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

Couldn’t help but think of this song, with all the commotion going on in the Gulf….always loved the line: “To live on the land, we must learn from the sea….” It’s John Denver, with Calypso:

Torrey over at the Presbyterian Church says this will be pretty cool: King’s High School: Living Faith & Abundant Life Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church May 8th, 7 p.m. King’s High School Living Faith is a select group with student rhythm section that comes out of the King’s High School Concert Choir. They sing all styles  Continue Reading

Seems like whenever there’s an event – the Fair, the Children’s Festival, the Arts Fair downtown, and more – the Kiwanis Club’s K-Boose is there. Thanks, you guys!

It’s always cool to get to perform with your son, and that’s what Kate Schuman gets to do on Saturday night at the Peppermill with Hank, with a little help from everybody’s good friend Ryan Browne. Here’s the scoop, from the San Juan Calendar.

Jan Bollwinkel-Smith has the scoop: My Fair Lady Opens THIS Weekend! “Wouldn’t it be Loverly” to hear the sweet sounds of “The Rain in Spain” right “On the Street [okay,Island] Where You Live?” You’ll get that chance starting this Friday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m. when My Fair Lady opens for ten performances on San  Continue Reading

The Community Dinner is today – see ya there! I asked Liz what was on the menu – here’s the scoop: Please come join us on Tuesday, Cuatro de Mayo for a great meal and entertainment! The Chef 1.0 and 2.0 students will be serving up tacos, the Culinary Arts students will be making fresh  Continue Reading

There was a lot going on, and it was great to get out! Did you know: • Back to the island: They’ve been living on Vashon Island the last year, but Krissy Haugan & Michael Soltman came back to the island to get married this past weekend, with a ceremony at the bluff at Friday  Continue Reading

The Children’s Festival this past weekend was another reminder why this is a great place to raise kids – this free event has been going on since 1991, and brings together the children of the island to play & get painted & dress up & explore & dance with each other & with their parents  Continue Reading

there are so many tictoc clocks everywhere telling people what toctic time it is for tictic instance five toc minutes toc past six tic Spring is not regulated and does not get out of order nor do its hands a little jerking move over numbers slowly we do not wind it up it has no  Continue Reading

Last week the Chamber held its first awards banquet – here’s the scoop: San Juan Island Chamber Celebrates Business at First Annual Banquet Across the nation numerous Chambers of Commerce celebrate the success of the businesses in their community with an Annual Awards Ceremony. On April 29 the San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce had  Continue Reading

I love it when people send me pictures of how nice it is in this area we live in….thanks for sharing, my friends.