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A powerful windstorm blew into the region Saturday, downing trees throughout the island and knocking out power to thou-sands on Vashon and Maury.
About 1,000 Vashon customers lost power overnight on Saturday, according to Akiko Oda, a spokeswoman for Puget Sound Energy (PSE). About 800 were still without power at noon on Sunday. Then an addi-tional 2,000 lost power on Sunday evening due to falling tree limbs, but PSE had that outage restored in about an hour, Oda said.
As of Monday morning, PSE was still work-ing to restore power to four homes on Vashon and expected to finish those repairs by noon.
High winds blew about 30 trees onto island roads, according to Jim Didricksen, a King County Roads supervisor based on Vashon. Vashon’s eight-person road crew worked all day Sunday to clear roadways, and was still working on Monday to open
up Cedarhurst Road and Dockton Road between 248th Street and 260th Street.
Many of the downed trees took out power lines, but none did significant damage, Didricksen said. He expected crews would have all roads open by Monday evening, but said it would take a couple weeks to clear debris.
“There’s still a considerable amount of mess to clear,” he said.
Saturday’s windstorm also blew over Voice of Vashon’s new FM antenna atop the Water District 19 tower. Rick Wallace of VoV said volunteers put the mast back up with a temporary fix on Sunday, and the antenna, which is at the top of the mast, was not damaged. The new FM station, KVSH, could have a weaker signal until the group finds a permanent fix for the mast.
“We’re still studying what actually went wrong. It’s not completely clear,” he said.
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After more than a year selling her line of clothes at the Old Fuller Store, Rebecca Wittman is moving her shop into the heart of town.
The President of Me will relocate next to The Hardware Store Restaurant in the former space of Vine to Vashon, which closed in September.
“I’m over the moon,” Wittman said last week, just one day after signing the lease.
Wittman is leaving her shop at Center, which she opened the summer before last. With 100-year-old floors and a wood stove in the foyer, the building has an old Vashon feel to it, she said, but in Center it draws few passersby.
“What I will give up in charm, I will make up for four-fold in foot traffic,” she added.
Now, Wittman is working on readying her new store in time to be open for Friday’s gallery cruise. Her clothes — mostly casual items — are in no way trendy, she stressed, and she finds fault with the fashion industry, when it gives the message that clothes should be worn for a few months then discarded. In fact, Wittman’s favorite piece of clothing from her line, she said, is a simple hooded sweatshirt that can be worn three seasons a year and is durable.
“I want people to wear these and feel like it’s their favor-ite sweatshirt and that they will wear it until it falls off their body,” she said. “That is the ethically right way to sell clothes.”
Her clothes — and the message she sews into most gar-ments — appear to be gaining increasing interest, as this summer’s sales were up 50 percent each month over last
year’s, she said, and the business is self-sustaining. But to grow — and pay herself — she needs more foot traffic, and she expects that being in the heart of town will more than double her sales.
More than years ago, Wittman said, she told Melinda Sontgerath, who owns the space next to The Hardware Store, that if the space were ever available, she would like to rent it.
Just two weeks ago, Sontgerath contacted her, Wittman said, and asked her if she was still interested. Now, in addi-tion to getting enough inventory ready for the holidays, she is also moving.
“It’s a little like building a house while you’re pregnant,” she joked.
For her part, Sontgerath said she closed Vine to Vashon in mid-September because, like many businesses on the island, the wine shop did well in the summer but was not sustainable the rest of the year.
“We loved the concept and had a lot of enthusiastic sup-port, but alas, it was not enough to keep our doors open year round,” she said.
At the same time, she added, she is excited about Wittman moving into the space.
“I truly admire her talent and intentions with her com-pany,” she said. “I have a soft spot for businesses that have a meaningful context around their products and services, so she was a perfect fit.”
— Susan Riemer
President of Me moves to downtown VashonJoe Wubbold — known to many islanders as Captain Joe
— will be feted and roasted this Saturday for his 80th birth-day celebration, also a community fundraiser.
“He gives and gives and gives,” said Truman O’Brien, one of the event organizers. “Now is a chance for us to give back.”
The event will feature a roast — where Wubbold said he may also roast in return — refreshments for purchase and music by Geordie’s Byre, Wubbold’s favorite island band.
Wubbold agreed to the festivities once the idea of a fund-raiser was introduced, he said, and with the condition he could pick the causes. Proceeds from the night will go to organizations he is closely involved with: the Keepers of Point Robinson, the Vashon Community Care Foundation, Sunrise Ridge and the Vashon Park District for its scholarship fund.
Wubbold, who ranks moving to Vashon as one of the four seminal events of his life, recently reflected on turning 80 and counted among his blessings a loving family, a good working life, good people with whom he went to sea and reasonably good health.
“I feel that my life has been all too short,” he added. He expects the party to be a good time, he said, noting that
all the ribbing will be done with love. “I think we are going to have a lot of fun with it, and I hope
a lot of people come,”he said.The event will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Open
Space for Arts & Community. A $15 donation is suggested.
Birthday bash to raise funds for nonprofits
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Did you know?Halloween is even scarier for your teeth! Every year over 20 million pounds of
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Katie Konrad joins women’s health centerKatie Konrad, a nurse practitioner with a long history
on the island, has joined the staff of the Vashon Women’s Health Center.
Konrad, an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, (ARNP) who has a background in women’s health, worked for 17 years at the clinic that is now Fulton Family Medicine before taking a leave from the clinic last summer.
Konrad enjoyed her position at Fulton, she said, but in recent years paperwork and insurance requirements have mounted, and she was still required to be on call regularly.
“I was kind of burnt out and needed a break and needed a change of venue,” she said.
During the summer, Konrad worked some at the Vashon Women’s Health Center, filling in for owner Kimberly Scheer, ARNP. She decided to begin practicing there on a permanent basis at the beginning of November, but start-ing at just one day a week.
Konrad said she will miss her patients at Fulton Family Medicine, but expects some female patients will follow her to the women’s health center. She she is also looking for-ward to working with new women and teens at the clinic, which she called “homey and calm.”
“I think I’m still wanting to slow down and replenish, and that’s a place I can do it,” she said. “I’m going to start off one day a week and take it from there.”
—Natalie Martin
New minister leads Unitarian fellowshipFollowing the departure of Rev. Carmen McDowell, the
Vashon Island Unitarian Fellowship (VIUF) has welcomed a new minister, Rev. Heather Christensen.
Christensen, who along with her partner and daughter recently moved to Vashon from Alaska, will be the fellow-ship’s first minister to live on the island.
“It’s such a beautiful place to live,” she said. “And the
people here are so friendly. … The first time we went to Thriftway, we felt like we’d stepped back in time.”
VIUF, which meets Sundays in the fellowship hall of the Burton Community Church, will be the first Unitarian fellowship that Christensen has served. Having worked in Ohio and Michigan as a Presbyterian minister and hospital chaplain, Christensen moved to Alaska in 2005 with her partner, Liesl Fitzenrider, where Fitzenrider trained as an airplane mechanic.
During their time there, Christensen successfully com-pleted the requirements for ministerial fellowship with the Unitarian Universalist Association.
While on a recent family trip involving a ferry from Alaska to Bellingham, a trailer and a lot of driving through the Pacific Northwest, Christensen learned of the open position on Vashon.
“We were looking for something new, so we decided to make the move,” she said.
The couple and their 15-month old daughter moved to Vashon this month. Christensen also writes a regu-lar column and curates blog content for the Unitarian Universalist web magazine Liberal Religion and Life at uuworld.org.
— Sarah Low
Farmers Market moves indoors for the holiday season
With a new space and an earlier move indoors, the Farmers Market is looking at past attendance patterns to improve its Holiday Market success this year.
This Saturday the market will move into to the old liquor store space next to Thriftway for the remainder of the season. The market announced the move indoors after making a lease agreement with Norm Matthews, who owns Thriftway as well as that space.
“There is always a ramp-up period,” said market man-ager Caleb Johns as he explained the nearly month-early move to the indoor Holiday Market. “It takes time for people to get used to the switch and in the past, by the time things were really getting going, it was done. There is a lot of value to having a more permanent presence at
the indoor site so that people have time to get used to it being there.”
Johns also noted that with the outdoor market’s atten-dance dropping as the fall weather sets in, it seemed like the right time to make the move.
The space will be a little smaller than last year’s Holiday Market venue at the IGA Market Plaza, and there will be no live music this year.
“Live music worked well when the Holiday Market was held at the high school, but it wasn’t great in last year’s space and wouldn’t work very well in the new space either,” Johns said. “We’re planning on setting up speakers for background music instead.”
The Holiday Market will include mostly craft vendors, a few farms and Patty’s Tamales. According to Johns, there are a number of new vendors coming aboard this year as well.
The indoor Holiday Market will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays, Nov. 1 through Dec. 13, with no market the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
— Sarah Low
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We at the Vashon Island School District are all deeply saddened by the recent news from Marysville of another senseless act of gun violence — this time a little closer to home. News of another school shooting is devastating for any parent, school faculty member, student, community member or superintendent.
At the school district, we will continue to work with first responders, conduct drills and coordinate emergency response plans, but in my opinion, those actions are tantamount to con-ducting emergency response from the bottom of the cliff and have had almost no effect on the pre-vention of such occurrences across our nation.
