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Crime exposed on a back roadAfter a raft of drug activity, a neighborhood fights backBy NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

Several Islanders recently banded together to rid their quiet neighbor-hood east of Vashon town of what they called an out-of-control drug house. Those involved describe a month-long effort involving both residents and law enforcement that resulted in the eviction of the sus-pected dealers.

King County Sheriff ’s Dep. Joel Anderson, who was involved in the effort, lauded the neighbors and called the incident a suc-cess. But it’s also indicative of a larger problem on the Island, said Anderson, who believes drug use is the catalyst behind nearly all crime on the Island.

Anderson, who has worked full time on Vashon for four years, said 80 to 90 percent of the people he arrests are either under the influence of drugs at the time or stealing so they can purchase drugs. “Most of our crimes are in some way, shape or form relat-

ed to someone being on drugs,” Anderson said.

Many other Islanders, mean-while, have their own stories to tell about drug houses in their neighborhoods, though some haven’t achieved the success of this neighborhood east of town. That’s partly due to limits policeofficers face: While Vashon depu-ties do all they can to put drug users and dealers behind bars, Anderson said, privacy laws often prevent them from making big drug busts. And people who are sent to jail, he said, almost always return to the Island and continue their habits.

“It’s a vicious system that con-tinues to play itself out,” he said.

Even so, he said, he’s pleased by what happened in July, when residents on a dead-end road east of town became suspicious of new renters and took action.Neighbors noticed the near-

VCC’s new therapy program helps people rebuild their livesBy SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

When Barbara Gross moved into an assisted living apartment at Vashon Community Care last December, she was confined to a wheelchair after injuring her back in a fall. But now, after several weeks dedicated to rehabilitation, she regularly uses a walker and navigates stairs.

In her recovery, Gross relied on a new service VCC is offering to both its residents and Islanders at large, Vashon Community Therapy. Through it, health care professionals offer physical, occu-pational and speech therapies to people who qualify for such ser-vices, whether the need is from an injury, illness or surgery.

Gross gives the service high praise. “It just changed my life,” she said.

In 2011, VCC first offered reha-bilitation services on an inpatient basis to people who had been released from a hospital but need-ed further care before they could go home. Since then, the service has grown. So far this year, the new program has served roughly 70 people, including about 45 res-idents of the assisted living facil-ity, according to nursing home administrator Janelle Ansell. It provides services on both an in- and out-patient basis and, she said, has room to grow.

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An artist from another timeBy ELIZABETH SHEPHERDArts Editor

On a bright July day, as I pulled up in front of Michael Spakowsky’s place, he stepped outside his clapboard

house and gave a friendly wave. The tableau — a big man standing alone in front of a small white house in a clearing carved out of the woods — was reminiscent of an Andrew Wyeth painting.

The 63-year-old artist, revered locally for his maritime and landscape watercolor paintings, had dressed up for the occasion. He wore black jeans with a button-down shirt neatly tucked in and his hair slicked back. Sharp, button eyes peered out behind long, thin eyelids that seemed carved out of wood.

And then there was the smile — an impish grin that fully welcomed me into his world.

To visit him is to take a trip back in time, to see Vashon through the eyes of an artist who has lived here almost all his life.

Inside his house — a place he built himself, using mostly salvaged materials, on a two-and-a-half-acre plot near Paradise Ridge that he bought for $7,500 in 1989 — there were stacks of old

country music LPs sitting patiently in front of an old turntable and a 1970s-era tape deck. Photos of his grown daughters and grandchildren, which he proudly pointed to, share a spot atop the piano with a framed photo of Merle Haggard signed by the country legend to “Vashon Mike.”

A couple of guitars were lined up against one wall, close to a small couch. Looking past the room, I could see a small, austere art studio in the back of the house.

The vibe was cozy and a bit well-worn. Then it hit me. “I don’t see a computer in here,” I said.

“Nope, no computer,” Spakowsky said. “No answering machine or cell phone. I never had a credit card or a debit card, I never wrote a check.”

Even Spakowsky’s car — a 1967 turquoise and white Galaxy 500 that he has owned for 30 years — speaks of another era.

And that’s all OK with Spakowsky, who seems content to live amid the trappings of a time gone by.

“I choose to be this way, obviously,” he said. “I can still sell my paintings the old-fashioned way.”

Indeed, by Spakowsky’s reasoning, he’s made

Michael Spakowsky’s paintings evoke the wild beauty of the sea. His life speaks to a simpler time, before computers, credit cards and cell phones.

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Islanders raising money for the Vashon Theatre say they’ve garnered $52,000 in five weeks, enough to place an order for the digital equipment the theater’s owner needs to keep up with sweeping changes in technology.

Tag Gornall, a member of Island GreenTech, the group spearheading the fundraising effort, said Monday volunteers still need to raise another $20,000 to cover all the costs of new digital projection equip-ment. But the theater has to order the equipment this month to ensure it arrives in time to show films available only in a digi-tal format this fall, he said, so GreenTech members and theater owner Eileen Wolcott decided to place the order now.

Gornall said he was delighted and encouraged by the steady stream of support the effort has drawn, which has come in the form of both small and large checks, cash and anonymous contributions. During the Strawberry Festival, he added, GreenTech volunteers staffed a booth with a popcorn bucket acting as a donation jar. They raised more than $6,000, he said.

The support, he added, “was com-ing from people in the community you wouldn’t expect. The names, for the most part, weren’t familiar to me.”

Because of the effort’s momentum, Gornall said, he feels confident the fund-raising effort will reach its goal of $72,500. Those who donate, unless they ask to remain anonymous, will see their names on the “screen crawl” at the end of movies this fall, he added.

“We thought that would be fun,” he said.

Meanwhile, GreenTech and Wolcott have worked out an agreement about how she’ll pay back the community for its contribu-tions to the historic movie house.

Initially, GreenTech planned to lease the equipment to her, allowing her to buy it from the small nonprofit over time. Instead, he said, GreenTech members and Wolcottdecided she’ll waive the rental costs for the theater for Vashon nonprofits, charg-ing them only for cleaning and any Vashon Theatre staff they need for their event.

What’s more, GreenTech, not Wolcott, will own the equipment.

“The payback is to the community,” Gornall said. “When and if Eileen sells, the arrangement continues. … We want the community to benefit from this.”

The fundraising effort got underway in June after Island GreenTech, a group ofIslanders who work to support Vashon entrepreneurs, learned that Wolcott needed to pony up tens of thousands of dollars tohandle a seismic shift in the industry. By this fall, experts say, most studios will issuefilms only in a digital format, not as heavyreels of 35 mm film.

Without the conversion, Wolcott said, she would soon no longer be able to show new releases. She had planned to take out a small business loan to fund the conversion. But the fundraising plan, she says, means she won’t have to incur more debt at thesmall, family-run movie house.

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By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer

One day a year for the past four decades, dozens of Islanders have converged on the same swampy piece of ground west of town to drive jacked-up trucks and Jeeps through several feet of mucky water.

They also gather at the same time each year — the Friday that marks the start of the Strawberry Festival.

This year, however, was likely their last. The site is now owned by King County, and last Friday — after some drivers moved huge concrete blocks to gain access and ended up with most of their trucks marooned in the deep, brown water — sher-iff ’s deputies arrived and told them they had to leave.

Police have shown up in years past, said Islander Roger Sherman, who’s been “mud-bogging,” as it’s called, since he was 5. “But this is the first time they’ve ever shut us down,” he said.

Sherman, who went this year to show his 11-year-old daughter what the annual event is like, said he’s frus-

trated that he and his fel-low mud-boggers can’t use county land.

“This is county property. Shouldn’t we have the right to use the park?” he asked.

“The horseback riders have everything,” he added. “It’s wrong. It’s just com-pletely wrong.”

But Joe VanHollebeke, a resource coordinator with the county’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks, said mud-bogging is too ecologically destructive to take place on county-owned lands.

