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By SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

Proposed regulations regarding Initiative 502, which legalized marijua-na use in the state, could mean that Vashon will see marijuana-related retail businesses and production facilities in the heart of downtown next year and fenced fields of marijuana around the island.

Representatives from King County’s Department of Permitting and Environmental Review (DPER) and a variety of other governmental agen-cies hosted a public meet-ing last week on Vashon, seeking islanders’ feedback on DPER’s draft zoning ordinance for marijuana-related businesses that will grow, process or sell the drug for recreational use. DPER representatives also provided informa-tion about zoning rules the agency plans to create for medical marijuana facili-ties, which DPER currently does not regulate.

Roughly 30 people attended the meeting and expressed a variety of opin-ions and concerns.

“This is great. I never thought this would hap-pen,” said Kathy Flynn, an islander who spoke at the meeting.

Others expressed reser-vations, including a woman who said she voted yes on the initiative, but lives next door to a medical marijua-na dispensary and wonders what effect it might have on the value of her home, which she hopes to sell in the spring.

Meri-Michael Collins, co-chair of the Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse, noted the potential appearance of marijuana-growing facili-ties, slated to be located in rural and agricultural areas, as the state’s draft

regulations call for them to be surrounded by 8-foot barriers and be outfitted with lights and security cameras.

Several in the audience advocated for allowing processing facilities to be located at growing facilities — something DPER’s draft plan does not call for.

DPER will likely alter some of its proposed reg-ulations because of the comments it received on Vashon and at other pub-lic meetings it held around the region, John Starbard, the director of DPER, said, noting that public feedback is still welcome.

“We want to hear from the public on this very important matter,” he said.

Most of the comments offered at meetings were well-reasoned, he added.

“People had really done their homework,” he said. “You can’t ask for more than that.”

DPER’s proposed plan calls for indoor growing and processing of mari-juana in areas zoned as

Community Business, Regional Business and Industrial, and retail sales would be allowed in the Neighborhood Business, Community Business and

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Susan Riemer/Staff Photo, map courtesy the Department of Permitting and Review

Jarrod Lewis, the assistant director of permitting with DPER, fields questions at a recent public meeting about the proposed zoning for marijuana-related businesses on Vashon.A detail from DPER’s map of Vashon, below, shows areas where marijuana would be allowed to be grown, processed and sold under the proposed zoning ordinance. Pale green indicates areas it could be grown outdoors; the gray area indicates where marijuana could be grown indoors or processed; the lighter pink areas show where marijuana might be grown indoors, processed or sold by a retail business and the darker pink areas indicate where retail establish-ments could be located. The cross-hatched marks indicate areas that could not be used.

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By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

As regional leaders respond to a recent spike in teen suicides in King County, calling it a serious public health issue, islanders are noting a small increase in suicides among young people on Vashon as well.

“I think we feel the sensitivity of this subject in our community right now,” said Lori Means, a parent educa-tor at Vashon Youth & Family Services (VYFS), which has provided counseling and education along with the Vashon Island School District in response to recent suicides and other deaths. “We want to make sure we’re providing the information and support that parents and community members need.”

In King County, 11 children under age 18 died by suicide in 2012, nearly three times the annual average, prompting the county to examine the deaths and produce recommenda-tions released this month for preventing future teen suicides.

On Vashon, three people between ages 14 and 22 have committed suicide in the last 12 months.

Officials from VYFS and the school district are cur-rently planning programming for the newly declared Suicide Prevention Week in Washington, set for the second week in September.

“We will in some way be honoring our losses, and also, at the very least, making sure parents know ... what the signs are, what they can do if they think that their child is at risk and how they can respond to their child’s grief about losses in our community,” Means said.

Last October, VYFS worked with the Seattle-based Youth Suicide Prevention Program (YSPP) to provide counseling, support groups and suicide education after Palmer Burk, a well-known 14-year-old who attended Vashon High School, committed suicide.

In May, 20-year-old Samantha Burkart, a 2010 VHS graduate, died by suicide, and this month a 22-year-old island man also committed suicide.

Officials from Public Health – Seattle & King County say that Vashon’s suicide rate in recent years has been con-sistent with the county’s, but the number of recent suicides among young people is an anomaly. According to county statistics, during the 10-year period between 2002 and 2011, just one of 15 people who reportedly committed suicide on Vashon was under age 35.

Annie Kirk, a violence and injury prevention specialist at the public health department, called the three recent suicides of young islanders a concern, but warned that it’s too soon to call the tragedies a trend. Since the number is still small and represents just one year, she said, it’s not an increase that county officials would consider statistically significant.

“From our perspective, here at the health department, the mathematical or statistical significance answer isn’t the right way to approach the situation right now because we

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Rumors about a potential sale of the K2 building have been circulating on Vashon in recent weeks, but so far there is no confirmed news about possible proceedings there.

The large commer-cial building just south of Vashon town is now listed with Cushman and Wakefield, a commercial real estate broker, but com-pany representatives said they could not comment, though acknowledged there is some activity at the building.

Dick Sontgerath, who had hoped to purchase the building in 2007 and turn it into a mixed-use facility,

then revamped his plans in 2012 to turn it into a non-profit community center, said he, too, understands something may be in the works for the building, but said he was not familiar with the details.

“I have heard about lots of activity there, but do not know about it,” he said.

The K2 building, a 180,000-square-foot facility sitting on 8 acres of land, is the ski company’s for-mer manufacturing site and has been for sale for several years. Once listed at $3 mil-lion, the property was listed at $1.5 million in 2012.

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District gives raises, dips into its reserves By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

The Vashon Island School District passed a no-cuts budget late last month, despite receiving slightly less revenue than officials had hoped from the schools foundation and the state.

The district borrowed about $250,000 from its reserves to round out the $16.3 million spending plan, which avoids program cuts and includes funds to give raises to teachers and administrators and hire a few additional staff.

“I think we continue to be in a very stable posi-tion financially,” said Superintendent Michael Soltman.

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the 2013-14 school year was passed by the Vashon school board in an 11th-hour spe-cial meeting on July 31, the deadline put forward by the state for districts to final-ize their budgets. Officials say the budget process was delayed this year because of gridlock in the Legislature over education funding. The district planned for a no-cuts budget before final numbers were available from the state, Soltman said, and ultimately dipped into its reserves to cover the balance. Because of the delay, detailed budget plans normally available to the school board and the public earlier in the process were not available until last Thursday’s board meeting.

“We have sufficient reserves that we can make that adjustment for a year, and that’s what it’s there for,” Stolman said of using the reserve funding. “We didn’t want to go into this year cut-

ting anything.” Ultimately the state allo-

cated about $1 billion in addi-tional funding for education, a little over half the $1.8 bil-lion that the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction requested as a down payment to fulfill the Supreme Court’s McCleary decision, which requires the state to fully fund education by 2018.

On Vashon, the school district received about $600,000 more in state fund-ing, a third of which was designated for special educa-tion and learning assistance programs, Soltman said. It received about $275,000 in donations from the Vashon Schools Foundation, short of the nonprofit’s $350,000 goal to help this district bridge its budget gap.

