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A recent spate of mail thefts on Vashon has led authorities to launch an inves-tigation into the crimes, which has also seen an uptick in other parts of King and Snohomish counties as well.

Dave Schroader, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), said that mail theft on Vashon hasn’t increased over the past year, but an increase in the number

of reports in the last few weeks has raised concerns. The postal service is now work-ing with the King County Sheriff ’s Office and the Vashon Post Office to investigate the crimes, he said, and officials are asking that Islanders contact the agency with any information.

“We are actively investigating those mail thefts as we speak,” Schroader said. “We would absolutely love any assistance that the public can give.”

According to USPIS records, from the

beginning of March through the third week of May, there were 17 mail thefts reported on Vashon. During the same time period last year there were 52 reported mail thefts. Schroader, however, said there has been a spike in the last couple of weeks. The cur-rent investigation on Vashon is not routine, he added; there hasn’t been one in at least a year.

“We have not had an investigation on Vashon for some time now,” he said. “This is unique.”

Schroader was unable to give a detailed reason for the investigation or any specif-ics about it. He did say that over the pastfew weeks the postal service has seen mailtheft increase in various parts of King and Snohomish counties, and it is actively investigating in those areas as well.

Authorities, he added, are not sure if Vashon’s increase in mail theft is related to those off-Island or if the uptick region-wide

Postal Service launches investigation into region-wide mail theft

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Vashon garners five-year grant to tackle teen substance abuse

By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer

Vashon Island is one of three King County communities that has been selected for a program that will enable educa-tors and social service providers to attempt a comprehen-sive and long-term response to teen substance abuse.

Vashon Youth & Family Services (VYFS) will receive $130,000 a year for the next five years as a result of its des-ignation, state money that is being directed to the Island via the county. The funds, which will come to VYFS beginning July 1, will pay for a number of services, including parent support groups and workshops, training for coaches and teachers, direct services and a review of the best anti-drugcurricula available for schools and agencies.

Coupled with another state grant and federal money Vashon is already receiving to address the environmental and cultural norms behind substance abuse, the Island is poised to have nearly $500,000 a year directed toward the issue, leading to what advocates hope will be the Island’s first comprehensive response to teen substance abuse.

“It’s a big responsibility and it’s a big opportunity for usto have this kind of support over a period of time,” said KenMaaz, VYFS’s executive director.

“This is an important issue we’re dealing with,” he added. “And it’s the first time this community has had an opportu-nity to address it comprehensively.”

Robin Blair, a parent and the chair of the Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse (VARSA), said she believes Vashon is poised to turn a corner on the issue, one that has prompted considerable concern among parents, teachers and providers.

“I believe this is going to do it. I feel real optimis-tic, real hopeful, that these resources, along with the

Island providers hope to build a ‘comprehensive’ response

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Islanders sound off over rumble strips

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Lu-Ann Branch describes her experience leading a group of 8th-grade cyclists on a ride along the highway as County Transport-ation Director Harold Taniguchi listens. Some of the kids, she said, found cycling difficult because of the rumble strips.


Dozens of Islanders told King County’s top trans-portation official Monday night that newly installed rumble strips have made Vashon’s main arterial more dangerous for cyclists.

In a lively but civil meeting at Chautauqua Elementary School, one resident after

another, some clad in bik-ing clothes, questioned the county’s rationale for the decision, challenged some of its statistics and described recent incidents where they felt vulnerable because of the miles of grooved strips meant to make the roads safer.

The meeting — the coun-ty’s first public gathering since the rumble strip con-

troversy erupted a month ago — began as an “open house,” with stations where Islanders could speak indi-vidually to county officials. But after Islander Ann Leda Shapiro took to the stage yelling “mic check!,” a phrase made famous by the Occupy Movement, County Transportation Director Harold Taniguchi good-humoredly agreed to

change the meeting into a wide-open give and take — and then proceeded to get an earful.

“I’m concerned we’ll have fatalities of cyclists,” Yve Susskind told Taniguchi. Noting that she’s an expe-rienced cyclist, she said that she’s had “six incidents where I felt unsafe” since the

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After a year of attempting to find appli-cants interested in a new sweat-equity hous-ing project, Vashon HouseHold has decided to take a different approach: The sweat homebuyers are expected to put into the project will be significantly less.

Chris Szala, Vashon HouseHold’s execu-tive director, said they found few families interested in investing up to 30 hours a week helping to build new homes for themselves at Sunflower Community Land Trust, the organization’s second sweat-equity project.

So Vashon HouseHold and its partner, Northwest Housing Development Corp., worked with their public funders to rethink the project. Now, Szala said, those who qualify for one of the below-market houses at Sunflower will be responsible only for interior painting, landscaping and, if they wish, interior trim work.

At Roseballen Community Land Trust, the organization’s first sweat-equity proj-ect, homebuyers and the volunteers they recruited did the majority of the homebuild-ing, with professional support and over-sight. Vashon HouseHold found 19 fami-lies willing to build homes at Roseballen; in exchange, they were able to purchase two- to five-bedroom houses for less than $200,000 and with modest down payments and low-interest mortgages.

But this time around, Vashon HouseHold has found few takers, in large part, Szala said, because of the depressed housing mar-ket. A few fixers are available on Vashon for less than $200,000, making the price of Sunflower’s new homes — $180,000 to $190,000 — not as attractive when one fac-tors in 30 or more hours of work a week and a building schedule that can last more than a year, he said.

So now, using what Szala jokingly calls a “self-help lite” model, the homes at Sunflower will be built largely by Island

contractors, with the home buyers doing a modicum of work. The prices will stay in the same range, however, he said, because a depressed market has made both labor and materials less costly.

What’s more, he said, each family will be responsible only for their own house; at Roseballen, families were expected to help each other. And because contractors will be doing most of the building, the houses will likely get erected in four to eight months; at Roseballen, home completion took nearly two years.

“We learned a lot from that process,” Szala said, referring to Roseballen. “It was pretty grueling. And it’s not the model that’s going to work this time.”

Vashon HouseHold announced exactly a year ago that it was ready to start marketing Sunflower, 14 farm-style houses on six acres on Bank Road, east of Island Lumber. The announcement was a long time coming; Vashon HouseHold first began working on the project more than a decade ago. The process was delayed by a number of issues, including King County’s decision that a stretch of Bank Road had to be lowered.

But after last year’s announcement, the organization found few families interested in the project. Szala said he expects this new model will quickly garner interest. Indeed, he said, he hopes the first family — already identified — will be able to break ground this summer.

Barry Brodniak, executive director at Northwest Housing Development, is also optimistic Sunflower will now take off.

“This will work,” he said. “It won’t be nearly as intense as the mutual self-help we had at Roseballen.”

Both Szala and Brodniak believe there will still be a strong sense of community at Sunflower.

“Once they move in, the proximity and privacy they have will bring people togeth-er,” Brodniak said.

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Vashon’s long-standing burger joint — once Zoomies and before that Dairy Queen — has gotten a new lease on life. This week Islander James B. Hassell, an experienced chef, and his wife Corlean Payne opened the doors of Zombiez, offering what they call quality fast food at reasonable prices.

The restaurant went up for sale last December after its owner, who purchased it in 2008, was unable to keep it afloat. The eatery fell back into the hands of its former own-ers, Valerie and Clyde Howe, who then offered it at half of what they sold it for in 2002.

Now Hassell and Payne, parents who have lived on the Island five years, have spent the last several months freshening up the restau-rant, which now boasts a brightly painted interior and sparkling seats reminiscent of classic burger joints.

Last week, days before the res-taurant’s opening, the couple sat at a freshly upholstered booth and spoke about their vision for Zombiez as their three towheaded children, ages 2, 4 and 7, played in the lobby.

“We hope this is a place fami-lies can come,” Hassell said, “with something for parents to eat and (where) the kids can have a good time too.”

Hassell, who spent the last six years as executive chef at the Columbia Tower Club in Seattle, said Zombiez will offer simple food made with quality local ingredi-ents. Hamburger will be ground on site, French fries cut fresh and fish and chips made with local halibut. Even corn dogs will be made fresh.

“Enough care will be taken that

it’s about as healthy as you can get for hamburger and fries,” he said.

Hassell, a chef who graduated from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, has spent years traveling the country and the Western Hemisphere, cooking at restaurants, hotels and cruise ships. He met his wife while work-ing in Mexico, and the two lived in the Caribbean for four years after they were married.

The couple eventually moved back to the Seattle area to have a family and be closer to relatives, but the walls of Zombiez now boast the same bright oranges and blues as their home in the Caribbean.

The floor is painted a royal blue as well, a tiki sits on a counter fash-ioned from an old bowling lane and a porcelain parrot hangs play-fully in the corner.

“We really wanted to brighten it up,” Payne said.

The couple said they have dreamt for several years of owning their own restaurant on Vashon and have came close to purchasing a couple others. But when Zoomies went up for sale, they said, it just seemed right.

“We always thought this would be a neat place to have,” Payne said.

The two believe Zombiez will fill a niche that its predecessor did

as a family establishment and one of the few places on the Island to grab a quick meal. They said they themselves would have taken their family to Zoomies more if it had seemed more welcoming.

“Most people we know feel the same way,” Payne said.

Hassell said he thinks Zombiez will find a place on Vashon, but noted that he has a lot riding on the restaurant’s success. The cou-ple has put a considerable amount of their savings into the new busi-ness, he said, and has received help from family and friends. Hassell laughed when he recounted how their down payment on the restau-rant had come from the winnings off of a scratch lottery ticket.

“That’s where it came from, and we’ve gotten a lot more creative since then,” he said.

“I’m cashing in on a 25-year career,” he added. “Literally cash-ing in.”

As for the name, Hassell said it started as joke when he realized they would only have to change one letter on the Zoomies sign to spell Zombies. Their children liked it, though, as did their friends.

“It kind of stuck,” he said. (They’ve since replaced the “s” at the end of the name with a “z.”)

The restaurant will be set off with new sign complete with fluo-rescent paint and a black light, crafted by Island artist Paco Rollins.

“It’s Scooby-Doo zombies,” Hassell said. “Not blood and gore.”

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Corlean Payne and James B. Hassell take a break from finishing their reno-vation of the former Zoomies restaurant last week. The couple, pictured with their three children, opened the restaurant as Zombiez last weekend.

The King County LibrarySystem (KCLS) will create a tem-porary branch at the Vashon Plaza when Vashon’s current branch undergoes an extensive, yearlongremodel, officials have decided.

The space — half of the formerNAPA Auto Parts store — is near-ly 5,000 square feet. “We’re goingto operate close to a full-servicelibrary there,” said Greg Smith, director of facilities for KCLS.

The decision is a departure from the way remodels have been handled elsewhere, Smith said. Often, KCLS opens a small, walk-in space — large enough to drop off or pick up books and browse a few new selections. Residents, Smith said, are expected to go toa neighboring branch.

