential fare increase policy, but said “their rec-ommendations didn’t mesh with the approach that was taken.”

When queried about islanders who often depend on their vehicles to retrieve substantial quantities of essential goods like food from the mainland, Parker answered, “It probably works a bit differently for those in the central Puget

Sound area than in the San Juan Islands. The commis-sion certainly understands the differences between the San Juans and Vashon as places where people are totally reliant upon the ferry system to get on and off island.”

But in defense of the dif-ferential policy, he added, “It’s obviously very expen-sive to build vessels that can carry cars; there is lim-ited capacity for vehicles, but there is always excess capacity for people, so the legislature has directed the ferry system and com-mission to look at ways to increase the utilization of the passenger deck. That’s the rationale.”

While fares for most will rise in October, a few driv-ers will get a small reprieve: the current surcharge for

over-height vehicles under 22 feet in length will be dropped. Also, qualifying disability vehicles from 22- to 30-feet long will be allowed greater leeway, with surcharges waived for any over-height vehicle features needed to accommodate disabilities.

Height regulations for other large vehicles will actually tighten by five inch-es in May 2016, when the over-height fare threshold for vehicles 22- to 30-feet long will be reduced from the current 7 feet, 6 inch-es, to 7 feet, 2 inches. This change will help WSF to bet-ter allocate available space, because the Jumbo, Super, Olympic and Issaquah-class ferries all have a lower-wing height limit of between 7 feet, 2 inches and 7 feet, 4 inches. On these vessels, vehicles just under 7 feet, 6 inches must be loaded in the vessels’ taller spaces, but don’t yet pay extra for the privilege.

The commission took pub-lic input during three out-reach meetings in early July on Friday Harbor, Whidbey Island and Bremerton. The Friday Harbor meeting was streamed live in real-time on the Internet for observation, and questions were taken via email during the meet-ing. The WSTC also held a virtual, online meeting, and took additional input dur-ing the final Aug. 4 hearing. The San Juan Island event saw just three members of

the public and three county commissioners; Clinton and Bremerton had 12 attend-ees each; and one person attended the online meeting and the final hearing. As of Aug. 4, the commission had received a total of 32 online comments and one phone call. According to the commission, comments included opposition to the fare increase, and opinions that walk-on passengers, island residents and/or reg-ular commuters should pay lower ridership costs.

The commission also notes that this is the third consecutive two-year bud-get proposal to enact two-tiered increases in October and May, as seen in the 2011 and 2013 ferry fare hikes.

To share your thoughts, visit the Voice of Washington State website at www.voiceofwashingtonstate.org/. The site is designed to gather public input through online forums and survey panels, and the commission says ideas and data will be shared with the Washington state governor and legisla-ture. Other key contacts are WSTC Executive Director Reema Griffith, at (360) 705-7070 or [email protected]; and WSDOT Ferries Division Planning Director Ray Deardorf, at (206) 515-3491 or [email protected]. For more informa-tion on the WSTC, visit www.wstc.wa.gov.

Washington ferry fares to increase this October

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THURS, ONGOINGEVENT: Coffee With The Birds, 9:30 – 11 a.m., Spencer Spit State Park Nature Center on campground. Join Eric Setterberg and Laurel Vukovic at Spencer Spit State Park for a relax-ing morning of birding. Bring your coffee mug and we’ll supply the fresh-brewed coffee, cream and sweetener! (Hot choco-late for the kids.) Enjoy a slidshow of birds found on Spencer Spit, and then explore the marsh, shore-line and forest in search of birds. Contact Tina O’Brien at 468-2251 or email [email protected].

TUES, AUG 11CLASS: Birch Bay Waterslides Adventure. Beat the heat with a fun all-day off-island trip to the Birch Bay Waterslides. Ages 12-16, $55. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

THURS, AUG 13EVENT: Mt. Baker: Our Beautiful and Active Volcano, 7 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Dr. Ian Lange discusses the history, current activity and the future potential of an eruptive event of this prominent feature of our local landscape. Part of the Science on Lopez series (SOL), presented by the Lopez Island Library, Friends of the Lopez Island Library and the San Juan Islands National Monument.

