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NEWS | Park district vets caretaker positions [5]COMMENTARY | Schools’ financial need is still great. [6]ENTERTAINMENT | Vashon Opera puts on double bill. [12]

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New face on Vashon shares oil spill experiences

Officials to cut the line on liveaboardsQuartermaster has a fluctuating population of those who live on boatsBy NATALIE JOHNSONFor The Beachcomber

This spring and summer the state and county will work togeth-er to try to rid Quartermaster Harbor of a small population of people who live illegally on their boats.

“Living out in the water attached to a buoy is not a good idea,” said Lisa Randlette, a planner with the state Department of Natural Resources’ Aquatic Resources Division and the principal author of a recent state plan to enforce boat moorage rules on Vashon and bring order to the harbor.

Officials say enforcing the new

plan — as well as making use of a new King County Sheriffs Office’s patrol boat for Puget Sound — will help them more easily address the small group of liveaboards in the harbor, people who largely keep to themselves but are breaking state laws surrounding moorage and are also believed to be polluting the water.

“I can see the attraction, but it’s not something the state is autho-rizing,” Randlette said. “It’s just a very critical human health and safety issue.”

Those familiar with Quartermaster Harbor say there has long been a fluctuating popu-lation of people who live on boats there, particularly at Dockton. Some liveaboards are transients who stay for a while before mov-ing on to another harbor; others live consistently on Vashon and sometimes come ashore to work during the day.

According to state law, boaters can live aboard their vessels in a registered slip in a marina, but can only live anchored in one place on state-owned aquatic land for 30 days before they are required to move on. Boaters also can’t live more than 90 days in one place during the course of a year. Those who live in the same location for

longer are considered to be squat-ting on state aquatic land.

“We can’t let people stay for an extended period of time,” Randlette said.

While those who live on boats in Quartermaster generally don’t cause trouble on land, those close to the situation say they’re con-cerned about liveaboards’ envi-

ronmental impact on the harbor, which is part of the state-owned Maury Island Aquatic Reserve.

Randlette, who has visited Quartermaster several times by boat, said most liveaboards dump their sewage into the water, and they sometimes dump their food

Natalie Johnson/Staff Photo

Most liveaboards park their boats in Dockton outside the county-owned Dockton Park, where many islanders keep recreational boats.

Courtesy Photo

Riki Ott, an international expert in marine toxicology, lives part-time on Vashon.

Expert will speak at showing of a telling documentaryBy SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

Next week, islanders will have a front row seat to BP’s 2010 oil spill and its toxic clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico when a leading expert on oil pollution presides at a documentary about the spill and its far-reaching effects.

Riki Ott, PhD, an internationally known marine toxicologist, author and islander, will present the film “Dirty Energy,” which follows Gulf residents as they deal with the spill, struggle to rebuild their lives and con-tend with ongoing health problems from the oil and the chemical disper-sants used in clean-up efforts.

Ott, who now lives on Vashon when

she is not traveling for work, said the film’s message is extremely relevant in communities that could be affected by oil spills, including Vashon, with Puget Sound vulnerable to a spill and toxic dispersants — banned in Europe but approved for use in this country — stockpiled and ready to be used again at a moment’s notice.

“We are poised to do this again tomorrow,” she said.

Ott, who holds a mas-ters degree and doctorate in marine pollution with a specialty in oil pollution, has a long history of dealing with the environ-mental and human effects of spills.

Last week, sitting in the sun at the Vashon home where she and her partner are house-sitting, Ott talked about her experiences, which include the two worst oil spill disasters in the United States — in Alaska’s Prince

William Sound and in the Gulf of Mexico — and her hopes for change.

In 1985, after earning her doctorate from the University of Washington, Ott headed to Alaska to take a break and fish for the summer. She fell in love with the work, she said, and

became a professional fisher in Cordova, a small community on an inlet of Prince William Sound. In March of 1989, when the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef and spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude oil into the sound,

the direction of Ott’s life changed. She dusted off her academic cre-

dentials, she said, and with others in the affected communities, set about a decades-long odyssey that included the collapse of the ecosystem four years later, severe health problems in people

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“We are poised to do this again tomorrow.”

Riki Ott, marine toxicologist

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In the midst of the Vashon Island Schools Foundation’s final push to raise critical funds for the school district, the Vashon PTSA is holding its own fundraiser for the schools and stressing the importance of supporting its programs as well.

“The foundation raises money for the bottom line, and the PTSA raises money for curriculum-specific programs,” said Jackie Merrill, PTSA president and this year’s auc-tion chair. She said that she didn’t see the two causes as competing and hoped island-ers would consider giving to both.

“Why would someone want to go to the PTSA auction? They’ll have more fun writing their check, and they can know it will benefit so many different programs,” she said.

Last year’s auction, also during the foun-dation’s campaign, sold out and brought in $57,000, more than PTSA’s goal for the evening. This year, the group is hoping for another successful night, planning a nautical-themed auction this Saturday at Camp Burton.

The PTSA auction has hopped around the island, held in past years at the Open Space, K2, the VFW hall and the Vashon Golf and Swim Club. Merrill said Camp Burton recently began to allow alcohol to be served in its lodge’s banquet hall, mak-ing it a new and enticing option for the PTSA.

The hall, f lanked by windows with a view of Quartmaster Harbor, will be the site of silent auction and life auction, the live portion emceed this time by Steffon Moody. Most auction items will follow

the maritime theme — 10 pounds of hali-but, a cruise to Gig Harbor, a painting of a sea scene by Michael Spakowsky and a Mariners gift package. As usual, auction items will include dinners, vacations and plenty of art, both by local pros and Vashon students.

“Everything has a bit of a nautical twist to it. It will be a fun one,” Merrill said.

Auction organizers hope the event will again bring in at least $50,000, funds that will help buy textbooks, support teacher training and fund programs such as Camp Waskowitz and the middle school science fair. It also funds teacher appreciation pro-grams that Merrill called vital to the dis-trict. A raise-the-paddle portion of the night will solicit funds for math, to help support a new district-wide mathematics curriculum adoption.

Merrill said she thought the PTSA, the schools foundation, and even Partners in Education (PIE) — which raises money for teacher grants for special projects — all seem to have their place in the community and appeal differently to supporters. Last week, she noted that auction organizers hadn’t sold as many tickets as they had hoped, so far at leasdt. But she added that people often wait till the last minute to purchase them.

“People that want to feel like they’ve got-ten something for their money will come to the auction over writing a check to the foundation,” Merrill said. “But overall it’s all for the betterment and benefit of our schools, whether you donate to one or the other.”

Auction Ahoy, this year’s PTSA auction, will take place at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Camp Burton Lodge. Tickets, $50, include food and beverages and can be pur-chased at the Vashon Bookshop, The Little House or online at www.vashonptsa.org.

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By SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

At next week’s Vashon Park District board meeting, commissioners are expect-ed to consider the issue of caretakers in Vashon parks, vetting whether the dis-trict should prohibit full-time maintenance workers from also serving as live-in care-takers. Two workers currently have this arrangement.

The issue has been discussed at previ-ous meetings, including at the most recent meeting on April 23, when it was tabled fol-lowing a sometimes heated discussion.

According to park district manager Elaine Ott, the board raised the issue as part of an internal evaluation of its arrangements with employees. One concern, she said, is how a disciplinary issue or a problem with the employee in his or her role as a maintenance worker would affect his or her caretaker position and visa versa.

Also at issue are legal concerns about overtime. Ott sought expert advice from several sources on the issue, she said, including from the department of Labor and Industries and the district’s insurance company.

The issue, she said, is gray. “We want to make sure we are 100 per-

cent above board,” she added. While the board will consider this issue

as a policy matter, any decisions will affect the two people who work for the district as maintenance workers and caretakers: Scott Provost at Paradise Ridge and Eric Wyatt at Point Robinson.

At the last meeting, Provost expressed frustration that he had not been notified that the subject was on the agenda and

stressed that the board’s decision could have large implications for him and his family, who own a manufactured home on park district land.

In the course of the meeting, Provost said that he has been a full-time maintenance worker for 17 years and has lived at the park for 15. At Point Robinson, Wyatt has served as the caretaker for three years and lives in a residence at the park, according to Joe Wubbold, the president of the Keepers of Point Robinson. Wyatt began working as a maintenance worker for the district part-time last fall and transitioned to full time in January, according to Jason Acosta, the park district’s maintenance supervisor.

At the most recent meeting, Ott put forward a potential solution to address the legal concerns. Currently caretakers live rent-free in exchange for their labor. Under one possible alternative, Ott said caretak-ers could be charged rent and their work and compensation be set to equal their rent payments.

After much discussion, commissioner David Hackett moved to table the issue, saying he wanted more time to think before voting. The motion passed 4-1, with com-missioner Bill Ameling dissenting.

Ott said she is not certain if the board will vote next week, but she believed the issue would be discussed.

Wubbold said he hopes the issue will be discussed — and resolved.

“I intend for this to be an agenda item, and I hope for some resolution with which we can go forward,” he said.

The next park board meeting is sched-uled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at Ober Park.

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A new structure in Island Center Forest stands ready to provide shelter in a storm — or a light spring rain — thanks to a King Country grant and the work of many islanders.

People who frequent the park expressed a wish for such a shelter, according to Dave Warren, one of the Friends of Island Center Forest.

To help bring that vision to reality, the Friends applied for a Community Partnership Grant through King County Parks and

received $50,000, Warren said.

The result is nearly com-plete, he said, having been designed and built with local wood by islander Nathan Enzian.

Still to come, Warren said, are split-log benches, ADA-accessible picnic tables also made with local wood by islander Craig Harmeling, an ADA-accessible path and an abundance of native plants planted by the Vashon Forest Stewards youth crew.

The wood for the pic-nic tables has recently been

cut, Warren noted, and is still drying. In the mean-time, picnickers might find a metal table on loan from the county.

