Today is Kids Day at the San Juan County Fair — the second consecutive day of all-you-can-handle fair rides for a $20 wristband. Other special features today: A band led by Steppenwolf keyboardist Goldy McJohn headlines at 7 p.m., preceded by a CD release performance by San Juan Island’s own Devorah.
Have you been feeling tired and sluggish? Still trying to lose the extra weight that you swore would be gone before summer began?
Ian Byington of San Juan Update shared this Aug. 7 report on Gary Bowman, who is recovering from injuries incurred in a motorcycle accident.
The haunting sounds of English Camp’s ancient past will return Saturday, 2 p.m., when Saanich flutist Che-ok’-ten performs on the English Camp parade ground.
Special Meds perform Aug. 16, 9 p.m., in Herb’s Tavern.
Not since Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles” have I laughed so hard at a spoof of the legendary myths of the ol’ Wild West as I did watching friends and neighbors of San Juan Island going through their wild paces in the preview performance of “The Death & Life of Sneaky Fitch,” showing through Saturday in the San Juan Community Theatre.
You won’t get to play Capt. Jack Sparrow, but you’ll be forgiven if your imagination goes wild.
More than 70 people participated Island Rec’s 2008 Chalk It Up sidewalk art contest July 19.
Betty Chevalier Nash, with blue visor, was the oldest Mitchell Bay Indian at the Canoe Journey gathering at Roche Harbor, July 24. Mrs. Nash, whose mother was Swinomish, is a descendant on her father’s side of the Mitchell Bay people, whose place of origin on San Juan Island was near that of the Lummi.
Carl Stoddard has survived melanoma, bladder cancer, prostate cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Remarkably, his name has been changed to “Comeback Kid.”
It was a gathering Jimmie Jones would have liked. The sun shone brightly in a clear sky at this spot overlooking San Juan Valley, a spot he once told his family was the most beautiful place on the island. People shared funny stories. This was Jones’ funeral, but there was more laughter than tears. Then, as the small group of mourners dispersed, a plane flew overhead, as if in salute to this World War II airman who loved the skies.
They walk for their wives, their husbands, their parents and their children. Sometimes they walk for themselves. Breast cancer, skin cancer, leukemia, prostate cancer, lung cancer … the list of deadly culprits is as endless as the list of loved ones cancer has taken away.
Seventy years ago at Northwestern University, Professor Bergen Evans used to insist that his students read the King James version of the Bible and the works of Shakespeare while taking his sophomore English class.
