“As stimulating as exercise and strangely intoxicating – that’s a trip through the world of island artist Sylvia Carlton.I get hungry when I paint, says Carlton, because I’m concentrating so hard. Chewing pensively on the end of her paintbrush, Carlton confesses that like Van Gogh, she loves the smell of turpentine.Although I won’t cut my ear off, she laughs, claiming to avoid the thinner Gogh must have ingested when sucking on his brushes to clean them.”
“Helpline House has run out of room to count its blessings.Bainbridge Island’s one-stop social service agency is remodeling its barn to create more usable space for the Clothing Connection program, which receives donated clothing and gives it to those in need.It’s time now to really respond and help the volunteers do a better job, said Helpline House director Joanne Tews.The barn’s large basement, presently used to receive and distribute medical supplies, for storage – and for material that nobody can find another place to put – will be remodeled and brightened to serve as the Clothing Connection, dubbed the Barn Marche by the patrons and volunteers.”
“Local coaching legend Steve Killpack, founder and leader of Bainbridge’s water polo program, resigned this week after 16 years as the first and only head coach of the boys’ and girls’ teams.He turned the program over to Jeff Clark and Mead Trick, both of whom played for him as students.This is the first day in 16 years I haven’t been the coach, Killpack said Tuesday. I’m really going to miss it, but at the same time, it’s a relief.”
“In one of the less glorious moments of his professional career – his first day on the job, actually – a person believed to be the editor of this newspaper wound up on the seat of his pants.The date was July 3, 1999, the event, the Rotary Auction and Rummage Sale; his folly was avarice, and the object of his downfall was a weathered metal watering can.Having been foiled in several previous auction visits, by those more fleet of foot, in his quest to pick up such an item at a discount, the editor was certain that 1999 would be the year – he would come home with a watering can, and would have a good yarn to share with readers as well. Alas, although he leapt with the drop of the rope and sprinted across the auction grounds in record time, eyes fixed on the singular prize amidst a jumble of garden equipment, his feet slipped on the damp schoolyard pavement – thud – and he suffered the double indignity of watching the coveted watering can snatched up and spirited away to a garden unknown.”
“Amidst the treasure comes the junk.Or vice versa.It’s Dave Corn’s duty to spot the difference.You got anything I can blow up or stab somebody with? asks Corn pointedly, as a donor motors up with a pickup load of items for this weekend’s Rotary Auction and Rummage Sale.Most of the stuff turns out to be acceptable – no propane tanks, for example, or useless scrap metals – and the driver rolls on through to the heart of the Woodward Middle School grounds, to drop off items that will be inspected and priced by other Rotarians and volunteers.”
“While new parents may not always agree on the baby’s name, the need to fill out a birth certificate forces them to make a decision. But with no such deadline, public facilities can go nameless indefinitely.With at least two groups suggesting names, the Bainbridge Island School Board is prepared to crank up the process for naming the now anonymous high school gymnasium, and perhaps the football and baseball fields as well.”
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Farvour alleged to have fondled female motorists during routine traffic stops
Fancy-free dog — lost when owner falls in park — is found through the kindness of ranger
“Protection of the island’s salmon spawning areas may begin with wider buffer and setback requirements around local streams.Policies to that end were laid out in an ordinance made available to the public this week, expected to be introduced to the city council at next Wednesday’s meeting.”
“With a new emphasis on affordable housing, the Town Square project has moved out of limbo and onto track for public discussion.And the city has embraced the Kitsap County Consolidated Housing Authority as a partner in the study.”
“Shy younger sister to Worldly Theatre, and reserved elder to flirtatious young Pop-video, Choreography often goes unwritten about as the most discrete of art forms. Yet the performers and creators at Bainbridge Dance Center wield the lingo of their medium as fluently as if dance were its own language.My students are comfortable with the modern idiom, says Susan Thompson, and surprisingly conversant in ballet. She is careful about her use of words, keen to stress that the process that converts the most emotionally raw material into dance is one of abstraction.”
“Fort Ward residents will get a look Sunday at modified plans for a project that would bring affordable housing to the neighborhood.If the plan looks familiar, it will be because the neighbors – most of them, at least – have had in designing the project.”
