Islands' Weekly, July 21, 2015

By Meredith M. GriffithWeekly contributor

The Orcas Power and Light Cooperative mem-bers are seeing continued rate increases as OPALCO continues to collect less rev-enue due to lower kilawatt-hour sales.

This February OPALCO enacted a $10.30 facil-ity charge on all member accounts. For July, the co-op board approved an addition-al “revenue recovery add-on” through 2015 to meet a projected revenue shortfall of $661,000. The residential increase will raise the aver-age member’s bill by $8.43 per month.

“Despite these rate increases,” says OPALCO public relations administra-tor Suzanne Olson, “mem-ber bills have been lower on average than the past cou-

ple of years. This is because we’re not using as much energy – our revenues are down and so are our bills.”

One key contributor, says Olson, is that recent erratic weather – and the resulting energy demand volatility – pays no heed to the fixed operating costs of energy utilities.

It’s not just that demand for electricity drops in warm weather, erratic weather makes it difficult for energy companies to accurately forecast both the amount of electricity needed from suppliers, and the yearly revenue that will be provid-ed by kilowatt-hour (kWh) electricity sales.

“Everybody in the nation has been caught short this year because it’s an unusu-al trend we haven’t seen,” explained Olson.

OPALCO President Jim Lett said that many member utilities of the Northwest Public Power Association are struggling with rev-enue shortfall, due mostly to warmer weather but also because of increased con-servation measures and solar generation.

In 2014, OPALCO’s cost of purchased power from Bonneville Power Administration increased by $546,056 it went from $7,584,245 to $8,130,301. That included a $200,000 demand charge levied by BPA in February due to much higher than contract-ed electricity use spurred by cold temperatures.

Then came unusually warm fall weather that dramatically reduced OPALCO’s expected reve-nue from kWh energy sales. OPALCO sold approxi-mately 9 million fewer kWh than expected in 2014, resulting in $1,392,794 less kWh revenue than in 2013. NASA and The Natural Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA) have declared 2014 the warmest year on record since 1880.

“Bonneville Power has 40 people who come up with weather projections,” said Olson. “Normally we cal-culate our budget of how many kilowatt-hours we’re going to sell based on their predictions, and we gener-ally come out pretty close to what BPA is predicting for the region.”

In 2014, those projec-tions didn’t even come close for OPALCO and for other utilities in the region, result-ing in large cost increases. OPALCO had budgeted in a 2014 margin of $1,121,998, but at year’s end that cush-ion was reduced to just $121,951. The 2015 budget aims to replenish that mar-gin to $1,098,363.

So for its 2015 revenue projections, OPALCO tried a different, and more con-servative, tack they based projections off of what Olson calls a “worst-case scenario,” or what happened

in 2014. The problem, she says, is that actual revenue for 2015 has been even lower. In the first quarter, the co-op reports heating degree days (HDD) were 42 percent below normal, and kWh sales were down 6 per-cent, resulting in revenue of $551,276 below budgeted.

Normally a cost of ser-vice study every two years has kept OPALCO’s rates on track to collect the rev-enues required, but the weather lately has been far from normal. Seattle-based EES Consulting has been advising OPALCO on adap-tive rate strategies.

A large part of the solution is a transition from directly use-dependent kWh charg-es toward fixed-rate facili-ties charges. In 2014, just 25 percent of OPALCO’s oper-ating costs were covered by fixed facilities charges; the other 75 percent of the costs was dependent on islanders using an anticipated amount of energy.

Over the next seven years, OPALCO is forecast-ing a gradual shift in the rate structure so that up to 75 percent of the facilities costs will be covered by fixed facil-ities charges, leaving less of the cost burden on kWh revenue. Olson said costs are forecast to increase by 6 percent yearly during 2016-2019. Per current forecast-ing, the current budget fore-casts meeting this increase through facilities charges, while charges for residential energy usage will stay at about $0.08 perkWh (rang-ing from $0.0852 ‐ $0.078) for the next five years.

“A forecast is just a tool to help us project our future needs,” said General Manager Foster Hildreth.

“The board will revisit the rate structure during our budget process this fall. We are listening to our mem-bers, and recent board dis-cussions point to a likely shift in how we adjust our facilities charge going forward.”

For the 2015 revenue recovery add-on, added Olson, “If we get cold tem-peratures coming in, we can put a halt to the add-on. That is a mechanism to be sure we don’t get caught short.”