AUG 13 & 14CLASS: Kids in Kayaks: Beginning, 9 a.m. – noon, Odlin Park. For kids just beginning to feel comfort-able in a kayak or brand new to kayaking. Ages 8-12, $80. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

CLASS: Kids in Kayaks: Intermediate, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., Odlin Park. For kids already comfortable in a kayak who want to take their skills to the next level: paddle strokes, boat con-trol, navigation and safety techniques. Ages 10-14, $80. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

SAT, AUG 15EVENT: Lopez Concorse d’ Elegance, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Lopez High school.

HIKE: Sauk Mountain--This easy to moderate 4-mile roundtrip hike to the site of a former lookout cabin boasts great vistas of the surrounding peaks as well as the Skagit River. We will carpool to the trailhead, off Highway 20, near Concrete. We plan

on taking the first ferry to Anacortes. For signup and or questions contact hike leader Chris Coiley at 360- 622-6307 or [email protected].

WED, AUG 19EVENT: The Future of Weather Prediction with Dr. Cliff Mass, 7 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Join fore-most Northwest weather and climate issues com-mentator, KPLU contribu-tor, author and University of Washington Professor of atmospheric sciences Dr. Cliff Mass in a discussion on predicting the weather in a changing climate. Part of the Science on Lopez series (SOL), presented by the Lopez Island Library, Friends of the Lopez Island Library and the San Juan Islands National Monument.

SAT, AUG 22EVENT: Lopez Master Gardeners’ Information Table, 10 a.m. – noon, Sunset Builders Nursery Area. Bring a gardening question. If you have a plant or insect you would like to have ID’d, bring in a plastic bag.

SAT, AUG 29EVENT: Author Michael N. McGregor reads from “Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax,” 1 p.m., Lopez Library Community Room. Poet Robert Lax’s quest to live a true life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and a host of other writers and artists. McGregor’s book is an inti-mate look at an extraor-dinary but little-known life and a testament to the lib-erating power of living an uncommon life. Presented by Friends of the Lopez Island Library.

EVENT: Live in Concert with ROCK TERRA, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center. Tickets in advance are $12 for adults, $5 for youth. Buy tickets online at lopezcenter.org or at Lopez Center Office, Paper Scissors on the Rock, Blossoms Organic Grocery or Lopez Bookshop for youth. Tickets at door are $14 for adult, $6 for youth. The orchestration of the band’s talents and musi-cal content is a reflection

of the eclectic styles of its individual members with the synchronization of a well-tuned machine. Each show is creative and enjoyed by all, integrating audience energy in their performance and satisfying everyone’s taste.

SUN, AUG 30EVENT: A Summer Afternoon of Classical Music with John Ditto and Ginni Keith, 4 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church. All proceeds from this beautiful concert will benefit the Friends of the Lopez Island Library. Ditto and Keith, two favorite musicians, will be per-forming Bach and Handel as well as Romantic and Contemporary compos-ers including the famous Charles-Marie Widor “Toccata” from his Fifth Symphony. Keith will be performing vocal music by G.F. Handel and a flute sonata by J.S. Bach. A $5 donation per person is appreciated. Reception fol-lows in the Grace Church Parish Hall.

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Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterWednesdays - 4 p.m. - Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal ChurchSaturdays - noon at the Children’s CenterCall 468-2809

Al-Anon:Saturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, LopezCall 468-4703

Thanks to road crews

Thank you so very much, San Juan County road crew and passersby on the

byways for respecting my line of blackberries …

For 11 years I have been mowing the edge and trim-ming and tending them all year long. I am so very happy to see people walk-ing safely along a very busy Hummel Lake road, and I do my best to hand-trim the long runners.

