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
Garden Club shares webinars, insight, favorite garden tools in recent newsletter
||| FROM HELEN HUBER for ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| Newsletter and Featured Webinar The Orcas Island Garden Club has published our December Newsletter and Webinar. Visit the website https://www.orcasislandgardenclub.org. Chock full of webinars, book
UPDATED: Inslee announces updated school guidance for in-person instruction
||| FROM GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE'S OFFICE ||| The update corrects a typo in the definition of “high” COVID-19 case counties and adds a link to the proclamation. Gov. Jay Inslee and Superintendent of Public Instruction
More doses of vaccine on the way as statewide vaccination effort continues
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Health anticipates receiving tens of thousands more doses of COVID-19 vaccine later this week, as vaccinations continue for frontline health workers and
Antigen positive test results now included in DOH dashboards
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA - Starting today, The Washington State Department of Health will include antigen-positive COVID-19 cases in the COVID-19 Data Dashboard and the COVID-19 Risk Assessment Dashboard. Since September 30, antigen-positive testing
COVID-19 safety behaviors remain necessary, even as vaccinations begin
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – As the first COVID-19 vaccinations begin this week, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is reminding people that it is very important to continue taking measures
Precautionary boil water advisory for Doe Bay cancelled
||| FROM WASHINGTON WATER SERVICE ||| GIG HARBOR, Wash. — Washington Water Service (Washington Water), has canceled the precautionary boil water advisory issued in the Doe Bay Water Users Association Water System it operates, after water quality test
Don’t call Orcas Islanders vaccine ‘hesitant.’ They’re just vaccine procrastinators
||| FROM KUOW ||| There are no public opinion polls that show how many people on Orcas Island plan to get a Covid-19 vaccine when they finally get the chance. But the public schools on
Recap of recent COVID-19 news, updates
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Department of Health reported a total of 205,069 confirmed cases as of 11:59 pm on December 14. There have been 2,953 COVID-19 deaths in Washington. For
Hot Topic #38 | Vaccine FAQ 2.0
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN, for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| This information expands and updates the initial vaccine FAQ from November 19, 2020. Understandably, there are a host of community discussions, concerns, and expectations about
San Juan County software & web professionals to meet up
||| FROM MICKEY VON DASSOW for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| San Juan County software and web professionals, including retired or aspiring, are invited to a virtual meetup hosted by the Economic Development Council (EDC). Our
Washington state to host webinars on safety, development of COVID-19 vaccines
Experts to answer most common questions ahead of vaccine availability ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| The Washington State Department of Health today announced that we, in partnership with The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Gifts enable OPAL to acquire 30 acres for future affordable housing
||| FROM CRYSTAL MOSSMAN for OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ||| In keeping with OPAL’s long-term strategy of thoughtfully stewarding land for the benefit of the community and assuring that Orcas islanders will have access to
Coronavirus shows you may not be as good at detecting misinformation as you think
||| FROM SCIENCE ALERT ||| Most of us believe we're above average at detecting misinformation. This, of course, is a statistical impossibility – one that the coronavirus pandemic has well and truly put to the test.
Precautionary boil water advisory issued for some Doe Bay water customers
||| FROM WASHINGTON WATER SERVICE ||| GIG HARBOR, Wash. — Washington Water Service (Washington Water), operator of the Doe Bay Water Users Association Water System, today issued a precautionary boil water advisory for a portion of
Mobile COVID-19 testing on Orcas Island will begin Dec. 21
||| FROM AAIMEE JOHNSON for ORCAS FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ||| Orcas Family Health Center (OFHC) has organized a mobile SARS-COVID-19 testing project. This project does not replace the COVID-19 testing that is currently being performed
Vaccines arrive in Washington State; People in Phase 1a will begin to receive vaccinations this week
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is happy to announce that COVID-19 vaccines are on the ground in Washington state, and this week, the first
