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The second annual 2012 Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents five programs of early chamber music on period instruments on Vashon Island on Thursday evenings through May featuring some of the most accomplished performers on period instruments from around the country and Europe. We hope you’ll join us!
Looking for something fun to do on a Sunday afternoon in January? We’ve got the answer for you! Vashon Community Care is putting on a special screening of the locally produced movie, Old Goats, at 2 pm Sunday, January 22 at Vashon Theatre. This movie was written and directed by Taylor Guterson (son of Bainbridge Island author, David Guterson, who wrote Snow Falling on Cedars) and also features actress Benita "Bunny" Staadecker who, with her husband Charlie, used to live on Vashon Island.
Vashon Community Care’s annual Labor of Love online Auction will soon be here. This much-loved Island tradition, where Islanders bid on items or services that are made or performed by their Island neighbors, will begin at 12 noon on Wednesday, February 1 and run for two weeks, ending at 12 noon on Wednesday, February 15.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) District 2 Judges evaluated student Essays from Vashon Island and Seattle Schools and awarded the winning students certificates and cash at the District 2 Youth Essay Awards meeting in Seattle on Saturday, January 7, 2012. The following students, from the noted Vashon Schools,
First, an apology & correction: In a classic slip of the mind in my last essay, I said that my friend Becky grew up in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle. This prompted a LARGE FONT email from her saying that she grew up in MAGNOLIA, not Madrona, and she was proud of her neighborhood.
Keep moving, then. Our bodies were made for motion, not for sitting in front of a computer or TV screen for hours at a time. What you eat matters a lot, too. Choose raw or lightly cooked vegetables, and fresh or frozen vegetables and fruits instead of canned. Choose fruits for your desserts. Consider red berries and blueberries. They’re anti-cancer food, as well as anti-inflammatory.
I rose from my chair and said to the group at the table, "I’m really sorry. I have to leave this conference right now or I’m going to wreck it." and embarrass myself horribly at the same time I thought to myself.
I had white knuckled my way through the opening night. At first I thought maybe it was just because it was a Seattle event. Close to twenty years on the Island has given me the softness that comes with not having to bang the drum very loudly to be heard. For us transplants it’s a process.
Daisy Bates: The First Lady of Little Rock is the story of a seven-year journey of the filmmaker Sharon La Cruise to discover the life of a forgotten civil rights activist named Daisy Bates. Beautiful, glamorous and articulate, Bates was fearless in her quest for justice, stepping into the spotlight to bring national attention to civil rights issues. Unconventional and egotistical, she became a household name in 1957 when she fought for the right of nine black students to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her public support culminated in a constitutional crisis --- pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself.
What’s red and yellow and fun all over? A mountain of spaghetti piled high with cheese and games for kids of all ages of course! And that’s just what’s happening this Sunday, January 8th from 5-8PM at Lewis Hall in Burton.
The Vashon Island Unitarian Fellowship is hosting its first ever Family Fun Night and will be featuring mountains of homemade spaghetti, salad, and garlic bread, plus kid-friendly games, and even a Talent/No-talent show. The event is free of charge and open to all Vashon families.
Chez VHP is recovering from a New Year’s Day medical emergency, so I am revisiting an earlier column that proved popular with my dear readers.
"Killer whales are the canoes of spirits, and if shamans are lucky, they get these spirit canoes." A Sitka villager uttered these profound words a century ago to the ethnographer James Swanton. To us (Odin and Orca Annie), killer whales are sacred. Life with orcas rejuvenates our bond with the Divine.
Kathy at the apothecary coffee shop had a degree in psychology, specializing in brain chemistry and a second degree in herbology. She looked a little like she didn’t belong, but if you saw her and spoke to her about anything at all intelligible she would smile her toothless smile and beam and gladly answer any reasonable question you put before her. The south end of the coffee house was her domain.
Diabetes is a disease that affects the way the body uses food for strength and energy. Much of the food we eat is broken down into glucose, a form of sugar. When glucose enters the blood stream from the gut, it needs be used or stored by the cells. The hormone insulin is responsible for regulating how much glucose can enter the cells. The pancreas, a fist sized organ lying behind the stomach, makes insulin.