Recently I have had sev-eral tourists and such, park-ing in the berries and in my drive. This happens every year, and usually I just ask them to move.

And usually people are respectful. People have not been respectful this year. So, yesterday I decided to flag the area.

It is very dangerous to park along Hummel Lake road … BUT most impor-tantly parking anywhere on a county road is dangerous, and it is not legal to park

in a private drive without permission.

All this blocks safe pas-sage of walkers and bicy-cles.

Anyway. Thank you SJC road crew for waiting to mow the berries until the season is complete! Thank you for all the work you do to keep our byways safe and beautiful!

Let’s all be aware of how we walk and drive along our narrow roads and be respectful of the land and the “other”.

AURORE MARENLopez Island

Thanks United WayFunding for the Lopez

Island Family Resource Center programs comes from many sources includ-ing United Way. The Lopez Summer Workshops

Program is one of our pro-grams that relies on these dollars in order to keep fees affordable and pro-vide scholarships for local youth. The Lopez Summer Workshops is the only summertime enrichment and recreational program offered on Lopez Island for both kids and adults. The workshops began 18 years ago and quickly took hold and blossomed into an indispensable community resource that opened up new worlds of opportunity to many of the island’s at-risk and underserved youth.

Lopez Summer Workshops offer partici-pants a fun and meaningful experience while exploring the outdoors, water, sports, technology and creative and performing arts. The

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and must be signed by the writer. Include address and telephone number for verification purposes. Anonymous letters will not be pub-lished. Send your letters via e-mail to: [email protected].

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The San Juan County Sheriff ’s Office responded to the following calls.

July 29• A deputy collected

an abandoned woman’s Roadmaster mountain bike that had been on A Street near North Beach Road in Eastsound for almost eight hours. The bicycle was not reported stolen.

July 30• An Eastsound resident

received a call from a person who said they had won the Publisher’s Clearing House $900,000. The person said they had to pay $950 for taxes. They did not get the money, and when they tried to call back there was no answer at the number.

• An Eastsound woman reported ongoing early morning construction noise in her neighborhood. A dep-uty attempted to contact the construction workers but was unable to locate them.

• A Lopez deputy was dis-patched to a civil dispute in which a landlord blocked a tenant’s driveway with a car. The landlord was contacted and told she could not block the driveway. The landlord moved the car.

• Deputies received a report of a possible DUI on Roche Harbor Road on San Juan Island. The driver was contacted and was arrested for DUI.

July 31• A Deputy received a

report of stolen schedule IV controlled medication. The medication, which was stored in a locked facility on Center Road, was taken by an unidentified person.

• A deputy on San Juan Island met with a reporting party who had been a vic-tim of a hit-and-run. Photos

were received as was a statement. A report was written.

• A Lopez man was sus-pected to be using a church restroom to clean himself. The deputy found the build-ing locked and secured and no one was present.

Aug. 1• A Lopez deputy was dis-

patched to a single vehicle rollover collision and vehi-cle fire in a field. The driver and passenger were unhurt. The driver was cited for reckless driving and was released.

• An Eastsound resident called to report a vehicle driving recklessly. The driv-er was located and a case was submitted to the pros-ecutor.

• A Friday Harbor man reported that medication had been stolen from his residence.

• Deputies were sent to Spring Street and Argyle for a truck that had rolled out of the Carquest parking lot and over a pedestrian. The truck was not running and unoccupied when this hap-pened. Bystanders picked up the truck and moved it off the pedestrian, who was transported by aid to the ER.

• A deputy received a report of a dog that had been at large in Friday Harbor. The deputy contact-ed the owner of the dog and gave him a warning letter.

• Tourists found an unattended dog wandering about at Waterfront Park in Eastsound. Dispatch called and left the owner a mes-sage about his found dog. The dog was ultimately taken to the Orcas Animal Shelter.

