by COLLEEN SMITH ARMSTRONGEditor/Publisher

The day before Christmas eve, jeweler Vance Stephens received an unwelcome surprise.

His shop Shinola on North Beach Road was broken into and robbed.

“It’s very disappointing,” he said. “Like most people who live here, we have the illusion we live in a bubble of safety – away from the nastiness we see on television. But alas, it is not so.”

A rock was thrown through the store’s front window and numer-ous hand-made jewelry pieces were stolen.

Stephens says he and other island shop keepers have taken steps to upgrade their security.

The Shinola break-in was one of six incidents in Eastsound over the last six weeks, according to Sheriff Rob Nou.

Both homes and businesses have been burglarized. Items sto-len included alcohol, ammuni-tion, household items, comput-ers, flat screen televisions, kayaks and jewelry.

“All of these were forced entry,” Nou said. “Make sure your build-ing is secure and invest in quality locks.”

Nou would not comment on

any leads, but said it is an active investigation.

He speculates the recent Orcas incidents are not tied to the holi-day season.

Nou said burglaries are an “odd cyclical thing” that happen in clusters. In many cases, the police arrest one person in relation to the crimes.

“In most of these, people are keeping records of the make, model and serial number of their electronics, so if the items sur-face, there is a good chance of them making their way back to the owner,” Nou said.

If anyone has information about the burglaries, call the Sheriff ’s Office at 378-4151.

by MARTY ZIERSports contributor

Some things from the 1980s are best left to faded pictures and memories.

Marce Holmes might agree, with the exception of alumni basketball. She spearheaded this fundraising event, based on alumni games from the past.

“This is the first annual alumni basketball fund-raiser, where the alumni can play against the girls and boys and generate funds for our local teams,” she said. “In the ‘80s, alumni used to just show up and play, but there was no fundraising. I have always wanted to do this.”

Athletic Director Vicki Vandermay surveyed the gym full of paid spectators and commented, “It is a great idea and will just get bigger and better.”

And by the looks of the cash box protected by vol-unteer mom Stefanie Susol, Holmes’ expected $800 goal was met.

The Lady Vikings opened up the evening facing alumni Sada Ashcraft, Lindsay Curtis, Renee Harvey, Alexa Nigretto and Halley Parnell. The well-tuned Vikings handled the alum at half 32-12 and despite flashes of glory past from the alumni, the younger Vikings held on for a 52-33 victory.

The Viking boys team met alumni that had appar-ently not spent too much time off the court since graduation. Tied at half 30-30, alumni Jake Knapp, David Kimple, Josh Mayson, Tyler Nigretto, Mikail

Van Maren, Aubrey Schermerhorn, Thane Sweet and Kyle Walkers used their experience, height advantage (Knapp and Van Maren are both more than 6’6”) and expert shooting to keep this game close until their ultimate victory 54-46.

Refereeing the well-mannered games were Bob Phalan and Tim Holmes, who all in attendance agreed were the best refs anyone had ever seen.

For coverage of the Vikings’ games against LaConner and Lopez Island last week, see page 7.

Flurry of burglaries in Eastsound

They’ve still got it

Melanie Flint/ contributed photosTop: Viking Hannah Brunner-Gaydos and alumni Sada Ashcraft (right) collapse in a heap on the court. Right: Alumni Aubrey Schermerhorn (left) and Mikail Van Maren (right) go up against Viking Jake Zier.

Both young and more seasoned players win at alumni basketball

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Dyan Holmes and Joshua Mayson are excited to announce the birth of their daughter Adelynn Marie, born Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 at 6:26 p.m. at Island Hospital. She was 7 pounds, 13.6 ounces and 19.1 inches tall. Adelynn Marie is wel-comed as the sixth genera-tion to the long-time Orcas Island family.

She is lovingly wel-comed into this world by proud grandparents Marce and Tim Holmes, Angela Mayson, and Daniel Kimple, of Orcas Island; great grand-parents Joyce and Andy Nigretto, of Orcas Island, Barbara and Manuel Padilla of Utah, and Judy Mayson of Nevada.

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After being diagnosed with breast cancer in late

August, Sage MacLeod (aka Sally Conley) has under-gone surgery and is now receiving daily radiation treatments.

MacLeod lives on Orcas Island and is the director of Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program.

The cost of medi-cal expenses, off-island travel, lodging and food have drained her savings account.

Donations can be made to the Sage MacLeod Medical Account at Islanders Bank.

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Bailey Johnson photo Orcas Islanders started the year off right at the Polar Bear Plunge in Cascade Lake.

Mark and Perri Gibbons of Eastsound are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Virginia Rose Gibbons to Cameron Scott Sides. Cameron is the son of Kenny and Shelley Sides of La Conner, Wash. An August wedding on Orcas is being planned.

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The San Juan County Community Development & Planning Department (CD&P) will be accepting applications for Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Permits to be allowed in 2013 pursuant to Ordinance No. 51-2008 and Resolution No. 59–2009, until the close of business February 11, 2013. All ADU Lottery Applications must be submitted on the CD&P ADU Lottery Application Form. This form is available on the San Juan County Web site at www.sanjuanco.com/cdp or can be provided by CD&P. Completed application forms can be filed in person at the CD&P office during normal business hours, Monday through Friday from 8 am to 1 pm (except holidays), at 135 Rhone Street, Friday Harbor, Washington, or by mail at P.O. Box 947, and must be submitted with the fee amount of $245. Any ADU Lottery Application received by CD&P after 1:00 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013, will be ineligible for the lottery but will be added, in the order received, to the appropriate waitlist at a position at the end of the waitlist established on February 11, 2013. If it is questionable whether your property qualifies for an ADU permit, please contact Annie Matsumoto-Grah at (360) 370-7585.

A total of nine permits will be available for the construction of “New” ADUs and two permits will be available for the conversion of existing accessory structures, which have legally existed for no less than five years, to an ADU. 2013 ADU Permits will be issued by lottery which will take place on March 1, 2013. This drawing is open to the public and the exact time and place this will be conducted will be published on the CD&P website at www.sanjuanco.com/cdp ten days prior to the drawing. The complete 2013 ADU Lottery Procedures can be found at www.sanjuanco.com/cdp. Questions regarding the application procedure and requirements can be addressed to CD&P staff either by phone at (360) 378-2354 or by email at cdp@sanjuanco.com.

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by SCOTT ROZENBAUM and AMANDA AZOUS

Many residents on Orcas have been won-dering about the activity this fall, including earthwork, fencing, planting, and installa-tion of odd-looking logs and standing dead trees on the Stonebridge-Terrill Preserve, located near the corner of Mt. Baker Road and Terrill Beach Road. The property is a 59-acre preserve owned and managed by the San Juan County Land Bank. What you are seeing is the newly constructed wetland mitigation site, installed by San Juan County Public Works in advance of the planned Mt. Baker Road Improvement project.

San Juan County Public Works will be improving Mt. Baker Road from Terrill Beach Road to North Beach Road by add-ing shoulders and correcting alignment problems. Construction starts this spring and includes an improved pedestrian trail. There are a number of small seasonal wet-lands bisected by the existing road. Though public works modified their roadway design plans to avoid impacting these areas as much as possible, the project will still affect a little over half an acre of wetlands that are directly adjacent to the road. State and federal laws require mitigation to offset these wetland impacts. Public works asked the land bank if they’d be willing to provide a mitigation site on the Stonebridge-Terrill Preserve. The preserve was a logical loca-tion because it is within the same drainage basin as the road, and the wetlands there were impacted by historic uses.

The land bank staff and commission reviewed the proposed wetland enhance-ment and rehabilitation activities, and deter-mined they were consistent with the objec-tives and long-term stewardship goals in the Stonebridge-Terrill Preserve Management Plan.

The mitigation area at the preserve encompasses nearly six acres. It is located within an old hay field that was ditched and partially drained long ago for agriculture. Two existing ditched drainages were sculpt-ed into broad, gentle, more natural swales. Along these swales a total of five shallow

basins were excavated to create seasonal ponds that will provide habitat suitable for amphibians, waterfowl and wading birds. Fill material and a culvert were removed. A diverse mix of 18 native herbaceous plant species were seeded and planted along with planting of 3,413 native shrubs and trees. Three large rock piles composed of mixed cobbles and boulders were erected in bordering upland areas to provide radiant sunning locations and hiding spots for local reptiles, such as garter snakes and northern alligator lizards.

Logs, stumps, root wads, and snags (dead erect trees) were installed. This woody debris will provide perching, foraging, and breeding places for birds of prey, wood-peckers, invertebrates (insects and other such critters), and microbial and fungal life forms. All the woody debris and snags were “recycled” from trees recently cut from along the side of Mt. Baker Road on the land bank property.

