Newsletters

Listed below are recent newsletters, with the most recent at the top. OPAL’s spring edition is the Annual Report. If you are interested in earlier newsletters, please contact our office.

• Wild Rose Meadow Neighborhood in the home stretch
• One-year Warranty process shows homes are very well constructed
• How OPAL scores on Nationally adopted stewardship principles
• Future financing requires exploration of new sources of funding
• Meet the Trustees:  Liz Anderson

• OPAL’s responsibility as a perpetual steward
• Celebrating 20 years
• Meet the Members: Leonie Sandercock and John Friedman
• Feeling of Community living in Lavender Hollow and then OPAL homes
• Meet the Trustees: Rollie Sauer

• OPAL to purchase Lavender Hollow apartments
• Wild Rose Meadow Phase II to start construction!

• First “Living Legacy” gift – thanks to Sandy Thompson
• OPAL homeowners organize around sewer issues
• Lavender Hollow purchase delayed

• Mt. Baker: A New Name and Work Underway!
• The County’s Role in Affordable Housing
• Faces of OPAL: Cindy McGrady Nagorsky
• Staff Changes: Thank you Gabriel, Welcome Steve
• Purchase of Lavender Hollow Apartments Delayed
• Meet the Members: Penny and Carl Butke

• Local Construction Crew Ready to go
• Beginning a Vision for the Year 2030
• Raising Money to Build the Homes
• Trustee Profile: Patty Johnson
• Faces of OPAL: Oberon Wood Neighborhood
• Meet the Members: David and Barbara Evans

• Mt. Baker Road update
• Launch of Strategic Planning Process
• Faces of OPAL: John & Vicki Clancy
• Meet the Trustees: Allen Smith, Board President
• Changing Needs Refine and Reshape OPAL’s work
• Remembering Craig Webster
• Meet the Members: Marilyn Anderson

• Addressing Impacts of a New Neighborhood
• Faces of OPAL: The Van Gelders on Living with Design
• Mt. Baker Road Conceptual Site Plan and Green Features
• News: Turtleback, National CLT Network and Friend of Housing Award
• Meet the Trustees: Carol and Helen Bee

• Design Update on Mt. Baker Road property
• Update on Madrona Street
• Meet the Members: Peter Fisher, founding member
• OPAL Administers Community Assistance Programs
• Meet the Trustees: Michael Whellams

• OPAL’s Need for Land is Answered in a Big Way
• Meet a family who hopes to own and OPAL home
• Madrona Street update

• Amber Minnis: Advocate for families and Children
• Beth Roberts: “The Richest Woman on this Island”
• Didier Gincig, Kathryn Kier, Emilie & Thaddeus: A Family Deeply Woven into the Community

• Lahari Ridge Residents Come Home
• Plans for Madrona Street Cottages
• Faces of OPAL–Patty Johnson, Sandi Burt and Mary Blackstone

• Six Homes on the Way in Deer Harbor
• Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition
• Madrona Street Property Donated to OPAL
• Ninth Annual Soiree a Grand Success

• Six Homes in Deer Harbor
• A Guiding Principle: Access to Land
• Opal Commons: Ten Years Old and Going Strong
• Vacation with a Cautionary Tale

• OPAL’s First Rental Apartments Under Construction
• Annual Meeting Highlights
• Community Land Trust Alliance of the San Juan Islands: Update
• Research on Best Practices for Rental Management