A highlight of the annual Senior Center’s Holiday Fair is the Bake Sale, where sweet treats laced with cinnamon, chocolate, lemon, peppermint and countless other savories tempt the tastebuds.
Fantastic fish art pieces such as the one pictured above, created by Orcas artists, will be auctioned off at the annual Orcas Island Education Foundation (OIEF) Food for Thought Benefit.
The Master Gardener Foundation of San Juan County is now taking orders for its annual Native Plant Sale. The Foundation has 23 species of mostly native plants, including conifers, deciduous trees, shrubs, ferns and groundcovers. The plants are one to two years old, either bare-root or plugs, are conservation stock and are typically sold in bundles of five plants. They range from 8” to 36” in height and prices range from $3.25 to $13.00 per plug or bundle. Examples of species are: Evergreen Huckleberry, Mock Orange, Red Flowering Currant, Shore Pine, Deer Fern, Kinnickinnik, Salal and much more.
Orcas Island dancers and choreographers mount the Orcas Center stage this weekend as the Community Dance Concert returns.
The Orcas Island Artworks features knitted and woven apparel by Melanie Davis, Maureen Hannan and Merry Bush from November 15 through Dec. 31.
Garden Club 10 a.m. at the Orcas Center. “Remarkable Trees” with Marguerite Greening. For further information, call Ken Walker at 376-0501 or Midge Kraetzer at 376-2373.
It’s been much ado about rehearsals with the Community Shakespeare Company (CSC) of Lopez, as its presents the Fall Festival of plays, featuring a range of young and older actors performing “Much Ado About Nothing” and “King Lear.”
Pervious pavement, or “green” paving that allows rainwater to be swiftly reprocessed, was put down Oct. 28 at Wild Rose Meadow, OPAL Community Land Trust’s neighborhood under construction off Mt. Baker Road. This is the first project on Orcas known to use the technique.
Hedrick Smith, Orcas Island resident and Pulitzer Prize-wining journalist, believes that solutions for even the most complex problems come from public involvement. He is currently producing a public television “Frontline” documentary with the working title “Poisoned Waters,” which analyzes the environmental health of premier waterways like Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay, and asks why it is so difficult to save them.
The Writer’s Roundtable scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 8 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Library will discuss “ Writing Creative Non-Fiction: Turning Real Life into Art.”
Orcas Center presents one performance only of “Tatyana’s Letter,” lyrical scenes from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” presented by Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program. “This passionate opera is a hothouse tale of love, set to achingly beautiful music,” says the Center’s Executive Director, Barbara Courtney.
In November, the Orcas Garden Club will meet on Nov. 12 instead of the usual third Wednesday of the month. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. on November 12 in the Madrona Room of the Orcas Center.
Sail Orcas’ Annual Meeting is being held on Thursday, Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. at the Orcas Senior Center, and is open to the public. Dinner is provided with a donation requested at the door. Don and Joyce Green, local author of “Windy Thoughts,” will be sharing stories of their experiences exploring the world aboard their 35’ sailboat.
