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POULSBO — Months of planning will crescendo to forte for North Kitsap High School’s choir students at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time Sunday.
That’s when 45 vocally inclined Vikings will sing at one of the premiere classical venues in the United States — Carnegie Hall. The hall, located in midtown Manhattan, was built by 19th century philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890 and has been impressing people both on stage and in the audience ever since.
KINGSTON — The Kingston Community Center Foundation is hoping to take a step down the path to make Kingston a walkable community — yielding to a variety of ideas on extending roadways and creating beautiful streets as part of the proposed Village Green project.
HANSVILLE — A quiet mover and shaker in the Hansville community was honored for his contributions to the neighborhood at a March 21 Greater Hansville Community Center board meeting. After wiring up what seems like half of Hansville and helping out at other events and gatherings, George Briese was given the Hansville Outstanding Citizen Award.
“I’m very honored and extremely humbled to receive this recognition,” he said. “We’ve been here about seven years, and they have been wonderful.”
SUQUAMISH — The Suquamish Tribe and Port Madison Enterprises have teamed up to light the fuse at the Third of July celebration over Liberty Bay.
Together, they are donating $10,500 to assist what was a floundering fireworks budget.
“As far as July 3rd is concerned, the tribe is happy to contribute,” said Tribal Chairman Leonard Forsman. “Our families go down to the bay and enjoy watching the show, they’re all looking forward to the event as well.”
POULSBO — After last year’s 24th annual Poulsbo-North Kitsap Rotary auction raised more than $90,000, club president-elect Donna Strep has her sights set on a slightly larger number.
“I would love to raise $100,000,” Strep said. “I think it’s doable.”
With less than a month before the April 28 event, Strep said the club’s current focus is on procuring items to ensure the club meets that goal.
POULSBO — When Miss Poulsbo 2006 Brenna Gardner-Brown passed the crown to her successor, Alex Duchimen, on March 24 in Bremerton, it marked the official end to a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Even though Gardner-Brown didn’t gain the notoriety of her fellow county royalty, Miss Washington 2006 Kristen Eddings, she has left an indelible mark on Little Norway.
POULSBO — With the calendar marching on to 2008, city officials are busy planning the best way to celebrate 100 years of self-governance on the shores of Liberty Bay.
The city council’s community services committee has been tasked with leading the effort to ensure the historic event gets its proper due.
SUQUAMISH — With a camera, a roll of film and a little guidance, Suquamish teenagers could view their community in a whole new light.
Modeled after a program created in South Park, Photovoice allows community youth to approach their neighborhood with a unique frame of mind and lens.
KINGSTON — Armed with booms, tarps and other prevention gear, first responders and other groups from throughout Kitsap County congregated at the Kingston Marina Tuesday afternoon to learn how to best combat the hazardous and devastating effects of an oil spill.
POULSBO — Residents in Little Norway might be forced to “get off the pot” unless the city improves its sewage system before 2011.
That, in a manner of speaking, was what City Engineer Andrzej Kasiniak told the city council’s public works committee Wednesday night.
PORT ORCHARD — In an effort to iron out wrinkles that have arisen in Kitsap County’s Department of Community Development, the new director, Larry Keeton, is closing shop for a while.
Not permanently, but he’s decided to sequester the DCD planners from April 1 to June 1 to deal with a backlog of 168 permits stewing in department files.
POULSBO — After a busy first week on the job, interim Poulsbo Police Chief Jake Evans managed to catch his breath for at least a few minutes Monday afternoon.
The week included a bomb threat at city hall, an arson on Bond Road and the aftermath of the March 16 arson fire at Wal-Mart.
HANSVILLE — All this week, Kitsap County employees and Hansville community volunteers will be sprucing up the soon-to-open Norwegian Point Park for its first public appearance.
After gaining ground since September 2005, when a Washington State Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation $1 million grant to Kitsap County made buying the park possible, it is now ready for public use.
POULSBO — For local music lovers and people who care about their community, there aren’t many reasons not to attend a March 30 benefit show in the name of Poulsbo teen Michael Schrader.
The bill is laden with young North Kitsap bands — two from Kingston, one from Poulsbo — along with the headliner Siren’s Sister, which hails from Seattle. It all kicks off with Uncus at 6:45 p.m. March 30 at the North Kitsap Community Auditorium.
BREMERTON — Excitement and shock spread across Megan Hornbuckle’s face as she was named Miss Kitsap 2007 at Saturday’s Miss Kitsap/Miss Poulsbo Scholarship Pageant.
“I’m thrilled because I have dreamed of this,” Hornbuckle said through emotion. “This was my third time, I’m excited to represent the community.”
POULSBO — At Thursday’s regular meeting of the North Kitsap School Board, discussion took on an ominous undercurrent with regard to the North Kitsap Regional Events Center. But school board president Melanie Mohler pronounced it as a “premature” conversation.
Master planning efforts over the past year between the school district, Kitsap County, the city of Poulsbo and the Kitsap Public Facilities District have envisioned a sweeping event complex on the NKSD’s Poulsbo property including a synthetic turf field, an enhanced performing arts venue and a brand new indoor events center among other projects to be built by the partnership over the next 20 years.
PORT GAMBLE — The “discovery” of Cyrus Walker’s body floating in the Port Gamble Bay drew nearly 80 visitors to historic Port Gamble Saturday afternoon.
The super sleuths were tasked with discerning exactly what happened to Walker in an 1853 version of CSI. The answer shocked those even with the steadiest of nerves.
BREMERTON — Cheers erupted from a section of fans dressed in green in the Bremerton High School Auditorium Saturday night as Alex Duchemin was crowned Miss Poulsbo 2007.
“I couldn’t be more excited about this honor,” Duchemin said with a smile, following the Miss Poulsbo/Miss Kitsap Scholarship Pageant.
KINGSTON — After giving countless hours of community service and asking nothing in return, horse trainer and farrier Bill Mason watched with his wife Geri as the community showed up in droves Saturday to give them not what they “asked for” but what they needed.
And they did it with the help of their equine friends.
