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    Articles by Meredith Griffith
    Actor Gerald Dickens
    Dickens dinner raises $2,200 for Orcas Arts Education...
    By Meredith Griffith • November 18, 2010 5:41 pm

    Actor Gerald Dickens riveted a roomful of diners with a flawless performance of “Mr. Dickens is Coming!”, his one-man show portraying Charles Dickens’ life and work through quirky appearances by various personalities from Dickens’ life and works.

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    Colton Harris-Moore in Nassau.
    Colton Harris-Moore pleads not guilty
    By Meredith Griffith • November 18, 2010 2:47 pm

    Colton Harris-Moore has pleaded not guilty to five criminal charges levied by a federal grand jury. “When someone is initially…

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    Move over, Orca whales: new study of Pacific White-sided Dolphin
    Move over, Orca whales: new study of Pacific...
    By Meredith Griffith • November 15, 2010 3:27 pm

    The SeaDoc society thinks it’s time for orcas to move over and share the spotlight.
    SeaDoc has hired marine science PhD student Erin Ashe to analyze thousands of dolphin photographs from Washington and British Columbia, identify the dolphins and determine the size and nature of the population.

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    Bill and Monique Gincig (forefront and far left) and other volunteers at last year's community Thanksgiving dinner.
    Odd Fellows host Thanksgiving meal
    By Meredith Griffith • November 12, 2010 4:23 pm

    Come one, come all: the Orcas Island Odd Fellows will once again welcome folk from all walks of life into…

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    Colton Harris-Moore in Nassau.
    Harris-Moore indicted by grand jury; One charge related...
    By Meredith Griffith • November 11, 2010 5:53 pm

    Camano Island teen Colton Harris-Moore was indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle on Wednesday, Nov. 10 on five criminal counts. Only one of the charges relates to crimes committed in San Juan County. Harris-Moore is scheduled to face the charges before the U.S. District Court on Nov. 18.

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    Three food bank volunteers
    Food Bank volunteers serve and wait
    By Meredith Griffith • November 11, 2010 5:42 pm

    While the turkeys they’re handing out aren’t quite twice the size of Tiny Tim, Orcas Island Food Bank volunteers are loading up cardboard boxes of cheer and plenty with cranberry sauce, potatoes, stuffing mix and more to keep local families from a meager, Bob Cratchitt-esque holiday meal.

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    Catherine Laflin helps ELL students Soeth Quintero and Jaquelyn Figuero with their work.
    Living language: Orcas Schools English Language Learners program
    By Meredith Griffith • November 11, 2010 5:37 pm

    Jaqueline Figueroa was five when she was suddenly thrust into a strange new world where everyone spoke a foreign tongue: English. Her family had moved from Mexico to Orcas Island, and Figueroa, fluent in Spanish, had to adapt.

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    Food Bank president Larry Shaw receives a check from Victoria Shaner
    Orcas Island Association of Realtors gives $500 to...
    By Meredith Griffith • November 5, 2010 5:52 pm

    The Orcas Island Association of Realtors gave a check for $500 to the Food Bank for their building fund drive…

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    Members of the Orcas Key Club painting a new sign on the tank.
    Where did the Wabit go?
    By Meredith Griffith • November 4, 2010 9:19 pm

    The infamous red, fanged mystery Wabit of recent Orcas lore slipped into the annals of history today, buried beneath a thick layer of cream-colored paint.

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    Orcas Center executive director Barbara Courtney makes her exit
    Orcas Center executive director Barbara Courtney makes her...
    By Meredith Griffith • November 4, 2010 1:11 pm

    Orcas Center’s Executive/Artistic Director Barbara Courtney set the stage for her exit last week with a formal resignation, and Orcas Center board members are working hard to find capable new hands to direct the organization.

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    Orcas fire considers need for medical transport boat
    Orcas fire considers need for medical transport boat
    By Meredith Griffith • November 4, 2010 12:51 pm

    Orcas Fire Chief Mike Harris wants a sure thing.
    When life-saving medical treatment is needed within minutes, not hours, and the Eastsound airport is a whirling whiteout of snow or fog, there aren’t many options.

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    Gerald Dickens
    Gerald Dickens to perform at Orcas Education Project...
    By Meredith Griffith • November 4, 2010 12:42 pm

    He’s dapper and charmingly British in a tall black top hat, twirling a silver-tipped antique cane. You might remember him as the mastermind behind “Oliver Twist,” “David Copperfield” or “A Christmas Carol.”
    Next week Mr. Dickens will step right out of 19th century London and into the intimate setting of Orcas Center’s Madrona Room – Gerald Dickens, that is, great-great-grandson of the famed author Charles.
    “It’s fun! It’s entertaining. Dickens doesn’t have to be dry,” Gerald told the Sounder. “He loved theatricals, he loved entertaining.

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    A little trick-or-treater outside the Orcas Library.
    A happy Halloween 2010: slideshow
    By Meredith Griffith • November 1, 2010 4:27 pm

    Tricks and treats abounded as trick-or-treaters bounded through Orcas Island streets last night, clad in strange and esoteric costumes.

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