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AUTHOR EXPLORES SEATTLEJim Lynch’s new book looks

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FRUITS OF LABORFruit club adopts trees

to practice pruning.Page 5

The shelves are up, books in order, fresh carpet laid and a row of new computers plugged in. Last weekend the doors opened to what felt like a brand-new library at Vashon Plaza as islanders got their first look at the temporary space that will serve Vashon for the coming year, until the newly remodeled Vashon Library opens in late 2013 or early 2014.

“It turned out much better than I was expecting,” said Jan Riley, opera-tions supervisor at the library who has been working long hours to make the transition smooth.

On Saturday morning the library was bustling with people browsing shelves, returning books, using com-puters and picking up holds they’d waited for during the library’s closure. Many commented that the area felt

fresh, open, bright and airy.Library staff and professional movers

worked for weeks to prepare the space, and the library shut down for five days last week so thousands of books could

be moved across town. “Everyone did a

marvelous job,” said Wanda Thompson, who browsed the fic-tion section.

Indeed, the former bowling alley was dusty and barren just weeks ago but now looks as if it’s housed a library for years. Blue and green carpet brought over from a Federal Way library sets off a 4,800 square-foot-space packed with bright white shelves of books. There are spots to sit and read, a children’s area and a computer table lined with 20 new machines.

The temporary library is about 1,500 square feet smaller than the

one at Ober Park, but it holds the same number of books and comput-ers. There isn’t a meeting room, so most meetings and classes once held at the library will be moved to other locations for the next year.

Riley said that while there was an air of excitement at the new location, it wasn’t anything compared to the celebration that will occur when the new library opens in a year. “We’re all looking forward to getting a new library,” she said.

Elizabeth Nye, who came to check out the new digs that morning, noted that with a car wash happening out front, dance rehearsals and batting practice taking place down the way and the IGA grocery store celebrating its reopening, the Vashon Plaza was a bustling place that weekend.

“It’s more like a city library,” she said. “It’s a lot of fun. It feels like there should be a latte machine.”

Islanders check out Vashon’s new library

By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

After an effort to hold a summer school at Vashon High School faltered last year, the school district is taking steps to see a pro-gram for struggling stu-dents come to fruition this summer.

At last week’s Vashon school board meeting, VHS principal Susan Hanson presented two summer school options for the board to consider. While board members said they were glad to see the effort move forward, several of them, as well as a volunteer who has promoted summer school, said they weren’t happy

with the latest plan.“It doesn’t accomplish

what I thought we were try-ing to do,” said board mem-ber Laura Wishik at the meeting. “It doesn’t let you wipe out your mistake.”

At issue is the fact that under the proposal, a high schooler who failed an English or math class could take summer school and earn a “pass” grade, but couldn’t change the letter grade he or she had earned. Instead, the old F as well as the new “pass” would both appear on the student’s transcript.

Several board members said they wanted to give students the opportunity to improve their original grades, and they questioned whether many students would take part in a sum-mer school that didn’t give them that option.

Officials vet plan for new summer school

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Principal’s plan would let students retake courses they fail

City’s concerns could put Medic One at risk By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer

A city in King County is withholding support of a regionwide Emergency Medical Services’ levy, opposition that could jeop-ardize the highly regarded Medic One system if a reso-lution to the impasse isn’t found soon.

The six-year levy, slated to come before county vot-ers later this year, funds the Medic One service and is considered especially critical to the Vashon fire department, which receives about half of its budget from EMS funding. But officials in Kirkland, one of nine cit-ies in the county that has to

agree to the levy before it can go on the ballot, have voiced concerns about the amount of money Kirkland taxpay-ers pay into the regionwide system and the way EMS is slated to run over the next six years, should the levy be approved.

As a result, Kirkland City Councilwoman Penny Sweet went before the King County Council’s Regional Policy Committee two weeks ago to voice her city’s concern and opposition. Kirkland, she told members of the county council, “feels it’s important to inform you … that unfortunately we’re

SEE LEVY, 17

Top, patrons use the new computer and peruse shelves. Below, Jan Riley, library manager, checks out a book for a young patron.

Story and photos by Natalie Johnson

“It’s more like a city library. It’s a lot of fun.”

Elizabeth Nye

NEWS | Church lands significant grant for weekly meals. [4]

COMMENTARY | Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to rise up. [6]

SPORTS | State is next for many Vashon wrestlers. [12]

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Jake Jacobovitch, a well-known islander elected in November 2011 to serve on the three-member commis-sion that oversees Vashon’s public cemetery, never took office and was replaced last year by another resident, Jay Hanson.

The commission opted to replace Jacobovitch after he failed to show up for the first three consecutive meetings of his term, com-mission chair Lisa Devereau said last week. Under state law, a seat is considered vacant and can be filled by the commission if a com-missioner-elect fails to take the oath of office.

“He never showed up for a meeting,” Devereau said.

“We were advised we could fill the vacancy.”

Jacobovitch said he never made it to a meeting because he works full-time in Seattle and was unable to attend the monthly sessions, held the second Wednesday of the month at 3 p.m. He said he asked the chair at the time, Tim Lafferty, if the meetings could be moved to the evenings.

“Tim said, ‘There’s no way we can change the time,’” Jacobovitch recalled.

Lafferty declined to com-ment, saying that he would talk about the situation only if a reporter attended the commissioners’ month-ly meeting.

“Because of the nature of how this came about, I feel it would be best to discuss the events in a public meet-

ing,” he said in an email to The Beachcomber.

The Beachcomber discov-ered that Jacobovitch hadn’t assumed his role as a com-missioner when a reporter called him last week to ask about the cemetery district and the small cemetery it oversees. “I never ascended to the throne,” Jacobovitch told the reporter.

Jacobovitch said he opted not to fight the issue when he was told the meeting time couldn’t be changed. “I was the new guy. I didn’t want to be adversarial,” he said.

Jacobovitch was to begin serving the six-year term in January 2012. According

to the minutes from the Feb. 8, 2012, meeting, the two commissioners at the time — Devereau and Lafferty — discussed Jacobovitch’s request for evening meetings.

The commissioners de- cided “it would not be advan-tageous to the district,” according to the minutes, because the agency would have to pay its groundskee-per to attend an evening meeting and because it would be difficult for Len Burton-Hardin, director of the Howden-Kennedy Funeral Home in West Seattle, to attend. Burton-Hardin, whose funeral home is a sister company

of Island Funeral Service on Vashon, is contracted to offer management services to the cemetery district.

The commissioners appointed Hanson, at its April 2012 meeting. Hanson, 67, is a retired Metro Transit engineer who began attend-ing commissioners’ meet-ings because of his interest in the cemetery.

“I was really impressed by how well the commis-sioners worked together,” he said. “That was when an opportunity presented itself to become a commis-sioner.”

By SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

Islanders wishing to get married or renew their vows will have the opportu-nity to do so on Valentine’s Day, when two island faith communities will host Let’s Get Married, an All-Island Marriage Equality Celebration.

The event is open to anyone who would like to make such a commitment, but same-gender couples, many of whom have been waiting a long time to get married, are especially welcome, organizers say. Rev. Bruce Chittick of the Burton Community Church and Rev. Carmen McDowell of the Vashon Island Unitarian Fellowship will perform the ceremonies for free.

Both pastors note they are pleased to

offer such an event and came up with the idea — McDowell’s brainchild — following the fall Shelter the Flame gathering and the legalization of same-sex marriage in Washington.

“We’re so excited, and we wanted to say thank you to the island for being such a supportive community and standing on the side of love,” McDowell said.

The ministers will perform a ceremony for everyone involved, McDowell said, but each couple will profess their vows individ-ually. People wishing to marry must have obtained a marriage license by Monday, Chittick noted. All people wishing to par-ticipate should contact McDowell before the event.

At the end of last week, three couples had stepped up to be married, and others

had expressed interesting in renewing their vows, McDowell said.

The pastors would like to meet the couples individually before the ceremony, Chittick said. Typically, when performing marriage ceremonies, pastors like to pro-vide some pre-marital counseling, he said, but because many same-sex couples have waited such a long time to get married, that kind of counseling is not so important in this situation.

Chittick and McDowell noted they are friends from their seminary days at Seattle University School of Theology and Ministry, and Chittick said he is happy to be working together for this event.

“We share building space, and we share a lot of philosophies on justice. … For both of our congregations this is about justice. And

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The Beachcomber, in a story in the Jan. 30 issue, misstated the price that Island Landmarks paid for the Mukai Farmhouse in 2000. The nonprofit paid $300,000. Also, the nonprofit — not Mary Matthews — purchased the home. Matthews was the head of Island Landmarks at the time.

By SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

The Vashon Lutheran Church recently received a grant that will allow it to renovate its kitchen, enhance its participation in the island’s free meals pro-gram and reach out to the community at large.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a nonprofit financial services organiza-tion, awarded the church $5,000, according to Rev. Bjoern Meinhardt, the min-ister of Vashon Lutheran Church. Thrivent Financial will increase that amount by matching community dona-tions 50 cents on the dollar, up to $5,000 from the com-munity, by the end of March — for a potential gift of $7,500 from Thrivent.