Last week, he walked through the area, a 40-acre swath purchased by the county in December and contiguous with the pop-ular Island Center Forest. Deep, muddy ruts — some of them extending along an old road for several feet — led to the site, making walking difficult. Standing pools of water were brown. At the actual site of the bog-ging, deep tire tracks carved a wide path into a large, mucky pond.

“The whole point of what they do is counter to the

whole point of what we do,” said VanHollebeke.

The wetlands form the headwaters to Judd Creek,

Vashon’s largest water-shed and a salmon-bearing stream. The county’s goal, VanHollebeke said, is to provide open space for passive recreation and to protect what he and others believe are important eco-

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only last week began work-ing on a new trail that will lead walkers, horsebackriders and runners through the new property, connect-ing them with the ninemiles of trails that cur-rently exist in Island CenterForest. Damage from this latest round of mud-bog-ging, VanHollebeke said,will likely double both the time and costs it takes toconstruct the new trail.

“I’m disappointed and frustrated that right when we’re making some prog-ress, the place gets torn up,” he said.

The wetland has been awell-known mud-bogging site for around 40 years, Sherman said. His father, John Sherman, helped to start the tradition, building a small dam and turning what was “a little mud hole” into a full-fledged pond.

Over the years, the one-day event grew in size, sometimes drawing as many as 600 people, many from other parts of the state, Sherman said. Families with children would come, pic-nicking in the backs of theirtrucks. Some mud-wrestled, he recalled. Music from car radios filled the air.

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King County officials will likely restructure a 90-acre logging pro-posal at Island Center Forest after they put out two bids for the project and got no takers.

The county announced plans last fall to hire a logging company to con-duct two commercial thinnings at the popular recreational forest — a stand of a densely packed Douglas fir and a separate stand of large, aging alders. The thinning would represent the largest logging operation since King County took ownership of the forest, now 400 acres in size, from the state

Department of Natural Resources seven years ago.

But no one submitted an offer when the county put out its bid packet to the timber community in April, said King County Forester Bill Loeber. A logger who hopes to win the bid to log sever-al thousand board feet of timber from the Vashon Island School District’s forested campus next month said he might be interested in doing both jobs, so the county re-issued its bid last month. Again, Loeber said, no one responded, including the logger who had said he might be interested.

“It just didn’t pencil out,” Loeber said. “It’s not overly lucrative.”

The county will likely offer up the logging as a firewood sale, working with a firewood dealer, Loeber said. Or the county will try to pay someone to do the work.

The county wants the logging done for forest health, Loeber said. The alder stand isn’t critical, he said, but the Douglas fir stand needs thinning to allow other tree species to take root.

“It definitely would benefit the for-est,” he said.

A home-made video of the event from 1999 shows a few jacked-up trucks making their way slowly through the pond, spraying water and mud when the going got difficult, while groups of people stood a safe distance watching, laughing and egging on the drivers.

“It was a lot of fun,” Sherman recalled.

In recent years, fewer people have shown up, in part because the bogging has grown more difficult as the pond has gotten deeper from all the activity. Indeed, this year, Sherman said, all of the trucks that attempted to cross the pond got stuck. His “swamp buggy,” as he dubs the rig he uses, was called into service, working as a tow truck Friday and Saturday.

Sherman said he realizes the trucks gouge out the road and create enor-mous ruts, and he plans to help the county repair some of the damage. At the same time, he’s frustrated that there is no public place for what he considers a traditional Vashon activity.

“We don’t want to have problems with other people. We just want to go out once a year and have our little mud show,” he said.

He hopes to work with the county to find another place where mud-bogging can happen. A former cow pasture with some water trucked in would work, he said. “I hope they’ll listen to us,” he said.

County officials said they encour-age the mud-boggers to come to the monthly Friends of Island Center Forest meeting. Those who regularly attend the meeting say representatives from the mud-bogging community have never attended.

At the same time, county officials said, it’s unlikely they’d ever allow such activity on publicly owned lands and certainly not at Island Center Forest. “We’re hoping to reach out to these people and help them under-stand what our goals are,” said David Kimmett, a natural lands manager with the county.

“We’re not out to judge the activity,” he added. “But clearly, this is not what we have in mind for the site.”

Meanwhile, he said, the county is well on its way to connecting what he and others call the “gateway site” to the rest of Island Center Forest, creating a 400-acre swath of forestland that peo-ple will be able to reach from town. A crew began the process last week, flag-ging a trail that will eventually wend all the way to the main entrance of Island Center Forest at S.W. 188th Street.

The Vashon-Maury Island Trust and its AmeriCorps crew will donate a week to the trail-building effort, and a large volunteer work party is sched-uled for Aug. 18, Kimmett said.

After months of work, he added, the new parcel is now free of debris from a homeless camp that had long existed there. It’s hardly pristine, he said, but nature is beginning to reclaim the site.

“It’s already starting to feel like it’s a natural place,” he said.

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EDITORIAL

It’s rare that The Beachcomber quotes people without using their names. A tenet of contemporary journalism is that people are expected to stand behind their comments. The citing of “unnamed sources” creates a lack of transpar-ency, and that, in turn, can engender cynicism.

But in this week’s issue, we decided to let a handful of Islanders discuss their concerns about drug houses in their midst without insisting that we name them. In each case,

we knew the Islander. We also had independent knowledge of their situa-tion, having heard about it from authorities, previ-ous police reports or other Islanders.

Most significantly, with-out granting these Islanders anonymity, it would have been hard for us to cover a story we think is impor-

tant. Over the years, Islanders have told us about their inability to force drug dealers out of their neighborhoods or their mounting concerns about the Island’s meth and hero-in problem. But few have wanted to discuss it on the record, fearing retribution from the alleged users and dealers.

Vashon is not a hotbed of meth-use and heroin addiction. But there’s no question that both drugs exist on Vashon and that addiction is driving much of the petty crime that plagues this Island.

We’re impressed by how one group of neighbors success-fully stood up to the problem, bravely parking in front of the suspected drug house, jotting down license plate numbers and putting pressure on the landlord to evict the tenants. It worked; the landlord ultimately forced them to leave.

But as a sheriff’s deputy pointed out, such an eviction only displaces the problem. The cast of characters will show up elsewhere, forcing another neighborhood to try to con-front them.

We won’t eradicate this kind of hard-core drug use on Vashon. Both meth and heroin are horrific, powerfully addictive drugs, and this small group of addicts and deal-ers isn’t likely to get any kind of meaningful or effective help soon. Compassion, not just frustration and anger, is in order, too.

Still it’s important that we take a stand, as several Islanders have in recent years. If neighbors continue to work together, we’ll make it increasingly difficult and uncomfortable for these dealers and their customers to live here. And that, in turn, will keep our neighborhoods safer and our community a healthier and more vibrant place.

The sun was particularly fierce as I walked down the dock to a waiting ferry in Zanzibar last fall, and I was cranky from waking up at 5 that morning to get there. The boat was relatively small with the words “safety first” plastered in two different places. After what happened on this route a few months earlier, when a boat sank and hundreds of people perished, you can’t be too careful, I thought.

I was living in Tanzania at the time as part of a study abroad pro-gram, and this visit to Zanzibar, a small country off the coast of Tanzania, was an excursion I and a handful of other students in the program had decided to take.

I walked onto the flimsy ramp, showing the ticket collector my ticket to Pemba, one of Zanzibar’s islands. I was in a daze, going through the motions in a herd of people. The pushiest among them bumped me as they moved past, wiping their sweat on my already sweaty body. Well, this is going to be a fun three hours, I thought.

