All told, the San Juan Island Community Foundation distributed more than $700,000 in donations in 2008. More than two dozen local groups, including the schools, benefitted from that largesse. That’s pretty powerful stuff for a group that just three years ago had about $125,000 at its disposal for a full year.
What’s behind the surge in the balance sheets? Ask anyone on the foundation board of directors — a 13-person panel of volunteers — and the answers point in one direction: The top.
No services will be held and in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association. Arrangements are in the care of Evans Funeral Chapel and Crematory, Inc., Anacortes and the San Juan Islands.
A meeting is scheduled tonight at 6 in Anacortes City Hall to discuss ways to save the Sidney, B.C. ferry run. The meeting, coordinated by the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, is part of Anacortes’ “Save Our Ferry” Campaign.
Bob passed Jan. 4, 2009 of natural causes. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Lolly; his daughters, Diane and Nancy; his son-in-law, Thomas; grandchildren, May and Leif; and cousins, Mrs. Douglas Steele of Lake Forest and Jaci Wisniewski of San Dimas.
Jacob William Wright was born to Orcas Island parents Amanda Murray Wright and Buddy Wright on Jan. 5, 2009 at Island Hospital in Anacortes — the first baby to be born to San Juan County parents in 2009.
Fresh off a legislative win last year that saw first-of-its-kind consumer protection laws enacted, state Rep. Jeff Morris, D-Mount Vernon, is planning another bout against so-called “spy technology” devices.
Warren Eugene Stanton of Friday Harbor, Wash., died Friday, Jan. 2, 2009 in Friday Harbor. He was 66. He was born on Sept. 13, 1942 in Portland, Ore., the son of Howard and Rhea (Conn) Stanton.
Fall 2009 will see a new fact in the hallways and playgrounds of Lopez School. There will be a new principal, serving kindergarten through 12th grade, replacing current principal Roland MacNichol, who will be retiring at the end of the current school year.
In a special session today, the San Juan County Council voted 4-2 to grant a $3 dollar-per-parcel increase in the Noxious Weed Control Levy. The new annual levy will total $6.25 per parcel of non-forest land, plus 62.5 cents per acre.
The Winter Farmers Market is Jan. 3, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday Harbor High School Commons (enter on Guard Street). “Hypnotic New Year’s Resolutions” is Jan. 3, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Lopez Island Library.
Entries are being accepted for the Chili Cook-Off to be held at the San Juan County Fairgrounds on Jan. 24, 2-6 p.m. Entrants will offer their most delicious creations in vying for bragging rights to the best chili on the island, as well as a first prize of $200. The competition is open to individuals, groups, organizations and professionals. Families and chili fans will be able to sample all of the fare and cast their votes for their favorite concoction.
She is now living at the Village at the Harbour, Friday Harbor’s elegant new assisted-living apartments. Flossie, who used to teach bridge at the old Grey Top Inn, was eagerly awaited by the other bridge players at the Village.
The required number of signatures for a citizen initiative to the ballot this year is 241,153, which, under state law, is the required 8 percent of the total number of votes cast in the November 2008 gubernatorial race.