The church plans to replace its modest kitchen with a commercial one, Meinhardt said. Such a move will allow for cooking at the church and provide much-needed freezer and refrigeration space.

“We are delighted that this allows us to be involved and contribute on a scale we could not afford otherwise,” Meinhardt said.

With the help of island churches and a host of vol-unteers, the Vashon Social Services Network expand-ed the free meals program that the Interfaith Council to Prevent Home-lessness (IFCH) began a decade ago. Now a hot meal is served seven days week, with vol-unteers purchasing, prepar-ing and serving the meals. On Fridays, the Lutheran

Church hosts the dinner. The meals are important,

Meinhardt noted, not just because they feed people, but because so many people have stepped up to make them happen.

“They are a wonderful show of force,” he said.

According to Meinhardt, Thrivent Financial was offering “outreach bridge grants” to assist with ongo-ing small-scale programs that serve communities at large, not just the churches themselves.

Roughly 600 Lutheran churches applied, Mein-hardt said, and 350 church-es, including Vashon Lutheran Church, received the maximum amount.

Once the commercial kitchen is complete, volun-teers for the meals program can prepare food there, and the church will provide the kitchen for other groups in the community as well, Meinhardt noted.

“The beneficiary is the community at large,” he said.

To raise money for the matching portion of the grant, Meinhardt said the church will host soup sup-pers on Thursday evenings during Lent and earmark the donations accordingly. He will also welcome dona-tions from church and com-munity members.

Meinhardt expects the remodel will require the lion’s share of the grant. Whatever is left over will be put to use for the meals program. “There is always an ongoing need,” he said.

Emma Amiad, the presi-dent of the IFCH, said she, too, is pleased about the grant and what it will mean for the program.

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The church saw a need and pursued this grant on its own, she said, not-ing that it will create more options for both congrega-tional and community use.

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Dr. Laurel Kuehl, a medi-cal doctor at the Vashon Health Center, will leave the practice later this month to become an administrator at another health care orga-nization.

The 48-year-old phy-sician has worked at the health center more than a decade, though over the past five years, she spent only one day a week at the clinic.

Still, her departure will leave a hole at the busy clinic, part of the regional Highline Medical Group, especially in the wake of Dr. Kim Farrell’s resignation in January. The two women — the only female physicians at the health center — saw the vast majority of the women patients at the clinic, said Rita Cannell, manager of the health center.

What’s more, the phy-sician who was to replace Farrell for four to six months — Dr. Melissa Negretti, a

Highline doctor who lives in North Seattle — was reassigned to a different Highline clinic a few weeks ago, only a month after her arrival, Cannell said.

Kuehl’s departure, com-ing as it does right after Farrell’s resignation and Negretti’s reassignment, “is a very difficult loss,” Cannell said. Many of Farrell’s patients wanted to transfer to Kuehl.

“We will not be able to accommodate those female patients who want to see a female MD,” Cannell said.

The clinic, however, does employ Stephanie Lee, a physician’s assistant who specializes in women’s health care. “She’s wonder-ful,” Cannell said.

The island is also home to Fulton Family Medicine, owned by Dr. Gail Fulton and staffed by two female nurse practitioners, and the Vashon Women’s Health Center, owned by nurse prac-titioner Kimberly Scheer.

Kuehl, a Vashon resident and the mother of two, initially worked full-time at the health center. But the hours were long and made family life difficult, so she reduced to one day a week and began picking up part-time jobs at other

clinics — much like being a substitute teacher, she said. She also worked as the medical director at Vashon Community Care, a posi-tion she’s leaving as well.

Kuehl, who went to med-ical school at the University of Washington, said she’s enjoyed the Vashon Health Center.

The clinic, she said, “is a great place, with hard-working, dedicated practi-tioners, staff and manage-ment. Everyone works hard and cares a lot about the mission of providing great health care to the people of Vashon.”

The Burien-based High-line Medical Center — which includes a 154-bed acute care hospital, a 115-

bed specialty center and more than 20 clinics, most of them in the West Seattle-Burien region — is poised to merge with the much larger Franciscan Health System. But Kuehl said her depar-ture, like Farrell’s, has noth-ing to do with the merger.

In fact, she said, she believes being a part of the Franciscan system will help the Vashon-based clinic. “It’s a bigger system, and that brings more resourc-es,” she said.

The opportunity to work in medical administration in Seattle, she said, was a good one. The timing of her departure, she added, “is totally coincidental.”

Replacing Farrell and Kuehl will likely prove dif-ficult, however, coming at a time when primary care doctors are in high demand and the pressures on such doctors are only increasing. Since Farrell’s departure in early January, the Highline Medical Group has been advertising for a new doc-tor. So far, Cannell said, the medical organization has not forwarded a single appli-cation to the Vashon clinic.

“I wish I could say we had some good applicants. … As of yet, we’ve gotten nothing,” Cannell said.

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Vashon tree enthusiasts reap the fruits of their labor

Michelle Ramsden (left) and Bob Norton work to prune one of 120 apple trees on Eric Roecks and Lu-Ann Branch’s Maury Island property.

By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

Meetings of the Vashon Fruit Club often involve some work on the part of club mem-bers — digging, clipping and practicing the skills required to grow good fruit.

But at the most recent fruit club gathering, members did work that will one day pay off — adopting trees at an islander’s home with plans for each member to eventually bring home bags of apples from the orchard.

“This is golden for me, but for you guys as well,” said islander Lu-Ann Branch, who owns the trees, at the meeting and work party on Saturday.

Branch and her husband Eric Roecks have more than 120 apple trees at their Maury Island property, a five-acre swath that was once part of Pacific Crest Farm. The Jonagold trees, in fact, were planted by Pete Svinth, who once owned the farm and was well known for his quality fruit and large pumpkin patch.

Branch said her family loves the small, tan-gled orchard; they prune a few trees each year

and use as many apples as they can for cider pressing. But the trees have grown overwhelm-ing in recent years, and many of the Jonagold apples simply fall to the ground and rot.

So when the fruit club approached Branch about using her orchard for a class on winter pruning, she told them to do it and then come back in the fall for the fruit.

Each of the 20 club members who attended Saturday’s class — where arborist Michelle Ramsden and retired horticulture professor Bob Norton gave a demonstration on winter pruning — adopted one of Branch’s trees and carefully pruned it.

“Some of these trees haven’t been pruned in years,” Norton said. “We really made the trees over.”

Club member Gar MacRea said he’s pruned trees before but he’s looking forward to seeing how this one turns out. The club members will return for a summer pruning in June and will have a picking party in September.

“It’ll be fun to see if I killed the tree or not,” he said with a laugh. “We’ll see about the fruits of my labor this summer.”

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EDITORIAL

Were someone to suggest today that we establish a network of institutions across the country that could lend books for free, provide literacy-based programs, offer computers that anyone could log on to and act as a taxpayer-supported hub for community life, many would likely term it a radical notion.

Thankfully, the concept of the free public library was estab-lished in the United States sometime in the 18th or 19th cen-tury, depending on one’s source. And today, we’re the lucky beneficiaries of this foresight.

Libraries remain one of our finest public institutions, com-pletely egalitarian in nature, readily accessible, friendly and publicly financed. In many parts of the country, they’re having to remake themselves for the digital age, ensuring their rel-evancy. But for the most part, they remain that “third place,” the center of a community’s life right after one’s home and one’s school or workplace.

On Vashon, that seems particularly true, as this weekend underscored. Vashon’s branch opened up at its temporary site on Saturday, and the parking lot at Vashon Plaza — where it’s based — quickly filled up.

People flocked to the small, bustling branch, picking up books they had on hold, claiming some time on a computer and perusing the shelves. The Vashon branch is part of the King County Library System, considered — with more than 21 million items in circulation at any given time — the busiest system in the country.

Thanks to a bond passed nine years ago, the branch at Ober Park is about to undergo a significant expansion. In the mean-time, we have a surprisingly cozy site to claim as our commu-nity’s third place.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

By TAVI BLACKFor The Beachcomber

With the upcoming Valentine’s Day One Billion Rising event, islanders are joining the global movement to protest violence against women. The United Nations Development Fund for Women estimates that at least one in every three women globally has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime.

Even without alarming sta-tistics, it is easy to rally people’s sympathies around such acts as the recently publicized rapes in India, the ongoing struggles in the Congo and the beatings of women in Northern Mali. And no doubt, this is what many of the people involved will be rising up against, and with good reason.

But I want to bring the focus to the local level. Talking about rape and violence on Vashon takes people by surprise. The image of our bucolic Island clashes with the idea of such brutality. But it is here, well-hidden though it may be. The advocates who work and volunteer at The DoVE Project, the anti-domestic violence program on Vashon, hear the stories first-hand. Women come to us, fright-ened and ashamed, imagining that they are the only ones to suffer their circumstances. “You are not alone,” we tell them.

The fact is, abuse exists here on

Vashon at an unacceptable level. Since the inception of DoVE on Vashon nearly two years ago, we have served more than 90 people. The first year alone, clients told our advocates about 17 misde-meanors and seven felonies that were not reported to law enforce-ment. DoVE has provided basic advocacy services, such as safety planning, for more than 30 people. We have helped with nearly a dozen protection orders, and 33 people have been to our support groups. Our hotline logged 120 calls in 2012 alone. We suspect that there are also a great number of incidents that go unreported.

