In This Issue: Pipes, games,croquet, Name the owl, Earthfair reprise, field Yanyeidi Tinaa! and fish and chips; guide to parents, Cedar Waxwings, AIDS!!! What’s a Plus more Arts and Art Auction, PUD, one poem, and EEK!! “moiety?” Music much more! Page 6 Pages 18 & 19 Page 10

Vol. 3, # 18 TO INFORM AND AMUSE ~ TO PROVOKE THINKING AND ACTIVISM August 30, 2006 Two Buddhist Events Coming Up on Island

Total Experience Gospel Choir and the Reverend Patrinell Wright Total Experience Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche and Gospel Choir friend The Buddha Returns to Sing By Marie Browne and Meets Quantum Mary Litchfield Tuel Dan Schueler of Voice of Vashon TV tapes the Peak Moment crew taping Mark Yelken On Saturday, September 9, the demonstrating a neighborhood-scale composting system. Photo by Meg Gluckman Physics Total Experience Gospel Choir, led If you’ve seen the movie What the by the Reverend Patrinell Wright, Bleep Do We Know, you’ll remember returns to the Vashon High School Quiet On the Set! the line by physicist Fred Alan Wolfe Theater for their annual concert to By Janie Starr saying, “If you’re not a little bit benefit the Bailey Boushay House, disconcerted by all this, you’re not That command rang out during an AIDS hospice in Seattle. This paying attention!” Such can be the the three days that the producers of year marks the 15th anniversary of experience of listening to the Peak Moment were on Vashon the event. Doors open at 6 p.m. for teachings of Dzogchen Khenpo interviewing and filming a refreshments, and the concert starts Choga Rinpoche, who returns to smattering of folks involved in at 7 p.m. Vashon Thursday, September 8, sustainability and localization The Choir has just returned from from 7-9:30 p.m., for a public talk efforts on our island. New Orleans, where they gave at a residence on north Vashon (call Janaia Donaldson and Robyn concerts and did volunteer work for for directions, 206-463-1490). Mallgren of Yuba Gals Independent people who lost everything a year Continued on page 19 Media use their public access ago when Hurricane Katrina struck. television series to highlight Vashon residents make Peak Moment crew feel welcome at a local-food potluck Photo Vashon Buddhist Seminar: The Total Experience Gospel Choir community-based responses to a by Meg Gluckman. Directed by the Reverend Pat Wright changing energy future. Based in September 9 at VHS Theater Nevada City, California, they have Delving into 6 p.m. Doors open, Refreshments taken their show on the road, and Vashon was their first stop on a 7 p.m. Concert whirlwind tour that included Bainbridge and Orcas Islands, Portland and Freedom Williams, Oregon, and places in between. Ultimately they hope to expand “The Dharma is, if nothing else, Continued on page 4 a call for us to live in a state of radical Concert organizer Larry Flynn freedom,” writes Charles Johnson, in is passionate about educating Turning the Wheel: Essays on children and teens about AIDS, VFW: Buddhism and what it is, how you get it, how not Writing, one of to get it. New Commander; Vietnam Today more than a Flynn was diagnosed with HIV Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Post 2826, announces that Bill dozen books of in 1985, and didn’t expect to live Hathaway is the new Commander of VFW Post 2826. philosophy, long. “But here I am, 21 years after Commander Hathaway has announced that the fiction, essays my diagnosis, still alive,” Flynn says VFW meeting on Thursday, September 7, 6:30 p.m., and cartoons. now, with a palpable sense of at the Veterans Hall (formerly the VFW Hall), will Inviting us to wonder. include Roy Bumgarner sharing his impressions from consider, Continued on page 6 a recent month-long visit to Vietnam, Cambodia and “What is Charles Johnson Laos. Bumgarner, VFW Post 2826 Service Officer, is a Freedom?” veteran of service in these three countries during the Johnson will lead the all-day third Ferry Schedule Vietnam conflict. The Vashon annual Vashon Buddhist Seminar on Community is invited to attend. Sunday, September 17. for Labor Day “I went over without any What if we did get our freedom? On Labor Day the Vashon ferries preconceived notions,” What would we do with it? What will run on a holiday schedule at both Bumgarner said. “I was really do you envision freedom to be? the north and south end of the Island. surprised at how people treated “If the teachings of Shakyamuni The Passenger Only ferry will not be in us. They’ve had two wars since Buddha are about anything, they are service on Labor Day. Travelers needing what they call ‘the American specific information can call the Roy Bumgarner in about a profound understanding of war,’ with Cambodia and Laos. Washington State Ferries Information Vung Tau, 1968 identity and the broadest possible line at 1-888-808-7977 or check the web They ask you where you’re from meaning of liberty. If we wish to be site at www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries. Roy Bumgarner today Continued on page 10 Continued on page 10 The Vashon Loop, p. 2 August 30, 06 Adopt-A-Cat Day Vashon Island will host an Adopt- Get in The Loop A-Cat Day on Saturday, September 2, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, September 3, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at Pandora’s Box. Please stop by or call VIPP at 206-389-1085. VIPP Annual Dog

(and People) Walk Come join us at VIPP’S annual Dog (and People) Walk on Saturday, September 16 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Burton Acres Park. You don’t have to find sponsors, but if you’d like to, there are sponsor sheets are available on-line at www.vipp.org, Pandora’s Box, Fair Isle Animal Clinic and the Vashon Pharmacy. Master Gardeners’ Final Prizes will be awarded to the top three contributors. Hope to see you Free Clinics of Summer there...it’s a great way to get some The final two Master Gardener free exercise, meet your Island neighbors clinics of the season will be offered and help VIPP at the same time. Saturday, Sept 9, and Saturday, September 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in King County Seeks the breezeway between True Value and Volunteers to Foster Animals Thriftway. Bring your gardening questions, or come by for advice on King County Animal Services is seasonal gardening tasks. In our climate, looking for residents to provide temporary autumn is the best time for planting, care in their homes for sick, injured and transplanting and dividing most plants. young cats and dogs so they can be We can help suggest plants for particular adopted out in the future. situations or for drought tolerance. A training session for people Master Gardener advice is also interested in proving temporary foster available via a telephone help line care will be held on Thursday, August 31 Mondays-Fridays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. year- from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the King round, on (206) 296-3440. And County Kent Animal Shelter at 21615 information on identifying and managing 64th Avenue South. Once completed, plant problems is available on the web at volunteers may begin to foster pets right king.wsu.edu/gardening. Applications away. are now being accepted for next year’s Master Gardener training. Stop by the Episcopal Church Has DOIT Board Meeting Wolftown Needs clinic if you’d like to inquire about the New Service Times Thursday, Sept. 7 Volunteers and Linens program. Seriously, folks, the Episcopal Church The next regular board meeting of Wolftown desperately needs towels Corrections of the Holy Spirit is changing its Sunday Development of Island Teens (DOIT) will and sheets for wildlife at the project. Wrong Name: Laura Calloway was worship and education hours starting take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Wolftown also needs volunteers to very gracious about the fact that I got her this Sunday, September 3. September 7, at Sunrise Ridge feed orphaned wildlife. Wolftown will name wrong in the story about the The early service will begin at 7:45 Conference Room in the Voice of Vashon provide training for volunteers. beginning of the Vashon Youth Theater a.m.; the late service will start at 10:15 building. Youth and interested adults are Volunteers must be 18 years or older, and Project (Loop, August 16, 2006). For some a.m. This is to accommodate Church invited. For reasonable accommodations willing to get up at night every two hours. reason I thought her name was Callahan. School and Adult Education at 9 a.m. for people with disabilities and Wolftown also needs volunteers to It isn’t. “It’s Calloway, as in ‘Cab,’” Amateur Radio directions, call Stephen Silha at 567-4363. help with off-Island wildlife releases. Laura says. I apologize, Laura, and thank Public Safety you for being so kind in correcting my Licensing Classes mistake. A no-fee, 10-week class to obtain a Committee Meets Adjusted Total: Jo Ann Bardeen ham radio license will be offered Two items will be the focus of the writes that the 10th Annual Rally For a beginning Sep 14th, at 7 PM. The class September meeting of the VIMCC Public Cure raised $4,846, not $4,300, as will meet in the east room of VIFR’s Safety Committee meeting Friday, reported in the last issue of The Loop. Penny Farcy training center, across the September 8, at 10:00 a.m. in the street from the main fire station. Amateur courtroom of Courthouse Square. We will The Vashon Loop Radio is a great tool for emergency be hearing concerns regarding tinder-dry Writers: Kathy Abascal, Deborah Anderson, Rachel communications and a tremendously woodlands on the Island and discussing Bard, Becky Bumgarner, Marie Browne, Eric Francis, interesting hobby for techies and non- what will happen in case of a large, fast- Fran Gordon, Troy Kindred, Melissa McCann, Orca techies alike. Join Vashon-Maury’s moving fire. We will also be considering Name this owl! Annie, Kevin Pottinger, Rex Morris, Weslie Rodgers, growing list of hams! For more various highway and traffic issues with Name the New Educational Jonathan Shipley, Ed Swan, Mary L. Tuel, Marj Watkins Guest Writers this issue: Lauri Hennessey, information about the course, check the special emphasis on the dangers that Owl at Wolftown! Vashon-Maury Island Radio Club’s come with the early darkness of autumn Janice Randall, Janie Starr Website at www.w7vmi.org, or contact and the start of school. Those with This little guy is missing part of a Interns: Morgan Wegner, Rozie Royal Ward Silver by phone at 683-9710. particular concerns are welcome to wing and has eyesight problems, and so Photographers: T Kindred, Jc Kindred, Alex attend, as well as any citizen who desires will be staying with us at Wolftown and Kindred, Mary L. Tuel Green Party Events to become a member of the Public Safety teaching about how vital it is to preserve Original art, comics, cartoons: Ed Frohning, Rick Committee, or just wants to observe. habitat for indigenous species around Tuel, Jeff Hawley for September your home. Ad sales and design: Troy Kindred and Marie Monthly Green Party meeting: Tea Shop. This month we will be To help name him, vote for your Browne; Email: [email protected] Tuesday, September 12, at 7 p.m. at the discussing Field Notes from a Catastrophe: favorite name! (206) 463-9207 Land Trust Building. Meg Gluckman, Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by This is a fund raising event—one Editor: Mary Litchfield Tuel from Citizens for a Public Utility on Elizabeth Kolbert which tackles the dollar per vote! Vote as many times as you Email: [email protected]; (206) 463-3327 Vashon, will give a presentation on the controversial subject of global warming. wish! The youth volunteers at Wolftown Publishers: Marie Browne and Troy Kindred Public Utility District (PUD) initiative Kolbert approaches this monumental picked out the names. Write the name you PO Box 253, Vashon, WA 98070 that will be on the ballot in November. problem from every angle. Growing out choose and mail to Wolftown at PO Box Paid advertisements in The Vashon Loop in no way She will answer questions that audience of a groundbreaking three-part series for 13115, Burton, WA 98013. Vote ends express the opinions of the publisher, editor, or staff. members have about the proposed PUD. the New Yorker, Field Notes from a October 25. We reserve the right to edit or not even print stuff. Progressive movie night will be on Catastrophe brings the environment into The names are: Boo, Otis, Irving, Deal with it. Thursday, September 14, at 6:30 p.m. at the consciousness of the American people Ollie, Wol, Owly, Jr., and Hedwig. Published every two weeks Café Luna. Admission is free. We will be and asks what, if anything, can be done And thank you for supporting by Paradise Valley Press showing Sir! No Sir! a film about the anti- and how we can save our planet. Wolftown! © August 30, 2006 ~ Volume III, Issue 18 war movement in the military, a Don’t miss an issue! movement that does not get a lot of press Loopy sez: Deadline for the Subscribe to The Loop! The louder he talked of his $50 a year gets The Loop delivered to your coverage. next edition of The Loop is mailbox every two weeks. Call (463-3327) or Green Party Book Club (you don’t have honor, the faster we counted write (PO Box 253, Vashon) or email to be a member to join) will be held on our spoons. – Ralph Waldo Friday, September 8 [email protected]! Sunday, Sept. 24 at 2 p.m. at the Vashon Emerson August 30, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 3 Troy and Marie Get Ready for Fall Much as we hate to say it, it’s obvious that the end of another glorious summer is right around the corner. The mornings are crisp, the sun is lower on the horizon. Pretty soon the whole Island – the whole Puget Sound, in fact - will be immersed in a moist mist for months. (Try saying that fast three times!) This year Seattle Metro West we’ll be ready. Whether you’re a homeowner or are renting, there are some things you’ll want to do to prepare for the monsoons. If you are thinking of buying or selling your house, please give us a call at 206.463.LIST (5478). We’d love to talk with you. And if you are a renter, read on…