Aug. 2

• A San Juan County Sheriff deputy performed a traffic stop on Main Street in Eastsound. Further investigation revealed that there was probable cause to believe that the driver was driving under the influence. The driver was arrested and released with a promise to appear in court.

• A Lopez Island man was asked to leave and not return after displaying errat-ic and unsettling behavior in a Lopez Island business. The business owner report-ed the incident after the fact for informational purposes.

• An Orcas deputy was dispatched to a theft of a license plate. It was recov-ered and the suspect still has not been located.

• A deputy was dis-patched to Boyce Road in Friday Harbor in reference to an unwanted person. The reporting deputy walked into the area and observed for a while before contact-ing the reporting party. The reporting party stated that

the suspects from the night before were back.

• A deputy was dispatched to a weapons offense in Friday Harbor. The report-ing party advised that four gunshots were heard near the residence. The report-ing deputy arrived in the area and remained for over 30 minutes without hear-ing anything. The reporting party was contacted and left the residence for the night.

Aug. 3• A Lopez Island deputy

investigated a disturbance outside a Lopez Island church when a man was asked to leave the facility since Vacation Bible School was in session. The suspect voiced his displeasure to all within earshot as he was walking away.

• A Lopez Island deputy responded with EMS on a report of an unconscious, unresponsive male. Despite efforts to resuscitate the man, he died at the scene.

• An Eastsound resident found a gas can with fuel

missing from his shed.• A Lopez Island woman

reported identity theft after receiving a collection notice for a debt that she did not incur.

• Deputies were called for a domestic problem at Woodpecker Lane in Friday Harbor between a woman and her partner/ father of her daughter. She told dispatch that he, who is recently off of a monitoring bracelet, was drinking again and fighting with her.

• A deputy on San Juan Island received a report, telephonically, of a missing Danish passport and U.S. green card.

• A deputy on San Juan Island took a report of tel-ephonic threats. There was an investigation into the suspect and a report was written.

Aug. 4• A reporting party states

he was involved in an alter-cation with his girlfriend that led to his being assault-ed in Friday Harbor.

• A deputy on San Juan Island was dispatched to a reported motorcycle crash with another motorcycle including injury. The scene was documented. The vic-tims were transported to the hospital and driver at fault was arrested for reck-less driving.

• A citizen brought in an iPod that was found at Circle Park in Friday Harbor, and filed a found property claim.

• A deputy was dis-patched to an Eastsound address in regard to a suspi-cious person at the Orcas Island Public Library. No suspect known at this time.

•A Lopez Island woman concerned for the well being of her granddaughter requested a deputy to check on her. The girl was located and deemed to be safe.

• A Friday Harbor deputy was dispatched to a theft. The reporting party advised that the theft occurred while playing basketball. Possible suspect information was provided.


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Did you know the San Juan County Fair board is creating its own version of Family Feud? Survey says…FAIR FEUD!! The event is Friday night, Aug. 14, at 6 p.m. at the main stage.

Be a part of our first annu-al Fair Feud gameshow by participating in our survey to act as our audience poll. Your input counts!

Take the survey at freeonlinesurveys.com/s/AbkXd9X2. The fair runs Aug. 12 to 15.

For more info, visit www.sjcfair.org.

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By Dennis RyanSpecial to the Weekly

Labor Day weekend on Lopez? It is always about art! Lopez Island will find 42 artists in 28 studios greet-ing visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

The Studio Tour is far more than what the title suggests. Visitors go to see art and studios, but in the process of talking with artists about creative work they may begin to reflect on their own life and activities too. The tour is an invitation to consider the world anew. It’s entirely free! And you decide where to go and how long to stay.

Who are these artists?

Try matching the following selected tidbits from their profiles with the artist on tour: specializes in pho-tographing birds in flight … work is featured at the Seattle Museum of Flight this summer.

• Works have been shown in galleries in Los Angeles, Carmel, Alaska, Wyoming, Oregon and Washington, and are enjoyed in private collec-tions throughout Canada and the U.S.

