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County says amendments dropped in 2012 were not ready for town planTown Plan Committee never informed of decision

King County did not move forward on amendments submitted by Vashon’s Town Plan Committee in 2012 after the amendments came in at the last moment and weren’t all suitable for the town plan, according to John Starbard, director of the county’s Department of Permitting and Environmental Review (DPER).

Islanders involved with the committee, however, were never informed and only recently learned that their changes had not been added to the plan.

“We did drop the ball on that. Someone should have come back to the community,” Starbard said.

In February of 2012, after getting several deadline extensions for their work to update the 1996 Vashon Town Plan, the commit-tee submitted nine amendments to Paul Reitenbach, a senior policy analyst at DPER. In an email to committee member Melodie Woods, Reitenbach, who has since retired, said he would “get the plan revision to the Council for approval.”

But Starbard, who recently spoke with Reitenback after The Beachcomber asked for more information, said what islanders submitted wasn’t ready to go in the Vashon Town Plan, which is folded into the county’s comprehensive plan. Reitenbach said some amendments weren’t in comprehensive plan language and had items not appropriate to

include, such as a job creation program. With the comprehensive plan due to the King County Council in one week, there was not time for officials to work with islanders to straighten the amendments out.

“It would have taken too much staff work at a time when staff was already operating at its peak,” he said.

At the same time, Starbard said, the Vashon Maury Island Community Council, which had approved the amendments, was struggling after being stripped of its official status by the county.

“I’m pretty certain that the county was uncertain ... if this was still something that was approved by the community,” he said.

Woods said she is disappointed the changes never made it into the town plan. The amendments came in at the last moment, she said, in part because another county official helping the committee, Julia Larson, was moved to another job toward the end of the process. She added that five of the nine amendments were simply updates of sections of the town plan — such as adding new parks or historical landmarks — and were in the original lan-guage. If they had been heading the wrong direction on the other amendments, she thought Larson or Reitenbach would have said something sooner.

“I’m not totally in agreement,” Woods said, “and I still don’t know why they couldn’t have called and said something.”

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Joe Fitzgibbon, who has represented Vashon in the state House or Representatives for four years, is challenged this fall by a political newcomer running on the platform that the state should solve its education funding problem by indirectly funding private schools.

Fitzgibbon (D-Burien) is challenged by Brendan Kolding (D-West Seattle) for a House seat representing the 34th Legislative District, which includes Vashon Island, West Seattle and Burien.

Kolding, 32, works at the Seattle Police Department, where he oversees the agency’s policy unit. A former sub-stitute teacher and father of two, Kolding says education is important to him and he became interested in politics after the state Supreme Court’s McCleary decision mandated that the state fully fund public education by 2018.

Kolding believes the state could better fund education per-student if more students left public schools for private ones. Since law prohibits the government from funding religious institutions, Kolding says the state should reim-burse citizen donations to private schools up to $1,000, generating new funding that private schools could use on scholarships or lowering tuition.

Similar legislation exists in 13 other states, Kolding said, though those states mostly provide state income tax write-offs. He said he didn’t know where funding for the reim-bursements would come from and that the idea would be a “tough sell.” However, he emphasized that the state will need to generate new funding for education anyway, and those dollars would go further by supporting private schools.

“The ultimate goal is to reduce the impact on the public school system by making private school an option that is feasible for families that desire it,” he said.

Kolding has a private school background himself, having attended a Catholic high school in Sacramento. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Gonzaga University and a master’s degree in political science from Marquette University, a Catholic university in Wisconsin, in 2007. He is also active in and has served on the board of trustees of the Fulcrum Foundation, which supports Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Seattle. He joined the Seattle Police Department as a patrol officer in 2008.

While Kolding’s statement in the voter’s guide focuses solely on his plan for education, he said he is interested in representing the 34th District on other issues as well. He knows transportation is particularly important, he said, and is personally interested in mental health issues. Since

deciding to run, he has visited Vashon three times.Fitzgibbon, 28, said he does not support the state fund-

ing private schools in any capacity and believes other lawmakers would oppose Kolding’s idea as well. He does believe the state needs a new revenue source for education.

“My approach to education is we need to have public schools that are quality for everybody and not focus on private schools at the expense of public ones,” he said.

In March, Fitzgibbon sponsored a bill that would establish a carbon tax to fund schools. If reelected, he said he will con-tinue to push a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system when the Legislature resumes in January and will take up the issue in the House Environment Committee, which he chairs.

“In either case, those programs would generate a lot of revenue for the state that would be a big part of how we

secure more funding for education,” he said.Such a program likely wouldn’t bring in all the funds

needed to meet the McCleary decision, and the idea is con-troversial, Fitzgibbon said, but it already has some support.

“There are a lot of legislators I’ve talked with who are really interested in the idea of taxing pollution to pay for education,” he said. “We have a lot of details to work out.”

Fitzgibbon defeated democrat Mike Heavy in 2010 and ran unopposed in 2012. In the House, he has opposed pro-posed cuts to ferry service and pushed for environmental protection. In recent years, he and other lawmakers have been unable to agree on new funding for education and transportation, and those issues are mounting, Fitzgibbon said.

“The magnitude of the problem is before us no matter who is in control in the next few years,” he said. “I’m still hoping to get things done.”

Kolding has not raised funds for his campaign, saying he would prefer money got to schools or other good causes. He has attended forums when there hasn’t been an entry fee, he said, and campaigned over social media. As of Monday, his campaign’s Facebook page had 112 likes.