The other $400,000 in additional state money helped cover increases in retirement rates negotiated by the teach-ers’ union as well as increases in staff salaries. Teachers all received a 1.9 percent sal-ary restoration required by the state after that amount was cut two years ago, and the union negotiated an addi-tional 3 percent cost-of-living increase.

At the administrative level, principals and vice principals in the district received raises of up to 12 percent each, a decision Soltman said he made in the process of hiring the new Vashon High School principal.

In order to attract a strong candidate for the job, Soltman said, the dis-trict decided to up the posi-tion’s salary to align with that of high school princi-pals at comparable school districts around the region, such as Bellevue, Seattle,

Snoqualmie and Tukwila. Danny Rock, who was

hired as the new VHS prin-cipal, is budgeted to earn $116,327 this year, about an 11 percent increase over the outgoing principal’s salary last year.

Soltman said it was only fair to also increase other principal and vice principal salaries to align closer to regional averages.

The elementary and middle school principals are each budgeted to earn $107,529 this year after sal-ary increases of about 12 and 11 percent, respectively.

Stolman said he didn’t expect the move would be controversial.

“Over time, the principals’ salaries had been ignored for so many years that they fell way behind,” Soltman said. “I think anybody that took the time to really under-stand the situation felt that it was an important and appropriate move to make.”

This year’s budget also included funds to hire one additional teacher needed at the elementary school and one at the high school, where the added position will help cover class changes resulting from the transition from semesters to trimes-ters. This year the district also restored the assistant principal position at the elementary school, which was cut in 2009. The vice principal will be especially needed this year, Soltman said, as the district works to complete time-consum-ing teacher evaluations now required by the state.

“That (position) was the first thing we cut ... when the recession began,” Soltman said. “We’ve been struggling along without it for the past three years.”

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Wolftown shrinks its animal rescue programWith donations down, nonprofit will no longer take in most mammalsBy SARAH SCHWARZFor The Beachcomber

After about seven years providing animal rescue on Vashon, Wolftown is now only rehabilitating birds of prey and wolves. T Yamamoto, who runs the nonprofit with her husband Pete, said donations to the organization have been down since 2008, and there are no longer funds to support the rescues of marine and land mammals.

“Pete and I have been dipping into our savings since the recession hit in 2008,” she said. “We can no longer do that.”

Wolftown is not supported by the state or federal government, Yamamoto added, which makes community dona-tions crucial.

“Without community support, it won’t exist,” she said. “Slowly parts of the pro-gram have disappeared.”

Yamamoto is certified to do res-cue and triage, or emergency care, on marine mammals and land animals and is a certified falconer. These quali-fications are not easy to obtain, and require up to seven years of training, depending on the species, she said. In order to rescue marine mammals, she said, one must also gain the trust of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and biologists in the area because anyone must get approval from them in order to handle the injured or stranded animals.

“It would be very difficult for some-one to replicate what I have done for this island, for wildlife and for youth,” said Yamamoto.

Wolftown was founded as a multi-faceted organization, but has shrunk in recent years as the Yamamotos have been forced to make cuts. In addi-tion to animal rescue and rehabilitation, the nonprofit does education, offers a land clearing service and is a source for sustainably grown, grass fed lamb. Education used to take place through tours of the property and the animals living there. But due to the lack of funds, Yamamoto and her husband have both taken day jobs seven days a week, and cannot provide tours, she said, and have also made cuts to their internship program. Wolftown also had a role in disease prevention on the island, in that those who do rescue and rehab “are the first ones to see outbreaks,” she said.

Islander Ann Stateler, who runs the Vashon Hydrophone Project and is known by many as Orca Annie, will take over marine mammal transport on Vashon. However, she is not certified to do rescue or triage, so she’ll transport sick or injured mammals off-island.

Before the transition, Wolftown was getting calls about mammals at least once a day, and those calls are now directed to Stateler. Both Yamamoto and Stateler stressed that not all calls result in their intervention — most concerns can be handled over the phone.

However, without Wolftown at the ready to rescue mammals, Yamamoto said it will be more important than ever that islanders and visitors to Vashon fol-

low simple rules related to marine mam-mals, such as steering clear of baby seals on the beach, which can sometimes seem stranded when they aren’t.

Seals will not come onto the beach to feed their pups if humans are too close, Stateler said. When in stress, seals burn more calories, so it is even more crucial that the mothers be able to feed them. Stateler also noted that this is a molt-ing season for many seals, which often causes them to look diseased or hurt, when they are actually healthy.

“Molting is really a painful process for the elephant seals, so we really need to leave them alone,” said Stateler.

Yamamoto said she hoped to someday resume the rescues, but only with sub-stantial community support. To do so, the community would need to purchase the piece of property Wolftown sits on and raise enough funds to provide them a salary as well.

“We need to have something to fall back on,” Yamamoto said.

Until then, Wolftown will continue to care for the wolves, fox, owls and fal-cons that already live there. YamLamb Sheep Co. will continue to provide eco-friendly land clearing services and donate grass-fed lamb to the food bank and soup kitchens. The lamb can also be purchased at Minglement and the Farmers Market, and all the proceeds go toward project management.

“People only seem to support the project when they want entertainment or have an emergency,” Yamamoto said. “I am very sad to see this go. I am very sad that the community didn’t support it.”

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New preliminary flood insurance rate maps for Vashon Island developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be presented at a public meet-ing at 6 p.m. tonight at the Vashon Park District offices at Ober Park.

The King County Flood Control District and King County are hosting the meeting so Vashon residents can view the 2013 pre-liminary maps and hear about the mapping and study process. King County staff will also be available to answer questions.

In recent years, King County performed a thorough study of Vashon’s shoreline flooding risks as part of a larger effort to update flood maps across the county. Using satellite imagery and information about land elevations, high tides and wind speed, the county was able to map flood hazard zones on the approximately 1,500 parcels that line the shores of Vashon and Maury islands.

The preliminary maps for Vashon are even more detailed than draft ones pre-sented in 2011 and include revised flood hazard areas, which could affect f lood insurance rates.

The preliminary maps, which are also available online at www.kingcounty.gov/floodservices, are based on the most cur-rent data and technical analyses to estimate the extent of coastal flooding.

FEMA has reviewed and generated the flood insurance rate maps, which illustrate the extent of flooding during a 1 percent chance flood — commonly referred to as the 100-year flood event.

For more information, contact King County’s River and Floodplain Management Section at 296-8001.

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EDITORIAL

Last fall, nearly three quarters of island voters approved Initiative 502, the measure that legalized marijuana in the state. On liberal Vashon, we weren’t too surprised at the high margin. However, now that the state and county are considering what the legal sale of marijuana will look like in Washington, we wonder how many islanders who checked yes last year imagined a mari-juana shop opening at a storefront in town or fields of the plant growing next door to their homes.

Under recently proposed regulations, marijuana could have a significant presence on the island. In fact, some have suggested that Vashon and other parts of unincorporated King County will be ideal for establishing marijuana growing operations because of their large swaths of land zoned as agricultural. A new map shows that most parts of the island would be eligible to hold businesses or growing operations. What’s more, the Washington State Liquor Control Board has suggested that to avoid a marijuana black mar-ket, it would like new businesses to be accessible across the state. This could mean that if no businesses open on the island, the state may step in and assign someone interested in opening a business do so on Vashon rather than somewhere else.

