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
Senior Center announces district committee election results
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Thanks to everyone who participated in the recent Orcas District Committee election. We received 77 valid ballots, and the results are in! Tom Eversole, Diane Craig,
Got gardening questions? Master Gardeners will be at Driftwood to answer them
||| FROM DIANE MACONDRAY for SJC MASTER GARDENERS ||| On Wednesday, August 4, the San Juan County Master Gardeners will be answering garden questions and accepting plant samples for growing problem analysis at Driftwood Nursery
Join our amazing Orcas Island Food Bank team
Currently recruiting three Americorps positions ||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK TEAM ||| A 10.5 month term serving 40 hours a week. Service members are eligible for a monthly stipend of $1945, and upon completion
Hot Topic #53 | Vaccines are still the best protection against COVID-19
COVID-19 updates from San Juan County around subjects on the minds of islanders ||| FROM KYRA KINNAMAN for SJC HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES ||| We’re over a year and a half into this pandemic. We’ve
What’s up with the national coin shortage?
||| FROM MSN NEWS||| Since the start of the pandemic, if you've been paying for things more with your debit and credit cards and less with the bills and coins in your pocket, you're not
OPALCO has this great Electrical Vehicle Jamboree coming up
Thursday, August 5 @ 4:30 p.m., OPALCO Eastsound Parking Lot ||| FROM OPALCO ||| Come on by next Thursday, August 5 from 4:30 - 6 p.m. We will be in our Eastsound parking lot, firing
New masking posters available for download
||| FROM ORCAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ||| We are distributing a new poster from the Orcas Island Community Foundation. As you may know, San Juan County is "recommending" masks for everyone - vaccinated or unvaccinated
Senior Center set to reopen, gradually re-introducing classes, activities
Senior lunches set to begin once a week on Sept. 13 ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Who would have guessed when we closed our doors last March due to COVID-19 safety
New SJC COVID case count: Lopez 0, Orcas 0, San Juan 2
||| FROM KYRA KINNAMAN for SJC HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES ||| Note: Current positive case numbers are available online at the the County Case Data Dashboard. Since the last update on Thursday July 22, total
Most recent Washington state update on COVID-19 cases
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 431,743 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on July 28. There have been 6,119 COVID-19
What new WA police accountability laws do and don’t do
Plus, a closer look at some of the concerned statements made by police chiefs and sheriffs ||| FROM CROSSCUT ||| Several new police accountability bills went into effect in Washington state this week, changing some
NOTAM: No fuel at Orcas Airport into Monday at least
||| FROM JEANNIE SHARPE for PORT OF ORCAS ||| NOTAM / NOTICE TO AIRMEN The fuel station will be down all weekend and into Monday at least. The new credit card machine install was not
DOH adds data enhancements to the COVID-19 dashboard
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA -- Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has added new data about testing and healthcare system readiness trends to the COVID-19 data dashboard. These enhancements include adding: Antigen
Back to school safety checks, immunizations, more scheduled for Saturday
||| FROM ANNE PRESSON for ORCAS ISLAND HEALTHCARE DISTRICT ||| The Island Primary Care-Orcas Clinic is hosting a back to school event this Saturday, July 31 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This will be
Oprah sells Orcas Island estate for $14 million
||| FROM BUSINESS JOURNAL ||| Oprah Winfrey has sold her 43-acre waterfront estate known as Madroneagle on Orcas Island’s Catspaw Lane for $14 million, the Business Journal has learned. Sources familiar with the deal say it
New data reveals COVID-19 impact on unvaccinated Washingtonians
Between February and June 2021, most people in Washington who died of COVID-19 were unvaccinated ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA -- New reporting from the Washington State Department of Health reveals the devastating
