Islands' Weekly, December 06, 2011

By Meredith GriffithIslands’ Sounder staff

Recently passed liquor ini-tiative 1183 will put the state out of the liquor business.

Will it also put islanders out of business? Or keep substance-abuse counselors busier? It all depends on a myriad of factors.

Local businessesExisting liquor outlets on

Orcas and Lopez include Eastsound Liquor Store, Russells at Orcas, and Lopez Liquor Store, all privately owned businesses that oper-ate under the state’s license and are paid on commission by the state.

Under 1183, owners of contract stores can continue to run their shops, provid-ed they get a spirits retailer license — but every drop of their inventory is currently owned by the Washington State Liquor Control Board.

When the state closes up shop this spring, these stores must buy that inven-tory in order to stay in busi-ness. At an average worth of $125,000.

“It’s going to be an indi-vidual business decision for some of the contract liquor stores,” said Liquor Board Communications Director

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Debbie CollinsBeaded Flatware(Her Only Lopez Holiday Showing)

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“We’re gonna give it a whirl,” said Marc Zener, owner of Lopez Liquor Store. “There are a lot of unknowns still. We’ll have to compete with Costco and Safeway … We’re gonna try.”

SEE LIQUOR, PAGE 8

By Colleen Smith ArmstrongIslands’ Sounder Editor

Despite a recession, land

preservation seems to be holding strong – at least in our neck of the woods.

The National Land Trust Census, a report released this month by the Land Trust Alliance, shows that voluntari-ly protected land increased 27 percent between 2005 and 2010. Locally, the San Juan Preservation Trust worked with private land own-ers to permanently protect 3,681 acres in the San Juan Islands, a 36 percent increase since 2005. This places the Preservation Trust in the top 2 percent of more 1,700 land trusts currently operating in the United States.

Orcas Islander Anne Hay is one of the many locals who made that ranking possible. She donated 16 acres near Camp Orkila to the trust as a conservation easement in the late 1990s.

“It seemed the perfect spot to preserve, it’s a beautiful piece of land,” Hay said of the acreage. “I’ve had the proper-ty since 1958. It’s just a small piece, but it’s waterfront, and to the north there are other conservation easements … there is also the state pre-serve, Pt. Dowdy, north of the property.”

Founded in 1979, the San Juan Preservation Trust is a private, nonprofit and mem-

SEE SJPT, PAGE 8

SJPT rated top 2 percent

Admission: Free / By DonationNo-host bar / free popcorn!

Lopez Center Community Performance Night

Friday December 9th, 2011 7:00 pm

5 Local Musical Groups

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Lopez Sound“Christmas Memories”

Public Education as a House of Cards

I remember one winter day as a child I built an amazing structure out of an old card deck. Hard work went into the intricate house of cards I constructed. Imagine my disappointment when, one by one, several significant cards were “stolen” by my friend for another project! It held for a while, but eventually the house of cards came crash-

ing down.I have been a Washington

public educator for almost forty years, an enthusiastic part of the building of a struc-ture that serves the highest moral endeavor of the land. I have watched as our state has built a public school system that effectively serves our young people. Card by card, we have built a system that not only serves young people well, but has also harbors the potential and hope for a posi-tive future for us all.

The recent crisis in school funding, manifested by the Governor’s recently released recommended budget, has the very real potential to dis-mantle our house of educa-tion. One card, one reduction at a time and our house will

likely begin to crumble. We owe our children, and our future, more!

The recommendations include a reduction of four school days, the elimina-tion of important programs such as Readiness to Learn and CTE start-up funding, a revised attendance reporting procedure that will potentially reduce funding, a reduction to small high school funding, salary reductions for all edu-cational employees, a reduc-tion in health coverage for educational employees, and other cuts. Also on the list is the elimination of, and/or significant reduction to levy equalization funding, of great significance to many districts with low tax bases. The Governor’s reductions

are estimated to be well over $100,000 to Lopez School, with similar damages to other school districts in the San Juans. The recommendations will be considered by the leg-islature in a special session, beginning November 28. Let us hope that the legislature will find a way to avoid the draconian budget reduc-tions recommended by the Governor and others. We must preserve our house of education, for your children and mine, for our future!

BILL EVANSLopez Island

Against bad choices, not alcohol

I am writing in response to a request for comment on a recent Sounder article concerning the passage of Washington State Initiative

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CLASSES: Free Nia Class, 10 a.m., Lopez Center.

