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1970

January -

  • Youth admits damaging greens at golf course - will pay for repairs
  • Water District 19 lays 8-inch main from Vashon Town to McMurray Middle School
  • Humane Society removes thee horses from Vashon farm
  • High School Drama Department presents “Dino”
  • Community Choir performs “messiah” directed by Donn Weaver
  • 97% of parents attend conferences -conferences replace report cards
  • 17-year old youth drops charges against 3 loggers who tried to cut his long hair
  • School Board organizes citizen’s advisory council
  • Two Island women aboard 747’s maiden flight to London
  • Ray Aspiri and Cord harms Zum Spreckel start Color Control printing business
  • Schools hire curriculum director
  • Tahlequah ferry service cut to save money
  • Vashon crowd packs Olympia hearing to make ferry system part of highway system
  • High School Red Cross collects soap and donations for Vietnam orphanage

February -

  • Trees cut at Agren Park - Committee of residents ask to stop cutting until plan is developed - Special meeting by King County Parks to discuss issue - Island advisory committee asked to develop recommendations for the 31-acre park site
  • Chamber of Commerce questions Tahlequah ferry cuts
  • Black books series planned
  • Mobile air testing unit at Gold Beach to measure pollution
  • Dick Aberthal new Deputy on Vashon
  • Census takers begin work
  • Otto Kreuger named manager of Vashon bank
  • King County announces plan to fence dump and collect fees

March -

  • High School holds community program, Drug Alert, “Jesus Freaks” talk to students
  • Seattle Symphony family concert - Jerry Todo and Don DeHope perform
  • West Side Water Company in midst of a civil war
  • Junior Achievement attend King County trade fair
  • Civic Assembly discusses new community pool and library. Funded by proposed Forward Thrust bonds
  • Vashon High School fills in on Sunday’s Hi-Q television program
  • Tacoma smelter ASARCO asks for taller stack to relieve pollution
  • McMurray second at county basketball tourney
  • Blood donations for Tommy Garretson at leukemia center
  • School Board told new high school would cost less than remodeling old school
  • Post Office prepares for census mailing
  • Kathy Crecelius chosen DAR Good Citizen
  • School Board studies swimming pool for Island
  • Social workers from Department of Public Assistence begin making weekly visits to Island
  • Quartermaster Yacht Club improvements begin - pile driver begins work
  • Ferries pouring sewage into Sound
  • Jay Gulledge dies in auto accident
  • Tom Garretson dies of rare blood disease
  • Largest barges in the world anchored in QM Harbor loaded with pipe for Alaska

April -

  • State Grange Master awards ribbons in swing contest to Ruth Huff, Betty Guiberson, Colleen Rogers, Bev Landis
  • Terry Allman promoted to Sergeant with department of Public Safety
  • Bill Kirschner resigns after 19 years on school board
  • Ray Johnson High School music instructor has band composition published
  • Roger Douglas is Washington-Oregon boxing champion
  • McMurray students pick up litter along Island roads
  • Sulphates from Tacoma ASARCO smelter higher on Maury that other places on Puget Sound
  • High School presents “All MY Sons”
  • School Board would agree to donate land for community pool
  • King County interested in land near high school for new library
  • Bagpipe band practices at Episcopal Church
  • Craig and Bill Wagner receive God & County Awards
  • Mobile Oil buys leases on Maury Island
  • Emergency helicopter service available to residents by High Life Helicopter Services
  • Earth Day gets warm reception on Vashon
  • Youth Baseball forms minor Little League
  • Vashon man investigated on charges of bomb threats and extortion - released from jail
  • Ferries take steps to reduce sewage pollution in Sound
  • High School presents a black comedy

May -

  • Bill Kirschner honored at Kiwanis dinner on retirement from School Board
  • Julie Hamilton travels to United Nations Pilgrimage
  • AWOL man suspected on stripping cars, breaks ankle trying to escape deputies
  • Man charged in making false bomb threats
  • Elderly patient at Vashon Healthcare missing for 27 hours - found by neighbor in canyon
  • Ray Aspiri named to replace Bill Kirschner on School Board
  • School Directors decide to build new High School
  • Open meeting to discuss concerns about oil drilling on Puget Sound
  • High School music instructor Ray Johnson resigns
  • Vashon Athletic Club begins vital organ donation program
  • Oil leases being sought on Vashon Island
  • May 24 - McMurray Intermediate School Dedication
  • Forward Thrust Bonds fail - would have funded community pool and library
  • Deputy Larry Ziminski transfers to mainland precinct
  • Vashon Ryther presents second Vashon Tour
  • Hazel Blekkink named Evergreen Club’s outstanding member
  • Vietnam Veteran Sargent Saul retuns to Vietnam - supports US mission there
  • Meeting to protest distributing food stamps to “hippies” - Federal food stamp laws must change to stop distribution
  • 108 seniors graduate from VHS
  • Chanteurs chosen top swing choir in Northwest
  • Civic Assembly asked to endorse John Ober for neighborhood park site - King County to take over Island Club facilities
  • Rebekahs honor Julia Sherman - 60-year member

June -

  • Rock Festival over Memorial Day Weekend attracts 300 - citizens ask to form armed deputy auxiliary of 30 men - proposal meets heavy resistance - County Executive John Spellman supports proposal - Island deeply split over proposal -
  • Citizens protest salary increases for superintendent and hiring of curriculum director
  • Rev. Harlan Jones and family honored at farewell potluck
  • Chamber of Commerce sponsors panel of oilmen and experts to discuss oil leases on Vashon
  • Girls State - Barbara Simth, Libby Ernst , Boys State - Doug VanDeventer, Ken Brosell, Tom Langland, Paul Ross, Todd Pearson
  • Judge Don Bowman dies
  • Island census shows 6,132
  • Vashon Pony Club places at Mt. Vernon regional rally
  • All-Island picnic - intent to ease tensions between hippies and straights - few straights attend
  • Jehovah’s Witnesses bring new church to Island by barge
  • Swim program in danger of cancellation unless more enroll
  • School Board orders 4 new buses

July -

  • Fireman display 3,000-gallon tanker they made themselves for less then $3,000
  • Eagles win Little League championship for second year in a row
  • Yellowjackets win girls softball crown
  • Vashon dump open 9 am to 6 pm - no longer 24 hours
  • Bambi DuFresne named Miss Vashon
  • Jaycees sponsor Island-wide Festival
  • Methodists greet new minister Marvin Maddus
  • Qrv Johnson, Vashon mail carrier dies on duty
  • Kirschners sell cage business to Environmental Sciences Corp.
  • Curriculum Director for Vashon Schools begins work - John Robinson
  • Three Island women plan to open day care center

