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Thanks to community, Vashon Get a peak on September 1 at the Center for the Arts (VCA) raised more Art Auction Preview Party and Artist Situated on beautiful Vashon Island, our boats. At least one third of P2P than $150,000 toward scholarships for reception. Honoring the Artist who have PASSPORT TO PAIN (or P2P) is an sponsorship revenue is dedicated to arts participants of all ages last year. donated over 150 pieces of amazing art. extraordinary cycling challenge that Financial Aid scholarships for junior Let’s do it again Vashon! VCA’s much- You can also sample hor dourves from offers 3 levels of vertical climb -- the rowers. anticipated annual Art Auction and Gala, around the Island at the Taste of Vashon. 80-mile Idiot ride with a climb of 10,000 In addition to its 10,000 vertical Friday and Saturday, September 22 and Please join us for the 2017 Art Auction vertical feet, the 50-mile Weasel ride feet, P2P also gains a uniquely fun and 23, showcases works created by Island Preview Party and Artist Reception. (6,500 vertical ft.), or the 30-mile Weenie outlandish flavor from its location – artists, tasty treats made by talented Friday, September 1 ride (3,400 vertical ft.). The 7th Annual beautiful Vashon Island, just 20-minutes chefs and bakers and the generosity 6:00-9:00 pm P2P will be held on Saturday, September west of Seattle by ferry boat. Long of local businesses, all in support of Free admission 9, 2017. populated by artists, small organic Vashon’s growing arts and culture What makes P2P different from other farmers, and those who seek a rural milieu. rides? Despite 10,000 vertical feet to lifestyle close to the Seattle metropolis, climb, P2P organizers pride themselves Vashon adopted its slogan “Keep Vashon on making the experience feel like the Weird” many years ago. P2P prides biggest party on wheels. A dedicated itself on creating a fun and wacky ride – team of event staffers regale riders at checkpoint volunteers dress in costumes each of the 18 checkpoints. Wearing or decorate their checkpoint booths outlandish costumes (this year’s theme in themes. P2P is a ride for fun, not a The Road to Resilience is Wizard of Oz!) and providing comedic race. Organizers do not keep times ‒ so By Terry Sullivan, relief, they stand at the ready to collect there are only winners, no losers (a very Single Payer clothing, stamp passports and provide Vashon tradition). A single payer health care system care: we do, that is, individuals (us), refreshments. Whether riders complete This year, P2Ps “Idiots,” “Weasels” makes so much sense, it’s hard to businesses (us), and government (us). the Idiot, the Weasel, or the Weenie, and “Weenies” will gather at Jensen imagine how we got stuck with the So if these insurance companies they can all count on a fun-filled party Point on Saturday, September 9, 2017 system we have. We all have to take are mainly just passing our money on waiting for them at the finish line and at approximately 7:30am for the chance responsibility for our own health, but to health providers, what exactly are an over-the-top pile of BBQ to devour to prove their endurance - or outright if somebody is sick or injured, it is in we getting for the exorbitant share they before they call it a day. insanity - on this brutal Island-wide ride. nobody’s interest that they not receive are keeping for themselves? When we Online registration for PASSPORT the care they need. Treating health care buy insurance, we put our money in a “THIS WAS THE MOST TO PAIN is open at www.passport2pain. as a commodity means that many need large pool, the larger the better so as to AMAZINGLY ORGANIZED EVENT org. The registration fee is $100. All to decide whether to buy groceries or go average out the highs and lows of costs WHOSE CHALLENGE I’VE EVER proceeds from P2P benefit the non-profit to the doctor. This is too close to a Monty to individuals in our pool. As near as ACCEPTED!!!!! I will certainly be back Vashon Island Rowing Club. Python skit. All developed countries I can tell, the individual companies next year for more and attempt to recruit Event Details: understand this and provide health care compete to lower overall health care more idiots. Awesome ride, awesome This is the 7th Annual P2P Island when and where needed without the costs by being the best at stiffing doctors people, awesome food and awesome Ride (the event is not a race) huge expense of trying to decide who and making sure that the care you get support! You all totally rocked it today!!! P2P will be held on Saturday, gets it and who doesn’t. is warranted. All the negotiations that I’ll be back.”” September 9, 2017 After watching Now Is The Time, a go on to make sure that no money gets –2015 P2P rider P2P begins at Jensen Point on the documentary on single payer health care spent unnecessarily actually cost a lot of Burton Loop at approx. 7:30 AM with shown at the theater a week ago Tuesday, money—not as much money as it would P2P was started by the Vashon staggered start times a number of considerations started to cost if you were getting paid for all the Island Rowing Club (VIRC) to help Riders are given a passport to be come into focus for me. Although I extra time you put in fighting to get the raise funds for the club and have fun stamped at each checkpoint came in a little late, the tenor of the film care you need. Still, it turns out that we at the same time. VIRC is a non-profit The longest ride option includes a seemed to be that the status quo for- pay three times as much as people in organization that supports more than climb of 10,000 vertical feet on the 80- profit health insurance companies were other countries with universal coverage 100 island youth and adults each year by mile course making a lot of money for a questionable even though 40 million people in our offering a competitive rowing program. There are three course options for all service. Single payer advocates make country are not covered at all. VIRC juniors (ages 13-18) learn lifetime riding levels: a fairly well-documented claim that Most of our health insurance is paid lessons in teamwork, self-discipline The Idiot – 10,000 vertical feet - 80 health care can be administered much for through our employers. Say what? and fitness, and many have earned miles more cheaply with a a single payer (the There was a time when some employers competitive college rowing scholarships. The Weasel – 6,500 vertical feet - 50 government) than with the multiple built houses, schools, civic centers, and The VIRC program is year-round and miles “competing” private sector payers that hospitals for their employees, so it may the funds raised by P2P give VIRC the The Weenie – 3,400 vertical feet - 30 are the existing private health insurance have seemed at one time that giving ability to offer financial aid to young miles industry. We know who pays for health employers the responsibility of providing rowers, purchase new equipment, and Continued on Page 9 make improvements to our facility and The Vashon Loop, p. 2 August 17 ‘17 Windermere Granny’s Attic
