Newton’s latest topic of research is assessing the status of ocean acidification in local marine waters.
The Showcase, formerly titled the Islands Playwrights Festival, opens Thursday, Jan. 24, for a two-week run.
About one in six juvenile Chinook prefers insects and other invertebrates even when baitfish are plentiful. Both wild and hatchery Chinook exhibit this behavior. Biologists call this a “portfolio strategy” and believe that it makes efficient use of all available resources.
There’s a “buzz” going around about the current exhibition of art at San Juan Islands Museum of Art, a presentation of work by students enrolled at Friday Harbor High School’s advanced art program. It’s also the first annual Friday Harbor High School Invitation hosted by IMA, 232 A Street, Friday Harbor, and it closes this Friday… don’t miss it.
Sponsored as part of Soroptimists International’s America’s Live Your Dream Initiative, the day-long seminar includes five workshops; “Money Magic”, “Pulling a Job out of a Hat”, “Presto Chango”, “Confidence Wizardry”, and “The Amazing Mind”, all led by local professionals in each workshop-related field.
Veteran director Jane Maxwell Campbell, leading the high school drama group since Fred Yocker’s departure two years ago, believes audiences are in for a treat.
Fish For Teeth sponsors this local volunteer-staffed clinic to provide urgent and preventative dental care to island residents who have no discretionary income, no dental insurance and no other financial means to pay for dental services.
Five different chamber music concerts will be performed on each of the islands between January and June with accomplished international performers playing music dating from 1550 to 1850 on authentic period instruments.
Talia Loucks, already teaching on-land Zumba classes at the club, was recently certified as an Aqua Zumba® instructor, and she will be conducting a demo class in the water on Thursday, Jan. 10, at 11 a.m.
The DAR “Good Citizens” program and scholarship contest encourages and rewards qualities of good citizenship. The program is open to all high school seniors. The student selected as the school’s DAR Good Citizen must have the qualities of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism to an outstanding degree.
This year, unlike in the past, the program, sponsored by Mount Baker, is run by Orcas Island Park and Recreation District, not by the school districts, and features a chartered bus, boarded in Anacortes. Bus riders will walk on respective ferries, rather than board a local bus, and the chartered bus, provided by Triangle Charters, will be waiting; scheduled departure from Anacortes is 9:15 a.m. Rides are available to all ages, from any island. Half-day lift tickets are provided; arrival is expected at 11:30 a.m., about an hour earlier than the resort’s normal half-day starting time.
From 7 p.m. ‘til whenever o’clock, you can dance, you can sing, you can kiss, and you can yell “Happy New Year” to your heart’s content at the Mullis Center. And you won’t have to worry about wearing your sister-in-law’s lampshade. The clock’s been reset for Eastern Daylight Time and the New Year will ring in at 9 p.m.
Garner received the coveted NHP award Dec. 8, as part of the park’s annual Holiday Social.