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Letter to Editor | Many Thanks to OWL Supporters
-- from Suzanne Olson, Sandi Burt, Berto Gandara, Serena Burman and RJ Myers -- On behalf of the students, families, and teaching team that have just completed the 26-week Our Whole Lives (OWL) Sexuality Education
Guest Opinion | Is This Virtual Reality?
-- from Jill McCabe Johnson -- Turned in the draft of my first virtual reality screenplay last week. It's a short film about Texas history from pre-history to present, delivered in a whirlwind five minutes.
Letter to Editor | Thank You, United Way
-- from Krista Bouchey, Funhouse Commons Executive Director -- We would like to thank the United Way of San Juan County for generously supporting the Funhouse Commons’ out of school time programming and expanded learning
Letter to Editor | Thank You, Orcas
-- from Leif -- Dear Orcas, this last Blood Drive, Thursday, Mar. 16 again set records. We had 87 donors register, including 13 first timers, and some as well who were unable to donate, but
Stubborn and Pissed Off – Who Me?
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- Carly I'm working with a young woman, Carly, who is 15 years old. Her parents asked me to work with her because she is really frustrating to live with. They
Letter to Editor | Stay Engaged for Future of Eastsound
-- from Jim Jonassen -- As many islanders are now aware, a process to update the County’s Comprehensive Plan is underway, and a part of that is the update of the Eastsound Sub Area Plan, which
Letter to Editor | Building a Bridge
-- from Sandi Friel -- When the time finally came to replace the ailing Channel Road Bridge in Deer Harbor, San Juan County took the high road. Instead of top-down decision-making, County Councilman Rick Hughes
Guest Opinion: Trees in Eastsound Swale Essential to Good Development
-- by Sadie Bailey -- I really appreciate the thought that went into Charlie Carver's Letter to the Editor on March 6 (see orcasissues.com/waterfront-development-not-waterfront-reclamation/ ).Thank you for caring about Eastsound; so few Orcas people understand
Letter to Editor | Thanks to Village Green Rock Pickers
-- from Ashley A. King -- San Juan County Parks would like to thank Greg McKelvey with his students from Orcas Christian School and SJC Parks volunteer Fred Klein for their phenomenal work Friday Mar.
Guest Opinion: Could Orcas Be Nantucket? Never Say Never
-- by Joe Symons -- Anyone who has moved to San Juan County (SJC) since 2000, and many others who already were here, may not know that in 2000 the SJC planning department commissioned a
Guest Opinion | Remembrances from 1930s Germany
-- from Irmgard Conley -- As the daily news becomes ever more ominous, the tone so eerily familiar to my old ears, mental pictures from my childhood in Germany are re-surfacing, literally making me shake.
Letter to Editor | Why Waterfront Development, Not Waterfront Reclamation?
-- from Charles Carver -- On Mar. 6 I attended a meeting of the EPRC, curious about the visioning process for Eastsound that I have heard about. I much appreciated that portion of the meeting,
Guest Opinion | Media the Enemy of Which “People”
-- from David Kobrin -- On Feb. 17 the President tweeted: “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” At first
Guest Opinion | Comp Plan? What’s That? Who Cares?
-- by Joe Symons -- I am not working on the Comp Plan because it brings me joy. The motivation for this work is love: love of these precious islands and a strong impulse for
Guest Opinion | Discovering Lincoln on Orcas Island
-- from Pamela Doerr -- Last summer a visit to the Country Corner laundromat became the setting for an unexpected historic moment. Usually a boring task, this conveniently-located complex turned into a lesson which revealed
