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NEWS | VHS graduate dies in drowning. [5]COMMENTARY | Vote ‘yes’ for King County Parks. [6]ARTS | Gallery Cruise offers plenty on Friday. [10]
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GOT BLACKBERRIES?Wolftown goats go to
work on brambles.Page 13
YOU ARE WHAT YOU WEARIslander launches a
thoughtful clothing line.Page 14
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Captain David Wilson sails the Issaquah last Friday, one of his last days on the boat before retirement.
A Vashon captain’s final sailingLongtime ferry employee recalls decades on the waterBy NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer
On Friday as Captain David Wilson pre-pared the Issaquah for an 8:45 a.m. sailing from Fauntleroy to Southworth, he noticed a large barge approaching from the south.
“We’ll have to pass him,” Wilson said, looking at a blinking red radar screen that noted the speed and name of the barge, the Tecumseh.
Ron Calhoun, who helped sail the boat that morning as the ferry’s quartermaster, piped in, explaining that Wilson, who had several options in a situation like this, would likely decide to point the ferry north toward Blake Island as he made the crossing, giving the barge space to keep moving up the East Passage.
As if on cue, Wilson, 66, picked up a black phone and radioed the Tecumseh, informing its captain that the Issaquah would make a large sweep north, giving the barge plenty of berth.
“See, I knew it,” Calhoun said. “That’s how long we’ve been working together.”
Indeed, much of the crew of the Washington State Ferries has gotten to know Wilson well in his 40 years on the water. And on Friday, just days before Wilson, 66, was set to retire, many crew
members aboard the Issaquah said the white-haired and soft-spoken captain would be missed. Wilson’s last day on the ferry is today.
“He’s one of the best skippers I’ve ever had,” Calhoun said.
Asked why he chose a career on ferries, Wilson, taking a break in the wheelhouse that morning, gestured around him at the sunny, panoramic view of Puget Sound. It’s a scene — though not always so sunny — that he has seen from 5:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., five days a week.
“This is my office,” he said with a grin.Wilson, who is also a Vashon resident, knows
what it’s like to go without a view. As a young man, he joined the Coast Guard and worked on an ice breaker that was based in Seattle and traveled to the Arctic and Antarctic. While he has fond memories of seeing polar bears, penguins and “horizons full of walruses,” he said, as an engi-neering officer, he spent most of his time below deck in the boat’s engine room.
In the early 1970s, he said he walked off the icebreaker and onto a ferry in Seattle to ask if he could have a job.
“I wanted to work where there was a window and a view,” he said.
In four decades with the Washington State Ferries, Wilson has been on several Vashon boats and has climbed the ranks in the wheelhouse,
SEE CAPTAIN, 19
Island’s second credit union will open by year’s end By SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer
Nearly three years after a com-munity effort brought Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union to Vashon, an additional credit union will open soon.
The Shelton-based Our Community Credit Union (OCCU) plans to move into the building that Bank of America will vacate in September. Bert Fisher, the president and CEO of OCCU, said he expects to open by the end of this year. He would like to begin offering some services sooner than that to assist Bank of America customers who may want to transfer their accounts.
“There is a sense of urgency on our part,” he said.
Norm Mathews, the owner of Thriftway and the manag-
ing partner of the Vashon East Shopping Center, approached OCCU after Bank of America announced it would be leaving the island, said Clay Gleb, one of Thriftway’s managers and, as a partner in Mathews’s company, participated in bringing OCCU to Vashon.
“We felt there was still a need for another financial institution, and we felt Vashon would be better served by a small bank or credit union,” Gleb said.
Mathews learned about OCCU from a fellow Thriftway owner, who has an OCCU branch in his store in Montesano, Gleb said.
After meeting with Fisher and OCCU’s management and learn-ing more about the credit union, Mathews and his team proceeded.
“We came to the mutual
SEE CREDIT UNION, 20
Two new art spaces roll out, another changes handsIgnition gallery closes after disputeBy ELIZABETH SHEPHERDStaff Writer
Island art lovers will see some changes in Vashon’s gallery scene on Friday evening’s Gallery Cruise.
This Friday, Adam Cone and Megan Hastings, owners of Snapdragon Bakery and Café, will open the Hastings Cone Gallery in a space adjacent and connected to their restaurant.
The pair, who have studied art at prestigious places, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University and Cornish College for the Arts, have renovated the small space to heighten the ceiling, creating an intimate gallery where they hope to exhibit not only wall pieces but also kinetic and other types of art.
“We’re finally making use of our art education, which is, of course, the reason why we cook,” Cone
joked.Cone, who was also a found-
ing member of VALISE Gallery, said that opening a gallery has been part of his and Hastings’ long-term plan for some time. At Snapdragon, he pointed out, he and Hastings have always shown work by local artists and children. And in June, Hastings mounted a show of her father’s travel pho-tography in the space that has now become the gallery. This Friday, an exhibition of paintings by Allison Crain Trundle will officially launch the Hastings Cone Gallery.
“Sometimes, you should just jump in, and so we decided to make a go of it,” he said, adding that the scale of the gallery will make it possible for it to be a warm and welcoming place.
“It’s not huge or daunting,” he said. “There can be a certain degree of frivolity.”
Cone is also excited, he said,
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Clinic owner concerned about squatters after deal falls throughPair had hoped to transform the Vashon Family Practice office into a residenceBy NATALIE JOHNSONFor The Beachcomber
People are apparently living without permis-sion and possibly against building codes in the former Vashon Family Practice office after plans to transform the space into a residence fell through, according to Sjardo Steneker, who owns the building.
“People have moved in without my consent and they are still living there,” he said in an email to The Beachcomber.
Steneker said people have moved into his office building in town, despite the fact that islanders Michael and Rebecca Parks, who had planned to rent the building for use as a boarding house and later as an assisted care center, backed out of their five-year lease.
A staircase built at the property has also been tagged by the county’s Department of Permitting and Environmental Review (DPER), which says it was built without a proper permit, which may result in a fine.
In an email to The Beachcomber, Steneker said he was taking action and had hired a lawyer, but declined to talk on the phone or give further details on the situation.
“I can’t give you details at this time,” he said.The Parks did not respond to phone calls, but
Doug Sudduth, the couple’s son and the contrac-tor hired to do work on the building, said his par-ents backed out of their lease because they found out the building would require around $100,000 in remodeling work in order to be permitted for their planned use.
Sudduth said two people, whom he called
caretakers, had moved into an upstairs apartment in the building, but he believed they were there with Steneker’s permission and said no one was living downstairs. A Beachcomber reporter who walked outside the building on Friday saw down-stairs windows open and heard voices inside the building, but no one replied to knocks on the building door.
Vashon Family Practice closed in 2011, after Steneker’s medical license was revoked, and the large office space with several exam rooms has been unoccupied since.
Last month, Rebecca Parks talked with a Beachcomber reporter about her and her hus-band’s plans to rent the building and open Serenity Vashon, the name they gave their intended facil-ity. The building was slated to open July 1 as a boarding house, she said, and would become an assisted living center when the proper licenses were obtained, which she anticipated would be in about six months. At the time, she said that rooms would be available for $250 a week and would include use of a kitchen area, common bathrooms, sitting rooms and an exercise room.
A website for Serenity Vashon still advertises a home for seniors and disabled individuals and says that boarding rooms are available for $225 per week.
Sudduth said he and his parents made about $10,000 of improvements to the building in prep-aration, including installing new external stairs, and seven people were on on a waiting list to move in. He said most of them were low-income individuals; about half of them were veterans, and they had agreed to pay $500 a month to live in the former exam rooms that had been outfitted as bedrooms.
“A lot of these guys were on Social Security. … They can’t afford more than $500 for a room,” he said.
While the Parks said they planned to open the
boarding house before Fourth of July weekend, Sudduth says that they changed their plans and backed out of their lease once they began the King County permitting process and found out how much work would have to be done on the building.
“It needed too much work to the building to make the county happy,” he said. “Bringing the building to up code for that type of use was cost prohibitive.”
Sheryl Lux, a code enforcement officer with DPER, also said the Parks inquired about permit-ting the building but didn’t continue the process. She said Michael Parks applied for a pre-applica-tion meeting to discuss installing a new staircase and obtaining a change-of-use permit to use the building as an adult daycare and assisted living facility. However, when he learned about the requirements of the change-of-use permit and the items that would be discussed at the meeting, he decided not to go through with the meeting, she said.
“When he heard what all was going to have to be looked at, he decided he wasn’t going to do that,” she said.
Lux said a code enforcement case had been opened for a set the exterior stairs that was built on the south end of the building without a per-mit. She added that DPER posted a stop-work notice on the stairs, but allowed the rails to be built on it for safety. The building owner must still apply for a permit for the stairs, she said, or face a fine from DPER.
