Roving Update reporter-at-large Louise Dustrude files this report: The San Juan Island Trails Committee is one of 30 local organizations in the state nominated for one of three awards by Feet First, a statewide organization supporting the creation of healthy, safe, and vibrant places for people to walk. The local advocacy group was selected for  Continue Reading

Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens is in the town of Greenbank on Whidbey Island. The woodland garden encompasses ten acres of display and educational gardens enveloped by forty-three acres of woodland preserve. The guided horticultural tour, on trails of crushed gravel, mulch and grass, generally lasts 1.5 hours. When: April 12, 2014 – depart on the 8:05  Continue Reading

Here’s a great upcoming business workshop from EDASC (the Ecomomic Development Association of Skagit County), partners of our local Economic Development Council. Their courses are open to San Juan County residents, and all of the courses are live-streamed so you can attend from your business or home… A three part video production workshop begins March  Continue Reading

If you like this little fella, “Jake”, you’re going to want to meet his brothers and sisters – all seven of them! This litter of eight 6-week old puppies have just arrived at the shelter and will soon be ready for adoption! As close as we can tell they are Labrador-German Shepherd mixes but we  Continue Reading

Last Call for Children’s Festival Activity Providers! Island Rec is still recruiting for local organizations that would like to participate in the 24th Annual Children’s Festival by hosting an activity. In keeping with this year’s festival theme – Wild Wild West! – activity providers will be joined by the likes of SJI EMS, Families and  Continue Reading

Master Gardeners’ Annual Native Plant Sale – Order deadline extended to March 21st There is still time to order native plants from the San Juan County Master Gardener/Conservation District Native Plant Sale! The sale is scheduled for March 29th, from 9 AM – 12 noon, on San Juan (Fairgrounds), Lopez (Sunshine Builders) and Orcas Islands  Continue Reading

Here’s a report from Mike Vouri, Chief of Interpretation & Historian at San Juan Island National Historical Park…. A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that more than 261,000 visitors in 2012 spent $14 million in San Juan Island National Historical Park and in communities in the northwest Washington region. That spending supported more than 167 jobs in the  Continue Reading

Katie over at Friends of the San Juans has this announcement to share with you… March 24, 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.  The accident caused a sea change in the environmental consciousness of an entire generation and created a new awareness about the risks of resource extraction and transport.  Twenty-five years  Continue Reading

Rising From Ashes, a spellbinding documentary narrated by Forest Whitaker about the first-ever Rwandan national cycling team in their bid to make history and represent their country at the 2012 Olympics. Competing in a white man’s sport often reserved for the privileged, a rag tag group of cyclists coached by the first American to ride  Continue Reading

Here’s a recent press release from CenturyLink… CenturyLink, as part of its ongoing commitment to its customers in San Juan County, is actively working to provide network redundancy. This redundancy will allow voice, Internet, E911 and other critical services to be rerouted onto other facilities to maintain service in the event of a fiber cut  Continue Reading