by Tera Andaya | Feb 9, 2022 | Events
The Orcas Island Community Foundation invites our nonprofits to a free online hour-long webinar on March 1st at 12:30. We are hosting this event to help you plan for the maintenance and upkeep of your infrastructure. This overview webinar will help you learn how to...
by Tera Andaya | Feb 4, 2022 | Hilary's Update
Rainbow over Orcas Island Leather Goods Megan here, saying “hi” on this first Friday of February as Hilary is still away south of the border. Earlier this week the Groundhog emerged and reported six more weeks of winter, which means (according to a rodent) that we are...
by Tera Andaya | Jan 28, 2022 | Hilary's Update
Eagle Lake with Trumpeter Swans Hi all Ed here, standing in for Hilary while she spends a well-deserved two week vacation basking in a warm place much further south than here. Hilary, you better be out on a walk and not reading this. It’s been wonderful to see the...
by Tera Andaya | Jan 21, 2022 | Hilary's Update
Cascade Lake OICF remains a very active philanthropic agency. In 2021, we opened 15 new funds, distributed $2.5 million in grants and received 2,554 donations ranging from $10 to $500,000. Each donation is an investment in building a stronger community, strengthening...
by Tera Andaya | Jan 14, 2022 | Hilary's Update
API / Reuters Images Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one’s whole being into the being of another. —Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957 Monday is the day...