Marie:Troy, do you remember when we talked to Ed Palmer about Marie As I recall, Kurt also stressed the importance of keeping your gutters and ended up replacing ours? Believe it or not, it was gutters and downspouts clean. a whole year ago that Ed put in our snazzy new continuous Troy: Just no way around that dang job. At least I won’t have to feed gutters that match the paint trim on our house. They still waterproof the basement. look great, and they work beautifully. Marie: Ummm.. since we don’t have a basement, I suppose that’s Troy: Oh, I remember all right. I figured spending all that money true. But readers who do have basements should check out would get me off the hook for cleaning the gutters, but Ed the issue where we talked to John Yates from True Value about informed me that I was wrong. Too bad we don’t have any the various waterproofing products that are on the market. We teenagers around the house any more. wrote that issue (“Troy and Marie Stay Dry”) after over 100 Marie:I miss the kids, too – but it sure is nice to always have milk in continuous days of rain. It was a lot of rain. That’s all I’m going the fridge. Anyway, I would suggest that people re-read our to say about that. We hope we don’t have a repeat this winter, newsletter “Troy and Marie Get in the Gutter” for Ed’s tips on but it would be smart to take care of the problems now, so you gutter and downspout maintenance. It’s on our website under don’t find yourself in a flooded basement with a sump pump in Troy and Marie’s Newsletters at www.kwvashon.com. February. Troy: And as long as we’re on the roof (get it? on the roof?), we Troy: No kidding. Hey, let’s remember to tell our readers about our should remind people that Kurt MacMillan from A Better new blog service for people who need or want rentals. It’s Roofing Company had some good ideas on what to look for easy, and it’s absolutely free. to see if there are potential problems with a roof. That issue Need a rental? Have a rental? Check out our new FREE on- was titled “Troy and Marie Climb on the Roof.” line service: vashonrentals.blogspot.com. Post details about your rental under Vashon Rentals Available or Vashon Rentals Wanted. (206) 463-LIST (5478) On Island Properties www.kwvashon.com Land Ho! 12150 SW 266th Lane Sunny Ellisport! 20407 87th Ave SW This is a very private and beautiful shy Darling cedar-sided rambler on a shy one acre parcel with wonderful trees acre of sunny grounds minutes from and a nice open building site. The the beach and bus. Maple floors, property is a short distance off King picture windows and high ceilings let County paved road and has an expired Sold the sun shine in. In back, three approved 3 bdrm PD septic system studio spaces with separate power design. Also includes a Group B water meter await your imagination. share and water to the building site. Painting, pottery, woodworking, The lot has a gentle slope and should weaving? Fitness room, office, have a winter view into Quartermaster Sale Pending playhouse, storage? You decide! Harbor. Property has been surveyed. MLS 26095721 Artful plantings of specimen trees ! 1300 Sq Ft and shrubs, perennial beds - ! .92 Acres $160,000 greenhouse, too! In winter, snuggle ! 3 bedrooms up to the low emission wood stove ! Water share Build your ! 1 bath and enjoy the peek Sound view. ! Expired Septic dream home ! Close to beach $349,000 design Check out the virtual tours of these properties at MLS 26103180 New Price! www.kwvashon.com Tudor on Acreage! 22908 Vashon Hwy SW 17921 Westside Hwy SW This retro chic house calls for clambakes, cocktails, and cabin cruisers! Fairy tale charm abounds in this Tudor-style It’s 3200 square feet of living space on 75 home on a shy three acres of Vashon’s highly feet of low bank inner Quartermaster Harbor desirable sunny Westside with a view of waterfront. It’s picture windows from the floor Colvos Passage. Inside, the well-thought out to the high ceiling to take full advantage of the floor plan allows for plenty of private and light and the view of the busy harbor. It’s a home for entertaining guests and family, with communal space in beamed high ceiling two large decks practically over the water, plenty rooms that blend outdoor and of bedrooms and bathrooms, and a separate indoor spaces with French guest cabin. $949,000. MLS 26015188 doors and balconies. The grounds include a willow- surrounded pond, cottage ! 3240 Sq Ft garden flower beds, a ! 3 bedrooms fenced vegetable garden, paddocks, and a separate ! 2.5 bath garage and workshop ! 75 feet of low bank waterfront with guest quarters. $649,000 MLS 26047640 The Vashon Loop, p. 4 August 30, 06 Closed Saturdays!

Peak Moment Continued from page 1 their show throughout North energy conservation and the positive America in a dreamed-for biodiesel feasibility of energy independence solar-powered RV. In addition to streaming on the Internet, they are currently aired on seven public stations across the country, and are delighted to welcome Voice of Vashon as their latest addition. Dan Schueler was our man-on-the-scene, filming the filmers and adding his expertise to We welcome your the mix. !Loop Letter contributions! Please keep them under 300 words and submit Mark Yelken, the Worm Guy, them by email to: charmed them with his worms and More on How Much [email protected] fresh smelling compost as he walked Janaia Donaldson (left) of Peak Moment them through his operation and asks Deirdre Grace (center) and Rita Schenck (right) about the proposed Vashon Water We’re Using low but want the winter use by customers described the community- Editor, The Loop: to help them cover their fixed costs. For Public Utility District. Photo by Meg composting project he has initiated Gluckman Being a water efficiency consultant, some utilities too much conservation with the help of a Sustainable the article in the last issue titled “So How means they have to raise short term rates Vashon Green Seed grant. for the Island. She shared the stage Much Water Am I Using, Really?” caught to recover the lost revenue. with Deirdre Grace of Citizens for my attention. There are other less expensive ways Also, grant recipient I think it is great that the author of to see how much water you are using. You Chautauqua teachers Glenda Vashon Public Utilities, the group the article wants to have his water usage can read your water meter before and Berliner and Gerri Wilson gave a sponsoring the Public Utility District displayed inside his home. I think that after watering the landscape, before and full-on tour of the children’s garden, initiative that will be on the ballot for some people, having that type of after doing the laundry, or before and after a magical place replete with giant this fall. Deirdre spoke eloquently of immediate water use information doing some other water using task or cabbages, squash plants, and the initiative’s potential to both save displayed inside their home can lead to tasks. Or you can read your water meter sunflowers. They gave countless us money and make our homes and water savings. I think it will be great to every day, every week, or every month. examples of ways they integrate businesses more energy efficient as start to develop more local information Input the numbers into Excel and graph gardening with the core curriculum, we use energy savings to invest in on how much water this type of measure the results to keep a running record of provide healthy salad greens for conservation and renewable energy. can be expected to save. how much water you are using. By After the fourth show was in the The author made a comment about keeping a regular record like this you can utility spending on automating the meter see how much water you are using before can, “it’s a wrap,” turned out to be reading. As far as I know, utilities are you get your water bill. You can discover a premature pronouncement. Upon automating the meter reading because it excessive use or possible leaks before you learning of the creative and dynamic saves them money on meter reading time spend several months paying for them. K-Jo farm, Janaia and Robyn packed and it eliminates the disturbances that Make sure you are clear about the units up and headed to Paradise Valley sometimes occur when meter readers of water that your meter is measuring. for another on-site shoot, a visit with enter customer property. Many meters measure in cubic feet. 1 the baby goats, and a tour of this While it might be good to string a wire cubic foot = 7.48 gallons. small intensively farmed mecca of from the water meter to the kitchen and I have to respond to the comment luscious fruits and veggies. hook up a read out in each kitchen; that about “showerheads that trickle and Their final stop wasDana Illo’s is an added expense for each utility. toilets that need two flushes to clear a Utilities face pressure to keep costs low proper job.” I, like many people, have had Chautauqua teachers Glenda Berliner lavender farm, where she shared an and thus keep short term rates low from bad experiences with poorly designed (right) and Geri Wilson (center) describe incredibly holistic planning process most customers. They face pressure from low flush toilets. Those experiences can ways tointegrate the school’s garden into that brings people into community some other customers who want utilities be avoided in your next toilet purchase, if their curriculum. Photo by Meg Gluckman as they dream their visions for the to increase spending on conservation before buying a new toilet you go to the Earth into action. Dragon which often leads to higher short term following web site: http:// munching as well as pumpkins for Dreaming, as it is called, is the glue rates, although wise conservation www.savingwater.org/docs/ carving, and plan to store rainwater that can bring our many diverse investments can help keep long term rates FlushStar.pdf. The toilets listed on this through a water-catchment system efforts into a cohesive roadmap for lower. web site are only the ones that passed that is currently in the works. our Island’s sustainable future. For the last 30 years, I have been one more stringent testing than the current Soon we will have our own of the ones who have pushed utilities to national standard requires. The listing of After a day outside in the July increase investments in conservation. Yet toilets on this web site is periodically sun, we moved into Cohousing’s copies of these programs to share via I recognize that the economic guidelines, updated based on the most current high Common House to film two more Voice of Vashon TV. Stay tuned for governing principles, leadership, and performance testing results. 28-minute segments. Merrilee details, as together we continue to public involvement can vary a lot from As far as low flow showerheads go, I Runyan of Sustainable Vashon, Lisa build the will and the tools to create one utility to another. Some utilities could have found several of the 2.5 gallon per Mathias of Vashon Island Growers a Sustainable Vashon Island. use the savings that stringing the wire minute showerheads that I thought Association, and Hillery Crocker of Janie Starr and Meg Gluckman may or may not provide because it may worked really well. This is obviously an Vashon Earth Awareness Coalition, are involved in all kinds of partially help save them from investing issue of personal preference and some provided an overview of the sustainable stuff through in an expensive new water resource. Some people may not agree. If someone does not successes and challenges facing an Sustainable Vashon, IERE, and the utilities have plenty of water, at least for like the performance of their 2.5 Beyond Oil Coalition. now, and have no interest in losing showerhead, I suggest that they ask their Island committed to living revenue to help with a limited supply friends if they are happy with the model sustainably. Progress, far from consisting in change, issue that they do not have yet. Some they are using and if they are, try that They were followed by Rita Schenck of IERE, who reviewed the depends on retentiveness…Those who utilities would welcome more savings model. cannot remember the past are only in the summer when supplies run Michael Laurie, Watershed LLC research pointing the need for condemned to fulfill it. -- Santayana August 30, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 5

I live next door to Judd Creek, !Loop Letter where the road crew spent about a month digging up the street (adding 2 miles to my trip into town) and Earthfair – Reprise building a great big culvert, using an It’s not surprising that someone air wrench that ran about 130 decibels near an event — ANY event- should up here, 200 feet away (the poor find some things to gripe about, I devils!) for two of those weeks — and guess. The token recognition of their I want to thank them for it! The new situation (i.e., their “wonderful, quiet culvert means that a mink can go up neighbor, 362 days out of the year”) the creek without having to cross the next to Paradise Ridge is really a self- road, and salmon can stay in a creek - congratulatory smirk, to me. The - not be forced through a pipe -- to implication is that “if the hoi polloi just get upstream. Was it noisy and stayed away from the public park inconvenient? Sure...and also ALL THE TIME, life would be educational (the soil profiles in the perfect!” road cut will be with me forever, Is Earthfair “too loud, large and better than ANY textbook). It was also intrusive for a residential entertaining (when some of us went neighborhood park”? I don’t down to the new culvert in the know...because THAT’S NOT evening and recorded music inside — WHERE IT IS! It’s in a 60-plus acre fabulous echo). I guess I could have site in rural King County! And, unlike been pissed off for a month- but then you, and your neighbor across the I’d have missed out, wouldn’t I? street (who owns about a square mile So, my advice to the Earthfair lot, there), the majority of the campers neighbors is this: recycle your “ex- don’t own property at all — urban or hippiness” for a few days a year, and rural. This is an opportunity to see something New (the F-150 pickup express their growing sense of running on wood smoke, last year; or community awareness. Lots of the the guy mixing up batches and campers are young parents, who find handing out Xeroxes of “how-to do this camp-out a chance to share biodiesel,” six years ago); or Learn (Senate candidate Hong Tran had in! Think of the delicious irony of opinions and life stories for a few Something (Paul Stamets’ lecture on plenty to say, this year...I remember being busted by some idealistic hippie days in an idyllic setting with their mushrooms two years ago was a seeing Granny D at Earthfair, back flower-child, whom you’ve just put peers AND get some exposure to new weekend seminar’s worth of info, in from her cross-country walk, with a into the position of having to play technologies (which will make ALL of two delightful hours); or just Listen few things on HER mind, too); or just “cop” to your “robber!” That’s gotta our lives more practicable), social and and Watch (Nick Vigarino tore it up stroll around and take stock of a facet be worth $10 by itself... political issues, health care this year, for about 25 people, like I’ve of the Next Generation — and It’s like this- there are strangers alternatives, and the best Punch and seen him do at Bumbershoot, for five remember being 20. Hell...give that old next door, all weekend, trying to have Judy show on the planet. or six hundred people — one of many “anti-authoritarian” vibe free rein for a good time. You can be peeved, or Even just attending Earthfair as a musical wonders); or Get Inspired a minute, and figure out how to sneak you can play, too — your call. pure concert venue has got to be the JHBrowne, Jr. best entertainment bargain on the Island – the sound is non-pareil, the dance floor is grass, there’s wholesome, affordable food less than 100 feet away, and one may shop and listen, too, if one desires...and there’s a child-friendly environment, as well. The music itself has had a marvelous, eclectic range: bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, power-pop, reggae, punk, primitive, you name it — and Pete Welch has found some masterful practitioners AND gotten them to the stage. He’s a selfless genius at play, to be sure... If the “neo-flower child” epithet is what’s keeping people away from this gathering, well, I guess that could change. We could push for a “neo-gun child” cultural gathering, maybe — or a “pragmatic Christian youth” demographic. The “tar and feathers” that help keep cultural labels in place (and fear and prejudice alive) is surely reaching its peak of effectiveness, in these days of “terror” and “islamo- fascism”...especially among those who feel that they have way more to Protect than they have to Learn. Maybe that’s a fundamental aspect of property ownership, too — and the “stated rights” with only “implied responsibilities” which follow from that reasoning. The Vashon Loop, p. 6 August 30, 06 SpiritualSpiritual SmartSmart AleckAleck

