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Whidbey Island’s Only Locally Owned, Independent NewspaperTHURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 VOL. 17, NO. 34

See GREENBANK, page 8

Store helps Greenbank get its groove back

Elisabeth MurrayExaminer Staff Writer

Brian Cedar and his wife, Nancy, had originally planned to simply open a res-taurant and deli.

But as Brian talked with locals and spent more time around Greenbank, he realized how important the historic Greenbank Store was as the focal point of the community.

So instead of just outfitting his new Greenbank Grille with restaurant equip-ment and supplies, he found himself stocking the grocery shelves as well.

“From a historical perspective and from the perspective of people who live here, it was important to reopen the store,” Cedar said.

This is the second time in the past three years that the iconic store has changed ownership.

For 45 years, Tom and Mary Coupe had owned Coupe’s Greenbank Store and the building that housed it, providing

Elisabeth Murray / The Whidbey Examiner

Greenbank’s landmark store reopened in February as Greenbank Store and Grille, a general store, restaurant and bar launched by newcomers Brian and Nancy Cedar. The business is a family affair, with the Cedars’ two daughters, Robin and Julietta, serving as part of the staff.

A family who recently moved to Whidbey Island from “America” has reopened the historic Greenbank Store, launched a new bar and grill upstairs – and brought life back to the heart of downtown Greenbank.

By Kasia PierzgaExaminer Staff Writer

It’s not unusual for Heidi Castaneda to have a four-legged assistant behind the counter at the Coupeville Liquor Store.

She often brings her dogs in to work with her, or perhaps a homeless cat that she’s fostering until it finds a new home.

But one of the two helpers she has with her this week doesn’t quite fit into the same category.

That’s because Lego the baby goat has only three legs.

Casteneda said the unusual birth defect

Three-legged goat a popular liquor-store attraction

isn’t slowing the little guy down in the least.

“He’s running and doing stairs,” she said. “He’s not having any problem get-ting around.”

Lego, who was born this year on Leap Day, is a Boer goat – a breed generally raised for meat production. A farm in Oak Harbor sent Lego to live with Cas-teneda, who is planning to raise him as a pet.

On Monday, the little guy was frolick-ing about in the makeshift pen that Cas-

See GOAT, page 6

Heidi Casteneda shows off a fuzzy white lamb and a three-legged baby goat that are keeping her compa-ny behind the coun-ter at the Coupeville Liquor Store.Kasia Pierzga / The Whidbey Examiner

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The Coupeville School District is in the market for a new leader following news that Superinten-dent Patty Page is headed to a new job in Kitsap County.

The North Kitsap School Board announced its decision on Monday.

Page, 57, said she had original-ly planned to remain in Coupeville until her retirement, but decided to pursue the Kitsap job in part be-cause it would allow her to move closer to her mother, Marylnn Molnar, who lives in Poulsbo.

It’s a very bittersweet thing,” she said. “I’m struggling with leaving here. It was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make in my career.”

She described Kitsap as a “good match,” noting that the district has many similarities to Coupeville, including declining enrollment and considerable budget challeng-

Schools chief to take Kitsap jobes. The North Kitsap School District also is consider-ing a tech-nology levy, which Coupe-ville success-fully passed in 2010.

Page, who grew up in a Navy fam-

ily, said she is looking forward to working in a district with a strong military community.

She said her background in the Yakima School District will help her as she works with Kitsap’s large Hispanic student population. And with a significant number of students from Native tribes in the district, she said she’s looking for-ward to learning more about their culture and traditions.

Page also is a graduate of North Kitsap High School.

“A lot of things just made the

Patty Page

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Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen made it unofficial on Sunday.

She’s not yet ready to announce her run for re-election, she told a crowd of about 75 Democrats at a gathering in the Coupeville Rec-reation Hall. That will come after the grueling 2012 legislative ses-sion finally comes to an end.

But she’s already ordered her signature campaign souvenir: red, white and blue emery boards print-ed with her re-election slogan.

“I’ve got some right here,” she said with a smile as she pulled a handful of files from her pocket.

The lifelong Camano Island resident owned a beauty shop for 30 years, serving three terms on the Stanwood School Board be-fore being elected to the state House of Representatives in 1982.

Elected to the Senate in 1993, Haugen is now the longest-serv-ing legislator in Olympia.

Haugen, who is chairwoman of the Senate Transportation Com-mittee, said she is happy with the outcome of negotiations for the state transportation budget.

The Legislature provided $6.5 million to begin servicing $130 million in ferry bonds, with mon-ey budgeted for a second 144-ve-hicle ferry.

“My budget’s done,” Haugen

Haugen readies for re-election campaign

said. “We were really success-ful in working in a true bipartisan way.”

The ferries being constructed at Vigor Industrial at a total cost of $147 million and will use super-structures built at Nichols Broth-ers Boat Builders in Freeland.

“We now are going to build a total of five ferry boats,” Haugen said.

“The second 144 we’re build-ing, it’s very likely you will like-ly see right here on Whidbey Is-

land,” she said.Vigor workers began cutting

steel for the first new 144-car fer-

ry in mid-February.Lawmakers turned to fee in-

creases to raise revenue for the transportation budget, approving an 80 percent increase in the cost of a driver’s license to $54 for six years, tripling the cost of a vehicle title to $15 and creating a $10 fee for original-issue license plates. Other fee increases included rais

ing the DUI hearing fee to $375 – nearly double the current cost – and a $100 annual fee on electric cars.

State lawmakers now must slog through a special session to approve the state budget.

Negotiations got derailed ear-lier this month when Republicans who had been working with Gov. Chris Gregoire on a bipartisan deal ended up ditching their plans at the last minute and presenting a new budget with the support of several conservative Democrats.

Haugen, who described Gre-goire as “cranky” about the bud-get bait-and-switch, said it will be

a challenge to wrap up the state budget.

“There really isn’t a lot of ne-gotiating going on,” she said.

Rallying the Democratic faith-ful in advance of this year’s elec-tions, Haugen urged those in the audience to work hard to support their candidates.

“I will tell you it’s going to be a difficult election,” she said.

She encouraged Democrats to work hard on behalf of the two Democratic Island County com-missioners, Helen Price Johnson and Angie Homola, both of whom are up for re-election this year.

“This is the most important election for Island County – ever,” she said. “If we lose our coun-ty commissioners, we are in big trouble. That’s not something we should take for granted.”

And before rolling out her own re-election campaign, Haugen said she must attend to the peo-ple’s business in Olympia.

“If we ever get out of session, I will be making a formal an-nouncement,” she said.

job worth applying for,” she said. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime op-portunity.”

Coupeville School Board Pres-ident Kathleen Anderson said the board is “very sad to see her go.”

“We have enjoyed working with her,” Anderson said. “She’s been a great leader for our district, and we hate to lose her.”

The next step is to begin the search for a new superintendent. Anderson said the board could work to hire a new superintendent as soon as possible, or hire an in-terim superintendent – perhaps a retired school administrator – un-til a permanent hire is made.

The district will likely contract with a professional search ser-vice to help find a good match for Coupeville, Anderson said. Page’s contract ends July 1.

Anderson noted that it’s a bit late in the year to begin search-ing for a new superintendent, so opting for a one-year interim hire might be a good strategy.

“It’s always good to go out ear-lier so there’s maybe a few more to choose from,” she said.

Page, 57, started her career as a teacher in 1977, later serving as a middle school principal in Yakima and the assistant superintendent of the Kelso School District before arriving in Coupeville in 2007.

Page currently earns $118,800 in her Coupeville job. She is still in the negotiating process for the terms of her contract with Kitsap.

Page said she plans to keep her home south of Coupeville, which she will use as an island getaway.

To convince her son, Sam, to support her career move, she had to promise not to let it go, she said.

“He feels at home here on the is-land,” she said. “Just like I do.”

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Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen pulls a handful of her signature campaign souve-nirs – red, white and blue emery boards imprinted with her campaign message – at a meeting of Island County Democrats last Sunday in Coupeville.Kasia Pierzga /The Whidbey Examiner

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By Betty FreemanExaminer Staff Writer

Sommer Harris, a senior at South Whidbey High School, is looking to the future with enthusi-asm and confidence.

At 17, she already is an accom-plished actress, musician and stu-dent, thanks to supportive parents and inspiring mentors.

She’s lived on South Whid-bey since age 5, when her fam-ily moved here from Vancouver, Wash. Sommer’s dad Tom Har-ris is a doctor and her mom Dana works with him at Mutiny Bay Medical in Freeland. Brother Noah, 20, attends the University of Washington.

At age 6, Sommer started tak-ing classes at Whidbey Children’s Theater, working with founder Martha Murphy back when ses-sions were held in Murphy’s back yard.

“Martha fueled my passion for theater,” Harris said. “She in-spires through her enthusiasm and support for kids doing their own thing. She could push us and get us to perform.”

Musical theater is a first and lasting love for Harris.

“I’m most comfortable there,” she said of her experiences with Whidbey Children’s Theater. “I like combining music with acting. Theater has transformed my life and made me a stronger person.”

Since 7th grade, Harris also has been a member of the Seat-tle Children’s Chorus, an audition choir with rehearsals once a week in Shoreline.

“I love singing and playing the piano and guitar, and writing my own music,” she said.

Acting skills helped Harris win second place overall in the Poet-ry Out Loud state competition on March 10 in Tacoma with her reci-tation of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabber-wocky” and Tennyson’s “Cross-ing the Bar.”

Her performance was inspired by teacher Jaryl Cave’s assign-

Betty Freeman / The Whidbey Examiner

Senior Sommer Harris plays trombone with the award-winning South Whidbey High School Jazz Band. The National Honor Society member performs from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, March 23 at the Oak Harbor High School auditorium, 950 N.W. Second Ave.

ment of memorizing and reciting a poem for English class.

