Here’s a thought…
“The competition between Nature and the economy is deep and broad.
In the short term, the economy usually wins. In the long term …?”
BILL APPEL
Food Bank Begins Senior Outreach Program
Food Bank Manager, Jeannie Doty, and volunteerJoanne Cundy pack bags for Senior Outreach deliveries. -- by Madie Murray -- Through a cooperative effort between the Orcas Island Food Bank (OIFB) and Orcas Island
Pre-schoolers Get an Educational Boost!
-- from Jim Connell and Joe Cohen -- Orcas Island’s four pre-schools, Montessori, Children’s House, Kaleidoscope and Salmonberry have combined school fundraising, parent tuition and community-based “investment” dollars to provide all Orcas 3-5 year-olds access
A Legacy Shared: Trudy Erwin
Restoration and stewardship on private property -- from Jill Clark, Development Director, Northwest Straits Foundation -- Trudy Erwin and a young potter. Photo: Islands Weekly West Beach Creek property owner Dianna Down reminisced
What’s With These Woods? And Why Do We Care?
Saturday, August 16, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Preserve Trailhead Terrill Beach & Buckhorn Roads -- from Ruthie Dougherty -- Forestry Walk led by Carson on Turtleback Mountain Preserve Forester and restoration ecologist
Last Hearing of New Eastsound Plans Before Council’s “First Touch”
Friday, August 15 at 8:45 a.m. in Friday Harbor -- Teleconference from Orcas, Lopez Islands The San Juan County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on the proposed Eastsound Subarea Plan update. The SEPA
‘It Was the Best of Times’. . .at the Library Fair!
-– by Cara Russell —- [metaslider id=31045] “’It was the best of times’ . . . and we’ll just leave it at that,” George Post quoted The Tale of Two Cities from under his straw
Stand with the Lummi at Totem Pole Blessing
Sunday, August 17 at 9:30 a.m. at the Tribal Admin Center on the Lummi Reservation -- from Matt Petyrini of REsources -- Sponsored by REsources for Sustainable Communities, Power Past Coa,l Sierra Club and
Guest Column: Streetscape Plans for Fern Street Extension
-- from Fred Klein -- Pictured is the sketch prepared under the auspices of Eastsound Planning Review Committee (EPRC) concerning the future use of the increasingly famous 50 foot wide lot originally acquired by Public
Olympic National Park Scientist to Discuss How Climate Change Impacts Our Coasts
Wednesday, August 20, 7 p.m., San Juan Island Library -- from Julia Vouri -- Learn how the coasts and intertidal biological communities of the Pacific Northwest are impacted by climate change in a presentation by
At the Fair: Block Kinder Morgan Project with Brownies
--San Juan Islanders for Safe Shipping -- Chocolate and crude oil don't mix, unless of course you bite into one of the delicious brownies for sale at our Safe Shipping booth at the San Juan
Guest Column: What It Takes To Build Community
-- by Hedrick Smith -- Orcas has the irresistible lure of a natural Paradise and the attraction of a welcoming civic spirit - a caring human community. [In 2006], that community spirit inspired San Juan
The Circus Came to Town! Funhouse Commons Annual Gala Fundraiser
-- by Cara Russell -- [metaslider id=30965] The Annual Funhouse Commons Gala Fundraiser was a regular circus on Sunday evening, August 3. Volunteer staff dressed up as carnies, tattooed ladies, clowns, and tightrope walkers for
Noxious Weed Alert: Thistle
from Kate Yturri, Judy Winer and Gwen Stamm REPRINT FROM OCTOBER 3, 2013 Thistles are common, recognizable weeds in the San Juan Islands, yet there are several thistles that are native to the US,
Seastar Wasting Syndrome Declines
-- from Russel Barsh -- The latest seastar survey by the Indian Island Marine Health Observatory (August 10) found that incidence of Wasting Syndrome had declined by about half since mid-July to 19 percent. In
Youth Conservation Corps Report: Week Six
-- from Kayleigh Horton, with Mary Gropp -- This week the OIYCC teamed up with the Washington Trails Association for a fun week of fixing up the trail around Mountain lake. To start out the
