islands' weekly, july 28, 2015

by Anna V. SmithJournal reporter

June’s unemployment rate in San Juan County was at 4.3 percent, compared with Washington state’s 5.3 percent, according to a preliminary report by Washington State Employment Security Department’s Labor Market and Performance Branch.

San Juan County has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state for June, on par with Snohomish County and just a bit above King County at 4 percent.

Since May, predictably, jobs in the leisure and hospitality sector have increased with the tourist season as well as jobs in trade, transportation and utilities.

Comparing employment from June 2014

to June 2015, the analysis shows that the professional and business services sector and mining, logging and construction sector have not added jobs, and have instead decreased.

According to regional labor econo-mist Anneliese Vance-Sherman for the Employment Security Department, those numbers are the remnants of the recession.

“In San Juan County where the recovery is lagging, these two are still declining at this point,” Vance-Sherman said. “Whereas in parts of the state where we’re in a more mature recovery, such as King County, those two industries are really taking off.”

Vance-Sherman said that since San Juan County has such a tourist-based economy, unemployment rates here are often amongst the lowest in the state, since unemployed

persons are only counted if they are actively seeking work, which may not happen in the off-season if people work seasonally.

“Even during the times there are fewer jobs available we don’t really have high unemployment rate,” Vance-Sherman said. “People aren’t looking for work because they know the rhythm of the economy. In San Juan County people know when to look for work and when not to look for work because the seasonality is so present.”

Overall so far in 2015, San Juan County has 170 more jobs than last year at this time, a 2.9 percent increase. San Juan County’s peak unemployment level was in 2010, at 9.6 percent. Vance-Sherman says that recovery has been slower in the islands, but employ-ment numbers are consistently better than

last year.Seasonality is a major factor in looking at

San Juan County’s employment numbers due to the influx of workers. To illustrate how much it affects the islands, when looking from January to August in 2013, the county added an additional 1,958 jobs, or a 43 per-cent increase. Vance-Sherman says this per-centage increase is consistent year after year.

“There is a gradual decline in unemploy-ment rates, and in San Juan County there’s a lot of noise in those numbers because it’s so seasonal,” Vance Sherman said. “Our recov-ery has been very slow, but now we’re at the point where we’re seeing employment numbers be higher than they were from the last year and every month.”

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by Anna MeyerSpecial to the Sounder

Touching sea stars shel-tering during low tide will reveal not a sturdy, sand-piper skin but a soft and pulpy texture with white and oozing lesions, its limp, weakened rays and strained tube feet unable to grasp at craggy surfaces. But what has caused such a grue-some change in our ochre sea stars?

“We’re hopeful but not sure the cause for optimism is entirely warranted – yet,” said Dr. Christopher Mah, research collaborator at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

Ochre sea stars, along with other asteroid sea stars, are suffering from sea star wasting disease, a ter-

minal disease that quickly leads to the dissolution and death of affected sea stars. According to a study by the University of Santa Cruz, the sea star “melts” into a white mucus-like paste in just a few days. The slow degeneration and graphic death of several species of sea stars has drawn con-cerned marine scientists from across the nation to focus on the potential causes of this disease.

The first major breakout of wasting disease was first noticed in 1972 when sea stars began to show symp-toms on the east coast. In 1982, stars in California began to decline, seemingly also from wasting disease. Finally, in 2013, massive die-offs began to happen on both the east and west

coasts. Scientists began to study affected sea stars in depth to discover what was causing this unknown and disconcerting disease. Wasting disease showed signs of being caused by something microscopic and transmittable, like a virus or bacteria. This year, two years after the start of the outbreaks, scientists are releasing publications on a major causative agent of sea star wasting disease — a virus.

A collection of marine scientists released a pub-lication in December of 2014 showing that affected sea stars were carrying a densovirus, and that this was most likely causing the sea star wasting and die-offs. According to an article in National Geographic, a

densovirus is a small single-strand virus of the same family that infects dogs with canine parvovirus. The study showed that sea stars with more viral particles in their bodies were more likely to dissolve and die. Since the disease is due to a virus. It is easily trans-mitted via water carrying viral particles or via infected individuals and is difficult to treat. Infected water must be treated with ultraviolet rays or otherwise disinfect-ed to effectively abolish the viral particles. This means that there is no straightfor-ward method for treating sea stars or outbreaks in the wild.

Without a direct way to treat this virus, scientists are resorting to determin-ing the impacts on sea star

populations. Studies sug-gest that stress (from heat, unsheltered habitat or other environmental conditions) may increase the incidence of sea stars contracting the virus — meaning that high-er water temperatures asso-ciated with summer may increase the prevalence of wasting sea stars.

Although the major caus-ative agent of the virus has seemingly been pin-pointed, scientists are still looking into this disease. Temperature relations, species links and environ-mental factors are all still potentially factors in the intensity of wasting disease outbreaks. The viral factor is being treated as a piece of a larger puzzle.