Warren added the proj-ect’s benefits went far beyond the park itself and include economic benefits to many on the island, as several individuals and businesses were paid for supplies and services.

“This really, really is a terrific partnership between King County Parks and the community,” Warren said.

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Seattle Foundation bolsters donations to local nonproftsBy SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

Several island nonprofit orga-nizations hope to pad their cof-fers next week when the Seattle Foundation hosts its third annu-al GiveBIG fundraising event.

More than 20 island nonprof-its are participating in the day-long event on May 15, including arts organizations, animal wel-fare groups and social service agencies.

As in years past, all donations made to nonprofits through the Seattle Foundation’s website will be “stretched” with a por-tion of matching funds on one day only.

On Vashon, several organi-zations have banded together to raise awareness about the day, which, they say, benefits all who participate.

According to Kathleen Johnson, the executive direc-tor of Vashon Youth & Family Services, the timing of the event

is particularly important, as spring is rarely a time when making donations is on people’s minds.

“It’s a great time to consider that nonprofits in your com-munity need your help all year long,” she said.

At VYFS, she said, they hope to bring in $10,000 on Wednesday. Helping them reach that goal are islanders Gary and Grace Christophersen, who will provide a matching gift of $5,000, Johnson said.

It is money that will be put to good use, according to Johnson.

VYFS is Vashon’s largest social service agency and offers parent education programs, mental health counseling, alco-hol and drug treatment services and the Vashon Kids child care program.

“We are seeing increased demand in all of our programs,” Johnson said.

Funds raised on the island, both through GiveBIG and other avenues, help VYFS to leverage even more money, Johnson added.

“If we’re not getting support

from the island,” she said, “we can’t go off the island and ask for support.”

It is not just people who will benefit from GiveBIG dona-tions, but animals, too.

Vashon Island Pet Protectors (VIPP) President Geoff Fletcher said that organization contin-ues to care for large numbers of animals.

The cat house is experienc-ing significant crowding and is currently home to more than 50 cats, he said.

And care for dogs is expensive too. When VIPP does not have enough foster homes, he noted, it must pay island kennels.

Mostly, Flethcher said, he hopes people participate in the day.

“We’d love for people to sup-port us,” he said, “but we’d love for people to support any orga-nization they feel passionately about.”

On Sunday afternoon at least 30 islanders will jump into Quartermaster Harbor, braving the cold water to raise money for the Vashon Senior Center and earn a T-shirt saying they weren’t too “chicken to take the plunge.”

George Eustice, a senior cen-ter board member organizing the event, said he believes the water in the harbor at Jensen Point will be a chilly 46 degrees that day. Even still, teams from True Value, Vashon Island Fire & Rescue and the Vashon Eagles have already signed up to dive in. Vashon’s row-ing club, the largest team so far, will send 15 to 20 people.

“Whether they go clear under, waste deep, chest deep or what, I won’t know until I see it. But the intention is to all go in the water,” Eustice said.

Eustice said he’d heard of other organizations holding cold-water plunges to raise money for nonprof-its, so he thought perhaps an event in Quartermaster would help out the senior center, which is working to raise funds for a badly needed kitchen remodel and would even-

tually like to replace the center’s floors as well.

“The tile is getting pretty well shot,” Eustice said. “It’s a patchwork of mismatched tiles.”

Volunteers are still recruiting brave souls and teams of people to take the plunge or to sponsor a participant. One plunger must donate at least $25 in order to get a T-shirt.

Eustice said he’s hoping for a large turnout, even though the event is on Mother’s Day. If any-thing, he said, islanders should take their mom’s out to the point for what promises to be an entertain-ing sight.

“I hope some at least come down to watch, because that won’t take long,” he said. “I’m hoping every-one has a good time and it’s suc-cessful enough to do it again.”

The Chicken Plunge will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday at Jensen Point. For more information or to sign up, see www.vashon-seniorcenter.org, stop by the center on Bank Road or call the center at 463-5173.

Donations will grow in GiveBIG event

For more information about GiveBIG, a full list of Vashon nonprofits participating and to donate on May 15, see www.seattlefoundation.org.

Senior center hopes many will brave Quartermaster’s waters for fundraiser

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EDITORIAL

As the saying goes, there are two sides to every story. A good newspaper strives to get both sides, but sometimes in reporting a story, one side can elude us. This is especially true when that side lives on the water.

In reporting this week’s front-page story “Officials cut line on liveaboards,” we tried to get in touch with liveaboards in Quartermaster Harbor. We talked with people in the boat-ing community, called some who have lived on boats legally, went down to Dockton, did everything short of knocking on boats. But we couldn’t get in touch with anyone who would be affected by the state and county’s plan to better enforce laws in the harbor and tell liveaboards to move on, and their point of view is missing.

We’re not sure how many people currently live on boats in the harbor — we’re told that in recent years there have been 10 to 15; currently there may be only a handful, and there could be more once summer comes. From what we under-stand, some people live on boats because they’ve fallen on hard economic times, some because they avoid mainstream society and some, perhaps, just because they like it. (Be care-ful not to confuse illegal liveaboards with those who live legally in marina slips.)

As Don Wolczko, a well respected islander and longtime boater, pointed out, living on boats can be a legitimate life-style. We suspect people have been doing it on Vashon Island since long before it was outlawed.

But it is illegal now, and seemingly for a good reason. Quartermaster Harbor is a protected marine reserve, and setting up residence there is like pitching a tent permanently at a state park — you just can’t do it. What’s more, it seems liveaboards undoubtedly dump their sewage and trash into the water. On Vashon, this works to further pollute a harbor that’s ecologically important and already in poor health.

If we at The Beachcomber had the opportunity to talk with liveaboards, we’d want to hear their stories. Are they from Vashon, or simply seeking safe harbor here? If they were ordered not to live in the harbor, would they easily sail some-place else, or would they be homeless, so to speak? Do they feel they have options?

Perhaps the only people to hear some liveaboards’ stories will be officials from the King County Sheriff’s Office, who this spring will knock on their boats to talk with them about the law and ask them to comply. We’re glad to hear the sher-iff’s office will move slowly, giving warnings, talking with people multiple times if necessary and giving them time to make new plans before any legal action is taken. And perhaps, as a sergeant at the sheriff’s office suggested, some liveaboards could get access to the help they need as part of the process. While their presence in the harbor may harm the delicate marine environment, liveaboards could be vulnerable too, and we hope officials take time to hear their side of the story.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

We’re raising money for the public schools. Again. But this year something feels different. You may be wondering why we still need extra money if, accord-ing to the recent State Supreme Court decision, our state govern-ment must now fully fund K-12 education. And certainly money couldn’t be a real issue because we’re building a beautiful new high school, right?

Unfortunately, the truth is that we’re not all set. There is still a huge gap between what it costs to provide the education we as a com-munity expect of our schools and what the state and local govern-ment can fund. And if the state must now fully fund K-12 educa-tion, as the court says, where will that money come from? Cuts to DSHS, whose services help school kids and their families? Cuts to higher education? Cuts to the ferry service? All of this is, as they say, is cutting our nose to spite our face.

So how about the new high school building? That must be costing a lot. How can we afford a new building if our budget is tight? The new high school project is being built with special levy money that Vashon residents voted

for, money we can’t use for anything else. When we decided that the old high school build-ings needed to be replaced to make the

school more efficient, we were demonstrating that we do want our schools to be the best they can be, that we were willing to pay for things that are important.

To have a great program — great teachers, relatively small class sizes, library, art, music, and physical education — to have all of these things, we need to help pay for it. If we want StudentLink and FamilyLink, if we want retiring teachers’ spots to be refilled and if we want clean hallways every morning, then we all need to pitch in.

The Vashon Island Public Schools Foundation exists to chan-nel the money we can raise from our community — individuals

and businesses alike — in order to financially support the schools. With each donation, we are say-ing that want to support and grow the high quality public school education that our community wants, demands and deserves. We all have a vested interest in our children becoming successful and productive adults.

The School District is counting on us to raise money to close next year’s budget funding gap.

If we cannot make our goal, the district will be forced to consider budget cuts. This means cuts to our program; also, the time and energy spent on determining what could be cut is time and energy that would be better spent trying to improve what we offer.

This is the moment when we all need to pitch in and support the island’s public schools. Whether or not you have a child in our schools, you are part of a com-munity that wants its schools to be the best they can be. Every child on this island deserves to have a great public education.

— Zabette Macomber is the president of the Vashon Island

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Health care

I read with interest the concerns expressed by community members at the recent meeting held to discuss the impact of the proposed merger between Highline Medical Center and the Franciscan Health System on the Vashon Health Center. (“Islanders express skepticism over health care merger,” May 1) The reservations voiced by many appear to boil down to the desire to maintain community, organizational and individual autonomy and control.

I would like to point out that island voters had the opportunity to form a local hospital district in 2006. The proposed hospital district would have helped preserve the independent operation of the Vashon Health Center as well as providing support for other essential health services on the island. However, the proposition was rejected in the special election, in large part because the elected Hospital District Board of Commissioners would have had the authority to levy a property tax. As a result, we must now depend on decisions made by organizations that

may or may not care what Vashon residents think or want. As one meeting speaker succinctly stated, “We really need the Franciscans to bail this clinic out. If the clinic folds, where are people going to go?”

As the old saying goes, “He who pays the piper calls the tune.”

—Susan Doerr

Christopher Davis, MD, sent you a particu-larly clear message on his attitude on the proposed involvement of the Franciscan Health System in the salvation of the Vashon Health Center managed by Highline Medical Center. (Letters to the editor, May 1) He felt that Vashon ought to ignore their (bishops’) directives and, rather, appreciate the benefits we’ll derive from their deep pockets. He clarified his point with a simple comparison: If you’re far out at sea and sinking and someone — the Franciscans or a Coast Guard helicopter — offers to save you, would you take the opportunity to harangue your rescuers with

At 94, one mom still works the crowd like a comedian

This time of year always brings about thoughts of my mother and nostalgia for my childhood.

