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    January 30, 2009 9:09 pm

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    Islanders will rally for ferry funding Feb. 18 Islanders will rally for ferry funding Feb. 18
    Islanders will rally for ferry funding Feb. 18...
    January 30, 2009 9:09 pm

    Residents of the San Juans and Anacortes will rally Feb. 18 in Olympia to pursuade legislators to preserve ferry funding. They hope to go armed with vox populi, in the form of a petition. The petition is online at www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?plancfcp&101

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    Ellen Goodman
    Ellen Goodman
    January 30, 2009 9:08 pm

    BOSTON — It must be the world’s longest-running game of ideological pingpong. In 1984, Ronald Reagan aimed an overhand smash at international organizations, pledging that America would no longer give family planning money to any group that even counseled or referred women for abortions. Ping.

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    Community Calendar
    Community Calendar
    January 30, 2009 9:08 pm

    Community Calendar

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    Public Disclosure Forum
    Public Disclosure Forum
    January 30, 2009 9:08 pm

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    San Juan County Parks enthused over Volunteer Program
    January 30, 2009 9:07 pm

    Budget cutbacks everywhere are causing local programs to pursue different and creative ways of maintaining services. This is especially true of the county park services, whose amenities and locations offer sanctuary to visitors and islanders alike.

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    Island Recreation’s Start Smart second session added!
    Island Recreation’s Start Smart second session added!
    January 27, 2009 5:00 pm

    Island Rec’s Start Smart Sports Development class for 3-5 year olds filled up so quick that a second session has been added. The second session will be held on Saturdays, Feb. 14th-March 21 at 11:15 am-12:15 pm.

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    Southern resident orcas must yell above the din
    Southern resident orcas must yell above the din
    January 23, 2009 7:50 pm

    Friday Harbor, Wa. — A new research paper published by researchers working closely with The Whale Museum shows that the endangered killer whales of Puget Sound raise their voices in direct proportion with increasing underwater noise; that increasing underwater noise correlates with increasing numbers of vessels in the neighborhood of the whales.

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    Marine Science Lecture Series
    Marine Science Lecture Series
    January 23, 2009 7:49 pm

    On February, 3rd at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Gene Helfman will give a free public lecture entitled “Fascinating Fishes of the Pacific Northwest” for the Orcas Island Marine Lecture Series. This lecture also will be given for the Lopez Community on February 4th at 7 p.m

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    Inauguration celebrations in the islands
    Inauguration celebrations in the islands
    January 23, 2009 7:49 pm

    At the Outlook Inn, Eastsound, Orcas, the inauguration celebration for 44th President Barack Obama took place on a frosty, foggy Tuesday; co-coordinator Nancy Schafer commented, “It was great! About 100 people came and there were adults as well as lots of kids; people were very much in a celebratory mood. We all watched a recording of the speech, and some other pieces put together by Chris Thomerson, a local media guru. One was a speech prior to the music performance on Sunday, as well as Pete Seeger singing This Land is Your Land. There was a strong community focus and lots of spirit. Obama himself visited in the form of a lifesize cardboard cutout….we ordered him through a store in Seattle with no way of getting him here….we were able to to transport him from Boeing field via Kenmore Air, but he got fogged in. Then the next day he was able to get on the flight, but only to Friday Harbor; this cardboard cutout went through a whole lot of trouble to make it here, but thanks to the coordination of people on different islands, he arrived safely.”

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    Ellen Goodman
    Ellen Goodman
    January 23, 2009 7:49 pm

    WASHINGTON — And so it was over. Just like that. The moving trucks behind the White House packed up 43 and unpacked 44. George W. Bush accompanied the man who had pilloried him up to the Capitol. Barack H. Obama was sworn in to office by the chief justice he had voted against confirming.

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    Top: Amalia Driscoll today Bottom: Amalia Driscoll in the Women’s Marine Corps Reserve. Once upon an island: tales from Lopez
    Spotlight on Seniors
    January 23, 2009 7:49 pm

    “I tried too much. I had a naive belief in my own power. I was intense and had boundless energy, but no longer.” Amalia Driscoll said as she turned off classical music playing in her apartment. A delicate yellow teacup rested beside a massive biography of FDR, open to where she had been reading.

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    Stagnant air warning
    Stagnant air warning
    January 23, 2009 7:48 pm

    OLYMPIA – Stagnant air that’s enveloping the state is causing pollution to build up, which poses risks to people’s health.

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