LoopV3_6 In This Issue: Graham, Warblers, skunk cabbage, Roehm, & Fisher-Price, Fiddler, San Johnson: Miguel, Cookies without Quinault as Wrestling You Gotta Sin, Dancing Frogs, Super Ferry Clinic Hear these Guys Writhing Wrestlers, and Page 5 Page 16 Page 19 much more!

Vol. 3 #7 TO INFORM AND AMUSE ~ TO PROVOKE THINKING AND ACTIVISM March 29, 2006 Treatment Center Gravel Mine on Maury: Water Quality Certification Granted Interesting Opens on Vashon By Mary Litchfield Tuel By Kristofer Bates Times Kurt Hart of the Washington Everyone on Vashon knows State Department of Ecology someone with dependency issues, Hit Vashon announced on March 14 that the but where does one go for help? Department has approved a Outside of your local AA meetings, Water Quality Certification with the only other options are a ferry- stringent conditions for ride away. That day has ended with Northwest Aggregates. the arrival of A Change Counseling “We couldn’t deny the Services (ACCS) to the Vashon certification because the Village business complex. applicant met all the A Change Counseling Services is requirements. They did now providing on-Island alcohol/ everything we asked them to do. Posted notice of intent Photo by M.L. Tuel drug awareness and treatment The Certification comes with programs. conditions, and is not a permit, but the conditions in the Certification will In looking to expand outreach be wrapped up in any Federal permit,” Hart said. beyond their current location in The conditions in the Certification are: Tacoma, A Change found Vashon Entrepreneurial Islander Continued on page 2 to be an ideal setting for their second David Goins and his mobile office. Its new convenient newsstand, called “Interesting downtown Vashon office offers state-certified assistance in the Times.” following areas: Alcohol / Drug Goins carries almost 400 Evaluations; Deferred Prosecution titles of newspapers and Programs; Intensive Outpatient magazines, including Vashon’s Programs; Outpatient Counseling; favorite, The Loop, the very paper Individual Counseling; Relapse you are reading at this very Programs; Alcohol Drug minute. Goins plans to Information School; Educational eventually open three Programs; and Urinalysis Testing. locations—the North End ferry With group sizes ranging from dock, uptown, and the two to twelve, A Change accepts transfers from other programs, but Fauntleroy dock. He got his strives for fairness and compassion business idea while on a recent with all clients. Payment trip to Rome, where newsstands arrangements are available for are common. Look for him persons who do not have insurance Monday through Friday. Pick coverage to pay for required up a free Loop, and buy programs. Groups are available something, wouldya? during the day and evenings. For further information, please call (206)463-2721 or (253)576-1191. Baden-Powell Scouts Plan Busy Summer By Bruce Cyra The Vashon Baden-Powell Islands. The summer camp includes Scouts recently returned from a trip overnight kayaking excursions, skills to Mt. Rainier for winter wilderness training, team building, and Scout training and play. Shown here are camaraderie. some of the Scouts framed by the Families interested in joining the snow cave they built. In the years Vashon Baden-Powell Scouts can past, winter expeditions also come to an Open House on Sunday, included overnight trips to the April 2 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Happy 3rd Scottish High Camp in the north Vashon Co-Housing on Bank Road The Hired Help cascades and Lake Wenatchee. Cole just west of town. Anniversary The Loop received a hot email tip Bazemore, assistant patrol leader The organization is an inclusive last week that these tireless workers and top right in the snow cave and non-discriminatory youth- were putting the blackberries to picture, is looking forward to this driven group open to boys and girls rights at the District 19 treatment summer’s list of events which aged 11-17. The Scout group is plant, so our photojournalist rushed include numerous short hikes; a five based on Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s right over to take advantage of the day hike in the Olympics; and his original scouting model. photo op. And you thought nothing favorite – the annual summer camp For more information call Leslie exciting ever happened on Vashon. at Sinclair Island in the San Juan Ferriel at 463-1939. Show your love- see page 9 The Vashon Loop, p. 2 March 29, 06 Water Quality Get in The Loop Continued from page 1 Northwest Aggregates must not harm water quality in the aquifer, with the specification that digging can go no lower than 15 feet above the aquifer. It must also do no harm to How much water do you need for each person in your household to be ready for aquatic life around the dock. The a disaster? existing wooden pier is being removed, and because the wood is Better than nothing: 3 gallons full of creosote, care must be taken Good: 7 gallons to keep sawdust or pieces of wood Better: 10 gallons from falling into the water. The dock will be replaced with a steel Best: 14 gallons structure with 56 piers extending 305 feet out into the water. The extra length is required so that barges and tugs do not disturb the near shore Service of environment. Reconciliation NW Aggregates is required to monitor eelgrass and other aquatic The Episcopal Church of the Holy life conditions, and is not allowed Spirit offers as a part of the Holy Week to spill gravel into the water. cycle of worship a Service of NW Aggregates will have to Reconciliation on Monday, April 10 acquire an Aquatic Lands Lease at 7:30 p.m. from the State Department of This Communal Service of Natural Resources, and a permit Reconciliation includes readings from Candy-filled Mugs Scripture, meditation on what it from the Army Corps of Engineers. On Sale Now means to live in loving relationship, Another issue at the site is heavy the opportunity to confess our sins metal residues in the topsoil from the This Easter you will find a Special corporately and individually, and to ASARCO smelter in Ruston. The Coffee Mug filled with Easter candy at give thanks for the joy of God’s first layer of topsoil at the mine Essentials 4, Vashon Pharmacy and US unbounded forgiveness. Attendees property has to be scraped and Bank. VHS student Carl Fox with the contained on site so that arsenic and School-To-Work Program engraves these are free to participate in the service special Coffee Mugs with “Vashon as they are moved; all are welcome. lead in the soil do not re- Pirates: Making a Difference” on the front, The church is located on the Main contaminate the property. For the and, “Sponsored by the Interact and Highway, across from the Vashon same reason, barges are not allowed Amnesty International Club of Vashon Community Care Center. to stir up sediment in the water. High School 2005-2006,” on the back. Originally mine owners wanted The attractive candy-filled 16-ounce Nominate a Grand to reopen the mine to supply gravel coffee mug is selling at the right price of for the third runway at the airport, Adopt-A-Cat Day $20 each. Theses monies benefit the VHS Marshall for Festival but over time the airport has found Vashon Island Pet Protectors will School-To-Work program and the VHS Know someone who contributes other gravel sources, and the market Interact and Amnesty International Club. host an Adopt-A-Cat day to the community in a special and for Maury Island gravel will not The partnership that makes it unique way? Nominate that person Saturday, April 8, from 11 a.m. to happen: The School-To-Work program necessarily be Sea-Tac. for Strawberry Festival Grand 2 p.m. and Sunday, April 9, from has many partners. The best-known are 12:30 to 3 p.m. at Pandora’s Box. the Vashon School District; Vashon Marshall. Holy Week (April 9-15) Please stop by or call VIPP at 206- Island Rotary Club’s K-12 Ventures; and The Grand Marshall leads the and Easter Services the Vashon High School Interact Club. In Grand Parade Saturday, July 8. Send 389-1085. Bethel Evangelical Free Church — addition, the Washington State a description of your nominee’s Bake Sale April 8 Easter Sunday, 7:30 a.m. Sunrise Service; Department of Developmental outstanding work, initiative and 8:45 a.m. Breakfast; 10 a.m. Church The Vashon Island Pet Protector Disabilities will soon join the partnership. contributions to the community; be Service Bake Sale will be held Saturday, This great partnership provides sure to include specific examples to Burton Community Church – 11 a.m. April 8, in front of Thriftway from students and young adults with differentiate your nominee from Easter Sunday developmental disabilities an others under consideration (Helpful 9 a.m. to 1p.m. If you’d like to Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit: opportunity to learn job skills, become hint: Get others to assist with writing contribute, please bring your tightly Sunday, April 9: 8 a.m. Liturgy of the independent, and most importantly, to the nomination. You may not be the wrapped goodies Saturday after Passion; 10 a.m. Liturgy of the Palms. become fully functioning members of the 8:30 a.m. For more information, only person who has something great Monday, April 10: 7:30 p.m. Service of Vashon Community. to say about the nominee). Reconciliation. Tuesday, April 11: 7:30 please call Victoria, 463-5381. London Broil Dinner The 2006 Strawberry Festival will p.m. Evening Prayer. Wednesday, April take place Friday, July 7; Saturday, 12: 7:30 p.m. Evening Prayer. Thursday, The Vashon Loop at Senior Center July 8; and Sunday, July 9. Send your April 13: 7:30 p.m. Maundy Thursday Writers: Kathy Abascal, Deborah Anderson, Rachel nominations to: Vashon-Maury Service. Friday, April 14: 7:30 p.m. Good Bard, Becky Bumgarner, Marie Browne, Eric “What’s for dinner, dear?” Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box Friday Service. Holy Saturday, April 15: Francis, Fran Gordon, Jeff Hoyt, Troy Kindred, “Reservations, dear.” Please make 1035, Vashon, WA 98070 or fax: 206- 8 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter. Easter Melissa McCann, Orca Annie, Kevin Pottinger, Rex your reservations now for the Senior 463-7590. Call 206-463-6217 with Sunday, April 16: 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Holy Morris, Peter Ray, Jonathan Shipley, Ed Swan, Mary Center’s Annual Spring Dinner on questions. This event is brought to Eucharist 9 am Labyrinth Walk with harp L. Tuel, Marj Watkins April 9 at the Senior Center. Seatings you by Joyce A. Olson, CPA (Vashon accompaniment. Child care is provided Guest writers this issue: Sarah P. Blakemore, are available for 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6 Village, 206-463-2145). for all of these services. Bruce Cyra, Darsie Beck, Kristofer Bates p.m. Misty Isle London broil St. John Vianney Catholic Church — Photographers: T Kindred, P Ray, Jc Kindred, provided by Food Services of America Holy Thursday Mass, 7:30 p.m.; Good Alex Kindred, Mary L. Tuel is featured, plus a baked baked KCLS Offers Friday Liturgy, 7:30 p.m.; The Easter Vigil, Original art, comics, cartoons: Ed Frohning, Rick potato,* salad, beverage and 5 a.m. Easter morning; Sunday Mass, 10 Tuel, Jeff Hawley, Jeremy Gregory, Maggie homemade desserts — all for $18. Computer Class at a.m. Bumgarner, Darsie Beck Everyone’s welcome, tickets are Vashon Island Community Church Ad sales and design: Troy Kindred and Marie Senior Center Browne; Email: [email protected]; available at the Senior Center or by — Easter Sunday, Sunday School 9 a.m.; Worship Service 10 a.m., with special (206) 463-9207 calling 463-5173. This is a Senior More Intermediate Word, computer Editor: Mary Litchfield Tuel Center fundraising event, headed by word-processing classes taught in the Easter music Vashon Presbyterian Church – Email: [email protected]; (206) 463-3327 Chairman Nancy Radford, assisted by King County Library System’s mobile Publishers: Marie Browne and Troy Kindred Maundy Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Good other volunteers. In the spirit of our high-speed computer laboratory, will PO Box 253, Vashon, WA 98070 Friday Stations of the Cross, 7:30 p.m.; motto: “Celebrating Our be continued April 5 at 10:30 a.m. at Paid advertisements in The Vashon Loop in no way Easter Sunday, 10 a.m. Independence,” SC events like this the Senior Center. KCLS wants you express the opinions of the publisher, editor, or one raised $12,672 last year toward to have taken the beginning course, staff. We reserve the right to edit or not even print the Center’s operating expenses. and be comfortable using the mouse An idea that is not dangerous stuff. Deal with it. *Confirm “baked baked potato” — yes, and moving around on the computer. is unworthy of being called an Published every two weeks it’s baked in an oven, not microwaved! The class is free; please sign up by idea at all. -- Oscar Wilde by Paradise Valley Press calling 463-5173. © March 29, 2006 ~ Volume III, Issue 7 March 29, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 3 Troy and Marie Climb on the Roof How did your roof hold up under this winter’s record rain? Even though we managed to stay dry, we definitely spent more time contemplating the state of our roof than we normally would. We also called Kurt MacMillan, of A Better Roofing Company, to find out what we can do to make sure our roof continues to protect our house. Kurt and his family have been in the roofing business since 1991, and can be reached at (206) 935-1575. They also have a website – www.abetterroofing.com. Seattle Metro West

