Ger­ry Lawlor of Rock Island Com­mu­ni­ca­tions shares this update with you… Rock Island Heads into Spring at Full Stride Thank you to the OPALCO Board for their strong lead­er­ship. With just over one year of being in busi­ness, Rock Island Com­mu­ni­ca­tions has over­come numer­ous chal­lenges, and has con­nect­ed close to a thou­sand islanders to fast, sta­ble and scal­able  Con­tin­ue Reading

Entre­pre­neurs are invit­ed to attend the San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Council’s upcom­ing FREE half-day work­shop enti­tled “Busi­ness Start­up 101” on Thurs­day, May 5th. Par­tic­i­pants will learn the build­ing blocks of start­ing a suc­cess­ful busi­ness from experts in the legal, account­ing and bank­ing fields. The half-day event will be led by local attor­neys Peter God­du  Con­tin­ue Reading

EDC offers FREE busi­ness work­shop on pric­ing prod­ucts & ser­vices The San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil will present a FREE work­shop on pric­ing of prod­ucts & ser­vices for small busi­ness own­ers and entre­pre­neurs on Lopez Island, Tues­day, May 3rd from 12–2pm at the Lopez Island Fire Depart­ment meet­ing room. Advance reg­is­tra­tion is required. Pric­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

SJI Cham­ber of Com­merce Fea­tured Mem­ber of the Month I orig­i­nate from Lands End, Corn­wall Eng­land, where on the gran­ite cliff top there is a sign­post point­ing West that reads ’New York 3147 miles’. I joined the Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety as an engi­neer and pho­tog­ra­ph­er, sail­ing from Corn­wall to the far reach­es of the US  Con­tin­ue Reading

Peter W. God­du and Mar­garet C. Lan­glie of God­du­Lan­glie, Lawyers-Advi­­sors, are pleased to announce that, effec­tive May 1, 2016, Kathryn (Katie) C. Lor­ing and Thomas D. Sand­strom will join us as part­ners and the name of our firm will change to God­du Lan­glie Lor­ing Sand­strom, PLLC. Peter God­du and Mar­garet Lan­glie estab­lished their law firm  Con­tin­ue Reading

Jen and Jacque­lyn over at The Stu­dio are intro­duc­ing a new instruc­tor and yoga class and they want you to know about it. Here they are with what you need to know… The Stu­dio is pleased to intro­duce Miguele de Quadros and add Yoga with Gyro­ton­ic Prin­ci­ples to our class sched­ule begin­ning in May. We invite  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Cham­ber of Com­merce is doing a scav­enger hunt of sorts this month, spon­sored by Islanders Bank. Check out what Bec­ki Day has to say about it… We have a Scav­enger Hunt, spon­sored by Islanders Bank that has start­ed! Dur­ing the month of April, I will be vis­it­ing dif­fer­ent mem­ber busi­ness­es around the island and tak­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

Just heard that Ruth Offen at Water­Works Gallery is look­ing for a part time staff assis­tant. Here’s the scoop… This is an hourly wage job con­sist­ing of enter­ing infor­ma­tion into ACT, (a data­base man­age­ment pro­gram) and facil­i­tat­ing inven­to­ry man­age­ment using Microsoft Excel, with sim­ple sum usage, not com­plex for­mu­las. The posi­tion requires flex­i­bil­i­ty as the work  Con­tin­ue Reading