The United States as we once knew it, or thought we did, is finished
I am not a Catholic and have not practiced approved Catholic family planning.
I hope that you will join us in supporting the school district’s four-year renewal levy on Feb. 11.
It’s school election season again on Vashon. You may have noticed the reappearance of the colorful lawn signs all over the island. They are in the yards of people who support the schools’ renewal of the Maintenance and Operations Levy, which will be on the Feb. 11 ballot.
I have called Vashon Island my home for 20 years and have contributed time and money to dozens of island organizations — everything from those who protect pets to land, from the oldest to our youngest citizens and for every kind of sports, arts and service group our citizens have created to enrich island life. Each provide an important dimension of color and strength to the fabric of our community.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are written in that order for a reason. Without life there is no liberty, without liberty, no pursuit of happiness. In abortion, the woman’s pursuit of “happiness” is trumping another person’s right to life. A unique, innocent human being is destroyed in an abortion.
The miracle of birth is not actually a miracle. It is science, and it is something that most 12-year-old girls can accomplish with very little effort.
Seems many on Vashon are eager to cash in on the legalization of marijuana, and everyone else seems to be rolling over and accepting the inevitable. No one mentions how harmful marijuana is to our youth.
I am concerned about the vague plans for “finishing” the Vashon Park District’s VES Fields project.
I find Mr. Charles Lovekin’s attempt to equate abortion to Herrod’s mass murder campaign (“Join March for Life this month,” Jan. 8) completely absurd. Herrod’s genocide was motivated by politics, and his executioners butchered living children in front of their families.
Rejoice! God exists and He is with us.
Every year on Dec. 28 the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Innocents – martyrs to Herod’s determination to eliminate male competitors. Herod committed lots of crimes against humanity, and this one is considered one of his lesser ones, since no one knows exactly how many boys under the age of 2 were murdered.
There has been a remarkable confluence of stories about Vashon people and phenomena in the media recently. It started off with an article in The New York Times about Kurt Timmermeister, cheese maker and former restaurateur (“A Table-to-Farm Pioneer,” Dec. 24) and the old Vashon property he has been cultivating for years
I want to thank all the volunteers who trained, took the test and became navigators to help our island friends and neighbors sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. We collectively signed up more than 350 households, of which about 80 percent qualified for Washington Apple Health, the free health coverage.