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BEACHCOMBER VASHON-MAURY ISLAND
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2013
Park district eyes user fees
Vol. 58, No. 01
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A BIT OF SUNSHINE AS THE YEAR ENDS
Proposal before board could raise $45,000, helping to shore up agency’s budget
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Solar project lags as organizers look to change state laws By LESLIE BROWN
By LESLIE BROWN
The Vashon Park District, looking to shore up its 2013 budget, is eying a proposal to reinstitute fees for sports and performance groups that use facilities it owns or manages, including fields, gyms and the high school theater. Should the proposal pass at the agency’s board meeting next Tuesday, those fees could bring in $45,000 this year, funds commissioners say the park district needs in the wake of declining property tax receipts, its main source of revenue. “The bottom line — what is motivating this — is that we need revenue to support operations,” David Hackett, a commissioner, told the other board members at a board meeting on Dec. 18. “The fee policy could raise, conservatively, $45,000.” The park district levied such fees years ago, a practice it shelved because of complaints about the inconsistent way those fees were applied. Last year, Hackett spearheaded an effort to create what he called a more equitable fee structure, with the caveat that those fees would go into earmarked accounts and would be used only to maintain or improve the fields, gyms or theater. The commissioners put the measure on hold last April after some youth sports groups said the fees could
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Mike Rozak pushes his daughter, Theadora, 3, on a swing at Ober Park on Thursday. He and his family were visiting Vashon, staying at a rental at Manzanita and waiting for a break in the weather so they could get outside, he said. Last week’s brief dry spell was a reprieve to rain-soaked islanders and visitors alike, the first dry days in three weeks. According to weather reports, December saw 6.79 inches of rain, nearly an inch and a half above normal.
The Backbone Campaign is putting its ambitious community solar project on hold after a two-year effort by organizers that has proven far more complex than they had envisioned and has yet to generate enough investors to pay for the $540,000 project. But Bill Moyer, Backbone Campaign’s executive director, said he’s not walking away from the concept of community solar. He said he’ll now turn his energy toward trying to fix a state law that he says is poorly written and has made the vision of investor-backed solar projects increasingly difficult to realize in communities across the state. “Rather than give up on community solar entirely, … I am changing strategy to address what I believe are the reasons our community solar project proved too difficult,” he said in a letter emailed to a number of community members. The problem, he said, is that the state-backed incentives for investors are slated to sunset in 2020, a “ticking clock” that makes the project a race against time and that jeopardizes projects that take longer to get off the ground or start later. What’s more, he said, it’s not clear what happens in 2020 when the incentives end but the array is still capable of generating power. Because of the complexities, he said in an interview Thursday, it was hard to explain the project to potential investors. “People’s eyes just started glazing over,” he said. “It’s too complicated.” As a result, he added, he wasn’t able to tee up enough interest in the project. He started working to secure investors — community members willing to invest $1,000 or more in the project — last August, after the state Department of Financial Institutions gave the SEE SOLAR, 13
Finding Faith | An occasional series
For Methodists, community service matters By SUSAN RIEMER Staff Writer
Drive by the Vashon United Methodist Church at the south edge of town, and black and white signs rise up to meet you. “We believe all persons are of sacred worth,” the first three read. The fourth adds, “Open hearts, open minds, open doors.” Parishioners recently selected those words — the motto of the United Methodist Church — to try to make clear to the public what the church stands for, according to the church’s pastor, Rev. Kathryn Morse. The words are the foundation of the church’s social principles, she noted, and while
the signs will change in the coming months, that message came first for a simple reason. “It expressed best what we are trying to say,” she said in a recent interview in the church’s quiet sanctuary, decked out for Christmas, with poinsettias in full bloom and a Christmas tree in a prominent front corner. Many Islanders may never have stepped inside the sanctuary for a Sunday service but might be familiar with the church anyway, as it is houses a variety of activities. Natalie Johnson/Staff Photo
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Rev. Kathryn Morse said Vashon’s Methodist church is open to a range of beliefs.
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Windermere Real Estate/Vashon-Maury Island, LLC.
SOLD SOLD SOLD
Maury Park Waterfront
SOLD
Dilworth Waterfront
SOLD
Kingsbury Waterfront
SOLD
North End Waterfront
4 bd/2.5 bth 2.72 acres
2 bd/1.75 bth 2.01 acres
4 bd/2.75 bth .56 acre
5 bd/3.5 bth 1.33 acres
$1,049,000
$899,000
$899,000
$855,000
Glen Acres Waterfront
Peninsula Waterfront
Dockton Waterfront
SOLD
SOLD
SOLD
Maury Park Waterfront
2 bd/2 bth .545 acre
3 bd/2.25 bth 2.36 acres
4 bd/2.5 bth 1 acre
3 bd/1.75 bth 1.02 acres
$799,000
$775,000
$729,000
$675,000
Luana Beach Waterfront
Paradise Cove Waterfront
Gold Beach Waterfront
Fox Farm Near Town
SOLD
SOLD
SOLD
4 bd/2.5 bth .3 acre
3 bd/1.75 bth .918 Acre
4 bd/2 bth 0.31 Acre
3 bd/1.5 bth 9.79 acres
$650,000
$649,000
$599,500
$599,000
Glen Acres View Home
North End
Tramp Harbor View Home
SOLD
View Home
SOLD
SOLD
Quartermaster
Waterfront
4 bd/3.25 bth 1.43 Acres
3 bd/2 bth 0.7 acre
2 bd/2.5 bth .996 acre
3 bd/2.5 bth 1.24 acres
$599,000
$569,000
$529,000
$529,000
Westside
Westside Waterfront
Burton View Home
Westside Log Home
SOLD
Waterfront
SOLD
SOLD
3 bd/3.75 bth 3.64 acres
3 bd/1.5 bth 50’ wft
1 bd/1 bth 6.04 acres
3 bd/3.25 bth 0.28 acre
$520,000
$519,000
$500,000
$499,750
Dockton
Home on Acreage
North End View Home
Peninsula
Waterfront
SOLD
SOLD
SOLD
View Home
2 bd/1.75 bth 60’ wft
3 bd/2 bth 5.96 acre
2 bd/2 bth .653 acre
3 bd/2.5 bth 0.36 acre
$480,000
$475,000
$475,000
$460,000
Gold Beach Waterfront
Gold Beach View Home
Glen Acres Waterfront
Dockton View Home
SOLD
SOLD
SOLD
3 bd/2.75bth 1.3 Acres
3 bd/2.5 bth 0.37 acre
3 bd/2.5 bth .273 acre
2 bd/.75 bth 0.41 acre
$425,000
$425,000
$415,000
$410,000
Burton View Home
Tramp Harbor
Klahanie Bch
Pastoral Property
SOLD
View Home
SOLD
Waterfront
SOLD
2 bd/1 bth 2.34 acres
3 bd/1.75 bth 0.34 acre
1 bd/1.5 bth no-bank wft
3 bd/2.25 bth 1.88 acres
$384,500
$377,000
$369,000
$355,000
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Paradise Valley
SOLD
North End View Home
3 bd/1.75 bth 0.602 Acre
2 bd/2.25 bth 75’ wft
2 bd/1 bth 9.72 acres
3 bd/1.5 bth 1.4 acres
$355,000
$335,000
$335,000
$330,000
North End Home
Tahlequah View Home
In Town Farmhouse
Dockton Farmhouse
SOLD
SOLD
SOLD
4 bd/2.5 bth 1.81 acres
2 bd/1 bth 0.69 acre
4 bd/1.75 bth 0.72 acre
$329,000
$325,000
$324,000
North End Convenience
North End
SOLD
View Home
SOLD
3 bd/1.75 bth 1.73 acres
$319,500
Westside
Waterfront
Vacant Land Sold
3 bd/1.75 bth 1610 sqft
2 bd/1.75 bth 0.5 acre
1 bd/1 bth 50’ wft
$319,000
$310,000
$309,000
Gorsuch Rd Home
Tramp Harbor
North End Convenience
Westside 1.02 Acres.....$11,500
SOLD
View Home
SOLD
1 bd/1 bth 1.38 acres
3 bd/2 bth 0.51 Acre
3 bd/1.75 bth 0.588 Acre
Center 10.36 Acres......$225,000
$305,600
$299,000
$299,000
Center 16 Acres............$69,999
Log Cabin on acreage
North End
SOLD
View Home
SOLD
In Town 1.02 Acres ....$175,000
North End Farmhouse
3 bd/1 bth 9.35 acres
3 bd/2.5 bth 0.839 acre
3 bd/1.5 bth 1.01 acres
$295,000
$265,000
$259,000
Westside 9.65 Acres.....$198,500 Commercial 4.5 Acres...$550,000 Dockton 60 Acres.........$149,000
SOLD SOLD
Windermere Real Estate/Vashon-Maury Island, LLC.
