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A year after Vashon’s fire board approved an overhaul of the island’s paramedic program, the changes have not yet happened and there are growing concerns that the plan might compromise public safety. Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR) paramedics say they are open to the plan, which will make the island responders a part of the larger South King County system. However, several of them, as well as other VIFR staff, say that without knowing more details, they’re worried that the new system will actually leave the island at times without paramedics to respond to the most serious medical emergencies. “The irony is that in order to bring the quality of care up to King County standards, King County appears to be willing to reduce the level of service, which is a disgrace,” said paramedic Steve Palmer. What’s more, it’s unclear who will have final approval of the controversial transition, and there’s no plan for public outreach on Vashon before the change takes place. “The longer this goes, I just keep thinking they still aren’t forthcoming with the plan, and we’re getting so far down the road on this thing,” said Andy Johnson, another paramedic. “I think it’s reasonable for the public to have an idea before it happens and perhaps a little bit of a voice to influence it.” Meanwhile, officials with VIFR as well as King County Medic One, the countywide paramedic program, say that while the SEE PARAMEDICS, 18
Park district benefits from last-minute effort to curtail fields costs By SUSAN RIEMER Natalie Martin/Staff Photo
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Temperatures reaching into the 90s last weekend didn’t stop hordes of island residents and visitors from heading to town for the Strawberry Festival, the annual celebration that typically draws 40,000 to 50,000 people. Attendance appeared to be down slightly this year, said festival organizers, who credited the heat with keeping people indoors. Still, they called the weekend-long event with food, live music, vendors and activities for kids another success. “It also felt less frenetic,” said Jim Marsh, director of the Vashon Chamber of Commerce, which puts on the Strawberry Festival. Festival organizers prepared for the heat as much as they could, he said, adding extra tents to concert areas and quickly creating a spray station that sent a cool mist on those who found their way to it. Also new this year was a homegrown carnival, with attractions such as pony rides, rock climbing and a giant slide. The chamber of commerce, which didn’t use a traditional carnival company this year, pieced the event together. Marsh said he heard positive feedback about the carnival, though he’s not sure if the chamber made money on it. “It was an experiment,” he said. “I’m already thinking of ways to improve it for next year.” Pictured above, a girl rides a mechanical bull at the carnival (top), Delilah Pearl & The Mantarays perform in Ober Park (bottom left), and a pirate ship appeared in the grand parade on Saturday (bottom right). See more photos on page 13.
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King County officials made an 11th-hour decision earlier this week, enabling the Vashon Park District to save some $100,000 in its effort to finish the VES Fields north of town. This late-breaking change means that the district will be able to spend $120,000 less than it had recently planned to pave a parking lot at the athletic fields, leaving it as gravel as long as it is used four days a week or less. This news follows prolonged criticism of the park district for its spending at the fields project, which has cost more than double early projections and now totals $2.5 million, though approximately $1 million has come from grants and donations of money, time and equipment. District officials have been pushing to get final work there done before a construction permit expires and had planned to go into additional debt to cover the costs. SEE FIELDS, 20
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Yearlong project will affect dock traffic After a delay, a major construction project is slated to begin at the north-end ferry dock next week. Cars will line up differently during the yearlong project, and officials believe the construction could cause ferry delays, particularly during busy times. When construction begins, vehicles will no longer queue up on the dock. Instead, traffic bound for Fauntleroy will line up starting on Vashon Highway, and Southworth traffic will line up on 103rd Avenue S.W., which will become a one-way street. Buses and ADA vehicles can
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The island’s largest health clinic recently announced that beginning next month, it will no longer provide after-hours office visits to its patients. The Franciscan Medical Group, which has operated the Franciscan Medical Clinic - Vashon at Sunrise Ridge for the last two years, sent a letter to patients earlier this month informing them of the decision and indicating that the clinic’s on-call policy has hindered administrators’ ability to hire new health care providers. “We have tried to recruit more doctors, and it is something we have had to take a look at,� said Scott Thompson, a spokesman for CHI Franciscan Health. The change is slated to begin Aug. 1. It is unusual for primary care clinics to provide after-hours care, Thompson said, and Vashon is the only one of Franciscan’s primary care clinics to do so. Furthermore, the letter to patients indicates that afterhours visits have declined over time to just eight or nine per month. While those visits will end, the clinic will continue to be open on Saturdays for urgent care and concerns that require same-day appointments, and after-hours phone consultations will also continue. Additionally, Franciscan Virtual Urgent Care, which allows patients to speak with a doctor or nurse practitioner by phone or video at any time, is
available for $35. Because of those options, Thompson said Franciscan officials expect patients will not be affected dramatically. “We believe this will be a minor change in the overall schedule of the clinic,� he said. Thompson noted that between March 2014 and May 2015, the afterhours nurse service fielded 550 calls, which includes calls from patients as well as the nursing home, the pharmacy and the fire department. Out of those calls, the on-call provider was contacted 300 times, though visits were not always necessary. “We do not feel it (the after-hours appointment option) is being used to the extent we still have to offer that service,� he said. The current providers at the clinic were receptive to the change, Thompson added, noting that they had been willing to provide afterhours visits over the years, but it can be burdensome and negatively affect their work-life balance. Meanwhile, efforts are still under way to hire more providers for the clinic, Thompson said, and administrators are in discussions with two providers they may bring on as early as this fall. While Franciscan officials say they have seen the number of people seeking after-hours care go down, officials at Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR) say they have seen the number
of calls go up, which they attribute to several factors, including reduced access at the Franciscan clinic. “We have already noticed a definite increase related to people who wanted to go to the clinic but could not get in during regular hours or could not be seen after hours, and we have had to transport them,� George Brown, interim acting fire chief at VIFR, said last week. Just last month, when VIFR was trying to recruit more volunteers, Brown discussed the department’s limitations and noted that its calls have increased from under 800 calls in 1995 to more than 1,700 calls last year. The latest development at the clinic will likely further increase the calls to the department, which is often stretched thin, he noted. “We only have so much depth we can handle with volunteers and career staff,� he said. Regardless, he stressed that islanders should call VIFR in emergencies, such as when there is severe bleeding, difficulty breathing, chest pain or any injury or illness that is beyond their capability to cope with. Health challenges that can wait for a doctor visit later in the same day likely do not warrant a call to VIFR, he said, but he encouraged patients not to hesitate if they are unsure of what to do. “By all means, if there is a question, call us,� he said.
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Storefront for island dairy producers set to open New laundromat is under way New creamery will offer island milk, cheese and eggs By SARAH LOW Staff Writer
Downtown will soon be home to an island first, as the Vashon Island Baking Company branches out to open a permanent storefront for island dairy and egg vendors. Samantha Weigand, the bakery’s owner, hopes to open the Glass Bottle Creamery in the space between the old quilt shop and Hinge Gallery by the end of the month. “The space is taking shape, and the permits are chugging along,” Weigand said of her new venture. The creamery will sell locally produced milk, cheese and eggs, as well as ice cream that Weigand will soon make herself at the bakery. The idea, she said, is to have a place where locals and off-islanders can shop for these items anytime, as well as offer a
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and six to eight rotating flavors. The ice cream will be made with milk from Smith Brothers Farm, Weigand noted, since legally it has to be pasteurized, and also to keep the price point manageable. Emphasizing that the storefront is not intended to replace the farmers market for these vendors, Weigand said that the idea is to supplement what the business vendors are already doing. “They can always do more business, so this is like a bonus. It’s a retail arm for the farmers that they don’t have to manage themselves,” she said. “I think the time is right for this sort of thing on the island,” she added. “Hopefully it will lead the food community to something bigger.” The Glass Bottle Creamery will work with any legally selling, local dairy or egg producers. Interested vendors should contact Weigand at the bakery or at facebook.com/vashonislandbakingco. Store hours will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday.
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Family loyalties are tested at the picnic table
Public should be involved before controversial change
Carrying a plate of fried chicken, I cross the threshold of the sliding-glass door into the Oklahoma dust bowl in our front yard. Tufts of tenacious dandelion dot patches of drab, dry dirt and withered grass bleached white from weeks of intense summer heat. Clouds of driveway dust undulate in shifting breezes like holographic hula skirts. A patch of incongruously lush lawn sprouts over the drain field. Opulent stands of well-fed, springgreen grass provide cool oasis for crane flies, waving their antennae festively in the verdant chill. Our children circle a brick-red picnic table, jockeying for prized seats next to Mom. Our oldest boy brazenly hurdles the bench next to her, touching off a furious scrum while my wife Maria gazes serenely at a distant point on the horizon. She’s been home with the kids most of the summer; of their constant bickering, she can take no more. The dog dozes under the camellia bush. This heat wave has been hard for all of us. The dog has taken to pursuing invisible underground animals in the front yard, whining and scratching at the dry dirt, furiously plowing furrows all over the yard. To date, we’ve found no evidence of any invisible animals. We mumble our grace and bless ourselves, and while I’m spooning heaps of potato salad onto paper plates, our youngest daughter interjects gleefully, “Let’s play Mafia!” “No thanks,” I mutter. I’m hungry, overheated, crabby and not interested in waiting with my eyes scrunched shut and my hand extended while our oldest boy, who invariably plays “God” in the Mafia game, selects the two top-secret “Mafia” and “Angel”
Paramedics play a vital role on Vashon, responding to medical emergencies that are truly life and death situations. While there are only two paramedics on duty on Vashon at any time, these responders can surely be credited with saving many lives on the island. The agency that employs these paramedics, Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR), is beginning a strategic planning process to reach out to Vashon residents to determine what level of emergency response the community wants. However, it’s notable that a major change to our paramedic system — one that could affect how quickly responders show up at our doors — was already decided on with virtually no public input. As soon as VIFR and King County Medic One, the countywide paramedic program, can get through all the required steps, the paramedics who currently work on Vashon will become part of the larger South King County system. As outlined in a front-page story today, there are compelling reasons to make this change. However there are also serious concerns about the impact it will have on Vashon, and it appears as though the devil is in the details. There’s a basic plan for how the new system will work, but those closest to the situation — the paramedics themselves — have cast serious doubts on whether that plan will work in reality or will leave the island at times without paramedics. When this type of emergency medical response falls short, it only takes one lapse for a tragedy to happen. Responders want to believe in this plan, but they also, reasonably, want to see details and an explanation for how coverage will be maintained under the new system. The longer the process takes, the more concerns seem to mount. As soon as the leaders at Vashon’s fire station have a detailed plan for coverage under the new system, they should take an unbiased and skeptical look at it with the best interests of Vashon residents in mind. They should also call a public meeting and hear from the community as well as their own staff before moving forward with this controversial transition. A top official has indicated that Vashon’s fire board has the final vote, though commissioners have seemed unaware they will play that role. Some VIFR officials have said public input isn’t needed because their concerns are unfounded and paramedic service will be the same, if not better. After all, King County Medic One is considered one of the top paramedic programs in the country, and smart people are developing the plan for Vashon. One commissioner said public input was moot last year when there was a clear recommendation from experts. If there truly is no reason to worry, the agency should have no problem spelling out the plan for island residents and answering questions. Before a new strategic plan is started, we deserve assurances that changes already in the works won’t put public safety at risk.
