Steven Gardner
Kitsap Sun staff and Bremerton Beat blog contributor

There is no economic development here at all. We get a crappy statue and yet more money leaving the city and county.

All at “ground zero”?! What a disrespectful use of that term. Ground Zero is the site directly below, directly above, or at the point of detonation of an explosion. The World Trade Center, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki are all images of a true ground zero. About the only “ground zero” we have here is Sexton’s office. Perhap’s a better statue would be a 14′ one of Sexton using his brain for a suppository.

How about Bremerton honoring women that through the years have borne, raised, nurtured and/or forged their way to distinction in a man’s world.

How about Bremerton art showing the woman who directly or indirectly helped shape Bremerton.

The Navy and Bremerton Shipyard made Bremerton prosper.

Norm Dicks mom should be considered. Mrs. Dicks raised a son who made a difference and greatly helped Bremerton prosper.

Who was the first woman to work in the Navy Yard?

Who is/was the most influential black woman, white woman, oriental woman, native American woman?

Of the different ethnic races in Bremerton, let each nominate the woman they want to honor for her work, energy and dedication to betterment of family, neighborhood, town and community…NOT a fish!

If fish were so smart, they’d never touch a fishing hook and
I’ve never heard of a fish improving its neighborhood nor heard of one graduating. A fish swims in the same school forever…they are food, like a carrot. We eat them because we’re hungry and fish are food…like pork-lets or beef-lets.
We don’t honor feed-lot owners, butchers or meat wrappers…why fish or fishermen?

Bremerton … honor the women..not fish… with artwork.

I will nominate Adele…she most certainly has impacted the political scene in our town and state…and reported the hard way, she was first.

Bremerton, wake-up. Do the right thing and REALLY help bring in the tourists…most of them women. Honor and recognize Bremerton’s women.

Gary Sexton.
Rethink your artwork project…in my opinion… Sharon O’Hara

Hard to imagine what would be most appropriate for Bremerton. We already have Rosie the Riveter on Pacific and Burwell; Hal’s Corner has the ack-ack guns; the Lone Sailor on the port’s dock; the propeller with shipyard worker and youngster on the boardwalk. It may be time to go back further in time to the Salish tribes that first inhabited this area. Or the loggers who tamed (some would say destroyed) the area. Captain Renton built the first sawmill in Mannette and his son was the first-born white child of Kitsap County. Or, if you want to stick with a military theme, what about the US Army’s dirigible units or a statue of FDR addressing the crowds at PSNS during WWII? Something other than a fish, please.

And while you are at it, make it something that a local can make!

I enjoyed going out on the small charter boats fishing for salmon but gave away every salmon I caught and usually limited…thanks to the hard working skippers. West Port is a fishing town, not Bremerton. We have fishing villages around, but Bremerton isn’t or wasn’t one of them.ddd

You don’t see a fishing fleet moored off Bremerton docks…our area is known for swimming, boating, snow and water skiing, mountain climbing, hiking…we eat salmon, oysters, clams, crabs…but I wouldn’t expect art of one to represent our area. Fish help us survive, as does other meat, vegetables and fruit.

If a food group is necessary art for Bremerton, why not have art of a steer and the 4HR who takes the beef to fair to be auctioned?

$250,000 for a fish and fisherman art in downtown Bremerton? You jest.
Sharon O’Hara