Fitzgibbon has raised nearly $100,000 this campaign season, but said almost all of it will go not to his own campaign but to other politicians in the House democratic caucus.

Ballots were mailed last week for the Nov. 4 election. Eileen Cody (D-West Seattle), who has filled the 34th District’s second seat in the House since 2003, is running unopposed, as is Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island), who has been in the Senate since 2011.

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After three years as the founder and director of Shape Up Vashon, I have turned the reins over to my successor, Laura Wishik.

Since 2011, SUV has helped bring to Vashon a unifying sense of becoming a healthy community. Shape Up Vashon was created by a group of about 20 volunteers and supported by island businesses and organizations that were interested in a fun and stimulating way to support each islander who wanted to improve his or her health.

Many efforts to promote health have centered on weight loss, but while weight management is important, we at SUV tried to take a more fun and holistic approach to enable Vashon residents to improve their health regardless of their weight, physical ability, diet or activity levels.

In addition, we helped island residents include other elements involved in health, such as mental health and the positive impact of socialization. We also helped address two major problems in our community: depression and addiction. However, the success of a holistic health care program is difficult to measure.

A healthy lifestyle impacts so much more than weight. For example, Important to those of us who worry when we forget a name or lose our keys is that a half hour of good exercise five times a week is the only known intervention that people can do to decrease the risk or onset of Alzheimer’s dis-ease. Poor sleep not only increases driving accidents, but can prevent weight loss and good control of blood sugar and blood pressure.

In terms of the number of peo-ple engaged and excitement gener-ated to improve health, our SUV Challenges were an outstanding hit. Each spring and fall, we hosted

competitions among teams comprised of islanders from a variety of businesses, organizations and churches. These chal-lenges pitted

competing teams for three to six weeks of commitment to improv-ing healthy eating habits, physical activity and undertaking some special programs, such as CPR training, checking fire alarms and some mental health initiatives. One of the challenges drew 20 teams and more than 120 people.

We are also proud that Shape Up Vashon became a mentoring program for interns in Seattle University’s Public Health Nursing program.

Other major successes of SUV this year have included Laura Wishik’s Food for Life semi-nars. Laura sets a great personal example of success as she focuses on sugar addiction, behavioral change, exercise, good sleep and everything else that fold into hav-ing a healthy weight and lifestyle. I am excited that she will be taking the helm of SUV. Starting by pre-senting the movie “Fed Up” this week, she will be sharing her expe-rience and expertise with both adults and children on the island, many of whom have been fight-ing compulsions for foods and the battle of the bulge for years with disheartening results.

Having adequate health insur-ance is also a vital part of safe-guarding one’s health. A singular success for SUV has been the role

that it played with other local organizations to assist Hilary Emmer in helping more than 500 people on Vashon register for insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Additional successes included partnering with Vashon Water Sports for our popular summer celebrations at the Jensen Point. Our healthy cooking classes offered by several chefs from restaurants on Vashon also filled quickly.

Some SUV efforts, however, did not work as well as hoped. Despite multiple requests from islanders for lectures on health-related topics, attendance was sometimes so poor that we discon-tinued the program.

In the end, why does Vashon need a program like SUV? I have spent more than 30 years as a primary care physician, provid-ing one-on-one care and loving my profession. But after offer-ing my best advice, my patients returned to their life full of con-venient sodas and processed foods overloaded with salt, sugar and fat. Think about the youngster wolfing Fritos and playing video games. Think about his or her future health. Processed foods can be served in much less time than it takes to cook a healthy meal. And exercise? Who can find the time? (This has been a special problem for me.)

Remember the old child-rearing adage “It takes a village.” It takes a village that values good health to educate, motivate and help its members prioritize healthy habits. Healthy people make a healthy community.

— Dr. Kathleen Davis is a retired primary care physician and the

former head of Shape Up Vashon.

EDITORIAL

Joe Fitzgibbon, the incumbent who is being challenged for his seat in the House, is the clear best choice for Vashon and for the 34th District.

Fitzgibbon’s challenger Brendan Kolding has a head for policy — he helps craft the Seattle Police Department’s policies — and a passion for education, inarguably a top issue in Olympia. However, his idea for education isn’t the

answer for Washington, and he lacks the political acu-men to address the range of issues facing our state.

Kolding is running on the platform that getting more money into the hands of private schools would help the state meet the McCleary

decision, the state Supreme Court mandate that the state fully fund public education by 2018. If private schools had more money, he argues, they could lower tuition or offer more scholarships, giving more students the chance to move to private schools and take burden off of public ones. However, there’s a reason that the law prevents most states from funding religious institutions, and using a reimbursement program to skate around that law would take us down the wrong path. What’s more, the intent of the McCleary decision was to build stronger public schools in Washington and for the state to fulfill its con-stitutional duty to fund education, not to bolster private schools. And Kolding presents no plan for raising revenue for such a program, much less any new funding for edu-cation. With one idea that’s not even a good one, Kolding is a one-trick pony who wouldn’t get far in Olympia.

Since being elected in 2010, Fitzgibbon has become known on Vashon as a staunch supporter of ferry service, something a representative of any ferry-served commu-nity should be, and he has fought ferry cuts on multiple occasions. It’s tough to point to his other significant accomplishments for Vashon residents, but that’s largely due to the political gridlock in Olympia in recent years. Fitzgibbon is committed to environmental protection, something that will be an ongoing need, and has already proposed legislation to lower the state’s carbon emissions. He’ll continue to advocate to find vital funding for trans-portation and the schools, either through his carbon tax proposal or another route. At just 28 years old, Fitzgibbon has potential to accomplish much in his political career. If reelected, we hope he doesn’t disappoint.

