Our Lummi Island Community

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******LUMMI ISLAND COMMUNITY CLUB NEWSLETTER*****

August 14, 1978

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1:30 PM 75th ANNIVERSARY – ISLAND CHURCH

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 6:30 PM ISLAND GRANGE ANNUAL POTLUCK PICNIC

SATURDAY, Sept 2, 3:00 PM ALL-ISLAND CELEBRATION & PICNIC

SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 11 AM – 4 PM MINI-BAZAAR, SCEN I C ESTATES CLUBHOUSE

WEEKEND, SEPT. 9 & 10 WORKDAYS @ BEACH SCHOOL PLAYGROUND

TUESDAY, SEPT. 12, 7:30 PM P.T.A. MEETING – BEACH SCHOOL

EVERY THURSDAY, 7:00 PM LUMMI ISLAND HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY MEETS @ BEACH STORE

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ALL-ISLAND CELEBRATION AND PICNIC PLANNED

In appreciation of the hardworking efforts of all the people who have volunteered for Community Club events; such as the pancake breakfast, auction, barbecue, etc., the L1CC Board is sponsoring an Island-wide picnic on Saturday, Sept 2. Fresh crab is being donated by individual Islanders, and coffee and fruit punch will be provided. People are encouraged to bring their friends and a potluck salad or bread/butter. We will meet in Angus’ field (large grey house just west of the school grounds on Centerview Road) around 3:00 PM…, and eat, visit, play tug-a-war and generally share good times. Come and have a picnic with your Island neighbors! – – Carole Hammond, L1CC Sect.

VILLAGE POINT RADAR UP IN AIR

The Village Point radar site has been moved from the beach up to the hill behind Tim Lockwood’s house. To see over the land mass to the north, the tower was increased from 90′ to 20′. It sits on a 54! hill, so the antenna will be 174′ high in the sky. This should eliminate most of our concerns about messing up the view from Village Point The site location is purely an agreement between the landowner and the Coast Guard.

Copies of the draft Environmental Impact Statement are available for anyone to borrow and study. Call Paul Davis @ 758-2414. The document covers the entire Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Service System, and is about 300 pages thick, but about 16 pages are devoted exclusively to Village Point. – – Paul Davis, LICC Treas.

BEACH SCHOOL TEACHER “FIRED”

Patty Gregory, our enthusiastic school marm for the past 8 years, has recently returned from a glorious week in Hawaii where she visited old friends, basked on the white sands

frolicked in bushels of flower blossoms on the forest floor. The golden glow on at least a major portion of that great torso is the result of her getting well “fried’; in Hawaiian sun.

WE trust her batteries are now fully recharged to meet the new onslaught after Labor Day at Beach School where she and assistants, Jackie Gaines and Jim Hanrahan, will be spending many overtime hours in the annual desperate effort to get a million things organized. Lotsa luck! – – Paul Davis

GRANGE NEWS

Lummi Island Grange entertained the Whatcom County Pomona Grange when it met in the Island Hall August 8. About 80 members and friends enjoyed barbecue salmon and other goodies followed by visitation.

Of importance to old time Islanders was a surprise visit from Frank Wright, Jr., and his wife who joined us for dinner and an opportunity to renew old friendships and meet new friends. Frank is the oldest son of the late Frank Wright, Sr., who owned and operated the Vil1age Point salmon cannery, the second largest in Puget Sound at that time. Frank has owned and operated canneries in Alaska for many years and had not been on the Island for 34 years. – – Edith Granger, Sect.

“BEACH RIDERS” are 4H GROUP ON LUMM ISLAND

“Hi”. we’re the Beach Riders. We’ve just transferred our group from the Point to the Island. You might have seen us at the Islander having a bake sale, or maybe at the swap meet. Thank you for suffering with our cooking! As we become more Island oriented, we’d like to help in our community. If you can think of something you’d like us to do, let us know by calling Lynn Brandsrud, Pres, at 758-2179, or Julie Hanson, Vice Pres., at 758-2600, or just pull one of us aside and we can bring it up at our Tuesday meeting. And by patronizing our sales, you are helping us get to the Lynden Fair. So this year when you’re looking through the horse barns and you get to our stalls, grab the person next to you (gently of course) and proudly show them YOUR 4-H group!