Visiting Amurrica

By Mary Litchfield Tuel

I’ve been visiting America, or, “Amurrica,” as those of us old enough to remember the presidency of Lyndon Johnson might say. I went to visit my cousin Nancy in Soap Lake, east of the mountains. Nancy recently moved to Soap Lake, seeking a quieter life. She certainly found it. Amurrica is where you find yourself when you get off the Island and out of the Puget Sound region, Picture from my recent trip: my beautiful or away from any part of what is cousin Nancy at Soap Lake sometimes called the Left Coast. I’m Going over there made me think Total Experience Gospel Choir talking about the America of pickups, about the limited perception we can Continued from page 1 manufactured homes, and “Support develop by living in a place, or in a His good friend John Thompson the Troops” stickers and ribbons. way, where most of the people we Flynn is the opening act. He gets American flags are displayed encounter think the way we do, and (not to be confused with the current up and testifies about the prominently everywhere you look, share similar values. I think there is a priest at the Epsicopal Church -- a importance of keeping yourself safe, everybody shops at Walmart, and tendency in the human creature to different John Thompson) died in and that for young people, keeping everything is kind of dusty (Note: I believe that my normal is the normal. 1989 after contracting a common your virginity is the safest thing you read in the Seattle Times this morning I was thinking about Vashon cold which rapidly progressed to can do. “I’m not a parent, but I feel that food stamp use goes up in Island. We live on our beloved little pneumonia. like someone has to tell the kids communities where a Walmart is Rock, we cherish our notions of “John died in 1989, and in 1990, things they aren’t going to hear built, probably because so many mom sustainability and ending war and I thought, I’m still alive – why? I anywhere else, and I tell them that and pop businesses can’t compete and throwing those bums outta the White decided that there must be the current standards of sexual go under). House, and we don’t “get” that something I was here to do. Soon behavior are just plain wrong!” I feel at home when I get out into everyone does not see things the way after that I got the idea for the fund After that, Pat Wright and the farm country. It is so familiar. I grew we do. raising concert.” Choir step up to the stage and rock up on a farm. The people of Eastern I was thinking that we do need to “About 1993 I saw the Total the rafters with their righteous Washington remind me of the people “get it,” as a country, as a species, if Experience Gospel Choir, and I gospel sound. They will be joined who were around me when I was we want to build a peaceful, healthy thought this is it! I invited them to by local Island singers for some of growing up, salt of the earth, and world for our children and their dependent on the earth’s bounty, children, and some of us do want that come out, and they’ve been coming the tunes, so watch for that! which they worked their butts off to for our descendants. I know we’re every year since.” produce. They were Depression kids pretty far from that ideal, but I figure and the new. Feel how they both work and World War II veterans, people if we can dream it, perhaps we can and don’t work. Perfection and who knew enough about poverty and move toward making it happen. compromise. It stinks! I still want to have war not to rush into either. So what can I do to encourage my cake and eat it, too. I still want to do I’m not saying that people who people to listen to one another, what ever my mind wants but I can’t. live in farm communities now know encourage one another, accept one I used to be able to, so I thought, but what a Depression or war is like. I another? Useless as it may seem, I am along came AIDS. It changed how we will say that on the Friday night when called to keep writing, and keep lived. Safety had to be thought of in all the new potboiler movie Snakes On a singing, and keep listening to people, things. This fact became all too clear after Plane opened, a movie that had been and keep being a smart aleck for God. I contracted the disease. Bummer. hyped, forgive me, to the skies, my For me this is important work, and Another quote I found came from a cousin went to see it in Ephrata and my best contribution to this sad, Twilight Zone episode starting Donald Pleasance: “Be ashamed to die until you found herself alone in the theater. beautiful, world. So that’s my plan. have won some victory for humanity.” — Why? Because everyone had gone Right after I get over this summer Larry Flynn takes a walk in the Thurston Horace Mann, 1796-1859 over to Moses Lake to go to the Grant cold. Lava Tube Courtesy photo It is my hope to do that each year at County Fair. In Amurrica the county I’d sure like to see those bums get AIDS! Eeeek! the show. To express concern over the fair is a much bigger deal than a movie thrown out of the White House, dangers of promiscuity. That the children with a big ad campaign. though. oo oo oo By Larry Flynn might have a chance to hear of things that The first breed of parent is known Others’ words are sometimes easier our mainstream media doesn’t share with Intern’s Corner: as the “helicopter parent.” Helicopter to use and that’s what I’d like to do now. them. Some of these stories are sad or parents are most identifiable by the “It shall be our generation which has sobering to hear but all are important to Parents: the Species way that they tend to hover around the hardest time living in our brave new share. By Morgan Wegner running them over. Bulldozer parents world.” — Chancellor Gorkan, Klingon The door opens at 6 p.m. for High Command. refreshments and the show starts at 7 p.m. G’day, mate! Today, generally reside on courts and fields, Us boomers hold an interesting place I hope you can come to the show, it’s we’re going to explore or in made-for-TV movies and in social history. We can see the old order always a hit! Peace, Larry the vast wilderness of the coming-of-age stories. The problem American outback in with this breed is that they mean for Internet, television and cinematic time. For this reason, it is a good idea search of the wily beast the best, even when they do the activities. For the most part, bicycle to always prepare for the worst and know as a “parent.” worst, which makes them difficult to parents are harmless, so long as the hope for the best. Remember to Now, much like birds or snakes, domesticate. word “video game” is not mentioned always have a good alibi lined up, and parents come in many different Lastly, we have “bicycle parents.” in their presence. a make-up chore in mind, to avoid varieties, and it is of utmost These are the parents who reject all One last note: there has been a disastrous results. importance that you know how to tell things technological, and regularly recent epidemic of inbreeding, which Now that you have a good idea the different species apart, because one drag their children along on has produced hybrids of the various of what we’re up against, it’s time to misstep could lead to disaster. Before expeditions into the wilderness breeds. These mutts are possibly the voyage out into the dangerous we get started, be sure to look over regardless of their willingness to most dangerous of all—much like wilderness and watch some of these these short descriptions of each attend. Generally, these parents are viruses, they become difficult to creatures in their natural breed, so you’re sure to recognize mild-mannered albeit slightly combat, as there is no telling which habitat…remember your binoculars, danger when it approaches. paranoid when it comes to the personality will emerge at any given and best of luck to you! Here we go! oo oo oo August 30, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 7 Don’t Forget the Birds By Ed Swan Cedar Waxwings and a Few Sandpipers