To address violence preven-tion, the schools must do two very important things. We must make a focused effort to connect with every student and family, especial-ly those under stress, and to refer them to quality mental health ser-vices. We must also invent school-based systems that support our most vulnerable students in their academic and social success, and also inspire an inclusive school community with a positive and supportive climate for all.
To this end, the school dis-trict recently contracted with
Vashon Youth & Family Services (VYFS) for student and family inter-vention ser-vices to sup-port students with poor
attendance to get to school daily. We are also launching a two-year project to review and add mental health curriculum and suicide and violence prevention educa-tion. The project will also increase training surrounding student mental health issues and inter-vention and provide additional support and education for parents and families.
I also request support from community members. First, lock up your firearms and keep ammunition and keys well hid-den and separate from guns. Minors should only have access to firearms under adult supervi-sion. No matter where you stand on gun control, clearly adoles-cent impulse and availability of firearms is a huge contributor to these incidents. Prevention must
start in our island homes. We can all agree it makes sense to lock firearms up and to supervise any use by a minor. Further, parents should routinely ask other parents if their firearms are locked up before allowing children to visit another home.
Furthermore, our community is at huge risk without adequate counseling and intervention ser-vices for students and families in need. Seriously, this is a very scary situation that needs immediate attention — we must have quality mental health services available for our families. My second and urgent request is that you make a monthly pledge to support VYFS. Recent losses of grant funding there have severely limited VYFS’s services to the families in greatest need in our community. My wife and I make a monthly contribu-tion because we know that VYFS is the community’s safety net and our best hope for a healthy and safe community.
I ask two things: Lock up your firearms. Make a monthly dona-tion to VYFS. These two huge steps will go a long way to prevent violence in our community.
— Michael Soltman is the superintendent of the Vashon Island
School District.
EDITORIAL
Hunting is one of those topics that incites a range of opinions on Vashon. Some don’t mind hearing bullets split the air outside their homes, while others understandably would like to see hunting limited to more remote places.
On Vashon, as in many rural communities, such clashes in ideals can be tricky to navigate, especially when fire-arms are involved. But hunters should have a place on the island, and keeping Island Center Forest open for hunting could actually minimize issues surrounding hunting on Vashon.
Many who hunt deer on Vashon have agreements with property owners to use their land. When islanders hear shots that seem close to home, it could be because those hunters are in the area with permission, and are hopefully using caution, or because people hunting illegally have wandered near. According to many local hunters, people who aren’t sure where to hunt on the island sometimes end up where they shouldn’t be. There’s no excuse for this, but by opening Island Center Forest to only hunters for the modern firearm season in October, locals and off-islanders alike have at least one place on Vashon to hunt legally. The time and place when this hunting happens is well publi-cized, so there are no surprises, and others can stay clear.
When King County began its Island Center Forest hunt-ing season as a pilot program, it wanted to see if hunters would even use it, as few came into the forest when it was also open for other uses. So far, hunters have in fact been there. In past years up to 60 hunters have reportedly taken to the forest during the hunt, and during the first half of this year’s season, more than 40 hunters had already gone in. The number of deer killed there has decreased, from eight deer reportedly harvested in 2012 to two last year. But many believe that the recent tree thinning will cause deer to come to the forest in larger numbers than before and will be watching to see if the change makes for better hunting. Those who normally use the forest to walk, bike or ride horses can still do so at the 120-acre Natural Area and Gateway properties, which remain closed to hunting.
Island Center Forest, which used to be owned by the state, is now the only county land where hunting is permit-ted. Is it worth it? King County should keep an eye on the numbers as the pilot continues. But aside from statistics, hunting at Island Center Forest allows for a decades-long activity to continue on Vashon in a controlled manner. Hunters who are unfamiliar with the island could likely end up there, rather than knocking on doors or trying to spot deer from the roads. And maintaining hunting opportunities on the island will help control our problem-atic deer population.
Night safetyWe need to work together for safety
As an island native, I am very encouraged by Wendy Wharton’s efforts to make sure kids and teens on Vashon are safe during the dark winter months (“Islander seeks funds to light up kids and teens on the island’s dark roads,” Oct. 15). It is unique to find such a commu-nity where individuals truly care about one other, especially between generations. With winter rolling in quickly, this issue is important for everyone on Vashon.
On top of Wharton’s inspiring efforts, it is also important for island drivers to be more con-science of people walking on the side of the road, especially during the winter months. Everyone can do his or her part, whether it is wearing reflective clothing or a light while walking in the dark, or slowing down while passing pedestrians.
I applaud Wharton and her evi-dent passion for the people on this island. I hope that we as a com-munity can work together to keep Vashon roads as safe as possible during the dark seasons.
— Christina Gleb
ElectionVote no on I-1351
I never thought I would vote against a school issue, but I will vote no on Initiative I-1351.
My reading of the State of Washington Voter’s Pamphlet gives me great pause.
The brief description states: “This measure would direct the legislature to allocate funds to reduce class sizes and increase staffing support for students in all K-12 grades, with additional class-size reductions and staffing
Hunting at public forest is a good alternative
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increases in high-poverty schools.”
This is misleading at best. It sounds as if the primary purpose of I-1351 is to reduce class sizes. I support that goal, but (unless I am misread-ing the State of Washington Voter’s Pamphlet, Table 2.2 New Staff and Related Costs for Implementing I-1351 on Sept. 1, 2018, on page 14) the primary purpose is not class size reduction. It is increasing the number of non-teaching staff in the school system.
Table 2.2 indicates that increases in full-time equiva-lent state-funded positions for school year 2018-19 amount to 7,453 additional teachers to meet class-size changes, 17,081 additional school-based staff and 1,027 additional district/central staff.
Do we really want to ask the Legislature to find funds to pay for a total of 18,108 non-teachers to support 7,453 class-room teachers? That is a ratio of 2.4 non-teachers for each added classroom teacher.
The Legislature will have problems enough trying to meet the requirements of the Washington State Supreme Court’s McCleary decision without having to also meet the requirements of I-1351.
I say vote no, and let the Legislature do its job.
— Melvin Mackey
At parent-teacher conferences last week, both of our twins’ teachers mentioned that there are a lot of new families on Vashon this year. In each class, they’ve got four or five new kids. Parents looking for a safe place to raise their children might be drawn to Vashon for the same reasons we’re here — good schools, strong community. And it helps if you like to ride boats.
Parents of small children new to Vashon may be wondering where everyone goes to trick-or-treat. Distances between houses can be great; neighbors often live down dark and muddy driveways with no turnarounds, and there are few streetlights. And even if they might live near a dozen houses in a suitable trick-or-treat subdivision, half the houses might be giving out satchels of vegan-soy fig pellets with arcane hand-lettered labels, beads and feathers or mini ear-candles.
Welcome to Vashon! Every year, the Vashon Chamber of
Commerce organizes a trick-or-treat in town. The streets are closed to vehicle traffic; business owners decorate and dole out Halloween candy to several hundred costumed kids and their support staff from 5 to 7 p.m., or until everyone gets wet and cold and just wants to go home.
There’s mini-fun-sized Snickers, Krackels, sour worms, tiny Tootsie Rolls and Pops and the occasional full-sized candy bar (tip: Check out the grocery stores). The dentist’s office usu-ally gives out floss. One of the restaurants gives out apples. One year the kids came home with handfuls of Indonesian penny candy. They said it tasted like hair spray.
I often show up in my regular clothes, play-ing on my natural resemblance to a balding, middle-aged salaryman. But last Halloween my wife Maria found me a stretch-black ninja
suit with battery-powered glow-wire imbedded in the seams. When I tried it on in a dark room, I looked like a strobe-lit pedestrian fatality outlined in forensic chalk. Several people asked to have their pictures taken with me, until the batteries wore out.
Last year Maria posted photos of the kids’ costumes on Facebook. Our oldest daughter dressed as a sort of flamenco devil, with red horns, huge false eyelashes and kissy-red lip-stick. The effect was unsettling. She and her best friend coordinated their hussy flamenco devil outfits and politely cruised Halloween, carefully maintaining 20 yards distance between Maria and me, and 20 yards distance from a particular group of boys.
Maria went as a purple-wigged Wonder Woman in a gold half-mask and protruding super-cleavage. It made a pretty big impression on me; I’ve secretly hoped that she wears that same outfit again.
Our oldest boy got a chintzy glue-on skin-zipper kit from Goodwill that claimed to create the illusion that you could unzip the skin on your face to display the bloody flesh under-neath. It looked pretty good for about 10 min-utes, but it got wet and kept falling off.
Our youngest daughter mixed a couple of holidays together and went dressed as a candy cane with interesting hair, while her twin brother dressed as a dark overlord with lots of
iron crosses hanging around his neck and a black smock that he kept tripping on.
The costume ideas for this year are spinning out of control. Our oldest daughter plans to go as a piece of lined paper. Neither she nor I had a clear idea how this could be done, but I agreed that as a writer, nothing is scarier to me than a piece of blank paper. She gave me a funny look and went upstairs to tell her mom.
Our youngest girl apparently plans to be something she calls a polka-dot monster. Details are scant.
