Suzzy and Vashon Idyll Deux!

Vol. 2 #8 TO INFORM AND AMUSE ~ TO PROVOKE THINKING AND ACTIVISM April 20, 2005

Suzzy and Vashon Idyll
Maggie
Roche Deux!

at the Grange Hall! By Tammy Hiltz
Remember last April when everyone
Great News! Vashon will be was talking about Vashon Idyll, how fun,
graced with the musical talents of how exciting, how amazing it was? And
the great Suzzy and Maggie you had missed it? Well, your chance has
Roche this coming Saturday, come for the second annual Vashon Idyll!
April 23 at the Vashon Grange Fashioned after ‘American Idol’ the TV
Hall (463-0552). Chances to hear show, the students at VHS will be
acoustic music of this caliber in competing in a talent ‘competition’ to raise
such a cozy space don’t come funds for the class of 2005 graduation
around very often! celebration. The show begins at 7:30 p.m.
on Saturday April 23 and will be held at
Continued on page 22 the high school gym. Ticket price will
include appetizers, one free drink and five
tickets for voting for your favorite act. Cost Anglina Fox belts one out at last year’s Vashon Idyll.
will be $10 for adults and $5 for children.
More tickets for voting will be available
to purchase and all acts will be judged by

Photo courtesy John Sage/FinchHaven

Continued on page 13

News Flash!
By Marie Browne
Theme Based
Learning Let’s start by clearing up some
confusion. Phil is not Cupid. He is
just the drop off point for The Vashon
Loop’s singles ads. He is also the
Photo Guy, and has no doubt seen
plenty of —ahem—”romantic”
photos in the many years he has
owned Flash Photo.

Now, you can print your own
photos (embarrassing or not) on
Phil’s brand new photo machine.
(Yes, the old machine is still there,
working perfectly well, but probably
feeling a bit like an eight track
player.) This new machine lets you

Continued on page 3

Professional Photographers

Margaret Smith showing Genevieve Payne Review New Artists
how to weave with catstail leaves
By Christine Beck
Story on page 13
Recently formed, the
Art Studio Tour Photographers of Vashon is a
group of professional and
“Flags at Vashon Center” amateur photographers who are
by Gretchen Hancock of Barnworks passionate about photography,
both digital and film. And they
Story on page 22 want to share that passion and
their expertise with other
photographers! On May 22, 2005
from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Blue
Heron six of the finest Vashon
Island professional
photographers will review the
photographs of aspiring
photographers, critiquing images
and educating the entrants on
how to prepare a cohesive body
of work. Topics discussed with
each entrant will include subject
matter selection, print quality,
Photos © Ray Pfortner
Continued on page 12 [email protected]

The Vashon Loop, p. 2 April 20, 05

Get in The Loop The Secret Life of a
Radio Station

Anniversary Ceili Land Trust Plant Have you ever wondered what General freight
Dance it’s like behind the scenes at one of hauling
Sale the big radio and television stations?
The Vashon Celtic Dance Society Dick Gordon N7KZQ will be giving Moving and Storage
is celebrating their third anniversary Saturday, May 7, 2005, a slide show presentation of the
with an Irish ceili dance at the 9:30 a.m. –- 1:00 p.m. KOMO broadcast station at the next Indoor storage units
Grange Hall on Saturday, April 30th. Vashon Theater Parking Lot meeting of the Vashon Maury Island now available $35
Dance with your neighbors and some The Vashon-Maury Island Land Radio Club, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
great folks from Seattle, Tacoma, and Trust annual plant sale will be April 26, at the Presbyterian Church. 206-463-9803
as far away as Portland. Vashon’s Saturday, May 7, from 9:30 a.m. to We will also get to see a new PSA
dances are the only regular ceilis in 1:00 p.m., in the Vashon Theater from the American Radio Relay JobFind
the Seattle area and have been going parking lot. In keeping with the League, and hear from president
strong for three years now. Come see tradition of quality plants offered Ward Silver N0AX about the recent “Career Transitions” is the topic
what you’ve been missing! each year, we welcome back the Communications Academy. This for this week’s JobFind workshop,
The dance starts at 7:00 pm at the following long-standing should be a great evening, and which begins at 9:15 a.m. on
Grange Hall located in the north end participating nurseries; Appleyard everyone is welcome to attend. For Thursday, April 21, at the Vashon
ferry dock parking lot. Don’t worry Nursery, Judd Creek Nursery, more information, please call Ward Public Library. JobFind is a FREE
if you’ve never danced a step in your Colvos Creek Nursery, Country Store N0AX at 463-9173 or Gayle KG7ZZZ program of Vashon Youth & Family
life — you don’t need any experience and Gardens, Black Dog Plants, at 463-4687. Services, and targets adults who are
to have a great time at a ceili dance. Pacific Potager, and Robinwood unemployed or underemployed and
You don’t even need a partner. Nursery, along with new vendor VIPP Plants seeking living wage jobs.
Kathleen O’Grady-Graham will Dirty, Pretty Nursery. In addition,
teach and call all the dances. Live DIG will be participating by The Vashon Island Pet JobFind offers assistance with job
music will be provided by The Red donating a portion of their May 7th Protectors’ Plant Sale is Saturday, leads, resume preparation,
Crow. The suggested donation to receipts to the Land Trust. April 23 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. interviewing techniques, and other
participate in the dance is $8 A wide variety of plants will be at the Firefighter’s Association support for finding a job. Participants
($6 seniors and students), and the offered, including unusual Building on Bank Road. Here’s your may attend informal Thursday
dances are suited to adults and perennials, ornamental grasses, and opportunity to pick up a few of our meetings at the library, and/or
children over 12. Photos of past native plants, along with ground Island grown plants or, if you’d like schedule appointments with staff for
dances can be found at covers, trees, and annual herb, flower to make a little space in your garden, more in-depth assistance. For more
www.hoilands.com For more and vegetable starts. There will be a donate a few (9:00a.m.-3:00p.m. information, please call VYFS at 463-
information about the Vashon Celtic Master Gardener on site until noon Friday, April 22nd). For more 5511, X603, or come to one of our
Dance Society, or to volunteer, to answer plant cultural questions. information please call Judy 463- workshops at the library Thursday
call Shannon Seath Meyer at (206) Once again, these generous 1810. mornings.
774-4047 or Lori Malczyk at (206) 463- island plant growers are making it
6917. possible for the community to raise New Dialogue: A free dinner will be served at
money for protecting some of 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church,
Garden Club Vashon and Maury’s most significant Journeys and Transitions, next to Movie Magic in Vashon town.
Plant Sale plant and wildlife habitats. The Land Fishbowls and Fortune The dialogue will begin at 6 and run
Trust will have information available Cookies to 8:30 p.m. It’s sponsored by the
The Vashon-Maury Island about our latest and on-going A fourth Youth-Adult Dialogue Vashon Prevention Intervention
Garden Club is having a plant sale projects, plus ways in which you can Team, Development of Island Teens
on Saturday, May 7. It begins become involved in these efforts. on Tuesday, May 3 will bring (DOIT), and Vashon Youth Council.
precisely at 9:00 a.m. and lasts until Please come out, show your support together many Islanders—youth and
all plants are sold. This locally and take home some great plants! adults—to discuss the power of If you have questions, or want to
famous plant sale features tomatoes, journeys and transitions, in volunteer, please call Bridgid
fuchsias, geraniums and many Madrona School individual lives and in making Normand at 463-6234.
varieties of perennials and grasses. Vashon a more healthy community.
There will also be other vegetables, Hosting Celebration
annuals, trees and shrubs, garden At May’s dialogue, creative ways
related tools, accessories and books. The Madrona School is pleased of marking transitions on life’s
All items are reasonably priced. The to invite the Vashon community to journey will be discussed
sale will be held at the Firefighters’ an activity day and celebration at the from both youth and adult
Association Building on Bank Road, school on Saturday, April 30, 1-4 perspectives. Fortune
one block west of the 4-way stop in p.m. cookies and other fun
downtown Vashon. Information: activities will promote
206-463-1498 or 463-9697. The activity day will include more honest and
things to do for all ages: tractor rides, powerful interaction and
May Day at bagel baking, sustainable maze, art communication between
Ober Park projects, live goats, earth oven, and youth and adults. A team
live music with two Vashon bands! of youth and adults will
Come join us for a May Day The Madrona School is located on facilitate.
Celebration at Ober Park, Wesleyan Way (take Vashon
Sunday May 1, 1-4 p.m! Highway going south from Burton After the dialogue, an
Islewilde is co-sponsoring this and follow the signs). For more info, essay contest will award
free event with the Vashon Park please call 463-7899. prizes of up to $100 for the
District. It will be fun for the best youth and adult
whole family! Magical dress- essays inspired by what
up, candle-making, May crown transpired.
making, face painting, music, a
cake walk and of course the Clean Up Island Parks FAC Meets
dance around the May Pole!
Bring a picnic and make an Island Earthfair will be meeting The Vashon Ferry Advisory Committee will meet Tuesday, April 26th
afternoon of it. We will at Lisabeula Park at 10:00 am on at 6:30 p.m. in the McMurray school library. Vashon’s FAC is part of a South
celebrate rain or shine, and if Saturday, April 23 to celebrate our Sound FAC which includes Fauntleroy and Southworth and meets quarterly
spring rains shower upon us, we role as care takers of our magnificent with Washington State Ferries management. The interim chair for Vashon
will be inside the Ober building planet. We will meet at Lisabeula is Mike Sudduth. Other members from Vashon are Sally Fox, chair, Chet
with a smaller version. Come first, then some of us will go to Whitman, Mimi Walker, Ron Robbins, Marilyn Omey and Vickie Mercer.
one, come all, come tall or small, different parks to help out, then we Members are approved by the Community Council and act as WSF’s
celebrate the vibrancy of spring! will meet back up at Lisabeula at connection to the various ferry communities in Puget Sound. The meeting
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time will be had! Please bring gloves,
smiles, and tools for removing ivy,
pulling up scotch broom and general
clean up. Also bring food to share;
remember to bring your plates and
utensils. We look forward to playing
with you on this day.



