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Olga is offering a glimpse into life in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022. The article last week left Olga at work in Ivano-Frankvisk in West Ukraine. She had just read on social media that Kiev was being bombed. Her dad and brother had left there an hour before to join her 340 miles further west. Olga has asked her family’s last name not be printed for security reasons. Twenty years ago Olga had received a scholarship to study in the U.S. There she met Steve and Jan Paul of Shelter Bay. These quotes and summaries are from e...
At the corners of Morris and Sixth streets you will find three booming businesses and a library that are owned or operated by women: Beaver Tales Coffee, Stompin Ground Coffee Co., Tillinghast Postal & Business Center and the La Conner Swinomish Library. All serve the community in unique ways. Library Director Jean Markert started in September 2022 after serving as chair of La Conner Regional Library board of directors, where she had a key role in the process of building the new library, a project that had been in the works for ten years. Becau...
Spring break was no vacation for a cross-section of Swinomish youth. Pre-teen and high school-aged tribal students sacrificed sleeping in and lounging in front of the TV to take part in a four-day conference at the Swinomish Gym designed to build self-esteem and develop lifelong leadership skills. It was hosted by Swinomish Health Programs. By all accounts it was time well spent for the large percentage attending all four days. They were introduced to the Gathering of Native Americans (GONA)...
For decades the odds were stacked against Native American students succeeding in the U.S. educational system. Statistics bear that out. La Conner Schools faculty and staff reviewed the data during a special program featuring Dennis Eller in late March. Eller is a member of the Cherokee Nations, an administrator at Thomas Jefferson High School in Federal Way and a doctoral candidate. “I had better odds of becoming a starter in the National Football League,” Eller said at one point of his 75-minute presentation, “than I did of earning a docto...
Helping Hands Food Bank invites you to Neighbors Night at Tulip Valley Farms April 20, in partnership together to connect the community with resources while enjoying the magic that Skagit Valley has to offer: Tulips and community fellowship. For this free evening, Helping Hands will be providing a baked potato bar, with potatoes generously donated by Skagit's Best Produce, and the chance to engage in the fellowship that spring brings to the Valley. This is a great way to see tulips while...
Daryl Walls discusses the life and work of his friend, Guy Anderson, the Northwest Mystic artist, at i.e. gallery, 5:30 p.m. April 15, 5800 Cairns Court, Edison. The April exhibit has works from Anderson’s estate....
Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) is inviting high school-aged students who live or attend school in Washington’s Second Congressional District to showcase their artistic talents in the 2023 Congressional Art Competition. Art submissions and forms are due at Larsen’s office no later than Monday, May 1, at 5 p.m. All art entries must be original in concept, design and execution. Students can find details and a full list of contest rules larsen.house.gov/helping-you/2023-art-competition.htm Source: Office of Rick Larsen...
You can make this recipe and add to rice, pasta, gnocchi (featured in pic), scrambled eggs or vegetables. You can adjust the flavors by the type of spices or herbs you add. Always make it fresh. We used the milder scallions but green onion or other onion varieties are excellent choices. Fresh garlic is a must. This is a gentle, slow cook, so do not overheat your pan. Thank you to the kind people, in Safeway recently, who said they enjoy reading my column! Ingredients Plump scallion, ½...
As of Wednesday, March 29 at just before noon the man known as Clemons Mitchel does not go by "doctor." The fact that makes this detail notable is that if he wanted to, he could. Clemons Mitchel, raised in Woodinville, departed in 2015 to Krakow, Poland, where for six years he studied medicine, funded by American scholarships at Jagiellonian University. In the course of that time his parents moved to La Conner. When Clemons Mitchel graduated and returned from school in June, 2021 he found himsel...
Sunday, April 2 12:32 a.m.: Flashlight suspicion – Caller saw someone outside their house with a flashlight in the middle of the night. Law enforcement responded and checked around the house, but no one was located. Beaver Marsh Rd., Greater La Conner. 11:25 a.m.: Trespassing for daffodils – A commercial vehicle with a driver and passenger stopped in the roadway and the passenger walked into a daffodil field and picked four flowers. Law enforcement contacted the driver and passenger and war...
Skagit Valley College Music Department Presents “Something Rotten!” -- the Tony Award-winning smash created by the co-director of "The Book of Mormon” and the producers of “Avenue Q.” In the year 1595, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of the rock-star "Bard" -- William Shakespeare. Desperate to find success, Nick gets help from a soothsayer, Nostradamus, who foretells a theatrical future with singing, dancing and acting at the same time: a "musical." This gloriously wacky musical p...