Also, we will have the vet over soon to do some worming and vaccinating. If you have any stock you would like looked at, let us know by giving me a call. – – L. Brandsrud

LUMMI ISLAND “DOGS” INVOLVED IN THREE WAY TIE FOR 1ST PLACE

Our men’s sol pitch “Dogs” team with a 9-2 record are in a 3-way tie for the number one position in the C division. Wednesday Aug. 16, at 6:30 PM, Downer Field, they may be possibly facing two teams to determine the their final place. Last league game saw about 70 Island fans rooting them on to a victorious ending. Come on out Wednesday and lend your support.

LUMMI ISLAND CHURCH PREACHER FOOLINGNG AROUND–CAN’T EAT MRS. MELCHER’S COOKING

Rob Calhoun, son of retired parson Carl, is visiting on the Island for a few weeks from Manhattan Beach, California. He is here to tend the flocks on a temporary basis while arrangemen1s are being made to install a new permanent pastor. During his leisure hours, he is having a good time visiting with old friends and haunts and fooling around on the beaches collecting “artistic” driftwood. He was bemoaning that he couldn’t eat any of Maurine’s berry pie because the ravenous Grange members et it complete at their recent whing-ding and tweren’t none left over for him. Otherwise, he is taking full advantage of the gastronomical goldmine at the Melcher household. More sensible church news elsewhere in these pages. – – Paul Davis

BEACH SCHOOL NEWS

School begins Tuesday, Sept 5 at 8:45 AM so best start looking around for those lunch boxes, Mom and Dad! Those lunch boxes are pretty exciting new possessions for 5 year olds and looks like we’ll have at least four new kindergartners at Beach this year for a total of between 25 to 30 children from grades K through 6. Patty Gregory, Jackie Gaines, and Jim Hanrahan will return as head teacher and instructional associates respectively.

The first P.T.A. and Friends of Beach School meeting will be the second Tuesday of Sept., the 12th, so all parents and others interested mark us for that Tuesday for the year! This will be a planning meeting for the year to select all programs, events, and officers as well. It seems that our group tends to follow the lines of all groups since the beginning of time in that “you can’t satisfy all of the people all of the time” … but we differ in that each year right at the start we do have a chance to TRY HARDER AND DO BETTER. SOOOO . IF YOU ARE ANY OF THE ABOVE … SHOW UP AT THE BEGINNING and DO SOMETHING ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL INSTEAD OF JUST…. need I say more? Remember, YOU GET FROM ANY RELATIONSHIP OR ORGANIZATION OR JOB RESULTS DIRECTLY IN PROPORTION TO THAT YOU WERE WILING TO GIVE! See you Tuesday, September 12 at 7:30 PM

Teachers in all directions this summer … Patty to Hawaii Jackie to Berkely …Jim to Los Angeles. Jim doing Disneyland …. Jackie sorting furniture… Patty yep, visiting schools and teaching one “master class”.

Kids everywhere too Aaron Miller to hospital with stitches in head ..• Jake Moye to hospital with broken leg … Joey Kepferle, EMT call, broken nose etc. Isn’t summer a race for survival sometimes?

Lots of children enjoying swimming lessons at Liz Gerritz’ new pool under the tutelage of Cathy Luke and Ann Hinz …. wonderful!

SAVE SEPTEMBER 9 & 10 to drop by Beach School and work a while. The National Guard should be at our school yard that weekend to help construct the latest addition to our playground. We expect anywhere from 10 to 70! Lots depends on the weather, what equipment they can get across, etc, but show up with your old clothes on and you’ll “be used”!

Start training NOW. The Beach School Children issue a CHALLENGE to any and all comers! The very. first BEACH SCHOOL INVITATIONAL ROAD RUN will be held the first weekend in OCTOBER. We expect lots of people from the Island to have fun getting in shape for this, so come on out and practice.

