Vol. 9, #3 A VASHON-MAURY ISLAND COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER February 2, 2012 Ignition Studios & Voice of Vashon Community Information Sharing Station Gallery Opens During Storm Week

Mathilda Oldham, Vashon Vintage, takes a break at her new studio workshop in the old Brenno Glassblowing shop, where Ignition has set up an artist Workspace and Gallery The old 1930’s garage behind Movie beginning at 7:30 by the UMO School of Magic is getting a new life with a Physical Arts; they will demonstrate the During the storm week, Voice of Vashon 1650 AM volunteer Jeanne Dougherty worked whole lot of interior refinishing and art of “Poi”—fire dancing. all hours as the primary on-duty Alert Team announcer. Others posting web bulletins and the advent of Ignition Studios and The Gallery Exhibition will host supporting the information gather effort included Karen Du Four Des Champs, Susan Gallery. As a creative work space, the artwork Vashon and Seattle area artists McCabe, Luke McQuillin, Dan Schueler, Richard Rogers and Michael Golen-Johnson. historical four-bay garage is now the new Carol Schwennesen, John Martin, On Vashon, everybody pulls together lines, bringing them down all over the studio home of Vashon Vintage, Island Sharon Hines-Pinion, Roy Kauffman, in a tough situation. So, when three Island, especially in the hard hit south Artistry Tile & Stone, and other area Tim Carney, and Theresa Henson, winter storms lashed the Island during Vashon and Maury Island areas. artists. The adjoining space, originally and Randall Baird. Additionally, off- the recent Snowmageddon week, people Many Islanders know Voice of the old shop’s auto parts store, houses island artwork from around the country were looking for a rallying point — a Vashon as the web streaming radio Ignition’s Gallery. The Studio and includes Marino Colmano, a prolific Los place to help each other out by sharing station, VoV TV on Comcast Channel Gallery are hosting their Grand Opening Angeles filmmaker and photographer information. They found that community 21, the 1650 AM information station or First Friday Exhibition, “Spark in the now settled in Virginia; as well as oil rallying point in Voice of Vashon. as the producer of the Church of Great Darkness” on February 3rd from 6-9 Continued on Page 11 After two snowstorms coated the Rain variety show. During the storm, p.m. Entertainment will be provided, roads, the ice storm arrived to knock Voice of Vashon mobilized to provide out power for more than one-third of the 24/7 information to the community. Island’s homes and businesses. The ice “It was magic,” said Voice of Vashon encased trees and branches broke under President and on-air volunteer Jeanne Road to Resilience the weight, crashing through power Continued on Page 10 Two Moving By Terry Sullivan, Transition Vashon usual sidewalk onto a second moving Sidewalks sidewalk—one that isn’t necessarily In your ideal life, you may picture headed in the same direction as the first Community Oscar Night yourself as a miller or a cobbler, selling one. your products for Vashon currency that “[W]e will feel for a time like you can exchange for all your needs. The we’re hopping back and forth between Party Celebrates its 15th year fact is, though, we don’t have much of a sidewalks. We hop between mainstream VASHON, Washington (January 25, market for those occupations just yet, and life—perhaps with a competitive 2012) - When Vashon Film Society rolls out you won’t be able to pay your mortgage corporate job, perhaps with children to the red carpet for Oscar Night at the Vashon or other debts with Vashon currency. get off to college—and the new ways of Theatre on Sunday, February 26, it will be the Since we produce very little out here, the future. nonprofit group’s 15th year of presenting its celebration of cinema, community and the most of our income comes via those As time goes by, we’ll spend more vintage island movie theatre which hosts of you that commute to the mainland and more time on the sidewalk that is the event. everyday. So how do we get from this headed toward the saner future: more Compared to pricey big city Academy “business as usual” world to a saner one and more time in local food production, Award parties, this really is the people’s we would like to live in? local economies, community events. Oscars, welcoming all ages with affordable Elaine Poyourow of Transition Los We’ll find less reason to hop back to admission to the pre-show red carpet Angeles explains the problem this way the old-paradigm sidewalk. It wasn’t festivities, the big screen broadcast of the in one of her blog posts: headed where we wanted to go anyway.” Hollywood event, and the only-on-Vashon “Ever feel like you’re zipping “Going Green” is one way that costume contest remaining at $10. Ticket through the fast-paced hours of your day, makes it seem we are doing what outlets include the Vashon Theatre, Vashon the crowded pages of your calendar, like needs to be done. “But at a certain Bookshop and online at Brown Paper Tickets. you’re on a swiftly moving sidewalk? point, ‘greening’ an old-paradigm Limo rides around the block before the “Then you learn about alternative lifestyle maxes out. As one ventures show, a movie trivia contest and a catered lifestyles, other ways of living and further into the understanding of what meal during the party are also returning pacing one’s life. As you learn about is ‘greener,’ we begin to glimpse the features of the festive Vashon Film Society the Transition movement, perhaps you disconnects. We’re told that recycling fund raiser which uses event proceeds to fund Karen du Four Champs at last years Oscar Night party. Photo John Sage get caught up in community events is better than landfill for those single- scholarships for graduating VHS seniors. Vashon Film Society welcomes new and activities within this other way of use coffee cups, but deeper examination Contact: and returning volunteers to help in creating viewing life. begs the question: Wouldn’t eliminating Leslie McMichael, Vashon Film Society this community “fun-d” raiser. Call Leslie “It begins to feel like you’ve hopped them altogether (reuse) be far better? [email protected] McMichael at 567-4768 or email vashonfilm@ off that swiftly moving business-as- 206-898-4972 Continued on Page 11 comcast.net. The Vashon Loop, p. 2 February 2, ‘12 Wolftown Needs Drama Dock Get in The Loop Your Help! auditions Hi Vashon Pirates of Penzance Submissions to the Loop Wolftown is your rehabilitation and education facility. Drama Dock is announcing auditions Do you have an event or Public Service Announcement? Email questions or We also teach young people about for its summer production, Gilbert and submissions to Steven Allen, editor of the Loop, at [email protected]. Photos wildlife and sustainable agriculture. Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance.” This are welcome as jpeg or pdf attachments. However we really need the help of is a “light opera,” which means some time and work and donations to do clean dialogue, mostly singing, and lots of up after the storms and repair buildings silliness. It will be directed by Elizabeth Vashon Chamber Annual Meeting of the and start our landscaping project. Anthony. Wolftown also needs help re-doing There are solo parts for soprano General Membership - Rescheduled the kitchen cabinets at the project. And (Mabel), alto (Ruth), tenor (Fredrick), baritone (Pirate King), tenor/baritone New Date & Time Vashon LEADS is a dynamic minor trim work. This is a paying job. (Major General, who sings the famous Monday, February 6th 8am-10am subgroup of the Vashon Island Chamber patter song “I am the very model of Penny Farcy Training Center - of Commerce that generates leads and Will you help? the modern Major General”) and bass Bank Road(Across the street from the business for its members, essentially Please contact us. (Captain of Police). In addition, there is a Vashon Fire Department) acting as each other’s sales force. www.wolftown.org 206-463-9113 women’s chorus (Blushing Buds of Ever- blooming Beauty--although the director AGENDA REVISION Storefront Studio [email protected] says they do not have to be “buds” Introduction of New Board Presentation by Julie Koler from Thank you but may be “full-blown roses” or even Members King County T and Pete Yamamoto “slightly wilting”) and a men’s chorus Introduction of New Chamber Get the full details on the exciting (assorted rollicking pirates and terrified Members new Storefront Studio project coming police). Also, the cast can include two Chamber Announcements to Vashon in 2012. In a re-appropriation boys and two girls between the ages of Year in Review 2011 Recap of KCECC’s assets, $10,000 was granted 10 to 14. All others can be between the 2012 Budget Presentation to the University of Washington’s Water District 19 age of 15 and decrepit. This includes 2012 Goals Department of Architecture to Regular Meeting four chorus leads. Chorus members may design storefront improvements Pursuant to our bylaws, this email is expect to have featured cameos. Guest Presentations: for the revitalization of the Vashon being sent to you to notify you of Water The auditions will be held in the Vashon LEADS business district. The county’s Historic District 19’s next regular board meeting McMurray Band Room on Thursday, Presented by Dawn Sheppard, 1st Preservation Program will explore to be held on Tuesday, February 14th, February 9, from 7:00 to 9:00 and on Impression by Design making loan funds available for the 2011 here at the district office at 4:30 PM. Saturday, February 11, from 3:00 to 5:00. façade improvements. Please be ready to sing a simple song (Happy Birthday will do). A pianist will Networking – Bring your business be available if you wish to sing with Vashon Green Party cards! Wandering accompaniment. Please contact Gaye Meeting Detzer [email protected] or at Elderly People 567-5193 if you have any questions. The Vashon-Maury Island Technology & Oh boy, I thought that the incident Green Party’s monthly meeting just over a year ago was a one-time thing. (second Tuesday of each month) Capital Projects A Metro Access driver saw an 89 year old will be at Joy Goldstein’s home. Levy man with a walker, wearing only “light Other interested progressives clothing”, on foot along Vashon Hwy on always welcome! Dear Parents and Community, a cold December morning. The driver Later this week you will receive a didn’t want to veer off schedule, so they DATE: Tuesday, February 14, 7:00 ballot in the mail to renew the district’s called 911. By the time the cops could to 9:00 PM expiring Technology and Capital get there, the gentleman had slipped Projects Levy, which provides critical LOCATION: 10329 SW Bank Road, into a water-filled ditch where he laid support for major repair, improvement, for almost 3 hours. He was unconcious, Vashon and preventive maintenance of district but he survived. Now we have another DIRECTIONS: From Vashon facilities and equipment, and funding elderly person, seen in pajamas on a cold center, go west on SW Bank Road for technology operations, equipment, January afternoon, again seen wandering 0.3 miles. staffing, and training. Detailed along an arterial roadway, and now has Joy’s home is on the south side. information is available on the district’s been missing 3 days. What has happened Park along Bank Road. website. to us? We just decide to keep driving by, Shape Up Vashon Please complete and mail your thinking, “it’s not my problem”? This is Classes Major Topics: ballot as soon as possible--our a sad state of affairs, my neighbors. If Wed Feb 8 1) Vashon Governance. experience on the bond election taught someone, anyone, had decided to stop Lighten Up 2) Transition Vashon. us that every vote counts! Please vote and help these folks instead of driving on Make your meals healthier and enjoy and encourage your neighbors and by, a life may have been saved, or at least 3) Occupy Everywhere. them more. Join the discussion with friends to do the same. kept out of several hours of cold misery. 4) The Green Team. Mona Hardy, Vashon Weight Watcher’s This is not an expensive campaign- Kurt Lysen coach for 20 years.

