Stan & Brid­get are get­ting mar­ried on April 25th out at San Juan Vine­yards (sur­prised? Stan’s the wine pur­chas­er for King’s gro­cery store…) I caught up with them in line at the store, as you can see.

It was good to see Seat­tle U soph Lind­say Youngquist on the boat Sat­ur­day with her bro Trevor. She’s back to island for a lit­tle vis­it after spend­ing the last week help­ing out, doing restora­tion work in New Orleans. The for­mer FHHS girls’ soc­cer cap­tain was able to get a vis­it in with Trevor, as  Con­tin­ue Reading

It was nice to see Christi­na shoot­ing a pic­ture of Yolan­da & Kel­ly, who got mar­ried last year… as you can see, they’re still smil­ing as they made their way home on the Sat­ur­day fer­ry. Yolan­da is work­ing at the Lit­tle Store on the morn­ing shift, while Kel­ly’s split­ting time with Fri­day Har­bor House &  Con­tin­ue Reading

It was nice to see Christi­na shoot­ing a pic­ture of Yolan­da & Kel­ly, who got mar­ried last year… as you can see, they’re still smil­ing as they made their way home on the Sat­ur­day fer­ry. Yolan­da is work­ing at the Lit­tle Store on the morn­ing shift, while Kel­ly’s split­ting time with Fri­day Har­bor House &  Con­tin­ue Reading

Some­thing cool…I saw a table & half-fill of Sorop­ti­mists com­ing home for a meet­ing in Belling­ham that was presided over by the pres­i­dent of the Belling­ham chap­ter — FHHS grad & for­mer islander Mad­die She­p­lor. Nice.

Nik­ki from the Whale Muse­um has more: The Whale Muse­um Docent Train­ing Pro­gram: The Whale Muse­um is pleased to offer our Docent Train­ing Pro­gram for the 2009 sum­mer sea­son. Vol­un­teers aged 14 and over are need­ed to help vis­i­tors in our Exhib­it Hall. By using arti­facts, text pan­els, and hands-on spec­i­mens, docents are trained to assist vis­i­tors  Con­tin­ue Reading

When I heard that Chris & Emi­ly Wolf and the kids were mov­ing to Qatar, like most Eng­lish-man­gling peo­ple, I was call­ing that coun­try “Ka TAR.” The oth­er day, Emi­ly (who, like Chris, is a teacher too, besides being a dyna­mite mom) told me it’s actu­al­ly pro­nounced as kind of a cross between “cut­ter” and “gut­ter,”  Con­tin­ue Reading

Marie Dicristi­na from the Sorop­ti­mist Club says the group has hon­ored an out­stand­ing FHHS senior: On March 18th Char­lotte C. Guard received the 2009 Vio­let Richard­son Award for a young woman from Sorop­ti­mist Inter­na­tion­al of Fri­day Har­bor at their reg­u­lar meet­ing. Char­lotte is a twice week­ly vol­un­teer in the Eng­lish as a Sec­ond Lan­guage Children’s  Con­tin­ue Reading

Jim Maya from Maya’s Char­ters says the tran­sient whales are nearby.…here’s more, from yes­ter­day: It was one of those days! We got news of Orcas right at the end of our first trip so I rushed in for my sec­ond group. We zoomed out but could­n’t find them, so we went down to Whale Rocks to  Con­tin­ue Reading

John Sin­clair wrote to ask me to invite you to the open­ing of his new place — here’s more: Come help cel­e­brate the open­ing of Con­cepia (http://www.concepia.com/), Fri­day Har­bor’s lat­est busi­ness ven­ture, and view the first solo show of Randy Lay­bourne, this Sat­ur­day from 2–5pm in the new Churchill Cor­ner, just above the fer­ry land­ing.  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Car­ol Ford, Wednes­day: Hi Ian; I just got off the phone with Dave Grone and he had noth­ing but pos­i­tive things to say about Jacque’s recov­ery. While she’ll be in inten­sive care for anoth­er week at least, she con­tin­ues to improve hourly and both Dave and her doc­tors are encour­aged by her progress.  Dave  Con­tin­ue Reading

My pal Jes­si­ca says she’s got an open house this week­end: I am host­ing an open house  Sat 3/28 from 1–3 pm at Fri­day Har­bor Vil­lage (445 Carter Avenue)for the fol­low­ing five afford­able apart­ment prop­er­ties: Fri­day Har­bor Vil­lage, Har­bor View, Island Mead­ows, Isle­wood & Rose­wood. I will be on hand to answer afford­able apart­ment ques­tions  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the Wash­ing­ton State Fer­ries: Begin­ning Thurs­day morn­ing March 26, the 34 car MV Hiyu will be replac­ing the 87 car MV Ever­green State pro­vid­ing ser­vice on the inter-island route. The MV Ever­green State will be replac­ing the 144 car MV Elwha start­ing with the 5:35 AM depar­ture from Ana­cortes.  These changes will be in  Con­tin­ue Reading

Min­nie Knych writes in: Got Job? The Career Cen­ter is offer­ing free sem­i­nars through the month of April. Sem­i­nar top­ics include: Resume Writ­ing, Inter­view Skills and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Skills.  Call 378‑4662 for infor­ma­tion on time and date of the sem­i­nars you wish to attend. Enroll­ment is lim­it­ed to small groups. 

Yes­ter­day I ran into Erin (left) and her daugh­ter Emer­ald on the fer­ry com­ing back to the island after a day on the main­land. These days Emer­ald is work­ing at the Ani­mal Shel­ter with Leslie, help­ing look after the dogs & cats, while Erin is still keep­ing the island’s teeth shiny, work­ing with Dr. Michael  Con­tin­ue Reading

You know the feel­ing of dread.…you show up for the fer­ry and they stick the lit­tle over­load num­ber under your wiper. Yes­ter­day when I came rolling in at 4:47pm for the 5:05pm fer­ry, I knew I was push­ing it, and receiv­ing num­ber 15 kin­da proved it. But, as luck would have it, they not only squeezed  Con­tin­ue Reading