With the 2008-09 school year just around the corner, the Vashon-Maury Cooperative Preschool (VMCP) is gearing up for the school year. We are excited to offer a new blended toddler-2/3 class. Toddlers will attend on Mondays with their parents, and 2/3’s will attend Monday and Tuesday.
Spending the entire school day outdoors sounds like a foreign concept, and in a way it is. Although there are more than 700 forest kindergartens — waldkindergartens — in Germany, in which children spend their entire class time outdoors year-round, the concept is still novel here in the United States.
Flowers will help food bank
The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program will be on Vashon today, Aug. 20.
Donate school items soon
Voice of Vashon has signed a lease with Heights Water, a private
A spree of vandalism last Tuesday morning left the school district reeling — causing $6,000 in damage and leaving more than 20 windows and doors broken just three weeks before school starts.
St. John Vianney Catholic Church got its safe back last week. It was full of wet checks — and one soggy five-dollar bill.
An environmental consulting business on Bank Road caught fire at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16 — one of the three biggest fires on the Island in the last year, said Bob Larsen, Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR) assistant chief.
Last year, Vashon Community Care Center set a new mission for itself: to enrich the individual’s experience of aging on Vashon through creative, collaborative, caring and community-wide services.
From partying at KVI Beach to mailbox bashings along the roads, the Island, some say, seems rowdier than usual this summer, raising concerns about both the quality of life on Vashon and the safety of some of its young people.
