March 10th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
Every Orcas and Waldron public school student is eligible to submit entries for the First Ever OISD Student Chef Competition. The Farm to Cafeteria Committee needs to received your recipe for the greatest sandwich, soup, dessert, casserole, meatloaf, pasta, omelet, granola, salad or taco in the world by March 19!
Students need to submit a detailed menu which includes ingredients and cooking methods, along with a photo of the item you will be preparing in the competition (if possible and advisable) as well as a written overview of why you feel this item is appropriate, it’s nutritional value, its practicality as an item on the school lunch menu and any other information that will entice its selection to compete. We would also like a short bio of yourself. Be sure to include your name, grade, and contact information.
For complete information on submitting an entry and more details of the competition, go to www.orcasislandf2c.org and click on “Student Chef Competition” to download the guidelines.
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March 9th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
The Orcas Island School Board invites the community to a BBQ & Potluck and bond discussion this Wednesday, the 10th, to be held in the High School Commons at 6:15pm.
On March 11, the day following the potluck, the Board will decide when to place the issue on the ballot – April is only one possibility and not a given. This will not be the last chance for community members to make their views known. The Board is committed to seeking public input throughout the design process and will create a community advisory committee to ensure that all voices continue to be heard.
The Board is open to any practical suggestion as to how to reduce the costs of the bond and has already been working towards that end, through bond committee and community meetings, and in consultation with experienced professional advisors, for the past several years. The Board cannot reduce the amount of the authorization that we request of the community based only on potential or possibilities, but that does not preclude us from pursuing any and all cost-savings measures and working to reduce the cost to the community, even after the bond is approved. This is exactly what we intend to do.
The Board has thoroughly explored the use of existing community spaces, but for regulatory and logistical reasons, the use of external facilities is not a workable means of addressing the needs of the educational program.
The amount of the bond was developed by experienced cost estimators who have worked on hundreds of school construction projects. It has been vetted against state averages and is close to $270 per square foot. The bond resolution does not mandate that unspent money be used to pay off the bond, but the Board has made it clear that it is their intention to do just that. There are significant restrictions as to how bond funds can be
spent: they can only be spent on capital projects, cannot be transferred to the general fund and must be spent within a prescribed period of time.
The interest rate of the bond cannot be accurately calculated until the bond passes in the election and it’s put up for sale. As a school building project, which is seen in a positive light by purchasers of bonds, the rate we get will be favorable. The Board intends to reduce the amount of the second half of the bond sale by as much as possible, to reflect whatever cost savings can be achieved during the design process. This will affect the total amount of the bond and the interest. Whatever amount is placed on the ballot, the Board is acutely aware that it will represent a maximum authorization only, not a mandate to spend all of the funds.
The $10 million in indirect costs on the $35M bond amount were not an unknown quantity. This portion of the budget includes many mandated costs, including required contingencies, employing a project manager, permit fees, geotechnical and other testing, as well as other known costs, such as furniture and fixtures for the reconstructed spaces, the fees for the architect, civil, structural and mechanical engineers and other consultants.
The repair and rebuilding of our school facilities is essential. Due to the condition of our aging campus, a 10%+ growth in our student population over the past year, and the increasing importance of offering programming such as Career and Technical (Vocational) Education and OASIS, that will serve all of our students now and into the future, we need to act promptly to provide a safe and effective learning environment.
The economic realities that we are all facing require us to be as prudent and as thorough as possible in our consideration of this bond, and we hope that the discussions at the BBQ and Potluck on Wednesday will be one part of that ongoing process.
We hope you will come and join us in discussing the future of our schools.
Sincerely,
The Directors of the Orcas Island School District
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March 9th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators brings the art of the ukulele to Orcas Island this Saturday afternoon and evening
Contributed by Mark Morris
On Saturday, March 13, travel back in time to the earliest days of the Jazz Age with Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators. They’re playing one show only, at 8:00 p.m., at the Odd Fellows Hall in Eastsound. Orcas’ Charly Robinson will open the show with a set of her own. It’s a family-friendly, all-ages event. A portion of the proceeds from the show will benefit the Orcas Island Education Foundation.
The Seattle-based quartet faithfully re-creates the vintage jazz of the early 1920s to the mid ’30s—the era when this original American music provided a playful soundtrack for the flappers who danced the Charleston and sipped illicit booze in the glitzy underworld of the speakeasy.
Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators play well-known popular tunes that have since become part of the great American songbook and dust off forgotten gems from the early jazz era. Audiences delight at the unabashed romance, the playful humor, and the irresistible swing rhythms. Some can’t help but dance or sing along.
To fully transport audiences, the band members dress in period clothing, share some of the music’s history, and run a slideshow of art and photos from the era during performances.
Singer Sunga Rose croons and strums a ukulele while the Percolators—Ericka Kendall (upright bass), Holly Michelle Eckert (piano/violin), and Carey Rayburn (trumpet/flugelhorn)—keep time and knock out solos. Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators revive for modern times a wonderful sound from a bygone era.
Come enjoy the band in their premiere San Juan Islands concert appearance.
Dancing is strongly encouraged. A selection of beer, wine, and nonalcoholic beverages will be available for purchase. Tickets are $10 per person, available in advance at Darvill’s Bookstore, Orcas Elementary School, Gordeaux’s, and Eastsound Instruments. For more information, call 376-3148.
Also on Saturday, March 13, Sunga Rose will lead two ukulele workshops at the Odd Fellows Hall:
Beginning Ukulele (age 10 – Adult)
2–3:30 p.m., $30
The ukulele is experiencing a new rise in popularity. Don’t you wish you too could play this extremely versatile and portable instrument? Come on! Jump on the bandwagon! This workshop truly is for absolute beginners. I’ll get you started with a few simple chords and some basic strums and send you off with a nice packet of songs to work on. You’ll be surprised at the number of songs you can play with only 2 or 3 chords! Bring your ukulele tuned G-C-E-A.
Intermediate Ukulele: Let’s go to the bar!
3:30-5 p.m., $30
Bar chords aren’t that scary, and adding a few to your uke arsenal is a great way to grow as a player. We’ll learn by working on some popular tunes and replacing your old “open” chords with “closed” chords (bar and other closed chords, too). You’ll be relieved to find that this will actually make some chord transitions much easier! We’ll also cover some music theory that will give you the tools to find many versions of the same chord all over your uke. Students should be comfortable with the basics and be able to change chords smoothly. Bring your ukulele tuned G-C-E-A.
If you’d like to pre-register for either workshop or have any questions, please contact Miss Rose at contact@missroserhythm.com.
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March 9th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
"Stroking Into a New Day" watercolor by Caroline Buchanan, who resides on Obstruction Island.
Contributed by Caroline Buchanan
Do you have a story, a journey story to tell? How did you get to the Islands? Or how did your family come West?
Do you have a meaningful journey such as a high-mountain backpacking trip in which you discovered truths about yourself? Or how about a children’s story – that amazing journey (down the creek, through a part of town you weren’t supposed to go, or ….) through the eyes of the little child you once were? It is time to tell those stories.
This July the Orcas Island Historical Museum will host the “Journey Stories,” a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum on Main Street. This is an outstanding exhibit for Orcas. As part of the exhibit, the Historical Museum is encouraging us islanders to become involved and tell the stories of our journeys.
How to choose the story? What to include? How do you present it? To help you get started and guide you in exploring ways that best present your story, Caroline Buchanan is offering a class at the Senior Center, Telling a Life Journey Story. It is on Fridays, two weeks apart March 12, March 26, April 9, and April 30, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Come this Friday with ideas for your story and any materials you have. Caroline will help you decide how to use line drawings to illustrate it. Or photographs. Or mementos, like tickets. She will show you how you can draw (even if you don’t really draw) to illustrate your story. She will guide you in developing the writing.
If you want to do a children’s story, Caroline will demonstrate an easy way to story-board and set the pages up. Or perhaps a large collage is the answer. Your way of telling your story should be as unique as the story you tell.
In between the class sessions, you will continue work on your story, using the class time to review your progress and work with guidance. Although she is known for her watercolors, Caroline says she is delighted to be teaching a class again that combines writing and art. She has taught journalling (drawing and writing) workshops frequently, overseas as well as in the Islands.
Several students from past children’s story workshops have gone on to publish their work while others created them just for grandchildren. For this class, she believes the important thing is to get you on your way – the journey of telling your story – and see what happens from there.
You may contact Caroline with questions or for more information: 376-5509, or watercolors@rockisland.com
The price of the class is $165. Register with the Senior Center, 360-376-2677.