We have concerns about what such a presence of drugs — albeit legalized drugs — could have on Vashon, an island many live on for its small-town, set-apart feel and a place that also benefits from its tourist appeal. Our youth already use controlled substances, including marijuana, at rates higher than the state average, a trend volunteers have been working for years to combat. We wonder what highly visible marijuana businesses could mean for youth access to pot or the reported perception among many youth that drug use is acceptable.

Vashon isn’t the only community struggling with these ques-tions. Towns across the state will undoubtedly see marijuana’s legalization impact their commercial areas and neighborhoods. But we still have some control over how this law will play out. The county’s permitting department is already revising its recommen-dations based on public comments it received earlier this month, as is the state liquor control board, and both are still taking com-ments. While public comment periods can sometimes seem like formalities that make little difference in the end, this time it seems that officials are truly listening. In this uncharted territory, they want to implement rules that residents can support and that will actually work — avoiding potential difficulties that could occur if new rules are pushed through without careful thought.

Read this week’s front-page story on how proposed regulations could play out on Vashon, and for more information, see the web-sites of the state liquor control board and the county’s Department of Permitting and Review. It’s possible that marijuana business could operate without issue in our community. But we also sus-pect that not everyone who approved the legalization marijuana will be happy with the proposed regulations. Perhaps the state and county could make some adjustments that would minimize the new businesses that would crop up here. In uncharted territory, those who speak up, it seems, are helping chart the course.

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Races are rewarding, even in last placeOrganized rides often hold surprises of their own

After a long day in the saddle, I like to indulge myself in a favorite post-bike ride activity. I put myself in the capable hands of Karina or Joe, my favorite bartenders, and reminisce about my journey. The longer I sit there, the more impressive my ride was, and if I sit long enough, I become incredibly handsome and a fantastic dancer.

Recently, I sipped a pint of Cliff ’s latest creation, and I felt a stab of melancholy realizing that summer was on the wane. So grabbing some napkins, I penned my last cycling article.

Hopefully you have put the best weather in the country to good use and cycled around our beautiful island. Now, with your legs tempered on the hills of Vashon, you may be looking for something beyond a casual ride. For many folks this means an organized bicycle ride.

For a small entrance fee, you can get a trip through some of the most scenic roads in the area, refreshment stops for food and drinks and a vehicle to pick you up if need be. While these rides are easy to find on the web, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Vashon’s own Passport to Pain (P2P), a September hill climbing fest on Vashon. Riding the short, medium or long route will give you gloating rights for an entire year. Plus the entry fee helps out Vashon Island Rowing Club and the Vashon Maury Community Food Bank.

An organized ride always has a few riders that take it too seri-ously, but most everyone else is out for a fun time, and some are decidedly on the unconventional side.

For instance, I remember this year in the Seattle Brews Cruise a woman who cycled 30 miles in high heels and a flower-print skirt. During the Flying Wheels Century ride, a man biked 100 miles wearing Viking horns, (maybe that’s what Vikings do in the plundering off-season).

While these rides are not races, I am not above see-ing a person up the road and wonder-ing if I can pass them. My favorite

targets are the octogenarian on an adult tricycle or the par-ent hauling kids around with a trailer. They, of course, have no idea they are in a race. All they see is a guy in pain slowly pass-ing them.

I have found, however, that gloating over a vanquished rider can be a fleet-ing emotion. At last year’s Chilly Hilly ride, I passed a few people along a long climb. As each rider was dropped, my head began to swell so much I thought I might crack my hel-met.

Then I began to hear a famil-iar noise, the grinding of an unlubricated chain. I stomped on the pedals to leave the poorly maintained bike in my dust. Near the top of the hill, my burning legs faltered as the tell-tale sound of the grating chain came closer and closer. My relentless pursuer turned out to be an average looking dude wearing a one-piece pajama, complete with little booties for his feet.

No matter the activity, it is absolutely humbling to be beaten by someone wearing flannel clothes with a Jack Frost and elves motif.

You may be reading this and thinking that I am suggesting you to do something a bit out of your comfort zone. Perhaps, but never let it be said I don’t take my own advice. Last month I was asked to participate in

the Xterra here on the island. Touted as an off-road triathlon, I was part of a three-person team, doing my job as the mountain biker.

I mountain biked 20 years ago through Southern California, yet gave it up 19 and a half years ago when I read about a guy the next town over who was killed and eaten by a cougar. So the mountain bike went to garage sale heaven and I went back to riding pavement where the only cougars were made by Mercury.

My Xterra teammates consist-ed of Susan, our swimmer and someone I am fairly certain is Aquaman’s sister, and Lyndsey, our runner, who was not only fleet of foot but an awesome motivator.

My contribu-tion? Well it was quite an ego boost. An ego boost for my competitors. I was hands-down the slowest biker in my category. True, my lack of mountain biking skills didn’t help. More than once I dismounted to step over an obstacle only to

have my competitors whizz by. I was like a living, breathing traf-fic cone.

Nonetheless, my stalwart teammates cheered me on as I rounded each lap. Most of the time I was out of sight, but never out of earshot. Going uphill I was grunting more than a women’s tennis final, and going downhill my squeaks of panic had every dog on the island tilting its head.

So if you are on the fence about signing up for an orga-nized ride, think about my Xterra experience; I was out of shape, I came in last, I had a great time, and I met some won-derful people. It’s already on my calendar for next year.

— Chris Austin is the author of two books available at www.chris-austinbooks.com. He also works at

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I was hands-down the slowest biker in my category. ... More than once I dismounted to step over an obstacle only to have my competitors whizz by. I was like a living, breathing traffic cone.

Farmers MarketProduce stand raises questions

The Vashon Island Growers Association (VIGA) states that its mission is to “promote and advance agriculture on Vashon Island through education and the Farmers Market.” If that is so, then the collusion between the VIGA Board and East-West Produce would seem contradictory.

East-West Produce sets up across from the space that houses the market the day before it is held, as well as the day of the market, two hours before it opens. East-West Produce not only sells fruits from Eastern Washington that are not readily available on-island, it imports vegetables that can be found directly across the street, grown and sold by our island farmers. The pro-prietor, Bernie O’Malley, routinely sets his prices lower than those at the market, therefore undercutting local farmers, who cannot afford to compete. The one tip of the hat he gives to our island growers is a clause on his signage stating he buys from them “when available.”

While he may sell some island-grown produce, it is clearly the case that all of the vegetables he imports from Eastern Washington are available locally, in abun-dance. If East-West Produce claims to be a champion of Washington farmers, then it is hypocritical to chal-lenge our local farmers’ livelihoods in this way.

In light of all of this, it is extremely unsettling that the owner of East-West Produce sits on the board of VIGA. This is a clear conflict of interest and runs directly counter to VIGA’s stated mission.

I think the just and appropriate thing to do would be for Mr. O’Malley to step down from the VIGA board, and further, for him to stop importing produce that can be found locally. Let’s take advantage of this opportunity to start a discussion of what true commu-nity supported agriculture looks like and how we can encourage our thriving local farming community.

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Careful chemical use is necessary for park restorationI would like to respond

to Frank Jackson’s com-mentary from the Aug. 13 Beachcomber, “Herbicide use at park causes concern.”