Recently I was recalling a time in my mid-20s when I asked Mother about my childhood. I had been surveying my face, try-ing to find a whisker to shave when I noticed a small scar just under my lower lip. I pointed it out to my mother and asked how I got it. She peered through her windshield-sized glasses and said, “Oh that thing. We were driving the Blue Beast when your father dropped his cigarette in his lap and slammed on the brakes. You were standing in the back seat and whacked into the back of the front seat. Your tooth went through your lip.”

I don’t remember any of this. I assume she just forgot to mention that Dad, being a dentist and all, simply handed his scotch to mom and fixed my lip while driving with his knee.

Instantly, regretting my question, I simply sat there slack-jawed think-ing to myself, “There is so much wrong with that I

don’t know where to start.” But then I had to remember

it was the 1960s, and the Blue Beast, our family car, didn’t even have seat belts in the back seat. It would be a few more years before the welfare of rear passengers became a standard feature.

Even so, I loved the Blue Beast. If it was built today, I’m sure it would have to articulate in the middle like a city bus, but back then it was just an average family sedan the size of a Navy destroy-er and equipped with a fancy AM radio.

I remember Mother packing me and my friends into the Blue Beast for a ride out to Rondeau

Provincial Park on the north shore of Lake Erie. It would take five minutes and all my strength to roll down the back window, but it was worth it to have the pungent, warm air rush over my face. I thought the black dirt of the local farms, was neat but was disappointed when Mom told me it was used to grow onions. I was sure a much better use of such fine soil would be to grow candy.

We’d drive slowly around the park, finally stopping in a small gravel parking lot. Then each kid would pop out an ashtray. There were about 15 built into the Blue Beast, and they were always full. We would walk gently to the fence at the edge of the lot and wait in anticipation. In no time at all, we would be feeding cigarette butts to the deer. Big tobacco meets petting zoo. Again, it being the 1960s, researchers had yet to understand how bad tobacco was for ungulates.

Mother had never shown mal-ice towards any creature, and as time went by, I began to wonder about the choice of treats for our woodland friends. It was many years later while I was having

a beer on our porch with my mother, and I said, “Mom, why the hell did we feed cigarette butts to the deer?” She gave me the patient “slow child” look and

said, “Because they were stinking up the car.”

It was many years after that I was looking up Mother and her high school classmates on the internet to make a birthday card when I came across a page on the Tennessee Bar Association website honoring the pioneers of

women lawyers. There she was, listed among the first few women to have earned a law degree in the state. I found this all the more amazing when I realized she was born at a time when women did not even possess the right to vote.

Through all of it, however, I have always loved my mother’s sense of humor. Recently my sis-ter was visiting her at her retire-ment home for her 94th birth-day. A nurse came by pushing another resident in a wheelchair. She stopped and said to mother, “This is Mrs. Jones. Last week she turned 103 years old.”

Mom did a double-take and said, “103? Jesus Christ, did they forget to bury you?”

That’s my mom, half-deaf, half-blind but still working the crowd like a stand-up comic.

So here’s to mothers that make us laugh, make us proud and sometimes make us scratch our heads.

— Chris Austin is The Beachcomber’s circulation manager and a writer. His books are available

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to do a bunch of repairs before we can be comfortable in our home.

A: I think you’re making the same mistake many buyers do when it comes to the home inspection. The inspection is, in my opinion, good for three specifi c things. First, is to fi nd out if there is something seriously in need of replacement or repair that should be done before you buy the

house. This would include things like major plumbing leaks, dangerous wiring, leaking roof or major structural problems. These can be a “deal killer” and if they’re not dealt with by the seller you might not want to buy the home.

The second reason for the inspection is to get acquainted with the house. Things like: where is the water shut off, how does the dishwasher work, or how often should you change the fi lter in the furnace? It’s an opportunity to measure rooms for your furni-ture, visualize rooms in colors you might prefer, and understand how all of the various systems of the home work.

The third thing is to complete a list of maintenance items that you might need to deal with on a regular basis. A common one in our region is cleaning gutters. They need cleaning several times a year. If the gutters are full of leaves when you buy it, that’s just a routine maintenance issue, not a serious defect of the house. If the decks and porches are in relatively good shape but could use a new coat of stain, that’s routine mainte-nance, not a “problem” that you have to have the sellers fi x.

I’m not trying to discourage you from asking that the sellers fi x something that’s really wrong with the house; I’m just suggesting that minor deferred maintenance issues, things that you’ll have to do while you live in the house anyway, are not worth fi ghting over.

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Thank you for your abundant generosity!Dear beloved PIE community, You have gifted us once again with very fun equipment (gross and fine motor) that entices our students into games that promote their continued devel-opment in balance, bilateral coordination, visual tracking, eye/hand coordination, upper and lower extremity, and core strength, and many other benefits including improved self-esteem and confidence. These fundamental skills are the foundations which support their functional performance with their typical peers around school, in PE, on the play-ground, and in their classrooms. In this latter environment the skills support improved attention to instruction, task follow through, and improved visual motor and fine motor performance. All of which positively impact their academic performance. Their improved gross motor skills support not only improved self-esteem and self-confidence, but also improved social/peer relationships. In all, these gifts help our youngsters who have a bit more challenges than their typical peers get a “foot up” on their potential. Thank you so very much for your continued, abundant generosity. Sincerely, Nan Van Putten (School OT) and Dyan Prouse (School PT)

VARSA says thanksVARSA (Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse) would like to thank everyone that helped get 220 pounds of excess and expired prescription drugs off the Island and safely disposed of! Extra thanks to Tom Langland and Vashon Pharmacy, King County Sherriff’s Deputy, Jeff Hancock for being there, we literally can’t do this without you-it would be against the law! To the board of VIGA and Vashon Farmer’s Market manager Johanna Guevin for the space at the market.Look for another Take Back in the fall if you forgot to bring your prescriptions on Satur-day, April 27th. Lee Ockinga, Executive Director

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The barn swallows survived!To the nearly 1,000 members of our com-munity that signed the petition asking King County not to interfere with the barn swal-lows nesting on the lamps at the recycling center. King County in response is leaving these birds, their nests and their babies alone. And more good news: The barn swallows survived their migration back from South America and are busy eating the wealth of insects that the transfer station generates.Kathy Abascal

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questions about their policies? His message is clear: Just be glad that the Franciscans are willing to take you on board.

I think the doctor is missing a potentially large point. Yes, Vashon should be thankful for the services that the Franciscans offer, and I think most will.

However, the Catholic bishops appear to have made it very clear that their services do not extend to everyone. If your needs fall outside of those allowed by their directive, you (apparently) won’t be picked up by their helicopter. You’ll have to try to wave down another one.

Such a situation is certainly worth some advanced consider-ation.

— Ward Carson

Water District 19Commissioners wanted for important work

I am writing to encourage someone to file to run for the board of commissioners for Water District 19. I particularly encourage candidates with a balanced perspective on the need to protect our island’s precious environment and our need to develop responsibly and sustainably.

Over the past eight to 10 years, the commissioners and staff of the water district have taken us from fiscal crisis and a worrisome, myopic focus on growth at nearly any cost to a much more stable and sustainable course.

Conservation and modest expansion of capacity have resulted in a few more connections, while at the same time the district is using less water overall and its quality has improved.

We have also embarked upon a routine program of preventive maintenance, while the rates for the majority of our customers have not increased over all this time.

Not insignificantly, serving on this board also provides a fun and rewarding opportunity to serve the community with some fine folks who are dedicated to keeping Vashon on a sustainable path.

There is important work to be done.

— Steve Haworth


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Fresh perspective will help provide needed balance By CC StoneFor The Beachcomber

It seems like much ado about not much to most islanders. Even after all the hubbub, the attendance at Vashon Park District board meetings is rarely over 20 people. A disinterested public means park commis-sioners often make decisions about millions of dollars of public money with little oversight or input from the community. As veteran park commissioner Bill Ameling so astutely remarked in The Beachcomber in August of 2012, “Most people on the island don’t know what’s going, and they don’t care.”

At a recent park board meeting, commissioner David Hackett (who has run unopposed twice) asked VES fields project foreman Mike Mattingly, “What about my lights, Mike? What’s going on with my lights?” Mr. Mattingly broke the news that it was going to cost around $80,000 just to get power to the new stadium lights — not including the lights themselves — fixtures, bases or bulbs. In fact, in 2011 it was estimated that nine stadium lights would cost approximately $180,000, according to Vashon Park District minutes.

Without overwhelming public outcry, we may get those lights. They’re the cherry on the sundae of the VES athletic fields project that Mr. Hackett has championed since his first meeting as a newly elected commissioner in 2005.

If they come, they’ll come at the expense of main-tenance at other parks. They’ll come at the expense of park users, through increased fees and decreased services. They’ll come, even if it means that local contractors might not get paid in a timely man-ner for work done for the district. They’ll come after local people lose good jobs and neighbors feel forced into litigation that they can ill afford. They’ll come because we’ve got the park district we deserve

because collectively we stopped paying attention, and we didn’t think it mattered.

It’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to be a park commissioner without a passion for a particular piece of the park district’s operations. Unfortunately, if all we have are commissioners who represent one park or project, we’ll have million-dollar decisions being made not in the best interests of the larger commu-nity or the park district as a whole, but for the sake of someone’s special interest.

What’s needed now are at least three smart, con-scientious people with a willingness to provide bal-ance and common sense to the Vashon Park District. There are three positions to fill this November. Three is the number of votes needed to make decisions on the Vashon Park District board. Three people can make a huge difference. It doesn’t get any more grass-roots than right here, at the park commissioner level, on our little island. It’s participatory democracy, my friends, and sadly, it takes work to make it work right.

For anyone with an interest in local politics, this is a great entry level position. For anyone who’s in favor of financial accountability, it’s a wonderful opportu-nity to serve your entire community. And for anyone who’s ever fumed about the government wasting taxpayer dollars, this is your chance to actually do something about it. You can register to run between May 13 and May 17.

