‘Round the island….
Posted February 7, 2012 at 12:15 am by Ian Byington
Go down the hall at Jeri's Mall (just behind the Hot Shop on Spring Street) and check out the photos of the FHHS classes before the 1940s...here's the Class of 1924 as an example...they were graduating around the time the dining hall was being finished at the Marine Labs, cars were getting more & more plentiful on the island, and Friday Harbor was a town numbering in the low hundreds. The high school was located where the Community Theatre now is situated.....
Hasn’t it felt like spring the last few days? Add in a full moon tonight (should be beautiful, rising over Lopez after sunset this afternoon….) and we have us a great place to live, don’t you think? Here’s more:
This weekend!
• I got a chance to go to the Playwrights Festival over the weekend, and I hope you carve out the time, too. The six little locally written playlets (approximately 12 minutes each) are each distinct from each other, and range all over – in creativity (one works three songs into its 12 minutes), humor (they’re all funny), and easy-to-follow script writing.
When you’re done, you’ll see first love & the kids leaving home & inheritances & getting into heaven & psychotherapy with video games & birthday parties just a little differently.
It was fun – after the show, I asked four different people which of the six shows was their favorite, and got four different answers. Then, fifteen minutes after THAT, someone wandered by, singing the last song kinda under their breath.
That’s the way it was – something different will stick with different people. Catch this great example of local talent – both writing & acting – this weekend & next at the Community Theatre.
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FHHS' Ryan Allen puts the pressure on the Vikings'6'7" Mikail VanMaren under the hoop in Friday Harbor's 89-39 regular-season-ending victory over Orcas. The boys host Nooksack Valley Wednesday in their first playoff game.
• The Wolverines roll into the basketball playoffs – the girls (14-6) won the league title with their wins over LaConner & Orcas on Friday & Saturday, so they head to Kings for their first playoff game on Thursday.
Meanwhile, our boys (15-5) nailed down second place in league, and they host Nooksack Valley here tomorrow (Wednesday) at 5pm. The Wolverines blew past Orcas 89-39 on Saturday to put up the most points we’ve seen by FHHS in decades, but will have their hands full with the Pioneers, whom we beat by only one earlier this season.
Go Wolverines!
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Every month, The Community Theatre has a different show of art in the lobby - February is always the month for quilts, and it sure was cool to see so much artistry with textiles on display, including Krispi's work, Saturday night. Wahoo!
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• Lots of people collected with the Agricultural Guild at Lakedale last night for a celebration of all the hard work & progress with the Brickworks Project…here’s a little slideshow of the evening:
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Steve Jobs, kinda. Well, close. Well, maybe. (Hard to look serious, anyway.)
• It was great to run into my friend Devon Schwinge (SSIS ’06) on the ferry the other day – he’s always got something interesting going on, and it was cool to see that he was wrapping up the Steve Jobs biography.
I couldn’t help but notice he looks a little like the your Steve, while I bear an amazing non-resemblance to the older Jobs.
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• Tomorrow night at 6:15pm in the middle school commons, it’s Rachel’s Challenge (with dinner an hour before in the FHHS commons).
See you there!
Here are the details about this presentation, which will be also offered to the kids during the day at school.
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• Giving a friend a helping hand:
Andrea
We thought you would want to know that our dear friend and island resident, Andrea Berlatsky, is going through breast cancer treatment.
A benefit account has been set up at Whidbey Island Bank to help offset some of the medical costs.
To learn more, please contact Whidbey Island Bank, and ask about making a donation to the “Andrea Berlatsky Benefit Fund”.
Sincerely, friends of Andrea
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