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NEWS | Open house for Mukai Farmhouse announced. [3]COMMUNITY | Annual event aims to help women relax. [5]COMMENTARY | A new view on the debate over guns. [6]

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ROWING AHEADJunior crew finishes strong

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BEHIND STUDIO DOORSArtists invite visitors in

for annual art studio tour.Page 12

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In an effort to help meet deadlines at the Vashon Fields Project, various groups have been lending a hand at the site by The Harbor School. Last Friday under sunny skies, Harbor School students themselves took a break from class to contribute to the effort. About 50 students spread mulch around 200 native plants recently planted by the park district and the land trust on the northeast corner of the site. Head of School James Cardo said the school frequently completes such service learning projects, but it was especially nice to help out in their own backyard. “It was a great hands-on project,” he said. “What would have taken five volunteers a number of hours, the kids got done in 45 minutes.”For more on the current status of the Vashon Fields Project, see page 4.

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Paco Rollins, center, and his cohorts at Sea Change Tattoo Parlor, (from left) Casey Buxton, Laura Rollins and James Clapperton, will welcome visitors to their shop’s new location, which opens Friday.

Art is skin deep for local entrepreneurShop owner has built a following with his tattoos and custom machinesBy ELIZABETH SHEPHERDStaff Writer

Islander Paco Rollins is, quite literally, out to make his mark on Vashon.

For several years, Rollins has shuttled back and forth between several different workplaces on Vashon, carving a niche for himself as a sought-after tattoo artist and crafter of a line of tattoo machines that have won a nationwide cli-entele. Lately, he has added another highly visible business to his repertoire, creating hand-painted wooden signs for businesses.

Now, he’s found a way to put all these voca-tions under one roof, in a storefront shop located

in the same plaza as Vashon Island Bicycles. Inside, the shop has freshly painted metallic gold and burnt-orange walls, and is filled with vintage light fixtures, vinyl furniture, kitsch paintings, taxidermy and other retro ephemera Rollins has collected over the years. But most importantly, the space is large enough to house all of his enterprises.

The shop, which will have a grand opening party during the First Friday Gallery Cruise on Friday night, will also be easy for islanders to find. Rollins’ own colorful signs will be perched atop the awning of the shop, heralding both the move of his Sea Change Tattoo Parlor — former-ly located in the Old Fuller Store at Center — and his newest venture, the Super Deluxe Sign Shop.

“It’s going to be contagious,” he said of the sign business. “It’s going to grow and grow.”

Indeed, Rollins’ meticulously painted signs

Hundreds show at meeting to discuss affiliation between secular and Catholic health systemsBy SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

More than 200 people attended last week’s meeting with representatives from Highline Medical Center and the Franciscan Health System — a meeting that left many con-cerned that Catholic theology may affect care at the Vashon Health Center and others feeling that some islanders do not understand the importance of the recent merger to sustain-ing health care on the island.

Highline CEO Mark Benedum and Dianna Kielian, the vice president of mission for the Franciscan system, were invited to address islanders last Thursday after a group on Vashon raised concerns about the recent merger between the Catholic Franciscan Health System and Highline, the Burien organization that manages the Vashon Health Center.

Officials from both health organizations have assured Vashon residents that care at the heath center will not change as a result of the merger, and they reiterated the same message at Thursday’s public meeting.

“There will be no change in health services at the clinic,” Benedum said. “I am not certain why people choose not to believe that, but that is the case.”

In her opening remarks, Kielian said the affiliation will

Islanders express skepticism over recent health care merger

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Joaquin Amaya, 68, admitted to police that on April 5 he lured a mentally disabled man into the Vashon Library and touched him on his genitals through his pants, according to charging papers filed last week in King County Superior Court.

Prosecutors say the incident occurred when the library was closed and Amaya — a Vashon resident who worked for a maintenance company that contracts with

the library — was at the building clean-ing alone. According to charging papers, Amaya lured the victim into a closet in the library. The victim quickly left the building after being touched and later reported the incident to a family member, who reported it to police.

Joaquin was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault as well as attempted unlaw-ful imprisonment and remains in jail on $50,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.

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sent a strongly worded three-page letter to Mary Matthews, president of Island Landmarks, listing her concerns about the organization’s management of the property. Among other concerns, she said she saw little evidence of public access to the site, a requirement of a state grant the nonprofit received to purchase the property more than a decade ago.

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Sports fields project faces tight deadline to receive state grant moneyBY SUSAN RIEMER Staff Writer

With a deadline to complete the current phase of the Vashon Fields Project and receive state grant money just weeks away, a professional construction manager told Vashon Park District officials last week that the remaining work exceeds what volunteers can reasonably be expected to complete.

The problem-plagued fields project is fac-ing a June 30 deadline to complete specific work at the site and receive $152,000 from the state’s Recreation and Conservation Funding Board. If the work is not complet-ed by the June deadline, the district could forfeit all of the grant money, worsening the financial picture of the cash-strapped district. Because of its difficult financial situation, officials say, the park district is relying on volunteers to provide most of the labor at the project north of town.

Mitch Treese, the principal of a Vashon construction firm and the vice chair of the district’s recently formed Oversight Committee, told parks commissioners at last week’s meeting that given the progress of the project, there is too much for volun-teers to do in such a short period of time.

“On virtually all our items, except one or two, we are behind schedule,” he said. “It’s a recipe for disaster.”

Not only is there too much work to do, Treese explained, but some supplies have not yet been ordered, and delivery could take up to 10 days, further eating into the construction schedule. Even the most well-meaning volunteers have limited time and energy, he stressed, and they cannot com-plete tasks as quickly as professionals.

“What would take a pro a few days, a group of volunteers would take a month,” he said.

With $152,000 hanging in the balance, he recommended that commissioners attempt to find funds to hire more of the project out, ensuring they meet the June 30 deadline.

“With $50,000, you would buy yourself an insurance policy that would make the problem go away,” he said.

However, officials say the park district doesn’t have an extra $50,000. What’s more, it is already slated to spend $249,000 on the project between now and the end of June, $152,000 of which it hopes to get back in grant money.

Some park district officials, however, are holding out hope that the district will get the job done in time without putting out more money.

Asked to weigh in at the meeting, park board Chair Joe Wald said he believes vol-unteers are still capable of doing the job.

Treese also suggested that the park dis-trict hire a part-time assistant for the next two months to work with site supervi-sor Mike Mattingly, an hourly employee. Mattingly’s time would be used best at the fields, Treese said, not tending to the administrative tasks that accompany the project. Such an assistant would cost the district about $2,000 a month, he said. The commissioners agreed to this suggestion, and park district General Manager Elaine Ott said last week that she hoped to have that person in place soon.

Commissioners recommended enhanc-ing the project’s volunteer base and putting some of the pieces of the project out to bid so that professionals could be called upon if needed to finish the job on time.

Commissioners also determined they would try to have Wald and Ott talk directly with the head of the funding board, rather than the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) staff they have

been working with, to see if the district may get another extension on the grant.

The issue of an extension is complicated in part because the funding board does not meet again until June 25.

At RCO in Olympia, Deputy Director Scott Robinson said he and Laura Moxham, the project’s grants manager, remain con-cerned about the fields project.

Two weeks ago, RCO staff came to Vashon to conduct two audits, he said, one a fiscal audit related to the project and the other of the fields themselves. The fis-cal audit was not complete as of Monday, Robinson said, because the district had to supply two more pieces of information., At the fields, however, RCO staff said they had hoped to see more work completed.

While the funding board determines whether extensions are given in grants more than four years old — which Vashon’s is — RCO staff want to see more progress before determining if they will even take extension requests to the board.

“At a point when we’ll think they’ll suc-ceed, we’ll make a determination if we give them more time,” he said.

Told of the board’s plan to reach out to the chair of the funding board directly, Robinson said commissioners and Ott are free to make that contact, but stressed that all decisions must be considered and approved in a public meeting. RCO employ-ees make recommendations to the board, he added, but any decision by the board could go either way.

“It’s not a slam dunk,” he said.Robinson said his office is still commit-

ted to working with the district to make the fields happen. However, they must look to find the balance between helping the Vashon community and being good stew-ards of state money.

A tour of the fields with Mattingly last week showed the challenges ahead. While the teams have been playing on some of the fields since last fall, the baseball fields are clearly still diamonds in the rough, with no backstops, bleachers or fences. Concrete has only been poured at one of the baseball fields; the parking areas still need grading and the perimeter of the park needs fencing.

