This year’s annual meeting for the Lopez Community Land Trust will feature keynote speaker Enek Hi Šak, a Chumash name meaning woman who is like the turtle, March 26, 7 p.m., at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, and all are welcome.
This year marks the 7th Anniversary of the 10-Minute Play Fest and they are calling out to anyone and everyone who has ever dreamed of being on stage.
The Orcas Island Historical Museum will feature storytelling by Deer Harbor native Cal McLachlan on Sunday, March 18 at 3 p.m.
Born in 1926 on his family’s Pole Pass property, McLachlan worked in the Deer Harbor cannery as well as on fishing boats. Later, while in the service, he was aboard the last U.S. warship to be attacked in WWII. McLachlan taught at Anacortes Junior High School for more than 30 years and eventually became its principal.
Local writers Gretchen Wing of Lopez Island and Jill McCabe Johnson of Orcas Island are among the writers and artists featured in “SHARK REEF” Literary Magazine’s Winter edition, online now at sharkreef.org. Submissions to the issue came from all over the U.S. and from Europe and Asia.
At the tail end of March, Eastsound will be transformed into a scene straight out of the 1500s.
The Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce is hosting its first annual spring Shakespeare Festival complete with roaming street performers, music, performances by the Seattle Shakespeare Company and a lot of colorful, whimsical decorations.
With roots that stretch from the mists of the Pacific Northwest, across the sea to the British Isles, and now moving into the heartland of American music, Tiller’s Folly has tapped into something timelessly fresh and refreshingly sincere. They are the Pacific Northwest’s internationally traveled, virtuosic ambassadors of song.
Questions about the secret lives of marine invertebrates around Indian Island will be answered by local volunteers, Orcas High School students, and Kwiáht Ecologist Russel Barsh at the first annual Tides of March celebration at the Eastsound fire station, March 15, 4:30 to 6 p.m., preceding the last SeaDoc Society marine lecture of the season.
The Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance, announced this week that the San Juan Preservation Trust has been awarded national accredited status. The Preservation Trust joins a prestigious group of 157 other land trusts, out of 1,700 nationally, which have achieved this distinction since this new accreditation program was launched in the fall of 2008.
The San Juan County Land Bank has completed their trail maps, which include driving directions and other information for 19 preserves located on Lopez, Orcas, and San Juan Islands.
Island performers are coming together under one roof for a shared cause: keeping music in the schools.
The Music Advocacy Group’s annual “School Music Program Benefit Concert” will feature the Orcas Choral Society, Orcas Island Community Band and Island Sinfonia as well as the High School Strings, the Middle School Band and the Orcas Youth Orchestra.
On Friday nights, parents sit on the bleachers of the Orcas Middle School Gym watching their children laugh as they glide across the floor. Some parents, like islander Marlace Hughes, remember putting skates on at the same gym years ago.
Spend Read Across America Day on Friday, May 2, at Orcas Island Elementary School at 8:45 a.m.
The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office is looking for roughly 70 volunteers to help determine how millions of dollars in state grants should be spent in the outdoors.
