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Gary Molyneaux, board president of the Museum of Northwest Arts for the last two years and the longest continuous serving board member, resigned from MoNA’s board of trustees last Thursday. “As long as one or two individuals become focal points leading away from the mission, as I have always said, it is time to make way for different voices,” Molyneaux wrote in his resignation letter to Michele Hurteau, new president of the MoNA board of trustees. Molyneaux’s resignation follows the February resignation of executive director Christo...
It didn’t rain on La Conner’s parade last Saturday. Instead it rained beforehand and afterward. The US Bank-sponsored Kiwanis Not-So-Impromptu Tulip Parade – which, quite fittingly, started 15 minutes later than scheduled – couldn’t have been better timed. Afternoon clouds had lifted, if ever so briefly, when Grand Marshal John Doyle, in Brad Bradford’s 1930 Model A Ford pickup, started south on First Street, followed by La Conner’s vintage white fire truck, driven by Dave Alvord, wi...
His animated characters are known and loved around the globe. But there was a time La Conner was the hub of Craig Bartlett’s world. His parents, the late Glen and Kay Bartlett, were key players in the 1970s revitalization of La Conner. That campaign, spearheaded by restoration of Gaches Mansion and development of Town Square at First and Morris – which had been left vacant by the major fire that razed Dunlap Hardware a decade before – hinged in great measure on Glen’s design work. Bartlett literally drew inspiration from the work of...
La Conner Elementary School has gotten learning down to a science. This came after a campus visit last week by Dr. Alex Chang and his team aboard the 45-foot state-of-the-art mobile lab made available to schools by the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. By the end of its La Conner stay, the Science Adventure Lab’s staff had shown students how conducting hands-on experiments can relate directly to other subjects studied during the school day. And there was plenty of fun along the way. Cha...
Town leaders caught a glimpse of the future last Wednesday morning. Designer Curt Miller shared drawings at a Town Parks Commission meeting for improving the Jordan Street pocket park on North First Street across from Swinomish Yacht Club. This would develop a waterfront lot next to the Kirsch property. Miller’s drawings include, among other featured options, detailed landscaping, an angled walkway to the shoreline, a vined trellis, picnic tables, and benches. “This is a beautiful des...
Thousands of people of all ages visit Tulip Town every day. By 11 a.m. on a cold, blustery and rainy Monday morning this week the parking lot was filling up and hundreds of people were touring the tulip fields behind Tulip Town farm on Bradshaw Road. Tom and Jeanette DeGoede have 22 acres planted this year, their 58th year of governing Tulip Town. This day Jeanette DeGoede paid special attention to 106 second graders visiting from Mount Vernon’s Little Mountain School. Her very personal tour t...
Rhoda Hazel Claassen Lindstrom of Shelter Bay died Sunday, April 8th, 2018 at Island Hospital following a battle with heart failure. She was 95. Rhoda was born December 26, 1922, in Akron, Ohio to Arthur and Letha Claassen. In 1942 she married Edwin Eugene Lindstrom in Tacoma. She was married to Edwin Gene for 66 years. In 1985 Rhoda and Gene built their home in Shelter Bay where they enjoyed boating, fishing, RVing and camping. Most of Rhoda’s career was in Special Education. She worked at Renton Hospital, delivery and nursery, Lake City Fircr...
Lisa Dawn Wooding was born on October 25, 1964 in Anacortes, Washington to Bill Wooding and Kaaren Wooding Malson and was joined by siblings: sister, Kari and brother Brent Wooding a few years later. After fighting a long lingering infection Lisa left on her journey to be with the Lord on April 6, 2018. As a young girl she liked helping her mom around the house and riding with her dad in a dump truck where she usually fell asleep. She liked playing outside with Kari and Brent and neighbor Dale Johnson. While roaming the neighborhood they...
I think we can all agree that parking in La Conner, especially during special events, is a challenge, but I would like to disagree with the statement made in the “Parking Problems” Letter to the editor (April 4). At the town meeting there was discussion about a shuttle led by Mayor Ramon Hayes. M. Johnson’s letter states “It is the height of arrogance for the Chamber of Commerce to then turn around and ask the city to fund a shuttle to haul tourists.” This is completely false – The Chamber did not ask the city to fund a shuttle!...
Here it is, halfway through national poetry month and I have read only one poem and have not written any. Of course, neither have I drawn or painted anything or played any music or created any art of any sort. While I, like all of us, have art in my soul, the distance between thinking and realizing artistic expression is vast. I am certain I would be a more complex, thoughtful, feeling, compassionate and insightful person if I cultivated the habit of reading poetry and scratching out even a draft poem a day. Limericks are the lowest hanging...
Earth Day might be the most informal of our nation’s holidays. This weekend Future Fest is on in Anacortes. Special days are times to reflect on the work of our fore-parents, those that have gone before, taking chances and making stands for our own good, today. The success of the environmental movement rests in the hard work of people insisting on the primacy and permanence of place – their homes, their communities, their hills, their shores, their fishing grounds – in going toe-to-toe against the established order and saying NO, ov...
Murder mysteries are a stock item of community theatres everywhere. The Whidbey Playhouse’s “The Hollow,” playing through April 29 displays the features of this Oak Harbor company: a large cast, good production values (costumes, lighting and set) and a 1950s Agatha Christie production. Lucy Angkatell has invited her extended family to her estate for the weekend, along with Dr. John Cristow and his wife, Gertie. The former are old money and Cristow is a successful doctor. Lucy (Ingrid Schwalbe, well accented, convincing and continually amusi...
A child huddles over a paper, pencil in mouth, brow furrowed in concentration. Another child, half a world away, glides his pen rapidly, eager to jot down the thoughts, feelings and images that comprise his life. A youth quietly cries as she records a painful memory held deep inside. Another shouts with joy, excited to let the world know just who he is. This is the Self-Portrait Project, made possible through a collaboration of the Museum of Northwest Art, the Skagit River Poetry Project and...
A catch-and-release fishery for wild steelhead is open this week and next, April 18-22, and 25-29, for the first time since 2009 in sections of the Skagit and Sauk rivers. Fishing was allowed last weekend, following the April 12 announcement from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The section of the Skagit River is from the Dalles Bridge in the town of Concrete to the Cascade River Road Bridge in Marblemount. Fishing from a boat that is under power is prohibited. WDFW received approval from National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
