Vol. 6, #14 TO INFORM AND AMUSE -- TO PROVOKE THINKING AND ACTIVISM July 10, 2009 Wednesday Farmers Market Begins July 15 by Joanne Jewell The Wednesday Vashon Farmers Market opens July 15 from 2-6 Riding the range on Vashon. Photo by T. The Vashon Cribbage Club in action. Martino-Yamamoto Photo by Mary Litchfield Tuel. pm in the Village Green and will be open each Wednesday through October 14. The Wednesday market focuses on selling the freshest A Different Sort of A Passion for Island grown food and on Opening Day there will be sweet local Cribbage berries and the ripest vegetables of early summer including carrots, Ranch red and golden beets, the first summer squashes, cauliflower, the by T Martino-Yamamoto by Mary Litchfield Tuel delicious crop of new garlic, fresh basil, and more. Cont’d on page 14 Linton Walker is a man with a What if you could visit a place passion and a mission. His where time slowed down? Where passion is cribbage, and his you followed sheep and dogs on mission is to play in every horseback down the forest trails cribbage club that is chartered and then to the fields. You up end with the north American Cribbage a sheep or two and gently sheared Congress (ACC). Last Saturday he them by hand with blades. Then and his wife, Della, came to play rolled the wool up to carry home at the Vashon Cribbage Club. to spin into clothing. Vashon is the 134th club he has The forage the sheep utilize is visited. free. The sheep give back to the “We’d been wanting to get to land, by fertilizing the soil. The the Vashon Club for years, but it’s suburban trails of Vashon could hard to get here,” he said. feed and clothe many if properly Continued on page 11 Sarah Lowry of Hogsback Farm right, with customer Karen Kinney left. Photo by Ralph utilized and if folks were careful Women’s Health Moore. with loose dogs. Cont’d page 4 Clinic Opens by Haley Scheer Tlingit Art by Lonning at The Q Beginning in June, Vashon by Orca Annie Stateler Island welcomed the opening of During July, Tlingit artist Odin Lonning is showing fifteen pieces in diverse media at the Quartermaster Vashon Women’s Health Center, Inn and Restaurant (The Q). Works include cedar carvings; framed paintings; painted elk hide drums; the only clinic on-Island and a painted deerskin dance apron in the style of Chilkat weaving. The pieces embody Tlingit story specializing in women’s health. designs and crest animals. Opened by Kimberly Scheer, an Art sales benefit the Vashon Hydrophone Project for Puget Sound Whale Research and Wolftown. Islander of fifteen years and a Layaway and payment plans for artwork are accepted by arrangement with the artist. nurse practitioner, the clinic Also in July, Odin’s “Tlingit Shaman/Bear House Chief,” the sculpted dance figure shown in an provides specialized care for accompanying photo, is on display at the Washington Continued on page 2 State History Museum in downtown Tacoma for In the Spirit: Contemporary Northwest Native Arts Exhibit. The juried art exhibit runs July 9 – August 30. In Tlingit culture, a clan house chief could also be a shaman. Clad in regalia associated with shamanism and high rank, Odin’s figure wears a Brown Bear mask, matching robe, bone amulet necklaces, and an Octopus dance apron. He holds a Loon rattle and an Octopus speaker’s staff. On July 16 at 5:00 PM, the exhibit opens with an artists’ reception that includes a performance and ceremony. This event is free to the public. Several Kimberly Scheer, photo by Haley Scheer. prizes will be awarded. The public can vote on favorite pieces for the People’s Choice award until August 9. Pre-sale Tickets For more information, visit for the Carnival at www.washingtonhistory.org/artsfestival/artists.aspx The In the Spirit Native Arts Market and Festival the Strawberry is August 8 – 9, outdoors at the History Museum. The Festival! free festival features First Nations dance, music, and Tickets available at Island storytelling. Odin will have artwork and jewelry for Thyme for $18.00. Tickets on sale at the market. Time permitting, he will dance with sale until the carnival opens- Alaska Kuteeyaa Dancers on August 8. good for a one session wrist Lonning’s career as a professional, award-winning band. Call the Chamber at 463- Native artist spans more than 30 years. He is an 6217 for more info. accomplished cultural educator and dancer. Guided “Tlingit Shaman/Bear House Chief,” © 2009 Odin Lonning, on Continued on page 14 exhibit for the In the Spirit show. The Vashon Loop, p. 2 July 10, ‘09 Myers Anderson Degroot Restoration LLC Lic. #MADRERC912B1 Get in The Loop

Submissions to the Loop Do you have an event or Public Service Announcement? If it’s for profit, please send a contribution to help offset our printing costs. PO Box 253. Email questions or submissions to Ed Swan, editor of the Loop, at [email protected]. Photos are welcome as jpeg or pdf attachments. Green Party Meets VCCC Hosts The Vashon-Maury Island Green Caregiver Group Party’s monthly meeting (second Tuesday of each month) will be at Vashon Community Care Joy Goldstein’s home. Democrats, Center hosts a monthly Caregivers Independents, and other interested Support Group meeting. The group progressives welcome. Come help meets on the second Thursday of change the future! every month at 7pm. This group is DATE: Tuesday, July 14, 7:00 to geared toward family or friend 9:00 PM caregivers, not paid caregivers. Call LOCATION: 10329 SW Bank Julea for details or with questions: Road, Vashon 567-6142. DIRECTIONS: From Vashon The Owl and the center, go west on SW Bank Road 0.3 miles. Joy’s home is on the south Woodpecker side. Park along Bank Road. We are fortunate to welcome Discussion issues: 1) Single award winning photographer Paul Payer Healthcare. 2) Public Bannick as the presenter for our financing of political campaigns. 3) Audubon program meeting on at Transition initiatives to overcome 7:00 pm July 15, 2009 at the Land “peak oil” and “climate change” Trust Building. Those of us who New and enjoy the changes. Questions: were lucky enough to catch Paul Steve Graham, Administrative Bannick’s visit to Vashon Audubon Coordinator, (206) 463-9579 or three years ago know to expect an 17311 Vashon Hwy Sw Spring Hours Melvin Mackey, Secretary, (206) evening of spectacular photographs 463-3468. of North American owls and Come Join Us Again woodpeckers. Few individuals have Monday - Friday 5:30am - 4:00pm the energy and stamina to patiently Saturday 7:00am - 5:00pm At Camp Dave observe for hours, to detect the potential for an amazing Please come join us and the Sunday 7:00am - 3:00pm photograph, and then to augment Vashon High School Varsity the quiet waiting with tremendously Volleyball Coach Dave Plypic for a skilled camera wielding in order to week of volleyball in the sun. When: fully realize the potential for a July 27-31, 9 am – noon. Cost: $100 Check out our Punch Cards for the week. Age: Girls 11 and up. No experience necessary but basic “Double punch after lunch” skills are recommended Special