Summer time is usually the slow, quiet decades as regulations cut back DDT and time when it comes to birding. By late forests regenerated from farm lands August, birds finish feeding their young creating many edge areas with fruiting and many prepare to migrate south. Quite shrubs. a few species begin to slip away around The focus on berries generally mid-July, such as most of our Rufous concentrates waxwings on forest edges, Hummingbirds. Very few birds sing except around the dawn hours. But one of the more pleasant sounds of summer is the “ceeee, ceeee” of Cedar Waxwings overhead or settling onto the end of a high branch. Cedar Waxwings are sharp dressers with golden- tan bodies and crest and a black mask. Their wings and lower backs shade to grey and black and the tip of their Cedar Waxwing Photo by Jim Rosso tails is a band of bright yellow. The young birds in late summer riparian corridors and other brushy areas appear a drab grayish/light brownish that contain fruit bearing trees and color, often with little if any crest. Like shrubs. Occasionally, they will spend young cowbirds at this time of year, the time more on marshy/boggy areas where drabness lends an air of mystery for a they flit out from a perch on a snag to snatch passing bugs. They generally prefer nesting in deciduous trees near berry sources but will sometimes use a conifer. Their liking for berries propels them to be constantly moving to find a new crop of berries to harvest. From fall through mid-winter flocks leave the Island if fruit supplies plummet. Where madrone, elderberry and viburnum ripen, sudden feeding frenzies ignite, often including multiple species of birds. Part of their Cedar Waxwing Photo by Gaylord Mink courtship ritual involves passing In local birding news: Michael Hunn, visiting the Island, found the berries back and forth to each other. Perrone and Marriane Kirkland found Baird’s and a Semipalmated Sandpiper, while as to just what they might be until Waxwings sometimes gorge on so many Baird’s Sandpipers at both KVI Beach the fourth sighting of that species for the they vocalize or provide a better look. berries that they are unable to fly and and Fern Cove for somewhere around the Island. Other interesting birds lately Cedar Waxwings live on the Islands become drunk on those that have sixth or seventh record for Vashon. Gene include an early morning Barn Owl on a year round, wandering widely. fermented. When they are feeding young, wire seen by Rich Siegrist in the Colvos Frequently they absent themselves for long their diet changes more to insects and area, migrating Common Terns off periods of time during the year. They seem insects replace berries in their diets when Dillworth reported by Ed Babcock and to be most visible in mid-May through fall fruit is scarce. August provides a great Red-necked Phalarope observed by me off when summer breeders return and raise chance to view waxwings close up at the ferry. Shorebird migration is now in families. They breed later than pretty Mukai Pond in the Island Center Forest full swing with sandpipers showing up much all of the other birds around here, as they catch on the wing the many bugs at Dockton, Ellisport, KVI, Fern Cove and often waiting until August to nest, flying over the water. I heard recently Fisher’s Pond. If you have an interesting possibly timing nesting for the most that a bullfrog was observed catching a bird to report or a question about local berries to be out. Abundance across North waxwing perching or flying out from a Cedar Waxwing in flight Photo by birds, call me at 463-7976 or email at America increased over the last few low branch at the edge of the pond mud. Gaylord Mink [email protected]. oo oo oo Across 1 Entreaty 54 Chewy stuff 21 Easily cheated 5 Rhyming verses 56 After awhile 23 Swindle 10 Elide 58 Caviler 25 City 14 Royalty 63 Lark 27 Chew like a rodent 15 Scrutinize 67 Preposition 28 Register 16 Challenge 68 Seasoner makers 29 __ cotta (clay) 17 Labor 70 Black 31 Leg joints 18 Cuban, for example 71 A fox’s hole (2 wds.) 33 Lode yield 19 Asian nation 72 Sugar-free brand 34 Lines 20 Evade 73 Colorado (abbr.) 35 Water carriers 22 Emigre 74 Covered stadium 36 Small fish 24 Angelic ring 75 Speaks with a hoarse voice 39 Asian country 26 Climbing vine 76 Snaky fish 42 Pedigreed dog grp. 27 Acquire 44 Vocalist 30 Labor Down 47 Misses 32 Eras 1 Peter, for short 50 Former USSR’s secret police 37 Compass point 2 Country in SE Asia 51 Pouter 38 Extends across 3 Little Mermaid’s love 55 Elite intellectuals’ society 40 Bed or living ending 4 God of Islam 57 She makes you an aunt 41 Orderly arrangement 5 Engine warm up lap (2 wds.) 58 Has 3 identical siblings 43 Cay 6 French “yes” 59 Ruin 44 Brief 7 Advance 60 Object 45 Labor 8 __ Vice (tv show) 61 Skeletal part 46 Eagle’s nest 9 Labor 62 Decays 48 Delaware 10 Scent 64 Double-reed instrument 49 Trousers 11 Female parent 65 Lounge 52 Virgo 12 Persia 66 Tails Solution on Page 17 53 Grounded airplane 13 Cabana 69 Representative g The Vashon Loop, p. 8 thereby not infringing on any August 30, 06 interstate commerce laws. The bill now goes back to the California Garden Assembly. the The Most Dangerous Ingredients World in Conventional Foods More Food Bytes 1) Sodium nitrite — causes cancer, By MEarth found in most processed meats like hot Has Compost! dogs, bacon, sausage. Used to make USDA Announces U.S. Rice meats appear red (a color fixer Vermicompost from Vashon food scraps Supply Has Been Contaminated chemical). USDA Secretary Mike Johanns 2) Hydrogenated oils — causes Eat it here has announced that domestic and heart disease, nutritional deficiencies, Use it here exported stocks of long grain rice have general deterioration of cellular been contaminated by a genetically health, and much more. Found in Keep it here engineered variety of rice that is not cookies, crackers, margarine and approved for human consumption. many “manufactured” foods. Used to When you think compost think Johanns said that the contamination make oils stay in the food, extending was admitted to be the fault of Bayer shelf life. Sometimes also called “The Worm Guy” Free Delivery on Island Corporation, but the USDA doesn’t “plastic fat.” know how widespread the 3) Excitotoxins — aspartame, contamination is. According to monosodium glutamate and others Johanns the biotech rice poses no (see below). These neurotoxic health risks, but could damage the chemical additives directly harm U.S. $1 billion rice export market, nerve cells, over-exciting them to the since many nations refuse to import point of cell death, according to Dr. genetically engineered rice. Japan has Russell Blaylock. They’re found in already announced a ban on long diet soda, canned soup, salad grain rice imports from the US. Last dressing, breakfast sausage and even year, Japan and the EU banned US many manufactured vegetarian foods. corn imports as a result of yet They’re used to add flavor to over- Organic Produce Delivery another GE contamination scandal. processed, boring foods that have had 1/2 OFF Genetically Engineered the life cooked out of them. your first order “Frankengrass” Spreads into The Source: A new book by Mike Fresh, certified organically grown fruits and Wild Adams, entitled Grocery Warning takes vegetables delivered to your home or office An experimental variety of a scientific look at a plethora of genetically engineered bentgrass has problematic ingredients in the Organic produce is now escaped from its test plot in Oregon everyday foods we eat. and has been found growing in the Study Says Family Meal Is Good available at the Roasterie, wild as far as three miles away, For Your Health according to scientists from the U.S. According to a decade long study 463-4764 the new Minglement EPA. The biotech plant, designed for from the National Center on location golf courses, has not been approved Addiction and Substance Abuse Visit our website at by the USDA, but has already been (CASA), teens who regularly have www.farmfreshorganic.com19529 Vashon Hwy SW found dispersing among native meals with their family are less likely grasses in six different locations. to get into fights, think about suicide, produced as few electric vehicles as they Scientists say they don’t know how smoke, drink, use drugs, and are Who Killed the could, maintaining long waiting lists. the grass will behave in the wild but more likely to have later initiation of Electric Car? They also refused to sell any of them, admit it may have a strong advantage sexual activity, and better academic insisting that all customers fill out By Steve Graham over native grasses, and could performance than teens who do not. elaborate lease applications. After some years, the regulations were successfully therefore irreversibly damage the Rutgers University anthropologist As our Great American Empire experiment unravels and disaster piles overturned. Once that happened, the ecosystem as it spreads. According to Robin Fox emphasizes the importance Tom Stohlgren, an ecologist at the US upon disaster, there has leases were all canceled and of positive intention in family meals. developed a lively series of the cars were picked up, Geological Survey’s National Institute “It’s like the American Indians. When of Invasive Species Science, the documentaries figuring out crushed, and shredded. No they killed a deer, they said a prayer whose fault it is. Finger electric vehicles were allowed experimental bentgrass, “can tend to over it,” says Fox. “That is civilization. pointing has been developed to stay on the road, except a out-compete other species...It doesn’t It is an act of politeness over food. to a fine art, and although it single disabled version that need to sexually reproduce — it’s like Fast food has killed this. We have does little to correct the is in the basement of a car The Blob. It could potentially hit rare reduced eating to sitting alone and screw-ups, it gives us a museum. species or national parks.” shoveling it in. There is no ceremony certain grim satisfaction and may even This seems to be yet another example Hemp May Soon Be Legally in it.” The CASA study also showed help us to avoid worse disasters later on. of how our domestic auto industry Grown on U.S. Soil that eating with parents is also an Recent entries are films like Enron: the combines excellent engineering and innovative technology with short-sighted, After receiving thousands of important factor for the nutrition and Smartest Guys in the Room, or An Inconvenient Truth. incompetent management. The enormous emails and letters from grassroots eating habits of adolescents, with constituents, including organic The latest in this series is Who Killed financial and political power of the research showing that family meals the Electric Car, appearing this weekend industry has allowed them to manipulate consumers, the California Senate has and parental presence at meals is approved a bill (26-13) that would at the Vashon Theater. The film tells a political outcomes very effectively, but the associated with higher intake of story of a technological innovation that manipulations have been focused on allow farmers to grow industrial fruits, vegetables, and dairy products. is needed, wanted, cheap, reliable and trying to avoid the future rather than hemp. Senate Republican Tom Quick Water Facts successful, but is then buried because it charging forward to meet it. McClintock spearheaded the bill on According to United Nations interferes with the profit margins or turf But I don’t want to give the wrong the Senate floor and noted that hemp figures, 2.6 billion people consume of existing technologies and/or impression — the film is not a depressing “bears no more resemblance to unsafe and polluted water every day. bureaucracies. It’s a compelling story, one. We learn a lot about the latest marijuana than a poodle bears to a As the population blooms, the issue and there’s plenty of responsibility to go developments in auto technology, what wolf...you would die from smoke of access to fresh water is literally one around. It’s not just the auto industry our options are for the future, and how people can and have used them. We meet inhalation before you would get of life or death. Last weekend’s that takes a hit here. The oil industry, the federal and state bureaucracies, and the some of the best technology gurus and high.” Industrial hemp was Financial Times pointed out some inaccurately equated with marijuana consumers all come in for some of the citizen activists in the business and see interesting facts about everyday blame. what is possible. The message is that the in a 1937 ban on the crop, despite the water consumption: fact that it was a staple crop for U.S. The plot is simple. In 1996, forced by solutions that we need are out there — It takes 53 liters of water to California regulators to produce we just have to assert our right to them Farmers for decades, including produce one orange. increasing numbers of zero emissions and get them going. And that the George Washington and Thomas 1 pint of milk: 250 liters cars or stop selling in California, General disproportionate influence that mega- Jefferson. The $270 million U.S. hemp 1 egg: 450 liters Motors and other auto manufacturers corporations have on our government and market is currently supplied by 1kg of potatoes: 500 liters began producing a small number of our lives needs to be reined in, for their Canadian farmers. With the current 1 loaf of bread: 550 liters electric vehicles, cars which had excellent good as well as our own, so that we can bill, California lawmakers believe 1 kg of butter: 18,000 liters performance characteristics and move to a world that is more in keeping they can get around the federal ban 1kg of wool: 200,000 liters produced no emissions. But at the same with twenty-first century priorities. The solutions that are now beginning to by restricting the sale of California- 1 car: 150,000 liters time, the industry began a concerted, well- grown hemp to the state itself, financed campaign to overturn the appear need our unwavering support. oo oo oo regulations. In the meantime, they I recommend the film highly. August 30, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 9 VAA Art Auction Celebrates 40 Years of Arts By Janice Randall New At Vashon Allied Arts’ Annual Art Auction offers the best of Island artists in a gala anniversary celebration, Art Takes Flight, on September 15 and 16, at Blue Heron Art Center. The fun begins Friday, September 15, 6 to 9 p.m., with the free Artists’ Reception and Preview Party at the Blue Heron Art Center. Preview art, mingle with artists and enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres and spirits. The Art Auction 5 Healthy Reasons to eat at Zoomies will be held adjacent to the Blue Heron in 1. No transfats in our soy oil - a dazzling blue and (what we deep fry in.) silver decorated tent. All proceeds from the 2. Our burgers have no hormones, Art Auction benefit preservatives or additives and are low in fat. Vashon Allied Arts 3. We have Yummy Vegi and Black Bean programs. Special thanks to presenting Vegi High Protein Burgers. sponsor John L. Scott 4. Salad and chicken and additional sandwiches with grilled (full support from Puget Sound Energy. muscle) chicken breasts. Friday’s auction, 5. 4% Fat soft Ice Cream - 6:30 p.m., will just above Whole Milk highlight “Taste of Vashon” and feature an array of delicious foods prepared by local restaurants, caterers and volunteers. Live jazz will be provided by The Jason Parker Quartet. Partake in the wine and beer bar and participate in both silent and live 17705 Vashon Hwy SW 206-463-2838 auctions. Saturday’s festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. Guests will enjoy complimentary wines, appetizers, a sumptuous four course gourmet dinner catered by The Hardware Store, live music by the Island Jazz Combo featuring vocalist Maggie Laird, and both silent and live auctions. Auctioneer Larry Taylor will keep the action moving and lively as we raise our paddles in support of Vashon Allied Arts. Radio host, writer and performer Jeff Hoyt will MC. Both nights promise to present exceptional art with special tributes to celebrate the 40 years that Vashon Allied Arts has provided the foundation for Island arts. Six Island artists were invited to create artwork especially for the event to be auctioned both evenings. Featured on Friday are Margaret Tylczk, Christine Beck, and Mary Margaret Briggs. Featured on Saturday night Browne Sarah are Morgan Brigg, George Wright, and Hita Von Mende. Buyer’s Specialist Artwork may be viewed at www.vashonalliedarts.org. For tickets, call Vashon Teen Explores the Blue Heron, 463-5131. Costa Rica (206) 550-8975 Sixteen-year-old Vashon resident Jeremy Basurto pushed himself to new heights this summer by trekking through clouds and rainforests, tree climbing, waterfall rappelling, camping in remote Mestizo villages, rafting down class III rapids, and surfing warm water breaks Seattle Metro West in Costa Rica. Your Home Team Realty During his Costa Rica Rainforest (206) 463-LIST (5478) Outward Bound School (CRROBS) 15- day Multi-Element, Basurto became part www.kwvashon.com of a self-reliant group exploring the Costa Rican rainforest. “I loved hiking through the rainforest,” says Basurto. “We got to Cruel Cartoon do so many different things. It was a life- Editor, The Loop: changing experience.” The Ed Frohning cartoon Basurto returns to Vashon with “NORMANDY BARK” was a mean Portage Fill Plays Free Concert added survival instincts, long-lasting spirited attack on the Normandy Park By Janice Randall friendships and a lifetime of memories woman who wrote a letter of complaint Last but not least, Portage Fill, Vashon’s own big band since 1972, that are an integral part of the CRROBS about the noise from the July 4 experience. hydroplanes. Whether you like it or not, will play the grand finale free summer concert in the Park, Thursday, CRROBS has differentiated itself from the woman made a valid complaint about September 7, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. An Island institution, the 17-piece band other Outward Bound schools by offering the extremely loud whine of the plays a repertoire of more than 300 songs from the big band swing era college credit for an array of year-round hydroplanes. Publication of a cruel of the 1930’s and 40’s. “We are a community band,” says Tony Willing, wilderness adventure courses throughout cartoon ridiculing someone for speaking Band director. Portage Fill is also available to play private parties, class Central America since receiving its up about earsplitting noise doesn’t reflect reunions and weddings. Outward Bound International well on The Loop or Islanders. Maggie Laird adds her velvety vocals to the big band sound and membership in 1994. Jade Grace Willing says they plan to play plenty of dance tunes for the Ober Park For more information about CRROBS, experiential education or how to contact gig. The band is currently looking for another pianist. If interested, Loopy sez: Deadline for the call Willing at 567-4118. your local adventurer, please contact Tom Morse at 1-800-676-2018, Costa Rica next edition of The Loop is Vashon Park District, Vashon Allied Arts and Windermere Real Rainforest Outward Bound School, San Estate cosponsor the free family concert series. The next concert will Jose, Costa Rica; www.crrobs.org; email: Friday, September 8 be in June, 2007. [email protected] The Vashon Loop, p. 10 August 30, 06 The Dorsal Spin

Creatures and Crests The time has come, the time is now...Send your kids in the Last Frontier back to school, then celebrate with a new cat tree or dog bed. By Orca Annie Stateler Just wait until you see the new colors! Odin and I returned to Juneau this month so he could present Horus’ pick of the week: artwork at a traditional knowledge Brand spankin’ new cat toys approved by the Cat camp for Alaska Native high school Fanciers Association, for pedigreed felines. Packaging students. Sealaska Heritage Institute aside, they are great toys. commissioned him to create three carvings to honor three clans of the Juneau area’s original inhabitants, the Aak’w Kwaan and T’aaku Kwaan. The pieces will serve as educational tools in Alaska Native studies curriculum. Black bear hunting for salmon. Photo by Odin’s photo here shows one of Odin Lonning. the carvings, all shaped like coppers, three adorable ducklings, and a ancient symbols of wealth and solitary long-tailed duck. prestige. The eagle at the top We heard Transient killer represents the moiety* and the whales visited while we were in wolves on the bottom depict a crest Juneau. Mark Sears caught up with of the Yanyeidi clan. a rambunctious group of about 15 Bears and salmon topped the list orcas in Elliott Bay on August 16. I of must-see wildlife for this trip, and have yet to see his film, so I cannot we were not disappointed. say who was present. Mendenhall Glacier was the black Please support the work of the bear hot spot. We found a bear trail Tricycle and “Dharma for a Vashon Hydrophone Project (VHP). Zen Seminar one-quarter mile outside the park. Dangerous Time” in the current You make a difference when you Continued from page 1 We watched a mother and her two Shambala Sun. Along the way, he REPORT LOCAL WHALE cubs cross the road there. Of course, free, we must liberate ourselves. No studied yoga and martial arts, and SIGHTINGS ASAP TO 463-9041. the camera was not handy when We thank Islanders Richard, Susan, one can do this for us.” learned Sanskrit so that he could Mama Bear sauntered within thirty Annette, Simon, and several Charles Johnson, a recipient of better understand ancient Buddhist feet, looking at us. anonymous callers for their reports the prestigious MacArthur Award, texts. Dharma teachers from other As you can see, Odin finally got on August 16, 21, and 22. a Guggenheim Fellowship and the forms of Buddhism will join Johnson photos from a bridge overlooking a “ASAP” is critical. Reporting to National Book Award for Middle for an afternoon panel discussion. sockeye salmon stream inside the distant off-Island locations does not Passage, holds The Vashon Buddhist Seminar park. The handsome Blackies help the VHP. With fast moving the S. Wilson will be held at the same place as the enthralled us as they foraged on killer whales, time is of the essence and Grace M. last two years with early, optional grasses and splashed about hunting for us to mobilize and get into the Pollock meditation at 8:30 a.m. in the for sockeye. To our delight, Mother field for ID work. Professorship for elaborate Javanese Kudus House, Bear grabbed a fish, a la Wild Orcas do not always announce Excellence in morning talk at 10 a.m. and Kingdom – sweet! their presence acoustically. I have English at the afternoon panel in the stately Every stream we visited was an watched in amazement as large University of Chinese House, to conclude by 5 awe-inspiring sight, stuffed from groups of Residents and Transients bank to bank with returning Washington. A p.m. Included in the cost ($70; glided quietly by the hydrophone, salmon. Gulls, eagles, and ravens man of college students and PSZC so Mark’s photos are essential for ID Kudus House, site of feasted on the bounty. Some profound, members, $60) is a catered purposes. Zen Seminar streams had multiple species: eclectic talents, vegetarian lunch, during which On August 22, one caller Courtesy photo chums, humpies (pinks), and his earlier attendees will have an opportunity commented that he also saw orcas cutthroats. Puget Sound streams published work to relax on the lawn, meet old on the 16th, but he presumed others must have been similarly abundant was as a cartoonist—a skill he still friends and make new ones. Some had reported it. Oh, no no, I said. 200 years ago. uses. But, since it takes nearly eight of Johnson’s books will be available Please call anyway! We lost a The grumpy humpies bit the hours to complete one drawing, his for sale, courtesy of Books by the valuable opportunity other salmon, vying for busy schedule as writer, teacher, Way. to document IDs that good spawning sites. speaker, father of a son and As space is limited, early day because, Spawned-out carcasses daughter, and husband for 36 years reservations are strongly suggested. apparently, people at draped fallen trees in the south end of Colvos to Joan leaves him little time to For registration or more information: the streambeds. Easy to Pass assumed someone draw. A Ph. D. in philosophy, he email [email protected], visit spot were signs of bears else would call the has written four nonfiction and five www.pszen.org, call 206-463-4332 dragging fish parts into VHP. You know what fiction books, as well as articles in or visit Books by the Way. the woods. Witness an they say about the ecosystem in the word “assume.” VFW: Vietnam Today a rough way to go. We’d stop every making. Continued from page 1 These Transient couple of hours and visit family Stogarita found the visits are and if you say the USA, they ask, industries – brick makers, incense salmon wiggling in unprecedented, and ‘Are you a vet?’ and if you say yes makers.” shallow water we seek to understand to that, they greet you like long-lost fascinating. We did not His party rode the whole Ho Chi why seal-eating orcas family. They can’t do enough for let her get too close, as Minh Trail. Parts of it look like a are spending more you.” dogs can sometimes get paved suburban street now, but time in Vashon-Maury “I went over a couple of days sick from contact with “Yanyeidi Tinaa” carving by most of it is still a trail through the waters while, thus far, early and took a boat up to Vung dying salmon. She Odin Lonning. Photo by lush greenery. The tour visited the fish-eating Residents Tau,” which was his home port could not resist rolling Odin Lonning Plain of Jars, and ancient cities such have spent less time her shoulder in dead when he was serving on the river as Angkor Wat. here this year. chum on the beach, however, while boats in the 60s. “The most haunting part of the Shout out to Eva and the the blows of mother and baby The first part of the scheduled trip was the killing fields of Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie for humpback whales distracted us. The tour was by motorcycle. “That was Cambodia. How can people let generously supporting the VHP, little stinker – literally! What a relief something like that happen?” and to JWade of User Friendly Tech Eagle and Raven. Within the two that regular soap and shampoo “I’m glad I went and I’m glad to for helping me re-enter the 21st moieties are clans. Odin, for example, removed the skookum stench. be home.” century recently when my is Eagle moiety and Shark clan — Other charming critters we spied Commander Hathaway invites computer crashed. Contact Orca called Wooshketaan in Tlingit. on this trip include beavers, the Vashon community to attend this Annie at [email protected]. On a side note, another of the precocious red squirrels, distant *Tlingit society is matrilineal, pieces he carved was for his clan, open VFW meeting. Sharing and mountain goats, a sneaky weasel, consisting of two moieties or “sides,” Wooshketaan, so this was a deeply questions from the audience will be American dippers, a merganser with meaningful project for him. oo oo oo welcomed. August 30, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 11

