Our Lummi Island Community

Tome 2012/03

The Tome Of Lummi Island
Volume XLVII No. 3
March 2012

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Community Association Meeting – Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Potluck Dinner – – – 6:30 PM

Program and Business Meeting – – – 7:15 PM

Program: Noxious Weed Control

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C A L E N D A R O F E V E N T S________

LI Volunteer Firefighter Training ………………………………………………..1, 2, 3 & 4 Thursdays 7:00 PM

Saturday Market – Islander North end ………………………………… Every Saturday 10 AM to 1 PM

Elderberries – Fun, Games and Lunch for Seniors – Church …………… Every Wednesday 11 AM to 2 PM

Island Church & Sunday School – 758-2060………………………………. Every Sunday 10:30 AM

Island Chapel – Grange Hall ……………………………………………………… Every Sunday 9:30 AM

Eating Local with Nancy Ging – Grange Hall ……………………….. Mar 24 Saturday 10:00 AM to Noon

Classical Piano Concert “Tales, Fables & Poetry” – Gong. Church …. Mar 25 Sunday 1:00 PM

LICA POTLUCK DINNER MEETING —Grange Hall ..…………… Mar 28 Wednesday 6:30 / 7:15 PM

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Beach School – Matinee: 9:30 AM Mar 29 Thursday 7:00 PM

Roadside Cleanup – Grange Hall – Fun Social Event for Everyone …. Mar 31 Saturday 9:45 AM

ANWR Slideshow & Talk – photographer Alan Kearney – Library .. Mar 31 Saturday 7:30 PM

Lummi Island Conservancy Board – Library …………………………………… Apr 1 Sunday 7:30 PM

Recycle Pickup – Your House ……………………………………………………… Apr 2 Monday morning

Cemetery Board – Library ………………………………………..…… Apr 2 Monday 6:30 PM

Spring Break – Ferndale Schools ……………………………………… April 2 to 6

Grange Meeting ………………Social at 6:30 PM……………….……. Apr 4 Wednesday 7:00 PM

Ferry Fueling Day (Alternate Thursdays at Gooseberry Point) …………. Apr 5 Thursday 12:30 to 1:20 PM

Easter Sunrise Service – Scenic Estates Clubhouse (Cong. Church) …. Apr 8 Sunday 6:30 AM

Gardener’s Network meeting – Grange Hall ………………………….. Apr 9 Monday 6:30 PM

Friends of Island Library ……………………………………………… Apr 9 Monday 7:30 PM

Fire Commissioners Meeting — Fire Hall—Open to Public ……..…… Apr 10 Tuesday 7:00 PM

Beach School PTO — Beach School ……………………….………… Apr 11 Wednesday 6:45 PM

LICA Board of Directors — Library ………………………………….. Apr 11 Wednesday 7:00 PM

Civic Club – Church Fellowship Room ………………………………………… Apr 12 Thursday 10:00 AM

The Tome Deadline ………………………………………………………………. Apr 13 Friday 11:00 PM

Ferry Landing Volunteer Work Party ……………………….………… Apr 14 Saturday 10 AM to Noon

Recycle Pickup — Your house ……………………………….………. Apr 16 Monday morning

Fenced Parking at Gooseberry Ends ………………………………….. Apr 16 Monday night 11:59 PM

Boys & Girls Club Board Meeting – at the Club …………………………….. Apr 17 Tuesday 6:30 PM

Ferry Fueling Day (Alternate Thursdays at Gooseberry Point) …………. Apr 19 Thursday 12:30 to 1:20 PM

Ferry Landing Volunteer Work Party ……………………….………… Apr 21 Saturday 10 AM to Noon

Boys & Girls Club Pie Social –– Grange Hall – …………………….. Apr 22 Sunday 1 to 3 PM

Saturday Market Organizing Meeting – Beach Store Café ….…….….. Apr 22 Sunday 2:00 PM

Otto Preserve Spring Clean-up – ……………………………………… Apr 28 Saturday 10 AM-2 PM

Civic Club Garden Expo – Grange Hall ……………………………… May 5 Saturday 10 AM to 1 PM

Post Office Hours Mon-Fri 7:45 AM to 3:15 PM; Sat 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM (Boxes 24 hours) 758-2320

Library hours Tuesday & Thursday 2:00 to 8:00 PM; Saturday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM 758-7145

Grange Hall Rent contact: Leslie Dempsey – 758-2348

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Noxious Weed Control – – Mike Skehan & ed

Our guest at next Wednesday’s (March 28) Potluck Dinner Meeting will be Laurel Baldwin, Coordinator for the Whatcom County Noxious Weed Control Board. This should be interesting for a ‘Report Card’ view of our isolated habitat and some things we can do to help our native flora and fauna remain healthy.

