When the nutri­tion­ist at Peace Health asked me what sort of phys­i­cal exer­cise I would be will­ing to com­mit to, I declared bold­ly that I would do yoga three times a week. I had just dug up my old yoga pro­gram that with enough adap­ta­tions I could still man­age to almost do. What has helped  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Food Bank sends along an update about their sum­mer meal pro­gram for local stu­dents. The Fri­day Har­bor Food Bank will con­tin­ue to offer a free sum­mer meals pro­gram, to help fam­i­lies with school-aged kids man­age their bud­gets dur­ing the sum­mer months. Our goal for this pro­gram is for our local kids to have access  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Preser­va­tion Trust shares some excit­ing Island Mar­ble But­ter­fly news. The Coun­ty Plan­ning Com­mis­sion will hold a pub­lic hear­ing at 9 a.m. tomor­row to receive pub­lic com­ments about its 2022 Annu­al Dock­et, which is the process through which mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty request changes to the County’s Com­pre­hen­sive Plan and Uni­fied Devel­op­ment Code. Vic’s  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Coun­ty Con­ser­va­tion Land Bank Com­mis­sion will hold a reg­u­lar meet­ing on Fri­day, June 17 at 8:30 a.m. Items up for dis­cus­sion or action at Fri­day’s meet­ing include: Gen­er­al pub­lic com­ments Chair and Com­mis­sion­ers report Coun­ty Coun­cil update – Chris­tine Min­ney Director’s report – Acqui­si­tions update (Glen­wood Inn prop­er­ty, Entrance Moun­tain poten­tial re-sale,  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Town of Fri­day Har­bor shares news about the restora­tion of reg­u­lar traf­fic pat­terns. Sig­nif­i­cant traf­fic revi­sions to low­er Spring Street, Front Street, and Granny’s Way due to the Spring Street fire will be removed Wednes­day morn­ing. Traf­fic flow will return to the orig­i­nal, pre-fire direc­tion with two-way traf­fic through­out Spring Street and one-way traf­fic  Con­tin­ue Reading

The low­est tides in more than a decade are hap­pen­ing today around 11:15 a.m. and tomor­row just after noon. False Bay, Eagle Cove, and Granny’s Cove are all great places to check it out. Return of the Riv­er, win­ner of the 2014 Fri­day Har­bor Film Fes­ti­val Audi­ence Choice Award, is FHF­F’s next offer­ing in its Direc­tor  Con­tin­ue Reading

Orga­niz­ers of the A Bear Called Fri­day event send along news about the fundrais­er tak­ing place this Fri­day. Fri­day Har­bor res­i­dents and vis­i­tors alike will have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to help save the life of one very spe­cial moon bear on Fri­day, June 17 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Brick­works. The event, A Bear Called  Con­tin­ue Reading

Thanks to the sus­tained gen­eros­i­ty of island donors, the San Juan Island Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion has award­ed 38 stu­dents more than $169,000 in schol­ar­ships for the 2022–2023 school year. The recip­i­ents include 15 grad­u­at­ing high school seniors – 11 from Fri­day Har­bor High School and four from Spring Street Inter­na­tion­al School – along with 23 stu­dents  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Preser­va­tion Trust has doc­u­ment­ed the rare occur­rence of a West­ern Blue­bird nest­ing in a nat­ur­al cav­i­ty of a Gar­ry oak on San Juan Island. Learn more about the sig­nif­i­cance of this find­ing. Fri­day Har­bor Labs’ Sandy Wyl­lie-Echev­er­ria and Isabel­la Brown have writ­ten an arti­cle about eel­grass flow­er­ing for Sal­ish Mag­a­zine. The San  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Coun­ty Coun­cil will hold a reg­u­lar meet­ing on Tues­day, June 14 at 9 a.m. Items up for dis­cus­sion or action include: First 2022 bud­get amend­ment Secu­ri­ty cam­era project update and request Tiny homes Accep­tance of the deed for the Glen­wood Inn (McPeake) prop­er­ty You can view the live stream of the meet­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Islands Muse­um of Art is pre­sent­ing Look­ing Into Kab­ul by James Lon­g­ley now through Sep­tem­ber 12. The exhi­bi­tion focus­es on every­day life in Kab­ul, Afghanistan through a com­bi­na­tion of panoram­ic images, por­traits, and doc­u­men­tary films. SJIMA is also host­ing Hen­ry Jack­son-Spiek­er’s Lat­tice II instal­la­tion in its atri­um through Sep­tem­ber 12. Fri­day Har­bor High School  Con­tin­ue Reading