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Reductions not as drastic on Vashon as other placesBy SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

In the wake of last week’s failure of Proposition 1, some Metro bus cuts will come as early as this fall, while others, including those on Vashon, are not slated until September of next year.

Unless a funding solution is found before then, Vashon’s bus routes will likely see slight ser-vice reductions.

King County Metro announced last fall that with-out a new source of funding, it would have to reduce county-wide bus service by 17 percent. After the state Legislature failed to pass a transportation bill that would have made way for additional funding, earlier this year the King County Council, created the Transportation and Benefit District, which put forth Prop. 1. The measure, if approved, would have provided $130 million in annual funds for buses and road maintenance and repair in King County. The measure called for a $60 car tab fee and one-tenth of a percent increase in county sales tax.

The proposition, however, was defeated last week, with 54 percent voting no in the April 22 special election.

Following its defeat, Metro’s General Manager Kevin Desmond said that while the agency had hoped to avoid ser-vice reductions, it would move

ahead with the cuts. Because of improved sales tax revenue forecasts, Metro now plans to cut 16 percent of its service, instead of the anticipated 17 percent, and has put forward a plan accordingly.

“We must now move forward

to reduce the system to our rev-enues, as any enterprise must do,” Desmond said.

Metro has proposed com-pletely canceling 72 routes countywide and revising or reducing 84 routes, with initial

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Bus riders at the north-end ferry terminal load a bus on route 118, which is scheduled for service reductions, according to a Metro plan.

Motorcyclist killed in accident on Vashon Highway

By NATALIE MARTINStaff Writer

A West Seattle man riding his motorcycle on Vashon on Saturday was killed when he was struck by a vehicle on Vashon Highway near the north end.

Patrick Lajko, 62, had stopped to make a left turn when he was hit from behind, according to Sgt. Cindi West, a spokeswoman for the King County Sheriff ’s Office. The accident occurred at about

4:30 p.m. Saturday on the 12500 block of Vashon Highway, out-side Palouse Winery. Lajko was headed northbound.

The incident was the first traf-fic fatality on Vashon in a little over a year, said George Brown, assistant chief at Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR).

Bystanders and emergency responders from VIFR were

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The accident scene on Saturday.

Victim was a West Seattle man who enjoyed going for rides on his bike

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Two companies look to open pot stores on islandResults of lottery for licenses will be announced this weekBy NATALIE MARTINStaff Writer

Two off-island companies are apparent-ly vying to set up recreational marijuana retail stores on Vashon, taking part in the state’s lottery for 11 licenses for such stores that will be granted in unincorpo-rated King County.

Applications were submitted to the state Liquor Control Board for marijuana shops that would be located at Courthouse Square and at the former Vashon Family Practice building in Vashon town.

Last week the LCB held a lottery for 334 licenses it plans to issue for marijuana retail shops statewide. Eleven of those licenses will be given in unincorporated King County, which saw about 35 total applications. Results of the lottery will be announced on Friday.

Mikhail Carpenter, an LCB spokes-man, said he couldn’t confirm that the two Vashon applications were a part of the lottery. However, according to documents obtained from the LCB, applicants for both locations submitted the documents required to be pre-screened and enter the lottery, including proof of state residency and proof of rights to the identified prop-erties.

Carpenter said that of about 2,100 retail applications the state received, 1,700 applicants made it through the pre-screening process. In a complex lottery completed by the state last week, random numbers were assigned to applicants in 76 cities and counties where there were more applications than there are licenses available.

“We’re not having one great big lottery. We’re having 76 little lotteries in jurisdic-tions where it’s appropriate,” Carpenter said.

Being selected in the lottery doesn’t guarantee a license will be granted. Businesses must still complete the applica-tion process — providing financial infor-mation and business plans — and everyone

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VoV secures call letters, announces fundraiser for FM radio stationVoice of Vashon plans to broadcast as KVSHBy NATALIE MARTINStaff Writer

Voice of Vashon has secured call letters for its new FM station and will kick off a fundraiser to purchase equipment to set up the station.

“We’re going to get on the air; I believe it,” said Jean Bosch, the president of VoV. “After 14 years ... this is the easy part.”

VoV learned earlier this year that it had been granted a permit from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to start an FM radio station on the island.

The nonprofit group recently secured call letters for that station, earning FCC approval to call the station KVSH.

Bosch said VoV’s board considered many different call letters. Some letter combina-tions, such as KVOV, weren’t available because other FM stations in the country already have them. The board voted on the final choice.

An AM station in the small town of Valentine, Nebraska, has the KVSH call letters. But since it is an AM station and therefore on a different radio band, Voice of Vashon was able to use the same letters, with the Valentine station’s permission.

Last week VoV also announced that it will kick off a fundraiser to bring in $50,000 to get the FM station on the air. The funds will go toward the purchase and installation of an FM antenna and transmitter, which will be installed atop Water District 19’s water tower near town. The money will also fund the purchase of other required equipment and additional start-up costs, such as training new volun-teer contributors, according to VoV Vice President Rick Wallace.

The group will officially begin its fund-raising on May 6, the Seattle Foundation’s GiveBig Day (for more on GiveBig, see page 5.)

Bosch said VoV plans to hold an event that day at Snapdragon to publicize its fundraiser and has a half-dozen private fundraisers planned for homes on Vashon in the next month.

Bosch said VoV has about a year to start the station but hopes to raise the funds by early summer, in time to begin con-struction of its antenna. She said VoV has already received a lot of positive feedback on the FM station and she has no doubt they will be able to raise the money.

“I’m very heartened and excited,” she said.

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Owner says the shop has seen a drop in businessBy NATALIE MARTINStaff Writer

Vashon Island Bicycles, facing financial difficul-ties, will likely have to shutter its doors.

Jeff Ammon, the shop’s owner, said last week that the shop has been strug-gling for the past year or two, as it as seen a steep decline in business.

Ammon repairs and rents bicycles and sells bike parts and accessories at the shop on 178th Street, which he has owned for 18 years. However, in recent years business has dropped to about a quarter of what it used to be, he said. Lately he has struggled to make rent and has been unable to restock some of his shelves.

“It’s been rough,” he said. “It’s really not paying the bills.”

Ammon said there could be a number of reasons his business has dropped off. The poor economy has affected many small busi-ness, he said, more people are purchasing bike parts and accessories online now, and there’s now a sec-

ond bike shop on Vashon that also does repairs.

As customers learned of Ammon’s struggles, one customer recently decided to try to help.

Brian Hildebrand, a regular customer who says he also considers Ammon

a friend, set up an online fundraiser where people can donate to the shop. Hildebrand hopes to raise $1,500 to cover a month of Ammon’s rent, and he also organized a couple of small concerts at the shop to bring in donations.

Hildebrand called the bike shop a fixture on Vashon and said it would be sad to see it go.

“I think it’s just a really key part of the uptown community,” he said, not-ing that kids and teens often hang out at the shop as well.

As of Monday, the fundraiser, hosted by the website GoFundMe had brought in $505.

Ammon said he was touched by the fundraiser and appreciated the sup-port, but he would need more than $1,500 to keep his doors open. He is con-sidering moving the busi-ness to another retail spot or possibly to his home.

Whether the shop stays open past the end of the month, he said, depends on what kind of agreement he can work out with his landlord. Last week he had already begun mov-ing some things out of the store.

Ammon said he was feeling calm about the transition but sad at the idea of losing the shop.

“It’s weird, let me tell you, to think about not coming in,” he said.

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Dentists establish foundation in honor of Palmer Burk

Dr. Daryl Yorek, a Tacoma orthodontist who also has office hours on Vashon, is working with island dentists to form a foundation in honor of Palmer Burk, a former patient of Yorek’s who died by suicide in 2012.

