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Food Bank hits the road 57-year-old organization operating from motor home
Barb Fulton stands outside the doorway of her motor home, which now houses the Kingston Food Bank, April 24. She’s still looking for a permanent home for the food bank, which has served Kingston for 57 years.
By KIPP ROBERTSON Staff Writer
KINGSTON — The Kingston Food Bank condensed into a 22-foot motor home April 22 after leaving its temporary home in the Windermere office building off Lindvog Road. “We are out,” food bank director Barb Fulton said. The motor home was parked in a turnout just up the street from Windermere April 24 and 26. Fulton plans to move the motor home to the parking lot of the food bank’s former site, which it shared with the VFW and a church, next to Kola Kole Park. Fulton rented a storage unit near the Windermere office to hold all the canned goods. The freezers holding all the frozen
that he’d need to get it marketready. “A number of people have been stopping by and taking a peek in,” he said in a previous interview. “We have no takers yet, but people are circling.” He said the food bank’s moveout date was “loosely” April 22. “We’ve tried to help them out
Picayune calls the festival the city’s “premier craft show.” LITTLE BOSTON — Local The festival is a celebration of the Native artists will tell area’s unique culture, a their ancestral stories mix of African-American, through words and artCajun, Creole, French and work at the New Orleans Native American. This Jazz & Heritage Festival, year, the Folklife Village beginning April 26. includes a special exhibit Jimmy Price, a Port on Native America, and Gamble S’Klallam artist, Price and Grinnell will and Elaine Grinnell, an give live demonstrations elder from Jamestown of Northwest Native art. S’Klallam, are in the Big Jimmy Price Price will carve and paint, Easy for the two-week while Grinnell will showfestival. The New Orleans Times- case her drums and tell traditional
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stories. In the last few months, Price made a small version of a Coast Salish house post — a carving six feet tall and six inches wide — to
Kitsap Forest & Bay: Where it stands
bring with him as an example, and he will carve a new post as his demonstration. See PRICE, Page 3
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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 I’ve been making calls to help them find a permanent residence. See FOOD BANK, Page 2
S’Klallam art in New Orleans spotlight By MEGAN STEPHENSON
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PORT GAMBLE — The effort to acquire 7,000 acres of North Kitsap forestland and shoreline from Pope Resources is a complicated effort involving many partners, funding sources and deadlines. This article aims to clarify the status of the effort — what’s happening now, and what to expect in the future. The coalition is exercising its option: The Kitsap Forest & Bay Coalition’s deadline to decide whether it would buy land and shoreline from Pope Resources was March 28. On that day, the coalition notified Pope Resources it had raised money for acquisition and wanted to exercise the option. If the coalition hadn’t raised any money, it would not have been able to exercise the option. The coalition now has until March 28, 2014 to complete any acquisition. The coalition did not receive a one-year extension on its option, as some coalition partners reported. The option period has ended. The coalition has one year to receive any grant funding it has applied for, and to complete the purchase of Pope Resources’ land. How
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food were moved into her husband’s work shop, she said. “It was an awful lot to move out of [the office building],” Fulton said. Windermere co-owner Carter Dotson told the North Kitsap Herald he notified the food bank more than a month earlier that there was interest in the space and
Vol. 30 No. 5 • May
Car crash toll on Kingston Community Center: $5,000 to $7,000 — and shattered nerves By KIPP ROBERTSON
Staff Writer
KINGSTON — The Kingston Community Center Building, closed after a car crashed through a lower-floor window and wall April 16, is expected to cost the county between $5,000 and $7,000 to repair, Kitsap County Parks Superintendent Dori Leckner said. With the exception of the senior See CAR CRASH, Page 7
A North Kitsap Fire & Rescue firefighter checks damage after a car crashed into the Community Center, April 16. Kipp Robertson / Staff photo
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