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Roll a frame for Adam Garcia!!

Posted in Football, Fundraisers, tagged , , , , on February 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Adam Garcia and daughter ?.

Adam Garcia and daughter Sophia. (Photos courtesy Michelle Armstrong)

One of the many baskets that will be raffled off at the event.

One of the many baskets that will be raffled off at the event.

Friends and family of Adam Garcia will be hosting a fundraiser at Oak Bowl this Saturday to benefit his young daughter, Sophia.

Garcia, a former Coupeville High School football player, was shot and killed in Oak Harbor in October, 2014.

The fundraiser, scheduled for 2:30-4:30 PM at the popular bowling alley (531 SE Midway Blvd.), is a birthday celebration for the much-loved 21-year-old.

It’s also a chance to help his beautiful five-year-old daughter. Money raised will help pay for Adam’s funeral expenses and go towards a college fund for Sophia.

Tickets are $20 and can be bought at the door or in advance at Taz’s Auto Service on Goldie Road.

Children five and under will be admitted free.

During the event, raffle drawings will be held for an assortment of baskets, as well.

If you can’t attend, but would like to donate, there are several ways.

You can call Whidbey Memorial Funeral and Cremation Service Inc. (360-675-5777) and ask for Paul or mail a check made out to Whidbey Memorial funeral for Adam Garcia and mail it to 746 NE Midway Blvd, Oak Harbor, WA 98277.

If out of the area, you can donate at any Wells Fargo branch. Ask that the money go to “The Adam Garcia Donation Fund” in Washington state.

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Cow Town rallies for mother of three!!

Posted in Fundraisers, tagged , , , , , on January 16, 2015| 1 Comment »

Heather Ausman (GoFundMe photo)

Heather Ausman (GoFundMe photo)

“My plan, God willing, is to live long enough to see my children grow up and have families of their own.”

I don’t know Heather Ausman personally, but I do know cancer.

My aunt Loni (who, was in many ways, a fairly ornery lady) had a doctor tell her family that, if they had a priest, they should call him in because she had hours left.

She then sat up and slapped the doctor (or so the legend goes) and fought the ravages of cancer for another 25+ years.

They weren’t always easy years, but, as I said, she was ornery and didn’t go out easily.

Ausman, a Coupeville mother of three young girls, is in her third battle with stage four breast cancer.

I hope that, deep down, she is as ornery as my aunt, and lives to fight on for many years.

We as a community, as a family bound together by our claiming of Cow Town as our residence, can, and should, do everything possible to help her in that fight.

For her, and for her girls.

Ausman has set up a GoFundMe account, and the link to that is below. Anything you can part with will help her family to deal with what are overwhelming medical costs.

Also, two Coupeville businesses — Brett’s Bread and Whidbey Isle Yarns, Gifts and Teas — have issued a challenge to other businesses in town to donate 10% of their Saturday, Jan. 24 sales to help Ausman.

http://www.gofundme.com/OnlyGodKnowsWhen

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Once more, with feeling!!

Posted in Basketball, Fundraisers, tagged , , , , , on December 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

(John Fisken photos)

   “Don’t mind me, nothing to see … just gonna stroll on by you for a quick layup.” (John Fisken photos)

woman

Much respect to this unnamed female warrior — the only woman in the tournament it seems. Every other picture shows her cold-cocking folks on ‘d’, so she held her own nicely.

McFadyen

Jason McFadyen, slicin’ ‘n dicin’, old school style.

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Jordan Schisel lets the Wolf kiss the ball for good luck as he goes in for two.

Wynter

Current Wolf stars Wynter Thorne and Joel Walstad never pass up a photo op. Ever.

up strong

   Look up the phrase “going up strong in the paint” in the dictionary. This photo is there.

mouth

“Dang son, gotta be quicker than that to catch me!!”

Nick

Nick Streubel, a lineman with a soft shooting touch.

You thought we were done? You were wrong.

OK … now we’re done.

Putting the final capper on another successful Tom Roehl Roundball Classic, we present one final medley of John Fisken photos from Saturday’s hoops extravaganza.

The action was hot ‘n heavy, the camera madly clickin’.

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Hoops with a heart!!

Posted in Basketball, Fundraisers, tagged , , , , , , on December 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

"You ain't in high school no more, son!!" Gavin O' Keefe gets a warm welcome in the paint. (John Fisken photos)

“You ain’t in high school no more, son!!” Gavin O’ Keefe gets a warm welcome in the paint. (John Fisken photos)

Tom Roehl's family pulls off another successful tourney.

Tom Roehl’s family pulls off another successful tourney.

Jason McManigle

“Where’s your umbrella? I make it rain!!” Jason McFadyen at work.

Former Wolf big men Trent Diamanti (left) and Nick Streubel mix it up.

Former Wolf big men Trent Diamanti (left) and Nick Streubel mix it up.

Julia

  Wolf super fans Julia Myers (left) and Taylor Herreman spend some quality sister time together.

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“Oh sweet lord!! No brakes! This is either gonna be awesome or I’m gonna end up smashed up on the back wall…”

V

“When did they put the rims so high…”

Virgil

Virgil Roehl slices past Jason Bagby for a quick two.

no

“I said NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”

"dang..."

“Man’s a beast…”

The sound you hear echoing across Whidbey Island this morning is the sound of men who have suddenly remembered they aren’t teenagers any more.

Oh, they played like they still were Saturday.

But Sunday morning, some will pay the toll.

For those involved, however, it was worth it, as a roll call from Coupeville High School’s basketball glory days reassembled for a day.

The event was the annual Tom Roehl Roundball Classic, a fundraiser started in honor of the former longtime Wolf coach.

Held every Christmas break, it raises scholarship money for local students, while giving former Wolves (and some hardy outsiders) a chance to reclaim their hardwood success.

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Pay the shooters, Martha!!

Posted in Fundraisers, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wynter Thorne sizes up a free throw during a game. (John Fisken photos)

Wynter Thorne sizes up a free throw during a game. (John Fisken photos)

This is Kacie Kiel. She is faster than the rest of you. She has my money. Game over, man, game over.

   This is Kacie Kiel. She is faster than the rest of you. She has my money. Game over, man, game over.

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The small print.

These free throws are not free, but they are for a good cause.

The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball team is holding a Shoot-A-Thon fundraiser over Christmas break, with each Wolf player taking 100 shots from behind the charity stripe.

CHS fans are being asked to pledge, either per made free throw or a total amount they would be willing to pay for the effort.

Which means Wolf players, varsity and JV, will be coming after your wallet in the days to come.

To which I say:

I PLEDGED TO KACIE KIEL!! SHE GOT TO ME FIRST, SHE WINS!! MOVE ALONG!!!!

Anyway, you should think about supporting the cause, in whatever manner your wallet can handle.

The money directly benefits the best hoops squad in the land (seriously, the Wolf girls have the best record of any Olympic League team, 1A or 2A), plus it helps the Coupeville players work on their accuracy from the line.

Having seen a few games last year where free throws killed the Wolves, paying them to practice is money well spent.

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