Stepping up to the breakfast plate

Published 2:00 pm Wednesday, September 20, 2006

In a community where entrepreneurs are everywhere and a large part of what makes North Kitsap the thriving community it is, the fact that no one in Kingston has made a full-hearted run at restarting a quality, reasonably-priced breakfast service in the early a.m. is baffling.

The Kingston Inn has been gone exactly a year and rather than filling the huge business void, most seem content to play the waiting game.

As far as the Inn goes, it could be awhile what with million dollar condos needing to be sold first to put the downtown eatery back on the menu. What is this, L.A.?

Meanwhile, finding a big breakfast in Kingston has become about as fun as getting stuck behind some fella doing 35 mph all the way down the Hansville Highway. Not that it can’t be found. But it’s just not to the same magnitude to which residents here were once blissfully accustomed.

It’s a shame.

A shame because as everyone knows it’s more than just the most important meal of the day that’s been lost. A slice of community with civic groups on the side has been wiped off the dry-erase board as well.

All someone needs to do is get the pen out and put the “Daily Special” back in bold letters. One might surmise that this hasn’t occurred out of respect for the Inn. Maybe there are other constraints at hand but, from a business standpoint, it seems like the pitcher’s throwing underhand slowballs right down the center of the plate, and no one’s stepping up and giving a good, hard swing at them.

Prospective batters shouldn’t stay silent forever.