Foreign exchange students said goodbye to Soroptimist International of Oak Harbor members at a recent breakfast as the students prepare to leave for their home countries. They were greeted in September when they arrived for a year’s schooling. Pol said he could speak good English when he came here last year, now he can speak good American.
Andrew Rodman, son of Darryl and Martha Rodman, is a sophomore in his third quarter at Seattle Pacific University. He will have a full time job at the university library this summer.
Craig Vanderstoep has left for Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Craig and three friends, Ken, Rob and Brent will be bicycling across the U.S. from Kentucky to Oak Harbor in August.
Barbara Williston, who worked for many years at Oak Harbor City Hall, writes that it has been seven years since they left for the Methow Valley. John Williston is in real estate sales with John L. Scott Realty. For two years, Barbara was treasurer for Soroptimists International in Oak Harbor. Barbara and John took up skiing cross-country last year. Barbara said she felt truly blessed for having called Oak Harbor home for 22 years.
Ann Stanek, a 1992 graduate of Oak Harbor High School, will receive a doctor of medicine degree from University of Washington School of Medicine June 7, 2003. Ann is the daughter of James and Kuniko Stanek and wife of James Elerick.
After graduation, Dr. Stanek will begin her obstetrics and gynecology residency at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Ore.
Get your appetites ready for July 4! North Division firefighters host their annual pancake breakfast from 7-11 a.m. at Taylor Road Fire Station, 3440 Taylor Road. All you can eat pancakes, ham, scrambled eggs, coffee and orange juice. Adults, $4.50; children 6-12, $2.50; children under age 6 eat for free. Supports fire association activities including Christmas and Thanksgiving baskets for Help House, Give Burns a Boot, cancer walk, annual salmon barbecue.
Admiralty Head Lighthouse at Fort Casey celebrates its centennial in August. Friends of the Lighthouse is offering free postcards to businesses and residents. The sepia-toned cards feature a rarely-seen photograph of Fort Casey under construction in 1916. The Red Bluff Lighthouse, the first wooden-frame lighthouse in the West, is seen in foreground with its replacement, Admiralty Head Lighthouse, in the background. Admiralty Head was built in 1903 and Red Bluff Lighthouse was dismantled to make room for more Fort Casey installations.
The postcards carry a Web site address where people can find updated information on centennial programs and accommodations. Businesses and residents can pick up postcards at island chambers of commerce or the lighthouse.
Admiralty Head Lighthouse and Fort Casey are well known and well visited landmarks on Whidbey Island. Last year, 690,683 visitors from nearly every part of the world toured the lighthouse and park.
