It’s been 24 years since the Lopez Fireworks Committee starting coordinating the fireworks display. And according to long-time committee member and pyrotechnician Dwight Walters, the show is reaching its best-ever performance.
Washington State Ferries is planning in advance for heavy traffic this Fourth of July holiday weekend as many locals and tourists attend the various fireworks displays in the Puget Sound region, from Lopez Island to Point Defiance.
If you’re interested in contributing to Lopez Island’s own radio station, then KLOI wants to hear from you.
Just over a year ago, writer, filmmaker Russ Levine, a long-time Lopezian, decided to turn into reality his dream of a social networking forum in which ordinary citizens join together with film enthusiasts to share their ideas and support other filmmakers.
“It was a deviation,” said Lopez Islander, Dudley “Six” Lapham. “Basic city manager work is the everyday grind of making sure people don’t shoot each other or burn a house down, taking care of the streets, the sewer, the water department, public works, picking up the trash, all pretty mundane stuff, and it was so much fun to switch from that,” Lapham said as he discussed his last full-time position as Manager of the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency. “Their sewer system was bad. It had grown up with cannery row and little entities polluting the south end of Monterey Bay. An amalgamation of seven cities including Pacific Grove, Salinas, and Monterey, the Army, Navy, state, and other organizations received a grant through the Clean Water Act to upgrade the sewer system. The end result was our building a huge new water pollution control treatment plant with reclamation of water. We were brand new to the agency and we made it work. It was a very satisfying job. I was there for the basic planning and consulted for years, even after I retired in 1980.”
Lillian Vega Ortiz, of the Guatemalan Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), will speak at the Lopez Library Meeting Room on Thursday, July 1, at 7 p.m.
Happy Solstice!
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The deadline for submitting to SHARK REEF’s fall issue is June 30.
On July 3 the fifth annual Independence Day concert will benefit the Lopez School Music Advocacy Foundation. The funds raised go toward the foundation’s programs designed to enrich Lopez students’ educational experiences through musical presentations and workshops.
For this month’s book beat the Weekly went out on Lopez to get a little insight into what people are reading. With summertime comes better weather and bigger crowds, so does your reading change with the season? And just what is so great about reading in the summer time?
Hammock time has come again. Smell the fresh-mown grass, upend a cold one and nestle down with a diverting tale from the library.
“Native Plants, Textiles, Baskets: Inspired by Traditions of the Salish Sea” is the new show opening at Chimera Gallery June 12, and continuing through July 9.
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