Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, May 28, 2014

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NEWS | Heritage association pulls offer on parsonage. [3]COMMENTARY | Rethinking Vashon’s summer tourism. [6]COMMUNITY | Local author will speak on aging. [5]

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Pool’s future still unclear as agencies disagree By SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

At the Vashon Pool, everything is set for the summer season — the water’s pH is perfect; the boiler is running well, and the staff is ready to start work. Just weeks away from opening day, however, it is still not clear when and if the pool will open this summer, as officials at the school and park districts are continuing to work toward an agreement that will address the pool’s drainage needs.

“There has been a lot of energy spent getting this ready,” Scott Bonney, the pool’s manager, said last week. “We are very hopeful there will be an agree-ment.”

Over the course of the spring, the two districts have disagreed on who is legal-ly responsible for drainage problems created at the pool during construction of the new high school last fall, and so far they have not been able to agree on a financial plan to pay for a fix.

Last week the school board approved a proposal that would require the park dis-trict to pay half of the expected $40,000 for a potential solution approved by the Department of Ecology. The school’s plan also calls for the park district to assume all the financial responsibil-ity for testing and other measures that are part of the fix and for the expenses related to hauling waste water from the pool — a process park district officials say was necessary to prepare the pool for the swimming season.

Members of the park board were expected to meet Tuesday — after The Beachcomber’s press deadline — to discuss the issue. Scheduled for that day were a conversation with its insurance company on legal matters, an executive session and the board’s regularly sched-uled public meeting. Additional meet-ings for both boards are possible later in the week, depending on Tuesday’s out-come. Some of those close to the situa-tion say they hope that by the end of the week, a proposal will emerge that the two agencies will be to agree on and that will allow work to move ahead so the

Backyard pilgrim plans trip of a lifetimeIslander with stage four cancer will walk a famous trek in SpainBy NATALIE MARTINStaff Writer

Last week, islander Phil Volker chatted and laughed with a visitor as he walked a well-worn trail at his home on Wax Orchard Road. With a hiking pole in each hand, the 66-year-old navigated pastures, the for-est and hills with a pace that one wouldn’t expect from a man undergoing chemotherapy.

Earlier this month, Volker completed 909 laps on the trail, effectively walking the distance of El Camino de Santiago, a famous Christian pilgrimage in Spain. If his doctors give the final approval, this summer Volker will go from backyard pilgrim to actual pilgrim when he flies to Spain to set off on the popular trek.

“I wanted to experience it … but if I don’t get to go, I’m going to be happy with what I got here,” Volker said. “It’s more than I thought I could do.”

Volker’s journey began three years ago when he was diag-nosed with colon cancer, some-thing he now calls the first “C” in his life.

The diagnosis led him to the second “C,” the Catholic church, or more specifically the St. John Vianney church. At the local par-ish, Volker, a longtime islander who owns a construction com-

pany and is a veteran involved with the American Legion, says he’s found meaning, support and friendship as he battles cancer.

“Having a life-threatening obstacle, it straightens your pri-

orities out,” he said. Though El Camino de Santiago

is popular in the Catholic church, it was actually through a movie

Natalie Martin Photo

Phil Volker has walked about 500 miles, the length of El Camino de Santiago, on a trail on his property.

SEE TRIP, 19

SEE POOL, 13

REMEMBERING THE FALLENAt Monday’s Memorial Day ceremony at the Vashon Cemetery, a large group of islanders gathered to honor and remember military men and women who lost their lives serving the country. Chris Gaynor, a longtime member of the American Legion, said Monday’s event was one of the nicest ceremonies he has attended on Vashon. “The sun was shining; we had a good crowd in the right spirit, and Phil Volker (the American Legion commander) did a great job of including everybody,” he said.The weekend before the ceremony, the Boy Scouts, the American Legion and Lisa Devereux of the cemetery put a flag on every veter-an’s grave, totaling some 500 flags. “This is an opportunity to recog-nize the fact that out of such a small population, we have an unusu-ally large history of military service and sacrifice by the members of the Vashon community going back to World War I,” Gaynor said. Chris Gaynor Photo

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Heritage association’s plan to buy house falls throughAfter raising more than

$190,000 in pledges to pur-chase the historic parsonage on Bank Road, Vashon’s her-itage association has with-drawn its offer on the house.

Deb Dammann, presi-dent of the Vashon-Maury

Island Heritage Association, announced over the weekend that although the nonprofit was under contract to pur-chase the home and had even secured a mortgage, it could not agree with the owner on final terms of the purchase.

The group was under con-tract to purchase the 1910 home, which was once a parsonage to the Lutheran church the heritage museum is housed in, for $450,000. It planned to rent the house out for a time before even-tually making it a family-friendly interpretive center on Vashon history.

In a press release, Dammann said the heri-tage association has a posi-tive outlook and is glad the campaign raised awareness about the museum and excitement about expanding its offerings for kids.

“Community support for creating a Heritage Education Center has been remarkable and we are very excited about the museum’s future,” she said.

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With the opening of Rachael’s at Sound Food, islanders will soon have a new option for breakfast and lunch.

The cafe — now serv-ing coffee and pastries — opened quietly last week. Owner Rachael Gordon says she plans to add a full menu featuring local food next month. The combina-tion will allow commut-ers to come in and grab something quickly and go, and also allow for leisurely eating — a place for island-ers simply to come and be, Gordon said.

As for what she will serve, Gordon calls it nos-talgic American cuisine.

“It will be down-home, fill-your-gut comfort food,” she said.

On the breakfast menu, she said, will be items such as smoked brisket hash on top of sweet potatoes and carmelized onions with chimmichurri (Argentinian pesto) and a poached egg on top. For lunch, diners can expect entrees such as a Cuban sandwich on house-made bread. She noted that she will brine the ham and smoke the meat she serves in-house. She will also

serve food that will work well for those with special diets, including gluten-free fare and vegetarian choices.

Once the full menu is ready, Gordon will offer about eight pastries a day, both sweet and savory, she said. Indeed, last week, amidst the cupcakes, cook-ies and muffins was focac-cia topped with smoked beef and white cheddar cheese. Focaccia will be a staple, she said, and change daily.

All the food Gordon offers will be as local as possible, she stressed, start-ing with food grown and raised on Vashon and mov-ing out from there, noting that the meat will come from no farther away than

Oregon. Gordon, trained in France

as a butcher and at the Seattle Culinary Academy, worked most recently at The Hardware Store Restaurant, where she was the lead breakfast cook for the past four months. The idea of having her own business, though, is not new.

“I have been thinking of doing something like this for a long time,” she said.

In an unusual arrange-ment, she is renting the space at Sound Food half-time, sharing it with chef Brandon D’Imperio. D’Imperio had previously partnered with Meat & Noodle, but now hopes to offer a dinner restaurant and possibly other din-

ing opportunities there this summer.

“It’s allowed me to open a restaurant without going $200,000 into debt,” Gordon said.

She will be closed Monday and open from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

“I’m stoked,” she said. “I am ready for it to start chugging away and have it be part of my regular life.”

Plenty of baked goods are available in the heart of Vashon town, too, with last week’s re-opening of the former Bob’s Bakery as the Vashon Island Baking Company.

Owners Samantha and Stephen Weigand provided a facelift to the longtime bakery over the past two months, painting the inte-rior, putting in new floor-ing and adding lighting.

“I want the environment to match the quality of the food we’re serving here,” Samantha said.

The bakery has an espres-so machine now, on loan from the Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie, and is serv-ing tea from the roasterie as well. Each day, Weigand said, she will offer 25 to 30 food choices, including gluten-free items and savory fare, such as quiche and the popular Bob’s Burgers.

“We’re a new name and a new look,” she said. “But it’s the same tradition that Bob started: good food and community.”

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Natural health clinic moves to new officeBy SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

After a decade located in an old farmhouse south of town, Vashon Natural Medicine is moving to the former veterinary clinic of Larry Glickstein, who retired last year.

Naturopathic physician Kelly Wright purchased the building at the end of April and will open there on Monday, June 2. The clinic will be open at its current location through the end of this week.

The move will prove beneficial in many ways, Wright noted, crediting Glickstein with making her purchase of the building possible.

“I never could have done it without Larry,” she said.