Mattingly said he would ordinarily agree with Treese’s assessment that the project needs more help from professionals, but in this case he disagrees.

“I have faith in the volunteers and this community,” he said.

But completing the project will take a commitment from many people.

“Going the way we’ve been going, it’s going to take an extra effort,” he said.

Over the past two months, he said, volunteers from the baseball, soccer and lacrosse communities have given hundreds of hours of their time and effort, and three island contractors have donated time as well. While those efforts will continue, more bodies are needed — there are tasks for kids as well as adults.

Last weekend, some progress was made, with 10 volunteers working on Sunday morn-ing and early afternoon, Mattingly said.

Treese said that as a member of the com-mittee, his role is not to find money, but to make recommendations.

“We can bring the board daylight that is necessary to see a clear picture before it runs over them,” he said.

The stakes in the project are high, he noted, and he believes it is important to keep the purpose of the fields in mind.

“You walk around this park in full swing and see … kids smiling and running around. That’s what you should be remem-bering,” he said.

Group still hopes to build a retreat center By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

This weekend Hestia Retreat will put on its second annual Women’s Day of Wellness, an event orga-nizers say will provide relaxing activities for women as well as give a preview of what they hope to one day offer at an actual retreat center on Vashon.

The event will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Vashon Cohousing. Women can attend for a full or half day.

“It’s a time for women to take time out for themselves, which is really what Hestia Retreat is all about and what the center will be about when it’s up and run-ning,” said Mela (Pam) Bredouw, a founder of Hestia Retreat and an event organizer.

The idea for Hestia Retreat was born in 2009, when Bredouw, a life coach and retired urban planner, teamed up with Valerie Manusov, a professor of nonverbal com-munication at the University of Washington, over a shared vision to provide a place where Vashon women could find both an oppor-

tunity for solitude and renewal as well as a sense of community with other women.

Now, Hestia Retreat, with a eight-person board, offers monthly workshops on topics such as con-templative dance, yoga and finding authenticity, while also fundrais-ing to build a retreat center for up to 50 women.

“Even though we are in a beauti-ful, pastoral setting, many women are overly busy with either their jobs or taking care of their kids. … They tend to put themselves last,” Bredouw said. “The idea is that women can serve best if their own cup is full.”

Unlike last year, Bredouw said, the Day of Wellness isn’t being billed as a fundraiser — they expect to barely break even. But, she said, it will give island women a chance to sample what they hope to one day offer in abundance at Hestia Retreat. Attendees can practice yoga, meditation and dance, and take workshops on topics such as Ayurvedic Healing and Shamanic Journeying. There will be quiet areas to simply relax, and a slate of practitioners will offer sessions of foot massage, acupuncture, life coaching and more at steeply dis-counted rates.

“We wanted women to have a taste of all these different heal-ing modalities that they might not sample otherwise,” Bredouw said.

Hestia Retreat organizers recently made a major move toward realizing their goal of a retreat center when they identified an 11-acre, partially wooded par-cel they believe would be perfect to build a center with cabins, a lodge, a dining room and bath-house. They hope to make an offer on the property, which is on the market, and soon apply for build-ing permits.

The group is also raising funds to hire a professional fundraiser they hope will help them bring in approximately $3 million to com-plete the center. Bredouw said they hope a few major donors will cover the bulk of the costs.

“It feel like everything is going absolutely perfectly,” she said. “There’s been a smooth and con-sistent increase in support. We all still have a lot of energy for it.”

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Peak-season rates on Vashon’s ferry routes begin today. On the Fauntleroy-Vashon, Southworth-Vashon and Point Defiance-Tahlequah routes, the standard vehicle and driver fare increased from $16.75 to $20.90.

The 25-percent peak-season sur-charge is implemented each spring and summer on all routes in the system and does not affect passenger fares or fares for multi-ride passes. Peak-season rates continue through Sept. 30.

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Vashon residents have until May 17 to file to run for positions on one of seven elected commissions and boards on the island. Candidate filing by mail is open now, and online filing will be open from May 13 to 17.

Terms that end this year include three seats on the Vashon Park District board. Vashon’s airport dis-trict also has three seats open. The school district, sewer district and cemetery district boards each have two seats up for vote, and the fire district and Water District 19 boards each have one seat up for grabs.

For more information, see www.kingcounty.gov/elections.aspx.

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EDITORIAL

The Vashon Fields Project is at a crossroads, and now, more than ever, is the time for islanders to pick up their shovels and help out. If the district works hard to recruit volunteers, and those volunteers act now, they may just be able to put the problem-plagued project back on track in the next couple months.

There’s a huge need for new sports fields on this island. Not only does the island lack the field space required by our robust youth and adult sports programs, but the fields we do have are overused and inadequate. Most will agree that the new fields will be put to great use.

Over the last couple years, however, the district has strug-gled to raise funds and carry out the project. There’s been a lot of confusion, and even anger, over why the project hasn’t pro-gressed as originally planned. We at The Beachcomber, even, have struggled to understand how the work has been handled, where money has gone and what went wrong.

But recently, the district seems to have turned a page. There’s fresh leadership there, and parks commissioners admit that mistakes have been made. An Oversight Committee recently formed to keep tabs on the fields and make recom-mendations. Board meetings are still tense at times, but there’s a sense that parties want to work together, move past the arguments and get the job done.

Now, the district is in a tight spot. There’s much work to be done at the fields to meet a June 30 deadline to keep a $152,000 state grant. If it loses the grant, the already cash-strapped district will find itself in an even worse financial situation, and it’s difficult to imagine how the project would move forward. The district can’t afford to hire out the work, and a construction expert has said it’s too much for volun-teers to complete. However, the fields project manager and at least one commissioner say they have faith that with enough volunteer commitment, the work can be done and the grant secured. Even if the June deadline isn’t met, perhaps volun-teers can make enough progress for the state to consider an extension.

Throughout the turmoil at the park district, many have said they still support the fields and will put in their own time to see them completed. And some have been volunteering — teams have recently held work parties and a front-page photo this week shows The Harbor School lending a hand. But the scope of work left to be finished by June 30 will require a significant effort, the likes of which we haven’t seen yet. The project manager has said there are jobs for all ages, and those with construction experience will undoubtedly be needed to handle some tasks.

We hope the district makes great efforts to recruit volun-teers, and we hope islanders come out of the woodwork when asked. The entire community, even those without children, will benefit from living in a place where sports are easily accessible.

Quick sells and poor impulse control are a deadly combination

In the furious debate regarding the constitutionally protected right to bear arms, I find the most com-pelling issue to consider in these “discussions” rarely mentioned by either side of the argument. The issue of impulse control on the part of the individual seems to be some-thing we are collectively uncom-fortable considering.

Perhaps it is because the culture in which we operate our lives, one that is economically driven, critically depends for its very sur-vival on a significant amount of poor impulse control on the part of consumers. Madison Avenue spends enormous money and time researching ways to encourage, even manipulate, impulse buying.

As a former marketing profes-sional and practicing psychothera-pist, I made the switch from the corporate world of marketing to psychology primarily because what interested me most in marketing was (of course) the psychology of marketing, or what is known as consumer behavior. The core question in consumer behavior is, “What will bring the consumer to the purchase decision?” How do we move that demand curve on the product or idea?

What I learned in business school and on the job is that the most cost-effective, short-term strategy for selling anything —

product, service or ideology — is leveraging people’s fear. You see it in the lion’s share of advertising, mostly in the form of tap-

ping into our collective need to belong, to succeed, to get our needs met. From the toothpaste ads that sell you not toothpaste, but that edge to have the dazzling white smile to win that job or that girl/guy, to political ads which tap in to not the concept of equality or even rights, but the fear of some-one taking them away along with the shame that is surely ours if we allow it to happen, this strategy sells like hotcakes. The “sell” is always emotional.

What happens over time, when fear is the currency of the informa-tion with which we are constantly bombarded, is that we learn to live reactively rather than proac-tively. Unfortunately, this means we are almost never listening to anything other than the fear and anxiety nattering in our ears from one source or another. When we live defensively out of fear, it is easy to become a tool of our own emotions. Our behavior becomes increasingly impulsive rather than rationally considered.

Which brings me to issues like

gun control versus gun rights. Guns exist to destroy — objects or beings — that is the sole purpose of a gun. It has no other use, so it was designed to accomplish that goal very effectively. So when you combine a highly effective vehicle for destruction (the gun) with behavior that is driven by fear — and, therefore, reactive — you have a deadly combination walking around looking for the proverbial “place to happen.”

