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MILITARY Honoring those who served
Veterans Life NEWS Razor blade traps found at NBK
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OPINION Voters support emergency service funding
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Silverdale Farmers market open for business BY CHRIS TUCKER
CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
SILVERDALE – Fresh produce, flowers honey and smoked meat were some of the items available to customers during opening day of the Silverdale Farmers’ Market on Tuesday, April 28. Pheasant Fields Farm workers Ryn Warthen and Dani Morrisey were at the new location at the Old Navy parking lot setting up at 8 a.m. to be ready for the 10 a.m. start. “We are selling plant starts. We have tomato starts,” Warthen said, pointing to a table filled with spouts of plants in small pots. Hops, too, were for sale. “They’re the Cascade hops so they’re local and they’re the regional favorite,” Warthen said. Their market stand was set up at a new location, at the Old Navy parking lot, 9551 Ridgetop Blvd NW, in Silverdale. Previously, the farmers market was based at the Old Town Silverdale waterfront. Morrisey said around 80-90 percent of Pheasant Farms sales were through retail outlets such as the Silverdale Farmers Market or the Poulsbo Farmers Market. The rest of the sales were wholesale
Chris Tucker / staff photo
Pheasant Fields Farm manager Dani Morrisey, left, talks with Silverdale Farmer’s Market customer Brianna Davis and Davis’ 3-year-old daughter, Taytem, on April 28. – and with lower profit – to restaurants and grocery stores, she said. “The farmers markets are a major retail outlet for us,” Morrisey said.
Pheasant Farms has been in Silverdale for over 100 years. “It’s still a family owned and operated farm,” Morrisey said. The farm also features a pumpkin patch and a corn
STEM showcase aims to make tech education fun for students BY CHRIS TUCKER
CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
SPORTS Local sports roundup
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SILVERDALE – Three red-jacketed Central Kitsap High School students watched as a shiny silver fist-sized printer head inside their MakerBot Replicator 3D printer shimmied back and forth. Slowly, the 3D printer applied one thin layer of neon-green molten plastic atop another to build up a “CKHS” nameplate, the text of which rose from the nameplate’s flat surface. The students – Thomas Griffith, Greg VanOrt, Ryan Regynski and Eric Ma – used SEE STEM SHOW, A9
Chris Tucker / staff photo
CK High School students Greg VanOrt, Ryan Regynski and Eric Ma, from left, show a 3D-printed toy spaceship to girls at Kitsap Mall. In the foreground is their MakerBot 3D printer.
maze, described by Morrisey as the farm’s “agri-tourism” component. The 15-acre farm also has a community supported agriculture program where shares
of the year’s harvest can be purchased. Kevin Short with Short’s Family Farm was another SEE MARKET, A9
Teacher walkout leads to cancellation of school May 7 CENTRAL KITSAP – A teacher’s union walkout on Thursday, May 7, to protest legislative proposals on school funding led the Central Kitsap School District to cancel school that day. The district is asking parents to arrange alternate care for their children. All after-school activities and athletics for kindergarten through eighth grade will be canceled or rescheduled. Schools will start rescheduling activities and athletics and will communicate through their regular channels. All high school AP testing and after school athletics will continue as originally scheduled.
The union has been clear that this walkout is not directed at Central Kitsap School District or our community. It is part of a statewide effort to influence the Legislature. The union indicates that its purpose is to apply political pressure to do what teachers believe is right for students. The school board must approve any make up days. The district will propose making up the missed day of school on Wednesday, June 17. This date was originally scheduled on the district calendar as a possible makeup day. The district said it apologized for the inconvenience the walkout might cause to students and their families.
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