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Family Focus: Keep careful track of what and attention to details and the precise your kids are up to. order in which certain events are Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23): You must planned. But the best thing you can do balance the awesome potential of the for everyone is tattoo the idea of a win- situation with realistic expectations. win scenario into everyone’s mind in very Happy Birthday Virgo! Indeed, if you take a minimalist approach, bright colors. Family Focus: Remember The Sun and Moon join Mars and adapt to pretty much anything. This even presuming that nothing special will that your partner is someone with whom two asteroids in Virgo this week, week’s New Moon boldly says put come from so much promise, you’ll get the you can share deep concerns and secrets. marking a truly amazing start to your confidence first on your list of personal best results. Be clear with yourself about Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19): You’ve birthday season — that’s a lot of Virgo. aspirations, and waste no time going what you want. Let your dreams be real, had a taste of what people really feel, and She’s an Earth sign — so touch the Earth. there. Speak up and notice that people and dream them out loud. That may seem by now you should have no doubts about The story of this aspect is about the trust what you have to say. Take action presumptuous, that is, a little like you’re their depth of commitment. People are balancing out of male and female within and notice that in response, the world faking or taking the role of another, but with you, and they see the need to live you. This will help you grow and change gives you a chance to show what you this is simply not true: you are doing with intention and devotion; count on your relationships in the most unusual have to offer. Family Focus: Now is a time something different and unusual and this. The important thing is that over the ways, you have a chance to leave all the for a spontaneous family reunion or that is why it feels so strange. Family coming week, you not only resist any usual nonsense behind and define homecoming. Start making calls. Focus: Your maturity and leadership are tendency to doubt or lose faith in yourself yourself in an entirely new way with the Cancer (June 21-July 22): Practice being asked for now. Remember to see — but that you actively seek the people you love. It is time for you to be some restraint on your financial activities; both sides. encouragement you need. You may feel who you are, no compromises about it. keep control by knowing where you stand Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22): A moment that so many others around you are so The people who accept you will mature at all times, and making sure you have of truth is approaching, where you will strong, that you have little to offer. But in the necessary ways and follow your enough cash on hand for a special project be able to go with a certain plan you’ve this second statement is simply not true. lead. or commitment that’s truly meaningful to been building for more than a year with Family Focus: Remember that everyone you. This seems to be about an investment renewed commitment — or let it go. In any needs space to themselves. Aries (March 20-April 19): If you feel in your future, which more than being event, something is changing in Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): overwhelmed with details, surrender to about material property is about an idea relationship to your past, and how you Cooperation and sharing responsibilities your passion — the inspiration behind or a project designed to help you develop apply past knowledge today. There is also are first on the priority list. Important whatever mission you’re on. The energy on a deeper level. Recent efforts to get the the question of a debt you seem to be owed efforts simply must go right the first time, in the background is every bit as word out about something close to your for work or talent that you gave and you’re the one who needs to keep an meaningful as the focus and effort you’re heart reveal that slowly and gently work generously on the promise of something eye on the big picture. More important, investing into so much service-oriented much better than the fast and furious in recompense. You may think you’ve got though, is keeping yourself and others work, but if you come from the center attempt. Family Focus: Get the kids out to too much invested to drop the whole grounded on the spirit of the work. In the you’ll find it less tiring and more the country this weekend, and take them thing, but I suggest that you at least give beginning of any process is the feeling; inspiring; with the Sun and Moon joining to a farm store. yourself permission to consider that the necessity; the sense of mission. How for a New Moon in Virgo this week, the Leo (July 22-Aug. 23): This week’s possibility. You’ll feel better if you do — you get there is another question. The love details will take care of themselves. You magnificent New Moon in the self-esteem and the choice, either way, will be that you put in is the love that will come out. may find yourself renewing a and resources angle of your chart is much easier. Family Focus: You can Family Focus: Loving partnerships really commitment that’s been meaningful to encouraging you to work with others depend on the support of your friends are the nucleus of a family, and you can you going back a rather long time, but more than ever. The main skill you have much more than you think. now begin a whole new chapter. taking an entirely different approach. going for you is diplomacy, and you’re in Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22): Jupiter oo oo oo Family Focus: This is a great week for an excellent position to negotiate in Scorpio, the strongest placement in annual checkups and other health anything you need, particularly for a your chart at the moment, is developing Heritage Museum a Gem maintenance. purpose larger than just yourself. Build in an angle that you cannot see, but which Editor, The Loop: Taurus (April 19-May 20): With the on a sense of mission rather than you can definitely feel. The suggestion is I would like to thank all those Sun in your empathic sign Virgo, you’re obligation. Don’t be afraid to allow your that you’re at a great advantage but volunteers who have presented Vashon now free to take the chances you’ve been charm to get more results than your somehow cannot put your finger on how a professional and very user-friendly dreaming of for so long. As you’re so fond intelligence; you have plenty of both or why that is. At different times it shows historical museum. of reminding others, all you need to do is available. Family Focus: Close loved ones up as different things: an opening, an My husband and I went to your get out of your head. You will know you’re may be feeling some frustration this week, unexpected opportunity, or sliding out of exhibit opening on the ninth of July doing that because your choices feel risky, so don’t let it get to you. a problem you thought would grab hold during the Island Festival. I grew up in like you might get in trouble, or like you’re Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): The Sun and of you. No doubt you’re protected, and Burton in the 1950s but knew little of its concerned about being judged by others. Moon enter your sign together this week, enjoying the benefits. So I suggest you rich history. The professional That’s the key to knowing you’re on the a potent reminder that you are young and push your luck rather than question it. photography was of the highest caliber. right track. If you’ve come through a time that you are at a point of beginning in Family Focus: The concerns of one of your Anyone could see the hard work and when all the feelings seemed real but the your life. But they also remind you to parents may be weighing on you; why dedication that went into this museum. I opportunities didn’t show up for you, you gradually work toward inner harmony don’t you call? especially enjoyed reading the museum may find this formula helpful. Family between feeling and outer expression; Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20): Keep newsletter edited by Marian Spencer. Focus: You’ll be reminded many times between your emotional world and your clear with partners and colleagues as a School students an staff sould tour this this week how much more intelligent sense of identity. And there is a tap on contractual or financial situation heats up facility. All ages can enjoy and contribute most children are than most adults. the shoulder to re-center on your life yet again. There seems to be so much at to your rich heritage. Historical articles Gemini (May 20-June 21): Your mission. The image is one of balancing stake, but in truth, there is more than and current news from the museum perspective is changing so quickly, you out opposites. As events develop in the enough to go around and everyone has should be published in the Beachcomber may not even trust your own beliefs or coming days, you’re likely to feel like you something to gain. The pressure to make and Loop newspapers. I hope Islanders ideas. Not only can you trust yourself, have every reason to live for the moment, a decision is on, but a factor you cannot appreciate and thank those who offer a you must — and you have every reason and you do. Remember well what you foresee works strongly to your advantage. gem of a museum. to. Experience has shown that you can learn: you’re far stronger than your fears. Maintain a high level of communication Sincerely, Virginia Michelsons, Seattle The Vashon Loop, p. 12 August 30, 06

Kathy Abascal is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild and is certified by Michael Moore of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine. She co- authored the book Clinical Botanical Medicine. You can email her at [email protected] if you have questions about herbs. If you have questions about herbs, call her to schedule a private consultation (463-9211) or stop by The Roasterie to purchase her tinctures.