As I made my way through the crowded ferry, I noted the orange lifesavers strapped to the walls, the evacuation plans posted in various places, the large windows, navy blue benches and table sur-faces of fake wood. One member of my program noticed a sign, “Please, No Sports Cleats,” and laughed. We hadn’t seen many sports cleats lately. The sides of the benches noted the numbers of adult and child life preservers they

contained. One of those numbers was crossed out with sharpie; apparently, I realized, the number was now different.

I passed a framed article

about a crew from a Washington state-owned ferry called the Skagit that rescued three teenage kayak-ers who were hypothermic in 1991. The article praised the state ferry system, a routine day on a Vashon passenger ferry. Wait. What?

Then it dawned on me: We had just boarded the MV Skagit, a former Vashon passenger-only boat and one I remembered well — a double-decker that used to taxi my family and me to and from downtown Seattle. Sitting next to one of the big windows so characteristic of Vashon ferries, I suddenly expected to look out and see Vashon’s evergreens, not the Arabic-style buildings of Zanzibar.

When we set off, I watched the blue waves on the side of the boat froth with white. It was difficult to understand where in the world I was. I had many memories of this boat, near-empty of passengers, faithfully cutting its way through Puget Sound. Now, people were crammed on every bench; others, who didn’t have seats, were lying on the floor. Is this what an alter-nate universe feels like, I wondered.

But I also felt as though a piece of home was here with me in Tanzania, checking up on me, reminding me that once this crazy

experience was over I would have a place and people to sail home to. Part of me wanted to dock on Vashon instead of Pemba. I had to remind myself it would happen soon enough.

During my brief excursion to Zanzibar, I rode the Skagit three times

— once from Zanzibar, the main island, to Pemba, a second time from Pemba back to Zanzibar and a third time from Zanzibar to the mainland. All three times the Skagit didn’t fail to blow my mind. On the last ride, I noticed a piece of paper that had been taped to the wall of the boat since its Vashon days.

Dated Sept. 25, 2009, it was written by Don Duncan, the Skagit’s engineer at the time and a Washington State Ferries’ employee who was about to be reassigned to another route. The Skagit, and the route it served, was due to be trans-ferred to the newly formed King County Ferry District. Don’s letter was a beautiful, even poignant, farewell to a boat he clearly loved and a route he loved serving. “This is the day I hoped would never come,” he began. “To say I am sad-dened is an understatement.”

He went on to note the next chapter of his life, the vacation he planned to take, an upcoming race with his beloved samoyeds.

“I wish you all well and hope our paths may cross again,” he concluded. “If Washington State Ferries ever gets back into the Passenger Only Service and a Seattle/Vashon run is reinstated, I will be the first to apply.”

After I read the letter, I slyly took it off the wall. No one else on this boat thought that piece of paper was nearly as cool as I did. I felt an odd sense of ownership of the things on the boat. The signs, the windows, the framed article — they were all a part of my child-hood, my identity as a Vashon Islander. Didn’t they belong with me, I thought, more than they belonged here in a foreign land?

Maybe the result of my finding a Vashon ferry in Zanzibar was my newfound understanding that home isn’t a place in the world, but a feeling. I certainly felt at home on that boat. And stealing a piece of paper, I told myself, was not as big a deal as stealing a framed article, though, I must admit, I couldn’t help but notice that framed article would have been easy to remove.

— Chelsea Hansen, a 2009 gradu-ate of Vashon High School, is study-ing anthropology at Macalester College. She wrote this essay in November, before last month’s tragic sinking of the Skagit, for a blog she kept during her semester in Tanzania.

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Finding home on a ferry in ZanzibarTRAVELSBy CHELSEA HANSEN

Months before the Skagit sank, a student found herself on the boat

The Skagit served many years on Puget Sound.

VYFSMaaz’s predecessor made a difference, too

Thanks for your good coverage of Ken Maaz’s departure from Vashon Youth & Family Services (VYFS), and your edito-rial about the lack of benefits for VYFS staff. (I had no idea!) Ken is a friend, as well as a tireless super-competent adminis-trator, and his presence on the Island will be missed tremendously.

However, I felt your article failed to give credit to Ken’s predecessor at VYFS, Sam Collins, who was really responsible for beginning the agency’s turnaround and specifically made the PlaySpace purchase and the initial VARSA grant possible. He also began the networking process, which has resulted in a much better social service and safety net on the Island.

— Stephen Silha

Arts centerVAA has outgrown its home

There are many reasons we all love Vashon. The slow pace, the connection to water, nature and community. For some, it is the growing art community and its amazing collection of singers, musicians, writers, performance artists, sculptors, potters, photographers, painters and visual artists. In the last 15 years or more, the arts, particularly Vashon Allied Arts, has

been outgrowing its home. Thankfully, there has been a thoughtful process in which many people have donated time and made large financial donations to help the arts continue to thrive.

It is easy to resist change in the name of tradition. I believe that the true tradition on our Island is to value the arts and stand behind it as it serves our greater good as a thriving community. I also believe that the new Center for the Arts will continue to serve our community and become a bea-con of light that will add joy, inspiration, education, beauty and grace in its service to our residents and guests for countless years to come.

— Kathleen Kinney

HydroplanesThe noise is home-grown

Rumor has it that the reason Vashon was, many years ago, spared from the low-flying jets passing into and out of SeaTac was that an influential member of our community had a seat on the board over-seeing airport operations and was able to exempt us from the flight paths.

Seattle grew, the airport expanded, and we lost our clout. The jets that then popu-lated our airspace were extremely loud and annoying, and we endured a pretty obnox-ious 10 or 20 years. Since then the new gen-eration of aircraft is considerably quieter, and it’s only the occasional plane that has to pass pretty low that probably violates the noise ordinance — along with occasional

military helicopters from McChord and smaller but also loud med-evac choppers.

These intrusive sounds aren’t what you’d choose when you’re trying to believe you live in a relatively rural place. But since they happen often enough, you get somewhat accustomed to them and, if you’re able to, learn not to focus on them along with the raft of other things that bother in life.

The good thing about the once-a-year hydroplane noise is that, unlike these air-borne irritants, it’s home-grown. Perhaps we could embrace it, along with the beans at Saturday market. “Wince local” could be the motto.

The bad thing about the brief but noisy race is that it only happens on July 4th. We don’t have the chance, as we do with recur-ring aircraft noises and neighbors’ barking dogs, to acclimatize. It stands out. Seems like the best solution would be to get the racers to go out and practice every week or two. Makes sense, doesn’t it? A side benefit would be the engines would help cover up the growing sound of folks pounding their keyboards to register their opinions on the art hangar.

— Richard Bard

Vashon TheatreEffort shows how great we are

Vashon Island. What an amazing com-munity we are. We may have our differenc-es, but when push comes to shove, we band together. How thrilled I was to see Tag Gornall and Island GreenTech get behind the Vashon Theatre, bringing community support for a digital projector.

How fortunate we are that Eileen and Gordy Wolcott bought the theater as I was wearing out. I was only going to be there for five years; 14 years later, they turned on the TV on Oscar Night to see the the-ater was for sale. The Wolcotts made an appointment to come tour it. Two years of negotiations followed; they had to fix up and sell several properties to make it hap-pen. The process was the best kept secret on Vashon! Eileen worked Saturday nights for a year to learn the business. She is as passionate about the theater as I was.

When I bought the business, many asked me about the mural on the outside wall. We had meetings and jars in stores to col-lect money for the project. For those of you who contributed, I want you to know that Eileen and I talked about the mural, but now a remodel to accommodate the new projector seems more of a priority. She still has hopes for the mural. But first we need to address these other issues. I have turned over to Eileen the $363.79 that has been in a special account for nearly 25 years.

This wonderful surrounding of love and support reminds me of Vashon Community Care. A call on a Saturday morning years ago from Pat Cunningham about the nurs-ing home being sold for a rehab center, a standing-room-only meeting Sunday night … When owner Jim Alexander saw the Island support, he put off signing the next day, and the rest is history.

I am so proud of this community and how we can come together so quickly when the need arises.

