Volume 31, Number 1 “All the news that fits—we print” December, 2018

Lainie Pennington’s big senior year at Cleveland

Portland, OR—Lainie Pennington has started her senior year at Port-land’s Cleveland High, and it looks like a banner year for her.

Among her other accomplish-ments, she was appointed Editor-in-

Chief of the school’s newspa-per, the Cleve-land Clarion. (Perhaps her pen-chant for journal-ism stems from her grandfather Paul, who held

that job at the Monrovia HS Wildcat some sixty-odd years ago.)

Thinking about her future, Lainie toured a couple of college campuses that looked suited to her dance and communications interests, and fell in love with the Western Washington University campus in Bellingham, WA. She sent an early application off to WWU, and in November—quoting her proud mom’s Facebook post—”She got the fat envelope,” meaning all of the acceptance paper-work, and not a rejection.

Already looking forward to her post high school future, Lainie plans to do another visit to the WWU cam-pus with her grandparents and par-ents during their planned week-long holiday visit to Oak harbor.

Coupeville, WA—Dozens of friends and business associates surprised Penny and Paul Turvill in September with a joint 80th birthday bash, planned by Kit and Melanie, and hosted at Kit’s Coupeville back yard. What was pro-posed as a simple backyard barbecue turned out to be a major celebration.

Kids surprise parents with 80th celebration

Cruising, family festivities, hobbies highlights of busy year for Turvills

Oak Harbor—Two cruises, a mini-reunion at Jackson Hole, a surprise birthday gala in Coupeville, a new hobby for Penny, a weekend visit to Dave Turvill’s personal city block in Creston, WA, and a major upgrade to the Tur-vills’ shop building, in addition to the annual family Thanksgiving celebration

with Tim and Phyllis in Mineral, all contributed to making 2018 a memo-rable year for the Turvills.

Penny and Paul joined other Ro-tarians for District 5050’s annual conference—a mixture of business and fun—on a three-day cruise aboard Holland America’s Eurodam in May. In October they were joined by good friends Bob and Cindy Rupp for a round-trip 15-day Hawaii cruise aboard the Emerald Princess out of Vancouver, BC.

Penny’s brother Jack hosted fami-ly members for a week-long reunion at his family retreat in Jackson Hole, WY, in August. And Kit and Melanie staged a top-secret 80th birthday sur-prise party in September for Penny and Paul at Kit’s Coupeville mini-farm.

Architectural projects included a summer trip to Creston, WA, to as-sist Paul’s brother Dave with his new building and venture there, and Pen-ny managed to “borrow” some of P&L General Contractor’s employ-ees to do some long-awaited work on the Oak Harbor shop building.

Oh, and Penny’s new hobby is glass fusing and slumping, making use of her new specialty 1700 degree birthday kiln from Paul.

Turvills pick fitting tree topper for 2018 holiday

What could be more appropriate for a family with four indoor cats and an outdoor feline fan club of at least three others, than a tree topper dedicat-ed to their tra-ditional kind of mischief?

The last of her generation: Helen Turvill passes at 102

Oak Harbor—Long after achiev-ing her status as the eldest resident at the Oak Harbor Welcome Home as-sisted living facility, Paul’s mom Helen passed on quietly in her sleep in the wee hours of April 23, 2018.

She’ll be missed, but never for-gotten.

Helen Isabelle Turvill 9/25/1915 - 4/23/2018

Guests included fellow Rotarians, Penny’s former clients, contractors, business contacts, and friends old and new, spanning nearly all of the Turvills’ 36 year tenure on Whidbey Island. Also in attendance, of course, were celebratees’ siblings and their wives, Tim and Phyllis Turvill, Dave and Autumn Turvill, and Dick and Liz Wennberg.

After thirty-some years of pro-crastination, the historical tipping point of Paul and Penny’s decision to move to Oak Harbor finally got its long-planned structural and decora-tive finishing touches.

Thanks to a lot of help from P&L General contractors, the building now sports all new fiberglass doors, a new sliding glass door, a lighted soffit, enclosed deck railing, and new T-111 siding on its previously unfin-ished east wall.

Importantly, the originally over-spanned floor joists above the garage

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River Maret is Miss August in the 2019 WAIF calendar.

Abandoned, confused and lonely, River was seen wandering from per-son to person and group to group at the 2015 Whidbey Island Horse Trials, looking for her missing family.

Even though she was micro-chipped, her former owner could not be located, so it was decided that she should go home with an event volun-teer, where, as it turned out she found a happy forever home.

Kit Maret was the WIHT volun-teer, and River’s initially fierce pro-tective instincts have faded to reveal a silly playful soul, thriving with her three adopted canine siblings,

Jackson, WY—Penny, Paul, and their family dog Maya took a road trip to Jackson Hole during the hottest days of August (109 degrees in Ontario, OR, on the first night!). The event was a mini-reunion at the Wennberg family retreat near Teton Village. Penny’s brother Jack host-ed the gathering.

The group also included Melanie, Darren and Lainie Pennington, Kit Maret, Penny’s brother Dick Wennberg, Dick’s daughter Robin and her daughter Ella and son Toby.

