Bainbridge island Review
Community broadcast celebrates 100th podcast: In just its first six months of broadcasting on Bainbridge, Bainbridge Community Broadcasting has reached 100 podcasts.
To celebrate the milestone, listeners can now download a free app to their iPhones, iPads and Android smartphones and tablets to more easily access Bainbridge radio shows.
“The podcast radio episodes tell the stories of Bainbridge events, people, nonprofits, businesses, arts and artists, local issues, outdoor activities and local food,” said volunteer manager Barry Peters of Bainbridge Community Broadcasting.
A Sustainable Bainbridge project, Bainbridge Community Broadcasting offers six Internet radio shows geared to building a more engaged community.
What’s Up Bainbridge features local events; Who’s On Bainbridge spotlights citizens; Community Cafe Bainbridge discusses local issues; Bainbridge Outdoors shares outdoor activities; Tastes of Bainbridge talks local food, gardening and dining; and Bainbridge on Campus covers the teen perspective from the BHS Radio Club.
Episodes have covered Edge Improv founders Frank Buxton and John Ellis, seashore wildlife at Fort Ward Park during the fall arctic seabird migration and local issues with guests like the police chief, city manager and planning director.
For its 100th podcast, the show featured the unlikely and delightful story of Jake’s Pickup, where Jake serves up healthy, organic and locally-sourced foods, prepared from scratch.
The group also plans to encourage the city to offer an AM broadcast radio station for local emergency information.
Bainbridge Community Broadcasting was made possible by One Call for All funds donated to Sustainable Bainbridge, a $7,000 grant by the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island and a $4,750 grant from the Bainbridge Community Foundation.
Several thousand dollars of individual donations by community members have also helped the group grow over the last year.
To learn more, visit BestofBCB.org.
Bremerton Patriot
Stennis takes fast cruise: Over the next five days, USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) will be manned and ready as nearly 3,000 sailors operate the ship 24 hours a day as though it is cruising through the Pacific, except for one, big detail: it will not leave the pier.
On Oct. 31, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, Stennis is scheduled to kick off fast cruise, a five-day training evolution that will bring the ship to life after a 16-month Docking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) maintenance period.
Fast cruise provides the opportunity to measure the ship’s preparedness. It is designed to get the crew into an operational mindset, flipping a switch for those who have experienced life at sea before, and sending a shock to the system for those who have not.
Sailors in deck and navigation departments will practice getting underway and pulling into port in both day and night conditions, loss of steering drills and setting anchor. Each of these evolutions will acclimate Sailors to the around-the-clock watches required while underway.
On the flight deck, the crew will receive a refresher on aircraft chocking and handling operations, and run crash and salvage drills using a decommissioned F/A-18 Super Hornet known as the Dud.
General quarters, man overboard, and abandon ship drills will be all-hands evolutions. The crew will demonstrate their ability to combat casualties such as fire, flooding and collisions, while ensuring safety and mission readiness.
While the focus of fast cruise is on training, the evolution also creates a change in mindset. Since the ship will simulate at sea conditions, the crew will not freely walk on and off the ship or head home at night to sleep in their beds.
If crew members do need to depart the ship, they will request a “seat” on a simulated C-2 greyhound aircraft conducting Carrier On-board Delivery (COD) operations. The simulated flights will occur only a few times a day, further enhancing the at sea mentality.
Stennis is currently completing a DPIA maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. The ship will get underway soon for sea trials, which constitutes the final determination of a ship’s ability to re-join the fleet as a fully operational unit.
For more news from USS John C. Stennis visit www.stennis.navy.mil or www.facebook.com/stennis 74.
Central Kitsap Reporter
Deputies investigate school gun threat: Detectives and deputies from the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office responded to Fairview Junior High School on Thursday morning in response to a rumor that a student was going to bring a gun to the school.
An administrator from Fairview Junior High School called 9-1-1 to report the rumor at 7:36 a.m. A sheriff’s deputy arrived at the school at 7:42 a.m. to investigate and detectives arrived soon after that.