— Carolyn Youngblood

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You just sent my mother to another agent to work with.

What are you thinking? I made it a point to introduce her to

you and really wanted her to work with you. You did a great

job for us when we moved here and we expected that you’d welcome

working with our family. Mom is ready to make an offer and I can’t

imagine why you would pass her on to someone else. I’m really disap-

pointed and upset.

As I explained to your mother, I want to avoid the appearance of a serious confl ict of interest in the case of the home she wants to buy. I’ve been on the Island over 25 years and know a lot of people.

If the seller of a home on the market is a close friend I won’t usually represent a buyer for that home. I want to be fair to my buyer clients and negotiate in their best interests, but if the seller is a close friend of mine someone might suspect I am really looking out for that seller.

I sent you mom to another broker whom I trust and believe will do a good job representing her. This way there is no appearance of a confl ict of interest. I often am acquainted with the sellers of property here, but I feel I can represent a buyer anyway. However, if the seller is a close friend, it could look like a confl ict of interest.

In our state it’s totally legal for a real estate broker to represent both parties in a transaction. I simply don’t believe that you can represent both sides of a transaction fairly. That’s why I’ve chosen to only work with buyers all these years. Many states don’t allow duel agency and I agree with them. I don’t fault brokers who do it, that’s their right and their decision, but for me I’d rather pass up a sale than have anyone doubt my loyalty. Maybe I’m too self righteous, but it has to feel right to me.

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Shame on you!Shame on the person who threw out a glass Nan-

tucket Nectars bottle on the East side of the North

end of Beall Rd SW. There were many sharp shards.

People walk their dogs there, children ride their bikes

there. Please be more responsible and use your

trash can at home. That goes for the other cans,

cigarette butts, etc. that I regularly pick up or it would

be ankle-deep out there!

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Beware of DogsTo all cyclists on Vashon, beware if you are riding

near the junction of Wax Orchard Road SW and

Vashon Hwy SW at the South End. An aggressive

rottweiller and terrier have been off leash and unat-

tended in that area and will likely attempt to attack

if you ride past them. I had a very narrow esacpe

on the evening of the 18th of July. Irresponsible pet

ownership seems to be an increasing problem on this

island.

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SCENE & HEARD: RELAY FOR LIFE

The annual Relay for Life took place Friday at McMurray Middle School, where participants walked around the perimeter of the playfield throughout the night in an effort to raise money for cancer research, support those who have battled the disease and remember loved ones lost. The event began in 1986, when a Tacoma doctor decided to raise money in support of his patients who had battled cancer and ran 83 miles over the course of 24 hours. Since then, the event has become the American Cancer Society’s largest fundraiser, playing out in communities across the country. All of the money, however, remains in the community where the event takes place, funding cancer research in the state and care and services for nearby cancer patients, including those on Vashon, organizers say.Friday’s event was quieter than in years past, largely because it took place at McMurray, which doesn’t have a track. Even so, the 142 participants in 20 different teams raised $47,000. And the event was deeply meaningful to those involved, including Suzanne Mager and Marc Pease, pic-tured above. Mager, brushing away tears, said they were walking “to support lots of family and friends and particularly Marynell Matt,” an Islander and dear friend of theirs with cancer.

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available dur ing a one- day- only trunk show featur ing some of the Island’s best fiber ar t-ists. All proceeds from the sale — 10 am . to 4 p.m . Saturday, Aug. 11, at the Land Trust Building — will go to suppor t Vashon Community Care.

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The driving beats and intricate rhythms of top Cajun, Hungarian and Greek music ensembles will

soon be heard on Vashon, thanks to a passionate advocate who believes that ethnic music is the real soundtrack to American life.

A free outdoor concert series, slated to take place at Ober Park on Monday eve-nings, Aug. 6, 13, and 20, is curated by Martin Koenig, an Islander whose life’s work has been to discover and promote community-based traditional arts and eth-nic dance and music traditions.

The upcoming concerts, he said, are meant to bring Islanders of all ages together to discover and celebrate a wide world of music.

“It’s the kind of music you’ll find in church basements and banquet halls all across America,” he said. “If you’re driving across the country and you see a banquet hall, stop. You’ll be shocked by what is going on in there. Go along the New Jersey turnpike, and you’ll find celebrations of Indian weddings and Albanian Muslim circumcisions taking place in banquet halls. … The face of Vashon is very different from the rest of the country. The music I bring to the free concert series is, I think, the music of America.”

Koenig also aims to get audiences up and dancing.

The shows are participatory — concert-goers can learn dance steps to traditional folk dances that match the music. Partners aren’t necessary, and everyone is encour-aged to move to the music. The whole point, Koenig said, is to create “an intergenera-tional conversation through music and dance.”

Koenig — who has presented the series for the past six years in collaboration with Vashon Park District and 14 years before that on his own, at various Island locations — has cast a wide net to find performers for the series. He said he purposefully planned

the series for Monday nights — a time when A-list world music performers would be available for a show, as well as a night when he faces little competition for audiences on Vashon.

“On Mondays, we’re the only show in town,” he said. “We have a possibility for both audience and artists. Some of people we get to come here typically charge $8,000 to $9,000 for a concert.”

The first show of the series, set for this Monday, will present the Cajun Country Revival, playing the rural dance music of Louisiana and the honky-tonks of east Texas.

Led by elder Cajun accordionist Jesse Lege, the Cajun Country Revival also fea-tures Cajun fiddle wunderkind Joel Savoy and the young roots country masters of the Caleb Klauder Country Band — a group including Sammy Lind and Nadine Landry of the Foghorn Trio. Dances will be taught by MaryLee Lykes.

The following Monday, Aug. 13, Duvo Ensemble, a Hungarian group, will take the stage. This four-piece string band is made up of three fiddlers, an upright bassist and a vocalist. They play a vast repertoire from all ethnic groups of the Carpathian basin, employing a wide range of traditional instruments. They have released nine major recordings, won several pres-tigious awards and actively tour as musicians and teachers at music and dance camps throughout Europe and the United States. On Vashon, they’ll be joined by two dancers, who will perform and teach dances to audience members.

The final concert in the series, on Aug. 20, will feature Dromeno, a Greek ensemble led by multi-instrumentalist Christos Govetas. Based in Seattle, the six-member group has a taste for old-style dance music — they are equally at home playing

ballads from the mountains of Epiros in Greece, lively tunes from the Bulgarian, Yugoslavian and Albanian border areas or Roma dances from the Gypsy quarters in Macedonia. The group’s instrumentation includes clarinet, accordion, guitar, saxo-phone, percussion, voice and bouzouki. Koenig, a skilled and experienced dancer, will teach willing participants how to dance to the traditional tunes.

Koenig, now in his early 70s, said he’s lived long enough to see some of the music he has championed all these years begin to get a broader audience. Balkan music, he said, is big now.

“It’s fabulous, the music is just so soul-ful and brilliant,” he said. “I got exposed to it while I traveled the back roads of the Balkans in the 1960s and 70s.”

Now, he said, his teenage son is a fan of the group Balkan Beat Box, an American-Israeli band and one of several that has begun popularizing music that incorporates Balkan, Middle Eastern and Roma tradi-tions, mixing it up with elements of punk and electronica.

“It’s not even a resurgence,” Koenig said. “It’s the first time this music has gotten a hipster audience. It never had that audience before.”

IF YOU GO Mondays at Ober Park World Music Concerts, with participatory dancing, start at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 6, 13, and 20. The free shows are sponsored and produced by the Vashon Folk Dancers, Barking Rooster Productions and the Vashon Park District. Bring your own lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Enjoy Danny O’Keefe and a glass of wine Music legend Danny O’Keefe will perform at Vashon Winery on Saturday — the latest installment in the winery’s summer concert series.

O’Keefe will be joined by musician Joel Tepp, and the audience will sit on the lawn in front of the winery. Wine and cider, of course, will be available by the glass.