Living under the threat of physi-cal violence is terrifying, but it is not the only type of abuse. Within the population we serve, most agree that physical wounds are the quickest to heal. Emotional abuse — being convinced that you are worthless or wrong or stupid — takes years to overcome.

DoVE’s working definition of domestic abuse is: “A pattern of behavior used in an intimate rela-tionship to establish control of one partner over the other. The abuser uses physical, sexual, and emotional abuse to terrorize, intimidate, and manipulate the targeted partner. Domestic violence occurs among all socioeconomic, racial, religious, and cultural groups. Without inter-vention it will escalate in frequency and intensity.” (Domestic Abuse Women’s Network).

There are ways that we can all help break the chain of violence locally and globally. If you suspect someone is suffering, ask if you can help; volunteer for an organization that works to prevent violence. If

you cannot give time, give money. Any little bit helps those in need.

You can also get involved politi-cally. On the state level, there are currently bills on the floor that affect victims, such as House Bill 1108, which modifies the defini-tion of third-degree rape. Currently there is an exemption in the law so that a spouse cannot be convicted of rape. Let our lawmakers know that we want this bill to pass.

On the federal level, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), called “a landmark piece of legislation” by the National Domestic Violence Hotline, is up for reauthorization in the U.S. Senate and will likely pass, but the bill may be in trouble in the House. Urge U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott to do what he can to see that the bill passes.

Only if we continue the dis-course, if we refuse to turn a blind eye to those who are suffering, can we make change. DoVE’s services exist because there is a dedicated group of volunteers who care about curbing violence. As advocates for all those who are affected by domestic violence (recognizing that 5 to 10 percent of victims are male), we are joining in to protest violence against women on Valentine’s Day. We are planning to strike, rise, dance and say “no more” to vio-lence of any type on Vashon.

— Tavi Black is the director of The DoVE Project.

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I agree with the calls for context when discussing the Second Amendment (“Amendment needs to be seen in its historical context,” Feb. 6). But I have a somewhat different take on the nature of that context.

The Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored pri-marily by George Mason with contribution from James Madison, predates the Constitution by several years.

I quote: “A well regulated militia, composed of a body of people, trained in arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state: that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty: and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.”

The Bill of Rights is credited to Madison, with Mason. Their primary concern in preserving a right to bear arms was the threat that a standing army might pose to civilian government and to liberty.

Vashon School District officials are right to try to figure out how to resurrect a summer school on the island.

Plenty of students on Vashon struggle academically. But many don’t get the support they need at the high school, known more for the way it preps students for college than for how it helps kids who are failing.

The effort to get some kind of summer program started was initiated by Hilary Emmer, a former teacher who cares deeply about students who don’t fit the mold on Vashon. Now, district officials have embraced the idea, and it seems like a modest summer school might be within reach.

School board members and Vashon High School officials are not yet in synch about key details for a summer school that would start this June. But the fact that they’re actively discussing the proposal is a good sign. We hope they continue to work hard and in good faith and that a program is ready to accept students within a few months.

Even a modest one would be an important step, an acknowl-edgment that the Vashon school system, known for its high-achieving students, is also home to young people who don’t suc-ceed in academically. VHS, with a new one-day-a-week program for low-performing students, is attempting to reach those who are failing. A summer program would enhance these efforts.

Summer school makes sense

We have experienced deep loss and trag-edy in the past year on Vashon, with those we loved so much. Some we lost too soon, so young and without warning and in ways we can scarcely comprehend; others we knew were dying, and we surrounded them with compassion and care, and yet their loss left a place in our hearts and in our memory. We seek to fill these places with meaning, as we find our own path and journey on and into life.

Grief at the death of someone we love can invoke a variety of responses, and those responses can depend on how pre-pared we are for the death, our past expe-riences with loss and our personal patterns when facing profound emotions.

In cases when we know that death is imminent — where a loved one is diag-nosed with a disease and a poor prognosis — we can prepare in many ways. We can tune in with our loved one, stretch our capacity for care and rebuild broken-down bridges in the relationship. Often, just spending time in conversation with the dying one can connect us to meaning that lives beyond the short span of our lives.

After a death, feelings come and go and range from apathy and emptiness to inspiration for going on — and back and forth along that spectrum. It is important to explore these feelings as far and as deep as they go and understand that these responses are all valid.

The way we respond to grief can be par-ticularly complex when the loved one is taken from us abruptly. Often we are left feeling lost ourselves and ask many ques-tions, starting with “why.” We feel acutely that life is unfair and terribly unpredictable — a magnificent person taken too soon.

There can be guilt as well. Could I have done anything to prevent this? Did I do something that contributed to this? Why wasn’t I taken instead?

And when a person close to us is taken by his or her own hand, guilt is a strong, strong reaction, often joined by its close cousin, shame: Am I a bad person because I could not stop this? Could I have talked her out of her confu-

sion, her sense of hopelessness? Could I have been kinder to him? These and many more questions can trouble us.

You want to find meaning where they could not. You might fail and feel empti-ness for a while, then glimpses of some-thing that is meaning. These are all nor-mal feelings.

In the clinical world, there are frame-works for working with grief. Perhaps the best known is the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross approach, focusing on what she called the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargain-ing, depression and acceptance. The stages are not in order and any stage can come at any time. Some people, though not everyone, might experience their grief in something like these stages. Denial might look like shutting down, running away, not facing the death, not showing emotion or maybe accepting it too soon.

It is important to remember, though, that the death of a loved one is a kind of trauma and responses can include showing intense emotions, anger, crying, going numb, show-ing no emotion or moving into depression. Others may be outwardly very resilient and adaptive to the changed reality.

When experiencing your own grief or being present for others who are grieving, it is important to remember one response

is not healthier or better than any other. Our journey is not to get over it but to make peace and find meaning in the death of our loved one, to find a place where we can reflect on the preciousness and essence of life and to acknowledge that while we grieve their loss, we can remember how they gave joy while they were here.

— Greg Thompson is a licensed mental health counselor at Vashon Youth & Family Services.

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My neighbors are upset that we got some goats. Our children are crazy about the goats and I think it’s a good opportunity for them to learn how to take care of animals. We have a nice shed for them out of the weather and spent some time develop-

ing a good pasture. My neighbors say they are noisy and smell bad. We take care of the manure (I use it on the garden) and they only make noise when they want to be feed or want to play with the children. The neighbors say they are turning us in to the County for having too many animals on our land. What are the rules?

I enjoyed visiting your little farm. You appear to be totally within the County rules, as they are written in King County Code 21A.30.030 and .060. You could have more goats than you have now, according to those rules. A full assessment by the County

would verify that but since you have no wetlands or sensitive areas it might be solved with a phone call.

According to the Code, you can have three animals per acre of pasture with a management plan or one animal per two acres using a more minimal plan of containment. You should read the Code online. They defi ne an animal as one horse or cow, two ponies, or fi ve smaller livestock. That would include sheep and goats.

You have about two and a half acres of pasture there so you should be able to have at least fi ve goats, perhaps more. Since you only have three you should be well within the rules. Hopefully your neighbors will come to understand that if they want to live in a rural environment it’s likely that they will encounter farm animals.

I always am surprised to have folks talk about how wonderful it is to live “out in the country” and then have them be negative about farm animals and the sights and sounds of farming. By the way, I didn’t detect any odors while on your property. The goats are cute.

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Thank you to the Providence Hospice team of Paula Hendricks, Kathy Shafel, Rebecca Darr, Gail Cunningham, Melania Weller, and Robyn Stover, who gave me the confidence to walk this path with mom. I couldn’t have managed without the outstanding care-giving team of Katherine Shedd, Susan Darr, Dana Winge, Whitney Coby, and Chris Jovanovich. You cared for mom as I would have, when I couldn’t be here. And thank you Lisa Devereau of Island Funeral Service for taking care of mom now, attending to all the details that make up this part of her journey.

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There is nothing in the description of militias in the Constitution that addresses protection of the people from govern-mental tyranny. In fact, one of the stated duties of the militias is to put down insurrection. And all state militias are ultimately “under strict subordination to” Congress and the commander-in-chief.

The discussion about guns and society is vital, and there are compelling argu-ments all around. But unless we are talk-ing about disbanding the military after we withdraw from Afghanistan, the Second Amendment is only tangentially appli-cable (Antonin Scalia not withstanding).

The founders were engaged in an unprecedented effort to craft a govern-ment of, by and for the people. The Constitution, and the political system it instituted, is the people’s true protection against tyranny.

Attempts to cheat the political system through voter suppression, gerryman-dering, the invention of corporate First Amendment rights, manipulation of the Electoral College and the brutal corrup-tion of campaign finance and lobbying practices most certainly represent a greater threat to the real bulwark against tyranny than would reasonable regulation of guns.

— Steve Hunter

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By rights, this story should be appearing in this estimable news-paper’s “Sheriff ’s Report.” Why it is not is a mystery to me. But then, a lot of things are a mystery to me.

