When grass fields were cut near Michael Crump’s house in Oak Harbor in early June, he got a bird’s- eye view of a spectacular nature show.
When strawberries are in season on Whidbey Island, Colleen VanDyke knows that her phone will start ringing between 7 and 7:30 each morning.
Rick Cruz didn’t come into the first day of salmon season with high expectations.
“All I want is a bump, to feel the darn thing again,” Cruz said.
Angie Ingram’s hands are full, a familiar pose for the mother of three young children. As she surveys the evening’s…
When strawberries are in season on Whidbey Island, Colleen VanDyke knows that her phone will start ringing between 7 and 7:30 each morning.
Pat Hawley has become quite a poet since retiring as a high school drama teacher but finding the right words to express her sentiments Thursday morning wasn’t easy.
When Ricardo Reyes first got involved with the Coupeville Lions Club three years ago and learned about the organization’s annual garage sale, one of the members took him to where donated items were stored.
Jason Linson isn’t ready to quit his day job just yet.
As the owner of his own small construction company, Linson likes working for himself and producing the sort of results that lead to more jobs.
But after getting a taste of life as a pampered photo shoot model, Linson can still dream.
In an effort to attract more visitors to Pioneer Way on the Fourth of July, Oak Harbor’s downtown merchants are adding a car show to the mix.
Anyone with a slick car or motorcycle they’d like to show off is invited to participate in the Motorized Classics show, organized by the Downtown Merchants Association.
From 2-5 p.m. July 4, cars will be allowed to park on Pioneer Way as long as they’re registered in the show. There are more than 90 parking spaces available with room elsewhere if needed, said Kathy Collantes, who’s running the event and is a broker at Go Realty on Pioneer.
When Michelle Curry agreed last year to organize hydroplane races in Oak Harbor this summer, she knew she was facing a tight deadline and some uncharted waters.
First, she had never attended a hydroplane race before. Yet she was now in charge of the Oak Harbor Hydroplane Races.
“Not even Seafair,” said Curry, a real estate loan officer at People’s Bank in Oak Harbor. “My first race was the first weekend of September last year in Spanaway down at nationals. I wanted to see exactly what I had gotten myself into.”
As much as Don and Vickie Sullivan admire the colorful sea of poppies poking from their garden beds, there’s a part of them that wishes nature could have delayed this spectacular show a little while longer.
Watching what they guess are 10,000 poppies in near, partial or full bloom is a sight to see, and the Sullivans just hope that a good portion continue to display their beauty two weeks from now.
His iPad is a constant whirl of activity.
Dan Ollis keeps the device handy for communication on the fly. As president of a buzzing coffee company with 122 employees, he’s often on the go, figuring that his office is as much in the front seat of his black Chevy Tahoe than at any chair behind a desk.
“I’m in the people business,” Ollis said.
During two nights this summer, lodging at the Camp Casey Conference Center will reach capacity with every bed and bunk filled.
Robyn Myers, manager of conference services, estimates that number to be about 600, which for at least one night in July and another in August, will make the population of Camp Casey greater than the population of 100 small towns in Washington.
