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The county recently announced that its revolving septic loan program, which was previously only available to about 250 homes in Vashon’s Marine Recovery Area (MRA), is now open to 2,100 proper-ties, mostly in watersheds that flow into Quartermaster Harbor.

The program is expanding in part because of a lack of interest in the loans by those in the MRA, according to Darrell Rodgers, manager of community environmental health in King County’s health department.

King County announced the septic loan program would begin last year, after members of the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council advocated for it and the county secured $350,000 in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency. The program is part of an ongoing effort to get islanders to repair and maintain failing

septic systems, and the loans are adminis-tered through Craft3, a nonprofit lending organization.

However, since the program began last spring, fewer than 10 islanders have applied for the loans, a smaller number than the county expected. No loans have been given yet, Rodgers said, but several applicants are in the approval process. The county hopes that expanding the number of parcels eligi-ble for loans will generate more applications.

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Heritage association hopes to buy historic houseFormer parsonage adjacent to museum will go on the marketBy NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

Vashon’s heritage association is launching an ambitious fundraising campaign to secure the property adja-cent to its museum for eventual use as a family-friendly education center.

The Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association announced last week that the house on Bank Road that it has long hoped to acquire will go on the market in about a month. It hopes to raise $195,000 by then, enough for a down payment on the property.

“It’s an urgent situation for us,” said Deb Dammann, the current president of the heritage association.

Dammann said the organization has long had its eye on the 1910-era house on Bank Road just west of the heritage museum, which was his-torically the parsonage of the small Lutheran church where the heritage museum is now housed. Purchasing the home would not only reunite the two historic properties, she said, but would provide a space for the growing museum to expand into.

“Eventually we will outgrow that building,” she said.

The heritage association recently learned that the owner of the house, Bruce Kleiman, plans to put the house on the market in April, and volun-teers scrambled to form a plan. They determined they would need to fun-draise $195,000 for a down payment — an amount they also hope will cover about half the cost of the house — and applied for a $65,000 grant from King County 4Culture, which has supported other heritage associa-tion projects. Dammann said they are feeling optomistic about the grant and have a meeting scheduled with representatives of 4Culture’s emer-gency and unforeseen opportunities program.

The organization also mailed to all of its members pamphlets titled

“An Unforseen Opportunity.” Inside is an appeal for donations as well as a description of what the group is call-ing a heritage education center, a fam-ily-friendly interpretive center that could one day be housed in the new building. At such a center, Dammann said, families could experience child-friendly exhibits, see and touch real artifacts, participate in activities and do research on computers.

Brian Brenno, a heritage associa-tion board member, said the house could also provide needed storage space, though its primary use would be as an interpretive center.

“We realize there are a lot of young families on the island, and we’re look-ing to get a younger demographic in the museum,” he said. “That’s one way we can engage the community and share the history.”

However, the new center, Brenno and Dammann say, likely won’t take shape for years. Should the associa-tion purchase the property, it would likely rent out the house for as many as 10 years while it pays off the mort-

gage. Several years from now, it would likely put forward a capital campaign to fund the creation of the new center.

Kleiman, who was outside the house doing yard work one day last week, declined to comment on the heritage association’s efforts but said he does plan to put his house on the market next month. He also said he has made many improvements to the home, intending to restore it. According to King County records, Kleiman purchased the house in 1988 for $59,500.

Brenno noted that the heritage association has never undergone a large fundraising campaign and has mostly relied on grants and its approximately 400 members for funding. It now needs both wide and quick support for its effort to pur-chase the house.

“We’ve never quite reached out to the public like VAA and whatnot,” he said. “We need to start reaching out to the community and getting more support so we can reach this goal.”

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The 1910-era house just west of the heritage museum will likely go on the market next month. The heritage association hopes to raise $195,000 for a down payment.

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King County has awarded three grants totaling $6,500 to fund new projects by Vashon organizations.

The grants — given to Voice of Vashon, Sustainable Vashon and Vashon Allied Arts — come as part of the coun-ty’s Community Service Area (CSA) program. Funding that once sustained various unincorporated area coun-cils — including the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council — is now funneled to Community Engagement Grants available to any nonprofit with a vision for a project that would enhance its community. This year marked the third round of grants.

Voice of Vashon (VoV) was awarded $3,000 for the com-munity media organization to further develop its Open Studio program. Susan McCabe, VoV’s station manager, said the grant will help VoV expand Open Studio — which teaches islanders to produce radio programs — to include television production as well.

The funds will help Voice of Vashon purchase items such as video cameras, computers and editing equipment, as well as provide stipends for instructors. The organization will need to raise additional funds, McCabe said, but hopes to see the program launched within a year.

“We’ll make it happen one way or the other,” she said.A project to start a tool library on Vashon earned a

$2,500 grant. Islander Steve Graham, who garnered the grant through

Sustainable Vashon, said he’s been working for months to develop a Vashon tool library modeled after the successful West Seattle Tool Library. Already about 50 people have offered to help with the effort or donate tools, which would be lent out to tool library members who pay a small annual fee, Graham said.

“It’s kind of a consumer co-op,” he said. “It’s all about people who want to do home projects and need the tools to do them.”

Graham plans to locate the tool library in the same place as a woodworking co-op, which another group of island-ers is working to bring together. The two groups are still working to locate a space to rent, but the grant money, Graham said, will go toward setting up the new space and purchasing a computer and a computer program to catalog and lend out the tools.

King County also awarded a $1,000 grant to Vashon Allied Arts for an educational concert.

In all, the county awarded 67 grants totaling $63,000 in unincorporated King County. The only grant request from Vashon that was not accepted was one from the Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust to fund planning around the potential purchase of Misty Isle Farm for community farmland.

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Vashon Community Care, unlike most adult care programs across the country, is owned and financed by the community. For nearly two decades, Vashon resi-dents have supported this impor-tant institution, making it possible for island elders to remain on Vashon as they age and providing a place on-island for rehabilitation patients to receive important care.

While VCC volunteers have car-ried out several successful fundraising campaigns over the years, we are now coming to the com-munity with a new fundraising plan to help assure VCC has a sus-tainable financial base.

Some may ask why donations are still needed for VCC, especially considering the campaign for the mortgage refinance of 2012. Although the mortgage refinance helped the center’s short-term sta-bility, it did not solve the underly-ing need for continuous donations.

In 1995 when VCC was created, a promise was made to the Vashon community that no resident would ever be asked to leave because of inability to pay. Today, 19 years later, VCC has kept that promise through the generous support of the island community. When a resident’s personal funds are exhausted, Medicaid steps in to help by reimbursing VCC for a part of the cost of care. For those living in Aspiri Gardens Assisted Living, Medicaid covers only 49 percent of the cost of care. For those in Beardsley Terrace Skilled Nursing, the rate is 70 percent. This difference amounts to a funding gap of more than $1 mil-lion per year. It is a testament to VCC’s dedicated staff and volun-teers that more than $750,000 of this shortfall was covered by care-ful management and income from rehabilitation services and other

programs last year. For the remain-ing $250,000 last year and $300,000 this year, we must rely on the Vashon community.

Vashon Community Care’s campaign to refinance its mort-gage was very successful and greatly improved VCC’s cash flow, and therefore, short-term financial position. The commu-nity was, and is, very generous, and it is much appreciated. While serving on the VCC Development Committee during this 2012 fundraising campaign, I heard a number of our major donors say they were happy to help but they were also concerned about VCC’s long-term sustainability. With our short-term position much improved, we recently could begin thinking about the long-term.

