Vol. 2 #12 TO INFORM AND AMUSE ~ TO PROVOKE THINKING AND ACTIVISM June 15, 2005 An Evening Festival Line- with up Offers the Livingston Good, the Taylor Good, and the Good By Lauri Hennesey

Lynx and Lady Washington “doing battle” in a cannon sail. A cannon sail involves lots Lots of people enjoy festival of loud gunpowder, but no actual cannon balls, just boys having fun. Courtesy photo. for the parade. Nothing like the Thriftway Drill Team to create a Festival made in heaven. For Tall Ships Set Sail from some folks, it’s the food, or the trinkets, or (if you are seven) the Quartermaster Harbor rides. But Vashon has become a By Marie Browne bastion of artists, and for many, On Wednesday, June 29 Quartermaster Harbor will become the Strawberry Festival means only gathering place for an impressive collection of historical ships that one thing: plenty of great music. are participating in the Tall Ships Tacoma Festival. The ships are This year’s Festival line-up Livingston Taylor will be arriving from around the world, from as far away as New Zealand, does not disappoint, covering performing right here on Vashon Russia, and Mexico. Most are schooners, but the Festival also includes Continued on page 4 June 25 live at the Vashon other historical ships, like the Army-Air Force P-520 crash boat that Theatre, (Opening act tba). supported operations at McChord during WWII. Livingston will perform using the Continued on page 13 12 string guitar, and the Baby Sexual Grand Piano. Not just James Taylor’s brother, and part of a Bedroom Community musical legend family, Assault by Susan Wolf Livingston is a singer, songwriter, A couple of winters ago, we had musician, and professor of music. to Wake Up an intruder enter our home. In the by Marie Browne His voice is also familiar on wee hours of a Sunday morning, this If you have lived on Vashon hundreds of cottage industries. commercial voice-overs. Tickets bold criminal passed our ADT alarm for more than five years, you will But on-Island jobs have steadily are on sale now for $20; Visa/ signs (the alarm had been left off), have noticed that this once- decreased, forcing more people to passed the two cars parked in the Mastercard, checks, and cash economically-diverse community commute—or move. For Vashon driveway, came through our garage accepted. has evolved into something very to regain its economic diversity, door (inadvertently left open), passed Livingston Taylor’s career as the sleeping dog (worthless pet that different. Vashon is no longer we must find more ways for a professional musician has she is) and came through an interior home to businesses that employ people to earn a living without rattled along for over thirty years. door which—until that day—had hundreds of people. The Island riding a ferry. He has toured - some might never been left unlocked. My young that was once known for its skis, Rita Schenck of the Institute for adult daughter, who lived in our say perpetually - with such major roses, and coffee has become Environmental Research and Continued on page 12 artists as Linda Ronstadt, Jimmy largely a community of Education recently presented a Buffett, Fleetwood Mac, and commuters. Granted, there are proposal to a group of Vashon’s civic Jethro Tull. and business leaders. That proposal Continued on page 21 still some double-digit employers is to develop some rural economic here, and we are home to Continued on page 11 Ceriello On Tsunami

Islander Linda Ceriello recently returned from doing tsunami relief work in India, and on Thursday, June 16th at 7:00 p.m. at Cafe’ Luna she will The Matsuda family: Mary, her father show digital photos, share Heisuke , mother Mitsuno, and brother stories, and field questions Yoneichi. This Japanese-American family from Vashon was sent to an internment about the current situation in during WWII, and Mary Matsuda post-tsunami India. She might Gruenewald has written a memoir about wear a funny outfit too. the experience. More on page 21. The Vashon Loop, p. 2 June 15, 05 Get in The Loop

PRE-PAID LEGAL SERVICES ®, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES IDENTIFY THEFT SHIELD Chorale Seeks NEED WILL WRITTEN OR REVISED? DO YOU… “Pops” Singers Hand credit card to server at restaurant? Sign your credit card? Supply personal info over the net? The Vashon Island Chorale Keep S.S. card in your wallet or purse? will sing a “pops” concert at HAVE YOU EVER… GLOBAL DAYS OF ACTION June 17th and 19th, 2005 www.uscampaignforburma.org/action/alerts.html Ober Park on Friday, July 8 as Been audited by the IRS? part of the music line-up for Purchased a home? Community Council Signed a contract of any kind? Strawberry Festival. The first of Had a traffic ticket that was unjustified? six rehearsals will be held on Jean Bosch and Robin Hess were selected by the Vashon Maury Island Had any type of legal question? Monday, June 27, 7:30 to 9:30 Community Council Board at their meeting Monday, June 6. The two proposed IF YOU ANSWERED YES EVEN p.m. at the VHS band room. Bass board members, filling recent vacancies from resignations, will be voted upon ONCE and tenor section members are at the next general community council meeting which is scheduled for Monday, CALL WITTMAN AND ASSOCIATES June 20, at 7:30 p.m. at Courthouse Square. Bosch was a member of the board Independent associates especially needed. Anyone Everett: 567-5776, Flo Ann: 567-5006 after she moved to Vashon in 1988. She had been active with Vashon interested in participating can Lauralee: 235-7015, Joe: 265-9321 Household, island youth, parks, schools and Vashon Allied Arts. Hess retired contact Jo Ann Bardeen for Christine: 290-3941, or Josh: 356-9525 details at 567-5841 or to Vashon in 2000 from a career as librarian for a publisher of text books. He Everett Wittman also brings experience as a minister, a chief deputy assessor, real estate appraiser [email protected]. and broker, and county chairman of his political party in Thurston County. 12522 SW 154th St. Of the two motions scheduled for voting at the next community council Vashon, WA 98070 meeting, the motion to begin each meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag has been referred to the Governance and Policy Committee. The motion to move forward with an effort to place a Public Utility District initiative on Adopt-A-Cat Day Got Real Estate? the ballot in November 2006, will be on the agenda. Vashon Island Pet Protectors Senator Erik Poulsen, vice chairman of the Senate Transportation will host an Adopt-A-Cat Day Need Real Estate ? Committee, and Ed Murray, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, Saturday, June 25th from 11:00 will be the main speakers at the meeting, touching on a variety of issues a.m. to 2:00 p.m. & Sunday, June including ferries, Green Building Act, new emission control law, Glacier 26th from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. at (206) Northwest and others. From the King County Sheriff’s office, the Burien-SeaTac Chief Greg Pandora’s Box. Please stop by or Dymnerski and Captain Brad Thompson, who is the point of contact person call VIPP at 206-389-1085. for the island with the sheriff’s department, will be on hand to introduce 463-LIST themselves to the community. Troy and Marie IsleWilde Call To All Artists Hallooo Islanders! Summer is imminent and so is the 15th Annual IsleWilde Community Arts Celebration! IsleWilders came together recently for our Dream Retreat hosted by AYH. A huge thank you to the wonderful Jake Mulhair! After quite a bit of this and that, babbling, burbling, pondering and posing, we finally sifted General freight out GAMES for the theme of IsleWilde hauling 2005. What kind if games? All kinds: big games, little games, silly games, serious Moving and Storage games and of course FUN games. Next Indoor storage units order of business, workshops and development. now available $35 Workshop ideas included: Maskmaking, Mask Embodiment, Movement/ 206-463-9803 Dance, Found Object Band/Drumming, Costumes, Batik, Brick oven bread baking, Shadow Puppets, Sound Effects, Art Installations, Stiltwalking, Fantastic Fire Barrels, Lantern Walk, Stiltgolfing, Mud Mask Mud Wrestling, and, of course, (YOUR IDEA HERE). Sound interesting? We’re calling out to all artists and merry makers. Would you like to be a workshop leader? Do you have ideas/skills to contribute? We are also looking for inspired individuals who are interested in developing/ fleshing out/hosting some of the more theatrical games. Sound enticing? Call Sierra Zweig at 206-567-4797 for more information and sign-up. P.S. Mark your calendars IsleWilde dates are: August 15-25 for Workshops and August 26, 27, 28 for the Festival. We do passport photos June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 3 Troy and Marie Talk Permits On Vashon, which is part of unincorporated King County, it can be difficult to get a permit to build, renovate, or remodel a house. Mike Bradley, of Sound Contracting and Consulting, specializes in helping people through the process, and has some hints for homeowners who are considering a project.

Troy: Mike, tell us what you do. Marie: Assuming you can get approval from the health department, what happens next? Mike: In Italy, a person known as a ‘Geometra’ performs roughly the combined functions of an architect, site foreman, and engineer in Mike: Then the homeowner needs to submit an application to DDES. The charge of buildings and land use issues. A Geometra acts as a secret to making that part of the process go as smoothly as possible liaison with building authorities, public bodies, and local councils; he is to make sure the paperwork is thorough and complete, so it or she knows the right people to talk to, and how to get things done. doesn’t get sent back to you. We’re fortunate here in that we have a That’s essentially the service I provide for my clients who want to representative from DDES on the island every Tuesday to accept get a building or land use project done. applications. In other parts of unincorporated King County, you have to make an appointment to submit your application—and it can take Marie: What kinds of projects require a permit? 8 weeks just to get an appointment!

Mike: Because Vashon has a sole source aquifer, the whole island is now Troy: Getting a permit is no slam dunk, that’s for sure. Someone who falls considered a critical area. This means that any activity that involves in love with a house on Vashon and wants to buy it and remodel land use requires a permit. And, of course, any new construction or needs to know that it may take more time and money than he or she remodeling that includes a structural change requires a permit. thinks, or is prepared to spend.

Troy: So, for example, if a homeowner wants to add a bedroom to an Marie: That’s true. A homeowner may decide that it’s just easier to make the existing house, what is the first step to get a permit? kids share a bedroom than to add on. But, if he or she decides to go for a permit, a good place to start is the DDES website, at Mike: If you’re adding a bedroom—or doing any sort of addition, for that www.metrokc.gov/ddes. matter—your first step is to get approval from the health department. They have to approve your septic system for additional Troy: Or, they can call Mike Bradley at (206) 463-2055. He can also help use, and they want to make sure you aren’t building over your homeowners who may have remodeled without a permit find out drainfield, or encroaching on a well. what it would take to get an ABC (already been constructed) permit. It’s not necessary to get one, but some people might sleep better Marie: Getting approval from the health department is easier said than knowing their home is completely permitted and up to code. done, right? Marie: And if you are thinking of buying or selling, give us a call. We can Mike: Right. The health department’s assumption is that the lifespan of a help answer your questions. (206) 463-LIST. gravity septic system (which is what most older septic systems are) is 25 years. So, they are likely to require that you replace your Next issue: What does a lender look for when making a loan on a house? septic system with a pressure distribution system, which will cost in the neighborhood of $7000 to $15,000. Home Team Realty Local “Hams” Take it to the Streets Feature Listing Over the past year, the news has “We hope that people will come been full of reports of ham radio and see for themselves, this is not your operators providing critical grandfather’s radio anymore,” said Hardwood floors communications in emergencies Doug Pine. “It may be called ‘Amateur world-wide. On the weekend of June Radio’ because we are unpaid, but New carpet 25-26 local residents will have a there is definitely a high level of Kitchen island chance to meet and talk with ham professionalism involved.” w/Jenn-Air radio operators and see for Over the weekend hams will be Light & Spacious themselves what this “radio service” demonstrating AM, sideband, FM, Gas fireplace digital, code and even satellite really is about. Vashon/Maury Lots of built-ins Island Radio Club will be holding a communications. Several clubs will demonstration of emergency also be experimenting with TV signals communications abilities at Sunrise and incredibly high frequency Ridge, in the field behind the Food equipment. It was from their practical Bank from Saturday June 25th at experience as hams that many Quality in Kennydale $ 389,000 11:00 a.m. to Sunday June 26th at electrical engineers went on to develop 11:00 a.m. the marvels of today’s ! 3 Bedroom ! 1850 SQ FT This annual event, called “Field communications. Day” is the climax of the week long There are 670,000 Amateur Radio ! 2.25 Bath ! Built in 1996 “Amateur Radio Week” sponsored operators in the US, and more than 2.5 by the ARRL, the national million around the world. Through the Quality built, well-planned, bright and airy Craftsman style home in a quiet, nicely association for Amateur Radio. ARRL hams provide emergency maintained neighborhood in the highly desirable Kennydale area. Only two minutes Using only generators, batteries or communications for the DHS Citizens’ from I-405, yet in a quiet cul-de-sac next to the May Creek greenbelt, this is the perfect solar power, the hams construct Corps, Red Cross, Salvation Army, place! New carpeting, refinished hardwood floors, cozy gas fireplace, nice kitchen. emergency stations in parks, FEMA and many state and local Low HOA dues covers front yard maintenance - no mowing! shopping malls and back yards to agencies, and Island hams are actively test their skills under all situations. working with local emergency The slogan, “Ham radio works preparedness organizations to be when other systems don’t!” is more ready in the event of a natural disaster. than just words to the hams as they To learn more about Amateur prove they can send messages in Radio, contact Doug Pine at 463-2837 many forms without the use of or go to www.arrl.org/newham. The phone systems, internet or any other public is most cordially invited to infrastructure that can be come, meet and talk with the hams. compromised in a crisis. More than They might even help you get on the 30,000 amateur radio operators air! across the country participated in For more information contact last year’s event. Doug Pine: [email protected] oo oo oo The Vashon Loop, p. 4 June 15, 05 Festival Line-up Offers the Good, the Good, and the Good