“There’s a possibility it could be very complicated,” said Mah. “Other inverte-brate diseases are not easily understood.” He described coral bleaching, which is caused by microbial imbal-ances on the skin of various coral species as an example of the complex nature of marine invertebrate dis-eases.

What scientists are focused on—more than temperature and environ-ment—is the sheer num-ber of sea stars affected. Without an accurate idea of how badly sea stars are being hit by this disease, further decisions regarding protection and management cannot be made with cer-

tainty. The University of California Santa Cruz has reported areas with wast-ing occurring between 5 to 60 percent in areas along the West Coast. On Orcas Island, Kwiáht, a nonprofit focused on the health of the San Juan Islands, has reported 2015 mortality rates for ochre sea stars at Indian Island as around 8 percent. The mortality rate may even be lower than this.

“Healthier stars are more likely to move deeper to avoid sun and heat because they are [more] mobile than sick animals,” said Russel Barsh, director of Kwiáht. He does caution that sea star mortality may rise somewhat during summer months when sea stars are subjected to more stress.

Recent reports are hope-ful, despite the relatively sudden onset of wasting disease and its complicated nature. Scientists at UCSC are reporting juvenile sea stars in some of their study sites, and juveniles were seen by Kwiáht members on Indian Island this sum-mer. Despite the signs of prospective recovery, sci-entists press for modera-tion. It is likely that there are several more factors at play than just viral infection: what those factors are is still to be determined. Although hopeful, Russel Barsh coun-sels “We’re not necessarily out in the clear.”

Feast and famine – a look at unemployment trends

Will the sea stars make a recovery in the Salish Sea?

THURS, ONGOINGEVENT: Coffee With The Birds, 9:30 – 11 a.m., Spencer Spit State Park Nature Center on campground. Join Eric Setterberg and Laurel Vukovic at Spencer Spit State Park for a relax-ing morning of birding. Bring your coffee mug, we’ll supply the fresh brewed coffee, cream and sweetener! (Hot choco-late for the kids.) Enjoy a slidshow of birds found on Spencer Spit, and then explore the marsh, shore-line and forest in search of birds. Contact Tina O’Brien at 468-2251 or email [email protected].

WED, JULY 29CLASS: Pet Pals! A Special Program for Kids on Pet Safety, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., presented by Lopez Island Library and the Lopez Animal Protection Society. Dr. Sally Hodson of Orcas Island, children’s book author and K-12 educator, teaches children how to greet pet dogs and cats, care for pets and when to avoid a dog.

THURS, JULY 30CLASS: Barn Dance, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Lopez Elementary School multi- purpose room. Children 4 and up are invited with their families to swing their partner with Rachel Buchman, our Children’s Summer Music Camp instructor and Orcas Chamber Music Festival’s Musician-in-Residence. Suggested donation - $10.

SAT, AUG 1CLASS: The Magic Show - Starring Matthew Laslo, 7:30 p.m., Lopez Community Center for the Arts. Matthew is a local, award- winning magician and illusionist who fell in love with the art of magic at 7 years of age. Now at 14 years old, he’s created his own full-length illusion show that includes varied styles of magic from card miracles to grand illu-sions. His lovely assistants and aerial performers Maria Bullock and Virginia Sides will also amaze and entertain. He’s thrilled to be able to bring his full illusion show to the Lopez community. This show promises to be high energy entertainment, with lots of audience participa-tion and amazing illusions; fun for the entire fam-ily. Tickets are an $10 for adults and $5 for kids and are available at the Lopez Bookshop, online at mag-icshowlopez.bpt.me or call 800-838-3006 and at the night of the show.

AUG 3-5CLASS: Illustrated Nature Journaling, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Odlin Park. Sharpen your observation skills as you learn illustration and art expression techniques used by nature journalists. Each participant will receive their own journal. Ages 8-12, $40. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

CLASS: Adult Tennis, 1:30-3 p.m., Lopez School tennis courts. For players of all

levels to cover technique (forehand, backhand, volleys and serves), rally and have fun. Ages 13 to adult, $65.

THURS, AUG 6MUSIC: The Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival presents a Russian Tableaux Music Lovers Seminar, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., Port Stanley Schoolhouse. Includes Salt Lake Symphony Director Robert Baldwin and a buf-fet brunch. The experience provides insight to the composers and repertoire for the later evening per-formance at Lopez Center, with a popular specialist in Russian Music. $25 Adults, Youth 18 and under free with ticket. Tickets at Paper Scissors, Lopez Bookshop, email [email protected]; remainder at the door.

MUSIC: Russian Tableaux, 5:30 p.m., Lopez Center. A glorious Russian Tableaux unfolds on the Lopez Center stage, featuring classic and modern Russian composers in a program featuring three cellos, two pianists, two violins, viola and saxophone. Brought to you by the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival on Lopez, Aloysia Friedmann, artistic director and Jon Kimura Parker, artistic advisor. Nightcap recep-tion follows to meet the artists. $25 for adults, youth 18 and under $10. Tickets online at lopez-center.org, or in hand at Paper Scissors and Lopez

Bookshop; remainder at the door.