As for the purchase of Rock Island Communications and its impact on the budget, OPALCO borrowed $2.9 million at the end of 2014 for its start-up capital. The monthly loan payments will be covered by charging each of OPALCO’s 11,198 members $3 per month over 24 months (yielding rough-ly $806,256), in combina-tion with revenue coming in from established network accounts.

“In 2016, OPALCO plans to borrow another $3.1 million for start-up capi-tal,” said Olson. “By that time, Rock Island will have a more robust revenue stream and, despite com-pounding loan payments for 2015 and 2016, the amount of $3 per month per mem-ber will meet the need. Beginning in 2017 Rock Island Communications is projected to have enough revenue to cover their expenses.”

Olson added that debt service on the pur-chase price of Rock Island Communications, just under $500,000, will be cov-ered by the cash flow that came with acquisition of the company.

A November 2013 OPALCO board directive had already set the co-op’s course toward sharing its high-speed fiber optic infra-structure more broadly for Internet services. When Rock Island became avail-able for purchase the board saw it as a way to speed the process, as well as to greatly reduce its startup costs of hiring staff and developing infrastructure.

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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, 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, JULY 21CLASS: Sharpie Art, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m., Lopez School art room. Use new techniques to create a sharpie tie-dyed T-shirt and banner with America’s favorite marking pen! Ages 8-15, $25. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

WED, JULY 22CLASS: Collage, 1 – 5 p.m., Lopez School Art Room. Develop your own way of “collaging” as you explore different tool and tech-niques, the possibilities are endless. All supplies included, but feel free to bring extras! Ages 13 to adult, $40. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

EVENT: The Geology of Lopez Beaches, 7 – 8 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Friends of

the Lopez Library and the San Juan Islands National Monument invite you to join Professor Emeritus of Geology Donn Charnley for another wonderful look at the geology that shapes our local world.

FRI, JULY 24EVENT: Hike, Restore and Explore Patos Island, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Patos Island. Take a trip with Friends of the San Juans and the Bureau of Land Management to Patos Island. Different activities will be offered, from light house tours to a restoration project to a hike around the island. The Humpback Hauler will depart from Roche Harbor. A shuttle from the ferry in Friday Harbor will be arranged. Cost is $55 per person to cover boat fees. Please RSVP to Jana Marks at Friends, at [email protected] or 378-2319. Space is limited.

EVENT: Author JoHanna DeBiase, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Library Community Room. DeBiase reads from her book “Mama and the Hungry Hole,” a narrative interwoven with fairytales and the lines that divide memories from dreams. Presented by the Lopez Island Library and Friends of the Lopez Island Library.

FRI, JULY 25EVENT: Lopez Master Gardeners’ Information Table, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Sunset Builders Nursery Area. Bring a gardening ques-tion. If you have a plant or insect you would like to have ID’d, bring in a plastic bag.

JULY 27-20CLASS: Children’s Summer Music Camps, 9:30 –10:30 a.m. for ages 3-4, 10:45 – noon for ages 5-6, at the Lopez School Music Room. Hands-on, bodies-on, voices-on: imagi-native musical explora-tion that includes singing, rhythm games, percussion instruments and lots of creativity! $40 for 3-4 years old, $50 for 5-6 years old. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

JULY 27-31CLASS: Girl’s Circus Camp, 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Lopez School Gym. Come learn circus arts including: acro, dance, poi spinning, hooping juggles,

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WED, JULY 29CLASS: Pet Pals! A Special Program for Kids on Pet Safety, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., presented by Lopez Island Library and the Lopez Animal Protection Society. Dr. Sally Hodson of Orcas Island, children’s book author and K-12 educator, teaches children how to greet pet dogs and cats, care for pets and when to avoid a dog.

THURS, JULY 30CLASS: Barn Dance, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Lopez Elementary School multi purpose room. Children 4 and up are invited with their families to swing their partner with Rachel Buchman, our Children’s Summer Music Camp instructor and Orcas Chamber Music Festival’s Musician-in-Residence. Suggested donation - $10.

FRI, AUG 7EVENT: Beetle Mania with Russel Barsh of Kwiaht, 11 a.m.-12 p.m, Library Community Room/Patio. For all ages, explore beetles, catepillars, moths, caterpillars, moths and aquatic insects like drag-onfly nymphs. Part of the Science On Lopez series, presented by the Lopez Island Library, Friends of the Lopez Island Library and the San Juan Islands National Monument.

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Thanks for the derby

Thank you to Grandpa Jon and many volunteers for making the Kid’s Fishing Derby a casting success, and to IMC for stocking our favorite bait and donating the grand prize, poles and gear.

