The 71st Annual Meeting of the members of Orcas Power and Light Cooperative (OPALCO) is scheduled for Saturday, May 17 on the Anacortes ferry. All members and their families are invited and encouraged to attend. There are 900 electric co-ops in the nation, and OPALCO is famous for being the only co-op to have its annual meeting aboard a ferry. Co-op member participation is key: OPALCO must have a quorum of at least 100 members on the ferry to meet the requirements for its annual meeting.
Whatcom Community College announced the students appointed to the Dean’s List for Winter Quarter 2008, and Conrad V. Wrobel was on the list. Students are named to the Dean’s List for high scholastic achievement. Conrad is the son of Laura Wrobel.
By Scott Rasmussen County reporter It could be three years or more before steel or scrap metal are recycled again…
The next Orcas Family Health Center free well-child checks. The latest are on the evenings of Tuesday May 6 and Tuesday May 20, from 5-6:30 p.m. The free clinics are made possible through a grant from the United Way Foundation.
The next meeting of the Orcas Island Camera Club is May 6 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Betty Lundeen Room of the Senior Center.
On Saturday, May 10, the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories (FHL) will hold its annual open house. This event offers an opportunity to meet scientists and students at the Labs and check out the research and teaching facilities.
Beginning on Saturday, May 3, the Orcas Public Library’s Saturday storytimes will be held from 11:30 am to noon on the Village Green during the Farmers Market season. In case of inclement weather, storytimes will be held at the Library.
The Orcas Center Theatre Productions staff is putting out a call for monologues about “Pets: Why we live with them and why we don’t.”
A talk and panel discussion of the current situation in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel, will be presented on Saturday, May 10, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.
The first season of the lecture series Crossroads: Ideas for a New Century will conclude on Friday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. with a presentation by Barbara Grosz, who will discuss Computing Collaboratively: How Our Computers Ought to Work.
Stephan Michael Bosch of Eastsound recently graduated from South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia. He earned an Associate of Technical Arts degree in fire and emergency services technology.
At a special meeting of the Lopez Island School District Board of Directors on April 16 the Board approved the selling of $1.6 million worth of new money capital projects bonds, as approved by the voters in February. At the same time, and in the same process, the District also refinanced its remaining approximate $1.4 million debt from a 1997 bond. As a result, the overall tax rate was actually reduced from the low tax rate projected by the District in bond presentations leading up to the February elections. The results of that election drew the highest approval percentage in the state for school district bond proposals in that February’s elections. The new projected tax rate has been dropped to $.28 for the combined new and refinanced bonds.
