WEDNESDAY 1
Farmers market
The Farmers Market will be open in the Village Green from 2 to 6 p.m. today, Oct. 1. Sun Island Farm, Tahoma View Farm and Plum Forest Farm will sell a wide variety of Island-grown fruit, including apples, plums, raspberries and melons, as well as fall vegetables, such as sweet corn, tomatoes, winter squash, potatoes, leeks and more. There will be hot sweet corn to eat, and ABU Hospitality will also be selling warm chili and cornbread for a late lunch, snack or dinner.
All the Wednesday farmers take WIC and senior checks as part of the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. The Wednesday market will be open through Oct. 15.
For more information, see www.vigavashon.org or call Market Manager Joanne Jewell at 267-8146.
THURSDAY 2
DSHS rep here
A representative from the Department of Social and Health Services will be at Vashon Youth & Family Services from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2.
FRIDAY 3
Stone Age skills
Primitive skills expert Lynx Vilden will share her experiences with Stone Age living in a 90-minute slide show at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at the Land Trust Building. A donation of $10 is suggested.
People will see how participants fared in the wild in the Kootenai River, the Yaak River and Twisp River projects. Her goal is to form a group prepared to live for a full year in a Stone Age living experiment.
Vilden will talk about the preparations necessary for four two-to-six week primitive living projects she has led in wilderness settings since 2001 as the Four Season Prehistoric Living Projects. Participants in those projects learned the necessary skills to live a Neolithic lifestyle in the mountains of the western United States for an extended period, including hunting and fishing techniques, food processing methods and hide preparation for clothes, footwear and utility purposes.
Vilden has taught and lectured on primitive living skills in the United States and Europe since 1991.
For more information, call Pam Bredouw at 463-3393.
SATURDAY 4
Farmers Market
The Vashon Farmers Market will be open in the Village Green from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, and will be sharing the Green with the Vashon Fruit Club’s Fall Fruit Show and the first annual CiderFest. Farmers will sell Island-grown fruits and vegetables of late summer, including plums, tomatoes, fresh corn, squashes and pumpkins, apples, eggs, wine and cut flowers. Most farmers take WIC and senior checks as part of the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. Island artisans will be selling a wide variety of services and goods.
The Saturday market will be open 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 hosts an Adopt-A-Cat Day every Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at VIPP’s new adoption center.
Go to www.vipp.org for directions or call VIPP at 389-1085.
CiderFest
The first annual CiderFest will meet in the Village Green on Saturday, Oct. 4.
A multitude of events will happen throughout the day.
• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Farmers Market
• 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fruit club fruit show
• 1 to 2 p.m. “How to Make Hard Cider”
• 3 to 4:30 p.m. (or until the food is gone) PTSA pie and crumble sale
• 3 to 5 p.m. Bob’s Your Uncle plays
• 3 to 6 p.m. Hard cider tasting, with nine cideries represented
• 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. CiderFest dinner at The Hardware Store Restaurant • Master Gardeners will be around much of the day
The PTSA sale is a benefit for the Vashon Island School District, while CiderFest itself is a fundraiser for the Vashon Island Rotary Club’s scholarship fund.
For more information, including reservations for the dinner at The Hardware Store, call Rex Stratton at 682-1496.
Solar tour
The Vashon Solar Tour, featuring eight all-solar sites, will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4. Self-guided tour maps are available at 13129 S.W. 248th St., the home of Jennifer and Jason Williams, owners of Artisan Electric, where people can also participate in several question-and-answer forums, which will be repeated throughout the day, at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m.
Seven homes and the Chautauqua Children’s Garden are included on the tour, showcasing a variety of solar systems.
The tour is co-sponsored by Artisan Electric and Sustainable Vashon.
SUNDAY 5
Pumpkin fest
A Pumpkin Extravaganza and Farm Tour at Langley Family Farm will meet from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5.
Islanders are invited to see the crop of winter squash and pumpkins. There will be a section of u-pick pumpkins: small sugar pumpkins, Bumpkins, Lumina (white pumpkins), ornamental gourds and “wolf” pumpkins, a variety prized for its large stem, which can be 3 inches in diameter. Also, there will be 40 varieties of winter squash and farm-fresh produce, including beets, carrots, onions, potatoes (15 varieties), braising greens, garlic and salad mix.
MONDAY 6
Great Books
The Great Books discussion group will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, at the Vashon Library.
The reading will be “Goblin Market,” a poem by Christina Rossetti.
The Great Books Group has been meeting at the Vashon Library for 30 years. Everyone is welcome.
Call the library for more information at 463-2069.
Kids book group
Vashon Bookshop’s Kids’ Book Club will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, to talk about “Gone Away Lake” by Elizabeth Enright, a magical story about a mysterious resort community long since faded away and two people who have never left it. The group is for kids ages 8 to 11.
Call Kathryn True at 567-5389 for more information.
UPCOMING
Sheldon Solomon here
The Unitarian Fellowship will sponsor a conversation with Sheldon Solomon at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at McMurray Middle School.
Solomon is professor of psychology and interdisciplinary studies at Skidmore College in upstate New York. Solomon provides a comprehensive, accessible and often humorous overview of the ideas of Ernest Becker, a cultural anthroplogist.
Organizers say Solomon is popular with audiences. He will present research demonstrating that subtle reminders of our own death, such as the events of 9/11, increased Americans’ support for President Bush and his policies in Iraq and more recent studies documenting the psychological commonalities between conservative Americans and Islamic fundamentalists. The implications of these findings for democratic political institutions, the 2008 presidential elections and constructive approaches to the “war on terrorism” will be considered.
Contact Wendy Wharton for additional information at 799-9433.
Recycle electronics
Vashon Reclaim and Recycle will host a collection day for computers and electronics from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, behind Keller Williams and will accept all electronic devices for a small fee.
For more information, contact Terry Vanderwaal at 280-4975 or see www.vashonreclaim.com.