MARGO BEDELLLopez Island

Electricity usageI have been recording my

energy usage about every two to three hours (except nighttime) and can report the following for the first week (June 22 at 10 a.m. through 10 a.m. on June 29). We are a household of two “older” adults. The house is totally electric – no propane and we don’t burn wood during any season. We have no solar panels

or other alternative energy sources. Therefore, we are probably a fairly typical OPALCO residential user.

The electric heat is turned off for the summer (June-September). Appliances are typical: refrigerator and chest freezer run as needed. The water heater has been turned lower, twice, to conserve energy.

Each day we both show-er in the morning. Most kitchen usage is in the early evening (stove/oven) and the three highest uses of kilowatt-hours are for the dryer (three to four loads per week), stove/oven and hot water (dishwasher, clothes washer).

Our highest usage is on the weekends. So we are generally typical for an older family of two. Over the seven days, we used 189 kilowatts; most days of the week about 20 kilowatts per day; week-

end about 45 kilowatts per day. At 0.097 cents per kWh, our average daily power bill is $2.62 – or $78.57 per month. And a facility charge is added to that!

The purpose of this exer-cise was to have a better sense of the cost of electric power in our home. I will state, strongly, that we will lessen our usage proportion-ate to any increase in our monthly cost of energy from OPALCO. I suspect that this is the real world for most residential customers. Living on a generally fixed budget is a bugger.

I would be very curious as to the comparison of our usage with the average for all residential customers throughout the county.

ED SUTTONOrcas Island

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By Joan CarterSpecial to the Weekly

For one week in June the San Juan Islands National Monument hosts a crew of 12 members of the American Hiking Society, invited here by Bureau of Land Management Outdoor Recreation Planner Nick Teague. Eager registrants are poised at their comput-ers the day the project sign-ups are posted. In just eight hours, this San Juan Islands’ project is already filled.

Called “June Week SWAP” Teague launched the first one in 2006. Local agencies jumped in with him. The formula: introduce the crew to the National Monument and they’ll do whatever is assigned, vary the work, focus their energy and assure them they can – and will – exceed their own expecta-tions.

During the Sunday orien-tation over dinner: Teague named the tasks and plac-es: San Juan County Land Bank, Washington State Parks, Odlin–host for the camp and Shaw Island.

Monday morning: “You’ve got to be kidding…”

Breakfast was hurried. “It’s only 5:40 a.m.! The birds woke us up at 4:30! Don’t they sleep?” On the 6:10 ferry to Shaw, Teague grinned wide at the tender feet about their “tough” wake-up call. By the time Katie MacClane greet-ed them, they were ready. “Can you cut a trail for me?” They sliced through the thick salal behind the Shaw campground. MacClane got her trail, and the crew got ice cream at the store afterward as promised. An even sweeter treat followed as Parvin Baharloo served up a Persian dinner that eve-ning. This is the hospitality for which Lopez is famous!

Tuesday morning and another “snooze-while-we-cruise ferry” ride before meeting up with the Land Bank’s Doug McCutcheon. Up a rugged road we went to the top of the Mount Grant Preserve. Fanning out, we raked mulch, set in ABS pipe, added to the split-rail fence and decimat-ed noxious weeds. Jennifer McNew, SJI Monument intern, helped the crew in understanding the unique biodiversity all around them.

Wednesday: Odlin Manager David St. George needed help installing a footbridge. And upon com-pletion, the crew swarmed the Dump. “Here’s a mint Mountain Hardwear fleece!” exclaimed a happy camper bagging a bargain!

Thursday: Fisherman’s Spit – more weeds, more fencing, more trimming. SLCLB steward Tim Clark, the dependable Provider of Sweet Treats, fed the hard-working crew. For their con-tributions to the community, appreciation was extended by Lopezians David and Linda Hudson in their home with a soup supper. A serene walk through the Whispers of Nature Labyrinth followed.

Friday comes too soon. Picking up the crew at the Odlin dock, the ride to Patos Island draws oohs and ahhs. At the beach, the boat drops its ramp and spills people and tools out. Washington State Park rangers Steve Sabine and Rich Doss divide the crew to hack through the overgrowth. Working from both ends, leaves and branches fly. “That’s a moun-tain of salal,” lamented one.

There was a welcome respite at lunch, chatting with Keepers of the Patos Light in the shadow of the historic lighthouse. Gazing at Canada gave us a deepening sense of this magic place.

How does a volunteer leave this unique part of the world? Perhaps in hoping for another visit. Perhaps in lingering at the cheery campfire with newfound friends. Perhaps feasting on the special Mexican din-ner made by SJI Monument Director Marcia deChad-enedes. On our last evening, she reaffirmed us of her affection for the crew.

