See the talent, and humor, of Betty Dorotik this weekend on Camano Island.
Her watercolor work will be shown at “Bringing Forth The Birds!” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at the fourth annual Camano Island Bird Art Exhibition at Four Springs Preserve, 585 Lewis Lane on Camano Island.
The show is free and features the work of 33 artists.
“The subject of my work is often birds,” Dorotik says. “Since moving to Camano Island on a wooded piece of property, I have been surrounded by nature.”
Enjoying her property is her entertainment, she says.
“My garden is a registered natural habitat. I provide food, shelter and ‘stimulus’ for the feathered creatures all year round.”
The birds in her artwork, from top to bottom, are a red-breasted nuthatch, black-capped chickadee, dark-eyed junco, blackbird and varied thrush. All the species visited her feeders this winter, Dorotik says.
“I enjoy including humor in my paintings and ‘Whose Idea Was This!’ tells the story of a forward thinking nuthatch who uses his buddies for getting to the berries he couldn’t reach,” Dorotik says. “Some of the expressions on the bird’s faces come across as impatient, pain absorbing claws on your back or head, yet there is one berry for each of them if they go along with the plan.”
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Events happen one at a time in Darrington, if they want a crowd.
A Darrington Preschool Co-op fundraiser that was supposed to happen last Saturday night was canceled.
“The high school is going to playoffs and a lot of people will not be in town,” organizer Kim Miller said last week. “It is being rescheduled for March 14.”
Sorry to report Darrington High School lost the basketball game in Puyallup.
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Shhhh. Island County workers need quiet time.
They aren’t napping, just catching up on paperwork an extra hour and a half per day without interruptions from John Q. Public.
Four offices in the Island County Courthouse Administration Building in Coupeville — human resources and the treasurer, assessor, and auditor’s offices — will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday beginning Monday.
Island County staff has been reduced by the equivalent of 31 folks.
The new, curtailed hours are offered to ease effects of reduced staffing levels because of budget cuts. Staff will get quite time to catch up with desk work and correspondence early in the day and during the late afternoon.
The offices used to be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Other offices in the courthouse are not affected by the change.
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It’s not often that libraries open after hours, but they care about keeping teens busy in Stanwood.
After the library closes at 5 p.m., it will reopen at 7 tonight for teens only.
Rob Branigin, teen librarian, says it’s called “Rock the Library.”
“There will be several different music-related activities going on: karaoke in one room, a rock band in another, and a screening of the Ramones documentary “End of The Century” in a third,” Branigin says. “There will be free pizza and snacks and all our computers will be available for internet access.”
One winner will get an iTunes gift card.
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
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