Islands' Weekly, February 21, 2012

By San Olson Special to the Islands’ Weekly

As a marine mam-mal stranding volunteer, I received a call mid January about a large seal seen on one of our southern beach-es. Most sightings occur in summer, and usually involve harbor seal pups, so I sus-pected this could be a repeat of January, 2011 when a male elephant seal spent 10 days on Agate Beach.

Unsurprisingly, it was not a harbor seal. Lopez was experiencing another uncom-mon visitation, this time by a young female elephant seal that had chosen a driftwood strewn beach to start her annual molt. The very next day snow began to fall.

Elephant seals almost com-pletely change their hair coat and the outer layers of skin once a year, usually in the

spring or summer. “Lopez Elephant Seal

Again” or LESA was way out of season. She looked disgusting and she smelled about the way she looked. Elephant seals occasionally use San Juan County beaches during molt, but most pre-fer the warmer climates of Mexico or California. Lolling around in the snow, I suspect she regretted her choice; those southern beaches are much more appealing.

None the less, she was ours to protect and observe for as long as she remained. Elephant seals stay ashore during molt, deriving calories from their blubber and creat-ing all the water they need from fat metabolism.

Fasting for long periods on shore is not unusual; females fast for three to four weeks while nursing pups and lose

about 40 percent of their body mass. During breed-ing season, adult males are too busy defending terri-tory and their harem to eat, but they have ample reserves, as they typi-cally weigh around 4,000 pounds.

It’s possible LESA was born at Race Rocks, as over the past several years there have been a handful of pups born there. Along with other females, she should participate in her first migration to northern Hawaiian waters this sum-mer. Males travel to the Aleutian Islands. She will

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By Cali Bagby Charles Dalton plants

blueberries, hazelnuts, apples and pears because perennials are easier to maintain.

The plants have not been a problem – permits, the county and wetlands are what Dalton says have been making his dream farm a nightmare.

Dalton shares a four-acre property with another islander on Orcas Island, and said his troubles started because he made a mistake when he built a barn and a shed without a permit. Since that time, he has faced citi-zen complaints and county enforcement action over possible construction in wet-lands on the property.

Dalton, owner of the

Kitchen restaurant in Eastsound, recently appeared in a film pro-duced by the Citizen Action Network, enti-tled “San Juan County regula-tions are not friendly towards a small organic farmer,” in which he details the last two years and his frustra-tions with the Friends of the San Juans orga-nization, San Juan County and the state Department of Ecology.

As of Friday, the video had been viewed by 3,119 people on YouTube. One comment on the Youtube site, written by a “Mr. Avocats,” claims

Dalton’s buildings are not getting permitted because “his neighbor (a New York financier or some such on

a multimillion dollar water-front parcel) has ‘friends’ in high plac-es, and so the war goes on.” He goes on to accuse Friends of the San Juans of “protect ing the 1 percent, not the 99

percent,” a reference to the Occupy movement.

Dalton said he was report-ed to the county by Friends about two years ago for not having proper permits for his operation.

But the issue, accord-ing to Friends, is not about farming as the video sug-gests, but about following the rules and getting con-struction permits before developing.

Friends last week released a statement saying that its executive director, Stephanie Buffum, filed a complaint with the county after receiving calls con-cerned about the construc-tion of a freshwater well in a stream, with muddy water entering into the East Sound bay, and that three structures – a house, barn and shed – were built near a wetland or a stream.

The single-family residence built by the property’s other owner was properly permit-ted.

A stream, which contin-ues onto other properties, may have been tampered with on Dalton’s property, according to Friends.

“Activities that happen upstream, including divert-ing water or changing sedi-ment patterns, can cause harmful impacts to neigh-bors and critters down-stream,” the Friends state-ment says. “The Wild Fish Conservancy found fish downstream on the adjacent property.”

Friends made numerous complaints, according to Dalton, some that he says aren’t true.

When he did maintenance work on the well on his prop-erty, he said Buffum com-plained to the county that he was drilling a new one.

“They are clearly against me and have attacked me through county channels,” Dalton said.

Wetlands at issueThe county issued a stop-

work order in 2010, and Dalton said that he imme-diately went into compliance to permit the buildings. He didn’t know then that anyone would consider the ditches and pond on his property to be part of a wetland. Two years later, he’s still not sure exactly what the county

Wetland dispute prompts viral video Elephant seals on Lopez, again?

Contributed photo

Lopez is experiencing another uncommon visitation, this time by a young female elephant seal that had chosen a driftwood strewn beach to start her annual molt.

See WetlandS, page 5

See SealS, page 5

At issue: sides are drawn over a lack of proper permits

“now I’m in limbo,” said dalton, who

is applying for after-the-fact

permits. “But I feel like I am part of a bigger thing.”