Among the benefits, Wright said, is that own-ing the building will reduce her overhead substantially. A significant percentage of her patients have Medicaid insurance benefits, which reimburse providers at low rates. She wants to contin-ue to serve all people who need care, she said, and the reduction of her overhead will make that possible.

“Being in this location will make that sustainable,” she said.

Among the other ben-efits she pointed out on a tour of the new facility is that it is fully wheelchair

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a home but housed the vet clinic for many years and was in need of renovating and new landscaping. Her father, Chip Wright, has been managing that pro-cess, she said, and when that is done, she believes the building will serve the clinic’s needs well, includ-ing those of the providers who also practice there — an additional naturopath, a massage therapist, an acupuncturist and a mental health counselor.

Wright is also planning to add a nutritionist, a medical doctor and another massage practitioner in the near future.

This opportunity came at a good time, Wright noted, as her current lease is up at the end of May.

“It was perfect timing,” she said.

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Author of book on aging will speak as part of the Telling Stories seriesBy SUSAN RIEMERStaff Writer

In a culture that places a high value on youth, islander and author Wendy Lustbader says that contrary to that notion, by almost every measure, life improves as people age.

Lustbader, the author of several books, including “Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older,” will speak at Vashon Community Care’s Telling Stories series on Sunday. She will talk about her work in the field of aging as well as lead a conversation about what islanders would like to see on Vashon to ensure that aging here is fulfilling and meaningful.

A popular speaker at conferences in the United States and Canada, Lustbader worked for almost 20 years as social worker at Pike Market Medical Clinic in Seattle. She is now an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work and continues to write, including on Vashon, where she intentionally maintains a low profile.

Lustbader calls the worship of youth a “colossal error,” and says that her work and extensive research into growing older show a different truth.

“Ask anybody,” she said in a recent interview. “It is a very rare person that those (early adult) years were the best years of life.”

Stressing that she does not have a Pollyanna view of aging, she acknowledged that growing older has significant challenges; the physical body declines, children leave; there might be economic challenges, and there is grief and loss. But there is also much more to the story, she said.

“Knowing who you are as a person, feeling less of a need to keep comparing yourself with others, starting to know what your worth is … it gets stronger inside of us as we go through hard times,” she said.

In their 20s, she says, people grapple with issues of identity, pur-pose, relationships and figuring out the big questions of how to put together a good life.

“As we get older, we live the answers to those questions,” she said.

The information she has to share is not just for elders, she says, but for people in their 20s and 30s who want to know what it really means to grow old and for peo-ple in their middle-age years who might like to

see that time as part of a “grand progression,” rather than a time of dwindling.

As for Vashon and seniors, Lustbader says the island poses significant challenges and the community should address them.

“A lot of work needs to be done to make it work better for people to grow old here,” she said.

Transportation is one of those challenges, she said. Also significant is that people often come to Vashon for the pri-vacy, and the space between neighbors can be large. While that might be an asset at some ages, it can prove difficult for elders. This is true for her, she said, speaking person-ally. At age 60 and as a writer, she values her privacy, but expects that could change.

“If I have to outlive my husband, that is going to be kind of scary,” she said.

Linda Milovsoroff, the director of development at VCC and the coordinator of the Telling Stories series, said VCC hopes to be a central part of that conversation and will want to continue it after the presentation. It is an impor-

tant one to have here, she noted, given the demographics of the island.

“Vashon has a higher percentage of people 55 and older than anywhere else in King County,” she said.

Milovsoroff added that when she first began at VCC several years ago, she kept hearing about Lustbader as an excellent speaker in the field of aging, but learned that she kept a low profile on Vashon. Milovsoroff added that she has read and appreciated some of Lustbader’s books because they include the perspective not just of the care-giver, but also the elders’ point of view and what it feels like to age.

“I was so honored she came out of hiding,” Milovsoroff said. “The talk will give people hope about later life.”

Lustbader is familiar with the work of VCC in part because her husband, Dr. Gary Grosskopf, serves on its board, and she has strong feelings about the need to sup-port the agency. All of the proceeds from her talk will go to the center.

“I love our care center. I love that we have one,” she said. “And I love that it accepts people regardless of their ability to pay.”

VCC’s job would be much easier if it accepted only pri-vate pay patients, Lustbader said, but its mission is to serve all people.

“That is why I am so committed to them, and that is why the whole island needs to be committed to them,” she said.


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There’s no doubt islanders have embraced the tech age. But numbers show they also still value their weekly paper — subscriptions and advertising have stayed steady at The Beachcomber while at other papers they’ve declined. We want to remind readers that the pages of The Beachcomber, as well as our website, are open to everyone and are just as, if not more effective as Facebook or Twitter at putting what you have to say on display.

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LETTER TO THE EDITORGardenProject now has an uncertain future

It’s been almost three years since Eden Reframed, an ecological and community art project, opened at the Burton Adventure Recreation Center (“Eco-art will tell stories of farmers and gardeners,” Oct. 5, 2010).

In that time, we’ve had lovely events to celebrate the changing of the seasons on the equinoxes and

solstices, and people have joined me at weeding and work parties. Many others have gleaned the harvest of the “food forest” that includes culinary and medicinal herbs, kale, berries and other edibles. A part of the garden demonstrates the remediation of soil through plants and mushrooms and hopes to inspire visi-tors with the possibility of restoring the damage that shortsightedness and greed have done to our planet.

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When you bring up the word “tourist” to an islander, you learn a lot about them by how they react to that word. Some people get angry — they fear tourists and the effect they have on the island, going as so far as to sport bumper stickers that call for the outlaw of tourism on Vashon. Others, still fearful of tourists, are a little more pragmatic and welcome tourist dollars for local business but want them gone once they’ve spent their money. Then there are those who are welcoming and work to cul-tivate relationships with tourists. They consider them a vital part of island life and don’t consider them “tourists” in the negative sense. To these people, tourists are hik-ers, coffee aficionados, foodies, beach-goers, wine connoisseurs, art collectors, gardeners, shoppers, quilters, music lovers, cyclists, kay-akers and customers.

Many of Vashon’s most loved businesses depend on the careful cultivation of these relationships. While we are not a totally tourism-dependent economy, the support that visitors bring to Vashon businesses is significant. Sales to off-islanders can range from 25 to 65 percent of a business’s gross income. It can mean the difference between staying in business and closing shop. All islanders, despite their attitude toward tourists, benefit when talented shopkeep-ers, chefs, artists, bakers, distillers, vintners, coffee roasters, bed and breakfast owners, gallery owners, tattoo artists, farmers, soap mak-ers, brewers, dog treat makers and florists are able to make a decent living here. We get the pleasure of their company, but also get to enjoy the quality of their talents and shop with them year-round.

Vashon has a higher quality

and diversity of food, art galleries, musi-cians and shops than most simi-larly populated rural places in the U.S. We also have a degree of natu-

ral beauty that is extremely attrac-tive to visitors, so people are going to want to come over for a visit. At the Chamber’s visitors’ center, we find that most of them are really nice people. They come to Vashon because it is a great way to get away from the city or because they are pursuing some-thing they love. We get a chance to share some of the amazing things Vashon has to offer and have learned that most of them want to be a part of such a great place. Most want to preserve Vashon and actively support island businesses, and they are open to learning about how to do things the Vashon way.

Once a person is ON the island they are OF the island. We want visitors to treat Vashon like we do. We want them to experience the wonders of Vashon like we do, to understand why we love it here, to cherish it and care for it like we do. We want them to enjoy being a part of island life like we do. For despite feeling miles away from the rest of the world, Vashon is a

part of a greater community, and we benefit when that greater com-munity values Vashon the way we value Vashon.

Last weekend we welcomed a new business to the town core. The owners were frequent visi-tors to Vashon and in some circles could have been called tourists. They recently invested in Vashon, revitalizing a storefront and creat-ing a business we now all get to enjoy, the Vashon Island Baking Company. Had we outlawed tour-ism, they would never have come here. Had we alienated them by taking their money and wanting them gone, we might have had a

vacant storefront, which nobody wants. Instead they felt welcomed and became a part of Vashon before they moved here.

