She’s the youngest Masters rower in the Vashon Island Rowing Club. Her journey from the Lithuanian national team to the University of Minnesota to Vashon is a fascinating one featuring harsh living conditions, broken promises, and a Soviet-era coach with some crazy ideas on how to be compensated for losing his rowers to American universities.

Better Know A Business – The Maven Mercantile

September 29th, 2017 - Posted in

Just south of downtown Vashon is a relatively new business that’s helping the lazy among us take home a fine meal that’s ready to eat! If you haven’t met the owner of The Maven Mercantile yet, here’s your introduction to Heidi Pomeroy.

Morning Scramble – Martin Feveyear & Jason Staczek

September 29th, 2017 - Posted in

If you’ve been to a movie lately, you’ve probably noticed the dramatic improvement in the theater’s sound system. Island audio and music wizards Martin Feveyear and Jason Staczek drop by tell the story of what they found behind the screen and what they did to make the theater sound awesome again!

Hoytus Interruptus – On Patriotism

September 29th, 2017 - Posted in

Jeff wonders why there are so many different opinions around the protests by NFL players during last week’s national anthem. Perhaps it could be that we have so many different opinions about where patriotism ends and disrespect begins.

Many years ago, before the show entered syndication, Jeff re-united the three voice actors behind almost all of the characters from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show. With the recent passing of June Foray, who voiced both Rocky the Squirrel and Natasha Fatale, Jeff wanted to tell the story of the day these three iconic […]

Morning Scramble – Danny O’Keefe

September 21st, 2017 - Posted in

His songs have been covered by the likes of Leon Russell, Allison Krauss, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Nickel Creek, Miranda Lambert, Jerry Lee Lewis and a Who’s Who list of others. Over his long, 40+ years as a singer-songwriter, his new CD, “Home,” is the first time Danny has re-imagined many of his older classics. […]

Luke and Susan get their eyes opened about life in and out of prison from some who’ve learned the hard way.  Guests Thrett Brown, Yvonne Monique and Karen Dhaliwal preview their upcoming Vashon Theatre program on re-entering society after incarceration.

 Jeff’s day job as an audiobook narrator often finds him searching the internet for the pronunciation of some insane word or name. What do you do, though, when you still can’t pronounce the word, even after having it laid out for you phonetically? Jeff kept his most embarrassing outtakes.

Jeff & Cindy had a blast with Chris Ballew in the studio on this week’s show. In addition to hearing a few wonderful cuts from his new Caspar CD “Jump For Joy,” Chris digs deep behind the music in this, the 50th anniversary summer of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s album. He also talks about what […]

While 400+ cyclists tackle the toughest hills Vashon has to offer this weekend during the annual Passport 2 Pain ride, VoV’s own Rick Wallace is walking the 80-mile course over the four days leading up to the event. We caught up with him on Day Two.