Around the island….

There's the work that's being done in the Greenway subdivision to put in the drainage pipes (yay!) to keep the streets from flooding, as they have for 2-3 decades...the excavating was a couple of feet deep when the rains came last weekend, so Malcolm Wynn got out his kayak for a little paddle up the street.

Let’s see what’s going on ’round here….

• Mike Vouri (left, with Mike Cohen & Chris DeStaffany) offers his “Life & Times of General Pickett” tonight at the Community Theatre as a benefit to raise money to help Darlene Wahl with her battle with cancer. The Rumor Mill is also donating 10% of tonight’s proceeds (from 4pm-11pm), so that’s a good place to have dinner before the show! Here’s more.

• Sports check: The playoffs begin today for the FHHS soccer girls, as they head to the mainland for their game with Lynden Christian this afternoon…they had a nice run of a 5-0 win over Orcas, a 3-2 win over Bear Creek before losing 2-1 this Monday with LaConner.

Meanwhile, the volleyball team heads to the playoffs on Saturday off-island, while the football guyscome off last weekend’s wild 36-35 loss to Lynden Christian (we beat ’em 40-20 the first time – that’s a lot of points for us, in two games!) to play Kings on Friday to start the playoffs.

Just a little fog left in the marina earlier this week as the ferry comes in....photo by Kevin Holmes.

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