Deer Harbor Community Club members were entertained at their February potluck by their president, Mike Speece, and came away thinking they had found their very own “idol.” With a baritone voice, Speece played many old favorites on his guitar and led the group in a sing-a-long.
To view season offerings at Orcas Center, the public can now access video highlights directly on the Orcas Center website (www.orcascenter.org) or visit their YouTube page. Go to www.youtube.com and search “Orcas Center” to access the 10-minute video, which has clips of many of the artists and events to be offered throughout 2009.
We all went home and locked our doors last night after seeing “Wait Until Dark,” the classic thriller put on by the Actors Theater of Orcas Island to a full house benefit for Kaleidoscope at the Grange last Thursday.
by COLLEEN SMITH ARMSTRONG
ORCAS ISLAND
The lecture series “Crossroads: Ideas for a New Century” will resume on Friday, Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m. at Orcas Center. Professor Joseph Massey, founding director of the Center for International Business at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, will speak on “The Dragon and the Elephant: China, India, and Global Economic Leadership in the 21st Century.”
The Voyle B. Martin American Legion Post #93’s 30th Annual Fishing Derby will be held from Feb. 28 to March 1.
If you filled out an application for the permit lottery to convert an existing building to a Detached Auxiliary Dwelling Unit (ADU) and you meet the minimum code requirements, you’ve already won. If you are entered in the ADU permit lottery for a new ADU, and the property qualifies, you have a 14 in 15 chance of winning.
The artwork of Deborah Heffley Jones will be on display at Washington Federal Savings in Eastsound for the month of February. The Orcas Island resident is sharing her Venetian plaster paintings on canvas, which include larger scale water-view landscapes as well as examples of bright and bold chromatic wall hangings. Jones is showing pieces at Christina’s Restaurant through the end of the month as well.
As part of a season of performances that includes world music and dance from Scotland, Mexico, Japan and the Aleutian Islands, Orcas Center will present one performance only of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m.
This spirited band of over two dozen young musicians will perform the traditional mariachi tunes of Mexico at Orcas Center on Friday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. Earlier that day the band will play for an all school assembly in the Orcas High School gym at 2 p.m.
