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
Orcas Island Cider & Mead Festival returns to Eastsound
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Following a three-year hiatus during the pandemic, the Orcas Island Cider & Mead Festival returned to the Village Green in Eastsound on July 15. Over 300
Bird walk coming to Sculpture Park
||| FROM KRISTEN ARNIM for THE SCULPTURE PARK ||| You don’t want to miss the next bird walk at the Sculpture Park. Our bird expert, Tyler Davis, tells us, “As this year’s young fledge and
Pam’s Power Hour at Senior Center
Pam’s Power Hour: Virtual Strength Training with Pam Evans – Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9am via Zoom ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Join Pam Evans with Pam’s Power Hour strength training class
Scam Alert: Medicare is NOT issuing plastic Medicare cards
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| The scammers are at it again! If you receive a call telling you Medicare is replacing your paper Medicare card with a plastic one that contains
Port Commission to meet on Monday
||| FROM KIM KIMPLE for PORT OF ORCAS ||| The Port of Orcas Board of Commissioners will hold a regular meeting on Monday, July 24th at 5:00 p.m. online via Zoom and in person at
Fabulous food. Magical music. Outdoors on a summer evening
||| FROM JASMINE TOWNSEND for THE KITCHEN ||| You are invited to a lovely evening fundraiser dinner with music, outdoors at Camp Moran in support of The Kitchen on Saturday, August 5th. For one special
Letter to Editor | Kate or Toni for Fire Commissioner
||| FROM SADIE BAILEY ||| Frankly, I’d be thrilled if these two candidates won the primary. I wish I could vote for both of them, or that they were running for different seats. Listening to
Join our Orcas Island Food Bank team as an AmeriCorps service member
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| The Orcas Island Food Bank, OIFB, currently has openings for two full-time 10.5-month Operation & Volunteer Coordinator positions funded through our Washington Service Corps AmeriCorps program. If you
Community Wellness Program ready to help you thrive
"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation." – Glenn Close ||| BY MEGAN EHRMANTRAUT for ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ||| What is “Mental Health” and who does it affect?
As the Paradigm Shifts | The HOW is the entire point of this journey
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| Upon reviewing our lives, and perhaps reliving memories of the past, we often see patterns and strategies we were conditioned to engage in. There were principles
Sheriff’s Report | July 12 – 18, 2023
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 23-005428 Fraud 13:14:22 07/12/23 A Deputy on Orcas Island was dispatched to a report of fraud. A report was taken. 23-005430 Citizen Assist 14:12:44
The fullness of the season
||| FROM HILARY CANTY ||| There comes a time every summer that I feel like life hits Frappe speed- spinning a little out of control. There is a frenetic charge in every store and restaurant,
Orcas Money Smart coming soon, an opportunity to sharpen your financial skills
||| FROM MEGAN EHRMANTRAUT for ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ||| Are you interested in sharpening your financial skills or becoming a mentor? The Orcas Community Resource Center (OCRC) offers Orcas Money Smart, a nine month
UPDATED! Island Bat Ecology – A presentation by Kwiáht’s Russel Barsh
||| FROM SAM GAILEY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| Please join the Orcas Island Public Library for a fascinating conversation, Island Bat Ecology -- a presentation by Russel Barsh, Kwiáht Director. The gathering will be
WSF Weekly Report | Recruiting high schoolers, scholarships for deck officers, talk about ferry fares
||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| High schoolers interested in a career in maritime tour Tacoma, Eagle Harbor Students from Tacoma Public Schools’ Tacoma Tideflats - Merchant Mariner summer program toured one of our ferries and our Eagle Harbor Maintenance
Exciting News: Reliable Broadband coming to NW Washington
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| The infrastructure advocacy work my team is doing in Congress is bringing money home for our community, Lin. Thanks to the recent passage of bipartisan infrastructure