Our oldest boy plans to construct an elabo-rate deadmau5 (pronounced “dead mouse”) costume out of chicken-wire, computer speak-ers and papier-mâché, which might look very similar to an oversized Mousketeers hat.
Our youngest boy plans to go as Shaun Alexander. Conveniently, he has a kid-sized Shaun Alexander Seahawks jersey, number 37, that he has worn to school every day so far this year, which has given him a great head start on Halloween.
Our oldest boy announced at the supper table that this year his plans do not include trick-or-treating with either his parents or younger siblings. Instead, he will join his friends and together they’ll roam, free and awesome, a crew of middle-school comrades with husky voices and hairy legs.
His younger siblings immediately demanded to trick-or-treat in roving gangs, free and awe-some like their older brother.
It’s looking like Maria and I might trick-or-treat by ourselves this year. I’ll bet she gets more candy.
— Kevin Pottinger lives on Vashon with his wife Maria and four children.
Halloween on Vashon: Costumes are diverse as the treatsFAMILY LIFEBy KEVIN POTTINGER
Forty years ago, a decision by federal judge George Boldt interpreting Indian treaties from the 1850s sent shock waves through the fishing communities of Western Washington. The Boldt Decision addressed many legal questions about the fishing rights of local tribes, but at its heart was the ruling that tribes had a right to take up to half the salmon that passed through their traditional fishing grounds. In 1994, another federal judge extended that right to shellfish. These decisions and their impacts have been extensively and often bitterly debated over the intervening years.
I have represented the Nisqually Indian Tribe for more than 20 years and have been involved in many of the events that make up the legal history of the fishing rights case. Although I have considerable sympathy for the non-treaty fishers and shellfish farmers whose livelihoods have been impacted by these rulings, I firmly believe that Judge Boldt did the right thing in upholding the sacred word of the United States to protect the ancient fish-eries of our Native peoples. Often, criti-cism of Judge Boldt arises from a lack of
understanding of the principles that guided his decision.
In the early 1500s, a Spanish legal scholar pondered the legal sta-tus of the aboriginal peoples who occupied the lands being dis-covered by European
monarchies. This scholar developed the Doctrine of Discovery, which recognized the natives as nations and held that they possessed “aboriginal title” to the lands they occupied. In order for Europeans to claim those lands, aboriginal title had to be extinguished, which was accomplished by treaty or by war.
When the United States was formed, it continued the process of making trea-ties with Indian nations for the cession of lands. The lands of Western Washington were ceded to the U.S. in the 1850s, and
those treaties contained a clause that guar-anteed the right to fish “in common” with non-Indian settlers. This clause was first interpreted by the Supreme Court in 1905, when the court described the fishing right as “not much less necessary to the exis-tence of the Indians than the atmosphere they breathed.” In this decision involving fishing sites on the Columbia River, the court explained that the Indians’ fishing rights had not been given to them, but had been reserved by them and acted like an easement on the land.
The concept of reserved rights lies at the base of my view of treaty rights. Think of these treaties as land sale contracts, which in essence they were, having two legal par-ties and a sale price. But as in many land sale contracts, not all rights in the land are sold — some are reserved. The right to take fish at traditional places is like a reserved easement. It is a property right that is passed down through the tribes’ generations.
Judge Boldt recognized the nature of this right, which explains his approach, but many have questioned the 50-50 allocation. The treaty says “in common.” With two parties to the treaty, a 50-50 division is the most logical and fair. Other criticisms have held that the fishing right is race-based and violates constitutional equal protection. But the right is not a classic civil right, but a property right, and not all persons have equal amounts of property. The right is not secured to fish-ers because they are Native Americans, but because they are descendants of the people who lived in the area and signed the treaties. The only treaty fishers around Vashon Island are from the Puyallup Tribe, which is where the aboriginal occu-pants of Vashon moved. You won’t see any
Apaches or Mohawks out on the water.Since Judge Boldt’s decision, there have
been efforts to set aside the benefits to tribes, perhaps because the treaties are “old” or because “times have changed.” Congress has the power to nullify Indian treaties, but I don’t think that will happen because the American people don’t want to break any more treaty promises.
Today, fishing remains central to the culture and economies of Puget Sound Native people. Since 1974, treaty tribes have increased their management capabili-ties, working with state and federal regu-lators to monitor catch and protect the habitat necessary to ensure a sustainable supply of fish for treaty and non-treaty fishers. Tribal marketing and distribu-tion networks enhance economic benefits to the industry. Surplus hatchery fish are donated to food banks across the region. These are some of the ways treaty fishing enriches us all.
The film “As Long as the Rivers Run” tells the story of the events of the fishing rights struggle, including the fish-ins, arrests and determination better than I can, and I recommend it to anyone who lived through those events or who would like to learn more about them.
As to Judge Boldt, many have sought to explain his ruling, but he put it best when he said, “A deal is a deal.”
— Bill Tobin is an island attorney.
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Decades later, landmark fishing rights decision still makes senseLOCAL HISTORYBy BILL TOBIN
The Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association will show “As Long as the Rivers Run” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Land Trust Building. Several Puyallup tribe members will attend to discuss the film and answer questions.
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The fundamental story of Vashon during the 20th cen-tury is a shift from a collection of isolated water-based communities to a single island-based community.
This shift is seen particularly well in the way the island was organized at the beginning of the 20th century com-pared to the way it is organized at the end of the century.
There were 13 school districts in the first part of the 20th century and only one at the end. There were 33 ferry docks in the first part of the 20th century and only two at the end. There were two high schools in the first part of the 20th century and only one at the end. There were 13 different community shopping areas in the first part of the 20th cen-tury, and only three — Burton, Center and Vashon — at the end. And there were 16 post offices in the first part of the 20th century and only one at the end (Burton is a sub-station of the Vashon Post Office).
Post offices on the north end of the island were located at Vashon (1883–present), Aquarium (1892–1909) and Glen Acres (1914–1918). On the west side, there were post offices at Lisabeula (1892–1931), Cove (1904–1956), Colvos (1905–1910), Cedarhurst (1912–1919) and Luseata Beach (Camp Sealth, 1916–1950). In the center and south end of the island, there were post offices at Chautauqua (Ellisport, 1888–1943), Quartermaster/Burton (1890–1974 when it became a sub-station), Portage (1903–1968), Magnolia (1908–9153) and Spring Beach (1903–1943). And, on Maury Island, there were post offices at Maury (1888–1912), Dockton (1903–1979) and Reaco (Racoma Beach, 1907–1911).
The long, slow shift from many local post offices to one central post office and one sub-station began on June 15, 1905, when Fred Kingsbury became the first Rural Free Delivery (RFD) driver on the island. Mail was delivered to the area surrounding Portage until F.B. Sherman became the carrier and the route was expanded to include Paradise Valley.
The old photograph at right is of Fred Kingsbury in his Model T Ford taken in 1908. He has a U.S. Mail sign in the windshield, with a young boy peaking over the top, and a still familiar rural mailbox in the background.
The current photograph, taken in 2014, is mail carrier Dee Ann Williams in her right-hand drive Jeep mail truck. Many things postal have changed in the 100 years since Fred Kingsbury began delivering mail by automobile. Today all the mail on the island is delivered by auto except for those who have post office boxes at either Vashon or Burton. Although there were women post-mistresses — usually the wife of whoever owned the store in which the post office was located — there were no Vashon women mail carriers until the last quarter of the 20th century.
Today, six of the seven mail routes on Vashon are staffed by women carriers, three out of the four substitute carrier-ers are women, and the Vashon Postmaster is a woman. And, just recently, a Post Office-supplied truck replaced the delivery person’s own vehicle.
— Terry Donnelly is an island photographer, and Bruce Haulman is a local historian.
Island was once dotted with over a dozen post offices
Upper photo courtesy The Vashon Maury Island Heritage Association, lower photo by Terry Donnelly.
Above, Fred Kingsbury, the island’s first mail carrier, delivers mail in 1908, and below, Dee Ann Williams delivers the mail on Vashon this year.
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Island Center Forest Limited Deer Hunt: King County Parks has opened the 200 acres of Island Center Forest for a limited deer hunting season from Oct. 11 to 31. During this time, no other ac-cess will be permitted to the area. Note: The Gateway and Natural Area properties will be closed to hunting and will remain open for recreational use.
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Poetry Reading: Yakima poet Terry Martin will read from her third book, “The Light You Find.” The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Vashon Library and Vashon Poets Laureate. 6:30 p.m. at the Vashon Library.
Landslide Preparedness Meet-ing: Vashon Be Prepared will hold a special meeting on local landslide risk and preparing for landslides. Speakers will include King County geologist Greg Wessel, disaster prevention and recovery expert Shelby Edwards, Assistant Fire Chief George Brown and Oso resident Seri Ann Shaw. 7 p.m. at McMurray Middle School.
THURSDAY • 30
Alzheimer’s and Dementia Lec-ture: Jutta Ataie, PhD, will speak about dementia from two different perspectives: the medical model and those living with the illness. Strategies for supporting people in the early stages of dementia will be discussed. 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Vashon Library.