Expect O’Keefe to fill the orchard air with original and personal songs of love, life and daily struggles — songs such as “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues,” “The First Time” and “Along for the Ride.”

The show takes place at 7 p.m. The winery’s address is 10317 S.W. 156th St. Tickets are $20. Reservations are not necessary, and concert-goers should bring their own seating. For more information, visit www.vashonwinery.com.

Red Bike features Blue MonsterBlue Monster, a five-piece instrumental funk band, will play at the Red Bicycle Bistro Friday night. The band, which started as a trio on Vashon in 2005, has played throughout the Puget Sound area. The group is known for live performances that combine heavy funk grooves laced with psychedelic improvisation.

This show, which begins at 9 p.m., has no cover and is open to all ages until 11 p.m., then 21 and older after that.

Big laughs at a live vaudeville showA new vaudeville show, “Big Time and Little Something’s Big Adventure,” will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, at Chautauqua Elementary School. Tickets, $10 for adults and $5 for children, are available at www.brownpapertickets.com and at the door.

The show is the creation of Islander Luz Gaxiola and Molly Shannon, a native of San Francisco. The duo are members of Circus Finelli, an all-female circus troupe based in San Francisco.

Sounds of a music fest to fill the parkThe fifth annual Vashon Island Music Festival — three packed days of live, open-air concerts — will be held at Paradise Ridge Park on Aug. 10 to 12. Expect to hear some rockin’ music, includ-ing Posse Impossible, Publish the Quest and Subconscious Population.

Tickets are $15 at the gate or $10 with a donation to the Vashon Maury Community Food Bank.

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The Cajun Country Revival, above, plays Monday night. Dromeno, left, a Greek ensemble, plays Aug. 20.

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The Seattle Shakespeare Company will bring the Bard’s “The Winter’s Tale” to Ober Park on Saturday as part of a summer-long tour to venues all over King County.

The play — a work full of ro-mance, jealousy, redemption, music, poetry and magic — will start at 7 p.m. Audience members are encour-aged to bring their own seating and picnic baskets to the show. It’s a free presentation of Vashon Park District, though donations for the performers are encouraged.

The play’s plot is framed by the tale of King Leontes, a man who seems to have everything. But the king accuses his wife of infidelity, and his rash choices plunge him and those he loves into a winter of despair and regret. Yet true love tri-umphs, and forgiveness heals deep wounds, as an exiled princess and a wise woman orchestrate one of the most touching reunions in all of Shakespeare.

Susan McCabe, the park district’s program director, said she was pleased the park district is able to offer

the summertime performance. “We’re very excited about having

this professional company perform Shakespeare in our park,” said McCabe. “Yet, there’s a twinge of sadness that it’s not a Vashon-produced production, showcasing Vashon talent.”

For the past several years, a group called Vashon Shakespeare in the Park, founded by Islander Paul Shapiro, has brought Shakespeare and other clas-sic works of theater to Ober Park. But this year, plans for a local production of “The Merchant of Venice” had to be shelved after Shapiro had difficulty casting the show — many of the best actors in town were involved in Drama Dock’s summer production of “The Pirates of Penzance.”

The Vashon troupe is expected to return to Ober Park in 2013, McCabe said, adding that in the meantime, she was confident Saturday night’s perfor-mance of “The Winter’s Tale” would be wonderful.

Seattle Shakespeare Company is the Puget Sound region’s only year-round professional, classical theater dedicated to producing the works of Shakespeare.

— Elizabeth Shepherd

Brenda Joyner plays Perdita and Riley Neldam plays Florizel in “The Winter’s Tale.”

Blue Heron Gallery’s show will combine ceramic pieces by Spokane artist Mardis Nenno and two bodies of work by Shorline-based tile artist and painter Paul Lewing. Nenno creates utilitarian, architectural forms that exem-plify movement and human transportation. Lewing’s works — mostly landscapes — are smaller scale tile pieces and acrylic on canvas and board.

Café Luna will exhibit photographs by Steven Moore, who uses contemporary methods to achieve the look of argyrotype — a silver printing process that results in brown images on plain paper. This show will include four years-worth of images that he describes as having “a haunting sensuality and tension within the intimate.”

Common Thread, a fiber arts collective, will feature the exquisitely needle-felted animals of Monica Gripman. The theme of the show is pirate cats, rats and mice.

Duet will show work by mosaic artist Lisa Betz. Always on the search for vintage china and found objects, Betz also adds her own ceramic pieces to her creations. Her line of mixed-media jewelry including pendants made with silver-plated spoons and knives, vintage adornments and some of her own handmade ceramic beads.

The Hardware Store Restaurant will exhibit Brian Fisher’s prints and paintings — layered and colorful

compositions of shape and line that juxtapose form and abstraction.

Heron’s Nest will show abstract collages by Joan Wortis and oil paintings by Donald Cole.

Paintings by Abbey Prevot, who has practiced art in Portland and Eastern Oregon, will be featured at Ignition Studios. She has been painting regularly for the past 12 years, usually inspired by her environmental surround-ings and travels. A fan of small towns, Prevot appreciates the quaint avenues and streets found in familiar places and uses many of these scenes as inspirations for her paintings.

Island Quilter will exhibit work by members of the Portland and Vancouver Modern Quilt Guilds.

The Little House will feature raku pottery by Christine Beck — works from a process she calls “fast, dramatic, hot, smoky and very fun.” Beck, a member of Waterworks Studio, is an accomplished photographer and potter. For the past 17 years, she’s worked as a private investigator, but she now spends at least half of every year focused on ceramics and creation of new designs.

“Remembering India,” by Kathleen Kinney will adorn the walls at Nirvana. The paintings were all inspired by a trip Kinney took to India in 2007.

“These paintings offer a personal impression of India seen through the lens of an artist who values color, shape, decoration, the sublime in nature and the joy and beauty of (India’s) people, its arts and culture,” said Kinney, a creativity coach who plans to donate 40 percent of her sales to Vashon Allied Arts’ proposed arts center.

Open Space for Arts & Community will offer the final showings of “It’s Not Conspiracy, It’s Reality,” a site-specific kinetic sculpture by Jon Carlson and Dave Olson. The large-scale piece, inspired by Rube Goldberg, was commissioned by Open Space co-founder Janet McAlpin, and funded with a grant from 4Culture’s Site Specific Arts program.

McAlpin, Carlson and Olsen will give a talk prior to dem-onstrations of the sculpture at 5:45, 6:30, 7:45 and 8 p.m.

Raven’s Nest will display wearable art — clothes, acces-sories and jewelry — by Northwest Coast Native artists.

Works by Corrine Hunt, co-designer of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic medals, will be featured. For more than 22 years, Hunt has been creating contemporary art that reflects the traditions of her Kwakiutl and Tlingit heritage. The shop will also showcase a collection of T-shirts, hoodies, scarves, jewelry and flip-flops. A special private collection of traditional wearable art belonging to Sue and Israel Shotridge will also be on display.

Snapdragon will exhibit photos, drawings and journal entries based on a two-week trip the café’s owners — Adam Cone and Megan Hastings — took to Bulgaria this spring.

Called “Under a Bulgarian Moon,” the exhibit depicts the beauty the couple discovered while exploring the pas-toral lands of northeastern Bulgaria, where they recently purchased a stone cottage. The couple hopes to fix up the cottage and ultimately establish some sort of exchange, so that other Islanders can also experience the beauty and culinary delights of rural Bulgaria.

The First Friday event will include light, Bulgarian-inspired food as well as Bulgarian-themed music by The Diggers.

An exhibition of paintings by Vashon artists Carol Schwennesen and Jiji Saunders will be held at VALISE. The two women will show nearly 100 paintings ranging in size and spanning several decades. While the abstract paintings of Schwennessen and Saunders can appear to be landscapes, seascapes or skyscapes, the works just as eas-ily read as images of the universe, they said.

