Wolverine keeper Ben Goodman pulls in the shot in the first half.

Vis­it­ing Merid­i­an swept past a rapid­ly improv­ing FHHS squad last night by scor­ing four in each half. In spite of the score, the Wolver­ines were still hus­tling with ten min­utes to go in the game, and near­ly con­vert­ed a hand­ful of chances in the sec­ond half.

In a sea­son that is like­ly to be mea­sured by improve­ment against strong teams, the guys earned good marks in their sec­ond game of the sea­son. Next up: An ear­ly sea­son re-match with Coupeville on Saturday.

FHHS senior & ace pho­tog­ra­ph­er Lau­ren Paulsen shot this nice 35-pho­to gallery of pic­tures from the game (https://sanjuanupdate.com/fhhsboys09/). Check ’em out — she has a great eye.

Hey, my friends.…

As you can see, the Update under­went surgery this past week­end, and got the equiv­a­lent of a jour­nal­is­tic nose job. It’s all real­ly about the same, with a few addi­tions: the Cal­en­dar is eas­i­er to find, the ads are now locat­ed on every page, and it’s pos­si­ble for you to com­ment on the sto­ries that I post.

I also want­ed to make it easy for you to check on things if you miss a day, so I bust­ed the Update into the cat­e­gories above, so you can look “back­wards” to see what I’ve post­ed about sports, or the lat­est pho­tos, and so on. Let’s give it a try & see if that works.

I would love to have you let me know what you think! Click the “com­ment” deal down at the bot­tom of this post­ing, and weigh in!

And…as you can see from the archives (yes, you can go back in time), the Update has under­gone dif­fer­ent for­mat changes in the past twelve years, but we changed, too, did­n’t we?

From The Box­er, by Paul Simon:

The years are rolling by me
They are rock­ing evenly.…
I’m old­er than I once was, but younger than I’ll be
That’s not unusual -
It isn’t strange — after changes upon changes,
We are more or less the same
After changes, we are more or less the same.

Thanks for read­ing. I’m real­ly glad you’re here.

Love ya,
Ian

The last paper....

It was a drag to hear that the Seat­tle Post-Intel­li­gencer print­ed its last issue today. For those of us that grew up with a Sun­day paper with cof­fee on the week­end, or scram­bling for the sports scores, or mum­bling after read­ing edi­to­ri­als — and clip­ping the news to mail to mom…it feels like the end of an era. Because it is.

One more thing that’s hard to explain to our tex­ting, e‑mailing, CNN-wired kids what they’re missing.

Baby bluebird

You already knew about the blue­bird re-intro­duc­tion project…here’s more from Kath­leen at the Preser­va­tion Trust:

A “Wel­come Back Blue­birds” nest­ing con­test has been announced by the San Juan Islands West­ern Blue­bird Rein­tro­duc­tion Project. The con­test will acknowl­edge the first mem­ber of the island com­mu­ni­ty to have a West­ern blue­bird nest on their prop­er­ty (in a nest box or in a nat­ur­al cav­i­ty). “We hope this con­test will encour­age islanders to notice and report nest­ing activ­i­ty of the rein­tro­duced blue­birds and their off­spring,” said Kath­leen Foley, Direc­tor of Edu­ca­tion for the San Juan Preser­va­tion Trust. The win­ner of the con­test will win a cedar blue­bird nest box and a West­ern Blue­bird Rein­tro­duc­tion Project hat. …full arti­cle

Ryan Browne

When I ran into FHHS grad Ryan Browne over the hol­i­days, he told me about his busi­ness, which includ­ed build­ing cob ovens — straw, mud, sand, clay all put togeth­er for the most heat-effi­cient oven you’ve ever seen. I saw him last night (as you can see, about to fire up the oven)… I asked him to tell me what he’s been doing, with this and help­ing with the slow food group.