Continued from page 1 everything from choral music to and John Browne wrapping up rock, from fiddlin’ tunes to jazz, the day. from big bands to country. And that’s not even Friday night begins, as usual, mentioning the wonderful new with the some great groups at Youth Stage, located next to Ober Park. This year, Vashon Zoomies in the Theatre parking Voices, a small island vocal lot, which is featuring everything ensemble, kicks off Festival with from some teenage rock musicians a 6 p.m. performance. They are to the Vashon Island Youth followed by the Island Chorale at Chorus. Stay tuned and check out 7 p.m., and Trolls Cottage at 8 the Festival Guide later for what p.m. At the Beer Garden, partiers will be featured there. can kick off Festival weekend by As for me, I must admit a small dancing to Vashon’s own R & B amount of bias in this article, in the band, Loose Change starting at spirit of full disclosure. I sang with 8:00 p.m. Vashon Voices for two years, and On Saturday, ever-popular a more hard-working, delightful island band Turner Down (Funk vocal ensemble on Vashon is hard with Spunk!) plays in the Beer to find. I sang with Portage Fill at Garden at 1 p.m. They are last year’s Strawberry Festival followed by Loose Change at 4 Street Dance (not quite filling the p.m., and Bill Brown & the shoes of their usual singer, the Kingbees from 8 until 11 p.m. on formidable Maggie Laird). I am Saturday. friends with everyone in Turner Meanwhile, following the Down (talk about a great group of parade, both Ober Park and guys!) and have sung with them. Pandora’s Box offer some of the I love and know folks in the best music on the island. At Ober Chorale, Geordie’s Byre, and Park, the beloved Portage Fill Big Bob’s Your Uncle. And, I am the Band kicks things off at 1 p.m. singer in the new Vashon Women They are followed by Mark of Jazz. Okay, so I am laying my Whitman, Bill Brown & the cards on the table. I know these Kingbees, the Island Jazz folks, and love ‘em all, so sure, I STRASTRAWBERRIES!WBERRIES! Quintet featuring the wonderful think you should come to hear STRASTRAWBERRIES!WBERRIES! Maggie Laird, Richard Person, them sing. and other very cool musicians; But I ask you this: aren’t we and Turner Down (Funk with indeed fortunate on Vashon? We Spunk again!) throughout the have a band like Portage Fill, fresh, sliced, afternoon. Meanwhile, over at which has been playing for a the Pandora’s Box stage, Some couple of decades now. Year after Washington Hat begins at 1 p.m., followed by year, there they are. And I can tell Washington Mike Nelson’s Jazz Express, ya, these guys will make you Reinhold-Richards, Gail Pettis, remember swing. We have grown. and the wonderful sea shanty amazing bands like Loose Change, singing and playing Geordie’s Bill Brown & the Kingbees, and Byre. The evening’s music Turner Down. We have adorable 15# bucket $27 - 1/2 bucket $18 includes Portage Fill at 7 p.m., and talented kids playing in Just followed by Loren Sinner’s All Fiddlin’ Around. We have the Star Band rockin’ out the street haunting melodies of Geordie’s June 17-18 only dance at 9:00 p.m. Byre. And yeah, this year, we have Sunday looks just as the Vashon Women of Jazz. Friday noon-6 & Saturday 10-6 promising; Ober Park offers the (Aside to readers: Whoever said Garage Boys at noon, followed by that you shouldn’t follow dogs or Vashon Village parking lot. the Tim Turner Band, HD children on stage was right. And Fusion, Tim Casey & the having said that, our Vashon Bluecats, and—once again— Women of Jazz follows Just Loose Change. Meanwhile, over Fiddlin’ Around. Great. A drink at Pandora’s Box, you can find the anyone?) wonderful and fun Bob’s Your And all of these groups are out Uncle at noon, followed by there during Festival, singing or Primativos, Just Fiddlin’ playing their hearts out for you. Around, Vashon Women of Jazz, Whether playing tunes at the Beer Thank you for your Garden, singing to you at Ober support of community

Saturday, June 25 2005 Livingston Park, performing on the Taylor wonderful Pandora’s Box Stage, in and the center of everything, or yes, international projects Tickets putting on a street dance—these groups will all be there, offering sponsored by the $20 you plenty of wonderful Vashon Rotary Club. entertainment. On Sale Now! On Sale Now! So bring the kids or get a sitter. But come and support these great @ 8pm local musicians. There is plenty of fun to be had. oo oo June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 5 Vashon School Board Wants to Hear from You by Mary Litchfield Tuel

Campus Master Plan At the last presentation on the results of the meeting of the School Board Healthy Youth Survey, which is discussion regarding the Campus given to students every two years. Master Plan centered on how to get It is built to gather information so the word out to the public on times, that prevention and intervention can places, and methods for giving that take place. feedback. The survey result is, on Vashon, Vice Chair Susan Stackhouse said “Drugs are easy to get, and OK to that there will be ongoing ads in both use.” Perception of drugs as harmful island newspapers, and a mailing to is going up elsewhere in all mail boxes on the island, soliciting Washington, but not on Vashon. input from the public and providing This is linked to a lower percentage information on when and where of parents on Vashon seeing drug public forums with Board members and alcohol use among students as will be held. wrong or harmful. Some parents 2005-2006 Budget allow one or both in their homes. Superintendent Mimi Walker Superintendent Walker stated reported that Title V funds have been that, “Your strong conviction as a and said, “The media is here!” End cut by $5,000, and she and her parent that drugs are wrong is the of discussion. assistant, Susan Shields, have been, best prevention.” And you thought the School “crawling and clawing” to get the The survey also showed that Board was no fun. General Fund balance to $425,000, or many McMurray students reported In other business, the Board about 3.9% of $10,800,00, the average being bullied and feeling unsafe. approved cooperative agreements annual budget the last three years. McMurray parent Leslie Farriel said with Clover Park and Bates Technical A majority of Board members felt that “the word on the street” at Colleges; approved summer school that 4% ($432,000) would be a more McMurray is that many middle faculty and staff hires; reduction and realistic number. This means that school students are engaging in resignation of employees; and the Walker and Shields will have to find sexual activity, and she wondered hire of two new coaches, Clay Eastly $7,000 more to bring the fund balance how that is related to marijuana use. as head football coach at McMurray to $432,000. New Bus Superintendent and Kyle Martin as head football Later in the discussion a Board Walker has requested a new 80-seat coach at the high school. member asked if the Board would bus for co-curricular activities. Also approved were an Interlocal have cookies at a future event, and Funds would come out of a separate Agreement with the Vashon Park high school Principal Susan Hanson bus budget. One board member District regarding use of facilities and remarked, “If you want $7,000, you asked if busses were available with grounds; and Policy 1441, a don’t get cookies.” seat belts; Walker replied, “No,” but formalization of guidelines for the The question on everyone’s mind she asserted that high seat backs on public addressing the Board at is, “where is the money coming busses are a safety feature; that we meetings. from?” Will there be a bond or levy? have had no accidents or injuries in The next regular School Board Stay tuned. some time; and our busses are safe. meeting will be on Thursday, June Drug and Alcohol Use Dan Heated discussion ensued until 23rd, at 7:00 p.m. in the Vashon High Kaufman and Stephen Brogan did a someone looked at the Loop reporter School library. oo oo oo The Vashon Loop, p. 6 June 15, 05 SpiritualSpiritual SmartSmart AleckAleck by Mary Litchfield Tuel

I Have All Day

So we went to California, and On Monday morning we went Featuring...... we celebrated my husband Rick’s to a Memorial Day celebration in Beautiful, flavorful, fresh roasted, Guatemalan heirloom coffee. birthday. Sonoma. A retired general spoke. Grown in the shade using traditional farming methods. Hand It was a quick trip – two days Folks, if you want to meet a picked and processed by the people who directly benefit from the sales of this coffee. Fresh roasted, better than organic and made down, two days there, two days genuine pacifist, talk to a war vet, possible through the Vashon Coffee Foundation, which was started especially one who has seen back. We spent a night in a motel by Jim Stewart in 1982 to reward the people who make the from hell in Southern Oregon. We people die for following his specialty coffee industry possible. Stop by and try this spicy had one of those Abbott and orders, as this man had. These are spirited coffee, flavored by the volcanic soil it grows in. Costello exchanges with the desk people with the deep and true clerk when we checked in: grasp of the price of war. “You want smoking room?” We came home, and now “No.” we’re getting back into life as “Smoking?” usual, which means life with a “No.” three-year-old. This morning she “Do you smoke?” decided to put sugar in her Fred “No. Well, my husband does, Flintstone cup, probably in but not inside.” imitation of her dad, who pours “Smoking room.” sugar into his coffee. About half a “NO.” cup of sugar ended up on the He gave us a smoking room. kitchen counter and the kitchen Chastened but not discouraged floor (for the record, none went we headed out for the redwoods the into her cup). next morning. For us, the whole When I walked in she was point of driving to California, having second thoughts and when besides getting where we are going, she saw me she quickly stepped is driving through the redwoods. into the pile of sugar to hide it. We made it to Sonoma in time for a Not a successful ploy, but I late dinner with Rick’s folks, Mark admired her chutzpah. and Diane. Somewhere she has heard The day of Rick’s birthday someone say, “Come on! I haven’t arrived, and in the afternoon, so did got all day!” We’re pretty sure the guests. Rick was expecting a that’s what she heard, but what couple of people. He was expecting his high school buddy Jay, but he was not When you think Realty expecting Jay’s wife Janet, Jay’s brother Gary and wife Sarah; he was expecting dear 206 463-LIST friend Susi and her Think of us! Troy & Marie sweetheart Ron, and my cousin Nancy; he was not expecting Nandi Devam (formerly Terry MacNeil – long story), whom he hadn’t seen for over forty years; Elizabeth Tullis, whom he hadn’t seen for over twenty years; or Charly Franklin, whom we hadn’t seen for,

uhm, I forget how many years. The she now says is, “Come on! I have here?? looking are you are look on Rick’s face as each of these all day!” Why people walked in was worth the When has someone said to drive, and the lousy motel, and the you, “I have all day?” Every time weeks of planning. she says it, it touches me deeply and I feel terrific. I spend a lot of time thinking

Saturday, June 25 2005 Livingston about getting older these days. On Taylor our way to California Rick and I talked a lot about planning our Tickets end game. With things like retirement and wills on my mind, $20 I love the way it feels to say to my grand daughter, “Come on, I have On Sale Now! all day.” Try it. Just roll it around your Gift Certificates Available @ 8pm mouth and see how it feels. Come on. I have all day. oo oo oo June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 7 Don’t Forget the Birds By Ed Swan

Hummingbirds Having Babies Orders have arrived - Ralph Moore recently sent me the come. One of the reasons Anna’s Cheap-O fleece dog tugs and plush toys. accompanying photo to this article of Hummingbirds can over winter here Rufous Hummingbirds sitting on is that they eat insects more than any You know you can’t live without one. their nest. June is right in the middle other North American of breeding season with migrant hummingbird. These birds aren’t Horus’ Pick of the Week: birds busy on their nests or feeding found far from human habitation His dentistry! Correctly guess the number young while some of the year-round and the feeders and exotic plants that of teeth left in his mouth and win a prize birds might be getting ready to start come with it but the additional food a second brood. I’m always resource of bugs helps them make it interested in news and photos of through the winter if the human birds nesting, so I appreciate this related resources slack off a bit. hummer photo. I’d like to hear if The Anna’s Hummingbird is anyone has any Anna’s superficially similar to the Rufous quite territorial and will fight to keep Rufous Hummingbird is a habitat but close observation others from their favorite flowering generalist. They live off a variety of shows a number of obvious bush or feeder. Any speck of bright flowers from the shoreline up into differences. Anna’s are red will attract them, whether they the mountains, in open shrubby larger by about a half inch are looking for food or chasing off a areas and both deciduous and overall. They show none of potential competitor. They’ll inspect coniferous forests. Besides adding the reddish brown that a scarf an inch from your face or insects to its diet, the Rufous gives the Rufous its name check out the bright red toy fire truck Hummingbird will also drink sap and that appears on both on the lawn. Many times I have had from the wells created by Red- female and male of the them land two or three feet away on breasted Sapsuckers on tree trunks. Rufous Hummingbird. the branch of a shrub in order to get These wells not only provide sap but Both male and female a bath as I watered a plant. Both male attract insects for the Rufous to glean. Anna’s Hummingbirds Rufous and Anna’s Hummingbirds The arrival of the Rufous in spring is are light grey/white usually timed to coincide Jim Rosso photo of Anna’s Hummingbird below and green above. with the flowering of the The male has a red/purple pink salmon berry or currant Hummingbirds nesting still. Call me chin, forehead and crown. Male flowers. at 463-7976 or email at Rufous Hummingbirds show a When feeding the [email protected] if you have bright to dark red-brown back, sides hummingbirds, use a feeder any breeding birds to report. and front, depending on how the already colored red and don’t Anna’s Hummingbirds are light hits them, with a bright, ruby add food coloring to bird Californians that have come north as red throat. The throat may appear food, as some of the coloring more people have put out dark, almost black when the light ingredients possibly harm hummingbird feeders and have doesn’t reflect off the iridescent the hummers. Make sure you planted exotic plants that bloom at feathers. Some males show varying Rufous Hummingbird photo by islander clean the feeder each time all times of the year. The first amounts of green on the back. Ralph Moore after it empties. When appeared in Seattle in 1964 with the Females are green above, white making the food for the first breeding record coming from below with light brown sides and make loud, J-shaped power dives hummers, boil sugar and water at 1:1 Tacoma in 1976. They now are seen brown and black tales. The telling past the female that they are wooing. ratio for a minute or so and then add as far north as Alaska. Over the last factor between the two species is the The Rufous is heard mostly as a loud 4 parts more cold water. So for few years, the Vashon Christmas Bird brown color that both the male and buzzing sound as it flies around but example take a half cup each sugar Count averaged 30 Anna’s female Rufous possesses. the Anna’s can also be heard making and water, boil, then add two cups Hummingbirds counted. If you keep Rufous Hummingbirds can be a a loud chittering song from a branch. cold water. Any more sugar in the your feeder up after the summer real favorite for their behavior as well While Anna’s are generally water is too rich for the hummers and around here, Annas will eventually as their bright colors. The males are found around human habitation, the can harm them. oo oo oo

