Every so often, county government reinvents itself, and so it has again in the way it hopes to engage those 280,000 residents who live in the unincorporated swaths of King County.
Vashon is a pretty progressive place, which makes it a perfect place to celebrate the Day of Silence. The Vashon High School Gay-Straight Alliance celebrates the Day of Silence to educate the community about keeping homophobic comments silent.
Over the past three weeks, our Vashon Public Schools Foundation has hosted breakfast meetings for Island business leaders and professionals to ask them to contribute to our $500,000 sustaining campaign.
When parents discover their beloved child is using drugs, drinking or has an eating disorder, they might feel fear, anger, guilt, panic, sadness, confusion and disbelief. How can they still function as usual with all of these overwhelming feelings? Some become paralyzed; they start questioning every parenting choice and look for someone to blame — because this was definitely not part of the plan. What happened and how did this family get here?
Islanders should consider joining the Ferry Riders’ Opinion Group (FROG) to help shape the future of the state ferry system.
I usually bake a cake. One year I trowelled on the frosting while the cake was still warm, writing “Happy Birthday Maria” in red cake-writing goo. And as we sang Happy Birthday, the green frosting oozed down the sides of the cake followed by the red cake-writing goo, forming a petroleum-spill red and green paisley puddle, pooled around the base of the scratch-made yellow cake.
As Vashon’s new public schools foundation seeks to raise $500,000, Superintendent Michael Soltman has a message to share.
Conversations around combining the planned Vashon High School (VHS) auditorium with the new Vashon Center for the Arts (VCA) have referred to the presumed efficiency, ecological value and savings that a partnership would bring. While the idea has merit, research into other efforts to combine facilities in small communities in King County shows that this is almost always unsuccessful for both the schools and the communities.
Someone should tell Sen. Sharon Nelson that the positions set forth in her March 21 commentary (“Gamesmanship brings gridlock to Olympia”) are inconsistent with truths she apparently finds inconvenient.
For years, social service advocates have been concerned about the kind of access low-income residents have to health care on Vashon.
We really could not have hoped, as recently as a month ago, that this legislative session would prove to be so positive for Vashon and the other ferry-dependent communities in Washington.
As a Washington state tax payer, what part of K-12 schooling are you ready to cut? Electives in the high school and middle school? Appropriately sized classrooms? Librarians? Art? Or are none of these cuts acceptable?
The Republican gamesmanship in the “other Washington” that has caused gridlock and a toxic environment in Congress has now infected The Evergreen State. This is sad and shocking to many of us.
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