This dilemma is not particularly new to our culture; after all there is actually a legal defense for “crimes of passion,” considered to be some-thing like “temporary insanity.” So if this poor impulse control type of behavior is so established in our culture, why is this not a consid-eration in these debates over gun rights and restrictions?

I know this is a complex issue with a variety of variables that can come into play. However, from a marketing perspective, this is the perfect storm for selling weapons. If there were more restrictions on guns, the marketing for the gun manufacturers would shrink. And in an economically driven society, that’s the smoking gun — the evi-dence to justify massive short-term weapons sales as is continuously reported in the media. The retail outlets literally cannot keep them on the shelves. With the sheer vol-ume of these weapons around and easily accessible, impulse control — or lack, thereof — becomes an even more critical variable in play.

— Cynthia Zheutlin is a psycholo-gist and artist living on Vashon.

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Guns sell fast in an impulse-driven culture

LETTERS TO THE EDITORVashon Health Center

At the meeting at McMurray on Wednesday night with a representative of the Franciscan Health System, I left the meeting worried that Vashon Islanders had lost sight of the big picture. Without the deep pockets of the FHS, it is only a matter of time before the clinic closes. Based on my professional experience, the FHS brings to Vashon access to exemplary medical and hospital services that cover the entire body from head to toe — not only the reproductive system. Looking around the room at McMurray, it occurred to me that

the occupants of that room are much more likely to need cardiac care than reproductive counseling.

Reflect on the McMurray meeting and then com-pare the clinic to a fishing boat sinking far out at sea. Suddenly, the crew hears the welcoming thwopity-thwopity-thwopity of a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that plucks everyone from peril. On the flight back, should the rescued crew take that opportunity to harangue the helicopter crew about Coast Guard poli-cies they did not like?

We should be very glad that the FHS is willing to take us on.

— Christopher Davis, MD

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The Egg and ITo the almost 130 people who showed up to watch “The Egg and I,” thanks for taking the time to come on a rare sunny Sunday afternoon.Special thanks to:Paula Becker, Betty MacDonald historian, for making the trip over from Seattle to tell us a bit about the movie, Wish Rock Farm, for the dona-tion of a dozen fresh eggs, Heidi and Devon Richards, Betty’s granddaughter and great granddaughter, for the donation of a case of “Ann and Plum” books written by Betty, so that each person leaving the theatre might have a free copy, The Heritage Museum, Film Society, Vashon Events and Vashon Beachcomber who got the word out. And, of course, gratitude 10 times over to Raechel and Eileen Wolcott who have guided the development of the series.Thank you, thank you, thank you. Deborah H. Anderson The Social Contemplative

History is…Thank you to the community members who helped me with my film for the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) “History is _____” Competition. They include Mark Corliss, Danny O’Keefe, Laurie Hare, Daryl Redeker, and Craig Beles. The Red Carpet is May 11 at MOHAI and it is open to the public.Jessika Satori

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I read with interest an article published in The Seattle Times on Sunday, April 28. The article concerned hospitals affiliating with Catholic-run systems. That article, together with comments that I have heard in our community have prompted me to write this letter.

There are ongoing discussions regarding faith-based restrictions on reproductive care and end-of-life decisions. However, there is another picture to be looked at in these dis-cussions. Setting the religious and/or moral issues aside, we should be looking at the big-ger picture. The bottom-line issue here on Vashon is the need for medical facilities.

I am under the impression that our clinic operates at a loss of approximately $250,000 per year. What is the economic impact of our island if the Franciscan Health System feels that they are not welcome here? Is there the possibility that the Franciscan system would simply close the facility? Are we then to have another ongoing annual fundraising effort, as we do with many organizations on this island, to try to oper-ate the clinic without the support, powerful electronic systems, purchasing power and access to specialty care that we would have with the Franciscan system?

Having been active in the real estate business for many years, I can tell you that the first question that is asked by families considering a move to the island is about health care and medical facilities. If the Franciscan System decides to rid itself of

the burden of operating our clinic, there will be many seniors who will be leaving the island in order to be near medical facilities. There would also be many families who will decide that life on the island does not offer services to fit their needs. What would the economic fallout be to our community?

Consider the economic impact if the Franciscan system thinks that they are not really wanted on Vashon and drop their support of the Vashon clinic. A saying that has persevered over the years in our family household is “be careful what you ask for, you may just get it.”

— Dick Bianchi

Withholding medical procedures from patients that want it is about power, not medicine. The only religious values that matter in a doctor-patient relationship are, frankly, the patient’s.

When you decide to become a doctor, you are not deciding on a career path. You are deciding upon a community path. You’ve learned a set of skills that we all need. Expecting patients to match your religious viewpoint (around issues as sensitive as survival, family planning and a peaceful passing) is wrong. Go do something else. Leave the stresses of being a doctor to those with open-mindedness. There are many people who set parameters around making their services available to others. I could offer a dance class, for example,

that requires women to wear dresses! But it’s different when you’re a doctor. You can get through life without knowing how to dance. You cannot get through life with an untreated ectopic pregnancy.

From what I’ve read, the Franciscan Health System has a five- to 10-year pro-cess for bringing newly acquired medical facilities into full compliance with their religious doctrine. Think they won’t do it? Think again. On March 13, a battle over reproductive services exploded in Barcelona. Apparently, when the head of gynecology is not completely pro-life, this alone is “proof” that abortions, steriliza-tions and the morning-after pill will be offered. Simon Castellvi has a solution: Only put pro-life doctors in charge of gynecology at Catholic hospitals and then implement social services, family care ser-vices and education in natural family plan-ning.

Believing that the Catholic Church will offer “unlimited” access to medical pro-cedures and legally available medicines is naive. Want to protect a doctor’s right to have a personal opinion and still get hired? Want everyone to have access to legal medi-cal services? Then speak up now.

— March Twisdale

Guns

Last week, my friend Gregg Rocheford published a letter citing some often-quoted

statistics about gun violence. The relatively low number of rifle murders as opposed to blunt objects, knives, etc. is really quite striking, but only if one assumes that “rifle” includes all homicides using firearms. I believe that this is the assumption that advocates of less gun regulation want you to make. When you include homicides by hand-guns, the picture looks entirely different.

My figures are from 2009 per the U.S. Census (from the FBI as well), so don’t correspond exactly with the FBI statis-tics he quotes from 2011, but are roughly similar: Murders by rifles — 352, by blunt objects — 623, hands, fists, etc., — 815, knives —1,836, handguns — 6,503, shot-guns and other unspecified guns — 2,348. In all, the number of firearm murders, at 9,203, is almost double the number of murders by all other weapons combined. You can check these statistics here: www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0310.pdf

He also notes the clearly high lethality of motor vehicles. With the number of vehicles on the road and the number of bikers and pedestrians exposed to them, it is a wonder that the numbers aren’t worse than they are. According the Centers For Disease Control, between 1968 and 1991, vehicle deaths went down 21 percent while firearm deaths went up 60 percent. The decrease in vehicle fatalities is attributed to stricter regulation of traffic, vehicle and road design and education. Firearm fatali-ties might also drop with some application of the same.

— Terry Sullivan


Toddler and Infant Story Time: Stories, songs and bounces for ages 3 to 21 months with a caregiver. 9 a.m. at the VYFS PlaySpace, hosted by the Vashon Library.

Open Bridge: All levels of players are welcome. 9:30 a.m. to noon, or take lessons from Daphne Purpus from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays at the Vashon Senior Center.

Go Gluten Free: Shauna Ahern, author of the popular “Gluten-Free Girl” books, will give a reading. Call 463-2616 for more informa-tion. 6 p.m. at Vashon Bookshop.

Lecture Series: The Burton Community Church is concluding its lecture series, “The Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions.” This week’s topics are Laughter and Music and Happiness and Spirituality. 4 to 6 p.m. at the Burton Community Church.

Free Legal Clinic: People who wish to schedule an appointment to meet with a lawyer should call the King County Bar Association at 267-7070. 6 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Master Gardeners: Learn about ways to control invasive weeds in your garden. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Parkinson’s Support Group: Guest Dinah Helgeson, a singer and musical educator, will lead the

group in birthday fun and song and will also lead a session on how group members can communicate what they need and what they can give to others. For more informa-tion, contact Steve Steffens at 567-5976. 1 p.m. at the Vashon Lutheran Church.