But to the issue before us: I’m here to tell you — no, to warn you — that someone in our midst, someone you may even know, a neighbor perhaps, some-one seemingly harmless with whom you might converse ami-ably in the aisles at the Thriftway, someone perhaps with outwardly normal children, is in fact a bru-tal sadist, someone whose entire being, whose entire reason for living, is focused upon visiting incalculable psychic pain and crippling psychological trauma upon innocent residents of this isle, residents who are good-hearted, who want only to help young people on our island to succeed and thrive in the future.

And what reward do they receive? Public humiliation and private mental anguish hav-ing who knows what long-term private and public social conse-quences.

I refer, of course, to the demon, the stunningly cruel and brutal being who compiles the vocabu-lary list for the annual island Spelling Bee. This is, as you may know, an event designed to raise money for the Vashon Community Scholarship Fund. Could anything be more well-meaning than that?

Could any-thing be more generously public-spirit-ed? And yet, evil enters, snake-like, insinuating itself quietly before striking the unwary.

If you are somehow unaware of this annual event (what, is your head in the sand?), you should know that teams — representing island businesses, volunteer orga-nizations, word-obsessed citizens and students, among other verbal exhibitionists — gather in the Vashon High School theater and compete to spell difficult words which, by so doing and by draw-ing a large audience of people delighted to watch neighbors make fools of themselves, raises money for scholarships.

But these are not just any teams. These are people who willingly don extremely silly cos-tumes to draw even further atten-tion to themselves and, it must be said, to their ultimate, abject, humiliating failure in later spell-ing rounds.

You may wonder why I take interest in this event and, in the spirit of full disclosure, I confess

that for the past three years I have been a judge at the Spelling Bee. Let me make clear immediately that this does not require me to know the correct spelling of the words that are presented to the competing teams. The organizers know only too well how incom-petent I am, and they give me a cheat sheet with the words spelled out correctly. They also give me a noisemaker, with which I make either happy or sad sounds, depending upon whether a team gets the word right or wrong. This is the only reason I participate: I love making silly noises.

But this is where the dark shadow of the vocabu-sadist draws across the stage. The shadow falls sometime shortly after the fourth round. Words to be spelled get more difficult with each successive round. This is to be expected. This is normal. But the first few rounds are a trap, luring the unsuspecting into the vocabu-sadist’s web. It is only a matter of time now before the demon strikes.

The words become bizarre. You have never seen them. You have never heard them. Placed in a sentence, they reveal noth-ing. Defined by the official “pro-nouncer,” they still mean nothing. They might as well be ancient Greek, and sometimes they are. The contestants on the surviv-ing teams struggle; they argue quietly among themselves. They tear their hair, those who still

have some. So far, fisticuffs have not resulted, but it may only be a matter of time, so diabolical is the vocabu-sadist. How long can they survive, these noble citizens? How long before the complete break-down of civil society in the face of these insane words?

The audience in the theater hunches over their seats as one in their communal tension: They are not sure whether they want victory or blood. They are avid. Defeated teams weep in frustration on the stage. The few left standing vibrate with anxiety, knowing the end is near. They are approaching the gallows. There will be only one survivor. The anonymous vocabu-sadist grins somewhere in the darkness. They will fall. They will fall on the sword of the final word. They will fall on phycomycete. What, you might ask, is that word? Answer: an obsolete term for a certain form of fungi.

Why the winning team knew this term is a matter for argu-ment. Was there a leak? Had the vocabu-sadist lured everyone to the precipice and given one team a parachute? And did they sell their souls to the demon to win? Or did they outsmart the demon vocabu-sadist just this once?

Next year, you may be sure of it, the demon vocabu-sadist will return to wreak havoc on the psyches of our best and brightest. It’s still out there.

Every year, vocabu-sadists terrorize innocent island citizensCookstoves

While I am in full support of the cause and this fantastic project, I am disappointed that the manufacture of the stove parts will be done in China, instead of being done here in the United States (“Cookstove effort secures $4 million in financing,” Feb. 6). It seems to me that between the capable and creative minds at Burn Manufacturing Co. and fund-ing from Overseas Private Investment Corp., they should be able to use U.S. funding to create U.S. jobs to manufac-ture the needed parts when jobs are needed so badly in the United States. Otherwise Burn Manufacturing Co. becomes just another U.S. company going to China for cheap labor.

Of course, best case would be to see the K2 facility uti-lized in the manufacturing process, creating jobs here on Vashon. What could be more Vashon than a facility (like the K2 plant) being used by a nonprofit such as Burn Manufacturing Co. to make things for a better planet?

— Reggie Sordenstone

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Sound Publishing, the state’s largest commu-nity news organization and owner of the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, announced last week that it will purchase the Everett Daily Herald.

According to a press release issued by Sound Publishing, the Poulsbo-based company has entered into an agreement with the Washington Post Co., owner of the Everett Herald, to acquire the 46,000-circu-lation daily newspaper and its other print and online products.

The transaction is expect-ed to close in early March.

The Herald has been owned by the Washington Post for 35 years and is a leading provider of local news and information for the Snohomish County area.

“We are thrilled to have The Daily Herald join our growing family of newspapers,” said Gloria Fletcher, President of Sound Publishing. “The Herald is

a very well-respected news-paper, and it is a great fit with our print and digital products serving the great-er Seattle area.”

Sound Publishing is the largest community media organization in Washington, with 39 news-paper and digital titles with a combined circulation of over 730,000. The Herald will be the second daily newspaper owned by Sound, joining the Peninsula Daily News in Port Angeles, which Sound acquired in 2012.

Last month, Sound announced that it was pur-chasing the Seattle Weekly from Village Voice Media Holdings.

Sound is a subsidiary of Black Press, based in Surry, B.C. Black Press publishes more than 170 newspapers and other publications in British Columbia, Alberta and Washington, as well as the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and the Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal, both daily newspapers.

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Baby Story Times: Enjoy stories and songs for babies and tod-dlers up to 21 months. 10 a.m. at the PlaySpace, sponsored by the Vashon Library.

Free Tax Assistance: Hilary Emmer will provide free tax preparation assistance for people making under $25,000. She will also fill out prop-erty tax exemption forms for seniors 61 years and older whose income is under $35,000. No appointments are needed. Call Emmer at 463-7277 for more information. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays at the Vashon Library’s temporary location.

The Harbor School Open House: Prospective students and their families are invited to learn more about the school and its offer-ings. Head of School James Cardo will present an overview of the school’s curriculum; faculty mem-bers will answer questions, and current students and parents will offer insights and give tours. RSVP to the school at 567-5955 or [email protected]. 7 p.m. at The Harbor School.

Vashon Computer Club: The topic for this year is the future of computing and digital technology, including how to live in the rapidly changing world of computing devices. All are welcome to attend and contribute to the discussion. 7:30 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Current Events: Bob Hallowell will guide discussions on international, national and local news. 1 to 3 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center .

Valentine’s Day Babysitting Fundraiser: The Vashon Seals swim team members will offer babysitting for children of all ages on Valentine’s Day as a fundraiser for the club’s reduced fee program. Children of all ages are welcome; the fee is $5 per hour. Contact Amy Bogaard at 406-9774 for more information or email [email protected]. 4 to 8:45 p.m. at the Vashon PlaySpace.

One Billion Rising: Dancers take to the streets to speak out against violence against women. 4 p.m. near the main intersection in town.

Marriage Equality Celebration: Couples are invited to get married or renew their vows, with a recep-tion to follow. 6 p.m. ceremonies at Burton Community Church and 7 p.m. reception at Lewis Hall. (For more information, see page 3.)

Kirtan for Island Healing: There will be East Indian prayer chant-ing; the night will be dedicated to the healing of island youth. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Vashon Intuitive Arts.

ReWilding Club: The Vashon Wilderness Program will offer this group the third Saturday of the month through June. Teens and adults will explore the wilder places of Vashon with naturalist Matt McKinney, who will teach nature awareness and survival skills. The cost is $15 per person. For more information, including the monthly location, see www.vashonwildernessprogram.org. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Wombat Stew: A zany, funny, puppet-show based on Marcia Vaughan’s popular books. Brim-ming with songs and stories, this

variety show will be fun for all ages, performed by Melody and Charlie Williams. 11 a.m. at the Vashon Prebyterian church, hosted by the Vashon Library.

Adopt-a-Cat Day: Vashon Island Pet Protectors hosts a pet adop-tion day each week with many felines to choose from. For more information, see www.vipp.org. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at VIPP’s cat shelter, 12200 S.W. 243rd St.

Cribbage: Play nine friendly games of cribbage against nine different players. The cost is $8 for visitors and $10 for members. For more information, see www.vashoncribbage.com. 1 p.m. at the Vashon Eagles, 18137 Vashon Hwy. S.W.

Unitarian Fellowship: This service, called This I Believe, is a perennial favorite and delves into what gives life meaning and expression. Beth White and Tami Brockway will share their personal stories. 9:30 a.m. at Lewis Hall in Burton.

Opera Preview — La Bohème: Opera aficionado Norm Hol-lingshead will present Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème,” his saddest opera, in which poverty and dis-ease are the villains. Free. 2 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center, hosted by the Vashon Library.