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Contact the Vashon Senior Center for a vendor application by calling 463-5173 or by e-mailing Alzheimer’s [email protected]. Better yet, stop by the Center, 10004 SW Free Garden Advice Bank Road MTWF, 9AM-3PM. Vashon Master Gardeners will host Plant Clinics from Association 9:30 a.m. -2:30p.m. on alternate Fridays & Saturdays beginning May 7, outside Ace Hardware. Caregivers Master Gardeners will be available to answer all your questions Support Group with research-based, environmentally sound information. Each Plant Clinic will also highlight a special topic of interest to our planting Caring for someone with community. Free handouts and garden resources will be available. All memory loss? Do you need questions welcome! Please stop by to share your gardening questions, information and support? successes and to meet your Master Gardener neighbors. Alzheimer’s Association family caregiver support groups provide a consistent and caring place for people to learn, share and gain emotional support from others Register for Chorale who are also on a unique journey Vashon Island Chorale will register singers for its upcoming of providing care to a person with memory loss. Meetings session “Carols & Cantatas” on Saturday, 8/26 from 10 to 11:30am are held the 3rd Wednesday and on Thursday, 8/31 from 5 to 6:30pm. Both registration events of the month, 1:00-2:30 pm, at will be held at Windermere Real Estate in the south office building Vashon Presbyterian Church, behind the coffee stand. Rehearsals begin on Sept. 5 and continue 17708 Vashon Hwy SW, Vashon, on Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9:15pm at the Presbyterian Church. WA 98070. For information call The concerts will take place on Dec. 2 & 3. Costs including dues and Regina Lyons at (206) 355-3123. music are $95 or $180 for two in a family. 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The annual Engles car show will Photos courtesy of John Sage / FinchHaven take place Sunday August 20 from By Seán_C._Malone 10am to 4pm. For over 12 years the I’ll always remember Mom’s cinnamon meat was expensive, so Mom used a meat show has drawn Cars, Trucks, Tractors apple sauce, darker than the rest and extender called Nutri-Bio, which made our Motorcycles and Boats. Come see what haunting in flavor on a cold Fall day. Most hamburger taste like sawdust and which the Islanders and friends have to show. everyone canned or preserved their food product the FDA later had removed from Open to all makes and models. in some way. It was during WWII, when the shelf because of false claims of the Food by the Bounty Club - High we were using ration cards and sugar was wonderful properties of Nutri-Bio and how School Boosters. Music provided The hard to get. many ills it could cure. Doily Brothers Rock & Roll Band. If you were distilling liquor in the David Church was complaining to me To see photos of last years car show woods, it takes lots of sugar. I know of the other night, he is a classmate and friend, visit www.finchhaven.com/Vashon/ a man who kept a still on the hill behind of the things his Mom would have him do Engels_Car_Show_2016/index.html photos up so a visit to his website is well his place. He also had bees, which may on the farm. One of his chores was getting John just got his Strawberry Festival worth it www.finchhaven.com have been classified a defense industry, eggs from the crock in the root cellular, which permitted him to buy all the sugar where they were preserved in water glass or he needed. His liquor wasn’t bad if I could sodium silicate, which is an aqueas, gooey remember drinking it. Parts of his still could mess and David had to stick his arm into the probably be found in the blackberries behind crock, clear up to his armpit to retrieve the Engel’s gas station. Just kidding, the story eggs. He hated it and called water glass,”pig came from Lewis County, if I recollect, no snot”; probably something he saw in the pig where near Vashon. pen when he was feeding the hogs. Canning salmon was the most risky Water Glass can also be found on the because of botulism and temperatures had commercial market as a graffiti remover for to be adhered to carefully. The slices of fresh porous surfaces. It is also called “pig snot.” sockey, or better yet, coho or silver salmon and is marketed mostly to big cities. stewed in their own juices? The bones were Preserving carrots was easy, just bury softened in the process and had a unique them in sand in a cool dry place and they taste of their own. It felt like you were will last through the winter. crunching the bones of something ancient. We weren’t allowed as children to Now taking Orders! This was well before the days of “use by such participate much in canning,a very critical VashonFresh.com is proud to announce Plum Forest Farm and Green Man and such a date.” process, such as the sound the lid makes Farm has joined the online marketplace! They join an already impressive list Mom poured liquid paraffin on the top when you tap it to check the seal. A dull of your local growers and producers. To learn more about all of the vendors of her jars of jam to seal them to keep them sound indicated a leak and the jar had to be check out our Producer Profile page at VashonFresh.com from spoiling. Even if the wax leaked, she put back in the water bath to re-seal. When would carefully clean any mold from the the tap was sharp and of a higher note, the jam, so us kids wouldn’t say “yuk”, she seal was good. Peeling apples for sauce was never lost much of her precious jam. the closest us kids ever got to canning. Money was tight in the 1950’s and [email protected]
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August 17 ‘17 the Seattle Film Institute was that, over The Vashon Loop, p. 5 the years as I was giving slide talks about Island Life plants and gardens, I had actually been World Premiere storyboarding my talks with the slides, By Peter Ray and the narrative of the talk flowed from [email protected] how the slides had been ordered. There was also a little bit of how my writings Well, I’m already stressed out enough also helped to organize thought and as it is, so yeah, why not compound it story. Soon after my classes ended I set by making it an even bigger deal? And about to find projects that would help then of course there is the public thing to hone the craft. Early on I met with and the anticipation of their acceptance Chris Gaynor after his “Home of Record- (or rejection) and all that- it’s enough to Vashon and the Vietnam War” exhibit make you crazy. Putting your stuff out opened at the Heritage Museum. He was there can do that to you. It is perhaps at the time working on a book that was a why I am a bit envious of actors and compilation of photographs he had taken musicians- they have figured out how while serving in Vietnam in 1967 and ‘68, to seemingly harness public exposure. I with letters he had written home and suppose one of my seminal experiences received from friends and relatives while on the stage has shaped my view of “in country”. He agreed to be recorded this. It was when I was in Cub Scouts both reading from the letters and talking and we were doing some sort of history about his photographs. skit and we all had to present a piece of While this was a story, at the time it and when it came to my part I got on there seemed to be more there to me, so stage and got out the first line and then we continued doing recording sessions there was nothing there and nothing to of interviews and of his activities as guide or prompt me forward. After what commandant of the Island V.F.W. What My Great Grandmother seemed like a lifetime I realized nothing began to emerge was also the story of the was going to return to my memory that Vashon 12- the twelve Island boys who My great grandmother, Noni relatively large numbers. had any relevance to this presentation were killed in Vietnam at a time when Minaglia, arrived in the Pacific Northwest These immigrants, willing to take a so I just passed it on to the next kid, who the Island population was less than half in the late 1800’s and settled in Black chance, to take whatever job they must had the sense to bring his cue cards, and of