One of the fundraisers at Christ the King (who celebrate their fifth anniversary on the island this weekend) is that you can buy coffee from Camano Island Coffee Roasters & a chunk goes to CTK…here’s more from CTK’s Jim Cole: Coffee With a Conscience Finally… a coffee that helps you sleep at night. Camano Island  Continue Reading

Hoping you have a laidback day as the summer starts to fade…. here’s a little bit of the Grateful Dead, with Ripple. -oo-

Ran into Kathleen Wilson at the grocery store & she said, “It’s gonna be great.” Saw Archie Brooks & he told me, “You won’t believe it.” Checked in with Roberta Leed & she says, “It’s amazing, and it will amaze you.” Stuff like that gets my attention, so Sunday I called Richard Barker & asked  Continue Reading

Just spoke to Bonnie today & found out that she’s leaving the County United Way at the end of the year. I rejected her resignation request but her board OK’d it anyway, so she’ll be finishing up this last quarter & then moving to Anacortes with Chuck…here’s more: United Way of San Juan County Executive  Continue Reading

My good friend Rachel from the Marine Labs sent me this bit about a lecture on Monday with Nathan Mantua that you won’t want to miss: Past and Future Climate Change Impacts on Northwest Marine Ecosystems Is climate really that important for our coastal marine ecosystems?  In this presentation, I will review historical records that  Continue Reading

When I played soccer, back in the day, my number was #9. Diggin’ it. And you too – find your own good reason. Hate to waste a perfectly good numerically interesting day, don’t ya think? (Besides being Nancy Hanson’s birthday – she had one on 9/9/99, too – the San Juan Update for 9/9/99 also  Continue Reading

Saw Pat watering these flowers out front of Island Studios this weekend…a nice counterpoint to grey days.

Did you hear that FHHS grad & Western Washington U senior Matt Cowell won the Bellingham Amateur golf tourney this past weekend? Here’s more.

A friend of mine has not one but two job offers (you know who you are….) She asked me which one she should take – the one she hated, but the money was good, or the one that made her heart sing, but would leave her dirt-poor for the next 8o years. I tend towards  Continue Reading

Anna Lisa just dropped me a note: Hi Ian- We are celebrating the end of a great summer season with the return of Friday Happy Hour at the Duck Soup Inn next Friday the 11th from 4:30 to 6. We are offering all our cocktails, wine by the glass & appetizers at half off. So  Continue Reading

Reckon I don’t pay enough attention – lotta people said the president’s speech for the kids around the country was awful enough that  school districts should cover their eyes & not let ’em see it. I checked the speech out for you (that’s what I do) and decided to take a chance & go ahead  Continue Reading

“Saving Luna” will be here on Thursday evening, and what you may not know is that the filmmakers live just across the way in Sidney, B.C. Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit are writers and documentary filmmakers who specialize in telling stories of the relationships between people and our natural world. In 2004, they came to  Continue Reading

I’m guessing that when you saw the poster to the right in Anacortes, you were thinking the guy in the picture sure looks familiar…well, yeah, that’s the island’s own Teddy Deane, who definitely looks like a jazz guy. Irony is, he’s not scheduled to play in this year’s Festival. That won’t slow up Teddy though  Continue Reading

I hear people around the island say it all the time – you just can’t MEET anybody here. I know this can be a problem, since I’ve carefully watched what seems to work (nothing) and what doesn’t work (everything else.) The real key is to keep trying, and look for the patterns that make a  Continue Reading

One of the things we sometimes pride ourselves on here on the island is that we don’t have any fast food places (although the Rocky Bay Cafe will get you breakfast pretty doggone quickly, if you’re catching the next ferry). I pretty much hope it stays that way, although other places farther north haven’t been  Continue Reading

When I went went by the Naked Bean on Saturday, naturally I asked Billy, “Wha’s happening?” Naturally, he told me, so I got a bowl of oatmeal & it was awesome, as you can tell in the pictures. While I was there, I also checked out the new couch (it was all right, the way  Continue Reading