Troy: Hey Marie, did you hear the one about the roof? Troy: I have no problem staying off the roof and hiring a professional. Thanks for giving me the perfect excuse. When it is time to replace the roof, Marie: No… what are the options for roofing materials, and what are the pros and Troy: Never mind. It’s over your head. cons of each? Marie: That has to be the dumbest joke I have ever heard. I’ll just ignore you and Kurt: Our company only does composition products. Other options are cedar try to ask Kurt an intelligent question. Kurt, besides something obvious shingles, tile, or metal. Cedar products are costly and more labor like a leak, how would a homeowner know that his or her roof needs intensive to install. They require more maintenance than other products repair? and are more prone to have problems with insects, birds, squirrels, roof rats, etc. because of their organic make up. In my opinion they have the Kurt: Look for raised or missing shingles, excessive curling or cracking of the shortest life span of products available. Composition roofs will last 20 material, whether wood or composition. Dips or raises in the roof are years or more, and material is available in all different sizes, shapes and good indications of problems with the substrate, and are almost always a textures. It is the most cost efficient and is relatively easy to install sign of the roof leaking. This could be creating dry rot problems. Also compared to other products. It’s also the easiest to walk on, maintain look for staining behind gutters and eaves or paint that is bubbling - these and repair. Metal is okay but quite a bit more expensive and in my opinion are also signs of water infiltration. gives a house an industrial look. Cement tile is good and has the longest Troy: What about moss? life span but is also the most costly. Most homes that have tile roofs were built to carry the heavy load of this product. Kurt: Excessive moss growth can definitely cause problems. It allows water to travel sideways and pre-age the roof. Marie: Who are some good manufactures that you can recommend? Marie: Is it true that pressure washing the roof to remove moss is a bad idea? Kurt: Look for large manufacturers that are stable and have not had class action lawsuits. In composition, the Elk line or Certainteed line of products Kurt: You should never pressure wash your roof. The water pressure from your are great. In cement tile, I would recommend Monier. In metal, I would hose bib is sufficient. I recommend a bleach solution of three parts water recommend Champion. And be skeptical of new products that sound to one part bleach. Apply it with a sprayer to kill moss spores after the too good to be true. roof has been swept or blown clean. Troy: That’s good advice, too. Know any good roof jokes? Troy: What else should a homeowner do to protect the roof? If you have suggestions for topics to cover in Tips For Homeowners, or if you Kurt: Keep the gutters clean. Full gutters can allow water to back up and run want to receive your copy via email, please write [email protected]. And if into enclosed soffits, and it can damage fascia and rafter tail ends. But you need real estate services, please give us a call at (206) 463-LIST.We would as for maintaining the roof, keep in mind that a fall of even six to eight feet love to work for you. can be fatal. It’s not recommended that homeowners service their own roof unless they are well versed in safety and have the proper ladders and Your Home Team Realty safety equipment. (206) 463-LIST (5478) Waterfront! 22908 Vashon Hwy SW View Home! 9225 SW 274th Street This retro chic house calls for Come home to a completely clambakes, cocktails, and cabin remodeled spacious and serene home cruisers! with a stunning view of that famous It’s 3200 square feet of living space mountain and an easy-to-care-for on 75 feet of low bank inner landscaped yard. Quartermaster Harbor waterfront. It’s Everything is updated and fresh NewNew PricePrice picture windows from the floor to the throughout, with your comfort and high ceiling to take full advantage of easy living in mind - Viking stove, the light and the view of the busy Bosch dishwasher, new refrigerator harbor. It’s a home for entertaining and trash compactor, new cabinets, 3240 Sq Ft guests and family, with two large decks 1946 Sq Ft new bathroom fixtures, tiled floors practically over the water, plenty of with in-floor heating in the bath, fully 3 bedrooms 3 bedrooms wired for cable and home bedrooms and bathrooms, and a 3.75 bath 2.5 bath separate guest cabin. $999,000. networking, whisper quiet automatic Breathtaking View garage door, propane fireplace insert, 75 feet of low MLS 26015188 bank waterfront and much, much more. $610,000 Check out the virtual tours of these properties at MLS 26034820 View Fixer! www.kwvashon.com Cottage Charmer! Darling updated Beulah Park What a unique opportunity! cottage at a very affordable price! A fabulous view, an unbeatable Hardwood and Pergo flooring location, and an affordable throughout, stainless appliances, price. stacking W/D, jetted tub, newer Yes, it needs major rebuild roof, and a mature and charming work, but what a reward! garden complete the very $207,000 MLS 25094951 functional two level floorplan. $295,000 MLS 26044175 2 BR On sewer 2 BR On sewer 1 bath Heights Water 1 bath Beulah Pk Water 870 sq ft Rebuildable 840 sq ft Two Level Built in 1923 Taxes $2,258 Built in 1926 Taxes $1,999 The Vashon Loop, p. 4 March 29, 06 Letters to the Editor: Benevolent Fund for [email protected] Katha’s Daughters Have mercy: keep it to 300 or fewer words. Thanks.

A benevolent fund expenses incurred at the time and has been established at following the death of their mother, the Vashon Bank of Katha Reilly. There was no America to assist insurance for Katha or her house, Coriel, Kaleena, and and her daughters are faced with Christa Self with many large unexpected bills.

Indigenous People: Humane and Earth Day Film Fest Environmental Sustainability, and Vashon Earth Awareness Building With Awareness or Coalition (VEAC) is expanding its Architecture To Zucchini. Details on annual event schedule with green these selections are available at films and discussions during Earth http://filmfest.islandearthfair.org Day 2006 weekend. VEAC was and http:// formed ten years ago to produce filmfest.islandearthfair.org. Island Earthfair (http:// While VEAC is the initial host islandearthfair.org) every August on organization for the Island Earth Vashon. To celebrate their Ten Year Day Film Festival 2006, we are also anniversary, VEAC is opening their working with other like-minded event calendar early with a film island organizations to help nurture festival promoting sustainability and an already growing interest in a stewardship of the earth. long-term monthly film series on The First Annual Island Earth Vashon. A few of those Day Film Festival will be held on organizations include VMICC’s Vashon Island during Earth Day Sustainable Practices Committee, 2006 weekend, April 22 and 23. It Vashon Progressive Alliance and the will feature a variety of films for all Beyond Oil Coalition. ages, including: French Fries To Go, For further information call Stories from the Seventh Fire - Parts (206)779-9459, email: 1&2, The Future of Food, Salmonera, [email protected] or visit The Baltic: Sea of Surprises, Oil on Ice, the website at http:// The Next Industrial Revolution, filmfest.islandearthfair.org. 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Court House Square: Film Titles, Times, and Venues Salmonera, with post-film discussion Friday Night, April 22: The Baltic: Sea of Surprises, with post- 7 p.m. at Courthouse Square film discussion VMICC’s Sustainable Practices Oil on Ice, with post-film discussion Committee Presents a Film showcasing Sunday, April 24: Sustainability in Cuba 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Court House Square: Saturday, April 23: The Next Industrial Revolution, with 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Vashon Island post-film discussion Grower’s Association Pavilion and the Land Indigenous People: Humane and Trust Building: Environmental Sustainibility, with post-film French Fries To Go discussion Stories from the Seventh Fire - Part 1 Building With Awareness, or, Stories from the Seventh Fire - Part 2 Architecture To Zuchinni, with post-film The Future of Food discussion KING-TV Covers Chautauqua School Air Quality Bike-to-School KING TV environmental reporter Gary Chittenden speaks Starts April 21 with Mimi Walker while a By Peter Ray cameraman captures footage of Following a wet but Facilities Director Janine Ducharme successful trial run on March 16, as she takes an air quality reading organized Bike-to-School days in Chautauqua Elementary School. Photo: Mary Kay Rauma will be held on three Fridays: KING TV came to Vashon to do a April 21, May 19, and June 9. story about how the Vashon Island traveled to Washington DC last School District successfully handled month to accept an award on behalf remediation of mold and air quality of the school district from the increase bike awareness in the issues at the elementary school, a Environmental Protection Agency. general public. For more process that has made our school The story ran on KING TV’s 5:00 information contact Mike DeBlasi at district a national model for the p.m. newscast on Wedensday, [email protected], Environmental Protection Agency. March 15th. Henry Haselton at Superintendent Mimi Walker [email protected] or Rochelle Wolfe at Wanted: Future DOIT Board Meeting [email protected]. Community Leaders Held in conjunction with Rochelle April 6 at Sunrise Ridge Vashon Maury Island Wolfe’s Bike Safety Program at The next regular board meeting Community Council’s Youth Chautauqua Elementary School, of Development of Island Teens Advisory Committee is seeking these will be group rides (DOIT) will take place at 6 p.m. on young people. Come to a meeting accompanied by parents of Thursday, April 6 at the Sunrise on Sunday, April 2, 2006, 3 to 4 p.m. students, members of the Vashon Ridge Conference Room in the Voice in the Ober Park Lobby. For more Spokespeople bike advocacy group, of Vashon building. Youth and information call Committee Chair, and led by Mike DeBlasi, Islander interested adults are invited. Oanh Meyers 567-5797. and President of the Cascade Bike Reasonable accommodations for Club. The purpose of the rides is to people with disabilities and Suppose you were an idiot. encourage bike riding as an directions are available by calling And suppose you were a alternative to cars, to educate kids Stephen Silha at 567-4363. member of Congress...But I about safe bike riding and to repeat myself. —Mark Twain March 29, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 5 Minutes from Northend Ferry $545,000 Great views from solid north-end 3 bedroom, 2.75 bath home with formal dining, fireplace, recroom and two car garage. New carpet and maple floors throughout. For more info, log onto www.kwseattle.com, MLS#26024949 Call Amy Maez 851-0991 .46 Acres 3 bedrooms 2.75 bath Childhood memories of Vashon Island 1943-53 2140 Sq Ft Seattle Metro West The Most Enormous Ferry I’d Ever Seen By Darsie Beck I’ve always been fascinated by landed that morning but I do the ferry boats that serve the island remember once our car was loaded and Olympic Peninsula communities onto the boat, sitting on the car deck, of Puget Sound. I have many fond looking out the port into the fog when memories of ferry rides and one in suddenly out of the mist a large ferry particular remains as clear to me appeared. Its propellers were today as when it occurred many years furiously reversing, and the deck ago. hands and passengers on both boats In the 1940s, as now, we reached were bracing for an impending We do passport photos the island by ferry boat. In the fall of collision. My eyes grew big and my 1943, a few months after I was born, body grew tense as the huge ferry I took my first ferry ride to Vashon. cleared the fog revealing her black We were moving to the Island to our hull, white superstructure and red new home above Dolphin point. I was stack. It was the Quinault, Puget too young to remember anything Sound’s first super ferry, heading about that first ferry ride but I do directly for our boat. The prop wash know the boats were privately of the huge ferry was buffeting the operated by Puget Sound Navigation side of our boat, causing it to rock (PSN), doing business as the Black back and forth in its slip. Ball Line. During the 1940’s the The Quinault was now within a wooden ferries Vashon and Kehloken car’s length of our boat when its and the steel electric Quinault saw forward motion finally came to rest regular service on this run. The and her reversing action began to Quinault carried 100 cars compared move the boat out of harm’s way. As to the 45 car capacity of the smaller stealthily as she had appeared, she wooden ferries and was considered now disappeared back into the fog, a super ferry at the time. sending a collective and audible sigh In early 1948, a proposed rate of relief through passengers and crew increase by PSN resulted in Vashon of both boats. Soon our boat left the Island suspending its service contract dock and made its way slowly with Black Ball, who continued through the heavy fog to Fauntleroy service between Harper and and from there we headed to Seattle’s Fauntleroy and to Vashon on an “as Maynard Hospital where early the needed only” basis. Vashon began next morning my baby sister was developing its own ferry fleet born to proud parents and a happy utilizing former Lake Washington five-year-old boy. and Tacoma boats out of service since The Quinault is now considered a the opening of the Lake Washington medium-sized boat compared to floating bridge and the Tacoma today’s super ferries, still plies the Narrows bridge. waters of Puget Sound and still holds My first ferry boat recollection is a place in my childhood memories as from the summer of 1948. I was five the most enormous boat ever seen by years old, my mother was pregnant a five-year-old. with my sister, and we were sitting in the family car on the Vashon ferry dock on a very foggy July morning waiting for the boat to Fauntleroy to take my mother to the hospital. The fog had created a stillness over the dock broken every few minutes by the sounding of fog horns and the occasional car driving on and off the wood planked ferry dock. Soon I heard the sound of an approaching ferry, its engines reversing, its prop wash splashing noisily between the pilings as the boat nudged itself into the slip. Chains clattered as deck hands removed car barriers in preparation for offloading. I don’t remember which of the old ferries The Vashon Loop, p. 6 March 29, 06 SpiritualSpiritual SmartSmart AleckAleck by Mary Litchfield Tuel

