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BEACHCOMBERVASHON-MAURY ISLAND
NEWS | New Mukai board takes steps to repair farmhouse. [3]SCHOOLS | Fundraising allows district to avoid cuts. [4]SPORTS | Popular race returns for festival weekend. [14]
Participants say they hope to make the race legal for next yearBy NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer
After receiving a flood of com-plaints about hydroplanes that race around the Island on the Fourth of July, the sheriff ’s office says it will put a stop to the annual event next year unless those involved obtain the proper permit and adhere to marine regulations.
“All we’re asking is for them to follow the same rules that everyone else in the county does,” said Sgt. James Knauss, supervisor of the King County Sheriff ’s Office’s marine unit. “It’s a cool event that needs to come into the current world of permitting and safety.”
Those involved in the race this year say they’ve yet to be contacted by the sheriff ’s office, but they’re open to applying for a permit. They
do, however, have concerns about the insurance requirements and noise and safety regulations that may come along with a permit.
“If it’s feasible to continue this in a legal manner, I’m all for it,” said Chris Van Buskirk, a longtime hydroplane racer who ran a boat this year. Van Buskirk said the event was permitted and insured decades ago but worries that meeting the requirements of a permit may be more difficult and costly now.
“If they make this a huge thing, that changes everything,” he said. “It almost becomes out of reach for some-thing small, and that is a way for the opposition to get what they want.”
Larry Fuller, another longtime racer, agreed.
“It’s not like we’re trying to be renegades,” he said. “We’re trying to continue a tradition and have fun. … If they want to have a conversation with people, let’s sit down and talk.”
Hydroplanes have been circum-navigating the Island at dawn — first
Rik Forschmiedt Photo/RiksImages.com
Ty Christophersen steers his hydroplane toward the start of the annual Fourth of July hydroplane race last week. Christophersen and other participants say they’re willing to apply for a marine event permit.SEE HYDROPLANES, 19
Sheriff’s office threatens to end holiday hydro race
By SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer
Island author Jeanie Davies Okimoto’s chil-dren’s book, “Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat,” was about to be made into a TV show in 1990 when Okimoto received word that her publisher would not be reprinting it.
The Boston-based Little, Brown and Co. had just been purchased by Time Warner, which was about to issue Madonna’s now infa-mous book “Sex,” replete with its explicit photos and faux metal cover. Okimoto learned the company was marshaling its resources — even reserving floor space
in the warehouse in support the book’s anticipated sales — and thus not taking on projects it otherwise might have.
With the first printing of Okimoto’s book sold out, it seemed fans of Blumpoe the Grumpoe would only be able to watch him on television. But Okimoto had a different vision.
“I was disappointed,” she said, “so I decided to do it myself.”
Now, more than two decades later, Okimoto is in the midst of her third year at the helm of her own small publishing company, Endicott and Hugh Books, which has released three books this year, including
“The Weird World Rolls On,” a book of poetry that features the work of Okimoto’s brother, Roger Davies, whose work she has long wanted to publish, and several poets from Vashon. A reading in recognition of the book’s release will be held on July 18.
Okimoto notes that her business — a small, inde-pendent press, according to publishing vernacular — is one of many that have
Jeanie Davies Okimoto
SEE PUBLISHER, 9
Thai restaurant poised to openOwner’s former eatery won praise in Seattle By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer
Three monks in saffron-colored robes chanted a blessing at the new Thai res-taurant on Vashon last week while, in the kitchen, anoth-er drama quietly played out: The state health inspector was making a final walk-through, ensuring the small eatery was up to snuff.
The restaurant did, indeed, pass the inspection. And based on the smiles on every-one’s faces after the blessing, it, too, was a success.
And now, after months of anticipation, May Kitchen + Bar is days away from open-ing its doors to the public.
The new restaurant will
have several invitation-only dinners this week, work-ing out any glitches in the process. It will likely open to the public on Sunday or Monday, ready, the owner and manager believe, for a steady stream of Islanders hungry for Thai food.
“The key is in the prep,” said Rod Moore, the man-ager. “Thai food cooks fast, as long as the prep’s done.”
May Chaleoy, the owner, an ebullient Thai woman with hair down to her waist, smiled. “I think I can han-dle it,” she said.
Indeed, Chaleoy comes to her Vashon effort with considerable experience in Thai cooking. After man-aging a popular Thai eatery in Fremont for two years, she opened a restaurant in Wallingford in 2004 — a business she eventually owned with two other part-
ners. Called simply May, the restaurant garnered consid-erable praise from Seattle restaurant critics over the years. In 2008, Seattle Magazine named it one of Seattle’s 10 best restaurants— an honor no Thai restau-rant, up to that point, hadreceived.
Chaleoy came to Vashon two years ago at the invi-tation of a friend, Tom Schwaegler, helping him manage his property. He’s now a partner in her new business, an undertaking that has taken more than a year to come to fruition.
The process has been time-consuming, in part, because of remodeling dif-ficulties, from plumbing challenges to a roof that leaked, both Moore and Chaleoy said. But it’s also
SEE RESTAURANT, 13
A VASHON FOURTH From seashore to skyline,
scenes from a packed day. Page 12
PIRATES ON STAGE
Drama Dock takes on a musical favorite.
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With publishing world in an upheaval, a small press finds its own path
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A group of Islanders working to take over the nonprofit that owns the Mukai farmhouse has applied for a $10,000 grant to fix the home’s deteriorat-ing roof.
The group has also creat-ed a website describing how one becomes a member of Island Landmarks — a non-profit founded more than a decade ago — listing the names of its board members and presenting a slide show of the storied home and gar-den west of Vashon town.
Ellen Kritzman, vice pres-ident of the newly formed board, said the group decid-ed to apply for the grant at 4Culture’s suggestion. The public agency, which sup-ports a wide range of cul-tural and historic projects in King County, provided some of the seed money Island Landmarks used to purchase the farmhouse for $300,000 in 2000.
Kritzman said board members are concerned about the condition of the roof, which caretaker Ken DeFrang has told them is leaking. What’s more, she said, they want to maintain momentum after their sur-prise announcement that they’d put together a new
board and a base of mem-bership in an effort to take over a project that appears to be dormant and under the control of an out-of-state couple.
“It’s important to show that we’re moving forward,” Kritzman said.
“So many promises were made in the past and noth-ing happened,” she added. “We’re determined that that will not happen on our watch.”
But Mary Matthews, who founded Island Landmarks and now lives in Texas with her husband Nelson Happy, said she was surprised to hear the group is seeking a grant from the county.
The new board recent-ly sued Matthews, Happy and Island Landmarks’ two other board members. The lawsuit will likely take months, if not years, to get resolved, Matthews said.
“It would amaze me that they would get a grant when they don’t own the property and there’s a lawsuit going on,” she said.
“They’re the ones who sued us. And this is in the courts. And the courts will determine whether there’s a new board or not,” she said.
Matthews acknowledged that the roof on the farm-house is in bad shape. It has been, she said, since she bought the historic site 12 years ago with public funds from the county, state and
federal government.The original board should
have earmarked some ofthose funds for replacement of the roof, she said. “But it wasn’t done,” she added.
Matthews, who said she’s hired Island attorney BobKrinsky to defend her and the three other board mem-bers, will be at the prop-erty this summer to paintthe house and “stabilize the roof.”
“We don’t want to go through another winterwith worries about water,” she said.
4Culture, meanwhile, hasyet to take an official stance on the dispute but supports the new board’s effort to use the courts to establish its legitimacy, said Flo Lentz, who heads the agency’s his-toric preservation program.
4Culture has long been concerned about Matthews’ failure to live up to the terms of her $100,000 grant,Lentz said, which included arequirement that the prop-erty serve the public interestand be open to the public. Matthews has said she hasmet the terms of that grant,making the house available to the public by appointment.
“If this new board is able to perform and providethose public benefits and meet the requirements ofthe contract, that would be beneficial to the property and we would like to seethat,” Lentz said.
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By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer
Riding on another successful fundrais-er by the schools foundation, the Vashon Island School District is poised to pass a no-cuts budget for the 2012-2013 school year.
At a budget hearing tomorrow evening, the school board is expected to approve a $16.1 million spending plan, which includes funds to continue existing pro-grams and replace all retiring teachers. Also before the board is approval of a $30.7 million capital projects budget.
The Vashon Island Schools Foundation raised about $426,000 in donations and pledges during its three-month fundrais-ing campaign, falling short of its $500,000 goal. It is still accepting pledges.
“It would be good to get up to the half-million mark, but we’ve raised most of it,” said Donna Nespor, the foundation’s part-time administrator and a founding board member. She noted that the foun-dation raised more by July this year than it did last year. About $87,000 came from Island businesses, and about 40 percent of district families donated to the cause.
“In this economy, to be able to raise that kind of money, we feel really good about it,” she said.
