San Juan Cen­ter of Skag­it Val­ley Col­lege offers US his­to­ry course Could there be a more inter­est­ing course to take than one cov­er­ing the recent US his­to­ry of the 20th and 21st cen­turies?? Study the events in his­to­ry that lead right up to our doorstep of cur­rent head­lines. The title of the course is: His­to­ry  Con­tin­ue Reading

Notice of Spe­cial School Board Meet­ing – Bud­get Workshop/Public Hear­ing All inter­est­ed par­ties are cor­dial­ly invit­ed to the bud­get overview and SJISD finan­cial con­di­tion work­shop on Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 13, 2017, at 5:00 pm, at the high school library.  This board meet­ing will be held in a pub­lic hear­ing for­mat. Thank you for your inter­est in  Con­tin­ue Reading

It’s time for the Sep­tem­ber edi­tion of the SJ His­tor­i­cal Society’s His­to­ry Col­umn… With school back in ses­sion, we’re think­ing of teach­ers and stu­dents from times past, as well. Mark Rosler’s sweet note, pic­tured here, was found writ­ten inside a text­book now pre­served in the San Juan His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety & Museum’s archives. Mark wrote this  Con­tin­ue Reading

From The San Juan Island School Dis­trict… The San Juan Island School Dis­trict and the San Juan Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion reached a ten­ta­tive agree­ment at 6:14 pm Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2017. The teach­ers’ asso­ci­a­tion rat­i­fied the pro­posed agree­ment this evening and the school board is expect­ed to approve this ten­ta­tive agree­ment at a spe­cial board meet­ing on  Con­tin­ue Reading

San Juan Island teach­ers are on strike today. Accord­ing to one of the teach­ers who prefers to remain anony­mous, this is the last chance they have to nego­ti­ate local­ly — because of recent state leg­is­la­tion, the state will take con­trol start­ing next year and give out 3% pay increas­es based on cur­rent pay. They feel the  Con­tin­ue Reading

Reg­is­tra­tion begins on Mon­day, August 28 at 10 AM at the Library for the Junior Ranger’s Club spon­sored by the San Juan Island Nation­al His­tor­i­cal Park Ser­vice, San Juan Island Library and San Juan Island Fam­i­ly Nature Club. Call 360–378‑2798 or stop by the San Juan Island Library to reg­is­ter. What is this club? For stu­dents in  Con­tin­ue Reading

The first semes­ter FHHS Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vice-Learn­ing Class will begin August 31st. This class uti­lizes com­mit­ted adult men­tors who will guide stu­dents through the com­ple­tion of a ser­vice project relat­ed to com­mu­ni­ty improve­ment – both local­ly and glob­al­ly. This is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for a “win-win” part­ner­ship between stu­dents and local orga­ni­za­tions. If you have a  Con­tin­ue Reading

(Re)Connecting with Nature: An Evening with Mike Cohen How can we cul­ti­vate con­nec­tion with nature in a time when we’ve nev­er been so sep­a­rat­ed?  How can we work to re-uni­­fy human­i­ty with the life of the Earth? Mike Cohen- sci­en­tist, coun­selor, applied ecopsy­chol­o­gist, tra­di­tion­al musi­cian, and nat­u­ral­ist- believes it can be done through the con­sci­en­tious and sci­en­tif­ic  Con­tin­ue Reading

Greet­ings Stu­dents, Par­ents and Com­mu­ni­ty Mem­bers: One of the many aspects that I love about being an edu­ca­tor is the fact that we get to have a new start each aca­d­e­m­ic year. Per­haps one of my favorite events is join­ing Team SJISD at our con­vo­ca­tion on Mon­day, August 28 at 7:45 am, Fri­day Har­bor High  Con­tin­ue Reading

Skag­it Val­ley Col­lege San Juan Cen­ter is now open after the sum­mer break. Reg­u­lar hours are Mon­day through Thurs­day from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm. Fall Quar­ter starts Sep­tem­ber 18th and there is still time to reg­is­ter! It’s not too late. Inter­est­ed stu­dents can call or stop by the Cen­ter for more infor­ma­tion and for reg­is­tra­tion.  Con­tin­ue Reading

Researcher Dominic Siv­i­t­il­li from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton, has been study­ing a rare Giant Pacif­ic Octo­pus that he found in the waters just off San Juan Coun­ty Park on July 2nd. Her name is Gaia, and Dominic trans­port­ed her to Fri­day Har­bor Labs to study for the last month and a half. With degrees in Psy­chol­o­gy  Con­tin­ue Reading

San Juan Island School Dis­trict Super­in­ten­dent Dan­na Diaz will hold her Sec­ond Annu­al Open House on Mon­day August 28, 2017 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm at the Fri­day Har­bor Mid­dle School Com­mons. Dr. Diaz’s guest this year is renowned moti­va­tion­al speak­er Car­los Oje­da Jr. Mr. Ojeda’s enthu­si­as­tic mes­sage is about empow­er­ing stu­dents to suc­ceed.  Con­tin­ue Reading

A rare oppor­tu­ni­ty to take a work­shop with the tal­ent­ed and incom­pa­ra­ble Joe Miller is being offered by the San Juan Islands Muse­um of Art (SJIMA). Four Forests: Walk­ing and Draw­ing will be offered in four ses­sions on Tues­days: Sep­tem­ber 12 – Octo­ber 3, from 1p.m. – 4p.m. The stu­dents may use any medi­um or  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil (EDC) will offer free train­ing in con­struc­tion tech this fall, in part­ner­ship with Skag­it Val­ley Col­lege and the North­west Career & Tech­ni­cal Acad­e­my, and fund­ed in part by San Juan Coun­ty, the Orcas Island Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion, the Town of Fri­day Har­bor, Islanders Bank and local donors. Cours­es will  Con­tin­ue Reading

Who Loves Pie? Call­ing All Pie Bak­ers! Bake your favorite fruit pie! Not a bak­er? Help serve slices at the Fair! The BRAND NEW FHES PTO Pie Booth debuts at the Coun­ty Fair, August 16 — 19, and we need pies o’ plen­ty to sell and peo­ple to sell them! There are two ways you can help: Bake pies at home  Con­tin­ue Reading

Make Pin­hole Pro­jec­tors for View­ing the Solar Eclipse The San Juan Island Library and the Nation­al Park Ser­vice are host­ing a Solar Eclipse Prep After­noon this Thurs­day, August 3 in the Library Meet­ing Room with drop-in hours from 2–4 PM. All mate­ri­als will be pro­vid­ed to make your very own pin­hole pro­jec­tor for view­ing the Solar  Con­tin­ue Reading