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55. Small bunch of flowers Down 10. Blob 32. Worm-like insect stage 57. Nag 11. Item for sale 33. Fish basket 58. Not out of 13. Boxer Muhammad 34. Kitten’s cry 59. Rocket builders 1. Prego’s competition 15. Type of cheese 35. West by north 60. Heavenly light 2. Iraq’s neighbor 20. Condiment 37. Women’s partners 61. Capital of Norway 3. Golden 22. Central daylight time 39. Cycles per second 62. Ball holder 4. Groggy 25. Three masted 42. Large computer co. 63. Long time periods 5. Wildcat Mediterranean boat 43. Before (prefix) 64. Italian money 6. Jewel 26. Spiritual leader 47. Jewish scribe 65. Bark in pain 7. Wrath 27. Advertisements 49. Performer 68. Self 8. Chocolate tree 29. Sleep disorder 50. Less than two 9. Nothing 30. Newspaper 52. Phase Solution on Page 19 g The Vashon Loop, p. 8 June 15, 05 IslandIsland LifeLife Text & photos by Peter Ray Close Up

When one is out and about in the I shot this while walking through the world, it is always good to deli department at Thriftway. remember that closeness can be Our second image does contain broken down into two categories— a flower and was also shot in the s- flower and s-flower. For those who mode. I made this picture for two may be scratching their collective reasons. The first was because I heads now, it might be prudent to wanted to see what could be add that this is the case in the recorded in full, blaring midday sun, iconography and corresponding since most garden photo rules tell picture snapping functions of my you to shoot in early morning or trusty digital photo companion. evening light for the warmest tones Why there are two stages one must and softer shadows. There is go through in order to render all something, as well, about the things Lilliputian as something screaming intensity of the magenta more than specks or blurs is still flowers of Lychnis coronaria that is somewhat of a mystery. I’m sure it both jarring and pleasing at the same has something to do with optics. time. The berries here are on a And since I do have my 1.50 glasses Nandina, or heavenly bamboo, and for reading and a pair of 3.0 glasses their redness next to the Lychnis for locating troublesome and magenta make for a combination minuscule splinters and thorns and that might lead to headaches and other small objects that now might nausea in those of more delicate as well be subatomic particles, I sensibilities and whose garden guess two stages of magnification do palette aspirations tend toward the make some sense. One has to pastels. In looking at the print, I think remember though, as if the blinking the colors and the and red lightning icon would let one brightness of the light invaders. Scratching the forget, that in the first stage of pushed the edge of the soil surface with the toe camera closeness you still have flash digital envelope, but it is of my boot exposed capabilities. Once you are into the always good to know moister environs, and next and final stage of up close and where those limits make within a few seconds the personal, the flash will no longer their stand. subsoil began to crawl properly light your subject, so it is There is also a close with little brown dots. automatically disconnected and it’s up story this time with Apparently these are up to available light and a steady no corresponding image beneficial mites, hand to ensure that prize-winning since it would have responsible for breaking crispness of vision—if that is indeed required a video feed to things down in the soil. what you’re after. make any sense. I have As near as I can figure, There are times, however, when told the tale a few times, they seem to have gotten blurring for effect has its and have enjoyed the quite happy with the diet advantages. As lines soften and tactile response it of okara and bark they colors merge, what was once a sure evoked, so here goes. I were given. I have never and obvious thing now becomes was kneeling in the dirt seen this before, and something of a mystery. As one the other day while bashing at some my scalp, so I scratched and brushed hope not to experience it again any moves from Photo-realism to concrete with a four pound mallet there too to get it to stop. It wasn’t time soon. If any one else has had a Pointillism to Impressionism to and a brick chisel — there is no need long before the creeping-crawling similar experience, I’d be interested Abstract Expressionism, one not to say why. It was something that was noticeable in all sectors, so I in hearing about it. As for the rest of only gets overwhelmed by the vast needed to be done, but not all at began to flail and stomp and brush you, you’re just imagining that array of -isms, but one also finds a once, so I resolved to do a little each wherever I could. It was at this point crawling feeling. You don’t have to much broader range of possibilities day. After pounding away for a few that I first looked down. thank me for sharing. in both the creation of a given image minutes and chunking off a fair bit What I saw were patches of light There are two postcards this and the interpretation of what said from the base, I called that good for brown all over my t-shirt and up and week, one buck for each one. Or image is all about. Such is the case the day and stood up and started down my pants legs, with very small if you’d like, send any amount to with our first postal picture this time. walking to the next task. I began to brown dots rushing all about in receive these cards and more in I believe I had the camera in s-flower notice what seemed to be something between. They were not biting, just the future. Please specify if you function here, even though there crawling around in my beard so I running about and clustering, which would like to receive them as was nothing of a made brushing them off individual postcards, or get them botanical nature in sight. a bit easier. I peeled off in a packet to send out yourself. Upon first glance, one my shirt and shook and Make sure you include your recognizes a collection of brushed at them from mailing address. Send all faces, but is not both the inside and the requests to 10322 SW 165th St., immediately certain of outside. There was a Vashon Island, WA 98070. Mites their size or make up. good deal of brushing not available for shipping. oo oo oo Because of the and stomping and shadowing, they could scratching for the better almost be statuary, but part of a half hour when then one notices the I finally got to the point calligraphy of sorts where I could ignore the across the top of the stragglers that were left frame. I tried cropping it until I could get home to out, which does add to the shower. Before the mystery, but I like the leaving, however, I had kind of television titling to wander around and twist it adds to the see where they had curiosity. In truth, I’m come from. As it turned reluctant to give up the element of stopped and brushed at it till I didn’t out, the sun-baked surface of the mystery here, but if you want a hint, feel it anymore. It was then that the amended soil all around gave no crawling sensation registered along indication of the grain-of-sand sized June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 9

Star Bores

A long time ago, in a theater far, George Lucas finally has made far away, I was surprised and enough money so that he won’t have amused. It was the Summer of ’77 to be bothered with playing with his and I was cloistered away at a craft computers anymore, at least as far school in the North Carolina as this “epic” is concerned. For the KEEP YOUR EYE ON VALLEY CENTER! mountains. This cloistering was of most part, Revenge of the Sith left me a secluded, as opposed to monastic, less than amused. I found myself We have added quality watch repair sense. My revered objects of looking at the ceiling during one of by a 3rd generation watch man! meditation were my Nikon FTN, the “exciting” battle scenes and and a stack of Stroh’s beer cases in remembering the words from an old NEW AND DIFFERENT HARD-TO-FIND PLANTS AT BOTH NURSERIES. the corner of my room. At the time, Monty Python skit that went sort of MANY IN BLOOM. ALL BERRY PLANTS. the Penland School of Crafts was in like: “…what a tragic waste of Be sure to check out both our lists on the web, and stop by in person. a dry county, which meant that in human life…” order to keep that stack current, one Earlier in the Blockbuster Season Michael Lee’s monthly presentation July 3rd at 1 pm: “Eucalyptus & You” had to drive over the border to and just as the Sith were about to Tennessee or into places like take their revenge, the word in the We have a retail/computer position available Asheville to stock up. As it turned media was that George Lucas had out, I became one of the school inserted some barbed political 20211 Vashon Hwy SW Tel: (206) 463-3655 drivers, and along with food supply analogies into this last episode. www.vashoncountrystore.com www.colvoscreeknursery.com trips and/or students flying in and While there were some comments by needing to be picked up at the the evil Lord Palpitate (or was it airport, I also made a few beer runs Palpatine?) that sounded something in my time at the wheel. like statements often uttered by the We got our news out there Bush administration, it should be Subscribe to mostly through the new students noted that these were things that any The Loop! that came in every two or three power hungry dictatorship might Hey, now you can get your Loop in weeks as the sessions changed. As spew forth, so I don’t quite get the one flush of new blood came surprise here. The more troubling, or the mail! $50 will cover the cost through, all the buzz was about this some might say darker, sides to all of postage and handling for a year. Star Wars phenomenon that had of this are some of the less obvious Send your check with your name swept the country. I had heard portrayals and implications. and address to: The Vashon Loop, rumors that Star Trek was possibly While in the first manifestations going to return as a big screen epic, of this saga we found Luke and Han PO Box 253, Vashon, WA 98070. so I just assumed that that was what and Leia getting down and dirty Deadline to get in The Loop all the clamor was about. I was early with the groveling masses, here we on one of my runs into Asheville one find ourselves mostly in the realms is Friday, June 24th. Email day, and saw a movie marquee of the power elite, whether it’s at the [email protected] or, if waving the Star Wars banner, so I Temple of the Jedi, or in the Mad you MUST, snail mail PO Box stopped for a screening. While Hatter’s tea cup party ride meeting 253, Vashon, WA 98070 standing in a fairly short line for a place of the Supreme Senate. We ticket, I puzzled at the figures never really see anything about the Vashon Loop Staff portrayed on the movie poster in the people here. Even the battles are window. Who was that guy with the fought mostly with droids, which I Writers: Kathy Abascal (on vacation!), Deborah Anderson, Marie glowing sword thing, and what’s up suppose could be construed as a Browne, Eric Francis, Jeff Hoyt, Troy with the dress and the hairdo buns weakly barbed commentary on our Kindred, Melissa McCann, Orca on that woman next to him? In fact, administration’s view of our military Annie, Rex Morris, Jessie Preste, nobody on that poster looked combatants in Iraq, if one wanted to Peter Ray, Jonathan Shipley, Ed anything like Spock or Kirk or Bones stretch things a bit. Swan, Mary Litchfield Tuel and I found that quite odd. I also have a hard time with the relative primitiveness. I’m sure Mr. Guest writers: Mark A. Goldman, As the theater darkened and the city of the future view shown here, Lucas has at least a few trees at Rachel Bard, Susan Wolf story line scrolled off into deep even if it was a long time ago. (Is Skywalker Ranch to use a template space I knew I wasn’t in Kansas or THAT where Back to the Future Photographers: Troy Kindred, Peter — they can’t be that hard to fit into Ray North Carolina or on the starship came from?) Unlike in Blade Runner, the CG scheme of things. Enterprise anymore. And, as robots or even a leap back to Fritz Lang’s There is other stuff of interest, Original art, comics, cartoons: beeped and Wookies yarled and Metropolis, where the dirty under like how the rebels here are pretty Richard Carson, Tristan Davis, Ed Han Solo wisecracked, I laughed belly of the human condition is laid much always the good guys. What if Frohning, Rick Tuel, Jeremy Gregory and noted that nobody else in the bare, all we see in Sithland is the instead they had been known as the (still sending prayers your way), Jeff darkness was laughing with me. I gleaming, over congested pinnacle insurgents — would there then have Hawley noticed a similar lack of laughter at of progress and Big C civilization been an impossible conflict between Ad sales and design: the screening I attended of the latest with apparently none of the TWO dark sides, and could there Troy Kindred (layout too!) and Marie and (thankfully) last gasp of the Star problems we are currently then have been some sort of unholy Browne; [email protected]; Wars marketing tsunami. Hopefully struggling with in our aspiring, alliance in the works? Perhaps this (206) 463-9207. is just too much information, and we should just return to a simpler time Editor: Marie Browne where Batman Begins. Holy Prequel City Beat Editor: Troy Kindred Robin, what is going on here? PO Box 253, Vashon, WA 98070 oo oo oo [email protected]; (206) 463-9207

