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The Kiwanis Club of La Conner has chosen its November students of the month. Kendall Lee is the high school student for November. Her parents are Jason and Dawn Lee. Kendall is a sophomore at La Conner High School. She is her class ASB treasurer. She plays the flute in pep band and recently joined the knowledge bowl team. Kendall plays soccer and tennis both in school and outside of school. After graduation she would like to study emergency medicine. Kellie Cayou-Lockrem is the November middle school student. Her parents are Josh and Va...
A first person report from the field of Saturday’s Daffodil Craft Bazaar. We had a steady stream of people stop by the booths: Visitors who just saw the tents, someone who learned about the event from another place in town and lots of locals shopping. There were 14 vendors with a good mix from birdhouses to wreaths. The vendors seemed pleased with the foot traffic and said they had good sales. Kiwanis members underestimated the desire for daffodils. We ran out of flowers within the first hour o...
La Conner Regional Library and other public libraries provide open access to books, materials, programs, technology and first-rate customer service. Public libraries are unique institutions because they exist solely to further the common good and to serve you regardless of how you look, what you believe, where you were born, what language you speak, who you love or any other way that you identify. Public libraries are far more than buildings with books. As technology and the internet have transformed the way we live, work and connect with one...
Do you remember the Seattle World’s Fair? If you were anywhere near Seattle in 1962, you knew about it and probably attended. What if that was your second World’s Fair? In this latest novel by Jamie Ford, his main character, Ernest Young, looks back at his first experience at the 1909 Seattle World’s Fair where, as a boy, he was a raffle prize. That event would change his life forever. In 1902 a five-year-old half Chinese boy named Yung Kun-ai boarded a ship for America. Yung’s mother couldn’t care for him any longer and had sold him into an u...
As I was mopping the library bathroom a few weeks ago after a storm, I bemoaned the fact we’re not yet building our new library. The bathroom flooding is just one symptom we’re dealing with in a building that lacks what we need in a 21st century library. In a hard rain the water backs up because of the drains and comes into the library through the bathroom fan vent. I fully expect to see mushrooms pop up in the carpet in front of the bathroom after all the times it has been soaked. The current building has a severe lack of space for acc...
When the stars come out, patrons of the La Conner Regional Library will soon be able to see them much more clearly, weather permitting. Library card holders can check out this telescope, thanks to a donation by the Island County Astronomical Society. Bob Scott, president of Island County Astronomical Society, has donated, on behalf of the Astronomical Society, an Orion Starblast 4.5-inch reflector telescope to the La Conner Regional Library’s collection. Astronomical societies around the c...
The library is an important part of the community and has been for several generations. Just ask Gail Thulen and his granddaughter, Anna Jane Thulen. When Colleen Thulen passed away in February of this year, Gail asked if his wife’s library card could be transferred to his granddaughter. It was always a point of pride that Colleen had a library card with a low two digit number. Colleen was involved in the formation of the district, believing the La Conner Library was important to its citizens. When it was formed in 1993, she was the first c...
