John Doyle new FD 13 commissioner

What is old is new again. John Doyle has retired as La Conner town administrator and planner, but before that, starting in 1992, he was a volunteer firefighter with the then Hope Island Fire Department on the west side of the Swinomish Reservation. In 2008 he served two months as a commissioner of that fire district, which has been subsumed into Fire District 13.

Now, since April 9, he is a newly appointed commissioner of FD 13, filling the seat left vacant by Larry Kibbee’s March resignation.

Doyle, age 71, stressed his long involvement, including as an EMT and five years as medical officer,...