Here’s a thought…
“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.”
GIORGOS SEFERIS
Happy Holidays from The Exchange
||| FROM ORCAS RECYCLING/THE EXCHANGE ||| It’s the giving time of year, and The Exchange needs your support! Did you know we are one of the ONLY 501(c)(3) non-profit recycling centers with a ‘zero-waste’ mission
San Juan County certifies general election results & celebrates high voter turnout
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| On Tuesday, November 26, the San Juan County Elections Office certified the November 5, 2024 General Election results. San Juan County had 86.89% of registered voters casting a
Save the Deer Harbor schoolhouse
||| FROM BRIDGET MEYER for DEER HARBOR COMMUNITY CLUB ||| For the past 120 years, the Deer Harbor Schoolhouse has served Orcas Island from yesterday’s school memories to 2024’s chamber music concerts, potlucks, yoga and
Making a difference in school music: Mariachi, winter concerts and instrument goals
||| FROM SHARON HO for MUSIC ADVOCACY GROUP ||| Providing access to a reliable musical instrument to learn on is an important part of the school music program, making music education more affordable for families.
Wearing a salmon on your head is back in fashion for orcas, after a 37-year break
In 1987, there was a strange trend amongst killer whales. Recent sightings show it's back in fashion. ||| FROM IFLSCIENCE ||| As anyone who follows fashion knows, certain trends like indie sleaze and cargo pants
Explore the Vibrant Watercolors Art Show at Orcas Senior Center
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Join us at Orcas Senior Center for the colorful Watercolors Art Show, running through November and December. This joint exhibition features works from Robbie Walker’s watercolors
The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ dies at 83
||| FROM OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ||| The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock suffered from health issues, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and passed
Food Bank shares Happy Thanksgiving with community
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK |||
Why do we eat turkey on Thanksgiving?
||| FROM CBS NEWS ||| Certain holidays are associated with different foods, and for Thanksgiving, that's turkey — but why is that what we eat? We asked a history expert to learn more. Turkey's spot on
Cancer means 9th-annual dinner will look different for Thanksgiving Grandma and the stranger she once texted who’s now family
||| FROM CNN.COM ||| Despite a breast cancer diagnosis, Thanksgiving Grandma and the young man she met nearly a decade ago via an accidental text will continue their holiday tradition today for the ninth year in a
‘It’s a bird! It’s a plane!’ In Alaska, it’s both, with pilot tossing turkeys to rural homes
||| FROM LOS ANGELES TIMES ||| In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there’s no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner — or any dinner — delivered. But some residents living well off the grid nevertheless have
Indigenous art exhibit at Banner Bank
||| FROM MICHELLE HASSEBROCK for ORCAS ISLAND MUSEUMS ||| This November, we honor Indigenous Peoples Month with a special exhibition of contemporary works from the Orcas Island Historical Museum archives. “It’s not only about money—it’s
County reviews essential public facility application on Shaw Island at upcoming public meeting
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| On Thursday, December 5, the San Juan County Department of Community Development (DCD) will hold a public meeting on Shaw Island to discuss an application by San Juan
Artworks December Feature Wall – Steve Gropp
||| FROM B.J. ARNOLD for ORCAS ARTWORKS ||| Metal Artist, Steve Gropp Metal Artist Steve Gropp has been working with his hands and making some kind of art from very early on in
Fun classes to add holiday cheer to Winter Artisans Market
||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| The Makers Guild's DIY pop-up classes include Felted Animals, Weaving, Cookie Decorating, and Luminary Making. Felting and Weaving are free sessions and still have room to come enjoy,
Letter to Editor | Thank you to Orcas Island Lions Club, our community partner
||| FROM INGRID MATTSON and LYNNETTE WOOD ||| Just as no person is an island, no community organization is an island here on Orcas. We all do better when we look to each other for
