On Sunday mornings on Vashon, you won’t run into any traffic jams caused by Islanders on their way to church.
The other day I donated my tuxedo to Granny’s Attic.
The region’s salmon are a powerful emblem, a metaphor for life in the Pacific Northwest. As fish go, they’re mighty creatures — wide-ranging and strong, dramatic and almost mythic in the sweep of their lives.
At the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council meeting last month, Steve Graham requested substantive discussion of the bylaw changes five colleagues and I suggest for the organization. We are proposing an overhaul — not a line-by-line update, but a new set of bylaws to replace what is now in place.
Barb and Heather Rhoads-Weaver installed their fourth yard sign in support of Referendum 74 Monday evening.
I recently joined the Vashon Island Rotary, and I find their motto, “We live on an island. We are part of the world,” both inspiring and relevant. And its relevance has come into dramatic focus for me around the issue of polio.
It is time for people on this island to take a moment and ask themselves, “Would I kill for public safety?” If your answer is “yes,” then I urge you to support Initiative 0 this November. Initiative 0, if enacted, would direct revenues toward the elimination of public hazards.
After my husband committed suicide, I struggled to understand why. I also struggled with what I now know is a common feeling — self blame. This was made worse by the fact that he pointedly blamed me in his suicide note.
David Moseley, in his letter to The Beachcomber, makes some good points about the newspaper’s recent coverage of the upset over the Chetzemoka.
A handful of Islanders have discovered — quite by surprise — that their names have been stricken from the rolls of voters in King County.
As the 2012 election nears, I find myself more and more depressed by the lack of actual choice that is being offered to the voters. The issues that matter most to me are never even discussed. Where is climate change? Poverty and homelessness? The endless wars that we can’t pay for? Taxing the rich?
I was disappointed to read the recent article in your paper titled “Questions Plague Vashon’s Newest Ferry.” Simply put, comparing the Chetzemoka to the Rhododendron, as the article does, is not appropriate and is inherently misleading.
There’s the earth’s climate, and then there’s the “bid climate.”
It’s not exactly a weather phenomenon, but it is, in fact, a trend that’s as important to note as the latest forecast. A recession that meant Vashon Island School District might be able to build its new high school under budget is apparently playing out differently.
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