A story not told is a journey not taken.
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March 8th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
Iris Parker Pavitt in Aspen's Garden at the Orcas High School
Updated March 8 at 7 a.m.
The energy of youth continues to work to make the world a better place. One quiet but constant example is Iris Parker Pavitt.
Iris, an Orcas High School junior, is the President of the Orcas High School Environmental Club.
Since taking over leadership of the Club, which meets Mondays after school and consists of about a dozen members, the club is at the forefront of recycling reminders, especially to the school population. It is also, like most clubs, heavily involved in fundraising. This year, its goal is to help finance a trip the club will be making to the Hanford Nuclear Facility.
With snow forecast this week, one Environmental Club fund-raiser may pay out soon – forecasting the date on which it snows in Eastsound. This contest is a collaboration with Chimayo Restaurant; contestants pay a $2 entry fee to pick a day on which it snows. That date is then marked on the calendar at the restaurant. The closest date wins lunch for two at Chimayo. The contest will run through next winter, and Iris points out that the closest date wins, so a winner is guaranteed.
The Club also is making a video for entry into “America’s Greenest Schools.” The video shows club members planting trees in front of the elementary school last fll, Interviews with school bus drivers, and school administrators, discussing the possibility of a roof garden at school, and the expansion of the gardens and greenhouse, will also be included in the video. The winner of the national contest will receive a hybrid school bus, a “Green School Makeover” (valued at $20,000) and $500 for school supplies.
In addition to her duties as President of the Environmental Club, Iris works at the Public Library for school credit – which is “dangerous,” the book lover says, because she checks out at least three books every day she works. Iris has also participated in the Farm Education and Sustainability for Teens (FEAST) program, interned at the Historical Museum, and serves as editor for the High School Key Club, a service organization under the auspices of the Kiwanis Club. She also serves on the Farm-to-Cafeteria Board.
This week, the Environmental Club plans two community-wide events. The first is another Dodge Ball Tournament on Friday, March 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the High School Gym. For $2 entry team, anyone can join a team to plan in the tournament. A “St. Patrick’s Day” theme will be part of the event. Several Dodge Ball Tournaments have been held this year, and this may be the last, Iris says.
The next day, Saturday, March 13, all are invited to help with a garden work party of “Aspen’s Garden” in front of the High School. The clean-up will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The garden was installed in memory of Aspen O’Donnell, an 18-year-old Orcas High School student who passed away due to illness in 1997.
Last year, Juliana Bates planted a herb garden and repaired the fence and gate at Aspen’s Garden as part of her Senior Project. The Environmental Club will purchase plants from the Farm-to-Cafeteria plant sale for the work party. Snacks will be provided.
Club Advisor Gregory Books, High School science teacher, is trying to work around a regulation for the Hanford Site Tour, which the club hopes to visit in early June: tour visitors must be 18 years old or above.
If that doesn’t happen, Iris says the Club may go camping at a State Park. “Whatever we do, it will be fun,” she says.
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March 7th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
How do you feel about the Orcas Island Public schools? How does your child feel about them? How do the teachers and staff feel about their place of work?
And who cares?
The Orcas Island School District does, and it will be asking the community in general, parents, staff and students in each of the different schools (elementary, middle, and high) to complete customized surveys giving their opinions during the month of March.
For the past six months the Orcas Island School District Site Council has been designing and creating the series of surveys, using the online tool Zoomerang. There is a custom survey for each group type plus a small, one comment box general one for anybody that doesn’t want to do a full survey.
Ideally these surveys will be taken online for efficiency, but for those who don’t want to use or don’t have access to a computer, paper copies will be available at the school offices.
The surveys were finalized on Feb. 24, and are scheduled to be given to the students and staff at the school this month. Parents/guardians and community members can access their surveys online at the Orcas Island School’s website, www.orcasislandschools.org. Click on the “Orcas Island Schools (Elementary, Middle and High) Site Council Surveys” and then choose the applicable survey type.
Elementary (grades 3 through 6), Middle and High School students will take surveys created specifically for their age group while at school.
Elementary School Principal Kyle Freeman says, “The goal of the surveys is to create a School Improvement Plan that will provide guidance for the next 3 to 5 years.”
The Site Council Surveys will be monitored throughout the month, with data showing trends to be distributed mid-March, according to parent/substitute teacher Bob Connell, who has taken the lead in developing the surveys.
