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More Kudos BHS robotics team qualifies for St. Louis After battling their way through the FIRST Robotics regional competition in Portland, Ore., recently, the Bainbridge High School inaugural robotics club — the Spartronics — has qualified to compete in the world championship event in St. Louis, Mo. “It has been an amazing run,” said Enriquee Chee, BHS physics teacher and Spartronics Head Coach. “After regionals in Portland last week, we were ranked 16th out of 153 teams in Washington and Oregon. The top 24 team in the Northwest region qualify for St. Louis, [and] 400 teams out of about 4,000 teams internationally will be competing [there].”
Union Bank brings music to market The Bainbridge Island branch of Union Bank recently presented a $1,000 check to the Bainbridge Island Farmers Market to help support the live music program at the market. Union Bank has partnered with the Bainbridge Island Farmers Market Association for three years through music sponsorship. Every Saturday, the farmers market hosts
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Deena Poole, Union Bank senior relationship manager, presents a check to Peter Weber, owner of Farmhouse Organics and vice president of the board of directors of the Bainbridge Island Farmers Market Association.
either a solo act or a small group of musicians to play during market hours. “We’re proud to partner with the Farmers’ Market each year on their music program,” said Deena Poole, senior relationship manager at the Union Bank branch on Bainbridge Island. “It allows us to give back to the Bainbridge community, support local musicians, and help the market thrive.” The donation was presented Saturday, April 12 and was warmly received. “Thanks to Union Bank for their continual support, their generous sponsorship allows us to deliver a first-class experience for our farmers market patrons,” said Peter Weber, vice presi-
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dent of the Bainbridge Island Farmers Market Association board of directors and a market vendor with Farmhouse Organics.
Students excel at Olympic College Nine students from Bainbridge Island have been recognized for outstanding academic achievement at Olympic College for the 2014 winter quarter. The islanders who earned a place on the dean’s list are Margaret Batson, Tori Houston, John Major, Trish Mcallister, Carolyn Milander, Christian Thompson, Mary Macfarlane, Tanya Bell and Nathanial Gorman.
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‘Double digit’ number of homes hit by serial burglar BY BRIAN KELLY
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Cmdr. Fred Sheffler of American Legion Post 172 prepares to accept a flag in honor of the more than 60 years of Bainbridge government housing. Below, the flag used to honor the neighborhood was first hung there in 2001 in memory of Brian Moss, a former resident and service member who was killed in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon.
Government housing on Bainbridge is formally decommissioned Expansion of Grow Community to honor the history of Grow Avenue BY CECILIA GARZA Bainbridge Island Review
Bainbridge Island has provided government housing for more than 60 years on John Adams Way, formerly known as Government Way. Since the Atomic Age and Cold War, military personnel lived in the two rows of houses and played an intrinsic role in the Bainbridge community. Their children went to Bainbridge schools, their families went to Kitsap churches, they had block parties and kids cut through their backyards on their way home. The two rows of houses were formally decommissioned last week to make way for
a new era of community housing. This summer, the street will be transformed into the second phase of development for Grow Community, a neighbor-
hood committed to sustainable urban development. “When I was connecting what happened then and what we see happening now, I just picture the same kind of things happening again,” said Karen Vargas, a former military resident on Government Way. The expansion, as Vargas put it, will welcome another generation of what has always been on Government Way: community. “This is a model for how community should be … neighbors helping one another, where kids know each other, bringing community back to what it is,” Vargas said. TURN TO GOVERNMENT | A10
Bainbridge Island police are reporting a spike of daytime burglaries during weekdays, and officials said a serial burglar is at work in the area. Police are asking for the public’s help in catching the culprit. The spree of daylight burglaries on Bainbridge Island started in the past few weeks and involves a “double digit” number of break-ins, Bainbridge Police Chief Matthew Hamner said Wednesday. “This is definitely a serial burglar,” Hamner said. “The modus operandi is very similar among the burglaries. It’s clear it’s the same individual.” The police department issued a warning to residents early Wednesday about the spike in burglaries, and authorities said the thief was forcing his way into residences during daytime hours during the week when nobody’s home. Police believe the thief is hitting neighborhoods in remote areas that don’t have a lot of traffic during the day, but also ones with places nearby — such as a cemetery or park — where the burglar can leave a getaway vehicle, then approach the targeted home on foot. Police also said the burglar may be cruising neighborhoods in a vehicle before parking and coming back on foot. The burglar is breaking windows to gain access to locked homes, Hamner said. Smaller items that can easily be carted away — jewelry, prescription drugs, guns — have been taken in the break-ins. The burglaries have been reported all across the island; Eagle Harbor, Port Madison, Fort Ward.
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