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Old Fashioned Do-si-do at a Seabeck celebration, or hear Dickens on Dickens – inside

BY KRISTIN [email protected]

Douglas Derrer read his book — merely a manuscript — to Lisa Pitcher’s fifth grade class at the now-closed Seabeck Elementary School seven years ago.

Recently he’s been reading the self-pub-lished childrens novel, “Pirate Peril: The First Voyage,” to Pitcher’s fifth graders at Cougar Valley Elementary School.

Wednesday he read the finished book for everyone.

Derrer and teachers said if it hadn’t been for the students’ comments and questions to his working drafts over the years, the book could have turned out different. It probably wouldn’t have even turned into a series of three books.

The first class of fifth graders Derrer read to are now seniors in high school and they as well as the other students he has read to over the years joined Derrer in celebrating the publication of the first book in the series of a boy’s adventures with pirates and princesses as he faces the end of the world.

“It’s pretty amazing what happens when you put things out there,” said Derrer, 71, last week at Cougar Valley where he still continues to volunteer and read in Pitcher’s class as well as other classes at the school and at Green Mountain Elementary School.

“They give me good feedback. They give me great ideas,” he said of the students’ comments to his writing.

Mike Jones, the protagonist of the book

is based on and named after his wife’s son. Derrer said he originally wrote Mike killing off a pirate that is the villain of the story and had no intention to bring the pirate back. The idea of bringing the pirate back came from a student who was unhappy with the pirate’s death and lead to Derrer turning the book into a three-book series.

Neither Derrer nor Pitcher knew what would happen when he first decided to read his work to her students.

“I had no idea at the very beginning how much interaction there would be,” said Pitcher. “It made writing come to life.”

Derrer’s writing first came to life when he was isolated with nothing to do on the island of Adak in the Bering Sea.

He left his post as a psychologist at Naval


A teenager was visiting Bremerton High School and thought it was strange seeing some students with their cellphones on their desks. Inside the building, an adult told him he could keep his hat on.

At the Washington Youth Academy, Cadet Schramm has been having a different experience.

“I said I didn’t feel right wearing it anymore,” said Schramm.

A lot has changed for Schramm and his fellow students at the Bremerton academy, a credit-retrieval program designed for 16 to 18-year-olds who have dropped out of high school or who are at risk to.

The academy, a quasi-military training and mentoring program, is a division of the National Guard Youth Challenge Program and was announced last month by the state Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn as an Innovative School.

The academy was selected along with 21 other schools in the state for providing instructional programs that are bold, creative and innova-tive.

“This should be turned into a four-year school,” said Schramm of the academy – a 22-week program where students also live on campus.

Students come to the academy voluntarily and cannot be involved with the court system, said Lynn Caddell, the school’s principal.

The program accommodates up to 150 students and is state and federally funded with no cost to students or parents. The program is based on a partnership between the National Guard and the state

Washington Youth Academy recognized as an Innovative School by stateStructured program gives high school drop-outs and ‘at risk’ students another chance

Kristin Okinaka/staff photo

Douglas Derrer reads his book, “Pirate Peril: The First Voyage,” to a class of fifth grade students at Cougar Valley Elementary School Dec. 2 while they draw scenes and characters from the story.

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Volunteering in the classroom leads to childrens book seriesCentral Kitsap students and teachers celebrate local author’s childrens book

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DICKENS READS DICKENSActor Tim Tully becomes Charles Dickens in “Dickens Reading Dickens.” See page 7.

From top, Tim Tully as Charles Dickens, and Charles Dickens as Charles Dickens.

CHILDREN REMEMBEREDOn Dec. 11, a wave of light will encircle the globe in a remembrance ceremony, sponsored by The Compassionate Friends. The ceremony is held annually around the world to remember children who have died.In Kitsap County, the gathering will take place at Silverdale Lutheran Church, 11701 Ridgepoint Drive NE at Ridgetop Boulevard. Doors open at 6 p.m. Bring a picture, if desired. Candles will be provided. Refreshments will follow. Info: Pat Ryan, (360) 692-4750.

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BY ERIN JENNINGSKitsap Week

When the hayride pulls up to the Meeting House at Seabeck Conference

Center, visitors will have only trav-eled a short distance, but will fi nd they have been transported back to an 1850s Christmas celebration.

“We are celebrating Christmas when it was a simpler time without

a lot of glitz,” said Anita Williams, organizer for Mill Town Family Christmas.

Back to a time before gift receipts or songs like “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.” Back to a Christmas when it was a real treat to roast chestnuts and sing yuletide carols.

In its fourth year, the annual fundraiser for the Kitsap Historical Society draws people who wish to experience a less frantic, less com-mercial holiday celebration. Hold-ing it in Seabeck, an old logging

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1800s ChristmasDo-si-do back to a simpler time in this Seabeck celebration

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Above, Vivian Williams and her husband, Phil, have played heritage music at past Mill Town events. Left, a couple demonstrates some pioneer-dance steps. Gary Beanland / Kitsap County Historical Society


In terms of the newest ren-

dition of a proposed Kitsap 9/11 Memorial design, maybe less is more.

It’s also what the public has

been asking for.Members of the Kitsap

9/11 Memorial Committee presented the updated design concept of the memorial to a great American tragedy Tuesday at the Bremerton Parks and Recreation board

meeting. The new design has taken

into consideration the main comments from the public earlier in the year — wordi-ness of the stories, the memo-rial being too large, lack of local stories — and has scaled back the design while keep-ing the core concepts of rep-resenting the four significant events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.

“The design is still form-ing,” said Dave Fergus, com-

mittee member and architect with local firm, Rice Fergus Miller. “We’re still looking for input from the board and community.”

The new design is reduced by 75 percent of what it was originally set out to be, Fergus said. The memorial is proposed to be on the unde-veloped east side of Evergreen Park in Bremerton.

New on board with the design help is Bob Guyt, also of Rice Fergus Miller, who

explained that the redesign will encompass a “time scale” where each of the four events of 9/11 — each plane that hit the Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania — will be rep-resented by different colored metal tiling. That tiling will be placed in a circle to make a ring around the central memorial, similar to looking like a sun dial with twisted beams of 9/11 wreckage at its center.

The tiles are expected to be engraved with stories of each event in chronological order, with time markers along the way so people will be able to tell what happened when in each attack and in relation to each other, Guyt said.

“It can be a short visit where you just touch the steel, or you can spend more time and read the stories,” said Guyt, adding that the two steel beams from the wreckage of the Twin Towers will be placed among the ring of events.

The memorial would also include two walls outside of the rings to represent each fallen tower, which would be about 30 to 36 inches high,

Kitsap 9/11 Memorial redesign, smaller in scale

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BY JJ [email protected]

While veterans associa-tions are shuttering doors becuase of low membership rates and aging members, the U.S. Submarine Veterans of Bremerton’s numbers are stable and its members are actually getting younger.

As the 70th anniver-sary of Pearl Harbor passed Wednesday, it was marked by the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association announcment that it was closing shop due to low membership.

In addition, the Submarine Veterans of World War II, from which the U.S. Submarine Veterans later sprang, announced that it will disband in Sept. 2012 for similar reasons.

Veterans’ association groups across the nation struggle with retention rates and inevitable aging of members, according to Fred

Borgmann, national office Manager for U.S. Submarine Veterans.

“The Pearl Harbor dis-banding was inevitable. You can’t keep having meet-ings without people,” said Borgmann.

Much like Pearl Harbor survivors, other World War II veterans are a “dying breed,” according to Don Bassler,webmaster and for-mer commander of the Bremerton chapter.

The war-specific veterans organizations are made up of members in their upper 80s who don’t have the energy to continue the work, according to Borgmann. And then there is no one to take the torch, he said.

“I see their point of view, wanting to only have mem-bers to represent a specific part of history that they are trying to preserve,” said Borgmann.

However, Borgmann

explained that too narrow a focus can kill an organi-zation. For example, in the 1960s, the World War II sub-mariners considered chang-ing their bylaws to include more of the submarine com-munity. After several rejec-tions, non World War II sub-mariners formed their own group in 1964.

“We gave up trying to get them to let us in,” said Borgmann.

Decades later, U.S. Submarine Veterans is absorbing what is left of the World War II organization, taking in its remaining mem-bers along with it’s much loved parade float.

The Submarine Veterans national roster is 13,610 mem-bers, with 288 active mem-bers in Kitsap County. Those numbers have remained sta-ble for the last three years and attendance remains high at all local events, according to Borgmann.

“Our retention is above average,” said Bassler.

In the past, the veterans have lent their numbers to support World War II vets and Pearl Harbor survivors groups.

“We encourage our mem-

bers to show up in atten-dance to support those guys in whatever they’re doing,” said Bassler.

And the submariners do show up, en masse.

Borgmann believes that one big reason for the group’s success is its business-like approach to running the chapter. Financial stabil-ity, city connections, mar-keting, keeping an online presence,and recruiting new blood are all key, he said.

“We don’t have a lot of expenses, no clubs, no hall. I think we’ve done better on maintaining financial stabil-ity,” said Borgmann.

Adding to the overall activity, Bassler updates the organization’s website every day with news, events, death announcements and resources. As of Wednesday, 1,468,989 visits have been logged there.

“Being a submariner is like being from the same small town. We make up some-thing like 5 percent of the Navy. In the 70s and 80s the submarine force peaked out and now it’s even less, so we care about what’s going on with each other and stay con-nected,” said Bassler.

Borgmann is also a master planner. He recalled a cruise

in 2007 for 1,800 members which the Bremerton group sponsored with the help of registration fees, the city con-vention bureau and private organizations.

“We took four years to prepare for that one,” said Borgmann.

“You have to be good at planning to survive,” added Bassler.

As far as recruiting young-er submariners, this is the group’s greatest challenge.

“Not that many young guys here. Young submariners have too much else going on with their careers and their lives to come out much,” said Borgmann.

However, the group does go out once a month to Trident training facility on Bangor base to share lunch with young sailors. They “talk shop” and sometimes give advice.

At the Army-Navy football game Dec. 3, the submariners used their networking skills to gain one young recruit.

“We’re going from 70 down to 50. So we’re getting young-er,” said Bassler. “As long as there are submarines, we’ll go on forever.”

Submariners keep vet organization numbers high With low retention rates in veterans and survivors groups, U.S. Submarine Veterans Bremerton Base Office boasts a thriving membership

Jessica Swanson/Staff Photo

Fred Borgmann shows off clipping of the sub vets activities.

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BY GREG [email protected]

When Kitsap County Sheriff ’s Office depu-ties pulled over an East Bremerton man Monday afternoon, they found him drunk, irate, bleed-ing from the head and surrounded by frozen food.

The man, who later failed several field sobri-ety tests, was arrested after he told deputies that he’d been beaten in the head “five or six times” with a frying pan by his girlfriend after she became enraged because he had food stamps enough to get “something good to bring home.”

Authorities said the man claimed to have just returned home from drinking vodka at a bar when the alleged fight broke out that eventu-ally led to his driving. Following several failures

of physical tests, the man refused to take a portable breathalyzer, they said.

Deputies said that the man’s girlfriend, the alleged frying pan attacker, claimed that the couple had been drinking “a lot” at home when her boyfriend became angry and began throwing food around the house.

He wanted to eat some-thing that they did not have, deputies said.

The girlfriend told investigators that “noth-ing physical had taken place” and that only food was thrown during the argument.

The girlfriend escaped the melee to a nearby fire station where she called police. She said her boy-friend “fell on the stairs” while throwing frozen food into the yard out-side the house, deputies wrote in a report.

Deputies said it took several stitches at the

hospital to close the ver-bally abusive and non cooperative boyfriend’s wound.

Investigators later found meat in the bushes, food on the kitchen f loor and two empty vodka bottles on the counter. Deputies said that the girlfriend admitted to only one half gallon bot-tle had been drank that

day. The other was from the day before, deputies later wrote.

As the man was arrest-ed, deputies claim he said he was too drunk to understand his rights before booking him into Kitsap County Jail on

charges related to driv-ing under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He was held on $15,000 bail.

Authorities said no charges were filed against the girlfriend.

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Boeing’s recent announce-ment on its plans to expand in Renton, rather than move some operation to the Port of Bremerton, marked the second recent defeat for the burgeon-ing industrial site this fall.

As word of the placement of the 737 MAX production line in Renton came to the Port of Bremerton, it was still smart-ing a little from SAFE Boats International’s loss of a con-tract to build response boats for the Coast Guard that had an end potential worth $180 million. Winning that work was, in part, the basis behind some planned port improve-ments. The Coast Guard passed up the Port Orchard firm and instead gave the contract to a Louisiana firm.

“What’s important here is not to think negative but to capitalize on the positive side,” said Larry Stokes, Bremerton Port Commissioner for District 2.

The port spent $45,000 lobbying Boeing to consider Bremerton and commission-

ers say they’ll keep working to attract industry to Bremerton and are willing to continue spending the money to do it.

The news of the contract award elsewhere came during SAFE Boats’ negotiation with the port for a multi-million dollar expansion of its boat ramps. The port will go ahead with the boat ramp expansion in Port Orchard, according to Stokes.

“The government put out bids to get a contract, and they didn’t get it. If they had, it would have been great for the community, but we still expect [SAFE Boats] to stay,” said Stokes.

As far as the Boeing 737 MAX contract is concerned, Bremerton Port Commissioner Bill Mahan said that he under-stands Boeing’s decision to stay in Renton.

“It was easier for them to keep the infrastructure and buildings that they need. I’m not sure if they’ll remodel the buildings or how they plan on expanding, but it was bril-liant to stay there. Once they worked out the deals with the union, it wasn’t a hard choice,”

said Mahan. Boeing’s labor agreement with

the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, a union for hour-ly employees held up its final decision for the Renton site, at which point it brief ly con-sidered other c o n t e n d e r s , according to a press release by Tim Healy of Boeing Labor

Communications. Money raised to keep Boeing

in Washington state totaled $600,000 according to Tim Thomson, director of business development for the Port of Bremerton.

