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ing them right there in the shop for custom-ers who typically did not have a grinder at home.

The shop’s Freeland-based bookkeeper had suggested the brothers roast their own coffee beans. She told Jim to check out a shop called The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf next time he visited Southern California. Jim ended up working for that shop for almost a year, in between the first two sum-mers in Coupeville.

The premium beans sold for considerably more than Americans were used to paying for coffee, and many people – including their parents – thought the venture was doomed to failure.

“My parents couldn’t understand why people would pay $1.79 per pound when you could get three pounds for 33 cents in the grocery store,” Jim said. “Everyone knew that coffee came in a can from Folgers.”

But the brothers’ intuition panned out, as people were willing to pay a premium for higher quality beans and later on, beverages.

Seattle’s bestIn 1971, the brothers jumped into the

Seattle market. Their first Seattle-based ice cream and coffee bean shop was on Pier 70 on the waterfront, and the coffee was roast-

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012 VOL. 18, NO. 3

Stewart brothers return to share tales of the storied Wet Whisker

Contributed photos

In this photo taken in 1970, brothers Dave and Jim Stewart stand in front of the Wet Whisker on Coupe-ville’s Front Street. Jim and his brother Dave grew the Wet Whisker from a small ice-cream shop into a regional chain selling ice cream and coffee beans. After several name changes, the coffee business is now known as Seattle’s Best Coffee. At left is the original the Wet Whisker sign.

By Kasia PierzgaStaff Reporter

Nearly a week after a well-known Coupe-ville pastor broke his back in a 25-foot fall down a steep embankment in the Ledge-wood neighborhood, his family, friends and church community are praying for his recovery.

Garrett Arnold, pastor of Living Hope Foursquare Church, remains in the intensive care unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after undergoing surgery in which doctors fused several broken vertebrae and stabilized his spinal column.

Sarah Viers, Arnold’s sister-in-law, said the surgery was successful, but it will be some time before doctors will know the full extent of the injury.

“The doctors continue to caution us that his back and his spine are so swollen, he needs time to rest and recover before they will be able to see what they’re working with,” she said. “They won’t tell us how long he’ll be in ICU or how long he would be in rehab. That’s the very frustrating thing with this type of injury.”

Arnold and his wife, Sylvia, celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary at Har-borview on Monday. The couple has three children, two of whom – Scott and Courtney – are students at Azusa Pacific University in California. Their third child, Brett, is a junior at Coupeville High School who also plays on the football team.

Scott and Courtney were able to fly back to Washington to spend time at their dad’s bedside before heading back to college, Vi-ers said.

“Luckily our other sister Shannon lives there, so they have that support,” Viers said. Shannon is married to Garrett Arnold’s brother, Lance.

The church’s Facebook page – Living Hope in Coupeville – is filled with com-ments from people near and far who are sending their prayers for Arnold’s recovery.

Updates on his condition also are being posted to the page.

Church Treasurer Suzanne Zetter, de-scribed the outpouring of love and prayers as “powerful.”

“The family is extremely grateful of the outpouring of the community’s love and prayer,” she said Monday.

People from churches from across the country and as far away as Australia and the Netherlands have sent thoughts and prayers to the Arnold family, she said.

Pastor recovering from serious back injury

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By Elisabeth MurrayStaff Reporter

Americans spend some $18 billion a year on spe-cialty coffee, from lattes

and Americanos to cappuccinos and whip-topped sweet caramel macchiatos.

The next time you’re in line at Starbucks, consider this: America’s mania for fancy cof-fee has its roots in a very modest ice cream shop on Front Street in Coupeville.

And the two brothers – Jim and Dave Stewart – whose pas-sion for good coffee helped spark the nation’s espresso ob-session will be in Coupeville next week to share their memo-ries.

Roasting on Front StreetIt was 1969, and Jim was a young op-

tometry student visiting friends on Whid-bey Island who needed help with some plumbing. Originally from California, the friends had moved to Coupeville to launch a salvage business.

They convinced 21-year-old Jim that this quiet town was an up-and-coming tourist destination and the perfect spot for an ice cream shop catering to sum-mertime visitors.

The Wet Whisker served up scoops of 18 flavors of ice cream. First-day sales amounted to $18.75, and by the end of the summer the business had sold some 30,000 cones, earning a profit of about $800 – a pretty decent sum in the early 70s, Jim said.

“It was awful on your wrist,” Jim said with a laugh.

The business was a family operation with Jim’s 15-year old brother, Dave, also wielding a scoop.

After that first successful summer, it would be many years before the business turned a profit again, Jim said. Front Street had fewer businesses and less traf-fic compared to today, both brothers said.

Looking for a way to boost sales, the following summer the brothers began selling coffee beans by the pound, grind-

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After a month on the job, the interim superinten-dent for Coupeville Public Schools has confirmed a few things that she had suspect-ed when she accepted the temporary position.

She has fallen in love with Coupeville and holds the district’s employees in high regard.

Karen Koschak started her new job on July 1.

Moving from one meet-ing to the next, Koschak has been involved in training staff on the new state teach-er evaluation process, work-ing towards reaching collec-tive bargaining agreements with the district’s employees, and becoming acquainted with the community.

Koschak had said fare-well to administrative work in 2011 after serving as su-perintendent of the Granite Falls School District for three years. Enrollment in Granite Falls is about 2,300 students.

She was enticed out of retirement for a one-year stint as Coupeville’s chief to bridge the gap left when former Superintendent Patty Page accepted a job with the North Kitsap School Dis-

trict. Rather than rushing to choose from a limited pool of candidates, the Coupe-ville School Board opted to hire a temporary superin-tendent who will serve while the hiring process for a permanent replacement gets under way.

Koschak plans to rent a place in Coupeville while she carries out the duties of guiding the district and keeping its budget on track.

Before her time in Gran-ite Falls, Koschak served as superintendent of the 4,000-student Aberdeen School District for eight years.

While Koschak’s experi-ence has been in districts with larger enrollment than Coupeville’s, which hovers around 1,000 pupils, she describes Coupeville’s small size as “perfect.”

“I grew up in a small town,” Koschak said. “I like the small-town environ-ment.”

A smaller school district makes it a lot easier for her to learn the names of the all of the teachers and most of the students, she said.

Koschak said she’s look-ing forward to working in a community that she has vis-ited many times as a tourist.

One favorite event is the

annual Coupeville Arts and Crafts Festival, she said.

“It has felt like com-ing home for me,” Koschak said.

Some of the district’s em-ployees already are familiar with Koschak’s leadership and teaching style.

When the state changed the way it evaluates princi-pals and teachers, Koschak led training sessions that some of Coupeville’s teach-ers and administrators at-tended last year.

Koschak also has 16 years of teaching experience in Marysville. While she no longer grades homework as-signments or calls on raised hands, she said she always will be an educator at heart.

“The appeal of teaching is that moment when stu-dents make the connection, the ‘aha’ moment, when you see the look in their eyes and expression on their face,” Koschak said.

She said she welcomes the opportunity to return to the classroom to teach and

has done so on occasion in her previous administrative jobs.

A huge fan of science, Koschak’s face lights up as she explains her favor-ite teaching activities that incorporate hands-on learn-ing that engages kids and gets them thinking.

Stepping back into the classroom is a reminder of

the challenges – and rewards – of teaching, Koschak said.

“I love the profession,” Koschak said. “The impact you make is not just for to-day, but also for the future.”

The school district has a contract with search firm MacPherson and Jacobson, a national executive recruit-ment and development firm, to find a replacement super-

intendent for the 2013-2014 school year.

The firm will begin the search process again this December.

After the school board reviews the qualifications of the candidate pool, two or three final candidates will be invited for daylong inter-views in the school district.

Coupeville a good fit for interim schools chief

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Karen Koschak has left retirement behind to guide the Coupeville School District as its interim superintendent for the next year as it searches for a permanent chief.

“I love the profession. The impact you make is not just for today, but also for the future.”

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How to help Kittitas County wildfire victimsCash donations allow for

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The Salvation Army has also created a fund to aid people affected by the Kitti-tas County fires. Donations can be made by phone at 1-800-SAL-ARMY or on-line at SalvationArmyNW.org (designate gift for “Tay-lor Bridge Fire”).

Kittitas County residents have created a clearing-house for information on how victims of the Taylor Bridge fire can get help and

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Bits and pieces of the lives of people who lived on Whidbey Island before us are displayed in a color-ful quilt show reflecting the homespun values of resourceful women at the Island County Historical Museum in Coupeville.

Quilts often tell stories, but some of the stories of these quilts have been lost, or are incomplete.

Roger Sherman, a lo-cal historian and lifelong farmer on Whidbey Island, speculated about a red and white quilt his mother Doro-thy Sherman donated to the museum before her death in 2001.

“I know this quilt be-longed to my great grandma Mary LeSourd,” he said. “But I don’t know why she had it. It was passed to her daughter Alma, my grandma, who gave it to my mother Dorothy.”

The LeSourds arrived on Whidbey Island in 1885 and bought a farm on Ebey’s Prairie, Sherman said.

The quilt in question is red and white with hand-ap-pliquéd circles. In the center, the words “U.W. 1908” are embroidered. Other circles have embroidered signatures of well-known early Island settlers, with family names such as Engle, LeSourd, Howard, Blowers, Gookens and Zylstra represented.

“We know it’s a signature or friendship quilt,” said Rick Castellano, executive director of the museum. “But we don’t know who it was made for, or what the initials ‘U.W.’ in the center mean. If it was made for a student heading off to the University of Washington in 1908, the colors aren’t U.W. colors.”

Another mystery sur-rounds a crazy quilt made crafted of silk with several kinds of decorative stitching.

“We think it was used as a piano cover,” Castellano said, pointing to the ruffled edge. “But how the maker acquired all this silk is a mystery.”

