Editor,
We want to thank all in the communities of Langley, Coupeville and Oak Harbor who participated in the 63rd Annual National Day of Prayer observances held on May 1.
Editor,
We want to thank all in the communities of Langley, Coupeville and Oak Harbor who participated in the 63rd Annual National Day of Prayer observances held on May 1.
Editor,
A sense of community is something my father and I talked about regularly over the years, specifically how the success of a person depends a great deal not only on the support at home but also their neighbors.
He and his loving wife moved to Oak Harbor in spring 2013 and, in a short amount of time, they got involved.
Editor,
Let me begin by saying I’m happy that Garrett Newkirk is being kept from polluting on your websites.
It’s an important step in getting the Whidbey community back to some kind of normal, civil dialogue, plus welcoming and respectful of our military.
Editor,
I am pleased to announce we just completed another successful “Drug Take Back Day” on Saturday, April 26.
Editor,
“Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.” Isaiah 5:8.
Or, put another way, “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. They paved paradise and put it a parking lot.” Joni Mitchell.
Editor,
I never thought I’d be writing a Letter to the Editor about fairy tales, but Michael Monson’s April 12 letter, “Don’t Be a Chicken Little over Jet Noise,” prompts me to do so.
Monson’s a master at leaving data and evidence out of his arguments. He claims that the COER does not want the Naval Air Station to close, yet when closing it was being considered, former COER President Ken Pickard said, “There was hope when the NAS was placed on the BRAC list.”
Editor,
I believe it’s time for a little history lesson regarding the Whidbey News Time’s article, “Hospital board to consider Bayview property sale.”
The article notes that, “As for the wide gulf between the county’s assessed value of the property in 2007 and the purchase price, the circumstances remain unclear. None of the current commissioners were on the board at th
Editor,
Our elected officials go behind closed doors and plan the execution of the very symbol of Oak Harbor.
They destroyed the “oak.”
Editor,
What a privilege to have the Seattle Men’s Chorus return to Whidbey Island to perform a benefit concert for Citizens Against Domestic and Sexual Abuse, or CADA.
Editor,
Reading all the negative letters concerning the cutting of the post office Garry oak tree, it seems to me that the ones protesting its removal most are the ones with the least knowledge of the health of the tree and the hazard it had become.
Editor,
There once was a chicken named Chicken Little who, when an acorn fell on its head, thought the sky was falling.
Chicken Little ran around convincing many people that the “sky is falling, the sky is falling.” Many of the farm animals all ran around in a tizzy yelling “the sky is falling, the sky is falling.” They ran to find the king and tell the king the sky is falling.
Editor,
Since moving to Whidbey Island nine years ago, a repeated theme coming from Island County is that of lack of funding for critical issues, crime prevention, public health, the court system, etc.
Editor,
The time has come to change the town’s name to just “Harbor” since the Oak has been removed.
Barb Bland
Oak Harbor