Lux also said that if anyone lived in the former doctor’s office, that would also be considered a building code violation and would also be pun-ishable by a fine.
“We would add it to this code enforcement case if we found out they were (using it) in a manner that’s not approved,” she said.
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Former islander drowns near SheltonKatiana Taylor, a 2011 graduate of
Vashon High school, died Sunday eve-ning while swimming with friends in Lake Nawatzel in Mason County.
Taylor, 20, who was known to many islanders, had moved off Vashon and was working and living in Seattle. She hoped to attend Washington State University in Pullman this fall, according to her stepfa-ther John Frederickson.
Taylor’s family includes her mother Kaia Frederickson, father Parker Taylor, twin brothers Max and Sam Frederickson, 18, and sister Sasha Reed, 15. She also had many close friends, John Frederickson said.
“Her friends were like family to her,” he added.
When she was younger, Frederickson said, she was athletic and played soccer and softball, among other interests.
“She loved music, loved concerts, loved her friends,” Frederickson said. “She lived life to the fullest.”
According to a news release from the Mason County Sheriff ’s Office, Taylor and a group of her friends were having a gath-ering at Lake Nawatzel on Sunday when someone called 911 to report that Taylor had swum out to a buoy, went under water and did not resurface.
Firefighters and medics searched the waters and located Taylor under nearly 20 feet of water but could not reach her. A member of the Mason County Dive Rescue Team was finally able to reach her, pulled her out of the water and began CPR. By that
time, however, Taylor had been underwater for an hour, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The incident is under investigation, and an autopsy will be performed this week.
Vashon services for Taylor will be announced soon, according to Frederickson.
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Katiana Taylor, pictured here in her 2011 graduation picture, died Sunday.
Some Vashon beaches closed to shellfish harvestingQuartermaster Harbor
beaches have been closed to recreational shellfish harvest because diarrhetic shellfish poison (DSP) has been found at unsafe levels.
Last week, Public Health – Seattle & King County posted advisory signs at beaches along Quartermaster, warning people not to collect shell-fish, including clams, oys-ters, mussels, geoducks and scallops.
DSP is an emerging health
threat for Washington, public health officials say, and anyone who eats DSP-contaminated shellfish is at risk for illness. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diar-rhea, with diarrhea being the most commonly report-ed symptom. Symptoms may appear within min-utes of eating contaminated shellfish or may take sev-eral hours.
Naturally occurring algae produces the toxin, which is
not destroyed by cooking or freezing. Additionally, people cannot determine if DSP toxin is present; it can only be detected by labora-tory testing.
Because beaches can be closed because of ris-ing levels of DSP at any time, harvesters are advised to call the Department of Health Biotoxin Hotline at 1-800-562-5632 or visit the Biotoxin Website before harvesting shellfish any-where in Puget Sound.
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EDITORIAL
At first glance, this week’s Beachcomber almost seems like one big business section. Front-page headlines tell that a new credit union is coming to the island and some new gallery spaces are opening in town. Read more to find that a prop-erty dispute at Ignition Gallery left its owner on the street and a new artists co-op is forming. And another dispute at the Vashon Family Practice office that both parties are tight-lipped about has attorneys involved after plans for an adult care home fell through
And don’t forget the new shop at the Old Fuller Store, where an ambitious designer is selling what she calls apparel with a message. And finally, after years of enjoying the fame of the Rent-a-Ruminant goats but being unable to
use their services, islanders can rent Vashon goats and sheep owned by YamLamb Sheep Co. to do eco-friendly brush clearing that also supports Wolftown.
All the activity is no surprise. We have noticed that Vashon’s business scene sometimes shifts at an alarming rate for such a small town. While many mainstay stores and res-taurants have become anchors, we’ve also watched many open and close in the last year alone, and some have apparently discovered how tough it is to make a go of it on Vashon. We find ourselves wondering if the island can truly support three pizza restaurants, so many art galleries or two credit unions for that matter.
But, as Vashon chamber director Jim Marsh has said, some healthy competition can also good for Vashon merchants. For instance, the new credit union promises services for busi-nesses, which PSCCU doesn’t currently offer. We hope mer-chants facing a changing business landscape are compelled to offer the best prices and services they can and that islanders in turn will look to Vashon first, whether they wish to apply for a loan or have acres of blackberries removed.
One businessman who seems to be embracing friendly competition is Sean Hoffman, who recently took over the Vashon Market IGA. He recently made a quiet business change that may please even more people than a new art gallery will. How many times have you meant to make an evening run to the grocery store for that gallon of milk, some nighttime snacks or a missing ingredient, only to realize the clock just passed 9 p.m.? Have you cursed living on an island as you considered whether a gas station would have what you’re looking for? In an unprecedented move, the IGA is now open until 10 p.m. every night. Kudos to Hoffman. We hope the decision proves to be a boon to business.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Get to know our son, Luther Marinez. If you do, the safer he will be.
Today, he is obviously a boy. He is 13 and a half and hasn’t started his teenage growth spurt. You have seen him around town and in the halls of McMurray. He probably said “hi” and remembered your name, or he was in his own world; it’s his world and he likes it!
Luther is an amazing actor and has a beautiful swing in baseball.
If you have seen us together, you
saw us laughing and delighted.Francisco and I are lucky. We
adopted newborn twins in 2000 and got Luther and Marisol. The day after George Zimmerman’s acquit-tal, Luther and I went to a Mariner’s game, and the entire way Luther held my hand. He didn’t hold my hand out of fear, but out of comfort and desire to be affectionate. How great is it that a 13 and a half year boy still wants to hold his daddy’s hand?! It isn’t going to last forever. He will grow up.
He will get older and taller. Given his sister’s height, he could be tall. The twins’ maternal uncle and grandfather are 6 feet 6 inches and 6 feet 8 inches; and that is the white
side of their heritage.Luther and Marisol are bi-racial
just like President Obama. In other words — in this country — Black. This means that when Luther grows up, he will be a Big Black Man.
Luther is going to grow up con-tributing to our society. The murder of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman make it very real that some people will see him as someone to fear, a threat and a criminal. The only way they will think that is by not knowing him.
Get to know our son, Luther Marinez. Help make Luther safe to be himself.
— Randy Marinez
Shifts in the business scene create new opportunities
We find ourselves wondering if the island can truly support three pizza restaurants, so many art galleries or two credit unions for that matter.
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Vote yes for continued progress at our parksWhen I first moved to the island
not so very long ago, the state was still clear-cutting timber in Island Center Forest; Maury Island Marine Park was a sea of scotch broom, and a controversy was stirring over a place called the “Lonestar Mine.” The name would become Glacier Northwest, then CalPortland — but now it’s a King County park.
What a difference a couple decades makes.
King County Parks is to be con-gratulated for their excellent work on Vashon and Maury since the previous park levy was passed. They deserve our vote of confidence, and they deserve a yes vote on Proposition 1 on your Aug. 6 ballot to renew the park levy.
Have you hiked around Island Center Forest lately? Have you seen the trail improvements, the signs and the beautiful new picnic shelter at the 188th Street trailhead? Have you seen the largest weed removal project in island history unfolding at the Maury Island Marine Park? The progress is particularly lovely to view from the overlook across the street from the Swallow’s Nest cottages — a transformed landscape, the shining waters of the East Passage and Mount Rainier dominating the skyline.
King County Parks is working hard for you. And they are delivering to you a remarkable value.
It costs $5 to buy a one-day pass to your national forests. A one-day pass for a state park is $10. Getting into Mount Rainier National Park will set
you back $15. King County parks — right here on the island — are well cared for, offer diverse activities and opportunities and have no
entry or parking fees.The park levy is obviously not
free, but it’s less than $5 per month for a family owning a home worth $300,000. And it’s certainly worth it. A day hike at Mount Rainier would cost you the entry fee, gas and ferry fare. Or you could explore the Glacier trails with Mount Rainier just over your shoulder, as often as you like. For islanders, it is literally just down the street.
But our parks are not only about trails and views. King County has tapped into our deep well of local expertise to bring modern forest practices to our parks. The days of fir plantations and clear-cuts are over. The county has demonstrated that thinning and planting with a variety of trees and shrubs can create more food and shelter for wildlife. Diverse forests are more resistant to climate change and provide sustain-ably-harvested wood for local crafts-men and builders.
You can’t see it, but the island’s aquifer — our island’s water supply
— is better off, too. Since 2005, King County has partnered with the land trust to protect and restore habitat along Judd Creek, where the soils are best for aquifer recharge.
The renewed levy will also include funds for key additions to existing parks, including new trailheads like the gateway to Island Center Forest. Ideas in the works include creating a trail connection from Dockton Park and the Glacier site to the Maury Island Marine Park. The county has greatly increased access to our beaches as well, with new parks like Raab’s Lagoon. Expect more trailheads that lead to the beach — maybe even near your home — but only if you vote yes.
