Topic: Technology
Why We Live Here
Written on August 1, 2017 at 6:36 pm, by Tim Dustrude
Jack of all trades and all around nice guy Mike Martin offered to help a friend who was having trouble with a laptop. “Let me take it home and see what I can do” he said. Well he tried a number of different things, but the laptop refused to cooperate, so he headed out his Continue Reading
Got an Old Computer Lying Around?
Written on June 12, 2017 at 5:43 am, by Tim Dustrude
Does your organization or business have computers to donate? We can also use computers that need new hard drives or Wi-Fi adapters, and working printers are also appreciated! Your benefits: your data will be safely removed, you won’t have to deal with disposal of the unit (and they won’t end up in a landfill), and Continue Reading
Correction:
Written on June 10, 2017 at 8:39 am, by Tim Dustrude
Opalco Community Solar Project Correction Last week OPALCO released information on its 2018 Community Solar project. We have an update to the amount of energy produced by the project. It will actually produce approximately 200,000 kilowatt hours annually (much higher than the 5,800 kWh that was printed last week). An average home uses 12,000 kilowatt Continue Reading
Community Solar Survey
Written on June 3, 2017 at 5:43 am, by Tim Dustrude
(Editor’s note: This post has been corrected. A previous version listed the power generation incorrectly) Community Solar Gives Everyone A Chance To Generate Clean, Green Local Power OPALCO has more than 220 Co-op members who generate their own power. With Community Solar, the rest of us will get a chance to purchase a piece of Continue Reading
OPALCO News
Written on May 26, 2017 at 5:40 am, by Tim Dustrude
Wind Storm Takes Power Out For 6,000+ Co-Op Members: OPALCO Crews Resolve Outages Quickly Big winds hit the islands on Tuesday, May 23rd leading to a number of power outages in the islands. The largest outage occurred on San Juan Island when a tree was blown into the transmission lines near the Pear Point substation Continue Reading
OPALCO will No Longer Accept Centurylink Payments
Written on May 13, 2017 at 5:30 am, by Tim Dustrude
Since 1994, OPALCO has been accepting CenturyLink payments in its office locations and in drop boxes throughout the County as a service to the Co-op membership. CenturyLink has informed OPALCO that this type of bill collection program is no longer cost-effective for their company. The last day that OPALCO and the county drop boxes that Continue Reading
OPALCO News
Written on May 9, 2017 at 5:38 am, by Tim Dustrude
Dauciunas And Madsen Win Opalco Election; 269 Attend 80th Annual Meeting On The Ferry OPALCO members boarded the ferry on Saturday, May 6th to participate in the 2017 Annual Meeting and learn the results of the Board of Directors’ election. Voter participation was lower than 2016 with 1,992 total ballots (1,114 online, 878 by mail) Continue Reading
Automated Information Phone Line at the Library
Written on April 19, 2017 at 5:37 am, by Tim Dustrude
The SJI Library is introducing Telephony, a new Automated Information Phone Line Ever been heading away on vacation and wished you could renew your holiday reading but you have to catch the red-eye, your laptop is packed and the Library is not open? Well, now you can conveniently renew items by phone even when the Continue Reading
SJ Aviation Museum honors Bob Jamieson
Written on April 17, 2017 at 5:55 am, by Tim Dustrude
A reception will be held at the Roy Franklin Terminal at Friday Harbor Airport on Sunday, April 23rd at 2:00 p.m. to honor the Featured Pilot for 2017: Bob Jamieson. Islanders are invited to celebrate the occasion of this annual addition to the San Juan Aviation Museum. This project, started in 2008, is jointly sponsored by Continue Reading
3D Printing is now available at your Library!
