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||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| The Orcas Farm Tours invite explorers of all ages to come enjoy safe, outdoor learning experiences on any of seven local farms with shell fishery and winery stops. Saturday and Sunday, October 2-3, open farm days invite self-guided walkabouts, tours, free samplings and farm stand purchasing. Great way
||| FROM RICK RHOADS for ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| Roxana Pardo Garcia says the first step in attracting food-insecure Latinx/Hispanic people to take advantage of the services of a food bank is to establish trust. The second step is to provide the food, mainly fresh, that Latinx/Hispanic peoples have been accustomed to eating. Pardo
||| FROM CAROL KILMINSKI for ORCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ||| The Orcas Island Historical Society is selling tickets for a raffle that could only be described as WOWZA (definition: surprisingly amazing-oh my gosh-out of the ordinary). Prizes total over $12,000! Click for details First prize: a 2013 Nissan Leaf e-car generously donated by Island
||| FROM ORCAS GARDEN CLUB ||| Due to unexpected circumstances, we have had to find a substitute garden for GARDEN C. Sara’s Garden at Outlook Inn (171 Main Street, Eastsound, WA) is the new GARDEN C, substituting for Catiya Gainor’s Garden in Olga/Doe Bay. Sara’s Garden (Garden C) will be open both days, Saturday and
Check out some last minute reading -- from Phil Heikkinen for Orcas Island Library -- Beginning on Monday, March 16, the Orcas Island Library will be closed through Tuesday, March 31, or until further notice. We will be open our normal hours on Saturday, March 14 from 10 to 5 p.m; and Sunday, March 15
Tuesday, October 15, 6 p.m., Deer Harbor Community Club -- from Pete Moe for ORS/The Exchange -- Join ORS/The Exchange for the final of three community “Talking Trash” conversations, “Way Beyond Worms: Solutions for Community Scale Composting” October 15, 6 p.m. at the Deer Harbor Community Club. As much as 20 percent of the garbage
— by Margie Doyle, Publisher and Historian — 2013 Stories and Links an incomplete list, browse our archives (go to the link in the left-hand sidebar) and add your interests: The Mt. Baker Road Reconstruction Project: Started on March 19 with a 90-day contract, excluding “holidays or when weather, differing site conditions or significant changes
Thursday, October 11, 11:30 p.m. – Friday, October, 5:30 a.m. -- from Suzanne Olson for OPALCO -- Much of Orcas Island will be affected by a planned power outage in order to complete the Orcas Road project and connect the new transmission poles to OPALCO’s system. The affected areas include Swan Road north to Eastsound
-- from Suzanne Olson for OPALCO -- Sunday, November 26th was a long day for OPALCO linemen, engineers and staff members. A big wind storm knocked down transmission poles on Shaw at around 3:15 a.m. cutting off power to Shaw, Orcas, Crane, and Blakely for more than 20 hours and all of San Juan County
-- from Barbara Marrett, San Juan Visitors Bureau -- In the San Juans, the holidays are a perfect time to get away from crowded parking lots and cookie-cutter chain stores. This season, celebrate with a winter forest hike or walk on a stormy beach, a great meal fireside, and holiday spirit with friends new and old.