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.”
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Missive from Medicare: Guard your COVID-19 vaccination card
||| FROM MEDICARE ||| After you get your COVID-19 vaccine, keep your vaccination card safe — scammers are using the COVID-19 pandemic to try to steal your personal information. Don't share a photo of your COVID-19
EDC presents a FREE course in Sustainability Management
||| FROM VICTORIA COMPTON for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| The EDC invites community leaders, legislators, entrepreneurs, and business owners to join in a FREE 2-day course in Sustainability Management, led by world-renowned expert in corporate sustainability
Open hours at our library are gradually increasing
||| FROM PHIL HEIKKINEN for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| We continue gradually to increase our building’s open hours, most recently adding two hours to the start of the day. We’re now open from 10 a.m.
Too early to tell whether our statewide flattening of COVID-19 curve will continue
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – Today the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) released the latest COVID-19 modeling and surveillance situation report. There are some signs in the most recent data that cases
EDC presents a FREE, 5-week regenerative business design course
||| FROM VICTORIA COMPTON for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| The EDC invites entrepreneurs, business owners and community leaders to join in a FREE, 5-week, intensive course in Regenerative Business Design. Led by renowned permaculture designer and
Inslee announces a pause in re-opening plan in his weekly press update
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| Healthy Washington enters pause as COVID activity statewide plateaus Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday announced a two-week pause on movement in the Healthy Washington: Roadmap to Recovery reopening
Latest from Lekanoff | University guidance, emergency broadband, climate commitment act
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. DEBRA LEKANOFF ||| Happy Fantastic Friday! This week, we honor and remember our missing sisters on National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People. A huge thank
2021 sees building permits, tax revenues soar
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, theORCASONIAN OPD-ED REPORTER ||| Summer has not officially arrived, but you would never know it from the hum of activity blanketing the islands. Some of this has been expected as visitors,
You can help raise money for Buck Park and support this high school senior project
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND PARK & RECREATION||| Join High School Senior Portia White in support of her senior project this weekend at the basketball court in Buck Park. Portia has organized a community Hoop Shoot
Statewide recap of recent COVID-19 news, updates
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 380,109 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on May 5. There have been 5,553 COVID-19 deaths
Weekly COVID case update shows three new cases on San Juan
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| Note: Current positive case numbers are available online at the County Case Data Dashboard. As indicated on that page, these numbers are only updated after
Senior Center’s buddy check-in still going strong after nearly a year
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Orcas Senior Center’s Buddy Check-In program launched just over a year ago as an urgent response to COVID-19. Its consistent weekly check-in calls from “Volunteer Buddies”
COVID-19 vaccine distribution update from State Department of Health
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) continues to make progress with our COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration efforts. As of May 3, more than 5,642,156 doses of vaccine
Hot Topic #49 | A COVID-19 update, and looking at the road ahead
COVID-19 updates from San Juan County around subjects on the minds of islanders ||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| This Hot Topic is going to provide updates on current local COVID
Big thanks from Health Care District to local clinic team during National Nurses Week
||| FROM ANNE PRESSON for ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| As today marks the start of National Nurses Week 2021, the OIHCD would like to recognize the incredible work of the Island Primary Care
Orcas teens reveal they are discovering some bright spots, personal growth during pandemic
||| BY GRAY GAILEY ||| Author: Gray Gailey Prior to quarantine, if you had told any of us teens that we would be confined to our houses for over a year, we probably
