The San Juan Dragons’ home lacrosse game Saturday vs. Lynnwood was rescheduled because of spring break. The Dragons (3-2) travel today to Skagit Valley (0-4). See SanJuanJournal.com for results.
Purple & Gold, the support group for San Juan Island School District athletics, is sponsoring a fund-raising event to pay for the Friday Harbor High School fall sports program. A barbecued dinner, dance, live music and auction are scheduled May 2, 5 p.m., at Beaverton Valley Business Park.
The Friday Harbor Sailing Club announces the following sailboat race series. Saturday: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Griffin Bay and San Juan Channel. PHRF and Cruising divisions. Sunday: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Griffin Bay and San Juan Channel. PHRF and Cruising divisions. The event is a two-day racing series sponsored by the Friday Harbor Sailing Club. Register online at www.fridayharborsailing.com. Entry fee: $10, covers both days sailing. Race one or both.
Before there was Hendrix, Heart or Nirvana, there were The Fabulous Wailers. So perhaps it’s a gift that you can catch Wailers front man
Kent Morrill in the intimate San Juan Community Theater for $25, in his acclaimed tribute to Roy Orbison.
Decibel levels of sonar pings recorded off the west side of San Juan Island April 7-8 may have been the same level as sonar pings implicated in the deaths of several beaked whales in the Bahamas in October 2003. That’s according to Dr. Val Veirs, president of The Whale Museum board and professor emeritus of physics at Colorado College. Hydrophones operated by The Whale Museum and Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School started recording sonar pings and what sounded like garbled human speech beginning at 7 p.m. on April 7. The pings and sounds continued into the early morning.
More than $130,000 is included in the state’s proposed capital budget for development of up to 15 trails in the 112-acre Cattle Point Natural Resource Conservation Area on San Juan Island. The money is intended for preservation work as well. Specifically, the money is budgeted for “natural areas facilities preservation and access.” The proposed capital budget also includes nearly $1 million to repair the wastewater system in Moran State Park on Orcas Island.
Franchesca Hanna of Friday Harbor and Arcata, Calif., and Joseph Addison of Arcata, Calif., are happy to announce the birth of their son, Taos Kai Addison.
He was kind of the “town dawg” and folks are already telling me how much they miss him. I miss him terribly, of course, and already am experiencing some “ghosting” going on around the house. (Wasn’t that something brown and white I saw coming out of the bedroom?)
It’s been said that if you want to stop growth in your neighborhood, open a hog farm. But could the threat of a hog farm influence the county’s decision on where to site a new solid waste transfer station? E.J. Thorndike has made known his opposition to the possible location of a waste transfer station on Daniel Lane.
Friends of the San Juans, the San Juan County Marine Resources Committee and the San Juan Island Association of Realtors are hosting “Water in San Juan County,” a for-credit workshop for real estate professionals.
The Friday Harbor Wolverines are ranked ninth in among state 1A baseball teams, according to WashingtonBaseballPoll.com. The poll was founded in 1978 by Lem Elway, retired Anacortes High School baseball coach and teacher. Rankings are based on team performance with input from coaches and newspaper sports reporters.
Orca advocate Jeanne Hyde reports on her blog, whale-of-a-porpoise.blogspot.com, that loud pings believed to be from a ship’s sonar were recorded over an eight-hour period in Haro Strait Tuesday and today.
My wife, Rachel, and I walk in memory of my mother Lynda, and all those who have lost loved ones to cancer. We also walk for the survivors who are fighting. We walk in hope that people will not suffer from cancer in the future.
