Orcas School kids, teachers, parents, alumni and friends fill the streets for the July 3 "Community in Action" parade

To all of our kids, teachers, parents, graduates and friends:

A huge round of thanks to you all for helping to make this a memorable Parade. You did a great job of showing support for, and pride in our School! Please enjoy this slideshow at the link below and feel free to share the photos with family and friends:

OrcasIslandSchoolsJuly3rdParade2010

Special thanks to Esther Doss, 10th grader, and daughter of our School Librarian, Maria Doss, for designing the cool banners; to Scott Lancaster of Orcas Island Hardware for the paint; to Maria and Ray Doss and Kelsey and Keith Whitaker for painting them; to Mandy Randolph for having the idea to have the kids carry flags with their grades on them, and for doing a wonderful job of getting kids and parents to come and organizing everybody that day; to Julian Glasser for coming back to Orcas for the Summer and jumping right in to helping organize friends for the Parade; to Justin Paulsen for thinking of the orange crane… how great was that?! and to the YES! Committee for its tireless work so we can PASS THIS BOND!

Marian O’Brien

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