in the US and has published many books. Now Closed On Thursdays Some of My Favorite His most recent book is Medical Herbalism. It is a big book that explains the Herb Books fundamentals of plant chemistry and is M-F Breakfast 7:00am - 11:00am By Kathy Abascal organized by body system. I find it a good I have books on my mind. I just sent place to begin when I am having trouble Lunch 11:00am -3:00pm my latest book (Herbs & Influenza) off to thinking of a good herb to help resolve a the printer. So, as I often am asked for problem. David also provides many good Weekend Breakfast 7:00am-Noon recommendations for good herbals, I examples of how to build a formula. I do thought I would share my thoughts on not always agree with his Brunch Noon- 3:00pm that topic. Frankly, there is no single herb recommendations nor with his Brunch Noon- 3:00pm book that definitively covers the topic of interpretations of how some plants work Closed On Thursdays herbal medicine. There are, however, but I always seem to learn something books that anyone interested in learning when I read his book. more should consider owning. One of my recent favorites is I began by reading Michael Moore’s Medicinal Plants of the World by van Wyk books, and they in turn led me to his & Wink. It is a beautifully illustrated book poof of dust when his head hit the school. My first was and is very dirt. His arms still at his sides like a Medicinal Plants of reasonably priced. It We’ve Got a human missile, dust covering his face the Pacific West, and covers many plants except for his eyes, he croaked, it is still my favorite. that are used in Lot of Kids “Again.” After a few more trips, they Michael has a great other cultures, herbs all lost interest in favor of mixing up sense of humor and that are not covered Playing Outside a big batch of mud in one of the holes irreverence, and a at all in most in the yard. deep understanding herbals. The By Kevin Pottinger We recently had a birthday get- of plants. I am authors give a It’s been a lovely, hot, dry together in our front yard/trench returning often to synopsis of the summer. Our kids have been playing battlefield. All of our blue plastic kid’s that book these days traditional and outside in the front yard the entire chairs had been piled in an empty blue because it covers the recent uses of each summer. Just last spring there used plastic wading pool, and arranged as medicinal plants plant. However, to be lush green grass and flowering rows of seats in a sort of open-cockpit that grow in this van Wyk & Wink shrubs; now there is only dust and flying saucer. Meredith was playing area. His books also are not herbalists so rocks and small tufts of flattened stewardess. Colin was the pilot with explain how to Gelsimium the part about uses brown grass. The kids have dug holes an unattached black plastic steering make medicines of the book is all over the yard. wheel in his hands, wearing his from the plants and interesting but We have an assortment of dusty, helmet with the headset microphone, when to gather them. He recently revised sometimes a little weak. The book’s real molded, PVC play structures and making the motor sound effects that and updated one of his other books, strength – aside from its beauty – is in the wheeled toys strewn haphazardly all boys make. Gracie was sucking her Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West. It summaries of plant constituents. Most across our barren no-man’s land of a thumb distractedly, sitting with Colin also includes many plants that grow in books simply regurgitate this information front yard, with garden hoses strung on his chair, waiting for a turn at the this bioregion. without taking the time to make sure they like barbed wire between them. In the steering wheel. Another book I still use frequently is are right. This book is highly accurate late afternoon sun, toddlers scamper Alec sauntered over casually and Jim Duke’s The Green Pharmacy. It is when it comes to identifying plant between the PVC play structures like a ferocious fistfight with Gracie arranged by disease or symptom which compounds. Of course, plant constituents trench rats, while other kids throw exploded over exclusive rights to sit makes it a really useful book – you do not usually seem irrelevant and confusing rock-hard gritty green apples at in the chair with Colin. Soon, all four have to read about thirty plants to find when you first begin looking seriously at them. Small clouds of dust swirl and kids were involved in the scrum—a the one that is good for headaches. Jim is herbs but it is nice to know that you have eddy like phosgene gas in the writhing mass of straining legs and a true ethnobotanist and spent many good information, should you ever want morning fog. Our front yard looks flying elbows and pulled hair. years working for the USDA. His to use it. like those bleak pictures of the Battle Pointing out that there were still medicinal garden is probably the nicest Another reasonably priced book is of the Marne. several open chairs in the open- in the country, and it, like his book, is Mark Blumenthal’s The ABC’s Clinical Our dirty-faced dough-persons cockpit wading pool/spacecraft was organized by disease so you can see all of Guide to Herbs. This book was written are still between the ages of five and irrelevant. All four kids were sent the herbs that are used, for example, for primarily for physicians and people who two. Colin, our eldest, is five; lovely inside to pout and insult each other bladder infections in one plot. The real work in health food stores. It covers the Meredith is three; and Alec and silently on the couch. strength of his book, other than as a top 25 herbs (based on amounts sold) and Gracie, our twins, are two. Colin has taken interest in the starting point to figure out which herbs summarizes all of the research and After supper one evening, Alec drums, and he likes to put together might be useful in the moment, is how he clinical trials on those plants very well was lying down on a patch of his own drum kits in the front yard, conveys his love of food as medicine. His and in a pretty readable form. Mark has parched, brown grass. His brother using whatever is at hand. One book is filled with ideas on how to work been involved with herbs for decades and and sisters crowded around him, version used a big white porcelain medicinals into your diet without turning is the founder of the American Botanical pulling up his shorts, tucking in his soup pot we sometimes cook crabs in, into a cookbook. For instance, he Council (ABC) which produces shirt and taking off his shoes and a broken tricycle for his seat, a Fisher- comments on evening primrose oil: “Most Herbalgram for its members. ABC plays a socks. Alec endured the poking and Price pull-toy xylophone and a huge people take capsules. What do I do? I big role in maintaining our access to prodding, complicit and confident; he grind up the seeds and add them to plants, and anyone really interested in orange plastic baseball bat for a cornbread.” Colon cancer runs in his herbal medicine should join ABC. When was preened and prepared, like an drumstick. He assembles them on top family, and he has some wonderful ideas you do, you will start getting copies of astronaut or a knight in heavy armor, of the picnic table, which works as a on cancer prevention, such as his “cancer Herbalgram. It is a beautiful magazine to be a little-brother test-pilot. His sort of stage riser. He’s got an eight- prevention herbal salad.” Jim, like with long, sometimes dense, detailed mission: to slide down a pile of the foot length of black PVC pipe Michael Moore, has an enjoyable writing articles on plants. It took me years before molded PVC play structures Colin threaded through the legs of the picnic style. His book, by the way, is far better I learned to actually enjoy most of the had stacked together and joined with table like a Dr. Seuss machine, and he than the Prescriptions for Nutritional articles but I always loved looking at the some pieces of rusty chain. shouts into one end of it like a Healing that so many people rely on. pictures. Alec was placid as Colin and microphone, “She’s a haaard girl to There are a number of books you With the dog days of summer here, Meredith hoisted him up and onto the love!” while whacking the crab pot should consider if you would like to go a and the quiet season approaching you pile. He slid down on his back, head with the plastic orange bat. bit deeper into medicinal plants. David might want to stock up on some of these first, to whoops and shouts from his Friends, that’s more rock and roll Hoffmann is a British herbalist who lives good books. 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her. McLaren leaves and Lucy has to !Loop Letter bear Israel’s scorn. The wagon train a Hudson’s Bay Company trader who moves painfully on. Whenever an ox gave it all up to settle with his Nez dies, finally defeated by hunger and Thanks Perce wife Lise, whom he loves weakness, it means a feast for the Editor, The Loop: Book Review deeply. She deserts him for Beal Beck, whole party. Our August 13th WA State MISS By Rachel Bard a man he’d thought was his friend. They do reach safety at last, barely retreat here on Vashon was an McLaren is left with his and Lise’s escaping the massacre at the Whitman amazing experience. Pure alchemy What It Was Really children and watches as, one by one, Mission and going on to Portland. took place that day as a room full of they die of smallpox. Now, he’s Lucy and Israel, reconciled, settle into strangers let their guard down Like on the Oregon obsessed with finding Lise. an easy affection. McLaren is not so enough to create a safe and sacred Trail He chances on the Mitchell wagon blessed. He learns what men Lise has space for sharing and learning. We train where Beck has been serving as been with since Beck, yet still seeks screened Losing Layla, had a most About 150 years ago, thousands guide, and gets only a sneer when he her as his doom closes in on him. intriguing didactic session on the topic of our ancestors loaded their families asks Beck about Lise. McLaren kills Fisher knows her characters of Ritual During Grief, and then six and their most him. The intimately. As they move through an henna artists volunteered their time precious emigrants think unforgiving landscape and undergo possessions into A Sudden Country, by the horses, life-threatening trials, they shed their and talent to actually create ritual for ox-drawn covered Karen Fisher. Hardcover, maddened by a past hesitations and uncertainties, us. Amazing. wagons and set Random House, 2006, $24.95 torrential acquiring new endurance and Hawk and I — and all WA MISS out for Oregon lightning storm, ingenuity. Her lyrical writing volunteers — are grateful to all of you Territory, armed trampled Beck, illuminates every page. The narrative who participated that day — not just with little more than hope and and McLaren doesn’t set them right. glides along like a mountain stream, attended, but fully participated! We ignorance. All they knew for sure was He becomes a guide to the party as it with ripples and whorls that delight also thank HennaTribe artists Maya, that they intended to start a new life labors on, ever westward. His notion the reader in passing but don’t disturb Amy, Karen, Maxx, and Dagmar for half a continent away from everything now is that Lise may be back with her the flow. She must have traveled the their energy and tender care. And we they’d ever known. own people in Idaho, so westward is trail herself to have absorbed so many especially thank our sponsors: Vashon Today, we can read their journals fine with him. minute details and gotten the feel of Music, Vashon Bookshop, Amiad & to get the bare facts: how far we The wagons toil along, beset by the country. Associates, and Vashon Thriftway — traveled today, who’s sick, what we hostile Indians who steal their horses, This is Fisher’s first book and she we couldn’t have done it without you! ate, which Indians threatened us, who fording rivers where wagons has already won six awards. She lives Kara Jones died, what rivers we crossed— overturn and goods are lost, crossing with her family “on an island in Puget drought and thirst and freezing. But waterless plains and climbing rocky Sound,” but judging from the blurry what did they feel? How did they mountainsides where the oxen strain picture on her website, not Vashon. cope? and stumble. To lighten the load for Still she’s in the neighborhood, so, Now comes Karen Fisher’s novel, the emaciated beasts they abandon neighbor Fisher, please favor us with A Sudden Country, structured around precious possessions, and they see another book soon. oo oo oo the journal her ancestor Emma Ruth where others before them have done Mitchell wrote at eleven: a summary the same. A piano, a kettle, a lamp, PUD Corrections of her family’s journey from the the occasional mound of earth with a Editor, The Loop: Missouri River to the Willamette. crude cross… Thanks very much for your article From this, a few family letters and her Lucy listens when McLaren talks in the last edition on the proposed own prodigious imagination, Fisher of his time with the Hudson’s Bay Vashon Public Utility District! has built a mesmerizing story of real Company. “She saw the Polar Sea. She However, there is an important Cliff Goodman, Chairman of Citizens for people undergoing real hardships as saw canoes and dogsleds, great correction on the issue of taxing: Vashon Public Utilities, explained the they forged their way westward. wooden forts, the industry of men. Washington State law gives the PUD organization and its energy-saving benefits The journey is seen through the She saw beads and scraps of fur, a at a brunch, hosted by Joy and Chai Mann. eyes of Lucy Mitchell, Emma Ruth’s pouch with a bone button…She saw commissioners the authority to tax. The Vashon Public Utility District Initiative mother. She doesn’t want to take her his teeth, his eyes, and listened until Even though PUDs have the authority will be on the ballot in November. For more four children into the great unknown, the facts of her own life seemed not to tax, none of the 28 Washington information, visit that website: vpud.org. but her husband Israel wears her facts at all but petty doctrines and PUDs use taxes to pay for their core down. She’s a dutiful wife, so she conventions. Such simple gravity as services, no electric PUDs use taxes However the folks running for goes. Israel, impractical to the point this man had was gained only by long for any purpose, and only a couple of commissioner have committed to of bumbling, yet upright and single- and difficult conversance with the the water PUDs use taxes to fund signing a pledge against using tax minded about his goals, becomes a world. He is fearless, she thought.” water resource studies and money to fund the PUD. leader of the wagon train. Very gradually, Lucy realizes environmental education programs. Thanks again for bringing the Lucy’s is not only a physical what McLaren has come to mean for The Vashon PUD will not need to dialogue around the proposed PUD journey, but also an emotional one as her. McLaren senses this and begins tax because it will depend on user fees to your readers! she responds to the stark beauty of to love her for her clear view of the paid by those who voluntarily sign up Very truly, an ever-widening world, the world and her independent way of to become customers. Furthermore, Meg Gluckman unexpected hardships and the thinking. Though he’s still taken up taxing does not make sense because Citizens for Vashon Public Utilities growing attraction she feels toward with the need to find Lise, before long the PUD will be making individual their guide, James McLaren. their passion takes over. When I hear somebody sigh, “life McLaren, the book’s most The word of Lucy’s infidelity gets improvements to individual homes. is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, complex and enigmatic character, was out among the women, who ostracize Unfortunately, the ballot language “Compared to what?” -- Sydney J. cannot legally restrict the state law. Harris The Vashon Loop, p. 14 August 30, 06

Island Epicure For the best flavor, choose solid white tuna packed in water. If mercury content worries you, choose the browner tuna. It comes from younger fish that haven’t had as much time to absorb mercury. Nutritional experts say you can eat white Madame Toujours tuna once a week without ingesting more mercury than your body can expel, so I Dear Madame Toujours, threatened by your new interests. don’t concern myself overmuch nor eat it Please help me to resolve a crisis Possibly, he is concerned that you even that often. which has arisen in my marriage. I are growing apart from him. He is When using canned salmon, remove should mention that I have been not wanting to be looking for the skin. married to Richard, a sweet, dear new love at this stage of his life. He Make each salad in a separate small man, for seven is out of shape and his hair, it is Potlucks of bowl. Arrange lettuce leaves on moisture- years, and we receding. It is being too much work proof tray or platter. 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Include a gold lame salads, deviled eggs, fruit or vegetable Vinaigrette Dijonnaise* the grout behind the toilet with a costume with some kind of crown. salads with cold meat plates, melons Wash and slice potatoes about 1/4 thunderbolt. Give him a planet — a nice one, with prosciuto or thin-sliced ham. inch thick. Boil in salted water no more Richard was not amused about possibly with the natives which he A crowd feeder and crowd pleaser is than 10 minutes, just until fork tender. the thunderbolt and feels I am being can be oppressing after the hard day Salad Niçoise. It’s not the collection of While still hot, pour vinaigrette over unnecessarily grandiose, but the at the office. vegetables thrown together in one big potato slices, lightly mix trying not to children, little Bethany the Destroyer But perhaps you are wondering bowl that most restaurants who offer the them break up. Strew with minced and Jeffrey, Trasher of Living- dish at all will present, but a wide tray or parsley. Chill. if you are even wishing to keep M. platter on which several small salads *Vinaigrette Dijonnaise rooms, seem perfectly comfortable Richard. Perhaps you are thinking compose the artistically arranged whole. 1/4 cup wine vinegar with my revealed glory. that after the long day of blasting For a smaller dinner, any one or two 1 tablespoon Dijon-style What can I do to reassure things and supervising les enfants, it of the three salads below may be arranged mustard Richard that I have no intention of would be nice to be coming home to on lettuce for a light main dish and 1/2 cup virgin olive oil crushing him like the contemptible the husband who is having the accompanied by hearty whole-grain 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground mortal he is? appreciation for how difficult is the bread and butter. Did you know that black pepper Sincerely, job of the Feminarch. spreading our bread with butter (not 1/4 teaspoon sea salt Monumenta, Feminarch of the This is the foolishness. Before margarine, heaven forbid! Triglycerides, Combine all ingredients. Just Megaverse you were Monumenta etc., was M. you know.) reduces its glycemic index before using, stir vigorously. Chere Mme. Megaverse, Richard appreciating the difficulty number? Translation: makes it digest Lima Bean Salad Congratulations regarding your more slowly, therefore doesn’t cause About 6 servings for the job of the housewife? Non. blood sugar spikes. 2 (10-ounce) packages green newly discovered majesty. Always Bon Chance, Mme. Megaverse. Fiber in the whole grain breads helps lima beans I am recommending for the wives Even if you were crushing M. in that way, too. So does the vinegar in Italian Dressing to be having the careers and Richard into the pits of destruction the pickles and salad dressings. Its 1/3 cup chopped red bell interests outside of the home so that and marrying Gargantuon, acidity counteracts carbohydrates. Of pepper they can be expanding the minds. Dominator of the Cosmovoid, you course, if weight-control or blood sugar 2 to 3 thinly sliced green Clearly, you are expanding the would still feel unappreciated. This concerns matter to you, you’ll still need onions mind more than the usual. This is is being the fate of the Feminarch. to watch those portion sizes. Calories do Cook lima beans according to being the kind of dramatic oo oo oo count. package directions. Marinate revelation you can be expecting in Italian dressing. Chill, The Ultimate Salad Niçoise while you are crouching head- Serves 15 stirring occasionally. downward and inhaling the Leaf lettuce, washed and patted Tuna or Salmon Salad dry Serves 6 volatile, tile-cleaning vapors in the European Potato Salad* 3 cups canned white tuna or enclosed space. Lima Bean Salad* cooked salmon, flaked I am understanding that the Tuna or Salmon Salad* 3/4 cup sweet pickle relish, or to omnipotence, it is the intoxication Gherkins taste for you. You are drunk with the Stuffed green olives 1/2 cup finely chopped celery satisfaction of crushing entire Fat pitted black olives 1 cup peeled, chopped cucumber galaxies to destroy the person who Cherry tomatoes or tomato (optional) was cutting you off in traffic three slices 2 green onions, leaves included, years ago, but you must be thinly sliced Anchovies, optional remembering that M. Richard, he is Macho does not prove *Recipes below 1/3 to 1/2 cup Mayonnaise mucho. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Combine all ingredients. Chill. naturally feeling the little bit oo oo oo August 30, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 15