August -

  • Pappy Dugan sell Country Store to George and Ethel Henrickson
  • Three candidates for Justice of the Peace position - Phil Schwartz, Fred Schlick, Alex Munro, Jr.
  • Dr. Larry Groh and family return from year in New Guinea
  • Rumors of rock concert results in saturation patrol by county sheriff - 20 extra deputies deployed - festival fails to materialize
  • Scholl Board places high school construction bond on Nov 3 ballot against recommendation of State Superintendent
  • Jack Anderson killed while felling trees
  • Civic Assembly sponsors salmon bake with county officials
  • Ferry sewage tanks cost $1,350,000
  • Summertime ferry traffic down
  • Ed Babcock catches 23-pound King off Manzanita to win Sportsman’s Club derby
  • Firemen hope to build 3-bay garage with proceeds from Fireman’s Ball
  • Democrats and Republicans hold picnics

September -

  • Doug Comstock replaces Esther McEwen as Sprouse-Ritz manager
  • Karilyn Hanna represents Vashon at Luther League Convention in New York
  • Vashon dump users to start paying fees September 15
  • School enrollment at 1,825
  • Radio station KQIN of Burien erects two towers east of Vashon Town
  • K2 becomes subsidiary of Cummings Diesel - plans to extend into other sporting goods
  • Phil Schwartz elected Justice of the Peace
  • Rubella vaccinations given at schools
  • Plane crashes in Tramp Harbor - two bodies recovered
  • School Board continues publicity to inform voters of need for new high school
  • Vashon Heathcare holds thank-you tea in appreciation of Island friends

October -

  • Free helicopter service offered in emergencies by military aircraft
  • Chamber of Commerce files suit against King County over dump fees - Citizens protest expense of collecting fee - Reserve officer stationed at dump after hours to prevent vandalism
  • Civic Assembly told two doctors can not meet Island’s medical needs
  • King County denies plans to fence dump
  • Meet the Candidates night sponsored by Jaycees
  • Civic Assembly committee begins work on North-South trail system
  • Work begins on site for savings and loan site
  • Jaycees sponsor spook house

November -

  • New High School approved by 61.75% vote
  • Department of Public Assistance hears needs of welfare recipients
  • Main telephone cable to mainland cut - lose phones for 7 hours
  • Ferry consolidation plan - eliminate Vashon Route, bridge to Southworth and ferry service direct to downtown Seattle from Colby - Islanders criticize plan
  • Arson fire destroys dump toll booth - gate cut - County replaces immediately
  • $12,000 cut from school budget due to state cutbacks
  • Deputy Sheriffs acquire 19-foot outboard to assist in patrols
  • Benefit auction for Maimie Smith collects $1,800
  • High School presents “The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker”
  • The Minglemint Emporium opens
  • John Spellman visits Republicans - discusses dump situation
  • Garretsons sell Sutter’s Castle

December -

  • Low income house for elderly asked for
  • Permit applied for to build pier near Dolphin Point
  • Mildred Hall holds one-woman show at Minglemint
  • ACLU Vashon Branch formed
  • School Board decides on open campus for seniors
  • Fourth new school bus arrives
  • Savings and Loan building goes together in one-hour - open house planned January 4
  • Chamber of Commerce meeting to protest garbage situation - no citizes attend, only County officials
  • Civic Assembly plans Island-wide medical survey
  • Civic Assembly protests gravel dock plans
  • Roger Douglas wins 1970 Golden Gloves championship
  • Passengers hold surprise party for Harlan Rosford, Island Transit driver
  • Randi Kellogg to have kidney transplant next week

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1971

  • Operation Jigsaw community plan - Civic Assembly is outgrowth of this community planning effort
  • State Ferries get holding tanks for wastes - previously dumped in Sound
  • Glass recycling begun by King County and community volunteers

January -

  • Style Center sold to Steve Hayes by Flossie Foran after 21 years in business
  • Sgt. Terry Allman announces regular office hours for Department of Public Safety
  • Plane crash at Vashon Airport - Alex Kusulos hospitalized
  • Fire destroys Luana Beach home - Keith Ward and Bill Graham
  • Plans for 200 for pier at Dolphin Point withdrawn after environmentalist protest
  • Bill Dybbro awarded Eagle Scout
  • Dog pack kills 4 sheep injured two and mauled three - Dewey Engset owner
  • Bill Kirschner awarded Liberty Ship wheel as recognition by business community
  • Vashon schools open late for 4-days due to snow
  • Heavy rains and snow causes slide near Larsen Marina
  • Randi Kellogg and brother Scott doing well after kidney transplant - Scott donor
  • Island Club Scout Cabin signed over to King County by Vteran’s Memorial Foundation. County to develop park. Property purchased from County in 1925.
  • Food Stamps sold on Island again
  • School Directors reject all three bids on $700,000 bond issue for new High School
  • Nancy Nelson resigns as news editor of Beachcomber after 6 years - 14 years working for publication
  • K2 employs 240 people - turn out 300 pairs of skis each day

February -

  • Vashon businessmen tour local schools for Business Education Day
  • “Reach Out” teen drop-in center opens
  • Food Bank for Island administered under Neighbors in Need program opens
  • Daryle Russell resigns as VHS Principal - McMurray Principal Andy Taggart appoint to fill vacancy
  • Fire damages former Sea-Isle realty office $9,000 damages, $4,000 damages to contents
  • VHS faculty basketball team beats Sonny Sixkiller team 91-80 in charity game
  • Kiwanis Club honors Bernie Coane and wife for service to community
  • Group Health Cooperative representatives talk with Island members
  • First Federal changes name to Great Northwest Federal
  • Plans for 8-unit apartment east of Vashon Town
  • Game department rewards fisherman for catching specially marked coho salmon

