The sky is for sale at Winfred Taylor’s benefit art salon on Sunday, March 7. And maybe some barbecued ribs…
Salmonberry Elementary students delivered a handmade quilt to the Orcas Island Public Library on Feb. 12 for display in their…
Orcas Center will present the nationally acclaimed Dallas Brass on March 13 in a performance that will also feature more than 30 members of the Orcas Island Community Band as well as students from Orcas and San Juan Islands.
Founded in Dallas in 1983 by Michael Levine, Dallas Brass has become one of America’s foremost musical ensembles. With a repertoire that includes classical masterpieces, Dixieland, swing, Broadway, Hollywood and patriotic music, the Dallas Brass appears in solo engagements and with symphony orchestras nationwide. They have performed at Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center, have shared the stage with the late Bob Hope, and have performed for Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush.
Rosedanie Cadet is currently in Haiti teaching sustainable farming and providing locals with means of food preservation. Orcas High School senior Taylor Diepenbrock and his dad Steve of Morningstar Farm on Orcas helped Cadet with her project. For more information, visit noramise.org.
If the students meet their goal, principal Kyle Freeman will spend a day on the roof of the school. Apparently that’s powerful motivation for elementary school kids.
“Orcas Island Elementary has been reading like crazy this February!” said reading specialist Susan Stolmeier. Each class set their own reading goal for the month, and the kids have been flipping pages with great enthusiasm. And if they meet their goals, Freeman’s on the rooftop.
Emily Reid has been collecting teapots since she was six years old, when she started drinking tea at her family’s…
Twice a year, an event just for women takes place at YMCA Camp Orkila. Women’s Wellness Weekends offer participants the…
It’s called Global Dance Party for good reason. More than 60 teen performers are coming to the Orcas Center stage…
Buying new plants for the garden has never been so beneficial to the community. Orcas school students are selling everything…
Calling all Orcas and Waldron public school students: somewhere, stuffed in an old cookbook or in your head, is the…
Come enjoy live improv theatre by “The Off-Islanders” group on two Saturdays, Feb. 20 and 27, at Doe Bay Yoga…
Some of the runners pounded the muddy, mountainous trails of Moran State Park for almost 10 hours. Athletes from across…
