From the Stew­ard­ship Net­work of the San Juans “Here we all are, with noth­ing but our wit and our will to save the world.” – Samuel L. Jack­son. We might not have a vibra­ni­um shield, a fan­cy met­al suit designed by Tony Stark, or a ham­mer only we can lift, but we can still be the  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Friends of the San Juan Island Library Shop and sup­port the San Juan Island Library. The Friends of the San Juan Island Library store, Trea­sure Cove, is hold­ing a fixed price sale online through April 5. Vis­it the online shop at charityauction.bid/springfling. The Friends of the Library is a non-prof­it, 501©3 orga­ni­za­tion, com­prised of incred­i­ble  Con­tin­ue Reading

“Island Senior” is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae. In my last Island Senior arti­cle, The Year of Covid-19, I took stock of the past year, a chal­leng­ing time for most of us, and took note of some of the good things that helped me through a whole year  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Coun­ty Land Bank The San Juan Coun­ty Land Bank is request­ing pro­pos­als from any­one inter­est­ed in a short-term agri­cul­tur­al hay rental agree­ment of the Zyl­stra Lake Pre­serve Prop­er­ty on San Juan Island. The prop­er­ty has approx­i­mate­ly 70 acres of hay pas­ture. Indi­vid­u­als or orga­ni­za­tions inter­est­ed in this lease should go to the Land  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Town of Fri­day Har­bor The Town of Fri­day Har­bor will add a round­about to part of Mullis Street from March 22 through May 28. “Local access on Mullis Street from 818 Mullis Street to the Spring Street Inter­sec­tion will be impact­ed while con­trac­tors recon­struct the road and install a round­about,” said Town of Fri­day Har­bor  Con­tin­ue Reading

This week­end — Sun­day, March 14th at 2:00 AM — Day­light Sav­ing Time begins. Spring is almost here and the days are get­ting longer! Don’t for­get to set your clock for­ward one hour — (Prob­a­bly when you go to bed Sat­ur­day) so at 2:00 AM it will real­ly be 3:00 AM. This may also be a  Con­tin­ue Reading

From The Town of Fri­day Har­bor The Town of Fri­day Har­bor has con­tract­ed for the replace­ment of dam­aged side­walk pan­els on West Street, near the Kings Mar­ket park­ing lot, where tree roots and weath­er­ing have caused crack­ing and buck­ling of the con­crete. Con­struc­tion begins Thurs­day, March 11, and is esti­mat­ed to last approx­i­mate­ly two weeks. Vehic­u­lar  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety of Fri­day Har­bor The Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety — Fri­day Har­bor is hap­py to announce Jim O’Brian of San Juan Island as the vol­un­teer of the month for March 2021. Since Octo­ber 2015, Jim has vol­un­teered his time doing basic build­ing main­te­nance, act­ing as a park­ing atten­dant for many fundrais­ers, and bar­be­cu­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the San Juan Island Sculp­ture Park Join us from 9–11 a.m. every third Wednes­day of the month from March 17 through Sep­tem­ber to watch for our fine feath­ered friends at the San Juan Island Sculp­ture Park locat­ed next to Roche Har­bor Resort. Phil Green, a local bird enthu­si­ast and mem­ber of the nature con­ser­van­cy, has  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety of Fri­day Har­bor Age: 10 months Sex: Female Breed: Domes­tic Short­hair, Dilute Orange Tab­by Appli­ca­tion: www.apsfh.com/adoption-program/feline-application/ Meet Bis­cuit! Orig­i­nal­ly from Texas, she is a south­ern girl with that sweet, south­ern charm…she just doesn’t know it! Bis­cuit is work­ing on gain­ing her self-con­­fi­­dence; she will need to find a patient, friend­ly fam­i­ly that  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Sorop­ti­mist Inter­na­tion­al of Fri­day Har­bor One year ago, just a few days before the event, COVID-19 forced Sorop­ti­mist Inter­na­tion­al of Fri­day Har­bor to can­cel its St. Patrick’s Day Extrav­a­gan­za. This year, as peo­ple are being vac­ci­nat­ed, we were look­ing for­ward to cel­e­brat­ing in per­son with the island com­mu­ni­ty. How­ev­er, as vac­cine dis­tri­b­u­tion has a  Con­tin­ue Reading

Ration your gas this week­end and fill up your tank Fri­day, March 12. Island Petro­le­um Ser­vices (IPS), locat­ed at 315 Carter Avenue, is gen­er­ous­ly donat­ing 50 cents per gal­lon of your pur­chase to the San Juan Island Ser­vice Schol­ar­ship pro­gram. For­mer­ly known as Dol­lars for Schol­ars, this pro­gram pro­vides need­ed schol­ar­ship funds to grad­u­at­ing seniors who  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Sorop­ti­mist Inter­na­tion­al of Fri­day Har­bor Sorop­ti­mist Inter­na­tion­al of Fri­day Har­bor and the Joyce Sobel Fam­i­ly Resource Cen­ter are col­lect­ing house­hold items to assist com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers dur­ing these dif­fi­cult times. Col­lec­tion cans will be set near the entrances of Browne’s Home Cen­ter, Fri­day Har­bor Drug and the San Juan Island Food Co-op through March 14. Items need­ed  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Coun­ty Land Bank The San Juan Coun­ty Land Bank is offer­ing a rare oppor­tu­ni­ty to pur­chase local­ly grown wild­flow­ers native to San Juan Coun­ty. Reserve plants online at sjclandbank.org, March 5–12, and pick them up on Sat­ur­day, March 20 at loca­tions on Lopez, Orcas, and San Juan islands. All plants are pro­duced local­ly  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Islands Com­mu­ni­ty Net­work San Juan Islands Com­mu­ni­ty Net­work invites you to watch its sec­ond vir­tu­al forum that explored how the islands’ schools are respond­ing to the health and edu­ca­tion­al chal­lenges posed by COVID-19. The response so far has been very pos­i­tive and we believe many more islanders will ben­e­fit from the rich  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Island Library The San Juan Island Library will present a vir­tu­al Know Your Islanders event on Oak Knoll Farm and the Pope and Greene Fam­i­ly at 7 p.m., Wednes­day, March 17. Sarah Pope returned home to San Juan Island in 2017 with her part­ner, Adam Greene, to raise their chil­dren and take over  Con­tin­ue Reading