The door prize will be $20 for a Tome subscriber if s/he is in the Hall at the time of the drawing. Last month Rhayma Blake broke our streak and won the $160 that had been accumulating for about four years. Now we start over with $20 and add $5 each meeting that it is not claimed.

Caterpallor (n.) The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.

$10 MONEY TEN MONEY $10 – – ed

No one claimed last month’s $10 Certificate hidden in one copy of The Tome. Someone was too busy shoveling snow to take the time to open and read the Tome – a costly mistake.

Each month we hide a Certificate redeemable for $10 cash in one copy of the Tome. Only Tome subscribers on Lummi Island are eligible for this cash bonanza.

ISLAND RAINFALL February Last year
Westshore Farm Hayfield 3.55” 2.23” (Sheila & Al Marshall)
North Tuttle Lane 4.80” 2.34” (Nancy Simmerman)
South Nugent 4.50” 2.19” (Jerry Brown)
Scenic Estates 5.25” 3.50” (Darlene Stoffer)

NANCY SIMMERMAN’S KNITWEAR & GIFT SHOP is now open at 2386 Tuttle Lane. By appointment or drop by. Phone: 758-2489. Brochure available at The Islander.

PLANS FOR BUILDING PERMITS/CONSTRUCTION CONSULTATION — unCommon Sense Design Luther Allen 360-739-7846

ACADEMIC TUTORING K-12, Spanish for children & adults, credentialed teacher. Erin: erina.nw@gmail.com, 778.0230

ERIK’S LANDSCAPING Professional pruning, installation, renovation and maintenance. 758-7105

ALUMINUM CAN-RECYCLING by the Grange. Bins located in Grange parking lot. Thank you.

MONTHLY FIRE PREVENTION CHECKLIST – From Northwest Burn Foundation

March ‑ Check the temperature on your hot water heater. Make sure it reads 120 degrees. Why? It takes only 5 seconds for a hot water scald to occur at 140 degrees, and 5 minutes at 120 degrees.

CLASSICAL PIANO CONCERT – – Russ Thompson

Classical Piano Concert “Tales, Fables & Poetry” – 1:00 PM. Sunday, March 25, 2012 – Lummi Island Congregational Church

Angelo Rondello will perform music inspired by stories and literature – from the Greek tale: Hero and Leander to Alkan’s humorous setting of Aesop’s Fables, Aesop’s Feast. Featured will be Francis Poulenc’s The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant – for pianist and narrator. Hear music of Liszt and Schubert’s Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel based on Goethe’s work, Faust. Don’t miss this exciting show! Admission by donation. Adults $12. Students $5, suggested. Info: 758-2060; 920-5243.

About Angelo: Described as “fascinating, enthralling, magnetic,” and “a virtuoso matching…tremendous, overwhelming complexities…with fiery passion,” Angelo Rondello is one of the most compelling performers of his generation. His presentations have included: Romance at the Keyboard; Tales, Fables & Poetry and the American Piano: a Musical Journey From 1820 to Present. He is a performer of children’s programs, including: Fantasies, Fairy Tales & Fair Maidens, and Animal Fair. Angelo grew up in Bellingham, and is a Western graduate.

In Seattle, he founded Melodia, devoted to bringing music programs to schools and communities, creating opportunities for young musicians. A member of his church parish counsel, he is co-chair of the church’s social justice committee and is active in the music program. One interest among many is his passion for cooking – especially barbecuing. He BBQ’s all year long on the backyard patio of his Brooklyn Brownstone. He lives in New York with his wife, Joy, an interior designer.

We have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart?

CIVIC CLUB NEWS – – Pat Moye, Secretary

The Lummi Island Civic Club’s March meeting was hosted by Elaine Granger, Frankie Small and Helen Scott. We enjoyed coffee, brownies and pound cake while we got a chance to catch up on what’s happening in all our busy lives. The Civic Club now has 61 members and is open to all women on Lummi Island.

The majority of the meeting was spent planning our May 5 Garden Expo. For more details please see the separate article in this Tome or call event chairwoman Pat Moye at 510-7392.

At the conclusion of the meeting, member Candy Jones lead us all in a glass fusing workshop where we had the opportunity to make beautiful Easter Egg Sun Catchers or small bowls. It was great fun seeing how many different ways these items were made. What creative women we have on Lummi Island! Candy makes wonderful fused glass items that she sells at Artist Tours here on Lummi and will have a booth at this year’s Garden Expo.

