As the countdown to the end of yet another school year reaches the one-month mark, considerations for next year are underway.
To have a certain amount of preconceived notion is human. It is what you do with those notions or you act on those notions that really matters.
We can have fun poking at ourselves, but need to be mindful when we poke at others.
Recently the amount of local stories about driving and crashes has me thinking a little more about what it really means to get behind the wheel and the culture of blame that seems to follow many of these incidents when things go wrong.
Did you know that Bremerton is the host city for the annual Washington State Science and Engineering Fair? Did you know WSSEF is wide open to all public, private, online and home schooled students in grades 1 to 12 in the state of Washington? Did you know that $1,000,000 in prizes and scholarships are awarded through this fair? Did you know that many school PTA’s and the City of Bremerton have scholarship funds set up to pay for each local student’s $15 entry fee? You did not know any of this? Well, neither did I.
This past week a retreat was held between Bremerton City Councilmembers, Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent and nearly all of the main city department heads. Because of my full time job, I am hard pressed to make public meetings that start before 5 p.m., so I arrived about 40 minutes into the nearly four-hour session. Finding the mayor’s conference room where the meeting was being held was also not very easy.
Top of the day to you, Bremerton. The middle of March brings us the promise of spring, a change in our clocks and the annual Bremerton St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Hello from Las Vegas. I am on vacation and I am satisfying my full on passion for NASCAR racing this weekend
For Bremerton and Kitsap County, it has been a rough couple of weeks.
First off, I feel just as safe living in Bremerton now as I did a year ago, before the murders.
In the later part of my three years serving the Bremerton School District via the District Finance Committee, the possibility of a capital improvement levy needed today was revealed two years ago.
In January 2013 the Naval Avenue Early Learning Center site will celebrate 100 years of continuous education. In anticipation of this event, the gathering of information about the overall history of the site is well underway. Photographs of the various school buildings that have operated on the site are being collected. Personal stories from 100 years of student, educator and parent participants are needed as well.
For some time now, the Bremerton City Council has faced ongoing decisions surrounding methadone distribution and possible dispensary clinic locations within the city limits.
Last week it snowed in Bremerton. It did again last Wednesday. Granted it was a dusting at best to start with, it ended with a with several inches and many roads closed.
Last Saturday I had the very distinct pleasure of joining a rather large group of fellow education advocates from all over the state. We spent a full day on legislation and education-based training hosted by the League of Education Voters, a Washington state-based citizen founded and citizen funded organization.
We are losing friends. Friends with whom we have built valuable relationships over the years as we frequently patronize the local businesses we enjoy. We are creatures of habit. We go where we are comfortable. Where everybody knows our name, cheers to you Boston.
As years go, 2011 was rough. It was rough on us individually, on our families and on our occupations. It was rough collectively as a community and a society. The new normal of doing more with less is now firmly in control of our day-to-day decision making and ways of operating.
A new type of revitalization has been building in Bremerton. It is a growing revitalization of citizen knowledge and involvement in the government and with the leadership that serves this city. Well known involved citizens have begun working together toward a common goal.
My column this week is an open letter to Teamsters Local 586. I’ve written it for a couple of reasons.
This past week, it was my turn on the field trip rotation schedule so off to Experience Music Project I went with a large majority of the fifth grade population from West Hills STEM Academy.
This holiday season, our family intends on putting a little less on our own table and in our own mouths and instead is looking to find ways to put more on the table for others.
