vashon-maury island beachcomber, may 02, 2012

By ELIZABETH SHEPHERDStaff Writer

Down a gravel driveway off Cove Road sits a bucolic property that has long been the site of one of Vashon’s loveliest art spots — an exhibition space housed in a simple, yet elegant barn, nestled amid towering firs.

Large outdoor sculptures grace the manicured grounds in front of the barn, and next to it sits a converted chicken coop, filled with smaller craft objects, includ-ing pottery, soap, cards and jew-elry. Inside the rustic but well-lit barn, bright pastels, watercolors and other vibrant paintings line the walls.

The name of the complex, appro-priately enough, is Barnworks — a collaborative gallery that has been a fixture on the Vashon art scene for decades. The barn has also been the site of monthly critique sessions for its members, as well as a host of other events including weddings, workshops and artists’ retreats. Each year, quilters have gathered in the space to stitch together Vashon Allied Arts’ com-munity quilt.

But nothing lasts forever, it seems, because Barnworks is about to open its next-to-last exhi-bition this weekend, claiming its time-honored slot on the spring Vashon Island Art Studio Tour, a twice-yearly event that Barnworks

helped to birth 30 years ago. Local artist Sharon Munger,

who owns and lives on the prop-erty where Barnworks sits, has decided to shutter the space at the end of 2012, after the winter edi-tion of the art studio tour. After

that, the barn will revert to her own private use, she said.

“It was my decision,” said Munger, as she took time out from preparing for the spring tour. “You

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A NEW PLAN AT BOB’S

The bakery hopes to draw more customers.

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NEWS | Former Islander earns Medal of Freedom. Page 5SPORTS | Pirate soccer is at the top of the league. Page 16CRIME | Plant theft continues on Vashon. Page 23

By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer

A group of University of Washington students has proposed several projects — from facade improvements in Vashon town to a rebirth of the Portage Store — in an effort to strengthen the Island’s economic vitality and protect its historic integrity.

The 13 students, enrolled in the UW’s College of Built Environments, have visited Vashon sev-eral times since they held a kickoff open house on the Island March 30. They talked to Island merchants and civic leaders, traversed Vashon

and immersed themselves in Island history before putting forward their 14 proposals.

They’re now ready for their second open house — to be held Friday evening and Saturday morning — where Islanders can take a look at what they’ve proposed, discuss their ideas and help them refine the projects. All of the proposals, many of them replete with photographs and schematic drawings, are posted at Movie Magic for preview.

“I think in the end we’ll come up with some things that we’ll be able to implement,” said Julie Koler, preservation officer at King County.

By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

Concerns about the fate of Vashon High School’s celebrated social studies program reached a head last week when a handful of teachers attended a school board meeting to challenge what they saw as a misguided direction by the administration.

The administration quickly quelled the concerns, saying the teachers’ upset was driven by mis-communication between the dis-trict and the teachers, not a deci-sion to slash the program. But it underscored the delicate situation the district finds itself in as it tries to address an uncertain budget without laying off any of its cur-rent teachers.

“This shows you what happens

What could Vashon be?

Leslie Brown/Staff Photo

Large posters depicting the students’ 14 proposals for Vashon are hanging at theformer Movie Magic site, now an espresso stand.

Teachers voice alarm over potentialprogram cuts

The end of an era: Barnworks to shutter its doorsSTUDIO STOREFRONT, PAGE 22

Administrators say worry was an overreaction

Michele AnneLouise Cohen Photo

Sharon Munger started Barnworks 30 years ago. She says it’s time to end the long-running art collective.

The cooperative has been a staple of the Island art scene

SEE BARNWORKS, PAGE 19

UW students imagine the possibilities

SEE SCHOOLS, PAGE 23

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The Vashon Park District, facing falling tax revenues and the financial pressure of its unfinished fields project, needs to shave $124,282 from its 2012 budget, park offi-cials said last week.

Park district commissioners, at their regu-lar meeting last week, quickly discussed a list of potential cuts to the $1.7 million spending plan they passed four months ago. The list, drafted by Executive Director Jan Milligan, includes cutting more than $100,000 in per-sonnel costs, trimming $3,000 from the fur-nishings budget for its vacation rentals and a $2,500 savings in insurance by raising the district’s deductibles.

Her list also includes additional revenue she hopes to see — such as $15,000 from the Vashon Pool and $5,000 from business sponsorships of its free concert series.

The budget adjustment also includes an additional $160,000 in costs for the fields project north of town — expenses the dis-trict hopes to offset by $100,000 in grants and fundraising.

“This is just an everyday reduction,” park district Chair Bill Ameling said after the meeting. “You expand when taxes go up; you reduce when taxes go down.”

The district’s tax revenues have fallen slightly in the last three years due to declin-ing property values. In 2010, the park dis-trict received $1.3 million in levy funds; in 2011, it received $1.16 million; this year, the agency expects to receive $1.12 million. Meanwhile, its budget has climbed from $1.5 million in 2010 to $1.71 million this year.

The proposed personnel cuts include a $50,000 savings the district would incur from not replacing the agency’s mainte-nance supervisor Tim Lafferty, who stepped down in January. District officials said at the time they expected to fill that position this year, but under this proposal, Milligan

would take on his responsibilities for 2012. Milligan said she wasn’t sure how the

other $50,000 in personnel reductions would be achieved — possibly by not filling a position, should someone on the 11-mem-ber staff step down. But she said it shouldnot be difficult. The $50,000 represents 10 percent of the district’s salaries, she said, adding, “A 10 percent cut for us is minor.”

The reductions also include potentialcuts to employees’ health insurance plans — shaving $11,500 from the benefit package by no longer extending coverage to spous-es and dependents. Commissioners, however, expressed concern over the proposal and decided to set it aside for now. “I’m not con-vinced (cutting benefits) is worth $11,500,” David Hackett, a commissioner, said.

The adjustments, Milligan and Ameling said, will help the district rebuild its reserve fund — depleted last year because of thefields project, Milligan said in December. If it rebuilds its reserve, the district wouldno longer have to take out a short-term loan each year to bridge the gap between its twice-annual property tax infusions, she said.

“By next year, we’ll cut that dependency,”she said.

Meanwhile, Commissioner LuAnn Branch, who recently formed a human resources committee for the board, said she hopes the proposed budget cuts don’t lead to staff layoffs.

“Last year, the staff had to go through an exercise of legitimizing itself. It was incred-ibly stressful for the staff,” she said.

Branch said declining tax revenues haveput pressure on the park district as have the costs of the fields project and the park dis-trict’s decision to take on a swimming pool.

“If we had didn’t have the pressure of the Vashon fields project, we’d be furtherahead,” she said.

An avid swimmer, Branch added, “But I have to say, to be fair, ... the pool is going to be a drain on our budget as well.”

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Organic produce via subscription is now available By SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

Bob’s Bakery, a staple of Island life since 1986, hit lean times earlier this year, and after making some cost-cutting measures and devising a program to entice new customers, owners Paul and Jill Beytebiere hope the hardest of the times are behind them.

Like many Island busi-ness owners, the Beytebieres rely on the summer months to build up their coffers to make it through the quiet winter months, but when two refrigerators broke last summer, the Beytebieres’ cushion went for replace-ments and repairs, leaving the small business with lit-tle buffer.

January and February are

always difficult at the small bakery in the heart of town, they said, but this year, business did not pick up, as it usually does in March and April. Only last week, Jill said, have they noticed an increase in sales.

“I think we just made it through a really tough spell,” Jill said.

By mid-April, the couple, had to make significant changes to meet their finan-cial obligations, they said, and trimmed 80 staff hours

each week, including decid-ing to close on Sundays until June.

“We had no more bottom left to scrape,” she said.

Bob’s typically employs about 14 people, Jill said, almost all of whom work

part time, and now a few are “on hold,” waiting until the spring increase in custom-ers has fully taken root.

They stressed they did not lay any people off in making the belt-tightening measures, but many peo-ple’s hours have shifted.

“It has been hard on everybody,” Jill said.

Both Jill and Paul attri-bute the difficult spring at the bakery largely to the season’s cold, wet days and the still lagging economy. In a move they hope will benefit Islanders and their business, they have decided to start selling 10-pound bags of organic produce on a subscription basis for $1.70 per pound. This would bring more people into the shop, they said, and would also help advertise the fact they sell more than baked goods, including lunch and dinner items, such as soup, chili, a variety of sandwich-es and breads made daily with organic flour.

One of the challenges that comes with running a fully stocked bakery in a com-munity with a small popu-lation, Jill said, is that they need to make “a little of this and a little of that,” which demands a lot of ingredi-ents and labor.

“It’s like putting on a

show everyday,” she said.The Beytebieres bought

the bakery in August of2007 from Bob Long, who had run it for 21 years. The business has brought in more money each year they have owned it, Jill said, in part because they haveadded days to their sched-ule and extended the hours. They had hoped increased revenue from these stepswould allow Paul, who doesa lot of the shop’s baking, to work less. At times, he has been able to do so, but now he is working 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days aweek on top of his work as a high school soccer coach.Jill worries about the toll that takes on him.

“I haven’t made this muchmoney since eighth grade,” Paul said with a laugh. “I was self-employed then too.”

Acknowledging the strain of recent months, Paul said his hope is for the bakery to be profitable enough for him to contribute more to the community.

“I want to be able to givemore,” he said. “I want to be at that point.”

He would like to be ableto donate the proceeds from one day a month to a local cause, he said, and fromanother day a month to a

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Jill and Paul Beytebiere have owned Bob’s Bakery since 2007.

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The Vashon Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for its 2012 Strawberry Festival grand marshal, a post of high honor on the Island.

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Life in Balance Healing Arts Center will hold an open house this Friday, coinciding with other First Friday events.

The center, which houses a variety of complementary health care practitioners,

will be open from 6 to 9 p.m. People can meet the providers, enjoy refresh-ments and participate in a raffle for free treatments.

Providers include acu-puncturist Dennis Levin, who started the clinic; massage therapist Alyce Kellogg; Ayurvedic prac-titioner Kayle Balizer and Feldenkrais movement teacher and practitioner Erik LaSeur.

