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Randy Kan’s keeps it clean in North Kitsap
By Leila Arciero • April 16, 2010 1:18 pm

NORTH KITSAP — With feet planted in liquid waste, Randy Bauer saw a opening for a small business he couldn’t refuse.
After 12 years of pumping septic tanks and watching all the small portable toilet businesses be sell out to bigger guys, Bauer felt a need to bring a local business back into the world of portable restrooms.

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Grandy Services owner learned drug and alcohol treatment from the inside out
Grandy Services owner learned drug and alcohol treatment...
By Chris Chancellor • April 15, 2010 6:47 pm

Kevin Grandy believes there are two ways to become an alcoholic.
One is genetically – the other is practicing until you get it.
For Grandy, 50, his 1987 drunk-driving conviction was a result of the former.
“I think I’m in the category of the genetically predisposed,” he said, explaining that his first drink was five beers of a six-pack. “I was an alcoholic.”
Was, being the operative word.
Grandy went through the King County court system and got a deferred prosecution. By 1990, he had decided to become a counselor, and enrolled in Seattle University’s addiction-studies program. Five years later, he parlayed his counseling experience into a job with Kitsap County probation.
And now, he is the administrator and owner of Grandy Services, a treatment agency on Bay Street serving those with drug and alcohol problems, as well as domestic-violence problems. The agency received state certification on Feb. 25.

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U.S. Sen. Patty Murray
Small businesses in Central Kitsap uncertain about Patty...
By Lynsi Burton • April 2, 2010 6:28 pm

Sandy Corbit, owner of Flowers D’Amour on Fourth Street in Bremerton, has dreams for her downtown shop.
She’d like a new energy-efficient cooler to keep her fresh flowers and more display equipment so she can fill the store floor-to-ceiling with her colorful plants and gift items. She also wants to enhance her shop’s curb appeal with new awnings.
But Corbit was denied a loan because her business is too small.
“I think it would be good to get some help,” she said Tuesday. “We need money to get money.”

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