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Editor’s Note: This is the third story in a series that will explore the state of non-profits on Vashon, specifi-cally how they fared in 2015 and what they have planned for 2016.

It’s that time of year again, the time when we promise ourselves to make, and keep, our New Year’s resolutions. Most of us will pick resolutions like losing weight, eating healthy, exer-cising more or just being happier, healthier people.

Meanwhile, members of the island’s dozens of non-profits are also looking to 2016, but their thoughts aren’t concerned with only bettering themselves. Directors and members of Voice of Vashon (VoV), the DoVE Project, Friends of

Mukai and Rj’s Kids have their sights set on better-ing Vashon and the lives of the people who live here. With 2016 expected to bring a new radio studio, improvements and public access to the Mukai house, expanded domestic vio-lence prevention programs and programming to sup-port Millenials, the island’s nonprofits are expecting the community to notice their work in 2016.

VoV’s storefront studio, expected to open next door to Zombiez in early 2016, has been the most pub-lic of VoV’s developments this year. However, KVSH Station Manager Susan McCabe said plenty more happened this year.

“2015 was our first full year of broadcasting on KVSH 101.9 FM,” she said last week. “It was the first year we instituted this great

amount of programming, all from volunteer produc-ers.”

She said that the open-ing of the storefront studio will determine what exactly 2016 will bring, but the goal is to hold more community forums and expand cover-age of Vashon issues. She also explained that VoV is not abandoning its Sunrise Ridge space.

“The Sunrise Ridge stu-dio will remain as an infra-structure hub and produc-tion and instruction stu-dio,” McCabe said. “We’re not moving; we’re expand-ing.”

The new year will also mark the nonprofit’s expansion into the televi-sion world. VoV currently broadcasts some program-ming on Comcast channel 21, but McCabe said VoV’s

Vashon is not the most liberal city in the nation. In fact, according to federal records of political donations, it’s not even close.

Stories early last week in The Washington Post, Seattle Times and other publications reported that a California political startup called CrowdPac had used federal dona-tion records dating back to 2002 to con-clude that political donors from “Vashon Island” were the most left-leaning in the nation. In a sense, these stories were cor-rect, as CrowdPac did report that “Vashon Island” has the nation’s most left-leaning record of donations

But what CrowdPac’s study apparent-ly failed to realize is that “Vashon” and “Vashon Island” are the same place and that the vast majority of donors on the island identified as being from “Vashon.” The donations from the “Vashon” crowd are only slightly more liberal than those from Seattle. Only a relative handful iden-tified themselves as being from “Vashon Island,” and their donations caused Vashon Island to be named the most lib-eral place in America.

Vashon Island came in at 9.9 out of 10 on Crowdpac’s liberal spectrum, but search-ing for just “Vashon” on the Crowdpac site yields a far different result. Vashon comes in at a 5.7 on Crowdpac’s liberal scale, putting it in 76th place and .7 more points liberal than nearby Seattle.

A search through the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) donation receipt database tells the same story: There is a discrepancy with the city name donors use. The FEC reports that between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31 of this year, there were only 18 donations from six donors who listed their city as Vashon Island. All but two

of those people made multiple donations to the ActBlue PAC, a democratic, pro-gressive political action committee. One of the donors not giving to the PAC sup-

ported the democrat Patty Murray in her campaign for Senate; the other donor supported independent presidential candidate Jim Webb.

Meanwhile, the FEC reports 1,468 donations were made to political campaigns this year from people listing Vashon as their city. A look at 300 of the Vashon donations

made this year shows more than 200 were in support of a democratic cause (Bernie 2016, the Democratic Congressional

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Island not actually nation’s most politically liberal areaIsland campaign donors caused inconsistency by listing Vashon and Vashon Island as hometownsBy ANNELI FOGTEditor

Crowdpac screen shots

CrowdPac lists two different rankings for “Vashon” and “Vashon Island,” with the Vashon ranking being more accurate.

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NEWS | Islander opens new origami store in town. [4]COMMENTARY | Holiday “elfing” raises money for good cause. [6]ARTS | A year of the island’s arts by the numbers. [10]

NEW ORCA FOR J PODCalf is eighth Southern

Resident baby this year. Page 5

STINGRAYS COMPETESwimmers set personal

bests at competition. 5

WILL SING FOR FOOD

SEE POLITICS, 19

Anneli Fogt / Staff Photo

The Parker Staczek Family Band performs at the third annual Will Sing For Food event at the Red Bike. The night of musical performances on Friday was a fundraiser for the Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank and brought in $1,600, the most so far.

“It’s kind of a data quirk. It’s a fun story to play around with at first, but then you look at it closer, and you realize it’s not what it seems.”

Mark A. Smith,UW Political Science professor

Local organizations expecting successes in 2016By ANNELI FOGTEditor

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After more than 30 years caring for patients on Vashon, Dr. Michael Kappelman will retire next month.

In a letter he recently sent to patients, Kappelman said he was announcing his retirement from his prac-tice of family medicine at the Franciscan clinic “with a mixture of sadness and anticipation.”

His last day at the clinic will be Monday, Jan. 4.

He noted that he began working on Vashon in 1983, believing the job would be temporary while he decided the next steps of his life.

“Instead I found myself staying because of the opportunity to practice such a wide range of medi-cine with so many won-derful people like you,” he wrote.

In explaining his deci-sion, he shared personal information about recent health challenges.

“I have come to realize that the time commitment is making it too difficult for me to achieve the healthy balance in my day-to-day life that I would recom-mend for my patients,” he added.

He noted that after a break, he may occasionally provide care through CHI Franciscan Health, includ-ing on Vashon, and said he hoped that his patients would continue to seek care at the clinic for their health

care needs. CHI Franciscan spokes-

man Scott Thompson noted that it is rare for people to work at one place as long as Kappelman did.

“It says a lot about him and the residents on the island … and the rela-tionships he developed,” Thompson said.

Thompson added that nurse practitioner Laura MacGregor recently joined the clinic staff to ensure that there will be enough providers to see clinic patients.

MacGregor earned her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and her graduate degree from Seattle University. She most recently worked for the Department of Social and Health Services, Thompson said.

He added she is not Kappelman’s replacement.

“He will not be able to be replaced out there. You will not be able to fill the shoes he has left there,” Thompson said.