“In the case of Vashon, there is no neighboring branch,” he said. “We purposely found a spacewhere we could operate a library.”

Smith said he believes KCLS is close to obtaining its building permit for the remodel, which willnearly double the size of Vashon’s small branch. Once that’s in hand, the library system will put out a bid for the remodel and begin the project six weeks or so later.

The soonest the remodel couldbegin is August, he said. No staffwill be furloughed or transferred during the remodel, he added.

KCLS will soon undertake a minor build-out to get the new space ready to become a tem-porary library, Smith said. The branch will close for a week dur-ing the move, he added.

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Islanders have until June 7 to submit comments to King County about Vashon Allied Arts’ proposed performing arts cen-ter under state rules that require a comment period to explore a project’s environmental impact.

Comments submitted to the coun-ty’s Department of Development and Environmental Services will become a part of the proposal and will be included in the county’s review, said Dave Sandstrom, a planner with DDES.

“We’re not adversaries or advocates of the proposal,” he said. “We’ll do the best analy-sis we can and take what’s relevant (from the comments). It’s an ongoing process.”

Kirk Robinson, who’s managing the proj-ect for VAA, said he expects the county will issue a “determination of non-significance,” meaning that the county will find that the project is unlikely to have an adverse envi-ronmental impact.

“Everything we’re doing is clearly allowed,” he said.

The review is part of VAA’s effort to secure

a building permit as well an exception under the county’s critical areas rules; the critical areas review is triggered by the existence of wetlands adjacent to the building site.

Islanders can comment on any aspect of the project, from its environmental impact to the architectural character of the build-ing to VAA’s plans to restore wetlands on the property. “We’re looking at the whole site,” Sandstrom said.

VAA has proposed building a 20,000-square-foot performing arts center, which will extend 255 feet along Vashon Highway S.W., from the corner of the inter-section at the highway and Cemetery Road to close to the Blue Heron Arts Center. At its peak, the roof will be 44 feet tall. According to documents filed with DDES, the main floor will be buried four feet “to reduce the height and scale of the new building.”

The project is being designed by LMN Architects, a Seattle-based firm that has designed other performing arts centers, including Benaroya Hall and McCaw Hall in Seattle. Architects hope the structure will attain a silver-level LEED certification — or third out of four possible levels a building

can receive under an international rating system for environmental friendliness.

The total site is about four acres, with two acres of it made up of wetlands or the buffer area surrounding the wetlands. VAA proposes installing 100 parking spots in two paved parking lots — one to the south of the Blue Heron where a gravel lot now exists and another along the eastern edge of the new structure, off of Cemetery Road.

King County’s Historic Preservation Office has raised concerns about the struc-ture’s impact on the historic character of the corner, one of the most historically intact intersections in the county. According to the preservation office, the size and scale of the project will overwhelm the corner and the barn-inspired character will fit in poorly.

VAA, in a five-page addendum to its state-mandated environmental checklist, said its architects looked to well-known principles of design to make the structure compatible with the historic buildings on the corner. A design can attempt a literal replication or intentional opposition, for instance, VAA said in its addendum. The design team, it went on, “consciously avoided a literal

resemblance of historic styles” and instead “chose to make abstract references to the surrounding historic setting.”

VAA’s proposal also includes extensive wetlands restoration, including the removal of invasive weeds and the installation of a “structurally complex native plant commu-nity,” according to the document it submit-ted to DDES. A proposed sculpture garden that would be located within the wetlands area is not included in the project’s current permit application.

Robinson said he expects the project willreceive a green light from the county within two to three months. Groundbreaking won’t occur, however, until VAA has nearly all ofthe money it needs pledged or in-hand, he said. VAA currently needs to raise another $6 million for the $16 million project.

County begins comment period for VAA’s performing arts center

Written comments should be sent to DDES, Building & Fire Services Division, 900 Oakesdale Ave. S.W., Renton, 98057-5212. For more information, contact DDES Project Manager Mark Mitchell at 296-7119 or email him at [email protected].

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EDITORIAL

Destination Vashon — published with today’s Beachcomber — is, of course, meant for visitors. It includes a detailed map, information about galleries and arts organizations, a look at the Strawberry Festival, a helpful list of farm stands, public beaches and restaurants and much more.

But we believe Islanders — even those who have lived here many years — will also find gems tucked within its 74 pages. There are a couple of articles about Island history; a great look at the role the Vashon Theatre plays on the Island; a take-out on Vashon’s quilting community and a wonderful opening essay by Bianca Perla, a naturalist who returned to Vashon after several years away.

In short, it’s a celebration of Vashon — its people, creativity, natural beauty and rugged past. What’s not to love?

Here at The Beachcomber, the publication is a considerable project, coming, as it does, amongst the unrelenting march of weekly newspapers. But it’s also a chance for us to consider just what it is that makes this Island special, why it is so many of us have chosen to live here and why some — raised on the Island — have returned.

Particularly special this year is something we’ve never done before in an issue of Destination — a photo spread of 32 Islanders who have a certain style or flair, people who have a look that captures something about who we are as an Island. Farmers and artists. Rowers and soccer players. Baristas and super moms. Conceptualized by arts editor Elizabeth Shepherd and shot by freelance photographer Michele AnneLousie Cohen, it’s a rich portrait of the Island and a pro-found statement about our shared humanity. We think many of our readers will enjoy it.

A nod of gratitude to our advertisers, whose support of this project makes it possible. To the photographers who so gra-ciously contribute work. And to our freelance writers, a small but skilled stable of contributors.

We have many copies of Destination Vashon here at the office. We hope you’ll stop by and grab some extras. Take one to your doctor’s office, another to your place of employment. Send one to that college roommate you’ve been trying to lure out for a visit or those East Coast relatives who haven’t a clue what this far-western corner has to offer.

And feel thankful that through some bit of good fortune, you washed up on the shores of a place where the air is fresh, the woods are thick and the people are creative, thoughtful and fun.

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As a kid, I learned to swim at a public pool and spent my child-hood summers there. I became a lifeguard and certified swim instructor in high school, just as many of Vashon’s high school and college-age people are doing now at the Vashon Pool. When I left my hometown, I took swimming with me, literally all over the world. And when I moved to Vashon, I brought it here. There are very few things more satisfying in my life than teaching someone to swim.

Do we want these experiences for our own kids? Is swimming important enough to keep it going at a public venue? I think so.

This year, the Vashon Pool has the best shot it’s had in three years to flourish. We at the park district have learned a lot about running a pool in our first two years of man-agement, and we are ready to apply that knowledge this year. We have an experienced manager working to optimize the value of the pool.

But pools do not pay for them-selves. They never have. They

do provide a place for the community and families to share fun times. They also provide low-impact fitness oppor-tunities for all

ages and a safe place for kids to meet up with their friends.

How much does our Vashon community value that experience? That is the question park district commissioners need to answer, and that answer can only come from you, the Island community.

In 2010, King County trans-ferred the pool to the Vashon Park District, along with some seed money. After the first year, the district began subsidizing the pool, supporting 6,000 user days last year. To put this in context, the park district also maintains athletic fields at a comparable cost per user.

The Vashon Pool provides water safety education, swimming les-

sons, low-impact exercise, fun activities and special events at an affordable price for most families. It is unique in that it is the only pool on the Island with starting blocks and six lanes to accom-modate swim meets, the only pool to subsidize membership and the only pool with a slide and diving board, a ping pong table and pub-lic tennis courts next door.

Does the Vashon Pool, with its legacy and memories help to define Vashon? You’ll answer that question with your support of the Vashon Pool this summer. If you want to have a thriving public pool, you can keep it by using it — get a swim pass, sign up for les-sons, host a party at the pool. I’ll see you there.

— Lu-Ann Branch is a Vashon Park District commissioner and

avid swimmer.

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The Vashon Pool: Support it this summerPARK DISTRICTBy LU-ANN BRANCH

The Vashon Pool will open for the season at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 26. It will offer a pool party and free swim from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, May 28. See www.vashonparkdistrict.org for more information.

Unleashed dogs

A running happy dog is a truly sweet sight. But during bird migratory and fledging periods, they can do irreparable harm to a species’ habits and habitat. The past two months at Fern Cove have seen flocks of migrating waterfowl, shore birds, osprey and two newly-fledged eaglets whose first shaky flights land them on the beach where they ratchet up their nerve for the trip back to the nest.

Recently, I watched a Cove visitor’s three off-leash dogs chase the

eaglets into the brush and then scatter a group of brants who were feed-ing before continuing their migration. One dog’s person reassured me that her dog “never catches one.” A bird that has to expend energy avoiding dogs after fly-ing thousands of miles (with thousands more to go in some cases) is a bird at risk.

Flock sizes have diminished in the years we have lived here. I’m sure there are a lot of reasons for this. There are also simple things we can do to mitigate that trend. Most Vashon dog lovers I know love their pets and also care deeply about the environment. In this spirit, and for the

birds, please keep your dog on a leash in sensi-tive areas.

— Kate Thompson

VAA arts center

For 40-plus years we’ve been Vashon Islanders and have loved living here. We still do. Duringthose years we’ve enjoyed many of VAA’s perfor-mances, programs and lectures. A performing arts center has been an ongoing wish of ours. So we are very excited about the possibility of having one; we think it is well past due. It is our

opinion that the location is perfect — in the center of the Island and close to the school campus.

We appreciate the history of Center as an early hub of community life. When we moved to the Island, we knew the Old Fuller Store as the Therkelson House and the roasterie as the Country Store. We certainly agree that these build-ings should be preserved because of their historical and architectural sig-nificance, but not so with the McFeeds building, formerly an auto repair garage. All over the Island there is a mix of old and new buildings that exist happily side-by-side.

When traveling around the Island, one cannot help but notice this diversity. It’s a part of the Island’s culture that we appreciate.

We don’t feel that the scale of the planned VAA building diminishes the other historic buildings at Center; the two-story Fuller Store is about the same height as the planned performing arts facil-ity, and the roasterie and Mitchell buildings, when combined, are about as long. The Island’s first school was located at Center; its educational legacy will continue with an arts center. Its central Island location will be con-venient for all age groups, both performers and those of us in the audience.

We’re looking forward to being able to attend programs at the new arts center. We think that it will honor the past and set a path to the future. We urge Islanders to join us in lend-ing your support, vocally and financially, to this exciting endeavor.

— IdaGay and Tom Nicolino

VMIHA supports the arts agency

I’d like to detail the Vashon-Maury Island

Heritage Association’s (VMIHA) position regard-ing plans for the new Vashon Allied Arts (VAA) performing arts center. (“County officials question art center’s design,” May 9.) VMIHA’s board approved a motion that read “VMIHA should consider formally and publicly supporting the efforts of another island non-profit organization when the mission and projects of that non-profit intersect with the mission and organizational health of VMIHA. Specifically VMIHA should support Vashon Allied Arts’ build-ing project because it will almost certainly benefit VMIHA.”

