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In the past, veterans on Whidbey Island who needed to get to the Veterans Affairs hospital had to drive to the outpatient clinic in Mount Vernon — or farther.

Now veterans here have another choice, thanks to the Veterans’ Choice Program, which provides care from non-VA providers if they face long waits (defined as more than 30 days) for care or live more than 40 miles away from VA care.

“This is a significant devel-opment considering trans-portation limitations and the challenge of travel to the community-based outpatient clinic in Mount Vernon, the Seattle VA hospital and even farther to American Lake VA facilities,” said Dana Sawyers, Veteran’s Service Coordinator

for Island County.

The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 in part estab-lishes a temporary program to improve veterans’ access to health care outside the VA system. The VA will provide a Choice Card to all veterans enrolled in the VA health care system as of August 2014 and to recently discharged combat veterans.

In Island County there are multiple providers in prima-ry care, women’s health and behavioral health, Sawyers said.

That list is growing. Go to www.va.gov/opa/apps/locator to find a provider. If the one you wish to visit isn’t on the list, she suggested calling the Choice Program call center at 866-606-8198.

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Naval Aircrewman (Operator) 1st Class Devin Ellis, assigned to Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 10 (CPRW-10), from Vancouver, Wash., rakes leaves during a First Class Petty Officer Association (FCPOA) community relations (COMREL) event at Windjammer Park. The FCPOA volunteers monthly around Whidbey Island as part of their COMREL program.

Program provides vets with options for health care

The passage of a state bill impacts the amount of income residents can receive to qualify for the property tax exemption for senior and disabled people.

No action is required by you if you are already receiving an exemption. The Island County Assessors Office has placed you in the appropriate level, the office reported in a press release.

Qualifications for filing are:1. Age 61 or over by Dec. 31 (of last

year) or 100 percent military service con-nected disability or disabled and unable to be gainfully employed.

2. Own and occupy the home in Island County. You must occupy the home more than six months out of the year.

3. Your annual combined disposable income cannot exceed $35,000 for 2014 income and previous or $40,000 for 2015 income.

If you believe you qualify for the pro-gram based on the above criteria please come to the Assessor’s Office and bring with your income documentation.

Information is also on the Assessor’s website at www.IslandCountyAssessor.com/exemptions/seniordisabledexemp tion.

To reach the Senior Citizen/Disabled Exemption Coordinator, call Kristina Mayhew directly at 360-678-7853.

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The Veteran’s Advisory Board needs you. The board is looking for volunteers to serve. The goal is to

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Under state law, every county must establish a board to advise leaders on the needs of local indigent veterans and their families.

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By RON NEWBERRYThe first time Anne

Langer met John Geragotelis, she butchered his last name.

It was 1986. She was on her way to the World’s Fair in Vancouver, B.C., when she stopped in Oak Harbor to visit her best friend and meet the man she’d only heard about.

She immediately spotted the embroidered writing on his flight suit, and blurted out what proved to be a mouthful, missing the mark by a syllable or two.

“I didn’t say it right,” she said. “I do remember that.”

Langer laughs at the memory, amazed at how young she was at the time and how simple life seemed to be.

Any thought that the man with a funny name standing before her would profound-ly impact not only the life of her best friend, but hers as well, was inconceivable back then.

Last April, John Geragotelis gave Anne Langer a gift so vital that she will forever be in his debt.

He gave her one of his kidneys.

For years, he and his wife, Diane Geragotelis, felt help-less watching the health and lifestyle of their long-time friend from California decline from two diseases that caused her kidneys to fail.

Langer’s kidney function deteriorated to the point where she knew that she would soon need an organ transplant to keep her from

going on dialysis.Fearing that her kidneys

might not hold out long enough after she quali-fied to get on a waiting list, she learned about a way to receive a new kidney that didn’t involve waiting for someone to die.

She learned about living kidney donations and how a healthy person who has a matching blood type and meets other criteria could be a candidate to help those facing uncertain futures like her.

Since the first success-ful living donor transplant in 1954, more than 50,000 procedures involving kid-neys have been performed.

The living donor pro-gram gave Langer a new reason to hope, offering a refreshing departure from some of the grim statistics she’d read about those on kidney transplant lists.

According to statistics kept by the National Kidney Foundation, more than 101,000 in the United States alone are currently awaiting kidney transplants.

