In This Issue: Singing with Strawberry Festival Music & Events, Festival Orcas at Lime Painting the MySpace, Chicken Satay,Locavores, Devon Stuff! Kiln Town Orange Is the Life of the Party, Herbal Mosquito Page 4 Pages 2, 6, 9, 16 Pages 10 Repellent, and More!

Vol. 3, # 14 TO INFORM AND AMUSE ~ TO PROVOKE THINKING AND ACTIVISM July 5, 2006 Monastery Still Has “A Ways to Go”

Keller Williams Grand Opening Saturday, July 1, Marie Browne and Troy Kindred threw a party for the Island to celebrate their opening the Keller Williams Glendale real The 2006 VAA Quilt Photo by Terry Donnelly estate office Several hundred friends dropped by to view the premises, Win the Quilt! wish the Keller Williams crew well, By Janice Randall eat hot dogs, listen to the rock stylings of Loose Change, and This year’s Vashon Allied Arts schmooze. A good time was had by quilt says growing up on Vashon most. (The barbeque volunteers were The view from the hill behind the Monastery Photo by Father Tryphon may be better than growing up a little toasted.) anywhere else. And if you didn’t So Much Done, So grow up on Vashon, there’s still DAWN to Provide Much More to Do time. Island quilters bring some By Mary Litchfield Tuel of the wild, wonderful and quirky Services for Domestic glimpses of growing up here in When you come up the steep, the 21st annual VAA quilt, Violence Victims, winding driveway to the Orthodox coordinated by the amazing Survivors Monastery of Our All Merciful Catholine Tribble. Saviour, you feel like you are leaving “I’ve worked on the quilt since DAWN (Domestic Abuse the great world behind. Not true. “The Monastery is a 1990 and made my first patch in Women’s Network) has agreed to 1991,” she says. provide services for victims and microcosm of the world. People who Heiromonk Tryphon and the church at the survivors of domestic abuse on come to escape the world have made Monastery of Our All Merciful Saviour The VAA quilt, started in 1978 Vashon Island in an attempt to fill the wrong pick,” said Hieromonk Photo by M. Tuel as a grassroots fundraising the gap left by the demise of IDVOS. Tryphon, Superior of the Monastery. project, will go home with one Terri Kimball, Executive The Monastery is not an escape, but it does feel like what in Celtic lucky person Sunday, July 9. The Director of DAWN, said, “We are spirituality is called a “thin place,” a place where you are more aware of much-awaited drawing takes excited to provide services on God’s presence. The quiet, sacred presence of the monastery settles into your awareness as you sit or walk about. place at 4 p.m., at the Strawberry Vashon Island, and we want to do Festival VAA Quilt booth. Raffle it right. We are working with Mary Ellen Walker, and we are thinking Continued on page 7 tickets, only $1.00 each, are probably the best bargain of the of forming an on-Island advisory Radio Club Field Day: board as well as inviting an Island Festival and when you buy five or resident to be on DAWN board so “You Can Hear the World Turning” more you will receive a we are certain to have voice of By Mary Litchfield Tuel commemorative booklet about Island in the agency’s policy the quilt and the quilters. All meetings.” The Vashon Radio Club had their proceeds benefit Vashon Allied “We are presently looking for an annual Field Day up at Sunrise advocate to fill a position that is Ridge on June 24 and 25. With their Arts. Tickets are available at the funded for 20 hours per week. We specially equipped radio station following locations: Books by the would prefer to hire a Vashon trailer and a short wave set up in a Way, Vashon Print and Design, resident. That person will provide tent out back of the Food Bank, club Blue Heron Art Center, Barber & one-on-one advocacy to assist members were talking to other radio Beauty Shoppe, The Vashon clients with their needs, such as users up and down the West Coast, Bookshop, Frame of Mind, safety planning and legal advocacy; in Nevada, and Utah. information and referral to other Heron’s Nest and Pandora’s Box. Every year on the fourth full programs and services; assistance You may see the quilt between weekend in June, about 5,000 clubs now and Festival Friday at the with shelter access and other Ward Silver on the air Silver is in Brazil at (up to 50,000 individuals) in the US, Blue Heron, Vashon Library, Continued on page 16 Canada, and Mexico participate in the moment for Radiosport competition. Story on page 15. Photo by M. Tuel Books by the Way and The “the biggest ham event on the planet Vashon Bookshop. Correction all year long,” according to Radio Club member and operator Ward Silver. In the June 21 issue, the story on the More than 20 Islanders Alliance for the Tompotika Conservancy had “Things should start picking up around 3 p.m.,” said Silver. “Tonight participated in this year’s quilt, subheads that had not been put into bold face, we’ll talk to the East Coast and the Midwest, and we’ll probably make and so came across as sentence fragments. The but remember; only one person story Hamish Todd sent me was fine until I several hundred contacts, in all fifty states, in Canadian provinces, in Mexico got a hold of it. I apologize, Hamish, and readers, for the confusion and distress this will take it home and it could be caused. – Mary Litchfield Tuel Continued on page 15 you! The Vashon Loop, p. 2 July 5, 06 Water District 19 Job Announcement: Get in The Loop Office Administrator I Water District 19 on Vashon Island has an immediate part time position open for an Office Administrator I. Qualifications are two or more years experience in an office environment including computer-related work and accounting practices and possessing strong customer relations skills. Experience in the public sector is a plus. Does your neighborhood have a Neighborhood Knowledge and Skills Emergency Response Organization? Successful applicant must have a working knowledge of accounting procedures including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and petty cash It’s easy to form one! Just pick up the phone and management. Strong personal computing knowledge required. Must thrive in a team call General Joe Ulatoski at 463-1321 environment. Experience in stenography a plus. Web design and QuickBooks experience a plus. Vashon Lavender Fields Are Open To Benefit Homeless Other responsibilities and Duties Adopt-A-Cat Day Operate office equipment including The 4th Annual Lavender Harvest Celebration takes place on July 15 and 16, 10 printers, copiers, fax, postage machine, Vashon Island Pet Protectors will a.m. to 4 p.m. Vashon Island Lavender Grower’s Association (VILGA) will open two folding machine. host an Adopt-A-Cat Day Saturday, July farms, Fox Farm, located at 17232 107th SW, and the Lavender Sisters’ Crescent Falls Cash accounts reconciliation. 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, Organic Farm, located at16335 Crescent Drive SW, for the celebration. Tickets Receive and process customer calls July 2, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at Pandora’s available at the farms are $5. Ages 18 and under are free. and requests. Box. Please stop by or call VIPP 206-389- Greet walk-ins and process requests. 1085. “This is the one time in the year when we open the farms. It’s a great way to have Office supplies inventory some fun and celebrate the harvest,” said Katy Jo Steward, “Lavender Sister” and management. 2007 VIPP Calendar VILGA member. Both farms will offer u-pick lavender, as well as a variety of live Interaction with both vendors and music, art displays, and workshops on lavender uses, cooking and gardening. consultants. Be part of Vashon Island Pet “We want visitors to wander the lavender fields, enjoy the music, picnic, or Maintenance of records and files. Protectors 2007 Pet Calendar. You can create a lavender wand, and we will demonstrate some tasty ways to cook with Document management specific to the either mail your pet’s photo to Kathy Water District. lavender,” said Cynthia Johnson Owner of Fox Farm and a VILGA member. Chappell, P.O. Box 13182, Burton, WA Minimum Qualifications: 98013 along with your pet’s name, a tag VILGA is a non-profit association. Its mission and primary purpose is to promote High school diploma or equivalent. the growing of lavender and local sustainable agriculture by creating a community Valid Washington State driver’s license. line about your pet, your phone number celebration. The Festival benefits the InterFaith Council on Homelessness, a non- Must be proficient with the Microsoft and a self-addressed stamped envelope profit organization that helps the homeless and near-homeless on Vashon. Office suite. or email your photo to For more information about the tour visit www.vashonlavender.com Type a minimum of 40 words per minute. [email protected]. All are welcome- Upon hire must pass background check, cats, dogs, pigs, goats. Don’t delay! complete medical physical and drug screen. Photos must be received by July 15. For Apply for Basic Health Insurance; Residency on Vashon Island is a plus more information, call Kathy 463-9203. Island Health Care Discussions Discontinued but not required. Schedule will be 24 hours per week. Starting salary will be $15.00 per Basic Health, the state subsidized health insurance program, is now open to hour. Water District 19 is an equal opportunity VIPP new applicants. I would be more than happy to help anyone fill out the applications employer and offers competitive fringe for eligibility. This can not wait until the fall. Once the open slots are taken people are benefits including paid holidays, sick leave Featured put on the waiting list in order of receipt. For more information about Basic Health, and vacation. Vashon Island is a quiet rural call Hilary Emmer 463-7277. community within King County. More Cats information about the island may be obtained The sign on The Health Care Discussion on Wednesday, June 21, had only three people through the Vashon Chamber Website – Banjo and Bingo attend. Maybe it’s the summer. Unless people call who are interested, the discussions [email protected]. their cage says, will be discontinued until the fall. Resumes Accepted until position is filled. “Are you up for a project?” Come on, Send to: people, these kitties have been waiting for Vacation Bible School Is Coming! Water District 19 a long time! Banjo and Bingo are brothers Email: [email protected] and best friends. They are looking for a Vacation Bible School will be August 7 through 11 this year. The theme will be Jeffrey Lakin, General Manager quiet, adults-only home where they can Under Construction. Students entering first through sixth grade will meet at the 206-463-9007 District Office be indoor either exclusively or primarily. Vashon United Methodist Church from 9:30 a.m. to noon, and the Youth Program for 206-463-1262 Fax They are shy and gentle. Banjo loves to be Middle and High School students will meet at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Mail: petted and comes around for extra pets. P O Box T Spirit each evening at 7 p.m. The Youth Group of the Maple Valley Presbyterian Bingo loves his treats and welcomes pets Vashon Island, WA 98070 Church will once again lead the Bible School and Youth Programs. All Island children while he chows down. For more and youth are welcome. Registration for Bible School is $10/child or $15/family. Scottish Gaelic Classes information on this or any of our other Come early and register on the first day at the Methodist Church. A small group meets every cats, e-mail us at: [email protected] Green Party Events in July Wednesday from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. to learn The Vashon Loop Scottish Gaelic from Rich Hill, a teacher Writers: Kathy Abascal, Deborah Anderson, Rachel This month’s Progressive Movie Night will feature Kilowatt Ours, a documentary who comes over from the mainland. The on alternative energy, on July 13, at 6:30 p.m. at Cafe Luna. Progressive Night Bard, Becky Bumgarner, Marie Browne, Eric Francis, group would like to invite those curious Fran Gordon, Jeff Hoyt, Troy Kindred, Melissa Entertainment is happening at Cafe Luna on Thursday, July 27, 7:00 p.m. The about learning Scottish Gaelic to join Progressive Book Club meeting is Sunday, July 23, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Tea Shop and the McCann, Orca Annie, Kevin Pottinger, Rex Morris, them. Anyone interested can contact John Peter Ray, Weslie Rodgers, Jonathan Shipley, Ed Swan, book being discussed is Challenging Empire by Phyllis Bennis. All are welcome, even Dally at (206) 463-3535 for information. those who haven’t read the book! Mary L. Tuel, Marj Watkins The Green Party will have a booth at both Strawberry Festival and Island Earth Meet Rozie Royal, The Guest writers this issue: Janice Randall, Susan Wolf, Fair. Anyone who would like to volunteer to staff the booth, please contact Ivy Sacks Jason Felix . at 463-9579. Loop’s New Intern Interns: Morgan Wegner, Rozie Royal The Loop is pleased to announce that The next Green Party Meeting will be July 10, 7 p.m., at the Mackey’s; 24430 Old Photographers: T Kindred, Peter Ray, Jc Kindred, VHS student Rozie Royal is our new Mill Road SW. Alex Kindred, Mary L. Tuel photography intern. Rozie is a talented Original art, comics, cartoons: Ed Frohning, Rick Festival Parking at and serious Tuel, Jeff Hawley, Jeremy Gregory, Maggie photographer. Her Bumgarner Presbyterian Church work appeared on the Ad sales and design: Troy Kindred and Marie The Vashon Presbyterian Church front page of the last Browne; Email: [email protected] will be offering parking by donation issue in two photos of (206) 463-9207 (suggested $5) for the Festival Parade. the 2006 graduating Editor: Mary Litchfield Tuel If you would like to make a class, including the Email: [email protected]; (206) 463-3327 reservation, please contact Beverly one of the kids tossing Publishers: Marie Browne and Troy Kindred Skeffington at [email protected] or their mortarboards PO Box 253, Vashon, WA 98070 call 354-8921. We will provide you with into the air with the Rozie Royal Paid advertisements in The Vashon Loop in no way Photo by Fran Gordon a “receipt,” which will help you through Vashon Pirate express the opinions of the publisher, editor, or staff. Heritage Museum Opens the barricades on Bank Road on Festival perfectly framed in the background. She We reserve the right to edit or not even print stuff. Permanent Exhibit Day. Chairs for viewing the parade will was the photographer for several Deal with it. also be available by donation. See you at graduating seniors’ yearbook portraits as Published every two weeks Open Mike on Festival Saturday the best fest in the West! well. Rozie is off to the East Coast for July by Paradise Valley Press The Heritage museum is opening its and August to study photography and © July 5, 2006 ~ Volume III, Issue 14 permanent exhibit on Saturday, July 8. Don’t miss an issue! Loopy sez: Deadline for the we’ll miss her, but she’ll be back and we There will also be an Open Mic stage that will be printing many more of her prints. Subscribe to The Loop! day with 20 minute slots from 2 to 6 p.m. next edition of The Loop is She begins her junior year at Vashon High $50 a year gets The Loop delivered to your Island musicians interested in School in the fall, and she will continue mailbox every two weeks. Call (463-3327) or signing up for 20 minutes onstage can call Friday, July 14 to be available to shoot senior photos. write (PO Box 253, Vashon) or email Fran Gordon at 463-5277 to sign up. Welcome, Rozie! [email protected]!S July 5, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 3 We’re Open for Business! Thank you, Vashon, for the warm reception and good wishes at our Grand Opening party. It was great to see so many friends and business associates. We served over 500 hot dogs! According to Troy “Cliff Claven” Kindred, the average person ate 1.3 dogs, meaning we had 384.6 people at the party. We are now open seven days a week, with 16 agents on call. Stop by to say hi, and look for us Seattle Metro West at the Chamber of Commerce info booth at Strawberry Festival!