-just a few signs around the island and Shape Up Vashon will offer this class Questions: Melvin Mackey, a few ads to remind people to vote--so twice on Feb 8 Secretary, (206) 463-3468 it is even more critical that you spread Senior Center 10:00 am-11:00 AM the word. Auditions for Vashon College at 7-8:15 PM Next week an endorsement ad will Come at 6:15 to have your blood The Vashon Loop be published in the Beachcomber. Will Sherlock’s pressure taken, or weight-in at the you consider having your name included evening class Writers: Kathy Abascal, Deborah as a levy endorser in this ad? If so, Veiled Secret - Free for Shape Up Vashon members, Anderson, Marie Browne, Eric Francis, please email me by this Tuesday (Jan Troy Kindred, Terry Sullivan, Orca $5 for others. 24) evening at, [email protected]. Rescheduled Annie, Kevin Pottinger, Steve Amos, Register for Shape Up Vashon Thank you for supporting our Snowmaggedon made coming to Ed Swan, Mary Litchfield Tuel, Marj at either class or online at www. students. Drama Docks Auditions for Sherlock’s Watkins, Peter Ray. Veiled Secret an impossibility for many. shapeupvashon.org Original art, comics, cartoons: DeeBee, Erica Davidson Therefore, I am holding auditions Ed Frohning, Rick Tuel, Jeff Hawley, again!! Steve Krueger Vashon PTSA President Drama Dock Theatre announces Ad sales and design: Steven Allen Next Edition Auditions for Sherlock’s Veiled Secret, Phone 253-237-3228 Email: [email protected] by K.C. Brown: at The Ober Park of The Loop Editor: Steven Allen Caregivers Performance Space (just north of the Email: [email protected] Vashon Library) on Sunday Feb, 5th at Comes out Publisher: Steven Allen Support Group 3 pm. Please prepare two memorized PO Box 1538, Vashon, WA 98070 short (1 to 2 minutes each) contrasting Thursday, Paid advertisements in The Vashon Loop Vashon Community Care Center hosts monologues (1 serious & 1 comic). Scripts in no way express the opinions of the a monthly Caregivers Support Group are available at the library for in-library publisher, editor, or staff. We reserve meeting. The group meets on the second perusal. Performances scheduled for February 16 Thursday of every month at 7pm. the right to edit or not even print stuff. April 13th thru the 22nd at The Vashon Deadline for the next Published every two weeks This group is geared toward family High School. For more information, or friend caregivers, rather than paid edition of The Loop is by Sallen Group please contact Elizabeth Ripley: caregivers. If interested or if you have © February 2, 2012 Vol. IX, #3 [email protected] or call questions, please call Julea at 567-4421. Friday, February 10 her at 463-6388 February 2, ‘12 The Vashon Loop, p. 3

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Compost the Loop The Loop’s soy-based ink is good for composting. The Vashon Loop, p. 4 February 2, ‘12 Voice of Vashon Film Contest A Special Presentation Theme is Insider/Outsider Voice of Vashon is again hosting a for the Opera Fans film contest for islanders. Newly-named RockFlicks, the contest is in its second year. RockFlicks is a themed, short- of the Future! film competition judged by age group. Filmmakers this year will explore the possibilities in the concept Insider/ Outsider. Contest coordinators strive to present filmmakers with stimulating topics that will allow exploration of issues that affect everyone. The theme of Insider/ Outsider will resonate for islanders, but it also presents both artists and audiences an opportunity to engage with a variety of perspectives on issues that underlie conflict world-wide. vote for the “people’s choice” on the VoV RockFlicks is for anyone of any age website. Vashon Film professionals will or experience level. determine the “judge’s choice”. There Lindsay Aickin, co-coordinating will be a $100 prize for the two judge’s the contest again this year, said, “We choice winners. The Vashon Theater will were delighted with the number of show the two winning films, and they young people who submitted work last will be aired on Channel 21. year. We hope this contest continues to The sponsors of RockFlicks are Voice be an annual event and gives Vashon of Vashon, Welcome Vashon, Vashon Robert Wood and his brother Richard meet Gretel, Emily Haight, as rehearsals are underway. videographers a local venue for their Healthy Communities Network, VARSA, More than 30 Vashon children will sing in the production. In the photo, Robert is the boy work to be seen and appreciated.” Vashon Theatre and 4Culture. speaking to Gretel. Entries must be five minutes or less, It’s not too early to get started as Vashon Opera presents Hansel and “This is the second time Vashon and submitted in DVD format. Films submission deadline is May 4. Details are Gretel, a charming story with a candy Opera has produced an opera specifically will be broken into age categories for on the VoV website, voiceofvashon.org. house! Will the brother and sister free for children. Little Red Riding Hood in judging: under eighteen, and eighteen Please call Lindsay Aickin at 877-2631, or more than 30 Vashon Island children 2010 was a huge success and a wonderful and over. In May, the community can Jean Bosch at 919-5223, with questions. from the witch’s clutches? Come find experience for us. We wanted to repeat out while hearing beautiful voices and that experience and this time with more the soaring melodies of a classic opera. than 30 Vashon Island children to sing The special free opera presentation along in the final song”, says Jennifer for opera fans of the future will be sung in Krikawa, Artistic Director of Vashon English in a 45 minute abridged version. Opera, “Introducing children to classical Vashon Opera’s gift to the community, music early on is important for their sponsored by Vashon Park District, tells appreciation of music and theatre. The the tale of two delightful children lost in children will hear real opera singers up a forest and their escape from a wicked close with a fun story.” witch. Vashon Opera’s production (Intended for ages 3-12 years old; is a little scary, a lot funny and all Grown-ups are welcome if they are tied together with music by German accompanying a child) composer Engelbert Humperdinck. Sung by a young professional cast, Hansel and Gretel this shortened opera is the perfect Saturday, Feb 11, 11 am introduction to the art form of opera. Chautauqua Elementary School The cast includes Emily Haight as Gretel, Performance Room Sorayah Surkatty as Hansel, Kaitlyn Free Morrell as the witch and Erin White as the Dew Fairy.

