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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
Aging Like a Guru | The fear virus
-- from Rosie Kuhn | Aging Like a Guru -- I’m not at all afraid of the COVID-19 virus. I’m healthy, I live far away from people and am an introvert, which makes me happy
Letter to Editor | Gratitude for Island Market
-- from Janice Wiemeyer -- Today I ventured into Island Market for the first time in a week, and for the first time since the new restrictions. I was delightfully surprised at what I experienced. I
Letter to Editor | Mother Nature is a great equalizer
-- from Tom Eversole -- Mother Nature is a great equalizer, and her corona virus pandemic will move us to a new normal. As in past adversities, survivors will adapt their society and governments. This
Letter to Editor | Sounding the tourist/visitor alarm
-- from Evan Wagoner -- The following is an open letter to my home, Orcas Island, in San Juan County, in Washington State. I’m writing this as our first confirmed COVID-19 case was just announced on Orcas.
Letter to Editor | We pray
-- from Domenic Verbano -- We Pray: That All beings Are Whole And Well, That All Beings Are Wise And Wonderful, That We All Are One, And We Understand That. We Pray: That All beings