Another strong mentor for Har-ris is South Whidbey High School jazz band director Chris Harsh-man, with whom Harris first stud-ied at Langley Middle School.

“I started with the clarinet in fifth grade, then I took up the tuba as a freshman,” Harris said.

Since the high school jazz band doesn’t utilize the clarinet or the tuba, Harris switched to playing trombone in her sophomore year.

“The jazz band needed trom-bone players and I wanted to be part of this more advanced group,” she said. “I love it that we travel to festivals and do field trips to see other jazz performers.”

Last month, the South Whid-bey High School Jazz Band trav-eled to Moscow, Idaho for the Li-onel Hampton Jazz Fest, winning first place in the high school com-petition.

and her fellow musicians.“Chris really listens to kids,

and helps us discipline ourselves,” she said. “He has so much to offer, and that kind of wealth should be shared.”

Harris said she believes that teens benefit greatly from the op-portunities for creative expression offered by studying the arts.

“The circles of trust in theater and music have given me con-fidence to be myself,” she said. “One theater instructor I had said you have to risk to feel and risk to fail.”

The jazz band has been a source of valuable life lessons, she said.

“It takes a lot of teamwork to be successful,” she said. “When you work in a group like this, you have to depend on each other and make sacrifices for the good of the group.”

While she’s confident that mu-sic will always be part of her life, her college plans will likely take her on a different path.

“Actually, I really like math,” she said.

Harris hasn’t decided which college she’ll attend, though she’s applied to several and been ac-

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Harris’s recent jazz band per-formances include the winter concert at South Whidbey High School and the Kamiak Jazz In-vitational in Mukilteo earlier this month. She performs at the All-Is-land Jazz Fest on Friday, March 23 at Oak Harbor High School.

Of her experiences with the award-winning South Whid-bey Jazz Band, Harris said she’s learned a lot both from Harshman

cepted at a few already. Her mu-sical accomplishments, 4.0 grade point average, membership in the National Honor Society, and Ad-vanced Placement high school classes will help give her a broad choice of colleges. She and her mother plan to take field trips to her top choices this spring.

An overarching goal for the next few years is “to find out who I am in another setting,” she said. “Coming from a small school, col-lege will help me find out what’s out there.”

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Backroom deal produces old-time-politics budget in OlympiaBy Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island

In the final week of the regular legislative session, 22 Republicans and three Demo-crats seized control of the Senate floor, passed a budget by one vote, and tried to stick a bipartisan label on it.

I’ve been in the Legislature for some time, so I know a little bit about bipartisan-ship. And picking up two or three votes from the other side of the aisle, on a bill fiercely opposed by the vast majority of one party, does not make a bill bipartisan. That’s like planting a tree in a parking lot and calling it a forest.

This budget was the farthest thing from bipartisan. This was an “old-time politics” budget, where you cut a few backroom deals to gain just enough votes for a majority and force through a bill the public has never seen.

This is the kind of political deal-making the voters hate, and I don’t blame them. It feeds every cynical stereotype of backroom politics and the belief that, given the oppor-tunity, legislators will opt to conduct the state’s business outside the eye of the public. This budget would change the lives of students, seniors and our most vulnerable resi-dents across the state, and yet the so-called bipartisan coalition insisted it be voted on immediately, without a hearing and without even revealing the nature of the bills.

Yes, you heard me right. Several bills were required to pass this budget, but all that was provided were the numbers on the bills – not even a title to give so much as a gen-eral idea of the topic of the bill.

When my colleagues repeatedly asked the budget’s writers on the Senate floor for even the most basic descriptions, so we could make an attempt to judge whether the bills made sense for our constituents, they were met with silence. The budget writers refused to yield the floor for questions. The bills’ sponsors refused to offer a single word of explanation of what the Senate was about to vote on.

I thought I’d seen the last of this sort of thing some years ago, when backroom deals were the norm in old-style politics, and it saddens me to see it come back. It locks citi-zens out of the process, it’s bad for policy, and it’s bad for our state.

For example, the majority caucus budget proposal would have avoided cuts to K-12 and higher education. The public told us education was our top priority, and we listened. But the bipartisan-in-name-only budget forced on the Senate last weekend cuts $32 mil-lion from K-12 and $30 million from higher education.

Those cuts ignore the public’s highest priorities, but that’s what happens when you do your work in secret without listening to the public. In the weeks to come, I’m hope-ful we can change that. We need to shed some light on this broken process and work out a budget that respects the will of the people.

Nobody has worked harder than I on bipartisan budgets. It requires real negotiation, as opposed to cooking up a plan in secret and then forcing it through. It takes a willing-ness to sit down and look each other in the face, and say, “OK, how do we get there?” I’ve done that. I’ve worked with many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle in this Legislature and in past legislatures, and frankly I wouldn’t have it any other way.

That’s why it’s the only way I’ve ever run the Senate Transportation Committee. My budget cabinet each year includes two members from each side of the aisle, and we meet regularly throughout session until we agree on a budget that works for everyone. Nobody’s happy with everything in the budget, but we work it out until we have a bud-get everyone can support. That’s a true bipartisan process.

By contrast, the events of last weekend guarantee that we will spend precious time and resources wasting taxpayer dollars negotiating a budget no one has seen in place of a proposal that honored priorities voiced in weeks of public hearings.

There’s a big difference between that process and the truly bipartisan process we used in transportation. There we worked together and passed a bipartisan transportation budget – on time – that maintains safe roads, preserves our ferry system and recognizes the mutual interests of all Washingtonians.

Examiner editorial cartoon misses the mark

The aptly named “Trash Can” editorial cartoon published on March 15 illustrates how swell it must be to be to be a leftist.

In spite of evidence to the contrary – such as, oh let’s see; 41 percent approval, more than $4 for a gallon of gas, enormous job losses, slavish adherence to union bosses, and environmental activists – we are meant to believe Obama is in the driv-er’s seat and leading the parade.

But then, we are always being told how stupid we are not to follow that party line.

By the way, when was the last comic with another viewpoint in your paper? I must have missed it.

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In Island County’s Dist. 1 com-missioner race, competing philos-ophies about how to pay for wa-ter resources programs mandated by state law are among the rea-sons motivating two Republicans and one independent candidate to challenge incumbent Democratic Commissioner Helen Price John-son.

The two Republican candi-dates are retired Navy command-er Jeff Lauderdale of Coupeville and Wayne Morrison, owner of Morrison Company and Blue Star Rockery in Clinton. Curt Gordon of Clinton, a member of the Port of South Whidbey Board of Com-missioners and the owner of Is-land Asphalt, is the independent candidate.

Protecting water resourcesLauderdale said he first got in-

terested in county issues after he became concerned about the cost to property owners of complying with a law approved by the com-missioners in 2007 that required septic-system inspections.

The cost of hiring a private firm to inspect alternative sep-tic systems was too onerous, he said, and having to pay a $62 fee to file the reports with the county seemed unreasonable. The fee has since been replaced by the Clean Water Utility, which distributes countywide the cost of water-re-sources protection.

But widespread frustration with the fee that erupted in 2009 led Lauderdale to get engaged with local politics. He and his wife Julie supported the campaign of fellow Republican and then-commissioner candidate Kelly Emerson, and he began attending board of commissioners meetings on a regular basis to become in-formed. Eventually he announced he would run for the Dist. 1 seat.

“I know the players, the pro-cess and the issues,” Lauderdale said. “I am ready to hit the ground running in January to do the full-time job of establishing the correct size of government with correct priorities.”

State law says that septic sys-tems must be inspected periodi-cally to ensure they are working properly and are not leaking hu-man waste into groundwater or the marine environment.

Under Island County law, peo-ple who use standard gravity sys-tems can do their own inspections every three years, but those with alternative systems must hire a septic inspector each year at a cost of up to $400. Financial assistance is available from Island County to low-income and other property owners who qualify.

Rather than hiring an expert to

Conflict over environmental rules fuels Dist. 1 race


Kathleen Parvin and Joe Laxson, environmental health specialists at Island County Public Health, demonstrate the model septic system at Island County’s Patmore Road facility that is used in septic inspection classes. County-required septic-system inspections are among the is-sues being raised by challengers in the Dist. 1 commissioner race.

inspect such systems, Lauderdale said he believes property owners could learn to do it themselves.

Gordon, who is making his sec-ond run for Dist. 1 commissioner, also is critical of the county’s sep-tic-system requirements.

“State law requires that Island County have some kind of man-datory inspection, but the county has discretion in how it goes about this,” Gordon said.

Gordon does not agree that alternative systems need to be checked more frequently than standard gravity systems. Many gravity septics are older and there-fore more likely to fail, he said. State law should be changed to al-low septic inspections every three years for all systems, he said.

“A case can be made that con-ventional systems need as much, if not more, monitoring,” Gordon said. “(This system) is penalizing folks who paid to have the most sophisticated, state-of-the art sys-tems by not allowing them to self-inspect.”

Alternative systems are more complex, using pumps and manu-factured filters to mimic the func-tion of soil in a conventional sys-tem.

“I would recommend that most people use a professional because the inspection can be tough to do,” Gordon said. “But the coun-ty shouldn’t take away the ability to self-inspect if they train them-selves.”

Commissioner Helen Price Johnson notes that the decision about whether it should be con-ducted by a property owner or li-censed professional, was made by the all-Republican board of com-missioners that was in place be-fore she was elected.

Gordon said the county should provide incentives to property owners in the form of a $20 or $25 voucher to complete the in-spections, rather than penalize

them for failing to do so. If all systems are inspected every three years, only about a third of affect-ed properties would apply for the voucher each year.

