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‘Thornbrook’: Mystery filmed locally By SARA MILLER
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e were brainstorming in Shari’s when the idea came to me.” This is how the vision for “Thornbrook” came to be. “Thornbrook” is a micro-series for Monoculus Films, a channel made up of a small group of filmmakers from Washington. Set in a steampunk Victorian era, the plot focuses on the mysterious town of Thornbrook, with each of the six episodes revealing something new to the mystery. “It’s a monster movie with Jane Austen kind of notes,” filmmaker Micah Fusco described. Fusco graduated from Olympic College with an associate’s degree in digital media. After graduation, he and some of his friends began a YouTube channel, producing several videos, including their most popular: “Adventure Pug” (Fusco describes it as “Milo and Otis” meets “Dungeons and Dragons”). After a few of videos, the crew realized they wanted to create something with a little more substance. “We were tired of making random weekend videos every other week,” Fusco said. “We liked doing the videos, but it wasn’t showcasing our talent, our cinematogra-
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Residents get look at proposed Point Hotel By RICHARD WALKER
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From left, Micah Fusco and cinematographer Craig — no last name given — film a scene with the main protagonist. ‘He’s really talented, and it’s humbling to spend months on a project with him,’ Fusco said of working with Craig. Micah Fusco / Thornbrook phy and writing skills.” While Shari’s was the birthplace of the idea in Fusco’s mind, the rest of the
crew didn’t buy into it at first. Fusco, however, held on to the idea and pitched it again to his team.
“It began one very caffeinated evening at Starbucks, and I said, ‘Let’s turn it into
LITTLE BOSTON —The 12- to 18-foot totem pole that Jake Jones will carve for The Point Hotel will contain a lot of symbolism. Two hands holding a copper plate, representing wealth. A chief. A bear holding an orca, a symbol of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe. But in a way, the totem pole will represent how far the Tribe has come since it began building its new economy some 20 years ago. Jones, a former Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe chairman, remembers when the Tribe had $2,000 in the bank, when the Tribe’s housing authority couldn’t get bank loans to fund new-home construction, when the roads on the reservation were dirt. “Our enterprises were shellfish and salmon,” Jones said. “All of us worked out at the mill. Then the mill shut down.” Empowered by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe began building a new economy. “We talked about a hotel then, but we had to build our own enterprises first,” Jones said. “We built the casino first, and when we started making money, we built the store. Those enterprises helped the Tribe build funds so it could afford to (borrow).” Now, “we’re doing much better financially, We don’t have to depend on the outside anymore.” The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe invited the public to an open house
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North Kitsap firefighters help in Eastern Washington
Poulsbo Fire Battalion Chief Kurt Krech is assisting at the Stickpin Fire.
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KINGSTON — Several local firefighters are east of the Cascades, helping battle fires in Okanogan and Chelan counties. Michele Laboda, communications officer for North Kitsap Fire & Rescue, said five firefighters and a reserve structural engine from NKF&R are helping fight fires there. Firefighters Alex Hickey and Dean Schuster, and firefighter/ paramedic Nic Johnson, are in the Chelan area, working on the First Creek Fire in the Reach Complex. Firefighter Heath Clark and intern firefighter Sam Berni are
working on the Kettle Complex Stickpin Fire. In addition, Laboda said the district’s medical safety officer, Steve Engle, is working as a paramedic on the lines. When last she heard from him, Engle was in the Colville area.
Jody Matson, communications officer for Poulsbo Fire Department, reported that three of her department’s firefighters are in Eastern Washington: Battalion Chief Kurt Krech was called to See FIREFIGHTERS, Page 3
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“It’s been a long time coming.”
Continued from page 1 for its proposed four-story, 94-room hotel, Aug. 20 in The Point Casino Event Center. It was a chance for residents to learn more about the project, including the construction schedule and on-site amenities, and peruse site plans and project renderings on display. Project planners were available to answer questions and discuss the various elements of the new hotel. A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. Sept. 10, at the site of the old Point Casino. The hotel is scheduled to be open in fall 2016. The hotel will create 35-40 jobs, boosting the number of people employed by the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe to 500, according to employment numbers posted by the Kitsap Economic Development Alliance. “It’s been a long time coming,” Jones said of the hotel project. The hotel will be the latest addition to the Tribe’s
— Jake Jones
economic development portfolio, which includes the casino and event center; Heronswood, the 15-acre botanical garden and events venue; Gliding Eagle Marketplace; and Ravenwood Market. The Point Hotel (www. thepointcasinoandhotel. com) will be the second-largest hotel and one of five in North Kitsap. The largest, Suquamish Clearwater Casino Resort, has 183 guest rooms and offers six restaurants and cafes, a spa, live entertainment, and golf at the Suquamish-owned White Horse Golf Club. The Poulsbo Inn & Suites, on Highway 305, has 83 guest rooms and offers local-getaway packages. The Guesthouse Inn & Suites, next to Poulsbo Village, has 63 rooms. The Blue Water Inn, on Highway 104 in Kingston, has 20 rooms. The Point Hotel will have a 44-seat meeting space, a 64-seat casual dining restau-
rant, and a large outdoor gathering area that includes an outdoor kitchen and a fire pit that will be used for clam and salmon bakes. Another major feature is Northwest Coast Native art throughout the property. Currently, this is expected to include specially created installations in the lobby, a series of totem poles in the outdoor gathering area, and a four-story welcome pole, which will feature a “paddles up” design to greet guests as they arrive on the property. Guests at The Point Hotel will have access to entertainment at the event center, events at Heronswood, and other area attractions. Ultimately, a new casino and event center will be built south of the hotel, S’Klallam officials said, with the current casino — a tensioned-fabric membrane building — used for some other form of entertainment. The Tribe plans to construct a full-scale hotel room on the floor of The Point Casino, to be completed by the end of the year.
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three episodes,’ ” Fusco said. “We wrote and came up with six. The episodes are roughly 3-5 minutes each. We’re telling a 25-minute story, but told in digestible chunks.” Episodes were mostly shot in Kitsap, including Kingston and Port Gamble, but filming also took them to places in Tacoma, Port Ludlow and to the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie. “Port Gamble was probably the friendliest,” Fusco said. “We had to switch a shooting location to the tea room in Port Gamble at the last minute. We were going to dress this barn the day of shooting, but we couldn’t get in the barn, and we had limited time because our actress was leaving in the next couple days. We walked in to the tea room, day of, and asked, ‘Can we shoot in here for quite a while?’ ” The shop owner told them yes, and to let themselves out whenever they were done. Fusco said that most everyone they encountered while working on this project were really nice and supportive,
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the Stickpin Fire; Lt. Mike Prevost and firefighter Sean Langaker were called to the Reach Complex in Chelan. Neither NKF&R nor Poulsbo Fire know when their firefighters will return home. “As everyone is well aware, (there are) thin resources over there,” Laboda said. “We don’t anticipate that these folks will be returned to us in the near future. There’s a great
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“It was the first time everyone saw the characters come to life how they were written in the script. You see it and you think, ‘Wow, this is going to be legit.’ ” — Micah Fusco
especially Maple Grove Cottage in Poulsbo. “Maple Grove Cottage was a big location for us to get costumes,” he said. “It’s hard on an extremely low budget and you’re creating a Victorian/steampunk piece. She went digging in the back for stuff and was really excited to help out.” Costuming was one of Fusco’s favorite parts of the project. While hunting down clothing items that would fit the era, they created signature looks for a few of the characters. “We combed through Goodwill, Amazon and Maple Grove,” he said. “The men were easy because we could go to Goodwill and get a suitcoat and add specific pieces. The doc has his glasses and the inspector has his hat. For our actress [Cadence Whittle], we needed to go to Maple Grove to get her stuff.” This project was the first time the visionaries behind Monoculus Films brought in actors outside
of people they already knew. They posted on a website called Backstage looking for an actress to portray the lead protagonist. Fusco said they were incredibly lucky when Whittle responded to their posting. “I can’t speak highly enough of our actress,” he said. “She worked long hours without complaining and did amazing performances. She’s going places.” One of his favorite stories during filming included Whittle dressed in a black Victorian dress looking out the window of an old, gutted Victorian house when someone walked pass the window. “We heard them scream, ‘Oh my gosh.’ And we all started laughing, because everyone knows this house is haunted,” Fusco laughed. He also talked about his first day of shooting. He was dressing a tree in fake blood when the makeup team and other crew mem-
need for firefighters right now.” Three U.S. Forest Service firefighters died and four state and federal firefighters were injured Aug. 19 while fighting the Twisp wildfire. Laboda said local firefighters are “heartbroken” over the deaths. “Our flags are at half staff,” Laboda said. “It’s always sobering and it certainly makes us take a minute and think about the sacrifice that these folks made.” Some 24 wildfires are burning in Washington
state — more than 306,000 acres total — as of Aug. 17, according to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center. “It’s worse in Eastern Washington, but fire danger is also extremely high west of the mountains,” Laboda said. “Everybody has to work together — fire departments, citizens — trying to make sure all the ways we can control how fires start happen. “There’s nothing we can do about lightning. That’s how the fires in Eastern Washington started. (But)
Above, actress Cadence Whittle talks with director Micah Fusco between takes. Right and below, stills from the filming of “Thornbrook.” The series is the first, and will serve as a launching point for Monoculus Films. Submitted
bers, all of whom he’d never met, arrived and he went to talk to them. “I walked out looking like a serial killer,” he said. “And I’m Italian, I talk with my hands. And they were all, ‘Why do you have blood on your hands?’ I dodged it, no straight answer, and everybody listened to me the rest of the day.” Now that filming has concluded, Fusco is looking forward to the editing process. The first three days of the week he works at the Kingston branch library, leaving Thursday through Sunday to focus on the series. “We’ve been focused solid
for six months, and now I get to edit,” Fusco said. “One thing is that we try to make it extremely high production value on a limited budget.” He and the rest of the Monoculus crew are hoping that “Thornbrook” will be the flagship for their channel and help generate an audience. With all the work put in, and the shots shown in the trailer and on the website, it’s hard to see how it won’t generate viewers. “The crew gets discouraged because you know where you are in your head and you work for months not seeing anything. Then our first session was costume test stills. It was the first time
everyone saw the characters come to life [the way] they were written in the script,” Fusco said. “You see it and you think, ‘Wow, this is going to be legit.’ ” While the editing process leaves “Thornbrook” without an exact release date, more information can be found by following the website (www.thornbrook series.com). The series will be released on the channel’s YouTube page and on the website. On the site, you can view the trailer, learn more about Monoculus and see stills from the series. There is also a page where you can donate to the series and take a part in the mystery.
there’s a lot we can do about discarded cigarettes, outdoor fires, all those kinds of things, to make sure the problem isn’t made worse.” On Aug. 17, Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste authorized the mobilization of additional state firefighting resources at the request of Okanogan County Fire Districts 7 and 9 and Conconully Fire Department. The fire there started the morning of Aug. 14, and the cause is believed to be lightning. The fire is growing, threatening 15 homes and
crops as well as infrastructure. Level 3 evacuations have been ordered for the 15 homes. Mobilization specialists from the Fire Protection Bureau have received a request for six wildland task forces to supplement the resources already fighting the fire. The State Emergency Operations Center at Camp Murray has been activated to Phase III to coordinate state assistance for the multiple fires included the Okanogan Complex Fire. Under the State Fire
Ser vices Resource Mobilization Plan, the Fire Protection Bureau coordinates the initial dispatch and continued administrative oversight of resources and personnel for the duration of the incident. The mobilization plan is implemented to provide a process to quickly notify, assemble and deploy fire service personnel, equipment and other resources from around the state when fires, disasters or other events exceed the capacity of local jurisdictions.