March -

  • Two fires and two 3-car accidents blamed on weather - high winds
  • E&R Auto parts opened by Everett and Rick Clark
  • Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall purchased by Ed Joslin and John Gregg - will rename it Towne Hall
  • Master-Sargent Edward Jordan, Jr. awarded Bronze Star
  • Bill Speidel guest column asks for seafood recipes
  • VHS students stage sit-down strike over firing of three teachers
  • 300 students, parents, and teachers jam McMurray auditorium to hear contracts for three teachers would not be renewed
  • Antique store opens in log cabin on Bank Road - Dr. and Mrs. J.L. Beasley
  • VHS debate team places second at league tourney
  • Pilot program to serve hot lunches at McMurray
  • Dave Smith inspirational player in basketball, Bob Larson inspirational wrestler
  • Island deputies to place juvenile offenders in Seattle Youth Center - practice of releasing them to parents “increasingly ineffective”
  • Julie Hamilton awarded $100 citizenship award by Soroptimists
  • Rezoning request to expand K2 approved by County
  • Andy Taggart and Darryl Russell switch principals at McMurray and VHS
  • K2 seeks rezoning to expand manufacturing

April -

  • Auction to benefit ambulance fund
  • Increased dump fee proposed
  • Oversized Volkswagen pictured parked in Vashon Town
  • Gene Deda named Jaycee of the Year
  • Heavy winds topple trees, damage buildings and block roads in Ellisport
  • April Aldridge honored for 25-years service to Red Cross
  • Debbie McKay awarded trip to United Nations by Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
  • 1,400 Islanders visit “Artmobile” during portable museum-gallery’s stay
  • Battery B, Vashon’s National Guard Operation named best battery in Seattle Air Defense Command
  • Civic Assembly meeting - County Councilman Ed Munro comes under fire for dump fees and proposed increases
  • 6-foot cyclone fence enclosing VHS track completed
  • Sharp disagreements in dispute over scheduling and non-renewal of contracts - Conflict between Teachers and School Superintendent -reduce teaching Staff by 3 teachers - switch High School to 6 period-day without consulting teachers
  • Earth Week volunteers giver away 3,000 small Scotch Pine Trees to illustrate the need for trees to fight pollution - Earth Week - April 19-24 - Earth Day celebrations
  • Seattle youth convicted of defiling the flag after arrest for wearing 48-star verison of flag for a muffler on Vashon
  • Work begins dismantling Island Club
  • County Council unanimously raises dump fees from 25-cents to 50-cents
  • Vashon Arts Gallery opens in Bacchus Building - Mrs. Donald Thompson
  • School Board holds open hearing to consider cases of three teachers whose contracts not renewed

May -

  • Dave Douglas awarded Eagle Scout
  • The Candle Loft just north of Judd Creek Bridge opens - Elaine Scott and Anne Nanthrup owners
  • Senate Bill 915 passes 42-2 - provides funds for ferries from gas tax
  • 5-member committee to study school board-teacher impasse in negotiations
  • Celia Durham and Florence Smith Orrall honored as retiring grade school teachers
  • Don Keys displays Thunderbird totem pole carved for Queets-Clearwater School
  • Grange square dancers win honors at district contest
  • Girls State - Stephanie Smith, Boys State - Dean Shirley, Duane Stixrud, Larry Burns, Mike Sudduth, Jim Farris
  • Kathy Staring honored at Rhododendron Tea at home of UW President Charles Odegaard
  • Civic Assembly Island Health Survey begins - 250 begin canvassing - seek 24-hour clinic
  • Gov. Dan Evans vetoes ferry fare bill, signs bill declaring state of emergency for system and class for Cross-Sound transportation study
  • 11 VHS girls named as highest scholastic graduates
  • 1.2 million cubic yards of Maury Island gravel used to fill between Piers 24 and 25 in Seattle

June -

  • Carl Winge returns home after open-heart surgery
  • School Board approves budget - $1,313 higher than previous year
  • Vashon Healthcare installs automatic sprinkler system
  • Doug vanDevanter finishes second in pole vault, Todd Pearson finishes third in 100-yard dash at state track meet
  • Vashon Information Center will open in the Allied Arts building next to Youth Center
  • Vashon Heights Community Club disbands - donates $640 to ambulance fund sells Club House to Grange
  • Gene Peters, Superintendent, and teachers Ed Lucero and Tex Robinson announce resignations
  • The Peer 13 theater group performs “Pure as the Driven Snow” at bank Road Theater
  • Bill Magill returns home after extensive knee surgery
  • Jackie and Tony Aikens purchase House of Beauty in Burton
  • Service Employees Union seeks new contract for custodial and kitchen workers in school district
  • Seattle girl dies of injuries in fall at north end ferry landing
  • K2 Corporation announces addition to front of plant for office facilities
  • KimmCo wins bid to connect K2 with Vashon sewer system
  • Phyllis Kirkpatrick opens “Red caboose” antique shop in former railroad caboose on Burton Peninsula
  • Elwood Birdsall announces Isle-Air Service to offer instruction and charter flights
  • Bambi DuFrense in top 10 at Miss Washington contest

July -

  • Chamber of Commerce prepares list of Island residents and organizations offering services to the public
  • Rainy weather delays strawberry crop - growers not optimistic yield if rainy weather continues
  • Glass recycling project at dump - glass sorted into three colors - begun by King County and community volunteers
  • Kitsap County residents complain Vashon got preferential treatment in summer ferry schedule
  • State stops issuing drivers licenses on Island - must travel off-Island for renewals
  • Barry Linden, 1966 VHS graduate, on White House police force
  • “Signposts of Vashon-Maury Island” - history booklet by Nancy Nelson on slae to aid Civic Assembly’s road sign fund
  • Neighbors in Need facing critical food shortage
  • Two men accused of horse rustling
  • Seven girls seek Miss Vashon title
  • Sandy Gorsuch easily wins July horseshoe tournament at Ellisport
  • Chris Nelson is first 18-year-old to register to vote
  • Louise Ogilvy sells interest in Vashon Lumber and Supply to partner George Endlich
  • 10 Islanders on committee to select new School Superintendent
  • Rhea Brobeck crowned Miss Vashon at Festival Pageant
  • July 18 - King County Vashon Courthouse firebombed - Fire destroys County building and Insurance agency - set by “incendiary device” - Two men charged with “firebombing”
  • August 1971 Two men charged with “firebombing” one arrested, warrant issued for second -
  • January 1972 John Charles Newton found guilty of second degree arson for his role in the July 1971 firebombing, he received 5 years probation with 25 days to be served in jail on his days off
  • Western Farmers Branch sold to Bob Reed by Merlin Williams
  • The Chinese Community Girl’s Club drill team takes top award at Festival Parade
  • Island women win waterball tournament between fire districts - Lahoma Carter, Beth Linden, Joy Ryan, Pam Beall
  • Gordi Eaton joins K2 staff
  • David Coomber named manager of Vashon Branch People’s National Bank