SOLD
North Maury Craftsman
SOLD
Upper Sandy Shores
SOLD
3 bd/1 bth 0.58 acre
3 bd/2 bth 0.3 acre
2 bd/2 bth 1238 sqft
$255,000
$255,000
$245,000
Wax Orchard
Quartermaster
Acreage
SOLD
Waterfront
SOLD
arket Off M Carey Road........$190,000 arket Off M Glen Acres..........$30,000
In Town Condo
In Town
Condo
3 bd/2 bth 1.2 acres
2 bd/1 bth 0.56 acre
2 bd/1.5 bth 1047 sqft
224,950
$222,300
$169,500
Sunny Near Town
SOLD
In Town Convenience
2 bd/1 bth 1.126 acres
1 bd/1 bth 0.21 acre
$165,000
$161,500
SOLD
North End Acreage
Off- Market Homes
SOLD
3 bd/1 bth
$355,000
3 bd/1.75 bth 2.15 acres
$135,000
SOLD Off-Island Listings
SOLD call:
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3 bd/1.75 bth
5 bd/3 bth 3900 sqft
3 bd/2.5 bth 4023 sqft
$225,000
SOLD $1,195,000 SOLD Seattle Condo
2 bd/2 bth
1 bd/1 bth
206/463-9148
Sandy Shores
N. Capitol Hill
West Seattle Condo
$359,900
Burton Peninsula
SOLD $249,900 SOLD
$455,000 Pinehurst
SOLD
Burton Peninsula
4 bd/1.75 bth 2 bd/1 bth 0.186 acre
$340,000
$219,000
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Parents of teens are being urged to get on the same page Friday, January 4th 6-9 pm Bergamot Home “White on White; A Lighter Shade of Pale� Tom Northington Sculpture
Gretchen Hancock Suzanne DeCuir Painting
Brian Fisher Mixed Media Collage
CafĂŠ Luna Anne Deer “Shy Artist Reveals...â€?
The Hardware Store Restaurant Rayne B. Illustrations
Janice Wall Pastels
Heritage Museum Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club Passion in the Dirt
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Megan Minier Printmaking
Ignition Studios See you in February for our Anniversary Show Treasure Island New Year’s Sale
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By ELIZABETH SHEPHERD Staff Writer
What if all Vashon parents read the same book — and it was filled with great advice about how to deal with their teenagers and ’tweens? That’s the challenge issued by the Vashon Library and Vashon Youth & Family Services (VYFS), where staffers are promoting “Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens,� a 2009 book that has won acclaim for its common-sense approach to making sure families survive and even thrive during the turbulent teen years. The book is co-authored by Laura S. Kastner, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington, and Jennifer Wyatt. Both authors are parents themselves and have doctoral degrees in their fields. Kastner, a sought-after speaker who frequently lectures on the subject of adolescence and family behavior, will come to Vashon to discuss the book with islanders at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at McMurray Middle School. Another discussion of the book — without Kastner — will take place at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, at McMurray. Yvonne-Monique Zick, a parent educator at VYFS who is spearheading the effort to get island parents to read the book and then come out to discuss it, said she has been thrilled by the community’s response to the idea. “We’ve had some good preliminary information that Vashon Bookshop has sold lots and lots of these books, and it has
been checked out consistently at the library. They have had to purchase more copies,� she said. “It’s so cool that parents on the island are reading the same book.� Zick also had high praise for Kastner, calling her a superstar in her field who had very generously agreed to waive her usual fees to come to Vashon to discuss her book with local parents. “Getting to Calm� includes explanations of new discoveries in brain science that shed light on why teens act the way they do, as well as a series of scripts that bring family dramas vividly to life. The book has 14 chapters with titles that are sure to resonate with many parents, such as “When You’re Fighting About Grades,� “When Your Teen Wants to be Wired All the Time� and “When Everyone is Completely Stressed Out.� As might be expected, all kinds of hot-button issues are addressed in the book, from sex to substance abuse to lying. But the common theme running through the book is that parents need to develop and practice techniques that will allow them to respond in a rational, calm and compassionate way to the turmoil the teen years can bring. “Despite the occasional lapse, if we can operate from a place of calm most of the time, we are demonstrating to our teens the emotional skills they will need to be successful in their own lives,� Kastner and Wyatt write. Author Laura Kastner’s talk will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at McMurray Middle School.
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NEWS BRIEFS (BSCBHF SFDZDMJOH SBUFT TMBUFE UP SJTF Islanders will see their garbage and recycling collection rates increase slightly this month, in part due to fee increases at the King County-run transfer station where the trash is taken. Vashon Disposal, which provides curb-side garbage pickup on Vashon, will increase its residential rates by 67 cents to $2 a month, depending on the type of service. Customers who have been paying $15.90 a month for weekly pickup of one trash can will pay $17.84 per month this year. Mark Gingrich, a spokesman for Vashon Disposal, which is managed by the Tacoma-based Murrey’s Disposal, said the increase was due in part to rising costs at the transfer station. Recycling pickup, which is not included in the garbage fee, will see a much larger increase. The fee for collecting recycling, which the company takes to Tacoma, will increase from $3.90 to $11.48 a month. The rates, pending approval by the state Utilities and Transportation Commission, are scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1. Vashon Disposal, he said, has not seen a general rate increase since the early 1990s. King County raised disposal rates at its eight transfer stations to help cover ongoing efforts to modernize its network of stations.