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CorrectionIn the Dec. 16 article “Community forum on hunger tackles stereotypes, calls for solutions,” there was an error about the per-centage of island stu-dents who qualify for the free and reduced lunch program. It was said at the meeting that 12 percent of students qualify, but further research shows that 22 percent qualify.

Island Paper Chase, the newest business in Vashon’s town core, opened earlier this month and features the origami art of islander Alice Larson.

The store, located next to the Vashon Pharmacy in the former home of the liquor store, serves as both a store-front and office for Larson, who works as a social wel-fare researcher when she is not folding paper into ornate shapes.

The store showcases her creations, ranging from tiny flowers to an origami peace flag, similar to the United States’ flag, but with cranes dotting its blue field instead of stars. Larson made it by folding 3,750 pieces of paper, joining them togeth-er and sewing it all onto a cloth backing; she inten-tionally did not keep track of how many hours she put into it, she said.

Other artwork includes the Seahawks’ logo, con-structed with 1,000 meticu-lously folded paper cranes, a lamp with an origami shade and 4-foot-tall flowers.

Cranes have a long tradi-tion in origami and were important symbols in sev-

eral cultures. According to an information sheet at her store, in China and Japan, cranes were symbols of lon-gevity and prosperity.

To honor some special occasions, people will fold 1,000 cranes; Larson noted she has completed at least 10 pieces with 1,000 cranes. She has also made curtains and backdrops for weddings out of long strands of cranes joined together.

“I would like to do more of that,” she added.

Before moving into the heart of town, she worked for 26 years in Vashon Village and showed her ori-gami work at the Strawberry Festival and on the studio tours. Facing a sewage back-up at that office and a rent increase, she relocated and opened this month in time for the first Friday gallery walk.

“The reception has been really gratifying,” she said. “I love this location. I moved two blocks, and I feel like I moved to a totally different world.”

While she folded gum wrappers in elementary school, Larson said she began doing origami in ear-nest in 1992, when she had repeated long conference calls for work. She started

folding cranes to keep her hands busy and judged the length of calls by how many cranes she made.

Now she is quick with the art and can cut, fold and assemble a crane in five to six minutes, she added.

Valentine’s Day is com-ing up, and Larson said she is particularly fond of it. For the last three years, she has folded 500 hearts with wings and packaged them in bags of 10 and given them away the day before.

“I hand the bags to strangers. I say, ‘Please take one, and tomorrow give one to someone who needs a heart,’” she said. “That is so much fun to do.”

It’s a practice she repeats elsewhere.

“It is relaxation for me. I can fold anytime. If I go to a Chinese restaurant, I feel obligated to make cranes and leave those for the wait staff,” she said. “It’s so easy for me to fold a crane, and it makes people

smile. I love that.” As Christmas neared,

she was trying to be open every day, but noted she is a night owl and might keep late hours.

“After Christmas, when I’m here, I’m open,” she said.

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Fulton Family Medicine announced last week that beginning in January, it will be open five days a week.

The clinic, staffed by owner Dr. Gail Fulton and nurse practitioners Julie McPherson and Marnie Devlin, had been closed on Thursdays but will now be open to patients at least half the day.

The increased clinic hours are possible because McPherson recently earned her doctorate in nursing practice. With her disserta-tion behind her, she is able to work more, said Kathy Henke, the clinic manager.

McPherson earned both her master’s degree and her doctorate from the University of Arizona — Tucson. For her disserta-tion, she evaluated the need in rural Washington for support groups for caregiv-ers of individuals with early stage Alzheimer’s Disease, Henke said.

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Voting might soon be more con-venient throughout King County, including for residents of Vashon.

The Metropolitan King County Council and King County Elections are working to expand the number of ballot drop-off locations in the area. Last week the council unani-mously adopted a motion requesting that a plan be developed that will expand voter access while ensuring geographic equity and convenience for all voters.

“The foundation of our democracy is the right to vote — we are aim-ing to strengthen our democracy by ensuring more King County citizens have the ability to access that right,” Councilmember Rod Dembowski, the author of the legislation, said in a press release. “I believe this will be a significant step towards increasing voter participation by making voting more convenient for citizens through-out King County.”

In an interview last week, Nancy Standifer, a communications special-ist with King County Elections, said it is not clear yet if Vashon will receive one of the boxes, but more should be known by the end of this year.

“Vashon is definitely on the wish list. It is part of the initial plan,” she said.

She noted that while the island does not currently have a ballot box, in the April 2015 election, when the Vashon Park District levy was on the ballot, a van pick up service came to Vashon to collect ballots. This allowed residents to forego purchasing a stamp and mailing the envelope.

The decision to install more ballot boxes comes at a time of markedly low voter turnout. Throughout the county, the number of ballot boxes and van pickup-services for ballots has been increasing, Standifer added, though voter turnout has been going down.

In the November election, only 40 percent of registered voters in King County cast ballots, though on Vashon the rate was 55 percent.

Election officials expressed disap-pointment about the low turnout rate at the time.

This effort, however, is about remov-ing obstacles to voting, Standifer said.

“The bottom line is … its about access to the voters,” she said, adding, “It is always great if we can increase voter turnout.”

Following King County’s transi-tion to an all-mail ballot system in 2008, the council approved a plan for regional voting centers as well as bal-lot drop boxes to ensure there were alternatives to placing the ballot in the mail. The adopted plan authorized the placement of 39 ballot drop boxes

throughout the county, but budget reductions adopted as a result of an economic downturn resulted in a sig-nificant reduction in the number of ballot drop boxes actually implement-ed. Since then, the county has moved to restore drop boxes but has not yet deployed more than 25 ballot drop locations, some of which are provided by van service, such as the one that served Vashon in the spring.

“Voter turnout has been extreme-ly low, and providing citizens the opportunity to have their voice heard through expanding additional ballot drop box locations may increase par-ticipation in the election process,” said Councilmember Pete von Reichbauer, a co-sponsor of the motion.

“To give people a voice we have to make voting more accessible, and adding additional secure drop boxes is a good start to this goal,” said Councilmember Reagan Dunn.

The adopted motion calls for King County Elections to send the council a plan to improve access to ballot drop-off locations throughout King County.

