Here’s a thought…
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
MARK TWAIN
OPAL Drafts of Rental Plans Shown at Design Charrette
-- by Margie Doyle -- One suggestion for housing clusters in the OPAL property for rental units OPAL Community Land Trust held an Open House -- Design Charrette -- on Tuesday, July 14 to display layout concepts for the planned 30-unit rental development on the 3+ acre property
Meet the Whale Museum Storm Drain Muralist
Tuesday, July 21, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m., The Whale Museum -- from Jenny Atkinson -- Urban runoff is one of the largest forms of pollutants to ocean life... Urban runoff is trash, pesticides, and other pollutants that end up flowing down a storm drain and affecting marine life on
Crude Oil Train Bound for Anacortes Derails in Montana
UPDATE 7/20/2015: A Tesoro spokesperson states the train was not headed for their facility in Anacortes as previously reported. From the Associated Press Derailed oil tankers are pictured on the side of U.S. Highway 2 east of Culbertson, Mont., on Friday, July 17, 2015, after a train derailment occurred the
EWUA Thanks Members Who Reduced Water Use
-- from Paul Kamin -- Eastsound Water Users Association (EWUA) would like to thank those members who have made efforts to reduce water use after our July 11 appeal to reduce outdoor water use. There was a noticeable and helpful reduction in the demand for water last week. After an early summer
Building Climate Resilience in SJ County
Monday, July 20th, 6 to 8 p.m. at the San Juan Island Grange -- from the San Juan Conservation District -- County wide climate discussion, timed to take ferries back to Orcas, Shaw and Lopez Islands and to Anacortes You are Invited to join a facilitated discussion on
Calendula Salve Workshop in the School Garden
Thursday, July 23 - 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Public School Garden -- from Farm to Cafeteria Committee -- The community is invited to come to the garden and learn how to make a healing salve from dried Calendula flowers and take home the tin of salve you made.
Naturalists Program Starts on Anacortes/San Juan Islands Sailings
-- from Lynne Griffith, Assistant Secretary WSDOT/Ferries Division -- Starting on Wednesday, July 22, our popular Ferry Naturalist Program resumes on select Anacortes/Friday Harbor sailings. This longstanding partnership between WSF, the Whale Museum in Friday Harbor and Orca Network educates visitors to San Juan Island about the Southern Resident killer whales
Lummis and Unitarian Universalists Unite for Totem Pole Journey
To support opposition to fossil fuel production and transportation -- from the Lummi Nation and the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship -- Master Carver Jewell James photo by James Leder Each year for the past two years, [Lummi] tribal members, led by Master Carver Jewell James of the Lummi
The Hush of Dance: Movement Graffiti from WWU
-- by Artha Kass for Orcas Center-- Have you ever listened to the inside of a sea shell and heard the roar of the ocean? Or placed your ear on the forehead of your child or over the heart of a loved one and listened to their unspoken longings? Upon
Health Department Unveils Water System Mapping Tool
Interactive Map of Water Systems now available online -- from San Juan County Health and Community Services -- San Juan County Health and Community Services and Information Services have teamed up to launch an interactive mapping tool, showing all public water systems in the County. The public can now use the
$190,726 for Public Facilities Assistance Recommended
-- from County documents (sanjuanco.com) -- Washington State law authorizes San Juan County to collect a 0.09% sales and use tax for public facilities serving economic development purposes in rural counties, and to finance personnel in economic development offices. The San Juan County Public Facilities Financing Assistance Program (PFFAP) Evaluation
Youth Conservation Corps Restores Fish Habitat
--by Katarina Schiller, Maya Heikinnen and Taylor Morrison with Trillium Swanson, Crew Leader -- [metaslider id=38127] The Orcas Island Youth Conservation Corps recently spent three days working on fish habitat restoration projects with Tina Whitman, Science Director for Friends of the San Juan. The first day we worked at West
PeaceHealth, UW Collaborate on Residency Program
-- from Lori Polevoi for PeaceHealth -- PeaceHealth, in collaboration with the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Division of Emergency Medicine, is hosting four Emergency Medicine physicians this summer in a newly created rural residency program at PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center in Friday Harbor. All of the physicians
Zip Out at Camp Orkila
-- from Camp Orkila -- Ride the Zipline at Camp Orkila! YMCA Camp Orkila would like to invite you to come out and take a ride on our 1000-ft Zip Line! We will be holding by-appointment only Community Zip Day on Saturday, July 25 from 9 am-1 pm.
Time to Eradicate That Toxic Tansy
-- from Judy Jackson -- It is tansy ragwort season again, one of the county’s worst weeds, and the plants are beginning to flower along roadsides, in fields and in residents’ yards. Highly toxic, its alkaloids are present in all plant parts. Cattle, horses and goats consuming either growing plants or
Crow Valley Pottery Presents Potter’s Fest
Reception Friday, July 17 from 4 - 7 pm at Crow Valley 'The Cabin' -- from Michael Rivkin for Crow Valley Pottery -- Crow Valley Pottery presents its annual Potter's Fest, opening Friday, July 17th. The show features hand made ceramics from artists on Orcas Island and in the Pacific