what it is now. Chris had sought to Diamond. They were promised farms in to survive, then build businesses to serve then I sat down in embarrassment and emphasize Vashon’s stake in the war, this growing corner of the new country their growing economy still represents humiliation. both at the Heritage museum’s exhibit but found only coal mining jobs. the spirit of this country to much of the I wasn’t big on public speaking and as a part of the photo show he did Noni stood just under five feet tall, rest of the world. That scrappy spirit is after that. As far as having to answer at Café Luna. I recorded a lot of this, and but kept order in her 100-room coal miner as American as apple pie. We should for anything in public, I didn’t really then I sat and looked at what I had, and boarding house through persuasion, recognize it as the powerful force that have any occasion to do that until it was then sat some more. guile, empathy and primarily cooking. built this country, and one of few that somewhat forced on me in the early The last interview I did with Chris As a child, even I knew her ravioli was will keep us strong and economically years after college. I had decided to take was in 2015, and then we talked and I second to none, and a boarder who got viable. some workshops in port-a-pack video continued to think about it, but not really out of line was denied her fantastic Trump’s denigration of immigrants at Portable Channel in Rochester, N.Y., deal with it. This was, after all, a learning meals! actually denigrates the 99% of us who where they loaned you one of those project. What I began to realize was Noni raised a strong family who are not native born. But his crass and amazing antiquities that was a video that this was also a fairly large element grew out of their coal mining roots to ignorant style does not represent the camera tethered to a battery powered, in someone’s life that I was holding in become business owners. Her son, tenacious and independent spirit at the reel to reel video deck and then they said, video limbo, and the weight of telling Giovanni, owned several bowling alleys heart of those who cast their future on “go do something with it.” As that was it correctly began to weigh heavily as in Yakima during the hey-day of that foreign shores in hope of a better life. a pretty big give, and seeing that I really well. A year went by and I still had not sport. Giovanni’s children build several Kevin Jones – with pride in my did not know what I wanted to do with settled on any narrative arc to the story. I businesses in Duval, where the family immigrant heritage. it, I kind of played around to see what did sit down and work out a five minute name Minaglia can still be found in this medium and technology could do. piece as what I planned to be the opening Along the way I put together a scenes, and then it sat some more. loosely literal music sort of video to Brian More time passed. I was getting Eno’s song, “I’ll Come Running (to tie nervous about getting anywhere closer to your shoe)”, and did a bunch of other a completed work. I was being reminded Cover our Community Pool experiments in testing the medium’s that 2017 was a 50 year anniversary of edges. And then we had to turn our tapes sorts for the major years of the war. I was in, following which a public showing also reminded of the fact that Ken Burns was going to happen of student work. was coming out with his own magnum To my surprise, what had been selected opus on the Vietnam conflict this fall, of my stuff was not my Eno ripoff (in and so I’d better get this piece out before 1975 there was no Youtube or internet), the proverbial train had left the station. but rather they showed a weird(er) thing And so I did. that I had done to see what I could do The first screening of “a Soldier Boy without damaging the delicate vidicon Hears the Distant Guns- Christopher tube in the camera that we had been Gaynor: a Vietnam Experience” will warned to not expose to continuous happen on a Greentech film night at the bright light. In my test I had draped a Vashon Theatre on Tuesday, September plastic dry cleaner bag over a metal coat 19th at 6pm. Both Chris and I will be hanger and lit it on fire in the basement of there to talk and answer questions my parents’ house while wearing bunny about the film. As Greentech will be sunglasses and with a song from Keith sponsoring it, and since it involves both One of the most common complaints Pool Marathon. Its a chance for the Jarrett and Jack de Johnette’s “Ruta and an Island resident and Island history, the we hear from Islanders is that there are whole Island to join in, and that means Daitya” playing in the background. The screening will be free or by donation. I not enough healthy activities for our EVERYONE, regardless of their swim burning bag dripped bright globs of light have no idea at the moment where it will youth during the winter months. So ability. into a tray of water I placed on the floor go from here. I have been submitting it VARSA is pleased to support the Cover Tots can swim with parents, beneath it, with cool, sustaining streaks to festivals around the country, and I Our Pool initiative that hopes to cover families can swim together, and young and streamers left as fading tracers have been reading blogs about how to the Vashon Community Pool with an or inexperienced swimmers can use a on the vidicon tube, all to a dissonant submit to festivals. What I have taken inflatable bubble from Oct-May. noodle or a life-jacket. Masters, lap, team, and abstract 70’s jazz soundtrack. The away from those readings are that I We want to help the Vashon or recreational swimmers can use their experiment was working, and then believe I have come up with the story I community access a full-sized, six lane, time to churn out as many laps as they some woman in the audience stood want to tell here, and I would not change community pool (with blocks and a can. You can even take part in the Water up screaming about how this was not anything in order to get it in, anywhere. diving board) year-round. Imagine Polo Invitational. There are different age art and a bunch of stuff I don’t recall Chris agrees with me. Hopefully you will the opportunities... Think open and categories to participate in, with prizes, now. I think I explained that this was an join us to decide for yourself. This is an family swim, lap swim, youth & adult snacks, music, and fun, whether you can experiment- I don’t believe I referenced uncharacteristically early notice from swim activities and lessons, aquatic swim 10 lengths or 100 laps. Robert Louis Stevenson’s quote from these parts so that maybe you can plan fitness, team sports like water polo and Prizes awarded for distance as well my high school yearbook that “youth accordingly. is wholly experimental”. I have mostly splashball, maybe one day a high school as costumes, fun, and effort! gotten over that time, and learned from swim team. There would be access for Visit the COVER OUR POOL website it. teens, older people, camps, and the at www.coverourpool.org for more Another thing I have gotten over is a differently-abled... and there are so many information, learn 9 actions you can take belief that I was unsure of how one tells a Deadline for the next more ideas. TODAY, sign up for SWIMVASHON. story through film. What came as a kind edition of The Loop is On Friday August 18th, You can also make a donation on the of epiphany when we were working on Vashon Community Pool hosts the website. storyboards in the film classes I had at Saturday, August 26 SWIMVASHON Dawn ‘Til Dusk The Vashon Loop, p. 6 August 17 ‘17 Vashon Island Concerts National Theatre Live in