This plan is expected to include a proposed number and locations for additional drop-off boxes, estimated costs and an implementation time-line. It should also include analysis regarding using county libraries as ballot box locations. The plan is due to the council by April 30.

An eighth Orca has been born into the Southern Resident Killer Whale pop-ulation this year, and the newest calf as been identi-fied as a member of J Pod.

According to The Center for Whale Research, the newest baby has been dubbed J54 and was first spotted with its mother, J28 (Polaris), on Dec. 1 near San Juan Island. At the time, researchers were unable to determine if the Orca calf was new, but the baby was spotted and photographed again in Haro Strait on Dec. 16. With clearer and closer photos, researchers deter-mined then that the baby was indeed a new arrival and was two or three weeks old.

The birth of J54 continues the successful breeding year that the Southern Residents have had. The birth is the eighth since December 2014 and brings the total Southern Resident popula-tion to 84 known individu-als, according to the center.

“1977 is the only previous year in the past forty years in which as many baby killer

whales were born into this community of whales, and there were nine in that year,” a statement from The Center for Whale Research reports. “From calculations account-ing for all reproductive age females, we estimate that typically up to nine babies could be produced each year, but there is usually a high rate of … mortality, and we have seen only three babies annually on average.”

This drop in Orca births for the Southern Residents in recent years is due to a salm-on shortage, researchers say, and the survival of J54 and the year’s other seven calves depends on a future with plentiful Chinook salmon.


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Islanders turned out in droves Friday night for the Will Sing For Food fundraiser at the Red Bike and donated more than $1,600 to the Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank.

The amount was the most that the event, now in its third year, has ever raised. Event organizer Pete Welch said that the figure was $1,100 more than the amount raised in 2013, and roughly $600 more than the 2014

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filled to the brim and standing-room only from the 8 p.m. start time. It was just anoth-er example of the kind of people that make up the Vashon community: action-minded, con-

cerned and generous. It never fails to be amazing when the community rallies behind a cause with not just words, but monetary action.

In communities around the nation, Christmas time brings with it a call to give to charitable organizations, but most pleas go unanswered. In larger towns and cit-ies, the work of smaller organizations gets buried by the in-your-face advertising and pervasiveness of corporate America and the rat race of 9 to 5 jobs and the constant pursuit of more money. It’s refreshing to see hundreds of people gather together to laugh at corny jokes, hear holiday songs and enjoy each other’s company all in the pursuit of supporting a local organization that is focused on helping those who struggle financially.

Island historian Bruce Haulman got it right last week when he talked about the fact that islanders open their wallets for their passions. Luckily, we live in a place where people are passionate about people, a quality that is becoming tougher and tougher to come across. This fact manifested itself most recently on Friday night, but it happens every day when someone outside Thriftway drops a donation into an elf ’s bucket, shops at Granny’s Attic or gives money to any of the dozens of other non-profits on the island.

The island community has held on as a largely calm and caring place despite the ever-increasing self-cen-tered nature that has taken hold of society elsewhere.

It does not take grand holiday spirit announcements and over-scaled donation campaigns to incite change and action here. The community should never lose that spirit.

Recently I’ve been “elfing.” As everyone knows, this is the gerund form of “to elf” which, in turn, is the infinitive verb form of the noun, “elf.” (Don’t you wish now that you hadn’t nodded off in high school grammar?)

The noun “elf” is not capitalized. To capitalize it would be improper since “elf” is not a proper noun …and anyway, as everyone knows, elves (the plural of “elf”) are lit-tle folks, so capitalization would be wasted on them. They’re like leprechauns, only they wear red, instead of just green, and show up in the winter, not the spring. Elves come out when the winter weather is at its worst. This is because, unlike leprechauns, elves are hopeless idiots.

But they are big-hearted idiots, and whenever Santa gives them a break (which, at this time of year, ain’t often), they venture out into the cold ringing bells to raise money for good causes. There is no shortage of those causes here on Vashon, or anywhere else for that matter. They ring bells because, on account of being very short, this is the only way they can get noticed and keep from being tromped upon by hurrying shop-pers who don’t pay attention to where they’re going as they enter the Thriftway.

Their diminutive stature not-withstanding, try as you might, you can’t ignore these elves. You can’t for example, shift course and use the other store entrance because they’ve got them both cov-ered. Plus, they’ve got you both coming and going and, while elves are idiots, they have good memo-ries (this is in part due to the fact

that they are not the afore-said drunken leprechauns). They’ll remem-ber that you said you’d c o n t r i b u t e on your way out. They’ll

remember your coat, your hair, your Birkenstocks complete with socks.

Now, becoming an elf does not take a lot of brains (see “idiot” above.) When asked, all you have to do is say yes, as I did for Vashon Youth & Family Services this year. If you have a soft heart and even softer brain, “yes” comes easily. Thus it was that I became an elf. I confess, though, that I have some disadvantages as an elf. First off, I am 6 feet 5 inches tall and thus do not fit the usual elf image. A kid came up to me and actually said, “You’re not an elf; you’re too big.” It was everything I could do to keep from giving him a swift kick, but that would be un-elflike. Second, I am a wise-guy former New Yorker which, if you think about it, is not your most ideal set of credentials. But when times are tough, elf recruiters will take any idiot who says yes.

I’ve watched elves. They smile a lot, are polite and ring those dreadful bells which, let’s face it: You’ll pay almost anything to stop. Maybe being nice is a good tech-nique, but I wasn’t buying it. Nope.

To me, being an elf is like being

given a stage for stand-up comedy, New York style. You gotta get shop-pers’ attention, you gotta stop them in their tracks and give them no choice but to contribute to the cause. I start out with my most gentle New Yorker approach: I say, “Don’t even think about walking in that door without making a donation. You got kids maybe? You still like them? You think Santa isn’t watch-ing you this very moment?” But then there are the hard cases, and you just gotta make their perilous situation very clear to them: “You think you’re gettin’ in here without a donation?! Fugeddaboudit, pal! Wise up! Don’t make me bring in Big Guido with his baseball bat. You like those knees of yours? How much, eh? How much are they worth to you? Hey, Guido!”

