Vashon Fire board to meet July 1 | Notes

Meeting

Fire

The Vashon Island Fire & Rescue board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, in the Penny Farcy Memorial Training Center.

honors

Jennifer Bard

Jennifer Bard of Vashon was named to the spring semester 2008 dean’s list at Lewis & Clark College. She earned a 3.92 GPA.

Heidi Brezynski

Heidi Brezynski, daughter of Elizabeth Brezynski and James Eliason of Vashon, graduated from the University of Washington on June 12, 2008, with a bachelor of arts degree in environmental studies.

Renae Glantz

Renae Glantz of Vashon earned her doctorate in physical therapy from Eastern Washington University on March 21, 2008.

Renee Griffith

Renee Griffith of Vashon earned a doctorate of physical therapy degree from Eastern Washington University on March 21, 2008.

Allison Ulman

Allison Ulman of Vashon received a bachelor of arts degree in biology, magna cum laude, from Gonzaga University on May 11, 2008.

Sheriff’s report

June 2

6:33 p.m.: At Vashon Subway, at 17408 Vashon Hwy S.W., a suspect stole the donation jar from the business. This was an act of larceny.

June 4

8:40 a.m.: At the Church of the Holy Spirit, at 15420 Vashon Hwy S.W., a reporting party said an unknown person had taken a laptop computer from the unlocked church office. The individual entered the church’s side door.

6 p.m.: In the 10100 block of S.W. 204th Street, an excavator was stolen. The entry point and method of the theft of the heavy equipment are unknown.

6:30 p.m.: In the 13000 block of S.W. Bachelor Road, a reporting party stated that a vehicle had been left for 10 days. No information was available for the owner.

June 8

12:53 p.m.: At St. John Vianney Catholic Church, at 16100 115th Ave. S.W., a victim found that someone had scratched the side of his van, which was parked in the church parking lot. It appears the vandalism was done with a fork of some sort. The church had a potluck earlier in the day.

June 11

7:30 p.m.: In the 10000 block of S.W. 178th St., in a parking lot, an individual smashed the rear window of a vehicle, shattering it. Nothing was missing from inside.

June 12

9:45 a.m.: At the Vashon Pharmacy, an individual committed fraud, purchasing merchandise with a check from a closed account and coming back to the store three hours later and returning most of the merchandise for a cash refund.

families needed

Students need host families

Nonprofit student exchange program AFS-USA is seeking host families for exchange students in the Vashon area.

AFS-USA runs the Youth Exchange and Study Program in cooperation with the U.S. State Department. The program is “designed to build bridges of understanding through high school student exchanges between the U.S. and countries with significant Muslim populations,” said Jessica Houston, a spokesperson for AFS-USA.

AFS is a leading international high school student exchange program, pairing families with high school students from other countries for an academic year or six months. Students arrive in August.

AFS students come from more than 40 countries and represent many different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

All kinds of families can host — two-parent households with young children or teenagers, single-parent families, families with adopted children, foster parents, as well as couples and single people who do not have children or who have grown children.

Anyone interested in learning more about hosting or volunteering with AFS should visit www.afs.org/usa/hostfamily or call 1-800-AFS-INFO.

The mission of AFS, a nonprofit organization, is to work toward a more just and peaceful world by providing international and intercultural learning experiences to individuals, families, schools and communities through a global volunteer partnership.

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