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Tuesday, 21 May 2013

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(CAO) Critical Areas Ordinance update ( 32 Articles )
2012 Election ( 0 Articles )
2013 Election ( 82 Articles )
Athletic/Community Fields ( 4 Articles )
Budgets ( 3 Articles )
Charter Review Commission ( 9 Articles )
Coal terminals ( 2 Articles )
Coal terminals ( 1 Articles )
Education ( 2 Articles )
Ferries - fares, financing, schedules, anything ( 2 Articles )
General ( 22 Articles )
History ( 3 Articles )

Land Bank levy ( 38 Articles )
New Letters ( 7 Articles )
Occupy Movement ( 1 Articles )
OPALCO ( 7 Articles )
Orca (Killer Whales) ( 4 Articles )
PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center ( 15 Articles )
Permits/Regulations/Rules ( 16 Articles )
Planning Commission/Department ( 3 Articles )
Response to Editorials or Guest Opinion Pieces ( 4 Articles )
Solid Waste ( 10 Articles )
Thank yous ( 16 Articles )
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(CAO) Critical Areas Ordinance update

Lame Ducks and the CAO by Nick Power	14 Nov 2012
CSA-funded study is flawed - Janet Alderton	07 Sep 2012
CAO fears being spread unfounded by Janet Alderton	10 Aug 2012
Letter sent to Council re CAO by Richard and Rita Weisbrod	23 May 2012
Another Week, Another "Friends" Attack on Community Groups by Peg Manning	17 Apr 2012

2012 Election

2013 Election

Support for Bob Jarman - Barry Madan	10 Apr 2013
Rick Hughes Has no Agenda - Miller Family	15 Apr 2013
We Choose Freedom - Fred and Carolyn Bowen Bill and Maria Wertz	22 Apr 2013
Support for Lisa Byers for county Council - Cathy Faulkner	22 Apr 2013
Support for Jamie Stephens - Paul Henriksen	22 Apr 2013

Athletic/Community Fields

Opportunity April 21 to provide needed sports fields by Scott and Tori Zehner	07 Apr 2012
Decision Time... by Brent Snow	12 Apr 2012
Decision Time... by Brent Snow	12 Apr 2012
It’s time to make the "Fields of Dreams"……..fields of “reality” by Brian Brown and Laurie Wangenheim	18 Apr 2012

Budgets

Time for prosecutor to resign by Christopher Hodgkin	23 Dec 2011
How can San Juan Count save money? by Dennis Hazelton	22 Sep 2011
Bargain Night Thursday for SJCT's Spring Musical "Into the Woods" May 2- 11	26 Apr 2013

Charter Review Commission

Unfair to silence CRC members by Frank Penwell	12 Mar 2012
Charter Review Process hijacked	02 Mar 2012
Letter: Changes to Charter - Lee Sturdivant	25 Sep 2011
Political blackmail in charter commission election - David Dehlendorf	03 Oct 2011
Candidate Statement by Janice Peterson, Charter Review Commission	03 Oct 2011

Coal terminals

Concerned about risks from transportation of coal and tar sands by Jesse Visciglia	28 Jan 2012
Coal Terminals in our Backyard to Deliver Coal to China? by Toni Bailey	14 Feb 2012

Coal terminals

Thank you to OR and WA governors - Katie Fleming

27 Mar 2013

Education

Public Education as a House of Cards by Bill Evans	28 Nov 2011
Arts Education: Planning for the Future by Peg Gerlock	18 Jun 2012

Ferries - fares, financing, schedules, anything

Time for oil companies to stop whining about token barrel fees by John Adams	12 Feb 2012
Questions cost of new ferries by John Adams	28 Feb 2012

General

Response to Steinhardt by Peg Manning	20 Mar 2013
Response to Beauty of Zoning - John Evans	22 Mar 2013
The trouble with Anonymous by Rick Steinhardt	18 Mar 2013
Healthcare limited by insurance, laws. - .Christopher Hodgkin.	28 Jan 2013
Letter about on poisonous plants by Rich Lee	12 Mar 2012