This motion passed with one dissenting vote. As a result, the VMIHA board drafted and approved send-ing the following letter to the VAA’s board.

“The Vashon Maury Island Heritage Association enthusiastically supports Vashon Allied Arts’ goal to provide a much needed island center for the visual and performing arts. The heritage association

applauds VAA’s efforts to support, sustain and pro-mote the arts on Vashon-Maury Islands. We look forward to working with VAA on historical displays which will be incorporated in the new center. The VMIHA board salutes and thanks VAA!”

The VAA’s presentation of its project to our board described the long and costly design process VAA has undertaken. We were made aware that the VAA project is already at the construction document stage and VAA has pro-vided several opportuni-ties for public viewing and comment. Comments with respect to design and other new construction at Center were voiced during the VMIHA board discussion.

The VMIHA board voted to support the VAA’s efforts to provide a new performance arts center without taking a position on the design because it was the heritage associa-tion’s view that our goals and VAA’s goals intersect where Islanders and visitors appreciate cultural activ-

ity and attend community events.

— Bob Fetterley, board

president, VMIHA

McFeeds is not an historic structure

With the community’s interest in the historic aspects of the Center cross-road, I thought you might like some of the history of the old McFeeds.I don’t know what was originally on that corner, but if my memory is cor-rect, it was the late 60s or early 70s when Dick Bain moved a quonset hut onto the empty southeast cor-ner of the intersection. He put a tall front on the hut, and that’s when McFeeds began. At that time it was mostly a place to buy hay, straw and farm animal feed.

I don’t know where the Army surplus quonset hut came from. Of course, they were designed during World War II to be eas-ily raised and taken down in order to house troops or warehouse goods, so it

wouldn’t have been too dif-ficult to transport it, prob-ably in sections.

By some measures, McFeeds is, of course, an old structure, but it doesn’t seem to have had a historic relationship to its corner. Or to the wonderful old buildings on the western corners of the intersec-tion or the Odd Fellows Hall that is now the Blue Heron.

— Jean Ameluxen

Garden TourOther groups could benefit too

With the warm spring weather, we are out in the garden, eager to take on the many garden tasks. And as we have for 10-plus years, we are eagerly anticipating the Island garden tour.

What a wonderful opportunity to see the amazing gardens of other islanders and to support a worthy cause — arts and artists in our community. The only thing that could make it even better would

be if the funds raised from the Garden Tour went to a variety of worthwhile orga-nizations.

Wouldn’t it be great if funds went one year to Vashon HouseHold and the next to the Land Trust? The following year funds could go to Vashon Schools, and after that to the Vashon-Maury Heritage Association. Year by year the Garden Tour could support VAA and the Food Bank and VIGA and the park dis-trict and others. Or to make the infusion of funds come around to each organization more often, maybe each year two groups could split the proceeds.

We just came across promo for the 2012 Whidbey Island Garden Tour. This year it “benefits groups that work toward improving Whidbey Island’s common habitat.”

We could do that. We could support the arts and so much more.

— Andrea Avni

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We did as you suggested and applied to a lender to get our pre-approval for a loan. I can’t believe everything the lender wants from us! They asked for two years of tax returns, two months of our pay stubs, money to pay for a credit check, all

of our bank statements for a couple of months and the latest reports of our IRA’s and any other savings or investments. Is that legal? Can they sell that information? Is it safe? Do they all do that?

All lenders will ask for this information. They need it to get a complete picture of you fi nancially. Many of the stricter standards for lending are a result of the melt down we experienced that start-

ed the recession. Lenders were making shaky loans to people who really couldn’t afford to pay them back. The banks didn’t ask for suffi cient documentation and we are all still paying the price for those mistakes.

There are privacy policy statements in the paperwork you probably received from the lender. Check through it and I’m sure you’ll discover that they are protecting your privacy. They won’t be selling the information and will share information only with those entities that need it to complete the application.

I think it’s a good idea for everyone to have their fi nancial documents organized and easily accessible in one fi le. Part of the “hassle” of applying for a loan for most people is the process of having to dig through their stuff to fi nd all the pa-perwork. If we all organized this information it would be easy to keep it updated and handy.

Getting pre-approved is such an important step to take before you even begin to look for a home. Once you are fi nished with that process you’ll have a better idea of what you can afford to spend on a home and what your monthly housing costs will be. Remember to add tax and insurance to the principal and interest payments to get a true picture of your mortgage payment.

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Raccoons? Raspberries? A fresh theme will liven up the Strawberry Festival It’s not often that I attempt to put in my

two cents on an issue. Occasionally when I do, I get blasted for it, even though I’m always 100 percent correct. But I could no longer resist saying something about Strawberry Festival. In case you missed it, there’s a seismic shift underway regard-ing the event’s name. The Chamber of Commerce has eliminated the word “Strawberry” from the logo, and they say they might transition to “Vashon Festival” in years to come.

The reasons for this transition are that strawberries are no longer grown on Vashon and that the Chamber wants to redirect attention to our local art and music. I’m guessing that another factor is that after years of fielding the same ques-tion (“So where ARE the strawberries anyway?”), the normally calm and always charming folks at the Chamber have had enough. I know for a fact that if I were in their shoes, I’d grit my teeth and smile for the first 10 times I was asked. On the 11th, I’d respond with <expletives deleted>.

Nevertheless, it’s appropriate to note that the relative non-abundance of an agri-cultural product has not prevented many other small communities (as discovered during an extensive five-minute Internet search) from having festivals for plants. Universally liked fruits seem to be the most common subjects, with many festivals for strawberries (Burien also has one), peaches, apples and even blackberries. Vegetables

are less regaled, but even so there are spin-ach festivals in three towns in our nation alone: Lenexa, Kan., Crystal City, Texas., and Alma, Ark.

Not wanting to be outdone by anyone, especially Texans, the

town of Alma went so far as to proclaim itself “Spinach Capital of the World.” They have a Popeye statue that was stolen once (possibly by Texans) and a huge water tank painted to look like the world’s largest can of spinach. According to their website, they came up with this ambitious plan after “doin’ some noggin’ scratching” about how to put their little town on the map.

For me, the real problem with having a strawberry festival is that everyone else has them, including lackluster towns (read: Burien). Even so, without a local icon on which to hang our festival, we might miss out on some easy money ... I mean, we might not be as effective at promoting our local artists. So I believe that we should take a lesson from the intrepid razorbacks of Alma and identify with something uniquely noteworthy to highlight how really unusual we are, and also so that we

don’t have to compete with the likes of Burien. With that in mind, I’d like to offer a few fresh ideas for a new Vashon-centric festival theme, compiled after my own noggin’ scratching and two fresh IPAs:

don’t grow them either, but lots of us are sourpusses so it seems like a natural.

of being obnoxious, but I don’t like the deer because they eat everything I plant, so I’m not going to include them in this list.

festivals, but you can make rude noises in public and get away with it. You gotta love that.

Memphis that features grilled farm-raised raccoon (really), which is clearly disgusting. We could instead show off our respect for the natural world by highlighting the gentle tem-perament of these cute and harmless (except to our poultry and pets) creatures.

Furry creatures making rude noises — I like it.

didn’t I think of this higher up the

known worldwide for its place in UFO history and yet we say NOTHING about it, possibly for fear of looking silly. But hey, we didn’t get to where we are today with-

There are no other UFO festivals nearby, so I say we go big and change the name to the Vashon UFO Mega-Festival and Alien Extravaganza. Put that in

I’ll contact Roswell, New Mexico, tomor-

Someone will need to check into the avail-ability of alien costumes for the parade, and someone else could get our many artists started on publicity posters.

Maybe we could transition into this by making our aliens look like strawberries.

— Greg Wessel is an Island writer full of good ideas.

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Vashon-Maury Island Groundwater ProtectionCommittee Seeks Members

The Vashon-Maury Island Groundwater Protection Committee

is seeking new members to provide advice on matters pertaining to

groundwater protection on Vashon-Maury Island. There are two pending

vacancies on the ten member committee that provides counsel to the

King County Executive and the Metropolitan King County Council. One

seat represents the Community Council; the other seat represents island

sewer or water utilities or associations.

Members are asked to volunteer for a minimum of a three year term,

attending a meeting once every three months plus occasional subcom-

mittee meetings or fi eld trips. Meeting locations are generally held in The

Vashon Fire and Rescue Emergency Operations Center.

King County’s Vashon-Maury Island Groundwater Protection committee

was established in 2001 and has built a reputation as an effective voice

for water resource monitoring and protection. Programs such as precipi-

tation, stream and groundwater monitoring, the Water Resource Evalua-

tion, the Watershed Plan, and various education programs including the

Liquid Assets publication are the legacy of the Committee to date.

To receive an application contact Larry Stockton at (206) 296-1910 or

[email protected]

For more information on the Groundwater Protection Program see:

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Even without racoons, the Straw-berry Festival is a lively event, filled with Island characters, music, food and fun.

Using ‘Outside’ Skills for Busi-ness Success: Learn how to inte-grate personal talents to create a richer, more successful business. Author and radio commentator Christine Hemp will address her own creative work and how it has informed and enriched her busi-ness. Register by calling 463-2069. Noon at the Vashon Library.

Preschool Story Time: Zeke Burgin will read to kids and par-ents. 11 a.m. at Vashon Bookshop.

Spanish Story Time: Little ones are invited for Spanish stories.Speakers of all languages are welcome. 10:30 a.m. Fridays at the Vashon Library.

Senior Center Birthday Table: If your birthday is in May, you will be honored at the High Table. The lunch costs $4.25. 11:45 a.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Marijuana Anonymous: Pull the cord to ring the bell for entry. 7 p.m. at the Vashon Presbyterian Church.

Vashon Pool Opens: The pool will open to the public. See www.vashonparkdistrict.org for details. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Farmers Market: Discover salad, turnips, salad greens, artisan chocolates and caramels as well as gluten-free treats. Find fresh eggs, deer-proof plants, dahlia tubers, heirloom tomato, pumpkin and squash starts and fresh fish. Cel-ebrate craft beer week with locally crafted brews. Take home garden journals, wooden kitchen imple-ments and bowls, pine needle

baskets, handmade drums and tie-dye fashions. Enjoy authentic south-of-the-border fare for lunch and soak in the scene to the tune of local musicians. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Village Green.

Kayak Center Opens: The Vashon Park District Kayak Center will open for the season at 10 a.m. Regular hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays. See www.vashonparkdistrict.org for more information.

Play Day: Children and adults are invited to join Vashon Wilderness Program staff for a morning of nature-based field games. Free. For more information, see www.vashonwildernessprogram.org. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Agren Park.

