- Vashon Photo dot Com
"Vashon Photo.com is a free resource dedicated
to those who admire Vashon Island, WA."
"Images of scenery, animals and events around
and about Vashon. Free registration for you to upload your
Vashon-esque photos."
- Island West Alpacas!
"Hear the hmmmm of a gentle animal. Feel the
softness of an elegant alpaca sweater. Enjoy the gentle warmth of
natural alpaca clothing. Come to know Alpacas."
"Island West Alpacas is available for visitors
on most days, by appointment only. Please call to arrange your tour of
the farm or to see our Naturally Unique line of top quality alpaca
clothing and gifts."
"Island West Alpacas is located in Western
Washington, just a few relaxing minutes from Seattle on Vashon
Island."
- Welcome to PurelyAlpaca!!
"Purely Alpaca Clothing, Sweaters,
Socks...Stylish alpaca sweaters, beautiful scarves, funky hats,
gloves, cozy alpaca socks and more...!
"We first learned of alpacas in 1998 while
looking through a magazine. We just loved the LOOK of the
animals. After a couple of years of research we began an alpaca farm
on Vashon Island, near Seattle. Soon after we launched a farm store
selling alpaca products."
- This is very cool! Check out Jim Sherman's "The Antique Engine Shop"
"This site is dedicated to my antique engine collection. Several of my engines were found here on Vashon and others came from around the Puget Sound area"
Jim is a 6th generation Vashon Island native. There's not a lot of people who can say that!
- Looking for that perfect alpaca to complete your menagerie? Visit Bill and Lee Green and Vashon Island Alpacas!
"Welcome to VIA! We are a family owned and operated alpaca farm on Vashon Island in Washington's Puget Sound. Click on links below to see what we offer."
"Sires Available For Breeding"
"Sires Available For Sale"
"Fleece Available For Sale"
(Actually, ya gotta go to their web page to click the links... ;-)
- Whoa, Nelly! Who *is* that sharp-dressed man?
- The Vashon-Maury Cooperative Preschool
"We are a non-profit cooperative preschool. The Co-op belongs to us,
the parent members. As members of the Co-op community, we all
contribute to and share in our children's preschool
experience. Working together, we strive to create a nurturing
environment and an enriching experience for our children."
Rosalie went here for a couple of years, a long, long time ago, when she was just a wee bunny...
- The Vashon Cohousing Group
"This is a statement of values of Vashon Cohousing. That is, a
statement of what we all have in common that is sufficient for us to
risk our time, effort and money in developing and constructing this
project. Actually we are building two things here. One is a set of
buildings, our homes, a neighborhood. The other is a set of
relationships with each other. Both are based on these values of
community living that we share..."
- The Bethel Evangelical Free Church
"Welcome to Bethel Evangelical Free Church!
Our purpose is to
preach the Word of God, to lead people to Christ, to help young
Christians to develop their spiritual life, to instruct children in
the Bible and spread the Gospel on the mission fields at home and
abroad."
- Joan M. McCabe: "For over 20
years Joan has facilitated individuals and groups in personal growth
and spiritual awareness. Her experience as an ordained minister,
spiritual teacher, and Transformation Game® Facilitator enhance her
intuitive skills. It is her joy to help people live in alignment with
their vision, purpose, and values, and witness the miracle they create
as they fulfill their hearts desire. The time has come for you to live
the life that makes your heart sing!"
- The Vashon Island Golf and Country Club
"The approach to the par 5 4th hole. The green is small, and the
penalty for missing it can be severe."
The following are all my pages:
- The 2000 Vashon Island Strawberry Festival!
"Ober Park is really the core of the Festival, for most people!"
- The 1999 Vashon Island Strawberry Festival!
The weather was pretty lousy on Saturday this year, but a whole bunch of people (true Islanders, and true Northwesterners..) turned out any way!
- Check out: July Fourth 1999 -- Vashon Island Style!
Another one of our best-kept secrets! Vashon Island's fireworks
display is one of only two on the West Coast to have a 24 inch shell!
It's "The Silver Camuro Shell of Shells with Rising Effects"!
- The 1997 Vashon Island Strawberry Festival!
"This was the 80th Annual Strawberry Festival - so named from the days
when Vashon Island was a major producer of strawberries for the
growing cities of Seattle and Tacoma. "
- Goodby Kingdome! -- and -- Hello Safeco!
We went to the next-to-last Mariners game at the Kingdome, and went to see the Yankees at the new Safeco Field in early August!
(OK, OK: It's not Vashon, but it is kinda Puget Sound-y!)
- Water Spouts over Puget Sound?
