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By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer

On Sunday morning Rick Edwards got into his yellow truck and headed, as he does each week, to the Church of the Holy Spirit. And though his partner Tom Land was out of town, Edwards wasn’t alone. His poodle Gracie squirmed excitedly in the seat beside him.

“We call her our bouncing bubble of joy,” Edwards, a retired nurse, said of the young dog.

The five-month-old black poodle, who still boasts a frizzy coat of puppy hair, bounded with energy as Edwards led her to the lawn behind the Episcopal church. There they joined the small con-gregation and more than a dozen other four-legged visitors who had come along that Sunday.

The crowd seemed to buzz with life as it settled into a makeshift outdoor sanctuary set up beneath the tall conifers that line the church grounds. Some dogs sat quietly at their owners’ sides; others tested the length of their leashes, visiting each other in encounters that only sometimes ended in snarling.

The scene was new to Edwards but would have been familiar to

Land, his partner. Last year Land took the couple’s 16-year-old poo-dle, who has since died, to be honored at the church’s annual Blessing of the Animals. And what one year ago was a poignant and bittersweet moment in the final months of the dog’s life this year was a time of celebration and thanks for the couple’s new dog, whom Edwards said already feels like part of their family.

“I like the spiritual connection (at the blessing) and the idea of God watching over all of us and protect-ing us,” Edwards said. “It feels like a really good thing to do.”

The annual Blessing of the Animals has been held at the Episcopal church for at least two

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Serial rapist’s conviction spotlights a decade of crime

By ELIZABETH SHEPHERDArts Editor

The heavenly strains of masterworks by Beethoven and Dvořák, played by virtuo-so musicians, will be heard on Vashon this Friday.

It’s the downbeat to the third annual edition of Vashon Allied Arts’ Vashon Chamber Music Series — an effort spearheaded by Islanders Douglas Davis and Rowena Hammill, two acclaimed cello players who decided to make Vashon their home four years ago.

Davis and Hammill, a married couple, set-

tled at an outside table at Café Luna on a recent sunny morning to talk about their journey to Vashon and why they are so eager to share the music they love best with Islanders.

In the easy banter of musical and life part-ners, they came straight to the point.

“The music that was written for cham-ber orchestras was some of the greatest masterworks every written,” Hammill said. “Beethoven wrote his greatest music for string quartets. Chamber music crystallizes the skill of the composers.”

Hammill and Davis moved to the Island

in 2007 after long and storied careers spent playing in prestigious orchestras and chamber music ensembles all over the world. The pair’s home base was Los Angeles, a place they met while sharing a music stand in the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Before and after their courtship and marriage, they also worked in Hollywood orchestras, recording hundreds of scores for television shows and films.

But when Davis, a native of southern California who is now 70 years old, was ready to retire after 32 years with the Los Angeles

A talented couple brings intimacy of chamber music to Vashon

By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer

The conviction of a man last week whom prosecutors call a seri-al rapist has underscored the need to ensure community members, and especially teen girls, under-stand that even bucolic Vashon is not immune to such crimes, advocates say.

Brian Dublin, 28, was con-victed Thursday of two counts of first-degree rape, one count of attempted first-degree rape and three counts of burglary. He faces 37 to 48 years in prison, with a chance that his sentence could be extended to life. Sentencing is scheduled to take place Oct. 21.

Dublin, a Vashon resident and a 2000 graduate of Vashon High School, was arrested in May 2010 and charged with the January 2010 rape of a 16-year-old girl and the October 2003 rape of an 18-year-old girl. Charges were later amended to include the attempted rape of a 12-year-old girl in July 2006.

In all three incidents, he entered the girls’ ground-floor bedrooms through unlocked doors while their parents slept in nearby rooms and made harsh, obscenity-laced threats to the victims, suggesting he’d come back and hurt them or their families if they told anyone.

In a 36-page brief that prosecu-tors filed last month, they outlined several other alleged assaults on Vashon, painting the picture of a man they called “a serial rap-ist whose crimes spanned the bet-ter part of the last decade.” All told, they contend, Dublin raped or attempted to rape seven girls and women over the course of a decade — in some instances using alcohol and so-called “date rape drugs” that caused the victim to black out.

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Lawrence Huggins Photos

Rick Edwards’ poodle (top photo) visits another dog during Sunday’s service. Sharon Poole’s dalmatian (bottom photo) is blessed by Rev. Carla Pryne.

A church blesses its four-legged friends

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The purchases, one com-pleted Friday and another that closed in April, add 4.3 acres to the Point Heyer Natural Area, bringing the preserve to a total of 33.5 acres, with 1,500 feet of marine shoreline, accord-

ing to Greg Rabourn, the Vashon-Maury Island basin steward at the county’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks.

The two parcels, both raw land, cost a total of $307,000. The money for the purchase came from the county’s Conservation Futures Fund, a pool of money that can be used only to protect conser-vation land and open space, Rabourn said.

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Nirvana, a new Indian restaurant that will occupy the high-traffic corner where the Spice Route operated for four years, will open Friday night, offering what owner Rohit Sharma calls “very authentic” Indian food.

“I’m really looking forward to people tasting the food,” he said. “It’s going to have a different kind of freshness to it and an authenticity.”

Sharma, who visited Vashon in February and dined at the Spice Route, recently pur-chased the business from the previous own-ers. It represents his first foray into res-taurant ownership, he said, but he comes to it with considerable experience, having worked with his family at Indian restau-rants they owned in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sharma managed three of his family’s restaurants.

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CiderFest, an event now in its fourth year that celebrates the many uses of apples, will be held on Saturday, with day-long activities at several Island locations.

The Farmers Market will be one of the focal points for the day’s activities. There, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Island Fruit Club will press more than 1,000 pounds of locally grown apples, “sell-ing the delicious results,” according to Ron Weston, one of the organizers. Apple crisp will also be offered.

Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center, Vashon’s many dif-ferent kinds of apples — the Island boasts more than 100 varieties — will be on display and available for sampling. Experts on fruit-growing will also be on hand to identify apple varieties, answer questions or offer advice.

And at the Land Trust Building, the fruit club will host presentations on sev-eral fruit-growing topics, from planning an orchard to maximizing pollination.

Elizabeth Vogt, president of the club, says the group has worked to provide “an exciting lineup of speak-ers, designed to inform and enrich your own fruit-

growing efforts.” Then, from 4:30 to 6:30

p.m., Vashon Winery’s Ron Irvine will offer a hard cider tasting at Café Luna, featur-ing six different ciders from several Puget Sound cider-ies. Like wine, cider comes in a wide range of styles and f lavors, Irvine notes. For $10, customers will be able to sample all six selections.

“Although this year’s CiderFest is smaller in scope than previously, it still promises to offer many tasty opportunities to sam-ple the fruits of Island har-vests,” Weston said.

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Thanks to what Vashon business owners call a true community effort, it’s now a little easier to throw trash away in downtown Vashon. Two garbage cans, purchased by the Vashon Merchants’ Association, have been in-stalled in the town core.

Since the Merchants’ Ass- ociation formed three years ago, said Vashon Bookshop co-owner Nancy Katica, the business owners have shared concerns about the lack of trash cans in town. People often came into shops look-ing for a place to toss empty coffee cups and food wrap-pers, she said, and littering had also been a problem.

“We really thought (gar-bage cans) might be a nice addition to uptown,” she said.

Bettie Edwards, owner of The Little Shop, said that sev-eral organizations over the past few years have thought of tackling the garbage can problem, but their efforts never came to fruition.

“Everybody has talk-ed about garbage cans,

but nobody has done it,” Edwards said.

In an endeavor headed by Heron’s Nest man-ager George Wright, the Merchants’ Association secured two used garbage cans at a second-hand store in Seattle. The $350 price tag was covered by proceeds from “Keep Vashon Weird” bumper stickers and mugs sold at various retailers.

Katica, who transported the heavy concrete cans in her truck, said one now sits outside U.S. Bank and the other by the Vashon Pharmacy. Already, she said, pedestrians are using the new receptacles.

“We’ve noticed less peo-ple asking to use our facili-ties,” Katica said.

For now, Learn2Earn stu-dents will empty the cans twice a week, putting the trash in U.S. Bank’s Dumpster.

“I think anything we do to make the town more wel-coming and easy to wander through for off-Island and on-Island people is great,” Katica said.

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Islanders interested in sustainable yard and garden practices will be able to learn from several experts in the field when Natural Yard Care by Design, a three week-series of free classes, begins on Vashon next week.

Participants will learn the five steps in creating a healthy lawn and garden: building good soil, choosing the right plants, watering correctly, limiting the use of pesticides and practicing natu-ral lawn care. The program, now more than a decade old, was developed by King County in a consortium with 10 other cities to help people limit the use of harmful chemicals and conserve water while creating and maintaining attractive yards and gardens.

Doug Rice, a landscape architect and one of the presenters, noted he and his fellow presenters like to enter-tain while they impart their informa-tion, and one presenter might even bring her ukelele, a notably popular instrument on the Island.

“People will have a good time,” he said. “Our sense of humor is very aligned with Vashon.”

While there might be plenty of laughter, Rice noted that the underly-ing issue is a serious one, especially on Vashon, where, he said, “All of your water is right underneath you” and is at risk of contamination from lawn

and garden chemicals. In fact, Rice said, the class was

developed after the University of Washington tested 100 children and found that 99 of them had common garden pesticides in their urine. Additionally, program materials note that scientists have found 23 differ-ent pesticides in Seattle-area streams, many at levels high enough to hurt salmon and other wildlife.

Because of these findings, King County sought out garden experts, Rice said, such as Ciscoe Morris, Anne Lovejoy and Marianne Binetti, and asked for their advice. Their answers formed the basis of these classes that the consortium developed and now offers around the region.

The methods work, he said, and pro-vide homeowners and other garden-ers a sustainable approach to working with their land, often in a way that requires little maintenance.

Rice has been to Vashon several times, he said, and knows the Island well. In preparation for his class, he visited several gardens here and will talk about good design based on how people live and use their yards and gardens.

He encourages participants to bring photos of problem areas in their yards, samples of soil they would like to

know how to amend and even slices of sod from their lawns.

There will be time for discussion with the experts after class, Rice noted, and door prizes and a grand prize — a new mulching lawn mower.

People can attend just one of the classes, he said, but often participants find they want to attend the whole series to learn all of the material.

“There is a lot of information,” Rice said. “Once you understand it, it’s like, ‘Oh, it all works together.’”

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As lower, off-season ferry fares took effect last week-end, so did fare increases approved by the state in August as well as a new dis-count for small vehicles.

Fare hikes include a 2.5 general fare increase as well as a new 25-cent surcharge on each ticket to fund the construction of new boats.

For example, a car and driver ticket from Vashon to Fauntleroy that cost $15.56 last spring now costs $16.25. A 10-ride pass, which pre-viously cost $124.40, now costs $130.50.

Fares are slated to increase another 3 percent in May 2012 and another 2.5 per-cent in October 2012.

Also beginning last week-end, cars under 14 feet long pay 10 percent less than standard vehicles as part of a new small-vehicle catego-ry. Drivers of small cars will receive two more 10 percent discounts over the next two years, ultimately paying 30 percent less.

Susan Harris-Huether, senior programs manager

at Washington State Ferries, said crews painted new lines on the ground at ferry toll-booths to help WSF employ-ees determine which cars are under 14 feet long.

