Effective with the March 31 edition, The Islands’ Weekly will no longer be mailed to households on Orcas and San Juan islands. It will continue to be mailed free of charge to Lopez Island households. The rising cost of paper and postage make it economically impractical to continue a countywide mailing. Limited copies of The Weekly will be available in the offices of The Islands’ Sounder on Orcas and The Journal of the San Juan Islands in Friday Harbor. The Islands’ Weekly will still be available on the internet:
Islands Sounder County reporter
From a plate brimming with qualified and talented candidates, Bruce Orchid emerged as the one entrusted with planting new seeds and breathing new life into the Orcas Island Farm-to-Cafeteria Program in our public schools.
Older Americans ought to keep working in order to lighten the burden of Social Security and assorted benefits on younger generations.
At the Lopez Island blood drive on March 17, the Puget Sound Blood Center registered 46 donors. That’s a 12% increase over the number of donors registered for the March blood drive last year! The 37 units of blood collected at last week’s drive will help up to 111 patients. A big “THANK YOU!” to all of you who braved the changeable weather to make a blood donation and in doing so made this blood drive a success!
Lopez Island
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is asking the public for ideas to help city and county governments throughout Puget Sound address how geoduck aquaculture could be regulated under local shoreline management regulations.
OPALCO sent out free energy efficiency kits in brown boxes from Niagara Conservation Co. to more than 6,800 members who live full-time in OPALCO’s service territory. The kits were paid for by Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA) Conservation Rate Credit program—designed to encourage conservation of regional energy resources. The kits contain:
The San Juan County Community Development and Planning Department (CDPD), and local conservation groups, would like anyone who spots one of these turtles to contact Shireene Hale at CDPD email: shireeneh@sanjuanco.com The County is required to protect habitat for endangered species that live here and the western pond turtle is having a tough time hanging on. If at all possible, please take picture to help with the identification.
The Friends of Lopez Island Pool are getting closer to their dream with the help of Heery International. They accepted the huge and complex job of creating a feasibility plan for the pool project development.
So, will you be wearing green for St. Patrick’s Day this year? All blood donors on Lopez that day are sure to be! That’s because the Puget Sound Blood Center will be issuing green arm wraps during the Lopez Island blood drive on Tuesday, March 17th from noon to 6:00 PM at the Community Church in the Village.
Islands’ Oil Spill Association responders were on the scene at Westsound, containing 50 gallons of diesel that was dumped into the water when a 47-foot Coho caught fire on Feb. 20.
Leta Eileen Currie Marshall died from cardiac arrest while walking back from a friend’s home at 10 a.m. on Feb. 18, 2009, an early spring day.
