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Friday, August 14, 2015 | Vol. 114, No. 33 | NorthKitsapHerald.com | 50¢
‘Best new thing in town’
— Jim Shields, on the Maritime Museum
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A Poulsbo micropublisher hopes to turn Kitsap into a literary mecca BY RICHARD WALKER rwalker@soundpublishing.com The list of authors from Kitsap County is a long one, and includes Carol Cassella, Jonathan Evison, Kristin Hannah, Sarah Jio, Debbie Macomber and Gregg Olsen. The list is about to get considerably larger. Armed with a vision, the technology of Konica Minolta and a business plan only an MBA could write, the owners of Kitsap Printing in Poulsbo have launched a separate company,
Kitsap Publishing. Their goal: To become a publisher of quality softcover books serving a national and international market. The company’s off to a good start. Since its launch last year, the company catalog has grown to 18 books — with more to come — in six genres: biography, business, children, family, fiction and science fiction. Among the authors: a retired Central Kitsap school teacher, a missionary, a retired screenwriter, a parent-partner for Kitsap Mental Health, a recent gradu-
The book that started it all for Kitsap Publishing. The micropublisher now has 20 authors under contract. Kitsap Publishing ate of Northwest College of Art and Design and a university professor. Sample titles: “The Winning of Africa / The Life and Times of Eliudi Issangya,” by Daniel Simmering; “Trapped Behind the Iron Curtain / My Life in East Berlin,” by Marita Patos; “Building Your Booming Business: The Five Foundations Every Organization Needs to Succeed,” by David Bryant Mitchell; “Unleashed Leadership / Maximizing Talent & Performance by Opening the Gates of Opportunity,” by Dan Weedin; “Motivations,” by Peter Stockwell; and the “Confessions of Sherlock Holmes,” by Thomas Mengert. There are some impressive
upcoming additions to the stable of authors. Kitsap Publishing will soon republish “Highways and Dancehalls,” a 1995 roman à clef by Canadian-turnedBainbridge Islander Diana Atkinson. The book was translated into several languages, but is now out of print. Another upcoming book: “The Bible in 365 Days,” by a local pastor. To hear owners Ingemar and Barbara Anderson tell the story, the rise of Kitsap Publishing sounds simple. Simple, that is, until Ingemar — who earned an MBA at California Lutheran — breaks out a slideshow presentation that should be worth
Lake Sammamish at sunset. Cybersister27 / Wikipedia Creative Commons
Trips on a tank: Lake Sammamish State Park — page 11
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Rep. Kilmer talks ‘small business’ Derek Kilmer speaks at chamber luncheon By LESLIE KELLY
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More than 500 people visited the Maritime Museum and Visitor’s Center on Front Street Aug. 8 during the sneak preview. Michelle Beahm / Herald
Maritime Museum opened for sneak preview Aug. 8 By MICHELLE BEAHM
mbeahm@northkitsapherald.com
By mid-September, Front Street in Poulsbo will be home to a maritime museum and visitor’s center. “We’re the best new thing in town,” said Jim Shields, Poulsbo Historical Society board president. “You can quote me on that.” Marc Abshire, executive director of Poulsbo’s Chamber of Commerce, agreed. “It’s true,” Abshire said. “I don’t think it’s an overstatement.” The building, at 19010 Front St., opened for a “sneak peek” Aug. 8. Open for only 10 hours, Abshire estimated “well over 500 visitors” walked through the building. The historical society even exceeded their goal of 40 new members, and signed up 60. “We really feel like being co-located is going to draw more people to both of the services we offer,” Abshire said. “That’s kind of the overview of it.”
Shields said, “It’s been a partnership that just … logically fell into place.” Poulsbo’s Historical Society has another museum, located in City Hall, on Moe Street, but they’ve been trying for a while to find a spot for a maritime museum. “We’re limited in space there (in City Hall),” Shields said. “We haven’t had room to display all our things. We’ve had rotating displays go through there. … Reliance on the waterfront and lodging and fishing and boating and transportation, we just ended up with a whole lot of (maritime) stuff, so we needed a way to display it. We needed a way to get it out to the public.” Shields said the historical society has been trying to find a location for a second museum “for a long time,” and looked at “several places in town,” but were never successful. After their new building became available, the
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When it comes to the economy, small businesses play an important part. That was the message from U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer Rep. Derek Kilmer talks at the (D-WA) when he spoke to luau-themed Chamber luncheon. more than 100 members of the Leslie Kelly / Herald Poulsbo Chamber of Commerce about the economy and what’s Wednesday. “Small business is where it’s around the corner for small busiat,” Kilmer said. “My background ness owners. “I tell them small businesses is in small business and it was there that people kept asking, are the star running backs, like ‘Why isn’t government working Marshawn Lynch,” he said. “Big for us?’” he said. “So I decided to business can be the quarterback get into politics and find out why.” and throw the ball. But without He said whenever he speaks to people in his district, they ask See KILMER, Page A8
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