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owntown Kingston Complete Streets project. Salmon recovery efforts. Plans for the West Kingston bridge construction. If you want to know more about what’s going on in Kingston — and provide input that can help chart the course — there’s seldom been a better time than now. We encourage residents to participate. ■ 7 p.m. Sept. 2: The Kingston Citizens Advisory Council will host a presentation on efforts to improve water quality and restore streams in Kingston. KCAC meets in the North Kitsap Fire & Rescue headquarters station on Miller Bay Road. Washington State University Water Stewardship Program coordinator Renee Johnson and Kitsap Conservation District coordinator Joy Garitone will make presentations on water quality and stream restoration efforts. Kitsap County Public Works staff will then update the public on the construction of the West Kingston bridge over the Carpenter Creek estuary. ■ 10 a.m. to noon Sept. 3: The Kingston port commissioners and staff will meet for a workshop on the budget at Kingston Cove Yacht Club,25878 Washington Blvd. NE. (The meeting is open to the public, but no public comment will be accepted.) The draft budget will be available for public review within the week. ■ 7-8:30 p.m. Sept. 9: Residents can give input on the Port of Kingston’s draft budget for 2016 in this special meeting of the commission at Kingston Cove Yacht Club. ■ 4-8 p.m. Sept. 15: Kitsap County Public Works staff and consultants will share the latest renderings and planning elements of the Kingston Complete Streets project, in the Kingston Community Center, 11212 NE Highway 104. Input solicited last spring in a public meeting is reflected in revised conceptual plans, county volunteer coordinator Rebecca Pirtle reported. The revised plans consider transportation policy, various means of getting around, parking, economic development and redevelopment. More information is available at www.kitsap gov.com/boards/CAC/ kingston/kcac.htm. ■ 7-8:30 p.m. Sept. 22: The Kingston Port Commission will review the preliminary port district budget for 2016, followed by a vote to approve. Time will be given for public comment. ■ 6:30-9 p.m. Sept. 29: The Kingston Community Open House will take place at Kingston Middle School on West Kingston Road. County departments —including Public Works, Parks, and Community Development — will have information on local projects. The Port of Kingston, schools, service organizations and other nonprofit groups will also have tables and will share information on upcoming programs and community events. Registration is open for those wishing to reserve a booth for their organization at the Kingston Community Open House. Go to www.kitsapgov.com/volun teer/boards/KCAC Open House Registration Form. htm.
In August, the state Transportation Commission approved a 2.5-percent annual ferry-fare increase. Not only are our fares still going up after an 11.9-cent gas-tax hike, but also the financial future for ferries looks grim. Fare hikes hurt our West Sound economy. The 200010 fare increases of 47 percent caused a loss of 4.4 million ferry riders. Census data shows that fewer commuters decided to live in West Sound or moved back to the East Sound. Ten more years of 2.5-percent annual increases would raise a commuter’s fare costs to about half the average Kitsap mortgage payment. Businesses take an even bigger hit. In 10 years, a small truck, which cannot use frequent user fares, would have a daily commuting cost of $27,000 per year, and large trucks would spend around $35,000. The 2 percent of the gas tax that goes to ferry operations leaves WSF with $25--30 million per year in red ink. With planned ferry maintenance well short of what the aging fleet needs, this gap will surely grow. The additional 1 percent that’s going to ferry construction will build only one of the four boats that will be needed to retire our Super Class ferries. We’ve been told not to worry, that things will work out. But the numbers say that even with new fare hikes and a new gas tax WSF remains, as before, financially unsustainable. As Gov. Gregoire prophesied not so long ago: “Our ferry system ... is in financial crisis ... we’ve been bailing out the ferry system, and there is simply no place to bail from any longer.” Not to worry? WALT ELLIOTT Kingston
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Resident will miss DeBoer at port I think we will have to search a long time to find a Port of Kingston commissioner that has done so much for our waterfront park as Pete DeBoer has done. I, too, am proud of the covered stage; it fits in so nicely, as does the beautiful lighted Christmas display that is perfectly arranged each year. All of the Kingston community that think the same about Pete should express their gratitude. I’ve known the family for many years. I have had the pleasure of singing karaoke at the Ale House in Kingston with Pete. Thanks for all you have done for Kingston, Pete. I hope you will enjoy your retirement and travel. The Kingston community will miss you. ALAN SHELBOURN Kingston
Candidate thanks voters for support I want to thank you for your vote in the primary election race for the North Kitsap School Board. I look forward to supporting public education in our community.
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It is an exciting opportunity for me to utilize my educational background in working with the community, school personnel and current board members in providing a quality education for our students. GLEN ROBBINS Kingston
Of rulers and the ruled at NKSD If I were a selfish person, which I am, I’d consider the last two years at NKHS very good years, a bonanza for us substitutes — plenty of work. However, being a sensitive selfish person and a concerned property taxpayer, my better self worries about the present dispirited mood at school, and is troubled to see so many excellent teachers escaping for greener pastures. Why this wanderlust? During the last 18 years, NKHS has experienced a nearly 100 percent teacher turnover. No business can afford such brain drain of skilled workers, and any competent CEO would want to know the cause of such exodus and stop it. Donald Nielsen, a former corporate CEO and past chairman of the Seattle School Board, wrote in his book, “Every School,” that most superintendents come out of education schools “poorly equipped for the job and, in most cases, lacking
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in leadership talent as well.” Competent small-business owners know that the Law of Good Leadership must always be obeyed, because happy employees are good for the bottom line. Same holds true for teachers. But, school districts are different. They are taxpayer-supported institutions. They operate on somebody else’s money. They have no bottom line, no competition and never run out of customers. They can’t go broke. A perfect system to experiment with. Superintendents don’t have to justify whom they hire, and don’t seem to care whether or why teachers are leaving. After all, happiness is not part of the job contract. In 1997, a Gonzaga University study described an “unhealthy administrative culture in the NKSD ... the staff distrusts the central office administration, a situation that worsened since 1994 to the point where few hold hope for improvements.” Ouch! Not so good! But in spite of this warning shot, it did not get better. Between 2000 and 2007, “cutting-edge reforms” were imposed upon the staff by a new superintendent. But a cruel fate dumped all those reforms on the dung heap of failed education reforms and See LETTERS, Page 5
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s most Washingtonians know, the Hanford Nuclear Site once housed reactors that produced radioactive plutonium for the nation’s atomic bombs during World War II, and nuclear bombs throughout the Korean War and the Cold War. After Germany’s surrender in World War II, the first atom bomb made with highly enriched uranium (from Oak Ridge, Tennessee) was dropped by parachute over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m. “Enola Gay,” a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets, dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy” over Hiroshima. Three days after Hiroshima, the first atomic weapon using plutonium from Hanford was detonated over Nagasaki. “Bockscar,” also a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, piloted by Maj. Charles Sweeney, dropped “Fat Man” over
AS IT TURNS OUT By MARYLIN OLDS Nagasaki. These two bombs were the only two atom bombs ever used in combat. During the Cold War, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was an extremely close call with nuclear disaster. Government advisers and the military wanted badly to go to war, but President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev came to an agreement before that could happen. The last of the Hanford reactors was shut down in 1987, leaving Hanford the
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nation’s largest nuclear dump — and still growing, with more nuclear waste as time passes from dismantled nuclear vessels. Billions of dollars have been spent trying to clean up the toxic mess and attempting to keep it from leaking into the Columbia River and on into the Pacific. The sad news is that no one knows for sure if the “vitrification” process (turning nuclear waste into glass rods) will even work, because of the sheer magnitude of differing and complex waste. Proponents of nuclear energy say it is the cleanest energy. We know better. Does anyone truly understand what it means to live in the nuclear age? Baby Boomers grew up practicing crouching under our little wooden desks at school should a nuclear bomb drop nearby; not a great shelter idea. Some families in our little town had fallout shelters in their
backyards. Well prepared or not in America, the occasion, fortunately, was never put to the test. Today’s news has been full of President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal. The deal is between Iran and the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia (Eu3+3). Not terribly easy to digest to most layfolk, it appears supporters see the deal as going in the right direction by making it harder for Iran to produce an nuclear bomb by: n Lessening Iran’s supply of enriched uranium by 98 percent, and its centrifuges by two-thirds. n Granting inspectors regular access to Iran’s nuclear sites. n Lifting U.N. and European trade sanctions, while keeping most U.S. trade sanctions intact. n Placing more restrictions on the selling of weapons. n Opening previous business sanctions with those
interested. Endorsers include the United Nations Security Council and 90 countries. Naysayers (e.g., conservative war hawks and Israel) believe the deal gives Iran the chance to become a nuclear power and are concerned about Iran’s past relations with the U.S. and the Middle East. Opponents believe they could have gotten a deal more favorable for the U.S. Congress will vote on the deal in September, and it will be “high noon” between the two sides. With few exceptions, most notably Sen. Chuck Schumer D-N.Y., the lines are predictably drawn along partisan lines. However, the deal is not necessarily dead in the water should Congress disapprove of it. President Obama could actually go ahead without Congress’ approval. In commemorating the bombing of his city 70 years ago, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui “made a direct appeal to Barack Obama to make good on a promise to
Congress will vote on the Iran nuclear deal in September, and it will be high noon between the two sides. With few exceptions, the lines are predictably drawn along partisan lines. rid the world of nuclear weapons,” Justin McCurry reported in The Guardian. Obama’s promise was made in a 2009 speech in Prague. Matsui said in the Guardian article, “The world ‘bristles’ with more than 150,000 nuclear weapons that represent the ‘absolute inhumanity and the absolute evil.’ ” — Marylin Olds is an opinion columnist. Questions and comments are always welcome at marylin.olds@gmail.com.