All these changes are expected to improve native plant species richness and wildlife habitat. Other benefits include increased stormwater attenuation (increased storage and diminished flow rates), and improved water quality treatment as surface water flows through dense herbaceous vegetation and the multiple basin and swale topogra-phy.

The mitigation project was done using local contractors and professionals. The wetland delineation and wetland mitiga-tion design was done by Scott Rozenbaum of Rozewood Environmental Services, Inc., with assistance from Mindy Kayl, and inde-pendent third-party technical reviews and contributions by Amanda Azous and land bank ecologists. Earthwork and installation of woody components, rocks, and fenc-ing was done by Island Excavating, Inc. Kucklick Landscape and Design completed plant installations. The project was funded and overseen by public works, in collabora-tion with San Juan County Land Bank.

The site work began on the last week of August 2012, and was completed by Oct. 31, 2012. Already, Wilson’s snipes, sandpip-

ers, waterfowl, northern harriers, red-tailed hawks, mink, Pacific treefrogs, rough-skinned newts, and a wide assortment of songbirds have been observed returning to the site. Those funny looking snags and down logs are going to be very popular with wildlife.

The site is temporarily fenced to exclude deer from damaging the newly planted veg-etation. The goal is to remove the fence in about five years once the plantings are well established and can withstand deer browse and antler rubbings. The mitigation site will be monitored and maintained for ten years to document the development of native plant communities, identify any problems, and apply corrective actions when needed. There will be public access to the site.

“This project shows what can be accom-plished by taking the time to be thoughtful and diligent. Our work demonstrates how collaboration, local knowledge, sensitivity to multiple viewpoints, and respect pro-duce exciting results,” said San Juan County Engineer Rachel Dietzman. “The mitigation

site will provide an aesthetic, diverse mix of habitats, will improve water quality, and help slow surface water flowing through this portion of the watershed. I’m delighted with it.”

Land Bank Director Lincoln Bormann said the Stonebridge-Terrill Preserve is already a “great open space area” for the people of Orcas – even more so with its connection to Crescent Beach Preserve to the south.

“This wetland enhancement is a great addition, adding to both its ecological func-tionality and the potential for hosting many more diverse wildlife species,” he said. “It will be fun to watch how the preserve changes through the seasons and in coming years.”

Rozenbaum is a wetland and soil scien-tist with Rozewood Environmental Services, Inc. on Lopez. Azous is a wetland scientist and environmental engineer with Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc., and a member of the San Juan County Land Bank Commission.

What’s going on at the Stonebridge-Terrill Preserve?

contributed photoTim Holmes (on excavator) and Dan Kimple (on dozer) of Island Excavating installing double-trunked snag at the Stonebridge-Terrill Preserve.

by JIM CORENMANChairman San Juan County FAC

The San Juan County Ferry Advisory Committee is committed to keep-ing local citizens in touch with financial, political and operational issues that affect the county’s primary lifeline to the mainland. As many are aware, there have been recent changes to the num-ber of crew required to staff some of the ferries, which have increased operating costs.

The latest chapter involves a provision by Coast Guard that allows alternate staffing levels for the Super class fer-

ries (Elwha, Hyak, Kaleetan and Yakima), by reducing one deck crew if the upper passenger (galley) deck is closed and passengers are limited to 450, and by two deck crew if limited to 300. During the winter season, when the galleys are closed and passenger loads are light, this is a viable option for some routes to save operating funds.

Where things got off track is that ferries viewed this as an operational change that would be “invisible” to the public with no ser-vice impacts. While that is certainly the goal, reducing

passenger capacity always has the potential to reduce service, and FAC believes that discussion was need-ed. We had a constructive conversation with Deputy Chief for Operations and Construction George Capacci and Planning Director Ray Deardorf. They agreed that FAC should be in the loop on this issue, and provided information on the changes.

The plan for the San Juan routes is to close the upper passenger deck and reduce the crew complement by one on the Super class ves-sels (limiting passengers to

450), only for days when the passenger load is expected to be very light and only for the winter schedule when the galley is normally closed. For Fridays, Sundays and holidays, or for any special events days, the boats will be fully crewed with the nor-mal passenger capacity of 1,782. For the days when a reduced capacity is planned, historical passenger loads never exceeded 300, so the limit of 450 provides a rea-sonable margin.

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Happy New Year from Mayor Murphy

Happy new year to all Orcas Island citizens. And what better way to bring in the New Year than to attend the Polar Bear Plunge at Cascade Lake on Jan. 1?

Of all of the attendees, only the quadripeds kept their fur on, while the biped counterparts were near-ly naked, and judging from their goose bumps they were struggling to keep themselves from freezing. Such unusual behavior.

Nonetheless, there was much community spirit, and energy and worthy of praise from this mayor. So I extend to all community mem-bers, and on behalf of Children’s House, a wonderful and healthy new year to all.

Mayor Murphy

Preparing Orcas for an incident like Newtown

I write this letter as an individual, as a concerned citizen of Orcas who has lived here for the past 26 years, and as a grandfather of three Orcas children who have only recently moved off island.

When I first read the news of the shootings in Newtown, Conn. the morning of Dec. 14, I was struck by townspeople who were quoted as saying, “We never dreamed some-thing like this could happen here” and “I thought Newtown was the safest place in the whole country.” In the space of only 10 minutes, that illusion was shattered.

Many aspects of how a com-munity could act to minimize the risks of a repeat of Newtown will be determined on the local level. As I write this letter, I see that our sher-iff and his deputies held an “Active Shooter” training exercise at the Orcas School campus on Dec. 27.

I’m wondering what could we do as a community to lower the risks of a Newtown tragedy ever occurring here on Orcas. One way we can do this is to gather with the inten-tion to reach a consensus on what actions we can take. Fortunately, Orcas has successful examples of consensus-based action, most nota-bly the recommendations for fund-ing improvements for the Orcas schools. A similar process was used

in the creation of our Stage on the Green in Eastsound.

So this is an invitation to you. I have organized four sessions spread over a week’s time – 15 hours total time commitment. The goal is to reach a consensus on what changes to local practices and attitudes we can make in order to lower the risk of such an event occurring on Orcas Island and draft a statement of that consensus to be published and shared with the community.

Attendance must be for ALL FOUR sessions: Sat., Jan. 26 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tues., Jan. 29 6:30 pm to 9 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 31 6:30 p.m. To 9 p.m., Sat., Feb. 2 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. In the Lundeen Room, Orcas Senior Center. To reg-ister, call 376-5377 or email fklein@orcasonline.com using “consensus” as a subject line.

Fred KleinOrcas Island

Byers for councilWhen we first discovered the

San Juan Islands, we – like many others – were primarily attracted to their natural beauty. But after living here for over 12 years, what keeps us so attached to this beauti-ful place has more to do with the dynamic sense of community that thrives here. This is why we are supporting Lisa Byers for San Juan County Council. Under Lisa’s lead-ership, OPAL Community Land Trust has epitomized an approach that says, “not only can we do it, but we can do it better.” As Executive Director of OPAL Lisa has repeat-edly demonstrated the success of a reasoned and multi-dimensional approach to accomplish goals that are in the best interest of the entire

community. As a member of the county council we believe that Lisa will listen to all voices and attempt to make judgments that will not only benefit the majority of today’s county residents, but preserve what is best about this place for the future.

Harold Lentzner and Elsie Pamuk

Orcas Island

We islanders sometimes boast that having no bridges makes these real islands. We kind of like that. But there’s one case where bridges are good. It’s the collaborative kind we need between nonprofits and businesses and between islanders of divergent interests.

Working as director of OPAL Community Land Trust, or on such committees as her recent role on the solid waste committee, Lisa Byers has a proven record of using her skills and experience to achieve healthy discussion and outcome. If you don’t know much about her yet, please look into what she would bring to county council in the District 2 position. She has my vote. We need her on the council.

Sandy RabinowitzFriday Harbor

For the past six and a half years, I have served on the board of OPAL Community Land Trust, the orga-nization for which Lisa Byers has been executive director for 17 years. Based on those years of working with Lisa, I enthusiastically urge you to vote for her for county coun-cil. Frankly, we will miss her at OPAL, but she is so remarkably

Editorial

Make a New Year’s resolution to get involved with, or at least pay attention to, the coming elections for the San Juan County Council.

