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New gallery, shop to open in townLocal couple fills former Raven’s Nest spaceBy NATALIE MARTINStaff Writer

A local couple is opening a new art gal-lery and gift shop in the storefront formerly occupied by Raven’s Nest.

Islanders Brent and Holly Houston have rented the space next to Valise Gallery, and in a few weeks they will open Hinge Gallery, a business that will include a frame shop, space for rotating art shows and a small gift shop.

Last week Brent explained that the new business is one that combines the couple’s skills and experience. Brent, a formally trained artist and woodworker, has more than 15 years experience in framing, and Holly, who has a master’s degree in arts management, managed a premier contem-porary art gallery in Chicago.

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us,” he said. “She gets to curate the gallery space … and then I’ll do more of the retail aspect of the shop.”

The pair moved to Vashon last summer from Chicago, where they also owned a frame shop and gallery. Holly grew up on Bainbridge Island, and they were interested in moving back to the Northwest, where they still have family, Brent said. Holly is now the program manager for Vashon Allied Arts’ Vashon Artists in Schools pro-gram.

“Part of what attracted us to the island was all the art here,” Brent said. “It’s so alive.”

Hinge Gallery will feature work by con-temporary artists from Vashon and off-island. In its retail space, the shop will carry a selection of posters, prints, let-terpress cards, vintage items, handmade gifts and books on art. The Houstons are planning a soft opening in mid-January and a grand opening event on Friday, Feb. 6, during the Gallery Cruise.

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Senior center nourishes with new kitchen, Market Bucks programIsland seniors stop in for healthy meals four days a week By SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

Six months after the Vashon Senior Center installed a commercial kitchen, it is serving more people at lunch and participating in a program that enables it to obtain free local produce, while director Ava Apple is looking to increase lunch-time programming and improve transportation to the facility.

In the last year, Apple said, the center has served almost 3,000 meals. It provides a hot lunch four times a week and has seen the number of people who come for meals increase since it finished its kitchen in June and started preparing its own food. Now, cooks plan for about 16 people a day, according to Barbara Hansen, a frequent volunteer assistant to Linda Fox, the meals coordinator.

“We’re feeding more than their stomachs, too,” Apple said, noting sometimes seniors have a hard time getting out and connecting with others on the island. “Social isolation kills you.”

The condition of the center’s previous kitchen made cooking nearly impossible, and the center relied on Vashon Community Care to create the meals it served. Now, Apple said, by preparing its own food, the center is saving $200 a month and placing a renewed emphasis on nutrition. It has had help in that mission from Bernie O’Malley, who donated food from his summer produce stand, and the Vashon Island Growers Association (VIGA).

In August, the center started participating in a VIGA program, which provides Market Bucks — coupons for free produce — to a variety of island nonprofits to expand access to locally grown food. During harvest time, these bucks enabled Apple to shop at the farmers market and several farm stands and obtain produce at no cost to the center. Because of that, Apple said, the center was able to obtain at least $500 worth of fresh fruits and vegetables for free.

“It has been so helpful,” she said.

With that program, she added, lunches featured a lot more produce than they had previously, including a large salad at each meal.

Apple noted that she tried to shop from different farmers, who are reimbursed for Market Bucks purchases, and she let people at the center know what food came from where, a topic that started a lot of conversations at lunch as people reflected on their gardening or farming history.

Though cooks prepare meals for about 15, as few as 10 people may come or as many as 20. When creating the menus, those who cook try to include at least one-third of the minimum recommended daily allowances because the center’s meal is often the only hot meal seniors get in a day.

“For the majority of our regulars, this is it,” Apple said. “They don’t cook anymore.”

The center charges a modest amount for the meals and collects payment in a jar so that if someone cannot afford the meal, he or she can eat without drawing attention.

In the coming year, Apple intends to reach out to more seniors and help them get to and from the center.

“Transportation is my next big issue,” she said. The center has access to a van several social services

share, she noted, and she wants to make full use of that. “My goal is to have a driver and pick people up,” she said.

“I bet we could double our participation.” She also hopes to increase programming around lunch-

time, so that people could come for lunch and stay for whatever might follow. She also intends to do more around health-related issues seniors face, she said, including mem-ory loss, as there seems to be a large interest in that on the island.

In the fall, the center was part of a larger effort that offered a documentary and forum about Alzheimer’s dis-ease. More than 100 islanders attended, Apple said. Next month, the center will bring the documentary “Alive Inside: A Story Of Music & Memory” to the Vashon Theatre. The film centers on the transformation music can provide to people with dementia. Vashon Community Care is trying to start a similar program and will be there collecting iPods, Apple added.

The senior center’s budget is small at just $140,000 a year, which covers salaries, programming and overhead. If she had more money to work with in the budget, Apple said she would hire a social worker to help address some of the larger needs of island seniors.

Compared to many communities, Vashon has a large number of seniors, and Apple and others who work with them say that the island must prepare for their needs. The last census, in 2010, showed that out of Vashon’s population of 10,624 people, 785 people were 75 or older, and more than 17 percent were 65 or older, compared to 12 percent in Washington as a whole.

Apple became the director of the senior center in 2012. When she started, she said she felt there was a lot of untapped potential at the center, and she wanted to change that. Now, April will mark three years with her at the helm, and she feels like she is beginning to make genuine progress.

“I feel like I am just getting to the meat of it, addressing the needs of seniors on the island,” she said.

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DID YOU KNOW?

You should keep an eye on your dental insurance. January is a good time to check into your dental insurance plan and get a good idea of your coverage because often changes are made at this time such as coverage adjustments and new provider dentists. The first of the year is also the most common time for benefits to renew so it may be a good time to have that crown put in. Waiting to have work done is risky for your teeth and can be costly as most dental problems only worsen over time and could result in delays and loss of benefits. This

occurs most frequently with crowns because crowns require three weeks to fabricate. If you are unsure of your benefits, call your dental office or insurance company and if you are dissatisfied with your plan bring it up to your employer or HR department.

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Friend says victim was well-loved on VashonBy NATALIE MARTINStaff Writer

A young woman, Sierra Marie Pedrin-Linden, was killed in a single-car acci-dent near the north end on Wednesday night.

The accident occurred around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 17, on Vashon Highway, accord-ing to Sgt. DB Gates, a spokeswoman for the King County Sheriff ’s Office. Linden, 22, apparently lost control of her vehicle and crashed on the side of the highway near SW 140th Street. The cause of the accident is not yet known.

Linden was a 2011 gradu-ate of Vashon High School. She was the caregiver for an autistic young man on Vashon and also worked at Vashon Pizza.

“She will be missed more than anything,” said Natalie Harkins, who

owns Vashon Pizza and was also a close friend of Linden. Harkins described the young woman as a hard worker who was also very caring and had many friends on the island who are devastated by the news.

“She loved her family and loved her friends. She was there for everybody,” Harkins said.

Linden had a bubbly per-sonality, Harkins added, and was known as fun to be around.

“Everyone remembers her smiling and laughing and joking,” she said, “She was beautiful but didn’t know it and didn’t act like it.”

Islander Sherrie Pierson said she remembers how caring and patient Linden was as a caretaker for her son, who is autistic.

“She was Joseph’s best friend, and he’s heartbro-ken,” she said.

Pierson described Linden as “full of life” and noted she would play along when Joseph called her his girl-friend.

“She was so very giving with Joseph with her time and her patience and her attention,” she said. “It’s left a big hole in our lives.”

Linden was the sole occupant of the vehicle that crashed, an SUV. Her dog, which was with her in the car, was also killed.

Linden is survived by her mother, brother and sister. She is also survived by an aunt, uncle and grandmother who live on Vashon. Her married name was Sierra Pedrin-Linden Walsh, but she had returned to her maiden name as her divorce was about to be finalized.

Josh Dueweke, a cap-tain at Vashon Island Fire & Rescue who respond-ed to the accident, said Linden was headed south on Vashon Highway when she lost control of her vehicle and apparently over-corrected. The car went into a ditch and was upside-down against a tree when responders arrived. Dueweke said she died at the scene.

The King County Sheriff ’s Office’s Major Accident Response and Reconstruction (MARR) team responded, and Vashon Highway was

closed for the investiga-tion until about 4 a.m. on Thursday.