We islanders are lucky. We live in a place we love; we

are influenced by our surround-ings and our community, and we help shape it. As much as Vashon stays the same, it is also a dynamic place that inspires people. Visitors are changed by their experi-ences on Vashon more often than Vashon is changed by them. So don’t fear the tourist. Expand your appreciation of travelers beyond their wallet and learn to welcome the visitor. Visitors play a part in what makes Vashon what it is and what it can be. When you celebrate and share what you love about the island, you too cultivate a relation-ship with others who will join you in sustaining the Vashon you love.

— Jim Marsh is the director of the Vashon-Maury Island Chamber

of Commerce.

BUSINESSBy JIM MARSH

Embracing tourism helps our island thrive

LETTER CONTINUES, NEXT PAGE

Visitors are changed by their experiences on Vashon more often than Vashon is changed by them.


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Childrens’ Home in NepalMy goal to build a childrens’ home in Nepal

and support the children with safe shelter, food, health care and educational resources has been responded to in so many wonderful ways; this was clearly in evidence a few Saturdays ago at our fundraiser.

The sale would not have been possible without the generous donation of the use of the building from Shawn Hoffman. He has demon-strated time and again he values our commu-nity. IGA’s Ronelle loaned us sandwich boards, blew up helium balloons and cheered us on (she runs a great produce department there).

Thank you Craig and Mike from Rotary for getting the space ready for us.

We were joined by vendors who only added to the rewarding time we had; they offered beautiful, quirky, crafty, vintage, collectible and health and home environmentally responsible products and items.

We could not have had our sale without donated items from many supportive islanders including Rachel Bard, The Unitarian Fellowship, Laura Goth, Beth Bordner, Judy Balis, Susan Garlic, Frances Hogan, Beth Holmes, Mitch Treese, Julie Gaspers, Faith Addicott, and my “Nana” and parents. Thank you Arlene Shade and Louella Lodahl for the gift of your time.

I was moved by all the islanders who wanted to learn more about my project, donate money, buy our items and offer encouragement.

As my capital campaign continues I will be looking for ways to share my Nepal passion and partner with other individuals, businesses

and organizations. In fact, look for our line of note-cards decorated with drawings by children in the orphanage I worked in in Nepal (ready in time for Mother’s Day)!Namaste, Josh Bingham

The Food Bank says ,“thanks”The Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank would like to extend several huge THANK-YOUs to everyone who participated in the Letter Car-riers’ Food Drive, on Saturday, May 10th. Thank you, first of all, to all the Vashon-Maury residents who left bags of food by their mailboxes. We’ve collected nearly 5,500lbs already and donations are still trickling into the Post Office. That means we beat last year’s collection by almost 300lbs! Thank you, also, to the volunteers who hung fliers around town, drove the box truck, drove mail routes to collect donations, loaded the food bank truck at the Post Office, and helped unload the truck at the Food Bank. We would be noth-ing without our Volunteers! We also received an outpouring of generosity from The Beachcomber, Voice of Vashon, Vashon Events, The Methodist Church and all the local businesses that let us hang fliers for promoting the event. Thank you, so much, for all the help! Finally, the entire drive exists only because the Vashon Post Office and our Letter Carriers choose to ad tons of work to their already busy day in order to collect donations. Keeping our shelves stocked means that Vashon families in need will have a consistent supply of nutritious food throughout the summer months.Thank you Vashon! Emily Scott, Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank


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In the center of the gar-den is a story “hive” where the stories of gardeners and farmers are written down and available to read. They were asked the ques-tion: “What inspires you to plant seeds in this time of ecological crisis?” The garden is a lovely place to meditate and read, picnic, contribute your own story to the archive, play music and meet with friends.

But a real challenge faces Eden Reframed. Despite the over $40K funds spent on this permaculture-designed project, the future of Eden Reframed looks uncertain. Unless local stakeholders can make the time to help with main-taining the project, mostly pulling out grass and fence repair, this garden will become a pleasant memo-ry. So I am making a last ditch effort to recruit folks who want this sweet piece of liberated public land to sustain itself.

Please come to the gar-den on June 21 (our sum-mer solstice celebration) from noon to 3 p.m. to share conversation about how this project can thrive for many years to come. Bring your gardening gloves and some snacks, and we will celebrate the summer’s arrival together.

— Beverly Naidus

I have been trying to figure out how to write something funny about the Mother’s Day Chicken Coop Tour. Given the inherent silliness of the very fact of it, this is not easy. I mean, how do you top something like a chicken coop tour?

Think about it: Someone here on the island wakes up one morn-ing, presumably a chicken farmer (are they farmers? Chickherds? Coopsters? I have no idea. I grew up in an apartment building in New York. We had pigeons pooping on the fire escape, but no chickens … that I know of). Anyway, this chicken wrangler wakes up one morning somewhere on the island, slaps his or her forehead, and exclaims: “I’ve got it! Mother’s Day and chicken coops! Perfect!”

Maybe this comes from eating way too many eggs, I don’t know.

And then this person manages to convince others on the island with chickens to participate. I’m tellin’ you, this is a marketing genius at the top of his or her game. Look at what they’re work-ing with: Chickens!

So as I envision it, these folks flock together and hatch their plot

to ambush the island with an event that seems so charming and, well, so Vashon, that people actu-ally purchase tickets. Think

about that: People buy tickets to see chicken coops. And chickens. It’s amazing. And may I point out that they can see the very same animals any day of the week at

the IGA or the Thriftway, prop-erly packaged?

So, of course, I bought tickets. “It’s Mother’s Day!” I said to the woman lately known as my wife. “Let’s go see chicken coops!” For

reasons that escape me, this actu-ally appealed to her. Thankfully, it was a lovely day and the chickens were out and about, pecking here, pecking there and generally mak-ing a moderately noisy nuisance of themselves. At one farm, they were busily weeding between rows of wine grapes. These are the chick-

ens I would keep, for sure: add some herbs, some garlic, a splash of stock, some of the wine from those grapes, a plump braised chicken? Yum.

It was at this point that the woman lately known as my wife decided that she, too, wanted to raise chickens. I must admit that this was a modest improvement because, shortly after the last sheepdog trials up at Misty Island Farms, my wife decided she must have sheep. She believed this to be a genetic imperative, her being British and all. I reminded her that the house in which we now live, which was renovated for a handi-capped person in a wheelchair, has no grass. It is surrounded by asphalt.

So now it was chickens. “We could build a coop!” she said.

I wondered at the we part of this notion, since I have absolutely no building skills. Nor, as a Londoner, does she.

Let me be clear: The chicken people (is that the right term?) I met were lovely folks. They and their birds seemed in perfect harmony. Pastoral heaven. But then there was the economics. On this island, you cannot have “free range” chickens because to eagles, hawks raccoons, and any number of other vicious varmints, includ-ing dogs, “free range” means “free food!”

So, as I learned from the coop tour, you need to build not just a coop, but also high fences and even a wire mesh roof to ward off the predators. I’m not too swift in the math department, but my “back of the envelope” calculation is that it costs just under a zillion dollars to protect a small flock of dim-as-a-post chickens.

That’s one hell of a lot of eggs.

— Will North is an island author with no farming skills. He does have

a new novel, a murder mystery set in Britain, which will be released in June.

NORTH PASSAGESBy WILL NORTH

Event reveals the complexities of chicken farming

On this island, you cannot have “free range” chickens because to eagles, hawks, raccoons and any number of other vicious varmints, including dogs, “free range” means “free food!”

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WEDNESDAY • 28

Coffee and Pastry Drive-Through Giveaway: Free coffee and pastries for faculty and parents at McMurray and Chautauqua schools. 7 to 9 a.m. in the parking lot of the Vashon Island Community Church.

Cool Jazz Date Night at Vashon Golf & Swim Club: The Mark Lewis Cool Jazz trio, featuring Mark Lewis, Richard Person and Steve Luceno, will perform at the Mileta Creek Restaurant. Cost is $30 per person for dinner and the show. 6 to 8 p.m. at the Vashon Golf & Swim Club.

THURSDAY • 29

Lecture Series: The Burton Community Church lecture and discussion series continues; all are welcome to attend, and the lectures are free. This week’s topics are Freud — the death drive and the inexplicable and Camus — the challenge to take evil seriously. For more information, call Herb Reinelt at 408-7360. 4 to 6 p.m. in Lewis Hall, behind the Burton Community Church.

