What did you eat for breakfast?
We think of sun, rain and soil being the basis of our food chain but the typical American diet is essentially dripping with oil.
According to University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture, an average of seven calories of fossil fuel is burned for every calorie of food we eat in the U.S.
On Nov. 1, the Rotary Club of San Juan Island presented Lopez Elementary third grade students with dictionaries designed especially for this grade level.
The Lopez Education Association, in partnership with the Lopez Public School Employees, and the Lopez School Board and Administration invite you to join them in a non-partisan “Day of Action” for Education. The Lopez “Day of Action” will be Nov. 28, which is the first day that the state legislature will be back in session to consider potentially drastic cuts to education. The event will also coincide with a statewide “Week of Action.”
Community Shakespeare Announces Fall Season The Community Shakespeare Company presents “The Laramie Project” at Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, Nov. 9-12.
A group of Lopezians want to glean your backyard fruit trees
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery in New York City will feature plein air artist, Steven R. Hill, in The Persistence of Form. The exhibition is scheduled to run from Nov. 2–23, 2011 (opening reception: Thurs., Nov. 3, 2011).
Keeping up with kiln-cast glass artist, Gerry Newcomb, becomes almost slapstick, running after him, notebook and recorder in hand, trying to catch (and eventually impart to the reader) just a fraction of his enthusiasm.
Rita Larom writes about senior Don Langrock’s life
Bats are the least studied animals, and much of their lives remain a mystery. Very little is known about the abundance of bats in the San Juan Islands, and researchers don’t really know if bat populations are healthy. For this reason, Kwiáht, a nonprofit scientific organization run by islanders and based on Lopez, has launched a “Lopez Island Baseline Bat Status Assessment.” The Status Assessment will map out where Lopez bats live and estimate population numbers to use as a baseline for future research.
Due to a school meeting on the 12th – the Lopez Prevention Coalition has moved the community efforts meeting to address meth
Due to a school meeting on the 12th – the Lopez Prevention Coalition has moved the community efforts meeting to address meth
Thor Hanson’s book “Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle” explores how feathers have evolved to assist birds in flight and survival, and how feathers have affected humans.
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