Contributed / Randy Mays USFWS

1,599 canada geese were tallied in this year’s San Juan Islands Audubon Christmas Bird Count. To read more about the CBC see page 4.

tues, feb 21reading: Literary Salon, 7 p.m., library.

weds, feb 22reading: Storytime, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., Helen Anderson Children’s Room at the library.

meetings: Programs For People With Limited Income & Resources, 12 - 2 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Lunch $4 or $6 if you’re under 60.

thurs, feb 23classes: Digital Photos Management 101, 6- 8 p.m., library. Learn to download and organize photos, create albums, email photos, order prints with

Lou Pray using Picasa, a free web-based program. Bring a digital camera & PC or Mac laptop. (Some available – please ask in advance). Meets 2 con-secutive Thursdays. $15. Fee Pre-registration req’d. Call 468-4117 or visit www.lifrc.org.

fri, feb 24outdoors: FBMHO Bird Survey, 3-5 p.m., Fisherman Bay Preserve Parking Lot. This is an on-going weekly survey in its second year. Surveyors travel to seven sites around Fisherman Bay to observe seabirds and waterfowl. The Fisherman Bay Marine Health Observatory is a collaborative initiative between

Kwiaht and WSU Beach Watchers in cooperation with the SJC Land Bank, and these bird surveys are part of a larger effort to establish baseline data. For info, visit fishermanbayproj-ect.org.

music: Reilly and Maloney in Concert, 7:30- 9 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. For more info, visit http://www.lopezcenter.org.

sat, feb 25art: Joe Reilly “Music and Stories,” 2 - 3 p.m., library. For more info, visit www.lopezli-brary.org.

movie: Free Saturday Movie, 2 - 4 p.m., library,

meeting: LCLT Food Charrette, 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m., library. $5 registration BYO lunch or $15 with catered Vortex lunch. RSVP lunch at 468-3723.

meeting: Restore Our Democracy, 7 - 9 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the

Arts. More info, visit www.lopez-center.org.

sun, feb 26fundraiser: SJ Hospice Golf Tournament Fund Raiser — “The Soggy Bottom,” 10 a.m., Lopez Golf Club. Cost is $35 for non-members and $25 for members. For more info, email Vaughan Williams [email protected].

art: Poets Elizabeth Austen and Dorothy Trogdon workshop and reading, 2-4 p.m., library. Workshop 2-4 p.m. and reading 7 p.m.

mon, feb 27meeting: Lopez Community Land Trust Board of Directors, 4 - 6:30 p.m., LCLT office, 25 Tuatara Road.

games: Come And Play Games, 10 a.m., Woodmen Hall. Come and play cribbage, cards, scrabble, etc. There will be coffee, tea and cookies. From 10 a.m. until we fold. Bring your lunch. This is an experiment. We would like to

do this once a month, so come and give it a try.

tues, feb 28art: “The Odyssey” Puppet Show, 10:15 - 11:30 a.m., Lopez School Gym. For more info, visit www.nwpuppet.org.

meeting: SJC Council Meeting, Video Conference, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., library.

sat, march 3movie: Free Saturday Movie, 2 - 4 p.m., library,

thurs, march 8meeting: Port of Lopez Monthly Meeting, 7 - 9 p.m., library,

fri, march 16blood drive: Puget Sound Blood Center Blood Drive, 12 - 6 p.m., Lopez Community Church.

Restore Our Democracy

A series of public meet-ings will be held the weekend of Feb. 25-26 to discuss the impact of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision on

our representative democ-racy.

As a result of this deci-sion, corporations, labor unions, trade associations and wealthy individuals are now able to contribute unlim-ited amounts of money, much of it anonymously, to orga-nizations called SuperPACs in order to elect or oppose candidates for public office.

The meetings are intended to inform citizens how this substantially diminishes the importance of individuals in our political system and renders public officials more responsive to a few major contributors than to their constituents.

A nation-wide, nonpartisan effort is needed to restore true representative democ-racy.

Speakers will include Brian Gunn and Patti Szot of Involved Democracy in Seattle and Molly Gibbs of Move to Amend in Olympia.

The Lopez meeting is Saturday, Feb. 25, 7-9 p.m.,

at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. For more info, call 468-3221.

The Orcas meeting is Sunday, Feb. 26, 12:30-2:30 p.m. at the Fire Hall in Eastsound, 45 Lavender Street. For more info, call 376-5624.

The San Juan meeting is Sunday, Feb. 26, 4:-6 p.m. in the Community Room of Skagit Valley College, 221 Weber Way, Friday Harbor. For more info, call 370-5401.

Roy Moore honored

Colonel Roy Moore, Jr., 40-year resident of Lopez Island, has been inducted in the Legion of Honor, being given the title of Chevalier (Knight), for his exceptional contribution to the liberation of France during World War

II.The Legion of Honor is

a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, and is the highest decoration in France.

Dignitaries from the French Consulate in Seattle as well as from Ft.Lewis-McChord will travel to Lopez Island on Saturday, Feb. 25, to officiate a ceremony com-memorating the award at Woodmen Hall.

The Hall building capac-ity necessitated invitations to some, however, interested fel-low Lopezians are welcome to drop by between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to view the ceremony and say hello to Roy.

DVP is backThe San Juan County gave

up its Derelict Vessel pro-gram on the shelf in 2009 because of lack of funding.

In 2010, Friday Harbor Power Squadron, Roche Harbor Resort, the San Juan

Island Yacht Club, the Port of Friday Harbor, the Marine Resources Committee, Jensen Shipyard, Island Marine Center on Lopez, the Common Sense Alliance, and the Friends of the San Juans, joined forces to support the county in managing derelict vessels.

The program reinstated with a $10,000 budget, on the assumption that $5,000 of that would be paid by the local citizen group.