Junior Crew Guest Bartender Night at The Hardware Store: The Vashon Island Rowing Club will hold a guest bartender night in support of the 18 junior crew members traveling to Sacramento, California, in June for US Rowing’s Junior National Championships. Ten percent of all drink bills and proceeds from donation tip jars will go to the rowing club. 6 to 9 p.m. at The Hardware Store Restaurant.

FRIDAY • 30

Master Gardener Clinic: Get advice from expert gardeners on keeping the deer away. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Stories We Live By: All are wel-come to this free event, where ex-perts will discuss the connections between psychotherapy, healing and storytelling, and how Judaism informs those connections. 7 to 9

p.m. at Havurat Ee Shalom.

Pops Concert: Vashon High School and McMurray Middle School bands will play pop music together for the last band concert of the year. All are welcome, and the event is free. 7 p.m. at the Vashon High School gym.

SATURDAY • 31

Master Gardener Clinic: New plantings showing unexpected problems? Gardening experts can offer solutions. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside True Value.

Farmers Market: This week at the market look for King County Noxious Weed Control, who will have a booth featuring a display and brochures. The Market Bucks matching program will be expand-ed to include WIC farmers market checks beginning June 1. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Village Green.

Klahanie School Open House: The Klahanie School will host an open house as well as a plant and bake sale as a scholarship fundraiser for the school. For more information call 491-9465. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 8107 SW 201st Street.

Good Neighbor Vet Moblile Clinic: Good Neighbor Vet is a mobile preventative care clinic that offers veterinary care at affordable prices. Services such as vaccina-tions, health exams, nail trimming, heartworm testing and more will be available. Services will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information, call 463-5000 or go to GoodNeighborVet.com. 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Island Lumber.

Living History Lecture: From the streets of Shakespeare to the court of Elizabeth, history comes alive in this program which presents a look into the lives of the working class and the nobility during the Elizabe-than age. For kids age 10 and older. 2 p.m. at the Vashon Library.

SUNDAY • 1

Unitarian Service: Rev. Carmen McDowell explores how to say a good goodbye and musical guests include soloist Kate Hayes. 9:45 a.m. in Lewis Hall behind Burton Community Church.

Telling Stories with Wendy Lustbader: Author, storyteller and psychotherapist Wendy Lustbader will share lively tales to illustrate how life gets better as we grow older. Tickets are by donation. 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Bethel Church. (See story, page 5.)

TUESDAY • 3

Family Story Time: For newborns to age 6 with a caregiver, this weekly library offering includes stories, finger plays, movement and

music. Participants do not need to be members of the PlaySpace to at-tend. For more information, call the Vashon Library at 463-2069. 11:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays at the VYFS PlaySpace.

UPCOMING

Zen Center: Bring a poem to share for poetry night at the Zen Center. 6:45 p.m. newcomer orientation, 7 to 8:30 p.m. meditation service, Wednesday, June 4, at the Puget Sound Zen Center, 20406 Chautau-qua Beach Road.

The Roads of Vashon: Kathy Flynn de Gaxiola, author and lifelong amateur Vashon Island historian, will tell some of her favorite stories of Vashon’s roads. Tickets cost $12 until May 31, then $15 starting June 1. For more infor-mation or to purchase tickets, go to vashonroads.eventbrite.com. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, at Havurat Ee Shalom.

Vashon Park District Finance Committee: The public is wel-come to attend this committee meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 5, at Ober Park.

Supported Learning Center Plant Sale: The Supported Learn-ing Center (SLC) at Vashon High School will host a plant sale to benefit the class’s life skills/com-munity vocation program. All of the plants were started and grown by SLC students working with student mentors and staff. Some of the plants available are a variety of tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, zucchini, squash, basil, cucumber, pumpkin and many different types of flowers. Any plants not sold will be donated to the food bank or other organizations in need. 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, June 6, in the greenhouse at Vashon High School.

D-Day Anniversary Flyover: Keep your eyes on the sky to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day.The Historic Flight Foundation has organized a special Washington 30-city flyover of P-51 Mustangs, one of which flew four sorties over the beaches of Normandy, and Point Robinson has been selected as one of the flyover points. Watch the Beachcomber for more details on

the Vashon flyover time. 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, June 6.

Navigating Seas of Change: This new exhibit at the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum will feature an illustrated presentation of the culture and history of the Sqababsh tribe of Quartermaster Harbor in the 19th and early 20th centuries. For more information, go to www.vashonheritage.org. Opens at 6 p.m. Friday, June 6.

Quartermaster Yacht Club Swap Meet: The yacht club will hold a swap meet to benefit the youth sailing program. Boating gear may be donated from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, May 31, and 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, June 6, at the yacht club. To sell boating gear/equipment at the meet, contact Kimberly Ben-ner at 304-8736. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 7, at the yacht club parking lot and Meyer’s Hut.

CLASSES

Container Gardening Work-shop: This free, hands-on work-shop will cover how to use almost anything as a container, creating an edible herb/salad container, work-ing with colors and how to work with sedums. Register in advance by calling 463-3655. 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 31, at The Country Store & Farm.

Kids’ Shooting Camp: The Vashon Sportsmen’s Club will hold a kids’ shooting camp July 14 to 18. There will be 20 spots available for kids ages 9 to 18, and the cost is $350 per camper. To apply, go to www.vashonsportsmensclub.com. For more information, contact Kim Forhart at [email protected] or 463-9545. Registration deadline is June 1.

Craft Distilling Workshop: Spend an afternoon exploring the history, philosophy and process behind

craft distilling. Attendees will experience the process hands-on, from milling the grain to distilling spirits, and will receive a gift bag filled with cocktail recipes, a t-shirt and more. Cost is $100 per person and space will be limited to 10 people. For more information and to register, go to squareup.com/market/seattle-distilling-company/craft-distilling-workshop. 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 1, at Seattle Distilling Company, 19429 Vashon Highway.

First Time Home Buyer’s Class: This is a free class for anyone con-sidering purchasing a home any time in the next 24 months. Learn how to take advantage of over a dozen state programs, including no-interest down-payment assis-tance programs. The class will also include an hour of coaching on how to improve credit scores. For more information, email Aaron Hendon at [email protected]. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 1, at the Vashon Library.

Yin/Yang Yoga: Nicole Grey will lead this weekly class that begins with movement and standing poses and ends with restorative poses to promote an inner medita-tive connection. For more informa-tion, call 463-2058 or email [email protected]. The cost is $56 for four weeks; to register, send a check payable to Island Yoga Cen-ter to PO Box 2062, or drop it off in the red mailbox by the front door. 7 to 8:15 p.m. Wednesdays, June 4 to 25, at Island Yoga Center.

Introduction to Yoga: Deborah King will lead this class for be-ginners or anyone looking for a refresher course to practice basic poses safely and correctly in a relaxed atmosphere. For more information, call 463-2058 or email [email protected]. The cost is $30 for three weeks; to register, send a check payable to

Island Yoga Center to PO Box 2062, or drop it off in the red mailbox by the front door. Noon to 1 p.m. Saturdays, June 7 to 21, at Island Yoga Center.

Butter Basics and Beyond: This class led by Natalie Sheard and Bethany Dilworth of Cornerstone Farm will cover the essentials of creating and maintaining raw, whole milk cultures to make but-termilk, butter, creme fraiche, kefir and yogurt. Participants will make and take home a half-pound of raw, cultured butter and a pint of buttermilk. Brunch is included with the class and will feature several of the products covered. Cost is $85. For more information or to reserve a place, email [email protected]. Payment may be sent to 9215 SW 204th Street, 98070, or dropped off at the farm stand. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, June 8, at Cornerstone Farm.

Shamanic Journeying: Antonia Greene, a skilled psychotherapist and shamanic practitioner, will lead this workshop to help attendees discover obstacles and limiting beliefs that could be preventing them from leading fuller lives. Cost is $20. For more information, go to HestiaRetreat.org/events/upcoming-events, and to register, email [email protected]. 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 8.

Greywater Workshop: The Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club will present this workshop to be led by Water District 19 commissioner Jenny Bell. King County recently approved the use of greywater from residential washing machines for irrigation use, and Bell will explain the benefits of this decision as well as how to take advantage of it. The workshop is free and the public is welcome. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, at the Vashon Library.

