Award winners were celebrated during the Notable Women Lunch on April 27. Soroptimist International of Friday Harbor holds this lunch annually to honor the notable women of history and give tribute to their award winners.
Approximately two feet of snow blanketed the islands Dec. 20, causing many people to slow down and stay home. Those that drove, found compact snow and ice treacherous, with car after car sliding into ditches. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a wind chill advisory of zero lasting through the evening of Thursday, Dec. 22. Even the Salish Sea froze along the shoreline.
Robin Elizabeth (Forrest) Jacobson, mother, wife, storyteller, genealogist, historian, media maven, volunteer extraordinaire, world traveler, extrovert, inveterate note-taker, and lover of life, died peacefully at home with her family present on Tuesday evening, August 2, 2022. She succumbed to ovarian cancer, which was diagnosed only 15 months earlier. She was 72.