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VOLUME 36, NUMBER 46 • NOVEMBER 12, 2013

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In the race for Lopez School District Directors the current school board was re-elected.

For position 1, incum-bent John Helding received 55 percent of the vote while his opponent Joe Thornton received 45 percent.

For position 2, incum-bent Clive Prout received 68 percent of the vote while his opponent Jay Brant received 32 percent.

For position 3, incumbent Del Guenther received 53 percent of the vote while his opponent Teddy McCullough received 47 percent.

For position 4, incumbent Dixie Budke received 62 per-

cent of the vote while his opponent Paul Berg received 38 percent.

Dan Post won the race for Lopez Port Commissioner 3 with 59 percent. His oppo-nent Bob Porter received 41 percent.

The Fire District 4

Commissioner seat was won by Rebecca Smith with 72 percent and Richard Bangsund came out with 27 percent.

The Lopez Solid Waste Disposal District Prop. No. 1 concerning a one-year levy to fund solid waste disposal activities passed with 78 percent of the vote.

The county Prop. 1 amendment concerning

the charter failed with only 35 percent of the vote.

Locally, I-522, the measure concerning the labeling of GMO foods, was approved at the county level. But state-wide, it was rejected by 55 percent.

School board re-elected, solid waste levy is passed, I-522 fails

What are all those paint marks on the pavement? Why are there wooden stakes on the shoulder? Beginning in early November, San Juan County Public Works will begin installing new Regulatory and Warning signs on Lopez Island’s County Roads. Regulatory signs include stop, yield, and speed limit signs. Warning signs include turn/curve, pedestrian warning, school bus stop ahead, and Chevron signs.

These signs are being installed as part of a federal mandated program to improve safety by replacing traffic signs nationwide with more reflective signs. Increasing reflectivity is important because most accidents occur at night. The “Run-Off Road and Intersection Safety Project – Sign Replacement Program” is a federally funded grant program that will bring the County into compliance with nation-

al sign standards. These standards increase awareness at the most accident prone sites and critical areas, create consistency in sign placement and usage, and increase sign vis-ibility for older drivers and night time driving.

Through this program the county will reduce the number of Regulatory and Warning signs on Lopez by 22 percent, from 519 to 405. Before installing new signs, all utili-ties must be located to make sure that none of them are hit. This includes placing a stake where the sign is to be installed and spray painting white locate marks on the road’s shoulder. The various utilities use orange, red, blue and green paint. That is why there are so many marks on the road.

Installation is expected to last for approxi-mately one month and is being carried out by county personnel.

New signs put up on Lopez Island

San Juan County crafts budget for the coming year

By Steve WehrlyJournal reporter

Everything you want to know about San Juan County government and the proposed 2014 budget can be found in 153 pages of the county preliminary budget document prepared for the County Council by Auditor Milene Henley.

These documents, which will be revised when the County Council approves the budget after a series of public hearings over the next several weeks, can be found at sanjuan-c o . c o m / B u d g e t 2 0 1 4 /docs/2014Preliminar y_Budget_Book_Complete.pdf.

Everything, that is, except the “Non-General

Fund” budget, which totals $32,987,817 - more than half of the total county budget of $53,326,315. The “Non-General Fund” accounts apply to certain dedicated funds which have their own sources of revenue, includ-ing dedicated taxes, grants from various sources, inter-governmental transfers, fees and other sources. These receipts and expendi-tures will be included in the final budget documents.

The preliminary budget summary, which will be presented to the council on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 4 and 5, by Auditor Henley and County Manager Mike Thomas, shows a General Fund total of $20.4 mil-lion. Most of that amount comes from real estate and sales taxes, although vari-ous grants and transfers are also included in the General Fund, as they are in the non-general fund totals.

The preliminary bud-get for 2014 represents a decrease of about $1 million from the all-funds estimated 2013 total expenditures, although final 2013 expen-ditures won’t be available for several months. Because tax and grant receipts will

vary through 2014, some supplemental and emergen-cy appropriations may still be made by the council as the year progresses.

The preliminary bud-get for 2014 represents a decrease of about $1 million from the all-funds estimated 2013 total expenditures, although final 2013 expen-ditures won’t be available for several months. Because tax and grant receipts will vary through 2014, some supplemental and emergen-cy appropriations may still be made by the council as the year progresses.

