by Hilary Canty | Jul 31, 2020 | Hilary's Update
I saw two numbers that concerned me this week. One was that San Juan County has so far only had 37% of our community complete the census. That puts our County near the bottom of the list Statewide. We can do better! I did not have a census id number (apparently they...
by Hilary Canty | Jul 24, 2020 | Hilary's Update
New track at Orcas Island School District Even in these difficult days, the work of the community continues. Several of our nonprofits and elected boards are working on plans to help move us forward. It is so challenging to plan next steps when the baseline continues...
by Hilary Canty | Jul 17, 2020 | Hilary's Update
The Economic Resiliency project was launched to expand the conversation about how this community could learn and grow through this crisis. We held a multitude of virtual meetings over the last 10 days with over 200 participants who together generated a remarkable...
by Hilary Canty | Jul 6, 2020 | Events, News
What ideas do you have for the Orcas Community to recover and move into the future? During the past four months, the San Juan County unemployment rate has grown to 38%, the Food Bank and the Senior Center nutrition program have seen the number of clients quadruple,...
by Hilary Canty | Jul 2, 2020 | Hilary's Update
Due to our incredible partnership with All In Washington, all donations from now through July 8th to the Orcas Island Community Foundation Emergency Response Fund will be matched 100%. All In WA is statewide campaign working to address COVID recovery and racial equity...
