Forthcoming specials highlight seniors, women of all ages and buying locally | Editorial

The workers of the Islands’ Sounder, Journal of the San Juans and Islands’ Weekly will be expending the upcoming couple months writing, enhancing and coming up with three essential distinctive sections for our island communities.

San Juan County Senior Resource Guidebook

Winter is quick approaching. It is a time when the rate slows down, the rain falls and we start out producing getaway programs.

For senior citizens, it can be a seeking period, and in no way has that been much more legitimate than now. Many elders have expended the previous 6 months residence-bound because of to COVID-19. As the climate improvements and the working day darkens, our older citizens are at an even increased risk of despair, isolation and slipping. For people with no spouse and children associates or little ones, November and December can be painfully lonely. A lot of seniors can obtain it more challenging to travel, preserve up on chores like chopping wood and continue to be constant on slippery surfaces outside.

Caring for our elders is a 12 months-spherical endeavor — given that our populace is dominated by those around 65 — but the fall and winter season seasons are notably critical.

Your nearby newspapers are creating the fifth annual San Juan County Senior Resource Manual on Sept. 23. As in prior yrs, it will element information and facts about regional products and services that try to meet up with just about every senior have to have from housing to health care. We have remarkable organizations and dedicated volunteers in San Juan County.

We consider treatment of a person a further in our island communities, and we are not able to allow our senior citizens be forgotten.

If you know someone who needs immediate assistance, connect with San Juan County Senior Services Supervisor Wendy Stephens at 360-370-7527. She can direct you to the suitable application on Orcas, Lopez or San Juan.

Women of all ages in Company

October is Nationwide Women’s Tiny Company Thirty day period, a salute to the Gals-Owned Business Act, which was handed in Oct 1988.

The act was created to tackle the demands of feminine business people by offering them better recognition, further resources, and by doing away with discriminatory lending procedures by banking institutions that favored male organization house owners around feminine.

One particular of our most beloved particular editions is Gals in Business, which highlights the astounding accomplishments of local gals. Each individual island newspaper creates its have variation, which will print on Oct. 21. Look through by way of dozens of adverts and read employees-penned tales that profile individuals who make our business communities so important.

Holiday Information 2020

Retailers are searching towards an unsure holiday break searching time. With a constrained selection of purchasers allowed in a storefront, masks essential for all and acquiring trends changing, it is unclear what this Xmas season will look like.

What we do know is that our island enterprises want fiscal guidance to continue to be afloat, and with heading off-island an even far more complicated undertaking than at any time, it is a terrific time to start out new behaviors. We implore you to shop domestically and acquire gain of the innovative means that business enterprise owners are tailoring their offerings to fulfill the demands of a new era.

We will the moment once again print our annual full colour, shiny Vacation Guide magazine. It hits the streets the day just before Thanksgiving and is distributed all over the neighborhood by way of Xmas. It functions stories about nearby gatherings and choices (some of which will be solely on the web this 12 months) and promotions from merchants about their wares and providers. It’s a amazing way to demonstrate your good friends and neighbors why purchasing suitable here at household is a greater way to go — for your pocketbook and for your health.

Why your support issues

Your local newspapers rely on marketing dollars to produce our weekly editions as effectively as exclusive sections. We have been defeat with gratitude for how our readers have expressed appreciation for the do the job we do, and we are nonetheless in the midst of a complicated time. With so a lot of canceled gatherings and corporations showing reduced earnings, our promotion earnings has taken a hit.

If you’d like to take part in any of the higher than-described publications — as either an advertiser or story contributor — email Colleen Smith at editor@islandssounder.com, Diane Craig at dcraig@islandssounder.com or Tate Thomson at tthomson@sanjuanjournal.com. If you promote in additional than one particular exclusive, you can receive 15 percent off.