A recent study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine showed that the presence of trees actually lowers rates of heart and respiratory diseases. We are all healthier and happier when we have these green places to hike, run, bike, ride horses, walk dogs, picnic or just hang out.
So please join me in voting yes for our parks, for the health of our community and for generations to come. More information is at www.yesforourparks.com.
— Tom Dean is the executive director of the Vashon-Maury Island
Land Trust.
OUTDOORSBy TOM DEAN
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Vashon String Camp Success!Team String would like to thank St. John Vian-ney Church for their generous support of the Fourth Annual Vashon String Camp. Special gratitude goes to Father Marc, Maria Pottinger and Charles Lovekin for their kindness and logistical help.Thank you to Wendy Finkleman and VAA for excellent faculty and registration support.Thanks to Larry Muir for his outstanding contra dance teaching and contagious enthusiasm. Thank you to Annie Roberts for use of her awesome music theory games. And finally, thank you to the parents and participants of our Fourth Annual Vashon String Camp!Sincerely,Gaye Detzer, Sarah Perlman, and Kim Thal (Team String)
Thank you for your cards and letters.I want to thank all of you who sent cards and letters to me while I was recovering from my horrific accident in March.I also want to thank all those who donated at the Senior Center to purchase an insulin pump and hearing aids for me. My buddy, George Eustice, was in charge of this.After three months in a care facility in Puyallup, and three weeks with my daughter, Jina, I am home on my favorite place, Vashon. I have the care of all three of my daughters and nurses and aids.Vashon is a wonderful place to live.Nancy Wallrof
Thank you for returning my wallet.I would like to thank Susan Darr, Thriftway and a kind person who helped return my wallet to me. My wallet was on the roof of my car after getting gas and she saw it hit the highway
spreading $134, debit card, license, checks and gift cards across the road. This was everything I had earned doing yard work this month. She STOPPED traffic, and picked up every dollar, put it back in my wallet and brought it to customer service at Thriftway. She found someone who knew me and was a friend on Facebook and sent me a message telling me that she found my wallet and left it there for me to pick up. When I picked it up , EVERYTHING was in it! I really like knowing that I live in a such an honest and friendly community.Thank you so much,Rainier Haugen
On the RocksA mile-high thank you to Melinda Sontgerath and her gracious, hardworking THS team of Gil-lian, Melissa, Pam and Rachel for letting us host ‘On the Rocks’ to benefit the American Lung As-sociation’s Climb for Clean Air. Also on our rope team were our alpine co-hosts Bill Dorn and Michael O’Donnell (the latter, the patron saint of yet another good cause). We’re deeply grateful to our generous island friends and neighbours for stopping by for a mountain margarita on a beautiful summer’s night and raising over $1,000 for the Lung Association.Carol Eggen & Jeannine Emery
VIPP Benefit a success!A huge thank you and bouquets all around to Seattle Distillery and Andrew Will Winery for providing fabulous spirits and wine and a comfortable place for a tasting benefitting VIPP on June 16. Thank you also to the hundreds of people who turned out to sip and taste and enjoy a beautiful Vashon summer day while helping VIPP help the dogs and cats and poten-tial caregivers of Vashon. Meow, purr, arf and woof to you all.Geoff Fletcher, VIPP president
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We have looked at a couple of manufactured homes on the
Island because they are affordable and some we’ve seen are
very nice. Friends keep telling us that it’s impossible to get
a home loan for them. They also say you have to pay a lot
higher interest rate. We’ve heard you have a lot of experi-
ence with manufactured homes so we wanted your opinion.
I just sold a very nice manufactured home on acreage and the buyer got a 3.5% interest rate. Closing costs were also very low. It’s not hard to get a loan for a manufactured home but there are some dif-
ferences. There are only a few lenders who will loan on a manufactured home but they do a fi ne job. In addition, no lender that I’m aware of will loan on one as an investment (rental) property. It’s OK if it’s going to be a second home, but not if you intend to rent it out as an investment.
There is a great range of quality in manufactured homes as there are in any houses. You want to be sure that it’s a high quality home and, if possible, that it’s less than 20 years old. You can’t get a loan on any manufactured home build in 1976 or older. They also won’t lend on a single wide home.
Manufactured homes have to be well maintained just like any home. If properly cared for and built by one of the top manufacturers it will be an excellent home for a very long time. I’ve sold homes as old as 1978 that were in excellent shape.
Some years ago the state began requiring that manufactured homes be built to the same basic HUD standards as “stick” built homes. The same 4x6 exterior walls etc. as well as upgraded plumbing and electrical. The best manufacturers offer hardwood fl oors, clearstory windows, skylights, vaulted ceilings, large beau-tiful kitchens and lovely bathrooms and all the other bells and whistles.
Work with a broker who understands and has experience working with manu-factured homes and with the lenders who loan on them.
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Family vacation: The best memories are made at a campgroundOur tires hiss on hot asphalt, a string-
straight two-lane county road cutting through fields of potatoes, alfalfa, timothy hay. We’ve discovered that there’s no air conditioning in our bug-spattered mini-van, and the ambient air temperature of late afternoon has reached the upper 90s. Hot blasts of desert-dry air roar through windows open at highway speed, buffet-ing our four kids in the back like bees in a giant beauty parlor hairdryer. Rumbling canvas-covered hay trucks and squealing 18-wheelers turn simple conversation into shouting contests.
The radio dial is a storm of static; every so often we pull in powerful mariachi or country-and-western stations as we hurtle through the tiny towns, often little more than a faded Pepsi sign or deserted grain elevator and a name on a map in faint blue type.
We idle slowly through the campground at suppertime, winding past beach-towels draped half-mast on clotheslines waiting for a breeze, hairy men with brown beer bottles in their hands tending smoking bar-beque grills and curious children staring at our car as we slowly pass. My wife Maria spots our campsite in one of the warrens of numbered stalls arranged in a semi-circle around a stinking camp lavatory with sus-piciously damp concrete floors.
Our campsite is little more than a grav-eled parking space with a sturdy picnic
table chained to the ground, a con-crete fire pit with hinged iron grate, and a flat spot in dry dirt for a tent. A cool green mountain lake beckons 50 yards down a small slope
dotted with Ponderosa pines. Maria and I puzzle-piece our brand-new
Costco tent together after staring uncom-prehendingly at the series of pictographs in the multi-lingual instruction pamphlet, while our oldest boy pounds bent-wire stakes into the packed gravel with a softball-sized rock. A blond boy from the campsite next door wordlessly hands him a pale-green plastic mallet. His blond and tanned dad grins and waves; Maria and I wave back, uncertainly.
The blond boy returns to his camp, an opulent oasis of expensive-looking desert-expedition tents canopied with a white nylon gazebo shading cool clutches of cushioned chairs. An attractive brunette in a pastel sundress pours a pitcher of fruity cocktails into a quartet of frosted cosmo-politan glasses stacked neatly on a wet bar,
next to a tall stack of fully-inflated floating toys. An electric air pump purrs confident-ly as it inflates a camo-colored raft. I imag-ine a marble fountain splashing somewhere in the cool darkness.
We hastily pull on swimsuits in the stinking camp lavatory as a dozen mosqui-toes patrol the damp, urine-fouled airspace and stampede into the chilling green water.
At the water’s edge, I begin blowing up several cheap, dollar-store air-mattresses we bought at a dusty roadside supermer-cado. My cheeks ache as I purse my lips around the possibly defective plastic valves. I’m getting dizzy. For a fleeting second I see my wife Maria accepting a cocktail and disappearing into the cool darkness of the oasis.
After an hour of furious puffing, the air mattresses are leaned against a tree, sag-ging in a sort of flaccid wheeze. Our oldest boy squeezes one sullenly, and eyeing our neighbor’s collection of fully-tumescent inflatable-party-islands and colorful pool-loungers and the percolating air-pump, wants me to text Mom to ask them if we can borrow their pump. Almost immedi-ately the kids poke holes in the cheap air-mattresses on sharp rocks.
Beyond the oasis is a party of white-haired school-bus drivers with two grand-kids close to our kids in age. The kids choose up sides by size and vanish, perhaps to examine the grandson’s collection of
shattered beer bottles. While I’m heating beans and weenies
on a hissing propane camp stove, our youngest boy announces that he and his twin sister have hit it off with Kimmy and Barb, the school bus drivers, and they’ve been invited to the marshmallow-roasting party around their campfire that evening. He wants to know that I’m good with it, because, you know, I wasn’t invited.
The next afternoon the temperature reaches 106 degrees. The pleasure-dome next door has folded up. Our only respite from the dizzying heat is to crouch fully immersed in the lake on submerged fold-ing chairs. Panting in the heat, we clamber into the stifling car for a ride to civilization with commercial air-conditioning, abun-dant electricity and a variety of frozen nov-elties. We spend 300 bucks in two hours at a cavernous air-conditioned Wal-Mart.