Many of the volunteers will be returning as soon as AHS lists the project next November. They know the joy of keeping this special place special.


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Have you ever seen a green-winged teal, or a teal green budding sea anem-one? Did you know that many of our local pollinators are colorful bees and wasps that nest in sand dunes and sandy beach bluffs? Would you like to learn how to build a salt marsh for shore birds? Have you heard fish sing?

Kwiaht and the local vol-unteers of the Fisherman Bay Marine Health Observatory invite you to discover the extraordinary seashore habitats, wild-life and plants of San Juan County’s largest estuary on Sunday July 26. Choose from a dozen hour-long walks, talks, and wildlife-watching activities around Fisherman Bay from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. hosted by Lopez scientists and naturalists, ranging from birds and bot-any to beetles, from marine biology and oceanography to climate change, seafood safety and managing ero-sion. All is free and family friendly.

For birders there will be morning, early afternoon and late afternoon walks to see seabirds, shore birds and raptors around the mud flats, salt marshes and the Spit, led by members of Kwiaht’s five-year-old sea-bird survey team, which uses bird diversity as an indicator of the health of the bay ecosystem as a whole.

Bring children to a special day for the bay station on the Islands Marine Center docks where they can peek beneath the floats at delicate, colorful sea slugs, giant sea anemones and spiny sea urchins. A decora-tor crab, pygmy rock crab, or spaghetti worm may also make an appearance.

If you have ever wondered how safe it is to eat crab from the bay, bring a crab leg to Kwiaht’s “Crab Clinic” at the IMC dock for testing, and learn about the latest research on water quality and bio-remediation. Stick around the docks for a plank-ton party using a microscope, sketchpad and camera to

explore the world of diatoms and dinoflagellates in a drop of bay water. Later in the day a special hydrophone will be set up to eavesdrop on the love songs of fish in the bay.

Your tour guides include the Kwiaht researchers Madrona Murphy, Russel Barsh, Nathan Hodges, Joe Behnke and Anna Meyer; the Land Bank’s Lopez land steward Tim Clark; Lopez

High School science teach-er Jen Romo; wildlife artist Daphne Morris; and Odlin Park caretakers and natu-ralists Beth and David St. George.

A complete program of the day’s activities is avail-able at the Kwiaht office in Lopez Plaza, from local busi-nesses such as Blossom and the Lopez Bookshop and on Kwiaht’s Facebook page.


By Ian M. LangeSpecial to the Weekly

The 36th annual Lopez Lions Club-sponsored 10-km and 5-km runs, 5-km walk and one-mile romp were enjoyed by all: everyone (participants and volunteers) had both fun and exercise

with all proceeds once again helping community causes. For making this first event of that special day so success-ful, thanks are due to all our faithful sponsors (found on the back of each shirt), and to the Lopez Lions Club, the San Juan Public Works and

Sheriff’s departments Lopez Fire Department, and others vital to holding this event. Check out the BuDu Racing website (www.buduracing.com) for placements and times.

Scott Tucker (37 min., 23.6 seconds) and Amy Esary in 44:39.5 (44 min., 39.5 sec.) took male and female firsts in the 10-km run, respectively. Winners in the male age cate-gories include: 13-19; Maxwell McKee, 20-29; Hank Bennett, 30-39; Lewis Crippen, 40-49; Reid Winkler, 50-59; Scott Tucker, 60-69; Dennis Egan. Winning women were: 20-29; Sarah Munger, 30-39; Caitlin Morley, 40-49; Amy Esary, 50-59; Leslie Dana, and 60-69; Janet Ross.

Five-km race runner win-ners were David Scheibel in 17:49.3 and Susie Welty in 19:44.2. Male age group winners were: 1-12; Jonah Herring, 13-19; Ray Dahlstrom, 20-29; Griffin Hoins, 30-39; David Scheibel, 40-49; Brett Esary, 50-59; Marty Brown, 60-69; Paul Baron, 70-79; Dallas Wylie, 80+; Jon Avent, the “Birthday Boy.” In the female divison Jemma Willcox took the 1-12; Ivy

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Community Land Trust’s returning interns, and he is conducting a food shed inventory for the organization. He is gathering very important information for planning our future on the island regarding food availability. If you live on Lopez we need you to fill out the food sur-vey at www.LopezFoodshed.weebly.com. The survey is short, and this will help us see what farming and value added products could look like in Lopez’s future.

