Around the island….

Let’s hear from our friends….

• When she started her service to the Town of Friday Harbor, Clinton was in office, we were all getting used to calling the date 20-something instead of 19-something, and Gary was still mayor. The Town Council’s longest-serving member announced her resignation last week, reading a sometimes tearful, heartfelt statement that echoes the sense of working hard & spirit of commitment that has come to characterize Carrie Brooks‘s term in office.

Often the swing vote in Council decisions, Carrie’s dedication to the Town and long-view approach to her office will be missed.

Her resignation is effective next week, with Thursday her last day on the Council.

• Soccer signups – today! Here’s more – get your kids signed up!

• Elisa Howard has the word on a Relay for Life fundraiser this weekend – here’s the details:

Ian!
I am hoping you will help us get the word out!! This Saturday, June 26th our Relay Team is doing an island jam for a fundraiser. Lots of local band, food, and fun. It starts at 4:00 at the Tanglewood Amphitheater- 11 Tanglewood Lane- aka Glen Hargrove’s place. Great family event and the money raised goes to the American Cancer Society.
Pre-tickets are $5.00, or $8.00 at the door.  Thanks!

• Meanwhile, Amanda Rennick‘s RFL team has this going on:

This year with Relay for Life, we are doing a couple of different things.  We have set up collection bins around town to collect canned food items to use in luminaria bags to set the candle on (instead of sand).  We are really excited about incorporating this into Relay because all of the canned food will be donated to the food bank after the event on July 25th.  Collection bins are located at Friday Harbor Drug, Islanders Bank and Marketplace.  We are looking for at least one thousand cans, so please help by donating!!

Another exciting feature about this year’s luminaria ceremony will be a photo slide show.  Photos can be emailed to us at [email protected].

Luminarias can be purchased from team captains or any of our committee members. Some forms are available at Islanders Bank and San Juan Healthcare.  Any questions regarding luminaria, please contact Amanda Rennick at [email protected] or 378-7536. Sign up for the event at relayforlifeoffridayharbor.org.  Save the date for July 24 & 25 beginning at 3pm.  See you there!

• Extended hours at the medical center – wahoo! Good for working folks! Here’s more from Carrie Unpingo:

Hi Ian,
Just wanted to let you know that Inter Island Medical Center is extended their hours for the summer, starting July 1!

Our new Physician Assistant, Patricia Davis, will be seeing patients as early as 7:30am Wednesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays for routine care appointments starting July 1. Patients must call to make an appointment.

Pat will also be available for routine care on Saturdays from 9am-4pm, by appointment only. The Saturday clinic will still be available for urgent care and walk-ins only from 10am-1pm with the on-call doctor.

To schedule an appointment at IIMC, please call 378-2141.

Thanks, Ian!

• Swimming this summer at the Fitness Club! Here’s more from Amy Wynn:

Kids can swim from 12-1:30pm any Saturday or Sunday this summer for just $5
at San Juan Island Fitness.  Parents or grandparents can join in the fun for just $5.

Hoping to learn to swim or perfect your stroke this summer?  Check out their
one-week intensive swim lessons.  The first session begins June 28, so hurry in and register.  For more details stop by San Juan Fitness, 435 Argyle
Avenue, or go on-line .

• Nancy from Griffin Bay Books has the book club on Friday – here’s more:

The Griffin Bay Book Club will meet June 25, 7:00 p.m.  to discuss Erica Bauermeister’s acclaimed debut, The School of Essential Ingredients. This is a delightful book to kick off our summer reading. IndieBound describes it this way: “With magical language, first-time novelist Bauermeister weaves the lives of the students in Lillian’s class with the meals prepared and life lessons learned.  Strong, sensuous writing leaves the reader hungry for more.”

All are welcome to attend the Griffin Bay Book Club, which meets the last Friday of the month.

• This weekend, Chamber Music San Juans will include two of Alex’s pieces – here’s more from Jan Bollwinkel-Smith:

We have word from artistic director Patricia Kostek that Chamber Music San JuansAlex Shapiro’s pieces in CMSJ’s June 26 concert.  Alex, who lives on San Juan Island, is one of the Pacific Coast’s more familiar composers of acoustic and electroacoustic chamber music.

The two pieces featured are will perform not just one, but TWO of Intermezzo for clarinet and piano and Elegaic for clarinet, cello and piano (the latter is dedicated to CMSJ and Carolyn Haugen).  The ensemble will also be presenting work by Beethoven, Dahl and Schumann.

Here is Alex’s blog, so you can get to know her a bit….

• Do you look over your e-mail blasts, before you send them? Here’s a little essay from Derek Sivers to remind you to take the extra few seconds it takes to check before you send.

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