
April 25 2017 378-5240 chamberinfo@sanjuanisland.org
Weekly Events Mark B Gardner Photo Classes 04/25/2017- 04/27/2017 Clay Therapy Handbuilding Ceramics Workshop 04/25/2017 Eva Elasigue: Fire on All Sides 04/26/2017 Tour De Lopez 04/29/2017 SAFE on the Rocks Twilight Glow 5k 04/29/2017 Clay Therapy Handbuilding Ceramics Workshop 05/01/2017 Know Your Islanders Talk: Know Your Island Barns 05/01/2017 Tech Made Simple- Technobabble- Free Class 05/01/2017 Clay Therapy Handbuilding Ceramics Workshop 05/02/2017 Changes in the Aging Eye 05/03/2017 Index of Articles Weekly Events Printonyx New Service Free Workshop on Succession Planning New Automated Information Phone Line San Juan Business Park Space Available Greetings from the staff Opening Day Boating Parade Friday Harbor Labs annual OPEN HOUSE Drink and Draw San Juan Island Cheese Wild San Juan Lecture Series Brickworks Spring Clean-up Party "The Last Gold" Mothers Day and Chocolate! Greetings from the staff at San Juan Safaris, San Juan Outfitters, and Riptide Café! San Juan Kayak Expeditions Printonyx New Service PrintSanJuan.com: An On-Line Space with a Local Face After taking second place in the Economic Development Council's Launch Program last November, Printonyx has been working on an on-line print website. Partnering with one of our trusted wholesale vendors, PrintSanJuan.com offers a wide array of products at prices that meet or beat the prices of other on-line printer but keep the profits local. read more... Free Workshop on Succession Planning EDC Join the San Juan County Economic Development Council for a FREE workshop on the topic of Succession Planning for Small Business on Monday, May 15th from 1:00-2:30 p.m. on San Juan Island. Advance registration is required. A small business succession strategy is a long-term process that can take months and sometimes years to implement successfully. Attendees will learn the strategies that will help them to plan for an effective transition of their businesses. Anyone who is planning to retire, sell a business, or are looking for ways to grow future leaders within their businesses should attend this free class. read more... New Automated Information Phone Line The San Juan Island Library is introducing Telephony, a new Automated Information Phone Line. Ever been heading away on vacation and wished you could renew your holiday reading but you have to catch the red-eye, your laptop is packed and the Library is not open? Well, now you can conveniently renew items by phone even when the Library is closed. Telephony is the Library’s automated telephone circulation system. You may call this number for information about your library account 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You’ll need your library barcode number and a touchtone phone. The number is 360-378-0389. San Juan Business Park Space Available 1) Approximately 600 square foot shop space with bathroom. 2) Large storage spaces, approximately 11’ x 40’ and 12’ x 20’. For information, call Terry Lush at (360) 378-4815. Greetings from the staff San Juan Safaris, San Juan Outfitters, and Riptide Café And it’s been a spring for the record books! *We’ve encountered whales on every whale watch & wildlife tour departure in April.* Both resident and transient orcas, plus humpbacks and a minke whale have been in our waters. We even had our first report of a gray whale near Friday Harbor today! read more... Opening Day Boating Parade May 7^th San Juan Island Yacht Club and the Town and Port of Friday Harbor bring annual boat parade, celebrating the opening of the boating season and an opportunity to meet and thank our first responders. Meet and Greet first responders 11:30 to 1:00. Cannon Start boat parade 2:20 at the Spring Street Landing. Friday Harbor Labs annual OPEN HOUSE This free public event offers a splendid opportunity to meet scientists and students at the Labs and to check out the research and teaching facilities. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Labs will be open for self-guided tours. Visitors will be given a schedule of Open House events. Also available will be a map that highlights the history of the labs and the development of the campus. Saturday, May 20, 2017, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. read more... Drink and Draw San Juan Island Cheese 155 Nichols St. Please join us for Drink and Draw! When: 1st Wednesday of the month, 4pm-6pm Who: Anyone who wants to explore their creativity in a comfortable space… all experience levels welcome! Facilitators: cool local artish people leading exercises and games, first installment led by Francie Hansen Why: Because we can. How: Show up! Suggested donation for artist $5.00 Cheese boards and charcuterie available Recommended supplies: pen/pencils, paper/ sketchpad Wild San Juan Lecture Series The Whale Museum and Wolf Hollow Wolf Hollow and The Whale Museum’s Collaborative Wild San Juan Lecture Series Friday Harbor, WA --The Whale Museum is joining forces with Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center to host the "Wild San Juan" Series. The goal of the series is to learn more about wildlife, what's going on in nature, and how we can be better neighbors. The next lecture in the series is on "Fawns, Fledglings and Fox Kits" which will take place on the first Friday in May - May 5, 5:30 pm at The Whale Museum. The series will continue on the first Friday of the month with: June 2 - "Songbirds"; July 7 - "Harbor Seal Pups"; and August 4 - "Explorers". This exciting lecture series will feature local wildlife species & activities and how we can reduce human impacts which harm wildlife and their habitats. Impacts can include everything from removing nests/nesting material when working in the yard to vehicle strikes. Through becoming more aware of the impacts of our actions, visitors and residents of San Juan Island can learn to be better stewards of the wildlife that share their home with us. This lecture series is free and open to the public. For more information, call (360) 378-4710 ext. 30 or email info@whalemuseum.org. The Whale Museum is located in Friday Harbor at 62 First St. N. Both organizations can be found online: The Whale Museum at www.whalemuseum.org and Wolf Hollow at www.wolfhollowwildlife.org Brickworks Spring Clean-up Party Elena Porten Hi All 2017 Farmers Market Participants & Vendors, We are gearing up for the Spring