Our next month’s meeting is April 12, 2012 at 10 AM in the Congregational Church Fellowship Hall. The program will be: What’s in Your Cup? Fascinating Facts about Selecting, Brewing, and Improving your Coffee Experience. Mike McKenzie, never before a regular coffee drinker, but crazy about espresso mochas, has been studying and selling coffee for about four years. He learned from The Roasterie in hometown Kansas City and sold for Longfellow’s Coffee and now distributes independently through local roasters Tony’s Coffee & Teas and Hammerhead. He will give us an overview on the difference between gourmet specialty coffee beans (Arabica) and commercial coffee (Robusta). Then we’ll have a brewing demo and tasting with simple, home methods that show the nuances of how taste is affected by processing, handling, packaging & storage, roasting (light, medium, dark), grinding, water and temperature, and brewing methods (drip, pour-over, French press, Eva Solo, espresso).

Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.

THE DIRTY DOZEN LIST A cooperative effort of LIHT and LICA – – Ginny Winfield &Mike Skehan

March is a good month to learn about Tansy Ragwort, which begins to flower in early spring.  This is a Class B noxious weed, meaning it’s not well established, very prolific, and has a good chance for control or eradication if we learn to deal with it on the island (that’s the layman’s version of state law WAC 16-750)

This yellow flowered plant is poisonous and can kill livestock.  Control is best by pulling and bagging the entire plant, or dead heading before flowering and putting the heads in the garbage.  Chemical control is an option, but read all you can at the County’s Noxious weed website before you do. (Search for “Whatcom Weeds”)

The flower head looks almost like spiked daisies, and be careful you don’t confuse them with common Tansy (not a Class B weed), which only have a yellow button flower.  King Co. also has a great website with photos of each.

The cinnabar moth was imported to kill Ragwort, and can be identified by its black and orange stripes when young or the red triangle on the moth’s wings.

In Washington State, “noxious weed” is a legally defined term. The Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board determines which plants are placed on the Washington State Noxious Weed List (WAC 16-750). These plants are non-native, aggressive and invasive, but with the potential to be eradicated or controlled in the state.

“Force cannot give right.” – Thomas Jefferson

CIVIC CLUB GARDEN EXPO – – Pat Moye Event Chairwoman

Saturday May 5th from 10 AM to 1 PM at the Grange Hall.

Believe it or not Spring is here. It is time to get out in the garden and start weeding! While you are weeding you may find plants that are just too big and need to be separated or thinned out. We have just the solution for this problem. Donate them to the Garden Expo! We would like shrubs and trees too. If you have an over abundance of vegetable starts we will take them off your hands. If you have off Island friends with the same problems we will take their plants too. This will help us increase our variety. No noxious weeds please! Our plant organizers this year are Louise Kolstad 739-9663, Carol Chaudière 425-231-0009 and Colleen MacGilchrist. Give them a call if you need pots or help storing them until the sale. We have stashed a supply of Popsicle sticks at the Islander to be used as labels. Please identify your plants before you give them to us as we can not tell what kind of plant that tiny little leaf belongs to.

We also have retail booths, information booths and expert speakers. If you are interested in having a booth or would like to give a presentation please call Cheryll Kinsley at 758-4029. Retail booths are a 6 foot table and cost $10. Information booths are free.

For general information or if you would like to help call Pat Moye at 510-7392

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

VETERANS MEMORIAL PLAZA – – Mike Skehan

Thanks to many Islanders and businesses that have given freely of their time and donations to create the Ferry Orchard Park, complete with many varieties of apple trees, lawn and picnic tables. We’re also creating a Veterans Memorial Plaza honoring Islanders who have served their country with engraved paver stones and a flagpole acknowledging all the service branches. We hope to dedicate this on Memorial Day this year.

PRIZES AT THE ROADSIDE CLEANUP – – Larry Roteman,

Mark your calendars for the annual LICA/Grange Roadside Clean Up treasure hunt and party on Saturday, March 31. This year as you scour the Island for trash, you may also find a container with a prize in it. Each of the ten collection areas will have a treasure planted. We will meet at the Grange at 9:45 AM. Those of you who can provide a truck please call Larry Roteman at 778 0193. As always, the Grange, headed up by Master Hotdog Griller, Wendell Terry, will be serving free chili dogs and other goodies.

If you are new to this fun, social activity, look for more details elsewhere in this issue of the Tome

The best impromptu speeches are those written well in advance.

