Have you ever had a favorite band whose music you always crank up when you’re cruising around on a sunny day with your windows rolled down? Or one that you play specifically to dance to when no one else is around?
Mercury Direct, New Moon! Finally, Mercury comes out of retrograde on Tuesday! It will take a couple of days to…
We’ve seen some great beater cars and trucks sent in, and we would like to encourgae everyone to keep submitting them. The Weekly wants your photos of the most beat-up, character-full car you can find. Be it on the road or stuck in a field with three wheels, send us a shot and we may print it. All photos should be no less than 1 MB, be in JPEG format and be no larger than 300ppi. Please include who took the photo, what part of the island it was taken on and any other information you want printed with. Take this opportunity to celebrate a truly ‘island’ feature.
The Lopez Summer Workshops brochures for the Lopez Island Family Resource Center have been mailed. Anyone who has a mailing address or a P.O. Box on Lopez Island should have received one. They also sent out brochures to anyone who has participated in previous summer workshops. Summer classes are also available online at the website liferc@rockisland.org. Submit registration and fees early to reserve your slot. Classes have a limited space and can fill up quickly. Look for brochures at these locations; the LIFRC office, LVM, Library, Holly B’s, Islandale Store, and the Ferry Landing.
Need to attend a meeting off-island but would rather not have to spend hours in the commute? Now Lopez Library is offering the opportunity to attend the meeting virtually. Call the library to book the room for your meeting time. This is a great option for a small groups to save travel time and energy using interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. Library staff will get you set up. This facility is part of the library`s long-range plan to “Connect to the Online World“ by offering useful online services to the community. Funded in part by the Friends of the Library.
Members of the Lobos golf team competed against Orcas, LaConner and Shore line Christian last Tuesday. LaConner won the ladies and Orcas took first with their boys team. The Lobos have a bright future ahead of them with wins later in the week allowing 11 team members to qualify for the Tri-District Tournament.
For Lopez Island weaver Linda Graham-Rose, a strong sense of place is linked inextricably to her art. From the signs which line her driveway, informing visitors that this is the Chris Jensen Homestead, 1887 (a great, great uncle) and the birthplace of Hazel Nielsen, 1919, “Linda’s mom,” to Graham-Rose’s hand-woven blankets and tea towels, it is all about the feeling of home.
“The greenest watt is the watt we never use,” says Lopezian Doug Poole. As an energy consultant, however, he understands that this is too extreme a solution for the average household. Moreover, it is the average household that he and partner Jeff Dyer are eager to help out.
This is Funny… This retrograde Mercury has a very curious twist to it now. It is forming a beautiful trine…
A meandering and hilarious homage to a new spatula; vibrant, cacophonous word pictures from a dusty volunteer adventure in Africa; a fictional young woman’s final encounter with her dying father.
The Legacy Writers group meets at the Gathering Place the second Monday of each month at 9:30 a.m. According to Six Lapham, the organizer and a resident of Hamlet House, “The purpose is to share, support and encourage our written expression, mostly of family doings and stuff to confound the grandkids.” Any island senior is welcome.
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