Do you know the difference between Hepatitis A and C, is your family protected?

Today Public Health – Seattle & King County reported Hep A was active in King County. In private correspondence they indicated the individual is not known to have visited Vashon – although their contacts...

Building, sustaining volunteer health-care teams on Salish Sea islands who should attend:  island residents (from across the Salish Sea) who are physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors, pharmacists when:  Saturday, April 6   9a.m. - 4p.m. where:  Vashon Land Trust Building 10014 SW Bank Rd, Vashon, WA 98070 map this cost:  $20 suggested donation hosts:  Vashon Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) and VashonBePrepared RSVP (seating limited to 50):  contact John Osborn MD  MRC@VashonBePrepared.org We live within the "Ring of Fire" - a place beautiful and prone to major geologic events such as the Cascadia Earthquake. ...

A major new report has just been issued by the UW Climate Impacts Group. For the first time it gives detailed predictions for sea level rise that is mapped throughout Washington’s coast line, including Puget Sound.

Vashon is covered by 6 overlapping study regions, as shown in the map to the right.

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Over a decade ago, about 75 enthusiastic CERT volunteers came out to the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, Snohomish County, for the day. That memorable day, in 2003, was the first CERT Expo. The CERT Expo evolved to include continuing education sessions in the morning and participation by volunteers in a disaster exercise in the afternoon.  In 2005, the CERT Expo expanded and moved to the Everett Community College. Our intrepid volunteers...