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History is a funny thing. Mention the word and most people have a visceral reaction: they either love it, or, hearkening back to school days when they were forced to memorize a parade of boring facts, they hate it. The past is an essential component of our everyday existence, not merely what you had for breakfast this morning. If you don’t understand what shaped your life, it is difficult to chart your course for the future. History informs who we are as individuals, organizations, c...
As she slides into her role as La Conner Schools interim superintendent, Peg Seeling has one final task to tackle as district athletic director. She must conduct interviews to fill a slew of new coaching vacancies at La Conner High. Including her own. Seeling, who has held various coaching posts here since the early 1980s, last month announced she was stepping away from the helm of the Lady Braves softball team, a stint highlighted by a string of State 2B Tournament berths through 2015. Seeling was honored on her “retirement” with an out...
For the last 40 years or so, local boating enthusiasts enjoyed a choice of two yacht clubs — the Swinomish Yacht Club, which traces its roots to 1939 but was officially chartered in 1972, and the Shelter Bay Yacht Club, formed in 1977. Now the La Conner Yacht Club, which is organizing this month, intends to offer a third choice for boater camaraderie. La Conner Yacht Club organizers Willard Cox and Babette Gundersen recently sent a letter to local business owners stating that their goal is to promote boating activities help draw more...
Long-time Skagit Valley resident, Ken Staffanson, gave way to death on May 22, 2016 at the age of 87. Ken was born in 1928 in Mount Vernon to Swedish immigrants, John and Elizabeth Staffanson. Swedish was Ken’s first language. Ken graduated from Burlington-Edison High School. He lived in Skagit Valley his entire life except for 3 years spent in the U.S. Army, most of which time was in Germany. Ken married the love of his life, Phyllis Jones, on Feb. 20, 1956. They were married 58 years, until P...
Longtime La Conner resident Fred Martin died peacefully of natural causes at age 97 on Tuesday, June 14, in Mount Vernon. Fred was born in Burlington on November 1, 1918, with the name Fredrick L. Saunders. In 1921, when the family fell on hard times, Fred was given to the Seattle Children’s Home. In 1927, Fred was taken to the Martin’s home on Orcas Island to be their laborer because of the couples declining health. At this time Fred became known as Fredrick S. Martin. At the age of 18, Fre...
Five Spanish-speaking families are being featured at the Skagit County Historical Museum with its new exhibit, “Voces Del Valle,” which means, “Voices of the Valley.” One, the Hernandez family, established themselves in the 1940s in La Conner, raising nine children, all of whom graduated from La Conner High School. Mercedes DeJesus Lopez and Morris Hernandez moved to Skagit County from Eastern Washington in 1948, following her father, Miguel Lopez, who had come here the year before. Morris...
Monday June 13 3:28 p.m.: Fender Bender – Minor damage to vehicles involved in an accident at a business on Pearle Jensen Way in La Conner. Deputy helped in the information exchange. 7:36 p.m.: Unwanted Company – A guest who refused to leave an apartment, 900 blockMaple Avenue, La Conner, was gone by the time deputies arrived. Swinomish Police contacted the unwanted house guest and issued a trespass warning. 9 p.m.: Pooch Snatching – A theft of a pet dog that occurred on the Swinomish Reservation was reported at an apartment,...