For more information, see www.kingcounty.gov/elections/candidatefiling.aspx.

There are concerned citizens who are ready to contribute time, money and talent to help good candidates get up to speed and get elected. Please contact former park commissioners Truman O’Brien ([email protected]) or Carol Ireland-McLean ([email protected]) if you have any ques-tions, want to discuss your possible candidacy or have someone you’d like to nominate.

— CC Stone is a community activist and close follower of the Vashon Park District.

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Mukai Farm & Garden: Stop by the historic home and garden’s open house and enjoy the cherry blossoms. Noon to 6 p.m. daily through May 11 at 18017 107th Ave. S.W.

Open Bridge: All levels of players are welcome. 9:30 a.m. to noon, or take lessons from Daphne Purpus from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays at the Vashon Senior Center.

Vashon Computer Club: The topic for this month’s meeting will be cloud computing, providing information on what it is and the effects for users. Meetings are open and free to the public. 7:30 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Harbor School Open House: Faculty, staff and current families will be on hand to give tours, talk about curriculum and answer questions. For more information, call the school at 567-5955. 7 p.m. at the school.

Vashon Vespers: This 35-minute service is meditative and musical, a chance for stillness and ground-ing. Rooted in the Christian con-templative tradition, Vashon Ves-pers is open to all. Childcare will be provided. This will be the last Vespers service until fall. 7 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Spirit.

Red Lodge Drum Circle: Drum and sing with Buffalo Heart, a large community drum. The group will also share its reflections of the film “Girl Rising,” presented earlier in the week. The event is free, but donations will be accepted. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Vashon Intuitive Arts.

Master Gardeners: Stop by for plant ideas for shade and slope situations. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. out-side True Value.

Empty Bowls Fundraiser: The Vashon High School Amnesty International chapter will host the sixth Empty Bowls event as a fundraiser for the Vashon Com-munity Food Bank. The event is free, but people are encouraged to donate food or money or buy a bowl at the event. 5:30 p.m. food and silent ceramic bowl auction and 6:30 p.m. open mic at 12130 S.W. Wesleyan Way.

Stamp Out Hunger — National Postal Carriers Food Drive: Leave non-perishable donations out in the morning for postal carriers to pick up on their routes or take non-perishable donations to the post office. The food bank relies on this food drive, the largest of the year.

Art Studio Tour: The tour con-tinues this weekend. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. (For more information, see page 14.)Vashon Island Pet Protectors Spring Sale: Donations of house-hold items and plants are needed. Drop off items from 1 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 10, for the sale, which will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Satur-day at the Land Trust Building.

Whispering Firs Bog Tours: Those who have been curious about the miniature landscape and want to learn about its history and ecology are invited to join local Whispering Firs Bog expert and Vashon High School science teach-er Tom DeVries, PhD, for a chance to see it in person. Details are at www.vashonlandtrust.org. Tours are $5 per family for land trust members, $25 per family for non-members, by reservation. Contact

the land trust for more information or to reserve a space at 463-2644 or [email protected]. 9, 10 and 11 a.m. at the bog.

Farmers Market: More than 80 varieties of flower, herb and veg-gie and tomato starts will be avail-able. The spring harvest for sale will include asparagus, kale, beets, salad mix, chard, chives, rhubarb, sorre, parsnips, potatoes, leeks, mint, spinach, raw cow’s milk and free-range organic eggs. Artisans will be there with their wares; a massage therapist will offer mas-sages, and the community quilt will be on display. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Village Green.

Master Gardeners: Volunteers will be available with information on trouble-free landscape plants, plant identification and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Adopt-a-Cat Day: Vashon Island Pet Protectors hosts a cat adop-tion day each Saturday. For more information, see www.vipp.org. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 12200 S.W. 243rd St.

Cribbage: Play nine games of cribbage; win cash prizes and earn national rating points. The cost is $8 for visitors and $10 for mem-bers. 1 to 4 p.m. at the Vashon Eagles.

Honoring Health Care Volunteers: Dorothy Johnson and Opal Montague will honored as the founders of Sunrise Ridge Health Services; Leo Montague, who assisted, will also be honored. 3 p.m. behind Granny’s Attic in the Vashon Fruit Club orchard.

PTSA Auction: The theme this year is Auction Ahoy: Setting a Course for Education. 5 to 10 p.m. at Camp Burton. (For more infor-mation, see page 3.)

Wash a car for Mom: Boy Scout-Troop 294 will host a car wash to help fund trips for future Eagle Scouts to the Sea Base facility in the Florida keys. For more infor-mation, call Michael DeBlasi at 567-5957. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Vashon Market parking lot.

Unitarian Fellowship: Immigra-tion attorney Robert Gibbs will

return for a question and answer session about deportation, immi-gration and reform. The fellowship has a commitment to immigration justice. 9:30 a.m. at Lewis Hall behind Burton Community Church.

Chicken Coop Tour: Visit local farms and enjoy seeing chickens and other farm animals in this annual fundraiser for the Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness. The cost is $15 for adults, and children are free. Tickets may be purchased at the Vashon Bookshop or Amiad & Associates. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at coops around the island.

Do the Chicken Plunge: Get your feathers wet and support the Vashon Senior Center. Join the center’s team or form one yourself. Sponsorship forms are available at the center and online at www.vashonseniorcenter.com. 2 p.m. at Jensen Point. (For more informa-tion, see page 5.)

Single Payer Health Care: Anne Thureson of Health Care for All-WA will discuss financing and the pros and cons of getting a single-payer plan in Washington state. 12:30 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

DSHS Van Visits: People can stop by the van and apply for cash, basic food and medical assistance and drug and alcohol and child care services. People can also drop off paperwork or complete a review. 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Vashon Community Food Bank and 3 to 5 p.m. in front of the Vashon Market, 17639 100th Ave. S.W.

GiveBig: The Seattle Foundation’s large philanthropic event on May 15 will benefit many island orga-nizations. (For more information, see page 5.)Vashon Maury Cooperative Preschool Open House: Guests are welcome at the monthly par-ent education meeting led by the school’s parent instructors. Guests may tour the school before the meeting begins and meet the teacher. 7 p.m. school tours and 7.30 p.m. meeting Wednesday, May 15, at the PlaySpace.

Chamber of Commerce Mem-bership Meeting: Speakers will include Shelby Edwards from Our Daily Toast, who will describe taking disaster preparedness on Vashon to the next level. 8:30 to 10 a.m. Thursday, May 16, at the Penny Farcy Building.

Shaggy Horse Show: Spectators are encouraged at this annnual event of the Olympus Pony Club. Entry forms for riders are avail-able at VI Horse Supply, Island Home Center & Lumber and on the Vashon Island Riders Facebook page. 9 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at Paradise Ridge.

Father-Daughter Dance: Mark your calendars for the annual event, held this year on June 1 at the Vashon Island Golf & Swim Club.

Pet Partners/Delta Society: Learn how you and your dog can become a certified Pet Partner team. Contact Kathy Farner at [email protected] for more information. 5 p.m. Mondays at Vashon High School.

Edible and Medicinal Plants of Vashon: Students will learn how to forage for these plants and will collect some to prepare into food or medicinal remedies. $55 includes all supplies. Register by contacting Cedarsong at www.cedarsongnatureschool.org. Fi-nancial aid is available. Erin Kenny will lead the class. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at a woods near town.

Yoga: Irene Tokar will offer Yoga for Back Care & Wellness and teach specific yoga sequences designed to bring relief to common areas of pain and discomfort in the body such as the lower back and neck. The cost for five weeks is $69.

The class meets from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Thursdays, beginning May 9. James Culbertson will teach Introduction to Yoga and focus on the most common yoga poses with an emphasis on safety, alignment and technique. The cost for the six-week series is $83. To register for either class, send a check payable to Island Yoga Center, P.O. Box 2062, or drop it off in the red mailbox by the front door. For more information, contact the studio at 463-2058 or [email protected]. 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. Tuesdays, beginning May 14, at Island Yoga Center.

Nourishing Nature Workshops for Girls: Girls ages 11 to 14 will practice the arts of wilderness cooking, wild edible feasting and herbal medicine making as a gateway to learning more about the natural world. The cost is $350 and includes one overnight. Schol-arships are available. Register at www.vashonwildernessprogram.org. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 18, at Camp Sealth.

Mel Galbraith, an ecologist and Fulbright awardee, will pres-ent the “Biogeography of New Zealand Birds” at the next Vashon Audubon meeting. His talk will be preceded by a brief Audubon board election. The presentation is free and will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at the Land Trust Building.Above, Galbraith, from New Zealand, holds a kiwi bird.

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

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

Plays through May 16

Take Mom to the movies — for free. See page 13 for details on how to get an invitation, required for the show. 1 p.m. May 13

6 p.m. May 14

Vashon Island School District: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at Chautauqua Elementary School.

Water District 19: 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at the district office, 17630 100th Ave. S.W.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at Station 55.

Vashon Park District: 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at Ober Park.

Vashon Sewer District Board of Commissioners: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16, at the Vashon Senior Center.

King County Airport District #1: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 16, at Courthouse Square.

Volunteers 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 [email protected].

Monday, Methodist church

Tuesday, Presbyterian church

Wednesday, Church of the Holy Spirit

Thursday, Presbyterian church

Friday, Lutheran church

Saturday, Methodist church

Sunday, Methodist church


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In connection with a visit by Washington Poet Laureate, Kathleen Flenniken, last weekend, the island group Vashon Poets selected and awarded new Vashon Poets Laureate at the conclusion of a community reading.Anders Blomgren presented a shared award for the 2013-2015 Vashon Youth Poet Laureate to Lily Robinthal and Zauxie Sackman, and each girl read poems showing two very different styles.Ann Spiers, retiring Vashon Poet Laureate, awarded the 2013-2015 Vashon Poet Laureate to Ina Whitlock, praising her efforts to expand poetry’s appeal. Whitlock was not able to attend but was feted the next day at Flenniken’s reading. Poets Laureate are awarded based on their contributions to poetry. They have no required duties but are encouraged to engage the Vashon community in the appreciation and practice of poetry.Above, left to right, are Annie Brulé, who emceed the reading; Ron Irvine, one of the event’s organizers; Blomgren, Robinthal, Sackman and Spiers.