Lummi Island Congregational Church – – Cindy Bauleke, Pastor

As hints of spring appear, Easter also approaches – spring flowers, robins, calves and empty tomb herald the celebration of new life. Holy Week begins with a Palm Sunday procession, April 1, 10:30 AM. We move through the week with a simple soup supper and communion on Maundy Thursday, 6:30 PM, April 5; and a moving Tennebrae Service ending in darkness and quiet on Good Friday, 7:30 PM, April 6. All of this prepares us for resurrection celebration with an Easter Sunrise Worship, 6:30 AM, April 8, at Scenic Estates Clubhouse. Easter Celebration at the Church with glorious music is at 10:30 AM followed by brunch. Please contact Becca (2222) if you would like to sing with the choir. Our favorite Island Easter Egg Hunt follows worship, at approximately 11:30 AM in the cemetery – all Island children are invited to join in the fun. If you would like to help please bring eggs or candy to the Islander or the Church.

The Sunday after Easter, April 15, Madeleine Easton will be our featured soloist. The King’s Men of Song, from Lynden, will lead worship with their powerful music, Sunday, April 22. If it has been a while since you’ve been to church, why not drop by for some centering time in your week? Come walk the labyrinth, or use the path to Church Beach. No matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.

Also going on around the church: We welcome our new Church Administrator, Rhayma Blake. All seniors are invited to Elderberries, Wednesdays 11 AM to 2 PM with lunch served at noon. Parish Nurses are available to help with medical questions or equipment, first call is Dorothy Hanson (2484).

We are most grateful for the many way Islanders support the church. Thank you!

A girl on Legoe Bay Road got hurt while raking leaves. She fell out of the tree.

ROADSIDE CLEANUP ‑ Saturday, March 31, 9:45 AM ‑ ‑ ed

Rain or shine, this must happen on March 31 because the food will be prepared and it won’t keep. This is a fun social event for everybody. Come join us and help us tidy up the Island a bit. First we spend a couple hours on the road picking up litter, and then we all meet back at the Grange Hall for lunch.

LICA and the Grange will provide chilidogs and beverages, and we depend upon volunteers to bring cookies, finger veggies, pies, cakes and other goodies. If you don’t want to work on the road, you can still make an important contribution by providing food, helping in the kitchen or both.

Here’s how we do it. Everyone meets at the Grange Hall in their grubby clothes 15 minutes before 10 AM Saturday, April 2. We say “before 10 AM” because you need time to sign up for your favorite route on the wall map and get together with your crew, find your crew’s truck and be ready to leave at 10 AM SHARP. We have divided the Island roads up into ten equal zones so nobody has very much territory to cover. If you will help with your pickup truck, please phone Larry Roteman, 778-0193 to volunteer your truck – and yourself of course.

Each crew consists of a truck and several walkers. The walkers pick up litter, put it into bags and load it into the pickup.

Everyone will be finished by noon – then back to the Grange Hall for a well-deserved lunch and award ceremony. And something new this year – in the ditches you will find $5 certificates good for goodies at the Islander – after being signed by Hizhonor, our Garbage Judge, Larry Roteman.

If you are bringing food, please have it to the Grange Hall by 11 AM so the kitchen crew can have it organized and spread out before noon. If you have questions about the food or want to help in the kitchen, call Mel Kolstad – 2015. For other questions, call Paul Davis – 2414.

“Ignorance is preferable to error: and he is less remote from the truth who believes

nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.” – Thomas Jefferson

THE NEW LUMMI ISLAND PHONE BOOKLET – – ed

It is time for your Community Association to republish the Lummi Island phone booklet. We plan to add several new features to make this an excellent resource for all things Lummi Island. Publishing date will probably be about August or September, so we have time to update with additions, deletions and corrections.

NEW FEATURES

Yellow Pages – a classified listing of all Island businesses. You want plumbing, car repair, B&B a place to eat – it will all be here in easy to find categories. There will be no charge for businesses in this list.

Blue Pages – a listing of government and other important numbers. Also a list of Island and Government web sites.

White Pages – will continue as in the past. If you are not in the current September 2010 salmon colored phone book, please call Paul at 2414 or better, e-mail your correction to thetome@lummiislandcable.com We can list both cell phone and land line. If couples have different last names, we suggest you be listed under both names to help your friends find you. Businesses will also continue to be listed here with no fee. Please let me know of any additions.

Display Ads – will be placed at the bottom of each white page as in the current booklet for a fee of $100 which will be good for two years before the next publication in 2014.

Distribution – A gratis copy of the new phone booklet will be mailed to every 2012 Tome subscriber on the Island for whom I have an address before publication date. Non-subscribers may purchase a copy from some source yet to be determined. Off-Island addresses may receive a copy for a fee to be determined later

Organizations/Institutions – Please look at the inside front cover. If an organization needs to be deleted or added, please let me know – 758-2414.

A lot of people are already working a four-day week. The problem is it takes them five days to do it.