Gates said MARR is still investigating and will attempt to reconstruct the

accident. The investigation could take months to com-plete, she said.

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Young woman killed in single-car accident

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People laid flowers and balloons last week on Vashon Highway where Sierra Pedrin-Linden, pictured at left, died in a single-car accident.

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EDITORIAL

Today’s issue of The Beachcomber comes out on Christmas Eve, a time when many of us are surrounded by loved ones, enjoying holiday celebrations and, of course, wrapping gifts. For the holiday issue, The Beachcomber chose to profile what one church on Vashon is doing at Christmastime. The story that emerged was one about the plight of West Africa, a place where Christmas will be very different this year.

Liberia was just beginning to recover from a civil war that ravaged the country when the Ebola crisis hit. Now, Liberians are trying desperately to care for their sick and stop the virus in a nation that is in disarray, lacking a

stable economy and solid infrastructure. When the epidemic came, there were just 40 doctors in the whole country and no ambulances. In many places, food and simple medical supplies are hard to come by. Many of

those caring for family members or others have no good way to protect themselves from Ebola. The need is so great that the Vashon Lutheran Church, which typically chooses a charity to support each Christmas season, decided to focus their efforts this winter on bolstering the fight against the deadly disease.

George Everett, a Liberian American and acquaintance of the Presbyterian church’s pastor, knows better than anyone the heartbreak West Africa has experienced this year and the battle it still wages. In an interview with The Beachcomber, he told of losing several family members in the civil war and then losing several more to Ebola. Everett is now begging Seattle to donate what Liberians are desper-ately in need of: rubber gloves, bleach, hospital beds and money for food. Presbyterian church members realize they can’t do a lot to stop Ebola, but they can help the people who are on the front lines fighting the disease. They’re working to collect medical gloves and to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.

George Everett’s story and Liberia’s desperate need to stop its epidemic puts our own “needs” in perspective this winter. In the U.S., we crave many things during the holi-day. In Liberia, however, a holiday need is simply a pair of rubber gloves to protect someone bravely fighting Ebola.

This Christmas, keep West Africa in your thoughts, and when you’re out doing some post-holiday shopping or returns, consider picking up a box of gloves.

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Liberian’s story puts our holiday needs in perspective

Many of those caring for family members or others have no good way to protect themselves from Ebola.

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“It might be dry, but least he’s not wasting away up there.”

By NANCE SCOTT

Suicide preventionAll students are at risk

I’d like to commend the school district’s recent recognition of the state of our young people (“Schools begin wide suicide prevention effort,” Dec. 17). One thing still worries me, however: the use of the term “at-risk stu-dents.”

All students are at risk, espe-cially in a small town like Vashon. Not only does everyone have a nose in your business, but the bus service is laughable, and there’s no real outlet for the average student to blow off steam — even with reliable transportation.

So, school administrators, I give you my piece of advice. Don’t just focus on the C student being raised by a single parent, or the sophomore who’s failed algebra for the millionth time. That popu-lar girl with all the friends, the first-chair saxophone player with dreams of Juilliard or that over-achieving student with the crazy

class load are just as likely to have issues. Treat all of your students with care. Any one of them could be taken from us far too soon.

— Lydia Butler, Vashon High School class of 2003

Schools should stop teaching evolution

“Suicide Prevention” curricu-lum in the schools sounds like a good idea, but it faces a huge hurdle. The biology departments in most schools teach evolution. One conclusion of evolution is that this universe, this life, and students’ lives in particular are all a complete, meaningless acci-dent, the result of pure chance. As author and former islander Frank Peretti summarized it years ago, Evolution teaches, “From goo to you by way of the zoo.” He pointed out that condi-tioning children to believe that they are nothing but meaning-less blips on the universe’s radar makes it pointless then to send

them to a class on self-esteem.

— Peter Thalhofer

The holidaysSupport our museum by visiting

I’m writing to remind readers to visit the Vashon heritage museum during the holidays. It’s open from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday, except Christmas. It’s a not-to-be missed and intriguing experience.

An extraordinary exhibit, “Vashon’s Native People, Navigating Seas of Change,” has drawn visitors from around the region to witness the insight-ful story of native islanders. You simply can’t look at our shoreline with the same eyes after learning about how native people inhabited its shores for centuries and used its natural resources. This story is central to the cultural heritage of the Salish Sea region, and

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The isolation of island life seems more pro-nounced at the holidays, mostly in really good ways. As Southcenter Mall beck-ons, I hug trees. It’s not like me to hug trees, but it helps.

Every year, beginning just after Thanksgiving, I undergo a month-long, recurring pattern of invol-untary pre-Christmas bodily reactions: recoil, nausea, flinch, repeat. Yes, it’s the commercialism, but also the subtly different gift-buying obligation. I get all Scroogy.

I pretty much blow off all the small children, in-laws and neighbors for whom I should be shop-ping. Then I flail about at the last minute, grasp-ing at tacky trinkets, and fail miserably, which as a Catholic boy who married a Jewish girl, fits perfectly into both our families’ guilt-encouraging tradi-tions.

My counterintuitive solution to this personal Noel malaise is to buy gifts for myself. Last Christmas, I gave myself a new iPhone, a device which I regard, without shame, as critical to life on Vashon. Maybe this is true for you, too?

My smarty-pants iPhone provides me with the con-tinuing illusion that I don’t live on a remote, sparsely populated, password-pro-tected island. It gives me access to the outer world, where people care about fashion, being on time and car hygiene.

Recently, my Google iPhone app came out with

voice-acti-vated search, which is won-der-fully conve-nient

for people who swoon at the sound of their own voice. So it was with enthu-siasm that last week, in advance of Stormageddon, I asked Google to “Call Vashon Electric.”

“Calling Vashon Electric,” she replied (why is the phone a she?). A guy answered, “Hello?” after one ring. “Is this Vashon Electric?” I asked. “Yup,” he replied. I proceeded to explain how I needed to remember how my genera-tor-to-breaker connection thing worked, and could he quickly review it with me on the phone?

In the midst of talking me through it, he asked

my name and when he had done the work. I told him, but he said he couldn’t find my name in his system. Where had he done the work? “Where?” I replied. “On Vashon, of course.”

“This is Vachon Electric, in New Hampshire,” he said. I think I started laughing, then apologizing, then laughing again. “Hey, no worries,” he said. “I’m happy to walk you through your generator hookup.”

If he’d been here I would have given him a kiss, a bro hug and some jam. But he wasn’t here; he was 3,000 miles away and three hours later into his evening. Christmas spirit and generosity from New Hampshire, where after all, the state motto is “Live Free or Die.”

The very next day, I told Google to call Oriole Fabrics in New York City, from whom I needed to purchase 100 yards of dia-mond white bridal tulle (I know, right?).

“Calling Oriole Fabrics,” she chirped. A guy answered. “Hello, Oriole

Fabrics,” he said, like a statement, not an invita-tion. “In New York City?” I enthused. “Yeah, so?” I smiled to myself and explained my purchase and shipping needs. “That’s $112 plus shipping.” “And how much is shipping?” I asked. “What do you care?!” he barked. Taken aback, I stammered “Well, I want to know how much shipping costs...” know-ing that was redundant. “Why? You gotta pay shipping anyway. What, you gonna not buy it if it’s too much?!” I was getting annoyed, or confused, or something. “Well, if it’s going to cost $200 to ship, yes, actually, I might not buy it!”

“You’re being ridicu-lous.” he said.

I regrouped, then screamed “I LOVE NEW YORK!” There was a long pause, after which, clearly bored, he said, “So you want it, or not?”

“Yes, fantastic! I want it!” I don’t know what his impression of me was, but I’m pretty sure I sounded

like an alien fruitcake. The New York motto is “Excelsior,” whatever that means.

The two calls were so similarly hilarious and bizarre, and came in such close succession, I figured it must mean something and that meaning would be perfect for the last para-graph of this column.

But alas, I have no idea what to make of it, except that within a mere 24 hours, I’d connected with two strangers from foreign lands and loved the feeling of a big, generous, crack-ling world out there.

It’s the holidays, and out here on the edge of the continent, that’s a nice feeling.

— Kevin Joyce is a writer, humorist and father who

lives on Vashon.

