There will be a new way to appreciate the island this April with the publication of a new Arcadia Publishing work: “Images of America: Lopez Island.” Written by Susan Lehne Ferguson, the book captures, as Mark Thompson-Klein says, “the personalities, toughness, and creativity that makes Lopez the place we love.” As executive director of the Lopez Museum, Thompson-Klein helped steer Ferguson toward research materials “She is a tireless researcher,” he says.
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Each summer, the San Juan Island’s resident pods of orca whales come together in what are called “greeting ceremonies.” In this spirit, The Whale Museum of Friday Harbor invites all orca supporters to the fourth Annual Celebration of the “Orca Greeting Ceremony.” This fundraising dinner and auction will be held on Saturday, May 22 at the Mullis Center in Friday Harbor. The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with a happy hour and silent auction followed by a gourmet dinner, live auction and dessert auction.
Wow, What a Week!
Listen up all you audio book lovers. The Lopez Island Library now has a new free service for downloading audio books to your computer, iPod or other MP3 player, called NetLibrary eAudiobooks. The library recently subscribed to Netlibrary for the community. You can access thousands of audio books from home, school, or office from this site www.netlibrary.org.
For this week’s book review we have taken the most recent winners of Lopez Library’s Winter Adult Reading Program.
Friday Harbor’s Islands Museum of Art opens Art Wolfe’s “Travels to the Edge,” an exhibition of photographs from the award winning American Public Broadcasting series of the same name. A lecture by Wolfe “Between Heaven and Earth” will be held 6-7 p.m. Saturday at San Juan Community Theatre.
On Friday from 5 – 8 p.m. the Lopez School multipurpose room will be full of fun for the Winter Carnival and Silent Auction. This event is run to raise funds for the fifth-grade trip to Islandwood, an environmental learning center on Bainbridge Island.
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Contestants who sign up on the site can take a stab at guessing the winners of some of the top Oscar categories, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and more. The winner takes home an 18-DVD set of past Best Picture winners.
You don’t have to be a conservationist to appreciate the importance of the San Juan Island beauty. In fact it is a non-scienfitifc, artistic appreciation that Peter Fromm and Emily Reed are looking for.
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Something that always stands out about Lopez Island is the number of very talented artists residing here.
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