Some of the quilts are showing their age and the results of improper stor-age. The silk crazy quilt has some frayed sections. Other quilts in the show may have been folded and stored for too many years.

“Quilts should be rolled, not folded. They should be rolled in acid-free cloth or paper, and stored in acid-free tubes,” said Joan Handy of Clinton, a museum volun-teer who helped catalog and preserve the quilt collection some years ago.

Several quilt tops were donated to the museum in 2005 by the Oak Harbor Lutheran Church. Castel-lano said they were given to the church by Willard Krig-baum of Coupeville, who believes the tops were made by his grandmother and her friends in the Eastern Star Lodge in Buckley, Wash. in 1920-23.

These colorful quilt tops reflect the everyday clothing people wore. Printed cotton remnants might have come from housedresses, aprons or men’s shirts.

“Nothing was wasted,” Sherman said. He remem-bers his mother “always had a quilt in the frame” when he was growing up.

The handsome “Court-house Steps” quilt, made with thousands of tiny strips of cloth, is a variation on the traditional “Log Cabin” pattern.

Donated by Hazel and Ruth Furman and Helen Vanlaningham of Green-bank, it belonged to their grandmother Ruhamiohe Baker-Fitchie, who was married in 1865, and lived in Stockton, Calif. The maker

of the quilt is unknown, but what is known is the skill the seamstress had in join-ing all those tiny strips.

“Certainly, all the quilts in the show came to us from folks who live[d] here,” Cas-tellano said. “I’m guessing many of the quilts in our collection were made else-where, and traveled with the family when they relocated

to Whidbey.”Quilts were made for

practical reasons and for family use, but the designs required planning, resource-fulness and artistic skill, Castellano said.

Castellano, who grew up in Port Townsend, said his mother Hilda was a master quilter who always added a signature patch on her creations with the embroi-dered words “Every Stitch is Love.” He chose that name for the museum’s quilt show in her honor.

The “Every Stitch is Love” quilt display in the museum’s changing exhibit room runs through Labor Day.

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There has been much ado online con-cerning the public’s attendance and com-ments made at the Aug. 13 Island County commissioners’ meeting.

This blowback is founded in misunder-standing, intolerance and fear.

Those who attended the commissioners’ meeting were a diverse group. Some were Democrats, some Independents, but more than half were Republicans. Our presence at the meeting had nothing to do with poli-tics. We weren’t there to advocate for or to help any candidate. We were there to ask the commissioners for help.

A Navy environmental assessment had been filed with a comment deadline of Aug. 13 – the day of the commissioners’ meeting. Residents around the Navy’s Outlying Field (OLF) had not found out about the assess-ment until that weekend. We needed more time to access the document, read it, then comment.

Certainly, some of the comments made to the commissioners demonstrate how the community around the OLF is past the boil-ing point. Those who live directly under the Navy’s flyover racetrack suffer greatly dur-ing touch and go practices. Nobody who hasn’t lived 300 feet directly below the flight path can have any appreciation for just how traumatic it can be. The thought that the Navy was planning on expanding training at OLF was overwhelming to us.

But we weren’t at the meeting to ask the commissioners to stop the Navy from flying. We were only there to ask the commission-ers to contact the Navy to ask for more time to obtain and review the assessment and then comment as the Navy had requested.

Two of our three Island County com-missioners, Angie Homola and Helen Price Johnson, were willing to help us. The third commissioner, Kelly Emerson, effectively told us that we weren’t part of her constitu-ency, and so she abstained. In other words, she did nothing!

Ms. Emerson forgets that she represents all Island County residents, and not just those who voted for her.

If she had been in the majority at the meeting, the residents of Central Whidbey would have been out of luck. We would have been told that the Navy had technically complied with its obligations to give the public notice, by among other things put-ting a copy of the environmental assessment in the La Conner library. We would have been told that the board of commissioners wouldn’t get involved. Nothing would have been done to help us.

The other two commissioners, along with

Coupeville Town Mayor Nancy Conard, fortunately did contact the Navy on our behalf. And you know what? The Navy was more than willing and did give us that exten-sion. The Navy wants our input.

We didn’t go to that meeting to make it political. Kelly Emerson made it political. In the process she demonstrated just how crucial it is for us to retain Commission-ers Homola and Johnson. Lose either one of them this November and there will be no one willing to speak up for us.

Thank you Angie, Helen and Mayor Nancy, we need you all now more than ever.

– Paula SpinaCoupeville

Love the Navy; jet noise, not so much

On the one hand, I am extremely grateful for our “Sound Of Freedom.” It is com-forting. However the noise from the jets is unbearable at times. My two little dogs are beyond comforting even being medicated.

I’’m getting quite good at reading lips on TV, but would rather go to bed. Can we compromise somewhere?

–Trevor ArnoldCoupeville

We should be thankful for the Navy

I cannot stand by and let all of the anti-Navy people have their say.

I have lived in Coupeville for 80 of my 94 years and I think we should applaud our military instead of railing against them.

Now of all times with the situation in the world we need the protection that our men in all the services provide us with.

I happen to like the insignia on the wings of the planes that are making noise for a few hours out of our lives. All of the people who are complaining knew this was a problem before they moved here.

Sometimes we have to realize that this isn’t Utopia, it’s Whidbey Island, and there are few minor things that we have to put up with.

God bless the Navy, which has not only given us protection for the years they have been here, but also given hundreds of citizens on our island jobs that they sorely needed.

– Jean ShermanCoupeville

We need to keep penny pinchers in office

Where did we get the idea that we can get our money’s worth without paying for it?

We’ve gotten so accustomed to falling for the advertisements that promise free stuff that we’ve forgotten how nothing is ever free and hidden costs usually come up to bite us where it hurts. Did we get the idea that government is bad and that taxes are just an empty rat hole because someone just kept saying it over and over?

We can’t get what we need without taxes, but we can go for the best value we can find.

The past years have been difficult not only for us, but for our whole nation. We’ve had some of the biggest ripoff and bail-out scams of a lifetime that brought our nation to its knees and nearly on its face. It may take some careful shopping, but after look-ing things over, we’re voting for the most ex-perienced penny pinchers we can find.

Right here that’s state Sen. Mary Marga-ret Haugen and Island County Commission-ers Angie Homola and Helen Price Johnson. Think about where we would be if instead of them we had some wide-eyed opportunists at the helm during these difficult times and we think you will agree.

– Al and Barbara WilliamsOak Harbor

Johnson’s efforts help to unite our county

At the recent county commissioners’ debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Whidbey Island, there was an un-stated presence of an Island County com-missioner who is not running for re-election: Kelly Emerson.

She has been asked to leave office. She hasn’t and probably will not. Still, let’s hope that she will be a one-term Island County commissioner.

However, her counselor, Jeff Lauderdale, is running for Island County commissioner, District 1. He states that he is his own per-son. Listening to his response to questions asked, he and Kelly Emerson appear to be of the same mindset.

Jeff Lauderdale does not even need to be a one-term commissioner. My vote will be for Helen Price Johnson. Her efforts to meet the needs of Island County have been in the right direction and that has not been easy. Her return to the office of commissioner from District 1 is to the advantage of Island County.

We may be a county divided geographi-cally, but let’s not let it be divisive in meeting the needs of Island County.

– Brian Martin Coupeville

CorrectionA story on page 1 of the Aug. 16 issue

titled, “Navy noise rattles neighbors” incor-rectly referred to a state requirement for notice of environmental assessments. It is a federal National Environmental Policy Act requirement that the public is notified, although the Navy has discretion in the type of notice provided.

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ed on site.The brothers introduced

espresso at their University District store in 1978 – one of the best decisions that the business ever made, Jim said.

At one point, 12 shops bearing the name, the Wet Whisker, were in the greater Seattle area, with one in Portland and one in Colo-rado.

Lots of time and hard work went into expanding the business, Jim said. He credits 25-hour workdays for the company’s success. Good employees were im-portant, too, Dave added.

In 1983, the brothers sold their Coupeville business, but this did not end their Coupeville story.

Dave would meet Coupe-ville residents Paul and Karen Whelan while on a visit to the ice cream shop with his family about seven years ago.

Paul and his brother had owned the building that Jim and Dave rented, but the two sets of brothers had not met years before. The prop-erty had been managed for the Whelan brothers as, they had not been living in the area at the time.

“We really developed a friendship with them,” Dave said. “We visited the Whel-ans’ ice-cream shop many times. Everything came full circle.”

It was the Whelans who suggested the brothers re-

turn to Coupeville to talk about the Wet Whisker and the beginnings of the espres-so trend.

Growth and changeAs the brothers further

expanded the coffee busi-ness, the name Wet Whisker, which suited the ice-cream side of operations, did not seem to fit with the whole-sale distribution of the cof-fee beans to restaurants.

The name, Stewart Brothers Coffee, however, fit and the company operated under that name for several years – until a Chicago-based company told them to stop using it because it had been trademarked.

Shortened to SBC for a brief span of time, the ini-tials matched perfectly to the company’s final name. After winning a competition to determine the best cup of coffee in Seattle in 1991, the company was renamed Se-attle’s Best Coffee.

Dave sold his share of the business to his brother in the mid-1980s, but still has cof-fee running in his veins. He currently lives in Snohom-ish and owns the Vista Clara Coffee company, creating a fresh roasted blend similar to that developed at Stewart Brothers Coffee.

Dave proudly says he has been married for 37 years and is the papa of three and grandpa of seven. His daughter and son-in-law now call Oak Harbor home

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Save the dateSeattle’s Best Coffee founders Jim and Dave Stewart will talk about their history in Coupe-ville from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30 in the Coupeville Rec-reation Hall, 901 N.W. Alexander St. The free event is sponsored by the Coupeville Historic Waterfront Association, the Island County His-torical Society and the Coupeville Chamber of Commerce.