Every county voter will weigh in for three new council members after the passage of Prop. 1. A three-member council means that two council members will control the county’s budget and poli-cies.In addition, Prop. 2 cancels the “separation of powers” concept and eliminates the position of county administrator in favor of a yet-to-be-defined county manager. The new council will have sole authority over both the executive and legislative power in the county. You will want to know how each candidate views his or her responsibility to the island he or she lives on and to the other two islands as well.San Juan County last had three elected legislators in 2005. At that time, county coffers were relatively well-stocked, public and pri-vate employment was high, construction was booming and home sales were strong.Times change.The primary election is Feb. 12. Three candidates from Orcas and three from San Juan will seek nominations to join the two Lopez candidates in the April 23 general election.Because the elections are in February and April, turnout may be significantly reduced. That smaller group of voters may or may not share your views of what’s right for your island and the county as a whole.The Sounder intends to closely observe the council elections. How about you?

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CorrectionLast week’s Island Living cover story incorrectly listed the name of the director for “The Life of Galileo” coming up at Orcas Center. The director is Robert Hall.

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good that the whole county deserves her. Here are my reasons.

First, Lisa is – hands down – the most competent person I have ever worked with or for. She is thorough, works quickly but accurate-ly, and has a gift for num-bers (including budgets) and for making complex issues clear. She is always thoroughly prepared for any meeting, always comes ready to provide more back-ground information should it be needed, and follows up with all decisions or ques-tions immediately and com-pletely. She is also remark-ably creative in finding novel solutions to complex problems. If this sounds like an impossibly positive set of qualities, I can only assure you that this written description is less impres-sive than the actuality.

Second, Lisa is a terrific listener. If you disagree with her, she doesn’t get defen-sive or insist on her own position; she hears you out, searches for points of agree-ment, asks good questions and finds a way to reach consensus.

Third, Lisa Byers has a deep and enduring commit-ment to the health of our community. As evidence of that commitment, she has participated in – and often chaired – innumer-able committees and forums on Orcas and throughout the county. She understands the county’s strengths and weaknesses, and because of her broad involvement, she has a wide network of county residents on whom she can call for answers to questions or for assistance.

San Juan County has a full array of tough problems to be solved. Lisa Byers is, above all, a supremely good problem solver. She will be a wonderful county council person.

Helen Bee Orcas Island

I want to thank Lisa Byers for running for county coun-cil. Having served with her on the Eastsound Planning Review Committee for a number of years, I know first hand how she can be a thoughtful and diligent leader. Lisa is dedicated to the truly helpful things that are needed on Orcas and in the county. She is a remark-able manager, and her work with OPAL for almost two decades shows her ability to work through complex financial and regulatory matters. I hope you’ll join

me in supporting Lisa Byers for county council.

Joyce BurghardtEastsound

It is very clear to me why I am supporting Lisa Byers for county council posi-tion#2 (Orcas). Director of OPAL for years, she has nav-igated the complex waters of bureaucracies and person-alities in order to achieve a stable, thriving commu-nity based organization. In addition she is well known as a balanced facilitator, and problem solver, both of which are talents we need in county government. She is non-ideological and sees the complexities of govern-ing our unique island situa-tion as a challenge to be met, not as an insurmountable hurdle. On her website she speaks of our islands’ “blend of independence and inter-dependence,” which to me reflects an understanding of who we are and what we need to continually achieve. She will have my vote and my effort to help her get elected.

Sarah CrosbyFriday Harbor

Jarman for councilBob Jarman was

my supervisor at PTI Communications (now Centurylink) and we were Board members at the Portland Fair develop-ment. We’ve worked on many projects and the Bob Jarman I know is motivated by the ideals that have been our nation’s legacy. Hard work, perseverance, lending a helping hand and bringing a smile to brighten some-one’s day. He is well respect-ed in the community and studies problems seriously. Bob looks for solutions in a non-partisan way, con-sidering other opinions. He has fresh perspectives and can learn quickly. I encour-age my Island neighbors to attend a public council meeting and see how well Bob will represent you. By the February primary you’ll be able to make an informed vote! Mine will be for Bob Jarman!

Kathleen DolsenSan Juan Island

Pratt for councilI’ve had the pleasure of

working with Lovel Pratt on county, state and national issues and she has repeat-edly proven herself to be an effective and energetic leader. Lovel has both the skills and temperament to lead San Juan County through these difficult and often contentious times.

I appreciate the fiscally

responsible approach with which Lovel has addressed the county budget process and she has certainly been a strong advocate for pro-tecting our islands against possible oil spills and rec-ognizing the importance of continued viable farming in our county.

But most important, Lovel has demonstrated that she listens and is considerate of all perspectives before mak-ing decisions. Please join me in voting for Lovel Pratt for county council, District 1.

Tom CowanLopez Island

In light of the unusual transition time and chang-es in county government, there are some very good reasons to return Lovel Pratt to county council: knowl-edge of complicated issues, countywide experience and good judgment. She is pro-active and tenacious. Her reputation for accessibility, responsiveness and follow-through are well known.

But there’s another strength that makes her our favored candidate: a balanced approach to eco-nomic development and safeguarding of the islands’ natural environment. She knows the importance of maintaining a strong local economy, including her support for sustainable tourism – emphasizing visi-tor education – while dem-onstrating solid priorities for preservation of our rural island heritage and marine resources. She has dedicated her professional work and volunteer service to this bal-ance. She walks her talk.

Lovel’s performance on the previous council has consistently produced innovative, positive results. Let’s elect her to the newly-structured County Council District 1 position so that she can contribute her knowledge, experience, and balanced approach.

Robin and Barry Jacobson

Friday HarborDear Editor,

Ayers for councilI first met Greg Ayers

after we both moved to the island, nearly simultaneous-ly. We both had experience in starting businesses and had frequent discussions. I was impressed by Greg’s experience running these businesses, hiring people and managing projects to tight timelines and budgets, and his drive to get medical devices to market. It was not surprising when he decided to begin to apply these skills in the community for the

benefit of the residents of Orcas Island. After work-ing with volunteer Island organizations pertaining to public health issues, I was not surprised to hear that he was going to run for the position of commissioner of the Eastsound Water and Sewer District. I strongly supported his candidacy and was pleased when he secured election.

Subsequently, Greg Ayers and I have worked together with our respective orga-nizations, the ESWD and the Eastsound Water Users Association, to protect the Eastsound Aquifer. Greg has shown initiative and facilitated quality commu-nication between the two organizations, including working with me in support of connecting homes out-side the UGA to the sewer system. I know he has faced other challenges in connect-ing homes to the ESWD sewer system and has, in my opinion, provided creative and fair solutions for hom-eowners.

I feel that Greg has the qualifications, experience and personal drive neces-sary to address the problems and issues currently facing San Juan County. Therefore, I highly recommend that you cast your vote for Greg Ayers for county council.

John MacLeodOrcas Island

We are writing you today in support of Orcas Island candidate Greg Ayers for county council. While we are residents of San Juan Island, it is important for all of us to remember that this is an island wide campaign, and we all can, and should vote for Greg.

When we first met Greg we were impressed by his business and government experience and how his skills could benefit the residents of San Juan County. After talking with him, asking for his insights and thoughts on the challenges and issues facing our county, we were more convinced that he is the strongest candidate to serve us.

Greg’s idea for improv-ing the financial health of our county is novel and creative. He describes a method by which county expenses would be priori-tized, and budgeted, based upon the legal obligation of the county. Then, based upon resources available and the ability of the county to deliver a certain service the expense is prioritized. Greg’s solution just makes sense, and shows how he can take a problem and solve it in a unique way.

Equally important are Greg’s ideas for creating jobs and increasing county revenues. He is focused on realistic solutions, not “pie in the sky” ideas that are unlikely to yield revenues, let alone quality jobs. Lastly, Greg has a pragmatic approach to protecting our island environment. He rec-ognizes the importance of education and sustainable programs for environmen-tal protection and enhance-ment, while maintaining our island culture and way of life.

Greg’s drive, motiva-tion and recognition of our county’s needs are very impressive. With the challenges the County will face in the future, we need council members with skills and experience, and proven results that Greg provides. We strongly sup-port Greg Ayers for county council and we hope you will give Greg your vote on Feb. 12.

Dave and Jane CableSan Juan Island

New election gives alternatives

The upcoming Council election has candidates from each district who give voters a welcome alternative to the prior council’s approach to governing.

Brian McClerren from Lopez, Bob Jarman and Marc Forlenza from San Juan and Rick Hughes, Greg Ayers and Lisa Byers from Orcas Island were not part of the prior council that imposed the mind-numbing Critical Areas Ordinance on the citizens of the county. Except for Lisa Byers, whose career has been with gov-ernment funded non-prof-its, all the candidates listed above have recent private sector experience.