“Palmer was a special patient,” Yorek said. “I was shocked when he passed and wanted very much to support his family.”

The Palmer Smiles Foundation will be a collaborative effort between Yorek and island dentists Dr. Leif Rasmussen of Vashon Dental and Dr. James Cunnington of Dental Care of Vashon. The group will choose one or two chil-dren of families in need each year to receive both dental and orthodontic care free of charge, for as long as they need it.

“Palmer had such a positive effect on his peers. We thought that helping kids get the care that they otherwise might not be able to get would be a good way to continue that positive legacy,” Yorek said.

The group’s vision is that the foundation will grow, hopefully to include other businesses and services.

Fittingly, Palmer Smiles’ first patient is Palmer’s sister, Garnet Burk, who is now receiv-ing orthodontic care from Yorek.

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Islander’s bakery named one of the top in the country by Fodor’s

Adding to a growing list of accolades, islander Leslie Mackie’s Macrina Bakery was recently named one of the top 10 bakeries in the country by Fodor’s Travel Guide.

“It was a surprise,” said Mackie of the honor. “They don’t tell you it’s going to happen. I found out when customers began congratulating me.”

Macrina, which celebrates its 21st year this summer, was started by Mackie in Belltown in 1993. Two more locations have since been added, in Queen Anne and initially Vashon, though logistics and new business partners resulted in a move from Vashon to the SoDo neighborhood.

“That was sad. I loved our Vashon bakery at the Old Fuller Store,” Mackie said, “but the logistics just didn’t work for everybody.”

This isn’t the first time Macrina has been rec-ognized nationally. Three years ago Bon Apetite magazine also named the bakery to its top 10 list.

Describing Macrina as a bakery where “bread-making has been elevated to an art form,” Fodor’s offers high praise of Mackie’s expertise.

“I’m just so pleased to have been recognized and included on such an impressive list,” she said. “It’s a real testament to our dedicated and remarkable employees. They make this possible every day.”

Vashon’s garbage collector recovering after being struck by car

Garyn Potter, Vashon’s only garbage collector, was struck by a vehicle on SW 204th Street as he was working two weeks ago and is currently

recovering. According to Mark Gingrich, an operations

manager with Murrey’s Disposal, Vashon’s gar-bage collection service, Potter was taken by ambulance to Harborview Medical Center for treatment of his injuries and was released later the same day.

Potter is unable to work right now due to his injuries, but is recovering at home and is in good spirits, Gingrich said. He is unsure when Potter might return to the job.

“We don’t really have a time frame right now, but we’re excited for him to come back,” Gingrich said. “He misses his customers and really appreciates the support that he’s received from the Vashon community so far.”

Well-wishes for Potter can be sent to PO Box 13242, Burton, 98013.

GiveBig fundraising event set for next week

The Seattle Foundation’s annual GiveBig event, which matches funds donated to area nonprofits, will be Tuesday, May 6. Several island organizations are participating, with many encouraging donors to give that day.

Donations made to those organizations between midnight and midnight Tuesday, May 6, will receive a pro-rated portion of matching funds, increasing the size of the gifts to each organization.

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EDITORIAL

Metro bus service cuts planned for King County will hit the region hard. Some areas will see drastic cuts to service and lose entire routes. Some people will have to find new ways to get where they’re going. And some bus commut-ers will be forced back into cars, contributing to the Seattle area’s already bad congestion and sending more pollution into the air.

On Vashon the bus cuts, not slated to take effect until fall of next year, don’t seem quite so bad. While earlier proposals included eliminating service to Maury, the county’s detailed plan released late last week keeps Vashon’s two routes intact and includes just a few round trip cuts throughout the day. We know some of Vashon’s bus trips, particularly those not during peak commute times, are sparsely used, so it seems King County could have justified cutting more. But accord-ing to a Metro official, the county took into account that unlike other areas, Vashon doesn’t have alternate bus routes riders can turn to or other public transit options.

We’re glad King County has recognized that without other options for getting around, our already limited bus service on Vashon remains vital. However, it’s hard to tell just how significant Vashon’s cuts will be for riders. Some have suggested that since Metro service on Vashon is already sparse, any cuts will be felt. And in a place where many people don’t live close enough to town to walk there, those who rely on the bus here truly rely on it. We don’t know exactly which trips are being cut, but we also know some commute-hour buses are standing room only already.

The passage of Proposition 1 would have created funding to avoid these countywide cuts. Here at The Beachcomber we knew the measure wasn’t perfect — many have pointed out the proposed taxes were regressive and Metro could pos-sibly do more to cut costs. However, we supported the tax and fee hike because we believe cutting bus service is just as regressive — it hits the low-income population the hardest. And in a time mounting concern over climate change, bus cuts will likely result in more harm to the environment.

Now that the proposition has failed, at least one other solution is already in the works. Though the latest idea for a property tax initiative would appear to only benefit Seattle, it could have ripple effects for other parts of the county. While we supported Prop. 1, perhaps its failure will result in an even better option for King County. Most promising, perhaps, is the prospect that the state Legislature, given another stab at it, will pass a transportation package that includes a less regressive tax to support Metro and also addresses road maintenance needs not just in King County but throughout the state. It’s unfortunate that in the mean-time, some of society’s most vulnerable, those who have depended on the bus to get around, will be affected.

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Sometimes I think I’m a little slow (that was not an invitation for comments, by the way), but the other day it dawned on me that I have never lived anywhere where there were so many old pickup trucks as there are right here on Vashon Island. Have you noticed? How could you not?

I’m not talking about lovingly restored “classic” trucks, like the ones in the Strawberry Festival parade, though there are plenty of them, too. No, I’m talking about beat-up, paint-faded pickups built shortly after I was born, which is to say in a previous century. (Maybe that’s the connection: They’re old and beat-up like me.) Most of these trucks look like they never should have been pulled out of the overgrown field where they had been dying a peaceful death and put back on the road. You can almost imagine them pleading, “Nooo, I am old and arthritic, don’t make me work again!”

Take my Burton Coffee Stand friend Richard. Please. No seri-ously, here’s this well-educated chap, an architect no less, and he drives around the island in an — I don’t know — maybe 50-year-old badly dented pickup the color of black primer paint, as if somehow he’d forgotten to finish the job, you know? It’s hideous. He pulls into the parking area by the coffee stand and the value of the sur-rounding real estate plummets. It’s so disreputable looking that other customers move their cars so as not to be associated with it.

I’m serious. Did I men-tion the guy is an architect? Clearly, he could afford a new car, right? But no.

Then there’s my other cof-

fee stand pal, Jerry. He’s got an even older pickup, an antique he’s lovingly restored. It’s like a museum piece, except that he’s dropped a humongously powerful engine into it. When he drives up Vashon Highway, it sounds like a pack of Hell’s Angels on Harley Davidsons. He’s also dropped, as near as I can tell, at least a zillion dollars into it, too. I’m thinking that for all the cash he’s poured into this truck, the guy could have bought himself a Ferrari, you know?

But I know Jerry’s problem. Richard’s, too. It is this: They know how to fix mechanical things. This is a terrible affliction, like obsessive compulsive disor-der. They see something old and broken and they simply cannot help themselves from fixing it. As someone completely incapable of fixing even a broken shoelace, I just can’t relate. Looking around the island, I think it is clear this affliction is widespread. There are legions of guys intent on fixing

and driving clunker pickups.And do these people try to hide

their affliction? Of course not; this is Vashon: They flaunt it. You see these guys rumbling down the road in their old beaters, and they look happier than pigs in a pig-sty, if you take my meaning. Big smiles. Big plumes of blue smoke trailing behind them, too.