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“It won’t work.”So declared a prominent

Lopez real estate broker on hearing from one of his salesmen that a group of people from Seattle wanted to buy the old McCauley Farm on Mud Bay Road and form a land cooperative.

That was in May, 1975. Forty years later what became the McCauley Farm Community is still thriving.

Known locally as “the farm,” its 40 acres are held as a tenancy-in-common, meaning that each of its 12 owners has an equal, undivided interest in the whole. Residents have indi-vidually owned homes but share infrastructure, such as roads, common buildings and a water system.

The community arose out of the popularity in the early 1970s of moving “back to the land.” Neil Young’s refrain, “Are you ready for the coun-try, because it’s time to go,” resonated with many young-er people tired of urban life.

A group of friends and acquaintances who shared

this feeling began meeting early in 1975. They agreed that each member would have an equal voice in deci-sions and that expenses would be the same for each.

By early May of that year an owners agreement had been finalized. What remained was to find land. Lopez Island was the most popular option.

Soon two members of the group were in a real-

ty office in Lopez Village looking at listings. One was the McCauley family’s old farm. The property, with its orchard, farm buildings, yellow farmhouse, two pas-tures, deep woods and a rocky bluff with views of the Olympics, immediately appealed to them. An offer was made and accepted. Possession was taken July 1.

In a vignette published years later, the seller, Gardiner Davis, described the land he had purchased in the late 1960s as “a der-elict farm.” The new owners had many improvements to make. Over the years they re-roofed all the buildings, expanded the orchard, drilled a new well and laid out a water system, in the meantime building homes for themselves.

They were also learning

what it means to share land and make decisions together. A few moved elsewhere on the island, while some dis-covered they were indeed not ready for the country and were replaced by others who were, the last such change occurring in 1993.

The farm was origi-nally developed by James McCauley, a well-known

farmer who raised sheep and cattle. He purchased the place in 1918 and moved the present farmhouse from another property to the east. Honoring him, the residents who took over the place 40 years ago decided to name their community “The Old McCauley Place,” its official name even today.

Recently the community

worked together to repaint the old farmhouse. No lon-ger derelict, it stands on a rise above Mud Bay Road. As James McCauley’s grand-daughter Barbara Pickering remarked a few years ago, after saying she liked to point it out to visitors, “It is quite a landmark, you know.” Its present owners intend to keep it that way.


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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.

2015-16 Budget HearingNotice is hereby given that Lopez Island School District

No. 144 has prepared the 2015-16 budget and placed on file in the district office. The Directors will meet on July 28, 2015 at 5:00 p.m., in the multipurpose room for the purpose of fixing and adopting the budget for the

ensuing fiscal year. Any person may appear at this time and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The

regular monthly board meeting will be at 6:00 p.m., following the budget hearing. By order of the Board of

Directors, Brian Auckland, Superintendent.

McCauley Farm Land Co-op’s 40th Anniversary

McDonald, 13-19; Claire Baron, 20-29; Susie Welty, 30-39; Krisi Lemm, 40-49; Paula Wilson, 50-59; Micky Heino, 60-69; and Dorothy Vanausdale, 70-79.

Five-km walker male winners were: 1-12, Jared Femling; 13-19, Trey Cary; 20-29, Sean Galloway; 30-39, Evan Bryant (overall win-ner); 40-49, Kevin Sullivan; 50-59, William Gregoire; 60-69, Richard Locke; 70-79, Herb Schiessl; and 80-89, Mike Muckle. For the women, Heidi Simone won the 13-19 years old group, Ashley Cronkite, 20-29; Lauren Nishimura, 30-39; Julie Packard (overall win-ner) 40-49; Peg Minehan, 50-59; Kim Monderbach, 60-69; and Kim Norton, 70-79. Ethan Johnson and Tess Hureau won the male and female divisions, respec-tively, of the one-mile romp. Thanks to all for your help and for participating in this event! See you next year!

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“It created a quicker path to profitability, which mini-mizes our risk as a co-op,” said Olson.

Part of OPALCO’s cost is $4.5 million set aside for up to 3,000 “construction incentives” of $1,500 per home to offset homeown-ers’ estimated fiber installa-tion costs of $1,500 to $6,000 per home.

OPALCO expects Rock Island to reach the “break even” point in 2017 at somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 connections, and at that point to take over funding its own expansion to meet further demand. OPALCO expects to begin receiving positive cash flow from Rock Island around the year 2021. Currently six neighbor-hoods are under construc-tion; 226 locations are con-nected, and 80 neighbor-hoods are in the design process.