“People would be getting some of the money back that they paid into the Clean Water Utility,” Gor-don said. “At the same time, the majority of the money from this fee would still be available for the other projects that the utility is de-signed to cover.”

Morrison said that while he doesn’t like the idea of a big pro-gram, he sees the need to educate people on proper maintenance of septic systems in order to protect their property values.

“People getting educated to self-inspect is a great idea,” Mor-rison said.

Morrison said Island County’s program should also allow for in-dividuals who have gone through that training to assist their elderly neighbors so they don’t have to pay an expert to do the inspection.

Farming and critical areasAnother issue that’s come to the

fore in recent weeks is the com-missioners’ decision not to opt in to the state’s Voluntary Steward-ship Program, a framework that allows agricultural communities

to work with environmental agen-cies to negotiate the fate of criti-cal areas. Most Washington coun-ties with significant agricultural acreage, such as Skagit County, signed on to the program. Most of the more urbanized counties around the Puget Sound area, in-cluding Island County, opted not to participate.

According to Johnson, there were too many unanswered ques-tions about the program, which came with no funding source. Is-land County already had invested significant time and effort in de-veloping its critical areas protec-tions, and it made no sense to toss that out and start all over with a new program.

“Island County spent over $1 million in 2006 creating the Crit-

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ical Areas Ordinance” she said, “(Everyone) made good-faith ef-forts that are worth preserving.”

Johnson said she also wanted to support the existing ordinance be-cause of the flexibility it provides, such as setbacks aimed at protect-ing water resources. As long as a property owner can demonstrate no negative impact, development projects can proceed with a small-er buffer than previously allowed, Johnson said.

Lauderdale and Gordon both argue that the county should have agreed to participate in the Vol-untary Stewardship Program. Gordon said the county could al-ways have dropped out at a later date, and Lauderdale said opting in would have provided Island County with “insurance” against Island County losing the lawsuit currently pending in Thurston County Superior Court.

The lawsuit, filed by the Whid-bey Environmental Action Net-work, challenges the agriculture portion of Island County’s critical areas ordinance.

The ordinance was hammered out by farmers, the county, tribes and environmental groups as

a way to protect surface water through the use of best practices, Lauderdale said.

“The CAO may or may not withstand the appeals process,” Lauderdale said. “It could be back to square one for the county.”

In addition, Lauderdale pointed out the support from the Washing-ton State Farm Bureau and some local farmers for opting in to the program.

But since the county’s decision not to opt in, the state Farm Bu-reau and the Island County Farm Bureau have joined forces with Island County, along with the state departments of Commerce, Ecology and Fish and Wildlife, to defend the critical areas ordi-nance that has been challenged by WEAN, Johnson said.

Morrison said that because he’s been busy with his business, he doesn’t know enough about the issue to comment. But he said he would check into it so that he would better understand what might be at stake.

“I am a great believer to get educated first before making ar-bitrary decisions,” Morrison said.


Joe Laxson, environmental health specialist at Island County Public Health, uses the department’s Septic 201 Field Guide to explain how a septic system works. The guide is used in teaching property owners how to inspect standard gravity septic systems.

Government reachCommissioner Johnson said

she has worked hard to help bal-ance the county budget and reduce staff as the commissioners bal-ance the budget with dwindling resources.

Johnson noted that balancing competing needs is a big chal-lenge when the county is required to comply with state requirements on programs ranging from pub-lic health and the environment to court services and law enforce-ment.

Lauderdale said the county should consider challenging some state mandates that go too far.

“Washington state law requires counties to provide certain servic-es,” Lauderdale said. “But some are not even achievable. We need to take a hard look at what Olym-pia mandates.”

Lauderdale said that he is not advocating willfully disregarding state laws. Rather, he supports “in-telligent push-back.”

He said he believes the com-missioners have more influence with state lawmakers than do av-erage citizens, and that the Legis-lature can be persuaded by argu-ments that apply common sense and logic.

And as a last resort, Lauder-dale said, when state mandates run counter to the interests of Is-land County, the county should se-riously consider spending taxpay-er money to challenge the state in court.

Commissioner Johnson said the county must stay focused on providing not only what is man-dated, but also what is essential.

For example, she said, main-taining facilities and providing Internet access to Island County government are not mandated by the state, but are essential services for citizens, she said.

“It is an easy thing to say that the county should just focus on what the state has mandated, but that doesn’t necessarily meet the needs of the Island County citi-zen,” Johnson said.

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teneda has set up with a baby gate to close off the area behind the customer-service counter. He was keeping busy jumping and danc-ing, pulling bits of paper from the wastebasket and happily chewing on a paper bag.

Brown-and-white Lego was kept company by a fuzzy white lamb that had been born at 4 a.m. that morning. The lamb, which hadn’t been named yet, was tee-tering around the pen as it learned the finer points of walking on un-steady legs.

A steady stream of customers stopped to reach over the gate and give the babies a scratch on the chin.

Casteneda’s revolving menag-erie – especially when it includes sweet babies like Lego and the lamb – are a big attraction for her customers.

“A lot of people are shocked to see them, but everybody wants to pet them,” she said with a smile. “They love it.”

Attending to the babies there at

the liquor store takes a bit of atten-tion, Casteneda said. In between waiting on customers, she’s feed-ing them little sips of sheep milk from a bottle.

Of course, what goes in must come out, and the babies can be a bit messy. But Casteneda keeps the floor behind the counter cov-ered with a waterproof blanket that she takes home every day for a wash.

“I’ve successfully potty-trained one goat in the past, but I can only do it if I have one in here with me at a time,” she said.

Those who want to visit the babies will want to stop by soon, because once they can climb over the baby gate, they’ll have to stay at home.

“They’ll be here until they get to be too much trouble,” she said.

Fans of Casteneda’s crit-ters know which days she works – Sundays and Mondays – and make sure to stop by to say hello.

“They always know when it’s baby season,” she said.

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Island County prosecutors have formally charged the sus-pected kidnapper of a Langley mother and son for his crimes.

Charges against George Lee Downey, 22, of Greenbank, in-clude rape in the first degree, two counts of kidnapping in the first degree, two counts of burglary in the first degree, two counts of violation of a court order, and as-sault in the fourth degree.

With the exception of one count of burglary, all charges in-clude a domestic violence ele-ment.

Downey was arrested at about 11:30 a.m. Friday March 16 on Hwy. 20 south of Coupeville af-ter deputies located the suspect’s car and executed a felony stop.

Downey was suspected of

having abducted the woman and child from the woman’s home earlier that morning.

The woman had been able to call 911 and tell the dispatcher that her ex-boyfriend was break-ing into her home.

A domestic violence no-con-tact order barring Downey from contacting the woman or child was in place at the time.

Island County Sheriff’s Dep-uty Lt. Evan Tingstad arrived on the scene and found the home empty and a window broken.

If convicted on the rape charge, Downey will face a mini-mum of five years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.

The maximum penalty for both the kidnapping and burglary charges is life imprisonment.

By Elisabeth MurrayExaminer Staff Writer

Wearing a brown hooded jacket and a multi-colored pais-ley skirt, Kaylea Souza looked more like a teenager on the way to the mall than a young woman charged with three counts of ve-hicular homicide.

But unlike a carefree teen, Souza, 18, was serious and som-ber in Island County Superior Court on Monday as she waited more than an hour and a half for her case to be called. Much of the time her head was resting on her hands on the bench in front of her as she sat surrounded by family and friends.

When called before the judge, Souza stood with her attorney be-side her and pleaded guilty to all three charges. The judge read a statement in which Souza admit-ted that she drove her car while under the influence of alcohol and caused the deaths of three friends, Charles “Mack” Porter III, 19, Marcel “Mick” Poynter, 20, and Robert Knight, 22.

Judge Vickie Churchill ac-cepted the plea and then had to

decide if Souza could be released on her own recognizance until her sentencing in two weeks at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 30.

Deputy Prosecutor David Car-man argued that Souza should be detained pending sentencing based on Washington law be-cause Souza poses a threat to the community and might try to flee. Having pleaded guilty, Souza knows she will be facing consid-erable jail time, he said.

But Souza’s defense attor-ney, Peter Simpson, argued that she should be released until her sentencing date. He said that she was “stepping forward and ac-cepting responsibility” for her actions and is not likely to flee.

After noting that Souza had not violated the conditions of her bail, Simpson asked the judge to grant his client the two weeks of liberty so she could get her af-fairs in order.

But Churchill said that the presumption is on the defendant to prove that she is not a flight risk, and remanded her into cus-tody. Several of Souza’s family members and friends cried after the judge announced her deci-


Kaylea Souza awaits her court appearance on March 19 in which she entered a guilty plea.

Souza in jail to await sentencing

sion.According to police, on Nov.

11, 2011, Souza had allegedly been driving south on Wilkinson Road under the influence of alco-hol just after midnight when she tried to pass another car at a high rate of speed. Souza allegedly lost control of her vehicle, which

struck a tree and burst into flames.Two people from the car Souza

had passed were able to pry open the passenger side of the vehicle and pull her out, but they were unable to get to her three passen-gers before the car was engulfed in fire. All three passengers died at the scene.

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Accused grandpa killer Lambert pleads ‘the Fifth’By Elisabeth MurrayExaminer Staff Writer

For the accused “grandpa killer” representing himself, his March 19 appearance in Island County Supe-rior Court did not go well.

Joshua Lambert was in court to have several of his hand-writ-ten motions considered. But after several were denied, he ended his appearance before Judge Vickie Churchill by saying that he was taking his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent for the rest of the proceedings.

Lambert had submitted a mo-tion in which he wanted his pri-vate investigator to be banned from talking to the detective in-volved in his case. He also sub-mitted a motion asking to take a polygraph.