The center is located at 17425 Vashon Hwy. S.W. next to Vashon Physical Therapy.

New pilates studio opens Friday in Burton

Movement Intelligence, a studio for pilates, dance and bodywork, will open its doors to the public with an open house from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday.

The new studio, operated by longtime dancer and pilates instructor Hallie

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a global cause. “That’s what I have always

wanted to do,” he said.Ackowledging the diffi-

culty that comes with own-ing a small business on an often-quiet Island, Paul noted his three passions — kids, soccer and baking — are the same as they were when the couple bought the bakery.

“Every night I say ‘I love baking’ at least once,” he said, noting that sometimes after 13 hours on his feet those feelings wane a bit.

With the uptick in sales last week, the new mea-sures in place and warmer weather starting to appear, Jill said she is feeling opti-mistic.

“We plan to stay open as long as we can,” she said.

Paul agreed. “I think it’s important to

have a neighborhood bak-ery. I really do,” he said. “You’ve got to have Bob’s.”

Former Islander Dr. William Foege was cho-sen last week to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civil-ian award in the United States.

The award is given each year to people who have made especially meritorious contributions to the secu-rity or national interests of the United States, world peace or cultural or other significant endeavors.

Foege is credited with devising the strategy to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s, saving millions of lives. His long career in public health included serv-ing as the director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and as a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also is a professor emer-itus at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory

University in Atlanta and an affiliate professor of epide-miology at the UW School of Public Health. Currently he and his wife Paula are living in Atlanta, where he is working on a book of his experiences while he was working at the CDC.

Showing the humil-ity for which he is known, Foege, when reached by The Beachcomber, noted that his work involved a team

of people.“I always feel a bit uncom-

fortable about awards,” he said. “No one does these things alone. It’s a group effort.”

He also noted that the positive aspect of the award is that it puts attention on the importance of public and global health efforts.

In all, 13 awards will be given out to such luminar-ies as Madeline Albright, John Glenn, Toni Morrison, Shimon Peres and fellow Washingtonian Gordon Hirabayashi, who refused to report for evacuation to an internment camp in World War II and was con-victed of defying the order. He appealed his conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him. He spent time in prison, then obtained his doctoral degree and became a pro-fessor.

Foege singled Hirabayashi out for praise

“He’d been a hero of mine for some time,” he said, noting that because of Hirabayashi’s death in January, the award is bit-tersweet.

In a recent statement, President Barack Obama noted the accomplishments of the recipients. “These extraordinary honorees come from different back-grounds and different walks of life, but each of them has made a lasting con-tribution to the life of our nation. They’ve challenged us, they’ve inspired us, and they’ve made the world a better place. I look forward to recognizing them with this award.”

The awards ceremony will be held next month at a White House ceremony.

— Susan Riemer

Foege receives highest civilian honor for role in ending smallpox

Dr. William Foege

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EDITORIAL

The recent rash of burglaries on Vashon feels harsh – in part because those institutions that got hit hold a special place for a lot of people. Small farms. A garden center. The Catholic church.

Why would someone steal plants? Fertilizer? A cross for a processional?

In light of the kinds of crime the rest of the county faces, our problems seem incredibly minor. Still, this is our home and these are our crimes, affecting people we know and care about. It stings.

Kathy Wheaton, owner of Kathy’s Corner, the latest victim in this crime spree, was philosophical about it. She’s lived here long enough to know these burglaries probably don’t represent a tectonic shift in our cultural landscape but, rath-er, a brief, bad wave triggered by a couple of bad actors.

Still, the impact is hard on a sole-proprietor shop like hers, already struggling because of the lingering recession. And while Leda Langley at Langley Fine Gardens, another place that was hit, said she’s not “freaking out” and doesn’t want others to do so either, we know she and her family operate on the thinnest of margins.

What can we do? We can head to Kathy’s Corner and buy some flowers for our garden, go to Thriftway or the Farmers Market and buy some of the Langleys’ produce for our din-ner table and continue to lobby our lawmakers to do what they can to help our state regain its financial footing. Were that to happen, maybe we’d have a few more resources to address the conditions that give rise to this kind of crime. And maybe the Sheriff’s Office wouldn’t have to keep slash-ing its budget and reducing its presence on the Island.

The Vashon Island Public Schools Foundation’s fundrais-ing effort is going fairly well, according to organizers. Still, we have to ask a question of the 75 percent of the parents of pub-lic school children who have yet to donate: What gives?

OK, so we know a few of the answers. Some families are struggling mightily and can’t afford to donate anything. Some are disappointed in the district — for grievances real or imagined — and writing a check right now sticks in the craw. Then there’s the third, and probably biggest, category of people who haven’t given anything yet: those souls who intend to give but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. The well-intentioned procrastinators.

It’s a group we know well, as some of us who work at The Beachcomber are card-carrying members of it. So we say to all of you souls who really do mean to step up: Do it now.

The Vashon Island School District is not perfect. None is. But it’s awfully good, it employs a crop of fine teachers, and those of us who have a child in it have a huge, vested inter-est in its ongoing success. Let’s do our part and continue to invest in a fine district and our children’s future.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Many have the disease but haven’t been diagnosed

May is Hepatitis Awareness Month. I am a founder and the current president of the Hepatitis Education Project, a nonprofit patient advocacy and education organization in Seattle. We work to spread the word about hepatitis virus infections, particularly hepa-titis C, and to counsel patients and families about the resources avail-able to them.

This year we have launched a public awareness campaign to alert folks to the presence and dangers of this disease. I am launching my own personal effort right here on Vashon, to alert my friends and neighbors.

Hepatitis C (HCV) is the most common infectious liver disease out there now, and the most deadly. Most of us probably know someone with hepatitis C — most people that I meet do. But you may not be aware of what a serious health threat this virus really is. Let’s com-pare it to HIV, a disease that you have probably heard a lot about.

There are an estimated 135,000 hepatitis C patients in Washington state, compared to about 12,000 HIV patients. Most hepatitis C patients remain undiagnosed. There are about 600 deaths a year in Washington from hepatitis C, versus about 90 from HIV. The deaths from HIV have been virtu-ally constant over the past 15 years, but HCV deaths are doubling about every six years.

The public health budget for HCV is approximately 1 percent of that for HIV. Very little public health information or support is available for HCV, either nationally or statewide. Screening programs

are small and restricted, and ignorance of the disease is widespread. It takes indi-vidual initiative to get screened, diagnosed and treated.

The good news is that hepatitis C is mostly curable. Current treatments have improved enormously and are about 70 percent effective on aver-age, up to 90 percent in some cases. Even if treatment doesn’t work, there is much that can be done to slow and moderate the pace of the disease and keep the patient healthy.

But if you are not diagnosed, you can’t be treated and won’t make the changes necessary. I, myself, have been a hepatitis C patient for more than 45 years and have made many changes to my lifestyle that have worked to maintain my general health and hold off the progress of the disease.

Hepatitis C is heavily concentrat-ed among baby boomers, those born between 1945 and 1965. A wave of infections went through this popu-lation in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, vir-tually unnoticed, because the virus was unknown and undetectable at that time, and it most often creates no symptoms until fairly substantial liver damage has occurred, often decades later. (According to the 2010 census, there are about 4,500 boomers on the Island; on that basis we would expect about 100 cases here, with most undiagnosed). Recent infections are down because the virus has now been identified

and because of the universal precau-tions that are so much more com-mon today.

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease, spread by blood-to-blood contact. It is not easy to get, requir-ing that infected blood be directly introduced into the bloodstream of the patient. Common infection routes are contaminated needles for injection, blood transfusions before 1992, unregulated tattoos and intranasal drug use with shared equipment. Substantially less likely are sexual transmission, mother-to-child transmission or sharing items like razors or toothbrushes. Medical personnel and emergency services workers and veterans have gotten the disease also. However, because the virus causes no symp-toms when it is acquired and may be diagnosed years later, many peo-ple are at a loss to explain how they got it. Casual contact, food, hug-ging, touching, etc., cannot spread the disease. There is no vaccine to protect the uninfected.

Our organization recommends that all baby boomers and anyone with any risk factors for the illness get screened. This month, Hepatitis Awareness Month, would be a good time to do it. Your doctor can pro-vide a screening, or you can get a free confidential screening by call-ing our office at 723-0311 and mak-ing an appointment.

Thanks to the work of the phar-maceutical industry over the past 20 years, we are now close to being able to completely eradicate this illness. Your part in that effort is to get screened. The odds are about 50 to 1 that you don’t have this illness. But if you do, a simple screening can wind up saving your life.

— Steve Graham is a Vashon resi-dent and retired computer manager

from the University of Washington.

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Rumble Strips

First let me admit that I’m not a cyclist and I have an extra 30 pounds under my belt to prove it. In the interest of full disclosure, I drive a little Ford pickup and a not-so-little Explorer. With all due respect to my pal Steve Abel, I disagree that the rumble strips

are worthy of the rumble. Truth be known, I welcome them, even though I hear the dreaded rumble right outside my bedroom very early each morning.

In addition to providing a wake-up call to weary or distracted drivers texting their way to work, the strips provide a valuable buffer zone between the road space designed for motor vehicles and the bike lane

reserved for cyclists. The fog line is the line of demarca-tion between the two, and neither the cyclist nor the driver should consider the fog line a reasonable or pru-dent place to put their tires. As the Cascade Bicycle Club noted, a bike lane four-feet wide provides ample room for cyclists and a rumble strip designed to keep vehi-cles and bicycles from occu-pying the same space. Each operator — cyclist and driver — has a clear and undeniable warning if they violate the buffer zone. Any cyclist rid-ing to the right of the rumble strip is much more apt to receive the “give them three feet” they regularly demand than if they are riding on or across the fog line.

