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
Weekly San Juan County COVID case update
||| 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
WSF weekly update: How they are making every day Earth Day
||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| In honor of Earth Day, here’s an update on our first-ever Sustainability Action Plan. As part of our Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability Program, we launched the two-year plan on this day
State says COVID-19 immunity increasing, but not enough to slow transmission
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – Today the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) released the latest statewide situation report on COVID-19. Report findings include: Population immunity is helping control transmission, but isn’t enough to
Two dental vans will be coming soon to see patients
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for ORCAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| The Arcora Foundation - SmileMobile will be on Orcas April 26 - 29 to see babies (first tooth) up through high school age and pregnant/postpartum people
COVID-19 vaccine distribution update from the Washington 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 April 19, more than 4,765,270 doses of vaccine
Want to buy a resort? Rosario Resort & Spa on Orcas Island hits the market
||| FROM PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL ||| Rosario Resort & Spa on Orcas Island is for sale — all 82.89 acres and 2,166 feet of waterfront. Current owners are Jerrel Barto of Anacortes, who along with his son, Craig Barto,
Earth Day Poem | XI by Wendell Berry
XI by Wendell Berry The need comes on me now to speak across the years to those who finally will live here after the present ruin, in the absence of most of my kind who
Lummi totem pole journey, Red Road to D.C., will have stopover in San Juans
||| FROM STEPHANIE BUFFUM ||| A totem pole carved at the Lummi Nation from a 400-year-old red cedar will begin a cross-country journey next month, evoking an urgent call to protect sacred lands and waters
Hot Topic #47 | This is your best chance to get vaccinated; Sign up now
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| More than 2,000 vaccine appointments are now open on Lopez, Orcas, and San Juan Islands. Sign up ASAP to ensure you get a spot. Links
Hurry! Sign up! Vaccine appointments still available
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| For many months, islanders have been awaiting the day that San Juan County is fully vaccinated. We’re getting close, and the best remaining opportunity for
Agenda posted for second School Board meeting on Thursday
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| The Orcas Island School District School Board will be hosting their meetings in-person in The School Cafeteria AND online VIA ZOOM,. Public health guidelines in response the Covid-19 pandemic will be
School Board schedules annual meeting with Waldron School
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| ANNUAL SPECIAL SCHOOL BOARD MEETING with WALDRON SCHOOL via ZOOM, Thursday, Apr 22, 2021 - 10 a.m. 10:00 AM CALL TO ORDER via ZOOM 1.1 Call to Order 1.2 Approve
State Health Dept. recap of recent COVID news, updates
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 361,104 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on April 19. There have been 5,407 COVID-19 deaths
Local poet shares his spring poetry
Narcissus by Dave Kosiur Slowly it lifts its greenery from the soil And then spring into a bright bloom. Oh, what an appropriate name Spring is for the season! We may have planted the bulb
Rena Priest is named 2021-2023 Washington’s newest Poet Laureate
||| FROM DIANE MARTINDALE for ARTSWA COMMISSION ||| FROM OLYMPIA, WA - In conjunction with National Poetry Month, poet Rena Priest has been appointed Washington State Poet Laureate by Governor Jay Inslee. Rena Priest,
Orcas Montessori about to reap benefit of a new, larger classroom
||| FROM TERESA CHOCANO for ORCAS MONTESSORI SCHOOL ||| Perhaps you are wondering what all the activity has been at the Montessori School on North Beach Road these past several months. We have been building
