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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 • Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber WWW.VASHONBEACHCOMBER.COM Page 7 The Country Store & Gardens 20211 Vashon Hwy SW 206-463-3655 www.countrystoreplants.com Front Porch Plant Specials Food & Decorative “Nothinz” Shoe Clogs were $22.00 now $7.50 Saltwater Sandals Blueberry Picking Next Week Strawberries Raspberries (Fresh) Blueberries (Fresh) 15 lb bucket Frozen $30 3 lb bucket Flash Frozen $9 14 lb bucket $42 6-1/2 lb bucket $21 3 lb bag $11 Order Hotline: 463-9148 Ext. 333 (Windermere) Last Order Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010 Order Pick-up: Friday, July 23rd 3–6 pm Saturday, July 24th 10–6 pm Sunday, July 25th 10–6 pm Orders may be placed at Rotary’s Booth at Strawberry Festival. Direct any further questions to George Butler 463-0380 or Gib Dammann 206-919-3546. Vashon Island Rotary’s Annual Berry Sale 2010 Pick-ups at Vashon Market (Vashon IGA-Becks) Open: Tues, Thurs, and Sat, 10 to 5 463-3161 Donations: 7 days a week 8am-4pm 10010 SW 210th St. – Sunrise Ridge South of Sound Food at Vashon Health Center Closed Saturday for Festival! Closed Saturday for Festival! Granny’s Attic Granny’s Attic Mon-Fri 10-6 • Sat 9-5 • Sun 12-4 17321 Vashon Hwy SW 463-2200 QUALITY PET PRODUCTS Don’t forget! Closed Festival Weekend! You can’t get here anyway. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Beaches Styrofoam floats pollute beaches Please don’t use styro- foam for flotation. This is what it is doing to our beaches. This picture is of my beach in the 24100 block of Vashon Highway S.W. Please check your flo- tation, and if you are using styrofoam, will you please replace it with something that doesn’t get pulver- ized and grow all kinds of germs inside? —Bill Rowling Fourth of July Hydroplanes mean summer is here At 5:39 a.m. July 4, I shut my three-pane windows, sure that the Vashon thun- derboats had cancelled due to weather. The gray showing from the Tacoma direction looked like any moment the wet would be ours again, so I thought, “I don’t blame them one bit.” So, at 6 a.m., what’s that sound? Can it be? It is — that obnoxious yowl of one, or were there more? Between my trees and that grayish haze I couldn’t be sure, but there he was. Yippee and hallelujah! My July 4 is complete. Through triple-paned windows — a smile on my face — the rest of the sum- mer can begin. Thanks for all the work you guys and gals put in, it is appreciated so much. Such darn good enjoyment, right, Vashon? Thanks again. —Natalie Dubay open to the public, and the community residents attending the general meetings, held on the third Monday of each month, vote on these community decisions. Attendance of 25 (yes, that magic popula- tion number) is required to have a quorum for a vote and the majority — yup, the votes of just 13 intrepid residents — pass or fail a motion. And do our votes count beyond our little floating piece of rock and dirt? You bet they do. King County funds our council to the tune of $10,000 a year and is in constant contact with the council via the county’s designated representative. The decisions of our council have various impacts within the county, depending on the department, issue or rule affected. But impact we do have. One of the best examples of the incred- ible power us 25 or so Islanders wield will be demonstrated at the July 19 meeting of the community council. Up for a vote is whether to extend the existing Town Plan to the north in order to extend the service boundaries of the sewer district. Interestingly enough, none of the prop- erty owners affected by this motion were in attendance at the recent forum on the issue. Just remember, we 25 or so will be voting on a possible alteration to the Town Plan that will, either way, affect Islanders, and you will have to live with it. If the motion is approved by the community council, it will then go to the King County Council. And if we vote it down, it dies. Now that seems like power to me. Planning a move to Vashon Island? Love what you have found here? Want to have some say in the future of your com- munity and lifestyle? I urge you to show up at the community council meetings. Surprisingly enough, the 25 or so of us don’t really want all the power conferred on us — we’d love to share it. And like any small town, we 25 or so have our differ- ences, but we are generally a pretty con- genial group and are eager to add to the population. — Chris Beck serves on the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council executive board. BECK CONTINUED FROM 6 The white flecks in this photo by Bill Rowling show styrofoam polluting the water at his beach. Community council meeting The VMICC will hold its general meet- ing at 7 p.m. Monday, July 19, at McMurray Middle School.

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“Nothinz” Shoe Clogswere $22.00 now $7.50Saltwater Sandals

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Strawberries

Raspberries (Fresh)

Blueberries (Fresh)

15 lb bucket Frozen $303 lb bucket Flash Frozen $ 9

14 lb bucket $426-1/2 lb bucket $21

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Order Hotline: 463-9148 Ext. 333 (Windermere)Last Order Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010Order Pick-up: Friday, July 23rd 3–6 pm Saturday, July 24th 10–6 pm Sunday, July 25th 10–6 pm Orders may be placed at Rotary’s Booth at Strawberry Festival. Direct any further

questions to George Butler 463-0380 or Gib Dammann 206-919-3546.