FAMILY LIFE By KEVIN POTTINGER players using a modified eenie-meenieminie-mo algorithm. The last time we played Mafia, I tried to eat with my eyes shut and poked myself in the cheek with a forkful of three-bean salad. “After we eat,” I decree. So sayeth Pharaoh; so let it be so. The kids pick at their supper in a sort of furtive semi-silence. Our youngest boy asks to be excused to go to the bathroom. Turning his back to us, he takes a couple of steps and lingers nonchalantly by the camellia bush. Simultaneously, we come to the appalling realization that he’s relieving himself. The girls crow in exaggerated tween-girl disgust. After ice cream, our oldest boy calls for the Mafia game to begin, declaring himself God. Our oldest daughter immediately challenges him. “You’re always God,” she complains. “And you cheat.” Our boys shout in unison that he surely doesn’t cheat. Our youngest daughter retorts that indeed he does. Maria asks if I’m going to play. I’m hot and tired, and Mafia is a completely immoral game, which invariably degenerates into heated arguments. I glance at Maria, lingering for a moment. Man, I love her so bad. OK, one game. We close our eyes and hold out our hands. Our oldest boy taps silently and secretly on two outstretched hands — one tap for Mafia, two taps for Angel. With everyone’s eyes still
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tightly closed, our oldest boy-God instructs the Mafia to awaken, and asks the ritual question, “Mafia, whom would you like to kill?” There’s a long pause. “Stop,” he interrupts, exasperated. “Start over.” Turning to his little brother he says hotly, “Stop peeking.” His little brother denies peeking with his customary gesture of incredulity, empty palms up, his jaw hanging insolent and slack. I remind the kids that if they would like to play God, the real God is all-knowing, all-seeing and doesn’t need to peek through His Almighty Fingers. With all eyes again ostensibly shut, the do-over Mafia and Angel are instructed in turn to either awaken and kill, or awaken and save, respectively. At the end of the round, the Villagers (that’s all of us) are told to open our eyes, learn who was killed, whether the Angel saved the victim, and cast our votes for the identity of the secret Mafia. Our youngest boy looks guilty; the corners of his upper lip curl into an involuntary smirk. He collects one, then two votes, giggling suspiciously. Maria, also with two votes, declares flatly that it would be morally impossible for her to be the Mafia. We have to agree. We pragmatically shift our votes to our guilty-looking youngest boy. Yet our youngest boy was not the Mafia. After several more rounds, we learn that Maria was the Mafia. The news is unsettling. She told such cunning lies, so capably, so believably. So easily. One by one, Maria and the kids retire to the sweltering house. I collect the plates and cups while the dog investigates a wadded-up napkin. Man, she was good. Way too good. Man, I love her so bad.
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Washington that currently have more health care options than we do, but was unable to do so. The common solution to the “health care problem” on Vashon is not interoffice communication. The solution is a system where providers are paid enough to keep a roof over our heads. At my office, currently we are reimbursed 20 to 60 percent of what we bill to insurance, and in addition to that we write off approximately 30 percent of our services to patients who can not or do not pay their bills. Unfortunately, the health care system is beholden to insurance companies, and until that changes, not much else will. Those of us in the health care business on Vashon work very hard to do so on incredibly thin margins. We love what we do, and we love striving to provide the best health care possible to our community. The independent medical practice is a vanishing breed in America. None of us would be here if we did not want to do the best for Vashon that we can. If you want to strengthen island health care, call your representatives and urge them to increase Medicare reimbursements, regulate the insurance industry and move toward a single payer system. We live in a capitalist society, and that includes health care. Although I disagree, we do not have a system that requires that anyone provide or receive health care services. Ultimately, there is no requirement of any sort for any health care facility to exist on Vashon at all. Those issues, and of course the latest Miley Cyrus album, are what we really talk about in our inter-office communications. — Kelly Wright
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Commissioners voted too soon for runaway spending I am deeply disappointed that three fellow park district commissioners voted on July 7 to waive the rules and proceeded to vote to spend $240,000 more than was budgeted for the next phase of the VES Fields construction, thereby preventing Commissioner Doug Ostrom and over 11,000 islanders from participating in the most important financial discussion of 2015. All the commissioners, including Doug Ostrom at the previous meeting, had agreed we would have to comply with the majority of the grading and paving required by King County to complete the VES Fields. However, according to the park district legal counsel, we still could have saved the taxpayers $120,000, but the way the vote went, we now will be spending more money than we even have. It is important to note that a vote to do all the work immediately is resulting in the district spending more than the total funds from the levy, all user fees and the 2014 surplus. This is only made possible by using funds from our, as yet unpassed, 2016 budget, even though the county has indicated we could delay the work until 2017. For all these reasons, it only made sense that we should begin the undisputed portion of the construction, while waiting to hear from Doug and the rest of the public concerning the best course of action to follow at the next board meeting. That said, we still need to hear from the public and Doug regarding this. I hope everyone will
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Schools should involve the public in bond discussion The Vashon School District is working on a plan to replace and add buildings around the new high school called Phase II for another capital bond measure. In the article “Schools narrow option for next bond measure,” the cost was between $25 and $36 million for the various options. At the last school board meeting, Integrus, the architectural firm working on the project, announced that the “soft” costs had been omitted, bringing the actual cost of the proposed project to between $38.8 and $55.7 million. These options include either remodeling the existing gym, adding an auxiliary gym or building a new gym. The gym options alone range from $18.3 to $27 million. The athletic field options range from $10.7 (for a new track, field and grandstand) to $14 million (to also re-orient a new track and field to a north south orientation because the view from some classrooms in the new high school look at the back of the bleachers instead of open space). Phase II also includes new buildings for pre-school, and FamilyLink and a remodel of “K” building for StudentLink for $7.6 million. Lastly is the bus barn with miscellaneous site
improvements. These costs range from $2.2 to $10.2 million. So far the only people invited to give input in what should be in this proposal have been the school principals, gym teachers and community sport teams. The rest of the community has been locked out of the discussion. This bond may be on our February or April ballot. The community needs to be invited to the table now. We need to be part of the discussion about what is needed, versus what is wanted, and certainly what is affordable to our small community of 10,000 residents. — Hilary Emmer
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also true that these were consenting adults. And finally, I say, “Thank you” to Jeffrey for the wonderful work and help he has been to three generations of our family. His help in time of need, his assistance at gathering resources has been of monumental value to us. Can a personal choice, for which he is paying a very public price, discount 25 years of sacrifice for the benefit of Vashon families? I think not. — Susan Wolf
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and take a leap of faith (or go out on a dock and jump into Tramp Harbor). 4. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure (Thanks, Granny’s). 5. Do not judge a book by its cover. Sporty’s actually does have cold, delicious beer. 6. Trust others. Hitchhiking is convenient. 7. Support one another. Buy produce from your neighbor. 8. Sharing is caring, especially on the road, especially with bikers and especially with deer. 9. Strangers are one “hello” away from becoming friends. 10. Don’t sweat the small stuff. If you miss the boat, another ferry is always on the way. — Paige Lazar
My name is Paige Lazar, and I am a currently a civil engineering student at the University of Dayton, Ohio. I spent this summer interning at Burn Design Lab, a nonprofit company located on the island. Thank you, Vashon, for giving me a summer to remember. You will always hold a special place in my heart. Ten life lessons I learned from living on Vashon Island: 1. Do not look back. Keep moving forward, especially if you are biking up the north-end ferry hill. 2. There is a sunrise and sunset every single day. Don’t miss so many of them. 3. Do not be afraid to go out on a limb
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He has eight opponents. How is anyone with a pen and a ballot supposed to figure out who to vote for? I certainly am not going to have two-hour conversations with eight other people. OK, this could be a snow job. I don’t think so. Fred has worked with government agencies, environmental groups, including Friends of the Earth, and tribes to protect our ocean from oil spills and other unsavory human misdeeds. He is a fisheries biologist, and he knows his stuff. Anyone can claim to be an environmentalist, but Fred is the one with a deep and proven record. If you are as baffled as most of us islanders when trying to vote, please have a good visit with Fred’s record in the voter’s pamphlet or at fredforport.com. Think on this: Shell’s contract was voted on and passed by the five-member commission 3-2. If Fred had been one of the votes, Shell would not have been welcome.