I have found this technique very effective, if only because shoppers know the next step with an elf from New York is a mugging, which is so unseemly right there outside the Thriftway. Kinda embarrassing. The elf, who is doing “good works,” is safe. You on the other hand, are not, unless you donate. See? The solution is so simple…

Okay, so this is a humor column, but let me tell you, it ain’t easy standing out in the cold, ringing annoying bells, eyes watering from the wind, wishing you had a flask of bourbon and begging for worthy causes. Thankfully, there are lots of islanders willing to elf and lots of other islanders generous with their contributions.

It is great to be an elf. And an islander. Happy holidays.

— Will North is an island novelist and occasional

Beachcomber columnist.

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The Dec. 8 community forum on hunger held at the Penny Farcy building was many things, including an example of how Vashon non-profits can collaborate to benefit the entire community. The forum was the product of a King County

CSA grant obtained by Voice of Vashon (VoV). The production was created as a collaboration between VoV, the VMI Community Food Bank and the Vashon Community Care Foundation. VoV broadcast the forum live on KVSH 101.9FM, the KVSH phone app and on voiceofvashon.org. VoV also video-taped the forum and will re-broad-cast it on VoV TV Comcast Channel 21 and on demand on the VoV web-site.

Community response to the forum

has been overwhelmingly positive, with many people appreciating the convenience of being able to hear it on KVSH. We’re already vetting ideas for future such collaborations, and are excited about hosting more conversations of community impor-tance. Thanks to all our partners and those who participated in the forum. forum. We welcome suggestions for future forums. Please send your ideas to [email protected].

— KVSH Station Manager Susan McCabe

Vashon community embraces spirit of giving

What is a food hub and why care about it?

To answer these questions let’s step back for a moment and consider Vashon Island Growers Association’s (VIGA) mission: To promote farming, access to healthy food and a sustainable agricultural economy. One way we at VIGA do this is to mount a weekly farmers market — voted one of the 10 best in Puget Sound — which brings local food producers face-to-face with consumers. Another way is organiz-ing Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (CRAFT) workshops for farm interns and apprentices to help grow the next generation of farmers. We want to open new markets and additional oppor-tunities for small farms on Vashon; that’s where a food hub comes in.

A food hub provides a place to aggregate and store vegetables and fruit, enabling farmers to extend the life of their produce and to compete in the Seattle metropoli-tan area’s restaurant, catering and special-ty food scene. It enables filling orders at a larger scale and with greater certainty — keys to competitiveness. Another aspect of a food hub is it offers processing facilities that enable farmers and food entrepre-neurs to add value to locally grown food. A couple of years ago, one farm started making sauerkraut, but stopped because it didn’t have enough controlled tempera-ture storage space. Had a food hub been available, that new venture might have taken off and grown.

VIGA recently won a USDA grant to ana-lyze the feasibility of establishing a food hub on Vashon Island. In 2016, we will look at the possibility of con-verting unused space at the old Granny’s site

at Sunrise Ridge. We will also look at the possibility of an alliance with Island Spring Organics, which has approached VIGA wanting to help organic farmers by offering some of its unused capacity for freezing and processing food.

Vashon farmers have a history of inno-vation. The Mukai family invented a way to preserve strawberries and ship them to the Midwest, and Wax Orchards cre-ated an apple-based fudge sauce that won national acclaim. This entrepreneurial creativity is what will make Vashon agri-culture successful; it will have to because we don’t have rich river valley-bottom soil or large tracts of farmland like King County’s agricultural production districts in the Snoqualmie Valley and Enumclaw Plateau.

But we do have proximity to Seattle; creativity; a disproportionate number of successful chefs, caterers and food people and a special place in the hearts of resi-

dents of the metro region. Vashon-grown products have cachet.

Why aren’t we growing black currants? They’re a staple in Europe, f lavoring drinks, sorbet, candy and, of course, cas-sis, the alcohol-based syrup so important in French cuisine and the essential ingre-dient for the aperitif Kir. Vashon has a history of growing currants. My small farm was part of Kenny Larsen’s 150-acre red currant farm on Maury Island. Until recently, black currants could not be grown in the U.S., banned because they were hosts to the white pine blister, but they’re legal now. And how about guinea fowl? There are lots of chickens on Vashon, but gourmet restaurants in Seattle might be looking for locally grown guinea hens for the “pintard” on their

menu.Let me conclude by asking you, should

we change our name to the Vashon Growers and Eaters Association? Many islanders have asked why they should be a VIGA member. After all, if I’m not a grower what’s in it for me? Farming on Vashon is a challenge; it needs all the support it can get. If you like to eat fresh, local and healthy foods, join VIGA. If you like seeing rows of corn and carrots instead of suburban strip malls, join us at vigavashon.org. VIGA represents local farmers and those who eat and use their products.

— Dan Carlson co-chairs the VIGA board. This column is part of a series

by VIGA members.


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NOTICE

Vashon Island Baking Com-pany and Glass Bottle Cream-ery: These two businesses will be closed for the month of January for a winter break. Business will resume as usual in February.

ONGOING

Yard and Food Waste Pilot Program: King County and Zero Waste Vashon remind everyone that the yard and food waste pilot program is underway at the Vashon Transfer Station. Results of the program will help determine if a permanent program is feasible. Yard and food waste collected from Vashon will be composted at Cedar Grove Composting in Maple Valley. Yard waste accepted includes branches, grass clippings, leaves, weeds and Christmas trees (not flocked or artificial and no decorations). Branches and trees must be less than 8 feet long and less than 4 inches in diameter. Food waste accepted includes fruit and vegetable scraps, breads, bones, meats, cheese and coffee grounds (and may be placed in compostable bags). The cost is $12 per load, up to 320 pounds. For more information, call 477-4466 or see zerowastevashon.org or kingcounty.gov/solidwaste/Vashon.

CHRISTMAS EVE AND DAY SERVICES

Church of the Holy Spirit: The church will host its annual community pageant and Holy Eucharist at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24; Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist and sermon at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24; and Christmas Day Holy

Eucharist and sermon at 9 a.m. Friday, Dec. 25.

Lutheran Church: Christmas Eve services will be held at 5 and 11 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24; open 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 25, for anyone who would like to stop in and pray or just relax in the church.

Methodist Church: All are welcome to attend a candlelight Christmas Eve service. 8 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24.

Presbyterian Church: Christmas Eve candlelight service, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24.

St. John Vianney: Christmas Eve service, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24; Christmas Day service at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 25.