thanks to the K2 Sports for donating 17311 Vashon Hwy Sw their services. For Questions and registration please call Marika at 206-963-8773. Women’s Health Clinic Opens Continued from page 1 services such as menstrual cycle The Vashon Loop women’s needs, as well as a teen concerns, pelvic pain, and family walk-in clinic every Thursday planning. For women forty and over, Writers: Kathy Abascal, Deborah afternoon. Though there are a in addition to the services previously Anderson, Marie Browne, MEarth, Eric variety of health clinics on island, mentioned, the focus will be directed Francis, Troy Kindred, Melissa McCann, towards helping women make the Orca Annie, Kevin Pottinger, Rex Morris, none offer specialized care for the transition through perimenopause/ Ed Swan, Mary Litchfield Tuel, Marj unique needs of women. This Watkins. menopause. Original art, comics, cartoons: DeeBee, beautiful and intimate view of an new clinic creates an opportunity A registered nurse of 24 years, Ed Frohning, Rick Tuel, Jeff Hawley, Alex elusive wild bird. for women to have access to care Scheer has a wide range of Soriano. Steve Krueger Paul Bannick’s recently that they might not receive at a experience with healthcare, Ad sales and design: no one, really (Need published book is “The Owl and the regular health clinic. including her work at Planned a job) Woodpecker, Encounters with Many women on Vashon chose Parenthood and as the Email: [email protected] Editor: Ed Swan, North America’s Most Iconic Birds”. in the past to commute off-Island for administrator of Vashon Community [email protected] It is the culmination of thousands of specialized women’s care, but with Care Center. In 2007 she became an Publishers: Marie Browne and Troy hours in the field and features 41 the opening of Vashon Women’s advanced registered nurse Kindred species of birds in eleven key North Health Center, this will no longer be practitioner, receiving her post PO Box 253, Vashon, WA 98070 American habitats. as necessary. Scheer offers a wide graduate training at the University Paid advertisements in The Vashon Loop in Paul Bannick writes: “My goal no way express the opinions of the variety of services at her clinic. The of Washington in the Women‘s publisher, editor, or staff. We reserve the … with this book is to increase services include consultations for Health Department. right to edit or not even print stuff. Deal awareness of these birds and their young adolescents who are just “I’m excited to offer specialized with it. Come eat at the Q...again habitats, which in many cases are beginning to experience the changes care for women,” Scheer said. “It has and again! at risk. I hope the images and in their bodies, walk-in services for been a dream of mine to open my Published every two weeks or so narrative presented in this book will teens including birth control, own practice on Vashon. This will by Paradise Valley Press © July 10, 2009- Vol. VI, #14 inspire appreciation for the diversity infection screening and treatment, be an opportunity for me to deliver of North America’s owls and treatment for acne, and sports care for women in a way that I feel Don’t miss an issue. Really. woodpeckers and for the extent to physicals. For the women in their they deserve.” which they depend upon one twenties and thirties, services The clinic is located in the center We are in our 6th year of another and the other animals and include annual exams and Paps, of Vashon town, between Giraffe publication and still not plants of each habitat.” health screening, gynecology bankrupt! (Yet) Wow! Continued on page 7 July 10, ‘09 The Vashon Loop, p. 3

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most daring moment I did the one Blending traditional medicine and complementary/ Two Wings or Half a activity you are never supposed to alternative approaches to provide: Dream do at a power lunch. I revealed my vulnerabilities. In that transmission Preventive Health Care: by Deborah H. Anderson of humanity, he directed me to From 36,000 feet, the clouds what I was already doing right and STD Testing and Management of STDs covered the ocean like cellulite on cut the bands on my clipped wings. an old woman’s fanny. The waves “Look, this is your moment. If on the shoreline seemed to stand still you don’t take it, God will raise up Family Planning as Route 1 snaked around the edge someone else.” of Big Sur. We were beginning our Whoa…not hardly. Not on my Lifestyle Support descent into San Francisco. watch. The trajectory out of John Wayne With that my body relaxed into Breast Health airport in Orange County had my destiny. Everything was going surprised me an hour earlier. After to be OK. several hours of delays, I was eager Two days after I returned, I stood Gynecological Health Services to return home. On take off, we on a friend’s lawn and watched two whooshed out over the ocean and bald eagles write lazy circles in the Walk in Teen Clinics from 1-5 suddenly I felt like I was on a sky overhead. Over and over they carnival ride I wanted to stop. I don’t tilted their wings to make yet mind being high up in an airplane another sweep of the sky. as long as I’m looking at terra firma. We have a lot of people who Seeing the ocean stay beneath us, accomplish a lot here on the Island. realizing that might be the biggest I admire that. I’m buoyed by how part of our journey, I glanced at the they share it with the community. LA PLAYA emergency card in the pocket in But I have noticed that the people LA PLAYA front of me and remembered some who contribute the most are those A Family Mexican Restaurant details from the explosive crash of with strong off-Island ties. that plane over the Atlantic that flew Sometimes it feels like there are two Miguel and Ofelia have a new baby girl! out of Brazil just a few weeks earlier. kinds of birds on the Island: good Melissa was born February 25, and weighed Like only the upper echelon of hardworking chickens pecking the Vashon Island, I had flown to LA ground and eagles soaring above. a healthy 8 lbs 4 oz. for a power lunch. Down and back We fight against a provincial Now that Miguel is a dad, he in one day. A power lunch! Wow!! I mindset. Limited by land and water, thinks kids should eat for free at am a person who loves efficiency. In we can many times fall into self La Playa. an odd sort of way, a power lunch indulgence and comfort instead of is efficient. You get in there, you a life that adds to the eternal good. So here’s the deal: discuss, you negotiate the decision But behold… we have the power and wham bam, you’re home to set people free. We can appear KIDS EAT FREE EVERY ma’am. vulnerable. On the Island, that is a For a brief second, I thought all real no no. We are to look strong was lost. Arriving ten minutes before and confident and have a demeanor DAY AFTER 5:00 PM! the end of my colleague’s keynote that is well pressed and clean. But Of course, there are rules... address, I surmised I had timed it if we are vulnerable, then we are