August -

  • Two men charged with firebombing of Vashon court building
  • Dr. Raymond “Stu” Adams named School Superintendent
  • Cherry harvest expected to top 250 tons
  • 22 Vashon girls and Nancy Mish travel to Ashland, Oregon for Shakespeare Festival
  • Sgt. Terry Allman injured by detainee at precinct headquarters
  • Vashon Kiwanis sponsors “moonlight cruise” aboard super ferry
  • Open Letter on front page of Beachcomber asks remains of Island Club be removed - 111 days on a 30 day contract
  • Petition to have at-large election of school board on fall ballot
  • County Assessor Office on Island to reassess property values - higher taxes for 1972 due in 1973
  • Second man charged in Vashon District Court firebombing turns self in - released on own recognizance
  • Vashon Rock Concert - Musical benefit for Neighbors in Need - fear of rock festival - “Rock Concert” controversy - community divided - Proposal for armed Volunteer Sherriff group
  • George McKay displays world record mobile - 153 pieces
  • Vandals smash county equipment at Ober Park
  • Grange racing team takes third place in county-wide contest
  • Evening session of Vashon District Court held to hear 30 parking violations issues at South End ferry landing by off-Island deputies

September -

  • School enrollment down from last year
  • Civic Assembly barbeque - Islanders and County Officials get together
  • Bill Jones awarded $200 for bear chainsaw sculpture
  • Both suspects in Vashon Court House bombing bound over to Superior Court
  • Vashon Industries announce move to Colorado - trim work force to 1/3 present size
  • Village Laundry purchased by Marian and Ernie Wilkowski from Frank and Gladys Redhead
  • Vashon sewer rates increase with October billing
  • Vashon Kiwanis hold 25-year anniversary and honor five charter members
  • Mark Anderson and John Seachrist water around Island without spills in one hour and ten minutes
  • VHS Pirates open football season with 19-6 victory over St. Martins
  • School District receives $18,000 grant to hire additional personnel
  • Construction of 1,600 square foot addition to Youth Center - cost $32,000
  • Fire Chief Criag Harmeling announces Fire District 13 will seek 2-mill addition to levy in fall election
  • 540 pound bronze propeller stolen from sunken tugboat near Lisabeula
  • Four Vashon high school seniors honored as National Merit Scholars - Debbie McKay, John Drum, Larry Burns, Thea Vernoy
  • Water District 19 moves into new offices by water tower in Vashon Town
  • Connie Klepeis wins blue ribbon in rabbit showmanship at Western Washington State Fair
  • Narcotics agents arrest two island youths charged with sale of dangerous drugs

October -

  • Chicken stolen at Ken Britz residence at Cove
  • Sequim Wolves hand VHS Pirates third straight loss
  • Discussion of Vashon phase of “open space” law held at high school
  • Island fireman hold open house
  • Plans for facelift on Vashon Hotel and Apartment building
  • Bid awarded for construction of addition to Youth Center at John Ober Park
  • Former Island football player awarded Vashon “V: 23 years after he played on team
  • Little House opens next to water tower - Jean Peck owner
  • Hearing on new Vashon high school deleated from State Baord meeting
  • Trucks conducted geophysical surveys of island for Chevron Oil
  • Open forum for school board candidates held by beachcomber
  • Greg Plancich and Loretta Wolf homecoming King and Queen
  • Former students at Columbia School hold reunion
  • Snowfall before Halloween - earliest on record
  • Island-wide school survey
  • Tom Beall honored by Kiwanis for service to community
  • Junior class takes top honors for float at VHS homecoming
  • Deputy Prosecutor meets with Islanders to discuss charge that drug abusers getting soft treatment
  • Estimated 200 to 700 Hippies living on Island - Seattle Times article by John Hinterberger “Vashon and Hippies - No Love Affair”

November -

  • Leo Montegue and Bob VanDeventer elected to School Board
  • Voters approve abolishing director districts
  • Voters approve Special levy for Fire District 1086 to 294
  • Jaycees place Christmas cards for Islanders serving overseas at local banks for Islanders to sign
  • High School Key Club volunteers to clean-up after Halloween
  • Alvin Habbestad awarded Air Medal three times
  • O.R. “Tex” Arnold installed as head of Royal Arch Masons at Burton
  • State support for new high school “on again”
  • Ernie Wilkowski protests 3,000% increase in sewer bill
  • Vandals turn four cars loose at North End parking lot
  • Patrick John Murto receives three-year deferred sentence for firebombing of Vashon District Court building - pleas guilty to second degree arson changes
  • Nancy Nelson feature on ferry strikes and confrontations of 1940s in Seattle PI Sunday Supplement
  • Christian Science Monitor prints article on mini-course at McMurray School - by-lined by Blanche Caffiere
  • Health Survey results released - mixed reactions
  • Steve’s Little Mexico opens in Vashon Town - Steve Hayes owner
  • Vashon island Self Help holds first public meeting
  • Annual Ski festival sponsored by Soroptimists held at McMurray auditorium
  • Two young men arrested for burglary at Country Club
  • Jay Mathews honored as inspirational football player and receives “100 Percent Plus” trophy
  • New group of horsemen formed - V_M (V Bar M) to replace Defunct Eagles riding club
  • Cliff Lavender’s collection of classic Chryslers featured
  • 22 Islanders walk over 300 miles to raise $800 to contribute to fight mental retardation
  • Larry Walls installed as Grange Master
  • High School performs “I Remember Mama”
  • King County passes “Open Space” law - purchase agricultural land development rights to preserve rural nature of Island - tax relief from “highest-best use” valuation
  • Captain Casper Vashon Baker dies - great-great-great nephew of Admiral James Vashon
  • “The Day the Vashon Vigilantes Repelled Captain Peabody’s Navy” by Nancy Nelson in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  • “Medical Needs Survey” done in May finds Island needs another M.D.

