The Whidbey Playhouse is about to get hit hard. Literally. For at what other theater show can the audience throw things, shout and dress up like never before than the “Rocky Horror Picture Show?”
The multitude of yellow flags near the Scenic Heights Trail didn’t signify a game of croquet. Instead, it denoted the path of the pet poop patrol as each flag marked a pile of dog waste owners declined to dispose of properly.
Oak Harbor High School Associate Principal Bill Weinsheimer was named the new principal of North Whidbey Middle School. He is replacing Laura Aesoph, who accepted the principal position at Olympic View Elementary School as current principal Martha Adams is retiring.
Weinsheimer taught philosophy and science for 10 years and has been associate principal at OHHS for seven years, four of which he managed the ninth-grade Island program.
Enthusiasm and education are blooming at the Greenbank Farm Master Gardener Display Garden with a variety of free, public classes that dig deeper than ordinary garden classes.
Screams of delight from children on spinning carnival rides, the scents of greasy food and even warm sunshine imparted an air of festivity to Oak Harbor’s Holland Happening weekend April 28 and 29.
The community forums for discussing the Oak Harbor School District draft levy wrapped up this week and the school board hopes to make a decision about what they will ask property owners to fork over in the February 2013 levy election.
The board meeting Monday, April 30, may decide the issue.
Sno-Isle Libraries offer a wide variety of activities for children, and events featuring authors and musicians. But now, there’s something for adults, too.
You can’t get more Dutch than Elmer Veldheer’s hand carved wooden “klompen” shoes. Add in a lively Oak Harbor parade, thrilling carnival and street fair stocked with local items, and you’ve got Oak Harbor’s Holland Happening weekend.
Elmer Veldheer was named Grand Marshal for the 2012 Holland Happening Parade. He and his wife, Marlene, are flying in from Holland, Mich., for the festivities, which take place Friday, April 27 through Sunday, April 29.
It meant commitment to early morning practices and hard work at Saturday meets, plus the discipline, leadership and precision expected of students in the Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps. But their perseverance paid off as the Oak Harbor High School NJROTC Wildcat Battalion qualified for the regional meet, which will be held at Oak Harbor High School Saturday, April 28.
As Olympic View Elementary School Principal Martha Adams plans to retire at the end of this school year, she said she has a lot to be proud of in the five years she led the school.
Laura Aesoph, principal of North Whidbey Middle School, will take over as Olympic View principal next school year.
“I just decided I would retire while I still enjoyed my job and while I’m still kind of at the top of my game,” Adams said.
Whidbey Island may not be hopping with shopping malls or a cinema showing 20 movies at once, but it is alive with countless things to do, and Deb Crager is happy to share 101 of those activities.
This is no ordinary walk in the woods. This is a run, at the mercy of nature and knowledge of your surroundings. This is an adrenaline-packed race through thorny bushes, over logs and into mud that takes brains as well as brawn.
The Oak Harbor School Board and community members selected a preferred levy option for the 2014 local levy at Monday night’s school board meeting.
Superintendent Rick Schulte said plans are for the school board to finalize a levy decision at the April 30 or May 14 board meeting, after further community discussion at levy meetings at 6 p.m. Mondays, April 16 and 23, held in the school district office.