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Make a date with Vashon! www.VashonCalendar.org Find it on Vashon Library Events www.vashonpages.com Art & Music Events Submit your Event on line at Vashon Business www.vashoncalendar.org Information February 2, ‘12 The Vashon Loop, p. 5 Island Life Valley of the Dolls by Peter Ray There is some comfort in residing somewhere between jaded cynicism and wonderment- it allows one lots of options. Take, for example, my lack of surprise the other day when I turned to The Current Cinema pages in the New Yorker and read the line: “…all the women have the same body- tall, with small, high breasts, long waists, long legs, and full, rounded rumps.” It was a description of a scene from documentary filmmaker Robert Wiseman’s latest offering, Crazy Horse, about a sixty year old strip club in Paris. That one line description in some ways summed up a part of a recent afternoon which had just been spent running a video camera through what seemed to be endless cardboard canyons of boxes filled with all things Barbie, and then some. It is not the first time my life has run semi-synchronous with that New York rag, and without being too cynical or unduly self-assured about it, I’m sure it won’t be the last. It may perhaps come as a shock and surprise to the uninitiated that this was not my first dalliance in or near a massive convergence of Barbie-mania. why we were obsessed with gathering legion of Barbie-ism ranging from $1 While my sister, back in the day, had flats of variegated this or white flowered and $2 thrift store bargain bin rescues her share of Barbie related figurines that, we just did it. More often than to elaborately boxed and costumed and paraphernalia, her collection not, the self-questioning over what we collector’s edition supermodels. There paled in comparison to what has been called “the disease” rang the loudest, is a certain humor to the dolls and transported each year to Black Rock City especially in gardening. It occurs most mannequins in evidence all around, with and assembled in greater and grander emphatically during the months after the varying degrees of clothes, props, wigs scale at the Barbie Death Camp and acquisition when unplanted small pots and coloring adding a certain life to their Wine Bistro. My photographic record or bags of bulbs have gone unwatered stillness. But in many ways they are a of BDCWB from 2004 up through to last and untended. Some are even proud of subtle tip to the iceberg that might some year’s iteration at Burning Man shows having killed more plants than others day swell to a full room doll display. a steady and massive increase in the have planted. In many ways, it is easy to Having laughed for years at the mock quantity of long-legged inmates. The appreciate collecting something where, mass slaughter in the middle of a desert Were Open! earliest photo shows perhaps a hundred with little attention and a minimum of of a plastic American icon, I now know or so Barbies encircled by militarily care and protection, the collection can that there are much greater depths to garbed and heavily armed Kens, all in grow or shrink and remain relatively what I always presumed was just another a solitary march toward a single, dust unspoiled. girl toy. I even did my homework before Seeds covered microwave oven. Last summer’s While he does have an interest going to this Barbie school, and learned snapshot portrays uncountable 1000’s of in plants, Ken Hostetler seems to have that Barbie was actually a borrowing Territorial Mattel’s beauty queens on a massed and put most of his collecting energies into of a German doll, purchased by Ruth congested death march between pink a gathering of Barbies. A guided foray Handler on a trip abroad in 1956 and Irish Eyes arched walls and headed toward two into two outbuildings as well as multiple brought home to her husband and the ramps leading up to the gaping doors cabinets and old suitcases scattered R&D team at Mattel toys, only to be of two full electric kitchen range/ovens. throughout his house revealed a vast unleashed to the American girl in 1959. In Stock Now It will be interesting to see what is on Ruth and Elliot Handler’s children were display there this year, as word had it named, of course- Barbara and Kenneth. that someone, in less than gift economy Now you know, too. fashion, pilfered the entire ensemble after For the latest experiment in it had been packed for transit homeward. relevant video matching content, you Check our Websites for more I would say something like- what is this may visit the youtubes here: Amazing Selections world coming to- but I already have a http://www.youtube.com/ www.countrystoreplants.com number of answers to that question and, watch?v=wQK97h-Z7bQ www.countrystoreandgardens.com for the most part, it just seems relatively And if you’d like to suggest a story/ The Country Store & Gardens pointless to ask. video topic, I am almost always listening An equally unnecessary question here: 20211 Vashon Hwy SW to ask would be why someone collects [email protected] 206-463-3655 something- anything- in the first place. Through many years in assorted gardens, I don’t recall ever hearing someone ask Bid Now for Labor of Love Auction Vashon Community Care’s 13th annual Labor of Love Online Auction is now open! You can bid on hundreds of unique items and services made or performed by your Island neighbors at www.LaborofLoveVashon.org. The auction runs for two weeks, ending at noon on Wednesday, February 15. Just a few samples of services and items in the 2012 Labor of Love Auction range from a complete lasagna dinner for 8, a beautiful hand turned maple bowl made by Biffle French, to garden clean up and an airplane ride over Vashon Island! Don’t miss out on the fun…place your bids today! This beautiful wood bowl, made of curly All proceeds from the Labor of Love maple from Vashon’s own Bachelor Road was Auction benefit the residents of Vashon hand turned by Biffle French. It is available Community Care. through the Labor of Love online auction. The Vashon Loop, p. 6 February 2, ‘12 Vashon College offers Book Review Vashon 101: Before Seattle Rocked A Journey Just Begun A City And Its Music Kurt E. Armbruster, University of Washington Press We all know we live in Reviewed by Jean Ameluxen a very special and unique community composed of an Kurt Armbruster’s In 1927 the New York Times is at the Northwest Folklore amazingly diverse population. exuberant saga of Seattle’s quoted as writing, Seattle is “. . .a Society, frightened members But have you ever been curious represent a diverse spectrum music and musicians begins hustling, bustling materialistic called in and cancelled their about the island itself…it’s of Vashon’s population who with the songs and drums of city. . .essentially masculine in memberships. At the end of geology, ecology and history. are engaged and committed the Salish people. He describes spirit and activity.” that week only 12 members Or the culture, the social science students who will seek the sounds of the new city During the depression remained out of the original 200. and demographics that give opportunities to utilize what twenty years after Seattle’s the Wobblies had their own We learn how the Seattle insight into the past, present they’ve learned to the benefit of founding this way “. . . on music book and with it gave World’s Fair in 1962 boosted and future of our island and its the the island’s communities. a summer night along Front rise to what were known as musicians, their music, and population. Classes meet on Tuesdays Street, the mingled strains of hootenannies. established the city’s best From March 13th through from 7-9pm at the JT Sheffield brass bands, saloon pianos and Movie Theaters opened a musical venue since the Frye April 17th, Vashon College will Building. Tuition is $150 and native song produced music new venue for musicians with Opera House burned in the fire again offer its signature course, includes all course materials that was uniquely Seattle’s.” the union designating how of 1889. Vashon 101:A Journey Just and Images of America: Vashon- Dividing the book into many players each theater had The book continues through Begun. This six-session survey Maury Island by Bruce Haulman eras, Armbruster shows us the to employ. Then the mighty the upswing of Country, and of course examines the Vashon and Jean Cammon Findlay. development of music in a city Wurlitzer organs began to Folk Music. We read of the rise story from multiple viewpoints Class size is limited to 30 that soon has a piano in every accompany the still silent films. of student musicians in high presented by a faculty of experts students. Applications will be parlor, saloon and sporting The author tells us that schools and at the University in their respective fields: Joe accepted on a first come, first house. He describes the start of though they were seldom of Washington. The author Meeker, Kevin Freeman, Tom served basis beginning February the Musician’s Unions, one all- performers, classical music chronicles the Milton Katims DeVries, Bianca Perla, Bruce 1st. They are available on-line white, and later one all-black. was kept alive by women. era at the Seattle Symphony, and Haulman, and Alice Larson. The at www.vashoncollege.org. For He leads us down the cacophony Impressaria Cecilia Schultz, and tells of Glyn Ross, the Seattle course facilitator will be George further information, please call of the Pay Streak during the The Ladies Musical Society both Opera, and the impact of the Butler. Pamn Aspiri at 206-313-5895. Alaska Yukon Exposition in worked to ensure opportunities first performances of Wagner’s Vashon 101 participants 1909, and into the Temple Of for Seattle to hear the classics. Ring Cycle. Music where classical concerts Perhaps even more important, Mr. Armbruster, a musician made crowds believe the city Nellie Cornish made sure there and author, interviewed many could be numbered among the were opportunities for students notable musicians for his book. cultural elite. to learn to play them, Their voices solo clearly against The book shows how Third Clubs like the Mardi Gras, his broad and varied story of the Avenue became Seattle’s Tin Basin Street and Black And Tan continuity of change in Seattle’s Pan Alley, and how prohibition provided stages for outstanding music. provided an era of almost full African American musicians As a non-musician, I found employment for professional playing a new kind of music the book exciting, and filled musicians. called jass or jazz. They then with new information about In the same years, brought be-bop to the city. We Seattle’s musical history. Those Armbruster chronicles the long read how their rhythms and of you who play an instrument history of chorale groups in phrasing spread out, electrifying will probably find the stories Seattle. Beginning in churches, young white musicians and even more compelling than I and expanding as outlets for aggravating older ones. did. Some of you may find songs of the immigrants, Armbruster relates how yourselves and your friends in Find the Loop on-line at particularly those of Sweden McCarthyism put a damper on www.vashonloop.com. this amazingly comprehensive and Norway. It seems the Seattle’s budding folk music book. Bravo to an author who chorales were almost the only revival. After blackballed folk really knows his subject. outlet for women musicians. artist Pete Seeger performed