Port candidate Felleman is a true environmentalist My husband and I sat down for coffee with Fred Felleman, a fellow boater and candidate for the Commission of the Port of Seattle. It was the day after the first Shellno! flotilla. At the end of a meeting that included penetrating questions about his background, understandings and goals, I was totally in his camp.
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Immigration
Americans should welcome all I hear middle-aged whites shouting “I want my country back” and “Follow the Constitoootion!” at Tea Party rallies. Why are they saying this? I want to ask them: “Who took your country, and
which constitution?” I think they are referring to the original version of the Constitution, which did not prevent restrictions on voting rights or ownership of slaves. Furthermore, I think these folks look around, see a black president, lots of brown faces and unfamiliar religious symbols and say to themselves: “This is not America because America should be run by white Christians.” I cannot read some things aloud. There are some ideas so sacred that my voice quavers and tears fill my eyes to the point I cannot see to read. I have tried so many times to read certain passages to my children and students but to no avail. One verse comes to mind, from the poem “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This has always been my vision of America. It stands in stark contrast to much of our history, especially today, when so many demonize so-called “illegal immigration.” However, to me, this is the essence of America.
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By Chris Austin I guess I am like most people today in that I have every type of media blasted at me in sub-second bits and pieces. I now have the attention span of. Hey look! A squirrel! What was I...oh right, attention span. Often this unenviable trait will show itself when I peruse the newspaper. Many times I read a headline then jump to another, start on the next and jump again. It’s analogous to clicking through channels on the TV. However, when I read this headline: “Two men suspected of helping the old man pass the ‘queer’,” it merited my attention. The year was 1897 and the “queer” was counterfeit coins. It seems the “old man” was L. A. Lander who owned a ranch here on the island. While he was in custody with a $1000.00 bond (which is like a gazillion in today’s dollars), a detective and two United States Marshals were dispatched to the island to bring back the queer and two of Lander’s accomplices, one of whom was recently out of a British Columbia prison. According to the Seattle Times the case was broken wide open by a woman, “quite well known in certain circles in this city.” She passed the sullied specie to Louch, Augustine & Co. who in turn gave the coin to authorities. Well, the quite-well-known woman started singing like a canary and was so helpful to police she avoided prosecution. Interesting to know that we used to have an international gang of counterfeiters right here on the island. Interesting too, that Lander wasn’t finished running outside the law. In July of 1904 the 70-year-old Lander was sued for assaulting his housekeeper and trying to force her into marriage. Two things struck me about this newspaper article. First, is counterfeiting coin really a good business model? What with all the melting, casting, polishing and engraving plus the threat of jail, wouldn’t it be easier to steal from people the old fashioned way, on Wall Street? The second thing that had me scratching my head was how the article was written. Today’s newspapers give us the facts after the events have occurred. This article not only advertised the police raid while it was happening but postulated on the outcome. It stated officers would likely bring back one or two bad guys and “as much coin as they can carry.” Imagine our Sheriff’s Report declaring, “police are off to raid drug-dealer so-and-so’s house and they will probably bring back a bunch of illicit drugs and arrest a couple of people.” Send me your topic suggestions at www.chrisaustinmedia.com This Feature Proudly Sponsored by: Tom and Dave - Vashon Pharmacy Norm - Vashon Thriftway Earl - Island Home Center and Lumber
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Robot Garage: The science, history and achievements of robots in space, on Earth and in the home will be presented in this program by the Museum of Flight for kids in grades 6 through 12. Attendees may use the museum’s robotics kits to explore the basic engineering skills required to build a successful extra-terrestrial rover. To register, call the library at 463-2069. 2 p.m. at the Vashon Library.
St. John Vianney Community Salmon Bake and Rummage Sale: At this 55th annual community event, attendees will find good food, local beer, the Balloon Guy, music by Loose Change, kids’ games, a bake sale, a raffle prize donated by Ace Hardware and a rummage sale. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness. The cost for the salmon bake is $15 for adults and teens, $5 for kids ages 5 to 12, and children under 5 are free. Tickets are available at the Vashon Pharmacy, the Vashon Bookshop, after masses at St. John Vianney and at the door. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (rummage sale) and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. (salmon bake) at St. John Vianney Church. Adult Learn-to-Row Weekend: The Vashon Island Rowing Club (VIRC) will offer a two-day learnto-row class for adults (ages 18 and up). Coach Richard Parr will teach this six-hour introduction to rowing basics. The cost is $100. For more information or to register, go to vashoncrew.com/masters/ adult-learn-to-row-class or contact Debby Jackson by email at membership.virc.dj@gmail.com or by phone at 463-3729. 9 a.m. to noon at the Jensen Point boathouse. Farm-to-Table Benefit Dinner: A five-course dinner including wine and dessert will be held at LaBiondo Farm & Kitchen as a benefit for the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA). MAMA’s executive director Kirsten Gagnaire will be in attendance to talk about the organization’s work to help the world’s vulnerable women and children. The cost is $75, and tickets may be purchased at globalproblems-globalsolutions.org/site/ Calendar?id=101921&view=Detail. 5 to 7:30 p.m. at LaBiondo Farm.
THURSDAY • 23 Bridge to Bridge: Vashon youth are invited to the Vashon Senior Center to learn how to play bridge. Parents are welcome to join in. The lessons are free and recommended for kids ages 10 to 14. Attendees will be asked to register upon arrival. 9 to 11 a.m. every other Thursday at the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road.
FRIDAY • 24 Senior Center Movies and Popcorn: All are welcome to attend this showing of the film “Big Eyes,” a biographical film about American artist Margaret Keane starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. 1 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road.
SATURDAY • 25 St. John Vianney Community Rummage Sale: A portion of the proceeds from the sale will go to the Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. John Vianney Church. Adult Learn-to-Row Weekend: The Vashon Island Rowing Club (VIRC) will offer a two-day learnto-row class for adults (ages 18 and up). Coach Richard Parr will teach this six-hour introduction to rowing basics. The cost is $100. For more information or to register, go to vashoncrew.com/ masters/adult-learn-to-row-class or contact Debby Jackson by email at membership.virc.dj@gmail. com or by phone at 463-3729. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Jensen Point boathouse.
TUESDAY • 28 Bug Boy & Molecule Girl: Heroes of the Micro World Concert for Kids: Mikey Gervais presents this concert about a secret world of microbes that aren’t visible to the human eye, performing feats of super-human strength. Kids can sing and dance along during this interactive musical presentation about the smallest of heroes. 4 p.m. at the Vashon Library.
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GreenTech Night for Paradise Ridge Park: A special pre-release screening of the adventure documentary “Unbranded” will play in support of the Ponies Against Pavement project at Paradise Ridge Park. The film documents the 3,000-mile journey of four men and 16 wild mustangs from Mexico to Canada, through the deepest backcountry of the American West. With a focus on the need for better land and wild horse management, the film has received high praise on the festival circuit. Suggested donations of $10 to $15 will be accepted at the door. 6 p.m. at the Vashon Theatre.
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FIELD DAY FOR FOREST OWNERS The Vashon Forest Field Day, held by the Washington State University Extension Forestry Program will feature a suite of outdoor workshops designed for people who own wooded property on Vashon. Forestry specialists from around the region will provide instruction, demonstrations and resources on a variety of topics that will help attendees to better understand, protect, enhance and enjoy their forests. Session topics will include forest health, thinning, pruning, tree planting, invasive weed control, fire risk reduction, handheld GPS use, measuring trees, growing edible mushrooms, and a tour of the property. The event will be from 1 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday at 17110 90th Ave. S.W. Cost is $12 per person or $18 per couple. For more information, contact Kelsey Ketcheson at kelsey.ketcheson@ wsu.edu.
UPCOMING King County Public Health: Representatives (one of whom speaks Spanish) will come to Vashon once a month to sign people up for Orca LIFT (Metro’s reduced fare program), food stamps and health insurance through Apple Health. Current Apple Health clients may re-certify, and children who were covered through their parents and have turned or will be turning 19 will need to apply for their own coverage. For the Orca LIFT program, applicants should bring photo identification from any state or country and income verification such as a Provider One card, EBT card, TANF award letter, SSI award letter, L&I statement of worker’s compensation or Social Security award letter. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the food bank and 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Vashon Library, Wednesday, July 29. Vashon’s Bernie Sanders Kickoff Event: Sanders supporters across the country will begin building their grass roots efforts for his campaign during this national event, and Sanders will speak live via satellite. Follow facebook/ vashonforbernie.com for more details. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, at the co-housing Common House. Drama Dock Auditions: Drama Dock will hold auditions for its next play, “Arsenic and Old Lace,” to be directed by Chaim Rosemarin. There will be parts for 11 men and three women. The performance dates are scheduled for October. 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, July 30, and Friday, July 31, and 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Ober Park performance room.
Remembering the Fun We Had: Vashon seniors are invited to join Frank Miller, co-founder of Sound Food (1974), Thailand-based tea, coffee and food writer and photographer, for an informal afternoon of socializing and reminiscing. 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at Cafe Luna. Low Tide Celebration: Explore Point Robinson beaches and tidepools with Vashon beach naturalists, tour the lighthouse, build sand castles, eat lunch at Jessica’s beach kitchen or try some of the available family activities during one of the lowest tides of the year. Parking is available along Point Robinson Road, and shuttle buses will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2, at Point Robinson Park. Senior Center Community Flea Market: Anyone interested in selling food, crafts or household items at this fundraiser for the senior center on Aug. 15 are asked to contact event chair Lois Yunker at loisyunker@gmail.com or call her at 465-5841 by Thursday, Aug. 6. The costs are $25 for tent space, $20 for a large table or $15 for a card table. Vendor forms may also be picked
Livestock and Poultry Feed All Natural. Patriot, Half Moon & Big Sky. Poultry, Horses, Goats, Sheep & Pigs
up at the Vashon Senior Center .