UPCOMING

Meet the Author — Jim Lynch:Local author Jim Lynch will discuss his most recent novel, “Truth Like the Sun,” 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, at the Land Trust Building. (For more information, see page 12.)Lecture Series: The Burton Commu-nity Church is hosting a new lecture series, “The Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions.” Herb Reinelt will lead the group. This week’s topics are compassion, em-pathy, pride and shame. Call Reinelt for more information at 408-7360. Free. 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at Burton Community Church.

Vashon Vespers: This service is meditative and musical, a chance for

stillness and grounding and rooted in the Christian contemplative tradi-tion. Vespers is open to all, and childcare will be provided. 7 to 7:35 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Church of the Holy Spirit.

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English as a Second Language: Non-native English speakers can learn how to speak, read and write in English. Free weekly lessons, beginning to intermediate level, are taught by an ESL instructor. Call the Vashon Library at 463-2069 for more information. 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Methodist church.

Banana Dance for Kids: Karen Nelson will lead kids in the class, with the assistance of Larry Brown. The fee is by donation. Contact Nelson at (503) 740-0523 or [email protected] to register. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. for kids under 6 and 4:30 to 5:30 for kids ages 6 and up. Wednesdays in February at the Hanna Barn.

Vashon Beach Naturalists: Learn secrets of the beach. In exchange for the free course and a materials fee of $50, volunteers will agree to serve as a beach guide for six or more Vashon Beach Naturalist public programs. Stu-dents may also attend five or more beach exploration sessions, in addition to the classes, for further learning. For more information and to register, contact Rayna Holtz at 463-3153 or [email protected]. 6 to 9 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month through May, beginning Feb. 13, at Vashon College.

Ceramics: Steve Roache of Aruba Pottery will teach how to make decorative tiles and small clay sculptures. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the Vashon Senior Center.

Pet Partners/Delta Society: Learn how you and your dog can become a certified Pet Partner Team. Contact Kathy Farner at [email protected] prior to attending and for more informa-tion. 5 p.m. Mondays at Vashon High School.

Travel Journals: Vashon artist Darsie Beck will share his illus-trated journals of a recent trip to Europe and demonstrate how to create an illustrated memoir. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the Vashon Senior Center.

Babysitting Class: Rick and Deborah Brown will offer the Capable Caregiver program for students ages 12 to 18 to learn about basic care techniques for infants and children. Students who successfully complete the class will receive a CPR card and be certified as a capable caregiver. The cost is $60 with scholarships available. To register, visit cts4cpr.com or call 326-8715 for more information, including location. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19.

Winter Break Arts Camp — Dreams and Imagination: Kids ages 7 to 10 can create dream

catchers, candles, journals and mobiles. Camp ends with an art show for family and friends. The cost is $150 for VAA members, $165 for nonmembers. For more information, see www.vashonal-liedarts.com. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, Feb. 19 to 22, at the Blue Heron.

Yoga for Back Care & Wellness: Irene Tokar will teach this class, designed to bring relief to com-mon areas of pain and discomfort in the body and offer the other benefits of yoga, such as stress relief and overall fitness. No expe-rience is necessary. The cost is $69 for five weeks. To register send a check payable to Island Yoga Center, P.O. Box 2062, or drop it off in the mailbox by the front door. For more information, contact the studio at 463-2058 or [email protected]. 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 21 to March 21, at Island Yoga Center.

CPR: New CPR techniques are easier to learn and remember. Be ready to save a friend or fam-ily member. Register at the fire department before Feb. 21. Shape Up Vashon members will be reim-bursed the $20 fee after complet-ing the class. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at Vashon Island Fire & Rescue.

Human Jazz: Christian Swenson will lead this workshop, including improv with voice and move-ment. He is a performing artist and teacher who offers a variety of creative services. For more information about him, see www.humanjazz.com. The cost is $60. To

register call Sally Fox at 567-5027. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Hanna Barn, 7712 Pt. Robinson Road.

The Art of Retreating: Valerie Manusov will offer Listening Well as part of the Hestia Hearth Circle. Manusov will offer ideas for how to listen well and how to know when something wants to be heard. She is a professor at the University of Washington and specializes in nonverbal communication. To register and for the lcoation, email [email protected]. Reg-istration is limited to 20 women and girls and costs $20 with scholarships available. 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23.

Shakespeare Studies and Per-formance: Aimée van Roekel will offer a spring session of this class for kids ages 7 to 12 and 12 to 17. This session’s play is “Romeo and Juliet.” Subjects of the class will include acting, text analysis and iambic pen-tameter, voice and movement and design and production. The fee is $150 with scholarships and bartering available. 4 to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 28 to April 25, at Ober Park. A performance will be April 26.

Story Stage: Kids in kindergarten through second grade can journey through the galaxy, play drama games and explore cosmic char-acters, costumes and music. The class will end with a performance. The cost is $85 for VAA members, $200 for non-members. For more information, see www.vashonal-liedarts.com. 10 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, March 2 to 30, at the Blue Heron.


The Harbor School will transform itself into a Latin-flavored market, or mercado, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. this Friday. This annual event supports Casa Hogar Nacidos para Triunfar children’s shelter in Guadalajara, Mexico. This year’s Mercado will feature foods from Mexico and Argentina, game booths, several items to purchase, a photo booth with props and costumes, a silent auction and a raffle for a goody-filled basket. Above, Isa Trujillo sells her wares at the 2012 Mercado.

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PUBLIC MEETINGS

King County Cemetery District #1: 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the Vashon Cemetery.

Vashon-Maury Island Community Council: 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, at McMurray Middle School.

Vashon Sewer District Board: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Vashon Senior Center.

King County Airport District #1: 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at Courthouse Square.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Station 55.

Sunrise Ridge Health Services: 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the Sunrise Ridge Conference room. The group’s mission is to steward and preserve Sunrise Ridge in ways that contribute to the health and well-being of the people of Vashon/Maury Islands.

Vashon Park District: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Vashon Park District.

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a much loved and valued friend.We are indebted to you for your kindness. As part of his family,

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SCENE & HEARD: GRAND OPENING

Vashon Market Fresh IGA held a grand opening for the store last Wednesday. Islanders Shawn and Kathy Hoffman became the owners of the longstanding island business last fall. Shawn Hoffman called the event “a great success” because of the support the store has received from the community. Events will continue throughout the month, Hoffman said, with Kids Club events, special pricing, Thursday happy hour and more. Hoffman noted they have added items, per customer requests, including several items made or distributed by on-island businesses, and look forward to getting more in the store. “Kathy and I have been so happy to get to know Vashon even better and appreciate what a great place it is,” Hoffman said. Above, Unofficial Mayor Hilary Emmer, left, joins Kathy Hoffman, Shawn Hoffman and Doug Stone from Unified Grocers at the ribbon-opening ceremony.

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Jim Lynch, an award-winning novelist from Olympia, will come to Vashon next week to

discuss his latest bestseller, “Truth Like the Sun.”

The book, just out in a paperback edition, has won a raft of accolades from top critics — including an inclusion by New York Times critic Janet Maslin on her list of 10 favorite books from 2012.

“Gimmick-free and uncategoriz-able, this is just a flat-out great read with the spirit of a propulsive, char-acter-driven 1970s movie,” Maslin wrote.

The book tells a two-track tale, set in Seattle in the years 1962 and 2001, that whips readers back and forth between the heady days of the city’s World’s Fair and millennial times, just after the city’s dot com bubble had begun to deflate.

The story’s main characters — a civic booster and World’s Fair mas-termind with a mysterious past, and the tenacious female reporter who

must ferret out his secrets — are rich-ly drawn by the author. But the city of Seattle itself also plays a starring role in the book, with long, evocative passages that firmly capture all the quirks, grandeur and squalor of a misty city framed by almost absurdly scenic views.

Lynch tells the story like the native he is — he grew up in the Seattle area before embarking on a career as a newspaperman that took him to Alaska, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Spokane, Portland and eventually back to Seattle. His national honors for journalism have included the H.L. Mencken Award and Livingston Young Journalist Award for National Reporting.

In 2005, he published his first novel, “The Highest Tide,” which won the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award and went on to become an international bestseller. His second novel, “Border Songs,” published in 2009, picked up the Washington State Book Award as well as the Indie’s

Choice Honor Book Award. Both books — also set in the

Northwest — were adapted for the stage by Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theater, and film and television rights for the novels have also been sold.

And now, with “Truth Like the Sun,” Lynch has continued to chronicle his region — a place of towering mountains, deep water, tall trees and equally outsized human ambition.

— Elizabeth Shepherd


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MUSIC FROM ANOTHER TIME: The Salish Sea Ear ly Music Festival will present “Corelli and Handel’s Soprano,” featur ing soprano Linda Tsatsanis, harpsichordist Jan Weinhold and flutist Jeffrey Cohan, at 7:30 p.m . tonight at Bethel Church. The suggested donation is $15 to $20; children 18 and younger are free.

The lush and lively music of Cocoa Martini will come to Vashon at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, with a concert by the Seattle jazz ensemble at the Blue Heron.

The band’s three vocalists — Kimberly Reason, Kay Bailey and Nadine Shanti — will offer up a setlist that includes jazz and Latin standards sung with a nod to pop, funk and old-school soul.

