It seems like only yesterday that the young actors at Western Washington Center for the Arts were giggling while they painted their faces and put on cute bug costumes for “James and the Giant Peach.â€
Oh wait — that was only yesterday. But kids grow up, and so, it seems has WWCA.
It’s a season so big they gave it its own name: “A Journey of Imagination.â€
The Bainbridge Performing Arts 50th Anniversary Season lineup looks to be just that, with a long list of creative stops along the way. In addition to theatrical and orchestral performances, the organization has added many new components.
POULSBO — When Mayor Kathryn Quade presents Jasmine Campbell, Whitney Glebe and Elisabeth Almond a key to the city tonight, she won’t see one thing: the color of their skin.
After Campbell, who is African-American, won the 2006 Viking Fest pageant April 22, festival organizers received at least 11 e-mails decrying her victory and stating that she shouldn’t wear the crown because of her race.
POULSBO — Even though a settlement has been reached on the Bond Road Pump Station appeal, the adjoining State Route 305 force main remains on hold because of concerns from the Washington State Department of Ecology.
“We’ve already given up on being in front of them,†City Engineer Andrzej Kasiniak said of the SR 305 widening project, which is scheduled to begin this summer. “As soon as DOE gives me the green light, it’s a go.â€
POULSBO — With more than half of the city’s Urban Growth Area already annexed, Associate Planner Edie Berghoff gave council members a brief reminder of how the annexation process works at the council’s May 3 meeting.
Two initial annexation meetings were on the council agenda and several people expressed their desire to not be incorporated into the city before the issues came up for council discussion.
POULSBO — Somehow “The Battle of the Season†doesn’t even quite grasp the level of play or the street fight focus of the Narrows League final regular season fastpitch match up, which pitted CK against NK on an overcast afternoon May 8 in Poulsbo.
POULSBO — From the ground up is where a program is built, luckily for North, the Vikings’ newly appointed head boys basketball coach Tony Chisholm has already been involved at the base level.
Chisholm will be NK’s third new head coach in four years as he replaces Derek Anderson. The North Kitsap School District announced the decision May 8.
While some people might find history a bit dry, the Kitsap County Historical Society has found a way to make it pretty tasty. Good enough to eat in fact.
For the fourth year the society is hosting a “six course†meal of Kitsap County history, with tours to historically significant sites, topped off with a satisfying meal at each stop.
It’s cool to be in the pool. Hats (or rather swimming caps) off to North Kitsap’s contingent of strokers who will represent the area in the state meet. So far, 11 will be taking a dip to go for further glory.
They did us all proud at the Southwest Regional Meet in Kelso, bringing home not only a boatload of gold medals but a slew of personal bests.
POULSBO — West Sound Academy is an independent college preparatory school established by steadfast dreamers who have striven to develop students who will ultimately become tomorrow’s leaders.
But dreams were only the beginning.
POULSBO — North Kitsap High School’s girls basketball team will be getting used to a new leader for the 2006-2007 campaign, but consistency will remain as last year’s JV coach Kaelea Makaiwi-Barreith takes the step up to head coach.
Despite her being Miss Viking Fest for less than two weeks, Jasmine Campbell’s crowning is already causing a stir in Poulsbo and elsewhere — for the wrongest reasons we can think of.
She’s African-American…
POULSBO — Councilman Ed Stern held his cards close to his vest leading up to Wednesday’s city council meeting, but when he showed his hand, all bets on the location of a new municipal campus were off … at least until next week.
“I need to address the motion from the special council meeting,†Stern said as he took aim at the council’s April 26 decision to approve a $30,000 cost analysis of the 10th Avenue city hall site, the Creekside Center on 7th Avenue and a downtown alternative.
POULSBO — A change in location bore fruit as the Poulsbo Garden Club’s annual plant sale raised more than $2,000 for local beautification projects last year.
This year, club president Mary Carter is hoping for more of the same as the May 13 event will once again take root in the Northwest Design Center parking lot at the intersection of State Route 305 and Hostmark Street.
POULSBO — Following a painful belt-tightening budget study session, the North Kitsap School Board drummed up possible ways that the district can contribute to the implementation of the North Kitsap Regional Events Center.
The NKREC master planning phase wrapped up April 11, ending the dreaming stage of community wants and needs, and bringing the project’s four partnering boards to the reality of finances.
POULSBO — Anniston and Belle were the first to come home and Scarlett and Camilee are expected to join them this weekend. Weston will be the last to arrive, possibly in a few weeks.
After giving birth to Kitsap County’s first quintuplets March 30, Courtnee Stevenson and her husband, Mike, have had their hands full with two babies and their 3-year-old daughter, Lilli.
KINGSTON — Kids helping kids.
That was the bottom line April 21 as the Wolfle Elementary after school quilting club donated five baby blankets for the budding bundles of joy that are Kitsap County’s first quintuplets.
Though the Stevenson quints were still beginning life at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle at the time, the Wolfle quilters presented their infant gifts to one of the family’s friends, Linda Rohlinger.
KINGSTON — A hub of Wick Constructors’ trucks and orange-vested workers are swarming in, out and around of a steel framed hive amidst the woods and wetlands off of West Kingston Road as Kingston High School takes shape.
After a mud-sloshed, erosion control nightmare of a winter, both Wick workers and construction progress observers are happy to see an abundance of sunshine that has solidified the ground on which they are building. When this time of year comes around, construction moves quickly, workers agree.
POULSBO — Highlighted by the North Kitsap boys soccer team’s first trip to the state tournament since 1986, each of NK’s spring sports teams are making a claim for continued play into the 2006 postseason.
The boys soccer and girls tennis teams finished the highest in their leagues during the regular season as each team ended at second place in the Narrows League. But across the board North teams are stepping up to the plate.
POULSBO — After years of speculation about potential financial impacts from the Olhava development, reality will soon set in as the April sales tax report is released Wednesday.
The city council’s finance/administration committee will get the first look at the report, which reflects sales taxes collected in February, at 5 p.m. at city hall.