• Recipient of numerous awards including Whitney Museum of American Art Fellowship … has exhibited with Foster/White since 1982.

• Has exhibited national-ly for over 35 years … work

has been reviewed in Art in America and Artweek.

• My Monticello, Iowa, grandmother introduced me to woolen quilts in 1968 when she presented me with a stack of wool squares and a button bag and requested a quilt.

• I am showing artifacts of an imaginary world, which is the one I prefer to live in.

• I love to convey a sense of place and a time in a per-son’s life. I respect the way pictures can serve as frag-ments of memory, identity and belonging.

• We call it the Slow Fiber Movement, or anoth-er way of finding beauty in simplicity.

Answers: Peter R. Cavanagh, Robert Proctor, Allison Collins, Jean C. Behnke, Mary Bywater Cross, Stephen Nicolas Carter, Steve Horn, Debbie Hayward.

All of the artists are expe-rienced professionals who have exhibited, often on Lopez and the other islands but also at galleries on the main land including Seattle, Bellingham and beyond.

Lopez affords many oppor-tunities to experience fine arts and crafts – including the Lopez Artist Guild shows at the Lopez Center and the Hamlet House, and at stun-

ning shows at the Chimera and Colin Goode galleries – but the studio tour is some-thing different. Visitors go directly to the studio to meet the artist, ask questions, see techniques and materials and gain insight into why artists make their art.

For an inspiring three-minute video of the Lopez Tour experience go to youtu .be/IrpQxAAVefI or the tour’s website at www.lopezstudiotour.com under Visit Lopez. Karen Woldtvedt produced one for the Orcas and San Juan Island Tours as well, and a short, combined piece is showing on the ferry and Anacortes Terminal. These were supported by the county’s lodging tax pro-gram in a grant to the San Juan County Arts Council.

Artists have something to say through their art. The tour gives them a chance

to extend this communica-tion in person in a give and take. “It’s about telling your story,” says one of the art-ists. While visitors are often interested in where the art-ists get their inspirations or the processes they use, the artists are interested in how visitors are receiving their work – reading, interpreting, questioning, evaluating and appreciating it. As one artist puts it, “Being on the tour is a gift that lets me see myself through other people’s eyes. They help me remember why I’m doing this!”

The tour enables an art-ist to meet new contacts who in turn may then follow the artist’s work online or through local shows. Tour sales have the advantage of being directly between art-ist and buyer; there is no gallery expense.

The Lopez Artist Guild Lopez Artist Guild organiz-


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Crossword Puzzle

Answers to today's puzzle on page 8

SudokuFill in the blank cells using numbers 1 to 9. Each number can appear only once in each row, column, and 3x3 block. Use logic and process of elimination to solve the puzzle. The dif� culty ranges from 1-5 (easy) 6-10 (moderate) and 11-15 (hard). Today’s puzzle is level 5.Sudoku and Crossword answers on page 8

Inside the 19th annual Lopez Island Studio Tour

SEE STUDIO TOUR, PAGE 5

Contributed photo

Polly Ham and her elephant.

es the tour to support Lopez Island artists – those who work full- or part-time on the island. Artists on the tour are all members of the Lopez Artist Guild.

Lopez Island is an extraordinary environment of working artists. They make Lopez a better, richer, more beautiful place to live. Yes, they fill the art gal-leries and people’s homes with their work. But they also teach, inspire, enrich, and model the values of the community.

Take the tour to explore the landscape of Lopez with family and friends. It’s like-ly you will discover some new places and rediscover familiar ones. Use the map in the colorful 12-page tour brochure (available at the Chamber lopezisland.com, Chimera Gallery chimera-gallery.com and other plac-es of business) to navigate or go to lopezstudiotour.com and use your GPS sys-tem.