Written on April 5, 2017 at 5:17 am, by Tim Dustrude
After a few months of staff experiments and training, the San Juan Island Library is now offering 3D printing for public use. We have created items ranging from semi-useful (soap dish, cardholder, plastic bag carrier, fly swatter, cookie cutter) to ridiculously cute (cat ring, gnomes, dragons and the ever-popular and much-needed cork pig). To Continue Reading
Another Aviation Field Trip
Written on April 4, 2017 at 4:47 pm, by Tim Dustrude
Mari Peterson, Assistant Chief Pilot at Westwind Aviation shares this with you… Hi San Juan Update, Took my students on another class trip on Sunday the 2nd, this time to the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station! Here’s the run down: Myself (in Westwind Aviation’s Cessna 172, donated by Westwind Aviation) and four volunteer pilots (Bob Tauscher Continue Reading
OPALCO News
Written on April 2, 2017 at 10:25 am, by Tim Dustrude
OPALCO Board Election Opens April 13 – Meet The Candidates OPALCO is a member-owned cooperative governed by a Board of Directors who are elected by the membership. Members will have a chance to vote for two open board positions in the election that opens on April 13th. There are three candidates for the two open positions Continue Reading
Opalco Fiber Project
Written on March 17, 2017 at 5:44 am, by Tim Dustrude
Opalco Fiber Project Kicks Off On South San Juan Island Expect Some Traffic Delays Construction begins on March 20th to install fiber optic cables along Cattle Point Road from Eagle Cove Drive all the way through San Juan Island National Historical Park to the major road re-alignment project south of Jakle’s Lagoon. While OPALCO installs backbone infrastructure Continue Reading
High School Aviation Field Trip
Written on March 14, 2017 at 5:59 am, by Tim Dustrude
A group of FHHS kids and their teachers had a fun field trip to Seattle on Sunday. Mari Peterson, Assistant Chief Pilot at Westwind Aviation is teaching an aviation class (sort of an “introduction to aviation” type course) along with Derek Smith this semester at Friday Harbor High School. She coordinated a visit for her students down to King Continue Reading
OPALCO News
Written on February 8, 2017 at 5:38 am, by Tim Dustrude
OPALCO Seeks Candidates For Board Election New Member Elections & Governance Committee Named The 2017 OPALCO Board election cycle is now open and nominations for board candidates in District 1 (San Juan, Brown, Henry, Pearl and Spieden islands) are being accepted. At the January meeting of the Board of Directors, the new member Elections & Continue Reading
Luxel Sends Products into Space
Written on November 23, 2016 at 5:53 am, by Tim Dustrude
Travis Ayers, the president of Luxel Corporation shares this news with you… Dear Editor, I had the privilege of seeing the launch of the GOES-R satellite in person this past weekend! More products made in Friday Harbor are headed for geostationary orbit approximately 22,000 miles away from earth. From http://www.goes-r.gov/: NOAA’s Next Generation of Geostationary Continue Reading
Why We Live Here
Written on August 1, 2017 at 6:36 pm, by Tim Dustrude
Jack of all trades and all around nice guy Mike Martin offered to help a friend who was having trouble with a laptop. “Let me take it home and see what I can do” he said. Well he tried a number of different things, but the laptop refused to cooperate, so he headed out his Continue Reading
Got an Old Computer Lying Around?
Written on June 12, 2017 at 5:43 am, by Tim Dustrude
Does your organization or business have computers to donate? We can also use computers that need new hard drives or Wi-Fi adapters, and working printers are also appreciated! Your benefits: your data will be safely removed, you won’t have to deal with disposal of the unit (and they won’t end up in a landfill), and Continue Reading
Correction:
Written on June 10, 2017 at 8:39 am, by Tim Dustrude
Opalco Community Solar Project Correction Last week OPALCO released information on its 2018 Community Solar project. We have an update to the amount of energy produced by the project. It will actually produce approximately 200,000 kilowatt hours annually (much higher than the 5,800 kWh that was printed last week). An average home uses 12,000 kilowatt Continue Reading
Community Solar Survey
Written on June 3, 2017 at 5:43 am, by Tim Dustrude
(Editor’s note: This post has been corrected. A previous version listed the power generation incorrectly) Community Solar Gives Everyone A Chance To Generate Clean, Green Local Power OPALCO has more than 220 Co-op members who generate their own power. With Community Solar, the rest of us will get a chance to purchase a piece of Continue Reading
OPALCO News
Written on May 26, 2017 at 5:40 am, by Tim Dustrude
Wind Storm Takes Power Out For 6,000+ Co-Op Members: OPALCO Crews Resolve Outages Quickly Big winds hit the islands on Tuesday, May 23rd leading to a number of power outages in the islands. The largest outage occurred on San Juan Island when a tree was blown into the transmission lines near the Pear Point substation Continue Reading