Lecture/Discussion Series: This 18-week series sponsored by the Burton Community Church focuses on the subjects of philosophy and religion. Each week’s lectures are designed to stand alone and will include two topics. This week’s lectures will address the questions: Why is cosmological argument said to fail and how does teleological argument work? The lectures are free, and all are welcome to attend. For more information, call Herb Reinelt at 408-7360. 4 to 6 p.m. in
Lewis Hall behind Burton Commu-nity Church.
Kids’ Spook House and Haunted Trail: The Vashon Eagles will host this free, all-ages event featuring a cast of characters and Halloween inspired crafts, treats and games. The haunted trail will feature a test of courage with prizes to be awarded to the brave. 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Vashon Eagles.
`Frankenstein’: This rebroadcast of the British National Theater performance will feature Johnny Lee Miller (“Trainspotting,” “Man-sfield Park”) as Dr. Frankenstein. A second showing on Nov. 9 will feature Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock Holmes,” “Star Trek — Into Darkness,” “12 Years a Slave”) in the lead role. The show is recom-mended for ages 15 and older. Tickets cost $20 for general admis-sion, $18 for seniors, students and children or $15 for advance group sales of 20 or more. Tickets can be purchased at the theater box office or at vashontheatre.com. 8 p.m. at the Vashon Theatre.
FRIDAY • 31
Senior Center Halloween Party: Come for live music, a costume contest and more at this annual celebration. To RSVP call 463-5173. 11:30 a.m. at the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road.
Vashon Children’s Center Fall Festival: This soon-to-open day care center, in conjunction with the Vashon Eagles, will host a pre-trick-or-treat party for Vashon families. The event will include a barbecue, live music, pumpkin carving contest, inflatable slide and activities, games and prizes for kids. A hayride to downtown for the trick-or-treating festivities will round out the afternoon. Families are welcome to tour the new center and meet its director, Sandy Gil-liam. 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the Vashon Children’s Center, 9822 Gorsuch Rd., in the VYFS PlaySpace building. (See story, page 1.)All Hallows’ Eve Tales: Merna Hecht will continue the tradition of spinning tales for trick-or-treaters. For more information, go to vashonbookshop.com. 7 p.m. at the Vashon Bookshop.
Club O: Come in costume to the island’s all-ages dance party, and the best one will win a prize. Dance the ghosts away under club lights with deejayed music. Cost is $5 at the door. Doors open at 8 p.m. at the Open Space for Arts & Com-munity.
John Carpenter’s ̀ Halloween’: The Vashon Theatre will offer an encore screening of the film that launched Jamie Lee Curtis to scream-queen stardom. 1978’s “Halloween” stars Curtis and Don-ald Pleasence and is rated R. Tickets cost $9 for general admission or $8
for seniors. 8 p.m. at the theater.
SATURDAY •1
National Novel Writing Month: The Vashon Writer’s Office will host an all-day writing marathon for islanders who plan to write a novel in November, which is national novel writing month. Swap strate-gies and participate in Q & A, timed writes and more. Participants are asked to bring their own food or a potluck dish. For more informa-tion, contact March Twisdale at [email protected]. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Spinnaker Building, 17710 100th Ave. SW.
FiberNet Meeting: The group will meet and guest presenter Rebecca Graves will demonstrate how to create needle-felted animals “in the round.” Materials will be avail-able for those who want to try it for themselves. Cost is $2. 10 a.m. to noon in the Voice of Vashon build-ing at Sunrise Ridge.
Captain Joe’s Birthday Bash: Captain Joe Wubbold will be 80 years old soon, and friends are hosting a community birthday bash and roast featuring live music by Geordie’s Byre, Cliff’s Beer and Karen Biondo’s pizza. All proceeds will benefit Captain Joe’s favorite charities: The Keepers of Point Robinson, Vashon Community Care Foundation, the Vashon Park Dis-trict scholarship fund and Sunrise Ridge. Tickets are available now by a suggested donation of $15 and are available at the Vashon Book-shop, Vashon Community Care or at vashoncommunitycare.org. 6 to 9 p.m. at the Open Space for Arts & Community.
Day of the Dead Halloween & Costume Dance Party: This adult celebration will feature live music, dancing, a costume contest, raffles and prizes. All profits from the event will benefit the Vashon High School drama department. 8 p.m. to midnight at the Vashon Eagles.
SUNDAY • 2
Unitarian Service: The VIUF will honor its deceased members and friends at this Rememberance Day service. 9:45 a.m. in Lewis Hall, behind Burton Community Church.
Sci-Fi Sunday: This month’s film in support of the Chicken Soup Bri-gade and the Lifelong AIDS Alliance is 1951’s “The Thing From Another World,” starring Margaret Sheri-dan, James Arness and Kenneth Tobey. Admission is by suggested donation of $5 to $10 or non-perishable food items. 1:30 p.m. at the Vashon Theatre.
UPCOMING
Welcome Dinner for Tanya and Mary Berry: Sustainable Vashon will host the wife and daughter of farmer and writer Wendell Berry for a dinner party to meet local growers and good food advocates. The event will also be a fundraiser for The Berry Center, which was formed to support the growing number of agrarian communi-ties across the country. For more information, call Merrilee Runyan at 463-6647. Cost is by a minimum $25 donation per person. 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at 16335 Crescent Dr. SW.
Tribal Fishing Rights Documen-tary: The Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association will show the documentary “As Long as the Rivers Run,” followed by a panel discussion with members of the Puyallup tribe. Some members on the panel were present at the fish-ing protests of the 1960s and ‘70s. The film will be shown in support of the Heritage Museum’s current exhibit on Vashon’s Native people. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at The Land Trust Building.
VIPP Fur Ball: Celebrating 30 years on the island, Vashon Island Pet Protectors will host its annual Fur Ball. Guests should wear their sparkly best as this year’s theme is “The Sparkliest Fur Ball Ever.” The event is VIPP’s biggest fundraiser of the year, with money raised cover-ing half of the organization’s yearly operating costs. There will be silent and live auctions and food provided
by Snapdragon and Herban Feast. Tickets cost $55 each or two for $100 until Nov. 4, then $60 or two for $110. Tickets can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com, Fair Isle Animal Clinic, Pandora’s Box, Island Lumber and the Vashon Bookshop. 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.
Cedar Song Nature School Fundraiser: The school will host a Fall Forest Festival to raise money for its scholarship fund. Caspar Babypants will be on hand for live music, and there will be face painting, snacks, art projects and a raffle. Tickets cost $8 (children under 1 are free) and can be pur-chased at cedarsongnatureschool.org, the Vashon Bookshop or at the door. 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Writing Workshop — Breaking the Timeline: Islander Ann Spiers will lead this workshop for teens and adults to explore beginnings, middles and endings in both prose and poetry. Through examples and prompts, participants will learn how to shake up time as a way to create and vivify their writing. 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, at the Vashon Library.
Teen Dating Abuse Prevention Workshops: The DoVE Project will offer free workshops for middle schoolers and high schoolers (separate groups), open to both girls and boys. For registration and location information, contact Betsey Archambault at [email protected]. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1.
Island Yoga Center Classes: Irene Tokar leads classes for extended practice as well as back care and pain relief. The extended practice class takes place on the fist Sunday of every month and offers time
to explore and move deeper into postures. The cost is $30. Back care and pain relief classes are offered weekly for a month and will teach yoga sequences designed to bring relief to common areas of pain and discomfort such as the lower back and neck. No experience required for this class. Cost is $56 for Tues-days or $42 for Thursdays (no class on Nov. 27) through November. For more information, go to islandyo-gacenter.com. To register, send a check payable to Island Yoga Center to PO Box 2062, Vashon, or drop it in the red mailbox by the front door of the yoga center. Extended prac-tice 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, and back care/pain relief 5 to 6:15 p.m. Tuesdays or 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Thursdays through November.
Medicare Open Enrollment Workshops: LeeAnn Brown will discuss United Health Care Medi-care Advantage choices and Pre-mera Blue Cross Medicare Advan-tage plans for those interested in making changes to their coverage during the open enrollment period, which began on Oct. 15. The work-shops are free, with two different dates still available to attend for the United Health Care information and three for Premera. Call Brown at 567-4600 for more information or to RSVP for a workshop. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, and 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, for United Health Care; 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, and 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, for Premera Blue Cross, all at the Vashon Eagles.
Cheesemaking, from Cow to Curd: Learn how to make but-ter, mozzarella, aged cheese and more. Kelsey and Ben Killian will lead the class at their family farm. Participants will enjoy a full brunch and be able to sample their day’s work. Cost is $150 per person and group discounts are available. Go to dairycouple.us for more informa-tion and to register. 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 or 22, at the Venison Valley Farm & Creamery.
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Celebrate Halloween in town on Friday. Businesses will be decorated, staff will be dressed up, and treats will be abundant, so bring the kids. A costume contest will be judged once again by the Vashon Island Fire & Rescue Explorers, who will be near the main intersection.Hot dogs, Polish sausages, chips and cold drinks will be available for purchase at the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road during the event.Festivities will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Expect road closures and detours around town during this time.
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Love is Strange: Ends Oct. 30.
