Here’s a thought…
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
Open letter to Councilperson Cindy Wolf
||| FROM MIKE CARLSON ||| Dear Cindy, As you know, I spoke at the 3 minute Citizen Access time at the Orcas Center Council meeting yesterday. I was not as prepared to speak as I should have been and I’m sorry that you had to interrupt me while I was
UPDATE – OPALCO to review recording board meetings
||| FROM HEATHER NICHOLSON ||| This Thursday June 15, at 8:30 AM, the board meeting of our member-owned and controlled co-op utility OPALCO, is moving to rewrite policy on video recordings of meetings. They say mainly, because there’s been so minimal viewing of the recordings, that the effort is not
Northern Heights renovation is complete; rentals now available
||| FROM JUDY WHITING for OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ||| The Northern Heights Apartments, across from the library, are renovated and ready! Almost a year ago, OPAL Community Land Trust purchased the building with twelve one-bedroom apartments. “It was a top to bottom renovation – nearly everything is new,” said Jocelyn
Food hub expands availability for online orders
||| FROM KATHRYN WHEELER for SAN JUAN ISLANDS FOOD HUB ||| The San Juan Islands Food Hub, launched in 2020 by a group of passionate local agrarians, is a place of connection. The Food Hub is an online platform that serves as an inter-island farmers’ market for locally produced food
Sending graduates off with music in their hearts
||| FROM MUSIC ADVOCACY GROUP ||| The Music Advocacy Group wishes to congratulate the OIHS class of 2023. While each graduate has benefitted from school music education in elementary and middle school, seven musicians continued to participate in band through their senior year, joining zero-hour class daily at 7:15 AM.
Larsen: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law delivers broadband to Rural Snohomish County
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF RICK LARSEN ||| Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $714 million in ReConnect Loan and Grant Program funding to connect rural residents, farms and businesses to reliable, high-speed internet. This includes a $2,980,652 loan for the Hat Island Telephone Company to provide affordable high-speed internet to 93
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
