A house being moved from Bakerview Road to Port Stanley Road on Lopez Island clipped trees and spread fiberglass insulation along the six-mile route late Thursday night and early Friday morning, April 11.
Bringing 15 different local conservation organizations together in a summit in celebration of Earth Day proved to be beneficial to all. “We all have similar goals,” said Lincoln Bormann, Director of the San Juan County Land Bank. “It is helpful to meet like this to avoid working at cross purposes.”
The Orcas Island Fire District Commissioners wil hold a special meeting for Strategic Plan review on April 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Eastsound Fire Hall.
The fact is, the Orcas Island School District has pulled itself out of the budget hole it was in last year – it finished the 2006-’07 school year with a zero balance, and is projected to keep its $150,000 or three percent fund reserve at the end of this school year. However, the fact also is, a juggernaut composed of underfunded cost-of-living increases and district increases to state teacher salaries and health benefits coupled with declining enrollment is headed straight for the District, in the amount of $667,000.
Thanks to the support of Bilbo’s Mexican Restaurant, Chasanoff’s first and second grade families are working to send their children to the Seattle Aquarium and actually spend the night there. Two of the aquarium’s teachers will be on hand to educate students about the wonders they will experience.
Bogie’s Café and Pub has opened for breakfast, lunch, and snacks at the Orcas Island Country Golf Club. Clubhouse manager Nikki Freeman is in charge of this new venture, which is open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Happy Hour from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays.
Tickets are still available for all performances of “Beauty and the Beast” on its last weekend at Orcas Center.
Orcas Island School District Board to focus on the 2008-2009 budget and program recommendations on April 24 and 30.
Brewer-Rogstad resigns
San Juan Nature Institute’s Orcas Spring Lecture Series will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Orcas Senior Center. The schedule is as follows:
Farm management practices that have produced positive environmental and financial results at Sweet Grass Beef Farm on Lopez Island will be spotlighted on Monday, April 28, as owners Scott Meyers and Brigit Waring give a tour of their farm.
The Land Bank is sponsoring a Writing Contest for 10th- through 12th-grade students in San Juan County. The topics are: Preserving what’s important in a changing world, and; Imagine the Islands without land conservation. “We are looking for the best essays about the idea of conservation and its significance to the writer.” It is not necessary for the essay to feature a Land Bank Preserve. Entries can be fiction, nonfiction, drama or poetry.
Moran state Park is working with KWIAHT ecologist Russel Barsh and botanist Madrona Murphy to offer a series of workshops and lectures about rare native plants in Moran State Park. The overall goal for this partnership is to find and map out rare native plants in Moran State Park so that the Park can knowledgably manage the land in the future, said Linda Sheridan, Moran’s Interpretive Specialist.