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SCENE & HEARD: FARMERS MARKET’S FIRST EVER PIE EATING CONTESTThe Farmers Market put a new twist on its annual pumpkin pie contest at Ciderfest in early October. This year, the challenge was for contestants to eat half a pumpkin pie as fast as they could without using their hands. Seven people took the plunge, and David Earle of Vashon, pictured second from right, was the winner in a close contest. Earle finished his pie in just under 2 minutes, with the second place contestant finishing about 15 seconds behind. All of the pies for the contest were baked by last year’s second-place winner for best pumpkin pie, Ella Yarkin, and her friend Mari Carnagie. The pies were made from scratch using pumpkins from the Yarkin family farm. All contestants reportedly enjoyed the experience as well as the pies. Organizers hope to make the contest an annual event. Courtesy Photo
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ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury CUMBERBATCH AS FRANKENSTEIN: Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is well known for
his complex role as Sherlock in the PBS hit series “Sherlock Holmes.” The Vashon Theatre will present Cumberbatch starring in another intriguing role in the National Theatre Live’s rebroadcast of the play “Frankenstein” at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. Tickets are available at www.vashontheatre.com and at the door.
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Author reveals new series Let Seattle gardener and author Marty Wingate take you on a tour of England, Scotland and Ireland with tales of the gardens and gardeners who inspired her new Potting Shed mysteries at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at the Vashon Library.
“The Garden Plot” and “The Red Book of Primrose House,” the first two books in the series, introduce Pru Parke, an American gardener who moves to Eng-land and becomes involved not only in gardens, but also murder.
Wingate is the author of “Perennials for the Pacific Northwest” and “Landscaping for Privacy.” Wingate is a regular con-tributor to the free podcast “A Dry Rain” along with Steve Scher, Willi Galloway and Greg Rabourn.
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Library hosts free eventsIsland poet Ann Spiers will lead a prose and poetry writing workshop for teens and adults called “Breaking the Time-line” from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Vashon Library.
Yakima poet Terry Martin will read from her third poetry book, “The Light You Find,” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Vashon Library.
Strings are the thing at the Vashon Maury Chamber Orchestra’s (VMCO) fall concert, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Vashon High School theater.
Comprised of music written for string orchestra, the program — aptly titled “String” — will explore the vast range of repertoire and emotional depth of stringed instruments.
VMCO, led by concertmaster and music director Karin Choo, will play lesser known works by Mendelssohn and Casadesus along with popular pieces by Pachelbel and Sibelius.
Amy Windus, guest soloist, Vashon res-ident and principal cellist of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, will perform Henri Casadesus’ Cello Concerto in C minor, a work spuriously attributed to J.C. Bach.
In the second half of the program, VMCO will be joined by I Solisti di Vashon, the Vashon Youth String Orchestra, members of Rock Island String Kollective (RISK) and other island string players to perform Vaughan Williams’ Concerto Grosso and Holst’s finale, the Dargason, from St. Paul’s Suite.
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Songwriter and musician Bill Carter will return to the Red Bike for a show at 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
Known to rock with other supercharged names such as Keith Richards and Lyle Lovett, Carter is also pals with Vashon’s Ian Moore. When Carter played at the Bike last August, Moore dropped by for a surprise visit, according to music promoter and Vashon Events co-founder Pete Welch.
"Ian Moore stopped and played for a while. With a lot of music history between them, these two boys from Austin lit up the stage together."
Welch said fingers are crossed that Moore will again join Carter for an unplanned jam with his musical buddy.
“I can’t just say Ian will be there, but it’s always an open invitation between Bill and Ian,” Welch said.
Carter, who played in the band “P” along with Johnny Depp, has been a pillar of the Austin music scene, helping shape the city’s rich musical history along with his songwriting partner Ruth Ellsworth.
Over 200 artists have created hits based on the songwriting of this Texas troubadour, including Stevie Ray Vaughan, Counting Crows, Waylon Jennings and others. There is no cover for this show, which is open to all ages until 11 p.m., then only 21 and older.
While Halloween draws out the spooks and witch-es, the Vashon-born band Trolls Cottage brings out islanders who love to dance to the band’s blend of reg-gae, rock and world music.
Trolls Cottage invites islanders — in Halloween costume or not — to join them for a bewitching eve-ning of music and dancing beginning at 9 p.m. Friday at the Red Bike.
The band has more than 10 years experience playing genre-blending music with thoughtful lyrics packaged into an energetic performance.
According to Vashon Events co-founder Pete Welch, Trolls Cottage typically “packs the house like no other bands have ever been able to, thanks to the warm welcome by friends and family that come out to support the hometown boys.”
Welch recommends early arrival for this popular band. Tickets are $8 at the door. The show is open to all ages until 11 p.m., then only 21 and older.
Homegrown band plays onHalloween
Trolls Cottage will play a Halloween show.
Singer-songwriter will rock the Bike this weekend
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In the first of two island appearances coming up, Caspar Babypants — a Vashon family favorite — will perform at the Blue Heron as part of Vashon Allied Arts’ Family Series at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
“Rise and Shine,” Chris Ballew’s eighth CD release as Caspar Babypants, captures the musician’s exhuberant style in sym-phonic songs like “Good Morning Rise and Shine,” the elastic rubber band blues riffs of “Silly Bird” and the mandolin jangle of “Pretty Crabby,” along with reworked classics such as “Rock a Bye Baby,” “Hush Little Baby” and “The Littlest Worm.”
Ballew’s quirky songwriting from his days as frontman for the band The Presidents of the United States of America won the musical hearts of audiences in the 1990s before he turned his talents toward a younger generation.
In a press release Ballew writes, “My favorite part about per-forming is the freedom to make up the set list as I go and roll with the funny, weird, random things that kids can throw at me. They do the strangest things and being able to work their instant energy into the set is the most fun part of my shows.”
Tickets are $6 for youth, $8 for adults and are available at www.vashonalliedarts.org and VAA.
Babypants will return to Vashon for a second performance on Saturday, Nov. 15, in support of Cedarsong Nature School’s Fall Fest fundraiser for scholarships. For more information, visit www.cedarsongnatureschool.org/events. He will play that morning at 11:30 a.m. at the Open Space for Arts & Community.Chris Ballew as Caspar Babypants.
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winter performances and in time for White — a longtime Vashon Island Chorale member — to be present for the chorale’s holiday concert.
“That’s why we’ve got to get started in November,” Reed said. “We really want to hold the chorale concert and other events like the Nutcracker there.”
Earlier in Saturday’s soggy groundbreaking ceremony, White — whose $10.5 million pledge will be used largely as an operating fund — was honored along with the other private donors, grantors and lawmakers who have helped put VAA within about $1 million of completing fundrais-ing for the ambitious project.
Members of the chorale sang a song that director Gary Cannon wrote in honor of White — a tune that uses only the white keys of the piano. King County Councilmember Joe McDermott, who helped secure $1 million in state funding for the project when he was in the House of Representatives, spoke. And children participating in the upcoming production of “Annie Jr.” sang a rendition of “Tomorrow,” asking the audience to join in the final chorus by singing “It’s only a year away.”
Reed said VAA is confident that by the time the build-ing is complete in about a year, the final funds needed for the project will have come in through additional private donations and grants. For instance, the organization is hoping to get additional grant funding from King County 4Culture in the next year.
“Most of these types of funders, they want to see that you’re almost there,” Reed said. “We’re in a good position.”
VAA recently completed a push to bring in $250,000 in matching funds to round out the $2.5 million public fundraising campaign it kicked off last fall. Construction costs have escalated since the project was fist mapped out, adding about $800,000 to the total project cost. Still, Reed said, VAA has less than $1 million left to raise.
Tim Roden, president of VAA’s board, added that the organization believes more islanders will reach into their pockets once they see construction begin next month at Center.
“Some people don’t give right away because they want to wait and see if it actually happens,” he said.
Standing in the main hall of the Blue Heron on Saturday, Roden noted that the room holds just about 70 people, and most of VAA’s events and performances there quickly sell out. The new building will have a 285-seat theater, as well as a 1,000-square-foot art gallery and a large lobby that
will also serve as an event space. If will also house offices, a kitchen and dressing rooms that will double as classrooms.
“It will give us the opportunity to expand the programs we offer,” Roden said.
Once construction on the building begins, VAA officials say it will be business as usual at the Blue Heron, save for some loud construction noise during the week. Work will wrap up each day by mid-afternoon, Reed said, so they hope afternoon classes won’t be impacted by the noise. And the Tuesday morning art history talks have been moved to a quieter location.
“I don’t care,” Reed said of the construction noise, not-ing that she plans to bring noise-canceling headphones to work with her. “We’ve worked so hard for this. Bring it on is my attitude.”
Parking will also be a challenge, Reed noted, as the grav-el parking lots to the north and south of the Blue Heron will be used during construction. Many people will have to park on the streets for events, and VAA is looking into whether it can use the gravel lot by the Seattle Distilling Company for additional parking. It is also still working out where children will be dropped off for classes.
“We have details to figure out, but we will,” Reed said. “It will be an inconvenience for a year, but then it will be done.”
Project manager Kirk Robinson said the building’s contractor, Seattle-based Sellen Construction, has already been instructed not to park its vehicles in places needed by the public at Center. He also expects the construction will cause minimal traffic disruption.
“We’re going to do our very best,” he said. “If we start to see a problem, we will address it. We want the project to work well with the island.”