An August 2014 OPALCO survey revealed a popu-lace ready for better inter-net service. The major-ity of respondents received internet service through CenturyLink (over 60 per-

cent) or Rock Island (18.7 percent). Despite its large market share, just 22 per-cent of CenturyLink cus-tomers said they were satis-fied, compared with 64 per-cent for Rock Island. Major factors were Internet speed, reliability and customer ser-vice.

Another major part of OPALCO’s overall financial picture is the need to replace 18 tremendously costly submarine cables over the next 30 years, and three of those in the next seven years. The most pressing is a 14,000-foot cable between Lopez and San Juan origi-nally installed in 1977 for $3 million. OPALCO will replace it in 2017 at a cost of over $15 million. Foster Hildreth expects revenue streams from Rock Island to help offset those upcom-ing expenses. OPALCO also plans to pay for the cable installation using a 30-year loan from the USDA Rural Utility Service, and to repay the loan using rev-enue from rate increases from 2015 over the follow-ing 30 years.

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The 48-year-old Elwha will remain out of service for approximately four months while crews perform emergency repairs to a drive motor.

“We realize having one of our mid-sized vessels out for an extended period of time puts a strain on travelers, especially during the height of our busiest season,” says Washington State Ferries. “Until further notice, the 124-car Kitsap will continue to serve the Anacortes/San Juan Islands route in place of the Elwha.”

While the 124-car capacity Kitsap holds 20 fewer cars than the 144-car Elwha, this plan avoids large service reductions to the islands during this busy travel period. For more information on the Elwha check, Washington State Department of Transportation Travel Alert Bulletins online or call 511 to speak to an information agent.

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Orcas Island resident Peter William Sherman, 27, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon in the second degree for an incident on July 4 in Eastsound, Orcas Island. Bail was set at $10,000. Sherman is awaiting a trial set for Sept. 21.

Sherman allegedly pointed an Ithaca 20-gauge shotgun at three people after a verbal altercation with one of them. According to court documents the gun was not loaded, but witnesses said they did not know that at the time. Witnesses also said Sherman told one man he was going to kill him. According to the responding officer’s report, Sherman admitted he’d pointed the gun at the three people. He added that he had con-suming alcohol, stating he had not been thinking straight.

Sherman initially called the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office to report a tres-

passing complaint at his home, saying he had asked a guest to leave and he wouldn’t leaving. By the time the offi-cers arrived at the scene the guest had left. Sherman told the officers things were fine as long as the guest did not talk to him. The guest had been with two others in the driveway and had become agitated at the officers, shouting exple-tives at them and refusing to identify himself. According to the report: “At one point he advanced on [us]. We each grabbed one of his arms and pinned him against the back of the minivan. We asked him to calm down.” The guest said he would, but when released he continued his aggression. “I could see there was no reasoning with [the guest]. He never gave us a chance to talk with him.” The officers decided to leave to “diffuse the situation.”

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When asked, Sherman said to one of the officers that he had been afraid the guest was going to assault him, and had run to get the unloaded gun from his room. According to the witnesses, the guest and two witnesses had been stand-ing together when Sherman pointed the unloaded gun at them and yelled at the guest, “I am going to kill you!”

One of the responding officers wrote that a witness told him, “Sherman is unpredictable with firearms when he has been drinking alcohol.” The witness could not remember a time when a simi-lar incident had occurred with Sherman.

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EXECUTIVE EDITORThe Peninsula Daily News in Port Angeles, Wash., a six-day morning newspaper and 24/7 online news operation serving the beautiful two-county North Olym- pic Peninsula, seeks a web-savvy executive editor with excellent writing, editing and pagination skills and proven management experience. Reporting to the publisher, this is the No. 1 position in our newsroom. The executive editor provides day-today newsroom leadership, overseeing online news coverage while spearheading the publi- cation of our print newspaper and overseeing all its sections and special supplements. Particularly important on the print side are first- rate InDesign skills. The executive editor also oversees our website (avg 1.2 million page views monthly), Face- book pages and Twitter account and helps develop and implement strategies to grow the PDN’s social media, mo- bile and video audienc- es. The right candidate can identify major news and trends pertinent to our print and online readers, edit a story on deadline and help coach reporters into turning their ideas into top-flight reads — and also has the ability to quickly fix a website problem and edit an occasional video or podcast.Affordable Port Angeles, gateway to Olympic Na- tional Park and Victoria, British Columbia, gets half the rainfall of Seattle yet is close enough to enjoy Seattle as well as our rain forests, great fishing and other outdoors activities and pleasant lifestyle. ?Port Angel?es just finished second in Outside magazine’s 2015 “Best Town Ever” online contest, beating out Santa Barbara, Calif., Flagstaff, Ariz., Bar Harbor, Maine, and two western cities.We are a member of Sound Publishing Inc., the largest community media organization in Washington state, and offer a full range of fringe benefits. To apply, please e-mail to

