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BY RICHARD WALKER Kitsap Week
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OULSBO — Betty Petersen was committed to walking five miles after midnight in the rain for someone who couldn’t. It was 2 a.m. She was cold and wet and tired and achy. Her feet had blisters. So she turned to that someone who couldn’t, to
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Another strong year for KHS
On the day of Relay For Life, a village of hope springs up, with booths, tents and a community of people who walk the track day and night. The event starts with a survivors’ lap. When Relay For Life the sun sets, lighted luminarias line the track, each in honor of someone who is battling or has battled cancer.
Relay For Life is making strides against cancer help her finish what she started. She called her mother, 2,504 miles away in Wheelersburg, Ohio, near the northern banks of the Ohio River. At 75, Alpha McCormick knew what it was like to defeat breast cancer, only to have it return with a vengeance 10 years later. She knew what it was like to lose her hair more than once
to radiation treatment and to spend 2.5 hours on a chemo drip. Months earlier, during a visit in Wheelersburg, McCormick had told her daughter, “I know you can’t do anything here, but you can in your community.” And so, sitting up in the early morning light, a 5/8-inch tube draining fluid from her lungs, the mom rooted the daughter
on, compelling her to finish the work. You can do this, Betty, she told her. You can carry on the battle for those who are gone. You can walk another mile so others might live. And so she did — not only finishing a five-mile walk around the track during Relay For Life, but steeling her involvement in the annual fundraiser See RELAY FOR LIFE, Page 2
Alpha McCormick of Wheelersburg, Ohio (April 4, 1933 — Dec. 27, 2008). Her daughter, Betty Petersen, said she was a “loving and giving wife, mother and friend. She was a Proverbs 31:10-31 woman,” a Biblical reference to a “wife of noble character ... worth far more than rubies.” She died of cancer, but not before encouraging her daughter to become involved in Relay For Life. Betty Petersen / Summer 2005
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One more step for 55-acre project Developer visits 305 site in July By MICHELLE BEAHM
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ingston freshman Ian Lanfear dodges the Port Angeles goalkeeper’s block on one of two goals he contributed to the Buccaneers’ 5-1 win April 15 at Kingston. The win put Kingston (4-0, 6-2) on the top of the Olympic League standings. “We are young — graduated nine guys last year on one of our best
years,” Coach Craig Smith said of his team, which went to the state quarterfinals in 2014. “We still have our goalie, first team all-league senior Alex Worland. And junior Alex Hernandez, leading scorer in our post season last year, will be double-marked all season as our goal-scoring center half. His twin brother Leo had a knee injury last
Homework Club helps students prep for tests, complete projects By MICHELLE BEAHM
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POULSBO — Everybody needs help sometimes, and at North Kitsap High School, there’s a club for that. The Homework Club, which meets every Tuesday and Thursday after school in the
library, offers students help with homework — in any subject — and projects. “It’s just a time when we have volunteers who are here to help anybody who needs help on completing homework projects, needing better understanding of See HOMEWORK, Page A6
year and didn’t play, but he has had an impact already anchoring our rebuilt defense.” Meanwhile, North Kitsap’s girls tennis and track teams head into the weekend undefeated in tennis and track. For a review of Kingston and North Kitsap prep sports, see page A13. Photo: Johnny Walker / For the Herald
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April 18 pageant at North Kitsap Auditorium — Page A9, A12
POULSBO — Paul Mott, director of site acquisitions for apartment community builder Edward Rose & Sons, said a neighborhood his company proposed at Highway 305 and Bond Road nearly four years ago has not been forgotten. “We got tied up with other projects,” Mott said. “There’s only so much we can do at one time.” The neighborhood — 540 senior and family apartments on 46 acres, a community center, a park with pedestrian paths, a swimming pool and a retail area — is proposed on 55 acres. Edward Rose & Sons owns the property; the project was approved by the City Council in 2011. At the time, it was estimated that the neighborhood would boost Poulsbo’s population by 10 percent. Mott said company reps plan on returning to Poulsbo “probably around July” for a “final site plan approval.” Edward Rose & Sons is a Michigan-based development and property management firm with apartment communities in more than a dozen states, mostly in the Midwest. It is building its first community in the west See ROSE, Page A3
Village Green Community Center project begins May 3 STAFF REPORT
KINGSTON — A dream is about to become reality. On May 3 at 4 p.m., the Village Green Foundation will turn the first shovels of dirt to symbolically usher in the start of construction of the long-awaited 23,000-squarefoot Village Green Community
Center. According to the foundation, construction will take about 10 months. When completed, the community center will house a new Kingston branch library, senior center, and a Boys & Girls See CENTER, Page A3
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