FRIDAY 7
Great Decisions
Great Decisions will meet at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at the Vashon Library.
On March 2, Russian voters will elect a new president as Vladimir Putin completes his second term in office, but he is unlikely to disappear from the political scene. How much influence will he have after the election?
This topic opens the fall series of the Foreign Policy Association’s series, Great Decisions, the longest running and largest grassroots world affairs educational program of its kind.
Co-sponsored by the Senior Center and Friends of the Library, the program is free and open to everyone. A book of background articles is available at the library reference desk.
Facing urban sprawl
Healing Urban Sprawl and Bringing Back the Village: A Permaculture Perspective with Kelda Miller will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at the Vashon Cohousing, 10421 S.W. Bank Rd. The cost is $ 7 to $10 on a sliding scale. Please park on Bank Road.
This slide show and discussion looks at urban sprawl in our bioregion and its impacts on environmental and community health. Many solutions will be discussed, from the personal level to the planning level, mainstream solutions to more radical ones.
For more information, contact Kelda Miller at (253) 370-9946 or kelda@riseup.net.
SATURDAY 8
Giving to children
Tina Parrish and Cindy Stirling will be outside Vashon Thriftway from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, for Operation Christmas Child, collecting gift-filled shoeboxes for children around the world. They will deliver all the gift-filled shoeboxes to the drop-off site in Seattle well before Thanksgiving, so that children around the world will receive them by Christmas.
For information, call Stirling at 463-1986 or Parrish at 463-5066.
Farmers Market
The Vashon Farmers Market will be open in the Village Green from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8.
Farmers will sell Island-grown fruits and vegetables of fall, including pie pumpkins, apples, winter squash, leeks, potatoes, carrots, cabbages, dinosaur kale, parsnips and much more.
Fall nursery plants will also be available, as this is the best time for planting them.
Sol Source will have miso soup, matcha lattes and other hot lunch options.
Island artisans will sell services and goods such as knife sharpening, warm hats and scarves, mason bee houses, outdoor furniture, handbags, cutting boards, wooden spoons and more handmade goods as weather allows.
The Saturday Farmers Market is open for the season through Dec. 13.
For more information, see www.vigavashon.org or call Market Manager Joanne Jewell at 267-8146.
Adopt-a-cat day
Vashon Island Pet Protectors will host an Adopt-A-Cat Day every Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at its new adoption center at 12200 S.W. 243rd St.
See www.vipp.org for directions or call VIPP at 389-1085.
Vashon trading
A discussion on local economic trading systems with Francis Ayley of Fourth Corner Exchange will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at Vashon Cohousing, 10421 S.W. Bank Rd.
Fourth Corner Exchange is a sustainable community currency based in the Pacific Northwest that operates throughout the United States and the world.
Islanders are invited to explore economics and the potentials for a local economic system on Vashon Island.
For more information, or to register, contact Kelda Miller at (253) 370-9946 or kelda@riseup.net.
UPCOMING
Harbor School open
The Harbor School will host an open house, “Building Academic, Social and Community Bridges in Middle School,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12.
Pumpkin pie contest
The Vashon Island Growers Association (VIGA) will host its third annual Pumpkin Pie Contest at the Vashon Farmers Market on Saturday, Nov. 22. The Pie Contest winner will receive a hand-quilted apron to wear for a year made by 2006 winner Rebecca Wittman, a $25 Vashon Farmers Market gift certificate and an etched glass pie pan.
Pies will be judged by a panel of four Islanders, including Rob Peterson of Plum Forest Farm (last year’s winner), Daralyn Anderson, Beachcomber publisher, Telly Christanis, head cook at Sea Breeze Farm Boucherie, and Barbara Wells, a regular Farmers Market shopper.
Pies will be given extra points if pie makers use Island-grown ingredients. Pies should be brought to the market at 10 a.m. Nov. 22, and VIGA requests that all pie bakers be present for the awards ceremony at noon.
Beginning at noon, slices of pie will be sold to market shoppers for $1 per slice to benefit the Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank.
The Farmers Market will be open as usual from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for all local Thanksgiving dinner shopping needs.
For more information, see www.vigavashon.org or call Market Manager Joanne Jewell at 267-8146.
ONGOING
Library story times
Toddler Story Time, will meet at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 18 and 25.
Kids from 21 months to 3 years will enjoy stories and songs just right for toddlers.
Preschool Story Time will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18 and 25, and 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, 19 and 2. Kids ages 3 to 5 are welcome for 30 minutes of stories, songs and fun.
Lapsit Story Time will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, 19 and 26.
Children from newborn to 20 months with an adult are welcome for a 20-minute program of stories, songs, rhymes and bounces. The room is reserved for playtime and socializing after the program.
Spanish Story Time will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 and 15.
