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01/22/2007: "Leadership San Juan Islands Class III Begins"

Leadership San Juan Islands Class III met for their first of six sessions on January 19 at Skagit Valley College San Juan Center. Fifteen islanders from Lopez, Orcas and San Juan received an overview of community leadership and emerging issues in the islands led by Ralph Hahn, Ron Zee, Gretchen Krampf and Liz Illg.

Leadership San Juan Islands is now a certificate series offered in conjunction with Skagit Valley College San Juan Center. A total of six, day-long seminars will explore leadership and San Juan County's "systems" of governance, education, economics, environment and community/health. Morning "systems" classes are open to the general public for a fee. Contact Denise King, Skagit Valley College San Juan Center, 378-3220, for more information.

Class III participants include:

●Shannon Davis, San Juan (sponsored by Friends of the San Juans);
●Bill Evans, Lopez (sponsored by Lopez Island School District);
●Michael Greenberg, Orcas (Sustainable Orcas Island);
●Steve Hussey and Dana Kinsey, Orcas (sponsored by San Juan County Conservation District);
●Jennell Kvistad, and Michelle McDarmont, Lopez (sponsored by Blossom Organic Grocery);
●Carrie Lacher, San Juan (San Juan Community Home Trust);
●Carla MacDiarmid, San Juan (sponsored by San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau);
●Dani McCutcheon, San Juan (sponsored by Service Alternatives for Washington);
●Alisa Shoultz, San Juan (sponsored by Albert Jensens & Sons, Inc.);
●Martha Sharon, Lopez (sponsored by San Juan County Health and Community Services);
●Cynthia Stark-Wickman, San Juan (sponsored by San Juan Island Prevention Coalition);
●Bill Watson, San Juan (San Juan County Economic Development Council);
●Gay Wilmerding, San Juan (Citizen of the Salish Sea).

The San Juan Island Community Foundation assisted with six of the sponsorships.