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 Lady Vikings continued their winning spree this week, slipping one past the Concrete Lions 53-50 on Feb. 9.
Recreational and commercial boaters in need of electrical or electronic work have a new option in town: Starfish Marine.
The February Orcas Recreation District levy appears to have passed with a supermajority as of today, Feb. 9, with 2,270 ballots cast and only 20 left to count by official tally.
The Lopez girls shot down Tulalip 52-45 last night, taking first place in their league. They will advance to the first round of Tri Districts this Saturday against Sea-Tac league’s #3 team at La Conner High School.
The boys also beat Tulalip (60-51) last night, sealing second place in their league.
They will advance to Tri Districts this Saturday against Neah Bay at Crescent HS.
A 2009 county Housing Needs Assessment estimates that by 2025, over 3,000 workers will be commuting daily to the islands – even if a minimum of 1,095 affordable housing units are built.
The Viking boys team played the #1 and #2-ranked teams in their league last week. Shoreline Christian won 73-35, and La Conner won 70-33.
“We improved against La Conner,” said coach Gregg Bronn. “Last time we only scored 19 points against them. Both teams are just tough, really good quality teams.”
The Lady Vikings are on a roll.
After cracking Concrete (40-33) last week they continued on to defeat the LaConner Braves Feb. 3 in an overtime win, 48-43.
“Those girls went out and battled really hard,” said head coach Mike Lawson. “This week we were hitting our shots early; our confidence grew and we played better defense on the other end.”
Ireland’s isle of Iona boasts the “Book of Kells,” an intricately illuminated manuscript of the Vulgate gospels created by first century Celtic monks.
Orcas Island has eNotated Classics, created by a trio of island presidents.
Four Orcas Islanders hand-built traditional skin-on-frame, mid-20th century Greenland kayaks last week, christening them with a launch at Crescent Beach. They sawed, chiseled, carved, lashed, stitched, ground bones and did leatherwork.
Fans packed the stands at the last home game for the season as Orcas took down Concrete with scrappy and determined play.
High school basketball players will be shooting for dollars Thursday night at 6 p.m. at the annual “Hoop Shoot” fundraiser event. The girls’ team will be aiming to score some new uniforms.
In the midst of torrential downpours Jan. 24 a red pickup truck driven by an unidentified woman went off the road near the Channel Road bridge, rolling down the rocky embankment before landing right-side up on the mud flat.
