vashon-maury island beachcomber, december 05, 2012

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75¢WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012 Vol. 57, No. 49 www.vashonbeachcomber.com

SAYING GOODBYELongtime high school principal

announces her retirement.Page 3

A HOLIDAY TRADITIONVashon dancers bring back ‘The Nutcracker.’

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Seattle fundraiser selected to helm Vashon agency By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer

Kathleen Barry Johnson, a fundraising professional and former criminal defense attorney, will become the new head of Vashon Youth & Family Services, a $1.5 million agency that provides a wide range of social services on the Island.

The board announced its selection of Johnson, a Seattle resident, last week. Diane Kjellberg, the interim executive director who will join the board once

Johnson steps in, said the agency chose her because she “seemed to connect with us as an agency.” Johnson replaces Ken Maaz, who left VYFS in August. She begins her new job in January.

“She had a lot of experience in a lot of different areas that parallel what we do at the agency. So we thought she’d be a good fit,” Kjellberg said.

Johnson, 48, said she’s thrilled to have been tapped for the position. She said she’s struck by the breadth of services VYFS offers, the professionalism of its

staff and the position it holds in the community. She also has a connection to Vashon, a place she’s visited many times over the years.

“I’m really impressed by VYFS,” she said.

Johnson currently works as the devel-opment director for the Economic Opportunity Institute, a nonpartisan center that works to shape policy on a number of family-related economic

Activity at house near airport has long vexed neighbors

By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer

Neighbors have complained for years about the grey-blue house on 109th Avenue S.W., a modest split-level on 12 acres of marshy land abutting the eastern edge of the Vashon Airport.

It was there that $30,000 worth of stolen film and computer equipment was found two years ago, and there that India Castle’s body was dis-covered three weeks ago in a shallow pond behind the home. Neighbors say frequent activity at the house — cars coming and going at all hours, people approaching the house with flashlights at night — suggests it’s a site of drug trafficking, and a few Islanders are in the process of forming a neighborhood watch group in an effort to shut it down.

The house is owned by Nelly Grant, an 81-year-old woman who now lives in Seattle. The top level of the house is completely shut-tered. The bottom half is occupied by her son, Richard Grant, his girlfriend, Muggie Sparks, and a variety of visitors.

Grant, 47, a slight man with dark hair, has a long record of arrests, including at least nine felonies, and is slated to go to court on Dec. 13 to face the latest charges — possession of 10 grams of methamphetamine with an intent to sell. During an interview at the home Saturday night, he acknowledged his checkered past.

“I admit I’m not an angel. But I’m not a bad guy. I’ve got morals,” he said.

Sparks added, “People should not judge him just because he has a record. Otherwise, how can anybody change?”

His brothers, Arnold and Bryan Grant, Jr., however, paint a different picture, saying their brother has long struggled with drug addiction and petty crime, an arrest record that dates

WHALES MAKE A SPLASH, DELIGHTING HUNDREDS OF ISLANDERSThe Puget Sound’s famed southern resident orcas have been no strangers to Vashon lately, making three dramatic passes by the Island in a week and a half. Each time — on Nov. 24 and 27 and Dec. 3 — news of the whales drew crowds of Islanders to Point Robinson, where groups of 20 to 45 orcas, mostly from the J and K pods, delighted onlookers with their trademark moves — tail slaps, spy hops and awe-inspiring breaches. On Tuesday, Nov. 27, nice weather made for especially pleasant whale watching and what amounted to a truly Northwest scene as several of the whales stopped and lingered under a clear, looming Mt. Rainier. As Islanders reveled in the whales’ winter visits, the federal government announced on Nov. 26 that it would consider removing the southern residents from the endangered species list. According to news reports, the whales’ endangered status review by NOAA Fisheries is in response to a peti-tion by California farmers who have suffered from irrigation cutbacks put in place to protect fish the whales feed on. The petition, filed by a Sacramento-based nonprofit, argues that the local whales are part of a 50,000 worldwide population that is thriving as a whole. Ann “Orca Annie” Stateler of the Vashon Hydrophone project called the proposal a “horrible idea,” saying the southern residents, like other groups of orcas around the world, are a genetically distinct species with their own body type, language and feeding habits, and they need individual protection. What’s more, she said, their population still hasn’t reached the size necessary for a healthy level of genetic diversity. She noted that six whales have died this year.“They’re moving in the wrong direction. ... They are far from the recovery goal,” she said.

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Susan Hanson, principal of Vashon High School for 13 years, announced her retire-ment last week.

Hanson, who made the announcement in a letter to VHS staff on Nov. 26, will retire as principal in June but will stay on as a transition principal until February of 2014 to provide support to the new princi-pal. The district will conduct a search for Hanson’s replacement this spring.

In an interview, Hanson, 65, didn’t give a specific reason for her retirement, but said she made the decision after a lot of thought and simply felt it was time.

“One knows when it’s time,” she said. “I think it’s a wise decision for me and my family, and I hope it turns out to be a good decision for the school district as well.”

Hanson has worked in public educa-tion for 43 years, 30 of them on Vashon. She taught middle and high school on the Island before becoming dean of students at Vashon High School. After four years as dean of students, a position equivalent to assistant principal, she earned a master’s degree and became the school’s principal.

This year Hanson was chosen as Nisqually League principal of the year for the second time. The award is selected by other principals in the league based on school performance.

Superintendent Michael Soltman said that in 13 years Hanson has successfully seen the high school through some chal-lenging times in the school district and become known as a leader with a special ability to connect with students and reach out to kids who struggle.

Eric Heffelfinger, who has taught at the high school for three years, agreed. He said students who have transferred from other school districts have told him Hanson worked with them in ways that other teach-ers and principals had not.

“Susan is a wonderful advocate for the students here at the high school, and I think it will be a big loss to the district in my opinion,” he said.

Soltman said he was grateful that Hanson was willing to stay on as the school transi-tioned to a new principal and that she would be vital in helping with the move into its new building next year.

“It’s very important to me that the new principal can focus on being an instruc-tional leader, and I think it would be ter-ribly distracting to a new principal to deal with the logistics of the move,” he said.

The school board will discuss the search for Hanson’s replacement at its next meet-ing on Dec. 13.

As for Hanson, she said her retirement would be bittersweet and emphasized her gratefulness to everyone she has worked with at the high school. In her letter to staff, she noted that under her leadership, VHS was named a federal No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School, a Washington State School of Distinction and a Bronze Medal winner in the U.S. News and World Report’s edition of “America’s Best High Schools.”

“I am very proud of the accomplish-ments of Vashon Island High School and StudentLink and FamilyLink,” she said in an interview. “The staff serve our students well and are passionate about what they do. It’s been an honor to work with them.”

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By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer

The Vashon Park District board held an emergency meet-ing Monday to decide if it should seek a $300,000 loan from King County after the park district’s latest figures showed the agency is poised to end the year $57,000 in the hole.

But during the often tense meeting, which included some strongly worded exchanges between Board Chair Bill Ameling and Board Member David Hackett, the four-member commission deadlocked on the proposal, a tie vote that meant the measure failed to pass. Without a cash infusion, Ameling warned, the park district faces an uncertain future, including a possible closure for the first four months of 2013.

Before the vote was taken, Ameling looked at his three colleagues and said, “You could be voting to shut us down for four months.”

But Hackett said he’d support the measure only if it were amended to include a two-week, end-of-the-year furlough for the park district’s staff, an effort, he said, to bring some discipline to the district’s spending. When that failed to get a majority, he and Commissioner Joe Wald voted against the loan request; Ameling and Lu-Ann Branch voted to approve it.

The emergency meeting was called Sunday after interim Executive Director Susan McCabe, at Ameling’s instruc-tion, contacted the other three board members and asked them to stop into the office on Sunday and sign a resolu-tion seeking the county loan. The loan application was due Monday morning. McCabe and Ameling decided to seek the loan Friday after the latest cash projections showed the

district would not end the year in the black, as previously stated, but in the hole.

But Hackett, when he got the call Sunday, told McCabe that board resolutions have to be passed during public meet-ings. With the clock ticking for the loan, McCabe called the meeting for Monday night, the soonest possible under state open meeting laws, submitted the district’s application for the loan and got permission from the county to amend the application with a signed resolution Tuesday morning.

At Monday night’s meeting, however, Hackett and Wald balked, saying they were dismayed by the latest cash pro-jections. In October, the park district’s spreadsheet showed the agency stood to end the year $14,000 in the black. Sounding frustrated, Hackett said shifting numbers “keep happening and happening.”

“The numbers we get aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on,” he said. “Frankly, I can’t believe any numbers I see anymore.”

At another point, Hackett said he was “flabbergasted” by the latest financial reports. “As a board member, I don’t feel like I’m getting straight information.”

But Ameling said it was wrong to suggest staff had failed to provide accurate figures. The problem, he said, rested with the board, which opted to continue spending on its fields project next to The Harbor School even when it became clear that the agency was facing a potential shortfall.

“The reason we’re here is because we did not do our proper homework ... when we started the fields project,” he said. “This board approved moving ahead on the fields project on a lick and a prayer. ... The reason we’re in a hole right now is because of the board.”

Ameling, meanwhile, said he was also seeking a line of credit from U.S. Bank that would enable the district to meet its payroll and other financial obligations and keep its doors open. But if that doesn’t come through — or if the commis-

sion rejects that idea as well — the district will have no choice but to shut its doors from January to April, closing the parks, shutting down the office and ceasing all operations, he said.