CLASSES: Free Yoga, 11 a.m., Lopez Center.

THURS, DEC 8

MEETING: Port of Lopez Monthly Meeting, 7 - 9 p.m., Lopez Island Airport.

MEETING: Support Group, 1:30 - 3 p.m., library. For more info, call Bob Gerfy 468-4992.

CLASSES: Wordpress Workshop, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., library. Students must have basic familiarity with using a web browser. $35 fee. Pre-registration required with LIFRC 468-4117.

FRI, DEC 9

LITERATURE: Author Event, 2 - 4

p.m., library. Hear from biolo-gist and author Thor Hanson of “Feathers : The Evolution of a Miracle.”

ART: Community Performance Night, dinner 5:30 p.m., music 6:30 p.m., Galley Restaurant. Contact Jeff Nichols 468-2713 for reservations. For more info, visit www.livemusiconlopez.com.

MUSIC: Ocho Pies Quartet Fundraiser for Lopez School Music Advocacy, dinner 5:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. music, Galley Restaurant. Contact Jeff Nichols at 468-2713 for reservations. For more info, visit www.livemu-siconlopez.com.

SAT, DEC 10

ART: Annual Holiday Show, 5 - 7 p.m., Chimera Gallery. Your last chance to bid for Silent Auction

items and to purchase tickets for the Lopez High School Scholarship Raffle. Winners of Raffle and Silent Auction items will be awarded beginning about 6 p.m. Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday and Monday, 10am-5pm; Sunday 10am–3pm from Dec. 14-24. For more info, call 468-3265 or visitwww.ChimeraGallery.com.

MOVIE: Free Saturday Movie, 2 - 4 p.m., library.

WORK PARTY: LICC volunteer work-party, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Odlin Park. Contact Charlie and Amanda at [email protected] or 468-2915 for more info.

FUNDRAISER: Christmas Bake Sale, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Proceeds support the Senior Center at Woodmen Hall.

AWARD: Spirit Award Potluck for Lynn and Marlys Waller, 5 p.m., Lopez Center.

SUN, DEC 11

SANTA SHIP: 61st Annual Arrival of the Santa Ship, 3:15 - 4:30 p.m., Odlin Park., free. Open to adults and children alike. As

participants wait for the ship to arrive, there will be a bonfire, hot chocolate and cookies served. Additional entertain-ment will feature clowns and pirates.

FILM: Locavores hosts “The Greenhorns,” 4:30-5:30 p.m., Port Stanley School. Join the Locavores for their next film about young farmers. Cider and popcorn will be served; admission by donation.

SPORTS: Pickup Basketball, 8:30 - 10 p.m., Lopez School - Gymnasium.

MON, DEC 12

MEETING: Lopez Community Center Annual Membership Meeting, 5:30 - 7 p.m., Lopez Center. All Lopezians are members and are encouraged to attend. Finger food will be served.

THURS, DEC 15

MEETING: Village Planning - Sub area Plan, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m., library meeting room.

FRI, DEC 16

MEETING: Lopez Island Lion’s

Club Blood Drive, 12 - 6 p.m., Lopez Island Community Church. Walk ins welcome. Donors with appointments have priority at registration. For information and to schedule an appointment contact Don at [email protected] or 468-4404.

MUSIC: Susan Osborn’s 22nd Annual Christmas Concert, 7:30 - 9 p.m., Center Church.

SAT, DEC 17

MUSIC: CD Release Winter Solstice Concert with Stanley Greenthal Ensemble, 7:30 - 9 p.m., Lopez Center. For more info, www.lopezcenter.org.

SUN, DEC 18

SPORTS: Pickup Basketball, 8:30 - 10 p.m., Lopez School - Gymnasium.

FRI, DEC 30

ART: Winter Storytelling & Music, 7-8 p.m., library. Join Kip, Stanley, Rosie, & Alie for holiday stories.

SAT, DEC 31

MUSIC: Tiempo de Lopez New Year’s Concert, 8 p.m., Lopez

Center.

MOVIE: Free Saturday Movie, 2 - 4 p.m., library.

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Al-Anon:Fridays - 9:00 a.m. at the Grace Church Hall, LopezSaturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, Lopez.Contact phone number 468-2510.

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By Stephen E. Adams

The first words she says are “Don’t call me a damned artist.”

Myrtle “Dovie” Ulmer’s second words are “If the music’s too loud for you, too bad.”

