Oak Harbor High School DECA students took over Safeway Thursday, Jan. 20, to get some real hands-on experience in the business world. The kids rotated through 14 stations ranging from the floral and bakery departments to the check stands and Starbucks.
In the military
The Whidbey Camano Land Trust announces monthly walking tours starting in January.
How to become a book groupie
People and Places
This week I watched what I consider to be one of the most ridiculous commercials I have ever seen. A mature couple, married a number of years and experiencing emotional stagnation, finally enjoys a renewed sense of excitement after they change their brand of toilet paper.
You’ve got to be kidding me.
For those who live amid the lush forests, picturesque farms and sweeping shores of Whidbey Island, world overpopulation might seem a remote worry. But with Earth’s population at 7 billion and climbing, many people wonder what number the planet can support.
While many students spent their winter break lounging around in front of the television, two Oak Harbor girls were busy polishing up essays for a national scholarship application.
Religion notes
Long ago I figured out a simple fact about myself: I must establish a place and regularly schedule a time in that place to renew. Regroup. Rethink. Recommit. In the winter I like to pull up my favorite leather chair, grab a quilt and sit near our stove in the family room. It’s cozy and warm and welcoming.
Cruisin’ the Washington Fossil Freeway with Artist Ray Troll and Paleontologist Kirk Johnson is coming to Island County Museum, 908 NW Alexander St., Coupeville.
Talking with Coupeville resident Patricia Brooks will likely make you reconsider the choices you’ve made throughout your life. To say she is a woman of principle may be selling her short.
Two per day.
That’s how many cookies the average person eats during the Thanksgiving to Christmas holidays, according to a University of Washington researcher who follows those cookies all the way to Puget Sound, tracing the seasonal spike in cinnamon and vanilla compounds entering marine waters.
