Live music performed by students, plus nearly 150 pieces of art highlighted a show Thursday night at North Whidbey Middle School.
Students from both North Whidbey and Oak Harbor middle schools gathered artwork they recently produced to display for their parents, fellow students and residents during “Night of the Arts” held Jan. 29.
Middle school art teacher Kit Christopherson said the art show was a way people can see the student work.
I am a member of Soroptimist International, a volunteer organization for business and professional women who work to improve the lives of women and girls. In recent months our organization has worked tirelessly to educate its members and the public at large about the worldwide trafficking of human beings.
Most people resolve to loose weight in January, but the North Whidbey Help House is packing on the pounds.
Members of the Interfaith Coalition of Whidbey Island braved 30-degree temperatures Saturday while collecting food donations.
The team ultimately added 5,600 pounds of pantry staples, in addition to $660, to the Help House warehouse by day’s end, Jean Wieman, Help House executive director, said.
Whidbey Island Theater for Youth offers its production workshop for ANNE OF GREEN GABLES beginning Monday, Jan. 26 at 350…
My husband and I comment fairly frequently about the amount of time spent watching TV, playing video games, listening to music on iPods, and surfing the Internet. “It’s that great sucking sound,” my husband often comments, “of valuable time being sucked away.”
The floor shook. Hands clapped. Eyes looked to the sky. In harmony, voices belted “Oh Happy Day” during Sunday’s celebration of national unity and the vision of one very great man.
Leaders of the Unity Fellowship in Oak Harbor, described Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dreams of equality and peace as a prelude to the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Blessed Are The Peace Makers St. Augustine’s in Freeland will host its fourth annual commemoration of the life and nonviolent…
Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. —Sister Teresa of Avila (1515 – 1582) “You…
Coupeville Library welcomes the Whidbey Island Writers Association and its 2008 SPIRIT OF WRITING contest winner Jan. 15 at 7…
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As the year draws to a close, like so many others ,I’m drawn to the retrospectives—the moments in 2008 caught so masterfully by photographers and writers who focus their professional attentions on the people who continue to take center stage, as well as the cast of characters in our global human drama who have left us.
This week I’m focusing my time and attention on my husband and children. We’re enjoying some rare family time. It’s the natural order of things for children to grow up and begin creating lives of their own. That makes it increasingly difficult to get together. When we saw the chance to celebrate Christmas together, we took it!