The wait can last years. An average of 12 people die each day awaiting a dona-tion.

John and Diane Geragotelis pledged to do anything in their power to not let Langer meet that fate.

After Langer’s husband and a childhood friend didn’t meet certain criteria, Diane Geragotelis stepped forward to undergo testing to see if she was a match, but her husband interceded.

He knew she feared nee-dles but also knew she’d do

anything to help her best friend since grade school.

She had her blood tested anyway and wasn’t a match.

“Diane has a huge heart,” John Geragotelis said.

Soon it was determined that John Geragotelis’ blood was a match.

A retired Navy captain who spent 26 years in mili-tary service, Geragotelis maintained optimal physi-cal fitness so he felt he was as good a candidate as any. He underwent extensive testing at Stanford Hospital, which initially revealed an issue with blood vessels around one kidney. Doctors gave him a 10 percent chance of being approved as a donor.

“I came back and Anne was a little disappointed,” Geragotelis said. “Of course, I kept praying through all this. I’m a very religious person.”

He told Langer not to worry and a week later got word that he was approved.

A week after that, he was

back at Stanford Hospital having his kidney removed while Langer was in another room waiting to receive it.

Geragotelis remembers phoning Langer to tell her that he had been approved and they began talking about the surgery date and recovery schedule. Langer mentioned an upcoming 40th high school reunion in Pinole, Calif.

“I said, ‘Anne, what are you waiting for? This is a matter of life or death. Who cares about the high school reunion,’” Geragotelis said. “She said, ‘You’re right.’”

Langer, 58, made the reunion and is making an exceptional recovery.

She was told that she had only days until dialysis would have been a neces-sary part of her life. The combination of an auto-immune disease and type 1 diabetes had taken a major toll on her kidney function-ing.

A former lab technician at Stanford, her condition

had become so debilitating, and her energy level so low, that she could no longer work.

Geragotelis, who also has recovered well and is able to function normally with one kidney, remembers see-ing the life come back to Langer’s face the first time he saw her the day after surgery.

“She had a million IV’s coming out of her,” Geragotelis said. “You could tell already she had this glow about her. It was really special.”

Geragotelis’ surgery took five hours and left him with a 5-inch scar on his stom-ach and considerable dis-comfort in his abdomen for about two weeks.

But he said he’d do it all over again.

“I wish I had three kid-neys so I could do it again,” he said. “The sacrifice for me was 10 weeks of exercise with leisure golfing. The effect it’s made on Anne’s life has just been life chang-

ing for her. I don’t want to say, ‘life saving.’”

Diane Geragotelis begged to differ.

“He saved my best friend’s life,” she said. “It’s kind of amazing to me that the guy I fell in love with that is my best friend also saved the girl who I’ve known since we were 10 and I love her dearly.”

Langer’s impression of John Geragotelis three decades ago when she couldn’t pronounce his name was favorable. It con-tinues to be.

“I think this is really con-sistent with his character. He’s that kind of guy,” she said. “He’s very brave. He’s flown missions with the Navy off aircraft carriers. He was saying, ‘I’ve done a lot of things that I’ve needed to be brave for but this was nothing.’ Well, I don’t think it’s nothing. He’s so matter of fact. He has a good heart. He prayed about it, thought about it and didn’t have a doubt. So I didn’t have a doubt.”

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GIFTfrom the heartRetired Navy captain from Oak Harbor helps wife’s ailing best friend since elementary school by donating kidney

Photo courtesy John GeragotelisJohn Geragotelis of Oak Harbor visits Anne Langer in her hospital room at Stanford Hospital the day after kidney transplant surgery in April. Geragotelis’ blood type and other matches and good physical fitness made him a successful donor candidate.

By KATE DANIEL

Cheryn Weiser-Roosen-

Runge wrapped the soft red, white and blue quilt around the shoulders of her 7-year-old grandson, Weston Klamm, and planted an affectionate kiss on his cheek.

More than a source of warmth and comfort, the quilt enveloped Klamm in the love sewn by each of the quil-ters who crafted it.

Klamm and Weiser-Roosen-Runge are the grand-son and wife of veteran Kord Roosen-Runge, who served in the Army infantry in Berlin from 1961-1964. He was one of three veterans to receive a

quilt in his honor as a part of this year’s Veterans Day ser-vices on Whidbey.

