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Curfew tightened (1968)

April 14, 2021, All Day

Anacortes City Councilmen unanimously tightened curfew regulations for youngsters on this date in 1968. The curfew for children 16 and younger was set at 10:30 p.m. seven days a week – previously they had a 1 a.m. limit Fridays and Saturdays. Only 17-year-olds retained the 1 a.m. weekend curfew.

Horse breaks Commercial Avenue (1909)

April 14, 2021, All Day

The Anacortes Creamery Co. presented the City with a bill for $25 for injuries sustained by the company’s gray horse, which broke through the planking on Commercial Avenue between Second and Third streets on April 14, the Anacortes American reported. As a result, the council passed a resolution condemning Commercial Avenue from Third Street to Railroad Avenue and ordered Street Supt. Baker to close it to wagon traffic at once, pending the improvement of the street. Commercial Avenue had been “paved” with old-growth planking in 1890.

Earwigs infest Anacortes (1922)

April 24, 2021, All Day

Anacortes residents were warned in April 1922 about an epidemic of European Earwigs infesting six city blocks of the town. A survey made by the county horticulturist E. D. Hunter revealed the information, sending the town into a panic about the garden pest. With 50-90 eggs laid by any one female, the pest had the potential to spread rapidly. The local Boy Scouts troop would take on the challenge of exterminating the bugs, using a poison concoction of 1 gallon of lime sulfur solution, 1 gallon black leaf 40, 1 pound arsenate of lead and 35 gallons of water.

Anacortes Arts Commission Regular Meetings

April 14, 2021, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM @ Anacortes Public Library

Public is always welcome. MISSION STATEMENT: The Anacortes Arts Commission supports excellence, vitality, diversity, and accessibility of the arts as essential to the quality of life for all Fidalgo and Guemes Island residents by fostering a community cultural vision through the acquisition, placement and maintenance of public art and by promoting participation, innovation and partnership in all the performing, visual literary arts.

City Council Planning Committee Meeting

April 12, 2021, 5:00 PM @ City Hall Main Conference Room

City Council Meeting

April 12, 2021, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM @ Refer to each meeting's published agenda for meeting location; some meetings may be held only electronically pursuant to Governor's Proclamations.

City Council Public Works Committee Meeting

April 19, 2021, 5:00 PM @ City Hall Main Conference Room

City Council Meeting

April 19, 2021, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM @ Refer to each meeting's published agenda for meeting location; some meetings may be held only electronically pursuant to Governor's Proclamations.

Housing Affordability and Community Services Committee Meeting

April 21, 2021, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ Planning Director's Office, City Hall

City Council Planning Committee Meeting

April 26, 2021, 5:00 PM @ City Hall Main Conference Room

City Council Meeting

April 26, 2021, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM @ Refer to each meeting's published agenda for meeting location; some meetings may be held only electronically pursuant to Governor's Proclamations.

City Council Finance Committee Meeting

April 14, 2021, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ City Hall Main Conference Room

City Council Finance Committee Meeting

April 28, 2021, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ City Hall Main Conference Room

Virtual Second Sunday Jazz

April 11, 2021, 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM @ Online via Facebook or YouTube

Join us for a new kind of Second Sunday ... a virtual concert by Duende Libre, recorded live in Bellingham by the Jazz Project!

Word Jazz

April 14, 2021, 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM @ Online Video

Join us at 7 p.m. for WordJazz, a unique collaboration between 3 local Poet Laureates and jazz musicians. Presented by Skagit River Poetry Foundation and the Manieri Jazz Endowment.

Humanities WA Presents: She Traveled Solo

April 21, 2021, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ Online via Zoom. Link below.

Using historical photographs, documents, and hand-drawn illustrations, artist & writer Tessa Hulls takes participants into the lives of intrepid female adventurers who lived through the turn of the 20th century.In sharing these stories and her own, Hulls illuminates why female role models are vital in affecting social change.

Virtual Storytimes - Every Weekday!

April 23, 2021, All Day @ Online on our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/AnacortesPublicLibrary/

Join our library staff every day of the week for online storytimes. We read books, sings songs, and teach fun activities that you can do from home. Visit our Facebook for all the details or view the archived versions on our YouTube channel the following day.

Anacortes Historic Preservation Board Meeting

April 14, 2021, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM @ These will be web-based meetings until further notice. For more information please contact the Anacortes Museum.

Anacortes Historic Preservation Board Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of every month at 4 PM These will be web-based meetings until further notice. For more information please contact the Anacortes Museum.

Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission

April 13, 2021, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM @ Main Floor Conference Room - City Hall

Monthly meeting of the Anacortes Parks and Recreation Commission

Planning Commission Meeting

April 14, 2021, 6:00 PM @ City Hall Council Chambers

Housing Affordability & Community Services Committee (HACS)

April 21, 2021, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ Until further notice, all meetings held remotely without physical location

Prescription Drug Take Back Event

April 24, 2021, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Prescription Drug Take Back Dispose of unused, unwanted prescription drugs in a safe, environmentally friendly manner.