2021 Annual Meeting - Shorelines, Orca, and Community: An Autumn Trilogy

The Friends Annual Meeting, featuring the incomparable author and journalist Lynda Mapes, will be held on October 9th, from 1:30-3:00 p.m. Lynda is an award-winning Seattle Times environmental writer and author who recently published her fifth book, Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home. 

Our enthusiasm is running high! We are eager to bring our Friends community together around shared values, inspiration, and protecting what you love. We will be livestreaming the broadcast from the Odd Fellows Hall on Orcas Island, and we invite you to join us via Zoom. 

At this unique event, we will share thoughtful testimonials from members that will stir your passion for stewardship and island connections. A conversation will follow between our Executive Director, Brent Lyles, and our special guest, Lynda Mapes, that will weave together Lynda’s unparalleled success at exploring, questioning, and communicating artfully as a journalist with Friends’ mission-driven work. Brent Lyles will speak about Friends’ programmatic successes, plans for the future, and opportunities to support these efforts. Finally, participants will have a chance to ask Brent and Lynda questions.

The livestream will launch at 1:00, and the program will begin at 1:30. Register here!