Sorry to hear about Jerry Spendiff‘s passing – regards & condolences to LouAnne & Tiffany & Ashley… Also – heard that Shannon Smith (FHHS ’94) passed away….

IMA’s Wendy Smith says this was fun – here’s her story: IMA’s “Green Summer 2010” Luncheon The San Juan Islands Museum of Art & Sculpture Park (IMA), hosted a ‘Green Summer 2010’ luncheon Monday, May 3 at the Community Theatre’s Gubelman room.  The luncheon was to announce IMA’s upcoming summer exhibition Green: ON THE EDGE,  Continue Reading

Sandy from Historic Friday Harbor has a couple of ways for you to explore Friday Harbor: Saturday, May 15, 1-4pm, San Juan Historical Museum Silver Tea and Quilt Show. An island tradition, the Historical Museum’s Silver Tea celebrates island parlor teas of an earlier time. This year a sampling of the Museum’s impressive collection of  Continue Reading

Roger asked me to tell you this educational forum is coming up on Thursday: I wanted to write to inform you that the San Juan Island Chapter of the ACLU of Washington will present an educational forum entitled, “Marijuana: Time for a Conversation” on May 13, 2010, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Friday  Continue Reading

Janet Thomas told me about Andrew coming this coming weekend, and she says he’s pretty awesome – see what you think: CULTIVATING HOPE: A WORKSHOP with ANDREW HARVEY in FRIDAY HARBOR** Saturday, May 15 at The Yoga Path (849 C Spring Street, Friday Harbor) from 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.  Cost: $75 **Workshop schedule accommodates  Continue Reading

Barbara at Gallery San Juan hopes you can drop by: We are opening the season with our first show!  We are very excited to introduce Janice Maple to our gallery.  Her vibrant and vivid images make a strong colorful statement of her love for nature. Matt Dollahite will be unveiling his winter’s studio paintings, large  Continue Reading

There’s a presentation at the Historical Museum about the role of building blocks in Friday Harbor’s history on Wednesday – here’s the story behind THAT story: Casting the First Stone: The History of Concrete Block Buildings in Friday Harbor with Boyd C. Pratt, architectural historian Wednesday, May 12th 7pm San Juan Historical Museum, 405 Price  Continue Reading

Beth from the Library says you can check out audio books as well – here’s the scoop: eAudiobooks are now available at the San Juan Island Library through OCLC NetLibrary. Residents of San Juan Island now have anytime, anywhere access to nearly 3,000 different eAudiobook titles. eAudiobooks can be accessed and downloaded via the library’s  Continue Reading

Ruth gets the season underway this coming weekend with Art Hansen – here’s the details: Art Hansen – Celebrating 80 Solo Show, 
Recent watercolors and 25 years of etchings and selected lithographs May 15 – June 6, 2010 Waterworks Gallery’s first show of the year features Art Hansen. Art’s stylistically simplified watercolor landscapes are well  Continue Reading

Barbara Sharp from the Soroptimists sent over this cool report: CUTTING TREES TO SAVE OUR ISLAND’S GARRY OAKS Who would have thought you could spend Earth Day cutting down trees?  Supervised by Doug McCutchen of the San Juan County Land Bank, Soroptimists did just that.  On Saturday, April 17th, volunteers helped restore a significant Garry  Continue Reading

Let’s see what folks are up to around here: • “The Clean Room” finishes up its run at the 4-H Building at the Fairgrounds this weekend…don’t miss it! • Health updates: Debbie Sandwith reports that baby Sonia (the one we had that fundraiser for last month) had a successful heart transplant yesterday. Sounds like all  Continue Reading

How did you get away? You were the pet falcon of an old woman. Did you hear the falcon-drum? You were a drunken songbird put in with owls. Did you smell the odor of a garden? You got tired of sour fermenting and left the tavern. You went like an arrow to the target from  Continue Reading

It was good to see friends (and lots of them!) at the Soltmans’ wedding last weekend – including Krispi Staude, Marty Robinson, and Linda Cooper…and a good time was had by all!

Shannon & Bill Bailey got back three weeks ago from a trip to Costa Rica, where they ran into some old friends – here’s the report from Shannon: Dear Ian, Bill and I just got back last week from two weeks in Costa Rica visiting family and friends, including John and Lyn Bradley, two former  Continue Reading

What’s happening around the island’s businesses, and other events: • Joint Washington State Ferries – Ferry Advisory Committee Meeting – Thursday, May 6, 11:35 am until 3:00 pm on Washington State Ferry (interisland) departs from Friday Harbor at 11:35 am. You may want to be prepared to talk about how critical the summer schedule is  Continue Reading

It’s one of the great, child-friendly & community-friendly events of the year. Last year’s was awesome – you won’t want to miss the chance to swing by. Here’s more from the Labs: Friday Harbor Marine Labs Open House: May 8th from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The public is enthusiastically invited to participate in the  Continue Reading

This adds a little bit to Rod Turnbull’s report from mid-week last week for the playoff picture for the spring sports, based on last weekend’s results – softball, soccer, baseball, golf, girls’ tennis, and track, with soccer in their playoff game today at Nooksack at 4. Here’s the scoop: Friday Harbor Wolverines Spring Playoff Update  Continue Reading

Leslie at the Animal Shelter & a few friends are off to help & learn in Utah – here’s more: UTAH OR BUST!! The staff and some of the volunteers at the Friday Harbor Animal Shelter are getting ready for their journey to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.  The gang will be heading  Continue Reading

Spring Street International School‘s annual “Spring Fling” auction and community celebration is held at the San Juan Island Yacht Club. This year’s event will be May 8th, 2010, 5:00 to 8:30 pm. Here’s the scoop, from the San Juan Island Events Calendar. Here’s more about the auction items – see ya there! Here’s  a bit  Continue Reading

One of the cool things about having both Browne’s Home Center & Ace Hardware in town is they both carry paint…it would help the local economy if WSF bought it here. Looks like there’s a need.

Juan & Heidi Lopez and friends are pulling together a dinner to give folks a chance to help people in Chile…here’s the story: CHILEAN TSUNAMI RELIEF DINNER: May 6th While the news of the earthquake that recently destroyed life, homes and buildings in Chile is losing significance, Chileans living on San Juan Island continue to  Continue Reading

Couple of weeks ago you might have seen truckloads of baseball & softball players parading through town…Update reporter Sophie Rice did, and shot some photos that we put into a little slideshow for you….here’s the pictures of the kids, and the rest of the story from Kris Brown at Printonyx: Friday Harbor Baseball & Softball  Continue Reading