The album, with which the interviewer is familiar, seems incongruous in Ulmer’s work-place — she eschews using “studio” because of the pretentious trappings the word implies for her. It’s NWA’s “Straight Out of Compton” and it is rattling the numerous paintings and on the walls and small sculp-tures on the shelves.

“One reason I’ve never been on the Studio Tour is this isn’t a studio to me. It’s just my home, my workshop.”

Everything from the steam-ing kettle on the woodstove to the untidy stacks of poetry and art books on any flat sur-face not already covered with her work reinforces Ulmer’s words.

A long time “off and on” resident of Lopez, as Ulmer characterizes it, she admits that she doesn’t get out much, doesn’t like people, and avoids meeting anyone new if she can help it.

It is quite clear that this interview represents a barely tolerable intrusion for her. “I work at what I do. I don’t have time to talk about it.”

She refuses to divulge her birthplace or anything about her career as an artist except to say that she prefers show-ing her work in cafes and bars to galleries. “People look at things in bars,” she says. “They might stare at a paint-ing for hours when they’re eating or getting drunk. In a gallery, they pay about as much attention as a chicken on roller skates would.”

Yet her work deserves the kind of scrutiny she claims is found among those dining or imbibing. It is richly complex and startlingly weird at the same time.

Ulmer, who obviously lived long enough in the south-eastern United States at one time to be comfortable using the term “y’all,” has a strong theme of the Pacific Northwest running through her creations. Tall Douglas Firs morph into rich sword ferns and she can capture

the omnipresent gray of a November sky in a swatch of color huddled in the corner of a canvas.

A jar filled with the cara-paces of crustaceans gath-

ered from Lopez beaches rests beneath a scarlet lid capped with a hideous plastic arachnid.

One perusing her work might also see Bigfoot or a

chimpanzee, as well, so it is safe, with Ulmer’s art, to say that anything goes.

“I just try to capture what I

see, whether I see it with my eyes or in my head. Doesn’t make any difference to me how I see it.”

She ignores most of the questions put to her, speak-

ing more as a stream of consciousness monologist. “Whatever’s around me or inside me or on the other

side of those trees there and the water on the other side, it’s mine to do with what I want so long as I’m here to do it.”

Speaking, she ges-tures toward a col-lage she recently cre-ated, one that depicts a beautiful child in a lamplit room pull-ing a simian-looking head out of a basket. “What do you think that is?” she asks.

Not waiting for a response, she contin-ues. “I’ll tell you what it is. It’s all the things we find when we look inside.”

(At some point the soundtrack has switched from late-eighties gangsta rap to Debussy being rendered on a flute.)

“This,” she says, tapping the interviewer in the middle

of his forehead, “This is like the junk drawer in someone’s kitchen. It ought to be filled with things that have nothing more in common than the fact that they’ve ended up in the same place at the same time.”

“That’s why I create what I create. Doesn’t matter what it is, it’s all ended up in what I think of as my own private junk drawer.”

Myrtle “Dovie” Ulmer won’t say where those so inclined may view her works, beyond encouraging them

to study the walls of “bars and diners from Anacortes to Twisp to Forks to Grass Pants” (which is what she call Grants Pass, Oregon).

Her work is well worth the search.

— Writer’s Note: This is my final column for the “Islands’ Weekly.” I have been privi-leged to write the Artist Profile for almost three years, during which time I have interviewed at least 28 artists. Thank you all for your thoughtful com-ments and your many kind-nesses.

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With good outside shoot-ers and team speed from players who compete in at least two to three sports year-round, Coach MR Buffum said the Lobos may have a chance to place first in league and go on to state.

“We’ve got some pretty strong guys,” said Buffum. “Our goal is to get a trophy.”

Two years ago, the Lobos were second in the league, and last year they placed third — their goal this year is to come out on top.

Lummi is the hardest to beat, notoriously tough team — they have won the league four or five times, Buffum estimates. And Lummi has a high turn out rate of 35 play-ers this season.

This year, the Lopez Lobos have had a turnout of 17 play-ers, with four seniors, seven juniors, five sophomores and one freshman with a mix of

on court experiences.Buffum has coached for 21

years with various sports and ages. He’s coached some of his seniors since they were in sixth grade.

Buffum has about seven players that “know the drills better than he does.”

During training he sepa-rates the players to let the more experienced guys do their training and work on fundamentals with the new guys.

The coach wishes there was a Junior Varsity team to have less experienced play-ers get more time on the court when it comes to game time.

This season’s team also has some pretty big sneakers to fill.

