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Apple map error includes Whidbey Island, county to lobby for fixBy JUSTIN BURNETT

South Whidbey Record

Hat Island is getting more crowded by the second, according to Apple Inc.

Along with Langley, Whidbey Island is also inaccurately listed on the tech giant’s map pro-gram for mobile devices. They are currently

listed as being on the tiny isle 1.5-mile-long by half-mile-wide isle, also known as Gedney.

Privately owned, Hat is in Possession Sound between Everett and the South End.

Island County Commissioner Helen Price Johnson confirmed Thursday that she was already planning to petition the board to draft a formal letter to Apple seeking redress of

the Langley error when she learned that Whidbey’s location is also misrepresented.

“It needs to be corrected,” Price Johnson said.

The larger error was pointed out by an eagled-eyed online commenter who was responding to a story published by the South Whidbey Record on Wednesday concerning

Langley’s incorrect listing. The error is on the app “Maps” which

comes preloaded into Apple mobile devices, such as iPhones, iPads and the company’s laptop computers. It’s unclear how long either

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Kayakers rest on a Whidbey Beach. Island County will spend $175,000 this year to identify public beach accesses on Whidbey and Camano islands.

WGH CEO will earn $279,000 plus bonus

By MICHELLE BEAHMWhidbey News Group

Whidbey General Hospital’s new CEO will earn a base sal-ary of $279,000 per year with a potential annual bonus of nearly $70,000, according to a contract to be finalized March 9.

That’s about $100,000 more than the state average for lead executives for critical access hos-pitals, and about $60,000 more than in neighboring counties, according to state statistics.

“Forbes may receive a bonus of up to 25 percent of her sal-ary if she achieves goals mutu-ally agreed upon by the board and CEO,” said the hospital’s board President Anne Tarrant in an emailed statement to the Whidbey News Group.

“These goals have not yet been determined.”

Geri Forbes, current CEO of Doctors Memorial Hospital, locat-ed in Perry, Fla., is slated to step into the job of Whidbey General CEO on April 20.

The hospital’s board of direc-tors is expected to finalize Forbes contract on March 9 after a background check is completed, Tarrant said in her email.

Forbes was named as the replacement for outgoing CEO Tom Tomasino, who announced this past summer he would not seek renewal of his contract after it ended in October 2015.

“He was willing to stay on the job until October, or resign ear-lier if the board found a replace-ment sooner,” Tarrant said in her emailed statement.

When the board was close to making a hiring decision, Tarrant said Tomasino submitted a letter of resignation giving a new depar-ture date of April 30, or sooner, at the board’s discretion.

Tomasino will be leaving Whidbey General before Forbes starts.

Tomasino will not receive a severance payout, but he will be compensated for accrued leave that he didn’t take, Tarrant said.

There is no separation agree-ment between Tomasino and the hospital district, Tarrant wrote.

The hospital district does plans to offer Tomasino a consulting contract to assist the transition to a new CEO, Tarrant said, but no specifics have been worked out to date.

Aside from earning poten-tially $348,750 per year, Tarrant wrote, “Forbes will also receive compensation to assist with mov-ing expenses from Florida and to defray the cost of health insur-ance coverage while waiting to become eligible for health insur-ance through the district.”

Tarrant wrote that this is com-pensation offered physicians relo-

County prioritizes beach accessBy JANIS REID

South Whidbey Record

Beach access advocates have something to cel-ebrate.

Island County has earmarked $175,000 to identify the county’s many beach access points and priori-tize them for maintenance and signage. The lack of county-sanctioned beach access, along with clearly marked kayak access points have been an ongoing concern for groups supporting public access to the seashore.

“I think this is a good thing,” said Sue Ellen

White with Whidbey Island Sea Kayakers Thursday. “We’ve been talking to them for years and it was kind of like they turned a deaf ear to this.”

Doubling the funding will allow the county to take a comprehensive look at its many beach access points, determine ownership of uplands and tide-lands and prioritize them for future improvements.

Beach access advocates pressed county staff at transportation-related open houses last spring on both the North and South ends of the island.

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The Washington Student Association has

named state Sen. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, the 2014 Legislator of the Year, according to a recent news release.

The association recog-nized Bailey’s efforts in higher education, accord-ing to the release.

“Skyrocketing tuition at our public institutions has acted like a tax on working families and saddled students with significant debt,” Bailey wrote. “I am exploring any way we can reverse those trends and make college affordable. I am honored to receive this award.”

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The South Whidbey Commons has estab-lished a scholarship in honor of Marcia Monma’s “heart of gold,” according to a recent news release.

Monma was rec-ognized at the South Whidbey Commons Heart of Gold Benefit Concert on Saturday, February 7. The event was hosted by Mukilteo Coffee Roasters.

The current and past presidents and leaders of the Commons presented

Monma with a plaque and established the “Marcia Monma South Whidbey Commons Scholarship.”

The scholarship will be awarded each year to an “outstanding” graduating senior who has volun-teered at the coffeehouse and bookstore, according to the release.

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The following are 9-1-1 reports from the Island County Sheriff’s Office, South Precinct.

MONDAY, FEB. 1611:49 a.m. — A caller

on Aquila Drive reported returning home after being gone for the weekend and finding the office door kicked open. Nothing was missing. The caller suspected a child with a no-contact order was responsible.

3:28 p.m. — A Smugglers Cove Road resident asked for advice on preventing someone from calling and harassing them non stop.

5:51 p.m. — A Scenic Avenue resident reported domestic violence

between their mom and dad.

7:56 p.m. — A caller at Dave Mackie Memorial Park in Maxwelton report-ed people lighting paper lanterns and sending them into the sky while on fire after the park was closed.

8:01 p.m. — A man requested a check on his brother and sister-in-law on Smugglers Cove Road. His brother may have lost his job and he thought his sister-in-law was “difficult lately.”

8:01 p.m. — An Alder Street woman reported that a man was “obses-sive” and was harassing her, saying things that didn’t make any sense, and asked that “someone needs to see these texts.”

She was worried the man, whom she described as very wealthy and who had a driver, may come to her house after being silent for an hour.

TUESDAY, FEB. 1712:22 a.m. — A worker

discovered a sawed-off shotgun while remodel-ing a Woodard Avenue home and wanted to turn it over to law enforce-ment.

9:57 p.m. — A caller reported three or four people outside of a brown GM four-door sedan at Freeland Park. The car’s trunk was open, and some of the people

had backpacks on and were wearing all black.