Having heard the rumble ruckus, I watched more than

a dozen cyclists as they nav-igated the rumble-stripped bike lane on Sunday. None of them were scowling. All of them appeared to be enjoying the fresh air, and all of them were well out of harm’s way from my front bumper. The county has been very careful not to rumble-strip sections where the bike lane is necessarily narrow. As a result, I think we’ve got a safer highway for cyclists and vehicle drivers alike. It will be even safer when they finish the project.

— John van Amerongen

Rumble strips not welcome for bikers

I was glad to get home tonight to read that rumble strips are a major topic in The Beachcomber. (“County suspends rumble strip project,” April 25.) I was surprised by them when I “ran into them” last

week on the narrow shoul-der south of Cedarhurst.

They do not make it safer for me to ride and they are not welcome. I’d invite a county engineer to ride with me some morning and prove that shoulder rumble strips save cyclists’ lives.

Let me give two examples. Two joggers, running abreast, meet me just north of the Ober Park park & ride. My only option now is to move fully out in to the traffic lane, not to the edge in order to get past them. Drivers are notorious for speeding up to head up the hill at that very spot. Second, the residences just north of the curve at 140th have their mailboxes at the very edge of the pavement and the shoulder is narrow. Again, to avoid one obstacle you put yourself in greater danger. Riding on the strips is a great way to lose control.

Those shoulder rumble strips protect me from

nothing. If a car is on them, it’s too late; I am dead. This isn’t a tourist or recreation issue, it is my primary mode of commuting. If you want to protect me, don’t force me into traffic.

The Beachcomber should call for them to be filled, not excuse an unsafe haz-ard created by the county as too costly to repair. They’re unsafe and inappropriate for that application. The

county should fix them, not hold a public meeting after the fact to explain why they will do it anyway.

— Brad Shinn

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No obstacles, only opportunitiesA sign went up in front of my house last week; within an hour it was drawing atten-tion. What did it say? Why did I put it out there? Here is my story.

In August I started looking for a house to buy. I have never owned my own home but have tried to buy on several occasions. Each time I became overwhelmed by the process. I didn’t understand the technicalities of the sale or the financing, I couldn’t find the prop-erty I wanted at a price I could afford, and/or I didn’t feel the realtor had my best interests at heart. In frustration, I would walk away from home ownership and find something to rent instead.

Then Crist Granum of John L. Scott Realty entered the picture. He was kind, knowl-edgeable, ethical, professional and patient. He led me through the entire process, taking time to explain each step and answer all my questions. He listened to what I wanted in a home and what I did not want. He stayed in touch with a phone call every couple of days to update me or just to let me know he was still looking.

Then it dawned on me: Crist wasn’t just try-ing to sell me some property; he was helping me find a home for my family. He cared. This is what sets him apart from many other realtors and makes him the number one realtor in his office, and in my opinion, on all of Vashon.

Our search continued, with Crist pointing out both the positive and negative aspects of each property. And because he really under-stood what I wanted, he was able to make suggestions on how I could adapt particular properties to my needs.

Finally, the right property was found and im-mediately we were in a bidding war. Follow-ing Crist’s guidance, I won at a lower price than my maximum budgeted amount. Then the real ordeal began. For the entire time the deal was in escrow, we faced one obstacle after another, until I began to wonder if someone was purposely trying to sabotage the deal.

But Crist just said he would never give up until he exhausted all possibilities, and then he would look for another possibility. And he did. Over and over again, until finally, the house was mine.

Someone once told me there are no obsta-cles, only opportunities to improve ourselves and learn. I will be forever grateful that Crist was there to lead the way through those challenging opportunities and help me learn. And I will always, with 100 percent confi-dence, refer my family and friends to him whenever they want to buy or sell property in western Washington.

Cathrine Flannery

Thanks for the film seriesMany thanks to Vashon Theatre, (crowd cheers as Raechel and Eileen take a bow) PTSA and VYFS ( little ones wipe buttery drips from their chins) for their support of the Free Family Film Series this year... and to the families who came and enjoyed Batteries Not Included and Charlotte’s Web. Look for us next school year.Deborah Anderson, LGC Educational Services

Cloth bags for each student at ChautauquaA VERY grateful thank you to P.I.E. for the grant Lunch Club received to purchase fabric, thread and supplies for our project of making bags for each student to use for Science and Outdoor Education. P.I.E. has helped Lunch Club so much and we greatly appreciate it.

Also a special thanks to the Vashon Quilt Guild for the donation of fabric, thread AND for the wonderful assortment of made-up bags. In a crazy moment I decided to make up bags so each student could use them for Science and other projects. That’s a lot of bags, but with all the help I have gotten we have given bags to almost half of the class-rooms at Chautauqua.

Lunch Club needs your support!

Diane Brenno Lunch Club, Chautauqua

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Today, May 2nd, The Seattle Foundation is hosting the largest day of community giving that will happen all year. Donations to Vashon Youth & Family Services through SeattleFoundation.org will be matched in part by “stretch funds” raised by the Seattle Foundation. And, to

the Christophersen Family Fund has issued a $2,500 challenge grant. Please give today and stretch your donation dollars. Let’s make GiveBIG history! Rally your friends and family and support Vashon Youth & Family Services.Give at SeattleFoundation.org

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Call anytime to chat.

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By KAREN NELSONFor The Beachcomber

“Watching activists jump into action is really exciting,” my partner John Dancey said as we left the All Island Forum plan-ning meeting. I knew John meant seeing our colleagues step up with enthusiasm to take on the tasks necessary to put on our next forum. But the question “What action?” playfully jumped into my mind.

It seemed to me that focusing our efforts on careful, thoughtful action (what others might see as “non-action”) was the group’s biggest accomplishment as we approach the next forum that will explore commu-nity engagement.

Earlier we had chosen to decline one Island group’s proposal that AIF create a very targeted “issue-specific” forum. As a result I wondered if we were choosing “non-action?” Or were we building from our mutual recognition that respectful communication and community capacity building are higher priority ingredients right now for the work that lies ahead?

The spring planning group, a current version of the dynamic citizen involvement that created the evolving force of AIF, including John Runyan, Mary Shackelford, Doug Dolstad, Terry Sullivan, Amy Wolff, John Dancey, Kathy Ostrom and myself, had vigorous discussions. We decided on a topic that follows intuitively from our February forum on “What Really Matters?” to active Islanders. This will mean a forum that offers experiences that further enhance our abilities and skills rather than tackling a single problem.

For me, a natural-born doer, the work of “sitting tight” to develop skills around inquiry, listening, relating, interacting and learning did not scratch my itch for immediate action at first. But as I sat with others, hearing what was true for them, I discovered the heartbeat of my own sense of things. Truthfully, even speaking up in a public meeting for me, prior to AIF, was an alien concept. However, something about the way we work in all of our All Island Forum meetings invites my participation.

For those who partake of AIF’s forums, plenty of activity is built into the design of the meeting. We are asked to participate in physical ways, for example, to place our-selves in the room according to demograph-

ics, to write our answers to pithy questions on big pieces of paper, to actively share our ideas in small groups and then to make col-lective meaning of what we generate.

The upcoming forum, “Vashon Islanders: Where, How and Why Do You Serve Your Community? A Deeper Look and More Learning” has the intention to expand our community’s capacity to enter dialogue and learn from our experience with one another. We planners feel this deepening of inquiry and mutual under-standing will help strengthen our commu-nity’s foundation when we do take on spe-cific issue forums in the future that require tough decision making and complicated action steps.

Choosing this level of patience and process can be challenging for a doer like me. Yet the care taken at AIF to include all voices inspires my faith in humanity. How is it that my voice can really matter in a large public gathering? And even further, that my voice can actually be heard and responded to with respect and apprecia-tion?

Curiosity is the core quality that fuels this next forum. How often do we sit down and talk to each other to consider and sharpen our community service? What keeps us going when participating becomes frustrating or despairing? What would lead us to have better and more satisfying expe-riences as we contribute? And ultimately, what roles do each of us really want to havein caring/acting upon the well-being of our Island community?

This forum is about strengthening con-nection and collaboration among diverse community members, especially as we face many complex challenges in the months and years ahead. During last February’s forum we mined, “What Really Matters?” Now, we want to discover more from the motivated people who declare and are act-ing on their priorities.

— Karen Nelson is a contemporary dancer who teaches and performs.

Pertussis

The state Department of Health says that in 1976, the U.S. hit a national low with 1,010 pertussis cases. Since then, the numbers have climbed despite ongoing vaccination. Also, the three-to-five year pertus-sis outbreak cycle contin-ues despite overall consis-tency of vaccination. The current epidemic was predicted and expected. So, what gives?

First, there is a serious need for consistent testing of cough-illnesses. Did you have “the crud” this

winter? Did you or your doctor consider testing for pertussis? The CDC says adults with pertussis average three doctor visits and seven to 10 missed workdays before consider-ing testing.

What you don’t know can kill you or an infant. Ever heard of parapertussis? According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, 30 to 35 percent of pertussis cases are caused by paraper-tussis. And there is no vaccine for it. However, treatment with antibiotics (early on) can lessen the severity of the illness.

Did you know that pertussis can only be effectively diagnosed and treated in the first three weeks, that 50 percent of cases never “whoop,” and that vaccinated people with partial immunity

and an undiagnosed, mild case of pertussis can pass a fatal case on to a new-born?

Anyone, or any article, that tells you the solution is to go get vaccinated is not giving you the full story. Getting vaccinated is not enough. Vaccinated people spread pertussis all the time.

There is so much we still need to learn about the human immune system. Over-simplified public health propaganda makes things worse as it creates over-confidence in an undereducated public. Don’t rely upon the government, The Beachcomber or your doctor to tell you what to do.

Get educated. Get test-ed. Ask your friends to do the same.

— March Twisdale

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The next All Island Forum, “Vashon Islanders: Where, How and Why Do You Serve Your Community? A Deeper Look and More Learning,” will be held 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, at the Open Space.

Forum seeks to strengthen collaborations

‘Lost in Detention’: This Front-line film shows how undocu-mented immigrants get caught up in the bureaucracy and end up in for-profit detention centers. 7 to 9 p.m. at the Land Trust Building.

