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Fire District 13 Chief Roy Horn announced last week that he would submit his resignation on July 1, because his contract expires on Dec. 31. Horn told the board at the Thursday, Jan. 26 meeting that he would put in a letter of resignation only because his contract requires him to give six months notice, and he wants the board to do “succession planning.” When pressed later on whether he intends to retire, Horn said, “It depends on the board.” He said, “I want to put it in the board’s mind to have these things addressed.” When Horn made his...
La Conner High School alumna Velma Alberta Stahlberg Hedlund died on Sunday, January 1, at the age of 91. She had been well cared for by her East Wenatchee family for several years and as a resident of the Blossom Creek Memory Care Facility in Wenatchee for the past 5 months. Born September 6, 1925 in Strathcona, Minnesota to Albert and Jennie Shay Stahlberg, Velma spent her early years in North Dakota. She moved with her parents to LaConner in 1937, where she completed her schooling and graduated from La Conner High School. She married...
It seemed like a perfect storm brewing on Friday for the upset-minded Mount Vernon Christian Hurricanes. They would be playing in front of a large and vocal home crowd and facing a La Conner team that would again be without a key starter — something of a recurring theme for the Braves this year. This time around it would be versatile wing Brady Nelson, a regular double-figure scorer of late, having to sit out. Nelson, a senior, was scratched due to the flu. “We knew that would be a big loss for us going in,” La Conner High head coach Sco...
They didn’t win in a breeze, but the La Conner High Lady Braves didn’t blow an early chance to clinch the NW2B girls’ hoop title, either. La Conner did so with a steady — if unspectacular — 46-37 road triumph over the Mount Vernon Christian Lady Hurricanes on Friday. With the victory, the Lady Braves wrapped up the league championship with a week remaining in the regular season. La Conner took an unblemished 10-0 conference slate into late Monday action with Shoreline Christian. The Lady Braves finish NW2B play at home oppos...
Swinomish Police Department Monday Jan 23 10:57 a.m.: Arrests – Swinomish Tribal Officers went to a residence on Solahdwh Lane after receiving information that there might be subjects there with warrants for their arrest. They were able to contact two adult women at the residence, both of whom had confirmed warrants and were taken into custody. Further investigation revealed that court orders prohibited both women from being at the residence. They were each booked into jail based upon their warrants and each was issued a citation for the...
Students at La Conner Elementary School received a visit from U.N. Arts Ambassador Ibiyinka Alao from Nigeria on Tuesday, who gave the fifth-graders a painting lesson. The youth gathered around the table as he explained step-by-step how to draw and paint a nature scene with palm trees, a road and the sun. Alao’s easygoing, big personality made students laugh with his quick jokes, and he told the students “at all times, you must make sure you’re smiling. Smile and your work should be fine.” The f...
Nothing has dampened Bill Iffrig’s passion for running, not even surviving an event more vividly traumatic than many will experience in a lifetime—the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Camera footage caught the moment of explosion, recording a sea of shocked runners, including one 78-year-old man thrown down by the blast a few minutes from the finish line. That runner was Iffrig, and he will be in town later this month to run in the Smelt Derby 10K, hosted by the Rotary Club of La Conner. Iff...
Vandalism in the town’s public restrooms on Morris Streets and on First Street has prompted drastic action. The Morris Street public restroom is locked up, and the one on First Street will be open only between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Anyone who needs a facility outside of the designated open potty hours will have to use the outhouse set up in the adjacent street-side park. The little pocket park has a drinking fountain, sculpture and the slice of old growth log and now an outhouse. F...
