The Chamber is sponsoring this event – hope you can make it! Here’s more from Vernadel: Join the San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce for a special session on the proposed Farmer’s Market Building on Nichols Street. Lovel Pratt will share information about the project and Cathaleen Cavanagh will discuss concerns about the project. Thursday,  Continue Reading

Here are a few things you might have heard about… • Longtime islanders know about Vivian Burnett’s Dolphin Arts/Cotton Cotton Cotton shop, which she sold to Christine Mays (she & Jimmy Mays got married in June 2007 – scroll to the bottom of this retro-news blast from the San Juan Update for their picture). Great  Continue Reading

It was about a month or two ago that I mentioned in passing that people need twelve hugs a day to stay emotionally & spiritually healthy. Remember that? Since then, I’ve gotten a bit of a landslide of mail suggesting different ways you can get your quota in…see what you think: • Go to the  Continue Reading

Well, yeah! Melina sent over this little collage from the Library – click here to see the large version (so you can really see the people!)

Since San Juan Island has more artists & photographers & graphic artists & musicians than any place you ever saw, here’s a bit about what happens when graphic artists get bored.

If there’s anyone who knows about wine here on the island, it’s Stan Reitan. He files this report about San Juan Vineyards on his BeLucid wine blog: check it out.

Couple of ideas for getting fresh salmon: • Matt at Compost-It (next to Roy’s Coffee, on the corner next to Ferry Lot B) sells salmon he catches around here, there…check with him & Maureen about when he’ll have some next (Josie & I got some last week, and it was good….) • Dianna Hoffman with  Continue Reading

Couple of ideas for getting fresh salmon: • Matt at Compost-It (next to Roy’s Coffee, on the corner next to Ferry Lot B) sells salmon he catches around here, there…check with him & Maureen about when he’ll have some next (Josie & I got some last week, and it was good….) • Dianna Hoffman with  Continue Reading

San Juan Healthcare’s series of free classes continues this week with San Juan Holistic Healthcare‘s Mark Earnhart, who will be discussing “The Holistic Approach to a Healthy Heart.” The class is Thursday – here’s more.

I asked Mark Gardner if I could occasionally post some of his work, and he nicely said, “Sure!” so here’s the senior portrait he did with FHHS senior Hannah Laws (above). You can see more islanders (mostly) that he’s photographed in this gallery – see who you know!