Speaking of pigs, a pickup truck, as you no doubt know, can be a very useful thing to own if you are, say, a gentleman farmer on this island. Richard and Jerry, though? Professionals, not farm-ers. Not even gentlemen, either, come to that, though maybe they once were before they began hang-ing out at the Burton Coffee Stand, a deeply corrupting experience I lay squarely at the feet of another regular, my friend and fellow ex-New Yorker, Bad Michael. But that’s another story.

And haul stuff around in the truck? Forget it. Take Jerry’s truck, for example. Know what’s in the pickup bed where “stuff” should go? A bolted down, carefully restored and varnished antique wooden trunk. Get it? Trunk? It’s so cute and sweet you want to get an insulin shot.

When I moved to Vashon six years ago, somebody said, “If you stay, sooner or later you’re gonna have a beard and a pony tail.”

And maybe a beat-up pickup.

— Will North is an island novelist. His latest novel, “Seasons’ End,”

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Schools foundationOutdated textbooks need replacing

The recent editorial concerning the need for us to continue to support the schools foundation is quite accurate (“School’s foundation changing, but it’s still important to give,” April 16).

This year, I do hope that my students will be the recipients of the island’s generosity. The hope is to buy a new text for all students in 11th grade. It is sorely needed, as the text I am using was printed in 1996. Not only have significant events transpired since the Clinton Administration, but the study and interpretation of U.S. history continues to change as new evidence becomes available. A new text will also

allow the Social Studies department to offer an AP United States history class because the text will be aligned to the new standards of the U.S. AP history curriculum.

Thank you for supporting your schools.

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Funding essential for new school district preschool

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School District Spanish language pre-school may become a reality.

Studies nationwide have shown that children that show up at primary school with a learning disadvantage are likely to fall behind their peers as they progress through the school system. The disadvan-tage can be anything from a language bar-rier to stress experienced at home.

Our new preschool program is designed to better prepare both children that come from Spanish speaking homes, and at-risk children (at-risk students are those who, by virtue of their circumstances, are sta-tistically more likely than others to fail academically) for their first day of school as Chautauqua kindergartner.

Classes will be taught in Spanish, and when the children move to Chautauqua, they will have the opportunity to elect dual language classes for kindergarten as they transition to English-only instruc-tion. English-speaking preschoolers will also benefit from Spanish immersion because it engages their brains and stimu-lates cognitive development.

VSF and the Vashon School District are dedicated to making our schools work for everyone, and this is one more step toward achieving our goal. But we can’t do it without your help.

You should be getting a card soon in the mail from VSF with a list of priorities for funding. The preschool is at the top of the list.

With $25,000 from VSF, along with a proposed grant from Washington State’s Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, we hope to inaugurate the pre-school for 14 children who fit this descrip-tion.

If you would like to know more, I encourage you to read the work of Thomas and Collier on the success of dual language programs. And please support VSF this year. The support it gives our schools is invaluable

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AccidentBurma Road detour created problems for drivers

My sympathies to the victims and all those affected by the tragic motorcycle accident last Saturday on the north end on the 124th block of Vashon Highway.


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The decision however, to send all traffic through the Burma Road loop as two-way movement was, however, a poor one. I realize that until the accident investigation was complete, the choices were to either close the road entirely or use the Burma Road loop. Certainly using Burma Road was reasonable. As in most cases, simply because a road is on a map doesn’t mean it is suitable for all vehicles. The vehicle flow should have been restricted to specific automobile numbers in one-way alternat-ing directions.

Vashon is a community of willing volunteers. A call to the local volunteer responder exchange would bring an amaz-ing force of knowledgeable helpers willing to direct traffic flow. Unfortunately, on Saturday afternoon, the narrow passage (sometimes only allowing one-vehicle to pass) turned into a chaotic, white-knuckle, waiting-for-an-accident traffic jam. No

full-time law enforcement personnel were seen directing traffic on the loop (in spite of five emergency vehicles being trans-ported by the ferry). Yes, I was part of that traffic jam. I witnessed many near-misses, cars getting so close to the steep edges they risked being rollovers — drivers (and passengers) requiring rescuing , vehicles with inadequate tires struggling to move on the wet narrow, hilly roads. A break-down or serious accident would have been almost Armageddon.

I realize that hindsight is a wonderfully perfect thing and prayerfully we’ll never need the Burma Road loop for a similar situation again, but if we do, those in charge of making traffic decisions will do well to remember the many island volun-teers who are willing to assist in disastrous situations.

— Dave Burton

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WEDNESDAY • 30

Why Do We Sleep?: This TED Talk video features circadian neurologist Russell Foster addressing questions of why people sleep, how much sleep is needed at different ages and sleep as a predictor of mental health. 11 a.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Let’s Read Poetry: All are welcome to read their poems (two-page limit) and celebrate poetry on the last day of poetry month. For more information, contact Ina Whitlock at [email protected]. 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Vashon Bookshop.

Zen Center: Discussion night will feature the topic of root religion: How does your Zen practice relate to the traditions you were raised with? 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. at the Puget Sound Zen Center, 20406 Chautauqua Beach Road.

THURSDAY • 1

National Day of Prayer: The an-nual event will begin at noon at the Vashon Theatre.

Lecture Series: The Burton Community Church lecture and discussion series continues; all are welcome to attend, and the lectures are free. This week’s topics are the enlightenment and its discontents and Kant — evil at the root of hu-man agency. For more information, call Herb Reinelt at 408-7360. 4 to 6 p.m. in Lewis Hall, behind the Bur-ton Community Church.

Vashon Legal Clinic: This clinic of-fers free legal advice the first Thurs-day of each month. People who wish to schedule an appointment to meet with a lawyer should call the King County Bar Association at 267-7070. The clinic is always looking for lawyer and non-lawyer volunteers; if interested, email [email protected]. 6 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Family Caregiver Support Group:This group open to family caregiv-ers on the island meets on the first Thursday of each month. The group will be led by Cheryl Dart and is aimed at providing support and community resources for family caregivers. The person being cared for can be an elderly or disabled parent, child, sibling or partner. For more information, call Dart at 228-0704. 7 to 9 p.m. at Vashon Community Care.

FRIDAY • 2

Master Gardener Clinic: Bring your questions about soils, mulches and/or fertilizers to gardening experts. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Parkinson’s Support Group: The month of April was Parkinson’s awareness month and also marked the fourth birthday of the Vashon support group. The goal for this meeting is to celebrate and focus on the interests and achievements of the group’s members. For more information call Steve Stephens at 567-5976. 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Lutheran church fellowship hall.

Class of 2015 Bake Sale: The Vashon High School class of 2015 will hold a bake sale to raise money in support of needs-based schol-arships for the 2015 Grad Night Party — a safe, all-night, drug and alcohol-free event for the graduates. 6 to 9 p.m. in front of The Hardware Store Restaurant.

Wellness Center Open House: The Life in Balance Wellness Center will host an open house where attend-ees can meet the practitioners and sample fresh food and Ayurvedic cuisine. The evening will also include a free drawing to win services such as acupuncture sessions, a Felden-krais session, Ayurvedic scalp and face massages, an intuitive healing session and more. For more informa-tion, call 547-1330 or 851-1294. 6 to 8 p.m. at 17425 Vashon Highway.

SATURDAY • 3

Women’s Day Retreat: This inter-generational, faith-based retreat will explore the dynamics of love, power, nurturing and strength through direct teaching, journaling, small-group discussion, Bible study and prayer. Women and girls from teens through seniors are welcome to attend. Cost is $65 and includes lunch. Scholarship assistance may be available. For more information or to register, email Deborah Anderson at [email protected], and be sure to include “retreat” in the subject

line. 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Camp Burton.

