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Over 60 people filled the second-floor gallery for the community workshop considering the path forward for the Museum of Northwest Art last Wednesday, the 21st, and none of them were happy. Tom Beckwith, a member of the board of directors, ably led the meeting. Like a huge family reunion, the group was contentious. Not everyone liked each other, but all were civil. Gary Molyneaux, board president, invited participation in his opening remarks, saying “we are trying to move toward accountability and the future. To move to the future, we need you....
The smelt weren’t running in La Conner Saturday, February 24, but 81 people were, as the took part in the annual smelt run. Six of the runners were under 14 years old. Run coordinator Peter Voorhees was satisfied, emailing “Considering the weather it went really well. Lots of happy people; we had over 160 people sign-up.” There weren’t a lot of folks fishing for smelt. One couple came from Idaho, four guys came from Seattle, and several hailed from Alger, Bow and Bellingham. Maybe 30 people,...
Kim Broadhead is convinced the extension ladder in the yard behind Stompin Grounds last Sunday morning meant someone was just steps away from burglarizing her again. The December 26 taking of her cashbox, with its $170 opening drawer, and a heavy, leaded glass vase with its hummingbird etching also came before dawn. Broadhead walked into her shop 6:45 a.m. Sunday morning, dropped her purse, looked out the south window toward Road Street and saw a ladder in the grass. She assumed that someone spotted the ladder carriers – or the would-be...
The Shelter Bay Community Board of Directors chose to not make a decision on participating in the Town of La Conner’s phase I planning of its water main replacement project at its February 14 meeting. Instead, Board President Anne Hays sent Mayor Ramon Hayes a series of questions on two topics in a February 16 letter: Fire flow and Phase I planning for the replacement of the transmission main under La Conner Whitney Road. The Town government asked for a decision on participation throughout 2017. Shelter Bay board and staff have responded to e...
A DIFFERENT TAKE ON BIRDS OF WINTER – Edison’s annual chicken parade brought out all kinds of imposters and a big crowd as birds and friends of fowls marched the entire length of the business district. Missed it? These birds migrate to this location every end of February. – Photo by Don Coyote...
Folks from all walks of life taking the walk of their lives had a chance to put their feet up awhile on Swinomish Reservation last week. About 20 people walking across America to call attention to the ravages of substance abuse and domestic violence made Swinomish an early stop on their nearly 3,000-mile, five-month trek between Lummi and Washington, D.C. The group was greeted Tuesday night by Swinomish Tribal Senate chair Brian Cladoosby, Tribal Senator Barb James, and members of the Swinomish...
Ahead of Jamie Ford’s March 6 appearance at the Lincoln Theatre as a benefit for the La Conner and Burlington libraries, Ford spoke with the Weekly News. Highlights: On libraries, both growing up and now? As a kid, I was a total latch key kid. There was a Carnegie library I would walk to after school. My mom would pick me up from her work. I haunted libraries. I met my wife in the Great Falls public library; On using libraries today I am active in my own library and am on the foundation board myself. I use them for research, whether it is S...
The headline for this week’s column could be “Winter weather migrated through the Skagit last week.” Thankfully it has passed through, for this Monday’s temperatures were much milder than last week. And if the forecast holds, it might be 50 degrees when you are reading next week’s paper. Way back on the night of the 17th, the change came as snow mixed with rain north of Seattle. Snow flurries came down Sunday morning. Until last week, that was not typical, but it was the first wintery taste, this new year, of what has been a mild winter in the...
Counting exemptions, the Swinomish Tribe will collect $1,926,535 in taxes from the 950 homeowners in Shelter Bay and Pull & Be Damned during 2018. The levy rate is 13.0988 per thousand, up from 12.3923 in 2017. The school levy went from $2,521,789 in 2017 to $2,754,295 in 2018. The schools should receive a contribution of $789,577 to pay their fair share for educating the kids in Shelter Bay and Pull & Be Damned. But, the schools are receiving only $570,000. The remaining $219,577 must be funded by the 2,470 taxpayers of the La Conner school di...
Today [February 23 – editor] the democratically controlled state legislature is voting on LB 6617 if I have my facts correct at this early time of information about it. Ultimately, the bill will be defeated, it would take a 2/3 vote to pass it, but that is not the point. Here is what happened this week. In a legislative committee meeting on Tribal affairs and relations, or some similar title, bill 6617 was sent out today for a vote. Here is the essence of the bill: that all legislative affairs would be immune to public scrutiny. No...
Once again I am writing in regard to yet another tragic shooting, this time at Parkland, Florida. Here we have a misguided and troubled young man taking the lives of so many students and teachers. Our schools that nurture the process of learning are being turned into “war zones”. What will it take for our elected representatives to act? I have to ask, how is a known disturbed teenager be allowed to legally purchase an assault weapon (AR-15) on the open market? That is a firearm that was designed for military use with no other purpose than to...
I write in response to your editorial; “Guns don’t add up” Nicotine was marketed for decades until evidence that it caused cancers and chronic lung disease was finally accepted. Modern narcotic derivatives were marketed as being “less addictive” until it was realized that these drugs are overdosing and killing tens of thousands each year. Both compounds were recognized as agents of death, not the people using them, and measures were taken to significantly reduce their availability and usage. Nicotine marketing, supported by the tobacco i...