Churchill had awarded Lam-bert financial assistance to hire an investigator to mount a defense. She denied his motion to limit who his private investigator could talk to.

“The private investigator works for you,” Churchill said.

Lambert has said that his mo-tion is a “protective order.”

In the motion requesting that he be allowed to take a poly-graph test, Lambert said he wants to prove that he is not lying and use the results to negotiate a plea agreement.

Lambert said his psychiatric evaluation at Western State Hos-pital had made it appear that he was lying and malingering and he wants to show that’s not the case.

Churchill said she is unaware of any plea negotiations.

Becoming agitated as Churchill denied his motions, Lambert opt-ed to end the proceedings before all of them were considered.

“I’ll just strike them and come back next week,” he said.

When Churchill asked for clar-ification on which of the motions he was referring to, Lambert an-nounced that he was taking the Fifth Amendment and would re-main silent.

“Since you are being silent, I am assuming that every motion I have in file is being stricken,” Churchill said.

Prior to taking the Fifth, Lam-bert also made clear that he would like to be free of his court-ap-pointed standby counsel.

“Do I have to write a motion to fire my counsel?” Lambert asked.

When the judge told him she would not hear that motion today, Lambert restated his question if he has to file a motion.

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basic groceries, fuel and friendly conversation to generations of Greenbankers from 1964 until they sold the business in 2009.

That’s when their niece, Clin-ton resident Kate Buzard, made changes to the store’s format and opened a bar and restaurant up-stairs called 19o4 Pub and Restau-rant.

But the store eventually closed, and by late 2011, the restaurant was failing. Just before the holi-days, it closed for good.

That’s when the Cedars stum-bled upon the unique opportunity that would prompt them to uproot themselves from what Whidbey Islanders term “America” and fo-cus their energies on restoring the store to its former glory.

The Cedars had been searching for a business opportunity in the region, giving several some seri-ous consideration.

Brian Cedar said he was search-ing on Craigslist for restaurant equipment to refurbish one of those possibilities when a listing for the Greenbank Store popped up.

The Cedar family had visit-ed Whidbey seven or eight times for weekend getaways and week-long trips, and had stopped into the Greenbank Store a few times when they were staying at a rental property on North Bluff.

Cedar said he immediate-ly started imagining his family bringing the old place back to life.

The Cedars visited Whidbey one more time to take a look from a business perspective and knew it was for them, Cedar said.

“It felt predestined,” he said.They met Buzard and felt a good

rapport right away, Cedar said.The business transaction

moved forward quickly, and with-in a week the Cedar family had become the new owners of the his-toric store.

While the building itself re-mains in the Coupe family, the Cedars brought in all new store shelving, restaurant equipment, tables, chairs and other furnish-ings.

“We did have to refurbish a little bit,” Cedar said. “Actually, a lot. We upgraded and got new equipment. We had to get the freezers operational, as the store had been closed for a while.”

So far the new store has re-ceived a lot of local buzz, Cedar said. It’s at the community cross-roads and is adjacent to the post office, so eventually just about ev-erybody comes through, he said.

The Cedars hosted a grand opening celebration on Feb. 29 that included the music of Green-bank musicians Kristi O’Donnell and Keith Bowers, two members of the swing-jazz ensemble Trio Nouveau.

The music and food drew a considerable crowd of mostly local Greenbankers who were thankful for the renaissance of their “village square.”

The Cedars plan to have music most weekends, and are experi-menting with their menu.

Cedar has a background in the hospitality business both as a res-taurant manager and owner, and he also has experience in printing, marketing and advertising, but this is his first foray into the small-town grocery business.

Launching a new restaurant is a challenge, but Cedar said he knows what it takes to succeed.

“It is a lot of work,” he said.

It’s also a choice that Cedar be-lieves will be good for his family.

“I have a 21-year-old autistic daughter who has been trained to work in a restaurant setting,” Ce-dar said. “Her experience working a few hours per week was shortly coming to an end.”

Cedar believes that this partic-ular setting will be a great fit for her skill set.

“She is very adept at the work,” Cedar said. “She is a great orga-nizer.”

The Cedars will not only work in Greenbank, but live here too. They are leasing a nearby home and have put their property in Sammamish on the market.

“This was an opportunity to be-come a central part of Whidbey Is-land,” Cedar said.

With the spring fast approach-ing and the summer tourist season close behind, Cedar is looking for-ward to the traffic – and revenue – that the warmer weather brings.

“The economy is improving,” Cedar said. “But with increased gas prices, a lot of people are tak-ing ‘staycations’ and not traveling too far afield.”

With the landmark store locat-ed right on Hwy. 525, there’s plen-ty of traffic just outside his door all day long, Cedar said.

It’s just a matter of figuring out how to get those drivers to pull over, come inside, and spend a lit-tle money.

Cedar is optimistic about the prospects.

“A lot of people have stopped to get something to eat – even before we opened,” Cedar said. “I don’t know how much traffic we’ll get from Langley or Free-land, but we’re not far away.”

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Greenbank musicians Kristi O’Donnell and Keith Bowers, two members of the acoustic swing-jazz ensem-ble Trio Nouveau, perform Saturday at Greenbank Grille, the new restaurant recently opened in the his-toric Greenbank Store.

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Rained out twice earlier in the week, the Coupeville High School baseball squad finally got to take the field against Port Townsend Friday, March 16, and the Wolves immediately made the afternoon a happy one, romping to a 5-1 win.

The non-conference victory, spurred by a solid pitching perfor-mance from Ben Etzell, plenty of stolen bases and a smooth, team-wide defensive performance, lift-ed Coupeville to 2-1 on the young, rain-spattered season. It was also the only game the Wolves man-aged to get in, as inclement weath-er cancelled planned road trips to Lynden Christian and Nooksack Valley.

Against Port Townsend, every-thing was clicking. Etzell struck out eight Redskins hitters over four scoreless innings, then hand-ed the ball to freshman Aaron Curtin, who closed out the game in his varsity mound debut.

At the plate, the Wolves com-bined timely hitting (Wade Schaef whacked two hits and collected an

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Wolf hurler Ben Etzell fires a pitch during a standout performance against Port Townsend Friday. Paced by Etzell’s arm, Coupeville romped to a 5-1 win, its second victory of the season.

Wolves race past Port Townsend

RBI while Kurtis Smith thunked a double), speed (10 stolen bases) and the ability to freak out Port Townsend with said speed (the Redskins booted the ball three times).

Coupeville topped it all off with fairly flawless glove work.

“We were very solid defensive-ly again, getting a lot of fine per-formances and ending the game with a 1-6-3 double play,” Coupe-ville Coach Willie Smith said. “I’m very excited at the level of execution and play thus far in the season.” A

Revenge is overrated.Well, at least it is if you’re on

the losing side, which is where the Coupeville High School softball squad found itself last week.

Playing on a rain-swept, bit-terly cold day that the opposing coach described as the worst he had ever seen as a softball coach, the Wolves fell 14-8 to visiting Meridian Wednesday, March 14. The loss, payback for Coupeville knocking their Bellingham-based foes out of the playoffs last year, dropped the Wolves to 1-1 on the season.

Continuing to show huge prog-ress just a season after going win-less in the regular season, Coupe-ville jumped out to an early lead and seemed to be headed towards a scintillating, and unexpected, 2-0 record.

An early 4-0 lead had narrowed to 6-5 after four innings, but then things fell apart in the top of the fifth, as Meridian exploded for a game-busting six-run rally.

The loss came despite stellar

Softballers suffer unhappy payback

Wolf hurdler crushes challengersCoupeville High School ju-

nior Madison Tisa McPhee knows how to put a hurtin’ down on her fellow hurdlers between the mo-ment the starting gun fires and she hits the tape for the win. That much is evident.

Picking up right where she ended last season, Tisa McPhee nuked her competition in the 100 hurdles at both the season-open-ing, four-team Island Jamboree in Oak Harbor on March 14 and at

the 11-team Port Angeles Invita-tional on March 17.

Tisa McPhee’s win was one of five top-three finishes for the Wolf girls in Oak Harbor, with Coupe-ville claiming second in the 100 (Jai’Lysa Hoskins) and the 4 x 400 relay (Anna Bailey, Tisa McPhee, Marissa Etzell, Katie Smith) and third in the high jump (Hoskins) and javelin (Grace LaPoint).

On the boys’ side, it was large-ly a one-man show, as speedy se-

nior Mitch Pelroy tore to a second place finish in the 100 and a third place finish in the 400.

Running at Port Angeles, where the Wolves placed 7th in team scoring, Coupeville also claimed a pair of seconds, as Etzell, Smith, Tisa McPhee and Hoskins teamed up to finish second in the 4 x 200 relay, while Pelroy stormed to a second in the 400.

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Wolf hurler McKayla Bailey brings the heat as she puts everything she has into a pitch against Meridian.

efforts from Wolf hitters Haley Sherman (a double and two RBI), Taya Boonstra (two hits and three RBI) and Hailey Hammer (a tri-ple), as well as a strong defensive job by Breeanna Messner, who made a nice diving catch to rob

Meridian.Stung by the cold, wet condi-

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Coupeville’s Science Olym-piad team brought home seven medals, including a gold at the regional competition. Coupeville placed sixth overall, just one place shy of moving on to the state com-petition.

“With only two graduating se-niors, our team really is poised to achieve our ultimate goal next year by making State,” Dan d’Almeida, math teacher and the team’s coach at Coupeville High School said.

In this competition, unlike in sports in which schools of similar size compete against one another, the Coupeville students went up against those from much larger schools.

“The fact that our kids com-peted and medaled in seven of 23 events really is awesome since many of the students they are competing against are bound for MIT, Stanford, UW and many other top-notch colleges in the country,” d’Almeida said.