December -

  • Operation Jigsaw - community plan - Civic Assembly is outgrowth of this community planning effort
  • King County given Island Club-Scout Cabin site and facilities toVeteran’s
  • Memorial Foundation signs over site - County to use $20,000 in
  • Forward Thrust funds to build Ober Park (named for John Ober)
  • 1884 site bought by John Blackburn - 1886 donated to school district
  • 1887 school built additional buildings in 1900 and 1908
  • 1925 - purchased by women’s group renamed “Community House”
  • 1930’s - new HS auditorium leads to decline in use
  • 1946 - Veteran’s Memorial Foundation raised $8,000 to take over property and remodel building - renamed “Island Club”
  • 1971 - Building demolished and Ober Park built

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1972

January -

  • Late December and early January snows - icy condition - 3 traffic fatalities - John Wgner, 23, killed in collision, Rev and Mrs. Donald Shouse injured - Bruce Curtis and Paul Denning both 18 killed in wreck in deep ravine - undiscovered for 8 hours - Dahlbert George survives
  • Fire destroys house kills owner David McKenzie
  • Voter registration drive at high school - 18-year-olds have first chance to vote in February election
  • 1971 Courthouse bombing - John Charles Newton guilty of second degree arson - 5 years probation and 25 days in jail on days off
  • Snowstorm late January - 8 inches of snow - 3-foot drifts - gale force winds - power outages - schools closed

February -

  • Large voter turn out - school levy passes by 63% - school funding
  • Island-wide poll of 90 educators, 21 students, 490 citizens approve of sex education, oppose spanking or physical punishment, students approve smoking area public opposes, students oppose dress code public favor, public thinks school administrators are responsive to concerns students do not.
  • Chamber of Commerce officers Ted Heindsmann President, Bob Ling VP, Virginia Heindsmann Sec, Pat Winterton Treasurer
  • Pirate basketball ends 7-13 season
  • State approves new High School building - will pay 52% of costs
  • K2 announces $310,000 expansion - 20,000 sq feet
  • K2 buys Jan Sport Pack firm

March -

  • 2 weeks heavy rains lead to multiple slides and road closures - Home at Indian Point destroyed by slide - Burma Road closed
  • Fauntleroy Dock repairs move service to downtown for two-weeks
  • State Highway Department considering passenger only ferry to Seattle
  • Pair of llamas introduced to Island by Bob Cobb and Del O’Neill
  • Seattle Symphony family concert - Jonathan Drum VSH trumpeter playes with Symphony
  • Governor Dan Evans tours K2 plant
  • Special athletic awards at winter sports program
  • Beachcomber sold to Nelson Phillips
  • Metro Transit takes over Seattle City and County bus systems - Harlan Rosford’s Island Transit to continue as contractor
  • Burglary at VHS - $1,770 loss
  • Beach at Biloxi “disappears” - 100 feet of sandy shoreline collapses

April -

  • VHS burglary - $2,000 loss of equipment
  • Civil Assembly considers “no shooting” ordinance for Island
  • Cancellation of Boeing Super Sonic Transport (SST) - Senator William Proxmire blamed - massive layoffs begin at Boeing
  • Vashon Jaycees announce firearms education course in cooperation with Vashon Sportsman’s Club
  • VHS presents “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Bown”
  • Earth Day - April 21
  • Rev. Terry Peretti new pastor at Dockton Community Church
  • Bill and Lane Kuipers participate in National Hockey Championships
  • Nelson Phillips purchases Beachcomber from Carl Nelson one of original founders in March 1958
  • “The View From Vashon: Country Living with City Convenience” article in Puget Sound Living

May -

  • Mackie’s Cove Store closes - last store on Westside - Chalres Mackie puts “Gone Fishin’ ” sign over door
  • Vashon Allied Arts takes over ownership of Island Arts Gallery
  • Tonsorial Parlour featuring male hair cuts opens in James’ Hair Design
  • A.T. VanDeventer to run for State Superintendent of Public Instruction
  • Girls State - Janet Champion, Boys State - John Rohwer, Don Cameron, Drew Lodahl, Paul DeHope
  • VHS Carpentry class build their own classroom that can be disassembled and moved for on-site construction projects
  • VHS Golf Team wins 2nd in District tourney
  • Five VHS Track Team members qualify for State meet
  • Mrs. Frankie Shattuck honored by Soroptimists for community service - resident since 1920
  • Randi Kellogg, 19, dies after 6-year battle with kidney failure - kidney transplant from brother Scott in January 1971 rejected

June -

  • Virginia V marks 50th year of operation with run through West Passage - paused at each dock site and blew whistle
    Vashon Island Self-Help opens shoe repair shop in Vashon Town - Self-Help and organization for low-income, disadvantaged and minority groups
    Bill Slemko hired to direct Island Information Center and start Job-line for Island youth
    Ed and Marilyn Joslin named Washington State Grange “Young Couple of the Year”
    Health service center formed in Burton with three nurses 24 hour service - expected to open in July
    Islanders irate over property tax evaluations - some call from incorporating Vashon or forming new county -

July -

  • P.J. Tronquet new news editor for Beachcomber
  • Island Festival, minus Miss Vashon Pageant - parade theme “America the Beautiful” - Grand Marshall Sandy Hill TV personality
  • Postmaster Tom Nedderman retires after 26 years with Postal Service
  • Ray Aspiri resigns from School Board - business pressures
  • Mike Kirk, McMurry social studies teacher named a Leader of American Education for 1972
  • Article in Beachcomber “Indian pickers - a lost tradition”
  • Island Health Care Center opens in Burton - 24-hours clinic on Island
  • Vashon Bowl opens in Shop-Rite Plaza
  • Seattle-King County Health Department tests show lead and arsenic in soil and animals on Vashon - source ASARCO smelter in Tacoma

August -

  • Kiwanis “Moonlight Cruise” ends with anonymous bomb threat - no bomb found
  • Glenn Green retires after 10-years as maintenance supervisor for Water Dist. 19
  • Rick Acton, Vashon Golf Club Pro wins Oregon Open Championship
  • Seattle-King County Health Department announces abnormal amounts of lead and arsenic in Island cattle and soil
  • Harlan Rosford operates Island Transit - three round trips each day - six days each week - 125 miles each day - If Metro is approved to take over bus systems, they will contract with Rosford
  • King County Equalization Board hears 270 Vashon Island cases for re-assessment

