May 22 meeting airs different budget cut suggestions
Testimony of San Juan County Council Member Kevin Ranker before the
U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and the Coast Guard
(of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation)
Kevin Ranker addresses subcommittee on climate change effects in Puget Sound
Monthly meeting for Orcas Village women
Perhaps you remember or have read about families gathering around the wireless in the evening to hear radio shows bringing music, laughter, and literature into peoples’ lives. Members of the home audience could close their eyes, and for a moment it would be as though they were there in the theater. Orcas Islanders will have the opportunity to be part of the live audience when Orcas Center and the local non-profit Artsmith bring “A River and Sound Review” to the Orcas Center on May 31, and later part of the home audience when the performance is made available by podcast.
The Lopez a cappella group, Lopez Sound, has invited some very special guests to perform on the island.
May 8: A 20-year-old Orcas Island woman claims her car was broken into and stolen, and that her belongings removed, by someone who then later returned it to her Pea Patch Lane home using a set of newly-manufactured keys. The originals reportedly remain missing.
The Lopez Island Family Resource Center’s summer workshops just keep getting better.
Gerri Haynes will be speaking on “Iraq Today,” Sunday, June 1, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Orcas Senior Center.
It’s hard to deny that the antics of a California sea lion that showed up recently on San Juan Island are – let’s say – amusing.
Between piloting assignments for the Coast Guard, John Heath developed an interest in building computers. Heath has expanded that interest in computers and, since 2006, has been the Technology Coordinator for the Orcas Island School District. Heath is based in a small office in the Orcas Elementary School but also works with the high school and middle school to maintain and troubleshoot the 200 plus computers on the OISD campuses. School Superintendent Glenn Harris is the Technology Director and oversees the whole technology program.
For her senior project Rebecca Mason of Shaw Island is collecting supplies to send to Iraqis caught up in the war. The project, entitled “Build Iraqi Hope,” is an operation, started by a U.S. soldier which Mason has continued, to send clothing, school supplies, baby formula and toys to Iraqi citizens in areas that have been blocked off by insurgents.
