Here’s a thought…
“Deep breath. Deep breath. The air is free. You can take as many as you want.”
BUDDHIST MONK
Community wide fundraising event, SPRING GIVEORCAS, starts May 8
||| FROM TARA ANDAYA for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| The Orcas Island Community Foundation (OICF) Spring GiveOrcas kicks off on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 and runs through Friday, May 17th. This year’s Spring GiveOrcas campaign features twenty-six local nonprofit organizations. Each organization’s proposal was vetted and approved by the
Thanks to students, teachers participating in cemeteries cleanup
||| FROM LEITH TEMPLIN for CEMETERY DISTRICT ||| The SJC Cemetery District #3 Commissioners would like to thank all the students and teachers that participated last Saturday in a "clean up" at the Mt. Baker and Woodlawn Cemeteries. Around 30 students and 4 teachers helped to clean headstones, trim trees and haul debris
Actors Theater casting production of Making God Laugh
||| FROM THOMAS MCDONOUGH for ACTORS THEATER OF ORCAS ISLAND ||| ATOI CASTING NOTICE MAKING GOD LAUGH By Sean Grennan Directed by Dorrie Braun Company meeting/Read Through first week in June Rehearsals June and July Performances July 26-Aug 4 All at the Grange Plot: ‘Making God Laugh’ follows one typical
More than 1,000 gallons of diesel removed from sunken vessel
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| On Saturday May 4th crews from Global Diving and Salvage pumped all accessible fuel off of the vessel. Initial estimate is that more than 1,000 gallons of diesel were removed. While residual pollution is still possible, the majority of the
Orcas Island Garden Club presents edible plants in beautiful gardens
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| Please join Orcas Island Garden Club on Wednesday, May 15th when we welcome Allison O’Sullivan to speak about including edible plants in landscapes. Allison O’Sullivan From groundcover to a living wall, edible plants can be incorporated into any garden or landscape.
Master Gardeners will be answering your questions again this season
||| FROM DIANNE MACCONDRAY for SJC MASTER GARDENERS ||| Gardeners and pollinators are busy now, but if you have gardening questions be sure and come by the Orcas Island Library on Wednesday May 8 from noon to 2:00pm. The Master Gardeners of San Juan County will be there to help
Orcatrazz Dance Party Extravaganza coming up at Orcas Senior Center
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Come join us for a lively dance party featuring Orcatrazz at Orcas Senior Center on Saturday, May 11, 4-6 pm. Bring along your family and friends for an evening of fun and dancing. Whether you're passionate about dancing or simply enjoy
State instant rebate program to help more consumers choose electric vehicles
Ready, set, drive electric Combined with federal and dealer incentives, $45 million in state rebates aim to make EVs accessible to lower income drivers ||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ||| OLYMPIA, WA – The choice and benefits of driving electric vehicles (EVs) is about to become more affordable
Ali Walker, May artist of the month at Orcas Library
||| FROM INGRID MATTSON for ORCAS ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ||| The Orcas Island Library’s ‘Art in the Library’ program will feature the quilts of Ali Walker during the month of May. Ali started quilting in 2010 when she took a year off of college. It has been her passion ever
Salish Sea Early Music Festival | Renaissance Psalms • Baroque Celtic • Romantic Virtuoso Folk •
||| FROM JEFFREY COHAN for SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL|| ✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷ — Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM: • Renaissance Psalms, Irish Baroque & Folk • — Oleg TImofeyev (lute, English guitar and 1820 7-string guitar) — Jeffrey Cohan (renaissance descant, tenor and
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 so it wouldn’t be lost in the cobwebs of my newest (three years old) MacAir.
Sheriff’s Report | April 24 – 30, 2024
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 24-002366 Harassment 15:54:43 04/24/24 A Friday Harbor resident reported a male individual had called her 3 times and stopped by to talk to her at her office twice. The individual was not contacted at the request of the reporting
Sunken vessel off Henry Island
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| Early in the day on Friday May 3rd, a 48-foot commercial fishing vessel ran aground and sank at the south end of Henry Island. The single occupant on board was safely rescued by the US Coast Guard. The boat is
Storm-battered county road on Lopez target of relocation efforts
||| FROM SALISH CURRENT ||| Near the end of MacKaye Harbor Road on the south shore of Lopez Island is Agate Beach Park and a parking area for those walking in to the Iceberg Point San Juan Islands National Monument. Same location, 10 years apart: the stairway to the
Living up to Earth Day, expanding affordable housing, & keeping in touch
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. ALEX RAMEL ||| The 2024 legislative session adjourned in March. We successfully enacted 373 bills, with an impressive 297 of those bills receiving significant bipartisan support. These efforts emphasized the critical need for advancement in confronting issues like climate change, housing security, education funding
WA State Governor and Assistant Secretary of WSF talk ferry service & solar power with SJC officials
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County officials met with Washington State Governor Jay Inslee and Assistant Secretary of the Washington State Ferries (WSF) Steve Nevey to discuss ferry service and solar power in the San Juans. “I was pleased to welcome both the governor and WSF
