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Having grown up in the San Juan Islands, Kels is steeped in a love for life, the land and community. His newly created One Tree Records is an alternative and collective record label created with the intention to help grow, nourish and sustain great independent music! Rooted in the Pacific NW, they are a unique cooperative seeding musical expression by branching out through community networking to provide a platform of support and direction for aspiring artists.
Shop weekly, not every day or two. Saves time, gas, and bother. Shop with your list in hand. Don’t let the store seduce you with its appealing displays into spending more than you intended.
The day before your weekly grocery shopping, take inventory of fridge, freezer, and pantry. Plan menus for the week ahead. With your cookbook at hand, make your shopping list of items needed to fill in the gaps in the recipes needed for your menus.
Fender Shine has been fermenting for years. The members have been eyeing each other as potential band mates, while continuing to play with other Island musical configurations, such as Island Fusion, Shy Sundays, BeSides and Goldaline.
At long last, these diverse musical ingredients got tossed together to create a tasty musical fizz bang! We bring you Fender Shine, a fine blend of great tunes, both original and obscurely covered rock and roll, with a twist of lime. Fender Shine is Rick Vanselow (guitar), Eric Frith (guitar), Steve Meyer (bass) and Kim Thal (violin).
The "New Look" Vashon Eagles will host A Luau-Style Barbeque and Picnic, September 17th, at our club, 18134 Vashon Highway SW Vashon, WA, to benefit the Vashon Maury Community Food Bank.
Saturday September 17th starting at 3:00pm there will be a Tiki Bar, a pig roast, raffles, a live auction and live music.
Less than two months ago the United Nations declared a famine in parts of East Africa. It was widely covered by the national media for several days but has since received very little attention. Now the UN has even greater warnings about the scope of this terrible situation.
Tens of thousands of refugees have died and more than half a million children are on the brink of starvation. UN officials have stated that the famine continues to spread, warning that 750,000 people could perish in the next few months unless humanitarian aid increases.
I was asked to write a blurb about the island Labyrinth Tour that is coming up, and I realized that the blurb needed a picture.
I mentioned this in an email to my friend Susan, who is a retired journalist, and told her that it would be hard to get a good picture of a labyrinth because a labyrinth is a pattern on the ground, and I wasn’t sure how I could get a picture that looked like anything more than a lumpy bit of lawn with some rocks set in. I mentioned that perhaps I could climb up on a bench that sits at the edge of the lawn where the labyrinth is located, and from that height I could get a better picture.
Well, it is that time of year, and as anyone who has been reading words from this space on a somewhat regular basis should know, we generally pen a report from the hot, dry, high desert environs of northwest Nevada about this time every year. As it so happens, this year will be no exception. What I would like to have said here was that certain aspects of our yearly trek to Burning Man had not been a part of our collective experience this time around. Unfortunately, and in spite of all our pre-burn preparation, our vehicle of transport choice chose to crap out on us once again. I had thought about titling this piece "Four for Four", for the four times in a row we have had varying degrees of vehicular indifference to anticipated travel plans.
September 11, 2001, 5:50am PST, Vashon Island, my house, blue skies, sunshine, a perfect fall day, a perfect day all over the United States of America.
Relaxing with a cup of coffee in hand, I turned on the Today Show and realized that one of the World Trade Center towers was on fire, it had been hit by a plane. My first thought was a prayer for the people in that horrific situation and my second was “that hole is huge.” Then a passenger jet came into view and struck the other tower, it was 6:03am PST and 2977 innocent people would lose their lives that day.
One would think with everything I have on my to do list (lose 115 pounds – yea team for the first thirteen--, earning enough to buy a house, providing special things for my children, volunteering for activities I believe will help create world peace and doing my chores) I’ve got zip, zero time to deal with getting rid of somebody else’s dead car.
After a near-disappearance of Purple Martins (Progne subis) from the Northwest, the large dark swallows are experiencing a significant and steady increase in nesting pairs over the last two decades. This rise is due to volunteers who place nest boxes and gourds on pilings along the Columbia River, through Puget Sound, and into British Columbia.
King County Parks is proposing to limit deer hunting at Island Center Forest on Vashon Island to a 17-day period in October, when all other access to the public open space would be prohibited.
Under the County’s proposal, hunting would occur Oct. 15-31, and hunters would be required to purchase a modern firearm hunting license. Bows and arrows, crossbows, muzzleloaders, revolver-type handguns or shotguns would be allowed; center-fire or rim-fire rifles are prohibited on Vashon Island.
The agreement that would have made Tom Bangasser the Owner and Publisher of the Vashon Loop and several website relating to Vashon Island is off the table.