This Generation’s War

I was talking with a 20-year-old friend of mine the other day, and heard myself saying, “This is your generation’s war.” Now what did I mean by that? Apparently human beings will have their wars. I can think of no evidence to the contrary. Although there are always good people marching, writing, singing, protesting, refusing to pay taxes, and in every peaceable way possible with you like a persistent noise in your saying, “Knock it off!” we continue to brain and the war shaped your life have wars. whether you were paying attention or My parents’ generation had not. It was a mentality and a level of World War II, “the last good war,” awareness, all those years, knowing as it has been called. What was good that the fighting was going on, that about it? Oh, Hitler was stopped people were dying, that people here before he and his minions could take at home were bitterly divided over over all of Western Civilization, and the war. Gradually many people who kill all the Jews and homosexuals and originally supported the war changed Catholics. Today we say, “Hi,” their minds. People stopped having instead of, “Heil,” when we meet. an answer to, “Why?” My dad spent that war in the And the troops came home. South Pacific, first in Darwin, In the 1960s there was a strong Australia and later the Philippines. He anti-war movement, and antagonism never talked about it to me even once, toward the “Establishment,” and although he did go with me to see nightly television coverage of the war South Pacific when the movie played and the anti-war movement, and a lot in town. of talk about revolution. “Come the My father-in-law served in World Revolution!” people said. Some War II and in the Korean War. He revolution – we got Richard Nixon doesn’t talk about it, either, at least and polyester pant suits, big hair and the war part of it. He tells us that the disco, jobs and families, and somehow weather was cold. the revolution went by the way. Still, My generation’s war was the we have all carried Vietnam with us Vietnam War, an undeclared war. It in our hearts and minds and bodies; was members of my generation who what it was, what it meant, what it went off to that Southeast Asian still means. nation and a couple of others they So the war in Iraq is the war of weren’t supposed to go to, like the present younger generation, my Cambodia and Laos, to fight, and sons’ war, and their friends’ war. smoke dope, and be bored, and be That’s what I meant. This is the war wounded, and then they returned that will shape their entire lives. Even home and were spit on and called after the troops come home, this war baby killers. Over 50,000 of them died will always be with them. At some We do passport photos there, and were impervious to all point someone will build a monument insults when they were returned in Washington, D.C., a polished home, if there were enough pieces of granite wall, or statues of men and them to return home, if the pieces women in uniform, a memorial to all were ever found. who died, who are dying, who serve, Eventually a in Iraq. And this generation will stand black polished wall before it and weep. was built in There is no talk of revolution now. Washington, D.C., We are not allowed to see the flag- with the names of draped coffins, and we hear little of our Vietnam War those who come home with shattered dead; and that was minds and bodies. People who so moving, so protest against the war are treated Gift Certificates Available cathartic, that with contempt and slander. People someone finally got around to in the military are treated with building a Korean War memorial of respect now, instead of being treated soldiers walking across a field in full like slime as they were forty years ago, field packs and ponchos. even though they are much the same: My husband served in Vietnam. kids who did their duty. It was the defining experience of his All of those things are different life. In the last few years he has now, but what seems to remain started making some peace with it. unchanged is that, apparently, human He got in contact with some of the beings will have their wars. guys he served with. It has affected oo oo oo all of them all their lives. Write to The Loop at: Even if you didn’t serve in the 60s, [email protected] even if you didn’t march, the war was [email protected] March 29, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 7 Don’t Forget the Birds Spring Warblers By Ed Swan March brings wings of change the Myrtle sub-species sport white to the bird life on Vashon. The chins and wing bars instead of a wintering waterfowl still dive and wing patch. Once they possess swim along the shores but on land their full breeding plumage they singing birds fill the air with appear quite flashy. sound and the first spring As April approaches, greater migrants show-up. The Yellow- numbers of Yellow-rumped rumped Warbler provides one of Warblers move through the Island the birds particularly worth until they become almost watching for among these first abundant. In recent years at the harbingers of spring. migration peak, Myrtle Warblers During winter and early reached from one-third to half of spring, Yellow-rumped Warblers the population of the yellow- forage predominantly in rumps migrating on Vashon. deciduous trees and brush with Audubon Warblers stay to breed, their single, snapping “chip” call mostly in the dry forests east of the offering the best clue to their interesting to watch Warbling Vireos and a somewhat presence. They our island visitors to early Pacific-slope Flycatcher at glean along see if any show Alan Huggins’ house on the north branches and buds signs of staying. end. A Greater Yellowlegs put in seeking various They almost always an appearance at Raab’s Lagoon bugs. When the use a coniferous for an Audubon field trip. I found weather warms tree, from 10 to 40 Wilson’s Snipe and a Marsh Wren enough to feet up. Observers along the road by the monument encourage flying noted them using on Monument Road for a couple insects, they dart Pacific Madrone of rare sightings. Kathryn True out and nab their woods in the San spotted the first returning White- prey out of the air. Juans, so that also crowned Sparrow and Brenda In all might be a Sestrap saw the first Violet-green plumages, Yellow- possibility here as Swallows of the season on March rumped Warblers well. 22. If you have an interesting have a yellow Vashon has few sighting or a question about local rump, giving them summer records of birds, call me at 463-7976 or email their name. Two Yellow-rumped at [email protected]. sub-species exist, Myrtle race Yellow-rumped Warbler Warblers, so For more opportunities to Audubon’s and Photo by Jim Rosso breeding, if it learn about birds, join the monthly Myrtle, with occurs, is likely Audubon on-Island field trip Audubon’s Warblers being more Cascades. A few nest locally, rare. Numbers swell again in meeting Saturday April 9 at 8 a.m. common than Myrtle Warblers. mostly in coniferous woods in the September for the fall migration. at the Ober Park park and ride. First year birds look a drab gray- Puget Sound lowlands and more A few birds stick around for the An interesting program for tan but as spring progresses, do so in the foothills. A number winter and local birders count one making birding more enjoyable members of the Audubon sub- of historical nesting records exist or two for the Christmas Bird will be presented April 12 at the species develop a striking yellow for the Tacoma area and the Count. Land Trust building by Amy chin and side patches and the prairies of south Pierce County. Other interesting migrants Huggins demonstrating yoga for males include colorful white wing They breed from mid-April to showing up lately include very bird watchers. oo oo oo patches and black chest. Birds of mid-May, so it would be early Western Tanagers and

Across 46. Girl 10. Back to school mo. 1. __ Lanka 47. Ardor 11. Put through a hole 4. A spinning toy (2 wds.) 50. Creative work 15. Skinny 8. Far away 51. Metal fastener 17. Malaria 12. Turkey 52. Mouth part 19. Drink slowly 13. Joyful 53. Sacks 22. Peanut butter brand 14. Sad music 55. Passover meal 25. Not cons 16. Tree training lattice 58. Sports car brand 26. Possessive pronoun 18. Brand of crispy snacks 60. Slow Cuban dance 27. Plant life 20. Meld 63. Sofa 28. Afloat 21. Brand of powdery 64. Voiced 29. Opposite surface cleaner 65. Newspaper 30. Drug doers 23. Heptad 66. Penitential season 31. Revolve 24. Gone to lunch 67. Part of a semester 33. Run 25. Pressure unit 68. South southeast 35. NY hockey team 26. Natural fiber 36. Kooky 27. Praise Down 37. Precious stones 29. Plentiful 1. Prow 39. Sports channel 32. Sixth sense 2. Love flower 40. Intent 33. “A —— and his money...” 3. On the spot 42. Within the sound of voice 34. Present season 4. Metal tip on the end 45. Frump 38. Recites of a lance 46. Legal claim 54. Am not 40. Give out again 5. Thai 47. Pixy 56. Extremely long time periods 41. Seasickness symptom 6. Roberto’s yes 48. Fibbed 57. Be in a __ 42. Garner 7. Woman’s sunshade 49. Fourth month 59. Average (abbr.) 61. Is 43. Long-term memory 8. Syrian bishop 51. Sacred poem Solution on Page 17 g 44. Maybe 9. Flow 53. Cereal ingredient 62. Exclude The Vashon Loop, p. 8 March 29, 06

