People
were elbowing in the aisles to get NEXUS applications at
a June 8 meeting but their questions for the INS had more
to do with cutting wait times at the border now.
Photo by Meg Olson |
| Nexus
opens with a traffic jam in enrollment The NEXUS program
officially lifted off this week, but more like an overloaded
Airbus than the Concorde. Burdened with 30,000 applications
only three weeks after enrollment opened, the system is more
swamped than streamlined... |
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And they’re off to the horse
races! “We don’t have an application yet but
we’re expecting it,” said Gary Christianson, interim
secretary of Washington State’s horse racing commission. |
| Cadden
quits fire chief position Point Roberts fire department
division chief Mike Cadden is calling it quits. ‘I just
want to go back home,” Cadden said. |
| INSIDE |
 Ready
for the parade
Freddy the fire truck and handler Mike Cadden are practicing
for the Fourth of July festivities. For a full listing
of the days events check Coming
Up. |
 She
made it!
Linda Powell might not have won the Jog for a Jug on June
15 but she made it all the way without slowing to a walk.
Over 100 runners turned up for the race and beer at the Reef
afterwards..
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| Remote
and necessary status granted The Point Roberts primary
school has finally been deemed remote and necessary by the
state of Washington, qualifying the Blaine school district
for extra dollars to keep it going. |
| Taxpayers’
AGM At the Point Roberts Taxpayers’ Association annual
general meeting on June 23, poorly attended due to last minute
scheduling changes, board member John Lesow proposed the association
join with the registered voters association create a united
front pushing local interests. |
| Slow
down and smell the lavender - Picture tea in the garden.
It’s early on a July afternoon, and the sun splashes
its rays indiscriminately through the flowers. Still, it isn’t
hot; a cooling breeze creeps across the garden from the shimmering
sea below. |
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Definitely
a bumper crop this year... Jenna Alphenaar is working
at Marios Kitchen for the summer, but she’s got her
mind on the future. In September, she will leave for the
sunnier climes of Australia, and plans to prolong the sunshine
when she returns from a year of travels by realizing her
life-long dream...
Garden tour set for July 21
What’s the Point? As well as being the name of the
Point Roberts group Terri Laporte coordinates, it is the
question that has produced a colorful answer; gardens.
More questions about now than
later It’s been a roller-coaster month for Point
Roberts border users as policy ups and downs, fluctuating
staff and NEXUS construction resulted in lines at times
longer than they were in late September.
Now, for a little historical
background... The Point Roberts Historical Society welcomed
18 members of the Vancouver Historical Society and a dozen
others to a visit with the Point’s past at their annual
walking tour.
The road less gravelled
Point Roberts residents tired of worn out pavement or dusty
gravel roads won’t get a new surface to drive on this
year, but it looks good for next year when chipsealing crews
will be up resurfacing most of the 34 miles of county road
on the Point.
Obituaries
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