A BIG +hanks to Ann & Robert Dinello who in the midst of packing and moving this summer still remembered Beach School and gave us a supply of new and used paper we can turn over and use in the ditto!

Hope everyone had a great summer and will watch for our first Open House in the Fall. Will thank you ahead of time for remembering to slow down when you see those stern little faces with clenched fingers wrapped about handles of new lunch boxes trudging slowly to school pretty soon. I bet you’ll smile with nostalgia and “de-do” the gas pedal! and that’s kindergarten talk for “un-do”, right? – – Patty Gregory

GRACIOUS WORDS OF THANKS

I wish to thank all my Island friends for the beautiful flowers, cards, books, calls and most of all, their friendship. Knowing people really care helps so much when a person is ill.

Our family has had it this summer. Michael is back on the ferry after his encounter with a chain saw. He had to get well and off the davenport to make room for son Jake

with his broken leg.

Your expressions of love and concern are truly appreciated. – – Elaine Moye

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We would like to commend the Emergency Medical Team for their excel lent work and the speed with which they responded.

When the emergency involves your own family, you realize the value of this wonderful service and the dedication of those involved.

We feel the team worked .in a highly efficient manner and were there as quickly as any emergency service anywhere!

Our sincere thanks and appreciation again to all of you. And, also, to the wonderful friends for their concern. – – Dick Poole

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I would like to give my thanks and admiration to the Lummi Island Emergency Team who so quickly responded to help my husband. Also, to the paramedics and ferry crew and to our many friends for their help and sympathetic understanding. Frank loved the Island and it’s people. Again, my thanks to you all. – – Lillie Martina

LUMMI ISLANDERS SADDENED BY LOSS OF FRIENDS AND NEIGBORS

During the Spring and Summer, Lummi Islanders have been saddened by the loss of the following Island neighbors:

Warren Granger whose parents started and operated Loganita Lodge suffered a heart attack the early part of summer. Warren was born in Bellingham, but returned to Lummi as a tiny infant. He attended grade school on the Island, went to Bellingham High School and graduated from Bellingham Normal. He taught 17 years in Skagit & Snohomish Counties, then moved to Calif. where he taught shop courses in the Pasadena School System for 24 years. He returned to his “home base” on Lummi every summer to fish and oversee his reefnet gear operation.

Helen Corcoran Hoffman lived her entire life on Lummi until about 6 years ago when she and husband George moved to Ferndale. Helen went to school on the Island and in later years was never too busy to walk to the school to play the piano for school activities. She was a member of the Civic Club, the Kwina Home Demonstration Club, and the PTA while her children were in Beach School. Helen was the faithful organist for whatever denomination was holding Church services on the Island, and most especially the Congregational Church from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. Her yard was alive with flowers in season which she shared with all.

Joshua Philbrook died at 96 in a Bellingham rest home. Josh came to Lummi Island as a young man when his father became Minister of the Church and he served as Lay Minister after his father was gone. Through the years, Josh and his wife helped preserve the present church property and were active participants in the Island Township.

Last week, memorial services were held in the Island church for Joseph Belanger. Joe and Vera moved on the Island 8 years ago and became involved in the Community Club which he served as President. Joe was elected to a three-year term on the Church Board and served until he suffered a stroke. He loved to sing and his beautiful voice was a welcome addition to any musical event. We will all miss Joe. – – Lois Peterson

FIRE DEPARTMENT FLICKERINGS

The Commissioners and Fire Dept. members are most grateful for recent donations in memory of Frank Martina and Joe Belanger. They again wish to thank the Lummi Island Community Club for their purchase of two Turn-Out Gear. The gear was received and the bill of approximately $400 was paid by the Club.

Since the last Newsletter, there have been 6 aid calls, on July 9, 10, 15 (three-in-one day), and 29; in two cases the Paramedics were called out from Bellingham; in other cases self transportation was used or no ·transportation was necessary. There have been two fire calls: (1) Aug. 2 a grass fire at Lockwood’s, West Shore Drive; (2) Aug. 9 a car fire at S. Nugent.