What’s more, without a cash infusion, the park district won’t be able to pay its current debt with Cashmere Bank, a $410,000 note due Dec. 31, placing the agency “in a techni-cal default” and jeopardizing its ability to borrow money in the future, he said.

“We can be upset. We can be galled. But we got ourselves into this mess, and now we have to get ourselves out,” Ameling said.

According to McCabe and Marie Browne, the district’s part-time accountant, the district found its cash position was weaker than they had realized because of a failure to account for one of the payrolls in the cash projections. The district has also faced some unexpected costs, such as a $10,000 bill for a state audit, and less revenue in property tax receipts.

But Hackett said the district’s financial problems stem in part from the agency’s inability to follow resolutions passed by the board. In October, for instance, the board agreed to furlough employees one day a week if needed to balance the books, a move that never happened. What’s more, Hackett said, Ameling recently told McCabe she could hire an employee to fill in for someone who’s injured, even though a hiring freeze is in place.

“In my opinion, these kinds of boards have zero disci-pline,” he said after the meeting. “We have to be adults. We have to live within our means.”

Ameling, for his part, said after the meeting that he thinks a line of credit from U.S. Bank will give the district the room it needs to set itself on a fiscally solid course. But some commissioners aren’t comfortable with that approach, he added, noting that everyone has a different style.

“There’s no right or wrong here,” he said. “You just do what you have to do.”

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Vashon Island Fire & Rescue will see slightly less tax revenue next year but will still meet its operational needs and com-plete some needed projects, while pushing less important budget items into 2014.

“We’re doing fine, but we’re not doing great,” said Chief Hank Lipe in an inter-view last week. “We’re still meeting our highest priorities.”

The agency’s $5.4 million spending plan, passed by the board at its Nov. 27 meeting, includes $54,000 to upgrade communica-tions technology in emergency response vehicles, something Lipe said has been on the to-do list for several years.

It also contains $30,000 for work on VIFR buildings, including the replacement of the roof on the Bennedsen House, repairs to the main station’s roof and work on the satellite station in Tahlequah, a property that was recently gifted to VIFR.

The department will hold off next year on two significant needs — repairs to the driveway at the main station and the replacement of the chief ’s vehicle. Both items were originally scheduled for this year, Lipe said. However, partway through the year three paid responders went on leave for injuries and illness. Overtime pay to other employees skyrocketed, Lipe said, so he chose to freeze all discretionary spending.

Lipe said he’s now pushing the items back another year because funds are tight and work on the district’s buildings is more urgent.

“The facility improvements we have to get done, those are the priorities,” he said.

The budget also allows for a $750,000 renovation of VIFR’s association building across the street from the main station on Bank Road, a project that will be funded entirely by King County. Earlier this year the county decided to move Vashon’s small courthouse and sheriff ’s office substation to the little-used building, paying for its renovation and a small monthly lease. In return, VIFR and other community groups will have access to the building. The fire

station will pay to outfit the building with furniture and some technology.

Finally, under the 2013 budget, neither Lipe nor Assistant Chief George Brown will receive performance raises. Both will receive cost-of-living salary increases guar-anteed to all administrative staff at the department — eight people including the chief and assistant chief — per district policy.

The exact increase will be determined by Consumer Price Index numbers released early next year, but will probably be around 2.5 percent, Lipe said. After such an increase, Lipe could make up to $131,500 and Brown could make up to $121,000.

Lipe was last given a performance raise in 2009, when his salary was increased by 11 percent, something board members said reflected his work to turn the department around during his first year on the job. Last year the board voted to give Brown a performance raise after an extensive third-party review and salary comparison.

This year there wasn’t much leeway in the budget to give raises, said board chair Candy McCullough, adding that the board was happy with Lipe’s compensation package.

Lipe agreed.“I told the board I was comfortable where

I am, and I think I’m in with my peers around the region,” he said.

Fire Chief Hank Lipe says the new budget enables the agency to address some key needs.

Fire agency’s board passes $5.4 million spending plan Budget includes funds to upgrade agency buildings

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EDITORIAL

There’s plenty of blame to go around at the Vashon Park District, an agency that seems to be imploding financially.

Did former Executive Director Jan Milligan over-promise? Did the pro-fields commissioners push too hard for a financially ambitious fields project? Did Chair Bill Ameling, a CPA by train-ing, minimize the agency’s financial problems? Did the staff, in the wake of Milligan’s sudden departure, make some mistakes?

Easily, one could answer “yes” to all of those questions.And while it’s important to look at what went wrong and learn

from these mistakes, there’s another fundamental issue before the four-member board: Where does the agency go from here?

At Monday night’s emergency meeting, we saw a classic split before the four commissioners: Ameling and Lu-Ann Branch want to finesse the situation, seeking the cash infusion nec-essary to keep the financially strapped agency afloat. David Hackett and Joe Wald, meanwhile, are angry and frustrated and are calling for some immediate measures to try to instill a sense of fiscal responsibility on an agency that appears to have lost its bearings.

Both sides have legitimate concerns. Indeed, the only way the agency will regain its financial footing is for the commission-ers to listen fully to one another and work collaboratively to address this difficult situation.

Ameling is right in seeking an immediate cash infusion. Were the district to default on its loan from Cashmere Bank, apparently a strong likelihood if it doesn’t get some cash, the agency stands to lose a lot — including the ability to borrow funds in the future. Ameling’s insistence that a measured approach is needed to move the agency gradually toward fiscal health makes a lot of sense.

But as Hackett rightfully pointed out at the commissioners’ emergency meeting Monday night, there’s a matter of trust after months of receiving reports that the park district was on a path toward a brighter future. He understandably felt blind-sided by the latest news that those rosy predictions turned out to be wrong and by Ameling’s constant refrain that the agency is doing fine.

So where should the district go from here? After months of watching a group of well-intentioned people struggle, The Beachcomber suggests the following:

The park district board needs to restructure the agency’s debt so it doesn’t default, hire a new director with a good head for numbers and experience in management, trust and support the person it hires and understand its limited but vital role as a board — to establish and oversee a fiscally sound budget and give its director the tools he or she needs to succeed.

Of course, these changes can’t happen overnight. But the dis-trict can move forward, one step at a time, if its commissioners work collaboratively, understand their role and hire someone strong and experienced to lead the agency.

The park district — and the constellation of parks and pro-grams it runs — adds considerably to our quality of life. We don’t want to see it close for four months, default on its loans or continue to limp along for years to come.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Not long ago, Vashon citizens won a 10-year struggle to stop a gravel mine and dock that would have wounded our home place and damaged the health of Puget Sound. Today we face a greater threat to the health of our region, the Sound and the Earth. Mining interests propose to mine coal east of the Rockies, transport it west by rail and ship it to Asia from five proposed docks, two in Washington and three in Oregon.

The Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point near Bellingham would be the largest coal export terminal in the United States, han-dling up to 48 million tons of coal per year. Transport and use of coal on this scale would have a huge impact on our daily lives in Puget Sound and push us closer toward catastrophic climate change.

The scoping hearing on the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed terminal, scheduled for next Thursday in downtown Seattle, is a chance for citizens to speak out, demand accountability from public agencies and demonstrate opposition to this scheme. It’s an early step in what promises to be a long process.

Concerns about the overall proposal and the Cherry Point dock have been raised by everyone from Bellingham fishermen to the governor of Oregon. Mining and transport of coal spreads toxic coal dust near mines, tracks and docks, threatening the health of neighbors. Coal dust seeps into streams and harms the land. Up to 20 long coal trains each day would grind up the shore of Puget Sound, through downtown Seattle, dis-rupting traffic and creating head-aches for commuters, truckers and businesses. Noise impacts would be significant.

Constructing this dock would

fill nearly 150 acres of wetlands and affect thousands of acres adja-cent to Puget Sound. Like the Glacier dock that we stopped on

Maury Island, construction would harm herring and other species essential to the food web that sup-ports salmon and southern resi-dent orcas. Shipping coal would directly pollute Puget Sound through dust and spillage, in addi-tion to the impacts of the dock and loading facilities. Extra ship traffic through the straits would increase risks of accidents and spills of fuel oil.

Ultimately, coal shipped west would be burned for power in China. The toxic products of coal combustion, like ozone and mercury, travel across the Pacific Ocean and affect us here. Adding U.S. coal to the international mar-ket would lower its cost, reducing incentives to transition to sustain-able energy sources. Burning the coal would disperse millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, increasing global warming and tipping the planet into a runaway climate change.

Washington citizens have worked hard to end coal power in our state. Now we are asked to absorb profound impacts to our health, economy and natural resources while the profits leave our state and the coal powers growth in China. The jobs that might be created by this proposal

are few compared to other types of industry. We would better create value-added and high-skill jobs that will improve our region with-out diminishing our quality of life.

Just as Vashon citizens orga-nized to defeat the Glacier mine and dock, people in Washington and Oregon are organizing to stop coal export plans. Nearly 2,000 turned out in Bellingham to show opposition. The Lummi Nation has stated their commitment to protecting their cultural heritage at Cherry Point against develop-ment. Many elected officials in Washington have expressed con-cern about the entire coal-shipping scheme, and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has called for a compre-hensive review of the plan.

Vashon residents know some-thing about standing up to big economic interests that would wreck our home place for their profit. As citizens of the Northwest — officials, non-profits, agencies, tribes, businesses and individuals — we can stand together to stop these disastrous plans. The time to convert to a post-coal, post-carbon economy is now.

I hope to see many of us at the scoping hearing on Dec. 13. Wear red to show your opposition to coal shipping.

