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Letter to Editor | Senior Center meets diverse needs of our community
||| FROM JENNIFER HAIRSTON ||| Visiting Orcas Island is magical but staying here long-term means taking calculated risks with transportation, medical services, housing, and something we don’t talk about a lot - isolation. Making new
Letter to Editor | I support Senior Center efforts to purchase building
||| FROM MAGGIE KAPLAN ||| As a longtime volunteer and advocate for the welfare of seniors, I have seen first-hand the impact that Orcas Senior Center (OSC) programs have on the lives of those they
Letter to Editor | Stephanie O’Day has experience necessary for County Council
||| FROM MERRI ANN SIMONSON ||| Stephanie O’Day would make an excellent County Council member due to her experience and knowledge gained from working with the County’s planning, permitting, and development departments over the last
Earthrise | We need your help!
||| EARTHRISE BY JAY KIMBALL ||| Want to be part of something big? Looking for ways to help the planet? Thinking globally but wanting to act locally? Good news: The county has an online climate
Letter to Editor | Kari McVeigh gets my vote
||| FROM SCOTT BOYE ||| Kari McVeigh has decades of experience working as a public servant for a variety of school districts. She will hit the ground running with expertise in budget and finance, personnel,
As the Paradigm Shifts | I’m tired
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| I’m writing to let you know that I’m putting a pause on As the Paradigm Shifts. I’m so grateful that you all have received my writing
Midnight Mutterings | Tools
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES || What can be better than a tool that works well? That makes a task easier? That makes a repair possible by a mere mortal that would be hard,
As the Paradigm Shifts | Be happy for others; it can be contagious
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| As a young adult in my 20s, 30s, and even well into my 40s, I would see people with partners, children, houses, cars—success and fulfillment, in
Letter to Editor | Neighborly giving has a profound impact on our community
||| FROM AMANDA SPARKS & STAFF for ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| Amazing news, Orcas Island community! Thanks to your support, our Give Orcas grant request was fully funded in just two and a half
Letter to Editor | We owe Eastsound Water an expression of gratitude
||| FROM JOSEPH COHEN ||| There is much to celebrate in the progress achieved at EWUA over the past decade. Paul Kamin’s legacy was in reducing the leaks in the system to about 5%. Saving
Letter to Editor | Gratitude for our community GiveOrcas support
||| FROM DIDIER GINCIG for ODD FELLOWS ||| When my family moved to Orcas Island in 1995, one of our earliest experiences with this community took place at the Odd Fellows Hall. Nancy Koenig and
Guest Opinion | Reject the proposed EWUA bylaw amendments
||| FROM MICHAEL RIORDAN ||| The current attempt to amend the Eastsound Water Users Association bylaws is fundamentally flawed and should therefore be abandoned. Like the US Constitution, the bylaws of an organization are a
Midnight Mutterings | Milkman
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| From old movies, we all know about the milkman with his cart and horse who delivered milk in glass bottles around the city. He left the milk on
As the Paradigm Shifts | Aging – Who me?
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| My 68-year-old client, Miranda, was profoundly impacted by the results of her cataract surgery. Without the need for glasses, Miranda was confronted by the fact that
Midnight Mutterings | Fiction
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Look, I wrote a nice column before midnight called ‘Milkman.’ It was a memoir muttering about another time and place. I dutifully copied it along the way occasionally