Farmers Market: The VAA commu-nity quilt is back for a new season, and the market welcomes its newest vendor, Cowbelle Industries, which creates and sells hand-printed, Vashon-centric T-shirts. This week’s featured nonprofits are the Vashon Schools Foundation and Shape Up Vashon. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Village Green.

Master Gardener Clinic: Stop by to pick up a set of Vashon’s green gar-dening information cards. Created by islanders, for islanders, the cards offer suggestions for environmen-tally sound practices and products. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Tarot Card Readings: Bill Cham-plin will be available to give tarot card readings from noon to 5:30 p.m. at Vashon Intuitive Arts.

One Minute Games/60 Second Film Festival: All are invited to participate in this event to be filmed for an entry in the 60 Second Film Festival. Play hilarious one-minute games based on the TV show “Min-ute to Win It,” for Peter Ray to video tape. Call Weslie Rodgers at 463-5566 or email [email protected] to RSVP. 1 p.m. in the Ober Park Performance Room.

Sci-Fi Saturday: This month’s film showing to benefit the Chicken Soup Brigade, part of the Lifelong AIDS Alliance, is 1989’s “Back to the Fu-ture Part II,” starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Tickets are by a suggested donation of $5 to $10, and canned goods are also accepted. 1:30 p.m. at the Vashon Theatre.

Betty MacDonald Memoir Dis-cussion: Paula Becker and John Longenbaugh will host an informal, participatory discussion of MacDon-ald’s third memoir, “Anybody Can Do Anything.” 2 p.m. at the Vashon Library.

SUNDAY • 4

Unitarian Service: Longtime friend of VIUF, Herb Reinelt, will recount his recent trip to Israel and Palestine and share his impressions as a retired philosophy professor. 9:45 a.m. in Lewis Hall behind Burton Community Church.

Burton Community Church: BCC will welcome back guest minister Rev. Elizabeth Patrick. 11 a.m. at

Burton Community Church.

MONDAY • 5

Study Zone: Kids in grades K through 12 are welcome to drop in for free homework help from trained volunteer tutors. 4 p.m. Mondays (except May 26) at the Vashon Library.

Great Books Discussion Group: The group will meet to discuss this month’s reading, “The Man Who Loved Islands” by D.H. Lawrence. The group meets on the first Monday of the month from October through June, and visitors are welcome as long as the material under discus-sion has been read. 6:30 p.m. at the Vashon Library.

TUESDAY • 6

Drop in and Stitch: Learn new techniques in knitting and crochet-ing, solve yarn problems and enjoy the company of other fabric artists. 11 a.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Family Story Time: For newborns to age 6 with a caregiver, this weekly library offering includes stories, finger plays, movement and music. Participants do not need to be members of the PlaySpace to at-tend. For more information, call the Vashon Library at 463-2069. 11:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays at the VYFS PlaySpace.

Life Story Exchange Circle: All Vashon seniors are invited to come and share their life stories. 1 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

UPCOMING

Harbor School Open House: Harbor School will host a free open house for families interested in applying for the 2015-16 school year. For more information, go to www.harborschool.org. Call 567-5955 to RSVP. 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, at Harbor School.

Rotary /Eagles NFL Draft Bingo Fundraiser: All are invited to help raise money for scholarships to go to VHS grads. There will be a special NFL draft game as well as regular bingo. Win cash, gift certificates, sports memorabilia and tickets to Seattle sporting events. There will be traditional tailgating food as well as the Eagles’ Friday night prime rib special. For more information or to make a donation, call Mike England at 271-3219. 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, May 9, at the Vashon Eagles.

Wolftown Open House: All are invited to take a tour and see what the project is all about. Wolftown is a 501c3 non-profit organization that does wildlife rehab and education and teaches sustainable agriculture. An RSVP to 463-9113 is required for anyone planning to attend, and a donation of $10 per person is sug-gested. Noon Saturday, May 10.

Chicken Coop Tour: The Interfaith Council to prevent Homelessness (IFCH) will once again sponsor this Mother’s Day event where island-ers can visit farms and talk to the owners. The event is a fundraiser for IFCH. Tickets cost $15 for adults; children are free. Tickets can be purchased at the Vashon Bookshop or at Amiad and Associates real estate office. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sun-day, May 11.

Town Hall Meeting: The King County Community Service Area will sponsor this meeting for residents to meet with county officials, learn about small grant opportunities and be informed about current county work in the community. Council-member Joe McDermott, Sheriff John Urquhart and deputy executive Fred Jarrett will be in attendance. 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, at Mc-Murray Middle School.

CLASSES

Enhanced Fitness: This class led by Mo Brule is tailored to fit the

capabilities of those 50 and older, to improve balance, flexibility and energy. The first class is free and 12-visit punch cards are $45 (no charge to Group Health members with Clear Care Advantage Medi-care parts A and B). Register at the senior center. 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the Ober Park performance room.

On Location Photography for Kids: For ages 8 through 12, par-ticipants in this class to be led by Ray Pfortner will shoot on location at Point Robinson, capturing the beach, lighthouse and animals who call it home. Photos will be shared at the follow-up session. Cost is $70 for VAA members, $85 for non-members with a $7 materials fee for all. For more information and to register, go to vashonalliedarts.org. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3, and 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 17.

First Time Home Buyer’s Class: This is a free class for anyone con-sidering a new home purchase in the next 24 months. The class will provide information on over a doz-en state programs, including no-interest down payment assistance programs. Over an hour of coaching on how to increase your credit score will also be provided. Contact Aaron Hendon at [email protected] for more information. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Vashon Eagles.

Exploring Mindful Eating: Sevilla Rhodes will lead an introduction to this approach to eating, based on the book “Mindful Eating” by Dr. Jan Chozen-Bays. No prior experi-ence with the approach is necessary for those attending. Cost is $20 (scholarships are available) and pre-registration is required. Go to hestiaretreat.org/events for more information and email [email protected] to register. 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 10.

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The Vashon Maury Island Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale at 9 a.m. Saturday at Vashon Plaza, across from the post office. Garden club members have been dividing and cultivating perennials, shrubs and grasses all year in preparation for this event. Attendees will find flowers — both common and exotic — vegetables and a boutique filled with yard art and collectibles. Proceeds from the sale are used for VHS scholarships, student benefits and community projects for the senior center, Vashon Community Care, horticultural education in Vashon schools and community garden awards.

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Send items to [email protected] 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.

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Grand Budapest Hotel: Ends May 1.

The Amazing Spiderman: Opens May 2.

Back to the Future Part II: 1:30 p.m. May 3.

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463-3232.

PUBLIC AND CLUB MEETINGS

Kiwanis: 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 6, at the Vashon Eagles.

Vashon School District: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at Chautauqua Elementary School.


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Last Saturday, Ivy Free Vashon, in cooperation with King County, held an ivy cutting event along the north end of Vashon Highway and the ferry parking lot. Twenty volunteers worked for three hours cutting ivy from the trees. The purpose of the event, according to organizers, was to increase awareness of the harmful effects of ivy and with the dying ivy leaves create a temporary visual reminder of the need to control it. Ivy is harmful for several reasons. In trees it can create a sail effect which increases the potential for windfall. It also reduces access to trees by wildlife, and vertically growing ivy produces seeds which can be spread by birds.


ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury FIREBIRD IGNITES OPEN SPACE: VAA Center for Dance will dance to life the story of

Stravinsky’s Firebird ballet on Friday through Sunday, May 16 to 18. This marks the 18th spring ballet for VAA Center for Dance director Christine Juarez.

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A CAPPELLA COMEDY

Chorus sings with humor

Captain Smartypants, an a capella com-edy group, will bring its unique blend of humor and accomplished voices to the Blue Heron 7 p.m. Saturday.

