Here’s a thought…
“Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history.”
BILL GATES
They’re Going to Disneyland!
High School Strings Students will Depart on May 16 -- from Kristen Wilson -- This is the group that is going to Disneyland:Back row, from left: Strings Director Pamela Wright, parent chaperone Mary Clure, Lisa Carter, Jo Gudgell, Paris Wilson, Emily Toombs and Emy CarterFront row: Michael Harlow, Zach
East Coast Swing Comes to Coast of East Sound
Monday, May 19, 7–9 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall -- from Bill Gincig -- Local instructors are again offering their community dance class on May 19 from 7 to 9 pm at the Oddfellows Hall. It will be East Coast Swing. Instruction will begin promptly at 7 pm followed by dancing
Strawberry Council Seeks New Café Tenant
-- from Patsy Stephens -- The reconstruction of the Artworks Building is progressing well with Sound Construction working full time and full crew! The Artworks Cooperative and the James Hardman Gallery have signed letters of intent to return their businesses to the much loved and restored building. The re-opening is
Land Bank Hosts Orcas Field Trips
-- from the San Juan County Land Bank -- More wildflowers thrive on Turtleback thanks to Land Bank’s habitat restoration. Photo by Anne Karp. The San Juan County Land Bank will host two guided field trips in May, on Turtleback Mountain and at Stonebridge Terrill to Crescent Beach
Purple Haze! Purple Haze!
-- by Cara Russell -- Andy Martin threw the first fistful of powder into the air, and with an eruption of anticipatory laughter, everyone followed, disappearing into a giant rainbow haze. For a moment no one could see a thing, and then like a curtain rising on a stage of
Guest Editorial: OPALCO, Telecom and our Future
-- by Gerry Lawlor -- Gerry Lawlor I recently attended the OPALCO Annual Meeting and I left the boat with a mixture of feelings about what is in front of our community and the role OPALCO will play in the area of telecommunications. Let me say upfront I
A Mother’s Day Remembrance
-- by Margie Doyle -- Mothers give you shelter from the storm I think my mother was a mother her whole life. The eldest girl in a family of six girls and two boys, she left school at 16 to work to support her family: her dad was
Wanted: Young Filmmakers and Student Movie-Lovers
Wrobel and Bosley will conduct workshop on San Juan Island -- from Sandy Strehlou, for Friday Harbor Young Filmmakers Festival -- Learn this July 24 about making films, enter and judge them in the Young Film Makers Festival this November The organizers of the Friday Harbor Film Festival
November Elections: Candidate Filing Week May 12 through May 16
-- from the San Juan County Elections Office -- If you’ve always wanted to be a elected official, now is your chance. Candidate filing for positions open for election in 2014 is [happening now!].The San Juan County Elections Office will accept online candidate filings from 9 am on Monday, May
Letter to Editor: Like Being Five Years Old!
-- from Jane Alden -- Photo by Cara Russell Kudos, thank you, congratulations, and "Wow," to Andy Martin for creating an UTTERLY wonderful community play/celebration/event Saturday afternoon at Waterfront Park in Eastsound! It was a Festival of Colors, akin to the Indian Holi Festival, in which participants bombard
“Listen Up:” A Catalyst for Community Creativity
-- by Margie Doyle -- The Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival announced on Friday, May 9, that it has been awarded a National Education for the Arts (NEA) grant for the "Listen Up" project on Orcas Island. Aloysia Friedmann, Chamber Music Festival (OICMF) Artistic Director and Victoria Parker, OICMF Executive
Seed of 50-Year Old Dream Soon to Bloom
Monday, May 12, 5 p.m., Outlook Inn -- by Lin McNulty -- When Adam Farish's father first came to Orcas as the owner of the Outlook Inn in the early 1960s, one of his visions was for intellectual conferences to be held at the Inn. It would be a place
Check This Line-up of Summer Art Workshops
-- from Maggie Sharkey -- Orcas Art Studios is now offering several summer art workshops right here on Orcas! Figure drawing and painting, pastels, landscape painting, compositional studies and more are on the schedule. These workshops are all taught by locally- and internationally-known instructors. Orcas Art Studios, founded by local
Flyin’ Hawaiian Sushi Bar Moving In
-- by Cara Russell -- Island raised Kawika McGuire and his wife Meagan have been making Hawaiian sushi for their family for the last five years. At first it began as Meagan’s desire to expose her young children to their father’s half-Japanese, half-Hawaiian culture. Twice a month she would make
Unitarian Universalists Announce Upcoming Services
Sunday, May 11 at 11:30 a.m. at Benson Hall (Emmanuel Episcopal Church) "Five Habits to Heal the Heart of Democracy,” with Suzanne Olson The next service will be Sunday, May 25 at 11:30 a.m.:"Our Relationship with Animals," with Margot Shaw and friends. SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, June 21st - UUF
Measles Outbreak Response Draws to a Close
-- from the San Juan County Health and Community Services Department -- San Juan Health and Community Services officials are expressing their gratitude to its community partners and others who assisted during the measles outbreak in March and April. Despite wide potential exposure to the disease from a total of