We are open! Seven days a week! JLS agent Val Seath gives the office the Marie, Carolyn and Amiee cut the red cake thumbs up. Lisbet Sell agrees (hi, mom!)

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Close to beach $349,000 design Check out the virtual tours of these properties at MLS 26103180 Waterfront! www.kwvashon.com Fairy Tale Charm 22908 Vashon Hwy SW 17921 Westside Hwy SW This retro chic house calls for clambakes, cocktails, and cabin cruisers! Fairy tale charm abounds in this Tudor- It’s 3200 square feet of living space on 75 style home on a shy three acres of Vashon’s feet of low bank inner Quartermaster Harbor highly desirable sunny Westside with a waterfront. It’s picture windows from the floor view of Colvos Passage. Inside, the well- to the high ceiling to take full advantage of the thought out floor plan allows for plenty light and the view of the busy harbor. It’s a of private and communal space in beamed home for entertaining guests and family, with two large decks practically over the water, plenty high ceiling rooms that blend outdoor and indoor spaces with French doors and of bedrooms and bathrooms, and a separate MLS 26015188 guest cabin. $999,000. balconies. The grounds include a willow- surrounded pond, cottage ! 3240 Sq Ft garden flower beds, a fenced vegetable garden, paddocks, ! 3 bedrooms and a separate garage and ! 2.5 bath workshop with guest quarters. $689,000 ! 75 feet of low bank waterfront MLS 26047640 The Vashon Loop, p. 4 July 5, 06 Editorials and Letters to the Editor: We welcome your Now Open Saturdays! contributions! Submit them by LoOpEd email to: [email protected] The Secret American By Susan Wolf The more I know of my fellow officer’s blow-by-blow description of their countrymen, the more I’ve come to achievements that day. I remember my suspect that many of us are closet grandmother pointing out the patriots. We grumble about taxes. We revolutionary men in our family tree who complain about politics and helped this country obtain its bureaucracies. We put outrageous independence from England. bumper stickers on our cars and we But I was against the Viet Nam war sometimes forget to vote. and I’m against this one in Iraq. (I use, We talk – to our friends, to our for my argument’s sake, a quote from families, to our co-workers and to our none other than Abraham Lincoln: church members. We differ in viewpoints, “Allow the president to invade a religions, occupations and educational neighboring nation, whenever he shall backgrounds. We discuss at length any deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and all subjects of concern to the extent and you allow him to do so whenever he of our heartfelt beliefs, pet peeves and may choose to say he deems it necessary !Loop Letters experience. What we don’t talk about is for such a purpose – and you allow him our patriotism. to make war at pleasure”). I asked my Thank you, Amy parent, or staff member. Amy stood Perhaps we served in the military, mother once how those feelings could be up for us all. and we take it as a subtle affirmative reconciled with a passionate belief in our Eveskcige Our kids tell us, “She tries to help between ourselves that patriotism exists. country. She gave an approximate quote Editor, The Loop: everyone and if they need a little extra Perhaps our family members or friends of Stephen Decatur’s, “My country, right Amy Eveskcige is leaving help, she gives them what they need served and we collect our father’s service or wrong; and I pray God she be right, Chautauqua stronger and more and still helps everyone else.” metal pins, military photographs and but my country!” successful than she found it. What Amy leaves us having earned our memorabilia. Perhaps we opposed a Thus I learned at an early age to value made her so successful? greatest respect, admiration, particular war or were conscientious the relative freedom, wealth, and peace Amy always does what is best for appreciation, and love. We wish her objectors so we stood for our country but of our country (as well as the cost of the children. She strives to encourage, the best as she moves to her new against that decision. Maybe we are precious spilt blood that won us those promote, and support the position. We will miss her spunk, immigrants who work every day to fulfill blessings), but to understand its citizens development of each student and staff leadership, and friendship. our dreams of freedom and opportunity may differ in how they apply that belief. member. Thank you, Amy, for sharing your but never bothered to naturalize. My sister and I taught our boys through What I have come to believe is that the Boy Scouts of America program to She has grown with us through power with us. We hope you will take there is a pervasive swelling in our hearts respect our country, the flag and our multiple challenges and with you as much as you have given for our country that means so much to us people. I attempted to teach my children accomplishments over the past five us. that we dare not speak about it because that by obeying the law and respecting years. Amy shared her strength, sense With heartfelt gratitude, our emotions will overwhelm us. For individuals, we became good citizens. I of justice, compassion, and humor, Vashon Island School District many of us it means that our children, don’t remember telling them how much I and was a constant advocate for the School Board, Administration, Staff, grandchildren, family and friends have love our country, how much I pray for its least of us, whether it be a student, Parents, and Students never heard us declare the love we have leaders to make good decisions, why I vote for our country that goes down deep, and pay taxes. I only hoped they deep into our bones. understood that we honor our God-given MySpace is IslandSpace By Morgan Wegner Americans don’t scream zealous freedoms by being honest, diligent, accolades from the top of their lungs. Our contributing and interested citizens, It’s seven o’clock on a school night. who can break into personal accounts expressions are not punctuated with rifle without whom no nation can survive. My You’re a young, restless teenager on and take over profiles, acquiring fire and banners are not emblazoned son’s blogs from Iraq, where he works to Vashon, looking for a good use of your sensitive information about the owner of across our homes, businesses or vehicles. support our servicemen in a way that twilight hours. Where do you go? A club, the account and his or her friends. In But I’m convinced that, for many of us, doesn’t necessitate the shedding of blood, maybe? Or perhaps an arcade? Please. order to combat these wrongdoers, our belief in our country and the express the joy and pride of a young man This is Vashon, where there is nowhere MySpace has dedicated about a third of principles upon which it was founded doing what he sincerely – and for teenagers to simply hang out and let its staff to making the website safer and run through each cell and fiber of our independently – believes in. their metaphorical hair down. eliminating inappropriate material. In its being. Any enemy of our country who And so, tired of waiting, Vashon user agreement, MySpace encourages its As a decedent of Samuel Adams and supposes that a few corrupt politicians, teenagers have joined their counterparts users not to post personal information one who can trace her ancestry back to political dissent, exposed military across the nation in attending the biggest such as full names, street addresses or the Mayflower, for generations the people mistakes and public confusion is the party ever conceived by man. The place? phone numbers, to guard their in my family have fought wars on behalf same as a weakness that will enable them MySpace.com. passwords closely and to be careful when of this country. As a girl, I heard my father to overthrow our country’s government MySpace is currently the fastest making new friends online. tell me how he jumped up in the rigging or its people would be making a huge growing website on the Internet, with “MySpace can be something really to avoid torpedoes aimed at his destroyer mistake – approximately 300 million over 88.5 million members from all good and really bad. It depends on how in Pearl Harbor. With the wonder of the times wrong. Maybe it’s time we came around the world. It’s a place where each individual handles it,” says Stefen Internet, I can print off his commanding out of the closet. people of all ages can make friends, share Russler, a German exchange student who pictures, watch videos, listen to music attended VHS this past school year. Painting the Town Orange and keep in touch with old “People get obsessed with it and let it By Jason Felix acquaintances. Users can keep online replace their real social life.” You have probably seen it already: journals, post messages on the bulletin Russler is referring to the self-named that old, blue Chevy Celebrity station board or leave comments on other “MySpace whores,” or people who spend wagon that suspiciously keeps on people’s pages and pictures. far too much time socializing on the running. Parked on the sides of roads, When asked what they like best about website and forget to do so in the real nestled in a Park and Ride, you never MySpace, most users cite their ability to world. However, most Vashon teenagers know where you will see it. Some people keep in contact with distant friends. “I are able to maintain a healthy balance even place bets on where it will unite with can talk to my family that lives on the between their two social lives, often using the 119 for a brief moment each day. other side of the country,” says Becky MySpace to organize parties and get- It’s not exactly a new car, and while McMakin, an incoming senior at VHS, togethers with their friends. What’s it may have some unique beauty marks, canvas sitting in a public place, how could who credits her cousins with more, MySpace is a healthy alternative to it would find itself insulted to be labeled one be expected to resist tagging each introducing her to the website. drugs and alcohol, and encourages “abandoned.” Alas, the unfortunate window with a big, orange X? Passers-by However, as is the case with every teenagers to branch out and discover vehicle got more than just that. Sometime were even treated to an assortment of other Internet-driven company, MySpace people in other parts of the world. on Monday morning, June 26, Officer orange dots on the tires and on the wheel has a problem with online predators. With this amazing tendency to make Litsjo of the King County Sheriff’s Office wells, and strange, numberesque symbols Stories of abductions and molestation run Vashon feel just a little bit closer to the declared that it was litter. Yes, that’s in front and back. Some (who did not have rampant in the media, shedding a rest of the world, it’s easy to see why so exactly what the notice said. If it didn’t good taste) accidentally mistook it for negative light on the website. Further many teenagers log on regularly to check disappear from the side of the road vandalism. dangers arise with the arrival of hackers their MySpace profiles. within 24 hours it would constitute the It may never be known why this MySpace is where it’s at. “traffic infraction of littering.” How rude. happened, as the “additional remarks” Morgan Wegner is The It also seemed clear that the section of the notice was left blank. The Loopy sez: Deadline for the Loop’s student intern and aforementioned officer enjoys expressing decorations have been cleared for now, next edition of The Loop is this is her first op-ed himself through the medium of paint, that is of course, with exception of the dots piece. Go, Morgan. especially with cheerful, Day-Glo on the tires. It’s fun to watch them spin Orange™. And really, with such a virgin around fast. Friday, July 14 July 5, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 5 Advocating for Wholeness: Living with the Loss of a Child By Kara L.C. Jones Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ being complicit with the demands that Neighborhood did so much work in his we put on happy masks. This doesn’t lifetime to create opportunities for people mean that we are constantly morose. This to be emotionally present. He once said, doesn’t mean that we are using baby dolls “We can’t be expected to leave the pretending it is the child we lost and unhappy and angry parts of ourselves at mothering the toy in some sort of the door before coming in. We all need to disconnect from reality. It simply means feel that we can bring the whole of that we be allowed to feel whatever we ourselves to the people who care about feel in the moment without censorship. us.” In the face of life after the death of a So the family wants you to come to a child, this statement is so powerful and big birthday celebration, and you have a should readily be shared with family and lot of anxiety around this as there will be friends who surround the bereaved pregnant women there or there will be parents. children there who are the same age your present for whatever comes up in the As bereaved parents, we are faced child should be. Well, of course you have moment. with grief that can be overwhelming at anxiety about this because we all fear The most surprising thing about this times. Our children may have died due to going into the situation and having course of action is that it makes all of us miscarriage, stillbirth, preemie birth absolutely no one in the room be more present for each other in the complications, SIDS, diseases, accidents, acknowledge this reality, thereby moment. As we practice and advocate or any number of other causes. Regardless isolating us in our grief even more. So it good self-care, so too are we able to of how or why they died, we as parents is our job — however unfair it may seem advocate for the care of others. When we are left dealing with grief while trying to to have to advocate for ourselves in this ask for and are allowed to feel a full range continue living, trying to reconnect with time of need — it is our job to say to our of emotions ourselves, so too are we able the world at large. family members, “Yes, I want to come, but to let everyone around us do the same. At first, after our child’s death, the I have anxiety about this. Please be gentle Attending every Sunday dinner or people around us may have sympathy. with me.” And then to ask for whatever holiday party does not make a family. They can understand the immediacy of you need to make that day gentle. Maybe Being emotionally available to each other the loss and may try to be present for when candles are lit, there could be a consistently is what makes a family. Of whatever emotions arise for us. But many, special candle lit for all the family course we are advocating for that. many loved ones fail to see the long term members who are gone, but remembered. While it would be great to just have effects of our losses. Maybe this is because Maybe if there is some family gift us all come to this realization as a general there is no proper word in the English acknowledgement of all the kids present, part of life, the reality is that many of us language to describe us. If your parents then a donation can be made for the face these challenges for the first time in die, you become an orphan. If your spouse children who have died so they are the face of grief. Grief makes everything dies, a widow or widower. But when your included, too. There are lots of options. doubly challenging. Please know many child dies, what are you??? Even in For each of us, this scenario will be of us out here see that, know that, and language we are left out, hindered from different. We may simply want to be live that right with you. You are not alone. describing the long term reality of our hugged should someone see us crying. Here’s hoping that when we meet, we’ll lives. The reality is this: Hugged without being told, “Hush now, be bringing “the whole of ourselves” to We are still parents. Death cannot it’s okay,” because it isn’t okay. We are the table. change that. And emotions like sadness there in the midst of joy and gratefulness, About the author: Kara Jones co-founded and anger will arise from time to time but in the very same moment we are sad, KotaPress.com after the stillbirth of her son throughout the balance of our lives in lonely, and just wanting to be Dakota in 1999, and she works as a MISS regards to our child’s death or in regards acknowledged. This is what it means to Foundation certified facilitator offering grief to our role as a childless parent. There is “bring the whole of ourselves” in the door support to families and educational sessions no “closure” to our role as this different for everyone to see and know and to to caregivers. She is an expressive artist kind of parent. continue over the years to advocate for working in many formats from henna art to Understand that Dr. Elisabeth ourselves, letting people know there is no ATC, from altered books to handmades, from Kubler-Ross wrote about the stages of “closure” on this. It may change from poetry to prose. With her HennaHealing.com grief in the early years of hospice care in year to year. Some years we may want to adventure, she explores intentional henna art the United States. She mapped out those be alone and do nothing with family. as an expressive tool for everything from stages based on what the terminally ill Some years may feel more full of joy than celebration to grief, solace to release. You can person was going through at any given grief. That’s okay, too. We are not be in touch with her via time. The final stage became closure advocating each and every day be [email protected] — please put because the person would be dead. She prescribed to look like this or like that. “VASHON LOOP” in the subject line! did not originally mean for these stages We are asking that people simply be Thanks. to be used for the bereaved left behind trying to live again in grief’s wake. But due to lack of available bereavement research, materials, and support back in the day, the care giving community picked up the stages and began trying to make sense of what the bereaved were feeling. Now it is time to acknowledge that the stages must be expanded to really apply to bereaved people. We must look more toward Fred Roger’s idea of bringing “the whole of ourselves” to the world at large. And while it may seem unfair because grief is hard enough by itself, it has become the job of the bereaved themselves to speak up and ask for this change, to demand a shift in consciousness, to be vocal about how people might best support us over the course of time. If we want family and friends to rediscover the “whole” of who we are after the death of a child, we have to stop The Vashon Loop, p. 6 July 5, 06 SpiritualSpiritual SmartSmart AleckAleck