September -

  • Civic Assembly approves rezoning of property across the street from K2 for an automotive center
  • Ten new teachers hired by School District
  • Kathy Sestrap, Donn Cave, Alan Jackson national Merit Scholars
  • Fire damages Village Cleaners
  • Marjorie R. Stanley Wildlife and Wilderness Area on Morgan Hill dedicated
  • Jaycees sponsor tent circus as fund raiser for Vashon Ambulance Association and Health Services Center
  • Arsenic Fallout - ASARCO smelter spent $20 million over past two years - Puget Sound Air Pollution Agency estimates smelter output:
    1971 - 970 tons of arsenic (384 tons) and lead (134 tons) into atmosphere
    1972 - 61 tons of lead 173 tons of arsenic
    1973 - 48 tons of lad and 133 tons of arsenic and 1.2 tons of cadmium (measured for the first time in 1973)
  • King County Department of Health begins arsenic study - Puget Sound Pollution Control Agency begins arsenic study - Piner Point arsenic 174 ppm - Neal Point arsenic 183 ppm
  • Vashon School Board rolls back special levy by $200,000 - surplus of $195,000 over past year
  • Seattle Times “Vashon’s Marjorie Stanley” by Tom Swint

October -

  • Fire on ferry Hiyu - started by cigarette, extinguished by crew
  • Fire destroys Paradise Valley barn - Pat Dugan
  • The Wall Flower and Island Music Center pen in Island Mart Building
  • Jaycees sponsor candidates night

November -

  • Voters reject $20,000 Vashon Municipal Airport levy
  • Frank Warnke and Bob Gaines elected to 30th Legislative District positions
  • Islanders follow state and national trends in presidential and gubernatorial races
  • Voters reject greyhound racing, equal rights - approve litter control and shoreline management
  • Seattle-King County Health Department announces testing of South End children for lead and arsenic in hair and blood samples - tests show lead and arsenic in soil and animals on Vashon - source ASARCO smelter in Tacoma
  • Frank Ljubich catches 25-foot basking shark - national marine Fisheries Service records show only third in Puget Sound
  • VHS Pirates win second place in league football
  • Fall sports program honors players

December -

  • Sgt. Terry Allman, Deputy Sheriff transfers to Seattle after 10-years service on Island
  • Spinnaker Restaurant scheduled to open in June - Don Cunningham applies for class-H liquor license
  • Grover Ligon applies for tavern license for The Barn
  • School Board sets levy election for February, asks $638,000 in special funds
  • Cold spell - 20 degree high for one week - snow on December 11
  • ASARCO smelter decides to violate pollution laws - conflict with Puget Sound Pollution Control Agency

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1973

  • Island Transit and Metro Transit reach operating agreement - Harlan Rosford to maintain operations
  • Civic Assembly - structure represents 23 island organization who each have voting representative in Assembly - incorporated in 1964 - Island needed representative and united voice to government agencies no “power” but provides voice for Island
  • Island Water Systems unsafe - 1964 survey finds 32 of 44 island systems are contaminated - 1973 only 8 “acceptable” systems - ban on building permits unless water system is certified Seattle-King County Health Department and Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency to test island for arsenic contamination - test air for arsenic and test school children for arsenic in hair, blood and urine
  • Seattle-King County Health Department and Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency to test island for arsenic contamination - test air for arsenic and test school children for arsenic in hair, blood and urine
  • Standard Oil buys State mineral leases on 180 acres of Vashon to drill exploratory well
  • Gas crisis hits Island - gas pumps dry
  • King County and School District looks at school property site for swimming pool
  • Island Transit and Metro Transit reach operating agreement -Harlan Rosford to maintain operations
  • K2 plans $3 million expansion - add 90,000 square feet to plant - success for red, white and blue skis
  • Tests find “significantly elevated” levels of arsenic in hair samples of students - Puget Sound Air Pollution Agency proposed nations first arsenic emission regulation - ASARCO submits compliance schedule
  • ARCO gas station to open across from K2 - after zoning controversy - Jerry Spencer owner
  • 125 pound octopus caught in Quartermaster Harbor near Burton Marina
  • McCormicks to retire - George and Earl McCormick to retire and turn Vashon Hardware Store over to Chuck Barrentine
  • Civic Assembly to develop Vashon Island Emergency Plan
  • Bill Magill retires after 38 years as King County Roads Supervisor on Vashon
  • Vashon Health Center to move from Burton to Vashon - Doctor 2 day per week
  • Joe Green to retire from Alaska fishing - 43 years fishing on Janet G - sons Joe Jr. and Skip will continue to fish
  • Oil spill at Racoma Beach - 1.5 miles of beach covered with over 100 gallons of heavy bunker oil
  • Vacant house in downtown Vashon demolished - next to bank - leaves open space - eventually becomes Vashon Green
  • King County and School District looks at school property site for swimming pool
  • Two homes destroyed by fire - one with a fatality
  • Two road deaths
  • Woman died in boating accident
  • Allied Arts closes gallery in Vashon Town
  • Books By the Way opens in old Therkelson Store at Center
  • Vashon Healthcare facility to close after state stops placing welfare patients in the facility - Nursing Home sold to William Ide of Tacoma who renames it Island Manor Nursing Home - renews agreement with state to care for state-aid residents

January -

  • Vashon High School “frosh initiation” - food fight - leads to opposition toSchool levies
  • King County proposes development of Dockton Park as a regional not community park - three phase plan - toilets at end of dock, boat pumping station, boat ramp improvements -
  • Wave of vandalism hits Island - 12 incidents in one week

February -

  • School Levy defeated - 1124 vs. 710 - first time levy fails since before WW II
  • Island meeting with King County Parks Director George Wyse - controversy over development of Dockton Park are regional not community park
  • Olympic Instruments announces portable chain saw powered winch

March -

  • First Fireman’s Ball to raise fund for Fire District
  • King County approves development of Dockton Park - citizen group threatens injunction to stop building of new restrooms, widening pier, and paved paths

April -

  • April 20 - car hits passengers unloading from Ferry Quinault - Jay Lillquis 16, Kaiso Eng 31, Joan Noll16, Mike Campbell 17.
  • April -“A Pictorial Review of Vashon Island” 38-page collection of Reed Fitzpatrick’s drawings depicting local scenes
  • Second attempt a School Levy defeated - 1131 vs. 1,053 - 51.3% yes but 60% needed

May -

  • Vandals hit Vashon Cemetery
  • Civic Assembly explores using Boeing Hydrofoil for Island passenger only ferry - 20 minutes Heights to Downtown Seattle
  • “Island Living Act III” home tour - Homes of Andrew Williams, Bill Kirschner, Bill Speidel, Roger Derby, Bill Braiser, and Irving Bean.