Adopt-a-Cat Day: Vashon Island Pet Protectors (VIPP) hosts an Adopt-A-Cat Day every Saturday. Go to www.vipp.org for more in-formation or call VIPP at 389-1085. 11:30 am. to 2:30 p.m at 12200 S.W. 243rd St.

Nonagenarian Birthday Party: Dorothy Hall-Bauer, author of “Islanders, Meet Your Neighbors,” will host a picnic for all Islanders turning 90 or more this year. All nonagenarians are welcome with their friends, family or caregivers. Also invited are all Islanders who have been featured in Dorothy’s six-volume series. Bring a donation for the food bank or the Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness. For more information, call Hall-Bauer at 463-5664. 2 to 6 p.m. at 10127 S.W. Burton Drive.

Unitarian Fellowship: The group will hold its annual meeting. 9:30 a.m. in Lewis Hall behind the Burton church.

Pool Party: Free swimming, games, music and food. 1 to 4 p.m. at the Vashon Pool.

Vashon Community Scholar-ship Awards: Graduating seniors will receive their awards at this annual ceremony. 6 p.m. Wednes-day, May 30, at the Vashon High School gym.

A Long Way Home: Islanders are invited to an informational night about A Long Way Home in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala.

Its mission is to use sustainable design and appropriate materials to construct self-sufficient schools that promote education, employ-ment and environmental steward-ship. For more information, email [email protected]. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 1, at the home of Nancy Murphy and Mark Rutherford, 23605 Vashon High-way, S.W.

Storefront Studo Final Presen-tion: University of Washington architecture students will offer their final proposals for Vashon, including signage, façade im-provements and adaptive reuse of historic buildings. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 1, at the Land Trust Building.

Job Procurement Series: The New Job Search in the New Economy will be offered at 1 p.m. Satur-day, June 2. Topics covered will include adjusting to the reality of the contemporary labor market, information on the top-paying professions, key fundamentals in preparing a resume and where to find other job search resources. Mid-Life Career Changing in the New Economy will meet at 2:15 p.m. Saturday, June 2. It will include how age discrimination af-fects job searches, job search skills and resources, career changes and technology as a job search tool. Both will meet at the Vashon Library. Call 463-2069 to register.

BioBlitz 2012: Experts and non-experts are needed for the first BioBlitz on Vashon. The blitz will be a 24-hour biological inventory of a specific place on Vashon. For more information, see www.vashonnaturecenter.org/bioblitz or email [email protected]. 3 p.m. Saturday, June 2, to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 3.

Jim Martin Memorial Alumni Baseball Game: All former Pirate baseball players are invited to the second annual alumni game dedicated to Martin. There will be a home run derby and a barbecue. VHS players should RSVP by May 26 to [email protected] or 423-2606. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sun-day, June 3, at the Jim Martin Field at Vashon High School.

Beyond Ancestry.com — Searching for Your Ancestors Online: Learn about census records, vital records, online news-papers, state archives and librar-

ies, cemetery records, military records and more. Free. Call 463-2069 to register. 2 p.m. Sunday, June 3, at the Vashon Library.

Bringing the Beach to You: Vashon Beach Naturalists and junior naturalists will roam the tide line in search of beach life and then bring the sea creatures back for people to look at. They’ll tell about the animals’ lives and then return them to their watery homes. The event is intended for the elderly, those of limited mobil-ity and their families. 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, June 3, at Jensen Point.

Great Books Discussion Group: The June selection is “The Darling” by Anton Chekhov. 6:30 p.m. Mon-day, June 4, at the Vashon Library.

Strawberry Festival Drum-ming: The class is practicing new rhythms for this year’s parade. The cost is $60 for four classes or $18 per night. Barter is possible. For more information, call Geoff Johns at 567-5822. 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. at the RhythmJoy Studio, 10354 S.W. Mukai Circle and 8 to 9 p.m. playing for dancers at Havurat Ee Shalom on the Westside Highway, both beginning Thursday, May 24.

Origami: Weslie Rogers demon-strates how to make coasters or wreaths. at 10 a.m. Friday, May 25, at the Vashon Senior Center.

Chicken Butchery Class: The group will spend the morning processing 25 birds and then eat lunch prepared by host farmer/chef Karen Biondo, including liver pate and fresh hearts. Particpants may bring a few birds of their own. The class price is $165. To register, email farmsteadmeatsmith@

gmail.com. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, May 25, at La Biondo Farm and Kitchen.

Reclaiming the Heart of Pow-erful Connection with Self and Family: Cedarsong Nature School will present a half-day therapeutic program of discovery and wellness skills in the forest. Participants can experience un-structured time in nature, as well as therapeutic interactions using nature as teacher. This program is for families with children 7 to 12. The day will be facilitated by Leslie A. Chertok, Jenny Easley and Erin Kenny. The cost is $135 to $220. For more information, see www.cedarsongnatureschool.org. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 26, at Cedarsong Nature School.

Vashon Delta Dogs: Learn how to be part of a pet partner team. For more information, contact Kathy Farner at farnerkv@ comcast.net. 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 29, at Vashon High School.

Shall We Dance — Dance for People with Parkinson’s: The Vashon Parkinson’s Suppport group will offer a dance session specifically designed for people with Parkinson’s and other neu-rological disorders. Two trained instructors will lead the session, open to people with Parkinson’s, muliple sclerosis and others who have neurological damage, along

with a caregiver. For more infor-mation, call Steve Steffens at 567-5976. 1 to 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 1, at Vashon Lutheran Church.

Metal Arts: Learn to use a plasma cutter and basic welding tech-niques with steel and assorted found objects while creating a small metal sculpture. Artist David Erue will teach the class. The cost is $70 for VAA members and $85 for non-members, plus a $50 ma-terials fee. To register, see www. VashonAlliedArts.org. Noon to 3 p.m. Saturdays, June 2 and 9, at Erue’s shop on Cove Road.

Kabbalah 101: Rabbi Alyjah Navy will lead this class. Participants will receive Kabbalah insights and techniques for spiritual healing, enhanced intimacy, abundance, inner joy and purpose in life. No prior study is needed. The cost is $40 with scholarships available. 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at Vashon Intuitive Arts.

Vashon College Courses: Vashon College will offer two new classes next month. Competent Com-munication will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, June 7 to 28, and Ethical Decision-Making will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays, June 6 to 27. The cost of the classes is $110 and $100 respectively. The classes meet at the Sheffield Building. For more information and to register, see www.vashoncollege.org.

The annual ceremony to recognize veterans will begin at 11 a.m. Monday — Memorial Day — at the Vashon Cemetery. Several Island groups will participate, including the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Eagles. The program will feature music and veterans program. For more infor-mation on the event or veterans’ activities on the Island, call Phil Volker at 408-7236. Pictured above, a scene from the Memorial Day ceremony last year.

CALENDARVashon-Maury

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.

Ends May 24.

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Opens May 25

Vashon Island School District: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 24, at McMurray Middle School.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 29, at Station 55.

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To earn his stripes to become an Eagle Scout, Ky Burton (pictured on the left in the photo), created directional signs for the Vashon Park District’s Burton Woods. He had some help from his friends, Alec Spencer, middle, and Tim Hanson, right. Burton initially put up the signs three weeks ago, but they were vandalized and taken down. Now, the park district has posted a notice that the agency has sanctioned the signs.Burton worked on the project for about two years, first drawing up the plans in the winter of 2010. The troop helped Burton weld, cut, route and paint. In all, there will be five sign posts along with three to four signs that will be mounted on each post. “This project really means a lot to me because when I was a novice in crew, I would always run the trails,” Burton said. “I loved running through the lush, beautiful forest. I remember a whole group of rowers and I would decide to go for a run through the trails only to

get lost almost instantly within the for-est. We spent almost an hour looking for an exit.” Burton also noted that vandalism con-cerns him because it suggests that a few

people are very possessive of the Burtontrails, even though they are owned by thecommunity itself. “I believe that once the signs are up they will come to like them,” Burton added.

Several Harbor School students recently spent three days out of the school, learning about pro-grams that help the homeless on Vashon and in Seattle. On a visit to the Pioneer Square Clinic in Seattle, they met Mary Larson, an artist and nurse at the clinic who “sells” her portraits of the homeless in exchange for food, clothing and necessities that benefit them and low income families. The students decided to “earn” a painting and collected 50 pairs of mittens, 100 pairs of socks and 50 wool caps, which they donated to the clinic. They also started a food drive to collect 1,000 cans of food for the Vashon food bank. As a final event, those students who brought in 10 cans of food had a rare opportunity to throw a pie in the face of James Cardo, above, the head of school. The new painting hangs at the school as reminder of the stu-dents’ effort to help homeless people.

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Candidate who raises the most for charity will be named the winnerBy NATALIE JOHSONStaff Writer

Four Islanders — two of them of the furry variety — have put their names in as candidates for Vashon’s unofficial mayor.

The annual competition, with results announced at the Strawberry Festival, counts donations to candidates’ favorite charities as votes. The contest, sponsored by the Vashon Chamber of Commerce, is more about fundraising than running the Island, as the winner has few official duties.

Community activist Hilary Emmer announced last week that she will cam-paign for the first time, raising money for both the dental van and a new medical voucher program. Tim Johnson, head of the community council board, will fundraise for Vashon Community Care. And in an unorthodox but not unheard of move, two pets will run for mayor, collecting dona-tions for the Vashon Island Pet Protectors.

Emmer has lived on Vashon a dozen years and been involved in several Island organi-zations. She played a lead role in increasing the number of visits by the Medical Teams International dental van and adding chil-dren at Chautauqua Elementary School to its client base. The van, which provides den-tal care to those who can’t afford it, is spon-sored by the Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness (IFCH). Emmer hopes to raise $5,000 for IFCH to continue bringing the service for both adults and children.

Emmer also hopes to raise $5,000 for Vashon Youth & Family Services (VYFS) to begin a new medical voucher program. She said the program would be similar to the Granny’s Attic one that currently provides

funds for low-income Islanders to use at the Vashon Health Center. The VYFS vouchers, she said, could be used at multiple provid-ers, including specialists.

“I want my running to provide seed money for a new program for this to happen and hopefully we can generate more dona-tions over the years,” Emmer said. “I’d love everyone on this island to have access to the medical care they need.”

Tim Johnson has only lived on Vashon a couple years but calls himself a “compulsive joiner.” He is currently the president of the community council board and director of Granny’s Attic. Johnson said he decided to run for unofficial mayor in support of Vashon Community Care (VCC) after hearing of the center’s financial struggles and how it doesn’t turn anyone away for inability to pay.

“They struggle to make ends meet,” he said.

Johnson hopes to raise at least $7,000 for VCC and plans to run a fun and lively cam-paign, perhaps even with attack ads.

“I don’t care about winning or losing. I just care about raising money,” he said.

