Teach your body to keep that stum­ble from becom­ing a fall. Mullis Senior Cen­ter is work­ing with Instruc­tor Stephanie Pri­ma to offer the begin­ning lev­el of Tai Ji Quan: Mov­ing For Bet­ter Bal­ance™ this Jan­u­ary. Through clin­i­cal tri­als and stud­ies, this pro­gram has proven to reduce risk of falls in old­er adults by 58% and  Con­tin­ue Reading

This alert just came in from WSF… Wind storm throws wrench in ear­ly hol­i­day sail­ing sched­ule The ongo­ing wind storm has already had sev­er­al impacts on sail­ing sched­ules across the region today. And more changes could be on the way. There­fore, pas­sen­gers will need to plan ahead and poten­tial­ly alter their trav­el plans accord­ing­ly depend­ing on where  Con­tin­ue Reading

Tom Doenges, own­er of Com­put­er San Juans wants you to know about this new ser­vice com­ing to an island near you… Call­ing all small busi­ness­es, schools, ports, town and indi­vid­u­als… I am join­ing forces with a friend who runs an elec­tron­ics recy­cling com­pa­ny in Belling­ham called 1pc.com. Because I feel I con­tribute to bring­ing these devices  Con­tin­ue Reading

Found this in the SJ Update mail­bag… Dear neigh­bors, I was just duped by a very sophis­ti­cat­ed scam that wrecked my bank account, so I want­ed to get the word out there in hopes that this won’t hap­pen to you. Here’s what hap­pened: I was called on my cell phone by some­one claim­ing to be  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol (CDC), pub­lic health offi­cials in sev­er­al states, Cana­da and FDA are inves­ti­gat­ing a mul­ti­state out­break of Shi­ga tox­in-pro­­duc­ing E. coli O157:H7 infec­tions linked to romaine let­tuce. CDC is advis­ing that U.S. con­sumers not eat any romaine let­tuce and they should throw it away.  For addi­tion­al details and guid­ance, see the  Con­tin­ue Reading

Haven’t placed your wreath or pie order yet? Don’t fret — WREATHS HAVE ARRIVED — BUY one THIS FRIDAY and SATURDAY at the Mullis Com­mu­ni­ty Senior Cen­ter! And while you’re there, don’t for­get to order your Pecan and/or Pump­kin Pie for Thanks­giv­ing. ALL pro­ceeds ben­e­fit FHHS Grad Night 2019.

On Wednes­day, Novem­ber 14th at 7:00 pm at the San Juan Island Grange, the Corps of Resilien­cy gath­er­ing is going to be some­thing spe­cial. We have teamed up with the Grange Lec­ture Series to host an evening of sto­ry­telling at the Grange Hall. We’ll be turn­ing off the lights, light­ing a fire in the fire­place  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Com­mu­ni­ty Pre­ven­tion and Well­ness Ini­tia­tive (CPWI) Com­mu­ni­ty Sur­vey is an anony­mous annu­al statewide sur­vey admin­is­tered by all of the CPWI coali­tions in Wash­ing­ton state. The Com­mu­ni­ty Sur­vey cap­tures our local San Juan Island atti­tudes about teen alco­hol and drug use, as well as pre­ven­tion pro­gram­ming. This data helps to inform our coalition’s strate­gies, as  Con­tin­ue Reading

The stu­dents at the Shaw Island School recent­ly won first place in a statewide con­test pro­mot­ing earth­quake pre­pared­ness and safe­ty. Spon­sored by the Cas­ca­dia Region­al Earth­quake Work­group, the com­pe­ti­tion solicit­ed videos from schools across Wash­ing­ton. Timed to pro­mote the Great Shake Out earth­quake drill, this is the sec­ond year of the con­test, and the sec­ond  Con­tin­ue Reading

It’s just one week until the 2018 Great Wash­ing­ton Shake­out earth­quake drill on Octo­ber 18th. You can join the grow­ing num­ber of islanders who are prepar­ing for “the big one” by sign­ing up online. It’s quick and easy to do at: http://shakeout.org/washington So far, more than 700 peo­ple in the islands are involved. This includes  Con­tin­ue Reading

IMPORTANT: At approx­i­mate­ly 11:20am PST on Wednes­day Octo­ber 3rd, FEMA will con­duct the first ever NATIONWIDE test of the Wire­less Emer­gency Alert (WEA) and Emer­gency Alert Sys­tem (EAS). This means that all cell phones that are turned on, with­in range of a tow­er, and whose car­ri­er par­tic­i­pates in WEA will make a loud buzz and  Con­tin­ue Reading

Burn sea­son is right around the cor­ner and the San Juan Coun­ty Fire Marshal’s Office and the San Juan Coun­ty Fire Chiefs Asso­ci­a­tion would like to remind you of a few things to improve the safe­ty of your burn­ing this sea­son. Burn­ing rules apply to all burns in San Juan Coun­ty and a per­mit is  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update, writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… One of the most crit­i­cal com­po­nents of main­tain­ing hap­pi­ness and health as we get old­er is stay­ing mobile and not falling down. Regard­ing that, I have some good news and I have some some bad news. The good news is  Con­tin­ue Reading

The recent rains have result­ed in San Juan Coun­ty mov­ing the fire risk lev­el to Mod­er­ate. This does not change the sta­tus of burn­ing in the coun­ty, it is mere­ly a risk lev­el mod­i­fi­ca­tion that reflects fuel mois­ture lev­els ris­ing.  Camp­fires remain allowed in San Juan Coun­ty.  Res­i­den­tial burn­ing remains closed until the expect­ed open­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Bren­dan Cow­an, Direc­tor, San Juan Coun­ty Depart­ment of Emer­gency Man­age­ment… While emer­gency pre­pared­ness is a year round respon­si­bil­i­ty for all islanders, the San Juan Coun­ty Coun­cil recent­ly pro­claimed Sep­tem­ber as “Pre­pared­ness Month” in San Juan Coun­ty. “This is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to remind every­one who spends time in the islands that many of the things we love most about being here also  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Jamie Mount­ford PIO SJIFD… After over 35 years with the depart­ment, San Juan Island Fire Chief Brad Creesy is retir­ing at the end of Octo­ber. The com­mu­ni­ty is invit­ed to an evening recep­tion to meet the five final­ists being con­sid­ered for the posi­tion. This infor­mal meet and greet oppor­tu­ni­ty will be Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 16 from 5–7 P.M.  Con­tin­ue Reading