Steven Allen announced late Friday the he has withdrawn from talks that would make Bangasser the Owner. While not elaborating on the details, Steven Allen the current owner and publisher of the Vashon Loop, said that the wording in the formal documents to be signed were too far apart from the original verbal talks
Vashon Park District Commissioners announced August 26that they have hired Jan Milligan to fill the position of Executive Director to be vacated by retiring Wendy Braicks at year-end. Milligan will start working with Braicks at the Park District October 17. Braicks will leave the post in November.
Recent tobacco retailer inspections on Vashon Island found three out of four retailers selling tobacco to underage teens. This is a startling reversal from inspections between 2005 and 2009 when there were no sales to minors. Overall, King County’s high retailer compliance rate has dropped over the past two years from 96% in 2009 to 89% in 2011.
On Friday August 19, 9 climbers set off to summit Mt Rainier. They have been training and fundraising for 6 months to a year for the Climb for Clean Water. The Climb is a Rotary project spearheaded by Sam Collins, past president of the Vashon Island Rotary and former Executive Director of Vashon Youth and Family Services. The fundraiser raised about $25,000 for clean water for 13 Guatemalan villages where the Vashon Island Rotary has been working to improve public health.
Our family recently took a camping trip for our summer vacation. Circumstances make camping an attractive option for us, as it is for many families: low cost, low hygiene requirements, and all outdoors, those fields of the Lord, in which to play.
My wife Maria had actually never been camping before, which left no one else in our family to be a know-it-all about camping except me.
The Vashon Island Chorale begins its fall session on Tuesday, Sept. 6, culminating in concerts on Dec. 3 and 4. The major work to be presented is Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Also featured will be works from Abraham Kaplan’s Eight Days of Chanukah, Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria, and traditional carols by Sir David Willcocks.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) will be providing students in grades from 3rd Grade through High School an opportunity to participate in VFW Sponsored Youth Essay Contests that provide recognition and cash awards from the VFW Post, VFW District, State of Washington and National levels. The Washington State sponsored Youth Essay Programs include 3rd through 5th Grades; the National Patriot’s Pen Programs includes 6th through 8th Grades and the National Voice of Democracy includes 9th through 12th Grades.
Regarding statements made in the article "Consider Consideration" by Karen Pruett, it should be noted that there is a difference between what Ms. Pruett claims to be the law and what the actual laws are regarding bicycles and riders and their rights to be on state roads. While she references RCW 46.61, she either didn't read the whole thing, or perhaps rewrote it in her mind so that it fit her driving style, which appears to involve a large bubble encompassing her space- a much larger but nevertheless mortally threatened bubble than those surrounding other human beings transiting the planet without the aid of an automobile.
Decrease the risk or impact of serious chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer or heart disease?
Shape up Vashon, or SUV for short, is a new Vashon initiative for people of all ages designed to create a fun and supportive community to improve health and well-being.
When you join SUV, you set your own goals and then we help you achieve them with incentives, prizes, health tips, classes and connections to Vashon's many ongoing fitness and health activities.
VAA pays homage to Hollywood for this year’s art auction when over 130 pieces of art star in the 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 2, free blockbuster preview party. Nosh on marvelous morsels in a Taste of Vashon, rub elbows with famous Island artists and view all the art in the Island’s biggest annual gallery opening.
The 2011-2012 Vashon Chamber Music Series will feature a thoughtfully selected group of exemplary musicians by Artistic Directors Rowena Hammill and Douglas Davis. The Concert Series, now in its third year, begins Oct. 7, with the Beethoven Archduke Trio and Dvořák Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat minor, featuring violinist Stephen Bryant, violist Sue Jane Bryant, pianist Allan Dameron, Rowena Hammill, cello and Douglas Davis, cello.
Tickets are available now for Vashon Allied Arts’ 2011-2012 Arts & Humanities Series, a five-event, 7 p.m., Sunday evening series, held at Blue Heron Art Center. Designed to spark the imagination and enhance understanding and appreciation of our cultural landscape, the first of five events will take place November 13,with Portland filmmaker Joanna Priestley.
Church of Great Rain’s fourth year will begin with a season premiere on September 18 at Open Space for Arts and Community.
Vashon Island’s own music, comedy and variety show features the twisted news and irreverent views of the Holy Roller Radio Players and Church House Band. There will be special guest artists and an inspiring yet wacky, sermon by Church of Great Rain’s preacher, performed impromptu by Artistic Director David Godsey.
September 5, 2011, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito’s appeal trial for the murder conviction of Meredith Kercher reconvenes after summer break and we expect to see the prosecution’s rebuttal continue. At the end of July we left off with the prosecution foot-dragging for an entire day asking inane questions to the independent experts who had reviewed key pieces of the DNA evidence from the Trial of First Instance in 2009.
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