Three large local contributors to the Boeing fund included the Kitsap Economic Development Alliance, the Kitsap Regional Coordinating Council and Harrison Medical Center, according to Thomson.

“There was an attitude of ‘We’re all in this together,’ and it was amazing to me the people that jumped into this effort without even being asked. We’re not disappoint-

ed [about Bremerton]. The fact that Boeing is staying in Washington State is an absolute win. It still secures part of our

economy which is very impor-tant to us,” said Mahan.

The ports portion of the local contri-bution was $10,000.

“ S p e n d i n g 10,000 to bring 5,000 new jobs to Bremerton would have been a good

deal,” said Stokes, explaining the calculated risk taken by the board of commissioners.

Board members Stokes and Mahan agree that the next step is to try to secure the supply chains for the Renton plant.

“What we’re trying to do now is hoping to get some of the wash-over from the con-tractors that are working for Boeing. We are going to do everything we can to solicit that business,” said Stokes.

The South Kitsap Industrial Area is still an extremely attractive site for aerospace manufacturers, according to Mahan. With 1500 acres zoned for commercial use, Bremerton

National Airport, rail and water access, and a skilled labor force being educated at nearby Olympic College, Stokes argues that the region is more than ready to take on investors.

According to Thomson, the port will be compiling a com-plete list of all Boeing suppliers and develop a strategy to reach out and provide incentives for them to come to Bremerton.

Olympic College’s engineer-ing and aeronautical programs will remain unchanged by the Port of Bremerton’s actions, according to Dr. Jeff Brown, faculty advisor for the aero-nautical engineering program at Olympic College.

“Boeing needs engineers, and it’ll take them from wher-ever they can get them. I don’t see any problem with the MAX plant staying in Renton. In fact, many of our graduating seniors in mechanical engi-neering already have offers from Boeing,” said Brown.

But for the board of com-missioners, bringing Boeing business to Bremerton and developing the areas commer-cial resources is still priority number one.

“We are the best kept secret around and we need to let our secret out,” said Stokes.

Port of Bremerton: nothing lostCommissioners keep hopes aloft for industries’ move to Bremerton

“Spending 10,000 to bring 5,000 new jobs to Bremerton would have been a good deal.” – Larry Stokes, Port Commissioner for District 2

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The Bremerton City Council’s last-minute announcement to hold a public hearing Wednesday evening on a pro-posed $15 tax on every car registered in the city rings in this holiday season with a classic bureaucratic move.

Yes, the short notice is legal, barely. State law requires 24 hours notice to the media, and

anyone else who requests to be notified about spe-cial meetings called. There is no articulated financial emergency justifying the move which cuts the public’s chance to prepare and comment thoughtfully on the new tax to support public streets.

The city announced the car tax public hearing a scant 24 hours, 53 minutes before the special meeting.

No decision will be made at the hearing, but it’s the public’s sole chance to comment before a council vote unless the council decides to keep the comment period open. The move also allows the city council to get the new tax voted in before the end of the year.

It’s bad enough that the city is making the final bud-get decisions between the fall and winter holidays – a classic time when the public is looking elsewhere – but it’s disingenuous to squeak additional taxes onto the backside of a regular meeting that already seeks three separate tax increases to fill gaping potholes in the

city’s Street Fund left behind in the wake of the last director’s resignation.

The money raised from the new car tax, if passed, will go entirely to rehire public works employees that currently face layoffs. In a November budget work session, Alan Lobdell, the current director of public works, told councilmember Roy Runyon and other councilmembers present that he would use all the money raised from the $15 tax to re-hire public works employees.

The proposed 2012 city budget came from the mayor’s office with a promise to live within the city’s means. To honor that statement, elected leaders should focus on service to the public they serve rather than job creation for loyal employees with car tax dollars after two previous attempts to pass such fees have failed the public and city council.

What’s going on?Please listen to what happened

to my husband and I on the Kitsap #13 bus this Thanksgiving holiday

on Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. We were invited to a

Thanksgiving dinner in Bremerton on Friday and rode on the bus route of #13 of the Kitsap Transit public bus system. We both have Orca Kitsap Public lifetime bus pass-es, and we use them to cut the price of gas in our economy as most Americans do.

My boss gave me bus tokens for getting to work

and coming home safe. So we saved the bus tokens to go to a spe-cial meal at Thanksgiving using bus route #13. We got on the #13 bus at Target in Silverdale at 2 p.m. We both showed our Orca cards and deposited one token each.

We got off at Wal-Mart in Bremerton at about 2:10 p.m. We asked for transfers and got them from the bus driver. We always use our Orca cards to pay the buses every time we get on the buses throughout Kitsap County.

We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner and then we walked to the nearest bus stop of Route #13. We planned to take the last bus home to enjoy our meal with friends and loved ones.

We went to the Walgreen’s store bus stop in Bremerton at 7:35 p.m. and waited for the last bus to arrive. My husband had his trans-fer and I had my transfer and both of us had our Orca cards on us and showed the bus driver. Also we both had Kitsap bus tokens that we put in the bus.

We got on bus #13 at 7:40 p.m.,

and the bus driver ordered me to go to the bus garbage and pick out both of our transfers, and I told him that I did not know which transfer was my husband’s. I handed my transfer to the bus driver upon arrival, and he told me it wasn’t good, so I got my Orca card out and deposited a dollar Kitsap coin in the bus fare machine.

We sat down on the Kitsap bus #13 and headed to the Silverdale transfer stop near Target. We arrived at 8 p.m. at the transfer spot, and then we got up and trav-eled to go out of the bus. The bus driver had the back door locked and none of the people on the bus were allowed to go out of the bus. We both asked him to unlock the back door, and he refused. He never opened up the back door on #13.

He told us to come up to the front of the bus and he would allow us to leave. So we traveled to the front of the bus and left. He wanted to know what bus we were taking now. I said #35. And we felt it was none of his business what bus we were going to take. We felt he was way out of bounds in his actions of not allowing us to leave the bus.

Ray and Jamie SoutoSilverdale

It starts with usReally governor, human servic-

es, K-12 education, Department of Corrections and threatening salmon recovery and habitat pro-tection services already being paid for with current tax dollars.

Not one of these programs need to be cut or lose funding. Your constant tunnel vision attack-ing paid-for programs instead of

simply cutting your spending in Olympia. No matter how many times you and your tax spend-ing liberal cronies raise taxes, it’s never enough.

Just one question, what hap-pens to the fixed income senior or veteran or special needs people that can no longer pay all the accumulated taxes of decades of careless and wasteful spending? I know, let’s start more entitlement programs to an already broken state that currently cannot pay its bills.

It worked for President Obama, right? Wrong! The state of Washington is part of a symptom created at the local, the state and the federal level.

Voters better start paying atten-tion at all levels of government, their arrogant tax and spending ways. Replacing Gov. Gregoire with a tax spending male ver-sion of herself, Jay Inslee, would spell disaster for our state. Any hardcore conservative from any party that can quite simply look at a budget and a checkbook and just stop the foolish and wasteful spending, should be given serious consideration.

Taxpayers have to budget their spending. Government at every level should be required to do the same.

Remember voters, it starts with us. They answer to us, not the other way around. You’ve just been made to believe this. If we con-tinue to vote for the same failures caused by the same people, then we deserve what we get. These are the hard facts. Time to reevaluate ourselves.

Vern Laprath Bremerton

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Both Jason and I consider our-selves to be involved parents. That’s why we have repeatedly chosen to offer our services as chaperones on various Bremerton School District and Boys and Girls Club related field trips or excursions over the years.

Depending on which time of year the field trips fall, we take turns using our available vaca-tion days from work so that we can vol-unteer to help in any way possible.

Over the years the two of us have been on some very inter-esting adventures with several fantastic groups of young people. Everything from the Point Defiance Zoo, a hiking nature trip up Green Mountain, Wild Waves, the Pacific Science Center, the Nutcracker ballet production at Bremerton High School, and so on.

This past week, it was my turn on the field trip rotation schedule so off to Experience Music Project

I went with a large majority of the fifth grade population from West Hills STEM Academy.

We met up at the Starbucks near the Bremerton Ferry Terminal at 8:10 a.m., received our group assignments and loaded nearly

100 additional bod-ies onto the ferry – much to the cring-ing horror of any commuter that had expected to grab their quiet morning nap.

Keeping together and herding various groups of 10 and 11 year olds forward in a continuous motion for the nearly 1.8 mile hike up to the

base of the Space Needle is much more exhausting that it sounds. Exhausting for your ears, eyes and feet.

The exhibits contained in Experience Music Project are incredible and well worth see-ing on an individual level. Rare instruments, quirky music his-tory and interactive activities are unique and fun. Experiencing all

of it with a group of kids is even better.

Each of our chaperoned groups had a packet of questions to answer, activities to do and sum-maries to write throughout the entire day from start to finish.

Nick really enjoyed the Avatar Exhibit. I personally loved the Battlestar Galactica experience that was a combination of both the old and new version of the TV series. I am dating myself when I reveal that I was just a couple of years younger than Nick is now, when the first series was broad-cast in 1978.

The only negative aspect of the day was several of the EMP staff that treated us like they were doing us an enormous favor by just allowing us to be there. If you do decide to or happen to go in a large group, make sure it is a nice day because the EMP man-agement will make you eat out-side. Only paying customers are allowed to eat in the EMP restau-rant which was rather large and stayed mostly empty the entire time we had to sit outside in the cold with the kids.

The EMP staff also did not like

the fact that we all met back up in the main lobby to check in before beginning the 1.8 mile trek back to the ferry. Once again we were firmly pressed to congregate out-side in the cold on the sidewalk where it was much harder to keep the group together.

Overall I was very happy that many of the kids from West Hills were able to enjoy that day at EMP. Based on how we were treated by certain staff members, I myself will not go there again and would encourage other school districts to really review and consider well in advance all EMP policies on backpacks, personal food items, lunch seating locations, weather and transportation before they decide if EMP is the right experi-ence for their students.

A really big thanks to Stephanie Devey, CJ Young and Trude Winters all fifth grade West Hills STEM teachers for tackling this grand adventure head on with an impressive amount of organiza-tion and a considerable amount of personal and professional for-titude. You guys did a great job!

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Local giant pumpkin grower Mark Murphy cuts into the back of an Atlantic Giant to perform an autopsy in effort

to gain ideas for bigger results next year. See the full story on page A10.

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The shores and old-growth forests surround-ing Hood Canal are a nat-ural habitat of the endan-gered marbled murrelet, a small-bodied seabird which is protected under federal law. This area is also the site designated

for Navy construction of a second explosives han-dling wharf to support the Trident D-5 Missile program.

Concerns for the safety of the marbled murrelet are causing the Navy to proceed with caution.

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City mixes layoffs and property tax increase to balance 2012 budgetBY GREG SKINNER

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With Band-Aid fixes and budget patches all used up,

the City of Bremerton says it has little choice but to

raise property taxes and lay off more than two dozen

workers in an effort to send a balanced budget to City

Council for action before an early December vote and

adoption.Monday, notices were sent to 25 city employees that

are expected to be laid off if the council approves the

2012 budget unveiled by Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent

Wednesday evening during a city council study session

on the matter. Eight additional positions will go unfilled to combine

for a savings on 32 city workers positions.

The 2012 proposed budget includes a recommenda-

tion, by city staff, that the current property tax rate be

raised by 1 percent, the maximum allowable. Its bal-

ance relies on the increase.Combined with layoffs, the property tax increase is

expected to largely cover the budget gap.

The proposed budget document was not released to

the public before the council had the chance to read and

consider Wednesday, which happened after deadline

for this paper. The budget was expected to be available

online by Thursday afternoon.Since last month’s discussion on what was an expect-

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Not one specific program or change can be pinpointed as helping more students to graduate high school in Bremerton. But numbers show an increase in graduation rate and there are many factors that have contrib-uted to it. In the 2002-2003 school year, Bremerton High School had 57.3 percent of students

graduate on time and since then the number has increased with the 2009-2010 school year, the most recent information available, seeing 87.5 percent graduate on time. It has now surpassed state numbers with the state on-time graduates at 76.5 percent, accord-ing to data from the state Office of Public Instruction. Various programs and strategies have allowed the Bremerton School District to increase graduation rates over the last few years while simultaneously decreasing drop-out rates, said Patty Glaser, district spokes-woman.

Chris Swanson, college and career coun-selor at Bremerton High, who has been with the school for 11 years said the development of some programs such as earning course credit from an Internet-based curriculum allows students who may not do well in a tra-ditional classroom succeed. Throughout his time at the school, the counseling staff has also become data driven to track students’ progress. It’s the cumulation of the various pro-grams that have helped with the trend of more graduates, both at Bremerton and throughout the state.

State graduation numbers have been inch-ing upward since 2007 and Nathan Olson, spokesman of the state Office of Public Instruction, said that many districts are doing various things from “early detection” of at-risk drop out students to one-on-one tutoring. The state does not have quantifi-able data on what exactly causes the trend, he added. Swanson said that in 2004, Bremerton also began student-led conferences, which have helped encourage more parents in participat-ing. In fall 2003, an estimated 23 percent of parents or guardians attended the confer-ences, which primarily included notifications of their children’s grades. With the student-led conferences, students also share their academic goals in each of their classes. In fall 2010, 81.2 percent of parents of guardians participated in the conferences. “When the students are the ones present-ing, the parents are even more engaged in

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An estimated 130 students, which make up the sixth class, will matriculate Dec. 17. The first class entered the school in 2009. The academy is a statewide program and serves students from every county.

At it’s core, the program is very structured. Students wake up at 4:45 a.m. Monday through Saturday for physical training. They each take six classes a day with a seventh period for mandatory tutor-ing.

The students are not allowed to have cellphones or iPods with them in order to remove any possible distrac-tions.

“It’s for students that need to press the restart button on their academic life,” Caddell said.

The first two weeks of the program is an acclimation period where students learn about discipline, teamwork and fitness training. They are put in a uniform and can earn ranks based on leadership throughout the entire pro-gram, said Caddell.