Despite the council/char-ter elections being non-partisan, the progressive liberal wing of the San Juan County Democrat Party is

supporting candidates Lisa Byers, Lovel Pratt and Jamie Stephens.

Greg Ayers and Rick Hughes, Marc Forlenza and Bob Jarman and Brian McCleeren are keeping faith with the non-partisan pro-vision of the SJC Charter. Theirs is a principled but difficult stand to take when facing candidates benefit-ing from the money and momentum that party poli-tics generates.

There is a choice to make. Past Council Members Jamie Stephens and Lovel Pratt never saw an off-island grant-funded pro-gram they didn’t like. With their approval, our county government ended up with staff, funding and/or agen-das from powerful off-island organizations including the Puget Sound Partnership, Northwest Straits, Salmon Recovery, Tribes and the Department of Ecology. These groups are directly funding programs for Eco-Net, the Friends and the SJC Marine Resources Committee who, in turn, vigorously support the off-island agendas to the coun-cil and planning staff.

With this outside influ-ence, the prior council voted consistently for exten-sive new restrictions on the public, has re-written our Comprehensive Plan and ignored the balance required by Growth Management Act for land use planning. The impact on local businesses, working families, property owners and our fragile local economy has been largely ignored.

Voters have the oppor-tunity to choose and sup-port the non-partisan can-didates; candidates who understand that a council members job is to direct and manage county govern-ment, not direct and man-age the citizens of San Juan County.

John EvansDoe Bay

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According to anthro-pologists, the San Juans were the traditional � sh-ing, harvesting, and gath-ering place of several tribes belonging to the Coast Sal-ish language group. � e term “Salish” is not from any of the native languages or cultures of the coastal region, but refers to the Selisch people of Montana and Idaho, who were the � rst group encountered by Europeans speaking what is now called the Salishan language. Language di� er-ences between the interior and coastal tribes led to the division of Coast Salish and Interior Salish.

Coast Salish peoples moved into Washington af-ter the glacial retreat when the climate became warmer and wetter and the vast for-ests and river systems had matured. � eir economy was based on rich marine

resources, which o� ered them a very high standard of living that allowed them to develop a complicated belief system, pursue arts and practice a remarkable egalitarian society.

� e Central Coast Sal-ish is collectively made up of � ve language groups, which historically occupied an area extending from the Strait of Georgia to the Olympic Peninsula, in-cluding the entire San Juan archipelago. � e Songhees, Saanich, Lummi, and Samish all had winter vil-lages on the islands. At the time of European contact, a large number of � shing and collecting camps were located on Orcas as well as at least four Lummi villag-es located near present day West Sound, East Sound, Rosario, and Olga.

Coast Salish life consist-ed of several important so-cial groupings: the family, the house group, the vil-

lage, and the tribe. Tribal members married outside of their groups, so as to create a network of “kin-ships” that regulated the relationships between fam-ilies, households, villages and tribes. � e tribe relied on these relationships dur-ing bad times in order to access areas of food and shelter beyond their home territory.

Salish peoples were largely welcoming, or at least tolerant, of early Eu-ropean traders and later settlers with a number of marriages resulting from these relationships. � e im-pact of European peoples was, however, to change Salish life forever. By 1880 few (if any) Native People lived a traditional lifestyle. Most had moved (or been moved) from their home territory and made their living as laborers in the ex-panding enterprises of the new immigrants.

The following was submit-ted by Orcas Fire & Rescue

One of the most criti-cal issues that Orcas Island Fire and Rescue is evalu-ating is how to address our participation in the San Juan County Marine Operations User’s Group. The sheriff and surround-

ing emergency service pro-viders have established the group to finance, manage, and operate the sheriff ’s boat program and admin-ister the public safety grant the sheriff has secured for a new emergency response vessel. The question of how we should be involved in

this program has inspired other questions regarding our service.

On Jan. 9 at 5 p.m. in the Eastsound Fire Hall, we will be hosting a “town hall” meeting to ask our public to comment on our pos-sible participation in the program.

Since 2010, OIFR has used the sheriff ’s boat 14 times to transport patients to hospitals off island when the weather prohibits aero-medical transport – an aver-age of 4.6 transports per year.

The boat has also been used for transporting OIFR emergency personnel to other islands and surround-ing waters for emergency assistance.

At this time there are two proposed options to partici-pate:

• Join the group as a finan-cial partner that is currently estimated to cost OIFR just over $25,000 per year.

• Pay per use member-ship, which is slated to cost $6,500 per transport.

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Imagine that all 130 mil-lion American homes heat their hot water with elec-tricity. If each swapped out its electric hot water heater with a heat pump equiva-lent, each household would save roughly 3,000 kilowatt hours, or 3 megawatt hours, every year, due to the huge increase in efficiency of these tanks. A 500 megawatt coal fired power plant pro-duces roughly 3.3 million megawatt hours per year. The cumulative national savings represents the out-put of about 118 of these power plants.

There are roughly 600 coal fired power plants in America – 118 (or about 20 percent) could be shut down today just by replac-ing the hot water tanks with a new technology that deliv-ers the same hot water with about a 60 percent savings in electricity.

OPALCO participated in a triple rebate program that allowed you to buy a new heat pump hot water tank

for about $350. Installation was little more than remov-ing the old tank and slid-ing in the new one. Energy Star information for the tank states that the average household will save about $350 per year on electric-ity, which means that the tank pays for itself in a year or two. As electricity prices rise, the value of these tanks increases.

One more thing. About 90 percent of the energy used to wash clothes is energy used to heat water. At 4 loads a week and at four kilowatt hours a load (just for the hot water), Americans burn about 108 million megawatt hours a year on hot water clothes washing. That’s the equivalent of 32 coal fired power plants running 24/7 for a year. (Got propane hot water? Propane, like coal, is fossil fuel.) Yes your mother always used hot water to wash. Times are different. There are better soaps, bet-ter machines. A hot water wash is way more abrasive than one using cold water—clothes do not last as long and colors fade much faster. Cold water washing is just

as sanitary and gets clothes just as clean. Cost to switch to cold water? Zero. Just press the “cold” button on your clothes washer water temp control. It’s not scary. It’s not icky. It’s not unsani-tary. It’s not stupid. Think of it the other way: clothes last longer, look brighter, still smell clean for zero cost to you and the environment. Hot water washing way is as retro as rotary phones. Washing in cold water is smart. More than smart. Wise. Waste is waste.

You want sustainable on the super cheap? Wash your clothes in cold water and get a heat pump hot water tank. These are simple decisions. Their impact lasts a life-time. If you have the energy to protest the coal port in Bellingham, please don’t argue that you don’t have the energy to wash your clothes in cold water or step up to the heat pump hot water tank plate. Make it happen. Press the cold button. Call OPALCO. Your grandchil-dren will be proud.

Joe Symons lives in Olga.

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Wolf Hollow releases eagleby ScOtt RaSmuSSen

Journal editor

With the sheet thrown back and cage door opened, a once-injured adult bald eagle needed only but a few seconds to clear its 6-foot wingspan from its temporary entrap-ment, gain its footing, and then, without even a hint of hesitation, off it soared.

About a dozen well-wishers braved the icy winds of a chilly Saturday morning to cheer on and wave so long to the 12-pound female, which swiftly rose above a nearby parking lot and, riding on a steady surge of wind gusts, made a bee-line directly toward a tree-lined ridge on the south end of San Juan Island, not far from where it was recovered, severely injured, just two months earlier.

“Being able to have had a part in the rescue was huge for me," said Kathy Farron, a local realtor who just happened to be at the south end of the island, checking on a listing, when a series of distinctive but unfa-miliar shrieks pierced the quiet of Cape San Juan that day two months ago.

With the help and assistance of the prop-erty owner next door, she discovered a pair

bald eagles wedged and trapped between a heavy thicket of shrubs and a very large set of boulders, their talons locked togeth-er tightly. Instinctively, they called Wolf Hollow.

Shona Aiken, education coordinator of the wildlife rehabilitation center, said it’s not uncommon for bald eagles, whether in a mating ritual or territorial dispute, to lock talons in the air. She said that it was evident at the scene, however, that there was no love lost between the two birds.

One of the birds broke free and flew off while the rescue was under way. The other suffered an injury to its leg that left the lower limb “dangling” by its side and effectively useless. Aiken said the animal would have had “zero” chance of captur-ing or holding onto prey in the wild given the extent of the injury. Fortunately, x-rays showed no broken bones.

After two months of intensive care, treat-ment and rehab, the bald eagle, the 16th treated at Wolf Hollow in 2012, was back in top-flight form, cleared for takeoff and headed back into the wild. Only two of the 16 bald eagle patients cared for in 2012 are still undergoing treatment.

