October 2 2018
Photo Credit: Daniel VanHamersfeld

Calendar of Events Import

Live Your Dream Award

Soroptimist of Friday Harbor

Women who serve as the primary wage earners for their families and seek financial assistance to continue their education or receive training can now apply for the Soroptimist Live Your Dream Awards for Women.
 
To be eligible, the applicant must be enrolled in, or have been accepted to, a vocational/skills training program or an undergraduate degree program.
 
To apply, go to the Soroptimist International site, https://bit.ly/2xC9Xvp
This site has the online application as well as FAQs about the award.
The application deadline is November 15, 2018.
 
The Friday Harbor club will provide a $4,000 cash grant to its award recipient, who will then advance to the Soroptimist Northwest Region level, where recipients could receive up to an additional $5,000. The program culminates with three finalist $10,000 awards.
 
Recipients can use the Live Your Dream Award to offset costs associated with their efforts to attain higher education or additional skills and training. This includes tuition, books, childcare, transportation or any other education-related expense.
 

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Island Transit Service

The Friday Harbor Jolly Trolley is operating Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the month of October.
The San Juan Transit is finished until next May. They will do private functions as needed. 
 

October through March at Pelindaba Lavender Farm

The Visitor Center at Pelindaba Lavender Farm is open thru September.  For those visiting the farm October - March or after hours, please feel welcome to take a walk through the fields as they are never closed.  Our downtown Friday Harbor store, which offers our full range of locally handcrafted lavender products, is open DAILY 9:30-5:30pm year-round.
 

New Displays at Waterworks Gallery

Cathy Schoenberg – Floral Oil paintings Jo Moniz - Geometric encaustic paintings
These artists share a richly hued color palate, Cathy in oil painting and the Jo in encaustic painting. Cathy’s journey to her present work in oils takes very circuitous route. Patterning of dancing figures, female forms, and felines lead to brilliantly colored floral shapes belonging to many seemingly familiar flowers. Jo’s architecturally-oriented encaustic paintings are meditations in quiet, seemingly simplified landscapes of doorways, archways and buildings.  Color relationships and proportions are used as a reaction to creative urges to add color, texture, and emotion to geometric forms.  Gallery open Tuesday - Saturday
 

Coho Restaurant Fall Hours & Events

Open Monday  - Saturday through September

Open Tuesday – Saturday starting October 1st

 

Join us for 4 special events as we celebrate Savor the San Juans

 

October 5 – Italian Farmhouse Wine Dinner

October 12 – Orcas Island Wine Project Dinner

October 19 – Spire Wine Dinner & Pre-dinner Terroir Seminar

October 26 – Sake Seminar & Tasting Dinner


For reservations or more information, visit our website CohoRestaurant.com or contact us at 360.378.6330.

Starts this week - Silent Sky

San Juan Community Theatre

http://www.sjctheatre.org/“In our troubled days it is good to have something outside our planet, something fine and distant for comfort.” –Annie Cannon
 
When I was young, my father would stargaze with me. Laying in the backyard with the soft grass tickling our bare feet, we would look up. My parents told me the stories of the constellations, of Sputnik, Neil Armstrong, and the Voyager probes. Even today, looking at the stars takes me back there—to being a boy with a head full of dreams and aspirations. We have been fascinated by the stars for all of human history, and in that way I am connected to generations upon generations of all of us who looked up. That is what I love about our fall play, Silent Sky. It’s a story about those who look up, who dream, who aspire, and who struggle against incredible odds to discover and achieve.
 
Based on the life of Henrietta Leavitt, Silent Sky follows the story of the women astronomers at Harvard Observatory circa 1900. Science and industry are moving forward by leaps and bounds. Women are becoming college-educated and fighting for the vote. Following her instincts and curiosity with ferocious determination, Henrietta leaves her home in Wisconsin and travels to Boston to embark on a journey that will lead her to immense discoveries about the universe…and humanity.
 
Please join us for Silent Sky. I love it for so many reasons—the humor, the romance, the wit, the inspiration, and the aspiration. In watching it, I return to that backyard where I lay barefoot in the grass, looking up. I hope you will, too.
 

Mullis Community Senior Center

Sunday October 7th  Welcome, visitors and locals alike, to the Mullis Center Community Pancake Breakfast.  Join us for this popular monthly social event and experience a bit of small-town island culture.  Enjoy home cooked bacon, eggs, and all you can eat pancakes while visiting with friends, old and new.  At $6 per person, this is the best breakfast deal in town.  Add an almost-famous cinnamon roll, handmade by Chef Albert, for an additional $4. 

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EDC offers Climate Change for Business

Business and farm owners or managers are invited to join the San Juan County Economic Development Council (EDC) for a 5-hour workshop and discussion on the topic of Climate Change for Business, Thursday, October 18th, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.  at the San Juan Island Grange.  The workshop includes a gourmet boxed lunch. All business owners and managers can and should prepare for potential negative impacts on their enterprises from any source. 

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EDC presents workshop entitled Customer Service 101

Business owners and managers are invited to join the San Juan County Economic Development Council (EDC) for a free workshop entitled Customer Service 101, led by noted islander and business process improvement consultant, Jim Hooper, on Wednesday, October 24th, from 10-11am at Key Bank in Friday Harbor.

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2018 Deep Dive Workshop

The Whale Museum is holding a “Deep Dive: Salmon and Orca Recovery” Workshop over the weekend of October 12-14, 2018. The course begins on Friday afternoon and runs through Sunday afternoon. It includes evening lectures on Friday and local day field trips on Saturday and Sunday. Classroom presentations will take place in Port Angeles.

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Fall 2018 - October 2 2018