Classes are separated by gender and the class size is 25 students or less. For every ses-sion, the school receives more applications for the program

than space available, added Caddell.

Students march together in unison when going to their next class. A peer leader for each class accounts for everyone and reports to the teachers. Being a peer leader teaches them about respon-sibility and that assignment rotates so that more than one student can take on that role, said Caddell.

It’s not uncommon for stu-dents to have been encour-aged by parents or peers to enter the academy.

Cadet Riley learned about

the academy at the office of his old high school after he got into trouble. He met a fellow student who had been through the academy’s pro-gram and told him about it.

“There was a kid with his head shaved. I thought, ‘that’s weird,’” said Riley who will graduate in about a week.

Caddell said after gradua-tion, each student is assigned a mentor who will stay in contact with the student for an entire year after leaving the program. Mentors are dif-ferent people from the com-munity including educators

and doctors who are trained by the academy to be mentors to the teens.

Since the program at the academy is based on retriev-ing credits, students return to their regular high schools to fulfill the rest of their require-ments and graduate.

Addressing the possible military influence on stu-dent’s lives, Caddell said that students who graduate from the academy are no more likely to join the armed forces as those who attend a regular high school.

Not only are students tak-ing English, history and math classes but they also learn about career choices, nutri-tion and wellness and com-puter applications. Without a janitorial staff, students also learn how to clean up after themselves.

In addition to a structured academic environment, the students spend many week-ends volunteering in the community. They take camp-ing trips to give opportuni-ties that the teenagers may not have had before, such as cleaning up a local park or learning how to rappel off a 60-foot tower.

While Caddell said it is common for adults to want to figure out how teenagers can build self-esteem in order to be successful, the academy’s program is based on having students just try things — and the rest will develop from

that. “We want you to try and

achieve and that will build self-esteem,” Caddell said.

Cadet Gonzalez, also in the sixth class, said he was afraid to do the tower-rappelling

activity but he tried it and overcame his fear.

Gonzales said he has built confidence and overcome more than the physical chal-lenges of the military style academy. Prior to enrolling at

the academy, he couldn’t write an essay. Now, he’s built the confidence to be a stronger writer.

“The teachers want all of us to not give up,” said Gonzalez. “I’ve overcome things.”

Hospital Oakland in 1995, which was about to close, and transferred to Adak — a small community of 500. His bosses told him everyone there would be depressed.

“Everyone was fine. I had nothing to do,” said Derrer. “So, instead of turning into an alcoholic or going crazy,

I wrote.” Derrer has always

enjoyed writing but his past published work had been on the technical side including a book on ter-rorism with the U.S. Naval Institute. With fiction, he’s able to let his imagination roam. He also enjoys the writing and editing process, which he shares with the students.

Since 1999, Derrer has been living near Lake Symington in Central Kitsap and retired from

Naval Hospital Bremerton in 2001. After retirement, he wanted to spend his time helping children in the classroom so he started out as a volunteer in Pitcher’s class, tutoring fifth graders in math and writing.

Soon he was bringing in his own writing and read them aloud as examples.

“The first hand experi-ence of seeing Mr. Derrer write a novel in front of my students is more than any lesson I could teach,” said Pitcher.

Austin Esser, now in sixth grade at Cougar Valley who was in Pitcher’s class last year, said Derrer explained the writing process to them as well as the events in a hero’s journey.

The 12-year-old said he likes “Pirate Peril” because of the good use of vocab-ulary and transitions. For many students, they said the actual story keeps them wanting more.

“After school, I’d con-stantly think about what the next chapter could be,”

said Erik Cleven, 11. Derrer said that the book

is not a pirate story but rather a coming-of-age story of Mike Jones. The boy faces real challenges and dilemmas, he said.

“It’s really fun. There’s a whole bunch of details and he describes the characters well,” said Thora Berg, 11. Berg and Cleven were also in Pitcher’s class last year.

The second book is being edited by Derrer’s editor in Seattle and he will continue reading versions of it to stu-

dents in the classroom. Pictures that students

have drawn from scenes of the story or characters in the book have been com-piled on the book’s website — www.pirateperil.com — as well.

Pitcher said including her fifth graders this year, Derrer has read to about 175 of her students since he first started at Seabeck Elementary.

“I never envisioned any-thing like this,” Derrer said.


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No one from the commu-nity gave feedback Monday as the proposed $78 mil-lion general fund 2012 bud-get was presented one last time in a public hearing before the Board of County Commissioners.

“It’s your chance,” said Kitsap County Commissioner Charlotte Garrido. “I have heard no input since the pre-sentation last Monday.”

She spoke to about 10 people at the commissioners’

chambers. The proposed $78 mil-

lion general fund budget is a decrease of about $898,423 from the 2011 adopted bud-get, said Amber D’Amato, county budget director.

The major impact for the decrease is a proposed elimi-nation of 29 positions county-wide and 139 positions that will have “partial reductions in hours,” she said.

Last week at the presen-tation of the proposed 2012 budget, a few members from the Kitsap County Corrections Guild said that cuts to the county jail need to stop.

With an expected loss of revenue countywide — rev-enue for 2012 is estimated

at $78,648,837 with the 2011 budget revenue at $80,66,300 — cuts had to come from the departments.

The Guild said last week that 17 staff members have been cut from jail operations since the start of the reces-sion.

Since 2008, the county sheriff ’s office has also lost 37 positions, including 13 depu-ties which could’ve filled one watch section.

The 2012 budget will likely be adopted next week with a few minor administrative changes to the proposed ver-sion, D’Amato said Tuesday.

“There aren’t any substan-tive changes. No changes to cuts made to each depart-ment,” she added.

County commissioners are scheduled to adopt the final 2012 county budget at the regular commissioner meet-ing Dec. 12.

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The largest gather-ing of Silverdale’s Kitsap Chordsmen harmonized and shimmied in their red vests and bow ties before at Port Orchard Church of Christ last Friday.

“It’s the most chordsmen ever at this event. It’s over-whelming,” said Jon Powless,

vice president of the Kitsap Chordsmen.

The event was an emotion-al one for Powless because it was in his honor. Powless was diagnosed with end stage renal disease in June of this year.

The Kitsap Chordsmen, a barbershop song group based in Silverdale, learned of the strain that medical bills and being out of work put on their

brother and his wife, Renee Powless, and rallied to coor-dinate a fundraiser.

The Kitsap Chordsmen have raised money in the past through their four-part harmonies for groups such as the Boys and Girls Club and Sing America, accord-ing to their web page. They also bring music to Kitsap County assisted living facili-ties and hospitals during the holidays.

Friday’s event, however, was a family matter, accord-ing to James Lund, a fellow

Band of brothersAn evening of barbershop music warms up a cold night and raises money for a fallen chordsman

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Members of the Kitsap Chordsmen celebrate barbershop music in Port Orchard recently. SEE BAND, A12

The state Board of Natural Resources Tuesday approved the transfer of a 304-acre parcel of state trust-owned forest to Kitsap County, according to a release from the state Department of Natural Resources.

The land will be managed by Kitsap County Parks and Recreation and fills the hole in Newberry Hill Heritage Park near Silverdale.

Volunteers on a steward-ship committee have been making improvements to the park.

The process of piecing together the 1,100-acre

park began in 2004 when the county acquired 247 acres in the northern area of the park and in 2009, received 520 acres of the southern parcel. The third portion the county acquired is just south of Klahowya Secondary School.

Because the 304-acre parcel was state forest trust land, the state took over managing it and the county benefitted from the funding earned off of it. Under state

law, a county may request the transfer of state forest trust land to county owner-ship if it is for public park use.

In June 2010, the Board of County Commissioners approved a master plan of the park, which included the 304-acre parcel. The plan includes new parking lots, trail heads, and an outdoor classroom near Klahowya and a children’s play area.

For more than 20 years the state of Washington has based its water qual-ity standards on the idea that we eat one small bite a day, or 6.5 grams. About the size of a sugar cube.

That number is very important to everyone who lives here because it is used to set state standards for how much pollution can legally be put into our waters. The number the state’s using right now isn’t even close to what most of us eat.

We’ve been work-ing hard for the past two decades to encour-age the state to adopt a more realistic rate that will better protect those waters, the food that comes out of them, and the health of everyone who lives here. Now it finally looks like the state Department of Ecology is taking steps to revise the old stan-dards, and that’s encour-aging.

It’s a sad fact that much of our local sea-food is contaminated by pollution that seems to be everywhere in our environment. The new consumption standard will be aimed at help-ing to reduce levels of

more than 100 pollut-ants that can hurt people. Over the long term these poisons can make us sick and even kill us.

Sure, some people don’t eat locally harvested

seafood at all, but those of us who do, sure as heck eat a lot more than a small bite a day. Even though tribal members eat a lot more fish and shellfish than most folks, many thousands of non-Indians – especially our Asian-American and Pacific Islander com-munities – also make seafood a large part of their diets.

It’s a shame that it’s taken so long to revise our state’s ridiculously low consumption stan-dard, but the polluters have a strong lobby. They’ll tell us we can’t afford to protect our water, our food and our health, that new rules will lead to everything from lost jobs to higher sewer rates at a time when our economy is struggling.

The truth is that we’ve all been paying the costs of a low consumption rate for many years in terms of the quality of our water, food and our

health. Regardless of what

number is chosen to update the consumption standard, it’s unlikely to even come close to the amount of fish and shellfish tribes eat every day. But revising our state’s fish consumption standard is not just a tribal issue. It’s a public health issue that affects everyone who lives here. That’s why we support a significant increase.

We are standing on the edge of a great oppor-tunity and we need to take bold action. Ecology will be holding public hearings on the new standards and you will have a chance to par-ticipate. Stand up for the water! Stand up for your food and your health! Let Ecology know that you eat fish and shellfish from Washington waters. Tell them you want to see the new consump-tion standard adopted quickly, without major loopholes for polluters.

For us tribes, Western Washington is our home, and its waters are the source of much of our food. Our cultures and treaty rights are tied to this place, and we are committed to keeping it a healthy place to live. Fish and shellfish are food. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be available, plentiful and healthy enough for all of us to eat.

Billy Frank, Jr. is Chairman of Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission.


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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is renewing efforts to to learn more about the deaths of trumpeter swans that spend winter months in Puget Sound.

Swan deaths are most commonly caused by lead poisoning but may also result from power line accidents in more developed areas like Kitsap County, according to the state.

This hunting season, the depart-ment set up a hotline for hunters in the field to call and report any sick, injured, or dead swans they encounter.

“We’re trying to understand the sources and issues hurting the swans,” said Greg Schirato, deputy assistant director of the department.

State wildlife officials believe that lead poi-soning in trumpeter swans is the result from the accidental ingesting of lead shot, which was banned in shotgun shells in 1991.

The spent shots are present in swan feeding and nesting areas from spent shot left by water

fowl hunters. There are no current reports of trumpeter

swan lead poisonings in Kitsap County.According to Schirato, swan fatalities in

this region would more likely be caused by power lines. Specifically, swans could hit a power line as they fly to feed. Locals who see any of these urban mortalities can report them to the same hotline number.

Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish coun-ties are chief concerns this winter for lead poisoning. However, other hot spots may appear as calls from local residents come in.

“We have newer concerns like Grays Harbor as well. We are trac-ing the sources of lead poisoning down from the Canadian border,”

said Schirato. In all cases, residents should not attempt to

handle or move the birds. Since seasonal monitoring of swans began

in 2006, the number of swan deaths due to lead poisoning has decreased approximately 65 percent in the most highly effected areas, according to the department press release.

Locals help monitor for poisoned or injured swans

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The number to report injured or dead swans is 360-466-4345 ext. 266.

nize signs of distress. Carrell said that she is

amazed at the courage dis-played by even the young-est military kids during her school visits.

“Yes, moving is hard, but children are so resilient, and we are really focusing on that, finding their strength and helping support that in our students,” said Carrell.

“Our kids are learning a new social structure. They learn to introduce themselves to a new group of peers, maybe six or seven times, often in the middle of the year when things are already set. How courageous does that make them as adults?” said Danaher.

Carrell said that high schoolers at the teen centers at Jackson Park and Bangor show a take-charge attitude at almost every social event hosted by the command.

The teen center offers

a book which is created by Navy high school students themselves which include all the best places to shop, hang out, eat, skateboard, or play music after school.

At the Friday night socials, coordinators learn right away that these kids don’t need any help networking or entertain-ing themselves, according to Danaher.

“They let us know, that’s not what we came here to do. Right now cooking is really popular, so they’ll get togeth-er and start doing that and let us know what they need,” said Carrell.

Families with special-needs children or high school-ers getting ready for college often choose to homestead in the Northwest area. The command will afford special needs families a number of consecutive tours so that they can be near Naval Hospital Bremerton for care and spe-cial education schools while the service member continues their career.

“There doesn’t have to be a school on the base for students

to be supported. We build capacity at the 72 schools in the 5 districts since we can’t be everywhere and work with every student. The counsel-ors then become the point of contact, and every parent can reach me,” said Carrell.

Carrell is gearing up to help the new wave of families on the USS Reagan with pre-registration, school selection, childcare, finding homes in school zones, school bus schedules, gifted and special programs, and even post-sec-ondary alternatives like job corps and apprenticeships.

Some USS Reagan families have already started moving to the area and contacting Carrell for help.

Though it is an immense workload, the liaison officer is invigorated by the flux of new students.

“It feeds my soul to be able to calm the fears of Where will my kid go? Will they fit in? If it’s one less thing for the active duty member to worry about, then I’m happy,” said Carrell.


The Kitsap County Health District has released a webpage of tools to edu-cate the public on safe food handling practices for the holiday season. The hectic, party-going atmosphere of the holidays is when people tend to forget basic food handling principles, accord-ing to Cathy Franklin, Department of Health chief dietician.

