Looking Back
Amazing Anacortes video
http://www.anacortes.org/ Go to the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce website, lower right hand corner, to watch the new promotional video produced by the Chamber Marketing and Promotions group. Among “stars” in this production are Anacortes High School teacher Jim Thompson and several of his students, who shot the video and produced the spot. Narrator is AHS […]
Virtual winter
Friend Del Zane had some fun in his “virtual darkroom” with an image he shot last summer, applying effects that seem to illustrate a “winter in Anacortes” scene. See more of Del’s work at Delzane.com.
Living art
Art of a different variety, Saturday evening during the Anacortes Chamber Holiday Artwalk. “Mannequins” in salon windows turned out to be very much alive. Red and Ryan Chanel salons. Model on the right gives whole new meaning to the expression “heavy makeup.” Anyone know details?
Keep the cheer here
http://www.anacortes.org/keep-the-cheer-here.cfm Bang around town this year while doing your Christmas shopping. Make it an “exploration,” an “adventure,” and help your neighbors in business.
Darrell does retirement
https://www.king5.com/evening Check out this brief Evening Magazine feature on AHS alum Darrell Benedict, who retired a year ago after roughly four decades of work as a cameraman at KING 5, his final years with Evening Magazine. Benedict has added digital photography to a list of retirement pastimes that include kayaking, biking and windsurfing. This photo […]
Bells ring around city
Fresh from the Salvation Army’s annual Thanksgiving food basket campaign, Anacortes Corps Officer Lt. Josh Boyd (center) is busy with a daily schedule that includes work with volunteers at six Red Kettle fund-raising stations. Pictured with Boyd Saturday at Safeway are Noon Kiwanis volunteers Byron Wingett and Phyllis Lamb. Working outside the post office was […]
LeMay loved cars
Son Mark treated me to a visit to the LeMay Car Museum in Tacoma. Wow! Check out Mark’s website to see a couple of dozen photos from this memorable evening.
Causland Park event
Scouts and Masons partnered Sunday to lead a wreath-laying ceremony at the end of a Veterans Day event held at Causland Memorial Park.
Borgen to retire
The community of Anacortes received news late last month that school district superintendent Chris Borgen will retire at the end of this school year. Borgen has contributed in significant ways to this community over the course of a career that included stints in the classroom, principal’s chair (Fidalgo School) and administration. He also coached boys […]
Bob Hart passes away
I was saddened this morning to read about the death of Bob Hart, a Skagit native whose public service included election to the Skagit County Board of Commissioners representing District One. Through mutual friend Diane Erholm, I worked on Bob’s first campaign in 1992. This photo was […]
Spokane hockey
These 1974 (or ’75) photos represent a major sentimental journey in terms of my photography career. I was in Pullman, a senior with an opening in my schedule, so I signed up for a photography course. I borrowed my friend Keith Thurman’s 35 mm camera and on this occasion, headed for an amateur hockey game […]
Fond memories
I remember when Election Day called for a visit to a neighborhood polling place. This photo was taken at Island View Elementary School in 2004, before mail-in ballots became The Method of casting one’s votes. Pictured here are “judges” Verna Berentson (left) and Sally Starnes, with “inspector” Joyce Baker looking on. Baker reported at that […]
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