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Everything Must Change

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...

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Meeting the Challenge

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...

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Spring’s Around the Corner

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,...

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Meet Our Municipal Leaders

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...

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A Place to Call Home

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...

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Read On!

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...

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Time for Reflection and Renewal

Time for Reflection and Renewal

  Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day to reflect, renew, and recommit. I was a young child when Dr. King was murdered. We lived in Washington, D.C. I remember being so completely shocked and so saddened that someone would commit such a horrible act and...

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And Away We Go

And Away We Go

Indian Island in the winter   2023 is off and running. High winds and high tides continue to keep us on our toes and our flashlights and candles on hand, just in case.  OICF continues negotiations in pursuit of the purchase of the Lavender Farm Property. We...

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The Longest Night

The Longest Night

Improvisation when the power goes out   This week brought WEATHER to Orcas. A foot of snow, temperatures in the teens and below, a north wind that created massive drifts, and then a power outage to top it all off, making last night feel very much like the longest...

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