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Anacortes will be shutting down the water main that serves La Conner on Jan. 31, 9 a.m. thru Feb. 2, 1 p.m. During this time La Conner will provide water service supplied by the 1.5 MG (million gallons) water reservoir; 3 days should not be a concern. I will monitor the tank hourly. I have requested Shelter Bay’s intertie with the Swinomish be on standby. That said, I ask all La Conner water customers be “Water Wise” with business as usual during this time. Please contact me with any questions, [email protected] or 360-8...
The new semester at La Conner Schools picked up STEAM on several levels last week. Teacher Steve DeLeon’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) class was part of the equation at the 19th annual “Storming the Sound” conference here on Jan. 25. The regional event drew at least 177 environmental educators, journalists, artists, college faculty, students and state agency personnel to La Conner. An overflow crowd, including the La Conner High contingent, gathered at Maple Hall to hear keynote speaker Ginny Boadhurst, now the inaug...
Puget Sound’s first race of 2018 is Saturday at 9:45 a.m. It starts from Conner Waterfront Park, under the Rainbow Bridge. Come watch the perhaps 35th annual “human powered” only watercraft race. As many as 80 boats entered in past years. This year’s racers include a La Connerite and an Ohioan. The race is sponsored by Sound Rowers Open Water Rowing and Paddling Club. Race Director Rod Sternagel noted “La Conner is our first race since October and our members use it rather than Ground Hog’s Day...
Local Coldwell Banker Bain real estate brokers Don Elliott and George Roth formed a unique partnership with the Skagit County Historical Museum and have recently made a donation in an effort to help raise money for the organization. The $1,515 check was presented by longtime La Conner resident Bob Skeele, along with Don and George, Museum Director Jo Wolfe and Museum Board President Sara Patton. “This donation – and the partnership Don and George created with us – goes a long way i...
I know it read like a poem but that is how one feels when you see the flower fields. God sent bolts of pure Colors, painted in large swaths, acreage wide: Long, filled with pure blues, yellows, reds. Blended, against blue gray skies, Snow White mountains, high. A Joy to behold. Struts beloved Irises, Daffodils, Tulips, Sunflowers, Dahlias. Bulbs to be shipped all over the globe. Proud alluvial soil, deep, rich in nurturing, brown, gray bulbs. Glows theses bulbs that contain the seeds of magical...
I have lived in La Conner since 1980 and my late husband Bob and I have been MoNA members, supporters and donors for over 30 years. We were married at MoNA in 1986, back when the Museum was in the Gaches Mansion, the days of Art and Rita Hupy. So MoNA has been close to my heart for a long time, and I consider the Museum to be a crown jewel in our town, celebrating the arts and the wonderful artists who have chosen to live, work and create their art right here among us. I have loved going to the openings of new shows and to the artists’ t...
Ursula Le Guin died last week, on Jan. 22. She was a rarity: a great writer and marvelous human being whose large heart and brilliant vision – along with her huge literary talent – transformed the genre of science fiction. I read “The Dispossessed” for a class in 1978. It was written in 1974. To this day it is the best novel I have ever read. In a lyrical, beautifully written, philosophical saga it offers an Einstein-like genius walking away from his anarchist utopian society because it has stagnated and lost its way. This hum...
The state legislature’s passing of a capital budget, with its $500,000 appropriation for a new La Conner library, won by the long, hard and skillful work of Susan Macek, her Library Foundation board and a probable list of behind the scene champions, has started the clock ticking for a 17-month marathon of fundraising to pay for building a new library on Morris and Sixth Streets. Three foundations of our society are local government, community and libraries. Add public schools, the fire department and the Museum of Northwest Art and you have t...
A valley wide shout-out to Claire Swedberg and the Skagit Valley Historical Museum by bringing our community together by celebrating our 80-year history with North West Art. It was standing room only at Saturday’sJan. 20 gathering for a panel discussion let by Claire whose new book “In the Valley of Mystic Light” was the genesis of the show and discussions. Snugly surrounded by our legacy of paintings, prints, prose and sculpture curated by Karen Summers, the panel of local artists discussed their relationships to the NW School of Art and o...
To the Editor, I made a mistake in my Jan. 24 letter to the editor. The amount of flow at the sewer plant, due to inflow and infiltration, should be 113 gallons per person per day. I forgot to count the flow from composting. It means that 60.4 percent of Town flow is I&I (inflow and infiltratioon), and it is still too high. I regret my mistake. Sincerely, Dan O’Donnell...
Chamber of Commerce Director Heather Carter had the right bait to bring droves of birders to the first La Conner Birding Showcase: world renowned owl expert Paul Bannick. It worked: Over 350 people overflowed the balcony and main floor of the town’s Maple Hall Sat., Jan. 27. Bannick did not disappoint, swooping across the room, speaking directly to people in the front row, by turns dramatically raising and lowering his voice as he went through an hour’s worth of photos and videos, cap...