Vashon Island Community Church: Christmas Eve service at 7 p.m.

All Merciful Saviour Monas-tery: There will be a service to celebrate the Feast of Saint Her-man at 8 a.m. Friday, Dec. 25.

SATURDAY • 26

Adopt a Cat Day: Saturdays are cat adoption days at Vashon Island Pet Protectors. Meet cats available for adoption at the shelter during adoption hours, or call 389-1085 to make an appointment. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the VIPP shelter, 12200 243rd Street off Old Mill Road.

SUNDAY • 27

Unitarian Service: The fel-lowship will hold its annual fire ceremony to celebrate the passage from the old to the new year. 9:30 a.m. in Lewis Hall behind Burton Community Church.

Zen Center: Center abbot Koshin Christopher Cain will talk about

death and resurrection. The weekly service also includes tea, chanting and meditation periods. 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Havurat Ee Shalom on Westside Highway.

UPCOMING

Good-Bye, 2015 Dock-to-Dock Fun Run: The community is invited to run from dock-to-dock on New Year’s Eve morning. Par-ticipants may run the whole way or part of it, and there will be two water tables along the route at the 5.8- and 10-mile marks. Costumes and carpooling are encouraged. Run begins at 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 31, at the south end ferry dock.

New Year’s Eve at The Hardware Store Restaurant: All are welcome to ring in the new year with a spe-cial menu, cocktails and music from Daryl Redeker. Reservations should be made at thsrestaurant.com. Thursday, Dec. 31.

The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Preview): Norm Hollingshead will discuss this comedic work from Mozart, complete with musical ex-cerpts. Sponsored by the Friends of the Vashon Library. 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 3, at the Vashon Library.

Great Books Discussion Group: The group meets on the first Mon-day of the month from October through May. This month’s title is “The New Organon” by Francis Bacon. Visitors are welcome; the only requirement is to have read the material under discussion. 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4, at the Vashon Library.

CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

Tai Chi: Deena Eber will lead the

class in traditional exercises aimed at improving strength, balance and mental focus. Cost is a $1 sug-gested donation per class. 2 p.m. Wednesdays at Ober Park.

TQI Diet Class: For first time students or those who need to get back on track, Kathy Abascal will teach her program on the island in the new year. The cost is $160 for new students or $105 for returning students. For more information and to register, go to TQIDiet.com. 2:30 to 4 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30 and Feb. 13, at the Sheffield Building, 18850 103rd Ave.

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All are invited to Club O for a futuristic New Year’s Eve all-ages bash. The new year will be welcomed four times, beginning with New York’s countdown at 9 p.m. PST and moving west, which allows families with children or those who don’t want to wait for midnight to celebrate. Deejays MirageSix and Whitmore will spin music to dance the night away, and there will be a kids’ area, teen space and a beer and wine garden for adults. Futuristic dress is encouraged but not required. The cost is $10 for adults, $5 for kids or $30 for a VIP package (ages 21 and older only) that includes admission, two drink tickets, a reserved table and special surprise. Tickets may be pur-chased at brownpapertickets.com, the Vashon Bookshop or at the door if available, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 31, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

FUTURE BALL AT CLUB O

VASHON THEATRE

Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Plays through Dec. 31.

See vashontheatre.com for show times or call 463-3232.

PUBLIC MEETINGSVashon Island Fire & Rescue:

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Station 55.


Desechos de jardín y comida ahora son

aceptados en la Estación de Reciclaje y

Transferencia de Vashon. Para más información,

comunicarse al teléfono 206-477-4466.

Yard and food waste pilot program at Vashon Recycling & Transfer Station

Bring your yard and food waste (separated from garbage and recyclable materials) to the Recycling & Transfer Station (18900 Westside Hwy. SW). Yard and food waste will be composted at Cedar Grove Composting in Maple Valley, WA. During the one-year pilot (Oct. 2015 – Sept. 2016), your participation will help determine if a permanent program is feasible.

Yard wasteBranches, grass clippings, leaves, weeds, Christmas trees (No flocked or artificial trees; no garland, tinsel, or ornaments) Branches and trees must be less than 8 feet long and less than 4 inches in diameter.

Food wasteIncluding fruit and vegetable scraps, breads, bones, meat, cheese, coffee grounds

Fees for yard and food waste Lower than garbage fees • Minimum fee: $12 per entry – covers up to 320 lbs.• Per ton fee: $75

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Next in an on-going series about Island history

IT’S YOUR HISTORYVashon College History 202

By Chris Austin

Last week I wrote about Vashon’s rah-rah-sis-boom-bah college which opened its doors on October 25th, 1892. With a grand total of 50 students it was one of the fi rst ten colleges in Washington State. While students of that tiny inaugural class had their own challenges (such as how to play hooky and not get noticed), they did have one issue that would be very recognizable today - how to pay for their education.

According to a brochure, for $300.00 you could ship your kid to our island for forty weeks. This princely sum got enrollees regular classes and a furnished room complete with light and heat. (Light and heat? My, how those children were pampered.) The fur-niture included a table, chairs and a bed with mattress and springs. However, students were expected to bring their own pillow, linens and towels. Other amenities included washstand, bowl, pitcher and slop jar. It strikes me as odd that one cannot use the pre-vious student’s pillow but can use their slop jar. I will bring my own slop jar thank you.

While the three-hundred simoleons got you a jar for your slop and a seat in class, it didn’t get you much else. Oh, you want to learn the piano? That’s sixty more Ducats. Didn’t bring your own piano? That’s another ten. Elocution lessons? Come up with some more cheddar and we’ll talk. If speaking real good ain’t your thing then for two bones you can rent a typewriter. That fee will let you use it an entire month, for one hour a day. Tick, tock, I hope you don’t get writer’s block. Want to have a friend come visit? How nice. Another dollar. And whatever you do don’t injure the furniture because, “Injury to furniture, whether intentional or accidental, beyond reasonable wear, will be charged to the author of it to the extent of the damage.” Clearly, tuition padding was an art form more than a century ago.

When students weren’t typing as fast as possible, they could avail themselves of various extramural activities. Thanks to the Vashon College Athletic Association, folks could participate in college and lower school baseball, men’s and young women’s basketball and my favorite: foot ball, not football, foot ball. The pamphlet has a grainy picture of the entire team, eleven guys, lined up generally in the same direction.

