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
Inslee updates guidance for religious and faith based organizations
||| FROM GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE'S OFFICE ||| Gov. Jay Inslee today updated restrictions for religious and faith based organizations. The update clarifies that religious and faith-based organizations can hold outdoor services with up to 200
You’ll want to check out this wooly winter pop-up shop
||| FROM MANDY TROXEL ||| Bossy’s Feltworks and Lum Farm invite you to their “Wooly Winter Pop-Up Shop” Saturdays, December 5th and 12th. Located at the Lum Farm Stand, the pop-up will run from 10am-4pm.
Funhouse launches first annual gingerbread house contest
||| FROM NICOLE SPINOGATTI for FUNHOUSE COMMONS ||| Housebound and bored? Sad having to limit visits from loved ones over this holiday season? Well, here’s a great, fun project anyone can do! The Funhouse, w/Island
Recap of recent COVID-19 news and updates
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Department of Health reported a total of 167,216 confirmed cases as of 11:59 pm on November 30. There have been 2,805 COVID-19 deaths in Washington. For
Orcas resident Dr. Rosie Kuhn publishes her 13th book
||| FROM ALISHA WHEELER ||| Dr. Rosie Kuhn, author, well-known life coach and longtime resident of Orcas Island is celebrating the release of her 13th book that just hit stores this past week. “I’ve Arrived!
Jump in and help build the Lopez community swim center
The nonprofit community Swim Center, open to all San Juan County islanders and visitors, gets closer to construction with its end-of-year $125,000 challenge. ||| FROM CLAIRE ANDERSON for FRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL ||| With
Coming in February: Behind the scenes with The Olga Symphony
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| For over 20 years, many folks on Orcas have enjoyed starting off the holiday season with a night at the Orcas Center with the Olga Symphony. Like
A gift for your canine friends: 2021 dog licenses are now on sale
||| FROM NATASHA WARMENHOVEN for COUNTY AUDITOR'S OFFICE ||| The dog licensing season has begun! It was difficult to name just one celebrity dog this year, with so many of our canine companions providing much
There’s a new San Juans emergency preparedness guide online
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| As part of an ongoing effort to increase community preparedness and self-sufficiency in the islands, the Department of Emergency Management has created a new online
State launches smartphone anonymous COVID exposure notification tool
||| FROM GOVERNOR INSLEE'S OFFICE ||| Gov. Jay Inslee, along with the Washington State Department of Health (DOH), today announced the launch of WA Notify, a simple, anonymous exposure notification tool to help stop the
Did you know? $300 tax deduction for 2020 in addition to standard deduction
||| FROM MIRIAM ZIEGLER for MUSIC ADVOCACY GROUP ||| This Tuesday is #GivingTuesday, and in these challenging times, we want to remind everyone that there are many Orcas non-profits serving urgent needs in our historically
Time to guess this year’s Community Foundation ‘Flat Person’
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| Who will be this years’ Flat Person? Each year, the Orcas Island Community Foundation picks a neighbor to be the ambassador for the Holiday Catalog, which will be
Working WA business grant Round 3 applications will open early next week
||| FROM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| This is an update to help businesses prepare for the Working Washington business grant application process that will open early next week. Please read the information below carefully. Last
COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan update from State Department of Health
||| FROM STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT ||| OLYMPIA -- The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) continues to make progress with our COVID-19 vaccine distribution planning efforts. Vaccine authorizations and approvals The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Poetry: Chat With a Young TV
||| FROM BRUCE HANNA ||| Chat with a young TV Yes, I am pretty! Why here on this limb? It IS morning, you know Not many uplifts yet and such a bother to… as you
Perfect Thanksgiving poem | Thanks by W. S. Merwin
Thanks BY W. S. MERWIN Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with