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The Strawberry Festival is this You Are Invited to the 2006 weekend and Vashon Island Strawberry Festival the Island will come out to A too big, too play. There crowded, large scale, will be booths not-like-it-used-to- and music and be, parades and food and the Island Party carnival and July 7, 8, 9 tons of people out in the sun No RSVP just show up and/or rain being silly, riding the rides, buying crafts, Back in the late 70s there was a listening to music, dancing and Harvest Fair that took place in the talking and whooping it up. It is the Fall. Locals loved it for its small scale annual Island party. and entirely Vashon-centric quality. For a few years I didn’t go — oh, “Like Festival used to be,” they’d it had become so big, so crowded, say. so full of people from off-Island. The first Harvest Fair had a Not like thirty years ago, when the pottery display in what is now the music consisted of me and Steve Self dance room at Ober Park. It was each playing for forty-five minutes mostly ordinary pots, but on a table in the little memorial patio out back in the middle of the room was a of what was then the library (now large ceramic tombstone. It was the Senior Center), while the crowds inscribed, “Vashon Island,” with a walked by ignoring us. mournful epitaph saying that the Last year I really went to the poor old Island had died. Festival. Had Kiwanis pancakes for This was an artistic expression breakfast, watched the parade, of grief by someone who had seen We do passport photos walked around the booths, and saw their Island home evolve into a almost everyone I know and strange place. As one of the hundreds more I didn’t. It was fun, newcomers who had been part of and I went home late in the the change, I felt kind of socked in afternoon tired and happy. the stomach by this harsh It was good to reconnect with indictment of change. this annual Island bash. I loved Since then I’ve seen many people going when I was young, and it was come and fall in love with the Island, fun taking the kids when they were and some of them move here, and little, except of course for those then they find out if they are really dratted Seafair pirates who seemed supposed to be here. It is not home to enjoy frightening the jelly out of for everyone. little kids with their exploding truck. I can tell you now that change is The music has evolved over the the constant and that you never take years. I was part of the music in the the ferry back to the same Island. 70s and 80s, sometimes with my Change means that the Island is husband Rick and his friend Chris alive, and lively. It is hard to lose Howie, sometimes solo, and later as what is familiar and comfortable, part of Women, Women and Song. old ways and quieter times. I miss In the 70s we had Bodacious what the Island was like when I got (Steve and Thea); we had Dumi and here, in 1972, about the time the his Marimba Band; Bob Haworth person who made the tombstone playing as Bo Mooney; Fred Shactler was getting bitter. I miss weighing getting everyone to boogie until they less, and having a short-term dropped. The Portage Fill — wow. memory, too, and I miss my 1958 Summer Thirty years later, a lot of the same Chevy. Man, that was a great car. dates guys play in the Portage Fill, and Come on out and celebrate this filling up that, my friend, is playing music for lively, changing, one-of-a-kind call us the love of the music. community this weekend. Come on 206-794- I’ve been here for going on out to this too big, too crowded, large thirty-five years now, and I hear scale, not-like-it-used-to-be, Island 9451 people say, “The Island has party. You’re invited. oo oo oo changed,” and I agree that it has, and, “The Festival has gotten so Loopy sez: Deadline for the big,” and I agree with that also, and The Lord loveth a cheerful next edition of The Loop is “It’s not like it used to be,” and no, giver, but will accepteth from it’s not. a grouch. Friday, July 14 July 5, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 7 Monks Continued from page 1 Father Tryphon and Father Paul have lived on Vashon for eighteen years and at the present site for the last seven years. The progress of founding the Monastery – acquiring the land, and building the buildings – has been a road as steep and bumpy as the driveway. Children are at ease with Father Tryphon. The monks were living in “They used to call me Santa Claus, but since Richmond, California, when their the Harry Potter books came out they think Archbishop appointed Father I’m a wizard.” Tryphon to pick two monks and go out to found a monastery in some “Our benefactor in Berkeley had rural part of the San Francisco and some business reverses and could Western America Diocese. A no longer afford to purchase land Berkeley businessman had offered to for a monastery or support us, so buy the land and support the we decided we were going to monks. Jerusalem to occupy an empty Father Tryphon picked Father monastery there. We had a farewell Paul and Father Basil to come on this party, and John and Georgia journey. Ratzenberger attended. Georgia “So we bought an old Ford talked to John, and he came up to camper, some sleeping bags and me and offered me five acres of land other camping equipment, and which he owned.” started to drive around the “I contacted some nuns in Diocese,” says Father Tryphon. Santa Rosa and asked them to pray “We spent our first winter in about it; they phoned right back Medford, Oregon, and we found 55 and said, ‘It’s God’s will!’ and I acres in the Applegate Valley of asked our Archbishop down in the Oregon that we thought was the Bay Area and he said, ‘Take it!’” place, but this was in the wake of So the monks did accept that Oregon’s experience with the five acres, and eventually bought Rajneeshees, and the county would eleven adjacent acres on their which are slightly larger cabins, each “We have been very, very blessed not allow us to buy the land.” eastern boundary. They plan to containing a bedroom, bath, and by the friends we have here,” Father “We came to Seattle for Holy build a retreat center on the eastern study. These will be habitations for Tryphon said. “We’re hoping to Week, and a couple we had known property. resident monks. connect with CERT and the Red in the Bay Area had moved to “The first thing we built was the The foundation is in place for a Cross, so that in the event of a Vashon Island and invited us to visit. Chapel. We were bookstore building, disaster people would know they We spent one night here and we using St. Patrick’s which will also can come to the Monastery. We absolutely fell in love with the place, Church in Dockton house the monks’ need a water storage tank, and a mostly with the people.” for our Sunday administrative office propane freezer, refrigerator, and “I got up the first morning and mass, and we and their coffee stove top so we can feed people.” drove around the Island by myself. decided to have business. “When the facilities are done, we When I got to the Portage store, I outdoor services up “We still have a hope that monks will come from our stopped and went in and Jimmy here in front of the ways to go. The brother monastery at Holy Cross Smith looked at me and said, ‘You Chapel for the plumbing is done in Hermitage in West Virginia. We must be Russian Orthodox,’ and summer, and the buildings, and need new people to carry on the went back to what he was doing. everyone liked it so the electrical is work. Ideally, the community will Our experience here was that people well that we stayed almost done, but we have a population of 12 monks. As would look at us, smile, and turn here.” need decking, sheet soon as the buildings are finished, away. There were no jokes. There There are several rocking and we’re going to relax!” was no rudeness.” buildings making up insulation.” But that day is not here yet. For “Brother Basil missed the Bay the Monastery now: “There are three the time being the monks live and Area, so he returned there, and the Church was Father Paul with a bag of Monastery gold onion domes pray in their microcosm of the Father Paul and I found a rental completed first; Coffee,the sale of which helps to being constructed world, their thin place, and house that was for sale. When it there is a tiny cabin, support the Monastery now which we hope continue working to complete the sold, we found the Dockton house or cell, which Father to have up by fall, mission they were given eighteen and moved in, never dreaming that Tryphon lives in; a library/ and when they are up we will have years ago. the place we’d end up would be conference building; the trapeza, or an Open House for the Island.” You can read more about the Monastery right next door.” dining hall; and three new cells, at: www.vashonmonks.cm Across 1 Cut closely 57 Rob 25 Female child 5 Plastic wrap 59 Alack’s partner 27 Lead 10 Pater 60 Furious 30 Permit 13 Italian money 62 Cain’s brother 31 Folds 14 Lonely 66 Bare 32 Sticky stuff 15 “no __ luck” 67 Essential 35 “If ___ be the food of love...” 16 Warm 68 Gap 37 Flirtatious 17 Big cats 69 South southeast 38 Heat unit 18 Quarry 70 Door 39 Stream 19 Expression of surprise 71 Posttraumatic stress disorder 40 Simply 21 community party 41 Eye infection 23 Lube Down 42 Diminish 26 Flightless bird 1 Tender loving care 44 I love a ____ 28 Stadium 2 River (Spanish) 45 Wash off 29 Writes psalms 3 Internal Revenue Service 47 To wit 32 Shade of black 4 Tropical bird 48 Contagious disease 33 Otherwise 5 Salted sausage 49 Computer input device 34 Compost 6 Boxer Muhammad 50 Debris at the base of a cliff 36 Bird’s home 7 House topper 54 Scoff 37 Caecum 8 Green Gables dweller 55 Asian country 38 Sisters sibs. 9 Loch __ monster 56 Direction 42 Art pieces 10 Provide 58 Puff 43 Dye 11 Pacific, for example 61 Sticky black substance 44 Beg 12 Plant kingdom division 63 Bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich 46 Iniquitously 15 Steeple 64 Goddess 49 Blot 20 Border 65 Type of partnership 51 California (abbr.) 22 Sticky black substances 52 Caustic substance 23 Agape 53 ____ Hall 24 Island Solution on Page 17 g The Vashon Loop, p. 8 July 5, 06