Here’s more:

Hey Ian,
Thanks for writ­ing!  Yes, I have been work­ing recent­ly with the slow food group at the high school, build­ing a cob oven at Matt and Mau­reen Marinkovich’s house. I think Lin­da Cobos men­tioned that she might have spo­ken with you? It’s wood fired, made out of clay and sand, and designed to cook every­thing from breads and piz­zas to veg­eta­bles and yogurt. I taught work­shop about how to build it. …full arti­cle

Ryan Browne

When I ran into FHHS grad Ryan Browne over the hol­i­days, he told me about his busi­ness, which includ­ed build­ing cob ovens — straw, mud, sand, clay all put togeth­er for the most heat-effi­cient oven you’ve ever seen. I saw him last night (as you can see, about to fire up the oven)… I asked him to tell me what he’s been doing, with this and help­ing with the slow food group.

Here’s more:

Hey Ian,
Thanks for writ­ing!  Yes, I have been work­ing recent­ly with the slow food group at the high school, build­ing a cob oven at Matt and Mau­reen Marinkovich’s house. I think Lin­da Cobos men­tioned that she might have spo­ken with you? It’s wood fired, made out of clay and sand, and designed to cook every­thing from breads and piz­zas to veg­eta­bles and yogurt. I taught work­shop about how to build it. …full arti­cle

I hon­est­ly think it is bet­ter to be a fail­ure at some­thing you love than to be a suc­cess at some­thing you hate.
George Burns 

Carol makes a winning bid....

Marie Dicristi­na reports that last Sat­ur­day’s din­ner & auc­tion went great (that’s Car­ol Jack­son at the right; here are a gallery of pho­tos from the night):

Sorop­ti­mists want to send out a big Irish thank you to all that attend­ed last Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Extrav­a­gan­za Din­ner and Auc­tion. There about 150 atten­dees who helped raised over $14,000! Corned Beef and Cab­bage din­ners along with Veg­e­tar­i­an Pas­ta din­ners were served and com­pli­ment­ed by dessert cakes from Daniel. The Raf­fle and the Silent Auc­tion were very well received and Doug Bison helped make the Live Auc­tion great fun. Peo­ple enjoyed them­selves while help­ing their fel­low islanders.

This fundrais­er will help pro­vide funds for the schol­ar­ships, women’s emer­gency fund, many awards to local women and oth­er club projects. For more infor­ma­tion about the Fri­day Har­bor Sorop­ti­mists please go to www.sifri.org. Again, thank you for sup­port­ing our events.

Marie DiCristi­na

Carol makes a winning bid....

Marie Dicristi­na reports that last Sat­ur­day’s din­ner & auc­tion went great (that’s Car­ol Jack­son at the right; here are a gallery of pho­tos from the night):

Sorop­ti­mists want to send out a big Irish thank you to all that attend­ed last Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Extrav­a­gan­za Din­ner and Auc­tion. There about 150 atten­dees who helped raised over $14,000! Corned Beef and Cab­bage din­ners along with Veg­e­tar­i­an Pas­ta din­ners were served and com­pli­ment­ed by dessert cakes from Daniel. The Raf­fle and the Silent Auc­tion were very well received and Doug Bison helped make the Live Auc­tion great fun. Peo­ple enjoyed them­selves while help­ing their fel­low islanders.

This fundrais­er will help pro­vide funds for the schol­ar­ships, women’s emer­gency fund, many awards to local women and oth­er club projects. For more infor­ma­tion about the Fri­day Har­bor Sorop­ti­mists please go to www.sifri.org. Again, thank you for sup­port­ing our events.

Marie DiCristi­na

If you see a mob at the Mullis Cen­ter at 5:30pm on Thurs­day, that’s because the Town Coun­cil has sched­uled a pub­lic hear­ing to review the annex­a­tion of the Buck Prop­er­ty. I asked Rox­an­na from the Town to send me a write­up of the pro­posed annex­a­tion, zon­ing, and devel­op­er agree­ment — here it is…check it out.

Be there…

The SJISD Super­in­ten­dent Search meet­ings are Thurs­day of this week! These meet­ings are for gath­er­ing input and infor­ma­tion from the school com­mu­ni­ty and oth­er inter­est­ed parties.

