Town needs turkeys

While walking along Third Street recently I found myself pining for a weirder, stranger time in La Conner history. This town could use an injection of weird stat, before it succumbs to being a sterile, Norman Rockwell painting come to life as an interactive exhibit for day tripping Seattleites.

It is time we right the wrong done almost ten years ago and bring back the La Conner turkeys. That’s right: the bird that Benjamin Franklin so wisely recommended as the symbol of the United States of America. A bird that helped keep the charm and true spirit of our strange town on the channel alive. Not...