Back in 1895 the intrepid Vashon foot ballers took on the mighty University of Wash-ington, twice. We lost the fi rst game 44-4. How do you get two safeties on a team that beats you by 40 points? And the second one was also a loss at 37-0. I hear the Huskies still brag about it.

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ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury MAY ALL YOUR DAYS BE FILLED WITH ART: “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be

found anywhere, far from where (one) lives or a few feet away. It is always on (one’s) doorstep.”

— Paul Strand

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For a small community of not quite 11,000 residents, the arts are alive and abundant

on Vashon. In any given week — except during the holidays — there are not one or two but sev-eral arts or art-related events happening on the island. The numbers here give a close approxi-mation of the creative bounty presented to Vashon audiences in 2015, and we haven’t begun to tally those folks whose artistic endeavors flourish but remain out of the public eye ... for now. — Juli Goetz Morser

dance- 3 Vashon Allied Arts’ Center for Dance perfor-mances, 1 Vashon Dance Academy performance

Opera & Chorale- 10 Vashon Opera events, 2 Vashon Island Chorale concerts

Theater- 3 Vashon High School theater shows, 2 Drama Dock shows, 2 Vashon Youth Theatre shows, 1 Shakespeare in the Park, 1 ShakesKIDS

Visual arts- over 803 artists’ work shown, 12 gallery cruises, 2 studio tours, 17 galleries and art spots

Open Space for arts &community- 35 performing arts events and over 30 arts-related classes

Vashon Allied arts- 333 artists exhib-ited in the gallery, 59 performing arts events, 16 artists in the school, approximately 80 arts classes, 14 featured artists and 125 artists exhibited at Heron’s Nest

Vashon Events- 50 music events at the Red Bike, 46 at Snapdragon, 21 at the Farmers Market, 7 at The Hardware Store Restaurant, 6 Concerts in the Park, 7 stages at Strawberry Festival with over 250 musicians performing

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A huge thanks to the Vashon community for supporting earthquake relief efforts in Nepal. Since the April earthquake Vashon Islanders have donated over twenty thousand dollars

to Nepal. Shelter Nepal, a Nepal non-profi t run with family ties to our Vashon Nepali families, has supported over

140 rural underprivileged households in Nepal. Work has included providing building materials, safe drinking water supplies and direct fi nancial and medical support to families that lost their

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Battling horrific road conditions, the Vashon High School Pirates wres-tling team last week drove to Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, to participate in the Tri-State Wrestling Tournament at North Idaho College. The prestigious competition is the longest continually running invitational tour-nament in the Northwest. Now in its 36th season, Tri-State features the top var-sity wrestlers from Idaho, Washington, Montana and Oregon.

The competition’s huge brackets present a unique challenge for all wrestlers, and it is a gathering of the best of the best. Not many small schools are represent-ed, and it is a feather in the cap of the Vashon program that the team is invited to participate. After last year’s strong showing, Vashon was allowed to bring a full team for the first time.

Unfortunately, day one of action was disappointing for the Pirates. Of the 15 Vashon participants, only three made it out of the first two rounds. Wrestling for Vashon and going two and out were: Ben Angelacos, Payton Bonaventura, Alyx Arteaga, Luke Larson, Shane Williams, Hunter Burger, Preston Petersen, Rodolfo Flores, Cori Williams and Jackson Bard.

The black cloud of bad luck continued to follow stand-out wrestlers and projected winners Chase Wickman and Adrian St. Germain. Both were injured in action the previous Friday, and both were out again in their first matches of the tournament due to injuries. Senior Clyde Pruett man-aged to bounce back after a first round loss before being ousted in the fourth round.

Bright spots for the man-gled squad continue to be the exceptional wrestling of junior Bryce Hoisington at 152 pounds and senior Logan Nelson at 170 pounds. Both went undefeated on day one. Day two of the tourna-ment continued past press time.

Coach Anders Blomgren reported from Idaho that there were a couple of amaz-ing matches for the Pirates.

“Bryce dominating Snohomish in the quarters with his relentless, ferocious style and Logan beating a body builder from Mead with his slick takedowns and supreme conditioning (were of note),” Blomgren said.

Next action for the Pirates will be at their own home tournament, The Rock. Twelve teams will compete in the high school gym on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Wrestling will begin at 9 a.m., and the finals are projected to start at 5 p.m.

— Cheryl Pruett is the mother of two VHS wrestlers.

Three Vashon Stingrays swim-mers traveled to Federal Way Dec. 11 to 13 to compete in the Pacific Northwest Swimming Short Course Championships, and all three set per-sonal records.

McMurray Middle School sixth-grad-ers Baker Van Buren and Erik Pringle and seventh-grader Ava Lorentzen com-peted against 50 other clubs with the top swimmers in the Pacific Northwest Territory, which includes a majority of the state of Washington.

Baker, 11, swam his personal best time in his three events: The 50-yard butterfly in 31.75 seconds, the 100-yard butterfly in 1:12.34 and the 50-yard backstroke in 35.05 seconds.

Erik, also 11, swam the maximum six events allowed for the championship meet. He swam the 200-yard breast-stroke, 100-yard freestyle, 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke, 50-yard breaststroke and 200-yard freestyle. He improved his time in the 50-yard breast-stroke by over 2 seconds, and in the 200-yard freestyle by 1.74 seconds.

Ava, 12, set regional times and advanced to finals with her performance in the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle races. She swam a 26.30 in the 50-yard race, placing seventh in preliminaries and the seventh overall in finals. In the 100-yard freestyle, she finished ninth in the preliminaries at 58.67 seconds and advanced to finals where she finished seventh again.

She advanced to the finals of the 200-

yard freestyle and finished 16th. She also swam the 500-yard freestyle, 50-yard but-terfly and 100-yard individual medley.

— Nick Maier is owner of the Vashon Athletic Club.

The Vashon Island High School girls’ basketball team secured its second victo-ry of the season last week against Mercer Island’s Northwest Yeshiva High School.

The non-conference game on Thursday night saw the Vashon girls quite handily secure a victory. The game started slowly for the Pirates, which has been a trend so far this season, but the girls took control halfway through the first quarter when senior Annika Hille converted one of two free throws to put the first point on the board. The score was 1-0, and with that, the Pirates even-tually got the game flowing their way. The girls began defending aggressively on the full court press and were able to convert several steals into fast break points. Yeshiva had a difficult time con-trolling the ball and getting shots, and the Pirates were able to take a 30-7 lead into the locker room at halftime.

