Great Island Giveaway and Social, a community recycling/swap meet, takes place Feb. 21 at Mullis Community Senior Center. Drop off items and social is at 8:30-9:45 a.m. Event begins at 10 a.m. The event is presented by Soroptimist International of Friday Harbor.
There will be an Ash Wednesday Service on Feb. 25, noon, in Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church. “Join us in the spiritual journey toward Easter with this noontime service, noting the beginning of the Lenten season with prayers of hope and healing.”
Ursula courageously fought and beat cancer three times over the last 30 years and her positive outlook in the face of adversity is an inspiration to all who knew her. An avid traveler, she made yearly trips to Europe to visit her daughter and friends, even last summer at the age of 91.
The skies may get a lot noisier over Lopez and San Juan islands. The Navy plans to increase training for crews at its Northwest Training Range Complex off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and Northern California.
It was a busy day in our state Capitol. More than 200 Washingtonians rallied in Olympia on Feb. 18 to speak out about the proposed options for future ferry service and present a petition with 8,000 signatures.
Huckleberry passed away in the loving care of her family, Maya, Sheryl and Andrew, on Feb. 17, 2009.
Free composting workshops are scheduled March 7 and 8 on the islands. The dates are incorrect in the ad on page 8A of the Feb. 18 Journal. The workshops are March 7, 8:30-11:30 a.m., Orcas Island Senior Center; March 7, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Mullis Community Senior Center; and March 8, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Lopez Island Elementary School.
Ferries and schools will benefit from the federal stimulus package approved by Congress and signed by President Obama Tuesday. The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act “will invest more than $44 million to modernize schools, fund special education and help kids learn, including investments in Title I, IDEA and school modernization and repair” in the 2nd Congressional District, according to Rep. Rick Larsen’s Web site.
Researchers have confirmed the birth of two Southern resident orca calves, bringing the population to 85. However, the news comes as one 31-year-old male orca is believed missing, emphasizing the challenges the endangered whale pods face in their recovery.
Sunlight has touched the soil beneath the King Farmhouse on Price Street for the first time since 1894. Nickel Bros. House Moving is scheduled to lift the house today so that a concrete foundation and 4-foot crawl space can be placed under the historic home, the centerpiece of the San Juan Historical Museum.
The two brothers moved to Friday Harbor to start a new life far from the tough inner-city streets of Tukwila. Now, one is dead and the other will spend 50 months in prison for fatally shooting his brother in a predawn altercation that left family and friends grief-stricken, perplexed and pleading for leniency.
A San Juan Island woman’s Toyota 4-Runner went off Turn Point Road and Harrison Street today at about 2 p.m., crashing into a truck parked in the Seattle Yacht Club parking lot below. The woman, identified by Sheriff Bill Cumming as Anne Gutierrez, was taken by ambulance to Inter Island Medical Center. Witnesses said she had gotten out of her vehicle by herself and walked to the ambulance, though that could not be confirmed by authorities.
A San Juan Island man is in custody today, suspected of shooting his live-in girlfriend in the chest last night in their home near Roche Harbor Road and Lillan Lane. Doug Curnow, 35, is in San Juan County Jail, Sheriff Bill Cumming said. His 45-year-old girlfriend, whom Cumming would not identify, was flown by the U.S. Coast Guard to Harborview Medical Center, where she is reportedly communicative but still unable to talk.
