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Vashon Chamber Music commemorates Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in a spiritually-themed program, Sunday, January 15, 3 p.m., at the Methodist Church.
Third in the 2011-12 Concert Series, the all star ensemble will play the Bach cantata, "Ich habe genug," (I have enough) for baritone, oboe and strings. The program will also include pieces by living composers from Estonia (Pärt) and Latvia (Pelecis).
Voice of Vashon received a major grant this week from Puget Sound Energy Foundation. The $15,000 grant will fund the final phase of development of the Island’s emergency broadcasting system on 1650AM. At the presentation ceremony, held Wednesday at the Voice of Vashon studios at Paradise Ridge,
As a harbinger of hard times to come, writing a hopeful message of “good tidings” as is appropriate to the season is a real challenge for me. In fact, I already wrote a first draft and am back to square one because it was too preachy. So, giving the Grinch a vacation, I’m going to try to talk about what is hopeful for me and what I try to do to be the change that I think will help us survive in the future.
Back by popular demand, Steffon Moody and family performs The Grinch- Sets the Record Straight at the Vashon Movie Theater, along with a showing of Dr. Seuss’ classic holiday cartoon, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (narrated by Boris Karloff). The free event is on Thurs., Dec. 22nd @ 7:30pm, and is gifted to the community by the Vashon Parks District and Vashon Theater.
The sixth annual Vashon Community Scholarship Foundation sponsored Spelling Bee is just around the corner. "Spell It! 2012" will be held on Sunday, January 29, 2012 in the Vashon High School Theater from 3-6 PM. The money raised through this event goes towards the scholarships given to VHS seniors who complete a scholarship notebook.
All over the Island, thoughts of Christmas cookies dance in our heads. Gingerbread men prance across kitchen counters. But some of us are loathe to fill our bodies with sugar, wheat, and fat, knowing that we will suffer later if we indulge too freely. To some, chocolate is kryptonite. A reader has challenged me to provide for her a Christmas cookie free of gluten and chocolate.
Without TV streaming into my home via Cable, Dish or Direct, I was a little worried about missing out on the holiday specials. Guess what I discovered as I was digging for the VHS copy of "White Christmas" that warbles through most of the last third of the movie? I own a practically new copy of "Charlie Brown’s Christmas" !! And guess what else I discovered while I watched it by serendipitous viewing at friends who have commercial TV? I like everything better without commercials!!
It is that time when we pause to look back and reflect on the year that was. Well, those of us who buy into the conventional idea that a new year is coming on January 1 do this, anyway.
The Island’s years tend to have a regular routine, and this year mainly followed that routine: the tide came in and went out, usually a couple of times a day. Some trees fell over. Some hillsides slid. Some days we saw the mountain
A power pole at the intersection of Dockton Rd. and Point Robinson Rd. broke near the top when a car hit a support pole breaking a guy wire supporting the larger pole. The top 30 feet of the pole with the high voltage lines were left dangling in the air, knocking out power to Vashon-Maury Island. Power was restored to most of Vashon Island within seconds, with the help of automatic switching gear. Left in the dark was Maury Island, 1728 PSE customers were without power the rest of Saturday night with estimates that the power would be back on by Sunday late noon.
With nearly 500 votes, The Little House took the top spot in the First Annual Merchant Gingerbread House Contest sponsored by the Vashon Island Chamber of Commerce. Congratulations to Bettie Edwards and Mardi Ljubich for a job well done! Those that followed were just votes apart. The details of the houses were incredible, the imaginations so creative and even the aroma of gingerbread was a delight. It was great to see the merchants so excited and working together.
Shape Up now has over 100 members! At the members’ request, we are creating new fun activities. First, we have started a walking group: SUV Roadsters. Any member can sign up and call a walk anywhere, anytime for folks to join. In a program for the community, Kari Bell, who cooks great recipes at the Thriftway demo section, is presenting "Friends with Veggies" every Wednesday. Learn new easy vegetable recipes and when possible, she will have the main ingedient on sale.
Failing septic systems that potentially pollute Vashon Island marine waters as well as other parts of Puget Sound are required to be fixed by July 1st, 2012 under Marine Recovery Area law enacted by the State Legislature in 2006. The law, described in RCW Chapter 70.118A, requires inspection of on-site sewage disposal systems and repairs to failing systems in Marine Recovery Areas in order to restore and preserve the health and safety of Puget Sound waters, our ecosystem, and our marine life.