10:07 p.m. — A woman on Marine View Drive reported that Vicodin was stolen from her home within the past three days. No break-in was reported, and the woman thought it may be someone with access to the house.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 187:16 a.m. — A Harbor

Sands Lane man reported his gray, 1992 Honda Accord was just stolen from the driveway. The suspect was a male wear-ing a red baseball cap.

By JESSIE STENSLANDSouth Whidbey Record

Whidbey General Hospital is violating the law by not pro-viding abortion services, the American Civil Liberties Union claims.

The civil-rights organization sent letters to Whidbey General and two other hospitals and filed a lawsuit against Skagit Regional Health last week in an effort to ensure that public hospitals are complying with the state’s abortion rights law.

Hospital officials, however, feel they are satisfying the law by referring woman seeking abortions to other facilities and that the policy ensures the least amount of delay.

“We take this issue very seriously and are reviewing the details of the ACLU letter,” a hospital spokesman wrote in a statement. “We are also ever-mindful of the fact that the law protects the religious and moral convictions of employees. What’s more, it outright prohibits hospitals from discrimi-nating against employees or job candidates based on those convictions.”

Under the Reproductive Privacy Act, public hospitals that provide maternity services must also provide “substantially equivalent” services for abortion. It also states that no person may be required by law or contract to participate in the perfor-mance of an abortion if the person objects to so doing.

Whidbey General’s “reproductive healthcare policy,” which

it is required to have by law, states that “women who choose to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy will be provided a referral to a provider outside of Whidbey General Hospital.”

The question likely to be settled in the Skagit County lawsuit is whether referrals to other facilities constitute “substantially equivalent” services.

Leah Rutman, policy counsel for the ACLU, said the group argues that they do not and that the services must be offered by the hospital.

Rutman said the ACLU supports women’s right to reproduc-tive health care. She pointed out that the Reproductive Privacy Act states that “every woman has the fundamental right to choose or refuse to have an abortion.”

While the ACLU has only filed a lawsuit against one of the hospitals, she said others could be filed if the organization feels it’s necessary.

“Our goal is to ensure that women seeking reproductive healthcare services at Whidbey General Hospital have access to the full range of services as provided by law,” the ACLU letter states.

Rutman said the ACLU is still investigating Whidbey General’s policy, including where women are being referred to. There is no Planned Parenthood facility on Whidbey Island.

A spokeswoman for public hospitals, however, said Whidbey General and other hospitals understand that women have the right to choose to terminate pregnancies and that the policies

are meant to ensure women have access to those services in the most timely manner possible.

Mary Kay Clunies-Ross, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Hospital Association, said hospitals would need a team consisting of a physician, a nurse, an anesthesiologist and a technician to perform the procedure. She said it may be dif-ficult at small hospitals to find members of the team willing to perform abortions.

In addition, she said women shouldn’t have to wait for the team to assemble.

Clunies-Ross said 99 percent of all abortions are done in a clinic setting and only 13 percent of women in the state live in counties without abortion providers.

Clunies-Ross said public hospitals would be caught in a “Catch-22” if the courts side with the ACLU. Hospitals with maternity services would have to provide abortion services but couldn’t require any employees to participate.

“For hospitals, the only way out of this conundrum may be to not provide maternity services,” she said, “and nobody wants that.”

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An Oak Harbor man found dead in a Clinton ravine this past October died of natural causes, the Island County Coroner has determined.

Physical evidence revealed Anthony J Speed had cirrhosis of the liver, which resulted in his death, Coroner Robert Bishop said.

Speed was found Oct. 9, in a ravine near Dalton Realty in Clinton. He is believed to have been dead for some time when discovered.

According to police, he’d checked himself out of a Snohomish County hospital in September

against the advice of medical professionals. He was last seen around 1 a.m. Sept. 18 when a sheriff’s deputy spotted him walking up Highway 525 a short distance from Clinton Ferry Terminal. He reportedly declined a ride, saying he lived in the

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Oscar winner has Whidbey ties

A South Whidbey woman had plenty of reason to watch and celebrate The Academy Awards show Feb. 22.

Kitty Walker watched the whole program, start-ing with the red carpet, to see her granddaughter, Hannah Bagshawe, and grandson-in-law. Her granddaughter’s hus-band? Eddie Redmayne,

who starred in “The Theory of Everything” as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

“Wasn’t he excited? Yes, he was,” Walker said in a phone interview with The Record on Friday morning. “When he looked across at her and said, ‘I love you so much,’ he said that at their wedding. They’re a forever couple.”

“I thought my grand-daughter was absolutely beautiful, which she is,” she added.

Walker, in her English accent, laughed often at the attention she has received in Langley at In the Country, the store she has worked at for the past six years. She’s been a South Whidbey resident for 17 years.

Walker highly recom-mended watching “The Theory of Everything” and noticing Redmayne’s per-formance.

“Then you’ll know why he won it,” she said. “He became Stephen Hawking. To this day, I don’t know how he did it.”

She said to pay close attention to his eyes.

“They speak volumes,” she said.

“Eddie is humble,” she added. “He’s great.”

Food truck process outlined

Food trucks in Langley will have to woo the city for use of one of its two designated spaces in the downtown area.

Director of Community Planning Michael Davolio presented the council with the draft request for pro-posals during a workshop Thursday morning. The council will further discuss the document and process

at the 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, meeting.

Selection criteria include the bid to use public space, setting spe-cific hours and days of operation, and the menu. Applicants may also be subject to an interview by the mayor. The fee for the space, if approved, cost $100.

Applications for a $100 food truck license, which is different from the RFP pro-cess, are available through the city now. Technically, a motorized food truck could operate on private property with only the $100 license.

Davolio said his office has only been contacted a couple of times by pro-spective mobile food truck vendors.

“We only need a couple to get this process started for others to see how viable this is,” Councilman Thomas Gill said.

Council members asked how food carts, such as a rolling hot dog stand, would be governed. The current rules only regulate motorized mobile food vendors in city limits.

“It sounds like we’re going to have a lot to talk about after this first year,” Davolio said.

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The long awaited land appraisal for the Dog House Tavern is finally complete, and the solution to reopen-ing the Langley landmark may be a “reduced value” property swap.

Tavern owner Charlie Kleiner said in a phone inter-view that he and wife Janice Kleiner sent the appraisal to the city Feb. 24.

“I have an engineer wait-ing, I have an architect wait-ing,” Charlie Kleiner said. “I’m just waiting for a build-ing permit. We are held up on this property issue.”

According to the apprais-al by Jim Dodge, senior appraiser at Everett-based Macaulay and Associates, there are no known real estate transactions to com-pare with. Dodge wrote that because the proposal between the Kleiners and the city is for an exchange of property rather than money, “a specific value estimate is not necessary.”