Vashon Community Care will be the site of a show by Geri Peterson, a local watercolor artist who will discount the prices on her works by 70 percent.

“There is a thing, as an artist, where you paint for the love of painting. Not to sell, just to do. To me each paint-ing is a little piece of me and I want them to make people happy. ... My prices for this show will be only to recover part of that cost. In other words, the painting is free, as my gift.”

Peterson will also make a donation to Vashon Com-munity Care for each piece sold. The reception for the show is from 7 to 9 p.m.

Vashon Senior Center will also display watercolor still life paintings by Geri Peterson, whose “Fearless” painting classes start Aug. 2 at the center.

Wings Birdseed will show a unique embroidery tableau by Bea Johnson, and items from an upcoming fiber arts trunk sale, to be held Aug. 11 at the Land Trust Building. The sale will benefit Vashon Community Care.


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Geri Peterson’s watercolor “Together,” top, will be shown at Vashon Community Care. Christine Beck’s raku pottery, below, will be on display at The Little House.

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Coaches say teen athlete has potential to be an elite runnerBy NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

At 14 years old, Abigail Kim has already blown coaches away with her performance in track and field. Urged by her coaches, the Vashon teen is competing this week at the Junior Olympics in Houston.

On Monday Abigail won her first heat and made it to the semi-finals in the 100-meter dash, which she finished in 12.9 seconds. She will also compete in the 200-meter dash and the long jump at the Junior Olympics, an annual event put on by the Amateur Athletic Union.

“It’s a big achievement,” said Sue Kim, Abigail’s mother. “Even if she didn’t place at all, it will still be a tremendous achieve-ment.”

Reached at home last week, Abigail was excited to go to the event and asked that her mom speak on her behalf.

From the time Abigail was little, Sue said, was been clear to everyone that she is fast. She won her first Turkey Trot on Vashon as an elementary schooler, Sue said.

“She didn’t want to beat the boys because

she thought they’d be mad at her,” she said with a laugh.

Abigail, who graduated from McMurray Middle School in June, easily won all four of her events at the middle school’s league

championships last spring. Todd Pearson, a volunteer coach at

McMurray, said that Abigail was some-what out of her league competing against fellow middle schoolers. The same perfor-mances at the high school state champion-ships, he noted, likely would have placed her in the top three in those events.

“It was clear to me that she had the abil-ity to be very, very good,” Pearson said in an email.

Pearson also said it was clear that Abigail needed coaching beyond what she could get on Vashon.

“It’s obvious that she’s really gifted,” Pearson said. “We needed to get her to a coach who can really show her what to do to get to the next level.”

Abigail, who moved to Vashon with her family when she was 6, is extremely mus-cular and is built like a runner, Pearson said. The fact that she was running so fast without the help of an experienced coach who could improve her form, he added, was also a testament to her natural talent.

“There was enormous room for improve-ment in her performances, and yet she was easily beating the competition using less-than-stellar technique,” he said.

With encouragement from Pearson and middle school coach Marilyn Oswald, Abigail began training about a month ago with Mike Cunliffe, a Seattle running

coach who works with elite runners and was impressed with Abigail’s times.

With hard work and some improve-ments to her running form, Abigail quali-fied to compete at the Junior Olympics in all three events she tried for. There, Pearson said, she’ll be competing against some young athletes who have had high-level coaching for years.

“Abbie will come into that meet at a significant disadvantage on that score, but I am confident she’ll do very well in spite of it,” he said.

Sue said that while Abigail’s coaches anticipate she could go far in the world of competitive track and field, she and her husband Jin Kim are being careful not to put too much pressure on the young girl.Abigail also enjoys soccer and plays on an elite team in Seattle, and her parents want her to feel free to pursue whatever sport she chooses, Sue said.

“She’s built to be an athlete, and she needs to move to survive,” she said. “We want to keep her life in balance, too, and make sure she stays involved in other things as well.”Abigail Kim

Talent on the track takes young Islander to the Junior Olympics

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Locally brewed hard cider now available at Thriftway

First Cliff Goodman offered up his popular microbrews, and now Vashon’s only commercial cidery has its first bottles on the shelf.

Dragon’s Head Cider — hard cider made and bottled by Islanders Wes and Laura Cherry — is now available at Vashon Thriftway and may hit other retailers or restaurants this summer.

The Cherrys, a young couple with a two-acre apple orchard at their home near the famed Mukai Farmhouse, have been developing the brand for about two years. In the process, they’ve taken classes from Peter Mitchell, an international authority on cider-making and award-winning pro-ducer from England, and gotten help from local fruit expert Bob Norton.

Laura Cherry said she and Wes have gotten positive feedback from friends who have tried their cider, and they’re excited to finally offer it commercially. They chose Thriftway, she said, in part because it has a growing cider section.

“The next outlets we’ll look at are spe-ciality bottle shops in Seattle and probably smaller restaurants,” she said.

The Cherrys describe Dragon’s Head as a more traditional dry, English-style cider. Though their own orchard isn’t ready to harvest yet, Laura said, they used the same types of apples they will harvest next year to make this year’s batches. Dragon’s Head is sold at Thriftway in 750 ml bottles.

“It’s great for sharing,” she said.

Vashon woman honored by business journal

Jennifer Olsen, president of Resourceful HR, was named one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 under 40” — a prestigious award that identifies influential business lead-ers under age 40 who demonstrate dynam-ic leadership and excel in their industry and communities.

Olsen, a Vashon resident, founded the company in 2007. Resourceful HR provides temporary employees, recruitment, leader-ship development, consulting and other human resources-related needs to busi-nesses. Olsen also hosts the Northwest HR Best Practices Roundtable and serves as board president of AHOPE for Children, a nonprofit focused on assistance for vulner-able children in Ethiopia.

The business journal’s award, now in its 14th year, selected the 40 young busi-nesspeople from among more than 400 nominations.

Gordon Prouty, the business journal’s publisher, said this year’s class joins 520 past winners “who have been recognized for their outstanding achievements in both career and community. They represent a diverse group of industries and back-ground and demonstrate the innovation, energy and commitment that has made our region great, and will continue to make our region great moving forward.”

Palouse wins wine awardsJudges at this year’s Seattle Wine Awards

recently selected Palouse Winery’s 2009 Black Pearl Petite Sirah for a Double Gold Medal, the highest award given. The com-petition includes only wines produced in Washington state, and 16 judges evaluate each one on color, aroma, flavor, palate, balance, finish and overall impression.

Palouse Winery is located at the north end of Vashon and is owned by George and Linda Kirkish. Since releasing their first petite sirah in 2004, they say they have been committed to creating the best possi-ble wines with Washington-grown grapes.

“We’re really thrilled and honored to have been awarded this medal,” they said in a recent press release.

The grapes for the award-winning wine came from Portteus Vineyard in Zillah, Wash., which is owned by Paul Portteus, a former Vashon Islander. His was one of the first small, family vineyards and wineries

in the state.Palouse Winery also received five addi-

tional awards at the competition: a Silver for its 2009 “Mystique” Merlot, a Silver for its 2011 “Pearlescence” Cabernet Franc Rose, a Bronze for its 2009 “Ahh!” Syrah, a Bronze for its 2009 “Eclipse” Red Blend and a Bronze for its 2009 “Dynamique” Cabernet Franc.

The winery offers a limited production of handcrafted wines. Its tasting room is open from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday and other times by appoint-ment. For more information, see www.palousewinery.com or call 567-4994.

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constant traffic at the small cabin — visitors who often stayed just a few minutes. Around the same time, theft in the area increased, heightening their concerns.

Once it was clear to them that drugs were being sold at the home, residents said they contacted police and began to write down license plate numbers, photograph people outside the home and pressure the landlord to evict the occupants. Some even stopped their cars outside the home when driving by and stared at the cabin, hoping the tenants would grow uncomfortable under their watchful eye.

