Thanks for dinner & dance fundraiser
To Orcas Family Health Center Board, all the staff, and doctors and sponsors, and Orcatrazz Swing band, a giant thanks for the support for the annual dinner and dance. And a special thanks to the Orcas community who came and enjoyed an evening of food and music and dancing. It was a special night for all that raised $2500, which will be used to provide health care for our community and assist in paying for the new X-ray facility. It is good to live in a place where we take care of our island community. After 25 years of sharing the Orcas life, there is no place I would rather live. See you next year.
Ken Speck
Orcas Island
New Year’s resolutions: pre-school style
The teachers at Children’s House preschool recently talked with the children about New Year’s Resolutions. When you think about it, this is a complicated idea to wrap your brain around! First, one must understand the calendar and the concept of a “New Year.” Next, one must think about what a “resolution” is and how it applies individually and as a whole. After some frank discussions over lunch, the teachers learned some of the New Year’s resolutions of our three-, four-, and five-year-old friends:
“I want to be Superman, everyday!” “I am going to help take care of my new baby.” “I want to change into a cat.” “I want a New Year with snowflakes on it.” “I don’t have a New Year’s solution.”
Happy New Year Orcas!
Jenny, Tess, Bari, Khadoma, and Amy
Children’s House preschool teachers
Response to ‘looming energy crisis’
I am responding to the recent letter by Sheridan Johnston regarding the looming energy crisis.
He’s right there is no energy crisis in America – just an integrity crisis. Sheridan seems well read and educated, presenting facts and figures critiquing (thus questioning) renewables’ potential, “It will take decades before reliable renewable energy sources become a significant percentage of U.S. energy mix.”
Well, we don’t have decades to stop relying on carbon-based energy before an economic and environmental collapse. Sheridan writes, “There should be a federal plan for deployment of a more efficient energy grid that enables the diversification of US energy supplies.”
I totally agree, but unfortunately the federal plan is totally influenced by coal and oil empires who have no intention of allowing diversification of energy supplies unless they control it.
The only way I feel we can have clean, efficient, and affordable (economically + environmentally) energy is to decentralize the grid, conserve in a big way the energy we do produce, hope, pray, and help manifest and deploy some of these zero point energy devices. There is one of these inventors on Orcas who is three quarters finished building a prototype magnetic generator (more than $60,000 already invested) when the funding recently fell through. It saddens me to keep hearing or reading these potential breakthroughs that will eventually allow us (the U.S.) to have energy solvency, thus being independent.
Anyone interested in being actively involved in an energy solution forum, please email me: mikial@ymail.com.
Mikial Denker
Eastsound
