Seahawk Warren Moon to speak in Bremerton
BREMERTON — NFL Hall of Fame quarterback and former Seattle Seahawk Warren Moon will be the keynote speaker for the annual “Kitsap Celebration of Philanthropy” dinner and awards ceremony.
Moon is no stranger to philanthropy. In 1989 he founded The Crescent Moon Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support for educational pursuits that will benefit children who are most in need and who have displayed a commitment to their community, as well as other charitable causes. Ten scholarships are awarded annually to students who demonstrate a commitment to their community, excel in leadership and academics, and are in need.
Moon will speak about the importance of philanthropy, working with community foundations, and his stellar football career. Moon will also help the Celebration of Philanthropy guests honor the Kitsap Community Foundation’s 2016 Philanthropy Award recipients, grantees and scholarship recipients.
The Celebration of Philanthropy honors donors, leaders, and nonprofit organizations who have helped to shape our community for the better.
The Kitsap County Celebration of Philanthropy will be 5:30-9 p.m. May 13 at the Kitsap Convention Center. Tickets are $85. For more information and to purchase tickets visit http://www.kitsapfoundation.org/purchase-cop-tickets.aspx.
Harrison Medical Center recognized for knee and hip surgeries
BREMERTON — Harrison Medical Center was recognized as a “Blue Distinction Center” by Premera Blue Cross for its knee and hip replacement surgeries.
Harrison was among five CHI Franciscan Health hospitals that were honored for spine, knee or hip care. Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated health care facilities shown to deliver improved patient safety and better health outcomes, based on objective measures that were developed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies with input from the medical community.
“At CHI Franciscan our physicians, nurses and staff take great pride in providing excellent care and helping our patients get back to their active lifestyles as soon as possible,” said Greg Brown, MD, physician champion for orthopedic value based care at CHI Franciscan. “We are honored to be recognized as a premier health system delivering quality and affordable medical care.”
Hospitals designated as Blue Distinction Centers for spine surgery and knee and hip replacement demonstrate expertise in these surgeries, resulting in fewer patient complications and hospital readmissions. Designated hospitals must also maintain national accreditation.
CKFR personnel honored with annual awards
Each year Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue takes time to honor its own employees for outstanding work in the fire service. Employees nominate the person they feel is deserving of each title. The 2015 Annual Awards were presented earlier this week and the department is pleased to announce the recipients along with a few of the kind words that were shared about them by their coworkers.
• Terry Fassett, Career Firefighter of the Year 2015. Fassett has been with CKFR since 2005.
• Doug Bekenyi, EMS Person of the Year 2015. Bekenyi is known for his great bedside manner that makes patients feel relaxed. He has been with CKFR since 2004.
• Matt Porter, Career Officer of the Year 2015. Porter has improved how personnel are trained and has been with CKFR since 1998.
• Tammy Sargeant, Support Services of the Year 2015. Sargeant goes out of her way to make sure employees understand HR, benefits and insurance. She has been with CKFR since 1992.
• Linda Jenkins, Volunteer Firefighter of the Year 2015. Jenkins serves as finance chair for the Fire Fighter Association and helped map PulsePoint automatic external defibrillators. She has been with CKFR since 2010.
• Judy Henneman, Volunteer EMS of the Year 2015. She has been with CKFR since 1989.
• Tony Stewart, Volunteer Officer of the Year 2015. He supports mentors and trains volunteer firefighters and EMS providers and has been with CKFR since 1988.
• Jeff Sorenson, Most Inspirational 2015. He has been with CKFR since 1996.
Immigration talk set for May 12
BREMERTON — Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center will have a community conversation about immigration on 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, at the Bremer Student Center at Olympic College.
A project of a Leadership Kitsap’s 2016 Class, the event will feature video interviews with local immigrants produced by Bremerton Kitsap Access Television. Attendees will be encouraged to share their own stories of their families’ immigration to the United States whether it be in this generation or in generations past.
The event is free and light refreshments will be served. Those interested in attending should go online to Brown Paper Tickets to reserve their seat. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2536935
KIAC is committed to the well-being of immigrants and the development of a rich multicultural community. We work to empower, educate and integrate immigrants through advocacy and social justice. Go to www.kitsapiac.org for more information.
OurGEMS luncheon May 14
The OurGEMS Brilliance Award Luncheon is 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on May 14 at The Point Casino, 7989 NE Salish Lane, Kingston. Tickets are $15. Learn more at brillianceawards2016.eventbrite.com or contact Harriette Bryant at 360-930-1493 for more information. OurGEMS is a mentorship program supporting 200 young women to reach their fullest potential. Donations are also accepted at gofundme.com/ourgems.
The Miss West Sound Scholarship program accepting applications
SILVERDALE — The Miss West Sound Scholarship Program is accepting applications for its 2017 Miss West Sound and Miss West Sound’s Outstanding Teen competition.
Applicants for Outstanding Teen must be 13-17 years old on June 1, 2016. Applicants for the Miss competition must be 17-24 years old on June 1, 2016 and a high school graduate by July 1, 2016.