Once VAA has permits in hand, one of the first orders of business will be to tear down the historic McFeed’s build-ing, which lately has been covered with drawings meant to maintain the public’s interest in the project.
Roden noted that while the recent construction of the new Vashon High School was largely hidden from the pub-lic’s eye, anyone who drives through Center in the coming year will be able to see the arts center take shape.
“People will be able to see the progress,” he said. “This is very much a more visible project.”
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The highly anticipated match-up between the Vashon Pirates’ and Nisqually League powerhouse Cascade Christian took place last Friday in an ark-worthy deluge on the Pirates home field. A sparse Homecoming crowd saw the Pirates lose the game by a final score of 56-16.
The team had spent most of the week wondering if they would have enough healthy players to even field a team. By game time, there were 16 available.
Vashon was able to move the ball effectively in its first series behind the running of Nate Lawson, Arthur Moore and Bryce Hoisington, before being forced to punt.
The Cascade Christian Cougars lived up to their hype by scoring every time they touched the ball. They didn’t so much keep the ball in a series of possessions, but would run a play and score each time they got the ball. Their first play was an 80-yard run
for a touchdown. The score was 21-0 in the first 7 minutes of the game. By halftime, the score was a withering 49-0.
After the first half, the Cougars dialed it back a little, bringing in their bench players, which resulted in a much more even contest.
Cascade did score again early in the second half, but the Pirates held them for the rest of the third quarter with the scoreboard at 56-0. The Pirates controlled the fourth quarter from the outset. The same group of exhausted players who had fought through the elements and a superior opponent ral-lied themselves and played a great final 12 minutes.
The Pirates got on the board thanks to a slick run by Nate Lawson, who snuck in the side of the end zone. Chester Pruett scored the 2-point con-version. A massive 50-yard run by Hoisington later in the quarter set up Vashon’s second score as he ran the ball into the end zone a few plays later. He followed that up by running in the
extra point conversion.The punting by Chester Pruett, who
managed to get off a couple of great kicks, were additional bright spots in the game. Senior Jason Kruly had a couple of come-from-behind tackles that put off the eventual Cougar score. Freshman Carlos Hernandez, fresh off the injured list, had a good game with a key reception, and he resumed his kickoff duties. Arthur Moore had an impressive 40-yard kickoff return. Connor Hoisington and Hunter Stanley each were credited with a couple of nice tackles.
The last home game of the sea-son is this Friday against Chimacum High School. Spirits are high as the Cowboys are also winless on their sea-son, and it is shaping up to be a battle for 53rd place in the state. Game time is an early 6 p.m., and pregame activi-ties will honor the senior football players and cheerleaders.
— Cheryl Pruett is the mother of two Pirate football players.
Pirates stay determined in Homecoming lossNatalie Martin/Staff Photo
Despite a dismal first half against a strong team, the Pirates came back and scored two touchdowns in the second half.
The Vashon High School Pirates came away from the league championships for cross country with wins in two separate sports: The girls’ team won the Nisqually League Championship, placing five scoring runners in the top eight finishers for a score of 29. In the second sport, Pirates Mason Carter and Selena Mildon won the post-race pie eating contest during the welcome good weather for the day that was sandwiched between days of downpours and windstorms.
The events were contested last Friday at Fort Steilacoom Park. As in past races, the Pirate girls ran in a tight group in the girls’ 5k run, with less than a minute separating the Pirates’ first runner and their fifth runner. In addition, the top seven Pirate runners finished ahead of Bellevue Christian’s fifth runner, assuring total dominance of the meet. Sophomore Selena Mildon finished as the first Pirate in third place, setting a personal best on the Fort Steilacoom course in 21:28.
Many other Pirates continued to lower their 5k times, including senior Quinn Weber, the first Pirate in the boys’ 5k, who lowered his Fort Steilacoom best time by 11 seconds while finishing 17th overall. Other Pirates also lowered their personal bests on the course, with freshman Hunter Justis and sophomore Isaac Hughes following Weber for the Pirates, finishing with personal bests.
This Saturday the Pirate cross country teams travel to American Lake in Lakewood for the district champion-ships, where the Pirate girls’ team has an excellent opportu-nity to qualify to run at the state meet in Pasco on Nov. 8.
— Bruce Cyra
Soccer team heads to league playoffsThe Vashon High School girls’ soccer team played two
hard-fought matches last week in its final week of Nisqually League play.
Unfortunately, they came up just short in both matches, losing 1-0 to Bellevue Christian on Tuesday and by same score to Cascade Christian on Thursday. Both games featured plenty of reliable Vashon defense and continued development of the Vashon girls’ strong possession game, but the Pirates could not quite find the back of the next in either match.
The outcomes allowed Bellevue Christian to squeeze above them in the battle for Nisqually second place. However, the Pirates are still headed to district playoffs this weekend and they look forward to taking on a yet-to-be determined Kitsap high school for the first round.
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The Vashon boys’ tennis team wrapped up its regular season last Friday with the league tournament at Charles Wright Academy. Vashon sent two doubles teams and two singles players to the tournament, and they all advanced to the district tournament to be held this Thursday and Friday at the Lakewood Racquet Club in Tacoma.
The league tournament decides the Nisqually League individual champions as well as who advances to the district tournament, which in turn determines which players go on to the state tournament in the spring. It was a long day, with most players playing four full matches, far more than nor-mal. At the end of the day, the Vashon teams were playing each other to see who got the higher of the third and fourth seeds into the district tournament.
Steen Jennings took third in singles, and Josh Tillman fourth. Payton Lieske/Tristan Krajeovic took third doubles. and Preston Peterson/Brett Beardsley fourth-place doubles.
By advancing to districts, each of these players earned all-league status. While the Pirates were unable to crack either of the top two spots on Friday, advancing all six players was quite an achievement, and they will enter the district tourna-ment playing well and with a lot of momentum.
— Pat Mulvihill
By PAT CALLFor The Beachcomber
In recent decades, Portland’s downtown banks of the Willammette River have become a celebrated urban renewal success story.
They were also the site of the Portland Fall Classic regatta, where master and junior crews made their first appearance on Sunday, com-peting in 16 events. As has been the pattern this fall, club members per-formed exceptionally well, returning with nine first-place finishes.
The 5k course on the Willammette river took the 1,300 rowers partici-pating under a number of Portand’s bridges.
The event is organized into three flights, with all of the boats in a flight launching together but start-ing the course one at a time.
The first flight was primarily mas-ters rowing, with Vashon’s women’s
quad (Jan Peterson, Carri Singer, Therese Smith and Celia Congdon) taking a gold and two mixed doubles taking second and third. Later in the day, the women’s four (Kim Goforth, Mary Rothermel, Nancy Foster-Moss, Su Dewalt and coxswain Lisa Huggenvik) also won their event.
The juniors produced a number of outstanding results. Winning wom-en’s boats were the open double (Kalie Heffernan and Kirsten Girard), var-sity four (Emily Milbrath, Shannon Lipe, Maddie McEachern, Kai Li Scheer and cox Callie Andrews), JV four (Riley Lynch, Rhea Enzian, Katrina Heffernan, Caprial Turner and cox Ally Clevenger), quad (Mei Vandervelde, Tabitha Illerbrunn, Lili Helsby and Adri Yarkin) and novice four (Emma Greenlee, Rhiannon Simmonds, Kate Landry, Mabel Moses and coxswain Andrews). The women’s double also took third place.
The junior men won their quad (Patrick Hanson, Fletcher Call, Liam McConnell and Forrest Miller) and novice four (Cole Puckett, Connor van Egmond, Cooper Py, Seth Rosen and coxswain Aidan Teachout) races.
Vashon also had a recent alumni rowing in his first collegiate regatta. Baxter Call rowed the three seat in the Oregon State University varsity four, which took first.
Coach Richard Parr was pleased with Vashon’s first attendance in the Portland event.
“This regatta marks the first time ever that Vashon has won multiple four events,” he said. “We are bet-ter known for our sculling than our sweeping, so to come home with five gold medals in the fours is pretty special.”
— Pat Call is the father a member of the junior crew team.
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State officials say that while there’s been no study of Vashon’s deer, they know anec-dotally that Vashon has a large population. It’s a cause for concern, said Chris Anderson, WDFW’s biologist for King County, as Vashon’s deer are a nuisance to farmers and gardeners and are frequently hit by cars. What’s more, dense deer populations can become unhealthy and can alter a forest as large numbers browse on certain plants.
“It can change the entire habitat, and that’s concerning,” Anderson said.
Because of its large deer population, Vashon is one place where the WDFW allows hunters to harvest either male or female deer, as opposed to only bucks. And several years ago, the state began allowing for hunters to take a second deer on Vashon as well.
“We’re encouraging the taking of any deer on Vashon,” Anderson said.
Hunting has taken place on Vashon for decades and was first regulated in the 1920s by the King County Game Commission, according to island historian Bruce Haulman. However, around that time, Vashon’s deer population had been greatly decimated, likely due to the clear cutting of island forests and over-hunting.
“In the 1930s, the Great Depression, people were out of food,” Haulman said. “Hunting for subsistence or food, that sup-presses the population.”
In 1928, a gun club was organized to hold shooting events on the island, fol-lowed by the formation of the Vashon Sportsmen’s Club in 1933. According to a newspaper article at the time, the purpose of the Sportsmen’s Club was to “preserve the game already on the island, and to secure new stock.”