When I was a kid, vacations always faded to black with Dad grimly piloting our overloaded station wagon into a dark night, hunched over the wheel while kids snored in the back and Mom looked out the window, her hands folded in her lap, their profiles silhouetted in passing head-lights.
Maria tried to stay awake. We made the last boat home.
— Kevin Pottinger and his wife Maria live near Portage with their four children.
FAMILY LIFEBy KEVIN POTTINGER
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Get the Poop: Home owners in the Marine Recovery Area (MRA)are invited to an informal discussion about what is and is not working with septic maintenance, including the required annual inspections. Join Terry Hull of the nonprofit lender Craft3 to explore how is-landers might improve water qual-ity and ensure septic systems func-tion well into the future. Hull will also have information about new loans available to MRA landowners for septic system repair. 4:30 p.m. at Red Bicycle Bistro.
School Budget Meeting: The Vashon Island School District school board will hold a public meeting on the coming year’s budget. 7 p.m. at Chautauqua.
THURSDAY • 1
Free Legal Clinic: This service offers free legal assistance. 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.
FRIDAY • 2
Parkinson’s Support Group: Dr. Daniel Burdick, a movement
disorders specialist at the Ever-green Hospital, will talk about how he investigates the nature of Parkinson’s Disease as it affects his patients. He will also share the impact that this disease has on him as a doctor. 1 p.m. at the Lutheran church.
SATURDAY • 3
Church Rummage Sale: Many large and small items will be available, including bags of worm castings for gardeners. Proceeds from the sale will go toward the missions of the Episcopal church, including Wednesday night din-ners, Saturday bag lunches and monthly vespers services. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Spirit.
Farmers Market: Stop by for local blueberries, blackberries, raspber-ries, sweet corn, cherry tomatoes and more, or purchase a gift from a local artist or craftsperson. The Magpies will perform, and the featured nonprofit will be Vashon Bee Friendly. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Village Green.
For Dinosaur Fans: A young fellow from Minnesota gets a surprise when he discovers an enormous molar buried in his backyard. Kids 3 and older and their caregivers are welcome to join him on a multi-media adventure. Free. 10:30 a.m. at the Land Trust Building, hosted by the Vashon Library. (For more informa-tion, see page 12.)
Adopt-a-Cat: Vashon Island Pet Protectors will hold adoption days three times each week this sum-mer. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the cat shelter, 12200 S.W. 243rd St.
Vashon Social Dance Group: The guest instructor will be Scott McKay, who will teach a pre-dance lesson in country two-step before the night’s dance featuring a variety of music. No partners are necessary. The suggested donation is $10. 7 to 8 p.m. lesson followed by the dance from 8 to 9:30 p.m. at Ober Park.
Sound Healing Concert: Johnna Morrow and Steve Sklar will offer a spiritual soundtrack concert with Tibetan singing bowls, didgeri-doos, guitar, igil (Tuvan horsehead fiddle), voice, flutes, drumming, throat-singing and a set of gongs. The suggested donation is $20. 8 p.m. at Vashon Intuitive Arts. (For more information, see page 12.)
SUNDAY • 4
Salmon Derby: The Vashon Sportsman’s Club will host this annual event, which is open to the public. Participants can fish on their own then take their catch to the weigh-in. Kids under 12 enter for free; the cost for teens and adults is $10. There will be cash prizes for adults and other prizes for kids. Weigh-in will be at 1 p.m. at Jensen Point.
Shape Up Vashon (SUV) Beach Party: Try out paddle boards, kayaks and walk through the Bur-ton woods with naturalists. John Burke will have a survival raft to try and survival suits to try on. The paddle boards and kayaks are free for SUV members, $5 for others. For more information, see www.shapeupvashon.org. 2 to 5 p.m. at Jensen Point.
MONDAY • 5
Dockton Shoreline Resorta-tion: A public meeting to discuss upcoming Dockton shoreline restoration work will include
information on the work slated to begin Aug. 19, including removing creosote pilings, creating a salt marsh and restoring the natural shoreline. 6 and 7 p.m. at Dockton Park.
TUESDAY • 6
Family Story Time: Children from newborns to 6 years old with a caregiver are welcome. 11:30 a.m. at the Vashon Bookshop, hosted by the Vashon Library.
UPCOMING
Finding Authenticity Through Nature: Women are invited for an historic beach hunt, to create art and be guided through exercises to expand their intuition and in-spiration. The cost is $20. Register at [email protected]; for more information, see www.hestiaretreat.org/events/upcom-ing-events. 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, at Anita Halstead’s home in Dockton.
ONGOING
Looking Ahead to the Holidays: Applications are being accepted for tables at the 2013 Holly Daze Craft Bazaar, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, at McMurray Middle School. For an application or more information, contact Carol Eckman at [email protected].
CAMPS AND CLASSES
Chair Yoga: Kathy Larsdotter demonstrates chair and standing postures to develop easier breath-ing and improve flexibility and balance. The suggested donation is $2. 1 p.m. Mondays at the Vashon Senior Center.
CoreCentric Classes: Yoga and Strength Training meets at 3 p.m. Mondays; Everyday Fitness meets at 8 a.m. Mondays and Wednes-days; TRX Strength & Condition-ing meets at 5:45 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and Core Cycle meets at 9 a.m. Sundays and 4
p.m. Fridays, all at CoreCentric in Vashon Village. All classes are ongoing and for all levels. The cost is $15 each on a class card or $20 for a single class. Contact Sandi Silagi at 388-8953 or [email protected] for more information.
Vashon Community Vacation Bible School: Vashon churches are collaborating to put on a vaca-tion Bible school for children age 3 through sixth-grade. Monday, Aug. 5, through Friday, Aug. 9. First- through sixth-graders will meet at the Methodist church from 9:30 a.m. to noon each day. Kids ages 3 through 5 will meet at the Presbyterian church from 9:45 to 11:45 a.m. each day. For more in-formation or to register, see www.vacationbibleschool.com/vashon-island. Registration forms are also available at local churches.
Swimming Lessons: Swimming lessons at the Vashon Golf & Swim Club are under way. Six sessions will be directed by swim coach Dayna Rogers and cost $80 per session, with a discount for club members. For more information, see www.vashongolfandswim.com or call 463-9410.
Localize This — Summer Camp for Activists and Organizers: The Backbone Campaign will offer its fifth annual activism camp. Wednesday, July 31 to Monday, Aug. 5. (For more information, see page 9.)
Yoga for Back Care & Wellness: With an emphasis on back care, this class uses basic yoga postures to focus on core strength and flexibility. Yoga sequences are used to relieve discomfort, provide stress relief and help with overall fitness. Instructor Irene Tokar is a registered massage therapist specializing in rehabilitation. 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, July 25 to Aug. 22, at Island Yoga Center. The cost is $69. To register, send a check pay-able to Island Yoga Center, P.O. Box 2062, or drop it off in the mailbox by the front door.
Junior Golf Camp: Junior Golf Camps taught by PGA professional golfer Craig Wilcox are forming at the Vashon Golf & Swim Club. Three-day camps are for ages 6 though high school. The cost is $100, with a discount for club members. For more information, see www.vashongolfandswim.com or call 463-9410.
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Vashon Watersports will offer a chance to paddle with a naturalist from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight for $50 per person or $100 per family of three or more. All skill levels are welcome. Call to reserve a spot at 463-YAKS (9257).It will also offer a paddle camp for kids ages 12 and up from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, Aug. 5 to 8; no kayaking experience is necessary. The cost is $180. Visit vashonwatersports.com for more details. Both events meet at the boathouse at Jensen Point. Above, Genna Kieper enjoys being out on the water in a Paddle with a Naturalist trip earlier this month.
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Nonprofit puts on annual activism campBy SARAH SCHWARZFor The Beachcomber
The fifth annual Localize This! Action Camp begins today, a week-long camp that organizers call an opportunity to learn, teach and share for those interested in political action.
The six days of workshops and events, put on by the Backbone Campaign, will take place at the AYH Ranch Hostel today though August 5.
“There are 70 to 100 organizers, and activ-ists coming from around the country. Rarely does this happen,” said Bill Moyer, director of the Backbone Campaign. “Whether people are interested in the arts, community issues or political activism it is a great opportunity.”
Educators are coming to the camp from Chicago, Portland and all around the Seattle area.
Camp organizers say participants, who travel from all around the country, come with varied experiences in a number of areas of activism and community organizing. Some participants will speak of their experi-ences at panels organized by topic, such as sustainability and art as a form of cultural expression.
“We want to feature some people because we want to hear their experiences and their stories,” Moyer said. “It’s important to share strategies and bring people together to help them do the same.”
