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To put the suffrage movement in perspective, a brief review of the historical discrimination of half the world’s population is helpful. Ironically, we begin with the areas of the world known as the “Cradles of Civilization.” The Hebrew Tribe of Levi was the first to record laws subjugating women, approximately 4,000 years ago. Before then women were in equal or elevated positions as doctors, rulers, legislators, business leaders traders and economists. 2,000 years later the new Christian religion accepted the old Hebrew testament texts and i...
As a farmer and outdoorsman, I despise litter. Maybe it’s because the wind blows on Whidbey Island, but it seems we spend an inordinate amount of time picking up litter that has blown into our fields and woods: plastic bags, pet-food bags, flowerpots, cardboard boxes, even trampolines. But litter is an inanimate object, like the chair you stubbed your toe on – yelling at it doesn’t help. The real culprit is always human. Our state imposes steep fines ($50 to $5,000) for littering, but it still occurs. Whether the cause is ignorance, apa...
It is one week until Washington’s presidential primary election day. Five days from now, Sunday, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. Since 1987, first Congress then presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. Besides apple pie, what is more American than voting? Who is more loved than mom? Ain’t it great that women won the right to vote 100 years ago this August, when the 19th Amendment was adopted? Who could be against mom? Or voting? One hundred years ago a lot of people were. Call them the usual suspects, the establi...
Women finally winning the vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in August 1920 increased the franchise, the voting population, by 50%. That 72 year fight is perhaps the single most significant social advance toward a fuller democracy in our nation’s history. Elaine Weiss, author of “The Women’s Hour” a 2017 telling of the history of women earning the vote, recounted highlights to an appreciative audience at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts Center last Thursday. She criticized textbooks that summarize the three-gen...
The Town of La Conner’s Public Works Department will pick up yard waste March 23-27. The crew will pick up small branches, clippings and other yard waste, but cannot take large limbs, grass clippings or anything in a plastic bag. Your one-time pickup cannot exceed one pile at 60 cu. ft., e.g. (5’x4’x3’). Residents living within the La Conner’s town limits can schedule pickups by calling Town Hall, 360-466-3125 by Wednesday, March 18. Submitted by Town of La Conner...
The traveling exhibition Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank is now showing through May 17 at the Whatcom Museum, Old City Hall, in Bellingham. Organized by the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre in Burnaby, B.C., this compelling and thought provoking collection of black and white photographs by American photographer Ansel Adams and German-Canadian photographer Leonard Frank depicts two different perspectives of internment and incarceration of people of Japanese descent in the United States and Canada in the early...
Add another “People’s Choice” award to honors that Christianson’s Nursery earned at this year’s Northwest Flower and Garden Festival. “Hill Top Farm” earned the Display Garden Professionals Choice for demonstrating “excellence in design concepts, horticulture and quality of execution to create a memorable show garden reflecting the highest level of workmanship.” The Fine Gardening Magazine Inspiration Award Garden said the display “inspires gardeners to reach for new levels of design excellence and creativity while keeping those goals achieva...
Ashley Davis isn’t apt to toot his own horn. But the La Conner High junior can and does – in a literal sense, anyway – on those occasions when he takes up the saxophone. The laidback and modest Davis, however, is best known for playing the bass clarinet. And not just on and around the local campus. Davis recently auditioned for and was selected to the All-State Wind Ensemble during the Washington Music Educators Association Conference in Yakima. A member of the La Conner High b...
La Conner artist Barbara Silverman Summers is extending the Northwest’s mystical art tradition this month with a solo show aptly named “Remixing Mysticism.” The exhibit opening takes place at Cassera Gallery in Stanwood on March 5 from 6-9 p.m., and remains on display through March 27. The show represents four years of exploration of movement and texture, Silverman Summers says. She has been employing a technique with both brush and palette knife, painting layers of color and then cutting excav...
A division of labor has added up to multiple successes for the La Conner High Knowledge Bowl team. As in years past, the numbers continue to support the team’s strategy of bringing together students with diverse interests and varied skill sets. The latest example was at recent regional trials where La Conner dominated its enrollment division and placed ahead of all schools other than Stanwood High, which draws academic talent from more than 1,400 students. La Conner placed fourth at the State 1...
The youth league baseball season is weeks off, but the first pitch has already been thrown. Only in this case it’s a sales pitch. The Hedlin family, which since the early 1950s has leased to La Conner a near-two acre property facing Maple Avenue for use as a community sports field, has offered to sell the property outright to the Town. Hardball isn’t part of the deal. The Hedlins are making the ballfield site – an 80,000-square foot public use pocket nestled between residences and farmland – available at a discounted price, May...
Since moving here a bit over a year ago to make Shelter Bay my residence I have met many fine folks in my neighborhood and on walks around town. Since living here I have appreciated the photos, musings and editorial comments the editor of this paper has put in this Weekly as so many of them have spoken to my sense of self. I subscribe to the paper because I feel it is an important vehicle for folks to read and interact with other community members, if only in the comfort of their own homes. And I like to know what’s going on around this area of...