“We see incidents of food poisoning go up during the holidays. People will finish

their meal and leave left-overs on the table for the rest of the afternoon while they watch football or go open presents, then come back and pick at it. But food needs to be cooled quickly for storage and reheated to the proper temperatures to be safe,” said Franklin.

Another common mis-take that holiday cooks make is allowing frozen meats to thaw by sitting on the counter, said Franklin. Meats should never be left at room temperature for more than an hour. The Health District reminds residents

to always thaw in the cold water, before taking off the original packaging, or in the refrigerator.

The Health District’s website includes other safe-ty tips, recipes, and holiday shopping checklists. Videos concerning food safety are available in both English and Spanish.

A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments of Washington North Kitsap Chapter raised money and collected toys throughout Kitsap County in prepara-tion for the Toy Run for chil-dren at Harrison Medical Center.

The club’s motorcycle

run left All Star Lanes in Silverdale Sunday the rid-ers motorcade delivered the toys to Harrison’s Silverdale location later in the after-noon.

The group has collected toys for 17 years. Each toy collected finds its way to a child that enters Harrison

as a patient, whether it be in the pediatrics unit or emer-gency department.

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A bacon-scented mas-sage may sound like a joke, and it was at first for Anthea Kranovich, owner of Indigo Fountain Therapeutic Massage. But now they are available at her Silverdale practice.

“My mom came up with it. She was joking, but I ran with it,” Kranovich said.

A one hour deep tissue bacon-scented massage is on the menu at Indigo Fountain through the end of the month. Kranovich has dubbed it “the manli-est massage ever.”

The bacon themed mus-

cle therapy includes a dis-count for a bacon cheese-burger at McClouds Bar and Grill.

“It’s some-thing differ-ent from lav-ender all the time,” said K r a n o v i c h . The licensed massage prac-titioner who has been in business four years said lav-ender is most commonly used in mas-sages because it’s known to be a relaxing scent.

People will leave the bacon-scented massage session smelling no more

like bacon than they would if lavender were being used, she said add-

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Michelle Mendoza, of Kingston, recently pur-chased a gift certificate for the bacon massage for her son. Bacon is a huge industry and men — including her son — are going crazy over it, she said.

“It’s an American phenomenon that a lot of people don’t get,” Mendoza said.

Chicago, a famous pork city, will put on its fourth annual Baconfest next April. The organiz-ers believe that “bacon

opens new doors” and holds a “promise” for all man kind. Like-minded festivals have prong up in Seattle and Portland.

Mendoza added that she has found other bacon-related items including bacon f lavored tooth-paste and mints that she will include in her son’s holiday gift.

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Guyt said. The walls begin in relation to the metal tiles that indicate the attacks of the towers, he said.

A third wall will be set out-side of this and would be cov-ered in art tiles made by local fifth graders a fews years ago. The students participated in a Leadership Kitsap program where they painted what her-oism means to them.

A wall might also include stories of 9/11 from local views, which was another request by the public, but the committee is still discussing where the best place to obtain the local stories would be.

Although all parks board members do not even agree with having a 9/11 memo-rial at Evergreen Park, for the most part they said the committee listened to their previous feedback, as well as from the public, and came back with a better redesign concept.

Joan Dingfield, a board member, said she is still opposed to a memorial but the scale of the new design is better and allows for open space in the rest of the park, which will be a great addition to the area.

“I appreciate the more neu-tral nature,” she said.

Outside of the memorial there is also a proposal to place white trunk birch trees with space to walk between them that would act as a natural representation of a memorial icon, Guyt said. He added that it would be similar to the white crosses scattered amongst a green backdrop at the Arlington National Cemetery.

The new design concept also includes an American flag that would be placed outside the walls. Committee members said the flag would need to be high enough so as not to compete with the steel beams. Guyt said the overall

diameter of the memorial is 33 feet and the inner ring is the same diameter of a Boeing 767 plane.

Wyn Birkenthal, parks director, said the committee has shown a careful response to the issues raised earlier at public meetings. He said he likes that the design leaves large open areas for recre-ation in the park.

“This is a good design,” he said after the meeting, adding that some concerns include raising money for the memo-rial and the maintenance as well as the timeline of the project. Currently the com-mittee’s goal is to have the memorial finished by Sept. 11, 2012.

Board member Sunny Wheeler said in less than a year’s time, the city will not have money to even sprinkle grass seed in the park.

“I’d like to see the money upfront,” Wheeler said. She added that she liked the new design and appreciated that people would be able to take in the memorial as just a graphic piece if they wanted to.

Fergus said because of the smaller scale of design, the memorial cost would be less than originally anticipated. The committee had previ-ously estimated the cost for a memorial to be about $2 mil-lion. The committee plans to seek in-kind donations for materials and maintenance of the memorial.

The parks department will not be responsible for main-taining the memorial.

Birkenthal said the memorial design would be discussed at the city Public Safety and Parks Committee meeting Wednesday and from there, would figure out what the next steps in the process would be.

Several members of the community commented on the new design, many appre-ciating the smaller scale and saying the new design is an improvement.

“It’s a bunch of dirt now, so whatever they do is going to be an improvement,” said John Burch, a 35-year Bremerton resident.

However, there were still people who had problems with the design concept.

Jane Rebelowski, a Bremerton resident of 12 years, said the committee is only focusing on the stories of a “core group” for the memo-rial such as first responders and military personnel, but there are others to remember as well.

“My stories are extremely different. You have a political bent,” Rebelowski said to the committee. “I don’t feel it’s fair for someone else to come over and take our park.”

Many feel the new design is appropriate to move for-ward with.

“We need to remember. We’re a military town,” said Burch. “We need to go for it.”


chordsmen. “We consider Jon a good, close

friend. Never in his wildest dreams would he ask for anything like this, but they could really use it. The turn out is pretty exciting,” said Lund.

In addition to the 31 chordsmen gathered, 12 banquet tables in the church basement were packed with church members and barbershop enthusiasts sitting elbow-to-elbow in support of Powless.

“I stand up next to him every week. We are definitely like fam-ily, a quirky singing family,” said Marshall Starkenburg, Chordsmen

president. The Chordsmen performed a set

list which ran the gamut from the classic “Silent Night” to the racy, 1960s ditty “Red Riding Hood.”

“Barbershop is storytelling. It’s simple, ingenuous, heartfelt emo-tions,” said Tony Jones, chorus manager, explaining the allure of the singing style to performers and listeners alike.

“But it’s presented in a way that gets into your head. The chords are in sevenths, fifths, and thirds, it’s not something that you hear every day,” said David Nance, chords-man.

Starkenburg highlighted this concept in his introduction for Bing Crosby’s “I’ll be Home for Christmas,” a song that he explained

launched barbershop when it was performed in that style during World War II.

“It was a very dark time for the nation, men fighting and not know-ing when or if they would ever go home. In 1943, the barbershop version of this song really took off because it warmed people’s souls in a way that nothing else could,” said Starkenburg.

The Chordsmen, and barbershop in general, continue to boost morale in the U.S. military, according to Tony Jones, chordsman and occa-sional lyricist.

“The Chordsmen’s president used to be a Navy captain who just loved barbershop. We hear about officers recruiting for barbershop members on their ship all the time, a manda-

tory morale booster,” said Jones. Barbershop can make you cry

during one song and have you in stitches, explained Starkenburg.

The Jay Birds, an award-winning quartet division of the Chordsmen lent comic relief to the fundraiser.

Starkenburg is the leader of the quartet, and sensing Powless’s dis-comfort at being the center of atten-tion, diffused the situation.

“We want to recognize the reason we’re here, the guy that we’re sing-ing our hearts out for. He’s really an amazing guy. Would everyone please join me in recognizing…Tony Jones,” said Starkenburg.

The foil received uproarious laughter from the crowd and an appreciative nod from Powless.

“We love you Tony,” continued

Starkenburg. Donations streamed in through

the evening for the Powless family and their most recent addition, a twelfth grand daughter, according to Rev. Melvin Byrd.

“That’s six girls and six boys!” said Byrd.

According to Byrd, the Powless family has tirelessly served the church and their community for 30 years, teaching teen groups, hold-ing puppet classes for the younger children, coaching those that are interested in music, and organizing food drives.

“We’ve always been happy to help. But now it’s the opposite. It feels awkward, but really good,” said Powless.

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A bird’s eye view of the proposed Kitsap 9/11 Memorial in the east portion of Evergreen Park in Bremerton.

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A graphic of the updated design for the Kitsap 9/11 Memorial, which is a smaller and scaled back version to the original design concept. The Kitsap 9/11 Memorial Committee presented the new design to the Bremerton Parks Board Tuesday.


The Kitsap County Board of Health Tuesday voted to extended depart-ment director Dr. Scott Lindquist’s contract for three years.

The board, which is made up of local may-ors and the three sitting Kitsap County commis-sioners, took a five min-ute closed-door meeting shortly before voting on the contract.

The board agreed unanimously to pay

Lindquist $162,516 annu-ally. Several members commented on his leader-ship in the health depart-ment as human services, which are heavily reliant on state funding, shrink annually to adjust to ever reduced budgets.

Kitsap County com-missioner Charlotte Garrido said Lindquist’s value was in both his medical expertise as well as his managerial skills.

Lindquist took the moment to work in his public health capacity and reminded the board

that the influenza season was approaching fast and the best thing to do is get a vaccine. Though Kitsap County’s inf luenza sea-son typically begins in January, he said two cases were recently found in Seattle.

“I’ve never seen anyone die from the vaccine,” Lindquist said. “But, I have seen others die from influenza in this coun-ty.”

Following the con-tract renewal, the board approved the depart-ment’s $9.5 million bud-get with no discussion. The department expects to end 2012 with $2 mil-lion in reserve.

“I wish the city [of Bremerton] was in as good condition,” said Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent, chair of the board.

Joining in this year’s local government man-tra of finally grasping municipal budgeting dur-ing a recession, Lindquist

said the budget was the “cleanest” budget he’d seen in 10 years.

According to Keith Grellner, environmen-tal health director, no layoffs were required to reduce the department by three positions in order to meet budget require-

ments. Budget discus-sions occurred for two months before the final was voted on he said.

There have been fund-ing cuts to services such as family planning, HIV/AIDS, and breast can-cer screening, Grellner acknowledged.

Human trafficking, or the exploitation of men, women, and children for profit in industries like agriculture and prostitu-tion is an ongoing prob-lem in Washington state, even Kitsap County, according to Jessica Guidry, president of Bremerton Soroptimist.

The human rights g roup rec ent ly announced a Janurary event called “Break Free Kitsap,” a collaborative effort with the Bremerton Police Department, K it s ap C ou nt y Prosecutor’s Office and the Washington Anti-Trafficking Response Network.

The event will feature

seminars, community discussion, panelists, and training to spot and pre-vent commercial sexual exploitation of children. It will take place from Jan. 23-29.

At least 18 counties, including Kitsap County,

reported some level of trafficking activity, according to the press release by Bremerton Soroptimist.

For more information on Break Free Kitsap or to get involved, call (360) 930-2193.


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Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue received a call for a Silverdale kitchen fire at about 5:27 p.m., Dec. 2. There were no injuries.

When firefighters arrived to the unit at the Vintage Apartments located at 3291 Mount Vintage Way, they found that the building was evacuated and the fire had

been extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system. The firefighters secured the sprinkler and alarm systems and salvaged the occupant’s belongings.

An investigation revealed that the occupant went down the hall to her storage unit after having grease heating in a skillet. The apartment

suffered fire damage in the kitchen and water damage in the main living area and Red Cross was called to assist the woman living there.

Without fire sprinklers in the unit, the incident could have potentially been a cata-strophic fire, according to a release from CKFR.

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Board of Health renews director’s contract, then approves budget to pay for itHealth department to see some reductions in services over last year

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Kitsap County Health District director Dr. Scott Linquist Tuesday reminds members of the Board of Health to get their flu shot before the full brunt of the influenza season begins. The board had just renewed his $162,516 annual contract for three years.

Trees and boughs can-not be cut or removed from the state’s 2.1 million acres of trust forests, accord-ing to a Washington State Department of Natural Resources release.

Several areas near Central Kitsap and Bremerton that are state trust land and off-limits to tree cutting include Tahuya State Forest west of Belfair, Green Mountain State Forest west of Bremerton, Sherwood Forest south of Allyn and the Stavis Natural Resources Conservation Area.

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“Cutting trees from state trust forests isn’t allowed. These trees need to grow to build future public schools in our state, as well as provide wildlife habitat and clean water and air,” Peter Goldmark, commis-sioner of public lands, said in the release.

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The Canadian Navy submarine HMCS Victoria will be making a short stop at Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor for routine maintenance on Dec. 12, according to Lt. Edward Earle, Sub Group 9 public affairs officer.

The Victoria came out of extend-ed dry docking earlier this year, and this is her first trip back to Washington state since 2004.

“She is coming straight from Canada for necessary repairs,” said Earle.

Victoria is a long-range hunter-killer patrol submarine. Her last visit to Bangor was not for main-tenance but to conduct ranging operations with Naval Undersea Warfare Center, according to the Navy’s website.

The diesel-electric submarine entered an extended docking peri-od in British Columbia in 2005 and was scheduled to become oper-ational again by 2009. However, delays caused it to stay docked until April of this year.

The Canadian Navy is mak-ing efforts to reach full readiness on Victoria by 2012, according to Defense Industry Daily, a gov-ernment and military contractor resource.

During her short trip to Bangor, she will be moored at the Bangor waterfront and will have full use of its facilities.

“We will help provide whatever technicians needed to carry out this maintenance,” said Earle.

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A man practicing a quick draw routine with his .40 cali-ber semi-Automatic handgun fired a round that narrowly missed hitting a 17-year-old girl in the head as she stood talking to her grandfather Dec 2, according to authori-ties.

The alleged shooter told police that he had not real-ized that a bullet was cham-bered as he practiced quick draw technique with a loaded Springfield .40 cal. concealed in a sliding holster in his East Bremerton bedroom.

