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
State Health Dept newest COVID numbers
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 1,442,947 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on March 15. There have been 12,273 COVID-19 deaths
Our local nonprofit boards are in search of new members
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| Lum Farm lambs (Photo by Jenn Staplin) It is the season of renewal. Baby lambs are prancing in the fields, daffodils are opening
Join the EDC to learn about careers on the water
||| FROM MICHELANGELO (MICKEY) VON DASSOW ||| People interested in careers on the water are invited to join the EDC for an online Maritime Career Fair, March 31 at noon to 1 p.m., held over
Weekly case update from County Emergency Management
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| Weekly Case Update: Since the last update on Friday March 11, there have been 15 new confirmed or probable cases in San Juan County. Current
How did early explorers find Orcas without a map? Find out at this Senior Center Zoom presentation
“Mapping Orcas: The Way Home” with Orcas Island Historical Museum’s Nancy Stillger Wednesday March 23 at 1 p.m. via Zoom ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| How did early explorers find their way to Orcas
Why we need to ‘electrify everything,’ according to this ‘genius’ inventor
||| FROM WASHINGTON POST at request of Orcasonian reader ||| Saul Griffith has a plan to combat climate change while creating millions of new jobs. It boils down to two words: "electrify everything." The Australian American
San Juan Makers survey: Let’s identify & quantify our actual housing challenges
Invitation to Farmers, Restaurants, Food and Beverage Producers, Grocers, Farmers Market Food Vendors, and Ag Product Artisans ||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| If you own or manage a farm or food system business,
Orcas Library is recruiting for a new Library Director
||| FROM MADELINE SHEPLOR for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| Orcas Island Library has begun the recruitment for a new Library Director. Our award-winning library is advertising on various social media platforms, websites, through associations and
Here are the newest numbers from State Health Dept.
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 1,440,632 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on March 13. There have been 12,219 COVID-19 deaths
Seismology pinpoints location of two previous Orcas detonations
||| FROM MICKEY CASSAR, PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEISMIC NETWORK, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ||| A little over a week ago a colleague and retired seismologist, Tom Owens, who now lives on Orcas Island in the San Juans,
U.S. Senate unanimously approves bill to make daylight saving time permanent
||| FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ||| WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate unanimously approved a measure Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent across the United States next year. The bipartisan bill, named the Sunshine
Library to host Outdoor Talk: Staying active, at any age or stage
March 27, 2022 Talk + Q&A with Katy Bowman (from Sequim!) from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. on the Library's South Lawn, Book signing to follow. ||| FROM CAROL DAPOGNY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY |||
In Memoriam | Theodore Francis (Ted) Driggers, 1936-2022
||| FROM ANN LEWIS ||| Theodore Francis (Ted) Driggers, 1936-2022 Theodore Francis (Ted) Driggers, 85, of Orcas Island, WA, passed away on Saturday, February 26, 2022. Ted was born on December 2, 1936
A Spring poetry discovery while passing through Warm Valley
||| FROM RICK MARKOV ||| The lambs are dropping Both Black and White in Warm Valley So soon So Quick As if from the Sky
It’s finally time to celebrate history again, in person
||| FROM SANDY STREHLOU for TOWN OF FRIDAY HARBOR ||| Now that Covid is over (mostly), it’s time to celebrate history again, in person! So, get ready, start planning, and let us know what fabulous
Join Katy Bowman for Nutritious Movement talk at The Funhouse
March 26, 11 a.m. on the sport court at The Funhouse ||| FROM NICOLE SPINOGATTI for FUNHOUSE COMMONS ||| Walking is a major “movement food group” for human bodies. Kids’ developing bodies need the