While some Sportsmen’s Club members hunted deer off-island, local hunting efforts largely focused on eliminating pest animals such as crows and feral cats. In 1933, for instance, the Sportsmen’s Club put on a feral cat hunting contest, and the winning team brought back 91 cat tails. The club also brought pheasants to Vashon for hunting, stocked local streams with trout and unsuc-cessfully attempted to secure federal money to establish a 600-acre game preserve.
“It’s interesting for us to remember that the environmental movement formed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by people who wanted to make sure there were animals to hunt,” Haulman said.
By the 1960s and 70s, however, the econ-omy had recovered, as had local habitat, making “perfect conditions for deer to rebound,” Haulman said.
Brad Shride, an avid hunter who has lived on Vashon his whole life, says the island is a good place to hunt for those who know where to do so. He and other hunters have developed relationships with people who allow them to hunt on their property each year. Sometimes hunters will also knock on doors to inquire with homeowners about hunting. The Sportsmen’s Club provides permission slips to be signed by property owners, in case a hunter is questioned.
“There are some people that would like the deer that frequent their property to be thinned out,” Shride said, noting that there are also some who prefer hunting not hap-pen near their homes.
Phil Mahurin, another local hunter, has knocked on doors to ask about hunting, and about half the time homeowners will say yes, he said, adding that he’s been yelled at only once. He’s gotten a deer on Vashon nearly every year for the past 20 years.
“For people that have been on the island for a long time like I have, hunting is not a problem,” he said.
However, Mike Mattingly, who has also hunted on Vashon for decades, said island hunting also comes with challenges. Many parcels are small, so hunters usually can’t walk for long distances, must watch out for homes, and can’t use rifles, which shoot farther than other firearms.
“There are a lot of deer, it’s just the ability to be able to hunt them and harvest them,” he said. “You don’t have spaces where you can use the long rifle and get a bunch of deer.”
Several local hunters said that they and their friends are careful and respectful when hunting on Vashon, but others some-times aren’t, and they’ve heard of people hunting from the road or hunting on prop-erty without permission.
Shride has personally reported people who he believed to be hunting illegally, he said, including a group he once saw get out of their car and shoot a deer near the road.
According to King County Sheriff ’s Office reports, just one hunting violation has been reported on Vashon this year, when two hunters went into the Neill Point Natural Area on the south end and were reported by a neighbor. A deputy respond-ed and gave the hunters a warning.
In late September, Lisa Devereau, on the board of Vashon’s cemetery, also called police after someone found a pile of deer entrails in the middle of the cemetery. It was during the island’s monthlong archery hunting season, so the deer may have been legally killed on another property, Devereau said, but the hunter should have cleaned up.
“That ruins it for me and my friends who do hunt legally,” Shride said of hunters who have caused problems on Vashon. “It gives us a bad name.”
However, some hunters also said they hope illegal hunting instances become less common now that Island Center Forest is open for hunting, providing a place for off-
islanders or those without connections on the island to hunt.
This is the fourth year that King County has closed the 200-acre Island Center Forest, where hunting has historically been allowed, to everyone but hunters as a pilot program. While the three-week hunt ini-tially drew complaints from some forest users and people who live nearby, Dave Kimmett, a natural lands manager for the county’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks (DNRP), said the only com-plaints in recent years have been about deer entrails left behind, and last year the coun-ty didn’t even see that. Last year, 58 hunters registered at trailheads at the forest, and just two deer were reportedly taken.
Last week, about a dozen days into the hunting season, more than 40 hunters had registered at Island Center Forest and two deer had been taken, one of them a four-point buck. More than half the hunters were from off-island, coming from King, Pierce, Kitsap, Snohomish and Thurston counties. Kimmett said he thinks hunting will be better at the forest after a recent tree thinning opened up the woods there.
“It is a niche activity, but I think it’s important to show we are serving a pret-ty broad base of people,” Kimmett said. “For the first time, we’ve had people from Snohomish county, and who knows how they heard about this.”
Kimmett added that he knows some islanders don’t like hunting on Vashon, but others, such as those who advocated for hunting at Island Center Forest, believe that losing it would be letting some of the island’s rural nature slip away.
“We don’t want to be like Bainbridge. We like being a rural community, and a lot of people see deer hunting as reflective of that,” he said. “Having 200 acres of public land at Island Center Forest opened for hunting is also part of that rural character.”
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• Jack Randles •
Jack Randles passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday October 18th, he was 86 years old.
After proudly serving his country in the Marines, Jack started a family and went to work for Boeing. He started in an entry level position, was promoted to supervisor and fi nished his career in program management. He retired to his dream home on Vashon Island.
Jack loved the island life and he loved exploring the country in his motor home/van. Jack had many interests. He loved playing bridge, making wine, crossword and jigsaw puzzles, landscaping and restoring old cars. He had a great fondness for Edsels and belonged to the Edsel club for many years. He was a very kind man and was always willing to help a friend, neighbor or family member and always off ered a meal and walk on the beach to anyone that stopped by to visit. Jack’s kindness and amazing smile will be missed by everyone that knew him. Rest in peace and God bless you, Jack.
Gifts of remembrance can be made to Th e Kenney Foundation at 7125 Fauntleroy Way S.W., Seattle, WA 98136.
A graveside service will be held at Washington Memorial Park Cemetery on October 30, 2014 at 2:30pm.
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After many years of struggling from the eff ects of 7 strokes, Julie Delacour Verdusco died on October 16th at 4pm in the Vashon Island Community Care Center. She was comforted by her former partner John Schubert and staff members of the Community Care Center in her fi nal moments.
She was born on June 3,1939, and grew up in SanDiego, California. She was the daughter of James and Jean Delacour. She graduated from Mission Bay High School class of 1957. After graduating from High school she married Nick Verdusco and had her only child, Daniel Verdusco on January 3,1960. She moved to Forestville California in1972, to Pullman,Wa., in
1975 and to Vashon,Wa in 1986. She loved Vashon and considered it her home. Julie had many friends here on the island. And when she was in good health loved working in her fl ower garden, collecting miniatures, antiques, and stuff ed animals.
She worked as a waitress at the La Valincia Hotel in SanDiego for 9 years and at the Oriental Restuarant in Pullman for 11 years. She was preceded in death by her father, James, her mother Jean, her son, Daniel, and her beloved niece Cathy Dela-cour. Julie is survived by her sisters Jeannie Delacour of Tacoma, Barbara Delacour Wuchner of LA, brothers Michael Delacour of Berkeley Ca., Jim and Nancy Delacour of Stateline, Nevada, former partner John Schubert of Vashon, nieces Rachel, Alia, Shelly, and Vanessa Delacour and nephews, Justin, David and Dusk Delacour, and her beloved cat Toby.
Th e family would like to thank the wonderful staff at Vashon Community Care Center for the wonderful loving care Julie received while a resident there for 8 years. Th e family has chosen to not have a funeral service, because so many live out of state, but hope those of you that knew her send loving thoughts her way. Any donations in her name can be made to the Vashon Community Care Center and Vashon Island Pet Protectors.
Julie Delacour Verdusco
Assisting Lawson at the day care is Sandy Gilliam, who Lawson hired early this month as the center’s program director. Gilliam has a bachelor’s degree in architecture and asso-ciate’s degree in early childhood develop-ment. She chose not to practice architecture, she said, instead focusing her professional energies on working with young children, including serving for more than 10 years as a child care worker and program supervi-sor for Childhaven, a therapeutic child care program for families in crisis.
In the past two years, Gilliam has focused her energies at home, helping her partner and two children, ages 8 and 10, adjust to island living after they moved to Vashon from Texas.
When she learned of the position at the Vashon Children’s Center, though, she responded.
“The idea of a child care center on Vashon is something I have fantasized about,” she said. “It was in my head as something I would like to do in the future.”
Lawson said she believes Gilliam’s expe-rience will be valuable at the new day care center.
“I was so excited,” Lawson said, recalling when Gilliam accepted the position. “This will be a wonderful child care center. It will be everything I thought it would be.”
Now the two women are at work, creat-ing a center from scratch and working to adhere to the many requirements necessary
for licensure. At the state’s Department of Early
Learning, which oversees the licensure process, communications manager Mark Varadian noted that parents often do not rely on licensed day cares, particularly in rural areas, where many people know one another and where day cares may also be in short supply. His department’s position, though, is that there are advantages to licensed child care because of the requirements for both the facility and the providers.
“We want to have an environment that meets the health and safety needs of kids and where the providers themselves are aware of brain development for the kids to thrive, and for worst case scenarios, that they (staff members) understand CPR and first aid,” he said.
While Lawson and Gilliam are working toward licensure, they are also working on building curriculum. Gilliam is particu-larly inspired, she said, by the Reggio Emilia Approach, which places an emphasis on the interests of children in guiding curriculum choices. She added that children will be learning through play: art, music, make believe and outdoor time.
“We are excited about providing real-ly high-quality child care for children,” Gilliam said. “Parents can drop their kids off and fully know they are benefitting.”
The center, in the space that once housed both the Vashon YMCA day care pro-gram and the Vashon Maury Cooperative Preschool, will likely be able to serve up to 22 kids, eight of them infants and toddlers, with four staff members on at any time.