A number of factors affect VCC’s long-term sustainability. One factor is its mortgage. Since the mortgage is guaranteed by HUD, there are restrictions on how funds — particularly con-tingency funds — are handled. It became apparent that the solution to these issues would be to form a separate nonprofit organization to act as the fundraising arm of VCC. Thus Vashon Community Care Foundation (VCCF) was established.

The sole mission of VCCF is to provide financial support to VCC, both with operational funds and long-term sustaining funds. Our plan for providing operational

money is to ask every person on Vashon-Maury Island to make a monthly donation through either a credit/debit card or direct depos-it. With short-term operational needs met, the VCCF board can then focus on developing sustain-ing funds.

VCCF’s goal is to provide a secure future with operational funding through our recurring donation program and build a strong foundation to provide sus-taining funding through grants, events and major individual and corporate donors. We have estab-lished credit/debit card processing and direct deposit through Our Community Credit Union and will soon establish a sustaining brokered account through Chase investments. We will soon be able to accept stock and property as well as cash donations. The board of directors of Vashon Community Care Foundation looks forward to working with individuals and organizations on the island to reach this important goal.

We are so lucky to have this five-star rated facility on our little island. Let’s work together to close the funding gap at Vashon Community Care to insure we will have it for generations to come.

— Truman O’Brien is the Vashon Community Care Foundation’s

board president.

EDITORIAL

Flip through the pages of this week’s issue, and you’ll see multiple mentions of King County. Tomorrow, county offi-cials will cut the ribbon on Vashon’s new services center, and next week it will unveil our newly remodeled library. There’s a low-interest loan program for islanders to do work on their septic systems and small grants recently handed out to local nonprofits. The county is even installing a cover on the dock where water taxi passengers wait in the morning. Last week we reported the county is working to avoid Metro bus ser-vice cuts. While some on Vashon currently have a beef with King County over the town plan, there’s no arguing that the county is at least using tax dollars and other funding to ben-efit islanders.

Mostly missing in this week’s issue, however, are ways in which we’ll benefit from the state, which finished up anoth-er legislative session last week. Lawmakers unsurprisingly failed to pass a bevy of proposed bills, including a trans-portation package that would have provided stability to the state transportation budget and set the ferry system that is crucial to the island on a sustainable course. They also again failed take any significant action to meet the state Supreme Court’s mandate to fully fund education in our state. Here on Vashon, a community foundation that supports our schools will soon begin another campaign to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to pick up where the state leaves off.

Sadly, the inaction seen this session is nothing new. With Democrats controlling the house and Republicans control-ling the Senate, legislators have been unable to meet in the middle and again didn’t accomplish much other than pass-ing a workable budget. However, don’t miss a small story on page 5 about funds allocated for the state patrol to again place a cadet to direct traffic at the Fauntleroy dock. The line item is small — about $70,000 — but should make a big difference at the ferry dock. We have increasingly wor-ried about safety risks at the dock when the ferry unloads into busy Fauntleroy traffic, especially when buses, pedes-trians and commuting children are added into the mix. Sen. Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island) said the funding was approved after the co-chair of the Senate Transportation Committee visited the dock during a commute time and saw the situation herself.

Lawmakers also approved funding for a third and final 144-car ferry that is badly needed in order to retire older boats. We’re glad the Legislature gave priority to these impor-tant issues, though it reportedly killed most other transporta-tion requests. With funding for ferries and other transporta-tion needs running out and a Supreme Court order to fund education looming closer, the stakes will be higher next legis-lative session. Hopefully our leaders in Olympia will respond by making compromises where it matters.

LETTER TO THE EDITORK2We should support Bakkhos

Many of our neighbors are perhaps allowing their idealism to devolve into elitism. The K2 complex has been vacant for far too long, and the desires of turning it into something for the common use of the

community are not going to become a reality in this post-Great Recession world. While not meeting the hopes of some of us, the current Bakkhos proposal is the best practical deal for what has been a “white elephant” for quite some time. Elections do have con-sequences, and the vote to legalize recreational

Inaction in Olympia cannot continue

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Center needs local support as much as everCOMMUNITYBy TRUMAN O’BRIEN

When VCC was created, a promise was made to the Vashon community that no resident would ever be asked to leave because of inability to pay.

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Burton Church Welcomes a Sermon in SongBurton Community Church will host a two-part “Sermon in Song”

by Island activist, writer and musician Harmon Arroyo: Part I, Sunday, March 16 ❖ Part II, Sunday, March 23.

Both times are 11am-noon.

Mr. Arroyo’s Sermon in Song, titled “Into the Infinite”, will emphasize the enormous spiritual potential each individual has to influence the community good and the promotion of all aspects of human dignity.

Examples of Island individuals and organizations making a difference to be highlighted in Part I on Sunday, March 16, will include Sandy Mattara (Burton Store), Emma Amiad and Nancy Vanderpool (Vashon Interfaith Council for the Prevention of Homelessness), the Vashon Social Service Network, Vashon Island Pet Protectors, and AHOPE for Children.

Part II on Sunday, March 23, will be a full audience-participation run-through and performance of the theme song/anthem “Into the Infinite”. Featured Island instrumentalists will include Luke McQuillin, Matt Eggleston, Dianne Krouse, Gib Dammann, Ike Harmon, Sarah Hotchkiss, Meredith Neal, and Arnon Burns. The Infinite Burton Singers will resound with the voices of Rick Skillman, Alexis Carleton, Keanu Roush, and the Burton Church Choir.

Come join us in spirit and song. The March performance will be videotaped by Peter Ray/Dark Dog Studios for release on YouTube.

Plate donations will benefit AHOPE for Children founded by Islander Kathy Olsen to serve the needs of HIV/AIDS orphans in Ethiopia (www.ahopeforchildren.org).

Burton Community Church is located in downtown Burton and has served the community for 117 years.

For additional information, contact Jeannette Smith at 463-9977, or Harmon Arroyo at 206-351-1441.

“We are grateful for the generosity of our Vashon community that has been so supportive to AHOPE for Children and Kathy’s legacy. We are looking forward to this event and sharing in the music and fellowship created by A Sermon in Song. ”

– Jennifer Olsen, AHOPE for Children President

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Did I ever tell you about being stranded on a Pacific island? A genuine remote island off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

I am reminded of this harrow-ing experience because right on the bridge of my nose is a scar. It used to be quite noticeable, but the rest of my face has helpfully grown a lot of wrinkles, so it blends in.

I was visiting my brother, who for the past eight years had been a teacher in the South Pacific. Like any other visit to my brother, this one involved fishing. But instead of whiling away the hours on an idyllic Canadian lake or lazy Vermont river, we would be on the Pacific Ocean. This was worrisome because every boat my brother has ever owned could be classified as a maritime hazard.

His current boat and trailer ensemble did not disappoint. The trailer was the very definition of metal fatigue, but at least three of the four tires were inflated. And then there was the boat itself, named The Mahseer, which I assumed was Papuan for “Death at Sea.” However, in a break from tra-dition, this boat had two relatively modern outboard engines, a large one for getting from A to B and a small one for trolling.

So off we went, and after a long

day on the water, I realized two things: There are a lot less fish in the sea than you’d think, and the equator is not a good place for a pasty white

guy. As the sun became low in the sky, my brother reluctantly decided to go home. When he pressed the starter button, there was nothing, just a terrifying silence. My brother looked at me and said, “Well, we still have the trolling motor.”

As we plodded along at an ach-ingly slow pace, the land and water became one black blob. I was already making plans to mutiny when he spotted a pinprick of light in the distance. When we finally beached, we could hear singing and chanting. My brother hopped out and said, “Stay in the boat, sometimes the locals get massively drunk and hack up strangers.” Since he was a reservist for the local police, I figured he would know.