Vashon Maury Island Garden Club Annual Plant Sale: The popular sale will feature a variety of tomato starts and a medley of vegetable starts. There will also be Mother’s Day gifts, such as sedum containers, hanging baskets and gardening treasures. Proceeds are used for Vashon High School schol-arships and community projects, horticulture education in Vashon schools and community garden awards. 9 a.m. until the plants are gone at the old Island Variety store across from the downtown post office.

Farmers Market: Stop by for vegetable starts, spring produce, music, artisans’ wares and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Village Green.

Art Studio Tour: Visit the studios of a variety of island artists. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sun-days, May 4, 5, 11 and 12, around the island. (For more information, see page 12.)Women’s Day of Wellness: Women are welcome for a day of nourishing and pampering. 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Cohousing Common House. (For more infor-mation, see page 5.)Master Gardeners: Stop by with your gardening questions, includ-ing information on organic pest control in the vegetable garden. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Adopt-a-Cat Day: Vashon Island Pet Protectors hosts a cat adop-tion day each Saturday. For more information, see www.vipp.org. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 12200 S.W. 243rd St.

Mukai Farm & Garden: Stop by the historic home and garden and enjoy the cherry blossoms. Noon to 6 p.m. May 4 to 11 at 18017 107th Ave. S.W.

Cribbage: Play nine games of cribbage against nine different players. Win cash prizes and earn national rating points. The cost is

$8 for visitors and $10 for mem-bers. 1 to 4 p.m. at the Vashon Eagles.

Vashon Social Dance Group: Learn the Cha Cha and then dance to a wide variety of music. Bring a friend or go alone. The suggested donation is $10. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. lesson and 7:30 to 9:30 dance at Ober Park.

Unitarian Fellowship: Ministry is all that the fellowship does together. The group will reflect on time they’ve had, learn more about what ministry is and cel-ebrate their successes. 9:30 a.m. at Lewis Hall behind Burton Com-munty Church.

Senior Center Potluck: Old and new friends enjoy good food together. 2 to 4 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Meet Washington the State Poet Laureate: Kathleen Flen-niken will read. 2 p.m. at The Land Trust Building. (For more informa-tion, see page 10.)Opera Preview: Norm Hol-lingshead will present a talk on Puccini’s two one-act operas,”Il Tabarro” and “Gianni Schicchi,” which Vashon Opera will pres-ent May 17 to 19. Free. 2 p.m. at Vashon Lutheran Church.

Junior Crew Benefit Dinner: Half of the proceeds will be donat-ed donated to Vashon Island Junior Crew, which will use the money for travel expenses, financial aid for qualified rowers and equipment replacement. For reservations, call 463-4455. For more information, see www.VashonCrew.org. 3 to 9 p.m. at Nirvana.

Great Books Discussion Group: This month’s selection will be “Emma” by Jane Austen. Everyone who has read the book is welcome. The Great Books group meets monthly. 6:30 p.m. at the Vashon Library.

Silver Sneakers: Staff members from Vashon Athletic Club will talk about this national athletic program for older adults. 1:30 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Vashon-Maury Island Green Party: This month’s topics include health care for all, climate change, Transition Vashon and Vashon governance. Call Melvin Mackey at 463-3468 for more information. 7 p.m. at Mackey’s home, 24430 Old Mill Road S.W.

Vashon Computer Club: The topic for this month’s meeting will be cloud computing, providing information on what it is and the effects for users. Meetings are open and free to the public. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, at the Vashon Senior Center.

Vashon Audubon: Mel Gal-braith, an ecologist and Fulbright awardee, will present the “Bioge-ography of New Zealand Birds.” His talk will be preceded by a brief Audubon board election. Free. 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at the Land Trust Building.

Vashon Island Pet Protectors Spring Sale. Donations of quality household items and plants are needed. Drop off items from 1 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 10, for the sale, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Land Trust Building.

Whispering Firs Bog Tours: Tour this hidden, fragile and exotic habitat in small groups. Those who have been curious about the miniature landscape and want to learn about its history and ecology are invited to join local Whisper-ing Firs Bog expert and Vashon High School science teacher Tom DeVries, PhD, for a chance to see it in person. Details are at www.vashonlandtrust.org. Tours are $5 per family for land trust members, $25 per family for non-members, by reservation. Contact the land trust for more information or to re-serve a space at 463-2644 or [email protected]. 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, May 11, at the bog.

PTSA Auction: The theme this year is Auction Ahoy: Setting a Course for Education. The nautical-themed event will include student art, a silent and live auction and libations. Volunteers are welcome. Email [email protected] for more information. Tickets, $50 each, are available at the Vashon Bookshop, The Little House and www.vashonptsa.org. 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at Camp Burton.

Chicken Coop Tour: Visit local farms and enjoy seeing chickens and other farm animals in this annual fundraiser for the Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness. The cost is $15 for adults, and children are free. Tickets may be purchased at the Vashon Book-shop or at Amiad & Associates real estate office. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 12, at coops around the island.

Do the Chicken Plunge: Get your feathers wet and support the Vashon Senior Center. Join the center’s team or form one yourself. Sponsorship forms are available at the center and online at www.vashonseniorcenter.com. Call 463-5173 for more information. 2 p.m. Sunday, May 12, at Jensen Point.

CLASSES

Buy it, Sell it, Fix it Green to Protect Your Investment: Attendees will learn how imple-menting green strategies can help to protect and enhance their homes. The class will provide homeowners with resources and tips for making their homes more efficient as well as provide information on what they need to know prior to renovating, buying or selling their home. Free. 2 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at Vashon Island Fire & Island Rescue, hosted by the Vashon Library.

Circus Acrobatics for Teens: Lisa Elliott will teach this class for teens ages 14 to 19. This introduction to acrobatics will cover basic tum-bling, trampoline, aerial acrobatics and partner acrobatics. There will be an emphasis on conditioning for

acrobatics, flexibility and progress-ing safely through new skills. The class will meet for four weeks and costs $60. For more information, email [email protected]. 3 to 4 p.m. Mondays beginning May 6, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

Beginning Acrobatics: Kids ages 6 to 8 will learn the basics of tumbling. The cost of the four-week class is $60. For more information, email Kajsa Inge-mansson at [email protected]. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. beginning Tuesday, May 7, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.

Pet Partners/Delta Society: Learn how you and your dog can become a certified Pet Partner team. Contact Kathy Farner at [email protected] for more information. 5 p.m. Mondays at Vashon High School.

Edible and Medicinal Plants of Vashon: Students will learn how to forage for these plants and will collect some to prepare into food or medicinal remedies. $55 includes all supplies. Register by contacting Cedarsong at www.cedarsongnatureschool.org. Fi-nancial aid is available. Erin Kenny will lead the class. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at a woods near town.

Island fiber artists will be located around Vashon on Saturday, knitting and raising money for the Vashon Senior Center. A sale of teapot and teacup cozies and other hand-crafted items will take place at the Vashon Senior Center and Farmers Market. Proceeds will benefit the center’s kitchen renovation project. For more information about the event, see page 13. Above, left to right are Ava Apple (kneeling), Tori Beck, JoAnne Hennessey, Susan Commeree, Edna Dam, Lois Yunker, Myra Willingham and Nancy Kappelman with a “yarn-bombed” teapot, cup and saucer.

CALENDARVashon-Maury

Deadline is noon Thursday for Wednesday publication. The calendar is intended for commu-nity activities, cultural events and nonprofit groups; notices are free and printed as space permits.

The Beachcomber also has a user-generated online calendar. To post an event there, see www.VashonBeachcomber.com, scroll to the bottom of the page and follow the prompts.

VASHON THEATRE

Ends May 2

Plays May 3 to 9

Noon May 2

1:30 p.m. May 4, benefit for Chicken Soup Brigade. Donate cash at the box office and food inside.

6 p.m. May 7

The King County Cemetery District #1: 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, at the Vashon Cemetery, 19631 S.W. Singer Rd.

Kiwanis: 6 p.m. at the Eagles. All interested people are welcome for dinner. For more information, call Jan Lyell at 229-8085.

Vashon Island School District: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at Chautauqua Elementary School.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at Station 55.

Vashon Park District: 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at Ober Park.

Volunteers serve free meals seven days a week on Vashon. All people are welcome at the meals, which are served at 5:30 p.m. Monday through Sat-urday and at 1 p.m. Sunday at the following locations. For more information about the meals program, contact Harmon Arroyo at 351-1441 or at [email protected].