Last year’s senior William Caron was named Northwest 1B League Most Valuable Player. Buffum said they are not replacing Carson with one guy, but with multiple players he has watched grow over his years coaching,

“The seniors are really strong and really getting bet-ter,” he said. “They all have pretty good attitudes.”

By Cali Bagby Larry Berg had one day

to rest in between putting down his football coaching hat and picking up his bas-ketball coaching hat.

After a four year break from coaching girls bas-ketball, Berg is back in the game.

Not that he’s unseasoned — Berg has been coaching since 1983.

“I’m excited to be doing it,” Berg said. “I look for-ward to a great season and watching the relationships the girls form with each other. Of course we’re aim-

ing high and going back to state is a goal.”

Last season, the Girls Basketball Team ended with a 11-8 record, earned the title of Northwest B League Champs, placed second at Tri Districts, participated at state and received the District 1 Sportsmanship Award.

Their coach, at the time, Debbie Buffum attributed

the win to teamwork.“That’s where Lopez kids

have had success,” said Buffum. “If they are ahead in those ways; if they have superior emotional, physi-cal and team strength.”

Berg said that sports-manship is also a top pri-ority.

The Lobos have won the sportsmanship title in previous years, which Berg said is not surprising.

“Our main goal is to make better people, learn life lessons and represent our community and our-selves,” he said. “We do what we do, and we do it well”

This season, the team is starting from scratch, work-ing on the fundamentals and “getting used to a new coach, and a new system, most of the girls know me from class,” Berg said. “But they are getting used to my style.”

He also relies on the upper-classmen to help younger girls develop their skills.

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Winter sports preview

Girls Basketball schedule

A FESTIVAL OFLESSONS & CAROLS

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCHSUNDAY, DECEMBER 18TH

4:00 PM

Contributed photo

Back Row L to R; Brianne Swanson, Andrea Rendon, Sarah Reeve, Autumn Gruenwald, Marina Steinbrueck, Eryn Dye, Breton Carter, Alexa Ogden, Shelby Prewitt. Front Row L to R: Patience Taylor, Sarah Stanley. Not pictured: Kate Czaja, Kiana Oya

Contributed photo

Front row left to right Mike Hobi, Matt Haber, Michael Reeve, Tak Peralta, Joe O’Bryant, Chase Schober, Fletcher Moore. Back row left to right Jaise Poole, Derekk Buffum, Keldon Jardine, Risto Turunen, Erik Jenasson, Chris Henninger, Daniel Jenison, Rande Gruenwald.

Home games only Date Opponent Time 12/3 Bush 12:30 p.m. 12/9 Grace Academy 4:00 p.m. 12/17 Lummi Nation 2:30 p.m. 1/3 Tulalip Heritage 5:00 p.m. 1/11 Concrete 5:00 p.m. 1/17 Highland Christian 5:00 p.m. 1/24 Grace Academy 3:30 p.m. 1/27 Neah Bay 5:00 p.m.

Home games onlyDate Opponent Time12/3 Bush 2:00 p.m.

12/9 Grace 5:30 p.m. Academy

12/17 Lummi Nation 4:00 p.m.

1/3 Tulalip 6:30 p.m. Heritage

1/11 Concrete 6:30 p.m.

1/17 Highland 6:30 p.m Christian

1/24 Grace 6:30 p.m. Academy

1/27 Neah Bay 6:30 p.m.

Boys Basketball schedule

A look at what’s in store for this season’s girls and boys basketball teams

SEE SPORTS, PAGE 8

The Friends of Woodmen Hall are selling a 2012 cal-endar as a fundraiser. The calendar features 21 activities, groups, and fundraiser photos from Woodmen Hall from April through July 2011. The cover shows Woodmen Hall now and when it was brand new. It will be available at the Senior Cookie Sale, Dec. 10, and at the Lopez Village Market through the end of the year, and by calling Virginia Palmer at 468-2738.

Delores Foss took the pictures, Linda Rose put each monthly page together, and the calen-dar is dedicated to Dave Stratton, a bingo caller, an

auctioneer, a builder during the renovation of Woodmen

Hall, and a general sup-

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LOPEZ ISLANDCHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY CHURCH, Now

meeting at 10:00 AM at the Lopez Elementary School

in the multi-purpose room. Find us on the web: www.

CTKonline.com/lopez or email [email protected]

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes

you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:30

am. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane.

468-3477. Everyone welcome!