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Have your own garden, greenhouse and rototiller with soil amendments with The Worm Guy for $10 per month! - 8' x 20' plot size - 4' x 4' greenhouse space (additional space available) Garden Black Dog - Rototilling the - Worm Castings and compost (2 buckets per bed/month) World Plants - Access to water and hoses Locavores www.blackdogplants.com - Festive events By MEarth - Organic gardening educational opportunities One of my favorite authors, [email protected] Gary Nabhan (The Desert Smells Like Rain), has written a book called (206) 567-4542 Coming Home To Eat, the story of Look for Black Dog Plants his decision to spend one year at the eating nothing that was not grown Saturday Farmer’s Market! within 100 miles of his Sonoran Desert home. In that year he ate health-wise. There are a number of some interesting things—including reasons for that. agave cooked in a pit, bread made (Thanks to the Life Begins At 30 with mesquite flour and even blog for putting it so concisely...) roasted bugs—and he learned a lot Eating locally leaves more Organic Produce Delivery about local populations, foods and money in the local economy. Local 1/2 OFF food traditions. produce is fresher and tastes better your first order Fresh, certified organically grown fruits and His chronicle stimulated four because it is handled less and picked Fresh, certified organically grown fruits and women in the Bay Area to start an ripe. Local food also comes in more vegetables delivered to your home or office organization called Locavores, the varieties—like heirloom vegetables— singularly unpopular name for and eating it is even better for the Organic produce is now people who eat only local food, and ecology than eating organic, as the to spend a month each year (for the distance organically grown food available at the Roasterie, past two) eating food from only travels often creates enough the new Minglement local sources. That is to say, they ecological damage to outweigh the 463-4764 vow to do so exclusively for that organic benefit—environmentally if location month—the rest of the year they not health-wise. Visit our website at strive to eat as locally as possible. Eating locally keeps us in touch www.farmfreshorganic.com19529 Vashon Hwy SW These women have, in turn, with the seasons, with the purveyor stimulated groups and individuals and the story of our food, and Vashon Library July 2006 Programs all over the country to do the same— protects us from bio-terrorism by Preschool Story Times Where the Wild Things Are and stimulated some strident making the food chain much less Wednesdays, July 5, 12, 19, 26 Drama Workshop criticism as well. I find it interesting vulnerable. Bio-terrorists are 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Friday, July 21, 11 a.m. that we all used to HAVE to eat extremely unlikely to intercept food Ages 3 to 6 with adult, younger Presented by Seattle Children’s locally—now we have to TRY to eat between Green Man Farm and the siblings may attend. Please join us for Theatre locally. Saturday Market; it’s only 6 blocks. stories, songs and fun! Registration not Ages 4 to 7 A couple on Vancouver Island Eating locally also directly supports required. When Max was sent to bed were so excited by the idea that reasonable land development and Brown Bag Story Times without his supper, he embarked they spent a year eating locally. helps to protect our steadily Wednesdays, July 5, 12, 19, 26 upon a journey to the land of the wild They were very strict with decreasing farmland. Noon to 12:30 p.m. things. Explore this popular children’s themselves. They eliminated spices We are lucky here on Vashon— Ages 5 to 10 book through acting, imagination and from their diet for being from too if we were to be forced (or fortunate Bring a sack lunch to eat while you interactive props. Let the wild rumpus far away. They suffered with no enough) to have to eat locally, we enjoy great stories read aloud! begin! Registration required bread—a staple favorite—until they would have access to great beef, Registration not required. Sponsored beginning July 7. Please call (206) 463- found a local source of wheat. pork, milk, eggs and (in season) a by Friends of the Vashon Library! 2069. When the year ended, they felt like great variety of fruits, nuts and Build a Boat! The Adventures of Sinbad they were sinning to dine in an vegetables. Ages 5 to 7: Thu., July 6, Monday, July 24, 3 p.m. Indian Restaurant. Recent visits to off-Island 11 a.m. to Noon Presented by Oregon Shadow On a more realistic note, the Farmer’s Markets in West Seattle Ages 7 to 11: Thu., July 6, Theatre Locavores have a pledge that makes and Columbia City have revealed an 1-2:30 p.m. Ages 5 to adult sense to me: even wider source of locavorian Walk on the Wild Side Program will be held in the Ober If not locally produced, then delight—including tideland with Barbara Gustafson. Park building next to the library. organic. farmers, wheat farmers and, of Learn about the forces of This adventure comes alive as If not organic, then family- course, fisherfolk. buoyancy and gravity, and then build Sinbad is shipwrecked, encounters a gravity-powered boat. Registration strange and mystical animals, and farmed. Our foodshed is RICH! required beginning June 22. Please call must use his wits to capture a treasure. If not family-farmed, then from Not that I am against what is (206) 463-2069. Co-sponsored by the Live music enhances this enchanting a local business. recently being called “Roundabout Vashon Park District. story from the Arabian Nights. If not a local business, then fair Farming”—or the not-so-local. I Straw Structures Registration not required. trade. encourage organic agriculture Ages 5 to 7: Thu., July 13, Performance held in a darkened room Two articles have appeared in wherever it is, and I sure like seeing 11 a.m. to Noon and is not appropriate for very young this space advocating “food with a that wonderful Lundberg rice on the Ages 7 to 11: Thu., July 13, children. farmer’s face on it”—one written by market shelves, not to mention 1 to 2:30 p.m. Library Expands Hours me—and I believe I make it clear organic peanut butter, oranges, Walk on the Wild Side Beginning Tuesday, August 1, we will that I believe that the more locally lemons and limes. I like Hungarian with Barbara Gustafson. open an hour earlier on weekdays, at we eat, the better off we are— paprika, star anise and tamari soy Learn about some forces that act economically, ecologically and sauce. I just think it is educational, 10 a.m. instead of 11 a.m. on structures: tension, torsion and Our new hours will be: ecological and entertaining to learn compression. Then build and test a Monday through Thursday If at first you don’t succeed, what our foodshed has to offer— variety of drinking straw structures. 10 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. try, try again. Then quit. No and wise to make use of its bounty. Registration required beginning June Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. use being a damn fool about it. A trip to the Saturday Market 29. Please call (206) 463-2069. Co- Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. – W. D. Fields feeds more than just YOUR family. sponsored by the Vashon Park Sunday 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. See you there. oo oo oo District. July 5, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 9 New At

Mudslinging, Unofficial Mayor Style By Karen Pruett Mudslinging: It started out just Vashon School District, and the for fun, something that had never Vashon Island Community PTSA. been done during the Unofficial The only mud found was the Mayor Campaign. It ended up with loam that holds this community the realization that the only mud together, in which their Island roots our candidates really wanted to intertwine. Michael benefited from sling was a forkful of Mrs. Johnson’s VAA, Artists-in-Residence, and 17705 Vashon Hwy SW 206-463-2838 Chocolate Cream pie, Victoria’s WolfTown while attending Vashon Chocolate Decadence, or Rocky Schools and now donates time to the because they give money to the Perhaps our national and local Road ice cream, right into their own Chamber of Commerce and the school for things like new math leaders could take a lesson for mouths. Brian Brenno, Jan Lyell, Food Bank. Maggie works for VHS books, cool assemblies, Family Vashon’s Unofficial Mayors, both Michael Sayre, Maggie Albertson, and donates many hours to various Science nights, the Science Fair, art past and present. Sling the kind of and Cate Stackhouse are such nice student events like dances and trips. and music programs, and activities mud that is good to eat, think good people, doing such a good deed, that Brian donates time and glass such as Rec night at McMurray and things about your neighbors and no one could find any political mud blowing talent to VAA, the schools, VHS Swim night. stuff the ballot boxes with cash to sling. They had only nice things Artist-in-Residence and PTSA. Jan All this and they still find time instead of empty promises. Please to say about each other and their donates services to VAA, PTSA, for family, friends, school, and pass the Victoria’s Chocolate parties: Vashon Allied Arts, VIPP, the Food Bank and many garden mud. Decadence, and vote for your WolfTown, Vashon Food Bank, other charities. Cate likes the PTSA Unofficial Mayor! 2006 Strawberry Festival Events and Music Schedule Food and arts and crafts booths will be open for business all day Saturday and Sunday! There are four music venues at this year’s Festival: the Ober Park Stage, which will run all three days; the Beer Garden, which will be open Friday and Saturday nights as well as hosting Jam Camp on Saturday afternoon; Pandora’s Box, which will have music on Saturday and Sunday afternoons; and of course, the Street Dances will happen on Saturday night as always! Events Friday, July 7 Saturday, July 8 Sunday, July 9 First Friday Gallery Cruise Ober Park Stage Ober Park Stage Music at Ober Park Portage Fill, 1 to 1:45 p.m. Garage Boys, Noon to 12:45 p.m. Saturday, July 8 Island Jazz Quintet, 2:15 to 3 p.m. Mark Whitman, 1:15 to 2 p.m. Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. in Bill Brown & the Kingbees, HD Fusion, 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. parking lot at Vashon Market. 3:30 to 4:15 p.m Redperl with Chris Layton, $7 adults; $5 for 12 and under. Gold Ring, 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. 3:45 to 4:30 p.m. Festival Grand Parade Curly Cooke, 6 to 7 p.m. Loose Change, 5 to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. in downtown Vashon Pandora’s Box Stage Pandora’s Box Stage Grand Opening Vashon Heritage Museum, Some Hat, 1 to 1:35 p.m. The Stranger, Noon to 12:35 p.m. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open mic starting at 2 p.m. Mike Nelson’s Jazz Express, 501, 1 to 1:35 p.m. Sunday, July 9 2 to 2:35 p.m. Just Fiddlin’ Around, 2 to 2:35 p.m. Rare and Collectible Car Parade and Shine Gail Pettis, 3 to 3:35 p.m. Rheinhold-Richards, 3 to 3:35 p.m. 11 a.m. Parade from Mom’s Deli to Island Lumber. Jean Mann, 4 to 4:35 p.m. John Browne, 4 to 4:45 p.m. Music Geordies Byre, 5 to t:45 p.m. Friday, July 7 Street Dances Ober Park Stage Portage Fill, 7 to 9 p.m. FLASH: The Sound Band is Bob’s Your Uncle, 6 to 6:45 p.m. Great Divide, 9 p.m. to Midnight back for the summer and will be Island Chorale, 7 to 7:45 p.m. Beer Garden Stage doing a concert in The Vashon Sub Pop, 8 to 10 p.m. Jam Camp, 1 to 3 p.m. Theater at 10 p.m. on July 7, Beer Garden Stage Alma Villegas, 4 to 7 p.m. Festival Friday! Loose Change, 8 to 11 p.m. Bill Brown and the Kingbees, 8 to 11 p.m. The Vashon Loop, p. 10 July 5, 06 The Dorsal Spin: Killer Whales Visit Vashon in June! Last chance to help hungry pets this Friday at 6 p.m! Enjoy the fun! Support Vashon Youth Baseball and park in the lot on Bank Road. Horus’ pick of the week: Well, I don’t know what it is this week — but I do know that it’s definitely not the Festival. He doesn’t like leaving the building.

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Two Orcas at play Photo by Annie Stateler By Orca Annie Stateler and West Seattle Odin and I feel deeply privileged that we have had amazing encounters with both Resident and Transient orcas this month. While I worked on this Dorsal Spin on June 30, Mark Sears called at 6:00 p.m. to say he was tracking six Transient killer whales Summer southbound in Colvos Pass. Our excited neighbors gathered dates in the yard and all watched as the are almost orcas approached. They zigzagged across Colvos, apparently trying to full! avoid the numerous holiday weekend boaters. To our relief, the whales Need a were easy to miss because they were Band so evasive. We heard a few clicks on the hydrophone above the boat noise. call us Initially the whales traveled fast, Annie & Odin singing Courtesy Photo but they formed a tight group and 206-794-9451 slowed to resting mode near Olalla. Pods, typically visit Vashon-Maury in Odin got cool film of the sleepy group: fall and winter. one adult male with several females Thanks to Jackie for the whale and juveniles. We left them still report and to Faye for the Low Tide resting and traveling south in Colvos. Day photos. Please support the work On June 29, I awoke at 6:00 a.m. of the Vashon Hydrophone Project to the sound of orca blows just north (VHP) by reporting local whale of the VHP site in Colvos Pass. The sightings ASAP to 463-9041. If you are stealthy seal hunters were not audible snoozing on the ferry, you are missing on the hydrophone, but a binocular these historic killer whale visits to our scan soon revealed that the orcas were area. Transients. These were the same Resident and Transient killer whales from the 30th, accompanied whales are listed as endangered in

the hydrophone array at Lime Kiln Browne Sarah by an additional adult male. Washington State. Boaters who do during the concert. I heard orcas Mark later photo-documented not stay at least 200 yards away from vocalize, commenting favorably on the Buyer’s Specialist the rare visitors near Restoration mammal-hunting Transients may be music, I hope. It seems the concert did Point on Bainbridge Island. The dismayed to discover that frightened resonate with the Southern Residents. (206) 550-8975 tentative IDs are T88 and T91 Groups. seals and sea lions will try to escape Somewhere Tsux’iit was smiling at this The Center for Whale Research will onto boats. lovely tribute. Keet yek, killer whale review Mark’s photos and confirm On June 17, Tsux’iit/Luna was in spirit, works in mysterious ways. the IDs. the hearts and minds of everyone who We celebrated Father’s Day with Judging by the group attended The Whale Museum’s Orca Ruffles and J Pod. Granny (J2) or configuration and behavior, we Symposium and the evening Orca Sing Spieden (J8) eyeballed me. I was too believe the same Transients were off Seattle Metro West concert at Lime Kiln State Park. This blown away gazing into the female West Seattle on the evening of June year’s Requiem for Luna was orca’s eye to glimpse her saddle patch. Your Home Team Realty 20. That day, Mark called around 6:30 transcendent, and a testament to When I regained my wits, I noticed (206) 463-LIST (5478) p.m. with the jaw-dropping news that Tsux’iit’s luminous character that these two elders were close. Bless he saw blows off Alki Point. The www.kwvashon.com hundreds of people gathered in his Spieden and her wheezy blow. orcas traveled south to Brace Point, memory. In the Cute Department, Vashon’s and then changed direction at dusk, Read more in the news section at Odin and I spoke a few words and famous visitor Keetla/Springer eluding a dedicated observer effort www.whalemuseum.org. sang a Tlingit song in honor of Tsux’iit returned to Johnstone Strait off to verify their identity. This has been an exciting year for and his relatives. Words cannot Vancouver Island on June 28 with her To put the rarity of these summer the VHP. Stop by the ACS/PS adequately describe how I felt when great aunt’s family, the A11’s. This is sightings in perspective, Mark, a West Strawberry Festival booth for an I saw a whale breach and knew that the four-year anniversary of her Seattle native, has not seen orcas in update. Vote WolfTown for mayor! orcas were approaching as we sang. successful family reunion. The the Central Sound in June since 1971. Contact Orca Annie at Ruffles (J1) soon appeared, leading a Southern Residents have two new This is the fifth known Transient visit [email protected]. oo oo oo graceful procession of J Pod by the relatives. 29-year-old Ino (L54) had to Island waters this year. Some of park. another calf this spring, designated these June whales visited in February. When angry, count a Joe Olson of ACS/PS hooked up a L108. Raven (K28) is only twelve, but hundred; when very angry, The Southern Residents, J, K, and L speaker so we could listen for calls on she had her first calf, designated K39. swear. – Mark Twain July 5, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 11