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Tuesday, Presbyterian church

Wednesday, Church of the Holy Spirit

Thursday, Presbyterian church

Friday, Lutheran church

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On Saturday, opening day of the island’s youth baseball and softball season, these Vashon Community Care residents bundled up and headed out to Jim Martin Field, where they watched the Blue Rockets, the t-ball team they are sponsoring, play before the traditional open-ing day festivities got under way. Mimi Walker is the young team’s coach. All team sponsors pay $250, and the residents have raised the money themselves through various functions, including garage sales, according to Bettie Edwards, who is on the board at the center. The night before the big game, at the care center’s social hour, residents celebrated with popcorn hors d’oeuvres and Crackerjack for dessert while listening to the classic “Take Me out to the Ball Game.”

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ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury KEEP IT SHORT: Islander Matt Lawrence is looking for more films from Vashon for

his second annual Sixty Second Film Festival, set to take place at the Vashon Theatre on Sunday, May 19. To subm it your f i lm and tee it up to be shared with other islanders, visit w w w.sixtysecondfilmfestival.com . The deadline is May 15.

Poet laureates from Vashon and Washington will appear at three big poetry events planned for Saturday and Sunday.

The versifying will commence at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Land Trust Building, with an open mic “com-munity read” featuring the poetry of islanders, interspersed with poems from “The Weird World Rolls On,” an anthology by Jean Davies Okimoto. The book features work by several Vashon poets.

At the conclusion of the reading, an announcement of the names of Vashon’s new poet laureates will be made. Two poet laureates will be appointed — one will be a youth, and the other will represent Vashon’s established community of poets. Ann Spiers is Vashon’s outgo-ing poet laureate.

On Sunday, the Vashon Library will host Kathleen Flenniken, Washington State’s Poet Laureate. Flenniken, a former civil engineer and hydrologist at the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington, will lead a poetry writing workshop for island-ers, 12 to 1:30 p.m. at the Land Trust Building on Bank Road. At 2 p.m., at the same location, she’ll read her own poetry.

Flenniken’s awards include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Artist Trust. Her first poetry book, “Famous,” was published in 2006 and won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her second collection, “Plume,” was published in 2012. She is working to bring poetry and poets to all 39 counties in Washington before her two-year appointment ends next year.

All events are free. Call 463-2069 for information regarding the work-shop and Flenniken’s presentation. Questions regarding the open mic “community read” can be sent to [email protected].

POETRY

Kathleen Flenniken will visit Vashon.

Take a hike to see what’s on the walls around townMost galleries are open from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday night.

The Hardware Store Restaurant will show Pam Ingalls’ latest portrait show, “Facing Kenya: Maasai Portraits from Mara Hills Academy.” The show — part of the Vashon Island Art Studio Tour — features portraits of people associated with two schools for girls that are funded by the Maasai Children’s Initiative (MCI), a Vashon-based nonprofit. A preview of the show will also be held on Thursday, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the restaurant. Ingalls will donate a percentage of her sales to MCI, as well as money raised from raffling off one of her paintings. Raffle tickets, $10, are on sale at Vashon Bookshop.

SAW, a shop whose name is

an acronym for “Starving Artists Works” has a new location next door to Café Luna. The shop, formerly located in a storefront next door to The Hardware Store Restaurant, features work by approximately 50 Vashon artists.

Snapdragon will be the site of “Le Dragon du Printemps,” a collaborative show by the chil-dren from La Petite Etoile French School. Guest artist Catherine Gill guided the young artists in printmaking and using spring leaves, flowers and cedar from the

school’s play yard to create a spring dragon.

The Two Walls Gallery will be the scene of three youth shows in one, all created during Vashon Artists in the Schools resi-dencies. Works will include 30 colorful gourd masks made during a VAIS workshop at McMurray Middle School with gourd art-ist Charlotte Masi. Another set of work, photo transfers into beeswax on panels, was made by eight home schooled families under the guidance of photographer Ray Pfortner. And another body of work, resulting from a workshop with Pfortner and Vashon High School art teacher Terry Swift, will show Polaroid emulsion lifts on various substrates. According to Pfortner, the rare Polaroid film used in the workshop is no longer being produced and was found in an art storage closet by Swift. More

of the these works will be shown at a Vashon Allied Arts Gallery exhibit on Friday.

VALISE will show “The Outsiders In All of Us,” an invita-tional show open to all islanders. Works by artists of all ages and from all walks of life will be on display. The title of the show refers to a genre of artwork created by untrained artists, but VALISE gal-lery members hope islanders will use the exhibition as a jumping off point to explore other meanings of the word “outsider” and how it applies to their own relationship to the art establishment.

Vashon Allied Arts Gallery will present its biennial Vashon High School student art exhibi-tion, featuring works by art stu-dents in grades 9 to 12. Drawings,

paintings, jewelry, photography, printmaking, ceramics and more will be on view.

The show will also include 25 photo emulsions, a process of manipulating Polaroid film shots in water and transferring them to stone, Plexiglas, wood, paper and fabric. Most of the works in the show are for sale, with 60 per cent of the proceeds going to the stu-dent artists.

Vashon Intuitive Arts will be the site of “Dream Portals: Esoteric Revelations through Art,” a show of works on canvas by Carol McCloud.

Subject matter includes eso-teric archetypes, mystical images, cross-cultural symbolism, natu-ral phenomena and dreams that express the universal state of human experience.

Eager young actors will storm the stage in ‘The Music Man’Vashon Allied Arts’ Youth

Musical Theatre will perform “The Music Man, Jr.” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday, at Vashon Methodist Church.

The show, directed by Marita Ericksen and Pam Hotchkiss, is a youth theater adaptation of the classic musical about a charis-matic con man who reluctantly transforms himself into a respect-able citizen.

Almost 30 young thespians, ranging in age from 9 to 14, are in the show.

Jeffrey Parrish stars in the show as Harold Hill, along with

Maijah Sanson-Frey, who plays the role of Marian Paroo, a quiet

librarian who finds, much to her dismay, that she has fallen in love

with Harold Hill. Another main character in the

show is Winthrop, Marian’s lisp-ing little brother, played by Benny Robinthal.

Filled with blockbuster songs like “Seventy-Six Trombones” “Ya Got Trouble,” “The Wells Fargo Wagon” and “Gary, Indiana,” the show is recommended for all ages.

Tickets to the production, $9 and $12, are on sale at Vashon Allied Arts’ office, the Heron’s Nest and by calling 463-5131.

For more information, visit www.vashonalliedarts.org.

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Benny Robinthal plays the role of Winthrop in “The Music Man, Jr.”

Café Luna will exhibit the work of Cara Briskman, whose photo-encaustic works combine unedited black and white prints and natural beeswax painting. Duet will display colorful abstract acrylic paintings by Lenard Yen. Vashon Golf & Swim Club will be the site of a show of pastels and watercolors by Jerry Balcom. Vashon Senior Center, on Bank Road, will host a show of works by the students of Vashon artist Wendra Lynne. There will also be a food fundraiser: Baked potatoes with all the fixings will be sold for $4 from 5 to 7 p.m. Zombiez will display Earth Day-inspired art, created by students at Creative Preschool.

Vashon High School student Iris Bedard will display her gourd mask at the Two Wall Gallery.

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Camille Coldeen, a singer/songwriter from Vashon who currently resides in Portland, will play music with Stefan Wolzcko, Ben Lang, Mark Graham, Orville Johnson and other guests at 8 p.m. Friday at the Red Bicycle Bistro. Coldeen’s music is influenced by a variety of folk forms from Appalachia to the Balkans. The former front woman of The Diggers, Coldeen is currently working with producer Jason Staczek on “Goodbye, Formal-dehyde,” her second solo E.P. Her performance on Friday is a benefit to raise funds to complete that project.

Vashon Film Society will present “Hitchcock,” the 2012 bio-pic of film great Alfred Hitchcock starring Anthony Hopkins, at 9:30 p.m. Friday at

the Vashon Theatre. Tickets are $7. The movie takes place during the film-ing of the director’s classic thriller “Psycho” and reveals how the director turned down the movie project “Casino Royale” in favor of the creating a film version of a lurid novel by true crime author Robert Bloch. The film is rated PG-13.