The Kleiners have asked the city for ownership of the 500-square-foot, 50-feet by 10-feet space under the building’s western exterior stairs and deck. The city owns an easement on the property for people to get in and out of the restau-rant area of the building. The First Street door is for the lounge, which excludes

minors. In exchange, the city would get property to add to Seawall Park, which the owners argue is worth more than the section under the stairs.

Langley has requested that, if the city agrees to trade that property to the Kleiners, it remain unde-veloped and that the stairs and deck remain intact. But Kleiner says the city’s requests seem more like demands.

“They’ve got us over a barrel,” he said. “They tell us we’ve got to preserve that deck and staircase, we’ve got to preserve it.”

Langley and the build-ing owners have gone back

and forth for years over the steps required to renovate and reopen the former and much-beloved bar and res-taurant. Most recently, the

city declared an emergency ordinance to stop receiving demolition permits for build-ings on the National Historic Register after the Kleiners inquired about the process in May 2014.

Halting demolition plans gave the city time to come up with a process and checklist. Instead of seeing beloved buildings bulldozed at an owner’s whim, a series of requirements must be passed before demolition would be approved by the city.

At the request of Mayor Fred McCarthy, the Kleiners agreed to reopen discussions with the city about keeping the building intact. The mayor forwarded the appraisal to the planning director and said he had more questions.

“I’m not drawing any conclusions from it yet,”

McCarthy said in a phone message to The Record. “We want some clarification from them. It’s not clear to me that that satisfies our inter-ests.”

Now, the proposal before the city is to gain 175 square feet at the north end of the Kleiners’ property. The new land would add to the city’s Seawall Park area, a strip used for emergency access near the beach and a popular walking area with benches looking out toward Camano Island.

In addition to the

500-square-foot area, the Kleiners are seeking a 3-feet by 40-feet sliver to straight-en their property line.

The exchange of 620 feet from the city for 195 feet from the Dog House Tavern owners is not a straight across swap, but the valuation proposed by the appraiser reduced the value of the space under the deck because of the city’s restricted use. His calcula-tion is for 15 percent of the 500 square feet, leading to the 75 square-foot total.

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Ben Watanabe / The Record

The Dog House Tavern in Langley was appraised for a land swap, but did not come with a dollar value attached to the 640 square feet requested from the city.

ResponseResist a ruinously pricey albatrossEditor,

Langley Mayor Fred McCarthy says the Langley-to-marina trans-portation method is required to be “the best possible solution for mov-ing ... boaters with their gear in sufficient numbers to be both a safe and effi-cient form of transporta-tion.”

The mayor claims to have backed away from a funicular/elevator solu-tion, but by framing the issue this way he is making a blatant attempt to guaran-tee that either the funicular or elevator is chosen.

I know I’m repeating myself, but it’s impor-tant. There is absolutely no evidence that there are enough local boaters mooring at the marina to matter or that local boaters would do anything other than use their cars to move their stuff.

Which do you think boaters would do: Drive their cars to the marina, dump supplies, park their car and walk back to the docks or use a funicular/elevator? To do the latter, one would need to:

• Park in downtown Langley, presumably at the church

• Find a cart (presum-ably at the church)

• Load up their supplies• Lug the cart to the

funicular access point 400 feet away

• Wait for the funicular/elevator

• Ride the funicular down

• Unload their cart and wheel it to the marina

• Load their supplies

onto their boat•Take cart back to the

access point•Take the cart back to

the parking lot •Repeat for further

loads•At the end, take funicu-

lar back to marina and go boating

•Reverse the process when getting back to the marina.

It’s ridiculous to imagine anyone would do this. By making it a requirement, the mayor shows that he remains determined to saddle the city with a ruin-ously expensive albatross.

The mayor never met a publicly funded gran-diose idea he didn’t like. Remember the $10 million fairground event center? So far we’ve resisted him. I hope that continues.

SHARON EMERSONLangley

Sound Waters was a big successEditor,

Sound Waters is a one-day conference designed to bring together experts and citizens across Island County to share how we can live in harmony with our marine environment. Celebrating its 20th year on Feb. 7, more than 600 people attended this event

held at South Whidbey High School. Beach Watchers sponsors this annual event, under the auspices of the Washington State University Island County Extension pro-gram with support by the Lighthouse Environmental Programs.

Beach Watcher volun-teers work for one year to organize this event. On behalf of the 24-mem-ber Sound Waters Team, thank you to everyone who attended and made the day a big success — Dr. John Delaney, keynote present-er, and the 85 other ses-sion presenters and 40-plus exhibitors who shared their time and expertise without compensation.

South Whidbey High School provided an excel-lent venue and thanks to The Midnight Kitchen for catering lunches. We appreciated the hard-working student volun-teers from Oak Harbor High School Ecology Club and South Whidbey High School Green Team, Key Club, and Honor Society and the Island County 4-H Club.

Supporters of Sound Waters and those contrib-uting funds toward Beach Watchers included:

• Puget Sound Energy• Deception Pass Sail

and Power Squadron

•Puget Sound Partnership

•Whidbey Telecom •Whidbey Weekly•South Whidbey Yacht

Club•the Town of Coupeville•Windermere Real

Estate •Useless Bay Coffee

Company•Star Store Market•The Goose Community

Grocer•Payless Food Store•Senior Services•Whidbey EcoNetwork•Mary Ellen O’Connor,

T-shirt designer Special thanks to the

Extension Office and WSU for continued support of the Beach Watcher pro-gram.

Thanks to everyone for making this an almost waste-free event. WSU Waste Wise program col-lected a total of only seven pounds of garbage (for 600 people), 42 pounds of recy-clables, and 140 pounds of compostables.

Sound Waters Team members deserve a sin-cere thank you for giving so generously of their time to make this such a suc-cessful event.

Save Feb. 6 for Sound Waters 2016!

Sincerely,LINDA ADE RIDDER

chairwoman Sound Waters 2015

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Commitment to public beach access is well placed

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Improving public beach access in Island County took a big step forward this week.

County representatives on the Sub-Regional Transportation Planning Organization on Wednesday agreed to earmark an additional $90,000 of federal transportation money for a total 2015 budget of $175,000 for the identification of existing public beach access. In so doing, the county demonstrated its commitment to preserving and maintaining a vital and seemingly ever shrinking public resource.

Well done Island County, well done. In particular, Island Beach Access, a tireless citizen-

based group of access warriors, and county officials such as Public Works Director Bill Oakes, should be recognized for their efforts.

Island Beach Access members like South Whidbey’s Mike McVay have for years fought to maintain public beach accesses that have been claimed or absorbed by private property owners. Likewise, Oakes argued strongly Wednesday for the additional funding and made clear his belief that beach access is something worth spending money on, and perhaps fighting for when necessary.

