There have been a couple attempts at developing a countywide system to monitor how health care is distributed, but nothing as widespread as a new project, Kitsap Community Health Priorities, which started last month.
Richard LeMieux, author of “Breakfast at Sally’s,” a personal account of his experiences being homeless in Bremerton, visited Central Kitsap High School Tuesday. LeMieux, 68, came in as a guest speaker for Elizabeth Blandin’s English classes, which recently read his book.
As soon as Heidi Newcomb heard Trader Joe’s would be opening a store in Silverdale, she knew what she would do: camp outside to be first inside.
Newcomb, of Poulsbo, said she got hooked on the store while living in California, but the draw isn’t easy to articulate. “There’s just something about it — when you shop there.”
Aidan Clark, a first-grader at Crownhill Elementary School, knows how to navigate an iPod touch flawlessly. But, he isn’t using it to listen to music.
“We can record our reading and we can listen to our reading,” Aidan said. “It’s fun.”
Originally expected to be complete this month, a new interim Kitsap Transit center in Silverdale will be up and running by the end of August, said John Clauson, service development director with the agency.
It took 3,134 miles — or 63 hours — of driving, but this wasn’t a typical cross-country road trip. It was done in an 105-foot ladder engine — now part of Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue’s fleet.
Scarlett Broere, a Central Kitsap High School senior, has come a long way from the days of only using markers and pens. The 17-year-old has been taking classes from Ruth Harris, owner of KitsapArt School of the Arts in Old Town Silverdale, since she was 5 years old — when the use of pencil was not permitted at a young age.
Bernice Caldwell parked her car and walked up to the new Trader Joe’s storefront Monday. The new Silverdale location wasn’t open but that didn’t stop her from trying to get through the automatic doors that weren’t yet equipped to automatically open.
Jessica Garcia missed more than 50 days of class at Bremerton High School her junior year and the days she did show up, she was always late. Her family life at home wasn’t supportive and she didn’t care. Then everything changed this year as a senior — because of one person.
Next year’s class schedule at Mountain View Middle School will look different — class periods will be longer for math and language arts — and may include linking together English classes and social studies.
Rocky Phillips and Joyce Bowers of East Bremerton walk portions of Clear Creek Trail in Silverdale nearly every day. A small bridge that they typically cross without pause was closed with tape by the county last month to prevent people from using it.
Although, it rarely stops anyone.
Trudy Dahl and Pat Capps walked side by side on treadmills at the Haselwood Family YMCA shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday, just minutes after the official opening.
“We’ve been looking forward to this,” said Dahl, 67, of Bremerton, as her friend and neighbor, Capps, played with the instruments on the high tech treadmill.
Designs for the 9/11 memorial at Evergreen Rotary Park should include local stories from Kitsap residents, the Bremerton Parks and Recreation Board of Commissioners said at a meeting Tuesday.
The original design for the memorial centers around two steel beams picked from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. Surrounding walls will depict stories of victims, survivors, friends and family. These written stories are what Wyn Birkenthal, director of Parks and Recreation, said should include local angles, giving examples of the experiences of Kitsap residents, members of the Navy, or those working with the state ferry system.
Llama spit smells like rotting vegetables and depending on which of the three stomachs it comes from, the smell can linger in the air. Chela Grey, founder of StillPointe Llama Sanctuary in Seabeck, has never been spit at but is all too familiar with the stench.
Lucy Anderson can’t wait for the Haselwood Family YMCA in Silverdale to open.
She bought her membership in October and plans to attend the ribbon cutting Wednesday.
“I’ll be there at 8 o’clock,” said Anderson, 58, of Poulsbo. Classes will begin at 9 a.m.
After a full year of construction, the sparkling new 85,000-square-foot, $22 million facility will open for weight-lifting, swimming and just about any other activity Wednesday morning.
The rain was pouring and the wind blew away the window display during a musical performance last year at Kitsap Forest Theater. The show at the outdoor Seabeck amphitheater — of course — went on. And this was before actors cleaned up after a bear that rummaged through a trash bin during rehearsals.
Ivaly Alexander is satisfied with the teachers who spend their days with her seventh-grader at Mountain View Middle School, but that isn’t to say she is happy with things as they are.
The rain was pouring and the wind blew away the window display during a musical performance last year at Kitsap Forest Theater. The show at the outdoor Seabeck amphitheater — of course — went on. And this was before actors cleaned up after a bear that rummaged through a trash bin during rehearsals.
Wayne Holmes lives on Chico Beach Drive, has a Bremerton address and doesn’t want to be a part of an incorporated Silverdale. And as a Chico resident, he isn’t alone in his sentiment.
The first time the Bremerton Community Theatre players performed the one acts, they took the show on the road, traveling around Kitsap County.
