Students in Janet Sodano’s second- and third-grade class at Olympic View Elementary held a book signing last week to celebrate a special class project. The students just published a book titled “Clouds Imagination in the Sky.” Sodano said the inspiration from the book came from “The Squiggle,” which the students read together last year. In the story, the main character sees a string on the ground and imagines it to be all sorts of things.
Greenbank Farm is planning “The Big Red Barn Sale” for Saturday, Sept. 3, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants are needed for the “one big flea market in one great location.”
The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission invites the public to the sixth annual Salish Sea Native American Culture Celebration with the Samish and Swinomish tribes at Deception Pass State Park on Fidalgo Island, near Oak Harbor.
Fidalgo Youth Symphony awarded five scholarships at its spring concert May 21 at McIntyre Hall to high school seniors.
Religion Notes
When 23-year-old Brittany Weisinger decided to participate in Relay for Life of North Whidbey, she simply did it for fun. Weisinger is studying nursing at Skagit Valley College in Oak Harbor and thought it would be nice to contribute to a student team.
Whidbey Island Naval Air Station will host a commemoration of the Battle of Midway at the Crescent Harbor Marina boat deck on the Seaplane Base, beginning at 9 a.m., Friday, June 3.
Celebrate Billie Tull’s more than four decades as a teacher and child care provider when she retires this week.
Tull has 43 years of day care experience and 21 of those years have been working at the Teddy Bear Child Care Center in Oak Harbor.
Coupeville High School seniors Kyra Ilyankoff and David Lile were honored as “Students of the Quarter” by the Coupeville Lions Club. Their academic achievements, school activities and community involvement were factors teachers noted in choosing to honor them.
This week my husband and I ventured off the rock and flew to California. During work hours he attended a Navy-sponsored environmental law refresher class for civilian employees at Port Hueneme. I spent time in our nearby hometown with his parents who are, in all ways, my parents as well.
This year’s Showcase of the Arts was held April 30 at the Coupeville Recreation Hall. Each year, the Whidbey Island Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) sponsors the show to display the work of artists from all three high schools.
Museums can’t always be about white gloves, fragile artifacts, and yesterday’s news. Every once in a while you have to shake off the dust and that’s just what members of the Island County Historical Society plan to do next week when they convene at the Coupeville Recreation Hall for a ‘60s and ‘70s style boogie.
Never could I have imagined experiencing serenity any sweeter than what I discovered the summer of 1973 when my family toured the Pacific Northwest.
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