Joanruth Baumann, who formerly managed the pro-gram as a Public Works employee, was hired to manage it as a contractor, and started the process to remove a long-term derelict from Deer Harbor. When the vessel sank, it became a re-float and destroy removal project.

San Juan County received reimbursement for this first project under the new pro-gram. Total out-of-pocket costs for the project were $25,710.20, which included Baumann’s time; re-floating, removal, and demolition ser-vices; and solid waste dis-posal. The county also gets credit for “in-kind” services, which included donated use of Cayou Quay Marina’s boat ramp, IOSA volunteers, and 24 hours worth of time from Deer Harbor Boatworks. With the in-kind contribu-tions, the total base for reim-bursement was $27,567.20. Of that, 90 percent, or $24,810.48, was reimbursed by DNR. Net County out-of-pocket expenditures were $899.72, and half of that will be reimbursed to the Count by the citizen group. Net cost to the County for managing this critical derelict vessel project: less than $450.

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Colonel Roy Moore, Jr., 40-year resident of Lopez Island, has been inducted in the Legion of Honor, being given the title of Chevalier (Knight), for his exceptional contribution to the liberation of France during World War II. The Legion of Honor is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, & is the highest deco-ration in France. The President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, is the Grand Master of the Order and appoints all other members of the Order. Dignitaries from the French Consul-ate in Seattle as well as from Ft.Lewis-McChord will travel to Lopez Island on Saturday, February 25th, to officiate a ceremony commemorating the award at Woodmen Hall. The Hall building capacity necessitated invitations to some, how-ever, interested fellow Lopezians are welcome to drop by between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.to view the ceremony & say hello to Roy, an outstand-ing representative of “The Greatest Generation” who is 90 years young & growing!

Like many Lopezians, Mireille Paulson gardens avidly, but the concept of roots

stuck in earth means more to her than to most. After a childhood of accidental exile from her family, and a work-ing life of astounding travel mileage, Mireille has made Lopez a place to sink her own roots and grow.

Mireille’s French-English family in London was upend-ed by World War II. Her par-ents, who ran a small café, regularly sent young Mireille to stay with her grandpar-ents in France. When the Germans invaded in 1939, four year-old Mireille found herself stranded on the con-tinent.

She loved her six-year exile. On her grandparents’ farm there was no shortage of food or love. Still, she witnessed the dark side of German occupation. She remembers her grandfather coming home one night and saying, ‘They’re in the forest’”—meaning the Germans. To this day, dark woods make her fearful. One night sev-eral Germans attacked the house.

“They ripped off the shut-ters and shattered the glass above my bed with their bay-onets. Of course I screamed my silly head off,” Mireille says.

But a German guard across the street came and wrapped her in his coat,

comforting her in French.

“He had a little girl in Germany about my age, and he hoped she would survive,” she says. “I remem-ber him saying, ‘La guerre est terrible, ma petite.’ It was a lesson I’ve never forgotten.”

At the war’s end, ten year-old Mireille finally trav-eled home, alone. Despite the joy of family reunion, readjustment was difficult. After six years, Mireille had to re-learn English.

Matured by e x p e r i e n c e , Mireille left school at 15-years-old for the world of work. Starting with an office job in London, Mireille later learned accounting and management, and these skills became her ticket to jobs all over North America.

The pull across the Atlantic came from her boyfriend, Clive, whom she met ball-room dancing. Bitten by the travel bug, Clive moved to Toronto and Mireille visited, travelling by ship. When Clive proposed — over trans-Atlan-tic telephone — she joined him. In what became a pat-tern, the couple soon pulled up stakes and drove across

the continent to Vancouver in a ’52 Chevy.

“We both enjoyed the coast,” and learned to love sailing.

But a job in Juneau beck-oned Clive.

“I visualized snowy moun-tains and dogsleds, not real-izing that in Juneau it rains nine months out of the year,” Mireille says.

They stayed three years, enjoying the beauty but not the isolation, before the next move…to New York City.

This time, after enduring

the unpaved Al-Can Highway back to Vancouver, they flew. Mireille loved the city, “walk-ing the avenues, the flower stalls…the atmosphere.” New York got two years.

Next on the itinerary: New Orleans, which became Mireille’s “favorite city in the U.S.” But taking an accoun-tant job at Touro Hospital, where they asked how long she planned to stay, Mireille had to lie, knowing they would probably move again.

Her husband “was always searching for happiness,” she

says now — although she has no regrets about discovering so many varied places.

Sure enough, a year and a half later — off to Denver, where they added skiing to their skill set. Another eigh-teen months: San Francisco.

There the couple finally parted ways. Clive stayed in the Bay Area — where he did, in fact, find happiness — and Mireille took a chance on 1970 Seattle, in a reces-sion. With luck, she landed a job immediately, and not long after, a new husband.

“Bob delights in saying he met me on a street corner,” Mireille chuckles, clarifying that she and a girlfriend were heading to a ballroom danc-ing class when they met a friend of hers in company with Robert Paulson. Bob, a native Seattleite and contrac-tor/carpenter, had no travel urges, and the couple stayed put.

Discovering Lopez through friends, the Paulsons bought

property in 1987. Their move to full-time was hastened by her firm’s merger; Mireille was asked to retire at 55.

