Whidbey pet savior could use your vote

Voting is on everyone’s mind, but in this case, you don’t have to choose sides.

Cast a vote online if you want to honor a Whidbey Island animal savior.

Linda Fauth of Langley has been selected as one of 10 finalists nationwide for Animal Planet’s Cat Hero of the Year award.

If she wins, the nonprofit Whidbey Animal Improvement Foundation will receive thousand of dollars to help animals. WAIF aims to provide food, shelter, veterinary care and nurturing to displaced pets until loving homes can be found for them.

Voting ends Monday. For more information, go to animal.discovery.com/convergence/hero_of_the_year/2008/ cat-nominees/linda-fauth.html.

Fauth planned, organized and built a WAIF prep room, operating room and recovery area. She oversees the WAIF surgical program and is credited with seeing to it that thousands of Whidbey Island cats and dogs have been safely spayed or neutered.

“Good Norwegian stuff for a cold night.”

What was David Danubio of Stanwood talking about?

Lutefisk.

Dried cod preserved in lye.

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Each to their own at the 56th Stanwood Lions Club lutefisk dinner from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at Stanwood High School.

Here is some yummy news for those with a taste for the Norwegian stuff — it’s all you can eat.

They are looking for old photographs, documents or drawings at the Arlington Airport.

Airport coordinator Joe Alexander is looking for photographs of aircraft on the ramp, P-51s using the field, the shotgun or bore-sighting range, close-up pictures of the runways, the ball fields, the control tower, squadron group photos, vehicle and personnel photos and just about anything between the years 1934 and 1946.

“Nine historical interpretive signs have been designed and are now going through the preliminary review process,” Alexander says. “But it would be great to get more relevant photos to add to the signs.”

The airport hopes to place the signs along the airport trail to tell the history of the Arlington Airport.

For more information, call 360-403-3470.

Fun Fact: Three Shetland sheepdogs at Cloud’s Canine have names that start with “Y.”

Y’ell is named after the second largest of the Shetland Islands from which their breed evolved.

Yasmin is a little female and her name means “flower.”

Yaden is the youngest of the trio who could become a breed champion. His name means “King.”

Cloud’s Canine on Camano Island sponsors a 4-H Club. For more information, go to www.cloudscanine.com.

Why does Tony Cloud have three sheepdogs with names that start with “Y?”

“No particular reason,” Cloud says. “It just turned out that way.”

If you visit Cloud’s Canine, be prepared to be greeted by a gentle giant Maremma sheepdog, who was named when he was rescued as a 6-month-old pup.

His name is Nelson.

Columnist Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451 or oharran@heraldnet.com.

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