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Welcome Vashon, the nonprofit that aims to welcome and connect islanders, recently interviewed several high-profile Vashon residents on the idea of welcoming. Jenn Reidel, a member of Welcome Vashon, conducted the inter-views and wrote articles about what welcoming means to various islanders.

By JENN REIDELFor The Beachcomber

It seems Lisa Devereau was destined to be Island Funeral Service’s director. She grew up on Cemetery Road a quar-ter of a mile from the cemetery. As a child, she helped her neighbor once a month clean her family’s graves. In high school she worked for the fire department and often assisted Vashon’s funeral director with house calls. Nine years ago she left her nursing job in Seattle and began working full time at the funeral home.

Jenn Reidel: In your work, you welcome the deceased. Is that hard for you?

Lisa Devereau: I’ve never been bothered by working with the deceased. The hard part is that I’ve lived on Vashon my whole life — 50-plus years — so it is highly likely I will know most families or have a connection to someone in the family who comes here.

You are welcomed into a lot of homes by families at a very challenging time and drive away with their loved one who will never be back again. What is that like?

It is a difficult time to enter someone’s life. I invite people to help, so they don’t think I am doing something secret behind closed doors. I think it is nice to let people be there.

It is difficult for the family, but when is it difficult for you?

Sometimes I go into a home and wish they had a larger support system. I wish the community would have known of the help they needed. A lot of times people do not know what services are available for end-of-life care.

Vashon has more to offer people who are ill and transi-tioning than any other community I’ve heard of. There is the Threshold Choir and musical groups who will come and play. There are massage therapists facilitated by hospice. Counselors. The Home-Care Network and the Care Closet. So, when I go into a home and see that they had unmet needs, it saddens me. That is the part you wish you could go back and fix.

It is a welcoming of a different sort, but it seems some-thing akin to a Welcome Wagon visit would help families in this case.

Yes! When you are new to the community it would just be nice to know what to do if there is an emergency or a

death. Often doctors are just too busy or don’t know what is offered here. For instance, here we have the Care Closet, where the Home-Care Network stores walkers, commodes, crutches and more. We have everything you can imagine. So in the event you need these things and you don’t have a budget, you can have these for free.

People who have lived here their whole life do not know where the funeral home is. You pass by us every time you go to and from town. If you have no reason to be here, then you have your blinders on. No one wants to think about death.

— Jenn Reidel is a freelance web designer, fine art photog-rapher and writer who lives on Vashon. To read more of her

Welcome Vashon interviews, see www.welcomevashon.org.

Lisa Devereau has been the director of the island’s only funeral home for almost a decade.

Islander welcomes families in their worst hour


ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury PRINCESS POWER: Students of Vashon Dance Academy will present their own

or iginal take on the classic fair y tale of Cinderella, in a new production slated to run at 7:30 p.m . May 17 and 18, and 1:30 p.m . May 18 and 19. Get your t ickets ear ly at the usual outlets — with dozens of fam i l ies involved in the show, it is expected to sell out.

Puccini twofer is Vashon Opera’s next star-studded showBy ELIZABETH SHEPHERDStaff Writer

Vashon Opera’s production of two one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini will bring both trag-

edy and comedy to the stage of Bethel Church next weekend.

The double bill, “Il Tabarro” and “Gianni Schicchi,” will be sung by a Vashon Opera’s trademark mix of local luminaries, regional and national opera stars as well a sprinkling of other talented community members.

Soprano Jennifer Krikawa, Vashon Opera’s artistic director, will sing the role of Giorgetta in “Il Tabarro” — a tale of working class adultery and murder that would be right at home in the three chord strains of a grim old Appalachian ballad. But in Puccini’s intricate music and telling of the story, there is nothing simple, said Krikawa.

“I think it describes what happens to these people psychologically,” she said. “You can hear all the complicated things they are going through. They can’t move on, they can’t get over it, and in their fighting, you can also hear their longing. It draws you in.”

The opera, which premiered in New York City in 1918, takes place on a barge on the Seine, in Paris, and chronicles the collapse of the marriage of the barge owner and his wife. Tenor Ernest Alvarez, who thrilled island audiences with his portrayal of Pinkerton in Vashon Opera’s recent “Madama Butterfly,” will play the wife’s doomed lover, and Charles Robert Stephens, a baritone with a storied career that has included principal roles in major opera companies, will play the tortured husband.

In striking contrast, the other opera in the program, “Gianni Schicchi,” is a farci-cal romp that takes place at the deathbed of a wealthy citizen of Florence, where greedy relatives gather to scheme about how to snatch the dying man’s fortune. Andrew Krikawa, known for his comedic gifts as well as his soaring baritone, will play the title role of Gianni, a clever out-sider who steps in to settle the inheritance

dispute. Noted soprano Christina Kowalski,

who played Micaela in Vashon Opera’s “Carmen,” will return to the island to play Lauretta, the character who sings one of Puccini’s most beloved arias, “O Mio Babbino Caro,” in the opera.

Other notable stars will also come out to shine.

Mezzo Julia Benzinger, who sings with Deutsche Oper Berlin, will be making her local debut in the production with roles in both one-acts.

The cast will also include singers more familiar to local audiences — islanders Joe Farmer and Gary Koch will lend their tenors to the proceedings. And soprano Holly Boaz, an islander who has appeared on stages throughout the Northwest and beyond, has been cast in both “Il Tabarro” and “Gianni Schicchi.”

Still other islanders, whose singing experience is limited to the Vashon Island Chorale, community theater and church choirs, will fill out the ensemble.

Jennifer Krikawa said she was thrilled with the casting and happy that her opera company has generated opportunities for both professional and non-professional singers alike.

“I feel like the people we’ve asked to do things have stepped up and done a great job,” she said. “I love giving people chances — even the people we bring in as professionals are sometimes doing a role for the first time that they have always wanted on their resume.”

James Brown, who has been involved with five previous Vashon Opera shows, will wear several hats this time around, as conductor, stage director, musical director and orchestral arranger of the double-bill. He’s assembled an orchestra that includes both distinguished local and out-of-town players.

And as is typical in Vashon Opera pro-ductions, a small army of islanders are working behind the scenes to create the set for the production.

Laura Strand Whitmore, an islander who teaches art in a West Seattle elemen-tary school, is supervising a crew of 12 volunteer painters who are working on the

complicated set, which must flip around at intermission to accommodate the very dif-ferent locales at the two operas.

“This is the most intricate set we have every tried to put into Bethel Church,” said Krikawa.

She also said she’s eager to share “Il Tabarro” and “Gianni Schicchi” with audi-ences.

“They are a great pair,” she said. “The first is serious and disturbingly dark, while the other is full of character and brings a sense of hope and lightness.”

Vashon Opera will present “Il Tabarro” and “Gianni Schicchi” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at Bethel Church. Tickets, $32, are on sale at www.vashonopera.org and Vashon Bookshop.

Ernest Alvarez (above) and Christina Kowalski will bring their considerable talents to Vashon Opera’s next production.

TREAT MOM TO A CONCERT WITH THREE HEAVENLY HARPSNew York folk musician Martha

Gallagher, dubbed the “Adirondack Harper” for jubilantly plucking atop mountains in her home state, is headed to the Northwest to collaborate with area harp players on a string of concerts, including a Mother’s Day concert on the island.

Vashon’s own Leslie McMichael and Scottish Gaelic teacher, singer and harp player Seumas Gagne will join Gallagher at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, at the Vashon Methodist Church, for a three-harp performance that will span original and

traditional folk music to classical works and movie score selections.

Gallagher’s career includes solo national tours sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, performing with six-time Grammy winners The Chieftains, and teaching as a visiting artist at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Describing Gallagher’s music, North Country Public Radio host Todd Moe said “Martha Gallagher is Janis Joplin, Joan Baez and Jean Redpath all rolled into one. She’s a treasure — her music lifts up the spirit and reminds us why we’re here.”

Seumas Gagne has strong ties to both Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a frequent guest musician for local

choirs such as Puget Sound Revels, City Cantabile Choir and the Vancouver Gaelic Choir. Gagne’s debut album “Baile Ard” was released to acclaim in 2012, and when he is not playing his harp, he blogs about gay rights, polythe-ism, cooking and sewing.

Vashon harpist Leslie McMichael is known for her live concert harp per-formances of original scores with vin-tage silent movie screenings. For the Mother’s Day concert, she plans to share a sampling of her film scores, classical selections and some original songs.

Tickets to the show, $15 per person or $40 for four people, are on sale at www.brownpapertickets.org. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Vashon Youth & Family Services.

New York harpist Martha Gallagher (left) will come to town to play with Leslie McMichael and Seumas Gagne.

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The saucy soiree that is Burlesco Notturno will return to the Open Space for Arts & Community at 8 p.m. Saturday.

The burlesque series, created and hosted by Open Space founder and performer Janet McAlpin, will this time boast the title “Exotica,” and McAlpin promises a show complete with peacock feathers, leopard spots and tiger stripes.

Fuscshia Foxxx — dubbed a “hot pink habanero” by The Stranger — will bring bellydance and burlesque to the stage, and leggy, 6 foot 2 inches tall Syndi Deveraux, who bills herself as “the Golden Glamazon,” will also perform. Both are beloved fixtures in Seattle’s burlesque scene.

