Shane over at Orca Relief says there’s a movie tonight you won’t want to miss: The award-winning film The Cove will show on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 7:00pm at the Palace Theatre as a fundraiser for Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance. The film’s director, Louie Psihoyos, will be at the showing. Psihoyos is also the  Continue Reading

Over at the Rocky Bay Cafe, owner Kira Sable says ace waitress & ruthlessly cheerful food server Sara Totten is on her way to Seattle – that’s her at graduation in June at Skagit, in the photo to the right, with mom Mary. Here’s more: Hi Ian! I’m writing to let you know that Sara’s  Continue Reading

Shannon wrote to tell me that Allison & Bob Benz found the dogs – thanks for helping look for them! Jan wrote to say they had just wandered off, as dogs sometimes do…

  You’ve seen her book of killer whales with the killer photography, but Monika Wieland is keeping up with the plants, too.   Check out her Orca Watcher blog – she’s turning out an extensive catalog of the plants around here. Click here to see the latest entry of photos ( the fourth in the  Continue Reading

A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy. John Sawhill, former president/CEO of The Nature Conservancy

One of my favorite artists is watercolorist Teresa Smith, who continues to paint & teach although she moved off the island about 6-7 years ago. I caught up with her in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday, and she reports she’s been doing great – Erica & Michelle are both high school grads while Emma is in  Continue Reading

We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth’s functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the  Continue Reading

My friend Amar Kaur (she goes by Alicia Robinson at FHHS during her workdays) is moving to California, and asked if I could let you know about some stuff she has for sale: Alicia ‘Amar Kaur’ Robinson is leaving San Juan Island School District and headed to school herself this fall.  She begins her Clinical  Continue Reading

Remember Elizabeth Churape? She graduated from FHHS in 2004 & went off to Seattle University for school…along the way she had her son & now is aiming to finish up this next school year. Good to see her & her boy on the ferry the other day!

A couple named Chris & Natalie visited the island this past weekend – here is their story, in pictures (from their blog).