Book your holiday event at Brickworks
20% off rental fee if you book by Oct. 31, 2017.
Event must occur between Oct. 1, 2017 - January 31, 2018.
See www.fhbrickworks.com for details or call 360-378-0095

Celebrate the Holidays at the Links The San Juan Golf & Tennis Club offers a spacious banquet room ready to host your Holiday party.  Bring your own food, or have Chef Micah prepare delicious appetizers and/or a tasty meal from the Greenside Grill.  We offer full bar service and, of course, lots of parking.  Plus, you can count on our courteous and attentive staff to help make this a most enjoyable event.  Availability is limited, so contact the Greenside Grill’s Chef/Manager Micah Reitan to learn more and reserve your space.  Call 360-378-5158 or email micahreitan@gmail.com

SJI Farmers Market at Brickworks, 10am-1 00 pm, every Saturday 
The San Juan Island Farmers Market is held every Saturday from 10am to 1:00pm at Brickworks, on 150 Nichols Street. Each week the Farmers Market offers a diverse selection of fresh, local food from San Juan, Waldron, Lopez, and Orcas Island. The Farmers Market also offers a mix of local, hand-crafted products such as jewelry, pottery, and artwork. Throughout the year, there are over 20 farms that vend at the year-round San Juan Island Farmers Market. Each Saturday, the market is a bubbling place to buy local groceries, eat freshly prepared food, listen to live music, shop for local crafts, and chat with local nonprofit organizations! 
 

Afterglow Spa September Special
Save $20 off ANY facial Monday - Wednesday this month
Here is a couple suggestions you may enjoy!
Berry Plus Facial ultra-oxygenating, anti-aging specialty facial based on vitamin-rich super berries and plant cell structures to fortify, rejuvenate, and renew. 60 minutes $135 NOW $115
Deep Cleansing Facial a deep cleansing, purifying treatment customized for any skin type using our essentials line. includes an exfoliating peel to remove dull surface skin cells, a massage to promote circulation, a deep cleansing masque and botanical extracts to nourish the skin. 60 minutes $125 NOW $105 Open Daily from 10 am - 6 pm Call us at 360-378-9888 to get on the books

SJIMA News
A new exhibit is opening on September 17th at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art  located at Friday Harbor, WA.  The museum is proud to present Hydrographs and For All We Know, concurrently running exhibitions by two innovative artists and printmakers, Nicole Pietrantoni and Dianne Kornberg.  The exhibitions will open to the public on September 17, 2016 and close on Monday, November 28, 2016.
 
Nicole Pietrantoni will present Art as a Voice entitled 'Fractured Landscapes, Fraught Aesthetics'  @10 am at SJIMA. No tickets will be sold; however, SJIMA gratefully accepts donations.  All proceeds help support the museum.   A Gallery Talk and book signing will follow. 
 
Both of these artists utilize printmaking to question what most take for granted, adding an artistic voice to forms otherwise expressed in purely scientific  terms.  Nicole Pietrantoni passionately explores the complex relationship between humans and nature through the medium of printmaking, creating works that are powerful and stunning.  Dianne Kornberg uses printmaking and other creative media to create photo-based, archival pigment prints through the scientific methods.  She juxtaposes poetry by her collaborator, Elizabeth Frost, alongside scientific language and conventions applied to specimen conservation and preservation. 

Nicole Pietranton is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where she teaches printmaking and book arts.  Her work has been featured in over 80 national and international exhibitions and collections around the world.  Dianne Kornberg has been exhibiting her artwork nationally and internationally for three decades.  She is a professor emerita at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, and resides on Orcas Island. 
 
San Juan Islands Museum of Art
540 Spring Street
Friday Harbor, WA  98250
360-370-5050
www.sjima.org
Hours: 11-5pm - Friday - Monday
 

Whale Museum is pleased to announce our 2017 Summer Lecture Series! The Whale Museum’s Lecture Series is dedicated to providing our local community and visiting public with knowledge and wonder of the natural world.  The lectures are given by local or visiting experts in their field.  Join us as they share their recent research projects, stories, and experiences. The following lectures will be held at the Whale Museum at 6:30 pm on the following dates. More details about each lecture will be forthcoming in flyers:  Solutions
September 26: Dr. Brad Hanson, NWFSC; Topic: NOAA West Coast Fisheries SRKW Research
Each lecture is free and held at The Whale Museum.  Donations are greatly appreciated.  For more information, call (360) 378-4710 ext.30.  The Whale Museum is located in Friday Harbor at 62 First St. N.  Founded in 1976, The Whale Museum's mission is to promote stewardship of whales through education and research.  The Whale Museum can be found on-line at www.whalemuseum.org.
 

Please join in the conversation about how our energy co-op can help shape the resilience and sustainability of our island communities.  OPALCO staff and board members will be there to answer YOUR questions. Topics include:
Community Solar
Fuel Switching Rebates
Rate Planning
Preparing OPALCO's system for future power supply
Any thoughts you bring!
September 27 - San Juan Island Grange - 6:00 p.m.
 