They are hiring teachers now, Lawson said, adding that she does not intend to be among them, but instead will cook the meals and snacks, tend to administrative tasks and provide general support. She also plans to send her daughters, who are 2 years old and 6 months old, to the center.
Both full- and part-time child care options will be available, as well as drop-in care if space allows, but Lawson said they have not yet determined what the rates will be. While licensed day cares are techni-cally eligible to enroll students for whom the state Departments of Social and Health Services (DSHS) pays, the center cannot afford to do so now, Gilliam said, but may in the future.
“If and when we have the opportunity to grow, that is in our plans,” she said.
At Love and Laughter, the licensed day care that provides a small amount of infant care, owner Jenny Mickelson said she gives priority to current families and frequently fields calls from women when they are pregnant, hoping to arrange care for months down the road. Her waiting list is often up to a dozen families long, she added.
“Definitely, there is a need for more infant care,” she said. “For all age groups, there is a need for day care.”
The other licensed day cares on the island, Kids are People Too, run by Danielle York, and El Gato con Botas, owned by Sarah Bunch, take children ages 3 to 9 and 1 to 5 respectively. Only York and Mickelson, however, take students whose care is paid for through DSHS, which reimburses for
services at a low rate. Mickelson noted she had hoped the new
center would accept some of those kids. “There is definitely a need for that as well,
she said.” She added that the new free preschool
on the island, opening at Chautauqua Elementary School next week for children of families with very low incomes, will help address that need to some extent.
Kathleen Johnson, executive director of Vashon Youth & Family Services, which owns the PlaySpace, recently expressed her support of the new day care.
“We’re thrilled to be able to help provide the space for the Vashon Children’s Cen- ter. … It is a great amenity that the island sorely needs,” she said.
She added that with some new pre-schools and recent changes at others on the island, as well as the creation of the Vashon Children’s Center, many will benefit.
“We think this a great fall for the island with the a lot of new opportunities coming on board to help build strong families,” she said.
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The Vashon Children’s Fall Festival will include a barbecue, pumpkin carving contest, inflatable slide and a perfor-mance by Duo Finelli. There will also be a hayride to town for the evening’s trick-or-treating. The festival will run from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the PlaySpace on Gorsuch Road. For more information about the center, see its Facebook page.
SHERIFF’S REPORT
Sept. 14: Suspicious cir-cumstances were reported on the 9900 block of 188th Street when a woman who said she was looking for someone entered an unlocked home with the owner present.
A burglary and jew-elry theft occurred on the 27900 block of 145th Avenue.
Sept. 15: A computer-related scam caused a resi-dent on the 9400 block of Quartermaster Drive to fall victim to fraud, after wiring checking account funds to someone.
Sept 16: Stalking and harassment were reported at a residence on the 20300 block of Cemetery Road.
Sept. 17: An incident was reported on the 10400 block of Cemetery Road when two men were argu-ing and one allegedly spit on the other.
Property was stolen from a vehicle parked in the Vashon Pharmacy parking lot.
Sept. 18: A felony crimi-nal warrant was served on the 9900 block of 188th Street.
Sept. 19: An abandoned bicycle was found lean-ing against a fence on the 17200 block of Vashon Highway near Core Centric.
Heavy landscaping equipment was stolen from the commercial yard of Suburban Propane, where it was being stored while the owner was away.
Sept. 21: Traffic com-plaints were received about excessive speeding near the corner of 103rd Avenue and 116th Street, particu-larly within five minutes of ferry departures.
Sept. 22: A felony crimi-nal warrant was served on the property of the Methodist Church.
An accidental structure fire occurred on the 9900
block of Northilla Trail. Sept. 23: A backpack
was stolen from the Jensen Point parking lot during the junior rowing team’s practice.
Domestic violence and aggravated assault were reported at a residence on the north end of Vashon Highway.
Sept. 24: Fraud was reported on the 25900 block of Gold Beach Drive, where a resident discov-ered that an unauthorized extra line had been added to a cell phone account.
Sept. 25: A trespass was reported at the Village Green.
Sept. 29: Suspicious cir-cumstances were reported on the 17900 block of 97th Place.
A student was found in possession of a laptop belonging to the high school by his mother. The school was notified, and deputies were called to attend a meeting with the assistant principal and the student.
A car was stolen on the 13900 block of Pohl Road.
Sept. 30: A controlled substance violation was reported on the 16300 block of 115th Avenue.
Oct. 1: A resident of the 18700 block of Westside Highway reported that his identity had been stolen and used to open fraudu-lent accounts.
Oct. 2: A suspected drug dealer reportedly made threats via email to a for-mer friend and business associate on the 10000 block of Bank Road.
Oct. 4: A bar fight occurred at Sporty’s.
Residents on the 14700 block of Bethel Lane reported that someone broke into their house and ate food.
A felony criminal war-rant was served on the 100 block of Bank Road.
Larceny was reported at The Hardware Store Restaurant when custom-ers left without paying their bill.
Oct. 6: A burglary occurred on the 17900 block of 97th Place, where the door of a vacated apartment was kicked in.
A controlled substance violation was reported at Bank Road and 97th Place.
Oct. 7: Trespassing was reported at a residence on the 26800 block of Wax Orchard Road.
Oct. 8: Two people were reported for trespassing in the parking lot of the Green Ginger restaurant.
Larceny was reported on the 13000 block of 276th Street where a resident dis-covered a check book and necklace were missing.
A burglary occurred on the 12900 block of 276th Street.
Oct. 9: Two separate incidents of domestic vio-lence and fourth degree assault were reported. One at a residence near town and another at a residence
on Cove Road. Oct. 10: A controlled
substance violation was reported on the 11900 block of 250th Street.
A woman was trespassed from the Vashon Library.
DEATH
Harriet ClaytonHarriet Clayton, long-
time resident of Vashon, died in Seattle on Wednesday, Oct. 15.
Clayton had been clerk of the District Court for many years and was adminis-trator of the Vashon fire department until her retire-ment in 1999. She died peacefully after a short illness.
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Havurat Ee ShalomServing the spiritual, social and
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Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit
The Rev. Canon Carla Valentine PryneThe Rev. Ann Saunderson, Priest Assoc.
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Child CareMid-week Eucharist, Wednesday–12:30pm
15420 Vashon Hwy SW 567-4488www.holyspiritvashon.org
Vashon Lutheran Church18623 Vashon Hwy. SW (1/2 mile south of Vashon)
Children’s Hour 10:30 am (Sept.- June)
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Vashon United Methodist Church17928 Vashon Hwy SW
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Galen R. Schweitzer died in Ritzville, WA on October 15th, 2014.
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The island organization Neighbor to Neighbor, which pairs volunteers with seniors who need assistance with a variety of tasks, is looking for additional people to lend a hand and make it easier for island elders to remain in their homes.
The program, run by the Vashon Senior Center, is less than a year old, and in that time, 17 volunteers have pro-vided help to 36 clients, racking up 140 hours of service, according to senior center director Ava Apple. Now the program is ready to grow, and more volunteers are needed to fill the need. So far, news of the program has been largely word of mouth, Apple said, and she would like to begin advertising its services, inviting more seniors to ask for assistance with anything from yard work to hanging art to getting a ride to on-island appointments.
“I am sure there are many more seniors that could ben-efit from the volunteer help,” Apple said.
Without additional volunteers, though, Apple said she is hesitant to promote the program further. Volunteers receive training and must undergo background checks, but are free to volunteer whenever it works for them; no set number of hours is required. All services are free.
For more information about volunteering or requesting assistance, call Apple at 463-5173.
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Credit card scam artists have conceived a new scheme involving newspapers. Law Enforcement advises the usual precaution: Use caution when speaking to anyone about sensitive financial information over the phone.
The scammers pose as advertising representatives from the newspaper, and call customers who have placed ads or classified notices, to report a problem with the customer’s credit card.
The callers say they need to confirm the card number and security code on the back of the card. These callers are not from this newspaper.
This newspaper will attempt to collect payment on returned checks and invalid credit card payments; but advertisers would receive calls from our accounting department seeking an alternate payment method.
To be sure you are speaking with an authorized representative of our newspaper, use these following tips:
from, including the address. If you do not recognize the caller, hang up and call your local newspaper office directly.
that would be unknown to scammers. This could include your
representative can verify your original payment method, check numbers,
credit card.
verify this information by calling your bank or credit card company or by checking your bank statement.
If you receive a scam call like this, write down all information you can about the call, such as: the caller’s name, phone number, time of day and duration of call.
If you feel you have given your information to one of these scammers –
the transaction in question or on your account and begin a fraud investigation. Callers who may have already given financial information to callers should also call their bank or credit card company to place an immediate hold on their accounts and begin a fraud investigation.
If you are a victim of this scam please contact this office 360-394-8704, your local police department,
or the consumer fraud division of the Washington Attorney General’s office.
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THE BEACH HOME OF YOUR DREAMSSoak up the sun at the water’s edge in this fabulous beachfront getaway! Prime location on Burton beach, 100’ no-bank wft & 1.31 acres. Stylish 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath home with walls of windows, sunroom, stunning views. MLS #661332 $499,950
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