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This is an Eastsound based, bargaining unit, full-time position. Salary and benefits are competitive. Applicants may obtain a detailed job description and employment application online at www.opalco.com. Please submit your cover letter, professional resume, employment application and references to Bev Madan, 183 Mt Baker Road, Eastsound, WA 98245 or at [email protected]. Position is open until filled.

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MEMBER SERVICES SUPERVISOR

OPALCO is seeking a Member Services Super- visor. Successful candidate thrives in a fast- paced, challenging environment, adapts quickly to changes and shifting priorities. Proven effec- tive leadership history, problem solving and excellent communication skills are essential. The primary function of this position is the administration of the Member Services Department su- pervising the staff on two islands; implementing and maintaining proce- dures for billing, collec- tions and member out- reach; successfully integrating new technology in a timely man- ner; and managing multi- ple projects independently. Position requires working knowl- edge of accounting and general ledger activity, budget preparation and financial analysis.

A positive attitude and the ability to work effec- tively with members, Co- op leadership, staff and outside agencies are a must. Staff mentoring, technology and project management experience is required. This is an Eastsound based, bargaining unit, full-time position. Salary is competitive. Applicants may obtain a detailed job description online at OPAL- CO.com. Please submit an OPALCO employment application, your professional resume, cover letter and references to Bev Madan

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PAGINATORPeninsula Daily News, a six-day morning newspaper serving the beautiful North Olympic Penin- sula of Washington, has a full-time opening on its design/copy desk in Port Angeles. The successful candidate must have demonstrated and creative layout/pagination skills using the Adobe Suite, copy editing experience, good grammar and syntax skills, be AP style-savvy, know current events, write accu- rate and catchy head- lines and possess sharp InDesign skills (we have a Macintosh-based computer system). Daily newspaper experience preferred; will consider a top-drawer candidate from a weekly newspaper looking to move to a daily. The design/copy editor will produce pages and put together sections. The shift is day- time Sundays through Thursdays. The successful candidate also will post stories on the PDN’s website as well as have Facebook and Twitter responsibilities. Affordable Port Angeles, gateway to Olympic Na- tional Park and Victoria, British Columbia, gets half the rainfall of Seattle yet is close enough to enjoy Seattle as well as our rain forests, great fishing and other outdoors activities and pleasant lifestyle. Port Angeles just finished second in a national magazine’s “Best Town Ever” contest after beating out all four other Western cities in the contest. Peninsula Daily News publishes two zoned a.m. editions in Clallam and Jefferson counties. Pay commen- surate with experience; full benefits package includes medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), paid vacation with immediate eligibility and sick pay. Finalists may be invited to a tryout; prefer- ence given to candidates from the Northwest and West Coast. Please send cover letter, resume and clips of pages (PDFs are acceptable) with at least three professional references to [email protected]

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munity members, and business partners. The project includes estab- lishing a volunteer program and protocols for the school that will be long-lasting and sus- tainable so their work can continue even af-

ter their year of service is complete. The

AmeriCorps member will conduct early lit-

eracy Response to In- tervention (RtI) groups with students in grades

K, 1 and 2. S/he will also conduct small group tutoring ses- sions for struggling

readers in grades 3, 4, and 5. S/he will be responsible for ongoing

assessment and progress monitoring

and maintaining records to share with

the RtI team. The AmeriCorps member will also assist stu-

dents with homework and assigned readings

after school several days a week.

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07/15/201610.5 months, 1700

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OWNER REPRESEN- TATION SERVICES

The Orcas Island Public Library is in the planning process for the development of a proposed expansion to be construct- ed at 500 Rose Street, Eastsound, WA, and is soliciting responses to its RFQ for Owner Rep- resentation services. For more information, to express interest, or for a copy of the RFQ, please contact: Phil Heikkinen, Director, Orcas Island Li- brary, pheikkinen@ orcaslibrary.org; 360- 376-4985; or visit www. orcaslibrary.org. Appli- cation review will begin on July 20, 2015 and remain opened until filled.