CAMPS Camp MIK (Physical Theater and Comedy): Island performer and voiceover artist Mik Kuhlman will lead this camp for kids ages 6
to 14. The schedule includes both indoor and outdoor activities. The cost is $300, with some limited scholarships available. For more information or to register, email campmik@gmail.com or go to mikkuhlman.com. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, July 27, to Friday, July 31, at Hanna Barn Studios.
VASHON THEATRE Spy: Ends July 23. Me, Earl and the Dying Girl: Ends July 23. Jurassic World: Opens July 24. The Audience (National Theatre Live): July 25. King John (from the Stratford Festival): July 26 and 30. Wolfpack: Plays July 27 through 29. Unbranded (GreenTech night): July 28. See vashontheatre.com for show times or call 463-3232.
PUBLIC MEETINGS Vashon School District: 7 p.m. Thursday, July 23, at Chautauqua Elementary School. Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, at Station 55. Vashon Park District: 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, at Ober Park.
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Race Results Sponsored By:
35th Annual Bill Burby Inspirational Fun Run Saturday, July 18, 2015
10K Run and 5K Run/Walk Finishers Pace
Time
10K Run - Overall (Female) 1 Christie Mosley 6:56/M 2 Michelle Bjornberg 8:14/M 3 Kristina Hoeschen 8:22/M
0:42:58.8 0:51:01.4 0:51:54.5
10K Run - Overall (Male) 1 Ian Bonner 2 Kevin Ross 3 Paul Dixon
6:24/M 6:33/M 7:03/M
0:39:44.8 0:40:42.5 0:43:46.0
5K Run - Overall (Female) 1 Michelle Neal 2 Lucy Boyle 3 Tatiyana Winge
7:06/M 7:23/M 8:07/M
0:22:02.2 0:22:53.9 0:25:09.3
5K Run - Overall (Male) 1 Graham Peet 2 Scott Healey 3 Luke Larson
5:22/M 5:33/M 5:57/M
Female 19-29 1 Caitlin Bonner 2 Alaina Williams Female 30-39 1 Christie Mosley 2 Kristina Hoeschen 3 Randi Bernhardt 4 Addie Meade 5 Laura Lenhart 6 Sacha Coesel 7 Alexandra Lentz Female 40-49 1 Michelle Bjornberg 2 Kate Davidson 3 Dana Rosellini 4 Cara Rosellini 5 Mary Dewine 6 Tracy McCarren 7 Jessica Haug 8 Mir Haynes 9 Susan Puz Female 50-59
Overall 6 17 Overall 1 3 4 7 8 10 19 Overall 2 9 12 13 14 16 18 20 21 Overall
Time 0:54:33.7 1:04:48.6 Time 0:42:58.8 0:51:54.5 0:52:16.2 0:54:54.1 0:55:47.6 0:57:51.2 1:05:17.7 Time 0:51:01.4 0:57:31.4 1:01:45.9 1:02:04.4 1:02:05.8 1:03:55.0 1:05:17.5 1:09:22.8 1:13:02.7 Time
1 Susan Hormann 2 Leslie Ferriel Female 60-69 1 Debby Jackson
5 15 Overall 11
0:53:07.2 1:03:04.2 Time 0:59:25.9
10K Run - Male - by Age Group Overall 12 Overall 11 23 Overall 5 14 22 31 32 Overall 1 2 3 4 6 13 17 19 30 Overall 8 9 15
20 25 Overall 7 10 16 18 21 27 28 29 Overall 24 26
0:55:08.8 1:00:46.1 Time 0:45:52.3 0:46:44.1 0:52:03.1 0:53:52.5 0:55:22.1 1:02:25.5 1:03:07.2 1:03:07.4 Time 0:57:51.6 1:01:34.0
5K Run - Female - by Age Group 0:16:38.9 0:17:11.1 0:18:28.0
10K Run - Female - by Age Group
Male 10-14 1 Elijah Dougher Male 15-18 1 Fletcher Call 2 John Ursino Male 30-39 1 Stephen Harvy 2 Evan Leonard 3 Stephen Lenhart 4 Samuel Hill 5 Anthony Puz Male 40-49 1 Ian Bonner 2 Kevin Ross 3 Paul Dixon 4 Cedric Gagnaire 5 Aaron Hill 6 Sam Thwaite 7 Joseph Bogaard 8 Andrew Aiken 9 Lyle Harris Male 50-59 1 Adam Atwell 2 John O’Brien 3 Peter Walker
4 David Wells 5 Henry Haselton Male 60-69 1 Scott Harvey 2 Wallace Wood 3 Alan Hardwick 4 Tim Reagan 5 Eric Walker 6 Jim Laughlin 7 David Frank 8 Bob Krimmel Male 70-79 1 Loren McElvain 2 Michael Kirk
Time 0:50:31.9 Time 0:50:08.8 0:57:25.7 Time 0:44:04.3 0:50:51.2 0:56:58.3 1:05:30.6 1:13:01.2 Time 0:39:39.4 0:40:36.9 0:43:40.4 0:43:54.0 0:45:26.2 0:50:44.1 0:53:10.6 0:54:25.9 1:04:09.9 Time 0:46:03.8 0:46:28.5 0:52:00.3
Female 1-9 Overall 1 Ellis Giller 13 2 Mallory Keenan 27 3 Alexandra Waterworth 33 4 Leah Kearns 43 5 Lucy Pooler 44 6 Olivia Boyes 45 7 Autumn Daly 56 8 Amelia Medeiros 57 9 Freja Holmes 63 10 Aine Meyer 73 11 Isabel Forest 76 Female 10-14 Overall 1 Lucy Boyle 2 2 Flora Dougher 9 3 Enya Pooler 18 4 Ciely Daly 28 5 Rhiannon Simmonds 40 6 Flora Briggs 42 7 Julia Papa 48 8 Niamh Barlow 55 9 Katya Winge 59 10 Sienna Stromberg 60 11 Daalny Meyer 66 12 Tessa Snowden 67 13 Elena Weitz 68 14 Grace Ebel 69 Female 15-18 Overall 1 Tatiyana Winge 3 2 Emma Veatch 4 3 Sofie Wallace 17 4 Marie Abel 24 5 Delaney Carr 25 6 Hanna Nelson 31 7 Emma Greenlee 38 8 Repeka Lematua 52 Female 19-29 Overall 1 Kat Costello 10 2 Meg Sayre 16 3 Elizabeth Gleb 23 4 Diana Salazar 65 Female 30-39 Overall 1 Karen Olsen 6 2 Jenny Snowden 11 3 Marla Smith 14 4 Kara Sears 22 5 Cara Keenan 49 6 Renee Rutkowski 54 7 Catherine Sullivan 71 Female 40-49 Overall 1 Carrie Chambers 5 2 Carrie Culley 7 3 Angie Harpole 15 4 Brenda Martin 19 5 Amy Broomhall 20 6 Mary Papa 21 7 Juniper Rogneby 29 8 Jen Lindsay 30 9 Kelly Keenan 32 10 Wendy Kearns 46
Time 0:28:47.3 0:30:18.2 0:31:36.4 0:33:03.5 0:33:05.9 0:33:17.7 0:36:27.8 0:36:28.8 0:41:36.3 0:47:44.0 0:54:35.6 Time 0:22:53.9 0:27:06.2 0:29:35.5 0:30:27.5 0:32:33.1 0:32:49.0 0:33:29.1 0:35:27.3 0:38:07.5 0:40:08.5 0:43:19.2 0:43:19.2 0:43:19.9 0:43:19.9 Time 0:25:09.3 0:25:42.1 0:29:13.5 0:30:02.7 0:30:02.8 0:30:56.6 0:32:27.3 0:33:57.8 Time 0:27:24.0 0:29:10.0 0:29:49.1 0:43:01.8 Time 0:26:45.5 0:28:31.2 0:28:47.9 0:29:47.6 0:33:34.8 0:35:27.3 0:44:27.0 Time 0:26:13.0 0:26:57.0 0:28:53.7 0:29:39.6 0:29:42.8 0:29:45.3 0:30:33.9 0:30:55.8 0:31:28.4 0:33:25.9
11 Stefanie Lucus 51 12 Carl Olsen 53 13 Jod Burwell 61 14 AmyBeth Holmes 62 15 Jenny Sorensen 64 16 Jennifer Olsen 72 17 Shannon Seath Meyer 74 18 Tamara Paris 75 Female 50-59 Overall 1 Michelle Neal 1 2 Beth Bowers-Hamilton 8 3 Marta Medcalf 12 4 Anne Atwell 26 5 Debbie Banner 34 6 Sonja Sackman 36 7 Janet Williams 37 8 Lisa Crosby 39 9 Karen Hedlund 47 10 Amy Alterman 58 Female 60-69 Overall 1 Lynda Fitzpatrick 35 2 Nancy Pfeiffer 41 3 Phyllis Davis 50 4 Kathleen Davies 70
0:33:51.4 0:34:18.3 0:40:45.8 0:41:35.0 0:41:37.0 0:45:09.2 0:47:51.1 0:48:54.9 Time 0:22:02.2 0:26:57.9 0:28:33.0 0:30:09.6 0:31:38.6 0:32:12.8 0:32:23.4 0:32:30.1 0:33:27.7 0:38:04.9 Time 0:31:46.5 0:32:39.4 0:33:47.1 0:43:22.9