While Vashon’s transfer station is relatively new, some other stations date back to the 1960s and need to be renovated or replaced, said Doug Williams, a spokesman for the county’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks. The basic rate for dumping trash at the station increased this month from about $117 per ton to $129 per ton, and the minimum fee for dumping will go from $20 to $22.
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Vashon-Maury Habitat Stewardship Whirlwind McMurray Middle School Multipurpose Room January 10, 2013 6:30pm – 9:00pm 13 presentations, 10 minutes each. No fluff. Door prize. Don’t be left with your head in the weeds. Learn about efforts on your island to protect and enhance habitat and improve water quality. What is being done to clean up Quartermaster? How healthy are our streams? What’s happening with land preservation on the islands? Join with neighbors to understand, protect and restore Vashon and Maury Islands’ streams and shorelines. This one stop info blast includes many projects, including Maury Island Marine Park, Raab’s Lagoon, Judd Creek, Island sustainability, salmon watching, Dockton Natural Area, Piner Point, Quartermaster Harbor Nitrogen, and more! King County Vashon Basin Steward, Greg Rabourn, 206-296-1923 greg.rabourn@kingcounty.gov
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place an undue burden on families with children involved in several sports. Now, Hackett says, the park district has no choice if it’s to maintain its programs and services. What’s more, in a policy shift, those fees would not be directed to accounts that support specific public facilities but would go into the park district’s general fund. “Our budget depends on it,� Hackett said in an interview last week. “It’s not my preference. I think we should do whatever we can to get adults and kids to get out and run around, and a user fee isn’t consistent with that,� he added. “But in this situation, it’s necessary.� Some in the youth sports community voiced guarded support for the fees, in large part because of the park district’s financial plight. Under Hackett’s proposal, youth sports groups would pay on average $15 per player per sport for the right to use the fields or gyms. “The money’s got to come from some place,� said Pat Call, a father of two boys who have played basketball, soccer, lacrosse and baseball. Call has been active in Vashon Island Junior Basketball, though he stressed he was speaking for himself and not the group. Services the district offers have increased in the last several years, as property values climbed on Vashon, resulting in increased property tax receipts, Call added. “Now we have a choice — either ratchet down or find
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a new way to pay. It seems reasonable to me,� he said. But at the same time, he said, he hoped the new fees don’t become an ongoing and escalating way to support the park district. “I think there’s a limit before you have the programs collapse,� he said. Colby Atwood, president of the Vashon Island Rowing Club, which oversees the island’s popular youth crew team, voiced similar sentiments. “They have to get money from someplace. And getting it from the users make sense,� Atwood said. “But I hope it’s a temporary measure.� Some in the dance and theater community, however, said they were troubled by the new proposal. Over the last two years, they formed a theater users subcommittee to address the issue of user fees, working closely with Hackett — who chaired the committee — to device a new system. Last spring, the group voluntarily agreed to pay $150 per performance in the high school gym with the understanding that those funds would be used to replace lights, repair curtains or fix other items that routinely get worn out in the busy theater. Elizabeth Ripley, an active member of Drama Dock and secretary to the theater users subcommittee, said she was surprised to hear the commissioners now want to direct the funds raised from user fees to the park district’s general fund. The first she learned of the policy pending before the board was last week, when she received a call from The Beachcomber. “I think this will come as a complete surprise to the theater users. They should at least be brought into
the discussion,� Ripley said. During discussions last year, she said, “It was pretty much the only thing the committee members asked: Where is the money going?� Sharon Schoen, who chairs Dance!Vashon, said she’d “heard rumors� about increased fees. She, too, is concerned. “It of course is going to impact our program. ... We’ll make less profit, which means we’ll have less money for financial aid,� she said. Meanwhile, some also questioned the policy’s underlying principle — the park district’s attempt to raise revenue by charging people who use school district facilities. Under an agreement between the two agencies, the park district manages their shared facilities. But that agreement “didn’t envision the notion that the park district would be in severe financial trouble and didn’t envision the notion of using school district facilities to defray the costs of park district programs,� said Bob Hennessey, who chairs the school board. Asked if he supported the proposal, Hennessey declined to comment, saying only, “The precedent does give me pause. But if the community is not in support of it, that’s for the community to decide.� Hackett, however, said he’s heard little opposition. “People want the facilities to be opened,� he said. As for the theater users’ contention that they’d agreed to a different approach, Hackett said, “All that’s thrown out the window. We’re not doing a theater improvement fund. ... We don’t have the tax revenues.�
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The Vashon Park District board plans to vote next week on a $1.07 million spending plan that includes funding for a number of programs and projects, including the swimming pool, the skate park and its new fields complex north of town. The budget includes nearly $100,000 for ongoing construction at the fields complex, money the board says it needs to spend in order to take advantage of a matching state grant. It also includes $45,000 in revenue the board hopes will come into the district’s coffers after it passes a resolution for a new set of user fees. Revenue from property tax receipts, meanwhile, is expected to come in at $993,000, a decrease from previous years. Some people in the audience at a recent meeting questioned some of the numbers in the budget, wondering how they were reached. Islander Hilary Emmer, for instance, noted that the budget assumes a significant reduction in insurance costs. “I don’t see much reality
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EDITORIAL
Another tough session looms in Olympia
Getting to calm: Let’s start with thoughtful discourse
As we head to Olympia for the 2013 legislative session, the state faces another budget shortfall and new questions on how we can adequately support our communities. The recession continues to impact the state’s budget, along with the State Supreme Court’s McLeary decision, which found that the government is failing to meet its constitutional duty to provide a basic education to all the state’s children. Our new governor and the Legislature will be tackling these challenges with a divided government — the state House is controlled by Democrats and the Senate by Republicans. During the past four years, as the recession deepened, revenues declined while the need for services increased. The Legislature cut $10 billion from the operating budget, affecting programs such as the Basic Health Plan and child care for working families. Now the Supreme Court’s 7-2 McLeary decision, requiring full funding for K-12 education, and the ongoing impact of the recession leave the Legislature with an estimated $1.9 billion budget shortfall for the 2013-2015 biennial budget. The court also recently restated that the Legislature had not made adequate progress in its work to fund K-12 and that the court will analyze the Legislature’s performance at the end of the upcoming session. So, we may be headed for a constitutional crisis. The Legislature is responsible for the budget, and yet the court is imposing budget requirements with no source of new revenue available to meet those requirements. It is as if the
With the start of a new year, The Beachcomber would like to suggest a community-wide resolution that we hope many of us could embrace — a commitment to engage in thoughtful and respectful discourse. There have been plenty of moments over the last year when such discourse seemed to elude us. The meetings at the Vashon Park District are a striking case in point; the debate over Vashon Allied Arts’ performing arts center has also occasionally crossed that line in some people’s minds. Even here, a bucolic island populated by people seeking a more peaceful way of life, we often find it easier to We often find it easier to point fingers and raise our point fingers and raise our voices than to truly listen WPJDFT UIBO UP USVMZ MJTUFO and calmly respond. BOE DBMNMZ SFTQPOE. The issue seems particularly relevant right now, as the country once again finds itself embroiled in a highly charged debate — the question of gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre. Though the tragedy took place 3,000 miles away, it has struck a chord on Vashon, and islanders are beginning to respond. Indeed, in this week’s paper alone, we have two letters to the editor defending gun ownership, a notice in the calendar about a new group forming to address gun violence and an article about an islander who used a powerful social media site to try to launch a national dialogue about the issue. Islanders have held a vigil, participated in a nationwide 27-minute walk and undertaken other actions to highlight the issue. At The Beachcomber, we’ve editorialized strongly in favor of gun control in recent weeks and have been critical of the National Rifle Organization, a group that we believe has strayed far from its roots as an organization that supports hunters. At the same time, we want our pages to be a forum for open and civil discussion, a place where we can explore the issue calmly and rationally and where we can steer clear of the histrionics, name-calling and emotion that often mark this debate. A Facebook page was recently created calling for Americans to honor the 27 people who were killed in Connecticut by committing to 27 acts of kindness over the course of this new year. That seems like a good place to start on Vashon, a wonderful community that — like the rest of the country — is sometimes riven by ideological differences and emotional reactions. This is not to say we shouldn’t debate the issues. But let’s see if we can do so respectfully. Another article in this week’s paper discusses a book for parents of teens, called “Getting to Calm.� If the best way to address the turbulence of adolescence is with a calm response, maybe it’s the best way to respond to one another in the midst of some important and thorny debates.