The second half led to more of the same for the over-matched Yeshiva

girls as the Pirates were able to steadily expand their lead and eventually finish with a 53-20 victory. The game allowed coach Rob Kearns to get significant play-ing time for all of the girls and showcase the quickness of many of the younger players.

Hille led the scoring with 18 points; another 10 came from freshman Chloe Kuyper, and nine were from fellow frosh Olivia Larson. Senior Natalie VanDevanter added five points.

Kuyper and senior Kate Atwell each pulled down nine rebounds; Hille grabbed five, and VanDevanter and Maren Fremstad grabbed four each.

The Pirates traveled north on Saturday night to play a game against Darrington and played a home game against Coupeville Tuesday night. Both games occurred after press time.

The girls’ first league game will be at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8, at Seattle Christian.

— Joel Hille is the father of a VHS girls’ basketball player


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From canoes to ferries, boats are essential to island life

David Guterson in his reflective essay, “The Citizens of Paradise,” writes, “Islands are paradoxical places: They simultaneously lib-

erate and confine. … The moat of water that keeps others out also keeps islanders in; the moat of water that makes an islander feel secure also makes an islander feel imprisoned.”

Because of this paradox, boats are essential for all island dwellers. Whether they be the canoes of Vashon’s Coast Salish S’Homamish, the Mosquito Fleet steamers of the Euro-Asian-American emigrants, the modern diesel-electric ferries or the myriad pleasure boats that dot the harbors and inlets of the island, boats are a fact of every-day life on the island.

The first boats on the island were the canoes of the S’Homamish, the Coast Salish people who lived on Vashon-Maury Island. Artist Abby Williams Hill captured the look of these canoes with her drawing of

S’Homamish canoes on the beach in a work drawn in 1901. The Salish concept of capsizing (sp’alac’) described the change that replaced the ancient world, where humans and animals existed in interchangeable forms, with the natural world of the S’Homamish at Contact, when Europeans first encountered the Pacific Northwest coast. For a canoe culture, the concept of capsizing represents a fundamental loss of stability. In 1901, when these canoes were drawn, the world of the S’Homamish had capsized and been changed forever by a wave of American emigra-tion westward and Asian immigration eastward.

Once these new emigrants settled Vashon, they were dependent on the many steamers that made up the Mosquito Fleet. These steamers swarmed over Puget Sound and provided transportation before roads and automobiles changed the world once more. The 1922 photograph of the Virginia V on her maiden voyage is a good representative of these Mosquito Fleet steam-ers that served both sides of Vashon-Maury Island and Quartermaster Harbor.

Today most of the boats on Vashon are no longer boats that residents depend on for survival and transportation. There are, of course, important working boats, including

the Washington State Ferries and the King County Water Taxi, as well as fishing boats that make the annual trek north to work Alaskan waters, but most of the boats on Vashon today are pleasure boats: boats that we use for sport fishing, crabbing, cruising, water skiing and just generally “messing about in,” as Kenneth Graham’s Water Rat noted in the classic “The Wind in the Willows.”

Terry Donnelly’s photograph of boats at anchor in Quartermaster Harbor captures well the kinds of boats we see around the islands. These are pleasure boats — sloops, ketches, yawls, trawlers, speedboats, and dinghies — that all sit patiently waiting for us to bring them to life when we cast off and take them to sea.

When you compare the S’Homamish canoes, the Mosquito Fleet’s Virginia V, the modern Washington State ferry and the pleasure boats in Donnelly’s photo-graph, the difference is more than just the 100 plus years that separate them. The difference is that of worlds that collided, capsizing each one and replacing it with another.

— Terry Donnelly is a landscape photographer. Bruce Haulman is an island historian.

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Campaign Committee or ActBlue). While liberal donations were the majority, a con-servative population is reflected in the donors who listed Vashon as their city. At least 30 of the 300 donations reviewed by The Beachcomber and made this year by those listing Vashon as their city were made to conservative candidates like Carly For President (Carly Fiorina) and Carson America (Ben Carson).

University of Washington Political Science Professor Mark A. Smith said that the Vashon-Vashon Island mixup means that CrowdPac’s 9.9 ranking is based on the donations of the six people who listed Vashon Island as their city. The fact makes the study “flimsy.” He said Crowdpac’s study is not the best judge of the political leanings of cities because it’s really mea-suring the political leanings of campaign contributors, a small percentage of the population.

“It’s kind of a data quirk,” Smith said. “It’s a fun story to play around with at first, but then you look at it closer, and you real-ize it’s not what it seems. Vashon Island is very liberal, but would it be number one in the nation? It’s very hard to be number one at anything.”

He said the 5.7 ranking that comes up when you type just “Vashon” into the study results is a much more believable view of the island’s political nature. He ultimately said that he believes the best gauge for political leanings is to look at the voting precinct results from the 2008 presidential election. According to a Stanford website called the Stanford Election Atlas, all of Vashon’s 19 voting precincts had more

than 56 percent of voters casting ballots for Obama. Votes for McCain fell anywhere between 12 and 18 percent per precinct with slightly more conservative votes on Vashon’s northeast end, in Burton and on northern Maury Island.

Another University of Washington professor, Larry Knopp, teaches at the school’s Tacoma campus and is a politi-cal and cultural geographer who has researched voting patterns and their con-nection to the larger political culture of places. He found another issue with the Crowdpac study beyond the Vashon-Vashon Island mixup.

In an interview with The Beachcomber, he said he felt the study had to have been conducted on a per capita basis, which skewed its results toward small towns with a unique set of residents.

“They didn’t say in (The Washington Post) article, but it must have been on a somewhat per capita basis because Vashon (Island) is too small to stand out on its own against a place like New York City or any other huge city,” Knopp said. “They’re all small places, but they’re small places that are politi-cally engaged and well off enough to give to political candidates. They’re special places anyway just because of that, and that’s an oddity of the study that skewed the results to smaller places.”

He also said it was important to keep in mind that the major problem with this study is the fact that it’s difficult to define liberal and conservative, and that the study uses popular assumptions of the definitions.

