Weekly San Juan Singers rehearsals are a bit like a big family reunion. You may not know everyone there, but you’re drawn together by a shared sense of community and purpose. What could be better than that?
Sharks are in decline worldwide and they’re not the kind of cuddly creatures that most people would think about cozying up to or going to combat for. Australia’s Madison Stewart is different than most.
Experienced cyclist and Island Bicycle shop owner Paul Ahart will instruct attendees how to tune-up, repair gears, and properly clean their pedal-powered fun machines. By the end of the class, your bike will be tuned, cleaned and ready to hit the island roads.
Acrobatic Conundrum, a contemporary circus arts company from Seattle, has been on tour throughout Northern California and the Pacific Northwest since early March. The troupe will perform their new show “The Language of Chance,” April 3, 7:30 p.m., at the theatre.
Beagles, the most common breed of dog used by university and research facilities as product-testing guinea pigs, are considered the “ideal” dog because of their friendly and people-pleasing personality. In 2012, nearly 70,000 dogs (96 percent of them beagles) were used in labs.
Beginning April 3, San Juan Islands Museum of Art’s new weekly rotating exhibit, “Ugly Architecture through the Ages: A Subjective Study” will feature a different building each week that’s sure to engender conversation.
Saturday, April 4: First Saturday Naked Contra Dance, Grange Hall, 7 p.m. Some say contra dance is the most fun you can have with your clothes on, but now you don’t have to wear any clothes at all. Featured performance by hometown band, “The Cheeks”. Free. Info, www.contradanceband.com
One female dog, producing one litter of puppies, will propagate 67,000 dogs in six years. For cats that number can be quadrupled. In the U.S., approximately eight million homeless pets enter animal shelters every year: 8 million.
Roberts and Ulvi lived, worked and adventured in Alaska for 33 years before moving to San Juan Island in 2007 to build a new homestead life in retirement.
After a recent drill in which the fire department was given a small building to burn for practice, Michelle went right up to the owner and thanked him for, “letting us burn his building down.” A born diplomat.
What do Goldilocks, the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood and other famous folktale characters have in common? Find out as the Friday Harbor Middle School players present “A Walk in the Woods,” beginning Thursday, March 27.
In his newly published book, “How Obamacare is Unsustainable,” Geyman contends the three primary goals of the Affordable Care Act’s three primary goals—affordability, near-universal coverage and improved quality of care—are not being met and that a single-payer healthcare system is the best solution for all Americans, and for reform of U.S. health care.
Join Kathleen Foley of San Juan Preservation Trust and Tanja Williamson of San Juan County Land Bank for the next installment of the award winning walk series, Know Your Island Walks. Foley and Willamson will lead the walk around the soon-to-be Mount Grant Preserve, formerly known as Lawson Ridge, March 28, at 1 p.m.