Vashon Island Rotary’s Annual

Berry Sale 2010

Pick-ups atVashon Market

(Vashon IGA-Becks)

Open: Tues, Thurs, and Sat, 10 to 5

463-3161Donations: 7 days a week 8am-4pm10010 SW 210th St. – Sunrise RidgeSouth of Sound Food at Vashon Health Center

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORBeachesStyrofoam floats pollute beaches

Please don’t use styro-foam for flotation. This is what it is doing to our beaches. This picture is of my beach in the 24100 block of Vashon Highway S.W. Please check your flo-tation, and if you are using styrofoam, will you please replace it with something that doesn’t get pulver-ized and grow all kinds of germs inside?

—Bill Rowling

Fourth of JulyHydroplanes mean summer is here

At 5:39 a.m. July 4, I shut my three-pane windows,

sure that the Vashon thun-derboats had cancelled due to weather. The gray showing from the Tacoma direction looked like any moment the wet would be ours again, so I thought, “I don’t blame them one bit.”

So, at 6 a.m., what’s that sound? Can it be? It is — that obnoxious yowl of one, or were there more? Between my trees and that grayish haze I couldn’t

be sure, but there he was. Yippee and hallelujah! My July 4 is complete.

Through triple-paned windows — a smile on my face — the rest of the sum-mer can begin.

Thanks for all the work you guys and gals put in, it is appreciated so much. Such darn good enjoyment, right, Vashon? Thanks again.

—Natalie Dubay

open to the public, and the community residents attending the general meetings, held on the third Monday of each month, vote on these community decisions. Attendance of 25 (yes, that magic popula-tion number) is required to have a quorum for a vote and the majority — yup, the votes of just 13 intrepid residents — pass or fail a motion. And do our votes count beyond our little floating piece of rock and dirt? You bet they do. King County funds our council to the tune of $10,000 a year and is in constant contact with the council via the county’s designated representative. The decisions of our council have various impacts within the county, depending on the department, issue or rule affected. But impact we do have.

One of the best examples of the incred-ible power us 25 or so Islanders wield will be demonstrated at the July 19 meeting of the community council. Up for a vote is whether to extend the existing Town Plan to the north in order to extend the service boundaries of the sewer district. Interestingly enough, none of the prop-

erty owners affected by this motion were in attendance at the recent forum on the issue. Just remember, we 25 or so will be voting on a possible alteration to the Town Plan that will, either way, affect Islanders, and you will have to live with it. If the motion is approved by the community council, it will then go to the King County Council. And if we vote it down, it dies. Now that seems like power to me.

Planning a move to Vashon Island? Love what you have found here? Want to have some say in the future of your com-munity and lifestyle? I urge you to show up at the community council meetings. Surprisingly enough, the 25 or so of us don’t really want all the power conferred on us — we’d love to share it. And like any small town, we 25 or so have our differ-ences, but we are generally a pretty con-genial group and are eager to add to the population.

— Chris Beck serves on the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council executive board.

BECKCONTINUED FROM 6

The white flecks in this photo by Bill Rowling show styrofoam polluting the water at his beach.

Community council meetingThe VMICC will hold its general meet-ing at 7 p.m. Monday, July 19, at McMurray Middle School.

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Singers, dancers and actors bring a lively production of ‘Oklahoma’ to the stageThe cast of Drama Dock’s new pro-duction of “Oklahoma” is gearing up to open the show this weekend for a two-week run at Vashon High School.

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Drama Dock’s summer musical, “Oklahoma,” will open at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 8, at Vashon High School, and continue with additional performances scheduled through July 18.

More than 75 Islanders are involved in the produc-tion and have been preparing for the show for the past several months.

“Oklahoma,” by Rodgers and Hammerstein, is one of the most celebrated shows in the American musi-cal theater canon. Vashon’s production is directed by Phil Dunn, who stepped in to take the place of Drama Dock director Elizabeth Anthony, who had to step down from the show in early June due to health

problems. Teenage thespians David Katz and Zoey Rice will

play the leading roles of Curly and Laurey, singing such well-known songs as “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” and “People Will Say We’re in Love.”

Performance times are 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 10, and 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 18. Ticket prices for Thursday evening performances are $10 and $5; tickets to all other performances are $15 and $10. Buy tickets at Books by the Way, Vashon Bookshop or at www.brownpapertickets.com. Group rates are also avail-able; e-mail [email protected] for details.

By NATALIE JOHNSONStaff Reporter

When Puget Sound Energy challenged Vashon residents earlier this year to sign up for its Green Power Program, in which custom-ers tack a few extra dollars onto their bill each month

to support development of renewable energy resources, they quickly responded.

Promised a $10,000 grant for a community solar proj-ect if there were 110 new enrollments by the end of the year, the Island proved its support for renewable energy when it met the challenge in about three months. Now, PSE is upping the ante with a new chal-lenge and another $5,000 in grant money hanging in the balance.

