Looking Back
Matt Gumbel passes away
>http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/mattgumbelThe following is from a family blog dedicated to Matt Gumbel, the last of seven Tesoro refinery explosion victims to die from injuries sustained on Friday, April 2: Saturday, April 24, 2010 12:56 PM, PDTMatt was in emergency exploratory surgery for several hours. Even after they did the surgery they didn’t really know what caused […]
AHS competes in "lip dub" contest
>Check out the video produced by Anacortes High School students in a “lip dub” competition with four other high schools in the region. Clever stuff! Kudos to all, especially director and steadycam operator Scott Calvert. Click URL below:http://goskagit.upickem.net/engine//Details.aspx?p=A&c=16177&s=3353783&i=1&m=X
America’s Cup celebrated in Anacortes
> An estimated crowd in excess of 1,000 visited the Port of Anacortes Event Center Saturday, April 10 to celebrate BMW Oracle’s historic American’s Cup win. The sailboat was built right here in Anacortes, by a local crew including my nephew, Bill Mach. Above photo (By Don Wick, Director of the Economic Development Association of […]
Tesoro to curtail operations
> Tesoro announced Monday afternoon (April 12) its intentions to curtail operations at the Anacortes Refinery in the wake of the April 2 incident that resulted in the death of six employees and serious injury of one other (Tesoro spokesman Lynn Westfall in San Antonio said that Lew Janz of Anacortes died at 12:40 a.m. Tuesday, April 13 at […]
Sonny Sixkiller visits Skagit
> A pleasant surprise for many attending the 2010 Tulip Festival Parade in LaConner on April 11 was a sighting of legendary UW quarterback Sonny Sixiller (left, above). In 1970 Sixkiller took a disastrous Husky football team which only won one game during the ’69 season and made them winners. To this day he still […]
Tug takes shape at Dakota Creek
> Sunny skies often draw me to the Fidalgo Island shoreline. A Thursday morning trip included a quick visit to the fenceline at Dakota Creek Industries (DCI), a beehive of industrial activity at an otherwise difficult time for many American businesses. For news about this vessel, click on the link below. DCI’s website is a […]
Tesoro Anacortes Refinery Survivors Fund
>(Click URL below to make online donation)https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=911572414&vlrStratCode=HQp8mQpb%2bn3U%2fHsF2ezI%2bruh%2bgYtCugBXiWblMdIX2xIWg6fyglTfb7gY9AO1iMf In honor of the seven employees and families affected by the April 2, 2010 tragedy at Tesoro Anacortes refinery, Tesoro in cooperation with the Skagit Community Foundation has established the Tesoro Anacortes Refinery Survivors Fund. Donations received will be divided equally among the seven employees or their estates. The […]
Union sets up Tesoro Incident Family Fund
>United Steelworkers Local 12-591 has set up a “Tesoro Incident Family Fund.”This fund has been established to help affected families in the wake of the April 2 incident in which five died and two suffered life threatening burns. This fund is not part of the Tesoro Corporation, and all donations will go directly to the […]
Websites for Tesoro fire victims Gumbel and Janz
>Two men, Lew Janz of Anacortes and Matthew “Matt” Gumbel of Oak Harbor, remain at Harborview Medical Center in the wake of last week’s fire at Tesoro Refinery in Anacortes. Both sustained life threatening injuries in the incident that resulted in the death of five co-workers. Websites have been established to provide status updates and opportunity to […]
Tesoro establishes memorial fund
In the wake of a Friday, April 2 fire that left five dead and two in critical condition, Tesoro announced Saturday, April 3 that they will provide grief counseling and establish a memorial fund. “We are providing grief counseling and support to all affected Tesoro employees and their families, regardless of their location,” read a company […]
Obama invests in fortune cookies
> Imagine my surprise when I discovered a message from the U.S. Census Bureau in my Chinese takeout fortune cookies! As you can see in the photo above, one side of the “fortune” delivered a traditional silly message (“You will have a happy adventure soon.”). The surprise came on the other side, where we were encouraged […]
Tragedy at Tesoro Refinery
> The website below has been launched by Tesoro to provide updated information about the April 2, 2010 Anacortes refinery incident that resulted in the death of five employees. Those who died were Daniel Aldridge, Matt Bowen, Darrin Hoines, Kathryn Powell and Donna Van Dreumel. Two others injured in the incident, Matt Gumbel and Lew Janz, remain […]
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