Wednesday: Orcas Spring Lecture Series: “Hydrology of Cascade Creek Watershed,” 7 p.m., Orcas Senior Center, off North Beach Road on Henry Lane, Eastsound. Jeff Bash, watershed lead for the state Department of Ecology, gives this lecture. Sponsored by the San Juan Nature Institute. Free. Call 378-3646 or visit www.sjnature.org.
Editor’s note: This feature is published monthly in The Journal and posted on SanJuanJournal.com.
By Russell Sadler
This week’s Journal features a page of photos from prom, Opening Day of boating season, and the Children’s Festival.
With the expiration of her lease and with her daughter’s graduation from high school, Laura Westmiller has moved her Classic Design, Inc., to a studio in the Northwest area of the island near her home.
Advantage Basketball Camps is accepting registration for camps scheduled June 16-19, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Friday Harbor High School.
As we piled out of the concierge vans, the breathtaking links-style course was majestically strewn over what seemed like miles of some of the most coveted property in the Tacoma area.
The San Juan Dragons had a scrappy season that they will not soon forget.
The Friday Harbor Wolverines boys soccer team’s season ended May 6 with a 2-0 loss to Vashon Island High School.
Women’s golf lessons for advanced beginners are scheduled May 22 and 29, and June 5 and 12 at 1:30 p.m. at San Juan Golf and Country Club.
To understand first-year golfer Megan Cuomo’s accomplishment at the district tournament Thursday at Avalon … well, let’s set the scene so you can stand in her place and feel your pulse quicken.
San Juan Island EMS paramedic Weyshawn Koons is now certified as a Critical Care Paramedic.
Thought to have gone extinct, glass sponge reefs were rediscovered in Georgia and Hecate Straits during the 1990s. Professor Paul Johnson, an oceanographer at the University of Washington and chief scientist on 38 deep-water cruises, has spent most of his career working on hydrothermal systems on the Juan de Fuca Ridge and became involved “obliquely.”