Long-distance calls reveal who is naughty and niceISLAND WAYSBy KEVIN JOYCE

Vashon Lutheran Christmas Eve Services5:00 PM – Candlelight, Lessons & Traditional Carols

11:00 PM – Candlelight, Lessons & Carols (with communion)Hear local instrumentalists, sing your favorite carols and enjoy the Christmas story.

Church located at 18623 Vashon Hwy SW, Vashon, WA 98070, 206/463-2655

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There will be no meeting this Thursday or next.

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everyone, especially every student, should have a chance to visit this exhibit before March 15, the clos-ing date.

The vibrant exhibit design marks an excit-ing change in the visitor experience. Graphics, color, furnishings, methodology, technology — everything about how fascinating sto-ries will be presented in the future is illustrated in this exhibit. Exciting plans to upgrade the permanent exhibit are being laid as I write.

Did I mention the staff is all-volunteer?

As an organization, VMIHA is endowed with a generous character, the reflection of the “give it forward” attitude of the all-volunteer staff and mem-bership. VMIHA’s donors (including King County 4Culture) contributed with great generosity — under-writing general operations, sponsoring exhibits, events and programs, or par-ticipating in the campus expansion. In 2014, almost 100 volunteers pitched in to operate and support the Heritage Museum. Volunteers gave hundreds of hours greeting over 3000 visitors, caring for artifacts, designing and mounting exhibits, offering educa-tional programs, seeing to all the details involved in operations and upkeep.

Thank goodness that we have a Heritage Museum to tell our shared story. Thank goodness for the many ded-icated volunteers and gener-ous donors who made 2014 a transformative year.

— Deb Phillimore Dammann

Heritage Association president

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It’s funny how looking back on Christmases past, it’s not the moments you think you would remember that make the most impact. Having a Christmas tree has always been one of my favorite traditions. I loved the lights. As a girl I spent hours curled up on the couch under a blanket enjoying the twinkling of the colored glow. But the tree I remember most was not for the time spent by its side, it was for the short few moments of its astonishing exit.

Our family tradition was to go to a local farm every year, pick our tree straight out of the wild, chop it down and bring it home. My mother remembers that year as the one she finally got the height just per-fect, but the width completely wrong.

“It’s hard to judge the size of a tree when it’s surrounded by even bigger trees grow-ing in the wild,” she told me years later. “I was so proud of myself that year for finally figuring out the perhaps now obvious notion that I could choose the tree based on my own height.” For once, we got a tree that she didn’t have to saw the top off of to fit into our home. Unfortunately, though it wouldn’t knick the ceiling, it also wouldn’t fit through the front door.

“Little fatty tree,” as we have now come to call it, was just short of 6 feet tall, but huge around the middle.

“When I stretched my arms out,” my mom said, “they didn’t even go halfway around the tree. It must have been over 10

feet around.” It wouldn’t fit

through the front door, so my mother came up with an alterna-tive plan: Pass the tree through the living room windows.

I was about 6 years old at the time. I didn’t

have enough Christmases under my belt to know that for most people, getting their tree into the living room didn’t involve opening windows, taking screens off in the cold December air and shoving the tree through the opening. I guess at the time I thought it was normal.

My mother bought five extra sets of lights just to outfit the circumference. But it wasn’t the illumination that made it so memorable.

First of all, it stayed up forever. I didn’t know then, but that was because my moth-er was trying to figure out the best way to get it out of our house. Finally, she just wrapped it in old bed sheets and yanked it through the front door and down the hall. I was standing by the door watching when I noticed the trail. In its wake, the tree was

leaving a veritable carpet of green needles. “Mom! Stop! It’s trailing needles over

the whole hallway!” I shouted to her.“I know,” she grunted back in an unhap-

py but knowing tone.It got worse the farther she went. What

had been just a trickle through our living room was now turning into a flood as she moved forward. Loosened from their forceful exit through the 3-foot-wide door, craving release from their too-long stance in our Christmas tree stand, it seemed like every needle on “little fatty” had come loose. The sheets intended to keep in the needles offered no help. They just held the needles for a moment before pouring them out the back end to the floor. I remember my jaw actually dropped as I watched her pull that thing up the stairs and heard the hard rain of needles falling through the stair slats to the rug below.

I stood there by our apartment door mortified. I envisioned every person who entered into the apartment building say-ing, “Who made this mess?” and then fol-lowing it directly to our door. It was like a plush green carpet leading straight to us, probably the only family in the whole

place who had kept their Christmas tree up so long past the Yuletide glow.

Today, I have the utmost appreciation for that tree in particular. I find it funny that this is the one I remember most. But what I like best about that tree is how it just keeps on giving. All of these years

later, my mother and I can’t stop laughing when we talk about that tree. We reminisce about shoving that tree through the win-dows with a giggle. By the time we get to the part of the story where I’m stand-

ing by the door and she’s lugging the thing through the hallway, both of us are breath-less with mirth. When she mentions that the tree actually wore holes in the sheets, I practically cry tears of hilarity.

Sometimes, she’ll conclude with a sigh, “It was a beautiful tree though.” But the truth is, it’s not always the most beautiful moments you remember most, or the most sweet and cozy experiences you’ve made. But in my eyes, if it still makes you laugh 30 years later that was a tree worth having, and definitely one fat success.

— Aimée Cartier is an author, psychic and speaker who lives on Vashon.

HOLIDAY MEMORIESBy AIMEE CARTIER

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HOLIDAY SERVICES

Vashon Lutheran Church: The church will host two services of candlelight, lessons and carols. The later service will include com-munion. 5 and 11 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, at the Lutheran church.

Vashon Island Commu-nity Church: The Christmas Eve candlelight service will be family friendly. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, at Vashon Island Community Church, 9318 Cemetery Rd.

Church of the Holy Spirit (Note Time Change for Christmas Day Service): Community Christmas pageant at 7 p.m.; Holy Eucharist and sermon at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 24. Christmas Day Holy Eucharist and sermon at 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 25, at the Church of the Holy Spirit.

Vashon Presbyterian Church: Candlelight service with dedica-tion of medical supplies and financial offerings to combat West Africa’s Ebola epidemic at 10 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, at the Presby-terian church.

ONGOING

Recycle Old Holiday Lights: Drop off old holiday lights for re-cycling at the Puget Sound Energy office in town from now through Dec. 31.

Request for Donations to Combat Ebola Epidemic in West Africa: The Vashon Presbyterian Church is requesting donations of packaged, medical-grade vinyl or latex gloves to include in a container of supplies to be shipped to Liberia. For more information or to make a donation, contact the church office at 463-2010. (See story, page 1.)

VARSA Community Attitudes Survey: To fulfill the requirements of its Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative (CPWI) grant, VARSA is asking island residents to take a community attitudes survey. The survey is anonymous, and the information gathered will be used in the group’s strategic planning process to respond to the issues faced by islanders. The survey is available in English and Spanish. Go to varsanetwork.org to take the survey.

Kindling Sale: Cured, hand-hewn cedar sticks are available for $5 per bundle at the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road.

WEDNESDAY • 24

Christmas Eve Dinner: Members of the Jewish community will cook and serve a special Christmas din-ner as part of the free community meals program. 5:30 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Spirit.

SUNDAY • 28

Unitarian Service: The fellow-ship will glance back at past joys and sorrows and will formulate hopes, dreams, wishes and goals for the coming year. Programs for children and youth are also available. 9:45 a.m. in Lewis Hall behind Burton Community Church.

Lutheran Church Carol Sing: This service could be the last chance to sing everyone’s favorite Christmas carols before the new year. Coffee and cookies will be served. 10:30 a.m. at Vashon Lu-theran Church.

Audition for Drama Dock: Audi-tions will be held for Drama Dock’s spring production of “The Curious Savage,” a comedic play that calls conventional definitions of sanity into question and lampoons celeb-rity culture. The play will need six women and five men, from age 20 to 70, and a production team. The show will run for two weekends in March. There are two copies of the script at the Vashon Library. For more information or to request a copy of the script via email, email Michael Barker at lavidaverde51@gmail.com. 2 to 5 p.m. at the band room at McMurray Middle School. (Auditions will also be held from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 4.)

Continuing Conversations: Travellers and would-be travel-lers should come with stories and questions for Beverly Skeffington, a home-based travel agent. For more information, call 707-4696. 4 to 6 p.m. at 10127 Burton Dr.

