Islands' Weekly, May 28, 2013

By County Auditor F. Milene Henley The first quarter of 2013 was a dis-

appointment, at least on the revenue side. In particular, sales tax revenue to San Juan County did not meet expecta-tions. Whether the county can meet revenue projections for the year will depend on activity picking up in this and other key sectors in the following quarters.

First quarter sales tax collections in 2013 lagged first quarter collec-tions in each of the previous five years except 2011, and for no obvious rea-son. Having a fairly mild weather this winter, we can’t blame the weather for lack of sales. Retail trade state-wide was up in the first quarter compared to 2012.

Real estate sales were mixed. On San Juan, both dollar volume and number of transactions were significantly down (22 percent and 18 percent, respec-tively), compared to first quarter last

year. Orcas picked up the slack, with a 73 percent increase in dollar volume and a 36 percent increase in number of transactions. Transactions on other islands were flat. County-wide, there was a 9 percent increase in dollar vol-ume over first quarter 2012.

Income to the county from real estate sales comes in the form of real estate excise tax: 0.5 percent of sale price for capital improvement funds, and 1 percent for Land Bank funds. With increased sales county-wide, excise tax collections in the first quar-ter have been strong, and increasing each month. Another favorable rev-enue area is permitting and planning, which holds the promise of future building and associated sales tax reve-nue. First quarter 2013 revenue in this area almost matched the first quarter of 2012, which ended as our strongest year since 2008.

Total Current Expense (general

fund) collections for the first quarter just met budget projections, despite low sales tax collections. Part of this achievement is because of unusu-ally high intergovernmental funding in Health and Community Services. Unfortunately, the high level of this income was a timing issue and does not reflect any real increase. So while it made the first quarter look good, it is no substitute for lost sales tax revenue.

But what really bothers me about this shortfall in sales tax revenue to the county, is that it implies also a shortfall in sales for our local business-es. Just when we thought we were coming out of this economic malaise, we seem to have taken another step backwards. I’m hopeful that the set-back is temporary, and that sales tax – and sales – will recover over the rest of the year. For myself, I’m going to do my part by making sure I buy locally and support my local businesses.

By Steve WehrlyJournal reporter

The only candidate who owns property in San Juan County (a vacation house on Decatur Island) and the only finalist who lives in the state of Washington was unani-mously selected last Tuesday,

by the county council to be the new county manager.

Mike Thomas will start work on June 24. He has accepted an offer of $120,000 a year, plus benefits. Interim County Manager Bob Jean said the he will be avail-able to help Thomas with the transition, but expects to be relieved of his duties by June 28.

Thomas has been city administrator of the city of Enumclaw, population 10,669, since 2010. Before that, he was director of the city’s Department of Community and Economic Development for five years.

From 1998 to 2005, he was a senior policy analyst in the King County Executive’s office.

Thomas graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in geography, and then earned a Masters degree in public administration from Seattle University. He is married and has two children.

The county manager will replace the previous position of county administrator, a position originally created by the county charter, then elim-inated in one of three amend-ments endorsed by the Charter Review Commission and approved by voters in November 2012.

That vote also reduced

the county council from six part-time legislators to three full-time elected positions vested with both legislative and executive duties.

Members of the new three-person county council, com-prised of Rick Hughes from Orcas Island, Jamie Stephens from Lopez and Bob Jarman from San Juan, were sworn in on May 17. They were elected by voters in April.

The duties of the county manager included assist-ing the three-person county council in overseeing the functions of local govern-ment and departments not managed by another elected county official, such as the sheriff, auditor or prosecut-ing attorney.

Thomas was also report-

edly the top candidate of the citizens’ committee and of the county employees’ committee that for several hours last week interviewed the five finalists seeking the job. Although the two review committees did not rank the candidates, Jean said that the citizens and the county employees both gave Thomas their unqualified support.

Jean called the new man-ager “a great fit,” saying that Thomas impressed the coun-cil and others with his “lis-tening ability and approach-ability.