Public Meetings Sept. 1 Eglon Port Commission, 7 p.m., Eglon Community Center. Sept. 2 n Kingston Citizens Advisor y Council, 7 p.m., North Kitsap Fire and Rescue Paul T. Nichol Headquarters Fire Station, 26642 Miller Bay Road NE, Kingston. www.kitsapgov. com/boards/CAC/kings ton/kcac.htm. Sept. 3 n Kingston Port Commission, 10 a.m., Kingston Cove Yacht Club. Agenda: Port workshop. www.port ofkingston.org.
n Suquamish Citizens Advisor y Committee, 6-8 p.m., Suquamish Elementary School Library, 18950 Park Ave. NE, Suquamish. www.kitsap gov.com/boards/CAC/ suquamish/scac.htm. Sept. 9 n Kitsap County Fire Protection District 18 (Poulsbo Fire) Board of Commissioners, 4 p.m., headquarters station, 911 NE Liberty Road, Poulsbo. www.poulsbofire.org. n Kingston Port Commission, 7 p.m., Kingston Cove Yacht Club. Agenda: Special meeting regarding
the port budget. www.port ofkingston.org. Sept. 10 n North Kitsap School Board, 6 p.m., district office board room, 18360 Caldart Ave. NE, Poulsbo. www.nkschools.org. Sept. 14 n Kitsap County Board of Commissioners, 5:30 p.m., commission chambers, 614 Division St., Port Orchard. www.kitsapgov. com/boc. n North Kitsap Fire & Rescue Board of Fire Commissioners, 7:15 p.m., headquarters fire station, 26642 Miller Bay Road,
Kingston. www.nkfr.org/ commissi.htm. Sept. 15 n Village Green Metropolitan Park District Commission, 6:30 p.m., North Kitsap Fire and Rescue, 26642 Miller Bay Road NE, Kingston. www. myvillagegreen.org. n Indianola Port Commission, 7 p.m., Indianola Clubhouse, 20446 Indianola Road NE. www.portof indianola.com. Sept. 22 n Kingston Port Commission, 5 p.m., Kingston Cove Yacht Club. Agenda: Regular meeting. www.port
ofkingston.org. Sept. 23 n Kitsap County Fire Protection District 18 (Poulsbo Fire) Board of Commissioners, 4 p.m., headquarters station, 911 NE Liberty Road, Poulsbo. www.poulsbofire.org. Sept. 24 n North Kitsap School Board, 6 p.m., district office board room, 18360 Caldart Ave. NE, Poulsbo. www.nkschools.org. Sept. 28 n Kitsap County Board of Commissioners, 5:30 p.m., commission chambers, 614 Division St., Port
Orchard. www.kitsapgov. com/boc. n North Kitsap Fire & Rescue Board of Fire Commissioners, 7:15 p.m., headquarters fire station, 26642 Miller Bay Road, Kingston. www.nkfr.org/ commissi.htm. Sept. 28 n Kingston Community Open House, 6:30-9 p.m. Kingston Middle School. Sponsored by the Kingston Citizens Advisory Council. To register your organization to participate, contact Heather Adams at hadams @co.kitsap.wa.us or call 360-337-4683.
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and die.” Four superintendents later, two of them “bought out” by the district, yet another climate study in 2013 concluded: “many district staff members are unhappy with the district’s administration” (Herald, Feb. 21, 2014). There was still something rotten in the NKSD. At NKHS, art and music programs were cut to the bones, digital photography classes eliminated, retired teachers were not replaced, students scrambled to find alternative classes for the
ones they planned to take, class sizes were increased (one teacher had an average of 38 students per class over five classes). “Pack ’em deep, teach ’em cheap” became the new mission statement. Board member Tom Anderson suggested to “analyze what went wrong.” The wrong was a bloody education and budget slashing fiesta in 2013, and an unorthodox leadership style, according to those who survived. Whatever the causes for the unhealthy environ-
ment at NKHS, somebody, please, exorcise the bad karma, for, as a wise person once said: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” JAMES U. BEHREND Bainbridge Island
One way we show appreciation for their help is to offer a worker’s raffle. We turn to area businesses to provide items for the raffle. We would like to publicly thank our donors for the excellent items they gave to the club for this purpose. We are greatly appreciative of our event sponsor, Naturally 4 Paws of Silverdale. We also thank the other businesses who provided donations: TecWeld Metal Art, Alpensky Photography, Dog Star Enterprises, Henery
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Continued from page 4 the district ended up more than a few bucks poorer. These experiments and other grievances resulted in a 2005 “climate study.” A teacher questioning an executive wisdom was invited by a school board member to “leave the profession.” Ouch again! Our in-house cynic Mr. T.D., always happy to increase the pain, explained the teachers’ role: “Ours is not to reason why, ours is to do
Lots of support for annual agility trial Each year, the Muddy Paws Agility Club of Kitsap holds a dog agility trial in Port Gamble. This year’s event was on July 11, 12 and 13 and was a great success, in part, because of our volunteer workers.
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No injuries in wildland fire KINGSTON — No one was injured in a 1.5-acre wildland fire, east of Neat Avenue between Kingston and Jefferson Beach, which started around 8 a.m. Aug. 8 and led to smoke being visible for miles. Michele Laboda, spokesperson for North Kitsap Fire & Rescue, said the fire was contained within hours. More than 50 personnel from six agencies spent three days working on the wildland fire that burned through thick stands of second-growth timber in
challenging terrain. Laboda reported on Aug. 11 that “crews are conducting regular patrols of the area to find and snuff any flare-ups, should they occur.” Aside from NKF&R, crews from South Kitsap Fire & Rescue, Poulsbo Fire Department, Jefferson County Fire District and Port Ludlow Fire & Rescue helped to put the fire out. A logger, an excavator and operator from Port Madison Enterprises Construction Company, and a Lydell Construction
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Youth and leadership are focus of Canoe Journey Adam Charles, 15, leads S’Klallam crew By RICHARD WALKER
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SUQUAMISH — The year Ed Carriere was born, the potlatch was still illegal in the United States and Canada. Speaking the language was frowned upon. If you were Native American here, you could look forward to a career as a subsistence fisherman, but not much else. And now, on the beach below the House of Awakened Culture long-
house, the octogenarian Suquamish master carver and weaver watched as young people sang and welcomed canoes from other indigenous nations. He watched as young ones stood and, some speaking in the languages spoken by their great-grandparents, asked for permission to come ashore after a long journey at sea. “After my experiences of that discrimination — the Tribe not having any programs or any help back in the ’30s and ’40s and ’50s,
even into the ’60s — when I see all this today, it just makes me feel real good that our young people have the opportunity to do these things,” Carriere said. Suquamish was the nextto-the-last stop Aug. 4-5 in the 2015 Canoe Journey. The final destination: Golden Gardens Park in Seattle, to be hosted by the Muckleshoot Tribe through the weekend. It’s been 26 years since the first modern Canoe Journey — the Paddle to Seattle — took place, spark-
ing a cultural renaissance: the revival of canoe travel upon ancestral waters, the restoration of languages and songs and teachings, the bolstering of indigenous pride, the message to the world that Pacific Northwest Native cultures are alive and thriving. This year’s journey was called a “Youth Pull,” with younger people being given more responsibility in the canoe and in the longhouse. These young ones were born long after the first
Canoe Journey, but their words indicate that they expect to be the ones who carry it on. “It definitely made me feel good, being with my relatives and friends,” said Katelynn Pratt, 14, who, as Miss Chief Seattle Days, is a youth representative of the Suquamish Tribe. “It just made me feel alive. It felt good, singing and laughing and having fun.” To her, the Canoe Journey is a metaphor for life. In the canoe, “You for-
get about your worries. You work on getting to that next place … [You learn] that there’s always something better, that when you get into a rough place, you can get through it.”What has she learned about herself? “I’ve learned I’m strong.” This Canoe Journey was Adam Charles’ first as skipper, responsible for leading a crew of 11 safely from Point Julia on Port Gamble S’Klallam’s shores See JOURNEY, Page 9
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Witnesses recount aftermath of hotel explosion By CHRIS TUCKER and PETER O’CAIN Bremerton Patriot
BREMER TON — An acrid smell of smoke filled the air near Motel 6 in Bremerton as firefighters and other emergency personnel dealt with the aftermath of an explosion that partially destroyed the building around 8:30 p.m. Aug. 18. The acting hotel manager, Tonya Hinds, evacuated the building after being informed of a gas leak shortly before 8 p.m. Hinds, a former volunteer firefighter, said she stepped outside the motel and could hear the leak about 50 yards away. “The smell was so intense; I knew this was very big,” Hinds said. “I called 911 immediately. “I wanted to make sure all my guests were out.” About 10 minutes after the rooms were emptied, the east end of the motel exploded, Hinds said. Bremerton Police Chief Steve Strachan said there were no reports of anyone trapped inside. One employee from Cascade Natural Gas was critically injured with second- and third-degree burns and was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. “Our thoughts and prayers are with our employee and his family. He sustained serious injuries and is receiving care at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center,” said Eric Martuscelli, vice president of operations for Cascade Natural Gas. “We greatly appreciate the quick action by the motel employees to evacuate guests after learning of the natural gas odor.” Hinds said the motel had had 75-80 guests in 42 occupied rooms, and the blast destroyed about one-quarter of the building. Hinds said one guest may have seen someone jumping out of a window of the three-story motel just before the leak. Firefighters from Bremerton, South Kitsap, Central Kitsap and Navy Fire responded to the scene. After the explosion, hundreds of people lined the streets near the motel to watch firefighters deal with the night time destruction. Among them was Johnathan Davis, who
Left, firefighters work at the scene of an explosion at the Bremerton Motel 6, Aug. 18. Right, an excavator slowly moves through the rubble of the destroyed section of the motel the next day. Chris Tucker / Sound Publishing lives near the motel on Charleston Avenue. Davis said he was cooking hamburger around 8 p.m. when the explosion happened “Boom! I thought, ‘Damn. Earthquake!” Davis said. “I was jumping.” He ran outside and toward the motel and saw a big fire, he said. “The car wash is gone,” he said. “I walk past it every day,” he said of the motel. Domico Hutson, who was visiting at a residence on Charleston Avenue, said the whole house shook. “I thought it was a bomb or something,” Hutson said. “The part of that ‘L’ is gone,” Hutson said of the “L”-shaped motel. “The part you see right now is all that stands at that building,” he said of the longer line of the “L.” The shorter part was destroyed. Randy Reite, who lives on Ford Avenue just a couple of blocks from the motel, said the explosion “Sure shook the house” at around 8:15 p.m. Reite was listening to the police scanner at the time of the explosion. He said the scanner traffic indicated the gas company had been working on a problem with a gas smell at the hotel for about an hour. Then he heard that firetrucks had been dispatched to the motel. Then came the explosion. Reite said windows were blasted out of homes across the street.