ATTENTION ALL ISLAND CATHOLICS – – Rose Ann Auld

Father Scott Connolly form Assumption Catholic Church in Bellingham, will be saying Mass here on Lummi Island, Thursday, April 26th, at 5:00 PM in an Island home. ALL Islanders who share the Catholic faith are welcomed to this special event, as well as your spouses or friends. Dinner will follow. Father Scott is very friendly and outgoing and is coming because he was invited to say Mass here and he is looking forward to his first visit to our Island and to meet you. Please RSVP to Rose Ann Auld at 758-4117, and you`ll get the location of the service and we can get a count of those attending. And also we ask you to bring a salad or dessert to share. We look forward to getting together!

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

BEACH SCHOOL NEWS – – Judy Thomas, Manager

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a Beach School production, is less than a week away!! There are two performances so mark your calendars: Thursday, March 29 at 9:30 AM and again that evening at 7:00 PM. The sets, costumes and staging are incredibly colorful, original and all created by friends and families of Beach School. When you enter the gym be ready to step into the magical world of Charlie and company. The list of helpers is too long for the Tome so it will be in the play program. Kudos to all contributors.

The staff thanks LICA for its generous grant. With all the educational budget cuts it is taking a village, our Island, to teach our students and maintain the building. The funding has helped to buy software for students to produce our yearbook, assemblies (like the “Reptile Man” who bedazzled the audience last Friday), and gym equipment, and atomic classroom clocks so we can all be on the same schedule.

April 2 – 6 is the Ferndale School District Spring Vacation. Please drive carefully because our students will be out and about during the day that week.

Beach School Math: Question: If you have three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples

and three oranges in other hand, what would you have? Answer: Very large hands

Grange News – – Tamia Sorensen

This month, we at the Grange were pleased to welcome six new members. The Grange is now sponsoring the Gardeners’ Network, which met on Monday, March 12 and hosted a Seed Swap. Additionally, we are sponsoring the Country Living Series, which met on March 10 at the home of Randy & Linda Smith for a workshop to make potting soil, fertilizer, bokashi and compost tea.

The next event in the Country Living Series will be “Eating Local with Nancy Ging”, who writes the Whatcom Locavore Blog and a weekly column in the Bellingham Herald on eating local. This event will be held at the Grange Hall on Saturday, March 24 from 10:00 AM to noon (Cost: Free). All are welcome!

So far this year, we’ve collected over $300 from aluminum cans. These funds continue to go toward supporting the Imagination Library and the Dictionary Program as well as other programs to support the children in our community.

We would like to thank all 150+ who attended our Spaghetti Dinner earlier this month, which was a great success and lots of fun. Thank you, Byron Moye, for your Spaghetti Dinner helmsmanship.

We would also like to thank the Island Chapel for donating a gift of planting soil to help fill in the Grange Hall’s landscaping transformation led by member Carol Chaudiere.

Finally, we would like to remind you that we can be found at www.lummigrange.com. The Grange meets the first Wednesday of the month with a coffee and dessert social at 6.30 PM and the Meeting from 7.00-8.00 PM. We invite you to join us and we welcome new faces! Leslie Dempsey is President and Robert Sorensen is Vice President.

The geology professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.

Greetings from Public Works – – Frank Abart, Director, Public Works

The Department would like to take this opportunity to communicate improvement plans related to dock work that is scheduled to take place this year.

The Gooseberry Point wing walls are scheduled to be replaced during dry dock. The final design for the wing walls are being completed and should go out for bid by July 2012. We also expect to repaint the dock apron on the Gooseberry Point dock as part of the same project.

In addition, the new permanent Gooseberry Point parking plan will be communicated by the end this month. As a reminder, the leased fenced parking lot on Gooseberry Point will no longer be ferry/public parking as of 11:59 PM on Monday, April 16, 2012.

As always, thank you for your continued cooperation.

“I am an old man and have known many troubles, but most of them never happened.” – Mark Twain

GOODBYE, TAPROOT – – Deanna Durbin & Herb Iversen

So long, Taproot. Herb and Deanna would like to thank Blaine Wetzel and John Gibb for trying their very best to fit us into their new plans for the Willows Inn/Taproot. Special thanks to our devoted staff and customers.

During two years of operating the Taproot, the records show a financial success well beyond anything the Taproot had ever seen. Gross revenue increased over 2 ½ times. The success of the Taproot is directly attributable to hard work and local support.

Thank you, Lummi Island. We plan to be back serving you again as soon as the time is right.

“Every time I think that I’m getting old and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.” – Lillian Carter

ISLAND LIBRARY – IT BELONGS TO YOU – – Joan Keiper

Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 2:00 – 8:00 Saturday 10:00 – 4:00

April is National Poetry Month. On April 26, celebrate Poem in your Pocket – The idea is simple: select a poem you love, carry it, and share it with friends and co-workers. Other activities such as poem readings are being planned. Check with the library staff and watch for Brown Betty for more information.

