B EACHCOMBER V ASHON -MAURY I SLAND NEWS | Park district fails to get water right for fields project. [3] RELIGION | Episcopal church begins evening prayer service. [5] ARTS | First Friday offers art lovers much to take in. [13] 75¢ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 Vol. 57, No. 36 www.vashonbeachcomber.com NEW TAKE ON OLD OPERA Audience gets a say in ‘Così fan tutte.’ Page 12 HILLS AND THRILLS Cyclists test their mettle in Passport to Pain. Page 15 County puts the brakes on rumble strip project By AMELIA HEAGERTY For The Beachcomber A piece of Point Robinson is missing. Two historical artifacts were stolen from the serene waterfront park last month — solid brass foghorns that noisily erupted for decades when- ever fog was near the point. There has since been a television news report on the theft and an outpouring of sympathy over the loss of the unique items. The group that over- sees Point Robinson plans to replace them with two similar brass foghorns, unless the originals somehow return, said Capt. Joe Wubbold, presi- dent of the Keepers of Point Robinson. It’s likely that the brass horns, weighing 60 pounds apiece, were unbolted from their 8-foot high metal platform and taken for their value as scrap metal, he said. The thieves probably approached the light- house by water at night, so the nearby live-in keeper of the point had little chance to see the crime in progress, Wubbold said. But the value of the horns, installed in honor of an Islander who loved the point, was so much more, he said. “It’s an insult to all the people who live on WHERE HAVE THE FOGHORNS GONE? ‘Senseless’ crime hits historic site hard By LESLIE BROWN Staff Writer King County officials have decided to end the controversial rumble strip project on Vashon, a move they made after hearing from residents and elected officials that even a modi- fied program impairs cyclist safety. In mid-August, the coun- ty announced it would con- tinue the project, narrow- ing its scope but not ending it altogether. But last week, Harold Taniguchi, who heads the county’s Department of Transportation, said he and his staff had reached a new decision. An additional four miles of rumble strips along the centerline won’t be installed, he said, nor will the county add a few more stretches of grooved pavement along the shoul- ders on the southern half of the Island. “We’re not going to con- tinue with the original plan,” he said. County officials made the decision after they came out to Vashon two weeks ago to describe their modified plan, only to hear from residents “that there were still deep concerns,” Taniguchi said. Islanders, he said, “told us we still don’t get it.” The new plan contains some elements of their revised project. Responding to concerns about chil- dren’s ability to navigate the grooved pavements, the county will remove shoulder rumble strips near Vashon’s public schools. It will also add signs warning cyclists of the presence of rumble strips and install thermo- plastic markings that make the grooves more visible. Taniguchi, saying it was a departmental decision, not a political one handed down by the County Executive’s office, added that he Natalie Johnson/Staff Photo David Waterworth, Ishan Dillon and Paco Joyce have transformed a 1,300-square-foot log house into a state-of-the-art distillery. Vashon spirits? Get ready for a new kind of juice By NATALIE JOHNSON Staff Writer Vashon’s first distillery has yet to produce a drop of alcohol. But one would never know that based on the attention and anticipation surrounding the small operation. Vashon’s liquor store and The Hardware Store Restaurant are already making plans to promote the new distillery’s first prod- ucts, set to hit shelves this month. The distillery’s owners are getting calls from total strangers interested in investing in the business, and people passing through Center often stop by the distillery’s new shop there to see if they can get a look. “Some people know we’re here, and some people just see the sign and come over to check it out,” said co-owner Ishan Dillon, sitting outside the shop with his partners one sunny day earlier this month. “Everyone who knows of our product and what we’re doing is overwhelmingly excited,” he said. Dillon, along with IT manager Paco Joyce and graphic designer David Waterworth, have spent the last nine months transform- ing a 1,300-square-foot log cabin off of Vashon Highway near Center, once an auto repair shop, into a state-of-the-art craft dis- tillery that can pump out rum, gin, vodka Craft distillery poised to make a splash SEE FOGHORNS 18 SEE DISTILLERY, 20 Natalie Johnson/Staff Photo Capt. Joe Wubbold is sick about the theft. Behind him is the metal platform where the pair of foghorns used to sit. SEE RUMBLE STRIPS, 19
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BEACHCOMBERVASHON-MAURY ISLAND
NEWS | Park district fails to get water right for fields project. [3]RELIGION | Episcopal church begins evening prayer service. [5]ARTS | First Friday offers art lovers much to take in. [13]
75¢WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 Vol. 57, No. 36 www.vashonbeachcomber.com
NEW TAKE ON OLD OPERA Audience gets a say in
‘Così fan tutte.’Page 12
HILLS AND THRILLSCyclists test their mettle
in Passport to Pain.Page 15
County puts the brakes on rumble strip project
By AMELIA HEAGERTYFor The Beachcomber
A piece of Point Robinson is missing.Two historical artifacts were stolen from the
serene waterfront park last month — solid brass foghorns that noisily erupted for decades when-ever fog was near the point.
There has since been a television news report on the theft and an outpouring of sympathy over the loss of the unique items. The group that over-sees Point Robinson plans to replace them with two similar brass foghorns, unless the originals somehow return, said Capt. Joe Wubbold, presi-dent of the Keepers of Point Robinson.
It’s likely that the brass horns, weighing 60 pounds apiece, were unbolted from their 8-foot high metal platform and taken for their value as scrap metal, he said.
The thieves probably approached the light-house by water at night, so the nearby live-in keeper of the point had little chance to see the crime in progress, Wubbold said.
But the value of the horns, installed in honor of an Islander who loved the point, was so much more, he said.
“It’s an insult to all the people who live on
WHERE HAVE THE FOGHORNS GONE?‘Senseless’ crime hits historic site hard
By LESLIE BROWNStaff Writer
King County officials have decided to end the controversial rumble strip project on Vashon, a move they made after hearing from residents and elected officials that even a modi-fied program impairs cyclist safety.
In mid-August, the coun-ty announced it would con-tinue the project, narrow-ing its scope but not ending it altogether.
But last week, Harold Taniguchi, who heads the county’s Department of Transportation, said he and his staff had reached a new decision. An additional four miles of rumble strips along the centerline won’t be installed, he said, nor will the county add a few more stretches of grooved pavement along the shoul-ders on the southern half of the Island.
“We’re not going to con-tinue with the original
plan,” he said.County officials made
the decision after they came out to Vashon two weeks ago to describe theirmodified plan, only to hear from residents “that therewere still deep concerns,” Taniguchi said.
Islanders, he said, “toldus we still don’t get it.”
The new plan contains some elements of their revised project. Responding to concerns about chil-dren’s ability to navigate the grooved pavements, the county will remove shoulderrumble strips near Vashon’s public schools. It will also add signs warning cyclists of the presence of rumble strips and install thermo-plastic markings that make the grooves more visible.
Taniguchi, saying it was a departmental decision, not a political one handed downby the County Executive’soffice, added that heNatalie Johnson/Staff Photo
David Waterworth, Ishan Dillon and Paco Joyce have transformed a 1,300-square-foot log house into a state-of-the-art distillery.
Vashon spirits? Get ready for a new kind of juice By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer
Vashon’s first distillery has yet to produce a drop of alcohol. But one would never know that based on the attention and anticipation surrounding the small operation.
Vashon’s liquor store and The Hardware Store Restaurant are already making plans to promote the new distillery’s first prod-ucts, set to hit shelves this month. The distillery’s owners are getting calls from total strangers interested in investing in the business, and people passing through Center often stop by the distillery’s new shop there to see if they can get a look.
“Some people know we’re here, and some people just see the sign and come over to check it out,” said co-owner Ishan Dillon, sitting outside the shop with his partners one sunny day earlier this month. “Everyone who knows of our product and what we’re doing is overwhelmingly excited,” he said.
Dillon, along with IT manager Paco Joyce and graphic designer David Waterworth, have spent the last nine months transform-ing a 1,300-square-foot log cabin off of Vashon Highway near Center, once an auto repair shop, into a state-of-the-art craft dis-tillery that can pump out rum, gin, vodka
Craft distillery poised to make a splash
SEE FOGHORNS 18
SEE DISTILLERY, 20
Natalie Johnson/Staff Photo
Capt. Joe Wubbold is sick about the theft. Behind him is the metal platform where the pair of foghorns used to sit.
SEE RUMBLE STRIPS, 19
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The Vashon Park District failed to secure a permit from the state before draw-ing water from a well to irrigate its two new fields north of town.
Under state law, a water right is required before a non-commercial entity can irrigate a field more than a half-acre in size. The park district’s Vashon Fields Project is a five-acre site.
Failure to get a water right is a civil infraction and can carry a fine of $1,000 a day. Doug Wood, a hydrogeolo-gist and permit manager from the state Department of Ecology, said he won’t fine the district but will work with the small agency to rectify the situation.
“Our policy is not to punish people but to get them to do the right thing,” he said.
Wood learned the park district had not secured a permit when The Beach-comber, responding to a tip from a source, called to inquire. He found no record of a permit, then called the park district and confirmed it hadn’t secured one.
The situation can be serious, he said, if another
water user is affected by the park district’s water use. “Right now, it’s a concern. We’re working with the park district to bring them into compliance,” he said.
Bill Ameling, who chairs the park district’s board, said he hadn’t heard about the problem until the state called to inquire. He said the issue was a minor administrative one.
“Dot another ‘i.’ Cross another ‘t.’ It’s not a big deal,” he said. “There are no fines. It doesn’t cost money. You just fill out some paper work.”
David Hackett, a park district commissioner and one of the lead champions of the fields project, ques-tioned whether the district actually needs a water right under state law. He said he’d heard from park staff that the district was exempt.
“There’s been no investi-gation yet. No exchange of documents. We’ll see where this goes,” he said.
