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Scott Hackleman appointed commissioner

By Meg Olson

Water district commissioners have appointed Scott Hackleman to fill the vacancy on the three-man commission.

At their October 11 meeting Madeleine Anderson and Bill Meursing voted to appoint Scott Hackleman to the position left vacant following the resignation of Renée Coe in August.

Hackleman said he was interested in community issues but didn’t come to the board with any agenda. “I haven’t been here long enough to develop any biases,”he said. “I thought maybe I could bring objectivity to the issues.”

Hackleman lived in Point Roberts for three years, 30 years ago. “I was on the chamber of commerce and enjoyed the involvement in the community,” he said. After leaving the Point he attended art school in California and then, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute, lived in India where he was apprenticed to a musical instrument maker.

Six month ago he returned to Point Roberts, where he and wife Jody are working to restore an older home. Hackleman is also continuing his work building and restoring instruments.