The Vashon Loop, p. 4 April 20, 05

Loop OXEYE DAISY

Letters From the Crafters of sweet
Edge preparations

WolfTown helps animals and people: Specialty Cakes
Seasonal Tarts
How you can help this Vashon treasure! Celebration Cakes
Custom Wedding Cakes
T. Martino, WolfTown’s director, near Bob’s Bakery. It was framed at (206) 567-5116
called me the other day saying Madrona Art and Frame, in
WolfTown was in need of some plexiglass.) E-mail:
immediate financial assistance. For WolfTown is a qualified 501(c)(3) [email protected]
those who know T and “the project,” non-profit organization that rescues
you know the daily commitment of wolves, birds of prey, and horses “I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it
love, energy and money it takes to from destruction or abusive was just the Editor with a torch, bringing me more work.” AE
support the magnificent creatures situations, bringing them into contact
who live there; the challenges of with caring people. In return, these
upholding and exemplifying this wonderful animals bring their
kind of mission and vision; and, special spirits into our lives as their
bottom line, you know the character human protectors and caring
and integrity of this intelligent and companions. WolfTown has a
strong woman who has devoted mentorship program; people of all
herself to a set of high goals. SO, ages learning from animals and
when T calls for help, you do learning about preservation of the
whatever you can. wilderness, including an intern
program in cooperation with the
First, how you can help. Then, University of Washington that
more about T and WolfTown. Keep teaches wildlife care and
in mind that WolfTown is a 501(c)(3) stewardship to students from around
non-profit organization, so donations the world.
are tax deductible!! WolfTown is a USDA approved
wolf sanctuary and has federal
You can visit Washington Mutual permits for non-releasable
bank and make a contribution to the indigenous birds of prey.
“Puppup” Fund (WolfTown’s WolfTown’s director, T. Martino, is
emergency fund). You can visit an author, equestrian, artist, and
WolfTown’s web-site and become a humanitarian who has been
member (or just gain more recognized by the Red Cross as one
information.) You can buy any of the of 2004’s Everyday Heroes for her
items you see for sale on the web-site. work. Read more at
www.WolfTown.org. Please help
You can bid on the original support WolfTown. Thank you.
artwork pictured (Red Wolf by T. Leona Troese, Former President,
Martino). I’ve had the good fortune Board of Directors, WolfTown
to have this work hanging on my
living room wall for about 5 years.
Now I’m donating it for auction; goes
to the highest bidder; proceeds go to
WolfTown. Bidding starts at $1000.

HOW TO BID: Write your bid on
the form provided at Amiad and
Associates and deposit in the
receptacle provided, or send your
written bid to Resident, PO Box 1232,
Vashon, 98070; please include your
name and phone number.

Bidders will be informed of
highest bids by phone on April 29th
and given a chance to give a final,
winning bid. BIDDING STARTS ON
APRIL 13th, ENDS APRIL 30th.

(Painting is on display at Amiad
and Associates, downtown Vashon,

Suzzy & Maggie Roche

Perform 2 concerts at
the Grange Hall

April 23rd
2pm tea/show
To benefit
BaaHaus Animal Rescue $65

8pm concert $ 25

Tickets and information at 206-463-0552

Vashon Island Music

April 20, 05 Dancing When The Vashon Loop, p. 5
Found: A Benefit for hyenas, suffering starvation and
Michael O Bradley disease, they became miraculous
the Lost Youth of survivors. Their experiences
‘Geometra’ Sudan encourage recognition of the refugee
in everyone, the part of each person
The geometra in Italy performs roughly the combined that knows what it means to be lost
functions of an architect, site foreman, and engineer in in this world.
charge of buildings and land use issues. He or she is also
the person who liaisons with the building authorities, The evening is entitled Dancing
public bodies, and local councils and is expressly When Found because the Lost Youth
authorized to draw up the plans or renovate buildings find themselves through dance. They
up to a certain size limit, without calling on the services tap ancestral roots and create a sense
of an architect. The geometra produces working of home through the camaraderie of
drawings, deals with building contractors, suppliers, and performing together. In this time
all the paperwork and building permits. The geometra when war and terror threaten so
should know the correct people at the building widely, their will to survive, their
department that make the important decisions and all indomitable spirit and infectious joy
the tricks for getting around burdensome regulations. Did provide hope and direction for
I hear ‘CAO’ anyone? others. Through dancing the Lost
Youth find themselves again and
Let’s make your project happen. again and in so doing invite everyone
present to find the spirit of their own
Creative Crossings Events On Saturday, May 7, at 7 p.m. life.
at the Vashon High School Theater,
My Mother and Me! — A Your afternoon adventure will Mosaic and Vashon Allied Arts Proceeds from this dramatic
creative, interactive learning include games, collage-making, present an evening of story, song benefit performance contribute to the
experience for mothers and early thought provoking discussion and, of and dance featuring the Lost Youth creation of a school in Southern
teenage daughters. Are you course, delicious snacks. It will be a of Sudan with storyteller and Sudan. You are invited to attend this
astonished to find your daughter chance for all to explore the mythologist Michael Meade. The unique event, to witness their spirit
growing up into a special and connections and differences of harrowing journey of the Lost of survival and support the ongoing
amazing young woman? Are you growing up in different generations Youth is uniquely expressed journey of the Lost Youth.
worried about the challenges your in a relaxed, warm and fun-filled through traditional dance and
daughter may face as she enters the atmosphere. Tuesday May 10, 1 to 4 original songs that describe key
middle school years and beyond? p.m. Special price: $25.00/pair. scenes and emotional moments in
Has your daughter perfected the art Location to be announced. Sign up their search for refuge.
of eye-rolling? Are you craving at the Senior Center or call 463-5173
quality time with your daughter in to reserve a space. – Peggy Rubens As children, these youth saw
the midst of busy schedules? My their villages burned and families
Mother and Me! weaves together destroyed before beginning to
collage-making, games, and thought- wander across the Sahara desert.
provoking discussion in a safe, Each time they found a haven, the
caring, playful environment. In misfortunes of war drove them
addition to laughter and fun, we further into an uncertain future.
spend the evening honoring your Hunted by armies, lions and
unique relationship; building
community with other mothers;
looking at the dichotomy of girls
wanting independence, but needing
support, limits and guidance; and
discovering inner strengths and
resources to help you and your
daughter navigate the teenage years
successfully. Friday May 6 — 5 to 9
p.m. Pizza, pop, and popcorn
included. Introductory Price:
$55.00/pair, for Girls age 10 — 15 and
their moms or adult female mentors,
at Vashon Presbyterian Church,
17708 Vashon Hwy SW. Sign up by
calling Peggy Rubens at (206) 463-
1682. Space is limited!

Grandma and Me!
The second event is for
grandmothers of all ages and grand
daughters age 9-15. What was it like
to be a teenage girl? How were you
encouraged or discouraged? Who
did you have a crush on? Vashon
Senior Center and Creative Crossings
invite you to spend an afternoon
creating, playing and reflecting on
the precious bond between
grandmother and granddaughter.

The Vashon Loop, p. 6 Spiritual Smart April 20, 05
Aleck

by Mary Litchfield Tuel

My Afternoon
Constitutional

Last time we took a brief look Article XXIV, 1964: guaranteed Featuring..............
at the U.S. Constitution and the the right to vote not be denied
Bill of Rights. Today we’ll look at because of failure to pay a poll tax Beautiful, flavorful, fresh roasted, Guatemalan heirloom coffee.
the rest of the Amendments to the or other tax. Poll taxes were used Grown in the shade using traditional farming methods. Hand
Constitution. to get around Article XV. Article
XXV, 1967: provides for picked and processed by the people who directly benefit from the
Article XI, 1795: Federal presidential succession in the sales of this coffee. Fresh roasted, better than organic and made
lawsuits against a state by citizens event of the president’s possible through the Vashon Coffee Foundation, which was started
of another state or nation are resignation, death or disability,
forbidden. Article XII, 1804: and return of president to power by Jim Stewart in 1982 to reward the people who make the
separate electoral votes for after recovering from disability. specialty coffee industry possible. Stop by and try this spicy
electing the president and the vice Article XXVI, 1971: lowered the
president (a job that is “not worth voting age to 18 years. Article spirited coffee, flavored by the volcanic soil it grows in.
a bucket of warm spit,” according XXVII, 1992: prevents Congress
to John Nance “Cactus Jack” from raising its own pay in a right, but it culls a lot that is served for over two centuries to
Garner, FDR’s vice president 1933- single session. This one was trendy and frivolous. temper the behavior of human
1941.) originally proposed in September, beings, who, as we all know, can
1789, so it took only 203 years to However the Constitution has be a criminal, despotic lot. Here’s
Article XIII, 1865: abolition of put it through. been altered or interpreted, it has to the next two centuries – may
slavery. Americans still be around to argue
Here endeth the amendments. about the Constitution! oooooo
Article XIV, 1868: protects life, Many amendments are
liberty, and property and proposed but not passed or Gift Certificates Available
privileges and immunities of ratified. For example, the Equal
citizenship and provides equal Rights Amendment: “Equality of
protection of the law. Article XV, rights under the law shall not be
1870: right to vote given to (male) denied or abridged by the United
citizens regardless of “race, color, States or by any state on account
or previous condition of of sex.” It was written by
servitude.” suffragist Alice Paul in 1923, who
considered it the next logical step
Article XVI, 1913: federal after women got the vote.
income tax. A moment of silence, Congress passed it in 1973, but it
please. failed to be ratified and it expired.
Back in the 1970s, there was
Article XVII, 1914: election of talk of an amendment to ban
Senators by the people (in the burning the American flag. Now
original Constitution Senators there is talk of an amendment to
were chosen by state legislatures). prevent gay people from getting
Article XVIII, 1919: prohibition of married (to each other; they can
the “manufacture, still marry people of the opposite
sale, or transportation sex, as they always have, to hide
of intoxicating their sexual identity, to have
liquors.” (During children, to stay alive, or
Prohibition Congress whatever).
had a cozy little It is hard to pass an
hideaway deep in the amendment and get it ratified,
Capitol building and that is a good thing. The
known as the “Bureau process doesn’t get everything
of Education,” where
Representatives went
to relax over drinks
and hammer out
bipartisan
agreements.)