IslandIslandText & photos by PeterLifeLife Ray SO MUCH MORE THAN A PET STORE! No takers on the lumber idea. I was serious, really. If you need Findings some, call. So now we move on to cat trees. We have a lot of new ones The cool thing about Spring, and what I think are pretty good prices, sold one yesterday! besides the continuing stretch of less than warm weather, is that as you look Horus’ Pick of the Week: around your surroundings become your very own, private Discovery The awful cat toy tree at the counter. Stop in for Channel. There are little bits here and an impulse purchase, your kitty will thank you. there in Plant Land that sneak up on you and serve as a reminder that something bigger is on the way. It’s hard not to repeat one’s self year after year in talking about these things since each time around they seem just as amazing as the last time we experienced them. And it is that fleeting aspect which makes each renewed appearance seem extra special. What first comes to mind here is harbinger of Spring has become quite the odor of vanilla. I know we’ve alien to me now, and perhaps is the mentioned it in past columns, but it is source for my reverence for it each always so incredible, and incredibly year. And while the yellow spathes stealthy, in the way you can step out of our native skunk cabbage into the yard and slowly come to the (Lysichiton americanum) are popping up realization that you are completely in boggy areas all over the Island, I immersed in the scent of vanilla. Of am currently hoping that at least one course, in order for this to happen you of the seedlings I germinated a few need to pour a bottle of vanilla extract years back of the Asian skunk over your head — in which case the cabbage, L. camtschatcense, might fragrance will more than likely follow throw up one of their characteristic you everywhere, and will wind up white flowers this year. costing an arm and a leg given the It is tempting to carry on again price of bottled vanilla these days. Or, about those queens of Spring, the plant in the garden for one could plant an Azara microphylla trilliums, with their bold and years and never paid outside the front door, and every year sometimes spotted foliage and much attention to it. It about this time be surprised by the was growing in deep aroma it pumps into the general shade under an Indian environs. Being a small tree or large plum which was itself shrub and evergreen to boot, it’s not under a birch tree. It like it is hiding or anything. In this wasn’t until the very dry case, however, it is the flowers that Summer a couple years are way less than obvious, at least in ago that I noticed how the realm of things obvious to the fresh and just plain okay untrained eye. Unlike another more that it looked in spite of popular broadleaf evergreen, the its relatively dark and camellia, which is currently putting its extremely dry floral department out on display, the positioning. It took this Azara keeps its tiny yellow-orange flowers of red, burgundy yellow or worst case test for me to finally realize these two together, but I could see flowers tucked under its foliage. For white, but I remember doing this plant’s garden value, so we dug them working as echoes in different those of us who like surprises, the something about them last year as it up and divided it. The winds of this parts of a shade border or garden. discreet nature of these tiny puffs of well. Besides, the seeds still have not past Winter gave this Cardamine If you were wondering — or not flowering bits makes the vanilla germinated from two years ago, so another testimonial when the top of a — the answer is, Yes, I will have both olfactory ambush all that more we will patiently sit on that one until fir tree was blown off and a bit of it these plants and what hopes to be a enjoyable. the new leaflets start to show. There smashed the soil bin on my potting colorful variety of other things when In order to keep things from is also the delicate and exotic thing, shed to bits. It was actually a multiple Saturday Market starts up again on getting too sugary, with a twist of the whereby plants that have the top on the tree, and pieces flew April First up at the Village Green. odorama dial from sweet to stink we appearance of being “difficult” are everywhere, landing on a number of The plan is to be up there nearly every find ourselves at another favorite shunned because they just might be rows of one of my stock beds and Saturday, with times out for selling indicator in the litany of Rites of too hard to grow. I have heard this smashing plants left, right and center. at other plant sales around the area. Spring. This one has a bit more more than a few times about a number One branch cut a stock pot of There is still a website in the offing, history to it and can be traced back to of plants, all of which have been Cardamine right in half. With a little which will be in an ongoing building those memorable childhood tortured and neglected to varying bit of dusting off and a bit more soil, stage as I find time to write and experiences of yore. Way back then, degrees here and have survived with things were put to right again — photograph and figure out just what Spring always meant a new pair of flying colors. Trillium, once in the another test weathered whether it I want it to say. The current plan is sneakers which, of course, couldn’t ground, seem to be pretty bullet needed more testing or not. that it will be both informational and look new for very long. The proof, and getting their seed to I was given a few starts of a sales tool. In the mean time, I need commercials for Keds always assured germinate seems to be the only thing Pachyphragma macrophylla a few years to go plant some more seeds. us that they would help you run faster that is difficult about them. ago by the folks up at the Elizabeth oo oo oo and jump higher. We also found that Instead, let’s talk about two Miller Garden in the Highlands. It they were perfect for stomping and members of the Crucifer Family, didn’t look like much at the time, but kicking the crap out of skunk cabbage. Cardamine and Pachyphragma (If you I was assured that it was worth Black Dog This is one of those rituals where the want to talk about it, you should say: growing. This became evident the next “why” question does not apply — I car-DAM-in-ee and pack-ee-FRAG- Spring as the potted plants in the Plants have no idea why we did it. The act ma). At a glance, they seem to be two greenhouse began to send up stalks Plants www.blackdogplants.com of tromping and stomping through different sized versions of the same of brilliant white flowers. The foliage www.blackdogplants.com the swamp did help to alleviate the plant — sort of. Both have sprays of was nice as well, with roundish leaves [email protected] new shoes problem, and the white flowers on them at the moment that are deeply veined and all a rich, pulverized stumpage left in our wake and both prefer a shady spot in the deep glossy green. Like the Cardamine, (206) 567-4542 did raise the skunk smell factor to a garden. Cardamine trifolia is the smaller Pachyphragma will spread slowly, but Coming to the Saturday whole new level. But the idea of of the two, and is a slow spreading not invasively so. In thinking about bashing and mangling such an elegant evergreen groundcover. I had this it, I don’t know that I would plant Farmer’s Market on April 1! March 29, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 9

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Alec, a 22-month-old boy, the mouth and pointing) Shoos. Shoos. edge of town! Repeat! Hot lava at the ...... other twin Kevin: Would you like some juice, edge of town! ...... Recorded Rescue Heroes®™ sweetie? (Meredith enters the room. She Command Center Voice Gracie: (nodding vigorously) Shoos. gracefully crosses the room to stand ...... Meredith, the beautiful girl, (Kevin mixes apple juice and fills two next to Kevin. She puts her hands on ...... three years old sippy cups with juice, and hands one to Kevin’s arm and smiles shyly.) ...... Colin, the eldest boy, five years Gracie. She puts it to her mouth and Kevin: Good morning sweet girl! ...... old drinks. He pours himself a cup of coffee. (kisses Meredith on the forehead.) ...... Maria, loving wife and mother Kevin and Gracie walk to the living Meredith: Dad, are we having room.) pancakes? Colin: Pancakes! Are we having Scene I: The bedroom. Scene III: The living room. Kevin: No, honey, I’m sorry, not this pancakes!? (The tentative morning sun of early (The living room is strewn with toys morning. Kevin: No, Colin. No pancakes. We’re spring floods the bedroom through and dress-up clothes in chaotic piles. (Gracie picks up a battery-powered having oatmeal. slightly parted curtains and Gracie is Kevin is seated at a desk, reading the hobbyhorse, and walks around the (Maria enters the living room. The puttering around, getting the bedroom in morning paper on a laptop. Gracie sits room with it, sucking her thumb, with twins follow her, crying fakey little cries. order, while her parents and other on Kevin’s lap, sucking her thumb the hobbyhorse under her free arm. The Maria walks over to Kevin, puts her hand siblings lay sleeping in various beds thoughtfully.) furry hobbyhorse has a motorized and on his shoulder.) pushed together in the middle of the large Gracie: Wow-wow. (pointing to almost-completely prehensile nose. It Maria: You know what sounds good room. She makes a neat pile of clothes on something on the computer screen) Wow- makes several different noises: a this morning? the end of the bed, then picks up all the wow. horse’s neigh, a slowed down and Kevin: I already told the kids no. shoes and arranges them from smallest Kevin: (distractedly, reading the slurred recorded voice that says “Hi- Maria: You make such good to largest, and plays with the curtains, news) Do you see a dog, Gracie? O-Silver, away!”, and the William Tell pancakes. lifting them up and letting them float back Gracie: Wow-wow. Wow-wow! Overture, slowed down and sludgy- Kevin. Oatmeal. down, singing a quiet little song. The (pointing again at something on the sounding. The noises alternate, and the Maria: We haven’t had pancakes yet alarm clock goes off. Kevin shuts off the screen) motors that move its nose whine loudly. this week. And you promised them you’d alarm and Gracie walks over to him and Kevin: Oh, hello. Yes, that’s a Colin enters the room.) make pancakes this 1week. looks into his face intently.) telephone, Gracie. Hello. Colin: Hi, Dad. (pauses for a few Kevin. Fine. (stares out the window) Gracie: Durr. (pointing to the door). (Kevin goes back to reading the paper. seconds.) Dad, are we having...you Pancakes. Durr. Gracie puts her thumb back in her mouth. know? (Colin makes an obscure gesture All the Kids, shouting: Pancakes! (Everyone else stirs at the sound of Suddenly Alec’s head pops up between with his hand.) We’re having pancakes! the alarm. Alec commando-crawls from Kevin’s legs.) Kevin: What Colin? (The children all run around the room his bed into Maria’s arms, while Meredith Kevin: Hey! Colin: Dad, are we having...you in a circle, shouting shrieks of joy. Gracie’s stands and walks over Kevin, stepping (Alec cries a fakey little cry.) know… “p”? (He makes the same hand hobbyhorse, now abandoned on the floor, on his hair, to lie next to Maria. Kevin Alec: Up! (puts his arms in the air) gesture.) plays the William Tell Overture, as the gets up, offers his hand to Gracie, and they Up! Kevin: Colin, what are you talking motors that move its nose whine loudly.) walk to the kitchen.) about? Finis. oo oo oo The Vashon Loop, p. 10 March 29, 06 The Dorsal Spin: by Orca Annie Stateler Will Tsux’iit/Luna’s Death Teach Us Anything?