— Margot Boyer writes, teaches and works in a family-owned small

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Finding Faith series

The Finding Faith series seems to be taking on a weird but somewhat familiar pattern. So far we seem to be getting into “The Blame Game.” This religion did that and that one did this and so on. The culprits

doing these vile and atrocious acts against humanity are not the apostles or emissaries of the faith system they claim. They enter in on the reputation of this or that faith and commit crimes later when in power. When you enter in singing praise songs and turn them into a battle cries on humanity, the name of that faith is hate. Hate is evil, and we ought to stay away from a religion whose leader asks me to

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I’m so intrigued with the little cabins and cottages on the water that are listed on Vashon. Some of them seem really cheap! I know it’s just sort of a dream in my price range to think I could afford waterfront but I wonder why some seem priced so low?

Many people have that cute, small, waterfront cottage dream. In general, you need to be well over $400,000 to get something that has relatively few problems. In the lowest price ranges there are usually septic issues, landslide hazards, water problems, poor con-

struction, poor condition, etc. It is often impossible to get a loan on these places.If you can qualify for a rehab loan and can afford the cost of fi xing it up as well

as the purchase price, it might work for you. You also need to know that many of these less expensive places are walk ins. That’s the term we use when you can’t drive to the house. You park somewhere, often far from the house, and use a trail or path to get to the place. That can be fi ne for summer when there is sunlight until late in the evening, but it’s very hard during the rest of the year. A long, slippery, unlighted dirt trail that can wash out in bad weather isn’t ideal for year round living.

I know I sound negative. I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to these little cabins and cottages. Historically, many were thrown together as a place to spend a month in the summer. They weren’t maintained or improved. No one considered that folks in the future might want to live there all year. We’ve had a few actually fall into Puget Sound. Several have been de-stroyed by landslides or fl ooding.

I’d recommend fi nding a structurally sound home not on waterfront and then save up for the day when you can afford to spend more on a waterfront home. Once you get into a higher price point you are generally looking at a more sub-stantial house with fewer problems.

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“worship” in an evil way.For instance, 9/11 was not an act of

love. Neither was shooting employees of an abortion clinic one morning. Or the imprisonment and deaths of homosexu-als living in Uganda and so on. Killing in the name of “the lord” is hate not love. Hate crimes are committed in the name of “God” (fill in the name of god) all the time. Hate is wrong no matter how or where it manifests. The people who do these things are the radicals and freaks outside those faith systems who hate humanity and aren’t that faith system’s mouthpiece.

So it’s my hope this series doesn’t focus on how messed up humanity is; point-ing fingers is rather judgmental. It seems that we all hate in some way or another. When people stumble and fall, shouldn’t we extend our hands and help them get back up to where we are? I can get behind a religion that teaches that! Trying to help is love and we know what judgment is. Not my job!

If this isn’t love, what is it?

— Larry Flynn

Regarding the Mormon church and same-sex marriage, terms such as freedom of speech, bias, tolerance and civility have been thrown around with apparent disre-gard for their meaning and context.

Freedom of speech is a protection for the speaker, not the idea. Placing an idea into the marketplace invites others to express their own ideas about it, including dis-agreeing with it, even condemning it. The civil rights movement was not predicated on respecting the ideas of segregation or inequality.

All opinions are biased by definition. All bias, however, is not equal. Being biased against enforcement by law of one’s personal beliefs upon those who do not share them is qualitatively different than being biased against the right to have those beliefs personally.

Tolerance and civility are wonderful concepts, to be striven for and applied wherever possible, but tolerance of intoler-ance is not really tolerance at all. I doubt very much that were a religious organi-zation pouring millions of dollars into imposing legislation denying interracial couples the right to marry (something many of the religious organizations now fighting same sex marriage rights once did — and some of them do to this day — with eerily similar rationale), we’d be hearing quite so many calls for tolerance on their behalf.

I support the right of all people to have, live and speak their own beliefs, agree or disagree. But when people seek to impose those beliefs on those who do not share them by force of law, true toler-ance requires defending those who are in danger of having their rights trampled, not protecting demonstrably bigoted ideas merely because we respect the rights

of people to have and express them. Oppression has never been defeated by invoking a perversion of the term civility to avoid calling it what it is.

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Historic District at Center

My name opens a recent letter to the editor about Vashon Allied Arts (“VAA has led the way in historic preservation,” Nov. 21), which prompts me to respond and state my position on the VAA project and the recent nomination to designate Center as a King County historic district. As the owner of The Old Fuller Store, my intention was to get it designated prior to my selling it. After discussing it with staff at the county’s Historic Preservation Program, I decided I would pursue desig-nation only if Center were not designated, since there was no need to do so if it was part of a district. I began the process the day the nomination for Center was sus-pended.

My use of the word “disgusting,” as quoted by The Beachcomber, was specifi-

cally about VAA’s use of legal maneuvers to gut the county’s criteria for historic designation. Instead of engaging in a dia-logue about the merits (or not) of making Center a historic district, VAA chose to use legal word parsing and intimidations to achieve its goals. I appreciate that VAA has responsibilities as a nonprofit, but I find it unpleasant that it once again chose tactics over community outreach.

The situation sums up my sense of how VAA has handled the process of its build-ing project. VAA selected a beloved loca-tion to build what will be, if realized, the most prominent civic building constructed on Vashon. Islanders were bound to care. While there were many ways to vet ideas publicly, VAA decided to make key deci-sions about the project privately and then engage in an aggressive PR campaign. Perhaps VAA’s staff and board felt their best shot at getting the project realized was to bring it to the public late in the process, fearing it would get permanently tangled in opposing ideas otherwise. Maybe they were right. But I’m not sure the end justifies the means. More significantly, by truncating the messy process they omitted a key part in making the project great.

— Roy McMakin

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Baby Story Times: Babies and toddlers ages 3 to 21 months with a caregiver can enjoy stories, songs and more. 10 a.m. at the Vashon Library.

Skeptics and Believers: Reli-gious debate in the Western intel-lectual tradition is the focus of this series of lectures and discussions. This week’s topics are Protestant theology after Barth and 20th century Catholicism. 4 to 6 p.m. at Lewis Hall behind the Burton Community Church.

Quartermaster Harbor Meet-ing: The Washington State De-partment of Natural Resources will host a public meeting on its Quar-termaster Harbor Mooring Buoy Management Plan. 6 to 8 p.m. at McMurray Middle School.

Vashon Legal Clinic: This clinic off ers free legal advice the fi rst Thursday of each month. People who wish to schedule an ap-pointment to meet with a lawyer should call the King County Bar Association at 267-7070. 6 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Talking to Children About Grief and Loss: Heather Neal from Bridges — A Center for Griev-ing Children, will guide parents and caregivers on how to talk to children about loss, what children need when a death occurs and ways to help them cope. Free. Child care will be available in the

Chautauqua library for $5 per child; registration is required. To register for child care or the pre-sentation, contact Marshall Murray at 463-5511 or [email protected]. A sliding scale and scholarships are available. 7 p.m. at the third-fl oor conference room at Chautauqua.

Fall Prevention Open House: Staff of Vashon Community Care and Vashon Island Fire & Rescue will provide information and resources on reducing falls among the senior population. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at VCC. (For more infor-mation, see the next page.)

Parkinson’s Disease Support Group: Information will be given about an alternative approach to treating and preventing Parkin-son’s Disease. Those who attended the recent HOPE Conference will provide an update from there. For more information, call Steve Steff ens at 567-5976. 1 p.m. at the Vashon Lutheran Church.

Boy Scout Christmas Tree Sale:Proceeds from the trees will sup-port scouting on Vashon. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at US Bank.

Vashon Island Pet Protectors Holiday Bake Sale: Stop by to purchase an array of goodies baked by some of the Island’s best bakers. Tightly wrapped and labeled goodies will be accepted after 8:30 a.m. For more informa-tion, call Victoria Rohlfs at 463-5381. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. between Thriftway and True Value.

Holiday Market: Stop by for produce from the winter harvest, artisans’ crafts, live music and baked goods. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at McMurray Middle School.

Visit with Santa: Santa will be in his cottage for young visitors and photos with Michael Sage. 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturdays, Dec. 8 and 15.

Adopt-a-Cat Day: Adopt a feline friend. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at VIPP’s cat house, 12200 S.W. 243rd St.

Cribbage: Play nine games of

cribbage against nine diff erent players. The cost is $8 for visitors and $10 for members. For more information, email [email protected]. 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays at the Vashon Eagles.

Weekend Book Club: This month’s book is “The Virgin Sui-cides” by Geoff ry Eugenides. New members are welcome. The Janu-ary reading selection will be “You Deserve Nothing” by Alexander Maksik. Contact Nancy Paul at 755-5334 or [email protected] for more information. 4 p.m. at Paul’s home near town.

Adoptive Families Potluck Dinner: Vashon’s adoptive fami-lies will share a meal, connect with friends and welcome new children and new families into the com-munity. Families who are waiting to adopt are encouraged to attend. Call Mary Margaret Briggs for details and to RSVP at 567-5568. Play and conversation begin at 4 p.m., followed by dinner at 5 p.m. at the Vashon Cohousing Common House, 10421 S.W. Bank Road.

Boy Scout Christmas Tree Sale: Proceeds from the trees will sup-port scouting on Vashon. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at US Bank.

Unitarian Fellowship: Rev. Car-men McDowell will challenge what the culture tells us to do, feel and be during the holiday season. 9:30 a.m. at Lewis Hall behind Burton Community Church.