They’ll be backed by Bill Anschell on piano, Chuck Kistler on bass and Brian Kirk on drums.Since their sold-out debut at Seattle’s Triple Door in 2007, Cocoa Martini has become a Northwest jazz favorite. They have appeared on Seattle Channel TV’s “Art Zone,” won praise from The Seattle

Times and received airplay on KKNW 1150 AM’s “Urban Forum Northwest.” The group won Earshot Jazz Society’s prestigious Golden Ear Award for Best Vocalist of the Year in 2009.

Their day-after Valentine’s Day concert on Vashon is being billed as a sweetheart’s special, with libations and desserts included in the ticket price.

Tickets are $18 for Vashon Allied Arts members, $22 for non-members. They can be pur-chased at the Blue Heron or the Heron’s Nest, by visiting www.vashonalliedarts.org or calling 463-5131. Tickets are also now available for the Jewell Jazz Quartet — VAA’s Women in Jazz finale — set for March 16.

He picks him up near sunset at the back of the New Washington Hotel to avoid the horde of girls rioting out front after they got ousted from the lobby for trying to storm the stairs. Elvis sinks low in the front seat, looking larger cooped up like this, smiling across at him, his dimples and everything about him absurdly recognizable despite the large blue sweatshirt and worn-out Cubs cap. Roger pulls off into the night, coasting down Madison toward the water. He usually drives with the radio on but is too self-conscious to turn it on now, especially after bragging about the city’s stations. He resists delivering his recruitment pitch when the view opens up to the sun sliding behind the Olympics and the mirrored water reflecting pink clouds.

Elvis clenches and unclenches fists, studies them, twirls a ring, then looks up. “This place is something else.”

— Jim Lynch, “Truth Like The Sun”

An acclaimed author captures Seattle’s heady days

Meet the Author: Jim Lynch will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, at the Land Trust Building. The event, presented by the Vashon Library, is free. Copies of the book are available at the library, now temporarily relo-cated in Vashon Plaza, and the Vashon Bookshop.

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Step back in time to fall in love with Audrey Hepburn on Valentine’s Day, when Vashon Theatre will have a one-night-only screening of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

Based on a novella by Truman Capote, the beloved 1961 film tells the story of a lonely, struggling writer who becomes

enchanted by his neighbor — an indepen-dent young woman named Holly Golightly who loves high fashion and wild parties. Hepburn’s portrayal of the role helped make her reputation as one of the most beautiful and glamourous women to ever grace the big screen, and the film’s theme song, Henry Mancini’s “Moon River,” never, ever gets old.

Tickets are two for $14, $9 general and $8 for kids and seniors. The show plays at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Makana — a slack-key guitarist, singer and composer — will perform a Valentine’s show at the Open Space for Arts & Community at 7 p.m., Thursday.

Makana is a master musician whose songs transcend category and trend by integrating elements of folk, rock, ethnic, classical, bluegrass, jazz and Hawaiian slack-key.

His work can be heard in the Academy Award-winning movie “The Descendants,” and he’s toured with internationally recog-nized artists such as Jason Mraz, Santana, Elvis Costello, Sting, No Doubt, Jack Johnson and John Legend. He’s even per-formed for Pres. Obama.

Tickets to the show, $18 in advance, are available at Vashon Bookshop and www.brownpapertickets.com. They will be available for $22 on the day of the event.

Grab a date or fly solo to hear more than 50 local singers sing about love on the night after Valentine’s Day, at Red Bicycle Bistro. The performances are part of a show, “Love Duets,” set for 8 p.m. Friday at the Bike.

Emcees for the night, Allison Shirk and Cami Lundeen, will welcome a who’s who of Island songbirds, sirens, divas and belters to the stage. The lineup includes Kat Eggleston, Kate MacLoud, Azula, Kevin Joyce, Louis Mangione, Elizabeth Ripley, Sarah Christine, Steffon Moody, Bill Brown, Stephanie Murray and more.

The evening is for all ages until 11 p.m. and 21 and older after that.

A suggested donation of $5 will go toward a scholarship fund for the Rock Island String Kollective, or RISK, an all-ages string orchestra, and support music lessons and instrument rentals for low-income children. RISK plays in a cozy, coffee house setting, welcoming players of violin, viola, cello, guitar, ukulele, mandolin, banjo and harp to join them in embracing an eclectic array of world, pop and folk music.

Scottish troubadour Jim Malcolm will return to Vashon for a house concert at 3 p.m. Sunday. It’s the second time the

renowned singer has come to the Island to play an intimate show.

Traveling the world with his guitar, harmonicas and engaging wit, Malcolm sings the traditional songs of Scotland as well as his own modern compositions. He is highly regarded as an interpreter of the songs of Robert Burns and has been lauded by critics as being one of the finest singers in Scotland. Though he now per-forms solo, Malcolm was lead singer with the multi‐award-winning band Old Blind Dogs for eight years. He’s released numer-ous highly praised albums and performed on the stages of top Celtic music festivals for many years.

To purchase $20 tickets and find out the location of the Vashon concert, contact Lori Lowrance at [email protected] or call 369-9234.

Vashon Island Shakespeare Festival will present a work in progress by Shakespeare Studies students at 7 p.m. Friday at the Ober Park Performance Room. The stu-dents, ages 9 to 12, will present the Bard’s “12th Night, or What You Will.”

The program is now seeking students ages 7 to 17 for its next session, where instructor Aimée van Roekel will lead students through the paces of “Romeo and Juliet.” To find out more, visit www.vashonshakes.org.

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Hoopsters don’t make playoffs, but end season by beating Charles WrightBy EZRA LACINAFor The Beachcomber

Less then a week after being denied a playoff berth by one loss, the Vashon bas-ketball team returned to the hardwood to win its final game of the season against league rival Charles Wright Academy.

“We really wanted to send our seniors off with a win,” said head coach Andy Sears. And the Pirates did just that, deci-sively defeating the Tarriers by 11 points.

The Pirates looked fired up as they walked onto the court on Tuesday for Senior Night. Just seconds into the game, sophomore Ian Stewart stole the ball away from Tarrier Nate Mondu and passed it to a streaking Ben Whitaker for the first points of the game.

The Pirates outplayed the Tarriers at both ends of the court. Junior Thomas Douglas hit a spot-up 3-pointer to add to the Pirate lead late in the first quarter. At the end of the period, the Pirates were up 13-8.

The second quarter was very evenly played with both teams scoring 12. This season the second quarter has usually been hard for the Pirates, but they man-aged to keep a 5-point lead. Freshman Sam Yates added a 3, and sophomore Jesse Norton gave the Pirates several good drives during the quarter. At the half, the score was 25-20 with Pirates in the lead.

As play resumed in the third quarter, the Tarriers came out faster and better than the Pirates, scoring 13 and holding Vashon to only 8 points. At one point, Norton was driving the lane and was obviously fouled, but the referees made

no call as Norton stood there with his arms up and a puzzled look on his face and as Sears exploded on the sideline. Controversial calls are part of every sport and especially high school sports.

There was a miraculous team play by the Pirates later in the quarter. When the ball was about to bounce out of bounds, Stewart saved the ball, passing it to Norton, who forwarded it to Whitaker, who passed it right back to Norton for a

layup, electrifying the crowd. At the end of the third period, the Pirates were up by 1 point, 34-33.

To start off the final quarter of his bas-ketball career, Whitaker swatted a Tarrier layup attempt, then senior Matt Swope scored his final points with a layup.

The Pirates played great during the fourth quarter on both defense and offense. Jacob Plihal stuffed Fritz Jacobson, and right after Norton hit a 3 with two ticks left on the shot clock.

Later in the quarter, Norton had a Dewayne Wade style play, launching the inbound pass to Whitaker, hitting him in stride for the break-away layup. With two minutes left, the Pirates were up by 10 and looking forward to victory. Whitaker scored the final points of his career with two free throws.

With 28 seconds left and victory secured, Sears subbed out the two seniors and the crowd gave them a standing ova-tion. Whitaker led the Pirates in scoring with 15 points in the 52-41 victory.

The Pirates, with a final record of 13 wins and 7 losses, missed playoffs by one loss this year. But Sears said he is looking forward to next season, when 11 of 13 players are expected to return.

— Ezra Lacina is a student at Vashon High School.

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Four wrestlers were champions in their weight classes By CHERYL PRUETTFor The Beachcomber

The Vashon grapplers put in another stellar per-formance at the regional tournament last week-end, taking an impressive second place in the contest and qualifying eight Pirates for State as competitors or alternates.

Twelve Pirate wrestlers competed in the WIAA Region II 1A tournament in Castle Rock on Saturday. The eight-man bracketed tourney fea-tured 13 teams from western Washington, with the top four in each weight class moving on to the state competition this weekend.

Of the 12 Vashon wrestlers, six qualified for this weekend’s state tournament and two are eligible as alternates. Vashon put five wrestlers in the finals and emerged with four champions and one second-place winner, senior A.J. Sawyer.

Regional champions were freshman Chase Wickman and juniors Shane Armstrong, Preston Morris and Louie Jovanovich.

