Topic: Technology
FHHS Community Project
Written on November 27, 2018 at 5:51 am, by Tim Dustrude
Emmett Carrier writes to share what he’s doing for his Community Projects class at the high school… For my community projects class at Friday Harbor High School, I worked alongside Evan Foley to do research on pollution prevention in the Port of Friday Harbor. We started our project by meeting with our mentor, Dr. Derek Continue Reading
Seeing Green: 4 Changes We Can Make for a More Environmentally-Friendly Home
Written on October 12, 2018 at 5:54 am, by Tim Dustrude
The following is a guest post from Neil Stawski with Climate Wise… There are nearly 7 billion humans on the planet, with more being born every day. And each person comes with their own ecological footprint. When you add up the ecological footprints of 7 billion people, you begin to understand the enormous environmental effect Continue Reading
San Juan Island Library Offers New Digital Newspaper Collection
Written on October 6, 2018 at 6:08 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
The San Juan Island Library is excited to bring you a new digital newspaper collection! Titled NewsBank, this collection is free to library patrons and is updated daily. NewsBank enables library patrons to easily search and browse current and archived news articles, editorials, reviews, birth and marriage announcements, obituaries and a variety of special sections. Patrons can use Continue Reading
EDC Invites San Juan County Knowledge Workers to Informal Meetup
Written on October 5, 2018 at 6:15 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
The EDC is working to create a knowledge worker network for islanders who work with code, data, graphics or words, and they invite knowledge workers and those who work with them to attend an informal meetup on October 24th from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. at the San Juan Island Library. Refreshments will be served. Knowledge Continue Reading
Organ Donation Meets Online Match Making
Written on October 5, 2018 at 6:12 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
FRIDAY HARBOR, WA, September 30, 2018 Perspective living organ donor realizes the need to help those awaiting organ transplant connect with would be living donors. This new site could help remove more people from the transplant wait list. Living Donor Match, an online match making forum for living donors and their recipients, was created after Continue Reading
Test of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System
Written on October 2, 2018 at 6:05 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
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
Local Students Attend International Space Settlement Design Competition in Florida
Written on September 29, 2018 at 6:10 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Thanks to Jill Urbach for this video… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> Friday Harbor students who attended were Lucy Urbach, Joely Loucks, Arlo Harold, Max Mattox, Evan Foley, and Brandon Payne. The teacher in charge was Daniel Garner.
REMINDER: OPALCO Planned Power Outage Tonight
Written on September 24, 2018 at 6:15 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Early Tuesday morning September 25 from 12:30 am (half past midnight tonight) until 2:30 am all of San Juan County will be affected by a planned outage. Another outage is planned for Tuesday, October 23. These outages are necessary for BPA to replace a section of one of the two main power lines that feeds the Continue Reading
San Juan County cooperatives celebrate National Cooperative Month
Written on September 22, 2018 at 5:35 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Co-op members understand the power of the vote – it’s in our DNA. With Americans holding more than 350 million co-op memberships and rural electric cooperatives serving 75% of our country’s land mass: we have the power! OPALCO, the Orcas Food Co-op and San Juan Island Food Co-op encourage you to register to vote, cast Continue Reading
OPALCO Announces Upcoming County-Wide Planned Outages
Written on September 9, 2018 at 6:15 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
OPALCO Announces two upcoming planned outages on Tuesday, September 25 at 12:30 am & Tuesday, October 23 at 12:30 am… All of San Juan County will be affected by a series of two planned outages necessary for BPA to replace a section of one of the two main power lines that feeds the San Juan Islands from Continue Reading
Lemon Computers
Written on July 26, 2018 at 5:47 am, by Tim Dustrude
In case you missed it – John and Becky Volk are now running their Lemon Computers business out of an office up on Spring Street by Harbor Vet. Originally working out of their garage, they quietly moved into this office space about a year ago and have been selling and servicing computers from there ever Continue Reading
Aerospace Design Team Trip
Written on July 23, 2018 at 5:48 am, by Tim Dustrude