the Park presents “Who’s Afraid of Vashon Events and the Vashon Park District have announced the lineup for Virginia Woolf?” the annual Summer Concerts in the Park. Sonia Friedman Productions present The extremely popular and free outdoor Imelda Staunton (Gypsy, Vera Drake, concert series will begin on Thursday, the Harry Potter films), Conleth Hill August 3rd and run through Thursday, (Game Of Thrones, The Producers), Luke August 31st. All concerts start at 7pm Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob, and are held in Ober Park on Vashon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Island. Enjoy live music performances Night-Time, The Hollow Crown) and from today’s top talent in country rock, Imogen Poots (A Long Way Down, Jane urban Latin, roots reggae, spoken funk Eyre) in James Macdonald’s critically rock and big band performing against acclaimed, 5 star production of Edward one of Vashon’s most beautiful outdoor Albee’s landmark play, broadcast live to backdrops. cinemas from the Harold Pinter Theatre, Bring the family! There’s plenty of London. grass and natural berms to spread out In the early hours of the morning those picnic blankets and enjoy some on the campus of an American college, wonderful music on a warm summer Martha, much to her husband George’s night. Families can come relax, let the displeasure, has invited the new professor kids play on the playground and enjoy and his wife to their home for some after- the entertainment at these summer party drinks. As the alcohol flows and events. dawn approaches, the young couple Concerts in the Park are presented are drawn into George and Martha’s by the Vashon Park District and curated toxic games until the evening reaches by Vashon Events. If you’ve never When asked about his music, Clinton its climax in a moment of devastating the Vashon Theatre. Visit us online at experienced the warmth of community states that “…our sound is roots, its roots, truth-telling. www.vashontheatre.com at the cool nights of summer concerts lover’s rock, rock steady. It’s not too far Sunday, August 27th at 1:00PM at in the park, you’re in for a special treat. from the root. I’m not trying to branch Please remember that there are no off into anything I’m not totally relaxed dogs allowed at Ober Park. Alcohol and with,” he continued. “A lot of (other smoking are also not permitted. bands) try to follow the market. I try to We are excited to announce that we follow my creativity more so than follow Take a Ride on the Virginia V have invited the Orca Eats food truck to the market. It’s what’s in your heart; you For one day only, the Vashon Maury serve concert-goers this summer at the have to follow your heart.” Island Heritage Association brings The 2017 Concerts in the Park! Whether you’re there to dance or Virginia V back to her home shorelines. Delicious entrees, sides, desserts listen, Clinton Fearon is a band you don’t The Virginia V is the last operational and beverages - seasonal and local want to miss! Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet steamer. when possible from salmon to veggies On Thursday, August 31st, we are She was once part of the Mosquito to sausage, handcrafted fresh desserts excited to bring you The Portage Fill Fleet that served Vashon’s 32 steamer and drinks. Orca Eats is proud to be Band. docks from the 1880s to the 1930s. This a no-plastics food truck, using only For over 40 years, the Portage Fill was a time when water transportation paper containers and wood utensils, no Big Band has been an integral part of was easier than land transportation straws or lids, all truly compostable and the musical life of Vashon Island. A because thick forests blanketed the recyclable! Join the orca pod with a meal perennial Strawberry Festival favorite. island made for difficult and slow over- bar. Narrated shoreline interpretation or a snack while you enjoy the concerts the Portage Fill Big Band continues to land transportation. by island historian, Bruce Haulman and at Ober Park. entertain with exciting and danceable Sunday Aug 27th, this historic Vashon Nature Center’s Maria Metler. Check them out at http://www. music from the Big Band era and beyond. ship returns for a single, narrated Parking assistance will be provided orcaeats.com/ The Portage Fill Big Band is Vashon’s circumnavigation cruise around Vashon with prior arrangement. Purchase On Thursday, August 24th, we are oldest “garage band” with their unique and Maury islands. Come aboard tickets and find more information online excited to bring you Clinton Fearon. and see the last reciprocating steam at vashonheritage.org, by emailing Much like quite a few other reggae engine still operating in North America [email protected], musicians who came of age in the late in action. Travel back in time with over the phone, or in person at the 1960s and early 1970s, Clinton Fearon narrated shoreline interpretation by Heritage Museum or Vashon Bookshop. island historian, Bruce Haulman and Thank you to our generous sponsors for Vashon Nature Center’s Maria Metler. making this event possible: 4Culture, What all those pilings in Tramp Harbor IGA, Island Escrow, John L. Scott. are about. See the light house from the Take a Ride on the Virginia V water, rather than the other way around? An Afternoon Circumnavigation Do you know where Clam Cove or where Cruise brought to you by Vashon Maury Portage fill Aquarium are? Or, where native’s called Island Heritage Association. brand of dance music. With over 300 ‘sleeping mats’? Join us! tunes to choose from, the Portage Fill Boarding begins at half past noon Sunday August 27th promises an entertaining show for at the North end ferry dock, passenger Vashon North end Ferry Terminal listeners and dancers alike. only slip. The vessel departs at 1:00pm Passenger Only Slip Clinton Fearon Made up of almost two dozen current and returns to dock at 5:00pm. Tickets Boarding 12:30 - 12:55 was a country boy who migrated to or former island residents, Portage Fill is are $120.00 VMI Heritage Association Vessel departs at 1:00pm Kingston as a teenager to seek his musical a classic “Big Band” with full horn and Members receive a 10% discount. Catered Returning to dock at 5:00pm fortune amongst the proliferating studios sax sections, backed up by a complete lunch provided by On Safari Foods. and sound systems of the big city. He rhythm section, and features 2 vocalists Jessica DeWire will host an onboard cash was born in St. Andrew in 1951 and for the crowd’s listening and dancing moved around the countryside with his pleasure. Portage Fill is well known for father and stepmother before relocating their selection of Big Band swing tunes Make a date with Vashon! to Kingston in 1967; he immediately from the 30’s and 40’s, but is versatile www.VashonCalendar.org organized a singing group with some enough to work in some blues, Latin, or Next Edition friends, but it never amounted to anything even rock and roll numbers to put on a Vashon Library Events and broke up before it could record. It show for all ages and musical tastes. Art & Music Events of The Loop was around 1970, when he joined Albert Whether you’re there to dance or Submit your Event on line at Griffiths and Errol Grandison to form listen, the Portage Fill is a band you don’t Comes out the Gladiators, that he hit his stride as want to miss! www.vashoncalendar.com a musician, and began what would be Thursday the most significant and commercially successful association of his career. August 31 Flash forward to 1989, when Clinton Compost the Loop Find the Loop on-line at Deadline for the next came to Seattle and co-founded The www.vashonloop.com The Loop’s soy-based ink Defenders and then finally in 1993, is good for composting. edition of The Loop is formed his own group called The Boogie Brown Band. Saturday, August 25 August 17 ‘17 The Vashon Loop, p. 7 Vashon Island Pet