Buy two regular menu items and up to three kids get just right. As I approached him in open to the person across the table dinner on the house Kids 10 and under only the lobby of the convention center leaning in and telling us, “this is Must be accompanied by a parent and shook hands, he smiled and your moment.” Kids order from the children’s menu then blew me off, telling me he Most importantly, we can reach Not valid with any other offer would meet me at the Hilton. higher and beyond anything we It was only in the lobby ten have ever done. I invite you today Spanish/English Karaoke minutes later, he explained that just to, as one friend put it, live life Saturdays 9:00 pm - 1:00 am as he was being introduced that instead of just spending it. Spread morning, the person doing the you wings. Whatever it is you’ve 7 Days a Week 11:00 am - 10:00 pm introductions dropped their entire wanted to try and never 10825 Vashon Hwy SW (206) 567-0020 cup of coffee on his laptop. As we have…today is your day!! Be took our seats in the restaurant he vulnerable. This is your moment. Go exclaimed, “I had ten books on that for it!! thing!” In the ultimate irony, Love because he summers on one of the Deborah A Different Sort of Ranch islands to the north, our producing by hand, with get our young lambs. This is one way Continued from page 1 conversation began with me telling compassion and great respect. of protecting them, and a way of him to make sure his assistant I have done wildlife work for 25 It is a way of slowing down. You teaching non-lethal predator checked the ferry schedule as some years now. And the most important can’t help but relax when knitting control. This is something Wolftown runs were being cancelled due to thing I have ever done is this, the while watching sheep graze, and is helping with on farms and low tides. slow and local food movement. This the young interns full of computers ranches east of the mountains. We finally got to, “Show me is because the best and blackberries, Folks are so far removed from what you’ve got” thing we can do for not the edible earth now that simple farming facts The two page outline I handed wildlife is change kind that the are a source of mystery. But luckily him also had coffee stains on it, and the way we live sheep browse they delight my young interns, and scribbles, and rewrites and add ons. and preserve on, slow with some of my not so young volunteers. Initiated in 1993 during another trip habitat. you. This may So my friends call and come by. to Orange County, I finished and Wolftown has help a weary, Slow down, why rush? The end is copyrighted the thing in 2001. Since focused on sheep tired world. the grave, enjoy this summer’s day then it had sat in my files steeping because in a Oh, I have and find a few simple joys and like one of those room fresheners temperate climate Sheep dogs helping out, photo by T. had people pleasures in watching sheep and with the essential oil and the wicks. soybeans would be Martino-Yamamoto. complain a bit listening to the Swainson’s Thrush. After discussing the outline very hard. Sheep about farming. And creating something beautiful thoroughly he asked, “How much provide clothing, dairy, leather and One neighbor didn’t understand on our island home. of this is written?” “None of it,” I meat, also soap and lanolin. All why the sheep were kept up close PS: Darling Pete is doing very answered. “I don’t know how or these products Wolftown is together in our yard area. The well, thank you for your support what to do with it.” And then, in a ravens and one eagle were trying to and kind thoughts. July 10, ‘09 The Vashon Loop, p. 5 Don’t Forget the Birds

The Next New Species for Vashon? by Ed Swan

In early June, Islander Steve observations across the state. Caldwell joined me for the Tonasket Locally, one of their consistent Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) in locations includes the Ft. Lewis area Okanogan County. I survey one of and the farms just south of Sumner these US Geological Survey routes in Pierce County. each year, counting every bird heard Eurasian Collared-Dove favor or seen in 3 minutes at 50 stops a urban, suburban and rural areas half mile apart over 25 miles. The with bird feeders and spilled grain BBS tracks the occurrence of birds or feed. Sounds like Vashon might in the breeding season across North be just right for them. In America, giving a picture of the appearance, they look somewhat expanding, stable and declining bird bigger than the similar shaped populations (unfortunately many Mourning Doves that occasionally declining). This year we found a show up around Vashon. Their new bird on the Tonasket route. feathers show as a lighter grey than As we counted the first of three the Mourning Dove. The tail of the stops running through the town of Eurasian Collared Dove is squared Tonasket, I noticed a pair of doves off rather than pointed like the landing on a telephone wire and Mourning Dove. Stark white then taking off again. They just feathers form a broad under band didn’t look right, not the usual on the tail of the Eurasian Collared- Mourning Doves of which several Dove and they have a black “collar” also flew by. As Steve and I got around the back side of the neck. As several not so good looks, the larger one birder put it recently, their size and great amount of white natural habitat seems to be the under the end of the tail led us to telephone pole and line. That’s the mostly likely place to find them if they come to Vashon or at local feeders. If you see one of these doves on the Island, please try to obtain a photo and also contact me (see contact you have an interesting sighting or diversity. For details contact me or information a question about local birds, call me visit my website: Eurasian Collared-Dove photo by Jim Rosso. below). Photos at 463-7976 or email at www.theswancompany.com. don’t need to be [email protected]. the conclusion that they must be exhibition quality, just clear enough If you’d be interested in a guided Eurasian Collared-Dove. Unhappy to see the field marks and get an idea bird tour of Vashon or an off-Island Island Birding Guide to not yet obtain a clear glimpse, we of the size. trip for ptarmigan on Mt. Rainier or Tours to the best Vashon went to the next stop along the down to the Nisqually National and Puget Sound bird spots Spring migration wrapped up Species Identification railroad tracks and there another early and fall, or the return Wildlife Refuge for returning birds, How to Attract Birds pair provided great views. And at migration, should already have contact me as listed above. I also do Ed Swan the next one more pair showed up. started. Gulls and shorebirds often home visits to help identify birds in (206) 463-7976 From no past sightings on the are reported in mid and late June but your yard and provide suggestions [email protected]. route, Eurasian Collared-Dove went no sightings have come in yet. If for attracting more birds and species to appearing in three stops, seemingly well established in Tonasket. These birds also represented the first ones I ever saw in Washington State. The first record for Washington came not long ago in Spokane in January of 2000. Their first North American observations date back to Florida in the early 1980’s. According to the Cornell’s Birds of North America On-line, breeders first introduced the species to the Caribbean in the Bahamas. A burglary there causing the escape of several birds and another release in the face of a volcanic eruption on the island of Guadalupe caused the birds to start nesting on their own. They spread to Florida, then to the Southeastern U.S. and now all over North America in the space of two decades. The Washington State experience mirrors the rapid expansion of Eurasian Collared- Dove across North America. From a few sightings early this decade in Eastern Washington, the last three years recorded county first The Vashon Loop, p. 6 July 10, ‘09