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San Juan County Parks is continuing its “residents only” opportunity to pre-reserve campsites at county parks in 2013.

This year, the county parks program offers local residents a chance to make prime-time summer camping reservations between Jan. 14 and Feb. 28. The offer is available for camping at county managed parks on San Juan, Lopez (Odlin), and Shaw islands, and at the county fairgrounds R.V. campsites.

Camping reservations for the general public will begin March 1.

All three county campgrounds are located in waterfront parks with spectacu-lar views, beautiful beaches, and small craft boat launches. The fairgrounds offer R.V. camping with water and electrical hook-ups, close proximity to downtown

Friday Harbor and a public beach (Jackson Beach).

Scheduled campground renovation and road construction at Odlin County Park on Lopez Island during the summer season, May 1 through July 31, may impact camp-ers. Camping rates will be discounted 20 percent at Odlin during construction.

Proof of residency is required for the residents-only early reservation program (verifiable local address and phone num-ber, driver’s license, or voter registration). Additional information is available on the county parks website: sanjuanco.com/Parks/camping.aspx.

Local residents can email parks@san-juanco.com or call the Parks Department, 378-8420, for a reservation form.

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by MARTY ZIERSports contributor

The Viking girls and boys basketball teams had a busy vacation break host-ing strong LaConner Braves’ teams Friday, Jan. 4 in what were expected to be tough games and the Lopez Island Lobos the following day in a competitive island rivalry.

Expectations prevailed as the girls lost a close game while the boys endured their toughest loss of the season against LaConner but rebounded with a pair of Viking wins against the Lobos.

The Vikings girls (3-3) kept it close with the (9-2) Braves, down 12 to 7 in the first quarter and 19 to 27 at half. Outscoring the Braves 13 to 8 in the third quar-ter, the Vikings started the fourth quarter down only 35-32 after some key half-time adjustments by Coach Gregg Sasan.

As the fourth quarter dwindled, the Vikings made a run but ultimately could not out-shoot the Braves, losing 47-41.

“It came down to a couple easy baskets we missed,” Sasan said. “I am very proud of the how the girls played, especially how they stepped up their defense.”

Scoring for the Vikings was lead by Shelbi Rogers with 17 points, Bella Nigretto 10, Alicia Susol 5, Lana Bronn

4, Hanna Brunner-Gaydos 3 and Aliviah Garcia 2.

Facing the (11-1) Braves, Vikings (3-3) boys’ coach Rich Madden stuck to his guns and started a squad with JV and non-starters who had made the required practices during the holiday break. Madden, with var-sity starters still on vacation, decided he would turn this challenge “into a learning experience for the team.”

Down 34-9 after the first quarter and 58-21 by half-time, Madden, who expect-ed a blowout, was pleased that his green starters got “some experience on the main court.” He was espe-cially pleased with his start-ers, who “despite a blowout, never gave up.”

After a final score of 102 to 38, the learning experi-ence ended with Jack Gates leading the scoring with 26 points, Chase Drake 7 and Jake Zier 4.

The Lobo girls (5-6) hit the court fast stepping as much at 10 points ahead by the second quarter. With a minute left in the third quar-ter the Vikings (4-3) nudged ahead 31-30 but ended the quarter a point down.

The Vikings took the lead 38-34 with five minutes left and dominated the remain-der of the game.

Rogers, Garcia, Susol and Nigretto unleashed on onslaught of steals, saves,

fast breaks and sharp shoot-ing to pull away 43 to 34 with three minutes remain-ing, ultimately outscoring the Lobos 22-4 in the quar-ter, winning the game 53 to 36.

“Lopez is a good team but our girls played hard,” Sasan said.

Scoring was lead by Rogers with 19, Susol 12, Nigretto 12, Garcia 7, Hanna Brunner-Gaydos 2 and Emily Jackson 1.

The Lobos boys (4-7) hit shots early and took the lead, but the Vikings (4-3) tied the game at 26 with one minute left in the first half. Leading at half 28-26, the Vikings and the Lobos slid into the third quarter cold, both teams missing most shots and scoring only a combined 12 points, but ending with the Vikings stretching their lead to 37-29.

Jack Gates pushed the ball hard, scoring a game high 23 points, but was benched after a technical foul.

In the fourth quarter the Vikings drew on Jake Zier, Jack Russillo, Rylan Date, Liam Nutt and Chase Drake to take over scoring and combined for 20 fourth quarter points while defen-sively keeping the Lobos to only 3 points.

Ending with a 57-32 win, Coach Rich Madden said, “We started tired from Friday’s game, but we picked it up and played good team basketball.”

Dominating the rebounds were Date with 18, and Zier 13 while Zier had 20 points, Russillo 6, Drake 4 and Date and Nutt 2 each.

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Prosecutors had asked for a two-year prison term. The judge gave him three instead.

Convicted of drug traf-ficking for the second time in three years, Raul Vallejano, Jr. was ordered to serve three years in pris-on in a sentence handed down Nov. 30 in San Juan County Superior Court by Judge Don Eaton. He was also ordered to pay $1,950 in fines and fees, and cred-ited with having served two days of the three-year pris-on term.

Earlier in the month, Vallejano, Jr., pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a controlled substance, heroin, with intent to deliv-er, the second time in three years that the 25-year-old had been convicted of a fel-ony drug trafficking crime.

He was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay nearly $4,000 in

fines and fees after plead-ing guilty in 2009 to three drug trafficking crimes, which included two counts of delivery of cocaine and another involving heroin. He had been a San Juan Island resident for about five years at that time.

A Class B felony, posses-sion of a controlled sub-stance with intent to deliver, carries maximum penal-ties of 20 years in prison, a $25,000 fine, or both, for a repeat offender, accord-ing to state sentencing stan-dards.

Vallejano, Jr., was taken into custody in the early morning hours of July 15 following a search of the cabin in which he lived on De Haro Lane. Officers reportedly seized nearly three ounces of heroin, six

grams of cocaine and an assortment of scales, pack-aging materials and para-phernalia at the time of the arrest. He was on proba-tion and under supervision of the state Department of Corrections at the time.

Vallejano’s drug traf-ficking conviction is the second involving heroin in the islands in the last six months. In mid-May, 18-year-old Christopher Faylor pleaded guilty to four counts of delivery of a controlled substance, three of which involved a sale of one gram of cocaine and the other the sale of about a gram of heroin.

A senior at Friday Harbor High School at the time of his arrest, Faylor was taken into custody at the school in early January.

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Island Living

Spaying, neutering, micro-chipping and more at Orcas Animal Shelter

by CALI BAGBYSta� reporter

Dogs and cats provide their human owners various life lessons like the “Zen” of living in the moment, how to love unconditionally and even promoting exercise – can we go to the park, please, please, please? Actually it would probably sound more like: woof, woof, woof.

Humans can give their pets food, shelter, lots of love and the gift of health and safety with spaying/neutering, micro-chipping and licensing.

SPAYING/NEUTERING The Orcas Animal Protection Society is offering free

spaying/neutering for cats of Orcas Island residents starting now. Discounts are also available for spaying/neutering dogs.

Cats are the priority, according to Shelter Manager Marsha Waunch, because there are always 20 or more cats at APS.

A grant from the Bernice Barbour Foundation pro-vides the shelter with funding to help cover surgical costs.

But Waunch said even after the money runs out, the shelter will continue to provide financial assistance for spaying/neutering procedures.

Waunch cares deeply about this issue, because it not only helps to ensure that pets have homes on the island, but also supports shelter populations off the island.

“Because we have done such a good job on Orcas [of spaying or neutering pets] we don’t get that many

unwanted or abandoned animals and that helps provide space for animals from other shelters in communities where they have to put animals down because of a lack of space,” Waunch said.

According to the Humane Society of the United States, four million cats and dogs– about one every eight seconds – are put down in U.S. shelters each year.

Spaying and neutering can not only reduce pet overpopulation, but can also help promote your pet’s health.

According to Orcas Animal Protection Society’s web-site, the benefits are:

• Preventing unwanted litters, but also keeping ani-mals healthier, more content and better behaved.

• Neutering eliminates most roaming and fighting, thus reducing the risk of injury and infections as well as reducing aggression toward other animals.

• The neutered male will also be less likely to be affected by hormones that cause him to mark indoor and outdoor turf.

• Spaying your female makes her far easier to live with by eliminating heat cycles and annoyance from roaming males.

• Spaying can eliminate a number of potential health problems including tumors and uterine diseases.

Waunch added that the beginning of the year is a good time for spaying/neutering because female cats go into heat at the end of January and into February.

