People For Puget Sound invites the community to celebrate National Estuaries Day on Saturday, Sept. 24 by helping to restore habitat at Cayou Lagoon, Orcas Island’s largest estuary.
On Sept. 11 the San Juan Islands were featured in the New York Times – not for the region’s stunning beauty, or its self-reliant community – but the perplexing population of puzzles aboard its ferries.
The Orcas Center is presenting an innovative collection of new works from more than two dozen artists. The show opens on Oct. 7 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the lobby and Madrona Room.
The 1888 Crow Valley School has been operated as a local museum by its owners RichardSchneider and Albert “Bud” McBride for more than 20 years.
FoodMasters will offer a class on lacto-fermentation of foods from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25 at the Odd Fellows Hall kitchen.
In acknowledgment of Black History Month, Orcas Center will present the nationally acclaimed play “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee on Feb. 10 – 18. Robert Hall will direct.
Open auditions consisting of cold readings of the play will be held on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2 to 4 p.m. and Monday, Sept. 12, 6 to 8 p.m.
Anyone who has a passion for singing and is interested in joining the Orcas Choral Society is invited to an open rehearsal on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Madrona Room at Orcas Center.
Contributed by Tom Welch, special to the Sounder.
Doug Bechtel and The Actors Theater of Orcas Island, continuing their strong tradition of producing plays by local authors, have produced an evening of theater art that is simply superb. Their new offering, “By Request,” contains a stunning array of individual works in two Acts that is sure to appeal to something in each of us. The nine unique pieces, written by local authors and read or acted by some of our finest community actors, range from monologues to character sketches. “By Request” is an evening of theater that is much, much more than the sum of its parts – and each part is exquisite.
Students ages 10 through high school can audition for a part in Thornton Wilder’s play, “Our Town,” on Monday, Sept. 12 and Tuesday, Sept. 13, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Orcas Center’s OffCenter Stage.
Ann Jones will display pastel landscape paintings at the senior center on Sept. 7 and throughout the month of September.
The center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A long-time Orcas Island resident, Jones regularly displays her paintings at the Olga Artworks.
A perennial plants propagation workshop will be offered at the Bullocks’ permaculture homestead on Sunday, Sept. 11, led by Lily Lewison and James Most.
When an islander is diagnosed with cancer, the prospect of weekly treatments is made even more daunting by ferry lines and overloaded boats.
That’s when Mercy Flight pilots come to the rescue.
“We do it because we love to fly and we love to help people,” said Orcas pilot Pat Muffett, who has been flying patients to Bellingham and Skagit County for the past five years in his seven-seat Cessna 207.
Soprano Sharon Abreu and friends performed at the last Brown Bag concert on Aug. 24.