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Science Olympiad team honored

Dan d’Almeida photo

Sam Landau and Cung Nguyen prepare to launch their balsa-wood helicopter. The Coupeville Science Olympiad members placed third in the regional competition for the Helicopter event. Theirs was the only team that built and flew a true Chinook design, and their test flights were almost twice as long as that of the competition.

second for Environmental De-sign. They were coached by John Burks. Rachel Wenzel and Van-essa Bernales, coached by Melo-dy Kuschnereit, earned third place for Rocks and Minerals.

In Towers, Zac Forland and Jared Dickson, coached by Mark Varljen, earned third place. Cung Nguyen and Sam Landau, coached by Mike Prewitt, earned third place for Helicopters.

d’Almeida said the Robot Arm and Gravity Vehicle teams had some bad luck at the competition.

“Our trials were good enough to earn them medals as well,” he said.

d’Almeida also credits Coupe-ville’s community coaches with their “deep industry experience and knowledge” for making the experience even more valuable for the students.

Coupeville’s Science Olym-piad team had rebounded from a “sophomore slump,” in which they took medals in only one event and placed 14th overall last year, d’Almeida said.

More money is available this year for property owners looking to preserve and restore historic structures within Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve.

In 2011, the first year of the Heritage Building Grant Program, more than $52,000 was award-ed to eight projects. This year, $60,000 will be available.

The grant program provides a match to the property owner’s investment dollars, said Mark Priess, manager of the Reserve. The project costs are reimbursed up to 50 percent within the limit of each grant.

One building that this grant helped preserve last year was the historic J. Kineth water tower on Smith Prairie, which is owned by George and Julie Lloyd.

George Lloyd said that he was grateful for the grant, as well as the many volunteers, including members of the Coupeville Lions Club, who helped to restore the structure. The Lloyds restored the building with materials that were as close to the original as possible.

As part of the project, they added new siding to the south, or weather, side of the structure, using old-growth, mixed-grain Douglas fir to match that used when the water tower was first

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The Kineth farmstead, circa 1900. The water tower structure was re-stored through a grant from the Ebey’s Forever Fund.

Grants help preserve local history

built. That siding replaced some earlier materials that had been used years ago to repair the build-ing, but that didn’t match the style of the original.

“This program helps preserve the historic buildings that we all enjoy and that provide a sense of place,” Preiss said. “The property owners protect resources for all of us.”

Preiss said that owners of his-toric buildings who received a grant in the past are welcome to apply again. They can apply for a grant to be used for preserva-

tion of the same building, or for a new one. Historic or contributing structures within the Reserve are eligible.

Funding for the grant program comes from the Ebey’s Forever Fund, which is supported solely through private donations.

People who are interested in learning more about the applica-tion process can attend a work-shop set for 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 24 at the Coupeville li-brary, 788 NW Alexander St. Ap-plications are due April 23.

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ST. STEPHEN’S ANGLICANThe Rev. Paul Orritt

SUNDAY SERVICES8:00 am • Solemn Eucharist

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Donald E. LeeDonald Elwyn Lee, 92, of

Coupeville, died March 15, 2012, at Cottage by the Cove in Coupe-ville. He was born February 16, 1920, in Hanford, California, to Hubert and Hazel (Oyler) Lee.

In March 1940, Don began his first career in the U.S. Army. In his early career Don was espe-cially proud of his service with the 14th Coast Artillery Regiment stationed at Fort Worden and Fort Casey.

While serving at Fort Casey, Don met and married Roberta (Patmore) in April 1941. Don’s military service saw him assigned to bases from the Far East to Eu-rope. His wartime duty had him assigned to the famed 503rd Regi-mental Combat Team on the island of Negros in the Philippines.

After World War II, Don and family traveled and lived on mili-tary bases in Europe and the Unit-ed States. With retirement in 1961 Don and family returned to Whid-bey.

Don’s second career was that of a building contractor. He helped build many homes on and around Central Whidbey.

When Don retired for the last time, he and Roberta enjoyed trav-eling in their RV and living a qui-et life in Coupeville. He did enjoy his time fishing for steelhead on the Skagit River and hunting with friends on Rattlesnake Ridge. He often reminisced about the great times he had with friends.

Don is survived by his son Donald T. Lee of Granite Falls, Wash., Linda Hicks of Coupeville, four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Don was preceded in death by his wife Roberta; his sister, Anna-belle Stone, and brother, Jack.

Don was a loving and very charitable man. His trips to the bank and the veterinarian’s office often saw him coming through the door with either a bouquet of flowers or a box of candy. He was a giver, not only of things, but himself.

The family would like to thank the caregivers at the Cottage by the Cove in Coupeville. The lev-el of care was filled with love, re-spect, and comfort.

The nurses from Whidbey General Hospital Home Health Care and Hospice provided com-fort and assurance not only to Don, but also to the family. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you.

Don’s wish was for no me-morial service or funeral. He just looked forward to resting with Roberta.

Thanks, Don, for being a great husband, a loving dad. And from Patricia, Michelle, Ron and Troy, thank you for being the best grandpa in the world.

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toni grovesowin’ ’n’ the trowel

The first time I saw a bare-root tree for sale, I thought it was kind of weird.

I mean, how cheap were these people that they couldn’t throw in a lousy pot and some dirt, for Pete’s sake? Not even a com-fy blanket of burlap to keep the tree’s tender bits out of the wind.

Now I know better. Being na-ked and exposed is sometimes a very good thing. If you’re a tree, that is.

One advantage is that bare-root trees can be anywhere from a third to half as expensive as potted trees. Another is the va-riety to choose from and their portability.

If you’re not able to find the exact tree you’re searching for locally, the right species can easily be shipped to you over distances of thousands of miles and still arrive healthy and in prime condition.

Another plus is when you ex-amine your new tree, what you see is what you get. If the roots are diseased or too damaged to support healthy tree growth, you’ll know it right away.

You’ll have to plant your tree soon after you bring it home. But that’s a good thing, too. How many of us have bought a tree in a pot and never quite gotten around to putting the

Going naked in the garden

poor thing in the ground? Guilty as charged.

By the time you do get around to it, the tree no longer has a healthy root system ready to spread out and form a firm anchor in the soil. Instead, it’s a Gordian knot the exact size and shape of the pot you pulled it out of.

Putting off the planting of your tree is like waiting to lose that last 20 pounds before taking a Hawai-ian vacation. Wait too long and the only way you may get there

Before planting, examine the roots and prune off any that look diseased or broken.

If any have been pushed up and are encircling the trunk, either find a way to straighten them out and point them away from the trunk, or remove them.

A root that encircles a trunk when it’s small will only get big-ger and someday possibly girdle and kill the tree.

If you do purchase a tree in a pot or balled and burlapped, I en-courage you to resist the urge to plant it with all the soil still on the roots. Take a hose to it and gently remove enough of the soil to make sure the roots are in good order. I can’t stress this enough.

And never leave the burlap on, no matter how biodegradable it is. It still takes a significant amount of time for burlap to decompose. In the meantime, your roots will have nowhere to go but in a big circle.

Remember my earlier refer-ence to Gordian knots?

will be inside of an urn in your spouse’s suitcase. Wait too long to plant that potted tree, and the only way it may get in the ground is as a handful of compost.

Bare-root trees and shrubs are often available for sale in local nurseries for a narrow window of time in late winter and early fall. So shop now while supplies last.

Once you’re found that perfect tree and brought it home, put it in a big tub of water outside. You want it to rehydrate and to remain cool.

These trees are dormant. Not much is going on inside of them except for the most basic meta-bolic processes to keep them alive during their winter slumber.

You want them to stay dormant until their roots have a chance to get well established in the soil. Then the tree can turn to the task of budding and leafing out.

Food bank seeks occasional help

Gifts from the Heart Food Bank is developing a list of on-call volunteers to perform odd jobs, such as gleaning crops from field or gathering fruit from back-yard trees.

Adults as well as middle- and

high school-age are needed as vol-unteers.

For information, call Molly Hughes at 360-678-8312.

Meerkerk Gardens seeks volunteers

Meerkerk Rhododendron Gar-dens in Greenbank is looking for

indoor and outdoor volunteers.Weekly outdoor work parties

are held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. each Thursday.

Volunteers enjoy a potluck lunch on the second Saturday of each month. Opportunities to vol-unteer from home also are avail-able. No experience is required.

Visit meerkerkgardens.org or call 360-678-1912.

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whidbey island’s community calendar

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Meet the Republican Candidates, 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, March 22, Best Western Conference Center, 33175 Hwy. 20, Oak Harbor. Congressio-nal candidate Dan Matthews and other candidates expected to attend. Sponsored by Republicans of Island County. RSVP to 360-678-6610; [email protected].

Plant Disease and Insect Identi-fication, 7 p.m. Thursday, March 22, Coupeville Recreation Center, 901 N.W. Alexander St. Plant pathologist Jenny Glass talks about plant diseases and insect pests. Sponsored by WSU Island County Master Gardeners. 360-240-5527.

Film: “Thich Nhat Hanh,” 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, Unity of Whidbey, 5671 Crawford Rd, Langley. Eponymous film about the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist. Do-nations accepted. 360-221-5581; [email protected].

Wingspan,” 7:30 p.m. Friday and

Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday, March 23-25, Whidbey Children’s Theater, 222 Anthes Ave., Langley. Musical directed and written by Rose Woods. Original music by Robert Marsanyi. Adults $12; Seniors $10; Students $8. wctonline.com; 360-221-2282.

Theatre performances: “The Lo-rax” and “The Sneetches and Other Stories,” 1 p.m. Friday, March 23, Coupeville Elementary School, multipurpose room, 6 S. Main St. The Book-It Repertory Theatre celebrates Dr. Seuss’s birthday. 360-678-4911.