LOPEZ ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH, 91 Lopez

Road. Sunday School: pre-school through adult 9:30 am;

Worship at 10:30 am. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877.

LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS, Sundays

at 11:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in

Friday Harbor at 9:15 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at

2:00 p.m. in Emmanual. Pastor Anne Hall, 378-6310.

QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Meetings will be Sundays

at 10 am at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman

Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone

468-2129. Email: [email protected]

ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship

with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome

you to join us for Mass at 10:45 am on Saturday. Call 378-

2910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

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By Dean JacobsenOn Friday, Dec.

9 our K-12 students will participate in presentations, clinics and cross curricu-lum music learning with The Ocho Pies Quartet.

The quartet’s specialty is blend-ing dance and folk-loric music of the Caribbean, North and South America, Haiti, Africa with original composi-tions.

The quartet returns this week from their ninth annual teaching trip to the prestigious Guillermo Tomas School of Music in Guanabacoa, Cuba. They will share those experiences with our classes such as American History, Contemporary World Problems, World Cultures, Spanish, Middle School Social Studies and all music students.

They sing in five languag-es while playing an array of instruments. The school day ends with a performance for all at 2 p.m. in the gym. We will ask students to join that performance with the quar-

tet. Ocho Pies Quartet ends

their visit with a 5:30 p.m. din-ner show at the Galley, with a portion of the proceeds helping support the ongo-ing “Lopez School Music Advocacy Foundation” effort to enhance music and the arts at Lopez School.

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Ocho Pies Quartet comes to Lopez Island on Friday, Dec. 9 and help edu-cate and raise funds for “Lopez School Music Advocacy Foundation.”

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Playing at Lopez School and the Galley

Lopez Island Library has received a star-rating from the Library Journal for the third consecutive year.

The Journal compared nation-wide library circula-tion, visits, public Internet use and program attendance and found that Lopez Island Library was well above the average in these categories for similar-sized libraries across the country. In other words — did we make good use of our community library and its services?

Yes, they did.What does a four-star rat-

ing mean? Think of it as a measure of

a library’s return on invest-ment.

Use of the library is well above the mean and dollars invested are returning a high level of community value.

Another way to think about the star rating is to consider it as a measure of library use. In the hardship of this econ-omy when wondering where to invest scant resources to make the greatest difference, patron demand is dem-onstrating the need for and effectiveness of our library.

A library is a good investment because it is a resource for everyone,

whatever your interests or need.

When we invest in librar-ies, we invest in the com-munity, now and in the years to come.

To see America’s Star Libraries, 2011: Top-Rated Libraries visit features.librar yjournal.com/star-libraries/class-of-2011/amer-icas-star-libraries-2011-top-rated-libraries.

Island Prevention Coalition, I am aware that there is a lack of understanding regarding the work of the Coalition. A common assumption is that we’re against alcohol; that’s not true. We are against unhealthy, irresponsible choices that put our youth and community at risk. We support the legal, safe con-sumption of alcohol, which by definition excludes teen drinking.

As a recipient of federal grant funds, the Coalition does not lobby for or against legislation. Part of our role in the community is to educate and advocate for decisions made on federal, state, and local levels that reduce the availability and use of drugs and alcohol among youth. In looking at this issue it may help to consider a couple of facts concerning our youth and alcohol.

The 2010 Healthy Youth Survey revealed that 35% of San Juan County 10th grad-ers who report drinking got their alcohol from “shoulder tapping” – having someone of legal age buy them alcohol – and 6% purchased it them-selves at a store. The survey

also indicated a decreased perception that parents disap-prove of teen substance use.

These findings highlight the importance of carefully considering decisions that affect alcohol regulation and availability, and being aware of what messages we as adults are sending to our youth.

Not all ramifications of 1183 will be readily visible on Lopez; in the Sounder article, Lopez Liquor Store owner Marc Zener stated that he will continue in operation, and Lopez Village Market owner Aaron Dye said he won’t sell liquor as long as

Zener is in business. But the initiative’s long-term effects on our state and community remain to be seen.

In November, voters made their decision. The Lopez Island Prevention Coalition encourages those who voted for Initiative 1183 and those who voted against it to come together to ensure this new legislation does not mean increased availability of alco-hol to island youth.

GEORGEANA COOKExecutive Coordinator

Lopez Island Prevention Coalition

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S e a D o c - s u p p o r t e d research about Northern Abalone was recently pub-lished in the journal, “Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.”