If you are interested in practicing Spanish or French conversation, sign up at the library. Also if you are able to tutor one of these groups, please let the library staff know.

Upcoming Events

ANWR Slideshow & Talk – Join professional photographer Alan Kearney for a slideshow of his early climbing trips to Alaska, glacier observations in the Cascades, a trip to the Brooks Range in 2002, and three weeks in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 2005. Stunning landscapes, hiking and climbing, and a plethora of wild animals are included. Saturday, March 31 at 7:30 PM, Island Library.

Ongoing Events

‘Story Time’ – Stories and more for Preschoolers, weekly on Tuesdays 3:30- 4:00 PM, Island Library

‘Chess Time’ with Abe and Matt. Get together and have fun with your friends and neighbors while exercising your brain Tuesdays at 5:00-7:00 PM at the Island Library.

The Friends of Island Library (FOIL) Board meets the second Monday of each month at the library. FOIL members are community volunteers who have decided to support Lummi Island Library. The next meeting is Monday, April 9, 7:30 to 9:00 PM at the Library. FOIL Board meetings are open to the public.

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

WATERSHED ENHANCEMENT COMMITTEE (LIWEC) UPDATE – – Wanda Cucinotta, Chair

Volunteer helpers needed to mulch, weed and plant. We are planning work parties to maintain and enhance our plantings around the ferry landing and the Northern public shoreline. Saturdays, from 10 AM to Noon, on April 14th and April 21. Please come and have fun with us while doing this needed work! We are back in action applying for grants and are ready with permits for Phase II of this project. We are also applying for shoreline debris clean up funding as well. Wish us luck!! For more information contact Wanda @ 360-220 -3077, email:

forestflor@aol.com, Check out our Blog: http://liwec.wordpress.com  and Face Book Page:

https://www.facebook.com/LIWEC

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today, it’s called golf.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB NEWS – – Lynn Schreiber

We have been very busy installing a new space for the older kids, getting more of the kids doing their homework at club, experiencing different types of art forms and having our first art show. We would like to thank everyone who came to the art show to see what we’ve been up to. The Jr. Staff kids were on hand to answer questions, make tea, and hand out cookies. It was a great evening and we enjoyed seeing everyone!

As the weather becomes nicer you will see us out and about on the Island. We plan on taking many hiking trips, spending time at the beaches, utilizing the Otto and Curry Preserves and the Baker Mt. trail. We will be learning about our Island, identifying edible plants, picking up garbage on the trails and beaches and we will be starting our community service projects. If you have a job we can help with, please let us know!

Please don’t forget to mark your calendars for our pie social on Earth Day, April 22, 1 to 3 PM. Our amazing board is putting together quite an event with pies and more!

I would like to take some time to thank the board of directors, our volunteers and of course all of the people who donate to the club. Without your generous support we would not be able to provide the kids with a place to go after school. Thank you for all you do!

Question: What is the main reason for failure? Answer: Exams

ISLAND CHAPEL NEWS – – Jerry McRorie

Election of new board members will be held at the annual meeting after church on May 6. The church has added five members since last spring’s annual meeting.

Several dates were added to the annual calendar. The family camp will be on Barnes Island the week of July 29 through August 4. This will be followed by youth camp on the Island August 5 through 11.

The church picnic will be at the Wendell and Terry Terry home on August 19 and a men’s retreat for Village Mission churches in the surrounding area will be hosted by Island Chapel on September 7-9

Island Chapel will contribute three yards of dirt for the landscaping at the Grange Hall where services are held each Sunday from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM. For more information contact Chris Immer at 758-2254.

“I never graduated from Iowa – I was there for only two terms – Truman’s and Eisenhower’s.” – Alex Karras

HERITAGE TRUST NEWS – – Megan Crouse and Becca Rettmer

Imagine yourself seated inside a Tuscan farmhouse feasting on a delicious Italian dinner, sipping great wine, eyeing a kelp-woven basketful of Lummi’s finest home-canned goods, and bidding on eleven elegant desserts. The Heritage Trust’s Benefit Dinner on March 10t was truly a magical evening. With the help of Chef Janice Holmes and her excellent kitchen crew, six fine servers, Island artisans and businesses who donated door prizes and raffles, and many dedicated volunteers who transformed the Grange Hall, our guests enjoyed the revelry, and the Trust surpassed its fundraising goal. Thank you to everyone who made this signature event a night to remember.

