If you’re a veteran (active duty for six months or more and an honorable discharge) who needs assistance in the form of basic services, a Stand Down is scheduled for Wednesday in the President’s Hall at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds. It’s an event that started on an annual basis but has increased to twice a year because of need.
Your Sept. 24 editorial (“Is the process truly public?”) regarding the design charrette for the Strawberry Plant property included some misconceptions and misinterpretations of this event, and we are providing this response to offer more information and correct public perception about the process and the project.
There is a theory which states that if anyone ever works out exactly what the Universe is for, and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory which says that this has already happened. – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
“This is the brink of fall,” a Southern friend once said in September. She spoke poetically.
An editorial on May 28 involving the future of Strawberry Plant Park (and Blakely Harbor Park) concluded with these questions: “Should we keep it like it is, preserving and retaining the human footprint? Or should the money available be used to return the areas to a reasonable facsimile of its natural habitat?”
What do a teacher, business owner, engineer, lawyer, construction worker and biochemist have in common? They are all volunteer firefighters in the Bainbridge Island Fire Department. Thus, while the careers held by our volunteers are very diverse, our volunteers are united by their motivation of service to the community.
On Bainbridge Island, it’s water, water everywhere. But is it quality and not polluted, polluted everyplace? And what about the quality and quantity of the island’s groundwater? What is its recharge rate? Such questions – and many, many more – are at the heart of the ongoing pilot study of the city’s water resources.
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
I spent a recent weekend on the seashore in Westport, Wash. It’s easy to forget the allure of the pure Pacific Ocean, living here on Bainbridge Island on a salt water sound, or bay or harbor or canal.
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Picking Blackberries yesterday and falling into the brambles, I thought of the mighty effort I had taken for a blackberry pie.
By renovating the old and building anew, Bill Nelson and other business people have embarked on a plan that may eventually turn Lynwood Center into a bustling community village (see page 5). It’s an ambitious endeavor, especially considering today’s economy. If successful, there will be a huge impact on the island’s south end as it is transformed into the first full-service commercial center outside of Winslow.
The other day I helped my son Adam move into the house he will be occupying this year with six other Gonzaga University sophomores, and the experience was an interesting case study in nonlinear behavior. By way of example, if you or I bought a bookshelf kit and brought it home and emptied the contents of the kit on our living room floors, we would probably feel inclined to put the kit together to get it out of the middle of our living room floor. We might even fill the bookcase with books, which, presumably, is the reason we bought the thing in the first place. I learned last week that neither my son nor any of his roommates are afflicted with such traditional notions of linear behavior.
