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Chancellor helps enforce a fitness lifestyle County to repair Seahawks’ strong safety Fairground courts Kam Chancellor and The Parks Department will use crowdfunding campaign to fix the tennis courts
FormXForce held boot camp at Bangor BY MICHELLE BEAHM MBEAHM@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
BY MICHELLE BEAHM
BANGOR — Six years ago, Seattle Seahawks’ Kam Chancellor and his trainer, Kevin Allen, came up with the idea to hold fitness boot camps for women. At the time, the idea didn’t get off the ground. This year, they finally started it up, and Monday, March 28, more than 80 active-duty military women or spouses of active-duty military participated in the fitness boot camp hosted by FormXForce, the company Chancellor and Allen started. “We know a lot of women care about their health and their wellbeing,” Chancellor said, “so we brought it out here and our first event … it was just outstanding. “We want people to enforce a change in their lives, which is enforcing the fitness style in their life and enforcing the health style in their life. That’s how we came about.” FormXForce visited seven cities in Washington on their March tour, with the Naval base being the second-to-last
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Seattle Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor helps lead a fitness bootcamp at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor Monday, March 28. stop for now. “It’s been amazing,” Chancellor said. “We’ve been getting a lot of women saying, ‘You guys are very encouraging, you guys push us to our max, you guys push us to limits we never reached.’ And some women never worked out a day in their life, and they show up and they continue working out after that.” It was due to Sam Harlander, the regional marketing director for the base,
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Kam Chancellor, joined by his FormXForce teammates, presented The Ultimate Women’s Fitness Boot Camp at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor. Participants worked up a healthy sweat while boosting confidence and being encouraged to work towards a healthier lifestyle.
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that the boot camp came to Bangor at all. “I actually follow some of the Seahawks on Instagram, and so I saw that Kam Chancellor was doing this boot camp, and one of his posts was, ‘We want to hear from you: What city do you want this boot camp at?’ ” Harlander said. “So just, one night, I sent a message on a whim and said, ‘Hey, have you ever done this on a Navy base before?’ ” Harlander worked with the Morale, Welfare & Recreation director and the fitness instructor on base, as well as FormXForce, to arrange for the boot camp to visit Bangor. “We thought this would be great, something new and exciting to bring to the base,” Harlander said, “and it just goes to show you, it pays to ask questions, and we can bring something fun like this to our military community.” Harlander actually participated in an earlier FormXForce boot camp in Kirkland, Washington. She said the boot camp is “an awesome workout, for all fitness levels. It’s for any age.” FormXForce currently has two programs: one for women ages 18 and older, and a youth boot camp for girls ages 11 to 17. The programs are led by a team of seven coaches including Chancellor and Allen. It starts with yoga, followed by hip-hop dance, upper-body workouts, lower-body workouts, Bam Bam Abs led by Kam Chancellor and concludes with upper-body cardio. The adult program
BREMERTON — One thing all tennis players who use the Kitsap Fairgrounds courts can agree on is that the courts need a lot of improvement. The courts are barely distinguishable as the lines and color have faded drastically and four of the courts have developed cracks. The walkway between the upper and lower courts is practically nonexistant. And, according to Billie Schmidt, superintendent of operations at the Kitsap County Parks department, the restrooms have been “out of commission” since before she joined the department in 2011. But all that is about to change. According to a press release from the county, the total cost of repairs is $65,000. The county has partnered with the Central Kitsap School District — which uses the courts for their tennis league — for another $20,000. Which leaves $45,000, hopefully to be raised in a crowdfunding campaign, though the county is able to provide $30,000 in capital funds, according to a press SEE CROWDFUND, A9
No joke: Scavenger hunt on April Fool’s BY MICHELLE BEAHM
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BREMERTON — The Kitsap History Museum in Bremerton is holding a scavenger hunt for April Fool’s Day. From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, April 1, visitors to the museum can wander through galleries and find what doesn’t belong. Dean Tingey, executive director of the museum, said that the scavenger hunt was Curator Jeanine Greco’s idea, in an effort to expand appeal to younger audiences. “What she’s looking for is trying to expand our family outreach and our youth outreach,” Tingey said. “It’s going to be designed so that it’s something people of all ages can do and can enjoy.” Tingey said the museum will be “taking items that, historically, don’t fit in the context of specific exhibits and intermixing those items among those exhibits.” As an example, Tingey mentioned putting an iPhone in the display of a WWII Bremerton Shipyard office. Casey Alop, an employee at the museum, said, “I think
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