The Friday Harbor Town Council meets tonight at 5 for a presentation by Steve Alexander, San Juan County solid waste manager, regarding the site recommendation and decision process. The meeting, in the Town Hall Council Chambers, is open to the public and the public will be allowed time to comment.
Kasey Rasmussen, 12, of Friday Harbor has qualified for the state Geography Bee in Tacoma for the second consecutive year. Kasey, a seventh-grader at Friday Harbor Middle School, is a daughter of Kris and Scott Rasmussen. She won her first Friday Harbor geography bee as a sixth-grader and lost in a preliminary round of the state bee.
I am a former liberal. I know, I know, what was I thinking? Well, that’s just it — I wasn’t. I was “feeeeling.” Since my release, my freedom has been so sweet. I am no longer angry at the world. I no longer ask, “What is the government going to do for me?” I refuse handouts and work an honest day for an honest wage.
PeaceHealth Oregon Region, which provides hospital and health care services in an eight Oregon counties, announced Friday it will eliminate the equivalent of 70 full-time positions from its payroll in response to deteriorating economic conditions that have resulted in increased expenses for uncompensated care. Accounting for attrition and other factors, the actual reduction in force will involve 57 employees.
It would not be an overstatement to say this is the year the San Juan Dragons lacrosse team plays for a title. Because the Dragons ARE playing for a title, with the confidence that a title is within their grasp. No longer underdogs, the scrappy team that finished 5-5 last year, tying for first in the Skagit Conference, has more advantages going into this season, which kicks off at home vs. Mukilteo, March 14, 2 p.m. at Friday Harbor High School.
Madison Dillery, an eighth-grade student at Friday Harbor Middle School, wrote this composition about the sixth-graders’ Egypt Day in the Commons Feb. 11. Ben Troutman’s eighth-graders were asked to write a news story on the day of exhibits, models and informative posters on Egypt’s ancient civilization. Madison’s composition was determined by her teacher to be exemplary and was submitted for publication.
Michael Soltman says he’s coming home. Selected Monday night as Vashon Island School District’s new superintendent, Soltman lived on Vashon for 12 years before moving to San Juan Island to become that district’s top administrator.
Island Rec’s Adult 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament is March 21 in Turnbull Gym. Day-of registrations will be taken from 1-1:30 p.m., with games starting at 2 p.m. The tournament is open to anyone 15 and older. Cost is $10 per player. Prizes will be awarded to the first-, second- and third-place teams.
Six Friday Harbor firefighters climbed Seattle’s tallest building – the Columbia Center — Sunday in the annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb. The annual climb benefits The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and is recognized as the world’s largest individual firefighter competition. Participating from Friday Harbor: Kevin Carroll, 21; Jane Hutchinson, 46; Zaim Melic, 42; Robert Pauls, 36; Tony Smith, 32; and Andy Urbach, 41.
Beth Hudson is on the island and recovering from injuries sustained in a Dec. 21 crash on Portland Fair Road. She submitted this letter to the editor …
Terrible. That is how State Transportation Commissioner Bob Distler sums up the current financial state of the state ferry system.
PeaceHealth has now sweetened the $30 million Integrated Medical Facility kitty. Seventy grand worth of hype heretofore had not sugar-coated this pill enough to persuade the community to swallow. With its new $20 million pledge, PeaceHealth is plainly in a lather to get its foot in our door. The proposition is now almost irresistible, and if our enthralled Hospital District Board of Commissioners bites, part of the price will be the forfeiture of independent local control of our present and future healthcare universe to the agenda of a corporation.
San Juan Island School District buses will run on snow routes this afternoon, Transportation Supervisor Terresa Sundstrom announced. The school schedule has not changed.
