There’s nothing like a fuzzy stuffed animal to cuddle with in tough times. Thanks to the work of the freshman class at Oak Harbor High School, 1,050 stuffed animals will find new homes with children in crisis.
It almost took more than two buses to transport 13,600 food items to the North Whidbey Help House in the grand finale of the fourth annual Fill the Bus food drive. Students from both Oak Harbor middle schools and all the elementary schools contributed items during November.
“I feel awesome!” 10-year-old Brianna Holter said after Broad View Elementary School students loaded boxes and wagons packed with food items onto a bus.
When seen through the artistic mind of Randy Emmons, Whidbey Island scenes enter a new world of swirling colors and a vibrancy that lingers in the mind long after viewing. Emmons’ art can remain in the spotlight year round in an affordable way with his recently released 2013 calendar depicting local barn scenes, and his new book, “Whidbey in Watercolors, Images of a Wiggly Island North of Seattle.”
Emmons paints everything local, from a line of mailboxes to Race Week sailboats to shops in downtown Coupeville, and he adds his own touch with color and design elements.
Hugging stuffed animals and wearing their pajamas, a class of kindergarten students at Olympic View Elementary School got a taste of Penny Holland’s newly released picture book, “The Adoption of Boris.”
As a fun addition to pajama day, Holland read the book aloud to Susie Stockfeld Hume’s class and even wore her bathrobe.
The inhabitants of the small town of McCord’s Ferry, Ga. may have been eating fruitcake for a little too long. Mix a poetry-reciting fisherman/ex-Harvard engineer with a Christmas tree-selling whirligig maker, two spinster sisters who divided their home precisely down the middle and a Christmas hog named Buster, and you have all the nuts necessary to make the hundreds of fruitcakes the town eats every Christmas.
When a teenaged runaway ends up in the town, he thinks the inhabitants are “nuttier than fruitcakes” in the Whidbey Playhouse production of “Fruitcakes,” running Nov. 30 through Dec. 22.
It’s already the most wonderful time of the year for Oak Harbor elementary school students.
Uniquely decorated trees and wreaths may be in the forefront of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Island County’s 14th annual Festival of Trees gala and auction, but what really shines are the life-changing relationships the event funds.
Festival of Trees begins at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30 at the Oak Harbor Elks Lodge. Tickets cost $85.
Oak Harbor High School took on a festive air Thursday as students in elementary and middle schools and their families were treated to an evening of science demonstrations, live music, carnival games and art.
The community joined in celebration, remembrance and gratitude to honor veterans from every era at the eighth annual Oak Harbor Community Veterans Day Program Saturday.
The Oak Harbor High School choir director sang his way to success with a strong program and for his work, received a prestigious award.
Music has changed drastically in just the past 20 years — imagine how it has changed in the past 800 years. A lecture-recital presented by Oak Harbor High School Choir Director Darren McCoy will begin with a time when music wasn’t written down and the idea of harmony didn’t exist.
Total world domination. Making minions of every two-legger on Earth. Becoming the supreme ruler. These are the goals of an Oak Harbor resident, and he will attain them — but only once he has sufficiently basked in the heat of his favorite “fire box thingy.”
This legendary character may be a big, furry meanie but he is marching into town to benefit the Help House. The Big Bad Wolf takes the stage at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16 and Saturday, Nov. 17 with a different take on the tale and a one-of-a-kind playwright.