Indeed it is.Washington lawmakers decided long ago to sell much

of its shorelines to private landowners, and those today who can’t afford a place on the water have been pay-ing the price ever since. While states like Hawaii and Oregon have kept their beaches public, protected by law, the vast majority of Washington residents’ access to the water is limited to a few shoreline parks and slivers of property found at the end of public roads.

And as the world’s population continues to grow, and more and more people clamor for their own piece of heaven, island real estate only becomes more valuable and harder to acquire.

Identifying what the public already owns, and improv-ing it for the public’s use is the goal behind the funding decision, and it couldn’t be a better one.

Such resources are simply too rare, too precious to forget about or ignore, not when growth and develop-ment will only increase with time.

Will Rogers once said, “Put your money in land, because they aren’t making any more of it.” He couldn’t have been more right, and Island County’s public and private advocates for beach access deserve our thanks.

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error has existed, but it may have been as long as three years.

Apple used Google maps for its mobile navigation programs until 2012 when it began using its own system. Riddled with errors, Apple Maps made international headlines and prompted a public apology from company CEO Tim Cook.

Apple’s iPhones claimed about 42 percent of the smartphone market in 2014 and, according to some reports, are so popular that nearly one in four Americans have one in their pocket.

Repeated requests to Apple’s media depart-ment concerning this story and Wednesday’s

were not returned.Calculating any economic impacts from

the foul-up are difficult to quantify, said Ron Nelson, executive director of the Island County Economic Development Council. Last year during July, August and September, Langley raked in $3.6 million in food and accommoda-tion sales, and Island County $28.4 million.

“Would it impact those numbers? Yeah,” Nelson said. “But how much I don’t know.”

Price Johnson agreed, particularly consider-ing the scale of the errors.

“I wonder how many people are using Apple Maps if it’s that off,” she said.

She owns an iPhone but said she doesn’t use the Maps program, preferring instead sec-ond party downloaded apps such as Google Maps. She speculated that she’s not alone, that many Apple customers use navigation programs with more reliable reputations, and indeed several online commenters echoed her sentiments.

Yet, Nelson and the commissioner said the issue needs to be addressed. Nelson said his office would be sending Apple a letter asking it to fix the problem, and Price Johnson plans to bring the matter to the board at its Tuesday meeting next week. She also encouraged the public to contact Apple themselves. A private company, Apple has no obligation to make the fix, she said, but more requests won’t hurt.

“If they aren’t responding to newspapers, maybe they’ll respond to more people reach-ing out to them,” Price Johnson said.

Issues can be reported from mobile devices within the Maps program: once a location is selected, push the encircled “i” icon at the bot-tom of the page, select “report a problem” and then follow the onscreen instructions.

You can also email Cook directly at tcook@apple.com

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Falcon football head coach Chris Tormey is one and done at South Whidbey High School.

Tormey accepted a job as the linebackers coach for the Montreal Alouettes, a Canadian Football League. Despite a long career as a college coach, this is Tormey’s first stint working with professionals.

“It kind of came out of the blue,” Tormey said in a phone interview Thursday morning. “But I’m really excited.”

The Washington native said he reports to the team for the start of the season in late May and plans to split the year between Montreal and Whidbey, where he and his wife bought a home last year.

Tormey came to Whidbey fol-lowing his position as the defensive coordinator for the University of Wyoming’s football team. He was fired in the midst of the 2013 football season due to the team’s performance. The Falcons were searching for a football coach when athletic director Kelly Kirk got a surprising email from Tormey inquiring about the job.

In Tormey’s only season at South Whidbey, the Falcons struggled to a 2-5 finish in Cascade Conference

play and went 2-8 overall. That record represented the worst fin-ish in at least five years for South Whidbey, which consistently fin-ished 4-6 or 5-5 in league games.

The record painted an incom-plete picture, however, as three of the losses came on a combined 13 points. A cadre of Falcons made the all-Cascade Conference lists, and senior running back Deven Damerau was voted the league’s co-offensive most valuable player.

“The program really turned over after last year,” said Falcon athletic director Kelly Kirk. “We lost a dozen or so seniors and every one of them was critical to what was going on.”

“He and his staff really did a great job of coaching kids up,” he added.

In between coaching at a Division I college and a 1A high school, Tormey had attended a coaches convention and left his resume with the Alouettes. They hired someone else, and Tormey joined the Falcons.

Earlier this year, the Alouettes came calling, interviewed Tormey and offered him a contract. It was a tough choice.

“I had to make a decision to stay or whether to go,” Tormey said. “It

wasn’t easy.” Tormey is himself a former col-

legiate linebacker at the University of Idaho before becoming an assistant coach at the University of Washington. Taking another opportunity to work with between six and eight players professionally at his old position was a chance he couldn’t miss.

“At the end of the day, I had to be true to myself,” he said.

During his brief time with South Whidbey, Tormey oversaw a weightlifting class and the after-school strength and conditioning program. Since his resignation from the Falcons, his former assis-tant coach Alex Heilig has taken over the reins. Tormey also cred-ited the school district’s leadership and the high school’s administra-tors for supporting Falcon athletics.

“If it’s a priority at the administra-tive level, (success) is going to hap-pen eventually,” Tormey said.

Kirk said he planned on hiring a coach by the school’s spring break in April. Stability in the coach and campaigning for the program are traits he’s looking for.

“I tell this to all the coaches. You have to be a pied piper for your sport,” Kirk said.

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Graham and Zane Vanderwood may not have danced themselves out of the womb, but the two brothers do appear to have been born to moonwalk, pop and glide.

The Vanderwoods, as well as their sister Andrea Burr, were born to a dance-teacher mother. Each began dancing at South Whidbey’s Island Dance Academy at around age 5, and each has continued to practice the art form into adulthood.

“When everyone else in your family is danc-ing, it just seems like a natural progression to

begin as well,” said Zane Vanderwood.

The Vanderwoods estab-lished Smash Brothaz, a hip-hop dance duo which incorporates a medley of old school and contempo-rary favorites from MC Hammer and Michael Jackson to Calvin Harris and Kendrick Lamar.

Zane Vanderwood explained that he could not recall the specific instance in which he and his brother decided upon the name. He speculated that it came about in part because of the fact that they often played the popular video game Smash Bros while growing up.

“We’re really good at

Smash Bros,” Graham Vanderwood said.

Next week, the brothers will take to the stage of Whidbey Island Center for the Arts along with a group of fellow dancers for a one-night performance.

