A look at what various clubs and organizations on Vashon and Maury Island are up to.
Quick shots of what’s happening in the Vashon-Maury islands art communities.
Several Island merchants will participate in a charity flea market from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 21.
Dance the Samba, and drum with RhythmJoy in the Strawberry Festival Parade.
Vashon Bookshop’s book club meets at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, June 19, to discuss Moshin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” a novel about how the life of one Pakistani immigrant is irrevocably changed after the events of Sept. 11.
Vashon Natural Medicine is now part of the Washington State Breast and Cervical Health Program, which allows Washington women better access to health care.
The Vashon Maury Community Food Bank has recently finished remodeling office space in the hopes of providing more services to Islanders as well as creating much needed-work space for staff.
Puget Sound Energy officials, saying they want Islanders to use less of their product, have opened up an office on Vashon that will provide information on how to reduce residential energy costs.
A quick look at happenings around Vashon and Maury islands.
The Vashon Island School Board, determined to assess how much voters will pay for new or improved school buildings, have put price tags on three different scenarios that could begin to address the district’s long-standing need to restore its aging facilities.
Shirley Ferris’ office at Vashon High School was a hub of activity last week.
And on this particular day, as she contemplated the end of her 41 years in public education — 30 of them at Vashon High School — she said she realizes coming to work each day rejuvenates her, rather than exhausts her.
Little wonder then that this beloved high school counselor, last year’s winner of the Doors of Opportunity grant, plans to volunteer one day a week at the high school next year, working with the class of 2010, a group of kids she knows well.
Owners of the Vashon Health Center and Allstar Fitness, a Seattle-based athletic club, have signed letters saying they’re interested in moving into K2 Commons, should the ambitious development plans a mile south of town come to fruition.
The letters mark the first significant milestones since Islanders Dick Sontgerath and Truman O’Brien announced their far-reaching plans last December to renovate the largest commercial structure on the Island and develop it into a complex of nonprofit and for-profit enterprises.