Placing third was sophomore Joe Coller, and taking fifth and going as alternates are senior Christian Seymour and freshman Chester Pruett. Sixth place went to freshman Clyde Pruett. Also wrestling for Vashon were freshmen Shane Williams and Logan Nelson and senior Elan Peterson.

There were several amazing matches of note. Wickman continued to amaze audiences with his grit and style, taking down the “beast boy” of Kalama that had beaten him earlier in the year, drubbing him 12-3 in the finals.

Armstrong expended the least amount of energy possible in his first two matches, pinning sickness,

Wrestling team rocks regionals, sends eight to state

The VHS girls basketball team also fin-ished its season last Tuesday at home. The Pirates took an unfortunate loss to league rival Charles Wright Academy to end the season with a record of six wins and 13 losses. The young and senior-less team, however, is already looking forward to next season, as its entire roster is expected to return.

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his opponents early in the first round then winning his championship match, 7-1. Morris, battling sickness, was dominant throughout the day and capped it off by pinning his opponent in the first round of the finals.

Sawyer lost a nailbiter in a contested overtime final round, finishing second.

Jovanovich, wrestling his nemesis from Eatonville, had the most anticipated match of the day. He was up a decisive 11-2, then sent the crowd to its feet with a fall in the third round.

Pirate wrestlers were cheered on at the big regional event by a large, boisterous and supportive contingent of islanders who made the trek to Castle Rock, including some who didn’t even have relatives on the team. The athletes who qualified to go on to state hope to keep the energy going at their final com-petition of the season this Friday and Saturday at the Tacoma Dome.

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Eight Vashon wrestlers, shown here with their coaches, qualified for the state competition this week-end as either competitors or alternates. Front row, from left: Louie Jovanovich, Joe Coller, Shane Armstrong, Christian Seymour, A.J. Sawyer, coach B.J. Nelson and Chester Pruett. Back row, from left: coach Anders Blomgren, Chase Wickman, Preston Morris, coach Dave Chapman and coach Per Lars Blomgren.


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In an interview Friday, Sweet stressed that Kirkland officials support the EMS system and want to see it continue. But, she added, “I wouldn’t have gone before the Regional Policy Committee if our concerns weren’t pretty significant.”

At issue, in part, is “equi-ty” within the system, she said. The countywide levy rate — 30 cents per $1,000 of assessed value — costs Kirkland’s taxpayers about $1 million more than they receive from EMS. Vashon, on the other hand, is sub-sidized by EMS; taxpayers pay about $700,000 into the system and receive more than $2 million from the regionwide service.

Sweet said she doesn’t begrudge Vashon residents the subsidy; the island is

one of several entities sub-sidized by EMS. But, she added, “We want some-thing a bit more equitable than we have now.”

But Kirkland’s opposi-tion has raised alarm on Vashon, which would be hard-pressed to fill the financial gap should the EMS system unravel.

“There’s a huge amount at stake,” said Hank Lipe, chief of Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR).

Money from the EMS levy funds the salaries of Vashon’s eight paramedics, highly trained responders who can make the differ-ence between life and death for a person suffering from a heart attack or another life-threatening emergency, Lipe said. What’s more, Vashon — because of its geographic isolation — is particularly vulnerable to any changes in the county-wide system, Lipe said.

Jim Fogarty, the coun-ty’s EMS director, agreed. “There’s really a need to

have a stand-alone (Medic One) unit out there on Vashon,” he said. “If the funding wasn’t there, we’d have to find another funding mechanism … or the service would have to suffer.”

Medic One is a widely hailed regional emergency response system — so good that “Sixty Minutes” once named Seattle the best place in the world to suffer from a heart attack. Premised on the idea that the first 10 min-utes can make the differ-ence in emergency response, two doctors at Harborview Medical Center and the Seattle fire chief at the time launched the system in 1970, inaugurating what was then a somewhat radical idea — that firefighters could be taught some of the same skills that doctors use to save lives, applying those skills in homes and on the streets.

Since then, Medic One has become a nationwide model, and the region con-tinues to lead the country in response times and survival

rates. According to Medic One statistics, a person who had a cardiac arrest in King County in 2011 had a 52 percent chance of sur-vival, the highest to date anywhere in the country; nationwide, the survival rate is 10 percent.

“We’re leaders in the nation,” said County Councilmember Joe Mc- Dermott, who represents Vashon on the nine-mem-ber council.

The impasse over Kirk-land’s support of the levy unfolded during discussions over the past year, when a 19-member EMS advisory task force met to craft rec-ommendations for the EMS levy and the strategic plan for the next six years. The current levy expires at the end of this year. Without a new levy, Medic One’s future would be uncertain.

Rex Stratton, a commis-sioner for the Vashon fire department, participated in the task force, as did repre-sentatives from Kirkland,

Renton, Bellevue, Seattle and smaller county-based fire departments. Last month, King County pub-lished its 2014-2019 EMS strategic plan, crafted with input from the task force.

The plan calls for a con-tinuation of the current EMS structure, funded with a 33.5-cent levy rate, which would bring in nearly $700 million over the course of the six-year levy. The task force voted 18-1 to sup-port the recommendations in the plan; only Kirkland opposed it.

Sweet said Kirkland has several concerns, equity being only one of them. Also at issue is the city’s desire to see its fire department offer what’s called “advanced life support” or ALS emergency services — life-saving med-ical response provided by highly trained paramedics. Kirkland currently receives that service from Redmond, which houses the service at a hospital in Kirkland.

Sweet said Kirkland

doesn’t expect to become an ALS provider immedi-ately but wants to be “on a path to that.” But the task force didn’t go along with Kirkland’s request, she said, leaving Kirkland’s repre-sentative on the task force “beyond frustrated.”

Kirk land off icials recently met with County Executive Dow Constantine and other high-placed offi-cials in county government. Sweet said the meeting was encouraging. “I think they really listened,” she said.

Stratton said he, too, is optimistic that a solution will be found and Kirkland will endorse the levy. “I am not terribly worried. Yet,” he said.

But he’s frustrated with Kirkland’s stance and with what he called the city’s “brinksmanship”; a solu-tion has to be found quickly for the levy to get onto the August or November ballot.

Should Kirkland pull, Stratton said, “King County will be in a world of hurt.”

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A Vashon man has registered as a sex offender and faces up to a year in jail after being convicted of child pornography charges last month.

Gregory Richard Garcia, a 49-year-old homeless man who is often seen around town, pleaded guilty and was convicted of second-degree possession of child por-nography on Jan. 22. He is currently on Vashon and awaiting his sentencing, which is scheduled for next week.

The charge stemmed from an incident last summer when an iPod that belonged to Garcia was found on the ground at the Sunrise Ridge baseball fields. The man who found the iPod noticed there were porno-graphic images of children on it and turned it over to police, who tracked the device back to Garcia. Police also found a laptop in Garcia’s storage unit that contained child pornography.

According to charging papers, Garcia

admitted at the time that the iPod and com-puter were his and that he downloaded the pornographic pictures and videos online.

Garcia was arrested, and the incident was covered by Seattlepi.com and Q13FOX, which broadcast a report from the Vashon Plaza parking lot where Garcia was said to hang out.

Garcia initially pled not guilty to the charge, but changed his plea and was con-victed in King County Superior Court on Jan. 22. He’ll be sentenced to up to a year in jail on Friday, Feb. 22.

Meanwhile, Garcia has registered as a sex offender on Vashon and was rated as a level-two offender, meaning authorities believe he is a moderate risk to the com-munity.

Garcia, whose name is now part of a public database of sex offenders in King County, is currently the only level-two or level-three offender living on Vashon.

DEATHS

Janice Wyatt Anderson died on Jan. 24, 2013, on Vashon.

She was born March 29, 1949, in Fresno, Calif., to Captain Vernon and Lillian Wyatt. In 1956, the fam-ily moved to a farm near Basin City, Wash. There, she developed her lifelong attributes as well as her love for animals, nature and gardening.

In the 1960s, the fam-ily moved to California, where she graduated from Santa Barbara High School. She worked as a profes-sional model then moved to Concord, N.H., where she was a bank teller. She attended the University of California Santa Barbara to pursue teaching and met and married the love of her life, classmate Christopher Anderson.

The newlyweds moved to Walla Walla, where they taught for the next 20 years and raised their children, Melissa and Devin, on a farm. Passionate about horses, Mrs. Anderson was a 4-H leader and member of the Blue Mountain Riders. She was also a writer and avid gardener who loved to travel abroad.

In 2007, she and her hus-band moved to Vashon and continued teaching. Mrs. Anderson became a mem-ber of the “Tea Cups” writ-er’s group, and she recently completed “Jaguar Tale,” which will be published this spring. She was also the central family figure throughout her life, host-ing numerous gatherings, including annual “sisters’ weekends.”

Mrs. Anderson is sur-vived by her husband Chris

Anderson (Vashon); son Devin Anderson (Austin, Texas); daughter Melissa and her husband Nick and children Mia and Max Cuevas (San Marcos, Calf.); and her Wyatt siblings Austin (Plymouth, Wash.), Bruce (Basin City, Wash.), Kathy (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Sherrye (Freeland, Wash.).

A memorial service will be later this spring.