Voters should keep Fitzgibbon in the House

Pushing government support of private schools, Kolding is a one-tricky pony who wouldn’t get far in Olympia.

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LETTER TO THE EDITORPoliticsPresident should change course

If ever there came a time when Congress should rally behind the president, it is now. Not enough that he is pleading for support for a sham war against Isis, not enough that the news from Africa is much like Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Mask of the Red Death,” no, he has Congress in front of him getting in the way.

Obama can’t gag Congress, and his appointment of a goat for us to scape at is ineffectual, but he may be able to finesse Congress out of the way. The clue has a kind of Nevil Shute twist in that his worst problem could be his salvation as president.

President Obama should announce as follows: The entire resources of my government shall be devoted to controlling ebola.

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Halloween is nearly upon us along with that scary yearly ritual: the family gather-ing. Recently, my father and I traveled back to our ancestral home to visit his one surviving brother and to haunt the inhab-itants of the places we used to live.

As a geologist, I also planned to collect fossils from the Upper Ordovician lime-stones exposed in that area. I needed a brachiopod called Platystrophia to satisfy the collecting desires of my friend Kat, who is 5. But let’s begin as we should at the bottom of the stratigraphic column. The Law of Superposition states that in any sequence of sedimentary rocks, in the absence of deformation, the oldest rocks are at the bottom.

The McMillan formation contains a zone of shingled shells deposited in a swift current. Shell orientation suggests current direction at the time of deposition.

The house that my grandfather built in about 1928, and in which my father and my uncle were raised, is located on lime-stone that is possibly the McMillan forma-tion. My father had his own fossil collec-tion, and I have pictures of the entire fam-ily standing in the driveway in 1945, the three boys wearing military uniforms. No one was home when we stopped by, but in the car my aunt told a story about a couple who went boating. Their boat overturned, and the man’s pants were lost in the swift current, giving him a great excuse for los-ing his pants. The location of your pants suggests current direction.

Atop the McMillan formation lies the Arnheim formation, in which the first appear-ance of Richmond fau-nas is accompanied by a decline of Platystrophia ponderosa.

Richmond fossils are everywhere around the home my father built shortly after my first appearance. I knocked on the door and introduced myself as the son of the man who built the house 60 years ago. The young man at the door, wearing no pants (it was windy), introduced himself as a relative of a boy I played with as a child. He said we could wander around if we wanted, so we headed for the back yard. When I passed the con-crete stairwell to the basement, I saw our dog lying dead outside the door in 1964, draped across three steps. Cindy had been poisoned and she was seeking her family, dying before anyone knew where she was.

A fossil hash marks the top of the Arnheim, on which was deposited the shale and limestone of the Waynesville formation. The Waynesville contains trilobites of the genus Flexicalymene.

It was to the second home my father built (amid trilobites) that I moved at age

13. No one was home when we visited, so I left a business card and collected some Buckeyes from a tree my father planted before I knew how to drive. The next day, the woman who owns the house called me. My father had worked for the phone company, I told her, but he took pride in that house, building a curved wall in the family room and adding lots of electrical outlets. The owner said “We thought your dad had to be an electrician. There are plugs everywhere!” I resisted the urge to joke that some of our DNA must still be in the carpet, but I’m sure our family history has left other detritus in the layers of that house. All of our creations, good and bad, leave footprints.

Overlying the Waynesville formation are the Liberty and Whitewater formations, comprised of shales and interbedded lime-stones. Platystrophia acutilirata is restricted to Whitewater strata.

Not content to stay bound by my local strata, I escaped west after high school. Mankind is thought to be the most suc-cessful invasive species in the history of the planet, and I explored wildernesses here and on other continents. But if a future paleontologist examines strata formed from the soils of today, he won’t find my traces. He’ll find the remains of people who stayed in one place long enough to be felt.

Pleistocene glacial till rests unconform-ably on Whitewater strata at this site. The hiatus between the two units represents a missing record spanning 400 million years.

It has been a rare thing for me to visit my uncle. A hiatus of 40 years eroded con-nections and weathered all of our surfaces, but when we came together, we grew. My perspective broadened when I learned of unspoken illnesses and traumatic losses. At a monthly lodge breakfast, I saw a membership of conservative Protestants welcome (and put to work) four young Mormon missionaries who were exploring their personal wildernesses.

Glacial soils in this region fed agricul-tural productivity. Coupled with easy trans-portation on the canal, development in the 19th century led to economic abundance.

It was abundance that allowed my family to grow and scatter. The future my parents envisioned following the war did partly come to pass, and the future I envisioned at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius is somewhat evident today. Our next future may not hold as much prom-ise, but the fossils we collected as kids will still be in the ground, along with a few newer ones for which we have to craft good excuses. Thank goodness for swift currents and strong breezes.

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My property taxes went up again this year! The County can’t

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looked up your current assessment and can assure you that your home would sell for a lot more.

In addition, the rate does fl uctuate slightly but only because of the levies and bond issues we pass for ourselves, in our own community. The County itself only gets 11.6% of our property tax money. The biggest chunk goes to our schools. When you combine the state’s base school tax and our own locally approved school taxes that eats up 48.83% of our property taxes. Why? Because we wanted to have a beautiful new high school. It was worth it!

