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Bainbridge axes logo consultant
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Island runner takes the title at Canadian Cheese Rolling Festival
BY BRIAN KELLY
Bainbridge Island Review
Bainbridge Island officials said Tuesday the city has terminated its contract with the out-of-state consultants who were developing a new logo and other marketing materials that would be used to promote Bainbridge. City Manager Doug Schulze told the council at its meeting Tuesday that the city had reached a negotiated end to consultant firm Arnett Muldrow & Associates’ work with the city. “We just reached a point where we decided that they weren’t going to be able to provide us with the logo designs that we felt we were looking for,” Schulze said.
BY BRIAN KELLY
Bainbridge Island Review
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Rebecca Sharar’s years-long quest for the sweet taste of victory ended at the bumpy bottom of a cold and wet ski slope on Blackcomb Mountain. Turns out, victory tastes a lot like cheddar. Sharar was the first-place and Grand Champion winner in the eighth annual Canadian Cheese Rolling Festival in Whistler, British Columbia. The highly competitive race is just like it sounds: wild, wacky and unpredictable. Runners, divided into men’s and women’s races, chase an 11-pound wheel of cheese down a ski slope in an always futile effort to snatch the cheese. The first one to the bottom wins. “It’s physically impossible to catch the cheese,” Sharar said. But the frantic and frightening race is familiar ground for Sharar. “Five years ago, we stumbled upon this event. We thought it was really quirky and hilarious,” she said. Sharar competed that first year with fellow islander Laura Chipman and made it to the finals. “We vowed to come back,” she said. Sharar has now run in the race four other times and advanced every time to the finals, dubbed “The Race of Champions,” without winning the crown. This year, though, she became the first American ever to win the race. Canadians have dominated the race in the past, though previous champs have also come from Australia, England, New Zealand and the Czech Republic.
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Meet Duane Fish, the new BHS principal BY LUCIANO MARANO Bainbridge Island Review
Photos courtesy of the Dairy Farmers of Canada
Rebecca Sharar hoists an 11-pound cheese wheel over her head after being declared the winner in the Canadian Rolling Cheese Festival women’s championship race.
Mary Forbes (BHS ’10), Lydia Fulton, Katie Beyer, Laura Chipman (BHS ’10) and Rebecca Sharar celebrate their win in the costume contest.
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For a guy who used to be a cop, Duane Fish is surprisingly mellow. In fact, the newly hired Bainbridge High School principal is quick to point out that, contrary to what most students seem to believe, disciplinary action is a very small part of his job. And he likes it that way. “[It’s] the largest misconception that freshman have — or any student, really. And I hope to change that in the culture here,” he said. “I’m not here strictly for discipline. I’m here to help craft a culture that allows them to succeed at whatever it is they want to do in life,” Fish said. Fish was previously the principal of Lawrence Junior/Senior High School in Lawrence, Michigan, a school which had seen mixed student achievement prior to his arrival in 2012. It was the improvements he was able to usher in there with the help of the staff, he said, which made him a contender for such a choice post as the top educator at BHS.
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