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NBA star comes home for a visit BY KEVAN MOORE KMOORE@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
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Bremerton native Marvin Williams was set to come home this week to give a boost to the center that will bear his name. A tour and dinner were slated for the evening of Friday, Sept. 19, to benefit the Marvin Williams Youth Development and Birkenfeld Economic Development Center. The centers are part of the $7.1 million project that includes two new facilities on one centralized campus along with welcoming outdoor spaces and ample parking to serve the West Bremerton community. The first facility is a 18,000 square foot, two-level community center with a gym, family activities and senior services designed to meet the health and wellness needs of the community. The second facility is an 11,000 square foot economic empowerment center designed to improve the community with vocational opportunities, and foster the success of future small business owners. “My career has taken me to many places, but the community of
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Alec Matias is congratulated after his firm, Pawzii, Inc. won $20,000.
Pawzii, Inc. wins bank’s $20,000 award
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Officials hope to break ground on the Marvin Williams Youth Development and Birkenfeld Economic Development Center in Novemberr at the corner of Park and Eighth Street. Bremerton will forever hold a special place in my life,” said Williams, a power forward with the Charlotte Hornets. “I am excited to see the many roles that this center will play in helping our youth to reach their full potential.” The development of the new centers, set to break ground at Eight Street and Park Avenue in November, is being spearheaded by the New Life Community D e v e l o p m e n t Association, an offshoot of Emmanuel Apostolic Church. Bishop Larry
Robertson is the president of New Life CDA and lead pastor at Emmanuel Apostolic. The project has been under development for just over two years and has nearly reached its fundraising goal to break ground late this fall. “The C. Keith Birkenfeld Fund of the Seattle Foundation was inspired to give to the Marvin Williams Center because of it’s potential to improve lives today and well into the future,” said fund director Claire
Bishop. “Mar vin Williams, outstanding athlete, and Keith Birkenfeld, philanthropist, are both hometown heroes. And the new centers offers ample evidence of this powerful combination. Once completed, families from throughout Kitsap County will find services and programs to make their lives even better.” Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent is also excited about the project. “The project will create a community meetSEE MARVIN WILLIAMS, A9
BY KEVAN MOORE KMOORE@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
At a packed Kitsap Conference Center in Bremerton last week, Kitsap Bank selected Pawzii, Inc. as the winner of a $20,000 cash prize in the bank’s first edg3 FUND competition. Pawzii was determined the winner by an independent panel of judges, after all five finalists made their live pitch in front of an audience. Businesses were rated based on their commitment to their business along with how the prize money will be a game-changer for the company. The edg3 FUND finalists represented diverse industries and backgrounds, reaching from the Olympic Peninsula to the state capitol. The group of five was chosen by public vote from 16 semi-finalists. The other four finalists included: Monica’s Waterfront Bakery & Café in Silverdale, Moonlight Farm SEE PAWZII, INC., A9
Second softball field at Pendergast gets drainage BY KEVAN MOORE KMOORE@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
A second softball field at Pendergast Regional Park now has brand new drainage. Bremerton Parks Direc tor Wyn Birkenthal says city memos from two decades ago show
that drainage for the fields was “a value engineering casualty.” “Almost 20 years later, we’re remedying it and the baseball and softball players will benefit,” Birkenthal said. The new drainage was installed by Greenshield Systems,
a company that installs or retrofits drainage systems all across the state and region. “Ninety-five percent of the work we do is drainage on existing sports fields,” said Jeff Horan, one of the partners at Greenshield Systems.
“Our whole operation and mission area is designed for that function. I’m glad the (City of Bremerton) is doing something about it because it will make it better and hopefully the commumity there will support it.” Horan said it’s
not uncommon for municipalities to skip drainage at the front end of a project to save costs. “Design teams think it’s not critical because the subsoils might drain and not be a problem,” Horan said. Like so many other
cities that skipped drainage, though, it was clearly a problem at Pendergast Park and led to a lot of closures and game cancellations. “Some areas are impermeable because of a layer of bedrock, some are impermeSEE PENDERGAST, A9
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