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05/18/2007: "Leadership SJ Islands Class III Graduates Today"

(Back Row: Alisa Schoultz (SJI), Cynthia Stark-Wickman (SJI), Michael Greenberg (Orcas), Steve Hussey (Orcas), Gay Wilmerding (SJI)
Center Row: Michelle McDarmont (Lopez), Jennell Kvistad (Lopez), Martha Sharon (Lopez), Carla MacDiarmid (SJI), Carrie Lacher (SJI)
Front Row: Dani McCutcheon (SJI), Shannon Davis (SJI), Bill Watson (SJI), Dana Kinsey (Orcas), Bill Evans (Lopez))

Leadership San Juan Islands Class III will meet for the last of six sessions today, May18th at Skagit Valley College San Juan Center, and then from 5:30 to 7:30 there will be a graduation ceremony; again at Skagit Valley College San Juan Center. Fourteen islanders from Lopez, Orcas and San Juan will graduate. Keynote speaker will be Paul J. King, I.T. Director for U.S. programs with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. LSJI alumni and the public are welcome and incouraged to attend.

Leadership San Juan Islands is now a certificate series offered in conjunction with Skagit Valley College San Juan Center. This year a total of six, day-long seminars explored leadership and San Juan County’s “systems” of governance, education, economics, environment and community/health. Morning “systems” classes were open to the general public for a fee. For more information see www.leadershipsanjuanislands.org