Maury Island Marine Park presents a unique opportu-nity to restore and preserve one of the largest publicly owned stretches of shoreline in central Puget Sound. The site is virtually unparalleled for its potential recreational opportunities, including access to Puget Sound, hik-ing and wildlife viewing and for its ecological benefits.

However, the land has been tremendously affected by historic mining use and subsequent infestation from invasive plant species. Monocultures of blackberries and Scotch broom signifi-cantly impact the valuable environmental benefits of a protected shoreline.

We cannot ignore the degraded nature of Maury Island Marine Park’s land-scape, most notably the invasive plant species that blanket much of this site’s uplands. Without a coor-dinated and thorough approach to addressing these invasive plants, we could lose its environmental benefits.

King County Parks has been given the opportunity to restore the site through a grant from Puget Sound

Corps – Special Obli-gation Bond Jobs Package and part-

nered with the Washington Department of Natural Resources (WDNR).

King County and its part-ners are committed to restor-ing the environmental health of this park, and we are in the midst of a major habitat restoration project, with the help of the WDNR and Puget Sound Corps.

Beginning last fall and continuing into this year, Puget Sound Corps crews have spent more than 12,000 hours digging and chopping more than three dozen acres of invasive Himalayan black-berries and Scotch broom from the marine park’s uplands.

These crews have also planted more than 63,000 trees and shrubs on the site, and added mulch to build nutrients in the soil.

The restoration actions at Maury Island Marine Park

have been guided through an integrated pest management (IPM) plan that was devel-oped specifically for this site. An important component of the IPM plan is the limited use of appropriate herbicides.

We simply cannot restore this site without some herbi-cide use on invasives. Scotch broom and Himalayan blackberries are extremely hardy and virtually impos-sible to effectively manage without herbicides, so as part of our IPM plan, we are using the herbicide Garlon 3A (triclopyr) on invasive plants. We use the lowest recommended concentration of herbicide, and we have limited its application to selected areas.

King County Parks made a presentation to the Vashon Island Groundwater Committee regarding this restoration work, including our plans for limited herbi-cide application.

In an effort to keep the

committee informed, we have offered to collect and share information from soil and water samples to test for herbicide residues.

We are also committed to providing ample public notification as to when and where this herbicide is applied. Informational signs about the herbicide use have been posted at both the parking area and viewing platform at the site.

King County will continue to be sound stewards of this tremendous resource, and we will maintain an open dialogue with all interested citizens and groups on how to best restore this degraded landscape so that Maury Island Marine Park will ben-efit fish and wildlife, as well as people.

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Adopt-a-Cat Day: Vashon Island Pet Protectors is hosting three adoption days each week through-out the summer. Stop by and adopt a feline friend. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the cat shelter, 12200 S.W. 243rd St.

Meet the Author: Join Langdon Cook, author of “Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager,” will offer a seasonal tour through a year of wild foods in the Pacific Northwest. Cook will show slides of wild greens, mushrooms, berries and shellfish and the meals he makes. Learn about many dif-ferent species, their habitats and how to find them. 7 p.m. at the Land Trust Building.

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Club O Live: Thick as Thieves will be the inaugural band for Club O Live, a night of music and dancing. Admission by donation; $10 is suggested, but no one will be turned away. 9:30 p.m. at the Open Space for Arts & Community, 18870 103rd Ave. S.W. (For more information, see page 13.)

FRIDAY • 23


Master Gardeners: Interested in learning about insect pests? Ask an expert. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action: PSARA rep-resentatives will discuss their work for a stronger and better Social Security system, affordable health care, expanded home health care services, access to affordable housing, transportation and social services and support for family care-giving responsibilities. 12:30 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Poetry Reading: Ann Spiers will read from her new chapbook, “Bunker Trail,” a cycle of poems about living down trail in a beach cabin. Sharing the evening, Marci Ameluxen will read from “Lean House,” poetry that, according to her book cover, “interrogates the relationships in a woman’s life.” 6 p.m. at the Vashon Bookshop. (For more information, see page 13.)Medium Presentation: Mychael Shane, a trans-phenomena me-dium, will speak on learning to be a true friend, with words he says are brought forth by Ascended Master Sananda. The cost is $25. For more information, call 463-0025. 7 p.m. (approximately) at Vashon Intuitive Arts.

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Master Gardeners: Want to grow vegetables over the winter? Find out how at the master gar-deners table. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Farmers Market: Pick up some locally grown, raised or designed items. The featured musician will be John Browne, and the featured nonprofit will be Vashon Bee Friendly. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Village Green.

Vashon Island Pink Salmon Derby: A benefit for the Inter-faith Council to Prevent Homeless-ness, this event is also part of the Northwest Salmon Derby Series. The top three adult catches and the top 10 children/youth catches will earn cash prizes. Tickets are $5 (children), $10 (youth) and $25 (adult). For more information, see www.vashonifch.com. 10 a.m. to noon weigh-in, 2 p.m. public barbecue at Dockton Park.


Waves Across Vashon: This dance and musical performance will celebrate the land and people of Vashon Island, from pre-history to the present. Free. 2 p.m. Sat-urday, Aug. 24, with a rain date of 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at Ober Park. (For more information, see page 12.)

SUNDAY • 25

Music for a Cause: Celebrate summer on the shores of Puget Sound with the sounds of River-bend, a popular bluegrass/folk/Cajun/rock band from the island. Proceeds will benefit Vashon Youth & Family Services. Tickets are $15 and are on sale at VYFS

and the PlaySpace and online at www.brownpapertickets.com. Gates open at 1 p.m.; music will be from 2 to 4 p.m. at Point Robinson.

UPCOMING

Back-to-School Supplies: Families who would like to receive free items for their children can do so. A Spanish interpreter will be on site. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, at the Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank.

Book Talk about the Beach: Island naturalist Barbara Gus-tafson will discuss her new field guide, “Vashon ABC’s: An Exploration of Shore Life.” 6 p.m. Thursday. Aug. 29, at the Vashon Bookshop.

Vashon Opera Preview: Norm Hollingshead will give a talk on Johann Strauss’s operetta “Die Fledermaus,” which the Vashon Opera will present in September. 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Methodist church.

CLASSES

Crafts: Sue Weston will show a

video, “Beading and Eight Easy Projects,” demonstrating simple-to-make jewelry. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at the Vashon Senior Center.

TQI Cooking Class: Terri Colello, an island caterer, will lead this class centered on cooking with greens. The class is $55. Pre-reg-istration is required; see tqidiet.com/cookingclasses.html. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Methodist church.

Ikebana (Japanese Flower Ar-ranging): Carol Ahlfors will teach the class, featuring the woodwork of Greg Davis. The cost is $95. Contact Ahlfors at 463-3682 for more information. 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, at the Bloomroom.

Watercolor Workshop: Ilse Reimnitz and Brian Fisher will run this two-day workshop with an optional third day. The cost is $150 and another $75 for the third day. To register, call Reimnitz at 463-2529 or Fisher at 463-4747. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 7 and 8, with Sept. 9 optional at 23514 Kingsbury Rd.

Anti-Inflammatory Diet Class: Kathy Abascal will teach her popu-lar class about controlling inflam-mation with food. Pre-registration is required at tqidiet.com. The new student fee is$160 with ‘The Abascal Way’ book set; for repeat students, the fee is $100. 12:30 to 2 p.m. Satudays for five weeks be-ginning Sept. 7 at Vashon College.