The Commissioners have decided to put a General Obligation Bond Issue on the Fall ballot. The Bond Issue will be for $43,000 and will be collected over a 7 year period. The money will be used to purchase a new fire truck and other fire fighting equipment. A letter will be sent to all voters explaining the Bond Issue in detail prior to the election.

– – Jackie Gaines, Sect.

YESTERYEAR

This, we hope, will be a continuing column and will consist of gems of Lehr Miller and Beth Hudson from old issues of the Newsletter, as well as any other sources we can find pertaining to the history of Lummi Island. To this end, we need a complete file of back issues of the Newsletter. Bud Van Horn has just donated his file which goes back to June, 1968, but we still need all issues before that date. If you have such an old file and are willing to donate it for this cause, please call Paul Davis at 758-2414.

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From June, 1968:

Congratulations to our high school graduates Molly O’Rourke (Harmoney) and Jim Miller … Hurry-up Shirley. We are all wondering which the new and small addition to our community will be •.• boy or girl? That was Shawn Shanahan, July 8. -Ed.)—-

“Well done” to all those who participated in Edith Granger’s retirement reception. —- The Fireman’s Auxiliary hosted a party honoring Andy Luke, retired Fire Chief —- Les and Shirley have hammered and painted enough to move into their new home on S. Nugent. Others in the building and expanding process are Floyd & Grace, Jerry & Norma, Art & Echo, and Otto Reise. —­ Recent wedding anniversaries: Wad & Clara Dunn celebrated a 25th at dinner in Johnson’s Fine Food Restaurant. Dick & Beth Hudson’s 28th year together has come and gone now, too. (That’s 35 and 38 now, folks.

– – Ed. J.M. Granger substituting for vacationing Editor Lehr Miller.

The Lummi Island Cemetery was started as a community project. Trees were felled, stumps burned and land cleared. Everyone who helped was entitled to a burial spot for his effort. When the island ne’er-do’well died, he was buried in the cemetery as was his right, but in the remotest spot possible. A large stone was placed on top of his grave as a marker, and, as one man is supposed to have said, “To keep him there”. Today his name is forgotten by Islanders and most people do not even realize that the large rock in the corner of the cemetery marks the final resting place of a colorful character. August, 1970 Beth Hudson

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ISLAND COUPLE PROUD PARENTS

Congrats to Tom and Anne Doyle, proud parents of Daniel Jonathon Patrick Doyle born on August 5th at 7 lbs., 1 oz.

DAY CARE CENTER OPENING ON LUMMI ISLAND

A licensed home day care on the Island will be opening the 1st of September and will offer the following:

I) Hours – Generally Monday thru Friday, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, but one can be flexible.

2) Meals ~ Breakfast, lunch and 2 snacks will be available each day.

3) Location – Close to ferry, across the street & up the road from Beach School.

4) Facilities – Large outdoor play area, covered outdoor play area, climbing apparatus, swings, tricycles, children’s furniture, indoor activity centers.

5) Staff – Teacher certified in Elem. Education with 2 years experience in day care and, pre-school. Part-time cook who will be following USDA meal requirements. If you think you may be interested in either part or full-time use of the service, and would like additional information, please call 758-7259 and ask for Terry Tucker.

LUMMI ISLAND LOSING FRANK AS POSTAL CARRIER

Because of the growth in the Whatcom County-Bellingham area, 4 new rural routes are being added to the Bellingham Post Office effective August 26. Frank Adema who originally started as the Lummi Island carrier over 14 years ago is being transferred to a strictly mainland route. A new carrier (as yet unnamed at this writing) will start delivery of the Lummi Island mail on the 26th. The new carrier will not be Jim Harburg who has substituted for Frank for the past few years. He or she w ill most likely be unfamiliar with the island. We ask that you give the new carrier your cooperation and understanding the first few difficult months. It is not going to be easy for the new person because of the way many Lummi Islanders have their mail addressed. In order to help the new carrier and yourselves, we ask that everyone on the island immediately take the following action:

  1. Put your address on your mail box. It would also help if you would put your name on.

2) Ask all of your correspondents to use your complete address when mailing anything.