The event is part of WICA’s Local Artist Series. Each year, the organization chooses four local artists or groups to perform onstage free of all rental expenses. The group or artist then receives the profit of ticket sales for the evening.

Smash Brothaz held audi-tions in September, inviting dance enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels to try out for the show. Though the turnout wasn’t quite

what they had hoped for, the brothers said they have a solid group of dancers of a variety of ages.

The show will include 18 dances, 16 of which were choreographed by the Vanderwoods. The other

two will be performed by a guest group, Contagious, from Lynnwood.

South Whidbey dancer Melyssa Smith may also be joining to perform two of her solos.

Graham Vanderwood noted that he is usually not too impressed with contem-porary hip-hop videos, and said that he and his brother try to incorporate more of a storyline, “something origi-nal, more interesting,” into their dances as opposed to solely showing off their moves.

For the first segment of the show, the brothers will be dancing to a story nar-

rated by their friend Jon Bryant. They explained that the story is about the broth-ers’ trip on a time machine.

“You’ve never seen any-thing like that,” Graham Vanderwood said. “Even the fact that one of our dances is to old Zapp and Roger music is different. People never use that stuff.”

Zane Vanderwood will be heading off to college in the fall, and explained that this will likely be the last time Smash Brothaz will perform for quite some time.

“I hope it’s not the last time we do this, but it could be the last time for quite a while at least,” Zane Vanderwood said.

Though he said he would like to pursue dance profes-sionally, he explained that he doesn’t believe it to be a feasible career choice. He is planning to major in eco-nomics, but will continue to dance as a hobby.

“It gives me a separate identity to a certain extent. And it gives me some-thing to do,” said Zane Vanderwood of the art form. “I’m pretty introvert-ed. …I think if I didn’t have dance, I would never leave home so that’s also a plus.”

“It brings you something to look forward to in life,” Graham Vanderwood said. He added that being without his brother will be difficult, though both said they have been focusing on the show and trying not to think too much about it.

“I’m lucky to have Zane around,” Graham Vanderwood said. “There’s nobody else that can fill his shoes.”

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Radio club talks about growth

Island County Amateur Radio Club Meeting is at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Island County Commissioners’ Hearing Room, Coupeville.

A top policymaker with the nation’s largest asso-ciation of amateur radio operators will update Whidbey radio buffs about the hobby’s growth in the U.S., upcoming radio events and legisla-tive efforts.

Volunteer radio license examiners will be on site to administer federal ham radio operator exams for interested persons.

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Author shares bidding tips

Goldfinger’s Rule of Thumb: Bidding Basics and Other Bridge Tips is 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Langley Library.

Learn ways you can upgrade your bridge game as author Paul Goldfinger shares tips and tricks from his book “Goldfinger’s Rule of Thumb: Bidding Basics and Other Bridge Tips.”

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Learn homemade spa recipes

Made By Hand: Spa Crafts is at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Freeland Library.

Mix up some home spa recipes to pamper your-self or to give to a friend. Please register; spaces are limited.

Auction benefits cancer research

The LOVE GIVE CURE Luncheon and Auction benefiting the Ben Towne Foundation is from noon to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28.

Exciting progress is being made toward cures for childhood cancers at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research in conjunction with Seattle Children’s Hospital. Come hear the newest updates on how the immune system is being harnessed to cure childhood cancers.

There will be lunch and auction items.

Cost is $15. Purchase before day of event. For details, visit www.ben townefoundation.org.

Eye-opening, inspirational film

Free Film: “Cowspiracy, The Sustainability Secret,” is 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at The Clyde Theatre, Langley.

This feature-length documentary is a must-

see for anyone concerned with water quality, defor-estation, global hunger or climate change.

The screening will be followed by a brief, optional question-and-answer session with the presenters.

Gala, auction help Dance Theatre

WIDT Dance Into Spring Gala & Auction is 5:30-11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Useless Bay Golf & Country Club.

Come early and enjoy a glass of champagne while you stake out the best silent auction items. Then find your table, so MC and auctioneer Troy McVicker can entertain you with a live auction, raffles and games while you have a fabulous meal.

Dance after the auction while DJ Scott Branston provides the music.

Cost is $65. For details, visit www.widtonline.org.

Little League tryouts continue

Note a change in sched-ule for this weekend.

South Whidbey Little League Tryouts are Saturday, Feb. 28, and Sunday, March 1, at the South Whidbey Parks and Recreation District fields or South Whidbey High School, if raining.

Softball tryouts are 3-5 p.m. Feb. 28.

For baseball, 9- to 14-year-old tryouts are 1-3 p.m.

Visit www.southwhid beylittleleague.com for registration and details.

Get info on Running Start

Running Start Information Night is 6-7:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, at the South Whidbey Center, Ken’s Korner, Clinton.

Learn about the Running Start Program — an opportunity for eligible high school juniors and seniors to earn college credit tuition free.

Find out its purpose, how it works, who is eli-gible and more. Especially intended for next year’s junior and seniors and their parents, younger high school students planning ahead and curi-ous community members.

Alzheimer’s group supports caregivers

Alzheimer’s Association Langley Caregiver Support Group is 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, March 3, at the Bayview Senior Center.

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caregiver support groups provide a place for care-givers to learn and gain support from others caring for a person with memory loss.

A free support group for unpaid care partners, family members and friends of individuals with memory loss is held the first Tuesday of each month.

For details, visit www.alzwa.org.

Bring gadgets, get tech help

Free Gadget Help is 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, The Technology Support Center, Freeland.

Bring your quirky smart phone, glitchy laptop or confounding camera for up to 30 minutes of one-on-one assistance with a local expert.

Make an appointment and guarantee your 30-minute time slot. Just one gadget per person.

Call ahead of time if accessibility is an issue. 360-331-5070.

For details, visit www.the-a-tech.com.

Land Trust plants trees at Trillium

Trillium Tree Planting and Trail Work is 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, March 4, at the Trillium Community

Forest, Freeland. Join the Whidbey

Camano Land Trust for the first work party of 2015. Plant baby hemlock trees to add diversity to the forest and smooth out a rough section of trail.

Drinks and snacks will be provided. All ages and abilities are welcome. Bring work gloves

For details, visit www.wclt.org.

Church holds soup and prayer time

Lenten Soup Supper and Prayer Experience is 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, at St. Hubert Catholic Church, Langley.

All are welcome to a simple supper of soup and bread.

The meal will be fol-lowed by the Stations of the Cross led by Deacon Larry Jesmer. If possible, please bring soup or bread to share.

The Wednesday soup suppers will continue dur-ing Lent, each followed by a different prayer experi-ence.