Visit the Preview Gallery at the Lopez Center for the Community and the Arts lopezcenter.org to see works from artists on the tour. The Gallery show opens Aug. 26 and runs until Oct. 19.

Come to the tour’s open-ing reception at the center on Friday, Sept. 4, from 5-7 p.m. Meet the artists, enjoy some Lopez wines and nibbles including food-art

items from Vortex, Vita’s and the Southend. Special box lunches from these three are featured during the weekend.

Early September, Lopez: a magical moment with the arts. Start your Labor Day

holiday in style and make it an art weekend.

For more info, call 468-4330 or email [email protected].


LOPEZ ISLANDCHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY CHURCH, There’s Always a Place for You! CTK gathers at 10:00 a.m. in the school multi-purpose room at 86 School Road. Come as you are! More info at www.ctkonline.com/lopez. Email:[email protected] Phone: 888-421-4CTK ext. 819.

COMMUNITY CHURCH, Please join us Sun. mornings. Adult Bible study, 9:30. Worship Service, 10:30. Nursery (birth-3 yrs) and Jr. Church (4-12 yrs) provided during worship service. Small groups meet throughout the week. 91 Lopez Rd., in the village. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877. www.ourlicc.org.

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane. 468-3477. Everyone welcome!

LOPEZ QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Please join us Sunday mornings, 10 a.m., at Sunny� eld Farm, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 468-2406. Email: [email protected].

LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS (ELCA) Please join us for worship and children’s Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanuel. Pastor Beth Purdum, 370-0023.

ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome you to join us for Mass at 10:30 a.m. on Saturdays. Call 378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

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by Colleen Smith ArmstrongPublisher

It’s one of the most dreaded pieces of mail you can get: a jury summons. With a grimace, you think of what that little post-card means – time off work, rearranging appointments and having to take the ferry to Friday Harbor.

I receive a jury summons every year or two, but the cases have been settled before I’ve had to actually make the trek to the courthouse to sit before a judge.

Not this time.On a cheery Monday morning last week,

I set off to be a part of the great American legal system. Along with more than 30 other islanders, we were interviewed by the prosecution and the defense on a range of topics during the “voir dire,” which refers to the process of determining your suitability to serve. Did we know the defendant? The victim? Had we been involved in an assault? A burglary? Were we or anyone we knew the victim of domestic violence? Did we own firearms? Did we think firearms should be legal? How did we feel about the local deputies?

As you could have guessed, this was a criminal case, and we were told the defen-dant was innocent until proven guilty by the jury.

We had to answer the questions truthful-ly. And if the answer was too private to share in front of others, we could ask to meet with the judge and lawyers alone.

Once you start voir dire, you must be escorted by a bailiff at all times – even when using the restroom. You also can’t use a cell phone or talk or text to anyone about the case or search the internet to answer questions.

Ultimately, I was excused from serving, but the six-hour process of selecting the jury was fascinating. I realized that the concept of “a jury of your peers” is the most important aspect of the court system. Serving as a juror shouldn’t be thought of as an inconvenience. Your participation on a jury will impact a human being for the rest of his or her life.

In the United States, anyone accused of a crime punishable by jail time has a consti-tutional right to a trial by jury. Each court randomly selects citizens’ names from lists of registered voters and drivers licenses for the jury pool. Those selected complete a questionnaire to help determine if they are qualified to serve. Those people are then randomly chosen to be summoned to appear. The point of this to make sure that a wide range of community members are represented.

When a jury is needed for either a civil or a criminal trial, the group of potential jurors is taken to the courtroom where the trial will take place. The judge and the attor-neys then ask questions to determine their suitability to serve on the jury. Common reasons to be excused from serving include knowing someone involved in the case or having a strong prejudice about an issue in the case.

If you are chosen to be one of the 12 jurors (with one alternate) you will listen carefully to the court proceedings and hear evidence and testimony from both sides. A jury is responsible for “finding the facts

of the case” and making a decision in accordance with the rules of law. If a guilty verdict is reached, a judge will decide the sentence.