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Dave Stewart roasts coffee beans at his Snohomish business, Vista Clara Coffee. Although his business is focused on wholesale pro-duction and not retail sales, he welcomes visitors to his facility.

Coffee: Coupeville’s place in espresso history; from page 1

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The Volkswagen Beetle at right sets the tone for this photo of the Wet Whisker, which opened in 1969 as an ice-cream shop on Front Street. The shop is now occupied by Kapaw’s Iskreme.

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Jim Stewart and his wife Luz Marina Stewart have a coffee farm in Costa Rica. Jim and his brother, Dave, grew the Wet Whisker from a small ice-cream shop in Coupeville into a re-gional chain, Seattle’s Best Coffee, now owned by Starbucks.

and he says he appreciates his visits to Whidbey when he visits her family.

“I wouldn’t change a thing about how my life turned out,” Dave said. “I really enjoy what I do and I’ll keep doing it. There’s no reason not to.”

Jim’s ownership in the company also decreased over the years. As the company grew in size, Jim wasn’t sure he had the skills and expertise to grow it further.

Jim sold 60 percent of the company to Larry Mc-Donald and a partnership with McDonald’s company, Torrefazione Italia Coffee, was formed. Combined sales grew from $15 million to $40 million per year, he said.

Jim then sold half of his ownership to an Atlanta-based group, AFC Enter-prises, Inc. – which at the time also owned Cinnabon, Church’s Chicken and Pop-eye’s Louisiana Kitchen. Sales grew to $100 million per year.

Around the same time Seattle’s Best Coffee was ac-quired by Starbucks in 2003, Jim sold the remainder of his shares in the company.

Jim said he never viewed Starbucks as a competitor

even though both started their Seattle operations in the same year.

He points out that Stew-art Brothers had actually started roasting two years before the coffee behemoth got its start.

“I paid little attention to them because we did things so differently,” Jim said.

Starbucks developed dark roasting following the model set by Peet’s Coffee and Tea, while the Stew-

arts cultivated the lighter, Northern European-style of roasting coffee following the model of The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.

As for Jim, he never did finish optometry school. And he still has ties to cof-fee.

He spends the summer months on Vashon Island, and winters in Costa Rica. He helps out at Vashon Is-

land Coffee Roasterie and Langley’s Mulkiteo Cof-fee Roasters, buying coffee beans for them directly.

His wife, Luz Marina Stewart, owns and manages the Santa Elena coffee farm in Costa Rica.

“I still take people through Coupeville when visiting the area,” Jim said. “It is remarkable that any of this ever happened.”



With efforts spearhead-ed by the Island County Planning Department, the county is nearing the final stages of making significant changes to its commercial sign regulations.

In the revised code, the

county seeks to balance the needs of businesses to be visible while being mindful of the county’s scenic rural environment, Planner Troy Davis said.

While signs are a means of communicating informa-tion to the public, the new rules are designed to prevent overcrowding, improper

placement and excessive size.

According to Island County Commissioner Helen Price Johnson, revi-sions to the sign code have been in the works for several years, but the planning de-partment did not have the resources to make the up-dates. But this year, getting the revisions done became a higher priority.

“Because the economy has not turned around as quickly as we hoped, I thought this was one way to support local businesses,” Johnson said. “The current sign code is not meeting the needs for economic develop-ment.”

The department has re-ceived a number of com-

plaints and requests for clar-ification in recent years from people who said the signs rules were hard to under-stand. For example, it was not clear how to determine the size of a sign, where signs could be placed, and the standards for temporary or special event signs were vague, Davis said.

“The way the code was written, it was not clear for businesses to understand and it was difficult for staff to interpret,” he said.

Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce Executive Di-rector Jill Johnson, who is running for the Dist. 2 com-missioner seat, said she sup-ports the changes.

The planning depart-ment had contacted build-ers, sign companies and the local chambers of commerce asking for comments on the draft proposals, and John-son submitted a letter in response.

“A business needs a sim-ple, straightforward regula-tion to comply with, and the county needs a simple straightforward code to en-force,” Johnson wrote.

One area that has caused confusion and consterna-tion among business own-ers in the current code has been the color requirements for the signs. Under cur-rent code, “Sign colors shall provide sufficient contrast to be legible, yet be subdued enough to blend with the natural landscape and/or surrounding structures.”

Current code also re-quires that the majority of the background area of the sign be painted in earth tones, a dark color, or made of materials such as rock, wood, tile or brick.

Business owners say that these requirements limit the ability of a business to use an identifying brand logo that uses a specific color, and could reduce a sign’s ef-fectiveness in helping to at-tract business.

“We’re having economic problems now, and one rea-son is that we are not paying enough attention to busi-nesses,” said Leanne Finlay, a residential and commer-cial realtor with Wind-ermere Real Estate. “I don’t want to see flashing signs, but businesses need signs that people can see.”

The latest draft of the sign code, which draws on language in the current code, would simply require that the sign structure be “architecturally integrated” with the commercial build-ing and that “form, color, and building materials” be

considered. Davis said that while the

sign structure must be com-patible with the building, and the sign’s background cannot be fluorescent or reflect light, the words and graphics on the sign can in-clude logos of any color.

“We tried to balance what was said by the busi-ness community with residential concerns,” Da-vis said. “I believe we have achieved a pretty good bal-ance.”

The third draft of the regulations, which also ad-dresses size, lighting and placement, is available for review online at island-county.net/planning. Com-ments can be submitted to Troy Davis at [email protected] or by mail at Island County Planning, P.O. Box 5000, Coupeville, WA 98239.

The Island County Plan-ning Commission will hold a public hearing at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28 to discuss the proposed changes to the regulations, with the possi-bility of additional hearings to follow. The hearing will be held in the commission-ers’ Hearing Room, 1 NE 6th St., Coupeville.

The Planning Commis-sion will make changes to the proposal and send it on to the Island County com-missioners, who also will hold a public hearing.

Final adoption is expect-ed in October.


Unitarian Congregation members Dave Cauffman, left and Tom Buxton, right, join sign carver John Long in showing off the sign at the Unitarian facility near Freeland. Island County plan-ners say this sign is a good example of one that fits with the community’s rural character and is still very effective as a commercial sign.

David Francis Brown

David Francis Brown passed away peacefully August 13, 2012. He was born in Seattle to Lois Ohrner Brown and David Treadwell Brown on July 22, 1935. The family moved to Yakima when David was 7 and he was edu-cated through the Yakima Schools including Yakima Valley College. He earned a BS degree in Chemistry from New Mexico School of Mines and a MS degree from WSU in Organic Chemistry.

He met his wife of 49 years, Virginia, when they were both teaching at Yakima Valley College. They were soul mates and did everything together includ-ing backpacking for 150 miles in Glacier, Waterton and Yellowstone National Parks on their honeymoon (sole mates?).

David earned a PhD in Plant Nutrition and Biochemistry from Utah State University and moved his family with two young sons, David and Mark, to New Orleans to begin a 20 year career with the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.

His third son, Paul, was born in New Orleans. In 1980, David obtained a trans-fer to the USDA Research Station in Yakima where his parents still were living. After retiring he joined the faculty at Heritage College where he taught chemistry and mathematics. He found his true talent and passion in tutoring students in math and chemistry. He had the ability to continue to present the material in different ways until the student “got it.” He also obtained a secondary teaching certificate and was a substitute teacher after leaving Heritage College.

The family spent many wonderful hours involved in skiing, hiking, backpacking, soccer, baseball, camping, bicycle touring and other activities. After retiring from USDA David had enough free time that he volunteered

with Habitat for Humanity locally and traveled to many countries working on Habitat and missionary projects. Altogether he spent time in 31 different countries. He did his best to make friends wherever he went. In 2000 David and Virginia retired to Coupeville where they both were active in the Coupeville United Methodist Church, Coupeville Garden Club and Habitat for Humanity. They made two trips a year to work on international proj-ects in China, Malaysia, Fiji, Ecuador, Chile and other countries until the last 2 years. At that time the heavy work was too much so they took organized interna-tional tours including Cuba, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and the Panama Canal.

David is survived by his wife, Virginia; three sons and their families, David Scott, wife Shirlene and daughters Kendra and Amanda, Mark Josef, wife Kristi and daugh-ters Ashly and Abby and Paul Bradley and wife Olive; by his cousins, John Sprowl and wife Suzie, Doug King, Rick Raschick and wife Sally, and Mike Raschick; and all of their families and many wonderful friends.

A Celebration of David’s Life will be held Sunday, Aug. 26, at 1:00 pm at the Coupeville United Methodist Church. A light lunch will follow at the church. If family and friends wish to honor David, donations may be made in his name to Coupeville United Methodist Church, Coupeville Garden Club, Habitat for Humanity of Island County or a charity of the donor’s choice.

David Francis Brown

OBITUARY

Christopher David Ellis

Chris was born in Seattle on Oct. 17, 1958, and passed away at home on Camano Island on Aug. 13, 2012.

Chris grew up on Whidbey Island and served 30 years in law enforcement, includ-ing 7 years in the Langley Police Department and 23 years with the Island County Sheriff’s Department.

Chris is survived by his wife Patty; son Jerico (wife Brittany and daughters Miya and Laycee); son Jordan (wife Julia and children

Kollin and Cielle); son Ian (wife Trisha and children Achelle and Anthony); and a vast assortment of friends and family whose lives he touched and who touched his life.

Any memorial remem-brance to the American Cancer Society in honor of Chris would be most wel-come.

Christopher, you will be missed.

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With university train-ing in botanical medicine, I can’t help but harbor fond-ness for a lot of what my fellow gardeners dismiss as lowly weeds. Even while pry-ing up China-bound dande-lion taproots from my lawn, whacking stampeding sting-ing nettles and untangling sticky cleavers from the lem-on balm, I know that at an-other time, on another day, I’ll likely seek them out for the healing chemicals stored in their little green hearts.