Article XIX, 1920:
women get the vote.
Article XX, 1933: determines dates
for beginning of terms of Congress
(January 3) and the president
(January 20). Article XXI, 1933:
repeal of Article XVIII,
Prohibition. Article XXII, 1951:
limits president to two terms, a
response to Franklin Delano
Roosevelt’s president-for-life four
terms in office.

Article XXIII, 1961: gave the
District of Columbia electoral
votes in presidential elections.

April 20, 05 Don’t Forget the Birds The Vashon Loop, p. 7

April Warblers By Ed Swan

Singing early March, they are one of the few WOW! Huge new cat trees!
birds actively singing and usually. If
With mid-April comes the one gets to know their song, then it’s Direct from Oregon...they grow ‘em big there.

confusion of figuring out all over easier to figure out when the Black- You know you want one. Please your significant other -
again the various warbler songs. The throated Grays are in when the
two hardest to tell apart are the Black- different variation in the song is just bring one home without asking.

throated Gray Warbler and the heard. These bright, yellow and Horus’ Pick of the Week:
Townsend’s Warbler. I have seen black masked warblers mostly glean Cat Man Doo Dried Bonito Flakes -
few convincing written descriptions for bugs up high in conifers but will
of bird songs, so it’s hard to explain. sometimes feed in shrubs. In the
They both do a kind of double-note winter of 2001-2002, Townsend’s Heaven in a flake.

“zee-ah zee-ah zee-ah.” With the Warblers came to sunflower seed
Townsend’s Warbler it’s usually sort feeders in two widely separated
of a sweet sound and the Black- locations on Vashon and another on
throated Gray is sort of rougher or Maury. Hybrids might be possible on the Trevathan at Pt. Robinson. More
Townsend’s Warblers islands and should be watched for. regular migrants returning included
occasionally join in with Hermit Warblers have been found in Purple Martins heard by Steve
mixed species flocks of a number of nearby Kitsap County Caldwell at KVI Beach on April 6,
chickadees, kinglets and locations and might also be found Savanah Sparrows seen by myself at
nuthatches in winter. As and added to the Vashon list. Wax Orchard April 5 and a Brown-
Besides the first returning Black- headed Cowbird at Pt. Robinson
the related Black-throated
Gray Warbler migrates in to throated Gray Warbler April 14, April 9 found by Steve Caldwell’s
replace them during the many regular and rare migrants Birding by Ear fieldtrip. If you have
breeding season, most have shown up recently. Carole an interesting bird to report or a
Townsend’s Warblers move Elder found a House Wren in her question about local birds, call me at
north or into the mountains yard on north Vashon in the first 463-7976 or email at
Jim Rosso photos of Townsend’s Warbler week of April and a Townsend’s [email protected].
for nesting.
Upcoming events concerning
buzzier, similar in a way to the Solitaire at Pt. Robinson
April 10. Bent Blichfeldt birds include the May 12 talk on the
differences between Black-capped later found the same or endangered Marbled Murrelet by
and Chestnut-backed Chickadee
songs respectively. another Townsend’s Colleen McShane on Thursday, May
Solitaire a mile down the 12 at 7 p.m. at the Land Trust
Black-throated Gray Warblers beach. Both the House Building. A good opportunity to get
inhabit second growth woods that
provide a mixed forest with large Wren and the Solitaire are out and see the returning spring
rare sightings for Vashon. birds will be the on-island field trip
hardwood trees. Their song provides Alan Huggins saw another on May 14. Meet at the Ober Park
the easiest way to find them.
Paradise Valley and areas along rarity for Vashon on April park and ride at 8 a.m. and plan to
10, when like a true birder, be done by about 10 a.m.
Westside Highway make the best Jim Rosso photos of Black-throated Gray Warbler he whipped his car around
places to listen for their song.
Because of the similarity in song to In the southern Cascades, the on the highway and turned back to
the Townsend’s, their arrival date is range of the Hermit Warbler, another find a Western Scrub Jay. It was by
a little uncertain but they are usually close relative, overlaps with the the Lande road-side memorial. That
in by the third week in April. This Townsend’s and the two hybridize area for some reason has been good
year I found the first in my back yard extensively. Birds in western for scrub jays several times in the
on April 14. Washington near the contact zone past so it’s worth a visit for those
The island’s winter warbler, are a mix of the two, with some interested in finding the bird. It may
Townsend’s often begin singing as showing more of the plumage of one still be around. The other April 10
early as February, which is the easiest or the other. Some birds look pure rare migrant was a Western
way to find them. In February and but upon close examination are not. Meadowlark found by Sue

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Island LifeTheVashonLoop, p.8 image is all about the light. On April 20, 05
many of our rainy days around
Text & photos by Peter Ray here, we look up to see a low to the water and in a place
monochrome blanket of gray. But where, rather than being covered
Looking Up Alfred Stieglitz, and many others. as we look closer, often there are over, it was able to stand out all
But it was Stieglitz and his subtle tonal variations that result the more as it caught the reflected
A running joke in the “Equivalents”, a series of cloud from differences in the thickness of light of the other, loftier cloud
recently released zombie photos from the 1920’s, that caught the cloud cover and the amount of masses nearby. We could get into
comedy from England, Shaun of the my attention in regard to things up light that is able to get through. the oyster light shimmer that
Dead, has the main characters in the sky. The idea he was Much of this past winter the sky was danced off the water to the west
making the statement on more than exploring was that a given scene, or mostly blue, with much of that after being filtered through these
one occasion that “…dogs don’t in this case cloud formation, is the monochromatic scheme rarely higher cloud layers, but that light
look up.” While it is true that dogs visual equivalent to a piece of dotted by the occasional puff of story is for another time and place.
tend to focus mostly on the events music, both of which could be heard white and gray. It was late on one
of Dogland that are down at their and seen and appreciated on a of those nearly clear afternoons that The postcard project continues.
level, the fact is that many things universal level. There was also the I looked up to see the silvery sunset Three dollars will get you all the
that capture canine interests, like afterglow almost mingling with the
waiting for treats, anticipating The Edge of the Blanket pictures in this article
where the stick will sail to or trying idea that these photographs might light dusting of small sent as postcards in this
to get that troublesome squirrel to be able to transcend self-expression clouds overhead. There week’s mailing, one buck
come down out of that tree, all on the part of the photographer to was a stanchion seemingly for each one. Or if you’d
require a certain turning of a gaze the point where the photograph reaching up to the base of like, send any amount to
upward. The origins of this movie becomes a shared expression one of these clouds as if receive these cards and
claim are never explained, so one between photographer and viewer. someone were trying to get more in the future. It has
has to assume that it is just one of I’m not sure, but I don’t believe this up there and bring down come to my attention
those statements that conscious is where the term “head in the whatever meager moisture that some people would
zombies latch on to without clouds” originated. I do think this they might find. rather send the cards
questioning, like “the George W. does have something to do with the than have them sent to
Bush administration is good for this universal appeal of postcards, As it turns out, these them, so please specify if
country”, or “America is winning although Stieglitz would probably harvesting efforts were not you would like to receive
the war on terror”, and repeat have had a hard time with musical as desperately needed as them as individual
without thinking. When dogs- at once thought, although we postcards, or get them in
least our dogs- do turn their eyes to equivalents for jackalopes are still behind the rainfall a packet to send out
the sky for reasons other than and bikini beach scenes. total count for the year. But yourself. Make sure you include
entertainment or culinary reward, with the return of the rains, we also your mailing address. Send all
they do seem to get caught up in I have always had a find ourselves with that curious requests to 10322 SW 165th St.,
some kind of brief, cogitative hard time letting go of Puget Sound Basin phenomenon Vashon Island, WA 98070 oooooo
reverie. The drone of an aircraft or frame and reference and where sunrises and sunsets sneak in
the honking of a passing geese giving clouds their own, brightly from the sides with shades
gaggle will at times stop them in unattended presence in a of red, orange and yellow, while the
their tracks, and they watch with an photograph. There is this rest of the day is spent in neutral,
intensity not seen at other times. whole thing about scale shadowless grays. On one day last
Their focus goes on until they which is lost in the week it was the sunset that caught
universal experience if my eye as the sun began to appear
Cloud High Lights there is no building or beneath the fuzzy edge of the cloud
remember that, “…..oh yeah, there mountain or tree or
is this freshly turned garden soil otherwise recognizable Reaching for Rain
and it IS good stuff to wrestle and object in view for blanket that didn’t quite reach the
tussle in.” comparison. I was fascinated by the Olympics. There were bits of cloud
reference point reference in the fragments that clung to foothill
My first realization that people- recent Howard Hughes biopic, the ridges and glowed from the sun
at least some people- don’t look up, Aviator, in regard to the aerial beaming down from behind. The
came back in college days. I was battle scenes in his film, Hell’s colors that came were not intense,
walking back to the dormitory quad Angels. Hughes realized that just hints of amber and sepia with a
with a friend and she was going on without clouds in the sky it was little bit of purple-gray at the edges.
about how awful her day had been impossible to tell how fast the The windows on the buildings and
when I commented on the clear, planes were going, so he brought in houses looking out from West
Carolina blue sky overhead. She a meteorologist to find him some Seattle temporarily mirrored the
looked up and her countenance clouds as a backdrop for his golden glow of the clouds on the
changed ever so slightly as she cinematic dogfights. Conversely, Olympic ridges, and then
admitted, “…oh, I hadn’t really while it is tempting to give clouds everything settled back into an
noticed.” But while clear skies have their own due, I always find myself evening in shades of gray.
helped me through some severe including some grounded object in
mental weather, it is the presence the point of view so that the Earlier that same day on the way
of clouds, overhead or on the billowing masses are more easily in to Seattle, the clouds were more
horizon, that generally grab and recognized as something way more broken and mixed. There was the
hold my upward attention. In the than the proverbial clouds-in-the- looming threat of a great blanket
year after leaving college I was coffee type thing. moving in from the southwest, with
exposed to the photographs of When talking about clouds and the front edge being a bit
the photographs we make of them, amorphous and diffuse with the
we once again find that the resulting occasional well-defined cloud
cluster trying not to be assimilated.
One such group had formed quite



