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
New COVID case update reveals one new case on Orcas
||| FROM BRENDAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| Note: Current positive case numbers are available online at the County Case Count Page. As indicated on that page, these numbers are only updated after case
Statement from Washington State Department of Health
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) updated Washington’s 1A vaccine allocation guidance [Dec. 30]. We have worked closely with Gov. Inslee and his team and Dr. Umair
New Year Poetry | The Dance by Bruce Hanna
The Dance Let us give thanks for our shared dance. Thanks that this is a dance hall of spirits and lives; That real people with hopes and fears, anger and joy, All the contradictory confusion
Inslee extends eviction moratorium
||| FROM GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE'S OFFICE ||| On December 31, Gov. Jay Inslee formally issued an extension of the eviction moratorium, extending all existing provisions and making adjustments to provide additional support for landlords and
Birthday greetings for 2021 from the oldest Baby Boomer on the island (probably)
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| Today is my 75th birthday. And for probably 50 or more years, I have been saying that on the first day of each year I should send my
2020 | The year we found our inner island
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| One of our first real news stories of 2020 was the good news that Deer Harbor Yacht Club was an official entity. That means they are now celebrating
Auld Lang Syne | So it means, ‘old long since,’ eh?
||| FROM DICTIONARY.COM ||| New Year’s Eve is full of traditions that are easy to understand. Counting down the seconds until the day the calendar changes, for example. Others are a little less straightforward. Case
Rick Hughes honored with public service award by Orcas Chamber
||| FROM ORCAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ||| The Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce and its Board President Colleen Smith have announced they are honoring Rick Hughes with the “President’s 2020 Public Service Award for Dedicated
Community Foundation shares emergency response fund data with community
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| Attached please find a spreadsheet of the grants made from the Community Emergency Response fund. The Fund was established in March with a focus to gather the
Stimulus package update from Economic Development Council
||| FROM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| The EDC is continuing to analyze the details of the just-passed stimulus package. Our comprehensive summary with links can be found here and we will continue to post updates
2020 in Review | Can we talk?
||| BY STEVE BERNHEIM, theORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| In 1964 my mother took me to the World’s Fair in New York. I drove a car along a track at the Ford or Hertz pavilion, glided by
First COVID vaccines arrive in San Juan County to more than 50 welcoming arms
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY NEWS ||| San Juan County Health and Community Services staff provided the first COVID vaccine to islanders on Wednesday, Dec. 30. As per state and federal guidelines, initial distribution is
Another recap of COVID-19 news, updates: An ongoing saga
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Department of Health reported a total of 231,724 confirmed cases as of 11:59 p.m. on December 28. There have been 3,369 COVID-19 deaths in Washington. For
OISD strings present a holiday virtual concert
||| FROM SHARON HO for MUSIC ADVOCACY GROUP ||| https://youtu.be/nXi-tAD_OLE The Music Advocacy Group sends holiday greetings to the Orcas Community, and wants to share the virtual Holiday Concert of the OISD strings program
Mobile COVID-19 testing comes to Orcas Island; A thank you from OIHCD
||| FROM ANNE PRESSON for ORCAS HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| Orcas Family Health Center (OFHC) delivered an early Christmas present to the Orcas community, launching a mobile SARS-COVID-19 testing project on Dec. 21. Recognizing the
Advisory committee seeks community input on Coffelt Farm Preserve recommendations
||| FROM TANJA WILLIAMSON for SJC LAND BANK ||| The Conservation Agriculture Resource Team (CART-Coffelt) is holding an online public meeting, on January 14th 2021 from 5:30-7pm, to gather input on their draft report of