Happy Birthday Cancer! You can breathe a little easier, but you Wait for the dust to clear. Then take care know you need to stay on your toes this of what you need to do when everyone is year. You can, and you will, but you’re least expecting you to do anything at all. going to need to be very Cancerian and Cancer (June 21-July 22): A long overdue take care of yourself. In order to maintain financial breakthrough is in the works balance, it will be essential to remember but you must move forward with careful your friends and count on your allies. There precision, actual planning, and make sure is no room for instability here — allegiance that every angle of the deal is covered. is not negotiable, and you need to keep an Make sure everyone has their due. Most eye on who or what wavers in important, ensure that the necessary security base, remind yourself in clear hope, be able to resist the vivid feeling commitment, and address any such structural changes are made in your terms that you have a right to exist safely that you’re the one and only person who situation early. Count on those who show methods of keeping and tracking your and comfortably. The resulting success in needs to change. What needs to happen you they can be counted upon, as a matter resources. Something akin to a complete doing just that can help you cross a hurdle is an honest discussion, and that will only of devotion, pride and faith. renovation is called for, and that may into a phase of true and lasting stability. come in due time. But it will come. mean temporarily setting aside some of Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22): Once again, as Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19): I suggest you Aries (March 20-April 19): Creative forces your short-term goals in the service of the seems to be your lot in life these years, stand safely back from any contention or can be violent, or at least troubling. That’s more important longer-term ones. Get career necessities are calling you, and controversy, and not feel the least bit probably why most people lay down their expert help if you need it, and run your strongly. Your drive for success is worth guilty about dodging the situation artistic pursuits rather than develop them. life like a professional. all the effort you’re investing. Yet,0 no entirely. At the heart of the matter is I don’t concur with the “too busy” theory, Leo (July 22-Aug. 23): Events this month matter how much that is true, you need to someone’s exaggerated sense of reality, but rather with the “too threatening” one. will provide a test of your mettle, but call some of your energy downward, into which is not exactly benefiting from other Your own creative drives will be remember you are the stronger party no the Earth, into your home, and into frustrations that are getting mixed up compelling you to hole up in your living matter who or what else may be a factor. whatever you consider to be your family. with that emotion. As an astrologer I can space and make sure you do what you Make sure you tend to your closest The pull to do otherwise is extremely tell you that the situation will blow need to do, and they will be pushing you partnerships first; leave no question as to strong; you could easily lose contact. But through and lose its energy as long as you to make big changes in your life. This your loyalty. Then, working together, you need to remember that you draw your don’t invest any of yours in the situation. could be rough on a relationship; make balance out the other interests involved strength from your home base, and know Wait out the storm and get on with your sure the person in question is brought into in the situation and work out a fair deal, that no matter what battles may be won life. That will set the best example for the process rather than excluded, and is with no delay. By the time of the solstice or lost in the big world, the people closest anyone who may need to know. recognized for the significant inspiration on June 21, if you moved with to you will always accept you. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Put all the and sense of grounding they are offering. determination and clarity, you had Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22): Before you energy this month to work for you. It Taurus (April 19-May 20): Over the past everything wrapped up and began the wear yourself out trying to hammer out seems you have several important issues year I’ve alluded to the possibility for big new season with confidence and a sense an issue of right and wrong, you might on the here-and-now queue, and the time changes in your living space, including of accomplishment. want to let it work out for itself. At least to address them is here and now. You’ve the possibility of relocating. For you, this Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): You need to make make sure you allocate a fairly long time had considerable experience the past is typically a decision you make, sure your fears don’t get the best of you to find a solution, like a month, for year with moving over, through and including the choice to delay. The this month, remembering Lou Reed’s instance. This will help you take the around a wide diversity of challenges, pressure comes on and off this issue, and reminder that you can’t count on the pressure off the situation, which is likely some of which have represented an actual there are times when you need to jump worst always happening. In the best of to assist because there’s already too much threat and others of which have been an out of your skin as much as you need a months you struggle to find a sense of of that going around. No matter how inconvenience. The trick now is to expend new physical building to contain your identity, as if it never exists as something much this matter seems to be pressing on a small fraction of the energy you have in much larger life. Once again you have the more than a mirage. Often, your fears give a household situation or threatening your the past, and allow your intentions to choice to delay, but you also have the you the most tangible sense of who you emotional comfort, the astrology says guide your life more than your physical option to take advantage of the friction are. If anything, events this month will don’t push back. Rather, yield and follow actions. The power of will is and fire and make a long overdue move teach you that you’re much more. Just the flow to the gentlest way through the exceptionally strong right now — that you’re unlikely to regret. make sure you get out of the house and territory. particularly your own. Gemini (May 20-June 21): There is some face the world. There really is one answer Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20): The rancor question about the community you live to isolation, and that’s known as people. with which a certain issue is unfolding clouds how delicately balanced the in and the extent to which it holds Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23): There is a fine line oo oo oo authority over your private life. The between success and failure. The question situation is, and hides the depth of planets reveal a story about you not being is how to choose your side of the line. feelings at stake. I suggest you never The ship was sinking fast. assume you know another person’s particularly thrilled with the situation, Perhaps start by knowing what you want The captain called out, “Anyone and of your willingness to fight if you for yourself, and being precise about it. position until they make it clear. There’s a lot of room for misinterpretation, and here know how to pray?” One need to. But I suggest you time your moves Be clear with yourself and articulate your man stepped forward: “I do, well, or they may backfire. It would be needs, goals and objectives in explicit the most sensible and sane path is to cease captain.” “Good,” said the wise to avoid going blow for blow, and terms, first to yourself, then in simplified from interpreting at all, at least for the captain. “You pray. The rest of indeed to avoid any direct confrontations form to anyone who actually needs to moment. You will, however, need to make at all. Use the Sicilian method. Gather know. If you feel any fear about your some sense of why such strong feelings us will put on life preservers. your facts. Let everyone else have it out. are swarming around. And you will, I We’re one short.” The Vashon Loop, p. 12 July 5, 06 LIVING WELL WITH PLANTS Text and drawings by Kathy Abascal (AHG) 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 with the remaining 70% a mixture of water, alcohol, emulsifiers (to keep the oil suspended) and NEW SPRING HOURS! preservatives. Should you prefer, it Preventing should be fairly easy to make up Open Every Day 7:00 am to 3:00 pm your own blend. In the study, the Mosquito Bites lemon eucalyptus oil was diluted Seven days a week The Center for Disease Control with coconut oil but rubbing alcohol (CDC) is once again urging us to might also be a good solvent for the Early Bird Special 7:00am step up our attempts to avoid oil. I am going to try the 40% blend mosquito bites as West Nile virus in coconut oil this year as I think the continues to spread. For most, the essential oil will dissolve better in the till 9:00am 10% off virus may pass almost unnoticed but oil than in the alcohol. If you use in some people it causes a alcohol, remember to shake the devastating illness. The unlucky few bottle before spraying to keep the oil will have meningitis-like symptoms in solution. and aftereffects that may interfere If you do not want to make your with normal life own, be careful for many years. choosing sprays " There is no on the market to Kathy Abascal is a known treatment make sure they professional member of the for the virus and contain enough American Herbalists Guild and is no reliable way of essential oil. certified by Michael Moore of the predicting which Some online Southwest School of Botanical people will suffer recipes Medicine. She co-authored the the more serious recommend 28 book Clinical Botanical Medicine. symptoms drops of essential You can email her at although those oil to 8 oz of [email protected] if you with chronic solvent – a have questions about herbs, call illnesses and a much, much her to schedule a private weakened weaker solution consultation (463-9211) or stop by immune system than used in the The Roasterie to purchase her are more likely to study. And tinctures. suffer the worst some people say cases. I have that just dabbing gooey hot spots and similar gotten several calls asking me how the essential oil on various spots on afflictions in humans. to make the herbal bug spray, and the body also works, but again, that So, get out there and empty out so decided to go over herbal bug type of use has not been studied and all containers with water in them. sprays again. may not be as effective. The Not growing mosquitoes goes a long The primary insect repellant repellant effect should last for way toward not getting bitten. today is DEET. It is a chemical that around four hours. Slather on some herbal bug spray, damages plastic and also has Of course, neither DEET nor and you should be good to go, but potential for side effects in users. Eye lemon eucalyptus have shown 100% keep some echinacea tincture on irritation has been the most effectiveness but deter 92-93% of the hand just in case. And, in case you frequently reported adverse effect mosquito bites (based on a heard that taking B vitamins will but there have also been reports of comparison with the number of bites deter bites: the research is not central nervous system problems, the person without repellant definitive but the mosquito experts more frequently reported in children suffered). This means that no say that taking extra B vitamins will than adults, ranging from slurred matter what you use, you may still not affect how desirable you are to speech and confusion to seizures get a few bug/mosquito bites but a female mosquito. oo oo oo and coma. The risk of adverse effects dramatically fewer than without a increases the longer you use DEET repellant. or the stronger the DEET product. Herbs can also help reduce the Now Open Saturdays! The CDC also endorses the use itching and inflammation of those of an herbal essential oil as an occasional bites as well as bites and effective mosquito repellant. The stings from other insects. A essential oil of lemon eucalyptus common home remedy is to put (Eucalyptus maculata citriodora) mashed plantain on the bite. proved equally effective to DEET in Plantain grows abundantly on the those trials. The study I read island, and many of my colleagues compared a 40% and a 75% lemon swear by it. Unfortunately, it has eucalyptus/oil blend to similar never soothed my itchy bites very concentrations of DEET and found well. Instead, I first try an echinacea that both the essential oil and DEET tincture which I drip directly on the deterred mosquito bites effectively. bite. It usually abates the itching Interestingly, both the essential oil and is nearly miraculous for spider and the DEET may work better at bites or other venomous bites that eat “I’ve had a perfectly the lower dilution. And in case you away the flesh. I also use Echinacea wonderful evening. But this were wondering: in mosquito in a spray form combined with wasn’t it.” — Groucho Marx repellant studies, volunteers cover several other herbs for a dog’s itchy, July 5, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 13 Before long Kathy finds herself teamed with Gary, a buttoned- Book Review down, proper, smart detective, as One Man’s War they seek answers to such questions “Vashon’s Independent as: who delivered the ten-foot Against Crime and alligator to Judge Gibbs’s house, which so frightened his wife that she Bookstore for 35 Years” Adverbs fled, swearing never to come back By Rachel Bard (which suited the judge fine)? How How do you get to be the best come Elvin, just out of prison and crime fiction writer in America? without visible means of support, is You might start your book with driving around in a Cadillac and an opening sentence like this: what’s his tie to that kinky rich “Late afternoon Chloe and Kelly doctor who was sentenced to house were having cocktails at the arrest by Judge Gibbs for drug Rattlesnake Club, the two seated on possession? What’s with Elvin’s the far side of the nephew Dale, dining room by Maximum Bob, by Elmore who’s avoiding Film Flam themselves: Leonard. Dell Publishing, 1991, his probation Chloe talking, paperback officer (Kathy) Kelly listening, and was also The Greatest Game Chloe trying to sentenced by get Kelly to help her entertain Maximum Bob? By the time it’s all Ever Played Anthony Paradiso, an eighty-four- sorted out, Kathy and Gary are cozy By Jonathan Shipley year-old guy who was paying her with each other, the bad guys have The greatest game I ever played? five thousand a week to be his met their comeuppance, and Judge Yeah, I’m a total athlete. Completely WE ARE BLOOMING girlfriend.” Gibbs hasn’t cleaned up his act one ripped. Check out my biceps, dude. OUR HEADS OFF! Or this: “The night Vincent got bit. On the last page he tells Kathy OUR HEADS OFF! Seriously. Actually, I’m as thin as a shot he saw it coming.” he can get her a better job in law bean pole, if the bean pole was on Give a plant to a The first is from Elmore enforcement. Jenny Craig. I have been known to Leonard’s Mr. Paradise, 2004, and “All the friends I have at the play basketball, though, which new home! the second from Glitz, 1985. Long or Sheriff’s Office? You’d be an brings me to my greatest game ever short, Leonard’s sentences get your investigator in no time. Listen, have played. It was in college at Potted plants or mature attention. supper with me this evening and Washington State. Open gym. Me specimens from our nursery He’s written more than three we’ll talk it over. What do you say?” and my buddies versus the vaunted dozen books, mostly about unsavory Leonard, no waster of words, gaggle of frat boys (the Mighty and garden beds make characters and questionable goings- doesn’t have to tell us what Kathy Jackasses). We came to play! I was welcome wedding or any on in southern Florida. The good says. By now we know her as well in my Shawn Bradley jersey, knee occasion gifts. guys are never too good but are as he does. socks, eye goggles, and headband on generally on the side of law and For struggling writers who long which I wrote in permanent marker Our Variety Will Amaze You! order or at least prevention of for rules to write by, Leonard has GAS-X. My buddies were dressed mayhem. Sometimes the scene is in provided a succinct list (see his similarly. The frat boys eyed us. Gift Cards Available the Detroit area, where Leonard website): “Easy on the Adverbs, “We’re gonna’ kill you!” they lives. But he’s at his wicked best in Exclamation Points and Especially belched. 20211 Vashon Highway SW, the Sunshine State with its palm Hooptedoodle.” For example: “We’ll see,” I said, pulling up my Vashon Island WA 98070 trees, man-eating alligators, steamy Rule 3. Never use a verb other socks to my inner thighs. “We’ll (206) 463-3655 Telephone swamps, seamy bars, cons and ex- than “said” to carry dialogue. The see.” And, the great thing is, we cons, showgirls, heartless line of dialogue belongs to the killed them. You should have seen course, there’s a love interest that is developers, bodies dumped into character; the verb is the writer their faces when we started taking completely uninteresting. canals, bodies thrown from deep- sticking his nose in. But “said” is far a pretty commanding lead. What does make the movie sea fishing boats, bodies found in bed less intrusive than “grumbled,” “WHO HAS THAT GUY WITH interesting is the golfing visual or on the beach, corrupt judges, “gasped,” “cautioned,” “lied.” I THE KICK ME SIGN TAPED TO effects, which are swell. The acting jaded detectives, bumbling once read Mary McCarthy ending a HIS BACK! SERIOUSLY! COME is, pardon me, right on par, as well. bodyguards, nice lady cops, and line of dialogue with “she ON!” Come now, frat boys, we beat Shia LaBeouf (Holes, The Battle of hard-bitten guy cops. The writing’s asseverated” and had to stop you fair and square and it was, Shaker Heights) plays a squeaky- always taut, hip and funny. reading to get the dictionary. without doubt, the greatest game I clean Ouimet, Stephen Dillane (The For some, the favorites are Get Rule 4. Never use an adverb to ever played. Hours, King Arthur) plays a Shorty, which was made into a modify the verb “said.” Don’t write: The greatest game Francis restrained Harry Vardon, and Elias Major Motion Picture, and its “…he admonished gravely.” To use Ouimet ever played was the 1913 Koteas (who plays Francis’s father) sequel, Be Cool, ditto. They feature an adverb this way (or almost any US Open. He was a 20-year-old looks great in a big moustache. Mark Chili Palmer (played by John way) is a mortal sin. The writer is nobody golfer with a 10-year-old Frost wrote the screenplay based on Travolta), a Miami mobster turned now exposing himself in earnest, caddy, playing against the best his non-fiction book of the same Hollywood mogul. The films using a word that distracts and can golfers in the world, including his name (for a well-written book about couldn’t capture the dry, deadpan interrupt the rhythm of the idol, British great Harry Vardon, in a similar subject check out Michael humor of the written word. When exchange. I have a character in one one of the most prestigious golfing Blaine’s recent The King of Swings Chili’s expensive leather sport coat of my books tell how she used to tournaments in the world. Ouimet about Johnny Goodman’s victory is stolen at a restaurant he write historical romances “full of won. Amazing, really, and the over golf great Bobby Jones). It is, complains to the manager. “So then rape and adverbs.” Disney folks, who like those like I said, a bit of a cheesy film, big- the manager got a waiter over and Hoping to write more like the amazing stories from those pull- hearted and warm-glowing, but if a they talked to each other in Italian master, I tried to banish adverbs myself-up-by-my-bootstraps-or- stand up and cheer movie is what for a while, the waiter nervous or from this essay. Two crept in. golf-shoes-with-shiny-spikes type you’re looking for, you could do he was anxious to get back to Frightfully sorry, folks. Oops, there’s people, and made a movie of it, worse than The Greatest Game Ever folding napkins.” another. directed by Bill Paxton. Yup, THAT Played, like the molasses-slow Robert For readers new to Leonard a oo oo oo Bill Paxton (see Titanic, Twister, True Redford film The Legend of Bagger good first book is Maximum Bob, 34th District Democratic Lies, other T movies), and he has Vance, for instance. 1991. The title character is a done a fairly good job with the Also, let’s be honest here. There’s philandering Florida judge who’s so Campaign Kick-off movie. Of course, it’s HORRIBLY no way you could do worse than me tough on crime that he gleefully Senator Erik Poulsen, Rep. Eileen formulaic. But that’s Disney’s style at golf. I shoot about 16 over par, dishes out the longest sentences Cody and Rep. Joe McDermott are more than Paxton’s. Throw in a every hole. But if you see me on the possible. He also invites pretty celebrating the 2006 campaign season lowly good-looking fellow and make basketball court with goggles and a lawyers, public defenders and other on Tuesday July 11 from 6 to 8:30 him somebody and make happy GAS-X headband, watch out. I’m a p.m. at the Olympic Hall Veranda at lovelies into his private chambers in tears flow at the end as they roll Disney movie in the making on the South Seattle Community College hopes of a little hanky-panky. Kathy court. And my biceps are huge, (South Parking Lot), 6000 16th credits and play stirring music that Baker, probation officer, doesn’t go Avenue SW, Seattle. stirs the heart strings. And, of dude. oo oo oo for that but has to be polite to the For information or to RSVP call The usual drawback to success is that judge or risk losing her job. (206) 937-4184 or email: it annoys one’s friends so. – P. G. www.vashonloop.com Wodehouse [email protected] The Vashon Loop, p. 14 Robbie Fulks July 5, 06 Returns by Liz Shepherd

