Three generations of the Guard family — Lynette Guard, her son Rex, and several grandchildren — were present on the family farm Aug. 18. The reason? To move a herd of sheep across the street from Lynette’s property to Rex and Lisa’s.
The new school year begins Sept. 2, with some noticeable changes in the San Juan Island School District. The most visible structural changes are at the elementary and middle schools. The sixth grade is being moved to the elementary school, leaving seventh and eighth grades at the middle school.
A fund-raising matchup between Friday Harbor High School baseball Wolverines past and present raised $3,000 Saturday at Hartman Field. The money from the second annual alumni game will go to the Friday Harbor Baseball Boosters Club to help cover the cost of maintaining the baseball field.
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.
“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.”
Some people think ground-level power transformers are eyesores. Others have larger concerns: the health effects from the EMF, or electromagnetic field, radiation the transformers release.
Fourth of July marks the beginning of the busiest part of summer on San Juan Island, and this year was no exception. Hotels were booked solid, restaurants had lines out the door, and crowds flooded the streets for the parade.
You can help celebrate Island Rec’s 25th birthday this summer at its ninth annual Music on the Lawn concert series. Take your lawn chairs, picnic blankets and dinner to the San Juan Historical Museum lawn for free live music each Wednesday from July 8 to Aug 5.
The Lady Washington was shipwrecked on a sand bar off Nootka Sound in 1798, but a full-sized replica was built in 1989 and is the official ship of Washington state. She will be anchored in Garrison Bay at English Camp July 25 and 26 for the San Juan Island National Historical Park’s annual Encampment — a celebration and reenactment of island life during the mid-19th century and this year, the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) of the joint military occupation of San Juan Island.
It’s not too late for teens to nail down that summer job. The Workforce Development Council matches students between the ages of 16 and 20 with internships at various businesses and non-profits in the community and pays for the students to work these positions that are usually only available to volunteers.
More than $100,000 in scholarships were awarded to the graduating class of Friday Harbor High and Griffin Bay school during commencement this past weekend in Friday Harbor.