An offshoot of the larger Seattle Mens Chorus, Captain Smartypants’ stylistic range includes swing, doo-wop, pop covers, Motown, techno-pop and barbershop. Led by director Eric Lane Barnes, the group has performed all over the Pacific Northwest with stars such as Margaret Cho, Jennifer Holliday, Kristin Chenoweth, American Idol final-ist Blake Lewis and many others. Their video performance of “Kislev Cowboys” has received over half a million hits on YouTube since it posted in 2008 and was featured on NPR’s “Hearing Voices.”

Tickets are $16 for VAA members, stu-dents and seniors or $20 for general ad-mission and are availalbe at VAA, Heron’s Nest and www.vashonalliedarts.org.

CHAMBER MUSIC

VCM plays season finaleConcluding its fifth season, Vashon Chamber Music will offer a finale pro-gram that features the music of Haydn, Schnittke and Brahms at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Methodist church.

Guest cellist Charmian Bartlett will join artistic directors Douglas Davis and Rowena Hammill in an arrangement for three cellos, a piece originally written by Haydn. The Schnittke trio for violin, viola and cello will feature series regular Artur Girsky on violin, Hammill on cello and guest violist Timothy Christie. Founder and artistic director of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, Christie plays with Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Opera as well as numerous chamber music series throughout the U.S. Brahms G Major string sextet will bring the program to a close.

Tickets are $18 for VAA members, stu-dents and seniors or $22 for general ad-mission and are availalbe at VAA, Heron’s Nest and www.vashonalliedarts.org.

SOUNDS OF REGGAE

Reggae rocks the BikeSeattle’s Highlife Band will bring reggae to the Bike at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Rhythms from the Spanish and French Caribbean join Jamacian rockers, bif-baf, steppers, one-drop and dancehall reggae tradi-tions.

Playing over 40 shows last year around the Northwest and northern California, The Highlife Band boasts a music video, two albums and four live in-studio radio performances.

This is a free all-ages show until 11 p.m. and then only 21 and older.

Vashon art is here, there and everywhereMost galleries and art spots are open 6 to 9 p.m. Friday

Kasia Stahancyk’s fused glass artwork will be on display at Blooms & Things. Stahancyk retired early to Vashon to pursue her art. Her creations are decorative yet functional and have been exhibited in regional shows and art fairs. Much of her work is in personal collec-tions in Europe and the U.S.

Cafe Luna presents “A Soldier Boy Hears the Distant Guns: The Vietnam War Photographs of Christopher Gaynor.” These candid and often haunting portrait photographs were taken by former army sergeant and photog-rapher Gaynor during his 1967-68 tour in Vietnam. Many of the photographs were also in Gaynor’s show at the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum, which won the Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO) Award for Best Exhibit 2012.

Duet will hold a special silent auction for a vintage art piece by the late artist Michael Spakowsky. Drawn in 1969 when Spakowsky was 19 years old, this pen and ink piece is a nautical scene featuring tall ships. Interested parties can place bids now through the end of the First Friday gallery walk. The retail gal-lery will exhibit other paintings by Spakowsky as well as a show of new acrylic paintings by Lenard Yen titled “Mixed Motions.”

Hastings-Cone Gallery will exhibit work by Oregon artist Paula Bullwinkle.

HUB 070 Gallery, in the Spinnaker Building, will show “May Flowers” by Lisa DeFaccio, an exhibit lusterous and luminous blossoms in ceramics. It will show through June 27.

Maxwell Family Medicine will show work by international artist Aliona Aziornaya, who fuses images of pre-Christian and pre-Soviet Russia with a contemporary look using mixed media, pastels and oils.

OCCU will show mixed media created by its employees — mosaics by Anna Campanoli, pho-tography by Kirsten Bachant, knitings by Carole Sussman and oil paintings by Margi Amstrup.

Quartermaster Press will have monoprints and cards designed and printed by the artists in the collective.

Raven’s Nest will feature hand-pulled original serigraph prints and cedar carvings by award-winning Coast Salish artist Peter Boome. In addition to his Salish contempo-

rary designs of Puget Sound and Coast Salish, Boome also creates intertribal art influenced by his childhood experiences on a reservation in Utah. A small collection of Boome’s cedar carvings, a rattle and bentwood boxes will also be on display. Boome will be at Raven’s Nest to talk about his work.

Pam Ingalls’ eighth annual portrait exhi-bition at The Hardware Store Restaurant is called “Facing New Zealand, Portraits of Maori People & Their Land.” Ingalls said, “The urban Maori people so impressed me as being committed to their community. They are vibrant, fascinating people who have inte-grated into Western culture without losing their cultural identity. Plus they are beautiful and very fun to paint.” Daryl Redeker will per-form throughout the opening.

Starving Artist Works (SAW) will celebrate its second anniversary on Friday. SAW opened its doors in May of 2012, then showing works by 20 artists. Two years later, it now represents over 90 Vashon artists.

Two Wall Gallery will exhibit photographs by Harbor School students, taken under the guidance and instruction of island artists Christine Beck and Ray Pfortner during the school’s week-long Voyagers Week Travel Study program to Port Townsend. This digital photography intensive immersed students in lessons of composition, framing, lighting, cri-tiquing and exhibiting photographs.

For its annual May show, VALISE invited islanders to submit a piece of artwork created in any medium — painting, drawing, photog-raphy, sculpture, textiles, digital, installation, video, sound, light, poetry and music. The show will be a full exhibition of all the artwork the gallery received.

Three Vashon artists will display their artwork in three different mediums at the Vashon Allied Arts Gallery. Photographer Kim Farrell captures surfaces in old build-ings to create the texture and color found in abstract art. Kathy Larsdotter’s paintings focus on the Vashon-Maury shoreline and water-shed. Ivonne Escobar de Kommer uses copper and large test tubes in her work based on the natural elements she finds in her garden.

Vashon Tea Shop will exhibit Claire Schlosser’s playful acrylic paintings in a show titled “Angel Unicorns and Fairy Friends.” Island musicians Todd Zimberg and Maggie Laird will perform throughout the opening.

Burlesco Notturno returns to Vashon with their glittery new show “Glamour” at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

Expect enticing performances, including a duet from the globe-trotting babes of bur-lesque, Inga Ingenue and J. Von Stratton — soon to be on a world tour with Macklemore and Ryan-Lewis. Ingenue and Von Stratton will share the stage with the physical come-dian Bill Robison and the daring Duo Rendez-vous. Arlette Moody will debut an intrigu-ing character named Lilette.

Singer-songwriter Angie Louise fronts the theatrical band The Love Markets. Donned in little black slips with military boots, these bandmates evoke the sultry, eerie sound of Weimar Berlin mixed with the bluesy grit of New Orleans.

Madame X, the acrobatic diva otherwise known as Janet McAlpin, will host the eve-ning dressed in creative couture recently designed by Patricia Toovey.

Tickets for the show are $25 and are available at Vashon Bookshop, www.brownpaper-tickets.com or at the door.

The show is for those who are 21 and over only.

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On the first two weekends in May, in a long-held tradi-tion, Vashon artists will open their studios for curious art lovers to take a peek into their work-a-day world during the annual Spring Art Studio Tour.

This year 20 studios of painters, sculptors, printmakers, jewelers, potters, wood carvers, glass artists and more will be on the tour, along with three retail galleries.

Visitors can watch glass-blowers fashion new work or step into a yurt on a small working farm for a demonstra-tion on hand-painting Ukrainian eggs. There are potters turning out functional wares and those who hand-shape raku-fired pots. Delicately crafted sterling silver jewelry, hand-felting, space-age folk art assemblages, garden art and concrete sculptures inspired by a Japanese aesthetic are for sale, as are a plethora of cards, woodcut and mono prints, whimsical tiles, drawings and photography.