FRI, AUG 7EVENT: Beetle Mania with Russel Barsh of Kwiaht, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m, Library Community room/patio. For all ages, explore bee-tles, caterpillars, moths and aquatic insects like drag-onfly nymphs. Part of the Science On Lopez series, presented by the Lopez Island Library, Friends of the Lopez Island Library and the San Juan Islands National Monument. ART: Help Chimera Gallery replace its flooring! Come to the opening of Four for the Floor and the Village Art ,Walk, 5 – 7 p.m. Many Lopez village businesses and art galleries will also be open for the fun. Sidewalk chalk art for the kids. Benefit show runs Aug. 7 through Sept. 11. Donate $40, choose a 4 by 4. Gallery open every day in August: Mon. - Sat., 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. 468-3265; www.ChimeraGallery.com.

SAT, AUG 8INFO: Lopez Master Gardeners will have an Information Table set up at Sunsets Builders Nursery Area, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Bring a gardening ques-tion. If you have a plant or insect you would like to have ID’d, bring in a plastic bag.

MON, AUG 10-12CLASS: Awareness in the Forest, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m., Hill. Hone in your senses through activities including blindfolded walks, “Meet a Tree”, fox walk and other games, nature journaling and poetry. Ages 8-11, $45. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

TUES, AUG 11CLASS: Birch Bay Waterslides Adventure. Beat the heat with a fun all day off-island trip to the Birch Bay Waterslides. Ages 12-16, $55. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

AUG 13 & 14CLASS: Kids in Kayaks: Beginning, 9 a.m. – noon, Odlin Park. For kids just beginning to feel comfort-able in a kayak or brand new to kayaking. Ages 8-12, $80. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

CLASS: Kids in Kayaks: Intermediate, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., Odlin Park. For kids already comfortable in a kayak who want to take their skills to the next level: paddle strokes, boat con-trol, navigation and safety techniques. Ages 10-14, $80. Pre-registration required; visit www.lifrc.org.

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Al-Anon:Saturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, LopezCall 468-4703

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Hats off to the pharmacy

Three cheers and a cho-rus of hallelujahs for the immediate, outstanding and far beyond the call of duty actions of Rick and Marge McCoy of our community Pharmacy. Rick responded instantly, positively and with flexibility to my post-hospi-talization after hours need for medications on the night of July 18. He even phoned back with concern about a

potential allergy, which had been tested in the hospi-tal, and waited at the Lopez Island Pharmacy with the meds for my husband Bill Clemens to appear hours after dinner, on a day the pharmacy was closed.

I am so grateful for these pharmacists and their per-sonal care and attention. I cannot imagine what my fate would have been had we not ignored and refused the constant badgering from our prescription plan to abandon the local pharmacy

and go with a distant mail-order company—whose prices were not even lower! Please tell Rick and Marge how grateful you are to have them as our community pharmacists, and please, as we did, tell your mail-order pharmacy hawkers to go fly a kite. These are the people who care about your life.

MICKI RYANLopez Island

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Want to know the heart of Lopez Village better than most locals do? Take a walk through the Community Center grounds.

Start at the Community Center. From the parking lot off Village Road, the building sits in the middle of an expansive lawn. Its large windows and peaked roof face southwest. This multi-purpose structure was built with money raised by the community, who then donated count-less hours to construct it. About 150 events a year are held here.

Walk north toward the log-framed outdoor pavilion. This was built in 1988, soon after the Lopez Community Center Association (LCCA)

officially accepted the gift of the land you’re on.

Immediately nor th of the pavilion is a skate-board park, which is leased from the LCCA and man-aged by San Juan County Parks. Recently replaced, its design, fabrication and installation was donated by the Richlite Company of Tacoma.

Now walk south behind the Community Center, and on through the parking lot to the yellow “house” of the Lopez Children’s Center and Family Resource Center.

The Children’s Center, managed by its own board, serves ages 2 to 6 with a Cooperative Preschool and summer Play and Learn

program. For more infor-mation, visit www.lopezchil-drenscenter.com. Follow the concrete path to the fenced playground area. The playground is open to the public when programs are not in session.

Up the stairs of this cozy building is the Lopez Island Family Resource Center, which operates indepen-dently of the Children’s Center. It offers a wide range of social services and programs for older kids, teens and adults. For more information, visit www.lifrc.org.

West of the Children’s Center you’ll find your-self in a large grassy field. Every Saturday from May through September a lively

Farmers’ Market is held here, with up to 77 ven-dors selling locally grown or made products. The Farmers’ Market is man-aged by its own board. For more information, visit www.lopezfarmersmarket.com.

Continuing your walk south along the wooded edge of Community Center land, you’ll notice a round metal cistern (the pump house next to it is

currently being rebuilt). The non-potable water collected here is used by Fertile Ground, the self-managed organic commu-nity garden behind the high fence west of you. Go on in – shut the gate – and admire the many different gardens. Plots are rented as they become available.