June -

Vandals hit VHS Shop Building - $10,000 in damages

July

  • Hydroplane race around island cancelled by Coast Guard and King
    County after 14 years complaints about noise

August -

  • Ground breaking for new Dockton fire station

September -

  • New High School Building behind schedule - High School and McMurray double shift until building is ready
  • Ferry rates for seniors reduced
  • Vandalism widespread on Island - damage to businesses, automobiles, and property

October -

  • Gas crisis hits Island - gas pumps dry
  • Vandals hit VHS again - $1,000 in damages

November -

  • New High School open after Thanksgiving break
  • Old High School built in 1930 - closed
  • Vandals hit Vashon Airport damaging planes
  • Gas Crisis leads state to consider decreased ferry service and slower runs

December -

  • Rich and Sue Wiley and Victorian house featured in Redbook Christmas issue
  • School Board announces $1,154,000 levy for February
  • Civic Assembly explores juvenile court program to deal with vandalism
  • Ferry service at Tahlequah reduced to save fuel

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1974

  • Conflict over location of new sewer treatment plant
  • School levies fail - 48% yes vote
  • Gas crisis hits Island - stations set schedules - concerns about off-island gas buyers - early morning sales until daily allocation gone
  • School levy passes - revised lower amount - threat to close McMurray
  • Sound Food Restaurant to open
  • Telephone Utilities Inc. to close Vashon Office - move to Gig Harbor
  • New Federal Law requires berry picker to be at least 12 years old
  • Concerns about remodel of Ober Park - “mounds” controversial
  • Proposal for new shopping center in Vashon - Thriftway Neighbors oppose because of traffic and noise
  • Judge Phil Schwartz - fights new state law that judges must be attorneys
  • Ellisport annexed to Water District 19 - community effort
  • School District and general contractor in dispute over shoddy construction of new high school building - $31,000 disputed issues
  • Swimming Pool - Forward Thrust fund - construction begins on School District property
  • Controversial land use policy by King County - proposal to prohibit land owners from removing ground cover and trees without permits
  • Topless dancing comes to Vashon - Vashon Tavern has 3 topless dancers
  • Movement to separate from King County zoning issues, animal control issues,

February -

  • Nike Hercules missile site on Vashon to close (also Redmond and Kingston) -

March -

  • Nike site closes - 80 acres, 180 jobs, 35 men stationed on Island
    Proposals emerge for community use of the site - Civic Assembly proposes health center, park -

 

October -

  • Boldt Decision on allocating salmon fishing rights impacts Island gillnetters - October 1 & 2 fish-in protest by white gillnetters - 3 Vashon fishermen arrested for protest - Wayne Cornett, Don Cornett, George Yurisich arrested fishing off Ellisport

November -

  • Pete von Reichbauer re-elected in victory over opponent Mike Mattingly

December -

  • Dec 7-11 - Ferry Strike by Inland Boatman’s Union closes all ferries except for boats to Vashon and San Juan (no option of bridges)

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1975

  • Jay and Joan Becker purchase Beachcomber

January -

  • Snow storm - eight inches of snow - many trees down, power lines down of 3500 electric customer lose power - Quartermaster Marine roofs collapse -

April -

  • Two Vashon women found dead of stab wounds at Moclips - Tina Jacobsen 19 and Gaelisa Burton 18
  • Vashon School levy fails by 51 votes (Sept 1974 reduces levy)

November -

  • UW College of Forest Resources study for King County - Quartermaster harbor not polluted - island can tolerate more development - Forward Thrust $155,00 for Dockton park - residential septic tanks are major contributor to Harbor pollution -

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1976

  • K2 Corporation sold to Sitca Corporation, NW Investment Group
  • Steamer Virginia V Foundation was formed to preserve the Virginia V
  • Rick Campbell of Lisabeula first male t appear on cover of Glamour magazine
  • Island’s first US Cycling Federation sponsored bicycle race
  • Jim Clark pedals across US - Virginia to Vashon
  • Chris Chandler climbs Mount Everest
  • King County adopts Shoreline Manaagement ordinance - five acre sites on 75% of Island’s waterfront if served by well, one acre if public water system
  • Vashon District Court survives consolidation with Seattle courts
  • Old Vashon High School built in 1930 torn down
  • Islanders vote 5/1 to form Cemetery District to car for Island cemeteries
  • Jim Smith proposes sewer district for north Quartermaster harbor - little support
  • Businesses raise $100 for reward to catch vandals breaking windows
  • Roland Carey publishes Isle of the Sea Breezes
  • Marjorie Stanley publishes series in Beachcomber about art and literature about the Island
  • Fred Eernissee begins writing history of Vashon agriculture
  • Jean Ameluxen, Pat Longhi, and John Pearson revive Civic Assemby as a community forum
  • Jack Dennis wins Sportsman’s Club Salmon Derby with 25 lb 12 oz salmon
  • 36-foot gillnetter sinks in suspicious circumstances of Standard Oil Dock
  • Drama Dock formed - 1st play “Secret Affair” 2nd “Plaza Suite”
  • Agren Park development begins
  • Meals on Wheels begins sponsored by Kiwaniis, Soroptimist, and Evergreen Club
  • Vashon Airport District Board votes 2/1 to keep airport at current location
  • Bethel Free Church celebrates 50th anniversary
  • Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association formed
  • West Side Water Co. controls growth by controlling number of new connections
  • IRATE Island Residents Against Toxic Emissions formed - work to stop ASARCO smelter pollution -

January -

  • Swine-flu shots available on the Island
  • Brad Shride, Jim Hoventer, and Gerald Plancich water ski around the Island on New Year’s Day

April -

  • “Librarians recall past” - Marjorie Stanley (first official Island librarian), Margaret Lowrey (next librarian), and Winifred Miller (current librarian)
  • Nike site goes to community - volunteer group led by Dorothy Johnson wins site CHOICE (Community Health and Island Care Enterprises) to use site for Granny’s Attic and Vashon Youth Baseball to use baseball field
  • Federal Government Legacy of Parks Program -

May-

  • Beall Co. send orchid seeds to Moscow - breakthrough - Frank Shride manager of orchid division

June -

  • King County Department of Parks and Recreation - study by UW College of Forest Resources - recommends expansion of Dockton Park; develop swimming beach at Burton; Installation of mooring buoys around the Island; develop a bike trail system; small boat launch at NE ferry dock, Cove or Ellisport; park at Lisabeula, Reddings Beach or Tramp Harbor; develop land parcel for ferry bike riders; purchase of sites for future park and wildlife habitat sites.

