Swing Set Music and Movement will start for the fall Thursday, Sept. 18, and run through Nov. 6. The theme will be “tutor the heart with music.”
The Saturday Farmers Market turns into the Island Family Harvest from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. It will be a day of family fun at the Village Green.
Apples for a good cause
Until last Wednesday, Islander Kirsten Gagnaire frequently stopped by Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie or Café Luna for a cappuccino made with raw cow’s milk, but now she and other Islanders who prefer beverages with milk that is straight from the cow have to make other choices.
Learn to play the uke and squeezebox
The Enjoyment of Birds, a series of evening classes for beginning and more experienced birders, starts at 7 p.m. tonight, Sept. 10, at the Land Trust Building.
The Vashon Farmers Market will be open in the Village Green from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10. Farmers will be selling Island-grown flowers, fruits and vegetables including fresh corn, tomatoes, salad mix, sweet peppers, basil, pumpkins and more. For more information, see www.vigavashon.org or call Market Manager Joanne Jewell at 267-8146.
While tree branches fell, along with the occasional whole tree, and without electricity due to Hurricane Gustav, Dr. Paula Arai, keynote speaker of the fifth annual Vashon Island Buddhist Seminar, talked of her keen interest in the realm of what she calls domestic Zen, which, she adds, is very different from monastic Zen.
Garden program still open
Late arrival tomorrow
Kenneth Sudduth, the Islander who crashed into a Dumpster at the north-end ferry dock on Aug. 28, jumped into the water immediately following the accident because his shirt was on fire, according to his mother Rebecca Parks — not to elude arrest for an outstanding warrant, as deputies believed.