She said she’s not wor-ried the compact cars will be difficult to distinguish and added that ferry work-ers have been given a list of makes of cars that are known to be under the limit.

“If people have a vehicle under 14 feet, it’s blatant,” she said.

At the same time, the oversized-vehicle category — a bracket for which driv-ers pay more — has also changed from over 20 feet to over 22 feet.

Harris-Huether said she’s also not worried the changes will create too much extra work for ferry employees.

“It will cause extra work for a brief period of time,” she said. “If you’re caught, that’s all it takes.”

— Natalie Johnson

All workshops will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. at Chautauqua.Thursday, Oct. 13: Garden Design with Doug Rice, landscape architect and Smart Watering with drip irrigation expert Greg Butler.Thursday, Oct. 20: Growing Healthy Soil with Lisa Taylor of Seattle Tilth and Designing with Plants with Islander Greg Rabourn of KUOW Thursday, Oct. 27: Designing a Natural Lawn with Ladd Smith, co-owner of In Harmony Sustainable Landscapes and Natural Pest Control with Dan Corum of Woodland Park Zoo.Registration is recommended. Call 971-3720 or email register@ naturalyardcare.com.

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EDITORIAL

A couple of years ago, Bill Knox, a Vashon resident and the grandfather of Amanda Knox, told The Beachcomber he would not speak publicly about the lurid case that had put his grand-daughter behind bars and under an international spotlight — until she was freed.

Monday, hours after an Italian jury had proclaimed her inno-cent and shortly before she boarded a plane to head home to Seattle, he made good on his word.

“We’re ecstatic,” he said during a brief phone conversation.A retired industrial designer who has lived on Vashon 48

years, he and his wife Millie decided not to go to Seattle to wait all night with other friends and family members for the much-anticipated verdict. “We’re a little old for that,” he said.

Instead, the couple sat quietly and alone in their modest north-end home, glued to the television set, waiting for a verdict that would be announced, literally, to the world. He was over-come with emotion when it finally came.

“I’m not a real sentimental type,” he said. “But I found tears running down my cheek.”

As he spoke, the doorbell rang. Another bouquet of flow-ers had just arrived, adding to the four already adorning their home.

At The Beachcomber, we, too, were glued to the news on Monday, waiting — not as journalists, but as Islanders — to hear Amanda’s fate. And we, too, felt waves of emotion. Amanda Knox has come to mean many things to many people. But here on Vashon, she’s not just a symbol. She’s Bill and Millie’s grand-daughter.

Her father, Curt Knox, is a Vashon High School graduate. Karen Pruett, one of her many champions, is a Vashon hair-dresser. The Vashon Rotary recently hosted a breakfast with Judge Mike Heavy, here on Vashon to advocate for her release.

And how fantastic that it has finally happened.Those who have been paying attention know she was put

behind bars on evidence that didn’t hold up. The eyewitnesses included a heroin addict and a homeless man. The motive was nonexistent. And the only shred of evidence the prosecution seemed to possess — bits of DNA found on the alleged murder weapon — vaporized under the heat of serious scrutiny.

Some critics have taken issue with our national obsession with her case, noting that we wouldn’t be so fascinated if she weren’t young, pretty and white. While many Americans were decrying the workings of an Italian judicial system that put her behind bars for four years, Troy Davis, a black man, was on America’s death row for a murder many say he didn’t commit. Knox was freed. Davis was executed.

That disparity is, indeed, profound. But to Bill and Millie Knox, to Amanda’s many friends and family members and of course to Amanda herself, an analysis of America’s institutional racism and the role of the death penalty matters little.

What matters is that the Italian judicial system worked. Six jurors and two judges had the courage to right a wrong. And Bill and Millie Knox, a beloved Island couple, will soon take their granddaughter into their arms.

I don’t know how many Hispanics have migrated to Vashon, but there’s no missing this burgeoning community, living for the most part on the fringes of Island society. Welcome Vashon’s Amigos en Vashon project attempts to reach out to immigrant families, create connections and find ways for us to learn and play together; however, challenges abound. The Hernandez family taught me much about the intricacies of attempting to belong. — Janie Starr

By JANIE STARRFor The Beachcomber

Carlos Hernandez and his wife Maritza welcome me into their home and introduce their daugh-ters. Only their son, Carlos Jr., 11, is not there.

The conversation jumps back and forth between English and Spanish, with Cindi, 18, and Daisy, 16, speaking both languages flaw-lessly. Carlos speaks English but prefers Spanish, and Maritza, the family extrovert, calls her English “muy malo,” but she is motivated to learn. Shy Anai, 5, snuggles quietly between her parents on the sofa.

Cindi and Daisy describe their parents as loving and supportive. They stick up for them through-out the interview, making sure I understand the rapid-fire Spanish their parents revert to when ani-mated. When Maritza laughs about being the only plump mem-ber of the family, the girls assure her it’s because of her pregnan-cies, not a lack of willpower. Their friendly bantering puts me at ease as I work to keep up.

The good humor disappears, however, when Cindi and Daisy respond to my inquiries about being teenagers on Vashon. Their dark eyes blaze as they recount the discrimination they have felt since entering high school. Cindi relates an incident from the swine flu epidemic, when a substitute teacher accused her of bringing it from Mexico; Maritza’s eyes well up as she recalls how Cindi was made to sit in a corner because of a benign cough, while an American girl was not.

“I’ve never experienced racism on Vashon, but my kids have,” Maritza says, lamenting her inad-equacy to advocate for them at

school. Sally Adam, a bilingual family

advocate, has inter-vened on the girls’

behalf, Cindi adds, “but she is only one person

for the whole district.”

Cindi and

Daisy have left Vashon High

School and are now taking classes through

an online program. Daisy also fosters animals for Vashon Island Pet Protectors, and Cindi helps her mom clean houses. They are not sure if they will remain in the United States long term, feeling discouraged about their prospects yet having no reason to believe it will be easier in Mexico. They are the betwixt and between genera-tion, struggling to fit in while feel-ing the sting of their differentness.

When Daisy complains about her boring life on Vashon com-pared to the fun she has off-Island, I tease her about being a typical teen. Maritza clarifies that the girls never leave without adult supervision — perhaps not so typical after all — and calls her relationship with the kids both open and strict. “I teach them to think about consequences,” she says firmly.

I am struck by the respect the parents show their kids, allow-ing them to speak at will without interruption or criticism. They all agree that family is the most important thing, money and pos-sessions less so. They reflect on life in rural Mexico as more com-munal and relaxed, and Maritza misses the easy flow of friends and family dropping by. They are not complaining, merely expressing a longing many immigrants share.

Carlos tells of coming to the United States to work at age 14, returning home and mar-rying Maritza, and deciding to settle in the United States in 1991. Although they are all U.S. citi-zens, they refer to themselves as “Hispanos” and to native-born people as “Americans.” When I ask why, they shrug as if it’s obvious, acknowledging their separateness even as they assure me how well they’ve been treated here. Maritza

smiles about the way shopkeepers welcome her with “hola” and send her on her way with a friendly “adios.”

They moved to Vashon at the urging of Islander Hans Koch, whom Carlos has known for more than 23 years and sees as a father figure. The family lives rent-free in exchange for working on the prop-erty. Maritza speaks of her initial loneliness, as they were among the first Mexicans on the Island, but she considers herself a “luchadora” — fearless. “I explained that my hands would speak for me, and I found work.” Often the entire family pitches in, doing odd jobs, gardening, cleaning and painting houses.

Carlos says that it was easier to immigrate before 9/11, when everything changed. “Americans look at Hispanics differently now, see us as the enemy.” Carlos warns others against immigrating to the United States unless they’ve already secured work. “It’s too hard to make it now. We’re blamed for stealing Americans’ jobs, even though we do work no one else wants, and for less money.”

The family uses few Island ser-vices, except forays to the food bank and WIC funding during Maritza’s pregnancies. Since only the kids have medical insurance, Carlos and Maritza count on con-tinued good health and no more babies. Carlos is bothered if he sees a Hispanic take advantage of services, worrying that they will be judged for another’s behavior.

Maritza says, “We are all equal in America. Whether we are Hispanos, black, red or Asian, it doesn’t matter. Everyone should be treated with dignity.” They dream of better opportunities for their kids, hoping they will attend college, find fulfilling careers and become happily married. They are optimistic, despite the odds.

As I prepare to leave, Maritza hands me a plate of mangos to take home for supper. “The next time you go to Mexico,” she says, “we will invite you to visit our family there. You are always wel-come.”

— Janie Starr, an Islander active with Sustainable Vashon and

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Ladies Softball thanks supporters for fun seasonLadies League Softball, at the conclusion of a wonderful second summer of softball, would like to extend our heartiest thanks to the following individuals and groups for mak-ing our season possible:

To Brian Smith, umpire extraordinaire. Brian donated three nights a week of his own time all summer long calling games for the gals. He made the games fun, encouraged sportsmanship and teamwork, and was the guy everyone looked forward to seeing when they headed to the field. A kinder ump has never existed, plus he knows the game well - a real plus when at least half the players are middle-aged moms who haven’t done any-thing athletic or organized since HS. Brian’s patience was endless, his generosity knows no bounds, and having him at the field made the season a lot of fun for everyone.

To Vashon Youth Baseball and Softball for 12 cases of brand new game balls. It’s a beautiful thing when your children give gifts that allow their parents to recreate and play, and without these game balls, we’re not really sure how we could have pulled off the season. Thanks, VYBS for the most gener-ous gift! We only hope we did you proud.

To our fans - having bleachers full of cheer-ing stands makes any activity more fun. We appreciated you being there through the good and through the not-so-good–it made for a festive atmosphere and made us all

feel special! As a league we promise to bring you ever improving and competitive softball in the coming summers.

Finally to Vashon Park District for their unwavering support. As a VPD program, we enjoy the benefits of working with our island’s first class Park District. A special shout-out to the Division of Maintenance, who always made sure we had a field that was freshly mowed, watered, and in pristine shape for games.

Come on out next summer, Vashon and see what fun can be had when 100 women ages 20-70 hit the diamond for softball. Surpris-ingly good athleticism was on display, along with excellent teamwork and the encourage-ment and support not just of our own team-mates but of the opposing players. Plus, we had a whole lot of laughs. It was great fun for one and all!

The Ladies of Ladies League Softball

Pamn Aspiri & Jessica DeWire, League Directors

Our Gallery features a preview for the upcoming VIPP Auction

“The Critter Corral”, Artist Decorated Animals to benefi t VIPP.

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Summer People say goodbye to rainy VashonWe let the wealthy leave without giving at our auctions

Perhaps you’ve noticed that there are profound seasonal changes under-way on our Island.

No, I don’t mean that our tomatoes are finally starting to ripen or that we are about to be swamped by a tsu-nami of zucchini. And I don’t mean the coming of fall. I mean the going of the Summer People. That’s right: Their semi-annual migration is now complete.

The signs are all around us. The buzz of jet skis and the roar of power-boats towing waterskiers and scream-ing, child-filled inflated rubber rafts the size of floating dirigibles on outer Quartermaster Harbor have yielded once again to a merciful quiet, broken only now and then by the birdlike flap of sails as a lone sailboat comes about or the gentle paddle slap of the occasional human-powered kayak.

It is also now possible both to get a table at The Hardware Store and to get through the main intersection in town in less than two hours.