Star Party, begins at dusk, Friday, March 23, Fort Nugent Park, 2075 SW Fort Nugent Rd., Oak Harbor. Hosted by the Island County Astronomical So-ciety. No telescope required. Cloudy weather cancels event. Free. 360-679-7664; icas-wa.webs.com.

Friday Night Live, 7-9 p.m. Friday, March 23, Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. The Whid-bey Playhouse Improv Team and the

Performance Society invite audience interaction and five-minute open mi-crophone performances. $5. 360-679-2237; whidbeyplayhouse.com.

All-Island Student Jazz Concert, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, March 23, Oak Harbor High School, 950 NW 2nd Ave. Performance by middle and high school jazz bands from Coupeville, Oak Harbor and South Whidbey. Fund-raiser for graduates hoping to continue an education in music. $7. Jerry Jones, 360-679-2066.

“The Story of Rebecca Ebey,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 23, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. Performer Jill Johnson puts on a one-woman show about the life of Rebecca Ebey as part of WICA’s local artist series. $12, adults; $10 seniors and students. 360-221-8268; 800-638-7631; WICAonline.com.

Birding in Central Whidbey For-ests, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, March 24. Carpool from the Coupeville Park and Ride, 201 S. Main St. Gary Piazzon leads a half-day Whidbey Audubon field trip in Rhododendron Park and the Bakker Reserve. Free. [email protected]; 360-678-5131.

Clinton Progressive Association Rummage Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat-urday, March 24, Clinton Community Hall, 6411 Central Ave. Fundraiser for hall maintenance. 360-221-2367.

Septic 101, 9:30-11 a.m. Saturday, March 24, Coupeville Recreation Center, 901 N.W. Alexander St. Island County Public Health offers a free class on the proper care and feeding of a septic system. Register online at islandcountyeh.org/page/118 or call 360-679-7350; 360-221-5111.

Screenwriting for Teens, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 24, Trinity Lu-theran Church Fireside Room, 18341 Hwy. 525, Freeland. For ages 13-18. Instructor is Wally Lane. $50. [email protected]; 360-341-1861.

Cribbage Tournament, 2 p.m. Sat-urday, March 24, Eagles Aerie, 16691 Hwy. 525, Freeland. Traditional bracket style cribbage tournament with prizes for top finishers. $25. Pre-register, 360-321-5636; [email protected].

Japan Memorial Concert, 2 p.m. Saturday, March 24, Trinity Lutheran Church, 18341 Hwy. 525, Freeland. Fundraiser and remembrance for vic-tims of the earthquake in Japan. Free; donations accepted. 360-341-1817; whidbeyjapanbenefit.wordpress.com.

Coupeville Boys and Girls Club Auction, 5-8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24, Crockett Barn, 1056 Crockett Farm Road, Coupeville. Event includes ap-petizers and dinner along with a silent auction. $25. Tickets available at Wind-ermere Real Estate in Coupeville. Irene Echenique, 360-678-5858.

Square Dance and Potluck, 6 p.m. Saturday, March 24, Clinton Commu-nity Center, 6411 Central Ave. String bands Nettlehoney and Tuckburough perform while the Mudhen Callers teach traditional dances. $5-15 sliding scale. [email protected].

Bluegrass Breaks, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24, Unitarian Univer-salist Congregation, 20103 Hwy. 525, Freeland. Performances by the Cran-berry Bog Bluegrass Band and Money

Creek Mining Company. $15; Children admitted free. 360-321-8656.

Phyllis Stein Playing Wig in a Box, 7:30-9 p.m. Saturday, March 24, Whid-bey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Ca-mano Ave., Langley. Songs inspired by “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” $10. 360-221-8268; 800-638-7631; WICA-online.com.

Cookin’ in the Kettles Bike Race, Sunday, March 25, Fort Ebey State Park, 400 Hill Valley Dr., Coupeville. Beginners start at 10 a.m.; experts start at noon. For all ages and skill levels. Park at the park’s gun battery. Adults $28; under 18, $17. 360-929-5003; [email protected]; buduracing.com.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Break-fast, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Sunday, March 25, Whitehead-Muzzall Post, 3037 N. Goldie Road, Oak Harbor. Traditional breakfast. Proceeds benefit local post 7392. Adults $7; seniors $4. 360-675-4048; vfwpost7392.org.

Peeps Art Workshop, 12-2 p.m. Sun-day, March 25, Pacific NorthWest Art School, 15 N.W. Birch St., Coupeville. Create works of art using Marshmallow Peeps candy, then enter it into a Peeps Art contest. Bring your own supplies – plus lots of imagination. Free. 360-678-3396; coupevillearts.org.

Saratoga Chamber Orchestra, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 25, Oak Harbor High School, 950 N.W. Second Ave. Works by Handel, Bach and Beethoven with featured soloists Roxallanne Med-ley and Ove Hanson. Adults $20; se-niors/military $18. Free for those 18 and under. Tickets at Anchor Books, Clinton; Moonraker Books, Langley; BookBay, Freeland; bayleaf, Coupe-ville; bayleaf and Click Music, Oak Har-bor. saratogachamberorchestra.org.

Neolithic Architecture, 2:30-4 p.m. Sunday, March 25, Pacific NorthWest Art School 15 N.W. Birch, Coupe-ville. Art instructor Sharon Hall leads a discussion on neolithic construction practices. Part two of a four-part series. $10. 360-678-3396.

Peeps Art Show & Contest Dead-line, 4 p.m., Monday, March 26. Bring entries to the Pacific NorthWest Art School, 15 N.W. Birch, Coupeville. Open to all ages, prizes awarded. Art-work will be on display from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays from Tuesday, March 27 through Friday, April 6. Visitors can vote for their favorites. Contest winners will be announced at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 7. Prizes are expected to be quite sweet. 360-678-3396.

Saratoga Chamber Orchestra, 7 p.m. Monday, March 26, South Whid-bey High School, 5675 S. Maxwelton Road, Langley. Works by Handel, Bach and Beethoven with featured soloists Roxallanne Medley and Ove Han-son. Adults $20; seniors/military $18. Free for those 18 and under. Tickets at Anchor Books, Clinton; Moonraker Books, Langley; BookBay, Freeland; bayleaf, Coupeville; bayleaf and Click Music, Oak Harbor. saratogachamber-orchestra.org.

Island County Shorelines, 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 27, Commissioners’ Hearing Room, Courthouse Annex Building, Room B102, 1 N.E. Sixth Street. County planning meeting fo-cuses on draft goals for shoreline man-agement. [email protected]; islandcounty.net.

An Evening with Winnie Holzman, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, Whid-bey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Ca-mano Ave., Langley. Winnie Holzman, creator of the television series “My So-called Life,” talks about her new book, “Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses.” $8. 360-221-8268; 800-638-7631; WICAonline.com.

“The Earth Portal,” 7 p.m., 7:45 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Zech Hall, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. Preview the GeoDome, a device used to create an immersive digital environ-ment for virtual tours of the universe, evolution and other systems. $10; $6, 18 and under. 360-221-8268; 800-638-7631; WICAonline.com.

Mick Moloney Performance, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 30, McIntyre Hall, 2501 E College Way, Mount Vernon. Irish American song, dance and story telling performance with Mick Mo-loney and his accompaniment. $25. mcintyrehall.org.

“Music on the Sound,” 7:30 p.m. Fri-day, March 30, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Lang-ley. Robert W. Prosch directs the Whid-bey Island Center for the Arts Chamber Singers. $50. 360-221-8268; 800-638-7631; WICAonline.com.

Weavers’ Spin-In,”10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1, Oak Harbor High School, 950 NW 2nd Ave. On Saturday, Karen Selk talks about using silk. On Sunday, Barbara Seeler presents on spinning silk and silk blends. $15 for two-day admission. whidbeyweaversguild.org.

Whidbey Green Home Tour, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 31, Explore green living and a variety of energy-saving, ecological building styles and low-impact development techniques at five locations from Freeland to Coupe-ville. Tickets $20, or 2 for $35 if in same vehicle. 360-579-1272; brownpaper-tickets.com. 877-385-5360.

Whidbey Playhouse Volunteer Informational, 1-3 p.m. Saturday, March 31, Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd, Oak Harbor. Learn about volunteer opportunities in production, stage management, lighting, costumes and more. The event is a series of 15 minute classes that cover different vol-unteer opportunities. 360-679-2237; [email protected].

“For Your Health,” 3:30 p.m. Sat-urday, March 31, Oak Harbor Library 1000 SE Regatta Drive. Elizabeth Saenz leads a discussion about chakras and how they affect health. Free. Lynne Donnelly 360-544-8445.

Chanteuse Women’s Choir, 4 p.m. Saturday, March 31, Unitarian Univer-salist Congregation, 20103 Hwy. 525, Freeland. Cheryl Veblen directs the choir in the program “How Can I Keep from Singing?” Includes adaptations from the renaissance through modern composers. $12, adults; $10 seniors and youth; $5 children. 360-579-4053; [email protected].

Egyptian Painting, 2:30-4 p.m. Sun-day, April 1, Pacific NorthWest Art School, 15 N.W. Birch St., Coupeville. Art instructor Sharon Hall leads a dis-cussion on Egyptian depictions of the human form. Part three of a four part series. $10. 360-678-3396; pacific-northwestartschool.org.


