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.”
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Get $$ for college! Go to a fun camp! 2022 OPALCO College Scholarship and Youth Rally
||| FROM KRISTA BOUCHEY for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| Up to five local students will receive a $1,000 scholarship as well as the opportunity to represent our community at a co-op leadership camp
Guest Opinion | Lower Snake River dam removal has two sides
||| FROM TOM OWENS ||| Removing the Snake River dams is a tough decision. It has two sides. Like many other issues we face, there are merits to both arguments. Hopefully, before final decisions and
Poetry | Let America Be America Again
Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes 1901-1967 Langston Hughes, 1901-1967 Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Poetry | Horses at Midnight Without a Moon
Jack Gilbert Horses at Midnight Without a Moon Jack Gilbert - 1925-2012 Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's music in us.
UPDATED | School Board meeting, in-person and Zoom, is coming up
Public Hearing 3/24/22 @ 5pm ||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| The Orcas Island School District School Board will be hosting their meeting in person at The School Library and online VIA ZOOM. Here
Call for high school age artists: 2022 Congressional Art Competition
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| EVERETT, WA — Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) is inviting high school-aged students who live or attend school in Washington’s Second Congressional District to showcase their artistic talents
Not much here (technical issue at state), but latest numbers from Health Dept.
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 1,446,845 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on March 20. There have been 12,355 COVID-19 deaths
Fire Commissioners to meet in special meeting to interview board candidates
||| FROM KIM KIMPLE for BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS ||| The Board of Fire Commissioners will hold a special meeting this Thursday, March 24th at 5:30 p.m. for the purpose of interviewing, evaluating, and potentially appointing
County’s 2022 homeless count identifies 146 people with no place to live
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The 2022 San Juan County “Point-In Time” (PIT) Homeless Count identified 146 people who have no stable place to live, an increase from the 2020 count of 133.
Everyone’s invited to this observance of National Vietnam Veterans Day
||| FROM PATRICIA (PAT) AYERS, COMMANDER OF AMERICAN LEGION POST #93 ||| The American Legion Post #93 will host a National Vietnam Veterans Day ceremony at the Legion (793 Crescent Beach Road) on Tuesday, 29
Island Health welcomes internal medicine physician to staff
||| FROM LAURA MULRONEY for ISLAND HEALTH ||| Charles Kotal, M.D. Today, Charles Kotal, MD, joins Island Health’s Island Primary Care – 24th Street clinic (formerly Fidalgo Medical Associates) as an Internal Medicine physician.
‘In the middle of war, he is asking for more poems’
||| FROM JOELLEN MOLDOFF, ET. AL ||| In a recent essay in the NY Times, "Poems in a Time of Crisis” by Ilya Kaminsky, a Ukrainian American poet, concluded: "I ask how I can help. Finally,
School Board meeting, in-person and Zoom, is coming up
Public Hearing 3/24/22 @ 5pm ||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| The Orcas Island School District School Board will be hosting their meeting in person at The School Library and online VIA ZOOM. Here
Coming up, Orcas Center will feature musician in honor of Ukraine
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Orcas Center invites its audience to come together in honor of Ukraine with this specially designed program by Powell Flutes Artist Amelia Lukas. Experience the impressive range
Airhawks Flying Club dedicated a new flight simulator this weekend
||| BY EDEE KULPER, theORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| A ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony was held by the Airhawks Flying Club at the Eastsound Airport for their new Gleim FAA-approved Flight Simulator. As students, educators, administrators, and
Just where did this idea for Daylight Savings Time come from?
||| FROM WIKIPEDIA ||| REPRINT AT REQUEST OF ORCASONIAN READER Daylight saving time (DST), also known as daylight savings time or daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and some other countries), is the practice of