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Published every two weeks Paradise Valley Press © June 15, 2005 Volume II, Issue 12 The Vashon Loop, p. 10 June 15, 05 Dating on an Island

by Jessie Preste

I learned two important things off for too long. Part homebody, part this week. One, never wear adventuress; an idea of a perfect 2 accessories depicting one part of an week trip is riding the Orient Express animal ( in this case, a carved wooden through Mongolia, or volunteering to whale tale) to your friends’ house help at an archeological dig who have a three year old daughter, somewhere, ANYWHERE!” THE DORSAL SPIN: as a lengthy conversation will ensue Now, which one is more Cute Killers as to why you have only one bit of descriptive? If you can take a plain the animal and where are its other adjective, “adventurous,” and create bits? And two, miracles do happen; a story around it, people will have a By Orca Annie Stateler, VHP i.e: pet-sitting for a dear friend who lot better idea of where you are Coordinator is gone to Europe, having her favorite coming from. cat do a runner after three days and Most of the websites say to be Several Islanders asked me We observed the orcas for nine suffering innumerable heart honest, be sincere, use specifics and about the Seal-Be-Gone squad of six hours as they splashed and palpitations in the ensuing two actually write how you speak. Figure Transient orcas that have been meandered north in Hood Canal, weeks, only to find said cat two out what sets you apart from the rest cruising Hood Canal since January unmolested by boats. They toyed hundred yards away from your and use it to your advantage. Avoid 24. The Kitsap Sun and The Seattle with birds at the Skokomish delta neighborhood. The longer you live, regular lists of adjectives, and focus Times recently printed articles about and investigated every cove. They the more you learn, I say. more on narratives that show others their extraordinary visit. were remarkably exuberant and Speaking of which, used to be, part of your character. Keep sexual Researchers estimate the orcas tactile. The youngsters rolled and when I was in my 20’s or so, it innuendoes out of your profile for a have culled up to 700 harbor seals, wrestled with each other. They often seemed like you couldn’t swing a cat good first impression. If you which might be 50% of the canal appeared to be messing around with (Oops! That was just wrong.) without wouldn’t say it to a handsome population. The whales occasionally something underwater, possibly hitting a potential suitor. Of course, stranger at your Aunt’s barbeque, harass birds such as mergansers and octopus. that was due to the fact that I was keep it out of your profile. And don’t grebes. Mark Sears photo- Seemingly nonchalant about surrounded by my peers in college be negative! Keep a positive upbeat documented a withered octopus in alerting every seal for miles, the Cute and at entry level jobs. Now tone. Tell prospective datee’s what Dabob Bay that the Transients Killers spyhopped, breached, and however, in the slightly more you like, not what you don’t like. almost certainly munched. slapped their pecs and tails. convoluted and oft recycled dating Sound too commercial for you? Well, “This length of stay by Watching these fascinating visitors arena of the Rock, sometimes it the sites do point out that there are a Transients has never been for so many hours was a great behooves us to look further afield— lot of people out there, and to make a documented anywhere in the privilege. They never gave us the like cyberspace! good first impression is important. If world,” said Steve Jeffries, a state slip. In continuation of last issue’s a mutual contact is set up, then you Department of Fish and Wildlife From BC to Baja, the Transients I theme, the singles’ group discovered can always email for more of the marine mammal biologist, in the have observed are typically reticent some interesting things about on-line deeper issues. May 29 Seattle Times article “Hood until they make a kill. The whales in dating sites at our get together last Also, most profiles have Canal orcas lingering, feasting.” Hood Canal defy the Transient week. So, if you don’t wish to tromp something called a tag line to catch These killer whales are regulars stereotype. around on the Web looking for info, readers’ attentions. Tag lines run in Southeast Alaska. They are a Does their extended stay indicate we’ve got a handy do’s and don’ts above the ads and are displayed with young group. The two mothers, T71 abnormal behavior? Researchers list right here. your picture when you do a search. and T124A, are twenty-somethings. have mixed opinions. Now that First, decide which and how For goodness’ sake, please check your They each have two offspring: T71A, boating season has started, Hood many sites you wish to try out. All profile after posting your profile to about ten years old; T124A1, about Canal is no longer an ideal place for the info sites we looked at make sure your entire tag line is nine years old; T71B and T124A2 are the orcas to hunt. The seals are recommended making sure you pick there; otherwise you may end up both about five years old. Ages are beginning to wise up. The halcyon a popular site so as to get your with, “I always stop and smell” approximate because Transients are days for the Cute Killers may soon information out to the greatest instead of “I always stop and smell not always observed every year. The end. We will miss them when they amount of people. These would be the roses.” Make sure your tag line smallest whale looks younger than leave. sites like Match.com and the Yahoo says something about you. Me, I’ve five to me. PLEASE REPORT LOCAL Personals. What is nice is that many already decided on my new tag line, One exquisite day in April, Odin WHALE SIGHTINGS ASAP TO 463- sites also offer free trials before you “It’s Like an Onion, Donkey!!” and I had a blissful encounter with 9041. have to spend any money, so you can Eccentric, perhaps, but I know these Cute Killers. Thick morning For six years, the American explore a little bit. somebody gets my sense of humor if fog shrouded the lower canal when Cetacean Society/Puget Sound Next, once you’ve decided which they respond. (It was either that, or we stopped at Twanoh State Park to Chapter (ACS/PS) has proudly co- site, or sites, you’d like to try, it’s time Valkyrie In Training.) exercise Stogarita, our canine field sponsored OrcaSing, a solstice for you to become a writer! Many of Oh, and one more thing, post a assistant. We admired the horned concert for J, K, and L Pods, held at us find it difficult to write with any picture. NOT one of those “hand held grebes in bright orange breeding Lime Kiln State Park on San Juan aplomb about ourselves, but we also do it yourself and try not to look as if plumage (that orange looks like a Island. This year’s event starts at 2:00 found some great tips for what to do your arm isn’t reaching out as far as dye job) and the common loons p.m. on June 18. and what not to do when writing it can to take the picture” ones. I doing courtship displays. The City Cantabile Choir, led by your on-line profile. For example, realize that some people feel weird As the fog began to break up, we former ACS/PS board member Fred which of these segments of ads tell about putting a picture up, but noticed two harbor seals hugging West, performs for the Southern you more about this person? statistically you have a better chance the shore in two feet of water. They Residents at OrcaSing. The orcas “I am a witty, warm, creative of being on someone’s search if you stared at us with their deep, respond in surprising ways. Every person with a great sense of humor, do. appealing eyes. We jokingly asked concert yields different results. adventurous, and love to travel.” Or, Good luck if you want to try them where to find the orcas. Unlike last year, all three pods are “Traveling has always been a posting a profile, or just wander Suddenly, I heard blows, and around, so this year looks promising. passion of mine, and if there is some around exploring the sites for awhile. when I looked toward Union, I saw Other OrcaSing sponsors include interesting historical or geological Just another option for us on the a killer whale porpoising out of the People for Puget Sound and The formation to climb, it’s even better. Rock. If you have any questions or water. Sweet! Soon I saw other orcas Whale Museum. Visit the News From Diamond Head in Hawaii, to ideas, please write to me at milling, apparently jazzed about section at www.whalemuseum.org the castle at the end of the Royal Mile [email protected]. Quote for sharing a kill. The canal was quiet for more information. in Edinburgh, to The Great Wall this week: “If I had to live my life enough that we could hear their Contact Orca Annie at outside of Beijing are just some of the again, I’d make the same mistakes, above water vocalizations, the [email protected] or 463-9041. places I‘ve explored. I still try to have only sooner.” — Tallulah Bankhead. unmistakable, haunting calls of oo oo oo an adventure every couple of years, oo oo oo Transients. but having ties here of home, pets, and family keep me from wandering June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 11 PPPooositivelysitivelysitively SSSpepepeakingakingaking

