Here’s a thought…
“Like the drunk guy at the bar who doesn’t drink.”
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL
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
Letter to Editor | Still undecided or unwilling?
||| FROM DEB LANGHANS ||| Both major parties claim this upcoming presidential election is the most important in our history. What kind of country and world do you desire for yourself and your loved ones, today and into the future? Do you want a home where the quality of human
Recap of recent COVID-19 news and updates
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Department of Health reported a total of 105,557 confirmed cases as of 11:59 pm on October 28. There have been 2,359 COVID-19 deaths in Washington. For the most recent tally of cases by county, demographics, and more, visit the Department of Health's
Letter to Editor | Rick Hughes has worked tirelessly for us; now is not the time to change
||| FROM MARTHA FARISH ||| It is important for us all to realize that our charter calls for our council positions to be nonpartisan. Rick Hughes has often supported Democratic candidates but he has never aligned himself with one party's platform over the other. I am uncomfortable that we are
Island Hospital partners with Orcas Island to operate a primary care clinic
||| FROM LAURA MORONEY for ISLAND HOSPITAL ||| ANACORTES, Washington – Beginning March 2021, Island Hospital (Skagit County Public Hospital District #2) will operate a single clinic providing primary, same day and after-hours services on Orcas Island. The partnership between Orcas Island Health Care District (OIHCD) and Island Hospital enables
Letter to Editor | Nonpartisan Rick Hughes chooses to unify not divide
||| FROM JONATHAN WHITE and DONNA LASLO ||| Donna, Matthew, and I chose to vote for Rick Hughes for many reasons, including the fact that he always takes the moral high ground. For instance, he has long supported Democratic candidates, but chooses not to confine himself to any single party's platform.
Letter to Editor | Breaching four Snake River dams would have major benefit to our ecology
||| FROM SUE BAUER ||| I appreciated reading about county council candidates' views on energy in various local publications. My thanks to the organizations who posed the questions. In the October 21st issue of The Islands' Sounder, a candidate question from OPALCO asked about their views on hydropower. Not one
Letter to Editor | A few of the reasons why I’m not voting for Rick Hughes
||| FROM MICHAEL JOHNSON ||| I appreciate some of the things that Rick has done... for doing his job. But, doing what's expected of you does not make you a champion, and he will not be getting my vote. I fear that some, (especially the many new people who have
Letter to Editor | I remember when …
||| FROM SPIRIT EAGLE ||| When I first came to Orcas Island with my 15 year old daughter in April of 1986, I got a job at Doe Bay doing various things, including painting the cabins. Sometime after that, I got a job at Rosario. I was still wearing high
Guest Opinion | Is it Socialism?
||| FROM DAVID KOBRIN ||| As a boy it was right for me to fantasize, to imagine possibilities, to think grandly about what I might become. Now, my goal is to be realistic; to be right sized; to see myself as neither less nor more than I am. The present