According to the Unites States Courts’ website, “Jury service is one of the most important civic duties you can perform. The protection of rights and liberties in federal courts largely is achieved through the team-work of a judge and jury.”

Next time you get that summons in your post office box, I hope you consider it a meaningful opportunity.

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On Thursday, Aug. 13, 7 p.m. at Woodman Hall join Professor Emeritus of Geology Dr. Ian Lange for a close look at Mt. Baker, a favorite centerpiece of our regional landscape. An ice-covered, dormant stratovolcano, Mt. Baker has been intermittently active for 1.3 million years. Dr. Lange will discuss its geologic setting, its eruptive his-tory (it last erupted in the 19th century), current activity and the major threat posed in an eruption: massive mud-flows (lahars). Dr. Lange is a Professor Emeritus of Geology at the University of Montana and has taught geology classes at the undergraduate and graduate level. This is an excep-tional opportunity to take a closer look at this spectacular volcano, a mountain that doesn’t sleep.

Then rain or shine on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 7 p.m. at Woodmen Hall, the summer night on Lopez belongs to popular meteorologist and science celebrity Dr. Cliff Mass. We are all fascinated with weather, and Mass is the go-to guy when it comes to predicting Northwest weather events. For his Lopez appearance he will discuss the future of weather forecasting, its current technology and how weather fore-

casting will change during the next few decades, particularly with the influence of global warming. Mass is a University of Washington Professor of atmospheric sciences, renowned Seattle weather commentator and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, but it is his forecasts and blogs frequented by many of us that make him a favorite regional scientist and weather icon. The Lopez Bookshop will have his popular book “The Weather of the Pacific Northwest” for sale at the event, and he will be available for signing. New to Mass? Take a listen at kplu.org/term/weather-cliff-mass then join us for a truly fun evening featuring our favorite topic: predicting the weather!

These programs are brought to you by Friends of the Lopez Island Library and the San Juan Islands National Monument as part of the SOL series (Science on Lopez). The series’ first program two weeks ago, Professor Donn Charnley’s “Geology of Lopez Beaches,” drew a crowd of almost 200, so come early for a good seat or plan well and bring your own chair. Both programs will be held at Woodmen Hall.

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Weekly staff reportThe votes for the Public

Hospital District #1 Hospital Commissioner Position 2 primary are in: candidates Barbara Sharp and Michelle Loftus will continue to the general election in November.

“I was very happy with the results,” Sharp said, saying

that her campaign was also excited about the results. “We are looking forward to proceeding to the gen-eral election and talking to voters on the island about the issues. We’ll also have a booth at the County Fair, and I hope to talk to islanders at that venue.”

Sharp had 1,289 votes, which is 66.14 percent of all ballots cast as of Aug. 4. Loftus had 543 votes, which is 27.86 percent. Daniel Miller garnered 117 votes as of Aug. 4, or 6 percent of the votes, eliminating him from the running.

The overall turn out for the

primary election was 33 per-cent of voters in the county.

In a written statement, Loftus stressed the need for voters to be educated about the election to ensure that the EMS levy passes, and to understand the issues before they vote.

“I would like to thank the voters of the hospital district for my success in the prima-ry,” Loftus wrote. “I know we

Primary election results

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The 45th Annual Shaw Island Classic Sailboat Race was held on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, sponsored by the San Juan Island Yacht Club. The race, with 35 boats par-ticipating, started at noon

with a light breeze. All entrants made it past the half-way point, but the wind came to a stand-still back at the mouth of Friday Harbor.

Only 13 boats successfully crossed the finish line by the

end of the race. Following the race were t-shirt sales and a delicious lasagna din-ner put on by Jan Champlin and the SJIYC First Mates.