Contestants will be judged in talent, private interview, evening gown and on-stage question. Contestants will be judged in lifestyle and fitness in swimsuit and teen contestants will be judged in lifestyle and fitness in active wear.
The new Miss West Sound and Miss West Sound’s Outstanding Teen will be crowned the weekend of Oct. 1. They will both compete for their respective state titles in the summer of 2017 and will make appearances throughout Kitsap County during their year of service. Each participant will be awarded a scholarship for participating, with the opportunity to receive additional awards. The Miss West Sound Scholarship Program has provided close to $140,000 in scholarships since its inception in 2010 and has grown to be the third largest provider of scholarships among Miss Washington’s local programs.
Applications must be postmarked by May 23 and are available at www.misswestsound.org. Contestants must be available to attend a pre-interview and talent review at the beginning of June and a daylong orientation on July 23. For more information, contact Executive Director, Amanda Cheatham at MWSDirector@comcast.net.
Silverdale Rotary presents $10,000 check
On Friday, April 15, Silverdale Rotarians attended a Poulsbo Rotary meeting to present a surprise donation of $10,000. The donation is for the club’s assistance in the Marrow Manor project, which offers safe, supportive, longer-term affordable housing for survivors of domestic violence in Kitsap County. Morrow Manor is a planned eight-unit community meant to provide longer-term supportive housing essential to survivors’ success. For more information, visit supportmorrowmanor.org.
More businesses to open at The Trails soon
SILVERDALE — Since January, The Trails at Silverdale, an open-air specialty shopping center with 225,000 square feet of retail and dining space, has added four new stores including Chipotle, MOD Pizza, Silverdale Smiles Dentistry and Total Wine.
Silverdale Smiles Dentistry allows shoppers all-in-one service by combining technology with specialty services to offer modern dentistry at an affordable price. Services include same day dental crowns, boost whitening, oral surgery, wisdom teeth extraction, root canals, periodontics and more.
Corner Bakery, DSW, Forever 21, The Habit Burger Grill, Jersey Mike’s, Old Navy, Purpose Boutique, Sleep Number and Verizon are all slated to open this spring, summer and fall at The Trails at Silverdale.
The Trails at Silverdale is a walkable destination where shoppers can spend leisure time with family and friends, enjoying a signature restaurant or connecting in one of the common areas outfitted with fire pits and open seating. Currently open at The Trails at Silverdale is AT&T, Home Goods, Ulta Beauty, Blazing Onion, Chipotle, MOD Pizza, Total Wine and Silverdale Smiles Modern Dentistry. The Trails at Silverdale is located at 11199 Pacific Crest Place NW.
Jones joins Shiers
BREMERTON — Ryan J. Jones has joined the Shiers Law firm as an associate attorney as of March. Jones’ general law practice includes a wide variety of civil and criminal legal matters.
Jones graduated from the University of Washington in 2012 with a BA in communication and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Idaho College of Law in 2015. He spent his summers gaining criminal trial experience as an intern with the Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. He also worked as associate council to the Governor of Idaho. He moved back to Washington in 2015 and worked for the Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office until joining Shiers.
Smart driver course
BREMERTON — An AARP Smart Driver Course will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 12 and 13 at First Christian Church, 811 Veneta Ave. Attendees receive a course certificate and most insurance companies will authorize a discount for completion of the course. Pre-registration requested. Attendance required both days. $15-$20. Contact the church at 360-373-2444 or hello@bremertondisciples.org.
Library book sales
SILVERDALE — The Silverdale Friends of the Library will hold their May monthly book sale 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, in the Hess room of the library, located at 3450 NW Carlton St. in old town Silverdale.
There will be a $5 “bag sale” for the Saturday sale as well as two of the Monday sales (which are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 16 and 23). The library provides grocery bags and customers may fill them up! Because the community has recently provided such outstanding books, the library has to make room for the new ones, so it’s a great time to stock up on spring reading.
A regular Monday sale will be held on May 9.
The library will be closed on Memorial Day, May 30.
Book donations may be dropped off at the library during regular library hours.
PSNS & IMF video team places second
BREMERTON — Three employees from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility brought home a second-place finish in the Department of Defense’s 2015 Thomas Jefferson Awards Program.
Scott Matlock, Wayne Menard and Nick Larrabee of the PSNS & IMF Visual Information and Design Center earned the award in the Video Information Program category for their production “Inside PSNS & IMF.”
The Thomas Jefferson Awards are presented annually to DoD military and civilian personnel who excel in print and broadcast journalism and in digital media. Each military service holds a competition to select winners, who then go on to compete at the DoD level for the Thomas Jefferson awards.
Larrabee, Matlock and Menard won a first-place award in the Navy’s 2015 Russell Egnor Media Awards competition, announced in March, which qualified them to compete for the Thomas Jefferson award.
The public can see the PSNS & IMF team’s award-winning video, “Inside PSNS & IMF,” at the organization’s YouTube channel at this URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/JoeShipyardWorker.
NUWC Keyport Change of Command
KEYPORT — Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Keyport hosted a change of command ceremony at the Naval Undersea Museum on April 29. Captain Doug LaCoste will take command of the Center, commissioned on the Kitsap Peninsula in 1914, from Commander Dustin Demorest.