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The second you may discover is that you’re really something, and that something is trying a delicate situation. If you tune in you is the gradual dissolving of the formerly on a search for your focused power of to get your attention. may discover that most of your fears strict partition between ‘lovers’ and logic, will and discernment. These are are operating in reverse. The things that ‘friends’. There is a third factor as well, tools you need -- and tools you may have Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) might normally make you nervous are which is that you’ve experienced just misplaced. The role of the feminine side You seem to be grappling with a making you bolder. You know you live about every insecurity about yourself of your nature will be to guide you in question about how others perceive you. on the edge of time, but you’re somehow that a person is capable of feeling, and their proper use; to provide a basis of You may think that you’ve inadvertently not concerned about time running out. you’re now ready to stand on more ethics, and grounding in purpose. misled someone into thinking you are This is a healthy way to approach your solid spiritual ground. Ideally, this who you are not. Or, you may feel like fears and your perceived limitations -- combination of factors would lead you Taurus (April 19-May 20) someone sees something in you that as things that might be there but which to make braver, bolder choices in life. It Do you have the guts to actually be you’re not sure exists. I would turn don’t particularly bother you, or which would lead you out of your shell and the person you want the world to think that around; imagine that the truth of are optional. make you willing to at least approach you are? Or perhaps more to the point, who you are is transparent, and that the other people on potentially equal terms. the person you want to be? Projecting people closest to you are not only capable Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) There seems to be something holding an image is relatively simple. Finding of seeing you for who you actually are, Many have noted the difference you back. Can you figure out what it is? the truth of who you are can be complex they want to do so. What you have is an between the sexual experience we and challenging. It takes less courage opportunity for an unusually intimate have in a fantasy and the one we have Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) to create an image than it does to seek and revealing exchange, which may or in reality. What happens in actual 3-D The prevailing theme at this truly within yourself and identify the truth may not be sexual; you will know which reality is different than what happens meaningful juncture of your life is of what you are trying to weave for the way to take things, and that question in fantasy mainly because more than seeing the consequences of living world to see. Now is the time to dare -- considered so urgent and pressing your intent is involved, and there unconsciously. It seems like every day and take that inner quest. It’s not neat most of the time -- will have little of can be physical effects, influences or you discover something new that you or tidy; for example, the other side of its usual weight or urgency. You have consequences of the actions taken -- have to address, but that would have appearing sexy is the truth of desire. available one of those rare moments much less likely in the imagination. That been prevented -- had you only been The other side of external beauty is when intimacy is the true source of said, most people don’t even bother to more conscious at some other time in the psychological struggle associated energy, which leads to many possible try their fantasies, and then on the rare your life. One thing about the cleanup with doubt. Concentrated exploration expressions. The ‘lesson’ if you could call occasion when they might, there can be process is that you will be able to take often precedes inspiration, and we it that is how being authentically yourself a setup for disappointment if it does not some fairly large strides, if you devote often have to reckon with the inwardly is the most fruitful way to live, and the live up. This is one reason why I suggest yourself to it diligently, and proceed with violent aspects of our nature in order to easiest, and the one most likely to lead trying every fantasy at least three times a spirit of growth rather than of fixing. experience the gentler ones. Embrace to peace of mind. (three-way sex, same-sex experience, That said, you could become something those contrasts as a sign of authentic s/m experience, etc.). Once is not enough of an expert in consequences, in general exploration; as evidence that there is Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) to get the feeling; things can go wrong, -- of conscious or unconscious life; of substance behind your image. Neptune embarking on its long and you or someone else might be being loving or unloving; of having faith, journey across your relationship sign nervous. Everything takes practice and or not. For the foreseeable future the Gemini (May 20-June 21) Pisces on Friday is an invitation to see acclimation. I mention this now because essence of your life story is about self- Neptune now joins Chiron on the the deeper potential in your encounters Neptune in Pisces is about to stoke value and self-esteem. I believe that all of angle of your solar chart associated with other people. You can afford to your fantasies big-time, and Chiron in these themes are directly related. Feeling with achievement and reputation. For be a little more idealistic than usual Pisces is saying that this comes down to good about oneself is not an illusion or a most people this would be challenging, because Chiron is already there, keeping experience -- real experience based on flight of fancy. It can be solidly grounded because Neptune is difficult to grasp. an eye on practical matters, focusing real curiosity. in truth, and this seems to be your most But you’ve always had Pisces on this your awareness and making sure that important mission. angle, and Neptune and Pisces are the endeavor of every relationship is Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) good friends. Chiron is currently on this oriented on healing. With Neptune, The concept of ‘home’ has become Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) angle as well, and Neptune and Chiron the thing to embrace is the seemingly elusive, as people become increasingly Accept no illusions. That is the function well; you can think of Neptune fleeting nature of reality, as perceived transient, as the family structure changes message of Neptune entering your as the paint and the idea, and Chiron as by the ego. In truth, what you’re getting and as home -- the building itself -- has birth sign. Many people in our society the discipline and refined talent that will are glimpses beyond the veil of normal become the subject of a vast political live and seem to thrive on illusions; just help you express what you want. There consciousness, and examples of how to and economic scandal. As well, the look at how many people are addicted is a catch, however. Some of the most get there more dependably. The question notion of what it means to feel ‘safe’ on to artificial sweeteners, and don’t mind amazing energy is focused in an aspect of your relationships now orients on you the planet has changed and changed the whole seizure/brain tumor thing. of life that you may not normally feel being true to yourself first, which is the radically. The things my friends and You can handle Neptune energy, because so ambitious about. Perhaps it occurs prerequisite to any other form of being I used to do as kids, unsupervised, you’ve already got a lot of it in your to you that you may create something true. You would do well to ask why this would get some parents arrested today, chart. You may find that you have a lot special or leave your mark on the world, is even an issue at all. Most of why we while others neglect their children with more potential, and a lot more access but in truth, do you? Now you have two are so obsessed with denial is because bald, outrageous impunity. All of these to your deepest strengths, virtues and compelling, longterm influences in this of moral judgments on pleasure. In the questions are potential topics of Neptune creativity. Yet the challenge is persisting house. To accomplish anything, you will current structure of society, pleasure is ingressing the home and security angle in a boldly realistic view of life. Put need to work diligently over a number acceptable only as an escape from pain. of your solar chart. Yet the question is up with nothing. Demand absolute of years. You will need to respect your Yet that won’t get you through the door deeper and more personal: what do you authenticity, from yourself and from own ideas. Most of all, you must be the -- you know, the opening you want to go need to do in order to feel like you’re safe others. Being boldly realistic includes very example of ethics. through so dearly. on the planet, or in your home? You may the well-established role of visionaries come up with a long list of possibilities on our planet, no matter how large or Cancer (June 21-July 22) Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) and I bet many of them would be valid. small of a scale you work with that There is a difference between the You may be feeling like you’ve gone But I can sum it up in two words, if you concept. Accurate perception balances mental sciences -- reason, rationality and all the way out to the edge, though with like: emotional boundaries. realism and optimism, neither at the authentic intellectual creativity -- and an unusual feeling. It’s like you’re having expense of the other. If you remember spiritual exploration. The two rarely a dream of walking along a narrow Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) this, and practice it well, you can do, or work independently of one another. walkway much higher up than you’re There seems to be some unusual experience, anything you want. We all know this. Intellect without used to being, yet you’re not scared. If potential opening up in your some inspiration will put an insomniac this were a dream, the meaning would relationships. This is based on two things, Read Eric Francis daily at to sleep. Inspiration and even love in part come from the experience of the I believe. One involves your gradually www.PlanetWaves.net. without some grounding in cohesive altitude but mostly from the feeling finding your way to people whose values The Vashon Loop, p. 8 February 2, ‘12 down sometime this year. I looked at it and said, “What? It’s only ten years Spiritual old!” The repairman informed us that Ningbo and the Road to front loading washing machines are not constructed in such a way that this Pu Tuo Shan Smart particular problem can be repaired. The By Biffle French, National Rodeo Correspondent to The Loop gears are permanently sealed inside a container that is welded shut. Bad Aleck engineering, I say, but good for re-sales, I suppose, if you think ten years is a long time for a washer to last, and have the money to get another one. When the kids were infants I had an avocado green Kenmore washer, a top loader, that I bought at a garage sale. It soldiered on through the diaper years and beyond without complaint. I think it lasted about ten years for me – but it was several years old when I www.spiritualsmartaleck.blogspot.com bought it. I guess they don’t make ‘em Resistentialissimus like that anymore. I cruise craigslist and by Mary Tuel VashonAll in