Wreck still under wraps
A one-car accident on Sportsman Club Road that left a young driver and passenger in critical condition over the weekend remains under investigation, police said Tuesday.
Details of the crash, reported at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, were sketchy this week.
Police said the vehicle, a Saab four-door, crossed the center lane and struck a large cedar tree in the 8200 block of Sportsman Club south of New Brooklyn.
The driver and front seat passenger, both age 18, had to be extricated from the vehicle by emergency crews.
Both the driver and the back seat passenger, also 18, were airlifted to Harborview Medical Center with critical injuries.
Because of recent changes to patient privacy laws, information on their condition was not available to the press or the police.
“We’ll know when they’re out, and that’s about it,†a police spokesman said.
Alcohol and speed appeared to be contributing factors in the crash, police said.
– Douglas Crist
New biz(s) at Harbor Square
Dszign, IRIS and Island Health Foods were announced Tuesday as the first three businesses coming to the Harbor Square mixed-use development on Winslow Way across from the ferry terminal.
Island resident Jeff Jackson will open Island Health Foods, a complete organic grocery store and restaurant/juice bar.
The store will feature grocery items, produce and natural supplements, and have freshly made items such as smoothies, salads and wraps.
Dszign will be opened by island resident Elizabeth Szombathy as an extension of her existing interior design business. A full-service interior design company, it will be a contemporary home store, featuring furnishings and accessories unique to the area, as well as a design resource.
IRIS, formerly known as the Richardson Group, is creating a consortium of complimentary businesses offering investment real estate and development consulting services.
IRIS – Innovative Real Estate Investment Services – a full-service real estate brokerage, will be joined by Indigo Architecture + Interiors, Bainbridge Vacation Rentals, MKJ Smith Accounting Services and Michael P. Klein, attorney at law.
The businesses will open in stages upon completion of construction, approximately late summer through the end of the year.
Five retail spaces are still available, ranging from 948 to 3,468 square feet, for sale or lease; listing agent is Monica Wallace of Wallace Properties.
WSF seeks input on yard
As Washington State Ferries begins the $40 million upgrade of its ferry maintenance yard in Eagle Harbor, designs are being formulated and WSF is looking for community input.
WSF has formed a Community Design Roundtable composed of six island residents to help it develop designs “that are compatible with the community character, reflect the site’s maritime history and balance a variety of interests while meeting WSF’s functional requirements and financial constraints,†according to a WSF press release.
The first public meeting is 1-3 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Bainbridge Library, where members of the public can air their concerns, ideas and questions about the design.
Roundtable members are Ginny Brewer of Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council, Bob Campbell of Eagle Harbor Condominiums, island historian Gerald Elfendahl, Will Langemack of the Bainbridge Island Downtown Association, Will Shopes of the Bainbridge Island Historical Society and Frank Vibrans of the Bainbridge Island Harbor Commission.
Design elements up for consideration include landscaping and fencing, trail and open space connections and historical and cultural features.
As a result of input, the design options will be presented at public meetings this spring, with the roundtable working through June. Meanwhile, phase one construction, which includes converting slip B from a walk-on to a drive-on slip is ongoing through April.
For more information, see www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/projects/Eagleharborfacility or contact Joy Goldenberg of WSF at 515-3411 or bainbridgeprojects@wsdot.wa.gov.
Woods to host roundtable
Rep. Beverly Woods will host two “town hall†meetings Saturday to gauge the priorities of her constituents as the 2006 Legislative session nears its end.
Woods, who represents BainÂbridge Island, East Bremerton and North Kitsap, will hold her first hour-long meeting at 10 a.m. at the North Kitsap Fire Station on Miller Bay Road in Kingston.
Woods says the meetings are an opportunity to gather input “face-to-face from the people I represent†and discuss “fundamental issues,†such as education, health care, public safety, taxes, the role of government and citizens’ rights. As the ranking Republican on the House Transportation Committee, Woods has pushed for increased ferry service for Kitsap County.
Contact Woods at (360) 786-7842 or Woods.Beverly@leg.wa.gov.
– Tristan Baurick