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Both your talent contact with the ground that a and your calling have the ability to particular idea, project or commitment change the world. That’s really what is based upon. If you make a decision, you’re feeling; the shadow has know the basis upon which you are nothing to do with ethics, per se. It’s deciding. If you make a commitment, about whether you trust yourself with have a clear plan for how you intend power. to fulfill that commitment. It may be Gemini (May 20-June 21) One difficult to embrace the fact that you way to handle debts people owe to need certain situations more than they you is to forgive them. Admittedly, need you. That can lead you to feel this violates the first five principles of insecure; or it can lead you to invest capitalism, but capitalism doesn’t yourself in them, and make your actually work, and even when it sort dependability a commodity that of works it’s not sustainable. 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More information can also be found on the website, at www.vashonwomenshealth.org. Compost the Loop The Loop’s soy-based ink is okay for composting. The Vashon Loop, p. 8 July 10, ‘09 sparse exhibits. The altar is there, as SpiritualSpiritual are two side altars with iconographic paintings and Live Music at the Red Bike decorations. The hand-hewn MONDAY NIGHTS: FREE POOL ALL SmartSmart floorboards are shiny with age and DAY. POOL TOURNAMENT AT 6PM. care, and behind the altar you can 1st PRIZE = $20, 2nd PRIZE = $10 AleckAleck see the mud and straw construction TUESDAY NIGHTS: POKER AleckAleck that is covered by wood elsewhere. TOURNAMENT AT 6PM & 9PM There are two pews up front facing the altar, and one kneeler. WEDNESDAY NIGHTS: ALL YOU CAN EAT CRAB NIGHT FOR $25, PLUS Engravings of the Stations of the LIGHT PIANO DINNER MUSIC 7-9PM Cross were hung around the walls of the church, as is customary in a THURSDAY NIGHTS: LADIES NIGHT - Catholic church, and there were a DRINKS HALF OFF, PLUS few iconic paintings of saints. KARAOKE NIGHT AT 9:30PM www.spiritualsmartaleck.blogspot.com One painting is of a happy priest FRIDAY NIGHTS: or brother and a happy nun, with Bistro Hours LIVE BAND NIGHT - 8:30PM Montana, Part 1 joyful saints fluttering above them in heaven and tormented souls Sunday thru Thursday SATURDAY NIGHTS: By Mary Litchfield Tuel capering in the flames of hell below. 11am - 9pm LIVE BAND NIGHT - 9:30PM This one bothered me because I have Friday & Saturday Greetings from Kalispell, problems with “scare the hell out of SUNDAY NIGHTS: LOCAL LIVE BAND 11am - 10pm NIGHT - 7:30-9:30PM Montana, where the sun is shining, them” theology. Just my opinion. the wind is blowing, and a local At several places both inside the resident can give you much better church and scattered around the Sushi Bar & Live Entertainment Weekends directions than MapQuest. My property were stations where you cousins Nancy and Charlotte and I could push a button and hear Open for Breakfast Weekends at 8am are on the road again. recordings of Coeur d’Alene Before setting out I made a list storytellers. Charlotte and I listened Poker Tournaments Tuesday and Thursday 6pm of what I needed, and yesterday to one tale of going up the mountain morning the three of us were with grandmother to gather dancing around each other, packing huckleberries and make jam over www.redbicyclebistro.com (“I’m ready!”), and unpacking (“On the campfire. Inside the church an VashonVashon CarpetCarpet SteamSteam CleaningCleaning 206-9206-9119-709-701199 Fast Same Day Service! New Carpet Available! The Big Sky Country. Flathead Lake and the Rockies, photo by Mary Litchfield Tuel. second thought, I don’t need this, or endless loop played liturgical music Great Rates! that, or those”), and doing last and Indian prayer and song. minute laundry. Then we packed the The Mission has a public car (“We’re ready!”) and then we re- restroom which turned out to be an packed it (“Wait - this will fit in outhouse. Clean, well constructed, New to Vashon and Tacoma! here”). well maintained, and if you sit Finally we were off, heading east down, a nice cooling updraft. The water with miles of shoreline, Fireside Hearth on I-90, bound for adventure, old first, but not the last, of this type of waterfront cottages, little marinas friends, and relatives unseen for facility encountered on the trip. filled with boats, and scenic roadside Dry Wood forty years who live in Montana. We kept going east from the Old lookouts. To the east beyond the lake The only guaranteed dry fuel We stopped in Idaho to see the Mission and stopped for a late stand the Rocky Mountains. for your woodstove is at the Old Mission east of Coeur d’Alene, lunch in St. Regis, Montana, where At the north end of the lake sits Fireside Hearth Shoppe. Our “the oldest building in Idaho.” The we discovered we had cell phone the city of Kalispell, in a broad grassy presto logs are 8% oldest structure partially built by reception for the first time since valley with the Rockies on the east water weight and are stove white people in the four-walls-and- leaving Coeur d’Alene, and like side and the Bitterroot Mountains on ready immediately call 463 a-roof style, that is. It is a Catholic E.T., we called home. We also the west. I would say it is beautiful 5995 for delivery while supplies Church that was built between 1850 discovered in St. Regis that we had there, and it is, but beautiful seems and 1853 by the Coeur d’Alene crossed into the Mountain Time such a worn-out, overused, and last! Don't risk chimney fires Indians, and the Jesuits who came zone. I had not thought about this inadequate word to describe the with wet wood! to settle there. happening. Suddenly it was one area. This was a problem I would The Old Mission is a state park hour later. Cousin Charlotte continue to have in Montana. Words now, and the church building is assured me that I would get the can’t describe the scope, the Pre-sale Tickets almost empty inside, with a few hour back on the way home. Good. magnitude, the