By Deborah H. Anderson

I’ve been playing the song over told her the positive effect she had and over again every time I get in on my life. There is peace in that. the car for a week now. There are a Hundreds have come in her few more days until the funeral for lifetime to see God in a new way. A me to keep playing it. Yes, I know I joyous way. Her laugh, her quick wit already wrote about when my and her genuineness disarmed any cousin Connie died and living each negative opinion of what Christians day as a gift. But this friend named were like. Jane, who just died on her living The song that I found came from room couch after going out to dinner a musical about the Wicked Witch of with her husband, deserves special the West and Glinda. I happened to mention as well. be learning it when I heard the news. There was no warning. No It has consoled me all the minutes I illness, no complaints. He left the cannot be consoled because it is what room for ten minutes and when he I would say to Jane. I say it to her now came back in she was gone. in the heaven in which she believed Jane was part of the third floor she would be eternally. It’s a spiritual Olney gang. There are about a dozen oxymoron, but God works that way of us. If you know Mills College for sometimes. I’m going to write out the Women you know that’s a freshman lyrics and then I’m going out to dorm now. But once upon a time, Northgate to hug one of the Olney there was a variety of ages and Twelve who “just happened” to fly stages of women growing up in that in from Hawaii today to visit the place. mainland for a while. We mostly kept ourselves out of When the world went mad in the trouble with the guys from Delta late sixties and the early seventies, Sigma Phi at Berkeley, and there was a woman named Jane supported each other in our struggle Cunningham Lisenbardt who toward adulthood. As we have all changed many women just by said this week, Jane was the best of singing to them and being their us. We all have had the same friend — like a handprint on our thought. Any one of us should have hearts. oo oo oo Bedroom left this planet first, but not Jane. Community Tell someone today they Continued from page 1 She was a changed you…”For Good*” consummate strategies for Vashon-Maury Sanctuary items for musician, playing left I’ve heard it said Island with the help of CEO Home, Garden, and Self handed guitar even That people come into our lives for a reason Praxis, a community and though she was right Bringing something we must learn economic development company ~ Persian rugs handed, because her And we are led that is credited with helping ~ Prayer flags brother who was left To those who help us most to grow Wenatchee hit its economic stride. ~ Garden stones If we let them handed taught her If we let them CEO Praxis helps a community how to play. She also And we help them in return ~ Incense identify its competitive played incredible Well, I don’t know if I believe that’s true Open at 10:00 am advantages, create a strategic keyboards. Hour after But I know I’m who I am today Wednesday through Sunday Because I knew you: plan, and attract appropriate hour, Jane would sit MC/Visa accepted. on her bed playing for industries. The CEO Praxis Like a comet pulled from orbit us like a jukebox as we philosophy is in part “to 17311 Vashon Hwy SW As it passes a sun reconsider and reconfigure the (behind AJ’s Espresso) called out songs. My Like a stream that meets a boulder favorite was Halfway through the wood way we think about ‘economic (206) 854-1027 “Blackbird” by Paul Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better? development’ and, especially, to McCartney. But because I knew you liberate the concept from the Jane kept me I have been changed for good. straitjacket of strict reliance on spiritually alive growth, particularly....population during that time. She It well may be growth.” That we will never meet again is singlehandedly This proposal has the support responsible for me In this lifetime So let me say before we part of the Chamber of Commerce, the doing what I’m doing So much of me Community Council and the right now. Her family Mattress Makers Is made of what I learned from you recently formed business group was what the world You’ll be with me called Sustainable Vashon. Quality mattresses made to would call Like a handprint on my heart Islanders are invited to attend a order in our factory; half the conservative And now whatever way our stories end price of department stores, Christians. The way meeting of the Chamber of I know you have re-written mine guaranteed comfort. Jane lived her life, she By being my friend: Commerce on Thursday, June 16 made it seem radical. at 5:30 at Courthouse Square to We make standard sized Radically loving, and Like a ship blown from its mooring learn more. oo oo oo mattresses, including powerful and life By a wind off the sea pillowtops, latex, memory foam changing. Every week Like a seed dropped by a sky bird by Thermopedic, In a distant wood she would ask me if I and adjustable beds. Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better? wanted to go to her But because I knew you We specialize in custom little church in a I have been changed for good. sizes for RVs, boats, and converted house in antique beds. the hills of Oakland I do believe I have been changed for the better. Come see us at 8208 Tacoma on Wednesday nights. Because I knew you, I have been changed for good. Mall Boulevard South, just a Many weeks I said few blocks south of the mall. yes. Fortunately I Good bye Jane. I love you. wrote the letter a 253-984-1730 couple years ago that *”For Good,” ©Kristin Chenoweth The Vashon Loop, p. 12 June 15, 05 Sexual Assault Continued from page 1 STRASTRAWBERRIES!WBERRIES! basement apartment, woke from sleep study. If that number seems with a silhouetted man coming toward insignificant, please realize that her. When he ignored her stern, “Who percentage amounts to 32,700 men in is it?” and touched her, “hushing” her the U.S. each year. at the same time, she screamed bloody According to Fire Chief Jim Wilson, fresh, sliced, murder and kicked him so hard she if an assault happens and is classified fresh, sliced, propelled herself across her bed. as spousal, parental or elder abuse, Thank God she grew up with two then agencies responding for medical Washington brothers. care are mandated by the state to report When he fled and we ran it to law enforcement immediately. But downstairs, she was already dialing 9- what about a criminal act by a grown. 1-1 on her cell phone. Wait a minute – stranger? Considered by law this is Vashon, right? Where people enforcement to be an aggressive act have lived here for 30 years and never dangerous to public safety, stranger 15# bucket $27 - 1/2 bucket $18 locked their doors. What I didn’t know rape is not mandated for medical then is this was not the first time it had providers. The medical provider’s happened that winter. There was no focus is twofold: Assist the victim press, but it was here and it was physically and retain confidentiality. June 17-18 only happening to us. So who can warn us of dangers in Two months later, a rapist was our community? Detective Sergeant identified in the Beachcomber as having Dave Jutilla of King County Sheriff’s Friday noon-6 & Saturday 10-6 been arrested. Although my daughter Office explained that when working an couldn’t identify our intruder and the active investigation, law enforcement Vashon Village parking lot. King County deputy who responded can issue crime bulletins and distribute refused to dust for prints because my them throughout a neighborhood. The husband had walked through the focus of law enforcement is to protect garage to make sure the intruder was evidence and to locate, arrest and gone, she knew the rapist in the paper. charge the suspect. With only He was a man who had worked for a approximately 16-28% reported to law contractor she had been dating off and enforcement, however, sexual assault on. He had also visited our church. remains the least reported violent I was frustrated at our lack of crime. responsibility for personal security, So what is the focus of the King Thank you for your something we had practiced County Sexual Assault Resource support of community religiously everywhere we’d lived Center (KCSARC)? According to until coming to Vashon. It was Lindsay Palmer of the KCSARC—you! and frustrating to me that because of the They have a whole bouquet of services nature of the crime, only a small designed to be free, confidential and international projects percentage (16-28%) of rapes are aimed toward helping the victim, reported to law enforcement. Since whether or not law enforcement sponsored by the medical providers are not allowed to responded and whether the assault Vashon Rotary Club. divulge personal, confidential was recent or in the past. They offer a information of this kind, how does the 24-hour Sexual Assault Resource line warning get out to the rest of us? It (888-99-VOICE); individual and group doesn’t. therapy; client, medical and legal “Stop the Silence,” reads a advocacy; and educational billboard on the West Seattle Bridge. presentations for parents, teachers, “It’s never too late. Call 888-99- schools and community groups plus enactors, swashbuckling fun from the VOICE.” You may see the same Set Sail for Tall Ships literature. There is a website, Seafair Pirates, live music and a message in public restrooms around www.kcsarc.org, or you can contact Tacoma Festival number of arts activities, including a the island. The King County Sexual Ms. Palmer at 425-282-0353; or email community sidewalk chalk-art Assault Resource Center’s aim is to get [email protected]. If you need to talk The Tall Ships Tacoma Festival project at the Tacoma Art Museum the word out. What word is that? to someone local, check out IDVOS will take place on the Thea Foss There are FREE resources available for online at www.idvos.org or give them Waterway from June 30 through July and a mermaid-making workshop at people who have been sexually a call at 206-463-STOP. They can get 4. Thirty vessels, ranging in size from the Museum of Glass. The festival assaulted — that’s what! According to you emergency services and refer you the 23-foot Bounty of Krister to the will culminate in Freedom Fair, the FBI’s Uniformed Crime Report, to local providers as well as the 356-foot Pallada, will be docked Tacoma’s Fourth of July celebration there were 2,864 Washington victims KCSARC. along the waterway, which is adjacent that features a critically acclaimed of forcible rape in 2003. Every 90 Someone who also helps bring to Tacoma’s revitalized downtown fireworks display over seconds, nationwide, a person 12 or attention to the problems of domestic and new museum district. The public Commencement Bay. older is the victim of a sexual assault; violence, including sexual assault, is will be able to view the traditionally Tacoma Tall Ships and Freedom that was the finding in a 1999 Dept. of Deb Pierce who tours with a group of built sailing ships, as well as other Fair are free to the public. Tickets to Justice survey quoted by local women putting on a theater historical vessels, from a mile-long get an up-close look at or tour of a www.stopfamilyviolence.org. production called Stages of Healing. pedestrian walkway. select group of vessels are $10 per It’s the least favorite topic of The local group has appeared in On June 30, the ships will person per day. Children 10 and discussion among polite company. It’s Redmond, Bellevue and other cities for approach Tacoma in a spectacular under are free with a ticketed adult. the difficult issue with which we feel churches, civic groups, medical and Parade of Sail. The honor of leading There are separate charges for some least qualified to assist a dear friend; law enforcement professionals. She the parade goes to the vessel that will festival activities. Three-hour Day the uncomfortable subject for a heart- can be reached at: have traveled the farthest – the R. Sail Adventures are available as well to-heart with our children. And it’s the [email protected] to book an Tucker Thompson, a schooner from as a Cannon Battle Cruise. There are dark historical fact in many of our event. Whangarei, New Zealand. Puyallup limited opportunities to view the families of origin. It’s the liability issue So what happens if you are Fourth of July Fireworks show from with a big “L” for responding medical assaulted and you don’t report it? Tribe canoes will greet the visiting the deck of a Tall Ship. Tickets may services. For differing agencies with Nothing. Your neighbors aren’t ships with a welcoming ceremony, separate agendas, mandates, warned and other people become beginning at 3 p.m. Crewmembers be purchased on-line at applicable laws and reluctant victims, victims. Law enforcement can’t try to from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. www.tallshipstacoma.com or by it’s a complicated dance. We had better locate the perpetrator, so he (99% of the Abraham Lincoln will be on the docks contacting the Tall Ships Tacoma learn the correct steps to if we want to perpetrators are male) isn’t caught and to assist the ships as they enter the office at 253-682-1446. stamp it out. continues his life of violent crime. You Foss Waterway. The Tall Ships Tacoma Festival is Who is most at risk? The National remain with hurting wounds, From July 1 - 4, the ships will be part of the American Sail Training Violence Against Women survey (DOJ, confusion, and questions of what to do available for viewing from 9 a.m. to 5 Association’s Tall Ships Challenge, a November 1998) found that 83% of next. And if you don’t get the help you p.m. Onshore activities and series of timed races from port to women victims were under the age of need, you can’t prevent it from entertainment include a treasure- port. Many of the vessels are floating 25; 51% between 16 and 21. Chances happening to the next generation in filled Merchants Market, delicious classrooms to teach new generations are you know a few young women that your very own family. You owe it to international foods, beer gardens, of sailors how to live before the mast age. And women aren’t the only yourself to learn how to stop hurting. boat-building demonstrations, an and to give the public a glimpse of victims—11% were men in the same So call. Do it today. oo oo oo encampment of Civil War re- the glorious sailing ships of the past. June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 13 Navy and used for radar, sonar testing and echo sounding Tall Ships Set Sail from studies, and later as a research vessel. Odyssey now serves as a sail training vessel for the Tacoma Sea Scouts. Quartermaster Harbor Pacific Grace Launched in 1999, Pacific Grace replaced the Robertson II, an original Grand Banks fishing Continued from page 1 schooner of the Bluenose tradition. Pacific Grace is operated by Sail and Life Training Society (SALTS) as a Vashon’s own Bounty of Krister is also youth training vessel. participating. The Bounty is a 23-foot long boat Pacific Swift Built by the Sail and Life Training Society that is a replica of Captain Bligh’s ship in Mutiny (SALTS) as a working exhibit at Expo ’86 in Vancouver, on the Bounty. Bounty Captain John Burke, with B.C., the square topsail schooner Pacific Swift has sailed his years of maritime and military experience, more than 100,000 deep-sea miles on training voyages for young crew members ages 13 to 25. was recruited by the Coast Guard to serve as Pallada Pallada is the fifth ship of the Dar Mlodziezy- Facilities Security Officer for the ships’ gathering The Cuauhtémoc class built in Poland during the 1980s, and is named for in Quartermaster. Captain John provided an the Greek goddess Pallas Athena. Pallada is owned by anchorage diagram for the vessels, and also Cuauhtémoc The training tall ship Cuauhtemoc was Dalryba and offers sail training to marine-college cadets. reported that he had the honor of completing 44 built in the Celaya shipyards (Bilbao, Spain) and was pages of paperwork required by Homeland completed in July 29, 1982 when it was delivered to its Security. The ships will all be anchored out, first crew, the Mexican Navy. Cuauhtemoc, known as the Ambassador and except the Lady Washington. She will be docked Gentleman of the Seas, a tireless navigator, has trained 21 in Dockton, though not open for tours. People generations of officers and it has sailed 408,853 miles in who are interested in touring the thirty ships and 3,178 days. participating in the other festivities that are Kia Ora Designed in 1924 by L. Frances Herreshoff planned (see press release elsewhere in this issue) but launched in 1979, the Kia Ora was named by her original owner, Earl Dewey Jr., who had planned to sail will need to travel to Tacoma on a historic her to New Zealand where he was stationed during World Washington State Ferry for the Festival, which War II. Though the voyage never came about, Kia Ora has runs from June 30 to July 4. logged many Pacific voyages. Now captained by owner If you can’t make it to Tacoma, be sure to Jim Ray, the ship cruises and races in the Puget Sound. check out the ships in the harbor, both Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning when they set sail for Tacoma to participate in Amazing Grace the kick-off Parade of Sails. It is bound to be a sight that shivers your timbers. oo oo oo R. Tucker Thompson A gaff rigged, topsail schooner launched in 1985, its design is based on the halibut schooners of the Northwest American coast. During the 2002 Tall Ships® Challenge, the ship won the Yokohama- Richmond race on corrected time and placed first in her category in subsequent legs of the race. PARTICIPATING ReJoice This Wayland schooner was built in 1931 in San Francisco as a wedding gift from a man who was VESSELS marrying his wife, Joyce, for a second time; hence the name, ReJoice. Donated in 1992 to the La Conner Sea Scout program, ReJoice serves as a youth sail training program and boat restoration program. Adventuress Originally commissioned to gather Resolute Built in 1939 in Stamford, Conn. by the Arctic specimens, Adventuress now sails to increase Ludders Marine Company, the Resolute sails year round awareness of the majesty and vulnerability of Puget taking students, groups and families on sea training and Sound. Since 1989, Sound Experience, a nonprofit sea education adventures. environmental education organization, has provided Schooner Lavengro Built in Biloxi, Miss. in 1927, hands-on education aboard Adventuress in response to the Lavengro represents the style of the working shrimp area’s urgent environmental issues. schooners of that era. Donated to the Northwest Schooner Army – Air Force P520 P520 is a fully restored crash Society, she runs day and overnight charters in Seattle and boat originally built in 1944 to support air operations at the San Juan Islands. Tacoma’s McChord Field and was stationed at the Point Schooner Red Jacket Always a private yacht, Red Defiance Boathouse during World War II. P520 is currently Lady Washington The Lady is a replica of Jacket has sailed the world, suffered a typhoon, two fires, owned by the Army Air Force/U.S. Air Force Crash the original Lady Washington a sinking, loss of her keel and neglect. At 85 years old, Rescue Boat Association. Red Jacket is better than ever and leisurely sails the Puget Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights is a top sail schooner Sound. owned by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute (LAMI). The Lady Washington Launched in 1989 as a Washington Suva Suva is a 63-foot staysail schooner designed by ship is leased and operated by Grays Harbor Historical State Centennial project, the Lady is a replica of the original well-know Seattle navel architect L.E. “Ted” Geary. Built Seaport Authority of Aberdeen, Wash. Lady Washington, a brig and privateer during the in 1925 near Hong Kong for executive Frank Pratt of Pratt Bounty of Krister Owned by the Vashon-Maury American Revolution. The vessel provides shipboard & Whitney, the classic wooden vessel was later owned by Island Maritime Heritage Society, the 23-foot long boat is education programs for schools in 89 ports communities Dietrich Schmitz, a Seattle financier. a replica of the vessel on which in Washington, Oregon, Talofa This topsail schooner had a South Pacific start Captain Bligh was set adrift in California, British and now provides adventure cruises in the Sea of Cortez. “Mutiny on the Bounty.” Columbia and Alaska. Talofa means “Queen of the Sea” in Polynesian. Smaller navigational vessels, Lynx Lynx is an The Steamer Virginia V Built in 1922 and recently such as the Krister, would interpretation of an actual restored, Virginia V is a City of Tacoma and National normally be carried by a tall privateer named Lynx Historic Landmark vessel; the only remaining wooden- ship between its masts and built by Thomas Kemp in hull steamer of the famed Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet were commonly used by 1812 in Fell’s Point, still in operation. captains Puget and Vancouver Maryland. Lynx operates Thea Foss Built for actor John Barrymore in 1930, but as they mapped and navigated as a sail training vessel to later lost to creditors following the stock market crash of their way through the nooks serve as a classroom for the Depression, Thea Foss became the Navy Amber and and crannies of the Pacific the study of historical, patrolled the Puget Sound entrance during World War II. Northwest’s coastline. environmental and Later bought by Foss, the ship was restored and Charles N. Curtis An ecological issues. rechristened Thea Foss. Thea has hosted royalty, award-winning 80-foot motor North Star of ambassadors, congressmen and movie stars. vessel, the Curtis is part of a Herschel Island Built in Trilogy Built in Taiwan, this 1976 schooner is 42 feet fleet of small boats used to 1935 in San Francisco for long and owned by George Larson of Roy, Wash. Two teach seamanship skills to two Inuit fox trappers, officers and five crew members sail Trilogy locally. Tacoma-area youth. North Star worked until Zodiac A schooner designed to reflect the highest Coast Guard Cutter- 1961 transporting fur to achievement of naval architecture under working sail, 83527 While on active duty market and supplies Zodiac sails Puget Sound, the San Juan Island and the with the Coast Guard from between ports. North Star Canadian Gulf Cost. Zodiac offers courses on sailing, 1945 to 1962, the 83-foot is now used in the film navigation, Northwest Native American culture, geology cutter/patrol boat CG-83527 industry, for school group and natural resources. oo oo oo was stationed in Tacoma and tours, historical societies provided patrol, search and and is a regular participant rescue services in the south in classic and wooden boat Puget Sound area. The cutter shows. was built in Brooklyn, N.Y. Odyssey The Odyssey during World War II and is the Bounty of Krister Owned by the Vashon-Maury is a 90-foot yawl designed last of the wooden Coast Island Maritime Heritage Society by Sparkman and Guard cutters still in its Stephens for Mrs. Barklie original military Henry (a member of the Vanderbilt family) as a gift for her husband in 1938. During configuration. Charles N. Curtis World War II, Odyssey was commandeered by the U.S. The Vashon Loop, p. 14 June 15, 05 What I Learned About Breast Cancer Sanctuary items for by Weslie Rodgers Home, Garden, and Self I’ve learned not to wear a bra! ~ Persian rugs And no, it’s not because I don’t have ~ Prayer flags anything to put into it. It’s because ~ Garden stones a friend mentioned to me that a bra constricts the flow of lymph to the ~ Incense nodes, thus maybe hindering rescue Open at 10:00 am to cancer cells. Well, it made sense Wednesday through Sunday to me. And with that philosophy MC/Visa accepted. behind me, I delved into treating my cancer. Everything I’ve done/ 17311 Vashon Hwy SW decided to do had to make sense. (behind AJ’s Espresso) There is a market out there for (206) 854-1027 treating breast cancer—mastectomy to cleansing diets, lumpectomy and radiation or not, chemotherapy to changing the Ph of your body. So follow-up radiation, the chance of a applying my, “is this sensible to me?” recurrence is about 5%. But if she or criterion when questioning the he decides not to follow-up with treatment options helped me decide. radiation, chances of recurrence are Many books and pamphlets from the 35 to 40%. This statistic can hold doctor’s office encourage each power and intimidation depending Come individual to decide based on how on how you look at it, and if you they can manage with that decision. don’t remember that statistics do not for But that’s how we live life anyway; apply to you, the individual. That Dinner! monumental decisions present is, you have no idea whether you themselves often. So, when put into might join the 5%, the 35% to 40%, perspective, the BC words are not a or the 60 to 65%. I decided, as death sentence! Can we say getting mentioned earlier, with the “sensible LIVING WELL WITH PLANTS Text and drawings by Kathy Abascal (AHG) a driver’s license is a death sentence? monitor.” I asked myself the No, but it does increase the risk of question, “How absolutely irritated death, even with a seat belt, would I feel if I radiated my body defensive driving, no DWI, etc. And (and that is 4000 rads spaced over 7 most people manage with the weeks! An x-ray is a fraction of a rad) decision to get into cars. My Number and the cancer recurred?” Oh! One doctor often said “Nothing is Knowing it could recur even if 100% certain.” “everything” was done was enough Kathy Abascal is a professional I also learned that the friends and for me the say “No” to radiation. So, member of the American Herbalists family of the cancer patient can more for me that also meant nixing Guild and is certified by Michael easily accept the patient’s choice if chemotherapy and hormone Moore of the Southwest School of the following popular school therapy. (My follow-up is practicing Botanical Medicine. She co-authored paradigm is believed: “I hear and I Qigong, and being even more aware, the book “Clinical Botanical forget, I see and I remember, I do and thoughtful and vigilant of what I put Medicine.” I understand.” Even Dr. Susan Love, into my body and soul, and this too, Kathy Abascal is out of town! If you have questions about herbs, author of the breast cancer “bible,” is another educational story.) come by Minglement on Mondays or Wednesdays to meet Kathy. If you are Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book, wrote My two choices, Qigong and She’ll return to Minglement at interested in a private herbal that she could not even say for sure nutrition, fall more toward the the end of June, and will resume consultation, you can pick up a what she would do if diagnosed with preventative side of breast cancer, her column in July. brochure at Minglement that explains breast cancer! So the learning about which really allows me to perceive her services & how to schedule an breast cancer is not only in the book the “cure” for breast cancer in a appointment knowledge, but also in living with it. different light. And that is, our focus Certainly, it would have helped to on “cure” and not prevention is know about the stages of breast analogous to not posting a warning cancer, the statistics of “cure” for sign at a dangerous traffic turn even certain treatments, the CAM after somebody is killed. We do (complementary and alternative acknowledge strongly that poor medicine) options, and Qigong too, environmental conditions (our previous to diagnosis (CAM and outdoors!) and poor nutrition (our Qigong options are another story). meals!) are very much responsible As I mentioned previously, many for breast cancer (only 5 to 10% is treatments exist for breast cancer thought to be hereditary, and how other than mastectomy, lumpectomy many of those statistics could be with radiation, and/or eradicated with improved chemotherapy, but the researching is environment and nutrition?). So if overwhelming, and statistics are not we could concentrate on prevention, out there for many CAM approaches. we’d be doing ourselves a great favor So treating breast cancer with the BIG in the long run. 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by Pete Welch A little less than two months first All-Cascadia Conference this “Finding the balance away, Island Earthfair will take year. Speakers from throughout the place on August 5th, 6th and 7th at west will visit to teach us about our Paradise Ridge Park off of 220th unique bioregion. There will be a Street. Admission to Earthfair is $10 series of discussions about the of animals and per day or $40 for camping successes to date in achieving greater overnight all weekend. Kids are free sustainability in the Cascadian with a paying adult. Now through Bioregion, and about the barriers Wilderness” July 1, you can purchase a $40 that currently impede further weekend pass online for $35. This progress within this realm. For each includes admission Friday, Saturday topic of interest, the plan will be to A wildlife sanctuary & Sunday, and camping Friday & begin the discussion with a brief Saturday night. summary of the ways in which a Back by popular demand: community in Cascadia is on Vashon Island. Friday, August 5th will be Food addressing the issue. This is going Bank Friday. Donate a can of food to be very cool! and pay only half price to get in the We’re busy lining up speakers, door. All donated food will benefit workshops and the healing arts. Call to come visit the Vashon Food Bank. This year We’re designing a renewable we’ll be spotlighting some really energy/sustainable living model to great local bands on Friday night, so show how just about anyone can use come on out to Paradise Ridge Park solar panels, convert to biodiesel after work, enjoy dinner and some vehicles, and install water catchment great entertainment at a really systems and many other really reasonable cost! There’s overnight interesting displays. There will be 206-463-9113 camping in case you just want to lots of great food available too, so stay and enjoy waking up at the park don’t worry about going hungry! in the morning, because it starts all Kidsworld is really shaping up over again on Saturday. too, with lots of great activities and Joining us again this year is the special guests planned for the little First Annual Freedom Festival on July 2nd Casbah Teahouse out of Tucson, a ones. Island Earthfair’s mission is by Amy Morrison gigantic hemp Bedouin tent that one of creating a better world for our serves as an eating zone complete children. We encourage all island In his most recent public address, Daytime activities happen with Moroccan tea tables and families to take part in this creation. at the Take Back America conference outside in the Blue Heron backyard oriental rugs by day and a cushion- Not only will the Fair be full of in Washington, DC, on June 4th, and include music by Trolls Cottage filled, acoustic music dream space enlightening and educational retired PBS journalist Bill Moyers at 4:15 p.m., storytelling with Merna by night! They also bring great workshops and presentations for all told his audience, which included Hecht, puppet shows, food by Wok vegetarian food along with a variety ages but it also promises to be a Vashon’s own Bill Moyer, Executive In Take Out, children’s activities of teas and coffees. We will situate weekend of fun, exuberant music, Director of the Backbone Campaign, including a gigantic inflatable our One World Stage inside the dance and joyful celebration for the that it was up to American citizens jumping dragon and kids art Casbah tent again this year, with a entire family. today, particularly those in the projects, political actions and tabling ton of great talented performers Earthfair is always looking for progressive movement, to carry on by progressive Vashon and Seattle already lined up and ready to go. great volunteers. We need help in the spirit of the American Revolution organizations, and a celebration of Main Stage will be filled with many areas before, during and after and that the history of the Revolution our freedoms and the success the great music again this year, so bring the fair. If you are interested please hasn’t been written yet—indeed, it’s Backbone Campaign is having in your dancing’ shoes. Some of you call 463-1725 or e-mail us at still happening. helping shape the progressive may remember Doug Green, who [email protected] and The Revolution IS alive and well movement into one with backbone, came up from Humboldt last year let us know what you’d like to help on Vashon. To celebrate, the creativity, empowerment, and a to emcee for us. Well, he’s back with. We have great benefits for our Backbone Campaign will hold its positive agenda. again this year to introduce the volunteers including free entry into First Annual Freedom Festival, on The festival is open to all. More fantastic line-up we have coming to the fair and food vouchers Fourth of July weekend, Saturday, information as it develops can be the Main Stage. We’ll have more on depending on the amount of time July 2nd, 4:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the found at who’s playing this year in the weeks you are willing to give. Check out Blue Heron. The Festival, a www.backbonecampaign.org. Or to come, but for those of you that our website for more information. fundraiser for the Backbone call (206) 408-8058. The Backbone want to get a peek at who’s playing It should prove to be a really Campaign, will highlight music, Campaign is looking for volunteers on both stages, feel free to check out interesting weekend, jam-packed kid’s activities, puppet shows, to help on the day of the event. Call our website at http:// with lots to do and see. Plan on poetry, storytelling, and a festive, if you can help out. www.islandearthfair.com. coming out and joining us for one of revolutionary ambiance with giant Join us in telling the ongoing Island Earthfair is excited to the best years ever! We’ll see you puppets, food, and camaraderie, as story of the American Revolution announce that we will be hosting the there! oo oo oo well as a dramatic reading of the and in reclaiming our country’s Declaration of Independence. 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Saturday, June 25 2005 Livingston 5815. /www.tompaine.com/articles/ Taylor Highlighting the Freedom 20050606/ Festival is Spoken Word Artist Chris losing_the_american_revolution.php Tickets Chandler who is on tour around the country with his unique brand of When you think Realty $20 storytelling with a political, musical groove. His performance, at 8:00 On Sale Now! p.m., will be inside the Blue Heron. 206 463-LIST Opening for Chandler will be United @ 8pm Sheep’s Steffon Moody. Think of us! Troy & Marie The Vashon Loop, p. 16 June 15, 05