The state is going to allow the park district to continue watering the fields while it works to obtain a permit, Wood said. The permit pro-cess, he added, can be costly for the applicant — $10,000 to $15,000 to go through the entire process.
But Susan McCabe, the park district’s interim direc-tor, said she’s already talked to the Ecology Department about how the park district — which is facing consider-able financial pressure — can keep the costs down.
“We’re not in trouble. We’re going to keep water-ing. And we’re going to make sure we’re in compli-ance,” she added.
It’s not clear why the park district did not know that a water right was required.Tom Ossinger, a Tacoma-based consultant hired tooversee the project, did not return telephone calls. The district’s longtime main-tenance director left the agency earlier this year.
Michael Soltman, superin-tendent of the Vashon IslandSchool District, which ownsthe land the park district is developing into a fields complex, said he told former park director Wendy Braicks that he thought the agency needed to secure a water right as part of its develop-ment at the site.
Last month, a week or so before she was fired by the board, then-Executive Director Jan Milligan calledSoltman to ask if the school district had ever obtained a water right, Soltman said.
“I had our people look into it again and told her we didn’t have a record of it,” Soltman said Monday.
Milligan, reached lastweek, said she believes she talked to two of the commis-sioners — Hackett and Joe Wald — about the situation before she was terminated.
Wald did not return tele-phone calls. Hackett said he and Milligan never dis-cussed the issue.
“Believe me, I was flab-bergasted. This was not raised with me before,” Hackett said.
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Rob Peterson and Joanne Jewell’s small farm in Paradise Valley sports a new sign: A “USDA-certified organic” shingle now hangs at their produce stand, and the seal will soon be on many of their products.
Their farm is not the first on Vashon to wear the “organic” badge. Years ago, two Vashon farms were certified organic under state stan-dards. But both let the certification lapse, making Plum Forest Farm, a lush, five-acre spread Peterson and Jewell have owned since 1999, the only farm currently on Vashon that can make the claim.
Peterson acknowledged that the hard-won imprimatur will likely make little difference on Vashon, where customers who buy locally often know the farmers who grow their food and can ask questions about the process. What’s more, Peterson and Jewell routinely sell everything they grow.
“It’s not like we have unsold pro-duce here,” Peterson said.
But for the couple, longtime believers in the organic movement, the certification carries some mean-ing, Peterson said. It adds momen-tum to the movement, he said; it’s also a bit of a badge of honor.
“People assume you’re organic on Vashon. We just saw this as the next stage in our professional develop-ment: We want to be able to say it,”
Peterson said. The certification process is over-
seen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has worked with farmers over the years to develop and modify national organic stan-dards. Peterson and Jewell began the effort in February. It was a com-plex and paperwork-rich process, Peterson said, forcing the couple to think through several thorny issues. What’s their soil improve-
ment plan? How are they enhanc-ing biodiversity? What about pest-management?
Months of planning, writing and documenting followed, Peterson said, capped by a half-day visit by an inspector who “asked a lot of probing questions.”
The result is that their produce, eggs and seeds are now certified organic, and they’ll soon be feeding their cows organic, Island-grown
hay, a step toward getting their meat certified as well.
Careful documentation and paperwork will continue, Peterson said, but that’s not such a bad thing. The effort will force the coupleto keep excellent records, enabling them to track their farm’s growthand development.
“There are benefits from good record-keeping,” Peterson said.
Mark Musick, a Vashon resident and long-time leader in the small-farm movement, said the certifica-tion could mean new markets for Plum Forest Farm. “It opens up theability to sell to wholesale custom-ers,” he said.
On Vashon, where Islanders know the farm community, a USDA seal is not necessary, he added. At the same time, Plum Farm’s achievement is yet another sign that Vashon’s agricultural picture is changing and maturing.
“These are all building blocks, and you don’t appreciate the sig-nificance until you look back andsee the trajectory,” he said.
At Plum Forest Farm, meanwhile,a bustling place, with 250 chickens, three cows and row upon row of produce, the Peterson-Jewell family didn’t have much time to celebrate their USDA seal of approval.
“It came at a busy time,” Peterson said. So how did they mark the occasion? “We ate a really good organic meal,” he said.
Plum Forest Farm carries a new sign: certified organic
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Just months after nam-ing Vashon one of the West’s 20 “ultimate fantasy towns,” Sunset Magazine has spotlight-ed the Island once again.In its September issue,
highlighting the North-west, Sunset dedicates a two-page spread to Vashon, recommending that readers hop on the ferry and give in to the Island’s “sleepy pleasures” on a weekend day trip.Set off by a large photo of local farmer Jasper Forrester holding a bunch of radishes at the Farmers Market, the piece praises the market, then recom-
mends visitors explore the Island more fully, such as Fern Cove and Point Robinson. It extols the hand-pulled espresso at the Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie, quirky-cool gifts at Kronos and fair-trade wares at Giraffe. La Boucherie also gets a plug; the eatery, it says, “goes toe-to-toe with Seattle’s locavore best.”
By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Writer
In an effort to provide a spiritual experience that appeals to a wide range of Islanders, the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit is starting a new service with “no sermon, no announcements and no coffee hour,” said Rev. Carla Pryne.
Vashon Vespers, slated for one evening a month, will be a short service of music, read-ing and meditation, where Pryne says people can take a pause from their busy lives, reflect and be inspired.
“It’s designed to quiet the mind, open the heart and invite communion with God,” she said.
Pryne said organizers hope the service will attract people of all religious backgrounds, as well as those who don’t consider themselves to be religious but are spiritual seekers. During the short, 35-minute service, there will be time for contemplative music, Taize chanting where short songs are repeated and readings that are sometimes religious in nature, sometimes inspirational and sometimes simply poetry.
“You don’t have to know how to do church to feel at home here, although there will be many church people there,” she said.
The services will be led by Pryne and music ministry director Paul Swenson, an award-winning composer and musician who has been with the church for about a year. Swenson is
composing some new pieces just for the ves-pers, Pryne said, and is currently gathering some well-known Island musicians to lend their talents as well.
“The music component is very important to the service,” she said. “We’re definitely drawing upon the talent and creativity of Paul Swenson and the people drawn to work with him.”
As part of the Episcopal church’s centennial activities, church leaders have been brainstorm-ing how the parish might better serve the Vashon community, Pryne said. The vespers service has a long tradition in the Episcopal church as well as other denominations. The Vashon Lutheran Church offers a similar evening service of prayer and healing once a month.
The new service isn’t meant to draw more members to the Church of Holy Spirit, Pryne said, but to offer a commitment-free sanctuary for people to worship, meditate or seek God in their own way. If the vespers are popular, the church may hold them more regularly.
“It’s wonderful to have a service that invites people without any requirements,” she said. “It’s kind of a gift, and I think that’s what part of the church is about.”
Church hopes vespers will have wide appeal
The first Vashon Vespers service will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Church of the Holy Spirit. Services are also scheduled for Sept. 13, Oct. 25, Nov. 15 and Dec. 13.
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Board reconsiders green measures at high schoolThe Vashon Island School Board,
facing slightly higher construction costs than anticipated, is slated to vote tomorrow on whether two resource-saving green systems will be included in the new high school building.
The board had previously approved both an air-to-water heat pump and a rainwater harvesting system for the $47.7 million high school project.
But according to Superintendent Michael Soltman, bids for the project recently came in about 2.5 percent high-er than expected, forcing the board and district to reconsider some of its deci-sions. The board, he said, can choose to use contingency funds to cover the added costs or opt to go with less expen-sive options, nixing, for example, the
two green systems it had previouslyapproved.
“That’s what they’re wrestling with— the real value of what we’re going to get by having these two systems in,” Soltman said.
At last week’s board meeting, com-missioners discussed the costs and ben-efits of the systems. They wouldn’t save the district much money, some noted; electricity savings from an air-water heat pump, for instance, are nominal. But installing the pump rather than a large boiler would allow the district torely less on natural gas and eventually switch to solar energy, some commis-sioners said.
The board will meet at 7 p.m. tomor-row at McMurray Middle School
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King County made the right move in ending its misbegot-ten rumble strip project on Vashon.
Rumble strips make sense on long, lonely stretches of high-way, where drivers — often zipping along at a fast clip — can zone out from the monotony of the empty road. But they make little sense on Vashon’s main arterial, a road that’s a mere 13.5 miles from one end to the other and that includes stops, curves, hills and a couple of commercial districts.
What’s more, as Vashon’s cyclists pointed out, the project appeared to violate the terms of the federal grant that financed it: According to those guidelines, roadways should be milled only if these warning devices “do not adversely affect the safety or mobility of bicyclists, pedestrians and the disabled.” There’s ample anecdotal evidence to suggest that rumble strips had an adverse effect on some Islanders’ safety and mobility.
As several cyclists have noted in the days following the coun-ty’s surprise announcement, this is a remarkable and rare turn of events by a government agency. It’s not often that an agency says, in effect, “We were wrong.” According to Steve Abel in a news release issued by BikeVashon, “(County Executive) Dow Constantine’s leadership and willingness to listen shows how government can work for residents across King County.”
He may be right. Our one concern is this: Would residents in a less politically astute, less well-connected community get the same response that Vashon did?
We hope so. We hope this decision wasn’t made for political reasons, but for policy ones. We hope that any community, regardless of their political clout, can get county officials to listen — and to change course if community members put forth a compelling argument.
This is not to denigrate the hard work of several Islanders, who thoughtfully and sometimes aggressively took on the county over this project. They organized. They researched. They wrote letters. And they turned to those elected to repre-sent them — including Sen. Sharon Nelson and King County Councilmember Joe McDermott — to support them in the effort.
Indeed, what Vashon cyclists learned about rumble strips will now likely be applied elsewhere, when other communi-ties face the potential of these strips on their roads. Vashon’s cycling community grew up in the course of this effort; some members will likely extend their leadership to other parts of the county.