Had the foundation raised the full $500,000, Nespor said, it could have helped more with extracurricular pro-
grams. Fees for sports, elective classes and other programs will increase slightly next year.
“We would like to be able to provide more funding to enrichment programs and reduce fees kids have to pay — band, drama, Camp Waskowitz. We did not get to the full goal to do that,” she said.
The $16.1 million operating budget, up from $15.5 million last year, also allows the district to extend the high school’s career and technical education (CTE) program to the middle school, increase its reserves, restore donation money spent on operating costs when funds were tight and add the equivalent of two full-time staff positions, something school district business man-ager Tom Dargel said is to support minor program changes across the district.
The district’s capital projects fund saw the largest increase, from $20.3 million to a budgeted $30.7 million. Dargel said the 50 percent increase is to cover construction costs immediately following the comple-tion of the new high school and technology upgrades at other school buildings.
Superintendent Michael Soltman, who took a 3 percent, state-mandated pay cut last year, will see his salary, including fringe benefits, increase from $142,027 to $149,350, slightly less than he made two years ago. School principals who took the same cut last year will also see their salaries restored, and teachers who took a 1.9 percent state-mandated pay reduction
will get some of their pay restored.“We want to try and be fair,” said
Bob Hennessey, a school board member. “Nobody’s getting any increase (compared to two years ago), but we’re trying to be very sensitive to morale and the reality that people have to make a living.”
Dargel said the district would still like to see enrollment increase, bringing more state dollars to the schools. Off-Island enrollment continues to rise, but the bud-get projects there will be about 20 fewer students in Vashon schools next year.Dargel said Vashon, like many school districts, is seeing a drop in enrollment in lower grades.
“We have less input down at the bot-tom,” he said. “We need more kids.”
Dan Chasan, chair of the school board, said he expected the budget to pass with ease. “If the fundraising hadn’t been suc-cessful, if the Legislature had cut back schools, if we really had to decide, then you’d see a lot more agonizing,” he said.
Hennessey said he hopes to initiate a discussion about funding a summer school program next year.
A small, volunteer summer school recently faltered after teachers raised con-cerns about it being a tutoring program as opposed to summer classes taught by teachers. Hennessey believes the district should offer a full program next summer and said there may be a motion tomorrow to find the money to do so.
Two motorcyclists were seriously injured in anaccident just outside of Vashon town on the Fourth of July. Their current condition is not known.
At about 10 p.m. on Wednesday, a motorcyclecollided with another motorcycle at the intersec-tion of S.W. Bank Road and 107th Avenue S.W., said Sgt. Cindi West, a spokesperson for the KingCounty Sheriff ’s Office.
West said one rider, a 38-year-old man from Vashon, was stopped at the intersection and was pointed southbound on 107th Ave. when he was struck from behind by another motorcycle travel-ing at a high speed.
Both men were thrown across the intersection, West said. The Vashon man was transported via ferry to Harborview for his injuries. The other rider was unconscious after the accident, had to be intubated and was airlifted to the hospital.
Some witnesses to the accident said the stoppedmotorcycle’s lights were not on when it was hit, West said, and the sheriff ’s office is investigating the accident.
Capt. Josh Dueweke of Vashon Island Fire & Rescue said the motorcycle accident was the only serious incident on the Fourth.
No one on Vashon was injured by fireworks, but the department did respond to more brush fires caused by fireworks that usual, he said. The largest ones were on the south end and under one of the cell towers at KVI beach.
“We’ve had pretty laid back Fourth of Julys, and yesterday made up for the laid back ones,” Dueweke said.
Two motorcyclists injured in Fourth of July accident
School board to vote on a $16 million, no-cuts budget
A freshly dead harbor porpoise in pristine condi-tion was found on the beach at Sandy Shores last week. According to Ann Stateler, coordinator of the Vashon Hydrophone Project, such a sighting is rare in the Puget Sound region.
The animal was reported to the hydrophone project on Friday. Stateler, in an email to The Beachcomber, said she examined the adult female and found tooth rake marks and old healed injuries, indicating “that the plucky porpoise survived a transient killer whale attack.” The carcass, how-ever, showed no overt signs of recent physical trauma, such as a strike by a ship.
The cause of death was not immediately apparent. A thorough necropsy and other lab work will identify factors that contributed to the por-poise’s death, she said.
Marine mammal car-casses in excellent condition are highly sought-after for research, she said. Biologists at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Cascadia Research Collective were notified of the find. A biologist with NMFS’ Northwest Fisheries Science Center came from Seattle to collect the specimen.
After decades of decline, the shy harbor porpoise
seems to be rebounding in lower Puget Sound; sight-ings, Stateler said, have increased in the last decade.
Islanders are more like-ly to see the larger, black and white Dall’s porpoise in local waters. Finding an intact carcass of either por-poise species on Vashon is uncommon, she said.
Stateler and Odin Lonning, also with the hydrophone project, are authorized marine mam-mal stranding responders. T Yamamoto of Wolftown is also an authorized
responder.Islanders are urged to
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Islander Dave Chapman has been selected to head King County’s Office of Public Defense, an agency that provides legal services to those who can’t afford it.
Chapman, an experi-enced criminal defense lawyer, worked for nearly a decade as the managing director of the Associated Counsel for the Accused, a nonprofit firm in Seattle that contracts to provide defense services to indigent clients. He stepped down from that position in 2008.
He’s also worked as a pro-tem judge for both Pierce and King counties, where he presided over both criminal and civil cases in district and municipal courts.
Early on in his career, he
was a deputy prosecuting attorney in Pierce County. Most recently, he’s been in private practice, assisting people charged with misde-meanor or felony offenses.
Chapman said he was excited at the prospect of playing a high-level role in ensuring low-income resi-dents get adequate defense. He hopes to also use the position to advocate for changes that can keep low-risk offenders out of the criminal justice system
“I have spent the major-ity of my career in public defense, and as I get older, I find that’s the most reward-ing aspect of my legal career,” he said Monday. “I have a great opportunity to give back.”
Chapman has also coached wrestling since the 1990s and is currently the assistant high school wrestling coach. “I’ve got my fingers crossed that I can find the time to (con-tinue to) do that,” he said.
Chapman, who will over-see a $46.6 million budget, was named to the spot by County Executive Dow Constantine after a nationalsearch, according to a news release. His appointment to the $143,000-a-year post must be confirmed by the King County Council.
The Office of Public Defense provides lawyers tocounty residents facing the possibility of jail time or of losing their children in King County Superior or District Court.
Dead porpoise found at Sandy Shores
A female harbor porpoise was found last week at Sandy Shores.
Quartermaster Harbor is closed to all recreational shellfish harvesting after state health officials detected dangerous lev-els of Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP), accord-ing the Washington Department of Health.
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EDITORIAL
The debate over Vashon’s hydroplane race is a classic conflict.Many longtime Islanders love it; it’s a throwback to another
time on Vashon, when the Island was an outpost for rugged individualists and working-class heroes who didn’t much care what anyone thought. But the face of the Island has changed in recent years; we’re a bit more like a suburb, and that, too, brings a certain set of attitudes and expectations.
Then consider the event: The boats are loud. And the race takes place at an ungodly hour, when those Islanders who have to trudge off to jobs in the city all week get a blessed day off. That some are annoyed is understandable.
Even so, our vote here at The Beachcomber is to find a way to let the annual race continue.
It’s only one day. It’s a thrilling event for several Islanders — one that’s been taking place for more than 50 years. And while the buzz of their motors has a certain sleep-disrupting pitch, it’s not nearly as loud as the fusillade that marks the highlight of the Fourth for many Islanders, when fireworks explode over Quartermaster Harbor.
Surely, we can handle one morning a year when a few Islanders circumnavigate Vashon in small, fast boats, challeng-ing themselves and the elements at a time when the water is calm enough to allow such a race.
It’s noteworthy that organizers are willing to get a permit. We hope the King County Sheriff’s Office will work with them to find a way to make this annual tradition comply with county rules. The hydro races are storied part of Vashon, and we’d hate to see them come to an end.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORVAA Arts Center
I am writing in regard to Vashon Allied Arts’ proposed new performance center design, which is currently under review at King County.
It has been disturbing for me to watch the badly flawed process that led to the building’s design. A letter in last week’s Beachcomber called this process “a model of inclusion.”
That is a characterization akin to saying that black is white.
A strategy of inclusion is essential to an organization that presents itself as the face of the arts community on Vashon. Instead, the design process we have witnessed has been hierar-chical in the extreme, driven by a promise of millions of dollars from a single wealthy patron, with the all-important work of programming and conceptual design of the building done by an exclusive team committed to pushing through their own vision. Emblematic of this approach was removal of a University of Washington student’s design sug-gestions in a design review for the town after pressure from the executive director.