3) ,Upgrade your mail box. Make sure it is the proper height and the door and flag work.

“Mail that is not properly addressed to you will most likely not arrive on time until the new carrier learns the names of all the people on the island. Joann and myself will do all possible to help the new carrier get your mail to you, but because the mail is sorted in Bellingham, it is going to be difficult for us to be of too much help for first day delivery.

Again, we ask your understanding and help.

We are all going to miss Frank. In my opinion, he is one of the best of the, personnel the Post Office has ever had. How many “little” favors has Frank done for you? I am sure I speak for all of you in wishing Frank the best of luck on his new route, and in wishing the new carrier (whomever he or she may be) the best of luck delivering mail on Lummi Isl.

– – Jerry Anderson, Postmaster

BIZARRE AFFAIR GOING ON AT SCENIC ESTATES

You are invited to a Mini-Bazaar and Bake Sale at Scenic Estates Clubhouse on Saturday, Sept. 9th from 11 AM to 4 PM. Coffee and goodies will be available. It isn’t too early to be thinking of Christmas gifts. Come along and see what the Ladles Project Group has to offer. – – Ladies Project Group – Lummi Island Scenic Estates

CHURCH BELL TOLLS

The performance by the Bellingham Civic Band was a huge success! Between 150-200 people enjoyed. the hour of music which was played in the school yard. The church, which sponsored the concert, has asked to be put on the list for next summer.

John Calhoun, of Manhattan Beach, Cal if., is our visiting minister through Labor Day John, who is Carl Calhoun’s son, spent many summers on Lummi while he was ‘growing up and thinks this is an ideal place to take a working vacation.

Workshop services start at 10:30 AM each Sunday … and you are welcome to “come as you are”.

Church members voted this week to send a letter to Reverend Lee Taylor of Newport, WA., asking him to come to the Island as our part-time resident minister. Lee visited here on August 6 and many Islanders had a chance to meet him at the band concert.

Donations are needed for the Rummage Sale to be held at the Church on Sept. 30. Phone Lois Peterson 758-2405, Gladys Long 758-2170, or Edith Granger 758-2482 if you have something to contribute. We will also sell articles on consignment.

More than 75 years ago, a lone man paddled a canoe among the Islands, stopping at inhabited ones to conduct a church service before moving on. In 1903, the same man, Reverend I.M. Dick, helped a few people on Lummi Island to organize a church group of their own. On Sunday, August 20, all Islanders are invited to help celebrate the 75th Anniversary of this event. It will begin at 1:30 PM with a service at the church, followed by a “birthday party” in the church basement. Carl and Charlotte Calhoun will be here for Carl’s personal 75th Anniversary, also.

There will be no morning service on August 20. – – Beth Hudson

GRANGERS ‘GRANGE’ AT GRANGER’S

Lummi Island Grange will hold its annual potluck picnic August 23rd at 6:30 PM at the Mac Granger’s. If It rains, it will be held at the Lloyd Niedhamer home, Scenic Estates. Coffee furnished. Bring your own dishes/utensils.

BEACH STORE ONCE ISLAND POST OFFICE

The Beach Store, as it is known today, sits on some of the first land settled on Lummi Island. The name Beach comes not from the shoreline over which the store looks, but from a pioneer homesteader on the Island, John (Wade) Beach. The sheltered property on the lee side of the Island where the store sits changed hands a number of times before 1901. But in that year Elizabeth M. Richards acquired the property and had a large new grocery built with an apartment behind and a large meeting room upstairs. There had been a shed building operated as a store before that, but the Beach Store was the first store on the island to look like one. The store became the island’s post office that year and remained so until 1941. (During those years, letters going to the Islanders were addressed to Beach, Washington, rather than Lummi Island.)

