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BENEFIT CONCERT FOR WEST SOUND MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION Pianist Craig Sheppard performs on Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. at Bayside Community Church, 25992 Barber Cut-Off Road NE, Kingston. Tickets are $15 adults, $10 students and seniors, $35 family. Sheppard, an internationally acclaimed artist with more than 40 years experience as a concert pianist, returns to Kitsap to pay tribute to Franz Liszt (Oct. 22, 1811-July 31, 1886) in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
“THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY” This play, based on the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film, runs weekends through Oct. 23 at the Western Washington Center for the Arts, 521 Bay St., Port Orchard. Tickets and schedule are available at www.westernwactrarts. qwestoffice.net. In “The Trouble with Harry,” the residents of a small village are faced with the freshly dead body of Harry Worp, which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town.
Helping the helpless PAWS of Bainbridge and North Kitsap bring hope to struggling pet owners. See story, page 2
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FOR THE LOVE OF BAKING
Teen mentoring program enters last school year after 18 years BY TOM JAMES TJAMES@KITSAPNAVYNEWS.COM
5:30 a.m. on days when he works, which is every day except for Sundays and Mondays when the bakery is closed. Half of the work day is spent on making cakes, he said. And regardless of its actual name, there is no champagne in the cake. “It’s a combination of
A Central Kitsap School District program that connects elementary students with high school mentors will be cut from the 2012 state budget, according to officials. Mary Ellen de la Pena, a county planner, said two similar programs are slated to be cut as well, but declined to say which CKSD programs would be cut. The CK Teen Mentor program’s annual contract with the county was renewed Sept. 26 by the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners. Through the contract, the school district receives $10,000 in state funds from the Department of Social and Health Services. That contract, along with two others for similar programs, will not be renewed next year, said de la Pena De la Pena did not name the other two programs that faced cuts because her office had not formally notified them yet. “It’s a very One, de la Pena said, is another school district’s economical mentoring program. The investment in the third is a county parent kids, for what we and family education receive.” program, she said. –Jeni Zapatka, school All are programs funded by the state with the district specialist charged with overseeing long-term goal of reducing substance abuse preCK mentor program vention, de la Pena said. Jeni Zapatka, a school district specialist charged with overseeing the CKSD program, said her office found out about the cut earlier this year. With the school district as a whole facing a $5.8 million cut this year, Zapatka said she’s not sure where money will be found to continue the program. In existence since 1994, Zapatka said in the 20112012 school year the program has connected about 100 high school mentors with CK elementary students. After taking part in a five-hour training, the mentors spend an hour a week with the younger students. The program, Zaptka said, is not focused on academic tutoring. Instead, Zapatka said, mentors are taught to focus on their mentees’ strengths. Still, she said, after time in the program mentees usually show
SEE BAKING, A8
SEE CUTS, A8
Charleston bakery owner is on 30 years of baking pink champagne cakes BY KRISTIN OKINAKA KOKINAKA@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
A woman walked into the bakery on Callow Avenue and burst into tears. She had moved away from Bremerton and had not been to McGavin’s Bakery in 25 years. To her, everything looked the same and she took a pink champagne cake to celebrate the reunion.
McGavin’s Bakery 619 N. Callow Ave., Bremerton (360) 373-2412 www.mcgavinsbakery.com
“She came to see if it was still here,” said Deloris Lichter, who has worked at the Charleston bakery since December 2007. “It’s a real tradition.” Bill Sheldon has owned
the bakery, known for its pink champagne cake, since 1981. He came from a bakery in Tacoma and bought McGavin’s because of the location and the longstanding history of the pink champagne cake there. “This was the place to be and I’ve been here ever since,” he said Tuesday. Sheldon said it’s up for debate as to exactly how long McGavin’s Bakery has been around. He said it has a history of about 74 years. “The historical society has taken a couple shots, but I don’t know if anyone can agree on it,” he said. Sheldon began baking as a 16-year-old when he worked at a bakery while in high school in Tacoma. He started out frying doughnuts and soon learned everything else. He enjoyed it and
CKSD to cut mentors programs
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Top, Debbie Crowl sprinkles coconut on the side of a pink champagne cake at McGavin’s Bakery Tuesday. Above, Deloris Lichter holds two completed cakes. knew he wanted to make a career out of it. His family didn’t bake but it was something that he just took a likening to, Sheldon said. He was one of the last generations to participate in a three-year apprenticeship sponsored by the state at the time. “I do it because of the actual baking,” he said. Sheldon wakes up at