LEGISLATURE By SHARON NELSON court believes our schools operate in a vacuum and the K-12 education budget is separate from the rest of state programs. Regretfully, that is not the case. I want to be clear — I believe in funding K-12 education. However, our four-year colleges now are receiving less than 50 percent of their funds from the state. Do we cut higher education more to meet the court’s K-12 mandate? I don’t believe we can provide adequate opportunities for our students by doing so. How about cutting support services for families in order to increase K-12 funding? Do we cut food assistance to families in poverty, as the Republicans suggested last session? A hungry child doesn’t learn, so in my opinion, this does not satisfy the goal of improving education. Another budget solution proposed by the Republicans last year was to remove funding for family planning. In good conscience, I can’t cut a program that ensures women the ability to access contraception. K-12 education is more than what happens after a child walks through the kindergarten door. While the Supreme Court can make legal decisions based on K-12 funding in isolation, as a legislator, I cannot accept that
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The 2013 legislative session is slated to begin Jan. 14 and end April 28. It’s already getting off to a partisan start, with two Senate Democrats joining the Republican caucus to give the GOP the ruling majority in the chamber for the first time since 2005. Several significant issues will come before the Legislature, including the next two-year budget. Vashon, part of the 34th Legislative District, is represented by the following lawmakers:
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premise for my own decisionmaking. Whether it is access to health care, food or child care, the social programs that help low- and middle-income families are part of the fabric supporting our children, helping to ensure they have a bright future. We have cut that fabric over and over again, a reality not recognized by the Supreme Court’s decision. With the middle class declining and the increasing gap between the wealthy and the rest of us, the state’s ability to adequately fund the basic needs of its citizens has been impaired. To provide the services and education critical to our children’s future will require additional funds. To look the other way and say otherwise would fail to confront the pressing issues we are facing. While the Supreme Court can require “full� funding of K-12, it cannot force this lawmaker or the Legislature as a whole to exclude a broader vision of educational and social requirements. K-12 education is more than a school bus, a classroom and supplies; it is ensuring when a child opens that kindergarten door he or she is mentally and physically ready and able to learn. As a society and as a Legislature, we have to decide what level of taxes we are willing to pay for the collective good — including funding a complete education system from early learning through college. Making those investments is the way we protect the middle class and our future.
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Sea stars are fascinating indicators of the Sound’s ecological health Of all the creatures that live on our beaches, the sea star is perhaps the most easily identified. How often have you seen one clinging to a dock piling as the ferry pulls into the dock? Often mislabeled ‘star fish’, they are nothing like fish at all, but are weird and fascinating carnivores common to our rocky shores. In fact, there are more different kinds of sea stars in the Pacific Northwest than anywhere else on the planet. As members of the phylum Echinodermata (literally ‘spiny skinned’), they are related to sand dollars, sea urchins and anemones, and have microscopic pinchers called pedicillaria covering their upper surface. These jaws pinch away any tiny organism that tries to hitch a ride or take up residence, which is why you won’t see a sea star with The next Vashon Beach Naturalist event will be a free nighttime beach walk from 9 to 11 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, at the north-end ferry dock. Park at the ferry lot. Waterproof boots, warm clothes and a flashlight are recommended.
SEA LIFE By ADRIA MAGRATH barnacles. The only pedecillaria big enough to be seen with the naked eye are found on a Vashon native, the giant pink star (Pisaster brevispinous) — a large sea star usually found only in the lower intertidal areas. All sea stars begin their lives as larvae of various shapes and sizes, swimming around amongst the plankton community until they are mature enough to settle down, at which time they grow rapidly into the familiar star shape. This type of extreme lifestyle change accounts for why you might find sea stars on floating docks, where there is no other way it could have ‘walked’ on. Sea stars can indeed walk, of course, getting around on tube feet that cover the undersides of their arms, or rays. These tiny, fleshy water-filled ‘feet’ operate partially by muscle strength
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Holly and ivy are unwelcome guests here LETTERS TO Imagine our majestic forests overtaken by invasive species At this time of year many of us celebrate evergreens as emblems of the steady pulse of life that persists even through the darkest days of the year. But two Old World evergreens long associated with the winter holidays — English holly and English ivy — pose serious threats to the forests of Vashon and throughout our Puget Sound region. Many of the weeds we find on Vashon aren’t threats to our forests; they’re sun-loving and can’t tolerate shade, especially the deep, year-round shade of our Northwest conifers. But English holly and English ivy can tolerate our darkest forests and even out compete our native firs, hemlocks and cedars for space and light. And they are increasing. No one traveling around Vashon can miss the sight of thick ivy vines climbing tree trunks and twining through the treetops. The added weight of the ivy mass can break branches and trunks, and the dense shade it creates can starve the trees of light. Down on the forest floor,
HABITAT By JIM EVANS meanwhile, a spreading mat of ivy smothers tree seedlings so that when the current generation dies, there will be no young trees to replace them — only ivy. At first glance, holly might seem less conspicuous and pernicious to the roadside observer. But a walk through many of our natural areas will confirm what researchers are finding throughout Puget Sound: Holly seedlings are abundant and widespread in forest understories. In fact, recent studies indicate that holly seedlings are more abundant than conifer seedlings in both urban and rural forests in King County and that the rate of spread of this invader may be increasing. Like English ivy, English holly also smothers seedlings, limiting native tree regeneration in our forests. Without intervention, English holly and English ivy may become more common and dominant in our forests in the next half-century than the
conifers that have characterized our ecosystem for thousands of years. Imagine for a moment our majestic conifer forests, or our colorful streamside hardwoods of alder and maple, replaced with holly scrub and ivy mats. This would be a dispiriting picture, I think, to most of us. But if this scenario comes to pass, much more than forest views will be different: there will be changes in the thousand-andone services, seen and unseen, that our forests provide to us. If native conifers fail to regenerate, results will be tangible, of course, for our forest products industry. But changes won’t be limited to the standing trees. Conifer logs provide shelter and foraging places for birds and wildlife, provide critical habitat structure for salmon in our streams and, when they drift down to Puget Sound, help to secure our beaches from wave erosion. Soil chemistry and soil organisms, conditioned by millennia of conifer needle-fall and decaying softwoods, will change, altering the very foundation of our ecosystems. These and other features critical to the health of our lands will be diminished or disappear entirely, with irreversible impacts on fish and wildlife, water quality, soil productivity, and more. Because of their invasive
characteristics, four varieties of English ivy have been classified as Class C noxious weeds by the state of Washington, and English holly is listed as a “weed of concern� by King County. Here on Vashon, a couple of concerned islanders recently formed an organization called Ivy Free Vashon and are working with the Vashon Maury Island Land Trust and others to try to address our serious ivy problem. Like a lot of people, I cherish traditions associated with the winter holidays. But holly and ivy are unwelcome guests at my midwinter revels. I celebrate our amazing Northwest landscape and promote a sustainable future by removing these and other ecosystem-changing introduced species on the property where I live and by supporting their removal from our public and land trust-owned lands. — Jim Evans is an ecologist with The Nature Conservancy.
