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On November 18th at 12:25 PM Linda Peterson of La Conner posted a listing of one on ebird.org that has caused a stir among Western Washington birders. The sighting she reported was a first for La Conner - a male painted bunting (Passerina ciris). Within hours the listserv monitored by avid birders, Tweeters, had information about the bird. This rare, colorful bird usually occupies a territory slightly south of here - New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida....
Theodore Roosevelt had only recently yielded the White House to longtime friend William Howard Taft and was already in the midst of a celebrated African safari. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opened in Seattle. Famed neurologist Sigmund Freud delivered his only United States lectures on psychoanalysis. A new Navy base was established at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands. The year was 1909. It was also the year Shelter Bay resident Frances Kent was born. The timing couldn’t have been b...
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community invited the general public to the grand opening ceremony for its didgwálič Wellness Center in Anacortes Nov. 15. Welcoming the larger community in was much more than symbolic: the didgwálič center’s treatment program is open to all. Well over half the clients will be non-tribal members. John Stephens, the center’s chief executive officer emphasized that point: “The Tribe is committed to the betterment of the broader community and this is a huge investment to make sure this happens....
Scott Thomas has been chosen by Mayor Ramon Hayes to be La Conner’s administrator and attorney, the mayor announced Nov. 17. Thomas, a Mount Vernon lawyer in private practice, has been city attorney in both Burlington and Mount Vernon. He trained as an architect and has lengthy experience in local government, particularly in planning and land use. “We are fortunate to have a person with a tremendous breadth of experience in law, planning and architecture,” said Hayes. Thomas was chosen after...
Start with the Salish Sea. The sea came first. That is how Genesis starts: “In the beginning … the earth was without form and void and darkness was over the face of the deep.” Science coheres: for billions of years this was the water planet. And then there is the Skagit Valley. Basically at sea level. Claimed from the sea by blood, sweat, hard work and dikes. We can all agree on the beauty and bounty – historically – of the water and the land. I am thankful to be in this amazingly beautiful and bountiful place. It is awe ins...
Elementary school students at least matched their middle school classmates in collecting the over 3,500 pounds of food donated to the La Conner Sunrise Food Bank this fall for Thanksgiving boxes. Elementary school students at least matched their middle school classmates in collecting the over 3,500 pounds of food donated to the La Conner Sunrise Food Bank this fall for Thanksgiving boxes....
