Vashon-Maury Island Community Memorial Gate in partnership with Vashon Parks District, Vashon Island Growers Association (V.I.G.A.), and the Vashon Heritage Museum

Help us build the Vashon-Maury Island Community Memorial Gate pavilion at the Vashon Village Green. We are asking for donations and a few volunteers to help construct and install this memorial to those that link us to past and present and the COVID pandemic. This memorial will honor all those who have been infected and those no longer with us, first responders, healthcare professionals, and frontline workers who helped the Island successfully fight to keep us all as safe as possible. It will be a symbol to honor community and relationship; that our past, present, and future are intimately linked by our memories, actions, and our history.

The Memorial Gate is the vision of Ken Fulton, a longtime resident of Vashon, previous Water Commissioner for Water District #19, and local watercolor artist who was inspired by his late grandson, Dawson Solly’s senior college project of designing a community chalkboard in Helena, MT.  Ken said, “The COVID pandemic brought into focus how we are linked by our shared experiences and memories. Connection to each other and our past is instrumental to the success of our future.”