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Tribe donates $100K to Village Green Foundation KINGSTON — The Suquamish Tribal Council donated $100,000 to the Village Green Foundation Thursday. The funds will be used to help build a multifunctional community center and library at Village Green Park in Kingston. Suquamish Tribe Chairman Leonard Forsman was scheduled to present the donation during the fifth annual Pie In The Park fundraiser. Bobbie Moore, Village Green Metropolitan Park District commissioner, said the organization has been talking with the Tribe for a few years. She said the tribal council is excited about what Village Green provides to the whole north end. “[Monetary] gifts from the local area are reflecting of how important this project is to the community,” Moore said. “We hope others will be similarly inspired.”
Volunteers with the Village Green Foundation estimate they still need $1 million for the project. Construction cost estimates are around $6 million — to replace the current community center and library with a larger building, which will also hold the Boys & Girls Club and the Village Green Senior Apartments. As of July, the foundation raised $4.8 million. The Village Green Foundation was awarded $1 million from the state Department of Commerce Building Communities Fund for building construction, except for the library portion; $1 million from the C. Keith Birkenfeld Memorial Trust, unrestricted; $1 million from Kitsap Community Foundation, awarded to Kitsap Regional Library Foundation for exclusive use at the Village Green’s new Kingston branch library; $4,000 for
senior center furnishings; $600,000 from the 2012 sale of the property for infrastructure improvements; $335,000 from Kitsap County for architectural/ engineering work; and $654,000 from community members (since 2008). Moore said the Village Green board hasn’t decided details about the design, but hope to include a rotating display in the center’s lobby, recognizing local tribal artists and history displays. Moore said she also hopes to see tribal art in the courtyard. All donors will be recognized on the donor wall inside. “The Village Green Foundation’s mission is to build an energy-efficient, attractive, long-lasting facility to meet our community’s needs for decades to come,” according to the August Kingston Community News column by the Village Green
The Kingston community celebrated a sizeable donation in January for the new Kingston Community Center. Since that time, more donations have come in, including the $100,000 donation from the Suquamish Tribe expected Thursday. Kipp Robertson / Herald Foundation. “The Village Green Metropolitan Park District must maintain and operate the building and the park using the same value prop-
osition — get a lot from our money for everyone. We envision the building open for many hours every day, broadly available to the public; a reception desk
staffed by contractors and volunteers who issue cardkeys for access to meeting rooms; and sharing multipurpose flexible spaces.”
Peace activists ‘symbolically close’ nuclear sub base BANGOR -- Activists with Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action held an afternoon vigil Sunday at the Naval Base KitsapBangor main gate in remembrance of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Trident submarine base at Naval Base KitsapBangor reportedly holds the largest concentration of operational nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal. Each of the eight Ohioclass submarines at Bangor carry as many as 24 Trident II (D-5) missiles, each capable of carrying up to eight independently targetable warheads. According to Ground Zero, each nuclear warhead has an explosive yield up to 32 times the yield of the bomb that
destroyed Hiroshima. At Sunday’s vigil, people lined the roadside with signs and banners calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. After a half hour three participants walked on to Highway 3/Luoto Road holding a banner reading “Give Peace a Chance. No, Seriously.” Washington State Patrol officers escorted the resisters to the median where they were issued citations for being in the roadway where prohibited. After a few minutes, a second group blocked the roadway with a banner that read, “Create a Peaceful World. Abolish Nuclear Weapons.” They were also escorted to the median and cited. A short while later a final
group stretched a banner across the entrance lanes. It read “We can all live without Trident.” State Patrol officers escorted these last four nuclear resisters to the median for processing and release. Ten persons risked arrest. All were issued citations for walking on the roadway where prohibited and released at the scene. Those cited were Catherine Clemens, Lopez Island; Robert Clemens, Lopez Island; Susan Corbin, Lopez Island; Anne Hall, Lopez Island; Dave Hall, Lopez Island; Mack Johnson, Silverdale; Constance Mears, Poulsbo; Elizabeth Murray, Bellingham; Jean Sundborg, Seattle; and Alice Zillah, Olympia.
Sunday’s vigil was the culmination of a weekend of events at Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. The weekend included nonviolence training, education on the Trident nuclear weapons system and U.S. nuclear weapons policies and activities, a candlelight vigil at the Bangor base on Aug. 9, and vigils and leafleting at multiple locations on Aug. 10. Two Ground Zero members, Mona Lee and Bert Sacks, appeared in Kitsap District Court on Aug. 9 on charges related to their May arrests during Ground Zero’s Mother’s Day protest at Bangor. A highlight of the weekend was the keynote presentation by Bernie Meyer,
known in India as “The American Gandhi.” Meyer presented a portrayal of Gandhi and his journey of nonviolence. According to Meyer, when asked by Margaret Bourke-White how he would address the atomic bomb, Gandhi replied, “Nonviolence is the only thing the atom bomb cannot destroy. When I heard that Hiroshima was bombed, I did not move a muscle. I thought unless humanity adopts nonviolence, it will be suicide for humanity.” Participants in the weekend included members of the 2013 Interfaith Peace Walk for a Nuclear Free Future and people from a number of Seattle Catholic parishes.
Ground Zero (www. gzcenter.org) holds three scheduled vigils and actions each year in resistance to Trident and in protest of U.S. nuclear weapons policy. The group has been working to stop the Navy’s construction of a $715 million Second Explosives Handling Wharf at Bangor. Ground Zero will soon launch a campaign to defund the Navy’s next generation ballistic missile submarine, estimated to cost nearly $100 billion just to build. For 36 years, Ground Zero has engaged in education, training in nonviolence, community building, resistance against Trident and action toward a world without nuclear weapons.
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