Kiwanis Christmas Dinner for Seniors: Guests will enjoy a full dinner, valet parking and a sing-along. RSVP to Sigrid Thomas at 234-3946. The suggested donation is $5. 1 p.m. at Camp Burton.

Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club: Carol Ahlfors will speak about the nature of Christmas. 11 a.m. business meeting, 12:15 p.m.

lunch, 1 p.m. speaker at Vashon Lutheran Church.

The Vashon-Maury Island Green Party: This month’s topics include Vashon governance, Tran-sition Vashon/resilience circles, coal trains to Cherry Point, Wash. and health care for all. For more information, call Melvin Mackey, at 463-3468. 7 to 9 p.m. at Joy Goldstein’s home, 10329 S.W. Bank Road.

Vashon Computer Club: The club will hold its annual Christmas meeting and celebration with refreshments and reviews of the digital year. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, at the Vashon Senior Center.

Vashon Vespers: This new 35- minute service is meditative and musical, a chance for stillness and grounding. Rooted in the Christian contemplative tradition, Vespers is open to all. Childcare will be pro-vided. 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, at the Church of the Holy Spirit.

Drum Circle: All ages are wel-come to drum and sing with Buff a-lo Heart, a large community drum. The event is free, but donations will be accepted. 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, at Vashon Intuitive Arts.

Kiwanis Toy Drive ‘Free’ Store:Island parents in need of a helping hand this holiday season are wel-come to “shop” for free and pick out three gift items for their chil-dren from infants to 18 (and still in school). The store will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15 and 16, at the for-mer Island Variety store at Vashon Plaza. The store is for adults only; child care will be available at the Vashon Eagles from 1 to 4 p.m. both days. For more information, call Jan Lyell at 229-8085.

Community Sing-Along: Lift up your voice in song at the annual holiday event. 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, at the Vashon Theatre.

Grinchmas: Islander Steff on Moody will present his version of the Christmas classic. A $5 donation is suggested. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20.

Teen Movie Night: Teens 13 to 18 are invited to a see a free movie, munch on popcorn and maybe win a door prize. 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, at the Vashon Library.

CLASSES

Tai Chi: John Hanna and Deena Eber teach the gentle Chinese exercise technique. 1:30 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays at the Vashon Senior Center.

Gentle Therapeutic Yoga Series: Lynelle Sjoberg will teach classes that emphasize core strength for lower back care. All levels are welcome. To register, send a check for $42 payable to Island Yoga Center, P.O. Box 2062,

or drop it off in the mailbox by the front door. For more information, contact 463-2058 or [email protected]. 7 to 8:15 p.m. Wednesdays, Dec. 5 to 19, at Island Yoga Center.

Mindful Eating — A Retreat-Style Workshop: Sevilla Rhoads will lead this workshop in which participants will explore their relationship to eating. The day will include instruction, experiential learning and dialogue around approaching eating and food with mindfulness. The cost is on a slid-ing scale of $50 to $150. Contact Rhoads at 795-6876 to register or see www.presenthealthandwell-ness.com for more information. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Mann Studio, 20406 Chautau-qua Beach Rd.

Introduction to Computers: Practice the skills necessary for using a computer, including us-ing the mouse, selecting items and text, arranging windows and browsing the Internet and the library catalog. 10:15 a.m. Monday, Dec. 10, at the Vashon Library

Vashon Allied Arts: Make a variety of diff erent items from felt and recycled sweaters in Felting Extravaganza, which meets from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Blue Heron.In Ornaments, Wine & Cheese, start the holiday season with a glass ornament-making session with wine and cheese from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6. Brian Brenno will teach the class at his studio, 9850 S.W. 148th. St. In Lighten Up, create decoupage candle holders and rice paper lan-terns to light up the holidays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at the Blue Heron. For more information, see www.VashonAlliedArts. org.

Cooking Classes: Culinary Insti-tute of America graduate Kelsey Kozak off ers cooking classes to small groups. She will design the curriculum and menu, pair the wines and instruct participants in the creation of a meal, in their home or hers. Call Kozak at 463-1317 for more information. She also teaches cooking to children.

For two weekends each December and May, Island artists open their studios for people to stop by, see how they work and purchase art as part of the Art Studio Tour. This year 38 studios are participating, including Cory Winn, above, of CW Pottery in Burton. Winn specializes in hand-made tiles and vases glazed with intricate designs and rich colors. This year’s tour opened last weekend and will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days this weekend. For more informa-tion and a map to participating studios, see vashonislandart-studiotour.com

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Deadline is noon Thursday for Wednesday publication. The calendar is intended for commu-nity activities, cultural events and nonprofi t groups; notices are free and printed as space permits.

The Beachcomber also has a user-generated online calendar. To post an event there, see www.VashonBeachcomber.com, scroll to the bottom of the page and follow the prompts.

VASHON THEATRE

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1:30 p.m. Dec. 9. Free showing. Mighty Mouse treat boxes are available for kids who receive free or reduced lunches. Families should contact a school counselor if interested.

The Hobbit — An Unexpected Journey: Opens in 3D at midnight Dec. 14.

1 p.m. Dec. 22.

VMICC Land Use and Natural Resources Committee: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10, at Courthouse Square. Contact Robert Keeler at 679-7279 for more information.

Water District 19: 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 17630 100th Ave. S.W.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, at Station 55 on Bank Road.

Vashon Park District: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, at Ober Park.

The King County Cemetery District #1: 3 p.m Wednesday, Dec. 12, at the Vashon Cemetery, 19631 S.W. Singer Rd.

Vashon Island School District: 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, at McMurray Middle School.

This 26-minute program will run daily at 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. On Sundays, it will air at 8 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. through Dec. 7.

will air weeknights at 8 p.m.

For VoV’s full schedule, see www.VoiceofVashon.org. VoV TV is Comcast 21.

Vashon Community Care (VCC) and Vashon Fire & Rescue (VIFR) will team up to present an open house on Friday focused on fall prevention for seniors.

Falls are a leading cause of injuries in older people, and many times the accidents could have been prevented, according to Donna Zaglin, VCC’s director of clinical services.

Community members of all ages are wel-come at the open house, Zaglin said, where occupational therapists, physical therapists and VIFR staff will be on hand to address fall risks and prevention. They will offer free balance screening tests, blood pressure checks and medication reviews and will provide a questionnaire participants can use to assess their fall risks.

At 1 p.m. Marc Brownell, VIFR’s bat-talion chief of emergency medical services, will offer a presentation on falls, the toll they take and steps people can take in their homes to prevent them. Prevention is important, he said, noting that the Island’s first responders often see fall risks in senior’s homes, even when the call is not fall related.

“About half the time, we visit elderly people, there are easily identified trip haz-ards or falls involved,” he said.

Those hazards might be loose throw rugs, slippery stairs, even beds that are too high or too low and difficult to move from.

In addition to home-related hazards,

deteriorating strength and balance also contribute to falls, and often these prob-lems can be improved, according to Jan Kittleson, VCC’s outgoing rehabilitation manager.

Following Brownell’s presentation, occu-pational therapist Bob Spivey will provide further information, including how physi-cal and occupational therapy can help pre-vent falls. Spivey is replacing Kittelson as VCC’s rehabilitation manager.

One of the most worrisome fall-relat-ed injuries is a broken hip, Zaglin, said, because such injuries often lead to a down-ward health spiral. Other injuries, too, may be severe. At VCC, Zaglin noted, 66 percent of people who have been served by the center’s rehabilitation services have been recovering from fall-related injuries.

Many people have the misconception that growing weaker and losing one’s sense of balance is an inevitable part of aging, Kittleson said, stressing that does not have to be the case.

“Decreased physical strength — that’s the number one reason people go to a nursing center,” she said. Often declining strength can be turned around. “You can be 105 years old and strengthen a muscle.”

The open house will meet from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday at the rehabilitation room at VCC.

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For many on Vashon, it’s a holiday ritual, on par with trimming a tree or heading out on a frosty evening to

carol — if it’s December, it means it’s time for Vashon Allied Arts’ Center for Dance’s production of “The Nutcracker.”

The company’s annual production of the famous ballet is once again slated to fill Vashon High School’s theatre this weekend, and audience members eager to see sugar plum fairies, Arabian princesses, fighting mice and life-size dancing dolls are sure to come out in droves.

More than 70 dancers, ages 6 to almost 60, will appear in the ballet, directed by Dance Center artistic director Christine Juarez with her usual panache.

Each year, Juarez approaches the task of staging “The Nutcracker” with a mixture of enthusiasm and steely resolve, managing hundreds of exits, entries, pirouettes and pas de deux with the precision of an air-traffic controller.

“I have my list going through my head all the time of what I’m supposed to be getting done,” Juarez said. “That’s what I dream about at night.”

For some in the cast, the ballet is a family affair — Ballet 4 student Marisa McTighe will play the role of Clara, whose Christmas Eve dreams weave the plot of the ballet. Her high

schooled-aged brother Quinn McTighe will play the role of the Nutcracker Prince. He’ll also dance a freshly-cho-reographed role as the Arabian Prince, with Maeve Haselton in the role of Princess.

Katherine Misel, the company’s only high school senior, is this year’s Snow Queen, and her father, Rob Misel, will reprise his role as Drosselmeyer, Clara’s godfather, who arrives at the beginning of the ballet bearing gifts that include a magical nutcracker.

