||| FROM ANTOINETTE BOTSFORD for ORCAS HISTORICAL MUSEUMS |||
What promises cleaner air, smaller carbon footprints, support for educational goals, and a good ride with great music and a warm bottom in winter?
The Orcas Island Historical Museums are once again offering a choice, gently used electric car, complete with leather seats and a Bose sound system.
The Nissan Leaf has a cruise range of 70 to 85 miles before needing to be recharged. It can be recharged overnight from a household electrical outlet, or in less than an hour in one of the many recharging stations popping up like mushrooms here on Orcas Island (and elsewhere). Its nearly silent operating system allows you to really enjoy the Bose sound system as you drive on island roads.
And even if you don’t win, you’re contributing to the success and preservation of island history. How can you lose? (The raffle raises funds that the museum will use to support educational projects here on Orcas Island.) Electric cars also make excellent gifts for young folks in need of a car (and anyone else for that matter) or could be a high-end trade in for the car of your dreams. Or why not donate the car to www.islandrides.org.
Purchase tickets by August 12. State raffle rules prevent online sales. Tickets are $25 each and can be purchased at the museum or at other community events listed below. The drawing will be held at 2:00 pm on August 12th. You need not be present to win.
For more information: 360-376-4849 or info@orcasmuseums.org.
- Sales will be at:
- Eastsound Museum Wednesday – Saturday from 11 am – 3 pm
- Tuesday August 1 at Island Market 11 am – 1 pm
- Thursday August 3 at Island Market 11 am – 1 pm
- Saturday August 5 at Fly-in/Car Show hours
- Sunday August 6 Village Green Summer Concert Series
- Tuesday August 8 at Island Market 11 am – 1 pm
- Thursday August 10 at Island Market 11 am – 1 pm
- Thursday August 10 Village Green Summer Concert Series
Above Photos:
- Orcas Island Historical Museums Board President Bonnie Morris with the e-car in 2023.
- Mary Bolton in the 1940s poses beside an automobile in front of the Caretaker’s Cottage at Mountain Lake. Her husband, Buckner Bolton, was a caretaker and engineer for the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Thank you for suggesting a donation to Island Rides if the winner of this car does not have a personal use for it!
Island rides uses electric vehicles driven by volunteers to provide free rides to islanders in need of transportation 7 days a week from 10am-3pm.
Call 360672-2201 if you need a ride. Buy a raffle ticket if you want to experience clean, cheap transportation.
It is a win win!
The Orcas Island Museum’s raffle of a Nissan Leaf is a win-win-win. It will significantly reduce transportation costs for the recipient from ~$8 per day, if they currently drive an internal combustion engine, to ~ $1 per day by shifting to an electric vehicle. It will lessen gas-powered vehicle emissions – the largest source of the Island’s CO2 emissions, which reduce air quality and threaten marine life by increasing Salish-Sea acidification. Alternatively, if the recipient chooses to donate the Leaf to the nonprofit, Island Rides, it will strengthen environmentally-friendly, free ridesharing services for the Island’s low-income, less-mobile, and senior population; or be used by Island Rides to help launch the OPAL Green Carshare Program, just approved under a WSDOT grant, to benefit Orcas Island’s affordable housing communities. Indeed, the Museum’s raffle is a win all around.
Really great article. It’s important to support your local museum as they are preserving your history!