Friday football

La Conner Braves 12.

Concretians 41

La Conner's turkey round-up

UPDATE -- noon Saturday, Oct. 23

The four young turkey who ventured into the turkey trap Thursday night are settled into their new digs at a Snohomish County Christmas tree farm, where they are expected to enjoy life as local celebrities. 

Meanwhile, back at the La Conner turkey trap -- the turkeys still won't go near it! But squirrels and deer stop by to eat the sunflower seeds and bread used for turkey bait. 

UPDATE -- 11:15 a.m. Friday, Oct. 22

 Nope! No turkeys in the turkey trap. But it seems other critters like the turkey bait!

UPDATE -- 9:26 a.m. Friday, Oct. 22:

Four of the five young poults obviously did not listen to their parents and walked into the turkey trap Thursday night. They will be taken to their new home today, Friday.
Efforts to catch the rest of the birds continue ...

Turkeys are no dumb clucks

Last year’s turkey round-up was a matter of building a large net cage, baiting it and waiting for the birds to walk in.

But so far this year it’s a different story.

When La Conner Code Enforcement Officer Bill Stokes set out the turkey trap again after the Town Council directed him to catch and relocate the entire flock, the turkeys wouldn't fall for that old trick again.

This morning, “I got them all right up to the trap, but they wouldn’t go inside,” Stokes said.

All but the five new little poults were here last year when they saw 11 turkeys trapped and never seen again. They don't know that the turkeys captured last year are very lucky birds living in the lap of luxury at Precious Life Animal Sanctuary in Sequim.

This year all 12 birds left in town have reservations at another place where they will be similarly pampered.

Not only are the turkeys wise to the trap, they have people aiding and abetting their fugitive status.

Wednesday evening Stokes was walking along South Third Street. He was like the Pied Piper with all 12 turkeys happily following him as he dropped a trail of hot dog bun pieces.

About a block away from the turkey trap, a woman ran out of a house and tore up a whole loaf of bread in the street.

Naturally, the birds quit following the guy with the measly hot dog buns.

In the October 20 2010 issue

 Curious about Alex?

Our intern Alexander Kramer is alive and well in college at Western Washington University. He is maintaining a steady string of college-related blog posts. You can find the list of them here, on his blog Seattle Blurbs.

Lock your vehicles

That's the advice of La Conner's town Sheriff deputies. Several people have lost their wallets, valuable tools and other items in recent car burglaries in town. In each case, there has been no sign of forced entry, making officers suspect an opportunistic thief is targeting vehicles that might be unlocked or very easy to break into.

This handsome young biker is Jacob Cladoosby, he rode his cycle home from the dentist's office the other day. His granddad, Mike Cladoosby accompanied him. -- Photo by Amylynn Richards

Anna back in Haiti

Journalist Anna Ferdinand, whose reporting and writing has won awards for La Conner Weekly News, is in Haiti again with a London film crew working on a British TV documentary about elections in the earthquake-ravaged island nation. Read her powerful, compelling first-hand account of conditions there 10 months after the deadly quake in today's newspaper.

 PUMPKINS EVERYWHERE -- Been to Gordon's Farm yet? Feature writer Sue Phillips takes us on a tour of the McLean Road farm where 60 different varieties of pumpkins, treats and cider served by the La Conner High School culinary arts class and a corn maze have become the local "pumpkin paradise." A stop at Gordon's has become an October tradition for generations of Skagit County families. -- Photo by Sue Phillips

And inside ...

Guess what makes Americans giggle when visiting Norway? A word seen everywhere means something completely different than when someone like, say, Bart Simpson says it! Mickey Bambrick's "Nuggets from Norway" column will make you smile.

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