The problem with decisions made for political reasons — as opposed to policy ones — is that it means those who have access, clout and connections are more likely to prevail than those who don’t.
Abel says this final chapter in Vashon’s rumble strip contro-versy shows “how government can work for residents across King County.” That’s certainly true on Vashon. We hope other communities are equally successful.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORPark district
After working for Jan Milligan at Camp Sealth for almost nine years, the one thing I do know: She is capable of doing her job. I watched her year after year get Camp Sealth ready for 4,000-plus kids every sum-mer — staffing, planning food and maintenance and juggling the myriad tasks associated with the camp.
As Bill Ameling so eloquently stated: “The director
serves at the pleasure of the board.” Well, the board serves at our pleasure. See you at the polls!
— JW Turner
Rumble stripsNow that the King County Roads Division has
wisely decided to halt further installation of rumble strips on Vashon Highway, let’s give credit where
The politics of rumble strips: Making government work
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For a busy couple, a date takes all kinds of shapes
The bedroom furniture casts short shadows in the muted gray of late June. I hot-potato hop on one leg, a few flecks of shredded grass still stuck to my shins, pull-ing on a pair of khaki pants. My hands throb from nettle stings as I gingerly slip a dress shirt over sunburned shoulders.
My wife Maria stands half-dressed in a gray skirt in front of the bathroom mirror brushing her hair into a demure ponytail. Dusting her cheeks with rosy blush and reminding me to check the boat schedule again, she paus-es to ask for my opinion: the black clogs or the comfy sandals? My gender-neutralized, non-judgmen-tal answer is of no help.
Our young children, full of ques-tions about our plans, are seated at the dining room table causing some sort of undefined trouble; plates heaped with macaroni and cheese sit untouched, cold, gluey. A kettle on the boil, in less than a minute they’ll inevitably ignite into a furious, shrieking scrum.
When I was little and my mom and dad had plans to go out, Mom got all dressed up with rouge, eyeliner, bright pink lipstick and sometimes a new hairdo, smelling of fresh perfume and mint as she kissed us goodnight, lined up at the front door in our pajamas.
Sometimes when we woke up the next morning, we would find a handful of rococo swizzle sticks, long clear amber or green molded-plastic highball stir-sticks with a monkey in a fez or the Statue of Liberty or a risqué hula girl adorning the tip of the shaft.
I studied these arti-facts like an archeologist, imagining the lively sup-per club and exotic cock-tails, stac-cato Cuban rhythms
unwinding on red vinyl records and sophisticated conversations full of clever jokes and rakish wit.
I concluded that Mom and Dad needed to get dressed up and pre-tend to be someone else once in a while, and the main reason my brothers and sisters and I couldn’t go was that we would have re-minded them of who they really were, deep down.
For Maria and me, giving birth is probably more common than a night out. After dropping off the kids, in the minivan by ourselves, for a moment Maria and I are struck shy and suddenly tender; munchkins after the house began to pitch and landed in the ditch, etc. Ding-dong the kids are gone. I reach for her hand.
We’ve had a reservation for months. Maria loves the food: Swedish pancakes with lingonber-ries and jersey cream, chocolate malts, cheese blintzes, nachos. The service is crisp and polished. The silverware feels heavy in the hand. We anxiously call ahead to ensure everything is OK. Yes, we’re on the list, they’re waiting for us.
We pull up near the front doors and a young man in a blue hat
hands us a vague sort of ticket and gets behind the wheel. Our eyes follow our minivan around the corner and out of sight.
We check in at the desk and fidget in an anteroom decorated in polite and patient browns and greens, with a giant fish tank bur-bling in the middle of the room. Maria calls her mom and lets her know we’ve arrived.
A pleasant woman in a floral smock leads Maria to a digital scale. She records her weight, checks her blood pressure and temperature and asks when she last had something to eat, and finally attaches Tyvek wrist bands full of printed informa-tion on both our wrists. On mine, the nurse writes “Dad” in black Sharpie. On Maria’s she writes “Mom,” “Baby A” and “Baby B”.
Once in the labor and delivery suite, we open the curtains, fluff the pillows and test out the bed and the TV. Nurse Lisa introduces herself by asking “Are you VIP? It says on your chart you’re VIP.” We’re not VIP, but it’s a long story, and it turns out that Lisa’s from the Island and we have lots of friends in common. Turning to me, she says, “You guys sure go to a lot of trouble just to get a night out.”
Later, after the twins arrive, Maria orders cheese blintzes and a chocolate malt. She drains the last of her malt with a gurgle, and inside the glass, I see a long plastic sundae spoon leaning to one side. Out of the corner of my eye, for a few ephemeral seconds, I see a monkey in a fez on the end of that spoon.
— Kevin Pottinger lives with his wife Marie and their four children
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Heartfelt GratitudeWe, the family of Kenneth L. Cooper would like to express our heart-felt gratitude to the many people who helped by providing food, prayers and being available if we needed anything. Special thanks go to VIFR and Vashon Sports-men’s Club. Ken meant so much to us and will be forever in our hearts.Thank You! Barbara Cooper, Brad Cooper, Jim & Kirsten Cooper and Kristina & Matt Radford
Thanks to Vashon MerchantsOn behalf of the Vashon Island Chorale, special thanks to the merchants who donated door prizes for our recent Trivia Night fund raising event: Vashon Thriftway, Island Lumber, the Hardware Store Restaurant, ZuZu’s Ice Cream, Vashon Pharmacy, Blooms, Nirvana and La Playa. Congratulations to the winning trivia team of Gary & Margaret Koch, Jim Cross & Margie Morgan, Neil & Gay Jungemann and Susan & Craig Hanson. Thanks are also due to Bethel Church for their generous hospitality and to all who attended or donated to the event.
Jo Ann Bardeen, Chorale President
Swing-n-a-Hit for Vashon Parks Vashon Park District is grateful to the donors, volunteers, dancers, the Portage Fill band, Jon Whalen and all the community members who attended our Swing-n-a-Hit Dance party for Vashon Fields Friday, Aug. 24 in Ober Park. Island businesses generously contributed coupons, prizes and auction items. Jon Whalen and the Portage Fill Band kept the evening lively, and almost a dozen courageous dancers competed in a lively and lucrative dance con-test — all to earn just over $3,000 net toward the Vashon Fields project — from slightly fewer than 100 very generous partiers.Thanks as well to La Biondo Pizza and Bob’s Bakery for providing scrumptious food. First prize for the dance contest went to Andrew Hou and Sarah Stover; second prize to Lori Spears and Janet Williams and third prize to Emily Burns and Daniel Meisner. We are most grate-ful to Bettie Edwards of the Little House for free balloons and helium. It was an “all hands on deck” community event and a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone!
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We at the Vashon Theatre have spent the better part of a decade getting to know this place and getting to know so many of you. Things are really different here. Adults step outside the box. So many of you are lifelong learners, travelers, ageless athletes, artists and community-minded individuals. You play and participate in adult versions of spelling bees, pinewood derbies and trick-or-treating. On Vashon there is always the offer of inclusion. Residents make new friends, wave at passing cars, chat in grocery store aisles, play cards on the boat and invite lone moviegoers to sit with their group. You bring fresh eggs, homemade jam and flowers to us at the box office. All of these are qualities we lovingly refer to as “Vashonistic” when we talk about this uto-pian place called Vashon Island.So many businesses have closed in recent years. Technology has removed whole industries. Movie theaters across the country are shutting their doors. We’ve tried to stay positive, because not getting the equipment before the end of film was unimaginable. Eventually, stress and fear were setting in. A big theater owner told friends that “Vashon will go down by the end of the year.” Like a dagger to the heart, people started asking, “When is your theatre going to close?” But hope was on the way. No group could be more “Vashonistic” than Tag Gornall and the members of Island GreenTech. They truly make Island citizenship their profession. When they offered to head
fundraising efforts, we were working without real results. Islander Todd Pearson also jumped in and helped. He and I share a vision of a local state-of-the-art theater. Thankful for whatever help would come, we continued shopping for loans, while really feeling the changed financial cli-mate. This group of volunteers took this on like a full-time job, and The Beachcomber kept everyone informed on their progress. They all deserve our thanks.Even now, after all of the wonderful “Vashonistic” things we have seen, we could never have imagined what would happen next. We couldn’t have known how many of you would donate so much to help the theater survive. You all made the impossible possible. Yes, sure, a little more money is needed for changes to the building. But let’s not talk of that today. The equipment is on its way! Vashon, you did it! Thank you! Vashon, this theater will always survive because of your ownership. We will work hard to live up to this honor of stewarding your theater. Much work remains in the next few months, but it will be fun and exciting. We look forward to this new era and beyond. We will see you at the movies and soon, so much more!
— Eileen Wolcott, Raechel Ehlers and all of us at the Vashon Theatre
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY
When trouble came for the theater, you turned out in true Vashon style
credit is due:Kudos to Islanders as a whole and not
just cyclists for their support, hard work and perseverance.
Kudos to elected officials who listened and shared our vision of an Island that is friendly to all road users and kudos to those same officials who showed their commitment to an open public process.
Kudos to the roads division for becom-ing receptive to the community and who will develop a more holistic safety plan for Island roads and who, we hope, will be a strong partner in making Vashon a bicycle friendly Island.
Kudos to the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council for serving as a key platform to discuss the rumble strips and for lending its influential voice in repre-senting the common interests of Islanders.
And lastly, kudos to The Beachcomber for its thorough and fair reporting on the issue and the pointed questions to King County for the many lapses of the rumble strip project.
— Ken Pritchard on behalf of BikeVashon
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As a progressive Democrat, it is seldom that my sentiments are aligned with the Tea Party and property rights movements. Yet an attempt by community activists to invoke historic preservation principles to derail Vashon Alllied Arts’ performing arts proj-ect provides greater validation of Tea Party ideology than an hour of advertisements by American Crossroads or Club for Growth.
