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  • Give blood, save lives

    Dorothy Downes|Jan 31, 2024

    Looking to give your community a Valentine gift? Giving blood takes under ten minutes and truly saves lives. There is no substitute. Please donate on Feb. 23 at the La Conner High School gym. Please call me, 360-421-9233, or Lori Buher, 360-630-0809. Either of us would love to talk with you about the process and benefits and provide you details. Thanks, Dorothy Downes, RN MSW La Conner For more information: https://www.townoflaconner.org...

  • What's not wrong

    Dorothy Downes|Apr 29, 2020

    Once upon a time, before COVID-19, so many aspects of life, then taken for granted, added to the flow of our days: Economic opportunity. Operating schools. Open small businesses. Social “non-distancing.” Abundant “non-essentials.” Relative ease. In my new “flow,” I am working for a Seattle hospital managing care and seeing the strength of colleagues, but also, while working from home in LaConner, feeling challenged by the anxiety that adapting and social distancing brings. Because the horizon of a safe return to “ease” is elusive, I quizzed mys...