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Police are actively looking for two missing motel guests, Bremerton Police Capt. Tom Wolfe said. “We did a phone ping on
one of the two missing and it came up … far from here. So that’s a good sign for us.” Another good sign is that vehicles associated with the missing people were not parked at the motel, and search and rescue personnel haven’t found any victims. “I’m keeping my fingers crossed, but it’s looking good that we got everybody out,” Wolfe said. Wolfe said detectives were going through security video footage of the incident. “Someone’s helping them go through that right now. They should have a pretty definitive idea of what happened to that (gas) meter and how it got broken,” Wolfe said. Wolfe addressed Internet rumors that had been going around. “Last night, there [were] three different kinds of rumors flying around on what happened. One was a girl jumped out the window and broke the meter. One was that a woman in a white Ford Explorer was outside beating on the pipe, and another was that they hit it with a car. “As we ran it all down, we did substantiate that a girl did jump out of a window last night” during a domestic violence situation that police were already responding to. Police found the woman and interviewed her. “So the scaling-the-pipe thing might have some credence to it, or it’s just a variation of bits and pieces people are hearing.” Wolfe said his understanding is that the gas meter was just like the kind you’d find outside a home. “That was on fire for
hours last night,” he said of the meter. When asked if there was anything else that people should be aware of, Wolfe philosophized a bit and said, “I think (people) should all be kind to each other. I think everyone should slow down when they drive and use your blinkers and check your smoke alarms.”
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Motel 6 clerk Tonya Hinds was working at the front office Aug. 18 when someone told her there was a gas leak. She went to inspect the line, located on the southeast corner of the motel, and didn’t see the ruptured line, but she could hear the sound of the escaping gas and smelled a strong odor. “We had 42 rooms occupied,” Hinds said of the motel’s occupancy. “There were probably 75-80 guests altogether in those rooms.” She knew that some of the motel guests were smokers. She called the fire department, but by the time they arrived, Hinds had a bad feeling about the situation. “I just saw it becoming a bad situation if we didn’t get control of everybody and get everybody out. It was just a gut instinct I think. It just kept telling me, ‘Just pull that alarm. Don’t even take time to knock on doors.’ I don’t remember if I was talking with 911 or who I was talking to … I said, ‘I’m going to evacuate my building right now. I don’t feel good about this.’” She pulled the alarm. “I ran out in the parking lot. The strobes went off – it’s very loud (the alarm). And I just told everybody, ‘I want everybody out.’ People
wanted to go back, I said, ‘No, I just want everybody out into the upper parking lot away from the building right now.’ ” “[We are] just blessed by God that it just all went the way that it did. Everybody followed instructions and did what they were supposed to do.” Hinds teared up a little as she spoke about the motel guests. She said she was happy everyone was OK. “My guests were tremendous … I’m just happy to see their smiling faces and their children. “It’s a sad but good day.” Hinds said that earlier in her life, she was a volunteer firefighter and first responder. Then, she put out a van fire and saved some people involved in a wreck. “This is my home. This is my community,” Hinds said. Hinds said she had heard of Internet rumors that someone may have ruptured the gas line when they climbed the side of the building, but she couldn’t confirm that rumor.
Displaced guests
Warren Henry, 59, was spending his first night in the motel. He’d just moved to Bremerton from Yuma to begin a new construction job at Naval Base KitsapBangor. He packed a small amount of belongings onto his motorcycle and made the trip in two days. His first day was supposed to be Aug. 19. Henry said he was watching TV in his motel room when he began drifting in and out of consciousness. He thinks it was from the gas. “As soon as I woke up, I had a massive headache,”
Henry said. “As soon as I woke up they’re yelling ‘Gas! Gas!’ ” Still in a gas-induced daze, Henry left his room without any of his belongings. Not his phone, not his laptop, not even his shoes. Now, everything he brought to Bremerton — save for the clothes on his back — is gone. Standing barefoot on the street, Henry watched the east end of the motel explode and envelope the Cascade Natural Gas employee. “I’m watching it and there was a dude standing on the retaining wall,” Henry said. “It exploded and he disappeared. “I can’t believe I just watched a guy blow up like that.” Jeff Jackson was visiting the U.S. from Brisbane, Australia. He came to the States for the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota during the first week of August. He was taking a road trip around the western part of the country, on his way back to Los Angeles before flying to Australia. Everything he’d collected along the way was in his room, including gifts for his grandkids. The only thing he took from his room was his iPad. Despite the losses, he was in high spirits. “We’re OK,” Jackson said. “That’s just material [expletive]. Who cares?” The motel made accommodations for displaced guests. “[We’re] assessing the status of those who’ve been affected,” said Dave Rasmussen, disaster program manager for the Kitsap Red Cross. “We’re See EXPLOSION, Page 15
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Henden, Robbins advance to general election By MICHELLE BEAHM
Scott Henden, left, and Glen Robbins were the winners of the primary election for the North Kitsap School Board Distrist 4 position.
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POULSBO — Retired principal Glen Robbins and school board member Scott Henden were the two top vote-getters in the primary election for North Kitsap School Board District 4, Aug. 4. According to final results posted on the county elections office website, Robbins received 3,857 votes, Henden received 2,679 and Loretta Byrnes, a program analyst, received 1,550. This primary was one of six in the county; the countywide voter turnout was 22.5 percent. Byrnes, who is working out of the country and was unreachable for comment, campaigned as a problem solver. “The school district came up with a strategic plan and I have a lot of experience in that,” Byrnes said in an earlier interview. “They have a bunch of goals in the strategic plan, but it’s not clear what the activities are [to ensure they meet those
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goals]. “I’m very analytical. I would like the school board, the school district, to look at the bigger issues. If 30 percent of third graders cannot read, why’s that? If 30 percent of fifth-graders can’t read at grade level or at the third-grade level, should you send them on to middle school?” Byrnes’ youngest child graduated from Kingston High School in June 2015. She started attending school board meetings in September 2014, where she noticed a lack of adequate communication between district administration and
families. She campaigned on the goal of improving those lines of communication. In a July 21 candidate forum, Byrnes said, “I think the school district, there are certain issues that they should be aware that they need to communicate on. The school district should actually organize a meeting (and) invite community members, with a planned presentation but invite questions and comments.” Henden, an electrical contractor who is running for his second term on the school board, said he tries to be “balanced” in his posi-
tion and he thinks that resonated with voters. “There’s a lot of pressure on the board from different sides,” Henden said. “That doesn’t mean that’s bad.” He added, “I’ve done a good job. I’ve been balanced and I’ve represented all kids.” Henden has campaigned as an advocate for students who plan to go into the workforce post-graduation, instead of pursuing college education. “I have had the opportunity for 30 years to hire young people coming out of school and teach them a trade,” Henden said. “If I wanted to advocate
for somebody -- all of them certainly deserve it, but I think watching out for the average kid that’s going to school, that’s doing OK — that’s something that’s important to me.” In the coming months, Henden said he will continue reaching out to voters through “typical outreach for the campaign.” “As a board member, I’ve tried to remember that it is a citizens’ school,” Henden said. “It really is a citizens’ district and I hope I’ve represented them well.” Robbins said his experience as an educator (he has been a teacher, principal and administrator in the NKSD) is something he thinks has really stood out to voters. “I think that it’s my educator lens and understanding how schools work and understanding [the] school family and staff,” Robbins said. In an earlier interview, Robbins said, “There’s business people, in the past there’s been medical personnel, business leaders
Journey
Far left, a S’Klallam canoe passes Port Gamble as it gets underway for Suquamish. Left, a child raises her hands in welcome as a canoe arrives at Suquamish.
Continued from page 7 to Suquamish and on to Muckleshoot. Charles is 15. “It’s a lot of tough work, but we got through it, even though we hit a lot of rough patches out there,” he said at Suquamish. “I just did what I learned from my training, that if it gets rough, I’ve got to keep going.” At Port Gamble S’Klallam, the transfer of leadership from one generation to the next was clearly underway. Laura Price, a longtime canoe skipper, said this Canoe Journey held special significance to her because it marked the first time Charles, would skipper the 11-man canoe. On the beach before the canoe got underway before 9 a.m. Aug. 4, Price talked about the responsibility that comes with leading a team of canoe pullers — a responsibility that has a spiritual aspect. “When you enter the canoe, you enter it like you’re entering a church,” Price said. “We respect it. We don’t cuss, we don’t think bad thoughts. I discourage bad jokes even, because it’s like entering
[on the school board] ... I look through the lens as an educator, not only as a teacher but as an administrator. I understand how kids learn, I understand how teachers can do the best job in their classroom.” Robbins has run on the idea that his personal experience in various education positions will give him a unique and needed perspective on the school board. “The job I would be needing to really focus in on (if elected) is listening to all the stakeholders, school personnel and community, and see what (needs improving), what we can do, to implement changes that we identify need to happen,” Robbins said. He said his campaign from this point will include a lot of “networking with support people that have been involved in the primary, connecting with the different groups.” Robbins is a member of the North Kitsap Schools Foundation Board, a role he would have to give up if elected to the school board.