Other family connec-tions in the show include the team of Sugar Plum Fairy Meg Sayre and her mother Carol Sayre, who this year worked with Ballet 5/6 students to create beaded and other hand-crafted gift items that will be sold at intermission.

Carol Sayre is only one of a small army of parent volunteers who make the ballet happen.

“I love them. Oh my gosh, I could not do it without them,” said Juarez. “All these people are really thoughtful and organized, and they bring their professionalism to everything they do.”

And despite the fact that Juarez has now directed “The Nutcracker” more than a dozen times for Vashon Allied Arts, she said the experience is never the same.

“It’s always a different show; it never stays the same,” she said. “It’s not a cookie-cutter experience, ever.”

— Elizabeth Shepherd


ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury AUDITIONS: Drama Dock’s Youth Theatre Initiative is holding auditions for Thornton

Wilder ’s “The Long Chr istmas Dinner” and “Pullman Car Hiawatha” at 4 p.m . Saturday and 6 p.m . Sunday at Ober Park. Youth ages 11 to 19 should prepare a one-m inute monologue. Per formances will be Jan. 25 to 27. For more information, email r [email protected] .

TV Dinner, a local band that plays the iconic music of television and movie soundtracks, will serve up a set list of songs from classic TV Christmas specials at 7 p.m. Friday at Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie. It’s a free, all-ages show.

The band includes Dianne Krouse on horns, a rhythm section with Steve Meyer and Fletcher Andrews, Pat Reardon on guitar and Andre Sapp on mandolin.

Avaaza, an Island world music ensemble, will take the stage with its signature sounds and danceable beats at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Red Bicycle Bistro.

Opening for the group is Subaqueous, the solo music project of Isaac Cotec, with special guest Sartori Laurel.

Avaaza is fronted by lead singer Azula, who began her vocal training in opera before going on to sing jazz and blues. During two years spent abroad as a student, she began to explore singing in different languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian and Arabic.

The ensemble also includes bassist and co-founder Jason Everett, accom-plished guitarist and mandolinist Chaz Reed, Egyptian percussion master George Sadak, and Terri Garrett, who sings and plays clarinet and saxophone with Avaaza when she is not perform-ing with orchestral and performance groups such as the Northwest Sinfonietta, the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and MarchFourth.

The performance is free and for all-ages until 11 p.m.

An exhibition of work by Alexis St. John, an artist and children’s book author, will grace the walls of Café Luna starting at 6 p.m. Friday. A recep-tion is planned for that evening.

Her show, “Arca and Friends” will feature creatures created by St. John for current and future books — giant rabbits, boxy dogs, amorphous sea creatures and Arca, a soft, feathery, quiet being.

The evening will also feature live, improvisational music by jazz and rock guitarist Andrew Sherbrooke, who has more than 30 years of performance experience.

He’s studied with several well-known teachers, including jazz greats Gary Burton, Ken Navarro and Jimmy Bruno, as well as King Crimson’s Trey Gunn. He’s currently finishing a two-year pro-gram with Berklee Music on film and TV scoring and has composed music for a variety of public and private proj-ects. Visit www.andrewsherbrooke.com to find out more.

MUSIC NOTES Island dancers light up a new ‘Nutcracker’A holiday tradition continues for Vashon Allied Arts’ Center for Dance

Fans of cinema-as-art shouldn’t miss an upcoming 3D film “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” to be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Vashon Theatre. The award-winning film, made in 2010 by acclaimed German film direc-tor Werner Herzog, takes viewers inside Chauvet Cave, an almost inac-cessible site in France that is home to the largest collection of pristine ancient artwork ever discovered. The cave is not only full of paintings, but other evidence of ice-age life, including fossilized remains of cave bears and other birds and mammals. The oldest human footprints ever found — left by a child who walked in the cave almost 30,000 years ago — have also been found there. Since archeological teams found the site in 1994, only a few people have been allowed access into the cave, and the breathtaking scope of its contents had never been seen by the general public until Herzog man-aged to gain access. His film won ecstatic reviews, including one from Kenneth Turin at The Los Angeles Times, who wrote that film showed audiences “a sacred space where the human and the mystical effortlessly intertwine, and we are in Werner Herzog’s debt for that great gift.”Herzog, born in Germany in 1942, is the director of more than 60 feature and documentary films, including such masterpieces as “Aguirre, The Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo,” and “Nosferatu the Vampyre.” “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” is being presented by the Vashon Film Society as part of its monthly series of art films at the local theater. It’s the first 3D film presented by the group. Tickets to the show are $7.

Marisa McTighe dances the role of Clara in “The Nutcracker.”

“The Nutcracker” will be performed at Vashon High School at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. An abbreviated version of the ballet will be performed for Island students at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7. Tickets to that show are $5. Admission to regular performances is $10 to $13. Visit www.vashonalliedarts.org to buy tickets and find out more about the ballet.

Werner Herzog and a film crew step inside Chauvet Cave, a sealed-off reposi-tory of ancient art and fossilized remains of animals.

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Island Dance Theatre, a Vashon Park District-affiliated program, will perform “The Nutcracker” at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Dec. 14, 15, 21 and 22, and at 2 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 16 and 23, at Vashon High School. Stop by the park district office to buy advance tickets.A youth theater production of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” will be unwrapped at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 14 and 15, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Blue Heron. Tickets, $6 and $9, will be sold at the Blue Heron, Heron’s Nest and the Vashon Bookshop.An all-female lineup of stand-up comics will take the stage at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, for “That’s What She Said,” a show to support Vashon’s DoVE Project, an agency that assists survivors of domestic violence. Leah Mansfield and Shannon Whaley will headline; Janet McAlpin will emcee. Tickets are $10. “A Jazzy Lil’ Christmas,” a concert fea-turing Seattle vocalists Victoria Wimer Contreras, Alessandra Rose and Kim Virant, will happen at 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Open Space for Arts & Community. Tickets, $12, are on sale at www.brownpa-pertickets.com and the Vashon Bookshop. Local author Bob Ward will read from his book, “Le Reve (The Dream),” from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, at The Hardware Store Restaurant. The book is a children’s adventure fantasy about a young girl’s

journey of hope and discovery. Ward’s illustrations will also be on display. Donations for the Vashon Kiwanis Club toy drive will be accepted. “The Grinch Takes a Wholiday” will be performed by Steffon Moody and family at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at Vashon Theatre. It’s Moody’s third annual appear-ance on Vashon as the Grinch. He’ll be backed up on stage by Grinchettes Arlettte and Louisa Moody; Giacomo Moody will join the show as Grinch, Jr. Tickets are $5. A event to mark the Winter Solstice is planned for 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, at Open Space for Arts & Community. Called “The Beginning” and dubbed a “party/perfor-mance/community ritual,” it’s the brain-child of Islanders Martha Enson and Kevin Joyce. The all-ages, alcohol-free event will include a dessert buffet and roving performances by a wide range of on- and off-Island talent. Tickets, $10, are on sale at www.brownpapertickets.com Drama Dock will present a live, staged version of the timeless holiday classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” beginning Friday, Dec. 21, at the Blue Heron. Performances are slated for 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 2 p.m. on Dec. 23 and 30. Tickets, ranging in price from $7.50 to $20, are on sale at www.vashonalliedarts.org, the Vashon Bookshop, the Blue Heron, and the Heron’s Nest. “Winterdance: Molly’s Revenge’s 7th Annual Celtic Christmas Celebration,” will take place at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23, at Bethel Church. The concert will feature the well-known band’s mix of bagpipes, fiddles, whistles and other traditional instruments, playing Christmas music with a Celtic twist. The Murray Irish Dancers and vocalist Christa Burch will be special guests. Tickets, $18/advance and $20/door, are on sale at the church and www.mollys revenge.com.

HOLIDAY HAPPENINGSSave the date for a bevy of holiday-themed events

Common Thread moves, holiday shop opens

Common Thread, a collective of more than a dozen textile artists, has moved its scarves, hats, clothing and other artful wares to Center.

The collective, once housed in town by Café Luna, is now located inside Minglement, between the coffee shop and the grocery market.

Jenni Wilke, a member of the collective, said the new space comes with cheaper rent and the women involved think its a great location.

“It’s a really nice, warm environment,”

she aid. “We’ve experienced the same, if not more traffic already.”

She added that they also have access to a meeting room at Minglement and hope to eventually hold classes and lessons there.

“I think there’s a lot of potential,” she said.

Meanwhile, the space where Common Thread was located, which Jenni and her husband Dave Wilke still lease, will be the site of a temporary market-type store.

Multiple vendors offering crafts, col-lectibles, jewelry and some holiday-specific items, have signed on to offer their wares each weekend in December, with the bulk of them starting the weekend of Dec. 15.

Dave said some vendors have expressed interest in staying in the spot beyond the holidays.

“If we get a little momentum, we can

keep it rolling into January and keep it going,” he said.

Schleigh launches second Giraffe store in Tacoma

Giraffe, Vashon’s popular shop for fair-trade housewares and gifts, has expanded off-Island. Last month, shop owner Priscilla Schleigh opened another Giraffe store in Tacoma.

“We decided to go ahead and take the jump,” Schleigh said.

Schleigh said she’s been thinking about opening another shop for some time, as customers from off-Island frequently tell her they wish there was a shop like Giraffe closer to them.

Giraffe Tacoma, owned by Schleigh and

managed by her sister Peggy Schleigh, is located in Tacoma’s Theater District. It’s a big space, she said, and carries more or less the same merchandise plus a large selection of furniture.

