Friday Harbor’s musician at large — Devorah — is nearing the end of her 3,000 mile bike ride across the country to raise awareness and generate funds to assist those wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan through a program called Pennies 4 Patriots. So far the musician has raised $5,000.
It wasn’t long ago that Ament was limping and walking with a cane. For three years, he suffered from pain in his right hip, and thought his days of teaching dance were over. He finally surrendered to a full hip replacement in 2009.
Trails Committee is having a trail building work party, Friday, Dec. 9, 10 a.m. – noon. at Middleton’s property on 3043 Cattle Point Road. Look for a “Trails Volunteers At Work” sign. Bring rakes, rogue hoes, loppers, gloves and water. Park on Cattle Point Road or in left driveway past the stone wall.
On Friday, Dec. 2, islanders and visitors gathered at Memorial Park for the Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony.
Roger Blair Sandwith, a.k.a. “Big Rog,” passed away on Nov. 23, 2011 surrounded by family in Friday Harbor, Wash.
Matt Frost has come to San Juan Island to be the new band director at Friday Harbor’s high school and middle school.
Learning to use a beak like that takes time and guidance
These two performers combine their comedy and variety acts to create The Curious Comedy Tour, coming to the San Juan Community Theatre, Friday, Dec. 9, 7 p.m.
D’Errico’s most recent entry in latest Stan Lee contest design is a creation for a T-shirt entitled “A World of Heroes”. Two dollars from the sale of each of the contest’s five winning T-shirts helps support The John Wayne Cancer Society.
The play is set in an upperclass English home during the 1930s, prior to the outbreak of World War II. Charles, a novelist, invites Madame Arcati, an eccentric medium, to his house to conduct a seance, hoping to gather material for his next book. This scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira, who disrupts Charles’ marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.
Monika Wieland signs copies of her newly released book “A Guide to Birds of San Juan Island” at The Whale Museum, Saturday, Dec. 3, 1-3 p.m.
On Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1 p.m. Spring Street International School presents “New Student Works Concert” at the First Presbyterian Church, 480 Spring St.
The San Juan Island Library, and Griffin Bay Bookstore hosts a speaking even for San Juan Island’s Jim Lawrence — first-time author and well-known farmer and fisherman on Sunday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m. at Griffin Bay Bookstore.