“It was devastating,” she says, “but it was definitely for the best.”

As a full-time Lopezian, Mireille found work in Friday Harbor as Administrative Assistant for the County Planning Department, while Bob continued to commute to Seattle. Although she loved the public aspect of her job, by 1998 she was ready to retire for good.

With her accounting and management skills, Mireille became a sought-after volun-teer. Her proudest achieve-ment came as President of the Board of the Catherine Washburn Memorial Association, shepherding it through its $900,000 remod-el.

No longer on the CWMA board, Mireille finds joy in the community of Center Lutheran, which she describes as “a warm, loving church family.”

She maintains an exten-sive garden; she does yoga; she sings. But since traveling to Europe with her a capel-la group a few years ago, Mireille is content to stay put. “The people, the communi-ty, keep us here,” she says. “This is it.”

Spotlight on SeniorsMireille Paulson, Lopez Islandby Rita Larom

Contributed photos

Mireille Paulson now, shown-left, and then, shown above.

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bilized by silver bur sedge form one of the most rare and fragile habitats in the islands — indeed, in all of western Washington- — and one of the most scenic, with large balls of yellow sand verbena flowers that attract a variety of pollinators (and nectar eating but non-pollinating “cheaters”) that range from tiny beetles and ants to wasps and moths.

The aptly named sand ver-bena moth (Copablepharon fuscum), first identified at Deception State Park in 1995, feasts exclusively on this flower.

Small and brown, it is not much to look at, but few other butterflies or moths rely so completely on a single host species. Sand verbena moths

fly and mate on summer eve-nings, drinking nectar from sand verbena flowers—and laying eggs on them as well.

The caterpillars hatch in mid-summer, hiding by day in the sand beneath their host plants and eating their way through the fleshy leaves at night until they are ready to pupate in the sand like cut-worms.

Sand verbena moths have been red-listed in Canada, and are now being consid-ered for possible listing as an endangered species in the United States.

As the sand warms in sum-mer, another unusual insect makes its appearance: the “sand wasp,” actually a num-ber of closely related species of a family of wasps called the Bembicini. Their life his-

tory is appropriately baroque. Each female wasp begins to dig her own short burrow and nest chamber in the sand as soon as she emerges.

She is soon mobbed as larger males form a “mating ball” around her, tugging and tussling until one of them succeeds in carrying her off a short distance and mount-ing her.

The female lays an egg in her burrow, then fills it with prey such as flies.

Some Bembicine species also feed on insects that try to eat or steal the prey cache.

In fall the eggs hatch into hungry larvae that thrive on the insects their mother cached.

Sand verbena moths eat sand verbena leaves and flow-

Natural History with Russel Barsh and Madrona Murphy

Love in the dunes with the sand verbena moth

See HiStoRy, page 8

The San Juan Islands Audubon Christmas Bird Count tallied a total of 25,742 birds of 123 species with the help of 74 observers in the field.

The number of species counted has been steadily increasing the last ten year and peaked this year.

The weather on count day,

Dec. 17, was clear, calm and in the mid-40’s, which is great winter weather to observe birds, but many said they could only find marine birds.

Fall weather did not see much freezing and was fairly dry with little standing or moving fresh water in many of the usual places, according to Barbara Jensen of the San

Juan Audubon Society.There were no new spe-

cies this year but three black-capped chickadees, seen for the first time last year, were seen on Orcas again.

Highlights of the day included three boats with observers and good cov-erage in the southern end of San Juan Channel. Two blue-winged teal and eared grebes were seen on San Juan, one surfbird on Yellow Island, two townsend’s and yellow-rumped warblers and a lonely Savannah spar-row on San Juan. This was the first year we worked with the National Parks

Conservation Association to do the Battlefield Birding Christmas Bird Count in Civil War era national parks and those numbers are part of our count, said Jensen.

Notable misses included cackling geese, redhead, ring-necked pheasant, wild turkey, turkey vulture, gold-en eagle, western sandpiper, western screech owl, great horned owl, saw-whet Owl and townsend’s solitaire.

Record high counts this year were 1,599 canada geese, whose numbers have been steadily increasing each year, 1,309 northern pin-

By Cali BagbyWhen David Maloney first met Ginny Reilly

in 1969, he was intrigued by a young woman with long, flaming red hair and a magical voice. When he introduced himself and asked about the local folk scene, she dismissed him.

A mutual acquaintance got the two to sing together a few months later, and now more than 40 years later the duo is still together, still strumming their guitars and harmonizing the sweet folk tunes that made them a hit in the 1970s.

“We love the music, that’s why we’ve done it so long, like any good relationship it comes down to commitment. There’s something about our history, we’ve done it for so long and gained from it,” said Maloney. “Any com-mitment you make, something more evolves from it. It’s hard to describe, but others feel it and we feel it. You can’t buy what we have — you have to live it.”

You can hear the sounds of Reilly and Maloney at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.

This is their first-ever show on Lopez, but they have played extensively in Washington state.

“The Northwest is close to our hearts,” Maloney said.

Seed of the songBased in Seattle and also in the San

Francisco Bay Area, Reilly and Maloney became well known for the blend of their voices and their own solid songwriting accom-plishments.

They toured nationally, appearing with art-ists such as Judy Collins and Tom Paxton. Together they issued seven vinyl LPs, before breaking up in 1990 and going on to solo careers.