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Quarterly review of county finances

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weds, may 29event: Senior Project Presentations, 6:30 p.m., Lopez School Multi Purpose Room.

thurs, may 30food: Evening Meal at School, presented by the

Lopez Locavores, 5:30 - 7 p.m., Lopez School Multi-Purpose Room. A delicious offering of spring dishes created from Lopez-grown produce and products. Last meal until Sept. Admission by donation.

sat, june 1event: Children’s Center Carnival and Yard Sale, Carnival from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. and sale 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Lopez Children’s Center.

market: Farmers’ Market, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Next to the Community Center on Village Road North, Lopez Village.

event: Contra/Square Dance, 8 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. The amaz-

ing Ruthie Dornfeld from Seattle (fiddle) and Clyde Curley of Bellingham (guitar) will play and Tony Mates of Seattle will call the dances. All ages are welcome. This is the last dance of the season.

outdoors: National Trails Day, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Trail Building at Odlin Park. To volunteer call 468-2474. Tools provided. Information at LopezTrails.org. LCTN will have a booth at the Farmers’ Market.

sun, june 2event: Alie Smaalders and Amalia Driscoll, Writers Read Performance Powerful stories about WW II, 2 p.m., the Gathering Place, the Hamlet.

fri, june 7event: Lopez Artists’ Guild Opening Reception for Pattie Savage, 5 p.m.,The Hamlet in Lopez Village. Don’t miss seeing new works by Lopez artist Pattie Savage, unveiled and on display from June 7- July

3, at The Gathering Place, at The Hamlet in Lopez Village. An opening recep-tion, with refreshments, will be at 5 p.m., Friday, June 7.

event: Lopez Island Blood Drive, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Community Church. Walk-ins donors wel-comed at any time or donors can schedule an appointment with Don Langrock 468-4404, [email protected].

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Round tow for trans-portations

San Juan County has been awarded state funding to continue administering the Transportation Voucher Program through 2015. While the current phase of the program closes this June, it will begin accepting appli-cations for phase two at the end of summer.

Kicking off last August, the Transportation Voucher Program has seen signifi-cant use by its participants over the last nine months;

providing 160 taxi rides, 35-45 ferry fares, and repair-ing and making safer six to eight vehicles per month. The Transportation Voucher Program serves 180 of our most transportation -vulner-able community members, equal to about 1.5 percent of total county population.

The Transportation Voucher Program boosts taxi service and ferry fare access on San Juan, Orcas and Lopez islands, and auto repair and parts services on Orcas and San Juan. Ferry fares are acquired through partnership with the Family Resource Centers.

If you are currently a Transportation Voucher Program participant, make plans to spend your remain-

ing funds prior to June 15. If you have any questions, contact Christopher Aiken at 370-7512, or [email protected].

Mulligan resignsOn Thursday, May 16, the

OPALCO Board of Directors accepted George Mulligan’s resignation from the board with great appreciation and gratitude for his five years of service.

Board president Chris Thomerson said, “George’s ability to assimilate, refine and revealingly summarize complex financial issues provided the Board with a valuable perspective. His dedication and commitment to OPALCO and its member-

ship has served the Co-op well over the last five years. George will be missed for his expertise – and his willing friendship.”

Mulligan’s seat on the OPALCO board represents District 1, which includes San Juan, Brown, Henry, Pearl, and Spieden Islands. OPALCO’s Directors will conduct interviews in search of a replacement to be appointed to the board to finish out Mulligan’s term, which expires in 2014.

Lopez Island Garden Tour coming soon

The The Lopez Garden Club (est. 1943) and Enchanted Quilters are hosting the biennial Lopez Island Garden Tour and quilt display on Thursday, June 13, 2013 from 10-3 p.m.

They are excited to show-case this year five excep-tional gardened landscapes and their brilliant garden-ers, as well as quilts of

the Enchanted Quilters of Lopez at Woodmen Hall.

Tickets/garden guides are available at Paper Scissors on the Rock, Lopez Bookshop, Blossom Grocery, or Southend General Store -- $10 for garden tour members, $15 for non-members (new members always wel-come). Ticket proceeds benefit Garden Club pro-grams, Woodmen Hall, and Lopez High School Senior Scholarships.

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Thanks for Lopez concert

You turned out with enthu-siasm for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival Concert on Lopez once again, and were rewarded with a dazzling performance that took us to astonishing emo-tional heights. Your support as concert goers assures that the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival will continue to bring its amazing interna-

tional artists to our island of appreciative music lovers.

The generous support of Lopez sponsors, anonymous and named, guarantees the presence of musicians from the world’s concert halls here on our stage.