Beyond specific stories, campers will learn the fundamentals necessary for all types of activism. Moyer stressed the importance of teaching non-violent, direct and appropriate
activism techniques that can apply to a myri-ad of causes. He also spoke of the importance of teaching appropriate reactions to issues.
“Whether you’re working on health care or climate change, it’s good to know how to take effective action,” he said.
The first Localize This! Action Camp in 2008 focused on protecting Maury Island from the construction of an industrial gravel mine. The camp, along with other island organizations and efforts, helped win the seemingly impossible battle, according to a press release by the Backbone Campaign.
Each year, organizers apply the lessons of camp to a case study, Moyer said. Last year’s was about eviction protection, and this year the group will focus on the proposed coal train.
The week will culminate in an undisclosed action, taking place on July 5 in Seattle. The campers will put this event together using what they learn from the camp in conjunc-tion with the case study.
Moyer said he encourages islanders to get involved, regardless of their prior experience with political action.
Localize This! participants can register for the entire six days or for individual work-shops. The schedule and registration are available on www.backbonecampaign.org.There is also a free salmon bake and open house put on by the Backbone Campaign at 6 p.m. Saturday at the AYH Ranch Hostel.
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ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury ‘CATS’ COME TO VASHON: Calling all Jellicles — Drama Dock Youth Theatre Initiative is looking
for young actors, singers and dancers to appear in the musical “Cats,” to be staged in October at Vashon High School. To receive updates about auditions and more, contact [email protected].
WHAT’S HAPPENING
DANCE TO THE MUSIC
A show for reggae loversThe Highlife Band, a reggae group from Seattle, will play a free show at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Red Bicycle Bistro. The band has toured widely, livening up venues throughout the Northwest, and has two albums to its credit. Expect rhythms from the Spanish and French Caribbean, combined with Jamaican rockers, bif-baf, steppers, one-drop and dancehall reggae traditions. The show on Friday is for all ages until 11 p.m., and after that, 21 and older only.
DIDGERIDOO IT AT VIA
World music is on tapVashon Intuitive Arts will be the site of a multi-part presentation by a duo of traveling players who describe their performances and workshops as “sonic adventures” designed to evoke a feel-ing of healing, well-being and spiritual connectedness.
The players, Johnna Morrow and Steve Sklar, are well-known in the circles of Himalayan and other exotic music as healers as well as musicians. They play instruments, including guitar, didgeri-doo, the igil (a Tuvan horsehead fiddel), Tibetan singing bowls, gongs, flutes and other instruments. Sklar is known as a leading Western teacher and performer of Tuvan throat singing. The duo will present four events at VIA.
From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sklar and Morrow will give a free demonstra-tion of their music and meet and greet islanders. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, there will be a “sound healing workshop,” where islanders can learn techniques to use Tibetan singing bowls, voice and didgeridoo. The cost of the workshop is $150, but scholarships are available. Call (612) 518-9886 to find out more.
At 8 p.m. Saturday, Sklar and Morrow will present what they call a Sound Healing Concert. There is a suggested donation of $20. And from 10 to 11 a.m. on Sunday, the pair will close out their time on Vashon with a guided sound meditation. There is a $10 suggested donation for that event.
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It’s a First Friday art film The Vashon Film Society will present dancer Dayna Hanson’s comedic experi-mental film “Improvement Club” at 9:30 p.m. Friday, the latest installment in its monthly Art Film Series.
The film blends elements of musical comedy, dance film and mockumentary as it follows a ragtag Seattle perfor-mance group’s ambitious attempt to stage an all-singing, all-dancing re-tell-ing of the American Revolution. Hanson has defined the film as being about “the exhilaration and humiliation of making art in America today.”
The film has been screened for large au-diences at festivals, including the Seattle International Film Festival and South by Southwest. Admission is $7.
First Friday Gallery Cruise
Vashon’s walls will talk with an art walkBy ELIZABETH SHEPHERDStaff Writer
This Friday, August’s monthly Gallery Cruise promises a wealth of all kinds of art to gaze upon, as well as a chance to check out two new galleries (see story, page 1). Most art galleries are open from 6 to 9 p.m.
Café Luna will show “Collages of Felines, One Chicken and Synapse Fandangos,” an exhibition of work by painter Anna Witte. The artist, who was born in Germany, grew up in Spain, and since traveled and lived in many countries, draws her inspiration from ancient myths of pre-Hispanic cultures of Latin America, tales from the Middle East, Spanish poetry and other diverse influences.To find out more about Witte’s work, visit her website, www.annawitte.com.
Duet will show paintings by Michael Spakowsky and mosaic art and jewelry by Lisa Betz.
Hastings Cone Gallery, adjacent to Snapdragon Café and Bakery, will have its grand opening with a show of paintings by island art-ist Allison Crain Trundle. Trundle received her BFA through the painting program at the University of New Mexico and has shown at gal-leries throughout the Northwest. Her work can be seen online at www.allisontrundle.com.
Heron’s Nest and Two Wall Gallery will both show “Asian Inspired,” a show of work by Ray Pfortner, a well-known island photographer and teacher. The exhibit includes works inspired by Asian gardens in the Northwest and Pfortner’s hometown of New York City. Lanterns, pave-ments, lattice windows, foliage and even wildlife will be presented in an encaustic format Pfortner has adapted from an ancient Greek technique — he transfers his photographs into warm beeswax, removing the paper to leave images floating magically in the wax. Pfortner’s show is a preview and advertisement for his upcoming photo workshops for all ages at Portland’s Lan Su Garden in August and September, Seattle’s Chinese Garden in August and Japanese Garden in October. For more information, contact Pfortner at [email protected]. The exhibit at Two Wall Gallery will also include work from Pfortner’s recent workshops with FamilyLink from Vashon High School students.
Island Artistry (in the space formerly occu-pied by Ignition Gallery) will have a group show to launch interest in a new artists’ co-op gallery. (See story page 1.)
Island Quilter will show work by Art Quilt Sues, a group formed four years ago by mem-bers of Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club in Sequim. The group’s members explore a wide variety of non-traditional quilting, creating wall hangings and garments and offering demonstrations of various fiber arts techniques.
Monarch Gallery will have its grand opening in a new space located adjacent to Monarch’s antique showroom, featuring works by Robert
Motherwell, Morris Graves, Cecil Beaton and other art-ists.
Nirvana will feature sculpture by Anthony Kaufmann of 3,000 BC Studios. Kaufmann says his mission is “through the vehicle of stone, provoke a rap-ture of mystery, to search for the essence of truth, and to explore the ceaseless cycles of birth and death.”
Open Space for Arts & Community will continue to exhibit an outdoor sculpture designed and built by Ken C. Judd. Community members are welcome to add to the sculpture with materials of their own or those left at the site. The artist will be in attendance on First Friday. Judd will also hold a workshop to augment with the cre-ation of the sculpture from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at Open Space.
Saucy Sisters Pizzeria will showcase Nathan Colello Gilmour’s photography. Gilmour’s photos capture casbahs, souks, mar-kets, bazaars and festivals on four continents.
SAW and Vashon Central will show work by painter Spencer Sinner. His work can also be seen on Friday at Sunshine & Ideas.
Vashon Allied Arts Gallery’s show, “Figures and Places,” features paintings by Ted Kutscher and bronze figurative sculp-ture of the female figure by Mike Magrath. Kutscher’s work often reflects the landscapes as varied as Paris street corners, beaches in Kauai or views from atop Burton Hill. Magrath will show works evoking the god-desses Potnia Theron, Aurora and the Black Virgin, as well as smaller works from a series that depicts figures in repose. The island band River Bend will play music at the reception.
VALISE Gallery will exhibit “Sticks and Stoneware,” a two-person show of works in wood and clay by Patrick McCormick, Western Washington University professor of art, and VALISE mixed-media artist John
Martin. The exhibit will showcase the duo’s talent in the media of wood and clay. Martin, whose work combines metal, resin, encaus-tics and other media, pulls from his extensive knowledge of engineering to create pieces that are sometimes interactive, with clever mechan-ical twists. McCormick, head of the ceramics department at his university, creates funny and provocative ceramics intended to leave viewers laughing, surprised or confused.
Vashon Intuitive Arts will show “Zen Doodling,” a show of ink drawings by Bonnie Bristow. After graduating from Vashon High School in 1981, Bristow raised two sons and returned to school to become a nurse. This last year, while listening to an extended lecture she had heard many times before, she found herself doodling on her tablet. She sent a copy of her drawing to her mother, local artist Geri Peterson, who encouraged her work. Bristow has now created a large body of work.
Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road will exhibit Kristin Reitz Green’s oil still life paintings of food, animals and tableaus.
Vashon Tea Shop will show Piro Kramar’s photographs from her mountaineering ski trips and other hikes.
Vashon Tile Company will show work by tile artist David Blad.