The resulting building is a per-fect reflection of this process. It is inappropriately sited. It is an order of magnitude out of scale. And it is not consonant with the founda-tional goals of VAA.
There is a groundswell of disaf-fection and alienation from VAA shared by many Island artists. It cannot have gone unnoticed by the VAA board; I think to a large degree it is a consequence of the elevated money quest the board has embarked upon in its goal to become a “regional hub for the arts.”
I call upon the board to put the permit application on hold, call a series of widely advertised public gatherings and listen to the com-munity’s concerns. So far, mine have been met with barrages of salesmanship and cheerleading.
Hectoring, lecturing and sales-pitch delivery are not tools of inclusion.
I have been intermittently involved with VAA for almost 40 years and am concerned about the future of this much-loved institu-tion. I sincerely hope the board reconsiders and recovers. A great deal is at stake.
— Evan Simmons
As a business owner across the street from Vashon Allied Arts for the last 30 years, I have had the pleasure of watching this commu-nity-oriented organization grow. After attending informational meetings and seeing the plans for this new project, I wholeheartedly support it.
This opportunity to expand the facilities for artistic expression of community artists and students is well worth aggressively sup-porting. Additionally, meeting the need for a larger and higher quality venue for performing arts is important. When you consider the unique opportunity provided by the large private donations for a project that will positively affect the whole island and surrounding community, supporting this proj-ect seems undeniable.
For instance, I have recently been fortunate to purchase tickets to some excellent events that were sold out almost immediately. The opportunity lost by the current limited and uncomfortable venue is a concern because of all the wonderful performances, gallery shows and classes that VAA runs for the community.
I am looking forward to the completion of this project and continued growth of this vibrant community-oriented service orga-nization.
— Thomas Skarshaug
Ref. 74Marriage equality is
Did you know Vashon has more same sex-couples per capita than anywhere else in the state? We need your help in protecting these fami-lies by approving Referendum 74.
In 2006, our Legislature cre-ated the Registered Domestic Partners (RDP) system. Then in 2009, Washington voters approved the so-called “Everything But Marriage” law — the law that granted many rights and responsi-bilities for RDPs.
Some people might think that is good enough and our gay and les-bian Island neighbors don’t need marriage. I am here to say that the RDP law is not satisfactory to gay couples who want to marry and does not afford all of the same rights as being married. RDP is not portable to other states (even those that recognize marriage equality), nor does it provide spousal rights found in private contracts (such as health insur-ance to a “spouse” through one’s employer).
Everyone knows and understands what “marriage” means. Marriage says we are family like no other word. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to explain to some-one what a “registered domestic partner” means. And you know what? In the time of any crises, I shouldn’t have to. After 17 years I simply want to marry my wife.
Marriage equality is about love and fairness. Civil unions and RDPs were a step, but they are not the same as marriage and never will be. That which is sepa-rate is not equal. Don’t take my word for it, see Brown v. Board of Education. For all Vashon fami-lies, help us approve R-74.
— Pearce Cobarr
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We missed an opportunity this summer to help students who are struggling in math and English at Vashon High School. (“Summer school program falters after teach-ers raise concerns,” July 4.) The summer school I proposed was to review key concepts in math or reread a book and write essays. It was meant to complement and strengthen the regular school year curriculum. Class time was to be
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As we’ve noted before, we believe it’s unfortunate that the Vashon Island School District has to resort to a fundraising drive to keep its programs intact and its staff robust.
At the same time, we’d rather embrace a nonprofit founda-tion that voluntarily raises money on the district’s behalf than witness our schools lose their vitality or strength.
So it was with a sigh of relief that we learned that the Vashon Island Public Schools Foundation raised a hefty $426,000 toward the upcoming academic year — enough to help the dis-trict keep its programs and staff intact.
Now, we hope the school district will tackle another matter: a summer school for kids who are struggling. We often boast about those students who are going off to fine colleges, winning awards or logging one accomplishment after another. We pay scant attention, meanwhile, to students who are falling behind.
Let’s take a moment to bask in this spring’s accomplish-ment, when a fundraising drive proved, once again, that this Island cares mightily about public education. Then let’s hope the school board decides to use some of those dollars to begin a modest summer program — a program as basic and foun-dational in a good school district as those advanced placement classes young people need to get into good colleges.
With fundraiser behind us, let’s now start a summer school
18 hours over six weeks, with homework and assign-ments. To me, a grade change from a D to a C is justified if the student com-pletes the work and dem-onstrates proficiency.
So much of being able to learn successfully is hav-ing confidence in yourself. And sometimes all it takes to gain confidence is being in a relaxed setting with someone who says, “You can do this.” That is what the summer program was about. Seven community members agreed to work as volunteers to help those students who signed up.
Last summer I taught eight VHS students geom-etry. These students had received a D or F during the spring trimester. They came to the class, as many students who struggle do, looking bored and unhap-py. By the third week, they were yelling out answers with smiles on their faces. Their attitude changed because our review of the material started to make sense. They understood it and were successful. All these students had their grades raised by one level. And that happened because they put in the extra time and effort to understand subject material they found challenging. I think we owe it to these students to give them a second chance.
Many students at VHS struggle in math and English, yet we offer no opportunities for them to catch up during the summer. I am glad three
algebra students will take advantage of this sum-mer program and get the opportunity of a grade change, but we were set to hold four classes. My hope is that next year a compre-hensive official program will be in place.
— Hilary Emmer
Teens and alcoholForbidding use often doesn’t work
I want to respond to the opinion piece by Nicole Maxwell and Ken Maaz, “Teen drug and alcohol use: Take a stand” (July 4). Take a stand. They do, and they urge that parents take a stand against this thing they call alcohol and drug use. “Use” is a loose term, ranging all the way from a glass of beer to a night of vodka. As I understand the article, it would exclude the whole range of “use” as harmful to the health of youth. The piece as a whole is a plea to adults not to allow youth to “use.”
What I would have liked to see is some address to the youth themselves, some look at what makes psy-chological health and what sends youth in that direc-tion. Forbidding usually isn’t a part of it.
We’re each born with a hunger for life. It’s possible to encourage and guide that hunger. It’s possible to repress it. Suppose instead we thought not about what
we don’t want youth to do, but about how we can help them toward finding what they want to do with their lives? I was lucky. I had some men and women in my life who introduced me to remarkable interests and skills that have never left me. I’m 72 now. I didn’t become a “user.” I’m in good health. I continue to write poetry, cut wood and sail boats. I drink a little wine.
— Cal Kinnear
Septic systemsMany have asked county to find funds
I was disappointed with The Beachcomber’s state-ment that only in the last few months have a “hand-ful” of Islanders begun to take issue with the county’s failure to secure funding to help landowners who can’t afford to repair failing sys-tems or install new ones.
My husband Bill Tobin was chair of the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council’s septic solutions committee in 2009 and 2010. He took over from Steve Graham. Steve and his committee had been concerned for years about the county’s failure to help homeowners.
I worked with Bill on the committee, and one of the first things I did was to call the other counties’ health departments and the state Board of Health, the state Department of Ecology and the state Department
of Natural Resources. I learned that the MRA pro-grams in the other counties were going smoothly. My most informative conversa-tion was with the director of the program in Island County. She explained their program for provid-ing financing that had been so successful that they had nearly completed their MRA recovery.
I also had a very interest-ing conversation with the state Board of Health. He said the state was very con-cerned about King County’s lack of progress. He asked if I had any suggestions. I repeated what we had been telling the county all along, that we need publicly funded, low-interest loans, the same program that had been so successful in the other counties.
Carl Sells and the people he is working with are con-tinuing Islanders’ efforts that have been going on for years. Because we are unin-corporated, the Vashon community cannot access funds on its own, and we depend entirely on the county to act with good faith toward its citizens, like the other counties are doing. Our elected county representatives have long remained silent on this issue. Why?
— Susan Tobin
Paper wrong to blame landowners
Usually, a good editor takes an objective view and the knowledge they have gained while following an issue for editorials. The Beachcomber has barely covered septic problems this year. The July 1 dead-line with the punitive fines made the problem critical and intensified the cor-respondence to county and state officials. This information was sent to The Loop, The Seattle Times and The Beachcomber. On Wednesday, the Beachcomber was critical of those trying to fix the prob-lem and the victims of the county’s negligence.
Don’t blame the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council. One commit-tee chairman’s frustrated anger at the county elic-ited an editorial reaction which, with a broad brush, maligned the entire leader-ship of the VMICC. The Beachcomber shouldn’t shoot the messenger. Saying thank you would be more appropriate.
Finally, there is some success. After months of contacting everyone at the county and state levels, insisting they fulfill their obligation to obtain the federal funds available to loan to home owners, an
encouraging email arrived. Ironically, the letter from Dr. Ngosi Oleru, King County Environmental Health Division Director came on Wednesday, the same day as The Beachcomber’s editorial.
