Susan Stolmeier’s summer reading challenge, encouraging kids to read over the summer vacation, was an invitation to fill their virtual picnic basket with the list of books they read. The reward was a picnic under the school’s maple tree on Sept. 17, to acknowledge the more than 500 books read by 70 kids.
There are new additions to the list of dining specials and events for our first annual, month-long movable feast for the senses in the San Juans this October. “Savor the San Juans” is the theme for autumn festivals, dining out specials of “3 Courses/$30,” winemaker dinners, cooking classes, art gallery happenings, live music and theater performances and presentations all month. There is a veritable medley of culinary and cultural choices on Lopez, Orcas and San Juan Islands! Lodging specials and packages are important elements of the festivities. Choose one from dozens throughout the islands. You’ll find them in the “Savor the San Juans” section of the website for the San Juan slands Visitors Bureau, www.VisitSanJuans.com.
The Orcas Library will combine an Open House, volunteer appreciation, and the Friends of the Library Annual Meeting on Friday, Sept. 26, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The Orcas Island Historical Museum will close its exhibit doors for the season with an End of Summer Party on Friday, September 26, from 4 to 6 p.m.
The deadline for county residents to register to vote in the general election in November is Friday, Oct. 3.
Public hearings for the Orcas Village Plan, the OPAL Mt. Baker property Community Development Block Grant, and a water franchise to build a pipeline for private waterfront development are several of the reasons the County Council is again coming to Orcas Island on Monday, Sept. 29.
Orcas Island Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle crash at Orcas Road and Nordstrom Lane on Friday Sept. 19, just after 8 a.m.
On Wednesday, Sept. 17, a County Sheriff’s Deputy shot and killed a dog he was investigating near the Golf Course.
The San Juan County Economic Development Council (SJC-EDC) announced earlier this month that it was awarded a $30,000 Rural Opportunity Fund (ROF) Grant from the Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development (CTED).
Temperatures soared in the San Juans last week, and apparently, a spark from a county road crew ignited the dry tinder and sent a brush fire racing up the hill from Crow Valley Road on Sept. 16.
Allegations that a large stand of old growth trees was illegally harvested during a recent logging operation on Orcas Island may well prove to be false.
State law may well favor allowing public roads to be use as a conduit for carrying water – or electricity – from one parcel of land to another, even if both are privately owned.