5K Run - Men - by Age Group Male 1-9 Overall 1 Dylan Fick 40 2 Gavin Keenan 41 3 Xan London-Chambers 52 4 Julian Maxwell-Macca 64 5 Sebastian Giller 75 6 Reid Stromberg 78 7 Sam Gill 87 8 Dominic Medeiros 89 9 Ferdinand Escovedo 90 10 Emmett O’Donnell 92 11 Rowan Keenan 95 12 Orion Knowler 98 13 Connor Olsen 101 14 Elliot Thwaite 104 15 Jack Langland 105 16 Peter Medeiros 107 17 Rafael Escovedo 113 18 Henry Sullivan 115 Male 10-14 Overall 1 Clay Allen 15 2 Keenan O’Donnell 16 3 Zach Van Dusen 23 4 Isaac Escovedo 24 5 Stephen Daly 25 6 Ben Larson 26 7 Aiden Keenan 28 8 Jakob Henschert 29 9 Eli Gould 30 10 Julian Tooman 31 11 Erik Pringle 42 12 Maxwell William s 43 13 Ursa Medeiros 45 14 Kiryk Mozeleski 47 15 Jake Carmon 48 16 Nick Bjornberg 56 17 Jerome Daly 59 18 Rhys Carleton 60 19 Logan Drew 61 20 Alec Pottinger 62 21 Dalton Kearns 68 22 Ryan Nelson 77 23 Maddox Keenan 97 24 Gus Holmes 102 25 Baker Van Buren 103 26 Duncan Barlow 110 27 Andre Forest 111 28 Aidan Green 116 Male 15-18 Overall 1 Graham Peet 1 2 Luke Larson 3
Time 0:25:22.2 0:25:25.6 0:27:24.6 0:28:36.7 0:29:39.4 0:29:52.1 0:31:00.1 0:31:08.2 0:31:17.9 0:32:53.2 0:33:13.4 0:33:42.8 0:34:18.2 0:36:44.0 0:37:06.8 0:37:20.1 0:41:38.0 0:43:23.8 Time 0:22:20.6 0:22:29.0 0:23:34.2 0:23:34.8 0:23:36.6 0:23:39.3 0:24:29.6 0:24:41.8 0:24:43.1 0:24:49.3 0:25:29.6 0:25:37.0 0:25:49.8 0:26:08.5 0:26:13.2 0:28:01.0 0:28:07.4 0:28:10.5 0:28:11.6 0:28:19.1 0:28:44.3 0:29:51.8 0:33:32.8 0:36:22.4 0:36:23.3 0:40:13.0 0:41:00.3 0:44:31.8 Time 0:16:38.9 0:18:28.0
3 Christopher Walker 4 Anthony Martin 5 Benjamine Martin 6 Issac Martin 7 Adon Ellis 8 Charlie Elliott 9 Carson Nye 10 Baxter Call 11 Chandler Kimmel 12 Stephen Rice Male 19-29 1 Alex Williams 2 Damian Johnson 3 Grant Lyons 4 Charles McDaniel 5 Gibson Silagi Male 30-39 1 Andy Zabel 2 Joe Keenan 3 William Rodriguez 4 Jesse Archambault 5 Max Baumann 6 Marc Langland 7 Collin Medeiros Male 40-49 1 Scott Healey 2 David Waterworth 3 Nick Keenan 4 Tim Martin 5 Ralph Pooler 6 Jim Simmonds 7 Yeve Williams 8 Douglas Sackman 9 Shanti Escovedo 10 Toby Holmes 11 Daniel Macca 12 Kent Tooman 13 Bryce Harpole 14 Matthew Chasan 15 Barney Gill 16 Wally Pooler 17 Joseph Papa 18 Rusty Knowler 19 Mark Stromberg Male 50-59 1 Hans Van Dusen 2 Seth Zuckerman 3 Warren Maierhofer 4 Daniel Klein 5 Glenn Leimbacher 6 David Sunstrom 7 Peter Clarke 8 Aaron Campbell 9 Steve Bjornberg 10 Greg Martin 11 Joe Silagi 12 James Fitzpatrick 13 Jim O’Donnell 14 Michael Meyer Male 60-69 1 Paul Brown 2 Willy Wonka 3 Old Loot 4 Ron Boydston 5 Tom Theno 6 Eric Pryne 7 Peter Werbel 8 Roger Fick 9 John McCoy Male 70-79 1 Edwin Ebright 2 Dan Chasan 3 Vernon Trevellyan 4 Edward Clabaugh Male 80+ 1 Abe Bergman
4 5 10 14 19 21 22 39 44 82 Overall 6 17 38 53 76 Overall 8 32 35 49 54 106 108 Overall 2 7 9 11 12 13 18 20 36 46 63 66 70 74 88 94 96 99 109 Overall 27 33 34 37 55 71 72 80 81 85 86 91 93 114 Overall 51 57 58 65 67 69 83 84 100 Overall 50 73 79 112 Overall 117
0:18:51.3 0:20:23.7 0:21:29.4 0:22:13.4 0:22:49.2 0:23:20.4 0:23:31.0 0:25:14.5 0:25:47.2 0:30:27.5 Time 0:20:59.0 0:22:36.3 0:25:13.0 0:27:29.7 0:29:47.7 Time 0:21:17.2 0:24:54.1 0:25:00.7 0:26:18.0 0:27:35.4 0:37:08.2 0:37:22.1 Time 0:17:11.1 0:21:13.0 0:21:19.3 0:21:39.6 0:22:00.5 0:22:08.6 0:22:43.3 0:22:52.7 0:25:00.9 0:26:07.4 0:28:30.5 0:28:38.7 0:28:59.2 0:29:15.6 0:31:02.5 0:33:06.2 0:33:31.6 0:33:42.9 0:40:09.5 Time 0:23:40.4 0:24:56.1 0:24:58.7 0:25:09.0 0:27:54.7 0:29:07.3 0:29:12.1 0:30:21.6 0:30:21.9 0:30:45.7 0:30:57.1 0:31:46.5 0:32:54.1 0:43:19.8 Time 0:26:57.7 0:28:02.2 0:28:03.5 0:28:37.6 0:28:41.5 0:28:55.8 0:30:32.1 0:30:38.5 0:34:01.6 Time 0:26:30.0 0:29:14.3 0:30:01.6 0:41:26.1 Time 0:45:21.8
Male - Not CategorizedOverall 1 Adon Ellis 19 2 Maxwell William s 43
Time 0:22:49.2 0:25:37.0
5K Walk - Finishers Female - Not Categorized Marie Culley Mindy Ursino Suzanne Rutkowski Suzanne Hubbard Laura Belt Ellen Call Becky Youman Katie Sears Nancy Kappelman Elsa Croonquist Christine Plihal Eileen Miller Virginia Ohmert Judy Waldman Sue Haapakoski Laura Clampitt Maridee Bonadea Lori Carlander Renee Butz Carol Sayre Lyn Preston Diane Lycitt Mallory Preston Linda English Linda Laughlin Mary Thornton Melissa Schumann Cindy Morrison Nan Wilson Sybil Weber Linda Peterson Carrie Van Buren Rose Belknap Roxanne Lyons Regina Lyons Lynn Douglas Lisa Klein Anne O’Leary Teresa Bourke Mary Kirkpatrick Dorothy Kirkpatrick Susan Kirkpatrick Sofia Giusti Katie Brown Elle Laroche Ann Palmer Zoe Barlow Male - Not Categorized Mark Ursino Thomas Daly Epifanio Wilson Steven Ohmert Bob Culley Michael Kappelman Pat Cail Thomas Pigsley Steven Macdonald Gary Preston Stephen Lycitt J Lyons Jeffrey Sayre Mark Van Devanter Daniel Kirkpatrick John Osterling Skip Norton David Giusti Harry Gerecke
Time 0:37:45.2 0:38:47.3 0:39:06.2 0:40:15.5 0:42:36.9 0:42:38.3 0:42:40.3 0:42:40.8 0:45:04.1 0:45:31.3 0:45:31.5 0:45:42.7 0:47:06.6 0:47:36.2 0:48:40.0 0:48:43.4 0:50:00.8 0:50:17.2 0:50:17.8 0:50:54.5 0:50:56.8 0:50:57.3 0:50:59.4 0:51:00.6 0:51:12.0 0:51:13.1 0:51:20.9 0:51:21.0 0:51:54.4 0:52:21.2 0:52:21.3 0:53:24.5 0:53:25.9 0:54:07.1 0:54:24.5 0:54:32.3 0:55:42.0 0:57:43.5 0:57:43.5 0:58:08.8 1:00:06.8 1:00:08.0 1:02:50.2 1:02:50.6 1:03:06.8 1:12:44.4 1:12:46.3 Time 0:28:10.2 0:37:09.0 0:38:11.0 0:40:14.6 0:42:09.7 0:45:04.5 0:46:04.1 0:48:51.7 0:49:56.4 0:50:58.7 0:50:58.9 0:51:02.3 0:54:06.8 0:54:31.5 0:58:08.0 0:59:08.9 1:02:26.2 1:03:06.0 1:05:51.1
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This year’s Strawberry Festival offered many familiar activities, as well as some new ones, including a reinvented carnival, tours of a historic houseboat at Quartermaster Harbor and free games at the Open Space for Arts & Community. Jim Marsh, at the Vashon Chamber of Commerce, said he and other festival organizers like to consider themselves stewards of the summertime event. He noted that many people, from the man who carefully selects beer for the beer garden to the car lovers who spend hours organizing the classic car parade on Sunday, add their own touches to the festival. “We just do a section of it,” he said, “and I’m impressed with the way people bring their passions to it.” Pictured in the top row, the Seals swim team and Native American dancers were part of Saturday’s parade. In the bottom row, a sign points sweaty festival-goers to the “cool zone;” kids enjoy a ride on the tall slide at the carnival, and other girls hula hoop at the Village Green.