San Juan Island Brewing Co. September 29 and 30 - Join us for our first Oktoberfest celebration. We will be releasing our very own Festbier, enjoy this traditional Oktoberfest Lager alongside our other 7 beers. Beer garden setup on the patio/lawn for both days of the celebration. BBQ'd Brats on the patio could not make for a better combo. Come help us celebrate this long standing German tradition. Friday & Saturday noon-5PM Live music both days!
San Juan Island Brewing Company 410 A St, Friday Harbor sanjuanbrew.com
 

Announcing October Fundraiser for the Animals The Howl
The Animal Protection Society – Friday Harbor is thrilled to invite you to join us for the first ‘Howl’, a fundraiser for the animals happening on Saturday, October 28, 2017.  The Swinomish Casino and Lodge in Anacortes will be the site of our fundraiser expected to attracted hundreds of Halloween and pet enthusiasts from the San Juan Islands and surrounding counties of Skagit Island, Snohomish and Whatcom.  The fun includes a gourmet dinner, no-host bar, costume contest with cash prizes, dancing to Vancouver Premier DJ, onstage games, raffles, silent auction and our guest master of ceremonies, actor Neal McDonough.  A portion of this fundraiser will also benefit S.P.O.T. (Saving Pets One at a Time), a sister shelter in the Burlington area, who shares our mission as a no-kill rescue for adoptable homeless pets in need. We hope you will consider attending the event or becoming a sponsor to help underwrite event expenses.  We anticipate this event to be a huge success, being something totally different for island fundraising.   All net proceeds will benefit the APS-FH and S.P.O.T. shelters’ day-to-day operational expenses. We appreciate your continued support and look forward to thanking you in person for joining us for one ‘Pawsitively Spooktacular Halloween Fundraiser’.  To learn more about ‘The Howl’,  or to purchase tickets,  please visit our event page at www.apsfh.com, check out the Animal Protection Society of Friday Harbor Face book page or call ‘The Howl’ team….Leslie Byron 378-2159  Jan Murphy  378-2158  or Julie Corey 378-7895

We are so very appreciative of everyone who stopped by this past summer and supported our small business.  Business was great and steady and luckily just the perfect flow of folks to keep us perfectly busy but not overwhelmed. Now that we are heading into the shoulder months, leading towards the upcoming winter holidays, we would love to get the word out to our Island residents that we are still one of the newer businesses in town and are here to stay, operating year round. We have finally created a website which describes our product line and concierge services.  The website is www.fridayharborchocolates.com.  We would be so grateful if you would take a look and possibly share this with your friends, family and/or employees to help us spread the word.
Friday Harbor Chocolates, 255 Spring Street (in the old barbershop), Friday Harbor, 360) 370-0050, info@fridayharborchocolates.com.
 

Tom Small’s sculptures are inspired directly from the land. For Tom specific locales in the Northwest provide the vision for the work. These locals include the islands, the beaches, the rivers, the mountains. This show will include recent drawings, carvings in stone and wood, and glass castings.
Kathryn Trigg creates alchemy using her monotypes to compose her paintings. A monotype is a unique work on paper created using a printing press. Using a colorfield approach to the art work, Kathryn combines countless layers of paint, inks and paper to the surface of wood panels. This approach creates a form of illusion within her work. As Kathryn stated” Everyone needs a little magic in their lives”.

At 56 pages is it by far our most comprehensive program to date, which is a perfect way to celebrate our 5th Year of the Film Festival!!  We owe a very special thanks to the tireless efforts of our program coordinator: Ellen Roberts.  Also a special thanks to all our advertisers that made this program possible.  Our 2017 program will be distributed throughout the Puget Sound ferry system and selected locations in Seattle, Bellingham and Port Townsend for the next 2 months. Our 2017 programs can be found at the Friday Harbor Film Festival office on the corner of First and West, plus, we will also stock the racks outside.  If you have a location you want to share our programs with please give us a call or stop and grab a bunch to share.  So, please stop by and pick one up so you can start planning which films to see!   For 2017 we have 32 films and 15 shorts screening at six venues, all with in an easy walk from the ferry.  The San Juan Community Theater (Whittier and Gubelman), the Grange, Isle Seat, (next to 2nd Act), the Brickworks and the Palace Theater! Also, our new website will be launching by September 1 with all the film trailers and lots of new information.  www.fhff.org...Our web page will also feature a new sign up for volunteers,  so its time to plan when to sign up for which films you want to be sure to not miss! If you are out of town and what us to mail you a program, just send us your mailing address, we are happy to drop it in the mail.
See you at the Movies!!!
 

October 16th, Brickworks, 12:00pm
Just a quick note to mark on your calendars October 16th for our Quarterly Luncheon. The invite will be going in a couple of days. The fabulous team of Coho Restaurant will be our caterer...