The preliminary budget document reviews all coun-ty departments and agen-cies and includes extensive documentation of depart-mental functions, personnel and activities. For instance, County Council projected expenditures of about $493,000 is about $24,000 less than 2013, possibly reflecting the recent charter amendments reducing the council from six members to three members.

Other functions facing cuts in budgets include both “county administra-

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Fletcher Moore has been named a Commended Student in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and

National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which conducts the program, will be present-ed by the school principal. About 34,000 Commended Students through the nation are being recognized for their academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2014 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 5 per-cent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2014 competition by taking the 2012 preliminary SAT/ National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

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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 ChurchFridays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterSaturdays - noon at the Children’s CenterCall 468-2809

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TUES, NOV 12MEETING: Enchanted Quilters’ monthly meeting, Coffee & goodies begin at 9:30 a.m. at Woodman Hall. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. Our pro-gram this month is “Bag Ladies.” If you wish bring your favorite handmade

bag & pattern to share.

WEDS, NOV 13DANCE: Contra Dance - George Marshall and Perpetual E Motion, 7 p.m., Lopez Center. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org. $10 (youth $8) tickets at the door.

THURS, NOV 14MEETING: Lopez Island Garden Club meeting,

Coffee & Goodies 9:30 a.m., the meeting begins at 10 a.m., Woodmen Hall on Fisherman Bay Road. Our guest is John Christianson of Christianson’s Nursery. John will bring a highly anticipated selec-tion of fine plants, note-worthy enthusiasm, and immense local horticul-tural knowledge.

SAT, NOV 16MUSIC: Concert Gretchen Wing and Friends/KLOI Annual Meeting, 7 p.m., Lopez Center. Suggested Donation: adult $10, youth $5.

CLASS: Using your iPad -

At Home & Away, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., library, $40. Discover tips, tricks, and techniques that will help you get more out of your iPad. Instructed by Susan Young. For more info, call the LIFRC at 468-4117 or go to www.lifrc.org.

SUN, NOV 17WALK: Luminary Labyrinth Walk, Dusk to 9 p.m., Whispers of Nature Labyrinth. Join our third annual Full Moon eve-ning walk amongst the 400 flickering lanterns to light your way in and out of the spiraling path-way. There will be an

opportunity to create your personal lantern with inscriptions of your favorite poem, quote, words or name(s) of loved ones. Donations welcome. For more info call 468-0550 or email [email protected].

SAT, NOV 23MUSIC: Sing me to Heaven, 6 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Suggested Donation: adult $10, youth $8.

FRI, NOV 29FUNDRAISER: Lopez Union Cemetery Christmas Wreath, Craft & Gift Sale,

10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Center Church. Proceeds to go support Center Church and Union Cemetery.

FUNDRAISER: Used Book Sale! Friends of the Library, 9 a.m., Lopez Community Center.

NOV 29 - 30FUNDRAISER: Lopez Island Preschool Holiday Bazaar, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Lopez School Gymnasium.

SAT, NOV 30FUNDRAISER: Lopez Island Hospice and Home Support’s Jingle Dinner and Silent Auction, 6 p.m., Lopez Community Center.

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Outrage against anti I-522 ad

How much money did you receive for the full, page ad against 522? How much of that money was from out of state?? For shame! I and many other

readers are sorely disap-pointed that our local rag has given in to the corpo-rate powers.

Despite the letters sup-porting 522 the full page ad in the Weekly make the paper appear hypocriti-cal. The Seattle Times did the same thing with two reports on how out-of-state money was harming our society and then giving in to big money and going against the initiative. In the

end it is all about money.PARVIN BAHARLOO

Lopez Island

An unfair reportIn the October 26 issue,

Steve Wehrly reported Washington Wire’s claim that “the typical family of four would pay an additional $490 a year for groceries.”

What was not reported, and what voters would have needed to know, is that the No side bought and paid for their cost studies.

As Trudy Bialic of Puget Consumers Co-op points out, “there’s no evidence of food costs rising in 64 countries where labeling is required, so the No side had to pay the Washington Research

Council, a conservative think-tank, to say what they wanted to it to say.”

Conversely, an indepen-dent study by the Alliance for Natural Health found that I-522 will not substan-tially increase food costs, Bialic said.

Food manufacturers change labels frequently, every year or so, without raising prices.

As Jerry Greenfield, co-owner of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, said recently, “Think about it: why would adding 5 words to a label increase costs?”

Bialic also points out the cost to farmers of NOT labeling. When experimen-tal GE wheat was found in an Oregon farmer’s field, Japan and Korea suspended purchases causing prices for Washington wheat to fall $.60 per bushel. Although buying has now resumed, prices have not bounced back to previous levels.