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I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Bishop, White, Marshall & Weibel, P.S. will on March 30, 2012 at 10:00 am at the main entrance to City Hall, 865 SE Barrington Drive, in the City of Oak Harbor located at Island County, State of Washington, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, payable, in the form

of cash, or cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in Island County, State of Washing-ton, to-wit; Lot 35 and 36, Block 15, Plat of Scatchet Head Addition, Division No.3, as per plat recorded in Volume 8 of Plats, Pages 50, 51 and 52, Records of Island County, Washington. Situate in the County of Is-land, State of Washington,

which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated August 9, 2005, recorded August 16, 2005, under Auditor’s File No. 4144211 records of Island County, Washington, from Thomas Lachaussee and Crystal Lachaussee, Husband and Wife, as Grantor, to Wash-ington Services, Inc., a Washington Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obliga-tion in favor of Washington Federal Savings as benefi-ciary. Washington Federal

Savings is now known as Washington Federal. The sale will be made without any warranty concerning the title to, or the condition of the property.

II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pend-ing to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Grantor’s default on the obligation se-cured by the Deed of Trust.

III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is

made is/are as follows:i) Failure to pay the fol-

lowing amounts, now in ar-rears:

Delinquent Month-ly Payments Due from 6/1/2011through 12/112011:

7 payment(s) at $1413.00Total: $9,891.00Late Charges: 7 late

charge(s) at $70.65 for each monthly payment not made within 15 days of its due date

Total Late Charges: $494.55

Accrued Late Charges: $282.60

TOTAL DEFAULT: $10,668.15

ii) Default: Delinquent general taxes for 2011 plus interest and penalties if any. Delinquent Community Club’s Assessment Lien, plus interest and penalties.

Description of Action Required to Cure and Doc-umentation Necessary to Show Cure: Proof of Payoff

Evidence/Proof must

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By Elisabeth MurrayWhidbey Examiner

The three members of the Port of Coupeville Board of Com-missioner are at odds again, this time over whether or not the port should apply for a grant to replace damaged dock floats on the north side of the Coupeville Wharf.

The floats, to which boats must tie up in order to access the port’s fueling station, are deteriorating due to the effects of wave action during windy weather. A recent storm made the problem worse, with one float almost torn away from the pilings.

Port commissioners Marshal Bronson and Benye Weber both are in favor of proceeding with applying for a grant to replace the float, but new Commissioner Lau-ra Blankenship said she is against seeking money for the project un-til additional project analysis is completed and documentation re-garding the responsibilities of the Port is provided.

“Project analysis should be conducted to determine potential cost overruns,” Blankenship said. “(The Port) needs to go into this with eyes wide open, and not just a guess of how much it will cost.”

Port of Coupeville Executive Director Jim Patton said the floats

are falling apart and damaging the wharf, thanks to repeated wave action during windy weather.

Blankenship has been raising concerns about financial and pol-icy decisions made by the port commissioners since before she joined the board in January. Blan-kenship was elected to the board in 2011; Bronson has been on the board since 2008 and Weber has served since 2002.

The port’s finances are in poor shape for a number of reasons.

The port’s two primary assets – the Coupeville Wharf and the main barn at Greenbank Farm – are both more than a century old and require a lot of expensive re-pairs and maintenance.

The property-tax levy from which it pays for maintenance and operations is not adequate to cover all of the expenses related to these historic properties. But twice in recent years, voters in the port dis-trict have declined to increase the amount of the levy in order to give the port more money.

In particular, Blankenship has criticized the port’s decision to establish a solar-power installa-tion at Greenbank Farm, which she says cost too much at a time when the port is facing severe fi-nancial difficulties. After subtract-ing a $25,000 grant the port was


Port of Coupeville Executive Jim Patton shows damage to the Coupe-ville Wharf pier caused by wave action on the fuel dock floats. The Port wants to apply for a boating facilities grant to replace the floats.

Port commissioners bicker over finances

awarded and revenue from land rent, the solar project has cost the port $47,390, Blankenship said.

Bronson and Patton defended the cost overruns related to the so-lar project at Greenbank Farm.

Bronson said that the increased costs were for unexpected compli-cations. For example, the cost of the wires was higher than the port had expected, he said.

“If we had spent a lot more money on analysis, we might have

known about this in advance,” Patton said.

Weber said she prefers that the Port not use contingency funds at all, but the money should be used when necessary.

The Washington State Rec-reation and Conservation Office grant that the port is applying for will require a 20 percent matching contribution, Patton said. Money for the grant comes from a state fuel taxes paid by boaters.

Blankenship made a motion, “in hopes of learning from the past,” that the executive director of the port complete a thorough analysis of the project, including potential areas of cost overruns, and ask the Washington State Rec-reation and Conservation Office to confirm whether the Port can make an in-kind contribution.

“I have not heard or seen doc-uments that specifically tell the Port’s responsibilities,” Blan-kenship said. “The Port needs to know for sure what in-kind contri-bution will be acceptable, and if it can meet that.”

Blankenship said it is impor-tant to be as prepared and knowl-edgeable in advance before start-ing a project.

Replacing the floats will cost $50,000, Patton said, and the Port must cover the cost, then apply for reimbursement through the grant.

If the port were to receive a grant, the money would be avail-able in 2013, Patton said.

Blankenship’s motion, which she read from a prepared docu-ment, did not receive a second from her fellow commissioners.

Weber said that a lengthy and descriptive motion such as the one proposed by Blankenship should be submitted in advance so the commissioners have a chance to study the issue before discussing it and making a decision at a pub-lic meeting. A


SERVICE:P.O. Box 1617, One NW

Front Street Coupeville, Washington 98239

Legal No. CEX 2559Published: The Whidbey ExaminerMarch 8, March 15 and March 22, 2012

REQUEST FOR INPUT INTO ISLAND COUNTY’S 6-YR TRANSPORTATION

IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM 2013-2018

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM 2013-2018

ANNUAL ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM 2013

The Island County Pub-lic Works Department is requesting public participa-tion in preparing the above listed programs. Interested persons are invited to for-ward their suggestions to the Island County Public Works Director, P.O. Box 5000, Coupeville, WA 98239 by April 30, 2012.

Legal No.: CEX 2574Published: The Whidbey ExaminerMarch 22, 2012

INVITATION TO BID - PUBLIC WORKS 2012 CULVERT SUPPLIES

ISLAND COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS ROADS DIVISION

Sealed bids will be re-ceived by the Island County Auditor in the County Ad-ministration Building, 1 NE 7th St., (P.O. Box 5000) Coupeville, WA 98239, until 9:30 A.M., Tuesday, April 10, 2012 for the following:

2012 Culvert Supplies for Camano, Coupeville, and Oak Harbor Road Shops: Corrugated Double-Walled, Smooth Bore, Non-Perforated, Polyethylene Plastic Drain Pipe, with all couplings/bands, gaskets, seals, and lubricants nec-essary to insure watertight connections and HDPE Pipe for the Public Works Sur-face Water Division.

Bids will not be accepted

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be provided that the delin-quency has been brought current.

IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: $154,189.95, together with interest from May 1, 2011 as provided in the note or other instrument, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute.

v. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as pro-vided by statute. The sale will be made without war-ranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on March 30, 2012. The payments, late charges, or other defaults must be cured by March 19, 2012 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontin-ued and terminated if at any time on or before March 19,2012 (11 days before the sale date) the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, to-gether with any subsequent payments, late charges, or other defaults, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with ca-shier’s or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after March 19, 2012 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and inter-est secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults.

VI. A written notice of de-fault was transmitted by the beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addressees):

See ‘Mailing List’ at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein by this refer-ence.

by both first class and certified mail on November 16, 2011, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were person-ally served on November 17, 2011, with said written no-tice of default or the written notice of default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or

posting.VII. The Trustee whose

name and address are set forth will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale.

VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grant-or and all those who hold by, through or under the Grant-or of all their interest in the above-described property.

IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportu-nity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a law-suit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for in-validating the Trustee’s sale.

X. NOTICE TO OCCU-PANTS OR TENANTS

The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the prop-erty on the 20th day follow-ing the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and any-one having an interest junior to the deed of trust, includ-ing occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th, day following the sale the pur-chaser has the right to evict occupants who are not ten-ants by summary proceed-ings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accor-dance with RCW 61.24.060.

If the Trustee’s Sale is set aside for any reason, the submitted bid will be forth-with returned without inter-est and the bidder will have no right to purchase the property. Recovery of the bid amount without interest constitutes the limit of the bidder’s recourse against the Trustee and/or the Ben-eficiary.

XI. NOTICE TO ALL PER-SONS AND PARTIES WHO ARE GUARANTORS OF THE OBLIGATIONS SECURED BY THIS DEED OF TRUST: (I) The Guarantor may be liable for a deficiency judg-ment to the extent the sale price obtained at the Trust-ee’s Sale is less than the debt secured by the Deed of Trust; (2) The Guarantor has the same rights to reinstate the debt, cure the default, or repay the debt as is given to the grantor in order to avoid the trustee’s sale; (3) The Guarantor will have no right to redeem the property after the Trustee’s Sale; (4) Subject to such longer pe-riods as are provided in the Washington Deed of Trust Act, Chapter 61.24 RCW, any action brought to en-force a guaranty must be

commenced within one year after the Trustee’s Sale, or the last Trustee’s Sale under any deed of trust granted to secure the same debt; and (5) In any action for a defi-ciency, the Guarantor will have the right to establish the fair value of the prop-erty as of the date of the Trustee’s Sale, less prior liens and encumbrances, and to limit its liability for a deficiency to the difference between the debt and the greater of such fair value or the sale price paid at the Trustee’s Sale, plus interest and costs.