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something that is very spiritual. “To be a leader and a skipper, it’s a tough job, because you have to humbly look after everybody and try to share those teachings with others. Not everybody’s going to agree with them, but you have to do your best to make those teachings
live in the canoe, because you’re protecting the canoe, which protects the people. You’re responsible for the protection of every person in this canoe. It’s a huge responsibility.” The route from Point Julia is rich in cultural significance. Charles and his crew departed Point Julia,
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home of an ancestral village and site of a commissioned totem pole that Charles is carving with his cousin, Jimmy Price. They passed the former mill town of Port Gamble, which Charles’ ancestors knew as Teekalet. They rounded Twin Spits, followed the north shores of the Kitsap Peninsula, and
stopped at Point No Point, which the ancestors knew as Hahdskus, and where the leaders in the grandparents’ grandparents’ generation signed the Treaty of Point No Point, making land available to the United States for non-Native settlement. Then they set off for Suquamish, where many of
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have heard that the fishing is great this year. Record numbers of pink salmon are cruising through the sound, looking for their spawning rivers and creeks. My dad used to say, look where there are a lot of boat trailers parked and you will be in a good fishing area. Well, on weekends down at the Port of Kingston, our trailer parking has been maxed out for the past month. Even though the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has closed Area 10 (south of a line between Apple Tree Point and the Edmonds ferry dock) for any chinook
fishing this year, there has been an abundance of coho and pink salmon being caught. I hope your barbecue and freezer are getting good workouts with this year’s catches. Have you tried canning your salmon? I try to do about a dozen half-pints each year. Great for winter dips and sandwiches. We sure had a great summer series of Concerts on the Cove, and I was able to enjoy five or six of them. But the music on the stage at the port isn’t closing down just yet. Each Saturday Farmers Market will continue to bring you wonderful toe-tapping entertainment.
DOWN AT THE PORT By PETE DEBOER We are getting to my favorite time for the market now. All of the great harvest items are beginning to show up. I like to roast those three-color heirloom
carrots with fresh, big green onions in the oven. It goes great with a fillet of that coho salmon you caught. That little change in the weather we had around mid-August was interesting; it has been a while since I’ve seen that much lightning in our sky. I bet the North Kitsap firefighters were pleased to see it come around. With all of the flooding, heat waves, drought and fires going on around the country once again, we can feel pretty good about the place we have all chosen to live in. September is budget time for local municipalities. The Port of Kingston
is no exception. If you are interested in such things, keep an eye on the port website (www.portof kingston.org) for announcements about when you can get a copy of the draft of the proposed budget. A public hearing should happen early in the month. It will be an evening event. Here is your nautical term for September: Over the past year, our national politicians have used filibusters to call attention to certain issues. Did you know that the origin of that word is indeed nautical? The buccaneers (Go Bucs!) were sometimes known in England as “fili-
busters,” from the Dutch word “vrybuiter” (freebooter), translated into French as “filibustier.” The term was used to describe the obstructing of the passage of another sailing ship in a channel. That’s about it for this month. I hope to see you down at the Farmers Market or around town. Enjoy the cooler air, eat fresh salmon — and don’t forget those carrots. Thanks for taking a few minutes to read this stuff. I hope you found something interesting. — Pete DeBoer is a Kingston port commissioner. Contact him at pete@petede boer.com.
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his summer, due to four large vessels being out of service at the same time, the Edmonds-Kingston ferry route was treated to visits from the Evergreen State and Tillikum for three days, July 20, 21 and 22. Some history: The Evergreen State was the first vessel ordered by Washington State Ferries to augment the fleet purchased from Puget Sound Navigation Co. (Black Ball Line). She came out from the old Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co. and became the No. 1 vessel on the SeattleWinslow run. Her car-deck clearance was only 13 feet, which soon became a problem as the height of commercial traffic rose. In 1959, the Tillikum replaced her. The Tillikum had clearance of 14 feet
FERRYFARE KINGSTON FERRY ADVISORY COMMITTEE and a slightly larger passenger cabin. Evergreen State then became the principal vessel on the San Juan Islands-Sidney run. For the winter of 196162, the regular Kingston vessel Nisqually and the Evergreen State swapped assignments. The reasoning was that there was very light traffic in the San Juans and on the international leg in the off-season. Running a larger vessel at Kingston would avoid having to provide a second vessel on busy weekends. The State carried 105 cars and the Nisqually, 85. This arrangement only lasted
the one season, but on my first trip on the State, I saw how proud her crew was at having such a modern vessel (seven years old vs. 34 years old) assigned to Edmonds-Kingston. The lower clearance problem was solved by loading overheight traffic only into the open-air area, between the pickle forks at the stern, and then backing into the opposite port and having the trucks back off. That may have been why she didn’t often come back to Kingston. Eventually, the clearance was raised and the Evergreen State had a long run in the islands. In latter years, it lost the cross-border part of the service to newer vessels. And finally, it ended as the inter-island ferry. It was retired last year, but quickly put back in
Oktoberfest fundraiser scheduled for Oct. 3 at Hansville Community Center HANSVILLE — The Greater Hansville Community Center will host a good old-fashioned Oktoberfest fundraising party 6:30-9:30 p.m. Oct. 3, at the community center at Buck Lake Park. A selection of sausages and a variety of other Bavarian food will be
served. Silver City Brewing Company will provide a special selection of its award-winning brews. There will be a raffle of a variety of items and services from local merchants. New this year will be a karaoke contest, featuring local, talented singers. Tickets are $15, avail-
able at the Hansville Store. Space is limited; only 100 tickets are available. Food, beverages and entertainment are included in the ticket price. Proceeds will go toward the operation and maintenance of the community-owned community center.
service because of multiple breakdowns in the system, running mostly on the Triangle Route, FauntleroyVashon-Southworth. When Tillikum was replaced at Seattle-Winslow by the super ferries in 1968, she, in turn, relieved the Nisqually as the main Edmonds-Kingston boat. But just as the Puyallup is the relief vessel for Bainbridge Island and is pulled off Kingston for any and every reason, Tillikum spent a good share of her time back on her original route. When the jumbos were built in 1973, Tillikum joined her sister ship Klahowya on the Triangle Run, and has only come back to Kingston occasionally. While the Evergreen State is showing her age, Tillikum has been pro-
posed as a relief vessel to replace the tiny Hiyu. Capacity ratings have changed with Coast Guard striping on the car deck to ensure access to equipment and with larger vehicle sizes so that these vessels are now listed at 87 cars. Actual loads are closer to 80, but with both Tillikum and Evergreen State doing very well keeping the temporary schedule, the total capacity of the route was not far off normal. Many commuters enjoyed having the third vessel because of the extra departures, and others were nostalgic, remembering decades back when this class of vessel seemed enormous and ultramodern. The experience underscored the feasibility of adding a third vessel to the
run on summer weekends as the Ferry Advisory Committee has been requesting for many years. Kudos to Washington State Ferries for managing the breakdowns so well this summer. Last year, we were down to one boat, and then the Sidney run had to be canceled to get a second vessel for Kingston. This year, though many runs had small decreases in capacity, schedules were maintained and service was excellent despite the difficulties of having so many vessels in the yard at the same time. — Rex Lee Carlaw is a member of the Kingston Ferry Advisory Committee, and has been a rider of WSF since 1958.
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Preparing NKSD students A fter many years of meeting at the Oak Table Café in Kingston and enjoying great food, friendly surroundings and staff, we’ve had to find a new venue. The Oak Table Café has moved to a new location in Silverdale. We wish Ross and Niki all the luck in the world, but we definitely will miss them. In our search for a new place for our breakfast meetings, we managed to make an arrangement with the Ale House Café. Signs were made but, after a couple of weeks, the Ale House’s management decided it wasn’t practical to continue our arrangement because of staffing limitations, so we were on the road again. Member Rick Eveleth talked to Paul Barrett, owner of Westside Pizza, and, thanks to Paul, we found our new home. Thanks, Paul. We had some very interesting speakers this month, and past president Pete DeBoer and club members
KINGSTON KIWANIS By BOB LEE were very busy putting together a fund-raiser in partnership with The Point Casino for a Kiwanissponsored comedy show. The comedy show was staged on Aug. 28, and I hope everyone was able to attend this fun event. We also are busy collecting school supplies and backpacks to make sure that all North Kitsap students have what they need to be successful in school. On Aug. 24, under the guidance of past president Pat Bennett-Forman,
we gathered at the Ed Moon Center at Bayside Community Church to load these backpacks with pens, pencils, calculators and spiral notebooks. Doing this gave us the satisfaction of helping our youngsters be prepared. Shannon Singleton, president of the North Kitsap Schools Foundation, introduced our members to her organization — a great tool for supporting our teachers, schools and, of course, the end product, our kids. The foundation has 501©(3) status, which allows supporters to donate money and resources to NKSF as a tax-deductible contribution. They rely on grants, fundraisers, golf tournaments and donations to support their efforts. Shannon presented an incredible array of achievements such as Bookflix, the new, interactive literacy resource that builds a love of reading and learning online. The Pearson Elementary School library utilizes this system to improve student reading
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and Vinland elementary schools; and supplies audio books to Vinland Elementary students who are reading at below grade level. Our next guest speaker was Shari Storms, a very dynamic speaker and owner of Category 6 Consulting. Her book, “Motherhood is the New MBA,” has been promoted in Redbook and by Martha Stewart. As chief financial officer of a large credit union, Shari challenged the business model “What gets measured, gets done,” with her own success strategy, “What is fun, gets done.” She showed us a really interesting video made in
Sweden that showed people taking an escalator in a train station rather than walking up the stairs. To encourage change in people’s behavior, piano-key covers that actually produced music when stepped on were installed on the stairs. It didn’t take long for people to “ham it up” and dance their way up the stairs. Quite inspiring. If you are interested in finding out more about our Kiwanis Club, meet us at Westside Pizza at 7 a.m. every Thursday. Or call President Eric Roth at 2977502, or me, Bob Lee, at 360-509-9752. — Contact Bob Lee at GLENCARIN@aol.com
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aven’t these last few months been interesting, weather-wise? Some really hot days followed by really cool (for summer) days, followed by high humidity on other days. We are lucky here in Hansville. We get to enjoy a breeze (most of the time) and more sunshine than other parts of our state, or even our peninsula. Even the day of our annual Hansville Rummage Sale was nice. Not hot or rainy, but just overcast and shirtsleeve weather. A perfect day for shopping. Have you considered this?: Living in Hansville gives all of us a wide variety of activities to participate in. You can choose to be really active or semi-active, or just take a walk and probably meet a neighbor or two also out walking. If you choose to be more interactive, you can join several groups. If your interest is in helping others, consider joining the Hansville Helping Hands. If your interest
HANSVILLE HAPPENINGS By DONNA LEE ANDERSON runs toward sailing or fishing, you could join the Coon Bay Sailing Club or North Kitsap Puget Sound Anglers. You could get some exercise by line dancing, or you could bring your project and join the Need to Knit ladies. You could attend the Driftwood Key Potluck or the Neighbors Luncheon at the Greater Hansville Community Center. You could join the yoga or tai chi group, go to the Little Boston Library
and play Mahjong or join the book reading group or the craft group or art class. You could put your name on a substitute list for one of the many bridge groups in our area and maybe join one of them. If you like to write, consider joining the Hansville Writers Group. In our little bit of paradise, there are so many ways to keep your mind and body active. There’s no reason to be bored — unless, of course, you want to be. In my world, September starts the new year of bridge playing, the restart of the Hansville Writers Group and so many more things I’m wishing I was 40 years younger (not really). Here in Hansville, I’m one of the many retirees who enjoys life by interacting. So when you see me out and about, say hello. I like meeting new people and seeing all my old friends. — Contact Donna Lee Anderson at WellToldTales@ aol.com.