MONDAY • 29

Senator Sharon Nelson on KVSH: Eric Pryne, host of Island Crossroads on KVSH, will interview Washington state Senate Minority Leader and Maury Island resident Sharon Nelson about local island issues. 7 p.m. on KVSH 101.9 FM.

TUESDAY • 30

Life Story Exchange Circle:Bette Kimmel will guide the storytelling, and all are welcome to come and share or just listen. 1 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road.

UPCOMING

Labyrinth Walk: All island-ers are invited to join the 14th annual Walk for Peace on New Year’s Eve. There will be a burning bowl for those who wish to bring their intentions for the upcom-

ing year, releasing that which has held them back in the past. For more information, contact Betty Hawkins at 463-5062. 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, at the labyrinth at the north end of the Church of the Holy Spirit grounds.

Dinner and Dancing at the Golf and Swim Club: The Vashon Golf and Swim Club will host a special menu for New Year’s Eve dinner, with live music by Stray Dog (Steve Amsden, Pat Reardon, Dan Bruce, Dan Brown and Diane Krouse). The cost is $45 per person. Dinner will be served from 5 to 8 p.m. and dancing starts at 8 p.m., Wednes-day, Dec. 31, at the Club.

Sci-Fi Sunday: January’s showing for the Chicken Soup Brigade, part of the Lifelong AIDS Alliance, is the black and white classic “The Thing From Another World” (1951). Starring Margaret Sheridan, Ken-neth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer and James Ar-ness, it is widely considered one of the greatest science fiction films of the 1950s. Admission is by a suggested donation of $5 to $10 or non-perishable food items. 1:30 p.m. at the Vashon Theatre.

Opera Preview with Norm Hollingshead: The Friends of the Vashon Library will sponsor this sneak peek at Puccini’s “Tosca.” Hollingshead will explore this 19th-century melodrama that brings torture, murder and suicide to the stage along with several of the composer’s best-known lyrical arias. 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, at the Vashon Library.

CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

Magrath Sculpture Studio: Mike Magrath will offer a Fundamentals of Figure Drawing class in the new year. The class includes five eve-nings of instruction and costs $225 per person. For more information and to register, go to magraths-culpture.com. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Jan. 5, 7, 12, 19 and 21, at Magrath Sculpture Studio, 8805 159th St.

Improv Workshop: Michael Barker will lead this weekly foray into thinking on one’s feet and jumping off the cliffs of comedy. The cost is $40 per month. For more information, contact Barker at lavidaverde51@gmail.com or call 321-5732. 7 to 9 p.m. Monday evenings, starting Jan. 5, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

Financial Peace University: This nine-week Dave Ramsey class hosted by Gene and Jan Kuhns will

present biblical, practical steps to get rid of debt, control spending, save wisely and give generously. For more information and to reg-ister, go to daveramsey.com or call Gene Kuhns at 552-4677. 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, starting Jan. 8, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ meeting house.

Weaving Essentials Workshop: Sue Willingham and her daughter Janet Dawson will teach a five-day intensive weaving essentials work-shop for those who want to learn to weave or would like to brush up on their skills. The workshop will include formal instruction from two experienced teachers as well as supervised weaving. The cost is $415 plus materials, and space is limited to eight students. For more information and to register, go to weaverspalette.com. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, through Friday, Jan. 30, at the Willingham Weavery.

Islanders of all ages are invit-ed to celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Open Space, as Club O plans to mark the new year four times, starting at 9 p.m. (midnight in New York) and moving westward through the time zones. Dress up for a costume ball or come as you are. There will be confetti and surprises, as well as the usual Club O teen VIP room, light show, kids’ play area and music into the wee hours by dee-jay MirageSix and deejay Whitmore, pictured here at left. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for kids and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. 7 p.m. at the Open Space for Arts & Community.File Photo

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BRING IN THE NEW YEAR AT CLUB-O

VASHON THEATRE

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: Plays through Jan. 1.

See vashontheatre.com for show times or call 463-3232.

PUBLIC MEETINGS

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, at station 55.

FREE COMMUNITY MEALSVolunteers serve free meals seven days a week on Vashon. All people are welcome at the meals, which are served at 5:30 p.m. Monday through Sat-urday and at 1 p.m. Sunday at the following locations. For more information about the meals program, contact Harmon Arroyo at 351-1441 or at luckyharmon2010@gmail.com.

Monday, Methodist church

Tuesday, Presbyterian churchWednesday, Church of the Holy Spirit (Christmas dinner, cooked and served by members of the Jewish community).

Thursday, Presbyterian church

Friday, Lutheran church

Saturday, Methodist church

Sunday, Methodist church

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ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury RUMOR HAS IT: The island band Rumor Has It will rock the Red Bike at 8 p.m. on Friday. The band

calls its sound “stringband rock,” a musical stew of bluegrass rock, Motown, Celtic rock, rock and roll and reggae that caters to all kinds of dancing. The show is free and open to all ages until 11 p.m., then 21 and older after that.

By SUSAN MCCABEFor The Beachcomber

If laughter is good for digestion, then Drama Dock’s current production of “Inspecting Carol” is the perfect dessert after a big holiday meal. Directed by Drama Dock veteran Chaim Rosemarin, this repeat performance of Daniel Sullivan’s 1991 farce is becoming a seasonal classic for Vashon’s community theater company.

Timing is the lifeblood of successful comedy, and Rosemarin clearly used the troupe’s rather abbreviated rehearsal time to nail the actors’ comic timing. So even if lines are missed and props malfunction, the show main-tains its winning comic pace. And because the plot is about theatrical mishaps, we in the audience never know the difference between real and scripted mishaps.

The play tells the tale of a small professional theater company in a midsize U.S. city that is desperate to sustain its dwindling funding with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The entire company turns to groveling of one sort or another when they mis-take a would-be actor craving an audition for an informer from the NEA.

This year’s production takes advantage of some of Drama Dock’s most seasoned players, while it adds the energy of a few newbies to the ensemble. The resulting mix is a laugh-out-loud slapstick satire sure to pull a smile from the most obstinate of Scrooges.

Everyone in the cast of “Inspecting Carol” is clearly having a good time, and none more than veteran Rich Wiley as the wannabe actor around whom the farcical plot turns. Wiley’s character morphs from witless to — dare I say it? — wily as he discovers the power bestowed upon him by an accident of mistaken identity.

Dianna Ammon is over-the-top as the high-strung, eccentric director/producer of the struggling little theatre company willing to do anything to save her enterprise. Sue DeNies is wickedly witty as the company’s stage man-ager/human cattle prod and Pete Kreitner shows his softer side as the hapless victim of Ammon’s many charms.

Gordon Millar and Patricia Kelly add comic sparkle as a clueless pair of theatrical has-beens.

Drama Dock newcomer Steven Tosterud makes the obnoxious likable and hilarious as the radical actor and aspiring playwright who nearly scuttles the company’s entire performance with his injections of social commen-tary. In his maiden stage role and diversion from stand-up comedy, Richard Moore is ably deadpan as the token minority cast member beleaguered by the company’s unconscious cultural ignorance. And Daniel Macca’s pre-miere Drama Dock performance as the company’s fraught business manager moves skillfully from tentative to hys-terical with natural comic flare.

Supporting cast members Duncan Barlow, Kristen Wahanik and Zoe Barlow each prove there are no small parts in any play as they contribute personal panache to each of their characters.

Max Lopuszynski moves backstage as the play’s real- life stage manager and is capably supported by Michael Barker’s lighting design. Dom Wolczko is on sound, and Holly Godard, Trudy Rosemarin, Jenn Reidel and Boo Dinan-Slack are on production, promotion and advertis-ing. Set design is by Michael Densmore.

Drama Dock’s 2014 version of “Inspecting Carol” proves the benefit of reinvention via repetition. In so doing, it offers a delightfully offbeat 90-minute cup of holiday cheer.

The Red Bike will have music and dancingOn Wednesday night at 9 p.m. Loose Change, a long-

time favorite Vashon band, will welcome the new year with non-stop dancing tunes. The band’s leader and vocalist Troy Kindred will be joined by two female sing-ers and backed by a tight 10-piece band that includes the big organ sound of keyboards, lead guitar, bass and drums and a dynamic three-piece horn section. This free

show is open to all ages until 11 p.m., then only 21 and older.