Similarly, it is now nearly possible to head for either ferry dock with at least a reasonable hope of driving on the boat during the same day.

And it is once again possible to find a parking space at the Thriftway lot without the aid of GPS. What’s more, when you get inside you actually recognize the other customers. This

is lovely, though it has its own disadvantages — namely that you have so much to catch up on with neighbors who seem to have just emerged from summer hiberna-

tion that it takes forever to get out of the store.

Also, in the case of rain, you can now get around on the sidewalks in town without fear of being poked in the eye by umbrellas because year-round Islanders take rain for granted and have no idea what an umbrella is anyway. Water off an Islander’s back, as it were.

And speaking of water, here’s another seasonal change: Vashon’s duly-famous masters men’s and wom-en’s crew teams, and the junior crew team as well, are back on the water. I don’t know about you, but I find this change curious. In a good year (and this one wasn’t), we have maybe two months of reasonably nice summer weather, days when it’s pleasant to be out on the water at the crack of dawn. But the rowers don’t row much then. I can think of only one explanation for this behavior: If you’re going to be cold, wet and miserable anyway, it only makes sense to wait for the weather to be the same.

Here’s another thing that’s curi-ous about migration season. Summer People can afford to own Island homes they inhabit for only two months of the year because, why? That’s right, because, unlike the rest of us, they’re insanely rich. It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to work this out.

So somebody please tell me why most of the Island’s biggest and most important charity auctions — the Vashon PTSA auction, the Vashon Allied Arts auction, the VIPP Fur Ball, to name but a few — occur, when? That’s right, in the off sea-son. Which is to say, AFTER the big money has flown. What’s that about? Sheer Islander cussedness? Note to charity auction people: Follow the money!

I don’t mean to act like a cur-mudgeon (I don’t have to, it comes naturally). And the truth is that Summer People are lovely folks. I say this because many of our Island businesses depend upon them for their seasonal purchases of goods and services. I also say this because many of them are my immediate neighbors in the Burton Beach area for two months of the year, and if I don’t act respectful-like and tug at my forelock in their presence I might be banished from the neighborhood.

Come to think of it, there may be permanent residents with the same idea.

— Will North, year-round Islander (thus far) and writer, is completing his

latest novel.

NORTH PASSAGESBy WILL NORTH

LETTERS TO THE EDITORArts center

I made an important but unintentional error in my commentary last week about the proposed Vashon Allied Arts facil-ity.

My notes show that the frontage of the building on the highway is 240 feet; somehow, I wrote the wrong number in my commentary. The wall height also ranges from 16 to 22 feet and is not con-sistently 22 feet high along that wall. I called the VAA board member from whom I got the figures to apologize for my error; I also called the VAA chair.

With these corrections, I still stand by the points I made in my letter.

— Donna Klemka

New high school

What happened to the new high school? Where is the building that was going to identify Vashon?

Quirky progressive, energy efficient.

Where are the energy efficient measures? Gas boilers? Really? The plan is to burn fossil fuels for the next 40 years! On an Island where every other car is a Prius and every-one wants to buy a Nissan Leaf, we’re going to buy a building that performs like a Buick and kind of looks like a car dealership, too.

Is there anyone who doesn’t believe natural gas and electricity costs are going to go way up in the next few decades? Yet this building has giant floor-to-roof glass walls facing all sorts of different direc-tions. Are we going to try to heat the entire sur-rounding countryside?

Oh, but wait, the new high school is built to code! It will out-perform code! Do you know what “code” is? It is the powers that be saying, “Look, this is the absolute minimum. You just can’t construct anything worse than this.” If Apple had followed “code,” we would still be using Commodore 64s.

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Ballet dispute

facts wrongYour article (“Ballet pro-

gram founders in the wake of a tough dispute,” Sept. 21) contained many inac-curacies including:

Betsy’s tenure on the Island — not merely a decade but 17-plus years serving the community.

Betsy sought mediation on three separate occasions to no avail; the hostile side refused, saying there was nothing to mediate.

Betsy did not walk out of the “stormy” meeting but in fact was one of the last to leave after staying to console Kamela on her “rough week.” Betsy did not dissolve the board but was asked if she wanted to dissolve to which she answered, “Yes, I cannot work with it in its present structure” and then the board voted to dissolve.

The park district’s Susan McCabe told Kamela it couldn’t be dissolved with-out parks involvement, which just gave Kamela one more reason to keep mov-ing; Susan also told Kamela that Betsy was their employee and they could fire her at will. Wrong!

Betsy did step down from teaching regular bal-let classes but NOT the production end of it.

Parks failed to give Betsy the meeting she requested between the three entities; she was called late one Thursday evening being told the meeting was the next day at 11 a.m.; Betsy had a doctor’s appointment and could not attend. The meeting went on without her, this after being told by Wendy Briacks earlier that it would not happen without her. Subsequent attempts to reschedule were given no attention. In fact the Parks signed a contract with VICB on Aug. 16.

Parks has continued to aid/abet this hostile board, including speaking with their (VPD) lawyer while we, VJCB, have been given

no opportunity to speak. Parks has exhibited poor

judgment/poor leadership in this matter.

— Pam Saunders-Osness

Yom Kippur

While well-intentioned, Michael Soltman, like so many other bureaucrats and politicians, mishandled the rescheduling of the homecoming dance so it would not conflict with Yom Kippur.

If the dance was to be moved, the announcement should have read like this: “Dear high school students, the VISD and I made a mistake in scheduling the homecoming dance. Since it was our mistake, my staff and I will spend all our after-hours time during the next week fix-ing this situation so your dance will be perfect, at no inconvenience to you. Of course, there also should be no added expense either. Please advise me of any

expenses you have incurred as a result of my action. My staff and I will stand outside Thriftway until we have collected enough donations to reimburse you for the added cost.”

Unfortunately, too many people do the “right” thing and dump the consequenc-es on someone else. Mr. Soltman and the VISD have to deal with inadequate funding which is exacerbat-ed by unfunded mandates compliments of our friends in D.C. and Olympia. Our national budget is out of control at least partially because we continue to act as policeman for the world and send billions in foreign aid to almost every country from China to Pakistan. The airport TSA employ-ees must waste resources screening 80-year-old grandmothers and 6-year-old grade schoolers, so as to not “offend” the 18- to 45-year-old males who pose the greatest risk.

Even something as simple as creating jobs makes for new challenges. The latest jobs bill pro-posed by President Obama seeks money to hire teach-

ers and reduce class size. Good idea? No, since the proposal only funds these jobs for one year! Then all the school districts will have to lay off the new teachers.

Our leaders, and I use that term loosely, need to think before they do the “right” thing in the future.

— Scott Harvey

CatsNo need to keep cats indoors

I would like to offer a few comments regarding Sara Van Fleet’s recent letter regarding cats (“Outdoor cats have an impact on wildlife,” Sept. 28.)

First of all, I question the validity of the state-ment that indoor cats live an average of three times longer than outdoor cats. When making a statement like that, it would be use-ful to site the source of the information, as otherwise it is just hearsay. It is pos-sible and makes sense that feral cats have a shorter

lifespan than indoor cats, but I doubt the same is true for indoor/outdoor domestic breeds, which are what we are talking about here, I believe. In fact, it is my guess that indoor/out-door cats that are properly cared for have a more bal-anced, healthier diet than those who survive solely on Fancy Feast.

Secondly, I appreciate the rats, mice and mole control my cats do. There always seem to be more rodents to catch, so I doubt the cats are doing much to dimin-ish these species.

Finally, cats undoubtedly eat a large number of birds. I did not see any mention in Sara’s letter about what dogs eat, let alone people. Let’s not place an overem-phasis on the cat’s natural function as a predator. The most responsible thing a pet owner can do is to have our pets neutered. Fewer cats are, in my view, the best way to reduce their influence on bird and other populations while allowing the cat to live a more nor-mal life.

— Kirk Beeler

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Commissioned Artists

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Glow/Candy JenningsGroundwork Gardens

The Hardware Store RestaurantHoodsport WinerySusan E. Hormann

Jonathan Morse Island Home Center & Lumber

Alexander KochanSusan & Ted Kutscher

Diane LarsonLavender Hill Farm

Cathy MacNeal & Tom DalzellThe Little HouseStephen McClure

& The Inn at LangleyVickie Mercer

Juli & Bruce MorserNorthwest Art & Frame

Pacific Research Labs, Inc.Palouse Winery

George & Linda KirkishPartners Crackers

Kirk RobinsonSeattle Art Museum

Paul MartinezSeattle Children’s Theatre

Pat & Susan SullivanVashon Athletic Club

Vashon Island Golf & Swim ClubVashon PharmacyVashon True Value

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VolunteersKaren AdlerFred Albert

Bobbi ArnoldMary Liz AustinDuane BedardKebbie Bedard

Craig BelesNancy BennionJanet BishopMarilyn Blitz

Alison BockusDan Bockus

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Joy Thal MannMarynell MattNancy Miracle

Tanner MontagueNancy MorganBruce Morser

Haley Mosteller Matthew Mosteller

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Sy NovakMichael O’Donnell

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Jacquie PerryLaura PershernKaren PersonJan PetersonJayne Quig

Michelle RamsdenRichard Reed

Elfi RiceMark ScheerGary SchochBrad ShinnCarri SingerNicole Sipila

Tom SkarshaugSylvia Soholt

Jaralene SpringKasia Stahancyk

Bob StewartCindy StockettDiane StofferAndie Styner

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Mary van GemertCarrie Van Buren

The Vashon Garden ClubMary WalkerEric WeberDave Weller

Nancy Scott WienkerNeil Wiesblott

Rich & Sue WileyRebecca Wittman

Ed ZapelCynthia ZheutlinJeffrey Zheutlin

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Terri Colello CateringBettie Edwards

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Giuseppe’sThe Hardware Store RestaurantIsland Home Center & Lumber

LaBiondo Farm & KitchenLa Boucherie

Sheryl Lehman CateringMacrina

Otis KenyonPalouse Winery

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Auction Co-Chairs

Kathi Jenkins & Denise Katz

Auction Coordinator

Nancy Foster-Moss

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VAA Board of Trustees

Anne O’Leary - PresidentLeslie McIntosh - Vice President

Nancy Miracle - Secretary Kathy Pine - Treasurer

Kathi Jenkins - Member at LargeFred Albert

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Grief Support: Providence Hospice of Seattle Grief Support Services will offer a six-week grief support group for adults who have experienced the death of a loved one in the last two years. Registra-tion is required; call Jane Fleming at 749-7704 for information. 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays beginning tonight at a meeting space near town.

Healthcare Conversation: Vashon Heathcare Council will host the meeting and provide informa-tion about the recent community health survey and about health services available on and off the Island, including the dental van. A representative from the Vashon Community Wellness Project, which enables people to volunteer in exchange for reduced fees on health care services, will talk about that program. 7 p.m. at the Land Trust Building.

Community Dinner: Enjoy food, music and a surprise dance. Farm-ers Market produce will be for sale. Organizers of the new program, Shape Up, Vashon, will be there and will do blood pressure checks, weigh-ins and three-minute YMCA fitness tests. Sign up for Shape Up at the dinner and earn a chance for a prize. The suggested dinner donation is $10. 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Vashon High School.