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The Greatest Generation SK3 JOHN ABRAMS, USN
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HOMETOWN: Kingston. BRANCH: U.S. Navy. ■ YEARS OF SERVICE: World War II. ■ HIGHEST RANK ATTAINED: Storekeeper third class. ■ SIGNIFICANT DUTY STATIONS OR DEPLOYMENTS DURING THE WAR: Stationed in Seattle and San Francisco; served onboard the USS Andromeda (AKA-15) and the SS Alcoa Patriot (U.S. Naval Armed Guard). Carried combat equipment to invasion-staging ■ ■
bases and beach heads. The ships also brought wounded soldiers and Marines home. Saw action in the Battle of Okinawa onboard the Andromeda, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf on the Alcoa Patriot. ■ POST-WAR CAREER: Graduated from Western Washington University and Columbia University; served for 30 years as a teacher, school counselor, principal and assistant superintendent in the Bellevue School District.
HOMETOWN: Kingston. BRANCH: U.S. Marine Corps. ■ YEARS OF SERVICE: 1942-45. ■ HIGHEST RANK ATTAINED: Sergeant. ■ SIGNIFICANT DUTY STATIONS OR DEPLOYMENTS DURING THE WAR: Tailgunner on a USMC TBF (VMTBN-232), Red Devil Squadron. Com■ ■
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bout 3 percent of the world’s population died in the Second World War. According to the World War II Museum, there were 45 million civilian deaths and 15 million combat deaths, and 25 million were wounded in battle. Some 418,500 Americans died. World War II ended on Sept. 2, 1945 when Japan signed surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri. On this page and
page 14, the Kingston Community News salutes the Greatest Generation — those who fought back against the tyranny of the Axis and helped to build a new world. See more tributes like these in Veterans Life, available at the Kingston Ferry Terminal, Albertsons, Thriftway, Port Gamble General Store, VFW Post 2463, Pizza Factory, Kingston Branch Library and the Kingston Chamber of Commerce.
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HOMETOWN: Kingston. BRANCH: U.S. Navy. ■ YEARS OF SERVICE: 1940-46. ■ HIGHEST RANK ATTAINED: Gunner’s Mate second class. ■ SIGNIFICANT DUTY STATIONS OR DEPLOYMENTS DURING THE WAR: USS Nashville (CL43), USS Adams (DM-27). ■ AWARDS: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with four stars, American ■
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HOMETOWN: Kingston. BRANCH: U.S. Navy. ■ YEARS OF SERVICE: Feb. 5, 1943-March 9, 1946. ■ HIGHEST RANK ATTAINED: Radarman second class. ■ SIGNIFICANT DUTY ■ ■
STATIONS OR DEPLOYMENTS DURING THE WAR: USS YMS-119, USS Patapsco (AOG-1). ■ AWARDS: Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal (one star), American Area Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal.
carrier USS Hornet. Ace fighter pilot; awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on May 20, 2015. ■ POST-WAR CAREER: Started Financial Planning, Inc., in Long Beach, California, and was an estate planner for 40 years. Inducted into the Long Beach City College Hall of Fame.
Area Campaign Medal, American Defense Service Medal with Bronze ”A,” World War II Victory Medal, Good Conduct Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Philippine Liberation ribbon with two stars. ■ POST-WAR CAREER: Worked as a mechanic for the Navy and then PanAm, then worked independently as a automatic transmission mechanic.
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ar-seat checks resume in October: We’re pleased to learn that our dedicated volunteer child-passenger safety technician, Nancy McClellan, is well on the road to recovery from major surgery and will be returning to her schedule of regular car-seat checks. The checks — 10 a.m.
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Rotary students travel to England, Colombia Emma Smith, a long-term exchange student, will live and study in Colombia for a year.
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n July, the Kingston Rotary Club heard from Emma Smith, a long-term exchange student, who will be living and studying in Colombia for a year. Emma is a student at Kingston High School and is sponsored by Poulsbo Rotary. The community is encouraged to follow her blog at emmatravels.com. On Aug. 12, Kingston Rotary heard from Bailey Brockett and Eleanor (Ellie) Hughes, the club’s short-term exchange students. Bailey’s father, Mitch Brockett, is an optometrist in Kingston and an active member of the Kingston club. Bailey traveled to England for three weeks, where she lived with Ellie’s family. Ellie then traveled back with Bailey and was hosted by the Brocketts, who live in Seabeck. The Kingston Rotary Club sponsors short-term exchanges like Bailey and Ellie’s. Such exchanges are
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Continued from page 8 just in the beginning stages of helping people walk through this very difficult situation.” Rasmussen said community members brought food and water donations to the scene. “As difficult as this time is, we’re really seeing in a number of ways how this community is coming together,” Rasmussen said. “We’re deeply appreciative of that.” Red Cross is accepting monetary donations at www.redcross.org.
Search and rescue dogs on the scene
Bob Calkins was working with his search and rescue dog Magnum at the scene Aug. 19. He said the dogs hadn’t found any signs of potential victims, but noted that they could only search a limited portion of the building due to the extent of the damage. Calkins said that despite the strong smell of smoke, the dogs could still sniff out someone who is trapped. “When you go into a
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From left, Ellie Hughes and Bailey Brockett stayed with each others’ families in a short-term exchange between Kingston and England for three weeks. First, Bailey stayed with the Hughes family in England, then Hughes stayed with the Brockett family in Kingston. Submitted
family-to-family exchanges open to students ages 15-19. The exchanges can range from three to six weeks in length. Interested
students complete applications, and matches are made on a first-come, firstserved basis. Interested families should contact
pizza parlor, you smell pizza. When a dog goes into a pizza parlor, they smell pepperoni, marinara, the dough. They can separate
odors in the same way you and I would look at something and separate colors. So they can actually very easily smell through that.”
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Learn more about Rotary exchanges and the Kingston-North Kitsap Rotary Club by attending one of our weekly meetings. The Kingston Rotary meets at 11:45 a.m. at the North Kitsap Fire & Rescue headquarters sta-
tion for a luncheon meeting and program. For more information or directions, contact me at nanj martin@mac.com. We’d love to see some new faces and introduce you to Rotary.
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Pie in the Park Village Green’s sixth annual event raises $34,000 for Kingston’s new community center
Pie in the Park took place on Aug. 19 at Village Green Park in Kingston. The event included samples of the pies that were up for auction; a silent auction, including a wine basket, Starbucks basket and different trips; hot dogs and Polish sausage; ice cream scoopers to accompany pie slices; a children’s pie-eating contest; and, of course, the pie auction. This year, the first bid was for a choice of any two pies on the table. Last year, this bid was for $5,000. This year, Dave Wetter and Gale Kirsopp were in a bidding war before compromising — each agreed to donate $4,600 as long as they each got two pies of their choosing. Pie flavors included berry, apple, peach cobbler, s’mores, gluten-free pumpkin, apricot-blueberry, cherry, chocolate peanut butter (made with CB’s Nuts and Theo’s Chocolates) and many more. Sara Miller / Staff photo
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ummer isn’t over yet, so get your engines revving with the Early Irons NW Car Show on Sept. 6. 2015 marks the 16th year of car shows in Port Gamble, hosted by the Early Irons NW Car Club. All cars and motorcycles are welcome at this popular, yearly Port Gamble event. Gates open at 7 a.m., with a $20 registration fee for vehicle entries. The show runs 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Show admission is free. Usually, more than 150 classic cars park in the field next to Mike’s Four Star BBQ. Attendees can enjoy ice cream, oldies music, a 50/50 raffle, and food vendors. The event organizers are pleased to announce that all proceeds from the car show will benefit the West Sound Technical Skills Center in Bremerton. Come out and cast your vote and see who will win the “People’s Choice” trophy. Port Gamble is also host to Cruise Port Gamble, which takes place from 4 p.m. to dusk every Thursday through the end
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Events • Shopping • Dining • Adventures Every Thursday May - September Car buffs bring out their classic, new or unique cars to show off on the lawns beside Mike’s Four Star BBQ and Gamble Bay Coffee. The weekly Cruise-In is free and open to everyone.
The popular annual Ghost Walks run from 7pm – 10pm, October through March and typically sell out fast. Take a guided tour of Port Gamble highlighting the town’s history, paranormal experiences and includes stops in the WalkerAmes House, Historic Museum, Post Office, old morgue and the Buena Vista Cemetery. Participants must be 16+ to attend. $25 per person and reservations required.
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Busy summer for North Kitsap firefighters L
ast week, there was a wildfire west of Jefferson Beach Estates. Did you know locals were wandering around, by car and on foot, wondering where the smell of smoke was coming from? The fire department was called, and they eventually discovered a slow-moving fire deep in the woods. It had been burning for a day or so, and before it was contained, it had consumed an acre and a half of prime forest land. North Kitsap Fire & Rescue had a tough go just trying to reach the fire.
