Articles in "Community"

Come celebrate the Salish Sea and support Sound Action at the Hardware Store, Thursday May 23, 6-9PM. Sea creatures have been known to dress-up as bar tenders and it is rumored that Alex Trebec

The Spring 2013 Vashon Island Art Studio Tour will be held on two weekends, May 4th-5th and 11th-12th, 10-5 each day. It’s a free, self-guided event with 23 participating studios.

On Saturday, a group of volunteers returned from a week at the McCurdy Mission and Charter School, near Santa Fe. Bob Webster, Linda Maclanlan, Barbara Garrison, Bob Dixon, Marlyce Dixon, Vonnie Feyen, Amanda Ohmert, Mary Margaret Pearson, and Nancy Vanderpool

Poets Laureate, in parallel poetry readings, converge on Vashon Island on May 4th and May 5th.

Sometimes Christians can be embarrassing. Some of the most foolish and immature people I’ve ever known called themselves Christians.

In an ongoing effort to foster community-powered media on Vashon Island, Voice of Vashon has brought Susan McCabe on board as Community Outreach Organizer.

Vashon’s Strawberry Festival means many different things to many different people. Jim Marsh, Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce, feels that the staff, board and members of the Chamber are stewards of this event and, as such, welcome the many different ways people view the festival.

March 25, 2013, Rome, Italy. The Italian Supreme Court sent Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito’s case back to the appeal level for review to the disappointment of the university students who were wrongly convicted of the death of Amanda’s roommate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007.

April 30, 2013 was Amanda’s first interview since her release from an Italian prison near Perugia in 2011. She was wrongly convicted of the murder of her roommate in 2009 along with her friend Raffaele Sollecito and ABC’S Diane Sawyer will host the segment where Amanda will finally be able to speak freely about her ordeal in Italy and discuss her upcoming memoir.

"East L.A.?" says the writer’s wife, "Ugh" and she makes a sound like she suddenly noticed a large banana slug on her dinner plate. "What are you going THERE for?"

As the spring weather wrestles its way in, life all over the island begins again. Despite the cold, we head out to enjoy the sunshine (when we can get it).