“It’s a good time to stem the tide of unwanted litters,” she said.

MICRO-CHIPPINGPets undergoing spaying or neutering can also get

micro-chipped for $10. Micro-chipping involves inject-ing a tiny computer chip with an identification number under the skin of the pet. According to the Orcas Animal Protection Society’s website, the procedure is completely safe and can be performed on animals of any age.

“Animals can lose collars but they can’t use a micro-chip,” said Waunch. “We always celebrate when a stray comes with a micro-chip so we can track down its owner.”

DOG LICENSES FOR 2013San Juan County requires all dog owners to license

their dogs annually. Licenses for the New Year are avail-able at the Orcas Animal Shelter from 2-5 p.m. They are also available at Pawki’s for Pets and Eastsound Kennels. Dog licenses are $30 and $12 if the dog is spayed/neutered. If your dog is micro-chipped, bring the chip number. If you don’t know your pet’s micro-chip num-ber, staff can provide an identifying scan.

For a $5 fee, San Juan County can also add a digital photo of your dog to the license database to assist with identification if your pet is lost/found.

Rabies tags issued for a three-year period by a veteri-narian are often confused with dog license tags, but they are not the same.

For more information and to schedule an appoint-ment, call the Orcas Animal Shelter at 376-6777.

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by Michele heller Special to the Sounder

Every one of us has a relationship with the magi-cal stuff underfoot whether we know it or not – some call it dirt, some call it soil. Mostly, unless we consider ourselves farmers or gar-deners, we don’t think of it much at all. And yet, the condition of soil and how it is treated, globally and locally, is highly influential in determining the quality of the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and even the rate at which climate change will impact our lives.

This humble substance known as soil has been aptly called “the foundation of civilization” and is the sub-ject of a new feature-length film “Symphony of the Soil” by Deborah Koons Garcia. Drawing from ancient knowledge and current sci-entific understanding, the film is an artistic explora-tion of the miraculous sub-stance of soil and why it is important to life on earth.

This 104-minute docu-mentary is ultimately the

story of community; it describes in fascinating detail the hidden world that helps define our existence as it supports the systems in nature upon which we rely.

This subject is timely as we enter the new year, and as we are increasingly aware of the challenges and oppor-tunities of this millennium. The power of community is a theme that is gaining energy and finding expres-sion through the victory of GMO-Free San Juans and the SWAP initiatives. These grass roots movements have become institutions of our islands, and such efforts are gaining momentum.

The films co-sponsors include more than 20 enti-ties such as Food Masters and FEAST, as well as other citizen-initiative groups, nonprofit and county orga-nizations, businesses, farms, and individuals; all com-ing together to participate in this event to strengthen ties and combine efforts on behalf of the islands’ interest in sustainability and resil-ience.

“The Symphony of the

Soil” is a film that lifts the spirits and provides inspi-ration, through magnifi-cent cinematography, lucid scientific understanding and heartfelt story telling. As the message of the film unfolds, it brings into focus a powerful tool for use in our local community and beyond – awareness on a deeper level, of a resource that is precious, mysterious and potent. Its power lies, in part, in the model it rep-resents – thriving, effective and sustainable community in action.

Still wondering why should anyone want to see a film about soil? Find out for yourself: bring a potluck dish, your own utensils, and be ready to celebrate GMO-Free San Juans and SWAP on Jan. 13 at Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Potluck starts at 4 p.m., film starts at 4:45 p.m., optional discussion follows. Presented by Lopez Locavores film series. For more information and for a list of co-sponsors visit www.lopezlocavores.org or 468-3618.

Throughout the year, the employees of West Sound Café have been putting small loose change from their tips into a Piggy Bank dedicated to Orcas Island Food Bank.

In 2012, the Piggy Bank yielded $246.38. With a bit of rounding up and matching funds from owners Richard and Nanae Fralick, the West Sound Café Employees will be gifting a total of $500 to the Orcas Island Food Bank this year.

Participating in the gift in 2012 were: Ione Angeles, Eros Belliveau, Roze Bortoletto,

Serena Burman, Joe Cain, Anthony Eckerson, Pamela Evans, Chet Gibbard, Carmel Hall, Elijah Jones, Edith Leonard, Kyle Masters, Alex Petruszak, Justine Pope, Wilma Sale, Margaret May Schaller, Jennifer Smith, Hilary Walker and David Wiltfong.

The West Sound Café hopes to expand this program in 2013 by displaying the “Food Bank Piggy” prominently to encour-age restaurant patrons to contribute their loose change as well.

West Sound Cafe staff gives gift to the Orcas Food Bank

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indian iSland tide pOOlS: 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Indian Island (from the beach at Eastsound’s county park). ViBrant Vegetarian CluB: Orcas Christian School Kitchen, 6 p.m., $5, RSVP to email orcas@vibrantvegetar-ian.com or 376-2876. OrCaS COmmunity COunCil meeting: Orcas Community Council, 4 to 6 p.m., Eastsound Firehall, share local projects and concerns Contact Gretchen Krampf at 317-8220 for more informa-tion.

FRIDAy, JAN. 11deer HarBOr pOtluCK: 254th Anniversary of the Scottish Baird Robert Burns birth, 6:30 p.m. at Deer Harbor Community Club. Bring a side dish to share and a place setting and beverage. Call 376-5404 for more info.lOuiS xiV COnCertS: Christine Wilkinson, baroque violin; Steven Creswell, baroque viola; Joanna Blendulf, viola da gamba; Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute, 1:30 p.m., Orcas Adventist Church.

wEDS., JAN. 16OrCaS iSland garden CluB: Local weather experts will

discuss Orcas Island micro-climates,10 a.m., Orcas Center, Madrona Room. For further information, go to www.orcasislandgarden-club.org.

wEDS. – ONgOINgparKS and reC adult VOlleyBall: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the “old gym” at the Orcas Public School. $2 to drop-in or register at www.oiprd.org. Everyone 16 and older is welcome. Call Orcas Parks and Rec at 376-7275 for more information.

tHeOSOpHiCal Study grOup: Indralaya Library, 7:30 to 9 p.m. For further informa-tion call Rosalyn at 376-6765. Library is open to the public on Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m.alCOHOliCS anOnymOuS: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., 197 Main Street, next door to Pawki’s.

ThurS.�–�ONgOINgal-anOn: 5:30 p.m., 197 Main Street, next door to Pawki’s. liBrary StOry timeS: 11 a.m. in the Orcas Island Library children’s room. The half-hour storytimes are geared for children between the ages of three and six, but all children are welcome.

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5:30 to 6:30 p.m., 197 Main Street, next door to Pawki’s.

SaT.�–�ongoIngalCOHOliCS anOnymOuS: 8 to 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., 197 Main Street, next door to Pawki’s. Last Saturday of each month, AA potluck meeting, Emmanuel Parish Hall, 6 p.m. liOnS CluB: Weekly lunch, 11:45 a.m., Legion. iSleSHare timeBanK: For orientations, call Morgan Meadows at 376-9213.liBrary StOry timeS: 11 a.m., Orcas Library children’s room, half-hour storytimes are for children between 3 and six, but all kids are welcome.

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You may have noticed how different the weather can be on the various areas of Orcas Island. Olga is different than Eastsound and Deer Harbor can be different from both.

The Orcas Island Garden Club has had two state climatologists speak at meetings and now they have local weather experts to enlighten the group.

At the Jan. 16 meeting, Garden Club President Maryln Meyers and Olga resident John Willis will discuss those Orcas Island microclimates. The sessions starts at 10 a.m. in the Madrona Room of Orcas Center.

Willis’ grandfather, Cecil Willis, began keeping weather records here on Orcas in 1890. The records are continuous to the present. The Willis family is one of nine

families in the United States who have kept continuous records in the same location for more than 100 years. You see John’s weekly weather recordings in the Islands’ Sounder.

Meyers, a CoCoRaHS representative from Orcas, has been gathering weather information every day for the past seven years. Meyers and John will enthusiasti-cally discuss the microclimates on Orcas and solicit anecdotal information from the audience.

“We can compare the differenc-es to help us know our own microcli-mates and garden better,” say organizers. For further information see www.orcasis-landgradenclub.org.

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The first of three Community Dinners at Orcas Christian School is fast approaching. On Tuesday, Jan. 15 from 5 to 7:30 p.m., islanders can enjoy a free, all-you-can-eat Asian

meal. On the menu is Chinese egg drop soup, chow fun noodles, fried rice, egg foo yung, egg rolls, jasmine rice, Asian salad, fortune cookies, and tea. The school gym will be open for play from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

“Last year it was one of the best Asian meals I've had, especially the Asian noodles. Everything was so tasty and fresh,” said community member Jim Coffin. “The Community dinners are such a wonderful way to get people together during the winter months in a friendly and relaxed setting.”

