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Student athletes might be able to waive PE credits
Changes may also apply to students in dance, cheerleading, marching band and lacrosse, etc. BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
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CENTRAL KITSAP – It’s possible that student ballet dancers, cheerleaders and athletes may be able to waive some of their physical education graduation requirements and use the freedup time to take other classes. Central Kitsap School District board members are looking at changing district policy to allow athletes involved in Washington Interscholastic Activi-
ties Association-approved sports and activities to waive two half-credit PE classes, up to one full credit equivalent. “Students would have to maintain a full schedule so you’re not taking a waiver so that you can take fewer classes during the school day,” said Franklyn McKenzie, CKSD director of secondary teaching and learning. “You’re not awarded credit. You can’t gain credit for this. What this is is simply a waiver … they’re granting waivers and you take something else instead. Frees-up
a portion of your schedule.” Two PE credits are required for graduation. Students would still be required to take certain PE classes such as “health” and “introduction to fitness.” The WIAA website lists baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball and wrestling as “athletics.” The WIAA lists cheer and dance among its list of “activities.”
OPINION What’s the outlook for charter schools?
Altercation began after rocks were thrown at pickup
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BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
BUSINESS Haggen files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Festival goers stroll near a few of some of the many food vendor stands at the Blackberry Festival Sept. 7.
SPORTS SK knocks off CK 25-14 in opener
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SEE PE WAIVERS, A13
Man arrested after shooting at motorist
A BERRY GOOD TIME
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Any sport or activity would need to include 75 hours of rigorous activity and have components of PE met in some form. “You want to make sure that time is not just sitting on a bench somewhere; that you’re actually practicing, participating in some competition,” McKenzie said. Two seasons of marching band or one year of cheerleading could qualify
Thousands enjoy 26th annual festival BY CHRIS TUCKER
CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
BREMERTON – There was no shortage of blackberry-themed food at the 26th annual Blackberry Festival at the Bremerton boardwalk this weekend: “Berry good” blackberry pie, pastries with blackberry filling called “blackberry slugs,” blackberry-flavored kettle corn, blackberry shortcake and blackberry wine were just a few of the delicacies on offer to the 25,000 or so people
estimated to have attended. Festival goer Kathleen Juhl, of Lynwood, sampled a small plastic cup of blackberry wine at one booth. “It’s good … to me it’s kind of tart,” Juhl said. Pasek Cellars, of Mount Vernon, makes some 3,500 cases of blackberry wine annually – 12 bottles of wine per case. They make two varieties: a wine, and a port. The port is fortified with SEE BLACKBERRY, A11
POULSBO – A 30-year-old Silverdale man was charged with assault after he allegedly fired several shots at a motorist. Dale Richard Johnson, 30, who has a Silverdale post office address, was charged with assault in the second degree. According to a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office report, the male victim had been driving his pickup truck near the 16000 block of Viking Way NW Sept. 6 around 11:39 p.m. when several rocks struck his vehicle. The man saw two kids run up a nearby driveway with a flashlight, and so he turned the truck around to speak with them. The man walked up the driveway to a house and asked a lady and a girl standing in front of the home if they had any children. The lady told him to wait and went inside. Johnson then came outside and asked the man what he was doing. The man explained that his truck had been hit by rocks and that he saw a flashlight in the driveway. Johnson went inside and the man could hear yelling and sounds of things SEE ASSAULT, A13
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