Natalie Martin/Staff Photos
So many people came together to make Strawberry Festival happen! Thanks to: Pete Welch & Allison Shirk, everyone who played at Festival (get the T-shirt for a full list), The Vashon Artists, The crew of Bandstand Music; Doug Snyder & the crew at Vashon ACE; Jill Yates and all the parents & student volunteers from VHS Baseball & Girls Basketball; Daryl Green; Nance Scott; The entire staff of Pandora’s Box; Parker Plaza; the Vashon Library; King County Roads (esp. Jim Didricksen);Vornbrock Properties; The Shapiro Family and the Lodges on Vashon; Vashon Park District; Voice of Vashon, Rick & Deborah Brown of Critical Training Solutions; Sonny & Natalie Winters of CFM Carpet Cleaning; 16D, LLC Duke Davis, Snapdragon, Chevron and Vashon Thriftway for providing water to hydrate musicians. Scott & Tanner Stinson for building the COOL ZONE misters & JR Crawford for keeping dogs hydrated, Vashon Fire and Rescue and VIFR Explorer Scouts, Giraffe, The Vashon Food Bank, Troup 294 for keeping Festival Clean; Carole Meriam for designing the logo; Emma Amiad for being a great Grand Marshal; Kim Brown, Bonnie McCallister; Nancy Carr; Deirdre Petree; Gretchen Neffenger; Leanne Chattey ; VCCF, Caleb Johns for winning Unofficial Mayor AGAIN!; Bandit the Goat; & Joe T for running for Unofficial Mayor; Vashon Heritage Museum; The Open Space, Quarter Master Yacht Club, Cliff ’s Beer; Palouse Winery; Dragon’s Head Cider; The Deputies, Detectives and Sergeants of the King County Sheriff ’s Office; Cheryl Hunt & the US Bank Posse; Vashon Market IGA; Paul Ockinga. The Board of Directors of the Vashon Chamber of Commerce: John de Groen, Angela Gist, George Brown, Rick Brown, Melissa Schafer, Royce Wall, Laura Griffith, Jim Schmidt. Clay Gleb, Dean Andrews, JR Crawford, Julie Hempton; Nate Schafer and Schafer Specialty; Terry & Genevieve Trainor; Allison Kennedy, Bill & Leanne Brown, Rob Wheeler; Jan Lyell; Joyce Smith; Patty Snyder; Hilary Emmer; Heather Corinna,Tim & Jill Heryford, Mike & Patte Wagner, Tony & Sandy Winters, Juan & Megan Castro, Mike & Marcia England, Jacq & Beverly Skeffington, Tom Kraabel, Vasa Seymor, Sean “jinjami” Willey (AWESOME helper in setting up EVERYTHING and serving on Friday), Carol Sussman, Alice Larsen, Claire Denise, Rachael Waldron. And George Hill – for allowing us to borrow his car for the Grand Marshal. Deirdre Petree, Elizabeth Gleb, Malory Griffith, Tom and Jack Dunn, Duo Finelli, and everyone else that helped make festival awesome!
–Thanks from Sue & Jim
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OPEN AIR: The annual outdoor aerial festival at the Open Space for Arts & Community is set for 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1. Bring a blanket and a picnic to the festival, which takes place in an open field. Refreshments will be available for sale as well. 1. Entry is by donation.
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UMO tribute to Beckett heads from Vashon to New York Longtime theater group goes to the Big Apple for the first time By JULI GOETZ MORSER Staff Writer
After a quarter-century of performing on Vashon, UMO Ensemble is taking its show on the road to the glittering lights of New York City. But before the company leaves town, it plans to hold a one-evening benefit performance of “Fail Better” on Saturday at the Open Space for Arts & Community. “Fail Better” is UMO’s love letter to the playwright and poet Samuel Beckett. The group premiered the show earlier this year at the Samuel Beckett Festival at ACT Theater in Seattle. Still, UMO had a mission to take its art out into the world, New York ranked high on its bucket list. So after critical acclaim and a second run at ACT, the ensemble contacted the New York Fringe Festival, a curated event, about performing “Fail Better.” It received an invitation in April to perform in August. “This is the first time UMO has gone for a show of this caliber and size in 25 years,” said Elizabeth Klob, director of “Fail Better” and UMO’s executive artist. “But we didn’t find out until April, so we need to raise funds to defray travel costs.” And Klob is not just talking about plane tickets. UMO has the expensive and logistical challenge of shipping the show’s main prop — a 400 pound teeter-totter — across the county along with sundry ropes, pulleys and costumes. As a physical theater performance company, UMO often uses sculpture — though nothing quite the size of the teeter-totter
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UMO will perform its new show as a benefit on Saturday. — along with original movement, vocalization, music, characters, story line and scripts to create their image-rich pieces. For “Fail Better,” the group read all of Beckett’s fiction and nonfiction, a considerable volume of work that was not in play format, to create the new show. They honed the script down to five scenes and then started crafting the piece. That was the easy part. The hard part was getting the green light from Beckett’s estate. “It was a huge ordeal to get the rights,” Klob said. “It took six months with several no’s. Beckett is one of my favorite writers, and I was not going to take no.”
UMO submitted 62 pages of material that Beckett’s estate whittled down to two paragraphs. Klob said the text now frames the show, appearing at the beginning and again at the end. Beckett, who was known as a key writer in the Theater of the Absurd movement, heralded a tragicomic outlook on life and human endeavors. Klob said she thinks his writing is so rich that he could write for the everyday man, a scholar, someone who is lovesick or any human condition. “He deals with the most primal questions but in funny ways — funny if you let it wash over you. We found stuff that is
poignant, makes me laugh and cry, which is a rare thing,” Klob said. In keeping with the company’s credo — seeking the ancient alchemy of live performance, through which thoughts and images under the surface of culture are given voice and form — “Fail Better” seems to succeed well. The Seattle Times said, “UMO Ensemble’s remarkable tribute to (Beckett’s) genius, ‘Fail Better’ is a mesmerizing production, … a visual delight and an intellectual teaser.” “Fail Better” follows archetypal Beckett characters who tackle love, life and death in what UMO calls Beckett fashion, “with humor, metaphor, stillness and gross indecency to create a visceral experience of Beckett.” Two of the original co-founders of UMO, David Godsey and Janet McAlpin, will perform “Fail Better” along with ensemble players Maria Glanz, Lyam White and special guest artist Terry Crane, with Elizabeth Klob directing. When UMO first arrived on Vashon in 1989, most of the members were from the East Coast or Midwest. But they stayed and over the years have raised their families and created art on the island. Klob said she hopes islanders will come to the benefit, adding that for the same price as a ticket at ACT, this event will include food and drinks donated by The Hardware Store Restaurant, and audience members can chat with UMO after the performance. “If anybody has been curious about UMO, what we do, but hasn’t had the opportunity to see us, this is one of the best performances to see,” Klob said. “It shows everybody’s best. It is a bright star.” Doors open at 7 p.m. for the 8 p.m. show. Tickets are $30 and are available at brownpapertickets.com and at the door.
Local author reaches across the Atlantic for help New novel is second in mystery series By JULI GOETZ MORSER Staff Writer
Author Will North has a tough job. He has to murder people and then outwit his readers as to who done it. Good thing he loves his work as a mystery writer, his chosen setting of Cornwall, England and the friends he makes in his literary line of duty. North plans to launch the second book in his Davies and West mystery series, “Too Clever by Half,” at 6 p.m. Friday at Vashon Bookshop. When a fisherman finds a body floating in the unusually calm waters off Cornwall in the English Channel, an investigation reveals suspicious activities. North’s pet detectives, Major Crimes Unit Detective Inspector Morgan Davies and her Scene of the Crime Manager Calum West, are called into action to solve the mystery. North makes their jobs look seamless as they piece together the oddities of the crime, but that’s because of the research he does behind the scene to ensnare readers.
“Killing people is really hard work,” North said with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek. “It is complicated; you go through twists and turns in your own head trying to twist and turn the reader without letting them know what’s going on. It takes longer than a love story to write.” North speaks from experience, having published three previous novels that fall under the category of romance and suspense — “The Long Walk Home,” “Water, Stone, Heart” and “Season’s End.” They all take place in North’s beloved England, but the Davies and West series required seeking advice from professionals, a task that delighted him. North has a cadre of advisors from Cornwall with whom he consults — three detective inspectors, a chief forensic pathologist, a crime scene manager, chief archeologist in the area and the head of the Royal Cornwall Museum. “After ghostwriting books on Al Gore, Bill Clinton (and others),” North said, “I can’t finish a sentence if I don’t have the facts. I sling off an email to Cornwall and have the answer the next morning.” The answer might be how to poison a well or details about the Bronze and Iron
Age sites that litter Cornwall and play key roles in North’s mysteries. In “Too Clever by Half,” the story features an underground chamber containing gold and silver artifacts from the Iron Age. North said “Too Clever by Half” is based on a true event — a dead man floating in the English Channel — but the rest is fiction. Well, mostly fiction. Like all novelists, North draws inspiration from life. His main character Morgan Davies, for instance, is based on a woman who recently spent a week at his home on Vashon. “She wanted to go to the Burton Coffee stand,” North said. “We went, and (a friend) ran out to the parking lot saying, ‘You must be Morgan Davies.’” According to North, Davies is an irascible detective, brilliant at solving crimes but a rule-breaker. Her partner West is just the opposite, sweet and much loved by his team. The two detectives become entangled in a love-hate relationship, a subplot that developed in the first mystery. North is currently at work on his third mystery, “Trevega House,” which will bring back characters from his novel “Water, Stone, Heart.” While North said he begins each novel with three general aspects —
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Will North will read from his book on Friday. setting, character and theme — he admitted he’s not one to make an outline. “I want to be surprised everyday by my characters. If I’m not surprised, the reader won’t be either.”
