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
OPALCO Board nominations open December 16
||| FROM KRISTA BOUCHEY for ORCAS POWER AND LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| OPALCO nominations for board candidates are now open. You can help shape our energy future! There are two positions open: one position in District
San Juan County Fair seeks artists for 2023 poster
"Dancing with the steers!" ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Parks and Fair staff are already planning for the 2023 Fair! It is with great excitement that San Juan County announces
Needham brings decades of leadership and executive-level experience to Island Health
||| FROM LAURA MORONEY for ISLAND HEALTH ||| Tammy Needham joins the Island Health team Tammy Needham, MSN, BSN, BAOM, RN joined Island Health’s Senior Leadership Team as its new Chief Clinical Officer
Daycares in Finland built a ‘forest’, and it changed kids’ immune systems
||| FROM SCIENCE ALERT ||| Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child's immune system, according to an experiment in Finland.
Floating Ukulele Jam Holiday Jammie Jam to entertain on inter-island
||| FROM ANITA ORNE for FLOATING UKULELE JAM HOLIDAY JAMMIE JAM ||| The Floating Ukulele Jam Holiday Jammie Jam is on! Grab your uke, your pajamas, your voice, a song (holiday or otherwise) to share,
Land Bank monthly meeting coming up, followed by annual retreat
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY LAND BANK ||| The San Juan County Conservation Land Bank Commission will hold its monthly meeting December 16, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m., followed by the annual retreat, via Microsoft Teams.
Library Board moves regular monthly meeting
||| FROM JANET MARLOW for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| The Orcas Island Library Board had to move their regularly scheduled monthly meeting. It will now be held on Wednesday, December 14, at noon. 12 -
See what’s on tap at our Senior Center
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Breakthrough Speech-Language Pathology Healthcare @ Orcas Senior Center – Monday, December 12 Speech-Language Pathologist, Libby Lewis, will offer free cognition and swallow screenings at Orcas Senior
Omicron-targeted COVID-19 boosters now authorized for children ages 6 months and older
Both Pfizer-BioNTech's and Moderna's bivalent vaccines have received authorization ||| FROM STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT ||| OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and other healthcare providers will soon begin offering omicron variant-targeted bivalent booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines to children
Bring the family to Celebrate! this weekend
||| FROM LYNN BAKER for ORCAS CHORAL SOCIETY ||| It’s time to Celebrate! the season with song. Tickets are available now at the Orcas Center www.orcascenter.org for Orcas Choral Society’s holiday concert this Saturday, Dec.
San Juan County’s Auditor, Milene Henley, retires
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Milene Henley is retiring after 16 years of public service as San J in Friday Harbor with light refreshments, well wishes, and more. Henley has led the County
Larsen introduces bill to boost federal response to flu
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) introduced the Protecting America from Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Act (“The Influenza Act”) to bolster the federal response to seasonal and
SJC accepting applications for Marine Resources Committee
||| FROM SAM WHITRIDGE for SJC MARINE RESOURCES COMMITTEE ||| San Juan County is currently seeking qualified applicants for positions on the Marine Resources Committee (MRC). The MRC is a voluntary citizen advisory group to
Airbnb Is running riot in small-town America
The company sent cities scrambling to clamp down on short-term rentals. Now resort towns are feeling the pinch. ||| FROM WIRED.COM ||| Posted at request of Orcasonian reader KAITLIN HAD BEEN living in the Village of
Health Care District invites your support during GiveOrcas Campaign
||| FROM CHRIS CHORD for ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| The Orcas Island Health Care District is participating in the 2022 GiveOrcas Campaign organized by the Orcas Island Community Foundation. For our funding request
Reminder | Emmanuel’s santa brigade is on its way
||| FROM STEVE JUNG for EMMANUEL SANTA BRIGADE ||| It’s another year of Christmas holidays on Orcas Island and the Emmanuel Episcopal Church Santa Brigade is on its way. We don’t want to disappoint, and