As he walked into the gloom, I realized I was well and truly

stranded on an island. My grow-ing panic lasted almost 15 minutes until a man showed up out of nowhere. He stopped and spoke quickly in a strange dialect. Not having understood a word, I replied just as quickly, “I am American and have many guns!” He politely smiled, nodded and walked away.

I took this as an act of aggres-sion and set about trying to get the engine working. I figured if the small engine could be started with a pull-cord, so could the big one. I took off the engine cover to the trolling motor and noticed a pull-cord was connected to a thingy. Removing the cover on the big engine, I noticed it had a thingy too. All I needed to do was fashion a pull-cord for the big engine and save the day.

The cord part was easy to find, but I needed something to hook the cord to the thingy. I got on my hands and knees to wade through the detritus on the deck. There I found half a pair of pliers, a paper-back book, some sort of bone and lots of beer bottle caps. After almost giving up, I found a thin, inch-long nut that would work perfectly.

Rigging it up, I gave a pull and heard a “chug, chug” from the engine. My eyes lit up, as I was thinking my Rube Goldberg appa-

ratus might work. I pulled again and again, hearing the same hope-ful sounds until on one particularly mighty yank, the cord broke and the nut hit me right between the eyes leaving a thin, inch-long cut.

I stared at the broken cord in my hand until I felt the warm blood and acute pain spreading over my face. I ran around in circles scream-ing because that always helps. Then I tried to find anything that wasn’t covered in fish slime to staunch the bleeding. I ended up using the middle pages from the paperback.

When my brother returned, I was sitting down with my head between my knees and chapter six on my nose. After explaining my situa-tion, he gave me one of his standard answers, “Moron,” which is my brother’s way of saying, “I hope you are OK, and you’re a moron.”

Needless to say, we made it back, and a couple of days later he announced The Mahseer was seaworthy again. I asked him why the engine stopped running, and he said that it was something so obvi-ous. It seems a thin, inch-long nut fell off the starter button.

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marijuana is bound to have an effect on all com-munities in Washington State. These consequences are not something we can hide from or avoid here on Vashon just because we are surrounded by water or because we self-identify as being unique.

Some of our neighbors with many more yester-days behind them than tomorrows ahead are most strident in voicing their opposition to the Bakkhos proposal. I would hope they would realize that they have arrived at a time when they should be sharing more of their wisdom and experi-ences rather than their unmet ideals and pipe-dreams.

Very little — be it jobs, transportation, raising a family — will be easier for the youth of today than it was for people of my gener-ation. The chance for good, safe, jobs here at home on the island for our young people is an opportunity that I believe should be sup-ported.

— Will Giammarese

HUMORBy CHRIS AUSTIN

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County to hold ribbon cutting for new service centerSeveral local leaders are expected to be

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King County Executive Dow Constantine, Sheriff John Urquhart, dis-trict court Chief Presiding Judge Corinna Harn, King County Councilmember Joe

McDermott and other local leaders plan to be at the event, which will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday.

The new Vashon Rural Services Center houses the King County Sheriff ’s Office substation, a district court courtroom and offices for King County permitting and licensing services. It is located across from Vashon Island Fire and Rescue’s main fire station, at 10011 SW Bank Rd.

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ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury BACKBONE BENEFIT: The Moisture Festival will perform a benefit show for the Backbone Campaign

at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at Seattle’s Broadway Performance Hall. See www.moisturefestival.org for more information about this comedy, variety and burlesque benefit event.

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COLLECTOR’S CHOICE

Make room for some new artVashon Allied Arts is calling all art collectors. The organization is holding an art sale called Collector’s Choice for people who would like to sell art from their collections. Collectors will receive 50 percent of the selling price, or they can make a tax-deductible donation to support VAA.

The Collector’s Choice art sale will be held May 30, 31 and June 1 at the Vashon Allied Arts Gallery.

Contact gallery curator Janice Mallman at [email protected], or call 463-5131 with any questions.

STAR IN A SHOW

Jump on the ‘Gypsy’ caravan and audition for a new musicalDrama Dock will hold auditions for its summer production of “Gypsy” directed by Stephen Floyd.

Auditions will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 29, in the Vashon High School band room.

Parts available include four to six adult men and six to eight adult women, all ranging in age from 20 to mid-60s; one young man, age 16 to 18; two young women, ages 16 to 18; a small chorus of boys and girls, ages 8 to 12; and a small chorus of teen boys and girls.

Actors should prepare a short song for the audition and bring music for the pianist, if possible.

Monologues are not required, but are welcome (2 minutes maximum.) Actors will be asked to read from the script.

Contact the producer, Kirk Beeler, at [email protected] with any questions.

VASHON OPERA

Tickets go on sale for opera company’s next showVashon Opera plans to pluck your heartstrings with its next production, “Werther,” a French opera with English subtitles. Tickets for the show go on sale April 1 at the Vashon Bookshop or www.vashonopera.org.

Based on Goethe’s novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” this opera tells the tale of a young artist — Werther — who falls in love with a woman betrothed to another. Jules Massenet’s music dramatically illuminates the grief of the ill-fated love, and the profession-al cast will be directed by Jim Brown.

On May 4, Norm Hollingshead will give a preview lecture about the opera, with time and location to be determined.

Opening night for “Werther” will be at 8 p.m. May 16, with a matinee perfor-mance at 2:30 p.m. May 18. A reduced rate student and family dress rehearsal will be at 7 p.m. May 14. All perfor-mances wil be at Bethel Church.

Prices are $32 for season and individual tickets and $15 for the dress rehearsal.

Vashon Island Youth Chorus, a group of young singers in first- through fifth- grade, will per-form songs from world music and feature classic two-part harmonies at 7 p.m. Friday at the Blue Heron.

Special guest Paul Colwell will accompany the youth chorus, which is under the direction of Marita Ericksen, on mandolin, guitar and vocals.

Colwell, a musical mentor and original member of “Up with People,” will be joined by his brother Steve Colwell on guitar, Rochelle Munger on banjo and Cliff Simpson on bass. As an added bonus, the Colwell broth-ers will play a special mini-set.

The youth chorus will sing two-part harmonies in a series of classic songs like “Cripple Creek,” “Green Eggs and Ham” and “All Aboard the Partner Express.” Refreshments will be served at this hour-long show.

Tickets are $6 for VAA members, students and seniors or $8 for general admission and are on sale at VAA, Heron’s Nest and www.vashonalliedarts.org.

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Special guest will join youth chorus

Popular belly dancing party lives on with music, dance and food

More than 20 years ago, islanders Dean Haugen, Bonnie McCallister and Hotei Rice started a belly dancing party that has become so popular that they now have opened it up to everyone. This Saturday an expanded party that will include live music and Middle Eastern food will be held at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

At the event, “O-asis: An Equinox Celebration of Middle Eastern Music and Dance,” the classic fairytale of Cinderella will be danced to life — Egyptian style. Nalani Dance’s Blue Lotus Dance Company will perform excerpts from artistic director and belly dancer Suzanna Davis’ innova-tive treatment of “Cinderella - An Egyptian Story.” Live music by the seven-piece ensemble House of Tarab will accompany the dancers with traditional Arabic music.

Davis’ goal for the show, she said, was to creatively integrate dance, theater and music, which

are the foundations for opera and musicals, but that rarely occur with world dance and music. She also wanted to highlight the cultural roots of belly dancing and reveal the diversity of Egyptian modern and folkloric dance styles.

Davis will also offer a pre-show belly dance workshop for those interested in learning the dance form.

Following the performance, music by Vashon’s world-fusion band Avaaza will beckon audi-ence members to the dance floor along with deejays Whitmore and Mirage 6.

For those with hunger in their bellies, a Middle Eastern menu will be supplied by The Hardware Store Restaurant with spirits from the Seattle Distilling Company.