The Vashon Loop, p. 10 April 20, 05

Suzzy & Maggie Roche

Perform 2 concerts at
the Grange Hall

April 23rd
2pm tea/show
To benefit
BaaHaus Animal Rescue $65

8pm concert $ 25

Tickets and information at 206-463-0552

Vashon Island Music

Dating on
an Island

by Jessie Preste note on there saying, “Oops! Sorry! Personals
A couple of weeks ago, when I Won’t happen again.” Upon
said Spring was here, it wasn’t really returning home in the evening, I was Beautiful, brainy, bodacious, loquacious, curvaceous, badass beach babe,
“here” here. But starting last week gratified to see no trash. Suddenly, 30’s, ISO SM, w/ SoH, who will carry trash can back up hill.
and on into this one, Mother Nature super sleuth alarm bells went off. #007
has erupted like Vesuvius, (Not as cool as spidey-sense, but
blanketing the Island with a rich almost.) Oh, yeah, both trash bags Warm, witty writer, single woman, 36, Smart and sassy, independent, with
explosion of voluptuous green. So were back in, AND had been joined faith in myself and my abilities. I snort when I laugh, and laugh loudly and
now it is time—time for the annual by another. Not to mention a few often. Looking for a SM with faith in himself and others, creative, smart,
re-training of my very own personal coke cans and coffee cups from the and sensuous. I do great flying solo, but would like to share life’s ups and
seasonal weekenders. I’m sure you Evil Empire. Honestly, I don’t get downs with a companion and partner in crime. Gotta love family, friends,
all have lovely seasonal neighbors, annoyed that easily, but on the rare camping, laughter, and animals.
but I have unfortunately not been occasions when I do, its more like the #005
similarly blessed. (I am not whining, cat tail-swishing, danger, Will
I am telling a story, so shush.) As a Robinson, danger, danger!… kind of SWM, 61, 5’9", HWP, athletic, intelligent, ISO wisdom seeking, fun woman
case in point, I am the only one in annoyed. for nurturing friendship/ LTR.
my small neighborhood to have #004
trash pick-up, so I have a nice little To avoid the inevitable
trash can in the parking lot near the embarrassment that may have Gray haired, happily single, good lookin’ woman would love to be a cuddly
trail to my house. As most of you occurred when the guilty parties canoodeling companion to a nice guy over 60. Must be peacenik who likes
know, trash pick-up is paid for, or admitted that they could not, in fact, to walk, go to movies, read, play, and laugh. Out there?
you have the option of running it to read, I once again took the trash, #002
the dump..er…transfer station. Since placed it firmly, yet gently, to the side
I don’t have a truck, it is most cost of the trail, and proceeded to take the UNAMERICAN WOMAN WANTED
effective to get it picked up every trash can down the trail to my house. Brave, open-hearted woman desired for adventure. If you have a strong
week. One morning on a weekend, I Go ‘coons. Heh. desire to explore the outdoors, your spiritual connection to the world and
walked up the trail and, super sleuth your highest potential, I would like to meet you. If you have an activist
that I am, noticed the red plastic Now, some things I do share, like heart come talk with me. I am known to be too open and honest. I enjoy
handles of a trash bag hanging down my love of writing and the great new facing my fears. I love growing children, plants and community.
out of my garbage can. Hmmmm… personal ads that are going on at the #001
not mine. Now if it had just been a moment. And yes, we are getting
little bit, well, that’s not so bad, but responses, which are passed on by Optimistic, Reasonably fit, reasonably attractive, SWF, late 50’s, looking
two enormous trash bags filled with me either by snail mail or email to for a SM of similar age and qualities. Must share all or most of my priority
garbage were stuffed into the can. the interested parties. Remember, list of interests - art, music, travel, family, friends, laughter. Interested parties
OK, benefit of the doubt; I took a responding is FREE. You just email must contact me without delay because soon I leave to make footprints in
black large-tipped felt pen out of the me or drop off a note with Phil at the sands of other lands.
storage space I euphemistically call Flash Photo uptown and I send it on #003
my car, and traced over my address, its way. You just need to include your
which had admittedly faded a bit, name, preferred contact info and the SF, 50’s, seeking SM/SDM mid 40’s to mid 60’s - Do you wanna’
and wrote on the lid, “ Private use number of the ad you are interested dance….take long walks by the water, go kayaking? Do you appreciate
only please. Trash pick-up is paid in. It also helps if you write more, being a never-ending learner, ever-deepening? Value family, friendship,
for.” It’s a large lid. I removed the because with all the responses, you humor, communication? Are you at peace with your past &/or ever-
trash bags and placed them neatly, have to stand out from the crowd. If practicing? Take delight in Nature? See conflict as an opportunity for
yet firmly, to the side of the trail. you are interested in placing an ad, growth? Do you sing with the moon? See aging as ageless? Feel the Sacred
Hey, would you want to pay $120 for single folks, straight or not, or for Connection to Life’s heartbeat? Well then, let’s dance!
over the next six months to take people just looking for friends, the #006
other people’s trash away? same thing applies. Either email me
Satisfied that the problem had and drop a check off with Phil, responder. The next deadline is way, you can write as little, or as
been nipped in the bud, I took off payable to The Vashon Loop , or drop always the Friday of the following much as you wish without Ass Ed
on my chores for the day. My friends off an ad and a check at the same week after the week The Loop comes blowing a gasket. Thanks! And quote
and I have agreed that if it had been place. I also need preferred contact out. We did have to get more for the day, “To finish the moment,
us, we would’ve taken our trash, felt info so I can send any responses on. scientific about the ads, (did I to find the journey’s end in every step
a bit bad, and maybe even pinned a It’s always confidential. Then it’s up mention we’re winging it?) so of the road, to give the greatest
to you if you want to contact the basically it’s 100 characters per line, number of good hours, is wisdom.”
including spaces, at $4 a line. That – R.W. Emerson
oooooo

PositivelyApril20,05 Speaking The Vashon Loop, p. 11

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eating his supper as well. I continued the floor, then parked itself in front face and nothing that happens at
on. of me, glaring, while I tried to move home will ever take it away.
Instead of the usual turn, I every inch of myself I could into my
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singing Rutter’s Gloria in a joint abandoned it for the second row). days. With love from Kiev.
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yelled, “You have enough air. Don’t antibiotics until four days later.
panic; I will go and get a mechanic.”
Twenty minutes later we did see the But mostly I’ve left my heart and
light of day by the way—through of my hope that men and women and
all these things and many children around the world, have
more…there was one thing I hadn’t more in common than they do in
done. I headed for MacDonald’s for differences.
a fish sandwich and a chocolate
shake. It’s raining now and this mission
Successfully ordered and trip is almost over. One night in
consumed, I headed for St.
Vladimir’s and realized, having been
gifted with a gorgeous Spring
evening in Eastern Europe, I would
indeed walk all the way back down
the hill to the hotel.