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Islanders are invited to bring their best tomatoes to the annual Tomato Taste-Off, held between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. this Saturday at the Farmers Market. Organizers will cut the tomatoes up and provide samples to everyone who wants to taste. Winners will be announced at 1 p.m. All the local growers will participate as well, so there will be a lot to sample. Bring your homegrown tomatoes, or just go and taste to help pick this year’s most delicious Vashon tomatoes.Above, visitors sample tomatoes at a previous taste-off.

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Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, at Station 55.

Vashon Park District: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug, 27, at Ober Park.

Kiwanis: The group meets at 6 p.m. the first, second and fourth Tuesday of every month at the Vashon Eagles. All interested people are welcome for dinner. For more information, call Jan Lyell at 229-8085.

FREE COMMUNITY MEALSVolunteers serve free meals seven days a week on Vashon. All people are welcome at the meals, which are served at 5:30 p.m. Monday through Sat-urday and at 1 p.m. Sunday at the following locations. For more information about the meals program, contact Harmon Arroyo at 351-1441 or at [email protected].

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“My grandmother survived 30 years ago, and my mom lost her best friend to breast cancer,” Gilligan said. “I have too many friends who have had it.”

Gilligan will carry the “my neighbor” flag in the opening ceremony. She said she will carry this flag in memory of her moth-er’s best friend and neighbor who died from breast cancer, as well as her two neighbors who have survived it. Gilligan’s focus is on those who have battled the cancer, but there is a personal element for her as well.

“After I lost my son Palmer, I found myself walking constantly,” Gilligan said. “I decided to take all that walking and channel it into something.”

The 3-Day provides participants with training schedules before the walk. Gilligan’s 16-week training schedule has her walking about 12 to 16 miles each weekend day at this point, she said. She

has done most of her training on the island and joked that she now “knows every inch of Vashon.”

Gilligan has joined a team called Flamingo Road but has not met them, as all the other members live off-island. Each person walk-ing must raise a minimum of $2,300, of which Gilligan has so far raised $1,640. To donate, visit www.the3day.org, click “donate” and search for Gilligan’s name.

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In celebration of its 100th anniversary, the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit will put on a dance, music and poetry performance based on the history of

Vashon this Saturday.“Waves Across Vashon,” a secular, 25-minute performance,

will tell the history of the land and people of Vashon “from glacier to glacier,” said Rev. Carla Pryne. It will tell the happy stories and the horrific stories, to form a complete, true his-tory, she said.

“We are not trying to make light of past mistakes of the human race,” said dancer and choreographer Elizabeth Mendana Shaw. “We are trying to move forward and honor it for what it was.”

The piece, encompassing 15,000 years of history, will not focus on specific events, organizers say, but will be one flowing piece. In addition to the dancing by Shaw, Tom Amarose will read poetry he has written, and Paul Swenson will perform original music.

Shaw moved to Vashon three years ago from San Francisco, where she had her own modern dance company. Amarose and Swenson are also highly acclaimed for their work in writing and composition, respectively. All of the performers are islanders, and the show is for islanders specifically.

“There are some references that you will only get if you are an islander,” Pryne said.

The event marks the second year of the church’s three-year celebration of its cen-tennial, which has had a strong focus on history. Last year, the church made 5-foot tall history panels, one for each decade of the church’s existence. Pryne said she sees the upcoming event as a way to look at the parish in the wider context of the island and the people of Vashon.

“We want to celebrate and give thanks for the gift of this land and the people who have called it home,” she said.

Pryne also sees it as a way to bring the island together. She con-sciously made the performance a secular piece, so that people of

all faiths and backgrounds could relate to it, “striving for the com-mon sacred language,” she said. She wanted it to be about telling local stories, which she sees as being more prominent here than in some other communities.

“Everywhere you go, there is a story,” she said. “You feel it here. The stories are much nearer to the surface here. They haven’t been paved over.”

Stressing the goal of unity among the com-munity and with the land, Pryne said she felt it was important that the piece take place on public outdoor land, settling on Ober Park as the perfect spot.

“The only thing we all share is the gift of this land and the people who cared for it and struggled with it before us,” she said.

The Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum and the Land Trust are co-sponsors of the event, which will be free.

Although the performance will not leave out the hardships of the island’s history, Pryne said it will also include elements of humor and playfulness.

“It’s playful because the human experience is about love and suffering and humor and play,” she said.

The performance will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Ober Park. The rain date ill be Aug. 31.


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See her ‘Naked,’ revamped at the Open SpaceIslander and Seattle theatre veteran Maria Glanz will return to the Open Space for Arts & Community with her popular and newly expanded one-woman show‚ “See Me Naked.”The performance, directed by Elizabeth Klob, will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Open Space. “This is a rare show. It combines all of the elements I love in theater,” Klob said. “‘See Me Naked’ tells a story, reveals something personal about the perform-er and engages the audience in an authentic way.”“See Me Naked” is an interactive comedy that explores personal boundaries and feelings relat-ing to being naked, both literally and symbolically. Following a striptease fail, an embarrassed amateur opens up to her audience about why exposing her-self publicly is so difficult and so important for her to do. The show starts as a comic monologue, but soon becomes a dialogue when she begins to question members of the audience about their own feelings regarding nudity. Organizers said the real heart of the show is how easily audiences contribute their own, often embarrassing, experiences, making every performance unique.“‘See Me Naked’ is more than a comic one-woman show,” said a reviewer for Crosscut.com. “It is a delightfully schizophrenic stream-of-consciousness ramble through the evolution of Glanz’s body image from childhood to the present day, coupled with an interactive dialogue with the audience about their private experiences with their bare skin.”“See Me Naked” has won numerous awards since Glanz’s debut over a decade ago, including Artistic Pick of the 2001 Seattle Fringe Festival.After a strong Seattle run in early 2012 and a suc-cessful Kickstarter campaign that spring, Glanz dove back into the show, rewriting and expanding the text. Drummer Julian Zurdo joined the effort, and the show re-debuted in March. Tickets, $15, are available at the Vashon Bookshop, www.brownpapertickets.com and at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m. for those who wish to come early and enjoy pizza provided by La Biondo Wood-Fired Pizza.

“It’s playful because the human experience is about love and suffering and humor and play.”

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Live music at a new nightclub sceneClub O‚ a regular nightclub event at the Open Space for Arts & Community‚ will feature live music for the first time when Thick as Thieves plays at 9:30 p.m. tomorrow.The Los Angeles-based band that formed in 2009 lists influ-ences such as Tupac, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Fleetwood Mac. The band’s man-ager is Zach Mann, who grew up on Vashon and now lives in Los Angeles, where he also works as a film producer.Local musician Kiki Means will open the all-ages event.Admission is $10 to Club O, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Two poets read at the Vashon BookshopPoetry fans are in for a treat this Friday, when the Vashon Bookshop will host two poetry readings. Ann Spiers and Marci Ameluxen will both read from their latest books at 6 p.m.Spiers, a well-known Vashon poet and poetry workshop leader was named Vashon Poet Laureate for 2011-2013 by the organizing committee of Vashon Poetry Fest. On Friday she’ll read from her sev-enth and latest volume of poetry, “Bunker Trail.” The chapbook describes life in a cabin in the waterfront community, where the sea and nature are ever present.“This cycle of poems reveres the power of wave and wind, respects the incessant wear of daily tides,” wrote one reviewier. “Spiers

shares a life of the Sound rather than on the Sound.”Sharing the evening, Ameluxen, a poet who has lived most her life on islands and currently lives on Whidbey, will read from her new book, “Lean House.”