Kitsap County Sheriff ’s Deputies said the .40 cal. round fired by William Wallace, of the 8000 block of Hickory Place, passed from his bedroom through a hedge row into and through a neighbors exterior wall, through the families sew-

ing room door and lodged in a door jam near the head of a young woman standing in her grandfather’s second-floor hallway.

The bullet lodged near where four other grandchil-dren were gathered, deputies said.

After seeing the the exit hole in the side of his house illustrated with a flashlight, deputies said Wallace low-ered his head and admitted to firing the shot.

Wallace left the loaded magazine in the pistol for weight and balance, deputies said.

Wallace told deputies that with 10 years of active duty military he had “extensive firearms training.”

Deputies took one handgun from Wallace’s home and left one there. They advised him that the court system would address the status of his con-cealed weapons permit.

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A street sweeper clean-ing the parking lot at Bremerton Fred Meyer store was beaten and robbed at gunpoint as he worked in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to authorities.

Three suspects were described by the victim as ranging in height from

5 feet 3 inches to 6 feet 3 inches. One man was white and the other two were described as “Asian” or “Hispanic.” The men ranged in age from 20 to 30, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff Office.

Deputies said they responded to the call to find the six-foot-three-inch tall victim speak-ing rapidly, shaking and

“sweating profusely” after the men stopped his street sweeper by jumping out of the bushes pointing a semi-automatic handgun at his windshield threat-ening to shoot him. After punching the victim in the face and stomach the suspects riff led his pock-ets and sweeper truck, according to a sheriff ’s office press release.

The victim’s wallet,

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The suspects escaped the scene by running off into some “bushes” in the direction of Riddell Road. A K-9 search was unsuccessful, according to authorities who con-sidered the men a danger to other citizens.

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Children of active duty military could change schools as many as nine times in their young lives. With a new crop of “military brats” set to arrive with the the USS Ronald Reagan in a few weeks, the Navy Region Northwest school liaison has her job cut out for her.

When a Navy family arrives at their new duty station, their first two questions are almost always “where are my house-hold goods?” and “where are the good schools?” explained Tom Danaher, Navy public

affairs officer and former school liaison officer.

The search for the right school and easing the transi-tion of the move are never-ending pursuits for active duty parents, according to Dr. Heather Carrell, Navy Northwest school liaison offi-cer. In the career of one service member, a child may enroll in nine different schools around the world, she said.

Very often new kids join classrooms during the mid-dle of a school year when registration has closed and the curriculum is already in progress.

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mand has no base schools exclusively for Navy students.

“It can really wreck the train,” said Danaher of the stress imposed on families new to navigating military family life.

Though there are no Navy specific schools in the Northwest, kids have Carrell – an advocate for the more than 1,000 military children navigating through five school districts in Kitsap County.

“I support families every-where, from the north end of Gig Harbor all the way out to Forks. I also provide information on homeschool-ing, special needs students, and scholarships for college,” said Carrell.

Carrell, who holds a doc-torate in special education, has experience working with autistic children, and has

served on the school board for the North Kitsap School District was a major find for the Navy, according to Danaher.

“We looked for a long time because we wanted someone who knew the ropes here, not an outsider. Someone who knew CK, SK, NK, private schools, public, and home-schooling,” said Danaher.

The school districts in Kitsap County are sensitive to military students’ needs, according to Carrell. The officer works regularly with Greg Lynch, superintendent of Central Kitsap School District, to discuss the specif-ic needs of military kids who are attending Central Kitsap schools. Lynch is a retired U.S. Army officer.

The most common admin-istrative problems that mili-

tary children face when mov-ing are different graduation requirements from school to school and transfer of specific course credits.

Danaher recalled that his sons lost the opportunity for elective credits when moving away from their duty station in San Diego.

“When we moved from Coronado, my boys never forgave me, because there you can get surfing credits,” said Danaher.

Curriculum differs dra-matically from state to state as well. An elementary school student learning addition and subtraction may move to a new school whose class has already moved on to divi-sion. In addition, a student enrolled in a gifted program at one school may not be able to jump into a similar pro-gram at a new school without being retested.

Carrell advocates for military students by inform-ing district schools of the Interstate Compact on the Education of Military Children. The non-binding agreement, which has been signed by 39 states includ-ing Washington, is a pledge by school administrators to give special consideration to military children when deal-ing with transfer records, inclusion in extra-curricu-lar activities, and dates for entrance testing. For exam-ple, a military student might be allowed to be tested for the gifted program mid-year,

so he or she can continue her studies at the new school and not be penalized for having to move.

However, Carrell pointed out that civilian schools can choose whether or not to honor the compact.

“We can’t demand that schools help in these areas, but it helps to know where their efforts are most need-ed,” said Carrell.

Emotional issues are also something that active duty children must deal with when they enroll in a new school.

“After 2001, active duty families are facing increased deployments and family members asked to do things and go places that they never expected in their careers,” said Carrell.

School counselors at schools throughout Kitsap County are briefed on the specific emotional difficulties students might face during a deployment cycle.

“Sometimes a school might not get it, and the school liaison officer has to trans-late why certain things are happening and why kids are angry or acting a certain way. And no, we can’t tell you exactly when boats are going in and out,” said Carrell.

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CHILDREN REMEMBEREDOn Dec. 11, a wave of light will encircle the globe in a remembrance ceremony, sponsored by The Compassionate Friends. The ceremony is held annually around the world to remember children who have died.In Kitsap County, the gathering will take place at Silverdale Lutheran Church, 11701 Ridgepoint Drive NE at Ridgetop Boulevard. Doors open at 6 p.m. Bring a picture, if desired. Candles will be provided. Refreshments will follow. Info: Pat Ryan, (360) 692-4750.

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BY ERIN JENNINGSKitsap Week

When the hayride pulls up to the Meeting House at Seabeck Conference

Center, visitors will have only trav-eled a short distance, but will fi nd they have been transported back to an 1850s Christmas celebration.

“We are celebrating Christmas when it was a simpler time without

a lot of glitz,” said Anita Williams, organizer for Mill Town Family Christmas.

Back to a time before gift receipts or songs like “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.” Back to a Christmas when it was a real treat to roast chestnuts and sing yuletide carols.

In its fourth year, the annual fundraiser for the Kitsap Historical Society draws people who wish to experience a less frantic, less com-mercial holiday celebration. Hold-ing it in Seabeck, an old logging

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1800s ChristmasDo-si-do back to a simpler time in this Seabeck celebration

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Above, Vivian Williams and her husband, Phil, have played heritage music at past Mill Town events. Left, a couple demonstrates some pioneer-dance steps. Gary Beanland / Kitsap County Historical Society

camp, incorporates history into the evening.

Instead of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” the Kitsap Kickers will teach guests dances like the Virginia reel. If so in-clined, folks are encouraged to dress like people did in the 1850s (give or take a few decades).

Aft er dancing and social-izing, the event will move to the dining room for an au-thentic pioneer, family-style Christmas feast, complete with roast beef, roasted root vegetables, homemade biscuits, clam chowder and berry desserts. Back in the day, the food served was seasonal and local. Oranges and lobsters weren’t trucked in from long distances.

Aft er the meal, living his-tory presenter Tames Alan will discuss examples of what Christmas was like in the 1850s. She’ll use three contrasting Christmas trees to illustrate her lesson.

Th e Victorian tree, with its glass ornaments and candles, represents what Christmas was like back in New York and Boston. Th ey celebrated Christmas more lavishly than their relatives who headed west. Victorian

trees were oft en adorned with popcorn or cranber-ries, a tradition that wasn’t continued out west. Th at’s food, for goodness sake!

And local fi re marshals, fear not — this sample tree will not use real candles. Many a home burned down from the candles on Christ-mas trees.

In the Midwest, a com-munity tree was placed at the local church. Th ese “giving trees,” as they were called, were decorated not with ornaments but with

gift s sent from a sister church back east. A second-hand winter coat, for example, would be given to a child who had none.

In the plains, a Christ-mas tree might consist of a simple mesquite branch decorated with hair rib-bons. Packaged under the tree would be handmade gift s like a pair of knitted socks.

“When you live in a one-room cabin that is not very big, trying to make gift s for your family without them

knowing about it required a great deal of ingenuity,” Alan said. “Everything was handmade.”

If the man were a hunter, he would save antlers to carve into knife handles or buttons. Wives made shirts for their husbands using old fl our sacks. And, glory be!, the entire family would rejoice over a gift of a new wooden chair.

“Th ink about the travel space these people had,” Alan said. “Th ey couldn’t bring much with them.”

Aft er packing the required tools for the trip out west, there wasn’t ample room for extras.

Alan said the Christ-mas meal was oft en more important than the gift s. Families back east sent care packages of food to their pioneering relatives via the train. Unfortunately, heavy snows oft en delayed the trains, thus postponing the holiday meal. Some-times families had to wait until March to receive their bounty. But because the food was stored in a non-insulated boxcar on the train, it stayed frozen and didn’t spoil.

While telling her stories, Alan will be dressed in period-appropriate clothing depicting what a pioneer woman wore. She refers to herself as a one-woman show: she sews her own costumes (with the excep-tion of her corsets and hats), researches the subject matter and writes her own scripts.

“My core mission in life is to teach tolerance,” she said. “I try to show people what life was like in another time — no matter how weird it seems to us — so they can have more toler-ance for things that are dif-ferent in their own lives.”

And what would people

from the 1850s think of our Christmas celebrations today?

“Anyone coming from the mid to late 19th century would be amazed at the abundance we have,” Alan said.

So in 160 years from now, how will folks celebrate a 2011 Christmas? It’s hard to say, but surely this year will go down in the history books as the year Black Friday began on Th ursday.

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BY ANDY PERDUE AND ERIC DEGERMANWine Press Northwest

Winemakers throughout the Pacifi c North-

west struggled with weather during this fall’s trying harvest, but the winemaker for Willamette Valley Vine-yards had a much bigger battle: cancer.

Forrest Klaffk e has been with the Turner, Ore., win-ery for 18 years and led the winemaking eff orts for the past decade.

“He’s an amazing guy,” said Jim Bernau, CEO and founder of Willamette Valley Vineyards. “He’s a remarkable team member who has incredible dedica-tion. He’s the fi rst one here in the morning and the last one to leave.”

Th at didn’t change this year during harvest, even though Klaffk e has a huge fi ght on his hands. Th e ag-gressive form of cancer he successfully defeated a few years ago came back with a vengeance in September. It started in his throat and has

now spread to four areas of his body, including his brain. He’s been through surgeries, radiation treat-ments and chemotherapy to try to keep it at bay.

Winemakers are famous for dedication to their craft , but Klaffk e took that to an entirely diff erent level this fall. When he knew grapes were going to come in, he would actually cancel his chemo treatments so he could give the fi nicky Pinot Noir grapes all the attention they demand.

“He just has an incred-ible, passionate dedication to this vineyard and to his work,” Bernau said with endearment and awe.

And Klaffk e, who grew up in Sacramento and worked in the California wine industry before com-ing north to Oregon in the 1990s, is making some of the fi nest wines of his career. We recently tasted through his most recent

Pinot Noirs, and they are uniformly superb.

Willamette Valley Vine-yards’ wines are broadly available, though the single-vineyard Pinot Noirs are made in limited quantities. Check with your favorite wine merchant or call the winery directly at (800) 344-9463. And let’s all raise a glass to salute Klaffk e and his dedication to the grape.

■ Willamette Valley Vineyards 2009 Elton Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, $45. Th is superior Pinot Noir opens with aro-mas of raspberries, Rainier cherries, pineapples, violets and strawberries. On the palate, this is a gentle and elegant wine with fl avors of white strawberries, raspberries and cherries. It’s tempting to drink this wine now, but as delicious as it is, it’s likely to develop into something even greater.

■ Willamette Valley Vineyards 2009 Pinot

Noir, Willamette Valley, $28. Th is opens with clas-sic aromas of raspberries, strawberries, pie cherries and mushrooms, with just a hint of orange blossoms. On the palate, this is an elegant wine from fi rst sip, with fl avors of vanilla, Rainier cherries, cranber-ries, Marionberries and chocolate. With 18,000 cases produced, this should be easy to fi nd.

■ Willamette Valley

Vineyards 2010 Whole Cluster Fermented Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, $20. In the Pacifi c North-west, this is about as close as we come to a Beaujolais Nouveau style of wine. Ev-ery year, this Oregon giant produces a youthful Pinot Noir — the fi rst it releases from each vintage — that is made using a method called carbonic maceration. Th is means the juice is ferment-ed primarily while it is still

inside the grape, before the fruit is crushed. Th e result-ing wine is lower in tannin and higher in fruit. Th at’s certainly the case with this delicious wine, which shows off aromas of straw-berry candy, cinnamon, apricots and black currants. On the palate, this reveals invigorating fl avors of strawberries, cherries, cran-berries and red raspberries. It’s a great introduction to Pinot Noir — because of the fl avors and the price.

■ Willamette Valley Vineyards 2009 Estate Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, $40. Of Willamette Valley Vineyards’ seven new Pinot Noirs we tasted, this was the biggest and boldest entry. It opens with rich aromas of cedar, strawberries, red currants, cola and baked apples with cinnamon. On the palate, it starts with an easy approach of raspberries, cranberries and chocolate, then is large and in charge on the fi nish with robust tannins.

— Andy Perdue and Eric Degerman are the editors of Wine Press Northwest.

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ART GALLERIESFront Street Gallery: “Scene Through an Artist’s Eyes,” expres-sionist paintings by Julia Miller. The gallery is located at 18881 Front St., Poulsbo.

The Island Gallery: Featured this month: Terremoto, a series of elastic waves in the crust of the earth. Artists Virginia Paquette and Bill Smith. The gallery is located at 400 Winslow Way E.,

No. 120, Bainbridge.

Max Hayslette Studio & Gallery: Open house Dec 17, noon to 5 p.m., next to the Kingston Quilt Shop by the Kingston ferry landing. Info: (360) 297-7172 or www.MaxHayslette.com.