April 20, 05 environment that engages Dixon’s interest The Vashon Loop, p. 13
and curiosity and teaches her to question,
Theme Based Learning analyze, to be decisive, opinionated, holistic, Vashon Idyll Deux!
empathic, and compassionate. If we segment
By Lynann Politte our learning, we segment our thinking and Continued from page 1
our perspective of the world. Our you, the audience. Each category will have a
My daughter Dixon attends The Madrona School interdependent world needs something winner but the grand prize will be the overall
for many reasons, one of which is that the curriculum different than that. It needs integrated “people’s choice” at the end. Headlining this year
is “theme-based,” which means that a theme is thinkers and creative visionaries. is Angelina Fox, a senior student who has had
chosen and then the academics (reading, writing, experience with the American Idol process. A
math, art) are taught and integrated within it. student judging panel and master of ceremonies
are sure to be entertaining!
I still remember sitting in high school history
class, bored, particularly annoyed at memorizing Organized by the parents of students of the
various historical dates which to me were only titles, Class of 2005, Vashon Idyll is the last of several
not events, and wondering “What does history have fund raising events planned over the last three
to do with me?” years to raise money for a safe and fun graduation
celebration. The destination is a secret until
Today, I’m devouring history from the late 1800s. graduation night, but the committee will say that
I take special joy in discovering incredible stories of they did reserve the “most sought after venue”
women in the time of petticoats and big skirts leading available. Booked almost two years ago, the
the abolitionist movement, protesting for their right students are sure to be entertained! “Our goal is
to vote, being jailed for peaceful demonstration, and to have every senior attend who wants to, and
writing about oppression and injustice. This history hopefully they all want to!” says Mary Langland
has some application and implication to my life and from the committee.
passion.
Vashon
History also applies during my “discussions” Idyll Deux is
with my Republican brother who walks me through an event you
analysis of historical events (as in the Korean and do not want
Vietnam wars) to support Bush’s actions in Iraq, all to miss!
the while I’m using the same history to support my Tickets will
opposing position. Again, in this way history has be available
some application in my life. at the school
office or at the
If history in high school had been taught within door. Bring
a theme and applied to my life, I believe I would your family
have been more engaged. I certainly would have and have a
cared more about those chronological dates I was great time!
memorizing. But my public school education was
subject-based, not theme-based. Angelina Fox

One theme at Madrona this year was the
pioneers. Dixon learned math when she and her
classmates assembled a quilt. She studied language
arts when they read and wrote stories about pioneer
adventures. For humanities they cooked and ate a
pioneer lunch and spun yarn from wool.

Dixon can tell me all fifty states by singing “Fifty
Nifty United States from 13 Original Colonies,”
taking care of geography. For science, in a botanical
lesson they learned about the various parts of cattails
and then wove baskets using the dried leaves.

Researchers Dirkx and Prenger (1997) suggest,
“Literacy educators have long recognized that
relating instructional content to the specific contexts
of learners’ lives and interests increases motivation
to learn.”

Focusing on themes enables teachers to
meaningfully link different disciplines so that
students will develop “big” and important ideas.
They also see the practicality and applicability of the
academic skills. It creates an integrated and holistic
learning environment. I believe it leads to holistic

That’s why Dixon goes to Madrona.
And, she loves it.
oooooo

Zachary Hershey and Gabi Freeman-Sheehan read together Madrona teacher Jeriann Schriner shows
thinking; thinking that is not segmented, but Amayah Royer how to spin yarn
associative, interconnected, with an appreciation for
cause and effect.

In addition to its theme-based curriculum,
Madrona has a multi-age classroom, is committed
to compassionate communication, supports
individual learning styles, embraces cooperative/
non-competitive learning, and has a low student/
teacher ratio (10 to 1). All these factors create an

The Vashon Loop, p. 14 April 20, 05

LIVING WELL WITH PLANTS

Text and drawings by Kathy Abascal (AHG)

Ephreda is Back!

The wheels of herbal justice recommend an unsafe dose of the The line between words showing a HERBAL SEMINAR
grind slowly. Last April, the same herb. health benefit and words claiming a Kathy Abascal will be teaching an
FDA banned all herbs containing benefit in disease is a fine one, and
ephedrine, a compound named after In the ephedra case, the FDA manufacturers are forever stumbling herbal seminar in Seattle on
the herb Ephedra sinensis. Last banned all herbs that contained across it in an attempt to May 7, 2005.
Thursday, a year later, a federal court ephedrine, no matter how miniscule communicate the potential benefits of
overturned the FDA’s ban. This the amount. The FDA simply their products. She and Dr. Eric Yarnell will cover the
should mean that ephedra and decided that ephedrine had no clinical use of herbs in autoimmune
Pinellia ternata, two quite helpful scientifically proven benefit but For people who are unfamiliar disorders as well as botanical tonic
herbs, will once again be available in could increase blood pressure and with herbs, DSHEA makes little immune building. Details on the
health food stores. heart rate, and in large enough doses,
This FDA rule outlawed all could cause death. It concluded that, sense. From their perspective, seminar are available at Minglement or
traditional uses of ephedra and as a result, any use of any product herbs are often dangerous and visit http://www.herbalseminars.com.
pinellia: Ephedra is in most herbal containing any amount of ephedrine probably do not work in any
allergy formulas to provide relief was “unreasonable”. event. These people are often Seminar is limited to 20 students,
from watery eyes and runny noses. persuaded by another force in advance registration required.
It is also used for allergic reactions This was wrong, said the court, the marketplace: Big business.
that clog the sinuses and cause because DSHEA does not consider The supplement market the opinion I think that is unlikely.
throbbing headaches. Asthma the potential benefit of any herb. represents billions of dollars It is more likely that the FDA will
patients who cannot, or prefer not, Instead, herbs are legal unless the create new rules that ban products
to use prescription drugs government proves that an herb, that could flow into the pockets recommending high doses of
sometimes use low doses of used as suggested is harmful. And of pharmaceutical companies, ephedrine. This would limit
ephedra to stop their bronchial there was no evidence showing that licensed professionals, and ephedra products sold for easy
spasms. Shosaikoto is a low doses of ephedrine posed any pharmacies. These groups may or weight loss and athletic energy
formula that is widely used in risk of harm whatsoever. The court may not believe that herbs are boosts but would allow traditional
Asia in hepatitis C, liver decided that a ban on all herbs actually dangerous. It is hard to tell uses of the herbs — a much more
cancer, and epilepsy. because they stand to benefit reasonable rule.
Shosaikoto contains very Ephreda economically if herbs are available oooooo
small amounts of pinellia, an containing ephedrine violated only by prescription, if at all. They
herb that at best contains tiny DSHEA, and held that the FDA must argue that herbs, like drugs, should
amounts of ephedrine. Although rewrite its rule. The court did not not be sold until proven safe and
many studies conclude that it decide whether there was evidence effective. The FDA’s ban on ephedra
contains none at all, it was banned supporting a ban of products reflected their thinking: Ephedra was
by the FDA because one study recommending doses of herbs that banned primarily because there was
showed it had trace amounts of delivered large amounts of no solid scientific proof of its
ephedrine. ephedrine. effectiveness.
This FDA rule was found to The wheels of justice are said to
violate a law called DSHEA. In For people who use herbs, grind slowly and exceedingly fine.
DSHEA, Congress declared that DSHEA makes a fair amount of The recent ephedra opinion is not the
herbs were to be regulated as foods sense. Overall, the law allows people final ruling on the meaning of
unless the manufacturer advertises direct access to herbs that have been DSHEA. It could be reversed by a
that they treat disease, in which case used medicinally for millennia and higher court, although after reading
they are regulated as drugs. The long that many continue to want to use.
and short of DSHEA is that herbs The worst aspect of DSHEA from this Organic Produce Delivery
may be sold without prior group’s perspective is that it leads to
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because people who abuse it by will help support healthy breathing.
taking too much are injured.
Certainly many ephedra cases
involved people who took far more
than recommended doses.
Moreover, a product recommending
a safe dose of an herb cannot be
banned because other products

April 20, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 15

Norse Dreamtime

an Evening Performance - $5
Friday April 22nd, 7-9pm (ages 12-adult)

Jurgen Kremer weaves together anchent images,
chant & poetry to create a mesmerizing experience