Geoff Fletcher, president of the Vashon Island Pet Protectors (VIPP), said he believes this is the first year a candidate has cam-paigned for VIPP. Flag and Arti, a female dog and cat who are both up for adoption, will take up the position together.

“We thought, ‘What better symbol for the pet protectors?’” he said.

Flag is a 13-year-old mixed breed who is energetic and playful despite having only three legs. Arti is a 9-year-old cat with long, dark hair who was given to VIPP in 2009 has become sort of the unofficial spokescat for the shelter, Fletcher said.

Donations to the animals’ mayoral cam-paign will go to VIPP’s adoption program as well as its spay and neuter program. Fletcher said Islanders would likely see Flag

out around town campaigning, especially at the Farmers Market. Arti, however, will do more behind-the-scenes work.

Fletcher said he hoped the spokesanimals would not just raise money for VIPP, but also draw attention to what VIPP does.

“People can see ... Arti and Flag — that that’s what we’re about as an organization,” he said.

Last year the Washington State Fairies won the unofficial mayor post, raising money for the Vashon Island Public Schools Foundation. Winners in past years have raised up to $15,000 for their charitues,

Debi Richards, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, said it’s not too late

for Islanders to throw in their name for therace. Candidates typically begin campaign-ing by late June, she said, with donation boxes around the Island as well as personal appearances in town. Candidates will also ride in the Tom Stewart Memorial Car Parade during Strawberry Festival.

Fifteen percent of all the donations raised will go to the chamber, Richards said.

Stiff competition: People, pets vie for unofficial mayor of Vashon

Clockwise from top left, Tim Johnson, Hilary Emmer, Arti the cat and Flag the dog will all cam-paign for unofficial mayor of Vashon. Arti and Flag will campaign together for VIPP.

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individuals involved, will bring this com-munity to a new place around youth use,” she said.

Vashon’s youth report a higher use of marijuana and alcohol than their counter-parts in other communities, according to surveys conducted over the last few years. The 2010 Healthy Youth Survey, released last year, for instance, found that 58 percent of the 12th-graders at Vashon High School reported consuming alcohol in the previous 30 days, compared to 40 percent statewide; 39.5 percent of those same 12th-graders said they’d used marijuana over a 30-day period, compared to 27 percent statewide.

Vashon was selected as one of three plac-es in King County to receive targeted funds in part because of survey results, according to Jackie Berganio, community coordinator for King County Mental Health. “Our needs assessment showed that this is a community that could use more intervention,” she said.

She and her colleagues were also struck by what Berganio called Vashon’s “readi-ness” for such a project and the fact that the Island successfully garnered a large federal grant three years ago to address the issue of teen substance use.

“I think Vashon has been creative already,” she said.

The initiative marks a change in the way the state is directing its substance abuse dollars. In the past, many communities would get a piece of the pie by submitting individual and often small grant requests. On Vashon, those grants have helped to fund several VYFS programs, including the Guiding Good Choices curriculum for middle school students and their parents and parent coaching at the PlaySpace, also

a VYFS program.Last year, the state announced that it was

adopting a different approach, called the Prevention Redesign Initiative, a coordi-nated funding approach targeted at those communities considered most at risk — those with high use rates, high drop-out rates or considerable economic need. The idea is to focus funding in fewer communi-ties and to provide longterm support, state officials said.

“Our goal in redesigning and targeting our state prevention services is to leverage enough resources in the highest-need com-munities to achieve greater reductions in substance abuse and the harm it causes,” Chris Imhoff, director of the state’s Division of Behavior Health and Recovery Services, said in an email. “Community leaders are prepared to use these resources to help more young people succeed, and to improve the health and safety of their community.”

Vashon has already received one grant via the Prevention Redesign Initiative, funds that were used to hire Terri Tilotta, a sub-stance abuse counselor who began working at the Vashon School District last fall.

Maaz, Blair and Luke McQuillin, VARSA’s coordinator, have spent the last several months working with other Island advocates on a plan for how they intend to use the state funds. All three said the pro-cess has been rewarding, in part because they brought several different players — from the school district to Vashon Allied Arts to the Vashon Park District — to the table to discuss how they can work together to support Vashon youth.

“We have a much tighter community working together,” McQuillin said.

Blair, who refers to herself as “an old VISTA volunteer,” said the community work has reminded her of her early days as a community organizer, when activists came together — with little money but a spirit

of determination — to tackle some prob-lems. In the course of this effort, she said, disagreements have, of course, surfaced. “But we’re all on the same page in terms of accepting responsibility and wanting to make a difference,” she said.

Particularly noteworthy, they said, has been the close working relationship VYFS and VARSA have established with the school district. “We’ve been partnering with them in a new way,” McQuillin said.

Maaz said the group’s action plan, recent-ly submitted to the state for approval, keeps in place VYFS’s early learning programs — parenting classes and parent coaching, for instance, that occur at PlaySpace. Had Vashon not gotten the grant money, VYFS would have lost funding for those popular

programs, he said.The plan also involves delegating some-

one to coordinate youth activities; improv-ing the training school personnel receive about substance abuse; analyzing programs now in place and ensuring the use of what he called “best practices” and establishing parent workshops and support groups.

The group considered using the funds to create a teen center, something many in the community have lobbied for, Maaz said. But a center would have taken nearly all of their funds and might reach only a small number of kids, he said. Finding someone to coordinate the many youth activities already on the Island, he said, “gives us more flexibility.”

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Rainier Haugen, left, spent Saturday morn-ing with other members of his Boy Scout troop creating a trail through the woods that flank Ober Park. The Eagle Scout project will not only create a nice trail for parents and kids, he said, but will also help to clean up the woods, a popular drinking and drug-dealing spot. “Obviously, it’s going to help,” he said.Jan Milligan, Vashon Park District’s executive director, concurred. “We’re going to take back this park for little kids,” she said, smiling.Ed Swan, who works with the Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse (VARSA) and was also clearing brush on Saturday, said he was pleased Haugen decided to take on the ambitious project. “It works to designate that this is a com-munity place, not a place for a few people to trash,” he said.

Bagpipes, fiddles, mandola and more at BethelMolly’s Revenge, with fiddler Rebecca Lomnicky and guests Kat Eggleston, John Dally and Wally Bell, will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Bethel Church. Listeners will hear bagpipes, whistle and fiddle, accompanied by guitar, bodhran and mandola.

Molly’s Revenge, a Celtic trio that presents traditional jigs and reels with a hard-driving style, has played top folk festivals in the United States and toured to Australia, Scotland and China.

Lomnicky, a Scottish fiddler, will take center stage in the concert — she was the 2005 winner of the Junior Division of the U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Competition, and in 2009, she won the Glenfiddich

International Scottish Fiddle Championship at Blair Castle in Scotland. Dally, Eggleston and Bell are well-known local performers.

Tickets for adults are $15 in advance and $17 at the door, kids 12 and younger and seniors are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Purchase at Vashon Bookshop, Bethel Church and at www.mollysrevenge.com. The show is for all ages until 11 p.m.

Singer/songwriter at the RoasterieTacoma songwriter Mary Win will bring the romance of her poetry and classical guitar stylings to a free show at Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie at 7 p.m. Friday. The night will start at 6 p.m. with an evening-long wine tasting hosted by Vashon Winery owner Ron Irvine, who will offer four wines for $10. Visit www.vashonwinery.com for information.

Cajun and rock at the BikePoultry In Motion, a local band that plays country, Cajun and rock music, will have a free show at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Red Bicycle Bistro.

The show will be a birthday bash of sorts for show-man Tommy Chong (of comedy duo Cheech and Chong) and band member Steve Amsden. Other band members are Gib Dammann, Bob Kueker, Dave Lang, Wilson Abbott and Chris Anderson, playing a mix of guitar, accordion, fiddle, mandolin and dobro.

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A multimedia show asks, ‘How does your garden grow?’By ELIZABETH SHEHERDArts Editor

An expansive collaboration between a group of more than 20 Island writers, thinkers, dancers, musicians and per-

formers will bloom on the Blue Heron stage this weekend, when “Through the Garden Gate” premieres as part of Vashon Allied Arts’ New Works series.

“Garden Gate” — described by its creators as a feast for the senses — was inspired by “Soul Gardening,” a 1999 book by Island author, inspirational speaker and land-scape designer Terry Hershey. The book, with a long list of rave reader views on Amazon.com, is described on the site as a tool that uses the metaphor of gardening to address readers’ “longing for spiritual growth, a healthy lifestyle, and a more centered life.”

Hershey, reached by phone at an airport while dashing back to Vashon after a business trip, said he hopes the new play has the same effect.

“Inside each of us is a garden, and it’s not about planting plants, it’s about cherishing the world we live in,” Hershey said. “That’s what this play is all about.”

The drama of the play, he said, comes from the charac-ters’ inner struggles to overcome problems in their com-plicated lives and achieve “intoxication — a willingness to just revel in what is here.”

Characters in the episodic show — structured as a mediation of the four seasons — include warring garden goddesses, dancing fairies, a broken young girl who finds the strength to grow up in a garden tended by her elderly neighbor, a couple of clueless tourists who learn to slow down and an older woman who overcomes the dark power of wintertime by drawing on her memories.

Hershey had high praise for Islanders Patricia Kelly and Pat Churchill, who co-produced and directed the show, conceiving it as an in-the-round style production that uses the entire Blue Heron gallery and performance space.

“Pat and Patricia are phenomenal to work with,” he said, adding that the pair had enticed an impressive array of Islanders to participate in the premiere.

The show’s personnel includes actors Kelly, Gordon Millar, Lissy Nichols, Michael Whitmore, Mia Giovanna

Helene Kuzma, Ellie Hughes, Gaye Detzer, Kirk Beeler, Tami Brockway Joyce, Jennifer Sutherland and Marc Powell. Abby Enson and Blue Heron Dance Company dancers will also have their turns in the spotlight, per-forming new dances created especially for the production. Hershey will also appear in the show, as will Island poet, author and magician Tom Pruiksma, who has written new poetry and conceived new magical tricks for the show.

New music will be part of the event as well. Islander Jason Staczek, perhaps best known for his evocative film scores for the acclaimed Canadian film director Guy Maddin, has composed and will perform new music for the production, and Nova Karina Devonie, an accom-plished performer and accordion and ukulele teacher on Vashon, will also appear in the show, along with percus-sionist Barrett Cooper, violinist Gaye Detzer and Island maestro Christopher Overstreet.

The play will introduce many Islanders to the creative spirit of Pat Churchill, who wrote much of the play.

Churchill grew up in the Northwest and had a second home on Vashon for many years but only returned to

live full time on the Island three years ago, after a long career as a producer and production manager for such well-known television programs and films as “Lost,” “Sea Biscuit,” “Space Cowboys” and “Disclosure.”

Her first foray into the cultural life of Vashon was as one of the planners of the literary festival, “Read On Write On Vashon” — an event that introduced her to Hershey, Kelly and some of the other performers who are now part of “Garden Gate.”