Opera maven Norm Hollingshead will come to Vashon for a free talk about Puccini’s operas “Il Tabarro” and “Gianni Schicchi,” slated for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Lutheran Church. The operas will both be presented by Vashon Opera at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 19. Tickets are on sale now at www.vashonopera.org. Both operas are part of Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” a tryptic of three operas. “Il Tabarro” is a grim melodrama set on the Seine in working-class Paris, while “Gianni Schicchi” is a rollicking comedy set in Renaissance Florence. Principal singers will include Vashon Opera founders Jennifer and Andrew Krikawa and a stellar stable of other stars. Tenor Ernie Alvarez will return after his debut with Vashon Opera as Pinkerton in “Madama Butterfly,” and Christina Kowalski will also return after singing Micaela in Vashon Opera’s “Carmen.” Another singer, Julia Benzinger, from Deutsche Oper Berlin, will make her local debut.

The Maasai Children’s Initiative and Woman’s Way Red Lodge, two non-profits with ties to Vashon, will bring the acclaimed film “Girl Rising” to the Vashon Theatre for a screening at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets are $5 to $15 at the door, and additional donations will be accepted. The docu-mentary tells the stories of girls from around the world who overcome

great obstacles to get an education and is narrated by Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys and others. The Vashon screening is the third in a series of films about issues relevant to women and girls hosted by Woman’s Way Red Lodge. All proceeds will go to education projects in Kenya and Nepal.

IsleWilde’s annual variety show, will take place on Mother’s Day eve, at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at Red Bicycle Bistro. Funds from tickets, $10, will go to support this summer’s 21st annual IsleWilde festival, set to take place in August.

, performed by harpists Leslie McMichael, Martha Gallagher and Seumas Gagne, will take place at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 12, at the Vashon Methodist Church. For tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets.com.

will open with a per-formance by PDX Dance Collective, a Portland-based troupe led by Elise Ericksen, who grew up on Vashon, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Blue Heron Art Center. The show, called “Earth, Air, Water, Fire … Dance,” will be performed in-the-round and include live accompaniment by a host of island musicians. For tickets, visit www.vashonalliedarts.com.

a series curated by Open Space founder Janet McAlpin, will offer a new show, “Exotica,” at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Open Space for Arts & Community. Performers will include McAlpin, David Godsey, Fucshia Foxxx, Sydni Deveraux, Jonathan Rose, Tom Pruiks-ma and the band The Love Markets. Tickets, $25, are can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com.

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An art tour offers up a bounty of paintings, sculptures and much moreBy ELIZABETH SHEPHERDStaff Writer

The appearance of spring blooms on Vashon always heralds another color-

ful experience — a new edition of the Vashon Island Art Studio Tour.

This year’s spring tour starts on Saturday and will run for two consecutive weekends — plenty of time for art lovers to roam the back roads of Vashon, searching out the scenic spots where potters, painters, sculptors, woodworkers and a host of other artistic types create and sell their work. A number of shops and galleries are also tour stops.

The free, self-guided tour, now in its third decade as an island event, is billed as a chance to engage directly with some of Vashon’s most cre-ative residents and find out what makes them tick. A few artists will demonstrate their crafts, and according to one of the tour’s longtime par-ticipants, potter Liz Lewis, all of them are eager to discuss their processes with visitors.

“It’s always an adventure,” said Lewis. Lewis, along with a group of other artists, has

played a key role in planning this year’s tour — a job she stepped into after the tour’s long-time coordinator, Jan Wall, resigned her post earlier this year.

“Planning and executing an event involving so many artists is a complex job, and those of us

who are filling the gap of her absence have new respect for the work that Jan did,” said Lewis. “We artists are independent people and not always easy to organize.”

Still, Lewis emphasized, enthusiasm for

the tour remains high among island artists. “For many of us, our studio shows, as part of

the art tour, are the cornerstones of our annual cycles of work,” she said.

Lewis has created a series of owl cups for the tour, and she’ll also show her latest kiln load of colorful earthenware pottery.

New to the tour this year is Kassana Holden, whose Burton gallery, Bergamot, is also a full-service textile design studio. Another new-comer, Ken Judd, will bring an “outsider art” flavor to the tour, with funky figurative sculp-tures made from found objects. And a jeweler, Zuzana Korbelarova, will open up her newly finished Burton studio, Zuzko, to show off her latest jewelry creations.

One tour stalwart, Barnworks, closed after last winter’s art studio tour, but Lewis said that many artists who showed at that space and on its grounds can now be found in other spots. Garden sculptures by Dean Hanmer, Gunter Reimnitz and Penny Grist are especially strong this year, she said.

Lewis urged islanders to get out and enjoy the tour — an event she promised will be full of surprises.

“Many Vashon artists are well known for their work but take forays into new territory,” she said.

For more information and a map to 23 art studios repre-sented on the tour, visit www.vashonislandartstudiotour.com.

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The Vashon Senior Center serves four lunches a week, hosts a baked potato bar at each Gallery Cruise, celebrates holidays with a special meal each month, but it does not have a suitable kitchen.

To change that, a group of knitters who call themselves The Loafers have been stitching up a storm and will offer the results Saturday in an event they are calling Stitchin’ for a Kitchen. They will host two sales of cozies for teapots and cups, iPhones and — in a true example of something for every-one — cozies for beer bottles. There will also be other handmade items for sale, including afghans, hats and scarves. To bring more attention to their cause, more than 20 knitters will be located around the island, talk-

ing about the senior center, accepting donations and, of course, knitting.

Senior center board member and Loafer Lois Yunker said the group was looking for a nonprofit to sup-port, and having charred eight chick-ens in the center’s faulty oven, she suggested helping the longtime island agency.

“It’s an impossible dream of mine,” she said. “I want to see the kitchen renovated. That’s my goal.”

The kitchen is more than 29 years old, said Ava Apple, the center’s direc-tor, and some of the appliances are older than that. One of the two ovens does not work; the other has only one rack; the lime-covered dishwasher is on its last legs, and years ago the fire marshal forbid them from turning on the grill — meaning they cannot so much as fry bacon or cook a burger.

Furthermore, Apple said, the cen-ter takes nutrition seriously. Lunch, for example, which typically draws between eight and 18 people, is some-times the only hot meal that some people get.

Currently, Vashon Community Care provides the lunches, but the center would also like to be able to provide lighter fair, Apple said.

To renovate the kitchen, $40,000 to $50,000 will be needed, Yunker said. Organizers are hoping for $6,000 to $8,000 from this event and would like to begin a renovation by fall.

“I have big dreams,” she said.

Island fiber artists get creative for a good cause

Island fiber artists have been stichin’ for a new kitchen for the Vashon Senior Center and will sell colorful teapot and cup cozies and other items this weekend at the Farmers Market and the senior center on Bank Road.

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Track team rakes in wins, honors seniors as season winds down

Vashon senior Landon Summers takes the baton from senior Olin Nespor for lap three of the 4x400 meter relay, watched by lead runner, Italian exchange student Giacomo Paganoni, left, and anchor runner junior Garret Starr. The Pirate boys took second place in their first time run-ning the relay this season.

By KEVIN ROSS For The Beachcomber

Under blue skies and 70-degree weather, last week’s track and field meet was the perfect setting to recognize seniors for their efforts in the Vashon High School track and field program. This year’s senior recogni-tion was done at Charles Wright Academy during a meet on Thursday, April 25.

Vashon’s boys team finished third over-all at the meet with 40 points. Cedar Park Christian won the meet with 125.5 points.

The Vashon girls team took second place with 59 points. Cedar Park Christian also won the girls contest with 187 total team points.

Individual event winners included Landon Summers, who won the 110-meter high hurdles in 16.29; Garrett Starr, with a long jump of 19 feet, 6 inches; Samantha Clements with a long jump of 14 feet, 9 inches and Maddi Groen, who finished the 3,200-meter race in 13:25. Annika Hille won the 100-meter sprint in 13.35 and won the triple jump at 31 feet, 10.5 inches. Hille also won second place in the long jump event, finishing just behind Clements.

The Pirates capped off their week with a

successful performance at an invitational hosted by Bellevue Christian at Sammamish High School. The boys team placed seventh of 18 schools at the competition and the girls placed 12th out of 19 schools.

The highest finish for a Pirate at the event went to Landon Summers, who fin-ished second overall in the 110-meter high hurdles in a time of 16.34.

As is the case with many other VHS sports, the senior honors ceremony took place prior to the start of the competition.

The seniors and representing parents rec-ognized were Samantha Clements with her mother Terry, Landon Summers with his mother Marcy, Alex Soriano with his moth-er Nancy and Olin Nespor with his mother Donna, along with Shalise Bosworth.

Three exchange students who partici-pated on the team this year were also recognized — Kanit Jungsalkulrujj from Thailand, and Giacomo Pagannoni and Giorgia Leonardi from Italy.