Islanders with fail-ing septic systems don’t intentionally “dump raw sewage.” Those who have not responded to the county request, and are now being fined $25 per day, care about Puget Sound. Probably they don’t have $30,000 available to fix their septic system. Many homes on Vashon’s shores (as well as along the creeks) were built decades ago before restrictions were imposed. These owners are in danger of losing their property while they try to find fund-ing. That is the issue.
Letters may be going out to more homeowners in the future. Let’s hope the coun-ty has secured the money. This problem belongs to all Islanders.
— Joan Sells
Editor’s Note: The paper has written six stories about the issue this year. All told, the paper has written a dozen stories, three of which ran on the front page, the most recent one in the July 4 issue.
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Vashon Youth and Family Services is the sponsor and coordinator of the Youth Music Stage at Strawberry Festival – “The Blast at the Green”.This is the third year younger musicians get a chance to be showcased in the middle of the action at Strawberry Festival, and this is the third year VYFS has been part of making it happen.We want to thank this year’s co-sponsors, Seeds for Success and Vashon Center for the Arts.So, come out to the Village Green, home of “The Blast at the Green” and support your local young musicians.Interested Musician? If you are under age 20 and want to play at “The Blast” call Ken at 463-5511 ext. 233.
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I commute to an office in town five days a week, but with a convincing excuse, my employer allows me to work from home, infrequently and irregularly.
I recently spent a day working from home and found that with-out the distractions of phone calls or gossiping coworkers, I can waste just as much time at home as I do at work, while taking much less time to get there.
I work in our library. The library is a quiet place for our family to do our homework, with ceiling-high pine bookshelves crammed with knowledge and several desktop PCs on two dull-gray schoolroom Formica tables amid the shambles of school papers, bills, bike parts, a hamster cage and broken com-puter equipment in drifted piles. We bought four impossibly hard, steam-formed plywood and weld-ed-steel school chairs and moved a floral-print overstuffed recliner, suitable for reading women’s fic-tion, into a corner.
I had warned the kids that I must have quiet to think important business thoughts while I work from home. At 11 in the morning, dressed simply but effectively in my plaid bathrobe and my dad’s sheepskin slippers, I’ve been surf-ing the Costco website for lawn furniture for the past hour. Our oldest boy, who is supposed to be working on math problems in the chair next to me, is watch-ing videos of grown men playing
Minecraft; they suavely narrate a run-ning play-by-play, chuckling confidently at regular inter-vals.
Our young-est boy asks to go on a bike
ride with me, tapping my shoul-der several times without answer. Exasperated, I offer to define the word “pester” for him; without waiting for a response, I barge ahead, describing pester as a verb that means to ask for some-thing more than twice in less than five min-utes. I try to impress on him that I’m work-ing from home. I can’t just take off on a bike ride with him. I return to my study of Costco lawn furniture.
Shocked by the time, I hastily call in to a scheduled teleconference, greeting everyone on the phone with an abundance of empty cheer, while I cover the mouthpiece and mouth the words, “Quiet! I’m on the phone!” — adopting an expression that I hope to be menacing and just
chilling enough to buy a full half-hour’s quiet.
We try to carry on the meet-ing over the sounds of my boys pummeling each other in the background like characters in a Kung-Fu movie.
Holding the phone tightly against my cheek, trying to explain an involved and hopeless-ly technical point while the kids work each other over, I make a break for the room across the hall with the door that shuts tightly, or failing that, the coat closet in the front hall. My wife Maria has actually tried the more spacious double closet in the library, but recently our youngest boy has been found hiding there, watching
“A Pair of Kings” episodes on Netflix using Maria’s iPod Touch.
When I return to my computer, our youngest daughter has restarted it and is trying to log onto Webkinz. She painstakingly locates the letters
of her password and taps each key as if plucking he-loves-me-not petals off of a daisy.
Her older brother, now bored with watching videos of Mr. Chuckles play Minecraft, has started some buggy and most likely virus-infected Miniclip
game and his PC has blue-screened, dire warnings splayed across the screen.
For several months in a row I’ve promised to install some sort of CyberSitter software that will limit the websites our family can access, but for now the kids can still look up instructions for making atomic bombs in their lunch boxes out of parts from an old alarm clock or accidentally uncover one of several billion videos of cosmetically enhanced bodybuilders of rotating genders engaged in what appears to be sped-up games of Twister.
Lunchtime is an hour away, but everyone is hungry, possibly even weak from hunger depending on how attractive our plans for lunch might be. We pile in the minivan for submarine sandwiches, and on the way we mail a few packages, stop by Granny’s Attic, where we paw through clothes and toys and household items and pick up a cou-ple of stainless-steel bolts for the lawn mower at the hardware store.
After we return from lunch, our youngest boy and I pack a bag of Goldfish and fill up water bottles for our bike ride. As we circle the gray-green harbor in the truth of the afternoon sun, I conclude that my work might still be there tomorrow, but this bike ride, and this day, comes only once.
— Kevin Pottinger lives with his wife Marie and their four
children on Vashon.
Deficit
Re: Federeal spending: We’re robbing our grandchildren. Here are a few facts on the enormity of our debt:
We see on the news what has happened in Greece and other European countries. There are 27 countries in the European Union. Their total debt is about $13.7 tril-lion. United States’s debt alone is about $16.6 trillion. Yet Congress is seemingly blind to that and still keeps spending more.
President Obama keeps insist-ing we must enforce the Buffet Rule and tax millionaires at a higher rate. The Congressional Budget Office has reported that would result in $4.7 billion in increased tax revenue per year.
If that were collected for the next 250 years, it would result in $1.175 trillion. Guess what? That would not cover the projected Obama budget deficit of $1.2 tril-lion for 2012 alone.
It’s time for new leadership with spending discipline and the courage to make necessary cuts in spending and the social pro-grams and the conviction to push reforms in the tax code and the social programs and entitlements.
— Paul Schwartz
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sprouted in recent years, at a time when the world of publishing is changing rapidly. Not long ago, most books were released by large publishing houses, with names famil-iar to most any book worm: Simon and Schuster, Penguin, Random House, to name a few. That is no longer true, Okimoto said. Indeed, according to the Books in Print database, of the more than 3 million books published in 2010, 2.7 million were pub-lished through “non-traditional” routes.
“It’s a wonderful time to be an author,” Okimoto said. “You have other avenues. … You don’t have to rely on them (traditional publishers).”
The trend in publishing is similar to what is happening in the music world, Okimoto said, with musicians releasing their own music and not waiting for recording con-tracts from big companies. Artistic efforts on that front help on the book front, she noted, and the stigma that had been associ-ated with books printed via non-traditional routes is fading. In fact, many mid-list authors — respected authors lower on the book-selling ladder than Steven King and Anne Rice, for example — have abandoned traditional routes and are “going it on their own,” Okimoto said.
As this publishing sector grows, awards have also been established to recognize and honor some of the best of the books. Last month, the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group announced its 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, which lead-ers in the field bestow on books they believe should reach a wider audience. Okimoto’s book, “Walter’s Muse,” a novel set on Vashon that she published earlier this year was awarded third place in the fiction category.
“The exposure is wonderful. “I was delighted to have the recognition — and the money,” she said with a laugh.
Much of the change in the book publish-ing began with the recession, according to Okimoto.
“Publishers were only going for sure things,” she recalled, and even well-respect-ed authors were having difficulty getting their books accepted by a large house.
Recent technology has also contributed to this new wave of book pub-lishing, Okimoto said, including a process called printing on demand, which allows books to be printed one at a time when an order is placed. Okimoto uses this method for Endicott and Hugh Books and relies on a printing and dis-tributing company called Lightning Source, a division of Ingram Book Company, the giant book wholesaler. As the distributor, it makes its books available to a variety of sources, including Ingram, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Lightning Source serves publishers of all sizes, Okimoto said, so generally the physi-cal qualities of books — the paper, printing and binding — are the same, and most people cannot tell the difference anymore between a book published this way through a tiny independent press or a New York publishing company.
Okimoto dubbed her press Endicott and Hugh Books using the middle names of her parents. The name is sentimental for her, she said. It also makes her laugh, as she believes it conjures up visions of a publishing office on Boston’s Beacon Hill or London, a long way from the reality of her basement office.
Okimoto, who will turn 70 this December, is an author of 20 books and a retired psy-chotherapist. She noted she is not getting
rich as publisher, nor did aim to get rich as an author, although she brushed elbows with fame when she appeared on Oprah in the late 1980s.
“It didn’t lead to fame and fortune,” she said. “A lot of authors do not get fame and fortune.”