But some weeds – even some with well-earned reputations as healing herbs – are not only obnoxious nuisances for gardeners, farmers and municipali-ties, they’re also considered noxious. Under Washington law, “noxious weed” is a le-gal term referring to any in-vasive, non-native plant that threatens the health of local land and aquatic ecosys-tems, native fish and wildlife habitat or farm crops.

Noxious weeds are in-vaders that spread rapidly, often through enormous seed dispersals or rhizoma-tous roots. They can easily out-compete and wipe out the native plants our native animals and fish need to survive and reproduce.

Some noxious weeds, like the bright yellow tansy rag-wort that’s very visible right now along the highway, can poison livestock if allowed

to spread to nearby pastures and hay fields.

Some of these plants have come here as stow-aways in organic matter, on vehicles and boats – and even on people. Sadly, about half of all noxious weeds were brought in by garden-ers. Sucked in by their pretty flowers, delicious fruits or uber hardiness, miseries like kudzu, Scotch broom and Himalayan blackberry were unleashed on American soil.

The Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board classifies noxious weeds into three categories and county noxious weed boards have the mandate to control their spread and to compel landowners to re-move them, as they see fit.

A Class A noxious weed is one that has just been discovered here. The aim is to eradicate it before it has a chance to gain a toe hold. Kudzu was found in Clark County in Southwestern Washington in 2001 and eliminated before it could

do to us what it’s done to the Deep South. Unfortunately, it’s been spotted in Oregon and still poses a potential threat to our state.

Class B noxious weeds are those that have already gained ground in some counties but are absent in others, such as Herb Rob-ert, Queen Anne’s lace and spurge laurel. The goal is to keep them from spreading any further.

Finally, Class C noxious weeds are ones that have already gotten the better of us. Himalayan and ever-green blackberry, yellow flag and common St. John’s wort are examples of plants that counties may not even attempt to eradicate but in-stead may try to educate the public on why controlling them is a good idea.

What can gardeners do to help? First, try to remove the worst offenders from your own property, and then volunteer to pull weeds elsewhere in the community. And find out more about what weeds need battling here on Whidbey Island by visiting the Washing-ton State University Island County Extension website at county.wsu.edu and click-ing on Noxious Weeds Pro-gram in the menu.

Now put down the but-terfly bush and yellow arch-angel and walk away before we all get hurt.

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Oak HarborOH Senior Center

51 SE Jerome StSunday 11:00 am

CoupevillePac Rim Institute180 Parker RdSunday 9:30 am

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Coupeville UnitedMethodist Church

Pastor Jin Ming Ma • Will Strong, Youth Director608 N. Main St. • 360-678-4256

Summer Service10:00 am

Child care available

Paci�c Rim InstituteSundays • 6:30pm

Oak Harbor Lutheran Church invites everyone to experience a casual evening of prayer, worship and

friendship in Coupeville.

Call 679-1561 for information.

Come join us for Lutheran Worship Services in Coupeville!

St. Mary’s Church

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON WHIDBEY ISLAND WELCOMES EVERYONE!

St. Augustine’s in-the-Woods

Sunday Eucharist8 & 10:30 am

Child care available at 10 amYouth programs at 10:30 am Sept - June

5217 S. Honeymoon Bay RdFreeland • 360-331-4887

www.staugustinesepiscopalchurch.org

Shantina Steele, Director of Christian FormationNigel J. Taber-Hamilton, Rector

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MASS SCHEDULESundays • 11:15 am & Thursday • Noon

207 N. Main St., Coupeville • www.staugustineoh.org

St. Mary’s Catholic Church

Grace By The SeaAn Anglican Expression of Faith

The Rev. Paul OrrittSunday ServiceS9:30am • Family Worship

11:23am • Contemporary Worshipwww.gracebythesea.org

Island Vineyard Community ChurchPastor James Gallagher

6:00-7:30pm

Sunday niGHTSwww.islandvineyard.org

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NEW BUSINESS1. Approval of Special Event Permit Application for the Coupeville High School Homecoming Parade on October 5, 20122. Approve job description for a sergeant position in the Coupeville Marshal’s Office3. Approve contract with Department of Ecology for Penn Cove Stormwater Remediation Grant4. Approval of August 28, 2012 Claims Vouchers/Warrants and July 2012 Payroll Warrants

STAFF REPORTSCOUNCIL REPORTSAUDIENCE INPUTEXECUTIVE SESSION – Discuss parameters for Collective Bargaining with Coupeville Deputy Marshals AssociationADJOURNMENTPLEASE NOTE:The final agenda will be posted on the Town website at www.townofcoupeville.org by Saturday, August 25, 2012. The agenda and minutes will be emailed on Friday, August 24, 2012. If you would like to have the agenda and minutes emailed to you, please email your request to [email protected].

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Cotton cord can save crabs in pots

Crabbing season runs Thursdays through Mon-days through Sept. 3 in waters surrounding Island County.

WSU Island County Beach Watchers is encour-aging all crabbers to use cotton cord to secure the doors of crab pots.

“Cotton cord will rot if pots are lost; derelict crab gear continues to catch, and kill, crabs for years,” said Barbara Lyon Ben-nett, program coordinator for WSU Beach Watchers in Island County.

Bennett has several recommendations for crab-bers to maintain an abun-dant supply of crab:

n Use cotton cord (no plastic or chemical content cord) to secure doors of crab pots.

n Abide by all regula-tions.

n Only harvest crabs

that are the minimum size.n Do not harvest soft-

shelled crabs.n Mark pots and

check water depth before dropping pots. Lost pots continue to catch and kill crabs for years.

n Report lost pots to the derelict gear reporting hotline at 1-855-542-3935.

Members of WSU Beach Watchers will be at boat ramps in Island County and will have cot-ton cord and copies of regulations available.

Dogs ready to party at Wag ’n’ Walk

Greenbank Farm goes to the dogs on Sunday, Aug. 26 with the annual Wag ’n’ Walk, a celebra-tion of all things canine.

The free event for dogs and their people is sched-uled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and features games and contests, local vendors and

a king and queen contest and coronation. Events in-clude a Washington State Patrol search-dog demon-stration and a silent auction.

The annual event, spon-sored by Whidbey Animals’ Improvement Foundation, is a celebration of the rescue efforts of WAIF supporters and a chance to educate the community about the adop-tion of homeless animals.

Dogs available for adop-tion also will be at the event.

The event is co-presented by FETCH. For informa-tion, visit waifanimals.org.


Megan Wolfensparger photo

ABOVE: Stilt walker Eric Haines makes front-page news at the Whidbey Island Community Newspapers booth.


Making new friends on a ride at the Whid-bey Island Fair, Mira

Bouton, 8 of Sandy Point, left, shares a smile with seatmate

Shannon Grogan, 8, of Oak Harbor.


Elizabeth Bishop-Corfman, 15, of Coupeville, parades her Grand Cham-pion steer before potential bidders at the Island County 4H Livestock Auc-tion Saturday at the Whidbey Island Fair. Bishop-Corfman had been crowned 4H Farm Tour Queen at the fair earlier in the day.


Allison Wenzel, 12, and her father, Tim, of Coupeville, water the flowers that

Mrs. Wenzel had entered into competition at the fair.


Claire Mitchell, 6, of Seattle tries her hand at a loom on display in the weaving exhibit.

Elisabeth Murray photos

ABOVE LEFT: Christoph Schuster of Langley proudly introduces Finnley, a two-year old alpaca, to fair visitors. ABOVE: Megan Thorn of Coupeville maneuvers her horse during an equestrian competition at the Whidbey Island Fair.

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LEFT: Fair-goers enjoy a ride on the rollercoaster.

Fun and frolic at the Whidbey Island Fair


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COUPEVILLECoupeville Coffee & Bistro, 20 S. Main St.Coupeville Inn, 200 Coveland St.Coupeville Natural, 404 N. Main St.Coupeville Post Office, 201 NW Coveland St.Elkhorn Trading, 15 Front St.Caffeine Effect, 504 N. Main St.Keystone Ferry Dock, 1400 S. Hwy. 20Kim’s Café, Coupeville Wharf, 26 Front St.Lind’s Pharmacy, 40 North Main St.Local Grown, Coupeville Wharf, 26 Front St.Mosquito Fleet Galley, 12 Front St.Prairie Center Red Apple, 408 S. Main St.The Whidbey Examiner, 107 S. Main St. #E101, in Coupe’s Village centerToby’s Tavern, 8 Front St.Tyee Restaurant, 405 S. Main St.Valero Gas Station, 1 S. Main StWhidbey General Hospital, 101 N. Main St.

CLINTONAnchor Books & Coffee, 9289 Hwy. 525Clinton Post Office, 4801 Deer Lake Rd.Food Mart, 4777 Commercial St.Ferry Dock (2 locations)

WHIDBEY ISLAND FERRIESCathlamet & KittitasChetzemoka & Salish

FREELANDFreeland Café, 1642 E. Main St.,Freeland Post Office, 1619 E. Main St.Freeland Shell station, 5618 S. Fish Rd.Freeland ShortStop Texaco, 18205 Hwy. 525Gerry’s Kitchen, 1675 E. Main St.Payless Foods, 1609 E. Main St.

GREENBANKGreenbank Store, 25189 Hwy. 525

KEN’S KORNERRed Apple, 11042, Hwy. 525 Valero Gas Station, 11196 Hwy. 525

LANGLEYLangley Post Office, 115 Second St.Mike’s Place, 219 First St.Star Store, 201 First St.