Along with her son, William, Elizabeth Richards ran the post office out of the store, then called Beach Grocery, until May 18, 1910, when she sold .it to Louis F. Buchholz. Buchholz also took over duties as postmaster from Wm. Richards that summer. During the years that Buchholz ran the store, very few changes were made to the building, but the community around it grew tremendously. Three large canneries employed several hundred workers, many of them Orientals. Several of the fish traps on the Island were counted among the highest producing traps on Puget Sound. The famous Allsop Trap which Pacific American Fisheries purchased for $90,000 in 1899 was just off the shore on Lummi Island’s westside. It was the richest trap on the Sound for several years. With the Island’s population, the upstairs of the store became a meeting place for dances, box socials, Grange meetings and political discussions. About 1925 a public ferry service began operating from a dock which was built immediately across. from the store.

The store then became a sort of passenger terminal for people’ waiting for the ferry and its porch began a run of over fifty years as “the best place on the Island to sit and watch folks come and go.” As automobiles became common on the Island the store began selling gasoline and giving directions to the hundreds of tourists that visited the Island each year. To all of them the white store was a landmark. For a time the only telephone on the Island was in the Beach Grocery as was the only fire station, but in time a telephone exchange building was constructed behind the store and service was extended to some private homes (the concrete’ exchange building still stands).

In 1926 the store was sold to Wallace Coleman and he changed the name to Coleman’s Mercantile, but he kept it white ‘with a cedar shingle roof as it had, always been. Since he was buying a post office as well as a business, Coleman became the postmaster as had all the store’s owners. Coleman kept the store up through the depression and from photos taken during those years it looked no worse for the economic climate. The island’s canneries closed early in the 1930’s and the population dropped off, but fishermen and farmers organized upstairs to see that the islanders got by during the hard depression years. Early in August, 1945, just as the war was ending, a returning veteran and his wife bought the store and changed the name to the Beach Store in honor of the Island’s first postmaster. Harold and Gladys Long went right to work on the store. They built a separate cold storage locker building and warehouse behind the store and. put large driftwood logs underneath to reinforce the foundation. But they never changed the building itself, not even the crisp white color. In 1955, the Long’s built the house they now live in next to the ferry dock and moved out of the store. They continued to operate the Beach Store until they retired in 1970 and sold it to Bill and Virginia Smith. The Smith’s then sold the store to its current owners in 1977.

The future of the Beach Store was in serious doubt until early this year. But this Spring a group of’ Islander’s created the Lummi Island Historical and Preservation Society with the express aim of preserving the store for use again as a community center. A structural engineer examined the store in June and found it to be sound and tight. The only danger to its future is the increased demand-for shoreline island property by developers. Now as in the past, the Beach Store is the community focal point on Lummi Island. – – Elizabeth Richards

SLAP HAPPY SINGERS SLINGING SLOP & SLIPPING ON SYRUP PART OF

SUCCESSFUL PANCAKE BREAKFAST

Without a July Newsletter (I took a short vacation), this special thank you to the entire staff of volunteers who worked with such enthusiasm, patience and good humor comes a bit late, but hopefully recognized. The Annual July 4th weekend Breakfast this year ran more smoothly than any previous year feeding 322 patrons and netting a prof it of $443. Pancakes lighter than air, eggs fluffy as clouds, ham so fresh you could hear the oinks with gallons of coffee, juice and milk were consumed in a friendly atmosphere. Vern Hawley was the official greeter, with gracious ladies Sandy Mulhurn and Kathy Tuttle as hostesses. The chiefs and kitchen crew were fantastic (special thanks to Dave & Molly Harmoney), many of them putting in a full day’s shift (Steve Luke & Bud Van Horn) from 6:00 AM to noon. The cleanup crew composed of the Hanson & Marshall clan were just super (Bill Moye taking special care with the huge grills). Paul Davis was brilliant in his “fan” setup and saved the day with his hooking up an extra grill for the ham. We can’t let the marvelous harmonizing by the outside prewash crew of Sally Evans, Lisa Arzberger, Joanne Hammerburg & Buffy Lapof go unmentioned. Understand that Sally is “hooked” on the outside prewash and wants to make it an annual thing.

