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Lekanoff’s Latest | Budget week & Billy Frank Jr. statue meeting scheduled
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. DEBRA LEKANOFF ||| Happy Fantastic Friday! It’s budget week in Olympia! With only a few weeks left in the 2022 legislative session, my colleagues and I are hard at
State efforts to advance evidence-based, community-supported intervention and gun violence prevention strategies gain national attention
Washington’s Office of Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention reports progress, recommendations, next steps in addressing gun violence in Washington communities ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ||| OLYMPIA, WA --- Firearm violence is a persistent
After more than 30 years, one of our key life savers signs off the air
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| The job of 911 Dispatcher can be a rewarding career choice, both for self and for the community served. In large metropolitan areas, the career expectancy of a
Interisland travel for next few days may take you through Anacortes
||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| Interisland service in the San Juan Islands will be suspended Thursday and Friday due to crewing shortages that will take the #4 Sealth out of service both days. Customers needing
No interisland for remainder of day
Be sure to make note of their solution if you are scheduled for a cancelled sailing ||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES || Interisland service on the Anacortes/San Juan Islands route is suspended for the remainder
Partnership improves acute care on Orcas
Improved working relationship between primary care and Orcas Island Fire and Rescue ||| FROM TOM EVERSOLE, ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT ||| For the past year members of both the Emergency Medical Services
Protecting your biggest assets – EDC offers Homestead Exemption workshop
||| FROM GAIL SCHNEE for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| The San Juan County Economic Development Council (EDC) and attorney Mary Schmitt will present a workshop on the New Homestead Exemption Monday, February 28, 2022, at
Guest Opinion | In their own words: Dysfunction at OIFR as described by Commission
||| FROM AMANDA MONTAGUE ||| "Operations of the department have not been interrupted, and the Chief communicates well with the BOFC, but Chief's effectiveness this year has decreased compared to the year before. I'd hoped
E-news from Governor Inslee’s office
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| COVID-19 trends give leaders confidence for next phase of pandemic response Gov. Jay Inslee announced Thursday that most indoor masking requirements will lift March 21 thanks to
Adopted 2022-2023 County budget now online for viewing
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s adopted 2022-2023 budget is now online for viewing. The Preliminary Budget Book has been updated to include the adopted budget, with budget tables and detail
Need a Washington State boating education card?
Sign up for on-line U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary boating safety classes ||| FROM CHUCK DALLDORF for US COAST GUARD AUXILIARY ||| Bellingham, Wash. – The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Bellingham and San Juan Islands Flotilla
Sheriff’s Report | February 9 – 15, 2022
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 22-000897 Citizen Dispute 11:06:47 02/09/22 A Deputy on San Juan Island was dispatched to a citizen dispute. A report was completed. 22-000898 Suspicious Person/Circumstance
Some infant powdered formula has been recalled due to possible bacterial contamination
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – Abbott Nutrition announced late on Thursday, February 17, that it is voluntarily recalling infant powdered formula produced at their Sturgis facility in Michigan. This includes Similac, Alimentum,
Lekanoff: Supporting students & parents, ADUs, WA silenced no more, & small biz flex fund
Happy Fantastic Friday! ||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. DEBRA LEKANOFF ||| We're Two-Thirds of the Way Through Session This past Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. marked a major deadline in our 60-day legislative session –
WSF Weekly Report | Federal funding discussions underway, our spring has been postponed
||| FROM PATTY RUBSTELLO for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| OT Secretary Roger Millar joins Sen. Murray to discuss federal funding for ferries WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar talks to Sen. Patty Murray about our pandemic response,
Firehouse Foolishness | Leaks and such
||| BY MIA KARTIGANER, SPECIAL TO theORCASONIAN ||| While our fire department continues to search for leaks among the career responders, they don’t seem as concerned with their own. Within two days of the OIFR