Heather Mulligan, who heads up PSE’s Green Power

Program and has imple-mented similar Green Power challenges in communities such as Bellingham and Whidbey Island, said that Vashon easily had the fast-est response to the program she has seen.

“We’re thrilled that Vashon met the goal that early. ... We’ve never seen a goal hit this quickly,” she said, adding that the achievement was especial-ly impressive considering the already high program participation on the Island compared with the rest of

PSE’s territory.“Adding new numbers

might be a stretch,” she said. “We were very impressed.”

There are now more than 650 Vashon customers enrolled in the Green Power Program, including 25 com-mercial accounts. Under the program, residential partic-ipants purchase $4 to $10 in renewable energy credits each month to support inde-pendent renewable energy projects in the Northwest. Businesses that participate pay larger amounts, based on their energy usage and the amount of their con-sumption they want covered by the credits.

While PSE plans to deliver on the $10,000 grant, which will be accepted on behalf of the Island by Sustainable Vashon, it also wants to see if Vashon can keep up the momentum that has been generated.

“If by the end of the year we can increase participa-tion by 200, so another 90 participants by the end of the year, we’ll increase the grant to $15,000,” Mulligan said.

Janie Starr, a leader in Sustainable Vashon, was thrilled but not surprised that Vashon stepped up to the plate so quickly. Islanders are eager to sup-port renewable energy, she said, and were espe-cially willing to enroll in

the Green Power Program when they understood that the money went directly to alternative energy projects and not PSE coffers.

“Connecting it to a local project makes it even more enticing,” she said, adding she is certain that Islanders will meet PSE’s most recent challenge, ensuring anoth-er $5,000 for a community solar project. “Any commu-nity project is going to cost thousands of dollars, and this 15 will be a great seed,” she said.

Though the specifics of the solar project have yet to be determined, Gib Dammann, spokesman for Vashon Community Solar Group, a project of the Backbone Campaign, is excited about the opportunities the PSE grant opens up to install a community solar project on public property.

“I know that there are some options,” he said. “One of them is to increase the size of the solar array at the high school. It might also [sup-port] part of a larger instal-lation, possibly at McMurray Middle School.” He added that these ideas were sub-ject to Vashon Island School District approval.

Dammann said that Sustainable Vashon would likely consult a number of community groups when deciding how to use the grant, including the Community

Solar Working Group.Backbone Campaign

director Bill Moyer is glad to see Islanders not only generate money for solar energy on the Island, but support the development of renewable energy resources that could change the way power is produced in the state.

Registering for the Green Power Program is the first step Islanders can take in making their home or business a “coal-free zone,” Moyer said. The Backbone Campaign and Sustainable Vashon hope to see the entire Island go coal-free by 2015, meaning the amount of energy Islanders either reduce or offset with green energy credits would equal the 36 percent of PSE power that is generated by coal.

While participation in PSE’s Green Power Pro-gram, which was named Program of the Year by the U.S. Department of Energy, does not change the amount of power the company derives from coal, Starr hopes that Vashon’s commitment to renewable energy will encourage PSE to end its reliance on a fuel source considered one of the nation’s most polluting.

“Our belief is if you can work with and encourage people positively to change, that’s always the first choice,” she said.

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opened up an ecletic shop featuring reclaimed furniture, home decor, local art, fair-trade cof-fee, design services, space for creating one’s own art and more.

The shop, called Urban Cottage, opened last week at 17123 Vashon Highway, in a pale green farmhouse across the street from Ober Park.

Christine Fournier, an interior designer, is the force behind Revive +, the portion of the shop that offers up what she calls a “recycled art room” — a place where Islanders can gather and make art, largely using found or recycled objects. Fournier provides the materi-als; the cost for the space is $18 for two hours, with five percent of the proceeds going to the nonprofit of the customer’s choice.

Fournier will also offer workshops on vari-ous aspects of art and sustainable design, she said, and already has two planned for May.

Janet Harrington, who’s been in the retail business for 35 years, handles the furniture and home decor portion of the business — a

mix of refurbished second-hand items that she and Fournier say may have ended up in a landfill if they hadn’t discovered the items and fixed them up.

Much of the refurbishing work, meanwhile, is done by Fournier’s nonprofit, the Eco Institute, which employs young adults with developmental disabilities, providing them with much-needed training and vocational support, she said.

“Our whole philosophy is to be full circle,” Fournier said.

“We buy things that need a lot of repair or can be repurposed,” Harrington added. “We don’t sell any new items.”

The two women, with help from friends and family members, have been working hard to get their shop ready for prime time, painting the walls, installing new light fixtures and artfully arranging a colorful mix of pottery, baskets, lamps, chairs, tables and textiles.

Looking around, Fournier beamed. “Isn’t it beautiful?” she said.

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Christine Fournier and Janet Harrington at their new shop, Urban Cottage .

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