I’m writing with great musical news and a reminder to mark your calendar!

Robbie’s Vashon shows yet, well, what are you waiting for? Robbie, in addition to being almost 7 feet tall, is one of the best flat-pick guitar players in the country, and his singing and songwriting are also sublime. In the past year or so, Island Epicure Quick Peanut Sauce Robbie and the band have made 1/2 cup peanut butter Bishops a regular stop, and can you 1 onion, finely chopped blame them? We have the best 1 cup thick coconut milk Robbie Fulks and his band - dancers, don’t we?? Hope to see you spooned from top of 15-oz. can Grant Tye on electric guitar, Gerald on August 1st in those dancing 1 Tablespoon brown sugar or Dowd on drums and Mike shoes to give a warm welcome back brown Splenda® Fredrickson on bass - will be back to honkytonk heroes Robbie, Grant, 1/2 to 1 teaspoon red pepper on Vashon Tuesday, August 1, 8 pm Gerald, and Mike. Tickets go on sale powder at Bishops Cafe. If you’ve been lucky soon at Vashon Island Music ($12 1 lemongrass stalk, bottom half, enough to see Robbie and the boys in advance, $15 the night of the finely chopped, or 1 Tablespoon play before, you know what a rip- show). We can’t think of a better lemongrass paste (comes in tube; roaring musical treat you’re in store way to spend a warm summer Satay, American Style refrigerate) or juice of 1/2 lemon for. If you haven’t made it to one of Tuesday night on Vashon. By Marj Watkins 1 Tablespoon fish sauce (Nam Satay almost always appears on Pla) the menu of Thai restaurants in the 1 Tablespoon soy sauce Cher M. Suspicious, USA. It’s thin strips of meat Puree in blender or food Ah, the miracle of the modern (chicken, beef, or pork), marinated, processor. Transfer to small Madame medicines. Many persons such as skewered, and grilled. We’d eat it if saucepan. Bring to a boil, constantly yourself are noticing that the Toujours modern anti-crankiness drugs are it was made of cardboard, just for stirring. Remove at once from heat. the peanut sauce. Pour or ladle into small bowls. Dear Madame Toujours, having the greatest effects on the When my sister-in-law, Jean To cook satay: Recently, I had an encounter on behavior of the people who are not Hall, and her maid, Bong, made Remove meat-beribboned the highway with an elderly woman taking them. Nobody is satay for us in Sarawak, Malaysia, skewers from marinade. Cook on driving a midsize sedan with her understanding this phenomenon. they spent most of a day assembling hot, oiled grill 5 minutes, turning obnoxious little dog leaning out the Possibly, it is having something to and grinding up the 20 spices of a each skewer half-way through. passenger side window. During the do with the quantum physics. traditional recipe. Here below is a Serve with the small bowls of sauce trial, my lawyer revealed that I am Also, it is natural that you are much-adapted, much easier way to for dipping the meat. actually a victim of Intermittent suspicious about the modern make it. To complete the menu: Steamed Explosive Disordear, which causes psychological medicines. Many By the way, the name satay rice, Sweet and Sour Fresh me to “explode” into “irrational” persons are feeling that everybody seems to derive from “steak.” East Cucumber slices, Limeade, Fruit rage in response to “trivial” is trying to force them to be the Asians have trouble saying words plate. The cucumber dish can be annoyances. The judge believed this tediously agreeable cogs in the with two consonants together. Thais made up to six days ahead, twaddle, and since the ^#&@ dog mechanical wheels of the Brave tend to omit pronouncing the last refrigerated in jars. The Thai survived, she sentenced me to 300 New World where nobody is having consonant. Try slipping an “a” after husband of our niece Riki made this hours of public service and any of the individualities. They are the “s” and skipping the “k.” You cucumber salad for us when we mandatory enrollment in a drug arguing that in the old days, nobody got “satay,” right? visited them in Bangkok. trial testing a treatment for IED. My was taking the anti-depressant Satay — 6 servings Sweet and Sour Cucumber — jackass lawyer says this is a very medications, and everybody was 1 pound lean meat, very thinly 6 servings light sentence, all things considered. getting along just fine. This is sliced into strips 3/4 inch x 2 inches 2 large cucumbers, peeled, The problem is, I think my family because they are supposing that in Thread meat strips like ribbons halved lengthwise and thinly sliced is involved in a conspiracy against the old days nobody was having the on wooden skewers, two or three to 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced me. About a month after I started depressions or the Obnoxious a skewer. Place in large, shallow pan 1/2 teaspoon red chili flakes the drug trial, they stopped doing Personality Syndromes, or if they or platter. Pour marinade over. Let 1/4 cup sugar or Splenda® all the little things that used to drive were it was only because they were stand for 30 to 60 minutes, turning 1/2 cup water me crazy: my wife started having extremely colorful, and everybody each stick once in a while. 1/4 cup rice vinegar orgasms again when we “make was being very amused by it. Marinade: Salt to taste love;” when the kids fight or whine Nothing is being further from 2 cloves garlic, minced, or 1 Place cucumber, onion and chili about doing their homework, they the truth. When I was the little girl tablespoon ready-minced garlic flakes in mixing bowl. no longer use that particularly in France, if you were having the 1/2 red onion, finely chopped In small saucepan on low heat irritating tone of voice; even the cat depressions and the manias, you 1 Tablespoon dark brown sugar dissolve sugar in water. Remove doesn’t shed as much when I let her were having no recourse but to or brown Splenda® from heat. Stir in vinegar and salt. sit on my lap. Plus, when I come make the husbands and the children Juice of 1 lime Pour over veggies in mixing bowl. home from work, they all come extremely miserable and drive 1 Tablespoon fish sauce (Nam Stir. May be served at room running to meet me and hug me — everybody to the drink. This was Pla) temperature. If made ahead, even the cat. usually very inconvenient, and if 1 to 2 Tablespoons lemon juice refrigerate promptly and chill until I am so disgusted with their you were too much to annoy the 1 Tablespoon light olive or served. manipulative behavior, I am ready family, they were locking you in the oo oo oo canola oil to quit the drug trial and let them attic or the madhouse. Whirl all marinade ingredients throw me in jail. At least that would Bon Chance, M. Suspicious. be honest. Is there some way to Possibly you are wishing to mention in food processor or blender until I am an epicure; you are a smooth liquid ensues. make my family act normal again? the persecutions and the gourmand; he has both feet in Sincerely, conspiracies to the doctors. I am sure Advertise in The Loop the trough. Suspicious they would be very interested. July 5, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 15