preparation for when the day of washer doom arrives. Not yet. The Last week our big projection noise is aggravating, but the machine television lost its electronic mind and still works. began showing pictures in strange colors, Machines can go on like machines, and also breaking the images into streaks but they do eventually wear out. It and blotches, while making a noise like seems a little strange when several things something inside was whirling around go down at once, though. One time, furiously losing pieces, and getting ready years ago, something broke down and I to explode. We turned it off and moved complained of it to my husband. a back-up television from my office into “Ah,” he said, “Resistentialissimus.” the living room. We seldom leave the “Say what?” I asked. house and television is our main form “The hostility of machines toward of entertainment, and I didn’t really human beings,” he replied. need to watch TV while working on the If you look it up online, it comes up computer, did I? as “resistentialism: a jocular theory in On Sunday the microwave which inanimate objects display hostile committed seppuku. My husband and desires towards human beings.” Jocular I could see a fire blazing away through to the machines, maybe. the screen that vents the works inside the Once a machine stops working, oven . The fire stopped when we opened whether it’s worn out or hates its human the door, so it wasn’t actually on fire, but masters, there is a new problem: how to it was sparking something fierce, and get rid of it. I went online, and told my the smell of singed wiring and plastic husband, “I found out that King County We arrive in Ningbo from Hangzhou The men’s room and all its occupants was terrific. Whew. We removed the has a place where we can drop off the where we have been visiting in-laws. are clearly visible from our seats, since microwave from service. television and the microwave.” We will stay at the splendid “Hua the door doesn’t close at all. There is I’ve been cooking everything on He asked, “How far can we drop Jiao Hao Sheng” which translates a trough and two stalls. The business- the stove all week, remembering how I them?” as “Magnificently Talented Chinese doers squat in the stalls, straddling a prepared food for the first 20 years of my I looked at him, and he said, “I’m Expatriate.” The suppliers that my wife small river of poo and green water that adulthood and kind of enjoying it, but a guy. We want to know these things.” is visiting are paying for the hotel, so we flows slowly by about a foot below. The there were rumblings among the tribe Last night my netbook died abruptly. will live in luxury for a couple of days. partition is only about stomach high, so about the inconvenience of not having A little investigation showed that it was The Hua Jiao Hao Sheng. It sounds so the relatives are able to watch carefully a microwave for, say, warming up cold not quite plugged in, and the battery had desirable, so dreamy and so languid as I drop my trousers in preparation. I coffee, or heating corn dogs. We had to run down. Once I adjusted the cord and after our long, challenging day. It will have thought to bring my own paper. It is wait 45 minutes for a chicken pot pie plug, it started right up again. It shook be Xanadu. never supplied in China, so I am always to be done. Oh, the humanity! Today I me up until I figured it out, though. The in-laws unrealistically wish holding. My sister-in-law waves a pack, a bought a new microwave. I’m starting to look at all my helpful to drive us to Ningbo, not wanting to question on her brow. I nod and hold up The washing machine has been electronic devices and wondering if they expose us to the Mao-era train station my own pack, knowing that otherwise making an ugly grinding noise at certain are biding their time, waiting for that and clucking with brow-furrowing she’ll be bringing me hers. Privacy has a parts of its cycles for months now, and perfect moment to jam, leak, blow up, concern whenever the subject comes up. different value in China. the repairman who fixed our dryer last break down, or catch on fire. There being nothing else for it, though, When we arrive in Ningbo year predicted the washer would go Eh, it’s all right. Better them than me. we have to take the train, and trains leave after the first class experience of the from the station. Hangzhou train station and its twin at It is a rough shock to enter the frantic our destination, I am ready for almost waiting room even after all the earlier anything. We get into a long queue for talk about “difficulty” and “being on the cabs, and my wife has a chat with guard.” The ancient, cramped lobby some girls, students from out of town. The first month of Cheryl’s Doom and Gloom Campaign is almost over. is a jammed welter of arms and legs, They ask her for directions since she We’ll be having special sales throughout the year as we get ready to meet coats as pillows, luggage as beds, babies looks resourceful, but she can’t help the end of the world on December 21st. Right now, Natural Balance and toddlers, moms and grandmoms, them. The queue ends at a green cab, Alpha dog and cat food is on sale. If there are only a few months left to country folk with bad skin, dandruff and and we get in. “Hua Jiao Hao Sheng,” go, don’t you want to feed your pets the absolute best? strange teeth, desperate people waiting my wife tells the driver. “Ahhh,” he says, for the train to somewhere, hoping the clearly impressed. Cheryl’s Pick of the Week: voyage will be better than the wait. My We navigate the confused streets of New beds are in - they are priced to sell. If your dog sister-in-law, a commanding, intelligent, Ningbo. Small storefronts and home- doesn’t like it, you can use it for yourself. concerned woman whose love for family, cooking restaurants line the boulevards. including the adopted foreigner, shines At last, there it is, the hotel of our most (206) 463-3401 like the sun from her sweet face, takes my recent dreams, the Hua Jiao Hao Sheng. $8 Nail trimming with no appointment roller bag and pushes bravely through A big sign in English says “Howard 17321 Vashon Hwy SW Big Red building w/Animal Stuff on the porch the horde, protecting me like a mother Johnson’s.” duck. My wife will work tomorrow, so I am “Where are we going?” I ask. “To on my own to visit the Pu Tuo Shan, the first class,” my wife says. Admission mountain monastery where the famous is 8 Yuan per person, about a dollar Great Golden Buddha commands the each. Little paper tickets printed on heights. The concierge arranges a pickup newsprint with red and black Chinese by the tour bus at 6 AM. He also arranges characters get us past the guard and up a simple breakfast in a paper bag, two flights of concrete stairs, carrying the meaning I will miss the huge buffet. heavy baggage. We sit on dirty plastic Since I am fat enough already, I decide chairs in a large, featureless and empty that won’t matter. room. A young country woman brings The bus is late and my wife is angry. complimentary tea, boiling hot and I ask her to leave me to it, “I will be fine, poured into small paper cups, almost Continued on Page 9 impossible to hold. February 2, ‘12 The Vashon Loop, p. 9 Nuts: Hazel, Macadamia, Walnuts Oat Bran Peanut Butter Island Epicure Pie Nuts Vashon Library February 2012 Pork Children & Families Adults Shrimp Tomato paste Baby Story Times Tax Help for Low Incomes Wheat Bran Wednesday, February 1, 8 and 15, Thursday, February 2, 9, 16 and 23, Wheat Germ, toasted 10am 10am Ages 3 to 21 months with adult. 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Hands On part of the community effort by sharing Voice of Vashon is currently recruiting information. It was heart warming to be a for its 1650AM Emergency Broadcast Team By Deborah H. Anderson part of it.” and also welcomes volunteers for the web As the week wore on, dozens of radio station or channel 21 public access I cut my fingernails last night. Every community members shared information television program. To become a Voice once in a while I rebel against the fact with each other and with the Voice of Vashon of Vashon volunteer, call or email for an that as a pianist and a writer I have had volunteers via Voice of Vashon’s Facebook interview. Leave a message at the Voice of page, the VashonALL email list and Ham to keep my nails short since I started and execution, but the act of writing in Vashon answering machine at 206-463-0301 radio, helping the team understand the scope playing the piano when I was three. longhand apparently nurtures a part of or email [email protected]. of the emergency as it unfolded. To learn more about Voice of Vashon, Mostly I like it, but sometimes I just wish my brain that allows me to think it good Voice of Vashon volunteers contributed visit VoiceOfVashon.org, and to receive I could have those really clicky kind of ways and do things people who don’t 250 hours of round-the-clock work to keep emergency alerts on FaceBook, visit nails that have beautiful manicures in like to write manually can’t do as well. the information flowing. They worked www.FaceBook.com/VoiceOfVashon. vibrant colors that women can use as an When I was in college I was hired hand in hand with Vashon Island Fire & extension of their power and confidence. by the Dean’s office frequently to hand Rescue, King County Road Services, Vashon The best I can do is, if I get some gift address important invitations or thank Emergency Operations Center, Puget Sound money, get a French manicure where you notes. I love my handwriting. I Energy, National Weather Service, Vashon- they paint on fake fingernail edges . I worked hard at it. I make my lower case Maury Island Radio Club, and many others really love that. ‘a’s like Eileen Capparella did when she to gather and broadcast information on I have really long fingers although sat in front of me during Mrs. Calise’s emergency conditions, including official right now you can’t tell because they’re history class. Eileen was a really artistic advice on staying safe. kinda pudgy. My son Isaac inherited my person when she was young and I envied On its 1650AM emergency broadcast fingers. When he was born, the first thing that she could for many reasons. A. She system, Voice of Vashon began transmitting I said to his father the musician was, ‘You always had her act together; everything continuous storm information on January got your bass player” His fingers are in order and done with ease. B. She was 15th as the first storm was approaching extraordinarily long and strong. really really comfortable with her curls the area. By the time it was over on the The fun fact I learned this week was and wore them in her own style. C. She 22nd, the station had logged 173 hours of that if your ring finger is longer than didn’t seem to care what anyone thought. continuous storm service on 1650AM. The your pointer finger you are genetically For me… it was those ‘a’s that sealed the station shared the bulletins through the Voice A primary community information sharing channel was the Voice of Vashon FaceBook predisposed to have osteoarthritis ( deal. They look just like a typewritten ‘a’. of Vashon Facebook page, the VashonALL page where community members received thank you guy who wrote ‘The End of My connected to others, my chores email list and the VoiceOfVashon.org information bulletins and shared information Illness). Yea… well , so I’ll deal. and responsibilities, and my passions of website. Adding up the week’s work, Voice of Vashon posted a total of 171 community about everything from how to stay safe on