Study authors L. Rogers-Bennett and collaborators did dive surveys in 2005 to determine the best habitats for restoration of Northern

Abalone. They found that the best habitat was kelp beds with abundant encrusting coralline algae.

SeaDoc, a non-profit research and conserva-tion society based on Orcas Island, says on its website that in 1979 a similar study was undertaken in San Juan Channel. On those dives,

researchers found 224 abalo-ne, compared to just 17 found in 2005 — and they found the abalone in less time.

“In 1979 it took an average of two minutes and eight-sec-onds to find each abalone,” the website explains. “In 2005, it was 40 minutes and 49 seconds per abalone.”

Lonely abalone on San Juan?

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Landowners can either gift property to the trust or sign a conservation easement.

Landowners can either gift property to the trust or sign a conservation ease-ment, which allows them to conserve property while still

keeping it in their possession. Landowners place restric-tions on how the land is used, both now and in the future. They then donate (or sell) that easement to a conserva-tion organization such as the San Juan Preservation Trust, which agrees to enforce the restrictions forever. The goal of an easement is to protect special features of the land like wildlife habitats, scenic vistas, agricultural land, wet-lands and forests.

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Brian Smith. “I’ve heard that some of them won’t be going on.”

Some owners may be able to whittle down their inven-tory before then, decreasing the price tag, while others may remortgage their homes or take other drastic financial measures. These businesses’ continued right to sell is also attached to their existing loca-tion, which could be problem-atic if they are renting.

In spite of this, all three existing liquor outlets here say they plan to continue in operation.

“We’re gonna give it a whirl,” said Marc Zener, owner of Lopez Liquor Store. “There are a lot of unknowns still. We’ll have to compete with Costco and Safeway… We’re gonna try.”

“It’s going to be an interest-ing ride,” said Trina Olson, of Eastsound Liquor Store. “We’re one of the few who are able to stay open; everyone else has Costco and Safeway right down the street.”

Other local businesses may be newly eligible for

a liquor license, but it’s not clear which ones.

Eastsound’s Island Market and Lopez Village Market are the only stores on Orcas and Lopez large enough to qualify unequivocally. Stores less than 10,000 square feet can apply for a license only if there are no other liquor retailers within that “trade area,” a term the liquor board has yet to define.

Island Market manager Jason Linnes said the store plans to apply for a license.

Orcas Village Store co-owner Ron Rebman said Orcas Village Store may apply if it qualifies. It’s pos-sible Country Corner could also qualify, depending on the definition of trade area.

“[1183] was written by big business for big business and it does nothing to help small grocery stores,” said Kyle Ater, owner of Eastsound’s 3,200-square-foot Orcas Homegrown Market and Gourmet Delicatessen. “It’s just the same pie cut into smaller pieces.”

With state pricing controls out of the picture, volume buyers will surely be able to find bulk purchasing dis-counts.

“Let’s say you have a liquor store in a big area – you might as well lock the doors,” said Rebman.

Lopez Village Market owner Aaron Dye said he will apply for a license, but is not planning on selling liquor unless Zener closes his shop sometime in the future.

“I don’t want to hurt his business,” Dye said. “We’re just going to apply for it; the process is so long that we want to get ahead of it.”

BackgroundOf Washington state’s

current 328 liquor stores, the state actually owns 166. These stores are staffed by state employees and will be closing. The other 162 are contract liquor stores, run by small business owners who contract with the state.

If a business chooses not to continue operation in its location, the right to sell liquor at that location will be sold at public auction. Smith expects liquor distributor and retail licenses to be available by January.

The state liquor board will begin divestment after the holiday season, and be out of business by June 2012. Of the liquor board’s 1,400 employ-ees, he said 900 to 1,000 will lose their jobs.

The agency will continue its enforcement, licensing, adjudicative and policy-set-ting functions.

Social consequencesThe liquor board website

claims state liquor stores have one of the highest “no-sale-to-minors compliance rates” in the nation, at more than 94 percent – compared with a private sector compliance rate of just 77 percent. State-owned stores had a compli-ance rate of 95 percent; while contract stores’ compliance rate was 92.3 percent.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research says the negative impacts of excessive alcohol consumption can be reduced by increasing alcohol excise taxes; reducing alcohol out-let density; and reducing the days and hours of alcohol sales.

New liquor costs are hard to predict, since they depend on private distributor mark-ups. It’s likely that selection will also increase, as the free market determines what stocks the shelves instead of the state. The number of liquor retail outlets is expect-ed to mushroom from 328 to 1,428.

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