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Ella and John Robina, couple married 50 yea defy their doctors’ ord and the wishes of thei grown children and ta one last road trip toge in their RV, the Leisure Seeker.
“The Leisure Seeker” b Michael Zadoorian is a about making the mos your time, a celebratio of love and partnershi of Old Route 66 and th challenges of modern
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KRL will bring Zadoori a Detroit author, to Kit County to talk about h book during the One Book, One Community celebration this fall.
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By KIPP ROBERTSON
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KINGSTON — The Kingston Food Bank, which has helped those less fortunate in Kingston for more than 50 years, may soon be without a home. This month, the food bank
must move out of the space that Windermere Real Estate in Kingston has let it use rent-free, at 26569 Lindvog Road, since January. Windermere co-owner Carter Dotson said he notified the food bank about a month ago that there
was interest in the space and that he’d need to get it market-ready. “A number of people have been stopping by and taking a peek in,” he said. “We have no takers yet, but people are circling.” He said the food bank’s moveout date is “loosely” April 22.
Salmon savvy
“We’ve tried to help them out as much as we can,” Dotson said. “We gave them space rent-free. We donated 50 turkeys to them around the holidays. We just approved a donation to them through the Windermere Foundation of a $500 gift certificate to Albertsons. And
Angela Carr, a preschool teacher at Martha & Mary KIDS, shows her students baby fish caught at the south fork of Dogfish Creek Wednesday. The children learned from local biologist Ron Hirschi about healthy streams and the fish that live in them.
Preschoolers go to Dogfish Creek to learn why fish need them to be good stewards
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n Color photos of Martha & Mary preschoolers’ encounter with Dogfish Creek salmon. — Pages A14-15
currently writing a book for the Martha & Mary preschoolers about local streams. “To help call attention to
NKSD not far from financial warning By KIPP ROBERTSON
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protecting [the streams] and restoring at least part of their natural legacy, we might do like the kids did today and plant wildflowers along the banks and simply get to know who lives in the streams,” Hirschi said via email. On Wednesday, the children ran around in their rainboots and raincoats, reveling in the
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& Mary KIDS preschool class, learning about streams, bugs and, of course, fish, on a field trip Wednesday at the south fork of Dogfish Creek at Centennial Park. This is a fragile time in the salmonids’ lives, and local biologist and children’s book author Ron Hirschi wants to instill a sense of environmental stewardship in our youth. He is
Organization that has helped the community needs the community’s help. — Page A4
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POULSBO — The North Kitsap School District’s financial health is similar to that of a person with poor health, according to former interim Finance Director Debra Aungst. The district is ill, and its energy is being diverted to recovering rather than to student learning, Aungst said. As a result, of Washington’s 295 school districts, the North Kitsap School District is in the 18th worst financial condition. The district received a score of 2.10 on the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Financial Indicators list, according to documents available on the dis-
By MEGAN STEPHENSON
OULSBO — Reece Corbin, 4, gently held a wriggling baby salmon in his hand, freshly caught from Dogfish Creek, before it was slipped back into the water to continue on its journey. Reece said his favorite part of the experience was the water, because he got to wear his rainboots that day. Reece was with his Martha
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