Ray Pfortner Photo (top) and Courtesy Photo (above)
Works by Ray Pfortner, such as the top photograph above, taken at the Seattle Japanese Garden, can be seen at Two Walls Gallery and the Heron’s Nest. Ted Kutscher’s landscapes, including the one of Burton Hill, above, will be on view at Vashon Allied Arts Gallery.
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A concert featuring critically acclaimed composers from Vashon and Seattle will take place at 8 p.m. Saturday, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.
The show, featuring genre-busting Northwest music icons Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz and Bill Patton, as well as Vashon composers and players Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang, is a benefit for Vashon’s Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness and Vashon Youth & Family Services. It’s being presented by Vashon Island Sessions and Mike Dumovich, a local singer/songwriter who said he was motived to help the two agencies because they had recently helped him through difficult times.
VYFS and the Interfaith Council are nonprofits that provide a wide range of services including counseling, rent assistance and vouchers for travel, prescription medi-cations, food, utilities, education, and many other basic needs. In 2012, they helped over 300 households and 400 individuals meet these needs while also providing educa-tion and drug and alcohol counseling.
“It can be a really demeaning process to ask for help, and some agencies don’t treat you with a great deal of dignity,” Dumovich said. “Both [VYFS and the Interfaith Council] are honest and treat you with dignity and do what they can. Honest and super kind are a really good combination.”
Dumovich said he was excited to work with islander Debra Heesch, founder of Vashon Sessions, to arrange for such an accomplished group of artists to play together in concert on Vashon.
Horvitz, the prolific player and composer, has worked with a laundry list of acclaimed players and produced
records by several Grammy award-winning and nomi-nated musicians. His com-positions have been com-missioned by the Kronos Quartet, The Brooklyn Academy of Music and Earshot Jazz Festival, and he has been the recipient of grants from several orga-nizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts.
Holcomb, a pianist and songwriter who is known for her merging of avant guard jazz, classical com-positions and Americana and folk, has released several albums. She also appeared on the Bill Frisell’s seminal record “Nashville” and many other recordings. The New York Times has called her music as “elegantly simple as a Shaker Quilt, and no less beautiful.”
Eyvind Kang, the Vashon-based viola player and com-poser, has played on records from Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Mike Patton, John Zorn, Laura Veirs, Beth Orton and Beck. As a composer, he has put out more than 20 recordings, exploring music that swings between jazz, avant guard, metal, folk and eastern music.
Kenney, who is married to Kang, is a singer who is com-mitted to traditional music, notably Persian and Javanese, and is one of the few non-Persians to achieve as much renown with her work, performing and recording with Ostad Hossein Omoumi. She has also collaborated with
John Cage, Jarrad Powell and Kang. Patton is a guitar and pedal steel player who has
worked with countless names in the Seattle area, includ-ing Grammy-nominated work with the Fleet Foxes, Josh Tillman (Father John Misty), the Low Hums, Gold Leaves and many others.
Advance tickets to Saturday’s show, $20, are on sale at the Vashon Bookshop, online at www.brownpapertickets.com or at the door the night of the show. It’s an all-ages event.
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Eyvind Kang (above) and Wayne Horvitz (left) will perform with Bill Patton, Jessika Kenney and Robin Holcomb.
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llustrator,songwriter and performer Morgan Taylor, who created Gustafer, describes his show as a “musical moving storybook” that is equal parts pop rock concert and hand -drawn cartoon movie.
It’s all about the adventures of groovy Gustafer Yellowgold, a small, yellow, cone-headed fellow who came from the sun and landed in Minnesota. The show has been performed throughout the United States and internation-ally. It received rave reviews, including one from the New York Times, which described it as “a cross between ‘Yellow Submarine’ and Dr. Seuss.”
For more information about the show and Taylor’s music, visit www.gustaferyellowgold.com.
A troupe of traveling players will perform Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” at 7 p.m. Saturday in Ober Park. It’s a free show.
The group presenting the play, Seattle Shakespeare Company, is a year-round, professional, classical theatre troupe that presents a wide range of indoor and outdoor performances as well as educational and youth programs.
The show is the latest offering in a summer concert and theater series offered by Vashon Events, Vashon Allied Arts and Vashon Park District.
The series will conclude at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, with the Afro-Latin sounds of the band Picoso. The band’s vibe is described by organizers as “very urban and hip, without losing the relationship to the ancestor sound” of the Caribbean music that inspires its players.
Bring chairs, blankets and picnics to the park to maxi-mize your enjoyment.
Free ‘Tempest’ in the park for Shakespeare fansCourtesy Photo
Morgan Taylor will perform “Gustafer Yellowgold” on Vashon.
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The Seattle Shakespeare Company performs “The Tempest.”
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Author readingJean Ameluxen will read from
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When islanders Carol and Bob Spangler decid-ed to clear a half-acre on their property off of Westside Highway of thick blackberries, holly and other invasive bushes, they started by getting a quote from an excavating service.
Last week, however, the Spanglers’ property was fenced off and taken over not by machinery, but by about 70 mule sheep and Spanish goats, which were doing the job for nearly the same price that bull-dozers would.
The herd was part of YamLamb Sheep’s brush clearing service, the newest affiliate of Rent-A-Ruminant, the well-known goat rental business owned by islander Tammy Dunakin.
“It’s about doing something that’s unusual and really awesome and a different way to do some-thing that would have required a whole bunch of machines,” Carol Spangler said.
T Yamamoto, who owns YamLamb with her husband Pete Yamamoto, said it made a lot of sense for the two of them to start doing brush clearing. YamLamb, the agriculture branch of Wolftown, already had a large herd of sheep and goats that grazed on the south end of the island.
And Wolftown has struggled financially since the economic downturn, forcing the couple to make cuts to the program.
Around the same time Pete Yamamoto lost his job as a mechanic, Dunakin, who hasn’t cleared land on Vashon in years, asked if the pair might consider becoming an affiliate, even offering to donate the normal fee she charges to help set up the business.
“Tammy approached us at the right time,” T Yamamoto said.
Now, the YamLamb herd, about 100 sheep and goats in all, have cleared about 20 acres of land on Vashon and will handle off-island jobs as well. All prof-its will go to support Wolftown.
“We want to keep it alive,” Yamamoto said.
As for Spangler, she said she had long known about Dunakin’s business and was thrilled to find out there is now an on-island option for the eco-friendly brush clearing. She said
the goats have been a source of entertainment, and she even put on an ice-cream social where neighbors came over to check out the heard and talked to Yamamoto about the new business and Wolftown.
“I feel like it’s really a win-win,” Spangler said.
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It is clear from first glance that there is a message behind “The President of Me.” The casual clothing shop in the Old Fuller Store, which has celebration flags and a woman with foliage hair out front, opened July 5.
“I didn’t open the store to be in the garment business,” said owner Rebecca Wittman. “I did it because I feel strongly about the concept that we hold on to our personal power in this life if we learn to take responsibility for our own actions.”
This philosophy guides the line. Every piece is meticu-lously thought out in order to best express the manifesto, which is even sewn into the inside of some garments. Her clothes are simple and causal. She has three requirements for a piece to be part of the line.
“A piece must afford an opportunity to carry the mes-sage. It has to be quality goods — it has to be a fabric that I would want to wear and that won’t fall apart. And, it has to be a very classic piece of clothing,” she said.
Wittman moved her design studio and store into the Old Fuller Store building last month, and previously sold her garments through Common Thread. Wittman describes her resume before begining the line as similar to a Jackson Pollock painting.
“It’s evidence of great energy even though it’s a little hard to decipher,” she said.
She began sewing as a young child, making her own clothing. She worked professionally in the garment busi-ness in her 20s, studied opera and jazz in college, sang pro-fessionally for about five years, owned a yacht refinishing business, wrote two books in conjunction with that busi-ness, did marketing design and worked in real estate for about 10 years before moving to the island and beginning work on The President of Me about eight years ago.
Upon moving to Vashon, Wittman spent a couple years trademarking what she needed for her line so she would be legally prepared. It wasn’t until that was finished that she began the four-year process of designing the line. This exemplifies the preparation and thought Wittman has put into the brand.
Customers will notice a stick figure design on many of the garments. Wittman said his name is Zeteticus, meaning “seeker of the truth” in old Latin. All the items are black, white or grey. The black and white symbolize truth and lies, while the grey represents the necessary compromise in life. The only color is found in Zeteticus’ orange hat, which she said represents possibility, opportunity and energy.
“If a person travels this world enough, you learn that the black and white of truth has to have a little bit of compro-mise,” she said.
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about the expansion of Monarch Gallery, a fine art and antiques showroom space next door to his café and new gallery. That business has also leased additional space next door to its current shop and created a room solely devoted to fine art, which will have its grand opening on the First Friday gallery cruise. Works by such famous art-ists as Robert Motherwell, Morris Graves and Cecil Beaton, among others, will be on display.