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There’s Melquiades Estrada which it was born. something different about his Long story short, my daughter stance. You can see it. You can see By Jonathan Shipley and I ended sitting by first base that homerun that’s about to Two words, my friends – Barry watching guys bend over and try to happen. There was some talk in Pepper. Huh? Barry Pepper? Who steal. Scoring excellent tickets to see some newspaper about the pitch the hell is Barry Pepper? Well, these the Yankees get beaten by the making the difference, but from our are the questions I asked myself to play weasels quite well [see “Sling Mariners is a memory not soon seats, it was clear that what made recently until I saw him in two Blade”]), the patrolman’s wife forgotten. the difference was the determination stellar movies – The 25th Hour, a (January Jones, who is possibly the Better still is watching A Rod to hit a homerun when 47,000 Spike Lee movie starring Ed Norton most beautiful girl you’ll ever see come up to bat with 47,000 people people were booing him. Crack...and as a character who is about to be smoke a cigarette [don’t smoke. It’s booing him...still...after all this he became my new hero. sent to jail for drug dealing, and The bad for you and will kill you]), and, time...because...he sold out for Here on the Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada for lack of a better word, the noble money...something I’m sure not one Island we cheer a — which I’m here to tell you about. café waitress (Melissa Leo, who is an of those 47,000 people had ever lot for each other. Here I am, telling you that you actor in most every police show on considered let alone done. Right. That’s a good owe it to yourself to watch this television). The cast also includes the So there he is, up for his first at thing. As a life movie. It’s not light- corpse of Melquiades bat, hitting his shoes nervously with skill, it’s a little hearted. Don’t expect Will Estrada. He’s featured the bat. Slight silence after all the shallow to Ferrell to make an prominently. Ants eat the booing as he prepares to swing and practice being appearance with a variety Photo by ny- corpse’s face in one scene. liked. Some of us one woman shouts “Grow up!’ Not yankees-fans.com of fart jokes. Why are all The movie is the me, really...my daughter would have to do it, true. movies these days about directorial debut of have had a cow. We were having a But the greater skill, assuming that fart jokes? It’s terrifically Tommy Lee Jones and it is great time being silly together for the what you are doing is noble, honest depressing. Then, Tommy a triumph. It’s first time in a long stretch that has and adding to peace in this world, Lee Jones comes along, on cinematically stunning been about the pressure of her is to decide how you will respond horseback no less, and Barry Pepper (much of the movie was singing thing she does. I had just put when no one likes what you are directs this thought- filmed on Jones’s own a tenuous moment in the frivolity by doing. Will you be determined to hit provoking, beautiful, well-written ranch), well-written (Guillermo refusing to ask the middle schoolers a home run when almost the entire movie. Now, it’s heady, serious stuff Arriaga also wrote 21 Grams), and in front of us to allow me to take a world wants you gone? Can you do we’re talking about. For one thing, redemptive. Jones, an acting force in picture of the Weeble I’d found in your best when there is but a Melquiades Estrada dies and has to his own right, is impressive, but I my purse while digging for garlic handful of people cheering you on be buried a few times. For another, think the kudos for the movie—what fries money. I was not going to and everyone else is wishing you Barry Pepper gets beaten, shot at, makes the movie work in all its jeopardize anything else by doing would drop dead on the spot? bitten, broken and all sorts of terrible facets—is Barry Pepper. Yeah, Barry something like embarrassing her The ball sailed...into the air. It things. My wife wasn’t watching Pepper. You feel so much for his with a public editorial comment to soared. I smiled. I want some of the movie. She was upstairs working character. For one thing, you feel three hundred people within that, I thought to myself. on some graphic design stuff. Every nothing for him. He’s a hotshot loser. hearing distance. True, the fourth at bat, he struck so often, she commented, “What’s He reads Hustler magazine while on Meanwhile A Rod has out again...but that homerun. I wish all that yelling going on?!” The duty. He breaks a Mexican girl’s swung...and missed...twice. Strikes that for you. I wish for that if you yelling was Barry Pepper getting nose. He calls his wife his “red hot not balls. Three strikes and you’re are in the face of enormous criticism, beaten, shot at, bitten and broken. mamma.” But you feel sorry for him. out, ya know. He was. there will be within you the Terrible things. Sure, he killed someone, but it was Second at bat...same place. determination to hit a homerun. Hit Why, you may ask, is Barry a mistake. Then you cheer for him Same dance. My daughter and I are it. Hit clear out of the ball park. Pepper getting beaten down? The even though he’s the loser you didn’t now trying to decide if the couple Create the silence that happens plot: a hotshot border patrol officer care for minutes ago. Then it’s the two rows down and over four seats while everyone watches the ball go (Pepper) accidentally shoots a end of the movie and it’s a great is a blind date, married, or brother far far away. Chances are you just Mexican (Julio Cedillo). Pete Perkins movie ending—a movie ending and sister. The woman is talking had a thought everyone else wanted (Tommy Lee Jones) is the Mexican’s those cinema aficionados will constantly but the guy, who is much to have and the rest of us are friend and therefore kidnaps Pepper appreciate. Just like I now shorter, is listening all the time. They depending on you hitting a and forces him to disinter the hastily appreciate Barry Pepper. must be brother and sister. It’s so homerun. Swing away...focused, buried body, and then join him on a comforting to know that when your determined — and score! journey into Mexico so the body can Loopy sez: Deadline for the world is full of details and stress, it’s The crack of the bat to ya! be buried at his home. The cast of next edition of The Loop is possible to forget it all with some Love, characters includes a weasely police good fun people watching and Deborah officer (Dwight Yoakum, who seems Friday, September 8 oo oo oo The Vashon Loop, p. 16 August 30, 06

Vashon Rowers Sweep Pairs at Nationals Vashon Island’s Bruce Morser and Colby Atwood took gold in the Men’s D Pair at the 2006 US Rowing Masters National Championship at Green Lake on August 13th. Morser and Atwood edged another Vashon pair, Derek Wegner and Jim O’Brien, by just over a second as both boats Re-fueling for overtime! Wonder why Vashon wrestlers always out-condition their opponents? raced to the finish line, rowing away from the rest of the field. In fact, of Here’s how: they always have a reserve on hand in case they run out of gas. From left to the 140 events that took place over the course of the long weekend, only right: Geran Webb, Eddie Protzeller, and Alex Steamboat. one other club accomplished a top-two finish. Ernesto, I just ran into Efrem at the latest The four-day national regatta at Green Lake featured numerous past I’ve been re-reading old sections National Poetry Convention in Olympians and U.S. National team members. Going into their final on of Ask Ernest from my scrapbook Pittsburgh. Here’s his latest hit: Sunday, both Vashon pairs were aware of the fact that they were up against and I noticed you had some brilliant a Dallas boat that had been the defending champion in the event several poetry by Efrem Vic. The poems Where Was I? years running. were vibrant, funny, and enticing— by Efrem Vic “Dallas was definitely the boat to beat, and we were really surprised if not a bit confusing. They made me I was lost to pull ahead of them,” said Morser. “Maybe the rough water helped.” happy to be alive. Can you ask they needed to portage me Off the start, Morser and Atwood trailed the field after twenty strokes, Efrem for another poem or two? home but finally pulled even with Dallas about halfway down the one thousand And have him dedicate it to my from pittsburgh, meter course, on their way to a first-place finish in 3:48.23. three lovely daughters, Linnea, still celebrating super bowl “By necessity, Bruce and I have to emphasize technique over power in Lizabee, and Shastasha? Thanks racket. the pair, and a relaxed start helps us keep it together later in the race,” mucho amigo. hot sauce on my wings, commented Atwood. “Playing catch-up is pretty nerve-wracking, though. Captain Art Hoggins hawks on tv, holmgren It’s all about staying focused.” Sure Captain, smiling Originally, the second-place team of O’Brien and Wegner was registered in his puffy jacket— with Vancouver Rowing Club, because the boat’s stroke, Jim O’Brien, moved to Vancouver with his wife (and VIRC coxswain) Cindy earlier Is it really almost football this year. During the gap between the Friday heat and the Sunday final, season? O’Brien petitioned for their boat to be re-registered as a VIRC entry. “I didn’t know Jim had changed the registration until just before the race,” said Wegner. “It provided additional motivation to show everyone that little VIRC had put two boats in the final and we belonged there.” Rounding out a very successful weekend for Vashon Island Rowing Club, Island rowers Debby Jackson and Gail Brownell took third in the Women’s Mixed 8, rowing for new Islander Brownell’s former home club from Los Gatos, California. Isaac Magnuson celebrates after winning the Great American Shovel-Off! “It wasn’t Early 20th Century American Art Coming to Vashon even that tiring,” Isaac said in his post-game As of Friday, September 1, 2006, a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and by interview. “In fact, I think it might have been State Champ Rick Wheeler shows off his little Vashon Island will have a new art appointment. easier to win this than it was for me when I guy, Hugh. If genetics play even a minor part, won the Boston Marathon.” Picture by the lil’ Hughy will likely be the next spelling bee gallery devoted to works by listed Owner Kji Kelly moved to Great Alison Katica. champ of the universe! and notable early 20th Century Vashon with his family (Jack, 6; American artists. Vashon Island Kate, 4; Davis, 2; and wife, Rebecca) Free Summer Concert Fine Art is pleased to announce the in 2001. From 1996-2001, Kji owned opening of our gallery at 17637 an architectural salvage gallery in in the Park Vashon Highway, next to Robinson Durham, North Carolina, and later Furniture. In conjunction with the in Pioneer Square in Seattle. His art PortagePortage Fill-HarmonicFill-Harmonic monthly First Friday festivities, gallery has had an online storefront Vashon Island Fine Art will be for the last five years. Kji works as a BigBig BandBand presenting works by artists project manager for Historic Seattle, including, but not limited to, a non-profit dedicated to preserving Rockwell Kent, William Keith, the region’s historically built Charles Curtis Allen and Frank environment. This passion for Captain Martin looking confident, as usual. Benson. The gallery will specialize history sparked his interest in early Thursday, in American Art between 1850 and 20th century art, and led to the Loopy sez: Deadline for the September 7 1950 with WPA, scene, landscapes evolution of Vashon Island Fine Art. next edition of The Loop is 6:30-8:30 pm and seascapes emphasized. Vashon Island Fine Art will be open Fridays If all economists were laid end Friday, September 8 Ober Park, 1:00 to 4:30 p.m., Saturdays 11:00 to end, they still would not reach a FREE FREE FREE conclusion. -- G. B. Shaw August 30, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 17 God and the doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; o The danger o’er, both are alike requited Lo py Laffs God is forgotten, and the doctor slighted. — John Owen Why Hollywood Squares was a hit the first time around: Q. Do female frogs croak? A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough. Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years. A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes. Q. You’ve been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman? A Don Knotts: That’s what’s been keeping me awake. Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say “I Love You”? A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty. Q. Paul, why do Hell’s Angels wear leather? A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily. Q. In bowling, what’s a perfect score? A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy. Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant? A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant? Q. When couples have a baby, who is responsible for its sex? A. Charley Weaver: I’ll lend him the car, the rest is up to him. Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they? A. Charley Weaver: His feet Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed? A. Paul Lynde: Point and Laugh. What do a sperm cell and a lawyer have in common? Both have one chance in 290 million of becoming human.

While it may be okay to lie to your spouse from time Did you hear about the dyslexic Rabbi? to time, it is emphatically not okay to lie to your kids about anything except your past drug use. – Al Franken He walks around saying “Yo.”

