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
Marley’s Ghost kicks off FREE summer concert series
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Get ready for a fantastic summer! Seattle- based Marley’s Ghost will be playing on the Village Green this Sunday, June 18 at 6pm as part of the
There’s music and movement classes coming up at Senior Center
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Eastern Movement Classes with Joan Roulac via Zoom - First four Wednesdays, 9am (Ease Please) and Tuesday, June 13, 11am (4-week T’ai Chi Chih series) Quiet the mind
Thanks to you folks who are ready to serve
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| Thank you to the dozen folks who came to the Introduction to Board Service hosted by OICF this week. Thank you also to Nancy Stillger,
Letter to Editor | Have all options been explored for Killebrew Lake Road project?
||| FROM DANIEL THIEME for HARNEY VIEW PARK & ROAD ASSOCIATION ||| Should the County staff be directed to vigorously explore all available options for providing a bypass road during the Killebrew Lake Road culvert
Sheriff’s Report | May 31 – June 6, 2021
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 23-003931 Unconscious ALS 07:26:54 05/31/23 A Deputy on Orcas Island was dispatched to a report of an unconscious person. The person was found to
World’s largest single-masted sailing yacht stops by Orcas
"Because if you wait long enough on Orcas, everything will come to you." - an Orcas islander ||| BY LIN MCNULTY, EDITOR ||| I like that I am able to sit and wait for the
County publishes answers to frequently asked questions about Killebrew Lake Road closure
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s Public Works Department will be replacing a culvert for Bayhead Creek on Killebrew Lake Road. What is this project? The County will replace a
Sign up now for Whale Museum’s Marine Naturalist Training Program
||| FROM TRACIE MERRELL for WHALE MUSEUM ||| The Whale Museum’s Marine Naturalist Training Program is a high-quality, immersive experience that leaves graduates qualified as a regional professional or volunteer naturalist. The Summer 2023 Program
San Juan Islands Sculpture Park summer art series returns
Saturdays from 2-4pm June 17 - September 2 (excepting August 19) ||| FROM KRISTIN ARNIM for SJI SCULPTURE PARK ||| Save your Saturday afternoons for some fun, free art at the San Juan Islands Sculpture
Homegrowers: Call Food Bank before you harvest
||| FROM RICK RHOADS for ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| It’s growing season! Each year dozens of you harvest more than you can consume, and each year thoughtful growers share their harvest with friends and
FHFF inspires Spring Street students with ‘Pasang’ screening before Nepal trip
||| FROM ELLEN ROBERTS for FRIDAY HARBOR FILM FESTIVAL ||| When Friday Harbor Film Festival heard that a group of eight students, led by Louis Prussack, Head of the school, were heading off May 13th
Celebrate ‘Living High’ at upcoming Library event
||| FROM SAM GAILEY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| Celebrating Living High, the remarkable story of June & Farrar Burn. First published in 1941, Living High has remained in print through decades. The new edition
County to host project information meeting Re: Killebrew Lake Rd closure & Bayhead Creek culvert
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The County’s Public Works Department is hosting a project information meeting to discuss questions and concerns regarding the Bayhead Creek Culvert Replacement project which necessitates the closure of
San Juan County names interim director of Department of Community Development
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County has named Norm Gollub as Interim Director of the Department of Community Development (DCD). Gollub has extensive experience throughout Washington State in the areas of
County to share community development updates at Orcas Island meeting
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The public is invited to join County staff, including County Manager Mike Thomas and Council Chair Cindy Wolf, at a Community Development-focused meeting on June 13 at the
In search of Orcas litterers; this time it’s the lipsticked coffee drinker
||| FROM WILLIAM THOMPSON -- THE ROAD GUY ||| For two months now, a morning coffee drinker who gets her coffee at Orcas Hotel, tosses her lipstick stained cup out the window as she approaches
