Lopez Senior Center presents beginning and advanced Tai Chi at Woodmen Hall every Wednesday. Both levels meet at 9 a.m. for a combined class. For more information, call Jerry at 468-4709.
In advance of the August 19 primary election, the League of Women Voters of the San Juans has scheduled a public forum for candidates to meet the voters.
Voting is both a right and a duty of citizenship. Be sure you can cast your vote by registering as a voter in advance of the August 19 primary election.
Have you ever wondered about salmon restoration in your watershed? What’s going on, who’s doing the work, where the projects are located, and how you can get involved or coordinate with these efforts?
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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…
