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Letter to Editor | Thank you, Orcas community
-- from Lena Kassa for Orcas Senior Center -- All of us at the Orcas Senior Center would like to say a big THANK YOU to the Orcas community for your generous donations to the
Aging Like a Guru | Can you know how great you are?
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- For most of us, the world we live in doesn't support us knowing how great we are. It doesn't support us being fearless, abundant, and extraordinary. In fact, our consensus
Letter to Editor | Making COVID policy decisions
-- from Tom Eversole -- Elected officials at all levels wrestle with the conundrum of prolonging physical distancing versus when and how to reopen commerce. A steady diet of win/lose dualism has produced the body
Letter to Editor | Lots and lots of thank yous
-- from Kat Fennell -- Thank you to the members of our community that have continued to provide the necessary services to the rest of us. Also, “thank you” to those who have been concerned
Guest Opinion | A plea to step up, today
-- from Eleanor Hoague -- We have all been enduring the very real hardships placed on us by the Coronavirus pandemic. Our interactions with other people have been severely limited; we have lost the opportunity
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