We’ve also voted ourselves better fi re and emergency services to the tune of 10.87% of our taxes. It isn’t the base tax rate that goes up, it’s the cost of local services that we want and vote for.

If you check the property tax site for King County you will see that we had a dip in assessed value in 2010, 2011 and again in 2012 because of the drop in mar-ket value due to the recession. In 2013 we jumped back up in value and took an even larger jump for 2014. That is refl ective of our improved real estate market. We all want low taxes but high values for our homes. That just doesn’t work. If our homes are worth more, the taxes go up. One quick suggestion; check to see if you qualify for the County’s senior property tax rate or Washington State’s low income rate.

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Retired avalanche rescue dog rescued, treated in wide effortEditor’s note: This story ran on the front page of last week’s paper, but due to a printing error, a large portion of the story did not make it into print.

By SARAH LOWStaff Writer

A retired avalanche rescue dog was res-cued himself last week after an community effort to find him when he became lost, and islanders then rallied to get the dog the medical help he needed.

Hoss, a large, white-muzzled golden retriever wandered off last week and was found by his owner, Kevin Ward, after six days of tireless searching with a team of friends, neighbors and volunteers, spear-headed by Vashon Island Pet Protectors (VIPP).

“The support we had from this group and all of the amazing volunteers is what kept us going,” Ward said.

Ward and Hoss, who is now 12, worked together as part of Washington’s Backcountry Avalanche Rescue K9s (BARK) team at Alpental for years. Ward, a ski patroller, began training Hoss for cer-tification as an avalanche rescue dog not long after he brought him home as a puppy. Hoss was fully certified by the time he was 3, and at that time was just the seventh avalanche rescue dog in the state.

“Before I picked him, I had read a book

that described the characteristics of good working dogs,” Ward said. “and I saw those in Hoss.”

While it’s rare for people to survive avalanches, the BARK teams are always

training because they have to try, Ward said, and victim recovery is just as important. Hoss never located any live avalanche victims, but participated in a number of searches.

“The dogs are ready to go out and do what they’re trained to do,” Ward said. “There’s always that possibility, even if it’s small.”

After about a decade of searching for people in the snow and “reading” the air for clues with his nose, Hoss retired at the beginning of last winter.

“We really wanted his golden years to be golden,” Ward said. “It’s a hard job.”

On Monday of last week, however, retire-ment took a rough turn for Hoss when he didn’t come home after heading out on his own. Citing the fact that Hoss never missed a meal, Ward knew something was wrong.

By the third day, after Ward and friends had searched to no avail, VIPP came out in full force with volunteers to help find him.

“I knew from the things Kevin told me about Hoss, how this was completely out of character for him and just from how wor-ried he was, that we needed to get on this,” said Amy Carey, a VIPP volunteer who helps with lost and found dogs.

The fact that there were slopes on the property was also a red flag, Carey said, as it is not uncommon for dogs to get stuck on the steep inclines.

“We had people out there the next day, and probably about a dozen or so volunteers over the course of the week,”

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Carey said. “This is such a remarkable community of people willing to help and give their time.”

But as days wore on with no sign of Hoss, Ward said it was getting harder for him, his wife and his young children to stay positive.

“I started to hate my house and my property, I felt like we were failing him,” he said.

But Sunday, almost seven days since Hoss had disappeared, at the suggestion of his wife, Ward searched an area of their property that hadn’t been searched since the first day.

It was there, on a steep slope dense with trees and salal, that Ward caught a glimpse of a golden paw. Hoss was stuck in very soft dirt on the incline, unable to pull himself out. Ward immediately called his wife and Carey, who called Vashon Island Fire & Rescue, where offi-cials in the past have been able to rescue dogs from rough terrain.

“We get these calls a couple of times a year,” said Assistant Chief Bob Larsen, who assisted with Hoss’ rescue. “We’ve pulled dogs out of culverts, off of steep hillsides and even two dogs from a well. Our equip-ment comes in handy.”

Hoss, who was so weak he couldn’t lift his head to drink, was placed in a sling and pulled to safety and into the arms of his family.

He was treated at Fair Isle Animal Clinic for severe dehydration, and a veterinarian there concerned about Hoss’ condition suggested that the Wards take him to Summit Veterinary Referral Center in Tacoma, which

offers 24-hour care.But the Summit clinic is very expensive and the Wards

were not in a financial position to send him there. Cindy Koch, an islander and staunch VIPP supporter,

said that she received a phone call from Fair Isle, where a staff member she knew explained the situation and asked if she could help.

“I said ‘Of course I can,’” Koch explained with a laugh. “I called Summit and gave them my credit card.”

Hoss was moved to Summit, but in another twist to his story, was discovered at the clinic to have a large tumor on one of his kidneys. Given Hoss’ age and an estimated surgery cost of about $5,000, the Wards felt it was perhaps time to say goodbye to the golden retriever.

Koch, however, called VIPP to discuss the possibility of sharing the costs of both the current treatment as well as the sur-gery to remove the tumor. VIPP agreed to help, with an amount well above their

standard $100 limit.“These were extraordinary circumstances,” noted Geoff

Fletcher, president of VIPP. VIPP is now accepting dona-tions for Hoss’ medical bill through what it calls its Angel Fund.

