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
Guest Opinion | We need to resolve our working community housing crisis
||| FROM BILL BANGS ||| Most of us know or have heard of someone who has been a hardworking neighbor in our county for many years and who has lost their long-term rental home. Some
Orcas Health Care District will meet January 25
||| FROM TOM EVERSOLE, INTERIM HEALTH CARE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT ||| The Board of Commissioners of the Orcas Island Health Care District will meet Tuesday, January 25 via Zoom at 5:00 PM. Members of the community
Port to hold meeting to submit goals for 2021-2023
||| FROM JEANNIE SHARPE for PORT OF ORCAS ||| The Port will be submitting DBE Goals for 2021-2023 and are required to have a public meeting and post the goals. If you are interested,
Paradise full: Finding space to rest at Lopez Island cemetery
||| FROM SALISH CURRENT ||| On a clear day, from the hill at Lopez Island’s Union Cemetery, the Olympic Mountains range across the southern horizon and Mount Baker peeps out to the northeast. Sheep here,
Funhouse — where winter and hot apple cider merge into fun
||| FROM THE FUNHOUSE COMMONS ||| One day in early December just before Orcas schools went on winter break, our new Board President, Maia Vechey, spent an afternoon at The Funhouse making hot apple cider
Department of Health to make significant changes to COVID-19 data dashboard
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – Today, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) will make a number of changes to the way it presents information on its COVID-19 Data Dashboard. The goal is
Blood shortage impacting Washington
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| As a nationwide blood supply shortage affects health care in Washington state, leaders in the medical community are encouraging the public to help. Washingtonians can donate to
Library Endurance Series continues with rock star stonemason
“If you are one of those people who can see poetry in stone, then the story of Richard Rhodes may need no explanation.” - New York Times ||| FROM CAROL DAPOGNY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY
No more yurts. Orcas Islanders want affordable places year-round
||| FROM KUOW.ORG ||| REPRINT AT REQUEST OF ORCASONIAN READER If you can find a place to live and work on Washington's Orcas Island you’re set. But workers and business owners don't want more yurts,
Salmonberry School scales up to serve more students
||| FROM PAUL FREEDMAN for SALMONBERRY SCHOOL ||| January 18, 2022 witnessed the arrival of a new classroom building for Salmonberry School. A crane, barged over from Anacortes lifted a building in two halves over
In Hawaii, it’s ‘Kanikapila,’ but at Senior Center, it’s ‘let’s play music’
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Join the Kanikapila, Hawaiian for “play music,” led by Kathy Collister every Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. at Orcas Senior Center. Kathy led a similar
Inslee shares Washington’s pandemic story with U.S. House COVID committee
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOV. JAY INSLEE ||| Almost two years to the day after the first case of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. was confirmed in Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee testified
Regular Port meeting scheduled for Monday
||| FROM JEANNIE SHARPE for PORT OF ORCAS ||| Please see attached Agenda with Zoom link for the Ports Regular Meeting Monday 1/24/22 at 5 p.m.
Newest State Health Dept COVID-19 numbers
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 997,703 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 19. There have been 10,339 COVID-19 deaths
State launches at-home rapid COVID-19 test portal
Tests can be ordered and shipped directly to Washington households at no-cost ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – In an effort to increase access to at-home rapid tests across the state, the Washington
Since last update, 106 new COVID cases in San Juan County
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| Since the last update on Friday January 14, there have been 106 new confirmed or probable cases in San Juan County. Current case count is