Florence “Pat” Patricia Wells-Reed died at the Christa Nursing Center on Jan. 22, 2013. She was the wife of Robert S. Reed.

Mrs. Reed was born in Spokane, Wash., on Feb. 13, 1924, and moved to Cordova, Alaska, at the age of 5. She graduated from West Seattle High School in 1941 and went on to Central Washington State College in Ellensburg. She completed one year there and later attended Reed College in Portland.

Mrs. Reed worked as a bookkeeper for lumber com-panies in Aberdeen and was on a horseback drill team there. In 1955, she met and married Robert Reed, and the two of them had two children. Mrs. Reed was a Den Mother and PTA mem-ber. While living in Seattle, she worked for the Highline School District as an assis-tant to the art coordinator from 1968 to 1971, and a scholarship was created in her name.

Mrs. Reed and her family moved to Vashon in 1972 after Mr. Reed lost his job at Boeing. They operated the Western Farmers store for a few years, and she later worked for K2 Skis in the marketing department, while he worked for a real estate firm. After retiring, she volunteered for several years at Granny’s Attic.

In 1997 the couple moved to Camano Island, where they enjoyed island life, grandchildren and garden-ing. In 2001, Mr. Reed was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Mrs. Reed took care of him until 2005, when they moved to Seattle, where he could get more intensive care until his death in 2006. Mrs. Reed’s health eventual-ly deteriorated, and she had to move to assisted living and then nursing care.

Mrs. Reed was a moth-er to two children, Paul and Patricia, and to Holly Darvis, who was essentially adopted by the family. Paul now has two children, Nick and Zane.

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“We’re looking for a second bite at the apple,” said Bob Hennessey, board chair.

Hilary Emmer, who organized a small-scale summer school program two years ago, said that while she was happy to see the district taking steps to offer an official summer school, she too wanted students to have the chance to improve their grades and in doing so improve their GPA.

Two years ago, Emmer, a tax preparer and former high school teacher, offered a program that did just that when she tutored eight geometry students over the summer for about 18 hours total, helping them raise their grades from F to D or D to C.

“There was a real major inclination for them to be there, and their attitudes were pretty good,” Emmer said.

Last summer, Emmer attempted to orga-nize a similar tutoring program that would have been overseen by two teachers, giving students in geometry, algebra or English the chance to raise their grades. However, last-minute objections by teachers ham-pered the effort, and the teacher that was to oversee the English tutoring pulled out.

Teachers who had learned of the pro-gram, particularly those in the high school’s humanities department, said they were uncomfortable seeing a student change a grade in a class after simply being tutored by someone not certified as a teacher. They also said the concept violated their union agreement and questioned if it may vio-late state law as well. Humanities teacher Martha Woodard, also grievance chair for the teacher’s union, said she was prepared to file a labor grievance if the plans went forward.

“As far as the union goes, it was com-pletely contractually wrong,” she said of last year’s effort.

Emmer’s program was delayed by the conflict and ultimately faltered. Some

tutoring was offered over the summer, but no students improved their grades. Board members, displeased to see what seemed like a positive effort foiled by the dis-agreement, asked Superintendent Michael Soltman in July to deliver a viable summer school option for the following year.

Last week, Hanson, the longtime VHS principal who recently announced her retirement, presented the board with two options similar to the summer school program the dis-trict offered about a dozen years ago. Both would give students with F grades in math or English the chance to completely retake the course over the summer, with one option involving a certified teacher providing 70 hours of instruction over the summer and the other having students complete the course online with a certified teacher on hand for help when needed.

Since the state doesn’t fund summer school, either option would likely depend on students paying some tuition with schol-arships available.

Hanson, in an interview, said she thought the proposal was fair and would provide a good opportunity for students who fail classes to make up the credit.

Students who fail a class can currently retake it during the school year or take it independently online, but few make up courses independently and some would probably like the chance to do it over the summer in a more structured environment, she said. A similar program once ran for years at the district, but interest waned, and eventually not enough students signed up to keep it going.

The summer class would be pass/fail and wouldn’t wipe out the previous grade because it would be a condensed version of the original, Hanson said.

“You’re doing it intensely, and it’s not the full depth of the full class.”

When board members raised objections to the model, both Hanson and Soltman said they would consider putting together a new proposal that involved changing grades, but it would likely mean work-ing with teachers to find something they were comfortable with. What’s more, they said, in order to change a grade already earned, the summertime class would have

to match the original class in time and dif-ficulty, something that would require a whole new level of planning.

“We have to find a way to do it that main-tains the integrity of the standards we set for performance,” Soltman said. “Summer school,

in that case, would need to replicate the regular course experience.”

A curriculum would need to be set, Hanson said, and there isn’t much time to work out all the details before summer.

“It would be very difficult,” Hanson said at the meeting. “I hesitate to say that any-thing is impossible.”

As for Emmer, she said she would hate to see the program again derailed by grading policy and teacher’s objections. If students prove they have mastered concepts they

struggled with the first time around, she said, they should be able to improve their grade like they did two summers ago.

“What we did is worked on the areas the students didn’t get and were weak at,” she said. “I think it’s possible to do it in a shorter period of time, and the kids can still get a lot out of it.”

But Woodard endorsed Hanson’s pro-posal, saying it was both fair and a standard way for districts across the country to offer summer school. Should the district put forward a proposal where failing grades are replaced with new ones, she said, it would likely be met by opposition from teach-ers. Woodward also suspected changing a grade is against state law.

“I think you would run into some issues, philosophical or not,” she said. “I think that what kids get on the transcript remains on the transcript.”

However, at Thursday’s meeting, Soltman said he thought the board could set a policy allowing for grade changes on transcripts if it wished. At the same time, he said, he thought the district should work to find a solution everyone could agree with, even if it didn’t happen in time to plan a full sum-mer program this year.

“It’s a pretty professionally charged issue we would need to work our way through,” he said.

Mia McEldowney died at her home on Vashon Island, WA on February 1, 2013. She was 62.

Mia was born and raised in Oklahoma City and is predeceased by her parents, James and Priscilla McEldowney. She is survived by her sister, Ann McEldowney of Austin, TX and her husband, Bill Mitchell.

Mia attended Casady School in Oklahoma City. She then received her undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder where she studied ceramics and art history.

She earned Master’s Degrees in museum studies and art history of textiles from the University of Washington. Her love of the outdoors led her to Seattle in the late 1970’s where she lived for many years before moving to Vashon Island in 2004 with her husband Bill.

Mia was well known in the Seattle area for her active involvement and support of the arts. She opened Mia Gallery in Seattle in 1983 where she specialized in self-taught artists also known as folk art or “outsider” art and represented more than 50 artists over 14 years.

She was instrumental in the founding of Artist Trust, an organization that directly supports individual artists through grants. She served as its President and then Vice-President for many years. She was honored with their Creative Catalyst Award in 2012. Mia was a founding member of both the Seattle Art Dealer’s Association and the Seattle Gallery Exhibitions Guide. Mia also had a special interest in contemporary jewelry and metal arts and was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Seattle Metals Guild in 2010.

There will be a Celebration of Mia’s life on Sunday, March 3rd at 2:00p.m. at Camp Burton on Vashon Island.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Artist Trust, www.artisttrust.org, or call Pat Bako at 206-467-8734, ext. 18.

Mia McEldowney

In Loving Memory

JAMES A. KLOUSEJames A. Klouse went to be with his Lord and

Savior Jesus Christ on February 5, 2013. He was 84.Jim lived his life for his Lord and family. He was a

member of the First Presbyterian Church of Tacoma and of the Tacoma Elks Lodge # 174. Born to Wil-liam and Mable Klouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1928, Jim graduated from Norristown High School and went on to enlist in the U.S. Army, serving a combat tour in the Korean War. While stationed at Fort Lewis, he met the love of his life,

Betty Lewis. Jim and Betty were married 59 years until her death last year. Today, they are rejoined forever in the presence of their Heavenly Father.

Jim worked as a salesman, then Sales Manager, for Paulson’s Appliance and Furniture at 11th and “K”Streets in Tacoma for 25 years until his retirement. Jim is survived by his sons Bill (Andrea), Jim ( Julie), and Paul (Lois) Klouse, grandchildren Katie ( Jason), Jennifer, Jamie, Brittney, Evan, Sonia, Aubrey and Braden and great-granddaughter Elizabeth Knoke.

Funeral services will be held Monday, February 18, 2013 at 1 PM at Tuell-McKee Funeral Home, 2215 6th Ave Tacoma, WA. 98403. Private burial will follow at Woodbine Cemetery. It is suggested that memorial donations in Jim’s name be made to Youth for Christ, Tacoma Area Inc., P. O. Box 834, Tacoma, WA. 98401-0834. www.tacoma.yfc.net.

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Leslie Ferriel (206) 235-3731Crist Granum (206) 419-3661Susan Lofland (206) 999-6470David Knight (206) 388-9670

Phil McClure (206) 696-1800Val Seath (206) 790-8779Nancy Sipple (206) 465-2361

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Ishan Dillon (206) 355-4100JOHN L SCOTT VSHThis office independently owned & operated 13401 Vashon Hwy SWThis office independently owned & operated 13401 Vashon Hwy SW

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