of the ancient Nordic world

The Ecological Imagination

A day-long Workshop - $45
Saturday April 23rd, 9am - 5pm

For information and to register for

Celebratethe workshop call 463-6255
Tickets for Evening Performance

Earthare available at Vashon Bookshop

and at the door. Both events are at

The Land Trust Building Day Garden
on Bank Road the

Earthfair Looking For Volunteers! World I Wish I Had a
by MEarth Puppy
It’s that time of year again! We are planning ahead for A teacher asked one of her
Island Earthfair 2005, which will take place this year on August students if he knew the meaning of on the Island for a while will
5th, 6th & 7th in Paradise Ridge Park. Our volunteer staff has the word “hope.” The young boy probably remember it. It was a gnarly
been meeting for the last four months in preparation for this replied that he did. She asked him to old thing who lived on the side of a
year’s event, which promises to be bigger and better than ever! use it in a sentence. He said “I wish I cliff. It was finally taken out in a
We’ve already booked lots of great music and this year we’ll had a puppy.” powerful storm and landed on a
be joined by the All-Cascadia Bioregional Conference. Stay In our yard is an old peach tree. house on the beach below. That old
tuned for more info on that! We have, more or less, built our own tree was a friend and confidant. It
orchard to accompany it. Some once told me that, to trees, human
With people having babies or moving on to other projects, neighborhood research has led me to beings look like chickens with their
we now have some great volunteer positions that we’d like to believe it is left from a peach orchard heads cut off, running around madly
fill. Although we’re not paid for our efforts, it’s a wonderful rumored to be on this part of the to no avail — and that the reason
organization to be a part of and a great bunch of people to be Island some eighty years ago. This people did not hear the trees talking
associated with. particular tree is not eighty years old to them was that they didn’t sit still
so my suspicion is that it has come and shut up long enough. One
If you haven’t participated as a volunteer or as a spectator up from rootstock remaining when particularly emotional spring, I went
in the past, Island Earthfair is an annual event that takes place the scion of one of those older trees to talk to that tree. I sang the blues
for three days in a gorgeous outdoor setting to celebrate our died. Since it is root stock, it is not (metaphorically) and recited the
role as caretakers of the earth. We try to provide a lively particularly well-suited to growing “woe is me” litany that weighted so
atmosphere of music and celebration along with an educational in this geographic area, with our heavily on my mind at that moment.
summit of workshops, speakers and seminars that reflect a unique Maritime Northwest climate. After I had banged my head
holistic and positive vision for the future and relate to the The fact that is ill-suited to against the thick bark for a time, I
environment, spirit, holistic health, natural living, yoga, growing here does not stop it from happened to look up and I had a
vegetarianism, sustainable agriculture, ecology and recycling. trying to make fruit every spring. moment of epiphany. Way up there,
Our plan is to co-create a community for three days, a Annually it sets blossoms but, of over a hundred feet from where I sat,
temporary, intentional village bringing together caring people course, it does so much too early in was a twisted old limb, as big around
to create, educate and celebrate. The intent is to provide the season. Nine years out of ten, it as many of the second growth trees
education and engage support for a simpler, more sustainable is cold, rainy and miserable when on the Island. On that limb was the
lifestyle. this hopeful tree produces its unmistakable iridescent green of
flowers. It is also nowhere near any new growth. “What do you have to
We have an area called Kidsworld, where in the past we peach tree that could possibly complain about?” was the message I
have had creative activities for kids that involve their pollinate it anyway. I could not even got. “Look where I’m growing. See
imagination, along with great interactive demonstrations from help it if I got another peach tree. Any what I’m doing. Go home and put on
people like the Reptile Man and the Bubbleman. If this sounds such tree that I got suitable to this a little new growth of your own!”
like an area you’d be interested in coordinating or just helping agricultural area would not produce The thing about this peach tree
out with, let us know. It’s a really fun area to be a part of. pollen at an appropriate time to in our yard is that nothing stops its
satisfy this tree. hopeful nature. I have to admire that.
We’re also looking for someone to organize and handle the I have occasionally considered This year, with our unusual spring,
Craft Vendor area, planning ahead for the needed space and taking a chainsaw to the poor thing the weather was actually warm and
coordinating with all the vendors once they begin showing up and putting it out of its misery but sunny while it bloomed. Of course, I
to set up their booths. Don’t be shy! If you feel you can then I realized I could not be the one would be greatly surprised if it
contribute, come on out! You’ll have fun! to put an end to eighty-plus years of managed to get pollinated. It would
hope. Hope is what this tree exhibits border on the order of an Immaculate
All those volunteers get hungry after all their hard work, every spring. Like a horny old Conception. I’m not saying it would
so we’re looking for someone to coordinate and run the Camp spinster who has not given up, this be impossible-just unlikely. The
Kitchen...someone to plan out the menu and cook up some tree solicits sex every year and the thing is, what I realized this Spring
great grub! Calling all chefs! fact it has never been successful does is that as Global Warming changes
not dissuade it. our climate a little more each year,
We could also use help in other areas such as helping run That optimism is a pattern in what used to be Northern California
the One World Stage, construction, deconstruction, recycling nature we could learn to emulate. I conditions are moving this way. The
and electrical. In fact, if none of the above sounds like your once took my troubles to an old fir peach tree in our yard may well live
cup of tea, there are lots of other areas where we could use tree who used to live up on Dolphin long enough to live in a climate more
some help...just let us know what sounds interesting to you! Point. Those of you who have been suited to its constitution. Wouldn’t
that be a hoot?
Of course, there are benefits to helping out at Earthfair oooooo
(besides making all kinds of new friends), like free admission,
camping passes, free food, etc. Come join us and be a part of a
great organization! Call 463-1725 for more information or e-
mail Pete at [email protected].

The Vashon Loop, p. 16 April 20, 05

Aries (March 20-April 19) A certain issue of Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) Sunday’s lunar
commitment has arisen, and you may have eclipse in your birth sign should go a long
the idea that your freedom is threatened by way toward making sense of what has been,
someone who would mark your every sin in to say the least, nonsensical. Like, for
a little black book. I suggest there is another instance, your emotions, your thoughts, and
way of looking at this relationship, your sense of safety. You’ve been missing
particularly if you are willing to be something obvious, but you can’t know for
absolutely forgiving of any transgression sure what it is until you find it. Eclipses often
that is happening now or has happened in arrive with the feeling that something is
the past. People have a right to seek their coming out in the wash (check your pockets
pleasure, and under normal circumstances first), or that you’ve rolled over a rock and
you would not hesitate to let them have it. If found your grandfather’s treasure. That
you remember that nobody has to lose in the something has a lot to do with a specific
situation, then nobody will. security need. When you find it, give it a
Taurus (April 19-May 20) The Sun’s recent name, and tell someone, so you don’t forget.
entry into your birth sign should go a long Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) Scorpio is to
way toward making wishful thinking feel Sagittarius what chocolate is to a plum.
like a dream worth living. The problem is They’re both sweet, but the vibrations are
you may still be carrying some entirely different. Right now, there’s quite a
disillusionment from a recent situation, lot of Scorpio boiling over in your solar chart,
perhaps professional or perhaps personal, particularly an eclipse of the Moon that’s
that looked like it was going exceptionally magnifying itself beyond all proportion. It
well — and then suddenly everything may be that nothing seems familiar, and that
seemed to turn gray. Check back over your even people and things you know well have
files. I assure you things did not go as badly taken on a strange quality. You don’t have
as you may think, and in any event, there to wait long for the energy to pass, but you’d
was not a total loss. Faith is nothing if it can’t be missing a big chance if you hid yourself
rise above the basic challenges of living. away. It’s not every day that a Sagittarius gets
Gemini (May 20-June 21) Your a look at their dark side, but it’s good for you,
commitments to friends and associates may and good for everyone else, too.
seem as deep as most people’s commitments Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) Capricorns are
to their primary partners. That may be prone to guilt perhaps more than any sign
strange to everyone else, but it should be except for Pisces. The reason is that you have
normal enough to you. All the divisions and such a deep connection to the past, and such
classifications we make in relationships deny an evolved sense of both history and personal
one simple fact, that we are all people doing responsibility. Yes, I know there are ruthless
our best to live on the planet — and all we Capricorns, but I am talking about you. I Dear Madame Toujours,
have is one another. Still, there are some who suggest you take this occasion to let yourself I am the victim of unfair This is why I am contacting for
call out for special care and special attention, off the hook for something. You know what harassment just because I have you my good friend Mlle. DeNoir.
and at times that’s necessary. It takes some it is. If there are two things, include both. been having a relationship with a You will be liking Mlle. DeNoir.
discipline to live the deeper truth that we are Perhaps it’s the way you treated a friend, mentally handicapped WOMAN. She is the consenting adult person
all equal beings, but it makes life a lot easier. rejected an offer out of suspicion, or missed Lillian is not a child, she is legally who is having the exceedingly
Cancer (June 21-July 22) You may be getting an opportunity because you doubted an adult, and she completely good skill for looking and acting
nervous about a decision you’ve made, but yourself. Let it go, and see what happens consented to everything we did like the young, teenage girl, or, if
remember that your astrology points clearly next. together, but I told her to keep our you are preferring, the adult
to a need to take a chance, a risk or Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) If you have to set friendship a secret because I knew female person who is having the
speculation. Usually, we’re rewarded for aside a particular ambition, you’re doing it her family and the police would little disability so that she is
doing what’s aligned with the stars, and for for a much greater cause. In truth, you have be unfairly prejudiced against me seeming like the easy target.
going a little beyond what we thought was what you need. You’re well supported, just because Lillian is very
possible. Usually it is possible, but we don’t which is to say, you have food to eat, you childlike mentally. She will be skillfully
ever get to know that until we try. Most stand on solid ground, and you possess your Now her family has found out, insinuating herself into your life
people would argue that what they have is sanity. If you subtract something you thought and I am very afraid for my and inviting you to be engaging
worth keeping and thus, risks are not worth of as a cherished goal from the picture, you reputation in the community. Her in the “consensual” acts. Then,
taking. But you exist far outside the comfort will very likely see that there’s something family is saying that Lillian has when you are feeling very pleased
zone of your peers, particularly now — and bigger, more important and more personally been having an emotional and confident that you are having
you know it. meaningful behind it. There is something you breakdown and acting very the very amusing time and being
Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) There’s a definite can discover about looking past what your depressed and angry ever since in control of the defenseless
charge in the air, like little lightning bolts parents said was right for you, or what they we started seeing each other, but female person, Mlle. DeNoir will
are flying around. It is not clear from your told you was impossible. On the other side that isn’t because of our be delicately removing for you the
charts just how domestic or partnership of that is the truth. relationship. It is probably liver with the very sharp knife.
situations are working out, but it is clear that Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) While Saturn because I had to make poor Lillian Possibly, you will be somewhat
you seem to have a handle on things, and remains in your sympathetic sign Cancer, lie so that her family would not startled to be very suddenly
have taken charge. You do that well, but of you have a special advantage working for tear us apart, so it is actually their misplacing for yourself the liver,
course it’s always possible to do it a little you: an unusual ability to let go of situations own fault. but you will be pleased to know
better — that’s the mark of a true leader. that you don’t need. Where Saturn is Now I can never see her again that when not assassinating
People are still quite unsure how they feel concerned, the decisions may seem difficult because if her family and the depraved persons, Mlle. DeNoir is
about recent events, which are actually more at the time, but in retrospect they are obvious. police find out, I will be arrested actually the medical student at the
intense than anyone is letting on. Remember, If you’re now making a difficult choice, you and my reputation destroyed. prestigious university, and the
people have something resembling actual can be sure that you have an extra allocation Sincerely, little vivisection, it will be the very
faith in you, and you deserve it. of faith, and an odd sense of what is possible Not a Molester good practice for her surgical
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) With the Sun and beyond what you have any reason to believe Cher M. Molester, career, so you will be making the
Venus now so well positioned, there’s little today. What are you seeking? Freedom? This is very nice that you are big sacrifice for the good of others.
that can harm you, and much good that can Success? Love? Or something that embraces caring enough for yourself that
come. But remember, no matter how clean that all? Now, if ever, allow what you want you are leaving Mlle. Lillian alone. Bon Chance, M. Molester, and
and bright a room is, it’s always possible to to be important to you. I am thinking also that it is too bad give my regards to Mlle. DeNoir
close your eyes and make it dark. No matter oooooo you were not caring enough about when you are seeing her.
where you are, you’ll always see the contents Mlle. Lillian to be leaving her
of your own mind first. Sunday’s eclipse of Happy Birthday, Taurus! alone. Eh bien, the extremely
the Sun in the angle of your chart dealing There are many factors promising peace and selfish persons cannot be expected
with your ideas about life is calling on you fulfillment in your life this year, and others to be thinking about the feelings
to look at the world in a new way. Perhaps suggesting that if you live in pursuit of of the victims.
you need to be less emotional and more material ends alone, you will burn out pretty
practical. Perhaps you just need to be quickly. As always, ancient wisdom suggests
yourself and not worry about what you think finding a balance and working to keep it. But
anyone else expects. your solar return chart also reminds you that
Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) I’m looking at your every need, wish or desire has a deeper layer.
solar chart trying to figure out why things Look beneath what you think you are
seem out of balance, and if so, in what striving for. What exactly is motivating you?
direction. There’s a chance that the imbalance What would you do if you could never find
is perfect; that you are either on the receiving that thing, or experience? What would
end of a lot of energy, or that you have access happen if it were suddenly put in front of
to some enormous resources that you are you?
giving to a cause that has nothing to do with
you. There may also be a truly intense and Eric Francis has
even monumental relationship in the picture, more to say at
calling you to let loose some of the power in www.PlanetWaves.net.
your belly. If so, I propose that it’s a situation
worth developing, and that any recent
strangeness is water under the bridge.