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Mercury is retrograde on the deepest level, this is about you and is, you need to pay closer attention to yourself. the possibilities before you engage with them. in your 4th house — your living space nobody else: decisions that only you can Personal meaning is not about being pulled Doing so is not the full activation of destiny. — and Vesta, the goddess of hearth and make, because only you know what they are. by external forces, though they may seem to You get to experiment; failure to notice this home, is involved. That means your efforts The vital thing is that you respect your own have an influence. It’s about feeling your own is a fallacy that has a lot of momentum right at refreshing your home space will be met desire to become whatever it is you want inner movement as a source of guidance. The now; that is, the idea that every choice is with divine blessing and, if you persist, will to become — and that you not hesitate on question is not what should you have faith permanent; that accepting a date to coffee be rewarded by creative breakthroughs. decisions. I hear from Libras all the time about in, but what do you already trust? If you’re is a lifetime commitment. The true state of However, if you can avoid it, don’t think of how they just cannot decide. What I’m here to wondering where to go, ask yourself where the world is transient. Once you can dance the goal; get into the process of vacuuming tell you is that this is a skill you learn through you’ve always wanted to go. Remember that with that, you can explore some exciting and using as much Dr. Bronner’s soap for as practice, and that now is a particularly rich the ‘external world’ is symbolic. It represents possibilities, and gauge whether and in many purposes as you can (skip the cleaning moment to engage your intentions. things that already exist within you, and that what ways they affirm your existence and chemicals — soap and hot water is the best get all of their meaning exclusively from you. your pleasures. The world is opening up for exorcist of the past). Know that you are taking Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) you; greet it not with fear, but with love and part in a divine ritual that will turn your home It’s astonishing how many people Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) respect. or studio into an ashram devoted to your are still worried what mommy and daddy It may seem impossible to get on the talents and creative ambitions. think. That extends to all forms of surrogate same page as someone close to you, even Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) parents, such as partners, the government, though the mutual desire is there. The thing Mercury retrograde in your house of Cancer (June 21-July 22) bosses and even children. There’s a reason that must happen is an objective conversation relationships is like watching a movie of your This is the time to assess your resources: for this. To liberate yourself from all those about where everyone is at, with no thought entire past — recognizing that it’s an illusion all of them, beginning with the fact that influences is to take responsibility for your of money, jealousy, the in-laws or, for that of light. It has only the substance you grant you’re alive at this distinctly strange time choices, and for your successes, and your matter, the outlaws. The discussion had best to it. It’s evident that, as you assess your in history. Then consider every talent, every failures. Once it matters not what power be cool, factual and held someplace besides history, you will see the possibilities for the idea, the space you live in or have access to, others seem to hold over you, you’re on your the bedroom. It needs to be a private space, choices you might make. Vesta’s presence the tools of your trade and, most significantly, own; that’s the cost of living on your own since sensitive subject matter will come up, in this house is urging that you not worry your friends and supporters. Do a total terms. This may seem lonely at first, until you though it should have a neutral feeling: a about making final decisions, but rather that inventory. It’s time to take full ownership of figure out that companionship is not about quiet or closed restaurant, a hotel room, or you hold open space for the possibilities. You who you are, what you’ve developed within control or being controlled. In fact, neither is any space where there are relatively few have not lived out many of your most exciting yourself, and what you have available to leadership. You’re entering a time in your life past impressions. This conversation must be potentials; you don’t even know what they use. The astrological occasion is unusual when everything must be entirely voluntary, about what is important to everyone, now. are at this point. Yet you’re soon to find out, activity in your 2nd solar house, Leo. The 2nd which means abandoning the charade that Then once that’s on the table, you discuss the particularly if you live not for relationships house is resources; Leo is the gold standard. it’s somehow not. You may think you have potential points of agreement, and the points but for the sake of existence itself. That always You have quite a bit available to you, and loyalty to people, though that is meaningless of departure. Once you know that, you will means existence now, which will flow into life the question is, are you aware of it all, and unless you have fidelity to your own purpose know exactly what to do. Remember: the as you want it to be. Notice the people who have you connected it to your aspirations and reason for being. future is unwritten, if you’re not bogged in are obsessed with the past, with nostalgia, and intentions? Now is the time to get these secrets. and other forms of “the way things once things into alignment and make efficient use Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) were.” There are plenty of them, and you of them; or, said another way, to use what You’re experiencing a series of openings, Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) need influences other than those who would you have and what you know. which will require you to be flexible and to Next week’s eclipse in your opposite choose to live using the rearview mirror as exercise both your talents and your options. sign Leo describes a total reassessment of their divining oracle. The frontier ahead is Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) Decisions you make now will influence your your relationships, and your ideas about far more exciting. Mars and the Sun are streaking through life for years to come, and the most significant them. Every wheel is in spin, every variable your sign, on course for a rare total solar of those is how you feel about yourself. Your is in play; though, most of all, you get an Read Eric Francis daily at eclipse that takes place Monday, Aug. 21. most important choice in this lifetime is to opportunity to clear the stage of your life www. PlanetWaves.net You would have to be living in a cave under a focus on your purpose. If you seem to be and create something new. There’s enough The Vashon Loop, p. 8 August 17 ‘17 Spiritual Women in Jazz This season, we highlight and Records in Memphis, and grandmother celebrate women’s contributions to Ninevah who played piano around Smart jazz as instrumentalists, singers, and Chicago, music was always in her composers. Series