Churchill, who said that some of her favorite works of theater are by experimental innovators Robert Wilson and Richard Foreman, said the play’s creation was a process of discovery.

“It was quite a mulling over, it took a long time to figure out,” she said. “And being inspirational and spiritual, it’s not set up as a dramatic narrative.”

Instead, Churchill said, the play evolved organically — much like a garden — planted with a crop of native performers.

“These doors just kept opening,” she said. “It was a real sign to me that I should just keep going.”

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From left to right, Patricia Kelly, Tom Pruiksma, Terry Hershey, Ellie Hughes and Gordon Millar are among the actors who will take the stage in “Through the Garden Gate,” a New Works production presented by Vashon Allied Arts.

“Through the Garden Gate” will be presented at 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and 8 p.m. Saturday, at the Blue Heron. Tickets, $12/$15, are on sale at the Blue Heron, Heron’s Nest, Vashon Bookshop and www.brownpaper-tickets.com.

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A night of comedy will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, June 1, at Red Bicycle Bistro. An admission price of $5 will buy you plenty of new mate-rial by Per Lars Blomgren, Jim Farrell, Nigel Larson, Harris Levinson, Richard Moore, Steffon Moody and Craig Sutherland.

The evening will be a benefit for a not-so-funny cause — to help pay the medical expenses of Island performer and teacher Steffon Moody, who recently underwent surgery to repair a broken leg.

Michael Tomlinson, a singer, songwriter and record-ing artist from Texas, will perform a rare Seattle-area concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 2, at the Blue Heron. His concert, titled “Seeds of Love,” will provide an evening full of old and new songs, stories and laugh-ter. For tickets, $17/$20, call 463-5131 or visit VAA’s usual ticket outlets.

Rumor Has It, a large and lively band comprised of several well-known Vashon performers, will hold a special benefit concert on Saturday, June 2, in sup-port of the Vashon Island Public Schools Foundation.

The foundation is attempting to raise $500,000 to support the school district and to keep many of its programs intact.

Rumor Has It — made up of Roger Taylor, Steve Amsden, Kevin Almeida, Paul Colwell, Sarah Perlman, Larry Lawson, Dan Bruce and special guest Gen Amsden — plays a rich variety of dance-friendly music, from rock to country to bluegrass. The band will ask for donations ranging from $10 to $50 in support of the fundraiser. The event is 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. at Vashon Island Books, the old VFW Hall. Refreshments, including beer and wine, will be sold.

Makana, a com-poser and master of the slack key guitar style, will play a concert at Open Space for Arts & Community at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 7. Makana’s music can be heard in the Academy Award-winning movie ‘The Descendants,” and he’s toured

with such music giants as Jason Mraz, Santana, Elvis Costello, Sting, Jack Johnson and John Legend. For more information, visit www.makanamusic.com. Tickets, $15 and $17, are on sale at Vashon Bookshop and www.brownpapertickets.com.

Islanders eager to hear an orchestral sound while supporting music in the schools should beat a path to the Pops Concert — a blow-out event featur-ing more than 100 students from the Vashon High School band, the VHS Percussion Ensemble and the McMurray Middle School band. The concert takes place at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 31, in the VHS gym.

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Island Dance Theatre performs this weekNearly 30 young students of Island Dance Theatre, a Vashon Park District class taught by Kim Gallo, will present their spring dance recital, “My Favorite Things,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Vashon High School. The dancers, accom-panied by harp, trumpet and piano, will perform selections from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake,” as well as student-choreographed modern pieces, created especially for the show. Tickets cost $5 (children and seniors), $10 (adults) and $23 for a family of two adults and three or fewer kids. Above, Victoria Trujillo (center) is surrounded by Island Dance Theatre students in a “Swan Lake” excerpt.

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Vashon Island Junior Crew (VIJC) garnered 15 medals and qualified four boats for Nationals at the Northwest Regional Regatta at Vancouver Lake in Vancouver, Wash., last weekend. The crew also qualified four boats for Nationals last year, a record for the team at the time.

With 23 teams and thousands of athletes from across the region, the small club’s success stands out among the field of competitors. Of the 16 preliminary races the club entered, 14 boats qualified for the finals, so many that VIJC needed to borrow a boat from another club in order to compete in all events.

Four boats triumphed, winning gold medals and US Rowing trophies.

The JV women’s quad had their work cut out for them when the competing crew gained on them in the last 500 meters. The rowers, Hannah Russell, Kelsey Abella, Anna Ripley, Shannon Lipe and coxswain Kai Li Scheer, poured on the power and crossed the finish 1.5 seconds ahead.

In an even closer race, the JV men’s quad, with Liam McConnell, Alexander Wright, Jack Mask, Julian Baca and coxswain Rayna Shinn, led the field and took first by .94 seconds. Novice girls Scheer, Bryn Gilbert, Kirsten Girard, Kalie Heffernan and coxswain Ally Clevenger showed their strength and placed first in the quad race, finishing two boat lengths of open water ahead of the field.

For the first time ever, VIJC brought home the trophy for the girls’ high school eight, a serious but fun race where the crews dress to represent their schools. Sporting green and yel-low attire, complete with pirate tat-toos, were rowers Ella McConnell, Katelyn Carter, TerraJane Ripley, Halimah Griffin, Charlotte Kehoe, Avalon Koenig, Maya Krah, Taegan Lynch and coxswain Shinn.

Eight silver medals were won, three of them by boats that also qualified to compete at Nationals. The boy’s var-sity quad, with Baxter Call, Tate Gill, Gus Magnuson, Ryan Bingham and coxswain Sarah Warner; the girls’ var-sity double with Avalon Keonig and Emmie Kehoe, and the boys’ varsity double with Magnuson and Bingham. The other silver medalists were Scheer and Anna Ripley in the JV women’s double, Girard and Heffernan in the novice women’s double, Ben Zaglin and Ethan Rumberg in novice men’s

double, McConnell and Baca in the JV double and the novice women’s four with Gilbert, Girard, Krah, Lynch and coxswain Clevenger.

The crew also brought home three bronze medals. One of them went to a boat which also qualified for Nationals, the girls’ single rowed by Emmie Kehoe. Kehoe, however, has chosen not to race this event at Nationals and will instead concentrate on her double race with Koenig.

The boys’ JV double with Wright and Mask, and the boys’ novice quad, coxed by Clevenger with Charles Elliott, Rumberg, Patrick Hanson and Ben Zaglin — who substituted for Nathaniel Petram who ended up with a broken nose after being hit by a Frisbee — were happy with the bronze.

The USRowing Youth National Championships will be held June 8 to 10 in Oakridge, Tenn.

— Marianne Metz Lipe is on Vashon Rowing Club’s publicity committee.

By KEVIN ROSSFor The Beachcomber

Four Vashon athletes qualified to compete at the Tri-District track and field competition, held Thursday and Saturday at King’s High School in Shoreline. Islander Emma Levant moved on to the state competition.

Julie Wilson and Samantha Clements represented Vashon High School at the Tri-District event. Levant competed for Charles Wright Academy, where she attends school. Graham Peet, also an Islander, com-peted for the Northwest School, which is located on Capitol Hill in Seattle.

Eighteen schools from across the region competed at the 1A meet. The top five boys in each event, as well asthe top six girls, earned spots at State.

Levant, a senior at Charles Wright, qualified for the State track meet in three events. She set a season’s besttime of 16.96 in the 100-meter hurdles, placing third,and another season’s best time of 48.75 in the 300meter hurdles. Levant was also on the 4-by-400 relay team that qualified for State.

The two Pirate competitors were not able to qualify for state. Wilson, a senior, ran a 13.83 in the 100-meterdash preliminary race. However, she missed being in the top eight to qualify for the finals.

Samantha Clements, a junior at VHS who lives in West Seattle, placed ninth in the long jump final with a leap of 14 feet, 8 inches. In the triple jump she placed 12th with a jump of 30 feet, 8 inches.

Peet, a freshman at the Northwest School set a newrecord for his school in the 1600, which he finished in 4:37. He also beat his personal best by three seconds. Peet placed eighth overall in this very competitive event.

Peet said his goal all year has been to beat his school record in the event.

“I got off to a bad start,” Peet said. “However I was able to make up a lot of ground and relied on my kickto carry me to my personal best time in this event.”

In the 3200 meters, Peet had another personal best of9:57, missing his school record by one second.

The 1A State track and field meet will be held this weekend at Eastern Washington University inCheney.

— Kevin Ross is a VHS track and field coach.

Island athletes set the pace at Districts, one moves on to StateCrew rakes in medals, heads to Nationals

Shannon Lipe, Kelsey Abella, Hannah Russell, Anna Ripley and coxswain Kai Li Scheer rowed the girl’s JV quad at Regionals and won gold.

A car wash to offset the costs of sending junior crew members to Nationals will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Vashon Plaza. Tax-deductible gifts can be sent to VIRC, P.O. Box 79, Vashon, 98070.

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Vashon falls to Overlake in a state quarter-final matchBy KAREN O’NEILFor The Beachcomber

The Vashon High School boys soc-cer team achieved the distinction of being one of the top eight teams in the state, participating last weekend in state quarter-finals for the first time in six years.

The Pirates’ season finished after being knocked out of state compe-tition on Saturday, May 19, by the Overlake Owls, 4-1.

The Pirates had a stellar season with an overall record of 13 wins, five loss-es and one tie. The team’s Nisqually League record was nine wins, two losses and one tie. The league record includes a loss to Seattle Christian and a forfeit to Cascade Christian due to player ineligibility.

Out of four post-season games, Vashon played the undefeated Owls twice in a challenging week of state qualifier and quarter-final competition.

Earlier in the week at State playoffs in Centralia, Vashon beat Rochester High, 3-1, with one goal by Ezra Koening and two credited to Victor Moreira.

Vashon fans packed the bleachers Saturday in Redmond to watch the Pirates battle Overlake, whose roster includes a talented forward who also plays for the Seattle Sounders’ academy

team. Quickly after the start, Overlake’s forward scored three goals. Defender Sean O’Neil broke out from the back, exchanging passes with Koenig and pushed past the defense to score the goal for Vashon in the 33rd minute.

During the second half, Pirate defenders Jesse Hazzard and Jesse Turner contained Overlake’s several attacks while midfielder Nick Gass won many air balls with his agility and height. Midfielder Van Ralston worked hard, finding himself surrounded many times, but was still able to win balls and break out. Jacob Gateman and Chris Cirillo relieved players who were injured and held strong with the rest of the team.

Younger talent on the field was dis-played by midfielders Austin Heit and Shane Bedard. They covered well in the second half and kept attempts on Vashon’s goal limited, and the team was not outmatched.

A final goal for Overlake occurred in the 72nd minute from a defensive error resulting in elimination for Vashon.