Vashon Legal Clinic: Legal advice

is free at this montly clinic. People wishing to schedule an appoint-ment to meet with a lawyer should call the King County Bar Associa-tion at 267-7070 to schedule an appointment. 6 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road.

Why Buddhism Matters: Koshin Chris Cain, abbot of Vashon’s Puget Sound Zen Center, will talk on “Why Buddhism Matters — How a Buddhist World View Can Help Individuals and the World.” This public talk introduces the zen cen-ter’s Fall Dharma Studies Session, which will continue throughout October. Free. 7 to 8 p.m. at the Vashon Library.

The Vashon-Maury Island Green Party: Topics at this monthly meeting will include reports on a meeting with Rep. Eileen Cody on single payer health care and more. Greens, Democrats, Independents and other interested progressives are welcome. 7 to 9 p.m. 10329 S.W. Bank Road.

Veterans’ Services: Joel Estey, a consultant with the King County Veterans’ Program, will help veter-ans connect with county, state and federal benefits. For more infor-mation, call him at 296-7570. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Senior Center on Bank Road.

Parkinson’s Support Group: Steve Bird, a new pharmacist at Vashon Pharmacy, will lead the discussion, including the under-standing that people have about Parkinson’s and neurotransmit-ters, what they are struggling to understand and what choices they are confronted with. Contact Steve Steffens at 567-5976 for more information. 1 to 2:30 p.m. at Vashon Lutheran Church.

Rowing Scrimmage: Watch the Vashon Junior rowers take on the Vashon master rowers and see national medal-winning high

school rowers in action. 9:30 a.m. at the Jensen Point boat house.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue Open House: See the I-beam from the World Trade Center for Vashon’s 9/11 memorial, get a flu shot, see an emergency helicopter and learn about disaster prepa-radeness. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Station 55, 10020 S.W. Bank Road.

CiderFest: Several events will take place throughout the day. Cider pressing, with cider and apple crisp for sale, will be at the Village Green. The Land Trust Building and the Senior Center will have fall fruit display as well as presentations on designing a cider orchard, the new Washington Apple ID Program, mason bees and hard cider from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. From 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. there will be a hard cider tasting at Café Luna with six Puget Sound ciders for $10. (For more information, see page 4.) Adopt-a-Cat Day: Learn about available cats online at www.vipp.org and adopt one this weekend. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at VIPP’s cat shelter, 12200 S.W. 243rd.

Visit Retired Tugs: Tugboats of the Retired Tugboats Association will gather on Vashon this year, and the boats will be open for boarding. They range in age from 50 to 100, some made of wood, others of steel. Organizer George Hill is hoping for a dozen boats, all of which are well cared for by their owners. Free. Hours are roughly 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Dockton Park.

Unitarian Fellowship: Rev. Elizabeth Stevens will present a service on “Forgiveness and Fresh Starts.” She will speak on why and when to forgive others and our-selves and the difference between forgiving and forgetting. 9:30 a.m. at Lewis Hall behind Burton Com-munity Church.

Visit Retired Tugs: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Dockton Park. (See Saturday entry above. )

Learn about Domestic Vio-lence: The DoVE Project will host a free domestic violence training and will include several topics, in-cluding who are the perpetrators, what is the definition of domestic violence, how many people are affected by domestic violence, what the cycle of violence looks like, what people can do to stop the cycle and how to identify and support someone who needs help.Email [email protected] for more information. 6 to 7 p.m at the Presbyterian Church.

Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club: Terry Hershey, an inspira-tional speaker, humorist, author, dad, Protestant minister and land-scape designer, will speak. There is a business meeting at 11 a.m., a lunch at 12:15 p.m., and Hershey will speak at 1 p.m. at Vashon Lutheran Church.

Library Story Times: Toddler Story Times, for ages 21 months to 3 years with adult, will meet at 10:40 a.m. and Preschool Story Times, for ages 3 to 5, will meet at 11:30 a.m. both Tuesdays through-out October at the Vashon Library.

Arts and Humanities Minise-ries: Art Historian Rebecca Albiani will offer three fall lectures. 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 11, 25 and Nov. 8. (For more information, see page 14.)Senior Center Movie: Two dotty women cure lonely gents by poi-soning them and burying them in the cellar. It features Cary Grant, Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre. Free. 12:30 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.

Vashon Insight Meditation: The group meets weekly for informal meditation and discussion. For information, contact vashon [email protected]. 7 p.m. at the Puget Sound Zen Center, 20406 Chautauqua Beach Road.

UPCOMING

Vashon Computer Club: The meeting topic will be a peek at Windows 8. Visitors are welcome for free, but membership is inex-pensive. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Vashon Senior Cen-ter on Bank Road.

Full-Length Practice SAT: A fully-proctored practice SAT will show students what to expect in a test-like environment. Students will receive a comprehensive anal-ysis of their performance on the test, detailing individual strengths and weaknesses. 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Vashon Library.

Pumpkin Sale: The Olympus Pony Club will host the sale; there will also be baked goods, caramel apples, gluten-free goodies and more. Pumpkins can be purchased throughout October, with the proceeds going to the pony club. For more information, call Mar-

cella Kruly at 463-2986. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Harbor Mercantile in Burton.

Buddhist Presentation: Zen Buddhist Monk Rev. Master Basil Singer will give a talk on the Bud-dha’s enlightenment, the begin-ning of a religion and how people now can do what the Buddha did. He will also offer his guidance and experience to those who wish to live life more deeply. 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Vashon Library.

Health Fair: Core Centric will host a health and wellness fair and give the public a chance to meet local service providers who can compli-ment any healthy lifestyle. Those interested in presenting should contact Michelle Reed at [email protected]. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at Wings Birdseed Company.

PlaySpace Grand Re-opening Celebration and Dedication: After a renovation, the PlaySpace is re-opening. Festivities will include a kids’ fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with face painting, balloon animals, musicians and more. The dedication party will meet from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and will include a visit from Vashon’s unofficial mayors, the Washington State Fairies. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the PlaySpace.

Flamenco Performance: Car-mona Flamenco, which combines Flamenco dance and music, will perform a celebration of Sukkot Harvest Festival as a fundraiser for Vashon Island’s Poetry Fest. Advance tickets,$20, are recom-mended and are available at Books by the Way and Vashon Bookshop. 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at Havu-rat ee Shalom, 15401 Westside Highway.

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This year Vashon’s creative and thrifty parents can add one more resource to their lists when it comes to planning Halloween costumes. The Island will join more than 100 communities across the country by participating in National Costume Swap Day. Spearheaded by the Seattle-based blog Green Halloween, this event has grown nationally in the last two years and was recently featured on Good Morning America. According to the nonprofit group Green Halloween, more than 6,000 tons of garbage can be spared from landfills through simply swapping costumes. Vashon residents can participate by dropping off costumes at Books by the Way then attending the actual swap from 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9. Local author Tom Brenner will be on hand to present his book “And Then Comes Halloween” to help get everyone into the Halloween spirit. The event is free, and people need not donate to participate.Above, Halloween revelers enjoy the downtown merchants’ trick-or-treat festivities last year.

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The Help: Ends Oct. 6

Contagion: Plays Oct. 7 to 13.

Batteries Not Included: 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16. The movie is free and is recommended for ages 7 and older. It is being sponsored by LGC Educational Services.

Coming Up: Footloose

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PUBLIC MEETINGS

Vashon Island School District Vashon High School Renovation Pre-sentations: Comment forms are available online at at www.vashonsd.org/capitalprojects, the Vashon Library and the three public schools.

5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at the community dinner at Vashon High School

6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at the McMurray Middle School library. The school board will vote on a final schematic design package and estimate.

Water District 19: 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct, 11, at the district office, 17630 100th Ave. S.W.

Vashon Park District Commissioners: 7 p.m. Tuedsday, Oct. 11, at Ober Park.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue Commissioners: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Station 55.

The King County Cemetery District #1: 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Vashon Cemetery, 19631 S.W. Singer Rd.


All VoV TV shows are produced by Islanders. If you’ve created a video program of any kind, contact Susan McCabe at 463-0301 or [email protected]. Comcast 21 is happy to broadcast your show.

This week’s features on VoV TV are:

Thursday and Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. and Saturday at 7:15 p.m. Vashon’s Strawberry Festival Parade, July 2011— Relive or see it for the first time in its entirety.

The complete VoV TV Schedule is available at voiceofvashon.org.

Intro to Yoga: Teachers will in-troduce the most common yoga poses with an emphasis on safe-ty, alignment and technique. To register call 463-2058 . Free with pre-registration and $5 without. 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. today, Oct. 5, at Island Yoga Center.

Sex Matters for Women: Sex therapist Jessa Zimmerman will lead this six-week exploration in-tended to help women challenge negative thinking that feeds feel-ings of shame and inadequacy, get accurate information about sexual health and discover how to enhance their sexual growth. The cost is $60 for the series. For information or to register, call Zimmerman at Vashon Youth & Family Services at 463-5511. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays, begin-ning today, at VYFS.

Solarize Vashon: These free workshops review solar basics, explain how the “solarize” model works and how to participate. The Solarize Vashon project is a residential-based, bulk-purchase solar buying program, like a “solar co-op,” designed after successful Solarize Portland and Solarize Seattle projects. The program’s sign-up period ends on Oct. 16. Solar installations will begin in October and run through the end of the year. For more information, call Artisan Electric at 463-3111. 5 to 8 p.m. tonight, Oct. 5, at the Vashon Library and 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.12, at the Gold Beach Community Center.

Energies of the Heart Medi-tation: By donation. For more information go to www.Vashon-PRAHM.com or call 463-9066. 10 a.m. Sundays, at Vashon PRAHM at 1520 S.W. 220th St.

Poetry: Lonny Kaneka, a poet and teacher, will lead an interac-

tive poetry workshop, which will draw inspiration from the images of Gay Schy, a VALISE member and Lynn Mauser-Bane, a Cali-fornia artist. These artists will be showing their own encaustic paintings as well as a joint instal-lation of encaustic monotype scrolls. 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at VALISE.

Tai Chi and Qi Gong: The cost is $10 to drop in. For more informa-tion, see www.VashonPRAHM.com or call 463-9066. 9:15 a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays at PRAHM, 1520 S.W. 220th St.

Computer Classes: Email Level 1 will be off ered at 10:15 a.m. and Email Level 2 will be at 12:30 p.m., both Monday, Oct. 10, at the Vashon Library. Call to regis-ter at 463-2069.

RhythmJoy Afro-Brazilian Dance: Get in shape and have fun, learning traditional and contemporary dances from Brazil and West Africa all to live drum-ming. Beginners are welcome; no dance experience is necessary, and no partner is required. Cost for the four-week session is $64, $18 to drop in, and the fi rst time is free. To register contact [email protected] or call 567-5822. 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays begin-ning Oct. 11 at Havurat Ee Sha-lom, 15401 Westside Hwy.

Introduction to Shape Up Vashon: Drs. Kathleen and Chris Davis will lead this free introduc-tory class on the new program to help Islanders take charge of their health. They will answer several questions, including what SUV off ers, how to start, set goals and best use the program. Those who attend will get a healthy, easy recipe and learn an exercise they can do without equipment. They can also sign up for SUV. For more information, go to www.shapeupvashon.org or ask at [email protected]. The class will run from 7 to 8:15 p.m. At 6:15 p.m. there will be option-

al blood pressure checks, YMCA step tests for fi tness baselines and weigh-ins, all Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Courthouse Square, 19001 Vashon Hwy. S.W.

