Then and now: Island County Fairgrounds Pole Building
Photos courtesy of Linda Beeman
Here is the Island County Fairgrounds Pole Building as it appears today and, below, as it appeared in 1938. The building was one result of the Works Progress Adminstration, which funded thousands of construction projects in the 30s to get Americans back to work .
A stimulus antidote to our nation’s Great Depression, the federal government’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded thousands of construction projects in the 1930s to get Americans working again.
May 16, 2012
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Whidbey General celebrates Nurses Week with education
Whidbey General Hospital joined the nation in recognizing nurses during National Nurses Week, which is celebrated annually during the week of May 6.
U.S. Climate Versus Weather Computers: Climate Wins
Why is the U.S. government provide hugely more computer resources for climate prediction than weather prediction? And why is far more emphasis given to climate prediction research than weather prediction research and development?In some past blogs I talked about the unfortunate lack of computer resources available to the National Weather Service (NWS), resulting in the...
Lilacs
Some pretty flowers a friend brought...
Cold Records with Warm Temperatures
On Saturday it became toasty here in Northwest, with many locations gets into the 70s and lower 80s. Yet a number of locations exprienced daily minimum temperature records in the morning--here is the proof from the National Climatic Data Center records website. The blue dot indicate a tie for the record and stations with an...
Film addresses the children of Abraham
On Wednesday, May 23, at 7 p.m. a video presentation and discussion on contemporary Israel-Palestine will be held at St. Augustine’s-in-the-Woods.
May 11, 2012
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Health and harmony with Christian Science
“The human thought must free itself from self-imposed materiality and bondage.” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.)
May 11, 2012
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Quakers offer silent worship
Whidbey Island Quakers will hold their regular one hour of silent worship Sunday, May 13, from 4 to 5 p.m., meditating upon the Quaker peace and justice witness.
May 11, 2012
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Looking for love in the right place
Join Unity of Whidbey Sunday, May 13, at 10 a.m. as Rev. Joanna Gabriel explores that continuous quest of looking for love and how this quest ends when we realize what we are really looking to find.
May 11, 2012
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Flower Communion, child dedication
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island will hold an intergenerational service including a flower communion and a child dedication Sunday, May 13 at 10 a.m.
May 11, 2012
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The Littles find Greenbank support
Dale and Ann Little, missionaries from the Evangelical Free Church of Canada Missions, will visit Whidbey Evangelical Free Church in Greenbank on Sunday, May 13.
May 11, 2012
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