Articles in "Community"

Making our way down to the docks last year for our first day of the adult sailing class, my partner Marcie asked if I thought we would get wet and whether the boats had bathrooms.

Creators of The Census Project, Alice Larson and Bruce Haulman, will talk about their census research project and what they are learning about Japanese residents of Vashon Island on Wednesday, June 18th at 7 p.m. at the Vashon Maury Island Land Trust Building.

Structural engineer Art Rack, along with Voice of Vashon’s Rick Wallace, climbed the 80’ District 19 water tank to survey logistics for installing the KVSH FM antenna.

The SLC (Supported Learning Center) classroom at VHS will be hosting a plant sale in the greenhouse on the VHS campus on Friday June 6th from 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm.  The plants were started and grown by SLC students working with mentors under the guidance and help of staff. 

On Friday evening, June 6, the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum will open a new exhibit illustrating the culture of Vashon’s native people, the sxwobabc*, whose permanent villages thrived for thousands of years along the Quartermaster Harbor shoreline.

The myth of youth as the best years of your life burdens the young and makes us all dread getting older. Nationally-recognized author, storyteller, social worker and Islander, Wendy Lustbader, will de-bunk this myth as she shares lively tales that depict later life as the source of ever-expanding inner and outer discovery.

You are no doubt aware of the cynical maxim, “money talks”.  Nowhere is this truer than right here in the US of A.  In the last few years, the U S Supreme court has enshrined the idea by claiming it to be protected in the US Constitution.

A new website has been launched which will allow anyone to research information on individuals who lived on Vashon-Maury Island

The Vashon Sportsmen’s Club will host its annual Kids’ Trout Derby on Sunday, May 18 at 12:00 noon. Sign-up begins at 11:30.

On Sunday, April 27th The Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie and locally based trade publication, Coffee Talk, hosted a fundraiser Elk BBQ & Bluegrass for 200 guests at The Roasterie.

When, as a young boy, Gus Schairer, one of 7 artists exhibiting at the Grange Hall with next month’s Vashon Island Art Studio Tour

Thank You Vashon!  Last week it was announced that Vashon Island High School is a recipient of the 2013 Washington Achievement Award in two prized areas:  Overall Excellence and High Improvement.