2 weeks from tomorrow is our annual celebration of Independence Day and it is time to get your get your red, white and blue on with bunting!  ACE Hardware is once again offering Chamber Members a special for bunting - $19.99.

 
 

The Whale Museum is pleased to welcome Shona Aitken, Wolf Hollow’s Education Curator, back as part of a free, collaborative 2018 Spring and Summer Lecture Series at 7:00 pm at The Whale Museum on the following dates:
Thursday, June 21: Swallows and sparrows, flickers and flycatchers
Thursday, July 19: Marine mammals
Thursday, August 23: A critter’s eye view of your house
Thursday, September 20: Rat poison and raptors
 

Here are the bands for Music on the Lawn this coming summer and blurbs about them.
June 27 – Rocky Bay Band – Join Steve Dyer and his string band for an evening of bluegrass.  They are one of the Northwest ‘bestest’ bluegrass groups playing timeless favorites with a ‘twang’. The Rocky Bay Band is known for hard driving, high energy buegrass – Americana pick’n at its best.
 

Pod Nod overnight marine adventures return this summer to The Whale Museum! These popular “pajama party” sleepovers are geared for children ages 6 to 11 and will be held on the following Fridays: July 13, August 10, and August 24. Pod Nods are led by Museum Educators with assistance from other adult professionals.  Youth participants will learn to value whales and their environment through art projects, science labs, games, the traditional flashlight tour of the Exhibit Hall, and a bedtime movie.  We promise a high adult/child ratio and a whale of a good time!
 

June 19  Our final film of the Best of the Fest series
Proof of Loyalty:  Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii (directed by Lucy Ostrander and Don Sellers) tells the story of a Japanese American who played a crucial strategic role in World War II. He and his fellow Nisei from Hawaii combatted prejudice and discrimination to loyally serve their country. Their extraordinary service, mostly untold, ultimately changed the course of U.S. history.
 
Save the Date; the 6th Annual Friday Harbor Film Festival; Oct. 26-27-28, 2018 
 
 

We need your help! Do you remember how great the fireworks were last year? Thanks to a generous matching grant from Kings Market and lodging tax funds from the Town of Friday Harbor, the San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce has once again commissioned local talent, Nick Gislason with the Lopez Community Fireworks, to design, setup, and fire the 2018 Friday Harbor 4^th of July Fireworks Display. The 2018 fireworks display promises to be as good if not better than last years! The display will start at 10:00 pm after a fun filled day of 4^th of July festivities.  Donations are needed. You can send a check to San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce, PO Box 98, Friday Harbor, or you can donate online at www.sanjuanisland.org. Thank you for your ongoing support!
 

Celebrating Music through the Decades
Have you signed up to be in the parade yet? The Chamber encourages all of those interested to gather your creative crew and begin plans on your costumes, floats and themed entries. Prizes will be awarded for the following categories-Best Use of Theme Float, Best Use of Theme Non-Float, Best Use of Theme- Children/Youth, Best Costume Group, Best Animal/Animal Group, Judges Choice, Best Off-Island Entry, and Best Vehicle. To participate in the 2018 Friday Harbor Independence Day Parade, please come pick up an application at the Chamber Office, 165 1^st St. S., or email: parade@sanjuanisland.org for an application or download it at www.sanjuanisland.org.
 
 

David Ridgway – Paintings Pete Kuentzel - ceramic Sculpture
This gallery show brings together painter David Ridgway and ceramicist Pete Kuentzel. While both artists use seemingly simple forms--a rectangle, a triangle or a circle-- they create lush, complex compositions on canvas or clay. David has a unique approach with landscapes: he initially removes any signs of present day, like power lines or cell towers. Then, he simplifies the form and intensifies the color. His skies become heavy white rocks, gliding by a farm barnyard scene without the creatures that inhabit those spaces. Portrayed in rich velvety purples and reds, we now see a bunch of simplified forms that evoke a barnyard. Pete's approach to his ships and tankers again use the simplified form of a rectangle, a triangle or a circle to create the form of a ship. A rectangle for the ships stack and a circle for a porthole and perhaps a rectangle for the cargo hold. Pete's color vocabulary is filled with sun drenched yellows, reds and blues. June 15 – July 13
 

Now open Monday  through Saturday
Wednesday – Italian Night – 3 courses - $30
Thursday - Flights & Bites featuring Sparkling Wine
For reservations or more information, please contact us at 360.378.6330.