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		<title>Vashon Island Events: Backbone Campaign &#8220;Preserve the Reserve Gala&#8221; ~ Vashon Island Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/05/28/vashon-island-events-backbone-campaign-preserve-the-reserve-gala-vashon-island-real-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 01:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Backbone Campaign’s much-anticipated Gala Spring Ball will kick off on Saturday, May 30th, at the “O” Open Space Grand Hall located at 18870 103d Avenue SW.  The event begins at 5:00 PM and is packed with sumptuous food, entertainment and cheer until 11 PM.  Reservations for dinner are highly recommended, with tickets set at $40 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2591&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Events: Vision for Vashon Public Forum / Reweaving the Fabric of Community ~ Vashon Island Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/04/23/vashon-island-events-vision-for-vashon-public-forum-reweaving-the-fabric-of-community-vashon-island-real-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, April 25, from 1:30 to 6 PM, the Vision for Vashon will hold a public forum on the topic of Reweaving the Fabric of Community.  The event will be held at the &#8220;O&#8221; Open Space for Arts and Community at 18870 103d Avenue SW, Vashon. This ambitious program is intended to address the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2513&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Events: Introducing the Vashon Green Map~ Vashon Island Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/04/23/vashon-island-events-introducing-the-vashon-green-map-vashon-island-real-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vashon Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vashon&#8217;s Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS) has completed its work on the online Vashon Green Map, identifying community natural resources, cultural resources and green living resources.  The Green Map System uses a set of universally recognized icons that have been developed collaboratively since 1995 and are active in 475 cities and 54 countries.  SEEDS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2508&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Events: Friends Spring Plant Sale ~ Vashon Island Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/04/17/vashon-island-events-friends-spring-plant-sale-vashon-island-real-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, May 9, 10 AM &#8211; 4 PM at the Vashon Library. Friends of Vashon Library hold their second annual plant sale featuring flower and vegetable starts from Langley Fine Gardens for purchase.  Proceeds go to the Library programming for all ages.  Support your favorite Library and get great plants at the same time. P.S.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2469&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Vashon Island: Goodbye to the Post-Intelligencer, Vashon Island Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/03/20/letter-from-vashon-island-goodbye-to-the-post-intelligencer-vashon-island-real-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an avid reader and news junkie, I have developed a daily routine which includes copious quantities of caffine and newsprint. I have lived in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Washington,D.C.,  and Seattle among other great newspaper towns.  These communities were distinguished by their support for two daily newspapers. Columnists battled in print, the papers developed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2344&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Events:Community Solar Options &#8211; Vashon Island Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/03/20/vashon-island-eventscommunity-solar-options-vashon-island-real-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Informational   Forum on   Community Options   10 am &#8211; Noon   at the “O” Space Hosted by Sustainable Vashon   • What are various models for Community Solar Projects? • Where are they? • How do they work? • Who benefi ts? • Do we have enough sunshine on Vashon? • How will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2390&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Events: Backbone Campaign &#8211; Spring Tour Christening</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/02/19/vashon-island-events-backbone-campaign-spring-tour-christening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vashon&#8217;s own Backbone Campaign is hosting a Christening Party for its Spring Tour on Friday, February 20, at the Land Trust Building, 10014 SW Bank Road, Vashon, WA. (206) 463-2644.  7-10 PM FREE. Music provided by Resonance.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Party with the Backbone Campaign this Friday Toast the Tour Party and Procession Send Off Friday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2215&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Vashon Island: Community, Activism and Glacier Mining</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/02/13/letter-from-vashon-island-community-activism-and-glacier-mining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blessings All These thoughts are especially directed towards those who reside on Vashon. We are in the midst of very serious times and i do ponder daily how the community will rise to deflect harm from those we know and love.  Ours is a most apathetic country where those still getting by with remnants of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2154&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Vashon Island: Community Service in Troubled Times</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/02/05/letter-from-vashon-island-community-service-in-troubled-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, February 1, more than 50 Vashon Islanders convened at the Vashon Presbyterian Church for a Stone Soup discussion of meeting the needs of our neighbors during these difficult economic times.  The gathering was organized by Vision for Vashon  as part of their continuing efforts to organize and create resources for the community. Inspired by the story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2061&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Events: Yoga Goes to the Dogs and Riverbend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Scherer of Smiling Yoga is hosting a benefit for the Vashon Maury Island Food Bank on Sunday, February 8 from 1 &#8211; 3:15 PM at Ober Park. The first half of the program involves vigorous yoga for pets and their owners and the second half of the program offers restoirative yoga for pets and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2124&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Events: School Bond Public Debate</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/02/05/vashon-island-events-school-bond-public-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, February 11, from 7 &#8211; 9 PM, there will be a public debate of the proposed $7.5 million school bond at Courthouse Square.  