Verksted Gallery: December’s featured artists Al Anderson and Karen Lyman show their work, such as bentwood boxes and huggable stuffed creatures. The gallery is located at 18937 Front St., Poulsbo.

Viridian Gallery: Featuring the watercolor and mixed media paintings of local artist Jani Freimann. The show continues through January. Viridian Art and Frame is located at 1800 Mile Hill Drive, Port Orchard.

BENEFITS AND EVENTS

Sixth Annual Wearable Art Show: through Dec. 31, The Island Gal-lery, 400 Winslow Way E., No. 120, Bainbridge Island. Featur-ing a variety of holiday gifts for less than $100.

28th annual Collage Arts & Craft Show: Dec. 10, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Kitsap Golf & Country Club. Free and open to the public. Breakfast and lunch served. Take the Chico Way exit off Highway 3 and follow the signs. Info: Maria, (360) 895-9171, or Mercedes, (360) 551-3234.

Kitsap Amnesty International Write-a-thon: Dec. 10 (Interna-tional Human Rights Day), 3:30-5:30 p.m., Winslow Co-Housing

Common Room, 353 Wallace Way NE, Bainbridge Island. Your letters can help improve condi-tions for and release prisoners of conscience. Hear local activ-ists, review case sheets, enjoy snacks, and write letters. Enve-lopes, paper, pens, and stamps provided. Hand-written letters preferred, but typed letters are accepted. Info: Judy Friesem, [email protected]; or Mi-chael Camp, (360) 598-5337, [email protected].

Creche Festival: View a collec-tion of hundreds of nativity scenes Dec. 10-12, 6-9 p.m., at the LDS Chapel, 8677 Madison Ave., Bainbridge Island. Free admission. Hot cocoa, cider and cookies will be served. Would you like to share your nativity? Drop off for nativities from 7-8:30 p.m. Dec. 8, or from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Dec. 9. Collect them Dec. 13, 10 a.m. to noon or at your convenience. Info: Leslie Hansen, (206) 290-1819 or [email protected].

Happy Holidays Dance Program: Dec. 16 and 17, Central Kitsap High School Auditorium in Silverdale. Times: Dec. 16, 6:30 and 8 p.m.; Dec. 17, 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Students from Irene’s School of Dance will perform a variety of dance styles — ballet, pointe, baton, jazz/hip hop, modern, and tap. Each program will be followed by refreshments. Free and open to the public. Info: Irene Miller, 692-4395.

CLASSESRegistration for free classes at Silverdale Goodwill: Through Dec. 12, 10001 Mickelberry Road NW, Silverdale. Eight-week session begins Jan. 3. Classes include Computer Ba-sics, GED Preparation, Microsoft

Excel, and Microsoft Word. In addition, Goodwill instructors will be available to help people conduct job searches on the Internet, write résumés and cover letters, and more. Info: (360) 698-6776.

Registration for free classes at Bremerton Goodwill’s Job Training and Education Center: Through Dec. 12 at 4209 Wheaton Way, Bremerton. Eight-week session begins Jan. 3. Classes include Cashiering, Computer Basics, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Keyboarding, and Microsoft Word. In addition, Goodwill instructors will be available to help people con-duct job searches on the Inter-net, write résumés and cover letters, and more. Info: (360) 373-3692.

CLUBS, MEETINGS, SUPPORT GROUPS

Kitsap Chapter of the Military Of-ficers Association of America and the Retired Officers Wives Auxil-iary Christmas meeting: Dec. 14, 11 a.m. Cost is $14. Traditional turkey lunch, entertainment by the Port Ludlow Sounders, a barbershop group of senior citizens full of life. RSVP: John Albright, (360) 830-9036, by Dec. 9.

Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society: Dec. 16, 10 a.m., in the Bainbridge Public Library Meet-ing Room. Annual “Show &Tell” gathering of members sharing ancestral tales and treasures. Visit with members to find out what BIGS offers to those who join. Suggested donation for non-members is $5. Info:

Visit www.bigenealogy.org or call (206) 855-9457. BIGS is a 501c(3) non-profit organization.

Kitsap Senior Singles: Dec. 18, 1 p.m., 4131 Pine Road N.E., East Bremerton Elks Picnic Shelter. Bring a dish to share and some games to play, and enjoy friendship and Christmas cheer. There will be a fireplace and heaters. Info: (360) 275-3256 or (360) 698-1175.

Edward Jones Coffee Club: Dec. 28, 8:15 a.m., at Edward Jones Investments, 2416 NW Myhre Road, Suite 102 in Silverdale. Hosted by Donald Logan, an Edward Jones financial adviser. The coffee club is an informal gathering whereby Edward Jones financial advisers provide an update on the economy and the stock market in a relaxed environment. Info: Sarah Bart-ley, (360) 692-1216.

Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Support Groups: Third Tuesday of each month, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Linda’s Knit ‘N‘ Stitch, 3382 NE Carlton St., Silverdale. Info: Cyd Wadlow, (360) 779-9064.

Women and Cancer Support Group: Second Thursday of the month, 6 p.m. at Harrison Medi-cal Center Oncology Conference Room (second floor), 2520 Cherry Ave., Bremerton; first and third Thursday of the month, 10:30 a.m. at Harrison Poulsbo Hematology and Oncology, 19500 10th Ave. NE, Suite 100, Poulsbo. Info: [email protected].

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classic carols to film favorites. Donations of canned goods for local food banks are encour-aged. Contact: Jas Linford, (206) 842.2084, www.home-townband.org. Silverdale: Dec. 9, 7 p.m., Silverdale Lutheran Church, 11701 Ridgepoint Drive NW. Gig Harbor: Dec. 11, 3 p.m., King of Glory Lutheran Church, 6411 154th St NW. Bainbridge Island: Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Bethany Lutheran Church, 7968 Finch Road NE. Hansville: Dec. 17, 2 p.m., Greater Hans-ville Community Center, Buck Lake County Park. Port Orchard: Dec. 18, 2 p.m., United Method-ist Church, 725 Kitsap St.

The Puget Soundsters perform “Christmas with the Soundsters”: Dec. 10, 7 p.m., West Sound Unity Church, 1712 Trenton Ave., Bremerton. A benefit choral Christmas concert; an offering will be taken. The Puget Soundsters, a non-profit community-service group serv-ing Kitsap County since 1952, are directed by Diane Evans.

Info: Jeanie at (360) 871-3260.

Free classical Christmas Con-cert: Dec. 10, 7-8:30 p.m., LDS Chapel, 8677 Madison Ave., Bainbridge Island. Featuring performance of classical and Christmas music with bells, harp, organ, piano, strings, woodwinds, and vocals.

Performance by Bremerton sing-er/songwriter Christine Salazar: Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., at Seabold Community Hall, 14451 Komedal Road, Bainbridge. Open-mic performances begin at 7:30 (sign-ups 6:30-7), fol-lowed by featured act. Play or pay $5; children admitted free. Hot drinks, bottled water and cookies for sale. Info: Visit www.christinesalazarmusic.com or www.sites.google.com/site/seaboldmusic, or call Larry Dewey at (206) 842-5099.

Bainbridge Chorale Christmas Concert: Dec. 10 and 11 at Roll-ing Bay Presbyterian Church, 11042 Sunrise Drive, Bain-bridge. The concert will feature a beautiful and varied selection of seasonal music, including John Rutter’s rousing “Gloria” with double brass choir accom-

paniment. Performances are Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 11 at 3:30 p.m. Info and tickets: www.bainbridgechorale.org.

An Evening of Holiday Music with The Hometown Band and the Bethany Brass Quintet: Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Bethany Lutheran Church, 7968 Finch Road NE, Bainbridge Island (use High School Road west off 305). Jas Linford, conductor. Includes classic carols and film music. Open to the public. Donations of food for Helpline House ap-preciated. Light refreshments at intermission.

Current Jewish Issues Forum presents “Our Yiddish Past”: Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m., Congregation Kol Shalom, 9010 Miller Road, Bainbridge Island. A concert of songs sung and narrated by Joe Honick and accompanied by pianist Jeremy Dupea. This event is free and open to the public.

The Puget Soundsters “Peace on Earth” annual Christmas Concert: Dec. 18, 3 p.m., Summit Av-enue Presbyterian Church, 403 Summit Ave. South, Bremer-ton. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.

The group, a non-profit choral-music community-service group serving Kitsap County since 1952, is directed by Diane Evans. Info: Jeanie, (360) 871-3260.

Folk Duo KAIVAMA: Dec. 18, 3 p.m. at Island Music Cen-ter, 10598 NE Valley Road, Bainbridge. Admission: $10. Finnish-American musicians Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman have formed the Nordic-folk duo KAIVAMA. Info: www.kaivama.com.

Chuckwagon Senior Nutrition seeking entertainers: For its Holiday Lunch on Dec. 21. Entertainment is needed in Bainbridge Island, Burley, East Bremerton, Port Orchard and Poulsbo. Time commitment is about 11 a.m. to noon. Choral groups, dancers, musicians, pianists, soloists, are some ideas. Lunch will be provided. Info: (360) 377-8511.

Celtic Jam Sessions: The third Sunday of the month from 2-5 p.m. at the Hare & Hound Public House, 18990 Front St. in Poulsbo. Listeners and players welcome. Players and singers,

bring favorite Cape Breton, Irish or Scottish tunes to share.

THEATER“Almost, Maine”: Through Dec. 11 at the Jewel Box Theatre, 225 Iverson St., Poulsbo. Friday and Saturday performances at 8 p.m., Sunday performances at 2 p.m. Tickets: $16 adults, $14 for seniors, students and military. Available at www.brownpapertickets.com, search Poulsbo. “Almost, Maine” is a play composed of nine short plays, or vignettes, that explore love and loss.

13th annual Christmas Dessert Theater: This year’s show, “An-nie,” concludes Dec. 9-11, at Silverdale Baptist Church 8278 State Route 303 NE, Bremerton. Tickets are $12 and include dessert. Tickets at: www.silver-dalebaptist.com.

“The Wizard of Oz”: Concludes Dec. 9-11: Friday at 7 p.m., Sat-urday at 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday at 5 p.m., in the North Kitsap Auditorium, 1881 NE Hostmark St., Poulsbo. Advance tickets

are $10, available at Liberty Bay Books and Poulsbo Book Stop in downtown Poulsbo, and online at www.kcmt.org. General admission at the door is $12; $10 for students and seniors.

“Nutcracker”: Olympic Per-formance Group performs “Nutcracker” Dec. 9-18, Fridays through Sundays. Perfor-mances at 7 p.m.; plus 2 p.m. matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. Performance held at Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave., Bainbridge. Tickets: $28 for adults, $24 for seniors, students, youth, military and teachers, available online at www.bainbridgeper-formingarts.org.

“Brigadoon”: Musical Theatre Bainbridge performs “Briga-doon” through Dec. 18 at the Bainbridge High School Theatre, 9330 NE High School Road, Bainbridge. Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m., Sunday shows at 3 p.m. Tickets: $15-$24, available at www.ovationmtb.com.


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Dear Erin,Traditionally we’ve had

a sit-down Christmas din-ner at our home. Now our children have grown and married and have several homes to visit on Christ-mas.

Is it appropriate to change the meal style from a traditional sit-down to an open buff et, say from 1-3 p.m.?

— Burning my Biscuits in Bremerton

Dear Burning,By all means, yes! In fact, I encourage you

to think even further out-side of the box. Of course, I realize you want to see your children on Christ-mas Day, but instead of a full-blown meal, you could just have hors d’oeuvres or

dessert. I bet your children would appreciate not being required to sit down to two (or more) elaborate meals on Christmas Day.

If you wish to stick with a full meal, you could alter-nate years. Odd years you have a buff et, even years you have the traditional sit-down aff air.

I’m sure your family would rather spend quality

time with you on Christmas Day than have you wear yourself out preparing a meal that they aren’t even hungry to eat. Because when it comes down to it, how many servings of turkey and ham can one person eat in a day?

I know that traditions aren’t easy to change. But ask yourself, “Is this work-ing for everyone involved?” If the answer is no, than explore your options.

And remember, it’s your holiday too.

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Dear Erin,Should men still open

doors (car, house, restau-rant, any old door) for women in today’s world?

— Mannered in Man-chester

Dear Mannered,I think the polite thing to

do is to open doors for any-

one, regardless of gender. If you are able-bodied and are the fi rst to the door, open it and hold it open for others.

When I hold open a door and a male is one of the people for whom I’m open-ing it, he will oft en insist on holding it for me. And that’s nice. And sweet. And I don’t take it as a slap in the face of women’s lib.

As for opening car doors, there isn’t anything wrong in doing so. But I sure haven’t noticed this practiced very frequently, except in old movies. I wonder if the advent of remote-control door locks has made this a tradition of the past?

Opening doors (and


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Actor Tim Tully be-comes Charles Dickens in “Dickens Reading Dick-ens,” Dec. 17, 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 18, 2 p.m., in the Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave. Doors open at 7; admission by

donation.“Dickens Reading

Dickens” is a re-creation of the popular public appearances by the great novelist during the last two decades of his life (1812-1870).

Editor’s note: This is part two of a four-part series by local writer Ron Corcoran.

BY RON CORCORANSPECIAL TO KITSAP WEEK

For no reason or ex-planation ever found in Turkish archives,

December was the generous man’s month of annual gift-ing. Some believe that Dec. 5 was his birthday.

In any event, the tradi-tion of annual gift-giving was born.

Very little information has been discovered about Myra’s gifting-man except historians have postulated that, as a young student, he must have paid close atten-tion to his school teachers, he must have performed all his assigned homework, and he must have achieved good grades. How else, the historians ask, could he have achieved the financial success that enabled him to be an annual gift-giver in his city?

There are those who believe that this generous man, content with per-forming his good deeds, happily passed away in 346 AD. Others believe that the man, or at least his spirit,

is somehow still alive and well and living in northern Spain.

Have you ever noticed that sometimes it is hard to know just what (or who) to believe?

Therefore, as a public ser-vice to those who read this story, the author initiated his own search to find accu-rate and complete informa-tion regarding the folklore and traditions of annual gifting (and re-gifting) that would become such a sig-nificant part of our holiday traditions.