After investigating, detectives determined that non-specific threats were made by a student from the school. However there was no threat to bring a gun to the school.
The student involved was identified and spoken with. No arrests were made and sheriff’s office investigators will be forwarding a report to the Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney for review. Any additional actions taken by the school will be in accordance with their policies and procedures.
“Your sheriff’s office takes these types of threats very seriously,” Detective Lt. Earl Smith said.
“We will investigate these fully and hold those individuals accountable for their actions.”
Three deputies were assigned to the school to provide an increased presence during the investigation.
The Central Kitsap School District has contacted students families explaining today’s events.
The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office commends and appreciates both students and parents for making appropriate notifications to school and law enforcement officials concerning these types of rumors.
Paranormal shop holds essay contest to sell business: Mrs. Muir’s House of Ghosts and Magic opened earlier this year. But the owners feel they have stretched themselves too thin, between two other nearby shops they operate, and are seeking the right person to take the business over.
“We would like someone to come in and take over the store with everything in it,” co-owner Rik Scott said. “The place is almost totally furnished with nice antiques.”
Mrs. Muir’s, in an 1871 house on Rainier Avenue in Port Gamble, is a paranormal supply shop or, as Scott said, a “paranor-mall.”
But its shelves are light currently as the owners cannot put enough time into the store. They are selling it with the hopes the next owner continues it, and expands.
“If we could get $30,000 for everything, that would be fantastic. We would recoup some of what we put into it.”
The price, however, is not fixed or even the most important consideration for the sale. Scott and co-owner Danya Simkus would like the business to go to the right person. To do this, they hosted an essay contest for potential buyers.
A financial offer is still required, but the essay will be the deciding factor.
“I had a nice money offer but they didn’t want it to be this. They didn’t want [the store] to be a community thing,” Simkus said. “It’s important for me to have lots of different kinds of psychics and have somebody that does everything.”
She added, “I’m a big essay person. If somebody has the experience to do it and thinks they can do it, they write an essay, and if that is a more interesting offer than [the amount of] money, they will get it.”
The essay deadline was Oct. 31. If a winner emerges, Simkus plans on choosing a new owner soon.
Scott said the business is set up to be a big draw for Port Gamble, a town that promotes its paranormal side. Port Gamble hosts ghost tours through various haunted buildings in town.
But Scott said he and Simkus are busy with their other shops, No. 7 Books in Port Gamble, and The Bookery in Kingston.
“It’s a time issue,” Scott said. “I work at the Kingston Bookery part of the time, and I work here part of the time but I’m only able to open this store on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.”
Scott said a full-time Mrs. Muir’s would be a draw.
“It is such a good opportunity and could be a good money maker,” he said. “There is a big paranormal community around Port Gamble — not just ghosts, there are also psychics and witches and such. And when they need supplies they have to go to Seattle.”
The store currently has a selection of paranormal books, tarot cards and jewelry. Scott is also a magician and sells magic products in the store, while also performing a trick or two for visitors. Scott said Mrs. Muir’s has supply chains set up for a variety of paranormal products to add to the store.
“If this store was properly managed and fully operational, it would become a destination, even in the winter time, for the paranormal community,” Scott said.
Simkus noted that town representatives said they would like to start the ghost tours there, as it is one of the local homes reputed to be haunted.
The owners noted the many communities in the area that use such a store as this — ghost hunters, witches, druids and others. They are hoping someone steps up to take it on.
“There is so much to order and so much to know,” Simkus said. “And there are so many people around here that love this stuff. There’s got to be someone who knows this stuff and can supply it.”.
Port Orchard Independent
Motorhome burns: South Kitsap Fire and Rescue firefighters applied foam onto a 30-foot motorhome that was destroyed in an Oct. 28 fire behind a home on Harris Road SE near SE Abernathy Court.
Crews were dispatched to the fire about 1:40 p.m. and were able to extinguish the fire, preventing it from spreading to the adjacent home.
The fire was detected by a neighbor and the property owners were alerted with 911 being called. No one was injured.