National Day of Prayer: Island-ers of all faiths are welcome to pray for the community and na-tion. Noon at the Vashon Theatre and 7:30 p.m. at the Land Trust Building. The latter event will be put on by youth for youth.

Vashon Legal Clinic: The clinic offers free legal advice the first Thursday of each month. People wishing to schedule an appoint-ment to meet with a lawyer should call the King County Bar Association at 267-7070. 6 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Master Gardeners: Stop by the clinic with gardening questions. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Spanish Story Time: Little ones are invited for Spanish stories about colors, shapes, animals, opposites and more. Speakers of all languages are welcome. 10:30 a.m. Fridays at the Vashon Library.

Storefront Studio: University of Washington students will pres-ent ideas for visually revitalizing Vashon. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Movie Magic. (See page 1 for more infor-mation.)Sacred Science: In a lecture and

workshop, Leslie Emery, PhD, will address how complexity science has restored mystery to the mod-ern notion of reality and the ways myth, art and spiritual imagina-tion make that scientific mystery tangible. For more information email [email protected]. The lecture, “How Science Became Spiritual and How that Can Change your Sense of Reality,” will be at 7 p.m. Friday, May 4. The cost is $10. The workshop, “Seeing Through the Veil — Rediscovering Sacred Reality Through Science and Myth,” will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 5, both at the Land Trust Building. The cost is $35.

Garden Club Plant Sale: The Vashon Garden Club will host its popular sale with a variety of starts as well as yard art and collectibles. 9 a.m. to noon at the former Napa store near Vashon Market.

Preschool and Activities Tour: Several Island preschools will open their doors for a preschool tour. Parents can meet the teachers and learn about what other activities for young children are available on the Island. Maps of the tour are available at the VYFS Playspace, Minglement, Café Luna, Vashon Bookshop and online at www.vyfs.org. For more information, call Lori Means at 463-5502. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Farmers Market: Market artisans offer hand-hewn wooden kitchen implements, recycled birdbaths, jewelry and handbags made from vintage album covers. There will also be handmade soaps, organic skin products, caramels for con-noisseurs, local craft beer and wine, authentic Mexican fare and gourmet treats for your canine friends. Just-picked produce from local farms will also be available, and Pacific Potager will offer 64 varieties of tomato starts. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Village Green.

Master Gardeners: Stop by the clinic to learn about which plants are invasive in your garden. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Storefront Studio: In the second opportunity of the weekend, University of Washington students will present ideas for visually revitalizing Vashon. 11:30 a.m. to

1:30 p.m. at Movie Magic.

Adopt-a-Cat Day: Adopt a feline friend. Vashon Island Pet Protec-tors hosts an adoption day every week. Go to www.vipp.org for directions or call VIPP at 389-1085. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 12200 S.W. 243rd St.

Senior Housing and In-Home Care Options: Learn the options available for seniors, including housing from independent living communities to memory care, in-home care and remodeling options to secure a safer home environment. Learn how to discuss with seniors the right to move or seek in-home care and learn more about the costs and services avail-able to meet specific needs. 2 p.m. at the Vashon Library.

Weekend Book Club: This month’s selection is “Madame Tussaud” by Michelle Moran. June’s discussion will be “Sail-ing Alone Around the World” by Joshua Slocum. New members are welcome. Contact Nancy Paul for info at 567-5646. 4 p.m. at a home near town.

Unitarian Fellowship: Rev. Elizabeth Stevens will lead the service, “Radically Inclusive, Spiritually Mature, and Religiously Contagious: What the Youth Have to Teach us about Creating Com-munity.” It will include a review of some of the insights and high points harvested from her work with young people. 9:30 a.m. at Lewis Hall behind Burton Commu-nity Church.

Women’s Service Alliance Meeting: Learn about social service needs on Vashon and se-lect this year’s community service project. Guest speakers will in-clude Ken Maaz, executive director of Vashon Youth & Family Services, and Emma Amiad, a representa-tive from Neighbor 2 Neighbor, a nonprofit group focused on helping older residents “age in place.” The meeting is open to all women ages 16 and older. Contact Pam Robbins at [email protected] for more information. 2 to 4 p.m. at the Ober Park performance room.

Service of Prayer and Healing: A simple service without liturgy

in a candle-lit sanctuary. Hear a few readings, pray and be prayed for, be anointed with oil or come to just sit and be silent. The service is led by Jeff Larson, a Lutheran minister and clinical psycholo-gist. For more information call 463-6359. 6 to 6:30 p.m at Vashon Lutheran Church.

Great Books Discussion Group: This month’s selection is “Major Barbara” by George Bernard Shaw. 6:30 p.m. at the Vashon Library.

Library Story Times: Toddler Story Times, for ages 21 months to 3 years, will meet at 10:40 a.m. Preschool Story Times, for ages 3 to 5, will meet at 11:30 a.m. and Baby Story Times will meet at 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays in May all at the Vashon Library.

Water and Irrigation: The Fruit Club will offer a presentation, led by Jenny Bell and Michael Laurie, on water and irrigation. 6:30 p.m. at the Land Trust Building.

All-Island Forum: Join friends and neighbors in an interactive forum to discover the ways, rea-sons and places we invest time, energy and resources. The group will explore what role people have in acting upon the well-being of the Island community. 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

Vashon Computer Club: The topic will be the ongoing changes in computing and their effects on ordinary users. Questions will be answered and issues discussed concerning social media, wi-fi security, passwords and other safeguards. Anyone may attend free of charge, but membership has benefits and is inexpensive. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, at the Vashon Senior Center.

Lunch Club Garage Sale: To donate items, call Dianne Brenno at 463-9242. The sale will support Chautauqua’s popular Lunch Club. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at the Chautauqua gym.

Shaggy Horse Show: There will also be classes in both English and Western Equitation and Pleasure, showmanship, jump and bareback. There will be an obstacle course for horses, ponies and minis and a costume class. There will be a prize for the shaggiest horse. People can come and watch or get an entry form and enter classes at $10 per class. The show is free to watch. For more information, contact Erika Ellison at [email protected]. 9 a.m. at Paradise Ridge Park.

Father-Daughter Dance: Mark your calendars for this annual event. This year’s theme is Mid-night in Paris. The dance will be semiformal, with coats and ties for

dads and dresses for the girls.The evening will kick off with group instruction provided by March Twisdale. There will also be an optional dinner before the dance. Tickets are available at the Blue Heron and Vashon Bookshop. They are $20 per person for the dance and $15 per person for the dinner. For more information, call Jeff Sayre at 463-2150. 7 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at the Vashon Golf & Swim Club.

Pig Butchery: Farmstead Meatsmith will host this class, where students will butcher pigs with close instruction. The cost is $150. To register, email farmstead [email protected]. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday, May 3 and 4, at Vashon farms.

Afro-Brazilian Dance: Choreog-raphy for this year’s Strawberry Festival parade will be introduced; parade participation is encouraged but not required. The cost for the five-week session is $79, $18 to drop in, and the first time is free. No dance experience is required. 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, begin-ning May 3, at Havurat Ee Shalom.

Yoga For Healthy Neck and Shoulders: Students will learn about the neck and shoulders and practice yoga postures that release tension in those areas. This is a gentle class, and students will take home a guide to continue their practice. The cost is $63. For more information, email [email protected]. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, May 3 and 10, at Island Yoga Center.

Edie Ulatoski, wife of Joe Ulatoski, a retired brigadier general, will share what it was like to be married to an assistant Army attaché in the former Soviet Union during the Cold War and raise their family behind the Iron Curtain, living in the American Embassy in Moscow. Edie was born and raised in a small town in Nebraska during the Dust Bowl and ended up helping as Joe’s partner, observ-ing the capabilities of the Soviet military. The audience will hear how Edie and Joe raised their two small girls behind the walls of the America Embassy in Moscow, travelled through-out the former Soviet Union, staying in “bugged” hotel rooms during the height of the Cold War. All proceeds benefit the residents and programs of Vashon Community Care. Ticket sales are by donation and are avail-able at Vashon Bookshop or Vashon Community Care. Edie will speak at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 6, at the Blue Heron Arts Center.

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.

Ends May 3

Opens May 4

1:30 p.m. May 5

Vashon-Maury Island Community Council: 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 7, at McMurray Middle School.

Water District 19 Commissioners: 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, at the distict office, 17630 100th Ave. S.W.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, at Station 55.

Vashon Park District Commisioners: 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, at Ober Park.

VOV-TV is found on Comcast Channel 21. Most VoV-TV shows are produced by Islanders. If you’ve created a video program of any kind, drop it off at either of VoV’s drop boxes at Café Luna or Vashon Print and Design, making sure to leave your name and contact information, or email [email protected].

Get in on RockFlicks, the short-film contest for all ages, open to all Islanders or those attending Vashon schools. For details see www.voiceofvashon.org. Submission deadline is May 4. The cash prize of $100 will go to the top two winners.

This week’s highlights:

Friday 9 p.m.— , the French singing group that per-formed in February at Vashon High School to an appropriately enthusiastic crowd and filmed by Peter Ray.


CLASSES

Meditation: Attendees will work on deepening their meditation. They will explore using subtle energies in healing the self and others, sensing and awakening intuition. Meg McLaughlin will teach the class; the cost is $250. To register call, Vashon PRAHM at 463-9066. The class meets from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 4, 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Satur-day, May 5, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, May 6, at Vashon PRAHM.

Sacred Science: See the May 4 ‘Sacred Science’ listing. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at the Land Trust Building.

Imagination in Action: Students will play theater games, sing songs and use creative movement, yoga and art to explore story-drama. For ages 4 to 6. Complete class schedule, registration and scholar-ship information is available at www.VashonAlliedArts.org. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays, May 5 to June 2, at the Blue Heron.

Zydeco: Spend a day learning the high-energy dance that has its roots in Louisiana. No dance experience or partner is necessary. The cost is $45. Contact instructor Lilli Ann Carey to register at [email protected] or at 718-1858. 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at Havurat Ee Shalom.

