Anacortes Arts Festival
will host Anacortes Recollects at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 20, to honor Wallie Funk, who is this year’s recipient of Anacortes Parton of the Arts Award. Funk was one of the founders of the Anacortes Arts Festival and has been instrumental in encouraging the arts in Anacortes.
For many years, Wallie Funk was editor and publisher of the Whidbey News-Times.
Anacortes Recollects will be held in a vintage setting at the Port of Anacortes warehouse. Vintage clothings is optional. The Hank Sikkenga Quartet will provide music.
Tickets are $35 and are available in Anacortes at Scott Milo gallery, Watermark Books, The Dish and Anacortes Arts Festival office. Call (360) 293-0655 or go to www.anacortesartsfestival.com.
Snowbirds who are spending the winter months in the sunny south are making their way, slowly but surely, back to Whidbey Island, to home. We tell them that when people complain about it raining in the Northwest all of the time, that in the summer the rain is warmer!
Our granddaughters, Lisa and Cindy, who live in Bellingham, visited at their beach cabin this weekend, and stopped off to tell their grandmother hello. The girls are busy skiing in B.C. and the northern part of our state. They are looking forward to a vacation at the beach where they spent a lot of time when they were growing up.
A special chamber of commerce business after hours will be held Thursday, April 18, from 6 to 8 p.m. when Bud and Mia Wallgren invite the public to celebrate the grand opening of their Oak Harbor Les Schwab facility on Highway 20. There will be refreshments and door prizes.
Nathan Liston was born Feb. 6 to Tiffany and Darin Liston. He joins a sister, Noelle.
Jennifer and Dennis McKim announce the arrival of Lauren Marian on March 4. She joins her sisters and a brother, Megan, Kaitlin, Logan and Gillian.
Pastor Carol Harlacher of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and her family will enjoy a holiday in Pender Harbour, north of Vancouver, B.C. The Rev. Chuck Reeder will preach at two services while the Harlachers are gone. Reader is a representative of Food for the Poor Ministry.
Oak Harbor Premier football camp is offering its 12th annual camp, an after-school football turnout that establishes who will be on next year’s teams. Students in grades 10 through 12 start June 4 and culminate on June 14. Cost for the camp is $65. For more information call 279-5447.
Drawings for a new thrift shop were unveiled by executive director Mike McIntyre at Senior Services of Island County’s annual meeting March 12. If all goes well, construction may begin this summer.
Golden years are really metallic years; gold in the tooth, silver in the hair, and lead in the pants. And if you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old!
Army Pvt. Allen Dade Jr., son of Lannette Dade of Oak Harbor and Allen Dade Sr., of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., has entered basic training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. He is a 2001 graduate of Bonita High School in La Verne, Calif.
June Baltazar of Oak Harbor, a senior majoring in international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, is among those students who serve as a Eucharistic minister and as a lector at the Alibrandi Catholic Center, which serves more than 4,000 Catholic students.