Roosen-Runge himself is incapacitated with cancer

and was unable to attend the quilt-giving at the American Legion Hall in Bayview. His wife and grandson received the quilt on his behalf.

Wei s er-R o o s en-R u n g e said she had told her husband of the upcoming ceremony to honor him and other veterans the night prior.

“He was very moved,” she said.

To express his gratitude, Roosen-Runge penned a letter addressing both the Veterans Resource Center, as well as the quilters.

“The notion of a quilt that will keep me warm is a spe-cial surprise,” he wrote. “I’m

looking forward to connect-ing with all of you, love Kord.”

“My grandma made quilt after quilt after quilt,” said Weiser-Roosen-Runge, “I appreciate every loving piece of it put together and all the loving hands that contrib-uted.”

The makers of this and the two other quilts presented to Whidbey veterans Nov. 11 were a collective of dedi-cated volunteers, consisting of both seasoned quilters and members of groups such as Applique on Whidbey and Quilters on the Rock, as well as novices, several of whom took up the craft specifically

to show their gratitude by tak-ing part in the project.

What began as a handful of women gathered at the fairgrounds in 2013 sewing quilts for veterans expanded to become a larger event, the Veteran Quilt Sew-a-thon at the 2014 Whidbey Island Fair.

Men, women and children of all ages took part in the sew-a-thon, with more adept quilters assisting eager begin-ners.

The quilts produced dur-ing the event were donated to veterans admitted at Madigan Army Hospital near McChord Air Force Base.

After garnering a signifi-cant amount of interest at the sew-a-thon, group facili-tator Anita M. Smith began a monthly gathering at Deer Lagoon Grange.

An average of about 20 vol-unteers — some of whom are veterans themselves — have attended each month to con-tribute to the making of the three completed quilts dis-tributed Nov. 11. About seven more are nearly finished, and will also be donated to veter-ans upon completion.

“Many people touched this quilt; many put love into it,” Smith said of the quilt presented to Weiser-Roosen-Runge and Klamm, noting the diverse group of volun-teers who contributed to its making.

The group’s youngest regular volunteer is Ellie Brockenbrough, who travels each month with her mother Ann Brockenbrough from Seattle in order to take part in the effort.

Each quilt was tagged with a note which reads, “This quilt was made by many quil-ters who gave fabric, time and love in gratitude for your ser-vice.”

The second quilt presented was in memoriam of Wheeler Nichols, who passed away from an unknown neurologi-cal condition while serving

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Kate Daniel photoAnita M. Smith (right) presents a quilt to veteran Terri Desrosiers on Veterans Day at the Langley Good Cheer Thrift Store.

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in the Air Force in 2014. He was 20 years old. Nichols’ parents, Russell and Barbara Nichols, received the quilt on his behalf.

Russell Nichols is also a veteran, having served in the Korean War.

“Wheeler Nichols loved the Air Force,” his father said tearily, adding that he and his wife are greatly appreciative of the gesture, having only recently moved to Whidbey.

Wheeler was the Nichols’ only child, adopted from Peru. After graduating from Air Force technical school, Nichols was shipped to the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base where he was attached to the dental squad-ron. He aspired to one day become an oral surgeon.

“He was a great California American kid for all those years, and then we lost him,” Nichols said. “We really appreciate so much that you have recognized our son.”

The third recipient, Terri Desrosiers, is a veteran who served in the Army from 1975 to 1982. Smith and a few fel-low quilters joined friends of Desrosiers’s at her workplace,

the Langley Good Cheer thrift store, to present her with the quilt.

Desrosiers, too, expressed a great deal of gratitude to the group.

Though each quilt was one of a kind, composed of a med-ley of donations of materials and time, all were also clearly representative of their patri-otic purpose crafted in red,

white and blue and bearing images such as eagles or flags.

Desrosiers’s included the image of a ship which was of personal significance to one of the quilters, with the senti-ment that she may take it with her on future adventures.

For more information on the monthly quilting group, email Smith at [email protected].

Kate Daniel photoCheryn Weiser-Roosen-Runge wraps her grandson, Weston Klamm, in a quilt dedicated to Kord Roosen Runge, Weiser-Roosen-Runge’s husband and Klamm’s grandfather. It was one of three quilts given to veterans and their families on Veterans Day.

