Susan Wolf, formerly the volunteer liaison and training secretary for Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR), was appointed district secretary by the fire department’s commissioners on Tuesday, Aug. 5. She was sworn in by state Rep. Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island).
A 16-year-old Vashon boy has been arrested for stealing the safe from St. John Vianney Catholic Church, which disappeared July 19 and is now presumed to be under water off the end of the Tramp Harbor dock.
Bob Childs
Paradise Ridge Acupuncture, Herbs and Massage offers qi gong classes at 9 a.m. Fridays. Qi gong, a set of Chinese exercises, includes physical and meditative movements.
The Vashon Farmers Market will be open in the Village Green from 2 to 6 pm. Wednesday, Aug. 13. Note that the hours have been extended to 6 p.m.
Quilt guild meets
Vashon Park District will sink up to $8,000 into a marketing endeavor — a branding campaign that will hopefully procure standardized viusal products for the district, in order to make the district more recognizable to Islanders.
Father Tryphon is nervous. A crane hovers above the temple at the All-Merciful Saviour Russian Orthodox Monastery in Dockton, and at its feet is the cobalt-blue onion dome for which the abbot has been waiting a decade.
Nearly every Monday, an engineer who maintains the transmitter at KVI Beach does something else for the Seattle-based company that owns KVI: He picks up trash strewn by people over the weekend.
Community council members will vote on the following proposal at the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18, at Courthouse Square.