There will be dancing for all ages at O SpaceOpen Space for Arts & Community’s Club O invites

islanders and visitors of all ages to welcome 2015 with family and friends beginning at 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Deejays Michael Whitmore and Marcus Fellbaum will play music that spans decades, from rock and roll to the latest hits, using both vinyl records and a digital format. Club O offers lights, lasers and fog machines, a special VIP teen section and shadow dancing in a light box. Folks are encouraged to dress up in fancy clothes or cos-tumes. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Dine and dance at the Golf & Swim ClubCelebrate New Year’s Eve with music by Stray Dog —

with Steve Amsden, Pat Reardon, Dan Bruce, Dan Brown and Dianne Krouse — and a special dinner. Dinner starts at 5 p.m., and the cost is $45 per person. Music will begin at 7, with dancing starting at 8 p.m.

Hardware Store will offer dinner and musicNew Year’s Eve at the Hardware Store Restaurant will

offer a special dinner, live music by Daryl Redeker and a complimentary glass of champagne. Redeker will per-form from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

EnJoy will entertain in TacomaIslanders Martha Enson and Kevin Joyce will play a

key role this year in First Night Tacoma, the large New Year’s Eve celebration in downtown Tacoma. Through their company EnJoy Productions, Enson and Joyce have created several pieces of entertainment for the family-friendly celebration, including the World’s Shortest Parade and an Alice in Wonderland Meets Day of the Dead street performance. Each year the event includes a world record attempt, which in past years has attracted as many as 30,000 people. This year EnJoy was put in charge of that portion of the night and will to attempt to break the world record for the most brides blowing bubbles at the same time. Joyce said organizers are asking people to show up in wedding gowns ready to participate.

“Both female and male brides are encouraged,” he said in a press release. “We’re hoping a ton of folks go pick up a bridal gown from a thrift shop, or wear their own!”

First Night Tacoma is an arts-centered, alcohol-free New Year’s Eve celebration that begins at 6 p.m. with a parade and culminates with a midnight countdown and fire show. There are performances throughout the evening, including some by Vashon musicians. For more information, see firstnighttacoma.org.

Review: Drama Dock tickles the holiday funny bone

Photo by Jenn Reidel

Veteran Drama Dock actors are joined by a crew of fresh faces in the holiday farce “Inspecting Carol,” this weekend at the Blue Heron.

Please note: Some dialogue in the play contains language for mature audiences. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 26, and Saturday, Dec. 27. The matinee will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 28.Tickets are $15 for adults, and $12 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at the Blue Heron, Heron’s Nest and at the door, depending upon availability.

Events are plentiful for ringing in the New Year

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The band Loose Change will perform at the Red Bike on New Year’s Eve.

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“I like painting what we are used to, noticing things we don’t necessarily always notice,” she said. “I don’t usually paint landscapes because they are already so beautiful, so painting Mt. Rainier for this show was weird. I focus on things like the bathroom sink, things we don’t think have beauty.”

Ingalls comes by her artistic talent through diligence, discipline and hard work, but being the child of an art pro-fessor and graphic artist probably didn’t hurt. She admits her artistic seed was planted early. Born in Spokane, where her father started the art department at Gonzaga University, Ingalls recalled growing up in her father’s department “with great smells of paint and lots of materials to play with.” She graduated with a degree in art from Gonzaga and spent a year abroad studying art at the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy.

Yet post college, art took a back seat to Ingalls’ other passion: social justice. When she was 24, Ingalls completed what she calls a peace walk.

“It was a pilgrimage, and we walked across the U.S. and Europe, ending in Bethlehem,” she said.

Back in the U.S., Ingalls became a Jesuit volunteer and helped the elderly in Seattle’s Central District. To support her social justice efforts, she worked for her parents, who originated the tourist maps familiar to many visitors of Seattle and other cities around the globe. After she mar-ried, Ingalls and her husband moved to Chehalis, where they lived in an intentional community dedicated to peace. When her then husband got a job at K2, Ingalls jumped at the chance to come to Vashon.

“Sure I’ll go! Where is it?” Ingalls said, recalling the moment with a laugh. “I loved Vashon right away. But then who doesn’t?”

It was in a small shed outside her new home on Vashon that Ingalls finally pursued her art. She painted Seattle’s street people in an attempt to connect social justice with art, and she opened her first show in 1987 at the Blue Heron. The late artist Joe Petta hung Ingalls’ work there and encouraged Ingalls to keep painting. She acted on his advice, but after producing enough canvases for four more shows that same

year, Ingalls needed time to reassess. “I didn’t know what I was doing,” she said. “I wondered,

‘Is this my parents’ dream or mine?’”So she took a break from painting and built a house with

her father-in-law. Eventually, after finishing the house, Ingalls said she came to grips with both her art and her par-ents, figuring she had better “just go for it.” She quit her job glazing tiles for Irene Otis and spent her savings on a plane ticket to New York to study under artist Frederick Frank, the author of “The Zen of Seeing.”

That decision set in motion her artistic commitment. She began to draw every day. And like the proverb that states, “When the student is ready, then the teacher will appear,” Ingalls said she soon met — and trained with for three years — her master teacher, Ron Lukus, a former student of the Russian impressionist Sergei Bongart.

Today, Ingalls’ work hangs on gallery walls in Edmonds and Bainbridge, as well as Santa Fe, Denver and Fredericksburg, Texas. She generally has two or three gal-lery shows a year, plus the two island studio tours. She also teaches workshops around the country, including one that will begin at the Blue Heron in January .

“People say to me, ‘You are so prolific,’” she said. “But I say this is what I do. You don’t say to a plumber, ‘Gee, you’ve

done a lot of sinks this year.’ How I think of it is I just paint.”And paint she does, sometimes all over the globe. Her

social justice portrait series “Facing The World,” has taken Ingalls to India, Guatamala, New Zealand, Kenya, Jamaica, Gnome and New York City, where she once painted every-body in one apartment building.

“I like to paint portraits to connect people … so we’ll begin to see that even people we’ve never heard of are just living out their lives like we are and more likely to believe the best of them, whether they live on the other side of the world, or even next door,” Inglalls said. “We’ll be less likely to support a war with them, or with any one else, for that matter. I hope my portraits are another thread of peace that connects one person to another, one community to another.”

Ingalls said she doesn’t need to travel to find faces, that every community is fascinating, but her dream is to have painted portraits on all seven continents.

If social justice informs her art, then spirituality, Ingalls said, supports it. She has done Vipassana meditation for 27 years.

“I try to meditate two hours every day,” she said. “If I can do that, then I can paint the long hours. The benefits are amazing.”

Looking around the Hardware Store Restaurant, a cer-tain harmonious quality pervades Ingalls’ collection. That comes from the “luscious and forgiving” oils she paints with, she explained, and from her limited palette — she uses one yellow, two reds, two blues, a black and a white. It also emanates from the light reflecting on her chosen subject, something the artist first captures on video. Her technique is to watch film of her subject, then stop the video and paint from a particular frame, as she believes video captures light, movement and people better than still photography.

An eager islander interrupted Ingalls’ explanation about her technique, saying she thought Ingalls should turn the show into a children’s book. Ingalls graciously accepted the compliment and told her fan that she and Annie Brule, a for-mer islander, plan to make an “ABCs of Vashon” coffee-table book, with a narrative written by islander Tom Conway.

It was a Vashon moment, and Ingalls knew it.“There are so many people who support the arts here,”

she said. “They buy art; they go to concerts and enjoy plays. And the many artists are supportive of each other. I feel so lucky to live here. I don’t think I could have blossomed in another place.”

ARTISTCONTINUED FROM 1

Ingalls’ current show features scenes of Vashon, including this painting of an evening ferry run.

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The Pirate boys varsity basketball team is off to a hot start and is cur-rently undefeated through five games.

The team has high aspirations for this season and is one of the top 1A teams in the state. Coach Andy Sears has put a team with strong leadership and ability on the floor, paced by four-year starters and seniors Jessie Norton and Ian Stewart, two-year returning starter junior Sam Yates, and return-ing starters senior Darrin May-Power and junior Sam Schoenberg. Key reserves are senior Steen Jennings, junior Alex Symbol, sophomore Caspar Forrest, junior Josh Tillman, junior Sean Delargy, and junior Edgar Polkat.