“I just think we’re in for a good fall with these new cre-ative endeavors,” Cone said.
In the meantime, owner Lisa Hurst has closed Ignition Studios & Gallery, locat-ed in the alley of 177th Street, directly behind Spider’s Ski & Sports.
However, four artists who were Hurst’s subtenants still remain in the space.
Two of those artists, David Blad and Heidi Stair, have spearheaded a group show, opening on Friday, intended to launch a new artists’ cooperative, Island Artistry, to be housed in the former Ignition space.
Memberships to the co-op will cost $50 a month, Blad said — enough to keep the gallery doors open with inter-esting shows.
Friday’s group show will include well-known island art-ists such as Jayne Quig, Janice Wall, Pam Ingalls and Jacqui Lown. Live music will also be provided by Jamie Jackson, Dianne Krouse and Cami Lundeen.
“It seemed like the right thing to do,” Blad said. “People are interested in the gallery staying open.”
Blad credited Lisa Hurst, Ignition’s owner, in creating a multi-use concept for the venue he thinks will continue to work well.
“Lisa put this thing together and did a great job,” he said. “We’re just totally honoring everyone and moving on and continuing the saga.”
In a statement that was projected on the gallery wall dur-ing July’s First Friday gallery cruise, Hurst cited “ongoing lease, parking, signage and access disputes” as the reason for her departure from the space.
In early 2012, Hurst opened Ignition as a place that combined artist studios, classroom space and a small, well-appointed gallery. Her space, a former garage and shop, was built in 1946 as part of a downtown automotive complex owned and operated by the Brennos, a longtime island family. The Brenno family, operating under a LLC,
is still the landlord of the space, as well as the storefront that houses Spider’s Ski & Sports.
Ignition was an instant hit on Vashon, drawing hundreds to opening receptions that offered islanders a chance to ogle artwork and stand around two outdoor fire pits to schmooze with friends and neighbors.
After Hurst’s departure, her subten-ants entered negotiations with the new
managers of the space, Laine and Christine Cruver, who own Spider’s Ski & Sports.
According to Christine, the details of the new manage-ment are still being worked out, but as far as she is aware, all four artists — Teppei Teranishi, Shelly Hurd, Stair and Blad — will stay put in their studios.
“We’re all working together to come up with a really good solution,” she said.
In the meantime, Hurst said she plans to return to teach-ing art at the college level, a career she had for many years before opening Ignition. She will also continue to make her own encaustic and other artwork.
“This transition has been a financial challenge, so
I’m going to downsize to a personal studio,” she said. “Hopefully, Ignition will reappear again soon as a stop on the Vashon Island Art Studio Tour.
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“Sometimes, you should just jump in, and so we decided to make a go of it.”
Adam Cone, co-owner of Snapdragon and the new
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Adam Cone and Megan Hastings have opened a new gallery by their restaurant, Snapdragon.
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BIRTHDAY
Bill GarvinBill Garvin’s family has
extended an invitation to his friends to help him cel-ebrate his 90th birthday.
The party will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at the Methodist church.
They have requested no gifts, but donations to the Vashon Maury Community Food Bank and Vashon Community Care will be appreciated.
DEATH
Wayne HouseWayne Edgar House died
at home July 21, 2013, at the age of 80.
He as was born Jan. 7, 1933, in Bozeman, Mont., but he spent most of his growing years on Vashon Island, where he was a star baseball and basketball player in high school.
He served 20 years in the Coast Guard, stationed in Seattle, Toledo, Alameda and Juneau.
After his service, he worked in banking, the legal field and the insur-ance industry until he retired.
Family members say Mr.
House was a family man, and had a special smile when he spoke of his chil-dren.
They say he enjoyed spoiling his dogs, read-ing, RV travel, staying home,and watching the backyard birds. He freely spoke his mind and was always available to give advice. Family members say they will miss his guid-ance.
His parents, Edgar and Lucille House, died earlier. He is survived by several family members, including his wife Mona House; for-mer wife Ann House; sister Vanetta (Dick) Warren; brother Bruce (Deanna) House; his daughters and their spouses; Vickie and Wayne Valentic and Lisa
and Ken Judson and step-daughters Melinda Porter and Jenny and Ryan Kothenbeutel; grandchil-dren Matt Valentic, Janessa Hoesly, Jessica Piukala, Kyle Miller, Travis LaFave, Alex LaFave, Abby Kothenbeutel and Ivy Kothenbeutel and great-grandchildren Maika and Uini Piukala and Elise Hoesly.
In lieu of flowers, dona-tions would be appreciated at local animal shelters or the American Cancer Society.
SHERIFF’S REPORT
June 27: A person climbed the fence to get to the Gold Beach swimming pool and was found with
alcohol on his or her breath. June 28: A bar fight was
reported at the Red Bike.June 29: Two windows
were broken in a trailer in the 18100 block of 125th Ave. S.W.
June 29: A fight erupted between family members and a friend.
June 29: A controlled substance (methamphet-amine) violation was found at the 24600 block of Wax Orchard Road.
June 30: The planter in front of The Hardware Store Restaurant was pushed over and broken.
June 30: Nine of the 10 mailboxes at cohousing had mail stolen from them.
June 30: Jewelry and cash were reported taken from a house on the 20500 block of Chautuauqua Beach Road.
June 30: Because of bad conduct, a person was trespassed from the Presbyterian Church.
June 30: Items were reported taken from an unoccupied home in the 11600 block of Bank Road.
July 1: A controlled sub-stance violation occurred at a Burton park.
July 1: A woman found items on her property on the 1900 block of the Vashon Highway that did not belong to her. She lives close to an area frequented by transients. The items
were taken to the substa-tion.
July 2: Two people were trespassed for the third time from acreage on the 16900 block of Vashon Highway.
July 4: A domestic vio-lence situation was reported.
July 4: A person in the 24700 block of Vashon Highway was suspected of giving away or selling med-ical marijuana.
July 5: A person van-dalized a car and stole an illegal shotgun from a truck in the 23500 block of Kingsbury Road.
July 7: A person was smoking narcotics in a vehicle in the IGA park-ing lot.
July 8: Three chainsaws were taken from an open barn on the 14400 block of Spring Beach Road.
July 9: Metal gates were taken from a home in the 18600 block of Sunset Road S.W.
July 12: Vandalism of dead bolt locks was report-ed at the Village Green.
July 12: Citizens reported that somone was imper-sonating a police officer on a motorcycle and using a siren to move past vehicles, parking illegally and flash-ing a badge.
July 13: A mailbox on the 11300 S.W. Cedarhurst Road was damaged.
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All-Merciful SaviourOrthodox Monastery
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Burton Community ChurchALL ARE WELCOME
INSPIRATION not Indoctrination!Worship 11 am
Rev. Bruce Chittick, PastorMaggie Laird
Pianist/Choir Director463-9977
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Bethel Church14736 Bethel Lane SW(Corner of SW 148th St.
and 119th Ave. SW)9am Sunday Bible School
10am WorshipFollowed by coffee fellowship
AWANA Thurs 6:00pm Sept-May
Offi ce phone 567-4255
Vashon Island Community Church
Worship Service 10:00 am (Children’s Church for preschool–5th graders)
Offi ce Phone 463-3940Pastors:
Frank Davis and Mike Ivaska9318 SW Cemetery Road
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Catholic ChurchSt. John Vianney
Mass–Saturdays at 5:00 pmSundays 8:00am and 10:30am
Pastor: Rev. Marc Powell16100 115th Avenue SW,
Vashon WA 98070
office 567-4149 rectory 567-5736www.stjohnvianneyvashon.com
Vashon Island Unitarian Fellowship
Community, Diversity, Freedom of Belief,Enrichment of Spirit
Sunday Services at 9:45 am (Sept–June)Religious Exploration for toddlers–8th Grade
Lewis Hall (Behind Burton Community Church)
23905 Vashon Hwy SW
Info: www.vashonuu.org 463-4775
Vashon Friends Worship Group
(Quakers)
10 am Meeting for Silent Worshipin members’ homes.
Call for Location567-5279 463-9552
Havurat Ee ShalomServing the spiritual, social and
intellectual needs of Vashon’s Jewish Community
9:30 am Saturday Services
15401 Westside Hwy SWPO Box 89, Vashon, WA 98070
463-1399www.vashonhavurah.org
Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit
The Rev. Canon Carla Valentine PryneThe Rev. Ann Saunderson, Priest Assoc.