April 20, 05 It’s time we The Vashon Loop, p. 19
stopped blaming our problems
Loopy Laffs on people in the past, and started The little boy was caught swearing by his teacher.
“Jeffrey,” she said, “you shouldn’t use that kind of
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future. language. Where did you hear it?” “My daddy
When in doubt. . . said it.” he responded. “Well, that doesn’t matter,”
After all, people in the future have
time travel. Why aren’t they coming she explained, “you don’t even know what it
means.” “I do, too.” Jeffrey corrected.
back to help us? “It means the car won’t start.”

A preacher visits an elderly
woman from his congregation. As
he sits on the couch, he notices a
large bowl of peanuts on the coffee
table. “ Mind if I have a few?” he
asks. “ No not at all,” the woman
replied. They chat for an hour and
as the preacher stands to leave, he
realizes that instead of eating just a
few peanuts, he emptied most of the
bowl.
mumble. “I’m totally sorry for eating all

your peanuts, I really meant to just
have a few.” “Oh that’s all right,”
OneLiners the woman says. “Ever since I lost
my teeth, all I can do is suck the
(more or less) chocolate off them!”

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Mental backup in progress: Do Not Disturb!
Never start something that you’re not going to fin
Don’t worry: The answer’s at the back of the book.
Feel free to hurt my feelings. All you risk is my insane rage.
Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world’s population.

If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize
world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would
be until the looting started.

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ALL
THERE
by
Tristan
Davis

The Vashon Loop, p. 20 April 20, 05

Loop Island Jazz Quintet Concerts
ArtsA Review:
Mozart’s Requiem performed by the Vashon Island Chorale on The Island Jazz
Sunday, April 10, 2005 at St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church Quintet saw an
exciting 2004 with trips to
By Mary Litchfield Tuel Mexico and China, and
numerous festivals and
Let’s get one thing club dates. IJQ, now
straight: I was recording a third CD and
floating about one foot in the scheduling shows for
air over the pew for the spring and summer,
duration of this features vocalist Maggie
performance, completely Laird (a “dynamite
blissed out on Mozart’s singer…a real find.” —
music and this performance Victory Review) and noted
of it. So this is a big rave, instrumentalists Richard
“two thumbs ‘way up,” as Person, Tom Wilkins, Todd
they say. Zimberg and Todd Gowers.
It is one thing to listen to The Island Jazz Quintet
a recording of a magnificent will be performing close to
piece of music like this, but to sit in home this month and next.
Tenor Gary Koch is a special case. They will perform this
the room with the orchestra and He sang baritone until a few years Friday and Saturday, April
chorus as it is being performed is ago, and was frequently mistaken for 22 and 23, at Kenyon Hall,
right up there with good sex and a tenor because of the quality of his 7904 35th Avenue SW in
fresh corn on the cob. The senses are voice. I’m not sure if that is why he West Seattle. Fans have been enjoying the band’s monthly performances at
filled. decided to train as a tenor, but I know the Merchants Cafe at 109 Yesler in Pioneer Square. Next month’s Merchants
The Vashon Island Chorale has he has worked and studied hard to gig is on Sunday, May 22, from 6-9 p.m.
been around since 1989, performing expand his range. He is becoming For reservations for this weekend call 206.937.3613 or go to
choral classics and contemporary more relaxed and at home in the [email protected] Keep abreast of other upcoming shows at
pieces. Their current conductor, tenor range as time goes by. Of the website: www.islandjazzquintet.com
French horn virtuoso and UW course, if the singing doesn’t work Here’s what they’re saying about the Island Jazz Quintet:
professor David Kappy, has brought out, he can always fall back on that “Vashon Island boasts a group worthy of national attention. This quintet would
the group to as fine a performance doctor thing. be right at home in a New York cabaret.” —Victory Review
“That Island Jazz Quintet CD is a knockout. All of it!” — Rich Tozier, Maine
Public Broadcasting.
“IJQ continues to evolve its own sound that mixes improvisational jazz with
clean arrangements and clever composition. The music is original and seductive,
fraught with color, tension and drive.” — Jerome Wilson, Cadence Magazine

pitch as they’ve ever reached. The orchestra was a generational What’s Happening at Vashon Bookshop!?
The chorale is a huge group, and mix, which befits a community
the work they have done to become orchestra. High school (and by Devon Atkins

a cohesive performing entity has paid younger) musicians were playing. All I’ve got to say is that April is projects. It’s going to be quite a night;
off. Every section was great. Their feet might not have reached the one heck of a month at the
As an alto, I have particular floor, but their playing was Bookshop. But, I’ve got lots more to an opportunity for us all to find out
say about April, and even some what we can do, and what’s being
sympathy for the altos. The sopranos professional caliber. A couple of surprises about what’s coming up in done.
and tenors have their lightning treble students came over from the UW, but May.
intensity to put their parts across, and mostly the musicians were local. Of course, the month began with
Don’t miss our “A Passion for a bunch of fabulous kids who are the
the baritone/bass section is the solid Gaye Detzer did the hard work of Poetry,” Friday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. Original and Second Saturday Book
thundering foundation upon which organizing the orchestra the last Each April, Ms. Rayna Holtz and the
the rest of the chorale stands. Altos three months, and Gretchen Woods Library host a Poetry Coffeehouse, Groups. These young and very
celebrating April, our country’s spunky readers meet the first
are the lower, warmer, mellower was Concert Mistress. National Poetry Month. This year, (Original Kids Book Group, ages 10-
female voices, and the alto part tends What a gift these people are to the Rayna’s handed over the bongos
to get buried in the middle of the mix. community. They all have classes and mic, and the Bookshop will host 13) and second Saturdays (Second
an evening of community Open Mic. Saturday Book Group, ages 6-9) of
They are felt more than heard, and jobs and families and plenty else It’s great fun and sort of surprising each month for books and
usually, but in the Chorale last on their minds, but they take the time to see who loves poetry; I guarantee
Sunday they were both heard and and do the work to present concerts, an incredible assortment of friends doughnuts, at 9 a.m. or so. These
and neighbors will be spouting mornings are filled with the best sort
felt. Hats off to all, truly. and the island is richer for it. sonnets, sestinas, and all things of kid energy; they’re silly, funny,
Soloists Marita Ericksen, Kim rhyming or free form. (The evening
The Chorale presents three concerts is sponsored by the Poetry Salon, smart, and determined to convince
Farrell, Gary Koch, d Mark Fitchette a year: Winter and Spring Masterworks which gathers the first Thursday of
and Dick Paulson were also concerts in December and April, and an each month. It is your community each other of the best book to read
group of folks who love to think for the month. It’s easy to become
outstanding, both in their solos and Island Festival pops concert in July. This aloud and share it with folks who part of either group, or both! Just
in blending their ensemble singing. year the Chorale will be doing their pops do the same.) Sign up for your own
I had not heard Marita for a while, set on Friday night, July 8, at Ober Park, 3-5 minutes, beginning at 7 p.m., and give me a call (567-4886), and I’ll send
stay for the whole fabulous evening. you the monthly emailing. Your
and it was good to remember, oh and the next Winter concert will be child can join us any Saturday when
yeah, she is really good! Kim has a December 4. For more information or to And, then, there’s the
lovely lyrical mezzo, and Mark and join up (there are no auditions), call Jo Environmental Symposium, Friday, it works for you both!
April 29 at 7 p.m., an evening that Of course, if it’s you who is
Dick both did better than well on the Ann Bardeen at 567-5841, or email might just change your view of your looking for a group for discussion
bass parts. [email protected]. world. A group of Evergreen State
oooooo College researchers and authors of about books, drop by the Bookshop’s
Defending Wild Washington: A
Citizen’s Action Guide will share what Book Group on the third Thursday
they learned when they researched of each month. Talk about folks who
and wrote this amazing book that like to think aloud?! This month’s
speaks to what “just folks” can do book choice is Robert Sawyer’s
to protect our environment. At least Hominids: (Neanderthal Parallax), and
a dozen of our own “green” groups the group is eager to welcome new
will be in attendance to learn, and members.
to share their current and ongoing And, then of course, there’s May.
Oh my! Marty Wingate (May 6), the
Wizard of Northwest gardening ; our
own Gwynn Palmer (May 13) who
uses her culinary skills to create truly
healthy eating, and, an All-Island
Spelling Bee (May 21), which only
goes to prove, once again, that the
Bookshop is so much more than just
books!
oooooo



