How about having a Tuxedo cat named Sadie in your home? Wise beyond her seven years, she’s telling you with her green-eyed steady gaze that all’s well with the world. She also wants to remind everyone that it’s Open House every day 2-5 p.m. at the Animal Shelter on Hope Lane (376-6777) to come visit her and the other residents. Or check the web: www.orcaspets.org. Oh yes, there are cat litter buckets with lids and handles (drive around back) for anyone to help themselves to.
The Mishras return to the Odd Fellows Hall in Eastsound, in a benefit tour for The Academy of Indian Classical Music. The concert will be Wednesday, Aug. 13 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for students and seniors.
Coaches clinic from 5 – 6 p.m. in Buck Park. Youth soccer coaches and assistant coaches planning to help with the fall soccer program are encouraged to attend. Gather tips, drills, and learn coaching techniques from certified coaches. Free. Call 376-5449 to join the clinic.
The 100th anniversary San Juan County Fair – Wednesday, Aug. 13 through Saturday, Aug. 16- offers a mix of entertainment, educational displays and fun for fairgoers of all ages and interests. In addition to rides, fair food, and entertainment there will be numerous fair displays and contests.
The Eastsound Planning Review Committee (EPRC) met on Aug. 7 to hold an initial discussion on the committee’s role in the affordable housing debate and at what level that involvement should be.
Dennis and Rita McKinney announce the wedding of their daughter, Nicole Marie to Mr. Peter Joseph Soto on Aug. 8, 2008 at Bluebell Springs on Orcas Island. Pastor Grant Miles-Era of Orcas Island Community Church officiated. Peter is the son of Robert and Marcia Soto of Tucson, Arizona.
Come learn how to process and preserve food for the winter. Join participants of FEAST on Thursday, Aug. 14 in various types of preservation methods with the food they have grown from their garden. Bring excess food from your garden, or come help eat and store ours. The class is from 10 to 2 p.m. at the Senior Center kitchen, for ages 10 to 100. $20 materials cost. Call 376-5339 to register.
People For Puget Sound is recruiting and training local volunteer kayakers to help locate infestations of invasive Spartina grass along San Juan County shorelines.
Hands off the shoreline.
That’s the approach that the critical areas ordinance review committee will follow in light of a recent decision handed down by the state Supreme Court.
Its multi-million dollar price tag and reliance on conventional remedies may have undercut the enthusiasm for the long-awaited drainage plan for the Eastsound urban growth area.
Last week Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike endorsed Kevin Ranker for the State Senate seat in the 40th legislative district. Ranker is a San Juan County Council member who has won the nomination and the sole endorsement of the local Democratic Party, the conservation community, unions and teachers. In the last week, Kevin Ranker has also been endorsed by Pike’s mayoral opponent, Dan McShane, Equal Rights Washington, and Bellingham City Councilwoman Barbara Ryan.
The effort to put the county’s fireworks ban ordinance up for a vote has cleared the county’s required legal review, and enters into the signature-gathering phase as Referendum 2008-2.