In Vashon’s first game of the sea-son on Dec. 3 against Granite Falls, Vashon won 74-42.

The Pirates had a balanced scoring attack with three players in double figures. Effective team defensive pres-sure and rebounding were keys to the win with several players contributing. Scoring totals: Norton 18, Yates 18, Forrest 12, Jennings 8, Schoenberg 7, Tillman 4, Symbol 4, Stewart 2, May-Power 1.

The next day at home, Vashon defeated Sultan 63-38.

The Pirates jumped all over the Turks from Sultan with a swarming full court press led by senior guard, Ian Stewart. The pressure blew this one open early. Scoring totals: Norton 23, Forrest 13, Yates 10, Stewart 8, Schoenberg 3, Delargy 3, Symbol 2, Tillman 1.

On Dec. 6, Vashon Island defeated Kennedy High School 51-50 at the Tip Off Classic at Auburn Riverside High School.

This was a big test for the Pirates, playing against a very tough and undefeated 3A division school. The

Pirates trailed up until the final sec-onds, but finished off the Lancers with huge buckets and defensive stops down the stretch, capped by two clutch free throws by Norton with 7 seconds to go for the win. Norton was named Player of the Game. Scoring totals: Norton 32, Yates 12, Symbol 4, Forrest 2, Schoenberg 1.

On Dec. 13, Vashon defeated Hazen High School, 54-44, at Highline Community College.

Hazen came in undefeated and with a highly touted line-up complete with a D1 recruit signed to play at Arizona State. The Pirates were more than equal to the challenge and exploded to a 21-7 first quarter lead paced by Norton with 17 points in the quarter. Things tightened up a bit in the sec-ond half, but the boys showed a high level of team trust and finished strong. Norton also added nine rebounds and was again named player of the game.

Scoring totals: Norton 29, Yates 9, Schoenberg 6, Stewart 4, May-Power 4, Symbol 2.

On Dec. 16, Vashon defeated Seattle Academy, 48-38, at home.

The Pirates faced a scrappy 1A state contender from last year in this game. It was a hard-fought contest, but by sheer force of will and determination, the Pirates outlasted the challenge and got the win. The Green Tide was definitely in and loud, which pro-vided a home court advantage that is crucial. The players and coaches very much appreciate all the support. Scoring totals: Norton 23, Stewart 8, Schoenberg 6, Symbol 4, Delargy 2, Forrest 2, May-Power 2, Yates 1.

The next home game is at 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, against St. Michael’s University School of British Columbia.

— James Norton is the father of a Pirate basketball player.

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In the nail-biter game against Granite Falls, the Pirates huddle up. The team went on to win, 51-50, in the last seconds of the game.

Girls’ basketball team notches first win

The Vashon High School girls’ basketball team earned its first win of the season last week at home against the Klahowya Secondary School Eagles from Silverdale, 45-43.

The game got off to a slow start for the Pirates, as they fell behind 10-2 just three minutes into the game. But sophomore Eva Anderson soon found the hot hand, scor-ing several field goals to get the Pirates within 2 points before the Eagles went on a short run to make the score 18-10 at the end of the first quarter. The Pirates came alive offensively, while Anderson and Siena Jannetty both made several timely baskets to get within one point at the half, 28-27.

After halftime, the shooting cooled off for both teams, along with several turnovers being committed each way, but the Pirates outscored the Eagles 8-2 to take a 35-30 lead at the end of three. The Pirates extended their lead to eight early in the fourth quarter, but the Eagles bounced back to make it a two-point game at 41-39 with four min-utes remaining. From there it was a nail biter as the girls fought hard to maintain their lead, which they did as they finally prevailed by 2 points.

The Pirates were led in scoring by Anderson with 15, Jannetty with 14, while Melanie Stoffer and Annika Hille each added 6. Kate Atwell pulled down 8 rebounds, while Hille, Jannetty and Lilly Hennessey each grabbed 6.

— Joel Hille is the father of a Pirate player.

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The Vashon wrestling team made the long cross-state trip to the prestigious Tri-State Tournament in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on Dec. 19 and 20. This year, a record 10 grapplers competed for the Pirates in the massive tournament.

Shane Williams, Hunter Burger, Luke Larson, Chase Wickman, Chester Pruett, Logan Nelson, Preston Petersen, Ellis Petersen, Franklin Easton and Joe Coller all competed in the marathon 14-hour day one of wrestling. The Pirates fared well with many wrestlers winning at least one match, which at this tournament is no small feat. The brackets are huge, with over 40 entrants in some weight classes. The wrestlers who are invited are the best of the best in the Pacific Northwest.

Winning all their matches on day one were juniors Chase Wickman and Logan Nelson. Freshmen Hunter Burger and Luke

Larson fared well, each advancing to day two. Junior Chester Pruett lost his first match and won the next two battles before losing his fourth bout. Preston Petersen and Franklin Easton each won a match. Easton wrestled with the added handicap of the infamous Hannibal Lecter mask to protect a fractured nose suffered in practice earlier in the week.

An early publication deadline loomed before wrestling continued on Saturday, but a recap will follow next week.

Next on tap for the wrestling commu-nity will be the large Rock Tournament at Vashon High School on Tuesday, Dec. 30. Fifteen teams from around the state will be on hand for a full day of wrestling. The continuous action will kick off at 9 a.m., with the finals starting at approximately 5 p.m.

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1/03/15 4:00 PM St. Michael’s University H.S. Vashon Island HS1/06/15 6:00 PM @ Northwest School Northwest School1/09/15 5:30 PM Seattle Christian Schools Vashon Island HS1/13/15 8:00 PM @ Bellevue Christian School Bellevue Christian HS1/20/15 5:30 PM Cascade Christian School Vashon Island HS1/23/15 7:00 PM @ Charles Wright Academy Charles Wright Academy1/27/15 7:00 PM @ Seattle Christian Schools Seattle Christian HS1/30/15 7:15 PM Bellevue Christian School Vashon High School2/06/15 7:00 PM @ Cascade Christian School Cascade Christian HS2/10/15 7:15 PM Charles Wright Academy Vashon Island HS2/14/15 TBA @ District TBA2/21/15 TBA @ District TBA2/27/15 TBA @ Regionals TBA2/28/15 TBA @ Regionals TBA3/05/15 TBA @ State Yakima Sundome3/06/15 TBA @ State Yakima Sundome3/07/15 TBA @ State Yakima Sundome

1/03/15 2:30 PM Fife Vashon Island HS1/06/15 4:30 PM @ Northwest School Northwest School1/08/15 3:00 PM @ Fife Fife High School1/09/15 7:15 PM Seattle Christian School Chautauqua1/13/15 5:00 PM @ Bellevue Christian School Bellevue Christian HS1/20/15 7:15 PM Cascade Christian School Chautauqua1/23/15 5:15 PM @ Charles Wright Academy Charles Wright Academy1/30/15 5:30 PM Bellevue Christian School Chautauqua2/06/15 5:15 PM @ Cascade Christian School Cascade Christian HS2/10/15 5:30 PM Charles Wright Academy Chautauqua

12/29/14 04:15 PM @ Coupeville HS Coupeville HS1/02/15 05:15 PM @ Washington HS Washington HS1/07/15 06:00 PM Darrington Sr H S Vashon Island HS1/09/15 07:15 PM Seattle Christian Schools, WA Vashon Island HS1/13/15 06:30 PM @ Bellevue Christian School, WA Bellevue Christian HS1/17/15 07:15 PM Chimacum HS Vashon Island HS1/20/15 07:15 PM Cascade Christian School Vashon Island HS1/23/15 05:15 PM @ Charles Wright Academy Charles Wright Academy1/27/15 05:15 PM @ Seattle Christian Schools Seattle Christian HS1/30/15 05:30 PM Bellevue Christian School, WA Vashon Island HS2/06/15 05:15 PM @ Cascade Christian School Cascade Christian HS2/10/15 05:30 PM Charles Wright Academy Vashon Island HS2/14/15 TBA @ Districts TBA2/21/15 TBA @  Districts TBA2/27/15 TBA @ Regionals TBA2/28/15 TBA @ Regionals TBA3/05/15 TBA @ State TBA

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Teams from McMurray Middle School placed well in the Math is Cool Masters competition in Moses Lake, Washington, in early December. The Masters event is considered the finals for a statewide competition for teams who have excelled in regional contests of skill in mathematics. Coached by David Derrer and Tom Rogers, the eighth grad-ers (pictured above, from left: Jacob White, Sarah Hotchkiss, Lars Cain and Colin Pottinger) took second place and the seventh graders (Alex Hitchcock, Hank Rogers, Sam Profit and Caz Cullimore) took third in their respective divisions.