The issue came to a head when a home close to the suspected drug house was broken into in the middle of the night. The man who lives there says he scared off the intruder — who appeared to be under the influence of drugs — but was terrified nonetheless.

“It was kind of like that nightmare you have that some-one is in your house,” said the resident, who asked not to be named. “Only it’s not a nightmare.”

Around the same time, deputies stationed themselves

near the home throughout the day, observing traffic and running license plate numbers. Police didn’t have enough evidence to obtain a search warrant for the home, Anderson said, but over the course of one week in July, they made three drug-related arrests.

On July 6, deputies arrested a 36-year-old man they believed to be living at the home on a warrant from Union County, Ore., for conspiracy to manufacture and deliver marijuana, according to a sheriff ’s report. On July 11, they arrested a man leaving the home who was driving with a suspended license. They also found a crack pipe in his vehicle, according to the report. The next day they arrested a 42-year-old man on a Seattle warrant on drug charges.

“Once we found out about the house, we hit it hard,” Anderson said.

Neighbors close to the situation say they were pleased with the police response and felt sales were interrupted, but they were still uneasy with the amount of activity at the house. The man whose home was broken into said he saw around 30 different people at the cabin over the course of several weeks. He believes many of them grew up on Vashon and are known by deputies to be drug users. He said several people he questioned admitted to buying both methamphetamine- and heroin at the house, though it

wasn’t clear whether drugs were being made. “Everybody feels this is a terrible thing,” he said. “There

was a strong response from the whole neighborhood.”One woman who lives near the home and asked not to be

named contacted police after her fence was torn down by one of the suspected drug users. She said she was shocked at the number of people who seemed to be crammed into the small cabin and said they often spilled out onto the lawn. Angered by the situation and worried for her fam-ily, the woman said she and others confronted some of the people outside the home.

“We were in their face everyday, maybe putting our life on the line a little bit, but we definitely wanted them to know they’re not welcome here,” she said.

Neighbors say they came to realize the landlord, a Vashon resident, was key to ending the problem. After repeated phone calls, personal contacts and encouragement from the police, the landlord finally evicted the renters. A “no trespassing” sign was posted on the cabin door for a time, neighbors say, assuring the residents didn’t return.

Those who pressured the landlord say they’re pleased he finally acted, but they also believe the suspected drug deal-ers are likely living somewhere else on Vashon or looking for another home to rent. One woman posted a warning on the popular listserv VashonALL, encouraging owners of rentals to check references before new people move in.

“I don’t want anyone else to go through what we have experienced,” she said in the message.

The east-side residents have also found that their experi-ence was not an uncommon one. The man whose home was broken into said that after telling his story to others, many have said they’ve also had problems with drug houses.

“Since word got around, people are stopping me and say-ing, ‘Here’s what we’re dealing with.’ It’s more than a couple of people. There’s quite a bit going on,” he said.

Indeed, a man who lives on Westside Highway and askednot to be named said his neighborhood responded similarly to a suspected drug house a couple of years ago. They also became suspicious of the home because of heavy traffic there, and when theft increased in the area, they began to call police and write down license plate numbers. They even helda neighborhood meeting.

“You could tell when they got a new shipment or some-thing — there would be a steady stream of cars,” the man said. “It made me a little nervous for my wife, and when I had children I didn’t want these characters cruising around down there.”

The man said he suspects drugs may still be sold at the home, but the activity there seemed to die down after theplace got so much attention.

“I think in part what happened is they started to catch on that all the neighbors were unhappy,” he said.

Others, however, haven’t been so successful at quieting suspected drug houses. Some who live near the Vashon airport say one home down a gravel driveway has beenproblematic for years. A woman who lives close to the home says she has developed a contentious relationship with the residents, whom she calls “bottom of the barrel” drug users, because she frequently reports their activitiesto police. The woman, who asked not to be named, said she has seen countless suspected drug users come and go at thehouse; she believes drugs are being made there as well. She described the residents as crude and confrontational and said they are frequently arrested, usually for theft.

“They get them and arrest them, and they are out in days,” she said.

People who appear to be under the influence have wandered


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their financial resources, has long existed on an extremely tight budget in part because of how it is reimbursed for care. For residents receiving Medicaid, the government pays only 74 percent of the cost of their care in the skilled nursing facility and 49 percent of the cost of care in assisted living. VCC makes up the difference.

As a result, providing this rehabilitation service made sense on two levels, Ansell said. It serves a need on the Island and provides another stream of revenue.

Ansell stepped into her role at VCC in January 2011 and noticed immedi-ately that there was no ded-icated rehabilitation space, she said. She also noticed that many residents of the assisted living quarters could benefit from such services.

Some of them were receiving care in their apartments from Swedish’s home care program, and when that service shut down on Vashon abruptly last fall, Ansell said she contacted Providence to see if it might offer the home

care services. VCC stepped up its efforts to provide the services as well.

Without such in-home-services on the Island, Ansell said, she knew many people would simply go without — and be the worse for it.

Vashon Community Therapy offers a variety of services, each of which is important, Ansell said. Physical therapy helps peo-ple increase their strength and mobility; occupational therapy helps people main-tain as much independence as possible and learn new ways to handle their daily activities, and speech ther-apy assists not just with talking, but also with eat-ing and cognition.

“It’s a very important part of wellness,” Ansell said. “It makes a difference in people’s lives.”

VCC currently employs a staff of seven part-time professionals to provide these therapies, as well as Jan Kittleson, the director of rehabilitation services. The services are especially intended for older people or those with disabilities.

“Our focus is there,” said Lynn Davison, the board chair. “We want to honor that.”

In February, Ansell said, VCC moved its adult day

care program to a different room, and the rehabilita-tion program took its for-mer space — a large light-filled area, now with a vari-ety of equipment, including a set of stairs, parallel bars, an exercise machine similar to a seated elliptical trainer and a full kitchen, useful in addressing a variety of rehabilitation needs.

VCC staff have been in touch with Group Health Cooperative about provid-ing rehabilitative servic-es for Islanders who are Group Health members, Davison said, and the board and staff are hope-ful that request will move forward.

“We love partnering, looking for places we can be value-added,” Davison said. “We like to be a resource to the broader community and have the community be tapped into us.”

In other news at VCC, Davison said that the cen-ter hopes to refinance its mortgage this fall and cre-ate a substantial savings each year. To do so will

require a major fundrais-ing campaign, which VCC plans to unveil soon.

Currently, VCC is locked into a HUD-backed mort-gage with an interest rate above 7 percent. That lock is about to expire, and Davison expects VCC will be able to secure a new mortgage at 3.5 percent or lower, saving the cash-strapped facility $200,000 a year or more in mortgage payments and $9 million over the course of the loan.

“It’s just an amazing opportunity,” she said. A refinance, she added, will “take the heat off our very tight financial situation.”

Ansell and Davison both

said the first priority once the refinancing is com-pleted is to create an oper-ating reserve, which VCC currently does not have. Following that, Ansell said she would like to see someof the new-found money go toward resident pro-gramming, including add-ing staff to support more activities. There are many activities already, she said, but people would like more.

“The residents want tobe busy. They want to bechallenged. … They want to get off the Rock,” Ansell said. “Another full-time employee would make a big difference.”

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Emily Carroll of Georgetown, Kentucky, and Ed &Pam Carroll of Charlotte, North Carolina are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter

Mary Carroll to Sean Forsman, son of Ann Barnhart and Jim Forsman of Vashon, Washington. Th e couple was married July 28, 2012 on Vashon Island, Washington.

Mary attended Clarksville High School and graduated in 2002. She received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Emory University in 2006. Sean attended Vashon High School and graduated in 2001. He received a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research from the United States Air Force Academy in 2005. He is currently employed

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onto her property, defecat-ed in her driveway and are believed to have kicked a neighbor’s dog to death.

