In 1994, Leone Argent helped her son put a new roof on her home.
She was 81 years old at the time, moving trusses and doing what needed to be done.
After that, she said she retired from roofing.
On Wednesday, Jan. 29, Argent turned 101.
Driving by on a weekday, you’ll see a guy smiling with a sign in front of Louie-G’s Pizza. He’ll give you a wave as you’re waiting for the light to turn green at the intersection of State Highway 20 and Pioneer Way.
“I just wave at people and they wave back,” Demetrice Wall said. “You wave at someone random that you don’t even know and they wave back.”
As the fog lifted from West Beach parking lot at Deception Pass State Park, bird watchers pulled spotting scopes out of their cars and headed for the beach.
“This is the perfect light this morning,” Jo Reeves said.
It was around 9 a.m. on Saturday, and they were all there to try to spot the red throated loons that would be arriving soon.
If you look up at the second level of a building in historic downtown Oak Harbor, you might see a silhouette of a wolf.
“I love wolves,” Iris Gutman said. “He’s guarding my business.”
Gutman started Oak Harbor Travel and Event Planning a year ago out of her home and just moved into an office on 801 S.E. Pioneer Way.
As fifth grader Catherine Lhamon entered The Honey Bear, she was excited to spend the dollar she’d been allocated.
“There’s 100 cents in a dollar,” she said.
Helene Lhamon, Catherine’s mother, said they’ve been coming down to the store since she could walk.
“Back then, it took us 45 minutes to walk down here, and 45 minutes to walk back,” Helene said.
The Honey Bear will host a fundraiser for the Community Foundation for Coupeville Public Schools Sunday, Jan. 26. Owner Karla Mackintosh said she will donate 100 percent of the profits to the organization.
After deferring approval for three meetings’ minutes, tabling an amendment to the bylaws, postponing electing 2014 commission officers and delaying review of the state auditor’s report — the North Whidbey Park and Recreation District Commissioners meeting came to a close.
“Bring some coffee and tea because it’s going to be a long meeting,” said Commissioner Allan McDougall, referring to the next February meeting.
For 60 years the Greenhouse Florist and Nursery has been a fixture in the Oak Harbor business community.
Siblings and owners, Henry Vanden Haak and Audrey Butler, said the business has been in the family since 1954, but the business itself has been around for nearly 70 years. It used to be in two locations: one on Midway where Traders Village is, and at a second spot called Antone’s Florist.
Oak Harbor is one of 12 locations statewide chosen to host an official Seattle Seahawks rally.
The rally will start at 6 p.m. Friday at Flyers Restaurant and Brewery.
“We’re excited and looking forward to it,” said Jason Tritt, Flyers owner. “It’s going to be an awesome time.”
For anyone wanting to learn more about Puget Sound, Beach Watchers is holding a one-day university with 65 classes.
Sound Waters, now in its 19th year, was started after the first Beach Watchers organization was formed. The program is a Washington State University Extension service which brings volunteers together to educate the public about Puget Sound.
“I’m trying to do my bit to save the planet,” said Julie Ward, publicity chairwoman for Sound Waters.
Coupeville residents could hear the Blue Wave approaching before they could see it.
More than 80 Seahawks fans marched down Main Street on Sunday, Jan. 5 to meet at the Coupeville Wharf, posing for a photo on the pedestrian bridge over State Highway 20.
The procession culminated in a photo at the wharf.
After more than 35 years in dentistry, with 23 years in private practice, Dr. Harry Turner is officially retiring.
“We want to do some traveling,” Turner said. “See the USA in my Chevrolet.”
Turner sold his practice, Acorn Dental Clinic, to Dr. Joseph Keyes. Turner plans to help Keyes with the transition and slowly phase out of the practice. It will take about three months, working four then three days a week, to eventually be retired.
As a new year begins, so does the search for a new director by the North Whidbey Park and Recreation Board of Commissioners.
Bill Walker resigned as director at the end of a commissioners’ meeting Nov. 21. Walker’s last day was Thursday, Dec. 19.
The board is working with a human resource specialist to rewrite its job notice, said Sean Merrill, North Whidbey Park and Recreation District commissioner chairman.
Now that 2014 is here, it’s time to start making those resolutions a reality.
Fitness tops the charts when it comes to putting one’s best foot forward for the new year, and a new Oak Harbor business might help reach those goals.
Kyle Isaacson and Tyson Van Dam opened Rep Fitness on 3075 N. Oak Harbor Road Nov. 18.
