San Juan County Councilman Kevin Ranker told a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on May 27 that Washington is especially vulnerable to the effects of global climate change and quoted a University of Washington study which estimates sea levels in the Puget Sound may rise by half a foot over the next 40 years.
On May 27, members of the Orcas Island School District (OISD) board, OISD Superintendent Glenn Harris and Lopez Island School District Superintendent Bill Evans sat down with State Representatives Dave Quall, chair of the Education Committee, and Jeff Morris, to discuss the current, state-wide school funding crisis, and the political climate to find solutions to the crisis.
A list of government agencies and non-profits awarded funds in 2008 to protect and restore salmon habitats.
List of 2008 Community Foundation Grants
Meetings on May 28 and June 11 re new county hospital
May 22 meeting airs different budget cut suggestions
Testimony of San Juan County Council Member Kevin Ranker before the
U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and the Coast Guard
(of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation)
Kevin Ranker addresses subcommittee on climate change effects in Puget Sound
Monthly meeting for Orcas Village women
Perhaps you remember or have read about families gathering around the wireless in the evening to hear radio shows bringing music, laughter, and literature into peoples’ lives. Members of the home audience could close their eyes, and for a moment it would be as though they were there in the theater. Orcas Islanders will have the opportunity to be part of the live audience when Orcas Center and the local non-profit Artsmith bring “A River and Sound Review” to the Orcas Center on May 31, and later part of the home audience when the performance is made available by podcast.
The Lopez a cappella group, Lopez Sound, has invited some very special guests to perform on the island.
May 8: A 20-year-old Orcas Island woman claims her car was broken into and stolen, and that her belongings removed, by someone who then later returned it to her Pea Patch Lane home using a set of newly-manufactured keys. The originals reportedly remain missing.
The Lopez Island Family Resource Center’s summer workshops just keep getting better.