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Tracy Helming will dance the role of Cinderella in “Cinderella - An Egyptian Story” on Saturday night at the Open Space.

Island poet, teacher and magician Tom Pruiksma will premier his lat-est theatrical piece, “By Heart: The Poet’s Magic of Memory,” at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

By combining poetry, magic, story and song, Pruiksma will explore how poets reveal the inner truths of people’s hearts.

Pruiksima described this show as a theatrical jour-ney — not just a talk about poetry — using words and illusion to make the invis-ible visible and the unsay-able sayable. He wants to share what he knows about the inner experience of poetry and how it helps us remember who we are.

Pruksima calls his lat-est show magic for adults “because it’s about the real magic that can hap-pen when we listen to our hearts,” according to a press release.

“For a long time I’ve wanted to present some-

thing more elegant and more meaningful than what we usually associate with the word magic,” he said.

Vashon’s Poet Laureate Ina Whitlock and both of Vashon’s Junior Poet Laureates, Lily Robinthal

and Zauxie Sackman, will open Sunday’s show by reading poems of their own.

Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door and are on sale at the Vashon Bookshop or www.brownpapertickets.com.

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Tom Pruiksma will perform “By Heart: The Poet’s Magic of Memory” on Sunday at the Open Space.

Magician to perform tricks with words

O-asis will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Open Space for Arts & Community. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and $8 for youth. Tickets are on sale at the Vashon Bookshop and www.brownpapertickets.com. Recieve a $2 discount for dressing in a Middle Eastern costume. Register for the belly dancing workshop at www.planetsuzanna.com/instruction.


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The Health of the GreenbackTuesday, March 11, 2014, 2:00 p.m.

Green Day with the Emerald BardsThursday, March 13, 2014, 2:30 p.m.

Spring Ephemerals with Susie EganThursday March 20, 2014, 2:30 p.m.

History of the Evergreen StateWednesday, March 26, 2014, 10:00 a.m.

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AUDITION for “GYPSY”Drama Dock announces auditions for its Summer 2014 production of “Gypsy,” directed by Dr. Stephen Floyd.

When: Saturday, March 29, 1:00-4:00 p.m.Where: In the new VHS band room.Who: Parts available for--4-6 adult men, 20’s-60ish, 6-8 adult women, 20’s-60ish, one young man, 16-18, two young women, 16-18 a small chorus of boys and girls 8-12 years old, and a small chorus of teen boys and girls.

Prepare a short song for the audition. Bring music for the pianist, if possible.Monologues not required but are welcome (2 minutes max please). You will be asked to read from the script.

Questions? Please contact the producer Kirk Beeler at [email protected].

Soul Senate, a seven-piece, high-energy and original soul and funk band, will play at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Red Bike.

The band bridges the funky sounds of the 60s and early 70s — the music of the Meters, Stevie Wonder and the Stax label of Memphis — with the distinctive-ly modern sound of bands like Raphael Saadiq, Alice Russell, Eli Paperboy Reed and the New Mastersounds. Soul Senate defines their own musical terri-tory with well-crafted arrange-ments, sizzling horns, memorable

instrumentals and vocal songs. Each member of the band has

10 to 30 years of experience on the local or national music scene. They’ve played countless venues and festivals from Bumbershoot to the 100,000-person West Fest. Soul Senate has been the open-ing act for touring groups such as Orgone, Delta Nove, Will Bernard, Roy Ayers and the Monophonics.

This show is free and open to all ages until 11 p.m., then 21 and older after that.

Soul and funk band will play a show at the Red Bike

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Soul Senate will play the Bike on Saturday.

Champagne, chocolate and jewelry with stories to tell will be the stars of Vashon Allied Arts’ Once Loved jewelry sale on Sunday.

At the sale, shoppers can choose from an array of previously worn necklaces, earrings, pins, bracelets and rings. Whether given as gifts, purchased for a special occasion or handed down through a family, these jewels come with a

history that adds an allur-ing element to their owner-ship.

This will be VAA’s first-ever jewelry sale of items sourced from local com-munity members. The col-lection includes a variety of styles with reasonable sale prices.

The sale will run from noon to 1 p.m. for VAA members and 1 to 5 p.m. for the general public at the Blue Heron.

Once-loved jewelry stars at first-ever VAA sale

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A variety of jewelry will be included in Sunday’s sale.

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Gail Green, Vashon’s postmaster.Olihovik said that he believes one large

bin of mail is missing, but he says he and other post office officials have no way of knowing how much mail was in it.

An event like this, he said, happens “tre-mendously infrequently,” but he believes the mail will be located soon.

“I’m pretty confident it’s going to be found in a short period of time,” he said last week.

Green said she feels the same way. “Absolutely, I am optimistic it will be

found soon,” she said.Green noted she is keeping a list of peo-

ple who wish to be notified when the mail is found, and people interested in being added to the list should contact her, and she will notify them directly.

“I am going to do everything I can pos-sibly do to get this resolved,” she said.

Some people have expressed frustration with limited information coming from postal employees and the lack of notice about the missing mail. Green, however, said that at first she and her colleagues

did not realize the scope of the problem until they received multiple complaints. Furthermore, she said, she and other local postal staff are limited in what they can say.

“Any information given to the public from the post office has to come through the Office of Public Affairs,” she said.

While authorities do not know yet what happened to Vashon’s mail, Olihovik said that in other instances when mail has disap-peared, it has been found in a postal location under a large mailbag, for exam-ple, or mistakenly set off to the side out of view.

Green noted she has never experienced mail missing on this magni-tude before and wishes she could pro-vide affected postal customers with helpful information, but cannot.

“We don’t have answers to give at this time, unfortunately,” she said.

She also noted that the post office has procedures in place to prevent events like this from happening.

“The post office has very strict operating procedures to ensure the security of the mail,” she said.

At the care center, Director of

Development Linda Milovsoroff said the missing mail has created a headache. During their recent Labor of Love online auction, many people bid on a variety of items, and several of the missing envelopes contained more than one gift certificate. In all, she said, 37 Labor of Love gift certificates went astray, plus seven gift

certificates from island merchants that the cen-ter itself cannot reprint.

Steen, who mailed the bundle, also noted that it will likely take them nearly 15 hours to duplicate their work — and additional time for island merchants to re-

create the certificates as well. “It’s major for us, a major cost,” she said. The missing mail has also proven costly

for Island Home Center & Lumber, said Gina Jacobs, the executive assistant at the store. She mailed nearly 400 statements on March 3.

“Gone. Every one of them,” she said.Customers began inquiring where their

statements were in the middle of the week, she added, and she and other staff had to redo the billing, which took staff time

and cost the business an added expense of almost $400 for the paper and postage. It also delayed income to the lumber yard, she said, as the bills are due on the 10th of the month.

Joyce Olson, an accountant on Vashon, said she called the post office and found out about the missing mail after she noticed several checks she had issued around that time had not cleared. The timing of the issue is especially problematic, she said, since March 3 was the first business day of the month and many islanders likely mailed bill payments and rent and mort-gage payments.

Olson has now reissued some payments, but said she was concerned that if the mail is eventually found and sent, it could result in double payments .

“If all of us reissue our checks, all of us are in trouble,” she said.

While Olihovik says he understands people’s frustrations, he encouraged people not to lose faith in the post office.

Last year, he said, the post office shipped more than 150 billion piece of mail.

“When you’re handling that much vol-ume, things can go wrong,” he said. “Most of the time, they don’t.”

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“We don’t have answers to give at this time, unfortunately.”