“What’s liberal and what’s conserva-tive?” Knopp asked. “You’re looking at populations in these politically-active, relatively exclusive places that are inclined to donate.”

Knopp then elaborated on the nature of the rural areas, like Vashon, that go against the assumed political grain of conservatism. He said these areas usu-ally have at least one of three qualities: They’re a small, college town; they’re a small retirement community in a large

city’s shadow, and/or they’re a place that offers natural amenities and a certain cultural reason to seek the place out as a hometown. Vashon, he said, aligns most closely with the third category. He explained that the environment and ideol-ogy Vashon fosters is due to the low-density popu-lation, high cost of liv-ing and high expense to access the island (ferries).

Those three things create an environ-ment that is “politically-progressive,” but excludes most “downwardly mobile, working-and middle-class” conserva-tives. He said that the island’s population is a product of “rural gentrification.”

“The rural gentrification movement has origins in the counter-culture move-ment in the 1960s and 70s, but it ended up becoming just a straight-up gentrifi-cation where people who wanted to live there bid up the cost of living,” Knopp said. “It’s low-density living with envi-ronmental amenities and access, and it’s the movement of self-consciously liberal and economically-privileged individuals. The movement of this population creates

lots of exclusions in the process, and in-movers (newcomers) are generally aware of it. They value where they live in part because of the political culture of the place.”

He also pointed out that Vashon has one of the nation’s highest rates of same-sex households, though he did not want to push the same-sex couples and liberal-ism correlation too far. But, he said the statistic could add to the “self-selection process” for people who move here.

Island historian Bruce Haulman sec-onded Knopp’s gentrifcation theory and said Vashon is a “complex amalgam” of different social and political values. He said the island’s conservatives are regu-larly overlooked and “get lost in the hur-rah” of the liberal majority. But Haulman also offered his knowledge about why Vashon has the liberal-majority political environment it does and said the afore-mentioned gentrification is a key player. He said the Vashon of the 1950s and 60s voted Republican “across the board,” but that all changed in the 1970s.

“It was a gradual change, but through the 1980s and 90s, agriculture died, and the island became a service and com-muter economy with all of the Boeing employees. That changed Vashon,” Haulman said. “Throughout the 90s and into the 2000s, Vashon gentrified, and the LGBT population really came in. There were lots of new people moving here.”

He continued to say that, Vashon name mixup aside, the study does back up what we already knew about Vashon in terms of the passionate people who live here.

“People committed to causes on Vashon are really committed,” Haulman said. “People open up their pocketbooks when they care, and they care about politics.”


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to be delivering TV content and encourage folks to come to us with ideas.”

Also looking to expand into more areas, Vashon’s Domestic Violence organization, the DoVE Project, is planning on expanding the resources it offers to high school-age students.

DoVE Executive Director Betsey Archambault said that 2015 was a “really fantastic year full of great growth” for the organization. 2015 marked the nonprofit’s first full year in its office space at Courthouse Square, which Archambault said increased the number of people coming to see them. But perhaps 2015’s most notable offering from DoVE, according to Archambault, was the partnership with Vashon High School.

“We started working at the high school doing Lunch Dates with DoVE to promote healthy relationships and teach about warning signs. Then we had ‘smart periods’ where we had activities centered around dating and social

media abuse and breaking up,” Archambault said.The organization also began work with island-based

Axiom Equine, a program that offers leadership and com-munication skills development by using horses as a teach-ing tool. The program specializes in working with domes-tic violence survivors, PTSD survivors, autistic individuals and at-risk youth.

“We got a $7,000 grant from the Seattle Foundation to continue that work,” Archambault said. “We’re very, very excited about continuing that aspect.”

She said 2016 will also bring the creation of a Teen Council at VHS. The project is a partnership with the school and Planned Parenthood to create a peer-to-peer education council for students about safe sex and healthy sexuality. Archambault will also have a radio show on VoV Wednesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

While those nonprofits are looking to expand, Friends of Mukai is focusing on finally being able to restore the historic Japanese-American Mukai house. The group has been locked in a legal battle for years in an effort to gain access to perform restoration on the home and open it up to the public. While that effort has been long, the last court date will be sometime in 2016 and should end the battle in the nonprofit’s favor, according to President Lynn Greiner.

Even though the Friends of Mukai do not have legal

access to the home, Greiner said that the organization had a good year of outreach and projects. From a poetry reading in early 2015 that spilled out of the Land Trust Building to outreach at the Strawberry Festival and a short film that plays at the Vashon Theatre, Greiner said the nonprofit is “very high-functioning.” But she is excited to get started on the home.

“The state awarded us $350,000 to use for whatever we need on the house and (4Culture gave us $100,000 for construction fees) even though access to the property was a condition on getting the grant. They believed in us, and that was a huge vote of confidence,” Greiner said.

The nonprofit has started work with a historic preser-vation company to start getting blueprints for the home’s restoration.

“Hopefully we’ll have the hearing date soon,” Greiner said. “The minute we get that (court) decision, we’ll get to work.”

With these three and dozens of other established non-profits looking to expand their reach next year, one of the island’s newest nonprofits is working on getting more com-munity support.

Rj’s Kids is a nonprofit that was created in late-2014 with the intention of supporting island Millenials and children. Islander Judith Neary started the organization after her son took his life in the fall of 2014. She then made it her goal to create a community center and offer classes and activities based on what island youth want and need. In 2015, she held meetings and began sponsoring martial arts classes and musical performance nights for young musicians.

“We hit the ground running,” Neary said last week.The nonprofit’s website outlines Neary’s goals, ranging

from teaching proper nutrition and mind-body balance to ultimately creating a community house where the island population can gather to “continue developing the skills necessary to thrive in today’s world.”

In 2016, Neary is hoping to continue the campaign for all of the foundation’s goals and offer more classes and resources.


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COUNTY OF KINGESTATE OFALFRED T. OLSON,Deceased.NO. 15-4-06788-2 SEAPROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS(RCW 11.40.030)The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any o therw ise app l i cable statute of l imi tat ions, present the claim in the manner as provided by RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of

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COUNTY OF KINGESTATE OFRALPH W. ElSTER,Deceased.NO. 15-4-06605-3 SEAPROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS(RCW 11.40.030)The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim

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