Here’s a thought…
“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right.”
THOMAS SOWELL
Depoe Bay OR is latest community to proclaim support for SRKWs
||| FROM KRISS KEVORKIAN for LEGAL RIGHTS OF THE SALISH SEA ||| [On June 6], the Mayor and City Council Members of the City of Depoe Bay, OR, signed a proclamation describing the City of Depoe Bay’s support for action by local, state, federal and tribal governments that secure and
Orcas HS musicians return from a 6-day trip to Disneyland
||| FROM QUIN WILDMAN-GOSSETT ||| Quin Wildman-Gossett with his favorite soft drink, Duff. For the small size of the Orcas public schools music program, they get an astonishing amount of support. Composing typically around twenty students, this is the bottom end of the average size of school band
Join Orcas Senior Center today
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| What does it take to live and age well on Orcas? Regardless of their age or ability, folks find it at Orcas Senior Center (OSC), a community gathering place providing services and activities that reflect each person’s unique experience and interests,
County celebrates HolliWalk neighborhood, the latest affordable housing project
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County is celebrating the completion of the HolliWalk Neighborhood in Friday Harbor – a project that received over $1.5 million of County funding. This is the County's second largest contribution to affordable housing, dwarfed only by its contribution Orcas Island's April’s
Marley’s Ghost kicks off FREE summer concert series
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Get ready for a fantastic summer! Seattle- based Marley’s Ghost will be playing on the Village Green this Sunday, June 18 at 6pm as part of the FREE Summer Concert Series presented by Orcas Center, OrcaSong Farm, Country Corner, and The Outlook
There’s music and movement classes coming up at Senior Center
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Eastern Movement Classes with Joan Roulac via Zoom - First four Wednesdays, 9am (Ease Please) and Tuesday, June 13, 11am (4-week T’ai Chi Chih series) Quiet the mind and strengthen the body with Joan Roulac’s Ease Please four-week Qigong series. These 15-minute sessions
Thanks to you folks who are ready to serve
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| Thank you to the dozen folks who came to the Introduction to Board Service hosted by OICF this week. Thank you also to Nancy Stillger, Director of the Orcas Island Historical Museums, for helping to lead the program and to
Letter to Editor | Have all options been explored for Killebrew Lake Road project?
||| FROM DANIEL THIEME for HARNEY VIEW PARK & ROAD ASSOCIATION ||| Should the County staff be directed to vigorously explore all available options for providing a bypass road during the Killebrew Lake Road culvert project, and to place that project on hold pending that exploration? Time is of the
As the Paradigm Shifts | I have to stop making things up
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS BY ROSIE KUHN ||| “Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to
Sheriff’s Report | May 31 – June 6, 2021
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 23-003931 Unconscious ALS 07:26:54 05/31/23 A Deputy on Orcas Island was dispatched to a report of an unconscious person. The person was found to be deceased. A report was taken. 23-003935 Fraud 09:39:16 05/31/23 A San Juan Deputy took
World’s largest single-masted sailing yacht stops by Orcas
"Because if you wait long enough on Orcas, everything will come to you." - an Orcas islander ||| BY LIN MCNULTY, EDITOR ||| I like that I am able to sit and wait for the world to come to me, rather than be on a mad scramble to see all
County publishes answers to frequently asked questions about Killebrew Lake Road closure
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s Public Works Department will be replacing a culvert for Bayhead Creek on Killebrew Lake Road. What is this project? The County will replace a culvert on Killebrew Lake Road, just east of Laporte Road. The FEMA-funded project will install
Sign up now for Whale Museum’s Marine Naturalist Training Program
||| FROM TRACIE MERRELL for WHALE MUSEUM ||| The Whale Museum’s Marine Naturalist Training Program is a high-quality, immersive experience that leaves graduates qualified as a regional professional or volunteer naturalist. The Summer 2023 Program will be entirely in-person here on San Juan Island. You can earn a Whale Museum
San Juan Islands Sculpture Park summer art series returns
Saturdays from 2-4pm June 17 - September 2 (excepting August 19) ||| FROM KRISTIN ARNIM for SJI SCULPTURE PARK ||| Save your Saturday afternoons for some fun, free art at the San Juan Islands Sculpture Park! We are returning for a second year of hands-on, collaborative sculpture creation. All sculpture
Homegrowers: Call Food Bank before you harvest
||| FROM RICK RHOADS for ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| It’s growing season! Each year dozens of you harvest more than you can consume, and each year thoughtful growers share their harvest with friends and neighbors, including via the Food Bank. To make it easy for growers and to cut down on food waste,
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