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(VOT BSFO U UIF QSPCMFN The shooting in Connecticut is a tragedy, as are all events that destroy young lives. Unfortunately, far too many individuals in the press/political arena use these tragedies to further their own agendas (selling papers, advertising or votes). What is the favorite solution to these tragedies? Gun control! Anyone that owns a gun is suspect and if they own multiple guns it’s never a collection, it’s a weapons cache/arsenal, stocked with enough ammunition for a war — or perhaps some serious target shooting or hunting. If the press/politicians were serious about a solution they would look at the facts. 1) Psychologists tell us that people see the attention these tragedies get and copy them. 2) Since 1993 shootings have declined dramatically year over year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BOJ). 3) The BOJ also reports that blunt objects are used to murder more people than all assault rifles and long guns
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ful happened: a summer arts festival, a celebration of island life. It was, to us veterans of Woodstock, a warm and familiar enterprise: Everyone joined in, gave what they could and shared in the results. The artists were extraordinary: creative, funny, fun-loving. Events were planned, puppets (BIG puppets!) created, performances imagined. It was an embodiment of how a community might join in a shared expression of the human experiment. It was, to borrow a word, weird. I have a photo that captures it for me: my pre-teen son, too tall for his age and gawky, walking purposefully towards a door in the old elementary school to help assemble some delightful contraption (does anyone remember the head bangers?) and wearing a bright, multi-colored fright wig. His mind so focused and his heart so soft that what otherwise may have triggered embarrassment became a route to his own pleasure at valuing and being valued for his contributions. Soon thereafter, I met the UMO performers. I wanted to tell them how much I loved what they had done for my community and my family. And then I joined the board. I wanted to help support their passion to make art that “stirs the human spirit.� Now, I’ve served almost 20 years on the board. UMO is facing challenges common to those creating art in this epoch of lim-
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Vashon’s Free Range Folk Choir is celebrating its fifth anniversary of singing music that lifts the spirit and cultivates community. For information on joining, visit the choir website at FreeRangeFolkChoir.blogspot.com. The choir will begin its winter season next week and will practice on Monday evenings, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. beginning Jan. 7, at the Methodist Church. Above, the choir, directed by Shane Jewell, gathers for a photo. songs, bounces and tickles for babies and toddlers up to 21 months. 10 a.m. Wednesdays, Jan. 9, 16, 23 and 30, at the Vashon Library. Vashon Computer Club: The topic will be the continuing evolution of the digital world, which will be the theme for this year. Anyone may attend free of charge; but membership has benefits and is inexpensive. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, at the Senior Center. Starlight Beach Walk: See creatures of the dark and deep. The walk will meet from 9 to 11 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, at the north-end ferry dock beach. (For more information, see page 7.) CAP Gun Violence (Community Action Program Decreasing Gun Violence): This group will hold a start-up meeting to plan a series of informational seminars on gun violence. For more information, call Judy Beggs at 3064175. Each seminar will generate action steps to make a difference. 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, at the Presbyterian Church. Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club: Jonathon Morse will speak on the topic “Simplifying Your Garden. “ 11 a.m. business meeting, 12:15 p.m. lunch and 1 p.m. speaker presentation Monday, Jan. 14, at the Vashon Lutheran Church.
CLASSES Shakespeare: Starting this month Vashon Shakespeare Festival will offer Shakespeare Studies
and Production for kids ages 7 to 17. Classes will be held one afternoon. Kids will learn about Shakespeare’s times and texts and put on an edited version of one of his plays. For more information, contact AimÊe van Roekel at aimee@vashonshakes.org or (415) 713-5520. TQI Diet: Kathy Abascal will teach her popular anti-inflammatory, diet class. Participants will learn why some foods quiet inflammation while others increase it. Register online at tqidiet.com. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Mondays, Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28 and Feb. 11, at the Sheffield Building, 18850 103rd Ave. S.W. UMO Classes: UMO will begin a new slate of classes beginning Monday, Jan. 7, including acrobatics, aerial arts and more. See www.umo.org for details. Coping Skills Group: Vashon Youth & Family Services will offer this group based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for people having trouble regulating painful emotions such as anger, fear and shame. Participants will learn mindfulness skills and tools to help. The cost of the eight-week session is $200 with a discount for upfront payment and sliding
scale available. Contact Ruthanne Rhoads at 463-5511, ext. 615, for more information. 5:30 to 7:20 p.m. beginning Tuesday, Jan. 8, at the Methodist Church. 30 Days Green Cleanse: After the movie “Crazy Sexy Cancer (see Vashon Theatre box above), Jessica Bolding will offer a cleanse class. The cost is $75 or $35 for returning students on the day of the movie. After Jan. 6, the cost will be $85. For more information, email Jessica@vashonprahm.com. 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Jan. 9 through 30, at Vashon PRAHM. Yoga for Back Care & Wellness: Irene Alexander Tokar will teach this class with an emphasis on back care. Students will learn to bring relief to common areas of pain and discomfort in the body, such as the lower back and neck, and experience other benefits of yoga, such as stress relief and overall fitness. No yoga experience is needed. To register, send a check payable to Island Yoga Center, P.O. Box 2062, or drop it off in the red mailbox by the front door. The cost is $69. For more information, contact info@islandyogacenter. com. 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Thursdays, Jan. 10 to Feb. 7, at the center.