“Ginny’s kids were growing up and I was weary on the road,” Maloney said about the decision.

They began playing together again in the early 2000s, after a 10-year hiatus.

In 2011, Maloney’s solo CD “One Day More” was nominated for a Grammy and features 15 original songs with harmonies from Reilly, along with a host of San Francisco

singers and musicians.In a time when most

Grammy-winning songs are driven by rhythm and beat, the duo continues to create music driven by lyrics because the poem or story is the seed of the song, said Maloney.

“It’s a very mysterious pro-cess,” he said. “Everyone that writes understand you just have to sit with it.”

Their songs range from sto-ries about the joys of mother-hood, lyrics on the “Mighty Roll” earthquake, and a ballad

about the Hudson River landing of flight 1549. The duo has also covered Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan songs. In recent and upcoming shows, including Lopez, Reilly and Maloney will be joined by Wes Weddell on mandolin.

But Maloney said they’ve gained maturity, but haven’t changed that much over the years — mainly because they love folk music.

“It’s timeless music,” Maloney said.HistoryBoth singers shared a passion for music at

an early age.As a teenager, Reilly was influenced greatly

by the rising popularity of folk music. For her 15th birthday, she received a ukulele, and began learning songs by the Kingston Trio, Peter Paul and Mary and the Chad Mitchell Trio.

Maloney was also a fan of the ukulele, more specifically the combination of his father’s voice and the instrument.

“It was, however, my father’s singing voice

and ukulele playing that really fascinated me,” said Maloney. “I asked him if I could learn how to play the “uke” and he wrote out some chords and lyrics for me to work on.”

But the two musicians are opposites in their personalities.

Reilly is described as quiet and mysterious, and Maloney is more gregarious. He said he learned patience, and compromise, while playing as a duo.

“In any relationship you have to under-stand, you’ve given complete control of your time up by staying open to the other person, it’s the key to relationship,” Maloney said. “We’re not alike, but we learned to be good friends and we never gave up.”

Tickets, $18 for adults, $8 for youth and free for 5 years and younger are available at www.lopezcenter.org, LCCA office, Paper Scissors on the Rock, Blossoms Organic Grocery and Islehaven Books.


LOPEZ IsLandChrist the King Community ChurCh, Now meeting at 10:00 AM at the Lopez Elementary School in the multi-purpose room. Find us on the web: www.CTKonline.com/lopez or email [email protected]

graCe episCopal ChurCh, welcomes

you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:30

am. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane.

468-3477. Everyone welcome!

lopez island Community ChurCh, 91 Lopez

Road. Sunday School: pre-school through adult 9:30 am;

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

lutheran ChurCh in the san juans, Sundays

at 11:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in

Friday Harbor at 9:15 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at

2:00 p.m. in Emmanual. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025.

QuaKer Worship group Meetings will be Sundays

at 10 am at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman

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

468-2129. Email: [email protected]

st. FranCis CatholiC ChurCh Come worship

with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome

you to join us for Mass at 10:45 am on Saturday. Call 378-

2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

Worship Services in the Islands

The Lopez Island Chamber of Commerce

Bid Proposal Request forthe Lopez Village Park

Maintenance Contract includes:• Clean restrooms

• Keep Garbage and Recycle area clean• Grounds Maintenance

• Respond to EmergenciesFull details of Maintenance job

requirements available at the Chamber Office. For questions, contact info:

360/468-4664 ore-mail [email protected]

Deadline for submission is Feb. 29th, 2012.

OPALCO CELEBRATES75 YEARS!

May 5: Annual Meeting on the ferry June 4: Open House on San Juan Island June 29: Open House on Orcas Island July 18: Open House on Lopez Island

40 years of folk music

Contributed photo/ Damien Stark

David Maloney, shown left, and Ginny Reilly, shown right, at a shown on Orcas Island in 2009. You can hear the sounds of Reilly and Maloney at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.

San Juan Islands Audubon Christmas 2011 Bird Count tallies 25,742 birds

Contributed photo

The San Juan Islands Audubon Christmas Bird Count tallied a total of 25,742 birds of 123 species with the help of 74 observers in the field.

See BirD Count, page 8

exactly what the county defines as a wetland.

As defined by county code, wetlands are an area not nec-essarily wet year-round, but wet enough to allow a preva-lence of vegetation typically adapted to life in saturated soil conditions. This does not include man-made ponds.

County Prosecuting Attorney Randy Gaylord said islanders can contact the county to view a “wetland inventory map” and if a wet-land is shown on your prop-erty, and you disagree, it’s up to you to disprove it.

Dalton said in December 2010 he paid $3,600 for his first wetland report, which was done by local consultants. They found that a building had been constructed within both a wetland buffer and a stream zone. The county accepted that report and its findings.

A mitigation plan required Dalton to plant specific buf-fer shrubbery and build deer fences, which he said he did. But when the county wanted him to remove the building — his shed — he said he dragged his feet.

“The shed had a function,” he said.

So he got a lawyer, and then a second wetlands report in 2011. The second report was

done by Duvall-based SNR, which said there is no wet-land on Dalton’s property.

