REPORTER CENTRAL KITSAP
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2014 | Vol. 30, No. 9 | WWW.CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM | 50¢
60TH ANNUAL SILVERDALE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING
Unanimous vote favored $850,000 parcel; CK Campus option nixed
Chris Tucker / staff photo
Newly-elected District 3 Commissioner Ed Wolfe gives a thumbs-up signal to supporters after being sworn in.
Wolfe sworn in as District 3 Commissioner Says quality of life, community and the environment will guide his decisions BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
Whoops, hollers and loud clapping from around 140 people filled the cavernous Kitsap County commissioners chamber in Port Orchard as Edward Wolfe was sworn in as commissioner for District 3 Nov. 26. Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Sally Olsen gave Wolfe the oath of office. After she was finished, someone rushed up to Wolfe as he stood at the podium and put a ball cap on his head that read “Commissioner Ed Wolfe.” Wolfe took the hat off saying he’d wear it later. “It’s obviously a special day for me and for my family,” Wolfe told the crowd as he thanked supporters. Wolfe, a Republican, acknowledged the two Democrat commissioners, Robert Gelder and Charlotte Garrido, who were in attendance. “I’m certainly looking forward to working with the two of you and the team that I think we’ll be,” Wolfe said. Wolfe defeated outgoing District 3 Commissioner Linda Streissguth in the November election with 50.7 percent of the vote. Streissguth had 49.1 percent. Wolfe said there were three reasons he moved to the area from Seattle 17 years ago: the sense of community, quality of life and the natural environment. SEE WOLFE, A9
Library board OKs purchase of Bucklin Hill site
BY LESLIE KELLY LKELLY@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
Chris Tucker / staff photos
Carl Hajek, left, and Gene White with The Caroliers band play Christmas tunes outside the Silverdale Antiques Store during the Christmas tree lighting event on Saturday. White said that in the summer the band goes by a different name – Clam Island. White said it was the coldest Silverdale Christmas tree lighting he’s been to in three years. The temperature was around 29 degrees. “I’m surprised we were able to get any sound out at all and move our fingers,” he said of playing in the cold weather.
LEFT: The 130-foot-tall Silverdale Christmas tree shines in the night sky. The lighting of the tree was the grand finale for the event. RIGHT: Rose Lahti, left, and her granddaughter Rosalynn Lee, 4, smile while meeting Santa Claus after he stepped out of a fire engine parked nearby. “This is our annual thing,” Lahti said of the festivities.
LEFT: Cheryl Sanlin, right, conducts fourth, fifth and sixth-grade students from the John D. “Bud” Hawk Elementary at Jackson Park in singing “Jingle Bells.” Sanlin teaches music at the school. RIGHT: Lucy Winters, left, paints Isabel Lee’s face inside the Silverdale Antiques Store.
The Kitsap Regional Library board of trustees unanimously approved a purchase agreement for property located at the corner of Bucklin Hill Road and Blaine Avenue, the site it previously selected for the new library in Silverdale. That action came at the Board’s Nov. 25 meeting. According to Jeff Brody, director of community relations for the library, the terms of the agreement with Sound West Group give the Library six months to explore the feasibility of the site for a new library. No down payment on the purchase price is due until May 25, and until that date, Kitsap Regional Library can withdraw from the agreement with no financial risk. The agreement calls for the Library to pay $100,000 toward the purchase of the property on May 25, 2015, and the remainder of the purchase price would be due on Nov. 25, 2015. The price for the parcel is set at $850,000. But, Brody said, Kitsap Regional Library can reduce that price to $800,000 if it connects Sound West to a party interested in purchasing the adjacent property for $800,000. The Kitsap Regional Library Board approved the purchase agreement after hearing a request from Rob MacDermid, a long-time vocal advocate for the Central Kitsap Community Campus, that it defer any action and reconsider its selection of the Clear Creek site. MacDermid claimed that the site selection ignored public sentiment in favor of the library locating near the Silverdale YMCA, and he claimed bias on the part of the library in selecting the site. The Board selected the site near the mouth of Clear Creek in a unanimous vote on Aug. 26, choosing it over three other options. Two options called for the library to be on SEE LIBRARY, A9
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