The Tea Party’s grassroots supporters are
animated by anger over nonsensical govern-ment regulations and overbearing public scrutiny of private land-use decisions. Legitimate popular frustration over absurd regulations and bureaucratic overreach-ing has become co-opted into a corporatist movement to abolish the EPA and repeal the Growth Management Act. A prime example of such overreaching is the current effort to preserve the “historic” corner at Center.
As a private community organization using private funds to build a performance hall on private property, governmental scrutiny of VAA should be limited to ensuring that the structure is safe for pub-lic use and that the project does not pol-lute the natural environment. While the Supreme Court has recognized legitimate public interest in preserving historic build-ings such as Grand Central Station, this power does not relegate every old building to historic status or freeze the status quo from responsible development.
The only thing “historic” about one of the buildings on that corner, the McFeeds property, is that it has been an eyesore for over 50 years. The fact that some commu-nity members disagree with VAA’s land-use decision does not entitle them to sub-vert the permitting process to impose their aesthetic sensibilities upon private parties in the name of historic preservation.
Vashon depends on environmental and growth regulation to preserve our way of life. These regulations are threatened by a Tea Party movement whose legitimacy rests in finding examples of absurd and oppressive governmental regulations. Opponents of VAA’s performing arts center should adopt a less short-sighted posture and save their efforts for more important battles.
— Matt Bergman
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Bridge: All levels can drop in for open bridge play. 9:30 a.m. to noon Wednesdays at the Vashon Senior Center.
Dancewear Swap: Participants at all the Island’s dance schools may donate leotards, leggings, skirts and dance shoes of all types and sizes and then browse for items they might need. The event is free, although the spon-sor, Dance!Vashon, will accept donations to its financial aid fund. Those who want to donate items before the swap should call Jenni Wilke at 697-2377. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Vashon Dance Academy.
Free Legal Clinic: People who want to schedule an appointment to meet with a lawyer should call the King County Bar Association at 267-7070. 6 p.m. the first Thursday of each month at the Vashon Se-nior Center.
Master Gardeners: Get informa-tion on the upcoming master gardeners program. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.
KCLS Bookmobile: The Books-2Go van containing books, DVDs, CDs and recorded books visits Vashon from 11:15 to 11:45 a.m. the first Fridays of the month at the Vashon Senior Center.
Parkinson’s Support Group: The group will discuss September
activities, including Dance for Parkinson’s and financial planning information from investment advisor Tom Kraabel. For more information, call Steve Steffens at 567-5976. 1 p.m. at Vashon Lutheran Church.
Fibernet: The group will join the Wings’ knitting group, which will demonstrate felting of knitted items and share their work. The cost is $2 per person. For more information, contact Kari Ulatoski at 567-0587. 10 a.m. to noon at Wings, 9923 1/2 S.W. 178th St.
Farmers Market Harvest Festival: Island growers and arti-sans will bring summer to a close with a variety of special events. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Village Green. (See the next page for more information.)Friends of Vashon Library:Share your ideas for raising funds to support library programs, expand community services and recruit new members. 10 a.m. at the Vashon Library.
Master Gardeners: Stop by and ask about fall planting of veg-etables. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.
Adopt-a-Cat Day: Vashon Island Pet Protectors (VIPP) hosts an adoption day every week. See www.vipp.org for more informa-tion or call 389-1085. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the cat shelter, 12200 S.W. 243rd St.
Poetry Reading: Several poets will read from “Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems on Mother-hood.” Island harpist Jane Valen-cia will offer musical “cradle song” interludes. 5 p.m. at the Vashon Bookshop.
Telling Stories: Islander John Moore will be the next speaker in Vashon Community Care’s Telling Stories speaker series. He will speak about his work as an oc-cupational therapist in the Army for 27 years, including serving as the Chief of Occupational Therapy at Walter Reed Hospital in Wash-ington, D.C. After his time in the
Army, Moore worked for 10 years as an occupational therapist at Group Health Hospital in Seattle. Tickets are by donation at Vashon Bookshop and VCC. Proceeds will support the ongoing work of the care center. 4 p.m. at the Penny Farcy building on Bank Road.
Department of Development and Enviornmental Services: Greg Wessel will answer permit questions and review develop-ment proposals. Contact him at [email protected] or 296-7242. 10 a.m. to noon the second Monday of the month at Courthouse Square.
VIPP’s 2013 Calendar: Enter your pet’s photo and make your pet a star. Send your largest digital photos, by today, to Lisa Guy at [email protected] pets are welcome: cats, dogs, goats, sheep, etc. No smart phone photos, please. See www.vipp.org for further details.
Women’s Alliance to Enhance the Rock (WATER): Women and girls ages 16 and older are welcome. The group is focusing its efforts on supporting DoVE, the Island’s domestic violence orga-nization, and will host an event during DoVE’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month campaign in October and a fundraising dance in March. For more information, see www.vmiwater.org or email info@ vmiwater.org. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the fire station on Bank Road.
Bridge: George Eustice hosts the popular card game each Monday. For reservations, call him at 567-4074. 7 to 9 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors Meeting: 8 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Puget Sound Energy conference room.
Vashon Computer Club: The group will hold its first meeting of the fall sesason. Almita Ranstrom and Mary Pekarek will review the
use of e-readers for library books from King County Library. Anyone may attend for free, but member-ship has benefits and is inexpen-sive. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Vashon Senior Center.
Vashon Vespers: This new 35- minute service is meditative and musical, a chance for stillness and grounding, and is open to all. 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 at the Church of the Holy Spirit. (For more information, see page 5.)Vashon Sheepdog Classic: More than 50 dogs and their handlers will compete in this annual event, which benefits Vashon’s Partners in Education. Island businesses, families and individuals are invited to sponsor one of the dogs for $100 and have a chance to win a variety of prizes, including a trip to Whistler, B.C. For more informa-tion about the event and sponsor-ship, see www.vashonsheepdog-classic.com. Dawn to dusk, Friday to Sunday, Sept. 14 to 16, at Misty Isle Farms.
Treasures in the Attic: The Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association invites Islanders to bring their “treasures” to sell or be appraised by experts. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, behind the Heritage Museum on Bank Road. Hestia’s Hearth Circle — Sha-manic Body Knowledge: Learn to integrate shamanic energies, breath work and body awareness in treating the body’s challenges. Christine Kendra and Sarah Han-son will guide participants using journaling, dialogue and intro-spection in healing on all levels. The cost is $20. Contact [email protected] to register. 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, at the Cohousing Common House.
Island Ingenuity Tour: Sixteen Islanders have volunteered to open their homes, gardens and businesses to share their ideas on simplifying and saving money and resources. Sites include Peter Scott’s Burn Lab, Lotus’ intensively farmed lot in Vashon town, Gary Peterson’s passive solar home and Cliff Goodmnan’s garden and brewery. For a map and in-formation about the sites, email [email protected] or pick up a map at the Farmers Market the day of the tour. This is a bicycle friendly event and is co-sponsored by Sustainable Vashon, Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union, WisEnergy, Vashon Island Growers Association, Island GreenTech, and Transition Vashon. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22.
CLASSES
Quilting: Katie Pederson, author of “Quilting Modern,” will teach two workshops this month. Impro-visational Strip Piecing will meet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, and Seeing Value, a color workshop, will meet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23. Each workshop costs $85. Rose Hughes, fiber artist from California, will lead the workshop, The Dream
Landscape, about how to translate photographs into fabric designs, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 15 and 16. To register for any workshop, call Island Quilter at 713-6000.
TQI Diet: Kathy Abascal will offer a new session of her nutrition class, which helps people control inflammation and lose weight. The cost is $160 for new students and $100 for repeat students. For more information and to register, see www.toquietinflammation.com. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Mondays, Sept. 10, 17, 24, Oct. 1 and 15, at the Sheffield Building.
Dance: Vashon Dance Academy begins its new season of dance and offers classes for ages 3 to adult. Classes include creative movement, ballet, pointe, modern and jazz. For more information, call the school at 463-1895. Classes run Mondays through Saturdays, Sept. 10 to Dec. 14.
Delta Dogs: Learn how to be a therapeutic pet partner team with your dog. 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, at Vashon High School.
Your Essential Nature — A Practical Guide to Greater Creativity and Spiritual Har-mony: Darsie Beck will lead this workshop. Students will focus on creating a personal centering prac-tice and a daily creativity journal. Tuition is $210 or $235. For more information, contact Beck at 669-0745 or [email protected]. 10
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturdays, Sept. 15 and 22, at Waterworks Studio.
Raw food and Green Juicing: Jessica Bolding will lead this class as a follow-up to the film “Simply Raw — Reversing Diabetes Natu-rally.” Students will learn some of the basics as well as some of the science of green juicing and raw food. Participants have attended to lower blood pressure, lose weight, reduce or eliminate pain, balance hormones, balance blood sugar and more. The cost is $85. 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays, Sept. 19 to Oct. 3 with a potluck on Oct. 10.
English as a Second Language: Free classes resume for fall for beginning and intermediate stu-dents. 6 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Sept. 25 at the Vashon Library.
SAVE THE DATE
Biggest Weed and Zucchini Contest: All Islanders are invited to participate and should keep an eye out for the perfect entries. Al Watts will judge. The contest will be held in conjunction with a show opening the day before at the Her-itage Museum about the Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club, Passion in the Dirt: 60 years of Plant Lust and Flower Power! The show will open froom 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at the museum, and the contest will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, also at the museum.