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Auditions for Orcas Has Talentby CALI BAGBY

Staff reporter

“Orcas Has Talent” is a community event where the audience will vote for their favorite “act.”

The winner will once again take home a $500 cash prize on Feb. 9 at Orcas Center. All net proceeds go to Orcas Island Prevention Coalition.

“There is a wide variety of talent and we want to urge people to jump in even at the last minute, it’s never too late,” said Donna Laslo, event producer.

To see the hopeful candi-dates take their shot at mak-ing it to the final show, get your ticket for auditions on Jan. 19 at the Grange, $10 at the door. This year’s lineup already includes a stand-up comic, a band, a magician and a performance artist. Judges Susan Osborn, Gene Nery and Bob Shipstad will award the top eight acts their “Golden Ticket,” which is a pass to compete at the finale at Orcas Center.

The audition not only gives the audience a good show, but offers performers a chance to broader their horizons with supportive feedback from the judges.

“Hopefully what we say is helpful,” said Osborn. “Our focus has been to get the community to be part of the team and an opportu-nity to support the coalition. For me, that is the focus. Winning is secondary.”

Osborn said that if any-

one needs support prior to auditioning to contact her at susanosborn@susanosborn.com.

Also on Jan. 19. at 2 p.m. the “Orcas Has Talent Junior” competition will feature fifth through eighth grade Orcas Islanders at the Grange. Tickets are $5.

“There will be lots of juniors in this year’s compe-tion,” Laslo said. “There are some amazing up and com-ing talent never seen before and they have been working really hard.”

The winner of that com-petition will be awarded $50 and a chance to compete against the adults and have a shot at winning a total of $550. Or they can choose to not compete and perform one song at the February show.

Back by popular demand

is the “Special Talents” video, which will be viewed during a voting round. It is a seven-minute display of locals showing off their hilarious and often amazing “special” talents.

A few from previous years included: a person whose eyes go in two different directions, a singing dentist and his assistant and even talented animals.

Laslo makes a point of visiting different places on the island to find new can-didates for the video.

“I walk through the door and I see special talents.” Laslo said.

If you are ready to sign up for Orcas Has Talent, Orcas Has Talent Junior competi-tion or would like to be fea-tured in the “Special Talents” video, send a request to orcashastalent@gmail.com.

The San Juan County Economic Development Council, in partnership with the Island County EDC and the Economic Development Association of Skagit County, has been award-ed a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for APICS training in sup-ply chain management.

The grant covers full scholarships for Island, San Juan and Skagit County residents to attend a three-day workshop on the “Basics of Supply Chain Management.”

Training will cover man-ufacturing business models, planning, production and inventory management, forecasting, distribution, lean and quality systems and more.

The course will be taught by Hank Barr, an APICS-certified fellow in produc-tion and inventory manage-

ment. He has more than 40 years of a broad range of worldwide inventory and logistics management expe-rience including account-ing, budgeting, material requirements and logistics support planning, data pro-cessing and executive level assignments.

Retired from the Air Force as a supply and logistics officer and more recently from Boeing, Barr has man-aged local and worldwide inventories. He has taught Materials Management courses in the Air Force, at Boeing, for the Portland, Tacoma and Seattle chapters of APICS, at North Seattle Community College and at City University of Seattle and is an advisor and lec-turer for the University of Washington’s extension program in purchasing management.

He has also taught in-

house courses at Tektronix, Sun Microsystems, Starbucks, Amazon and Port of Seattle.

The San Juan County Economic Development Council is currently accept-ing applications for the APICS training scholar-ships. Scholarships are eli-gible only for residents of Island, San Juan and Skagit Counties who are over 18 years old and a $25 applica-tion fee is required.

The deadline to apply is Jan. 21. Training will be held Feb. 11-13 in Anacortes.

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Oh, darn, did I miss New Year’s? I was sleeping off our Orcas Animal Shelter party. Guess it was more like hibernating. Happy new year anyway, from me, Bali, and Snoop, Siri, Noodle, Ginger, Rick, Winnie, Louise, Milo, Fowler, Thelma, Molly, Iggy, Taylor, Violet, Shelton, Daisy, Goldie, Cady, and bouncy dog Lucy. Come see us from 2 to 5 p.m. any day, call 376-3441 or orcaspets.org.

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Their focus for the first meeting of the new year is “Reflecting on Newtown ... Envisioning Orcas.”

“In the past month we have been witness to national events that are bringing person-al and community values, intentions and

commitments into dialogue and action,” say organizers. “What do we hold as valuable? How do we respond and provide for our community?”

Learn more about the upcoming Community Consensus Process being planned for Jan. 26 to Feb 2 and how you can participate. For more information, con-tact Gretchen at 317-8220.

Parents, educators, counselors, youth and curious folk are invited to our second open forum meeting, Monday, Jan. 14 at the Funhouse Commons.

They will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a simple potluck and discuss roles and planning. The Lopez Island Conservation Corps and the San Juan Island Conservation Corps are col-laborating with the Orcas Youth Conservation Corps for the success of this endeavor. Local Conservation Corps provide county-wide environmental conservation activities for youth. Life skills and camaraderie are built through service. Habitat enhancement, trail mainte-nance and construction, and other land and beach projects are in the offering. Participants in grades seven to 12 receive a stipend when projects are completed. Volunteer opportuni-ties are open for community members. For more info, call Morgan Meadows at 376-9213.

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by Mark DeTrayThe Exchange

The Exchange will be assuming respon-sibility for managing the Orcas Island Transfer Station in its entirety; this change from county to community-based manage-ment is scheduled to take place by March 31. In order to provide users of the Orcas Transfer Station with a sense of what to expect in the months ahead, we would like to compare and contrast current and future services and fees and outline the changes that are core to our management plan.

Currently, the county is disposing of both garbage and recyclables through Waste Management Inc. The garbage is trucked by Cimarron Trucking to a rail yard in Seattle in intermodal containers, trans-ferred to railcar and shipped to the WM Inc. Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington, Ore. The commingled recyclables are trucked by Cimarron Trucking to WM Inc.’s material recovery facility in Woodinville.

In contrast to the current system, The Exchange will be hiring Orcas Island Freight Lines to transport the garbage from the transfer station to Allied Waste Services’ rail yard in Burlington, located adjacent to the Skagit County Transfer Station, where they will be transferred to railcar and shipped to Allied Waste’s Roosevelt Regional Landfill in Klickitat County. Commingled recyclables will be trucked to Tri-County Recycling, also located adjacent to the Skagit County Transfer Station, where they will be sorted and sold back into the material-feedstock market. These changes in material destina-tions are significant factors in enabling The

Exchange to reduce rates relative to the county.

The Exchange will continue to offer the current range of services provided by the county. As it is now, self-haulers will have the option of disposing commingled recy-clables and household garbage at the Z-Wall or, in the case of garbage, by going over the scale to the tipping floor. Commingled recy-clables will cost $2 / can (roughly equivalent to $100 / ton) and garbage will cost $7 / can (roughly equivalent to $350 / ton) at the Z-Wall. In contrast, disposal of garbage at the tipping floor will cost self-haulers $300 / ton (down from $373.75 / ton currently charged by the county).

The Orcas transfer station will continue to provide tipping services to San Juan Sanitation for garbage and commingled recyclables as well. Due to economies of scale, even at discounted rates, San Juan Sanitation’s presence in the mix signifi-cantly reduces the cost to the self-hauler. Furthermore, flow-control – the policy that allows the county to direct the franchise hauler to tip at a specific location – will come to an end when the operation is handed over to The Exchange.

In 2014, we will add the option of source-separated recycling. This will allow us to sell them directly to recycling enterprises and separate glass from the recyclables, thereby reducing the cost of trucking materials off of the island. We also will provide a collec-tion point for compostables.

To read the rest of this column – which outlines staffing, capital improvements – go to www.islandssounder.com.

Update from the exchangeCommunity council to meet

The next Writers’ Roundtable will be on Saturday, Jan. 12 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Orcas Library. The topic is “A Blaze of Brilliance: Sparking Creativity, Clarity and Inspiration” and will be led by Sandora Hedrich, a creative power coach. “Forget resolutions! What do you want to create in this New Year?” says Hedrich. “Bring the answer to this burning question in your heart and mind for an Illuminating, individual-group process that will assist you to ignite the fire of potential.”