In May, Endicott and Hugh released its first book by an author other than Okimoto, “Once Upon a Two by Four,” by Ann Combs,
a former columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Okimoto calls it a “charming memoir” of the Combs’ experiences remodeling a dilapidat-ed home on Bainbridge Island. The book had originally been printed by
Lippincott, Okimoto said, but was no longer in print. Combs is a friend, and Okimoto believed her book deserved another chance. Mostly, she expects the book will sell at Eagle Harbor with some online orders as well.
As the publisher, Okimoto supplied the money for the printing of the book and the designer and says she might break even on it. She may also bring another friend’s book back into print, but is not seeking other manuscripts at this time.
“It’s because I love these women. I love
these books,” she said. “I want them to exist for posterity.”
In all, through Endicott and Hugh,Okimoto has published 10 books, and hasbrought three young adult books out as ebooks.
As for Blumpoe the Grumpoe, nearly nudged off the bookshelf by Madonna, Okimoto was able to bring that book back. It’s available on Amazon and at the inn in Minnesota where the story takes place.
“Every year it still sells,” she said. “The book stayed alive.
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A book launch and reading for the poetry book, “The Weird World Rolls On,” will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at Vashon Community Care (VCC). The collection includes haikus that have appeared on Hiway Haiku and poems by several Vashon poets. Nova Scotia poet Roger Davies, the collection’s featured poet and the brother of publisher Jeanie Davies Okimoto, will read his poems along with 18 Vashon poets. In the anthol-ogy, some are nationally recognized pub-lished poets, and for others the poems in this collection are their first efforts. They all either live on Vashon or have a connection to Vashon. Proceeds from the sale of “The Weird World Rolls On” will be donated to VCC.
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Caregivers Support Group: This group is geared toward fam-ily and friend caregivers. Those interested in attending should leave a message for Julea Gardener at 567-4421. 1:30 p.m. at Vashon Community Care.
Master Gardeners: Talk to the experts. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.
Preschool Story Time: Zeke Burgin will read to kids and parents. 11 a.m. at the Vashon Bookshop.
Vashon Drum Circle: All ages are welcome to drum and sing with Buffalo Heart, a big community drum. The event is free, but dona-tions are welcome. 7 p.m. at the Village Green.
Camp Out With Mothers of Boys: Hike through Island Center Forest by day then camp out at the home of Lisa Coley at night. Call Coley at 567-4221 for more information.
Master Gardeners: Stop by with questions on vegetables and growing tomatoes. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday outside True Value.
Adopt-a-Cat Day: Vashon Island Pet Protectors hosts an adoption day every week. See www.vipp.org for more information. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 12200 S.W. 243rd St. Saturday.
Recycle Building Materials: Second Use, a building materials salvage company, will collect home goods in a joint effort with Granny’s Attic. Acceptable
materials include doors, windows, cabinets, plumbing, flooring, hardware, light fixtures, modern appliances and lumber. The materials will go to Second Use’s retail store, and Second Use and Granny’s will split the profits. Call Second Use at 763-6929 to deter-mine if materials are acceptable. More information is posted at www.seconduse.com/policies. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m Saturday and Sunday at Granny’s Attic.
Eat for a Cause: Retired restaura-teur Nancy Brocard from Pogacha Restaurant in Bellevue will be the guest chef at the Eagles. She is donating her talent and time to raise money for Relay for Life. Pogachas make a one-person sized pizza. Pogacha normally is a small, thin Croatian dinner roll, but Bro-card’s are as big as dinner plates. The cost is between $10 and $12. 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 14, at the Eagles’ lodge.
Change Your Home: Architect Lidunn Overdahl Cain will talk about making adjustments to bet-ter fit your life for aging in place: arranging a rental space, coping with stairs and other suggestions. Free. Call Cain at 422-4519 for more information. 1 to 3 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.
Vashon-Maury Island Com-munity Council: Adam Cone of Snapdragon, Monkey Tree and World Pizza will offer a taste of the travails of the restaurant industry; Peter Scott of Burn Design Lab will discuss the global scope of his innovative profit/nonprofit stove venture; Cliff Goodman of Cliff’s Beer will talk about realizing his dream of starting a craft brewery; Luke Lokoskie of Island Springs tofu will talk about how he got started and remains competitive. Also, representatives from King County will talk about green waste recycling. For more information, email [email protected]. 7 p.m. at McMurray Middle School.
Camp Out with Mothers of Boys: Mothers, grandmothers, guardians and siblings of boys — and boys, of course — are wel-come at Lake Cushman near Shel-ton for one, two or three nights of camping. The cost is $22 per night plus food. Call Tina Parrish at 563-5066 to reserve a spot. Camping dates are 3 p.m. Monday through
11 a.m. Thursday, July 19.
Vashon Quilt Guild: Catholine Tribble will speak about the pro-cess of making a community quilt and show the 2012 quilt, the 27th in the series, and some of the past Vashon community quilts. For ad-ditional information, call Miyoko Matsuda at 463-9718. 10 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church.
Family Story Time: All ages are welcome for a half-hour of stories, finger plays, movement and music. 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays this month at the Vashon Library.
Senior Center Movie: Claire Danes plays Temple Grandin, who uses her abilities as an autistic person to make new discoveries about animals. Feature writer Gordon Fisk will provide a com-mentary. 12:30 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.
Remembering Who You Are: Vashon Insight Meditation Group welcomes meditation teacher Jude Rozhon. Her topic is “Remember-ing who we are.” Rozhon is an experienced meditation teacher and has been an instructor for Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Gold-stein’s Insight Meditation Course since 1997. For more information, email [email protected]. The event is free, but donations are welcome. 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Puget Sound Zen Center, 20406 Chautauqua Beach Road.
CLASSES
Make Friends with Veggies: Shape Up Vashon will offer this event. Terry Collelo, Vashon caterer, will demonstrate and share her favorite veggie recipes. People must sign up in advance at [email protected]. Space is limited. The class is free for SUV members, $10 for others. 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, at the Vashon Methodist Church.
Butoh — Body/Mind Lab: Using the techniques and philosophy of Butoh dance, a modern Japanese dance form, students use medita-tion, slow movement, creative expression and dialogue. The cost is $12 per class or $40 per month. Contact Jyl Shinjo Brewerat at
[email protected] or 619-3321. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Hanna Barn.
Beginning Sewing Lessons: Jenni Wilke offers one-on-one tutorials for people with sewing machines who do not know how to use them. People will also get a good start on a project of their choice (e.g. curtains, pillows, napkins, bag, etc.). The cost is $35. Contact Wilke at 697-2377 to reg-ister or coordinate a different time. 9 to 10:30 a.m. July 12, 16, 27 or 30, at Common Thread.
Zumba in the Grass: Dance to the music of salsa, merengue, cha cha and more. Zumba instructors Dari Haffie and Sara Van Fleet will lead this free class covering some of the basics of Zumba fitness. Beginners are welcome. The event will meet rain or shine. Noon to 1 p.m. Satu-day, July 14, and Tuesday, Aug. 11, at Ober Park.
Natural Dyeing: Laurel Boyajian of Local Color Dye Gardens & Stu-dio will offer two workshops this month on using flowers and plants to dye fabric. The cost is $100. Summer Flowers and Madder Root will meet Saturday and Sunday, July 14 and 15, or Sunday and Monday, July 15 and 16. Summer Flowers and Eucalyptus will meet Friday and Saturday, July 27 and 28, or Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29, at Common Thread. Email [email protected] to register or sign up at the store. Each workshop will be offered on the date that works for most people.
Cedarbark Basketry: Haida/ Tlingit Weaver Cherilyn Holter will lead this workshop, which will teach twining and open weave basketry. Students will create a small basket woven with Western red cedar bark. The cost is $200 and $50 for materials. For more information, contact Sue Sho-tridge at 567-5826. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 14 and 15, at The Raven’s Nest, 19603 Vashon Hwy.
Intro to Panel Relief Carving: Master Tlingit Carver Israel Shotridge will lead this workshop, which introduces the art of panel relief carving with Northwest Coast Native design. Students will focus on the basic three cuts. Shotridge will provide a design and small cedar panel. For more information, contact Sue Shotridge at [email protected]. The cost is $250 plus $25 for materials. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 14 and 15, at Shotridge Studios 9804 S.W. 145th Place.
SUMMER CAMPS
Moody Creative Performance Camps: Steffon Moody will lead two camps. In Puppet Universe Camp, kids ages 7 to 12 will make foam, Sculpey and shadow pup-pets to make a giant puppet for the Strawberry Festival parade. The cost is $160 for members and $180 for non-members, plus
$20 for materials. 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday, July 16 to 20. In Special FX Camp, kids ages 11 to 18 will transform themselves into a special effects creature, just like in the movies. The cost is $175 for members and $195 for non-members, plus materials. 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, July 16 to 20.
