Here’s an update on Island County Veterans Memorial.
Contributors were expecting the memorial at Island County courthouse in Coupeville would be finished by May 2003. Construction delays on the courthouse have pushed completion to August or September.
Because of the delay, the time to purchase commemorative bricks has been extended. Whidbey Island Bank’s Coupeville branch have forms available and will accept the $100 fee for the brick. To have a form mailed to an address, call Bill Ethridge, 675-1323, or Jack McPherson, 678-6543. Sales will be cut off without notice when the foundry gets the word to deliver the bricks.
Island Art for Veterans, the group organizing the memorial, regrets the delay. One member said, “This is just like combat. Nothing goes according to plan.”
R.R. “Rip” and Dee Harbour spent three days sailing to Lopez Island on their boat, “Fiddler’s Green.”
4-H needs superintendents for competitions: public presentations, foods and nutrition, clothing and needlework, performing arts and applied arts.Projects may include computer science, bicycles, environmental science, photography, small engines, entomology, sportfishing and astronomy. Call Judy Feldman at 679-7328.or e-mail judyf@co.island.wa.us
Wyoma Vale visited her daughter Shana Paul and her husband Robert in St. Louis, Mo., recently. She also visited her son Scott Connolly and his family: wife Kathleen, daughters Mea, 5, and Chloe, 2, in Chicago. Mea was in her first ballet recital and Scott received his master’s degree in business from Kellogg-Northwest University in Chicago.
Jami Garcia, a 2001 graduate of Oak Harbor High School, has been selected to receive a $2,000 scholarship awarded by Tailhook Educational Foundation. He is one of 26 students to receive such a scholarship which is given to children of Navy personnel who served on an aircraft carrier in their career. Winners are chosen based on grades, class standing, SAT results, community service and letters of recommendation.
While attending Oak Harbor High School, Garcia earned three academic letters and was in symphonic band. She competed on the track team and earned a varsity letter in cross country. She is on the dean’s list at Eastern Washington University where she will be a junior in the school of dental hygiene. She is the daughter of Lt. Cmdr. Stephen A. Garcia, who was killed flying an A-6E Intruder at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station Aug. 8, 1989.
Emily Hancock of Coupeville has been awarded a $750 scholarship by the state association of Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington. Hancock, 19, is a senior at Western Washington University majoring in English literature and political science where she maintains a 3.5 grade point average. She is an active lifetime member of Whidbey Island Chapter No. 6 of Daughters of the Pioneers.
Hancock received her associate in arts university and college transfer degree from Skagit Valley College in 2002, while graduating from Anacortes High School. She completed a quarter of study at Western Washington University before her high school graduation and AAUCT commencement, the only Anacortes School District student to have done so.
Hancock is a member of Western’s crew team. During 2002-2003, she rowed with novice and junior varsity eights, as well as novice fours. In April, her novice eight boat captured the Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference Championship at Lake Stevens, competing against crews from University of Puget Sound, Humboldt State University and Lewis and Clark College. Hancock’s season culminated with the Windermere Cup May 3, at Montlake Cut, in which she rowed in Western’s junior varsity eight boat. WWU was the only NCAA Division 2 school invited.
Hancock will graduate in 2004, at which time she plans to attend law school. She is the daughter of Alan and Elizabeth Hancock of Coupeville.
