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EXHIBIT OF PLEIN AIR PAINTINGS OF BLOEDEL RESERVE Paintings created at the Bloedel Reserve will be displayed in the visitors center through Nov. 30. The reserve welcomes artists to set up easels and paint in the gardens. The Bloedel Reserve is located at 7571 NE Dolphin Drive, Bainbridge Island. Admission: $13 for adults, $9 for seniors and $5 for teens. Free for ages 12 and younger.
A MONSTER MEAL Chuckwagon Senior Nutrition Program invites seniors 60 and older to a Halloween Lunch Oct. 31. Lunch is served at noon at Bainbridge Island Senior Center, Burley Community Hall, North Kitsap Senior Center in Poulsbo, Pinewood Manor Apartments in east Bremerton, and Village Green Apartments. Menu includes Creepy Coleslaw, Terrified Turkey Slice and Monster Mashed Sweet Potatoes. $3 suggested donation. Reservations required by 2 p.m. on Oct. 28, (360) 377-8511 or (888) 877-8511 from Bainbridge and Kingston.
Get scared ...
By MEGAN STEPHENSON
A visit to the Pyrex Museum in Bremerton See story, page 2
A section of the Bainbridge Island Review | Bremerton Patriot | Central Kitsap Reporter | North Kitsap Herald | Port Orchard Independent
Fire districts adopt more efficiencies STAFF REPORT
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See NEIGHBORS, Page A3
Paying tribute to an American classic
KITSAP WEEK: A tribute to an American classic WOMEN IN BUSINESS: pages A21-15
Joint training, changes in how calls are dispatched among changes
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SUQUAMISH — When the Suquamish Olalla Neighbors first came together in 2001, it was to address a specific issue — the desecration of Chief Seattle’s grave. They soon realized they had a deeper problem on their hands, issues that needed to be addressed ■ Trail plan by tribal and is moving non-tribal forward. — members, to Page A2. confront what led to the crime in the first place. “Ten years ago, our community was quite divided, there was mistrust on all sides,” said Sarah Van Gelder, co-founder of the organization. “Now people are quite friendly. People who work together make better...” The Suquamish Olalla Neighbors is a one-of-a-kind community organization that have not only turned their own community around, but have participated in mediation on other tribal reservations. Olalla, which means “the place where the fresh water and salt water meet,” is an allusion to neighbors of different backgrounds and cultures co-existing together. The group hosts Canoe Journey participants every summer, and hold an annual potluck to honor members for their work that year. This year’s 10th anniversary potluck is Saturday, where Suquamish Chairman Leonard Folsom will speak and members will be honored. Van Gelder, executive editor of Yes! magazine on Bainbridge Island, moved from Bainbridge to Suquamish in 2000. Soon after, she heard some of her neighbor’s opposition to a planned tribal housing project.
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Celebrating 10 years of bridge building
Flip Over For KITSAP
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for a good cause Haunted house benefits Fishline By RICHARD WALKER rwalker@northkitsapherald.com
POULSBO – The fun — or the fright, depending on how you look at it — begins long before you get to the front door and buy your ticket. Expect surprises as you drive
the forested road to the North Kitsap Eagles lodge off NE Lincoln Road. You’ll pass a graveyard and witches around a boiling cauldron before you get to the door. By the way, the door’s just past the gallows and the guillotine. But don’t let that stop you. Once inside, you’ll get the wits scared out of you, but you’ll be doing some good. The Eagles will donate all proceeds See HAUNTED, Page A13
Malachy Stultz, 12, a seventh-grader at Kingston Middle School, will have some tricks — and maybe a pig’s head — up his sleeve as a vampire at the Eagles Lodge haunted house. Richard Walker / Herald
KINGSTON— North Kitsap Fire & Rescue and Poulsbo Fire Department are moving ahead on 13 recommendations contained in an efficiency study received in August. Commissioners from both departments met in Kingston Oct. 19. They gave their chiefs direction to implement 13 of the strategies recommended in the report, several of which have been in the works for some time. The measures include combined volunteer services, dropped response borders, a shared training plan and manual, uniform pre-incident plans and computerized training records, electronic staffing and payroll, and joint standards for emergency service delivery. NKF&R Commission Chairman Steve Neupert said the two departments are training together and See FIRE, Page A13
CAMPAIGN UPDATE ■ Candidate debate scheduled for Gary Nystul, Fred Springsteel / page A18 ■ Write-in candidate for City Council arrested on suspicion of DUI / page A18 ■ GOP candidate for County Commission backed Democratic campaigns / page A18
Former police clerk charged with second gun theft Pre-trial for first arrest set for Nov. 16 By JOHNNY WALKER Herald correspondent
POULSBO — For the third
time in four months, the Poulsbo Police Department acknowledged last week that evidence in their custody was not properly managed or accounted for. In a joint press release
with the Kitsap County Sheriff ’s Office, a spokesperson announced on Oct. 20 that a second gun believed destroyed by Poulsbo Police had resurfaced. The discovery was recently
exposed after the Washington State Patrol investigated a vehicle accident near Gorst on Sept. 18 and found a gun under the driver’s seat of a See DIXON, Page A12
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