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
Tibetan Buddhist Monk to speak at Orcas Library
||| FROM SAM GAILEY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| The Orcas Island Public Library is holding a special event with Khentrul Lodrö T'hayé Rinpoche as he explores the potential and power of our mind, and introduces
Fire Commission to hold a special town hall meeting
||| FROM KAT BARNARD for BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS ||| The Board of Fire Commissioners invites you to the Special Meeting TOWN HALL on Tuesday, September 26th, at 6 p.m. at the Eastsound Fire Hall
Opportunities to stretch, move, balance coming up at Senior Center
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Feldenkrais/Eurythmy Class @ Orcas Senior Center: Tuesdays, September – October 24, 11am (no class September 12 and October 10) Andrea Preiss, Feldenkrais Practitioner and therapeutic eurythmist, invites
Port Commission to meet tommorrow
||| FROM KIM KIMPLE for PORT OF ORCAS COMMISSIONERS ||| The Port of Orcas Board of Commissioners meeting will be held on Monday, September 25th, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. online via Zoom and in person
Odd Fellows looking for Thanksgiving Dinner organizer/leader following COVID hiatus
||| FROM DIDIER GINCIG ||| I am reaching out because this is the time to think about whether or not we want to have a community Thanksgiving at the Odd Fellows Hall. The Odd Fellows, along with
Creative writing workshop series with Tish Knapp at Senior Center
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Write what you always thought you wanted to write at a 6-week creative writing workshop designed for writers of all genres at Orcas Senior Center! Beginning
Life Line Screening is coming back to Senior Center for a visit
Life Line Screening Event @ Orcas Senior Center – Thursday, October 12 ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Life Line Screening will be at Orcas Senior Center on Thursday, October 12 to
Sheriff’s Report | September 13 – 19, 2023
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 23-007424 Welfare Check 13:32:23 09/13/23 A Deputy on Orcas Island responded to a welfare check. 23-007426 Trespassing 14:16:14 09/13/23 A Deputy on San Juan
Biden administration promises $200 million to help reintroduce salmon in Columbia River
Dams have blocked salmon’s passage, driving them toward extinction and violating tribal fishing rights. The money will fully fund Native tribes’ plans to bring fish back to the region. ||| FROM OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING |||
Advance care planning with Hospice of NW on tap at Sr. Center
Advance Care Planning with Hospice of the Northwest @ Orcas Senior Center - Wednesday, September 27 at 1pm ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS ISLAND SENIOR CENTER ||| Advance Care Planning ensures your goals, values,
Fall has arrived!
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| It appears we are experiencing yet another round of Covid infections on Orcas. The County is working on plans to provide the new booster. We
Letter to Editor | Human nature
||| FROM JENNIFER SMITH ||| As a writer and observer of people, I notice patterns, both here in the Pacific Northwest and back on the Plains where we grew up. I suspect it is throughout
WSF Weekly Report | Prospective students tour, Walla Walla out for 4 weeks, SJI task force, and a Troll
||| FROM PATTY RUBSTELLO for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| Staff and students from Seattle Jobs Initiative tour Tacoma, Eagle Harbor A group from Seattle Jobs Initiative toured a vessel on our Seattle/Bainbridge route Tuesday as part of our
Chief vanSchaick interview: ‘You can’t outwork bad leadership’
Setting the tone and driving organizational change from the chief’s seat ||| FROM EMS1.COM ||| The spark: What put you on the path to becoming a Chief? Holly vanSchaick, fire chief of Orcas Island
Yep, there’s wildfire smoke drifting into/across San Juan County
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| A layer of moderate wildfire fire smoke has settled over San Juan County overnight. Local fire departments are investigating numerous calls to 911 reporting the
Let’s do the bird walk at SJI Sculpture Park
||| FROM KRISTEN ARNIM for SJI SCULPTURE PARK ||| The San Juan Islands Sculpture Park will host its last bird walk of the year on Wednesday, October 4 from 8-10am. Join Tyler Davis, our birding