Again, thanks to’ everyone from the crew who help set up the tables and get everything to and from the Grange Hall ….. to the 60 odd volunteers who made it smooth sailing and my job almost unnecessary. – – Gerri Neuman, Chairman

Opinions OF INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS NEWSLETTER DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE OF THE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, OR MEMBERS OF THE LUMMI ISLAND COMMUNITY CLUB. – – EDITOR

HEADLINE WRITER TO BE SHOT

As soon as we can find an intellectually stable replacement for our Headline Editor we are going to take our current one out and Dispose of Him in some permanent fashion. The degree of sanity in some of our editorial staff is not commensurate with the degree of insanity of some of our readers.

LUMMI ISLAND HISTORICAL AND PRESERVATION SOCIETY A REALITY!

It’s official–with a bright gold seal,-the Lummi Island Historical and Preservation Society is a non-profit corporation of the State of Washington. Tax exempt status arrangements are underway, and until they are complete donors can receive tax deduction through the Whatcom Museum, which will earmark any contribution for the LIHPS. The Lummi Island Post Office box number is 75, and the bank account is with Mount Baker Mutual Savings & Loan. The membership form is ready to be filled out (mini form below) and mailed or brought to the every Thursday meeting at 7:00 PM in the Beach Store …. upstairs … go around to the back … outside stairway … and bring a floor pillow or a folding chair or such … to contribute if you can! If you like to eat, bring some refreshments and we’ll share.

Bring your ideas and share those too. They needn’t be new or startling … we like old things, remember? Speaking of old things … the nomination papers and photos of our old Beach Store .(History of B.S. on previous page included in our application) have been submitted and the public hearing will be held on August 22 at the Whatcom Museum to determine if the Beach Store will be on the Washington State Historic Register. Those with knowledge and experience say it should have no trouble in being accepted. The successful nominations at State level are sent on to be considered for the National level.

An important bit of information about the store is that it is in sound condition as determined by Walter Yaude of the Dept. of Buildings & Code Administration. He examined it twice … inside and out and even crawled around underneath with his light. The floor and joists are sound, as are the upstairs floor and ceiling. It needs paint and maintenance work, but it is basically in good condition.

Architect Jim Zervas, widely known for preservation work, has been retained by the Whatcom County Parks and he will develop a masterplan for restoration, as soon as the purchase agreement and management agreement are worked out to everyone’s satisfaction.

To avoid the dangers of unoccupied structures, the Sklars have agreed to have a renter live in the store’s apartment. Several work parties have fixed it up, and Ellen Kykendal

is now living there. We all appreciate her helpful activities, such as mowing the lawn.

Many thanks also go to the vital founding workers, thinkers, planners, history tellers, and recorders; especially Michael Sullivan, Parks Historic Preservation Planner who wrote up the nomination; Sandy Fugate who is now doing the bookkeeping; Michael Bobbick who took time out from studying for Bar Exams to write the Articles of Incorporation; and the Lummi Island Community Club for calling a meeting and publishing new developments and history. – – Po II y Hanson

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FOR THE LUMMI ISLAND HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY

(A Washington Non-Profit Corporation)

Surname ____________________________~First Name __________________Initial _____

Preferred Title (Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Etc. ) _____;Res.Phone ______;Bus.Phone ______

Mai ling Address ______________________________________________ZIP ___________

Membership Categories:

(All categories may vote)

Under 18 years $1.00 annually

18 years and older $10.00 annually

Sustaining $55.00 annually

Lifetime $500.00

Plea se call me __________________________________________________

(Day & Time To Call)

Total Amount Enclosed $ _________________

NEXT NEWSLETTER DEADLINE WILL BE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th ARTICLES, ADS, NEWS ITEMS7 THANK YOUS, ETC. TO GERRI NEUMAN, PAUL VAVIS, POST OFFICE OR ISLANDER. – – G. NEUMAN, EVITOR

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Lummi Island, WA. 98262 LUMMI IS., WA.98262

PERMIT NO.2 ….

RESIDENT

LUMMI ISLAND, WA. 98262

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