OAK HARBORACE Hardware, 150 SE Pioneer WayAlbertson’s, 1450 SW Erie St.Angelo’s Caffé, 670 SE Pioneer WayArnie’s, 450 SE Pioneer WayBBQ Joint, NE Midway Blvd.Burger King, 31340 Hwy. 20China Harbor, 630 SE Pioneer WayDeception Pass Visitor Center, 40751 Hwy. 20Frank’s Place, 32945 Hwy. 20Kmart, 32165 Hwy. 20Liberty Gas Station, 34933 Hwy. 20 Oak Harbor Marina, 1401 SE Catalina DriveNavy Exchange & Gas Station, NAS Whidbey Seaplane Base OH Post Office, 1155 E. City Beach Dr.Rite-Aid, 31645 Hwy. 20Saars Marketplace, 32199 Hwy. 20Safeway, 31565 Hwy. 20Walmart, 1250 SW Erie CircleWind & Tide Bookshop, 790 E. Pioneer Way

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By Betty FreemanStaff Reporter

It’s been a weird year weather-wise for Whidbey Island farmers said Peg Ten-nant, manager of both the Coupeville and Oak Harbor farmers markets.

“It’s what happens when you work with nature,” she said.

Crops have been capri-cious, with raspberries ripening while strawber-ries were still bearing, freak thunderstorms damaging fragile grain, and broccoli still producing in mid-Au-gust when hot-weather crops should be center stage.

“One farmer said his corn is tasseling out – even though it’s only waist-high,” Tennant said.

The consensus is that lo-cal corn will be scarce this year, but “it’s been a good year for green beans,” she said with a smile.

Loyal market shoppers are philosophical about scarcities, supportive of the farmers’ hard work and practical about planning meals around what’s avail-able, Tennant said.

Fortunately, islanders committed to shopping and eating locally have several farmers markets to choose from. Each has its own personality and dedicated customers.

“It’s not about the com-petition,” Tennant said. “It’s about supporting local farmers and artisans and keeping our shopping dol-lars circulating in the com-munity.”

The Coupeville market draw crowds every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“We’re in our 34th consecutive season,” Ten-nant said. “We started the Coupeville market to keep agriculture alive in Island County – and we’re still do-ing just that.”

The Bayview Farmers Market, also open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Satur-days, partners with local organizations to keep things interesting.

The market regularly hosts chef demonstra-tions. The next one is set for Saturday, Sept. 29, when Chef Eli from the Walrus Restaurant in Seattle shows off his own cooking techniques.

On Saturdays in au-tumn, the Bayview mar-ket hosts several events that draw a happy local crowd, including Apple Day and the annual Mutt Strut – basically a parade of costumed dogs and their people – set for Sat-urday, Oct. 20.

“This season started a little flat, with a few

Markets focus on homemade, homegrown

Betty Freeman photo

Chef Gordon Stewart of Gordon’s on Blueberry Hill restaurant demonstrates his techniques using fresh market ingredients. Chef demos are a regular feature at the Bayview Farmers Market.

rainy Saturdays that slowed customer traf-fic, but we’re at our peak from now until the end of October,” said Sharon Warwick, Bayview mar-ket director. “Saturday of Labor Day weekend al-ways has our biggest sales of the year.”

Warwick said she likes to have a variety of ven-dors so customers get to see a fresh mix of prod-ucts and produce each time they visit.

“It’s like a treasure hunt every week,” War-wick said.

Lynae Slindon, who manages the Tilth Sunday Market near Bayview, said she appreciates the diversity among the Island’s markets.

“The more markets we have, the more we see that each has its own identity and the more we create awareness for buying local,” she said.

On Thursdays through August, the Clinton Farm-ers Market invites folks to stop by the open lot behind the Dairy Queen between 4 and 7:30 p.m. Locals often stay for dinner, enjoying live music and socializing with neighbors. The addition of a flea market on Aug. 16 was a hit with customers and will likely be repeated.

In North Whidbey, the Oak Harbor Farmers Mar-ket, located on Hwy. 20 next to the Chamber of Com-merce Visitor Information Center, boasts more than 55 vendors from 4 to 7 p.m. every Thursday through September. The Oak Har-bor market follows the same product mantra as Coupe-ville: “Homemade, home-grown and handmade.”

The City of Langley hosts a combination market from 3 to 7 p.m. each Fri-

day, with farmers and artists selling side by side. The Sec-ond Street Market kicks off the weekend with live music and lively interactions with neighbors and off-island visitors alike.

“Since Langley is a tour-ist town, there are more crafters there, but this year there are about twice as many farmers as last year,” said Eric Conn of Full Cycle Farm. He maintains a pro-duce booth at the Clinton, Langley and Tilth markets.

The Tilth Market on South Whidbey, going strong for 41 years now, focuses on education and

welcoming families to a laid-back experience from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Sunday with live music, demonstra-tions, experimental gardens and a playground. A chil-dren’s playhouse, made of earth, clay, sand and straw, is under construction.

Like Bayview, the Coupeville market often coordinates activities and promotions with other lo-cal groups. For example, on Saturday, Sept. 8, the market is hosting the 4th an-nual Central Whidbey Non-profit Fair, showcasing local service groups. The fair is organized by the Town of

Coupeville and supported by the Coupeville branch of Sno-Isle Libraries.

On the same day, at 12:30 p.m., a photographer from The Whidbey Examiner will shoot the annual commu-nity photo.

“The Coupeville library has been an awesome part-ner, too,” Tennant said. “The Friends of the Library group sells used books at every market and on Sat-urday, Sept. 15, we’re going to combine our market day with the 50th anniversary celebration of Sno-Isle Li-braries.”

Coupeville’s market season ends Oct. 13 with HarvestFest, featuring

a giant pumpkin contest and wacky relay races to raise money for Central Whidbey’s Gifts From the Heart food bank.

Tennant said she enjoys the positive energy that takes hold of Coupeville ev-ery market day.

“Our markets are impor-tant to the community, con-necting farmers to consum-ers and promoting locally grown foods,” she said. “We each try to create communi-ty where we are by keeping our friends and neighbors economically viable.”

“One older gentle-man says it’s like ‘going to church, but with pie,’” Ten-nant said with a grin.

Kasia Pierzga photo

Coupeville Farmers Market booth assistant Mike Rice, 12, and market Manager Peg Tennant show off the market’s new T-shirts. The market is open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.


whidbey island’s community calendarFree home-gardening ad-vice, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Satur-days at the Coupeville Farm-ers Market, Alexander and 8th streets (behind the library). Of-fered by Island County Master Gardeners. 360-678-2949.

Lit for Fun, 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, Freeland Library, 5495 Harbor Ave., Freeland. Join a discussion of Temple Grandin’s “Emergence.” Free. 360-331-7323; sno-isle.org.

Visit from the Fire Depart-ment, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, Oak Harbor Library, 1000 SE Regatta Dr. Oak Har-

bor Fire Department will share safety information and invite children aboard a fire truck. Free. 360-675-5115.

After the Festival Show, 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, Pacific NorthWest Art School, 15 N Birch St., Coupeville. Share an evening of art, re-freshments and mingling with local artists. Free. 360-678-3396; 1-866-678-3396; paci-ficnorthwestartschool.org.

Summer Art Studio Tour, all day Friday-Sunday, Aug. 24-26 at 18 studios around Whid-bey Island. View demonstra-

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Island Shakespeare Fes-tival: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday, Aug. 24-26, Story-house Stage, 6449 Old Pietila Road, Clinton. Free, dona-tions accepted. 360-221-1710; islandshakespearefest.org.

2012 Whidbey Island Dream Kitchen Tour, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25. Self-di-rected tour of six unique kitch-ens in private homes around Whidbey Island, sponsored by American Association of Uni-versity Women. Tickets: $15 at Angelo’s Caffe, Oak Harbor; Lind’s Pharmacy, Coupeville; Sound Business Center, Free-land; Star Store, Langley. 360-678-9224 or 360-675-4990; aauw-whidbeyisland.org.

Bluegrass Concert, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, Meerkerk Rhododendron Gar-dens, 3531 Meerkerk Lane, Greenbank. Local bluegrass musicians. Tickets: $10; chil-dren 15 and under free. 360-678-1912 or 360-222-0121; meerkerkgardens.org.

Rock the Rock 2012, 3 p.m.-dark Saturday, Aug. 25, Blue Fox Drive-In Theater, 1403 Monroe Landing Road, Oak Harbor. Bands play until the first movie begins. Free, but donations will benefit the Blue Fox’s conversion to digital. bluefoxdrivein.com.

Wag ’n’ Walk, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, Green-bank Farm. “Dogs in Space” themed fundraiser for Whid-bey Animals Improvement Foundation. Dog games and contests, prizes for best space costume; K-9 and other dog demonstrations. waifanimals.org/wagnwalk-2012.

Sunday Market, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, Green-bank Farm, 765 Wonn Rd., Greenbank. Free. Kettle corn, beef jerky, perennials, art, jew-elry, woodworking and more. [email protected].

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Volunteer Rich Anderson, left, hands collapsed timbers to fellow volunteers Dennis Bull-ock, Brandon Roos, John Roomes and Dale Riddell during the recent Preservation Field School organized by Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve. The four-week field school provides technical support to the owners of historic buildings in the Reserve and gives community members a hand-on opportunity to help preserve nationally significant buildings for future generations. This year’s project was the emergency stabilization of the Carriage House on the Pearson-Engle Farm. The program is a partnership between the Trust Board of Ebey’s Reserve, the National Park Service and Coupeville Lions Club and is in its fifth year.

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Gloria Ferry-Brennan Per-forms, noon-2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26 at the South Whidbey Tilth Farmers Market. Free. Market is open from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 2812 Thompson Road. 360-341-4456; [email protected].

Freeland Chamber of Com-merce Golf Tournament, 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, Useless Bay Golf and Country Club, 5725 S. Country Club Dr., Langley. $125 includes green fees, lunch and dinner;Wine and cheese tasting at 4 p.m., $20; Dinner and auction 5:30 p.m., $35 per person. 360-331-1980; [email protected].