sheer drop-dead I’m getting older fast enough gorgeousness of the land. We went for the Carnival at without dropping odd hours here when the weather was sunny and and there. Another thing I did not fine and not too hot, so that may the Strawberry know was that cell phones KNOW have enhanced the impression of Festival! what time zone you’re in and adjust heaven on earth. their clocks to local time. This gave We stayed in Kalispell for a Tickets available at Island me a little bit of a heeby-jeeby. couple of days, catching up with Thyme for $18.00. Tickets on From St. Regis we headed north friends and family, and then we sale until the carnival opens- up the Clark River, and then up the went to Glacier Park. good for a one session wrist west side of Flathead Lake. Next time: Glacier Park and band. Call the Chamber at 463- The Old Mission, photo by Mary Litchfield Flathead Lake is a large body of heading home. 6217 for more info. Tuel. July 10, ‘09 The Vashon Loop, p. 9 deterred mosquito bites effectively. Interestingly, both the essential oil and the DEET may work better at the lower dilution. And in case you were wondering: In mosquito repellant studies, volunteers cover their legs with a repellant and sit in lawn chairs and let mosquitoes bite them. A monitor stands next to them to make sure all bites are recorded. After a few hours, they total the number of bites to determine the effectiveness of the repellant. Some of the volunteers end up testing the placebo, suffering numerous bites (150 or more). Most of the lemon eucalyptus oil sprays on the market appear to contain about 30% eucalyptus oil Preventing with the remaining 70% a mixture Mosquito Bites of water, alcohol, emulsifiers (to keep the oil suspended) and by Kathy Abascal preservatives. Should you prefer, it should be fairly easy to make up It is mosquito time again and your own blend at home. In the time to worry a bit about avoiding study, the lemon eucalyptus oil was mosquito bites as West Nile virus diluted with coconut oil but rubbing continues to spread. For most, the alcohol might also be a good solvent virus may pass almost unnoticed but for the oil. I am going to try the 40% in some people it causes a blend in coconut oil this year as I devastating illness. The unlucky few think the essential oil will dissolve will have meningitis-like symptoms better in the oil than in the alcohol. and after-effects that may interfere If you use alcohol, remember to with normal life for many years. shake the bottle before spraying to There is no known treatment for the keep the oil in solution. virus and no reliable way of If you do not want to make your predicting which people will suffer own, be careful choosing sprays on the more the market to serious make sure they symptoms contain enough although essential oil. those with Some online Kathy Abascal is a professional member of the American chronic recipes Herbalists guild and is certified by Michael Moore of the illnesses recommend 28 Southwest School of Botanical Medicine. She has written two and a drops of books on medicinal plants: Clinical Botanical Medicine and weakened essential oil to 8 Herbs & Influenza - how herbs used in the 1918 flu pandemic immune oz of solvent – a can be effective today. system are much, much She is available for herbal and nutritional consultations at more likely weaker solution Court House Square. The consultations will help you choose herbs and supplements as well as make dietary changes that to suffer the than used in the will support your health. An evaluation of how these changes study. And worst cases. might affect any prescriptions medicines you are taking is I have some people say included in the consultation. Kathy also teaches on-going gotten that just Conscious Eating for Health & Weight Loss classes at the several calls dabbing the Roasterie. For more information, contact Kathy at 463-9211 or asking me essential oil on at [email protected]. how to various spots on make the body also New Classes, New Times: herbal bug works but again, sprays, and Eucalyptus, by Kathy Abascal that type of use Eating for Health & Weight Loss. so decided to go over herbal bug has not been studied and may not By Kathy Abascal sprays again. be as effective. The repellant effect The primary insect repellant should last for around 4 hours. Inflammation is a big factor in all chronic conditions including hypertension, arthritis, and diabetes. Excess abdominal fat is another inflammatory condition that takes a significant toll on today is DEET. It is a chemical that Of course, neither DEET nor your health. Fortunately, diet can effectively and easily reduce inflammation and the problems it damages plastic and also has lemon eucalyptus have shown causes. In this class you learn why some foods quiet inflammation while others increase it. potential for side effects in users. Eye 100% effectiveness but deter 92-93% Eating to quiet inflammation provides significant benefits that include a relatively effortless irritation has been the most of the mosquito bites (based on a weight loss (if needed), improved sleep, and the disappearance of annoying aches & pains. New frequently reported adverse effect comparison with the number of series: Thursdays beginning July 16 at 7:00-8:30 PM. The class runs for 5 consecutive weeks. Advance registration at the Roasterie/Minglement and prepayment ($75) is required. There is but there have also been reports of bites the person without repellant also an online class beginning Sunday July 19 at 3:00 PM ($90). For more information, contact central nervous system problems, suffered). This means that no Kathy Abascal at [email protected]. more frequently reported in children matter what you use, you may still than adults, ranging from slurred get a few bug mosquito bites but and is nearly miraculous for spider deter bites: The research is not speech and confusion to seizures dramatically fewer than without a bites or other venomous bites that eat definitive but the mosquito experts and coma. The risk of adverse effects repellant. away the flesh. I also use echinacea say that taking extra B vitamins will increases the longer you use DEET Herbs can also help reduce the in a spray form combined with not affect how desirable you are to or the stronger the DEET product. itching and inflammation of those several other herbs for dog’s itchy, a female mosquito. The CDC also endorses the use occasional bites as well as bites and gooey hot spots and similar of an herbal essential oil as an stings from other insects. A afflictions in humans. effective mosquito repellant. The common home remedy is to put So, get out there and empty out Retail Space essential oil of lemon eucalyptus mashed plantain on the bite. all containers with water in them. (Eucalyptus maculata citriodora) Plantain grows abundantly on the Not growing mosquitoes goes a long For Lease proved equally effective to DEET in Island, and many of my colleagues way toward not getting bitten. 