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The Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust is proud to co-sponsor the Community Cinema Vashon’s December film screening of TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai. This inspirational documentary film is a portrait of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement. Everyone is invited to this free event Sunday - December 18th - Ober Park Performance Room - 3:00-5:00pm.
Thank You Vashon voters! It was impressive to have such a large number of registered voters cast their ballots.
Thank you for the encouragement, support, and your votes to retain me as one of your fire commissioners. It is an honor to serve our community, and I am thankful for your confidence in me. I’ll do my best to make you proud.
Church of Great Rain will celebrate the spirit of the season with a Holiday Show on December 11 at 4PM at Open Space for Arts and Community.
The Holiday Show will feature the Church House Band, twisted news and irreverent views by the Holy Roller Radio Players, and a lively impromptu sermon by the preacher. Over sixty uniquely talented actors, musicians, writers, and technical crew contribute to these wonderful collaborations. Joining the cast for this performance will be Island actor and singer Louis Mangione.
Register today for your son grades 3-6 to learn the ABCs of lacrosse or refresh his skills at a Varsity player lead clinic to be held Saturday, December 17 at the high school gym. Adult coaches and Lacrosse Club parents will be on site to answer your questions about participating in the Vashon Lacrosse Club program.
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.
Herman Cain and the circus at Penn State have just plain ticked me off. Outside of the obvious, you know why? Because men and the women who want their approval have been saying ‘Ain’t no big thing’ for entirely too long.
I can write it now because nobody cares about this story anymore.
This column will reach you a bit too late for presenting ideas for stuffing a turkey, but just in time for ideas on what to do about the leftover meaty carcass.
First, I pick off all the meat bits the Thanksgiving feasters left on it. I freeze them in plastic packets. Then I break the remaining meaty skeleton into at least two or three plastic freezer bags full of turkey parts.
My friend and constant email pal, Susan Bardwell, passed away on Friday, November 11, at the age of 57. She had inoperable lung cancer, and after a course of radiation and two chemo sessions her body couldn’t go on.
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 2826 thanks the following citizens of Vashon Island for judging 115 Essays from the Chautauqua Elementary, McMurray Middle, The Harbor Schools and Boy Scout Troop 294. Norm Mathews, Karen Fuller, Henry Porter, Tim Marsh and Clay Gleb, from the Vashon Thriftway Store; Dave and Connie Parker, Jim Scott and Ed Williams from the Kiwanis Club; and Burdell Hollis, John Moore, B/Gen. Joe Ulatoski, Bart Queary and Roy Bumgarner from the VFW Post 2826 and the Vashon Community.
The Veterans of Vashon sold Poppies at the Vashon Market and Vashon Thriftway on Sunday, November 13, to obtain funds to help homeless and addictive Veterans in Distress, for volunteer programs at the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospitals, Veterans Assisted Living and Skilled Homes,
Every year, for many, many years, the island community of Vashon has drawn together to make sure that everyone has a merry Christmas, and especially the youngest ones among us. This year is no different. Once again Vashon Kiwanis will work together with all our social service organizations and churches to gather up the names of those who truly need our care.
The Holiday 2011 Vashon Island Art Studio Tour will be held on two weekends, December 3rd and 4th and 10th and 11th, 10-4 each day. It’s a free, self-guided event with over 40 participating studios. Follow the numbers designated on the Studio Tour map which is available online at www.VashonIslandArtStudioTour.com and at most island businesses. There are many studios to visit, a few of which are profiled below.
Mark your Calendars as Santa will arrive on a new day this year! Dasher, Santa, and Mrs. Clause will ride into town on his sleigh in the early evening on the first Saturday of December (12-3-11). In past years Santa has arrived on Friday night, but after hearing from disappointed commuting parents who could not arrive in time for the celebration, the decision was made to make the change.
The predictions for climate change in the Pacific Northwest are relatively benign compared to most of the rest of the world. According to Cliff Mass, climate scientist at the UW and weekly commentator on KUOW, the increase in water vapor in the atmosphere due to higher average temperature, will mean a predominance of offshore marine air for us here in the Northwest. That means cooler and wetter weather. The only change for the worse might be that the increased rainfall we are expected to get will fall more in shorter, harder rains. That means that it will not be able to percolate into the soil as readily as our lighter rains do now. Another possibility is that we may not be able to maintain adequate snow pack during the summer leading to summer shortfalls. We on Vashon, having a sole source aquifer, supposedly do not access water from snow pack, so that doesn’t affect us.
