A group of Vashon teens is currently working to make the steps of homeless children in Guadalajara, Mexico, a little bit happier.
Vashon Island School District won’t lose a single teaching position next year, thanks to a whirlwind fundraising effort that raised more than $446,000 in the last six weeks.
Over the Christmas holidays, Islanders who ride the passenger-only boat from Vashon to downtown Seattle showered the crew with cookies, cards, even hand-knitted hats — tokens of gratitude for a crew and service many commuters have grown to appreciate.
As the pastor’s wife moves to the front of the dimly lit sanctuary, a hush falls over the small congregation. After a few short announcements, the service commences. A church member reads a passage of scripture as young men controlling the sound system in the back of the room cue up music for the first worship song. As the music begins, believers close their eyes, raise their hands and sing.
Every year, hundreds of young cancer patients, survivors and their siblings descend upon Camp Burton, turning it into Camp Goodtimes, an American Cancer Society-sponsored camp for those affected by cancer.
Seventh-graders at McMurray Middle School will get a healthy dose of local history next year, thanks to a grant from 4Culture that will help teachers educate their students about Vashon’s past.
Around 25 Islanders gathered at McMurray Middle School last Wednesday to discuss a messy topic: sewers. And if any conclusion could be taken from the debate, it was that the issues surrounding Vashon Sewer District commissioner Ed Murphy’s efforts to restore the sewer district’s former boundaries run deeper than the pipes themselves.
The preschool at Chautauqua Elementary School could soon be better equipped to educate young students with autism, after the school was selected as a pilot site to use a research-based autism education curriculum.
Vashon Island Growers Association is holding its first-ever photo contest, seeking photos taken of the Farmers Market and Island farms and farmstands.
Vashon Park District and the Vashon Folkdancers were recently awarded three grants from 4Culture, King County’s cultural services agency, to help put on summer concerts and events in Island parks.
On Tuesday Islanders will have the opportunity to weigh in on a suite of changes King County is proposing for the way it manages development and other activities along the county’s shorelines.
Piner Point, the southern-most tip of Maury Island, is a quiet stretch of shoreline — a long ribbon of cobbled beach backed by steep banks and a tangled forest of firs and madrones.
Vashon Island Growers Association is raising money for its Market Buck Match program, which matches the first $10 in farmers market food purchases by food stamp — or Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) — customers.