“It’s a larger, more open warehouse feel,” she said, adding that the new store could benefit Vashon shoppers, as items not in stock on the Island could be brought over from the Tacoma shop.

So far Giraffe Tacoma has had a good reception, Schleigh said, and a few Islanders have even stopped by to check it out.

“It’s a great location; we loved the neigh-borhood, and people who had the shops on either side were very encouraging,” she said.

For hours and location, see its website, www.giraffetacoma.com


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Coffee is being poured again at the former home of Movie Magic, and the drive-through business is open, under new ownership and with a new name, The Ravell’d Sleeve Espresso Bar.

The business, which opened last week, will offer coffee from the three coffee-growing regions of the world: Latin America, Indonesia and Africa, each with its own district flavor, according to Ken Drew, who owns the new business with his wife Sarah.

“We’d like to try to highlight the best of the best,” he said.

At many coffee shops, Ken said, when people order their coffee, they expect it to taste just like the cup they ordered there the day before. But at this business, cus-tomers can do that, or they can try different types of coffees, just as they might with beer at a pub or brew house.

“I’d love to introduce people to a new way of looking at coffee,” he said.

Now, only the drive-through is open, though inside the build-ing during Friday’s art walk, the Drews offered a cupping, an event they said they would like to con-tinue. Eventually, they hope to create a sit-down business inside.

They also offer high-quality teas, and their vision, Ken said, includes scattered tables with glass teapots being warmed by tea lights under them, which was a feature of other coffee shops he has overseen.

“It’s very romantic,” he said. “Very beautiful.”

For their new endeavor, the Drews have invested in what they say is a premium Italian espresso machine, made by Nuova Simonelli; only three such machines currently operate in North America.

Now a consultant and working from home in addition to start-ing this business, Ken previously worked in a variety of positions in the coffee industry. It was an industry they both missed, Sarah

said, and when this opportunity became available, they took it. They have a six-month lease, and when that time is up, they say they hope to renew their lease or buy the building.

“We were really excited to jump back into the coffee business,” she said. “This has been a lifelong dream of ours.”

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Ken and Sarah Drew hope to educate Islanders about coffee’s finer points.

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Islanders celebrated the holiday season Saturday night with a festive parade through town, led by several children and the Vashon High School marching band (top right). The parade, an annual event sponsored by the Vashon Island Chamber of Commerce, included, of course, Santa and Mrs. Claus, who cheerfully greeted the waving throngs (above). Other highlights included roasted chestnuts, cooked over an open flame in front of Frame of Mind, third-grad-ers from Chautauqua Elementary School singing “O Christmas Tree” and the Vashon Island Community Bell Choir (bottom right), a nondenominational group that practices at the Vashon Methodist Church. Meanwhile, merchants and businesses in town continue to display their gingerbread houses, delightful works of culinary art. Islanders can pick up a map from the chamber, visit those outlets that made a house and vote on their favorite. A drawing among those who vote will be held next week.

issues, including family leave, minimum wage and health care. She joined the institute earlier this year.

Prior to that, she worked as the development direc-tor for several other Seattle-based agencies, including the Boyer Children’s Clinic, Friends of Youth and the Sand Point Community Housing Association.

Johnson, recently remar-ried, is the mother of a 17-year-old with special needs whom she raised on her own. Her own life experiences, she said, have added to her desire to work for an agency like VYFS.

“I think much of my moti-vation for going into human services in the first place is because I know what it is like to need help, and I know what it is like to find an agency with great people who can give you what you need to get back on your feet,” she said. “I don’t know anyone who goes through life without needing help sometime and that’s why I wanted to be the executive director of VYFS — so I could make sure that help is

there for Vashon.”Johnson, who obtained

her law degree from Southern Illinois Law School and spent another year as a Ford Foundation fellow at the University of Washington Law School, worked as a lawyer for seven years, handling crim-inal defense appeals for low-income clients. But her job meant she was work-ing with people “who had had horrible upbringings” and that she was trying to help them “at the end of the line.”

“So I restructured my career, working to try to make sure life is positive at the very beginning,” she said.

All of her work has been in fundraising, not in overseeing or managing an agency, she acknowl-edged. Even so, she said, she’s worked at a leadership level and as a supervisor in several organizations. “I actually find that managing people is one of my strong suits,” she said.

Kjellberg said both board and staff members formed the search commit-tee, choosing her as one of two finalists to interview in part because they were impressed by her back-

ground in fundraising.Funding is tight at the

agency, Kjellberg said. Indeed, Maaz left VYFS, he said at the time, in part because the agency couldn’t afford to offer its employ-ees health care benefits, something he needed. The agency is also tight on space and may need to embark on a capital campaign in the near future, Kjellberg said.

“Her understanding of fund development — that was really key,” Kjellberg said.

Johnson said she hoped to apply her fundraising skills to address VYFS’s myriad needs, including health care benefits for its employ-ees, something the agency will be required to provide

now that the Affordable Care Act is in place.

“I think it’s a moral issue as well as a legal one,” she said.

She said she plans to turn to the community to seek additional funds for VYFS.

“The Vashon community is a very generous commu-nity and parts of the com-munity have some capacity to help, and I think we need to do better at asking for help and expressing what the need is,” she said.

Meanwhile, she added, she and her new husband, Mark, are looking forward to moving to Vashon once Johnson’s son graduates from high school.

“I think it’s a wonderful place to live,” she said.


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Kathleen Johnson, VYFS’s new director, said she hopes to move to Vashon within two years.

Nirvana will hold a spe-cial five-course benefit din-ner and beer-tasting for Vashon Youth & Family Services at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13.

Advance tickets are $100 for the dinner, which will include samples of special beers from the Pike Place Brewing Co. paired with each course. Proceeds from the event — 25 percent or more of the night’s revenue, depending on how many attend — will support VYFS, which provides a wide range of services to low-income families and individuals.

For reservations and ticket information, contact Nirvana at 463-4455 or VYFS at 463-5511.

Voice of Vashon garnered $700 when it held a “guest bartender night” at The Hardware Store Restaurant in October.

Now, Melinda Songter-ath, owner of the eatery, will offer the events on the second Thursday of each month, the next one on

Dec. 13, when represen-tatives from the Vashon Maury Community Food Bank will serve up beer and wine to patrons.

Ten percent of the spe-cialty drink sales from the evening will go to the char-ity, and donation jars will be in place for those who want to give more. The restaurant will also make a contribu-tion, and diners will be given an opportunity to write in an amount for the organiza-tion, according to Allison Shirk, co-founder of Vashon Events, which is producing the special nights.

For more information or to book a charity, call Shirk at 463-0501 or email vashon [email protected].

DoVE, Vashon’s anti-domestic violence program, will receive $20,000 from King County next year, its first infusion of public dol-lars since it was founded in April 2011.

The line item in the county budget will help the small agency considerably, said Tavi Black, its director.

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The Vashon High School girls basketball team opened its season with three games in less than a week — all non-conference games against Emerald City League squads. The Pirates followed a 3-point loss to University Prep on Tuesday, Nov. 27, with wins over The Northwest School and Seattle Academy on the following Friday and Sunday.

The Pirates return four key players from last year’s team —Anya Quig, Taegen Lynch, Tianna Koenig and Kalie Heffernan

— and each contributed significantly in the contests played last week.

In the season opening loss (26-29) to University Prep, the Pirates tallied 32 turn-overs, more than in the next two games combined. Despite issues with ball control, the Pirates stayed in the contest.

Sienna Jannetty made two 3-point shots in the final minute to pull the team to within 3, and the Pirates got a final possession with 14 ticks left on the clock. A chance for a 3-point shot to tie was just missed by Heffernan.

Scoring was led by Quig and Lynch, who

scored 9 points apiece, with Jannetty add-ing 6 and Koenig adding 2.

On the following night, Vashon played The Northwest School, and both teams struggled to score early as the first half ended 8-5 in favor of Vashon. The Pirates fared better in the second half, extending the advantage on their way to a 26-21 win.

Scoring was paced by Janetty’s 14 points. Quig added 7, Heffernan had 3 and Koenig added 2. Heffernan had an outstanding defensive effort against the Owls, limiting their leading scorer from last year.

On Friday, Vashon hosted the Seattle Academy Cardinals and jumped out to an early lead, taking a 19-8 advantage into halftime. Vashon pushed their advantage to 16 points, leading 26-10 by the end of the third and cruising to a 33-22 final score.

Quig led the scorers with 16 points, with additional scoring from Lynch (6), Koenig (4), Kate Atwell (4) and Janetty (3).

The Pirates’ next home game is Friday against Seattle Christian.

— Gary Means is the assistant coach of the Vashon girls basketball team.

By CHERYL PRUETT For The Beachcomber

The first day of December saw the first action of the season for the Vashon High School wrestlers. Vashon grapplers, 27 in all, competed against nine much larger schools (both 3A and 4A) in the Auburn Invitational Tournament at Auburn High School.

The varsity squad finished a respectable fifth place out of 10 teams, and the JV wres-tlers wound up in an impressive fourth place. The Pirates’ lone varsity champion of the day was junior Shane Armstrong in the 182-pound weight class.

Preston Morris (junior, 195 pounds), Joe Coller (sophomore, 220 pounds) and A.J. Sawyer (senior, 285 pounds) all took second. Freshman Chase Wickman was a strong third at 106 pounds; Shane Williams (fresh-man, 120 pounds), Louis Jovanovich (junior, 285 pounds) and Max Frederickson (senior, 170 pounds) all came in fourth.