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Donald Norman Wilkins

Donald Norman Wilkins, 83, of Greenbank, Wash., died Feb. 13, 2015, at home after a brief illness.

Don was born Jan. 17, 1932, in London, England, to Agnes (Gray) and William “Jack” Wilkins. Upon leav-ing school, Don was given this reference by the school headmaster: “A lad who has worked to the best of his ability, his strong subjects being on the practical side. He is a well-built boy who is usually quiet.” With that resounding approval, he went off into the world.

After a year at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Don sought excitement and world travel on the high seas. He joined the Merchant Navy and became one of the now infamous “Vindiboys.” His early mari-time adventures sparked a lifelong passion for sailing.

During one of his visits back to London, he attended a dance at the Ritz ballroom and met Brenda Mumford. They were married Oct. 16, 1954 and immigrated to Toronto, Canada, the same day.

By the mid-’60s, Don and Brenda had settled in Palo Alto, Calif., and were busy with their two children and running a small business. Continuing his interest in theater, Don served as president of several the-ater groups, including the Palo Alto Players. He also performed and directed in many community theater productions throughout the Bay Area. In the ’70s and ’80s, Don teamed with fel-low countryman and actor Brian Lucas, performing British sketch comedy, twice winning the San Francisco Comedy Intersection Award.

Don and Brenda retired to Whidbey Island in 1997,

allowing Don to devote even more time to theater pur-suits. He directed more than a dozen plays for Whidbey Playhouse and Whidbey Island Center for the Arts. Don also wrote a memoir, “Lest We Forget,” comprised of 50 stories of his years as a child in World War II in London. More recently, he had performed excerpts from the memoir as a theater fundraiser. He also enjoyed sharing his stories in writing classes at local elementary schools.

Don will be remembered best as a great storyteller and entertainer. Whether sharing a story with his grandchildren about his time at “Hogwarts” (Don went to primary school at the abbey that served as a location for the Harry Potter movies), performing magic tricks for decades of birthday parties, spinning a tall tale with his theater compatriots or sim-ply making a stranger laugh, Don always had an unwaver-ing outlook and a joke for every occasion.

Don is survived by his wife of 60 years, Brenda; his daughter, Kimberley, and son-in-law, Robert Haskitt, of Snoqualmie; son, John, of Everett; and grandchil-dren, Chris Wilkins, Tristan Wilkins, Hayley, Griffin and Gemma Haskitt; brother, Alan Wilkins; and other family still in England. He is predeceased by his parents and older brother Jack.

All who knew Don are invited to a celebration of his life March 29, 2015. Please send an email to apintfor Don@gmail.com for location and time.

In lieu of flowers, dona-tions can be made in Don’s name to WAIF (Whidbey Animals Improvement Foundation), P.O. Box 1108, Coupeville, WA 98239-1108.

Jeanne Louise Smith

Jeanne Louise Smith was born April 17, 1929, in Kansas City, Mo. She

was an only child of Carrie Gatewood and was raised by an aunt; she never knew her father. She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Robert Smith; her children, Lois and Darrell Wenzek, of Freeland, Steve and Katy Hagar, of Denver, Colo., and Doug Hagar, of Fort Knox; she was preceded in death by a son, Lynn Smith. She is also survived by a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She delighted in being referred to as “mom.” She was the kind of person who loved to be involved with the people around her and did not mind when they called her “mom.”

Mom was a picture of health for most of her life. She would comment about how she was going to live to be 100. She would some-times even ask the doctors who cared for her if they thought she might make it that far; the answer was always, “A person in your health should have no prob-lem.” The last few months of life were troubling for her; she had a fall that caused an infection in her leg, which needed to be treated. Shortly after that, she spent a couple nights in the hospital with congenital heart failure; a prescription seemed to restore her to a measure of health. Soon, she discovered a greater nemesis to her health, and within weeks of the discovery of pancreatic cancer, she succumbed to the cancer.

As a child, she moved to Whittier, Calif., where she met her future husband, Robert; ironically, they played together as children. They both proceeded in different directions, even though Jeanne worked at Whittier Citrus, an occupa-tion she would eventually share with her husband in central California, where she would keep the books for the groves and pull irrigation lines, using a four wheeler. She graduated from Whittier High School and attended beauty college. After her training, she would work as a beautician and even taught beautician classes in Fresno. Most of her beauti-cian career was spent at a place called “Cut and Curl,” in Visalia, Calif. She also had a small private studio from which she worked out of her home in Exeter, Calif.

In 1990, Jeanne and her husband, Bob, called an end to their labors in the grove. They moved to Coos Bay, Ore., in 1990. She enjoyed firing ceramics, collecting Indian art and boating with her husband. She became quite a fisherwoman. In 1997, they decided to move

closer to their children on Whidbey Island, where they eventually built a house at Lagoon Point. While on Whidbey, Jeanne worked as a real estate agent for John L. Scott but mainly for Windermere. They greatly missed their many friends in Coos Bay and moved back in 1999. Once again, they took up fishing and travel-ing, including a number of cruises. Another great occupation was working with women’s groups in three dif-ferent churches in Coos Bay. She not only prepared Bible study materials, but was inti-mately involved in the lives of many in her study groups. They too came to know her as “mom.”

The last three years of her life were spent back on Whidbey Island in order to be closer to her daughter. She lived at Mutiny Sands and the Double Bluff area briefly. While here, she became a member of the South Whidbey Community Church and spent time with family and friends.

The memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Monday, March 2, at 5700 Double Bluff Road, Freeland.

Ronald Andrew Buzard

Ronald Andrew Buzard passed away surrounded by

family Feb. 2, 2015, after a brief illness. He was 83 years old.

Ronald Buzard was born the second of four children in Seattle June 17, 1931, to Lyman and Frances Buzard. Ron graduated from Seattle Preparatory School and completed his Catholic edu-cation at Seattle University. A career in the Air Force ignited a love of flying, and he owned two Mooney air-planes during his lifetime.

Ron’s impressive sales career started early with the family-owned Bar S and Cudahy Meats, continued into retail swimsuit sales, transitioned to real estate sales and concluded in vaca-tion ownership. His sales accomplishments span decades: He sold lots at Holmes Harbor Golf Club, Ocean Shores and Sudden Valley in the 1960s and 1970s; he was developer of The Glen at Maple Falls; and he was integral to develop-ing Thousand Trails and American Adventure. In the early 1980s, Ron completed a lifelong dream, opening “Buzz’s Wharf,” his own res-taurant complete with piano bar located at beautiful Bush Point on Whidbey Island.