Time­lines, sched­ules and desired qual­i­fi­ca­tions in lead­er­ship will be dis­cussed.  A sur­vey is avail­able to any­one who can­not make the meet­ings.  Peo­ple can con­tact Maude at the dis­trict office to get one.  Either of these meet­ings (or both) would be appro­pri­ate for the gen­er­al public.

Thurs­day, March 19

Pub­lic meet­ing, par­ents, stu­dents, com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, 5:00 pm, high school commons

Spe­cial School Board meet­ing, 6:00 pm, high school commons

See ya there!

Hi Ian,

Love the new web­site! Great job. I recent­ly saw a piece on Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca on a “time bank” and thought it would be per­fect for our small com­mu­ni­ty. Please check out this page.

It’s a way to pay it for­ward for ser­vices you can offer to some­one in exchange for their services.

For exam­ple, I need a roof repair and Ed can offer car repair. You sign up for 2 hours of free labor for some­one who offers 2 hours of their free labor in roof repair in exchange for Ed’s mechan­i­cal exper­tise (He is ASE Cer­ti­fied not to men­tion the hot sauce expert on SJI). You enter a cred­it (say for 2 hours or what­ev­er) and are able to deb­it (again for 2 hours or what­ev­er) in exchange for those repairs.

Of course if you’re the leti­gious kind, this won’t work but I think it would be great for our small com­mu­ni­ty. It goes back to the old days of the barter sys­tem of trad­ing your skills for some­one else’s skills. Just a thought but I thought this would be a great idea in these eco­nom­ic times.

Of course some­one would need to man­age the cred­its and deb­its and I would be hap­py to donate my time for that. I imme­di­ate­ly thought of your web­site as it does so much good for the com­mu­ni­ty. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Genie Williams

By three meth­ods we may learn wis­dom: First, by reflec­tion, which is noblest; Sec­ond, by imi­ta­tion, which is eas­i­est; and third by expe­ri­ence, which is the bitterest.

Con­fu­cius

Joanna on Sunday morning at the Rocky Bay Cafe.

That’s my pal Joan­na at the Rocky Bay on Sun­day morning…she and her mom Shan­non Evans (who teach­es at FHES) were check­ing things out after church.

Joanna on Sunday morning at the Rocky Bay Cafe.

That’s my pal Joan­na at the Rocky Bay on Sun­day morning…she and her mom Shan­non Evans (who teach­es at FHES) were check­ing things out after church.

Deb­bi wrote and says she’s look­ing to make a com­plete guide for kids about what they can do this sum­mer — and she needs your help. Here’s more:

Hey, Ian!

I have a favor to ask.

I’m work­ing on the SJI Sum­mer Activ­i­ty Cal­en­dar for our Youth 2009. This will be our third year to offer this to par­ents, fam­i­lies and to our com­mu­ni­ty. The cal­en­dar is FREE with the help of the San Juan Island Pre­ven­tion Coali­tion. I’m in the midst of col­lect­ing infor­ma­tion from var­i­ous peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions, but thought, maybe I’m miss­ing some­one! Would you be able to inquire if some­one is offer­ing a new or unad­ver­tised youth pro­gram this sum­mer on SJI, they could con­tact me to add it to the calendar?

Last year’s cal­en­dar came out of neces­si­ty for me. I found some pro­grams weren’t adver­tised well, so they were can­celled because of low par­tic­i­pa­tion, or oth­ers would fill up before I heard about them. So, hav­ing all the infor­ma­tion in one place, made it a bet­ter sum­mer for my kids! The cal­en­dars will be avail­able at the Children’s Fes­ti­val (May 2) at the SJIPC booth and will be mailed out from the SJISD parent/guardian mail­ing list and var­i­ous email groups.

I feel the more pro­grams we can add, the more use­ful this tool becomes for fam­i­lies! I put mine on the refrig­er­a­tor and we kept on top of what was avail­able through­out the summer!

Thanks again, Ian, for your sup­port of the pro­grams we’ve been involved in. It takes a Village…

Deb­bi (fincher@rockisland.com)