Lions and LEOs Combine Efforts to Help Fund FHHS Aerospace Design Team Trip BJ Brandli, LEO Club advisor and member of the Lions Club, presents FHHS Aerospace Design Team member Arlo Harold with two checks totaling $900; one for $500 from the Lions Club and one for $400 from the LEOs Club. These funds will Continue Reading
New Orca ID App
Written on July 12, 2018 at 5:49 am, by Tim Dustrude
Want to Identify an individual whale? You’re in luck, there’s now an app for that! Hundreds of thousands of people come to the Pacific Northwest every year to take in our natural beauty, and with hopes of seeing our most popular marine life resident: Orcas (killer whales). The Center for Whale Research (CWR) has been Continue Reading
Rockisland Email Outage Update
Written on July 6, 2018 at 10:08 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
I just spoke to Rockisland and due to a power surge in Oregon there has been a catastrophic email host failure. If you are a Rockisland customer and you are not getting your email that is why. Engineers are working hard to fix it and hopefully we will be up and running soon. Meanwhile, I Continue Reading
Amateur Radio Field Day
Written on June 13, 2018 at 5:48 am, by Tim Dustrude
The San Juan County Amateur Radio Society is pleased to announce that their ham radio operators will be at two locations in the County for the US-wide “Field Day”. The public is invited to stop by and ask questions, and perhaps even talk on an amateur radio, on Saturday, June 23, 2018. For over 100 Continue Reading
Gerry Lawlor to Leave Rock Island in Good Hands
Written on May 28, 2018 at 5:47 am, by Tim Dustrude
Rock Island to benefit from another strong ally within T-Mobile Eastsound, WA – May 25, 2018: Three years ago, Rock Island Communications entered into an important partnership with T-Mobile US to deploy LTE Fixed Wireless to the home. Since then, Rock Island, the wholly-owned subsidiary of OPALCO, has experienced a tremendous period of growth. Rock Continue Reading
FHHS Community Project
Written on November 27, 2018 at 5:51 am, by Tim Dustrude
Emmett Carrier writes to share what he’s doing for his Community Projects class at the high school… For my community projects class at Friday Harbor High School, I worked alongside Evan Foley to do research on pollution prevention in the Port of Friday Harbor. We started our project by meeting with our mentor, Dr. Derek Continue Reading
Seeing Green: 4 Changes We Can Make for a More Environmentally-Friendly Home
Written on October 12, 2018 at 5:54 am, by Tim Dustrude
The following is a guest post from Neil Stawski with Climate Wise… There are nearly 7 billion humans on the planet, with more being born every day. And each person comes with their own ecological footprint. When you add up the ecological footprints of 7 billion people, you begin to understand the enormous environmental effect Continue Reading
San Juan Island Library Offers New Digital Newspaper Collection
Written on October 6, 2018 at 6:08 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
The San Juan Island Library is excited to bring you a new digital newspaper collection! Titled NewsBank, this collection is free to library patrons and is updated daily. NewsBank enables library patrons to easily search and browse current and archived news articles, editorials, reviews, birth and marriage announcements, obituaries and a variety of special sections. Patrons can use Continue Reading
EDC Invites San Juan County Knowledge Workers to Informal Meetup
Written on October 5, 2018 at 6:15 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
The EDC is working to create a knowledge worker network for islanders who work with code, data, graphics or words, and they invite knowledge workers and those who work with them to attend an informal meetup on October 24th from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. at the San Juan Island Library. Refreshments will be served. Knowledge Continue Reading
Organ Donation Meets Online Match Making
Written on October 5, 2018 at 6:12 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
FRIDAY HARBOR, WA, September 30, 2018 Perspective living organ donor realizes the need to help those awaiting organ transplant connect with would be living donors. This new site could help remove more people from the transplant wait list. Living Donor Match, an online match making forum for living donors and their recipients, was created after Continue Reading
Test of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System
Written on October 2, 2018 at 6:05 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
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
Local Students Attend International Space Settlement Design Competition in Florida
Written on September 29, 2018 at 6:10 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Thanks to Jill Urbach for this video… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> Friday Harbor students who attended were Lucy Urbach, Joely Loucks, Arlo Harold, Max Mattox, Evan Foley, and Brandon Payne. The teacher in charge was Daniel Garner.
