Tuesday news….

Checking in…hope your morning is off to a good start. Did you stay up late watching the full moon?

• Ferry backups…people lining up at 12-1 yesterday to go to Anacortes were already overloaded to the 4:50 ferry. When you hear there’s a ferry meeting about the schedules, we need to let the folks at WSF know what this does to our visitors to the island who need to get home.

• It’s this weekend & it’s fun – here’s the word from Becky Clarke at Island Rec – you can register early of the day of the show:

Skateboard and BMX Freestyle Competition

Island Rec’s Skateboard and BMX Competition will be taking place on Sunday, August 29th at 12:30 pm.  The competition will be held at the Skateboard Park, which is located on the San Juan County Fairgrounds.  There will be music, an emcee and tons of prizes, so come out and skate, bike or cheer on our participants.   There are three divisions; Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.  Register online at www.islandrec.org or register the day of the event from 11:00 and noon.  Cost is $10.00 per participant. Parent/Guardian signatures and helmets are required in order to participate.  For more information call 378-4953.

• You know, I visited with Kerwin Johnson about a month ago about the Seattle to Portland (STP) bike race – here’s his report from a month ago, which I had in my “to post” stack & got sidetracked – I wanted to share it ’cause it’s so cool:

Hey Ian,
Good bumping into you at the post office on Sunday evening.  Just wanted to give you an update as to who made the ride from Seattle to Portland with their bicycles (most likely faster than by car with all the traffic jams they had along I-5 this past few days). The one dayers included George Mulligan, his son George Mulligan Jr, Mike Harrington, and Todd Roberts. Those of us who made the trip in two days (Riding 150 miles the first day to Longview and the remaining 57 miles the next morning) were Greg Gerhardstein, Jane Gerhardstein, Dave Grove, and me – Kerwin Johnson.

The weather was perfect – overcast and temperatures in the low 60’s with little or no wind.  We are all gearing up for next year’s event.

Thanks for asking how my weekend was.

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