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Letter to Editor | Cutting a deal with COVID
-- from Tom Eversole -- Deal making is useless against Mother Nature. Threatening COVID19 with a premature return to business as usual is like bullying the weather not to rain, because you haven’t fixed your
Aging Like a Guru | What is divine will, and what’s it got to do with aging?
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- I don't know about you, but my will is to have things go my way according to my perceptions and interpretations of reality. However, that’s like allowing a five-year-old to drive a
Village Voices | At home edition
-- by Minor Lile, Orcas Issues reporter -- Several more responses have been received to last week’s Village Voices. We invite you to join in the conversation. Please send your answers to minorlile@theorcasonian.com, along with
Letter to Editor | What about our property taxes?
-- from Peg Manning -- As the deadline for payment of property taxes approaches, it would be helpful for property owners to know what sources of relief exist for those who have lost their incomes
Guest Opinion | How do we hold 2020 elections?
-- from Hedrick Smith -- Okay, America, how do we hold the 2020 elections under the threat of the coronavirus?Wisconsin’s answer was to bull ahead with the old system for its primary election on Tuesday,
Letter to Editor | I hold a vacation rental permit; where’s my COVID rules?
-- from Joe Symons -- I attach here a transcript of some remarks made at the 3/31/20 council meeting. Transcript by Michael Johnson: Bill Watson-- "I'm aware that DCD, our permit department is generating a
Letter to Editor | Open letter to Health District Board
-- from Spirit Eagle -- Dear Orcas Island Health Care District Board Members, In this time of the COVID-19 epidemic it behooves you to employ Dr. Vincent Shu, M.D. to help combat the spread of
Letter to Editor | ‘Shout out’ to Island Market staff
-- from David Kobrin -- Among those many folks who are working assiduously to care for our island’s residents during these frightening times, I want to give a special “shout out” to those people working
Letter to Editor | Social justice as disease prevention
-- from Tom Eversole -- Corona Virus is a wakeup call to issues influencing our health, economy, society, and government. Stopping COVID-19 spread depends on social distancing, but many don’t have that option. People make
Letter to Editor | A guy eats a bat, now I’m unemployed
-- from Gigi Carter -- That’s the punchline of a meme my friend posted on Facebook. It’s funny-not funny, and it poetically describes what some already know to be true—that we are all interconnected. Food
Guest Opinion| Wise words from a friend
-- from Karen J. Key Speck -- During these trying times many of us wonder "what can I do to help" and because the isolation and lack of work makes things seem terribly daunting, one
Aging Like a Guru | All habits die hard
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- Yesterday, my coaching session with my client Holly brought up some important stuff in her life and in mine - and inadvertently perhaps, in yours! It's enough to say that,
Village Voices
-- by Minor Lile, Orcas Issues reporter -- This is the fourth in our Village Voices series, in which we take the pulse of the people of Orcas Island on a particular topic. Last month’s
Editorial | I’ve been hearing voices
-- by Lin McNulty, Editor, Orcas Issues -- For the last week month or so, tightly tucked into my home office work space, I've been hearing voices. Luckily, I am able to say the voices
Letter to Editor | To mask or not to mask?
-- from Beth Dixon -- Many people in the island community, along with others around the world, are making homemade masks. The original impetus for doing this seems largely to have originated with a desire