Aerialist and Moisture Festival favorite Jonthan Rose will also bring his circus skills to the show, and islander Thomas Pruiksma will perform magic both from the stage at the tables of audience mem-bers. An acrobatic duo, Bohemian Acro, will also be a part of the show. Music will be provided by The Love Markets, a Seattle band that plays songs inspired by the deca-dent era of Weimar Berlin. The group will also play at a 9:30 p.m. dance party after the show. Michael Whitmore will also spin records at the party.

Tickets to the show and dance party, $25, are on sale at Vashon Bookshop and www.brownpapertickets.com. Tickets to the dance party alone are $10.

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Syndi Devaraux is one of the performers in Burlesco Notturno’s latest show.

A Vashon girl dances back into townVashon Allied Arts long-running New

Works series, which presents premiere works by local artists, will open a new season on Saturday, when island dancer Elise Ericksen brings her five-member PDX Dance Collective to a performance at the Blue Heron.

Ericksen’s dance concert, called “Earth, Air, Water, Fire … Dance,” will feature her five-person troupe backed by a group of island musicians and Will Forrester, a local artist who will paint live during the show. Seating for the audience will be in-the-round, with chairs and walls moved back to give the dancers more room.

“Our goal is to push the boundaries for this show,” said Ericksen, who grew up on the island and now lives and works in Portland. Her troupe has participated in the Dance Coalition of Oregon and region-al festivals.

Island musicians in the show will include Jack Barbash on piano, Gaye Detzer on viola, drummer Graham Hazzard, flutist Nancy Morgan and vocalists Jean Richstad, Jasper Forrester, Dick Paulsen and Mark Wells. Marita Ericksen, mother of Elise and a fixture in Vashon’s choral and com-

munity theater scene, is the evening’s music director and vocal soloist.

The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Blue Heron. Tickets, $12/$15, are available at the Heron’s Nest, www.vashonalliedarts .org or by calling 463-5131.

Elise Ericksen, Rachael Brown and Katelyn Kollinzas are three of a five-member troupe.

A variety show will benefit local festival“The Mother of All Shows,” IsleWilde’s

annual variety show, will be presented on Mother’s Day eve, at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Red Bicycle Bistro.

This year’s lineup includes plenty of musi-cians, including bluesman John Browne, The Modern Front Porch Blues Band, fea-turing Andre Sapp and Pat Reardon, and the duo of Iris Spring and Rob Strausser.

A local circus act, Duo Finelli, will head-line the show, bringing circus antics, com-edy and accordion music to the proced-dings.

Other performers include poet Janessa Wight, Steve Lipke, Einstein imperson-ator Patrick McManus and Seattle actor SeanJohn Walsh.

Tickets to the show are $10, with free admission for anyone 18 and younger.

All proceeds from the show will go to support Islewilde, a DIY summer arts festi-val that has taken place on Vashon for the past 20 years.

The festival is a chance for islanders to come together to create all the different aspects of a community festival, from start to finish, over the course of three weeks in August.

This year’s edition will begin the week-end of Aug. 2 with mask-making work-shops and culminate the weekend of Aug. 23 with a traditional lantern walk at dusk on Friday and a high-spirited pageant on Saturday.

Deborah Anderson, who organizes a free family film series on Vashon, is inviting all islanders to a free Mother’s Day screening of the Pixar film “Up!,” sched-uled to take place at 1 p.m. Sunday, at the Vashon Theatre. Printed invitations, which are necessary to gain admission to the show, are available at Vashon Bookshop and the theater’s box office. The much-loved animated film tells the story of a 78-year-old widower who floats away in his house.

Vashon Events, a new music promotion service and website, will bring the Portland duo Sidestreet Reny to Nivana at 9 p.m. Friday for a free show.

The band blends blusey, funky fingerstyle and slide guitar with original songwriting, incorporating the sounds of pre-war blues, roots and folk music as well as a bit of old school rap and dance hall reggae.

The group has appeared several times on Vashon, always drawing appreciative audiences. For more information about the group and other upcoming show, visit www.vashonevents.com.

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Tlingit artist Odin Lonning, far left, works on a new piece at the Vashon Woodworkers studio last weekend. Also at the woodworkers’ studio, visitors, left, look at spoons and other items hand carved by John Moore.At the Chick Barn, a visitor checks out a stoneware bowl by Sharon Munger, above. In the background are colorful scarves and apparel by other island artists are on display.

After a long and damp winter, as soon as rhododendrons begin to burst with color on Vashon, you can bet that art is about to start blooming as well. Could there be a more certain sign of spring than dozens of artists flinging open their studio doors for a studio tour? Last weekend, islanders left the beaten track to search out the scenic spots where potters, painters, sculptors woodworkers and host of other artistic types create and sell their work.

It was all a part of a beloved island tradition — the biannual Vashon Island Art Studio Tour, which continues this weekend at 23 art studios all over Vashon. A number of local shops and galler-ies are also participating. The free, self-guided tour, now in its third decade, is billed as a chance to engage directly with some of Vashon’s most creative residents and even see some of them at work.

According to tour organizer Liz Lewis, sunny weather brought many people out for the first week-end of the tour. Artists reported they didn’t break records this time, but visitors enjoyed bustling around the island in the warm springtime weather. “It was a very nice day. Everyone was moving slower than usual, but it was fun because of that too,” she said.

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Boys complete a challenging season with an even recordBy KAREN O’NEILFor The Beachcomber

Vashon’s boys soccer season con-cluded last week, when the team won its final two matches, defeating Life Christian and Eatonville. The last three games of the season were all victories, which brought the Pirate record to dead even — eight wins and eight losses for the year.

With 24 overall points in the 1A Nisqually League, Vashon finished sixth in the league under the direction of head coach Sergei Serebryakov.

In the last varsity game on May 1, against Life Christian, the final score of 5-1 was a capstone in the confidence that had been building throughout the season.

The game, which was also senior

night, featured the depth of experi-enced players, since there are nine seniors on the roster.

The game got underway when senior Tanner Montague fed a ball up the middle to senior forward Sean O’Neil, who scored at just three min-utes in. A second goal materialized after the ball was passed by senior Matt Swope to O’Neil, who bounced it into the net.

As the game headed into the second half, with a score of 2-1, the Pirates intended to keep momentum and suc-ceeded when junior Ariel Henriquez scored on an assist by senior mid-fielder George Silagi.

The final two goals of the game came from sophomore Austyn Heit with an assist by junior midfielder Peter Amick.

Goalie Ben Stemer was elemental in defusing any more attempts from Life Christian, and the game ended with a final score of 5-1. The team’s seniors and their families were acknowl-

edged with flowers at the halftime, and everyone enjoyed the tradition of finishing the evening with a potluck meal on the field.

At the match at Eatonville on April 29, the Pirates finished equally strong, also scoring five goals to the oppo-nent’s one. However, at the half the Pirates were only up 1-0 (goal by Heit). Action ramped up after the 65th minute of play, when scoring oppor-tunities resulted in fast passing, and collective teamwork resulted in three goals by O’Neil (including a penalty kick) and a fine goal by junior Jack Brenner on an assist by Amick.

The Pirates’ season was marred by significant injuries that were a con-tributing factor to the team’s ability to consistently perform at its collective best. But despite some shortfalls, the team’s last three victories were a sweet ending to quite a competitive season.

— Karen O’Neil is a longtime Pirate soccer volunteer and the mother of a

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Junior Peter Amick breaks through an Eatonville midfield, flanked by senior Sean O’Neil.

Pirates finish season with three consecutive wins

Baseball team goes two for two, heads to playoffsBy RITA ALLMANFor The Beachcomber

During its last week of reg-ular-season play, the Pirate baseball team took two wins, defeating both Chimacum and Life Christian.

During an April 29 home game against Chimacum, Vashon scored all of their seven runs in the first two innings and coasted to the 7-5 victory.

Starting as pitcher for the Pirates was Ezra Lacina, who threw five innings, allowing two earned runs on just four hits. He struck out six batters and gave up four base on balls.

Kelly Sullivan pitched two shutout innings sur-rendering only two hits. He notched one strikeout and had one walk.

Offensively, Vashon was able to score seven runs on just four singles. They were aided by nine walks.

Ryan Bernheisel, Clyde Pruett, Logan Hawkins, and Lacina delivered the Pirates’ four hits.

Line score: Vashon 7 runs, 4 hits, 3 errors, Chimacum 5 runs, 6 hits, 1 error.

Vashon completed its Nisqually League sched-ule on May 1 with a game against Life Christian at Jim Martin Field. The visitors opened the scoring with two runs in the first and still held a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth, when the Pirate bats woke up.

Vashon put up five in the fifth to take the lead and two more in the sixth to cement the 7-2 victory. The win improved the team’s league record at home this year to 7-1.

Kelly Sullivan started for the Pirates and turned in a nice complete game per-formance. He allowed the two runs in the first and shut the opponents down the rest of the way. Sullivan surrendered four hits, four walks and recorded two strikeouts.

The Vashon offense was led by Ben Reoux and Lacina, who each delivered two hits. Josh Myer, Logan Hawkins, Colton Alberthal and Sullivan all chipped in with hits as well.

Line score: Vashon 7 runs, 8 hits, 2 errors, Life Christian 2 runs, 4 hits, 2 errors.

The Pirates finished their regular season with a 10-6 league record and 10-8 record overall. The team’s third-place finish qualifies them for post-season play, which begins on May 9 on Vashon against Friday Harbor. Game time is 4 p.m. The winner of the game advances to the next round of Tri-District play on May 11, while the loser is eliminated.

The Pirates last played the Friday Harbor team in 2007, when they lost a 2-1 heartbreaker. Vashon enters the post season with a three-game winning streak.

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Three Vashon boats chosen to competein select eventBy PAT CALLFor The Beachcomber

The 2013 Opening Day of Seattle’s boating season saw the best weather in its 27 year his-tory. More than 10,000 spectators lined both sides of the 2,000-meter rowing course at the Montlake Cut near the University of Washington to cheer on junior, master and college crews partici-pating by invitation only in this select event.

