A Harvest Dance as celebration of community, season and spirit will be held on Friday, Oct. 3 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Oddfellows Hall to benefit the Orcas Island Food Bank.
Garden Club’s first meeting of its 50th year on Orcas. 10 a.m. at the Orcas Center, speaker, John Christianson of Christianson’s Nursery in Mt. Vernon. Call Ken Walker at 376-0501 or Midge Kraetzer at 376-2373.
The Orcas High School class of 1980 will be holding a reunion on Friday, Sept. 19 and Saturday Sept. 20. All Orcas alumni and faculty are invited to join in the festivities on Friday evening at the Lower Tavern starting at 6:30 p.m.
Orcas High School graduate Logan Luft has returned to the San Juan Islands to help San Juan Sanitation, which is co-owned by his father Tom Luft, increase the company’s recylcing programs. Logan, who graduated from Central Washington University, will be working with businesses throughout the County performing “waste audits” to determine ways for them to save money and the environment by recycling more thoroughly. He will first focus on Lopez Island where he hopes to place green, co-mingled recycling dumpsters at businesses to allow for convenient recycling.
DOC kicks off United Way’s fall fund-raising campaign; last year, more than 40 volunteers cleaned up the Parcours athletic trail at the school/Buck Park and installed new signage. This year, the work consists of two projects: building a safe pathway from the school to Orcas Center and yard work with low-income seniors. A few good volunteers still are needed for this “repair affair” next Wednesday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Airman First Class, Matthew Keenan – graduate of Orcas High School, 2003 – graduated with honors from basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Tex. on Aug. 4, 2008. He has been transfered to Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Tex., into the Department of Defense Fire Fighting Program.
Transportation Commissioners will join with city and county officials to discuss transportation, tourism and ferry service in San Juan County in Friday Harbor on Thursday, Sept. 18.
A Special Meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners of San Juan Co. Fire Dist. #2, Orcas Is. FD will be held Wednesday, 17 September 2008. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. and will go into Executive Session per RCW 42.30.140(4)(a), for the purpose of collective bargaining.
By David Shinstrom
The League of Women Voters of the San Juans has decided to hold the Candidate Forums for the 2008 General Election on Saturday, Oct. 11. There will be two forums on that day: the first forum will be on Orcas Island for Orcas and Shaw residents at the Senior Center, starting at 9:15 to 11:15 a.m.
Smoking no longer would be allowed in county parks or at the fairgrounds in Friday Harbor, or on any county-owned property, for that matter, if the local Board of Health has its way.
The replacement of a faulty computer controller on Wednesday evening, Sept. 10, triggered a series of events that caused the failure of the county’s e-mail system, the county’s web site and lost a full day’s worth of e-mail and accounting system data entry. Full functionality for those systems was restored shortly before 8 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 12.
H. George Lundburg of Eastsound is one of four people statewide who have filed declarations of candidacy for Position 4 on the State Board of Education. The position will be voted on this fall by school board members in Western Washington.