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project the OK it needed to begin solicitations. Since then, he said, he’s gotten enough commitments to cover about 20 percent of the project’s costs — “not enough to take advantage of the economies of scale necessary to deliver the size array and return on investment worthy of our community members.� But Moyer said he still hopes he’ll be able to make a community solar project happen on Vashon. “I’m pushing the pause button on the project in order to fix the program. I can’t promise the community I’ll fix the program, but I’ve already invested a great deal of energy and two years of work, and I understand the shortcomings of this as well as anybody — and the promise of it,� he said. The project was slated to be installed at the King County Transfer Station on Vashon’s west side, making it the first community solar project to secure King County support. Bob Burns, deputy director at the county’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks, said the county continues to hope the Backbone Campaign will be successful in bringing the project to fruition. “We hope that Bill and his group can pull together the funding and investment to make the project go,� Burns said. “We’re very interested in seeing it happen.� Moyer’s vision for a broad-based community solar project — called Vashon Community Solar — was first announced at an Earth Day celebration at Vashon High School in April 2011. At the time, he and Gib Dammann, an islander and home designer, were working together to try to make the project happen, an effort to take advantage of both federal and state laws designed
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to kickstart the solar energy industry by attracting investors who could finance projects on public buildings or properties. Since then, the project has garnered a lot of interest, including strong support from top King County officials. County Executive Dow Constantine, in a news release about the county’s partnership with Vashon Community Solar, praised what he called a “creative partnership� that could “help us reach our ambitious, but achievable, goal of meeting half of the energy needs of county government from renewable sources.� Moyer contracted with Carol Eggan, a former airline executive who has a solar array at her own home, to try to get the project off the ground. In November 2011, she said, she hoped to see the project installed by the spring of 2012. But many issues got in the way or slowed the project down, from finding a site for the project, to crafting an agreement with the county once the site was identified, to securing a green light from the state to allow organizers to begin seeking investors. In the process, the project grew more complex; the state, for instance, said Vashon Community Solar could get an exemption from complex laws governing financial securities but at the same time added a caveat that only people who had an affiliation with the Backbone Campaign could become investors. Early on in the process, meanwhile, Dammann decided to go his own way, saying he wanted to pursue a smaller project that had a simpler financial structure. His project, Vashon Solar LLC, one-fifth the size of the one the Backbone Campaign has proposed, was just installed at The Harbor School and will likely go online next week. “We’re good to go,� he said Friday. Dammann, however, said he understood Moyer’s frustrations. He was able to complete the $100,000 project — supported by
15 investors kicking in $5,000 or more per person — in part because he and his wife were able to put $30,000 towards the project, purchasing equipment early enough to take advantage of a federal tax grant. Still, he said, getting his much smaller project over various state and federal hurdles has proven extremely hard. “If I’d known it was going to be this difficult, I don’t know if I would have done it,� he said. “But it got to the point that I had so much time and spirit invested in it, I had to see it through.� The two state laws that created the incentives to support investment in community solar projects were passed in 2009 and 2010. Moyer, however, said the laws have several fundamental flaws because they tried to address competing goals. The legislation, for instance, was meant to “maximize solar investment� but only if the project used arrays manufactured in Washington, much costlier equipment, he said. What’s more, he added, the purpose of community solar isn’t clear: Are community members donating funds toward a cause they believe in or making an investment for which they can expect a return? “When you confuse the two, it gets very difficult,� Moyer said. Moyer has already begun to talk to lawmakers and legislative staff in an effort to see if new legislation can be crafted. He’s also scheduled to speak at a gathering in mid-January put on by Solar Washington, a nonprofit made up of solar energy equipment manufacturers, dealers, designers, consultants and others interested in the industry. His interest, he said, is in “systemic change,� laws that could make communitybacked solar far more achievable. “Rather than push the boulder up the hill, I’d like to try to make it easier for the next people who want to do this,� he said.
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4PMBS QSPKFDU JT TFU UP HP A solar array that will generate enough juice to power one and a half homes has been installed at The Harbor School and will likely begin production next week. Gib Dammann, who started Vashon Solar LLC, said the first phase of the project cost $100,000 and attracted 15 investors. He hopes to quadruple its size with additional investors. “All my life, I’ve wanted to promote solar and be a part of solar,� Dammann said. The process has been arduous. He estimates he’s contributed six months worth of pro bono time. “But it’s happening. It’s coming,� he said.
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5BMLFST DPNF UP UPXO Vashon Allied Arts will offer two talks as part of its Arts & Humanities Series. At 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, veteran film critic Robert Horton will reflect on 2012 films and share perspectives on emerging filmmaking trends. At 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, art historian Rebecca Albiani will present “100 Famous Views of Edo,� a talk focusing on Hirohige, Japan’s last great designer of woodblock prints. Check for individual ticket availability at 463-5131.
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Sing a new year’s song A talented ensemble of islanders will perform Gian Carlo Menotti’s famous opera, “Amahl and the Night Visitors,� this weekend — closing out the Christmas season by marking the ancient church holiday of the Epiphany. The opera, which debuted in 1951 on NBC as the first live installment of the Hallmark Hall of Fame show, was specifically composed for a television audience. Menotti found inspiration for the piece — a retelling of the story of the journey of the three wise men who visited the infant Christ — in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, “The Adoration of the Magi.� Islanders who can’t imagine a highminded time when television networks commissioned religious operas based on Dutch medieval paintings will no doubt find the production intriguing. Beyond that, it’s a chance to hear a distinguished cast of local luminaries perform the still-popular work. The two-night run of the opera is a benefit for the Methodist and Lutheran churches of Vashon. “Amahl� is being helmed by local choir director and singer Marita Ericksen, who has assembled the cast
from membership rosters of Vashon Island Chorale, Vashon Opera, Vashon-Maury Chamber Orchestra and island church choirs. Vashon Opera diva Jennifer Krikawa will sing the role of Mother, while a pint-sized performer with a powerful voice, Alivia Jones, will perform the part of Amahl. Jones has made frequent appearances as a soloist in Vashon Island Youth Chorus shows. The three wise men will be sung by Jim Gilmour, Dick Paulson and Joe Farmer, and Elise Ericksen will dance the role of the Shepherdess. Max Lopuszynski will appear as the page. A 35-member chorus will be backed up by nine instrumentalists: Evan Stults, Karin Choo, Mary Walker, Gaye Detzer, Michael Marcus, Sarah Church, Erica Walker, Erika Raven, Adam Hoagland and Aaron Stephens. “Gian Carlo Menotti is one of my favorite composers,� said Marita Ericksen, who added that she had no trouble finding performers eager to tackle the demands of the opera. “I feel fortunate to be able to do this piece with such talented local musicians — a group of people getting together for the joy of it and to help raise funds for both churches.� Ericksen said the opera came together quickly, after she first lined up the soloists. “Folks just responded,� she said. — Elizabeth Shepherd
+B[[ SPDL BOE UIF CMVFT The Long Lost Trio will play jazz, rock and blues at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Red Bicycle Bistro. The trio is made up of drummer Todd Zimberg, guitarist Michael Gotz and bassist Keith Lowe. All of the musicians have decades of experience playing and recording music, sometimes together, sometimes apart. Zimberg, an islander, has worked throughout the Northwest as a drummer, percussionist and educator for more than 20 years. He is a member of the Island Jazz Quintet as well as the Portage Fill-Harmonic Big Band. He also maintains a practice in private instruction and has worked as an artist in residence in the Vashon schools as well as throughout Washington. He also created and directs a summer youth percussion camp.
p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, at The Hardware Store Restaurant. The benefit will feature a number of acts from UMO performers and music from the Bucharest Drinking Team, a 10-piece horn band. For more information, visit www.umo.org.
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GALLERY CRUISE: Take a stroll and discover new works Vashon galleries, shops and art spots will throw open their doors on Friday night to show off new exhibits. Most openings take place from 6 to 8 p.m.
