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At a smoothly run annual membership meeting, Joanna Sikes was announced as the Museum of Northwest Art’s interim director. Neither she nor Christopher Shainin, whose last day as executive director was Saturday, made formal remarks to the roughly 50 attendees. A $200,000 five-year loan from the Seattle Foundation, negotiated in the last 10 days, and called “quite extraordinary,” was announced by Tom Bucknell, a trustee. Only interest payments will be paid until year six, when principal payments will be added. He spoke on transition plans, summa...
I am 63, but at every age I have not been the sharpest knife in the drawer. But of all the things I don’t get, sequential texting is the most confounding. Why do people do it? Why do they do it all the time? Someday I will lead a movement against sequential texting. Talk about marching to your own drummer. Am I the only one who thinks that 10 texts in 10 minutes between two people is the most overblown thing since Twiggy’s pixie? One simple example suffices: Let’s go to a movie. OK. Which one? What time? Let’s meet for dinner first. OK. Whe...
Heather Carter, La Conner Chamber of Commerce executive director, hit a grand slam home run in January in bringing a world-renowned expert on owls to speak. Paul Bannick filled Maple Hall for his hour-long show, sharing the wonder and importance of owls in our world, and stressing that in saving habitat for owls, we will save ourselves. Restaurants and rooms in La Conner were also full, a boon to merchants in mid-winter. Carter took the prize for turning plans for the first ever “Birds of Winter: a Skagit Valley Experience,” into an economic su...
Account by Joan Cross In 1981 Community Homewell, a home visiting nursing agency, wanted to start a Hospice service. They hired Paul Murray, a resident of La Conner, to fundraise for this new service. Paul had to come up with some serious money because his own salary would be dependent on his success. For this project, Paul noticed that the bulb farmers produced beautiful stretches of color with their tulips and thought it would be a good idea to share this beauty with others. He came up with the idea of hosting the ‘Tulip Pedal’, a casual bike...
A spur-of-the-moment idea to have a downtown parade here during the Tulip Festival still has legs more than three decades later. The 32nd annual “Not-So-Impromptu” Kiwanis Tulip Parade, sponsored by US Bank, is set for 2 p.m. April 14 on First Street. This year’s parade Grand Marshal is recently retired Town Administrator John Doyle, who for a decade during his tenure at Town Hall managed to juggle both planning and managerial duties. His parade role shouldn’t be nearly as taxing, given the event’s well-established focus on fun. “All I ha...
A planned victory lap to herald the completion of the first “Birds of Winter: A Skagit Valley Experience” among the county’s economic development, tourism promotion and environmental and birding advocates got sidetracked and hijacked last week. Instead, a meeting comprised primarily of farmers and conservationists was held at the Skagit County Washington State University Extension office at the Port of Skagit March 28. Andrew Miller, who has coordinated the loose knit Birds of Winter planning for EDASC, the Economic Development Alliance of Sk...
