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Happening
Apr 26 2008, 2:27 AM Play groups move to YMCA

Vandalism on buses triggers alarm
Apr 26 2008, 2:26 AM Almost half of Vashon Island School District’s 11 regularly used buses were vandalized sometime last Wednesday night.

Two artists give Islanders a peek into a new community venue
Janet McAlpin and David Godsey, with their son Kai McAlpin Godsey between them, are perched on some of the equipment they’re beginning to amass for the new theater and performing arts space they’re creating at the former Seattle’s Best Coffee warehouse. The co-founders of UMO, McAlpin and Godsey are thrilled to be able to offer the building as a space for community theater and arts events. Aspects of the new venue, such as the circus space, is already operational. Other spaces, such as the “great hall,” pictured here, are many months away from being open to public use. - Michelle Bates photo Apr 26 2008, 2:26 AM Janet McAlpin and David Godsey had long dreamed of a space that could work for the circus arts — a large, wide-open room that could accommodate the trapezes, ropes and rigging that the breathtaking artistry of physical theater requires.

Island retailers report strong holiday season
Apr 26 2008, 2:26 AM By AMELIA HEAGERTY

Happening
Apr 26 2008, 2:26 AM Draw Oz for Drama Dock

Citizen historian unearths stories about Vashon’s Chautauquas
Apr 26 2008, 2:26 AM By ELIZABETH SHEPHERD

Park District could buy kayak company
Apr 26 2008, 2:26 AM By AMELIA HEAGERTY

When the pond freezes, skaters take to the ice
Apr 26 2008, 2:26 AM Some children wait for the snow to fall each winter. Gary and Linda Peterson, the parents of three grown children, wait for Fisher Pond to freeze.

Teachers union calls for new superintendent by summer
Apr 26 2008, 2:26 AM Vashon Education Association (VEA), the school district teachers’ union, has asked the school board to hire a new superintendent to begin in August.

Shooter’s mother jailed for hatching escape plan
Apr 26 2008, 2:26 AM The mother of Jon Kunkel, the 23-year-old man charged with first-degree murder for last summer’s shooting death of Ron Childers, was arrested Friday for conspiring to help her son escape from jail, according to the King County Sheriff’s Department.

Julia Brock, who moved to Vashon from Oklahoma shortly before the Aug. 19 incident, was also arrested for witness tampering, the sheriff’s department reports. She was released Saturday on $7,500 bail.

John Urquhart, a spokesman for the sheriff’s department, said the department could not “reveal the source of our information and what led us to begin the investigation” into Brock. Asked if the two conspired during a jail house meeting, he said, “Mom and kid did talk in jail.”