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Spot anything? Skin anomalies should be checked out early | Adele Ferguson
Spot anything? Skin anomalies should be checked out...
By Adele Ferguson • June 7, 2008 1:32 am

Years ago, I forget how many, but at least 20, someone gave me a picture they took of me and I was surprised to notice a brown spot about the size of a quarter on my cheek.
It’s not that I hadn’t ever noticed it before, but if it was becoming significant enough to catch the eye in a photograph, I figured I should look into it. I delved into the American Medical Association’s Family Medical Guide, where I learned I was sporting what’s called a pre-cancerous skin spot caused by over exposure to the sun many years ago.
I.e., if you don’t do something about it, it will continue to grow and develop into one of three types of skin cancer.

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Don’t be afraid to get your Bible dirty | Joan Bay Klope
Don’t be afraid to get your Bible dirty...
By Joan Bay Klope • June 7, 2008 1:32 am

Up for a pop quiz?
Who is it that makes the promise to guide, advise and watch over each one of us? It is God, of course, and he makes this promise in the Bible’s Old Testament book of Psalms. To find the verse, turn to the center section of your Bible and look for Psalm 32 before moving down to verse 8.
If you continue to read a few lines further you will learn that God’s unfailing love surrounds those who trust in him. How many times have you needed to hear this kind of assurance from God this past week alone?

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Check out the all-new Central Kitsap Reporter
Check out the all-new Central Kitsap Reporter
June 7, 2008 1:32 am

Whether we like it or not, change is inevitable. But the key to accepting change, and even embracing it, is to look at it for its positive qualities. That’s what we’re doing here at the Central Kitsap Reporter. While many of our readers are used to a Wednesday and Saturday CK Reporter, and have been for many years, today’s issue is the first of a once-a-week only CK Reporter.

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Central Kitsap Reporter gets new staff writer
Central Kitsap Reporter gets new staff writer
By Wesley Remmer • June 7, 2008 1:32 am

Scanning the CK Reporter’s new-look pages, tallying your likes and dislikes, pros and cons, you’ve probably mulled through the articles (hopefully) wondering, “Who’s this Wesley character? And, where is Paul?”
As noted in his final column, Paul recently transferred within the company to work on our growing Web site, leaving behind a desk, chair and “beat” list for somebody to assume.
Yep, that somebody is me; Wesley Remmer, the newest education, health, transportation, environment, social services, growth and “other” reporter to land in Silverdale.

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Third and Fourth of July not immune to funding ills
Third and Fourth of July not immune to...
June 6, 2008 7:07 pm

Good grief. The North End’s biggest bashes of the year are in serious danger of being scaled back by epic proportions. Poulsbo’s Third of July and Kingston’s Fourth of July festivities — that’s 48 hours of community celebration — are both having quite a time fundraising this year.

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New Patriot, newish reporter
New Patriot, newish reporter
By Rachel Brant • June 6, 2008 3:14 am

While some of you may already know me, it’s only polite to introduce myself to all of Bremerton at once.
I’ve been with the Central Kitsap Reporter more than a year and now it’s time to add another feather to my cap: Bremerton Patriot staff writer. That’s right, this Silverdale gal is invading the city of Bremerton.
My beats at the CK Reporter include business, cops and fire, among other things, and I’ll work those same beats in Bremerton.

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Welcome to your new Bremerton Patriot
Welcome to your new Bremerton Patriot
June 6, 2008 3:13 am

By now, readers may have gotten a little used to change at the Bremerton Patriot. Since the paper got its start in 1999, the majority of those changes have been in staffing. Today’s new Bremerton Patriot, however, is just the start of what readers can soon come to expect.
And while change isn’t always easy, the key to accepting and even embracing it is to look at it for its positive qualities.

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Musically and personally, they have each other’s back
Musically and personally, they have each other’s back
By Mary Colborn • June 4, 2008 4:00 pm

Every now and then someone puts a book into your hands and says, “You must read this.”
You think, “Hmm, as many books as there are published every day, why would this one prove meaningful to me?”
And yet, it always does. Doesn’t it?
It’s as if the rich kaleidoscope of books they share contain important messages you need to hear and the people themselves, well, they’re some sort of angel.

