I know very lit­tle about Fire Dis­trict Com­mis­sion­er Frank Car­di­nale, but last after­noon dur­ing our first joint meet­ing with the Fire Dis­trict to dis­cuss inte­gra­tion, Com­mis­sion­er Car­di­nale showed me every­thing I need to know about him. He is dis­re­spect­ful, attack­ing, accusato­ry, aggres­sive, and clear­ly not inter­est­ed in get­ting to know our new hos­pi­tal dis­trict board or being remote­ly col­lab­o­ra­tive.  Con­tin­ue Reading

I am writ­ing on behalf of San Juan Island Fire Dis­trict #3 to extend our board­’s full and deep­est apol­o­gy for the offen­sive com­ment made by Com­mis­sion­er Car­di­nale dur­ing last night’s joint com­mis­sion meet­ing. The com­mis­sion­er’s com­ment was offen­sive, dis­re­spect­ful and com­plete­ly inap­pro­pri­ate. Fire Dis­trict #3 does not in any way con­done the use of  Con­tin­ue Reading

Edi­tor: Some­thing shame­ful hap­pened Tues­day after­noon.  The San Juan Coun­ty Pub­lic Hos­pi­tal Dis­trict Com­mis­sion­ers (PHD) and the San Juan Coun­ty Fire Dis­trict 3 (FD3) Com­mis­sion­ers held a vir­tu­al joint pub­lic meet­ing to dis­cuss the pos­si­bil­i­ty of resum­ing dis­cus­sion of inte­grat­ing San Juan Island Emer­gency Med­ical Ser­vice (EMS) and FD3. The meet­ing was pro­gress­ing with some fric­tion.   Con­tin­ue Reading

SJ His­tor­i­cal Muse­um with their His­to­ry Col­umn for August… It was pret­ty easy to choose a top­ic for this month’s his­to­ry col­umn. Last month’s col­umn sug­gest­ed a theme when we came upon the fun pho­to from the 1981 Fourth of July Parade and decid­ed to use it, since we didn’t have a parade this year.  Con­tin­ue Reading

Water­works new show, Art AiSLE, fea­tures acrylic on pan­el paint­ings by Kalin­di Kunis. Join us wear­ing your mask for a social­ly dis­tanced open­ing on Thurs­day, July 30, 4:00 — 7:00 pm. The show will con­tin­ue 07/30 — 09/30   Water­works Gallery is proud to present Kalin­di Kunis’s newest body of work cre­at­ed espe­cial­ly for this show. These acrylic paint­ings por­tray  Con­tin­ue Reading

A note from Scott Sluis and the San Juan Island Cham­ber of Com­merce… I, well we (The SJ Cham­ber of Com­merce), want to say a sin­cere thank you and also con­grat­u­la­tions to Susan Doyle and her hus­band Michael from Susie’s Mope­ds, as of July 1, 2020 the busi­ness has been sold and Susie and Michael will start  Con­tin­ue Reading

We hear from Diane Mar­tin­dale at the San Juan Islands Muse­um of Art… Don’t miss our first vir­tu­al Artist Talk on Sun­day, August 9, 11:00 am fea­tur­ing Hol­ly Bal­lard Martz (DOMESTIC BLISS) and June Sekiguchi (THE PULSE OF WATER).    Hol­ly and June will be walk­ing you through their exhi­bi­tions and answer­ing ques­tions from vir­tu­al par­tic­i­pants!    RSVP  Con­tin­ue Reading

This Know Your islanders Talk will be avail­able via ZOOM on August 3, 2020 at 7:00 pm Brady Ryan will be dis­cussing the sci­ence and prac­tice of sea salt pro­duc­tion along with some inter­est­ing things he has learned about run­ning a small business–San Juan Sea Salt–for the last nine years.  Bring your curios­i­ty! Join Zoom Meet­ing:  Con­tin­ue Reading

Olympia—Through­out August, the Wash­ing­ton Inva­sive Species Coun­cil and the Wash­ing­ton Depart­ment of Nat­ur­al Resources (DNR) are ask­ing the pub­lic to take 10 min­utes to check trees in their com­mu­ni­ties for inva­sive insects. August is the peak time of year that wood-bor­ing insects are most often spot­ted out­side of trees. “State and fed­er­al agen­cies do a fan­tas­tic  Con­tin­ue Reading

If you vis­it the Sculp­ture Park at Roche Har­bor on a warm sum­mer day you may feel drawn toward the shade of the for­est path. Should you ven­ture into the wood­ed path you may find some sur­pris­es. Island artists Ani­ta Bar­reca and Fran­cie Hansen joined by oth­ers includ­ing Beth Spadafo­ra and Jason Munkres have adorned  Con­tin­ue Reading