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The play follows the struggle of an enamored couple as a treacherous man, Don John, attempts to disrupt true love. After Don John frames the woman Hero for adultery, her friends attempt to reveal the truth and win back her lover Claudio. Loyalties are tested, and the main characters must constantly wade through a heart-wrenching amalgam of love, betrayal and redemption. Admission is free, and organizers ask that no alcohol or dogs be brought to the show.
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Seattle theater company brings free Shakespeare play to Ober Park Greenstage’s production of Shakespeare will bring tragedy to Ober Park once more. The Seattle theater company will perform Shakespeare’s “Much Ado about Nothing” at 7 p.m. Thursday as the only play in the summer Concerts in the Park series.
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Vashon Youth Theatre will bring a musical adaptation of “Carrie” to the stage the first weekend of August. “Carrie, The Musical” opens at 7 p.m. Friday, July 31, with additional performances at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2, all at Vashon High School. “Carrie: The Musical” is an adaptation of Stephen King’s well-known horror novel about a girl who is bullied at school and abused by her mentally ill mother at home. But Carrie soon discovers she has a special power. The Vashon show will be directed by Elizabeth Ripley and will have a cast of more than 40 young performers involved with Vashon Youth Theatre, a new group on Vashon. Tickets cost $5 for youth and seniors and $10 for general admission. They can be purchased in advance at Vashon Bookshop. Regular admission is $15 at the door on the day of the show. The show is not recommended for young children due to occasional coarse language and intense subject matter, including child abuse and bullying, and elements of horror.
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Blues and boogie band will play the Bike The band Lonesome Shack will slam the Red Bike with a smorgasbord of raw postwar blues on Friday. The show begins at 8:30 p.m. The band is fronted by Seattle guitarist and vocalist Ben Todd. Todd grew up in New Mexico and Arizona, where he worked on original music inspired by vintage blues artists like Memphis Minnie. He moved to Seattle in 2006 and began learning how to build and repair guitars. There, he met percussionist Kristian Garrard, and the two released the albums “Bound to Die” and “Slidin Boa” as a duo. Since then, bassist Luke Bergman has joined the blues and boogie band. Expect a gritty, clanky, primitive groove. The show is all ages until 11 p.m. and 21 and over only after that.
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Bill Burby race over festival weekend creates multiple winners Near record heat did not deter young runners in the annual event By GLENNA MILESON For The Beachcomber
The summer heat may have discouraged some of the adults, but nearly one-third of the more than 300 finishers of Saturday’s 35th annual Bill Burby Inspirational were in the 18-and-under categories. And some of them made it look easy, kicking up their speed as they neared the finish line. The starting gun wasn’t firing properly, so Russ Brazill did a count down to start the 10K at shortly after 9 a.m., followed by the 5K 10 minutes later. Brazill was one of the original race organizers, along with Bill Burby, and he enjoys connecting with Destia Hermes, widow of the late Burby. “Bill would like seeing the young people,” Brazill said. “He was a real advocate for kids and the most positive person I’ve ever been around.” For the third year in a row, first place in the men’s 5K race went to Graham Peet, 18, and second place went to Scott Healey, 40. Peet’s pace was 5:22 for an overall time of 16:39, identical to last year’s results, while Healey’s time was 17:11 with a pace of 5:33, 20 second faster than last year. Third place went to Luke Larson, 15, with a pace of 5:57 and a time of 18:28. In the women’s 5K race, Michelle Neal, 54, repeated her first-place finish with a time of 22:02 and pace of 7:06. Coming in
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Colin Medieros, number 159, and Mark Langland, number 156, complete the race with young runners Thomas Daly, number 371; Peter Medieros, number 199; and Amelia Medieros, who all appear to be ready to run a few more miles. second was Lucy Boyle, 14, with a time of 22:54 and pace of 7:23. Third place went to Tatiyana Winge, 17, with a time of 25:09 and pace of 8:07. First place in the women’s 10K race went to Christie Mosley, 30, with a time of 42:59
and pace of 6:56. Nearly 10 minutes behind her, Michelle Bjornberg, 48, came in second with a time of 51:01 and pace of 8:14, followed by Kristina Hoeschen, 36, in third with a time of 51:55 and a pace of 8:22. First place in the men’s 10K race eluded
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Kevin Ross again this year and went to Ian Bonner, age 40, a former islander now living in Bellingham, with a time of 39:45 and a pace of 6:24. “He was out in front from the beginning,” Ross said. “I thought I would take him on the uphill, but he never slowed down.” Ross, 42, had to settle for second with a time of 40:43 and pace of 6:33, and in third was Paul Dixon, age 42, with a time of 43:46 and pace of 7:03. All first-place winners took home a $100 gift certificate for Northwest Sports, second-place winners received $75 gift certificates for training at CoreCentric, and third-place winners received foam exercise rollers, also from CoreCentric. Two additional $100 gifts certificates for Northwest Sports were awarded randomly. Funds raised by the event help support high school athletics and also fund the annual Bill Burby Wellness Scholarship, awarded annually to a student who most clearly demonstrates a healthy lifestyle, consistent with the living philosophy shown by Bill Burby, who was a belove teacher and coach on Vashon. Friends and family of Ryan Krug, a high school student and track athlete who was killed in 2013, also used the event to bring in donations for the Ryan Krug Memorial Scholarship fund. Complete results are available at www. billburbyrace.org.
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change is slow in coming, they believe it will only be a boon to emergency services. There’s been little public outreach, some say, because they don’t expect Vashon residents will see a change. “The plan is that there’s not a reduction in service,” said VIFR Commissioner Rex Stratton, “and there will be an opportunity to actually have more flexibility in service.” For years, Medic One has contracted with VIFR to provide paramedics on the island. Vashon’s eight paramedics have the same training as those in the rest of the county, but work under the island agency, which receives about $2 million in annual county levy funds. The station also uses island levy funds to employ firefighters and emergency medical technicians (EMTs), who respond to less serious emergencies. In recent years, however, calls for medical emergencies on Vashon have risen, as have ambulance transports to hospitals. During a transport for a more serious call, considered an advanced life support (ALS) call, one paramedic and one EMT will take a patient on the ferry, leaving the island
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areas such as Burien, Kent and Renton. In return, the island will see a changing crew of 80 responders. Paramedics will also stay in two-person teams. George Brown, who was assistant chief at VIFR when the change was approved and is now interim acting chief, filling in while Chief Hank Lipe is on leave, said he believes the plan will improve paramedic service. Another, benefit, he noted is there will be a larger crew for Vashon to pull from. Currently when paramedics are sick or on vacation, others work long hours to fill in. “My biggest reason I want to see things change is our lack of depth, sheer numbers,” Brown said. “It’s dangerous to have guys working four, five and six days in a row.” The VIFR board voted to move forward with the plan at a public meeting last August. While officials and paramedics alike expressed optimism, most also said some crucial details still needed to be worked out. Of utmost concern is that under the new system, two paramedics will leave the island together on ALS transports, possibly leaving Vashon without paramedics for a time. Officials have discussed a working plan where as soon as Vashon paramedics believe they’ll have to take a patient offisland, the mainland paramedics closest to Fauntleroy will then head toward the ferry.