Why is it so hard for women to find men that are sensitive, caring, and good-looking? Because those men already have boyfriends. What is the difference between a Harley and a Hoover? When you put down the good things you ought to have The position of the dirt bag. done, and leave out the bad things you did do, that’s Memoirs. -- Will Rogers Cannibals are not Tough audience: If they liked you, they vegetarians. They’re One more drink, and I’ll be under didn’t applaud -- they just let you live. -- humanitarians. the host. -- Dorothy Parker Bob Hope ArtArt isis notnot aa handicraft,handicraft, itit isis thethe transmissiontransmission ofof feelingfeeling thethe artistartist hashas experienced.experienced. –– LeoLeo TolstoyTolstoy The Vashon Loop, p. 18 August 30, 06 Loop Arts Girls on the Town! A Night of All-Female Comedy Improv and Music

Come to Café Luna for a Vashon Voices courtesy photo thrilling evening of girl-powered entertainment! Singer-songwriter Croon a Tune with Niceol Blue will be joined by the Vashon Voices infamous all-girl By Joe Farmer improv troupe Vashon Voices, the Island’s close Seattle goga, harmony vocal ensemble, is looking providing an for singers to participate in its 2006- exciting double- 2007 concert season. If you’re bill of live music interested in singing with a small and comedy chorus of friendly, music-loving improv on folks, come join the fun! Ant Bully Thursday, In lieu of individual auditions, Miami Vice August 31 at Vashon Voices is hosting open group Aug. 30 & 31 7:30 p.m. sharp. Niceol Blue audition rehearsals. New singers Niceol Blue have an opportunity to sing with grew up in the Pacific Northwest. the group, get to know the music Clerks 2 That environment helped to shape director, and meet current and her unique style—”Red-Headed prospective members. The next Acoustica.” She performs all over group audition will be held on The Vashon Youth Chorus sings at last the world, from the far west of Monday, September 11, from 7:00 year’s Kiwanis Christmas dinner Oregon to the far east of Ireland. In to 9:00 p.m. at Vashon First her hometown of Seattle, she Presbyterian Church. All voice parts Vashon Island Youth performs at local hot spots including are encouraged to attend. Chorus Pairs Up with The Seamonster Lounge and the Re- Our concert season will open Bar, as well as at outdoor events December 15 and 17 with a holiday Chorale This Fall Who Killed the such as Seattle’s Folklife and show entitled Let it Snow, a collection By Lauri Hennessey Bumbershoot Festivals. Her vibrant of snow songs and holiday favorites Electric Car? This fall, the Vashon Island Youth sound and powerful lyrics make for from jazz and pop standards to light Sept. 1 - 11 Chorus will have a wonderful a riveting experience for audiences classics. From the familiar strains of opportunity to sing with the popular of all ages. You can hear Niceol at “White Christmas” and “Jingle Vashon Theater will be closed Vashon Island Chorale at their holiday on Tues., Wed., & Thurs., Sept. 5, www.myspace.com/niceolblue. Bells” to our hilarious version of the concert this year. The youth will be Seattle goga (girl on girl action) “12 Days AFTER Christmas,” this joining the Chorale and an orchestra to 6 & 7, and Sept. 12, 13, &14 perform Longform Improvised concert will be sure to please both perform the Mass of the Children the first Sketch Comedy. Using character the singer and the concertgoer. Visit weekend in December. work, movement, story and song, www.vashonvoices.org for details Beyond performing with the Chorale, Seattle goga takes you on a fully of this and other upcoming the Chorus will also have its own recital improvised journey of wonder and concerts. in December for family and friends, perform at the lighting of the Christmas laughter. Their shows will have you For more information about tree in Vashon, and at the community on the edge of your seats, and have joining the group, contact music caroling at the Vashon Theatre. They will been described as “fresh”, “side- director Joe Farmer at 567-5640, or also be doing some secular songs, in splitting” and “beyond compare!” email [email protected]. addition to the Mass of the Children. Long-time Islander Marita Ericksen Episcopalians Get is the Director of the Vashon Island Youth Chorus. Ericksen recently moved Medieval: Annual back to Vashon after For show times, check English Faire several years based www.vashontheater.com or call in Everett, during (206) 463-3232 By Barb Lake which she commuted to HEAR YE! HEAR YE! The Church teaching the Youth However, there are partial scholarships of the Holy Spirit announces its annual Chorus. She is available, too. English Faire, on Sunday, September 10, excited about being Ericksen leads the group with the 2006 on the lawn behind the Episcopal back on the Island Marita Ericksen assistance of Islander Randy Bruce. The The piping in of the Anglicans: John Dally Church of the Holy Spirit, located at again, and Parent Coordinator is Dianna Ammon. and the Vashon Island Pipe Band kick off 15420 Vashon Highway SW. Queen Marj continuing her work with the Chorus. Ericksen taught music in public schools last year’s English Faire Watkins and her loyal Lady-in-Waiting “Many Island youth love singing, for 11 years, directed the Sno-Isle Youth Carolyn Price Dyer will officiate over the prior to the event. Call the Church Office and they look forward to auditioning for Chorus, is Music Team leader for the royal affair from noon to three o’clock. to verify hours, (206) 567-4488. There will musicals and other singing opportunities Everett Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Hear bagpiper John Dally, and see T. be a limited number of tickets for sale at all year,” Ericksen said. “But what some and also teaches private voice and piano. Martino and her noble steed. Dine on the door. of them don’t get is a chance to continue She also sang in the Vashon Island delicious fare of Fish and Chips, Cole working and refining their voices all year Chorale, sings in the Everett Chorale, and Slaw, Lemonade and Ale (Vegetarian Streetwise Now long. The Youth Chorus gives them that is a member of the Music Educators Fare also available), all while listening chance to be in a singing chorus all year National Conference and Washington to the Innisfree Celtic Band. Available at IndieFlix ‘round. And partnering up with the Music Educators Association. Entertainment For All Ages: View a Alex Atkins and Andrew Franks of Chorale this year is going to be that much “I have been working with youth and Children’s Play in the performance area Team Beiderman Productions are very more of an opportunity to be seen by a music education my whole life,” Ericksen directed and produced by Crystal Culp. excited to announce that their new film, larger audience,” she said. said. “I love to teach them the There will also be children’s games in the Streetwise, is now available on IndieFlix. High school students can receive two fundamentals of music, and see the Labyrinth area supervised by David Culp To purchase it on DVD, follow this link: elective credits for singing in the Youth lifelong love for music at its beginning. and Kimberly and Scott Benner. Take http://www.indieflix.com/ Chorus. The Chorus can take up to 40 It’s exciting to watch, and I never get tired part in an ongoing Croquet Tournament FilmDetail.aspx?tid=5522. One-third of kids. Last year, when the Chorus of it,” she said. directed by Mark Yelken. the profits go back to them to support presented the popular Charlie Brown’s If you know of someone between ages Co-Chairs Priscilla Kimmel, future productions. If you would like to Christmas there were 37 kids in the group. 5 and 18 who loves to sing, or who has RoseEllen Albers and their committee purchase a copy of the soundtrack, send The first rehearsal is on September 12 at wanted to try, please pass this along! You invite all of the Vashon Community to an email to McMurray. Rehearsals are every Tuesday can have them either get in touch with join in the Fun, Food, and Frolic! Old [email protected]. at 3:30 p.m. at McMurray. There is tuition Ericksen at [email protected], 715- English costumes are encouraged! to be in the Youth Chorus. It is $120 for 7126, or go to the Vashon Park District, or Tickets are only $5.00 for all this and www.vashonloop.com the entire semester ($30 per month). call them at 463-9602. Rehearsals begin can be purchased at the Church Office on September 12th. August 30, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 19 Two Wall Gallery: Father and Daughter Examine Art, Now’s the Time to Order Writing, and History Books for School By Ben Meeker (New, with a Discount The Two Wall Gallery would like to announce an exhibit of block prints, or Such a Deal, Used!) drawings and sculptures by the father/daughter team of Rachael and Open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ben Meeker from September 1 Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (206) 463-2616 through September 30, with an artist’s reception Friday, September 1, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Great stories consist of moments stacked upon each other. Rachael and Free Summer Concert in the Park Ben Meeker pull out individual sheets from these allegorical stacks and present them framed on the wall. Friday Evening Block print by Ben Meeker Portage Fill-Harmonic Big Band These linoleum and woodblock prints display everyday objects such as perspective that creates a very Thursday, artifacts of incidents in someone’s precarious space around these September 7 life—without the someone. common objects and activities. 6:30-8:30 pm Rachael Meeker’s lino-prints My prints and drawings focus on depict scenes of the activity of writing. the ominous in the ordinary. Romance, Ober Park, There are hand written letters or remodeling and dinner are FREE FREE FREE stories, surrounded by teacups and interrupted; the people are gone, but Did we mention that its a free concert? pencils resting under the gentle glow their artifacts remain, and a strong of a candle. These absent writers are light illuminates the scene. Spilled red Buddha Meets from an older time, before writers wine, a reclining boning knife, a Kretschmar, a German translator toiled, bathed in the chemical pallor steaming Sawzall and a partially Quantum Physics who’s worked with numerous high lamas for 30 years in Nepal. He of a computer monitor. She also does butchered chicken testify as to what Continued from page 1 drawings and prints based on the has happened recently and infer expresses awe at the depth and summer activities of a ten-year-old something is happening now. These Apart from being a humorous precision of Khenpo Choga’s girl, which she is. In addition to her compositions are not still-lives as and good natured fellow who loves scholarship, and in his eloquence in narrative themes, Rachael has a much as they are movie stills. Viewers talking to children, and transmitting pithy definite sense of pattern and are invited to invent their own makes friends while instructions. In the ten or narratives and place themselves into walking down the street, so years since leaving Tibet, these stories. he’s a profound teacher Khenpo Choga has taught I will also be exhibiting a series of who can swiftly guide you in 40 countries, founded cast iron tablets that are reminiscent into contemplating the Dzogchen Khenpo Dharma centers, and of tablets containing ancient writing non-existence of Choga Rinpoche created projects to support or pictographic stories. The rusted time…except for an the monastery and surfaces look as if they just came out infinitesimally small present children’s school back in Tibet. He’s of an archeological dig to tell their moment…the absence of any real authored over 30 books in Tibetan, cryptic tales, hopefully providing a self or “I,” and the non-existence of and his first in English, The Buddha historical/pre-historical form of story atoms, and Path, and is telling. In addition, I will have a wall therefore matter, working on a of small white charcoal on black board quickly enough massive ten drawings, which are thematically to make your volume similar to the prints, but their subjects head spin. commentary on are much more wide ranging and But then he’s the famous text arbitrary. They are images pulled out coming from a Entering the of a life in progress. tradition that’s Conduct of the For more information, please call explored these Bodhisattvas, by Writer’s Afternoon Coffee Block print by 463-1930 or e-mail matters for over Courtesy Photo Shantideva. Rachael Meeker [email protected]. two thousand Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche It’s clear from five hundred Thursday, September 8 his incessant Johnson and Graham Teach and Perform years before the 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. teaching Vashon Island Music will host at many major music workshops and has words quantum Call for location (206) 463-1490 schedule all over Harmonica and Bottleneck Slide Blues CDs and instructional DVDs available. physics ever the US that he Guitar workshops on Saturday, His playing is coagulated into wants to establish September 9 at the Vashon Island Music well known the western vocabulary. centers for study and contemplation Studio (above the music store), followed around the Pacific Born and raised in Tibet during here in America, where the political by a concert that night in the same space. NW as well, as the Chinese occupation, Khenpo and economic conditions favor the The Harmonica Workshop, taught by evidenced by his Choga was something of a surprise long term transplantation of the entry in James Mark Graham, will be held from 12 to 1:30 when he strolled into a monastery Dzogchen teachings to the West. p.m. Graham’s harmonica virtuosity is Bush’s in Kathmandu, having walked over Having someone of Khenpo Choga’s well-known Encyclopedia of regionally where Northwest Music the snowy passes from Tibet, and abilities showing up to teach in his performances (Sasquatch Press displayed acute prowess as a master places like Vashon Island, Pt. and recordings 1999). scholar and practitioner of the Townsend, and Las Vegas, is a little are legendary. His Pre- highest levels of Tibetan Buddhism. surreal; like having Einstein drop in songs have been registration is Orville Johnson It was commonly believed that the on your neighborhood Tupperware recorded by many, required and greatest scholars and practitioners party. He can save us all lots of Asian including the space is limited to 15 students per were all in exile, so nothing was airfares in search of mystical Austin Lounge workshop. The cost is $40 per class, or known of this Tulku, or re-incarnate spiritual masters, and bring our students may attend both for $75. Lizards, Bryan lama, who began training in secret spiritual inquiry home, as close as Bowers, and the At 7 p.m., Saturday, September 9, at age five, finished a seven year our next thought. Limelighters. Mark Graham Orville and Mark will also perform a The concert in the Vashon Island Music long solo cave retreat by his early For more information on Khenpo Bottleneck Slide Blues Guitar Workshop Studio—tickets are $10 in advance and twenties, and was awarded the title Choga’s schedule, phone Dave @ with Orville Johnson will be held from available at Vashon Island Music. For of Khenpo as the youngest person 463-1490, or e-mail 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. the same day. Orville more information, registration, and tickets ever to receive such high status at [email protected], or visit Johnson is a lifelong music veteran and contact Karen at the music store (206)463- centuries-old Dzogchen Monastery. Dzogchen Buddha Foundation’s internationally known proficient and 0552. One of the first westerners to meet web-site: proponent of slide guitar. He has taught him in Katmandu was Andrea www.dzogchenlineage.org. The Vashon Loop, p. 20 August 30, 06

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