And now the farmers have to pay new fees for testing their wheat.

Unfortunately, the Yes side of the food costs issue was not adequately covered in Wehrly’s report, giving an unfair advantage to the No side.

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Local student receives ‘Commended Student’

Indian Island volunteers will make their annual report on the health of Indian Island and celebrate five years of community monitoring and stewardship on Thursday, Nov. 21 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Orcas Center.

Enjoy a slideshow by Kwiáht director Russel Barsh, displays by local students, a musical medley by Sharon Abreu and Mike Hurwicz, a light savory buffet by the Orcas Store, desserts made by community scientists and opportunities to contribute to the conservation of Indian Island as a donor or a volun-teer. Admission is free.

This year volunteers invite you to adopt one of Indian Island’s rare and charming fish, birds, or marine inver-tebrates as your own special New Year’s project. For a modest donation, you will receive a button featuring your choice of Indian Island “foster child,” and personal updates on its status and current research. For a little more, there will be a num-ber of exclusive naturalist talks and picnics and recog-nition in future Indian Island publications and events.

Islanders can also sup-port days of interpretive services on Indian Island for just $75 per day via the Orcas Island Community Foundation’s new Orcas Opportunities Catalog 2013, available online at www.oicf.us/catalog.

“Never has the need for community participation been greater,” says Indian Island program coordinator Kelly Rose.

Summer visitors have been increasing since the Indian Island program began in 2009. In addition to moni-toring marine life, wildflow-ers, and birds, volunteers personally greeted over 4,100 visitors to the island in 2013. Volunteers also built a “drift-wood trail,” distributed field guides, supervised school groups, rescued stranded wildlife, and helped prevent visitors from being stranded

by flood tides.The driftwood trail has

been an unqualified success, Barsh says. Wildflowers on most of the island are already recovering. At the end of the 2013 season, the Indian Island program and Orcas Island Youth Conservation Corps care-fully removed a truckload of English ivy, Himalayan blackberry and other inva-sive plants by hand.

Seasonal restrictions to protect nesting seabirds were successful in 2012, but when restrictions were eased in June 2013 so that visitors could watch nests from a high point on the island, black oystercatchers lost all their eggs to predators and did not lay another set.

“We’re still looking for the right balance of public enjoyment and seabird sur-

vival,” Rose says.Another concern is a four-

year decline in Bay pipefish, which Barsh says may be due to an outbreak of a para-sitic copepod that attaches itself to gills.

“At this stage, it’s more likely that pipefish are dying from parasites than from contaminants, but toxics can depress the immune system of fish and leave them less able to survive parasitism,” he said.

Other indicators of eco-system health, such as eelgrass density, have remained steady, however.

The task of monitoring contaminants for the Indian Island program has been given to Orcas students.

Kwiáht is working with Laura Tidwell’s Orcas Middle School students on a novel approach to moni-toring lubricating oils and other automotive contami-nants in Eastsound street runoff. Bundles of polypro-pylene fabric are hung in storm drains for several weeks, where they absorb any floating oils. When they are removed, the oils are rinsed off and measured in a spectrophotometer.

Plans are also underway

to expand volunteers’ moni-toring of algal blooms in East Sound and to use other plankton species as indica-tors of toxic stress, hypoxia, and changes in tempera-ture and acidity. Kwiáht is seeking funds to equip local schools to participate in an expanded plankton survey.

In March 2013, President Obama signed an Executive Order creating the San Juan Islands National Monument, which includes Indian Island. Kwiáht and Orcas volunteers are working on a formal agreement to con-tinue the local stewardship of Indian Island and perhaps other small, uninhabited islands that are now part of the monument such as Skull Island and Twin Rocks.

One expression of local control will be an interpre-tive sign overlooking Indian Island on Main Street across from the Outlook Inn. The sign is a collaboration of the National Monument, the San Juan County Land Bank and Kwiáht funded by the coun-ty’s Lodging Tax, illustrated by Orcas fifth-grade students. A mock-up will be displayed at the event on Nov. 21 with blank spaces for suggesting the sign’s messaging.

Learn more about Eastsound’s “window on the sea” by joining Kwiáht and the Indian Island Health Observatory on Nov. 21.


