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
Island Primary Care-Orcas welcomes new doc on board
||| FROM LAURA MORONEY for ISLAND HEALTH ||| ANACORTES, Washington — This month, Robert Wilson, MD, joins Island Primary Care - Orcas from his current position as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at UW Neighborhood Lopez
Friday Harbor Film Festival Director Series will be available online
||| FROM FRIDAY HARBOR FILM FESTIVAL ||| Friday Harbor Film Festival’s 2022 DIRECTOR SERIES offers not-to-be-missed feature films that will each run for two weeks on the website, www.fhff.org. Beginning on April 21 and continuing
WSF weekly report: Worker shortages, assist with FH fire, food service reopens on some sailings
||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| Our Seattle/Bainbridge run is a little more than three weeks into its trial service (Stage 3) of our Service Restoration Plan (Plan), which outlines steps to restore service to pre-pandemic levels
Newest numbers from State Health Dept.
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 1,471,754 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on April 12. There have been 12,589 COVID-19 deaths
Guest Opinion | An open letter to the OIFR Board triumvirate
||| FROM MIA KARTIGANER ||| When you appointed your most outspoken advocate to fill the empty seat on your board, you failed the spirit of democracy. This appointed person has perpetuated misinformation about your fifth
Explore the meeting place of water and land at upcoming Meeting of the Minds
Meeting of the Minds: “Wetlands: A Mystical Meeting Place of Water and Land” presented by Darcey Miller - Wednesday, April 20 at 1 pm by Zoom ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER |||
Statement from the Washington State Department of Health
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – Today, the Washington State Board of Health (SBOH) voted not to include COVID-19 in the state’s immunization requirements for school entry at this time. As stated in today’s
Poetry | Offering Compassion to Ukraine and All Afflicted by War
May suffering arising from hatred be remedied. May those in the grip of fear be released to the safety of understanding. May those lost in confusion find relief in wisdom. May those in refugee camps
Letter to Editor | Early COVID treatment (lack of) availability
||| FROM JANET ALDERTON ||| The closest locations to access Paxlovid, an antiviral medication that must be taken within 5 days of the development of covid-19 symptoms, are Mount Vernon and Burlington. Why are the
Local author Iris Graville coming to Orcas Library with her new book, Writer in a Life Vest
||| FROM CAROL DAPOGNY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| If you’re looking for information, insight, and inspiration about climate change, put on your life vest and settle in to thirty-six lyric essays about the Salish
WAFD will display Thom Carnevale photos
||| FROM THOM CARNEVALE||| The photographs of Orcas Island photographer Thom Carnevale will be on display at the Washington Federal Bank Branch (WAFD), in Eastsound, today through Mid-June. Ansel Adams once said, “When words become
Health Care District appoints a new commissioner to complete Fralick’s term
||| FROM TOM EVERSOLE, ACTING HEALTH CARE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT ||| At the April 5 meeting, Orcas Island Health Care District (OIHCD) Commissioners appointed Marie Michnich to serve the remainder of Richard Fralick’s term. Ms. Michnich
Library is hosting a poetry event on the South Lawn
||| FROM CAROL DAPOGNY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| Listen to poems read and recited by locals or bring your own to share! Thursday, April 14, 6 p.m. on the Library South Lawn. Poets of
Our new best buddy, Big Blue is just crushing it out at the Exchange
||| BY EDEE KULPEER, theORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| Meet Big Blue, the new glass crusher at Orcas Recycling Services named by fourth graders Audrey Hance and Lana Sasan after a name-voting contest at school. If you
EDC steps in to help with recovery from Friday Harbor fire
||| FROM VICTORIA COMPTON, EDC BOARD and STAFF ||| Our business community needs your help right now – the devastating fire of April 7th wiped out numerous businesses, left families without a way to put
Overdose deaths in Washington top 2,000 in 2021 and continue to rise
To help save lives health officials urge people to carry naloxone and to know overdose signs ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – New data show that deaths from drug overdoses continue to increase