Junior Golf Camps: Local golf professional Gregg Bernheisel will lead the camps this summer for kids age 6 through high school. The cost is $100 with a discount available for club members. Call the club at 463-9410 to sign up. 10 a.m. to noon Monday through
Wednesday, Aug. 6 to 8, at the Vashon Golf & Swim Club.
Junior Tennis Camps: Jake Dil-lon will lead camps for kids age 6 through high school. The cost is $70 with discounts available. Call the club at 463-9410 to sign up. 10 to 11 a.m. for beginners and 11 a.m. to noon for intermediate players, Monday through Thurs-day, July 16 to 19, Aug. 6 to 9 and Aug. 13 to 16, at the Vashon Golf & Swim Club.
More Summer Camps: The Beachcomber’s annual guide to summer camps is available at our office. Stop by and pick up a copy.
CALENDARVashon-Maury
Deadline is noon Thursday for Wednesday publication. The calendar is intended for commu-nity activities, cultural events and nonprofit groups; notices are free and printed as space permits.
The Beachcomber also has a user-generated online calendar. To post an event there, see www.VashonBeachcomber.com, scroll to the bottom of the page and follow the prompts.
VASHON THEATRE
Plays to July 19
Will play July 13 to 19
1 p.m. Sunday, July 15
Vashon Island School District School Board: 2012-13 Budget adop-tion meeting. 7 p.m. Thursday, July 12, at McMurray Middle School.
Vashon-Maury Island Community Council: 7 p.m. Monday, July 16, at McMurray Middle School.
King County Cemetery District #1: 3 p.m Wednesday, July 18, at the Vashon Cemetery, 19631 S.W. Singer Rd.
Viewers on Vashon will find VoV-TV on Comcast Cable Channel 21. Most VoV-TV shows are produced by Islanders.
from 5 to 6 p.m. Experience or re-live all the fun and suspense of Spell It!, the Feb. 2012 edition of Vashon’s annual Spelling Bee, featuring hosts/emcees, Jeff Hoyt and Jeanne Dougherty.
The annual Strawberry Festival, complete with a carnival, will be July 20 to 22, this year. Carnival pre-sale tickets are on sale now at the Vashon Bookshop and Vashon Market. The cost is $25 and includes five game tickets. The last day to purchase pre-sale tickets is 3 p.m. Thursday, July 19. When the carnival opens, tickets may be exchanged for a ride wristband. The coupons are good from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 5 p.m. or 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. The close of the carnival will depend on weather and atten-dance. In other festival news, the Presbyterian Church is offering reserved parking by donation again this year. Proceeds will support the church’s mission partners dealing with hunger. People who want to reserve parking or chairs, should contact [email protected] or call 354-8921. Reserved spaces will only be held until 10:45 a.m. the day of the parade.Above, festival-goers are ready for lift-off.
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ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury UP, UP AND AWAY: Open Space for Ar ts & Community will present its second annual
outdoor aer ial festival, “Open Air,” at 4 p.m . Saturday, July 28, with per formances by grav-ity- defy ing professional aer ialists as well as students from the UMO School of Physical Ar ts. Adm ission is a suggested donation of $8 for adults and $3 for kids.
Music lovers can head out for a double-header of bands sched-uled to play a night of free music, starting at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Red Bicycle Bistro.
One of the groups, Fendershine, is an all-Island ensemble made up of Rick Vanselow on guitar, Eric Frith on guitar, Steve Meyer on bass, Kim Thal on violin and Fletcher Andrews on drums.
The musicians — who came together after listening to each other play in other Island groups — are known for a lively mix of
original songs and rarely covered rock ‘n’ roll songs.
The other band, The Struggles, was formed in 2006. They play punk and rock ‘n’ roll and aim to get audiences on their feet and dancing.
Band members include Andrews and three Seattle cohorts. One of the guitarists and vocalists, Dan Cauthorn, is well known through-out the Northwest as an alpinist and author.
The Struggles also includes Truc Allen, who plays guitar
and sings, and bass player David Haavik. Expect a high-octane set that includes songs by such icons as The Kinks, The Clash, The Who, Sex Pistols, Green Day and Iggy Pop.
The combined show is for all ages until 11 p.m. and 21 and older after that.
It’s all part of an ongoing effort by Red Bicycle music coor-dinator Pete Welch to bring a variety of local bands to the stage of the popular watering hole and sushi spot.
A merry band of thespians takes on Gilbert and SullivanBy ELIZABETH SHEPHERDArts Editor
Musical theater, ahoy! Starting Friday, Island audiences can set sail
to experience the supreme silliness and sub-lime musicality of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance,” courtesy of more than 30 Island thespians and singers who have been rehearsing the show for months.
The comic opera — a Drama Dock production — is being staged at Bethel Church July 13 to 22, with perfor-mances running through Strawberry Festival weekend.
According to the show’s director, Elizabeth Anthony, audiences are in for a treat.
“There is a turn-of-the-century twang to it that is very irreverent,” she said.
“Pirates” — a frothy blend of Gilbert’s unlikely tale of tender-hearted pirates, love-struck maidens and a hapless young hero, combined with Sullivan’s intricate and soar-ing music — has been a hit ever since it opened in New York City in 1879. In New York alone, there have been more than 40 major revivals of the show, the most well-known of those being a 1980 production starring Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith and Estelle Parsons. The same cast appeared in a 1983 film version of the opera.
The show even has a storied history on Vashon Island.It’s the second time “Pirates” has been produced
here — Drama Dock mounted the show in 1987, with a decades-younger Elizabeth Anthony at the helm of that production, too. Three other members of that ensemble — Rich Wiley, Sue Weston and Gaye Detzer — are also part of the current production.
For Anthony, directing “Pirates” is a more freewheeling, creative experience this time around.
“Gilbert and Sullivan have now been dead for 100 years, so we can do whatever we want with the show,” she said with a laugh. “I’m a lot more confident now.”
Anthony said that because the show isn’t copyrighted, she’s taken a few liberties with the lyrics.
“Gilbert was very contemporary, so I have felt free to rewrite some stuff,” she said. “It’s sung so fast anyway, who cares?”
Despite Anthony’s seemingly cavalier pose, she brings a wealth of experience and a deep reverence for Gilbert and Sullivan to the show.
She attended Gilbert and Sullivan shows throughout her youth, she said, and upon turning 18 became a member of the Oberlin College Gilbert & Sullivan Players, one of the oldest standing Gilbert and Sullivan troupes in the country. She went on to be a featured player in the troupe’s summer stock productions on Cape Cod.
For decades, Anthony has been a mainstay of the Island’s theater community, directing, appearing in and producing many plays. Her most recent foray into Gilbert
and Sullivan was as an advisor to a recent Vashon Island Youth Chorus production of “Pinafore Pirates.”
Wiley, who played the Pirate King in the 1987 produc-tion and this time is cast as Major General Stanley, said that Vashon’s theater community has been lucky to have
an artist of Anthony’s caliber around for so many years.
“She’s an Island treasure,” he said. Wiley is looking forward to deliver-
ing one of the most famous songs in the show, “I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General,” a patter song full of tongue-twisting lyrics.
The whole show, he says, is a delight.“It’s so witty and there is something
new every time you hear it,” he said.Wiley will be joined on stage by a constellation of
Island stars. Joe Farmer, an accomplished tenor who has appeared in Vashon Opera productions, is playing the role of Frederic, the love-struck hero of the show. His love interest, Mabel, is played by Julea Gardener, a soprano
with a soaring voice. Gordon Millar will bring a Scottish brogue to the role
of the Pirate King, and Lissy Nichols, an accomplished young actress, will play against type as Frederic’s lusty old nurse Ruth.
Rounding out the cast is a chorus filled with members of Drama Dock, Vashon Island Chorale, Vashon Opera, Drama Dock Youth Initiative and Vashon Island Youth Chorus. They’ll play a motley crew of pirates, maidens, urchins and policemen.
“It’s a cast of friends,” said Anthony, who said she hated to single out any particular favorites in the cast. “These are people who are very dear to me.”
Gordon Millar (center) as the Pirate King, surrounded by his minions, in Drama Dock’s upcoming production of Gilbert andSullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance.”
“Pirates of Penzance” will run from July 13 to 22. Shows will be at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Thursday, and at 4 p.m. on Sundays, at Bethel Church. Tickets, ranging in price from $20 to $7.50, depending on age and status as a Drama Dock member, are on sale at www.brownpapertickets.com and the Vashon Bookshop.
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Fendershine includes, from left, Rick Vanselow, Fletcher Andrews, Steve Meyer, Kim Thal and Eric Frith.
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taken time because of the care Chaleoy has brought to the project, they said.
Formerly Heather’s Homegrown Café, the small space is now completely paneled in richly hued mahogany and teak, wood that she had shipped from Thailand, where it clad the interior of a 150-year-old home, she said. Artful lamps hang from a timbered ceiling. A U-shaped bar with polished wood counters juts out from the back wall.
