New future for Poulsbo Cemetery
The Poulsbo Municipal Cemetery is 100 years old and is showing its age. Thanks to the City Council’s leadership and to volunteers this past year, steps have been taken to improve the cemetery.
The entrance gate and arch have been replaced. The parking area has been expanded and repaved. Water lines and yard hydrants have been installed. Memorial benches and trash receptacles have been provided. Arborvitae plants have been placed around the parking area.
The Friends of Poulsbo Cemetery has been formed to carry these efforts forward. A new vision calls for the cemetery to be a respectful site which serves not only as a final resting place, but also as an open air historical space celebrating Poulsbo’s heritage.
An outreach effort is underway to invite interested individuals, veterans groups, community and civic organizations, churches, and all North Kitsap cemeteries to partner with us in this effort. It’s not necessary to be involved in all the activities. Rather, we are hopeful people and organizations will take part in whatever project is especially appealing to them.
The city has opened the door for community organizations and volunteers to shape the future of the Poulsbo Cemetery. The time for action from the community and families with loved ones at the cemetery is now. If no action is taken, the future of the Poulsbo Cemetery will look much like its past. Please get involved.
Visit the Friends of Poulsbo Cemetery website at http://pouls bocemeteryfriends.org.
Review our mission and future projects being planned. Go to the contact page and let us know you want to be involved.
Jeff Bauman
discussion leader
Friends of Poulsbo Cemetery
Changes needed in Kingston High football
After the 2017 season: Kingston 0-10.
Average score per game: Kingston 7, opponents 46.
What has happened to our football program?
Kingston is a proud community that relies on its high school to provide successful academic and athletic programs. It is essential that kids feel positive about their high school experience.
Coaches are key to the development of a successful high school football team. Coaches that have proven abilities, that go beyond the X’s and O’s, that provide a classroom for developing self-confidence and self-responsibility, are incredibly necessary. Successful coaches develop teams to compete with passion and determination. Being a role model, teacher, mentor, boss, friend and sometimes parent is an awesome responsibility for the coach.
High school principals that become involved in the development with a “can do” positive attitude are essential. Principals can set a positive or negative environment, depending on their personal commitments.
It is up to the superintendent to set the example.
When young athletes face the stress of adversity and the thrill of competition on the field, they grow in their capacity to manage stress. In a real sense, personal battles won on the football field pave the way for even greater achievements within the context of life itself. The payoff is enormous.
Think about it. We need to make it right again for Kingston High School and the community. Let’s all start caring and make the changes needed to accomplish success.
Irv Shotwell
former conditioning coach
for the Kingston High School football team
Poulsbo
Positive policies already bearing fruit
As expected, the bundled responses to my “shoveling tip” and “wind advice” were predictable and pulled from the DNC and Fake Media Handbook:
Chapter 1. Clinton is Good.
Chapter 2. Circle the Wagons and Pile On.
The rest is a biased mix of selective amnesia and attack fist waving. Never mind, they surely felt relief on Nov. 8 when they screamed skyward and shared the reality that Donald J. Trump is the president of the greatest nation in the world!
Is it not weird that so much seems to be overlooked, ignored, forgotten, or that good old standby, pleading the Fifth, is utilized when matters get too close? What with Holder’s gun-running sham, ACA dishonest promises, Susan Rice’s video distraction, Lois Lerner’s IRS exertion, unauthorized servers, security negligence, foundation and speech donations linked to Pay to Play, love and scorn of Russia, the infamous tarmac meeting.
Do they care, or even know who Elizabeth Carlisle is, that she met Bill on his aircraft? Goodness me, just last week Donna Brazile and Elizabeth Warren came out and backed what Bernie knew: Wasserman Schultz ensured the DNC rigged the primary for Hillary. Yet they still write books and ask, “What Happened?” Really! Do they actually need to ask? Don’t they know an outsider won with better vision, incredible stamina and resilience?
So, stand up and ask yourself why you want to resist and obstruct the great proposals and policies already happening: Business confidence, lowest unemployment and more jobs, better national security, improved foreign relationships, legal immigration, affordable and viable healthcare, lower taxes, encouraging self responsibility and skin in the game, responsible parenting, etc.
Dare I ask you, “What is wrong with wanting America to be first — and helping with the decisions?” Are you not embarrassed being blindly obstructionist and persistently closed-minded? Is it due to indoctrination, herd pressure, or that you don’t like him and the citizens that do? It is an enigma that you are perpetuating and your issues started long before Donald J. Trump even submitted his name just over two years ago.
It is healthy to have checks and balances within the Constitution and law of the land, so I sincerely invite you to rethink and come over to participate with helping this great country with the positive policies already bearing fruit and the crucial policies currently being discussed. Try it!
Alan Jackson
Poulsbo
Jagodzinske thanks community for support
Thank you to all of you who voted for and supported me in the school board election. I greatly appreciate it!
I certainly wish I would have won and would have had the opportunity to serve our community on the board, but I’m grateful for the process we have and for all of you who voted.
Congratulations to Rick Eckert. Thank you for serving our community on the school board!
Sincerely,
Daron Jagodzinske
Poulsbo
Those hanging flower baskets are beautiful
The Community Beautification Committee would like to thank all the people and businesses that sponsor the hanging flower baskets that line our streets during the spring and summer.
We’d like you to take the opportunity to visit the Chamber of Commerce office and view the poster which designates where your basket is hanging in Kingston. We also welcome people or businesses wishing to sponsor a basket, to contact the chamber for an application form.
Let’s continue to keep Kingston beautiful!
Kris Libby
Kingston Community Beautification Committee