Aries (March 20-April 19) Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) You have the capacity for expressing yourself in You’re typically an intuitive person, but there can precise, highly organized ways at the moment, be a big question about what to do when you get and I suggest you identify the most important two contradictory messages. You might stop and projects or goals you’ve been working toward and ask what’s based on opinion and what is based direct your energy toward them this week. It may on a deep message from your unconscious. Pay work out to be a personal or domestic situation particular attention to dreams, remembering that that appears to be going through a significant because people spend so much time denying fear, change at the moment, perhaps a development dreams are the perfect place to reveal what makes that has been brewing for at least six months. The us the most apprehensive. You have every reason important thing is to make the key decisions that to trust the process of your life right now, and remind you that you’re not in the hands of fate. few reasons for actual doubt. So don’t let your You are in your own hands — though you’re imagination run away with you. hardly alone. For once, your needs really do Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) matter, if you remember. The timing is right to make a significant move or Taurus (April 19-May 20) change. But the keyword is significant. Remember If you’re married or getting married, provocative that for quite a while you’ve put some of your events may lead you to re-think the wisdom of most cherished agenda items on hold because so your decision. I ask, however, how does it feel much else has been happening around you. The when you do it? Do you have a sense of something idea is less to strive for what is ambitious and more like freedom, more like guilt, or more like more for what is truly meaningful to you, and you remorse? More important, would it be possible may want to run that question past yourself one to discuss what you’re feeling with your partner? last time — since it’s not too late to change your I can assure you of one thing: most of what is goal. There’s no doubt that you want the best for happening has to do with challenges to your everyone involved in this particular situation, and image of what another person should be. And over even less doubt that you can facilitate just that this, you have just about complete control. development. Just make sure it really works for Gemini (May 20-June 21) you. You may have the feeling something big is Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) coming, but rather than being a question of fate, Surprise (or surprising) professional it’s one of those opportunities you can take if you developments this week can have far-reaching want. Life really is for the living, and those who implications for you and others, though this may are alive are often faced with the option of giving not be obvious at the moment they occur. up something secure for half a chance of However, it will be obvious by this time next something better. You could say you’re week. It’s important that you not judge what’s experiencing an unusual spell of luck at the happening, but rather put your energy into Dear Madame Toujours, Fortunately, somebody— moment, but what’s really happening is that responding in a calm and professional way. A I am very hurt by the anti- possibly Betty Friedan—discovered you’re allowing what is important to you to guide number of people are waiting in the wings to help feminist attitudes of all my friends. they could avoid becoming self- your life. Congratulate yourself — this is a true you, who would in fact make an excellent team. accomplishment. Hopefully, you’ve been courting their support and They have always gone on and on actualized by blaming men for Cancer (June 21-July 22) making sure they know you love and trust them. about women supporting each other everything. Everybody agreed this You may feel that despite so much certainty in If you have not been sending that message, now’s and sticking up for each other and was a very good idea. Soon your life, the most important questions remain a great time to start. standing up to oppression. Then, out everybody was blaming the unanswered. You have to give them time, and Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) masculine persons for everything from the look of things, not so much time as you Certain recent developments have eminently of the blue, they have all turned may think. By the extraordinary events around practical application, but to find this out for sure, against me. from the wars to the athlete’s feet. the summer solstice, you will have many reasons you’ll need to take a chance. Aquarians are It started with Beverly telling Now, clearly, you are thinking of for deep confidence in yourself and in those close typically viewed as innovators and rebels, but your Lacey about the night I got Lacey’s the new kind of feminism in which, to you. It’s true that certain others you trust deeply lesser-known conservative tendencies could husband drunk and seduced him. if the female persons are wishing to are different animals than you are, but they’re prevent you from taking a particular risk while offering you something you can never provide you have the opportunity to do so. It’s time to put Suddenly, Lacey isn’t speaking to me be extremely selfish and indifferent yourself. That something is external feedback those tendencies in the past, where they belong. anymore. Then Lacey’s husband told to other people, they can be saying, about the great gifts you possess, and how much As the author of your own life, you need to be her Anne’s husband told him about “But why should I not have the sex positive influence you have on the world around bold, you need to be honest with yourself, and my six-month affair with him — with your husband? After all, I am you. more than anything, you must truly respect your the feminist,” or, “How are you Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) ideas. They deserve it, and so do you. which is just the kind of abuse and Pay close attention to what colleagues and friends Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) harassment I would expect from a daring to ask me to be calling you on are saying, and developments on the work front For a Fish, believing in yourself is not a luxury: man, but then can you believe Lacey the telephone if I am going to be three won’t seem so surprising. What transpires over it’s a bottom line psychological health necessity, actually told Anne, and the two of hours late for dinner? You are the big, the next week or so has the power to benefit and your number one spiritual goal. A series of them told everyone else? I trusted hairy abuser,” or possibly, “I will use everyone in ways that few people could imagine, unusual developments this week can take you past but as usual you’ll be the one playing drums. But nearly everything you thought you were capable these women and now half the your sperm to get a baby and then I you’re also in a unique position to hold a vision of, and go a long way toward dispelling your women in the group won’t talk to me will take it away and force you to for the future, and it’s as if the goals you have usually abundant negative expectations about life. anymore. give me all your money so that I am now carry a particular blessing that will allow Meantime, make clear agreements, do your best Please say a word about the not needing to have the useful work them to manifest not only more quickly, but bigger to keep them, and hold people to their promises. and became self-actualized.” and better than anyone expects. But it’s a Such is good business, but more to the point, it importance of women sticking combination of intuition and work that will get will help you maintain your confidence. What you together. This is not even having to be fair. you where you want to be. learn, in the end, is more important than any other Sincerely, Disappointed Feminist Fairness is being based on the logic, Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) gain you may receive. and logic is masculine, and In any learning process, there come moments Chere Mlle. Disappointed, everything masculine is evil. Now it when you need to test what you’re taking in, or Happy Birthday, Gemini! Possibly, you are experiencing is being a virtue to be completely directly challenge the teacher for more Creativity may be the single most information. If you choose to do this, remember misunderstood concept in the world. It’s the very common confusion about irrational and insensitive and to to keep your objectivity and be open to what you usually associated with painting or music, but the feminisms. Once upon the time demand that everybody is doing discover. Certain developments may demonstrate what few people recognize is that in addition long, long ago, the feminism was everything that you are wanting. that your ideas about a particular issue may not to creative talent, those who succeed in the arts Bon chance, Mlle. Disappointed, be as valid as the deeper values you have held being about the equal rights with the all, with no exceptions, do one thing: they take voting and the careers. However, clearly your friends are having the for quite a long time. Sometimes, the fact that a chance on themselves. This is the one thing ideas have lasting value demonstrates their you need to do if you truly want to take a step ever since the female American petty and unreasonable attachment validity. 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Saturday, June 25 2005 Livingston deceived, and most times what we feel is resentful about the actual injustice intentional deception is nothing of the kind. You need to sort out where you stand with a particular such as having less money and not Taylor person, but you need to do it gently. The current enough birth-control and not being developments in your life require that you proceed encouraged to learn math. Soon, Tickets forward from this point onward with something however, the feminist persons were approaching absolute confidence in the people realizing that they were not really $20 around you. With each passing day, their influence becomes more important, and as you feeling very oppressed about these On Sale Now! may suspect, the whole scenario is indeed issues, and they began to be afraid building toward a peak of intensity that will call they would have to become self- for your full awareness. Best to start now. actualized. @ 8pm Eric Francis has more to say at PlanetWaves.net. June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 17

