Have you had a good year in the market?  Take advantage of current tax law that allows you to deduct the full value of your appreciated stock.  Donating your stock to FLIP is a wonderful way to support our community's pool project while saving you taxes at the same...

Here is a look from inside the pool building!  The day lighting KalWal material on the ceiling brings in transfused light.  There is also the possibility that the roof can open in the summer.  Built by Structures Unlimited, the pool building is the last phase of the...

November 7, 2016:  FLIP met with Jamie Stephens, San Juan County Council Member representing Lopez, to bring him up to date with our fast-moving project. Jamie enjoyed learning of the many ways Lopez and San Juan County will benefit from a year-round public pool. ...

It is hard to believe it has been over two months since family and friends have lost such a special person as Dan. His expertise, professionalism, generosity, easy-going manner and passionate commitment to FLIP made him an invaluable member of our Dream Team; the...

Here is a 3D aerial view of the property created by our landscape architect, Site Workshop, Inc.  Pool Lane connects with Center Road in the bottom left hand corner.  This rendering shows the site with outdoor pools. We know the community wants an indoor pool facility...

FLIP wants to answer your questions about the pool project and the #1 question is, “What about maintenance costs?”  We have an exciting announcement to share that will help answer this! Recently, we just received a gift of $500,000, to be allocated solely to a Reserve...

  Imagine yourself turning off of Center Road onto "Pool Lane"!  We are so fortunate to have the landscape architecture firm of Site Workshop of Seattle collaborating with Boundary Water, Inc. of Lopez to come up with the best site plan for our 2 1/2 acre lot. ...

WOW....Have you been watching the Rio Olympics?  The U.S.A. has won 33 medals in swimming!  16 Gold, 8 Silver and 9 Bronze!  Michael Phelps ends his career at age 31 with 23 Gold medals, 5 Gold and 1 Silver at these Olympics.  Katie Ledecky won 4 Gold and 1 Silver...

Did you see our float at Lopez Island's 4th of July Parade?  FLIP's Float was a BIG hit with everyone!  Our float won the Chinc Clark SPIRIT Award!  One person said, "Chinc would have loved this float"!  Carolyn McGown, FLIP's Public Relations Coordinator, organized...

It was not a surprise that the Lopez Kids Swim Days on June 1st & 2nd at the Fidalgo Pool in Anacortes was a great success once again!  We met our goal to get kids K-5 in the water swimming and having a splashing good time! This year we had over 100 kids in the...

Congratulations! The Sullivan family won two seats, two days, three nights at the US Olympic Swim Trials, June 30 and July 1! AND THE WINNER IS: Lopez Island's Lisa Braun, shown here with her husband Kevin Sullivan and children Gardner and Addie. Addie and her Dad...

The Swimmer's Dream Raffle for the 2016 USA Olympic Swim Trials was drawn yesterday...stay tuned, we will be announcing the winner soon! Good things are happening behind the FLIP sign on Center Road. Momentum is building rapidly. The goal of the Friends of Lopez...

Win two seats, two days, three nights at the US Olympic Swim Trials, June 30 and July 1! Don't Wait! Drawing is May 19! Have you dreamed of being ON THE SPOT when Olympic Swim Team competing athletes perform their outstanding best and are selected for the USA Olympic...

The Seattle Foundation has again included FLIP in its annual GiveBIG campaign on May 3, 2016. Extended through May 4! FLIP supporters have created a pooled fund to match every donation made May 3, dollar for dollar, for the first $5000 received. In addition to the...

SWIMMING INTO The Next BIG Phase Last time you drove down Center Road, did you notice the sign, "Future Site of the Lopez Island Pool"?  Well, there is a lot more happening than an empty lot behind the sign!  The FLIP board is an energized group that has performed...

We all had a great time celebrating the 4th of July with our FLIP float!  

Friends of Lopez Island Pool has a new Facebook page! Find us at www.facebook.com/LOPEZFLIP --by Micki Ryan