Despite this recession Amy Wolff opened a new business on Vashon Island recently. It’s called Vashon Central..

Calling herself a “networky” kind of person, she’ll find just the right worker you need or just the right client you want. How? By interviewing you and your possible employee, three business references for each of you and three personal references, she told Vashon Kiwanis June 30.

It’s like “match making” she said. Her office is in Ron Mitchell’s building at Center.

She’s been in business 25 years and worked from her south end home 15 years so she knows how hard it can be to find just the right worker or just the right client on the Island. That’s one of her goals, to help keep dollars on the Island, even for people who can’t afford a lot of marketing effort or who only want part time work.

It was while in Bob’s Bakery wondering what a small staff operation like that does when someone gets sick that started her thinking about creating a network of and for Islanders. Temporary help, child care, house work, bed and breakfast, you name it and she probably can link you to someone here who can fill your needs and wants, she says.

She spoke to Kiwanis as one of a series of speakers about new Island businesses and professions.

The July 7 meeting of Kiwanis is to go over who does what when for the Strawberry Festival Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast. The all-you-can-eat breakfast is to refill the Community Fund and help the food bank, scholarship foundation and as many as a dozen other groups and individual Islanders.
--Jay Becker