“Not wetlands, artificial surficial drainage, not natural or wetland-like about it,” Ed Kilduff, a hydrogeologist and engineering geologist, who has done work for SNR as an independent consulting geologist, said in the Citizen Action Network video.

The second, more exten-sive wetlands report, which Dalton said would have cost $20,000, was done at no charge.

Because the two reports were contradictory, the coun-ty asked the state Department of Ecology to evaluate both reports. DOE’s experts did not agree with the findings of the second report.

The county did not send the first report to DOE. Gaylord said he’s unsure why DOE was not asked to be involved initially.

“Now I’m in limbo,” said Dalton, who is applying for after-the-fact permits. “But I feel like I am part of a bigger thing.”

Dalton said he’s concerned about the pending update of the county’s critical areas ordinance because potential wetland buffer zones may require property owners to build not just 25- 50 feet from the zone, but “more like a football field length.”

The county’s critical areas are environmentally sensitive natural resources that have

been designated for protec-tion and management in accordance with the require-ments of the state Growth Management Act. The coun-ty is currently in the process of updating the CAO.

Dalton said the whole process has been a learning experience to not jump in blind into building or creat-ing a garden.

“I’m very hopeful things

will work out,” he said.Gaylord said at this point

Dalton faces enforcement action for having an unper-mitted agricultural building, and a building near a wet-land that must be moved or demolished. If Dalton does not get a permit and remove the second building he will have to go to court, but Gaylord said there’s no reason why he wouldn’t be

approved for an after-the-fact permit for the barn.

Dalton has yet to apply for a permit, he said.

If Dalton would have found out in advance that wet-lands were on his property, Gaylord said, he could have built the shed somewhere else and the problem would

have been avoided.— Editor’s note: Filed in

July 2011 by the county, a lawsuit is pending in Superior Court against Charles Dalton, and fellow property owner, Stephanie Iverson, in connec-tion with the dispute over land-use, permits and wetlands on their Orcas Island property.

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WETLANDSCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

By Randy GaylordSpecial to the Islands’ Weekly

At a recent public meeting of the Port of Lopez, I answered many questions about the limits on the powers of a port district to operate a solid waste handling facility. Last fall I asked the County Administrator Pete Rose that same question. On Nov. 1, I said it would be good to ask the port’s attorneys to provide an answer.

In January the port’s attorneys answered the question and conclud-ed that the Port of Lopez likely did not have the power to operate a solid waste facility on Lopez Island. The port’s attorneys wrote:

• “Is the port authorized to operate the waste facility [on Lopez Island]? While a statutory argument can be made that the port is authorized by statute to operate the waste facil-ity, on balance such activity likely exceeds the port’s statutory author-ity.” [Page 1]

• “In light of the legislature’s silence on this issue and the statu-tory case law limiting the powers of municipal corporations, the port like-ly does not have statutory authority to operate the waste facility.” [Page

2]• As discussed

above it is our opinion that the port may lack statutory law to oper-ate the waste facility. [Page 4]

I reviewed these con-clusions and agreed with the attorneys for the Port of Lopez, and placed my opinion in writing:

• “The county has the authority under the Washington Interlocal Cooperation Act to contract with the Port of Lopez only on matters which each of them could accomplish sepa-rately.” [Page 2]

• “If there is any doubt whether a particular power has been granted, it is denied. [citation omitted]….We have examined the powers grant-ed to ports under Chapters 53.04 and 53.08 RCW and we agree with the lawyers for the Port of Lopez that there is no legislative language expressly stating that ports have the authority to operate facilities for solid waste disposal.” [Page 3]

• “We agree that “on balance” the

operation of a solid waste disposal facil-ity and transfer sta-tion is not within the purposes and objec-tive of rural ports. The express purpos-es of rural port dis-tricts, as confirmed by the express pow-ers granted those districts in RCW 53.08 do not suggest that the purpose of rural port districts include engaging in

an ancillary business of providing solid waste disposal to all citizens of Lopez Island. ….Moreover the activity of operating a solid waste handling facility is not “incidental” to another lawful business of a port….We agree with the conclusion by the port’s counsel that … “the Port [of Lopez] likely does not have statutory authority to operate the waste facil-ity.” [Pages 4 and 5]

Next, I analyzed what it means if the Port of Lopez does not have the power to operate a solid waste facility. I concluded that “If the Port of Lopez does not have authority to

operate a transfer facility, a contract for such activity is ultra vires” and void. While the lawyers for the port believed that a void contract could be handled with a contract clause, I disagreed, because from the coun-ty’s perspective, a void contract is unenforceable and that the making of such a contract presents unaccept-able risks.

In light of these conclusions, I have offered some solutions. Because the question of a port’s powers has sig-nificance for the people of Lopez Island and on a statewide basis, I have asked that the opinion of the port’s lawyers be reviewed by the Attorney General. In addition, I have urged the county council, the port’s attorneys and others to seek a legis-lative solution, for it is the state leg-islature that determines the powers of a port district. I have also offered other approaches, such as establish-ing a solid waste disposal district for Lopez Island only.

I stand ready to find the solutions to the solid waste problems facing San Juan County that are lawful and will work for all of us.