Brickworks Community Cleanup Day! The Brickworks Spring Cleaning Day is THIS Sunday, April 30th from 10 am - 1pm! We need everyone’s support in keeping the Brickworks space spick-and-span. This is a great opportunity for the Farmers Market Vendor Community to show our appreciation for the Agricultural Guild & Brickworks in helping to create a fantastic, year-round space for the SJI Farmers Market to thrive. Lets all show up on April 30th to put a little elbow grease into the community space that hosts our Farmers Market. Brickworks is managed and run by the SJI Agricultural Guild, which is a 501c3 nonprofit. Bring your working clothes, some snacks (it’s a potluck-style event) AND cleaning supplies. We’ll have a playlist of groovy cleaning music :) Please spread the word to anyone in your network that wants to support the ongoing upkeep/maintenance of this amazing community event space. Even if you can only come for 20-30 minutes; every minute & every hand counts!!! We prefer to have a general RSVP count, so we know how to delegate various tasks - *if you can, let me know if you plan to be there & what you can bring. Specific tools we need people to bring:* weedwacker, lawnmower, weeding tools, windex/newspaper, supplies to fix our benches!, tools to dismantle artwork on chainlink fence, dusting supplies, gloves. Also, if anyone has any suggestions, supplies, or ways to help with: parking barricades, cigarette-butt collecting, and signs/barricades that notify people they can’t park on the BW plaza (overflow from spring street businesses often use the plaza for parking) - we welcome them. Elena Porten 298-1660 "The Last Gold" Friday Harbor Film Festival The USA Swimming-produced documentary spotlighting the 1976 women’s U.S. Olympic Team and the East German doping scandal. Narrated by Emmy-winner Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife), The Last Gold is a feature-length documentary film that reveals one of the greatest untold stories in Olympic swimming history. Forty years ago, at the 1976 Montreal Games, a team of doped East German athletes thrashed their rivals from the United States, until a remarkable final race. The central player was a transcendent American athlete denied her due and since lost in time: Shirley Babashoff. Babashoff and her teammates were surrogates in a Cold War struggle, who battled a tragic conspiracy with a blazing honesty and a ferocious, endless tenacity. In 1976, the U.S. Olympic swim team entered the Games in Montreal looking forward to its usual dominance. The men did not disappoint, delivering the most dominant performance in Olympic swimming history. They won every race but one, and in that race won the silver and bronze medals. For the women, it was a completely different story. They were overwhelmed by an East German machine that had emerged on the world stage in the lead up to the Games with frighteningly fast performances. After battling through disappointing results throughout the competition, winning no races and facing a critical media that heaped on additional pressure, the U.S. women finally came together to do as a team what they could not do individually. It was not until the final race…the last gold, when four young women stepped to the blocks to attempt to change the change the course of the competition. This is their story. Mothers Day and Chocolate! Friday Harbor Chocolates Would you please include the following notice to members for next week's weekly news letter: "It is the week before Mother's Day and Friday Harbor Chocolates has a great array of premium chocolates, confections and imported and domestic dessert wines and ports to show your love for the "Moms" in your lives. 10% off to all Chamber Members. Open Wed. To Friday 11:00am to 5:00 pm and Sat. and Sundays 12:00 pm to 4:30 pm. 255 Spring Street. 360-370-0050. Info@fridayharborchocolates.com" Greetings from the staff at San Juan Safaris, San Juan Outfitters, and Riptide Café! Wow! April is flying by. And it’s been a spring for the record books! *We’ve encountered whales on every whale watch & wildlife tour departure in April.* Both resident and transient orcas, plus humpbacks and a minke whale have been in our waters. We even had our first report of a gray whale near Friday Harbor today! Whale Watch & Wildlife Tours Tours depart daily from Friday Harbor, and are selling out every day. Help your guests plan ahead for their weekend in the San Juans by encouraging advance activity reservations. Reservations staff can be reached at 378-1323. *We need your vote!* San Juan Safaris is defending the title of King 5’s Best Eco-Adventure in the Pacific Northwest! We were honored with this award in 2016, and we need your help to secure it again in 2017. Cast your vote to help us defend our title! Submit it here: http://bit.ly/VoteSanJuanSafaris Guided Sea Kayak Tours April and May are a great time to get on the water with a San Juan Outfitters guided sea kayak tour. Our eco-system is a transition period, which means we have both our winter migratory creatures, and our commonly sighted summer wildlife in our area. Both 3-hour and 5-hour guided kayak tours are available daily. Riptide Café open Daily! Don’t forget, Riptide Café is open 7 days a week at 7:00 AM! Stop on by for Friday Harbor’s best cup of coffee. Located on the lower level of the new Downriggers building. Thank you for your support, and be sure to visit us down at our waterfront office. Doors are open every day! Sincerely, Brian Goodremont Owner & Operator San Juan Safaris San Juan Outfitters Riptide Café 360-378-1323 San Juan Kayak Expeditions Sally Thomsen San Juan Kayak Expeditions, established in 1980 opens on April 15 for its 38^th Kayak Season! We are once again operating from our convenient outdoor kiosk location at 275 A Street, next to Café Demeter and adjacent to Susie’s Moped. We are excited to get the season started and to offer an Early Season Special. Running from April 15 through May 26, book a Whales Ho! Half-Day Tour with three or more people and receive a 10% discount. This early season is a special time to be on the Salish Sea without the crowds! Bookings can be made online at sanjuankayak.com or by calling Sally at 360.378.4436. use voucher code ESSHALF2017 to save over $26! Visit sanjuankayak.com to see other specials including Mother’s Day, Father Day and military discounts.
Member Message - April 25 2017