City Council candidates Pegeen Mulhern and Ron Peltier met with
the Kitsap Sun Editorial Board earlier this week to discuss key
issues on the island, from transportation to affordable
housing.
Mulhern and Peltier are running for the at large seat, which is
currently held by Steve Bonkowski. He is not running for
reelection.
Anne Blair also is not running for reelection. Kol Medina is
running uncontested for her seat.
Michael Scott, who was appointed to the council earlier this
year after David Ward resigned, is running uncontested.
Councilwoman Sarah Blossom is running for reelection and is
uncontested as well.
Read more about all the island candidates, including school
board and park district candidates, on the Kitsap Sun’s
online election guide.
An editorial cartoon by Milt
Priggee mingling the uproar with the island annual Rotary sale
(shown above) ran in the June 28 edition of the Kitsap
Sun.
The petition came after critics were out in force when images of
the proposed logos were posted on social media the day after the
unveiling. Hundreds of comments, almost entirely negative, were
posted on Facebook.
Several readers have weighed in through letters to the editor —
“Bainbridge
already lost its brand” and “Branding
can do better on Bainbridge” — and an editorial cartoon by Milt
Priggee mingling the uproar with the island annual Rotary sale
(shown above) ran in the June 28 edition of the Kitsap Sun. (If you’d like to share
your opinion in the Sun or Islander through a letter, email David
Nelson at david.nelson@kitsapsun.com.)
The city took public comment on the branding process through
June 26, and revisions are expected in one to two weeks, said
Kellie Stickney, the city’s community engagement specialist.
That won’t be the last opportunity for public input though.
Feedback will be taken again after revisions are made public,
Stickney said, although no date for a presentation has been
set.
The axes in the proposed logos were nixed by the end of the June
11 presentation, and other options were nixed after online outcry
the following day. At this point the crest won’t be moving forward
in the design, and there could be a different font and color
scheme, City Manager Doug Schulze told City Council.
He said that the business is “putting together a more
structured loan option so as to minimize chances wherein they can
be subject to companies like
moorcroft debt collection company.”
Labor and Industries confirmed it’s investigating five wage
complaints lodged against Bainbridge Bakers this year.
The GoFundMe campaign was started last week to help the
29-year-old business, asking for $100,000.
About $6,000 had been donated the day after the campaign
launched.
Donors can expect a refund in 2-5 days, according to Loudon’s
Facebook post.
The bakery closed around noon today, with a notice
posted saying it would remain closed through Sunday for
restructuring, said Ben Goldsmith, who started the GoFundMe
campaign.
He said owner Mike Loudon sent an email to employees
saying he would be having meetings during the temporary closure,
and that “the goal for this time is to work out a strategy for the
future of the bakery.”
Goldsmith, who has not worked for the past several
days and is one of the bakery’s employees who has not received a
paycheck in recent weeks, said “Getting the payroll settled I know
is his first priority.”
Bainbridge Island Mayor Ann
Blair and I during a live video chat with Ed
Friedrich.
Kitsap Sun transportation reporter Ed Friedrich and I had a
live video discussion with Mayor Anne Blair on
Thursday evening about the future of Agate Pass Bridge and Highway
305 congestion.
Don’t worry if you weren’t able to make it to the live chat, we
recorded the conversation and you can watch it below from the
Kitsap Sun’s YouTube channel.
Blue Moon & Roost Land Companies, LLC has plans for multiple
homes, town houses, a hotel and rooftop restaurant and bar, along
with office, retail and artist space.
While the Lynwood Center buildings have a Tudor style, the
developers architect said the project will not be the same
style.
INDIGO Architecture & Interiors does not “interpret” the
center’s design guidelines require the Tudor style.
The proposal did not say what specific style would be used in
the development.
Housing would be the first phase of the project, including five
2,000 square-feet single family houses with 800 square-feet
mother-in-law homes, two 1,700-square-feet single family houses and
six town house units above commercial space.
The project’s second phase would be three three-story buildings
about 9,000 square feet each. These buildings would include a hotel
called Hotel Charrette, rooftop restaurant with water views,
ground-floor retail with room for working artists and second floor
office space.
There also will be six “inn cottages” called Gypsy Wagons by the
proposed park and a market plaza along Point White Drive.
An existing brick house on the site will be renovated and used
for commercial purposes.
The site was previously a lumber yard and the rest of the
property has been used as a pasture for the last 40 years,
according to INDIGO’s proposal.
The Larson Lumber building is still on the site.