the My pointer finger on my left hand children and music are all what keeps me update bulletins through its combined roads to staying warm to the locations of the is my favorite. For some reason known grounded. All three of those only happen information channels. latest power line breaks. only to God, it has a perfectly shaped because I use my hands to engage. This diamond birthmark on it. It makes me year I am bound and determined to use look at my hands and revel in their my hands for gardening. creation. The other item my hands keep me My hands do a lot of things. Let’s connected to is my heart. I love critical see , in the last couple of days, they’ve thinking and mental gymnastics but my done some driving, steamed some heart is where I am centered and my chicken to extend the handmade soup hands make that possible. When I can a little further and poached a salmon be no other place, my hands keep me steak from the freezer bought the last present. When I am in crisis, they lead time Thriftway had one of those $4.99 me to still waters. When I sit down to the a pound specials if you buy the whole piano and play what words can’t speak, fish. this morning, they brushed my I experience the transcendence of hands. teeth and my hair, helped me get my coat I love that speech about hands in Romeo on, fixed a couple of breakfasts, made and Juliet. a couple of lunches, turned the dial on “For saints have hands that pilgrims’ the radio to find something suiting my hands do touch, mood during the morning rituals, made And palm to palm is holy palmers’ two pieces of wheat toast with sunflower kiss.” butter and cherry jam spread on top, did Pay attention to your hands today. some private things and then got washed Remember dear sweet Helen Keller who again after that, took clothes out of the taught us so much? She could not see, she dryer and wrote down some words in could not hear, but she could touch, and longhand. in that touch all the world was available Ah…. writing in longhand. I’ve felt to her. foolish about that for a longtime. My I’ve just put my two hands together brother from another mother patted one and touched them to my lips as I lean of my longhand manuscripts one time into the screen to think on one more and said in a cutesy voice, ‘I used to do thought . A children’s book comes to that when I was starting out.” I appreciate mind. “Hands , hands, fingers, thumb, his wisdom and encouragement anyway. drum diddly, drum diddly drum, diddly Research I discovered this last week um.’ Clap hands for all of us. Remember makes me feel not quite so Neanderthal to write something with a pencil or pen The Vashon Loop is Now about being a longhand writer and a today. snail mail lover. Don’t get me wrong. I’m very proud of being able to type and Love, available FREE on the Deborah my vocal skills are good in articulation Vashon

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www.mealsandmoments.blogspot.com Real Encouragement in a Virtual World is a blog for personal growth recreating those conversations that helped us grow Ferry Route around the dinner table. Musings and observations encouraging each person to push the envelope on how they can grow in healthy ways emotionally and socially. Find the Loop in the www.socialcontemplative.blogspot.com Under the Rock:Encouraging Faith Based Leadership is a blog for pastors and lay leaders eager to have more salt than shaker in their ministries offering spiritual development as opposed to the Passenger Kiosk Area perpetuation of arbitrary or traditional church culture. Online www.VashonLoop.com February 2, ‘12 The Vashon Loop, p. 11 Finding Genius in Your Life Ugandan Orphans Author and mythologist finding fame or acquiring a Tickets are $12 ~ order at Michael Meade brings his vital fortune.” www.mosaicvoices.org I would like to introduce with land which houses 4 boys blend of storytelling, poetry A New York native with Proceeds support at-risk myself: my name is Micheal and a piggery - to include girls and discussion to Vashon on a razor sharp wit, Meade’s youth and Intercultural Projects Amanyire, and I conceived of as well. Thursday, February 23rd, 7 p.m. insights are especially valuable the idea for TOCI about 5 years I have been lucky to work at the Vashon United Methodist since they have been hard ago. TOCI (“tow-chi”) stands with many volunteers who Church. In this compelling won through decades of work for Twerwaheno Orphans have become aware of our and dynamic evening, Meade in the trenches of mentoring Community Initiative, and needs. With assistance from explores the original idea of youth, visiting prisons, assisting works to address the needs of VSO Volunteers and Peace genius: the natural spirit, inner war veterans and fostering children orphaned by HIV/ Corps Volunteers, I have been qualities, and unique gifts of a dialogues between genders and Aids, some who are mentally able to obtain the funds for a person. This inner spirit in each races. Through story, poetry and ill, and the most vulnerable of piggery project, as well as a pool of us seeks to be known and discussion, he is able to find children in this area who are in table for sustainable income. desires to serve some greater common ground on hostile turf, need of assistance. The pool table has just been purpose in life. working with Chicago gangs, I have been a teacher of acquired, and a “Leisure Center” Meade states, “Our genius in ‘barrios’ in LA, on Native children for 6 years, and became is now almost completed at the calls to us at critical junctures American reservations and with aware there were students local market area where there and whenever change is Sudanese refugees. who had difficulty in attending will be much traffic; pool is a required. Whether younger or Thursday, February 23rd, school and getting the most well-loved local pastime. Used older our job is to answer the 7:00 PM from it, and those who were clothing is distributed 3 times call. For, enduring happiness Vashon United Methodist Michael Meade unable to attend. Working a year to the children, of which can be found more in satisfying Church ~ 17928 Vashon Hwy alongside another teacher who there are currently 40 - - and one’s inner spirit than in simply SW, Vashon WA also witnessed this and had plans are to increase the capacity ideas to help, I created TOCI. of TOCI to assist 100 within the I am now 26, and married for next 5 years. We would like Road to Resilience Ignition Studios 2 years to lovely Sylvia who to welcome any Volunteers with Continued from Page 1 whisking it into storm drains as & Gallery has also taken on a major role medical background. Fair use coffee is less evil than quickly as possible. Observing in this organization. We are Our website details our conventional, but peppermint earth systems, humbling Continued from Page 1 located roughly 5km west of projects and aspirations: www. tea from plants grown in your ourselves to comprehend their paintings and assemblage by Fort Portal, in the far West of friendsoftoci.org . We also have own backyard ... now that’s magnitude, and embracing our conceptual artist and university greener. CFL bulbs are touted as place within them. professor, Yonsenia White, who a ‘solution’ to global warming, “The saner-future sidewalk now resides in North Carolina but in order to achieve an 80% requires different relationships The owner of Ignition cut in emissions, it’s quite clear with the people around us Studios & Gallery, Lisa Hurst, is we’ll have to do a whole lot -- trusting and interdependent a teaching artist who lived here more. And meanwhile, the community relationships. 20 years ago and returned this corporate managers command We haven’t learned how past year with her son, Sawyer, you to fly cross-country for to trust deeply; we need to after many years in Blacksburg, the annual meeting.” “As one reskill in these basic human Virginia. She continues to teach delves more deeply into the interactions, not just in how part time at the Art Institute of ‘greening’ process it becomes to raise vegetables. And that Seattle, has years of experience obvious that the two lifestyles takes repeated gatherings, in marketing, college level don’t mesh.” and in-depth exploratory teaching, and is certified K-12 “The saner-future sidewalk conversations, something we’re in arts education. As a welder, understands that we have only never going to encounter in the collage artists, and encaustic one small planet. And that the 140 characters of Twitter.” artist, Lisa truly enjoys the presumption of a perpetually So, the way that we get process of art making. Ignition growing ‘economy’ upon one there is step by conscious step, is now the place to explore that process and for others to enjoy Jodie O’kelly, former Zanzibar Chocolates owner & orphans who have small, finite planet is ludicrous. knowing where we want to go, just received clothing - New Year’s Day 2012 The saner-future sidewalk and making the appropriate creating and exhibiting their understands the concept of decisions when they come up. own artwork. Uganda… rolling hills lead a link to crafts made locally Fair Shares, that it isn’t right And we do it diligently, as Come and enjoy the sparks straight to the Ruwenzori where sales will assist our for us to rape and pillage other time is of essence! Thanks so of creativity flying at Ignition. Mountains, the “Mountains program. Jodie O’Kelly, who continents so that we can bask in much to Elaine Poyourow for Starting on Wednesday of the Moon.” These are the owned “Zanzibar Chocolates” excess in our country -- that less her wonderful insights. Read February 9th, Ignitions winter Karago Town Council and on Vashon Island from 2007 to stuff (including less ‘greener’ the entire post here: http:// hours are 12-6p.m. Wednesday, Bukuuku District, and these 2009 has recently been visiting stuff) can mean infinitely more transitionus.org/blog/two- Friday, and Saturday, and 1-5 needy children live not in one and contributing towards our satisfaction with life, and that moving-sidewalks. on Sundays; extended hours home, but in their respective progress. She asked me to media and corporate advertising The latter comment about begin in mid-April. To contact homes scattered throughout the share this information with are diligently working to make community relationships is Lisa or Ignition Studios and lush countryside. Adults have your community, knowing us pretend this isn’t so. The something I want to go into in Gallery call 206-856-6906. mostly taken in one or more there are many on Vashon who saner-future sidewalk moves at depth in the next article. The All Art submissions or inquiries orphans or disabled children, have traveled far and wide, a slower life pace, with all the Island Forum is committed to regarding the studio spaces or but one lives alone (he is 13) and care about those even on richness that can entail (see the helping to build these skills and the gallery can be directed to and cannot leave as he will the far side of the globe. Thank Slow Food Movement to begin will be holding a public forum Lisa Hurst at ignitionart@yahoo. lose the family land. There are you! to appreciate it). It takes time to at the end of February to further com, or through the website plans to add onto one home smell the roses. this process. I hope to entice all www.ignitionartists.com. “The saner-future sidewalk of you to participate, because we includes forming new need all of us to make this work. relationships with the fabric The Food Security of life itself -- appreciating the workshops beginning this role that earthworms and fungi Saturday are already filled, but and bacteria play in creating inquire anyway if interested as a rich soil life which in turn they will probably hold another Express Menu grows health-promoting food. series if enough want it. Call (Available only to go) Valuing, even giving thanks for, Cathy Fulton, 463 5652. Tacos - Assorted delicious tacos, 2 for the annual water bounty that Comments? $2.99 [email protected] falls from the sky, rather than Tortas - A traditional Mexican sandwich made with your choice of filling for $4.99

