Making La Conner's future great again

Mayor Ramon Hayes is hoping for more festivals in La Conner. This month his dream is fulfilled: we end this week with a second annual guitar festival and the next week with the 10th biennial Skagit River Poetry Festival.

Maybe Mayor Hayes wishes for two festivals every off-season month. That is one good, solid view of the future.

Tim Bruce’s vision of poetry in the schools and a festival for all of us has been realized. Nothing is more primal to humans than music. Our first songs came from poetry. More art in all of our lives more of the time is a hopeful vision.

A new library in La Conner bui...