Here’s a thought…
“Peace is not something we ask for — it’s something we practice, together.”
WALK FOR PEACE
Our place in the Universe and what we share with all life
A HUMBLE PERSPECTIVE: Focus on how similar we are, and what we share with all life, and all of the Universe. ( visual — image of Chicago area, the northern lights, and the Milky Way from the Space Station ) ||| BY BRUCE HANNA ||| Our Milky Way
You can help the Food Bank be a huge ‘hero’ during November
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| YOU can help us be a huge Co-op Hero! When visiting the Orcas Food Co-op during the month of November, the Orcas Food Co-op Community Hero Program gives you two easy opportunities to contribute to the Orcas Island Food Bank: Register Round-up. This
Boards, commissions, committees need your service
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The County Council is searching for San Juan County citizens to fill current and upcoming vacancies on various boards and commissions. Additional information about each committee is available on the County's website at: http://sanjuanco.com/641/Board-Committee-Vacancies. Persons interested in serving on a board or advisory committee
Letter to Editor | Rick Hughes approaches issues with an open mind
||| FROM MAX HANSON ||| With COVID cases surging around the country, it is worth remarking that San Juan County has one of the lowest per capita infection rates of any county in a state that has one of the lowest rates in the country. As federal leadership seems to
Inslee announces technology investment for Washington students, staff
||| FROM GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE'S OFFICE ||| Gov. Jay Inslee today announced the allocation of $24 million in Coronavirus Relief Funds to purchase approximately 64,000 computing devices for students across the state. These devices will enable students to receive their education in the new COVID-19 remote learning environment. The first
These folks have been harvesting bee cocoons at Orcas School garden
||| FROM DIANNE MACONDRAY FOR ORCAS MASTER GARDENERS ||| On October 19th. a small contingent of the Orcas Master Gardeners harvested Mason and Leaf Cutter Bee cocoons from nesting materials at the Orcas School garden. The group cleaned up the cocoons for winter storage and fed any parasitic insects to
Letter to Editor | Will you allow me to hunt on your land?
||| FROM ELISHA GESSELE ||| I am an archery hunter and was drawn for a second deer permit on Orcas Island. There are small sections of public land available to hunt but I was curious as to if there are landowners who frequent The Orcasonian that would allow me to
Pandemic? These local witches don’t care
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, EDITOR ||| A bevy of witches -- or is it a coven?-- came from seemingly nowhere on Saturday to sweep about the shores of Eastsound aboard a fleet of paddle boards, because what else is a good sea-going witch to do but adapt to the rules
Kruse Reviews | What Were We Thinking
||| BY JENS KRUSE ||| Carlos Lozada, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning nonfiction book critic of The Washington Post, has done us a great service. With a heroic combination of persistence, diligence, stamina and masochism he has read around 150 books about Trump, Trumpism, and the Trump presidency, and has distilled them for
Today’s Poem | You are who I love by Aracelis Girmay
You Are Who I Love by Aracelis Girmay You, selling roses out of a silver grocery cart You, in the park, feeding the pigeons You cheering for the bees You with cats in your voice in the morning, feeding cats You protecting the river You are who I love delivering
Skagit Valley College offering free Mindful Meditation via Zoom
||| FROM ARDEN AINLEY for SKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGE ||| Skagit Valley College’s South Asian Student Club, in collaboration with the Black Students Union, warmly invites everyone to participate in Mindful Meditation, a weekly series of free events presented by Delhi’s well known and highly respected meditation teacher and Indian Sciences
It’s back to school next week for our island grade schoolers
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| Next week grades kindergarten thru 2nd + Montessori 1st - 3rd will be coming back for in-person school. Here are the videos we just put out to parents in preparation for it. OISD Public School Elementary Re-opening OISD Public School Re-opening
Poem for today | Vote!
VOTE Nikki Giovanni It’s not a hug Nor mistletoe at Christmas It’s not a colored egg At Easter Nor a bunny hopping Across the meadow It’s a Vote Saying you are A citizen Though it sometimes Is chocolate Or sometimes vanilla It can be a female Or a male It
Kiwanis Club of Orcas Island installs new officers
||| FROM VALA ROSS for KIWANIS CLUB OF ORCAS ISLAND ||| The Kiwanis Club of Orcas Island is proud to welcome new members and confirm new officers to take leadership of the organization. It is with deep gratitude that we say goodbye to retiring members, Mark & Irene McKinley and
Orcasional Musings | Newspapers: What about them? (Part two)
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Why did four of New York City's seven large-circulation newspapers die? It happened quite suddenly, all in the same year. And why did The New York Times change its format and its editorial policy at about the same time? And what has all this to
Sheriff’s Report | October 21 – 27, 2020
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 20-008990 Burglary - Residential 11:39:51 10/21/20 A Deputy on Orcas Island was dispatched to a residential burglary near Eastsound. A report was filed and the investigation for a known suspect is ongoing. 20-009004 Area Check 21:52:30 10/21/20 An Orcas