Leave Fertile Ground through the gate on the west side to the open space of “Sally’s Garden.” You’re smack in the middle of the Village, but what you see around you feels like rural, agricultural Lopez. This land is protected by a San Juan Preservation Trust conservation easement.

Two benefactors gifted all this Lopez Community Center land: Natalie Roush donated the five north acres in 1986, and in 1998 Sally Bill donated the four-south acres.

As you return to your starting point, think about the land, funds, and labor so generously donated, and how the variety of spaces and uses fit ingeniously, like a puzzle. All separate, yet together – much like this island itself.

By Liz TaylorSpecial to the Weekly

On March 16, 2015, I awoke to a rather peculiar world. I couldn’t put my finger on why.

I poured a cup of coffee and went into my study to answer email. I read my messages, but I couldn’t find the right computer keys to answer, and when I went to delete countless mistakes, it came out like this: ///\\\rwt, and then –oopp[. Hmmm, it was going to be one of “those” days.

I took my dog Lola for a walk. The world still seemed peculiar. A guy on a bike passed and said “Hi.” I said “Hi” back, but it came out “glmph.” Oh! That was strange!

I went home and prepared a bank deposit. Weird. My signature didn’t look right. I even put an extra letter in my first name. Repeatedly.

At 10 a.m., I announced, “I think I’ve had a stroke!” to friends. I didn’t really believe I had, but they insist-ed I go to the clinic. I phoned to say I was coming, but couldn’t dial the number. After five or six times, I finally got it. They told me to come immediately – but not to drive. I said OK, I’ll walk. It was three blocks.

Dr. Bob gave me lots of simple tests, telling me to smile, lift my arms, push up with my hands, then push down, and so on to test where I was weak. What time was the stroke? I didn’t know; I’d been asleep. He said it was too late by then (11 a.m.) for treatment if a clot caused it, since you have to treat it within three hours. Understanding the cause is critical to treatment, he sent me to the hospital for testing. I was having a hard time finding words in addition to my goofy typing and handwriting. He said he thought I’d had a mild stroke in my Broca’s area, in the left hemisphere, which governs speech. A friend took me to Anacortes Hospital for a brain scan.

There are roughly two kinds of strokes: clots and bleeds. Clots are caused by debris getting loose in your arteries, then getting stuck, depriving your brain of oxygen. Clots require medicine (tPA) within three hours of a stroke, which is why time is of the essence getting to a doctor. Bleeds are caused by ruptures of blood vessels that flood your brain.

The brain scan took 10 minutes; we were on the 3 p.m. ferry home. Dr. Bob called the next day con-firming my stroke was a bleed. I started medications immediately and increased my exercise to 45 min-utes a day of walking, rain or shine.

Four months have passed, and I’m almost back to normal. Problems with word-finding still linger, but people are kind -- and I’m trying not to call every-thing a “thingy.”

I’ve always wondered what it was like to have a stroke; now I know. I know how your mind can work but your arms, legs, fingers, mouth don’t, no matter how hard you try. I know how simple skills can go sideways, suddenly. I know how important health insurance is. I know how generous my neighbors are to offer help unasked – and force me to accept it when I say “no thanks.” Most of all, I know how lucky I am that my stroke was mild.


By Linda ZerbstSpecial to the Weekly

I noticed a rash appearing on my neck on a Friday - it was itchy and I thought it was bug bites. I was on the Anacortes/Lopez ferry, and I was scratching my neck all the way home. I also had a sore neck. By evening, I started to wonder if it could be shin-gles, even though I had received the immunization several years ago. By Saturday morning blisters had started to form only on one side of my face, and I became more concerned and convinced about what it was. I asked my neighbor, a nurse, to look at it and she confirmed my suspicions. Now what to do? It’s Saturday! The clinic is closed and so is the pharmacy. I knew I had a 72-hour window to start the antivirus medication that is effec-tive in suppressing the spread. I con-sidered trying to get to the hospital either at Friday Harbor or Anacortes when my neighbor suggested I call the pharmacy. She reminded me that the legislature passed a bill (SB5557) and

the governor signed it into law in May of this year authorizing pharmacists to diagnose and treat certain illnesses! I immediately called the pharmacy and got their home phone from the voicemail. Marge answered and told me to meet her at the pharmacy in an hour. She was there when I arrived and quickly diagnosed my condition as the shingles, checked blood pressure and temp, prescribed antivirus medi-cation (to stop additional breakouts) and cream for the rashes, filled the prescriptions and counseled me on what to expect.

The visit was thorough, and I got all my questions answered. I am so grateful to Marge and Rick McCoy at the Lopez Island Pharmacy and to the new Washington state law allowing and encouraging these services.

Following is a list of a few of the con-ditions that the state of Washington has authorized Marge and Rick to diag-nose and treat on the spot. The entire list of 22 ailments can be found on the pharmacy website, www.lopezisland-

pharmacy.com, “Minor Emergencies We Can Help With.”