The March 3, 1999 storm in Western Washington caused all sorts of
problems: 250,000 people without electricity (I had no power for 15
hours..), the Evergreen Point floating bridge damaged and closed to
traffic for 72 hours, and the Fauntleroy ferry dock (in the last of
these pictures) damaged and closed for 24 hours after it was hit by
the ferry Quinault during an abortive landing early Wednesday
morning. One person died in a car crushed by a fallen tree. Five
counties were declared disaster areas...
- 1998-1999 McMurray Mustangs Girls' Basketball!
The McMurray Mustangs play a ten-game season against middle schools from the Tukwila, Orting, Eatonville, Steilacoom and North Mason school districts.
These middle schools feed into the high schools that the Vashon Pirates boys' and girls' high school basketball teams play against, so the Mustangs will be seeing a lot of their opponents all the way up through high school...
Go Mustangs!
- "The Two Gentlemen of Verona!"
This production of Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" was performed by the Blue Heron Teen Thespians, at the Blue Heron Center for the Arts, January 8 and 9, 1999, under the direction of Mark Sheppard.
This group has been acting together, for the most part, since back in elemetary school. There are one or two new players in this production; the actors range from the seventh to the ninth grades; some are in the Vashon school system, some from private schools on the Island, and some are home-schooled..
Back to pages out on the wild, wild Web...
- Brian Brenno Blown Glass
"Don't you just marvel at those perfect hands and feet? Our children
grow up too quickly and special memories fade with each year. forever
in glass handprint kits allow families to preserve those precious
fingers and tiny toes in a unique personalized glass keepsake."
- Drama Dock!
"Drama Dock is Vashon Island's non-profit community theater
organization that produces three major productions each year - spring,
summer, and fall. Drama Dock has been producing plays continuously for
the past 25 years, and we are proud to say that this has been
accomplished solely through the efforts of volunteers and financed by
ticket sales only."
"Tickets for individual performances are available several weeks before each production at Books by the Way on Vashon Island."
April 9-24, 2004
Working
A Musical
Written by Studs Terkel
Directed by Mark Sheppard
Held at Vashon High School Theater
"Working", based on the book by Studs Terkel, is filled with
contemporary music by such artists as James Taylor (Millworker and
Brother Trucker), Craig Carnelia, Mary Rodgers, Stephen Schwartz and
Micki Grant. The songs are created for the "real-life" unsung
heroes of today and are filled with hope, promise, regret and longing.
The script is taken directly from the book which is based on
interviews with dozens of hard working people -- some of them love
their jobs, some do not -- and we get a glimpse inside into what makes
people do the things they do.
- Hills and Mountains
"Family Trees Gardens and Ponds" was "Peter's Pumpkin Patch" - Pete Svinth had a really cool web site devoted to his farm down on Maury Island which was open to the public and had great pumpkins and other cool stuff!
Now Pete has sold the farm and has moved onto the Nisqually Indian reservation, where he is a tribal elder.
"Hills and Mountains" is Pete's current website!
-
Digging for Clues on Vashon Island
The archeological dig on Burton Peninsula. "The two-week excavation was co-sponsored by the Burke Museum, the King County Landmarks and Heritage Commission, Vashon Island's McMurray Middle School, and the Puyallup Tribe."
- The Monastery of the All-Merciful Saviour
"In 1988 two monks came to the Pacific Northwest to establish a monastery on Vashon Island ... at their annual Patronal Feast Day in July 1992 ... an attendee of the Pilgrimage stepped forward and asked if they would remain on the Island if he donated five acres of land for the construction of the monastery."
The rest is history..
- The Clam Cove Report
"The Clam Cove Report originated in February 1994 as 200 copies of a one-page sheet cranked out on a Mac LC ... Not a week goes by that someone doesn't ask about CCR, encouraging its resurrection, so the editor has decided to try again, this time on-line."
- Wagons of Steel
"NEW! Wagons of Steel 2004 Calendar
With the race season out of the
way we finally had a chance to finish the 2004 Wagons of Steel
Calendar. Our Sharpie and photcopier have been working overtime to
bring you our new calendar just in time for Christmas. Reward yourself
by ordering one online today!"
"Just-In-Time Publishing
That's right, Issue 17 of the Wagons of
Steel Magazine is finally in the mail, just in time for Winter Road
Tips and other 'seasonal' goodies. If you've already ordered yours,
look for it within the next few weeks. Those of you who haven't put in
your request... what are ya waitin' for?!"
"Britney in for the winter
Time for some upgrades, new floorpan,
roll-bars, you know the routine..."
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