EFFECTIVE DATE: De-cember 29, 2011

Bishop, White, Marshall & Weibel, P.S.,

Successor TrusteeBy: William L. Bishop, Jr.,

720 Olive Way, Suite 1201, Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 622-7527State of Washington,

County of King

Mailing List:

Thomas Lachaussee3706 Whales Tail LaneClinton, WA 98236

Crystal Lachaussee3706 Whales Tail LaneClinton, WA 98236

Thomas Lachaussee19288 Stonegate DriveCottonwood, CA 96022

Crystal Lachaussee19288 Stonegate DriveCottonwood, CA 96022

Legal No.: CEX 2497Published: The Whidbey ExaminerMarch 1, March 22, 2012

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS - GAUDINIER

In the Matter of the Es-tate of Bailey J. Gaudinier, Deceased

The Personal Represen-tative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this es-tate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, pres-ent the claim in the man-ner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Rep-resentative or the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and fil-ing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal repre-sentative served or mailed

the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(e); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, ex-cept as otherwise provid-ed in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is ef-fective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Laurin M. GaudinierPersonal Representative3637 Albion PIN, #107Seattle, WA 98103

Attorney for Personal Representative

Mark D. Albertson, WSBA 17373

PO Box 1046, Kent, WA 98035-1046

Telephone: (253) 852-8772

Legal No.: CEX 2576Published: The Whidbey ExaminerMarch 22, March 29, April 5, 2012

ADMIRALTY INLET PILOT TIDAL PROJECT, FERC NO. 12690 (PROJECT)

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A HYDROKINETIC

PILOT LICENSE

On February 29, 2012, an application was filed with the Federal Energy Regu-latory Commission (FERC) for a 10-year pilot license that will allow Snohomish County PUD No. 1 (PUD) to construct and operate the Admiralty Inlet Pilot Tidal Project (FERC No. 12690) for a period of 10 years. At the conclusion of the pi-lot license term, the PUD must remove the Project and restore the site unless a new license is obtained. The PUD is a municipal corporation in Snohomish County and is located at 2320 California Street, Ev-erett, Washington 98201. The Project is located in the northeastern portion of Ad-miralty Inlet, approximately 1 km west-southwest of Admiralty Head. The Proj-ect will involve the deploy-ment and operation of two six-meter OpenHydro tur-bines on the Admiralty Inlet seafloor. The Final License Application (FLA) was de-veloped after several years of studies and consultation with federal and state agen-cies, tribes, non-govern-mental organizations, and members of the public. The FLA includes a description of the Project facilities and operations, and proposed measures to monitor and safeguard public and en-

vironmental resources. A copy of the license applica-tion is available for review or reproduction by the public at the PUD office at 2320 California Street in Everett. The application can also be viewed at the Sno-Isle Pub-lic Library, 788 NW Alexan-der in Coupeville, and the Port Townsend Public Li-brary, 1220 Lawrence Street in Port Townsend, or online at: www.snopud.com/Pow-erSupply/tidal.ashx. Ques-tions regarding the FLA can be directed to Mr. Craig Col-lar at (425) 783-1825.


NOTICE TO CREDITORS - HILDEBRANDT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR IS-LAND COUNTY IN PRO-BATE. In the Matter of the Estate of HILDEBRANDT, HERBERT LEE, JR. De-ceased. No: 12-4-00052-4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. The Last Will and Testament of the above named dece-dent has been accepted into probate under an Adjudica-tion of Testacy. JEFFREY D. KING has been appointed to handle all matters of this es-tate. Persons having claims against the decedent must, prior to the time such claims would be barred by any otherwise applicable stat-ute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to Jeffrey D. King, 8424 E. Meadow Lake Drive, Sno-homish, WA 98290 or the attorneys of record at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after any potential creditor was served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate as-sets.

DATE OF FIRST PUBLI-CATION: March 8, 2012.

By Joan H. McPherson WSBA #14141

Attorney for Jeffrey D. King

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UP TO 30K, Breeding program. We buy everything you raise. 4’ space 2 hours week. Free ani-mal with appointment. Trades as good as cash 509-720-4389

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Vehicles for SaleHARLEY DAVIDSON MOTOR-CYCLE – 1999 FXDX. First owner; excellent condition. 18,675 miles. $8,000. 360-672-4378.

after 9:30 A.M.Proposals will be publicly

opened and read in the Ad-ministration Building Meet-ing Room 116, 1 NE 7th St., Coupeville, WA at 10:20 A.M., April 10, 2012.

All envelopes shall be clearly marked “ATTN: MICHELE TEFFT. BID PROPOSAL – 2012 CUL-VERT SUPPLIES – TO BE OPENED AT 10:20 A.M., APRIL 10, 2012”.

SPECIFICATIONS are available without cost at the office of Island County Pub-lic Works, Roads Division, 360-679-7331.

Island County reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive all infor-malities in the bidding.

BOARD OF ISLAND COUNTY COMMISSION-ERS

ISLAND COUNTY, WASHINGTON


NOTICE OF APPLICATION WITH SEPA

Island County has re-viewed the proposed proj-ect for probable adverse environmental impacts and expects to issue a determi-nation of non-significance (DNS). The optional DNS process established by WAC 197-11-355 is being used. The public comment period as described below may be the only opportu-nity to comment on the en-vironmental impacts of the following proposals. File Number: 047/12 CGP Ap-plicant: Leandra & Louise Reuble Proposal: Clear-ing &minor grading of ap-proximately 3.5 acres of a 5 acre parcel for conversion to pasture. Location: 875 Keystone Hill Rd, Coupeville Staff Contact & E-mail: Bill Poss, [email protected] The proposal may include mitigation under applicable codes, and the project re-view process may incor-porate or require mitigation measures regardless of whether an EIS is required. Application files are avail-able for inspection at no cost, and will be provided at the cost of reproduction in a timely manner. PUBLIC COMMENT must be re-ceived by 4:30 p.m. on April 5, 2012.

Mail to: Island County

Community Development, P.O. Box 5000, Coupe-ville, WA 98239; deliver to 1 NE 6th St Coupeville, WA between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; FAX to (360) 679-7306. ADDITIONAL INFOR-MATION To request notice of hearings, receive a copy of the decision or SEPA de-termination, or information on appeals contact us at the above address.

Legal No.: CEX 2581Published: The Whidbey

ExaminerMarch 22, 2012

INVITATION TO BID ASPHALT CONCRETE

MATERIALSISLAND COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS ROADS DIVISION

Sealed bids will be re-ceived by the Island County Auditor in the County Ad-ministration Building, 1 NE 7th St., (P.O. Box 5000) Coupeville, WA 98239, until 9:30 A.M., Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 for the following:

ASPHALT CONCRETE MATERIALS for the pe-riod of May 1, 2012 to May 1, 2013: Modified G, Class B, ATB, & Tack Coat Oil (CSS-1)

Bids will not be accepted after 9:30 A.M.

Proposals will be publicly opened and read in the Ad-ministration Building Meet-ing Room 116, 1 N.E. 7th Street, Coupeville, WA at 10:00 A.M., April 10, 2012.

All envelopes shall be clearly marked “ATTN: MI-CHELE TEFFT. SEALED BID – CONCRETE AS-PHALT PRODUCTS – TO BE OPENED ON TUESDAY APRIL 10, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.”


Island County reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive all infor-malities in the bidding pro-cess.




INVITATION TO BID LIQUID ASPHALT

MATERIALSISLAND COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS ROADS DIVISION

Sealed bids will be re-ceived by the Island County Auditor in the County Ad-ministration Building, 1 NE 7th St., (P.O. Box 5000) Coupeville, WA 98239, un-til 9:30 A.M., Tuesday April 10th, 2012 for the following:

LIQUID ASPHALT MATE-RIALS for the period of May 1, 2012 to May 1, 2013: CRS-2P, CMS-2P, CSS-1, CRS-2 & CMS-2

Bids will not be accepted after 9:30 A.M.

Proposals will be pub-licly opened and read in the Administration Building Meeting Room 116, 1 N.E. 7th Street, Coupeville, WA at 10:10 A.M., April 10, 2012.

All envelopes shall be clearly marked “ATTN: MI-CHELE TEFFT. SEALED BID – LIQUID ASPHALT PROD-UCTS – TO BE OPENED ON TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012 AT 10:10 AM”.


Island County reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive all infor-malities in the bidding pro-cess.




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Oak Harbor High School juniors Michael Garon, left, and Elizabeth Adkins were among a group of Oak Harbor High School students dressed as the living dead who visited the Coupeville Wharf Satur-day afternoon to film a segment of a music video based on Michael Jackson’s famous “Thriller” video.


A Peeps tea party created by Coupeville resident Carol Bement and her grandchildren is the first entry in the Peeps Show and Contest sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Art School.

The Pacific NorthWest Art School is holding a contest for the best work of art created from Marshmallow Peeps candy.

The Peeps Show and Contest contest is open to all ages, and prizes will be awarded for adults and children.

A free Peeps workshop from noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 25 at the Pacific NorthWest Art School, 15 NW Birch, Coupeville.

No materials will be provid-ed, but there’s plenty of room to work on tables in the school’s

workshop, and you can bring your friends along to make their own Peeps art.

Peeps artwork will be on dis-play from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. week-days from Tuesday, March 27 through Friday, April 6. Visitors can vote for their favorites. Con-test winners will be announced at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 7. Prizes are expected to be quite sweet.

Submissions must be brought to the art school by 4 p.m., Mon-day, March 26. For information, call 360-678-3396.

Art school hosts Peeps show

Science education exhibit featured

The Whidbey GeoDome proj-ect will present a preview of the Earth Portal science education ex-

hibit at 7 p.m., 7:45 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29.

The Earth Portal is an inflatable device in which people can watch a presentation about various as-pects of scientific discovery.

The Earth Portal will be on dis-play at the Whidbey Island Cen-

ter for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave. Langley.

Tickets are $10 for adults, and $6 for children. For information, call 360-221-8268; 800-638-7631 or visit WICAonline.com.

The Earth Portal will be on dis-play at the Seattle Center April 21.

Documents

The Whidbey Examiner, March 22, 2012