1100+ square feet those trials. The study I read swear by it. Unfortunately, it has Slather on some herbal bug spray, In town/On main street compared a 40% and a 75% lemon never soothed my itchy bites very and you should be good to go, but 17502 Vashon Highway well. Instead, I first try an echinacea keep some echinacea tincture on eucalyptus/oil blend to similar Repaint, recarpet to suit concentrations of DEET and found tincture which I drip directly on the hand just in case. And, in case you 463 2608 or 790 9457 that both the essential oil and DEET bite. 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On a beautiful afternoon recently, my husband and I realized Dow Gets Stimulus that our two children were far too quiet. We went to look for them and Cash found them both in our newly With politicians in D.C. planted garden, one happily using jabbering about when the massive the hoe to fix the rows and the other government stimulus will start with pen and paper, writing a yielding results, we’re already poem. It was a beautiful scene and beginning to see the fruits of their we thought it would be lovely to efforts. As the Ballard News-Tribune share her words with others on reported, King County recently Vashon. received $79 million of federal Proud parents -Kristen and Vince stimulus. While of course welcome Green in today’s dire economic straits, the distribution of these funds and the very means of their procurement My Garden offer a glimpse at one of the by Keeley Noel Green candidates fighting to become our next King County Executive. the sun is just setting The acquisition of these vital the beans have broken out funds as well as millions more shells of them gone for food currently pending are “part of an organized effort to maximize the the leaves tender, scales dry, benefits to King County from federal not the slightest movement stimulus funding sponsored by council chair Dow Constantine” as Its hot outside.... let us cook for you.... Call us now the poppy growing inch by inch reported by the News-Tribune. In lettuce and pumpkin leaves spread fact, Mr. Constantine has even wide authored legislation to create post Relax....We Deliver young and old that will be in charge of Located between Vashon Market and Vashon Dance newborn sprouts will grow big “identify[ing] appropriate grant beautiful pumpkins round opportunities and communicate timelines…to ensure timely LETTUCE CRUNCHY! submission of applications” in an effort to maximize the effect of the Call 56-PIZZA POPPIES GOLDEN! tomatoes’ flower almost spread government stimulus in King County. Open Friday thru Monday 4pm - 8pm In a race muddled with four broccoli in a line Democratic candidates and a single pepper strong and powerful closet Republican running largely rhubarb pie on name recognition, King County A Passion for Cribbage strawberries Yum. voters should take note of Mr. Continued from page 1 Constantine’s diligence in acquiring There are two types of cribbage and distributing resources to the The Walkers are from Prince tournaments, Grass Roots clubs that benefit of our community. George, British Columbia. After meet once a week, and open Evan Turner Linton retired from the railroad he tournaments, where you pay to began to travel to cribbage play. tournaments with friends. Walker said that most of the He enjoyed the cribbage, the income from entry fees goes into travel, and the friends, “...but then prizes awarded to players. I realized that I had no record of the Mike Sudduth, the contact for places I’d been and games I’d the Vashon Cribbage Club, which is played, so I started keeping copies a Grassroots club, agreed. “100% of of my score sheets.” Now he keeps the entry fees go back to the players those copies, numbered in as cash prizes,” Sudduth said. “We chronological order, in don’t make a dime.” plastic page protectors The Vashon that are in three-ring Vashon Cribbage Club Club members binders. Saturdays at 1 p.m. enjoyed meeting His wife, Della, At the Eagles Linton and Della started to travel with FREE for the summer! Walker, and would him after she retired. (206) 930-1379 for enjoy meeting you, “At first I would as well. information travel, but not play,” There is no fee Della said. “I’d sit in for playing at the Bill Burby, courtesy photo. the camper and read, but then Vashon Club in the summer. The Linton said that I should come in club invites young people and Top 10 Reasons to Do The Burby Run and play. I was so nervous. The first beginners to come in now. It’s a by David Litterman couple of years I couldn’t win great way to meet people and keep anything. There was one guy who your mind sharp. Students can have 10. You get to strut your stuff in those colorful shorty-shorts was aggressive and critical, telling fun and hone their basic math skills. 9. You get to wear a snazzy headband to hold your comb-over in place me I’d missed points. When I got The Vashon Cribbage Club 8. You get the satisfaction of knowing you can still out-run the in-laws better, I enjoyed beating that son of meets every Saturday at the Vashon 7. You get to burn enough calories to make room for Festival curly fries a gun.” Eagles Club at 1 p.m. “We’re usually 6. You get to practice wearing an electronic surveillance ankle bracelet Together they have gone to done by 4:30, and we’re patient with 5. You get a Ju ly 18 reprieve from mowing the lawn Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, the East beginners,” Sudduth said. 4. You get a T-shirt so you don’t forget the race name Coast, the Midwest, and the Rocky For more information about 3. You get a chance to ask Aaron Burby for an autograph Mountains in the United States, as playing cribbage on Vashon, see the 2. You get a complimentary Vashon (not Maury) wedgy from going up well as traveling extensively in their club’s website at http:// and down the hills native Canada, and they have home.comcast.net/ 1. You get a chance to be immortalized on the web: played cribbage with many other ~vashonislander/tidepool/, or call www.BillBurbyRace.org enthusiasts. (206) 930-1379, or email [email protected]. The Vashon Loop, p. 12 July 10, ‘09

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Proofreading and Editing... from A to Z Mailers Mission Online docs Plays Manuals statements Order forms Poetry Maps Music notation Packaging Press releases Marketing News copy Pamphlets Pricing Memorials Newspapers Personals Product tags Menus Novels Photo captions Programs Placards EAGLE EYE PROOFREADING and EDITING Nancy Morgan [email protected] 206/567-5463 PO Box 2393 206/819-2795 Vashon, WA 98070 July 10, ‘09 The Vashon Loop, p. 13 After spending all day Sunday o watching football on television, a Lo py Laf s man fell asleep and spent the night f in the chair. His wife woke him in There are some advantages to living the morning. in a mobile home. If it caught on fire, “It’s twenty to seven,” she called. you could meet the fire department “In whose favor?” halfway there. How do you fix a broken pizza? Woman’s Poem Tomato paste!