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Sunday Live Music Series, 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, Taste for Wine tasting room and art gallery, 5603 Bayview Road, Langley. Music by Muse & Eye. Free. 360-321-0515; tasteforwinewhidbey.com.

Job Club, 10-11:30 a.m. Mon-day, Aug. 27, Oak Harbor Li-brary, 1000 SE Regatta Dr. Topic: Negotiating job offers. 360-675-5115; sno-isle.org.

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Summer Street Dance, 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.29, Bayview Cash Store, 5603 Bayview Rd. Langley. West-ern Heroes plays for free, family-friendly street dance. 360-321-4145.

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Arnold has been senior pastor at Living Hope since 1997. On Friday morning, he was trimming grass when he tumbled about 25 feet from the top of a bluff. He lay there for nearly three hours before a woman walking on the beach discovered him.

He was eventually trans-ported by ambulance to Greenbank Farm, then air-lifted to Harborview.

Only family members are allowed in to visit Arnold while he recovers in inten-sive care, Viers said, adding that people should hold off on sending cards and flow-ers as well.

“As soon as he can, we’ll get that information out there,” she said.

Viers also asked that people refrain from specu-lating about Arnold’s injury and his prospects for recov-ery. Spreading stories and information that may or may not be true is stressful for his family, she said.

The family asks that people continue to pray for Arnold’s recovery, she said.

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Garrett Arnold, right, shown here with his wife Sylvia, was in-jured last Friday when he fell from a bluff in Ledgewood. Arnold, the pastor at Living Hope Foursquare Church in Coupeville, sus-tained serious back injuries and remains at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

preciate all of Coupeville, and all the love and support they’re sending.”

Living Hope will host special worship servic-es from 7 to 8 p.m. each Wednesday through Sep-tember.

An account has been set up at Peoples Bank, where Sylvia works, so people donate to help offset the significant medical ex-penses the family will face. Checks can be taken to any

Peoples Bank branch or to the church office at 105 N.W. Broadway.

In the meantime, church staff is pulling together to ensure services and pro-grams continue. Services on Saturday were led by Ron Eerkes, associate pas-tor of Oak Harbor’s Grace Community Church. He is scheduled to preach again this Sunday.

Reporter Nathan Whalen contributed to this story.

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All-Island Community Band Concert, 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, Windjammer Park, Oak Harbor. Free. 360-675-1330.

Labor Day Nursery Sale, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday-Monday, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, Meerkerk Gardens, 3531 Meerkerk Lane, Greenbank. Free ad-mission on sales days. Inven-tory reduction sale - up to 50 percent off potted plants as well as most in-ground stock. 360-678-1912; [email protected].

Woodpalooza Reception, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31. Free. Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Lan-gley. 360-678-1347.

Oak Harbor Music and Jazz Festival, 6-11 p.m. Fri-day, Aug. 31; 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, historic downtown Oak Harbor. Free. Donations accepted to benefit the Blue Fox Drive In’s con-version to digital format. 850-485-4256; [email protected].

Woodpalooza & WICA Ex-hibition, noon-5 p.m., Satur-day, Sept. 1-Monday, Sept. 3. Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. Free. Annual show of Whidbey’s finest wood-work. 360-678-1347; garyand [email protected].

South Whidbey DUI/Under-age Drinking Prevention Panel, 12:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, Trinity Church’s Grig-ware Hall, Freeland. Spon-sored by Impaired Driving Im-pact Panel of Island County. Required by local driving instructors. Free. 360-672-8219; idipic.org.

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PBY Open House, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, Avia-tion History Center, Building 12, Seaplane Base, Oak Harbor. Free tours offered of WWII PBY patrol aircraft. 360-240-9500.

Heritage Tour, 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 3, Sunnyside Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Coupeville. Historian and pioneer descendant Roger Sherman leads. Tickets $5 at Island County Historical Museum, 908 NW Alexan-der St., Coupeville. 360-678-3310; islandcountymuseum.com.

Wednesday Nights with the Stars, 5:30 p.m. Wednes-day, Sept. 5, Coupeville Library, 788 NW Alexander St., Coupeville. Adults and teens can watch “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” rated PG-13. Free. 360-678-4911; sno-isle.org.

Hunter Education Class, 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5 to Friday, Sept. 7; 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Sept. 8. Register at 360-914-0354 or 360-969-2440. Must regis-ter with state as well at wdfw.wa.gov/hunting. cwsaonline.org.

Greenbank Garden Club, 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, Greenbank Progressive Clubhouse, Bakken and Firehouse roads, Green-bank. Program: Your Sea-son Floral Ideas by guest speaker Eileen Oldham. Free. 360-579-5880.

Friends of the Coupeville Library Potluck and Busi-ness Meeting, 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, Coupe-ville Library 788 N.W. Alex-ander St., Coupeville. Free. Bring a dish to share and a friend. 360-678-4911; sno-isle.org.

Shifty Sailors in Concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, Coupeville High School Pe-forming Arts Center. Guest appearance by world-re-nowned sea shanty singer Tom Lewis. Tickets are $10; children admitted free. Call 360-678-5019.

Great Oak Harbor Give-away, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Satur-day, Sept. 8, VFW Post Hall, 3037 Goldie Road, Oak Har-bor. All are welcome to take what they need, whether they have something to trade or not. Clothes and house-hold items in clean, useable condition. 360-675-2338.

Town of Coupeville’s An-nual Salmon BBQ, Noon-1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, Coupeville Town Park. Lions will cook and serve an Alder-barbecued salmon dinner, including corn, coleslaw, potato salad and dessert. Tickets: $20. 360-678-4105 to reserve will-call tickets. 360-678-6480.

Concert on the Cove, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, Coupeville Town Park. Dillinger’s Clam-bake performs. Free. con-certsonthe cove.org.

Coupeville Booster Club Golf Tourney, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9. $70 in-cludes greens fees, cart and burger buffet. Cost goes to $80 after Aug. 25. Visit coupevilleboosterclub.com.

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Garage/Moving SalesIsland County

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LEGAL NOTICES

ISLAND TRANSIT BOARD MEETING

The next regu lar ly s c h e d u l e d m o n t h l y business meeting of t h e I s l a n d Tr a n s i t Board of Directors will be on Friday, August 24, 2012, at 9:30 AM, at the Island County Law & Justice Building, 101 NE 6 th St ree t , Room 131, Coupeville, WA. Accommodations will be made available upon advance request for communications assistance. The meeting room is accessible and is open to the public. For more information, please call (360) 678- 7771.

LEGAL NO. 408665Published: The Whidbey ExaminerAugust 16, 23, 2012

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE

STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ISLAND

TRANSNATION TITLE INSURANCE COMPA- NY, a division of Land America, a corporation doing business in the State of Washington,Plaintiff,vs.CHARLES D. CAR- MANDefendant.C A U S E N O . 05-2-00519-4SHERIFF’S PUBLIC NOTICE OFS A L E O F R E A L PROPERTY TO: CHARLES D. CARMAN, Defendant and judgment debtor and any other persons or par t ies unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the personal and/or real property described herein: The Superior Court of Island County has directed the undersigned Sheriff of Island County ( through his designee) to sell the property described below to satisfy a judgment in the above enti- tled action:S I T U AT E I N T H E COUNTY OF ISLAND, STATE OF WASHING- T O N : T R A C T 7 3 , P L AT O F S U N N Y- SHORE ACRES, CA- M A N O I S L A N D , WA S H I N G TO N , A S PER PLAT RECORD- ED IN VOLUME 3 OF P L AT S , PA G E 2 0 , R E C O R D S O F I S - L A N D C O U N T Y, WASHINGTON. TAX PA R C E L N U M B E R : S8240-00-00073-0K E Y N U M B E R : 401586 T h e s a l e o f t h e above-described property is to take place:TIME:10:00 a.m.DATE:Fr i d ay, S e p t e m b e r 7,2012PLACE:FRONT STEPS IS - LAND COUNTY LAW AND JUSTICE CEN- T E R 1 0 1 N E 6 T H S T R E E T, C O U P E - VILLE, WASHINGTON The judgment debtor can avoid the sale by paying the judgment a m o u n t o f $299,220.80, together

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with interest , costs, and fees before the sale date. For the exact amount, contact the Sheriff through his designee at the address stated below. Dated this 19th day of July, 2012. MARK C. BROWN, SHERIFFISLAND COUNTY/s/ Wylie FarrWylie Farr, Chief Civil DeputyICSO/Law & Just ice Center101 NE 6th StreetPO Box 5000Coupeville, Washing- ton 98239-5000360-678-4422

LEGAL NO. 408828Published: The Whidbey ExaminerAugust 2, 9, 16, 23, 2012

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE

I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Bishop, White, Marsha l l & We ibe l , P.S. will on August 31, 2012 at 10:00 am at the main entrance to City Hall, 865 SE Bar- r ington Drive, in the City of Oak Harbor located at Island County, State of Washington, sell at public auction to the h ighes t b idder, payable, in the form of c a s h , o r c a s h i e r ’s c h e c k o r c e r t i f i e d checks from federally o r S ta te cha r t e red banks, at the time of sale, the following described real property, s i t u a t e d i n I s l a n d County, State of Wash- ington, to-wit; Lot 70, Block 14, Plat of Scatchet Head Addi- tion, Division No.3, as per plat recorded in Vo lume 8 o f P la ts , Pages 50, 51 and 52, r e c o r d s o f I s l a n d County, Washington. Situate in the County o f I s l and , S ta te o f Washington. which is subject to that cer tain Deed of Trust dated September 21 , 2007, recorded September 26, 2007, under Audi tor ’s Fi le No. 4212862 records o f I s l a n d C o u n t y , Washington, from Law- rence M McCauley and El izabeth McCauley, Husband and Wife, as Grantor, to Fidelity Na- tional Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of Mor tgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. is a sep- arate corporation that is acting solely as a nominee for Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB, a Federal Savings Bank and its successors and assigns as beneficiary. Sa id Deed o f Trus t was assigned on Au- gust 4, 2011 to Aurora Banks FSB by an instrument recorded under Auditor’s File No. 4311673, on March 15,2012. The sale will be made without any warranty concerning the title to, or the condition ofthe property.

