Articles written by Jon Oesting

Jon Oesting|Apr 3, 2019

A park visitor Your Pioneer Park in La Conner on the hill overlooking the canal is beautiful. I live in Bellingham and I like to drive down and sit and read on the bluff above the water and enjoy the park and its trees. But then the call of nature disputes my reading and I walk to the bathrooms. I find them LOCKED. Over and over. Winter and spring. Sumer and fall. Morning and afternoon. Sometimes they are open but to no discernible pattern. The sign on the tree says Park open dawn to dusk. Really? I don’t think so! What’s so frustrating is tha...