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The 2015 Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival opens on Lopez Island Thursday, Aug. 6 at 5:30 p.m. at Lopez Center. “Russian

Tableaux” is an exhilarat-ing concert filled with Russian works and more, featuring violin, viola, cello, saxophone and piano. This

program exhibits a cyclical unity never before present-ed by the festival. It begins and ends with the same theme. In the first duet, the audience will hear Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Glory Op. 11, No. 6. This work for piano for four-hands will be performed by Jon Kimura Parker, OICMF artistic advi-sor, and one of his star stu-dents from Rice University, pianist Viktor Valkov. Then patrons will hear this same theme in the last movement of the closing work, Anton Arensky’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor. Those who attended the Miró Quartet’s “Complete Sixteen String Quartets of Beethoven” on Orcas last June will recog-nize that this same theme was used in Beethoven’s Opus 59, No. 2.

“I can’t begin to express how thrilled I am to bring the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival to Lopez for a fourth season,” said Aloysia Friedmann, artistic director. “Lopezians have embraced our music - and in turn we love performing here. This year’s program is filled with music for all tastes!”

Concert highlights also include 2015 Grammy-winning saxophonist Timothy McAllister per-forming Sergei Prokofiev’s Vision fugitives and Grigora Dinicu’s Hora Staccato with Jon Kimura Parker, and three cellos performing together in David Popper’s Requiem, also joined by Parker. Bugs Bunny comes to life when the exciting duo of cellist Lachezar Kostov

and pianist Viktor Valkov perform Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. They’ll also perform Buxton Orr’s popular “A Carmen Fantasy.” And hot off the press - the Kostov/Valkov duo is releasing their new CD “Transcriptions and Paraphrases for Cello and Piano” during the festival, and they’ll be on sale after the Lopez concert during a nightcap reception. Tickets are $25, $10 for students at www.lopezcenter.org.

For the ideal concert experience, begin your day by attending the Music Lovers Seminar for the “Russian Tableaux” concert at Port Stanley Schoolhouse from 9 a.m. to noon. This transformational experience provides insight to the com-posers and repertoire for that evening’s performance. We are pleased to welcome Robert Baldwin, director of the Salt Lake Symphony and a specialist in Russian music, as lecturer. Also an accomplished violist, Dr. Baldwin’s preconcert talks and community music class-es are popular mainstays of the Utah arts scene. In addition, his award-winning blog on music and creativ-ity, Before the Downbeat, can be viewed at: beforethe-downbeat.wordpress.com/.

A brunch will accompany this entertaining seminar. Tickets are $25, 18 and under free. To purchase, visit the Lopez Bookshop, Paper Scissors on the Rock, Lopez Island Farmers Market or [email protected].

For info, visit oicmf.org.

Consisting of Aaron Guest (vocals, 12-string acoustic), Jeremy Elliott (electric gui-tar and vocals), Karl Olson (drums), Cayley Schmid (fiddle), and Richard Reeves (upright bass), Polecat got its start playing weekly gigs at Boundary Bay Brewing and Bistro in Bellingham in 2010. Since then Polecat has released three albums and traveled

all over the North West, per-forming over 500 shows in five years, including several trips to the islands. They have even been known to delight travelers with their enticing sound during the ferry rides to their gigs in the San Juans.

Polecat’s unique instru-mentation enables them to seamlessly blend genres including bluegrass, coun-try, celtic, rock, reggae and world music into their sound. “Polecat is an upbeat, toe-tapping good time,” says Lopez Center sound tech-nician Dave Rucker. “They are one of my favorite groups that come through the center!”

“When people ask us what genre we perform in, I just call it ‘roots music,’ ” front man Aaron Guest said.

“It’s the people’s music. There is something in it for fans of every genre, I think.”

If you’ve missed Polecat when they’ve performed on Lopez, you’re in for a treat. If you’ve had the opportuni-

ty to hear them, then you’re prepared to be entertained by excellent musicians with a wonderful sound. The concert will be outside at the pavilion, weather per-mitting. Bring a chair, blan-

ket and your dancing spirit! Beer garden available for those 21 years and older. The show is July 26, 7 p.m. at Lopez Center. Tickets are $12 for adults, $5 for youth and are available from

the Lopez Center Office, Paper Scissors on the Rock, Blossoms Organic Grocery, Lopez Bookshop and lopez-center.org.


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Make this year the most exciting, enriching year ever for you and

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Julie from Denmark, 16 yrs. Enjoys gymnastics, swimmingand photography. She’s positive, fun loving and easy to get along with.

Marco from Italy, 17 yrs.Loves soccer and would liketo learn to play baseball.Marco is a boy scout and enjoys the outdoors.

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