She’s working hard to address the needs of seniors. She’d love for you to join her. Or, if you can’t make her meetings, she’d love for you to help her get the word out.

All the best,

Mary

What do you want, exactly? Do you want to put the genie back in the bottle? Turn back time? Do you want South Kitsap and surrounding area to be one big agricultural site? Crops growing where interstates use to be like one poster suggested? Do you want it to be a retirement village and Central Kitsap be the community that serves youth? Social engineering?

I’ve lived in some different places, Scandinavian communities where people can’t pay enough taxes and children are held in high esteem. Communities where the athletic programs and the arts were subsidized by oil companies, even a bedroom community outside of Portland that somehow successfully absorbed 15,000 Russian immigrants. And it wasn’t a large city. I have to say, I’ve never lived in a community where the have nots have so little. It’s embarrassing. You should be embarrassed.

Would you like to know the GPAs of our fall sports teams?

Three out of four of SKSD fall sports teams each had team GPAs of 3.0 or better. In fact, I think Volleyball was 3.6. Football fell a little short of 3.0. It was 2.9.

Yes, we have kids that are struggling academically in South Kitsap and we are working hard to address that. While we do that, are you suggesting we take away sports and dessert for all?

Btw, Sharon, from the 2009 Database available at OSPI’s website, below are local graduation rates (on-time and extended)…

SKSD 81.3% and 88.3%
PENN 83.2% and 88.4%
NKSD 80.1% and 84.9%
CKSD 89.4% and 97.8%
BREM 63.6% and 69.9%

State Wide Average: 78.4% and 83.0%

Regards,
Kathryn Simpson

No one in this forum has said that they do not value seniors. When you say, “it is sad and surprising that they are without value to you as well”, to whom are you referring?

Regards,
Kathryn Simpson

Exclusion of the people in the community? Most communities of people living in communities already bulldozed down and filled with street to street houses would disagree with you…

Parks, forests, preserves are not only a good thing, they are done FOR the people in the community.

Do you feel the same toward the seniors in your area? That would explain why your seniors have nothing on the south end. They’re held without value too.
It is sad and surprising that they are without value to you as well. I’m sorry.
Sharon O’Hara

It makes sense to have the turf field at Olympic Stadium… centralized so everyone can use it and cost effective.

If Banner Park has so little meaning to you and the current day crowd, why not shut it down and put in a field with the money saved?

What – exactly – do you want?

Sharon O’Hara

I don’t know if you caught the information in one of these stories that said the county is constructing a turf field at Gordon Fields at this time. Those fields are about 200 yards from the Olympic High School Stadium, another turf field, with lights, that sounds like it gets used 14 to 16 hours a day and generates income as well.

I accept the reasoning that there is no money, it’s not their job, and so on, but you have the construction of a second turf field near the Fairgrounds when South Kitsap doesn’t have one. There’s something wrong with that premise.

Maybe it’s just a case of the SK Commissioner delivering what her constituents want and the Central Kitsap Commissioner delivering what his constituents want.

Do you have any idea how much the county paid for that land and how many people use it on a daily basis? I guess that is the thread, closing parks that get used, laying people off from jobs when there are no other job prospects, and spending millions of dollars on land-grabbing.

I like trees as much as anyone, probably more than most people, having grown up in the mid west, but trees are not more important than people and the county parks department is not a conservancy.

Funny thing. Chip Faver, the former County Parks Director, is the only area public servant I’ve heard say and this is not an exact quote, “..it is a role, or the role, of government to be a voice for people that don’t have one.” He wasn’t an elected official when he said that, I believe he was appointed to his position, and now he’s gone.

Look around. The Pacific Northwest has no shortage of trees and water and mountains. What we do have a shortage of is providing adequately for our young people. All of the young people, not just the progeny of important people.