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"Frozen in Time" is the theme for the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Cascade Lake at 11 a.m. on New Years Day. Plan on doing the Orcas Island Rowing Club’s 15th annual Plunge. This year there is a pancake breakfast and hot drinks served immediately after the event. Be sure to show your
New Year's Eve Rosario New Year's Eve Dance Ring in 2012 at the Beachhouse on the Cascade Bay waterfront. Local island favorites Gene Nery and Martin Lund will lead their four-piece band through a wide variety of musical favorites to ring in 2012. Party includes late night snacks and New Year's Champagne Toast. $25 per
By Margie Doyle The League of Women Voters always sounded to me a little like the old “Mothers Club” that schools used to have, where the Beaver Cleaver mothers would venture out from happy homemaking to serve tea and perhaps dabble the teensiest bit into political dilettantism. Then I became aware that, locally, the League
The dynamic dance team of Laura Ludwig and Charles Dalton advanced from the ranks of the "Orcas Has Talent" finalists to win the competition in a lively evening of entertainment that packed the Orcas Center Main Stage and the Madrona Room on Saturday night. Ludwig and Dalton started the evening with a defiant
Friday, November 12 Rey Villalobos at the Doe Bay Cafe, 7 p.m. Solo singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, founder of The Coral Sea, a California-based indie band that created quite a buzz for themselves after the band's songs were featured on Grey's Anatomy and many other TV shows and films. This Winter 2010 Rey Villalobos has wrapped
A review of Arthur, the Begetting by the Actors Theater The legendary King Arthur, he of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Knights of the Roundtable, is never seen in Arthur, the Begetting, but through the intricately woven tapestry of words and history conveyed by the actors, especially Valerie Buxbaum as Igraine
On Sunday afternoon, Aug. 15, Four Winds*Westward Ho Camp will describe “Childrens’ Journey to Orcas since 1927” in a presentation at 2 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall as part of the Journey Stories experience. The Smithsonian exhibit, Journey Stories, continues to draw islanders and visitors through its final two weeks at the
Orcas Island is a place with a unique fabric of community; our lives interwoven together. I believe that strong schools are an essential part of this fabric of community. The Orcas Island school bond is an opportunity for us to keep our community strong by voting “yes.” There are several groups of islanders that I
By Kelsey Whitaker Photos by Whitney Hartzell FEAST is a really good program. It stands for Farming Education and Sustainability for Teens and is a Summer program that gives us school credit for the time we spend participating in a lot of wonderful activities. Owen Cheevers and Whitney Hartzell [of the Funhouse] make
Updated August 15 Correction: Mark O’Connor’s Music Lovers Seminar on Saturday, Aug. 22, still has tickets available. In the [intlink id=”music-lovers-seminars-the-schedule” type=”post”]Music Lovers Seminars[/intlink], George Shangrow gives the audience insight and sympathy for the music they will enjoy at the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival (OICMF) — taking place this year between August