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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGThe Board of Commissioners for the Port of Lopez will hold a public hearing to present and discuss the adoption of its 2014 budget. The public hearing will be held on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 7:00p.m. at the Port's airport building. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

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Doug Cowan, 90, a 37 year resident of Lopez Island, passed from this life into the next on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 with family at his side. He was born January 6, 1923 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Lee and Laura Cowan. He was the beloved husband of Millie for 64 years prior to her pass-ing in October of 2006. Doug served his country flying for the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific during WWII. As part of the “Greatest Generation” he was proud to serve his country. Passionate about the game of golf, Doug could often be found at the Lopez Golf Course where he frequently “shot his age.” He loved to garden and cook, was

an avid fly fisherman and a lifelong devotee to the hobby of model railroading. Doug also served for a number of years on the Lopez Island School Board. A relatively quiet man, Doug listened well, thought carefully and answered wisely. His advice was always worth consider-ing and usually worth taking. He was known around Lopez Island as a gentleman’s gen-tleman.

Doug is survived by his sons Doug, Jr. with wife Corinne of Bellevue and Tom with wife Tammy of Lopez, daughter Claudia with hus-band Bob Bushey of Renton, along with his favorite niece Penny Hastings with part-ner Mike Daniels of Santa Rosa, Calif. Doug is also sur-vived by his brother Richard Cowan and his sister Jean Simpson. He is also survived by grandchildren Kristina Muse, Matt Cowan, Scott Cowan, Trisha Snyder, John Cowan, Eric Bergman and

Greg Cowan and 14 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. He will be greatly missed for his wisdom, humor and lov-ing nature. A memorial ser-vice for Doug will be held at the Lopez Island Golf Club on Sunday, Nov. 10, at 2:30 p.m. The family suggests memorials be made to the Catherine Washburn Medical Association in Doug’s name. Arrangements are in the care of Evans Funeral Chapel and Crematory, Inc., Anacortes, Wash., and the San Juan Islands. To share memo-ries of Doug please sign the online guest register at www.evanschapel.com.

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John SangsterJohn was born on June 2, 1937 in Seattle,

Wash., and passed away on Nov. 2, 2013. He was the loving husband of his wife of 55 years, Patsy Lloyd Sangster. John treasured his three children, sons Jim (Gretchen) and Johnny (Lene) Sangster and daughter Annie Carrino and his seven grandchildren, Lila and Sam, Malcolm, Stella and Owen and Luke and Nico.

John graduated from the Lakeside School in 1955 where he was president of the student body. He continued his education at Colorado College where he earned his bachelor of arts in 1959 and subsequently a business degree from Stanford University. Upon graduating from Stanford, John worked in Seattle for Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart. He then joined his father-in-law J. Collins Lloyd at Lloyd Plywood Co. Later he continued his career as a business consultant.

John served on the board of directors of

Epiphany and Overlake Schools and was a member of the Seattle Golf Club, the Seattle Tennis Club and the Men’s University Club.

John retired to Lopez Island, Wash., with his family to devote more time to his true interests. There, John served on the board of the San Juan County Land Bank and was an active member of the Audubon Society. The outdoors and all it had to offer was an inspi-ration to John. He loved boat racing, skiing, golfing and hiking and birding.

Influenced by his love of nature, writing and poetry became a major of focus of his life and he published many poems and prose. Music was always an integral part of his being and was a passion which he shared with his chil-dren and grandchildren.

John was blessed to have his family, his beloved wife and partner in life, Patsy, and so many friends from diverse walks of life who loved him. His good humor, quiet integrity, and gentle ways will be so greatly missed.

Memorial Services will be held at Epiphany Parish 1805 38th Ave, Seattle, Wash., on Monday, Nov. 25, 4:30 p.m.

Obituaries

Doug Cowan

Join us to begin your holi-day season joyfully. Islands A Cappella presents choral works composed by art-ists from the 16th century to modern times in our pro-gram, “Sing Me to Heaven.” Under the direction of Angel Michaels, the concert fea-tures songs by modern choral composers Stephen Chatman and Morten Lauridsen, jazz musician Thad Jones, and the prophet of music, Claudio Monteverdi. Holiday favorites mixed with some year-round favorites will certainly put you in the mood to celebrate.

Concerts are offered on three islands: Friday, Nov. 22, 4 p.m., at Rosario Resort on Orcas Island. The Orcas Boy Choir will join us for this con-cert only. Saturday, Nov. 23, 6 p.m. at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts on Lopez Island. Finally, on Sunday, Nov. 24, on San

Juan Island at 3 p.m., the performance is at St. David’s Church in Friday Harbor.

