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Three years ago Kamara Salifu stood before the Unites States Embassy in the Republic of Sierra Leone, seeking a visa. He was penniless and on crutches, amid a crowd of wealthy applicants. The consulate asked about his financial resources, and asked what would bring him back to Sierra Leone.
While Salifu is on full scholarship at Clark, he still needs $7,000 each year to pay for living expenses like room and board. To help him with expenses, friends have organized a fundraiser dinner at the Odd Fellows Hall on July 9 at 6 p.m., with a presentation by Salifu, food, music and drumming. Tickets are $10 from Rena Patty at 376-6864, or at the door.
Artwork by internationally known artists Kate Scott and Marc Foster Grant will be featured at Orcas Center next month in the show, “Folly a Deux”.
“Kate has the most wonderful sense of humor and she loves to play with words and then transform that into some of her artwork,” said friend Bev Leyman. “Mark is just full of life and energy. This art show is going to be spectacular.”
When Erica Lyons was a little girl growing up on Orcas, she often wandered the beaches collecting special treasures: smooth stones, dusky bits of old glass bottles, and salty, gnarled shells. Eventually, she graduated from Orcas high and went off to seek her fortune in the wide, wide world.
Orcas fire commissioners say representatives from San Juan County, Orcas, Lopez, Shaw, and San Juan islands, are in one accord regarding the proposed new interlocal agreement for the county fire marshal position. The parties voted in favor of the agreement at a June 17 inter-district fire commissioners meeting to discuss the current situation.
The traditional Eastsound Fourth of July fireworks look like a no-show at this point, according to Chamber of Commerce director Lance Evans.
“All signs indicate that it’s not gonna happen,” said Evans.
He found out two weeks ago that Chehalis-based Eagle Fireworks, which has supplied the show for the past 20 years, had mysteriously removed all of the necessary firing equipment from the barge.
Orcas families looking to outfit their brood with affordable duds might be cheered to hear of CherryT’s, Eastsound’s new children’s clothing consignment shop. The store may even carry (new) kids’ socks, an island commodity so scarce and coveted that a bedraggled pair has been known to spark heated scuffles at the Exchange.
Proprietor Keri Lago has teamed up with her mother, Debbie Post, to fill what they see as a big need on Orcas.
The Eastsound Sewer and Water District board passed a resolution authorizing staff to secure permits and solicit bid proposals to install a two-inch sewer main inside the OPAL Commons. Residents of the seven acre, 18-home affordable-housing development between Seaview Street and Blanchard Road will have until 2019 to hook to the main.
OPAL resident Ian Van Gelder said the total cost will run $10,000 to $12,000 per connection, based on a $6,000 connection fee, plus installation costs.
Local deer are licking their chops and gazing in wistful longing through the well-built fences of Orcas Island’s blooming gardens….
Lopez high school tore up the track at state champs last week at Cheney. The girls took third place, and the boys were hot on their heels at fifth.
“Third out of 22 (teams) is pretty astounding,” said track coach Steve Wilbur. “It’s the highest our girls have ever placed in state in the history of Lopez school.” The boys team took second in state two years ago.
Archaeologist Steve Kenady examined the bones of an ancient, extinct giant bison by x-ray today at Orcas Family Health Center, unarguably the clinic’s oldest “patient”.
Kenady was checking for remnants of stone tools that could have been used to slaughter the animal, but the scans revealed nothing but bison bone. The discovery roughly three years ago piqued curiosity in the global scientific community, inspiring new theories of human migration to the Pacific coast because some of the bones bear the marks of human butchery using stone tools.
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