One of the coolest products for the Northwest is Rain-X, the magical stuff that knocks water right off your windshield.
Yes, civilians are painfully aware of active and retired military families spoiling the rural character of Whidbey Island. Most say go away, let us have our tranquility back. We enjoy driving down the highway without dangerous congestion. Yes, we remember how big Oak Harbor was before the Navy. If you want to live in a big town please move.
Tuesday’s gala welcoming of the the first EA-18G Growler to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station was the official beginning of a bright future for Oak Harbor.
Many families in Washington are struggling. Property taxes are rising and the costs for fuel and food are skyrocketing. These added costs, along with some unscrupulous subprime mortgage lenders, have undermined the American dream for too many families in our state and around the nation.
Mr. Average Citizen: Tell me, Mr. Capitol Hill Observer, what is Congress doing about this $4 a gallon gasoline? It’s killing me. Memorial Day Weekend we stayed home and ate raw hot dogs. We couldn’t afford gas or charcoal lighter fluid.
The Oak Harbor City Council last week made it possible for long-time city pier supporters to realistically imagine the presence of a pier in our lifetimes.
I’ve always had a slight problem with dyslexia. However, “backward thinking” isn’t always a disadvantage. These days it seems to be critical to understanding environmental issues, like the current global food crisis.
Habitual readers of obituaries can’t help but notice that a lot of the guys in the listings are pictured holding a fish. This happens occasionally in the Whidbey News-Times, and continually in The Herald of Everett. It must the the Scandinavian heritage. You see more fish-picture obituaries in The Herald than the Seattle Times, which has four times the circulation.
The value of combining Whidbey Island’s school districts is an idea that has existed for some time and is worth exploring further. Without analysis, it is hard to say if the exercise would improve each school district’s current financial circumstances.
System must change first
As the period for requesting intra-district transfers (May 13 through June 6) draws near, one feels compelled to ask those form-filling-out folks, have you considered your neighborhood elementary school?
In January 1986 as a third year teacher I listened with pride as our nation’s first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe, blasted off in the space shuttle Challenger. I was due at a meeting, I turned the radio off before the explosion. And in the time that it took me to walk to the office of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, seven astronauts were dead, eulogized by President Reagan that evening as having “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to ”touch the face of God.”
A disturbing new trend in roadside litter leaves us wondering about the future of Whidbey Island.
