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
Sheriff’s Report | November 1 – 6, 2023
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE |||| WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 23-008637 Domestic Dispute or Assault 13:50:31 11/01/23 San Juan Deputies responded to the area of the Ferry landing for a domestic. It turned out
On-demand Friday Harbor Film Festival awards announced
||| FROM ELLEN ROBERTS & KAREN PALMER for FRIDAY HARBOR FILM FESTIVAL ||| The On-Demand Friday Harbor Film Festival Audience Choice Awards are presented to those films that viewers chose through their votes after viewing
Future of Mercy Flights gets a boost with new students
||| FROM ROBERT WAUNCH for ORCAS AVIATION ASSOCIATION ||| Orcas Aviation Association (OAA), your Orcas Island all volunteer MERCY FLIGHT provider, is looking to the future as all organizations must. This year our pilots have
Welcome back to normal Orcas life: Community Thanksgiving potluck has returned
||| FROM ROBERT AUSTIN for ORCAS ODD FELLOWS ||| We’re delighted to announce that our longtime tradition of hosting a Thanksgiving Potluck in our Hall will resume this year. This is a wonderful opportunity to
Bumpy landing
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| I returned from my holiday with a bout of Covid, my first. I am grateful it has been a mild case, and that I did
We want to hear from you: Take the Community Health Survey
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Health & Community Services (HCS) wants to hear from all County residents in its Community Health Survey. The anonymous survey takes only eight to ten minutes and will
Orcas Island Lions Club announces a community fundraiser for Orcas Fire Department equipment
||| FROM JAMES BIDDICK for ORCAS LIONS CLUB ||| In the past the Lions Club has provided money to the fire department for purchase of the power lift gurneys and last year the Lions supported
Wind gusts up to 50mph in the immediate forecast through Saturday morning
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Seattle WA 224 PM PST Thu Nov 9 2023 San Juan County-Western Whatcom County-Western Skagit County- Admiralty Inlet Area-North Coast- Including the
Call for island gifts and services for Made in the San Juans winter holiday online auction
||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| The new countywide Made in the San Juans online marketplace is hosting a fun Holiday Auction that opens November 25th. We are promoting this Market locally and through
‘Cyber security incident’ impacting WSDOT website, app since Tuesday
||| FROM KOMO4 NEWS ||| SEATTLE — If you’ve had trouble accessing the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) website for traffic updates or to track state ferries in real-time this week, you’re not alone. The
Ballot count continues, fire levy continues to fail
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY ELECTIONS ||| November 7, 2023 General Election Last updated on 11/08/2023 4:57 PM Number of Precincts 23 Number of Registered Voters 14,725 Total Ballots Counted 5,350 Estimated Ballots Left to
Rotary’s dictionary project is expanding
||| FROM BARBARA MARRETT for ROTARY CLUB OF THE SAN JUAN ISLANDS ||| The Rotary Club of the San Juan Islands is in the process of distributed age-appropriate dictionaries to 3rd graders county-wide. Now, in
Board of Fire Commissioners will meet tomorrow afternoon
||| FROM KAT BARNARD for BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS ||| The Board of Fire Commissioners will hold a SPECIAL MEETING on Thursday, November 9th, at 1:00 p.m. online via Zoom and in-person at the Fire Hall, 45 Lavender Ln, Eastsound,
My adventures into Tai Chi land: First of a four-part series
“You will become Tai Chi and Tai Chi will become you” - Mr. Chow ||| BY STEPHANIE ROSENBLATT ||| I just read the NPR article that will be featured below and thought I would write a
Flotsam & Jetsam | We’ve got a bee in the house
||| FLOTSAM & JETSAM BY MAURICE AUSTIN ||| We’ve got a bee in the house. And yeah, it’s wavering about as if semi-drunk, and clunking headlong into walls and windows. They do that, once they
Island Health earns an ‘A’ hospital safety grade from The Leapfrog Group
||| FROM LAURA MORONEY for ISLAND HEALTH ||| ANACORTES, WASHINGTON--Island Health earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit watchdog that sets standards for excellence in patient care. Leapfrog assigns an “A,” “B,”