— Randall Gaylord is the San Juan County Prosecuting Attorney

Attorneys agree: ports’ powers limitedGuest Column

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spend much of her journey underwater, frequently diving to depths of 1800 feet, with very short surface intervals. It is nearly total darkness at that depth, so she would be using her large eyes, long whiskers and the bioluminescence of prey to find deep dwelling animals such as squid, eels, rays, or shrimp. Elephant seals make these migrations twice a year, returning to their birth beaches in winter to deliver and nurse pups and mate, returning to the beaches again for the summer molt.

She remained on the beach just four days and left when strong onshore winds and wave action caused driftwood collisions around her. LESA, as LES before her, was probably dissatisfied with our January climate. However, the recent warm spell might have suited her better and with the climate changing, we may be seeing more unusual visitors.

For more info, call Amy Traxler at 378 4710, extension 27.

San Olson is a retired vet-erinarian and lives on Lopez Island.

SEALSCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

By Kim BryanBecause we are in the

“Month of Love” we here at Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services think that now is a great time to Stop the painful cycle of abuse and start truly loving each other.

We have shared a story to show how one brave young woman took the tough steps to break the cycle in her family. You can too.

“When I was 13 years old I was repeatedly raped by a family friend. I tried to tell

my parents and a teacher but I wasn’t believed because he was such a “respected man” in our community.

Ever since then I have really struggled with my self-esteem. As a result, the choices I made as a teenager were all in the tainted view of love.

I had multiple relation-ships in which I would try and get close to any guy who would even pretend like he loved me.

This made me very vulner-able and I was date raped

many different times.I continued on in my pain

desperately looking for love and grasping at anyone who even remotely promised security.

I married the first guy who asked me. It only took two weeks to realize that I had made the biggest and most painful mistake of my life. The abuse was deep and as regular as the tides around our islands.

I had hoped having a baby would help him finally give me the real love I craved but

he only got more angry and distant with me.

And by the time our third child came along the abuse escalated and he angrily tar-

geted the babies to get at me even more.

I realized that staying with this abusive man was teach-ing my sons such a horrible distorted view of love and it felt like just a death sentence for us all.

A friend told me about DVSAS. When I finally got the nerve to call them they helped me realize that I do deserve to be respected and loved.

Through counseling and advocacy assistance they gave me the tools I needed to make a life for my three boys and me.

As I continue to heal my kids and I are enjoying a busy happy home that is full of

true love. I realize that I am build-

ing a life for my boys where they will learn to have rela-tionships based on love and respect and not fear, pain, anger and control.

I am so glad that I found the strength to break the ugly cycle of abuse in our lives.

If you are living with abuse or know someone who is please call the advocates at your local DVSAS office today; San Juan: 378-8680, Orcas: 376-5979, Lopez: 468-3788

Kim Bryan is the DV/SA Advocate, and Prevention Coordinator of DVSAS.


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Stop in the Name of Love

Mollie Kohring, 17, of Lopez Island has been honored for her exemplary volun-teer service with a President’s Volunteer Service Award.

The award, which recognizes Americans of all ages who have volun-teered significant amounts of their time to serve their communities and their coun-try, was presented by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program on behalf of President Barack Obama.

Mollie Kohring participated in the Spirit of Community program this year as a representative of Lopez Island where she is a student.

Mollie Kohring earned her award by logging numerous volunteer hours at the Lopez Library, Lopez Historical Musuem, and the Lopez Island Conservation Corps.

Sponsored by Prudential Financial in partnership with the national Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Program recognizes young peo-ple across America for outstanding com-munity service activities.

More than 345,000 young people across America have been considered for these awards since the program began in 1995.

“Demonstrating civic responsibil-ity through community volunteerism is an important part of life,” said NASSP Executive Director JoAnn Bartoletti. “These honorees practice a lesson we hope all young people, as well as adults, will emulate.”

Mollie Kohring recognized for exemplary volunteer service

Guest Column

It looks like Lopez Island School District will receive approval of a $1 million bond measure.

Voters approved the measure by almost 75 percent in a preliminary count.

The measure received a majority approval in each of the district’s three voting precincts, and met the required 60 percent overall approval required in Washington state for bond mea-sures.

While there may be last-minute ballots for the San Juan County Elections Office, district officials said the Feb. 28 officially certified election count will confirm this approval of the district’s request.

“District officials are pleased to be able to secure these bond funds at this estimated low rate and thus demonstrate continued fiscal responsibility in its use of public monies,” said Superintendent Bill Evans.

The district will use the proceeds from the bond to pay off a line of credit it secured in the

fall of 2009 to fund an emergency replacement of the elementary fire sprinkler suppressant system when the original system failed.

Fire department officials required the replacement in order for the elementary school to remain open. The line of credit was also used to continue work on the district heating, ventila-tion and air circulation system. The estimated cost to taxpayers of the district will be $0.07 per thousand dollars of assessed property value, for an estimated 15 year pay-off period.

The district’s strong bond rating will enable it to take advantage of bond-sale interest rates estimated to be below 3 percent.

We are grateful for this strong support of the Lopez community,” said School Board Chair Diana Hancock. “We have been, and will con-tinue to be diligent in our efforts to use taxpayer money wisely and efficiently in projects such as these and those of the future.”