According to the cover, the book “interrogates the relationships in a woman’s life, especially between mother and daughter, and the way these connections ravel and unravel one’s sense of being.”

Outdoor concerts wrap up with a Latin beatVashon’s summer outdoor con-cert series will come to a close with flare tomorrow, when the Latin band Picoso plays at 7 p.m. at Ober Park. Picoso will play Afro-Latin sounds of the Caribbean, from Cuban son and cha cha to reggae and salsa. “They are not afraid to stretch beyond what is comfortably known as Latin or world music,” said series organizer Pete Welch. “The vibe is very urban and hip, without losing the relationship to the ancestor sound.”

World Music returns to the Red BicycleCordaviva, a nine-piece power-house band that plays a dance-able blend of world music, will return to Vashon with a free, all-ages show at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Red Bicycle Bistro.Band members cite influences, including Nigeria’s Fela Kuti, Guinea’s Bembeya Jazz and the

Brazilian and Afro-Cuban sounds of Caetano Veloso and Mongo Santamaria.With trumpet, sax, percussion, guitars, keyboards and vocals, the band has taken its show on the road to such venues as Seattle Triple’s Door, Nectar Lounge, the Tractor Tavern and ACT Theatre.“You’ll be in for a treat when you see Cordaviva,” music blogger Lindsay Scully wrote in a recent review for SSG Music. “Blending soukous, Afrobeat and reggae gives them an unexpected edge in the local world music scene and completely sets them apart.”

Eclectic band will fill Nirvana with soundA rowdy alternative band will play Saturday night at what Vashon Events organizer Pete Welch is calling “Vashon’s hottest new music venue.”The Wages of Sin will play a mix of Celtic, country, punk rocka-billy and blues at 9 p.m. Saturday at Nirvana. “Alternately rowdy and mourn-ful, they’re sure to get your feet tapping, your heart palpitating, and your liver crying for mercy,” Welch said.

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A classic musical under the starsPack up your lawn chairs and blankets to watch a classic movie under the stars. The Vashon Film Society, which shows monthly free films at the Vashon Theatre, has chosen “Mary Poppins” for its annual Outdoor Movie Night Aug. 24. The movie will be projected onto the side of the large theater building.Viewers are invited to bring low-back chairs and blankets and to set up early in the theater’s parking lot to enjoy a lookalike parade with prizes, pre-show music and shorts before the feature. The award-winning musical will play at dusk, and the Vashon Theatre concession stand will sell popcorn and treats before the show. The movie is free, and come prepared to sing along.


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Masters rowers take gold at world competition in ItalyOne islander wins medals in several different boatsBy JEFF HOYTFor The Beachcomber

Vashon islanders Jim O’Brien and Steve Haworth had a fruitful world rowing championship regatta at the quadrennial World Masters Games near Turin, Italy, Aug. 7 through 11. Led by O’Brien’s one gold and two silver medals at the games, the two teamed up with Canadians Julian Payne and Larry Chung to take the world title in the 60 to 64 men’s quad (four rowers and eight oars).

O’Brien’s other world gold came in the 65- to 69-year-old men’s eight, with fellow Americans from the Kent Mitchell Rowing Club. O’Brien also got silver in the 60 to 64 eight, again with Kent Mitchell RC, and in the 55 to 59 pair with Canadian partner Ilhan Akgul.

O’Brien, Haworth and their Canadian boatmates advanced to the finals in the

quad after narrowly winning their 1,000-meter heat in 3 minutes and 31 seconds.

In a tightly contested final, the Vashon-Canada composite boat moved on their two top Australian competitors with a strong push at about 500 meters. Another burst at 250 meters powered them to a tight half-length win in 3 minutes and 25 seconds.

The quadrennial World Masters Games pit top masters athletes (older than 27) from 80 countries in world champion-ship competition in 20 sports. Anyone can enter the tournament, and in rowing, ages of rowers in a boat are averaged for place-ment. The 2017 games will be in Auckland, New Zealand.

Haworth called winning gold at the world games “the most satisfying athletic experience of my life.”

“O’Brien is an incredible athlete who simply willed us past those huge Aussies,” he said.

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From left, Canadian Julian Payne, islander Jim O’Brien, islander Steve Haworth and Canadian Larry Chung teamed up to win the 60 to 64 men’s quad at the world rowing championships this month in Italy.

Hit Me In, a co-ed softball team from Vashon, proved it could stand up to regional competition when they placed third in the Beach Blast Tournament Aug. 10 and 11 in Long Beach, Wash.

The team, coached by Shane Willits and managed by Holly Lotz, went three for two at the tournament. They narrowly lost their third game to Porterouse by one run. The final score, 12-11, put them in third place that weekend.

“We had a great time camping and playing new teams,” Willits said. “There are a lot of really great softball players on Vashon.”

Willits and Sheila Algeo-Davis were named All Tournament players for the Vashon team by having the highest male and

female batting averages.Willits said he was proud that Hit Me In

finished third, especially since it was their first tournament as a team. He said play-ers were already planning to enter more regional tournaments held by the United States Specialty Sports Association, which sponsored the event, and hoped to return to Long Beach next year.

“It's great to see everyone play off the island,” he said.

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Community Business and Regional Business zones. On Vashon, these zones fall mostly within the downtown cor-ridor, though a small number of additional sites available for retail sales are scattered around the island, including at the north end, at Portage and in Burton. Under the proposed ordinance, marijuana could be grown outdoors in any part of the island that is zoned Agricultural or Rural — areas that cover most of the island.

While DPER is charged with regulat-ing where marijuana-related businesses can be located, the state Liquor Control Board is regulating all other aspects of the new industry, from licensing require-ments to product testing.

The liquor board had expected to issue its latest proposed rules last week, but that agency is also revising some of its provisions because of public comment and will issue a new proposal early next month. The revised regulations are expected to clarify how much marijuana could be pro-duced, regulate how much marijuana those with licenses could have on hand and establish the number of retail establishments allowed in each county, according to a press release from the board.

Botec Analysis Corporation, a consulting firm the liquor control board hired to assist in the implementation of the initiative, has preliminarily projected 330 marijuana-related businesses in the state, said Brian Smith, a spokes-man for the liquor control board. In King County, the consultants estimated 36 retail establishments, with the mean distance to a store being 3.8 miles, according to Botec documents on the liquor board’s website. Botec developed this number based on population and marijuana consump-tion data, Smith said.

The liquor board’s intent is to be population sensitive, he noted, and at the same time ensure that there are enough stores to provide adequate access.

“Part of our charge is to minimize the black market,” Smith said.

On Vashon, this could mean that if no one steps forward to become licensed as a marijuana retailer on the island, the state could designate Vashon as a store location for another interested party to open a business, according to Smith.

