Community members thronged to Eastsound on Monday, Oct. 31 to trick-or-treat at local businesses and show off funky, creative, scary or sweet costumes.
Our favorites?
Council member Patty Miller created a powerpoint presentation to help clarify details and ramifications of the solid waste parcel fee measure at an Oct. 20 town hall meeting at Orcas Island’s Eastsound fire hall.
Included are slides like “What does the ballot measure do?”, overviews for Plan A (if the parcel fee measure passes) and for Plan B (if the measure fails), Miller’s assessment of risks under each option, and more.
It will take you soaring over the blue-green San Juan Islands, plunging beneath the sea’s surface to peruse underwater creatures, into local hangout spots and face-to-face with more than a dozen individual islanders.
All from your couch.
Orcas middle school teacher Laura Tidwell brought her leadership class to play in the mud at Eastsound’s new constructed wetland today, designed to provide ecologically friendly stormwater treatment to 40 percent of Eastsound’s winter runoff.
The students spent two hours planting sedges in the bare earth. There will be hundreds of shrubs, bulbs and trees installed in the ground this fall. The plants will be given the winter to sink down their roots before stormwater runoff is shunted into the area next fall for treatment.
Passersby stare as a lovely – and shivering – model clad in spring attire poses for a photo crew in front of the historic Episcopal Parish hall. A cold wind whips in off East Sound waters as sea-reflected sunlight highlights her auburn hair.
Orcas High School teachers, staff and students rocked the gym on Friday for the school’s 2011 homecoming assembly.
In black suits and ties, the staff kicked off the show, chair-dancing as they requested just a little Respect. They got it: thundering applause and a standing ovation.
An election forum hosted by the League of Women Voters on Oct. 5 gave candidates and interested parties a chance to air campaign intentions and assess pros and cons of various measures on the November ballot.
Port of Orcas Commissioner 2
Gary Abood and Dwight Guss are both running for the position of Port of Orcas Commissioner 2.
“I’d like to see a little more ‘putt-putt aviation’ and a little less expansion,” Abood said. He said he favors “more traditional management” of the port, opposing any involvement with trash or the county dock. Abood said with the port’s current savings account of $500,000, he doesn’t see any reason to continue taxation at current rates.
The Vikings narrowly defeated the Cedar Park Christian Lions on Oct. 4 at Buck Park in an overtime penalty shootout.
Story to come soon.
Afro-Cuban, jazz, blues, and “good old American rock and roll” with the Orcas Horns make up just part of an upcoming Orcas Center concert. The other half? Cheeky lyricist and Grammy nominee Lorraine Feather, accompanied by sensational stride pianist Stephanie Trick, will put their own unique spin on tunes by Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Dick Hyman under the group name Nouveau Stride.
A Nov. 8 ballot measure will determine whether San Juan County property owners will pay a parcel fee to fund solid waste for the next 15 years.
When it comes to throwing a shindig, the farmers of San Juan County know how to pull out all the stops: an upcoming festival thrown by the county’s Agricultural Resources Committee will run the entire month of October. Talk about a fete.
State senator and Orcas Islander Kevin Ranker says it’s possible that Moran State Park is in jeopardy, despite the newly implemented parking passes aimed at bringing in more revenue.
Industry magazine “The American Surveyor” recently featured San Juan County Public Works Department in an article entitled “Driving the Islands.”
Industry magazine “The American Surveyor” recently featured San Juan County Public Works Department in an article entitled “Driving the Islands.”