Beware the Ides of March. This Mowachaht/Muchalaht Band as March roared in with no shortage of stakeholders in Tsux’iit’s pain and loss. Our monthly ACS/PS stewardship from day one. meeting was an emotional, In retrospect, we know that six impromptu memorial to Tsux’iit/ months was the crucial interval we Luna. had to intervene successfully with Some of Luna’s fans came from Keetla/Springer when she appeared Sooke, B.C. Our speaker, Michael at our ferry dock. After three years Parfit, was raw with grief, as were of habituation to humans and boats, many in the audience. He shared his attempting a similar intervention personal observations and stunning, with Luna in 2004 entailed deeply moving video of Luna. substantially greater risk and a Serving Vashon Judging by the reaction, many found some and West Seattle comfort in Mike’s tribute to, in his words, “one who will always be good and beautiful and utterly blameless: Luna.” Loop Travel: The RQE Lightens Up, Pt. 1 From now on, By Sarah P. Blakemore, aka “Don’t worry. Locals have a way of The Reigning Queen of Everything everyone who knowing when things happen. Someone will attended will think Hey Folks! show up in a minute to greet us,” I said. I just got back from three nights and As if on cue Vincente showed up. He of Luna when they four days in San Miguel. San Miguel is a showed us to the guest house, a small see a rainbow. higher probability that he could end small Mayan village outside of Punta Gorda. building with a concrete base, wooden walls In an effort to facilitate healing, up in a marine park. For those of you who are so inclined, you and thatched roof. The building was smaller Odin and I set up a simple Coastal Perhaps no individuals or can find Punta Gorda on most maps. The than the slab of concrete it sat on and the altar with cedar boughs and an agencies are specifically to blame for Mayan Village, yeah, not so much. thatched roof hung over the extra concrete to make a great porch. Marcos showed up appealing photo of Tsux’iit’s sweet Last I left you all I was wrestling with the loss of Luna, but I feel we failed my thoughts about poverty in the Third later that day and hung up two hammocks. face. Lynn Brevig, formerly of him collectively as a species. World. We were in Dangriga, a coastal town Ah, Paradise. Vashon, brought lovely orca badges Humans, no matter how well- in the middle of Belize. We would soon learn that four families for all to wear. Another woman intentioned, are no substitute for an On Friday morning David and I caught participate in the guest house program. Pablo brought daffodils, which will always orca family. Encouraging a wild the bus down to Punta Gorda, the with whom I made our initial contact via remind me of Tsux’iit. orca to seek interaction from people southernmost town in Belize. After four the internet, Vincente who greeted us, hours of sweating it out on a red, green and Marcos who was our primary tour guide and Since we could not burn anything in power boats is driving nails into orange painted school bus, we arrived in one other guy who was working in the in the meeting room, Odin and I the coffin. the town square on the edge of the market fields the entire time. They are all brothers. collected messages to Tsux’iit for a We were extremely fortunate place. It was a world of difference. They take care of the money and program burning ceremony here. We that Springer was not severely The town is clean, quiet and small, only design and the women take care of the conducted the burning on the Vernal injured by a propeller. Northern around 4,000 people. The poverty that we cooking, cleaning and explanation of village life. The program is run by a local NGO that Equinox, by the waters that Luna’s Resident A60 has a nasty scar from saw in the larger towns and Belize City is nearly nonexistent. Wow. The town is furnishes advice and training. The rest is up killer whale relatives have traveled a propeller gash. A juvenile A Pod primarily made up of Mayans who have to the villagers. 80% of the profits stay in for millennia. Prayers and thoughts orca was mortally wounded by a migrated out of the villages but there are the village, going primarily to the health for Tsux’iit were sent off with a song B.C. ferry in 1973. A K Pod member other cultures at work here also. Most and education funds. The other 20% covers from the time of the ancestors, sung was struck by a commercial whale interestingly there is a healthy sized Amish administrative costs and any costs associated in an ancient language of the Salish watch boat off San Juan Island in population. I guess if living without running with maintaining the guest house. water and dependence on electricity is for So allow me to be bleeding heart holier- Sea. Swim well, beloved Kakawin. July 2005. Despite their agility and you, then this is the place to be. Everyone than-thou for just a minute: It feels really Odin and I saw Tsux’iit foraging strength, killer whales are not here has a lot invested in the community good to know that my vacation dollars are in Nootka Sound in August 2003. We invincible. which is probably why it lacks the problems helping families to be healthy and kids to were there ten days and observed A brilliant light was of other towns. go to school. We got a lot out of it and so did none of the problematic behavior extinguished on earth with Tsux’iit’s It feels like the end of the earth. they. This is what vacations should be. Okay, done with my speech. that drew so much media attention. passing. We dishonor his memory, David and I stayed one night in a small guest house, typical of the houses around The facilities were typical...a pit toilet We thought people might be and his endangered Southern here. Most of them are made of concrete and outdoor cold water showers. I told exaggerating, and we thought Resident relatives, when we allow and painted white, yellow or green David the trick of bathing in the middle of comparing Luna to Springer was selfish human interest to eclipse the although the odd pink and blue makes it in the day, rather than the beginning or the misguided. orcas’ best interests. If we are to be here and there. The cement does a good job end. In the blazing heat of high noon the Hindsight is 20-20, and there’s worthy of Tsux’iit’s sacrifice, we at serving the obvious function, keeping water feels good AND the source of the water has most likely been sitting in the sun so it plenty of “shoulda-coulda-woulda” things cool. Our guest house was painted must be more willing to learn from white, had hot and cold running water and is lukewarm rather than freezing cold. around Tsux’iit’s death. His L Pod our mistakes and flawed judgment. cable television. It is hard to ask for anything The pit toilets, well, I can’t help ya there. family, whom we cannot reliably Please support the work of the more. As pit toilets go, they weren’t bad. David interview, might be able to offer us Vashon Hydrophone Project Punta Gorda is the sort of town that made a loud wooshing sound after he piercing insight into why their young (VHP) by reporting local whale inspires fantasies of coming down here for finished using it so he could pretend it was relative went astray. No one has the sightings ASAP to 463-9041. a few months and finally finishing that ever an actual toilet. Everyone does what they elusive first novel. have to do to get by I guess. But back to monopoly on truth about Tsux’iit. Thanks to Laura, Tony, and Sam for The next day, Saturday, we caught the Marcos. Anyone who cares about killer their reports when K and L Pods bus to San Miguel. Saturday was market day Marcos, after hanging our hammocks, whale conservation should rightly be visited in early March. so the afternoon bus was packed with asked if we wanted dinner. The answer was soul searching at this time and Thanks to Tsux’iit for his gentle, people returning from the morning market. a resounding yes. He said okay, asked if there reflecting on how to avoid another loving presence, and for imparting The bus was alive with chatter as we rolled was anything we wanted to do. Yup. Cave tour, canoe down the river, Mayan ruins and devastating outcome in the future. essential, if painful, wisdom to us along the pavement and then bounced along the dirt road. After an hour and some, we village tour. I believe Canada’s DFO made humble two-leggeds. oo oo oo got off at the next to last stop, the guest He said he would arrange it all and left. two fateful decisions: 1) Not house at San Miguel. To Be Continued. informing anyone of Tsux’iit’s I must go down to the seas again, to We got our packs off the bus, choked presence in Nootka Sound until he the vagrant gypsy life, on fumes as the bus roared away and stood Sometimes I think war is God’s To the gull’s way and the whale’s had already been there more than there outside of a wood and grass hut next way of teaching us geography. way where the wind’s like a whetted to the light brown dirt and gravel road. six months; 2) Not engaging the —Paul Rodriguez knife. -- John Masefield David gave me a “what now?” look. March 29, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 11

Happy Birthday Aries! Cancer (June 21-July 22): Should another For some, regaining balance between light person’s loss ever be another person’s gain? and dark comes naturally, and for others, Regardless of what we may feel, that’s how it’s more of a challenge. For you it’s a life is sometimes. Should you find yourself definite theme of your life, particularly in the position to benefit based on what reaching a state of mental and emotional another person gives up, does not need or balance, and also allowing both sides of does not want, remember how you came your nature to come out into the open. You into your good fortune, and go forward really do need at least two sets of friends, with an ethic of being fair and helping and not to worry if you can’t invite them others. This is natural for you, but the stars some unusual challenges. But just as surely, all to the same party. The important thing are in an unusual alignment that could they are meaningful challenges. It is never is the party in your mind, and living life compel you to take the best things in life really certain what effects the actions of like the adventure trip that it is. The planets for granted. Keep your awareness poised adults will have on children, and I recognize are carrying you swiftly toward your next to appreciate them all the time, and you you may be concerned about the welfare of destination, so get that Aries fire under your will always have enough of what you need. certain young people around you, who may wings, and fly. Leo (July 22-Aug. 23): You’ll have a better seem to be doing anything but making sense of direction once the Sun takes the progress. But a turning point is coming Aries (March 20-April 19): Admittedly the stage of Fire Sign Theatre early next week. soon, and the most productive thing you can past week has not been a smooth ride; it It seems you currently have quite a few do is keep an eye on the whole situation, seems that anything that can become a choices open, and you’re not sure how to speaking with actions rather than with disturbance does. And with an eclipse in narrow things down. It won’t be long words. your sign rapidly approaching, you may be before what you want is more obvious than Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22): You seem to feeling especially edgy. Yet you can think what you need. You’ll also discover that be experiencing the unusual fear that you’re of yourself as being born into a new reality, certain people who hold influential not sure where you’re headed in life. Many and everything you’re going through are positions in your life are more than willing factors are involved, and actually it’s not the disturbances and shake-ups as the old one to help out. When in doubt, you can count large ones that are the issue. It’s what seems departs. Most of these involve your friends, on the fact that others have been through like a small emotional disturbance based on in whom you seem to be making a generous similar challenges as you have, and they another person’s hesitancy. The thing is, this investment of energy. Friends are always remember what it’s like when someone individual is presenting himself or herself worth the effort, but those people who are cares and makes a difference. as confident and full of gusto when in fact close to you now are only going to get closer Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): It must be their real state of mind is insecure. Any — so take care of them. challenging living at the whims of others, discussion or debate that seems unnecessary Taurus (April 19-May 20): On one level you but you’ve been a bit whimsical yourself probably is — and you can go a long way seem to be pursuing a dream. On another lately — or so it seems from the outside. toward working out your own peace of level, a deep emotional reality is occupying People close to you would love to know a mind by getting underneath the surface, your heart and mind. In both cases, you’re little more about what you’re going finding out what’s happening, and giving it aware of something that is missing. One is through. Listen and you’ll see and feel that a name you remember. a higher vision for your life, and the other close partners and loved ones understand Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20): You are represents something you seek on a deep you a lot better than you may be giving discovering what is important to you. True, and internal level that no exterior pursuit them credit for. This includes having a space this is an ongoing process and those who be understood. You may need to make more can satisfy. Yet the stars strongly suggest, if in themselves for the aspects of yourself that think it’s over have gone to sleep. You of all than one attempt and you need to hold not actually promise, that you are closer to you claim not to understand. You may have people know that this world drives a hard yourself responsible for being understood. making your dream real than you may your reasons not to believe that this is so, bargain and there are few people around Words are imperfect, but then, so are imagine, and that where you feel a lack or but you have even better reasons to accept who are willing to provide assistance and diamonds. loss on the inside, something is surfacing the acknowledgement you need. resources even for people who are Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): You might notice and reaching to greet you in the clear light Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23): Life is offering the struggling the most. There is a belief that that this is one of the most productive phases of day. most unusual blend of fantasy and sober we need to let others learn their lessons, of emotional housecleaning of your life — Gemini (May 20-June 21): Mercury reality now. This is to make sure you don’t because more often than not, that’s what our if you were not so stuck on the past. It’s not retrograde in Pisces has you changing your get too caught up in one or the other. parents taught us. But you are of a different merely up to the people around you to mind about something rather important at Neither one is as real as it seems, or as generation. You have different values. And release you from that strange worldly least six times a day. All the evidence seems unreal. What you have are options, and fortunately for everyone, you remain in a obligation to be the same as you were compelling, and you probably sense that these are designed to point the way to many position to help. yesterday. You have to decide that you are you have no business ignoring any of it. more beyond. If you don’t like what you’re Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19): You cannot blame who you are today, and that your current Yet you also know that at a certain point encountering, then create something someone for keeping their secrets if they feel priorities and choices are the ones that the time will come to refine your different. If you like it a lot, then create more that’s all they’ve got, but you can do better. matter. For a Pisces, letting go of the past is conclusions and make a choice. Over the of the same. But the over-arching theme is Your own life may seem strange in your own never easy and it’s often a process riddled next week and a half there are three key your own creative power, which could range perception, and sure enough you’re feeling with guilt. And this is precisely what you events: the equinox; Mercury stationing from making babies to creating the most many things you cannot articulate — or are about to overcome. oo oo oo direct; and a total solar eclipse. Each one satisfying music or artwork of your life. Let would not dare. But one of the challenges of represents a stage in the process of you it roll for all you’ve got. being human is getting clear enough with When I die, I want to die like my getting clear about your objectives and Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22): This has not been yourself that you can be clear with the people grandfather, who died peacefully in his choices at this truly meaningful juncture of an easy time for any mothers in your life, around you. Often that clarity comes in the sleep, not screaming like all the your life. And you will. and if you are a mom, you may be facing attempt at communicating and striving to passengers in his car. The Vashon Loop, p. 12 March 29, 06 LIVING WELL WITH PLANTS Text and drawings by Kathy Abascal (AHG)