DPER’s Starbard noted last week that his agency had not yet set a date for its own revisions but expects it will follow the state’s Sept. 4 deadline so that DPER can align its regulations with the state’s.

Once completed, the county will sub-mit the draft to King County Executive Dow Constantine’s office, who will then submit it to the King County Council for approval.

Councilmember Joe McDermott attended last week’s meeting and noted that waiting for the state’s revised plan

would be a good move for the county, as there is no need to rush the ordinance through the council, and waiting would optimize chances of success.

“I would like it to work the first time,” he said. Many public officials have stressed that the process of

legalizing and regulating marijuana is uncharted territory, and that is true when it comes to enforcing the state new laws, as marijuana is still illegal under federal law.

Major Jerrell Willis, the Southwest Precinct Commander at the King County Sheriff ’s Department, attended last week’s meeting and afterward addressed this issue. He agreed there is confusion in this area but said the depart-ment will adhere to the will of the voters and the legisla-tion.

“We will follow the state law,” he said.Alan Painter, manager of the county’s Community

Service Area spoke about this issue following the meeting

as well. “The general feeling is if the state regulates it well, the

feds will give us some room,” he said. “But there is no cer-tainty about that.”

The liquor board’s Smith confirmed the lack of certainty.The Department of Justice is likely looking at the con-

trols Washington and Colorado are placing in their rules, Smith said, but federal officials have not said they won’t intervene even if the controls are adequate.

“They have said that marijuana remains a controlled substance under federal law and that they are reviewing Washington and Colorado’s systems,” Smith said in a recent email.

The law requires that the state must have its rules in place by Dec. 1, and the agency is on track to meet that deadline, Smith said.

A 30-day window to apply for marijuana business licens-es will open in November, and because so many applicants are expected, Smith said, it will likely be at least 90 days before state licenses are issued.

MARIJUANACONTINUED FROM 1

To contact the county about zoning issues, email [email protected]. For more information about the county’s proposed rules and to see its maps related to marijuana-related business-es, see www.kingcounty.gov/property/permits.aspx.For more information about the state’s rules, see liq.wa.gov.Washington State Liquor Control Board ScheduleSept. 4: File revised proposed rules.Oct. 9: Public hearing at a location yet to be determined.Oct. 16: The Washington State Liquor Control Board adopts the rules.Nov. 16: Rules become effective.Nov. 18 to Dec. 18: The liquor control board accepts licens-ing applications.

“The general feeling is if the state regulates (marijuana) well, the feds will give us some room, but there is no certainty about that.”

Alan Painter, manager of the King County Service Area

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KENNETH H. BAKERKenneth Harold Baker, 83, passed away peace-

fully with family and friends present on July 28th, 2013. Ken was born in Sacramento, CA, on February 3rd, 1930 to Harold & Alice Baker. He is survived by his son, Mathew W. Baker, daughter Colene D. Baker and Colene’s children, Nicole & Katrina. Ken was married to Barbara J. Baker for 26 years. Ken & Barbara raised their family in Tigard, OR, and moved to Seattle in 1977. Although they divorced in 1983, Ken never re-married. Ken always said that his family years, with kids, friends, camping,

waterskiing, and fishing, – were the best years of his life. He loved Jazz music, he loved his work and his top sport was hunting deer and elk with his son and friends.

Ken studied business at Portland State University while working for Lipmann & Wolfe retail department stores. This was the beginning of his career in the fashion industry which he pursued for 60 years in retailing and wholesaling. He was a member of the Pacific Northwest Men’s Apparel Club for decades, serving on its board and was President in 1972. Ken absolutely loved the industry, people and his profession. Many of Ken’s lifelong friendships were within the “Garmento” industry. He was widely recognized by his employers, customers and peers as one of the best in the industry.

Around 1983, Ken moved to Maury Island, on Quartermaster Harbor, where he lived for 30 years. He remained very active and connected, working, entertain-ing friends, hunting and waterskiing into his 70s. As told by his many friends, Ken’s personal code of conduct and how he treated people was a model for all to follow. He was masterful with jokes and story-telling. He was known for “Bakerisms”. He had a unique and infectious laugh. Ken’s greeting was geniune and his presence was charismatic.

Ken had a fantastic life! His feet never stopped moving! He loved his family and his friends!

We are having a “wake” style memorial at his home on Vashon Island on Saturday, August 24th from 12 – 4 p.m. Email [email protected] if you knew Ken and would like to attend. We will send an Evite. Car pooling is highly recommended. Skip the tie and slacks for shorts & sandles. Bring a coat or a sweatshirt.

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Burnace SparksBurnace Sparks passed away the morning of August 10 in

Weaverville, CA. She was born in Corpus Christi, TX, but moved to California at a young age. She graduated from Branham HS in 1968 and joined the work force as a sales rep. She worked in optical pharmaceuticals for many years and then in computer hardware sales. Burnie was the consummate road warrior, and was fi erce, trendy and glamorous.

In Jan 1989, she married William Sparks and in the same month, they left the Silicon Valley and moved to Vashon Island to experience the more relaxed lifestyle of the Northwest. Th ey embraced ‘Island Time’ and loved the community and their prop-erty on Young’s Corner. Burnie created a large garden, growing a great variety of organic vegetables, as well as fl owers for the table. She was instrumental in the establishment of a Saturday Market in uptown Vashon, and loved supporting local artisans and fellow growers. In 1998, Burnie and Bill returned to CA, eventually settling in Hayfork.

Burnie is survived by her husband William, her daughter Andrea (Songer) Greer, her step sons Jon Sparks and Matt Sparks (Mikki); her granddaughters Teigue and Tia, grandsons Jack and Owen, and her great granddaughter Vivian. Also sur-viving is her father Denny Cinelli (Laurie); her sisters Ronnie Th arpe (Lex) and Rachel Burnett (of Vashon); her brother Chris Cinelli (Mindy); and multiple nieces and nephews. Burnie was pre-deceased by her mother Nina, and her brother Wicker.

A memorial service will be held at the Trinity Alps Funeral Home in Weaverville, CA on Sunday Sept 1, at 11:00 am.

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can’t give that answer,” she said. “Our pri-mary concern right now would be family and friends and others in the community, making sure they connect to resources that the county has to offer.”

While last year’s 11 teen suicides in King County was nearly three times the average and the highest number since 1999, when there were seven, Kirk said that number also doesn’t signal a trend.

“We have to really compare data over time. There’s always fluctuation when it comes to any types of death or serious injury,” she said.

Even so, the county recently convened its Child Death Review (CDR) Committee, a group of 27 experts representing multiple agencies, to examine six of the 2012 suicides as well as suicide data from previous years.

While the committee, which also reviews other child deaths each year, found no link among the suicides, Kirk said, it released a list of recommendations it believes will help prevent future teen suicides.

The county is already working with local school districts and social service agencies to implement some of the recommenda-tions, Kirk said, including increasing public awareness about suicide and its warning signs, educating families about safe firearm storage and assuring medical and mental health care providers are trained to screen for suicide risk factors.

The committee also recommended strong

implementation of a bill passed this year in the Legislature that requires school district to provide additional training to teachers and other staff and to develop plans for rec-ognizing and responding to troubled youth in their schools.