Now there are no excuses to be late for winter holiday celebrations. Washington State Ferries (WSF) today launched a new feature that provides customers the estimated time of arrival (ETA) for vessels throughout the system.
I am broken down on Cunnliffe Road on the north end. Daryl, the postmaster is mad as hell and has somewhere to go in his red convertible Mustang. The damn mail is baking in the midday sun.
I took this job to please the in-laws. Some civil worker notion that in 25 years I could take four weeks paid holiday.
It is the many themes surrounding Christmas-time that makes the season resonate so deeply within the collective heart. Hope, generosity, reconciliation, forgiveness, forbearance, family, kindness, and a sense of place within a community touches on but a few of the many mosaic pieces that collectively constitute the image of Christmas in our memories, hearts and minds. The season has its own music and traditions, its food and drink, its smells and colors, trappings and decorations. It is a glowing, twinkling, swirling snowstorm raining down emotions and sensations all around us like the eddying drifts in an old snow globe on a mantelpiece above a whispering fire.
One More Mile is a band that came together over the passion of playing real blues and making the blues real!
Guitarists Jason Lollar and Tommy Bean both have been playing since they could walk, and ever since Tommy saw Lollar performing with a band he had put together called Shakey Jake, he knew he would get together with him one day.
Friday, Dec. 23rd @ 8pm @ The Red Bike, Aimee Cartier, Andy Royer, Harris Levinson, Jeff Hoyt, Jim Farrell, Steffon Moody & physical comedian extraordinaire, Bill Robison provide a sure-fire antidote to the Holiday season with "Holiday Comedy Shorts: An Evening of Brief Spoofs." Come early, pay $5 and we’ll spike your seasonal eggnog with hilarity.
If you happened to go to the Church of Great Rain show last February, you saw an amazing band perform called Publish The Quest. They were responsible for a lot of bodies moving in chairs that night and sold a lot of CD’s because of it. Then they blew the roof off the Bike at the Halloween show this year.
Although there are a lot more aspects of transition to discuss, I’ve decided to rerun the first introductory article from almost a year ago. Many of you may have missed it and the rest probably forgot it (I know I did). It provides a good comprehensive look at the peak oil predicament we are in and why we at Transition Vashon are trying to foment some urgent action to meet it. Please note that it doesn’t touch at all on last week’s topic: climate change.
Let me explain: I’ve been busy, work; my wife and our four kids: busy too. My people call their people; we do lunch. So we’ve all been quite busy; I love writing my columns, I love my wife and kids and I love my readers. You’re all fine, I swear.
Our youngest daughter Gracie, seven, has recently lost almost all of her front teeth, sometimes two at a time, so there’s been plenty of visits from the Tooth Fairy lately.
Micheal, the husband of my friend Susan who recently passed, writes that their four year old grandson Ian asked if MaMa was dead. Yes, Micheal told him, and the boy went off to play. But now, a couple of weeks later, Ian wants to know when MaMa is going to come back alive again.
Somewhere in my archives, at least mentally if it has indeed been lost to the physical world, there is an image of a baseball viewed through scrub and small trees. For as long as I have been driving I have also been stopping in odd places to record images to various media. In this case, I don’t remember whether I came to a screeching halt or looked for a convenient turnaround spot and doubled back, but I did stop and explore and commit at least one image to 35mm Tri-X Kodak safety film.
Vashon Island Community Church (VICC) Youth Group is having fundraisers throughout the year to help Persecution Project- www.persecutionproject.org build a well in Darfur. Persecution Project (PPF) began the 100 Wells Campaign in 2004 to rally support from compassionate individuals in America to help the refugees of Darfur, Sudan, get necessary life sustaining water. www.100wellscampaign.com To date PPF has raised enough funds to build 74 wells, but have 26 wells to go. VICC Youth Group wants to help them build one more well.
My reissued little book, Beans, Rice, and Pastas, is available at Suzanna Leigh’s studio this weekend and next. The studio is called HiLaDi, Number 29 on the Studio Tour Map. The name is Kwakiutl and means something like "everything just as it should be."
It’s the four in hand in Bell Choir playing that really astounds me. As I watched the Bells of the Sound handbell choir play piece after piece with that four in hand technique I sat mesmerized.
The first time I picked up a handbell I had a real orientation challenge. As a pianist I’m used to commanding all the notes. With handbells, you are in charge of one or two or three depending on the song. Each player is assigned a note or notes and they play only those notes.
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