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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There’s a new look for San Juan County website
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County is excited to announce that on the afternoon of Thursday, March 25, 2021, we will be launching our new and improved website. With the new
State Health Dept.’s recap of recent COVID-19 news, updates
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 334,841 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on March 22. There have been 5,186 COVID-19 deaths in Washington.
Update on expanded San Juan County vaccine eligibility
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| In a welcome sign of progress, the vaccine registration window on Monday, March 22, had slots available for almost five hours after opening. While the
State to launch new round of Working Washington small business grants on March 29
Newest grant round focuses on brick-and-mortar businesses most directly impacted by COVID-19 public health measures ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ||| The Washington State Department of Commerce will open applications for Working Washington Grants:
Food Co-op Annual Meeting: Expanding the circle of cooperation
Everyone Welcome! Join us online via Zoom Sunday, March 28, 4:00-5:30 p.m. ||| FROM SARAH BENSON for ORCAS FOOD CO-OP ||| Help shape the future of your co-op by participating in breakout group discussions, hear
Spring is in the air at SJI Museum of Art
||| FROM DIANE MARTINDALE for SAN JUAN ISLANDS MUSEUM OF ART ||| Put a spring in your step by visiting the expansive exhibit of artists in Friday Harbor. This all-island Artists’ Registry Show gets better
Orcas Family Health will open registration tomorrow for first-dose vaccines
200 doses available for all eligible individuals ||| FROM ORCAS FAMILY HEALTH CLINIC ||| Orcas Family Health Center will be opening registration for first dose vaccine appointments on Tuesday, March 23, at 5 PM. The
SJ Makers Guild launching an on-line, countywide Makers Directory
||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| This Spring the San Juan Makers Guild is busy launching the online countywide Makers Directory and is hosting an important interactive Asset Mapping project to help strengthen the
Island Primary Care–Orcas will open its doors on Monday, April 5
||| BY SUSAN MCBAIN, theORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| As of April 5, Orcas Island will have a new practice operating in the medical facility on Deye Lane: Island Primary Care–Orcas, an Island Hospital (IH) clinic. And
Inslee rescinds state travel advisory to align with CDC travel advisory guidance
||| FROM GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE'S OFFICE || Gov. Jay Inslee today rescinded his November 2020 Travel Advisory and is advising Washingtonians and others visiting Washington to comply with the Center for Disease Control’s current COVID-19 travel advisory guidance.
EDC Annual Economics Luncheon will feature Milene Henley & stand-up economics comedian
||| FROM VICTORIA COMPTON for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| Join the conversation on What’s Next: The Islands Economy at the 11th Annual EDC Economics Luncheon, held online on Wednesday, April 28 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.,
Mobile dental clinics to offer Medicaid and uninsured patients access to dental care on Orcas
||| FROM ERIN O'DELL for ORCASS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ||| People in San Juan County who don’t have dental insurance or who are covered by Apple Health (Medicaid) can get free or reduced-cost dental care
You will want to listen up! Recording of Island Hospital community briefing is now available
||| FROM ANNE PRESSON for ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| We would like to thank all of the community members who spent part of your Thursday evening learning about the clinic transition. A copy
Editorial | Have you noticed something familiar in the air? Relief? Hope?
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| There's something going on, something afoot, stirrings beneath the surface. Have you felt it? I first felt the unrest shuffling after the result of the 2020 presidential election,
COVID-19 vaccine distribution update from 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 March 13, more than 2,517,506 doses of vaccine
Guest Opinion | A brief history of vaccines — today’s best defense against COVID-19
||| BY THOMAS O. BALDWIN, PhD ||| As a result of amazing strides in basic biomedical science over the past several decades—development of methods allowing the cloning of genes, DNA sequencing, etc.— it has been