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March 6th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
Sunday, March 7
Texas Hold ‘em Tournament at Vern’s Bayside. You must sign up by 12:30 p.m., with play from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Music Advocacy Guild School Benefit Concert 3 p.m. at the Orcas Island School Gym. Performances by Orcas Community Band, the High School String ensemble, the Island Sinfonia and the Orcas Choral Society. Admission is by donation and all proceeds go towards funding the needs of the music program in our public schools.Call Joyce Burghardt at 376-5946.
Doe Bay Café Free Movie also half price bottles of wine and free popcorn. 7 p.m. Call 376-8059.
Monday, March 8
Orcas Island Library Board of Trustees meeting 9 a.m. at the Public Library. 376-4985.
The origins and impacts of critical area regulations with the League of Women Voters of the San Juans, meeting at the San Juan Library in Friday Harbor at 12 noon. All are welcome.
Darvill’s Book Club discusses The Good Thief, by Hannah Tinti. The group meets at 5:30 p.m. at Mia’s café in Eastsound Square. All are welcome to join in. For further information, call 376-2135
Writers Salon Series with Artsmith & Doe Bay Café, this week featuring Artsmith Writers in Residence Tim Sherry & Monica Woelfel. Following the featured writers, audience members will have an opportunity to read their own works each week in a special Writer’s Open Mic. Reading begins at 7 p.m. Call 376-8059 or see www.doebay.com
Tuesday, March 9
Country Corner LAMIRD deliberations at County Council, 10:45 a.m. Only written public testimony will be considered.
Tax Help with Jim Biddick at the Senior Center. $4 per session. Appointments recommended. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 376-2677
Free hot lunch and Food Bank 11:30 a.m. at the Orcas Island Community Church.
Friends of the Library monthly meeting 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Public Library.
Deer Harbor Plan Review Committee at the Deer Harbor Community Center from 3:45 to 5:30 p.m. This month’s meeting has been moved up one day. The Public is invited to this special meeting to examine some of the options for parking and property development in Deer Harbor Hamlet. Future meetings will remain on the second Wednesday, resuming in April. Call 376-3199 for more information.
Eastsound Sewer and Water District meeting, 4:45 p.m. at District Offices, Schoen Lane off Mt. Baker Road. 376-2720.
Super Suckers — the Giant Octupus. Marine Science Lecture Series at Camp Orkila, starting at 7 p.m. The giant Pacific octopus leads a life of mystery. With a personality that’s as complex as its appearance, this animal is a master of disguise that can open jars, mimic other octopuses, and finds its way through mazes in laboratory experiments. Tim Carpenter, Curator of Fish and Invertebrates at the Seattle Aquarium, will lead the lecture. Call SeaDoc’s Jean Spalti at376-3910
Orcas Fire District Commissioners meeting, 7:30 p.m. at the Eastsound Fire Hall. Call 376-2331 for agenda.
Wednesday, March 10
Family Fun Math and Science Night sponsored by PTSA from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Orcas School cafeteria.
School Bond Potluck The public is invited to join in a friendly discussion about Orcas Island School Repairs and Rebuilding through public Capital Bond funding. 6:15 p.m. in the High School Commons. Contact Cathy at 376-2284 for information.
Thursday, March 11
Orcas Island Park & Recreation District meets 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Eastsound Fire Station.
Town Hall with County Council Members Richard Fralick and Gene Knapp, County Administrator Pete Rose and County Auditor Milene Henley, to discuss the County Budget Crisis, uplands portions of the Critical Areas Ordinance and the Solid Waste Transfer business model, from 4 to 5:45 p.m. at the Eastsound Fire Hall. Contact the Clerk of the County Council at (360) 378-2898.
Special School Board meeting to discuss School Bond, 5:30 p.m. in the School Library.
Trivia Competition hosted by Dave Page at Christina’s every Thursday evening, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Featuring half priced bottles of wine. Call 376-4904.