The Race Committee consisted of Fleet Captain Barb and Doug Ray, PC Jim and Sue Corenman, PC Peg Gerlock, Phil Johnson, Commodore David Aas, Bill and Katia Robinson, Val and Leslie Veirs, PC Travis Smith, PC Steve Percer, Bob Williams, Marc Forlenza, Bill Waxman, Mark Pierce, Dick Shorett, PC Fred Bowen, Bruce Galton, Suzy Wakefield, PC Bruce and Dianne Hall, and Lesley Nilsson. Complete race results are online at the Yacht Club website.Fastest Elapsed Time: 02:56:46 Rum Line, Ben

ColwellFirst Place on Corrected Time: Rum Line, Ben ColwellMultihull

1st: Rum Line, Ben Colwell

2nd: Felix, Nigel Oswald3rd: Sea Puppy, Bruce

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1st: Moon Doggie, Phil Johnson/Peg GerlockCruising-B

1st: Bad Air Day, Bryce Ecklein

2nd: Hummingbird, Dan Brown

3rd: At Last!, George LeBoutillier

PHRF-A1st: Intuition Miles

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Wind, Ronald Hendricks3rd: Monkeybones,

Shawn DoughertyPHRF-B

1st: Sparkle, Guy Hupy2nd: Valkerie II, Bill White

PHRF-C1st: Homeless Hare, Mike

Kaminskas2nd: Challenge, Michael

Durland3rd: Paradigm, Shift

Vaughn PloegerPHRF-D

1st: Juliet, Phil Benedict2nd: Juans2B, Paul Von

Stubbe3rd: Juanita, Jack Caldwell


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North American roots musician April Verch, shown right, performs through-out the San Juan Islands, bringing Ottawa Valley fid-dle and stepdancing to the Northwest. She will be per-forming at Lopez Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m, Sept. 17.

Fiddler, singer and step-dancer Verch knows how relevant an old tune can be. She grew up surrounded by living, breathing roots music – her father’s country band rehearsing in the “Newpart,” the beloved Verch fam-ily room; the lively music at church and at community dances; the tunes she rocked out to win fiddle competi-tions – and decided early she wanted to be a professional musician.

She took that leap, and has been quietly leaping into new, nuanced places for more than two decades. Moving from

exuberant stepdancer to fiddle wunderkind and silver-voiced singer, Verch may still spend many a fond hour rehearsing in the Newpart, when at home and not on tour, but like tradition itself, she has never been content to stand still. “When you real-ly know and love this music,” Verch reflects, “you want to go deeper, to bring out new dimensions, without straying too much into novelty.”

Now on her milestone 10th album, “The Newpart” (release: April 7), with pro-ducer Casey Driessen, Verch digs deep into songs and tunes from the era before the often-mined mid-century heyday of bluegrass and folk. Harkening back to vaudeville and beyond, Verch and her fellow trio members pare down their arrangements, highlighting the simple plea-sures of upright bass, guitar,

clawhammer banjo, mando-lin, voices, fiddle and step-ping in intimate conversa-tion. At the heart lie Verch’s delicate voice, energetic foot-

work and stunning playing, a trifecta of talents she brings together simultaneously for the first time on stage and on “The Newpart.” It all works

to insist that, “these songs don’t need to be revived,” Verch exclaims. “They are timeless. They are still very much alive and relevant.”

Fiddle and stepdancing show at Lopez Center

45th Annual Shaw Island Classic Sailboat Race

are all busy this time of year, but for those two thirds who did not vote I ask that you find out our hospital district needs and issues before the November general election. Passing the EMS Levy and keeping our EMS healthy are going to give us all peace of mind. As Hospital District

Commissioner, I plan to keep our district money in the dis-trict and out of court.”

Sharp said to check her Facebook page “Elect Barbara Sharp to San Juan County Public Hospital District #1” for updates about her fair booth.

Loftus will also have a booth at the fair, and will keep updates on her Facebook page “Loftus for Hospital Commissioner.”

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Islands' Weekly, August 11, 2015