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Dec. 5: An assault was reported on the 4600 block of Luana Beach Road.

A man with an outstand-ing warrant was found at the corner of Bank Road and Vashon Highway.

Dec. 8: Larceny was reported on the 12100 block of Cove Road where money was taken from a kitchen table in a hostel.

An aggressive dog was reported on the 7600 block of 257th Street.

Dec. 9: Threats were reported on the 9300 block of 156th Street.

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A burglary was reported on the 23500 block of 95th Place where a silver f lat-ware set was stolen.

Dec. 10: A fourth-degree domestic violence assault was reported in a neighbor-hood in the Paradise Ridge area.

Illegal dumping was reported as part of an ongo-ing landlord-tenant dispute and civil suit, on the 21700 block of 141st Avenue.

Dec. 11: A traffic com-plaint was received of cars driving too close to cyclists on Vashon Highway.

Dec. 12: An outstanding felony criminal warrant was served on the 17800 block of Vashon Highway.

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Vashon’s May Kitchen + Bar continues to make its mark on the national restaurant scene after being named last week as one of Open Table’s top 100 restaurants in the country.

Open Table, now a subsidiary of Priceline.com, is a real-time, online restaurant reservation service that was started in 1998. The service is free to diners, who are also able to comment on and review the restaurants they’ve patronized. The top 100 list was determined through an analysis of more than 5 million of these reviews of over 20,000 restau-rants across the country.

“It’s fantastic,” said Caleb Johns, lead server at May Kitchen + Bar, speaking on behalf of the restaurant. “What really stands out when you read the reviews is that it’s not just the food, it’s the staff too. There’s a great sense of hospi-tality, which is what sets it apart.”

The restaurant is also included in 11 local Open Table Diner’s Choice lists, in categories such as Best Overall Restaurant and Best Food in Seattle/Eastern Washington.

The reputation of May Chaleoy’s unassuming island eat-ery is growing fast as the Open Table recognition follows closely on the heels of a nod by Travel & Leisure magazine, which in June named May’s as one of the top 20 Thai res-taurants in the U.S.

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Milt Kranjcevich, age 82, died December 12, 2014, surrounded by his family. He was born on December 25, 1931, to Ivan and Eva (Roncev-ich) Kranjcevich in the Dockton house he called home for all of his life. He married Dorothy Virginia Linden (Binns) in November of 1959, and she and her three children then joined him in Dockton.

He served in the United States Army for two years during the Korean War.

Milt was employed at the Boeing Aerospace Company for 46 years working graveyard shift, surviving four massive layoff s and numerous strikes. During the day he drove a bus for the Vashon Island School District.

Th e Vashon Fire Department benefi ted from him for 50 years. He ranked Captain for most of his volunteer career. Fighting fi res, driving fi re trucks and aid cars were some of the many services Milt provided to the community of Vashon-Maury Island.

Farming, fi shing, mechanics of all sorts, cooking and collecting antique farm tractors were some of his interests. Driving those tractors (along with his dogs) in the Strawberry Festival Parade was a big part of his summers.

He was preceded in death by his wife Virginia, parents Ivan and Eva, brother John and sister Helen Brocard.

Milt is survived by his brothers, Tom and David, children Butch (Linda) Lin-den, Ron Barry (Nona) Linden, Beth (Dick) Alberthal, Mike (Natalie) Kran-jcevich, Pat (Terrie) Kranjcevich, Brett ( Jona) Kranjcevich, nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, many neices and nephews and three dogs.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday January 3, 2015, at 11:00am at the headquarters of Fire Station 55, located at 10020 SW Bank Road, Vashon, WA. 98070, with a reception to follow at the Vashon Sportsman’s Club off Cemetery Road.

Donations in Milt’s name can be made to Vashon Pet Protectors and/or Vashon Island Fire and Rescue.

Please visit our online guest book at www.islandfuneral.com

Milt Kranjcevich

this Christmas.”Earlier this year, as the Ebola epidemic

grew in West Africa, Houston said he felt moved to help. He eventually connected with George Everett, a Liberian American who is the pastor of a mostly Liberian church in Kent.

Everett moved to the Seattle area in 2003, when he and his family fled war-torn Liberia during its second civil war and were spon-sored by the Mercer Island Presbyterian Church. Everett had already lost several family members to the war, and when Ebola hit the country this year, he lost two nieces. His wife’s uncle, aunt and their five children all died from the disease as well.

As of last week, there were nearly 7,000 reported deaths from Ebola, with Liberia the hardest hit, according to the World Health Organization. Many in Everett’s congregation at Transcontinental Christian Ministries have lost family as well.

“All of us have been affected serious-ly,” Everett said in an interview with The Beachcomber.

Liberian Americans in the Seattle area — there are estimated to be about 1,000 — have tried to respond to the crisis. According to an article in the Seattle Times that features Everett, Liberians have raised money for aid, held carwashes, circulated information on Ebola amongst themselves and tried to educate relatives overseas on how to protect themselves against the disease.

“By ourselves, we can’t do anything much,” Everett said, explaining that his church eventually reached out to the Mercer Island Presbyterian Church to help with fundraising. He also got in touch a friend who is a top-ranking official with Liberia’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The pastor decided that the best way Seattleites could help was to donate medical supplies, which are badly needed in Liberia but for the most part are not available to purchase.

When the Ebola crisis hit, Everett explained, Libera was still recover-ing from the war.

“Things were kind of getting better until com-ing to the beginning of this year the Ebola crisis erupted in the country,” he said.

Liberia has a poor infrastructure, weak economy and little to offer in the way of medical care. Now just getting food is a challenge for many, Everett said.

“The challenges are so much. When the crisis started, the entire place had no ambu-lances,” he said, adding that there were also only 40 doctors in Liberia when the disease hit.

Using his connections, Everett secured a donation of 10 ambulances from a company in California and has shipped six of them to Liberia’s capital city, Monrovia. He’s now working to fill two shipping containers with medical supplies — particularly rub-ber gloves, bleach and hospital beds — to be delivered at the end of next month with the

help of CHUMA International, a Catholic organization that collects excess medical supplies and helped Everett get a heav-ily discounted shipping rate. Mercer Island Presbyterian committed to covering any shipping costs.

Everett explained that many Liberians are caring for Ebola patients, either in their home or in a clinic, with little protec-tion from the disease themselves. Some people are also afraid to take in or even

touch children who have been orphaned by the dis-ease for fear of catching Ebola. Providing rubber gloves will make it easier for Liberians to care for the sick and will also help prevent the spread of the disease.

“They have to use their bare hands to care for their loved ones. They

could contract the same disease,” Everett said. “The gloves are very essential.”

In February, Everett plans to f ly to Liberia, where the United Nations has said they will provide him with a truck to hand-deliver the supplies sent from Seattle. He’ll target rural areas where medical care and supplies are virtually nonexistent.

Everett said he is taking a risk by deliv-ering the supplies himself, but felt that if Americans and aid workers from other countries are willing to volunteer in West Africa, he should as well.

“It’s just the same feeling as those who are not from there, but are going in to help,” he said. “If they’re doing it for my people, I’m

willing to go in.”As of last week, Vashon’s Presbyterian

church had collected about 800 pairs of medical gloves for Everett’s effort, and Houston expected they would have many more by the Christmas Eve service, as peo-ple pick them up while Christmas shopping or buy them in bulk off-island. The church expects more than 100 people to attend the candlelight service, and a special offer-ing that evening will also go to Doctors Without Borders to help the organization fight Ebola in West Africa.

While Christmas may seem an unusual time to focus on Ebola, Houston said he actually compares the story of those fight-ing the epidemic to the story of Jesus, who Christians believe was also born into “a highly unideal situation,” he said, and took enormous risk to help others.

“There is no justice in the world or hope unless someone suffers to stand with those who are broken,” he said.