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Dads and daughters get ready for the seventh annual Father-Daughter Dance, happening this Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Vashon Golf & Swim Club. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is the theme for this popular event sponsored by Vashon Allied Arts, with proceeds benefitting the VAA Center for Dance.In keeping with tradition, attire is semi-formal dresses for daughters, coat and tie for fathers, uncles, grandfathers or friends. The dance is limited to 120 guests.An optional buffet dinner begins at 5:45 p.m. During the dance, desserts and drinks will be provided, along with a complimentary photograph by John Sage plus a frame and rose for each daughter. Dinner tickets are $20. Dance tickets are $25. Financial assistance is available. For more information, call the VAA office at 463-5131 or Jeff Sayre at 463-2150.

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Send items to [email protected] 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.

FATHER-DAUGHTER DANCE

VASHON THEATRE

Mr. Peabody & Sherman: Ends May 27.

Maleficent: Opens May 30.

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead: Island Green Tech night, 6 p.m. June 3.

See www.vashontheatre.com for show times or call

463-3232.


Vashon Kids helps Island families grow great kids through creative programming that fosters a community of learning and play. Homework support, healthy snacks and drop-in care for elementary aged children. Everyone is welcome. Financial aid is available.

www.VYFS.org206 463-5511

Connect. Nurture. Thrive.

Vashon Kids is located at Chautauqua Elementary.Open weekdays from 6 amuntil 6:30 pm.

Vashon Kids helps families.

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SCENE & HEARD: READYING FOR RADIO

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Structural engineer Art Rack (pictured above) and Voice of Vashon vice president Rick Wallace recently climbed the 80-foot high Water District 19 tank to survey the top for installing the antenna for Vashon’s own community FM radio station, KVSH.Two weeks into VoV’s Raise the Tower fundraising campaign, pledges and donations have reached $25,000, the halfway mark of the $50,000 necessary to build the antenna and install other equip-ment to operate the station. A big boost came from Janet McAlpin and David Godsey of The Open Space for Arts & Community, who offered a $5,000 matching pledge, effectively doubling individual donations up to $5,000.Research and development is now underway to prepare for the station to go on the air later this year.


ARTS&LEISUREVashon-Maury FIRST FRIDAY: Great ready for another evening of viewing art and greeting friends as island gal-

leries, restaurants, stores and businesses open their doors from 6 to 9 p.m. with new exhibitions by island artists. Island musicians will be featured at several stops.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

COLLECTORS ART SALE

Opportunity to buy art from a collector

Vashon Allied Arts will hold a unique art sale this weekend, offering works from the private collections of passionate art collectors who live both on and off the island.

Billed as the Collector’s Choice Art Sale, this event will feature paintings, prints, photographs, posters, textiles, sculpture and pottery. The sale will include a range of artwork with vary-ing prices, all generously donated by the collectors.

Work by several beloved but now deceased island artists will be avail-able, including art by Jakk Corsaw, Fred Eernisse, Gene Admonson and Joe Petta. Among other popular artists represented in the sale are Pam Ingalls and Carole Meriam. There will be five paintings by Pam Ingalls from one collector.

The sale will kick-off on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. for VAA members only. Those who are not members can join at the door.

For the general public, doors will open on Saturday from 10 to 4 p.m. and on Sunday from 11 to 4 p.m.

TWO RENOWN SPEAKERS

Enjoy music and entertain-ment at a fundraiserBest-selling author David James Duncan and storyteller, mythologist and author Michael Meade will be the guest speakers at a fundraiser for former islander Andy Royer, from 5 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 31 at All Pilgrims Church in Seattle.

Duncan is the author of “The River Why” and the “Brothers K.” He is a renown fly fisherman and practitioner of what he calls direct, small-scale compassion-activism.

Island author Meade founded the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. His most recent book is “Why the World Doesn’t End.”

The fundraiser includes music by Sarah Christine, a Vashon-based musician who blends folk, soul and reggae. Of-ferings in the auction include paintings and photographs from professional local artists, fly-fishing gear, vacation packages, restaurant, massage and body-work certificates, wine, gift baskets and more. Tickets are $20 at the door.

Royer, who raised his 17 year-old daughter on Vashon, was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer last Novem-ber. His medical bills after insurance run up to $10,000 a month. Benefit proceeds will defray the on-going costs of Royer’s cancer treatments.

VHS delivers 80s nostalgia with ‘Xanadu’THEATER REVIEWBy SUSAN McCABEFor The Beachcomber

“Xanadu,” a musical continuing this week-end at the new high school theater, is a step back in time two decades to roller skates, leg warmers and headbands (does anyone hear Richard Simmons in the background?). With this final production of Vashon High School’s first season in the new theatre, teacher and director Stephen Floyd has introduced a new crop of student performers we’ll all be watch-ing for the next few years.

Drawing primarily on a cast of young and newly minted theatre students, Floyd and for-mer VHS principal Susan Hanson provide a delightful evening of memorable music, flashy visuals and tongue-in-cheek satire. Parents and other “elders” will sing along with musical hits made famous by the 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck and Gene Kelly. While the film was a critical flop, its musical score by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, featuring the Electric Light Orchestra, spawned a long-running Broadway hit of the same name.

“Xanadu” follows the journey of magical and beautiful Greek muse Kira, played by Olivia Mangione, who descends from the heavens of Mt. Olympus to Venice Beach, California. She’s on a quest to inspire a struggling artist, Quinn McTighe as Sonny Malone, to achieve the greatest artistic creation of all time — the first roller disco.

Mangione as Kira camps and vamps her way into Malone’s heart and leads him to a success-ful partnership with the hard-bitten entertain-ment tycoon Danny McGuire, played by Max Luposzynski. The plot thickens when Kira falls into forbidden love with the mortal Sonny and her jealous sisters take advantage of the situa-tion, thus dooming Kira to eternal damnation from their father god Zeus.

As serious as that sounds, there’s nothing serious about Xanadu the musical. It’s all about following your dreams despite limitations, and, as Zeus says in the play’s final scene, “The greatest achievement of human life and culture is to love someone and create art.”

With instrumental support from pianist Maggie Laird, the VHS cast puts its own stamp on the musical score from the ethe-real “Magic,” the romantic duet “Suddenly” and the passionate finale of “Xanadu.” Maya

Krah and Hannah Fellbaum mix ominous plot twists with comedy in their duet version of “Evil Woman.” Fellbaum reveals her comic skills throughout the play with hilarious facial contortions and satiric asides. And fresh-man Isaac Hughes — a veteran Drama Dock performer — teams up with Luposzynski in an imaginatively staged version of “Dancin’” where Luposzynski’s strong voice provides the musical accompaniment for Hughes’ newly acquired tap dancing skills.

This “Xanadu” is a production built from the back out, starting with Craig Hanson’s simply effective set design that takes the story from a California beach to Mt. Olympus with a few skillfully selected set pieces, slides and a lighting assist from lighting designer Tanner Montague. Sue Griffith’s costuming is a star in this production, with more quick changes than the weather during a spring day on Vashon. And freshman stage manager Hazee Montgomery earned high praise from Floyd for her first effort at organizing a musical. Opening night did expose a few kinks in the new theater’s sound system, making the vocals tough to hear on occasion, a problem likely to be corrected in subsequent performances.

It’s worth noting some comments from Floyd in his director’s notes marking the fact that Xanadu is an all-volunteer production by students and faculty who created the show completely outside the school curriculum. Why? Unlike previous years, this school year had no room in the new semester schedule for a musical theater class. Semesters, it seems, reduce students’ opportunities to take elective courses, forcing them to cut demanding the-ater classes in favor of advanced placement and foreign language classes required for college. Hence, Xanadu is a labor of love and obvious joy from these buoyant young thespians and their adult mentors.

— Susan McCabe is an island writer and Voice of Vashon’s station manager.

Islander Kathy Flynn de Gaxiola has some surprising stories to tell about the history of Vashon’s roads, and she plans to share them at a special presentation next week. “The Roads of Vashon,” an event put on by Let’s Go Vashon! will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, at the Havurat Ee Shalom.

Flynn de Gaxiola comes from an island family whose Vashon roots started to grow in the 1940s. The family was instrumental in the forma-tion of the island by building roads to connect isolated beach-front com-munities and those cut off by the island’s numerous hills. Her family participated in the King County Address and Renaming Project, while Flynn de Gaxiola became a member of the Citizen Advisory Board for Dockton Road at Tramp Harbor.

