Do-si-do back to a simpler time in this Seabeck celebration
Dear Erin, Traditionally we’ve had a sit-down Christmas dinner at our home. Now our children have grown and married and have several homes to visit on Christmas.
Dear Erin, What’s the best gift to get grandparents, or the people who have it all?
Local church recreates the City of David. The congregation at Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church on Bainbridge Island would like to remind folks of another important Christmas figure: Jesus.
Best-selling young readers fantasy author Christopher Paolini is on tour promoting his latest book, “Inheritance,” the concluding novel in the Inheritance series.
Paolini will make a stop on his multi-city tour on Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. at Bainbridge High School Commons, 9330 NE High School Road, Bainbridge Island.
I was able to chat with him in between tour visits to learn a bit about him and his popular series.
One year, her tree had a sleigh theme. Another year, it was decorated with vintage-looking dolls. This year’s theme is “Cooking with Claus” and features gingerbread.
For each of the last 24 years, Sandra Carlson has decorated a Christmas tree, each with its own unique theme, for the Festival of Trees. So she wasn’t about to miss the 25th and final event.
How Thanksgiving savvy are you? Take this quiz and find out.
My mannerly Grandma Win surely cringes in her grave when my family dines.
Our elbows are on the table and our napkins aren’t properly placed in our laps. I can practically hear her chanting, “Mabel, Mabel, if you’re able, keep your elbows off the table.”
In our culture of quick meals and hurried schedules, our table etiquette has become a tad rusty. This Thanksgiving, I plan to reclaim a civil dining table. Of course, I need to refresh my own etiquette memory.
If you are a card-carrying library patron, did you know your card allows you to go beyond checking out stacks of books?
With your card you can learn a new language. Or find a long lost relative. Or finally discover the reason your 1973 Trans Am won’t start. This can all be done at the website, www.krl.org.
Chris Casad was a giver.
He gave his time and energy as an active board member of the South Kitsap Helpline Food Bank and the local chapter of the Kiwanis Club.
Professionally, he spent his 33-year career as a public servant working in the Kitsap County Prosecutor’s Office.
“Chris was always the first person to volunteer at our club,” said Cerissa Holme, a friend and fellow Kiwanis Club member. “He always put others’ needs in front of his own.”
On these short days when we receive only about nine and a half hours of daylight, you may find yourself humming the old Simon & Garfunkel tune that starts with “Hello darkness, my old friend.”
You might have read Jim Moore’s sports articles in the Seattle-Post Intelligencer. Or perhaps you now listen to him on “The Kevin Calabro Show” on ESPN Radio.
This weekend the air inside the Kitsap County Fairgrounds may smell like a mechanic’s garage when swap meet vendors pack more than 30,000 square feet with anything automobile-related.
“The majority of the items will be vintage stuff,” said coordinator Jim Barnes. “You’re liable to find just about anything automobile-related.”
When you walk into the Pyrex Museum inside the Amy Burnett Gallery in Bremerton, you can practically taste scalloped potatoes. Or chicken divan—or any other dish that once was served in these retro, decorative dishes.
Olympic Peninsula Autism Center in Silverdale will be the only center-based autism treatment facility in Kitsap.
You know me as Ask Erin, but I have questions of my own that need answering. I’m turning the tables this week and asking for your help.
The historic town of Port Gamble, with its pristine grounds and buildings, looks as if it is a movie set.
But exactly what type of movie? Perhaps the ghostly variety.
The struggling economy has caused more than lost jobs and foreclosures. It’s also caused heartache for pets and their families.
How to handle when you can’t remember a name.
The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats bring their act to Bremerton this weekend.
