It’s always good to hear about good things happening just across the water. On Lopez Island, they celebrated Guatemalan cooking with Chef Juan Carlos Mendoza. Here’s Barbara Keller with the story….” For years I have been excited about a wonderful community development program on the shores of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. This week ten lucky  Continue Reading

  Friday Harbor, Wash. – Come to The Whale Museum for “Coffee & Conversation” from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. on Friday, September 5. If you haven’t been to the Museum lately, this is a great time to come in and enjoy light refreshments while getting to know the Museum better.  Hosted by executive director  Continue Reading

This is Dr. Vincent Shu and he would like your opinions on a project he is working on. He would like to bring a natural science college to Friday Harbor: The Washington Institute of Natural Sciences School of Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine and a Community Clinic Center for Integrative Medicine. And he would like to  Continue Reading

This summer’s drift card drop will study oil spill impacts in the Salish Sea. Plywood drift cards stamped with “this could be oil” were released this week in an experiment to simulate the dispersion of an oil spill from Kinder Morgan’s planned $5.4 billion pipeline expansion project that would increase tanker traffic from 5 ships  Continue Reading

Here is a statement from the San Juan Education Association… San Juan Education Association members are hopeful they can come to a fair and reasonable contract settlement with San Juan Island School District Sunday at their next scheduled bargaining session. The contract expires Aug. 31 and teachers and other school specialists voted last Monday to  Continue Reading

This just in from Rick Thompson, SJI School District… For the past several months, the San Juan Island School District and the San Juan Education Association, (the teacher’s union) have been meeting to collaboratively negotiate a new contract to replace the agreement that expires on August 31, 2014. As of the end of our last  Continue Reading

With the help of the San Juan County Land Bank, the San Juan Preservation Trust, State and National Parks, and local landowners, Rochelle Kelly of the UW has been able to study bats in the San Juan Islands this summer. In appreciation of all this support, she is sharing her experience with the public. Rochelle  Continue Reading

The Port of Friday Harbor will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 5pm at Ernie’s Cafe at 744 Airport Circle Drive, Friday Harbor, WA. The purpose of this meeting is for the Commission to conduct a Public Hearing on the proposed Airport Master Plan Update. For questions please contact Deanna Eltinge  Continue Reading

The Whale Museum is pleased to welcome Lynne Barre and Scott Rumsey as part of the 2014 Summer Lecture Series.  The talk entitled “Salmon Recovery Supporting Orca Recovery” will take place at The Whale Museum on Wednesday, September 3 at 6:30 p.m. Lynne Barre and Scott Rumsey from NOAA Fisheries will give a presentation that  Continue Reading

FRIENDS of the San Juans is honored and excited to host a public introduction and benefit in support of “Our Shared Responsibility: A Totem Pole Journey” at English Camp this evening, August 29th at 7 p.m. The totem pole will be shared with our island community at the ceremony. The House of Tears Carvers would  Continue Reading

Bitumen Chip Brownies at the San Juan County Fair San Juan Islanders for Safe Shipping says thank you to all of you who stopped by to buy a brownie, spin the oil tanker Wheel of Fortune, and/or sign the petition at our booth at the County Fair. All of your signatures will be attached to  Continue Reading

The Friday Art Market winds up its 2014 season this Friday, 3:00-7:00pm, at Brickworks Plaza. There will be local artisans from San Juan, Orcas, Lopez and Waldron Islands, selling their hand-crafted works of art. Cynthia’s of Course will provide a variety of sweet and savory dishes and music will be provided by Teddy Deane from  Continue Reading

The SJC Land Bank has a new Volunteer/Outreach Coordinator and she sends over this letter of introduction… Hello! Just a quick note to introduce myself, Tanja Williamson, the new Volunteer/Outreach Coordinator for San Juan County Land Bank. I live in Friday Harbor, along with my two sons (Miles, 13 and Jasper, 9), my husband (Steve),  Continue Reading

Early Learning Lab for Children Coming to San Juan Island on Thursday, September 11. Thrive by Five Washington’s Early Learning Lab is coming to San Juan Island in partnership with the San Juan Island Library and the San Juan Island Family Resource Center. The Lab will be available to explore Thursday, Sept. 11 from 10:00  Continue Reading

Here’s a fun email that came in the other day from David Bentley; Thanks David! Tim, Your Ace Reporter/Photographer, Louise Dustrude, was taking photos at the Know Your Island walk on Saturday at the Peach Health Peace Island Medical Center “Peace Path”. This is a photo of what she couldn’t see on the top of  Continue Reading

Gail wants you to know they’re meeting again to sing next week… If you love to sing, join us – we are the Friday Harbor Song Circle. We meet to sing together twice a month. You will need to have a copy of Rise Up Singing or 10 copies of your favorite song to share.  Continue Reading