Coach Paul Beytebiere said after the game that he was proud of the suc-cesses of the season and the way the team battled.

This year Pirates say goodbye to the starting talent of varsity seniors Jesse Turner, Jesse Hazzard, Nick Gass and Ezra Koenig, as well as exchange students Victor Moreira and Chris Cirillo. Looking to the future, the Pirates will keep freshman midfielder Austin Heit, sophomore midfielders

Jack Benner, Shane Beddard and Peter Amick, goalie Philip VanDevanter, as well as juniors Sean O’Neil, Van Ralston and Matt Swope.

— Karen O’Neil is a longtime VHS soccer volunteer.

Vashon’s Jacob Gateman takes on Overlake’s top scorer Jesse Klug late in Saturday’s State quarter-final soccer match.

Pirate soccer ends season among top eight in state

The annual Pirate alumni soc-cer game will be held at noon on Saturday, June 2, at Vashon High School. A potluck barbecue will follow the game.


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V a s h o n High School junior Cole D e v e r e a u qualified to compete at the state golf competition for a third year in a row, placing 29th at the Tri-District tournament. The state tournament took place yesterday and today, after press deadline, at The Home Course in DuPont.

VHS golfers Magnus Wallgren and Dan Ridgeway also competed at Tri-Districts, but did not move on to State.

Devereau qualified for State after tying for 29th place in the fourth Tri-District playoff last week.

Last year Devereau tied for 16th place at State. He also wrestles for VHS.

VHS golf coach Andy Sears said on Monday that he expected Devereau to play well at his third State showing.

“This course seems to fit him nicely, and he’s got a lot of confidence,” Sears said.

The VHS girls doubles tennis team of Catherine Amick and Victoria Zaknich has earned a third-place berth to the state tour-nament, which will take place this weekend in Yakima.

The girls qualified for State during the Tri-District tournament, an eight-bracket competition that took place last Thursday. Teams from Annie Wright, Charles Wright, Coupeville, Forest Ridge, Overlake, Seattle Academy and University Prep all competed at the Amy Yee Tournament Center in Seattle.

The Vashon team began the day by los-ing the first set of their match with Forest Ridge, 3-6, then rebounded to win the match, 6-4, 6-4. The girls then lost to Overlake, 1-6, 2-6. Overlake was the even-tual winner of all doubles matches. Lastly, they faced Charles Wright, the same team they had already beat at the league compe-tition. Again, Vashon lost the first set, 4-6, then won, 7-6, 6-4, and qualified for State.

Alexandrea Wall also competed at the Tri-District competition for Vashon, enter-ing a second spot from league in singles. Wall faced tough opposition and lost to Annie Wright, 0-6, 0-6, and University Place, 0-6, 1-6. She scored a win from Charles Wright, 6-4 ,6-4, against a player she lost to at league.

Molly Johnson, another singles player, also had strong opponents and lost to Forest Ridge, 0-6, 0-6, and Coupeville, 2-6, 2-6.

Girls tennis coach Eva Lou Grimsley said she was pleased and impressed that the Vashon doubles team qualified for State. The Tri-District tournament brings stiff competition, she said, as many of the play-ers are from private schools and have taken lessons for years.

The state 1A tennis tournament will take place Friday and Saturday at the Yakima Tennis Club.

Islanders Emily Kruly and Julia Ellison will represent Vashon’s Olympus Pony Club and the Northwest region at the U.S.Pony Clubs West Coast Championships in August.

Kruly, 16, and Ellison, 11, qualified tocompete in the West Coast quiz competi-tion, where they will be tested on theirknowledge of horse management. The two girls qualified when they recentlyplaced in the top four at the regional competition.

The West Coast Championships will take place Aug. 8 to 11 in Cle Elum.

Though the competition takes place in the state this year, unlike some years whenit is not in Washington, it’s still costly for the young equestrians to attend.

The Olympus Pony Club will hold a multi-family garage sale to raise funds for the girls’ trip to the championships. The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Burton Store loading dock. There will also be lemonade and flower baskets for sale.

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By BRUCE HAULMAN and TERRY DONNELLYFor The Beachcomber

The Episcopal church has a long history on Vashon — the church

celebrates its 100th year on the Island this year. It’s a his-tory marked by change and by moves around the Island.

The first Episcopal service on Vashon was held in September 1912 in E.E. Van Olinda’s Hall above the Portage Store. Sunday school had been organized ear-lier that year, and when a mis-sion on Vashon was sponsored by Trinity Church in Seattle, Vincent Gowen, son of the rector at Trinity and a lay-reader, led the first service on Vashon.

When the Coe family of Portage donated land just west of what was then the Portage Store and $100 in materials, Christ Church — Vashon’s first Episcopal church — was built. It was dedicated July 4, 1913, and began serving 15 local and summer families. The simple one-room, board-and-batten building, designed to hold 35 people, had two windows on each side and a vestibule attached. The building served as the Episcopal church until August 1933, when the newspaper record of church services ends. The building sat empty until it was sold to Cliff Lavender, who had purchased the Portage Store from Van Olinda.

There was no Episcopal church on Vashon again until March 1944, when a group of Episcopal women met to form a guild and develop a plan to revive the Episcopal church on the Island.

The group found that the Lutheran church on Bank Road (now the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum), where ser-vices were held in Norwegian, was not being used often because many of the younger Lutherans preferred going to services at the Colvos Lutheran Church, where services were held in English. The Episcopalians rented the Lutheran church on Bank Road for $1 per service, more if heat and lights

were used, and on May 28, 1944, the first service of the revived Episcopal Church was held.

Many in the new congrega-tion wanted to name the new church Christ Church after the original mission at Portage, but the bishop preferred a different name, since the original Christ Church Mission was considered a “finished project.”

“This is a completely different mission, and it would be confus-ing to carry on the records of two different churches with the same name for the same com-munity,” the bishop said, accord-ing to a written history of the church from the 1950s. The name Church of the Holy Spirit was chosen, since that first service — on May 28, 1944 — had been

held on the Feast of Pentecost, or Whitsunday, when the Holy Spirit descended on the disciples and gave them the gift of tongues.

In 1947, a lot to the west of the Lutheran church was purchased with plans to build a new church. When the Lutheran church was no longer available in 1948, services were held in the Odd Fellows Hall (now Vashon Allied

Arts’ Blue Heron Arts Center) until a new church could be built.

Cliff Lavender sold the origi-nal Christ Church building at Portage to the group for $75, and in February 1949 the original church was moved to the new location on Bank Road and was called “The Little Brown Church.” It was dedicated on Oct. 30, 1949, after the building was refurbished and a kitchen and narthex were added. Several more additions were built over the next decade. Then, in 1962, a fire destroyed part of the build-ing and a decision to build a new church was made. Land had been purchased on Vashon Highway north of town in 1957, and in 1963 the new Church of the Holy Spirit was built and dedicated.

The old church was sold back to Cliff Lavender, making him once again the owner of an aban-doned Episcopal church. The 1963 photograph of the interior of the new church shows the north wall covered by a hanging of the Jerusalem Cross above the altar, the lectern to the right, the bap-tism font and hanging candle to the left and center facing pews for the choir.

The 2012 photograph shows the same interior with some sig-nificant changes. The north wall was replaced in 1968 by a large memorial window donated by the Holke family in remembrance of their son Don Holke, who was killed in the Vietnam War in 1967. The lectern to the right and the hanging candle to the left are all that remain from the 1963 photograph. A new altar donated in 1981 and a matching altar rail added in 1983 have helped trans-form the interior into the open and inviting space it is today.

For 100 years — save for that 11-year hiatus — the Episcopal church has been a presence on Vashon Island, from its humble beginnings at Portage in 1912 to its current incarnation on Vashon Highway.

— Bruce Haulman is an Island his-torian and a member of the Church

of the Holy Spirit. Terry Donnelly is a nationally known photographer.

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NEW EXHIBIT OPENS: The Vashon-Maur y Island Her itage Museum will open a new exhibit, called “Main Street: Vashon Highway from The Heights to Tahlequah,” on June 1. It will run until Sept. 23. The museum is located at 10105 Bank Rd. S.W. and is open from 1 to 4 p.m . Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Vashon’s Episcopal church began as a small chapel at Portage

Masons, top, gather in front of the chapel at Portage in 1921. Above, a 1963 shot of the church’s sanctu-ary shows a wall hanging displayed where the new sanctuary (left) now has a large window.

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Lillian Husa Feist Lillian Husa Feist died on

April 26, 2012, at Vashon Community Care. Lillian was born on June 24, 1908, in Montrail County, N.D., the oldest of eight children in an immigrant home-steading family. She was close to 104 years old when she died.

Lillian will be remem-bered by many for her keen interest in her extended

family and her friends, for her beautiful garden and for her belief in the value of exercise and fresh fruits and vegetables. She was a source of stories about her personal history, the history of the country and her Finnish heritage.

Lillian is survived by her two sons and their wives, Steve Rubicz and Gaye Detzer of Vashon, and Mike Rubicz and Anne Wise of Cleveland, Ohio. She is also survived by six grandchil-dren, seven great-grandchil-dren, her brother Lennie, her sister Norma and her many nieces, nephews and their families.

A celebration of life will be held on Sunday, July 29, at Camp Long in West Seattle.

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Andrew Schweitzer and Lisa Rice

Andrew Schweitzer and Lisa Rice will wed on Aug. 10, 2012.

Both grew up on Vashon then left the Island for col-lege. Schweitzer received a bachelor’s degree from Western Washington

University and Rice earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington. Years later they met again at a gathering of mutual Vashon friends in Seattle.

After tying the knot, a steelhead f ly-fishing trip to Terrace, Bristish Columbia, is planned. Schweitzer is currently a medical student at the University of Washington and Rice an associate with US Bank.

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Donna Botten and Ilse Reimnitz

Island artists Donna Botten and Ilse Reimnitz

were recently juried into the Northwest Watercolor Society’s Open International Show.

The exhibit had 387 entries from around the world, with work by only 80 artists accepted. See the show through May 25 at the NWWS Gallery at the Seattle Design Center, 5701 6th Ave., Suite P262, in Seattle. Visit www.nwws.org for more information.

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Doors of Opportunity Award nominations

Next Monday is the dead-line for nominations for the 2012 Doors of Opportunity Award.

This year’s winner will be the 15th recipient. The award was created to honor a Vashon school district teacher, administrator or employee who best exem-plifies by deed, a true spirit and grit that goes beyond the classroom, opening doors and maximizing a student’s potential. Last year Chautaqua Elementary School administrator Lance Morgan won the award and in 2010 Vashon High School teacher Harris Levinson won.

Nominations can be made by sending a sub-stantial email to [email protected]. The winner will also receive $2,000 dollars.

SHERIFF’S REPORT

April 19: An assault occurred at a home on Spring Beach Road. A man attempted to punch his father and was charged with fourth-degree assault.