Burritos - Flour tortilla stuffed with beans, cheese and chicken, ground beef or picadillo Three sizes to fit your appetite! Pequeno (8 inch) $1.99 Grande (10 inch) $4.99 El Muy Grande (12 inch) $6.99 Chips and salsa $1.99 463-6452 17623 100th Ave ~ Vashon The Vashon Loop, p. 12 February 2, ‘12 Love In The Afternoon at Church of Great Rain by Richard Rogers appearing on a studio album, lyrics, and exceptional vocal Church of Great Rain he spent time in Austin with his harmonies. Ian’s passion for promises love in the afternoon own groups Moment’s Notice music is unmatched. Money, with heartfelt humor at a special and The Ian Moore Band. After critics, or industry trends will Valentines Show on Sunday, moving to Vashon in 2004, never sway his attitude and February 12 at 4PM at Open portions of his album To Be musical integrity. He is a true Space for Arts and Community. Loved were recorded in his Texas treasure, and his live The show will feature guest home studio. Ian has played shows are amazing.” appearances by mythologist with such notable musicians as Church of Great Rain’s Michael Meade and musician the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Valentines Show on February Ian Moore. Michael Meade and ZZ Top, and appeared in 12 will be followed by an April Church of Great Rain is Michael Meade, is a Billy Bob Thornton’s movie Foolishness Show on April 1 Vashon Island’s own music, Vashon Island resident and Sling Blade. and the Season Finale on May comedy and variety show, renowned storyteller, author, Tim Taylor of JAM 20. Performances are 4PM described as “A Prairie Home and scholar of mythology, Magazine says, “Ian Moore Sundays at Open Space for Arts Companion meets Saturday anthropology, and psychology. Michael Meade is one of the most interesting and Community. Doors open Night Live with a Northwest He combines hypnotic artists of the last twenty years. at 3PM and Fupps Beer, wine, flavor and a Monty Python storytelling, drumming, street- activists, and community El Sonido Nuevo, the album soft drinks and snacks will be twist.” The shows features the savvy perceptiveness, and builders that encourages greater Moore released in 2011 with his available to enjoy and Church Church House Band, twisted spellbinding interpretations understanding between diverse band, the Lossy Coils, is a guitar- of Great Rain and Fupps Beer news and irreverent views by of ancient myths with a deep peoples. fueled, energetic record with t-shirts and aprons will be for the Holy Roller Radio Players, knowledge of cross-cultural Alice Walker, author of The beautiful melodies, intelligent sale. amazing guest artists and an rituals. He has an unusual Color Purple, says “Michael Advance tickets are inspiring impromptu sermon ability to distill and synthesize Meade is magic. Unlike anyone suggested and are $10 at by the preacher. Audience these disciplines, tapping into else one is likely to encounter, Vashon Bookshop and members are invited to join in ancestral sources of wisdom and Michael is one of the greatest brownpapertickets.com. the fun by writing on a seasonal connecting them to the stories living teachers of our time. Golden Circle Passes for four topic to be read aloud during we are living today. There is brilliant medicine in his including admission and a the show. Michael is the author of Fate storytelling.” reserved table in front are $60 at Over sixty uniquely and Destiny, The World Behind brownpapertickets.com and at talented actors, musicians, the World; editor, with James Ian Moore the door. Show information and writers, and technical crew Hillman and Robert Bly, of Rag Musical guest Ian Moore is a video at churchofgreatrain.com. contribute to these wonderful and Bone Shop of the Heart; guitarist and singer-songwriter Church of Great Rain collaborations. Church of Great and editor of Crossroads: A from Austin now living on Sunday, February 12 at Rain began performing at Open Quest for Contemporary Rites Vashon Island. Ian studied 4PM, Doors open at 3PM Space on Valentine’s Day 2010 of Passage. Meade is co-founder fiddle as a child and his music Open Space for Arts and and the sold out December 11, of the original Minglement on contains elements of folk, rock Community 2011 Holiday Show marked Vashon and is founder of Mosaic and roll, world music, and Tickets $10 the twelfth performance at the Multicultural Foundation, a blues. After playing guitar in Ian Moore beloved Island venue. nonprofit network of artist, Joe Ely’s touring band and

Happy 2012! We are open for dinner Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 5 to 9. We often cook for our Inn guests, so if you’re hungry and we’re cooking we’d love to have you. Music at the Q Friday nights – it’s Steve Amsden and Friends. Saturday nights – Kevin Pottinger plays mellow keyboards. Sunday nights - Pat Reardon entertains with his witty repertoire of songs you forgot you knew.

206.463.5355 www.quartermasterinn.com In the heart of Beautiful Burton By the Sea… February 2, ‘12 The Vashon Loop, p. 13 Tangletown Cabaret Brings Panache Katrina Kope to Stage Tangletown Cabaret, an all- women trio, includes classically- trained, mezzo-soprano/ composer Sarah Mattox (who performed with Vashon Opera) violinist/violist Jo Nardolillo and pianist Judith Cohen. The talented trio will entertain with a Valentine’s concert for VAA’s Panache Jazz Series, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb 11 at Vashon Allied Arts, complete with champagne and chocolate. Tunes will include timeless songs of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Henry Mancini and other enduring songs from the Great American Songbook. Bring your friend, lover or yourself, and don’t miss this evening of beautiful music, champagne and desserts. Tickets are $15/$18 and Katrina Kope, front woman of Soul Kata, will be joining forces with available at VAA, Heron’s Nest, Men for Common Sense, a local Seattle jam band, to bring you Kope Vashon Bookshop and www. originals and music inspired by you! This will be a night of sharing original brownpapertickets.com. Call songs along with making some up on the spot. If you are a musician/ 463.5131 to purchase by phone. singer, you are welcome to join in on the fun if the spirit moves you. If you are an audience member, be prepared to help come up with song titles! Katrina Kope has been involved in the Seattle music scene since 2001 singing with her soul band Soul Kata, Reggae band Leisure Sound, seattle based hip hop/funk bands Irikandji and Role:One, and performing jazz as the Katrina Kope Quartet as well as performing jazz duets with Jose Find the Loop on-line at Compost the Loop “Juicy” Gonzales. You can check out her music at www.katrinakope.com. www.vashonloop.com. The Loop’s soy-based ink Friday, February 25, 8:30pm. At the Red Bicycle, 17618 Vashon Hwy is good for composting. - 206-463-5959

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Loopy Laffs The Vashon Loop, p. 14 February 2, ‘12 Weekend Entertainment February 3 The Fieldhands Occupy the World Montage Photography Exhibit You’ve probably noticed that Occupy thing going on...it’s mentioned here and there in the news. Is it just a bunch of hippies and homeless people whining? Or, maybe it’s all done, by now? Lots of the tent cities are gone; sent home by the police who are keeping our cities safe and clean, right? Or...is there something more happening...? As a popular Occupy poster says, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Turn off the TV and Tune illustrating the deep, global roots of IN to the Movement!” This is true... this movement. Learn about the most AND, beginning on February 3rd, recent events, such as: Occupy The tuning in will be as easy as heading Dream (a continuation of the civil over to Cafe Luna for a delicious bowl rights movement as Black Churches of soup and a perfect cup of Java! and Leadership of the USA are linking March Twisdale is bringing the MLK’s vision with the Occupy Vision Occupy Movement to Vashon for the to declare that The Dream is Still The Fieldhands is a mix of Vashon Island talent playing mostly original music. month of February! Her art as awareness Alive! Discover what members of your Jon Whalen on lead vocals and guitar, sharing the singer/songwriting duties with exhibit will be a living, changing event community would like to see happen - Dorsey Davis on bass. Simon Martin, who also plays with Vince Martinez and the with plenty of opportunities for input and have an opportunity to share your Great Blue Yonder in and around Seattle, holds down the rhythm sections. They from the Vashon-Maury community. own thoughts, as well! Not quite sure are accompanied by lead-guitarist Richard Lipke, of Subconscious Population fame. See photos from around the world - what the fuss is all about? Their original music in the Americana and power-pop styles ranges from folk-rock Friday, February 3, 6pm, At Cafe Luna, 9924 SW Bank RD. www.cafelunavashon.com and blues to countrified ballads. This is an all-ages show ‘til 11pm, then 21+ after that. Saturday, February 11, 9pm. At the Red Bicycle, 17618 Vashon Hwy - 206-463-5959 Garth Reeves Band Garth Reeves has been playing professionally for over 18 years. After cutting his teeth in the halcyon Portage Fill days of the Olympia scene, Garth moved to Seattle to explore that cities burgeoning music explosion. A short of list of bands Garth has been in include: Dangermouse, Nubbin, Goodness, Blue Spark… and now as a solo artist and in collaboration with others, Garth is expanding on a catalog of solo work that mines the roots of American musical vernacular. After returning to Seattle from a stint in Brooklyn, Garth and producer/ keyboardist (and Vashon Island resident) Jason Staczek began recording the follow-up to Garth’s first record Nothing But Time in several Seattle studios. Collaborating notably with Ian Moore, Timo Ellis, Pete Droge analog tape, an old Trident board, and and Garth’s regular touring band The a tight knit group of Seattle musicians Unfaithful Servants (Jeff Fielder, Andy (Jason Staczek, Pete Droge, Rob Brill, Stoller, Mike Musburger), Garth and Jeff Fielder, Andrew McKeag, Carrie Jason are honing the song craft and Akre, Danny Newcomb, and Dan Tyack, production style of Nothing But Time, and others). The result is a stunning while continuing to mine that albums and emotional record deeply rooted in musical landscapes. tradition. The Portage Fill Big Band is The Portage Fill Big Band practices Garth’s album Nothing But Time, This is an all-ages free cover show celebrating 39 years of playing music this twice a month in the Williams Heating released in 2005, was made using ‘til 11pm, then 21+ after that. year. The band was formed in 1973. The garage. You can find them on Facebook group is comprised of 18 musicians and by searching for Vashon Island Portage Saturday, February 4, 9pm. At the Red Bicycle, 17618 Vashon Hwy - 206-463-5959 2 vocalists and they play songs from the Fill Big Band. Big Band era. This includes songs from This show will be a benefit to raise Glenn Miller, Count Basie Orchestra and money to