Vashon Audubon Birding: Classes continue with guest speaker Anne Thiess of Wings Birdseed Co. and Alan Huggins presenting “All about Bird Feed-ers and Feeding Birds.” What are those birds coming to my feeder? What are the best feeders and food for which birds? The class will include do’s and don’ts, cleaning feeders, preventing window crashes and more. The cost is $15. 7 to 9 p.m. Wednes-day, Oct. 12, at the Land Trust Building.

Nature Yard Care by Design: Several free workshops, all from 7 to 9 p.m. and held at Chautau-qua Elementary School, will be off ered Thursdays this month beginning Oct. 13.(For more information, see page 5.)

Vashon Delta Dogs: Learn how you and your dog can train to be a certifi ed Delta Society Pet Partner Team. Dogs must know basic obedience and be leash trained. Classes meet weekly on a rotating schedule; please con-tact Kathy Farner at [email protected] for details on the next class.

Improv for Parents: Improv theater helps develop parent-ing skills, adding depth and refreshment to the everyday role parents play in their child’s life. Learn side coaching, character development, energy exchange, rapport and spontaneous creativ-ity. Experience how those skills add to the parenting toolkit, helping with everything from tears and tantrums to homework wars. The cost is $50 for individu-als, $65 for couples. To register, call the Blue Heron at 463-5131. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 18 and 25, at the Blue Heron.

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The Outreach Committee of the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council will soon form small study groups to investi-gate areas of concern to Islanders and find solutions. What speakers would you like to hear at the VMICC meetings? What action would you like to see planned? Do you know someone who needs help?

Send your ideas to [email protected], a suggestion box established by the Outreach Committee, or join in the out-reach activities as well. The committee is

looking for ideas and members to link with the various groups of Islanders, all with different interests and needs.

The next meetings will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at Minglement and again at 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Vashon Library. Come and brainstorm about how to make the VMICC and outreach the important ser-vice to the Island it has been in the past.

For more information, send an email to the idea box or call Joan Sells at 463-2605.

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Vashon’s Sheepdog Classic: The second annual sheepdog trials, held last weekend as a benefit for Partners in Education, were a success, according to organizer Maggi McClure. She estimates that roughly 3,000 people attended over three days, with the event raising roughly $8,500.The sheep were wily and willful, McClure said, and posed quite a challenge for many of the dogs. Riggs, though, the border collie at right, handled them like the champion he is. His handler, Patrick Shannahan, was the 2010 United States Champion, and the duo handily won the Vashon event.Jenna, Anna, Mike and Grace Riggs, at right, spon-sored Riggs the dog for the Smart Dogs for Smart Kids program, and with the dog’s success, won a three-night stay at a guest house in Whistler, B.C. Jenna Riggs, who put their money on him, knew he was a champion, but said, given their shared name, “We would have picked him anyway.”

King County Executive Dow Con-stantine named VashonBePrepared, Vashon’s homegrown emergency pre-paredness group, one of the two best in the county in his first-ever community preparedness award. The ceremony was held in Seattle on Friday. Constantine noted in particular the role the group played last Thanksgiving, when a storm left the Island without power. “The impressive work done by VashonBePrepared in those cold, dark days went beyond the basics,” Constantine said. At left, Constantine congratulatesVashon Fire Chief Hank Lipe and John Cornelison, who heads the all-volunteer Vashon-BePrepared.


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ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury FLAMEMCO: Carmona Flamenco, a group that combines flamenco dance and music, will

have a fundraiser per formance for the Vashon Island Poetr y Fest at 8 p.m . Saturday, Oct. 15 at Havurat ee Shalom . Tickets, $20, are available at local bookstores.

Open Space brings theater magic to town

The brother and sister duo of Daryl and Renee Redeker will perform a rare concert together at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, at the Red Bicycle Bistro. Daryl is an Island musi-cian who has been writing and recording since the early 1970s. He has released eight albums and opened for such well-known acts as Jose Feliciano, Phoebe Snow, Kenny Rankin and John Denver. In recent years, Redeker has turned his atten-tion to teaching guitar, helping hundreds of Island students learn to interpret a wide variety of musical styles.

Daryl’s sister Renee has also performed professionally in the Northwest since the 1970s. Her vocals contain flavors of jazz, rock, blues and folk, and her original songs have a pop flair. She currently performs in

the Seattle area as a solo act and with the Black Lab Trio.

This is an all-ages, no cover show.

Art history will come alive when art histo-rian Rebecca Albiani presents three talks at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 11, Oct. 25 and Nov. 8, as part of Vashon Allied Arts’ Arts and Humanities Series. All talks will be held at the Blue Heron art center.

On Oct. 11, Albiani will focus on women impressionist painters, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales and Marie Bracquemond.

On Oct. 25, Albiani will broach the fasci-nating and sometimes volatile subject of marriage between three artist couples — Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.

Albiani’s final talk will center on the Works Progress Administration Index of American Design. The program, initiated in 1935, resulted in a collection of almost 18,000 watercolor renderings that depict traditional American arts and crafts made before 1890.

Series tickets for the talks are $36 for members and seniors and $45 general. Individual event tickets, $14/$17, can be purchased by calling 463-5131.

first VAA ‘New Work’Islander Arlette Moody has assembled a group of her talented friends to join her onstage in “More Feasting,” a Vashon Allied Arts New Works piece that will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15, at the Blue Heron.

The show is a collection of 12 theater, music, dance and comedy vignettes starring Moody, Esther Edelman, Kathy Zbryck, Cathy de Smet, Lynelle Sjoberg, Steffon Moody, Abby Enson, Stephanie and Marshall Murray, Adrienne Mildon and Lyn McMannus.

Other well-known Islanders have been in-volved behind the scenes. Kevin Joyce was tapped to direct Moody’s sensual opening piece, and Francois Serre y Berga choreo-graphed a jazz trio piece for Moody, Edel-man and Zbryck.

Tickets to the show, rated PG-13, are $12/$15, and on sale at the Blue Heron, Heron’s Nest, Books by the Way, Vashon Bookshop and www.brownpapertickets.com.

VALISE Artist Collective and Gallery is branching out to offer an artist-in-resi-dency opportunity on Vashon beginning Jan. 3.

The residency includes one month of work space and living accommodation with a small stipend, followed by a second month where the artist offers a public opening, talk and exhibition.

The gallery is specifically interested in supporting artists and art not often shown on Vashon — including video, performance, sound art and collaborative art projects. Another important part of the project is community involvement. For more information, visit www.valise-gallery.org/Artist_In_Residency_Call.html.

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A comedic spectacle and a magic show will take the stage this monthBy ELIZABETH SHEPHERDFor The Beachcomber

Open Space for Arts & Community will open its fall season with two intimate

shows featuring performers who have dazzled artists throughout the Northwest and beyond.

The fun will start when Kevin Kent, a former Islander, teams up with special guests to perform “Kevin Kent’s Secret Speakeasy” on Monday night.

Kent, a star of Teatro Zinzanni in both Seattle and San Francisco, began his performance career in the 1980s and is now internationally known for his improvi-sational skills, humor and physical comedy. He is currently appearing as the master of ceremonies in “Bonsoir Liliane,” Teatro Zinzanni’s hom-age to the life of French dancer and Tony Award-winning star Liliane Montevecchi. Tony-winner Tommy Tune directed the show. Another recent honor for Kent was his nomination for the Bay Area’s Critic’s Circle 2011 Award for best principal per-formance. Fellow nominees included Bill Irwin and Mandy Patinkin.

Kent’s show on Vashon is being billed as the unveiling as a series of delicious secrets, including the identity of Kent’s mystery guest performers.

“Music will waft into the night,” prom-

ised Open Space staffer Maria Glanz. “Funny bones and more will be tickled.”

The show marks a return to Open Space for Kent. In May, he appeared in “Burlesco Notturno” at the venue.

In that show, Glanz said, Vashon audi-ences “got a taste of Kevin — now, at the ‘Speakeasy,’ he’ll bring a whole buffet of delight.”

Open Space’s next show, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 15, will be “Joey Pipia’s Magic Chamber,” a one-man show featur-ing magician Joey Pipia.

Local performer Kevin Joyce calls Pipia “the genuine article,” and a story in Northwest Magazine claimed that Pipia “could hide an elephant in his coat.”

Pipia presented “The Magic Chamber” for more than a year to sold-out houses in Port Townsend at The Chameleon Theater, and his run of the show last spring at Seattle’s Intiman Theatre also sold out. He has appeared on film,

TV and stages across the country and tours regularly with The New Old Time Chautauqua and The Flying Karamazov Brothers.

“The Magic Chamber” is a one-of-a-kind theatrical event that Pipia said allows “a small select audience [to] experience the phenomenal at arm’s length, and having suspended its disbelief leave … with the sensation that anything is possible.”

Pipia added that he was delighted to bring his show to Vashon, emphasizing that audiences would see a performance with “no fancy boxes, no smoke or mir-rors. Instead, it’s just the magic up close, fast paced, funny and amazing.”

Kevin Kent, above, will star in “Kevin Kent’s Secret Speakeasy.” The following week, Joey Pipia, right, will bring his one-man magic show to the venue.

Tickets to “Kevin Kent’s Secret Speakeasy” cost $20 and are on sale at www.brownpapertickets.com and Island book stores. The show will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, and is for ages 21 and older only. Tickets to “The Magic Chamber” cost $20, can be purchased at www.brown-papertickets.com or by calling 800-838-3006. Seating is limited to 30 people per show. The show will be performed at 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15.For more information visit www.open-spacevashon.com.The Open Space for Arts & Community is located at 18870 103rd Ave. S.W.

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the street, greeting friends and neighbors and partaking of a Vashon visual feast. Dive into the fun at the following art spots and galleries.

A new, permanent installation of colorful tile tools created by Island tile artist Clare Dohna graces the Bank Road ramp wall outside the Hardware Store Restaurant.

The installation, dedicated to longtime Islanders Mary Jo and Chuck Barrentine, was purchased by the restaurant’s owner, Melinda Sontgerath, after she saw the work displayed in a Vashon Tile Guild show at the Blue Heron last May. The show re-imagined Vashon as a tile

mecca.A formal dedication of Dohna’s

piece will take place at 6:30 p.m.Inside the Hardware Store

Restaurant gallery, an exhibition called “The Critter Corral” will be on display. The exhibit, coordi-nated by Island mosaic artist Elaine Summers, will showcase work that will be offered at Vashon Island Pet Protector’s gala auction on Sunday, Oct. 23.

Pascale Judet, who works with acrylics, and Joanne Hammer, who paints with oils, will launch their first public collaboration.

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and memory. She said she is inspired by the likes of Matisse, Gauguin and Italian painter Mimmo Paladino. She recently won a national competition to work with world-famous mosaic fabrication crafts-man Stephen Miotto to create a prestigious public art project at the Sea-Tac Airport.

Judet, who is known for her hand-painted clocks with miniature figures that have been shown and sold all over the country, first showed her paintings at the Blue Heron Gallery in the early 1990s.

Judet’s artistic practice is linked to her daily practice of keeping a visual journal. Over the years, the journal has grown to a four-foot stack of creative personal history on acid-free large format paper, including ink drawings of boats, towers, trees, lad-ders and other repeating motifs, such as trees, birds, fish and snakes. Words and phrases, snippets of thought, philosophy and poetry also hint at inspirations for Judet’s paintings.