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.PSF PQFOJOHT The Heron’s Nest will showcase works by painter Laura Strand and print maker Megan Minier. The shop’s winter hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays through Thursdays, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. CafĂŠ Luna has rejoined the First Friday gallery cruise. A new show, “Shy Artist Reveals,â€? features the oil paintings of islander Anne Deer. The Hardware Store Restaurant will show illustrations by Rayne B. and pastels by Janice Wall. Vashon Senior Center will feature artist Bonnie Wilkins and host a baked potato bar fundraiser, $4, from 5 to 7 p.m.
calls “antique pop art� — sculptural pieces made of vintage wood furniture and blocks, doll parts, glass, taxidermy, hardware, cable chains and other recycled materials. He’s influenced by graphic illustrations from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Horsley, a painter who lives in Seattle, will show a collection of works she calls “borderline social surrealism.� The paintings show Horsley’s skill as an 5IF 2 1IPUP illustrator; “Bell Boy� and other works by she teaches Ken Judd will be on display at figure drawing at Seattle the Blue Heron.
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A new string quartet will take a bow Famed works by Schubert, Shostakovich are in store Vashon Chamber Music Series will debut a new ensemble, the Vashon Island String Quartet, in its next concert, at 2 p.m. Sunday at Vashon Methodist Church. Concert-goers will hear the Shostakovich 4th Quartet and the Schubert Quintet, with violinists Artur Girsky and Natasha Bazhanov, cellist Rowena Hammill and Seattle Symphony violist Julie Whitton. Douglas Davis, guest cellist, will also perform. Noted for its passionate first violin part in the second movement and complex final movement, the Shostakovich piece was composed in 1949 and premiered in Moscow four years later. Schubert composed his famous C major two-cello quintet in the summer of 1828, two months before his death. It is considered one of chamber music’s greatest compositions. Island chamber music lovers are familiar with Hammill and Davis, a married couple who moved to Vashon with their two children several years ago, after spending many years based in Los Angeles, where they were both sought-after players in symphony, opera and film industry orchestras. Since moving to Vashon, they have founded Vashon Chamber Music, inviting well-known players from the Northwest and beyond to join them on island stages. The musicians joining Hammill and Davis on Sunday have stellar resumes. Whitton played viola with orchestras in New England, New York and Kansas City before joining the Seattle Symphony. Born in Ekaterinburg, Russia, Bazhanov Tickets to the concert, $10, $18 and $21, are available online at www.vashon alliedarts.org and by phone at 463-5131. For more information about the series, visit www.vashonalliedarts.org.
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Islander launches petition drive after Newtown tragedy By LESLIE BROWN Staff Writer
Like many Islanders, Dennis Levin was so horrified by the Dec. 14 rampage in Newtown, Conn., that he wanted to take action. So hours after a shooting that claimed 28 lives, he made a plea to President Obama, asking him to use his platform and position “to begin a long overdue national conversation about gun violence.� It wasn’t just a personal letter, however. Levin launched a petition drive via signon.org, a grass-roots activist platform started by moveon.org. He began by sending the petition to 60 or 70 friends and family members. Within four days, and with support from signon.org’s powerful Internet engine, his petition had garnered 42,000 signatures and claimed the third spot on signon.org’s 10 most popular petitions. By then, the national conversation Levin had called for was starting to take place, so he pulled his petition. Now, he’s marveling at the power of this sophisticated but little-known social media site and considering how he might want to further attempt to shape the debate. “It was quite an amazing experience and, I would say, an empowering experience,� said Levin, an acupuncturist and the father of two. Levin said he decided to urge Obama to begin a nationwide conversation because he feared the mass shooting in Connecticut, like ones before it, would not lead to any meaningful discussion about gun violence in America. “At the time, he hadn’t spoken about it at all. I was not expecting that he would,� Levin said. Levin said he can’t help
but wonder if his petition made a difference. Days after it reached the White House, he received an email from Vice President Biden’s chief of staff about what the president was doing in response — an email that did not read like a generic note sent out to everyone who registered concern. “I don’t kid myself into thinking I was the only person who received this email, but it was at least specific enough that I knew it wasn’t generic,� he said. Several Newtown residents have said they don’t want their city to be known as the site of a tragedy but, rather, as a city that caused the national debate around guns to shift. “It was very gratifying to me to perhaps be a part of that,� Levin said. As a result of his petition drive, Levin now has at his fingertips the email addresses for those 42,000 people who endorsed his plea to the president. Now, he said, he’s beginning to consider a new petition — one that would ban assault and semiautomatic weapons. “Any other product that has caused as many innocent deaths would be banned,� he said. “The fact that the majority of the people who use them do so responsibly is completely irrelevant,� he said. Being able to start with 42,000 people, he added, will significantly jumpstart his next effort. “If I create another pretty good petition, it could get hundreds of thousands of signatures,� he said. Such ongoing grass-roots pressure seems important right now, he added. “What’s happened so far is encouraging, but what we’ve seen time and again in this country is that if people don’t keep the pressure on, the issue will go away,� he said. “We need to really push hard.�
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100 people are members, with an average of 78 in attendance each Sunday morning, Morse said. But many people are part of the CONTINUED FROM 1 church without being members, she added, and they may participate in all aspects of Free community meals are held there church life. three days a week; the Women, Infants and “The table is open to anyone,� she said. Children (WIC) food program meets there That table is both figurative and very monthly; the Vashon Library, poised to ren- real, as the church’s communion table is ovate, holds its weekly English as a Second also open to anyone. One recent Sunday Language classes there; Vashon Youth & morning, Morse invited everyone to parFamily Services, having outgrown its office take. “All are welcome. All are loved. All are space, offers some counseling appointments accepted,� she told those gathered, words there, and showers, housed in the church’s she repeats each week. People helping with education building, open once a week for communion that morning included three those without access to one otherwise. adult volunteers and one young boy, Joshua All this activity fits with the intentions of Parrish, age 6, who tended to his task of the church, according to Bob Ellis, a retired holding the chalice with a serious manner. Methodist pastor who now serves as the With Morse as pascongregation’s lay leader. tor, children age 7 and More than a decade ago, i8F BSF OPU CPVOE CZ TDSJQUVSF older are invited to he noted, the church as communion 8F BSF GSFF UP SFBMJ[F UIBU (PE serve undertook an extensive assistants, but she bent JT TUJMM TQFBLJOH UIBU (PE JT remodel of the sanctuary the rules for Joshua, building, which is more SFWFBMJOH (PETFMG UISPVHI PVS who had been asking than 125 years old, both help. TUPSJFT BOE UIBU BMM PVS TUPSJFT to “Finding to serve the congregasome way BSF TBDSFE w tion’s needs and the needs that we lead or serve of the wider community. 