Vashon Island Pet Protectors will host its annual fundraising Dog and People Walk this Saturday beginning at Jensen Point. People can begin the walk any time between 9 a.m. and noon. There is no need to find sponsors, but donations are welcome. The top three contributors will be awarded gift certificates donated by Joanna Gardiner: Loving Care for Animals, Plants and Homes. People without dogs can “rent” a VIPP dog available for adoption to join them on the walk. Also, Island photographer Cindy Koch will be on hand to take photos of people and their dogs for a donation of their choosing.People can also donate online at www.vipp.org and write in VIPP Dog Walk in the message box. Above, photographer Koch enjoys some quality time with sev-eral canine companions.
CALENDARVashon-Maury
Deadline is noon Thursday for Wednesday publication. The calendar is intended for commu-nity activities, cultural events and nonprofit groups; notices are free and printed as space permits.
The Beachcomber also has a user-generated online calendar. To post an event there, see www.VashonBeachcomber.com, scroll to the bottom of the page and follow the prompts.
VASHON THEATRE
Plays Sept. 7 to 10.
9 p.m. Sept. 7.
Plays Sept. 14 to 17.
7 p.m. Sept. 12. Free.
VMICC Land Use and Natural Resources Committee: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mon-day, Sept. 10, at Courthouse Square, note venue change). Contact Robert Keeler at 679-7279 for details.
Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, at Station 55 on Bank Road.
Vashon Park District: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, at Ober Park.
King County Cemetery District #1: 3 p.m Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Vashon Cemetery, 19631 S.W. Singer Rd.
Vashon Island School District: 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at McMurray Middle School.
Viewers on Vashon will find VoV-TV on Comcast Cable Channel 21. Most VoV-TV shows are produced by Islanders.
– 7:30 p.m. With Church of Great Rain on extended hiatus, and with no fall show on the horizon, now is a good time to go back and relive the fun of past shows.
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The Farmers Market bids farewell to summer with its annual Family Harvest Celebration this Saturday on the Village Green.
In addition to the regular vendors, the market will feature a number of special events. The Tomato Tasteoff will offer a chance to sample the varieties from all the farmers’ tomato vines, and the winner will be memorialized with a traveling trophy made by a local artist.
The Heritage Jam contest, which originated at the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum as a Strawberry Festival event, has found a new home at the market and welcomes entrants in four categories: jam, jelly, savory and chutney.
The Pickle Contest affords equal oppor-
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Each winner will get a $25 Market Bucks gift certificate. There will also be a backyard chicken display, along with grilled fruit and veggie demonstrations.
FISH TALES The Aug. 25 Vashon Island Picnic & Salmon Derby, a benefit for the Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness, was a success, according to organizers, and raised about $500 for the organization. There were 67 entries, many of which were from off-Island fishers. The largest fish of the day weighed in at 12 pounds, 13 ounces, going to Dan Rice, left, from Vashon. He received a check for $480. Mirel Wojciechowski won the child’s category with a 10 pound, 3 ounce salmon. Many prizes were given by sponsors, and everyone who showed up for the weigh-in went home with a lure, fishing pole and reel. Next year’s derby will be for pink salmon only; it is set for Saturday, Aug. 17. Organizer Gene Kuhns says it should be even better, with larger prizes, more sponsors and more fish.
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After a five-month delay imposed by state regulators, Vashon Solar LLC is once again ready to seek investors for a publicly supported solar array it hopes to install at The Harbor School.
Gib Dammann, who helms the organi-zation, had announced in March that he had enough investors lined up to install a 9 kilowatt solar array at the school, a milestone for the Island. But it turned out, he said, that he hadn’t garnered one last approval — a green light from the state Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) that allows him to issue a public offering for such investments.
“They slapped me. They corrected me,” Dammann said. “DFI in no uncertain terms determined that what we’re trying to do requires that we’re approved to sell securities.”
Because no money had yet traded hands, he was able to back up, fill out the appropri-ate paperwork and get registered with the state, he said.
The lengthy process, he said, was “both frustrating and beneficial.” The soft costs — all of his time and that of others, such as an accountant and lawyer — were daunt-ing, making small, investor-supported solar projects such as his out of reach for some communities, he said.
But, he added, “I feel very confident that we now have a very tight company.”
During the five-month process with the state, Dammann couldn’t discuss the proj-ect with potential investors. Now, he said, “I can talk about it again. We’re proceeding to contact folks.”
Dammann is now trying to line up between $100,0000 and $330,000 to build
a system that could produce between 9 and 36 kilowatts. It can have a maximum of 20 investors; each share in the company costs $5,000. Investors can purchase more than one share.
The project differs from Vashon Community Solar, which also recently cleared the DFI hurdle, receiving an exemp-tion from the state’s securities regulationsafter months of financial and legal effort.
The community solar project is more ambitious: Backbone hopes to garner $540,000 and build a 65-kilowatt array. What’s more, its minimum level of invest-ment is smaller: One share costs $1,000.Vashon Community Solar is the first one to work with King County, which is support-ing the effort.
Both efforts lost one summer’s worth of power because of the DFI snags.
Dammann said he has to reach his mini-mum investment of $70,000 by Oct. 1 and finish the fundraising by Dec. 31. He hopes to have the first phase installed by mid-October and the second phase by Feb. 1.
Vashon Community Solar, meanwhile, is also fundraising for its effort, holding com-munity meetings to discuss the project. It’s also still going through a political process:Because the project entails a lease with the county to build it on county land — theVashon Transfer Station — it has to secure approval from the King County Council.
A committee hearing is scheduled for Sept. 18; it will likely be referred to the fullcouncil for a vote shortly after that.
Because the Backbone project is support-ed by County Executive Dow Constantine and others in his administration, Carol Eggen, an Islander who’s worked as a finan-cial consultant for the Backbone project, isoptimistic it’ll win county council approv-al. “Our fingers are crossed,” she said.
ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury GREASE: Drama Dock Youth Theatre Initiative will hold auditions for “Grease, the
Musical” from 6 to 8:30 p.m . tonight and tomorrow at Ober Park’s per formance space. Kids between 11 and 19 are invited to prepare par t of a song from Grease and should be pre-pared to dance. For more information, call Elizabeth Ripley at 463-6388.
This weekend Islanders can experience innovative blues music at the Red Bike while also supporting a Vashon cause. Blues legend Mark DuFresne and his band will return to the Bike at 8 p.m. Saturday for a benefit concert for Vashon Community Care. DuFresne per-formed the same benefit last year.
DuFresne is one of the most sought after Blues talents in the Northwest. The Washington Blues Society has awarded him for best vocalist, song-writer and harmonica player more than any other artist. He has recorded three CDs of original music, one of which was featured the lineup of the former Hollywood Fats Band.
One reviewer for Blues Review Magazine said, “DuFresne is as distinc-tive as a vocalist as he is a fiery player; rather than recycling old riffs, his origi-nal compositions are tuneful, melodic and grooveworthy.”
Tickets for the concert, which is expect-ed to sell out, are $10. All proceeds ben-efit Vashon Community Care. Advance tickets are available at VCC and Vashon Book Shop.
Singer-songwriter Cami Lundeen will perform in outdoor concerts twice this weekend. Lundeen’s music has been described as Indie folk-pop, ranging from soft and intimate to boisterous and fun.
First, Lundeen will make a special appearance at a house concert by Perry Springman and Ryan McAllister, acous-tic folk-rock musicians from Vancouver, B.C. The show will be at 4 p.m. Saturday. Audiences can bring a blanket or chair to relax on the lawn, and desserts will be provided. The suggested donation is $5 per person or $15 per family. For more information, contact Scott and Lisa Betz at 463-5456.
The following day, Lundeen will provide entertainment at Bethel Church’s fourth annual music and barbecue picnic, slated for 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Lundeen will be accompanied by the Bethel band as well as Springman and McAllister.
Vashon’s Free Range Folk Choir will begin its fall season with rehearsals on Monday nights from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Methodist Church starting Monday, Sept. 10.
Celebrating its 5th anniversary year, the Free Range Folk Choir continues to sing music they say lifts the spirit and cultivates community. For information on joining, visit the choir’s website at FreeRangeFolkChoir.blogspot.com.
MUSIC NOTES By ELIZABETH SHEPHERDArts Editor
One of Mozart’s most treasured works will soon be performed on the Island in an intimate and innovative new production staged by Vashon Opera.
“Così fan tutte” — named for an Italian phrase that roughly translates to “women are like that” — tells the comic story of two sisters who are almost tricked into swapping financés. Mistaken identities, elabo-rate disguises and plenty of romantic intrigue figure into the libretto, all sung to the soaring, intricate strains of what many consider to be Mozart’s final vocal music.
The ending to the opera is famously ambiguous, and depending on the staging, audi-ences can leave productions of “Così” wondering which sister winds up with which fiancé. But that won’t be the case on Vashon.
In the Vashon Opera produc-tion, the sisters’ fate will be decided in an unusual way, with the audience holding up ballots that will determine the final out-come of the opera.
Vashon Opera artistic director Jennifer Krikawa, who will sing the soprano role of one of the sisters, Fiordiligi, has dubbed the unusual approach as a chance to “choose your own adventure” — a reference to a series of popular children’s books that let young readers decide what will happen in a story.
“No huge opera company has ever done this, but because we’re small we get to do it,” she said,
with a musical laugh. “I’m so curious what will happen.
The voting, she said, will take place quickly, just before the opera’s finale, during an orches-tral interlude. According to Krikawa, the cast of the opera will be well rehearsed in three differ-ent final staging configurations, and will spring into action after
the vote.Krikawa is also
bursting with enthusiasm about the cast — filled with Northwest and national opera luminaries — that has been assembled for the opera.
Several past Vashon Opera stars
will return for the production, and several new artists will debut. Tenor Brendan Tuohy, who por-trayed Martin in Vashon Opera’s 2010 “The Tender Land,” will return to sing the role of Ferrando. And mezzo-soprano Sarah Mattox, who played the role of Rosina in Vashon Opera’s production of “The Barber of Seville,” will return to sing the role of Dorabella. Newcomers will include Erica Row, soprano, who will portray the role of Despina, and Charles Robert Austin, bass-baritone, who will debut as as the despicable trickster Don Alfonso. Andrew and Jennifer Krikawa will fill out the sextet playing the roles of Guglielmo and Fiordiligi. Maestro Jim Brown will return to stage direct and conduct the chamber ensemble, while Islander Joe Farmer will be the chorus master.
