Floyd and Connie Wheelis returned from their honeymoon trip to Italy recently and told of their tour at the monthly meeting of Agape, a meeting for lunch at the First Baptist Church each month. They flew British Airways from Vancouver B.C., to Heathrow Airport in London, then bussed for a flight to Naples. The couple toured Rome and the Vatican in a 12-person bus. They brought home with them Vatican pictures and were interviewed on Armed Forces TV. Floyd was stationed in Italy in 1962.
Tickets for Coupeville Lions’ annual shopping spree will be available Nov. 1. Lions Club members will be accepting $1 donations for tickets at Whidbey Island Bank Nov. 1 and 8; and at Red Apple Nov. 1, 2, 8 and 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The shopping spree will be Saturday Nov. 16 at Coupeville’s Red Apple Market. The winner gets three minutes to throw anything they can in the cart plus $50 in meat. Proceeds go to projects in the community.
Chris Brainard is now the owner of the Colophon Cafe in old town Fairhaven. Chris has worked at the cafe for a number of years. He is the son of Lee and Hugh Brainard of Oak Harbor.
Alan Marshal, son of Mavis “Chic” Schulle of Oak Harbor, came to visit his mother while attending the homecoming celebration at Oak Harbor High School.
The PBY Memorial Association, that meets each month on the last Tuesday, will have no November meeting this year because of the holiday crunch. Gabrielle Thurman, director of Island County Historical Society, was the speaker lastweek at the CPO luncheon meeting, and told how PBYMA fits into a cooperative plan with Island County Historical Society. Next meeting will be in December.
Received a letter this week from Alice Elles, in Bellingham, former Whidbey Press reporter for Women’s Page activities. She noted that she had recently attended a Concert on the Cove, and was amazed at how much Oak Harbor has changed. She is still doing yardwork, and dancing a couple times a week at the Senior Center. She also took some lessons recently on her C melody sax. Alice’s son, Felix, took early retirement at the end of the school year and he and his wife are on a one year sabbatical from the university. They are remodeling a home on Lummi Island and have time for sailing and music.
Western Washington University junior Kira Wood, daughter of John and Trish Wood of Coupeville, has been awarded a $1,400 Bruce Shelton Endowment Scholarship for the 2002-2003 year.
Wood is a business major and member of Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. The Bruce Shelton Endowment Scholarship is awarded to graduates of Whatcom Community College or Skagit Valley College studying for an undergraduate business degree.
North Whidbey Lions recognized some of their own at their Fall Forum Lions Convention Oct. 5. Jim Waldron received the President’s Excellence award and Bud Rodewald received the Zone Chairman award. Garry Lutz was handed two, the Secretaries Award and the Secretary Efficiency Award, which is presented by Lions International because of his involvement beyond what was required. He was selected for this award out of 500 plus clubs.
Army Pvt. Allen T. Dade, Jr., has graduated from the light-wheel vehicle mechanic advanced individual training (AIT) course at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. Dade is a 2001 graduate of Bonita High School in LaVerne, Calif., and is the son of Allen T. Dade, Sr., of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., and Lanette K. Dade of Oak Harbor.