After determining that Hoss had no other tumors, the staff at Summit told the Wards that removing the one kid-ney would likely allow Hoss to enjoy his retirement longer. They also offered to cap the surgery at $4,000. With Koch’s enthusiastic blessing and approval of the charges, the Wards decided Hoss would have the surgery.

“I couldn’t not do it,” Koch said of her donation. “I love these animals. He has worked for years and done his job. Not to do this would be unthinkable.”

For its part, VIPP is considering the idea of maintaining the Angel Fund even after Hoss’ expenses are taken care of.

“It’s an idea. We’d like to be able to continue to help others with extraordinary circumstances in the future,” Fletcher said. “But at the moment, it’s just something we’re talking about.”

With Hoss now home and recuperating, Ward says he can’t adequately express his gratitude and appreciation for all those that helped bring him home.

“VIPP and Cindy, Amy, everyone who came out to help, our neighbors and friends, ... they are really the heroes here.”

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Island Center Forest Limited Deer Hunt: King County Parks has opened the 200 acres of Island Center Forest for a limited deer hunting season from Oct. 11 to 31. During this time, no other ac-cess will be permitted to the area. Note: The Gateway and Natural Area properties will be closed to hunting and will remain open for recreational use.

Study Zone: Kids in grades K through 12 are welcome to drop in for free homework help from trained volunteer tutors. 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Vashon Library.

WEDNESDAY • 22

Poetry Slam: Vashon’s poet laure-ate Ina Whitlock will host an all-ages poetry slam. Participants are invited to perform their own work or read an old or new favorite. For more information, call 463-2616 or go to vashonbookshop.com. 6 p.m. at the Vashon Bookshop.

Soul Gardening: Vashon author, humorist, minister and inspira-tional speaker Terry Hershey will offer stories to nurture the soul and renew a sense of what it means to live fully alive. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Vashon Library and is offered in memory of Fred Losornio. 6:30 p.m. at the Vashon Library.

Discussion Night at the Zen Center: The topic for the evening will be compassion in action, and all are welcome to attend. Tea, chanting and meditation begin at 7 p.m. (6:45 p.m. for newcomer orientation) at the Puget Sound Zen Center, 20406 Chautauqua Beach Rd.

Natural Yard Care Program:Presented by King County, this is the final of three sessions focused on natural yard care. The topics for this session will be healthy soil and smart watering, with Lisa Taylor, formerly with Seattle Tilth, and Greg Butler from Design of the Times giving presentations. 7 to 9 p.m. at Vashon High School.

FRIDAY • 24

Advance Directives: Islander Kay Longhi, board member of Compas-sion and Choices Washington, will discuss the use of advance direc-tives to ensure end-of-life wishes are honored. Printed instructions and forms will be provided. 12:30 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Resonance Gong and Tibetan Singing Bowl Meditation: Sound healer Lani Ladbon will lead this session of gong meditation with Ti-betan singing bowls and Pranayam (breath work). Participants should bring a mat, blanket and pillow. Cost is $15. For more information, go to vashonintuitivearts.com. 7 to 9 p.m. at Vashon Intuitive Arts.

SATURDAY • 25

Autumn Wellness Retreat:Michal Lahav, a yoga teacher from Seattle, will offer a day of yoga, meditation, writing, beach-walking and rejuvenation at Hanna Barn. Cost is $50 to $60 on a sliding scale. To register, email Lahav at [email protected]. noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25.

Vashon Center For the Arts Groundbreaking Ceremony:All are invited to bring shovels and celebrate together with refresh-ments and entertainment. 3 p.m. next to the Blue Heron.

Comedy Night at the O Space:Hosted by The DoVE Project, this event is for anyone age 21 or over. Featured performers will include comedians Peggy Platt, Sean Ricco, Erin Ingle and Evan Morrison, Vashon’s own Duo Finelli, and Chip and Margie. Tami Brockway Joyce and Jennifer Sutherland will emcee as the Filson Sisters. There will be a no-host bar and light appetiz-ers provided by Herban Feast. All proceeds from the evening will go to DoVE. Tickets cost $35 and are available at the Vashon Bookshop, brownpapertickets.com or at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m. at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

`Hamlet’ at Vashon Theatre: To thank the Vashon Community and Island GreenTech for two years of digital projection, the theater will host a free screening of 1948’s Oscar winner for best picture, “Hamlet,” starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons. Beer and wine service will be available. 7 p.m. at the Vashon Theatre.

SUNDAY • 26

Unitarian Service: Rev. Heather Christensen will speak on creating community together. Programs for children and youth will also be available. 9:45 a.m. in Lewis Hall behind Burton Community Church.

MONDAY • 27

High School Preview and Infor-mation Night: Harbor School will host representatives from several area public and independent high schools for an informational evening for seventh and eighth grade students and their parents. High schools represented will include Vashon High School, Annie Wright School, Charles Wright, Bellarmine Preparatory School, Seattle Lutheran High School and Northwest School. Refreshments will be provided. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Harbor School.

TUESDAY • 28

Vashon School District Flu Shot Clinic: The Vashon Island School District (VISD) will partner with the Seattle Visiting Nurse Associa-tion to offer a flu shot clinic. The clinic will be open to all VISD staff, students (ages 4 and up) and their families. Cost is free with insur-ance. For more information, go to vashonsd.org. 4 to 8 p.m. at Vashon High School.