Blooms & Things will feature the work of Sheila Park, who will display new, autumn-themed assemblages, made with found and fine-art objects. All of the pro-ceeds from Park’s work will be donated to AHOPE for Children, an organization that

supports HIV-positive orphans. The shop will also showcase furniture

by Bill (Popi) Champion, an Island artist who crafts one-of-a-kind painted furni-ture pieces at this workshop on Westside Highway.

Champion, a former running back for the San Diego Chargers, earned an MFA degree from the University of Southern California. To view his work, visit www.nwislandrustics.com.

There will also be chocolate fudge tast-ing with chef Steve Amos, a chocolatier who owns Papillon Confections.

Beckett Reid, a talented 9-year-old art-ist who studies with Janice Campbell, will have his first-ever solo art show. Reid is also an avid birder and tends his own flock of chickens and ducks on his family’s five-acre farm.

Artist and photographer Andrew Plotsky will exhibit “Asymmetrical Wallpaper Patterns.” Plotsky is the princi-pal of Farmrun, an agricultural multime-dia production studio based on Vashon. Check out his art and adventures at www.farmrun.com.

The center will feature artist Michael Brinker, who has shown in New York City,

Los Angeles and the Northwest. Recently schooled in France and Italy,

Brinker has worked with a jungle arts col-lective and Quinault native artists. He will be joined by Dorian Dyer, a visionary art-ist, poet and healer. The reception will fea-ture special food and music to accompany the show.

International performing artist and Vashon resident Mik Kuhlman will climb into the history of the 1950s civil rights movement in “Shadows,” a live art instal-

lation performed at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in the windows of the vacant Island Variety Store (next to Vashon Auto Parts).

Kuhlman’s performance, part of the region-wide Arts Crush Festival, blends historic photographs and live perfor-mance.

Also featured will be a photo exhibit by Jeff Dunnicliff of Kuhlman’s resi-dency with Vashon High School students, exploring iconic imagery of the civil rights era. There will also be a reception at 9:30 p.m.

For more information, visit www.artscrush.org.

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Michael Spakowsky, well-known local artist and musician, will show new watercolor paintings at Duet, exclusive Island retailer of his beautiful, collectible works.

A Native culture and art book exhibit at the Raven’s Nest will include new children’s books.

“Iridescent Inspiration,” a show of work by Tim Carney, will open at Sunshine and Ideas. Carney works with natural materials, including wood and rock, which are gilded and etched with iridescent, laser-etched foils to produce colors that appear to twinkle like star-light.

At VALISE Gallery, two artists will

exhibit their work — Gay Schy, a mem-ber of VALISE, and Lynn Mauser-Bane, a California artist, will show encaustic paintings as well as a joint installation of encaustic monotype scrolls.

Geri Peterson’s watercolors will adorn the walls of the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road, and there will also be free tables where crafters can set up to sell their artwork. To get involved, call Willow Eaton at 463-5173.

At the Heron’s Nest, Odin Lonning will present “Sweetgrass Trail: An Emerging Artist’s Journey” and Mary Hosick, a ceramic and fiber artist will show her work.

Chuck Roehm and Friends will play cosmic folk music at Vashon Bookshop.

decades — and at congregations of varying denominations around the world for cen-turies — always near Oct. 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

“It’s a tradition that’s been quite active in the Christian church,” said Rev. Carla Pryne, a petite, good-natured woman who has headed the congregation for a little more than a year and performed the blessings last year as well.

When the time came for Gracie to be blessed, the poodle had calmed down some but was still too fidgety for Pryne to lay hands on her as she had with some of the other dogs whose owners brought them to the front. Instead Pryne, who greeted each pet with a warm smile, stroked Gracie’s muzzle as Edwards held on to her leash.

He beamed as Pryne said a prayer for the young dog. As she had with other animals, Pryne thanked God for the role Gracie would play in her owners’ lives.

“Thank you for the way these animals trust us and love us,” she said.

Before the blessings began, Pryne turned to the congregation and asked what they loved about their pets.

“They’re wonderful companions to hike with,” said one woman.

“That she’s always so happy to see me,” another woman said with a grin.

“They’re always good company,” said one young girl who held a shoebox with two rats in it.

“That she annoys my mom,” said a young boy, prompting laughs from the crowd.

In an interview before the service, Pryne said the Blessing of the Animals is tradition-ally a time for parishioners and community members to recognize and thank God for their pets — animals, she said, that are gifts from God as well as bridges between human life and the rest of creation.

“People’s pets have a huge place in their hearts,” she said, “and I think they have been vehicles for God’s presence in their lives.”

Pryne said those who participate in the service don’t necessarily believe their pets

will be protected through the blessing. They simply appreciate the chance to acknowledge the spiritual nature of their animals and their unconditional love, which she called an example of God’s unconditional love.

“That’s a powerful thing to acknowl-edge,” Pryne said.

Though the only non-canine pets at this year’s event were two pairs of rats brought by children, members of the church remem-ber years past when cats, rabbits, goats, chickens and horses have participated.

Pryne said she once blessed an exotic bird, as well as a goldfish a young child brought in a plastic bag. Having a service centered on pets, she said, always makes for somber and emotional moments as well as comical ones.

“It has kind of a fun feel to it. … It’s some-thing I always look forward to,” she said.

Joanna Gardiner, a stanch animal lover who runs an animal care business on Vashon, helped at the blessing while dressed as St. Francis, whom she calls her silent partner.

“I think this is an affirmation on the part of the church community that we value the animals,” she said. “That they’re sacred and that any being capable of such love has to have something to do with God. It’s like a celebration.”

Gardiner said she believes animals are in greater harmony with God than humans

are, and it’s fitting to recognize their spiri-tual nature in a blessing.

“I think it’s a wonderful experience for them, and it’s a wonderful experience for us,” she said.

As the service continued, whimpers and yips were often heard in the crowd. Pryne’s own dog, an adopted Corgi mix that her hus-band held on to, groaned as if he longed to be up front with Pryne as she shared a blessing with each family that presented its pet.

Kimberly Benner brought her border col-lie Ringo to be prayed over.

“He’s a constant source of joy,” Benner said, grinning. “He reminds us all of how we should behave.”

“I love this dog with every breath in me,” said Karen Gardner, who brought her small, curly-haired Bedlington terrier.

In the most tearful moment of the morn-ing, Pryne entered the crowd to crouch beside Jasmine, a 12-year-old dalmatian who laid on a blanket at the feet of sisters Sharon and Jennifer Poole.

“She’s been having a lot of health problems. … We’re going to miss her so much,” Sharon Poole said, tears running down her face.

All three women reached down and laid hands on the dog.

“We ask that you grant guidance in these days for how best to love her,” Pryne prayed.

During a short greeting time, the women received hugs and warm words from several who were there, including another woman who had brought a sick dog.

As the service drew to a close, Pryne led the crowd through a few last songs and readings, all with a focus on God’s creation. During the final verses of the closing hymn, called “Song at the Center,” the congrega-tion sang, “Let the creatures of creation echo back creation’s prayer.” And almost on cue, Pryne’s dog Max began to pull at his leash and howl.

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By KEVIN ROSSFor The Beachcomber

Last Saturday the Vashon High School cross country team held its eighth annu-al ferry dock to ferry dock run.

A shuttle bus was provided so that the participants could either run the full 13.5-mile distance from the Tahlequah dock to the north end dock, or just run various portions along the route.

Two dozen runners who participated in this year’s event, and seven com-pleted the entire course. Participants included high school and middle school team members, parents and commu-nity members.

Bruce Cyra, a local well-known dis-tance runner, ran the length of the Island in 1:31, the fastest time. Others who completed the 13.5-mile distance were Magnus Wallgren, a Swedish exchange student who came in second at 1:47, Shelly Affolter, Kevin Kim-Murphy, Claudine Kim Murphy, Kate VanHoudt and cross-country coach Laura Johnson.

Anyone who was in the ferry line to catch the 10:20 a.m. or 10:40 a.m. ferry at the north end had the opportunity to watch the runners as they completed the race. Those who were early for the 8:50 a.m. boat at Tahlequah were treat-ed to watching the start of the event. On Thursday the Pirates will head to

Point Defiance Park for a cross country meet with Seattle Christian and the host school Life Christian.

— Kevin Ross is a cross country coach at Vashon High School.

Dock to Dock: Island athletes attempt to run length of Vashon

Swedish exchange student Magnus Wallgren was the only student to com-plete the 13.5-mile run and came in sec-ond behind Bruce Cyra. At top, runners start out at the Tahlequah Dock.

By MARIANNE METZ LIPEFor The Beachcomber

Competing against 15 regional rowing teams, the Vashon Island Rowing Club entered its first fall regatta at the Tail of the Lake head race at Lake Union on Sunday. Both mas-ter and junior rowers competed in a total of 19 races, bringing home five first-place metals, as well as three second-place and three third-place awards.

The men’s junior quad, with Alec Spencer, Yusuf Griffin, Isaiah Mosser-Rohe, and Tate Gill, crossed the finish first in 14:49. Following them, the women’s junior quad with Kelsey Abella, Charlotte Kehoe,

Hannah Russell and Ella McConnell placed first with a time of 16:26.

Another women’s junior quad boat also placed first, crossing the finish in 15:39.

The boat was rowed by Avalon Keonig,

Novice rowers Nathaniel Petram, Charles Elliot, Eli Sedgemore and Patrick Hanson pose with coxswain Rayna Shinn (far left) after their first-place win.

Girls soccer team takes first league lossBy BILL GRIFFITHFor The Beachcomber

A collective sigh of relief swept through the stands at the sound of Cat Amick’s hard-driven shot off the upright at last week’s Vashon girls soccer match against Orting.

Amick had just received a long pass from Lena DeGuzman at midfield, then followed with two sweet touches to fake out a single defender just inside the pen-alty area, catching the goalie in a move to defend at the

near post. Her ball zinged by the goalie to deflect off the far post and into the net.

Until then, 11 Vashon shot attempts had been defended or missed after an early lead was established by Orting. The score was a free kick from about 30 yards that dropped in the goal just over goalie Courtney Gateman’s outstretched arms. The shot could not have been higher and still make it in under the crossbar.

While Vashon clearly domi-nated in field play and ball control at midfield, Orting

went on to score once more, after 12 more shots on goal by five different Vashon play-ers, each failing to find the back of the net. The final tally showed Vashon with 23 shot attempts to Orting’s six. But shot attempts don’t win games. The score final score was 2-1 in Vashon’s first defeat in league play.

The Pirate’s last home game is 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, against Cascade Christian.

— Bill Griffith is the father of a Vashon soccer player.

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The novice junior row-ers had a strong showing with two first-place wins. The men’s novice quad, with Charles Elliot, Patrick Hanson, Nathaniel Petram and Elijah Sedgemore, completed the 4,000-meter race in 17:08. They popped an oar out of the lock two times and came to a com-plete stop while refitting the oar and still came in first.

The women’s novice quad, overcoming the obstacle of a broken rudder wire, came across the finish first in 17:27. The boat was rowed by Kirsten Girard, Teagan Lynch, Maya Krah and Brynn Gilbert.

Second-place finishers were Ryan Bingham and Baxter Call, who raced a double.