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Contributed photo Ellie Brockenbrough, age 11, travels from Seattle each month with her mother, Ann Brockenbrough, to join in the quilting at Deer Lagoon Grange.

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Oak Harbor High School Treble Choir members give a salute during a school assembly performance last month in honor of veterans. Pictured from left are Olivia Sundown, Shania Montgomery (in far back), Lindsay Beumer, Shelby Montoya, Hailey Blau (in far back) and Kelsey Patrick.

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Oak Harbor celebrated Veterans Day in many ways this year. Among the public tributes was the Veterans Day Parade downtown on Nov. 7, which featured a flyover of a MH-60S Knighthawk helicopters this year. The high school held a special assembly for students on Nov. 10. On Veterans Day, the Oak Harbor Area Council and the Navy League held a ceremony for the community to honor those who serve or have served.

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Veterans and their families were treated to a program at Oak Harbor High School Nov. 11. Three Marines veterans stand and were honored during the “Armed Forces Medley.”

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In the final hours of his life, Bob Engle told his son how much he would have liked to get on a tractor one last time and take a ride around the field.

Engle never got that chance before he died on Oct. 31. His son, however, made sure that he’d get one more trip through the prairie and coun-tryside where he’d spent his entire lifetime farming.

Engle was escorted to his burial site at Sunnyside Cemetery Saturday by a pro-cession of tractors, trucks and other vehicles that got in line as a tribute to the fourth-gen-eration Coupeville farmer.

It was the way that Engle wanted to go to his grave, his casket resting on a flatbead trailer, pulled by the first John Deere tractor he ever owned.

His son, also named Bob

Engle, led the procession aboard the restored and fresh-ly painted green tractor, ful-filling a wish his father had communicated years ago.

The elder Engle, who was 74, loved farming and was particularly fond of John Deere tractors.

“My dad told me years ago that was how he wanted to come up there,” said the younger Bob Engle. “That was truly an honor for me to do that. He also told me hours before he passed that all he wanted was to get on a tractor and go another round in the field. I kind of felt I was giving him that last ride.”

The younger Engle tried to stay composed as he shared the conversation he had with his dad in his final hours.

“He told me, ‘I guess I’m not going to make my goal. I just want to get back on the tractor and plow anoth-

er round,’” Engle said. “He didn’t get to do that, but we did give him a tractor ride. I hope he’d be very proud of that.”

Engle’s casket was draped by an American flag, reflect-ing his patriotism and six years spent in the U.S. Army Reserves.

Tractors started arriving near the Prairie Center Red Apple Market shortly after noon as did a hearse from Wallin Funeral Home that was carrying Engle’s casket.

The casket was trans-ferred to the trailer that was attached to Engle’s first John Deere tractor. Family and friends that included the younger Engle’s brother-in-law Rusty Bailey and Main Street Collision, had worked in the days leading up to the memorial service to restore the tractor, and it shined like new Saturday.

Tractors and trucks were invited to follow Engle across the countryside to the cem-etery on the hill.

The younger Engle count-ed 17 tractors in all and four semi-trucks, although other rigs followed, includ-ing engines with Central Whidbey Fire & Rescue. In total, there were roughly 50 vehicles that joined in to pay tribute to a man from one of Whidbey Island’s early pio-neer families.

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was covered from end to end in vehicles before tractors began climbing the cemetery’s hillside to meet a large gather-ing that waited near Engle’s final resting place.

“It was amazing,” said Rev. Dave Engle, who offici-ated his cousin’s service along with Rev. Jin Ming Ma from Coupeville United Methodist

Church. “It was so touching. It was about community, fam-ily and love.

“People will not forget this one.”

Gary Wallin, funeral direc-tor and owner of Wallin Funeral Home, guessed there were close to 400 people in attendance.

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Ron Newberry photoBob Engle escorts his father, who died Oct. 31, through Ebey’s Prairie to Sunnyside Cemetery during the tractor procession.

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MARYSV ILLE — Raymond Miller would like to retire.

He’s dedicated his life to helping out veterans. After serving in the U.S. Air Force for 14 years, he went to work for the Veterans Administration as a clerk in 1984.

When veterans came through the door looking for assistance, Miller was often the first person they talked to.

“All these guys were still fighting the war,” Miller said.

“I just wanted to under-stand what was happening with these guys,” he said.