Opening Day is Seattle’s “Great Gatsby” moment, as spit-polished yachts parade up the course prior to the races, bedecked with pas-sengers in blue blazers and white slacks. Crowds on the north and south side of the channel yell “Go” and “Huskies” back and forth while the UW marching band and cheerleaders provide

motivation for the crews at the finish line.

The Windermere Cup, as the rowing races are known, is restricted to larger shells: quads, fours and eights. The 25 com-petitive races were prefaced with an exhibition dragon boat event complete with drummers at the helm of the colorful 12-person canoes.

This year Vashon was invited to row in three events: the master men’s eight for rowers 50 and older, the junior women’s four and the junior men’s quad.

The master’s eight unfortunate-ly misjudged “regatta time” and pulled into the starting line only to watch their opponents already heading down the course. Three weeks of early morning work to prepare for this race ended up for naught.

The junior women’s four got to the line in time but didn’t have a good start and fell back in the field. In the second half of the race, they pulled together and

made up a couple of boat lengths to take fourth place.

That left the junior men’s quad of Gus Magnuson, Tate Gill, Jacob Plihal and Isaiah Mosser-Rohe with coxswain Olivia Mackie to put Vashon in the medals. And medal they did with an open-water win over a five-boat field, repeating their victory in the same event last year.

The final races of the morn-ing were the men’s and women’s varsity college eights with UW rowers putting their “home field” to good advantage, taking open-water wins against the Cornell and Dartmouth crews invited to the challenge.

It is on to the Pac-12 and IRA National Championships for the Husky crews. And on to the District Championships on Lake Vancouver in Vancouver, Wash., May 16 through 18 for the junior crews.

— Pat Call is a recreational rower and the father of two junior rowers.

From left, Isaiah Mosser-Rohe, Jacob Plihal, Tate Gill, Gus Magnuson and coxswain Olivia Mackie (not pictured) won the junior men’s quad race at the Opening Day regatta. Vashon’s boat won the event last year as well.

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By KEVIN ROSSFor The Beachcomber

Last Thursday, the Pirate track and field team finished out the regular season with a five-way meet hosted by Cedar Park Christian at Juanita High School in Redmond.

Both the Pirate girls and boys finished third overall at the meet, while the host Cedar Park won both the boys and girls team titles.

All Vashon’s girls team points came from just three competitors. Freshman Annika Hille finished third in the 100-meter dash, sec-ond in the 200-meter dash, second in the long jump and first in the triple jump with a personal best of 32 feet, 2 inches.

Right behind Hille in the tri-ple jump was teammate Sammy Clements, who took second with her personal best jump of 31 feet, 3 inches. Clements also placed fourth in the long jump event.

Distance runner Maddi Groen scored team points when she took fourth place finish in the 1,600-meter event and third place in both the 800-meter dash and 3,200-

meter race. Abigail Kim, a freshman at

Seattle Christian who lives on the island, had a very successful meet. She won both the 100-meter dash in 12.41, the 200-meter dash in 26.31 and the long jump with a leap of exactly 17 feet.

The boys meet highlights includ-ed Landon Summers winning the 110-meter high hurdles with a per-sonal best of 15.8. Summers also took first in the 300-meter hurdles in 42.74.

Garret Starr took first in the long jump with a jump of 19 feet, 2 inches, and also won the triple jump with 40 feet, 5 inches.

A personal best was turned in by Philip VanDevanter as he placed third in the javelin event with a throw of 119 feet, 9 inches.

Vashon will compete in the Nisqually League championship track meet today and Friday at Eatonville High School. The top five athletes in each event will advance to the Tri-District meet.

— Kevin Ross is a track and field coach at Vashon High School.

Track team places third, girls stand out as season winds down

Girls lacrosse takes down PuyallupBy CATE STACKHOUSEFor The Beachcomber

On Saturday the Vashon Valkyries girls lacrosse team played Puyallup High School and won in a stellar defeat, 18-16.

Sophomore player Halimah Griffin had a great sequence of three goals at the end of the first half and continued scoring goals in the second half. Griffin played with intensity throughout the game and was a force on offense.

Genna Rauma also brought the intensity on offense, always going hard to the ball.

Junior goalie Anna Berti had excellent saves during the game.

Berti had a particularly great save at the beginning of the second half that helped set the momentum for the rest of the game.

The team as a whole played well together and worked to get every groundball they could. They were aggressive on both offense and defense, and their hard work showed.

This year the Valkyries, a rela-tively young team, has been play-ing against high school JV teams. Players expect the team will thrive as its members get older and hope it will do well even when it moves up to playing against varsity teams.


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The competition featured many of the best young wrestlers in the country. Both wrestlers represented the Pin City Vashon Island club well.

Wickman, a freshman, placed third in the Greco Roman tournament and sec-ond in the freestyle tournament for his weight class, only losing to a superstar All American in both styles.

Armstrong, a junior, placed fourth in Greco Roman and eighth in freestyle for his weight class

Both wrestlers fought fiercely and tech-nically, beating many of the country’s best wrestlers and qualifying for the national tournament to be held this summer in Fargo, North Dakota.

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Freshman Chase Wickman, left, and junior Shane Armstrong, right, recently competed in a regional tournament in Las Vegas and both placed in events. Wickman, left, displays the medal he won.

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“That’s not healthy for the environment, and that water really doesn’t flush efficient-ly,” she said. “That’s where we’re having some quality problems and concerns.”

Scott Snyder, the county parks department’s main-tenance coordinator for Vashon, said he believes liveaboards’ boats are often leaky and in bad repair. Every now and then, an old boat breaks loose and wash-es ashore at Dockton Park, he said, or sinks nearby.

“A number of those can be traced back to livea-boards,” he said. “That’s what we’ve seen over the past few years.”

King County Sheriff ’s Office officials say islanders who live in Dockton some-times call to report suspi-cious activity on boats in the harbor and have said they suspect liveaboards are making drugs or commit-ting other crimes. But Sgt. James Knauss, who heads the sheriff ’s office’s marine unit, said the claims just don’t check out.

“There are a variety of things that get reported to us. I think a lot of it is concerned citizens,” he said. “We get calls that they’re thieving from the local community, but we’ve never made an arrest for that. ... I’m not really seeing that negative piece of it to be real, but I do see that they’re living on boats.”

Dept. Joel Anderson, who has worked on Vashon for several years, said he’s some-times called when boaters refused to pay moorage fees at Dockton Park. He’s even arrested liveaboards, he said, but only on warrants, and not because of their activities in Dockton.

“In the past, people have been moored up on the dock illegally. I investigate a little further and find they have felony warrants,” he said.

The sheriff ’s office has had mixed success enforc-ing rules regarding living on boats in Quartermaster. The marine unit is some-times called to issue warn-ings to those known to be living on their boats, but its patrol boats are mainly

dedicated to the region’s lakes. That is, until now.

Last week the sheriff ’s office acquired a new boat that will be kept in Des Moines and will regularly patrol Puget Sound waters in King County.

Partnering with DNR, they hope to visit Quarter-master Harbor more often and keep tabs on any livea-boards there.

According to DNR’s Q u a r t e r -m a s t e r H a r b o r M o o r i n g Buoy Plan, which the a g e n c y released a final draft of last month, this summer the state will issue licenses for buoys in three designated buoy fields at Burton, Dockton and the mouth of Judd Creek. Those who pay an annual fee and install a buoy system that meets state environmental standards may moor in a designated spot, while those who don’t comply could face steep fines. Abandoned buoys will be pulled, and a few derelict, deteriorat-ing or sunken boats have already been removed by the state.

Randlette said the new system, in addition to bring-ing order to the harbor and helping protect the environ-ment there, will also make it easier for deputies and SNR officials who visit the har-bor to spot those who move in and live on their boats.

“Basically we’re going to be able to say here’s the parking lot and here are the boat numbers for the park-ing lot,” she said. “We’re really going to have a base-line of who is there and who is a newcomer. It think it will really help us be effi-cient.”

Knauss said deputies in the marine unit will begin to regularly patrol Quartermaster and issue warnings to liveaboards as soon as this month, record-ing who has been contacted. When the state implements its new mooring plan — which it plans to do this summer if the proper per-mits are obtained — depu-ties will begin to issue fines to liveaboards who don’t leave. Knauss said usually liveaboards move on with-out deputies having to take further action.

“Ninety-nine percent of enforcement comes through education and warnings,” he said. “We like to be nice guys, and we understand

that they have a whole life-style they’ll have to edit to accommodate the rules.”

Randlette said she believes progress has already been made. Thank’s to previous sheriff ’s office responses, and perhaps word that the state will soon enforce the rules, the num-ber of liveabaords seems to

have dwin-dled, she said. When DNR began its planning and outreach on Vashon a few years ago, there was a f luc tuat ing p opu l at ion of 10 to 15 people living in the har-bor, she said. Now, there may only be a small hand-ful.

“They may come and go, but I would really sing the praises of the King County Marine Unit and their efforts to notify people they need to move on and follow-ing up with them,” she said.

Knauss said there may be fewer on boats in the harbor now, but emphasized that the entire region has had problems with liveaboards and there are more during the summer months, as well. He said he has actually seen the liveaboard popula-tion in Quartermaster grow in recent years during times when other counties have cracked down and pushed them out of their harbors.

“What’s happening is other counties around us are being very aggressive in moving them, making sure they move like they need to,” he said.

No liveaboards could be reached for comment.

Nancy Capps, an islander who lives across the street from Dockton Park and once worked at the park, said she’s known livea-boards she considered to be upstanding as well as those who seemed to have trou-bled lives. She said she was mainly concerned about what they dump into the harbor and would like to see that addressed. A pump sta-tion is available at Dockton Park, but liveaboards sel-

dom use it.“I’m all for cleaning up

Quartermaster,” Capps said. “I can tell by the stuff that washes up on the beach that there are a lot of people dumping out there.”

