Paula Littlewood
WSBA Executive Director
We’re Still Listening
Listening Tour III visits the Olympic Peninsula, Island
County, and the San Juan Islands
Thethirdannual WSBAListen- ingTourthis pastJunefound PresidentPal-ace and I traipsing through
the upper portions of the
Olympic Peninsula and up
into the San Juan Islands.
The route commenced
with lunch in Montesano
followed by an evening reception in Bremerton; that
night we drove on to Port
Angeles to spend the night
and enjoyed a wonderful
breakfast conversation the
next morning. From Port
Angeles it was onto Coupeville on Whidbey Island
for lunch, on up to Mount
Vernon for an evening
reception, then out to the
San Juans where we culminated the trip with lunch in
Friday Harbor on San Juan
Island. A special thank you
to WSBA Legal Community Outreach Specialist
Sue Strachan, who worked
with Bar leadership in all of
these communities to plan
these great get-togethers
and our vigorous schedule!
The turnout was great all
along the way — thank you to
all of you who took the time
to come out and share your
ideas with President Palace and me! The groups
we met with ranged from 8 people to a high of 20.
The groups were wide-ranging in interests and
backgrounds, and I believe what struck us most
was the generational strata we found in almost
every community. As we’ve been writing about
and discussing for the past several years, the
Baby Boomers are starting to transition out of the
practice and we expect to lose more than 50 per-
1. Lunch with Island County Bar members in Coupeville. 2. Lunch with San Juan County
Bar members in Friday Harbor. 3. Members of the Skagit County Bar share their concerns
in Mount Vernon. 4. President Patrick Palace hangs on tight to the Deception Pass Bridge
connecting Whidbey and Fidalgo islands. 5. Sign along the way. 6. The 1914 Clallam County
Courthouse in Port Angeles. 7. Members of the Kitsap County Bar chat with President Palace
in Bremerton. 8. Members of the Grays Harbor County Bar discuss the issues in Montesano.
9. Executive Director Paula Littlewood, President Palace, and WSBA Legal Community Outreach Specialist Sue Strachan pose in front of public art in Bremerton.
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