Krikawa has high praise for the entire company, including mem-bers of the chorus — all local singers, many of whom are mem-bers of Vashon Island Chorale.
She’s also excited about other innovative touches in the pro-duction, one of which will be an onstage musical ensemble, all attired in powered wigs and period garb. Ensemble mem-bers will include Karin Choo on violin, Mary Manning on violin and viola, Douglas Davis on cello, Evan Stults on piano and Jennifer Rhyne on flute. Jim Brown, also dressed in a wig and 1790s finery, will conduct.
“Jim will be a little Amadeus,” Krikawa said.
As usual, a small army of vol-unteers has worked behind the scenes to bring the opera to the stage, but Krikawa singled out a group of local men and women — many of them retired — who
have come together to construct and paint the opera’s set. Hita Von Mende, a local painter, has been invaluable in terms of managing and directing the group, she said.
Krikawa said she is eager to unveil “Così Fan Tutte” and take the stage as Fiordiligi. It’s a role that she performed once before, 10 years ago, at the Sarasota Opera — her last major role prior to having children, a life change that eventually led her to the Island to create Vashon Opera.
And she said that after all the intervening years, she’s still amazed and challenged by the vocal intricacies of “Così Fan Tutte.”
“I can’t imagine Mozart’s mind,” she said.
Vashon Film Society is launching a new film series with Island art lovers in mind. The new Friday Art Films Series will coincide with the monthly First Friday Gallery Cruise, and the film society hopes to provide art walkers with a cinematic ending to their night uptown.
The first movie in the series is slated for this Friday, when the film society will present a med-itation about work, family and art with the fea-ture “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” at Vashon Theatre.
Theater owner Eileen Wolcott said she loved the idea of partnering with the film society to show single screenings of acclaimed films that might have a hard time drawing audiences for a full week run.
“It’s hard to preview so many great films that Vashon audiences would love and not be
able to showcase some just because a full week isn’t feasible,” she said.
Wolcott, in fact, suggested the well-reviewed 2011 documentary “Jiro Dreams of
Sushi.” Plans are in motion to show art films on each Gallery Cruise night this fall.
This Friday’s film tells the story of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, dubbed by many to be the world’sgreatest sushi chef. As proprietor of a humble 10-seat, sushi restaurant in a Tokyo subway station, Ono was awarded a prestigious three-star Michelin Guide rating, and sushi fanatics from around the world journey to the tiny res-taurant for a coveted seat at Jiro’s sushi bar.
Capital Times film critic Rob Thomas wrote, “Even after you’ve eaten your fill, Gelb’s film is memorable not just as a foodie paradise, but as a lovely, insightful portrait of a man in a lifelong search for perfection.”
“Jiro Dreams of Sushi,” rated PG, will play at 9 p.m. Friday. Admission is $7.
Sushi chef Jiro Ono, from the documentary.
Film society kicks off a First Friday series of artsy flicks
Jennifer Krikawa, Charles Robert Stephens and Sarah Mattox sing together at a recent Vashon Opera gala.
Audience plays a part in an intriguing opera
“Così fan tutte” will begin at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, at Vashon High School. Tickets, $32, in advance, are available at the Vashon Bookshop or www.vashonopera.com.
First Friday is here again with a plethora of exhibit openings. It’s the last time before fall to join friends and neighbors on a gallery walk, so hop to it. Most openings take place from 6 to 9 p.m.
Blue Heron: Auction artView more than 150 pieces of orig-
inal art that will be offered at Vashon Allied Arts’ art auction, Sept. 21 and 22. This year’s commissioned artists are Larry Muir (jewelry), Brad Davis (wood), Jayne Quig (pastel), Olivia Pendergast (oil), Israel Shotridge (sil-verwork) and Don Glaister (mixed media).
Common Thread: World clothingThe cooperative space will feature
“Designed on Vashon, Inspired By the World,” a line of clothing and accessories designed by Anya Weil, who recently moved to Vashon after living and working in Cambodia for more than five years.
In Cambodia, she started a clothing line called Spicy Green Mango, aimed at providing jobs and training for at-risk women. Her clothes are made using “dead stock” — materials left over from the production runs of big factories. One of the guiding aims of the company is to extend the principle of fairness throughout the retail cycle. Said Weil, “We support community-based manufacturing so that the young women who sew our clothes can stay close to their families and children, and we ensure that everyone gets a fair living wage to take home.”
PSCCU: A fundraiser for IFCHFrederick Woodruff, Island
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The 16 paintings and collages —
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The reception will include a special appearance by Kelly Wyse, keyboard-ist for the popular Seattle-based band Pollens. Wyse, also a longtime piano
instructor on Vashon, will deejay throughout the evening, providing a blend of electronic, ambient and clas-sical sonic mixtures.
Raven’s Nest Gallery and GiftsThe gallery will open “Salmon
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The exhibit will include art prints, ceramics and appar-el. A cooking demonstration featuring smoked salmon spread will take place. And there will be a few special guests, including Puyallup Tribal artist Shaun Peterson, whose work will be on display, and Mark Titus, director of “The Breach,” a new documentary film about the preser-vation of sockeye salmon runs.
Two Wall Gallery will highlight Vashon’s much-herald-ed Vashon Sheepdog Classic with an exhibit titled, “The Value and Beauty of Farm Life.”
The show will reflect farm life, sheep and other live-stock, as well as the working sheepdog. Artists from Vashon and beyond will be featured. At the opening reception, visitors can vote in the People’s Choice Award and meet video star and Unofficial Mayor nominee, Lintzilla the sheep. The exhibit’s featured artist is Bonnie Block, from Kingston. Participating Island artists include Stephanie Harlan, Wendra Lynne, Marjon McDermott, Debra Paulsen, Nannette Cotton Pawlowski, Jenna Riggs and Laura Whitmore. Artists from off-Island also have work in the show.
The exhibit is a kickoff to the Sheepdog Classic trials, scheduled to take place Sept. 14 to 16 at Misty Isle Farms.
VALISE Gallery will present “Eccentric Visions: Outsider Art from the Collection of Mia Gallery.” The show is an exhibition of paintings, collage and sculpture that were created by “outsider artists,” or people from pro-fessions outside the art world who were inspired to create and taught themselves everything.
All the works come from the Mia Gallery, a popular Pioneer Square gallery that closed in 1997. Its closure marked a bittersweet moment in the Seattle art scene, according to press reports at the time; The Seattle Times called it “the end of one of Seattle’s most unusual and
respected art galleries.”Mia McEldowney, who owned the Seattle gallery and
moved to Vashon nine years ago, says the exhibit gives her an opportunity to again showcase the work of artists who don’t capture mainstream attention. One of the best-known artists that will be featured is Rev. Howard Finster, who proclaimed his vision of salvation in his paintings and prints. He became well known after Talking Heads and R.E.M. used his paintings for album covers.
The work of Jon Serl, another featured artist, came after his career as a writer and an actor during the transition of silent films to talkies in Hollywood. His powerful expres-sionistic paintings — often autobiographical in theme — record the complex states of the human mind.
McEldowney will give a talk about the show from 4 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at VALISE.
Island Quilter will present “Trail Tails: Fabric Landscape Stories,” a collection of quilts by California fiber artist Rose Hughes that expresses her love of the natural beauty of thelandscape. Hughes will be present at the reception and willgive a two-day workshop at Island Quilter Sept. 15 and 16.
“Seniors Got Talent,” at Vashon Senior Center, will showcase work by some of the Island’s older artists. There will be jewelry by Mary Bomber and Darla Jones, silk scarves by Suzanna Leigh, John Moore’s wooden spoons, Dan Steel’s succulent gardens, gourds by Cathy Webster, Sue Weston’s sculptures and a quilt by Elsa Mae Williams.
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No, those aren’t audience reviews from “Total Recall” at the Vashon Theatre. They’re descriptions of last year’s inaugural Passport to Pain (P2P) bike ride around Vashon Island, offered up by riders on feedback forms after the race. The 78-mile course directs riders up and down 30 of the Island’s most punishing hills, result-ing in 10,000 feet of cumulative eleva-tion gain.
Last year’s debut event saw 53 cyclists from both on- and off-Island get their souvenir P2P passport stamped at 18 strategically located checkpoints along the ride. A surpris-ing 39 riders completed the course, which also includes shorter, optional 30- and 50-mile routes.
This year’s second annual Passport to Pain will be Saturday, Sept. 15, with riders gathering at the Jensen Point boathouse at 8 a.m. Entry fees benefit the Vashon Island Rowing Club.
“For intensity, P2P takes the ribbon,” said David van Galen of Seattle’s Integrus Architecture, the architecture firm working on the Vashon High School construction project. “From Maury Island on was one long slog of self-doubt and pain. So yeah, I’ll be back again this year.”
The post-ride barbecue at Jensen Point came alive last year with stories of challenge and triumph.
“There are many contenders for ‘worst hill,’” said Bob Horsley of Vashon, “but Burma Road can get real ugly. It’s so steep that you can skid if you stand or pop a wheelie if you sit.”
“I hugged the last passport stamper tight after she told me it was all downhill from there,” said Pamela Forrester of Snoqualmie. “At that
point, I wasn’t sure if ‘downhill’ was in the Vashon Island vocabulary.”
Promoted as a “fun” club ride, the event asks registrants to sign a release and pledge $100 to secure their pass-port; they then receive a $4 rebate for each stamp received. Including a fee for the barbecue, participants can reduce their entry pledge to as little as $28, although more than half of last year’s riders left their entire $100 pledge as a thank you to Vashon Island Rowing Club, which raised more than $5,000.