If your car gets rear-ended Or you’re in a wreck Come to Dr. Basile And he’ll fix your neck! PPPooositivelysitivelysitively SSSpepepeakingakingaking Appearances and the Sentimental Journey By Deborah Anderson Despite the major changes going Kennedy and Chappaquiddick filled on here on Island, there are some out the history lessons to take home. rhythms that will not be changed. The women who sold the One is the onshore breezes. How magazines apparently thought I was wonderful it is to know at 2 p.m., going to flip them into an easy when you think the heat will not investment. They are water leave you standing, that if you can damaged and some pages are not only hold out until 5:15 p.m. and get stapled in anymore. Even if they somewhere near water, the onshore were in perfect condition, I would breezes will come and bring relief. not sell them. I remember reading The other certainty is that some of them the first time around. between the Coop Preschool, and I actually tried the “take a long piece PTSA auction, the Fur Ball, and Art of nylon fabric and wrap it around Auction, there is a marvelous season your body making a dress with just called Garage Sale Season. Looking one broach.” for the wherewithal to make my You see, I don’t own anything daughter’s closet a real closet finally, to impress the neighbors. I’m a we set out to find a pole and sentimental owner of possessions. hangers. No luck there, but I decided Everything I own has a story behind to absolutely splurge, which in it. That isn’t to say that I don’t enjoy garage sale economics means two beauty and color and organization, This weekend, we are finally dollars and fifty cents total, and buy but I choose to keep things because cleaning out a storage area that had five Life magazines from the sixties they have history attached to them. things I thought I might need and early seventies. I held the first For those of you who buy for someday. They will be sold to the best one up, which had a picture of the appearances, I highly recommend bargain hunter. I’ll send them along Israeli Olympic team on the front. sentimentality. Every dish, every with a prayer they will bless “Look,” I said to my daughter, “The sheet, every piece of furniture is a someone else. real story behind the movie blessing tied to someone else. Even Go through the house this Munich.” I took the ones that had my mattress was an idea from a summer. If it’s meant to impress the story of the astoundingly fast friend who worked a deal when I someone, put it out on the lawn new Polaroid camera which could was having terrible back trouble. with a sign that says, “For Sale” and now offer a fully developed picture Now, it helps, if you are a go find a duplicate item that has a in ten minutes. Also, the one with sentimental possession owner, not to story that means something to you. the long article about Barbara be a pack rat. That just makes you When we wake in the morning and Walters called the Queen of Talk the lonely cat lady. No, no. I’m not survey our surroundings, may the and how she had broken the news talking about a lack of good inanimate objects that serve us say gender barrier. Then there was the stewardship. I’m talking about to us, “It shows that you are one with the “bare fashions” which making sure your favorite things enjoying your own journey!” we now call a halter top. Ted ARE your favorite things. Love, Deborah oo oo oo Radio Club Field Day in a community emergency drill at the end of October. People can find Continued from page 1 out about our activities at our and the Caribbean. You can literally website, www.W7VMI.org.” “International competition is stiff!” said Silver. “I’ve been hear the world turning as the sun Radiosport Competition goes down around the world.” competing since I got my license The event is, “part competitive, Ward Silver left on July 4 for the when I was in high school. This is and part emergency preparedness,” World Radiosport Championship the culmination of my competitive Silver said. Competition in Florianopolis, Brazil. career.” The Vashon Club has a trailer The contest begins on July 8 and lasts “Every day is different on the that was donated to the club a Left to right: Jim Boardman, Phil Zook, and 24 hours, during which two-person radio – the sun is different, the couple of years ago. After extensive Jack Richards on the air in the tent. Note teams will try to make the most weather is different.” refitting, Silver said, “it’s a fairly high tech shield for radio screen. contacts in the most places on the Previous competitions have been competent little radio station.” The Radio Relay League (ARRL), which most bands, using both voice and held in Seattle (1990); San Francisco Vashon club has 35 members, and helps hams organize on a county or Morse code. (1996); Slovenia (2000); and Helsinki there are about 110 people with town basis to work with public Silver’s partner is Chris Hurlbut, (2002). This will be the first radio licenses on the Island, not all health agencies in the event of an a 23-year-old student who is an “up- competition to be held in the of whom are active. emergency or disaster. and-coming young operator,” said Southern Hemisphere. Gold, Silver, The “We have a team of 22 hams on Silver. They will be one of six teams and Bronze medals will be awarded. going from the United States. Amateur the Island ready to respond in Silver explained why radio waves “We get points for contacting Radio emergencies,” Silver said. “We have travel so much farther at night: “The Emergency exercises and drills and practice different countries and different ionosphere is made up of the D, E, F1 and Service more than most hams.” zones on different bands. It’s like a F2 layers. The D layer forms when the (ARES) is “We also provide big six-level video game with 5,000 sun shines on the ionosphere, and it sponsored communications for the Heart of the people playing for 24 hours. It’s absorbs radio frequencies. It disappears by the Sound Triathlon at the end of hard enough to be fun, and not too when the sun goes down, and then waves Radio operators use voice and hard to figure out ways to be good.” reflect off the F layers.” Morse code. Photo by M. Tuel American August, and we’ll be participating The Vashon Loop, p. 16 July 5, 06 No Ask Ernest this issue. Ernest is at the World Cup, and we hope he will tell us all about it when he returns. Vashon Residents Take a Very Long Walk Raising Funds to Fight Breast Cancer When you watch the Strawberry Festival parade go by, look closely for the group carrying the banner for the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk. They will be asking for your help to fight breast cancer. Some of them are survivors of this dreadful killer Water Rescue at KVI It’s Another disease and some of them are walking in By Susan Wolf memory of family members or friends who Stackhouse for Kids! Vashon Island Fire and Rescue did not make it. All of them have been responded to a call for six persons who Cate Stackhouse is throwing her hat walking hundreds of hard miles around were stranded in the water of Point Heyer into the ring for the title of Unofficial Vashon and Maury Islands – in training (KVI Beach) on Monday, June 26. The Mayor of Vashon. She is here to represent for a 60-mile walk to raise funds for breast individuals had only a rubber raft or all the kids on Vashon in the schools. cancer research. windsurfing board to keep them afloat Cate is 11 years old and will be entering A total of a dozen Islanders have and the current was moving them away McMurray as a 6th grader in the fall. She signed on to make the journey and their from shore. The call came in at 3:57 p.m. enjoys soccer, dance, basketball and hard work will culminate in late August. Captain Kranjcevich arrived at KVI Beach school. In school she enjoys math, They will be participating in the Seattle This group of Islanders has been training at 4:00 p.m. Both the Aid and Medic reading, spelling, art and music. Breast Cancer 3-Day. It’s part of a hard for their super marathon fundraiser to volunteers arrived minutes later. Marine Cate ‘s designated non-profit is the nationwide movement in which each fight breast cancer. It’s called the 3-Day 26, Des Moines Fire-Rescue boat was Vashon Island Community PTSA. participant walks 20 miles a day over three because they will walk 20 miles per day for called at 4:02 p.m.; however, the Coast “It’s important to give money to help days, a total of 60 miles. Each participant three days. The group of twelve walkers Guard, called at 4:04 p.m., was closer. the schools and kids because kids spend must raise a minimum of $2,200 to benefit includes these six photographed at a recent They arrived at 4:32 p.m. The Coast almost more time at school than they do the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer coordination meeting (front) Karen Baer, Guard or Marine 26 are always notified at home, and their education is really Foundation and the National Susan Kutscher, Berni Schnebele, Stacey whenever VIFR responds to a water important for their future,” Cate says. Philanthropic Trust. So far, the Vashon Wolczko and (back) Jean Zartman and Rick rescue call, approximately 20 times Vote Cate for Mayor! walkers have raised more than $30,000. Wallace. Photo credit Steve Zartman annually. You can help out by making donations as Subsequently the swimmers were they march by in Saturday’s parade. awareness and funds to fight breast rescued by the Coast Guard. VIFR’s small “It was 20 years ago this year that we cancer.” Water Rescue boat had suffered a broken found the lump in Karen’s breast,” The participating Islanders include motor part a few days before during remembers walker Rick Wallace, husband twelve walkers: Kay Arthur-Farris, Karen another marine incident. It was of participant Karen Baer. “Within a few Baer, Karen Biondo, Cindy Hartzell, subsequently repaired on Tuesday, June days we had the terrifying answer to my Susan Kutscher, June Niece, Berni 27 when the specially-ordered part was question: ‘Honey, what’s that?’ The Schnebele, Wendi Sellers, Rick Wallace, received. surgeon told us it was breast cancer and Amelia Watson, Stacey Wolczko, and Jean For questions, please contact PIO we thought the worst. But research guided Zartman. Islander Rita Olson will join Mike Kirk at 463-2405. Winderemere volunteers lifting a wall her treatmen, and after surgery and them by serving on the massive event radiation therapy, Karen survived. In fact, support crew for the approximately 4,000 Roseballen Benefits she has thrived, as all who know her on people who will walk the 3-Day in Seattle, Continued from page 1 Vashon can attest! It’s that kind of August 25th through 27th. housing programs; transportation; and from Windermere knowledge and hope that these funds Walkers and crew members stay in other emergency services.” will support. That’s why we’re walking: tent camps for two nights during the “When we hire our advocate we will Volunteer Day to celebrate the 20 years we’ve had journey, creating an instant community establish an office on Vashon. We hope The Windermere Real Estate together when things could have turned of breast cancer survivors and co- to be up and running on the Island by Company on Vashon Island chose the out so very differently.” survivors. Hundreds of volunteer crew September 1.” Roseballen Project, one of two Community “I decided to participate in the Breast members will provide meals, water, snack “We also hope to be able to provide Land Trust projects being developed by Cancer 3-Day because my Aunt Margaret, stops, gear transport, hot showers, fax service for protection orders, so that Vashon Household, for their company protection orders can be obtained quickly, who was my hero, lost her life last year to portable restrooms, safety on the streets wide community service day on Friday, without traveling to the mainland and breast cancer,” says walker Jean Zartman. and medical services. June 16. Windermere volunteers “I wanted to do something bold to help In addition to making contributions back. We also hope to conduct a weekly hammered away for a good cause. fight the disease and what better way during the Strawberry Festival parade, support group on the Island.” Building nine homes is no small task, than to set a goal to accomplish something you can also help the Vashon 3-Day “We will not provide a safe house but with the team of 19 Windermere as challenging as the 3-Day? So I’m going walkers by making a donation on their on the Island.” volunteers, the Roseballen homeowners to march through the streets of Seattle with personal Web pages at www.The3Day.org “Our continued presence on the thousands of others as we raise or by calling (800) 996-3DAY. Island in 2007depends on funding from received a needed energy boost as they King County. We have $10,000 now, and are in month five of building and hoping hope to get $20,000 more for 2007 to make to complete the project by December. The Harbor School Welcomes Jill Heryford, total of $30,000 funding for the year.” The Windermere volunteers donated People can call DAWN now even a combined total of more than 90 hours of New Middle School Math Teacher though the agency is not on Island yet: By Juli Goetz Morser service. If you want to get involved with their 24 hour crisis line number is (425) Vashon Household’s Roseballen housing Jill Heryford’s first visit to the Harbor passionate about teaching, had a good 656-7867; the confidential shelter project or find out if you qualify for the School came last February during the understanding of the developmental number is 206-622-1881; and the toll-free second ten homes being built in July, school’s Open House, and she was characteristics of this age child, and the shelter number 1-866-286-3296. The job contact Jeri Nickell, the Executive Director intrigued with what she heard. “I experience behind them to guide the work announcement and information on how understood what was special about the of the students here. I have found that to apply for the position is on the website of Vashon Household at (206) 463-4880 Harbor School when I heard the alumni person in Jill Heryford. Jill’s nine years (www.dawnonline.org). or email [email protected]. talk. They were so articulate. I could see of teaching Middle School math and DAWN has operated county-wide since 1980, providing a full spectrum of the magic of the place on their faces.” science will greatly inform her teaching “I didn’t attend the funeral, Jill’s second visit came last April during here. She is tremendously excited about services for victims and survivors of her interview for the Middle School math this opportunity and our students will be domestic violence, both adults and but I sent a nice letter saying I position, and she was amazed by what lucky as a result.” children. approved of it.” -- Mark Twain she experienced. “At the interview, it hit Jill, her husband Tim, who teaches me that every school says they’re all about Language Arts and Social Studies at the voice of the kids, but no other place McMurray Middle School, and their four- has had the kids interview me – everyone year-old child, Riley, moved to the Island talks about it, but no one does it.” By the last August from Santa Cruz, California. end of the third interview in May, Jill Smiling, Jill adds, “We moved from one knew where she belonged. She hoped great place to another!” Toby Welch, Head of School, thought so, too. Read The Loop online at Indeed, Welch was thrilled with Jill’s www.vashonloop.com candidacy, and after interviewing a Advertise in The Loop: number of highly qualified applicants, [email protected] Welch offered Heryford the job. “In the Write to The Loop: search process, my objectives were to find a teacher who embodied the Harbor [email protected] School philosophy, someone who was We’re here for you. July 5, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 17 I asked my psychiatrist if she o thought I was crazy. She said Lo py Laffs “no,” so I let her up. More excuses: I’d love to, but... An unbreakable ...the man on television told me to say tuned. toy is useful for ...I did my own thing and now I’ve got to undo it. breaking other ...I’ve come down with a really horrible case of something or other. ...I changed the lock on my door and now I can’t get out. toys. ...I have to study for a blood test.

After the funeral, the priest said, “I don’t think you’ll ever find another man like your late husband.” “Who’s looking?” asked the widow.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. —Thomas Jefferson “I’m going to get my husband a jacket for his A German tourist walks into a McDonald’s and orders birthday.” a beer. The local guy in the line behind him “Sports?” immediately gives him a verbal jab. “They don’t serve “No.” beer here, you idiot!” “Leather?” The German fellow felt embarrassed—however, he “No.” turns to the New Yorker with a surprised look on “What kind, then?” his face and begins to chuckle. “Straight.” “And what’s so funny?” the patron demands. “I just realized you came here for the food!”

“I have never killed a man, but ONE LINERS!!! I have read many obituaries It’s easier to get older than it is to get wiser. with great pleasure.” If it was worth doing, I would have already done it. -- Clarence Darrow I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure. Forgiveness is cheaper than a lawsuit—but not nearly as gratifying. I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. Can These Marriages Be Saved? It is better to have loved and lost than to have stayed married to a jerk for the rest of your life. 1. My younger brother told his wife when she turned 40 that he was going to trade her in for After being married 25 years, I took a look at my wife one day and said, “Honey, 25 years ago, we had a cheap two 20s. She replied, “Oh, honey, you aren’t wired apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black-and-white TV, but I got to sleep every for 220.” night with a hot 25-year-old blond. Now, we have a nice house, nice car, big bed and plasma screen TV, but I’m 2. So the vet told me to clean out the cat’s sleeping with a 50-year-old woman. It seems to me that you are not holding up your side of things.” abcess with hydrogen peroxide on cotton balls. My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 25-year-old blonde, and she would When I got home I asked my husband, “Do you make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, and sleeping on a sofa bed. have cotton balls?” He answered, “Do I look like a teddy bear?” “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” — Oscar Wilde

You can see Jeremy Gregory’s artwork at: www/myspace.com/batteryjuicer The Vashon Loop, p. 18 July 5, 06 Open Space Gallery Loop Arts at Gargoyle Design

Paul Wilkin of Gargoyle Design is pleased to announce the opening of the Open Space Gallery with a show of the work of Julianna Larson. The show runs from July 7 to July 29, with an Artist Reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, July 7. The Gallery is located at 17232 Vashon Hwy SW in Parker Plaza, between Doug’s Auto and Fair Isle Vet Clinic. An

