My friends, I am Pied­mont, Cat of Dis­tinc­tion.  I find myself tem­porar­i­ly with­out a place to call home.  I’m hop­ing you were able to attend the grand open­ing of our brand-new ani­mal shel­ter Sat­ur­day.  That way, you’ll know where to find me when I move into my new suite very soon.  If you are look­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update, writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… While it may still seem like sum­mer can’t real­ly be over already, believe it or not, it is time to think about this year’s Hol­i­day Craft Fair. This will be the Mullis Cen­ter’s Sec­ond Annu­al Arti­san Fair. I went last year  Con­tin­ue Reading

Thanks to Dot Van­dav­eer for recount­ing the Gar­den Club’s Recent Trip… At the dawn­ing of the morn­ing on Sep­tem­ber 18, 2018, six­teen per­sons assem­bled at the San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty The­ater park­ing lot to board two vehi­cles that would take them on an adven­ture that had not been pre­vi­ous­ly expe­ri­enced by the San Juan Island Gar­den  Con­tin­ue Reading

EDC presents Cli­mate Change for Busi­ness – a work­shop on mit­i­gat­ing cli­mate change impacts… Busi­ness and farm own­ers or man­agers are invit­ed to join the San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil (EDC) for a 5‑hour work­shop and dis­cus­sion on the top­ic of Cli­mate Change for Busi­ness, Thurs­day, Octo­ber 18th, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.  at  Con­tin­ue Reading

On Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, Octo­ber 6 and 7, Dol­lahite Stu­dios will be show­ing new paint­ings in the Fri­day Har­bor House Con­fer­ence Room 130 West St. in Fri­day Har­bor. Please come see Matt and BJ Dol­lahite’s new works in their first show in six years.

Thanks to Jill Urbach for this video… <span data-mce-type=“bookmark” style=“display: inline-block; width: 0px; over­flow: hid­den; line-height: 0;” class=“mce_SELRES_start”></span> Fri­day Har­bor stu­dents who attend­ed were Lucy Urbach, Joe­ly Loucks, Arlo Harold, Max Mat­tox, Evan Foley, and Bran­don Payne. The teacher in charge was Daniel Garner. 

Last Spring, the Fri­day Har­bor High School Band was select­ed to par­tic­i­pate in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Washington’s 66thannu­al Band Day event. Nine FHHS band mem­bers, seniors Julian Brown and Lucy Urbach, juniors Jack Knapik, Jon­ah Stras­bourg­er, and Sander Van Hamers­feld, and sopho­mores Emi­ly Atwell, Blaze Borgquist, Olivia Brown, and Lizzie Lee, joined oth­er Wash­ing­ton high school bands to  Con­tin­ue Reading

Busi­ness own­ers and man­agers are invit­ed to join the San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil (EDC) for a free work­shop enti­tled Cus­tomer Ser­vice 101, led by not­ed islander and busi­ness process improve­ment con­sul­tant, Jim Hoop­er, on Octo­ber 24th, from 10–11am at Key Bank in Fri­day Har­bor. In this work­shop, par­tic­i­pants will learn easy and effec­tive  Con­tin­ue Reading

Grif­fin Bay Book­store and the San Juan Island Library are host­ing Dean Adams at the San Juan Island Library on Mon­day, Octo­ber 1, 7:00 pm. This is your chance to hear first-hand about his mem­oir, Four Thou­sand Hooks: A True Sto­ry of Fish­ing and Com­ing of Age on the High Seas of Alas­ka, a fab­u­lous  Con­tin­ue Reading

If you are between 13 — 21 years old the Fair­ground Mas­ter Plan would like your input. You could win a $30 gift card! Atten­tion youth 13–21!  The Fair­grounds wants to hear what you think!  San Juan Coun­ty Parks, Recre­ation, and Fair is updat­ing the Fair­grounds Mas­ter Plan and wants to hear from local res­i­dents ages 13 to 21. The  Con­tin­ue Reading