The continued willing hands of dozens of volun-teers makes it happen; these concerts could not take place without people to raise the risers, sell the tickets, prepare the reception, clean the hall, set the stage, help the musicians catch their ferry, and a thousand other small tasks – including this year the launch of music education courses that will get us humming along. And of course, none of this would be possible at all without the island full of volunteers who brought Lopez Center into being for the use of all islanders.

With your support we will

do this once again this year. Be with us on Sunday August 11 at Lopez Center, for the reunion of Jeffrey Kahane, pianist and Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Joseph Swensen, violinist and composer; and Carter Brey, principle cellist of the New York Philharmonic; accom-panied by Aloysia Friedmann on viola with a special offer-ing for her new Lopez fans. Check “All Events” at www.lopezcenter.org for ticketing details.

Please contact me to take part as a volunteer or spon-sor – 468-4442.

See www.oicmf.org for the entire 16th Season of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival!

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Lopez Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings:

Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterWednesdays - 4 p.m. - Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal ChurchFridays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterSaturdays - noon at the Children’s CenterContact phone number 468-2809

Al-Anon:Saturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, Lopez.Contact phone number 468-4703.

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By Julienne BattaliaAs of 2012, Colony Collapse Disorder

world wide has recorded losses of bee colonies from 13 percent to as high as 70 percent. Electromagnetic radiation pollu-tion is becoming the most proven cause of this collapse. Studies show when man-made electromagnetic oscillations (TV antennas, radiowaves, mobile phone base stations) are generated that overlap with the earth’s natural signals the return rate of bees to their hive rapidly decreases.( *Warnke,1989)

Further experiments using the electro-magnetic radiation of cordless phones and with base station fields of cordless phones, also revealed results of significant decline in return rates to the hive. Bees are depen-dent on vertical gravitational vectors, which communicate the direction of food sources to other members of the hive. Man-made

electromagnetic smog interferes with this communication ability, and with the ability of bees to learn the patterns of any new land-scape they fly over. (*KUHN et al. 2001,2002, STEVER et al. 2003, 2005, HARST et al. 2006)

Presently we have the power to turn off our cell phones, and WiFi, unplug our appliances and TV screens, but a WiMax broadband system will spread ultra high frequency modulating radiation on us, the birds, and the honeybees 24 hours a day.

Citizens in the San Juan Islands are becoming leaders in the movement toward local and sustainable food production and consumption. We are be poised to become one of the few remaining places where the honeybee and other species may migrate to because we do not have high levels of electromagnetic pollution. If OPALCO’s hybrid WiFi system is installed, we will join the rest of the world’s citizens who refuse to discern the difference between techno-logical progress, consumer ignorance, and environmental disaster.

In 2011, the European Environmental Agency warned of the possibility of a loom-

ing environmental disaster from the ever increasing density of electro-magnetic fields.

Our community should heed this warn-ing and pressure OPALCO and our county government to join together to make it possible to roll out a fully cabled fiber optic system, giving every household the internet speed they want, and giving us world recognition, joining countries like Switzerland, France, Israel and Russia, as a place that made decisions based on compel-ling scientific evidence for the paramount dangers posed by man-made electromag-netic radiation, including the potential loss of the honeybee and its economic ramifi-cations, over decisions made from short sighted technological convenience.

Julienne Battalia is an East Asian Medical Practioner and 27 year resident of Lopez Island.

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By Shona AitkenWolf Hollow Rehab Center education coordinator

“Poor little thing! He’s all on his own! He must have lost his mommy!”

It is the time of year when people find tiny fawns lying curled up in the grass with no adult deer in sight and presume they are lost or orphaned and need to be res-cued. In fact, they are doing exactly what they should be doing – lying still and quiet, waiting for mom.

Most of the black tailed deer fawns on the islands are born in May, and for the first couple of weeks are not strong enough to follow mom for any distance. Their legs are too weak and wobbly to push through brush, jump over fallen logs or run away from danger, so their mother leaves them in a nice shel-tered spot while she goes off to feed. The fawn’s job is to lie quiet and still and wait for her to return, protected by the camouflage of its spotted coat and the fact that it has almost no scent to attract predators.

After a few hours (up to 6 or 8 hours is not unusual) the doe returns to nurse her fawn, then may move it to another spot nearby before going off to feed again. By the time the fawn is about three weeks old it has grown much stronger and is able to spend more time following its mother.

Each year we raise injured fawns, or orphans whose mothers have been killed by cars or dogs, but, sadly, we also receive fawns that have been “kidnapped” by well-

meaning people. If we know exactly where the fawn was found we can quickly return it, but too often it has been kept overnight, fed inappro-priate food, or passed from one person to another, so we are not able to take it back where it came from.