II N o a c t i o n c o m - menced by the Benefi-

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ciary of the Deed of- Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction ofthe obligation in any Court by reason ofthe Gran- tor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust.

III The defaul t (s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: i) Failure to pay the fo l l ow in g a mo un t s , now in arrears: Delinquent Monthly Payments Due from 7/1/2010through 5/1/2012: 15 payment (s ) a t $5683.35 8 p a y m e n t ( s ) a t $5560.85

Total:$129,737.05 Late Charges: 11 late charge(s) at $250.52for each monthly payment not made within 15 days of its due date

Total Late Charges$2755.72 Accrued Late Charg- es:$250.52 Corporate Advance$365.00 Lender’s Other Fees$20.00 Subtotal$133,128,29 Less Suspense Bal- ance($114.00) TOTAL DEFAULT$133,014.29

IV The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: $650,000.00, together with interest from June 1, 2010 as provided in the note or other in- s t rument , and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute.

V The above described real proper ty wil l be sold to satisfy the ex- pense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on August 31, 2012. The payments, la te charges, or other defaults must be cured by August 20, 2012 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a dis- con t i nuance o f t he sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time on or before August 20, 2012 (11 days before the sale date) the default(s) as set forth in paragraph I I I , together with any subse- quent payments, late charges, or other defaults, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Pay- ment must be in cash or with cashier’s or cer- t i f ied checks from a State or federally char- tered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after August 20, 2012 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the hold-

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er of any recorded jun- i o r l i e n o r e n c u m - brance paying the entire principal and inter- es t secured by the Deed of Trust , p lus costs, fees, and ad- vances, if any, made pursuant to the terms ofthe obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and cur- ing all other defaults.

VI A written notice of default was transmitted by the beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrow- er and Grantor at the following addressees):Lawrence M. McCau- ley3676 Driftwood DrClinton, WA 98236Elizabeth McCauley3676 Driftwood DrClinton, WA 98236Lawrence M. McCau- leyPO Box 799Clinton, WA 98236Elizabeth McCauleyPO Box 799Clinton, WA 98236by both first class and certified mail on April 27 , 2012 , p roo f o f which is in the posses- s ion of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personal- ly served on April 30, 2012, with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted in a con- spicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or post- ing.

VII The Trustee whose name and address are set forth 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-described property.

IX Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds what- soever will be afforded an oppor tunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to br ing such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds fo r i nva l ida t ing the Trustee’s sale.

XNOTICE TO

OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS

The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is enti- tled to possession of the proper ty on the 20th day following the sale, as against the G r a n t o r u n d e r t h e deed oftrust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the pur-

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LEGAL NOTICECALL FOR BIDSISLAND COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

Sealed bids will be received by the Island County Auditor in the Cour thouse Adminis- tration Building, attention Michele Tefft, at 1 N.E. Seventh Street, ( P. O . B o x 5 0 0 0 ) , Coupeville, Washing- ton 98239, until 12:30 P.M., September 13, 2012 for the following:

2012 UPS INSTALLATION &

LEFT-TURN PHASING

MODIFICATIONSWHIDBEY &

CAMANO ISLANDSCRP 11-01/JO #00972-0003

Federal Aid Project No. HSIP-000S(279)

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chaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. If the Trustee’s Sale is set aside for any reason, the submitted bid will be for thwith returned without interest and the b idder wi l l have no right to purchase the property. Recovery of the bid amount without interest constitutes the limit of the bidder’s re- cou rse aga ins t t he Tr us tee and /o r t he Beneficiary.

XI N OT I C E TO A L L PERSONS AND PAR- T I E S W H O A R E G UA R A N TO R S O F THE OBLIGATIONS SECURED BY THIS DEED OF TRUST: (1) The Guarantor may be liable for a deficiency judgment to the extent the sale price obtained at the Trustee’s Sale is less than the debt secured by the Deed of Trust; (2) The Guaran- tor has the same rights to reinstate the debt, cure the default, or re- pay the debt as is given to the grantor in order to avoid the trus- t ee ’s sa le ; (3 ) The Guarantor will have no r ight to redeem the property after the Trus- tee’s Sale; (4) Subject to such longer periods as are provided in the Washington Deed of Tr us t Ac t , Chap te r 61.24 RCW, any action brought to enforce a guaranty must be com- menced w i th in one year after the Trustee’s Sale, or the last Trus- tee’s Sale under any deed oftrust granted to secure the same debt; and (5) In any action for a deficiency, the Guarantor will have the right to establish the fair value of the property as of the date of the Trustee’s Sale, less prior liens and encumbrances, and to limit its liability for a deficiency to the difference between the debt and the greater of such fair value or the sale pr ice paid at the Trustee’s Sale, plus interest and costs. EFFECTIVE DATE: May 31, 2012B I S H O P, W H I T E , MARSHALL & WEI- BEL, P.S.,Successor Trustee/s/ William L. Bishop, Jr.William L. Bishop, Jr.720 Olive Way, Suite 1201Seattle, WA 98101(206)622-7527

State of Washingtonss.County of KingOn th is 30th day of May 2012, before me, the undersigned, a No- tary Public in and for the State of Washing- t o n , d u l y c o m m i s - sioned and sworn, per- sonally appeared Wil- liam L. Bishop, Jr., to me known to be an Of- ficer of Bishop, White, Marsha l l & We ibe l , P.S., the corporation that executed the fore- going instrument and acknowledged the said instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said cor-

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poration, for the uses and purposes therein men t i oned , and on oath states that they are authorized to exe- cute the said instrument . WITNESS my hand and official seal hereto affixed the day and year f irst above written./s/ Mia E. RogersMia E. RogersNOTARY PUBLIC in and for the State of Washington at K ing CountyMy Appt. Exp: 2/29/16

LEGAL NO. 409488Published:The Whidbey ExaminerAugust 2, 23, 2012.

LEGAL NOTICE

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

In the matter of pro- p o s e d va c a t i o n o f County road r ight of way des igna ted as Jodhpurs Drive located in the W 1/2 of the NE 1 / 4 o f S e c t i o n 3 1 , Township 32 Nor th , Range 1 East, W.M., Island County Wash- ington.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, by the Board o f County Commis- s i o n e r s o f I s l a n d County, Washington that they have set Sep- tember 10th, 2012 at the hour of 10:20 a.m. at their usual meeting p lace in the Cour t - h o u s e A n n e x , i n Coupeville, as the time and place for a public hearing in the matter of petitioned vacation of county road.

All interested persons may appear at sa id hearing in person, or by their duly appointed representative, and be heard for or against the petition of vacation of County road r ight of way.

Dated this 6th Day of August, 2012.

BOARD OF COUNTY C O M M I S S I O N E R S Island County, Wash- ington

Persons requiring aux- i l i a r y a ids /se r v i ces s h o u l d c a l l I s l a n d County Human Re- sources, 679-7372, 629-4522 ext. 7372, or 321-5111 ext . 7372 (Use whichever number is applicable for the area) at least 24 h o u r s p r i o r t o t h e meeting.

LEGAL NO. 412752Published: TheWhidbey ExaminerAugust 23, 30, 2012

University of WashingtonRequest for ProposalsJob Order

Contracting Services

LEGAL NOTICES

2012

T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f Washington (Univer- sity) is requesting Pro- posals from contrac- tors interested in providing Job Order Con- tracting (JOC) services to the University at its campuses in Seattle, Tacoma, Bothell, and other facilities throughout the state that are owned and/or operated by the University. In addition, work at facil- i t ies that are owner and /or opera ted by Cent ra l Washington University and Western Washington University may be authorized under this contract. The se lec ted Job Order Contractor shall provide indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity construction services for m inor cons t ruc t ion , renovation, repair and alteration projects for classroom, research, laboratory, medical , administrative, sports and other facilities at fixed unit prices.

Obtaining the RFP: A copy of the RFP with additional information about Job Order Con- tracting and the selec- t ion process may be obtained at the following website address: h t t p : / / f 2 . w a s h i n g - t o n . e d u / c p o / b u s i - ness/constr-opp. And addenda issued for the RFP will be published at the same website address.

Submittal Deadline: 3:00 p.m. on Septem- ber 4, 2012.

Judy GinigerContracts Manager

LEGAL NO. 415577Published: TheWhidbey ExaminerAugust 23, 2012

DETERMINATION OF NON-SIGNIFICANCEAND ADOPTION OF

EXISTING ENVIRONMENTAL

DOCUMENTS(Phased Review)

Description of current proposal:

Comprehensive update of the Island County Shoreline Master Pro- gram.

Proponent:

Island County Planning and Community Devel- opment.

Location of current proposal:

This is a non-project action which applies to t he un inco r po ra ted p o r t i o n s o f I s l a n d County that are within shoreline jurisdiction (subject to the SMA)

Title and date of documents being adopted or referenced:

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1. F inal Envi ronmen- tal Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Island County GMA Compre- hensive Plan, Septem- ber 1998.

Description of documents (or por t ion) being adopted or referenced:

1. The FEIS for the Is- l a n d C o u n t y G M A Comprehensive Plan evaluated signif icant adverse environmental impacts and alterna- t ives re la ted to the adoption of a revised Comprehensive Plan and implementing De- ve l opmen t Regu la - tions.