tickets $89. Tickets to family tree. Known for her charismatic Individual Shows On Sale August 14, if audience interaction, Pettis has toured Aleck available. through the Netherlands, Japan, and Russia. Her debut CD was warmly By Mary Tuel knives in the freezer twenty minutes An Evening with Diane Schuur received by stations across the United before starting. Kept the shortening Diane Schuur in RedSeptember 9 States, Germany, and Portugal, and Blackberry Pie refrigerated. Assembled these cold Long regarded as one of was nominated for Earshot’s Golden It is blackberry season. I walk thirty ingredients and tools and worked fast, contemporary jazz’s leading vocalists, Ear Award, “2007 Northwest Recording yards from my front door carrying an cutting the shortening into the flour, and Washington’s “First Lady of Jazz,” of the Year.” Gail’s refreshing readings old plastic yogurt container and start splashing in the icy water. Sometimes two-time Grammy winner Diane Schuur of standards on this project have been picking. my crust turned out as light as a fairy’s is as eclectic as she is brilliant. Born in embraced by listeners, resulting in a There is no need to bend over, no fart. Sometimes I would do all that and Tacoma, Schuur was blind from birth fourteen-week stay on the JazzWeek need to reach through or wrestle with my crust had the consistency of a hockey national airplay chart, ending up as the canes to get to fruit that is hidden. This is puck. most-played new female vocal CD on the first picking, and all that is necessary One year I was visiting my mother in American jazz radio that year. is to walk along the edge of the patch California, and she had the pumpkin pie Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra grabbing the close, ripe berries. I leave assignment at a friend’s Thanksgiving SWOJO with special guest Christine the ones that are out of reach, and the dinner. We were at the store, and she Jensen, Celebrating Women in Jazz. ones that are not quite ripe. I especially grabbed a couple of boxes of pre-made December 16 leave the ones which I might come back pie crusts. She said she didn’t bother for later, when I will bring pruning with making the pie pastry anymore; too Showcasing many of the finest shears to clear a path to heavy clumps of much trouble and these were fine. I tell female jazz artists in the region for berries which for now are inaccessible to you, it was like the clouds parted and over seventeen years, Seattle Women’s a person who doesn’t feel like bleeding angels sang hallelujah! I haven’t made a Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) performs jazz for pie. Yet. pie crust since. standards, as well as Latin and Brazilian jazz, and proudly features original music When the container is full enough, So. Set the oven to 450 degrees, put but was gifted with perfect pitch and by many regional and international I bring it in and set the berries to soak the first crust into the pie plate, added initially taught herself piano by ear. in cold water in the sink for a while. the filling, put the second crust on top, Nicknamed “Deedles” as a child, she My hope is that this soak will remove pinched the crust around rim, cut a cute grew up surrounded by the world of jazz British Columbian wildfire ash and other little “B” for blackberry in the crust and embraced by both of her parents. With particulates which have settled on the a few other vents in a sunray pattern, a distinguished recording career that berries, plus float little bits of vegetation put the whole production on a cookie spans three decades, Schuur’s music has that have been gathered along with the sheet, and after the oven beeped that it explored almost every corner of the 20th- berries, as well as any living creatures had reached 450, put the pie in and set century musical landscape, including that might be in there. the timer for the first ten minutes. collaborations with the Count Basie I know, I know – what are insects but That was when I remembered that Orchestra, Barry Manilow, B.B. King, and a little added protein? And yet I resist I had forgotten to dot the top of the Ray Charles. This is a homecoming of their presence in pie. Let’s not bring up filling with butter before putting on the sorts for Schuur, who recorded her first composers and arrangers. Formed to the time the cover fell off the range hood top crust. album on Vashon back in 1982. nurture the musical, educational, and fan and all those desiccated bug corpses Oh well. Berries, sugar, pie crust. artistic growth of individual musicians, fell into the spaghetti sauce. It was a How bad could it be? Gail Pettis Trio and to encourage women to become long time ago, and I picked out the large Next morning, I cut the first slice of Gail PettisNovember 18 involved in jazz performance and pieces. Nobody got sick or anything. pie for breakfast. I took a bite. I moaned Named Earshot Jazz Northwest composition as a career or avocation, This batch of berries yielded grass with pleasure. Vocalist of the Year in 2007 and 2010, the band has performed at clubs, jazz seeds, some little leaves, and only a These are times that try human and First Place winner of the Seattle- festivals, and concert halls on two couple of tiny bugs. Having removed beings’ souls. It is good to have the Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition continents, and performed with many the detritus and rinsed and drained the respite of a slice of blackberry pie now in 2006, Gail’s rich, warm vocals distinguished artists including Mimi berries, I mixed them with the sugar, and then. and understated phrasing have been Fox, Susan Pascal, Greta Matassa, and flour, pinch of salt, and lemon juice, and Blackberry pie: 3 cups blackberries; described as “deliciously soulful” by Grace Kelly. SWOJO performs a holiday set what was now pie filling aside to 1 cup sugar; 2 Tblsp flour; 2 Tblsp lemon Cadence Magazine. Influenced by set with a special cameo by Vashon’s make the crust. juice; 1/8 Tsp salt; 1 recipe pie pastry; 1 grandfather Arthur Pettis, a blues singer own Rebekah Kuzma. Just kidding. I don’t make pie crust. Tblsp butter. Combine berries, sugar, and guitarist who recorded for Victor I did, back when I was young and flour, lemon juice and salt. Line pie pan Discounted 3-Show Series trying to be a good hippie earth mama, with pastry, add filling, dot with butter, Subscription: embroidering jeans and making bread cover with top crust. Bake in 450°F oven VCA Member: $81 and so on. 10 minutes; reduce temperature to 350°F Senior: $85 My dad was a farmer. He raised and bake 25 to 30 minutes (or until the pie General: $89 apples. I have clear memories of my looks done to you). Makes one 9-inch pie. mother standing at the kitchen table, – Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic An Evening with Diane Schuur: All rolling out pie dough for apple pies. Cook Book, ©1950 tickets $55. Whole lotta apple pies came out of my Gail Pettis, and Seattle Women’s mother’s kitchen, each one with a light Jazz Orchestra shows: crust. VCA Member: $18 When my time came I tried to rise to Compost the Loop Senior: $20 the challenge of making pie crust, and The Loop’s soy-based ink General: $22 I knew it was not a sure thing. I put a is good for composting. glass of water, a bowl, and some butter
Kitty Bear Needs A Home... I guess the bear that was on the island hasn’t been spotted lately. I’d prefer to be the only bear around here. To tell the truth, I’m far from wild. I’ve lived with kids, and I like to sit on laps and be groomed. Big critters can live in the woods if they want to. I’d rather hang out with people and stay close to home. How about YOUR home?