He didn’t like the casserole During a museum tour, the And he didn’t like my cake. guide explains, “Here you can see He said my biscuits were too hard... the beautiful statue of Athena...” Not like his mother used to make. “Excuse me, madam,” the old professor interjects. “Who is that I didn’t perk the coffee right man behind her? Is he her He didn’t like the stew, husband?” I didn’t mend his socks “No, Athena wasn’t married,” The way his mother used to do. said the tour guide. “She was the goddess of wisdom.” I pondered for an answer, I was looking for a clue. Then I turned around and smacked him... Like his mother used to do.

A listener called the disc jockey on the air at our radio station to ask about the upcoming lunar eclipse. “The eclipse can be seen at 1:30 in the morning,” the DJ told her. “That late?” she snapped. “Why can’t they schedule these things earlier so kids can enjoy them too?”

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Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don’t compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. The Vashon Loop, p. 14 July 10, ‘09 Loop Arts Free concert at Ober Park The Summer Concerts in the by Janice Randall Park Series has become an Island singer/songwriter/composer tradition, thanks to Vashon Park Lindsay Tomasic who creates District and Vashon Allied Arts. acoustic music to make her audience Free to the public, everyone’s invited members laugh and think. She has to show up at Ober Park, with picnic headlined such Southern California We have tomato water trays baskets, beach chairs, kids, parents landmarks as The Troubadour and and friends for great, free music. No penned theme songs to a variety of & tomato cages. alcohol in the Park please. television and films, including Check our plant website for Mark your calendar for July 21, NBC’s Mysterious Ways, Queer Eye amazing Selections: We now 6 to 9 pm, for Los Angeles-based For The Straight Guy, Malcolm In The do a search for any plant we Or, for show times and info, check Middle and Desperate don't have www.vashontheater.com Housewives. We have canning books; Compared to Ball Complete Book of Home vocal divas Norah Preserving & Ball Blue Book Harry Potter Jones and Bonnie of Preserving & Keeping the and the Half Raitt, Tomesic is also Harvest by Nancy Chioffi & an accomplished Gretchen Mead acoustic finger style Blood Prince guitarist and her Our Bamboo towels & Bath July 15th- 30th albums, What in The sets make great gifts for World (2007) and A brides & everyone. Slice Of Life (2008) have received world The Country Store & Gardens wide accolades. These 20211 Vashon Hwy SW along with her 206-463-3655 newest release, The www.countrystoreplants.com Most Amazing Dream, will be available evening of the show. Guitar collector, world traveler, recording studio owner and champion of rescue dogs, Tomasic’s music offers rich textures and possibilities. See you at the Park!

Lindsay Tomasic, courtesy photo. Lindsay Tomasic, will also perform at Cafe Luna, Friday, July 24th from 7PM to 9PM. Joining Lindsay will be musicians, Novi Novog, on viola, Larry Tuttle on upright bass and Tom Brighton on percussion. Wednesday Farmers Market Begins July 15 Continued from page 1 Farmers will be selling all the fresh This year the Wednesday market berries and vegetables of summer will also feature prepared foods and some island artisans will also be shoppers can take home for dinner present. The Farmers Market will or eat at the Village Green. Island be closed Saturday July 18 due to the Tlingit Art by Lonning at The Q farmers Joe and Celina Yarkin of street closure. For more information Continued from page 1 Sun Island Farm will make your go to the Vashon Island Growers by their First Nations ancestry, dinner out of Island grown produce Association (VIGA) web site at Odin and his partner, Orca Annie, so you can spend the evening www.vigavashon.org or call the created Kéet Shuká: An relaxing with friends or family over market manager at 206-267-8146. an Island prepared meal. Sun Island Farm is adding value Indigenous Tribute to Killer The Vashon Saturday market to its own farm-raised goods by Whales, and other programs that continues each Saturday from 10-2 grilling some of them at the market weave together Native culture, in the Village Green with the including frittatas made with their science, and art. exception of Strawberry Festival own free-range eggs. Long time Says Odin, “As my artwork July 18, (see below). Beginning in Islander and chef Emily Vogt is new evolves, I feel a greater responsibility May 2009 both the Wednesday and at the market preparing delicious to honor both culture and nature. the Saturday Vashon Farmers wraps with fresh cheeses and island My mission is to show respect for Market take EBT (food stamps), grown vegetables stuffed inside as ancestors, the natural world, and credit and debit cards. Most farmers well as salads, and rice dishes. Paul artists who have gone before me. also take WIC checks, (USDA Motoyoshi of Sol Source has The problems endangering our killer Women, Infants and Children’s returned with his tasty Asian whales, salmon, and other wildlife “Totem Eagle,” © 2008 Odin Lonning, on program). For more information go specialties such as miso soup, hum display with other pieces at The Q in July. stem from mainstream society’s loss to the Vashon Island Growers bows and Spring rolls as well as of relationship with Mother Earth. Association (VIGA) web site at (new this year) fresh pies. Saturdays all the useable vendor Traditional Native values, reflected www.vigavashon.org or call the So far this year the Vashon space at the market is filled and up in our cultures, art, and spirituality, market manager at 206-267-8146. Farmers Market is not seeing the to 50 vendors are present. Food are crucial to strengthening our Pre-Strawberry Festival Farmers double digit growth in sales it sales remain strong and an increase bond with fragile species and Market, FRIDAY, July 17 experienced in 2008 and 2007. Craft in the number of farms should boost preserving irreplaceable natural The Vashon Farmers Market will sales, which make up between 30 sales in summer after a slow Spring. resources.” be open Friday, July 17 from 10-2 in and 40% of market sales have been On July 4, 15 different farms and Visit www.OdinLonning.com or the Village Green for a special pre- lower this year, despite an increase nurseries were represented up from call 206-463-9041 to learn more Strawberry Festival market. in the number of vendors. Many an average of 10 in 2008. about his work. July 10, ‘09 The Vashon Loop, p. 15 Red Bicycle Rocks the Strawberry Festival