“There’s a lot that a lot of our agencies are doing already and a lot of things that are new opportunities moving forward,” Kirk said.

Some on Vashon have noted that along with the small spike in youth suicides on the island, there have been several other tragic deaths of young people in the past year.

Last fall, India Castle, 27, died in a high-profile incident that the sher-iff ’s office later ruled as a drowning resulting from a drug overdose. In February, high schooler Ryan Krug, 17, died in a single-car accident, and earlier this month, 20-year-old Katiana Taylor, a 2011 VHS graduate who lived in Seattle, died in a drowning off-island.

“I think that in general, our community has held a lot of pain this year,” said Means, with VYFS. “It’s endured and tolerated a lot of pain and loss, and we’ve also reached out and supported one another in really beauti-ful ways.”

Means said the school district and VYFS will continue to offer grief support groups that started after Burk’s and Krug’s deaths. The school district is continuing to provide staff training around both grief and suicide

and will partner again with VYFS to rec-ognize the first-annual Suicide Prevention Week in Washington next month, offering education during that week and perhaps an event, Means said.

“We’re glad this is happening,” said VYFS director Kathleen Johnson. “We’re grateful for the attention to the issue.”

Nationally, the suicide rate has remained mostly steady, though the number of suicides in middle-aged Americans has increased

in the past decade. On Vashon, statistics for 2011 and 2012 are not yet available, but unofficial numbers from the King County Sheriff ’s Office suggest the suicide rate on the island has remained at zero to three per year.

According to the lat-est Healthy Youth Survey results, last year 18.5 per-cent of 10th-graders on Vashon reported that they had seriously considered

suicide in the last 12 months. Fifteen per-cent of 8th-graders and 15.4 percent of 12th-graders also reported that they had seriously considered suicide, all levels simi-lar to state averages. Among 10th-graders, 15.5 percent said they had made a plan for how they would commit suicide, and 7.4 percent said they had actually attempted it one or more times. In eighth grade, 11.7 percent said they had made a suicide plan and 7 percent had attempted it, and among 12th-graders, 13.3 percent had made a sui-cide plan and 6.4 percent had attempted it.

The Vashon responses were all close to state statistics for 2012.

Karyn Brownson, who heads training at YSPP and worked with the school district after Burk’s death last fall, called the three youth suicides on Vashon a concern but also stressed that it wasn’t a necessarily a trend or specific to the island. Statewide, suicide is the second leading cause of death among people ages 15 to 24.

“Vashon is not alone in experiencing suicides,” she said. “This is something that communities all across Washington have been facing, and every suicide is unique.”

She emphasized that most suicide victims exhibit warning signs, even young people, and said she encourages people to famil-iarize themselves with the signs and risk factors and not be afraid to approach those they’re concerned about.

“The community can move forward from this by trying to be a suicide safer commu-nity,” she said.

SUICIDECONTINUED FROM 1

Suicide and other crisis hotlines Crisis Clinic 24-hour Crisis Line: (206) 461-3222 or 866-427-4747Crisis Clinic Teen Link: (206) 461-4922, evenings, 6 to 10 p.m.National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-TALK (8255)For more information about Vashon Youth & Family Services’ counseling and programs, call 463-5511.For suicide warning signs, risk factors and other information, visit www.yspp.org or www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

“Vashon is not alone in experiencing suicides. This is something that communities all across Washington have been facing, and every suicide is unique.”

Karyn BrownsonYouth Suicide Prevention Program


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Havurat Ee ShalomServing the spiritual, social and

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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 am

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

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Vashon Presbyterian Church

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Pastor Dan HoustonChurch Offi ce Hours

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Pla ces of Wors hipon our Island

Centro Familiar CristianoPastor: Edwin Alvarado

Ubicados En Bethel Church14726 Bethel Lane SW

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Former students to honor well-loved teacherBy all accounts, for

the nearly 20 years Amy Dubin was an art teacher at the Vashon Island School Distict, she changed stu-dents’ lives.

Dubin — as her students called her — died Aug. 1 after a battle with brain cancer, and former stu-dents have stepped forward to host a memorial service for her this weekend. It will take place in the art room at Vashon High School, the most logical place, accord-ing to Tess Staadecker, who organized the event and was Dubin’s student for six years before graduating in 2003.

“It’s where she touched us,” Staadecker said. “It’s

where the energy and soul is.”

Speaking about Dubin as a teacher, Staadecker said she nurtured the artist in her students, but that stu-dents felt her influence in

many areas of their lives. Many former students have told Staadecker that Dubin changed the direction of their lives — and some-times saved lives.

“A lot of what she did was give us space to be creative and express ourselves,” Staadecker said.

Susan Hanson, the for-mer principal at the high school, also had high praise for Dubin.

“She was an amazing teacher, an exceptional teacher,” she said. “What I loved about her most is that she could really see the potential in each of her stu-dents.”

Hanson noted that her

son took classes from Dubin and that she still has some of the artwork he cre-ated during that time.

Dubin’s classes often filled beyond capacity, Hanson recalled, and eventually she stepped in as the gatekeep-er, keeping a waiting list because Dubin would not turn students away.

“She was a wonderful art-ist,” Staadecker said. “And that was just the beginning of who she was.”

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The memorial service will take place from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Vashon High School art room.

WEDDING

Larson-StrobelEva Katherine Margareta

Larson of Vashon married Brent Daniel Eric Strobel of McMinnville, Ore., on Aug. 17, 2013.

The bride is the daughter of Todd and Donna Larson of Maury Island, and the groom is the son of Jeff and Kathryn Strobel of McMinnville, Ore.

The ceremony was held at the Seattle First Covenant Church and the reception at the Maury Island home of at the bride’s parents.

The couple became friends in the fall of 2008, and then became even bet-ter friends in the spring.

The bride has a bachelor of communications degree in media studies and a bachelor of arts degree in Scandinavian Studies from Northpark University in Chicago. She is now a com-munications specialist.

The groom earned a mas-ter of divinity degree from Northpark Theological Seminary in Chicago and is now the youth pastor at Mercer Island Covenant Church.

The couple honey-mooned on Vancouver Island, B.C., and lives on Mercer Island.

HONOR

Jeremy DeibellJeremy Deibell, a 2000

graduate of Vashon High School, recently graduated from Seattle University with a bachelors of science degree in electrical engi-neering with a specializa-tion in electrical power.

Deibell had been on the dean’s list several times and graduated with a 3.4 GPA.

He is the son of Jay and Linda Deibell of Vashon, and he now lives in Bellevue with his wife Amber.

Deibell works for Puget Sound Energy as a control engineer in the protection and automation department.

DEATH

Gertrude CormierGertrude Cormier,

born on Sept. 21, 1925, in Germany, died July 30, 2013, at Queen Anne Manor in Seattle, Wash.

WARNING

Shellfish sicken manyA saltwater bacteria, Vibrio

parahaemolyticus, has sick-ened more than twice the number of people in King County this summer than typically is reported during this period, leading health officials to warn of the dan-gers of eating raw or under-cooked shellfish. Symptoms can include diarrhea, vomit-ing, fever, chills and headache.

Cooking shellfish until the shells just open is not enough to kill Vibrio bacteria, experts say, and recommend that shellfish be cooked to an internal temperature of 145 degrees for at least 15 seconds.

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