Community Cinema Vashon: “Makers: Women in Hollywood” is this month’s free Community Cinema offering. “Makers” is a six-part documentary series profiling the impact women have had over the last 50 years in industries such as comedy, politics, space, war, business and Hollywood. For more information about the series, go to

makers.com. 6 p.m. at the Vashon Theatre.

UPCOMING

Kids’ Spook House and Haunted Trail: The Vashon Eagles will host this free, all-ages event featuring a cast of characters and Halloween inspired crafts, treats and games. The haunted trail will feature a test of courage with prizes to be awarded to the brave. 5 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, at the Vashon Eagles.

Senior Center Halloween Party: Come for live music, a costume contest and more at this annual celebration. To RSVP call 463-5173. 11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31, at the Vashon Senior Center.

Vashon Children’s Center Fall Festival: This soon-to-open day care center, in conjunction with the Vahson Eagles, will host a pre-trick or treat party for Vashon families. The event will include a barbecue, live music, pumpkin carving con-test, inflatable slide and activities, games and prizes for kids. A hay-ride to downtown for the costume contest and trick-or-treating will round out the afternoon. Families are welcome to tour the new center and meet its director, Sandy Gil-liam. 1 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, at the Vashon Children’s Center, 9822 Gorsuch Rd. in the VYFS Play-Space building.

Trick-or-Treating Downtown: Vashon town will close so kids of all ages can trick-or-treat in the town core and compete in the costume contest. 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31.

All Hallows’ Eve Tales: Merna Hecht will continue the tradition of spinning tales for trick-or-treaters. For more information, go to vashonbookshop.com. 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, at the Vashon Bookshop.

Club O: Come in costume to the island’s all-ages dance party, and the best one will win a prize. Dance the ghosts away under club lights with deejayed music. Cost is $5 at the door. Doors open at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

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Healthy Woodlands to Healthy Homes Workshop: This work-shop, presented by King County in conjunction with Washington State University’s Forestry extension program, will offer an opportunity for woodland owners, architects and builders to see how woodland stewardship can keep the forest healthy and help build healthy homes. There will be a walking tour of local working forests to look at how different harvesting tech-niques are completed to promote woodland health, a tour of the locally milled wood that was used in the construction of the new high school, and a demonstration at the Joel Kuperberg Memorial Mill Yard. The event is free, but space is lim-ited and registration is required. To register, call 425-357-6023 or email [email protected]. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, at Vashon High School.

Medicare Open Enrollment Workshop: LeeAnn Brown will discuss United Health Care Medi-care Advantage choices for those interested in making changes to their plans during the open enroll-ment period, which begins on Oct. 15. The workshop is free, with two different dates still available to attend. Call Brown at 567-4600 for more information or to RSVP for a workshop. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, and 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, at

the Vashon Eagles.

AARP Defensive Driving Class: Dave Rogers will lead this AARP-sponsored class. Both days must be attended to receive credit for lower insurance rates. Cost is $14 or $12 with proof of AARP membership, payable on the first day of class. To register, call 463-5173 or drop by the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25, at Fire Station 55 on Bank Road.

Teen Dating Abuse Prevention Workshops: The DoVE Project will offer free workshops for middle schoolers and high schoolers (separate groups), open to both girls and boys. For registration and location information, contact Betsey Archambault at [email protected]. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1. (See story, page 13.)Island Yoga Center Classes: Irene Tokar leads classes for extended practice as well as back care and pain relief. The extended practice class takes place on the fist Sunday of every month, and offers time to explore and move deeper into postures. The cost is $30. Back care and pain relief classes are offered weekly for a month, and will teach yoga sequences designed to bring relief to common areas of pain and discomfort such as the lower back and neck. No experience required for this class. Cost is $56 for Tues-days or $42 for Thursdays (no class on Nov. 27) through November. For more information, go to islandyo-gacenter.com. To register, send a check payable to Island Yoga Center to PO Box 2062, Vashon, or drop it in the red mailbox by the front door of the yoga center. Extended prac-tice 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, and back care/pain relief 5 to 6:15 p.m. Tuesdays or 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Thursdays through November.

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Kids can learn acrobaticalist ninja theater and doubles trapeze skills with these two UMO work-shops at the Open Space for Arts & Community. The acrobaticalist class, to be taught by Tomoki and Kiyota Sage of the group NANDA (pic-tured above) for kids ages 8 to 12, will teach participants how to interact and perform combat-centric physical theater in a fun and safe way. The doubles trapeze class is for intermediate and advanced aerial students, ages 11 and up. Participants will learn the fundamentals as well as two-person moves on the trapeze. To register, go to kajsa.wufoo.com/forms/registration-fall-2014/. Registrations must be received by Oct. 25. Acrobaticalist class will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, and the doubles trapeze class from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14.

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Love is Strange: Opens Oct. 24.

Makers: Women in Holly-wood (community cinema): Oct. 28.

Frankenstein (National Theater Live): Oct. 30.

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PUBLIC MEETINGS

Vashon School District: 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at Chautauqua Elementary School.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Station 55.

Vashon Park District: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Ober Park.


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ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury MONSTERS AT THE THEATER: Just in time for Halloween, Vashon Theatre will show National

Theatre Live’s rebroadcast of the international sensation “Frankenstein” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles as Victor Frankenstein. Shows will be at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, and 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. Tickets are available at www.vashontheatre.com and at the door.