The first round of the day was brutal, with the squad losing nine of its 11 opening matches. The second round saw a reversal of fortune as there were eight wins against only four losses.

Vashon wrestlers faced very tough competition from perennial power-house teams from Bethel, Auburn, Auburn-

Riverside, South Kitsap, Kelso, Kennedy Catholic, Tahoma, Kentlake and Mount Rainier.

The 12 JV wrestlers representing Vashon were outstanding, with seven of them plac-ing in the top four. Elan Peterson (senior, 138 pounds) won his bracket. Codi Williams (junior, 138 pounds) and Baxter Call (junior, 160 pounds) both took second; Aaron Bomber (senior, 138 pounds) and Logan Nelson (freshman, 170 pounds) took third; Fletcher Call (freshman, 152 pounds) and Hunter Stanley (freshman, 132 pounds) came in fourth.

Coaches Anders and Per-Lars Blomgren were both pleased with the young team’s strong first outing.

Currently, the Pirates are ranked fifth in the state 1A classification, based on their performance last season, by Washington Wrestling Report. Individual Pirates that are ranked include Shane Armstrong, Preston Morris and Louis Jovanovich.

The grapplers’ first home match will be Thursday, Dec. 6, in the VHS gym. Junior Varsity action against the always tough Elma team will begin at 6 p.m., followed by varsity matches at 7 p.m.

— Cheryl Pruett is the mother of two Pirate wrestlers.

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Vashon sophomore Ian Stewart puts up a shot over an Auburn Adventist defender early in Thursday’s opening game for the Pirate boys basketball team last Thursday. The Pirates started the game with a 14-0 lead on the way to defeating the visiting Falcons, 68-36. The team won again on Saturday, defeating Crosspoint Academy, 80-32. They will play Seattle Christian at home this Friday. Tip off is at 5:15 p.m.

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Richard Grant is sched-uled to appear in court next week, facing a drug charge related to an August arrest where he was found to possess nearly 10 grams of methamphetamine.

Grant pled not guilty to the charge, Violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (VUCSA), in October, and his next hearing is scheduled for Dec. 13, when his trial date will likely be set.

In charging papers filed with the King County

Superior Court in August, the prosecuting attorney paints Grant as a criminal who is well known to police and who recently admitted to selling drugs.

On Aug. 25, Grant was pulled over on the north end by Dep. Jeff Hancock, a regular Vashon deputy who recognized Grant and knew he was driving with a sus-pended license.

According to charging papers, Hancock, joined by another Vashon depu-ty, immediately arrested Grant, and upon searching his vehicle found 9.6 grams of methamphetamine in two separate bags. He also found an electronic scale with methamphetamine residue on it in Grant’s pocket. In the report, Hancock noted that Grant has threatened to shoot and kill police officers and now is listed in the Washington Crime Information Center as having an officer safety/warning hazard. Because of that listing, he immediately put Grant in handcuffs.

When questioned, Grant freely admitted to getting the drugs in Seattle and said he planned to sell them to pay back his dealer. In the report, Hancock said Grant laughed out loud while talk-ing about the drugs.

“He went on to tell me that he sells metham-phetamine to just get by,” Hancock said. “He said he sells enough to get food and

cigarettes.”At one point Hancock

told Grant he would be booked into jail that night, but the deputy later decided to release him due to “staff-ing issues and the call vol-ume on the mainland,” the charging papers say.

Sgt. Katie Larson, a spokeswoman for the King County Sheriff ’s Office, said that when Vashon deputies send suspects to jail, they are required to take them on the ferry to Fauntleroy, where they transfer them to another deputy. Larson said it was likely there wasn’t a deputy available to pick up Grant at the ferry that eve-ning. He was charged three days later.

Grant’s criminal record in the state, obtained by The Beachcomber, spans back to 1988 and includes 31 arrests, nine felony con-victions and 24 other crimi-nal convictions. His convic-tions so far this year include possession of a controlled substance with no prescrip-tion, criminal trespass and two separate convictions of third-degree theft.

The extensive record is reflected in Grant’s most recent charging papers, where Hancock says, “I have dealt with Grant on many occasions over the past two years. I have arrested him and questioned him exten-sively in regard to crimes on the island.”

The sentence for a VUCSA conviction ranges from 20 months to five years, depending on the defendant’s record.

Grant’s record, however, shows that he rarely serves his entire sentence. Grant’s most recent arrest was Nov. 16, when he was taken into custody at the Vashon courthouse on warrants for criminal trespass, third-degree theft and a probation violation. Records show that he was sentenced to seven days in jail for the theft conviction and served five of them, being released the day before Thanksgiving.

Bryan Grant, Richard’s brother, said he’s frustrat-ed by how little jail time Richard seems to do and is skeptical that his latest charges will keep him in jail for long.

“To me, it’s beyond ridic-ulous. He gets pulled over. He’s driving with a license suspended and is caught with 10 grams of meth that he admits he’s planning on selling, and they don’t even take him downtown,” he said.


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back to his teen years, and has shown little inclination to change his ways. They’re also horrified by the condition of the home, a place they believe has become a flop house for drug users on Vashon.

“That was my dad’s dream retirement home,” said Bryan Grant, Jr., who lives in Seattle. “It was a beautiful place when he bought it.”

Arnold Grant concurred. “It was beauti-ful at one point. But it doesn’t stay beautiful if you don’t maintain it. Richard’s got all his buddies there with their trailers and motor homes. It looks like a KOA for meth heads.”

When Richard has gone to jail, Arnold has sometimes attempted to clean up the house, he said, kicking everyone out and hauling their stuff to the dump. But Richard’s time behind bars is often brief, he said, and he feels as though his efforts have proven fruitless.

“I’ve cleaned that place out so many times, I’ve gotten fed up,” he said.

The last time Arnold intervened was after the film equipment was found at the house, a theft Richard had nothing to do with — he was in jail for another crime at the time.

“I went over and cleaned house, only for Richard to get out the following week. That’s what’s been happening the last few years. You think Richard’s going in for some time, and he’s out three weeks later,” Arnold said.

Nelly and Bryan Grant, Sr., bought the 2,400-square-foot home in 1983, in large part because of the senior Bryan’s love of planes, according to their sons. Bryan, who died in 2002, worked for years as a mechan-

ic for various airlines and possessed both a private pilot’s license and a commercial license.

He built two hangars at the airport, han-gars still owned by the family and housing a wrecked Cessna that Bryan had hoped to repair and a Mooney, another popu-lar name in single-engine planes, jointly owned by the family.

“It was perfect for him,” Bryan Grant, Jr., said of his father’s home. “If you like airplanes, you can walk right through the woods to the airport.”

Nelly ended up with the home after she and husband divorced in 1996. Nelly lived there — sharing the house with Richard much of the time — until two years ago, when she moved to Seattle and turned the house completely over to Richard. Richard says she still comes out sometimes, staying in the upstairs. The downstairs is a separate dwelling area, with its own kitchen.

During the interview Saturday night, Richard expressed frustration about his brothers’ allegations, saying they have long treated him as “the scapegoat in the fam-ily.”

“My life is improving,” he added. “As long as they want to keep me the scapegoat, I won’t associate with them.”

Asked how he makes a living, he says he works on cars in the carport adjacent to the house. He has a degree from a technical school in diesel mechanics, he said.

He spoke while sitting in an easy chair in what was likely the house’s former rec room, adjacent to a small, tidy kitchen and dining area. Muggie Sparks perched on another chair, adding her thoughts from time to time. On the refrigerator, letter magnets formed the words “Rich + Muggie.”

A friendly black mastiff named Duke occasionally nosed Richard and his visitors. A wood-burning stove belched smoke into

the room, a problem Richard said he’d been trying to fix that day. Every window was covered by a curtain, even during the day when a reporter first stopped by the house to talk to the residents.

Asked about India Castle, Richard said he was sad about what happened to the 27-year-old woman, a Vashon High School graduate with deep roots on the Island. He and Sparks last saw her on Tuesday, Nov. 13, the last day family members also reported seeing her.

Castle had been coming to the house to visit for the last six months or so. “She liked us. She thought we were fun,” Richard said, when asked about her visits.

What’s more, he said, the two had expe-rienced similar tragedies in their lives. Richard lost his brother Robert to a car accident in 1984; Castle’s brother Dan died when he was 17, also in a car accident.

On that Tuesday when they were last together, Richard said, he, Sparks and Castle had gone for a late-afternoon walk through the woods that surround the prop-erty and along a path that skirts the air-port’s runway. It was dark when they got back to the house, and all three of them were chilled, but Castle refused to come in to warm up, Richard said. She said she needed to get home to her family or they would be worried about her.

He also said she “seemed delusional” during the walk, talking about her brother and being scared by shadows she saw in a few of the airport’s hangars, where people were at work.

Richard said he went into the house and asked Sparks to try to talk her into com-ing inside. Sparks said she sat down on a bench with Castle, who was wearing only a thin sweatshirt for a coat, but Castle again refused to come in and ultimately headed off into the woods to walk home. She left the car she was driving behind.

He said both he and Sparks searched the property for her the next day but never called the authorities, even after they learned she had been reported missing. They were going to call her family Friday night when Sparks received a call from a family member, Richard said.

“I’m sorry about the whole situation,” he added. “I’m sorry for her death. I couldn’t force a young woman to come into the house. ... I just wish I’d been more on top of the situation.”

No one from the King County Sheriff ’s Office has interviewed him about her disappearance and death, Richard said, though Dep. Charlie Akers, a spokesman for the sheriff ’s office questioned that, not-ing that Richard was listed on the investiga-tors’ witness sheet.