Chaleoy has kept the process under wraps, wanting the interior — a vast change from its former life as a breakfast-oriented café — to be a surprise. She’s also given great attention to every detail, she said.
“I want it to be perfect for Vashon peo-ple,” she said. “They waited so long.”
Chaleoy and Moore spoke at Nirvana, the nearby Indian restaurant, where they gathered for a celebratory meal with family, friends and the monks after their morning blessing last week. Chaleoy, 43, talked easily and warmly of her new venture, expressing gratitude toward the people who have helped her and excitement about what lies ahead.
She came to the United States from Bangkok 16 years ago at the invitation of a friend and to study at the Washington Academy of Languages in Seattle. She was soon working in Thai restaurants — her first one the then-popular Fremont Noodle House — while pursuing her interest in fashion design and performance produc-tion. She attended both the Art Institute of Seattle and Cornish College of the Arts.
But the program at Cornish was expen-sive, and she didn’t finish it, she said. Along the way, however, she learned valu-able skills, including painting, lighting and building — skills she’s put to use in the creation of her new restaurant.
“She’s communicating with the electri-cians, the plumbers,” Moore said. “She knows as much as they do.”
It was serendipity that brought Moore into the picture. Moore lived in Thailand for 20 years, returning to the Seattle area a few months ago not sure what he would take on next but wanting to continue to practice his Thai language skills.
He came to Vashon to visit a friend two months ago and, while at the Red Bicycle Bistro, ran into a Thai woman and began to talk to her, asking her if she knew any-thing about a Thai restaurant that was rumored to be in the works. That woman was Chaleoy, and on the spot, she offered to give him and his friend what amounted to a midnight tour of her place.
Moore, who once waited tables at the Four Seasons, is thrilled to be working at May Kitchen + Bar.
“Now, I’m going to speak Thai every day,” he said, smiling.
The small restaurant — it will seat about 60 — will be open seven days a week, with Chaleoy, a sous chef and Chaleoy’s mother doing all of the cooking and food prep. For the first week, it will serve dinner only; after that, Chaleoy will begin a lunch menu, with a focus on noodle dishes. The menu will offer what she described as fairly tra-ditional Thai food, including local seafood and nightly specials; dinners will be priced at $10 to $25, lunch at $8 to $10.
She said she hopes to educate Vashon din-ers on some of the finer details of authentic
Thai food. The food doesn’t come out all at once, for instance, but, rather, dish by dish; condiments on the table, meanwhile, are used to add to the spiciness and flavor ofthe food.
In another nod to Thai culture, she’llinvite guests into the kitchen to talk to herabout her food and see her and her smallstaff at work. Those who order to-go willcome to the back door to get their food, adoor that opens to the kitchen.
A connection between the dining room and the kitchen is common in restaurantsin Thailand, Moore said. For Chaleoy, itwill enable her to meet her guests and getfeedback.
“And that way, people who work in the kitchen don’t feel stuck there,” she said.
She hopes her restaurant won’t take away from others on Vashon. In fact, she said, she’s working with Rohit Sharma, owner of Nirvana, a restaurant she likes, helping him with his eatery’s interior design. “Wehave to support each other,” she said of the restaurateurs on Vashon.
Meanwhile, she knows she’ll be exceed-ingly busy when her doors open in a few days. Many have been asking about thenew eatery; she knows there’s a keen inter-est in her place. But she said she’ll have an excellent staff as well as her mother — who speaks very little English — at her side, andshe’s ready for what will come.
“If I have my sous chef right next to me and my mother preps, and if I have a dish-washer, I can handle it,” she said. “I’m notworried.”
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May Chaleoy smiles and bows toward family members and friends after opening a gift from the monks during a blessing ceremony. The monks, including the Venerable Ritthi, left, and the Venerable Priyad, came from the Atammayatarama Buddhist Monastery in Woodinville.
May Kitchen + Bar will be open 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday to Thursday and until 10 or 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Its website, still under con-struction, is www.maykitchen.com. Or call the restaurant at 408-7415.
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By RIK FORSCHMIEDT For The Beachcomber
Five vintage outboard hydroplanes were in the water and running as the sun came up over Quartermaster Harbor on July 4. Four of the tiny boats headed out past Jensen Point at 5:25 a.m. for the traditional circumnavigation of the Island. Evan Mattingly, this year’s winner, returned to Jensen Point 40 minutes and 36 sec-onds later.
Ty Christophersen, the only boat to run the entire length last year, was a few minutes behind Mattingly, and Chris Van Buskirk came in third. Paul Hoffman was almost home when his boat broke down off Dockton Park.
Larry Fuller’s engine ran perfectly, but Fuller hadn’t found a propeller that would move the boat fast enough to get up on a plane, so he returned
to shore after the other boats departed.
Mattingly said the water was a little bumpy heading north up the east side, but the west side was “like glass.”
He said the finish was the first for him in three tries. Between him and his brother Ryan, who was in his support-ing crew, it was about six tries for the family before a finish.
Christophersen, who ran with borrowed
engine parts last year, said this was a better run and a minute quicker.
The annual run, not really a formal race, dates back to the heyday of hydroplane racing in the Northwest when the late Ted Jones, who rev-olutionized hydroplane design, lived on Vashon and many Islanders were active on the local lim-ited class circuit. Now the few remaining boats are seldom run except in July.
Evan Mattingly, this year’s winner, gets a hug from fian-cee Jennie Sikorski as he displays the perpetual trophy.
Three boats finish 4th of July hydro race
By GLENNA MILESONFor The Beachcomber
Preparations are under way for the 32nd annual Bill Burby Inspirational Fun Run. The popular run takes place each year on the Saturday morning of the Strawberry Festival, right before the grand parade.
Vashon High School track coaches Andy Sears and Kevin Ross continue this community event, which was started more than three decades ago by other high school coaches.
This year putting on the race will be a little bit easier, as sup-plies are now neatly organized in a new shed built by Jefferson Douglas for his Eagle Scout project.
“He just did a great job,” Sears said. “Can a shed be beautiful?”
Douglas, a junior at VHS, gives credit to Alex DeHaven of Little Foot Structures for support with materials, design and labor. The young men used pulpwood for framing materi-als and recycled treetops that are usually thrown away. The shed also features a glass door, which Sears hopes will deter break-ins.
Ross will mark the race course along the Dilworth loop, a course he laid out several years ago.
On race day, Ross will also be on the starting line wearing bib No. 1, an honor he earns each year by being the very first to register online for the event.
He and his high school team-mate, Aaron Burby, have been running in the event since they were high schoolers. The race is named for Burby’s late father, a VHS football coach and one of the original race founders.
Ross is also hopeful that he’ll earn that No. 1 by coming in first this year.
“It gets a little harder to beat the youngsters, but you got to keep trying,” he said.
Sears will be on site hours before the start of the race with volunteers from his basketball team to set up water stations and monitor traffic. He will also be at the starting line, mega-phone in hand, to count down the start. Russ Brazill, former VHS track coach and one of the race founders, will fire off the starting gun.
The event includes a 10K race, a 5K race and a 5K walk, and has become a tradition for
many Island families. For the coaches, it also provides much-needed funding to their athletic programs.
Sponsorships cover race expenses so proceeds can go directly to support athletics and the annual Burby Wellness scholarship, given to a high school senior who demon-strates commitment to physical fitness.
The run will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 21, by the VYFS Playspace on Vashon Highway. Registration is $20 for adults and $15 for chil-dren and includes a T-shirt. Register online at www.billburbyrace.org until July 19. Same-day registration will begin at 8 a.m., for an additional $10 per adult or $5 per child. For more informa-tion, contact [email protected].
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Runners begin the 2011 Bill Burby Inspirational Fun Run.
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Vashon High School alum-ni Angela Chapman and Elliott Scherer both gradu-ated from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore., on June 8. Both earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Studies.
Four Vashon students graduated from Washington State University in Pullman this spring.
Alexander Garabedian earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice; Alexander Gateman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in construction manage-ment; Christina Long earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business admin-istration, and Victoria Smith earned a Bachelor of Science degree in animal sciences.
The DoVE Project is look-ing for volunteer advocates to help with its domestic violence hotline. Training
will be provided. Bilingual skills are encouraged but not necessary. For more information or to volun-teer, email [email protected] or call 462-0911.
June 4: A civil problem was reported at a home on the 24600 block of Vashon Highway.
June 7: An outbuilding on the 11900 block of Vashon Highway was broken into and items were stolen.
June 9: A home on the 10400 block of 240th Placewas broken into and items were stolen. The home mayhave been unlocked.
An assault occurred during a get-together at a home on the 18300 block of Vashon Highway.
June 11: Credit card fraud was reported at a home on the 24000 block of 129thAvenue.