• Antiviral tablets for relieving symptoms of cold sores or shingles

• Albuterol inhaler or Albuterol Sulfate for nebulization for use as res-cue for bronchiospasm

• Antihistamine or anti-inflammato-ry eye drops for relieving allergic eye symptoms

• Bee sting treatment for reducing swelling from bee stings

• Scopolamine patch for prevention of motion sickness

• Silver Sulfadiazine cream for treat-ment of minor burns

We are fortunate to have our phar-macy available to treat and prescribe some common treatments that you might need. Often the Lopez Island Clinic is either full to capacity or it’s the weekend and you find yourself with one of the listed “Minor Emergency” conditions. Call the pharmacy if you find that one of these conditions needs treatment as soon as possible. They can make things better.

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Guest Column

Road striping is scheduled to begin on San Juan Island. Shaw and Lopez are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 4 and 5. Striping operations will be limited to Monday through Thursday of each week.

Wet roadways could cause delays to this schedule. The county says to avoid driving on the wet paint. Call the San Juan County Public Works Department at 370-0500 for additional information.

Road striping scheduled for Aug. 4 and 5

By Anna V. SmithJournal reporter

The San Juan County Council issued a statement that Manager Mike Thomas was not in the wrong in refer-ence to a wetlands evaluation on a San Juan property.

The council’s June 25 memo states Thomas was within his jurisdiction when he identified a contentious part of Portland Fair Estates Owners Association to not be a regulated wet-land.

The report is in response to an Improper Government Action “whis-tleblower” report originally filed Jan. 21 by County Code Enforcement offi-cer Christopher Laws that alleged a conflict of interest had occurred regarding a wetland determination in

September of 2014.The initial IGA report filed by

Laws stated that the property own-ers had complained to their neighbor, Councilman Bob Jarman, who then asked Thomas to inspect the property. The IGA report alleges that Thomas and his wife Jennifer (a state certi-fied wetland expert) did so as a favor, determined that it was not a wetland, and claimed “ethical impropriety” on Thomas’ part.

The memo from the council refuted those claims, stating that Thomas’ wife (who is not a county employee) was in the vicinity, but was not there to assist in a wetlands reconnaissance and that Thomas acted within his authority, stating, “He has often intervened … to resolve a citizen issue, at times in con-flict with the personal or professional

opinions of his staff; with the goal of streamlining a process, resolving long-term issues, reflecting the wishes of the council, or with the larger goal of improving the perception of county government within the community.”

According to the memo, Thomas “saved the county an unnecessary expense by his review.”

Prosecuting Attorney Randall Gaylord handled the IGA report sub-mitted by Laws, and issued a memo-randum on March 11.

He stated that had Thomas done a proper wetland reconnaissance then he should have filed an official report.

“The question presented is whether the determination by Mr. Thomas that there was ‘no wetlands’ and direct-

By Anna V. SmithJournal reporter An Orcas man has been charged with trafficking in stolen

property in the first degree, identity theft in the first degree and identity theft in the second degree.

Brian Douglas McClerren, 35, of Orcas Island, has an arraign-ment date of July 31.

According to court documents, clients of McClerren’s win-dow washing business noticed on June 11 that he had cashed a check from them for $4,722.90. The clients recalled he had washed their windows in May, but that they had paid him $570 for his work.

They reported to the San Juan County Sheriff’s Department that McClerren had washed their windows for two years with no issues and on that particular day, May 30, they had left the house to run some errands while he worked.

McClerren admitted to the sheriff’s office that he had taken two checks and a ring, and recounted what happened on May 30. According to the detective’s report, McClerren said he had been washing windows in the client’s office when he saw a checkbook. He stated that he took two checks from two differ-ent checkbooks from the middle of the books so that the clients would not notice the missing check right away.

According to the report, McClerren said while he cleaned the mirrors in the client’s bedroom, he took a man’s wedding ring that was in a jewelry box in a cloth bag. The detective wrote: “Brian stated that he did not have a plan to steal the checks and ring going into this job.”

According to the detective, McClerren then began crying during the police interview.

On June 8, McClerren went to Burlington, Wash., to sell the ring he had taken and received $600 for it. He cashed the stolen checks, as well as the check for the ring.

According to the detective’s report, when McClerren’s wife was interviewed she told them they were having marital prob-lems, and McClerren told her he was leaving her and their 4-year-old daughter and assuming a new identity.

McClerren stated that he was planning on taking the money that he had stolen along with his personal money and “just leave.” He said he had a friend in California who told him he could prospect for gold there.

In the report McClerren said he “feels horrible” and that he sent a letter of apology to the clients he stole from.

Trafficking in stolen property in the first degree, identity theft in the first degree and identity theft in the second degree are a Class B felony, Class B felony and Class C felony respectively. McClarren had no previous criminal history.

McClerren ran for county council in 2013 District 3 on Lopez Island and lost to Jamie Stephens. He has since moved to Orcas Island.


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a flat (2 wds; var. spell.)

