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One family’s struggle with the furlough Among 4,000 earners forced to cut 20 percent through end of September By MEGAN STEPHENSON
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KINGSTON — This summer, Deborah Simon had the
BUSINESS CONNECTIONS Special pullout section — Pages A15-20
By MEGAN STEPHENSON
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sports Training a new generation of athletes — Page A10
OPINION Health of our waters — A6
cut in weekly income for her family for the duration of the furlough. “It’s a lot of stress, and it’s not just because of the money that I have to come up with, which is like milking a turnip,” Simon said.
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CANDIA — At the Scandia Patch farm stand, newly-built produce stands — painted farm green, honey yellow and raspberry red — will soon be piled with apples, pears, peas, squash, tomatoes and zucchini. A nearly 50-year tradition is returning, continuing the work started by Dwight and Pauline Droz. Community volunteers have come forward to
continue cultivating the Drozes land on Scandia Lane. Dwight Droz died in 2009, Pauline in 2012. Their friend, Larry Bazzell, took care of them and their farm for the last 10 years, and didn’t want to see their legacy end. “God put it on my heart to help them,” Bazzell said. Longtime patron Lisa Walker also didn’t want to see the Scandia Patch end. “This farm has [had] a real special place in my heart, in my family’s heart” for many decades, Walker said.
By KIPP ROBERTSON
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The Scandia Patch was founded 50 years ago by Dwight and Pauline Droz. Courtesy
New ways of responding to mental health crises mstephenson@northkitsapherald.com
poulsbo — A point of frustration for law enforcement officers and families of individuals with mental illness is a lack of knowledge about a subject’s mental health before a crisis arises.
Several local law enforcement officers, fire officials and Kitsap Mental Health Services representatives listened to a presentation July 22 on possible ways of responding to situations involving someone who is having a mental health crisis. Poulsbo Police Chief Al Townsend said his department is already work-
See FURLOUGHS, Page A2
Indianola Port Commission
See SCANDIA, Page A9
By MEGAN STEPHENSON
She doesn’t use her dishwasher, instead washing dishes by hand to save electricity. She’s cutting her 4- and 6-year-old daughters’ hair at home. And the girls are skipping camps and summer
Dock still closed; tax hike on ballot
Rebirth of the Scandia Patch Volunteers help revive a farm started a halfcentury ago
Canoe journey Visit to North Kitsap
unpleasant task of explaining to her two young daughters why they weren’t going to summer camps this year.
Her husband, a Department of Defense civilian worker at Kitsap Naval Base Bangor, has been furloughed, his workweek reduced by one day a week until the end of September. That equals a 20 percent
ing on new procedures. Scott Strathy, operations commander in the Shoreline-Kenmore Precinct of the King County Sheriff’s Office, presented his department’s pilot project, called RADAR, which works with the community to improve how public See MENTAL HEALTH, Page A11
INDIANOLA — Indianola’s iconic dock will remain closed while the Port Commission gathers more information on what kind of repairs the dock could need. A presentation by Coast & Harbor Engineering described potential problems with the dock to a packed Indianola Community Center, Tuesday during a special meeting of the Port Commission. A number of people voiced their concern regarding the commission’s decision to close the dock, and criticized the decision as not being made based on recommendations from outside entities. Shane Phillips, an engineer with Coast & Harbor, said the dock has been reconstructed and repaired since the original was built in 1913 and used as a ferry dock. It was constructed for a small community, he said. “Intensity of use is much different,” Phillips said. The dock needs new bracing and fixes to, See indianola, Page A3
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