Go To www.vipp.org Click on Adopt August 17 ‘17 The Vashon Loop, p. 9 Road to Resilience Island Epicure Continued from Page 1 Open Air health care to workers was with universal coverage, the appropriate. Please let me know money is already there. In if you work for a “kind father” the film, they quoted studies Outdoor Festival employer. Most employers that showed we would be don’t want that responsibility, paying about 15 percent less Open Air celebrates all and many use it as a lever to for premiums, but that is only things aerial! Discover magic tie employees to their jobs and the tip of the iceberg when in the meadow as aerial artists to quell complaints. Worse you consider that we would no dance above on a blue sky yet, the terms of coverage are longer have deductions, copays, canvas at Open Space for Arts By Marj Watkins determined by the employer, or co-insurance. Did I mention and Community, 4 to 6 pm, and they are getting skimpier dental? No dental bills either— Saturday, August 26. Cool Cooking and more expensive all the time. it’s all covered! I repeat: you A delight for all ages, relax It’s a rare cool, cloudy August But isn’t single payer will be paying 15 percent less in the shade or bask in the sun day as I write this, but on the day socialized medicine? No, it isn’t. for more coverage, everybody and let your senses delight in I cooked the dish in the recipe The government serves as the is covered, and no more time the beauty and athleticism of below, the temperature in my insurance pool that negotiates wasted choosing coverage or this beloved annual Open Space kitchen was 81 degrees. Son Steve, prices on our behalf and health fighting for care. event. Bring family, friends, a visiting from China, and I had no care providers remain the Implementing a single blanket and picnic basket to desire to turn on the cookstove. share while you ooh and ahhh to Instead, we pressed my microwave independent operators they payer health care system would and rice cooker into doing cooler now are. The government call for the virtual elimination choreographed aerial spectacles. cooking. I made golden rice with already pays for 64 percent of of the entire private insurance Festivities begin with the pumpkin seeds for our main dish, our health care, so it isn’t like industry. In other countries Acid Washed Marching Band, and Steve made a salad to go with they are taking on more than with single payer systems, a group that wowed at the it. The microwave briefly thawed they can handle. Since we private insurers still operate Oregon Country Fair this year. Expect a surprise MC and cooked baby green peas. He pay three times more for our on the fringes providing higher Then, sit back and view a variety (perhaps on stilts) and marvel relished that third serving of health care than many countries cost luxury care or cosmetic of performers as they climb at up and coming UMO aerial golden rice and pumpkin seeds for services, but they are a shadow and swing gracefully from the students – ‘who have surpassed breakfast the next morning. 1 cup pumpkin seeds of what they represent in our sky. See UpSwing Aerial by their adult counterparts in their Pumpkin seeds yield an ¾ teaspoon iodized salt or country now. 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Two for the two of us for supper, and serve warm. Our task now is that of the couch and a third that Steve relished for So you see you can have potato contemplating running Local News his breakfast the next morning. a cooked meal rich in flavor, a marathon. It can be done but www.vashonNews.com Grandson James was off on a sail nutrition and even beauty, even we better start exercising those Local & Regional Headlines around Vashon and Maury Islands without turning on the stove and flabby political muscles. Weather forecasts that kept him from being here to causing the humans of the house We need much greater eat that third serving. He did not more perspiring that the weather effort on all fronts. As Betty All the Vashon Headlines have favorable winds, and even does. Capehart said after the movie, in one place from anywhere turned the boat’s motor on once, The only other resident of our we need Pramila Jayapal not on any mobile device! he admitted. house is Bunny, a mini-Manx cat only to endorse (she has) the Here is the recipe as I created who hangs out in the coolest parts single payer bill HR 676, but to it. If you are cooking for six just of the house, taking her catnaps hold press conferences, write double it. If for four, increase on the bathroom rug or even on op-eds, and rally her colleagues ingredient quantities by one-third. the tile floor. and constituents. We all need to P.S. The salad Steve made was do that as well. Pumpkin Seed Golden Rice red, white and green, composed 3 servings of diced tomato, cucumber, and bell pepper layered on torn lettuce Comments? terry@ 1 teaspoon olive oil leaves topped with ranch type vashonloop.com 1 cup brown long grain rice dressing. ½ teaspoon turmeric
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This band is poetry, shamanism, rebellion, ‘nothin’ but rock & blues with and live theatre has captured the emphasis on classic rock the imagination of every tunes as well as some originals generation. Their iconic front sprinkled in there. They’ve all man, Jim Morrison, a leather got blues chops, from growling clad demon poet along with the it to flat-out rockin’. The band talents of Ray Manzarek, John will knock your shorts off and Densmore, and Robby Krieger leave you crying for more. gave audiences a glimpse of They’ve been playing for a long ‘The Other Side’. time and have musical histories chance! The American Night, a touring Doors tribute act from too long to mention here. Friday, August 18th, 8:30pm. OneNiteStand recreate the experience of a live Seattle, will treat Vashon with If you missed their smokin’ The Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi. All-age’s ’till 11pm, 21+ after Doors concert. a live recreation of a Doors hot show last time, now is your that. Friday, September 1st, concert at The Red Bicycle this 8:30pm. The American Night at Friday night. The American The Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi Night is a highly acclaimed This show has a free cover tribute act that tours throughout and is open to all-ages until Ferris Bueller’s Day Off the Pacific Northwest. Authentic 11pm, 21 and over after that. A classic 1986 American teen instruments, costumes, and comedy written, co-produced psychedelic lighting are used to and directed by the legendary John Hughes (The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Pretty in Pink), this movie became Hughes’s highest-grossing domestic release of all time. On ode to Chicago, charisma, and truancy, it supplied a generation’s worth of kids with inspiring yearbook quotes and slacker inspiration and is considered one of the most influential films of the ‘80s. Set in a fictional suburb of Chicago, the kids hit the stock exchange, the Sears Tower, and the Art Institute in this film that Hughes’ called his “love letter to Chicago”. High school senior Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) decides to skip school on a spring day by faking an illness to his parents, then encourages his 6 flavors, 31 toppings, girlfriend, Sloane (Mia Sara), Marit, cone adesimena, aucipte and Hot Chocolate! and his pessimistic best friend tamdium publica ecienere actus Cameron (Alan Ruck) to spend virmac verissim macchilic firma, Open Sunday to Thursday the day in Chicago as one of their conem iam issedo, caestus mo 10:00 to 8:00 consit. last flings before they graduate Friday/Saturday from and head off to different colleges. 