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Ashlyn Reinstra was an athlete and busy college student about to celebrate her 19th birthday when the devastating news came: She had a rare and very aggressive form of leukemia. Now back home and cancer-free, she is working to put her life back on track after her eight-month fight for survival. Ashlyn said that she first noticed symptoms — headaches, fatigue, and inability to eat — around Christmas. It was when she took her then sixth-grade sister Addie to the doctor for strep...
Agencies and taxpayers are nervous over the financial impacts of a federal court ruling that makes most of the properties in Shelter Bay and on Pull & Be Damned Road exempt from property taxes. If the 931 homeowners on leased tribal land decide not to pay the second half of this year’s taxes due on October 31, as some owners have suggested, the La Conner School District and Fire District 13 are going to be scrambling to fill huge budget holes. Worse, if the homeowners sue to have up to three years of property taxes refunded, the agencies and sm...
While the Museum of Northwest Art has been a fixture in the local community for more than 30 years, it now aims to enrich its support to more communities and audiences outside the museum. Changes have already happened this year to gear the museum to the shift in focus: the mission statement was rewritten, outreach programs to youth and senior groups were broadened and the admission fee was eliminated. Now everyone can see museum exhibits for free. “We really wanted to reach more of the community,” said Museum Director Christopher Shainin. “Th...
This skeletal fellow and his bone dog draw attention to the speed limit in the Thousand Trails campground off Snee-Oosh Road. – Photo by Don Coyote...
James “Jim” Reid Greer, Jr., of Shelter Bay, died on Tuesday, August 19 surrounded by his loving family. Jim was born in Los Angeles on October 10, 1938. He reminisced that he had a great childhood participating in basketball and track for Compton High School, playing the trombone for the Long Beach Boys Club Drum and Bugle Corps, Huntington Park Youth Band and the Compton Junior College Band. Jim loved that he was able to play in bands with his father for the Long Beach Elks and vet...
Elenor Rose “Ellie” Powers of Mount Vernon died at age 86 on Sunday, August 17. Ellie was born May 3, 1928, to Edward and Marie Weimer Kainz in Markinch, Saskatchewan, Canada. In the early 1950s, she met and married Richmond O. Powers, and together they had three children. Ellie lived in Mount Vernon for more than 60 years. She was a member of the Unitarian Church. Ellie was an accomplished artist, working in watercolors, oils, and clay as well as many other media. She owned an art gallery and p...
The annual Swinomish Clam Bake at Lone Tree Point last week drew a hungry crowd, as always. Here master shellfish chef and Tribal Senator Chester Cayou, Jr. is shown with a tray full of mussels and clams freshly baked over hot coals in a pit on the beach. Accompaniments included salmon, corn, potatoes and fry bead....
Tuesday August 26 12:01 p.m.: Flea torture – A caller thought a dog had been hit by a car onDodge Valley Road east of La Conner. But it turned out the dog was actually suffering form a flea infestation and got a ride to a vet. 5:49 p.m.: Burglary – A neighbor saw a local man with property that had been stolen form a shed in La Conner. The item was located in a pawn shop, where it had been pawned by the guy’s girlfriend. Both will face charges. The girlfriend wouldn’t talk to deputies and the theft suspect claimed he had nothing to...
