He started when he was about 16 years old and has never stopped. Although some cringe at the thought of donating blood, it’s become part of a routine for 62-year-old Leonard Newsom of East Bremerton.
“It’s important because not everyone can do it,” Newsom said. “At some point you may need it.”
He started when he was about 16 years old and has never stopped. Although some cringe at the thought of donating blood, it’s become part of a routine for 62-year-old Leonard Newsom of East Bremerton.
“It’s important because not everyone can do it,” Newsom said. “At some point you may need it.”
For some, spring may mean cleaning, more hours of daylight or the daunting task of filing tax returns. But for Angelia Myers of Silverdale, the task is far from daunting — she knows where to get help.
“I’d rather let someone else take care of it,” Myers, 46, said. “I know I would make a mistake.”
Hank Sykes was sweeping up in the radio station in San Antonio, an orphan, a teenager not yet of high school age, when his Hollywood moment arrived.
They needed him, young Hank had to go on the air.
The boy with a penchant for broadcasting — he was transfixed by a transistor radio set as a youngster — took to the airwaves and introduced himself to the world as Mann, Hank Mann.
Rian Anderson likes to watch movies. She hangs out with her boyfriend. Sometimes she gets into fights with her younger sister. From afar, she seems like an average teenager. However, much of her days are consumed with being in physical pain — and the uncertainty of whether it will get better.
“I wanted to be a nurse,” said Anderson, 19, of Crosby in Central Kitsap. “I tried to be a nurse after my surgery but they said I couldn’t do it because I can’t lift people or change sheets.”
Gwen Guidici draws inspiration from the beauty of her surroundings. Then she paints it. And then it’s turned into a Mac App.
But her work being turned into an interactive game was never the Bremerton artist’s intentions. And at present, she doesn’t have a way to play it herself.
“I don’t have a Mac, so I can’t download it,” Guidici, 54, said Monday.
It didn’t happen overnight. It was a long time in the making.
Central Kitsap High School was recognized last week with receiving a 2010 Washington Achievement Award for Closing Achievement Gaps — one of 24 schools in the state and only one of two high schools.
Although the award is based on two prior years of state student testing, officials said bringing the grades of minority students into parity with those of white and Asian students has taken a concerted effort.
“It’s not any one or two years of work,” said Central Kitsap High School Principal Stephen Coons. “It’s a combination of factors.”
It smelled, but they couldn’t really complain since they were the cause of it. So they rolled up their sleeves, donned face masks and carried on.
“It’s nasty,” said Drake Ballou, a sixth grader at Cougar Valley Elementary School, contemplating a pile of the school’s trash. “But, it’ll help.”
Figuring out the boundaries for a proposed incorporated Silverdale will be more difficult than playing “eeny, meeny, miny, moe,” especially for those who live along the Silverdale urban growth area boundaries.
“We understand the passion they have for their community, but we have the same passion for the city of Poulsbo,” said Jim Gillard, 37, who
Last Thursday afternoon it was bagels.
Bagels, salsa, artisan breads, soups and barbecue sauce typically do not have a lot in common — except in Bremerton, on Fourth Street to be specific. They are all made at Evergreen Kitchen, a Bremerton co-op commercial kitchen.
Kitsap Transit will design and build a bus transfer station on Clear Creek Road near Greaves Way to replace the transit center at Kitsap Mall, a plan transit agency’s Board of Commissioners approved Tuesday.
The temporary stop is a compromise to keep a bus stop near the mall.
In November, the mall announced the west entrance of the mall would be “transformed” to make way for a new retail store and that the
The Bremerton Salvation Army’s homeless shelter had its ceremonial opening Monday and another Bremerton shelter is in the works.
“I appreciate the great heart in being able to do this,” said Maj. Jim Baker of the Bremerton Salvation Army as he acknowledged the organizations including the Bremer Trust, the Bremerton Housing Authority and individuals such as Mayor Patty Lent, who helped get the operation up and running.
Sure, Silverdale may not be a city, but soon it too will have its own slogan.
“Welcome to ratty Silverdale is what I saw,” said Mary Earl of the deteriorating welcome sign at the north entrance on Silverdale Way. “Something had to be done.”
Just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, Greg Lynch walked toward the center of the Olympic High School library still wearing his Bluetooth earpiece and wrote down a number on a poster board. The number was less than 50 percent. The room of Central Kitsap School District officials, board members and supporters sat silently.
The Buddha figure sitting on the top shelf above the liquor bottles isn’t the only new accent to Chico’s 19th Hole. A lot has changed.
“It’s like night and day,” said Ken Axtman of Seabeck. “It was dark and dingy before — wasn’t very inviting. It’s set up a lot better.”
The pinging sound of the cash register isn’t typical. The vintage unit looks like it’s just for show, but Sammy Knox, co-owner of McGregor and Company, bought it in working condition at a garage sale the summer before she opened the country gift shop in Old Town Silverdale in 1995. The trusty register has been with her over the years, just as the many friends she’s made along the way.
When they rocked out to Classic Crime in 2009, the members of the Christian rock band The Exchange didn’t expect that in about a year they would open for them.
But that’s what happened last summer at the Silverdale Waterfront Park’s Party at the Pier.
Steffan Collins, an African American senior at Central Kitsap High School, knows the school is making an effort — but said more needs to be done.
“They put up stuff in the hallways,” Collins, 17, said of the display case in the main hall and library board with information and pictures of distinguished African Americans in recognition of Black History Month. “They don’t do a lot in the classrooms though.”
There would be milk. They had no doubts that their customers would walk out with strong bones and that they would be better at ordering supplies.
“I was drinking chocolate milk as a meal replacer,” said Donna Wharton, co-owner of Bella Bella Cupcakes, after her business partner, Amie Lacher, ordered too much milk for their new Silverdale retail location.
The learning tree stands in the corner with apple-shaped paper that students decorated. Lined across one wall are bins of books and different words stapled to a colorful board. This is Ms. Threadgold’s kindergarten classroom at Jackson Park Elementary School in Central Kitsap.
“Great job today,” said Jennifer Threadgold
