By San Juan Island EMS San Juan Island EMS Com­mu­ni­ty Para­medic Lainey Volk spent a por­tion of her day on Thanks­giv­ing deliv­er­ing din­ners to 15 of her patients/clients who are vul­ner­a­ble and shut-in. Sev­er­al of these peo­ple have no oth­er fam­i­ly on the island. The meals, includ­ing turkey with all the trim­mings, were pro­cured from  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Wash­ing­ton State Depart­ment of Health The Wash­ing­ton State Depart­ment of Health is adopt­ing the new Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion guide­lines to reduce quar­an­tine for peo­ple who have been exposed to COVID-19. Although both the Wash­ing­ton State Depart­ment of Health and CDC cur­rent­ly rec­om­mend a quar­an­tine peri­od of 14 days, there are cir­cum­stances  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Town of Fri­day Har­bor The Town of Fri­day Har­bor thanks the com­mu­ni­ty for sup­port­ing the local food bank with their gen­er­ous con­tri­bu­tions to the Har­bor Life Ring pro­gram this Novem­ber. Town util­i­ty cus­tomer dona­tions of $3,010 were matched with a $2,000 grant from the town for a total dona­tion of $5,010 to the Fri­day  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Island Library The San Juan Island Library presents “Clas­sic Films for the Hol­i­days” at 7 p.m., Wednes­day, Dec. 9, online. Join Therese Finn – that Elf of Enter­tain­ment, Host­ess of Hol­i­days – in review­ing a hand­ful of clas­sic hol­i­day films.  She’ll do a sled-by of the clas­sic clas­sics: “It’s a Won­der­ful Life,” “White  Con­tin­ue Reading

By EDC The San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil is resum­ing reg­u­lar pro­gram­ming with the return of our Busi­ness Recov­ery Zoom Meet­ings, now called Busi­ness Recov­ery Work­shops. This bi-week­­ly work­shop, in a Zoom envi­ron­ment, will give busi­ness own­ers the oppor­tu­ni­ty to speak with pro­fes­sion­als on a wide vari­ety of top­ics relat­ed to the con­tin­u­ing eco­nom­ic  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Coun­ty Since the last update on Fri­day, Nov. 25, total cas­es in San Juan Coun­ty have increased from 63 to 66. Two of these new cas­es are on San Juan Island, the oth­er is on Lopez Island. Cur­rent pos­i­tive case num­bers are avail­able online at the San Juan Coun­ty Case count page.  Con­tin­ue Reading

“FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Inte­ri­or Alas­ka” is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update. By Steve Ulvi, San Juan Island Just how much dif­fer­ence can a few bun­nies make? Com­mon notions when hear­ing of the place called Alas­ka, are a mish-mash of life expe­ri­ences (or lack there­of), book­ish knowl­edge and an active imag­i­na­tion. That place  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Island Library Receive “tech help” thanks to the San Juan Island Library, at 3 p.m., Mon­days, Dec. 7, 14, 21, and 28. Get help with com­put­ers, tablets and smart­phones via Zoom. After deter­min­ing your needs, you will work one-on-one with a vol­un­teer. This class is designed to help you learn to use your tech­nol­o­gy  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Coun­ty Start­ing Jan. 1, a new Wash­ing­ton state vital records law and rules go into effect. This will change the order­ing require­ments for birth and death cer­tifi­cates. The changes include: For increased secu­ri­ty of per­son­al infor­ma­tion, only indi­vid­u­als with spe­cif­ic rela­tion­ships to the per­son on the record being request­ed can receive a  Con­tin­ue Reading

Santa’s Mail­box, Hol­i­day Dec­o­rat­ing Con­test By Bec­ki Day, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, San Juan Island Cham­ber of Com­merce On behalf of the San Juan Island Cham­ber of Com­merce Board of Direc­tors and myself, we hope you all had a nice, although dif­fer­ent, Thanks­giv­ing week­end. We also hope you got to enjoy a lit­tle bit of the hol­i­day  Con­tin­ue Reading