The last regular season track meet will take place today at Juanita High School.

— Kevin Ross is a track and field coach at Vashon High School.

By RITA ALLMANFor The Beachcomber

In a three-game week, the Pirates base-ball team took two losses, but ended with a win against Charles Wright.

The Pirates visited Cascade Christian on Monday, April 22, to battle the Cougars. Vashon grabbed a quick 3-0 lead in the first inning. The Pirates added to their run total with two in the second, two in the fourth and one in the fifth to take a seemingly comfortable 8-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth. However, the lead quickly shrank to 1 point as the Cougars put up seven runs in the fifth. Cascade continued their scoring with three more in the sixth, leading to a

10-8 come-from-behind victory. Ezra Lacina pitched the first five innings

for Vashon allowing only two hits, five walks and striking out five. Sam Yates came on in the sixth and gave up two hits with one strikeout and a walk. The Cougars scored 10 runs on only four hits, aided by six walks and six errors.

The Pirate offense was led by Kelly Sullivan, Ben Reoux, Logan Hawkins and Zach Drape, who all had two hits on the day. Josh Myer and Ryan Bernheisel each added a single. Line score: Cascade Christian 10 runs, 4 hits, 4 errors, Vashon 8 runs, 10 hits, 6 errors.

Vashon took to the road again on

Wednesday, April 24, and headed to Eatonville to take on the Cruisers. The home team opened scoring with four runs in the first. Vashon responded with six in the second to take a 6-4 lead. Eatonville came right back with three to regain the lead, 7-6.

The Pirates continued the scoring with four in the third and one in the fourth to lead 11-7. The Cruisers narrowed the lead to 11-10 with three runs in the fourth. The score remained that way until the bottom of the seventh, when Eatonville put up two, bringing them a 12-11 win.

Sullivan started on the hill for Vashon and pitched the first four innings, sur-

rendering seven hits and five earned runs. He notched three strikeouts and allowed four base on balls. Hawkins came on in the fifth and threw two innings of hitless ball. However, he opened the seventh with two walks.

After the runners were advanced to sec-ond and third, coach Steve Hall made a pitching change, bringing on Myer. Eatonville got the clutch single, and the Cruisers had a thrilling walk-off victory. The Pirate leaders on offense were Sam Schoenberg, Hawkins and Myer, all with two hits apiece. Line score: Eatonville 12

Two losses followed by a win bring Pirate baseball to an even record

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By PAT CALLFor The Beachcomber

Each April for the past 42 years, the Brentwood College School on Vancouver Island has host-ed a regatta that has grown to be the largest junior event in North America. This year the school turned over its beautiful campus to 2,000 young rowers, cox-swains and coaches from 37 clubs representing Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Over three days, athletes rowed in 178 races in more than 40 categories on a 1,500-meter course.

The Brentwood Regatta is an event enjoyed annu-ally by the juniors and their parents alike. Rowers “live” in taped-off areas in the gym, eat their meals in the campus dining hall and generally enjoy getting to know each other on and off the water.

When the final horn sounded on race 178 on Sunday, Vashon’s crew had entered 25 events, moving successfully through the heat round in 17 of them to win 12 medals in the finals — seven gold, two silver and three bronze. Adjusted for club size, Vashon’s junior rowers placed fifth

overall in the regatta. This performance was a major achievement from a pro-gram of just 40 rowers (26 earned medals) up against area competitors with well over 150 rowers each.

A noteworthy perfor-mance was put forward by Gus Magnuson, who won the individual men’s open single category on Sunday morning, pulling away from the field in the final 500 meters in a powerful sprint. Magnuson came back later in the morning joined by Tate Gill to take the men’s open double race, again with a powerful sprint to gain open water at the fin-ish line. The prestigious trophies will be engraved with Vashon Island Rowing Club as the 2013 winners. Magnuson also was half of the winning boat in this cat-egory last year — a doubly unique accomplishment.

In the 16-and-under women’s double race, Kirsten Girard and Kallie Heffernan rowed to a first-place victory. Their race was one of several where an early lead paid off, as sev-eral competitors in the race were blown together and into a buoy. The Vashon double’s performance in

the heat races on Saturday suggested they would be dominant in the race, but with other boats having to disentangle themselves, the result was not in doubt.

If there was a regatta award for “best perfor-mance by four novice row-

ers at one time,” Vashon would have won it without contest. The men’s novice quartet of Forrest Miller, Lorenzo Higuera, Jacob Plihal and Fletcher Call won gold medals in both the quad and four competi-tions, with Olivia Mackie

and Liv Mangione splitting coxswain duties.

On Saturday the wom-en’s novice quad of Leanne Anderson, Caprial Turner, Tea Schafer and Emily Milbrath, with cox Mangione, took first place. A short time later, Vashon won another gold with the 16-and-under novice women’s quad of Mei Lee Vandervelde and Kira Rabourn joining Turner, Milbrath and coxswain Mackie. In the last race of the regatta, the women’s novice quad of Anderson, Turner, Schafer and Milbrath closed out Vashon’s memorable novice performance with a silver medal.

In congratulating the team on its performance, coach Richard Parr cited Magnuson’s performance and thanked assistant coach Tom Kicinski for his support and the early inspiration of Gus and Tate Gill when they first started rowing for the Vashon program.

“It has been a wonderful weekend of rowing, and now we turn our attention to the Northwest Junior District Championships coming up in three weeks,” he said.

— Pat Call is a recreational rower and the father of two

junior rowers.

runs, 8 hits, 5 errors, Vashon 11 runs, 11 hits, 6 errors.

Charles Wright Academy visited Jim Martin Field on Friday to play the Pirates. After high-scoring affairs in their two previous road games, the Pirates came home to a real pitchers’ duel.

Myer started on the hill for Vashon and pitched a masterful complete game shutout, giving up just four hits to the Tarriers. Myer struck out seven and walked only one.

The Pirates scored the only run on the day in the third inning on an RBI single by Drape. Reoux went two for two for the game with a single and a double. Lacina, Pruett and Myer all had singles as well. Defensively, Vashon com-mitted only one error.

Line score: Vashon 1 run, 6 hits, 1 error, Charles Wright 0 runs, 4 hits, 2 errors.

Heading into a Monday game against Chimacum, the Pirate record was at 8-6 in league play and 8-8 overall.

— Rita Allman does web and team support for the

Pirates.

CONTINUED FROM 14Junior crew makes a splash at regatta in Canada

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“The town of Vashon has so much character, hand-painted signs fit right in,” he said.

Rollins noted that Vashon has a tradition of hand-painted signs, and said he has long admired the work of islander Les Johnson, who painted many distinctive signs on Vashon during his lifetime, including the original signs for The Little House and the now-defunct Vashon Malt Shop. Rollins is also planning to pitch his services to busi-nesses in Seattle and Tacoma, he said.

And of course, Rollins also plans to stay busy with his other two ventures — tattoo-ing clients and building tattoo machines.

For Rollins, 40, tattoos and the various businesses that accompany them have long been a way of life.

He is a compact man with slicked-back white hair and wide sideburns, and his intense, blue-eyed gaze and quick smile are equally disarming. And of course, tattoos of his own put an exclamation mark on his

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“For some reason in my life, I just couldn’t stay away from it,” he said. “It saved my life and gave me direc-tion.”

Rollins had what many people would consider a tough childhood, spend-ing a good portion of his youth on the streets of towns in his native north-ern California. His last full year of school was in the sixth grade — the rest of his education, he said, came in fits and starts until he passed a California high school diploma equivalency test when he was 15.

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“I’ve done everything,” he said. “I’ve had so many jobs in one year it would blow your mind.”

But tattoos came before all that.“I got my first tattoo when I was 13, from

a friend’s father who had just escaped from prison,” he said, adding that he went on to become very good friends with the man.

Rollins moved to Vashon with his wife and young son in 2006, after working in Seattle for more than 10 years at Lucky Devil South Tattoo Parlor with legendary tattooer Ernie Gosnell. During that time, he also launched Paco Rollins Machines, creating a line

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In 2009, Rollins opened Sea Change Tattoo on Vashon.

From the start, he said, islanders have supported his business, even during the crippling recession — patronage he repeat-edly said he was grateful for.

“We’ve been busy since we opened our doors,” he said, adding that about one-third of his tattoo business comes from the mainland. His business now includes four

people — another tattooer, Casey Buxton, joined him in 2009, serving a traditional apprenticeship before taking on his own clients. Islander James Clapperton helps build and manage production of the tattoo machines, and Rollins’ wife Laura manages the businesses.