History

Preserving Invaluable windows into the past by David C. Rogers	10 Jan 2012
Preserving Invaluable windows into the past by David C. Rogers	10 Jan 2012
Changes: farm to hospital - by Jim Lawrence	30 Sep 2011

Land Bank levy

Vote Yes for the Land Bank by Sandy Strehlou	06 Nov 2011
"No" Vote threatens Local Control of Solid Waste by Bill Appel	30 Oct 2011
Support the Land Bank renewal - many signatures	07 Nov 2011
Thank You from Land Bank Renewal backers	11 Nov 2011
To continue mandate is a no-brainer by Marta and Lloyd Vaughan	28 Oct 2011

New Letters

98 % of donations to United Way stay in community	10 May 2013
Thank You United Way of San Juan County	07 May 2013
Go see "Into the Woods"	02 May 2013
Don't miss SJCT's "Into the Woods"	30 Apr 2013
A Call to Action!	28 Apr 2013

Occupy Movement

OPEN CALL - Have A Voice (The peoples Lobby) by Kenn Dzaman

01 Dec 2011

OPALCO

Is the board violating OPALCO's articles of incorporation by Gray Cope	22 Jun 2012
On the OPALCO Broadband Wireless Smart Grid Network Proposal by Eko Susan Noble	31 May 2012
Followup on the Broadband Forums by Foster Hildreth OPALCO Assistant General Manager	26 May 2012
OPALCO Election by Chris Thomerson	24 Apr 2012
The OPALCO Broadband Proposal - Before I Vote	04 Feb 2013

Orca (Killer Whales)

Stop squabbling and work on the big picture	14 Aug 2011
Mark Anderson's son, Evan, offers his perspective	14 Aug 2011
Let's analyze Anderson's claims by John Boyd	06 Aug 2011
Why not a suspension of chinook fishing by Peg Manning	06 Aug 2011

PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center

Urgent Care needed at PIMC	15 Mar 2013
Public Private Partnerships Bring Better Access and Health to Rural Communities - Jeff Mero	15 Feb 2013
Response to Jeff Mero's Opinion Piece - Monica Harrington	16 Feb 2013
Hospital Contract must be redone - Gordon S. Haverstock	06 Jan 2013
Urgent care or Emergency care - by Margaret Thorson	19 Mar 2013

Permits/Regulations/Rules

The beauty of zoning	20 Mar 2013
Angst about electromagnetic radiation from cell towers by Steve Ludwig	26 Apr 2012
Liked way SJNHP handled before new Ranger by Frank Penwell	12 Apr 2012
Civil Discourse, Please by Hubbard and Michaelson	12 Apr 2012
Concerned about proposed campground by Shannon Evans	12 Apr 2012

Planning Commission/Department

Letter to Council objecting to Blanchard's appointment to Planning Commission - David Dehlendorf	06 Feb 2013
Blanchard's response to Delendorf	07 Feb 2013
Support for Blanchard's appointment to Planning Commission - Janice Peterson	09 Feb 2013

Response to Editorials or Guest Opinion Pieces

Response to editorial - David Dehlendorf	23 Mar 2013
Response to editorial - Amanda Azous	23 Mar 2013
Comment on editorial - Cher Renke	24 Mar 2013
Victim of Kilduff's site - San Olson	26 Mar 2013

Solid Waste

Support San Juan Islanders II - by Gay Wilmerding	04 Dec 2012
Letter to Council: Items that they need to review before contracting with Cimarron - part 1	24 Sep 2012
Proposition 2 looks like a winner for Small Businesses by David Meiland	30 Oct 2011
"No" Vote threatens Local Control of Solid Waste by Bill Appel	30 Oct 2011
Support co-op and vote no on parcel fee by Frank Penwell	20 Oct 2011

Thank yous

Thanks a ton from Weight Watchers	11 Jul 2012
Thank you to everyone regarding Tim Alyward gathering at Hartman field by Rich Warin	22 Jun 2012
Memories of Rob Turner and thanks for kindness from Helen Venada	27 Apr 2012
Thank you from Rex, Lisa, Brandon & Blake Guard	14 May 2012
Thank you to Helen Venada - John Evans	08 Feb 2013

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