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
Local Group: September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
||| FROM MIKE HAMLETTE for US TOO FRIDAY HARBOR ||| September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. More than 3.1 million men are living with prostate cancer in the U.S., and it is the second leading
Talk about airplane noise in upcoming community conversation
||| FROM KIM KIMPLE for PORT OF ORCAS ||| What’s all that noise? We want to hear from you! The Port of Orcas invites you to a community conversation as we update our noise abatement
County Parks and Fair Department to break ground on capital projects
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The San Juan County Parks and Fair Department has several capital improvement projects slated to begin in September and be completed by late fall. New Shark Reef Sanctuary
Marine Resources Committee & County Marine Program remove derelict creosote pier on San Juan Island
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The San Juan County Marine Resources Committee (MRC) is working with the County’s Environmental Stewardship Marine Program to remove the derelict pier at Jackson Beach this fall. Construction is
Council to gather on Lopez for September 12 meeting
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Council will hold its next regularly scheduled, September 12 meeting on Lopez Island. The public is invited to join the three councilmembers and County staff
2023 Fall native wildflower sale to kickoff Sept. 12
||| FROM THE SALISH SEEDS PROJECT ||| 2023 Fall Native Wildflower Sale Salish Seeds Project ONLINE KICKOFF -- September 12 @ 9:00 A.M. The Salish Seeds Project announces its annual Fall Native Wildflower Sale, with
Letter to Editor | The bad soap opera at OIFR continues
||| FROM GREG AYERS ||| Wow, OIFR is a bad soap opera, and they are spending OUR money to make it. You just gotta scratch your head. Only these commissioners can successfully, and repeatedly “snatch
Larsen: Inflation Reduction Act is lowering drug costs for NW Washington seniors
HHS announces first 10 drugs selected for Medicare price negotiation ||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the first 10
Art Opening: The art of recycling at Orcas Center
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| The Visual Arts Committee (VAC) of Orcas Center and The Exchange are coming together to celebrate creative recycling on Orcas Island! Join us for a community art
And here we are, last concert of the season at Wild Island
||| FROM OLIVER GROENWALD for WILD ISLAND RESTAURANT ||| Time flies when you're having fun, we are already coming to the end of our 3rd summer series. It was a wonderful season, so many happy
Full Moon Tarot | Magic, boredom, and harmony
||| FULL MOON TAROT by NIK SCHULZ ||| Alignment with the magic of nature gives way to feelings that nothing else measures up. In the end though we learn to work with both experiences. Queen
Threat of firefighter blood cancers reduced with FIIRE Grant
||| FROM KAT BARNARD for ORCAS FIRE & RESCUE ||| The OIFR Safety Committee, consisting of Safety Officer Bob Nutt, Volunteer Lt. Greg Sawyer, Capt. Don Swain and Chief Holly vanSchaick have been awarded a
Island Health adds leading-edge diagnostic technologies, thanks to community support
||| FROM LAURA MORONEY for ISLAND HEALTH ||| Island Health’s Diagnostic Imaging (DI) team recently launched several new technologies after receiving funds from the Island Health Foundation’s Annual Gala of Hope in April. The Heartstrings
September Orcas Library artist is Richard Bell
||| FROM DAVE KOSIUR for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| In an exhibit titled “Orcas Seen,” Richard Bell’s watercolor paintings will be displayed in the Orcas Island Library during the month of September. Richard Bell’s artist’s
Artworks featured artist for September is BJ Arnold
||| FROM BJ ARNOLD for ORCAS ARTWORKS ||| BJ and her husband have recently created a new home and garden closer to town. The incredible riot of flowers through the seasons is a never-ending source
Black-tail deer hunting season opens September 1 at Lopez Hill, Mount Grant Preserves
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Deer hunting is open for a limited season at Lopez Hill and Mount Grant Preserves. Specific dates for 2023 are as follows: Archery