Proposed uses for the money include construction of a new building, the renovation of existing buildings, a new track and synthetic turf playing field,a secondary gymnasium, upgrading of ventilation and other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2114&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Events: &#8220;Stone Soup &#8211; A Discussion about Hard Times and Hope&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/01/28/vashon-island-events-stone-soup-a-discussion-about-hard-times-and-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vision for Vashon Island will host &#8220;Stone Soup: A Discussion about Hard Times and Hope&#8221;from 4-6:30 PM on Sunday, February 1 at the Vashon Presbyterian Church.  Guests are invited to bring a contribution for the vegetarian or meat-based (&#8220;meat-a-tarian&#8221;?) soups.  Salad and bread will be provided.  The gathering is intended to provide an opportunity for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=2035&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Vashon Island: Glacier Mining and Civil Disobedience (cont&#8217;d.)</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/01/22/letter-from-vashon-island-glacier-mining-and-civil-disobedience-contd/</link>
		<comments>http://govashon.com/2009/01/22/letter-from-vashon-island-glacier-mining-and-civil-disobedience-contd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GoVashon has received a number of interesting responses to our essay on Civil Disobedience and the blockade of the Glacier Mining site several weeks ago on Vashon Island.  Today we received the following post from Swaneagle a.k.a. FrontlineMom and reprint it with permission. We hope that other interested members of the community will take the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=1949&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Energy Assistance: PSE Assistance Available</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/01/22/vashon-island-energy-assistance-pse-assistance-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puget Sound Energy customers having difficulty paying their energy bill are encouraged to contact PSE&#8217;s Home Energy Lifeline Program (HELP) for up to $750 in assistance or up to $1000 in assistance from the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). PSE customers can also apply to their nearest Salvation Army for more assistance. The program is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=1943&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Events: Miscellaneous Activities</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/01/16/vashon-island-events-miscellaneous-activities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vashon Maury Island Community Councilwill its general monthly meeting at 7:30 PM on Monday, January 19 in Courthouse Square.  The agenda will include the discussion of a &#8220;local exchange currency&#8221; that would replace U.S. currency in transactions between residents of the Vashon Island community.  For background information on this proposal, see Transaction Net. A production [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=1850&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Vashon Island: Glacier Mining Protest and Civil Disobedience</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2009/01/08/letter-from-vashon-island-glacier-mining-protest-and-civil-disobedience/</link>
		<comments>http://govashon.com/2009/01/08/letter-from-vashon-island-glacier-mining-protest-and-civil-disobedience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In &#8220;On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)&#8221; Henry David Thoreau argued that the individual, who grants the State its power in the first place, must follow the dictates of conscience in opposing unjust laws. On Sunday, January 4, approximately five hundred residents of Vashon and Maury Islands rallied in opposition to the operation of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=1740&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think Green: Vashon Holiday Greetings</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2008/12/19/think-green-vashon-holiday-greetings/</link>
		<comments>http://govashon.com/2008/12/19/think-green-vashon-holiday-greetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://govashon.com/?p=1567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As temperatures plummet and our typically temperate shores are dusted in snow, it is that time of year to draw close, go within and really do some green thinking. What I mean to say is that to ‘think green’ is an ever-present opportunity to reflect upon, and thereby magnify, the riches that exist within you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=1567&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Community Services: Resources for Tough Times</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2008/12/19/vashon-island-community-services-resources-for-tough-times/</link>
		<comments>http://govashon.com/2008/12/19/vashon-island-community-services-resources-for-tough-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vashon Island Food Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vashon Island Homeless Assistance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vashon Maury Community Food Bank is open for distribution each Wednesday from 11am to 1pm and again in the evening from 5pm to 7pm.  All  island residents, and those who work on the island are welcome.   Need health insurance?  Interested in Food Stamps? Apply for Basic Health and Basic Food Coverage (Food Stamps) at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=1574&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Vashon Island: Doug Sutherland and Glacier Northwest Mining Insults Puget Sound</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2008/12/11/letter-from-vashon-island-doug-sutherland-and-glacier-northwest-mining-insults-puget-sound/</link>
		<comments>http://govashon.com/2008/12/11/letter-from-vashon-island-doug-sutherland-and-glacier-northwest-mining-insults-puget-sound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragic sell-out by outgoing-Public Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland to sign off on Glacier Mining’s lease to install a dock and pierhead for mining operations is stunning in its audacity and cynicism. Shame on you, Commissioner Sutherland, and may your legacy resound as a battle cry for people who actually care about the environment and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=1505&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vashon Island Flu Shots</title>
		<link>http://govashon.com/2008/11/20/vashon-island-flu-shots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyanne Sloan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Granny&#8217;s Attic will host a free flu shot clinic from 11 am to 3 pm on Wednesday, November 26.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=govashon.com&amp;blog=4448108&amp;post=1272&amp;subd=govashon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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