Islander and local artist Gabriel Mondragon has been charged with propositioning a minor following an incident outside the Vashon Theater last August.
Vashon’s housing needs are clear, but the funding required to meet them either doesn’t exist or is difficult for our small community to access, said Chris Szala, executive director of Vashon HouseHold at last week’s housing forum.
When Puget Sound Energy challenged Vashon residents earlier this year to sign up for its Green Power Program, in which customers tack a few extra dollars onto their bill each month to support development of renewable energy resources, they quickly responded.
Promised a $10,000 grant for a community solar project if there were 110 new
Looking for a challenge and a break from her regular swim near KVI Beach, Islander Lise Ellner swam around Blake Island on Saturday, simply “because it’s there,” she said.
At about four miles, the circumnavigation turned out to be shorter and easier than the 51-year-old swimmer had anticipated. “I thought it would be closer to five and I thought I would have a bigger issue with currents,” she said.
Drive the back roads of Vashon and you’ll soon notice small trees encased in plastic mesh, flowers imprisoned behind chicken wire and gardens growing inside fenced fortresses. Anyone who has spent time on the Island knows of the perennial struggle with deer, animals that will help themselves to any berry, branch or begonia within reach.
The motto for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life is “Cancer doesn’t sleep, so neither will we.” This weekend more than 200 Islanders will do just that when they camp out at Vashon High School and raise money to find an end to the disease that takes the lives of millions each year
Abnormal amounts of rain during January of 2009 not only washed out a small piece of road on Maury Island but also revealed a window into life on Vashon hundreds of years ago.
As the mid-day sun beats down on the Colvos Passage, making the softly rippling water shimmer with light, a redhead in a kayak is having a leisurely ride, mostly pulled along by the current. Another young woman, tanner and dark-haired, swims alongside her, chatting and laughing with her companion.
Islanders sent a strong message to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last Wednesday — Glacier Northwest is no more welcome on Vashon now than it was more than a decade ago, when Islanders and environmental groups began fighting Glacier’s proposed expansion of mining operations on Maury Island.
Half a century ago, men from St. John Vianney Catholic Church, then
named St. Patrick’s, headed out on the Sound each July and caught hundreds of salmon to feed the community in an
annual picnic at Dockton Park.
The Vashon Park District board plans to re-examine its policies regarding adult conduct at the Vashon Pool, after a contested incident there this month resulted in one Islander being kicked out of the pool and a lifeguard being fired.
More than 100 athletes competed in the XTERRA Vashon Off-Road Triathlon on Sunday, July 11, in Dockton.
While Vashon children spend the summer learning outdoor skills, soccer and sailing at various Island camps, adults who attend a camp hosted by the Backbone Campaign in August will learn skills for nonviolent political action.