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A quiet revolution is taking place in a drafty warehouse on Vashon, where a hand-ful of islanders are earning decent wages manufacturing steel farming implements. The effort defies, if not the myth of America, certainly the myth of Vashon Island — that manufacturing is dead and that nobody really makes anything anymore.

Chalk this one up to ingenuity, a bit of luck, a machine that can fabricate the prod-uct and a market for it. Plenty of people, it turns out, want what Meadow Creature manufactures — heavy-duty broadforks for hand-tilling long rows of hard-packed soil or, as the founders of Meadow Creature like to say, “artisan farming implements for modern times.”

Bob Powell founded Meadow Creature in 2009, after a handful of Vashon farmers told him they needed a decent broadfork, a tool that could replace gas-guzzling rototillers or the much more labor-intensive process of using a pick-axe and shovel. An MIT-trained engineer with an environmental ethic, Powell went to work, toiling alone in the cavernous warehouse at the Sheffield Building, using the perfect machine — a waterjet — to create the steel tines that help to make the broadfork a powerful hand tool.

Today, Powell employs four people full time, paying them family-wage salaries. He’s sold more than 3,000 broadforks, tools that have been shipped to every corner of the

country. Thirteen retail out-lets —including Vashon True Value — sell the item. And he’s now close to retailing his second “artisan imple-ment” — an industrial-strength cider press, designed to be effi-cient, easy to use and indestructible.

Powell, 54, is a tall, bearded man with a sel f-ef facing manner, and he calls Meadow Creature “an accidental busi-ness” that garnered more attention than he anticipated after he put up a website. “I never would have guessed,” he says of his success.

His wife, Margot Boyer, a former writing instructor who handles the company’s sales and marketing, seems not so surprised. Not only are Meadow Creature’s broadforks well-designed and well-made, she said, they “solve one of the oldest problems of civiliza-tion — how to break open the soil so it can be worked with the hands and grow seeds of the gardener or farmer’s choosing.”

“Also, they look cool,” she said.The Sheffield’s large warehouse is a hub

of activity these days. The BURN Design Lab, which makes small stoves for develop-ing nations, is located there. The Backbone

Campaign’s huge puppets hang from the rafters. And this is where the tool that has enabled Powell to put his inventor’s brain to work is located — a kitchen table-sized precision-cutting machine that uses water and abrasive sand to cut through thick pal-lets of steel.

“High-speed, controlled erosion,” explained Paul Thibault, Meadow Creature’s machinist. In half a day, the waterjet can carve out of steel enough tines for 18 broadforks.

The waterjet is an impressive machine — it uses software that allows Thibault to draw his design onto a screen and then push a few buttons to begin the cutting process. “I can go from an idea to a finished part in less than 30 minutes,” he said.

The beauty of it, Powell explained, is that he can fabricate low-volume products with a small overhead. As a result, Powell has built up a small machine shop in the building, taking custom orders for all sorts of things — parts to be used in sculptures, art pieces, one-of-a-kind signs. Both he and Boyer are social activists, and a philan-thropic spirit infuses his shop (he’s donated $50,000 in services to BURN Design Lab).

But at the heart of this shop are the broadforks, tools that have garnered atten-tion and won accolades from small-scale farmers across the country. “Eureka! We found it,” proclaimed the editor of Mother Earth News in the January 2012 issue. “The Vashon Broadfork, with its sharp, super-rigid, slightly curved 14- or 16-inch tines, ... penetrates soil (sort of like how eagle

talons work) with less operator effort than any other fork we’ve tried.”

Powell’s broadfork was already selling well in the niche market of small-scale organic farmers, but the endorsement gave the small company another boost. “The publicity was a wonderful gift,” Powell said. His then part-time employee, Jared Middle Calf, became his full-time production manager, and he soon hired three others.

Today, testimonials for the broadfork fill his website, including videos of three well-known Vashon farm families using the tool. One video features the Yarkin family, Joe and Celina and their three daughters, each with their own broadfork, doing “broadfork races” across their small family farm.

Powell hopes to now parlay the success of the broadfork into other tools and products, all manufactured with the same set of guid-ing principles. “We want to make only good products and do right by our customers and our employers and the earth,” he said.

Most gratifying to Boyer has been the feedback she hears from customers — com-ments that underscore the need to manu-facture quality items. People often say to her, “Wow, you make those here? You make those yourself?” she said.

“We desperately need to bring our manu-facturing sector back to life with real stuff — not junk, but well-made things that meet genuine human needs,” she added.

—Leslie Brown is a communications specialist at the county’s Department of Public Defense and the former editor of

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This weekend the Chamber of Commerce will offer its first ever home fair, an event chamber officials hope will connect island-ers with Vashon-based businesses for their remodeling projects and other home needs.

“A lot of times you don’t get to meet the person you are trusting one of your largest investments to until you’re in the bidding process,” said chamber director Jim Marsh.

At the Vashon Home Show, which will be held at the newly constructed Vashon High School, attendees will have the chance to meet with representatives from more than two dozen businesses related to the home and home improvements. Included in the lineup are architects, construction companies and contractors that do floors, kitchen and bath design, HVAC systems, landscaping, excavat-ing and even solar power installation.

Also on hand will be islanders who offer services related to other aspects of home ownership, such as pest control, home orga-nizing, home inspections and handyman services.

Throughout the event, door prizes will be given out, and businesses will give presenta-

tions on topics including remodeling, green living, natural disasters and buying, selling and staging a home.

“Our main goal is to educate people and show them the different options they have,” said Mike England, a chamber member who developed the idea for the home show and is helping to organize it.

Marsh and England, a broker with Guild Mortgage, both say they have been sur-prised to see how often islanders who need work done at their homes turn to off-island businesses and contractors. They hope the home fair will give more exposure to the businesses on the island by allowing island-ers to meet and speak with them in person.

“If people knew what was here, they may include more island people,” Marsh said.

Now is a good time for the chamber to hold such an event, England noted. Not only is it spring, but the recession has ended, and more people seem to be taking on remodel-ing and construction projects they had been putting off.

“With the improving economy, people are able to do that,” he said. “We wanted to but on an event that would show people their options.”

The Vashon Home Fair will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Vashon High School commons. Admission is free, and those who bring a canned food donation for the food bank will receive a free bag of popcorn. Childcare with be provided. For more information, see www.vashonchamber.com.

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New event spotlights home and remodeling businesses

Garden club preps for another popular plant sale

Throughout the year, members of the Vashon Maury Island Garden Club collect plants they no longer need or want, tucking them away in corners, barns and basements. Come May, those plants will go up for sale at bargain prices at the garden club’s annual plant sale.

“There are a lot of plants you can’t find just anywhere,” said JR Crawford, a garden club board member. “A lot of special plants, things we’ve passed around to each other, all out of our own gardens.”

At the sale, which takes place each year the first Saturday in May, the club will sell flowers and trees, perennials, native plants and vegetable starts. There will also be sedum planters made by club members and garden art. The sale begins at 9 a.m. and is usually sold out by 1 p.m. The loca-tion of this year’s event has not yet been chosen.

Proceeds from the sale, the garden club’s largest fundraiser, provide most of the club’s operating funds for the year and fund several scholarships the club sponsors. Last year the club was able to offer $2,000 in scholarship for high school seniors.

“That’s a lot of $2 plants,” Crawford said.

About the garden clubThe Vashon Maury Island Garden Club,

with a steady membership of about 90 mem-bers, meets monthly and holds special events throughout the year.

The club’s next meeting, which is open to the public, will be at 10 a.m. Monday, April 14, at the Lutheran church. Local arborist Michelle Ramsden will speak at 11:15 a.m. on trees.

For more information on the club or to join, contact JR Crawford at [email protected].


