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Field workers picking daffodils and snow geese in the skies converged for a uniquely Skagit Valley scene this week. – Photo by Don CoyoteField workers picking daffodils and snow geese in the skies converged for a uniquely Skagit Valley scene this week. – Photo by Don Coyote...
The La Conner School Board and Swinomish Indian Senate will hold a joint meeting this Thursday to discuss tribal sovereignty curriculum. By law, since a quorum of school board members will be present, the meeting will be open to the public. It will be held at 5 p.m. in the Swinomish Senate Chambers, on Moorage Way across the street from the Village Chevron station on the reservation. Tribal sovereignty curriculum is a state recommended program, approved by Washington state tribes, to provide instruction in Native American history and culture...
Lifelong Skagit Valley Resident Don L. McKee died on Tuesday, February 10 at age 92 at Fidalgo Care Center in Anacortes after a battle with pneumonia. Don was born on December 19, 1922 to Sidney T. and Fannie M. McKee in their home at 1710 12th Street in Anacortes. Shortly after, the family moved to 903 23rd Street, where he lived most of his school days in Anacortes attending Nelson Grade School, Junior High in the Old Columbian High School building and graduating as Anacortes High School...
Longtime La Conner resident and volunteer firefighter Jerry Blades died in his sleep at his house in Mount Vernon on Saturday night, February 14. He was 86 years old. Jerry was a dedicated volunteer firefighter in La Conner. A few years ago, even in his 80s, Jerry was on the roof at Town Hall helping to move the old fire siren out to the fire station on the edge of town. Jerry and his wife Donna had been married 63 years when she died in 2010. Jerry was also preceded in death by all three of his children, David Blades, Linda Hansen and Lucy...
The Rotary Club’s Smelt Derby, which will be held Feb. 28 this year, has become the stuff of legends. Someone with first-hand knowledge of the most famous Smelt Derby of them all is setting the record straight. I enjoyed last week’s article by Lee Carlson concerning the annual Smelt Derby Festival. I have a feeling that most people today have no idea how big a deal the Smelt Derby used to be. By the time I arrived in La Conner in 1974, the derby had become the winter event in Northwest Washington. It regularly attracted more than 1,000 par...
Snow geese come from Alaska and Canada every year to winter in the lovely mud of Skagit Valley fields. They’re still enjoying the amenities here, and locals can hear them honking as they fly overhead from field to field. – Photo by Amylynn Richards...