He remained active in the veteran’s community, help-ing start up the Washington

state command council of the National Association of Black Veterans in 2002 and functioning as a service officer for them until he left to get a master’s in clinical psychology a few years later.

Starting in 2009, he worked as a veterans ser-vice officer under the name of Vets Place Northwest/Welcome Home out of the Everett offices of Therapeutic Health Services.

It was an outreach and referral program, ensur-ing veterans would get the care they needed and help-ing negotiate the oftentimes Byzantine bureaucracy of social services.

Those needs include filing for disability benefits, get-ting into the VA system, get-ting psychiatric evaluations, treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, finding hous-ing ... whatever a veteran needs.

He estimates over the years he’s helped more than 1,000 veterans and their families go from homelessness into stable housing, or even own-

ing their own homes.February was when Miller,

65, decided to retire.Only thing is, work won’t

let him.“It seems like a lot of veter-

ans keep calling me,” Miller said.

Mostly, they’re getting referred to him via word-of-mouth, although he’s sure his phone number is still listed on some referral services’ website.

One client told him he got a referral from his mail-man, who was himself a for-merly homeless veteran with PTSD.

Other times, he’d get referrals from the local chap-ters of the NAACP or local

black veterans groups.“I think half of America

knows it,” he said. “I get at least two calls a day from veterans.”

So he keeps working out of his Marysville home, or occasionally going out to meet clients at a nearby cof-fee shop.

That’s what he did Friday with Joshua Wixson, meet-ing at an Everett Starbucks store.

Wixson, a Navy veteran who lives in Everett, has been struggling with a mixture of symptoms since he left the service four years ago. He’d filed a claim with the VA a year ago, he said, but had not heard back, and was looking to see what he could do.

Wixson struggled with an inability to sleep, anxi-ety and other issues since shortly after enlisting. He was involved in anti-piracy actions in the Gulf of Aden, but his symptoms gradually grew worse. He could not get medication while still in the service, and only recently started up on some.

“On a personal level I probably need to see a shrink,” Wixson said. He added that during a 90-min-ute conversation with Miller he was given a number to another VA facility in Mount Vernon, which he intends to contact soon.

He’s already on partial dis-ability, Miller said, adding “he probably should be at 100 percent disabled.”

Miller estimates that he’s met 15-20 people since he “retired” in February, help-ing them work the VA sys-tem or obtain other benefits.

“For a lot of people, read-

justment to civilian life is traumatic,” Miller said.

He said there are 75,000 veterans living in Snohomish County, and while most of them probably don’t need critical help, the county only has two veterans service offi-cers on its staff.

“We’re not maximizing our effort, in my opinion,” he said.

He has dialed back his work, in that he’s no longer visiting homeless shelters or looking for people in mar-ginal circumstances.

“But if they come to me, get my phone number and give me call, I’m going to keep putting them in the right place,” Miller said.

“Those are our brothers and sisters, and we’re in the same sorority or fraternity,” he said.

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1962, Wallin said this one was unique on a number of accounts.

“This man was not a politi-cian,” Wallin said. “He wasn’t a corporate president or any-thing like that. He was a farmer. We had probably close to 400 people there. That just says so much about his charac-ter. These people gave up their day to come up and honor him. That says so much about the character of the whole family and especially Bob. It was just an incredible showing of love and support.”

Retired farmer Al Sherman said he saw people from Skagit County and other places that he hadn’t seen in decades.

Sherman said he farmed in the same prairie with Engle his whole life. The two farm-ing families merged in 1966 when Bob Engle married Cheryl Sherman, his wife of 49 1/2 years.

Al Sherman said the trac-tor procession and celebration of life that followed depicted Engle.

“He loved tractors,” Sherman said. “The whole memorial was about farm-

ing. That’s the way he was. It might have been a little showy for him. He wasn’t a guy who liked to get out in the public. He was always kind of quiet. He was a farmer.”

At the service, some were reminded of another unique farmer funeral procession that occurred at Sunnyside Cemetery nearly a half cen-tury ago.

On April 8, 1970, the cas-ket of well-known rancher and farmer Knight Smith was transported by a wagon led by a team of horses from his nearby farm to the cemetery.

Members of the Island County Sheriff ’s Posse, which Smith was a part of, escorted Smith to his burial site along-side two riderless horses.

Wallin also was on hand to see that.

“He was an original down there too,” Wallin said.

