Friday, October 8, 2010

Braves win Homecoming Game

21-9 Braves!
The La Conner Braves beat the Seattle Lutheran Saints 21-9 in what fans were calling the best game of the season so far.
Seattle scored a field goal for 3 points in the first quarter -- but the Braves soon followed with a touchdown and an extra point bringing the score 7-3.
In the third quarter, Seattle scored a touchdown, but the Braves denied them the extra points. The score was a maddening 7 Braves, 9 Seattle into the fourth quarter.
High wind kept blowing passes and kicks off course, frustrating fans and players on both teams.
Fourth quarter brought a big change in the game when the Braves' Conner Anderson got hold of the ball and ran it to the 1 yard line. Garret Wilbur ran it into goal in the next play, then Brandon Drye ran it for the two extra points. Braves were up 15-9.
The Braves topped it off with another touchdown, but the wind stole the extra points by blowing a pass off course, and the score remained 21-9

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

In the October 6 2010 issue




The Flower Lady of La Conner
Story and photo by Sue Phillips
Mary Hedlin grows zinnias, yarrow, bachelor buttons, dahlias, sunflowers, bells of Ireland, straw flowers and lots more in her cutting garden -- acres of color surrounding Hedlin Family Farms produce stand near the La Conner roundabout.

Turkeys 'on the chopping block' (again)
[Sandy Stokes] The town's feathered tourist greeters just can't seem to keep from getting on the fowl side of some hilltop residents, who complain that they are messy, noisy and nasty neighbors.
Three La Conner citizens wrote letters to the town complaining because the sanctioned seven birds had a population explosion when five poults hatched this summer survived. The council will vote on the flock's fate at its next meeting, 6 p.m. on Oct. 6 upstairs at Maple Hall.

Homecoming week at La Conner High
The coronation of the Homecoming Queen and King and their royal court was Monday. See the photo below on Monday's post. The Homecoming Game is Friday against Seattle Lutheran High right here in La Conner at 7 p.m.

Paper won awards!
In case you haven't heard -- we've all been posting all over Facebook all week -- La Conner Weekly News brought home 14 awards from the 123rd Washington Newspaper Publishers Association convention held in Wenatchee last weekend. In the Better Newspaper Contest, we took First Place in an advertising category and in several news categories. Alexander Kramer, our young intern reporter, won four of the awards and was recognized as the youngest journalist at the convention. Kramer is now at Western Washington University, where he is majoring in Journalism. 
Also in this week's issue: The Plant Lady by Sue Phillips, Jim Smith's Notes from Pull & Be Damned, our ever popular Police Blotter, Mickey Bambrick's entertaining Nuggets from Norway and 'cause someone asked for it, a reprint of Cindy's recipe for elephant stew.

The, ahem, award-winning newspaper is on sale at the drug store, produce market, liquor store and gas station and in news stands all over town!

Don't miss a single issue -- subscriptions are $30 per year (hey! that's only 60 cents per copy) and if you want us to help the High School Boosters, tell us to give $5 of that subscription price to them!
 

 
 

Monday, October 4, 2010

Monday night football

It's two in a row for the La Conner JV Braves.
La Conner beat the Darrington Loggers 30 to 14 in Darrington today. This is the second time the Braves and Loggers have faced off this season. 
Last week the JV Braves scored 26 to the Loggers' 14.

La Conner High Homecoming Week

Monday
HOMECOMING ROYALTY -- The coronation of the Homecoming Queen and King and their court of Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior Princesses and Princess was this morning. The students voted Friday to select the Royal Court.  -- Photo by Ryan Hiller
The Homecoming Game is Friday at 7 p.m., when the La Conner Braves face the Seattle Lutheran Saints.

 
 Sunday
The kids were inside decorating the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior halls -- Kane Stokes photos

Meanwhile, the Booster Club was "pole wrapping" outside to let everyone venturing along North Sixth Street know "You are in Brave Country."  -- Amylynn Richards photos
 


 

September 29 issue