PORT GAMBLE — The empty Port Gamble theater echoes with long forgotten plays. Lines delivered with passion, happiness, sorrow and anger seem to whisper in the empty room.
The theater over the post office has been vacant for years, but is among one of many buildings and areas the town’s owner, Olympic Property Group, hopes to revamp during the second phase of its plan to revitalize Port Gamble.
KELSO — Competition, self-improvement, goal-setting and team-building are all congruent with the construction of oneself. Patience, encouragement, faith and guidance are the tools that shape the process.
The success of such development is readily visible in the results of North Kitsap’s Special Olympic’s swimmers recent medal count from the Southwest Washington Regional swims.
Mission Impossible: 3
Rated PG-13
You gotta see this if: You can separate Tom Cruise from TomKat…
Mother’s Day is such a sweet holiday. Small children press their hands into plaster and paint pictures of smiling families under fat yellow suns, creating keepsakes that mothers will treasure for as long as they live.
HANSVILLE — Recent sunny days have been great for three things: picnics, tanning and construction.
Helped along by the nice weather, the Hansville Homestead project is moving along smoothly, developer James Laughlin said. Delays and problems have been scarce as construction is moving ahead without a hitch.
POULSBO — Dire predictions of a rain-soaked Saturday didn’t come true as more than 70 people joined Brianna Oas and her team, Bri’s Believers, stepping up in the Great Strides Cystic Fibrosis Walkathon.
The 14th annual Poulsbo event showed the community’s support for Oas, who suffers from the genetic disease, which causes the body to produce an abnormally thick mucus that clogs the lungs and leads to life-threatening infections.
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.
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