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Friday, September 25, 2015 | Vol. 90, No. 39 | WWW.BAINBRIDGEREVIEW.COM | 75¢
INSIDE: Spartans unstoppable, A24
Islanders raise cost concerns for new BHS 100 Building, Blakely
A MEDLEY OF MEMORIES
District hears some support for performing arts facility BY JESSICA SHELTON Bainbridge Island Review
Brian Kelly | Bainbridge Island Review
George Scott, who will become a centenarian in November, shares a tune on his Hohner harmonica.
Reaching 100, Island man has a melody to share and a story or two to tell BY LESLIE KELLY Contributing Writer
Every thing in life is a story. Just ask George Scott, Bainbridge Island resident since 1960, who will soon turn 100 years old. “Everything I’ve done has been an experience,” Scott said. “And every experience is a story.” Just give him an afternoon and he’ll tell you a story or two. After all, in his 99 years, he’s been a kid growing up in Seattle, an Army radar maintenance and signal corps-
man, a printer’s helper, a stationery and greeting card designer, a painter, a musician, a sailboat maker, a husband and a father. “I’m just a guy who never really knew what he wanted to do,” he said. “All my life I’ve just sort of lived on the edge.” With his 100th birthday just around the TURN TO MEDLEY | A29
Several paintings by George Scott sit in the carport next to his studio.
Islanders are concerned about the cost of replacing Captain Johnston Blakely Elementary and the 100 Building at Bainbridge High School. At least, that was the gist of Monday’s forum on the Bainbridge school district’s facility master plan, the second of seven planned this fall as school board members consider options for a February bond measure. Back in 2005, six buildings were identified in the district’s master plan to be scheduled for replacement or repair over the next 15 years: the BHS 200 Building, the BHS 100 Building, Captain Charles Wilkes Elementary, Blakely, Ordway Elementary and the Commodore Options School. The school district revamped the BHS 200 Building in 2006, a new Wilkes followed in 2012, and, after a master plan update facilitated by Mahlum Architects this past spring, the BHS 100 Building and Blakely are up to bat, though Mahlum confirmed that the other two schools are also in need of replacement, albeit less urgently. During Monday’s meeting, presided over by Superintendent Faith Chapelsand Tamela Van Winkle, the district’s director of facilities and operations, Mahlum Architects managing partner Butch Reifert reviewed the firm’s findings, elucidating various building options and their affiliated costs. The 50-year-old Blakely building is structurally overstressed, Reifert said, with mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems beyond their useful life and interior finishes in need of complete
Brian Kelly | Bainbridge Island Review
TURN TO CONCERNS | A30
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