The Vashon Loop, p. 22 April 20, 05

Vashon Island Art Studio Tour

An Island Tradition For More Than 22 Years

Artists and craftspeople on Free color brochures include a
Vashon Island will open their studios large map of Vashon that pinpoints
to the public for the island’s popular studio and gallery locations.
Spring Art Studio Tour during two Locations are then keyed to pictures
weekends in May — May 7-8 and 14- of artists’ work, addresses, and brief
15–from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This free descriptions of their art. Brochures
tour, which features only Vashon are widely available at art galleries
artists, has been a tradition on the and businesses all over the island,
island for over 22 years. and shops and stores in downtown
Vashon, and online at
Artists and craftspeople from 23 www.vashonislandartstudiotour.com.
studios, plus eight shops and Vashon Island is easily accessible
galleries, will participate. Types of by ferry from: Fauntleroy (West
fine art and crafts available for Seattle), Point Defiance (Tacoma),
purchase include jewelry, paintings, and Southworth. Schedule
sculpture, glass, small bells, blown- information for ferries is available
glass, prints, cards, textiles, online at www.wsdot.wa.gov/
handmade books, drawings, quilts, ferries.
alternative furniture, pottery, tiles, oooooo
photography, garden art, clothing
at the Grange Hall! and woodwork. All items are one of
a kind and made on Vashon.
Continued from page 1 Suzzy and Maggie have long
been known as part of the singing Many tour artists are represented
trio The Roches, whose first album in galleries, museums, and
appeared in 1979. They are now collections — both private and
touring in support of their new corporate — all over the world. This
album Why the Long Face, which is your chance to buy directly from
was released this past fall and has artists and save. Plus, you can see
been admired by critics and long- where they work, talk with them,
time fans alike. Their style and even learn from them. Some
revolves around fantastic artists will be giving fascinating
harmonization and virtuosic demonstrations.
guitar and piano playing. Suzzy
There will be two shows at the and Maggie don’t tour often; it’s
beautiful Grange Hall. The first been ages since they’ve played in
show, at 2 p.m., will be a benefit the Seattle area, and this is their Boo Boo Hides: a
for the very worthy (and first trip to our Island, so this is a Tale with a Tail
increasingly famous) BaaHaus
Animal Rescue Local author joy dance has Miss
written and illustrated a Congeniality 2
(www.baahaus.org). Entitled “An whimsical picture book for
Afternoon Tea with Maggie and Wednesday 4/20
Suzzy Roche,” this will be a very children about her cat who loves Thursday 4/21
to play hide and seek. Boo Boo
special show with a post show Hides is the title. at 6:00pm PG-13
chance to meet these two
outstanding musicians over a cup She says her cat’s humor of The Ring 2
twists and turns is the story which
of tea, and special culinary treats! invites giggles from both children Wednesday 4/20
The second show, also at the Thursday 4/21
Grange, will be at 8 pm. and adults.
joy explains that she added at 8:15pm PG-13
very rare and serendipitous one other whimsical element to
chance to see them. Tickets for Downfall R
both shows are available at her book: A tail. “Cats have tails
and I felt the book needed one too. Friday 4/22 - Thursday 4/28
Vashon Island Music (463-0552), It helps small hands tote the book Call 463-3232 or
and if there are any left, they will
also be available at the door. oooo about.” She said the tail is Vashon www.vashontheater.com for times
grown wool by the local sheep
and spun by Caroline Smith. Sin City R
She explained what prompted
her to write Boo Boo Hides, her first Friday 4/22 - Thursday 4/28
Serving Vashon children’s book. “When my first Call 463-3232 or
and West Seattle grandchild was born, I needed
some way to say, ‘hello... so glad www.vashontheater.com for times
you’re here.’ Since children and
animals are both playful and Hitchhikers
humorous, I felt it would be a fun Guide To the
reciprocal gift.”
And joy added, “My second Galaxy PG
children’s book is in the works. It’s
centered in nature. I use verse to World Premiere Midnight Show
emphasize its rhythm of rhyme Thursday 4/28 @ 12:00am
and repetition. Its storyline is
playful and fun too with touches Friday 4/29 - Thursday 5/12
Don’t miss.... of nature’s nurturing and
Environmental Symposium steadiness.” Full Calendar Online
Friday, April 29th, 7 pm “BBoo Boo Hides is in color and
was printed and bound locally by http://www.vashontheater.com
Mon-Sat 9-7, Sun 9-5 463-2616 Vashon Print and Design. It is
available at the library and these
stores: Books by the Way, Country
Store, Essentials 4, Little House,
Minglement, and Vashon Book
Shop. oooooo

April 20, 05 The Vashon Loop, p. 23

Harry Manx

Saturday,
May 7th 8:00 pm

Tickets $15.00 Jr/Sr $10.00
Visa/ Mastercard

Doors open at 7:00pm

Hans York at Café Luna

Hans York - Seattle singer- bassist or producer on a variety of
songwriter with German/Brazilian albums ranging form San Francisco
roots visits Cafe Luna on Saturday, Blues legend Fillmore Slim to
May 7, at 7:30 p.m. with special guest Folkjazz project Lyquid Amber to
Martin Nyberg. Also, tune in to Voice indie Rock musician Eric Goetz just
of Vashon on Thursday, May 5 for to mention a few. Currently he is
the Ladeez of the Evening show (6 — spending a lot of his time delighting
7:30 p.m., www.voiceofvashon.org) audiences all over the US and Europe
to hear the interview and live studio playing guitar with US National
performance with hosts Susan Fiddle Champion Jamie Laval or
McCabe and Karen Biondo. presenting his new solo album,
“Inside Out.” Hans has quickly made
“Hans York is a man of many vast himself a name as an
musical talents and one of the best extraordinary DADGAD
songwriters around.” (European player and a strong,
Weekly, April 2005) “I first saw Hans engaging performer with a
perform at the Tractor Tavern in distinctive style and an
Seattle - he played with The Jamie irrepressibly delightful and
Laval Trio. I was awe-struck. His approachable manner. His
mastery of the guitar is matched by intimate voice has
his presence on stage...a professional reminiscence to a Paul
who gives 125% to make sure Simon or Michael Franks
everyone enjoys every minute he and captures the audience
spends with them. No brief candle, instantly with its honesty
Hans York (AKA Hannsjoerg Scheid) and clearness.
came to the US about eight years ago Hans spent six months in
from Germany after already having Rio de Janeiro where he
recorded on up to 26 or so CDs.” — studied Samba, Bossa Nova
M. Nyberg. and popular Brazilian music,
an experience that upon his
German born and Seattle based return to Germany inspired
Hans York, a.k.a. Hannsjoerg Scheid, his first solo album
has appeared as singer, guitarist, “Hazzazar.” He
accompanied Robert Palmer
on German TV; toured as
bass player with the New
York Broadway Ensemble; played
throughout Europe with master harp
player Rüdiger Oppermann; and
performed a solo on fretless bass
with a chamber orchestra presenting
a Concerto written by contemporary
East German composer Thomas
König. Hans York was one of the
founders of German Worldmusic
cult band Moka Efti and recorded
three albums with them, the last one,
“Fata Morgana,” with US
saxophonist Charlie Mariano and
producer Heinrich von Kalnein
(Vienna Art Orchestra). Hans York Celtic Music Session at Bishop’s
is a world musician in the true sense Every Sunday @7pm
of the term, drawing most of his
present day inspiration from his vast Tickets available on line at
eclectic background. www.hushhushticketing.com
oooooo or behind the bar at Bishops

Earthfair Says Thanks! Tickets Available at the
Door.
On behalf of our entire volunteer-based organization, Island
Earthfair would like to personally thank the following people You must be 21 and have ID
for participating in the Benefit Dance at Camp Burton last month: after 10pm for All Shows!
all members of Loose Change, Tribal Voices, Islewilde, Turner
Down and the great John Browne. A very special thanks goes Bishops Pub Offers A Large Selection
out to Troy Kindred for doing the sound. Although the weather of Tap, Bottle Beer & Cocktails.
was working against us, those who did attend the dance were
treated to some really great performances, thanks to all of you. Full Food Menu is Available in the Pub
All proceeds went to both the Vashon Food Bank and Island
Earthfair. Thanks to all who attended and contributed! Find us on the web www.bishopscafe.com
www.islandearthfair.com

The Vashon Loop, p. 24 April 20, 05

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rebuilt head with other new parts. Strong
heavy duty bucket. Tractor sold with 4 way
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Everything works but the horn 463-5161

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