Amer­i­can con­sumers have no prob­lem with car­cino­gens, but they will not pur­chase any prod­uct, includ­ing floor wax, that has fat in it.
Dave Bar­ry

The Town Coun­cil endorsed it.

The Coun­ty Coun­cil endorsed it.

And I hope you join me in endors­ing it.

Here’s what the Wash­ing­ton Earth Hour has to say, and here’s what it’s all about.

See you in the dark.

The Town Coun­cil endorsed it.

The Coun­ty Coun­cil endorsed it.

And I hope you join me in endors­ing it.

Here’s what the Wash­ing­ton Earth Hour has to say, and here’s what it’s all about.

See you in the dark.

“Only kings, edi­tors, and peo­ple with tape­worm have the right to use the edi­to­r­i­al ‘we’.”
Mark Twain

Proud grand­moth­er Con­nie War­go sent me the news that daugh­ter Kim’s deliv­ery of her sec­ond girl went great — here’s more:

Mil­lie Laree Nibler, the daugh­ter of Justin and Kim Nibler (left), was born on Wednes­day, March 18, 2009 at Island Hos­pi­tal in Ana­cortes. She weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 21 inch­es long. Wel­com­ing Mil­lie into her new home is her big sis­ter, Nakay­la Rae. Proud Grand­par­ents are Guy and Lora Nibler of Hen­ry Island, Mike and Con­nie War­go of Fri­day Har­bor, and three sets of Great-Grand­par­ents, includ­ing Bar­bara Seastrom of Fri­day Har­bor. Also hap­pi­ly excit­ed are her Aunts and Uncles, Amy and Caleb Mrowka, McKen­na and Ken McCutcheon, and many, many friends.

The Baker Boys are ready to cook for you.....

Jan from the Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre want­ed to let you know where the good chow comes from.…here’s more:

The Bak­er Boys High­light Ele­gant Edi­bles April 11: The men are tak­ing over the kitchen! (Well, sort of).

The Com­mu­ni­ty Arts The­atre Soci­ety (CATS) annu­al gourmet bake sale on April 11 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. gets an added ingre­di­ent this year: The Bak­er Boys.

These gen­tle­man of San Juan Island have vol­un­teered their bak­ing skills to con­coct spe­cial culi­nary delights to add to the myr­i­ad of home­made delec­tables up for sale at the San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty Theatre.

How about Howard Schonberger’s cook­ies? Or Jim Specht’s East­er shaped Rice Krispy Krunchies? Ed Greub is mak­ing a Booze Cake with­out the booze, Chris Nel­son has a scrump­tious Choco­late Almond Pie and San Juan Coun­ty Coun­cil­man Rich Peter­son will show off the Peter­son Fam­i­ly Pound Cake, plus he’ll throw in the Peter­son Fam­i­ly Cook­book as a bonus. More than a dozen local men will con­tribute good­ies, includ­ing: David Bay­ley, Frank Hast­ings, John Aber­le, Kevin Cleary, Ron Thur­man, Chuck Arm­strong, Tom Bar­rett, Ted Soares, John Lind­say, Dave Nichols, Jason Wood and Mike Severtson.

In addi­tion to the sale of the day-before-East­er cel­e­bra­tion good­ies, the event also includes door prizes, an East­er bas­ket raf­fle, a Peep hunt for lit­tle ones 6 and under, a spe­cial Pio­neer Ladies table, and love­ly spring flowers.

Admis­sion is free. Pro­ceeds from the bake sale ben­e­fit the San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty Theatre.

The Baker Boys are ready to cook for you.....

Jan from the Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre want­ed to let you know where the good chow comes from.…here’s more:

The Bak­er Boys High­light Ele­gant Edi­bles April 11: The men are tak­ing over the kitchen! (Well, sort of).

The Com­mu­ni­ty Arts The­atre Soci­ety (CATS) annu­al gourmet bake sale on April 11 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. gets an added ingre­di­ent this year: The Bak­er Boys.

These gen­tle­man of San Juan Island have vol­un­teered their bak­ing skills to con­coct spe­cial culi­nary delights to add to the myr­i­ad of home­made delec­tables up for sale at the San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty Theatre.

How about Howard Schonberger’s cook­ies? Or Jim Specht’s East­er shaped Rice Krispy Krunchies? Ed Greub is mak­ing a Booze Cake with­out the booze, Chris Nel­son has a scrump­tious Choco­late Almond Pie and San Juan Coun­ty Coun­cil­man Rich Peter­son will show off the Peter­son Fam­i­ly Pound Cake, plus he’ll throw in the Peter­son Fam­i­ly Cook­book as a bonus. More than a dozen local men will con­tribute good­ies, includ­ing: David Bay­ley, Frank Hast­ings, John Aber­le, Kevin Cleary, Ron Thur­man, Chuck Arm­strong, Tom Bar­rett, Ted Soares, John Lind­say, Dave Nichols, Jason Wood and Mike Severtson.

In addi­tion to the sale of the day-before-East­er cel­e­bra­tion good­ies, the event also includes door prizes, an East­er bas­ket raf­fle, a Peep hunt for lit­tle ones 6 and under, a spe­cial Pio­neer Ladies table, and love­ly spring flowers.

Admis­sion is free. Pro­ceeds from the bake sale ben­e­fit the San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty Theatre.

