We hear from Tan­ja at the Land Bank… Make some room in your freez­er – deer hunt­ing is open for ear­ly and gen­er­al sea­sons only at Lopez Hill and Mount Grant Pre­serves. Spe­cif­ic dates are as fol­lows: Archery: Sep­tem­ber 1 ‑25 Muz­zle loader: Sep­tem­ber 26 – Octo­ber 4 Mod­ern Firearm: Octo­ber 17 – Novem­ber 1 Be sure to review  Con­tin­ue Reading

One of the first things on anybody’s list of how to live a good life pan­dem­ic or not is to get some phys­i­cal exer­cise. For me this can be a chal­lenge in the best of times. Being quar­an­tined by myself has made find­ing the moti­va­tion to get mov­ing near­ly impos­si­ble, near­ly, but not entire­ly. I  Con­tin­ue Reading

Miss­ing / High­way of Tears – The high­way refers to a short stretch of High­way 16 between Prince Rupert and Prince George, where 18 girls, almost all Abo­rig­i­nal, were mur­dered. On the piece of high­way from Van­cou­ver to Edmon­ton RCMP records show that over 200 peo­ple have dis­ap­peared on this route. The High­way of Tears is an instal­la­tion of indi­vid­ual por­traits  Con­tin­ue Reading

Do you find Medicare a mys­tery? Are you unsure which Medicare plan is best for you? Join SHIBA online for a vir­tu­al Medicare 101 class where we will cov­er the “A, B, C, Ds” of Medicare. Our cer­ti­fied SHIBA vol­un­teers will be avail­able to answer all of your ques­tions! Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 16, 2020 @ 1PM PST To reg­is­ter,  Con­tin­ue Reading

Islands as Sanc­tu­ary, a col­lec­tion of con­tem­po­rary oil paint­ings by Tere­sa Smith will be fea­tured at Water­works Gallery from Sep­tem­ber 1 — Sep­tem­ber 15 2020 with a social­ly dis­tant open­ing on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 4th from 4 — 7 pm. The works may also be seen by appoint­ment by call­ing 303.246.3208. “Island as Sanc­tu­ary” rep­re­sents soli­tary  Con­tin­ue Reading

  Audi­tions for Super Hap­py Awe­some News, this year’s Fam­i­ly The­atre pro­duc­tion, will be open to all stu­dents grades K‑8. Audi­tions will be held the week of Sep­tem­ber 14 with both in-per­­son and Zoom options. Please stay tuned for sign ups!   Rehearsals will begin the week of Sep­tem­ber 28 and run through Novem­ber 11 with  Con­tin­ue Reading

A Let­ter from the SJIMA Board Pres­i­dent… We miss you – but get to wel­come you very soon! Since clos­ing our doors in March, we have been prepar­ing for this moment.  SJIMA has col­lab­o­rat­ed with our Coun­ty health author­i­ties, the Wash­ing­ton State Arts Com­mis­sion and gov­er­nor’s office on a pro­pos­al that has allowed muse­ums to reopen  Con­tin­ue Reading

August 26, 2020 — The Wash­ing­ton State Depart­ment of Com­merce is offer­ing a sec­ond Work­ing Wash­ing­ton Small Busi­ness Emer­gency Grant (WWSBEG) pro­gram to assist small busi­ness­es impact­ed by the COVID-19 out­break. Busi­ness­es which qual­i­fy for the grant pro­gram and are locat­ed with­in San Juan Coun­ty can go to the San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil  Con­tin­ue Reading