16. Cosmic energy from the sun

17. Apronlike overdresses

18. Bison features19. Victorian, for one20. Walt Kelly's cartoon

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identical end sounds

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teeth40. Vitality41. Mouth, in slang43. Grassland44. "... ___ he drove

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most what they ___ most": Mencken

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56. "Well done!"58. What "it" plays59. Dental filling61. Sweetbrier64. Oater transport65. Influences past

events66. Fine-tunes67. Most arrogant

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coins2. Apparition3. Canal site4. Bank offering, for

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By San Juan County Noxious Weed BoardSpecial to the Weekly

It is tansy ragwort season again, one of the county’s worst weeds, and the plants are beginning to flower along roadsides, in fields and in residents’ yards.

Highly toxic, its alka-loids are present in all plant parts. Cattle, horses and goats consuming either growing plants or tansy ragwort in silage and hay store these poisons in their liver (Jacobs, J. 2009 USDA- NRCS).

Even if symptoms are not noticeable, or appear minor, the cumulative toxins cause irreversible liver damage resulting in reduced weight and, pos-sibly, sudden death in previously healthy ani-mals. Tainted dairy milk can have an off-taste, and contaminated pollen may make honey unpalatable.

Tansy is best controlled by pulling the entire plant out of the ground, but it is critical to remove the flower heads – if pres-ent– before discarding the rest of the plant. These heads should be bagged and taken to the solid waste facility, where they may be disposed of at no charge. If the heads are left on the plant, the seeds

will mature and re-infect the area which is being cleared. This is especially important along roadsides where the flower heads and developing seeds can be picked up by tires and dispersed over great dis-tances. Please remember to wear gloves when han-dling this toxic plant.

You may see black and orange/yellow-striped cat-erpillars of the cinnabar moth eating the leaves and

flowers on some plants. If there are only a few found on the plant we usually pull the plant and shake them off onto nearby tansy rosettes. If numerous caterpillars are defoliating the plants, we usually leave them alone. When ready to pupate, they leave their host plant, but, unfortunately, the plants can re-flower and set seed even if completely defoli-ated.

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By Friends of the Lopez Island PoolSpecial to the Weekly

This coming Saturday, Aug. 1, there will be a Friends of Lopez Island Pool Friend Raiser at the Community Center from noon to 3 p.m. to share current news about the Lopez pool and celebrate how far we have come. You will have an opportunity to view the plans AND see the pools laid out on the Community Center land. Fun games for all ages will be happening in this virtual pool that relate to the many swim programs that will eventually be offered at our pool. This celebration date and place was changed because of the safety concern of the hard and bumpy land where the pool property is actually located.

Perhaps we have to imagine having a pool before we really do have a pool.

Imagine the feeling you would have as a parent to know that you kids really did

know how to swim and you didn’t have to worry about them when they were in or near the water. Imagine your kids or grand- kids are bouncing off the walls and you have a fun place to take them to run off that energy. And they are clamoring to go, too.

Imagine your significant other or best friend has a frozen shoulder after having broken their wrist. The wrist is healing but the shoul-der is very painful. The doctor says physical therapy - the best is in water to help support their body as they move their shoulder ever so gently and safely. Relief. And it will heal faster now that Lopez has its own therapy pool.

You have always loved to swim but found it hard to get your family involved in being in the water. But now they clamor to go to family swim days where each can do the same thing in the same place, but doing it each their own way.

So much good food. Fruit dropping off the trees and yummy choices everywhere you turn. Aquatic exercise is three times a week–a good workout and fun, too. More energy and feeling more fit. So easy to do and well attended, too. There are exer-cise classes for beginners and those more advanced.

Imagine a beautiful pool building near the school with light shining through the

translucent roof. Inside are two pools, one 75 feet long, four lanes wide for lap swim-ming, for master swimming, and deep water activities. The other pool is 30 feet by 40 feet warm, water, gradual entry, therapy and learn-to-swim pool with handicap access. If even one of these scenarios fit you, perhaps it would be easy to imagine having our own pool on Lopez that is for everyone to enjoy and use. See you Aug. 1 at Lopez Center.

Imagination can lead to reality, feel the water

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LOPEZ ISLANDCHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY CHURCH, There’s Always a Place for You! CTK gathers at 10:00 a.m. in the school multi-purpose room at 86 School Road. Come as you are! More info at www.ctkonline.com/lopez. Email:[email protected] Phone: 888-421-4CTK ext. 819.

COMMUNITY CHURCH, Please join us Sun. mornings. Adult Bible study, 9:30. Worship Service, 10:30. Nursery (birth-3 yrs) and Jr. Church (4-12 yrs) provided during worship service. Small groups meet throughout the week. 91 Lopez Rd., in the village. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877. www.ourlicc.org.

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane. 468-3477. Everyone welcome!

LOPEZ QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Please join us Sunday mornings, 10 a.m., at Sunny� eld Farm, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 468-2406. Email: [email protected].

LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS (ELCA) Please join us for worship and children’s Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanuel. Pastor Beth Purdum, 370-0023.

ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome you to join us for Mass at 10:30 a.m. on Saturdays. Call 378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

Tansy ragwort season here

Lee “Harlon” Weeks was born Nov. 8, 1937, and passed away July 20, 2015.

Services will be on July 30 at 11:30 a.m. at Greenwood Funeral Home, 350 Monroe NE Renton, WA. 98057. Weeks was born and raised on Lopez.

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The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Funding Board has awarded more than $110 million to 268 projects to build parks and boating facilities, give people access to shorelines, main-tain trails and conserve work-ing farms and critical wildlife habitat. San Juan County was awarded $141,953.

“These grants are important to our economy because they help local communities create the kinds of places that peo-ple want to live and work, and tourists want to visit,” said Gov. Jay Inslee. “Washington’s out-door recreation industry is as important to our economy as our technology and aerospace industries. Making sure we take good care of our outdoor places is important to many business-es and families in this state.”

A recent study noted that $21.6 billion is spent in Washington on recreation trips and equipment annually and $4.6 billion comes from out-of-state visitors. Outdoor recreation also supports nearly 200,000 jobs, rivaling the technology and aerospace industries.

“These grants are an impor-

tant investment in our future,” said Kaleen Cottingham, director of the Recreation and Conservation Office, which administers the grants. “They support three important goals of the state – to get people, especially our kids, outside more often to experience nature, to expand parks and to conserve our environment. It’s a win all the way around.”

Of the $110 million in grants, nearly $32 million goes to build or improve parks, nearly $12 million to improve facilities for boaters, about $26 million to maintaining trails, $4 million to conserving working farms and another $27 million to protect-ing important wildlife habitat.

Here are the projects fund-ed for Lopez:

Lopez Island Conservation Corps Grant Awarded $26,500 for improving trails in Moran State Park. The Lopez Island Conservation Corps, in part-nership with two other local island youth corps, will use this grant to maintain more than 38 miles of trail in Moran State Park. Trail crews will maintain the trails, make safety improvements to address hik-er-biker trail conflicts and tack-

le erosion issues. Many of the trails, roads and structures in the 5,600-acre park were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Budget cuts have meant annual trail maintenance has been neglected for 15 years. The park attracts more than 600,000 visitors annually, many from overseas, and is considered one of the gems of the state. The Lopez Island Conservation Corps will con-tribute $23,500 in staff labor, a local grant and donations of labor. For more information and photographs of this proj-ect, visit RCO’s online Project Search. This grant is from the Recreational Trails Program, which is funded by federal gas taxes.

San Juan County awarded $115,453 replacing the Odlin Park float and gangway. The San Juan County Public Works Department will use this grant to remove a deteriorated wood float, three creosote piles and an old aluminum gangway and replace them with a new heavy-duty wood float that is better for the environment in Odlin Park. The new float will reduce over-water shading with 50 percent open grating and reduce pollu-

tion by replacing the creosote piles with galvanized steel piles. The new float will double the available side-tie, day-use moor-age space and will be accessible to people with disabilities. The county will move the float 25 feet to the south of the cur-rent float to better serve boat-ers. These improvements will support and provide additional access to the park’s amenities, such as restrooms, drinking water, sandy beach, picnicking, playfield, trails, boat launch and trailer parking, mooring buoys, and camping, all of which are open year-round. The Odlin boat launch and float are impor-tant public facilities supporting access to the exceptional oppor-tunities available in the San Juan Islands, including whale watching, sport fishing, crab-bing, scuba diving and visiting the many state marine parks in the San Juan Islands archi-pelago. San Juan County will contribute $38,916. For more information and photographs of this project, visit RCO’s online Project Search. This grant is from the Boating Facilities Program, which is funded by state gas taxes paid by boaters.

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State awards funds to Lopezing issuance of the Hughes building permit without a wetland reconnaissance report was contrary” to county code, the memo states.

The county memo responded by stating that an email from Director Sam Gibboney to Planner Annie Matsumoto-Grah sufficed as a report. The email read:

“Annie – There is a permit application in for a property in the Portland Fair neighborhood. Supposedly one of the neighbors reported that there might be a wetland. Mike walked the site last night with a local wetland expert [JT] and there are no signs of one. So no need for recon.”

The county memo reads, “Although we would prefer a more descriptive email be the depart-ment’s standards, Ms. Gibboney did provide a record for the file of her determination, based on the county manager’s reconnaissance.”

The memo also added that Gibboney was incorrect when she referred to JT, Jennifer Thomas, as the source of the information on the wetland, though she is a state certified wetlands specialist. The PA memo concluded that after Department of Ecology wetlands expert Doug Gresham reviewed the wetlands in question, no further action was needed, but that “in the future, a written reconnaissance report should be received before a building permit is issued.”

The county memo concluded that “the county did its reconnaissance for possible wetlands issues properly,” and that “the county has now spent significant resources … to determine that there was no improper government action on the part of County Manager Thomas.”

No further action will be taken by the prosecut-ing attorney’s office or the county council.