Kabbalah 101: Rabbi Alyjah Navy will lead the group. Participants will receive Kabbalah insights and techniques for spiritual healing, enhanced intimacy, abundance, inner joy and purpose in life. The cost is $40. 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at Vashon Intuitive Arts.

The Art of Poi: This class is for adults, who will learn about Poi, a form of juggling where balls are swung around the body. They will create a routine and when ready will add fire. The cost is $40 per day, $70 for two days and $100 for three days. Email [email protected] for more information. 4 to 6 p.m. Sundays, May 6, 13 and 27, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

The Power of Play: Mik Kukhl-man will lead this workshop for

adults. Play releases creativity, imagination and joy. The cost is $100. For more information, see www.umo.org. 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

Delta Dogs: Learn how to be a therapeutic pet partner team. Email Kathleen Vaught Farner at [email protected] for more information. 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, at Vashon High School.

English as a Second Language: Students learn to speak, read and write in English. Free classes meet each week. 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Vashon Library.

Basket Making: Through the Vashon Wilderness Program, teens can work with pine needles and other natural fibers to create a basket. The cost is $50 plus a $25 materials fee; scholarships are available. For more information and to register, call 651-5715 or see Vashonwildernessprogram.org/teen. 10 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at Camp Sealth.

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The Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum and Islander Christopher Gaynor, far right, won the Exhibit Award last week from the Association of King County Historical Organizations for the show Home of Record. The exhibit featured Gaynor’s photographs and letters from when he served in the Army during the Vietnam War. The show opened in October at the Vashon museum and proved so popular it was held over until February. Bruce Haulman, co-curator of show, called winning the award a high honor and noted that the competition included shows from all the history and heritage museums in the county, including those of considerable resources and repute, such as The Museum of Flight, the Museum of History and Industry and The Burke Museum. County Councilmember Larry Phillips announced the award and provided highlights of the exhibit. Gaynor spoke briefly, Haulman said, thanking those who had assisted with the proj-ect and dedicating the award to a friend who died in Vietnam. “This honor really belongs to my friend Richard Thomas Jackson, killed in action January 6, 1968,” Gaynor said. “Dick, you kept me alive. This is for you, buddy.”Haulman called the show one of the most meaningful exhibits he has worked on and said organizers would consider bringing it back to Vashon if there is interest. They are also consid-ering taking it to other communities to help them tell their stories of theVietnam War.

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is a rare chance to see an unforgettable opera that br ings together the lush, dramatic music of Tchaikovsky and a compelling stor y by Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin. Per formances take place May 16, 18 and 20. Visit w w w.vashonopera.org for information.

Vashon Allied Arts’ youth theater produc-tion, “Fiddler on the Roof, Jr.,” will open tomorrow.

The family-friendly show is an abbrevi-ated version of the famed musical — the story of the life and times of Tevye, a Russian peasant who struggles to maintain his family’s Jewish traditions in changing times. Almost 40 singers, actors and musicians, ages 7 to 17, make up the cast.

The show is being staged at Vashon Methodist Church — the Blue Heron stage proved too small to accommodate so many young thespians. Actors will also double up on many of the parts, with some performing one night and others the next.

Performances are at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Saturday. The Thursday show is a benefit for the food bank — bring a donation. Tickets for all other times, $7/$10, can be purchased at the Blue Heron, Heron’s Nest and Vashon Bookshop.

Bossmosis — a moniker that is word-play for such attributes as awesome, totally cool and wicked — is the name of a new Island band that will play at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Red Bicycle Bistro. The band plays mostly original songs that fall in the genres of blues, funk and jazz flavored rock. Their setup includes two guitars, voice, harp, sax and trom-bone, so expect a big sound.

Blue Heron Dance will present “Giselle,” the classic ballet first performed in Paris in 1841, next weekend at Vashon High School. The ballet, set in Middle Ages Rhineland during harvest season, tells the poignant tale of a peasant girl and a charming prince. The night of dance will also include “Under the Big Top,” a circus-themed work performed by dancers ages 3 to 6. Older dancers will also perform original works they have choreographed themselves. Christine Juarez, artistic director of Blue Heron Dance, has over-seen the entire production.

Performances will take place at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 11 and 12, and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 12 and 13. Tickets, $10/$13, are on sale at the Blue Heron, Heron’s Nest, Vashon Bookshop and brownpapertickets.com.

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A troubadour will bring a bit of Ireland to VashonMaurice Dickson, a well-trav-

eled and internationally celebrated minstrel from Northern Ireland, will play a gig at the Grange next to the north-end ferry terminal at 8 p.m. Saturday.

It’s the second time the renowned troubadour has made a stop on Vashon — he played a sold-out show here 11 years ago.

It was an introduction to the Island that prompted Dickson to write a rollicking, fast-fingered instrumental song titled “Vashon Island” — a video of Dickson playing the song has gotten thou-

sands of views on YouTube.Indeed, YouTube is a great place

to whet your appetite for Dickson’s upcoming concert — a wide selec-tion of videos show him to be a tri-ple-threat genius: a wizard acoustic guitar picker, a soulful singer and a writer of deeply moving songs.

He’s been taking his act on the road since the late 1970s, and he currently plays approximately 150 shows a year. He’s recorded nine albums and taken the stage at pres-tigious folk festivals throughout the British Isles and beyond.

Dickson’s appearance on Vashon

was arranged by Jan Riley, an Islander who has long been a fan of Dickson.

“Maurice is a charming, funny guy and definitely full of blarney,” she said, adding that she considers him to be one of the finest acoustic guitarists she has ever known.

Critics agree with Riley’s assess-ment: a raft of ecstatic reviews of his music are posted on Dickson’s website, www.mauricedickson.com.

Tickets for the show, $15, can be purchased at Vashon Bookshop, or directly from Riley, who supervises the Vashon Library.Maurice Dickson

Young thespians get ready for this family-friendly show.

Pick up a map and follow the trail to 20 Vashon studios

The art studio tour

Residents and tourists will once again get a chance to step inside those hallowed places where art is created when 20 Vashon artists throw open their doors to the public this weekend and next.

The Vashon Island Art Studio Tour started 30 years ago as a modest affair. Now, it’s a thriving, twice-annual tradition that showcases the richness of Vashon’s artistic scene and gives visitors a chance to purchase original art from the people who make it.

This year’s tour will include many Island favor-ites: Delicate silver bells made by Gordon Barnett, light-infused oil paintings by Pam Ingalls, colorful pottery by Liz Lewis, whimsical tiles and magnets by Irene Otis.

As in years past, demonstrations will be part of the tour. Visitors can watch Emily Pruiksma paint Ukrainian eggs at Fiddle Home Studio or Dean Hanmer create garden art at his studio on the Burton Hill.

Potter Mary Hosick has completed her new out-door reduction kiln and will have new surprises to exhibit. And visitors can blow their own glass at Brian Brenno’s studio on the Island’s north end.

The tour is also a wonderful way to see the Island:Many of the studios are tucked in the woods or perched above the water in intimate private settings.

Some studios will be open Friday night during the Gallery Cruise. But the tour officially takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6, and the following weekend, May 12 and 13.

Maps for the free, self-guided tour are avail-able at businesses around town or online at www.VashonIslandArtStudioTour.com.

Clockwise, from top, a detail from a sculpture by Gunter Reimnitz; “Grace,” oil on board, by Pam Ingalls; one of Gordon Barnett’s bells and a frog lantern by Fiddle Home Studios.

For the past eight months, Tlinglet master carver Israel Shotridge has been shaping a 40-foot red cedar into two 15-foot totems and a 30-foot sculpted facade in the Coast Salish style.

The work was commissioned by the Quileute Tribe on the Olympic Peninsula; members of their tribe came to Vashon from LaPush last August to bless the red cedar and bring good har-mony to the carvers.

Now, Shotridge — who was helped along the way by seasoned carver

Robert Barratt from British Columbia, his nephew Robert Jackson and oth-ers — is ready for the public to view this spectacular piece of art prior to its departure and delivery to the Quileute people.

Visit Shotridge’s studio at 9804 S.W. 145th Place from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday for this special public viewing. Israel and Sue Shotridge’s shop at Center, Raven’s Nest, where carvings, drum and jew-elry will be on display, is also part of this weekend’s art studio tour.


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What might you see when you join the First Friday Gallery Cruise through Vashon’s shops and galleries? As usual, there will be a wealth of art on display, but the theme of this month’s cruise might well be “DIY,” since many of the shows fea-ture work created by those who might not immediately identify themselves as artists.

For instance, a notable show at Vashon Community Care will feature photogra-phy created by both VCC residents and Harbor School students in an intergenera-tional workshop with Chris Beck and Ray Pfortner. Self-portraits will also be on dis-play, created in another intergenerational workshop led by Jeffrey Zheutlin.

Bird art by fourth-grade students at Chautauqua Elementary will be on display at the Vashon Bookshop, and McMurray Middle School students will display self-portraits — some created with oil pas-tels and others by making masks out of gourds — at the Heron’s Nest. All of these works were made in Vashon Artists in the Schools projects.

VALISE will offer “The Art of Work and Invention,” its third all-Island exhibition. The show will feature home-designed tools and inventions, both actual and imagined, created by a diverse group of Islanders.

Plenty of art by seasoned professionals will also be on display.

At Island Quilter, quilts by Katie Pedersen, a member of the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild, will be on the walls, and Café

Luna will exhibit landscapes and portraits by Kathy Larsdotter.

And at the Blue Heron, there will be a sumptuous selection of paintings by Janice Wall, photography by Tina Carter and ceramics by Jan Crocker.

Barnworks (see story, page 1), The Hardware Store Restaurant and Shotridge Studios (see previous page) will also be open for First Friday.

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This self portrait by Preston Scheer was created in an intergenerational workshop and will be on display with others at Vashon Community Care.

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SAW, a small shop that will feature artwork and crafts by Vashon artists, will open its doors Friday night as part of the Gallery Cruise.

The new shop is a joint venture that will be run by five Islanders — Heather, Colin and Kelly Brynn, Maggie Smith and Sophia Stendahl. All five of them had items in Good Merchandise, a shop that stood in that location until it closed earlier this year.