Weird­ly, one of the best ideas for gath­er­ing water — catch­ing the rain that falls on your build­ings & stor­ing it — is ille­gal in Utah and Col­orado, a cou­ple of peren­ni­al­ly dry states. Although the islands are men­tioned in this Wall Street Jour­nal arti­cle, it’s because we do allow it (and some of us even encour­age it).

Read this over and see what you think.

No stops in Friday Harbor for the Clipper this summer....

Deb­o­rah from the San Juan Islands Vis­i­tors’ Bureau tells me the Vic­to­ria Clip­per isn’t drop­ping by the island this summer.….here’s more:

I just received offi­cial word (thanks to an alert by mem­ber Har­ri­son House/Tucker House), that the Vic­to­ria Clip­per will not be run­ning its usu­al sea­son­al ser­vice from Seat­tle to Fri­day Har­bor this year, as they are loan­ing their ves­sel to the U.S. Navy. See attached let­ter. They are attempt­ing to accom­mo­date some groups using alter­na­tive trans­porta­tion options. They plan to resume ser­vice in 2010. We will sure­ly miss their mar­ket­ing part­ner­ship and pas­sen­gers this year, espe­cial­ly on San Juan Island, due to hun­dreds of day trips and many overnight packages.

Deb­o­rah Hopkins
San Juan Islands Vis­i­tors Bureau

The bond that links your true fam­i­ly is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each oth­er’s life.
Richard Bach

Driftwood on the beach....

This is from Michael Steigh­n­er’s blog.…he was vis­it­ing here from Flori­da and caught this won­der­ful mix of col­or & wood & water. Be sure & look over his oth­er pho­tos, too!

An update on the Grones’ sit­u­a­tion (see below) from Car­ol Ford:

Hi Ian -
Thanks so much! Because we spread the word, Dave got a place to stay. It
turns out Sandy Ridge (Jesse Woodruf­f’s mom) and her hus­band, Joe, have an
apt. in Queen Anne that he can stay in through April. They just moved to
Sno­homish Coun­ty but have the apt. for anoth­er month so it all worked out
great. I talked to Dave today and he said Jacque is talk­ing a bit so that’s
good news. Thanks for get­ting the info out so quick — islanders (and former
islanders) always come through!
Carol

Help us out here…there’s a chance we can get a Skills Train­ing Cen­ter here, but we need you to fill out this sur­vey (below).…local com­pa­nies, as well as teach­ers & com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, can help the process along by tak­ing the sur­vey now. As I under­stand it, the more answers we get, the bet­ter the chances we can actu­al­ly push this thing through, and that would be cool.

To take the sur­vey, click here.

Derek & Lauren are taking over the sailmaking shop from Andra and Patrick on April 1st.

Patrick & Andra (above, right) are the kind of folks we need here on San Juan Island — involved, car­ing, great par­ents, and always smil­ing. Patrick first bought the Bon Accord in Fri­day Har­bor when they moved here, and three years ago, he and Andra bought The Sail Loft (San Juan Can­vas) down at the mari­na from the Ris­sers. They’re always doing some­thing with their girls & with the com­mu­ni­ty, whether it’s coach­ing soc­cer or help­ing with the PTA or Children’s Fes­ti­val, They are going to be much missed when they leave for Seat­tle this sum­mer. Here’s more, in a lit­tle write­up by Lau­ren, who is buy­ing the busi­ness with her hus­band Derek:

Derek Steere and Lau­ren Cohen, take over San Juan Can­vas on April 1 from Patrick & Andra Pills­bury who have owned the busi­ness since 2006. The busi­ness has been at its same loca­tion in the Fri­day Har­bor Mari­na (271 Front Street) since 1979. It was start­ed by Peter and Susan Riss­er who still live here on San Juan Island. Derek has been sewing since his days in the US Navy back in the 1980s. He recent­ly attend­ed the North­coast Marine Can­vas Train­ing Program.

Derek and Lau­ren are both excit­ed to con­tin­ue the excel­lent Marine Can­vas and Sail­mak­ing tra­di­tion begun by Peter and Susan and built upon by Patrick and Andra. Derek and Lau­ren are also the own­ers of Tree­house Remod­el­ing and will be expand­ing into Marine Cab­i­netry to com­ple­ment what we offer at San Juan Can­vas. Lau­ren’s pho­tog­ra­phy skills will also be on dis­play at San Juan Can­vas offer­ing note cards and prints to cus­tomers and passersby.

After April 1, check out our updat­ed web­site at www.SanJuanCanvas.com or drop us a note at TheCrew@SanJuanCanvas.com. Bet­ter yet, stop by and say hello.

The San Juan Island com­mu­ni­ty will be very sad to see Patrick, Andra and their three beau­ti­ful daugh­ters move on to big­ger and bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ties. They have all been such active mem­bers of this close­ly knit neigh­bor­hood. They have giv­en their time and tal­ents to so many peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions and will be great­ly missed. We wish them all Hap­py Sail­ing and hope they will come back to vis­it often.

The water flows, but back into the ocean; The moon sinks, but is even in heav­en. Nor­mal­ly, we do not so much look at things as over­look them.
Alan Watts

Cam works the ball upfield against Coupeville Saturday.

Over the week­end, the Wolver­ine base­ball team munched Dar­ring­ton (Fri­day) and Shore­line Chris­t­ian (Sat­ur­day), while the soft­ball girls had a 2 out of 3 split with Dar­ring­ton and Merid­i­an. The soc­cer boys played their third game in five days, drop­ping their re-match with Coupeville (that’s Cam Bying­ton in the air Sat­ur­day; pho­to by Lau­ren Paulsen for the Update).