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ter their year of service is complete. The

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“Mommy, Mommy! Look at the cute little baby fox. He looks hungry. We should give him a cookie.”

There is no doubt about it, baby wild mammals are cute. Whether they are fluffy little raccoon or fox kits, or delicate little fawns, they bring out the nurturing instinct in people, who then feel the need to get closer to them and feed and “care” for them.

Why is it a problem to directly feed young wild animals? It is all to do with what they are learning when they are youngsters. At this juvenile stage their parents are teaching them skills that will enable them to survive on their own in the wild for the rest of their lives, and they only have a few months to do it in.

If they are consistently and regularly fed by people, what do young wild animals learn?

They learn to beg for food rather than to forage or hunt. They quickly find out that it is easier to sit and look cute at the side of the road than follow Mom or Dad and learn how to catch mice. But what hap-pens when the summer

ends and there are fewer visitors, or someone moves away? The handouts stop and the youngster doesn’t know how to find natural food on its own. In the fall, young wild animals have to move out of their parents’ territory to find their own area to live in. What if there are no convenient human handouts available nearby?

They learn to trust people and be less wary. There are a lot of people who do not like raccoons, foxes or deer. A wild youngster that is not wary of people is much eas-ier to injure or kill.

They learn to hang around roads and houses

where there is a greater risk of being hit by a car or attacked by a dog.

They learn to expect handouts so boldly walk into yards, onto decks or up to people. Young wild animals don’t stay small and cute for long. Even people who like wildlife are not too happy when a pushy young buck or a full grown raccoon won’t take no for an answer and seems to be a threat to their children or pets. They are then labeled “nuisance” animals and don’t tend to live long, happy lives.

It may seem harmless to give just one cookie to the cute fox kit or tempt the

little fawn to nibble an apple right from your fingers, but how many other people have done the same thing? How long will it be before the little creature learns that people are a great source of tasty snacks and starts hanging around the house or the picnic area?

Next time you are tempt-ed to feed a cute, little, wild animal, take a moment to ask yourself why you are doing it. Does the little ani-mal really need the cookie or are you feeding it so you can get it to come closer and maybe get a cute photo? Consider the bad habits you

are teaching it that might get it into trouble later. What is best for the youngster in the long-term? Maybe it is better to leave its parents to teach it how to find food, and all the other important things it needs to know to survive as a wild animal.

By Iris GravilleSpecial to the Weekly

One too many stumbles over loose carpet threads at Chimera Gallery sent art-ist Jan Scilipoti to her com-puter during the first week of 2015. Jan tapped out this email message to the artist cooperative’s board mem-bers: “I just had an idea about how we might cre-ate an art event and raise money to buy and install

new flooring in the gallery. Let me know if anyone is interested...”

It’s no surprise that the Chimera board wanted to know more. For nearly 30 years (Lopez artists formed the cooperative in 1987) Chimera members have maintained a professional gallery in the heart of Lopez Village. The collective has weathered economic ups and downs to assure

that Lopez artists have a year-round venue to show their work and that visitors as well as locals can find fine art and craft made on the island. All that activity takes a toll on the Gallery’s carpet, and the board was eager for ideas about how to cover the cost of replacing the worn floor covering.

A visit to “The Culture Crawl” in Vancouver, British Columbia spurred Jan to propose the upcoming group show, Four for the Floor. “One artist had cov-ered an entire wall of her studio with tiny sketches. It was dramatic,” Jan says, “and great fun to choose a favorite. I knew with all the talent at Chimera, an inno-vative show like that would inspire people to contribute to new flooring.”

On Friday, Aug. 7, every-one will be able to see how Chimera artists responded to the request to create four, 4 inch by 4 inch pieces. “This idea motivated us to look at our work differently,” says Chimera board president Maxine Bronstein. “The

more the artists thought about it, many of them were excited by the challenge.” During the opening and until September 11, a $40 donation lets the customer choose any piece of work from the Four for the Floor show with all of those pro-ceeds going to the floor-ing fund. Other items by Chimera artists will be avail-able as usual throughout the Gallery.

Evidently the show’s inventiveness sparked enthusiasm in the village. “The response was fabu-lous,” Jan told the board after she polled half a dozen other merchants about cre-ating an Art Walk from 5 to 7 p.m. the evening of the opening. “People kept sug-gesting that I talk with other businesses,” Jan reported, with at least a dozen agree-ing to participate. “Paper, Scissors on the Rock is going to host a sidewalk chalk event for kids, and Déjà Vu Consignment Shop will set up a table out front with a selection of clothes,” Jan explains. Balloons will

identify the following Art Walk participants: Butterfly Lady, Caffe la Boheme, Colin Goode Gallery, Déjà Vu, Gallery 10, Isabel’s Coffee, Just Heavenly Fudge , Lopez Artists Guild at Lopez Center, Lopez Bookshop, Lopez Island Vineyards Tasting Room,

Paper, Scissors on the Rock and Vita’s.

“It’s all so cool,” says Chimera member TJ Anderson. The benefit show runs Aug. 7 through Sept. 11.


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