June 12: A hit-and-run accident occurred on the 10300 block of Vashon Highway. The suspect intentionally rammed the victim’s vehicle.
June 13: A man displayed public drunkenness near Bank of America and uri-nated on a sign. He was transported to the hospital for detox.
A vehicle parked at the Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank was broken into.
June 16: The Hardware Store Restaurant was bro-ken into by a transient who entered through an unlocked window. The suspect attempted to steal three bottles of wine, but was caught by the restau-rant’s night crew.
June 18: A man was tres-passed from Thrifway.
June 20: An individual pulled over on the 15000 block of Vashon Highway was driving under the influence.
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Catholic ChurchSt. John Vianney
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Vashon Island Unitarian Fellowship
Community, Diversity, Freedom of Belief,Enrichment of Spirit
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15401 Westside Hwy SWPO Box 89, Vashon, WA 98070
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Episcopal Churchof the Holy Spirit
The Rev Canon Carla Valentine PryneSundays – 7:45 am & 10:15 am
Church School & Religious Exploration9:00am
Child CareMid-week Eucharist, Wednesday–12:30pm
15420 Vashon Hwy SW 567-4488www.holyspiritvashon.org
Vashon Lutheran Church18623 Vashon Hwy. SW (1/2 mile south of Vashon)
Children’s Hour 10:30 am (Sept.- June)
Holy Communion Worship 10:30 am
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Calvary Full Gospel Church at Lisabeula
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Vashon Presbyterian Church
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FYIVashon-MauryLast month the Vashon Tennis Club,
a no-fee group of tennis enthusiasts, played two days of intense tennis in the annual Winebledon Tennis Tournament, hosted by the Vashon Winery. On Saturday, June 30, 11 doubles teams played each other in round-robin fashion, each match consist-ing of four games. Each team played 40 games to determine seeding for Sunday’s brackets. On Sunday, all teams were assigned to either the win-ners’ or losers’ bracket, depending on their round-robin record.Emerging as overall victors of this year (pictured from left to right) were Rick Dusette and Eli Stahl over Alan Warneke and Dick Cushing.Winners of the consolation bracket were Tom Skarshaug and Steve Fugate (playing for injured Mike DeBlasi) over Ron Irvine and Greg Parrott.
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on New Year’s Day and then on the Fourth of July — for more than half a century. The event has garnered both criticism and praise over the years, with some Islanders complaining about the window-shaking noise the boats make early in the morning and others defending the race, saying it’s an Island institution. Some even call the annual event the beginning of summer.
“This is the fabric of Vashon,” said Brian Brenno, a multi-generational Islander who has been involved in the race since he was young. He kept time for it this year. “This is the kind of thing that native Islanders bemoan, of changes on Vashon. … If they shut it down, it would be horrible.”
Brenno said police have threatened to shut down the race before and may have even done so one year, but this is the first time he believes a permitting issue has come up.
Knauss, who has been with the marine unit for seven years, said he hadn’t heard of the hydroplane race until last week, when the sheriff ’s office received a large number of calls from people complaining about the noise.
“It was off the hook this year,” he said. Knauss, informed of the complaints, sent
deputies from the marine unit to investigate and possibly issue fines at 6:30 a.m. on the Fourth. But by the time they arrived, the race was over.
He said that Vashon sheriff ’s deputies were aware of the annual event, and he’s not sure why the sheriff ’s office hasn’t inter-vened in the past.
“Maybe it’s just an Island thing that we don’t know about over here in the offices downtown,” he said.
Besides not having a marine event permit issued by the county or event insurance, Knauss said the racers definitely break sound ordinances each year and likely break speed limits as well.
Often permits for boat races provide exemptions from marine regulations, allowing participants to break speed laws and sound ordinances during the event. Knauss said it’s possible the sheriff ’s office will allow the race to carry on as usual, but participants must apply for a permit, explain their plan for safety and work with the county to gain the exemptions. He is now working to contact race participants so they can make a plan for next year.
“I would hate to cite people for reckless boating if they could do it safely and legally and have the permit in hand,” he said.
Islanders, meanwhile, are speaking up in support of the Fourth of July racers, affectionately called the “hydros” by many. Talk on Facebook has been predominately in support of the race, any many reached by The Beachcomber said they know there are complaints every year but don’t personally know anyone who objects to the races.
“I’ve never talked to anyone here who says it’s ridiculous,” said Jeff Raymond, who lives on Quartermaster Harbor “To me, it’s a 50-plus year tradition on the Island, and I’m all for it. It’s one day, and the naysayers can all pound sand for that matter.”
Jean Bosch, who lives on Paradise Cove, said she’s been woken by the hydroplanes many times and doesn’t like it, but she would hate to see the race end.
“A lot of people love it,” Bosch said. “I’ve been annoyed by it myself, but I do have a soft spot for it in my heart.”
Race participants say they suspect those who call the sheriff ’s office to complain may be new to the Island and don’t under-stand the tradition behind the event. More boats made it around the Island this year, meaning the noise may have been louder.
“There are a lot of new faces on Vashon,” Fuller said. “It’s possible they haven’t heard of it.”
Knauss said that since one Islander post-ed the sergeant’s contact information on VashonAll, a popular listserv, he has gotten calls and emails both in support of and complaining about the race. He wasn’t sure how many complained but said that most who were upset said they wouldn’t mind as much if they noise weren’t so early. He believes the sheriff ’s office may allow the racers to break noise ordinances but will
ask them to do it later in the day.“That seems to be the main generator
of the complaints,” Knauss said. “Maybe there’s some wiggle room there, in the rea-sonableness of the hour of day.”
Chris Van Buskirk, a hydroplane racer who noted that hundreds took posts alongthe shore to watch the event this year, said he’s willing to apply for a permit, but it would be difficult to hold the race later inthe day. The small, light boats, he said, needcalm water to operate on.
“We can’t really start later because it’smore rough. ... We prefer to keep it the way it’s been for the last 57 years.”
For now, racers say they’re waiting to becontacted by the sheriff ’s office. They say they can’t imagine the tradition ending, but they’re eager to learn what it would take tomake it legal.
“I guess we’ll all know at 5:30 next Forthof July, won’t we?” said Van Buskirk.
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Edeen Parrish, a resident of Vashon Island since 2002, died on June 15. She was 89.
Edeen had a lifelong passion for learning and education. A teacher, librarian, scientist, spiritualist, poet and a dedicated conservationist, she was a world traveler who never met a stranger she couldn’t share with or a rock she didn’t like. She loved the present moment and few things were more important than good conversation and a hot cup of tea.
She was a prolifi c writer of essays, musings and poetry spanning more than six decades. She once said “I am, therefore, I write.” Earlier this year, she published a volume of
poetry under the title “Celebrating Life, Sharing the Grief, Trusting the Unknown.” Most recently, she was working on her memoirs.
Family was always front and center in her life. She encouraged each to be the best they could be – setting the bar high and celebrating every achievement. A failure was never a failure; it was merely an alternate route to success.
She loved folk dancing and met her husband Harry Kirschner when they were both members of the Sno-King Folk Dance Club in Lynnwood, WA. Th ey married in 1993. Th ey were active members of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship both in Seattle and after moving to Vashon.
Family and friends will remember Edeen especially for her irrepressible curiosity, sense of humor, pragmatism and unfl agging courage in staring down even the most daunting of life’s challenges.
She was born Clara Ella Deen Marlow on January 6, 1923 in Putnam County, Tenn. to William James Carmen and Roxie Edmonds Marlow. After her mother died in 1939, she moved with her father and sister Hazel to California. In 1941 she married James Goforth and the two settled in Ojai to raise three daughters. Th ey were divorced in 1974. She was librarian at Nordhoff , Buena and Ventura High Schools and taught geology at Ventura Community College until she retired in 1979. In 1975, she married Clyde Parrish. After he died in 1979, she moved to Washington to be near her family.
She is survived by her husband Harry Kirschner, sister Beverly McKenney of Old Hickory, TN; daughters Jeanne Greatorex of Watsonville, CA, Kimberly Goforth and son-in-law Eric Gill of Vashon, Diana Clarke of Everett, WA; grandchildren Martin and Jeff Greatorex, Christopher and Matthew Wright, Amanda Clarke and Th ane and Tate Gill; niece Tamara Steiner of Clayton, CA, and 11 great-grandchildren. Her sister Hazel died in 2001.
On July 15 from 2-5 p.m., there will be a Celebration of Life and potluck luncheon for friends and family at Lisabuela Park on the west side of Vashon Island. Please bring your memories and a dish to share.
In lieu of fl owers, memorial donations can be made to the Vashon Island Unitarian Fellowship. To leave condolences and messages for the family, please visit the online guest book at www.islandfuneral.com.
Edeen Parrish
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