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When Pattie Hanmer first saw the clapboard house perched above Quartermaster Harbor, she knew she had found her Northwest home. Supported from behind by the wooded hillside, embraced on either side by tree-covered slopes and fronted by a vista of sparkling water, this dwelling had all the elements needed for ideal feng shui.

“It's called the armchair,” said Hanmer, a feng shui professional and island resi-dent since 2002. “The hill behind repre-sents the back of the chair, which offers protection, and the trees on the sides form the arms.” The small rise beyond the water, in this case Maury Island, sym-bolizes the footstool. All combined, it’s a classic feng shui configuration.

The art of feng shui originated in ancient China and is all about the flow of energy or “chi” in a building and its envi-rons. Keeping that chi moving depends upon the balance of the feminine and masculine energies — yin and yang — plus the prime energetic building blocks, the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water.

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examples of feng shui run amuck. They often have too much wood, which can stagnate energy. Solution? Add the element

of metal. “It can be as simple as painting a wall

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said. “Think of it like an ax cutting through a log.”

Metaphors, it turns out, are big in feng shui.

So is making chi flow freely, which results in happy, healthy and produc-tive residents. But how to get that energy moving is the question, and where the art comes in.

“This is not like the extreme makeover shows on TV,” laughed Hanmer who has been practicing feng shui for more than 20 years. “It has to happen gradually.”

And with Hanmer it does. Typically it takes about three months for clients to make the changes Hanmer suggests. After an extensive interview and walk through the house, Hanmer and her clients begin with a list. Paint a wall here, move some furniture there, buy something new.

One of the most common things block-ing chi, Hanmer says, is clutter.

“It bogs you down,” she said. “We build a dam hanging onto old things. If you want something to change, then you have to release it. Always do what you’ve always done, and you get the same results.”

Hanmer’s proposals can be small to significant, but they often come down to

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The right side is for relationships. Hanmer displays two guitars for her and her husband’s, artist Dean Hanmer, love of music. There are two small cups from a wedding and other pairs of meaningful objects.

“Bird feeders and wind chimes bring in sound and movement,” added Hanmer.

“Feng shui is a continual play of the ele-ments and opening of avenues for the path of chi.”

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A colorful, cozy secret is tucked away on a central island property that many who drive by every day likely don’t realize is there.

The Salsa House, as it is affectionately referred to by friends and family, was built in 2004 by John Demyanovich and his sister-in-law, islander Delene Rodenberg. It sits on Rodenberg and her partner’s 10-acre wooded property, and is now a home for Rodenberg’s mother- and father-in-law. (Rodenberg’s partner and in-laws preferred not to be named.)

Rodenberg said her in-laws always loved Vashon, and visited often, “but they always had to find a place to rent or stay since our house is pretty small,” Rodenberg said of her and her partner’s 1920’s era, 950 square-foot home.

When the in-laws started talking about moving

permanently to Vashon, the tight-knit family had to brainstorm.

Initially they consid-ered buying a trailer and parking it on the property — given the acreage, that seemed doable. Then, a lightbulb went on with the perfect solution: Why not build a cottage?

Rodenberg knew just who to call.

“We’ve been friends forever. I’ve known Delene since she was 13,” Demyanovich said as he gave a guest a tour of the Salsa House. His partner Donna is Rodenberg’s sis-ter.

Demyanovich, who grew up in Seattle, has been in the construction business since 1983, and his com-pany, John F. Demyanovich Construction, is based in West Seattle.

The project was a true collaboration and labor of love for the friends and family. Beginning in 2002, Rodenberg’s partner began placing paint buckets to mark the potential location and orientation for her par-ents’ new home. Over the course of a year, she knew she had the right spot after studying the light at dif-ferent times of the day and

throughout the seasons.They started construc-

tion in the summer of 2003. Demyanovich designed the one-bedroom, one-bath-room with a loft himself, with input from Rodenberg and her partner.

With size being limited to just under 1,000 square feet, Demyanovich wanted to give the house a sense of space and volume with high ceilings, as well as provide options for expanding the loft living area in the future, in case they felt they needed more space.

“The goal is always maximum energy efficiency and minimal redundancy,” he explained.

A lifelong recycler and salvager, Demyanovich kept construction costs down by using salvaged materials from his other work sites, as well as damaged items and lumber that he then re-cut and planed back into good condition to use for the home. Everything from the tile and wood for the floors to the kitchen cabi-nets was salvaged.

“I always save and recycle material whenever I can on my different jobs,” he said. “For the amount of money being spent, you get a nicer product in the end.”

Demyanovich has a keen eye for style and design that matches his refurbishing skills. Unconventional and creative touches can be seen throughout the small cabin.

For instance, the railings on the stairs and the loft catwalk are made of actual branches from a dogwood tree that was cut by Puget Sound Energy while doing work on the property. The kitchen countertops are made of unused gymna-sium flooring.

Rodenberg, for her part, was responsible for the majority of the labor as well as her own creative

additions to the home, including the pale blue, almost translucent stain on the hardwood floors that lets the wood grain show through. Rodenberg was also the mastermind behind the semi-polished stone shower surround, where she placed each of the hundreds of stones by hand.

“It was actually some-what meditative,” she said with a laugh.

Color and texture are important to Demyanovich, who has seen and built his share of more conventional homes over the years.

“We put a lot of intent into everything. It’s so much nicer than a drywall box,” he said.

The vibrant palette of the exterior stains was chosen by Rodenberg’s partner. Wanting a bright and cheerful look for her parents that would fight back even the grayest of Northwest days, she had each color custom mixed to just the right shade — the yellow from a pencil, the red from her own kitchen trim. The green was inspired by a shirt worn by an associate at True Value.

“That was what she wanted,” Demyanovich said of the colorful exterior. “I wasn’t sure how that was going to go, but they abso-lutely love it.”

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It’s spring! You sprang from the couch, grabbed a tool and hit the garden. And what did you get? Aches and pains! In early spring (and at a certain age), what you need are some tips, tools and techniques for low-ouch gardening.

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than 55 inches long, nearly as tall as she is; their push-pull action razors through weeds just below the soil surface. With a long, skinny rake, she then pulls the weeds onto a tarp she drags and flings at the nearest compost pile.

Tools that telescope are like longer arms. Bumgarner’s Fisker telescoping hedge trimmer gives her 40 inches of reach so she can prune the lowest shrubs without much bending. For orchard care, her favorite pole pruners come with a hand trigger and a levered handle. Rather than fire up the chainsaw, she puts a pruning blade in a battery-operated Sawzall. “It zips off suckers quickly,” she says.

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and Costco offer planter boxes on legs that lift the garden to counter height. Even compost gets a lift with Costco’s elevated pair of rotat-ing compost bins.

A big pot raises the ground level; add a trellis or stake to bring beans, cukes or tomatoes to easy pickin’ height. Try hanging baskets: I once saw luscious strawberries dangling from a macrame planter —no slugs near!

But use lightweight soil mixes and wheels under those pots, or suffer a herniated disk as Carolina Nurik once did. Now when she tends her potted tomato vines, she sits on a garden kneeler, a kiddie chair or her Step2 Garden Hopper that scoots across the floor.

When she sprays her dozens of fruit trees, she doesn’t strap on a backpack sprayer. Instead, she puts the heavy tank in a little wire granny-cart and drags it behind her. To lift heavy bags of soil, she drops the end of her tilt-up wagon. I do something similar with my hand truck: Keep heavy weight on wheels, the center of gravity down low.

Gear up your body firstFinally, gear up your body beforehand: sunscreen, hat and rubber

slip-ons instead of boots you’ll pretzel yourself to wrench off. I’ve seen garden pants with built-in pockets for knee-pads — or make your own with velcro and oil cloth. You might consider an orthope-dic cumberbund to support your back. Don’t do too much in your first sessions, and change position often — perhaps putting out a yoga mat, as flower grower Hope Bloesch does, as a reminder to stretch.