help pay for archiving the many more. Portage Fill library of music. They have Jewelry Trunk Show Portage Fill has been working on 18 books with 345 songs in each. If one some new charts from Michael Buble, of those books was lost it would be By Janice Randall Chuck Mangione and one of the groups catastrophic. With an archive, they could Jewelry trunk show features guilt-free favorite arrangers, Sammy Nestico. restore the books. The cover charge for gemstones The charter member of the group, this show is $5.00 per person. Donations This Valentine’s Day give a gift Lou Engels, still plays trumpet with the will be accepted. with heart from Vashon-based Zavida Portage Fill. Gemstones-rings, bracelets, earrings, Saturday, February 18, 8pm. At the Red Bicycle, 17618 Vashon Hwy - 206-463-5959 necklaces and pendants in silver and gold with precious stones and natural gemstones-during a one day trunk show 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5, at Blue Heron Gallery. Offering handmade jewelry from around the world, Zavida’s socially conscious philosophy, developed by Lee Gelb and Shelley Milano, combines art, Latte and Wisdom philanthropy and travel. “I’m excited to support an Island “In a nutshell, what we do is partner business and was particularly attracted To Go with an arts organization in India that to their world vision,” says VAA Gallery Monday - Friday 5:30am - 3:00pm helps jewelry artisans with packaging, Curator Janice Mallman. Along with 17311 Vashon Hwy Sw marketing, etc. We give 25% of our annual champagne and chocolate, attendees will Saturday 7:00am - 3:00pm profits to the project; giving is a key view a seven minute DVD that shows Sunday 8:00am - 2:00pm component of our business model.” Future Zavida’s mission at work to help artisans projects are slated for North America and around the world. Preview jewelry at 17311 Vashon Hwy Sw Central America. www.zavidagemstones.com. February 2, ‘12 The Vashon Loop, p. 15 Three Artists-Three Mediums VAA Launches Blog for By Janice Randall VAA’s February Gallery exhibition will showcase works of three regional New Arts Campus artists, from intricate feather basketry and larger than life oil still lifes to Vashon Allied Arts launched will feature a spacious art gallery, a vibrant, textural abstracts. Gallery a new blog on February 3, 2012, to gift kiosk, lobby and outdoor gathering opening is 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, Feb 3, keep the community informed about spaces. with complimentary appetizers and live the creation of the Island’s new arts On the blog, you will find jazz by Vashon musicians; horn player campus, Vashon Center for the Arts. architectural renderings that represent Richard Person and pianist Jim Hobson. The new blog is designed to let all exterior and interior spaces and capture Emerging Vashon artist, 13 year- Islanders know about the progress of the beauty of the proposed outdoor old Mary Lawrence, will exhibit new the project, from design and planning, gardens and plaza. The blog offers abstract oil and mixed media paintings. to construction and completion. everyone the opportunity to learn Inspired by literature and everyday For years Vashon has needed a more about the architects, designers life, Lawrence credits art teacher Gail suitable space for theater, opera, dance, and the process. Like all blogs, readers Labinski for introducing her to painting. and music and chorale concerts that may post comments and engage in a She starts with a slab of paint on and exceed the limited capabilities of the community-wide conversation. keeps going until ‘it starts to talk to me.’ Blue Heron and other Island venues. Vashon Center for the Arts will Lawrence paints with anything and The existing Blue Heron building will draw audiences from Vashon residents everything from wires to Popsicle sticks. August Flowers by Cheryl Fugii Zahniser be completely refurbished for arts and their friends and families with “I think most young people today are education, dance studio and offices. exhibitions, community events and having a hard time connecting with the have used throughout time and create The new center will be equipped performances. Find out all about world…I find I’m able to ‘jump to the sculptural, tactile pieces,” she says. with an acoustically satisfying 300-seat the progress of the Island’s new center of things’ through paint,” says West Seattle oil painter Cheryl theatre which will include an orchestra arts campus by visiting the blog at Lawrence. She hopes to attend Tacoma Fugii Zahniser, will show large floral still pit and backstage facilities. In addition www.vashoncenterforthearts.org. School of the Arts. life works. She enjoys the architectural to the theatre, the new arts campus C.A. Michel coils feathers elements that result from painting large. (pheasant, guinea, peacock) with linen “I think about scale and look for lift, spots and wool, in both Native American of color and shape. I work mainly alla and African basket-making techniques. prima-putting down large areas of color Growing up with a seamstress, she says first, then adding detail.” The former A Broken Consort a spiritual thread runs throughout her Nordstrom executive says her corporate work. The Seattle area artist has worked career enhanced her art by exposing Renaissance Chamber Music on Vashon Island in sculpture, painting, mixed media and her to creative people and provided fiber art for more than 20 years. Her work extensive travel opportunities. She also The Salish Sea Early Music Festival Upcoming performances on Vashon , has been seen in exhibitions throughout works in glass and does large charcoal presents A Broken Consort, the second All performances to take place at Vashon the U.S. “I take materials that women drawings. of five Vashon Island 2012 Salish Sea United Methodist Church. Early Music Festival performances and On Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 PM, The an exploration of renaissance music on Bach Family will feature harpsichordist period instruments with Jeffrey Cohan, Jan Weinhold from Lübeck, Germany renaissance tenor and bass transverse and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan. Damon Buxton flutes, Shula Kleinerman on the off-the- The program will offer selections by shoulder renaissance violin and John Johann Sebastian and his sons Wilhelm Lenti, renaissance lute on Thursday, Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel and Fingerstyle Solo Guitar February 9 at 7:30 PM at Vashon United Johann Christian. Damon is a fingerstyle solo guitarist Methodist Church at 17928 Vashon On Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 PM, and composer working in the tradition Highway SW. 1820: Guitar, Flute and Viola will feature of the Windham Hill artists. His 2007 In A Broken Consort, the flutes, guitarist Oleg Timofeyev from Iowa City, recording “Forgiving Dreams” was violin and lute of the Renaissance will be Iowa, violist Steven Creswell and Jeffrey produced by Will Ackerman, the heard in the popular chamber music of Cohan on the 8-keyed flute. Grammy-award-winning founder of the 16th and early 17th centuries, and to Windham Hill Records. His newest recast the songs of love and other poetic release is this year’s “Rotation Of Earth,” sentiments of the day. now available at DamonBuxton.com, Adaptations of vocal works made iTunes, Amadeo Music and Amazon. up a large part of the chamber music of com. Featuring resonant, heartfelt the 16th and 17th centuries, often with explorations of open tunings, the intricate instrumental lines added to or fourteen songs of “Rotation” build on derived from vocal melodies, which can the “Dreams” disc. Applying what he make the listener feel as though they’re require the utmost virtuosity from the learned from Ackerman, Buxton said, sitting is in the room with the guitar. performers. “Will taught me to pay attention to the RJ Lannan in New Age Reporter said A renaissance “consort” of different emotion in my music, to feel it, and of Buxton’s work, “Like a writer who sizes of like renaissance instruments, make it present in the performance.” speaks volumes in few words, Buxton’s such as lutes, stringed instruments, Composed in the early hours throughout sparse style shouts to the rooftops that recorders, etc., was considered “broken” the four seasons of 2009, the pieces on the musical voice you hear is one to be when instruments from different families “Rotation” are recorded intimately to reckoned with.” (in this case wind, string and plucked) were brought together. This Broken Valentine Wine Tasting with Consort performance will feature music Ron Irvine from 1500 through 1650 for these very Vashon Winery’s Ron Irvine seldom heard renaissance instruments. continues his search for the best table The suggested donation, a free will wines from around the world with the offering towards expenses, will be $15 or Second Friday Wine Tastings at Café $20 for all concerts. Youth 18 and under Luna. Irvine urges Islanders to start are free. For further information the their Friday nights with the wine tasting public is requested to call (206) 463-9804. experience he provides at the Café, in a Please see www.concertspirituel.org for friendly, intimate setting. He offers four further information. romantic wines for $12, a fun Sparkling Wine, a crisp, dry White Wine, a big, full Red Wine, and a lush Dessert Wine. The MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION SERVICES tasting happens at the tasters own pace. David F. Cooper, attorney with over 30 years experience, is Tasters can taste the wines in any order available to mediate or arbitrate your Family Law or other matter that they choose, and they are invited to at his offices on Vashon. hang around and enjoy Damon Buxton’s acoustic guitar Local, reasonable, and professional. Sunday February, 10, 6:30pm, At Cafe Luna, 9924 SW Bank RD Call (206) 463-3608 for information, www.cafelunavashon.com or email [email protected]. The Vashon Loop, p. 16 February 2, ‘12 WET WHISKERS February is GROOMING SALON DIAGNOSTIC & We Have PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED Rental Cars Fix-a-Cat Month CERTIFIED GROOMER REPAIR SERVICE, INC. Have out of Vashon Island Pet Protectors and Rick’s 206-463-9277 town guests or We Offer: Fair Isle Animal Clinic sponsor low just need a car Wash and Go for the day. cost spays and neuters in February. 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Land Clearing and Development Driveway Construction, Care Packages Sought for Fallen Soldier’s Platoon Maintenance and Repair When Vashon’s 1st Lt. Robert Bennedsen was killed in Afghanistan last month, he had only been in the country three weeks, but he had already come Retaining walls and bulkheads up with a plan of support for men and women under his command. He told his family that while he enjoyed care packages from home, many Big and Small Construction in his platoon never received anything. He hoped the people of Vashon would change that. Bennedsen’s family and friends wish to fulfill Bennedsen’s plan and ask that Islanders donate cash to the cause or give items the men and women there have requested. The list includes mechanic’s gloves, green uniform socks, Jake (206) 200-4858 sunscreen, hand warmers, preserved foods, powdered Gatorade, cans of tuna, toothpaste, toothbrushes, razors, reading material, flip flops and hard candy, [email protected] according to Lauren Chinn, who is helping to organize the effort. Islanders can drop off both types of donations for Bennedsen’s platoon at James Hair Design or Bank of America. www.raabandsons.com