ROUNDABOUT By DENISE ROUNDY The land is privately owned and 80-some acres in size. While an old logging road crosses part of the property, it didn’t come close to the fire. Bulldozing and
excavating teams were called in to create first a road, and then a wide fire break around the burning area. NKF&R’s Facebook page says, “More than 50 personnel from six agencies spent three days working with loggers and heavy-equipment operators to contain and extinguish the 1.5-acre blaze in deep duff and thick vegetation.” And “uneven terrain, fallen debris and heavy underbrush complicated crews’ efforts ...” I bet it did. If you’ve ever tried to blaze your own trail (yep, there’s a pun for you)
One Book, One Community CHECK IT OUT T his year, Kitsap Regional Library’s One Book, One Community title — selected for all of Kitsap County adults to read — is “The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving,” by Jonathan Evison. Contact your library if you would like a copy held for you. Discussions about the book will occur in October at all library locations.
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through blackberries, ferns and whatever “deep duff” is, you know it took a while to reach the fire, even with machinery. While one group worked on the road from the west, other firefighters made an even more difficult journey. Attempting to approach the fire from another angle, fire trucks were stationed behind a home at the tip end of Neat Avenue, and from there firefighters dragged over a thousand feet of heavy hose through all the above-mentioned terrain and debris. Heavy, heavy hose. While the fire’s path
Family Storytime: 10:30-11 a.m. Sept. 15, 22 and 29. Early literacy fun with books, songs and rhymes. Travelogue: 4:30-6 p.m. Sept. 30. “Safaris through Southern Africa: An Exploration of Namibia, Botswana and Zambia,” presented by Erica Varga of Acappella Safaris. Please note the library will be closed on Monday, Sept. 7 for Labor Day; and on Thursday, Sept. 24, for staff training. Visit our website, KRL. org, or call us at 360-2973330 for updated program information. See you at your library! — Tomi Whalen is manager of the Kingston and Little Boston branch libraries. Contact her at twhalen@ krl.org.
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didn’t reach any homes, the forest was tinder-dry, and those were some windy days. Fire is a scary thing, especially for the property owners who lost valuable timber and could have lost much more, including their own home. They asked me to publicly share their thanks with NKF&R, as well as firefighters and excavators who came in from around the region. It’s a humbling feeling to be the beneficiary of so many valiant efforts. And guess what? This isn’t the only fire NKF&R has dealt with this hot, dry summer. Brush fires, including several at Point No Point Park, have kept firefighters unnecessarily busy. We’re either going to have to do something about the beach fires, fireworks and cigarette tossing, or do something
about the drought. And I’m pretty confident there isn’t much we can do about the drought. In addition to all this, NKF&R has been sending firefighters to help contain much bigger fires in eastern Washington. I’m sure they are as grateful for the help as we were for those other fire districts who came to help with the Neat Avenue/Jefferson Beach wildfire. When you get a chance, thank these amazing firefighters. And next time they’re looking to pass a levy, give them a yes. I’m a believer: They turn tax dollars into miracles. And one last thought from NKF&R, just in case there were any questions: “Yes. The burn ban is still on. No. It is not OK to burn.” Got it. — Check out more from Denise Roundy at thetrees andi.blogspot.com. Contact her at dirkroundy@yahoo. com.
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CommunityCalendar USED BOOK SAKE: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays through Sundays, Sept. 11 to Oct. 11, Stillwaters Environmental Center, 26059 Barber Cut Off Road, Kingston. Donate used books on all topics at Stillwaters. Almost all books will be sold for $2 or less. Info: 360-297-1226. MARINE ECO-TOURS: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., or 1:30-4:30 p.m. Sept. 20, Port of Kingston Marina. Discover the shoreline from the
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The unusual adventures on our family road trip W
ith the end of July and our family reunion here over, I went on vacation with daughter Donna, her husband Jon and five-yearold great-grandson Jack, heading for the redwoods in Northern California. Son Gary from Oklahoma and seven of his family followed in their RV. In Oregon, we met up with granddaughter Fawn, her twins Heliegh and Kathryn, plus camping gear in their car. It was quite a caravan. The family agreed: “Forget the highways. Let’s see some real scenery and small towns.” One little berg had an old-fashioned country store that just had to be inspected. The group bought what they wanted and returned to their vehicles, while I stayed to wait for Jon, who had taken little Jack to the
THIS ‘N’ THAT By JACQUE THORNTON one-party restroom. While standing near the door, I heard a sexy voice behind me: “Whew — wow — what do we have here, little lady?!” Since there was no one else around, he had to mean me. It was my first verbal pass in more than a decade or two. Wearing sage green Capri pants,
white tennis shoes, a bright tank top, loop earrings and fancy sunglasses, with tinted blonde hair, he must have thought I was about 30 years younger from the back. So not to embarrass him or myself, I pretended I didn’t hear his remark and moved a little further into the store. When I turned around, he was gone. Donna came back in, asking if Jon was still in the bathroom with Jack. I told her yes. She went over and pounded on the door loudly, telling him to hurry up, it was getting hot out there. He yelled something back. She waited and I told her about my encounter. She laughed. Again, she walked over to the restroom, banged on the door and yelled for him to hurry up. A voice screeched and she said she
thought it didn’t sound like him. Again she asked, “Are you sure they are still in there,” and I said yes. She tried once more and a screaming came from the room. She ran over and said, “I don’t think that’s Jon,” and went out to look in the RV. She came back, grabbed my arm and said, “Let’s get out of here. They are in the RV.” As we all but ran out the door, I looked back to see my redfaced almost-boyfriend, ready to knock heads together. We were still in giggles a half-hour later. I have been teased about my almost love affair ever since. One late night after driving through the redwoods, we were too tired to continue on to the next large town where our reservations were. It was decided
getting away from there as quickly as we could, that when he said two cars of ladies needed two rooms for the night, the illicit manager must have thought we were a working group. Complaining, Jon did get 20 percent back on each room. Upset at first, we then went into laughing fits thinking and retelling the tale of our now sullied reputations. I did enjoy every moment, except for the drive over Grants Pass, Oregon, coming home. We saw no fires, only smoke so thick that you couldn’t see across the fields. The more miles ahead, the worse it became, then slowly it dwindled away. Another adventure to put in my journal to remember. — Contact Jacque Thornton at jacquejt@ centurytel.net.
the two cars would try to find a couple of rooms, while the RV would pull into a rest stop. Always, the reply was “filled up.” At last, we found a cheesy motel with vacancies but with an unusually high price. Tired and desperate, we did not fuss. Fawn and I took a room. What a dump, but it had clean beds. Donna, Jon, the twins and Jack took the room to the right of us on the ground floor, open to the parking area. All night long in the room on the other side of Donna’s, doors were slammed, drunken brawls broke out, people laughed and argued over money. Fawn and I slept through it all. It seems the motel was a working establishment for ladies of the night. I told Jon later, while
Kitsap Harvest prepares report on local gleaning T he consistent warmth and sunlight of this summer has meant a banner crop for plums. Food banks all over the county have been contacted with offers to pick plums or glean from other overabundant harvests. The grower or property owner has a distribution problem and is attempting to make sure the fruit doesn’t go to waste. These situations provide a great example of how hunger-fighting organizations like Northwest Harvest and Food Lifeline can help, whereas a local food bank, on its own, often cannot. When growers contact
SHARENET & YOU By MARK INCE one of these organizations with this kind of abundance, their redistribution model kicks into gear, collecting surplus where feasible and then getting it to hundreds of member food
banks across Washington. Obviously, the urgency of highly perishable goods or ripe produce is far more of a challenge than, say, a warehouse full of cereal near expiration. The problem of getting food into the hands of people in need is frequently logistical and involves redistribution, or distribution outside ordinary channels. At a recent Kitsap County Food Bank Coalition meeting, members discussed the issue of local growers or property owners contacting us about gleaning a surplus harvest. On the one hand, it’s great to get the phone call, because we know the growers are thinking of
hungry people and our service to them. On the other hand, we don’t often have a good solution for them, for a variety of reasons. Typically, food banks face a volunteer shortage even to cover onsite needs, and this is never more true than in the summer. In addition, about 90 percent or more of foodbank volunteers are older than 65, meaning they are not the people in the best position to be picking fruit. Likewise, most growers want a coordinated effort for the surplus, not the free-for-all a general posting might become. By this time of year, many food banks have already been overrun by
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT - MIKE HALEY Summers end is very near and we have had a wonderful time in Kingston: The Kingston Cove Summer Concert Series at Mike Wallace Park saw huge crowds this year. That helped to fuel the success of the Rotary Beer & Wine Garden whose proceeds help fund all the great projects Rotary is known and loved for. Our monthly Chamber Business Luncheons remain at capacity and the speakers have been well received. The 3rd Annual After Hour event hosted by Port Ludlow Assoc. and shared with Jefferson Co. Chamber of Commerce was well attended by many Kingston Chamber members – it is always fun to mingle with other chambers and get to know their members.
of the Seahawks organization. He’ll give us the latest scoop on our great team right at the time that we will be in the Playoffs Hunt. Call Colleen to reserve your spot as this event is certain to sell out early. You do not have to be Chamber Member to attend this event. NEXT: December 5th is our annual Kingston Cove Christmas that features Santa arriving via firetruck, the tree lighting ceremony, the lighted boat parade, the Jingle Jam Band, free hot cocoa and cookies and much more. This is a free family event that you will not want to miss. Be on the lookout for a survey that will be sent out soon to find out how we can serve you better.