As for Everett, he said he’s simply grateful to those in the Seattle area who are helping, including Vashon Islanders. He plans to leave for Liberia in early February.

“I do it for God’s sake,” he said, “and to help the people of Liberia.”

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Vashon Presbyterian Church’s candlelight Christmas Eve service will be at 10 p.m. tonight, Dec. 24. The church will accept donations of medical-grade rubber gloves for the next few weeks. For infor-mation on donating, contact the church office at 463-2010.

“They have to use their bare hands to care for their loved ones. They could contract the same disease. The gloves are very essential.”

George EverettPastor of Transcontinental Christian Ministries

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Jack Kenneth SmithJack Kenneth Smith passed away peace-

fully on November 24, 2014 after a long illness with Alzheimer’s Disease. Jack was born in Seattle, WA in 1930 to Kenneth L. and Helen L. Smith. He was a proud graduate of West Seattle High School and the University of Washington where he earned a degree in Business. He served in the Army Air Corps and was stationed in Alaska. After returning home, he and his father opened Smitty’s Frozen Custard on Fauntleroy Way. In 1960, he married Mari-lyn Gardiner and they raised two daughters, Kelli and Kymberlee. Jack and Marilyn lived for many years in Alderwood Manor, while pursuing his career with Sears, before moving permanently to their vacation home on Vashon Island. Finally where he truly wanted to be, his beloved island, Jack spent many hours each day tending his garden, visiting with neighbors, and watching the activity on Puget Sound from the deck. Jack will be remembered for his love of teasing anyone and everyone, especially his grandchildren, and for summer parties at the island and for his love of dogs, which were always treated as fam-ily. Jack is survived by his wife Marilyn, daughters Kelli Smith (Dan Rankin), Kymberlee Bruton (Glen Bruton), and his grandchildren Emily Adams, Oliver Rankin and Benjamin Rankin.

Sheldon Saul FrankelOn December 12 , Sheldon Saul

Frankel died at home peacefully, with family by his side. He died of the lym-phoma that he had managed so capably for a number of years. Shelly was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on December 24, 1938 to Ira and Florence Frankel. He was raised in Connecticut and graduated from the University of Connecticut. He attended Boston University Law School where he obtained his JD and his LLM in tax. Shelly worked for the American Trial Lawyers Association in Boston and then moved to Ada, Ohio to begin his life-long career of teaching law. When the University of Puget Sound School of Law was founded he moved to Tacoma, Washington, where he taught until the Law School was transferred to Seattle University. He taught at Seattle University until his retirement. Over the years he kept in touch with his former students and was always proud of their accom-plishments. In 1991 he and his wife Carol moved to Vashon, where Shelly soon became part of the music community. He played bass fi ddle with Bob’s Garage, Riverbend, Swinging Strings and the Tune Tamers. He also sang in the Vashon Chorale.

Shelly is survived by his wife Carol, his sister Beverley of Tamrac, Florida, his daughters Jennifer Hurley and Cynthia Goodwin, of Seattle and his son David Frankel of Des Moines, Iowa; two stepdaughters, Sarah Merz of Stockton, California and Ruth Merz, of Beaverton, Oregon, and nine grandchildren.

Family and friends will celebrate Shelly’s life at a later date. Please visit our online guestbook at www.islandfuneral.com

Review (DPER) on ridding the project of elements that DPER officials said are essential, but which many islanders believe are not. Ott noted she is disappointed in the lack of progress at the fields with a deadline looming.

“I would have preferred that we worked on it last year,” she said.

If the work is not done on time, when the permit expires in August, the county could close the fields down until the dis-trict complies, Ott said. If that happens, the district might have to reapply for a new permit and could be subject to standards that may have changed since the district obtained the permit a year and a half ago. Additionally, the project may have to be re-engineered, adding significant cost.

“My opinion is it would not be an effi-cient use of funds if we did not commit to doing this now,” Ott said.

Once the budget has been approved in January, Ott said her top priority will be to get bids on the project, which is expected to take between eight and 16 weeks to complete.

While the budget calls for nearly $159,000 to finish the project, she cau-tioned that the district will not know the full cost of finishing the project until the bids come in.

At the park district meeting, some com-missioners and islanders who attended expressed strong interest in the users of the fields donating more money to finish the project. Hilary Emmer, who follows park issues closely, asked if the board might require users to pay 20 percent of the final costs of the remainder of the project, as it had requested of the skate

park supporters before the building of the skate bowl, which is under construction now.

Some commissioners, such as Bill Ameling, indicated they did not believe such a request would be appropriate because this is a continuation of a project, not the creation of a new one. Scott Harvey, however, expressed his interest in having the field users pay more. At one point he quoted a February 2013 Beachcomber article, citing representatives of lacrosse, soccer and youth baseball saying they would continue to contribute to the fields, but Harvey said additional funds had not come in.

“I think it is relevant that subsequent to that meeting no cash came in,” he said. No significant cash came in; in other words, despite the representation that it would happen ... it didn’t.”

Hans Van Dusen, the president of the Vashon Island Soccer Club, however, took issue with Harvey’s position.

“There were a lot of contributions since then,” he said.

Since their initial fund raising push, user groups have contributed more in-kind donations than cash, he said.

“All the (baseball) equipment on the field the baseball club contributed. All the soccer equipment on the field the soccer club contributed. The parks didn’t put any equipment on the field. The water tanks the soccer club contributed,” he said.

User groups also provided considerable free labor to complete the fields, he added.

“A lot of elbow grease went in and saved the parks a lot of money in contributions since February 2013, and it won’t stop,”

he said.He also noted that the fields do not have

lights, and as soccer season is during fall and winter’s short days, the club rents lights so that teams can use the fields.

“We are a long way from done, but to say that we stopped working for those fields and fund-raising for those fields in February (of 2013) is just not right,” Van Dusen said.

According to figures provided by the park dis-trict, field user groups have donated $145,000 in cash and $327,000 in

labor and equipment. They also helped garner $682,000 in grants for the $2 mil-lion project.

Regarding other areas included in the budget, Ott said the additional levy funds will allow the district to tend to some important needs and hire an additional part-time maintenance person through-out the year and two more seasonal peo-ple for the busiest months. Maintenance Supervisor Jason Acosta has created a maintenance plan for all the parks, Ott noted, and the funds will enable him to address some of the tasks that were determined in that process, such as filling potholes in the parking lots and providing additional field maintenance at the VES Fields and Agren Park. The increase in funds may also allow the district to pur-chase or lease a new mower.

“That is a much-needed item we have been putting off,” Ott said.

Compared to the 2014 budget, the maintenance allocation is up more than $121,000 and includes money the district is carrying over from this year, along with the increase in revenue from the levy funds, Ott said.

More of the district’s funds will go to election costs this year, with the bulk of the $47,000 added to administration intended to cover fees and costs associated with put-ting the park district’s levy on the ballot next year. The election to renew the levy has been set for April, and the proposed budget calls for $23,500 for those costs and $9,600 for the November election, when commissioners Bill Ameling, Joe Wald and Scott Harvey will be up for reelection.

At last week’s meeting, Marie Bradley, who is active in the horse community, asked the commissioners, on behalf of the Paradise Ridge stewards, to provide $10,000 for the park in next year’s budget. The home that belonged to former park caretaker Scott Provost and his family was removed this year. Now, Bradley said, horse groups want to ensure that there will be funds for reworking that area, includ-ing tending to necessary repairs, testing and planning. Commissioners agreed to figure it in the 2015 plan.

Additionally, the Vashon Pool budget has increased for next year, allowing for $10,000 to cover the cost of opening the pool in mid-May and closing it in mid-September and for $10,500 to purchase a thermal cover for the pool in January.

Considering the budget overall, Ott said she was especially pleased about the pool extension, which she attributed to solid work on the part of the Friends of the Vashon Pool, and the reserve fund, noting she is glad the commissioners were com-mitted to creating it.

“It is kind of a scary place to be when you never know what is going to go side-ways in a year,” she said. “The reserve takes pressure off. That is significant to me.”

“We are long way from done, but to say we that we stopped working for those fields and fundraising for those fields in February (of 2013) is just not right.”

Hans Van Dusen,President, Vashon Island Soccer Club

The park board will meet next at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, at Ober Park. The budget will be voted on that evening.

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