The name SAW stems from the role that the shop played years ago, when it was a part of the adjacent hard-ware store and was the place where people got their saws sharpened, said Heather Brynn. It’s also an acronym, she said — Starving Artist Works.

“We’re still looking for more art and more artists,” Brynn said.

Stendahl said she’s glad to be giv-ing the little shop another lease on life. All five partners “enjoyed having their work displayed at the former shop and didn’t want to see it disap-pear,” she said. “It’s a great space in a great location.”

Islanders John Pearce and Anna Kinsler are the owners of Monarch Gallery, a new shop featuring antiques, collectibles, fine art and jewelry, located in the gas station complex next to Snapdragon.

Pearce, who previously owned Chilkat Trader, located in the old McFeeds building, said he is happy to open his new shop in a “friendly, vis-ible spot” and that he will offer lots of interesting merchandise.

“Look for lots of glass cases filled with small, precious things,” he said,

adding that he would offer Diego Rivera drawings, Space Needle con-cept art, Chihuly glass and a chair that was used by Marilyn Monroe.

The shop will open on First Friday, with a reception featuring French champagne served in crystal glasses.

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From left, Kelly Brynn, Maggie Smith, Colin Brynn, Heather Brynn and Sophia Stendahl will run SAW. Below, many treasure await at Monarch.


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The VHS fastpitch soft-ball team faced the tough Orting Cardinals last Wednesday, April 25.

The weather was balmy in the Orting Valley, and the game was underway with Vashon’s first three batters out.

Orting ran through its batting order twice in the first inning, scoring 14 points. It was a wash the rest of the game. Vashon couldn’t pull out of the slump and the game ended at 27-0.

Vashon then travelled to Bothel on Saturday to face the Cedar Park Christian Eagles in a non-league scrimmage. VHS took

another bruising, but thegame’s final score, 19-0, had some highlights forVashon.

Vashon played three up,three down defense for thefirst three innings. Playersexhibited some of the best defense played all season,on a turf field as well. The Cedar Park team won the state tournament last yearand haven’t lost their edge.Vashon girls just couldn’tkeep the momentum, buttried their best.

Vashon plays todayat home against SeattleChristian at 4 p.m. atVashon High School.

— Jackie Merrill

Three of Vashon’s best wrestlers recently compet-ed in a national-level tour-nament in Reno: eighth-graders Logan Nelson and Chase Wickman and soph-omore Shane Armstrong.

The wrestlers competed in weight classes that con-sisted of as many as 100 wrestlers per class and entrants from all over the country, from California to Florida.

Nelson fought hard in his two matches and held his own against much older competition. Wickman lost

close matches to the cham-pion and the fourth-place winner, and won two deci-sive matches in spectacularfashion.

Armstrong won four matches and was two wins away from placingin the tournament. Two of his wins were particu-larly exciting. In both he was losing by a substantial amount heading into the third period before coming back to win, barely beating the buzzer.

— Per-Lars Blomgren

Vashon soccer team is ranked second in the Nisqually LeagueBy KAREN O’NEILFor The Beachcomber

It was another great week of play for the Pirate soccer team, as they won two league games against Orting and Life Christian last week.

The team continues to hold sec-ond place in the Nisqually Lague, behind first-place Seattle Christian, whom they will face at home tomor-row. This will be the last scheduled home game for the Pirates.

Under pouring rain, the boys played well and defensively on Thursday at the Orting Stadium, resulting in a 2-0 win.

They held off any goals until the second half, in the 52nd minute, when forward Ezra Koenig scored on an assist from Victor Moriera for the first goal of the night.

Shortly after, defender Jesse Hazzard passed up to forward Nick Gass. Gass scored, clenching the vic-tory that night. For goalie Philip Vandavanter, this game marks his seventh shut-out performance this season.

At the home match on Friday, the Pirates were apparently hungry for more goals, and won handsome-ly, 7-1, against the Life Christian Eagles.

A first goal was lead-off by mid-fielder Peter Amick in first two min-utes of play. After several attempts by the opponents, the Eagles finally scored in the ninth minute, upping the competition.

Forward Victor Moreira respond-ed by scoring on an assist by Koenig.

During the second half, Koenig had three consecutive goals, including one assisted by defender Matt Swope. Moriera and Gass each added to the tally in the last 15 minutes of the game, which was clearly a blowout victory.

Currently ranked second in the league, the Pirates will take on the undefeated Seattle Christian at 6 p.m. Thursday at VHS.

— Karen O’Neil is a longtime VHS soccer volunteer.

Matt Swope is taken down by a Life Christian player, drawing a foul in Friday’s 7-1 win over the visiting Eagles.

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The Vashon Lacrosse Club high school boys team won its fourth straight game on Saturday with a 15-9 victory over Seattle’s Ballard High School. The victory kept Vashon in the race for a berth in the state playoffs.

Vashon’s potent offense established itself early in this game, scoring the first four goals in the first quarter. Luke Hembree and Caz Mozeleski led the charge with two goals apiece.

Ballard’s defense stiffened in the second quarter to limit Vashon to a single goal. But Vashon repeatedly thwarted Ballard’s efforts to get the ball out of its defensive end. Vashon held a tentative 6-2 lead at the half.

Both teams unleashed offensive fire-power in the third quarter, with each scoring five goals. Ballard could not stop Hembree and Mozeleski, and Vashon’s Dan Lofland and Konnar Fall also added goals. Vashon’s defense became more aggressive in the fourth quarter, allow-ing the team to pull away from Ballard on goals from Evan Anderson, Anthony Baker and two more for Mozeleski to seal the win. Baker’s goal was a crowd pleaser as he raced the length of the field to find the back of the Ballard net.

Hembree led scorers with a stagger-ing six goals and four assists. Winter Krimmert continued to improve at face-off, and Vashon’s defense showed enough proficiency to back up another stellar performance from goalie Aaron Bomber.

Vashon traveled to Kennedy Catholic Monday and will play top-ranked Seattle Prep today at home.

— Charley Rosenberry is the coach of the high school boys lacrosse team.

Last Thursday was senior recognition day for the VHS track and field team. Prior to the start of a track meet held at Charles Wright Academy, five Vashon seniors with their parents, along with exchange students on the team, were recog-nized and presented with a bouquet of flowers.

Seniors on the team this year include Kenese Parker, Erica Walker, Peri Roberts, Julie Wilson and Taylor Hernandez. Exchange students who were also recognized were Selma Jonsdottir from Iceland and Daniel Schwarz from Liechtenstein.

In the track meet itself, three Vashon athletes took victories for the Pirates. The first-place winners were Landon Summers, who won the 1600 meters in 4:59 and the 800 meters in 2:17; Codi Williams, who won the 300-meter hurdles in 54.6, and Samantha Clements, who won the triple jump at 28 feet, 9 inches.

Alex Soriano also placed second in the discus event with a throw of 96 feet, 5 inches. Overall the Pirate boys and girls placed third as a team at the four-way meet.

Vashon coach Kevin Ross said it was impor-tant to recognize the seniors at the meet because of their commitment and dedication to Vashon’s track and field program. Ross noted the fact that the graduating seniors had never had the opportunity to compete at home in the VHS stadium in the last four years, as the facilities no longer meet the regulations to hold a meet.

However, he said, “they represented our com-munity and have been an asset to the VHS ath-letic department.”

— Natalie Johnson

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Vashon’s Caz Mozeleski (left) drives for one of his four goals in Vashon’s 15-9 victory over Seattle’s Ballard High School.”

Winning streak continues for boys lacrosse

By RITA ALLMANFor The Beachcomber

During a busy three-game week, the Vashon baseball team took losses to Chimacum and Orting. The Pirates then came back to end the week with a victory over Life Christian, the team’s second win of the season.

Vashon lost, 6-1, to the undefeated Chimacum Cowboys on Monday, April 23.

Josh Myer pitched five innings, allow-ing two earned runs on eight hits, striking out five and giving up four base on balls. Michael Bernheisel pitched the final two frames, allowing three earned runs on four hits.

Pirate hitting was led by Ezra Lacina, who was 2 for 3 with two singles. Zack Drape, Ben Reoux, Erik Powelson, Colton Alberthal and Michael Bernheisel all added singles.

Line score: Chimacum 6 runs, 12 hits, 2 errors, Vashon 1 run, 7 hits, 1 error.

The Orting Cardinals defeated the Pirates, 4-0, on Wednesday, April 25.

Orting held a narrow 1-0 lead through five innings, but struck for three runs in

the sixth, putting the game out of reach.Joe Wald pitched a complete game, scat-

tering six hits and allowing one earned run. Orting pitcher Joel Moore stymied Vashon’s offense by generating only one hit on the day — a single by Ezra Lacina.

Line score: Orting 4 runs, 6 hits, 0 errors, Vashon 0 runs, 1 hit, 2 errors.

Vashon defeated Life Christian with a 10-7 victory on Friday. The Eagles held a 6-1 lead through the top of the fifth inning, but Vashon exploded for nine runs in the bottom half, taking over the lead and the game.

Kelly Sullivan pitched five innings, allowing nine hits and three earned runs. Michael Bernheisel completed the final two innings, giving up two hits and one earned run.

Ezra Lacina was 3 for 3 with two singles and a double. Joe Wald, Josh Myer, and Sullivan each added two hits. Zack Drape and Michael Bernheisel had a hit apiece.

Line score: Vashon 10 runs, 11 hits, 2 errors, Life Christian 7 runs, 11 hits, 3 errors.

— Rita Allman does web and team support for the Pirates. See vhsbaseball.blogspot.com.


Ezra Lacina belts a hit as the Pirates defeat Life Christian on Friday. Lacina beat the tag at second base to stretch his hit into a double.

Vashon baseball team stumbles twice, ends the week with a victory

By MARIANNE METZ-LIPEFor The Beachcomber

Vashon Island Junior Crew (VIJC) traveled to Victoria, B.C., last weekend to take part in one of North America’s largest high school crew competitions, the Brentwood Regatta. Competing with 36 teams from Canada, Washington and Oregon, VIJC entered 34 preliminary heats on Friday and Saturday and secured its place in 13 final races. Vashon boats medaled in nine of the races, placing first in four.