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Nafisi decided to really country topsy-turvy. The story engage them: they’d put the book follows seven women and how their on trial. They’d have a prosecutor, lives are affected by the pervasive a defense attorney, a defendant (the power of the mullahs. The subplot book), a judge and a jury (the class). is the life of the author, Azar Nafisi, It wasn’t hard to find a prosecutor a teacher of literary fiction at the or a defense attorney; the book had University of Tehran until she is aroused passions on both sides. forced out in 1981 by the Nobody volunteered to be the increasingly radical government defendant, so Nafisi had to under Ayatollah Khomeini. Among represent the book. The prosecutor other “sins,” she refused to wear the attacked the book as a tool of the veil. After six years she resumes Great Satan, as Fitzgerald’s teaching at other universities. nefarious scheme to corrupt Fiercely devoted to women’s American youth by making it rights and to education, in the mid- money mad and immoral. His 1990s Nafisi invites seven of her opposite number defended it as not former students to meet at her home glorifying materialism, but exposing every Thursday morning. Her it and how it can affect behavior of “girls” come in and throw off their otherwise nice people. The jury chadors and veils to reveal their never arrived at a verdict, but were hidden selves—one wears an orange still very vocal when Nafisi left, long would someone, anyone, think such T-shirt and jeans; another, a low- after the closing bell had rung. Garden the things are okay? It can’t just be the necked blouse and bright pink “I felt rather good after class money. These people are experts in lipstick. that day. The excitement most World finding ways to make money under Then they talk about fiction. The students showed was the best By MEarth any circumstance—and if we were all book is loosely structured around verdict as far as I was concerned. Food Safety? to decide that turning things around their discussions of four authors: They were all arguing as I left them and going back the other way was the Nabokov and Lolita, Fitzgerald and outside the class—and they were In a move disguised as only viable choice, believe me, they The Great Gatsby, Henry James, and arguing not over the hostages or the “standardizing” food-safety labeling would find a way to make money Jane Austen. Outside these walls recent demonstrations or Rajavi and across the country, the U.S. House of doing it. The very people who got rich Representatives (yes, those men and fouling the Earth will get rich cleaning the women lead strictly Khomeini, but over Gatsby and his women who represent you and me) it up—it’s what they do. circumscribed lives, closely alloyed dream.” has voted to invalidate tough state No, it has to be something more. monitored by morality squads for Nafisi and her students endured laws about warning labels on food, I think that one of the reasons this the slightest sin against the the long, pointless Iran-Iraqi war food products and equipment. The bill law is being enacted is to prevent Revolution—even a wisp of hair and the relentless bombings of was approved 283-139 and is expected labeling for Genetically Modified that escapes from a head scarf. With Tehran. The group who met in her to be introduced into the Senate soon. (GM) foods, or Frankenfoods as some Nafisi they can speak freely, not only home became close, sharing This weaker law would prevent of us call them. GM foods are about about the lessons to be learned from personal sorrows and crises along states from passing stronger laws and to escape into the biosphere wholesale Humbert, Lolita, Gatsby, Elizabeth with their impressions of the books effect existing warnings about lead and change earthlife forever and Bennet and the rest but also about they were reading. Anyone who has and alcohol in candy, arsenic in someone is fighting mightily to make their own troubled lives. been in a book group can bottled water, mercury in canned sure we don’t stop it. Herbicide- While recounting their sessions understand the bonds and tuna, lead in dishes, and pesticides in resistant legumes, terminator seeds, and their growing friendships, camaraderie that developed. fruits and vegetables. It will also terminator trees, tomatoes with Nafisi interweaves her personal Eventually some left the country; prevent needed warnings about such flounder genes, all these things are experiences. She was the daughter some stayed and became teachers. things as acrylamide, a chemical that going to be rampant in the of a popular mayor of Tehran (later Nafisi left in the late 1990s and is a forms in starchy foods cooked at high environment soon and the Earth will forced out by the Islamic professor at Johns Hopkins. temperatures—such as french fries be a very different place. Do I sound Revolutionaries) and a mother who The book she’s given us is more and potato chips—and which has apocalyptic? Paranoid? Crazy? Just had served in Parliament. She went than an absorbing memoir by a recently been strongly linked to wait. Soon it will be illegal for me to to school in Switzerland and remarkable woman in a remarkable cancer. One of the things that write such things. Already, the England, then to college in the U. S. time. Margaret Atwood called it “a stimulated this action was that administration is using its double- She was there when the Islamic literary raft on Iran’s fundamentalist California passed a tough Proposition edged sword, wherein secrets that are Revolution erupted in 1979. With sea.” Read it for its affirmation of 65 requiring that the public be warned leaked that help the administration other Iranian students at her school the extraordinary power of about potentially dangerous toxins in are overlooked and secrets that leak she protested the trampling of civil literature to affect our lives and of food, the strongest such law to date. that hurt the administration are liberties in their homeland and U.S. the need to fight for intellectual It will, of course, be overturned by prosecuted. Hmmm. Consider—the involvement there. She met her freedom—wherever it’s threatened. this new bill—if it passes into law. If Earth Liberation Front is considered husband, Bijan. They returned to Note: I’ve updated my list of (when?) it passes, I’m virtually certain the number one domestic terrorist Iran, where she found her beloved recommended historical novels. For a that our wise leader, President Bush, organization and, following the logic country changing faster than she copy, e-mail [email protected]. will sign it, good man that he is. Good of the Patriot Act, soon, writing an could comprehend. She became a oo oo oo man for agri-business, that is. I ask article in support of them will be professor and a mother and you, if people do not have the right giving aid to terrorists. And when continued to protest and to arouse to know about EVERYTHING in their “terrorists” start burning GMO fields the suspicions of the fundamentalist My Mom said she learned food and water, what the hell DO around this country (as they are in authorities. Nor did numbers of her how to swim when someone they have the right to know? Why is India) then this column will become fellow professors hesitate to raise took her out in the lake and it that some people don’t care if illegal. oo oo oo their voices. We in the West may not threw her off the boat. I said, people eat poisonous food or drink realize how much opposition there “Mom, they weren’t trying to poisonous water? Is it the same people He can’t help it - he was born was to the brutal transformation of teach you how to swim.” — who don’t want us to believe global with a silver foot in his mouth.— Former Governor of Texas Ann the tolerant secular country to the Paula Poundstone warming is happening or that putting Islamic Republic. weapons into space is a bad idea? Why Richards (about George Bush) The Vashon Loop, p. 14 March 29, 06 Aquamarine Why We Fight March 29-30 Ice Age 2:

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Advertise in The Loop Madame Toujours Dear Madame Toujours, [email protected] My husband and I have only been married two years, and we are going to be separated for the first time since we met. Richie is Island Epicure going to be out of town for a week March 31-April 6 by Marj Watkins next month at a business training seminar. The thing is, the seminar Sinless Cookies and Cake is in Wisconsin, which is still cold and miserable this time of year, Our priest tells us that Lenten restrictions against meats take a break on Sundays. so there really isn’t any point in He didn’t say that Lenten restrictions don’t apply to desserts, but if they did, the cookies I give you today would surely be okay any day of the Lenten week. They my going along as there would be contain no meat, nor dairy products. No milk, no wheat, no eggs. Yet they are so if it were going to be in, say, delicious you’ll have trouble getting enough of them into the cookie jar to bother with Orlando or Paris, and anyway, it. That is if you haven’t eaten the dough before they even got baked. somebody has to stay home with The Yellow Cake recipe does have more carbs and less fiber per bite, but for our pet goldfish Herbie who is readers who must avoid gluten entirely, it lets you enjoy a piece of cake. Though wheat is the biggest villain to gluten-sensitive people, barley, oats, and rye contain suffering from fin fungus and some; corn, rice, quinoa, and potato starch have no gluten at all. needs intensive care. I don’t know Sort of Moravian Ginger Thins: Thin—the magic word. These cookies are thin how Herbie is going to deal with Call 463-3232 or check and crisp, flavor-full and rich in fiber, B vitamins, magnesium, and some iron. Plus his daddy’s absence. He always they are about as low on the glycemic index as cookies can get. The whole grain gets so excited when it is time for www.vashontheater.com flours have less of the sort of carbohydrates that make you fat and raise your cholesterol. Splenda® replaces sugar. Richie to get home from work — for times This recipe sees the Moravian Ginger Thin recipe my grandson James swimming back and forth in his enthusiastically telephoned over from his apartment kitchen in Tacoma, and raises tank and slapping his tail on the is by your side, but you are not its nutrition quotient considerably. I’ve altered it to yield more cookies and fewer top of the water. I’m afraid we are wishing to think about the dead calories, too. For the sake of those of us who are gluten-sensitive, a recipe for gluten- both going to be despondent. husbands and the broken free flour is given below the Ginger Crisps. How are Herbie and I romances while M. Richie is being Sinless Ginger Crisps Sift twice. Store in tightly closed glass supposed to get through the far away. No matter how much M. Makes 36 to 40 cookies or metal canister. Refrigerate or freeze. Beat: Use this flour in quickbreads, cakes, week? I’ve scheduled play dates Richie is annoying you when he 1/2 cup robust molasses muffins, pancakes and waffles. for Herbie, lunches for me with the is at home, watching these movies 1/2 cup (1 cube) butter, melted girls, a small household while he is gone will only be 1/2 cup brown Splenda® Gluten-free, Lactose-free remodeling project and an convincing you that he is the 1 teaspoon vanilla Two-Egg Yellow Cake overnight with my nieces, but that prince among husbands and you Sift and mix in: 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened 1 and 1/2 cups barley flour 3/4 cup sugar, Splenda® or Sugar still leaves a lot of free time for are suffering the torments of 1/4 cup brown rice flour Twin® brooding. Could you maybe loneliness without him. 1/4 cup corn flour or 2 cups gluten- 1 teaspoon vanilla suggest some good movies I If you are having the strong free flour (recipe below) or quinoa flour 2 eggs could watch to occupy my time? stomach, you are maybe enjoying 1/4 teaspoon cloves 2 and 1/4 cups gluten-free flour Sincerely, Abandoned the revolting horror movies. This 1/4 teaspoon cardamom, optional (recipe above) 1 teaspoon ginger 2 teaspoons baking powder is excellent for distracting you 1 and 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon baking soda Chere Mme. Abandoned, from the solitude unless, of 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon salt Quelle domage, the first course, you are the fearful type in Form a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap 1 cup dairy, almond or soy milk separation, she is tres difficile, n’est which case, you may be and chill 6 hours to overnight. Let rest a 1/4 cup honey pas? Many are the pitfalls which comforted by keeping M. Herbie few minutes after taking the dough out of Gradually add sugar or sugar the fridge to make cookies. substitute to soft butter, while creaming. you are navigating for the absence in the bedroom at night for the Slice dough very thin. Gently lay (12-15 minutes at medium speed with of the husband. For example, no protections. cookies on foil-lined baking sheets about electric mixer or until thoroughly doubt, you are making the Bon Chance, Mme. Abandoned, 1 inch apart. You’ll need three baking creamed in food processor. adjustments for the life with the and do not be overlooking the sheets. Bake 8 minutes in oven preheated Work in vanilla. Add eggs 1 at a time, hairy, masculine-type fellow such charms of the teenage comedies to 300 degrees. thoroughly incorporating each. Sift dry Let cookies cool completely on their ingredients. Add to creamed mixture as watching all of the movies with about the dudes losing the cars foil lined baking sheets. Spread out racks alternately, mixing well after each small the exciting martial arts scenes, and dressing up like les femmes. If or clean tea-towels. When cookies are addition. and never the sensible movies these films, they are reminding cold, release them from the foil by Bake in waxed-paper lined 9-inch about the romances. Possibly, you you of the absent husband, then pressing fingers against the back of the round pans or oiled and preheated (5-7 are imagining that you will be your life, it is being too foil and peeling it away from the cookies. minutes) ceramic or glass baking dishes Don’t even think of trying to remove in preheated 375 degree oven 23-25 taking the advantages of the complicated for the fixing with the cookies from foil while they’re still warm. minutes. Test with toothpick inserted in absence of the husband to be one letter, non? oo oo oo They will break. When cold, they’ll be stiff center of cake. If no crumbs, remove from watching those movies. This is the enough to handle without breaking. oven. Let rest 5 minutes. Invert on racks. enormous mistake. First, many of As I grow older and older, Gluten Free Flour Let rest 5 minutes more. Lift off pans or these movies are featuring the Makes 6 cups. Mix once, bake twice baking dish. And totter towards the tomb, 2 cups corn flour “Frost” with whipped cream heartbroken persons learning to I find that I care less and less 3 cups brown rice flour sweetened with a drizzle of honey and love again. This is all very well Who goes to bed with whom. 1 cup potato starch flavored with a few drops of vanilla. and pleasant when M. Richie, he -- Dorothy Sayers oo oo oo March 29, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 15

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They Come be a part if this on-going group and Microsoft’s popular program designed for using venture into the fragile zone to retrieve offer choices the players don’t have to experience writing for fun in a social atmosphere. spreadsheets. Learn how to use formulas to beer or wine glasses or the ever useful invent themselves. Pizza will be served! No registration required, perform calculations, how to copy formulas with just come when you can. Sponsored by Friends the fill handle, and how to use Autosum for Lo and behold, one day I was Limoges place card holders, I notice it is of the Vashon Library. quick addition. Prerequisite: Basic Skills Level missing. presented with a relic. A Fisher-Price Great Decisions Discussion Groups 1, and proficiency with a mouse. Call 463-2069 Along came the thought that perhaps record player that is actually a windup Tuesdays, April 11 & April 25, 2:00 p.m. to pre-register. there might be a person in the universe music box, complete with the six CD sized “Great Decisions” is the Foreign Policy Mondays at Three: Haiku that wanted to sell the fourth. Wow! plastic discs with notches that trip the Association’s forum for thought-provoking Thursday, April 20, 7 p.m. Bonanza...how many sets did I want to metal armature so that tunes are played, discussions of issues that impact the world in Celebrate National Poetry Month with which we live. This is an opportunity to assess haiku poets of Vashon. Listen to each brief poem purchase?! Amazing. Now...it isn’t was placed on my lap. I cranked the global developments and policy-makers’ open its bud of meaning. After a break for actually possible for me to purchase it winding mechanism, taught the small decisions. A short background video prepared refreshments, we will hear a discussion of the now, but the looking was wonderfully one how to lift the arm just so and place by the Foreign Policy Association, a private history of haiku, and the definition of the satisfying. My daughter doesn’t it in the appropriate groove and smiled education organization, will be shown, followed American form. The room will be decorated with understand the thrill of window as “Clair De Lune” poured forth from the by a group discussion by Vashon Islanders. A Japanese flower arrangements by Yoshi Nakamura Bowman and Ron Simons. shopping or cruising catalogs, but for me sound cube. copy of the “Great Decisions” study guide of background articles is available at the Vashon Late Night at the Library it does the trick. My point is this. There are a lot of Library reference desk, or may be ordered by Saturday, April 22, 6 to 10 p.m. Sitting in front of the screen, I complicated ways to play these days. calling 1-800-477-5836, or may be accessed on Participate in the Vashon Library Cyber thought. Hey...maybe I can replace my Four people can hold a game against each the Internet at www.greatdecisions.org. Co- Café and surf the World Wide Web or play a son’s He-Man Masters of the Universe other in a video game with lots of bells sponsored by King County Library System. game of chess, cards, Magic, or Monopoly. figures that were destroyed by another and whistles. But like all other things, it Registration not required. Refreshments! Door Prizes! For students in April 11th — grades 6-12. Security will be provided. child. 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Verdi that, again, it was possible to replace the thousand songs and seventy five hours indispensable? became fascinated with Shakespeare’s works figures two and half times over at least, if of video can be held in the palm of her April 25th — Brazil: as a teen-ager and kept a complete set of the I so desired. And...the poster. Many hand. And I thought to myself...that Invented Pasts and Hoped-For Futures English master’s plays on his bedside for the posters as a matter of fact. Fisher-Price crank up music box adds to Since 9/11, the U.S. seems to have paid rest of his long life. Verdi’s Macbeth is not as By the time I started looking at Ginnie my world. It’s gentle and unassuming minimal attention to Brazil. Is a change on the poetic as Shakespeare’s but it makes up for horizon? that loss with an energy that is relentless Dolls, I realized that much of my life has and playing it makes life less tense not Lapsit Story Time melodies that grab the audiences by the throat. been defined by toys and era of toys. more. Wednesdays, April 12, 19, 26, 10:40 a.m. The youthful Verdi was so proud of what he Masters of the Universe gave way to It’s just a thought. How’s your Newborn to 20 months with an adult had accomplished in his Macbeth that he Power Rangers. Rainbow Brite was playing? Does it add or subtract? A 20-minute program of stories, songs, dedicated the vocal score of the opera to his followed by Sailor Moon. Because sometimes with play, it’s what’s rhymes and bounces for babies and a caregiver. benefactor, Antonio Barezzi, claiming “Here now I love toys. I love the lost-in-time taken out that adds the most to one’s No registration required. is this Macbeth, which is dearer to me than all Preschool Story Time my other operas, and which I therefore deem gateway they provide to relief from heart. Wednesdays, April 12, 19, 26, 11:30 a.m. more worthy of being presented to you”. No everyday responsibilities. When Frisbees...now let us consider the Ages 3-5 registration required. Sponsored by Friends of Nintendo first came out, there was great remarkable value of frisbees. Join us for 30 minutes of stories, songs and the Vashon Library. joy in sitting side by side with my son Play on... oo oo oo fun! No registration required. The Vashon Loop, p. 16 March 29, 06 Loop ~ Sports

The 3rd Annual Vashon Freestyle Clinic a Success. 35 wrestlers from Lake Stevens, Puyallup and Vashon ham it up on Saturday, March 18. Also, they learned some technique and ate some cheese-burgers.

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Ian “Mad Pup” Mattingly pins his All-American brother, Ryan, in a headlock. “I thought he’d be tougher,” Mad Pup claimed, “being a College All American and all.” March 29, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 17 I was driving down the freeway, when my cell phone rang. My o wife’s voice urgently tried to Lo py Laffs warn me, “I just heard on the I love to sleep. It really is the news that there’s a car going the best of both worlds. You get to be wrong way on I-5. Please be alive and unconscious. careful!” “It’s not just one car,” I said, “It’s hundreds of them!!”