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NOTICEThe OPALCO Board of Directors has set Saturday, May 4, 2013 for its An- nual Meeting and election of direc- tors from District 3 (Lopez, Decatur, Center and Charles islands) and Dis- trict 4 (Shaw, Crane, Canoe and Bell islands). No later than January 4, 2013 the directors will appoint two separate Nominating Committees consisting of three to five OPALCO members from Voting District 3 and Voting District 4. Each Committee will nominate two to five members as candidates for Director from their re- spective districts. District 3 will have two openings; District 4 will have one opening. A list of director candidates will be posted in the lobby of the Eastsound office no later than March 5, 2013. Fifteen or more members from District 3 or District 4 may make other nominations by signed petition filed at the Eastsound office no later than March 20, 2013. If you are an OPALCO member living in either District 3 or District 4 and are inter- ested in serving on the Nominating Committee or the OPALCO Board of Directors, please contact Bev Madan at 376-3549 or bmadan@opal- co.comLEGAL NO. JS445091 449498Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder. December 19, 26, 2012, January 2, 9, 2013.

TS No.: WA-09-285036-SH APN No.: 251411-003-000 Title Order No.: 090369232-WA-GSO Gran- tor(s): ANTHONY MANNHALTER Grantee(s): WASHINGTON MUTU- AL BANK, FA, Deed of Trust Instru- ment/Reference No.: 2008 0219033 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pur- suant To The Revised Code Of Washington 61.24, et. seq. I. NO- TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Qual- ity Loan Service Corp. of Washing- ton, the undersigned Trustee will on 1/18/2013, at 10:00 AM At the main entrance to the Superior Courthouse, 350 Court Street #7, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable, in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certi-

fied checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of San Juan, State of Washington, to wit: THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTH HALF OF THE NORTH HALF OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SEC- TION 14, TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 2 WEST, W.M., IN SAN JUAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON. EXCEPT THE EAST 30 FEET AS CONVEYED TO SAN JUAN COUNTY FOR ROAD BY DEED RE- CORDED UNDER AUDITOR’S FILE NO. 57073, RECORDS OF SAN JUAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON. More commonly known as: 80 DIZZY G LANE , LOPEZ ISLAND, WA 98261 which is subject to that cer- tain Deed of Trust dated 2/12/2008 recorded 02/19/2008, under 2008 0219033 records of San Juan County, Washington, from ANTHO- NY MANNHALTER, A MARRIED MAN, AS HIS SEPARATE ESTATE, as Grantor(s), to CHICAGO TITLE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FA,, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by WASHINGTON MUTU- AL BANK, FA, (or by its successors- in-interest and/or assigns, if any), to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National As- sociation. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satis- faction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Gran- tor’s default on the obligation se- cured by the Deed of Trust/Mort- gage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the follow- ing amounts which are now in ar- rears: $165,423.73 IV. The sum ow- ing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $620,065.41, together with inter- est as provided in the Note from the 2/1/2009, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made with-

out warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encum- brances on 1/18/2013. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 1/7/2013 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinu- ance of the sale. The sale will be dis- continued and terminated if at any time before 1/7/2013 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trus- tee’s fees and costs are paid. Pay- ment must be in cash or with cash- iers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated at any time after the 1/7/2013 (11 days before the sale date) and before the Sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encum- brance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and ad- vances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other de- faults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME ANTHONY MANNHALTER, A MAR- RIED MAN, AS HIS SEPARATE ES- TATE ADDRESS 80 DIZZY G LANE , LOPEZ ISLAND, WA 98261 by both first class and certified mail on 5/26/2009, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee, and the Borrower and Grantor were person- ally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the writ- ten Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real prop- erty, described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and ad- dress are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-de- scribed property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a law- suit to restrain the sale pursuant to

RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidat- ing the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS- The purchaser at the Trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the prop- erty on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occu- pants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the pur- chaser has the right to evict occu- pants who are not tenants by sum- mary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accor- dance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BE- FORE THE FORCLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 days from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in deter- mining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may con- tact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Fi- nance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/ho- m e o w n e r - ship/post_purchase_counselors_fore- closure.htm The United States De- partment of Housing and Urban De- velopment: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National web site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/of- fices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?web- L is tAct ion=search&search- state=WA&filterSvc=dfc The

statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 or web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchas- er shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. THIS OFFICE IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY IN- FORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. As re- quired by law, you are hereby noti- fied that a negative credit report re- flecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Dated: 9/14/2012 Quality Loan Service Corp. of Wash- ington, as Trustee By: Tricia Moreno, Assistant Secretary Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington C/O Quality Loan Service Corp. 2141 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101 (866) 645-7711 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 19735 10th Avenue NE, Suite N-200 Poulsbo, WA 98370 (866) 645-7711 Sale Line: 714-573-1965 Or Login to: http://wa.qualityloan.com TS No.: WA-09-285036-SH P984703 12/19, 01/09/2013LEGAL NO. S443486Published: The Islands’ Sounder. December 19, 2012. January 9, 2013.

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This Contract is funded with Federal- aid, State and local funds. In accor- dance, both State and Federal wage laws and rules apply as provided in the Contract (Section 1-07.9). Ap- proved “Statement of Intent to Pay Prevailing Wages” and “Affidavit of prevailing Wages” forms are re- quired. Certified weekly payrolls, submitted on US Department of La- bor form WH-347, are required (Sec- tion 1-07.9(5)).Requirements for Nondiscrimina- tionWSDOT Highways and Local Pro- grams has determined that Disad- vantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Training Goals are not appropri- ate for this project. Equal Employ- ment Opportunity (EEO) and Title VI provisions are always required (Sec- tion 1-07.11).Bid InformationContract Provisions and PlansThe Contract Provisions and Plans are available for viewing in person at the San Juan County Public Works Department and online at http://www.sanjuanco.com/public- works/Bids-and-Specs.aspx. Individ- ual copies may be purchased for $50 by sending or delivering a check to the San Juan County Public Works Department at the address listed be-

low. Payment must be received prior to delivery. Purchase of Contract Provisions and Plans is not required to submit a bid.Any Amendments to the Contract Provisions and Plans will be posted online. Only Bidders who have pur- chased a copy of the Contract Provi- sions and Plans will be notified by the Public Works Department of Amendments. Notification will be made using the contact information provided during purchasing.Bidder QuestionsIn accordance with Section 1-02.4(1) of the Standard Specifications: Oral explanations, interpretations, or in- structions given by anyone before the Award of a Contract will not be binding on the Contracting Agency. Any information given a prospective Bidder concerning any of the Bid Documents will be furnished to all prospective Bidders as an Adden- dum if that information is deemed by the Contracting Agency to be neces- sary in submitting Bids or if the Con- tracting Agency concludes that the lack of the information would be prej- udicial to other prospective Bidders.Bid Opening Time and DateSealed bids shall be marked and de- livered in accordance with Section 1-02.9 of the Special Provisions.

Sealed bids are to be received at the following location prior to the time and date specified:At the office of the Clerk of the Coun- cil, San Juan County Council, until 1:00 p.m. of the bid opening date.Physical Address: Clerk of the Council55 Second Street, 1st FloorFriday Harbor, WA 98250Mailing Address:Clerk of the Council350 Court St #1Friday Harbor, WA 98250The bid opening date for this Con- tract shall be WEDNESDAY, JANU- ARY 16, 2013.Bidders are cautioned that delivery service to San Juan Island is subject to delays due to inclement weather and ferry service disruptions. Bidders who send their bids to San Juan County via USPS, Fed Ex, UPS or some other carrier shall place their bids in a sealed envelope, to ensure that a sealed bid is received by the County.Pre-Bid ConferenceAn optional pre-bid conference will be held on January 3, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at the Public Works Yard on Or- cas Island located at 1395 Mt Baker Road, Eastsound, WA 98250. Bidder attendance is recommended.

Additional InformationContact the Public Works Depart- ment at (360) 370-0500.NoticesU.S. DOT Title VI Assurances“The San Juan County Public Works Department in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 USC 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regu- lations, Department of Transporta- tion, Subtitle A, Office of the Secre- tary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federally-Assisted Programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively en- sure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, dis- advantaged business enterprises as defined at 49 CFR Part 26 will be af- forded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national ori- gin, or sex in consideration for an award.” (LAG Manual 46.2.24)LEGAL NO. SJ443822Published: The Journal of the San Juan Islands, The Islands’ Sounder. December 12, 19, 26. January 2, 9, 2013.

SAN JUAN COUNTY PUBLIC NOTICESSan Juan County, as an Equal Opportunity Employer, does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin,

age, disability, or veteran status in the provision of services, in programs or activities or employment opportunities and benefits. Direct inquiries to Administrative Services at (360) 378-3870. TTD relay at 1-800-833-6388.

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