After a round of jubilant licking and prancing, Kaida stretched out on the floor. As her owners thrilled about her accomplishments of Best in Show and Grand Champion, Kaida yawned, the picture of nonchalance, and took a nap.
The 2-year-old Shiba Inu had a busy weekend winning two Best of Breed awards at the Wenatchee Kennel Club. Her fancy registered name is “Dragon House That Jones Girl!”
When Dr. Jane Mays started her pediatrician clinic in Oak Harbor in 1979, she hoped to retire in the same gorgeous, rural place. Now that dream is coming true.
Mays was the first female doctor on Whidbey Island. Her one-person office in a small, rented room in downtown Oak Harbor transformed into Pediatric Associates of Whidbey Island — after a few moves and plenty of hard work.
“I adore being involved in the lives of children and young families,” Mays said. “Seeing them go from cradle to professionals has been the most rewarding of all.”
In Uganda, war tears families apart. Orphaned children are left starving and sleeping in the streets. To these children who have nothing, a home means everything.
The Watoto Children’s Choir from Uganda will perform in Oak Harbor to raise money for the Watoto Child Care Ministry, a care program that rescues orphans living on the street, gives them safe homes and raises them to be educated leaders.
The simple thread that allowed Robert Wagner to visit every continent in the world and every state in the nation, to meet former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton and to lecture aboard the Queen Elizabeth II was wine. But the spirited way Wagner got to where he is today is a recipe all his own.
The tentative four-year contract between Public School Employees of Oak Harbor and the Oak Harbor School District calls for no wage or benefit changes this year.
“I think everyone involved recognized that current economic conditions have left the district with little if anything extra to offer financially,” Kurt Schonberg, the district’s director of human resources, said in a press release. “On the other hand, we were able to improve and update many aspects of the contract in ways beneficial to everyone.”
People of all ages gathered at Windjammer Park for the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony Sunday, memories of the terrorist attacks in 2001 flooding back to them.
“I can’t believe it’s 10 years. It seems like yesterday,” Marilynn Capen said. Her daughter had joined the Navy to fund college before the attacks. Capen said she remembered that on Sept. 11, 2001 the phone started ringing, calling everyone back to the base, including her daughter.
Smiles and excited chatter filled the air as students at Oak Harbor Elementary School lined up to begin their first day of school Thursday.
New kindergartners Cianna Christ and Colin Shishido chased each other in circles around their watchful parents. Cianna said fishing was the highlight of her summer vacation but she was all smiles as she said she was excited to start school and see her friends.
Nearly 150 Oak Harbor teachers filled their brains with strategies for teaching students lifelong reading skills at classes funded by a $2.16-million grant from the Department of Defense.
Almost 100 percent of the district preschool through fifth grade teachers became students last week at the Reading Academy. They were immersed in five days of viewing brain diagrams showing how students receive and retain information, charts to assess student reading accuracy and strategies to improve students’ vocabulary.
Television actress Myra Marlowe is tired of the crazy, shallow people in Hollywood — until she meets her new neighbors in cozy Beaver Haven, the perfect little town where she planned to disappear to write her autobiography and grow the perfect tomato.
Too bad Beaver Haven is anything but perfect. And there aren’t even any beavers.
Middle school students in Oak Harbor will get a boost in their life skills education thanks to a class sponsored by the Oak Harbor Lions Club.
Students returning to Oak Harbor and Coupeville schools will notice some changes as the new school year begins next week.