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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Loop Saturday, August 26, 2017, at BURGERS Send in your Sunset (8:00 PM) Celebrating 14 years Serving Vashon Island Free Admission! Art, Event, Outdoors, behind the Blue Heron. Bring your own lawn chair. 17804 Vashon Hwy SW Meeting Mo Catam pubite publissuppl. Uliciostant. Valic intioca perit. Open 11am to 8pm Monday-Saturday Music or Show 12pm to 5pm Sunday information or Article and get included in The Vashon Loop. Send To: Gluten Free Editor@ Buns! vashonloop.com August 17 ‘17 The Vashon Loop, p. 11 Lucia di Lammermoor Bob Haworth Sung in Italian with English Supertitles Approximate Running Time: 2 “Tales of the Folk Music Era” hours and 45 minutes (including two Bob Haworth spent nearly 40 years intermissions) on the road as a member of two of the top Caught between family honor and the folk-singing groups in American music man she loves, Lucia makes a choice that history. Replacing original member, plunges her into a dark world of revenge Mike Kirkland of The Brothers Four, Bob and insanity. There’s one show-stopping toured the world and recorded several aria and ensemble piece after another albums with the hit folk group. Best in Donizetti’s romantic masterpiece, known for favorites like “Greenfields”, culminating in the unforgettable Mad “The Green Leaves of Summer” Scene. Lucia di Lammermoor is bel canto (nominated for an Academy Award as opera’s crown jewel. the theme song from the motion picture, Music By Gaetano Donizetti “The Alamo”, starring John Wayne), September 15, 2017, 7:30 pm “Try To Remember” and more, The September 17, 2017, 2:30 pm Brothers Four topped the charts during $25 - $45 Season Ticket Price the “Folk Music Era” of the 1960’s. $28 - $48 Individual Ticket Price Then in 1985, Bob answered a call Tickets: vashonopera.org from close friends, The Kingston Trio, and stood in for original member, Nick Reynolds, for the next 20 years. As the top-selling folk music group of all time, The Kingston Trio is synonymous with such classic hits as “Tom Dooley”, “Greenback Dollar” and “Where Have Live Music All The Flowers Gone?” to name a few. Bob recorded five albums with the his encounters with the other stars of the Trio and made concert and television era. Delving into the history of the songs at Farmers Market appearances all over the world. in his repertoire, Bob reveals little-known The Vashon Island Growers Now semi-retired, Bob Haworth facts about the evolution of the music, Association offers locally grown produce presents “Tales and Tunes from the Folk adding a fascinating educational angle at the Saturday Market, in the heart of Music Era”, tracing the rise in popularity to his presentation. Appropriate for all Vashon’s town. At the Saturday Market, of the genre from Woody Guthrie and ages, this show provides an upbeat, you’ll find about 30 to 50 vendors of The Weavers in the 1940’s and ‘50’s to the toe-tapping, interactive glimpse into food and arts and crafts, along with live many artists that caught the ear of music the music that comprises the Americana music. At the market, you can buy Island lovers throughout the 1960’s, including song bag. As a world-class performer and grown organic produce, meats, even The Brothers Four and The Kingston Trio. a charismatic entertainer, Bob Haworth is wines, bread and cheese…and special Every song has a story and Bob strives to a guaranteed crowd pleaser! Bob is also gifts for your loved ones. recreate a “hootenanny” atmosphere by proud to feature John Hollis on guitar Market hours are 10am until 2pm. encouraging his audiences to sing along. and harmony vocals. Vashon Events is happy to be a Drawing on the hit songs that fueled Bob Haworth “Tales of the part of bringing music to the Vashon the commercial popularity of folk music, Folk Music Era”. At the Vashon Saturday Farmers Market. Bob’s show includes interesting and Theatre. Sunday, September 24 at often humorous behind-the-scenes 4pm. Tickets at the Theatre Website On Saturday, August 19th, we bring anecdotes about his life on the road and www.vashontheatre.com you DJ Duncan Goulding & Selector Soulshot. Duncan Goulding was born and raised in Seattle and moved to Vashon with his family in the Fall of 2016. Introduced to Reggae as a kid, thanks to his cool older neighbors, he’s loved the music ever since. As a grown- up, Duncan enjoyed traveling and lead on mandolin and Jim accompanying living in the West Indies and West with guitar and banjo, their music will Indian neighborhoods of England. get your feet tapping and your hands a Occasionally, he plays records on “The clapping. Reggae Party” program on 91.3FM, KBCS. Selector Soulshot aka Dominic Jovanovich has been a Vashon resident since 1984 and selecting Reggae in Seattle Next Edition and the Northwest since the early 2000s. Dominic collects Jamaican music from of The Loop the 60’s through the present. He’s been selecting primarily ska, rocksteady and early reggae. He feels lucky to have Comes out been spinning tracks for shows like, The Melodians, Ernest Ranglin and others. Thursday
On Saturday, August 26th, we bring August 31 you Catbird. Deadline for the next CatBird is Mary G L Shackelford and Jim Burke, a wife and husband team edition of The Loop is who have been playing music together for 38 years. Whether playing Old Time Saturday, Aug 26 or venturing into some Jazz Standards, their tight playing comes from a deep seated natural give and take that has Compost the Loop been developed over their years of The Loop’s soy-based ink playing together. With Mary playing is good for composting. Adopt A Cat Day! Vashon Island Pet Protectors Advertise in the Loop! Saturdays 11:30-2:30 It’s a great time to get back in the Loop. Our VIPP Shelter is open for adoptions every Saturday. Visit our website www.vipp.org for Directions and to [email protected] Or call (206) 925-3837 view the Cats and Dogs available for adoption. Or give us a call 206-389-1085 The Vashon Loop, p. 12 August 17 ‘17
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