Deer Harbor’s Cayou Lagoon is slowly silting up, choking under a thick layer of mud.
Bob and Meg Connor, who own a 140-acre estate bordering the lagoon, remember playing “Pooh sticks” with their children off the Channel Road bridge in the 1970’s, dropping bits of wood off the upstream side.
“We saw millions of fish going into the lagoon,” said Bob. “There used to be oysters, crabs.” Now, he says, people are incredulous at these stories; there are few signs of life in the murky depths.
Orcas School music teachers Martin Lund and Pamela Wright are hosting a middle and high school holiday concert this week.
The Orcas Choral Society will present its annual holiday concert this weekend at Orcas Center.
Orcas Family Health Center is holding its third annual dinner and dance to “share the spirit of the holiday season with friends and neighbors at a fundraising dinner dance.”
New York City jazz violinist Majid Khaliq will play at the Doe Bay Café with Orcas Island’s own jazz legend Willie Thomas, Gene Nery, Martin Lund and Charlie Porter from “Dallas Brass” along with special guests “The Fiddlin’ Four.”
Orcas Open Arts presents the first Holiday Craft Night on Friday, Dec. 10 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Orcas Island Artworks will celebrate the holidays on Sunday, Dec. 12 from 3 to 6 p.m. There is no charge for admission; everyone is invited to share refreshments and good cheer.
Coinciding with the Holiday Tree Lighting on Dec. 3 is “Shop the Rock” holiday weekend, with businesses encouraged to stay…
Orcas Fire and Rescue is reminding the community that its apparatus must respond very carefully in order to arrive safely…
Orcas Family Health Center is holding its third annual dinner and dance to “share the spirit of the holiday season…
Nearly the entire Orcas Island High school strings class traveled to Lynden, Wash. for the annual San Juan Music Educators Association Honor Orchestra on Nov. 12.
Six out of nine members went. (Cellists Enzo Thixton and Anthony Kaskurs were ineligible, as they are in middle school; high schooler Winter Hyatt did not attend.) At least three people had been last year too. Participants from Orcas were: Brigid Ehrmantraut (viola), Jules Mann (second violin), Adrien Erickson (second violin), Cameron Smart (second violin), Susanne Meitzner (first violin), and Mackie Blackburn (first violin).
Our director Pamela Wright, who also directs middle school strings, fifth and sixth grade strings, and teaches K-4 general music at Orcas Island Public School, came with us to observe.
The life of the prawn is a mystery to many, despite its popularity as a local seafood.
Did you know they are usually born male, reproduce for a few years, then become female and reproduce for a few more years before they die at the early age of five? Did you know that spot prawns are actually shrimp, not prawns, and that they are the largest of the seven shrimp species commercially harvested in the area?
Susan Osborn and friends are presenting a musical celebration of Christmas and the winter season.