The best information source found was in the country of the Netherlands, where catacombs, archives, and knowledge repositories were accessed for as much Christmas gifting history as could be discovered.

Historically, the Dutch are a very generous people. Who else do you know who would stick their finger into a hole in a leaking dike to prevent a major flood?

The Dutch truly loved the story of the gifting man from Myra, Turkey. So much so they adopted the man’s life story and incorporated his generous traditions into their own annual Winter Festival

celebrations. The Dutch believe — and

justifiably so — the gifting man from Myra was named Nicholas and that he con-tinued his annual generos-ity to the needy citizens of his city for many years. They also believe Nicholas was eventually sainted for his generosity and largesse.

Accordingly, in the lexicon of mid-11th century Dutch language, the sainted man from Myra named Nicholas became known in the Netherlands as “Sin-terklaas.”

Does the name Sin-terklaas sound somewhat familiar?

Once the man had become duly sainted, Dutch legend describes how Sin-terklaas really began to “get into character.”

The saint reportedly adorned himself in a baggy white tunic under a large red cape and a tall red mitre (i.e. the ceremonial head-gear of cardinals, bishops, and other clergy). He also

complemented this unique attire by wearing highly-polished leather riding boots.

(Author’s note: Today, if Sinterklaas was in the checkout line of a local gro-cery store, he would draw nods, winks and admiring glances. Just like the ladies from the Red Hat Society do.)

Sinterklaas eventually began using a walking stick that was a tall, gold-plated crosier with a fancy curled top, much like that of a shepherd’s staff used to get the attention of wayward sheep.

(Author’s note: In later years, a crosier with a hook on top became useful for yanking off of a stage poorly-performing contes-tants during talent contests, vaudeville shows, or com-munity theater.)

— Next week: The chim-ney sweeps.

I’m talking about out in public) is an act of common courtesy. Just like saying “gesundheit” after someone sneezes. Or helping pick up an item that was dropped. Or saying “Excuse me” if you bump into someone.

But I’m interested in what others think. Women, do you find it offensive if a man holds open a door for you? Men, do you feel awkward if a woman opens a door for you?

— Ask Erin is a feature of

Kitsap Week. Have a ques-tion? Write Ask Erin, Kitsap Week, P.O. Box 278, Poulsbo 98370 or e-mail [email protected].


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■ Chase Bank: PAWS of Bainbridge, through Dec. 24.

■ Sweet Deal/Roby King/Bainbridge Homes: Rock-n-Roll Readers, through Dec. 24.

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OPEN HOUSES OPEN HOUSESHansville #296203 $149,000Sun 11-1. 5950 Ponderosa Blvd. NEEnchanting cottage! The perfect escape. Shy 1/2 acre w/native lndscping. 768 sq ft hm w/ 1 bd & main level ¾ bth/laundry rm. 2-bd septic. Newer roof, windows & sliding door. Open living & dining areas & charming kitchen on main. Shore Woods community offers access to pvt beach, tennis courts, plygrnd, pool & clubhouse.Sherri Galloway 360-536-0349 / Catherine Arlen 360.340.8186

Bremerton #280887 $209,950Sat-Sun 1-4. 4831 BowwoodWelcome Home to Bowwood! The Cedar is a 4 bdrm, 2.5 bth, 1552 SF home with designer color palette and features a 2-car garage. All home lots are fenced & front yards are landscaped. Play and picnic area in neighborhood. Other plans are available. Amy Allen 360-620-0499.

Kingston #263849 $220,000SUN 11-2. 26463 Kingsview Lp NESpacious split level home just minutes to ferry, shopping & schools. New roof, gutters, exterior paint & carpet. Big kitchen w/ lots of storage & access to huge deck, perfect for entertaining or relaxing. 3 bedrms, 1.75 baths, family rm, office & large laundry/utility provide plenty of space. Close in yet quiet & private. Borders a wooded green belt. Chris Todd 360-509-6319

Indianola #300277 $325,000SAT 1-4. 20700 Gerald Cliff Way NEIt doesn’t get any better than living in this lovely home in the beach community of Indianola! On a half acre w/ 3 bdrm/2.5 bth this south facing sunny home has new hrdwd flrs& carpeting, plus a formal living rm & separate family rm. French doors lead out onto a lrg entertaining deck & new patio complete w/ a hot tub.Mary Richards 360-779-5205.

Silverdale #291650 $350,000SUN 1-4. 8531 Payne Lane NWWonderful country feeling but only 1 mi to Silverdale. 2336 sf, 3 bdrm plus bonus rm, 2.5 bth. Huge open kit w/built-in desk area, lrg pantry, room for table, slider to lrg deck. Opens to family rm w/gas fireplace. Add’l 550 sf unfinished basement w/exterior entry, would be good workshop, storage or to finish. Private .65-ac lot, Nicely lndscped private .65-ac lot. Romelle Gosselin 360-779-5205 or 360-271-0342.

Kingston #277823 $399,900Sat 12:30-3:30. 23955 Strawberry Lane NEMeandering country lane leads to a pastoral setting with a beautiful craftsman 4 bdrm, 3.5 bath home. Quality finishes throughout, 2 stone faced propane fireplaces, gracious 2 story entry & covered front porch. Deep garage w/high ceilings & work bench. 2 acres of complete privacy. Just 2 mi to Kingston ferry & shopping. Monika Riedner 360-930-1077

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9511 NE Daniel Court #63536 $335,000SAT & SUN 10-12:30. Beautiful hm in great convenient cul-de-sac location. Just mins from ferry, schools, shops & town. Hm has remodeled kit, complete w/new cabinets, counter, appliances & flrs. New windows throughout, new carpet & paint. Hosted byJoe Krueger 360-692-6102/360-620-4420.

1824 Sakai Village Loop #281787 $390,000Sun 1-4. You’ll love living in this pristine 3 bdrm/2.5 bath, 2000+ sfhome w/vaulted ceilings, patio & deck on greenbelt. Close to library, schools, churches & all services. Nancy Rees 206-780-1500.

16364 Reitan Rd. NE #249705 $689,900Sun. 1-3. Private 1.34 acre waterfront estate with 100’ of beautiful sandy low bank waterfront! 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 3686 SF home boasts beautiful Fir floors and wood work, spacious living area & formal dining, private master suite with bath and sitting room. You’ll love the 6-car covered parking plus ADU.Megan O’Dell 360-551-9107

6650 NE Bayview Boulevard #299111 $710,000Sun 1-4. Low-bank Manzanita Bay waterfront home with4000+ sq ft, 4 fireplaces, formal living/dining, 3BR plus 2 guest rooms. Gardens and shop. Beverly Green 206-780-7678Susan Burris 206-498-8479

Winslow #258552 $324,900Stylish townhome offers easy, in-town lifestyle close to everything. Two bedroom suites, large living spaces, 2-car garage.Ron Mariotti 206-914-6636, RonMariotti.com

Battle Point #245926 $450,000Beautiful, near 1.5 acres with gardens. Open plan, vaulted ceiling, hardwoods, updated kitchen, master on main. Lower level has full kitchen and office space. Ellin Spenser 206-914-2305Susan Grosten 206-780-7672

Eagle Harbor #192037 $479,000Immaculate 2300+ sq ft Craftsman in serene & private Eagle Harbor setting. 3BR/2.5BA, hdwds, 2-story entry, vaulted ceilings. On .45-acre, 5 mins to town! Joe Richards 206-459-8223

Fletcher Bay #298083 $489,000Just Listed! Secluded NW Contemporary home on 2.76 acres of trails & meadow. 3,139 sq. ft. on 3 levels w/5BR & guest kitchenette on lower floor. Jim Peek 206-817-5879, JimPeek.com

Eagle Harbor #254226 $499,000New Price! Historic Craftsman perfectly sited on shy 3 acres overlooking Eagle Harbor awaits your restoration. Harborside float for kayaks & canoes. Debbie Nitsche-Lord 206-780-7681

Rolling Bay #282141 $535,000Fabulous south-facing, architecturally-designed modern cottage close to Rolling Bay Hamlet. 5 Star Built Green, innovative, energy smart design. Julie Miller 206-949-9655

Baker Hill #239611 $669,000Extensively updated home on private, sunny .80-acre. Spacious and open 3,352 sq ft plan plus 3-car garage.Andy Moore 206-755-6296, bainbridgeislandwaterfront.com

Historic Eagledale #106074 $745,000New Price! Classic NW style. 4,600+ sq ft w/full walk-out basement. Stunning 4.9 acres; 2 tax parcels. Candidate for land trust benefits. David Parker 206-714-4300, bainbridgepropertysales.com

Baker Hill—Mountain View #197995 $998,000Timeless design…Mtn & Sound views from this 4,000± sq ft, 3BR/3.25BA home w/kitchen for multiple chefs & custom finishes throughout. Molly Neary & Joanie Ransom 206-920-9166

Sunn Fjord #296015 $66,600Come home to relax in front of your fireplace. This 2 bdrm, 1.5 bth condo has efficient kitchen & spacious breakfast bar adjoining dining rm. Enjoy a cup of your favorite brew and gaze across Puget Sound as the sun rises over Mt. Rainier and the Cascades. Enjoy tennis, take a swim or soak in the spa.Mike Draper 360-731-4907.

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Bremerton #276233 $89,850Cute 2 bdrm cottage home outside city limits in a private setting but close to PSNS & Ferry has upgraded septic system, new living rm carpet, gas heat, optional security system & territorial view. Off Street parking with drive-thru access. Jack Stodden 360-710.1369

Illahee #298628 $105,000Sparkling clean 3 bdrm, 2 bth home is wheel chair accessible. Beautifully maintained carpet, paint, double paned windows and custom blinds. Over a third of a fully fenced acre. Extra room for hobbies/office, RV waste disposal. Wired for Heat Pump! Near the tranquil Illahee State Park. Kim Stewart 253-225-1752.

Oyster Bay #245717 $135,000Fantastic Oyster Bay & Olympic Mtn views from spacious 3-bdrm end-unit, at Southridge Condos! Newer kitchen appliances, gas frpl insert. Balcony w/storage closet, 2nd balcony off of MBR has water views too! Close to shopping, bus, restaurants, & freeway access.2 parking spaces & additional storage. Amy Allen 360-620-0499.

East Bremerton #291099 $199,900Wow! 5 bedroom, 3 bath home on 1/4 acre in town.Kathy Olsen 360-692-6102/360-434-1291.

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Port Orchard #246125 $79,950Great upgraded condo priced to sell. Lower unit with a nice woods view and patio for enjoying quiet afternoons. There have been some nice upgrades so come by and have a look.Dana Soyat 360-876-9600

Manchester #284594 $179,000Wonderful original cabin in Manchester. Minutes to library, post office, fishing pier & other services. Country charm of this home with rustic feel of a cabin makes you feel right at home.Joan Wardwell 360-876-9600

South Kitsap #277521 $199,950Priced to sell! Private & secluded stick-built 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on 2.5 acres. Home is just shy of 1700 sq ft with a huge detached carport. Additional shop next to house.Jennifer Connelly-Delay 360-876-9600

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Bremerton #284080 $209,900Meticulously remodeled 4 bdrm/3 bth home on a lrg lot in the CK school district. Remodeled w/a fine-tooth comb to present you a great property & great value. New siding, new roof, new vinyl windows new floor coverings, new kit & new master bath. Convenient to Silverdale, Bremerton & all bases of NBK. Rod Blackburn 360-509-7042.

Silverdale #292185 $225,000Silverdale Gem on the Hills of Ridgetop! Well maintained & updated! Built in 1992 w/freshly painted cedar siding! 3 bdrms, 2.25 bth. Enter to slate entry to open flr plan! Spacious liv rm w/vaulted ceiling & new ¾” oak floors! Molly Ells 360-692-6102/360-620-2690.

Seabeck #285359 $425,000Stunning custom 1 story hm built in 2003 on 1 ac lot w/mtn view! Unparalled craftsmanship throughout! Spacious living w/3569 sq.ft. Lrg master suite w/nearly 1000 sq.ft. with cozy double-sided glass fireplace. Master bath with dual vanity and slab counters.Molly Ells 360-692-6102/360-360-2690.

Seabeck # 298418 $499,000Stunning NW Contemporary style hm w/panoramic view of Hood Canal! Secluded!! Unparalleled craftsmanship throughout! One story w/daylight basement w/3,320 sq.ft. 3 bdrms. Light & bright open floor plan! Great room w/vaulted ceilings & cozy gas fireplace. Molly Ells 360-692-6102/360-620-2690.

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Suquamish #290708 $124,900Remodeled from the studs out 5 years ago incl all new cabinets, SS appliances & upgraded finishes. Just freshened w/new paint & carpet. The public areas are an open concept w/vaulted ceiling & modern track lighting. French doors to lrg cedar deck for entertaining. The bathrooms have tile floors. Flat corner lot on a quiet street. Wayne Paulson 360-779-5205.

Hansville #286074 $149,000French doors lead into this cozy 2 bdrm/2 bth home w/interior cedar wood accents. Tiled floors, stone frplc, plantation shutters, copper bathroom sink all in wonderful condition & tucked away for privacy. Detached garage for projects. Shorewood Community club house pool, tennis courts, playground & mins to private beach. Bonnie Chandler 360-779-5205 or 360-509-4949.

Poulsbo #283586 $225,0004 bdrm, 3 bth split level close to downtown Poulsbo. New carpet & interior paint. Gas heat/water, 2 frpl’s. 2-car garage. All appliances stay. Extra large family rm. Mike Bay 360-692-6102/360-710-7129.