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THE BARD AT THE MOVIES

GreenTech and Vashon Theatre present “Hamlet”The Vashon Theatre and Island Green-Tech will bring Sir Laurence Olivier’s 1948 film adaptation of “Hamlet” to the silver screen for a free showing at 7 p.m. Saturday. The movie was the first British film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.

LAUGHS AT THE RED BIKE

Seattle comic joins Vashon funny folks at the BikeComedy night will return for some laughs at 8 p.m. Friday at the Bike.

Heneghen, who has been a finalist of the Seattle International Comedy Competi-tion numerous times, will headline the evening’s show. Hosting the event will be Vashon’s Stephen Moody, along with local comedians Kevin Kim-Murphy, Pearce Cobarr, Jonathan Laine, Andy Royer, Dan Green and Jim Farrell.

Tickets are $7 at the door for the adult-only show.

JAZZ AT SNAPDRAGON

Enjoy the sound of jazz tunes from 1920s and ‘30sJazz musicians Mark Graham and WB Reid will play from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Snapdaragon.

Graham and Reid are known indepen-dently for their mastery of traditional music and membership in countless bands. Some years ago, they discovered a mutual joy in playing the early jazz tunes from the 1920s and ‘30s on clarinet (Graham) and banjo-guitar (Reid).

Graham, a Vashon resident, is nation-ally revered for his old-time harmonica playing and clever songs on a wide range of subjects. A founding member of the Seattle band The Hurricane Ridge Run-ners in the late ‘70s, Graham went on to tour with Kevin Burke’s Open House and The Kings of Mongrel Folk, among other musical greats. Along the way he discovered the music of Sydney Bechet and added the jazz clarinet, forging a signature improvisational style.

Reid has visited nearly every village in the revival of musical traditions over the last four decades, with stops in blues, ragtime, old-time and swing, along with traditions from many countries. Currently he plays with Eric and Suzy Thompson in the blues and jugband group The Todalo Shakers, performs as a duo with his wife, Bonnie Zahnow, and plays contra dances with several bands, including The Rhythm Rollers. Reid has developed and mastered a one-of-a-kind finger technique on the six-string banjo, bringing a fine old sound to jazz stan-dards from the early 20th century.

The two explore the lost sounds of Sydney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, The Mills Brothers, Duke Ellington and their contemporaries.

By JULI GOETZ MORSERStaff Writer

The novelist Salman Rushdie once said a poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

Next Wednesday, islanders will have the opportunity to wake up through poetry at a free workshop and reading sponsored by Vashon Friends of the Library and Vashon poets laureate, Ina Whitlock and Ann Spiers.

Yakima poet Terry Martin will read her recently published third book of poetry, “The Light You Find.” While Martin captures the beauty of Eastern Washington, according to Spiers she also uses the terrain to explore the travails and redemption of life.

“Terry Martin, as do many of the Eastern Washington’s poets, writes poems that ema-nate the heat, dryness and openness of the Columbia Plateau,” Spiers said. “I enjoy the contrast to our island poems featuring a closed greenness and grey rain. Terry uses this land-scape to define family, love and memory” — as seen in the following excerpt from Martin’s poem “Retrieval.”

By flowing waterrough edges softenand I come to remember myself. Along the riverbed,branching trees pointto the quiet passage of the moon. Tonight, even cobwebsvibrating silver in the air

invite notice. This river smoothes me,like one of its stones.

Washington state poet laureate Elizabeth Austen wrote that Martin’s poems “sing a hard-earned love song to central Washington’s Yakima valley, the hills surrounding it, and the river that is still transforming it. ‘I’ve come to let the river work on me,’ writes Terry Martin. And in poem after poem, she shows how our beloved places might work on us, too: ‘Fill your empty place/with this horizon.’ Loss and anger

find voice here, but so do acceptance, compas-sion and gratitude. These are poems to savor and share.”

When Martin is not writing poetry, essays and articles, she is teaching English at Central Washington University, where she won the Distinguished Professor Teaching Award. She has been honored as a U.S. Professor of the Year by the CASE/Carnegie Foundation, which recognizes extraordinary commitment and contribution to undergraduate education.

Like Martin, Spiers is not only a celebrated poet but also a committed teacher with 20 years of teaching creative writing at Highline College, workshops at Hugo House, Vashon Poetry Fest and Vashon College.

Spiers will lead a prose and poetry writing workshop for teens and adults before Martin’s reading. Using examples and writing prompts, the workshop — “Breaking the Timeline” — will focus on how to shake up time as a way to create, edit and vivify writing.

Spiers’ most recent book of poetry, “Bunker Trail,” published in 2013, details a dramatic year she and her family experienced while liv-ing in the walk-in community of Bunker Trail.

Terry Martin

Eastern Washington poet will read at workshop

The workshop “Breaking the Timeline,” led by Ann Spiers, will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29. The poetry reading with Terry Martin will follow the workshop at 6:30 p.m. Both events will be held at the Vashon Library.

By JULI GOETZ MORSERStaff Writer

Giraffe will celebrate its eighth anni-versary and the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos with a gallery opening of Day of the Dead artwork by Gregory Reyes-Herbold at 4 p.m. Sunday.

Reyes-Herbold, who grew up on Vashon and attended Vashon High School, will exhibit his pen and ink draw-ings and other pieces of art with Day of the Dead motifs in the store’s gallery.

“Gregory is uber-talented. He works for Barneys New York in Seattle and used to create the window displays for the high-end fashion store,” said Priscilla Schleigh, owner of Giraffe.

