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Another exciting Salmon Derby and another thrilling race to the bottom of Puget Sound for the elusive prize salmon has come and gone.

For years we’ve heard that we should not eat eggs, or at least should toss out the yolks and make our omelets with whites only. White omelets? If I ever make one, it will be as a curiosity, not with the expectation of high-quality nourishment. The first Island Epicure column I ever wrote featured an imaginary conversation with a hen. She explained that an egg contains every nutrient needed to create new life.

In past articles, I’ve always stressed the importance of being resourceful. That means being actively and creatively involved in arriving at solutions for all the problems and situations that arise in your personal world. It requires a lot of curiosity about how things work, knowing how to use tools to fabricate things, how to think "outside the box". Buying just the right thing to serve a need or provide a service is the bare minimum. Growing or devising something from your immediate surroundings is better, and making something useful from something that you were about to pay to dispose of may be the best. Sometimes solutions have a simple elegance that is beautiful to behold.

Nirvana is hosting a free concert by Vashon Island singer songwriter Cami Lundeen on Saturday September 22 from 7 to 9PM.

Being a parent requires the ability to engage intimately with both little people and big people and not everyone is good, or comfortable at that. I can teach you how to do it more easily and with more fun.

This morning I sat on the kitchen porch and stared at the trees. It was a perfect day - cloudless, sun shining, a slight breeze. A small airplane grumbled by overhead, followed by a jet lumbering in to land at SeaTac or Boeing Field. The song birds were chirping incessantly over in the blackberries, and a couple of blue jays were wrack-wracking at each other up the hill in what I think of as TK’s bird sanctuary.

Some people don’t like clowns- I have a hard time with greeters. In greeting terms, I am thinking of people who stand in your way and wish you well when all that you really wanted to do was get in, do whatever it was that you came for and then get out in a way and manner that is unpestered by smiling faces and stock voicings of good wishes and glad tidings. In the worst case, I am thinking of the large, lumbering dolt in Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy, who stands at the entrance to an interminably large and futuristic version of a certain discount box store and drones on in an expressionless monotone: "Welcome to Costco- I Love You."

Approaching our end of summer season on Vashon brings lovely images to mind: warm, sunny days, garden harvest(this year, anyway), beach play, and of course, our own sheepdog trial. The island and greater Seattle area communities have gathered each year to see this traditional interplay of handler, sheepdog, and sheep played out on the bucolic setting of Misty Isle Farms through courses modeled on competitions held in the Scottish borderlands for over a century.  

After a months-long process of hard work and perseverance by Islanders committed to safer roads, the King County Department of Transportation took an important step to address safety concerns by announcing a halt to a plan to install more rumble strips on Vashon.  

From the Northwest, the Pacific and the sunset.

Ten plus years of genre-blending music mixed with intoxicating lyrical depth. Trolls Cottage is hypnotically simplistic; music soaked in lyrical contemplations.

Rising out of the West, The Brainstormers are a hurricane of Southern Old-Time Music headed your way—a perfect storm of instrumental power and brilliant harmony singing illuminated by lightning flashes of lyrical and comic genius. Tom Sauber, Patrick Sauber, and Mark Graham brainstorm a new and original sense to the classic sounds of Old-Time Music exemplified by the likes of Uncle Dave Macon, Ed Haley, Dock Boggs, George Pegram and Red Parham. They will electrify you with their own “old timely” inventions. 

Camp Sealth on Vashon Island, run by Camp Fire USA, is looking for community partners to sponsor the continuation of its horse program. Miller-Blue, Camp Sealth’s horse outfitter for the last 25 years, is going out of business at the end of this summer. The proprietor will be selling his entire herd. As his valuable longtime customers, Camp Fire has the option to purchase horses and all their tack at an extremely favorable price if we can secure donations and pledges now. Camp Fire shares the outfitter’s hope that these horses will be able to continue in high quality youth programs that serve kids who truly care about them.

Amanda Knox’s friend, Raffaele Sollecito, is writing about his experience in Perugia, Italy, when he and Amanda were falsely accused of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007. The two spent nearly four years in prison until they were exonerated at the appeal level in 2010. The next level, the Italian Supreme Court in Rome, will rule on the case in late March 2013 and their duty is to assure that the appeal judges, Hellmann and Zanetti, followed the letter of the law and to listen to rebuttal arguments from the prosecution.

After a five-year break from his studio, Vashon astrologer and artist Frederick Woodruff will unveil 16 new paintings and collages at his upcoming show at the Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union on Friday September 7.

Woodruff notes that his approach to these new paintings was influenced by The New York School: A raucous phase in art history when the abstract expressionists remade the process of painting in an outrageous way.

We’ve got a double-bill that you won’t want to miss at the Roasterie coming up on August 31st at 7pm. Joined together for one night - Cami Lundeen & Gregg Curry!

VAA honors six exemplary Island artists for this year’s Art Auction. Each artist created a special commissioned piece in their medium to be auctioned during Art Auction weekend, Sept. 21 and 22. Join us at the Auction Preview Party and Artist Reception: Friday, August 31, 6 p.m. The Gallery will also be open First Friday, Sept. 7, 6 pm.

Vashon Film Society is launching a new film series with island art lovers in mind. The Friday Art Films Series will coincide with the First Friday Gallery Cruise, and VFS hopes to provide art walkers with a cinematic ending to their night uptown.

The annual Flower Faire Aug 3-4 was a great success. You could smell the wonderful scent of lilies before you got to the Library door. Vashon Garden Club members brought in hundreds of specimens from their gardens. Islanders participated in judging the event and the following winners are by category. Thanks to all who participated.

Drama Dock Youth Theatre Initiative is excited to announce Auditions for GREASE, the musical! on Sept 5th & on the 6th at Ober Park’s Performance Space 6 to 8:30 pm. Please prepare part of a song from GREASE & dress comfortably, as you will be dancing! You must be between 11 and 19 years of age

Tom Wallace gently taps the back of Bella’s leg, asking permission to lift her hoof so that he can remove her worn shoe and replace it with a new one. Rebecca, Tom’s wife, cradles Bella’s head and speaks reassuringly to her, keeping her calm and making her feel safe in an uncomfortable moment. Bella is one of four horses in the Wallace stable, now her herd, and she calls out to two who romp in the pasture without her.

After several visioning meetings this summer, Church of Great Rain is now on retreat to consider the future of the show. Unlike the past 4 years, there will not be a season premiere this September. This will provide our cast and crew the space needed for personal renewal and to work out logistical issues.

Mark DuFresne and his band return to Vashon and the Red Bike 8 pm Saturday, September 8 for more of the hottest blues happening in the Northwest today. Blues legend, Mark DuFresne and his band had such a fantastic time performing on Vashon last year, in a benefit concert for Vashon Community Care that he’s agreed to return and do it again. It promises to be a night of blues you won’t want to miss!

In 2006, we on Vashon had the opportunity to vote on establishing a local Public Utility District (PUD) to finance and manage energy conservation improvements along with local renewable energy production. The lofty goal was to lower our energy needs by two thirds, and to eventually provide all of our power from locally produced renewable energy.