“I’ve had them on my back porch at 9 at night in the winter,” she said.

She said she has become so afraid of the residents that she purchased a gun, learned how to use it and will keep it nearby if she spends time on the farthest corners of her property.

“I do my yard work with a shotgun over my wheelbar-row,” she said.

Another woman who lives in the area believes someone who attempted to break into her home during the night, waking her teenage daugh-ter, is connected to the same suspected drug house. She said she also recently called police after seeing someone who appeared to be under the inf luence staggering down a main road.

“We have noticed more wasted people walking around our street,” she said. “It’s definitely changed my attitude in terms of this being a safe, bucolic place to live. ... We knew there was stuff going on on the Island, but it’s different having it right in your neighborhood.”

The woman who lives closer to the airport says she understands that the hands of the police are tied, since it’s difficult to obtain a search warrant. Despite her fears, she said, she’ll continue to call the sheriff ’s department whenever there are problems — something she believes other neighbors have shied away from.

“Most of the neighbors here ignore it,” she said. “They don’t want to rock the boat. They like to keep to themselves.”

One deputy told the woman that if it weren’t for her repeated calls, the sus-pected drug dealers would probably be “sitting pret-ty all the time,” she said. “Honestly, ignoring it is the worst thing,” she said.

Anderson, who spoke with concern about the Island’s drug problem, said he and other deputies encourage Islanders to report sus-pected drug dealers, even if there is no hard evidence, and to write down license plate numbers, something he called “gold” for police.

Anderson said he wishes he had more deputies on the Island to investigate tips and make traffic stops, but said that’s unlikely with the current budget situation. He noted that parts of the coun-ty with higher crime rates have seen staff cuts, and a proposal to reduce the num-ber of deputies assigned to Vashon is being considered.

“We’re going to do the most we can with the resources we have,” he said.

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With a ribbon cutting ceremony last Thursday, Vashon Community Care commemorated the construction of two new vestibules at the front and rear entrances to the building. The creation of the vestibules solves a problem that has long plagued the center, VCC officials said. During the winter months, cold air blew easily into the entrances and made some of the most heavily used rooms chilly. It got especially cold during extended power outages, they said. Now, the vestibules’ double doors — both of them automatic — will keep the elements out. “It doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it is for the residents,” said Capt. Joe Wubbold, a VCC board member who led the effort.The $48,000 project was funded by the center’s maintenance reserve fund as well as grants from The Little Family Foundation and the Puget Sound Energy Foundation. Keith Putnam, a Vashon architect, designed the vestibules at a discounted rate. As the vestibules were being built,Wobbold said, residents joked that VCC’s resident cat Isabella, who frequently comes and goes through the doors, would have the final stamp of approval. And before the front ribbon was cut by Wubbold and Putnam (pictured at left), Isabella successfully passed through the doors.

two paintings a week for 40 years now — more than 4,000 in all, almost all of which he has sold. A thousand of the paintings, he estimates, hang on Vashon walls — making him by far the most collected painter on the Island.

Not that he thinks that is all good.“I’m not proud of it, really,” he said. “It’s almost too

prolific.” Part of Spakowsky’s appeal, no doubt, are his prices:

Many of his works go for between $200 and $600. He wants to be able to sell them to working-class people, he said.

His art brings in enough money, he said, to “keep me in groceries” and pay for his single biggest expense — his property taxes, which have skyrocketed over the years. Spakowsky lives alone, after a long-ago breakup with his wife. His three daughters, now grown, stayed with him on holidays and during the summers when they were young, he said.

He has had plenty of company at his home, though — guests in a small outbuilding next to his house that he calls his bunkhouse. Big enough for just a bed and a few shelves to store gear, the bunkhouse has provided a way station for friends from Vashon and other faraway places.

“People fall in love with Vashon and just stay here for a couple of months,” he said. “I never charge them any-thing.”

Over the years, he’s exhibited at many venues, includ-ing the Astoria Maritime Museum and the Kirsten Gallery in Seattle, and in special shows organized at the Vashon boatyard of his lifelong friend, Danny Cadman. Seven times, his paintings have been accepted into Foss Maritime’s prestigious calendar competition. Currently, his paintings line a wall at Duet, a local shop and gallery.

Along the way, he’s always found time for another art form altogether. In the 1970s, he and his brother Jimmy formed a rock band, The Doily Brothers. One of the band’s high-water marks came in 1972, when they opened for Alice Cooper at the Paramount in Seattle. Now, many years later, the Doily Brothers still draw a dancing crowd for

their occasional shows at Sporty’s, a local watering hole.Spakowsky said he can’t remember a time when he

wasn’t an artist.“I was held back in the second grade for drawing in

class,” he said. “My first second-grade teacher took me by the ear and made me stand in the corner for drawing in class. My second second-grade teacher gave me a set of paints.”

Cadman, reached at home, put it simply. “He’s an exam-ple of God-given talent. He has it in his music too — when he gets on stage he has an aura about him. There are so many people who are amazed by his ability.”

Still, Cadman suggested that Spakowsky’s laid-back attitude is part of the reason he hasn’t become even better known.

“I remember once he was in a Barnworks show, and you had to sign up to sit a while in the gallery,” Cadman said.

“Michael had signed up for 10 a.m. and I said, ‘You’re not going to get up then.’ He said, ‘Aw, I’m not going to sit there, they’ll figure something out.’ Sure enough, I came back the next day at 10 o’clock, and Al Bradley, who had garden art in the show, was sitting there. He said, ‘It’s a damn shame Michael’s not here, because a lot of people want to shake his hand.’”

Spakowksy moved to Vashon with his family in 1954 and grew up mostly in Burton, close to the water. His mother, Lucille Spakowsky, now in her 80s, still lives on Vashon and volunteers at Granny’s Attic.

Spakowsky recounted tales of growing up on Vashon during a time when children were given free-range to explore. He said that when he and Cadman were 7 or 8 years old, they turned in enough pop bottles to buy and fix up their own sailboat.

“I’ve been boating ever since,” he said, adding that he has supplemented his income from painting over the years with commercial fishing jobs, working on tugs and fish-ing boats and toiling as a handyman.

He taught himself how to paint, influenced by other Vashon artists, including Norman Edson — a famous Northwest photographer he remembers saying hello to as a young man in Burton. He also has fond memories of Jack Tabor, who painted the murals at Vashon Theatre, and Jakk Corsaw, a legendary Island character best known for winning a design competition for Seattle’s famed globe atop the Seattle PI building.

Spakowsky only spent a short time inside the walls of an art school.

“I went to Cornish (College of the Arts) for a quarter but I never learned anything there,” he said.

Instead, he kept returning to the works of his favorite artist, Winslow Homer.

“He was the biggest inspiration to me in my life,” he said, reaching onto a shelf in his studio for a volume of Homer’s paintings, now spotted and yellowed with age. “I’ve worn out the books on Winslow Homer.”

But after an afternoon with Spakowsky, I came away thinking that beyond these influences, his art speaks most of his deep love of Vashon, its icy waters and the old-fashioned way of life he holds on to without regret. His subject matter — romantic, windswept vistas of tug-boats and other ships maneuvering through choppy waves under billowing grey skies — is something Spakowsky knows well. He knows how wakes spill from boats, the way whitecaps wear frothy frills and how the ocean dark-ens where it is deepest. Even Spakowsky’s medium, water-color, is defined by a wild wetness.

“He is surrounded by the things he paints,” said his daughter, Jane DesRosier, who recently moved back to Vashon.

DesRosier is also an artist, and she said she has learned a lot from her father. But she doesn’t try to convince her dad to branch out, as she has, into the world of online sales.

“I think it’s just fine, it’s great, it’s who he is,” she said. “That’s what I love about him — he is who he is. There are no apologies, and he doesn’t explain.”


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