Eight years ago, Schleigh brought her many years of retail and global experi-ence together and with the help of family and friends opened the doors of Giraffe. Schleigh said her goal was to weave together beauty and justice by selling products that were not only winsome but that would create equity in the lives of the producers, some of whom are local, oth-ers from over 45 countries.

Schleigh invites islanders to come to the celebration to meet Reyes-Herbold and light a candle for their loved ones in the tradition of Dia de los Muertos.

She is grateful to the community for

its ongoing support, which she said has allowed her to follow her passion.

“Vashon has understood fair trade and hand crafted better than any other place. What else could I do but dive in? It has been and continues to be quite an adven-ture.”

Show at Giraffe marks Day of the Dead and store anniversary

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Day of the Dead artwork by Gregory Reyes-Herbold will be on display at Giraffe.

DoVE hosts evening of comedy for a serious cause

Seattle’s first lady of comedy Peggy Platt will headline the DoVE Project’s second annual comedy night “Laughter is the Best Medicine” at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

Opening for the likes of Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Kathy Griffin and Cyndi Lauper, Platt is the only woman to date to have won the prestigious Seattle International Comedy Competition. Three other Seattle comedians, plus Vashon’s Tami Brockway Joyce and Jennifer Sutherland, Duo Finelli and Chip and Margie will be joining Platt.

Kathi Jenkins, chair of DoVE’s board of direc-tors, said proceeds from Saturday’s event will go toward advocacy efforts

for domestic violence survivors and community outreach and will include training new advocates.

While the nonprofit cur-rently has 17 volunteers, Jenkins said the advocacy job is very stressful, so volunteers typically cover about one phone shift per week. Yet the need is great, for as with the national average, one in three peo-ple on Vashon is affected by domestic volence.

Tickets are $35 and available at www. brownpa-pertickets.com, at Vashon Bookshop and at the door. There will be a no-host bar, and light appetizers will be provided by Herban Feast.

The event is for adults only.

Peggy Platt

By SARAH LOWStaff Writer

In an effort to address the issues of abuse and violence in teen relationships, Vashon’s anti-domestic violence organi-zation, The DoVE Project, will host free workshops for both middle and high schoolers next week.

The two workshops are for both girls and boys and will focus on the characteristics of unhealthy relationships and recognizing abuse. DoVE Director Betsey Archambault said the information that will be presented is relevant for teens that have not started dating as well as for those who have been or are in relationships.

“We’re concerned about the way that healthy relation-ships are promoted these days, as no one ever talks about what an unhealthy relationship looks like,” Archambault said. “Kids need to understand and recognize both sides of the story.”

According to a 2011 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), almost 10 percent of high school students reported being hit, slapped or physically hurt on purpose by a boyfriend or girlfriend in the previous 12 months. In a study done in 2005, it was found that only about a third of teens that were involved in violent relation-ships ever told anyone. And in 2008, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency reported that approximately one in three adolescents in the United States is a victim of physical, sexual, emotional or verbal abuse from a dating partner — a figure that far exceeds the rates of other types of youth violence.

“Educating kids early is critical,” Archambault said. “We know that teen dating abuse can start as young as 11 years old.”

Although The DoVE Project started in 2011, its programs have primarily focused on adults until now. It’s not DoVE’s intent to promote dating, Archambault explained, but the group recognizes that dating is a part of teen life. Given the

statistics, she said, abuse is an issue that needs awareness, as the consequences of relationship abuse as an adolescent can be serious and long lasting.

The CDC reports that victims of teen dating violence are more likely to do poorly in school, engage in substance abuse, have suicidal ideations or attempts, engage in physi-cal fighting and experience symptoms of depression and anxiety. They are also more likely to either continue to be victimized in college and beyond, or become a perpetrator themselves.

Both girls and boys can be victims as well as abusers, Archambault said, and the statistics are essentially the same for those in same-sex relationships as for those in hetero-sexual partnerships. Girls and young women between the ages of 16 and 24 experience the highest rates of intimate partner violence of any group, at nearly triple the national average.

The DoVE workshops will each have two adult facilitators who will use a program called Safe Dates, an evidence-based curriculum that works well for both prevention and inter-vention. The middle school workshop will focus on preven-tion, while the high school program includes both a preven-tion and intervention focus. The program was designed for general populations of adolescents, Archambault said, not just those at high risk, so it has a broad reach.

“We’re looking to educate everyone, not just those need-ing intervention,” she said. “These programs help kids learn to be active bystanders. They learn the warning signs and understand the consequences and are given the tools they need to know what to do if they think someone they know is in trouble.”

Studies have shown that the Safe Dates curriculum can reduce dating violence significantly. One such study fol-lowing 14 public school populations in North Carolina found that four years after participating in the Safe Dates program, students reported 56 to 92 percent less physical and sexual dating violence than peers who had not partici-

pated in the program. “This curriculum works for everybody — survivors,

friends, potential perpetrators,” Archambault said. “If we can prevent 50 percent of this, why wouldn’t we?”

The workshops are being financially sponsored by Granny’s Attic and can be used by interested high school-ers as a jumping-off point for community service hours through peer education and outreach with DoVE.

Archambault describes the workshops as the young agency’s first foray into youth outreach but also said that she would like to hear from interested parents, too.

“Prevention work is really some of the most important work that we do,” she said. “The more people are aware, the more we’ll see the numbers come down. I’d rather be out of a job than just providing support like a Band-Aid after the fact.”


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