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
Time to dedicate our new Playground-on-the-Green, with thanks to many
Playground-on-the-Green Dedication, 12 Noon, Sat, Aug 14, Eastsound Village Green ||| FROM ALICE HIBBERD for SJC PARKS & FAIR ||| The Playground-on-the-Green, the product of Orcas Island imagination, energy, and funding, and constructed by Orcas
Still no fuel currently available at Orcas Airport
FROM JEANNIE SHARPE for PORT OF ORCAS ||| Still no good news on fuel availability at the Orcas airport. I was just told that the replacement cellphone program part was not shipped last week, when
A promise of fun for everyone at OPALCO’s Electrical Vehicle Jamboree
||| FROM SUZANNE OLSON for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| Test drive an EV, ride an electric bike, check out electric garden tools and an electric UTV! Free hot dogs and popcorn, great Island
SeaDoc Society to hold virtual ‘Bottoms Up’ event Sept. 9. Register now.
||| FROM JUSTIN COX for SEADOC SOCIETY ||| The SeaDoc Society is going virtual again for their annual fundraiser event, which will be held on September 9 at 5:30 p.m. The special live event, Bottoms
Mammogram van coming to Orcas Senior Center
Schedule appointment for September 20, 21, 22 ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Assured Imaging will be at Orcas Senior Center again this year with their Mammogram Van on September 20, 21,
Inslee updates K-12 education proclamation
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| Gov. Jay Inslee issued an update today to the K-12 Schools COVID emergency order, Proclamation 20-09.4, to continue to require that all teachers and students wear
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