Ideally, they will be on the island by the time the Vashon paramedics leave. When ferries are delayed, officials have discussed using a boat or a helicopter to move paramedics. A patient could also be flown off the island in order to keep paramedics, and Brown noted that in a worst-case scenario paramedics could split up like they do now. “Everything we have today is in our court to use,” he said. However, some VIFR staff members have said that while the plan sounds good on paper, in reality it won’t work when there are ferry delays or mainland paramedics are busy on other calls or far from the ferry. It’s been suggested that a third paramedic should be permanently stationed on Vashon, but Medic One officials say there isn’t funding for the extra position. Late last month, Brigitte Brown, a 30-year EMT and longtime VIFR volunteer, forwarded to The Beachcomber a two-page letter she said was written by a group of VIFR responders, both career and volunteer. The letter was not signed, but the writers also raised concerns about gaps in coverage, noting that sometimes emergency calls come in clusters. “In instances where someone is having STORY CONTINUES, NEXT PAGE
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a heart attack, an allergic reaction, is critically injured in an accident, or when a baby stops breathing — seconds count, and those seconds in which ALS care is needed can mean the difference between life and death,” the letter reads. The letter goes on to note that Vashon paramedics currently act as limited firefighters and sometimes respond to the less serious basic life support (BLS) calls as well, while other paramedics presumably would not. Brown, who sent the letter, thinks the public is unaware of the potential problems. “I fear for my family’s safety,” she said. “I would like to see a plan in writing to the community saying this is what’s going to happen.” The concerns aren’t new. Commissioner Ron Turner raised some of the same questions at the meeting last August, though he ultimately voted for the transition. “It’s your program,” he told Medic One officials at the August meeting. “If you feel that you can do it, then make it happen.” Since then, Medic One officials have
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been taking the steps needed to make the change possible at the county level, and negotiations between Vashon and South King County’s unions have taken place. Medic One had originally hoped to transition by January of this year, then aimed for this summer, but missed that goal as well. Negotiations between the Medic One agency and the South King County paramedics’ union are now slated to begin on Aug. 3, according to John Herbert, Chief of King County Medic One, who said he hopes the change can happen by early 2016. Herbert said he understands there are concerns but believes Medic One has a plan for coverage that will not be considered a risk. However, he was unable to share details until negotiations wrap up. “I wish I had a plan that had been signed and sealed and ready to deliver. … Really I’m at the beginning and I’m optimistic,” he said. Randy Tonkin, the current union president and a firefighter/EMT on Vashon, also expressed optimism. “They’re still the same (number of) peo-
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ple that are going to be here, only a different chain of command,” he said. “The county has a pretty successful program.” Paramedics, however, say they have doubts. The Beachcomber reached out to all eight Vashon paramedics and spoke with five. Of those, one declined to comment and four — including Johnson, Palmer and Bill Buchanan — said they want to see a detailed plan before they may feel comfortable with the transition. Even Brownell, who penned the letter to Medic One, said he’s frustrated that some serious questions are still unanswered. “I’m not content to say we’ll be fine, we’ll figure it out when we get there,” he said. VIFR Commissioner Candy McCullough said she, too, has heard worries, but feels the board made its decision last year based on concerns that paramedics’ skills are deteriorating and the advice of VIFR chiefs and Medic One officials. “If we re-voted tomorrow or today, I would say I would still have to lean toward the subject matter experts, who say it is the
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best thing for our community, even though it’s unpopular,” she said. McCullough and commissioners Turner and Stratton they, too, would like to see a detailed plan, buy they don’t believe they’ll have a say in whether it goes forward. “I think that train has left the station,” McCullough said. “We’ve already given them permission to go ahead and do the negotiations.” Herbert, however, said a plan will be presented to Vashon’s board. The transition must be approved by either the King County Council or Executive Dow Constantine, he said, and must be signed off by VIFR commissioners, as well. Ending VIFR’s current contract with Medic One in a timely manner requires board approval, he noted, adding that he thinks the island commissioners also play a role in assuring the plan is acceptable for Vashon. “This is really in their court,” he said. “We’re making them a proposal, but it’s up to them to decide if it’s the right thing for their community.”
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The latest development occurred almost two weeks after park commissioners voted 3-1 to accept a bid from Belfair-based Beasley, Inc. — the only bidder on the project — to complete the work required by a King County permit. The bid, for nearly $400,000, included about $121,000 to pave the north parking lot, a relatively small lot at the fields complex. Park District Executive Director Elaine Ott had been working for more than a year with county officials to determine exactly what needed to be paved and had repeatedly questioned the north lot. While Department of Permitting and Environmental Review (DPER) officials had proposed some possibilities to lower the paving costs at the field, their suggestions proved to cost more in the long term or were deemed impractical, Ott noted. After the board’s decision two weeks ago to complete the project this summer, final work was slated to begin this week, in time to complete necessary work before the permit expires in September. The agreement to leave the parking lot as gravel was made in a Monday morning conference call with Ott, VES project manager Mitch Treese and four King County officials, Ott said. In a conversation with The Beachcomber shortly after that call, she expressed her gratitude to the county staff members involved. “They are really bending over backwards to accommodate us, and I am so grateful for the all the work they did,” she said. This type of decision needs to be made in a public board meeting, and Ott said she planned to call an emergency board meeting for Tuesday evening, after press time. She noted she felt confident board members would approve of the decision to leave the lot as gravel. “This is what we have been fighting for,” she added. “There is no question.”
Reached Monday afternoon, commissioner Scott Harvey, a frequent critic of district spending, had not yet learned about the decision and reacted enthusiastically when informed. “I am absolutely thrilled,” he said. “It is the best I have felt in two years as a commissioner. ... We certainly can use the money. That is a fact.” At the July 7 board meeting, Harvey had cast the lone dissenting vote against proceeding with the full project, indicating he felt strongly that the district did not have $400,000 more to spend on the fields and that it should fight the county on paving the north lot. He also wanted the board to wait two weeks to vote on the that portion of the project, allowing commissioner Doug Ostrom, who was absent, to discuss the cost and related issues, as well as any community members who may have wanted to weigh in. “If we had not waived the rules and voted, we would not have to unwind anything now,” he added. “We could have waited. We should have waited.” Lu-Ann Branch, a commissioner who has served on the board throughout the fields project, had not heard the news either when contacted later that day. She, too, responded enthusiastically. “That’s awesome,” she said. “I can say I am thrilled. What that effectively does is put $120,000 back in our pockets that we can use for something other than fields.” At DPER, Jim Chan, the assistant director of permitting, noted that the change in the project will mean that should the district ever want to pave that lot, it will have to apply for a new permit, but for now, the district can make changes to its existing permit, which DPER can address fairly easily and quickly. “I think we have come to a good solution,” he said. When contacted last week, before the last-minute solution was proposed, Chan said he felt his department had tried to be helpful, offering to be flexible with timing and informing the park district that it could remove the north lot from the
In Loving Memory
Edna Helen Olson
Edna Helen Olson was born on February 15, 1933 in Licking, MO to Charles and Ruth Hatch, who preceded her in death. Edna came to Vashon Island in 1947, where she met and then married Ted Olson, the love of her life, on July 17, 1949. They raised 4 daughters- Cindy Wallace (Jeff ), Susan Wade, Janet Gast (Dave) and Sheri Rondeau (Stephen). She is also survived by 10 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, and a brother Bill Bramley of OH. Edna passed away peacefully at her home on Monday, July 20, 2015 after a long battle with COPD, with her beloved husband Ted and her daughters at her side. Her life was dedicated to the love of her family and friends, who will miss and cherish her memory forever. At her request, there will be no funeral service. In lieu of flowers, it would be Edna’s wish that you remember her with a smile and by spending precious time with your loved ones.
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permit by returning it to its native state. The commissioners considered this possibility but did not pursue it in part because parking often overflows to the highway on weekends, a situation that some park district staff and commissioners feel is unsafe. Chan agreed with that assessment. “Get people off the highway, yes,” he said. When told the bid amount to complete the project, he expressed surprise at the cost, and a member of his staff then ran calculations on it. For three elements of the project for paving and related work, DPER’s cost estimate totalled just $112,000 compared to Beasley’s $265,000 for those same elements. After being informed of this, Ott said she reached out to Treese and at least one other professional familiar with construction projects on Vashon, who stressed that construction work on Vashon tends to be much higher than in Seattle. Ott added that while nearly $400,000 was higher than anticipated, she did not believe it was as out of line as Chan indicated. A previous bid for the project by an island contractor that was not considered because it was incomplete came in at $316,000, she noted, less than Beasley’s bid, but more than DPER’s calculations. Still, with a permit deadline looming and having bid the project twice, Ott said the district was left with few options. Adding to challenges, Ott noted that moving ahead with the $400,000 contract would have meant the district would have had to borrow $250,000 from a line of credit with Banner Bank both this year and next, as well as spend its $100,000 reserve this year. On Monday, she had not yet had time to revise her cash flow projections, she said, but noted the new plan would help considerably. The district receives funds from property taxes in April and October, and even with the line of credit, she said she was worried about cash flow next spring. “March 2016 was looking very dicey. I have been very nervous about that,” she said. “I will sleep better now because of this.” While the district had not yet signed
a contract with Beasley to complete the work, Ott said she had sent it to them, and company officials had told her they had already purchased some materials. She noted there might be some minor financial repercussions for the contract change at this point, but that they would be far less than paying to pave the lot. The district will likely have to tap its line of credit for a small amount this November, but for less than she was anticipating. “The key thing is we will not have to utilize it as much,” she added. “We would have had to max it out.” Ott credits King County’s Rural Ombudsman Elizabeth Hill with making Monday’s phone call — and the resulting decision — possible. Ott said she reached out to Hill earlier this summer, after a staff member at DPER suggested she take her concerns up the chain of command. “This phone call would not have happened if it weren’t for Elizabeth,” she said. When reached Monday, Hill explained her office helps people in the county come together and work toward solutions. In this case, she said, all those involved, including Chan and the head of the King County Parks Department, arrived at the solution jointly with Vashon Park District staff. Hill states she is always concerned with there being enough places for kids to play ball, but that she was also concerned about the financial health of the park district in this project. “I was concerned about the financial challenges,” she said. “I have done a lot of construction management. I understand why it would be important to phase improvements.” Hill, aware that the fields project has been far costlier than anticipated and has been beset with myriad challenges and controversy over the years, said the project has been a worthy one for the community by providing children more space to play, but then she added what many on Vashon would consider an understatement. “Capital projects are always difficult,” she said.
William Wallacker, Jr. August 8, 1939 – July 17, 2015
William was born August 8, 1939 on Vashon. His maternal grandparents lived in Dockton on piano row. Bill was a grand-nephew of Theodore Berry and a great grand-son of John Bussanich, the Dockton blacksmith. As a child, he moved with his family to Richmond, California. His first job out of high school was working in a salmon cannery on Kodiak Island. He did that for several seasons, eventually owning and operating his own fishing boat. During the off seasons, Bill lived in California where he owned a cattle ranch and worked as a “pile-butt” for several construction firms including Manson General. California is where Bill resided when he passed away. Bill is predeceased by his parents and a sister Geraldine, and is survived by a son Gene, his brother Lee, cousins Bob Cruse and Loraine Phillips on the “mainland” and nieces and nephews. ✦
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