Winning the four gold medals were the JV men’s quad, with Liam McConnell, Ben Zaglin, Charles Elliott, Julian Baca and coxswain Rayna Shinn; the men’s double with Gus Magnuson and Ryan Bingham; the novice women’s four, with Bryn Gilbert, Kirsten Girard, Maya Krah, Teagan Lynch and coxswain Ally Clevenger; and the novice women’s quad with KaiLi Scheer, Anne Gaspers, Kalie Heffernan, Girard and Clevenger.

Two silver medals were won by the women’s eight, with Hannah Russell, Shannon Lipe, Anna Ripley, Girard, Gilbert, Lynch, Krah, Halimah Griffin and Shinn; and the men’s quad with Baxter Call, Tate Gill, Magnuson, Bingham and Shinn.

Bringing home the bronze were the novice men’s quad with Ethan Rumberg, Nathaniel Petram, Patrick Hanson, Elliott and Zaglin as coxswain; the men’s quad with Jack Mask, Call, Gill, Hanson and Zaglin; and Magnuson in the single men’s race.

Tom Kicinski, the coach for this regatta, said he was incredibly impressed with the VIJC’s performance.

“When I rowed for Vashon, nobody medaled at Brentwood,” he said. “This has been a huge shift in this team.”

Kicinski said the crew’s performance was especially impressive considering the high level of competition at the regatta.

“This regatta appeals to the best crews in the (Northwest) area, all the big schools, and they have some good programs, especially the host school,” he said.

Two VIJC boats, the women’s high school eight and the men’s quad, were invited to and will compete at the high-caliber Windermere Cup races, part of the annual Opening Day events at Lake Union this Saturday, May 5.

— Marianne Metz Lipe is on the publicity committee for the Vashon Island Rowing Club.

By MARY KAY RAUMAFor The Beachcomber

Last week the Vashon Valkyries girls lacrosse team split its two-game week, defeating Overlake but then falling to Stadium two days later.

The Valkyries faced off against Overlake at home on Wednesday, April 25. After a rough string of umpire calls, Olivia Brenno settled into her role as a key defender, applying pressure behind the cage and locking down cuts around the goal circle.

Midfielder Sadie Hoverter led the midfield effort with three controls off the draw and two goals before an injury confined her to the sidelines. The Valkyries led soundly at the half, Overlake gained ground in the second half, but the Valkyries held their lead, winning the game, 12-9.

Genevieve Rauma contrib-uted five goals to the win, Anneke Steneker followed that up with three goals and two assists and midfielder Mykah Shiosaki enabled three goals with her assists, while Ellen Chappelka fired in two more.

On Friday Valkyriesbattled the Stadium High School Tigers in anotherhome game. The Tigers cameto win, scoring two back-to-back goals within the firstfour minutes of the game as the Valkyries struggled to find their footing.

Midf ielders Sarah Raymond, Grace DeGraaf and Shiosaki aggressively worked the field, but the Tigers shut down midfieldtransitions with double and triple team coverage. Attack squad captain Emma Duboisorchestrated the team’s motion offense with her stick skills and tenacity, bringing in one goal and two assists and establishing her as the team leader in goal assists.

Although the Valkyries lost 5-7, the score is no indication of the effort exhibited by a team that fought to the end.Steneker contributed two goals while Shiosaki contin-ued to show her dominance with one goal and an assist,with Rauma bringing in one more.

— Mary Kay Rauma is the assistant coach of the

Vashon Valkyries.

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Gus Magnuson (left) and Ryan Bingham were in one of four Vashon boats that won gold medals at the Brentwood Regatta last weekend. Magnuson and Bingham rowed a men’s double.

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Munger, whose white hair contrasts with her remarkably unlined face, has long been considered one of the guiding lights of the art scene on Vashon. In a recent column in The Beachcomber, Island artist Christine Beck called Munger “the Gertrude Stein of Vashon,” noting that Barnworks was the first Island “salon” to invite artistic appreciation and conversation.”

Jayne Quig, a painter who has been a member of Barnworks for decades, also credits Munger for nurturing a generation of artists on Vashon.

“It’s been great to get together with other artists and share ideas, and we owe it all to Sharon,” Quig said. “She is the pillar.”

Indeed, a roster of Barnworks’ past and present mem-bers reads like a who’s who of Vashon’s art establishment — painters who helped to create the image of Vashon as a haven for artists, starting back in the late 1960s.

Current members include Jerry Balcom, Rose Belknap, Donna Botten, Mary Hodgins, Dayl Holst, Munger, Geri Peterson, Jayne Quig, Harmut and Ilse Reimnitz, Jon-Eric Schafer and Janice Wall.

All, except Wall and Holst, will have work featured in Barnworks’ spring studio tour show, but in a nod to the passing of time as well as the gallery’s imminent closure, past members have also been invited to contribute a paint-ing to the show.

This group includes such well-known names as Debi Crawford, Brian Fisher, Darsie Beck, Barbara Henderson, Bill Knox, Ina Whitlock, Mary Macopia, Paul Mimier, Janice Campbell, Kathy Johnson, Jacqui Lown and Gretchen Hancock. There were also be works on display by members who are now deceased — Mary Bagley, Phyllis Hubbard and Gus Swanberg.

Sculptors have always been guest stars at each Barnworks’ show, and this time will be no different, with a display of outdoor works by Al Bradley, Gunter Reimnitz, Dewayne Hoyt, David Erue, Penny Grist, Dean Hanmer, Mike Urban, Steve Zartman and Gus Schairer.

For Munger, it’s a chance to look back at what Barnworks has meant to her personally, and how it all began.

“When somebody said to me, ‘I bet this has just been your dream,’ I said, ‘absolutely not,’” she said.

Rather, she described a process of how Barnworks evolved from her interests, passions and deep connections with other artists.

Munger moved to Vashon in 1967 with her then-hus-band (she has since divorced) and raised her two chil-dren, Rochelle and Josh Munger, in a farmhouse on the Barnworks property.

The barn was an open-sided pole structure when Munger arrived, but she soon finished it off and started to put it to good use.

Along with two other artists, Joan Fulton and Nancy Scott Winker, Munger first created batik works in the barn, which she then sold at art fairs. She also worked as an art teacher at Vashon High School and networked widely in the Island’s wider art community. A 20-year second career as a United Parcel Service driver on the Island began for Munger when a UPS driver, delivering art supplies to her house, mentioned that there were job openings with the company.

All the while, as Munger worked to support her fam-ily, she continued to make art, and the membership of Barnworks continued to grow.

Rose Belknap, a Barnworks member for the past five years, said that the gallery has had such a special place inVashon’s art scene that it won’t be easily replicated.

“The unique thing about Barnworks is you can see so many artists at once,” Belknap said. “I don’t see that any-where else. But it doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Maybe withBarnworks closing, another door will open.”

Belknap also believes that Barnworks’ current members, including Munger, will go on to find other exhibition spaces, perhaps together.

“The artistic spontaneity will go on,” she said. “We’ll show again together. It’s just time to close those doors for Sharon. She’s done enough.”

Gus Schairer, sitting outside the barn at Barnworks, instructs 5-year-old Jamie Choo on the fine craft of soapstone carving dur-ing last spring’s art studio tour.

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The students are part of a program called Storefront Studio, funded by the UW and a $10,000 King County grant. Now in its 10th year, the program dispatches stu-dents to a variety of small communities — from Carnation to Kent — to develop ideas that could strengthen the com-munity, preserve its history, build on its assets and promote economic growth.

Low-interest loan money from a county program will likely be available to help shopkeepers and property owners implement some of the ideas, though the specifics have not yet been determined, Koler said.

“We’re literally in the process of developing a new initia-tive, called the Downtown Revitalization Initiative,” she said. She hopes such funds will be available later this year.

Students said they’ve enjoyed the process of visiting Vashon and talking to merchants and Island historians such as Bruce Haulman. Initially, they were going to look just at Vashon town, but in the course of their investigation, they said, they realized residents see the whole Island as their community.

“In talking to residents, we realized the town is just one small part of Vashon. It has these pockets,” said Alexander Thomson, one of the students.

“Our goal is not just to improve the downtown streetscape, but to develop the economy, preserve the history and sup-port the community,” he said.

Jim Nicholls, the UW professor who oversees the Storefront Studio, said he and the students came up with themes that they felt defined the Island — Vashon’s farms and forests, its downtown main street, its dockside com-munities and what he called the crossroads communities, places like Center, where Vashon Allied Arts plans to build a new performing arts center.

“We’ve developed little projects in each of these areas as examples of how stewardship could occur and provide this idea of promoting history, promoting jobs and promoting economic development,” he said.

The students’ proposals are far-ranging — some of them modest, some ambitious.

They’ve suggested, for instance, a welcome sign at the north-end ferry dock that would let visitors know how far they need to go to reach the town. “When arriving at the ferry, there is no indication of where anything is on the Island … (or) where you are relative to downtown,” stu-dents wrote in their explanation for the project.

They’ve also called for an extension of the plaza in front of the library, transforming it into what they call a “library concert bowl,” facade improvements on nine town buildings and a trailhead structure that clearly marks the entrance into Island Center Forest at the newly acquired site near Roseballen.

More ambitious projects include a proposal to restore some of the remaining structures at the Beall Greenhouses;once a thriving nursery, today, the students said, “the greenhouses resemble ancient ruins.”

They’ve suggested that VAA reconsider the design ofits proposed $16 million performing arts center, adding aporch to the glass-fronted, two-story-high entrance thatwould create an architectural connection between it and the other buildings at Center.

They’d also like to see VAA salvage a part of McFeeds before tearing it down. While exploring the building, Nicholls said, the students went into the attic and discov-ered it was built with lattice trusses — beautiful structuralbeams that are still intact and could be used to support anenlarged structure at the Village Green, something manag-ers of the Farmer Market would like to see.