Visitors can purchase original artwork at the studios and are encouraged to ask artists about their creative process.

The tour also provides a delightful opportunity to see what lies beyond the island’s main highway. Many of the studios are tucked away in the woods, situated on inland farms or boast water views.

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unable to revive Lajko, Brown said, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

West said the driver of the other vehicle was a Vashon woman who is in her 60s, and authorities believe she was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The incident is still under investigation, West said, and it is not yet known if any citations or criminal charges will result.

Lajko was the founder and presi-dent of CDE Software, a bowling soft-ware company based in West Seattle since 1988.

Lance Rasmussen, CDE’s manager, said on Monday that Lajko had lived in West Seattle for over 25 years, was “active in a lot of different things” and

enjoyed going for rides on his motor-cycle. He apparently was involved with local groups that met up for rides in the area.

“He was great to work for,” Rasmussen added.

Lajko left behind a mother and a brother, Rasmussen said.

West said authorities don’t know where Lajko was headed when he stopped to turn on the highway.

Faith Addicott, who works at Palouse Winery and was there at the time of the accident, said Palouse was open that day but there were no cus-tomers there at the time. She didn’t know whether Lajko was coming into the winery, heading down a neighbor-ing driveway or perhaps planned to turn around in Palouse’s large, gravel driveway, which drivers often do, she said.

The speed limit on Vashon Highway drops from 50 mph to 35 mph right by

Palouse. “We at Palouse are deeply shaken

and saddened by the day’s events,” Addicott said in an email.

The highway was closed in both directions for several hours on Saturday evening while the coun-ty’s Major Accident Response and Reconstruction team investigated. Traffic was rerouted via Burma Road, the only possible detour for that area, according to officials.

Brown, with VIFR, said he has since received about a half-dozen comments from drivers who felt the detour on the narrow, windy road created a dangerous situation and saw near accidents there.

There were no reported accidents during the detour, Brown said, but he hopes to arrange a meeting with VIFR, the sheriff ’s office and the county roads department to discuss the handling of future detours.

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VASHON CELEBRATES EARTH DAY On Tuesday, April 22, as Earth Day was celebrated around the globe, there were several clean-up and conservation events on Vashon to mark the occasion.Islanders from the John L. Scott office, below, headed out to do their King County Adopt-a-Road clean-up along Vashon Highway.A crew from the Washington Conservation Corps, bottom right, cleaned up the beach at Point Robinson. They were joined by some local volunteers.Tom Dean from the land trust joined Harbor School students, top right, on Friday, April 25, for a special tree planting ceremony and to talk with students. Two cedar trees were donated to the school by the Land Trust and planted on the campus, top right.

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By PAT CALLFor The Beachcomber

The Brentwood College Inter-national Regatta is a 1,500-meter event with 147 races over two and half days and is an annual favorite of Vashon’s junior crew. Against rowers representing 38 U.S. and Canadian clubs, Vashon’s team put in another strong spring performance, medalling in 15 of the 23 races it entered.

Many of Vashon’s top junior row-ers over the past decade have not won top honors at Brentwood, a testament to the skill of the other teams who compete there. This is the only regatta where Vashon faces western Canada’s top crews.

On Friday afternoon, Vashon’s crew qualified 10 boats in 14 races entered. Saturday started with two early and exciting races: the men’s and women’s A varsity coxed quads (“A” means “open”; the “B” category designates rowers 16 and under). The women (Mia Croonquist, Kalie Heffernan, Riley Lynch, Kirsten Girard and cox Callie Andrews) held off a late surge to win the gold, while the men were not able to quite catch the lead boat, finishing with the silver.

Vashon’s morning races completed with a gold medal for the women’s B novice coxed quad (R. Lynch, Rhea Enzian, Katrina Heffernan, Madelyn McEachern and cox Andrews) and a bronze for the junior men’s A nov-ice coxed quad. To this point the Brentwood planning magic was work-ing to perfection, but at precisely 1 p.m., the wind whipped up, turning the course into a patchwork of unrow-able whitecaps and swells and sending the regatta into the penalty box for the rest of the day.

Forecasts for Sunday from four sur-rounding locations were grim, but

undeterred, the regatta organizers announced a 6 a.m. start of racing. Sunday’s first race was high-octane drama. The men’s A single scull with Jacob Plihal at the oars had the added pressure of defending Vashon’s win-ning the trophy last year. Plihal, at 6 feet, 8 inches, doesn’t fit easily into a single scull, and, in fact, was racing a different boat on Sunday from the one he qualified in on Friday since he was in peril of sliding entirely out of Friday’s smaller shell. Showing the same tenacity as in the qualifier, Plihal took over the race, winning the gold by a boat length.

With the postponement of Saturday’s races, the organizers changed the remaining heats into finals with the relative time of the qualifying boats in the heats deter-mining the medal winners. A con-sequence of this scoring system is that if rowers are not in a strong heat but are substantially ahead, they have to have the mental toughness to imagine a competitor right on their stern and pour on the power anyway. The women’s A four was the first of

several Vashon boats to succumb to this scorekeeping method, winning its heat, but falling less than two-tenths of a second shy of the winning time of another heat.

That silver medal was matched by the men’s and women’s doubles. The women’s B double (R. Lynch – stroke, Enzian – bow) and novice eight (R. Lynch, Enzian, McEachern, Virginia Miller, Katrina Heffernan, Lili Helsby, Tabitha Illerbrunn, Adriana Yarkin and cox Andrews) both took home gold medals. This win by an eight was a first for Vashon at Brentwood. The medal tally was completed with a gritty silver medal performance by the women’s A lightweight four and a bronze for the men’s B double.

In summing up the weekend, coach Richard Parr had a single word: “Awesome.”

The women’s and men’s quads will row this Saturday in the UW invita-tion-only Opening Day races at the Montlake Cut.

— Pat Call is the father of two junior rowers.

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Members of the women’s quad show off their hard-earned gold medals.

Vashon Crew rows to victory in Canada Fastpitch takes on PuyallupThe Pirates fastpitch softball team traveled to Puyallup

to take on Cascade Christian last Friday.This was the first meeting of the two teams this year, and

the game went down to the wire, but Vashon managed to hold off the Cougars for an 8-7 victory.

Sophomore Delaney Anderson led the game off with a walk, stole second and third, then was hit in for the first run of the game. The Pirates exploded for a seven run first inning, chasing Cascade’s starting pitcher off the mound before the end of the inning. Cascade’s relief pitcher finally retired the side to put Vashon on defense.

Senior Gabby Frazier had a very strong first inning, giving up no runs. The Pitcher for Cascade pitched strong for the Cougars, allowing only one more run in the game.

Both teams hit the ball well, with Vashon getting 26 hits and Cascade 22. Slowly Cascade chipped away at the lead, coming to within one run in the seventh, but Frazier was able to hold off the Cascade bats for the win.

Frazier struck out 11 batters and hit a triple and a double. Anderson was also very impressive, stealing six bases.

— Ezra Lacina

Vashon’s varsity boys soccer team played two hard games last week. Tuesday saw Vashon take on Charles Wright Academy. The game was executed well in the first half and was tied at 0-0 going into the second half.

After going down two goals, Austyn Heit, assisted by Anthony Gateman, slipped a goal in the net. The game tied up in the final minute when Ariel Henriquez solo dribbled a goal right down the throat of the Charles Wright goalie. The overtime game saw Vashon fall 4-2 as the rain and cold helped exhaustion set in.