July -

  • Annual Island Festival - Allied Arts fair with festival - art booths and outdoor concerts by Island musicians
  • Vashon High School class of 1931 reunion - 25 of 47 return - awarded gold foil covered bricks from old high school building

August -

  • Old Moon-New Music Festival at Ober Park
  • Police crack down on public drinking - 19 arrested in August only s in September

September -

  • Ferry strike Masters, Mates, and Pilots. No runs to Vashon for 2 days - September 2-5
  • Seattle Times article on Harlan’s Bus - September 18, 1978 by Peter Rinearson and Susan Schwartz

 

October -

  • First “No Ball” Fireman’s Ball to raise funds without expense
  • George Corneal shot in his pasture

November -

  • K2 to be repurchased by Bill Kischner and group of Seattle investors
  • New York Times “Making Skis on a Pacific Isle”-“Spotlight” feature on Bill Kirschner
  • Kimmel’s ShopRite employees strike - vote to unionize and then strike - Kimmel’s exonerated on four unfair labor practice charges

December -

  • Hoot Gibson and Dom Spano and Sportsman’s Club plant 5,000 fingerling salmon in Judd and Shinglemill Creeks

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1977

  • Vashon True Value Hardware opens - Al Snyder and 4 employees
  • Mike McIntyre purchases Island Manor Nursing Home
  • Louis Hillendale and former members of the United Methodist Church of Ingelside, Illinois (near Waugegan) move to Vashon Island to form a new ministry the Weslyan Community Church or “New Fellowship” - controversy in Illinois where they come from - 20 individual families sell homes and moved - living commune style - some claim it is a cult
  • Sharon Munger opens The Barnworks a studio gallery

February -

  • Vashon Alfalfa Sprout Company (VIASCO) opens - Donna and Chuck Daugherty
  • Article on Island Farms - Washington Farmer-Stockman features Robert and Betty Sestrap of Wax Orchards , Yoneichi Matsuda, Tok Otsuka, and Augie Takatsuka - concern about loss of agricultural land - King County agriculture land dropped from 153,000 acres in 1949 to 55,000 in 1976

March -

  • Island Spring tofu business formed - partners Luke Lukoskie and Sylvia Nogaki

May -

  • First burn permits issued by fire department
  • K2 begins producing Nordic cross-country skis

June -

  • Seattle Police raid Vashon High School graduation party for gambling - using play money - Police Chief apologizes
  • Ed and Chris Babcock create Evergreen gardens a project of the senior citizens club in the Island

August -

  • Washington State Ferries considering Boeing hydrofoils for passenger service to Island

September -

  • Islanders at meeting reject proposal to have hydrofoil service -

October -

  • Vashon Fire - part of downtown burns - not enough water pressure - 6 businesses destroyed or damaged - gusting winds fan flames - $500,000 fire - fire started in Bud’s General Store, burned Vasho Pharmacy and PJ’s Tavern - Island rallies around fire victims - Nov 2, TNT article

December -

  • Jewelry store owner robbed at gunpoint by three men - $3,000 in cash and jewelry stolen - escape on ferry Tillicum - ferry delays run until police assemble at Fauntleroy Dock - robbers arrested
  • “Past Remembered” oral history project at Vashon High School interviews Islanders about the past
  • All-Merciful Savior Orthodox Monastery of Russian Orthodox Church sells mail-order premium coffee beans - Father Tryphon

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1978

  • Gravel barging from Maury mine suspended - gravel moved by truck
  • Former Swastika Lodge at Dilworth Point burns - swastika symbol had been removed from the fireplace

March -

  • Seattle Times article on Maury island Incident
  • Vashon power cable leaking oil - about 5-gallons per day - week long repair

April -

  • Maury Island gravel used to fill between Piers 42 to 46 in Seattle - 1,000 tons per hour
  • Hit-and run accident injures five Island girls - charges dismissed because of improper arrest of driver

May -

  • Meeting with Toll Bridge Authority, Ferry System, and Metro Transit discusses linking buses and ferries

August -

  • K2 purchases JanSport - produces packs and camping equipment - Sitca Corporation new name for company - more than 500 employees -162.000 sq ft headquarters and plant on Vashon

October -

  • Nike Base stages fake bombing at 2:00 AM Sunday Oct 22 without warning - negative reaction from Islanders - letters to editor

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1979

January -

  • Wax Orchards featured in TNT “Cider” - produced about 100,000 gallons of cider in 1978

February -

  • King County Community Plan for Vashon overall goal “Keep Vashon Island the way it is. Do whatever is necessary to preserved the high quality of life enjoyed by residents of the island.” Issues addressed - growth, transportation, water, septic tanks, medical service, senior programs and residences, schools.

April -

  • Barnworks - Sharon Munger, Nancy Scott-Weinker and Joan Fulton working with fabrics, jewelry and art glass - Seattle Times 4/1/1979

May -

  • Gambling at Sportsman’s Club - club pleads guilty to gambling charges - King County Sheriff Captain Terry Allman suspended - was president of club during times gambling took place - Club fined $1,000 in June 1979

June -

  • Berry Pickers make $1.30/flat
  • Court bans 10 and 11-year old pickers - Child labor laws
  • Gas Shortage - two-block long lines at gas stations - tanker trucks allowed on ferries only on Mondays and Wednesdays - stations have $5 maximum purchase limit - stations stay open for short hours each day - supplies kept for emergency vehicles - Dockton Store 2 pumps with 500 gallon tank creates lines whenever gas delivered - mile long lines at SpencerGas Shortage - two-block long lines at gas stations - tanker trucks allowed on ferries only on Mondays and Wednesdays - stations have $5 maximum purchase limit - stations stay open for short hours each day - supplies kept for emergency vehicles - Dockton Store 2 pumps with 500 gallon tank creates lines whenever gas delivered - mile long lines at Spencer’s gas station - island experiences gas shortages worse than any other place in the County

October-

  • Wax Orchards starts cider business - apples from Eastern Washington

November -

  • King County Farmlands Preservation Bonds “open space” - $50 million
    bond passed by voters -

December -

  • Suit brought against Island Disposal for “unsightly operation” at 96th Sw and SW 204th near Sound Food Restaurant, schools and other businesses - site used to store garbage trucks and other refuse materials

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