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All’s well that ends well! A call to Shelter Bay staff Saturday reported that a group of children were seen playing in the water around Martha’s Beach when the tide was out on Saturday, but were not seen returning after the tide had come in later in the day. Fears were compounded by the fact that a bicycle and children’s clothing and personal belongings were left behind at the beach. The call was relayed to 911 by Shelter Bay staff. Emergency responders arrived right away, immediately set up a command post and started systematically searc...
Roger Pederson will have to wait a week to hear his lawyer make the case in Skagit County District Court for returning 135 Scottish Highland cattle to his farm. The cattle were seized from the Bay View farmer by county and state authorities based on complaints by neighbors in January. At Monday’s hearing Judge Dianne Goddard gave Pederson attorney Emily Beschen a week, scheduling a March 12 (11 a.m.) follow-up session. Spectator rows in the Mount Vernon courtroom were filled for the briskly-paced 35-minute hearing The one-week interim period w...
Saturday in the park was music to the ears of La Conner’s Jean Wedin. And the resulting harmony wasn’t solely defined by that classic Chicago Golden Oldie of the early ‘70s. Far from it. Wedin’s personal hit parade, a serenade of positive notes highlighted by a medley of fond reminiscences, lined up on cue with nearly 50 family members gathering Saturday afternoon for a reunion at the new Conner Waterfront Park below Rainbow Bridge. They came from near and far, young and not-so-young alike....
MIGRATING INTO THE SKAGIT VALLEY ONCE AGAIN – The daffodils are up, signaling winter’s end. The first crop of 2018 brings farmworkers up from the south, arriving here before those other two legged visitors, the birds, migrate north. – Photo by Don Coyote...
Christopher Shainin chose a difficult and courageous act when he stepped down as executive director of the Museum of Northwest Art February 22. At least the last year of his tenure was conflictual: 15 board members have resigned since the start of 2017 and two senior staff, Development Director Liz Theaker and Northwest Legacies Project Curator Kathleen Moles resigned. MoNA is in a mess. That was the message provided by a variety of voices and points of view at a February 21 community workshop called for input on MoNA’s future. There was not a...
The emotion-laden letter “Guns, like drugs, are agents of death” (Weekly News, February 28) is fraught with hyperbole, clearly intended to elevate the scope of the perceived “problem”. Without being specific, the writer asserts that “weapons of war (are) in the hands of many” and alludes to private ownership of “weapons of war similar to those used in the mass killings” as the major element and cause. The truth of the matter is, there are no legal “weapons of war” in private hands. The assumption is “weapons of war” equates to the ubiquito...
Dear Mr. Stern: Your February 21st editorial “Guns don’t add up” was disingenuous at best and grossly deceptive at worse. Your statistic that 3 percent of Americans are gun owners was taken out-of-context and was perverted to represent the number of gun owners in America, and that is just plain wrong. The percentage of gun owners in our country is 42 percent, not 3 percent. Tell me this, how come the car is not at fault when a drunk driver kills someone? Or how come the bomb is not at fault when a terrorist blows up innocent people? In your...
Finally: Corporate America has stood up to the irrational NRA and offered sane solutions to the American gun culture. Dick’s Sporting Goods, has immediately ended sales of all assault style rifles and high-capacity magazines and raised the age of sales of all guns to 21 years old. Thank you Dick’s! Thank you Hertz, Met Life, Delta, Wal-Mart, SimpliSafe, Avis, Budget Rental Car and more by the time this is printed. Since Congress can’t make progress, and won’t a stand to protect our children, we are now being led by corporate entities. The new...
We live in a time which deeply needs the power and the transformative substance of NW Visionaries. There are such artists living today across the Northwest States. Northwest Visionary work began as a movement in the Skagit Valley which now lives in the soul and vision of artists living and working with a direct relationship to the landscape they inhabit across the Pacific Northwest and other parallel visions in the world. They are not the conceptual artists describing the next flavor of art fad or conceptual genius or in expressing political...
Bob was born in Los Angeles, CA to Wayman G. Cushman and Ruth Johnson Cushman. He grew up in San Dimas, CA in the family business, Cushman Hardware. Bob attended Cal Poly Pomona where he was very involved in student government and was Rose Parade float chairman. During this time, he was assigned to chaperone Patti Hamilton, cheerleader, and his future wife. Bob and Pat were married August 12, 1961 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in La Habra, CA. In January of 1962, the family relocated Cushman Hardware to Payette, ID. While in Idaho, three...
GOING HOME A WINNER – La Conner dropped its State 2B Girls’ Hardwood Classic game with Life Christian Academy in Spokane on Wednesday. But Lady Braves sophomore Joanie Benson still had reason to smile afterward. She was named the team’s Sportsmanship Award recipient during post-game ceremonies. La Conner High Principal Todd Torgeson made the presentation. – Photo courtesy of Bill Reynolds...
The day after a room of sixty-plus passionate people voiced their frustrations and displeasures with the Museum of Northwest Art’s precarious financial and physical condition, its unsteady operations and its uncertain future at a February 21st meeting, Executive Director Christopher Shainin offered his resignation to the museum board. They accepted it. March 31st is his last day. Three board members, Christian Carlson, Shelly Crocker and Jeff Ottsen, supporters of Shainin, resigned the next week. Board President Gary Molyneaux said that S...
