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There will be a community presentation about a feasibility study for a grant to allow solar and the storage of energy at the Town’s Fire Hall and at the La Conner School District campus Saturday, Feb. 3 at 10 a.m. at the La Conner Swinomish Library. The presentation aims to explore solar and storage opportunities and how they can help build resilience and support community needs. The Town of La Conner Emergency Management Commission will share details on their work with emergency preparedness. I encourage you to attend. And if you haven’t alr...
The Skagit Valley Clean Energy Co-op (skagitvce.coop) is ramping up our Solarize Skagit Campaign which will start in early March 2024. SVCEC’s Solarize Campaign connects Skagit homeowners and small businesses with solarizing their homes and buildings with the benefit of volume purchasing. We are a non-profit run by volunteers writing grants and mobilizing the money available from various government entities that can cut solarizing costs with free analysis of your roof site, tax credits, group purchasing discounts and financial discount on l...
As a missionary child, my husband, Tom spent his middle and high school years in foreign schools in Japan. Fifty-six years ago he embarked on an adventure in his junior year in high school with his Japanese classmate, Komei Kure, to walk the ancient 320 mile Tokaido road. This year they had a reunion of sorts – to walk another ancient Japanese road. They decided to work with their classmate’s walking tour company, Walk Japan. I accompanied four other missionary “kids” and longtime fellow a...