Don Wolczko, a long-time boater who once lived legally in his boat at Quartermaster Marina, said he thinks some peo-ple overreact about livea-boards’ impact on the har-bor. He noted that while they may dump sewage in the harbor, they also have few possessions, don’t take up land, don’t use much energy and overall have a small environmental foot-print.

“I think it’s a great life-

style, and I think it’s the kind of thing where people look at the waste produced … but you have to look at the whole picture,” he said.

Knauss said the sher-iff ’s office had to enforce the law but also seemed to sympathized with those who live on boats. He said he wished some would take advantage of government services available to them. He said he’s seen some live-aboards move on to better living situations and hoped the same thing might hap-pen in Quartermaster.

“Maybe education is a powerful tool,” he said. “That’s what would be real-ly good, is to see people get some good support.”

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David BraunDavid Braun, a longtime

resident of Vashon, died on April 27, 2013, at Vashon Community Care, where he spent three months.

Dave was born in Mohall, North Dakota, on Nov. 9, 1918. He was employed by United Airlines for 30 years as a pilot. Upon retirement, he was instrumental in the building of the two con-dominium complexes on

Vashon. Dave is survived by his

wife Joan of 50 years; sons Ronald of Puyallup; Lance of Ketchikan, Alaska; Dean of Medina and daughter Shauna Barlow of Bellevue as well as grandchildren and great grandchildren. He outlived nine sisters and his nephew Floyd.

Donations may be made to Vashon Community Care, which family members say treated him as family.

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marily on volunteer energy and needs more volunteers with audio, video and web expertise to help aspiring content producers get their projects to the broadcast stage. To do so, it is build-ing a resource database of available island talent.

Those who have some expertise in any aspect of audio, video or web pro-duction, script-writing, producing and also have a little spare time are invited to add their name to the “411 Roster” by contacting VoV community organiz-er Susan McCabe at [email protected].

Support for BostonIn Bozeman, Mont.,

where she is attending

college, Gianna Andrews organized a fundraiser for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Andrews is a Vashon High School Class of 2012 graduate.

Four hundred people signed up for 5K and 10K runs, and almost $10,000 was raised. Twenty spon-sors assisted with the event and donated prizes. Thirty-five volunteers helped out, and Andrews appeared on the local TV news.

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School is recognizedThe Harbor School was

recently selected to be one of 538 schools nationwide to achieve Silver Level Status

in the 2013 Mathcounts Club Program. This award comes from the school’s team, which completed five rigorous math challenges designed to promote criti-cal thinking and creativity.

This honor comes on the heels of the school’s second place finish in the statewide Division 2 Math is Cool competition in December, and fifth-grader Ethan Davis’ individual third place finish in the regional Division 2 Math is Cool competition in March.

James Cardo, head of the school, attributed much of the success to volunteer coach Nathan Enzian and math teacher Leslie Blair, as well as the passion and dedication of the students.

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April 17: A person was reported as trespassing at a store on the 9700 block of Bank Road.

April 19: Two men were arrested on misdeamor war-rants on the 12000 block of S.W. Cemetery Road.

April 26: An injury acci-dent, possibly involving alco-

hol and drugs, occurred at the 12600 block of S.W. Bachelor Road. Charges are pending per the toxicology report.

April 28: A fight occurred at a restaurant in the 17600 block of Vashon Hwy. S.W. when a trespasser refused to leave.

April 29: A person at the 27700 block of 149th Ave. S.W. was notified that two pack-ages from Amazon were sup-posed to have arrived. They were not there when the resi-dent of the home returned. A package supposedly delivered two weeks earlier was also missing.

Suspicious circumstances were reported at the 9800 block of S.W. Northilla Trail.

A person in the 24800 block of 138 Pl. S.W. discov-ered Mastercard debit card fraud when she checked her statement.

Disorderly conduct was reported at the 17400 block of Vashon Hwy. S.W.

May 1: Disorderly conduct was reported at the 17200 block of Vashon Hwy. S.W.

May 2: Possible illegal clearing of public land was reported at the 8300 block of S.W. Dilworth Road.


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Michael “Mike” Leslie Curtin, known as Mr. Fix It to many and befriended by all who met him, passed away on Wednesday, April 17. His wife and two children were by his side. Mike was 65.

Mike was born in New Westminster, B.C. on June 5, 1947. The family raised chickens. As his children recall, he despised chicken for dinner. Mike joined The United States Army and served on a helicopter team during the Vietnam War. He was awarded several medals. Much of his life during his younger adult days was spent on Vashon Island. He was everyone’s favorite

bartender and a trusted mechanic during that time. The family moved off the island in 1980, to Pacific, WA, where his children spent most of their adolescence.

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Daniel Kristian Didricksen, 85, passed away peacefully surrounded by those who loved him deeply on May 1, 2013 at the Community Care Center on Vashon Island. The employee (friends)there will be forever in the hearts of our family for the amount of love and care they gave him.

Dan was born on December 15, 1927, son of Nils and Anna Didricksen, and is preceded in death by his father, mother, and wife Leona. He was a long time resident of Vashon, and also Oregon. He was a retired employee of Vashon Thriftway where he worked in the produce department for 25 years, where he greeted customers with a smile, and many times a joke, or fish story. He also served in the US Navy. He loved the Lord, and was very knowledgeable of the bible. He loved his family, and friends, and will be missed everyday, but now his suffering has ended. He is still smiling, just not on earth, but in heaven.

Survivors include 4 daughters Cheryl (Mathew), Darla (Steve), Kristyne (Pete), Donna (Bret), brothers Arthur (Rosemary), Ken (Alene), and twin sisters Doris and Dorothy, 8 Grandchildren whom he loved so dearly, 8 Great Grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

The service was held on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at Bethel Evangelical Church at 1:00 pm. Pastor Bob Gentzel officiated. A reception followed, with burial at the Vashon cemetery.

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Daniel Kristian DidricksenDecember 15, 1927 ~ May 1, 2013

involved in clean-up efforts, a decades-long fight for a financial settlement from Exxon and now — more than 20 years later — oil still fouling the beaches. Within months after the last of the settlement work was completed with Exxon — a bitter and hard-fought process that bankrupted many people, Ott said, she learned the news of the BP disaster, now considered the worst oil spill in U. S. history.

Spent from the long battle with Exxon, she intended not to get involved.

“I specifically decided to stay away,” she said, “but the media kept calling.”

Soon her thoughts changed, she said, and she booked a f light to Louisiana, where she went first to the small, hard-hit town of Venice, wanting to help the fishing community there.

“I thought they would make the same mistakes we did,” she said.

Intending to stay one month, she stayed a year.

When she arrived a week into the disas-ter, she said, people were already showing signs of chemical illness from the spill: respiratory problems, dysentery, nausea, headaches, dizziness and severe rashes.

BP, she said, not only was not giving out respirators, but vowed to fire anyone they had hired for the clean-up efforts who wore his or her own. Meanwhile, she said, some workers had to be medevaced

off boats and were hosed off before being transported because the contamination was considered so toxic.

Oil, she said, is toxic on its own, and the dispersants used are toxic as well. But together, science has shown, oil and dis-persants together are more toxic than oil alone. In part, that is because the disper-sants are solvents that penetrate the skin of anything that comes into contact with it, tak-ing the oil into the body’s organs and cells.

“The cure is worse than the cause,” she said.

Many people are still sick now, she said: mem-bers of the Coast Guard, BP employees, fishers, government workers, tourists, and, of course, residents of the Gulf.

The wildlife is showing the effects too. Dolphins, for example, are dying at high numbers and are being born with no eyes, and many shrimp are discolored from the oil, are deformed and have tumors.

“I know fishermen that are not eating their own catch,” she said.

The dispersant issue is one even those far from the sea should be concerned about, she said, as dispersants are not just used in ocean spills, but also in the fluid used to extract natural gas in fracking and in the dilutants used to transport tar sands crude oil — happening right now in Bellingham, she noted. And in Texas, President Barack Obama has given a green

light to the building of the tar sands oil pipeline between Cushing and Houston, a distance of roughly 160 miles, Ott said.

At the heart of the matter for many environmental issues, Ott stressed, is that corporations wield extreme amounts of power.

Ott said she is now working to change that through education, political action

and outreach, in part through an organization she co-founded called Ultimate Civics.

Some of the answers, though, lie not with gov-ernment, but close to home, she said.

“The first attitude we have to change is our own,” she said. “We must do things in a dif-ferent way.”

At the film’s showing, islander and for-mer marine mammal veterinarian Tag Gornall will introduce Ott, and it is their connection that is bringing the film to Vashon’s big screen.

Like Ott, Gornall worked in Prince William Sound after the Exxon Valdez spill, called upon by Exxon to help save marine mammals there.

He did not meet Ott during that time, he said, but knew of her and her work and fol-lowed her professional life over the years.

One day last summer, he stopped by Hogsback Farm on Vashon to say hello to farm owners Amy and Joseph Bogaard. Instead, he learned the family was away

and — when Ott’s partner handed him their house-sitting business card — dis-covered that not only was Ott on the island, but was, in fact, just upstairs.

“Things like that happen on Vashon,” Gornall said.

Beginning in Alaska, he said, Ott’s efforts to change the world some have taken a lot of fortitude.

“She has a phenomenal amount of pas-sion and knowledge and awareness, and I can still see her swimming up stream,” he said. “I admire her tenacity.”

Gornall, who is a member of Island GreenTech, one of the evening’s spon-sors, arranged to show “Dirty Energy.” He has not seen the film, he said, but as a veterinarian at a number of chemical and oil spills, he knows the story well.

“I’ve lived the movie,” he said.In the Gulf, Gornall said, the loss of

life has been huge and loss of environ-ment enormous, and he would like to see many islanders attend the screening and Ott’s presentation.

“I hope the people who come listen take away something from it,” he said, adding about Ott, “She is a flower on the island.”

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“Dirty Energy” will be shown at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at the Vashon Theatre. The movie will be free, but donations to support Riki Ott’s work will be accepted. Ott will speak after the film.


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