Friday, March 12
Journey Stories Explorations at the Senior Center, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. We all have journey stories — How do you go about telling YOUR story? In conjunction with the Orcas Historical Museum July event, “Journey Stories,” Caroline Buchanan will lead a series of Friday work sessions on March 12 & 26 and April 9 & 30 to help you tell your journey story. Buchanan will help you to decide – written, done as a journal, as a children’s book, a collage … Class limited to 10, $165. To register, call thel Senior Center at 376-2667. For further information, contact Caroline at 376-5509 or watercolors@rockisland.com
Family-friendly Dodge Ball Tournament at High School Gym to benefit Environmental Club’s field trip to Hanford Nuclear Reactor. $2 entry fee to join a team. Starts at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 13
“Lights out” Junior Lady Viking basketball teams (4th, 5th & 6th graders) take on challengers from Friday Harbor and the Mainland. Starts at 11 a.m. in the old school gym
Dodge Ball Tournament to benefit Orcas High School Environmental Club. $2 to join a team. Starts at 7:30 p.m. in the High School gym.
“Make a Scene” Writer’s Roundtable with playwright Sandy Thompson, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Library. All are welcome.
Dallas Brass plays at the Orcas Center — An American Musical Journey. 7:30 p.m.The Dallas Brass is a nationally-recognized ensemble of traditional brass instruments and percussion, and their Orcas performance will feature several Orcas musicians. $25, $17 (Orcas Center members), $11 (students). Come in early for the ‘Burgers & Brew’ at 5 p.m. for $12. Call 376-2281 or visit www.orcascenter.org
Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators, 8 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall. Orcas’ Charly Robinson opens the show, a family-friendly, all-ages event. A portion of the proceeds from the show will benefit the Orcas Island Education Foundation. Tickets are $10 person, available at Darvill’s Bookstore, Orcas Elementary, Gordeaux’s & Eastsound Instruments.
Saturday Ukulele workshops! Beginners (age 10 – adult) from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ( $30), and Intermediate from 3:30 to 5 p.m. ($30). Call 376-3148 or email contact@missroserhythm.com
Sunday, March 14
“Climate Change Science and Potential Impacts on the Pacific Northwest.” The Crossroads spring lecture series continues at 2 p.m. at the Orcas Center with Dr. Nathan Mantua’s presentation.
“Indian in the Cupboard” movie to benefit kids softball and baseball at Seaview Theater at 2 p.m.
Babysitting Clinic for Boys and Girls. Sponsored by Orcas Rec. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Eastound Fire Hall. In this class we focus on basic childcare and safety, emergency action skills, safe play, babysitter responsibilities, and job recruitment. Each participant will receive a babysitting certificate and be placed on a community babysitters list on the Orcas Rec website if they choose. Must be 12 years & older. Cost: $25 Participants must pre-register! Instructor: Margie Sabine. To register, visit Orcas Rec office in the Orcas County Building (Senior Center) or call 376-5339.
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March 6th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
Updated March 6 at 6:45 p.m.
“It seems like the validity of the EPRC is at stake… it comes down to a continuity issue.” Clyde Duke at March EPRC meeting
At the monthly Eastsound Planning Review Committee (EPRC) meeting on March 4, County Council members Gene Knapp and Richard Fralick reviewed the County Council’s 2010 priorities: chief among them was the dwindling county general budget, which translates into less county staff time for the priorities EPRC has set.
Already several EPRC projects are stopped at the county door: among them engineering time for the Streetscape Plan, near finalization since 2008; and implementation of Orcas Island signage.
The two Orcas Council Members said that the County Council had recently agreed that their three top priorities for 2010 were:
- The County Budget, still projected to be in the hole even after the property tax increase voted in last November;
- The Crtical Areas Ordinance updates for the uplands and shoreline areas;
- Solid waste transfer, with operations running at a deficit in the face of mandatory improvements and protections. “An increase in tipping [disposal[ fees seems a likely immediate action,” said Knapp, and Fralick added that the matter has to be dealt with this year.
In discussing what the county budget means for the EPRC, Fralick said, "The difficulty is that you’re doing things that require the county to come forward with money or staff time, and in today’s climate it’s just not going to happen.”
EPRC member Patty Miller questioned if it was time to consider the incorporation of Orcas Island. "I have never been a advocate for it but if we continue to struggle to get any County resources dedicated to Eastsound then it triggers the question for me," she added.
Fralick suggested that the EPRC may want to delineate where its projects are stalled at the county, and report to the County Council regularly, reviewing its priorities.
Fralick told the EPRC that one-third of the operational costs for the county transfer stations is transportation off-island.
He said the Council hopes the county can “do a good job with the uplands portion of the CAO and generate a model that makes sense to citizens” that will make the shoreline portion of the CAO update more acceptable.