The magic contin-ued when those two were joined by Ky Burton and Gus Magnuson to row in the men’s junior quad, and their boat also took second place.

Novices Elliot Carelton, William McDonald, Preston Scheer and Charlie

Penwick came in second in the men’s novice quad, with VIJC taking first and second in that race.

The men’s masters eight, the women’s novice four and the women’s junior double all came in third place in their races.

In the men’s masters eight were Gary Schoch, John Jannetty, Bob Horsely, Ed Zapel, Mark McKallor, Chad Magnuson, Bruce Morser and coxswain Rayna Shinn

In the women’s novice four were Kai Li Scheer, Emma Dubois, Maiselle Kearney and Mary Lawrence.

In the women’s junior double were Amelia Ada and Shannon Lipe.

The rowing club had 19 new junior rowers join this fall, the most new mem-bers it has ever seen in a season.

The club’s next event is this at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Jensen Point Park in Burton, when the mas-ters and juniors will have a friendly competition for the One Guinea Pig Cup. The juniors will be com-peting to get the cup back from the masters after last year’s race.

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CONTINUED FROM 19Vashon football defeated by Orting in a routBy BRIAN BRENNOFor The Beachcomber

A seasoned Orting football team took it to the young Pirate team on Friday, beating them 56-0.

Vashon got the ball to start the game, that possession ending in a punt. Orting started out with a five-play touchdown drive and never looked back.

After a blocked punt and several turnovers led to Orting touchdowns, Orting was significantly ahead at half-time, 42-0.

On the first play from scrimmage in the third quarter, Orting took it to the house again. Later in the quarter, the Pirates had one long, sustained drive ending with an interception at the one-yard line.

Orting had one more score in the fourth quarter, leading to a win for the Cardinals, 56-0.

To add insult to injury, the team bus broke down while on the way to Point Defiance to catch the last ferry of the night. Luckily the cheerleaders had taken a small bus to the game

and were at the ferry dock waiting to load. Rides were arranged for the cheerleaders, and the small bus, along with some parents in their cars, went back to pick up the stranded team and then drove to Fauntleroy to catch a late boat.

The Pirates’ next game is the Homecoming game against Chimacum this Friday at 7 p.m.

— Brian Brenno is the president of the Vashon Bounty Club.

Three Vashon Rock Riders joined 123 other 4-H members from across Washington to compete at the Western Washington State Fair in Puyallup on Sept. 15.

4-H seniors Taylor Shride and Anna Wilson and inter-mediate Anaca Murphy earned the right to repre-sent King County at this annual competition with their performances at the King County Fair.

Shride and her horse Bandit, in their third con-secutive state-qualifying year, impressed the judg-es enough to place fourth

overall in showmanship.Wilson and her horse

Nikki received third place and a bronze medal in hunt seat equitation and captured the state championship and gold medal in jumping in their second year as state qualifiers.

While she didn’t place in the top five in her events, Murphy, a first-time quali-fier performed well with her horse Doc and received many positive comments from the judges. In addition, all three received perfect scores in herdsmanship.

— Bunny Hatcher

Rock Riders represent county, take home ribbons at Puyallup Fair


TIME&AGAINVashon-Maury CONTRIBUTE PHOTOS: The Vashon-Maur y Island Her itage Association is always

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By BRUCE HAULMAN AND TERRY DONNELLYFor The Beachcomber

The first dock at the north end of Vashon, like most of the docks on Vashon, was built for Mosquito Fleet steamers, and only later would it be developed for automobile traffic. The Mosquito Fleet is the name given to the steamers that moved people and goods across Puget Sound from the early 1890s into the 1920s and were so numerous that they often seemed like a swarm of mosquitoes descending on Seattle and Tacoma.

These Mosquito Fleet steamers were powered by steam engines that largely burned wood to heat the boilers that drove the engines. A 1901 photo of the north-end dock shows the typical stacks of cordwood that graced every dock in the region. The Flyer, one of the fastest steamers in the fleet, typically burned about one cord of wood for every 10 miles she traveled. Making four 64-mile round-trip journeys between Seattle and Tacoma each day, the Flyer would typically burn about 25 cords of wood each day. At this rate, in a year, Flyer would burn about 5,500 cords a year. No wonder the hillside behind the dock had few trees standing.

The introduction of gasoline and diesel powered engines in the 1910s and 1920s replaced the need for firewood, but by then, much of Vashon and the Puget Sound region had been heavily logged to supply the Mosquito Fleet, the building needs of a rapidly expanding population and the demand for dimensional lumber through-out the West.

The road up the hillside in the 1901 pho-tograph, which was the main access to the dock at that time, is not Vashon Highway, but 103rd Avenue, the road that now leads to the parking lot. The original dock was slightly to the east of the current dock, an extension of what is now the La Playa res-taurant parking area.

The main Vashon Highway that car-ries most of the traffic today was not built until later in the 1920s, after King County rebuilt the dock slightly to the west

and initiated automobile ferry service to downtown Seattle from the new dock in 1919. Once this ferry service was started, it quickly eclipsed Vashon’s first automobile ferry— which ran from Portage to Des Moines. That route was closed in 1921, since it was more convenient to go directly to downtown Seattle from the north end than to go to Des Moines from Portage and then drive the new brick Seattle-Des Moines highway to downtown.

The 2009 photo shows the same view, but with a lot more trees, the road paved and the expanded automobile dock to the right. The beach has been armored and filled to make possible the houses and res-taurant that now occupy this area.

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By VERNA EVERITTFor The Beachcomber

Former Sgt. Christopher Gaynor spent the last 40 years trying to forget the trauma of the Vietnam War. A Vashon resident, he focused instead on his career as a bank asset administra-tor and then on managing the Parkinson’s Disease he developed as a result of his exposure to Agent Orange in Southeast Asia.

That is, until three years ago, when he met 17-year-old Boy Scout Tanner Means.

Tanner, then a junior at Vashon High School, heard that Gaynor had an extraordinary collection of photographs from his tour of Vietnam and approached him with a simple request: “Can I scan your pictures for my Eagle Scout project?”

For four decades Chris Gaynor had carried the photographic record of his combat experi-ence inside a small, nondescript box. With every move he made, so came the box, the lid tightly sealed — sealed because he lacked the will to confront what lay inside. And then there was the young Scout’s request.

From January of 1967 through February of 1968, Chris Gaynor documented his tour of duty in Vietnam through the lens of his

Asahi Pentax camera. His collec-tion of more than 350 remarkable pictures captured the faces of South Vietnamese children, par-ents and grandparents, their vil-lages and their homes. There were also countless pictures of his good friends and fellow soldiers that showed the hardship of separation and the hell of war. Yet the photos also portrayed the brightness of their youth, hope in a future and the bonds of brotherly love.

It was that fresh recollection of his Army buddies that prompted Gaynor to grant Tanner’s request.

Savvy with modern technol-ogy, Tanner began to scan the old images, struck, as he did so, by the faces in the photographs: These were guys his own age, and the dramatic contrast between his life and the lives of these sol-diers was immediately apparent. Photograph after photograph showed young men standing next to barbed wired and sandbag barricades, jumping out of heli-copters, lying in evac hospitals, braving the jungles and the heat and facing their own mortal-ity. Time telescoped. Suddenly Tanner could read in the faces of the soldiers the reality of those days 40 years ago. What was just a vague idea from history books and television shows now lived and breathed as Tanner pored over the pictures.

“It was like standing in a muse-um, but this museum talked back to me,” he said.

Time passed, and then one day, a year after Tanner started

his project, Chris Gaynor got a phone call from the young Scout. Tanner had completed his Eagle Scout project and wanted to show it to him. When the doorbell rang, a few days later, Gaynor was full of trepidation yet also opti-mistic that somehow something good would come of this, that this was all for a purpose.

He braced himself; it was too late to turn back now. And for the first time in more than 40 years, Gaynor laid eyes on those photos that had been sealed and forgotten in a box. What emerged from the freshly minted data disk on Tanner’s laptop was a strik-ing visual tale. George and Perry, Freddie and Mikie — his closest pals in Vietnam — were suddenly there again, unchanged, in his liv-ing room on Vashon.

Chris Gaynor sat on his couch next to the future Eagle Scout, overcome with emotion. He broke down. Tanner, too, understood the significance of what he had brought into Gaynor’s living room and back into Gaynor’s life.

With his newly scanned photos out of the box and into the light, Gaynor’s purpose began to take shape. One morning earlier this year, as he stood in the middle of Ober Park, Gaynor read the names of Vashon’s 12 young men killed during the Vietnam War. Those names, engraved on two obelisks, were so much more tan-gible to him now: Frank Selden, Danny Barnes … Gaynor wanted to commemorate their lives … David Davies, William De Vore,

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And so, just as Tanner Means had approached Chris Gaynor a few years before, Gaynor approached Bruce Haulman, an historian and board member at the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum. Haulman was moved by

what he saw. And together they decided to create “Home of Record: Vashon and the Vietnam War” — the story of the Vietnam experi-ence as told through Christopher Gaynor’s photographs.

One more precious piece was added to the exhibit, another trove that Gaynor carried inside that nondescript box: his letters home — letters read and reread, folded and unfolded, saved by a mother separated from her son so far away.

— Verna Everitt is a freelance writer. Christopher Gaynor and his

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“Home of Record” opens from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, at the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum. The exhibit includes Gaynor’s photo-graphic record of the war, as well as many other features. There will be a “wall of remembrance,” providing visitors an opportunity to pay respects to the 12 men from Vashon who died in the war; an area where some of the sights and sounds of the war will be broadcast; and an interactive map of Vietnam, where veterans can identify where they served and Vietnamese-Americans can identify their family’s place of origin.

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A trove of photos forms basis for a new and moving exhibit

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Chris Darrow passed away on July 20 in Massachusetts. He lived on the island from the 70’s on and most remember him as a carpenter and musician. He moved back east about 10 years ago to be close to his mom and siblings and worked in the Union. He was in a Quebecois band called “Le Coin Voillant” and played the piano and accordion for the French-Irish band. His mom says he started playing little tunes as just a little boy climbing up on the piano bench. He was a kind, happy man who has touched many lives. Chris was born to Joe Lee and Kitty Sue on July 4, 1953 in Los Angeles. He was a true Boy Scout and always packed “the 10 essentials”. He has many fond memories of hiking with his father throughout the Sierra Madres and other ranges. Chris always loved to play instruments too and was in many garage bands. His father passed away when Chris was just 13 and he then became more involved with music. Their mother moved them to Massachusetts then. He hitched out west when he was young and found work on the Island at Wax Orchards like many did back then. He had an old black cruiser with fins that he and his friends could ride all over the island for only 50 cents. He got jobs building and helped with the Thriftway center and others. He bought some land on Wax Orchards Rd. and built a house. Marshal Sohl said he found the water source with rods like a water witch. He washed dishes with Bob the Baker at Sound foods and they rode skateboards down Gold beach hill. He started building boats with friends and playing stand up base in jazz bands. He played at the Blue Heron then. He had curly brown hair and rosy cheeks. He had a twinkle in his eye and he walked a little crooked from carpentry. Remember Chris? Aside from building on Vashon, Chris was a peace activist in Seattle and Tacoma during the war in El Salvador. He believed in non-violence, liberation, revolution, poetry and the transformative power of the mind, and love. He played us music and for awhile we could float with him there, lifting us from time and space. He became to like Buddhism very much lately, spending most of his time at retreats learning about love, impermanence, and the “natural goodness” that can be found in all beings. Dad you left me many great tools for this life. Please wait for me and please keep playing music. We love you more than you ever could imagine. A nice potluck for Chris will be in November, and all are invited. Bring your instruments and stories please. You can contact Jolee Bell at [email protected]

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Chamber Orchestra and Pasadena Symphony, he found himself yearning for a rainy climate.