REMINDER: OPALCO Planned Power Outage Tonight
Written on September 24, 2018 at 6:15 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Early Tuesday morning September 25 from 12:30 am (half past midnight tonight) until 2:30 am all of San Juan County will be affected by a planned outage. Another outage is planned for Tuesday, October 23. These outages are necessary for BPA to replace a section of one of the two main power lines that feeds the Continue Reading
San Juan County cooperatives celebrate National Cooperative Month
Written on September 22, 2018 at 5:35 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Co-op members understand the power of the vote – it’s in our DNA. With Americans holding more than 350 million co-op memberships and rural electric cooperatives serving 75% of our country’s land mass: we have the power! OPALCO, the Orcas Food Co-op and San Juan Island Food Co-op encourage you to register to vote, cast Continue Reading
OPALCO Announces Upcoming County-Wide Planned Outages
Written on September 9, 2018 at 6:15 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
OPALCO Announces two upcoming planned outages on Tuesday, September 25 at 12:30 am & Tuesday, October 23 at 12:30 am… All of San Juan County will be affected by a series of two planned outages necessary for BPA to replace a section of one of the two main power lines that feeds the San Juan Islands from Continue Reading
Lemon Computers
Written on July 26, 2018 at 5:47 am, by Tim Dustrude
In case you missed it – John and Becky Volk are now running their Lemon Computers business out of an office up on Spring Street by Harbor Vet. Originally working out of their garage, they quietly moved into this office space about a year ago and have been selling and servicing computers from there ever Continue Reading
Aerospace Design Team Trip
Written on July 23, 2018 at 5:48 am, by Tim Dustrude
Lions and LEOs Combine Efforts to Help Fund FHHS Aerospace Design Team Trip BJ Brandli, LEO Club advisor and member of the Lions Club, presents FHHS Aerospace Design Team member Arlo Harold with two checks totaling $900; one for $500 from the Lions Club and one for $400 from the LEOs Club. These funds will Continue Reading
New Orca ID App
Written on July 12, 2018 at 5:49 am, by Tim Dustrude
Want to Identify an individual whale? You’re in luck, there’s now an app for that! Hundreds of thousands of people come to the Pacific Northwest every year to take in our natural beauty, and with hopes of seeing our most popular marine life resident: Orcas (killer whales). The Center for Whale Research (CWR) has been Continue Reading
Rockisland Email Outage Update
Written on July 6, 2018 at 10:08 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
I just spoke to Rockisland and due to a power surge in Oregon there has been a catastrophic email host failure. If you are a Rockisland customer and you are not getting your email that is why. Engineers are working hard to fix it and hopefully we will be up and running soon. Meanwhile, I Continue Reading
Amateur Radio Field Day
Written on June 13, 2018 at 5:48 am, by Tim Dustrude
The San Juan County Amateur Radio Society is pleased to announce that their ham radio operators will be at two locations in the County for the US-wide “Field Day”. The public is invited to stop by and ask questions, and perhaps even talk on an amateur radio, on Saturday, June 23, 2018. For over 100 Continue Reading
Gerry Lawlor to Leave Rock Island in Good Hands
Written on May 28, 2018 at 5:47 am, by Tim Dustrude
Rock Island to benefit from another strong ally within T-Mobile Eastsound, WA – May 25, 2018: Three years ago, Rock Island Communications entered into an important partnership with T-Mobile US to deploy LTE Fixed Wireless to the home. Since then, Rock Island, the wholly-owned subsidiary of OPALCO, has experienced a tremendous period of growth. Rock Continue Reading