3FW ,BUISZO .PSTF should be open to “One of our goals was everyone,� she said. to have cars in our parkThis kind of involveing lot every night,� he said. ment for children is part of what draws This tenet — serving the wider world — Elizabeth Brezynski and James Eliason and dates back to the beginning of Methodism their two boys, Nick and Noah, ages 10 and in the 1700s in England, when John Wesley 7, to the church most Sundays. Many activiformed a small group devoted to study, ties are open to their children, Brezynski prayer and helping underprivileged people. said, including helping with the coffee In fact, church lore has it, others chided the hour, church services and community dingroup for their methodical ways, branding ners. them “The Methodists.� The name held, There is no pressure to serve, Brezynski and now the United Methodist Church has said, but there are always a variety of means grown to roughly 8 million members, mak- available to do so. ing it the second largest Protestant group in The church’s missions committee tries the country, behind Southern Baptists. to undertake a service activity each month The denomination is not a credal one, for the church, the broader community and Morse said, meaning there is not a set of the world, according to long-time parishbeliefs parishioners must subscribe to. But ioner Tina Parrish. Nancy Vanderpool, rather, she noted, Methodists believe that a stalwart with the Interfaith Council to the foundation of faith should rest on a Prevent Homelessness, chairs that comfour-legged stool: scripture, the tradition mittee. Activities, she said, include hostof the whole Church, people’s ability to ing the community dinners, supporting reason and their own experiences of God a Seattle day center for homeless women and humanity. and sending a volunteer delegation to Haiti “We are not bound by scripture,� Morse to help after the earthquake. The church said. “We are free to realize that God is still also plans to assist with tsunami-related speaking, that God is revealing Godself beach clean up on the Washington coast through our stories and that all our stories and this spring plans to send a group of are sacred.� volunteers — paying their own way — to On Vashon, church rolls show roughly the McCurdy Schools of Northern New
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Mexico, which serves many Hispanic and Native American students. “This community of people makes my boys want to serve,â€? Brezynski said. The sense of equality also appeals to her family. “If everyone can’t be equal, have equal say and have equal value, I don’t see the point of attending,â€? Eliason said, adding, “It’s good for the boys to see women leaders.â€? The church has had a number of ministers in the last several years, including four women. The turnover stems in part from the Methodist church’s policy — it believes in rotating clergy frequently. But members at the Vashon church acknowledge they’ve faced more change than most Methodist congregations, including a few tough stretches along the way. Ellis credits an interim pastor, Jan Van Pelt, who served for two years and left roughly five years ago, with helping the church communicate better. “It was a time of great growth in our understanding of how to work together,â€? he said. “We did some hard work ‌ on learning how to get along with each other while honoring our differences.â€? Some of that work was apparent, he said, during a recent conversation about whether the church should place signs in its yard in support of Referendum 74, which supported the legalization of same-sex marriage. Some members wanted to do so, Ellis said; others did not want the church to weigh in on a political issue. Ultimately, the church did not install the signs, but many members — identifying themselves as such — took out an ad in The Beachcomber in support of the initiative. “The conversation was so civil and kind,â€? Morse said. “I marveled. I thought, ‘This is such a healthy congregation.’ No one felt they had to have their way. There were no recriminations.â€?
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Morse has served at the helm of the church since August 2011 and is impressed with the congregation, which, she said, reflects Vashon as a whole, with people who have lived all over the world and celebrate differences. And, she said, it is a church that holds questions well — about what it means to be human and how to work with God to create a world that is whole. In fact, she said, a remarkable example of putting one’s faith into action occurred last summer when church member Lavonne Feyen donated one of her kidneys to another member of the church, Phillip Owens. As Owens tells the story, he had been an active member of the church for some time, when his kidneys began to fail and he needed dialysis and then a kidney transplant. One Sunday in August, he spoke to the congregation about his situation, and after the service Feyen told him she would offer one of her kidneys. Had he stayed on the donor list, he likely would have had to wait three to five years with twice-daily dialysis, he said. But Feyen underwent rigorous testing, proved to be a good match — extra good fortune as she is Caucasian and he is African American — and by the end of August, the transplant process was complete, with Owens embarking on his recovery process with gratitude. “I thank her every time I see her, and give her a big old hug,� he said. “I can’t thank the lady enough.� In the year ahead, Morse said, the church will likely explore theology and rethink it some, with more emphasis on the teachings of Jesus and how parishioners can live in the world while staying true to the roots of Methodism. “We believe there are many ways to God,� lay leader Ellis said. Morse concurred, citing Wesley, the founder of Methodism, who said, “If your heart is as my heart, give me your hand.�
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Luana Beach 4 br - 4 baths View - 8.93 acres $944,000
South Burton 3 br - 3.25 baths 10.14 acres $749,000
Westside 4 br - 2.25 baths View - 4.52 acres $699,000
Westside 2 br - 2.25 baths 80’ Wft. $698,000
Tahlequah 3 br - 2.75 baths 150’wft-2.38 acres $662,000
Westside 4 br - 2.75 baths View - 4.68 acres $599,000
Spring Beach 3 br - 2.25 baths 5.15 acres $549,000
Dilworth 2 br - 1.5 baths 48’ Wft. $529,000
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Tramp Harbor 4 br - 2.75 baths View - 1.91 acres $515,000
Klahanie Ridge 4 br - 2.25 baths View - 1.14 acres $499,500
Westside 3 bdrm - 2.5 baths 5 acres $498,000
Westside 4 br - 1.5 baths View - 5.07 acres $485,000
Tramp Harbor 3 br - 2 baths View $465,000
Camp Sealth 3 br - 2.5 baths 2.45 acres $449,000
Westside 2+br - 2 bath 148’ Wft. $449,000
North Maury 3 br - 1.5 baths View $443,700
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Westside 4 br - 2.5 baths 1.99 acres $435,000
Dockton 3 br - 2.75 baths View - 1.3 acres $425,000
Dilworth 3 br - 2 baths View $399,500
Dilworth 4 br - 2 baths 4.75 acres $399,000
Burton 2 br - 1.5 baths View $369,000
Center 2 br - 1 bath 4.84 acres $365,000
Old Mill Road 3 br - 1.75 baths 4.77 acres $365,000
Quartermaster 3 br - 1.75 baths 1.07 acres $349,000
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Town Commercial Bldg. 1488 sq. ft. $349,000
Town 4 br - 2 baths Vashon Cohousing $349,000
North End 3 br - 1.75 baths View $339,000
Paradise Ridge 3 br - 2 baths 4.78 acres $339,000
North End 3 br - 1.5 baths View - 1.17 acres $335,000
Gold Beach 3 br - 1.75 baths View $329,900
Westside 3 br - 2 baths 5.37 acres $319,000
Burton Peninsula 3 br - 1.75 baths .68 acre $319,000
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Ellisport 3 br - 2.25 baths .66 acre $319,000
Maury 4 br - 2 bath 9.89 acres $314,500
North end 4 br - 2.75 bath .83 acre $310,000
Center 3 br - 2 baths 2.08 acres $299,000
North end 3 br - 1 bath .45 acre $299,000
Ellisport 2 br - 2 baths View $295,000
Westside 1 br - 1.5 baths View $289,000
North end 3 br - 2.75 baths View $289,000
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Pt. Robinson 3 br - 1 bath 5 acres $280,000
Fir Ridge 3 br - 1 bath .21 acre $214,000
Valley Center 3 br - 1.5 baths .17 acre $179,500
Town 2 br - 1 bath Condo $174,000
Quartermaster 3 br - 2 baths View - 1.87 acres $167,500
Burton 1 br - .75 bath View $140,000
North end 1 br - 1 bath .42 acre $89,000
Westside Vacant Land 7.3 acres $65,000
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