Orcas Island resident and photojournalist Damien Stark will swim a 19.5-mile route from the Anacortes ferry terminal to Orcas Island and then Orcas Island to San Juan Island over the weekend of July 26 and 27 to raise awareness and funds for the Breast Cancer Treatment Support Mission Project.
It was another fun-filled fourth on Lopez with high attendance at the Lions’ Club Fun Run (308 participants) and Friends of the Lopez Library book sale, plenty of unique floats, and an outstanding fireworks show. See below for run results and award winners.
The July 4th parade isn’t the only place to see cool tractors.
Every other year since 2004, the Cascade Two-Cylinder Club has sponsored an Antique Two-Cylinder John Deere Tractor Tour of Lopez Island. On Saturday, July 19, starting around 10:30 a.m., a long line of tractors from off-island plus a slew of local beauties can be seen caravanning through our roads.
The next San Juan Islands Conservation District meeting will be on July 8 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Lopez Library meeting room. For more information and directions see www.sanjuanislandscd.org or call the Conservation District at 378-6621
If you are a writer in San Juan County, the San Juan County Fair needs YOU!
“Poetry gives you another way of seeing the world,” says Lopez writer John Sangster.
Four years and 8,000-plus hours on the job later, three of Orcas Power & Light Cooperative (OPALCO) Apprentice Linemen – Kai Burleson from Lopez; Roger Sandwith from San Juan Island; and Dan Watters on Orcas (all native islanders) – are “topping out,” which is lineman lingo for completing the apprentice program and reaching the 100 percent mark on the union wage scale as Journeymen Linemen.
The Anacortes/San Juan Islands ferry routes will have extra 4th of July service. Wednesday, July 2: Extra sailing at 1:30…
A list of community happenings on Lopez Island.
Island Stage Left, the islands’ only professional theatre company, celebrates its 10th anniversary of “Shakespeare Under the Stars” by mounting Shakespeare’s glorious swansong “The Tempest.”
They’re rubber, yellow, fit in the palm on your hand, and have been helping a local non-profit raise funds for its programs.
The Lopez Island Family Resource Center (LIFRC) has been busy selling sponsorships for its Amazing Rubber Duck Race, enticing folks with the lure of an “edge of your seat” racing competition on Saturday, July 12, starting at 2:15 p.m. (right after the farmers’ market).
We are born wired to learn.
By age three, our brains have one trillion synapses — more than we’ll have in adulthood. By age six, our brains are 95 percent the size of mom’s and dad’s.
We’ll spend 13 years in school preparing for college or the workplace. But it’s our first five years of life — those years before we ever set foot in a classroom — that have the most impact on our ability to learn, control our behavior and build relationships.
By age five, we have the building blocks for success, or we have a tough road to hoe.
Visitors to Lopez Island will get a break this Fourth of July, as Washington State Ferries will offer free parking…