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DID YOU KNOW? Sitting is bad for you. In today’s work force, many of us find ourselves seated behind a desk for the majority of the day. Working at a computer with hunched shoulders and craned neck muscles can wreak havoc on our health. Not only causing muscular and joint pain, but also compromising our immune systems by inhibiting blood flow and lung capacity. Dr. Smart will talk to us about how to Sit, Stand & Sleep to maximize our health and create optimal concentration and effectiveness throughout our work days. Please join us to learn about the many ways we are unknowingly hurting ourselves and how to combat these daily life struggles. Lunch is catered by Kingston Pizza Factory. Gluten Free options are available. For reservations call or email Colleen at 360-297-3813/director@kingstonchamber.com or pay in advance online at www.kingstonchamber.com/joinus
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SEPTEMBER 2015 Sept. 1st Chuck Wagon Lunch (every Tue. & Thur.) @ Kingston Community Center 11am – 12:30pm Chamber Business Luncheon @ Kingston Cove Yacht Club 11:45am – 1:30pm Kingston Events Committee @ D’vine Wines 4 – 5:30pm Sept. 2nd Kingston Library Book Group @ North Kitsap Regional Library Kingston Branch 10 – 11am Kingston Rotary (every Wed.) @ North Kitsap Fire & Rescue Station on Miller Bay Rd.– 1:30pm KCAC (Kingston Citizens Advisory Council) @ North Kitsap Fire & Rescue on Miller Bay Rd. 7 – 9:30pm. Subject: Clean Water Kitsap and new bridge on West Kingston Rd. over Carpenter Creek Sept. 3rd
Kingston Kiwanis (every Thur.) @ West Side Pizza. Breakfast by Mi Sueno Catering 7 – 9:30am Sept. 4th Kingston Stake Holders @ Columbia Bank 9 – 10:30am Sept. 5th Kingston Farmers Market (every Saturday thru October) @ Mike Wallace Marina Park 9am – 2pm Sept. 6th Crescendo Gallery Exhibit Opening ~ “Behind the [ ]Curtain” 1-5pm at The Art Farm Sept. 8th Friends of the Library @ Kingston Community Center 10 – 11:30am Sept. 9th Super Senior Lunch @ Kingston Community Center 11:30am – 1pm
Sept. 10th Kingston Chamber After Hours @ Rotary Beer Garden Tent cohosted by K-NK Rotary and GK Kiwanis Mike Wallace Park at the Port of Kingston 5-7pm. Free to Chamber members and their guests. Sept. 15 Kingston Complete Streets Open House, Kingston Community Center 4-8pm Village Green Foundation @ North Kitsap Fire & Rescue on Miller Bay RD. 4 – 5:30 Sept. 16th Chamber Board of Directors Meeting @ Main Street Cafe 7:00 – 9am Kingston Garden Club @ Bayside Community Church 9am-noon. Sept. 19th Heronswood Plant Sale and Open
Welcome New Member! Erik Gronnvoll, Owner of Evergreen Propeller, credits his dad, Sverre Gronnvoll, for getting him into the family business. Sverre has been working on propellers for 30+ years. Erik grew up learning the trade and is now excited to own his own shop in his home town. Evergreen Propellers Sells and Repairs props and offers services in TIG Welding, Bow Thrusters and Lower Units. The shop is located in the Lower Bradley Center at 26282 Lindvog Rd. NE #110 in Kingston. They are open 8am-5pm Mon-Fri. and on weekends by appointment. (360)621-3018
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Dogs suffer separation anxiety BEING HUMANE A s summer gives way to fall, it’s important to know that the human members of your By KAREN family are not the only ones who undergo seasonal adjustments. Vacations come to an end and children return to school. Come September, the early morning whirlwind of activity will, in many homes, be followed by keys jangling, doors slamming, cars leaving … and quiet. Your dog may be alone for the first time in weeks, certainly for longer than he or she has grown used to. This is not an attempt to illicit guilt, which I as a pet owner have often felt when gazing down into a pair of sad brown eyes on my way out the door. It’s merely a
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Continued from page 21 challenges along with a team from the Leadership Academy in Public Health, funded by the CDC via the Center for Health Leadership and Practice. Zander and Harrison wellness coordinator Melissa Reeves thought their discussions and concerns about local gleaning would be a great fit for the certification program, which requires participants to take on a year-long public health project. Yolanda Fong, public-health nurse supervisor of the Kitsap Public Health District, and Barbara Hoffman, community health program supervisor at Suquamish Tribe, round out the team. The project, called Kitsap Harvest, is preparing a baseline assessment due in about a month. They have mapped Kitsap County’s likely recipients of these harvests (via the emergency food network) and its providers (growers, farmers markets, property owners with fruit trees), conducting site visits that help them understand the challenges these entities face.
heads up that fall can be a stressful time for dogs, who are as capable of developing MATTHEE separation anxiety as people. Symptoms can be mild to severe and include whining and barking; chewing clothing and furniture; scratching around windows and doors; and defecating in the house. “Aside from missing the company of their owner, dogs are often upset by the disruption of their day-to-day schedule when the household routine changes,” said Deana Case, Kitsap Humane Society’s canine behavior and training coordinator. “Being suddenly alone can sometimes make a dog feel afraid or anxious without their human there to guide them.” See ANXIETY, Page 27
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s I write today, I am very aware of the strange weather patterns we have had in our country over the past few months. It is another sunny, hot day. We have broken records for the heat, dryness and the length of time between measurable precipitation. When it finally did rain last week, we had an inch of rain in one day. We are all old enough to know what to expect. Here, summer weather doesn’t really start until after the Fourth of July, right? It’s just as bewildering all over the country. The drought in California has been going on so long, my cousins have planted all succulents and drought-tolerant plants in their yard, eliminating their grass entirely. Others pay to have special water trucks come to water their fruit trees to keep them alive, using reclaimed water from sewage treatment plants. And this is not in the desert of Southern California — it’s in the San Francisco Bay area! We think often about the climate changes we are going to experience in our lifetimes. This is no longer a phenomenon that will be happening sometime in the future; it is happening now. If you live anywhere near glaciers, or visit glaciers on a regular basis, you know how quickly they are melting. The melting of vast portions of ice — glaciers and sea ice — and the warming of the seas are what are going to raise the levels of the oceans enough
CHOICES FOR THE FUTURE By NAOMI MAASBERG to flood huge coastal cities all over the world. There will be 100 million people in Bangladesh alone who need to move elsewhere. The most frightening thing is that this is all happening much more quickly than even the climate scientists predicted. We were recently made aware of an article about those scientists and their insane existence. “When the end of human civilization is your day job, it can be hard to sleep at night,” is the subtitle of the article. That about sums it up. The author interviewed several Americans who work all over the world in climate sciences, monitoring or predicting climate changes. They are not a happy bunch. (You can read it at goo.gl/JqjNlL.) It is frightening that these scientists are strictly prohibited by their employers from telling the full extent of the climate-change impacts they are witnessing and documenting. Daily, they are
seeing the increasing documentation and physical evidence that global warming is human-induced and changes are affecting all of our lives. Arctic air temperatures are increasing at twice the rate of the rest of the world, and estimates are that the Arctic could lose all of its summer sea ice by next year, which is 84 years before the models predicted. But they are supposed to say nothing about it. These scientists “have been the targets of an unrelenting and well-organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment and more … all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil-fuel companies.” Some are experiencing the depression and mental anxiety of PTSD, and some are moving to other countries to escape the political climate of the U.S. What keeps them going? If they are seeing the potential demise of Earth, at least of the human inhabitants, why do they keep doing what they are doing? How do they raise their children? For years, we believed that if humans could make significant lifestyle changes, and if our technology could assist in that, it was still possible for Earth and humans to survive. We have had to believe that, right? But these folks who know the dire predictions and see the negative
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response can’t convince themselves that easily. After moving his family to Denmark, one of them commented that the U.S. has to quit listening to the “deniers” who either dismiss the reality of global warming, continue to run their businesses as if it does not matter, refuse to fund alternatives to fossil fuel consumption, or deny funding for research and advancements in climate science. He predicts major human suffering and possibly a catastrophic event that will finally get people’s attention. It may have to be even more dramatic than the drought-induced agricultural shortages we have been experiencing, or the repeated intense weather storms. It may have to be wars over water and food. “Climate change is a conflict multiplier.” What keeps us going? Sometimes, focusing on what you can change, what you can protect, is all you can do. As we work at Stillwaters to protect our critical estuary on Puget Sound, providing healthy habitat for salmon and other wildlife neighbors, we also contribute greatly to the education of our future scientists now in college, and contribute to research on Puget Sound estuaries and salt marshes. At the same time, we must persuade our human neighbors to join us in creating more sustainable lifestyles of their own. We all need to do all that we can — if it means changing some light bulbs, giving up some car trips, buying local food and used clothing, defeating politicians who are climate-change deniers, giving up air travel, having fewer children — we have to do whatever each of us can to do reduce our carbon footprint. But the one thing we cannot do is sit back and say to ourselves, “It’s hopeless; there’s nothing I can do!” and give up. (Information for this column sourced from Stillwaters Environmental Center and “Ballad of the Sad Climatologists,” Esquire, August 2015.) If you are interested in getting on our mail list, call us at 360-297-1226. — Naomi Maasberg is director of Stillwaters Environmental Learning Center. Contact her at naomi@stillwatersenviron mentalcenter.org.
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Continued from page 24 In these final dog days of summer, there are things you can do to prepare your canine for increased alone time. Start getting up earlier, Case suggested. Also, leave your dog for progressively longer periods of time while monitoring behavior. Close doors to rooms that are off limits and get your dog used to the area where he’ll be kept during the day. Introduce food-dispensing toys and chews, and consider crate training as a possibility. And soft music or the television on low also can be calming, Case said. But don’t resort to the crate to resolve the symp-
toms of separation anxiety, she cautioned. “They’ll grow to hate it if they’re not used to it; it will be just another symbol of your departure.” For information on how to crate-train properly, email Case at behavior@kitsap-humane.org. Defusing departure behaviors can also help. You might, for instance, grab your keys and, instead of leaving the house, go toss the ball to the dog in the backyard, Case said. “If you remove the trigger, that can help reduce the level of anxiety.” Case emphasized that it’s important to manage and treat destructive behaviors, rather than punishing pets for them. “If you punish them, they’ll start to fear your arrival back home, as For Local Expertise, call
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well as be anxious about your leaving.” Getting another dog to keep your current canine company may seem like a good idea, but it’s not always the answer. Resolve the separation anxiety in your existing pet first, or your new addition may pick up the bad behavior. If there’s room in your budget, a daytime dog walker or a doggie daycare are good solutions, but make sure to check references in both instances, Case advised. And if you’re looking into a daycare, she recommended that it employs at least one caretaker for every five dogs, and offers frequent breaks in group play to avoid fights. A more affordable option is to team up with
a friend or neighbor who has a friendly dog and is willing to take yours on as a playmate a couple of days of week. For more information on separation anxiety in pets, Case recommended a short book called “I’ll Be Home Soon,” by Patricia McConnell. And if you’ve tried the recommended protocols and the destructive behavior continues, consult your veterinarian, particularly if your pet is endangering itself or causing costly damage. Case noted that there are medications that can help, but they work best when paired with behavior management and training. She suggested choosing a trainer who does home visits and has collaborat-
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