Ideally, does leave their young fawns in secluded spots in the woods, but occasionally fawns turn up in unusual places such as a construction yard, on a golf course green or on some-one’s back deck, right under the barbecue!

This may be the result of a mother’s misjudgment, but fawns’ strong instincts to drop and freeze at the slightest danger can also get them into trouble. This is most obvious when they are crossing roads. The doe walks across the road with her little fawn tottering along behind. A car comes round the corner, the doe leaps off into the woods and

the fawn instinctively drops flat and lies still. People then presume it is hurt and “res-cue” it. What should you do in this situation? Stop the car a reasonable distance from the fawn. Walk up slowly and quietly and look it over. Are there any signs of injury? If not, slip your hands under the fawn’s chest and belly, handling it as little as pos-sible, and gently carry it a short distance off the road before laying it down in a suitable spot in long grass

or under some bushes. Then leave. Chances are good that the doe will return for her fawn when she is sure the coast is clear.

We raise fawns each year and have suitable formula and enclosures, but it is far better for a fawn to be raised by its mother, so, if you find a little, spotted fawn lying curled up in the grass, please don’t touch it. Leave it there so mom can find it when she returns.

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By Scott RasmussenJournal editor

The San Juan County Sheriff’s Department remains on course to acquire a new and improved emergency response boat, built by federal dollars, despite the fact that several public safety agencies that previously were expected to chip in for its maintenance and operations have abandoned ship.

San Juan Island Fire Department, however, along with Shaw Island fire district, remains onboard. In a 2-0 decision, fire dis-trict commissioners Albert Olson and John Jensen last week gave the department a green light to negotiate a maintenance agreement with the Sheriff’s office. Because of a conflict cre-ated by dual roles as both a county councilman and fire district commissioner, Bob Jarman, heeding advice of the county prosecutor, recused himself from the May 16 vote.

Fire Chief Steve Marler said maintenance of the boat will

likely cost the department no more than $47,000 a year, “at worst case,” adding that a pressing need to replace the fire boat Confidence, now 12 years old, and the greater fire-fighting capacity planned for the new boat, weighed heavily into the decision to team up with the Sheriff’s office.

“It costs us about $30,000 a year to run the Confidence and we’d spend probably another $40,000 a year at this point to replace it,” Marler said. “That adds up to about $70,000 a year assuming we’re putting away money for a replacement.”

In November, the Sheriff’s department was awarded a Federal Port Security Grant of up to $785,000 to pay for construction of an emergency response vessel that could be shared by local fire departments, law enforcement and emer-gency medical services.

That grant required a local match that could be met through maintenance and staff hours by agencies sharing the use of it.

Sheriff Rob Nou had been hopeful that the boat, which would be built entirely by federal dollars, would serve as a replace-ment for the department’s aging 28-foot Boston Whaler, stationed on Orcas, as well as offering increased fire-fighting ability and on-the-water ambulance service for public safety agencies across the county.

In late April, elected officials of Orcas Island Fire Department balked at a $25,000 annual payment, and Lopez Island fire com-missioners followed suit shortly thereafter. More recently, the San Juan Island Hospital Commission withdrew San Juan EMS from the prospective partnership, known as the Marine Operations User’s Group.

An early supporter of the partnership, San Juan EMS Chief Jim Cole said that the agency and the commission are not dead set against joining the partnership, and that the commission would consider a alternative proposal.

“We’re waiting for the sheriff to get back to us if want us to participate at a different level,” he said. “But the level they wanted us to participate at wasn’t going to work for our com-missioners.”

Cole said the agency relies regularly on Vessel Assist for on-the-water emergency transport and that the Sheriff’s boat Guardian, “which we paid quite a bit of money to help outfit in the first place”, is also an option, if need be.

“People shouldn’t worry about us being able to respond as we will continue to do so regardless of the ability of us to participate in the boat project,” he said.

The federal grant stipulates that the boat must be built and in service by the end of August, 2014. Nou said the boat is expected to take about a year to build, depending on specifica-tions. Equipment and configurations for ambulance service are likely be eliminated from the design without a commit-ment from EMS, he said, which may reduce construction costs by about one-third.

Still, Nou said time is growing short to both submit a design and to have a new boat tied up at the dock by a year from now in August.

