Notes from the Island — Sept. 6

• The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for the nine miss­ing pas­sen­gers from the Sun­day after­noon crash of a North­west Sea­planes DHC‑3 Tur­bine Otter that was bound for Ren­ton after leav­ing Fri­day Har­bor. The body of a tenth pas­sen­ger was recov­ered on Sun­day. The air­craft crashed in Mutiny Bay off the west side of Whid­bey Island. At the time, weath­er con­di­tions near Mutiny Bay were scat­tered clouds, with a vis­i­bil­i­ty of 10 miles, accord­ing to the Nation­al Weath­er Service.
• Accord­ing to the Wash­ing­ton State Depart­ment of Ecol­o­gy, dive crews have fin­ished cut­ting away free-float­ing net­ting from the sunken fish­ing ves­sel Aleut­ian Isle. They have also secured all remain­ing entan­gle­ment haz­ards and have start­ed to attach the rig­ging that will be used to lift the ves­sel from a depth of more than 200 feet off the west side of San Juan Island.
• San Juan Island Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre’s screen­ing of The Book of Dust from The Nation­al The­atre in Lon­don takes place tonight at 7 p.m.
• The San Juan Islands Sculp­ture Park’s month­ly bird walk hap­pens tomor­row from 8–10 a.m. Local bird­er Tyler Davis will lead the walk, which focus­es on iden­ti­fi­ca­tion by sight and sound, and the life his­to­ries of some of the island’s most pop­u­lar res­i­dent species. Every­one is wel­come, dona­tions are wel­come, and binoc­u­lars are recommended.
• Arch­i­pel­ago Col­lec­tive’s Cham­ber Music Fes­ti­val takes place this Fri­day, Sat­ur­day, and Sun­day, with four per­for­mances over three days at Brick­works and the San Juan Islands Muse­um of Art.

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