OPALCO will No Longer Accept Centurylink Payments
Written on May 13, 2017 at 5:30 am, by Tim Dustrude
Since 1994, OPALCO has been accepting CenturyLink payments in its office locations and in drop boxes throughout the County as a service to the Co-op membership. CenturyLink has informed OPALCO that this type of bill collection program is no longer cost-effective for their company. The last day that OPALCO and the county drop boxes that Continue Reading
OPALCO News
Written on May 9, 2017 at 5:38 am, by Tim Dustrude
Dauciunas And Madsen Win Opalco Election; 269 Attend 80th Annual Meeting On The Ferry OPALCO members boarded the ferry on Saturday, May 6th to participate in the 2017 Annual Meeting and learn the results of the Board of Directors’ election. Voter participation was lower than 2016 with 1,992 total ballots (1,114 online, 878 by mail) Continue Reading
Automated Information Phone Line at the Library
Written on April 19, 2017 at 5:37 am, by Tim Dustrude
The SJI Library is introducing Telephony, a new Automated Information Phone Line Ever been heading away on vacation and wished you could renew your holiday reading but you have to catch the red-eye, your laptop is packed and the Library is not open? Well, now you can conveniently renew items by phone even when the Continue Reading
SJ Aviation Museum honors Bob Jamieson
Written on April 17, 2017 at 5:55 am, by Tim Dustrude
A reception will be held at the Roy Franklin Terminal at Friday Harbor Airport on Sunday, April 23rd at 2:00 p.m. to honor the Featured Pilot for 2017: Bob Jamieson. Islanders are invited to celebrate the occasion of this annual addition to the San Juan Aviation Museum. This project, started in 2008, is jointly sponsored by Continue Reading
3D Printing is now available at your Library!
Written on April 5, 2017 at 5:17 am, by Tim Dustrude
After a few months of staff experiments and training, the San Juan Island Library is now offering 3D printing for public use. We have created items ranging from semi-useful (soap dish, cardholder, plastic bag carrier, fly swatter, cookie cutter) to ridiculously cute (cat ring, gnomes, dragons and the ever-popular and much-needed cork pig). To Continue Reading
Another Aviation Field Trip
Written on April 4, 2017 at 4:47 pm, by Tim Dustrude
Mari Peterson, Assistant Chief Pilot at Westwind Aviation shares this with you… Hi San Juan Update, Took my students on another class trip on Sunday the 2nd, this time to the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station! Here’s the run down: Myself (in Westwind Aviation’s Cessna 172, donated by Westwind Aviation) and four volunteer pilots (Bob Tauscher Continue Reading
OPALCO News
Written on April 2, 2017 at 10:25 am, by Tim Dustrude
OPALCO Board Election Opens April 13 – Meet The Candidates OPALCO is a member-owned cooperative governed by a Board of Directors who are elected by the membership. Members will have a chance to vote for two open board positions in the election that opens on April 13th. There are three candidates for the two open positions Continue Reading
Opalco Fiber Project
Written on March 17, 2017 at 5:44 am, by Tim Dustrude
Opalco Fiber Project Kicks Off On South San Juan Island Expect Some Traffic Delays Construction begins on March 20th to install fiber optic cables along Cattle Point Road from Eagle Cove Drive all the way through San Juan Island National Historical Park to the major road re-alignment project south of Jakle’s Lagoon. While OPALCO installs backbone infrastructure Continue Reading
High School Aviation Field Trip
Written on March 14, 2017 at 5:59 am, by Tim Dustrude
A group of FHHS kids and their teachers had a fun field trip to Seattle on Sunday. Mari Peterson, Assistant Chief Pilot at Westwind Aviation is teaching an aviation class (sort of an “introduction to aviation” type course) along with Derek Smith this semester at Friday Harbor High School. She coordinated a visit for her students down to King Continue Reading
OPALCO News
Written on February 8, 2017 at 5:38 am, by Tim Dustrude
OPALCO Seeks Candidates For Board Election New Member Elections & Governance Committee Named The 2017 OPALCO Board election cycle is now open and nominations for board candidates in District 1 (San Juan, Brown, Henry, Pearl and Spieden islands) are being accepted. At the January meeting of the Board of Directors, the new member Elections & Continue Reading
Luxel Sends Products into Space
Written on November 23, 2016 at 5:53 am, by Tim Dustrude
Travis Ayers, the president of Luxel Corporation shares this news with you… Dear Editor, I had the privilege of seeing the launch of the GOES-R satellite in person this past weekend! More products made in Friday Harbor are headed for geostationary orbit approximately 22,000 miles away from earth. From http://www.goes-r.gov/: NOAA’s Next Generation of Geostationary Continue Reading