With 16 games regular-season games to go, the Wolverines are one win away from matching last season’s victory total. They can match that mark — win No. 4 — at home Friday against Shoreline Christian.
Friday Harbor led 14-9 after the first eight minutes of play, but were outscored 34-21 over the following three quarters as the La Conner rallied as the Braves rallied to clinch the victory in the league-opener for both teams.
The ballots are counted and results have been certified. But there’s at least one issue from the November election which has yet to be put to rest. Don Burkhart of Blakely Island, who led the effort to repeal the ban on the use of all consumer fireworks in San Juan County, including those considered “safe and sane,” believes the ballot title of the fireworks referendum was written in such a confusing manner that the choice presented to voters was unclear.
The Wolverines opened the season with one in the bag and their trigger set on another. But the Falcons of South Whidbey, trailing 19-9 at the end of the opening period, lit up the scoreboard with 31 second-quarter points and kept Friday Harbor at arm’s length after the break to claim a 69-60 victory Saturday in Turnbull Gym.
The campaign gets a lot tougher from here on out. But for now, the Wolverines and Head Coach Eric Jangard are enjoying the ride after opening the season with back-to-back victories at home over the weekend. That’s right. The Friday Harbor girls basketball team is 2-0.
The Friday Harbor Town Council on Thursday agreed to stay the course in the proposed purchase of the Friday Harbor Electric Co. site, touted as the future location of a year-round farmers market and public town square. But the council may not stay the course for long.
The co-champion Friday Harbor Wolverines boys basketball team opens the 2009-10 season with back-to-back home games beginning Friday. In Friday’s season opener, the Wolverines host the Bush Blazers. The Blazers compete in the 1A Emerald City League, a seven-team Seattle-area league dominated by Bellevue Christian.
The start of the winter sports season is just around the corner. But there’s still some business to attend to before closing the books on the 2009 fall sports season. There will be post-season honors a plenty when the Friday Harbor fall sports awards ceremony kicks off at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Turnbull Gym.
If you felt as if you were under siege Friday afternoon, you’re not alone. Bolts of lightning did indeed touch down in numerous spots in Friday Harbor as a short-lived storm blew rain and lightning across San Juan Island beginning at about 4 p.m. Though brief, the storm, which passed over the island in about an hour, left many islanders in a state of shock and others shaking their heads in disbelief.
An apparent breakdown in communication is being blamed for a fire that began in the engine room of a 35-foot powerboat at Roche Harbor Marina Nov. 4. It’s the worst fire at the marina in nearly 30 years.
A young child is the first San Juan County resident hospitalized with the H1N1 virus. As of noon Friday, the child, who also suffers from an underlying respiratory aliment, reportedly was in stable condition. The H1N1 virus, commonly known as “swine flu,” is expected to be a complicating factor in the child’s recovery, according to local officials.
In the case of Carl Verheyen, the label “guitar virtuoso” fits like a glove. But there’s no one-man show in store when Verheyen, proclaimed one of the Top 10 guitarists in the world by Guitar magazine, takes center stage Nov. 14 at the San Juan Community Theatre. This time, the L.A.-based guitarist, who’s making his fifth appearance at SJCT, is bringing his band along and the show promises to be a musical tour de force.
Voters ponied up in a big way on Nov. 3 to spare an assortment of popular county-funded programs from the chopping block. But if you thought San Juan County’s financial woes would be more or less resolved with the passage of Proposition 1, then think again. They’ve only gotten worse.
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