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 Senior Center June highlights
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Orcas Senior Center offers a variety of ongoing classes, social groups, wellness activities, and creative programs throughout the month. All programs are open to everyone, regardless
Audio brunch workshops coming up at Orcas Center
||| FROM COLLEEN SMITH SUMMERS for ORCAS CENTER ||| Orcas Center’s Jake Perrine will present TEN Live Sound workshops on most Sunday mornings at Orcas Center from 11am-12pm from June 14 to August 30. The workshop is
Council seeks to fill open positions on Parks and Recreation Commission
Open positions currently on Orcas Island and Lopez Island with additional positions opening in June on Orcas, Shaw ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Are you interested in helping to shape the policies that
CWR logs two encounters with Bigg’s
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| Full Encounter Report ObservBegin: 01:31 PM ObservEnd: 01:44 PM Vessel: KCB III Staff: Dave Ellifrit, Michael Weiss, Katie Jones Pods: Bigg's killer whales IDsEncountered: T124A, T124A6, T124A7 LocationDescr:
No jurors required for June 1 – 5, 2026
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| JURY DUTY: JUNE 1-5, 2026 All jurors summonsed for the Jury Period beginning Monday, June 1st through Friday, June 5, 2026 are excused. Thank you.
Washington State Ferries sails into 75th anniversary
Ferry riders invited to celebrate state’s marine highway ||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| SEATTLE – Washington State Ferries will celebrate its 75th anniversary on Monday, June 1. Events are planned across Puget Sound starting
Blood donations needed, especially on Orcas
Appointments available for next week ||| FROM HANNAH MCNUTT for BLOODWORKS NW ||| Our region is facing an emergency blood shortage across the Pacific Northwest. Nearly all blood types are dangerously low, especially Type O
Health Care District board to meet on Wednesday
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| The Orcas Island Health Care District Board will hold a regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, May 27th from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room at the
Start your Thursdays right with energizing and relaxing Yogalele
||| FROM COLLEEN SMITH SUMMERS for ORCAS CENTER ||| Offered in the Madrona Room of Orcas Center at 8:30am on Thursdays beginning June 4, Yogalele is yoga with ukulele. Yogalele combines peaceful breathing and stretching
Orcas Christian School announces 2026-27 mission trip to Puerto Rico
||| FROM ORCAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ||| Orcas Christian School has announced plans for a mission trip to Puerto Rico during the 2026-27 school year, offering students an opportunity to serve communities while growing in their
No Place Like Loam | The ghost in the orchard
||| NO PLACE LIKE LOAM by ALEX TAMAYO WOLF ||| The Cannon The men who came to Salem, Iowa that June night in 1848 brought a cannon. Not a metaphor. A cannon. Small, wheeled, loaded,
OrcasFest acoustic music festival returns
||| FROM RACHEL BISHOP for ORCASFEST ||| The second annual OrcasFest acoustic music festival is next weekend! Tashi Litch, Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms have put together an exciting lineup with artists playing music from
News Brief | Southern Resident Killer Whales are running out of time
||| FROM IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS ||| Southern Resident killer whales are a distinct, tightly bonded population of orcas who live and travel through the Salish Sea. With only about 74 individuals remaining, they are
Larsen announces winner of 2026 congressional art competition
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF U.S. REP. RICK LARSEN ||| MOUNT VERNON, WA – Today, U.S. Representative Rick Larsen (WA-02) announced Olivia Hamm of Oak Harbor High School as the winner of the 2026 Congressional Art Competition in Washington state’s 2nd congressional district with her piece,
I’m Not the Church Lady | What do I get by remaining unforgiving?
||| I'M NOT THE CHURCH LADY by ROSIE KUHN ||| Am I willing to relinquish the belief that anyone—including me—is denied forgiveness? I humbly admit that my initial intention in writing this post was to
Cracks in the lower Snake River dams
||| FROM LINWOOD LAUGHY ||| Cracks in the four lower Snake River dams? Not literally, but metaphorically weakening and widening. Over the past five years, according to Army Corps of Engineers’ data, these dams combined