Donations of $10 for adults and $5 for students and youth are appreciated. Young chil-

dren are free. Tickets are available at the door of each venue.

Join us for a heart-filling, musical treat as we “Sing You to Heaven.”

Here’s your chance to own a piece of photographic history – come to Lopez Island Hospice and Home Support’s Jingle Dinner and Silent Auction, Nov. 30, 6 p.m. at the Lopez Community Center.

This year special emphasis has been placed on acquiring some truly wonderful items, includ-ing the crown jewel of the auction, “Magnolia Blossom Tower of Jewels 1925,” an estate print by famed photographer Imogen Cunningham.

The photograph is print-ed from Cunningham’s original negative by the Cunningham Trust, and stamped with her facsimile signature and chop, authen-ticating that the print has been made and approved by the Trust. Printed by hand in a traditional darkroom process, this silver gelatin print is mounted and over-matted on 100 percent cot-ton rag museum board, and professionally framed with non-reflective glass.

For more than seventy five years, Cunningham explored the creative use of the camera. Her botani-cal prints and portraits are represented in major collec-tions and museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and the Library of Congress.

There is an abundance of other great auction items including pottery, jewelry, sculpture, and paintings by talented and generous local artists. Bid on Mariners tickets, a firehouse birth-day party, and a kitchen dinner party at Vita’s. In addition, the “Seattle Spree” package includes tickets for two on Kenmore Air, over-night accommodations at Gaslight Bed and Breakfast, dinner at Serious Pie, Tom Douglas’s renowned pizza restaurant, and a gift certifi-cate to Pie Bar, recently fea-tured in Sunset Magazine. The “Play for a Day (or Two) in Anacortes” pack-

age consists of a night at the Majestic Hotel, break-fast at Dad’s Diner, din-ner at Adrift, a treatment at Apothecary Spa, and gift certificates for many Anacortes businesses.

Tickets to the Jingle Bell Dinner are $50, avail-able exclusively at Paper Scissors on the Rock. All proceeds from the dinner and silent auction will ben-efit Lopez Island Hospice & Home Support.

For more information or a sneak peak at the auc-tion catalog, contact Lynne Keeley at 468-4446, [email protected].


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“Magnolia Blossom Tower of Jewels 1925,” an estate print by famed photographer Imogen Cunningham.

Jingle Dinner and Auction A Cappella comes to Lopez

tion” and “general admin-istration” categories. The Auditor, Assessor, Sheriff, and Prosecuting Attorney budgets are all up.

The document also reviews county employment by fund and function, show-ing an expected 2014 “full-time equivalent” employ-ment level of 217 employ-ees, a reduction of just over eight FTEs from 2013.

The council agenda for Tuesday, Nov. 5, is filled with public hearings con-cerning four ordinances related to 2014 tax and budget recommenda-tions and the 2014-2019 Six-year Transportation Improvement Plan. All mat-ters on the agenda are sub-ject to further consideration by the council, with a com-pleted 2014 budget package expected to be passed by the council on Dec. 3.

NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer was able to get from the launching pad, Sept. 6, to its lunar commissioning orbit five weeks later, Oct. 13, thanks in large part to Friday Harbor’s Mike Loucks.

Owner of Friday Harbor-based Space Exploration Engineering Corporation, Loucks designed and helped implement the trajectory used to send the Environment Explorer into orbit. He designed the trans-lunar and lunar orbit capture portion of LADEE’s trajectory.

He was on-site at the NASA/Ames con-trol center from launch on Sept 6, through the final lunar orbit insertion maneuver on Oct. 13, and served as trajectory lead and flight dynamics team member during that time.

Loucks also designed the trajectories for the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission, launched in 2008, and the Orbview-II space-craft, which launched in 1997.

The Space Exploration Engineering Corporation was founded in 1995 in Boulder, Colo. Loucks moved the com-

pany and his family to Friday Harbor in 2001.

The progress of the LADEE space-craft along its trajectory was chronicled by Loucks and fellow “astro-gator” John Carrico during the trans-lunar portion of the mission on the “Astrogator’s Guild” blog (www.astrogatorsguild.com). The two were featured in an Oct. 8 article in the Christian Science Monitor, “Moon mission LADEE arrives after an ‘amazingly precise’ looping flight,” written by Liz Fuller-Wright and appearing in the online version of the publication.