$1 million bond measure could be approved

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1965 RESTORED 31’ Pembroke Sedan Cruis- er, possible live aboard. Mahogany lapstrake hull on oak frames, full keel with bronze skeg, rudder & cutlass strut; deck & coach roofs covered with glass cloth; Perkins diesel, Borg Warner Velvet Drive transmission & bronze prop. 100 gal fuel tankage, 80 gal water tankage. Pressure hot & cold water for shower, wash basin & sink. Elec- tric Head, diesel range, ac/dc refrigerator, micro- wave. VHF, depth sounder, autopilot, spotlight, battery charger, ac to dc converter, 2 bilge pumps. Inflatable dingy, 2 anchors with rode, boat hooks, fenders, & mooring lines. Sleeps 2 in large V-berth, dinette converts to small double berth. Illness forces sale. Boat lying in Port Or- chard. $4,000 or best offer by 3/23/12! No rea- sonable offer refused. 360-638-1749 or email [email protected]@myway.com

1981 24.5’ TANZER. Shoal keel, main, jib, spinner. Two burner al- cohol Stove, Sink, Ice box. Drop down table. forward “V” berth, Porta- potty, 8 HP 4 cycle Hon- da outboard. PFDs, ex- tra fuel tank. New seat covers. Inflatable raft. Very stable boat under sail. Easy to handle! $4,000. Oak Harbor. John 360-240-8332; [email protected]

1997 21’ DUCKWORTH Silverwing Semi Hard- top. “The #1 Custom Welded Aluminum Boat”. V Hull. Shock absorber captains chairs, bench seats and fish seats. Pole holders. Stereo. Dual batteries and more. 2001 Honda 130 Out- board and Merc 15 HP kicker. Priced to sell at $19,995. More Info Available. 360-472-0895 Friday Harbor


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DOWNRIGGER; Scotty electric, 24 fixed boom #1099, 10 lbs lead ball & Scotty Weight Mate. Never out of box! New condition! $450. Friday Harbor 360-378-6248.

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Originally created with just San Juan and Skagit counties in mind, Washington state’s small-farm internship pilot program is poised to expand.

The state Senate last week approved extending the pilot program through 2017 and adding 11 more counties to the list of those of where the program would apply.

Initiated in 2010, under legislation sponsored by Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island, the program allows small farm owners, those with up to $250,000 in annual sales, to employ interns at less than minimum wage and have them covered by state-approved workers insurance, in exchange for providing interns with an accepted cur-riculum that’s tailored to the type of work they perform, and keeping track of their progress.

“With the average age of farmers approaching 60, it’s important that we introduce young people to our agricul-tural economies,” Ranker said in a prepared statement.

“This bill gives young peo-ple an opportunity to learn from the farmers and will help them explore what a career in agriculture may look like.”

In addition to San Juan and Skagit, SB 6392 extends the pro-gram to Chelan, Grant, Jefferson, Kitsap, Kittitas, Lincoln, Pierce, Spokane, Thurston, Yakima and Whatcom counties. Farms enrolled in the pilot pro-gram can employ up to three interns. Six small farms, including three on San Juan Island, took part in the pilot program dur-ing its first two-year trial.

The bill passed without opposition in the Senate Feb. 11, and moves to the House for further consideration.

— Scott Rasmussen

ers, and sand wasps eat the flies and other small insects that compete with moths for sand verbena nectar.

One tiny “cheater” you may see in the dunes is a shiny black beetle the size of a rice grain.

Beetles in the Chrysomelid family are attracted to the sticky yellow flowers of sand verbena and stonecrops. Chrysomelid beetles are polyandrous: each female mates with many males and

lays numerous clutches of eggs glued to the undersides of leaves — although some species carry and protect their eggs until they hatch.

A single female beetle may mate 50 times in her one to two-year lifetime, each time carrying the male around on her back for hours to days before he dismounts.

She completely controls the disposition of sperm, which she can use to fertilize a whole, or part of a clutch of eggs, or store for use the next spring, or discard.

It is not yet clear how female Chrysomelids decide which male beetles are more desir-able fathers. Researchers believe it may have to do with

a little dance the male performs whilst riding around on the female’s back.

Coastal dunes can be seen at Fisherman Bay Spit and along Agate

Beach Road, but is very important not to walk on them.

Walking over a dune can be enough to break up the bur sedge root ball, and the dune will begin to crumble away.


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tails, 198 white-winged sco-ters, 103 long-tailed ducks, 57 eurasian-collared dove, 27 Anna’s hummingbirds, three black-capped chicka-dees, 183 pacific wrens, and 167 house sparrows.

Low counts were 58 gad-walls, 16 northern shovel-

ers, 80 common loons, a black-bellied plover, six kill-deers and 22 red crossbills.

For more info and to find this count’s records go to audubon2.org/cbchist/count_table.html”http://audubon2.org/cbchist/count_table.html. The area circle is called WASJ. Choose the span of years to review and a chart is made for species.

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Abronia, the sand-verbe-nas or wild lantanas, is a genus of about 20 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the family Nyctaginaceae.

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senate extends farm internship program

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Synergy Farm’s Susan Corning demonstrates the finer points of planting peas for interns Josh Kraetsch, left, and Sadie Beaauregard.

Lopez Island graduate Teddy McCullough receives the Outstanding Youth Leader Award at Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America’s National Leadership Forum. General Arthur T. Dean, Chairman and CEO of CADCA, presented the award at a lun-cheon near Washington, D.C., Feb. 9, 2012.

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