And don’t forget this hot gardener’s tip: Aleve. Before you step out the door.

Tools and tips make for gardening without the aches

Karen Dale is an avid gardening and writer who recently released the book “Garden On, Vashon.”Inspired by Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Dale wrote the book after realizing that island gardeners and farmers could yield a bookful of stories and tips. The book is equal parts gardening how-to, island history and garden-ing adventures with the author.Copies are available at several island stores and nurseries as well as online at Amazon.com.

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Becky Bumgarner, a stand-up gardener, shows how a tool that’s long enough meets the ground at an easy angle for weeding.

Spring is here, which means Vashon Allied Arts is already preparing for its 24th annual Garden Tour, which will take place Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22. The event is a fundraiser for VAA.Weekend festivities begin with the Sunset Garden Gala at 6 p.m. Friday, June 20, where guests can enjoy live music and dining at the Asian-style garden Tesoro de Luz. Tickets are $125 and are limited; call 463-5131.

The gardensThe Garden Tour, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, offers islanders the opportunity to experience five distinct outdoor sanctuaries on Vashon.

At Jo Robinson and Rick Mellen’s south-end garden, stunning views of the sound set off a collection of nutrient-rich fruit and vegetable varieties. (See story, page 13.)

Pat and Walk Riehl’s stumpery features rare mosses and ferns nestled among gnarled, over-turned roots. It was conceptual-ized by the designer of Prince Charles’ stumpery. The rustic backyard sanctuary of Brad and Lori Kittredge has cobblestone paths among lush garden beds of local and exotic plants. The sprawling grounds at Steve Paschall and Katy Jo Steward’s home feature a lavender patch, rose garden and landscaped trails leading to the beach. Floral enthusiasts Hope and Anthony Bloesch keep a shaded woodland garden and a variety of dahlias, lillies and annuals.

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vegetables high in these nutrients.“You can reduce the risk or

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Robinson, who created a detailed database of 800 fruits and vegetables, can cite countless examples of current foods that have lost much of their nutrition-al value, as well as varieties of the same or similar food to choose instead. One type of potato can reduce blood sugar, she said, while most potatoes will raise blood sugar as much as eating two slices of white bread. In ani-mal studies, one variety of rasp-berries inhibited human breast cancer, and wild blueberries have been shown to reduce dementia. While people cannot tell what variety of blueberries they find in a store, Northwesterners can eas-ily find a substitute.

“Our wild huckleberries are an example of a food that would reduce the risk of cognitive decline,” she said.

In “Eating on the Wild Side,” which is by turns distressing and inspiring but always clear and easy to read, Robinson examines a wide range of fruits and veg-etables, from corn to tomatoes to the everyday apple. The book

includes both at-a-glance infor-mation that compares varieties and charts that include informa-tion on flavor, phytonutrient content and often a bit of the variety’s history, so that shop-pers can easily decide what they should purchase or plant.

“I wanted to make it very prac-tical,” she said.

Throughout the book, she makes clear the importance — and the scientific basis — for her message. Regarding apples, a fruit with a long reputation

for being important to health, she describes a 2009 study about cardiovascular health. Twenty-three overweight men with high cholesterol and triglycerides added a Golden Delicious apple — one of the most popular vari-eties — every day to their diets for two months. At the end of the study, the men in the apple-eating group had higher levels of triglycerides and harmful cholesterol than before the study, increasing their risk of heart attack and stroke. The surprised

researchers determined that the fault lay with the apple variety itself, as Golden Delicious apples were too low in phytonutrients to lower the men’s cholesterol and so high in sugar that they raised their triglycerides.

Had the researchers selected a wild apple variety for their study, their results would likely have been different, as wild varieties are far richer in phytonutrients than the domestic varieties, according to Robinson.

In Robinson’s own garden, which serves as a demonstration garden for her book, she has an apple tree (Malus sikkimensis) that bears the most nutritious of more than 300 wild and domesticated apple varieties. It is native to Nepal, and its apples are smaller than cherries, yet they pack a nutritional punch. Five apples would fit in a tea-spoon, Robinson said, and that small amount would equal all of the phytonutrients in one of its Golden Delicious relatives.

“The universal health advice to ‘eat more fruits and vegetables’ is woefully out of date,” she writes. “We need good advice on which fruits and vegetables to eat.”

Robinson supplies just that when she writes that modern varieties of corn contain up to 40 percent sugar — more than sugary breakfast cereal — and have far fewer phytonutrients than the colored varieties. In the

grocery store, she says, opt for deep yellow corn over white corn for 58 times more beta carotene. Some tomato varieties contain 10 times the lycopene of other varieties, she says, and cooking tomatoes for 30 minutes more than doubles their lycopene content. Choose white-fleshed peaches and nectarines over yellow-fleshed varieties for the most phytonutrients, and if you are on the hunt for one of the most nutritious vegetables in the grocery store, take home a globe artichoke.

Robinson says her interest in the food we eat has roots in her childhood. Her family lived in Tacoma and had property with more than 100 miles of wild land behind it on the Hood Canal.

“I grew up walking out the door into wilderness,” she said. “I was very much at home there.”

A budding gardener even then, she started a plant club when she was 5 with a neighbor boy and raised the Easter chicks she and her sister received.

“There is an ancient farmer in me somewhere,” she said.

Now, with our food a great distance away from its wild and ancient states, she said it is impossible for people to know what foods to pick, and shopping with a list of the best foods is a must.

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The high school boys lacrosse team opened its season in an impressive fashion on Saturday, tallying an 11-5 victory over Klahowya High School. Vashon’s offense was led by Roan O’Neill with four goals and two ground balls, Griff Jennings with two goals, three assists and two ground balls and Winter Krimmert with two goals and one ground ball. Evan Anderson scored a goal and an assist, while Elliot Carleton and Ezra Ende each had a goal.

Freshman Dawitt Tuller-Ross scooped up eight ground balls in his varsity debut, while veteran senior net minder Marquis Stendahl had 12 saves. Junior midfielder Winter Krimmert dominated the face-off circle while his twin brother, Chance Krimmert, held Klahowya’s 2013 leading goal scorer to no points.

Vashon coaches praised the effort of the team and were pleased that every member of the team had an opportunity to contrib-ute to the victory.

The Division II Vashon Vultures are looking to make an impact in the newly realigned Olympic division, but will face stiff competition in their next four out-ings against Division I schools. During the 2014 lacrosse season, small Div. II schools will compete against their much larger Div. I counterparts throughout the season. The complete schedule is at www.vashon-lacrosse.net.

Daniel Macca, the team’s coach, will be at the Vashon Hardware Store Restaurant from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday for guest bar-tender night, a benefit for the Vashon Lacrosse Club.

Rowers medal in all but one race on Green LakeBy PAT CALLFor The Beachcomber

The 52nd annual Green Lake spring regatta featured something not experienced for this event in a few years — actual spring conditions. Warm temperatures and light winds greeted rowers as dawn broke on Saturday morning and lasted until precise-ly the last air horn on the final race, when the rains returned.

If the spring crew season is likened to an academic semester, then this regatta is more like a quiz than a test or final exam, with a relatively short 1,000-meter course and many local teams either not participat-ing or not sending their full varsity teams.

Nonetheless, coach Richard Parr was pleased at day’s end.

“I am really proud of both our junior and master crews,” he said. “It was a great start to the season and one of Vashon’s best regatta performances ever. We will need to build off of this success.”