“We haven’t made any final decision on the vessel, but they’ll need to be made soon,” he said. “We’re abso-lutely committed to a course of action but it may not have all the features that we had originally thought it would. The political nature of this has been much more daunting that I ever thought it would be.”

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The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents “Giulianiad: The Music of Mauro Giuliani,” its final 2013 program featuring works for flute and guitar by Mauro Giuliani on period instru-ments with John Schneiderman (Los Angeles) on the early 19th-century guitar and Jeffrey Cohan on an 8-keyed flute made in London in 1820 Saturday, June 1 at 7 p.m. at Grace Church on Lopez Island. See box below for addi-tional performances around the Puget Sound.

One of the most famous com-posers of music for flute and guitar, Giuliani was a phenomenal guitar virtuoso whose music is very rare-ly heard on the instruments with which he and his friend Beethoven

were familiar. These pieces are con-siderably sweeter, more intimate and expressively nuanced than their mod-ern equivalents. Giuliani composed the “cream” of the flute and guitar duo rep-ertoire from Beethoven’s time, which includes duos, serenades, divertimenti, marches, dances, and arrangements of opera melodies and other popular tunes of his day in variations and potpourris.

“The Giulianiad” was a journal for gui-

tarists published in London a few years after Giuliani’s death.About the performers

A critically acclaimed virtuoso of plucked instruments since age nine, John Schneiderman, shown left, spe-cializes in the performance practice and repertoire of eighteenth-century lutes and nineteenth-century guitars. Based in California, Schneiderman is in demand as a soloist and chamber musician collaborating on recordings and performances throughout North America.

Schneiderman is currently on the faculties of the University of California, Irvine and Irvine Valley College, and has been on the faculties of Orange Coast College, California State University, Long Beach and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

For further information please see www.johnschneiderman.com.

Flutist Jeffrey Cohan has performed as soloist in 25 countries, both as a modern flutist and as one of few who specialists on all transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the present.

He is the only person to win both the Erwin Bodky Competition in Boston and the highest prize awarded in the Flanders Festival International Concours Musica Antiqua in Bruges, Belgium, two of the most prestigious awards in the United States and

Europe for performers of early music.

He is artistic director of the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington, D.C. and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival. For further information see www.jeffreycohan.com.

The Salish Sea Festival brings the music of Mauro Giuliani to the islands

Additional performances for “The Giulianiad”:Orcas Island: Sunday, June 2, at 1:30 p.m. · Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church · 107 Enchanted

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By Kate Yturri, Judy Winer and Gwen Stamm WSU Master Gardeners

Invasive Plant Species/Noxious Weed Alert – please look for Spurge Laurel on your property and in the community. It is a shade tolerant shrub, typically 2 to 4 ft. tall, with shiny smooth evergreen leaves that are lighter in color underneath and are alternately arranged in dense spirals near the ends of the branches. The light greenish yellow flowers are clustered at the base of the leaves and bloom between

March and May. Fruits are little oval black berries with one seed and are poisonous. Spurge Laurel has been spotted on all the main islands as well as many of the smaller ones, in forest understories and at private residences. The black berries and sap are toxic to humans, livestock, dogs and cats. The plant is native to Europe and North Africa and is rapidly naturalizing through-out San Juan County, shading out natives and suppressing forest regeneration. It is considered a serious threat to Garry oak woodlands and dry madrone/Douglas

fir forests in the San Juan Islands and coastal British Columbia. The plant reproduces through seeds, often spread by birds and rodents and through production of root sprouts. Spurge Laurel may be confused with English or Portugal laurel, Pieris, azaleas, or immature rhododendrons but may be dis-tinguished by the densely whorled flowers cluster near the top of the stem.

Hand pulling small plants is effective. Wear gloves and protec-tive gear when handling Spurge Laurel due to the toxins in the sap, stem, leaves and fruits. Larger shrubs can be pulled with a weed wench, treated with a selective her-bicide or cut below the soil line. Herbicide applied to the cut stump prevents re-sprouting. Spurge Laurel is a Class B Noxious Weed and is designated for control in San Juan County.

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Lopez Island graduate Teddy McCullough, shown right, is running for the school board this November.

“A school is more than just a building with walls. It’s about the students, it’s about the community,” said McCullough, “And it seems we’ve forgotten that a lit-tle. We need to get back to basics. I want to work for a budget that is both efficient and effective. I want to work

for policies that develop the whole child and connect the students of the district back to the community and get the community more involved in the goings-on of the schools.”

