We all remember Valentine’s Day. We eat chocolates and heart-shaped candies, we watch sappy movies, we spend time with our loved ones; some of us eschew those traditions and instead celebrate Singles Awareness Day, eating chocolates and heart-shaped candies, watching sappy movies, and cynically declaring disdain for the commercial exploitation of this holiday.
Fay W. McBrayer, 80, passed away, Jan. 2, 2012, in Bellevue, Wash.
She was born June 6, 1931, in Birmingham, Alabama. She had been a resident of both Mercer Island and Lopez Island, WA, for the past 20 years.
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Join the Locavores for our winter Evening Meals at School on Thursday, January 26th, 5:30-7 p.m. for a menu featuring squash, lentil and kale soup, potato cakes with leeks, winter slaw with mustard vinaigrette, and spiced apple cranberry bars.
And our next film “Cafeteria Man” about chef, Tony Geraci and the greening of the Baltimore City schools lunch program will screen on Sunday, Jan. 29, 4:30 p.m., at Port Stanley School.
When Sarah Stanley, a senior at Lopez High School, took a class called Current World Problems and Solutions, she had to choose a topic and make a presentation to her peers. She chose to research the crisis in Darfur, located in the western region of Sudan.
In her own words, Stanley describes how this class made an impact on her and eventually led to a benefit concert.
A typhoon in Tonga pushed Dean and Carolyn Jacobsen to move full-time to Lopez in 1982.
When a loose 42-footer smashed into their smaller sailboat, Carolyn broke 15 bones and nearly died, so the recovery period gave them plenty of time to think.