Activities during the week included hiking, touring old Jackson, family meals both home-cooked and “on the town,” side trips into Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, and a lot of reminiscing.

One of the highlights was an old time photo shoot at a gallery in Jackson, where everyone donned period costumes representing characters from bar girls to the “good reverend” and posed for some awesome photos.

Leaded glass critters still big with WAIF Auction bidders

Shop building gets new (finished) look portion are now properly supported with a new beam and partial bearing wall—so the train room floor has lost its disconcerting jiggle, and the creeping gap at the upstairs ceiling line can now be fixed.

The all but inoperable rolling door on the east side has been re-placed with a pair of swinging fiber-glass doors, allowing easy access to the rear storage area.

More improvements are planned, “but we’ve covered the most im-portant ones,” says Penny, who’s firmly in charge of the project.

Penny’s creations for the 2018 WAIF auction included a pet bunny and a long-eared dog. One more—a malamute dog—is still in the works in her leaded glass hobby area.

River Maret is 2019 WAIF Calendar Girl

Two favorite Pac-12 teams earn bowl bids; 8-6 Seahawks still hopeful for NFL Playoffs

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SPORTS

Paul’s Stanford roommate Ron Hare and his wife Joan made a visit to the Turvills on as part of an ex-tended road trip in April.

While here, the foursome did a cook’s tour of Whidbey Island, in-cluding sampling some of the local restaurants, a bit of exploring at De-ception Pass State Park (photo), and just enjoying a couple of days of Whidbey’s spring weather.

As is often the case with long-time friends, years melted away leav-ing Ron and Paul with the feeling that—even though both have kids in their 50’s—nothing had seemed to really change much since that Com-mencement Day in 1961.

While searching for new ideas for her leaded glass creations, Penny stumbled across an article on glass fusing, the art of making useful and decorative objects by es-sentially melt-ing pieces of glass and join-ing them in var-ious combina-tions.

Fused flat shapes can then be “slumped” into various molds to create a variety of useful and decorative cups, dishes and works of art.

Naturally, a glass fusing kiln ap-peared on Penny’s wish list, and Paul, being a sucker for anyone cele-brating an 80th birthday, took the hint. The new kiln is capable of tem-peratures up to 1700 degrees F, and is fully programmable, so it doesn’t need constant monitoring and manual adjustments.

Hares make Whidbey stop during spring trip

The Stanford Cardinal capped off a winning (8-4) football season with their ninth consecutive win over the Cal Golden Bears (7-5) in the 121st Big Game. The final score saw the turnover-plagued Bears on the losing end of a 23-13 score.

Stanford will end the 2018 season with a game against the Pittsburgh Panthers (7-6) at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, TX, on December 31.

Meanwhile, the Washington Huskies finished their regular season with a 10-3 record, first taking the Pac-12 North honors, and then de-feating 9-4 Utah to win the Pac-12 Championship, and a trip to the 2019 Rose Bowl against the always pow-erful (12-1) Ohio State Buckeyes, on New Years Day.

In the NFL, Seattle’s Seahawks (8-6 at press time) ran hot and cold for the season’s first 14 weeks, los-ing games they should have won, but winning others with distinction. Their week 14 embarrassment was the 23-26 overtime loss to the 4-10 San Francisco 49ers, in a game marked by a missed extra point at-tempt and no fewer than 14 Sea-hawks penalties.

There’s still hope for the Sea-hawks to make the NFL playoffs as a wildcard contender, but to do so, they have to win either an at-home contest against the Kansas City Chiefs (11-3) on December 23, or beat the last-place Arizona Cardinals (3-11) in the season finale.

Or both. There’s always hope.

Mid-Pacific Ocean—On their recent Hawaii cruise, the Turvills and the Rupps experienced an added bit of excitement when several hours into the return voyage to Vancouver, the Captain announced that the ship was reversing course to meet a U.S. Navy helicopter on its way to rescue a seriously ill passenger.

While a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules plane circled the ship to monitor and film the effort, the Navy MH-60R chopper made several pass-es, hovering to first lower a crew member, then rescue equipment, and finally to hoist the crewman and ill passenger aboard, for the airlift back to Kaneohe, HI.

Somewhat surprisingly, there is no heliport or other provision on most cruise ships to permit a helicop-ter landing. Consequently, the hover-and-recover exercise is practiced by ship’s and Coast Guard crews at a maximum of 12-week intervals.

PET DEMOGRAPHICS The year 2018 was a relatively

stable one for family pets. No new ones, no lost ones.

The Turvill household is holding steady at four indoor cats—three of them formerly feral kittens. “The Boys,” Wilbur and Orville are still shy, but in spite of abandoning the house for a few weeks of summer outdoor living, decided they prefer the warm indoors, rather than the cruel outside world.

Furball is the cuddly lap cat, who has lost all signs of feraldom. Ceecee the original housecat is a bit out of shape over the others, but tolerates the competition. Zoe and Momcat hang close by, but stay outdoors.

And Maya the black Labrador just remains her mellow self, unfazed by the overabundance of cats.

New kiln adds depth to Penny’s glassy hobbies

U.S. Navy, Coast Guard stage cruise ship rescue

Photo from U.S. Coast Guard video October 17, 2018

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