LADEE (pronounced like “laddie”) is a robotic mission designed to orbit the moon and to gather detailed information about lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. It also carries an innovative lunar laser communication demonstration instrument, which is designed to transmit data at a rate of 622 megabits per second, about five times the current state-of-the-art from lunar distances.

LADEE is managed by NASA’s Ames

Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

After the commissioning phase of the mission, which lasts for one month, LADEE will be lowered to its science orbit with an average altitude below 50 kilome-ter (31 miles). LADEE will spend three months at this lower altitude, and will then be directed to lunar impact after it runs out of fuel.


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graCe episCopal ChurCh, welcomes

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harbor of hope lutheran ChurCh, invites

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and Chicken Biscuit, will once again feature a Lopez Trivia Contest during inter-mission. Music will kick off at 7:30 p.m. The program features Wing’s original folk

music plus many familiar favorites. Tickets are $10, available at Paper, Scissors; Lopez Book Store; Blossom; the Southender; the Center, and at the door. Test your expertise with a question from previous years:

1. Bob Adcock fished off Lopez’ south end, and sometimes passing freighters snagged his nets. What was Bob’s response to those freight-ers?

A) Get on the radio and give them hell

B) Take aim with his shotgun and fire

C) Take it in stride and haul his nets in for repair

D) File complicated law-suits against the internation-al freight companies

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Although the concert has become a community favorite, many Lopezians admit that the trivia contest

is the real draw for them. Longtimer-in-Training Iris Graville says, “I love the trivia contest. I always learn new tidbits about Lopez.”

Lorna Reese, another Fairly-Longtimer, adds, “Participating in the trivia contest is a great way for newcomers to learn about Lopez lore.”

To flaunt your knowledge of Lopez Lore, no Jeopardy!-style prepping is necessary, as the contest does not spot-light individuals. Instead, the audience is divided into two teams, and everyone receives electronic clickers. When a question is pro-jected on the big screen, each team has one minute to glean the expertise of its gossip-mavens—oops, um… long-timers. Those in the know find themselves in high demand at these pressure-filled moments. Answers are then clicked in, the totals are shown, and the correct answer

revealed—to cheers or groans, depending on how well each team listened to its experts.

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2. What is written on Hildegard Goss’s grave-stone?

A) When I grow old I’ll wear purple

B) Life is artC) Your turn to walk the

dogD) There goes the neigh-

borhoodLopez Trivia began

in 1994, at the Lopez Community Land Trust annual meeting, the brain-child of Sandy Bishop, and continued through 1996. Appropriately, Sandy will be this year’s emcee, along with a mystery assistant.

OK, last chance:3. Joan Baez once sung

backup to a Lopezian. Who was that Lopezian and what was the song?

A) Lisa Geddes –

Diamonds and RustB) Ann Marie Fisher

- Blowin’ in the WindC) Rhea Miller –

DeporteeD) Jamie Cordova –

There but for Fortune

Answers: 1 – B; 2 – D; 3 – C. Got ‘em all? Then you’ll be very popular on Nov.16.

The San Juan County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed that 911 emer-gency dispatch service is again working for residents of Lopez and Shaw Islands.

At this time, it appears that on-island telephone service is functioning with on-island phone calls and 911 service on Orcas Island. However, given the unstable service

situation, OIFR recommends the following steps to report all emergencies:

1. First, dial 911 from a land line

2. Then try OIFR direct at 376-2331 from a land line

3. You can email [email protected]

An apparent failure in an underwater data cable at 4 a.m. on Tuesday disrupted

communications between San Juan County and the mainland and between islands in the County itself.

For a time the break inter-rupted 911 emergency dis-patch service on all but San Juan Island, the home of the County government. 911 ser-vice and inter-island phone service has been restored to Lopez and Shaw Islands,

however residents of the smaller neighboring islands are being urged to route emergency calls through the Orcas Fire Department at 376-2331.

Phone carrier CenturyLink, the service provider responsi-ble for the cable and services affected, has said that it hopes to have 911 and inter-island communications with Orcas restored today.

In a morning confer-ence call, phone company representatives told San Juan County’s emergency responders that a temporary fix to restore communica-tions with the mainland was in the works, but that it was not an easy fix and set no firm time frame.

Meanwhile, on San Juan Island, DSL Internet servic-es, cell phone service, as well as telephone service to the mainland remain disrupted.Internet service remains available through some pro-viders and is being offered at public libraries and at the main county government offices in Friday Harbor.


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