Last week a big package arrived by barge at Obstruction Pass landing: a twelve-ton transformer for Orcas Power & Light’s Olga Substation. The transformer was delivered to the substation, where it was met by a sixty-ton crane to lift it into place. OPALCO’s line crew, substation technician and engineers have been hard at work to upgrade the Olga Substation, bringing it up to current standards and improving system reliability for Orcas, Decatur and Blakely Islanders.
League of Women Voters hosts Dr. John Geyman March 9
OLYMPIA – Divers today confirmed that fuel tanks inside a sunken vessel in Orcas Island’s West Sound are empty.
Susan Wilson went out kayaking one day, as she is fond of doing, and as she was soaping up in the shower that night she found the mass in her breast, near her heart. Her pants had become loose over the last few weeks but at the time, she thought it was due to the paddling. Susan received a mammogram and ultrasound right away after telling her husband, Dr. Bob Wilson, what she had discovered. The technicians at the hospital could tell through the ultrasound that it was a cancerous mass.
It’s time for San Juan islanders to mark their calendars for the 2009 Children’s Festival: UNDER THE SEA.The event is slated for May 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the fair grounds.
Puppets on the Rock! Proudly presents “The Adventures of Sinbad” by Oregon Shadow Theatre, February 28th at 2pm at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. After taking Lopez audiences to Italy in November and to China in January, we continue our tour around the world through puppet theater with this tale from Persia.
The Opportunity Council’s Board of Directors will meet Thursday, Feb. 26, 4 p.m. at the Bellingham office, 1111 Cornwall Ave. For more information, contact Martha Border, 360-734-5121, ext. 304.
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Killer whale research-er Ken Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research is the first recipient of the Salish Sea Science Prize, a $2,000 cash award given to recognize a scientist whose work has resulted in the improved conservation of marine wildlife and the Salish Sea marine ecosystem.
The speaker at the third Arthur Whiteley Lecture presented by San Juan Nature Institute in collaboration with UW Friday Harbor Labs is Dr William Calvin. His topic is ‘Our Climate Fix must be Big and Quick’. The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday February 19, in The Commons, at the Labs. His talk will be based on his most recent book ‘Global Fever’ which was written in part at the Whiteley Center at the Labs.
On Thursday, San Juan County Treasurer’s Office employees stacked 11,600 tax bills into 30 mail trays and drove them to the post office in a yellow County truck. The total of all the bills is just over $41 million dollars. It didn’t take long to confirm their delivery.
Businesses from the Puget Sound region can explore how to reduce business costs while improving the environment through an innovative materials exchange program. “Synergy” is the concept that allows one company’s waste to become another company’s resource.
The Lopez Island Library is sponsor-ing a visit from the Burlington, Washington writer Jennifer Bradbury. Ms. Bradbury will talk about her new book, Shift, and work with aspiring writers at the Lopez Middle School on Wednesday, February 25 at 11:40 in Colleen Currie’s classroom. The community is invited to attend the presentation as well. If interested, call Ms. Currie at 468-2202, ext. 2208. If you tune your radio to 102.9 FM at 1:30 you will hear Ms. Bradbury interviewed on Lou Pray’s radio show “Lou’s News and Reviews”.
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