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.
It traces the life of the Bucks during those early years, the changes taking place at that time, and the development of Friday Island and Cape San Juan in an era in which San Juan County was in danger of going broke.
Krivchenia began giving solo piano recitals at age 15 and has played in hundreds of concerts since.
According to the Mayo Clinic, light therapy can also be used to help adjust daily sleep cycles (circadian rhythm), which may play a role in mood.
The spirit lives on in this slideshow of two of Friday Harbor’s most popular holiday events — the Santa Ship and Dance of the Elders. Click on the arrow.
The group will meet each Tuesday, beginning Jan. 15, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., with eight weekly meetings, concluding March 5.
Greenthal ensemble bridging musical boundaries, Dec. 20, 7 p.m. at Isle Be Jammin’
The publisher of more than 500 travel guides and home to a travel website that gets 12 million hits per month has ranked the San Juans “Number 3” in its Top 10 U.S. Destinations for 2013.
Adapted by Charles Ludlam and directed by John E. Davis, the story, read and performed by island actors, features the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge.