As for his court date next week on charg-es that he possessed methamphetamine, he said he’s not thinking much about it.

“I just suppress it. What am I supposed to do?”

Richard’s brothers, meanwhile, say they feel sick about Castle’s death, a tragedy that has only added to their despair over the state of their mother’s home. Should Richard end up incarcerated for his August arrest, charges that carry a possible sen-tence of five years in prison, they hope to reclaim the house yet again.

“If he does time, I’ll evict everyone out of there for the last time and clean the house one last time,” Arnold said.

Bryan said he, too, is determined to see the situation change at the house, which was once assessed at more than $500,000 but is now in a state of disrepair.

“I’m going to clean it up. I’m going to put on a new roof. ... And it’s going to be nice and quiet, and the neighbors will be happy,” Bryan said. “That’s the bottom line for the Island. There’s going to be one less attractive nuisance.

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India Alden Castlefebruary 22, 1985 - november 13, 2012

India Castle was born in 1985 in New York City and arrived on Vashon at age 10, attending local schools with her younger brother, Daniel. While in high school, she excelled in debate, competing and winning in several state competi-tions. Graduating from the SSCC Running Start Program, she transferred to Evergreen State College, where she spent two months in Ireland as part of a cultural learning program.

India was an enthusiastic athlete and became a performing artist at an early age. Her love of acting brought her many parts in Drama Dock shows initiated by director, Lou Hetler, who became an early supporter of India’s natural

talent and a personal mentor. While in college she studied film, dance, theater and world history, and was deeply interested in cultural studies. She became proficient in aerial arts under islander Esther Edelman of UMO and was self-taught in Internet technology, a skill she later used to earn tuition and living expenses. India also received certification in Reiki training.

India had a fierce wit, a fine intelligence and a vivid imagination. Her personal radiance lit up the room wherever she went and drew others to her. Her kindness and compassion to anyone in need was boundless. Paradoxically, she had an intense need for privacy, spending hours absorbed in working on organizing her photogra-phy files or tending her flower and vegetable gardens.

At age 19, her brother and closest friend, Daniel, age 17, died tragically in an auto accident on the island. She fought to overcome this trauma with the support of her family but its lasting impact and her grief proved to be more than she could manage. In the years to come, coping with this loss became a constant struggle.

Our own sorrow and grief has been eased by the generous outpouring of com-fort and support from so many noteworthy islanders who recognized India’s rare talent and grace. Special thanks to Yve Suskind and Bill Moyer of The Backbone Campaign, Esther Edelman of UMO, Janice Randall of Vashon Allied Arts, the Vashon Island Coop musicians and so many dear individual friends who have given so generously in all ways possible. Please visit our online guest book at www.islandfuneral.com.

Carrold Eldon Burns, born on November 17, 1924 in Garden City, KS, passed away peacefully on November 30. Due to a kidney removal in the Kansas’ dustbowl days, he escaped death’s grasp seven times. He went on to prove himself an excellent athlete in both basketball and tennis despite this childhood setback. Carrold worked stateside during WWII as an aircraft mechanic. While he enjoyed his military experience, the happiest time of his life was going to work for the military as a civilian in Heidelberg, Germany to release soldiers stationed in Europe after the war. He was valued for his fast and accurate typing skills.

Carrold, a very shy young man, met the love of his life Dzdria through an impromptu introduc-tion. Dzdria and Carrold married in Heidelberg in 1948. Upon receiving notice of his father’s death, they moved to the US to be closer to family and raise their son. Carrold was incapable of being idle and worked farm jobs until he was accepted to the University of Denver, where he gradu-ated from the School of Business. While in college, he worked as a teller for Union National Bank. Carrold went on to work for Guaranty Bank, Union National Bank, and Arvada State Bank where he retired in 1986 as vice president. Mentored by W.L. Johnson, Union National Bank President, Carrold became a life-long, trusted friend of the family.

Carrold’s most important career achievements were ethical. During his employment in Ger-many, he found a signed copy of Mein Kampf while exploring the attic of the building where he worked. He gave it the historian attached to his unit. A similar situation happened in 1957 when he found a safety deposit box, loaded with every kind of coin, reflecting US history. He brought the safety deposit box to his superiors so it could be returned to its rightful owner. Carrold lived up to the adage of his Catholic faith ‘lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’

Carrold was amiable and charming. His irony reflected a natural sense of humor. Beyond his affability, his employers and customers knew they could trust him with their money.

Carrold and Dzidra retired to Olympia, WA. They both enjoyed working the election polls and he was an usher at St. Michael Parish. After Dzidra died in 2005, Carrold moved to Vashon, WA and then to Seattle, WA to be closer to his family. He is survived by his sister, Mary Jo Remmert of Garden City, KS; his son Patrick Burns of Seattle, WA; and by his granddaughter and great granddaughter, Emily and Mara Burns of Vashon, WA. We miss the affable gentle man who was always in our corner and was our model how to really live the good life.

The family would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at Providence Mt. St. Vincent Nursing Home in West Seattle for their compassionate care for Carrold as he suffered Alzheimer’s disease. In lieu of flowers, the family requests friends to make donations to Mt. St. Vincent to help residents who are no longer able to pay their bill or the charity of their choosing.

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Angie and her sister Annie were

turned over to VIPP when their owner

died. Angie is an outgoing girl who

plops over to have her tummy rubbed.

Angie is an easy going self assured

personality who is looking forward to

settling into a new home with a good

set of laps.

Annie and her sister Angie were

turned over to VIPP when their owner

died. Annie has settled in at the shelter

but as you can see she likes to take

refuge in her cat cubbie when she

needs a little get away from the other

shelter cats. She is used to being

indoors and watching the Animal

Channel on TV.

Rabbit is a 65 pound 9 year old pit bull

who was abandoned a year ago and rescued

by his current owner. The current owner’s

housing situation does not allow for another

dog so Rabbit needs a new home. He is a boy

who loves people and most dogs, but is not

consistent with other animals such as cats and

chickens. However, he has been seen cuddling

with a cat! He lived with another dog most of

his life and enjoys their company. He loves

attention and tends to follow his people around.

A warm indoor home is a requirement for this

dog who loves to lounge in front of the

fi replace!

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SOARING EVERGREENS

DavidKnight

CSSN, SFR206/388-9670

4.2 ACWestside

Be charmed by the music of a seasonal stream in thisserene forest! Two possible building sites, good soils; sweet

vacation yurt already in place. MLS #411738 $119,000

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206/235-37313 bdrm2.45 AC

Private, idyllic setting on the Westside! Open, multi-leveldesign, large spaces, loft master; darling studio apt overgarage; quiet and pretty grounds. Offered at $449,000

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Nancy Sipple (206) 465-2361JOHN L SCOTT VSHThis office independently owned & operated 13401 Vashon Hwy SWThis office independently owned & operated 13401 Vashon Hwy SW

4 bdrm 2.5 bath 8.25 ACWestside! Pasture, gardens, venerableorchard, pond, filtered views & acreageending at hi-bank wft! Fireplace, wood

stove, big decks. MLS #374569 $535,000

150’ WF 640 SF View!Follow easy steps from the sunny

cottage to an even sunnier beach! Bigdeck, 1 bdrm, bonus room, woodstove,150’ frontage. MLS #402115 $319,000

3 bdrm 2 bath 50’ WFStylish Burton beach retreat set amongthe trees, overlooking delightful harborviews! Inviting & classy interior, huge

deck. MLS #309005 $399,000

3 bdrm 2.5 bath View!Cape Cod meets NW contemporary - thiscutting-edge timber frame design is trulyimpressive! Beach access just a stone’s

throw away. MLS #405325 $549,000

READY FOR YOUR PLANS!

SusanLoflandASP,GRI

206/999-6470

Septic design approved! One of the few remainingvacant properties near Seattle ferries. Quiet side street,

room for lawn & gardens. MLS #392368 $129,000

1.34 ACNorthend

BEACH & FOREST & VIEWS!Innovative design & superb quality! Gorgeous 1.43

wooded acres, gardens, lovely beach & sweeping views.Separate 2 bdrm guest cottage. MLS #415068 $950,000

Land For SaleLand For Sale

Spring Beach 1.14 AcresFabulous price! Ready-to-build wooded land, permitapproved for a 3 bdrm home. Owner financing may

be possible! MLS #426479 $79,000

Westside 8.79 AcresPark-like land, huge maples & fir plus a glimpse

of Colvos Passage! Well, electricity, easilyrenewed septic design. MLS #421553 $120,000

KenZaglin

Des.Broker206/940-4244

2 bdrm187’ WF

4 bdrm 3.5 bath ViewBeautiful garden setting, captivating views

over Tramp Harbor, and beach nearby!Large rooms, lovely finishes, lavish master,multiple decks. MLS #407195 $429,000

4 bdrm 3 bath .92 ACRoom for everyone & everything in thispark-like setting near the ferries! Openfloor plan, basement, carport, big deck,sweeping lawn. MLS #392624 $424,900

4 bdrm 4.5 bath 5.43 ACDistinctive NW home on 5+ acres with

sweeping Sound/Mt. Rainier views.Grand entry, high-end finishes, stunning

grounds! MLS #399196 $1,475,000

1 bdrm 50’ WF WestsideWest side waterfront - everyone’s

favorite beach! Utterly charming cabinw/original finishes, sunny deck. Easy,level walk-in. MLS #391091 $299,000

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