Last week­end the FHHS Class of ’79 came togeth­er for the hol­i­day & the folks who went told me it was great to see everyone.…here’s a pic­ture that’s a lit­tle big­ger than the one above (click here). Thanks to Mar­i­lyn Cor­rie for get­ting me the shot & the pho­to iden­ti­fi­ca­tions! Here’s a pic­ture from kinder­garten  Con­tin­ue Reading

Hey, here’s a cou­ple of places to go to to see what grad­u­a­tion & the senior all-nighter looked like… Grad Night 2009 — Here’s the site (click here!) that details the evening after the cer­e­mo­ny was over, as the seniors rode the Pin­tail to Jones Island for a spell, back to the hyp­no­tist at the  Con­tin­ue Reading

One of the high­lights of the school year (and a great way to end it) is the mock tri­als, put on by Jim McNairy’s gov­ern­ment class­es. The ones I’ve seen are presided over by a real judge, Car­la Hig­gin­son (judge pro-tem), who also explains the fin­er legal points to the kids as they go along.  Con­tin­ue Reading

It was great to see the base­ball boys on the way to their dou­ble vic­to­ries on Sat­ur­day morning…Coach Rich Warin (in pho­to with Kim, one of our favorite teach­ers at the ele­men­tary school) does a super job of keep­ing the guys focused on the game ahead, and the results have been good. The base­ball team  Con­tin­ue Reading

It’s gonna be great — the Cin­co de Mayo EFP Com­mu­ni­ty Din­ner with a per­for­mance by Bal­let Folk­lori­co, at 5:30pm‑7:00pm at the FHHS Din­ing Hall (the for­mer Com­mons). Pro­ceeds go to the EFP Every Child Eats Fund, admin­is­tered by the SJI Fam­i­ly Resource Cen­ter. If you haven’t been by the pre­vi­ous EFP (Expe­ri­ence Food Project)  Con­tin­ue Reading

That’s FHHS ace pitch­er Richie Ochoa in the pho­to — in sixth grade. Here’s a port­fo­lio of many of our present play­ers who played Orcas this week (and beat ’em Tues­day, and Merid­i­an yes­ter­day) — click here to see what the team looked like in 2003.

I just got this nice list from Mary Elford of what they have at the Sports Fundrais­er & BBQ that’s over at Beaver­ton Val­ley Busi­ness Park at 5pm on Saturday…there are 128 things  on the list, which you can see by click­ing here: Hi!  As you know On Sat­ur­day, May 2nd Pur­ple and Gold is  Con­tin­ue Reading

I just got this nice list from Mary Elford of what they have at the Sports Fundrais­er & BBQ that’s over at Beaver­ton Val­ley Busi­ness Park at 5pm on Saturday…there are 128 things  on the list, which you can see by click­ing here: Hi!  As you know On Sat­ur­day, May 2nd Pur­ple and Gold is  Con­tin­ue Reading

Thurs­day after­noon the hard-luck soc­cer Wolver­ines pres­sured the goal through­out the game, but shot after shot lat­er the boys came up with a 0–0 draw with Cav­alero Mid-High School. The guys end the sea­son with a win and two ties to go with eight loss­es, and the sat­is­fac­tion of steady improve­ment through the sea­son. They  Con­tin­ue Reading

I asked FHH­S’s Pur­ple & Gold why folks should come to this week­end’s fundrais­er (here’s more on the San Juan Cal­en­dar), which hopes to raise $45K to keep sports hap­pen­ing until the Novem­ber 7th vote rein­states the programs…Elisa Howard says it’s going to be a good time: It is our goal to raise $45,000 at the  Con­tin­ue Reading

In Chica­go, they sched­ule Cubs games at Wrigley in the mid­dle of the day for two rea­sons: One, that’s when base­ball is sup­posed to be played, and two, then peo­ple can skip work & go watch ’em. Today, you can too — the Fri­day Har­bor Wolver­ines base­ball team plays at 2:45pm here against Orcas at  Con­tin­ue Reading

  Thurs­day after­noon there was a pow­er out­age which dark­ened the elec­tric score­board dur­ing the game, but Fri­day Har­bor did­n’t have a pow­er out­age as they rode a com­plete game effort by senior pitch­er Albert Strass­er (in pho­to) to a 14–4 win over a strong Nook­sack Val­ley team. Albert allowed a cou­ple of runs in  Con­tin­ue Reading

Thurs­day night, Stan­wood came vis­it­ing, and The San Juan Drag­ons wel­comed them by scor­ing the first two goals of the game. With a 3–2 lead at the half, the Drag­ons had con­trol of the game until Stan­wood snuck in the last two scores with less than four min­utes to go for a 7–6 come-from-behind win. The island’s  Con­tin­ue Reading

One of the tal­ent­ed stu­dents at Fri­day Har­bor High is senior Lau­ren Paulsen, who has been shoot­ing Sports Illus­­trat­ed-lev­­el pho­tos at soc­cer games — click here to see her port­fo­lio (com­piled by Cassie Ellis) from the Nook­sack Val­ley game last week, which was arguably the boys’ best played game at home so far this year. That’s  Con­tin­ue Reading

Quick notes: The base­ball express rolled on, as the boys thumped Gran­ite Falls Fri­day night 9–0 before sweep­ing two at Orcas on Sat­ur­day. The soft­ball girls lost their dou­ble­head­er at Orcas Sat­ur­day, while the soc­cer boys near­ly jumped Wash­ing­ton High in Taco­ma Fri­day night, rid­ing Conor Lan­phere’s goal to a 1–1 tie till the hosts  Con­tin­ue Reading

Ever since I saw the end of Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire, I’ve been wish­ing we could have every­body dance next to the fer­ry land­ing (since we don’t have a train sta­tion to dance in.) Great way to end a movie, or start things up on an island. In Antwerp, they have no such prob­lem — check it  Con­tin­ue Reading