Fralick said he didn’t understand the EPRC’s position regarding the removal of the proposed Country Corner LAMIRD from the Eastsound Sub-area Plan, as proposed by County Prosecutor Randy Gaylord.
Knapp said at the EPRC meeting that he did understand each side’s argument, but hasn’t come to a conclusion about it.
The removal of the 6 lots of the proposed commercial LAMIRD from the long-standing Sub-area Plan is supported by Gaylord’s office; EPRC members, while in support of establishing the LAMIRD, have expressed their opposition to removal of the proposed LAMIRD from the Sub-area Plan, which extends beyond the Eastsound Urban Growth Area (UGA).
Gaylord has said that the removal of the Country Corner Commercial LAMIRD would be consistent with how other “Activity Centers” on the island, such as Orcas Village and Deer Harbor, have been handled; it would also move towards making the Eastsound Sub-area boundaries consistent with the Eastsound UGA boundaries.
Those objecting to Gaylord’s position have stated that the Eastsound Sub-area Plan boundaries were established by Orcas Islanders intent on maintaining the rural character of the island. They also argue that, by removing the 6 Country Corner lots from the Sub-area, property that is a “logical” area for commercial expansion for the Eastsound “municipal” area will be reduced.
At the March 4 EPRC meeting, Clyde Duke commented that it “seems like the validity of the EPRC is at stake… it comes down to a continuity issue.”
Fralick replied, “I want a cogent argument that says, ‘We want to maintain the LAMIRD and the Sub-area Plan for the following reasons…..’”
The matter will come up before the County Council for deliberation next Tuesday, March 9 at 10:45 a.m. in Friday Harbor; the only public testimony accepted will be in writing.
Byways, Streetscape Plan, Stormwater, Housing
The EPRC also discussed progress on the San Juan Islands Scenic Byways Corridor Management plan as a possible way to fund signage for Eastsound and island trails.
Miller asked about .09 funds allocation to the Public Works department – designated for infrastructure projects — and if such funds could be used for a parking lot or the sidewalks and engineering for the Eastsound Streetscape Plan. Read more
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March 6th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
Nathan Mantua, Quatic and Fisheries Sciences Associatie Professor
The Crossroads spring lecture series continues on Sunday, March 14 at 2 p.m. at the Orcas Center with Dr. Nathan Mantua’s presentation of “Climate Change Science and Potential Impacts on the Pacific Northwest.”
Is the earth’s climate really changing? Have scientists overstated, or understated, the risks that increased concentrations of greenhouse gases pose to the Earth’s climate system? What is the latest data and thinking on human and natural contributions to global climate change?
Dr. Nathan Mantua addresses these questions, provides an overview of climate change science and discusses the projected impacts of human-caused climate change on natural resources in the Pacific Northwest. His presentation is followed by audience Q&A and a public reception.
Dr. Mantua is Co-Director of the Center for Science in the Earth System at the University of Washington, where he is also Research Associate Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science, adjunct faculty in Atmospheric Sciences and Marine Affairs and a member of the UW’s Climate Impacts Group. A research scientist with the PNW Station of the US Forest Service, Dr. Mantua’s research focuses on climate impacts on the water cycle, forests and aquatic ecosystems and how climate information is or is not being used in resource management decisions.
He received a Ph.D. from the UW’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences and in April 2000 received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his climate impacts research and public outreach activities.
The Crossroads series presents thoughtful, provocative speakers who help the Orcas community think about timely issues, both local and global. The series is co-sponsored by Friends of the Library, the Orcas Island Public Library, Orcas Center, the Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation and the Crossroads Associates.
Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at Darvill’s Bookstore and the Library. A limited number of complimentary tickets are made available in advance through the Library and Senior Center.
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March 6th, 2010, by Margie Doyle
Writer’s Roundtable will meet once again on Saturday, March 13, with Sandy Thompson leading the gathering with “Let’s Make a Scene!”
Sandy is a local writer, actor, and director who, with Doug Bechtel, co-created Orcas Island’s annual Ten Minute Playfest.
The Writer’s Roundtable on March 13 “will be fun and functional for any writer–with or without an interest in scripts,” promises Sandy.
.At the Roundtable, attendees will walk through the process of setting up a scene, play with writing some lines/action, and see how the framework of staging can help with any kind of writing. All are welcome, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Public Libary.
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