Community Service Day
Windermere thanks businesses
Windermere Real Estate of Poulsbo would like to thank the following local vendors for their contributions to Windermere’s Community Service Day last Friday the 20th of June. Windermere spent the day at Poulsbo’s Marine Science Center cleaning, painting and landscaping.
A big thank you for generous donations from Central Market, Peninsula Paints, James Lumber, Tatu Barbeque, Coast Do It Best Hardware and Vern’s Organic Topsoil.
Terry Burns,
Poulsbo
Eat locally
Eatery a “diamond in the rough”
Poulsbo and Kitsap County residents who love a good soup and salad, along with a good latte, or home made pastry need to seek out “Caffe Cocina.” It seems to be a local “under-discovered” hot spot. It can be found at 580 Finn Hill Road in Poulsbo. We are always greeted with an enthusiastic smile from relatively new owner and Chef, Paul or wife Brianne whose quality of service is treated as importantly as the quality of the food they serve.
Speaking of food … fresh baked pastries every morning, homemade banana bread, homemade scones, quiche, breakfast burrito’s and sandwiches. The lattes are great and some of the best we’ve had!
We sometimes make special trips to Poulsbo just for lunch. My favorite, is Paul’s spinach salad, it’s like eating candy! And his homemade soups have been both delicious and healing during the recent cold and wet weather.
This small quaint café is the epitome of what Bill, my partner, and I have always loved about small communities and their small personal businesses.
Yet, for its size “Caffe Cocina” has a lot to offer: a drive up window with a menu; a back entry that spills over with white wisteria leading to a summer courtyard; “yummy” milkshakes and fresh fruit smoothies; and cozy inside seating along with off street parking.
I can almost guarantee Paul will have your name memorized within your first few visits. We love this place, along with it’s hard working new owners who are clearly making great strides in developing both a good rapport and a pleasing menu for his customers.
Once you find your absolute favorites you will be hooked, just as we are.
Barbara Denk
Bainbridge Island
NK Pool
Jobs will be lost
if pool closes
I am part of the community effort to keep the North Kitsap Community Pool open.
While reading the article published in The Herald on Wed. June 25 I was struck by one comment made by one of the board members. It was stated that no lay-offs of staff were anticipated because of attrition.
I am hoping that it is realized by both the board and the community and that if the pool is closed there will be 53 people out of a job.
Here are some of those people that will lose their jobs. Manager: Employed by the district for more than a decade.
Assistant manager, swim coach, and instructor. Full-time employee with his first child arriving in August. Special Olympics coach: Helping these youth build self-confidence and skills so that they may lead a happy and productive life.
Lifeguards, swim instructors, and coaches: These individuals work part time to put themselves through school, while at the same time they have learned valuable lifetime skills.
The skill sets these individuals learn were taught to them by the first two individuals on this list.
Yes, there will be many people out of a job if the pool is closed.
Sue McCarty
Poulsbo
Deja vu. Again.
Oh my … deja vu all over again.
We moved to this area 40 years ago so we have been through this “letter writing for the pool” before.
When we got here in 1968, I was appalled at the percentage of children that could not swim in this area surrounded by water.
Even more appalled when my 13-year-old daughter was visiting a friend and they were out in Liberty Bay on inner tubes and the tide started out and her friend started to panic. My daughter said something like “no biggie, we can just go into the water and swim the tubes in.”
OK? Her friend could not swim.
My daughter came home and said, “Mom, you won’t believe this.” I guess my lectures on water safety and buddy system paid off.
Well, we got the pool, then the school couldn’t afford it so “parks and rec” or whatever it was called, took over.
Then I guess they went “belly up” so the school got it back.
Then it got a bad mold problem and a small fortune had to be spent on it again. So far so good.
Now the school is broke again and can’t afford it.
A very big investment to just close it, especially since it still has to be maintained!
Now, I may be wrong, but I think the kids of this community are much more important than just about anything else. As they say “they are the future”!
If the city of Poulsbo can float a bond, or loan or whatever they did, to pay for all the studies and now … the new city hall. It seems they should be able to do the same for our kids, grandkids and kids of the future.
I am 76 years old and not a political type person so I don’t know how.
That’s for the smart folks to figure out. I don’t know how Bainbridge Island did it, but their pool is fantastic!
So come on, people of Poulsbo, do something. I have donated, have you?
Juanita Moore,
Poulsbo
