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Beekeepers on the Island are all stirred up. You should be too!

Beekeepers’ grumblings have mounted into horrified rumblings – the situation is dire. I hear them at Church and at Free Range Folk Choir. They talk about it at Saturday Market. It’s not just members of the Fruit Club or the Beekeepers Club.

The PBS Frontline documentary "Lost in Detention" will be shown at the Land Trust Building on Wednesday evening, May 2, at 7 pm, with an opportunity for discussion following.

The event is sponsored by the Immigration as a Moral Issue Study Action Group of the Vashon Island Unitarian Fellowship, which is also supporting a vigil at our own local immigration detention center in Tacoma on May 12.

Summer is blazing its way to Vashon in a whole new way, at Ignition Studios, starting May 4th! Not only is Ignition on the May Studio Tour map with artist David Blad in residence, but new plans are in place for a summer outdoor "artists market". The Gallery is also now enrolling for two May Weekend Portrait Painting workshops and a huge new space has opened up in the garage area for art parties throughout the year—birthdays, "girlz nite", bridal or baby showers, you name it!

Put May 5th on your calenders and come early because by noon we are mostly sold out. Members have been busy dividing and cultivating perennials, shrubs and grasses all year long. We will have lovely Fuchsias and Geraniums from Kay White’s garden. The perfect gift for Mothers Day!

As with a car or any democratic organization, the direction it takes depends on who is in the driver’s seat. Among the couple dozen or so organizations that concern themselves with some aspect of the general welfare of the Island, you tend to see a lot of the same individuals. Why is that? Some of the more obvious reasons are: they have the time, they really care about the community, they like the social outlet, they have a vision for a better future, or maybe they just like to control things. Almost all of us fit into one or more of these categories, yet only a few serve.

Edie Ulatoski, General Joe’s "better half," will share the other side of their story, what was it like to be married to an assistant Army attaché in the former Soviet Union during the Cold War and raise their family behind the Iron Curtain, living in the American Embassy in Moscow. Edie will tell her story at 4 pm on Sunday, May 6th at the Blue Heron Arts Center as part of the Telling Stories: A Speaker Series By and About Vashon Locals to benefit Vashon Community Care.

Three cheers for these teams who have reported weeks three and four:

Seven superfoods that taste good and keep you healthy are beans, peas, broccoli, eggs, blueberries, oatmeal, walnuts, and yogurt. To come people, broccoli tastes bitter.

KEXP SEATTLE - This Seattle-born, Alaska-based singer-songwriter debuts with a jaw-dropping set of beautifully crafted country-folk. Kanzler has a fine, expressive voice with a touch of gravel and his melodies are often sublime, reminiscent at times of early Dylan.

San Francisco-based roots lead singer Nell Robinson and her smokin’ All Star Band play Alabama soul music with a Bay Area twist, 7:30 pm, Saturday, April 28, at Vashon Allied Arts. "Utterly won me over, charmed me silly," said Sing OUT Magazine.

Camille Kappelman as Giselle in the upcoming VAA Center for Dance spring production of Giselle, Original Works & Under the Big Top. Performances will take place:

April 7 was a clear windy day at Bremerton Raceway and Wagons of Steel was there for the first day of drag racing in 2012. We arrived casually, in the late morning. It was a test and tune session so there was no schedule. The starting line was remarkably decent, considering that the track hadn’t been used since last season and traction was pretty good. Our big wagon picked up right where we left it last year, running consistent mid eleven second quarter mile times at 115 mph. Not bad for a two ton wagon running on 87 octane!