The world climate summit, recently held in Durban, South Africa, illustrated once again how difficult it is to get the biggest carbon emitters in the world to take serious measures to curb their output even in the face of threats to their very existence. The summit was saved, sort of, from abject failure by a last minute agreement to meet in 2015 to discuss binding limits by 2020. What made it happen was the agreement of China and India to sign on, which made it safe for the US to sign on.
Perhaps like you, I have been having various levels of internally roiling turmoil surge through my assorted thought channels and portals as to how I might contribute to the Occupy movement, as well as personal queries as to whether such an endeavor was even a valid use of my time, even though my time these days seems to be of mostly no value to anyone but me. Having received a blanket request to participate in a street action by the folks at our Backbone Campaign, with the option of using my video skills in the process, the thought came to me almost instantaneously- "Why Not?" So, on a crisp and sunny day after Solstice I packed what I deemed to be the maximum of the minimalist essentials
The annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative service, in its 23rd year on the Island, will feature newly appointed State Supreme Court Justice Steven Gonzalez. As always, the event will be held on Dr. King’s birthday, January 15th. This year it falls on a Sunday and will be held at the Vashon Presbyterian Church at 7:00 p.m.
Vashon’s Food Security Working Group will be hosting a series of workshops to help families learn to stock their pantries for all sorts of emergencies—from earthquakes to power outages to job layoffs. Three Food Storage for Emergencies workshops will take place every other Saturday beginning January 21, 10:00 am to Noon.
Three mighty warriors gathered to go hunting. These were their names: She Who Argues; Makes Many Plans; and Straight Arrow, so called by the other two because she tended to drive the car straight through curves instead of around them.
They wanted to begin early in the morning, so they caught a ferry to Southworth a few minutes after noon and headed for the fabled hunting grounds of East Bremerton,
Do you hope for smooth, clear, wrinkle-free skin all your life, or at least past middle age? Forget costly face creams. Save the money you might have spent on Botox. Although a lot of time in the sun will weather our skins, what we eat and drink matter, too. Some foods foster skin wrinkles. Some slow it down. The two lists below come via Dr. Jonathan V. Wright’s newsletter, Nutrition and Healing. He got them from a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Wow… one more holiday to go: Eastern Orthodox Christmas. For us multiple faith families it a long season of gratitude and joy… and partying. With close friends and fmaily who are Jewish and then the Western/Eastern Christmas seasons which only coordinate once in w awhile, it’s just about from Thanksgiving through the first week in January that is a festival of one kind and another. I welcome it every year.
Our family is like a full-sized symphony orchestra, made of only trumpets.
Around the supper table our four kids compete with one another for air space, attention and the seats closest to Mom. While they joust in the same spectrum
Seattle-based Threshold is a group of five seasoned pro rock musicians who are ardent fans of The Moody Blues. Developing and honing the act has been a multi-year labor of love that culminated with Threshold’s debut in February,2011. The band is very excited to publicly celebrate their overwhelming enthusiasm for the enduring Moody Blues whose seminal work "Nights In White Satin" recently charted for an unprecedented 4th time
Originally born and raised in the woods of Vashon Island, Madeline Waits currently resides in Olympia, WA, where she practices a variety of art making. Heavily influenced by the work of Marc Chagall, Ana Mendieta, Andrei Tarkovsky, and T.S. Eliot, Waits’ show
Sarah Christine was born and raised in the beautiful green state of Washington and makes her home on Vashon Island. She gains much influence and inspiration from the mountains, evergreens and everchanging bodies of water which surround her. Sarah’s style of music is a blend of folk, soul and reggae interwoven with conscious lyrics and uplifting positivity.
Two nationally known artists and avid outdoorsmen, painter Kesler Woodward and photographer Paul Bannick, exhibit work in the VAA Gallery opening 6 p.m., Friday, January 6. The show runs through the month. They will also speak in VAA’s Arts and Humanities Series at 7 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 8.
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