From a young age, McCullough has history serving the community. From writing legislation and testifying before the state legislature, to serv-ing the country by work-

ing for the White House. McCullough has held vari-ous positions which, he believes, have helped him to learn how to effectively execute crucial roles and be a leader. McCullough said he will bring new eyes and a fresh perspective to the School Board while fight-ing for Lopez Island’s cher-ished community values. He is currently in college at that American University in Washington, DC.

He is currently in college at that American University in Washington, DC.

LOPEZ IsLandChrist the King Community ChurCh, There’s

Always a Place for You! CTK gathers at 10 a.m. in the

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graCe episCopal ChurCh, welcomes

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lopez island Community ChurCh, 91 Lopez

Road. Sunday School: pre-school through adult 9:30 a.m.;

Worship at 10:30 a.m. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877.

lutheran ChurCh in the san juans, Sundays

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 Emmanual. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025.

QuaKer Worship group Meetings will be Sundays

at 10 a.m. at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman

Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone

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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 Saturday. Call

378-2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

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Governor Inslee signed into legislation a bill by Representative Jeff Morris (D-Mount Vernon, shown right) to expedite regu-latory review on new 4G upgrades to cellular towers and antennas.

House Bill 1183 updates Washington’s State Environmental Policy Act review process regard-ing wireless structures, exempting those that are constructed atop existing buildings and commercial or industrial areas.

According to Morris, the change will make the permit-ting process easier, reducing the regulatory burden for telecommunications com-panies. “It’s been nearly a decade since Washington did major work on our wireless infrastructure,” Morris said. “This is a smart, environmen-tally safe update to our law that will ensure we have the physical network of towers

and antennas necessary to support modern wireless ser-vices,” said Morris.

The legislation includes limitations designed to mini-mize physical change to structures and prevent any environmental degradation.

Under the new law, a wireless structure may not increase the height of the structure by more than 10 percent or 20 feet, or pro-trude out more than 20 feet.

The law will go into effect July 27, 2013.

Submitted by the Keepers of the Patos Lighthouse

What do a teenager and her mom visiting from Dubai, two teachers, a tax accountant, a librarian, court reporter, a medical writer, a ham radio operator, a botanist, zoologist, an architect and a fifth grader all have in common? They are all The Keepers of the Patos Lighthouse Docents, see pic-ture at right.

Our Patos lighthouse docent program started off with great anticipation in July of 2010 with an overnight campout and two lighthouse open days. We con-tinued the docent camp-outs to cover about every other weekend through Labor Day. At the end of our first summer, we counted up the number of visitors that we welcomed into the lighthouse. Amazingly, that number amounted to 224.

For our second year, 2011, we managed to open the light-house for 20 days, July through September, resulting in visits from 665 people. That’s an aver-

age of 33 visitors per day. It’s a case of “If you open,

they will come!” Pretty good for a small, out of the way, hard to get to island, and very gratify-ing for our Docents, too.

So what do our Docents do? First of all, of course, they open the lighthouse to the public and show people around. That is always a thrill for visitors as many of them have visited Patos Island for years, but have never been inside the lighthouse.

Docents tell visitors about the history of the island and lighthouse using our collection of photographs taken on Patos island in various decades. In addition, we often find that, in some cases, visitors know more about the history of Patos than we do. If this is the case, we record the information they have to give: it’s always a thrill to add to our knowledge of the island’s past.

To answer any questions visi-tors may have about the flora and fauna on the island, we have a small lighthouse library

of nature guides for the area.Docents reach the island,

either on their own boats or are transported by our won-derful partners, the rangers of Washington State Parks. Docents camp out on Patos for their stay and some tents and equipment can be provided by Keepers of the Patos Light. There is no water or electricity available on the island.

Training for our Docents consists of a session or two of information sharing fol-lowed by a volunteer day out on Patos Island. All volunteers are required to be up-to-date on first aid and CPR. In addi-tion, volunteers must read Helene Gliddens’ wonderful book about Patos Island, The Light on the Island. More visi-tors want to visit the lighthouse because of this book than for any other single reason.

For more information on Docenting at the Patos Island Lighthouse, please email us at: [email protected].

Puzzle Answers

Patos Lighthouse Docent program is a success

Wireless bill signed into law

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