After 18 years of dedicated service to OPALCO members, Ginny Reagles has decided to retire. Since 1995, Ginny has been the recognizable “voice of OPALCO” and a familiar face to many members in her role as a Member Services Representative in the Eastsound office.
Congratulations to Lisa Byers, Lovell Pratt and Bob Jarman for their recent primary victories. I look forward to seeing each of you over the next few months on the campaign trail.
It has come to my attention that emails containing a video of me are circulating. The video was first posted on a blog, then emailed from one real estate agent to another on San Juan. The video is a five-minute excerpt of a speech I gave in June 2012. The excerpt is at http://vimeo.com/47054431, and the panel discussion is at: http://vimeo.com/47054429).
At a special board meeting on Feb.13, the Lopez Island School Board voted unanimously to place a bond measure for a major school renovation project on the April 23 ballot for voter consideration.
Congratulations to Lisa Byers, Lovell Pratt and Bob Jarman for their recent primary victories.
First I want to congratulate Rick Hughes, Bob Jarman, Lovel Pratt and Lisa Byers for their strong showing, clearing the primary and going on to the general election. Second is that I want to thank my team, and the voters that put their trust in me with their vote. And to my contributors, I thank you for the assistance and confidence. I cannot thank you all enough.
I have worked with Greg Ayers for many years, both at the Orcas Grange and helping he and Pat build their home. He is very creative and hard working, functioning well using his organizational skills to help our diverse collection of actors, building sets and working back-stage.
In 2005, a handful of Orcas Firefighters responded to a request by Bureau of Land Management to burn/demolish an old dilapidated building. This event created the Patos Fire Department. Since that day, an amazing collection of volunteers, annually trek to the island to do campground maintenance, trail clearing and savannah restoration of the fields around the lighthouse.
The Orcas Eagle Forum recently solicited answers to questions from county council candidates.
Contrary to the public accusations being made by some, San Juan County’s council elections are not being poisoned by powerful special interest groups or party machines.
This morning I found on my Facebook newsfeed a paid (sponsored) posting ridiculing county council candidate Lovel Pratt and showing her in a Nazi uniform. The ad and picture were from a Facebook page that comments on San Juan County politics. The page itself is anonymous – the author’s name does not appear. The posting was later removed by Facebook for violating its community standards on hate speech.
We tried the six-member district council form of county government and I am pleased that we will now have three commissioners as recommended by the Charter Review Committee and adopted by voters in November.
I had seen Lovel Pratt in action at council meetings before. She had always seemed thoughtful, well-informed and thorough. So last summer, even though she was not our representative on the council, I approached her about the concerns a number of us on Lopez had about possible environmental damage from the transit of Cape-size ships through our waters to the proposed Gateway Pacific Coal Terminal at Cherry Point. She was terrific.