UFO meeting in Port Townsend May 7
PORT TOWNSEND — Robert Hastings’s new film “UFOs and Nukes: The Hidden Link Revealed” will be shown. This film rigorously examines the officially-still-hidden history of UFO activity at nuclear weapons laboratories, test areas, storage depots, and missile sites using authenticated files and the testimony of vetted military eyewitnesses.
The meeting is 1-3 p.m. at the Quaker Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan Ave., Port Townsend.
For more information about the Olympic UFO Meet Up or the location of the after-meeting group, please call 360-344-2991 or email olympic.ufo@gmail.com.
‘Nun on the bus’ May 8
BREMERTON — Sister Simone, author of “A Nun on the Bus,” is this year’s speaker at the annual RESULTS luncheon at the Kitsap Conference Center. She is a religious leader, attorney, poet and a noted speaker, advocate and educator on public policy issues. She is the executive director of NETWORK, has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Colbert Report, and on Fox News with Bill O’Reilly.
Her presentation, “Celebrating Children and Honoring Mothers by Faithfully Ending Poverty,” will be at 2 p.m. on May 8.
RESULTS, a lobbying group for the poor, has been holding fundraising luncheons in Kitsap for more than 20 years. Speakers in the past have included leaders from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other national and international organizations. RESULTS also honors a local organization with its Annual Kitsap Humanitarian Award. This year’s recipient is OurGEMS, a mentoring and empowering program for girls.
The cost of the meal and presentation at the Kitsap Conference Center is $40. Register or donate at www.tinyurl.com/RESULTSMOM2016 or call 253-857-5234 for further information.
Anne of Green Gables
SILVERDALE — Central Stage Theatre of County Kitsap presents the musical “Anne of Green Gables” 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m on Sundays through May 8. All performances will be at Central Kitsap Middle School, 10130 Frontier Place NW, Silverdale. Tickets are $8-$15. Learn more at cstock.org.
Kitsap Business Forum May 10
SILVERDALE — Dealing with disaster will be the topic of the next Kitsap Business Forum, 7:30 – 9 a.m. on May 10 at the Best Western Plus Silverdale Beach Hotel 3073 NW Bucklin Hill Road, Silverdale.
The topic of the meeting is “What to Do When the Big One Hits … and we’re not talking earthquakes.” Any organization can be hit with a disaster: Product tampering, labor strike, gunman or fires. These disasters have an impact on area businesses, but that impact is tiny compared to the impact of how you handle the crisis. Are you prepared?
Kitsap Bank sponsors the meeting space for the Kitsap Business Forum each month. Coffee and bagels provided by Panera. There is no fee to attend the meeting. Those interested in attending should RSVP to 360-692-6800 or at KitsapBusinessForum.com.
The Kitsap Business Forum is organized by the Silverdale Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Excell Puget Sound, Angela Henderson, the Kitsap Economic Development Alliance and Ameriprise Financial. KBF is sponsored by Bremerton Area Chamber of Commerce, Port Orchard Chamber of Commerce, Greater Poulsbo Chamber of Commerce, Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce, Kingston Chamber of Commerce and Kitsap Bank.
Weight loss contest kicks off May 7
SILVERDALE — The $10,000 Kitsap County Weight Loss Challenge is designed to connect participants with the resources, information, and support they need to create and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Registration includes a chance to win a portion of over $10,000 in prize money and other giveaways.
Even a modest amount of weight loss can lead to better health, increased energy, better movement, and reduces your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other health issues.
A $3,000 cash prize will be awarded to the top male and top female who lose the highest percentage of bodyweight. A $1,500 cash prize will be awarded to the second place man and woman. A $500 cash prize will be awarded to the third place man and woman. There is also a $1,000 team prize.
The kickoff event will be 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, at the Kitsap Mall.
For more information contact Kim Rose at krose@ymcapkc.org or 360-307-4006, or contact Jennifer Bekeny at jbekeny@ymcapkc.org or 360-307-4009.
Learn more online at https://goo.gl/01nuUG.
Coast Guard issues $100,000 civil penalty for WSF laser strike
SEATTLE — The Captain of the Port, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound, issued a $100,000 civil penalty Tuesday to a Washington resident who intentionally struck the Washington State Ferry Tokitae with a high-powered blue laser Oct. 22, 2015.
Coast Guard investigating officers determined that Mark Raden of Freeland, was aboard WSF Kitsap transiting between Mukilteo and Clinton when he pointed the laser at the pilot house of the Tokitae, resulting in injuries to the ferry master and chief mate.
Coast Guard officials are seeking civil penalties for violation of a safety and security zone as well as interference with the safe operation of the Tokitae while it transited between Mukilteo and Clinton. The final civil penalty amount will be determined by a Coast Guard Hearing Officer.
“Firing a laser at a vessel is extremely dangerous and directly interferes with the safe movement of commercial vessels and the Coast Guard’s ability to conduct search and rescue operations,” said Captain Joe Raymond, Captain of the Port, Sector Puget Sound. People who witness laser attacks are encouraged to call 911.