Sea Change Tattoo Parlor is appropri-ately named — in recent years, not only Rollins, but many other tattooers have seen their business grow as body art has become more prevalent, especially among young people.

The Pew Research Center recently reported that 38 percent of “millennials” — people in the 18 to 29 age bracket — who responded to a recent study reported having at least one tattoo. The survey also found that 32 percent of the generation prior to millennials, gen-Xers, were also tattooed. The percentage of those with body art dropped significantly, to 15 percent, for baby boomers who were surveyed.

But even with the increasing popularity of tattoos, Rollins maintains an old-fash-ioned approach to his work, deflecting the question of how well-known he is for his artistry. Instead, he described his skills in a much more down-to-earth way.

“We’re practiced and competent,” he said. “The goal is give a person a tattoo they’ll be proud of for the rest of their life.”


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“We are very dedicated to keeping the same level of service, and, in fact, enhancing the services on the island for you,” she said.

However, after a long question-and-answer session that moderator Jim Hauser said was “in diplomatic terms, a free and frank exchange of ideas,” it seemed few people left the meeting entirely satisfied.

May Gerstle, who organized the meeting with Kate Hunter, said she had mixed feel-ings after it was over.

“I came away with more information than I had before and more concerns,” she said.

The night’s messages were not clear, she added.

“We got different and conflicting answers from the three people who fielded ques-tions,” she said.

Retired physician Chris Davis, however, felt differently and noted that some in the audience were not polite. After the meet-ing, he wondered if the Franciscans would still want to serve Vashon.

“I felt some people were rude to the point of being truculent,” he said.

During the course of the evening, several people questioned the role a set of guidelines — the “Ethical and Religious Directives for

Catholic Health Care Services” — play in the Franciscan system. The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops wrote the directives, which require Catholic health care systems to adhere to them.

Many of the concerns raised stem from the directives themselves, which forbid contraception, fertility services and abor-tion, including for ectopic pregnancies, a life-threatening condition for women.

Frequently when fielding questions about the directives, Kielian answered with lon-ger responses but with a similar message: The directives guide the physicians, but the patient-physician relationship is sacred, and doctors treat their patients according to what is medically best for them.

Specifically, she said, doctors prescribe birth control, make referrals for fertility services and abortions and, in the case of an ectopic pregnancy — a concern that arose in one question — physicians save the life of the mother.

Some said they felt the speakers were failing to give straightforward answers to questions about the directives and were sticking to scripted responses.

At one point, Leslie Brown addressed what she said was an apparent dichotomy — that the guidelines call for adherence as a condition of employment and limit some care very specifically, yet the speakers were saying that Franciscan physicians pro-vide care they deem medically best for the patient — care that could contradict one or more directives.

“I want to know what the truth is,” she

said to applause and cheers from the audi-ence.

Kielian responded, in part, that the direc-tives guide the Franciscans in the sacred work of healing and they are a continuum of moral judgment. Brown seemed to be looking for an absolute answer, she said, and because medicine has few absolutes, Kielian could not give her one.

Toward the end of the evening, Tim Johnson, the manager of Granny’s Attic and the president of the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council, returned to the directives because, he said, he felt peo-ple wanted a direct yes-or-no answer about them.

“Yes or no,” he said. “Does your contract with your physicians specify that they will follow the directives?”

Kielian responded, “Yes, they do. Yes, they do. Our employment contract does.”

Dr. Stephen Spare, president and chief medical officer of the Franciscan Medical Group, and Benedum both said more fol-low-up was called for. Benedum said that there are few absolutes to be given, but one can be: Physicians can do what is best for their patients.

Spare also provided input.“The contract specifically states we will

not interfere with their medical judgment,” he said.

In other lines of questioning, some asked about the Death with Dignity Act and the limits Franciscans might place on doctors.

Spare said physicians are not allowed to prescribe a life-ending medication, but

they are free to discuss patients’ options. Typically, he said, the link to the Death with Dignity Act website is provided, as well as the a phone number for the Department of Health, which can provide more informa-tion.

Earlier in the evening, Benedum had also addressed end-of-life issues.

“Your decisions at the end of life will be respected either in our clinic or in our hos-pital,” Benedum said. “That is very impor-tant to me as an individual and a CEO.”

Voicing more concerns about the direc-tives, Laura Worth asked what kind of “chilling effects” they might have on hiring, important partially because Vashon has two physician openings. Benedum noted that the Franciscans have begun helping in that recruitment process.

The Franciscan system hired 75 physi-cians last year, Spare said, again stressing that the physician-patient relationship is paramount and addressing her concerns about religious influence.

“I can tell you that as a Presbyterian, I don’t spend a lot of time in my recruit-ment interviews talking about the Catholic Church,” he said. “This idea that we are under hierarchical control of Rome is just not the case.”

May Gerstle asked if a citizens advisory group might form on Vashon to work col-laboratively and give input to Highline on what islanders are passionate about.

Benedum responded affirmatively.

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“I am all for it if it’s a two-way street,” he said. “Let’s do it.”

Benedum was not available the day after the meeting, but issued a statement affirm-ing his support for such a group.

“Looking to the future, we would wel-come the opportunity to work with com-munity members to further develop and grow health care services on Vashon. Citizen engagement is an important part of building healthy communities,” he said.

Earlier in the evening, when the issue of the directives and ectopic pregnancies came up, Davis tried to offer his perspec-tive from the rear of the room, but in the tightly moderated event, he was asked to hold his comments.

From 2002 to 2004, Davis served as the director of emergency services at St. Joseph Medical Center, the Franciscan’s hospital in Tacoma. In a later interview, he addressed some islanders’ concerns about the direc-tives in general and ectopic pregnancies in particular.

Asked if the directives intruded on care

during his time there, he responded with a clear answer.

“Quite the opposite,” he said.As an example, in the emergency room at

St. Joseph’s, physicians treated approximately one woman a month with an ectopic pregnan-cy, he said, “with fast, appropriate, life-saving care. … At no time were the ob/gyn doctors exercising limited paradigms of care.”

Toward the end of the evening, a man who identified himself only as David spoke about health care and its current fiscal realities.

“Health care is changing whether we want it to or not,” he said.

He asked both the audience and the board if the clinic was in the red or the black, and where it might be in five years.

“If we do not do something, then this clinic will not be here,” he said.

It is this point that some islanders believe was lost in the meeting.

Davis, too, stressed the financial realities at the health center.

“We really need the Franciscans to bail this clinic out,” he said. “If the clinic folds, where are people going to go?”

Davis said he believes concern about reproductive issues is admirable, but island health care needs are broad and require a range of services. He also questioned how many health care systems would be eager to support a money-losing clinic on Vashon.

Sunrise Ridge Board President Greg Martin also attended the meeting, and said he, too, was frustrated by the tone of the evening and many important issues that were not addressed. Many people he talked to, he said, felt the same way.

The Sunrise Ridge board, he said, helps to provide for medical care on the island.

“The landlord is waiting to see how we can assist Highline and the Franciscans in providing the best care we can on Vashon,” he said.

Johnson, however, said he talked to many people who were upset about the evening, feeling as though they had been “handled” and that answers had not been forthright. But he, too, is concerned about access to care and feels many of those questions should be explored. In his role at the com-munity council, he said he plans to ask the

board if they would be interested in hosting Highline and Franciscan representatives again, this time focusing on a wider range of issues, including Medicare, Medicaid, possible expansion of the health center and urgent care.

In closing the meeting, Hauser noted there had been repeated ambiguity, but also clarity and a lot of searching questions.

A few days after the meeting, Hauser said he believes the night’s conversation was typical for the island when it starts working with large, outside entities.

“We begin relationships with sharp, close questioning,” he said.

And then he reiterated his final words of the meeting: “This is the beginning of a long relationship,” he said.

Voice of Vashon taped this meeting. Watch it at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday and at noon Monday, Friday and Saturday. Stream the video “on demand” at voiceofvashon.org.

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throw away. MLS #405325 $549,000

“Sound Food”--an Island iconWide highway frontage; parking for up to40 cars; indoor seating about 75, outdoorseating about 25. Approved plans for 2ndbldg included! MLS #453803 $590,000

vashon-maury island beachcomber, may 01, 2013

Documents

laura rollins

vashon fields project

retro ephemera rollins

storefront shop

harbor school students

sea change tattoo parlor

vashon island bicycles

painted signs hundreds