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Submitted by Emily Geyman

I want to thank the many people associated with the San Juan Eagles. These pilots have flown me to Bellingham every workday for the past two months to get medical treatment, without asking anything of me except the time of my scheduled appointments. Two were my friends before we started, Mike Taylor and Rich Mattox, and the others were my friends when we finished, Marc Islam, George Mulligan (senior – what an airplane!), George E. Mulligan (junior), Peter Brown, Elsa Willows, Dan Schwartz, and Greg Gerhardstein. There are others, but I’ve not had the pleasure of meeting them –...

I am happy to write in strong support of Warren Appleton, M.D. for S. J. Island Fire District 3. FD3 would benefit from changes in transparency, increased community access, investment in its volunteers and improved teamwork with partner agencies.

San Juan County shares in the huge national problem of the baby boomer generation having contributed to markedly increased numbers of elderly people, many of whom are vulnerable to health problems and/or homelessness. The 85-bed Friday Harbor Life Care Center, which closed in 2017, provided 24-7 health care as well as a place to land for islanders with short-term needs. With that closure, we had a complete absence of any such facility for long-term care of residents of San Juan County.

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