Breaking News! Thanks to initial gifts from our board and leadership donors, a Martin Miller Fund grant from Seattle Audubon, a North American Wetlands Conservation grant, and the generosity of the Trust’s many members and friends the Campaign to Protect the Otto Preserve Wetland has met its goal of raising $150,000! In the coming months, we will complete the purchases of the Robinson and Eliot properties (10 acres), build a new trail, and plan a celebration for early this summer. Stay tuned for the date. If you promised to make a donation to the Campaign, we are counting on you to send your donation by March 31. The Pacific Chorus frogs will be singing an especially happy song this spring because the Otto Preserve Wetland will be protected. Thank you!

Save the Dates: On April 14th Northwest Mushroomers will lead a spring foray, this time visiting Baker, Curry and Otto Preserves to identify and inventory mushroom species. Meet at the Otto Resource Center, at 10:00 AM and bring food to share for a potluck lunch following specimen collection and identification. On April 28 from 10 AM to 2 PM, come celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day with the annual Otto Preserve Spring Clean-up.

Adolescence is the age when children try to bring up their parents.

A MESSAGE FROM OUR FIRE CHIEF – – Duncan McLane, Fire Chief

Did everyone change their smoke alarm batteries when they changed their clocks? While having a working smoke detector more than doubles your chance of survival, it’s estimated that one third of smoke alarms are not working due to dead batteries. We have 9 volt batteries available, just give us a call at 758-2411 and leave a message.

As winter leaves us and we become more active with outdoor chores and power equipment, please be safe. Here are a few tips to keep in mind; Leaf burning and general yard waste burning is allowed, however please try to burn small hot fires to keep smoke at a minimum. Check play equipment for loose or exposed hardware, broken parts and stability before the children begin playing on outside toys and apparatus. When using ladders, check for safe and proper placement. Be aware of any obstructions- overhead wires and tree branches. Barbeque gas grills (including gas hoses) and propane tanks should be inspected prior to use. Rake before you mow to prevent any stones and loose debris from launching into the air. Never operate a mower in your bare feet and avoid wearing loose clothing. Test your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors to ensure they are working. Conduct a fire drill. Review and practice your home escape plan.

I want to thank those who have graciously been helping distribute the Disaster Preparedness Packets throughout the Island.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

PLIC MEETING – – Mike McKenzie

PLIC all-community meeting Tuesday, April 10, 6:30 PM, The Grange Hall. Ferry issues affect every life on Lummi Island. Please plan to attend this meeting for updates and to contribute to discussion about:

Public parking at Gooseberry Point (especially with mass-construction project during dry dock in September).

Permanent Whatcom County/Lummi Island ferry advisory committee appointments by County Council.

Reconstruction of Gooseberry Point staging area for lining up to board the ferry

And, Public Works actions on Ferry Task Force recommendations.

Membership is not required to participate. The meeting is open and respectful to all viewpoints as the PLIC board needs to know what you think, want, need and suggest as the County seeks consensus from Islanders on pertinent issues.

Sarchasm: (n) the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn’t get it.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB PIE SOCIAL – – Mike McKenzie

Save room for dessert Sunday afternoon, April 22, and drop in for a slice of pie (or, for the first time, other choices of baked goods) at the annual Boys & Girls Club Pie (Plus) Social. Come any time between 1:00 and 4:00 PM and enjoy the aroma and taste of some of the Island’s finest bakers, plus a new feature — the chance to take home a whole pie from local professional bakers. A $5 ticket gets you a slice of Pie (Plus) and coffee or bottled water. A “Drop It” container will be set up for $1 extras such as ice cream and whipped cream toppings (for a simple Buck in the Drop-It).

Island bakers needed: If you can contribute your best pie, cake, or other oven specialty for this fund-raiser, please notify Mike at 758.4145 or email mike@beofgoodcheer.com. We have expanded the menu to meet all tastes and preferences. Special need: gluten-free and sugar-free offerings.

A Texan’s guide to life: Never slap a man who’s chewin’ tabaccy.

RECYCLE ALUMINUM CANS 0N ISLAND – – Bud Jewell

The Grange operates a recycle center for aluminum cans with drop-off bins behind the Grange. All funds generated from the sale of these cans are used to benefit the children of Lummi Island and the Lummi Nation Grade school. These benefits include “The Dollywood Imagination Library” which provides an age-appropriate book each month from birth to their 5th birthday, and it pays for the dictionaries handed out to 3rd graders in Beach School and those in the Lummi Nation Grade School. Funds in excess of the needs of these two programs are used to help support the annual scholarship program operated by the Grange for Lummi Island children. As the recycling increases, other Lummi Island programs will benefit. Please deposit recyclable aluminum at the Grange and benefit the children of Lummi Island, not some Off -Island corporation.