April 20: A home on the

18600 block of Beall Road was broken into while the residents were home. The suspect or suspects broke a window to enter the home, and the residents were woken by their dogs bark-ing.

An art studio on the 18500 block of Beall Road was broken into by some-one who then slept in it overnight.

Mom’s Deli and Grocery was burglarized. The sus-pect or suspects removed a window to enter the build-ing.

April 23: A trespass was reported at a home on the 16000 block of Westside Highway.

An attempted burglary occurred at 20/20 Eye CareCenter in Vashon town. The suspect or suspects attempt-ed to pry open the back door to the business.

April 24: An iPod con-taining child pornography was found on the ground near the baseball fiends at Sunrise Ridge.

April 26: Larceny was reported at Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union. A woman said that an acquaintance had used herbank card to make unau-thorized withdrawals from her account.

A woman shoplifted at Granny’s Attic. The woman has been suspected of con-tinued shoplifting and was banned by deputies from the store.

April 30: A musical instrument was stolen from an unlocked vehicle on the 11500 block of Cove Road.

A burglary occurred at a home on the 7800 block of 256th Street.

Gas was stolen from a truck parked at the north-end ferry parking lot. The truck’s gas line was cut.

May 1: A riding lawn-mower was stolen from the garage of a home on the 24200 block of 48th Place.

Methamphetamines were found in a vehicle at the intersection of Beall Road and Cemetery Road.


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is simply a coincidence. “These individuals who

steal mail, they travel around,” Schroader said. “They may be in Seattle one day, moving out to Vashon one day, in Olympia anoth-er day.”

Pam Bredouw, who lives at Vashon Cohousing, said the group of about 20 homes just outside of town has seen an increase in mail theft over the past several months and many recent-ly opted to install locking mailboxes. They have also seen an increase in vandal-ism to cars, she said.

“I don’t know if it’s per-sonal or a sign of the times or some combination,” she said.

Bredouw had a pack-age stolen in December, a Christimas gift she pur-chased online but never received, despite the fact that post office records said it was delivered.

“I was shocked,” she said.Since then Bredouw has

installed a locking mailbox, something she says is only an inconvenience when she has to pick up packages at the post office.

Other cohousing neigh-bors, Bredouw said, have had important financial

documents stolen from their boxes, some of which were later found tossed in ditches.

“I have no idea why it’s happening,” she said. “I am sad that people feel this is their only choice.”

Carolyn Candy was a vic-tim of the recent spate of mail thefts. At the begin-ning of May she went to her mailbox on Westside Highway to find her mail scattered in the bushes. She soon learned that several of her neighbors experienced the same thing.

“I realized somebody was just going down the mail-boxes and doing it to all of them,” she said.

Some of Candy’s neigh-bors found envelopes addressed to them with the contents removed, she said, but she’s unsure whether she had any mail stolen. She believes the act happened during the afternoon she said, since she discovered the scattered mail just an hour after she first checked her mailbox.

“I was really surprised,” she said.

Schroader said the USPIS hasn’t gotten any significant leads concerning Vashon’s mail theft but will continue to investigate. The most important thing Islanders can do to prevent the theft, he said, is to pick up mail immediately after its deliv-

ery, if possible, and espe-cially not leave a mailbox unchecked overnight, as mail theft often happens under the cover of dark-ness. When leaving town, he added, individuals should have friends pick up their mail or have it held at the post office.

Schroader said mail thieves are usually hunting for money, checks, credit cards or financial informa-tion. However, he added, it’s usually difficult to steal a person’s identity based on documents typically sent through the mail.

“Mail theft and ID theft typically don’t go hand in hand,” he said. “But we’re always worried and mak-ing sure customers are vigi-lant about checking credit reports and those kinds of things.”

Those convicted of mail theft, a federal crime, can face up to five years in pris-

on, Schroader said.“The inspection service

works tirelessly to investi-gate these accusations,” he said. “We do bring these people to justice and they end up serving time if con-victed.”

Candy, meanwhile, said if there is another incident she may consider getting a locking mailbox. For now, though, she doesn’t think mail theft will become a regular occurrence on her street.

“I’m hoping it’s a fluke,” she said. “That’s how I’m taking it. I’m not feeling paranoid.”

Curt Gordon Snaza

Beloved husband, father, son, brother and friend passed away of complications following an injury. He departed peacefully surrounded by his loving family on May, 20th 2012.

Curt was born on October 28th1958 in South Bend, Washington to Bud and Bonnie Snaza. Growing up on Vashon Island he was active in sports, boy scouts and water & boating activities. He attended Vashon Public Schools and graduated from Vashon High School in 1977.

He worked various jobs including production and cus-tomer service at Nintendo Corp. When Nintendo closed he attended Renton Tech and received his Associate’s Degree in auto body certification in 1996. He worked as a technician and estimator while living in the Hansville area. Later he worked at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyards as a mechanic and most recently in a position at Bangor Submarine Base.

On February 6, 1993 he married Cindy Kranjcevich. They were blessed with two children: Maggie and Joey. Curt was a lifelong fan of the Washington Huskies and the Seattle Seahawks since their inception and was volunteer coach for the North Kitsap Pee Wee football organization.

Curt is survived by his wife, Cindy, children: Maggie & Joey; siblings: Clay, Holly, & Kyle, and mother, Bonnie Snaza. He was preceded in death by his father, Gordon “Bud” Snaza.

For information on the memorial service and to sign the on-line guest book please go to: www.tuellmckeebremerton.com.

Thomas L. Radke, Sr.Thomas L. Radke, Sr., passed away at home

on May 3, 2012, in Lacey, WA. Tom and his wife Carmen, who survives him, raised many of their nine children on Gold Beach, in a house Tom helped design in 1981. He liked the mountain appearing across the water, the ferry commute to Boeing (well, more the ferry than the commute), and bantering with his fellow Islanders. He was raised in San Francisco and the Air Force stationed him in seven different states, but Vashon was his home. His children – Susan (Radke-Sproull), Andrew, Ann (Schmidt), John “Brooks,” Bill, Jane (Slade), Martha (Nogales), Thomas, Jr., and Melinda “Molly” (Boatman) – and his many grandkids will miss him and love him forever. At his request, no public funeral services are planned.

William Keith Eggert4/20/1927 to 5/9/2012

Keith, suff ering from cancer, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

Keith was born in Miller, South Dakota and as a result of the depression his family moved to Washington where he graduated from Sumner High School in 1945. After high school he joined the Marines attaining the rank of Sergeant. After the military he attended the University of Washington studying metallurgical engineering.

While attending college he met and later married Edee Hansen. He also worked in a cabinetry shop where he learned a skill that he would enjoy throughout his life. His engineering career took him briefl y to Texas, then California where he and Edee raised their 3 children. Th ey then went back to Texas before he retired to Vashon Island in 1985 where he and Edee built their dream house.

Keith is survived by his wife, Edee, his children: Pam (husband Boyd), Sonja (husband Rich) and Tim (wife Julie) and his grandchildren: Patty, Carolyn, Jenny, Shelly, Kasey and Steven.

A celebration of life will be held in Keith’s honor on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 2:00 PM at the Vashon United Methodist Church. Please feel free to visit our online guest book at www.islandfuneral.com.

DONALD J. OLIVER passed away at the hospital with the

love of his entire family surrounding him on Sunday, May 20th, 2012. Memorial service to be announced.

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rumble strips were installed along Vashon Highway’s center lane and shoulders in mid-April.

“I’m an experienced rider — I’ve been riding for 30 years — and I had to take the lane and ride into traf-fic,” Susskind said.

Steve Sussman, another cyclist, said his recumbent trike no longer fits along stretches of the highway because of the rumble strips along the outside edges of the road.

Another Islander, March Twisdale, held up a white board sporting a detailed diagram she had made about the rumble strips, pointing out that only driv-ers who are texting while driving, too tired to stay awake or driving drunk might be protected by the grooves and ridges.

In other words, she told Taniguchi, “We’re putting them in place to protect criminals.”

A few people at the meet-ing voiced support for the strips. David McCoy, a longtime Islander, said he used to work as a volunteer firefighter and responded to several horrific accidents during the 1970s.

“A lot of these could have been prevented by rumble

strips,” he said. But for the most part, the

crowd of around 70 voiced opposition to the project, which was halted mid-stream on April 18 after Islanders began a furious email campaign to county officials.

Several times during the gathering, Taniguchi said the county made a big mis-take in not holding a meet-ing with Islanders before the project began.

“We took a significant misstep,” he said. “Whatever we do, we’ll communicate with you.”

But when pressed on how the decision will be made, Taniguchi sounded both frank and frustrated. The county, he said, believes the rumble strips help to address real safety con-cerns. At the same time, he said, he realized many cyclists are unhappy.

“This is particularly chal-lenging for us,” he said.

The decision will be made at the highest levels of the county, he said, adding that it’s completely unclear at this point what the county will do.

“I really don’t know how this is going to play out,” he said.

As he was talking, a peti-tion was circulating the room. The undersigned, it said, feel that the new rum-ble strips “adversely affect our safety and mobility.”

Anyone who has informa-tion on mail theft or has seen anything suspicious on Vashon should call the U.S. Postal Inspection Service at 877-876-2455.

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Birdhouses, complete with tiled roofs and hand-painted sides, have popped up in several Island businesses to support the work of the Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness (IFCH).

The houses, all with the message “Every Islander needs a roof over their head,” are intended for donations large and small to help the nonprofit orga-nization continue its work with people in need. The 10 houses, all painted in vibrant hues, have been in Vashon busi-nesses since January and have provided some much-needed funds for the council, which helps Islanders on a daily basis.

“It is never ending,” said Emma Amiad, the longtime president of the council. “The recession has made it much more difficult.”

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Former social worker and IFCH board member Sandy Oellien first conceived of the birdhouses four or five years ago. “I am constantly thinking of how to raise more money,” she said. “I always worry that we’re going to run out of money to help someone who really needs it, espe-cially in this economy.”

The most the organization raised in one year, Amiad said, was $50,000. More typically it brings in about $25,000.

Since the 10 houses appeared, the most they have brought in over a month was $150, Oellien said. The board’s goal is for each house to bring in $20 per month or total of $200.

While that amount could come from

people’s extra pennies and nickels, Amiad said, a small amount is signifi-cant. “One hundred twenty dollars, that’s somebody’s ferry fare to get radiation treatment. Fifty cents, a dollar — we’re spending it well.”

While Oellien thought of the houses, she credits the members of Boy Scout troop 755, affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, with building them and fellow IFCH board member Sue Kim with their artful paint-ing and tile roofs. With the painting, tiling, grouting and polishing, the houses took a fair amount of work, Kim said, even with the help of several volunteers, including a former IFCH client. Each also comes with a bird and tiny padlock to help keep donations safe.

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