Covering the villages on South Whidbey Island
By Cindy Obi-Njoku
Hello, dear reader. Cindy here. On Tuesday, the 2nd of July, Lusho and I set off to Whidbey Island with Cindy Safronoff. Cindy drove us to the Mukilteo Ferry Terminal where we boarded the ferry to Clinton, a town on South Whidbey Island. The ferry ride was unbelievably shorter than I expected so we got there fast. We drove from Clinton to Langley, and on our arrival, Cindy took us on a loop around the area to scout for places prime for distribution and when we had an idea where to go, she dropped us off and we started work.
At the time, we realised that a good number of establishments were closed and set to open mostly between 12pm to 2pm, so we worked with the ones available and when it got to noon, we tried out some of the ones that had just opened.
From my experience, Langley is a cosy, mostly residential seaside village with friendly people, it also houses a lot of art galleries with orca awareness art. Despite being friendly, the people of Langley were not very open to receiving copies, so when we were done, we had secured only one gift subscription. After work, we met up with Cindy for lunch. We got our food from The Star Store and ate by a popular sculpture named A Boy and His Dog.
After our refuel, we set of to Freeland, a town in Whidbey Island. On our way there, we stopped briefly at Bayview Corner and dropped by a few places to distribute copies and in one of our stops, we met a customer at a nail salon who knew of The Christian Science Monitor Weekly. She told the nail technicians and other customers how much she admired the magazine and due to this, the owner was willing to receive a gift subscription from us.
Right after this interaction, I had a conversation with a woman who was looking for free books. We exchanged pleasantries and at the end of our interaction, she took a copy of the magazine. When we got to Freeland, it was relatively sparse area. Here we got a “maybe” subscription.
We dropped in to a few places a Ken’s Corner, then we headed back to Clinton to catch the ferry to head home.