When you’re battling the high cost of housing, there’s nothing like a freebie. And once you get a free house, there’s nothing like some free labor to spruce it up.
From a little booth at the end of his driveway along Fox Spit Road, JaNoah Spratt is living proof you’re never too young to make a difference.
“I just wanted to help out with the hungry and stuff,” he said. “And I’ve found a way to do it.”
The surge to clean up Holmes Harbor appears to be working. You still can’t eat the shellfish, but you can swim again, county health officials say.
You’re headed down the road, doing the speed limit.
CD’s playing. You tap your left foot. It’s OK, you’re not using it for anything else. You rap your right hand on the steering wheel, maybe both hands. You warm up your baritone, get in the groove, lay down some harmony.
Hmmm, a sneeze coming on. No problem. You can sneeze with your eyes open. Usually.
The kids are getting into a fight in the back seat.
A meeting to tell volunteer firefighters about future funding plans being considered by Island County Fire District 3 will be held tonight at South Whidbey High School.
Fire District 3 wants to build a new headquarters and training facility in Bayview, and is expected to ask taxpayers for $4 million, although no date has been set.
South Whidbey school officials are looking farther down the road as they consider a new bond issue to make needed building improvements.
“We need more time,” South Whidbey School District Superintendent Fred McCarthy said Thursday. “This is something we want to be really well-planned, with lots of data and lots of community input.”
School officials aren’t shaking in their shoes over a new seismic study of the middle school, but they would like to know the bottom line.
“We want a ballpark number,” South Whidbey School District Superintendent Fred McCarthy said Thursday. “Is it going to cost $20,000 or $2 million?”
Four members of South Whidbey Fire District 3 took part in the two-day Firefighter Combat Challenge at the recent Pioneer Square Fire Festival in Seattle.
School starts Thursday, but it’s not too late to return to class in style, thanks to the Back to School Project.
Now in its 10th year, the charitable effort sponsored by the Readiness To Learn Foundation and the Family Resource Center, gathers community donations to help outfit students who may not be able to afford essential items.
With one eye on the economy and the other on the number of requests for public money, South Whidbey school officials are considering a bond issue next year for building maintenance and improvements.
There was some good and some bad, but nothing really ugly.
South Whidbey School District students showed mixed results in the latest WASL, the statewide learning test.
It’s budget time again, and the Island County Sheriff’s Office is pushing for more personnel.
There were Jason and the Argonauts. Then there were Squirrel and the Science Nuts.
The ancient Greek hero and his legendary search for the Golden Fleece has nothing on a group of South End home-schoolers, whose own quest involved a few boards, some screws, some chicken wire, some duct tape and several hundred waxed-paper and plastic containers.
Not to mention a few duct-taped raquetball rackets and plastic storage-bin covers on sticks for propulsion, some elbow grease, a lot of grey matter and a lake nearly half a mile wide.
