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
Silent Auction at Senior Center is just around the bend
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Come one, come all! Break the winter doldrums by taking part in a silent auction from February 1 to 15 at the Orcas Senior Center. Beginning
Orcas Center, Historical Society among Humanities Washington award recipients
||| FROM ASIA LARA for HUMANITIES WASHINGTON ||| SEATTLE – Nonprofit Humanities Washington, Washington State’s affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has awarded over one million dollars in relief funding for Washington State
Island Primary Care–Orcas successfully ‘grandfathered’ as Rural Health Clinic
||| FROM TOM EVERSOLE, INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT for ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| When Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, it included an unexpected reduction of payment rates for Provider-Based Rural Health Clinics
This ballet class for older adults will improve stability, balance
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Beginning Wednesday, February 2 and every Wednesday through March 2, join Emily Anton for an hour of basic and gentle ballet for older adults. Improve your
Film Fest will begin the year with this Classics Film Series
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL ||| In our ever-changing landscape driven by Covid-19, we are all eagerly awaiting the crest and fall of this latest Omicron variant so we can begin our 2022 programming
School Board Spotlight | Linda Sheridan
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT || Linda Sheridan and family Linda Sheridan has been on the School Board since the spring of 2019, and was re-elected this past November. After living here
School Board will be meeting Thursday – updated location is school library
January 27, 2022 @ 5pm ||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| The Orcas Island School District School Board will be hosting their meeting IN-PERSON in the School Library AND online VIA ZOOM. Here is
Island Hospital is now Island Health
||| FROM ISLAND HEALTH ||| Today, Island Hospital leadership announced a new name, logo and tagline to better encompass all the services they provide. Island Hospital is now Island Health. “While the building that houses
Newest COVID numbers from State Health Dept.
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 1,203,311 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 23.* There have been 10,458 COVID-19 deaths
School Board Spotlight | Bridget Broderick
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| Bridget Broderick and family Bridget moved to Orcas Island with her family of five in the fall of 2018. She has three children currently attending Orcas
Library’s Endurance Series to feature Bruce Benton and his book ‘Riverblindness in Africa’
||| FROM CAROL DAPOGNY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| Bruce Benton Author Event: Wednesday, February 2 at 6 p.m. – The Endurance Series Episode 7: The Enduring Benefits of Collaboration in the Treatment
School Board will be meeting Thursday
January 27, 2022 @ 5pm ||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| The Orcas Island School District School Board will be hosting their meeting IN-PERSON in The OISD Multipurpose Room behind the Old Gym AND
Take climate change action with OPALCO
Stewards, Energy Roundtables and Island Way Workshops ||| FROM KRISTA BOUCHEY for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| Are you looking for things you can DO to combat climate change? Is there a home energy
Letter to Editor | Stewardship, community, and living wage jobs
||| FROM MIA KARTIGANER ||| Unlike mainland emergency responders with easy access to hospital ERs, Orcas Island’s EMTs are uniquely mentored in helping to sustain life for as long as it takes to shepherd people
Warmenhoven announces candidacy for SJC Auditor
||| FROM NATASHA WARMENHOVEN ||| Natasha Warmenhoven, candidate for San Juan County Auditor It is with great excitement that I announce my candidacy for San Juan County Auditor. I believe that my education
High quality masks are now available locally – for FREE
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| For islanders who are still using cloth masks in higher risk situations: the County Health Department is making higher quality N95 and KN95 masks available