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Sometimes spots are more than spots — and when they are, docs need to know
Sometimes spots are more than spots — and...
June 4, 2008 4:00 pm

Years ago, I forget how many, but at least 20, someone gave me a picture they took of me and I was surprised to notice a brown spot about the size of a quarter on my cheek.
Its not that I hadn’t ever noticed it before but if it was becoming significant enough to catch the eye in a photograph, I figured I should look into it.
I delved into the American Medical Associations Family Medical Guide, where I learned I was sporting whats called a pre-cancerous skin spot caused by over exposure to the sun many years ago.
I.e., if you don’t do something about it, it will continue to grow and develop into one of three types of skin cancer.

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SEED should be treated like business — a bad business — and abandoned
SEED should be treated like business — a...
June 4, 2008 10:00 am

With the confidence borne of someone who won’t have to face the voters again until 2011 (assuming he even decides to run at that point), Port of Bremerton Commissioner Bill Mahan last week went to bat once more for his pet project, the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) business incubator he envisions being built in the South Kitsap Industrial Area.
Speaking at a luncheon event on Wednesday with the Kitsap County commissioners, Mahan lamented the lack of progress on SEED and blamed the gridlock on leaders who lack his vision.

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North End power outage illustrates tech dependence
North End power outage illustrates tech dependence
June 3, 2008 5:53 pm

A squirrel sent us back to the Stone Age on Monday morning. Yes, in this sophisticated society in which we are traveling to explore other planets, map the human genome and teach our children how to use computers before they can use the potty, a squirrel can still rock our world.

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Spot anything odd? Pre-cancerous marks should be checked out early
Spot anything odd? Pre-cancerous marks should be checked...
June 3, 2008 5:52 pm

Years ago, I forget how many, but at least 20, someone gave me a picture they took of me and I was surprised to notice a brown spot about the size of a quarter on my cheek.
It’s not that I hadn’t ever noticed it before but if it was becoming significant enough to catch the eye in a photograph, I figured I should look into it. I delved into the American Medical Association’s Family Medical Guide, where I learned I was sporting what’s called a pre-cancerous skin spot caused by over exposure to the sun many years ago.

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KFC: An ancient Chinese tradition
KFC: An ancient Chinese tradition
By Jacque Thornton • June 2, 2008 9:14 pm

Last week, Don and I stopped at the Colonel’s in Poulsbo for a quick bite. It reminded me of an article by James and Dick Thorpe in their book “Ancient Inventions,” published in 1994.
One chapter tells that the bucket-of-chicken-type restaurants are not really as new as we may think. Ma Yu Ching opened a “Bucket Chicken House” in China, in the city of Kaifeng. A very good business in 1153 AD.

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Free this month? Go out and make a new friend
Free this month? Go out and make a...
By Donna Lee Anderson • June 2, 2008 9:13 pm

The dictionary says a friend is ‘one with whom a person shares mutual affection, respect and regard. A person that cares.’
Look around you. How many people can you count as a friend? Is it the fellow next door that mows your lawn sometimes when he mows his? Is it the one that phones you for no reason, but just to say hello? Could it be a person you don’t know, but they write books you love to read?
As I write this I count myself so lucky. I have many friends.

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State Rep. Pearson: Flawed laws allowing Kitsap County transient sex offender to live less than five miles from victim, elementary school
State Rep. Pearson: Flawed laws allowing Kitsap County...
June 2, 2008 8:01 pm

I was as shocked when I heard about the release of a homeless sex offender in my district, who was instructed by community supervision officials to live under the 88th Street Bridge, which crosses State Route 2.
The bridge is located less than five miles from the home of the offender’s victim and near an elementary school.

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From Middle Earth to Central Kitsap: spotting mystical trees
From Middle Earth to Central Kitsap: spotting mystical...
May 30, 2008 6:36 pm

Many primitive people of noble, highly developed civilizations treated trees with great respect. Trees were often associated with having supernatural powers, being gods, ancestors and associated with different forms of worship. The Druids, particularly, believed that trees possessed great mysterious powers. Since ancient times, man has been influenced by trees.

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