Going on this Weekend...
Enjoy Your Weekend!

Help with your Thanksgiving Meal

Cakes by Felicitations

For Thanksgiving, Felicitations is once again offering convenient and delicious accompaniments to your meal.  Dinner rolls, 2 kinds of turkey stuffing, gravy and an assortment of pies. 
Felicitations is offering something new for this dreary fall weather: comfort foods to go.  Entrees and soups prepared with care and made from scratch for a delicious and healthy meal.  Hand held pies for lunch or 9" dishes to serve the family.  Cubano Pie, Cottage Pie, Curried Turkey, Moroccan Lamb, Spinach Feta and Ratatouille.
Please call (360)317-5961 for more details.

Holiday Trim and Decor at ACE

Robert Walters

ACE Hardware of Friday Harbor has all of your decorating needs covered! Let's deck out the Town of Friday Harbor to show our little bit of magic once again...
http://www.chamberorganizer.com/sanjuanisland/docs/Ace_Holiday_Trim_Flyer_2017.pdf

Time for a Little Pampering before the Busyness Begins!

Afterglow Spa at Roche Harbor Resort

 
Save $25 off any massage or facial plus, ask about our featured treatment:
"Paradise" Hot Stone Massage! Escape to warmer climates when you select your choice of our Pure Fiji Exotic massage oils in this soothing treatment.  
-Coconut Milk and Honey, for extra hydration
-Guava, an anti-oxidant blend
OR
-Noni, a collagen boosting formula
Open Thursday-Sunday  10 am - 5pm  360-378-9888  / hotel ext. 1888 

Another Save the Date!

Becki Day


Monday, December 11, we will have our Community and Member Awards/Annual Meeting and Holiday Party! 5:30 at Brickworks...and lots of great food from all of our restaurants, wine, beer, hot chocolate, coffee, desserts...

Tis the Season Begins

Waterworks Gallery

Okay... so we're almost there...Tis the Season

 

Please join me on Friday, November 17th to usher in the Holiday season. 

The gallery celebrates from 4 -7 pm with Prosecco and chocolates. 

Let the shopping being!!!

 Lots of new works from the gallery's jewelers, painters and sculptors.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be sending information about all their new work.

Stop by and celebrate!

  Gallery open Thursday - Saturday 

Sometimes on Wednesdays.

 And yes, I know, the date is wrong on the invitation, so sorry. Where was my date checker, when I needed one...Oops, it was me!!!

 

And yes, Friday night, November 17th experience 2 Art events in Friday Harbor...the opening of the IMA Artist registry show and Waterworks Gallery' Tis the Season show.

See you. 

 

Farmers Market November 18

Elena Porten

The San Juan Island Farmers Market in November and December is held the 1st and 3rd Saturday from 10:00am 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. Food, art, crafts, music...

SJIMA Artist Registry Starts November 18th

Yvonne Buijs-Mancuso

Featured artists are members of the organization’s Artists Registry program which supports the local artist community for both emerging and established artists.  This years’ exhibit runs from November 18th thru to January 8th. The SJIMA Artists' Registry exhibition gives islanders and island friends a chance to see the amazing diversity of local artwork available, along with the opportunity to tour the Islands Museum of Art.
 
The SJIMA Artists Registry is an online resource that was established six years ago go to assist those visitors to our islands, as well as the local community, locate desired artworks and have the ability to contact artists.  The San Juan Islands are blessed to have one of the largest percentages of artists per capita.  The islands overabundance of artists is a wonderful resource as it enables residents and visitors to appreciate the uniqueness of our islands paradise through the lens of the artist.  
 
Artists wishing to be part of this local artist opportunity and join the SJIMA Artist Registry community can do so by submitting an online application. All San Juan County visual artists are eligible to be part of the registry which can be viewed at www.sjima.org  by clicking the “Artist Registry’ link.  Applications and further information can also be downloaded and submitted at www.sjimaartistsregistry.com  or by contacting Yvonne Buijs-Mancuso at 378-6725.
 
SJIMA champions artists and the arts, and sponsors this exhibition and event to reinforce our islands as a place of enduring discovery, and to advocate for our most spirited selves, communities and environment. 

Annapurna this Weekend

Island Stage Left

The play runs from Nov. 9 through Dec. 3 at the San Juan County Fairground’s Marie Boe Building. Saturday performances start at 7 p.m. and Sunday shows at 4 p.m. There will be special performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 25, with no performance on Thanksgiving. Director Helen Machin-Smith describes the play as, “compelling, laugh-out-loud funny, moving, devastating, and hopeful.

Save the Date - Island Lights Festival

Becki Day


The San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the upcoming Island Lights Festival on December 1st. Again, we are partnering with Brickworks, the Whale Museum, Island Rec and the San Juan Islands Agricultural Guild. It will be a magical evening for all, starting with holiday treats and crafts at the Whale Museum, 3:30-5:00. From there we go down to the Memorial Park for the next round of festivities. The Riptide Café will have hot chocolate and coffee waiting for all. The Elementary School Choir, led by Steve Moore, will lead us caroling and join the Island Chordsman Plus, led by Angel Michaels. Santa will arrive and turn the lights on, followed by more caroling before heading up to Brickworks for pictures with Santa by Mark Gardner, crafts with Island Rec and the San Juan Islands Agricultural Guild will have local harvest vegetable soup and bread for sale, along with spiced, local apple cider & hot chocolate. A fun filled evening for all!

For more details please contact the Chamber of Commerce 360-378-5240, becki@sanjuanisland.org.

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