Ron’s career culminated at Trendwest Resorts with his good friend and long-time colleague Bill Peare. Together, their team grew the company exponen-tially, becoming Trendwest/Worldmark shortly before going public. Ron served as the vice president of sales and broker of record, over-seeing sales and real estate operations for the entire company. Ron’s integrity, mentorship and passion for customer service inspired the Ron Buzard Service Award, awarded annually to the Trendwest sales office with the highest customer satisfaction rating.

Ron loved being sur-rounded with family and friends. His favorite places were Whidbey Island, where he and wife Lori retired, and

Maui. Some of his most trea-sured memories are family trips to Hawaii with his wife, daughters and grandchil-dren. His tight-knit group of friends — known as the “Golf Group” — used golf as an excuse to travel together several times a year, playing golf on beautiful courses and fully enjoying life. Ron was loving, wise and respected by all who knew him. He “never met a stranger,” and those fortunate enough to call him a friend were lucky indeed.

Ron loved to build things, as evidenced by his custom shop and extravagant tool collection. As soon as the sun started shining, you could find him on his John Deere mowing his beautiful lawn or driving his golf cart to and from the beach in pur-suit of Dungeness crab.

Ron is survived by his loving wife of 20 years, Lori Longwood Buzard; daughters, Lori Buzard Reece, Mindy Buzard Babb, Catherine Crosslin, Kelly Crosslin Frere (husband Chris); beautiful grand-children, Isabella Babb, Gracen Babb, Bailee Frere and Brooks Frere; numer-ous nieces and nephews; brother, Cliff Buzard (wife Diana); and sister, Mary Coupe (husband Tom). He was preceded in death by his brother, Gene Buzard.

A memorial and remem-brance for Ronald Buzard will be held at noon Friday, March 20, at St. Hubert Catholic Church in Langley on Whidbey Island. Reception to follow at Useless Bay Golf & Country Club.

Memorials may be made in Ron’s name to The Whidbey Animals’ Improvement Foundation (WAIF), www.waifanimals.org.

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Residents told county offi-cials that creating an effec-tive kayak trail would be great for the area’s econ-omy and provide protec-tions to public beach access points.

“The one thing everyone overlooks is the economic benefit of that,” said Mike McVay with Island Beach Access. “Everything the chamber puts out brags about our beaches.”

Originally funded at $85,000, an additional $90,000 was made available through federal transporta-

tion dollars and approved by the county’s Sub-Regional Transportation Planning Organization Wednesday.

Island County Public Works Director Bill Oakes said counties often struggle to obligate enough fed-eral projects to satisfy the state and are charged to go back and try to find addi-tional qualifying projects. In response, the county has tried to incorporate addi-tional possibilities, such as the extra $90,000 intended for non-motorized transpor-tation.

“The federal govern-ment wants us to spend the money,” said Todd Carlson, a planning and engineer-ing services manager

for the state Department of Transportation at Wednesday’s meeting. However, “local govern-ments have a harder time spending it than state gov-ernments,” he said.

Oakes made the case that using this for beach access allows the county to address a long-standing community concern.

“The old vision was truly going to be an update of the existing plan,” Oakes said. “It’s time to update and I’m saying that rather than using the plan to put a check in a box, let’s use it to fix a problem we all have. Getting people to the water in an island commu-nity is important. I think it’s a good investment.”

Oakes said county-owned properties have good acces-

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Langley Mayor Fred McCarthy, who also sits on the Sub-RTPO board, said that a number of people on the South End of the island are passionate about retain-ing beach access and he made a motion in support

of the update.The Sub-RTPO, com-

prised of representatives from Island County’s gov-ernmental bodies, approved the updated transportation element with two absten-tions and one dissenting vote by Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley.

Dudley voted against the increased funding because he said he believes the county is simply scrambling for a reason to spend extra tax dollars and that the board can “choose to give back money we don’t use.”

“My concern was it looked like we felt compelled to find something, anything to throw money at,” Dudley added Thursday. “It’s creat-ing justification in finding a place to throw $90,000.”

Oak Harbor Councilman Rick Almberg, who

abstained from voting, said he wasn’t sure the beach access was the best use of the non-motorized funding. The second abstention was Navy liaison Jennifer Myers, who always abstains.

Johnson, who chairs the Sub-RTPO, pointed out that the project could cause “potential conflicts” with adjacent property owners. In addition, Johnson was concerned that new infor-mation on “cloudy titles” will force the county to “look the other way” if they don’t have the resources to follow through on the legal ramifications.

The county is currently in litigation regarding a public access point on Wonn Road, where a neighbor claims to own the tidal lands.

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Marci Kim Wolff, Petitionerand Stephen Charles Wolff, Respondent

Order Setting Hearing Pursuant to the Rules of Practice of the Ninth Ju- dicial District of the State of Montana, in and for the above-entitled Court and upon the request of the Petitioner:It is ordered that the par- ties in the above-cap- tioned cause appear be- f o r e t h e C o u r t o n Tuesday, the 24th day of March, 2015, at 1:30 o’clock p.m. at the Teton County Cour t room in Choteau, Montana for a show cause hearing on the Petition for Contempt (Failure to Follow Pa- renting Plan.)Dated th is 12 day of February, 2015. Robert G. Olson District County JudgeLegal No. WCW616341 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.February 28, March 7, 14, 2015.

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U.S. BANK, NATIONAL A S S O C I AT I O N , A S TRUSTEE UNDER THE POOLING AND SER- VICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRU- ARY 1, 2007, GSAMP T RU S T 2 0 0 7 - N C I ,

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M O R T G A G E PA S S - THROUGH CERTIF I - CATES, SERIES 2007- NC1, Plaintiff, VS. S H AW N P. D OY L E ; KATHLEEN K. DOYLE; AMERICAN GENERAL FINANICAL SERVICES, INC.; ALSO ALL PER- S O N S O R PA RT I E S UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LI- EN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DE- SCRIBED IN THE COM- PLAINT HEREIN, Defendant(s). S H E R I F F ’ S P U B L I C NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTYNO. 14-2-00324-7 TO: SHAWN P. DOYLE; KATHLEEN K. DOYLE; AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.; ALSO ALL PER- S O N S O R PA RT I E S UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LI- EN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DE- SCRIBED IN THE COM- PLAINT HEREIN, De- fendant(s) and judgment debtor(s) and any other persons or par ties un- k n ow n c l a i m i n g a ny right, title, estate, lien or interest in the personal and/or real property de- scribed herein:The Superior Court of Is- land County has directed the undersigned Sheriff of Island County (through his designee) to se l l the proper ty de- scribed below to satisfy a judgment in the above entitled action:Legal Description