Kingston #296211 $309,900New Price! Peaceful mini farm retreat w/view of the Ferry! 2722 sq ft 3 bed, 2.5 bath home situated on 1.8 pastoral acres, w/3 fenced areas for livestock or agricultural use. Fresh paint both inside & out, newer roof & flooring, walk-in pantry, woodstove, master w/walk in closet & bath, attached 2 car garage. Complete guest suite w/water view. Catherine Arlen 360-340-8186

Poulsbo #289718 $325,000Well maintained 2161 SF rambler w/3 bdrm & 2 bth on 2.62 acres (2 lots). Beautifully landscaped w/ Grn Mtn Rockery, Rhodes, Azaleas & Maple Trees. Outdoor pool w/pool house, cedar-lined shop, attached 2 carport, detached 3-car carport. Close to Poulsbo & Hood Canal Bridge. Romelle Gosselin 360-779-5205 or 360-271-0342.

NORTH K ITSAP

Belfair #82003 $51,950Beautiful acreage. Driveway off of Hwy 106 & Razor Road. Approved septic design & permit, geo tech & wetlands study all complete. Marilyn Dick 360-876-9600

South Kitsap #164503 $109,000Bring your house plans, dreams & imagination to this serene 4.9 acres. Minter creek runs through the back half. Partially treed & ready to build a house in the country yet minutes to the Hwy.Kelli Johnson 360-876-9600

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WATER FRONTMiller Bay Waterfront #270290 $599,000Private, custom home with 4,400+ sq ft main residence plus2,000 sq ft guest suite. 170 feet of waterfront on shy 2 acres (2 tax parcels). Jen Pells 206-718-4337, jenniferpells.com

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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND

Toonerville #299352 $259,950Secluded & private, yet close to everything. Totally remodeled 1900+ sq ft L shaped home. New flrs, crown molding, kitchen counters, tile entry, paint & appliances. All this sits on 2.6 acres. Andrew Welch 360-876-9600

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COM MERCI ALPort Orchard #191978 $220,000Wonderful classic structure with endless possibilities. Location would be ideal for legal, Doctor, accounting offices or ?? Located on the Mile Hill Corridor so come take a look today.Dana Soyat 360-876-9600

Crystal Springs Waterfront #276271 $3,200,000Enchanting East Coast lodge on private 3.83 acres with gorgeous no-bank beach, pool/spa, dock, separate guesthouse and utility barn. Vesna Somers 206-947-1597

WATERFRONT320 Washington Ave, Bremerton

Harborside Condos! Saturday 1 to 4 by appointment!Enjoy living on the edge of Bremerton’s stunning waterfront view condos. Starting at $249,000, VA, FHA and FNMAapproved and 85% sold! Very close to PSNS and ferry.Amy Allen or Penny Jones 360-627-7658.

Barber Cut-off Rd, Kingston $199,900OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1 - 4

New homes within walking distance to town, ferries, marina and beaches. Tucked in the waterfront community of Kingston, Drew’s Glen offers Green Built, energy efficient plans, including the popular one-story plan, to meet a variety of lifestyles and needs. Ask about the $10,000 buyer bonus.Scott Anderson 360-536-2048 / Lorna Muller 360-620-3842

Silverdale #276042 Starting at $239,950Open Daily 12-4. 4391 NW Atwater Loop

Come visit the charming new home community of SILVERLEAF, where you purchase not only a well-built home, but a lifestyle. Distinct cottage-style Craftsman homes are available in 6-8 floor plans. The neighborhood features front porches, tree-lined streets and a park all in a convenient central location.Summer Davy 360-535-3625 or Bonnie Michal 360-981-5691.

Kingston #296182 $525,000Sun 2-4. 34724 Pilot Point Rd.Architecturally designed with views of shipping lanes, Mt. Rainier & Mt. Baker. 3676 sq ft, 3 bd, open concept home on .63 acre with 85 ft of beautifully landscaped waterfront. Chef’s kitchen w/new stainless appl, extensive hardwood, 2 masters, jetted soaking tub, sauna, expansive deck & 2-car garage & much more.Sherri Galloway 360-536-0349/Catherine Arlen 360-340-8186

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NEW LISTING–KINGSTON $219,000A great house w/open floor plan,4bd/2.5ba,family rm & beautiful kitchen w/granite counters & all appliances stay. Also includes 2-car garage,large yard & deck.Jane Woodward 360-779-8520View at www.johnlscott.com/34402

OPEN HOUSE–SUQUAMISH $569,000SUN 1-4. 17322 S. Angeline Ave NEWonderful home w/100ft of low bank waterfront. Features 1454sf, 3bdrm/2ba, fireplace, ADU & large deck to sit back & enjoy your view.Jim Lake 360-337-9817View at www.johnlscott.com/14285

NORTH KITSAP

PORT ORCHARD $13,000 Affordable living in this well maintained home that is close to shopping and amenities! Updated & remodeled kitchen, soaking tub & new deck with ramp! In a park.Deborah Lozares 360-340-3359 View at www.johnlscott.com/77031

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TAHUYA $50,000Beautiful Tahuya Riverfront - Watch eagles soar, all utilities at site - paved access.Annette Nitz 360-620-1076View at www.johnlscott.com/97920

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BAINBRIDGE $289,000Serenity at South Beach. Fairbanks reconstruction. Gorgeous 2bd/2ba in a lovely waterfront complex.Gigi Norwine 206-427-6492 Gigi Norwine 206-780-3316View at www.johnlscott.com/87015

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND $395,000Vintage 1901 “Old Bainbridge” farmhouse on beautiful subdividable acreage in Rolling Bay.1576 sq ft shop w/ADU previously permitted & septic installed.Tim Wilkins 206-780-3309View at www.johnlscott.com/68666

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND

HANSVILLE $74,500Double-sized building home site in waterfront community. Septic design submitted for approval. MountainMarina view from 2nd story only.2 lots, 1 price.Jan Zufelt 360-297-5550View at www.johnlscott.com/96298

PORT ORCHARD $84,000 2.00 acre lot with a spectacular view of Sinclair Inlet & the Olympic Mtns! Currently zoned Urban 5-9. For now, this is an excellent view lot to build!Rick Ellis 360-731-0078 View at www.johnlscott.com/66176

HANSVILLE $109,500Nice level acreage in a remote location yet part of a great little community. Minutes to the Hansville store, lighthouse, parks, trails, beach access, fishing.Jan Zufelt 360-297-5550View at www.johnlscott.com/17269

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$549,000 9436 Battle Point Dr., Bainbridge Island SUN 1-3Uniquely designed, 2409 sf home. Plus 1600 sf of garage, shop, & office w/WDSTV. Sep 795 sf, 2-story ADU. Beautiful wood stairs lead up to main level, where you find large, open light-filled areas w/wood interior & vaulted ceilings. Planked flrs throughout. MBR on main w/large MBA. Skylights in upper BDRMs. Large wrap-around deck, private yard includes designated garden space. MLS 267130. Coldwell Banker McKenzie / Call Bill Barrow 206.842.1733 x 105.

$549,000 10625 Falk Road, Bainbridge Island SUN 1-3 Mt. Rainier view home in Rolling Bay. Southern exposure, a solarium entry, 2-story living room windows & a sun room & lots of light and solar warmth! Legal ADU above garage. Colorful garden beds. MLS 288955. Coldwell Banker McKenzie / Call CHRIS MILLER, Managing Broker 206-842-1733 EXT 124.

$639,000 6527 Fletcher Bay Rd NE, Bainbridge Island Sat- Sun 1-4.Ferguson & Cole’s New Home Construction. Builder Rep: Ken West, 360-990-2444 or Brian Cole 360-698-4665.

$710,000 6650 NE Bayview Boulevard, Bainbridge Island SUN 1-4Low-bank Manzanita Bay wft home w/4000+ sq ft, 4 frpls, formal living/dining, 3BR plus 2 guest rooms. Gardens & shop. #299111. Beverly Green 206-780-7678 Susan Burris 206-498-8479. Windermere Real Estate/BI, Inc.

$775,000 14730 Sunrise Drive NE, Bainbridge Island Sun 1-4This beautiful home has it all! An open floor plan, Sound and Mountain views, guest suite with private entrance, master suite on the main, mature landscaping and deeded beach rights. 3579 sq.ft., wired for generator. DD: Hwy 305 to East on Day Rd, to Left on Sunrise Drive. Right into drive. Near Fay Bainbridge State Park. Patti Shannon 206-755-5139, High Point Realty Group LLC

$849,500 8459 NE Gordon Drive, Bainbridge Island SUN 1-4This sunny private estate features panoramic views of Puget Sound and the Cascades & stunning gardens. Custom built by Fairbank Construction, this 5 BDRM/4 BA home combines elegance and informality. DD: Highway 305 North, R West Port Madison, L on Gordon to 2nd house on the right. Wendy Indvik 206-276-1031 www.johnlscott.com/75970 HOST: Mike Ballou

$839,000 4598 Point White Drive, Bainbridge Island SUN 2-4 BEST OF ISLAND LIVING! Pleasant Beach Village waterfront home features 3BR/2.5BA 2,536 sq/ft, high end KIT w/elegant wft dining, waterside MBR suite, vaulted ceilings, balcony, guest suite, beautiful craftsmanship & finishes. Close to all Lynwood Ctr amenities. MLS 295070. Coldwell Banker McKenzie / Hosted by JIM ANDERSON, Broker (206) 849-4515.

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND$999,000 10487 Sunrise Bluff, Bainbridge Island SUN 1-4Magnificent sunrises over the water paint a new picture each morning from this classic 3-bedroom mid-century rambler. Perched on 1 acre, home is spectacularly set on 200 ft of high bank waterfront with sweeping views from Mt. Baker to Mt. Rainier, Seattle, the Cascades and the Sound. DD: From 305 /Day Road East. Left Sunrise Drive. Right on Sunrise Bluff. Eileen Black 206-696-1540 www.johnlscott.com/84517 HOST: Don Rooks

NORTH KITSAPFrom $219,000 Chateau Ridge located at the top of Forest Rock Hills, Poulsbo Sat-Sun 12-4A Central Highland Builder’s Project. Located at the top of Forest Rock Hills on Caldart Ave., Poulsbo. Central Highland Builders, builders of Poulsbo Place II, are now introducing their newest neighborhood, Chateau Ridge! Located at the top of Forest Rock Hills on Caldart Ave. Craftsman & Cottage-Style homes ranging from 912 to 2,200 SF & prices starting in the low $200’s. Offering several one-level floor plans, as well as, 2-level plans. Built Green, Energy Star appliances, & 2-10 Home buyers Warranty. Neighborhood is centrally located to North Kitsap Schools, local markets, shopping in the ever-popular downtown Poulsbo, local parks & more. Breathtaking Olympic Mtn Views. Karen Bazar, John L Scott Real Estate, Poulsbo, 360-981-0098 or email at [email protected]. Call today for more details.

From $219,000 4th Ave, Poulsbo Place II, Div 7, Poulsbo Sat-Sun 12-4A Central Highland Builder’s Project. Our newest Poulsbo Place neighborhood located on 4th Avenue is now underway. Featuring lots with sweeping views that overlook the charming Poulsbo Place community, Liberty Bay, & the Olympic Mountains. With 14 customizable floor plans to choose from, this is an outstanding opportunity to select the home of your dreams with breathtaking views. Quality finishes inside and out. Low maintenance, safe and secure living in the master-planned community in the heart of the waterfront village of Poulsbo. Floor plans vary from 876 - 3,000 sq. ft., 2 - 4 bedrooms, 1 - 3.5 bathrooms and a 2-10 home warranty. Close to shopping and restaurants. Karen Bazar, John L. Scott Real Estate, Poulsbo, 360-981-0098 or 360-394-0006.

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Enter to Brazilian cherry hardwood fl oors, vaulted ceiling and high windows, pulling you to sweeping views of the Sound and Cascades. A spacious library/family room with its separate entrance is ideal for a home-based business. Guest quarters with adjoining bath and private entrance provide additional privacy and comfort for extended guests or a nanny. Main fl oor master suite, two more bedrooms, play room, laundry and a loft offi ce offer ample space for everyone.

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SOUTH KITSAPHome on AcreageTruly reminiscent of a mountain retreat! In the summertime, the dramatic approach from the road leads to a wonderland of picturesque gardens accompanied by the serene sounds of meandering creeks, which surround a solidly built and architecturally pleasing house both inside and out. Inside, all on one level, you’re sure to appreciate the sophisticated custom wood and tile work, upgrades such as granite counters and hand-scraped hardwood fl oors, soaring 10-ft ceilings & huge rooms throughout. Contact us today for attractive fi nancing.

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This elegant, contemporary one-story home on 2 acres has 217 feet of no-bank waterfront on a sandy beach, with dock/fl oat. Built with high quality materials, including Brazilian Teak, Bamboo and cork fl oors and bamboo cabinetry. Designer kitchen features granite slab countertops, 6-burner Wolf range, double Miele oven/microwave, 2 Miele dishwashers, built-in espresso machine and two-door SubZero refrigerator/freezer.

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Located in the desirable Manchester community on the end of a quiet dead end street with wonderful Seattle views, you will fi nd this charming traditional home. Interior features a large living room with spectacular fi replace and mantel as a focal point. The island kitchen has a unique

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BAINBRIDGE ISLANDManzanita Bay Waterfront HomeInspired by grand lodges of the Pacifi c Northwest, this stunning home offers the perfect blend of indoor living and outdoor lifestyle. Privately situated on over 2 acres of land waterside along Manzanita Bay, this spectacular 3522 sq. ft. home offers quality construction and luxurious amenities. Outdoor living area features the covered Loggia with its massive stone fi replace, full gunite spa, Ipe decks and a backyard lawn that rolls gently down to water’s edge andprivate mooring buoy.

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POULSBOFinn Hill Home with Mtn & Water View!See Liberty Bay and Mt. Rainier from your beautiful, newly-remodeled kitchen (2009) with custom maple cabinetry & slab granite countertops including large island & peninsula, both with seating. 3 bedrooms, extra fi nished room (offi ce/hobby/playroom), all new carpeting, new laminate fl oor in daylight basement family rm. Fireplace upstairs, wood stove downstairs. Lrg patio, wrap-around deck. Two-car garage plus small outbuilding/garden shed, and a raised garden bed.


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