Flynn de Gaxiola is a published author and lifelong amateur island historian. Her passion and fascination with the roads of Vashon led her to uncover the history behind many island roads. Vashon Highway, for

instance, was the first professional job of Henry Kaiser, who later started Kaiser Aluminum. Luana Beach Road’s bright past unearths a dynamite factory. The twisting curves of wooded Dugway Road near the old VFW Hall has the honor of being the first road on Vashon. And at the southern tip of Manzanita Beach Road, the Suquamish tribe founded a summer set-tlement called Tsugwallat. Later the area at the road’s end was called Little Hong Kong because of the Chinese immigrants who lived there.

During her hour-long talk, Flynn de Gaxiola will share these and other stories she has collected over the years, disclosing many forgotten but sure to be captivating stories of Vashon’s roads. She will also take questions about other island roads.

Seating for the talk is limited, so advance ticket purchase is advised. Advanced tickets are $12 until May 31, then $15 after June 1. Tickets are available at www.eventbrite.com.

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High School thespians will perform on roller skates for the 1980s musical “Xanadu.”

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Hip-hop band will share the stage nextSharing the Stage will kick off the eighth show in the

series on Friday, when four student groups will open a concert by Brothers From Another (BFA), a Seattle hip-hop group.

BFA is a young band with plenty of success to its name and a lot of exposure throughout the Northwest. They have played Sasquatch, The Crocodile Café and other top venues.

“I have no doubt that Vashon is going to enjoy their music and their energy,” said Harris Levinson, one of the series producers.

According to Fred Strong, another producer, Sharing the Stage has been an event for all ages, and up until this year, one that showcases high school students as the opening acts for the headline band. For the first time in the series, the concert will showcase a middle-school act. The young band, Daisy Chain, features Sarah Hotchkiss, Maijah Sanson-Frey and Whitney Silkett.

Other openers for the show include Cameron Sonju on guitar, Nathaniel Parrott on keyboards and electronics and rapper Donald Evans III. Sonju and Evans are both series veterans who opened for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis in 2011, and Evans returns to the stage as an alum-nus.

Levinson said the audience can expect to hear original music from all of the musicians.

“From our very first shows, our professional mentors have always encouraged the student musicians ... to put their own voice out there. Ian Moore gave that message. ... Covers are great, (but) original songs really deepen the experience.”

Rob Bordner, the third co-producer, said the audience should watch for a collaboration in which some of the student openers take the stage together. The collabora-tions emerged during the rehearsal process, which is built into the Sharing the Stage program. Students are selected

through auditions, then rehearse with a mentor who is a working professional musician. Dominic Wolzcko returned this years as mentor, with John Starks as sound mentor.

The show will be at 8 p.m. Friday at the Red Bike. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults and are available at the door or in advance at the VHS office and www.brownpapertickets.com.

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The sound of swing will fill the Grand Hall of Open Space for Arts & Community at 4 p.m. Sunday when Vashon’s much-loved 18-piece Portage Fill Big Band plays the jazz music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Bennie Goodman and more.

Doors open at 3 p.m. for dance lessons, with the Portage Fill’s music kicking off at 4 p.m. Dress for dancing — in your best Vashon style — at this all-ages event.

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VHS celebrates another award, buries time capsule at dedication ceremonyLast week students, staff and community members gathered at Vashon High School, where final touches and landscaping are now completed, to dedicate the new building.At the Friday dedication ceremony, which was also attended by State Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon and King County Councilmember Joe McDermott, district officials announced that the new school has already gained some impressive recognition. The project was named a finalist for the 2014 James D. MacConnell Award, a prestigious international award for facilities planning given by the Council of Educational Facility Planners International. Islander Brian Carter (pictured at left), a principal of Integrus Artchitecture, which designed the building, said the award recognizes not only school design but community engagement in the planning process. He told the crowd at the ceremony that the new school, designed through extensive public outreach, truly reflects the goals and values of the school and island community.Also at the ceremony, high school students buried a time capsule to be opened in 40 years. Included in the time capsule, pictured at right being dropped in the ground by Evan Anderson and Winter Krimmert, is an iPhone, some Riptide articles of note, Seahawks memorabilia, a Green Tide T-shirt and letters from the class of 2014.


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to hit if we don’t get going soon,” said Superintendent Michael Soltman on Monday, referencing the date the park dis-trict has been planning to open the pool.

It is unclear, however, what the process will be if an agreement is not reached quickly, and it is not clear if there is room for compromise. The school board made its position on the pool known last week, school board member Laura Wishik said. Should the park district make an offer that differs from that, she said she could not predict how the school board would vote.

“If they are willing to do something that costs us more money, I really don’t know,” she said.

In the days since the school district’s vote, Lu-Ann Branch, who is the chair of the park board, said she has been continu-ing conversations with the park district’s insurance company about legal respon-sibilities in the matter. She has also been furthering her understanding of what the proposed fix would require and keep-ing her fellow commissioners apprised of developments.

“We are trying to operate in good faith to move things forward,” she said.

Since the drainage problem was discov-ered earlier this spring, school district offi-cials have urged the park district to forego insurance companies and lawyers and work together directly to find a solution.

Most members of the park board, how-

ever, have not been willing to do so, and two weeks ago, the district turned the mat-ter over to its insurance company.

Branch, who is both the chair of the park board, and, with Bill Ameling, one of the two commissioners appointed to address the pool problem, said the approach the school district asked for was not accept-able because the park district wants to be careful to not pay expenses that the school district legally should cover.

“I would hope that we could come up with a solution that won’t be second guessed later on about why did you cave on your fiduciary responsibility,” she said.

Currently, there are opposing views on who is legally responsible to pay for a fix at the pool. Previously, school district superintendent Michael Soltman said he believes a definitive answer could only be arrived at through litigation.

A letter from the school district’s attor-ney indicates that he believes all costs associated with the drainage issues are the responsibility of the park district based on the 30-year contract the two parties signed in 2010.

“The clear intent of the Agreement is that all operational costs are the sole responsibility of VPD, which is required to indemnify and hold VISD harmless against any such costs,” attorney Jeffrey Ganson, of the Seattle law firm Porter Foster Rorick, wrote.

On the park district’s side, however,

Branch said the park board has been given similar assurances from its insurance team.

“They are saying legally we do not have any culpability in this at all,” she said.

Branch said she hoped Tuesday’s conver-sation with the insurance company would help bring clarity to some of the legal issues. Despite the seemingly polarized positions of both parties, Branch said she expected the park district’s insurance team to present unbiased information.

“If the park district is responsible in some way, I want to know,” she said.

Had park district Executive Director Elaine Ott not been away on a previously sched-uled vacation last week, Branch added, the call with the insurance com-pany and a park board meeting to address the issues would have hap-pened more quickly.

“We want to move forward on this as soon as possible,” she said.

Branch noted that she understands that legal issues are one matter, but that there is also the court of public opinion.

“It is the insurance company’s job to tell the park board the hard legalities, and it then it is our job as commissioners to decide what the right thing to do is and what is possible,” she said.

Apart from the legal issues, Branch said the park district has additional concerns, including that the proposed drainage pipe solution requires considerable water test-ing and maintenance beyond what the park district has ever provided and that

the board needed to fully understand the issues involved and their related costs. She also wondered if another fix might be more expensive in the short-term but less expensive and labor-intensive in the long term, an issue she wanted the park board to explore.

However, Bob Hennessey, at the school district, said that he believes any other solution that involves construction would mean the pool would not be ready in time to open for the summer.

While the park and school board mem-bers grapple with both legal and practical issues at the pool, Bonney made clear that the stakes are very high.

As the largest summer employer on Vashon, the pool has already hired staff, some of whom gave up college internships to work there, he sad. He is signing kids up for swimming lessons and has taken full payment from swim teams that practice there in the summer. He also plans to offer an aqua aerobics class for seniors spon-sored by the Arthritis Foundation. And, of course, there are the countless kids who head to the pool on summer afternoons.

Looking ahead, he said he is still plan-ning for opening day on June 14, which is a Saturday and the day before the park district’s target date. In years past, he said, opening day has drawn 300 kids for free swimming, music, games and more. Despite the turmoil surrounding the pool, he has scheduled all those festivities for this year as well and is looking forward to seeing the pool come to life on its first day of the season.