The summary stats tell the tale: With 24 race events entered, Vashon’s junior and masters crews failed to medal in only one race, with 15 first-, three second- and five third-place finishes. And with those 15 first-place finishes, the average time over the second-place boat was almost 10 sec-onds. All of the junior crew members took home at least one medal.

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Men’s Quad, the Open Women’s Double, the Open Women’s Quad, the Open Men’s Double, the Open Novice Women’s Eight, the Master’s Women’s Four, the Master’s Women’s Quad, the Master’s Women’s Double, the Junior Women’s Quad, the Junior Men’s Four, the Junior Men’s Quad, the Mixed Double, the Lightweight Women’s Four, the Junior Novice Women’s Eight and Mixed Master’s Eight.

Winners of the junior crew open races were Baxter and Fletcher Call, Jacob Plihal, Tate Gill, Kirsten Girard, Mia Croonquist, Hannah Russell, Kalie Heffernan and cox-swains Olivia Mackie and Ally Clevenger.

In total, 37 Vashon rowers returned home with gold medals. Seven rowers had three first-place finishes each, and cox-swain Callie Andrews won the “bling” award with a neck-straining four winning medals.

The spring season continues this week with the Saltwater Scrimmage at Vashon’s Jensen Point boathouse at 8:30 a.m. Sunday.

Unlike the Green Lake course, where after 100 or so powerful strokes to cover 1,000 meters, coxswains and crews have to power down quickly or risk ending up in the grandstands, the Quartermaster Harbor course is wide open and affords excellent viewing and plenty of room for crews to paddle it out and cool down after each race. Junior crews from Bainbridge Island, Olympia and Vashon will compete in 1,500-meter sprint racing.

— Pat Call is a recreational rower and the father of two junior crew members.

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said Louise Olsen, who has been the president of of the Havurah’s board of directors for many years. “We are like that. We are striving to create a sense of place where people can find a home for their Jewish practices — a place where they can take away what they need and bring what they have.”

Olsen described the Havurah’s current membership of about 55 families as having backgrounds in different strains of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism, and even categories that stretch beyond those definitions. And because Vashon lacks Seattle’s choices of syna-gogues, she added, all the people in her congregation have had to embrace their differences.

“There are religious Jewish people, ecumenical and secular Jewish people, social action, intellectual, creative, visionary, cultural and even gastronomic Jewish people,” she said. “We have them all on Vashon.”

Emma Amiad, a local realtor who is also active in the Havurah, sees the group’s diversity as a plus.

“We have long discussions,” she said. “But unlike a lot

of Christian groups, Jews are encouraged to debate and discuss and question. It’s not a negative thing, and we just go round and round and come to a compromise.”

Amiad, who has been involved with the group since she moved to the island in 1987, was instrumental in the purchase of the Havurah’s building on Westside Highway in 2003.

For many years, she said, the group was itinerant, meeting in members’ homes for Shabbat celebrations as well as other locations, including the Land Trust Building, for High Holiday ser-vices. And although the Havurah in the mid-1990s had acquired its own Torah — a sacred scroll, written in Hebrew inscribed by hand on parchment, that contains the first five books of the Bible — it still lacked a synagogue.

That changed in 2003, when Bethel Church put a small chapel that it owned on the Westside Highway up for sale. It needed the money to rebuild its own larger church, which had been destroyed by a fire.

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ate for a congregation,” Amiad said. “So I sort of made the offer without even asking anybody, and then called a few of our members to ask if they would put up the money ahead of time. Then we started fundraising.”

Several other potential buyers bid on the building, Amiad said, but the Havurah’s offer was the one accepted because the lead-ers of Bethel Church appreciated that the group would maintain it as a house of worship.

Since 2008, the group has engaged the services of a Santa Cruz-based rabbi, Fern Feldman, who travels sever-al times a year to Vashon to teach work-shops and preside over High Holiday celebrations and other events.

Feldman said her part-time work with the Havurah has been a good fit for her.

“My practice is traditional, but my social and political life is very progres-

sive,” she said. “The people in the community are will-ing to experiment, so I’m able to offer them all kinds of things that we can do together, and they are game for it.”

Last weekend, Feldman came to Vashon to help the congregation celebrate Purim, a Jewish holiday that cen-ters on the story told in the Book of Esther, which is part of the Hebrew scriptures. In it, the queen of Persia, who is secretly Jewish, intervenes with her husband, the king, when she learns of a terrible plot to destroy her people.

The two-day celebration, which Feldman called “the most wild holiday of the Jewish calendar,” included a potluck feast with wine on Saturday night, a lively event that many attended in costume. Singing and a spir-ited reading of the Book of Esther — both the Hebrew and English versions — were a part of the evening. On

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Vera was born in Portland, Oregon, but grew up in Tacoma, Washington, where she married her long-time pal, Duke Campbell. They lived in Florida, New York, California, and Washington, and settled on Vashon, 45 years ago.

Vera will be sorely missed and long cherished by her children: China, Fred and his wife Kelly, Candy and her husband Jean, Richard and his wife Claudia, Patty, and Carol and her husband Tim; her sister-in-law Pat Burrus; 11 grandchildren; and 11 great grandchildren.

A celebration in Vera’s honor will be held at her home on Vashon on Saturday, June 28th 1–4 pm. All friends are welcome. Contributions may be made to a Vashon charity or to a charity of your choice.

Vera Campbell

Sunday, children from the Havurah’s Bet Safer school came back to the building, again in costume, for more merriment, singing, games and crafts, along with another reading of Esther’s story, this time entirely in English.

Julie Shannon, the instruc-tor for the Bet Safer school for the past two years, said it has doubled in size since she has been involved, and now has a core group of almost a dozen children between the ages of 4 and 12.

Shannon said she wants the children who attend to “think about Jewish concepts and ideas and what those mean to each of them personally, to raise discussions with their families and develop a personal sense of Jewish identity.”

At the school, children hear stories from the Torah and learn the concepts of “tikkun olam” — a Hebrew term that trans-lates to “repair of the world” — and “tzedakah,” a word that refers to righteousness, justice and the obligation to care about less fortunate people. A recent bake sale, run by the children, raised hundreds of dollars for a girl’s school in Afghanistan. The proceeds of another bake sale, coming up on April 6 outside of

Thriftway, will go to a home for needy children in Nepal.

According to Olsen, the Havurah also reaches out to the people of Vashon by renting out the building, at very afford-

able rates, for concerts, lec-tures, classes and other events. Members of the Havurah are also active in many interfaith activities on the island. Most notable, perhaps, is an annual

interfaith celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, organized by Amaid and held at the syna-gogue. Other members of the group are in charge of a commu-nity Christmas dinner for home-

less and other needy islanders, held at the Church of the Holy Spirit.

But Amiad also pointed out that the larger island communi-ty has also returned the embrace of the Havurah in a deep and meaningful way.

In 2008, someone broke a win-dow to the synagogue, crawled through it and scrawled a swas-tika and the phrase “God Hates Jews” on the front wall of the room with a marker. The perpe-trator was never caught.

But on the Friday following the crime, hundreds of islanders gathered in the town for a vigil in solidarity with the Havurah’s members and other Jewish peo-ple on the island. Afterwards, many posted a Star of David in their windows, on their cars or elsewhere.

The show of support was greatly appreciated by Vashon’s Jewish community, Amiad said.

“It meant people will stand with you no matter what,” she said, adding that the gesture of solidarity touched a deep chord.

“Judaism is founded not so much on theology, but rather, on ethics and compassion,” she said. “I think it is important that our congregation was acknowl-edged and honored by the community.”

Natalie Martin/Staff Photo

Members of Havurat Ee Shalom gather round Bet Safer teacher Julie Shannon (bottom middle) for a family friendly class during the Purim holiday last weekend.

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