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One Person Can Make a Difference: Rick
Rick Doty Long Live the Kings, Volunteer Can you share a little bit about yourself? I was born in Missoula, Montana. I moved to Orcas Island with my family in 1971 and finished high school at Orcas Island High. I started Orcas Homegrown Market, helped in the...
One Person Can Make a Difference: Miramonee
Miramonee Harrington Salmonberry School, Board Chair Can you share a little bit about yourself? I moved to Orcas in 2015 when my daughter was one. I had been living in Vegas for ~15 years and realized that this was not where I wanted to raise a child, so back...
In It for the Long Haul
This week we opened up two new endowment funds — one for the Orcas Community Resource Center and the other for the Orcas Island Food Bank. Both were seeded with contributions from Board Members currently serving or recently retired. What a lovely way to ensure the...
GiveOrcas Gets Rolling!
OICF’s grant making has evolved over the years into a true community process. Twice a year, OICF invites the community to submit proposals for funding through the GiveOrcas Campaigns. The application period for the Spring GiveOrcas Campaign closed this week, and we...
Everything Must Change
Hello everyone, Ed filling in one more time before Hilary arrives back from her well-rested vacation. I’ve been listening to a lot of Nina Simone lately. More than usual. The beauty, strength, and sheer determination of her voice and power of her words are...
Meeting the Challenge
Hello all, Ed Andrews here. Filling in this week while Hilary is off to Mexico and Molly is basking in Hawaiʻi. I obviously did not receive the office memo about going on vacation this week. I sense interoffice trickery, but I, and OIPI, can’t seem to prove such...
Spring’s Around the Corner
The Spring GiveOrcas Campaign is starting to roll. The application is posted on our website and Grants Manager, Ed Andrews is at the ready to answer any questions. This is our 10th year running the GiveOrcas campaigns. What a remarkable journey it has been. In 2013,...
Meet Our Municipal Leaders
This weekend brings opportunities on Orcas to meet our newly elected municipal leaders. The Sheriff's Office is hosting Coffee with a Cop on Saturday at Tide Pool on North Beach Road from 10-Noon. Sheriff Eric Peter will be there with a few additional deputies to meet...
A Place to Call Home
This week is the Annual Point in Time Count (PIT) for Washington State. The goal is to count the number of folks living in substandard housing (meaning without access to plumbing, heating, and/ or other utilities), in vehicles, or outdoors altogether. The past two...
Read On!
When I first started at OICF, I met with Bob Henigson. Bob had read about the Dolly Parton Imagination Library — a program that mails a book a month to children from birth to five years old. He wanted to see if that was possible to launch on Orcas. We looked into the...