Here’s a thought…
“Old age is no joke, but it can feel like one.”
TAD TOMPKINS
Conservation Land Bank to host county-wide public meeting
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Got questions for Your Conservation Land Bank? We want to hear from you! We will host a county-wide public meeting on Wednesday – November 9, 2022, from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm. Register here to join the meeting: November 9, 2022 Community Conversation We’ll kick off
Overnight closure of Olga Road, November 2-3
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s Public Works Department announces the overnight closure of Olga Rd on November 2-3. The road will be closed for 12 hours while a culvert is replaced. A section of Olga Rd between Kahboo Hill Road and Twin Maples Ln (between
Halloween in Eastsound! Celebrate safely on Monday, October 31
Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce works to safeguard Trick or Treaters on North Beach Road ||| FROM ORCAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ||| Come celebrate Halloween on Monday, October 31 in Eastsound. The Chamber of Commerce wants to make sure we all keep an eye out for little goblins and ghouls
Island Primary Care adds new provider with diverse experience
||| FROM LAURA MORONEY for ISLAND HEALTH ||| Ali Salari, DO ANACORTES, Washington — Island Health welcomes Ali Salari, DO to its Island Primary Care - 24th Street clinic this week. Salari has been a family medicine physician with the Stansbury Health Center in Stansbury Park, Utah for
Audition Notice: Upcoming winter plays at Orcas Center
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Auditions for two plays to be held at Orcas Center will be held in the Black Box on Tuesday, November 1 and Wednesday, November 2 from 6-8pm. Scripts are available at the library. For more information, or if you are unable to
Life Line screening event at Orcas Senior Center: Tuesday, November 15
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| The mission of Life Line Screening is to provide affordable and convenient health screenings that supplement your traditional healthcare. Life Line Screening will offer these non-invasive and painless health screenings at Orcas Senior Center on Tuesday, November 15. These screenings will
Sun Days on Orcas | Happiness and difficulty
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDEE KULPER ||| Every person has a different natural bent. My natural state is happy contentment (unless someone else’s negative bent is put upon mine). I think I can thank my genes for the daily optimism I feel, but I can also thank my
Letter to Editor | Ranked Choice Voting is wrong for and unneeded in SJC
||| FROM TONY P. GHAZEL, BILL APPEL, TOM STAR, and PAUL DOSSETT ||| Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), the latest fashion in election tinkering, is unneeded in our county. Our current system works well and our local elections officials do a tremendous job leading a process that is well respected and
Innovative projects looking to repurpose industrial waste receive $850K from new state program
One company’s waste is another’s resource ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ||| OLYMPIA, WA -- The Washington State Department of Commerce today announced $850,000 in grants to four projects in support of new and exciting efforts to find beneficial uses for industrial waste. In this first year of the Industrial
Updated: Invitation to artists and artisans to participate at holiday market & makery
||| FROM MARCY MONTGOMERY ||| Island made gifts, clothing, jewelry, woven and kitchen goods, candles, ornaments, wreaths and garlands, comforters, quilts, books, foods, beverages, toys, and functional and fine art that brighten winter life and bring joy are invited! The Makers Guild is hosting two distinct community events that are
Midnight Mutterings | A bucket of kittens
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTEREINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| Finally, after so many tries, possibilities, disappointments, tragedy. (If you’ve ever heard of Fading Kitten Syndrome, you know of one sad possibility.) Then there is bad timing, my pickiness, circumstance, seasons passing without harvest. Now, though, we have kittens! Two beauties, grey tabby
Inslee and legislators begin rolling out reproductive freedom policies for 2023 legislative session
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| As increasing numbers of states begin to enact abortion bans and federal lawmakers vow to pursue a national ban, Gov. Jay Inslee and Democratic lawmakers met today in Bellingham to begin rolling out their choice-defending agenda for the 2023 legislative session.
News Flash: Real and personal property taxes due October 31
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Treasurer, Rhonda Pederson would like to remind county property owners that the second half property taxes and personal property taxes are due Monday, October 31. Payments received in person, via our secure payment box or postmarked after the October
Sheriff’s Report | October 12 – 18, 2022
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 22-007470 Malicious Mischief 09:01:54 10/12/22 An Orcas Deputy responded to a report of vandalism at the newly completed Prune Alley improvement project. A report was taken. 22-007475 Found Property 10:23:51 10/12/22 An employee at the market found firearms that
Inslee wraps up a busy week
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| As other states enact abortion bans, Washington leaders prepare to enact new protections Gov. Jay Inslee and several state legislators met in Bellingham on Friday to begin rolling out the initial policies of a choice-defending agenda for the 2023 legislative session.
San Juan Island National Historical Park celebrates 150 years of peace today
||| FROM CYRUS FORMAN for SJI HISTORICAL PARK ||| 150 years ago today, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany declared that the Haro Strait was the water boundary between the United States and Great Britain in the Pacific Northwest, making the San Juan Islands part of the USA. The Kaiser’s
