--from the Board President:
The SAMISH ISLAND COMMUNITY CLUB BOARD will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 16 at 7 pm. Any interested resident is welcome to attend.

MAY POTLUCK DINNER: The next potluck is Saturday, May 17, at 6:30. SteveHoffman and Charlie O’Hara are using their contacts to put together a great program on disaster preparedness that will go well with dessert! It will be entertaining, but our exposures aren’t a joke. Earthquake, tsunami and lahars from Mount Baker are possibilities that need preparation. But we can plan on storms, extended electrical blackouts, flooding and maybe dike failure sometime in the foreseeable future.
On the subject of disasters, Doug Hopley has amazing videos of winter 1990-91, when in a period of a few weeks there was a foot of ice from spray from 90mph northerly winds, hundreds of trees down from a tornado at the west end of the island, and the only road to or from was under a couple of feet of water from the sign to Bay View Ridge. Doug Lundgren had the tapes converted to DVD -- check with me if you would like to borrow a copy.
--– Chuck Davis

The EDGEWATER GARDEN CLUB will meet at 9:45 AM for visiting and refreshments on Tuesday, April 22, at the Samish Island Community Hall. The business meeting will begin at 10:15 AM. Our program will be a round table discussion by Garden Club members, "Favorite plants and garden ideas (including plants that don't work on Samish Island)") at 11:00 AM. All are welcome! The meeting will be followed by lunch and garden tour at the Chuckanut Garden Japanese Restaurant.

The SAMISH SENIOR SINGLES will reunite around a table at the Royal Fork restaurant in Mount Vernon at 11 am on Friday, April 25th. Any Island senior single is welcome. To carpool, call Betty Chowka, 766-8032

The HIKING GROUP meets each month on the second Thursday. Come join us at 10 AM at the Community Hall on April 10th. Bring a lunch and hiking gear. If you’re interested, but have doubts about the day’s weather, call Kathleen, (subbing for Marlene), between 8 and 9 am on Ap. 10th, ( 766-6752.)

3rd Annual SAMISH ISLAND-WIDE YARD SALE DAY: Join your neighbors and clear your closets on June 28th. The sale runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. All islanders are invited to join in! A $15 fee covers the costs of advertising, balloon marker, etc. Keep your eyes open for a post-card attached to next month's Shore Lines. Just fill it out and send it in to make sure you are on the map. For further information contact Amy Colvin at 425-503-8886 or colvin.ap@gmail.com

2008 SAMISH ISLAND ARTS FESTIVAL- Planning has begun in earnest for the 12th Annual Arts Festival, July 26 at the Community Hall. Once again there will be live music throughout the day, freshly cooked oysters and other edibles, and of course artists and their creations. If you are interested in participating as an artist and have not done so before, please contact Janene 766-6290 or Karen 766-5096. If you have participated before, you will receive an application form via email in May. Join us for a day of fun and food and celebrating the ARTS.

CAMP KIRBY’S continued schedule of preparation for its 85th Summer of Camping:
April 19 - Camp Kirby Work Party, 10 am to 4 pm. Contact Helen or Jan at 391-3098.
April 20 - 1st Open House at Camp Kirby, 12pm to 4pm - Everyone welcome!

SWING DANCE CLASS at the Community Hall
Saturday, May 3rd, 6:30 pm. All are welcome. $10 PP to cover instructor and Hall expense. Call Carmen Sager to register, 766-5039, or carmensager@hotmail.com

Items for the next Shore Lines should be submitted in writing to Kathleen Packard, 9920 Samish Island Rd., by 5 on May 1, (first Thursday, and note early date), 766-6752, or kwpackard@aol.com

