After opening last week, the Island Stage Left performance of Henry V continues this week on Wold Road this coming weekend (Friday-Sunday)…see you there!

What’s happening…. • We couldn’t lose – we had five qualified & involved folks who said they’d be happy to work as a Town Council member, and the TC chose Barbara Starr to serve on Thursday…they swore her in & she got to attend her first meeting as a member that day….congrats, Barb! • Correction  Continue Reading

Judy Chovan says she & Bob think the latest Island Stage Left show is awesome: Bob & I went to Henry V last night. Please pass the word – it is brilliant! “A little touch of Harry in the night.” For all our “we happy few” of islanders – Island Stage Left’s production of Henry  Continue Reading

If you like words, you’ll probably like these: Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine. A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. Dijon vu – the same mustard as before. Practice safe eating – always use condiments. Shotgun wedding – A case of wife or death. A  Continue Reading

This beautiful photo was taken a couple of weeks ago by photographer Michele Wassell when she was visiting the islands & out on a whale watching trip with Jim Maya. She has beautiful photos, and she has a beautiful thing going on with her daughter, Kayla. It’s a great story of the great love a  Continue Reading

Yep, it starts this Friday at Wold Road…here’s the scoop! See you there!

Hey, remember I told you about islander Keith Busha‘s film Dreams of Damanhur? (you’ll remember in my review of it, I reported it was freakin’ awesome, or something to that effect.) Well, tomorrow (Thursday), Keith will be interviewed on KKNW (AM1150 – they say they are  Seattle’s #1 alternative talk radio)….he’ll be interviewed about Damanhur  Continue Reading

Let’s see what’s up ’round here… • This summer marks Port of Friday Harbor Port Director Marilyn O’Connor‘s 25th year with the Port…she told me last night how lucky she is to be here, and I would add that we’re lucky to have her, both as bookkeeper/accountant for so many years & now as Director.  Continue Reading

To know her is to love her – Jessica Oldwyn‘s bright cheerful spirit & light-up-the-room smile made friends here on the island (she’s a 1998 grad of Friday Harbor High) and in her current home on the river in Wenatchee. Well, friends of hers have put together a fundraiser for Friday, July 23 – an  Continue Reading

She is one of the island’s quiet but brightest treasures…. author & teacher Janet Thomas wrote the definitive study of the WTO protests in ’99 (The Battle in Seattle) and numerous other pieces. She offering a series of workshops this summer that will change the way you look at things, and the way you write.  Continue Reading

Cynthia Stark-Wickman tells me that her husband Gunnar has a new undertaking underway, with the help & support of Cynthia and their two daughters, Lara & Audrey… here’s the writeup about San Juan Water Taxi, and here’s more from Cynthia: Hey, Ian! Our family started up a new business this summer, San Juan Islands Water  Continue Reading

Andrea from the Lighthouse Preschool Board has news: Lighthouse Preschool Welcomes Teachers Amy Pauls and Autumn Hallock Lighthouse Preschool Board and Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church are delighted to introduce their Preschool Co-teachers for the 2010-2011 school year.  The Board has created a co-teaching Team by hiring two women who love to teach preschoolers, have had  Continue Reading

Fearless reader of the Update: It is my hope that you wake every day either looking for poems to read & feel, or looking to share poems like that, or maybe to find the words, ideas & feelings to build poems of your own to share (like flowers from your garden, or cookies you just  Continue Reading

Laura‘s taking off after Wednesday, but there’s a going away thing at the Library on Wednesday at 5…be sure & come by! Here’s more in a press release from the Library folks: Laura Tretter, director of the San Juan Island Library since 2006, announced that she will be leaving to accept a position with the  Continue Reading

Let’s see what’s going down in town…. • Let’s get the restaurants straight, since this is the day you usually figure out where & when you’re gonna eat out….isn’t it? Among the restaurants that change their days closed because of the season, here’s a handy scorecard – these folks are all closed one day a  Continue Reading

A little bit of this & that…. • Looks like they caught the Barefoot Bandit over the weekend in the Bahamas…here’s more. If it turns out he’s convicted of all the stuff he’s accused of, island residents will be able to rest safer. He wasn’t Robin Hood…. • Yep, that was the Island Studios Gorilla  Continue Reading