Our Lummi Island Community

Tome 1966/05

LUMMI ISLAND NEWS LETTER May 25, 1966

Due to the extreme urgency of a Park Department decision prior to the approaching deadline established for the use of allocated federal funds it has become necessary to exert immediate and concentrated effort along this line by the Lummi Island Community Club.

Therefore the activities of the Club will be directed towards a more comprehensive understanding of the entire situation for the next few weeks. The Club’s, Board of Directors are attempting to secure representatives from all the agencies that have to do with the establishment of Parks, from the State level to the local level, to meet with the Club at our next meeting. We hope to thoroughly explore the plans and possibilities of Island Parks through an informative exchange of ideas from all those concerned. We have had favorable responses from the State Park Director, his planners and property men; the Bureau of Natural Resources; the County Planning Director; the County Park Commission and the County Park Director. We also hope to secure the State Land Commissioner’s cooperation.

Our intention is to conduct a Jeep tour of the Island in the early afternoon for all the representatives ‑ hitting all the possible park locations. We will then meet with the Club membership around 6:30 P.M. for a pot luck dinner at the Willows, after which a general discussion will follow. We will need help from those familiar with the geography of the Island also those who have suitable rough-land vehicles. We have established June 1st as the best possible date for this meeting.

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A reliable source has informed us that our local mailman has been asked by the postal authorities to move to Bellingham and operate out of that office, which would mean doubling his route and pay. The same source declared that there was no intention of eventually closing the local post office but rather it would be more accurate to assume that at the retirement of the local postmaster, the post office site and facilities would be put on a contract basis here on the Island.

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Recent information has brought to light the very real possibility of a dangerous water pollution situation developing from the activities of the Intalco Plant. Apparently there is some question about the permit issued them by the Pollution Control Board as it seems to be in excess of a concentration allowable to maintain marine life. It is our understanding that the company is attempting, to quiet the objections of various marine biologists by extending the discharge, pipe further out into the straits. Should a killing pollution develop in this body of water, Lummi Island and the salmon runs would feel the full economic and disastrous impact.

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WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL AT THE NEXT MEETING AS NOTED HEREIN.

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