The lavender growers participating in the tour this July are seeking sponsors of the event for the first time in the tour’s history.
Sportsmen celebrate 75
This month slam poetry is the focus of this monthly (first Wednesdays) get-together of folks who love to talk about poetry. The gathering will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, at the Vashon Bookshop.
King County Executive Ron Sims recognized FamilyLink’s Lorax Club as one of this year’s “Earth Heroes at School” in an award ceremony in Renton on Thursday, April 24.
For a brief time last week, 12 fifth-grade Chautauqua students were dismayed to learn they could no longer attend school, forced out for myriad reasons.
The Vashon Community Scholarship Foundation (VCSF), a community-wide effort to provide Vashon High School seniors with scholarships, is considered one of the most successful in the region. Of the 152 chapters of the so-called “Dollars for Scholars,” VCFS ranks fourth in the number of scholarships awarded to seniors and fifth in the amount of money distributed each year.
Vashon Island Pet Protectors (VIPP), in an effort to help resolve the crisis in King County’s overwhelmed and much-criticized shelter system, is looking for Islanders to provide foster homes for some of the dogs and cats in the county’s overcrowded Kent shelter.
Take a stand for peace in Ober
For the first time this year, Vashon is sending three teams of “mathletes” to the state “Math is Cool” competition — an intense, fast-paced tournament against teams from other schools.
Vashon Thriftway received a letter from one of its baking companies last month saying its wholesale price of bread would soon spike because of an 80 percent increase in the cost of flour.