Sundays – 7:45 am & 10:15 amChurch School & Religious Exploration 9:00am
Child CareMid-week Eucharist, Wednesday–12:30pm
15420 Vashon Hwy SW 567-4488www.holyspiritvashon.org
Vashon Lutheran Church18623 Vashon Hwy. SW (1/2 mile south of Vashon)
Children’s Hour 10:30 am (Sept.- June)
Holy Communion Worship 10:30 am
Pastors: Rev. Bjoern E. MeinhardtRev. Jeff Larson, Ph.D., vm: 206-463-6359
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463-2655e-mail: [email protected]
Vashon United Methodist Church17928 Vashon Hwy SW
(one block south of downtown)
Pastor: Rev. Dr. Kathryn MorseSunday Service & Sunday School
10:00 a.m.Weekly Gluten-Free Communion
Offi ce open Mon.–Thurs. 9 a.m. – 12 noon 463-9804
www.vashonmethodist.orgoffi [email protected]
Calvary Full Gospel Church at Lisabeula
Worship 10:30 am & 7:00 pmThursday Bible Study 7:00 pm
Call for locationSaturday Prayer 7:30 pm
Pastor Stephen R. Sears463-2567
Vashon Presbyterian Church
Worship 10am17708 Vashon Hwy (center of town)
Pastor Dan HoustonChurch Offi ce Hours
Monday– Thursday 10 am - 2 pm
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Pla ces of Wors hipon our Island
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Ubicados En Bethel Church14726 Bethel Lane SW
206-371-0213Hora De Services: Sabados 7:30pm
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Center on Wednesday,
July 31st from 1 – 4 p.m. Our business offi ce will be closed during that time.
Barbara started her career with VIFR on 7/19/2004 as an Administrative Assistant and quickly endeared herself to our mem-bers, not only by her fun-loving personal-ity and knowledge of our island citizens, but by her purchasing skills honed during her 24 years at K2.
Drop by for a visit and be prepared to enjoy a BBQ put on by the staff.
BRET TAITCHProperty Manager
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becoming a captain at 40. After spending eight years on the south end of Vashon sail-ing the now-retired Rhododendron, which he called his “favorite boat in the whole fleet,” Wilson has been on the Issaquah, one of the larger boats on the north end, for the last dozen years.
And even after decades on the ferries, the back-and-forth nature of the system has never gotten old, he said.
“You never know what the day may hold,” he said.
One day in the 1990s held an emergency when a woman jumped overboard and was rescued by the crew; another held a serious engine room fire. When the fire began, Wilson happened to be moving the boat
to another location, meaning there were no cars on deck when temperatures began to rise.
“If cars would have been on the boat, their tires would have been melting,” he said.
He also remembers in 2002 when Springer, an orphaned orca took a special liking to Vashon, and in particular the Evergreen State, which Wilson sailed at the time. He saw the young whale almost daily for months.
“That was a very unique experience for all of us,” he said.
But one day that especially stands out for Wilson is Inauguration Day 1993, when a fierce, record-setting storm hit the region and at one point shut down every ferry route in the system except the triangle route. Wilson’s boat battled large waves and gusts of up to 70 mph.
“It was deemed not a risk to life. … We
were taking some serious waves on the car deck,” he said.
Through it all, the easygoing captain with a quick laugh has kept his cool, he said, and was never concerned for the safety of his boat. He described himself as comfortable but vigilant at the helm, especially when he considers everything he carries on the large ship.
“It’s like a floating city, really,” he said.Unlike some ferry captains, Wilson said,
he feels he can relate to the commuters he transports. He and his wife are part of a Jehovah’s Witness congregation in Tacoma and also volunteer regularly at a deaf school there, taking them off the south end of the island about four times a week.
“I know what it’s like to be the first car not to make it on the boat,” he said. “I know what it’s like to be one minute late,” he said.
For that reason, Wilson said, he tends to have a little bit of compassion before he
pulls away.“I say ‘We’ll take that guy.’ It might have
been me, or it might have been my neigh-bor,” he said.
Next month, Wilson and his wife will tell their Vashon neighbors goodbye when they retire to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The move feels bittersweet, he said. He and his wife will miss Vashon, but they are looking for a sunnier spot and are also interested in volunteering at a deaf school there.
“Everything the Puget Sound is, Santa Fe is not,” he said.
What he’ll miss most about his days on the sound, however, is a sense of serving his neighbors, he said. He and his wife have lived on Vashon for 20 years, and he’s gotten to know many of the people he transported daily on the ferry.
“It feels good to take my neighbors back and forth,” he said. “It feels better than mass transit.”
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conclusion that it would be a good fit for both parties and Vashon Island,” Gleb said. Particularly important, Gleb said, is that OCCU offers businesses services, which the Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union (PSCCU) does not, and will also provide safety deposit boxes, which Thriftway customers had mentioned they wanted.
CEO Fisher said that OCCU was look-ing to grow when they received the invi-tation to from Mathews.
“I think most credit unions are always looking to expand,” he said.
He noted that Vashon had not been on their radar, but said he believes the values and culture of Vashon will fit well with OCCU’s values.
Noting that Vashon already has a popular credit union, Fisher said that he believes competition is good for con-sumers and that PSCCU does not offer all the services that OCCU does, specifically business services.
Patte Wagner, the manager of the Vashon branch of PSCCU, said she was surprised to learn the news of a new credit union last week, but wishes the newcomers well.
“I am a big fan of credit unions. They are good for communities,” Wagner said. “I am not familiar with this particular credit union, but if they offer business accounts,
that will be a good option for businesses on the island.”
Shannon Ellis-Brock, the chief operat-ing officer at PSCCU, said that shortly after Bank of America announced its closure, Mathews contacted PSCCU to see if they would like to move in once Bank of America left. They declined, she said, because their current space serves them well and they have a good rela-tionship with their landlords, including Donna Klemka, the owner of the Frame of Mind.
Ellis-Brock, too, said businesses will likely benefit from OCCU’s arrival.
“They will serve a market that has been underserved,” she said.
OCCU has 25,000 members and $270 million in assets, according to CEO Fisher, and has branches in Shelton, McCleary, Elma and Montesano.
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“We felt there was still a need for another financial institution, and we felt Vashon would be better served by a small bank or credit union.”
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Susan Lofland (206) 999-6470JOHN L SCOTT VSHThis office independently owned & operatedThis office independently owned & operated 13401 Vashon Hwy SW Vashon, WA13401 Vashon Hwy SW Vashon, WA
4 bdrm 2.75 bath 3.7 ACSunny, picture-perfect two-story country
home. Living & rec rooms, master suite,3-car garage. Potential 2nd building
site!
RARE, LOVELY LANDOne of the last remaining large parcels of land on
Vashon! Level property with gorgeous forest in a greatlocation at the heart of the Island.
1 bdrm .75 bath 150’ WFGlorious view, sun & sweet privacy in
this pristine waterfront getaway! Path &easy steps to beach. Bonus room, woodstove, deck.
Land For SaleLand For SaleJUST LISTED!
2.13 AcresHuge views of East
Passage & citylights! Paid water
share, surveycomplete, septic
design in process.
Spring Beach1.14 Acres
Super affordable!Level wooded landwith some clearing.Renew the septicdesign & have a
terrific spot for yournew home!
26740 Vashon Hwy$675,000
David Knight
11807 SW 204th St$395,000
Ken Zaglin
August 4th
1:00 - 4:00
OPENSUNDAY
3+bdrm 2 bath 9.67 ACGorgeous blend of sunny rolling fields
& whisper-quiet forest. Big, solid 2-story home, fabulous shop building!Private, lovely setting.
3 bdrm 3 bath 18.88 ACA rare find! Wide open spaces inside& out, sun & privacy. Spacious 3650sq. ft. home, new carpet & appliances,huge garage/shop.
JeanBoschBroker
The Very Best of Vashon’s West SideThis unique blend of spectacular views, sun-drenched property, upscale home and prized west side location is without
equal! Wrap-around decks, 3 bdrms, 2 dens, marvelous master suite, newly upgraded kitchen, hot tub & woodstove; huge barn, 4.89 acres, swimming pool with pavilion & bath house. Live the dream!
JUST
LISTED!
BRIGHT & SPACIOUS!Western sun warms sumptuous gardens and fills thisspacious, stylish home with light! Separate lower-levelliving, large deck, peek views.
4 bdrm3.5 AC
DavidKnight
CSSN, SFR
JUST
LISTED!
BE THE FIRST ONE HOMELive right at the end of ferry dock! Beautiful interior,
wood floors, big windows that frame huge views. Twoadditional cottages for guests!
Northend200’ WF
CristGranum
CRS
JUST
LISTED!
STEP BACK IN TIMEWestside cottage in a waterside community! Beachjust a few feet from your door, Sound views. Lots to
fix, and lots to enjoy!
1 bdrmView!
KenZaglin
Des.Broker
JUST
LISTED!
3 bdrm 3 bath .66 ACSweet home amid rolling lawn & prettyforest near the lighthouse feels like a
woodland hideaway! Full bsmt with studio,big deck.
15 ACPrivate
ValSeath
ABR, SRES