“It was definitely one of the most challenging rides I’ve ever done, but also absolutely one of the most enjoy-able,” said Adam Gunn of Bainbridge Island. “Nearly every stop became at least a couple minute chat, and the homemade cookies and fresh black-berries were a definite favorite.”
There is a limit on riders for this year’s event, which may very well over-fill. To secure a passport, regis-ter at www.vashoncrew.com/p2p. But
organizers stress that this is a strenu-ous, unsupported ride for experi-enced cyclists only.
“Passport to Pain is not a race,” said lead event organizer Bruce Morser. “No times are taken or prizes awarded. It’s just our rowing club’s way of celebrating the hard work and crazy spirit of dedicated athletes.”
— Jeff Hoyt is a cyclist and a member of the Vashon Island Rowing Club.
By BRIAN BRENNOFor The Beachcomber
The Vashon High School Pirate football team played its first game on Saturday, losing to Orcas Island in a 42-41 overtime thriller.
Vashon received the opening kick-off and took the open-ing possession 60 yards for the first score. The drive was
highlighted by a 10-yard run for a first down by Nathan Lawson, who last year was a player for Orcas Island and now plays for
the Pirates, and a touchdown pass to Garrett Starr. Orcas came right back and scored on its first possession and then scored again in the first quarter to take the lead, 14-7.
In the second quarter, Vashon tied the game on a great drive — Ezra Lacina caught two passes, one for a key first down, and Nick Amundsen, impressive with his speed in the open field, scored on a 5-yard run for the touchdown. Again Orcas came right back and scored. But so did the Pirates on an Amundsen keeper, tying the game at half time 21-21.
Orcas received the second half kick-off, but two plays later Pirate Jason Kruly recovered an Orcas fumble. Amundsen then hit Starr for a 25-yard reception to the 5-yard line, capping the drive with a 5-yard keeper for the touchdown. The extra point was missed, leaving the Pirates leading 27-21. The Pirates had their hands full with a powerful Orcas running back, who gouged the Pirates for big runs throughout the game and led Orcas to its first score of the second half, leading Vashon 28-27.
In the third quarter, Vashon went three and out, leading to an Orcas drive that was stopped at the 12-yard line with a sack by Nathan Jones. Orcas then kicked a field goal to go ahead 31-27.
In the fourth quarter after a failed Vashon drive, Orcas got the ball, then fumbled; Amundsen recovered and ended the drive with his third touchdown and a Vashon lead, 34-31. Pirates stopped Orcas at its 30-yard line, forc-ing an Orcas field goal, tying the game 34-34. The Pirates got the ball and moved down it to the 10-yard line then fumbled, giving Orcas the ball. Regulation time ran out before Orcas could score.
The Pirates got the ball first in overtime, and on 4th down Starr caught a pass at the 5 for a first down, capped by a pass from Amundsen to Lacina for the touchdown; the extra point by Clyde Pruett was good. Orcas got the ball and scored, then attempted a 2-point conversion that was good, winning the game 42-41.
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Adventure cyclist Willie Weir will talk about his life as a cyclist at a talk at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, the night before Passport to Pain. His talk will take place in Ober Park’s performance room. Weir, a nation-ally renowned speaker and regular contributor to KUOW, has cycled over 60,000 miles throughout the world, and will include the tale of riding his bike up what he calls “the steepest hill in the world.” Admission is free.
Cyclists from last year’s event make their way down one of Vashon’s hills. One cyclist from last year called Passport to Pain “the toughest bike ride in the Puget Sound.”
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the magical isle of Vashon,” said Wubbold, who dis-covered the foghorns were missing. “Whoever did that did not think through the much longer-reaching effects that this kind of thing has on many people. It’s not just taking some-thing and converting it into cash.”
Wubbold was discuss-ing a tidbit of the park’s history with visitors on Aug. 16 when he glanced at the platform that had held the historic foghorns since 2010. It was empty. When he saw that they were gone, “my heart stopped beating for a sec-ond,” he said.
Susan McCabe, inter-im executive director of the Vashon Park District, which maintains Point
Robinson, said the crime seemed “completely sense-less — simple vandalism, and with some effort.”
The foghorns were an audible alert heard across the East Passage of Puget Sound from the 1930s until the 1970s, when the Point Robinson lighthouse became fully automated, Wubbold said.
After their removal in the 1970s, they sat in a storage locker until a decade ago, when they were dusted off and rigged up at the point to sound off with com-pressed air from a scuba tank, he said.
Longtime Islander Royal English, a Point Robinson lighthouse tour guide and park enthusiast, loved to blow the foghorns, quickly exhausting the scuba tank’s air but enjoying every min-ute of it, Wubbold said.
“I think he especial-ly liked to share it with the children,” said Kitty English, Royal’s daughter and a Vashon High School teacher. “It’s not something that every kid gets to hear, a foghorn, and he’d let them push the button and make the big old sound.”
When Royal passed away in 2010, donations were made to the park in his honor, and the Keepers of Point Robinson installed
the foghorns more perma-nently atop an 8-foot metal platform next to the light-house.
Royal’s history at the park dated back decades. He and his wife Ruth and children Kitty and Wayne were Islanders who sum-mered at a home on Luana Beach before moving there full time. The point was a family destination, and Royal reveled in sharing its history and beauty with others, Kitty said.
After the horns were stolen, Wubbold and other Islanders were featured in a short piece on KOMO News Channel 4, which learned of the theft from a brief story in The Beachcomber. Since then, Wubbold and
Kitty said, they’ve received a flood of supportive calls and emails from others who appreciated the foghorns as they did.
“Relatives from around Washington have been call-ing us and saying, ‘Oh my God, I saw the report andthey’re gone. That’s notright,’” Kitty said. “It’s dev-astating that they’re gone. … It’s a huge loss. I hope they find them.”
Though the horns are rec-ognizable, it doesn’t appearthat the King County Sheriff ’s Office has anyleads in the case, Wubbold said. Law enforcement offi-cials could not be reached for comment on the spe-cifics of the case, but Dep. Jordan Hess, who works on Vashon, said there’s “nothing exceptional” in Vashon’s current level of crime.
“We’ve been trying to keep a tight lid on getting people off the streets, get-ting those with warrants arrested, and keeping that out of people’s hair,” hesaid.
Once the new foghorns are reinstalled at the light-house, the bolts affixing them to the platform willbe thoroughly welded, Wubbold said, deterringany future crime.
But he and Kitty hold out hope that the original fog-horns may be recovered or returned.
“We want them back,”Kitty said.
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Woody Guthrie 2002-2012
On one fateful day back in October of 2002, my husband and I visited Vashon Island Pet Protectors looking to adopt a Siamese cat. Ten minutes later, Geoff Fletcher arrived with a cat carrier filled with half-Siamese kittens! We looked into the cage, spotted the tiniest kitten with the smallest blue eyes and said, “that one”. They had been born in the wild and needed help getting
socialized, so I visited my new pal and his foster parents regularly until he was ready to take home. In the years that followed, I would learn just how much love a shy, little cat could give.
Cats acquire many names during their lives—any pet owner knows that. I named Woody Guthrie after hearing the woeful song he would sing when he wanted attention. I also called him “Woody two shoes” (after goody two shoes), “Woody one-click” (when one of his paws had longer nails than the other), “my little squeaky toy” (from the sound he made when hugged), Woods, Snuggle Bunny, Blind Woody McTell—the list goes on. A friend who cared for our cats when we were out of town called Woody “the invisible cat.” Like all of our other friends, she never got to meet him. He would scurry away at the first sign of an outsider and reappear the minute they left.
Woody grew more beautiful every year. He could never jump very high, he wasn’t a strong hunter (thankfully) and he could barely meow. Many a laugh was had in response to his squeaky, sometimes silent meow. I could rub his belly, clip his nails, hold his paws or squeeze him tight. He was a homebody. His favorite spot was next to me in bed where he would look me in the eyes and just purr. He slept with his head on my pillow and then in the morning he would stretch his paws into my cheeks and yawn. “Good morning, Angel,” I would say. “Squeaky meow,” he’d reply.
Woody passed away 1 month before his 10th birthday suddenly from an aneurysm. As sad as that is, I feel so lucky to be the one he trusted for the last 9 years and 11 months. Safe travels my flame-pointed prince—you will be hugely missed.
Love, Mom (AKA Elaine Summers)Donations can be made in memory of Woody at www.vipp.org
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Ruth English poses in front of the platform that supports the foghorns for a family photo, taken in 2010, when the brass instruments were dedicated in her husband Royal’s honor.
The Vashon Park District netted a little more than $3,000 from its fundraiser on Aug. 24, garnering much-needed cash for the Vashon Fields Project. The board had set a goal of $10,000 for the event, held at Ober Park. But Susan McCabe, the park district’s interim execu-tive director, said she knew that goal was a stretch. About 100 people attended, she said, including all five commissioners.
“I’m pretty satisfied with the generosity of the people who attended,” she said.She was also pleased that the entire board turned out and pitched in to help. “To me, that’s a showing of solidarity under our circumstances and shows we’re all going to work together as a team to make things better,” she said.The fields project, initially a $1.3 million effort to build new sports fields and other amenities north of town, is now expected to cost more than $2 million to complete. The park district has run out of cash for the year for the project but hopes to complete it over time, as more funds come in.
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Mary Ann Mack went to sleep on Saturday, August 26th, 2012 in the loving comfort of her bed at B’s Country adult care home in Port Orchard, Washington.
She is the oldest of three children (Mary Ann, James, and Charles) born to John and Lolleen Henrie in a modest North Topeka, Kansas home. She was born in 1925 and lived in rural Topeka during her childhood.
