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Guest Opinion | Our Health Care Quandary
-- from Alison Shaw -- The Quandary: We have three practices on Orcas directed by three MDs. All three struggle at times to make ends meet and depend to some degree on personal and private
Letter to Editor | Thanks for Successful Holiday Festival of Arts
-- from Arron Redford -- On behalf of the Senior Center, and the seniors who depend on the Senior Center services, we wish to thank you for participating in this years’ Holiday Festival of Arts.
Letter to Editor | A Physician’s Perspective
-- from Dale Heisinger, M.D. -- After attending the University of Washington proposal for a Neighborhood Clinic on Orcas Island, I began reflecting on my experiences with my association with UW as a practicing pediatrician. I
Guest Opinion | Open Letter to President Obama
-- from Lyman Griswold -- Dear Mr. President, I am appalled by your continued silence and the silence of the mainstream media on the situation at Standing Rock. I urge you speak up about it.
Guest Opinion | Nine Reasons to Support UW Neighborhood Clinics
-- from Alison Shaw -- I worked at OMC as its Clinic Manager from 2008 to 2015, which included the transition to working with Island Hospital. Before that, I worked at the UW for 17
Guest Opinion | OMF is Looking to the Future for All on Orcas
– from Orcas Medical Foundation – For 60 years, Orcas Medical Foundation (OMF) has been dedicated to serving the medical needs of all on Orcas Island. We have always sought the best possible medical care
Guest Opinion | Deja Vu…All Over Again
-- from Ken Speck -- Orcas Island residents are in a quandary about medical care again. This time the University of Washington – UW Clinics thinks they can solve the problem and absorb huge indebtedness.
Guest Editorial: Pipeline Project Poses Major Threat to San Juan Region
--by Fred Felleman and Jamie Stephens, originally published in Crosscut.com -- Photo courtesy of Bureau of Land Management There is a dichotomy that defines the Salish Sea, the network of waterways that includes
Editorial: Giving Thanks When Others Are Hurting
-- by Margie Doyle -- Living and working on Orcas Island, I'm thankful: for Arts for Orcas Kids (A-OK) and the Music Advocacy Group, who work throughout the year to provide music and art experiences
Guest Opinion | OMF Not Serving All Orcas Residents
-- from David C. Shinstrom, M.D. -- This letter is to the residents of Orcas Island in the hopes of educating you on the dire situation that is evolving in our medical community. We need
Letter to Editor | Do It For Dorothy
-- from Sam Genders -- I'm a quite well known UK songwriter making music under the name Diagrams. I recently recorded a new album of songs that I wrote with Dorothy Trogdon, a 90-year-old Orcas
Hedrick Smith to Speak on the Political Earthquake of 2016
Sunday, November 20, 1:30 p.m., Orcas Center -- from Michael Riordan -- Now that the most divisive and deeply disturbing US presidential election in memory is finally over, we face the difficult questions: What happened?
Guest Opinion | Weigh Track v. Music Room On Own Merits
-- from Justin Paulsen -- It appears that the current school bond proposal has been framed as an "I like the Music Room" vs. "I like the Track" discussion. Even though that is how the
Letter to Editor | Quid Pro Quo or Hobson’s Choice?
-- from Bea vonTobel -- The OISD board will place an interesting proposal on the February ballot. It will pit the concerns and interests of three major island groups against each other: those who wish to
Letter to Editor | Fears of Nazi Germany
-- from David Kobrin -- Of course no one knows what the future –even the near future – may hold. Still, there is the possibility that the treatment of many in our nation soon may