If the document being adopted has been c h a l l e n g e d ( WAC 197-11-630), please describe:

There are no outstand- ing challenges to these documents. T h e d o c u m e n t i s available to be read at (place/time):

Island County Depart- ment of Planning and Community Develop- ment, Island County Cour thouse, 6th and Main Streets, Coupe- ville, WA 98239

The lead agency for this proposal has de- t e r m i n e d t h a t t h i s amendment does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. An environmental impact statement (EIS) is not required under RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c). This decision was made after review of a com- pleted environmental checklist and other information on file with the lead agency. This information is available to the publ ic on request.

This DNS is issued un- d e r W A C 1 9 7 - 1 1 - 3 4 0 ( 2 ) a n d WA C 1 9 7 - 1 1 - 3 5 0 . Comments must be submitted by Septem- ber 6, 2012. Pursu- a n t t o I C C 16.19.190.B.2 a SEPA threshold determination issued for a Type IV legis lat ive act ion that is initiated pursuant to Chapter 36.70A RCW may be appealed to the Hearing Examin- er within 14 days following completion of the publ ic comment pe r iod . An appea l shall be accompanied by written statement of a p p e a l a n d t h e $1,802.50 fee. Ap- peals may be filed by a County Department or any aggrieved person. A more comprehensive statement of appeal setting forth in detail al- leged errors and/or the basis for appeal must be submitted by the appeal ing person or Department within 30 days following completion of the public comment period, or the appeal is not proper ly filed and will be dis- missed by the Hearing Examiner.

LEGAL NOTICES

We have identified and adopted these documents as being appro- priate for this proposal after independent review. The document meets our environmental review needs for the current proposal and w i l l accompany the proposal to the decision maker.

N a m e o f a g e n c y adopting document: Island County Planning and Community Devel- opment

Contact person, i f other than responsible official: Karen Stewart, AICP, Shore- l i n e C o o r d i n a t o r , (360) 678-2348

Responsible official: Rober t H. Pederson, Director of Planning and Community Devel- opment

Phone: 360-679-7344

Address:P.O. Box 5000, Coupe- ville, WA 98239

Date: August 21, 2012


ISLAND COUNTY PLANNING

COMMISSIONCOMMISSIONERS’ HEARING ROOM, COUPEVILLE, WA.9:00 A.M. Thursday September 6 2012

SPECIAL SESSION AGENDA

Roll Call; Approval of Minutes; Items from the Public; Planning Director’s Report

Old Business - Public Hearing and delibera- t i o n s o n u p d a t e d Shoreline Master Pro- gram

The Planning Commis- sion will conduct formal review of the revised Draft Shoreline Master Program (SMP) and prepare a recommen- dat ion to the Is land C o u n t y B o a r d o f County Commissioners for their adoption pending Washington State Department of Ecology approval. Components o f the SMP inc lude Goals and Pol ic ies, Shoreline Environment D e s i g n a t i o n s , a n d shoreline regulations and permit procedures promulgated in ICC Chapter 17.05A. A Draft Shoreline Resto- ration Plan will also be presented for Planning Commission review.

The documents under consideration by the Planning Commission will be available on the w e b s i t e a t http://www.islandcounty.net /p lanning. The publ i c i s inv i ted to comment on the public hearing or by submit-

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ting comments in writing to Planning & Com- munity Development at POB 5000, Coupeville, WA 98239 by August 30, 2012.

If necessary at the end of the meeting on September 6th, the Planning Com- mission will continue the proceeding to Tuesday September 11, 2012 beginning at 9:00 a.m. at this same location to complete this item.


LEGAL NOTICE

N O T I C E O F R E - COUNT AND MEET- I N G O F I S L A N D COUNTY CANVASS- ING BOARD

The Island County Au- ditor will begin a recount for the Republi- c a n P r e c i n c t Committee Officer race for precinct 204 on Au- gust 27, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. The public is welcome to attend. The Canvass Board w i l l meet at 10:00 a.m. on August 28, 2012 to certify the results. This i s a n o p e n , p u b l i c meeting. The recount a n d t h e C a n v a s s Board meeting will be held at 400 N. Main Street, Coupeville, WA.

Dated this 21 day of August, 2012

Sheilah CriderIsland County Auditor and Ex-Officio Super- visor of Elections


Project Description:

This project will install uninterruptable power s u p p l y s y s t e m s a t three signalized inter- sections; two on Whid- bey Island and one on Camano Is land and modify the left turn traf- f ic signal phasing at one in tersect ion on Whidbey Island as part of the County Road Safety Improvements Program.

ENGINEER’S ESTI- MATE $40,000 - $50,000

FEDERAL AID PRO- JECTIsland County, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regu- lations, Department of Transportation subtitle A, Office of the Secre- tary, Part 21, nondis- crimination in federally assisted programs of t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f Transportation issued pursuant to the such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affir- matively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disad- vantaged business en- terprises, as defined at 49 CFR Part 26, will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invita- tion and will not be dis- criminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin or sex in consideration for an award.

Bids received after the date and hour stated above will not receive consideration.

Proposals will then be publicly opened and read a loud in Meeting Room 116, County Administra- tion Building, 1 NE 7th Street , Coupe- ville, Washington, at 1:00 P.M., September 13, 2012. Bids shall be submitted on the forms attached with the bid documents. All en- velopes shall be clearly marked “BID PROPO- SAL - 2012 UPS IN- STALLATION & LEFT- T U R N P H A S I N G M O D I F I C AT I O N S , WHIDBEY & CAMANO ISLANDS, FEDERAL A I D N O HSIP-000S(279).” No o r a l , t e l e p h o n e o r faxed bids or modifica- t ions wil l be considered.

Plans and specif ica- tions may be obtained from the Island County Engineer in the Court- house Annex, 1 N.E. 6 th St reet , PO Box 5000), Coupeville, WA, 9 8 2 3 9 , t e l e p h o n e (360) 679-7331, upon payment of a nonre- fundable fee of $25.00 per set.

Informational copies of m a p s , p l a n s , a n d specifications are on file for inspection only at the following locations:

Is land County Engi- neer Is land County Camano Annex1 N.E. Sixth St. 121 N. East Camano DriveC o u p e v i l l e W A 98239 Ca ma n o I s - land WA 98282

WCR Plan Center Builders Exchange of Washington 2215 Mid- way Ln Suite 208 2 6 0 7 W e t m o r e Avenue

B e l l i n g h a m WA 98226-1219 E v e r e t t WA 98201

Daily Journal of Com- merce V a l l e y P l a n Center83 Columbia St. 10002 Aurora Avenue N #36 PMB 3334Seattle WA 982014 Seattle WA 98133 All proposals shall be accompanied by a bid proposa l depos i t in cash, certified check, cashier’s check, or bid bond in an amount equal to 5 percent of the amount of such bid proposal. Should the successful bidder fail to enter into such contract and furnish satis- factory performance bond within the time stated in the specifications, the bid proposal deposit shall be forfeit- ed to Island County. Island County reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive all informalities in the bidding.

LEGAL NO. 416226Published: TheWhidbey ExaminerAugust 23, 30, 2012

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A group of Whidbey Island residents concerned with preserving the public’s access to Island County’s publicly owned-shore-lines held a picnic on Sunday, Aug. 19 at the end of Marissa Lane in Langley. The road end is a public beach-access point that is owned by taxpayers. The picnic was a way for the group, Island Citizens For Public Beach Access, to raise awareness among local residents about long-standing encroachments upon public rights-of-way by neighboring property owners and to alert government officials that beach access is something that people care about. Member Elliot Menashe said some 70 to 80 people dropped by – either on foot or by kayak – throughout the day.

Making a stand for public accessMeerkerk hosts bluegrass concert

The fifth annual Blue-grass in the Garden, set for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25 at Meerkerk Rho-dodendron Gardens just off Resort Road south of Greenbank,

The day begins with an “open mic” from 11 to 11:50 a.m., followed by perfor-mances by Bayview Sound, Pearly Blue, Deadwood Revival and Money Creek Mining Co.

Admission is $10. Chil-dren age 15 and under are admitted at no charge. Dogs on leash welcome. Food and soft drinks will be available for purchase.

Call 360-678-1912 or 360-222-0121 or visit meerkerk-gardens.org.

Woodpalooza returns to Whidbey

Whidbey Island Wood-workers Guild will pres-ent the ninth annual “Art + Wood = Woodpalooza @ WICA,” which will be held Sept. 1 through 3 at Whid-bey Island Center for the Arts in Langley.

The free exhibition will be open from noon to 5 p.m.

each day. An opening recep-tion is set for 6 to 9 p.m. Fri-day, Aug. 31.

The work of more than 20 of Whidbey’s best wood-workers will be on display.

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts is at 565 Cama-no Ave., Langley.

Call 360-678-1347, e-mail [email protected] or go to woodpaloo-za.com for information.

Shifty Sailors sing shanties

World-renowned Sea Shanty singer Tom Lewis will be performing with the Shifty Sailors at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 in the Coupe-ville High School Perform-ing Arts Center.

Lewis is a composer with an expansive knowledge of seafaring songs and lore.

Tickets for the perfor-mance are available at Bayleaf and Wind and Tide Bookshop in Oak Harbor and at Bayleaf and Local Grown in Coupeville.

Tickets are $10 each and children will be admitted free of charge.

Tickets also will be avail-able at the door.

Call Vern Olsen at 360-678-5019 for informat

The Island Shake-speare Festival production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” continues every

Friday through Sunday through Sunday, Aug. 26 at the Storyhouse Stage at 6449 Old Pietila Road in Clinton.

Performances are at 5 p.m. sharp Fridays, Satur-days and Sundays.

Admission is free, but donations are accepted. Ar-rive early to assure the best

seating. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and a picnic din-ner.

For information, visit islandshakespearefest.org or call 360-221-1710.

Shakespeare fest ends Aug. 26

whidbey examiner, august 23, 2012

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