“An Array of Art, Artisans Inconvenient and Realities” -- Paul Wilkin Truth July 5-6 Julianna Larson was born an artist, drawing and painting almost before she Pirates of the could walk. She developed her talent and The Door by Julianna Larson Robyn Landis at Tucson Music Festival, May vision under the guidance of her father, Carribbean 2006 Photo from Short & Sweet website her first and only teacher. With each giving more painting, she hopes to share a simple, exposure to more Robyn Landis’s Songs uplifting message — that life is a joyful artists. Hours will Dead Are Winning Awards and precious gift. be Monday Although she works in watercolors through Man’s Island songwriter Robyn Landis and acrylic, Julianna’s love of life finds Thursday, 10 a.m. will be traveling to several its home in the vibrant arena provided to 5 p.m., or by Chest songwriting competitions across the by oils. Her pieces, whether appointment. July 7 - 20 country in the next couple of weeks. commissioned or flowing from her own Telephone 206- She is one of ten finalists inner passion to create, are vivid and 463-4024. performing at the KRCL/Founder’s powerful. In Julianna’s eyes, the world is Paul Wilkin A Prairie Home Title Folk & Bluegrass Festival breathtakingly bright and full of color, has been working Paul Wilkin Performing Songwriter’s Showcase whether she paints on a small canvas or in the design/ Companion in Snowbird, Utah, on July 8. Then one that is 12 feet x 3 feet. If you look printing industry for 21 years. He founded on July 13, Robyn has a main stage closely, each painting has a touch of Gargoyle Design on Vashon in 1997, whimsy, such as a tiny fox hidden deep offering full service Graphic Design and set at the Woody Guthrie Folk within a field of sunflowers. Marketing to Island, local and national Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, Over the past 15 years, Julianna has clients. Started as a home based business, because her song “Glad to Hear the shown her work in galleries, restaurants it has grown to an office “uptown” in Rain” won first place in the 2006 and shops, and also created a series of Vashon. See his website for the wide Woody Guthrie Songwriting six paintings for the opening of an variety of services and designs he offers: July 14 - 20 Competition! Her song “I’m In independent coffee shop. She lives and www.gargoyledesign.com While Love” received an honorable paints in Gig Harbor. View Larson’s building his graphic design business, mention in this competition as well. work online at: Wilkin put his own fine art aside, and Then on July 15-16 at Solarfest in www.gargoyledesign.com/ had the idea to move back into fine art by Vermont, Robyn may compete as a juliannalarson creating a gallery. He hopes the space will The Open Space Gallery’s serve many fine artists as the gallery finalist in the Solarfest Performing emphasis will be on group shows, thus grows. Songwriter’s Showcase. Robyn was a finalist in 2005, but was unable to Mike Nelson Trio at attend due to scheduled shows in WA. This year, Robyn is an alternate Cafe Luna Next Week finalist. She will perform if any of The Mike Nelson Trio will be the top 10 can’t make it. performing jazz standards, blues, “I’m In Love” was #3 this week ballads, swing tunes and mellow Call 463-3232 or check on the Folk charts at American Idol bossa nova numbers at Cafe Luna www.vashontheater.com Underground’s listener-judged on Saturday July 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. for times music-streaming site, and can be (no cover). Mike Nelson has been heard at: http:// performing jazz guitar as well as www.idolunderground.com/ other styles of music in the Pacific began to play. I look forward to Pages/Charts/NW area for over 30 years and plays working with him again in the near ChartDetail.aspx?GenreID=6 in a style reminiscent of Wes future.” Mike was raised and went Montgomery, Kenny Burrell and Joe to school on Vashon and has been Summer Picnic Concerts Pass. Brent Mason (Community performing at the Strawberry at Colman Pier Relations Coordinator/Borders Festival (along with local favorite Books and Music) states that “I can Jim Ferrari on tenor sax, and Robin Washington State Ferries will be MIke Nelson celebrating summer with the return honestly say that Baorders feels Dalynn on vocals) for several years. of the afternoon summer concert fortunate to have had the whose professionalism was best His father, Russ Nelson, plays series, “Picnic at the Pier” at Colman opportunity to work with a exemplified by the number of people country fiddle with local favorites Dock in Seattle. musician the quality of Mike Nelson, who migrated to the café when he The Garage Boys. The concerts will be entertaining commuters, Mariner fans, and Jamie Laval & Ashley Broder to Play on Bainbridge people eating alfresco at tables set Champion Celtic violinist Jamie Laval appearing regularly on NPR radio, large up outside on the passenger level of and mandolin champion Ashley Broder festival stages and in concert. the terminal. will be performing on Bainbridge Island His partner, Ashley Broder, is an Next month, on Friday, July 28, on July 22 at 7 p.m., as featured guests at award winning musician and plays the Bloedel Summer Music Series. This mandolin, cello, guitar and fiddle. They Whidbey Island’s Shifty Sailors, will powerful duo form a stunning met last June at the National Old Time entertain with songs of the sea and instrumental duo, rendering traditional Fiddle Contest & Festival in Weezer, folk lore as well as humorous ferry Irish, Scottish, and Bluegrass music with Idaho, where they had a profound songs. The popular calypso steel hints of classical refinement and ethnic musical and personal connection, and drum band, The Toucans, returns on music from around the world. have been touring America and Scotland Friday, August 25. Each concert Laval, a Seattle native, has toured the ever since. will last from 3:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. world. After winning the U.S. National on the passenger level at Pier 52 in Scottish Fiddle Championship in 2002, he “His mother should have Seattle. devoted himself entirely to touring Jamie Laval and Ashley Broder throughout the States and Scotland, thrown him away and kept the stork.” -- Mae West July 5, 06 The Vashon Loop, p. 19 like the Gully Blackberry Bear and whoppers, they never seem to be the Adventrues of mentioned in Huckleberry Hollow literature until much later on. Two smart 12, or 8 or 16, year olds... By Becky and Maggie Bumgarner The piece of gold “So, what’s it called at the Bookshop?” Illustrations by Maggie Bumgarner used to sit on the Wizard’s “Summer Sizzling Reading Fun!” The Great Celtic Star workbench and while working on Part Two different spells and making various (Ask about it.) Millipeda the Gullywhopper and his powders, some of the dusts spilt onto the sister Persie have gone to the Cyclops’ gold. Nothing was thought of it at the time, Open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. smithy to see if they can find something as these spells and dusts were thought Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (206) 463-2616 to replace the tooth Millipeda lost in a only to work on living things. As it turns fall. out, it all had to do with low-level Millipeda and Persie hid in the frequencies and all beings and things woods in back. One of the Cyclopes was have one of those, and the heat of the fire What’s Happening At Vashon Bookshop? working out back over the fire. He had must have activated the frequencies and By Devon Atkins what seemed to be a shiny piece of gold the spells and powders began to take just about the right size for Millipeda’s effect. All of a sudden whoosh! Off flew The other day, my mom turned natural entertainer who is an tooth. Now if they could only get their the gold up into the sky with a life all its 90. And, yes, she was very, very old accomplished song writer, guitarist, hands on it. own! — quite elderly, in fact — when I and singer. Mark moved to Vashon “I know,” said Persie, “I’ll get his Millipeda’s scream caused the was born. A terrific group of from Australia (by way of Seattle), attention over there and you grab the gold Cyclops to turn around. Persie and neighbors and card fiends (she plays and has never looked back. He plays while he’s not looking.” Millipeda both headed back into the a killer hand of Bridge) turned out, those sweet songs (with just enough “OK, but be careful now,” cautioned woods as fast as they could go. They and sparkling drinks, luscious cakes, edge) that will remind you of how Millipeda. didn’t look back until they were quite a and intoxicating conversation were much you loved Cat Stevens and Persie went around the woods and ways away. When they did, they got quite enjoyed by all. Someone mentioned James Taylor’s lyrics and melodies. came out on the other side of the Cyclops. a sight. The piece of gold was spinning that a little birdie had divulged my You can enjoy Mark on First Friday “Hello, there! Excuse around and me, but are you busy expanding into a very mother’s age, and my mother, evening (also the first night of right now? I was interesting and pretty always the sweet but caustic Festival), July 7, 7:30 p.m. And wondering, could you shape. It became Southern lady, replied that her cat then, the very next evening, hear Shy mend this?” She took hollow in the middle always eats birdies that talk too Sundays, with Kim Thal (on violin out a small duck toy and began to get much. We all laughed, someone and voice) and Rick Vanselow (on from her pocket and points on the outside. mentioned their book group’s latest guitar). Their band was so popular showed it to him. When it took its final pick, and naturally the man to my when it was called BeSides. They “Why, yes, little shape it was the most right asked what was going on at were good before, and they’re even spectacular sight in girl. It seems simple the Bookshop. better now; plus, their talented enough,” replied the the sky. “I hear you do a Poetry thing,” friends always seem to show up to Cyclops. The hole in the Meanwhile middle and the he said into my right shoulder. “My join them. From Woody Guthrie to Millipeda had snuck pointed ends were son writes poetry, and we just heard Rolling Stones, don’t miss Shy out of the woods and was reaching for connected by a rather fancy knot. The that your Teen Camp for Poetry has Sundays on Festival Saturday, July the piece of gold that the Cyclops put style was what in those days referred to been cancelled.” I explained that I’d 8, 7 to 9 p.m. down at the edge of the fire when Persie as Celtic. In fact, that’s how the Celtic gotten too busy with my move to the Of course, by the time I caught his attention. Millipeda grabbed people got their name. They decorated Beach to follow through with announced this musical line-up, the the gold in his hand and let out a loud everything with these Celtic-type fancy evening workshops for kids, but wine and Strawberry Mousse cake scream. It was still very hot from the fire knots. The gold by this time was so bright was making plans to offer them in were almost gone, but everyone and as he threw the piece of gold up into and shinny, that folks named it the Celtic the fall. He looked disappointed, so begged for more; and what else the air, it started to spin around like a Star. It was fast, too, the fastest star in the I reminded him about the Poetry could I say, but that the artwork of discus. sky. It is thought that that had something This would seem strange, but it is here to do with all the powders. Salon, a monthly gathering for folks sisters Chelsea and Camille Coldeen that a little explanation of just where the Could be too, except for the second who love poetry. will adorn the Bookshop all summer. piece of gold had been before the Cyclops half of this tale. The star is in the sky, but After all, this month, the always These two are an imaginative pair, for it would be helpful. next issue we will learn of the character engaging Jenny Hodgson is hosting the kind of girls who are always The gold was in a Wizard’s shop. who gets to chase after it each night. the Salon. And, Jenny’s topic trying their hand at something new Yes, there have always been Wizards. Just To Be Continued... oo oo oo couldn’t be more perfect for the (That’s all I’m going to say; you’ll season: Poetry To Read When You just have to see for yourselves). Rogue valley where the weather comes Want To Take A Vacation. In other So, by this time, the moon had down from the Siskiyu range and travels words, what do you read when you risen, the wine was gone, and across wooded hills and fruit orchards. want to take a break from what you someone said longingly...”But, what The Thornileys wintered on the Big usually read? Me? I read Randall about books?” So, I decided to give Island, Hawaii where the light is bright, the flora vibrant and the landscape Jarrell and Shel Silverstein, and them the bad news first: the dripping. His coastal Western Oregon other more contemporary poets who Bookshop’s book groups (adults and paintings are the meeting of trees, rocks serve wit by the line. Others read kids, both) will take a vacation until and water. Haiku or limericks or Shakespearean September. But, the good news is When Mike painted, he looked at the sonnets. Whatever you read to get that Island kids get “Summer “Coastal Trees,” Acrylic on paper landscape with the informed eye of a away from whatever your usual is, Sizzling Reading Fun.” The party farmer and painted with the freedom and I think you’ll find this month’s folks tried to say that three times Michael Thorniley at expression of a Cézanne or Turner. Poetry Salon a real treat, Thursday, quickly, but it was a total wash-out. Thorniley has an active short brush July 6, 7 to 9 p.m. Drop-Ins are Children of all ages can fill out a card Two Wall Gallery stroke that he layers on in deep color encouraged, and give me an email for each book they read during the By Ben Meeker patches to build up a surface of greenery. Mike Thorniley deeply understood Then he creates the shape of the land and at [email protected] if summer, and there will be a landscapes and the seasonal color of trees with the painted in sky and you’d like to receive my monthly drawing at the end of the season for weather. Mike was a trained painter who foreground. The shapes of the trees are emailing. By the way, ask Jenny to Movie tickets, gift certificates, and made his living defined by a flat read her Virginia Wolf poem. all sorts of goodies. How can any growing tomatoes yellow sky, a blue Back at the party, it was late, kid resist?! and pears in a Expressive, vibrant landscape horizon stripe and a and everyone was hanging on my As the night settled in on sleepy- valley in Southern paintings on paper by Oregon artist sketchy brown grass every word, dying to know about eyed partiers, as they bid my mom Oregon. As a Michael Thorniley. field. He creates the Bookshop’s other upcoming adieu, I could feel the weight of farmer, he using the beautiful events. “There’s going to be some champagne, Bookshop, and social cultivated an notion of defining a great music next weekend,” I said, responsibility lift from my shoulders. intimate knowledge of the physical solid with the atmosphere, or the realities of weather and seasonal light. foreground with the background. and a dozen guests turned my way What would they all have done for As a painter Thorniley saw the colors of These deep and colorful paintings to hear about Mark Shawn Wells, a the next two weeks without me?! the seasons, the light of weather and the will be on display at the Two Wall Gallery Which only goes to prove, once shape of land and air as an integrated from July 7 through July 30, with an Loopy sez: Deadline for the again, that there is so much more to whole to be experienced and recorded. opening reception on Friday July 7 from next edition of The Loop is Vashon Bookshop than just those Thorniley painted three distinct 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. intriguing folks and books! oo oo oo places that he knew thoroughly. The view For information, please contact Ben from his studio picture window was the or Nadine Meeker, 463-1930. Friday, July 14 The Vashon Loop, p. 20 July 5, 06

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$700 per month. Equal Opportunity Moss Removal Specialists Weekly/monthly/ Housing Provider Full Pressure Washing Service short term leases available. You can help build your first Roof, Gutter, and Security deposit and home for as little as $170,000 for Impeccable Window Cleaning a Craftsman-Style, 3 BR,2BA. references required. Call Vashon HouseHold at 206- 463-2648 Reservations (206) 463 3009 463-4880 for more info.

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