Desi Whalen has been selected to represent American Legion Post 163 in the finals of the Washington State American Legion Oratorical Contest. Desi, the daughter of Carol Whalen and Ron Whalen of Friday Harbor is a junior at Friday Harbor High School.
On Christmas Day at 6:37 a.m., Amy Sandwith and Robert Bowers were blessed with the birth of their beautiful baby girl, Phoebe Gwen. She weighed 6 pounds 7 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Wendy and Dave Picinich are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jill, to Martin Whitfield. Jill is a 2001 Friday Harbor High School graduate and is employed by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Martin, the son of Mattie and Bobby White, and David and Robin Whitfield, is employed by the Clark County School District.
Pinpoint when Warren F. Jones’ devotion to public service was born. Perhaps 1960, when he became a charter member of the San Juan Lions Club. Perhaps 1967, when he became a Friday Harbor Town Council member. But it might have been earlier than that.
Ann Pullman had lived in Friday Harbor, Wash., for 20 years with her husband, Wayne, and son Michael and daughter Michelle (Shelley). Ann was born to Geraldine and John Mahoney, and was later joined by her brother, John M. Mahoney. She earned a B.S. in English from Loyola University in Chicago, Ill., where she also taught English. Ann then earned her pre-med degree from Seattle University. She was working as a respiratory therapist in Orange County, Calif., when she met her husband, J. Wayne Pullman. Ann and Wayne married July 4, 1974, in Los Angeles, Calif. She owned and operated a dessert catering business in Beverly Hills, Calif., for eight years, and a gourmet food shop and deli in Ojai, Calif., before moving to Friday Harbor in 1989.
Sean and Melissa Aylward (both 2002 Friday Harbor High School graduatess) are happy to announce the birth of their son Parker Timothy Aylward, born Jan. 9, 2010 at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. Parker weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and measured 20 inches long.
A San Juan Island winter is not cold in the area of culture. Between Christmas festivals and theater productions, the public is not deprived of variation. Local choreographer Linda Downs is convinced the best is yet to come. Indeed, the line-up that Downs, director of Dance Workshop II, has produced for this year’s Winter Song and Dance Festival (Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 24, 2 p.m.) offers exceptionally high standards of performing art.
Cynthia Elliott is pleased with her husband’s joke. “He calls it my “elder-horse-stal,” she smiles. Sitting in her living room, tucked up upon the sofa, Elliott exudes the cheerful determination of someone in the process of changing dreams to reality. “I’ve wanted to do this since I was a kid … I didn’t have a horse, but I would help out with my friends’ horses. I would feed and care for them.”
Tom Bauschke of San Juan Island was an Army veteran and local house painter when he became active in the Wounded Warrior Project. In 2005 and 2006, he hiked the 96-mile Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier to raise pledges for the WWP, which assists wounded men and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. He never suspected that in three years he would become a wounded warrior too.
For 15 years, Pearl Django has been sharing the groove of their Hot Club style across the divides of musical tastes.
And for the sixth time in those 15 years, they bring that eclectic musical recipe to the San Juan Community Theater.
Elijah Mathew Enochs, son of Lindsay Johnson and Justin Enochs of San Juan Island, is San Juan County’s first baby of 2010. Elijah was born Jan. 14, 12:45 a.m., in Island Hospital in Anacortes; Melinda Milligan of Eastsound was the midwife. He weighed 8 pounds 2.2 ounces and measured 20.6 inches long. Elijah wins The Journal’s Baby Derby and about $600 worth of prizes from 16 local merchants.
Cans, cans and more cans filled the office at Friday Harbor Elementary School, Jan. 11. The school’s Food Drive (inclusive of both people and pet food) wrapped up with all 830 cans bagged, grabbed and shoved into a truck heading for the Friday Harbor Food Bank.
Johan Elias (Johnny) Moe passed away Jan. 7, 2010 at the age of 81. He was born in Seattle, Wash., to Elias and Dagne Moe on Jan. 29, 1928 and grew up in Mount Vernon and Stanwood, graduating from Twin City High School in Stanwood. Johnny played football in high school but excelled in music, playing the coronet. He formed Johnny Moe and His Orchestra in Snohomish and entertained in Washington for many years.