“We like to kick it off with that type of positive experience for everyone in the community,” he said.

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“I would hope that we could come up with a solution that won’t be second guessed later on about why did you cave on your fiduciary responsibility.”

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For many high school track athletes, last week’s district meets marked the end of a competitive season. While this proves accurate for some of the Vashon track team, a remarkable three out of nine ath-letes who competed at Districts will move on to represent the Pirates at the State competition.

Senior Garrett Starr had a breakthrough performance in the triple jump last Thursday at the Tri-District meet. After a season of coming up short in the long jump, he was counting on his tal-ent in the triple jump to land him a spot at State. Before districts, Starr had been fairly consistent in his triple jumps, marking at about 39 to 40 feet all season. On Thursday, however, he managed to break through that barrier with a jump of 41 feet, 11 inches, a personal best by almost a foot. Starr took second to Port Townsend’s Skyler Coppenrath, Starr’s friend and fel-low football player who jumped 42 feet, 3 inches to take the Tri-District title.

Sophomore Annika Hille com-peted in the most events for the Pirates at Districts this year, as she qualified in all four of her regular events. Hille took on the 4-by-100-meter relay with teammates Emily Browne, Annie Muller, Kat Andrus and alternate Lauren Jenks.

Although the relay team came up a few hundredths of a second short in preliminary races, Hille had the chance to compete in the 100 meters, 200 meters and long jump finals. Hille qualified for State in the long jump with a personal best mark of 16 feet, 5

inches. She also broke her personal best in the 200 meters by almost half of a second. Breaking through the 27-second barrier was a feat Hille had been trying to accom-plish all season. However, despite her accomplishments in the 100 meters and 200 meters, the results felt bitter. Hille missed the qualify-ing time for State for both of her respective sprints by .02 seconds. Despite the disappointment, she is glad to be competing in long jump for the second year in a row.

“This year I’ve been struggling to be faster and jump farther than last year, but now that I’ve made it in long jump I’m pretty happy, but not quite satisfied,” Hille said, “I just can’t wait to prove myself in the long jump at State, and I can’t wait until next season so I can reach my goals for sprinting.”

The third Pirate to qualify for State is freshman Kat Andrus. Throughout the season Andrus proved that she is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the triple jump. After marking 33- and 34-foot jumps consistently, Adrus shocked the field with a personal best jump of 35 feet, 10.75 inches at Districts. The phenomenal dis-tance landed her the Tri-District Champion title as a freshman.

Although VHS is sending three track athletes to State, Vashon Island deserves credit for two other young athletes with standout per-formances at Districts. Island resi-dent Graham Peet, a junior at The Northwest School, placed first in both the 3,200 meters and 1,600 meters. Abi Kim, a sophomore at Seattle Christian, took home the Tri-District title in the 100 meters, 200 meters and the long jump.

The State championships will be this weekend in Cheney.

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The Vashon boy’s high school lacrosse team staged a tremen-dous come-from-behind vic-tory in front of a large and bois-terous home crowd on Saturday to advance to the semi-finals in the state tournament.

Down 6-1 after the first quar-ter against Camas High School, Vashon managed to pull to within two goals by the end of the first half of play. In the third quarter, Vashon’s defense con-tinued to assert itself and held Camas to only one goal, while the Vultures’ offense scored three more goals, leaving the teams tied after three quarters.

In the fourth quarter, Vashon’s defense continued to be stingy, allowing only one goal despite being “man down” three separate times. Four fourth-quarter goals by Vashon com-pleted the comeback, with the Vultures winning 12-9. Vashon Stadium, or the Vulture-dome as lacrosse fans affectionately call it, erupted in celebration at the end of the game. Vashon fans have waited a decade to enjoy a playoff game victory at home.

Coach Daniel Macca praised his team’s courage.

“Our boys faced adversity and met the challenge. They never stopped competing, and once we found some confidence, our play improved”

Macca said the players were a bit shaken after the tough first quarter, but he tried to calm them down.

“None of these boys has

played in front of such a large crowd or in a playoff atmo-sphere. I tried to keep it light and shared my experiences of playoff games and comebacks to rebuild their belief,” he said. “They believed, and they proved that they deserve to be in the semi-final game.”

Vashon’s scoring was led by Winter Krimmert (3 goals, 1 assist, 10 ground balls), Griff Jennings (3 goals, 1 assist, 2 ground balls), Ezra Ende (2

goals, 2 ground balls) and Evan Anderson (2 goals, 2 ground balls). Nathan Jones and Roan O’Neil each had a goal while Elliot Carleton had two assists. Goalie Marquis Stendahl, played a strong game, making 15 saves on 24 shots.

Vashon will face Seattle Academy tonight in the semi-finals, attempting a historic run to the finals. The game will begin at 7 p.m. at the Vashon stadium.

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ended its season on a historical note Saturday at the state playoffs. The team made it to the first round of playoffs for the first time in team history, but lost to Blaine, 31-4.

Prior to the loss, Vashon ended its regular season with senior night and a game against Cascade Christian on Tuesday, May 20. The Pirates defeated the Cougars, 16-7.

Senior night was a big night for the Pirates. Tied for fourth in the Nisqually League, the team need-ed to win against the Courgars to secure a spot in the playoffs.

Vashon jumped on Cascade early, scoring 4 points in the first inning and 6 in the second. Senior pitcher Gabby Frazier held Cascade score-less through inning three before giv-ing up 4 points in the fourth.

Frazier pitched all seven innings,

giving up seven runs and striking out five. Senior Paige Browne had a great day at the plate, hitting a triple, double and single.

Vashon was in the playoffs for the first time in team history. Now all they had to do was get passed Blaine.

The Pirates started off the playoff game hot when freshman Hannah McArthur hit a three-run bomb. In the second, Browne hit a home run over the centerfield fence.

Defensively the Pirates battled for three innings with Browne pitch-ing, but eventually they fell apart defensively. The game ended in five innings with Blaine scoring 31 runs to Vashon’s four.

This year’s team managed to do something no other team in Vashon history has ever been able to do. With many young players planning to return next year, expectations and hopes are high.

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Softball ends at first-ever playoffs Three male rowers nab college scholarships

The Vashon Island Rowing Club will send three graduating male rowers to row for Division I schools, countering a common misconception that colleges with row-ing programs are only interested in girls.

Jacob Plihal, Tate Gill and Baxter Call will all row for their chosen schools. And while all three have excellent academic records, their paths to collegiate rowing have been quite different.

Unlike women’s rowing, men’s rowing is not an NCAA sport, and this is often mis-understood to mean

that colleges only put money into women’s rowing. In fact, men’s rowing chose not to join the NCAA. This choice can actually lead to better offers to quali-fied athletes, given that the NCAA has many limits regarding schol-arship money.

Plihal was heav-ily recruited by many Division I programs, including several Ivy League schools, and ultimately decided on Northeastern, where he plans to study archi-tecture and was offered an athletic scholarship worth 75 percent of his tuition, room and board.

Gill applied to

schools that he liked academically but also had strong rowing pro-grams, and was offered an athletic scholarship to Boston University, where he plans to study engineering. Gill received an offer for 60 percent of his tuition, room and board.

Call’s path to a Division I rowing pro-gram came in the form of an academic schol-

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TIME&AGAINVashon-Maury SEAS OF CHANGE: The Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum will soon open a new exhibit on the

Native experience on Vashon. Called “Vashon Island’s Native People: Navigating Seas of Change,” the exhibit will open June 6 and run through March 15, 2015. Watch The Beachcomber for more on the exhibit.

Northwest tribes were decimated by disease, internmentBy BRUCE HAULMAN For The Beachcomber

Vashon-Maury Island has been the home of Native people for as many as 9,000 years. We do not know for certain if Native Americans passed over Vashon as they roamed the Northwest hunting mammoths and other large animals of that time, but we do know that spear points and arrowhead dating from that time have been found on the island.

There is evidence that at least 2,500 years ago Native people lived permanently on the island. By about 250 years ago, there is estimated to have been around 650 Native people living in six permanent village sites on the island. These Natives identified themselves as the sHebabS in the Twulushootseed language of the Puyallup People, or the S’Homamish in the later Chinook jargon (chinuk wawa) trade lan-guage.