She was married on January 18th, 1948 to Perle W. Mack Jr. and raised four children; Renee, Michelle, Gary and Bill. As a family they called many places home, Kansas, Washington DC, Denver Colorado, California, Okinawa Japan, Anchorage Alaska, Vashon Island, Washington and her fi nal residence in Port Orchard.
Mary Ann will be remembered as a mother, sister, grandmother, aunt, faithful witness of Jehovah and a dear friend to many. She will be missed but not forgot-ten as she has truly endeared herself to many.
She is survived by her brother Charles Henrie, sisters-in-law Ruth Henrie, Francis Cave, and June Motin and several cousins. Also, her family Renee and Raymond Williams, Michelle Mack, Gary Mack, and Bill and Jane Mack. She has three grandchildren Taylor, Joey and Christian Mack.
Her memorial service was held at the:Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses
1901 SE Bielmeier RD Port Orchard, Washington
At 5:00 pm Saturday, September 1st, 2012Please visit our online guest book at www.islandfuneral.com
Mary Ann Mack
Janett Byars DeMers“Jan D”
april 7, 1921 - august 22, 2012Jan was born in Seattle on April 7, 1921, the
youngest of three children born to Bill and Lettie Byars. She passed peacefully with her daughter Susy by her side on August 22, 2012 at age 91. Before settling on Vashon in 1962, she led quite a life. Her older sister, Billee, had 8 children and Jan helped raise them. She was the first woman from Santa Ana, CA to join the Women’s Army Auxil-liary Corps (WAAC) and then was stationed in Japan after WWII. Upon returning to the states, Jan moved in with her sister to once again help with all the children. Wanderlust called and she travelled to Alaska, where she met her husband, Bud, a civil engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers. Both outdoors people, Bud and Jan enjoyed fishing, hunting, flying and getting together with friends. They were married in 1957, and Susy arrived in 1958, in Anchorage. Bud passed away in 1960 and Jan returned to Seattle. An opportunity arose on Vashon to take care of Bud’s father and this is where she decided to live. Jan was very active in the community, hosting bridge clubs, Orthopedic Guild holiday house, becoming a Camp Fire leader, Weight Watchers lecturer, and joined Eastern Star, Beta Sigma Phi sorority, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Red Hat Society. Jan volunteered at Granny’s Attic for many years. She is probably best known as the “Lego Lady”, hosting a public display of her Lego collection each December for quite a few years. Jan loved to travel and once spent 6 weeks with her sister chasing Haley’s Com-et in the South Pacific, visiting various countries. Her trips with her sister were frequent and worldwide, but her favorite trips were visiting Legoland in Billund, Denmark, and the opening day of Legoland California, both with Susy. There were also many Disneyland trips for various family functions. Jan was very crafty and won blue ribbons at the Puyal-lup Fair for her knitting and needlework. Jan is survived by her daughter Susy (Mike Hoover) of Vashon, her brother Don Byars of Los Angeles and many nieces/nephews, grand nieces/nephews and great nieces/nephews as well as many “adopted” children and grandchildren. Please join family and friends on Saturday, September 8th at 1:00 pm at Island Funeral Home for a celebration of Jan’s wonderful life! Yes, there will be chocolate.
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William (Bill) Martin Kerans March 22, 1934 - August 29, 2012
Bill, a loving husband to my mom and a great father to us, passed away peace-fully with our family surrounding him after a short battle with lung cancer. My dad loved his family, friends and the great outdoors, especially his prop-erty on the Duckabush river. He was proud of his affiliation with the Masons and Shriners and the military, where he retired as a Major in the army. He is survived by his mother, 2 brothers,his wife Gisela and 3 children Julie Kerans Gulick (Tad), Seattle, Diana Anderson (Mark), Vashon and Michael Kerans (Cynthia), Olympia and 5 grandchildren Graeme, Caleb, Evan,Delaney and Samantha. His service will be held on September 11th in Olympia.
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believes their final plan makes sense. The northern half of the Island, where the most accidents occur, are where the rumble strips are now in place. “It’s a great compromise,” he said. “We have a stronger pilot project moving forward.”
Cyclists, reached short-ly after the decision was handed down, said they were thrilled to hear the news.
“I think it’s great that the county has responded to our voice. It’s a good start. It helps to move us toward a more bicycle-friendly community,” said Tim Baer, an Islander active in the newly formed group BikeVashon.
Charlie Backus, another cyclist, agreed. “I applaud Harold. Harold has done very well in this whole thing. Considering the financial pressure the Department of Transportation is under, they’ve been extremely responsive to us.”
Steve Abel, who’s also played a lead role in the effort and who personally knows County Executive Dow Constantine, said he believes Sen. Sharon Nelson and other elected officials had a hand in the decision-making process. Nelson,
who worked for years for Constantine before head-ing to Olympia, sent let-ters to the executive on the cyclists’ behalf, Abel said. County Councilmember Joe McDermott, who repre-sents Vashon, was also sym-pathetic to the cyclists.
“Sharon and Dow are close. And Joe and Dow are close. And both were work-ing on our behalf,” Abel said.
After the county an-nounced in mid-August that it would continue with the project, Abel said, “We just very quietly talked to the politicians who repre-sent us, and they listened and brought some influence to bear on the issue.”
Nelson, reached last week, said she was pleased to hear the news. “This shows that the county will listen to their constituents,” she said. “The group work-ing on this did a good job of presenting their case.”
Several cyclists have said the county’s program vio-lated the terms of the fed-eral grant, which prohibits the installation of rumble strips if they “adversely
affect the mobility and safety of cyclists, pedestri-ans or the disabled,” Backus said. “We’ve been remind-ing them of that since the meeting in Chautauqua” in May.
Cyclists say the rumble strips have made the high-way less safe. Cyclists can fall if they try to go over them, especially if they’re moving fast and on bikes with thin, high-pressure tires. What’s more, some have said, drivers are hesi-tant to give cyclists a wide berth, because they don’t like crossing the center-line and hitting the jarring bumps.
Nelson said she was recently headed to the Tahlequah ferry, going 35 mph, when she saw a cyclist going faster — probably 40 mph. “You can’t hit a rum-ble strip going that speed,” she said.
Initially, Vashon’s cycling community had also called on the county to repave those stretches of the shoul-der where rumble strips are now in place. But on Thursday, they said, they realized the county road division’s dire financial sit-uation made that demand difficult.
“We understand that the county is under a lot of pres-sure financially,” Baer said. “We never wanted to be some fringe group that had unreasonable demands.”
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and whiskey. While also juggling day jobs and children — a small play set for their kids sits outside the shop — the three men have jumped through all the hoops required to become the state’s 50th craft distillery.
And now, after weeks of waiting, they recently received their label approval, a final step that means they can begin legally producing booze.
“When you jump into it, you realize it’s a very regulated business,” said Joyce. “It’s quite daunting.”
A few Vashon restaurants have already said they’ll carry the Island-made spirits, and the men are in talks with a national distributor that will offer their products as well. While the operation’s name, Seattle Distilling Company, gives no nod to their Island home, the men believe it will help the brand compete in a burgeoning national scene for small craft distilleries.
“It’s a very marketable name, worldwide even,” Waterworth said.
Dillon, a real estate agent who moved to Vashon about a year ago, said that for years he had dreamed of putting
his biochemistry degree, passion for alcohol and experi-ence in home brewing to use at his own distillery. When he discovered that Joyce, a fellow home brewer whom he met through his children’s preschool, shared the same dream, they decided almost immediately to collaborate. They soon brought Waterworth on board, building what they called the dream team to produce the first Island-made liquor.
“The timing was just right for all three of us to meet,” Joyce said.
“It’s amazing how well it worked out,” Dillon added.
The red-stained log cabin — which will eventually house a tasting room as well — is now filled with large bags of wheat and bar-ley and towering stainless-steel equipment that has been tested and retested while the team waited for the proper government approvals. The large tanks and intricate piping system was custom designed by the men, who humbly call themselves “garage tinkerers.” The equipment was largely hand-made, with much help from Island builders and welders.
“Where we’ve needed knowledge or help, we’ve been able to find it pretty locally,” Joyce said.
The process, Waterworth said, has saved them tens of thousands of dollars.
For example, a modest still — the vat used to boil the mash — can cost anywhere from $100,000 to $200,000 to purchase new. The men, however, crafted their own still using a large, 1955 cooking kettle that they purchased from an elementary school in Texas.
“The amount of money we saved on building our own equipment is incredible,” Waterworth said.
The handcrafted set-up also meansthey can more easily tweak the tasteof their products, a customization thatthey say is one of the greatest appeals ofcraft liquor.
Large craft distilleries have used the same recipes for vodka, gin and rum foryears, Waterworth explained, meaning most big-label bottles taste more or less the same. Only when small craft dis-
tilleries began to emerge was the status quo challenged, he said, as those smaller operations experimented with recipes and tried new flavors.
“You start tasting some of the new micro stuff, it’s very different,” Waterworth said. “There is an endless sense of how you can make your product taste.”
Many of their spirits will have an Island flavor, the men said. They plan to use Island-grown fruit, berries and evenlavender and vegetables in their seasonal and flavoredproducts, some of which may be produced in limited batches available only on Vashon.
“We’re always looking for local ingredients,” Joyce said.Alex Van Amburg, a manager at The Hardware Store
Restaurant, says he believes Seattle Distilling Company will find a welcoming market both regionally and national-ly. Much like the microbrewery movement, he said, there’sa growing interest in liquor made on a smaller scale using quality local ingredients.
In recent years state laws have been more favorable toward craft distilleries, and small operations have popped up all around the Puget Sound region.
“I’m excited that someone on Vashon is taking the bull by the horns,” Van Amburg said.
He said the restaurant will likely create a special drink to introduce the new distillery to diners.
“They have a passion for creation, and there is a passion for micro-distilleries,” he said. “They will have followers.”
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