For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.

ISLEWARD – – Al Marshall for the Lummi Island Conservancy

A berry we love and hate

Three blackberry species are common on Lummi Island: the native trailing blackberry (best tasting), the evergreen blackberry (deeply cut leaves), and the quite common Himalaya blackberry. Most of us have enjoyed fruit of the Himalaya Blackberry, while at the same time many of us are fighting a loosing battle against its vigorous thorny vines. This invasive non-native readily propagates by bird-planted seeds. It also roots at the tips of its long canes, and in this way it can essentially “walk” across a field, moving by as much as 25 feet in one year.

In response to an inquiry by an Oregon nurseryman, Luther Burbank wrote the following on April 25, 1904: “The Himalaya Blackberry which I sent out several years ago was raised from seed obtained from a collector in the East Indies who collected it somewhere in the Himalaya Mountains. That is as definite as I can tell you. I at once observed its great vigor and productiveness, its high flavor and fine keeping qualities, although the seeds are rather large, and so sent it out in a small way in the Pacific Coast. I should have valued it much higher if it were not for its fierce, hooked prickles. A thornless variety of this would be a great acquisition.”

An undated bulletin issued by the Washington Agricultural Experiment Station (probably early in the 20th century) sings praises for “Burbank’s Himalaya Giant” although it does caution that it “has to be trained to the trellis while young and pliable or it will soon get out of control. Hills should be planted 25 feet apart in the row on account of the great length of its canes.” Growers took readily to the berry partly because it shipped so much better than the any other blackberry available at the time. I feel sure that my grandfather, the inquiring nurseryman mentioned above, was not alone in failing to realize how invasive the plant would become.”

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Ernest Seelye – November 9, 1922 – February 27, 2012

Ernest Marvin Seelye was born to Frank Crandall Seelye and Alfa Bonsil Corcoran, November 9, 1922 on Lummi Island. Ernie has always held a special memory in his heart for his Grandmother Corcoran who delivered him and indicated “this one is too scrawny to raise”. At age 89 he passed away at home in Mount Vernon with the loving support of family, friends, Hospice, and Marion, his wife of 67 years.

Ernie attended school on Lummi Island until he was 14. His family then moved to Kendall where he attended Mt. Baker High School.

His job as a commercial fisherman was interrupted by WWII in which Ernie served in the Marine Corp in the 2nd Marine Division and saw heavy frontline action in the battles of Tulagi/Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian. Near the end of WWII Ernie and Marion were married in Bellingham and spent their first year together at Camp Pendleton, CA.

They returned to start a farm along the Nooksack River at Maple Falls. In 1952 the family moved into “town” at Maple Falls where the front porch of the house was the post office.

Ernie spent 5 years working at the Clausen limestone quarry near Silver Lake, and then spent the remainder of his career logging. In 1964 the family moved to Manchester, WA.

For their very active retirement years Ernie and Marion built a house on Hood Canal at Brinnon. Ernie served on the Brinnon School Board, and the Brinnon Community Church Board. He became an EMT and volunteered with the local fire department. Mt. Vernon became their home in 2001. Ernie continued his habit of major remodeling projects and planted a huge garden, from which he shared produce with family and friends.

Ernie is survived by his wife, Marion, and children, Dan (Chris Quant), Frank (Barbara Sheets), Steve (Margret Bengen), Barbara (Rob) Hylton, , and Chris (Gloria Lorenzo); five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren

The funeral was held March 10th at the Lummi Island Congregational Church.

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

Land Surveyor

Boundaries, Plats, Site Plans, Construction

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3842 Legoe Bay Rd

Lummi Island, WA 360 758 2068

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LUMMI ISLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS – _- 2012___

Officers . Directors .
President: David Thorn Bill Lee Larry Roteman
Vice President: Malcolm Hutchings John Arntsen Tom Weatherby (2 yr)
Secretary: Mike Skehan Tamia Sorensen
Treasurer/Editor/Archivist: Paul Davis

The Tome is the publication of the Lummi Island Community Association and is published monthly except August and December. All subscriptions are on a calendar year basis, January to December. Subscription fee is $6.00 for Lummi Island addresses, $10.00 for off-Island addresses and $6.00 for e-mail delivery. Canadian addresses are $16.00 U.S. funds. Paul Revere e-mail news service is free with any subscription. Free LICA membership is limited to residents and property owners of Lummi Island (18 years and older). Write to LICA, P.O. Box 163, Lummi Island WA 98262; or call Paul Davis, Treasurer and Editor at (360) 758-2414 for information about subscriptions, membership or advertising. E-mail: thetome@lummiislandcable.com

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