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INDEPENDENT PORT ORCHARD
FRIDAY, September 9, 2011 ■ Vol. 120, No. 27 ■ www.portorchardindependent.com ■ 50¢
Urban growth area may be reduced
A career path changed by 9/11 Methodist pastor was an aspiring actress living in New York when terrorists struck By TIM KELLY Editor
By KAITLIN STROHSCHEIN
When Pastor Ann Adkinson speaks to her congregation at Colby United Methodist Church on Sunday — the 10th anniversary of 9/11 — her sermon will be infused with a unique perspective: She was there. She was a New Yorker on 9/11. She wasn’t a minister at the time, and didn’t have plans to become one. She was an aspiring actress when she left her Minnesota home in 1998 and moved to the Big Apple, like countless other young dreamers. Her life in New York, however, was anchored in the fellowship she found in the Methodist congregation at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on the upper west side of Manhattan. “That church community was so powerful in shaping me in my life,” says Adkinson, who was single and living on her own for the first time
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Kitsap County should re-evaluate and shrink the urban growth area for Port Orchard, as well as several other cities, according to a ruling from the state’s Growth Management Hearings Board. The county overextended the areas slated for annexation into cities during an update to the comprehensive plan in 2006, according to the ruling, which is the latest in a string of appeals to the updates to the comprehensive plan. SEE URBAN GROWTH, A13
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Ann Adkinson, who became pastor at Colby United Methodist Church this summer, moved to South Kitsap from New York, where she was living 10 years ago when the 9/11 attacks occurred. Tim Kelly/Staff photo
SK schools try to make first day back a fun one
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Campuses around the South Kitsap School District reopened Wednesday for the 2011-12 school year with plenty of festivities. At the high school, there was an assembly for sophomores that began at 7:30 a.m. and featured a “flash-mob dance” by 70 staff members.
South Kitsap High School staff entertain an assembly for sophomores with a “flash-mob dance” on the first day of school. Hidden Creek Elementary School had its own celebration as staff SEE SCHOOLS, A4
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“It made me want to be a more informed citizen of the world. And it made me want to understand my faith tradition enough to be a voice of peace and reconciliation.” — Pastor Ann Adkinson, who was living in New York on Sept. 11, 2001
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in Sunday services Page A5 when she moved to New York, “but I think particularly around the events of 9/11.” Those traumatic events didn’t prompt her to make a vow then and there to become a minister; she says it wasn’t until 2005 that she felt the call to enter the seminary. “Some people experience faith as kind of lightning-bolt moments,” she says. “That’s not my experience. “I feel the need to speak up for SEE PASTOR, A5