Well, the question remains: “How would we brand ourselves?”
Islanders are buzzing about the recent burglary at Vashon Theatre, when Grinch-like thieves grabbed not only a state-of-the-art professional digital…
It’s easy to take what we have for granted until one reads that there are children on Vashon who have so little that a coat and pair of gloves top their Christmas list.
“They just don’t get Northeast humor,” my friend and fellow New Yorker, Bad Michael, was saying. I’d been grumbling at the coffee stand about the starchiness of a couple of recent letters to the editor about my humor column — the one on road paving.
The other day, my kids and I were watching a video. But it wasn’t a video about Indiana Jones or some other fictional character. It wasn’t Playstation or Wii. It was my oldest child’s Third-Grade Program tape.
When the Vashon Island School District came to voters earlier this year asking them to approve a $75.5 million bond measure, it lacked one critical piece in the political equation: a unified board.
Quartermaster Harbor seems to be on everybody’s priority list.
Yes, it’s true. Parents in the Vashon community showed up at their teenagers’ dances, found them disturbing and went to school and district administrators to insist on enforcement of the school’s policy against sexually explicit dancing.
Every month, every week, maybe even every day, Islanders serving on commissions and boards step forward to work on our behalf. They pore over financials, discuss policy, debate issues and sometimes face the ire of other Islanders who are unhappy with a decision they’ve made.
I am a 17-year-old senior at Vashon High School and have followed the discussion in The Beachcomber in regards to “grinding.” I have found some of the arguments made to be inaccurate and even offensive.