Financial Planning 101: Legal Documents and Long Term Care by Mark A. Goldman Two questions regarding my last issue for a great many families. LTC column that I want to address: One insurance is available in many has to do with my comment regarding flavors, and is generally sold by legal documents; the other has to do people honestly trying to be of with Long Term Care insurance. service. The problem is, the best Monastery Progress Report First, I said that when I work with policies can be quite pricey relative by John Moore clients I almost always include a to a family’s income or resources. review of their legal documents as And only the most expensive policies On Saturday, May 14th, the last get all the electric lights hooked up part of the process. This review guarantee future premiums, while all nail was driven to complete the basic not only in the Library building but includes making sure that Wills are others allow for unpredictable future framing and roofing of three also a couple of the other buildings consistent with current wishes and premium rate increases. My own buildings in the Monastery complex. in the complex. Jason also managed are up to date. But I didn’t mean to research indicates that many people Working almost every Saturday from to talk eight of his co-workers into give the wrong impression: While I who purchase LTC insurance really late September to May, a dedicated spending a day with us during the have reviewed lots of Wills, trusts, can’t afford it. I say this because in crew of volunteers has been able to early framing phase. and other legal documents over the studies I’ve done using a computer accomplish quite a bit of work to Special thanks need to go to Terry years, and sometimes play a part in model, the results sometimes partially offset the devastating loss Eggert (Eggert Construction) who their design, I don’t personally write indicate a high probability that when an unscrupulous contractor pledged $5,000 in dry wall work. or amend them. What I do is policies might later have to be lapsed absconded with $54,100! While When he came to see the job needs, recommend that clients see a for lack of funds. If the money Phase 1 has been completed, a great he not only gave us a full crew doing competent attorney if I think changes required to pay future premiums will deal more has to be done. At this time all the dry wall in the Library but also are needed. The role of a good not be available every year, if policies there is a need for electricians and built a deck to the back door and financial planner, among other things, lapse and aren’t in force when the plumbers to step in and guide the bought and installed a wonderful is to prepare useful economic studies need arrives, what a waste of money. next phase. Workers are available to French Door for the building as well. and suggest appropriate planning I am not the only one with help with running pipes and wires Terry’s comment as to why he did all strategies for clients. Good economic reservations about LTC insurance. but we need the expertise of someone that? “I hate to see contractors given studies and well thought out The National Association of with a license to guide us through the a bad name. Running off with that strategies can also help an attorney Insurance Commissioners meets intricate warren of King County much money is just unacceptable!” get a clear understanding of a client’s periodically to discuss current issues regulations and building codes. If Saturday after Saturday objectives and long-range financial that are particularly important or you have the skills to help us, please volunteers came to help with Phase picture so that he or she can then be troubling. Poor experience with LTC give me a call at 463-6145. 1 of this building project. Working on sure that the documents they create insurance recently inspired I want to recognize the superb a construction project brings on the are really suitable. Commissioners from two states, efforts of those who have so hunger pangs and we have a number Every now and then I see Wills Florida and Wisconsin, to ask unselfishly given their time over the of people to thank for providing that were written by software whether LTC policies should be sold past several months. A core group wonderful lunches: Cherly Hunt, programs designed for personal use. to anyone at all. In my opinion, some came out almost every Saturday. Karen Lauzon, and Kay Pierson These programs are a lot better than folks can afford LTC insurance and Pascal Py stepped up to the plate and provided full, hot, meals consisting they used to be, but I wouldn’t some policies are better than others, led us thru the decking, framing, and of main course, salads, breads, and suggest that you use them if you own so I would not go so far as to say these roofing. Assisting him was: Ka (especially for Joe Ulatoski) brownies property in other states, have children policies should not be sold to anyone. Luomala, David Sova (who took a for dessert made by Dorothy Fouty. with special needs, are involved in There’s good anecdotal evidence little time off to complete training as Zoomies also came to our aid with certain financial complexities, or supporting arguments on both sides. an EMT with the Fire Department), burgers and fries on four occasions expect to have an estate that will be Surely some people have benefited Chris Cortelyou, John Whalen, when Cheryl and Kay couldn’t be subject to estate taxes. Even if you do greatly from them. But without Andre Lauzon, and Joe Ulatoski. available. draft your own documents, it’s a good question, they’re not for everyone. There were many others who came I also want to extend thanks to idea to have an attorney review them. It’s tragic, but a lot of folks who really and gave us a day or two of their time Jim and Lynn Wilson who, with their Now, regarding Long Term Care need LTC insurance probably can’t and their efforts were very much most generous contribution, opened insurance: this is a product that afford it. appreciated: Andrew Maxwell, an account at Washington Mutual in purports to address the problem of To contact Mark Goldman, write Joshua Along, Drew Carlton, and Les the name of the Monastery. That how to pay for expensive services at to: [email protected], or check his Peterson. Thanks also to Rainmen account is open and accepting any home or special care facility, website at: www.gpln.com. oo oo oo Construction which provided two and all contributions for the particularly in old age. Clearly, this days’ work and showed us how to remaining phases of this building is and will continue to be a critical build the interior walls. project. If you are interested in Jason Felix, while attending helping on this worthwhile college, managed to find time to help endeavor, please call me at 463-6145. There is much to be done. oo oo oo The Vashon Loop, p. 18 June 15, 05 Loop ~ Sports

Ernesto, There’s probably a lot of great She’ll get it and print it. (Ed: Not sporting events you are covering bloody likely if you send anything to that now—like the T-ball All Star Team, unwieldy email. But it will be good Indoor Lacrosse World typing practice.) Say hi to my friends Championships, and the (now out of and family and to Randheep, the best the underground into the VW Van ever! Who knows how long mainstream competition) Pan I’ll be held hostage… American Hand Shaking Ernesto Championships. Maybe you’re in Lima right now, covering the event. Instant Stories: Anyways, I was hoping that you By High School Students in As she walked in the apartment, Before he could change it, his father could put a few little stories in there. Creative Writing: she felt her feet stumble on a puddle. grabbed him by the shoulder and They are instant stories if you will. I As the nine foot waves crashed “Fred, have you let the bath overflow said to him: “Hey, wait, I like that taught a Creative Writing lesson to against Helen’s bulkhead, she again?” song.” a bunch of high schoolers last week noticed the sound of the water was This guy was feeling really sick She could feel his cold clammy and I think they did an impressive louder than usual and then felt a cold to his stomach one day and he didn’t hands on her back. “Man,” she job—check out character, conflict, breeze rush through the house. She know what was wrong. He took a thought, “that guy had clammy and perhaps resolution. Would you whipped her head around to see the deep breath in and farted and didn’t hands.” mind printing some of them in your door wide open and her baby boy’s feel sick anymore. — The purple giraffe with column? I know you’re a sports buff, playpen tipped over and Tommy The boy spun the dial at 1/32 the sunglasses and a spotted top hat but sometimes literature can free you nowhere in sight. speed of sound, pausing very briefly greeted Ben enthusiastically. At this from the in between season ruts. The boy was in love. It turns out when he heard a song that he sadly point Ben realized that the milk in his Professor Brady Josepe Nelson that he got the girl. recognized: Bye, Bye, Bye by N’Sync. cereal may have gone bad, real bad. Double Crostic by Richard Carson Dear Professor, Guess the answers to the clues, then transfer those letters to the corresponding numbered squares in the grid. Work back I’m actually in Lima as you write and forth between the clues and the grid until the quotation is revealed. The initial letters of the clue answers, reading down, me. They’re keeping me hostage for form an acrostic revealing the source (author and title). trying to enter the contest as a write- in. I had the reverse Texas Handshake rehearsed and ready. I would have done our President proud. He mighta’ slapped me on the back and given me a ride in this bright green H-2. That woulda’ been nice. Anyways, I haven’t had time to write. They gave me one email from jail down here and this is it. (Can I also say one thing before turning it over to Professor’s students’ stories? I love yooouuuuu Vaaaasssshhhooonnn!) Professor, just email the stories (with this message, too) to Marie at [email protected].

Solution to Double Crostic on Page 19 June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 19 Loopy Laffs “Virtue” is the failure to achieve vice. OneLiners Takeoffs are optional,landings are mandatory. (more or less) The best way to predict the future is to invent it. I keep trying to lose weight but it keeps finding me. A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense. Ideas are great provided they don’t degenerate into work. The main trouble with mental notes is the ink fades so fast. They say Scots have a good sense of humor because it’s free. Ahhh...I see the mess-everything-up fairy has visited us again. I don’t know what your problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to pronounce. When a hospital runs out of maternity nurses they have a mid-wife crisis. Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

A little girl asked her mother for a dollar to give to an old lady in the park. Her mother was touched by the child’s kindness, and gave her the required sum. “There you are, my dear,” said the mother. “But, tell me, isn’t the lady able to work any more?” “Oh yes,” came the reply. “She sells candy.”

What do fishermen and hypochondriacs have in common? They don’t really have to catch anything to be happy.

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N. EAST OF EDEN OF EAST N. Davis Solution to Double Crostic Double to Solution The Vashon Loop, p. 20 June 15, 05 A Few Good Books by Rachel Bard

Alert readers will recall that in a previous issue of The Loop we took up the believability of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It got low marks. Here’s one final cavil from this testy reader. Even if we could believe all the questionable history, could we believe the hero did all this in seven hours? At half past midnight Robert Langdon is called from his Paris hotel to inspect a crime scene at the Louvre. He joins forces there with Sophie Neveu for an hour or so of interaction with police detectives. They elude the police, hide for some time in a museum restroom, escape, crisscross Paris in cars and taxis, stop at a bank on the western outskirts, get into its vault to retrieve a treasure, elude the police, drive to a villa in Versailles, have a lengthy consultation with a colleague, elude the police, escape in a Range Rover to Le Bourget Airfield, take a plane across the Channel, land in Kent, elude the police and take a limo to London, arriving at Inner Temple Lane at 7:30 a.m. Quite a night’s work, eh? Now for something more constructive: a short list of books that pay due deference to historical integrity while capturing the reader with a good story. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. If you were befuddled by his Name of the Rose you’ll find this a mite easier. It’s an intricate tale, covering much the same territory as The Da Vinci Code—Templars, Rosicrucians, Jesuits—but far more cleverly written. Eco bases it on his protagonists’ imagined view of what might have happened, within a framework of authenticated historic events. An intriguing cerebral exercise. The Arthurian saga by Mary Stewart: The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment and The Wicked Day. We’ll never know how much of the King Arthur and Merlin story is true. Fifth-century Britain is just too long ago. But Stewart uses the known political and social developments of the age as the warp for her imagined woof. Notes at the end of each book explain what’s legend, what’s fact and what she made up. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. The painter Vermeer is a fact, though precious little is known about him. His maidservant Griet (inspiration for the famous painting) is fictional. The twain meet in this beautifully crafted book but not with the cheap romantic adventure you might expect. Chevalier treats her subjects with respect and captures the aura of Delft 350 years ago. A note at the end references the few sources on Vermeer. The Journeyer by Gary Jennings. What Marco Polo would have written if he’d gotten around to a really detailed account. The book is rich in action and immerses you in high life and low life in the late 1200s-early 1300s. There’s a good deal of bawdiness, more funny than offensive; misery; cruelty—as well as high jinx and the carefree joys of a very long road trip. The canvas is broad, from Venice to China and back again. When you finish the 782 pages you’ll wish there were more. The Words of Bernfrieda by Gabriella Brooke. This one will grab you and stay with you. The title character chronicles her life in 11th-century Normandy, Italy and Sicily. Brooke offers suspense, credibility, an elegant style and a vivid picture of the role of medieval women. The Queen’s Necklace by Frances Mossiker. Nonfiction but reads like fiction. It’s a collection of actual accounts of a notorious 18th- century scandal. Luckily for us, virtually all the major players—the duped, the innocent, the guilty, the complicitous, the detached observers—kept diaries or wrote memoirs. Mossiker skillfully weaves all this together in an utterly fascinating book. The scandal led directly to the downfall of Louis XVI and his beautiful queen Marie Antoinette. It’s more than a slice of history, it’s the whole fruitcake. For a list of other recommended historical novels, including my High School student Taylor Renno at her gallery exhibit currently on display at own, e-mail [email protected]. Terrence McBride in Vashon. The show runs through the month of June. Don’t miss it! oo oo oo June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 21 Loop Arts

