It’s a “Hard Days Night” of classic rock at the San Juan Community Theatre, tonight at 8, when Abbey Road Live! performs on the Whittier stage.
There’s a little something for everyone at the Chamber of Commerce’s annual Splash of Summer Color Weekend, Saturday and Sunday. The weekend features two popular events: the San Juan Island Lavender Festival and the Summer Arts Fair.
The Guard family loves a picnic. And one is scheduled on Aug. 1 to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the arrival of the Paul Guard family on San Juan Island.
Lynn Danaher of Friday Harbor, co-founder of the Pacific Islands Research Institute (www.islandexplorer.org) and a member of the Explorers Club, visited The World cruise ship when it anchored off San Juan Island July 5-6. Here is her account of her visit …
Jonathan Trigueiro of Friday Harbor married Kelsey Mead of Mukliteo on July 12, 2009 at the home of the bride’s parents, Timothy and Allison Mead in Mukilteo. Jonathan graduated from Friday Harbor High School in 1996 where he was ASB president. He is the nephew of Sandra Hawley and Bob Tauscher, “Uncle Bob.”
Donovan and Betty Jane Craddock of Cape San Juan celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary July 18. The Craddocks are natives of Pueblo, Colo., and met in high school there. They were married July 18, 1944 in Pearl Island Chapel, Langley Field, Va.; three weeks later, Don piloted a B-17 to England and later flew 35 missions over Germany.
It’s soon the final curtain for San Juan Community Theatre’s longest-running play, “The Life & Times of General George Pickett.” Island historian Mike Vouri is closing the last chapter of his 14-year one-man drama tonight at 8 on the Whittier stage. Vouri said he’s grown out of the part (Vouri’s 61, and Pickett died when he was 50) and it’s time to move on to another history project.
“Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?” asks Rosalind in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” In Island Stage Left’s presentation of this comedy, there’s no such thing as “too much of a good thing.”
Singer-songwriter Devorah is on bicycle en route to ABC Studios in Los Angeles, hoping to arrive in time for her birthday Aug. 5. Devorah hopes to get an appearance on the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show. She sent the following e-mail this morning. You can follow her bicycle tour on Twitter.
Adam Ledgerwood, Keira Gorski and Vincent Huerta of Stepping Stones wave to the crowds in the Friday Harbor Fourth of July Parade. Their day care center was incorrectly identified in the July 8 Journal, page 12. For more pictures from the island’s Fourth of July celebrations, see the July 8 Journal and SanJuanJournal.com
This year’s Fourth of July celebration will long be remembered for its crowds, its commemorations of the town and fire department centennials, and the presence of Lummi Indian Nation representatives as grand marshals of Friday Harbor’s parade. But it will also be remembered for its winners.
Rhiana Franklin, 14, of Friday Harbor will sing on the KWJZ 98.6 FM Stage at the Tacoma Freedom Fair on the Fourth of July.
Rhiana, daughter of Ken and Suzanne Franklin of Friday Harbor, performed from 12:45-1:30 p.m. and 3:30-4 p.m. She will be accompanied by Bob Leytze on accoustic guitar and Cecil DeMeerleer on bass.
The scene would be familiar to the ancestors of those in the canoe that pulls up to the shore below Jack Fairweather Park about noon on Friday: The cedar-decorated bow, the pullers wearing articles of clothing made from cedar, the ancient words of request for permission to land. Canoes regularly plied the marine highway between the San Juan Islands and what is now Canada and mainland Washington state. Communities on the islands had different names then — p’kweekh-EEL-wuhlh, WH’LEHL-kluh, EH-leh-luhng, SMUH-yuh.