While a working studio all year, Waterworks Studio, truly shakes its sleepy head and come vibrantly alive for the Holiday Art Studio Tour, kicking off the 2 weekend long Tour with the Waterworks Preview Party Friday, December 2, from 6 pm on. Waterworks Studio on Maury Island is #26 in the gorgeous Holiday Art Studio Tour brochure, available at most Island merchants and on line at www.VashonIslandArtStudioTour.com. Waterworks can also be seen online at www.waterworksonvashon.com
Nothing moves when I call his name but his eyebrows and a happily wagging tail. Ah… the tail….
Well… the tale began as a disappointment. I was about to receive a chocolate lab like the one I had given away years ago when we had to move the first time and they called from the Burton turn and said , ‘Our friends are going to take her.’. After so many years without a dog, my heart was ready. Knowing that, and also knowing it would take some time to find an adoptive match through Pet Protectors I called Barbara Drinkwater and put in my order: friendly, good with kids, not a barker, pleasant low key breed.
Blue Heron Gallery will host the 5th annual Miniature Show and showcase over 100 pieces by 40 Island artists. Mediums will include wood, painting, mixed media, photography, fiber, clay and more—with one catch, all pieces must be under 50 sq. inches for 2-D work and no bigger than 6 in. x 6 in. x 6 in. for 3-D work. Artists will each show one to five pieces.
Scott McDougall is a noble, little grizzly with precious old time wisdom. His songs of travel, discovery, and perseverance will purify your every day lifestyle and ring adventure when driving home from another day at the office. As the bush bearded, road wrenched McDougall quietly sits down at his humble set up: kick drum, hi-hat, harmonica and simple stringed instruments, the fans making up his growing national following begin taking turns shouting "McDougall!" Once the banjo begins . . . everyone moves. I’ll bet a hundred bucks you can’t stand still through a McDougall set, seriously.
Blue Heron Dance transports one and all into the magical world of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet on the VHS stage just in time for the holiday season. Performed by countless dancers for more than a century, the story, in dance, revolves around Clara, a young girl whose imagination takes flight during her Christmas Eve dreamscape.
Showcasing Island dance talents, 60 students ages 8 to 18, Nutcracker represents a dancer’s rite of passage. The beloved annual production is reinvented every year, with the additions of new choreography, costumes pieces, set designs and new dancers rising through the ranks. But Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score and the tale remain timeless.
Soul Senate is a 7-piece, high-energy, adrenaline-inducing, audience-oriented, original soul/funk party powerhouse.
Bridging the decidedly funky sounds of the 60s & early 70s--such as the Meters, Stevie Wonder, and the Stax label of Memphis--with a distinct modern sound in the vein of Raphael Saadiq, Alice Russell, Eli Paperboy Reed, and the New Mastersounds; Soul Senate claims their own musical territory with booty shaking grooves, well-crafted arrangements, sizzling horns, and memorable instrumentals and vocal songs.
"Really Rosie," a well-known children’s musical theatre production, began as a collaboration in the 1970’s, between author Maurice Sendack and iconic songwriter Carole King. VAA Musical Theatre’s troupe of more than 20 theatre-savvy Island kids will perform their adaptation, complete with characters and stories they created, December 1, 3-4, at the Blue Heron Art Center. Creative team for the project, Director Sue Wiley and Artistic/Musical Director Marita Ericksen, have met with the students after school at the Blue Heron since mid-September.
True story: Two guys debated as to whether the music they were hearing was a Led Zeppelin cd or an actual band playing live music in the studio next door. A bet was made, hands were shook. One guy made off with some easy money. He had heard the band practice last week. And so it goes, with The Crunge-ing Black Dogs.
Trumpeter Thomas Marriott is one of the most exciting musicians to emerge on the national jazz scene in more than a decade. The seven-time Golden Ear award winner is a skilled instrumentalist, composer and producer, always seeking to expand the boundaries of jazz music in all its forms.
After winning the prestigious Carmine Caruso Jazz Trumpet Competition in 1999, Marriott headed east from Seattle to New York where he gained initial acclaim through his work with Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau band.
Voice of Vashon has launched the public phase of a major master planning effort — an online survey of Islander’s desires and needs for broadcast and webcast music, informational television, entertainment shows and emergency alert information. Emails and leafleting teams have started reaching out on the Island to find out what people most want from Voice of Vashon, how they’d like to receive it and how service can be improved as the station moves into the future. The master planning and survey work comes more than a decade after Voice of Vashon went on the air with its first webcast.
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