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
Port Commissioners’ regular meeting is now scheduled
||| FROM JEANNIE SHARP for PORT OF ORCAS ||| REGULAR MEETING AGENDA MARCH 22, 2021 5 p.m. Meeting Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89869389691?pwd=OFQ2aHYwOEZoM2twZ29JZ2NmaFlGdz09 Meeting ID: 898 6938 9691 Passcode: 778670 One tap mobile +12532158782,,89869389691#,,,,*778670# US (Tacoma) CALL TO
COVID Phase 1b-2 expansion: Individuals with disabilities that put them at high risk become eligible for vaccines
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA -- As the state advances to the next tier of vaccine eligibility, the Washington State Department of Health wants to emphasize that the expansion will include some people with
Recap of recent COVID-19 news and updates
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Statewide Response Updates Newest numbers. The Department of Health (DOH) reported a total of 330,367 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on March 15. There have been 5,149 COVID-19
Letter to Editor | A thank you to good people
||| FROM ART LANGE ||| While we often have seen many acts of kindness and caring during this pandemic period, particularly helping those in need, I was very touched by my experience at Orcas Center
Need some repair, some resilience? OrcaSong has a workshop for you
Resilience and Repair: Reimagining our World -- Friday, March 19 ||| FROM TALI WEINBERG for ORCASONG ||| As a hub for social organizing and community health, the OrcaSong Institute is committed to facilitating education and fostering
Inslee signs emergency proclamation requiring in-person education opportunities for public K-12 schools
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| Gov. Jay Inslee today signed an emergency proclamation prohibiting all public K-12 schools in Washington from failing to provide opportunities in both remote instruction and on-campus, in-person
EDC to hold a hire local, virtual job fair on March 31
||| FROM VICTORIA COMPTON for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| The San Juan County Economic Development Council (EDC) urges businesses and residents to hire local workers and contractors as the economy starts to reopen. In an
Materials for Tuesday OIHCD Board meeting are now available
||| FROM ANNE PRESSON for ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| The Agenda and materials for the March 16th meeting of the OIHCD Board of Commissioners are now available. You can access the Board materials
Annual 2021 Congressional Art Competition open to high schoolers
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| Are you a creative high school student in Washington’s Second Congressional District? Do you know someone who is? Showcase your artwork in the 2021 Congressional Art Competition! The
State Health Department introduces new interactive mapping tool to pinpoint pollution hotspots in effort to improve health equity
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Health (DOH), in collaboration with the University of Washington, announces new interactive mapping tools to help utilities improve environmental health equity as they transition
EDC knows all the cool stuff: Unemployment benefits, PPP loans, and more
||| FROM VICTORIA COMPTON for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| Phase 3 Starts March 22! San Juan County just moved to phase 3, up to 50% capacity. We'll also be evaluated on a county-by-county basis, then
Fire Commissioners are ZOOM meeting tomorrow
||| FROM KIM KIMPLE for ORCAS FIRE & RESCUE COMMISSIONERS ||| Regular Meeting Agenda San Juan County Fire Protection District #2 Monday – March 15, 2021 5:30 p.m. Online / by phone via ZOOM: Dial
Shhhhhhh…Washington is No. 1, again
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| Washington state was ranked as the best state in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in a new report released Monday night. Washington has held the
Let’s get together and learn about Medicare benefits
||| FROM PEGI GROUNDWATER for SHIBA ||| Are you eligible for Medicare this year? If so, there’s a lot for you to learn. Medicare has its own vocabulary and lots of rules. There are deadlines
Dungeons and Dragons and Drama to benefit five local theatres
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Orcas Center’s Artist Director Jake Perrine, is one of five performers who will be playing Dungeons and Dragons in a two-night live-streamed event to raise money for
Could the Daylight Savings Time folderol be nearing a conclusion?
||| FROM WASHINGTON POST ||| After a long, dark winter, our noticeably sunnier evenings are about to turn even brighter. At 2 a.m. Sunday, the clocks will “spring forward” one hour as we return to