The original Native people of Vashon were decimated and displaced after the arrival of European settlers. Through the ravages of epidemic diseases that killed over two-thirds of the Native Americans of this region, and through removal, intern-ment and placement on the Puyallup Reservation, their numbers dwindled, but they did not disappear. Some continue to live on, and others continue to visit the island they called home as they adopted and became a part of the white culture that overwhelmed and replaced them.

The Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum will soon open an exhibit on the Native experience on Vashon. Titled “Vashon Island’s First People: Navigating Seas of Change,” the exhibit will open on First Friday, June 6.

Today, Native people continue to call Vashon-Maury Island home, but most of them are not the same Native people who originally inhabited the island. The 2010 Census counted 220 Vashon-Maury Island residents who identified as Native American. Seven of these residents iden-tified as being Puget Sound Salish, the original Native people of the Puget Sound region. The other 213 Native people identi-fied as being from 26 other tribes, includ-ing 33 from Alaskan tribes, 31 Cherokee, 12 Choctaw, nine Sioux and eight Chippewa.

Israel Shotridge (pictured at right) is a

well-known island artist who is an Alaska Native. Shotridge, who has lived on Vashon since the 1990s, is a member of the Tlingit tribe and is a master carver.

At McMurray Middle School, there is a monument to the Native people of Vashon. It was installed by the Hands Across Time project developed by Roxanne Thayer in the mid-1990s. The project involved an archaeological dig at Jensen Point on the Burton Peninsula. The monument was intended to honor the sHebabS People of Vashon-Maury Island. It reads in the Twulushootseed language:

(In honor of those who went before us, the Native people of Vashon-Maury Island)

Now the monument can honor all of the Native Americans who are an important part of our community. They are not all sHebabS people who originally lived here, but they are all Native people who call Vashon home.

— Bruce Haulman is an island historian.

Oliver Van Olinda photograph courtesy of the University of Washington

A Native woman cuts wood on a beach on Vashon circa 1895.

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that Volker first learned of the walk. Volker was given “The Way,” a 2012 film starting Martin Sheen and featuring El Camino de Santiago, as a Christmas gift and was hooked.

Commonly called el Camino, the ancient path across northern Spain became Volker’s third “C.” Translated as the Way of St. James, the 500-mile trek ends at what is believed to be the burial site of the apostle James and has been a popular Christian pilgrimage for over 1,000 years. In recent years the path, dotted with historical sites, picturesque views and small towns with hostels, has become a destination for travel-ers of all backgrounds. It now draws over 200,000 walkers a year.

“It’s become an international phenom-enon. … You’re walking in the footsteps of millions of people who have come before you,” Volker said.

It was a phenomenon that Volker, though drawn by the trail, first thought he would never experience himself. Believing he was too ill to travel and walk such a long dis-tance, Volker, who is also a hiker, wood-worker and avid hunter, set about recreating the walk closer to home.

With help from a friend who is an engi-neer, Volker eventually mapped out a half-mile path on his 10-acre property. And last December, after the trail was blessed by Father Marc Powell of St. John Vianney, he began to walk.

“Being an islander, we tend to come up with our own solutions for things,” Volker said.

Walking the trail again last week, Volker, who raised two children on Vashon with his wife Rebecca Graves, frequently passed

posts with scallop shells — the symbol of the Camino. He walked by hanging bird feeders, well-worn hunting targets in the woods and a small steam with a line of rocks to cross it. When a dog in a neighbor-ing yard approached the fence, he promptly produced a treat from his pocket.

“It seemed to be different every time,” he said of the walk.

And it was, in part because Volker was often not alone as he did 909 laps on his trail. Over 100 friends, family mem-bers, acquaintances and even doctors from Swedish Hospital accompanied Volker on various legs of the walk. Volker kept care-ful records in a log book, daily recording how far he walked, who he walked with and where he would be on the actual Camino. As he increased how far he walked at a time, eventually walking as many as 6 miles a day, he says he also built relationships.

He walked with members of the Vashon Episcopal church, where he gave a talk. And he even convinced the author of a book about the Camino, Annie O’Neil, who is also featured in a popular documentary about the trail, to come to Vashon to walk with him. It poured the day she came, he said, but the two still had a great time.

“A lot of great conversations were had here,” he said.

The walking was not only good for the soul, Volker said, but also seemed to be good for his health, as his strength gradu-ally grew. His exercise was constantly moni-tored by his doctors at Swedish, who have been impressed at how well he’s handled chemotherapy.

“It’s a rough process, but I seemed to have sidestepped all sorts of pitfalls,” he said.

“Everyone is totally on board at Swedish,” he added. “I’m kind of a feather in their cap.”

In recent months, Volker’s cancer has stabilized, and several recent scans have come back clean, meaning the cancer hasn’t

spread since previous scans. While this doesn’t necessarily mean much for the future, Volker says, it does bode well for his trip to Spain. If two more scans come back clean, doctors will give him the okay to skip one chemo treatment and spend four weeks in July and August walking the Camino.

“I’ve got one doctor that keeps me alive, and one that puts me on the map,” he said. “I like to think of it that way.”

Volker will be joined on the trail by two friends from St. John Vianney. One of them, Kelly Burke, recently lost his wife to cancer.

“It’s exciting and wonderful, and I’m scared to death,” Burke said in an interview last week.

The two men, along with islander Rick Paquette, are already training for the trek, where they will live for four weeks out of backpacks and walk about 12 miles per day on roads and dirt trails. The trek will begin in the mountains on the border of France and Spain, cross through flat farm-lands and end in on the northwest coast of Spain, a place Volker compared to western Washington. In between, the group will stay in hotels and hostels that at some places could have up to 100 people in a room.

“It’s not a race, it’s a walk,” said Burke, who has known Volker for years. “We’ll do what we can do, and if we need to take a day off to rest, that’s what we need to do.”

Burke plans to finish the length of the route, but Volker, who doesn’t have as much time to spend in Spain, will skip some legs in order to see the entire trail. “God will-ing and doctor willing,” Volker said, he will walk the final 100 kilometers to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, a stretch required to receive a certificate of completion.

“I think it’s going to be a wonderful time to reflect on life,” Burke said, “thinking about our busy life here and what’s really important in living. I think I’m going to be changed when I come back, and I think Phil will, too.”

Volker is looking forward to what the Camino will hold, but at the same time says he’s already been changed on his own backyard journey.

“It’s really enriched my life,” he said. “My life has never been richer than it is right now.”

Coming to the end of last week’s walk, Volker bent down to pick up a stone and tossed it onto a large pile of rocks in front of his home. He explained that each rock rep-resents a prayer said by either him or a guest after finishing a walk, similar to a tradition on the real Camino.

“All of these things got prayed for,” he said. “Maybe there are miracles in there that happened.”

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Several high school Explorers from Vashon won awards at the Washington Association of Future Firefighters Muster on May 17.

For more than a decade, Explorers from all over the state have gathered at this annual competition to test their skills against their

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VIFR Explorer TeraJane Ripley won first place over-all in the Ropes, Knots and Hoisting competi-tion. Fellow Explorer Ellen Chappelka won third place in the same event. A team comprised of Ripley, Chappelka, Mykah Shiosaki and Eli Hudson won first place overall in Ropes, Knots and Hoisting. The team also won third place overall in the Combat Challenge.

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May 9: Juveniles on the 8700 block of Van Olinda Road were allegedly drink-

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May 14: An unknown male appeared at the front door of a house on the 9200 block of SW 216th Street, claiming he did not know where he was and appeared to be extremely intoxicated.

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Chautauqua Elementary students enjoyed a trip around the world in music and dance, with plenty of fun and frolic thrown in. The high-spirited fifth graders of teacher Mary Heath, under the direction of music specialist Samantha Hirman and artist-in-residence Carolyn Candy, danced, sang, told jokes and played a variety of musical instruments in a recent performance. The fifth-grade musical was spon-sored by Vashon Artists in Schools (VAIS), a collaborative program between Vashon Island School District and Vashon Allied Arts.Pictured above, Lucas Schoenburg performs at the concert.

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MLS #640117 $829,000

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SUN-FILLED ACREAGE

MLS #562521 $99,500

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Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, May 28, 2014