Featuring an All Ages show Sunday and 21+ Friday by Pete Welch and Saturday Friday night, July 17th, If that wasn’t enough, on Saturday starting at 9pm, the Red Bicycle night, July 18th, starting at 9pm, the has a triple header you won’t Red Bicycle has another triple header soon forget with McDougall, lined up that will keep the dance floor Hillstomp and Trolls Cottage. packed with Sidestreet Reny opening McDougall, out of Portland up for Ska bands Natalie Wouldn’t and and a good friend of Hillstomps, The Georgetown Orbits. will perform an acoustic set to Reny and Bell blend bluesy/funky open the show. In a time where finger-style and slide on National many find more and more Resonator guitar, original poignant slipping from their grasp, songwriting and solid straightforward McDougall points to a simpler grooves. Drawing mostly from pre-war life where hope is prevalent - his blues, roots and folk music with a little story walks the path away from old school rap, calypso and dancehall the dismal, material-minded reggae, SSR manage to forge their own world and towards a place of sound and push musical boundaries in peace among friends, family an era when many other musicians and the Almighty. strive to sound the same. The SSR Portland Oregon junkbox sound is one that Reny has spent the blues duo Hillstomp is a Vashon last 12 years cultivating; producing a favorite, known for their gumbo of originality, where Delta Blues distinctive brand of do-it- simmers with urban and Caribbean yourself hill country blues accents, completing this rootsy stew stomp. North Mississippi trance with wordy lyrics that showcase his blues, a bit of Appalachia, and unique “side street” perspective. The Hourly rentals at the Jensen Pt. result of their Boathouse at Burton Acres Park: efforts is a seemingly May 21 to Sept. 7, Thurs, Fri, Sat & organic blend of Sun, 10A to 5P. Later in Sept. and on the elements, week days by appt. For information and sewing 100 plus to arrange guided tours years of call 206-463-YAKS or email: American music [email protected] and visit into a rich the website: www.vashonparkdistrict.org. tapestry of eclectic yet somehow familiar sounds all their own... Trolls Cottage, courtesy photo. Like everything, and nothing a dash of punkabilly come you’ve ever heard, all at once. clanging and tumbling from Formed by members of Moon Ska We do passport photos -- apply for passports at the Courthouse on assorted buckets, cans and BBQ Records recording artists Steve Mandl, Tuesdays, Noon-3:30 pm; 4-7 p.m. lids, all drenched in Aaron Simms and Rick Dybvad of Easy rambunctious slide guitar. Big Fella, Natalie Wouldn’t entered the are turning heads in the Northwest Marilyn Kay & Company is an Somehow it works, especially in music scene in Seattle in 2001. The song as one of the few bands to pay organic blend of acoustic musicians our neck of the woods. Despite writing flowed, and the quite original tribute to the old sounds of Jamaican that deliver an energetic mix of their homemade instruments blend of Ska, Soul and Rock-and-roll Ska, a style which has gained Americana, bluegrass, country, and and novel approach, Hillstomp was born. Combined with in-your-face, notable popularity in Seattle since blues. They unite tradition with is no novelty act. Hillstomp’s tongue-in-cheek lyrics, Natalie the band’s conception in late 2004. modern sensibilities through the memorable live performances Wouldn’t’s material soon had the band In their relatively short career, the honesty and charm of Marilyn Kay’s tap into a magic that cannot be working the larger clubs in and around Georgetown Orbits have already original compositions, chilling rehearsed, converting outlaws played with such harmonies and an innovative and traditionalists alike from prominent names as approach to acoustic music. Come skeptics into preachers. the Skatalites on out and support Islander Trolls Cottage packed the (Jamaica), Clinton Rochelle Munger’s stellar band! house last January like no other Fearon (Jamaica), the This is an All-Ages show from 7:30- bands have ever been able to, English Beat (UK) 9:30pm and will not have a cover! thanks to the warm welcome by and other local and friends and family that came out touring bands. Fans Vashon Opera to support the hometown boys. of reggae, dancehall, While they have mostly stuck to funk, soul, jazz, ska, Season Tickets larger clubs around Seattle and and rock are now Go to vashonopera.org and neighboring cities, Trolls Cottage singing along to check out the great new website and has never forgotten their roots choruses while they buy your tickets online for La and love to come back to the dance to the hard- Boheme and The Tender Land. The venues have limited seating and Island to party with their friends Natalie Wouldn't, courtesy photo. hitting rhythms and and family. Summer is the best tastefully harmonized there are only two performances of time to experience this Seattle. From Seattle’s Fenix horn lines of the Georgetown Orbits. each opera. band…let’s roll up the garage Underground to the Folklife Festival $8 COVER! door and widen the dance floor and Victoria Ska Fest, Natalie is on the This is a 21+ event, the music out into the street because the move. The current 6 piece line-up is starts at 9pm, the cover is $8 and Eat at the... Red Bicycle plans on pulling out sharp and sophisticated as the live show the Red Bicycle recommends getting all the stops for this one. proves; not only a stunning collection your wristbands early because this This is a 21+ event, the music of talent, but a shared vision of the event will sell out. Be at the best starts at 9pm, the cover is $8 and direction Natalie Wouldn’t is taking as show to hit the Island in years! the Red Bicycle recommends a band. Then, on Sunday night, July getting your wristbands early The Georgetown Orbits boast a 19th, the Red Bicycle has an All- because this event will sell out. heavy regimen of traditional Ska and Ages show from 7:30 to 9:30pm For real. upbeat, roots-influenced Reggae. They with Marilyn Kay & Company. The Vashon Loop, p. 16 July 10, ‘09

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