The public is invited to comment on a new plan for the parks, trails, and natural areas of San Juan County.
The fifth annual Concourse de Elegance is Aug. 14. Each year the event grows in size and reputation, with vehicles now coming from as far afield as Seattle. “The Concourse de Elegance is is a meeting of all kinds of classic antique, classic cars,” says Tex Gieling, who co-founded the event with Helen Cosgrove and continues to coordinate it.
It’s That Time Again…
When Ronnda Cadle was about 15 years old, a song on the radio changed her life. The song was “Crazy On You” and, as Ronnda says, “I asked someone who the guy was playing the guitar…they said that someone was a woman.”
On Aug. 10 there will be a chance to experience Baroque music on Lopez. Local oboist and flutist Sand Dalton will perform with friends at 7:30 p.m. in Grace Church.
What is Already Big
As if by alchemy, the old violin case becomes a whimsical deer, a sparkplug morphs into a dragonfly, and a wooden bell takes flight as a bee.
“Dad sold a heifer. That’s how we paid for my school each semester when I went to Washington State,” said Lopez Island native, Joan Congdon.
It was a sunny August morning in 2006 when members of Mamatamba, a Lopez vocal ensemble, gathered with Musekiwa Chingodza and learned several Zimbabwean songs to perform together at the Port of Friday Harbor.
A New Month
Such a vital, vivid personality! We, her housemates, have been saddened indeed by Hildegarde Goss’s passing.
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is the third novel in the Lisbeth Salander trilogy by Stieg Larsson.