Two nights later, at Vashon’s stadium, the Pirates played Cascade Christian. Vashon dominated the game with pos-session, passing and endurance. Cascade scrambled the first half to contain the entire 11 Vashon players. During the second half, the visitors tightened up, and the game ended in a 0-0 draw.

The Pirates travel three times this week. Monday after press deadline was a game against Life Christian. Wednesday is a rematch against Charles Wright, and Saturday will be in Bothell against Cedar Park Christian. The Pirates enter this week with a record of 5 wins, 3 losses and 2 ties. They will return home next week for the last three regular season games.

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By ROBIN HRUSKA MYERFor The Beachcomber

The Pirate baseball team lost 9-2 to Seattle Christian last Monday, despite out-hitting the Terriers 11-6.

Leading the offensive attack for The Pirates was Josh Hruska Myer, who got a hit in each of his four at bats. He singled in the first, third, fifth and sixth innings. Teddy Atwell hit two singles, and Ezra Lacina, Ryan Bernheisel, Sam Schoenberg, Simon Perrin and Chester Pruett each had one.

Seattle Christian got an early lead in the game with four runs scored in the first inning. The Pirates scored in the bottom of the third on an RBI single by Ezra Lacina to cut their deficit to three, but the only other RBI by Sam Schoenberg in the sixth wasn’t enough for The Pirates to get the win.

The pitching staff for the Pirates gave up only three earned runs. Starting pitcher Lacina went strong for five innings, with four strikeouts and two earned runs on four hits. In the end, the Terriers had nine runs on six hits with one error, and the Pirates had three runs on 11 hits with five errors.

The Pirates’ second outing of the week was on Friday at Cascade Christian. Pitching for the Pirates was Hruska Myer, who tossed a shutout to lift the Pirates to a 1-0 win over Cascade in seven innings. He had seven strikeouts and gave up three hits. Catcher Lacina was key to the win by throwing a runner out at second in the sixth inning and a then runner out at third to end the game.

Schoenberg started off the game with a single, followed by a single from Hruska Myer advancing Schoenberg to third, and then Lacina singled to drive home the only run of the game. Clyde Pruett had a double; Hruska Myer had two singles and Schoenberg and Lacina each had a single. The Pirates ended up with one run on five hits with three errors. Cascade Christian had no runs on three hits with

two errors.The upcoming schedule for the Pirates is busy, with all

the games played at home. A Monday game, after press time, started the week off. Upcoming games will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday against Bush High School, at 4 p.m. Friday against Life Christian, then two games on Saturday, at 11 a.m. against Cascade Christian and at 2 p.m. against Port Townsend. The following week starts with an away game at Eatonville on Monday, then a home game with Bellevue Christian on Tuesday and away on Wednesday at Life Christian.

— Robin Hruska Myer is the parent of baseball player.

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After more than two years of working to help islanders get healthy and stay well, Shape Up Vashon (SUV) is issu-ing an island-wide fitness and health challenge.

Beginning no later than May 10, islanders of all ages are encouraged to participate for eight weeks in the President’s Challenge, a program of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition that aims to help people increase their physical activity and improve their fitness.

This is the fourth challenge SUV has sponsored and is the most ambitious one so far, said Dr. Kathleen Davis, who is one of SUV’s founding members.

“Since they have been successful, we would like to move to this step — to challenge the whole island,” she said.

The President’s Challenge is available online and includes activities for the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA), for people who want to make physical activity and healthy eating part of their lives, and the Presidential Champions challenge, for people who are already active but want to be more so.

If participating in the PALA challenge, people will

pledge to exercise a half-hour a day five days a week for six weeks out of eight. They will also pledge to add one healthy eating goal each week from a list of eight choices. This program is open to anyone age 6 and older.

For people who already exercise five days a week, the President’s Champion challenge may be the most appropriate and encourages even more activity.

“These are things that everybody should do for their health,” said Davis, who is a retired primary care physician and volunteers her time to work on issues related to public health.

Regular exercise has many benefits, she noted, includ-ing that it gives people more energy, improves depression, sleep problems and cardiovascular health and can help strengthen bones.

Participants can take part in the challenge in groups of two to eight people or can do it on their own and must log their progress on the President’s Challenge website. With this information, Davis said, SUV will be able to publi-cize how many President’s Awards Vashon has won and how many calories people burned earning those awards.

In July, there will be a community celebration, and SUV will award prizes to the top teams.

For Davis, islanders embarking on this challenge together makes sense.

“The community is very focused on the environment, and the environment and health go together,” she said. “This could be a benchmark for health in the same way we are proud of being envi-ronmentally sensitive.”

Davis noted that she has partici-pated in the President’s Challenge and received an award. It is easy to put off

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“When you pledge to do the President’s Challenge, you are making a pledge to yourself.”

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cuts coming in September of this year and more slated for February, June and September of 2015.

On Vashon, according to Metro’s pro-posal, route 118, which runs between Tahlequah and the north-end ferry dock, and 119, which runs from Dockton to the north end, are both slated to lose one roundtrip in the morning and one roundtrip in the afternoon. Route 118 Express, which runs between Tahlequah and downtown Seattle via the ferry, will lose two of its runs during peak hours, dropping from two in the morning and evening to just one both times.

Route 116 Express, which does not run on Vashon but travels between the Fauntleroy ferry dock and downtown Seattle and is often used by commuters, will drop from 10 runs during the morning commute time to eight. In the evening peak hours it will drop one trip, going from eight runs to seven. With the exception of route 118 Express, all of these routes are some of Metro’s least utilized runs.

The C Line, the Rapid Ride Line between Westwood Village and downtown Seattle, had originally been slated for service cuts as well, but the route is unchanged under the county’s latest plan.

Other areas of the county, however, will see more drastic bus service reduc-tions, and on a much earlier time frame. Jeff Switzer, a spokesman for the county Department of Transportation, said many riders will find more crowded busses, will sometimes get passed by at their stops and will face longer trips.

“Every rider is going to experience this a little bit differently,” he said.

Last week, County Executive Dow Constantine transmitted the proposed cuts to the King County Council, which is expected to act on the legislation by early June.

Before the vote, which is required in order to implement the cuts, the coun-cil’s Transportation, Economy and Environment Committee will hold three public meetings around the region, in addition to its regular committee meet-ings.

“The county has never seen transit cuts on this scale,” said committee chair Rod Dembowski in a Monday press release. “The public deserves an opportunity to learn how they may be personally impact-ed and to provide input to the council as we implement these reductions.”

Carrie Avila-Mooney, an aide to Councilmember Joe McDermott, who represents Vashon, noted that while the council has the authority to make changes to the proposed cuts and revisions, doing so would be difficult because many of the changes are related in some way.

“It is a very sensitive process,” she said.She noted that the council has already

reached out to some 15,000 people about this issue and understands many of their challenges and concerns. McDermott, she added, has stressed that the council will continue to work to find better solutions for transportation funding in Olympia.

State Sen. Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island) said she also hopes that better solutions will be found there.

“The solution is more transit, not less transit,” she said in a recent interview.

Two years ago, Nelson said, the state House of Representatives passed a trans-portation package, but since then, the Senate Republicans have refused to bring a transportation package to the floor. If the Democrats take control of the Senate

again, she said, the chances of passing a transportation package will be greater.

Many residents and drivers in King County will feel effects of the recent vote, she added, including elderly and disabled people who rely on busses to get where they need to go without the sometimes lengthy waits involved with Metro’s Access servic-es. Drivers will feel the effects as well, she said, as more people will be on the roads.

“It’s definitely going to cause more congestion,” she said. “Our (commutes) are already bad enough. … It will mean more cars cramming up the West Seattle bridge.”