LOCAL ENSIGN TESTED AT SEA
Last Wednesday’s Skagit Valley Herald’s front page photos and article gave the account of Coast Guard Ensign Marcel Rousseau’s participation in the rescue of 20 of the shipwrecked fishing boat “Atlantic Ranger” crew members, amidst 10-ft. waves, in the freezing waters of the Bering Sea on Easter Sunday. Ensign Rousseau was the helicopter control officer on the Coast Guard Cutter “Munro” who was aroused from sleep at 3 am, to spend most of the following 38 hours guiding Coast Guard helicopter pilots by radio between the sunken fishing boat and the Coast Guard rescue vessel 50 miles away. With winds gusting at 35 knots, it took two helicopters many hours to complete 3 round trip in the rescue of these 20 men. One of the helicopter pilots complimented the Munro’s crew members, “The speed and safety with which your crew transferred the survivors out of the basket and got ready for the next one was phenomenal.”
Marcel is a 2003 graduate of Burlington-Edison H.S and a 2007 commissioned ensign from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. His early affinity with the sea was natural to his growing up at his family’s Alice Bay Bed and Breakfast on Scott Rd. After 9/11, as a high school junior, he elected to do a school project at the Coast Guard station in Bellingham, and the aftermath became history. The August, ‘07 Shore Lines cited a SVH photo of newly commissioned ensign Rousseau at the Commencement Exercises of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT., waving, while standing next to a waving President Bush!
Said Ensign Rousseau of the Alaskan rescue, “It is a lot of adrenaline, and a lot of excitement.....I’ve been spending my last four years waiting for something like this to come up, and then you actually get to use what you’ve learned.”

STUDENTS IN THE NEWS:
-----Ryan Bart was named the Burlington Rotary Club Student of the Month of March. Ryan, known locally as a S.I. volunteer fire-fighter, as well as for his magic-performing and pet-care businesses, is a performer as well academically, and in Tiger sports teams. He is a Peer Mentor, National Honor Society member, and has participated in several sports, winning Player of the Year and Coaches awards in tennis.
----Danielle Nordlund was tops in both the high jump and the long jump in the Northwest Track & Field Meet of March 19
----Mette Rousseau won the tennis singles match over Lakewood on March 27, the deciding match for an overall B-Ed. victory.

ADS

FOR SALE: 1995 Subaru Legacy wagon. Runs well. $1995.
766-6866.
SERVICES:
---Piano & accordion lessons. Lois Yale, member of the Washington State Music Teachers Association, offers beginning through intermediate lessons in her home on Samish Island. Call 766-8713 for lesson availability
----Landscape design & maintenance. Call Debbie Emerson, 766-5095. 20+ years experience on Samish Island
----Friday Knitting, 3:30-5:30 pm. at 10764 Halloran Rd. Bring your own, or arrange for lessons!Come meet your knitting neighbors, learn about interesting stuff. 766-6040
FOR RENT: Cottage on the water for short stays. Nicely furnished, 2 bdrms., 766-6686
CRIBBAGE 4th Tues. at 10749 Samish Island Rd.766-6501.

For anyone wishing to enjoy Skagit County parks and trails, Samish Islander Cheryl Willis leads easy to moderate walks on Thursdays, never going more than 300 feet in elevation. 3-Thursday sessions, morning OR afternoon, April 17-May 1, (Pressentin Park, Interurban Trail, Tennant Lake). Series fee: $17; Meet at Burlington Senior Center. For more details, or to register, call Parks: 336-9414 or e-mail: parksrec@co.skagit.wa.us

EARTH DAY, APRIL 22: one reflection: Recyling reduces pollution. When recyclable materials, rather than virgin resources, are used to make new items, less pollution tends to be produced. For paper alone, @74% less air pollution is created; thus,by recycling one ton of paper, 60 pounds of pollutants will not be pumped into the air. Water pollution will be reduced by 35% and, as an extra bonus, about 7,000 gallons of water won’t need to be used.

Community Club Board of Directors, Samish Island Community Club, P.O.Box 268, Bow, WA 98232

Chuck Davis
President
766-6705

Astrid Aamot
Vice-President
708-6116

Fran Hansen
Secretary
766-7104

Linda Strobel
Treasurer
766-4082

Steve Hoffman
At-Large
766-4488

Amy Colvin
At-Large
425-503-8886

Charles O'Hara
At-Large
766--0224