The Music Advocacy Group invites the community to its 14th annual concert for the public school music program on Sunday, March 6 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the school cafeteria. Featured musical groups are the Orcas Choral Society, Orcas Island Community Band and Island Sinfonia joined by the High School Strings, the Middle School Band and the Orcas Youth Symphonia.
The Port of Orcas filed a declaratory judgment action in the San Juan Superior Court Feb. 3 to confirm the port’s right to impose an annual access fee on aircraft owners who access the port from their port-neighboring properties. The court will issue a legal opinion on the matter, without a money judgment.
British Columbia passed a law thirteen years ago requiring drug companies to foot the bill for take-back and safe disposal…
An international group of high school students from war-torn countries will be coming to Orcas March 5 to 8 to share stories from their homelands.
The Lopez basketball girls just trounced Tahola High School, District 4’s number one team, to win the Regional competition and move on to state championship playoffs. They will play Colombia High School in Spokane on Thursday, March 3 at 12:15 p.m.
An upcoming Local Artist Showcase at Orcas Center will feature singer-songwriters, acoustic rockers and a horn section. Cara Alboucq; Marlene…
Dozens of prizes will be given out at the 16th annual Orcas Kiwanis Club paper airplane contest, to be held in the high school gym on March 5.
The Kiwanis do it “because people have just a big thrill out of folding and building these paper airplanes, “ said event organizer Lynn Richards.
Building and testing of the paper airplanes will start at 1 p.m., with the contest at 2 p.m. Kiwanis will provide all the materials necessary to build the airplanes, and instruction books will be available.
So the 2011 winter bonanza begins. On Saturday, Feb. 26 at the public school cafeteria, the Friends of the Orcas…
Between the 1870’s and the 1970’s, around 150,000 Canadian native children were forcibly taken from their parents and sent to residential boarding schools, with an official goal “to kill the Indian in the native child,” all too often through horrific abuse.
Some of these children were native Orcas Islanders.
Last year’s $35 million February school bond failed. August’s scaled-down $27 million bond failed too.
Taxpayers sent a clear message to the school board: they aren’t willing to incur that much debt at this time, in that manner.
The Orcas girls have successfully battled their way through a rocky season, earning a berth at district playoffs by taking down Seattle Lutheran 34-30 in their final league game on Feb. 11. It was another very tight match, tied 16-16 at half, with the Seattle team ahead by four points to start the final quarter; but the Vikings rallied to clinch the win.
Orcas Center will soon be welcoming its new executive/artistic director Kara O’Toole, the former executive director of Seattle’s Velocity Dance Center. O’Toole and her family will move to Orcas in March.
The Lobos are in the midst of district playoffs this week.
The boys beat Tulalip Heritage (60-51) on Feb. 8, to seal second place in their league, with a season record of 9-3 in league, 13-6 overall. The Lobos advanced to Tri Districts on Feb. 12, losing their first playoff match against Neah Bay 71-56. They will play a second playoff match against Tulalip Heritage at La Conner, at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 15.
