ORCAS CENTER TONIGHT (FRIDAY) Tonight Orcas Center and the San Juan Islands Agriculture Guild are launching the Annual Orcas Farm Tours with the Island Bounty opening party from 4-7 PM. It’s free for all ages to come and enjoy the art, food, and farms that make Orcas Island what it …
The runners will take off from the track at the public high school at 3:30 today! See you there! Thank goodness the ferries are running smoothly this week after last week’s postponement!
Now this is quintessential Orcas Island! Come on out everybody – let’s have fun dancing together!
Sign up: orcasparkandrec.org Questions: Tom Baldwin: tbaldwin@ucr.edu For more information, contact the Orcas Choral Society. Welcome to all students grades 6-12 from Orcas Middle School, Orcas High School, Orcas Christian School, Spring Street International School, Salmonberry, Homeschool, and OASIS.
Whale of a Show is going to happen again this year at Orcas Center! Woohoo!! I’m a diehard fan of this, and of the other island talent shows as well (for adults and seniors). I bought tickets for my family the minute I heard it was on! Kids ages 5-18 years old …
Several weeks ago I offered to you, the island community and people afar, a place on this blog for your essay called This I Believe. Here is the first one submitted. (If you are interested in writing an essay called This I Believe and then recording it, click here to …
Thanks so much if you were planning on coming! They hope it can happen next Wednesday…
Local biologist and author Thor Hanson’s latest book is called Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid. He often does speaking events, and I believe he’s in the middle of a Zoom talk right now for the Orcas Island Garden Club. Thor is quite the phenom, which is why I highlighted him …
Oh, how invigorating it was to show up at the track this afternoon and see parents, teachers, students, community members, concessions, hot dogs, normalcy, and excitement for the soccer and volleyball games! Life is returning in all its forms here! If you’re ready for more rooting, come to the track …
I’ve been wanting to post Olga Rising for months now, and my photos just don’t do it justice, so I’ll give you a basic look at it if you haven’t been there yet, and you’ll have to see the rest for yourself. This place used to be Vance’s jewelry shop. …
This Saturday all women are invited to Orcas Island Community Church for a simulcast event by speaker and author, Priscilla Shirer. You don’t have to be a church-goer to attend – all are welcome. It’s from 9-3 with a few breaks in between. If you’ve never been to one of …
Remember when there was no such thing as an answering machine? I remember the day my parents bought one. It was so exciting! We all took turns recording a message and laughing at our mess-ups. It was fun to come home every day and press the button on the machine …
If you are in need of portraits of your senior, I am offering 90 minutes of portrait photography for $175. You will receive a flash drive with all the photos on it within 2 days in order to use as you wish for prints, etc. (I don’t make prints.) Email …
I never saw this rendition of “Happy” from 2014 until someone passed it on to me – this is awesome!
Meet Sharon Abreu and you’ll immediately feel how positive, talented, and humble she is. She is always upbeat, and when she feels there needs to be change in the world, she uses the performing arts to kindly, respectfully, and creatively confront environmental and political issues. I have observed her from …
How very Orcas that the reason I was running late getting to the Farmers’ Market yesterday was due to a lovely turkey visit on our property. Wild turkeys are in certain places on the island but haven’t come to hang out near our house, at least in the last decade, …
The festivities and fundraisers continue. Wish I could go but I’ll be at my Farmers’ Market table and then a Darvill’s book signing until 5 PM. Enjoy it for me!!! (It says 2002 below, but it’s tomorrow!)
You are invited to artist Stephanie Clair’s Open House Art Show tomorrow and Sunday from 12-5 PM at 885 Bartel Road. Follow the signs from Terrill Beach Road, and take a stroll down a tree-lined road to a little red farmhouse where you will find the Wandering Soul Art Gallery. …
After driving down the newly designed Prune Alley today, I noticed yellow signs declaring a big rug sale at the Odd Fellows Hall. I followed them. This is what I saw: There you will meet a kind man named Parviz who is selling off his beautiful rugs handmade in various …
Tonight Prune Alley officially opened at 6 PM with lovely speeches, a non-motorized parade of people walking down the street for the first time, KIND bars and homemade cookies, and middle-of-the-street socializing. Speakers starting off the event included Councilperson Cindy Wolf, Project Manager Colin Huntemer, and Contractor Mike Carlson, and …
In case you missed this past Saturday’s show at the Village Green, the finale of the summer series, you’ve gotta watch some clips – the Rise Up singers and musicians are fantastic: It became quickly apparent that a young contingent of the crowd was quite well-versed in all of the …