An Evening with At eighteen he met Jon Landau, Vince Herman and Jim Page at Bishop’s who later became Bruce Vince Herman of Leftover Salmon fame and Seattle folk legend Jim Livingston Taylor Springsteen’s producer and Continued from page 1 Page will be gracing the Bishop’s stage on Friday, June 24th at 8:00 p.m. manager. It was Landau who Tickets are on sale now at hushhushticketing.com or behind the bar at He has recorded eleven albums, produced Livingston’s first recording Bishop’s. and currently maintains a performing in Macon, Georgia, for Atlantic Vince has been playing music as long as he can remember. Growing schedule of more than a hundred Records when he was nineteen. up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, polka filled his ears at an early age, along shows a year, which include club, Livingston has written most of with Motown, Soul and Rock and Roll. He discovered string band music theater, college, and full symphony his music repertoire, including such in 1977 and has been chasing it around ever since. repertoire. Top Forty hits as “I Will Be in Love In 1989, Vince started a band called the Salmon Heads and by 1990, A strong television background with You” and “I’ll Come Running”; Vince combined forces with Drew Emmitt from Left Hand String Band to includes hosting a daily syndicated and for his brother James, “I Can create Leftover Salmon. Vince and his cronies have been integral in pop music show This Week’s Music for Dream of You,” “Going Round One spreading the significance of festivals and the art of anahuacing Viacom plus the occasional soap- More Time,” and “Boatman” (off the (pronounced ana-whak-king. Anahuacing was invented by Leftover opera cameo (reporter Sam Cocharan double Grammy-winning album Salmon. They would enter a camp ground at night, sneak up on peoples’ on the now-defunct soap Texas). Hourglass). In 1988 he received the tents while they were sleeping, scream “Anahuac!” and run away). Now a full professor, Livingston Boston Music Award for outstanding Jim Page began playing guitar at 15. He went to New York in 1970, has lectured regularly at the Berklee folk artist. and came back to Seattle in 1971. He was instrumental in changing Seattle’s College of Music in Boston since 1985 He is the author of two children’s street singing laws in 1974. He went to Europe in 1977 and had success and has taught a performance course stories, Pajamas and Can I Be touring there before returning to Seattle in 1983. there since 1989. The concept, and Good? Both were published by After seeing him perform at the High Sierra Music Festival in the much of the inspiration, for Stage Harcourt Brace. summer of 1097, Rob Bleetstein of Gavin wrote: “Jim Page is a lyrical Performance come from those classes. Describing himself as a pop genius with a guitar. This man personifies the word ‘free-flow.’ Page takes Born in Boston in 1950 and raised singer, Livingston also includes his to the mic and the song invents itself on the spot; his talent is a natural in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, guitar, piano, and five-string banjo in wonder.” Livingston is the fourth of five most of his performances. “It’s no Page’s songs have been performed by Christy Moore, Michael Hedges, children of Isaac and Trudy Taylor. mean feat, making a living as a John Trudell, The Doobie Brothers, Joanne Rand, Casey Neill, and (yes) He was sixteen when he moved back professional musician for thirty David Soul. to Boston to finish high school. years,” he says. No mean feat. But to Get your tickets while they’re hot at www.hushhushticketing.com or “Barely,” he says, noting that the next do it with style-ah, there’s the beauty. at Bishop’s during regular business hours. Hoping to see you all there at year he began performing in the Livingston is currently Artist-in- Bishop’s on Friday, June 24th at 8:00 p.m. oo oo oo Boston coffeehouse circuit. Residence at Harvard University.oo oo oo Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Reading and Book Signing

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald will be reading from her recently published book, Looking Like The Enemy on Sunday, June 26th at 2:00 p.m. in the Gordon Building, located behind the Vashon Heritage Museum on Bank Road. As a teenager, she collected 110,000 shells from one of the camps that her Vashon Island Japanese American family was banished to in 1942. At least 110,000 people from the Japanese-American community on the West Coast of the US were interned. More than 60 years later she still has those shells. The retired RN has written a memoir of that time and place to help us reflect, remember and find our way as a community past fear and through difficult times. Her book will be available for purchase and signing. Light refreshments will also be available. oo oo oo The Vashon Loop, p. 22 June 15, 05 Loop Arts Armor and Poetry at the Vashon Library!

We know you like helmets, shields, pink glitter and Trojans! Really, we know. Well, if this is not necessarily true, then it will be after you check out the Mythological Armor on display at the Vashon King New SuNday County Library. The armor is part of a Vashon Artists in the Schools program HourS 4 to 8pm where Artist Carol Schwennesen teamed up with Vashon High School Dine in or Take Out Mythological Armor created in Mr. Blomgren’s 5th Teacher Anders Blomgren. Period Mythology Class in coordination with artist Each student created pieces Carol Schwennesen and the Artists in the Schools Program. of armor that they would Wesley Bell Ringers in Concert Students from left to right: Chris Cacciapaglia, Eric wear on their mythological Olson, Eric Richardson, John Murray, Abby Smith, adventure. The armor The Wesley Bell Ringers from and an additional four-octave set of Eric Burnett,Brittany Jackson, Megan Sinclair, and could be thick and Christ United Methodist Church in precision tuned English handbells. Ezra Blake. protective in a practical Salt Lake City, Utah, will perform at An extra half-octave of notes is Vashon Island United Methodist added by the Boom-A-Gong, a bass sense. More likely, however, Church on Wednesday, June 22nd instrument unique to the choir and the armor is metaphorical; at 7:30 p.m. Vashon Island United unique in its sound and percussive helmets, body armor and Methodist Church is located at effect. A two-octave carillon, a set swords with personal 17928 Vashon Highway SW on of Silver Melody Bells, a two-octave importance. You’ll see bronze Vashon Island. This is the Wesley set of cup bells and two four-octave coated shields, blue taped Bell Ringers’ third trip to Vashon sets of handchimes are also used by swords and pink glitter — their most recent visit was in the choir during its performances. littered head pieces. You’ll 2000. During the choir’s thirty-nine see plume grass and purple The concert is part of the choir’s years of touring they have performed fur. That is if you come to fortieth annual summer tour. The in all 50 states and nine Canadian check it out. Each set of armor choir will present thirteen concerts provinces. They have rung in such will be accompanied with a in six states over the course of their diverse places as Mount Rushmore, short poem briefly describing Who are these intimidating 5th period Mythology two week tour, performing a wide Walt Disney World, the U.S. Capitol and enhancing the artwork. Students? variety of music, both sacred and and the Cathedral of the Pines Top Row, from left to right: Sebastian Anderson, Thanks to the Vashon Artists National Shrine. They have Laurie Clark, Jay Z (the greatest rapper alive) Zaplan, secular. in the Schools Program, Clay Stork, Jon Munro and Kirk Lopez. Front Row: This years’ program includes performed with the Utah Symphony Vashon High School, and the Chris Walker. Mozart’s “Symphonie #40 in G and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Vashon King County Library minor” arranged by Edwin J. In February 2002 the choir performed for making this possible. Duncan, Lee Afdahl’s arrangement at the Salt Lake City Winter of Brahm’s “How Lovely is Thy Olympics. The choir has been Dwelling Place” and “All Glorious featured in newspapers and Above” arranged by Fred Gramann. magazines, has played on radio and Other selections include television, and has produced twenty arrangements and compositions by recordings. They have been honored William Payn, Cynthia Dobrinski as a demonstration choir at and William H. Griffin. The program numerous handbell festivals. also features a percussion filled Over the years the members of arrangement of “Kum Ba Ya” by Hart the choir have raised most of the Morris and the Wesley Bell Ringers’ money to purchase and maintain own unique version of Chop Stix. equipment and to pay for their The Wesley Bell Ringers were concert tours. Sandwich sales and founded in 1963 with nine ringers rummage sales have become and twenty-five handbells. Since synonymous with the name Wesley that time over 380 teenagers have Bell Ringers. The choir does not played in the choir. The nineteen charge for its concert but a free will current ringers use one six-octave set offering will be taken to help with Clayton Stork (yes, that’s him under there) tour expenses. displays his signature symbol(relating to Laurie Clark shows off her dark helmet with Japanese Mythology) and intricate cardboard fiery headpiece. And the blood dotted sword. armor. June 15, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 23 What’s Happening at R Vashon Bookshop? Crash ByDevon Atkins Madagascar PG It’s been thirteen years now, since I Wednesday 6/15 - Thursday 6/16 moved to Vashon. At the time, I was Call 463-3232 or divorcing in rural northern California, www.vashontheater.com for times and was looking for a new adventure for my two small children and me. My parents had moved here three years Batman PG-13 before, and it was becoming clear that my father was fast declining, and that Begins my mother wouldn’t be able to care for Friday 6/17 - Tuesday 6/28 him alone. And even though my brother, a slick Seattle guy, told me it was nuts for a poverty-stricken single Mad Hot PG Friday, June 24 mother to move to Vashon, I did it Ballroom anyway. @ 8pm Vashon has been delightful, but Friday 6/24 - Tuesday 6/28 difficult. After all, my children and I Hush Hush Productions Presents have moved six times since we’ve lived Call 463-3232 or here, and never been able to afford to www.vashontheater.com for times buy. All of our rental houses, but one, Vince Herman have been sold. (The exception was a ( leftover Salman ) couple who moved to Colorado, and came back because of homesickness.) Full Calendar Online Each time, my son would say, “I’m not & Jim Page moving again!” We would tell everyone we knew that we were looking for a new Acoustic Duo place, we would haunt newspaper ads, and schmooze at The Burton Store. The Tickets $10 - Available Now delightful thing was we always found a @HushHushTicketing.com new house, and have enjoyed every single one of them. 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Bookshop with its fabulous children’s Saturday, June 25 2005 Livingston room and Karen’s pithy poetry section; Yo Ho Ho, It’s a Treasure Hunt and with Barb Adams and Ken Miller, Taylor who began hosting gatherings in their “X” marks the spot in Robert certificate to Zoomies or a key. home, which evolved into The Poetry Tickets Louis Stevenson’s classic tale There will be five keys (one key per Salon, a monthly (first Thursdays) Treasure Island, and Vashon’s own person please). If you get one of gathering of folks who love to talk about $20 Drama Dock Theatre is presenting these special keys come to the poetry. And, now, there is WORDS, a monthly spoken-word Open Mic, hosted On Sale Now! a musical comedy of the story at the opening night performance of by yours truly, and enriched by your end of July. You can have some fun Drama Dock’s “Treasure Island” friends and neighbors who throw before then though and collect some and see if it unlocks a treasure chest caution to the wind and sign up for five @ 8pm booty to boot! that holds well over a hundred minutes of reckless fame. Anything is Drama Dock is presenting a dollars of goodies donated by an option, as long as it’s spoken word. June 22nd, and from now on, we’ll meet treasure hunt on Vashon. Treasure island businesses. Don’t worry, if We’ve heard original and notable at the new Vashon Tea Shop, thanks to maps will be on sale starting your key doesn’t open the chest poetry, political commentary, theater, the lovely Susan Bassett. Sign-Ups begin Saturday, June 18th at the Vashon you’ll still be awarded a gift just for blogs, and short stories. We’ve had little at Vashon Bookshop at 6:30 p.m. See you children, teenagers, rowdy oldsters, and there! Bookshop. Pick one up and follow participating. Of note: The keys everyone in-between. (For more information call Devon the clues on the map to eight won can be per person not just per WORDS is a monthly event, the Atkins, 567-4886.) Which only goes to different locations, where there will family. fourth Wednesday evening of each prove, once again, that there is more to be mystery letters. Collect up all Get one of those maps and start month at 7:00 p.m.; and, this month, the Bookshop than just books! those letters, knowing the secret hunting. The treasure hunt ends the word, and take your map to the first night of the show, July 22nd, final mystery location where you’ll so have fun out there and stay one receive an envelope. In the envelope step ahead of those scalawags and will either be an ice cream gift pirates. oo oo oo Hey Kids! Theater of Play If you write a Book Review, you have a chance to win a $20 book-buying spree! Come all you lovers of art, you revelers of creation, you get down (Drop in and ask us about it.) freaks, to the first performance of Theater of Play, an interactive theater experience presented by the Community Arts Project. Every Sunday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Café Luna Theater of Play will bring to life a Mon-Sat 9-7, Sun 9-5 463-2616 whole new world of experience and excitement as the troupe of merry magicians show you your wildest dreams and most terrifying nightmares, in a series of short performance pieces created by the troupe. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door of by calling 463-2603. For any questions, or to join the troupe please contact Eli Steffen 463- 2603 or [email protected]. Serving Vashon and West Seattle The Vashon Loop, p. 24 June 15, 05 NEW PRICE $199,000 Premium Building Site K.C. Approved Septic Design SEATTLE METRO WEST Water to Site Power to Site MLS #25069416 ! Sound View ! Mtn.View 206-463-7677 ! Lightly Treed An Independent Member Broker ! .92 Acres Build Your Dream Home on this Shy Acre Site in an Estate Setting of Million Dollar Homes. Peak Views of the Olympics and Sound. Extremely Rare Opportunity for a Premium Building Site that is Ready to Go. Water and Power to Site. K.C. Approved P.D. Septic Design thru 08/ 06. Come Enjoy the Island Life! Secluded and Serene $175,000

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