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TRACT 16, DEER LAKE ESTATES DIV. NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RE- CORDED IN VOLUME 8 OF PLATS, PAGE 31, RECORDS OF ISLAND COUNTY, WASHING- TONSITUATED IN ISLAND COUNTY, WASHING- TONAlso commonly known as 6373 Cedar Cove L a n e , C l i n t o n , WA 98236 Parcel No. S6460-00-00016-0The sale of the above- described property is to take place:TIME: 10:00 a.m.DATE: March 20, 2015PLACE: FRONT STEPS ISLAND COUNTY LAW AND JUSTICE CENTER 101 NE 6TH STREET, COUPEVILLE, WASH- INGTONThe judgment debtor/s can avoid the sale by pay ing the judgment amount of $348,492.64, together with interest, costs and fees before the sale date. For the exact amount, contact the Sheriff through his designee at the address stated below.Dated this 9th day of February, 2015.MARK C. BROWN, SHERIFF ISLAND COUNTYBy:/s/Wylie Farr Wylie Farr, Chief Civil Deputy ICSO/Law & Justice Center101 NE 6th Street PO BOX 5000 Coupeville, Washington 98239-5000

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360-678-4422ICSO Docket No. 15R-0201Legal No. WCW615233 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.February 14, 21, 28 and March 7, 2015.

SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ISLAND

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., its successors in interest and/or assigns,Plaintiff,v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND D E V I S E E S O F CHARLES H. CURF- M A N ; C H A R L E S H . CURFMAN; BETTY JO- VITA CURFMAN AKA JOVITA S. CURFMAN; T O D D C U R F M A N ; G R E G C U R F M A N ; S H A N E C U R F M A N ; BANK OF AMERICA, NA; MIDLAND FUND- ING LLC; OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMISES,Defendants.No. 14-2-00576-2SUMMONS BY PUBLI- CATIONTO THE DEFENDANTS Unknown Heirs and De- v isees o f Char les H. Cur fman; Char les H. Curfman; Betty Jovita Curfman aka Jovita S. Curfman; Todd Curfman; Greg Curfman; Occu- pants of the Premises; and any persons or par- ties claiming to have any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real prop- er ty descr ibed in the complaint:You are hereby sum-

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moned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publica- tion of this summons, to wit, within sixty (60) days after February 7, 2015, and de fend the rea l property foreclosure ac- tion in Island County Su- perior Court, and answer the complaint of Wells F a r g o B a n k , N . A . , ( “P la int i f f ” ) . You are asked to serve a copy of your answer or respon- sive pleading upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff at its office stated below. In case of your fai lure to do so, judgment wi l l be ren- dered against you ac- cording to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court.The purpose of this law- suit is to obtain a judg- ment, and if not immedi- ately paid, to be satisfied through the foreclosure of real property located in Island County, Wash- ington, and legally de- scribed as follows:L O T 1 3 , P L AT O F PENN COVE PARK, DI- VISION NO. 2, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN VOLUME 4 OF PLATS, PAGE 74, RECORDS OF ISLAND COUNTY, WASHINGTON. S I T U AT E I N T H E COUNTY OF ISLAND, STATE OF WASHING- TON.Commonly known as: 854 Burroughs Avenue, O a k H a r b o r , W A 98277-7413.DATED this 2nd day of February, 2015.RCO LEGAL, P.S.By/s/Laura Coughlin [X]Laura Coughlin, WSBA #46124[ ]Synova M. L. Edwards, WSBA #43063[ ]Eric D. Acuario, WSBA #47852Attorneys for Plaintiff13555 SE 36th Street, Ste 300Bellevue, WA 98006Legal No. WCW613782 Published: The Whidbey News Times, The South Whidbey Record.February 7, 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2015.

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Garage/Moving SalesIsland County

6530 S. Anderson Rd.Clinton

(Off Deer Lake Road)

Saturday, Feb. 28th

11am - 4pm

“The Barn”ANTIQUES

OPEN

CoupevilleMOVING SALE: Furni- tu re, Too ls, e tc . Sat . Feb. 28, 10 - 4. 5 NE 9th St. - 360-678-6809Antique secretary, per- sian carpets, walnut buf- f e t , m a p l e d r e s s e r , chairs, entertain. ctr, al- m o s t n ew 5 5 ” wa l l - mounted TV, marble-top table, lamps, comput- er /sewing desk, Bed- room set, Washer & Dry- er, like new BBQ, patio sets , garden tools, and much more.

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wheelsAutomobiles

Lincoln

Own this beautiful 1990 Lincoln Town Car for $10!

CHARITYCAR RAFFLE

Open to A� Eagles Aerie 3418

Runs & looks great Mechanically sound Tickets are $10 or 3/$25 Tickets on sale NOW

thru May 31, 2015 See Bartenders or

Members for tickets Drawing to be held

June 6, 2015 — Need not be present to win!

1 mi. So. of Freeland on HWY 525360.321.5636

100% of proceeds go to Eagles Aerie 3418

AutomobilesMercedes-Benz

$ 2 7 , 9 0 0 M U S T S E E 2005 Mercedes CLK500 Sleek black w/cream int. 3,900 original mi. All op- tions. Showroom cond! $27,900. I simply need the garage space. Call Jerry 360-678-0316.

Pickup TrucksDodge

OLDER DODGE RAM WANTED diesel pick- up w/ Cummins turbo (4WD). Call Dan, pri- vate cash buyer 360- 304-1199.

Auto Service/Parts/ Accessories

WANTEDDEAD OR ALIVE

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WE BUY:Cars,Trucks,Motorhomes, Travel Trailers,Tractors & MUCH MORE!

TJ’S RECYCLING360-678-4363

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BATTERIESPacific Power

BatteriesIn Everett, Marysville, Monroe, & Mt. Vernon

800-326-7406

Professional ServicesAuto Repair Service

CHRISTIAN’SAUTO/METALRECYCLINGCASH FOR MOST CARS

-INCLUDES TOW.FREE METAL RECYCLING

FAMILY OWNED, LICENSED HAULER.DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED.

675-8442

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Home ServicesHomeowner’s Help

MILLIGAN CONTRACTING.

Bath kitchen renova- tions, painting, ti l ing various home repairs i m p r o v e m e n t s . I SHOW UP AND ON T I M E ! B o n d e d i n - sured.

Call Geary575-578-9353.

Lic #MILLIC*853B1.

Home ServicesHouse/Cleaning Service

HOUSE KEEPING321-4718

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Home ServicesHouse/Cleaning Service

HOUSE CLEANINGHonest. Reliable.Affordable. Experienced.Great References.Call Shila 360-341-2203.

Home ServicesLandscape Services

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360-331-2848

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