The need for transit funding goes far beyond King County, she added, as transit systems up and down the I-5 corridor have struggled financially ever since the reces-sion hit.

Prop. 1 would have also provided money for roads, which Nelson added is critical.

“We have 70 bridges that desperately need funding,” she said.

Indeed, King County Road Services

Director Brenda Bauer has said her agency will continue to focus its efforts on criti-cal services and repair, but that roads will deteriorate more quickly than they would have with increased funding.

Prop. 1, however, clearly did not appeal to most voters, except those in Seattle and very near to it. King County Elections records show that out of the county’s 17 legislative districts, the measure passed in only five of them. In the 34th district, which includes Vashon, Prop. 1 squeaked by with 50.68 percent of the vote.

Shortly after the proposition’s defeat was announced, the Seattle group Friends of Transit announced an initiative to raise Seattle property taxes to pay for bus ser-vice within the city.

At the county, Constantine said he wel-comes their efforts, but said for now, the county must move ahead with service cuts.

For detailed information about the planned service reductions and changes, see metro.kingcounty.gov.

Virginia MayVictoria Rand Schwartz

Long time Vashon resident Virginia May Victoria Rand Schwartz, died unexpectedly and peacefully on April 13, 2014 in Palm Springs, CA where she and her husband Paul J. Schwartz, Sr. have been Snowbirds for the past 28 years.

Virginia was born in Klamath Falls, OR on June 26, 1923 to Joseph and Mable Rand. The family moved to Vashon Heights from West Seattle when Virginia was five years old. As a young girl she loved the Vashon beaches and the friends she made along the way. She attended Vashon Elementary School and Vashon High School where she graduated with honors in the class of 1941. On February 4, 1942 she married Paul J. Schwartz, Sr., her high school sweetheart. They raised a loving family with three children – Linda, Paul Jr. and Becky. Paul Jr. proceeded his mother in death at age 52 from Leukemia. Virginia is survived by her husband Paul Sr. of Vashon Island, her sister Barbara (Rand) Walls of Hilo, HI, and daughters Linda Schwartz of Los Angeles, CA and Becky Schwartz- Hallstrom of Dunedin, FL. She has five grandchildren, Erica Dodd, Ryan Brown, Sarah Smith, Gavin Brown and Gyasi Schwartz-Woods; and six great grandchildren, Kyla Dodd, Raymond Brown, Alexander Brown, Aster Smith, Galen Smith and Zoey Taylor Brown who will make her entrance this summer.

Virginia’s life was focused on loving and caring for her family at home. Her first job outside the home (besides berry picking on her parent’s land as a youth), was a comptometer operator for Safeway in Seattle. Later she assisted her husband Paul in his business at the Island Insurance Center with administrative tasks. She also worked at Island Fabrics as a seamstress and at the Wall Flower in sales and flower design. Her many talents included playing trombone (in high school), gardening organic vegetables and fruits and tending her beautiful Asian landscaping, sewing everything imaginable, dancing with fellow Club 90 members, stamp collecting, card making and water color painting. Her favorite painting style was Japanese Sumi painting which she had studied extensively. She was raised in the Vashon Presbyte-rian Church and later she and her husband attended Bethel Church.

Virginia was fond of saying, “I have outlived my expiration date!” She truly lived a long and fulfilling life and she will be greatly missed by her family, friends and neighbors. Friends and extended family are welcome to attend a graveside tribute for Virginia on May 10th at 2:00pm at the Vashon Cemetery.

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involved in the business must pass a background check. If any chosen applicants are unable to fulfill the LCB’s requirements, Carpenter said, the next applicants in line will be considered.

On Vashon, applications to set up shops at the former medical clinic in town and at Courthouse Square were submitted by off-island women who formed LLCs last year and who had originally applied for other locations but then changed their applications to list the Vashon addresses, according to LCB documents. Both women also applied for for shops at other locations in the state. Under state law, one company could operate more than one marijuana retail store in Washington.

Lacey resident Catarina Rowley is listed as the primary applicant for a shop at Courthouse Square.

Rowley, who is listed as the manager of the LLC Ayurveda Works, declined to comment to The Beachcomber. However, Tom Bangasser, who owns Courthouse Square, said Rowley and at least one other business partner are interested in renting the space at Courthouse Square that

until recently held the King County Sheriff ’s Office substa-tion. They are waiting to find out the results of the lottery, Bangasser said last week.

The substation moved to the county’s new rural services center in Vashon Town in February.

Bangasser said he has worked for about two years with one of the business partners, who rents a space he owns in Seattle’s Central District. He established a liquor store there after liquor sales in the state were privatized, Bangasser said.

Bangasser described the man as an African immigrant who came to the United States to pursue business oppor-tunities. He called him entrepreneurial — he also owns an apartment complex — and said he’s been a responsible tenant in Seattle.

“My experience as his landlord in Seattle has been excel-lent,” he said. “He’s been successful where many of the other liquor store owners haven’t.”

Ayurveda Works also submitted applications for mari-juana retail stores in Seattle and Lacey.

The primary applicant for a shop at the Vashon Family Practice building, Seattle resident Lindsay Buchan, did not return calls from The Beachcomber. According to public documents, Buchan is a member of the LLC Emerald

Botanicals and currently works as a hairdresser. Emerald Botanicals also applied to set up shops at locations in Seattle and Rockport, a town in Skagit County.

In a short email to The Beachcomber, Sjardo Steneker, who owns the building, said he had been trying to sell the property for more than two years.

“I would love to sell to someone who will enjoy it as much as I did,” he said.

Steneker signed a letter of intent to purchase that is not a sale agreement but outlines the terms under which Emerald Botanicals would be willing to negotiate a pur-chase of the property. It lists a potential purchase price of $850,000 and reads that the building would be used for the sale of marijuana and marijuana products and the “rear of the space shall be used for a testing facility.”

Currently an islander is renting the annex building on the north end of the property, a former dentist’s office, for use as a medical marijuana shop. Steneker didn’t say whether the sale of the property would displace that busi-ness.

Last summer, a spokesman for the Liquor Control Board suggested that the state may make an effort to assure there’s a recreational marijuana shop on Vashon in order to dis-courage illegal marijuana sales on the island. At the time he stated that if no one applies to set up a shop on Vashon, the state may assign someone who applied for a shop in another area to set up shop on the island.

Since then, however, LCB spokespeople have said the state won’t make any extra effort to see a store on Vashon. Last week Carpenter, with the LCB, noted that other cities and counties throughout the state have banned marijuana business, meaning illegal sales could be more of a possibil-ity in those places as well.

The LCB plans to begin issuing retail marijuana licenses by the first week in July and expects the first legal sales to be in July as well. The first licenses will be issued in the most populated areas.

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15420 Vashon Hwy SW 567-4488www.holyspiritvashon.org

Vashon Lutheran Church18623 Vashon Hwy. SW (1/2 mile south of Vashon)

Children’s Hour 10:30 am (Sept.- June)

Holy Communion Worship 10:30 amRev. Jeff Larson, Ph.D.

vm: 206-463-6359 www.vashonluthernchurch.org/JeffLarson/JeffLarson.htm

463-2655e-mail: [email protected]

Vashon United Methodist Church17928 Vashon Hwy SW

(one block south of downtown)

Pastor: Rev. Dr. Kathryn MorseSunday Service & Sunday School

10:00 a.m.Childcare Available at All Services.

Offi ce open Mon.–Thurs. 9 a.m. – 12 noon 463-9804

www.vashonmethodist.orgoffi [email protected]

Calvary Full Gospel Church at Lisabeula

Worship 10:30 am & 7:00 pmThursday Bible Study 7:00 pm

Call for locationSaturday Prayer 7:30 pm

Pastor Stephen R. Sears463-2567

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