For more than a decade, it’s been number one with a bullet on Voice of Vashon’s Wouldn’t-It-Be-Nice-But-Let’s-Not-Hold-Our-Breath Wish List:
When The Beachcomber asked me if I’d write a “football-related column,” I jumped on it immediately, because as it happens, I recently landed a role in an actual football movie. What a coincidence, right? Sure, I’m just an extra, and there’s a cast of millions, but it’s a great gig and a cool story.
Masters rowers take gold at world competition in Italy
After I watched the videos of a meteor streaking over the Ural Mountains a couple of weeks ago, I snarkily tweeted: “Meteor explodes over Russia. Asteroid misses Earth by 15 minutes. All part of the prophecy foretold by noted philosopher & sage Jerry Bruckheimer.”
After 60,000 miles of cycling across every kind of terrain through 32 countries, adventure cyclist Willie Weir will add Vashon’s infamous rumble strips to his list of challenges when he pedals over to the Island to present “A Frugal Cyclist’s Guide to the Universe.” Weir will speak at the Ober Park performance room on Friday evening. Admission is free.
“Fantastic!” “Epic!” “Brutal!” “Intense!” No, those aren’t audience reviews from “Total Recall” at the Vashon Theatre. They’re descriptions of last year’s inaugural Passport to Pain (P2P) bike ride around Vashon Island, offered up by riders on feedback forms after the race.
Rowing on a lake that until recently was choked with silt and lily pads, the Vashon Island Rowing Club masters dredged up a large shovel-full of hardware at last weekend’s Cascadia Masters Championship in Vancouver, B.C. VIRC rowed to four gold-medal finishes on Burnaby Lake, along with five silvers and three bronze.
Vashon Island Rowing Club’s Men’s Masters took home silver medals for their performance last weekend at the Canadian Nationals Rowing Regatta on Elk Lake near Victoria, B.C.
University of Washington senior Matt Zapel finished a distinguished Husky rowing career with a first-place finish in the varsity four at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s National Championships in Camden, N.J., on June 4.
Vashon Island Junior Crew earned a team record of six medals at the USRowing Youth National Championships on Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tenn., last weekend.
After more than a dozen Opening Day attempts at the Montlake Cut dating back to the mid-90s, the Vashon Island Rowing Club’s (VIRC) men’s masters eight captured gold for the first time in the club’s history on Saturday, May 7.