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Mexican President Vicente Fox announced that they have discovered oil under the Gulf of Mexico—in a related story, President Bush accused Mexico of having weapons of mass destruction. —Jay Leno The Vashon Loop, p. 18 March 29, 06 Review: Fiddler on the Roof Loop Arts at High School By Mary Litchfield Tuel Fiddler on the Roof has a depth, darkness, and complexity which was not typical of Broadway musicals when it came out in the Sixties, but the Sixties became a deep, dark, complex time, rife with Poets Talk Back line drawing by Annie the kicking over of “tradition,” and Brule with assassinations, the civil rights Jazz Guitarist Mimi Fox performs one Music and Poetry movement, and the best darn rock night only at Blue Heron, Saturday, April music ever (just my opinion). 8. Tickets, $10/$13 are available now at Launch VAA New How do the Vashon High School Blue Heron, Heron’s Nest and Vashon students do with this deep, dark, Island Music. (Courtesy photo) Works Series funny, poignant story? Bay Area Jazz By Janice Randall They do pretty darn well. Not Vashon Allied Arts’ New Works only do these kids sing out, they Noah Greene as Tevye Guitarist Graces Series opens with two talented (mostly) sing well. Any exceptions Photo by Craig Hanson performing artists in a New Works to the rule are brief and forgivable. Fiddler on the Roof Heron Stage Double Bill on Saturday, April 1, 8 Director Susan Hanson and By Janice Randall Presented by VHS Drama p.m., at the Blue Heron Art Center. Choreographer Christine Juarez Vashon High School Theater San Francisco-based jazz Island singer/songwriter/pianist have the entire cast moving on the Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. guitarist Mimi Fox will take a Maren Metke, who has released one crowded stage at times, and it Sunday, 2:00 p.m. sojourn to Vashon Island during solo CD to date, will be joined by all- makes sense and no one is run down her Northwest tour to share her hot star Island musicians, Fletcher or knocked over. During the bottle Tayt Held (Perchik) displays a licks with us on Saturday, April 8, Andrews, percussion; Steve Meyer, dance in the wedding scene, one good voice, and a righteous political 8 p.m. at Blue Heron Art Center. upright bass; Kim Thal, fiddle; and bottle toppled, which only increased attitude masking a tender heart. From standards to originals, Fox has Ken Jacobson, cello. They will our appreciation of all the dancers . Jamilla Rose Pierce as Grandma earned rave reviews from critics perform Metke’s soulful original During the “Matchmaker” Tzeitel has a fine voice, and and jazz aficianados alike. tunes. number on the night I Franchesca Parks as the Fox is simply, “...everything Writer Devon Atkins will be attended one of the ghost of Fruma Sarah is guitar jazz is supposed to be, 4 joined by four other poet talents, daughters’ shoes flew off, a great singer having stars,” says Down Beat Magazine. Harris Levinson, Julian Park, Merna making a high arc into the fun being frightening. New York City native Fox’s new Hecht, and Michael Hood. Together, audience. The kids kept Bryan Amstrup double CD, Perpetually Hip, her they will converse on stage using dancing like pros, and (Fyedka) is, I’m sorry, seventh release, has been the latest only their original poetry to respond never missed a beat. The dude, just sweet. You chatter on the jazz front. impromptu to one another in Poets young actress threw her can see why Chava Fox has performed with Diana Talk Back: Conversations in Poetry. other shoe into a laundry defies everything to go Krall and Stevie Wonder and has Tickets for the show are available basket and finished the with him. composed music for theater, film now at Heron’s Nest, Blue Heron Art scene in her stocking feet. The heavies – Zach and dance. Center and Vashon Island Music. We were ready to go Davis as the Constable, From a Cadence Magazine Don’t miss it! anywhere with those kids “I have five daughters!” Spencer Caldwell as Left to right standing: review: “To say Mimi Fox’s touch, after that. Sasha, Dom Wolczko Maren Patrick [Chava], sound, sensitivity and What Fiddler Robin Kallsen [Tzeitel], and Reese Lazarus as understanding of the guitar as a absolutely must have is a Dessa Faker-Boyle miscellaneous Russians solo vehicle of expression is good Tevye, and in Noah [Hodel]; sitting: Lizzie – seem to be such masterful would be an Greene this Fiddler has a Moses [Shprintze], Alana fundamentally nice understatement. This is simply some great Tevye. I had to keep Robinson [Bielke] people in real life that of the best guitar music I’ve heard.” reminding myself that this Photo by Craig Hanson they don’t quite carry Fox chairs the Guitar was a high school student. off the bigotry, Department at the innovative Jazz Greene has a fine baritone voice and violence, and villainy they are School in Berkeley, California, and isn’t afraid to use it, and he acts with supposed to perpetrate. Well, guys, is adjunct professor at New York poise and confidence. He shows a maybe as the show goes on you’ll University. She has appeared as distinct flair for physical comedy, get that human scum thing down. guest instructor at the University of although he has stiff competition Extra points to Dom for singing the Southern California Musician’s Irina Rivkin Returns from Adam Hoagland (Mendel, the tenor solo in the bar scene. Institute of Technology; CalArts; Irina Rivkin, who has performed rabbi’s son), who can get drunk and All in all, University of Connecticut; at the Vashon Island Earth Fair, is fall off a bench with the best. a fine University of Oregon; and others. returning for a concert at Café Luna Outstanding work is done by production She wrote a book about jazz guitar on Saturday, April 8. The show Robin Kallsen (Tzeitel), Dessa Faker- of one of the studies published by Mel Bay begins at 7:30 p.m. Boyel (Hodel), and Maren Patrick greatest Publications and recently Outmusic Awards Recipient and (Chava), as the three older musicals. I completed an interactive CD-Rom founder of Rose Street House of daughters. Kallsen especially is found for True Fire Music entitled Jazz Music, Irina Rivkin has performed convincingly vulnerable and myself Anatomy. for twenty-five years, from her determined in her love for Motel the thinking According to guitar legend Joe childhood singing jazz and Russian tailor (Dana Lockwood), who is shy that there Pass, “She can do pretty much folk, performing her own songs for and funny: “Please don’t yell at me, may be anything she wants on the guitar.” the last twelve years. Her gutsy Reb Tevye!” “Arts High vocal world-folk originals journey Danielle Rotter as Yente the Schools” but Early Alert: into the personal and political. Irina Matchmaker is so grim in her black we seem to Tzeitel wedding chair: Michael Dickes layers her poetic lyrics with rich clothes and scowling face that she live on an Robin Kallsen textured harmonies, swirling with almost doesn’t have to act. Oy, what “ArtsPhoto by Craig Hanson vocal percussive beats, all created a yenta! Island,” and live on-the-spot using her loop When the Sabbath prayer these children, who are no longer station instrument. Her full-length begins, Jessica Katz as Golde begins children, have grown up with CD upwelling was released on Rose circling her hands over the lit exceptional skills and talents. Street Records in 2004, and has candles, and you are conveyed into Last chance to go see it this received airplay on over 100 radio the ancient beauty of Shabbat. weekend! programs. Opening for Rivkin is Anne Songwriter Michael Dickes will be Read The Loop online: www.vashonloop.com Carol. Carol weaves song and appearing at Café Luna accompanied by Email: [email protected] spoken word into passionate violinist John Weeks on Friday, April 14, [email protected] at 7:30 p.m. performances. March 29, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 19 Blackberry Bear and the light warms to yellow Adventures of a sudden sun washes wind Huckleberry Hollow pulls green up from brown ©Becky and Maggie Bumgarner © Illustrations by Maggie Bumgarner Poetry Salon, Thursday, April 6, 7 p.m. Second Annual WORDS Community Open Mic The Kiss of True Love Thursday, April 27, 7 p.m. The Ballet School of Huckleberry (April is National Poetry Month) Hollow is presenting The Frog Prince. Blackberry Bear is dancing the lead in the ballet opposite Aloetta, his true love offstage. We pick up the ballet in the middle, right after the Prince of Bears has looked into a pond and realized he has been turned into a frog: As Lady Woolmaker danced offstage, she said, “Oh, and don’t forget that the King of the elegantly and said, “The third time’s Woodland promised the hand of the the charm. If I may?” Princess of the Woodland in He took Aloetta’s arm and he marriage to the best dancer. You’ll twirled her about. She was just want to see that!” delighted. That night at the ball, all the When the music at last stopped, creatures of the Woodlands were the Princess was in a daze. She gathered for the fest of the season. gazed up at her Frog and sang, “I’ve The first to ask for a dance with the dreamed of a partner all of my life, someone who wouldn’t step on my toes. Someone to leap and twirl me about and charming as it goes. Now you’ve come along and I’ll sing you my song with glee. It’s you oh fair dancer, you woodland prancer, that I want to marry me.” She leaned over and gave Caliveras the Frog a kiss. POOF! Blackberry reappeared. Aloetta couldn’t believe her eyes. Her Frog Prince was actually Blackberry Bear! What’s Happening at Vashon Bookshop? She gazed at him and said, “Love By Devon Atkins grew into The Poetry Salon, which has come along. It came up from behind. meets at the Bookshop on the First Everyone will think that I’ve completely POETRY Thursday of each month for lost my mind. Who’d have ever guessed I’m sure I don’t need to tell any intriguing conversation, original you could be such a charmer? Forever of you that April is National Poetry poetry, and the great poetry of Princess was Fred, the squint-eyed more you’ll be my Knight in Shining Month. (uh huh…) And this latter-day and current poets. This Wolf. Armor!” month poetry is happening all over month’s Salon will meet on “Care for this dance?” asked the Island, not just at the Bookshop! Thursday, April 6 at 7 p.m., and Fred of Aloetta, who was playing On Saturday, April 1, at 8 p.m., five drop-ins are always welcome. For the Princess. They stumbled all over poets will get together at The Blue a monthly emailing, just call 567- the floor. Heron for Poets Talk Back: 4886, or make a request by emailing: The next suitor, Orcas the Eagle, Conversations in Poetry, the first [email protected]. came up to her. “I believe this one performance of VAA’s 2006 New Karen Barringer, the owner of is mine.” He took her hand and Works Series. Five poets, all the Vashon Bookshop, which is they stumbled about. Next time: seasoned performers, will be beginning its sixth year, has always At last it was Blackberry’s turn St. Patrick’s Day at Tooley’s challenged to converse in poetry by supported poetry in this town that as the Frog Prince. He bowed listening to each other’s poems and has always loved poetry. This month Graham, Johnson & responding on the spot with an there is lots of poetry to enjoy on the impromptu choice of one of their Island, including Haiku at the Roehm at Vashon own. In a prescribed order, that is Library and more conversations in Bookshop unknown to the poets, and that poetry, and you haven’t heard the Mark Graham, Orville Johnson changes each time a sequence is half of it! (Look in the next issue of and Chuck Roehm join in an begun, both the poets and the The Loop for the other half!) Which evening of wry humor, soulful audience will be challenged to listen only goes to prove, once again, that blues, and thoughtful songs when well enough to realize the Vashon Bookshop is not just about they combine the Mongrel Folk of conversation created with the books! oo oo oo Mark and Orville with Chuck’s funniest songs on the scene today. poems. This won’t be quite like any Cosmic Folk at the Vashon Coupled with Orville, they other poetry reading, and it won’t Marita Ericksen Bookshop, Friday, April 7 at 7:30 developed the style they term be just about listening. There will p.m. “Mongrel Folk.” be lots of conversation between the Vashon Island Youth Chorus Chuck calls his music and song Orville is an instrumental poets and the audience; plus, the Director writing style “Cosmic Folk.” gunslinger who the Seattle Times evening will be double-billed with singer-songwriter Maren Metke and Voice/Piano/ Original songwriting, pleasing describes as the “player’s player.” Performance/ friends. vocals and an entertaining style Whether it is vocals, guitar, dobro Instruction make his performances both fun and or mandolin he finds just the right And that’s not all! Five years ago, in the original (and much uplifting. sound to bring a song that extra Now accepting students smaller) Vashon Bookshop, owner Now accepting students Mark is nationally known for his punch. Phone: (425) 357-6813 harmonica-playing virtuosity and Mark, Chuck and Orville all Karen Barringer posted a notice Cell: (206) 715-7126 his rich woody sound on the share a love for “Old Time” music about a monthly gathering for clarinet. His sardonic skewering of so there will be certain to be a few Islanders who loved poetry, hosted Email: [email protected] contemporary life in his song of those songs performed as well. It by Ken Miller and Barb Adams in writing has led to some of the is a guaranteed good time for all. their home. It continued until it Advertise in The Loop! The Vashon Loop, p. 20 March 29, 06 Storybook Home $558,000 3.01 Acres 3 bedrooms SEATTLE METRO WEST 1.75 bath NewNew PricePrice 2294 Sq Ft

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