The tractors, however, were a first, Wallin said, calling the entire tribute “fascinating.”

“It was one of largest gath-erings in years and years and years,” Dave Engle said. “It’s the largest service I remember for a farmer.”

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Navy Band Northwest is under the leadership of its Director, Lt. Bruce Mansfield, and falls operationally under the command of Rear Admiral Jeff Ruth, Commander Navy Region Northwest.

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Lt. Josh Carter, Officer in Charge of Naval Oceanography Anti-submarine Warfare Detachment Whidbey Island, vol-unteered to speak to science teacher Christine Tripp’s 5th grade class at Immaculate Conception Regional School, Mount Vernon, Wash., on Nov. 13. They learned about weather, forecasting and how it affects Navy operations. (Photo courtesy of Christine Tripp).

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Get a great vehicle. Support a great cause. With every new Subaru purchased or leased, Subaru will donate $250 to a choice of charities that bene� t your local community.* Subaru and its participating retailers will have given over $65 million in eight years. November 19 through January 2.

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COMMUNITY COVENANTFOOD BANK

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Food Bank

2016 SUBARU

FORESTER2.5i PREMIUM CVT

2015 SUBARU

IMPREZA2.0i SPORT LIMITED CVT

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• POWER MOONROOF• AUTO DIM COMPASS/MIRROR/HMLNKSTK#10607 VIN JF1GPAU68FH286923FLI-14 $24,460 MSRP

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Anytown Subaru 123 Anystreet, Anytown, USA 12345 (XXX) XXX-XXXX

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Subaru, Forester, and Impreza are registered trademarks. Pandora is a registered trademark of Pandora Media, Inc. 4EPA-estimated hwy fuel economy for 2015 Subaru Forester 2.5i CVT models. Actual mileage may vary. 5EPA-estimated hwy fuel economy for 2015 Subaru Impreza CVT non-Sport models. Actual mileage may vary. 6EPA-estimated hwy fuel economy for 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid models. Actual mileage may vary. 15The Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) (air bags) affords the driver and the front passenger additional protection in moderate to severe frontal and side-impact collisions, and outboard 2nd-row passengers additional protection in moderate to severe side-impact collisions. This system provides supplemental protection only, and seat belts must be worn in order to avoid injuries to out-of-position occupants upon bag deployment and to provide the best combined protection in a serious accident. Children should always be properly restrained in the rear seat.

• Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive + 34 mpg hwy6

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2016 SUBARU

LEGACY2.5i PREMIUM CVT

2016 SUBARU

OUTBACK2.5i PREMIUM CVT

2015 SUBARU

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2015 SUBARU

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• POWER MOONROOF• CROSSBAR SETSTK#10757 VIN JF2GPADC6F8329852FRC-13 $25,855 MSRP

• AUTO DIM MIRROR COMPASS• ALL WEATHER MATSSTK#10679 VIN JF2GPBPC8FH318594FRI-31 $30,758 MSRP

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Pictures for illustration purposes only. Subaru, Outback, Forester, Legacy, and Impreza are registered trademarks. *A documentary service fee of up to $150 may be added to the sale price of the capitalized cost. Ask dealership about available accessories. VIN numbers posted at dealership. One only at this price. *Subaru will donate $250 for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased from November 19, 2015, through January 2, 2016, to four national charities designated by the purchaser or lessee, up to $15,000,000 in total. Pre-approved Hometown Charities may be selected for donation depending on retailer participation. Certain participating retailers will make an additional donation to the Hometown Charities selected. Purchasers/lessees must make their charity designations by January 31, 2016. The four national charities will receive a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000 each. See your local Subaru retailer for details, or visit subaru.com/share. All donations made by Subaru of America, Inc. Ad Expires December 3, 2015.

Skagit Subaru will also make an additional donation to Community Covenant Food Bank, the Hometown Charity we have selected to support this year during the Subaru “Share the Love Event.” This Clear Lake, Washington, organization supports families and individuals in need during this holiday season and year-round.

Our Mission Statement at Skagit Subaru:“The strength of a family is the care and security it gives its members. At Skagit Subaru, the support and knowledge our family shares is the cornerstone upon which we build friendship, integrity and professionalism in our daily lives. It’s how we conduct ourselves within our community and with our customers. We’re a family kind of business, because at Skagit Subaru, we care about people.”

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