“We don’t want to get in the way of the growth of the performing arts,” Nicholls said, “but we also don’t want to lose what McFeeds has to offer.”

The students also put forward some ambitious projects for Vashon town, including a proposal to address the 75 feet of windowless facade between James’ Hair Design and Amiad & Associates — “a very static and under-utilizedspace,” the students wrote. The building, the former site of Island Lumber before it moved to its new location in 2002,is still owned by Island Lumber owner Earl Van Buskirk; hecurrently uses it as a warehouse.

Students suggested it could be repurposed and made intoa restaurant, book store, wine cellar or art collective.

“The Farmers Market is right across the street,” Nichollsnoted, adding that it could become a covered market, tap-ping into the bustling Saturday affair. It’s not enough, headded, to put a mural on the building. “That doesn’t solve the problem,” he said.

Some Vashon merchants say they appreciate the students’fresh perspective.

“It’s like a gift from the county to have these students take a look with a different set of eyes,” said Priscilla Schleigh,owner of Giraffe. “It’s all positive. I think it’s great.”

Tom Langland, co-owner of the Vashon Pharmacy, said his business is one that will get a proposed facade improve-ment — and he’s looking forward to it.

“We have a very dated and bland exterior,” he said. Langland said he’s long thought the town could use a

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“I don’t want us to lose this opportunity,” he added.But Van Buskirk, told of the students’ suggestions for his

building, questioned whether any of them would work. He’snot seen the proposal.

The only kind of project he could foresee, he said, wastransforming his building into office space; any kind of retail space demands too much parking — more than thatstretch of town can accommodate, he said.

“What most people don’t realize is that that building’sbeen there so long it would probably have to be torn down to reconstruct something,” he added. “It would be hard toturn it into retail space without starting all over.”


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when the pressure of not having enough money comes down,” said social studies teacher Martha Woodard.

Ironically, the brouhaha came at the same time that Superintendent Michael Soltman announced that a com-bination of fundraising and teacher retirements meant he wouldn’t have to issue any layoff notices to teachers to bal-ance the budget this spring.

At the school board meeting on Thursday, a large group of parents and students, in addition to the teachers, showed up to express concern over reports they’d heard that social studies classes at the high school may be cut. Many were there in response to a lengthy letter written by one of the social studies teachers, as well as the fact that course listings released by the school suggested social studies offerings could be reduced for the 2012-2013 school year.

Soltman, however, told parents and teachers it was highly unlikely that social studies classes would be cut.

“What I want to assure you tonight is that no decisions have been made,” he said.

According to the letter, written by longtime social studies teacher Cindy Powell and widely distributed to district fam-ilies and board members last Wednesday, district admin-istrators about a month ago asked two VHS social studies teachers to outline curriculum for classes to be offered should the district not replace, or only partially replace, two highly regarded social studies teachers who are retiring this year — Powell and her husband Mike Zecher.

The teachers complied, and the process created what Powell called a complete turmoil within the social stud-ies department over what teachers saw as imminent cuts should the district not raise enough funds to cover the budget deficit. One scenario outlined by the staff included eliminating AP Government, a class students can receive college credit for.

“This has been the most demoralizing exercise we have had to go through in the past three years,” Powell said at the meeting.

Powell, Zecher and Woodard all expressed their concerns to the board, saying VHS has a strong social studies curricu-lum and cutting classes would create a sub-par program and hurt students’ chances of getting into college. What’s more, they said, it was unfair to ask the department to develop a new program in a short amount of time and before they knew if the district would raise enough funds to avoid cuts.

They also expressed confusion as to why social studies classes — considered to be core classes — would seemingly be cut before electives just because there were retirements.

“That’s not the way to decide cuts,” Woodard said at the meeting.

“I do believe everyone is working for the good of the school,” she added, “but I don’t get it.”

Soltman, however, explained that the process was nothing more than an exercise the district asks teachers to complete any time there are retirements in order to consider all options. The limited classes that teachers outlined shouldn’t have appeared in the course listings, he said, and cuts would never be made without public input and a board decision.

“I acknowledge there were some communication prob-lems. … I’m sorry for that,” Soltman said at the meeting.

Some board members also defended the practice.“From the board perspective, it’s a healthy exercise to go

through,” said board member Laura Wishik.“This one obviously went astray,” she added.Since the schools foundation has raised over half of its

goal and five teachers are retiring this year, Soltman said the district could avoid the painful process of issuing layoff notices to teachers this spring only to rehire most of them just before school starts, as it’s done in past years.

He said the school district now plans to cover the classes that were taught by Powell and Zecher with internal trans-fers. And if the foundation reaches its goal, he said, the district hopes to hire new teachers to replace them.

“We are planning to hire a couple really good teachers that will hopefully follow in the legacy of Cindy and Mike,” he said.

After the meeting, teachers said they were relieved that the social studies program seemed to be safe, but still expressed frustration about what they went through and raised questions about the philosophy behind budget cuts.

While board members said they would aim to cut elec-tives before core classes, they also said no program is neces-sarily off the table if cuts must be considered. Last year, they noted, a similar situation in the math department caused

upset. “The only reason social studies got heightened attention

this time was because there were two retirements,” Wishik said at the meeting.

Powell, however, said in an interview after the meeting that she believes core classes such as social studies should never be considered for cuts before electives. Asking teach-ers to consider reductions just because there were retire-ments was arbitrary and insulting, she said.

“We need clear criteria,” she said. “We need to standard-ize the process by which we examine contingencies.”

What’s more, Powell said, she was offended that Soltman suggested the situation was a simple exercise that teachers misunderstood.

“That’s a complete mischaracterization of what’s been going on,” she said. “The staff has been so upset; the staff has been thinking we are losing a program that has truly been … carefully crafted over a decade.”

Woodard, one of the two teachers asked to reconfigure the program, agreed.

“If you’re asked what would you do if you have only one (teacher replaced), it seems common sense that they’re con-sidering that. … It made us quite upset, whether it was their intention or not,” she said.

In an interview, Soltman said he was glad to have clari-fied the situation at the meeting, and that the high school course listings were changed the next day to allow students to sign up for all the social studies classes that are regularly offered.

“I think we created confusion there and angst that didn’t need to occur,” he said.

As of Monday, the Vashon Island Public Schools founda-tion had raised about $270,000 of the $500,000 in pledges needed to bridge the district’s budget gap and avoid any program cuts. Foundation board chair Zabette Macomber said she was pleased with the progress, especially consider-ing that at this point in last year’s campaign the foundation had brought in just $199,000.

Soltman said he, too, was feeling good about the cam-paign. In fact, he said that since this year’s fundraiser is garnering stronger support earlier in year, it looked as if the district would not have to formulate a list of possible pro-gram cuts — a process that in recent years has caused much anxiety among staff and families.

“I believe that people will contribute to the foundation, and we’ll have the money we need to have a full program,” he said.

And in light of the recent upset, Soltman said the situa-tion was unfortunate but highlighted the need for everyone to give to the schools. He added that perhaps it was time for the district to have a broader conversation about program philosophy and the weight given to core programs.

“I think actually we’re in a good position now to have that conversation and take a look at our long-term sustain-ability,” he said.

AARON CARL STOLTZ

Aaron Carl Stoltz, born February 1, 1971 in Seattle, raised on Vashon, passed away peacfully April 26, 2012 after a 9 month battle of cancer. He is survived by his mother Lynn and father David, brothers David Jr. and Mark (Kaitlyn) and one sister Brandi (Todd) and nephews Josh, Joe, and Derek.

Aaron was a skilled tradesman in the autobody industry. Some of his clients include Bellevue Lexus and BMW. He was a trained hiker and climbed Mt. Ranier. He lived in Brazil for a short time, Florida and then moved back to Seattle. Aaron loved his family. He was loyal, true character, and trustworthy. He has numerous good friends and was loved by all. A memorial will be held at the home of David Stoltz Jr. at 3 pm, Sunday, May 6 to celebrate his life.

Peter David Kranjcevich passed away unexpectedly on April 19, 2012, at his home in Burbank, CA. He was deeply loved and will be missed by his parents, David and Carole (Bingham) Kranjcevich; his brothers John M. and Daniel Kranjcevich, his sister-in-law Angel; his nephew Chase, and his girlfriend and love, Heather Henry-Parker.

Born and raised in Las Vegas, NV, Pete attended UNLV and finished his education earning a degree in Art from the Art Institute of Seattle. From there he used his artistic talent working for such prestigious companies as 20th Century Fox, Stan Lee, and finally the Walt Disney Company where he was a respected Technical Director for DisneyToon Studios.

Not only an artist, Pete was an adventure athlete, summiting Mount Rainer and finishing Ironman Regensburg 2011. He loved anything to do with the outdoors, especially if it included spending time with his friends and family.

Visitation will be held Friday, April 27, 2012, 4:00-8:00 pm at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills) 6300 Forest Lawn Drive. Wake to follow.

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CONTINUED FROM 1 Kathy’s Corner experi-enced two break-ins last week, losing approximately $2,500 in items and expe-riencing $1,000 in prop-erty damage, owner Kathy Wheaton said Monday.

The break-ins at the small Island nursery occurred late Sunday night or early Monday morning and then again late Wednesday night or early Thursday, she said. The burglars — Wheaton said she believes there was more than one — took odd and random things, like packages of pens, as well as expensive items, such as several bottles of high-quality organic fertilizer.

They also stole her walk-ie-talkie during the first robbery and then, during the second robbery, the sec-ond one she had purchased to replace the stolen one.

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two weeks ago at Langley Fine Gardens in Dockton, which lost $1,000 in plant starts from the farm stand over the course of three days. Two other farm stands were also recently burglarized, Wheaton said.

Wheaton, whose shop has been broken into before, said she felt sick about these last two inci-dents.

“I didn’t sleep for two nights,” she said. “It’s hard when you’re working so doggone hard.”

At the same time, she said, she’s been awed by the wave of support she’s received from Island resi-dents.

“People on Vashon never cease to amaze me in the depth of their caring,” she said. “That’s what keeps me trucking.”

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