“I was burnt out by the sun,” said Davis. “I always craved moisture.”

The pair had explored the Pacific Northwest with their two young sons prior to their move here, but wound up on Vashon after Hammill, on a lark, decided one day to take a ferry ride from Seattle to Vashon.

Hammill, 49, laughs now as she recalls how little she knew about the Island at the time. “I thought Vashon was probably very industrial,” she said.

Hammill said she now enjoys her rural lifestyle on Vashon, although she still commutes to Los Angeles to perform as associate principal cellist with the Los Angeles Opera.

Davis, for his part, has found performance opportunities closer to home. For a time, he was guest principal cellist for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and he also can be spotted deep in concentration and expressively drawing his bow as he accompanies Vashon Opera performances.

But as Islanders, Hammill and Davis have also found a brand-new creative outlet in presenting their annual cham-ber music series with Vashon Allied Arts.

“In Los Angeles, we couldn’t have done something like this,” Hammill said. “There isn’t a feeling there of a com-munity coming together.”

Hammill enthused about the receptivity of Islanders to the kind of music she and her husband have brought to Vashon.

“Audiences here are engaged and absorbed by the music, and we have presented some very challenging programs,” she said. “They are no less sophisticated than audiences in Los Angeles.”

Moreover, Hammill said, Vashon’s small venues are the ideal place to play chamber music.

“We love the intimacy of performing in the Methodist Church and the Blue Heron,” she said, noting that chamber

music was meant to be performed in small halls.Hammill and Davis first approached Vashon Allied Arts

three years ago, not long after their move to Vashon, to ask if they could launch a chamber music series here. Janice Randall, VAA’s director of performing arts, said yes, and the new series was born.

This first concert in this year’s series, starting Friday at the Methodist Church, will include Beethoven’s exquisite

“Archduke Trio” and Dvořák’s “Piano Quartet No. 2 in E Flat Minor.” Hammill and Davis will both play in the con-cert, joined by a small constellation of stars from the Seattle classical music scene — violinist Stephen Bryant, violist Sue Jane Bryant and pianist Allan Dameron.

The second and third concerts in the series, scheduled for Nov. 18 and 19, will feature an all-women ensemble playing works by Martinu, Mozart and Schumann.

The final concerts in the series, which will feature the music of Bach, Brahms and living composers from Estonia and Latvia — will take place in January and March.

For Islanders, it’s a chance to reap the rich fruit of Hammill’s and Davis’ lifelong pursuit of their craft.

Davis, from the vantage point of his retirement, remem-bers when he first fell in love with chamber music as a cello prodigy who played in an all-city youth orchestra in the 1940s and ’50s in Los Angeles.

“I was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley dur-ing a time that was a golden age of chamber music in Los Angeles,” he said. “Kids got high on chamber music — we even had chamber music parties where we were fed by the parents, and then there were trios in one room and a piano quartet in another room.”

Laughing, he marveled at how music had shaped his life and the lives of his young friends.

“We aspired to be juvenile delinquents, but chamber music kept getting in the way,” he said.

For Hammill, music has also been a vehicle that has taken her from her native home of Sydney, Australia, to teaching posts and jobs playing music all over the world.

“With chamber music, you can play it when you’re 12 or when you’re 82,” she said. “The joy of chamber music lasts your whole life.”

The Vashon Chamber Music Concert Series will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, at the Methodist Church. Future concerts in the series, held at the Blue Heron and the Methodist Church, will be held Nov. 18 and 19, Jan. 15, and March 30 and 31. Individual tickets as well as subscriptions to the series can be purchased by calling 463-5131. For more information, visit www.vashonalliedarts.com.

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Douglas Davis and Rowena Hammill enjoy producing cham-ber music on Vashon, where the audiences are particularly appreciative, they say.

“In addition to breaking into homes and using fear and surprise as a weapon to commit sexual attacks, Dublin has also used more subtle means — either alcohol or something more nefarious — to commit his assaults,” deputy prosecu-tor Sean O’Donnell wrote in the brief.

Dublin’s lawyer Anthony Grasher did not return phone calls. Dublin is in King County Jail awaiting sentencing and could not be reached for comment.

Activists say Dublin’s his-tory of assault is shocking, especially the brazen nature of his crimes — sneaking

into girls’ bedrooms in the cover of night while parents and siblings slept nearby. But such crimes can occur anywhere, some say, and his conviction highlights the importance of taking basic precautions, such as locking one’s door.

“I think sometimes we get complacent or overly assured that we’re extra safe here. And that’s not true,” said Ken Maaz, the execu-tive director of Vashon Youth & Family Services.

“I don’t want people on Vashon to be frightened and living in fear,” added Tavi Black, the director of Vashon’s new anti-domestic violence program, DoVE. “But it’s important to real-ize things like this can hap-pen here.”

Dublin’s crimes, however, were not only middle-of-the-night attacks in a victim’s home. He was also a known participant in Vashon’s youth-oriented party scene, often the one providing both the site for a party and the alcohol, according to the prosecutor’s detailed brief and the detective who investigated the assaults.

Community activists and parents have occasionally expressed concern about a handful of men who attend teen parties, plying girls with alcohol and making sexual advances. Dublin’s conviction provides a glimpse into that world, and advocates say his actions underscore the need to edu-cate young people about the dangers of such parties and the use of date-rape drugs as well as the need to have a broader conversation about sexual assault on the Island.

“We need to talk about what’s happening,” Black said.

Black plans to work with another agency to host some discussions and work-shops about date rape and domestic violence. Dublin’s crimes don’t fit neatly into that category, she noted, but there’s still much communi-ty members can learn from his case, the prevalence of sexual assault and the role a community can play in try-ing to prevent it.

“It’s really all about edu-cation,” she said. “Vashon’s so good about banding together and saying, ‘We won’t take this here.’ This is one of those issues that’s really, really important.”

Det. Michael Gordon, who investigated the Dublin case for the King County Sheriff ’s Office, said he was struck during the course of his investi-gation by the party scene and the role young men old enough to buy alcohol play on Vashon.

“This case definitely illuminated that,” he said. “There’s definitely a party

and drinking culture out there. No question about it.”

Both Gordon and the prosecutor’s brief paint a picture of a horrific series of rapes, attempted rapes and assaults, including a few instances where teen girls drank in his home, got sick and then woke up to find themselves in Dublin’s bed with him on top of them.

But Dublin’s “most egre-gious conduct,” the brief says, “was when he attacked without warning in the dead of night.”

The first incident occurred in 2003, when he snuck into a Maury Island home wear-ing what looked like a sur-gical mask and wielding a knife and raped an 18-year-old. “Don’t make a sound; your family is all tied up,” he told the young woman.

Gordon said he and oth-ers in his unit worked hard to solve the case and ulti-mately developed a profile on the perpetrator. But they found no suspects who fit that profile, and Gordon realized he likely couldn’t solve the case unless the perpetrator attacked again.

Dublin did so in 2006, when he entered a home on the Westside Highway and attempted to assault a 12-year-old. When he let go of her for a moment, the girl bolted — running out of the house and around to the front to her parents’ bedroom.

But according to the pros-ecutor, solid police work — including the use of track-ers at the Westside Highway site — helped investigators piece together more clues that were ultimately used to convict him. Those track-ers after the 2006 incident found a clear trail with foot-prints headed to the girl’s home, pausing at a tree he apparently climbed that gave him a vantage point into her room and continu-ing onto her house; the shoe size, they determined, was 10.5, Dublin’s shoe size.

In 2010, when Dublin raped again, this time attacking a Vashon High School student, the girl told officers about a “creepy” guy she had seen at a party that night, identifying him as Dublin. Thus began a long effort to piece togeth-er what Gordon called an air-tight case — something he did when he obtained Dublin’s DNA from a mari-juana pipe confiscated by Chelan County and found that it matched the DNA in both the 2010 and the 2003 rape.

“I’m glad we were able to prosecute this guy,” Gordon said. “It certainly provides closure for the victims and hopefully gives a feeling of security on Vashon, because these have been unsolved cases for a long time.”

SHERIFF’S REPORT

Sept. 22: The window of a van was broken, possibly by a BB, as its owner drove it on Cemetery Road.

Sept. 23: Items were sto-len from an unlocked stor-age container in a yard on the 12200 block of 164th Street.

A male student at Vashon High School was found to have alcohol in his back-pack while in class.

Sept. 24: A storage con-

tainer in a yard on the 12200 block of 164th Street was broken into a second time.

Sept. 25: An assault occurred on the 19000 block of 87th Place.

Sept. 26: An assault occurred in a parking lot at Vashon High School.

A ferry rider displayed disorderly conduct while on the boat.

A locked bicycle was sto-len from the bike rack at Vashon Place apartments on Bank Road.

Sept. 27: A threaten-ing letter was placed in a mailbox on the 17100 block of Vashon Highway. The recipient said he did not know the sender.

A man, using his com-puter and Facebook, threat-

ened to kill his mother.Sept. 28: Several build-

ings were vandalized over-night. Rocks were used to break windows at he Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 204th Street, Chase Bank on 178th Street and the post office on Vashon Highway in Burton.

Sept. 29: A boat was discovered on the shore at Manzanita Beach. The 10-foot fiberglass sailboat appeared to have broken loose from its mooring.

Vandalism on the 25900 block of Wax Orchard Road caused a phone outage on the south end of Vashon.

Sept. 30: Vandalism occurred at the Bank of America on the 9700 block of Bank Road.


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Close to town AND Seattle ferriesLovely 2.52 acres with big trees & prettytrails. Adjoins a classic vintage home -

buy both & create the Island getaway ofyour dreams! #274531 $190,000

NEWPRICE!NEW

PRICE!

NEWPRICE!NEW

PRICE!

3 bdrm 2 bath 50’ WFViews to forever! Standout renovationswith high-end finishes and a huge viewdeck grace this captivating retreat set ina fairyland of sun-dappled woods & lawn.Sandy beach! MLS #240577 $399,000

920 SF 1 bath 100’ WFPopular Burton location! South-facingno-bank wft - this home is right on the

beach. New windows, Hardi-planksiding, exterior paint, appliances &

shed. MLS #95327 $269,000

3 bdrm 1 bath .32 ACNorthend! Stylish and eco-friendly

remodel, bamboo floors, locally-craftedtile, Vermont Castings stove, systemsupgrades to heat, plumbing, roof, and

more. MLS #208897 $249,000

4 bdrm 2.5 bath 100’ WFLow-bank, Westside waterfront with

bulkhead & boat davit plus 1.56 acres!Spacious home has hardwood, granite& slate, ample decks, garage/shop &

studio. MLS #223742 $850,000

2 bdrm 1.5 bath CondoClose to the hub - everything in

Vashon town is at your fingertips!Gas fireplace, laundry, private deck,

green belt and covered parking.MLS #244381 $215,000

vashon-maury island beachcomber, october 05, 2011

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