Developers also said in the proposal that they want to keep as
many of the trees as possible, including a pine by the market to
use as a holiday tree.
There will be a public meeting Monday night to address
questions.
The tugboat Pacific Knight
helps maneuver the state ferry Tacoma to the Bainbridge Island dock
after it lost power while making the 12:20 p.m. sailing from
Seattle to Bainbridge on July 29, 2014. MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP
SUN
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BAINBRIDGE
ISLAND – Attorneys involved in the proposed Visconsi shopping
complex were requested by Bainbridge Hearing ExaminerStafford
Smith to submit their briefs by Wednesday, Feb. 12, and
Visconsi attorney Dennis Reynolds to submit his
reply by Monday, Feb. 17.
Smith’s
request on the final day of his hearings about the Visconsi project
on Jan. 28, followed the Bainbridge Planning Commission voting 7-0
in November to recommend denying the proposed 62,000-square-foot
shopping center. To be located on High School Road across the
street from McDonald’s, the 8-acre complex would have a two-story
medical facility, bank, drugstore, restaurants and other
retailers.
Smith is
looking at three parts to the Visconsi issue, a conditional use
permit, a site plan review and a State Environmental Policy Act,
Hearing Examiner Assistant Debbie Rose
said.
Rose stated in an email Wednesday that Smith planned on having a
decision in the case by March 10.
“Legal briefing by the parties is scheduled to be completed by
2/24/14 and the hearing examiner expects a decision to be issued
within two weeks of that date,” Rose said.
When Smith reaches a decision on the Visconsi
project it, Rose said will be posted on the city’s
website.
The island’s ban on plastic shopping bags begins Thursday. We’ve
posted some of the basics below. Let us know what you think of the
bag ban by taking our poll below or leaving a comment.
Why a bag ban?
The City Council
unanimously approved the bag ban this spring as a way of
reducing litter and unnecessary waste, while promoting reusable
bags. Bainbridge is the fifth Washington city to ban plastic bags
and the first in Kitsap County. Seattle
banned plastic shopping bags in July.
What are the rules?
Starting Thursday, retailers are no longer allowed to provide
those thin, single-use plastic bags at checkout. Paper bags will
still be available, but the ordinance requires retailers to charge
5 cents for larger paper bags (this doesn’t apply to qualifying low
income shoppers).
There are a few exceptions to the ban. Plastic bags are allowed
for restaurant take-out food, produce, greeting cards, small
hardware items, newspapers, dry cleaning and waste.
What stores does this apply to?
Short answer: All of them. This ban applies to all retailers
across the island, not just supermarkets. It also applies to
farmers markets and vendors at festivals. Food banks can
still use plastic bags.
Where can I get reusable bags?
Reusable bags are available at island grocery stores and some
other retailers. The city is handing out
a cloth “Bainbridge Bag” tonight during the Winslow
trick-or-treat event from 4-6 p.m, and at the library and City Hall
starting Thursday.
(Volunteer Reed Thomas, 14, stocks Mac & Cheese at Helpline
House food bank last week).
Food banks across the county are struggling with high demand and
low donations this summer,
as we reported Wednesday.
Since the story ran we’ve received a few inquiries from readers
asking how they can help, including an email this morning from
local Les Schwab manager Brett Clark. Donna McKinney of Helpline House responded
with some tips:
Thanks for your very prompt response to the article in the
paper! We appreciate donations of just about any foods, but
there are certain items that we are especially low on and/or are
distributed so fast that we cannot keep them in stock. At
this time, this is the list:
Sales tax figures released for the first six months of 2012
showed receipts from downtown Winslow were down 1.9 percent
compared to the same period last year ($211,718 compared to
$215,863). That figure might seem insignificant until you recall
what Winslow Way looked like in the first half of 2011:
Sales were lower from January to June this year than in 2011,
when
shoppers braved a jungle of barricades and traffic cones to
visit shops. Downtown continued to lose businesses as well,
down to 172 from a total of 201 in 2011.
The Kitsap Cash Mob
is planning a hit at a Winslow Way retailer this Saturday.
Don’t worry, this mob plans to spend money (and lots of it)
rather than extort it.
The Kitsap Cash Mob is part of a national movement in which a
group of shoppers come all at once and flood a locally-owned
business with some much-needed revenue.
You can read my story about a Kitsap Cash Mob event in Kingston
here.
The mob has hit several places around the county, but this is
their first one on Bainbridge.
The target: Paper
Products, a Winslow office, art and gift store that has seen
more lucrative years.
“2011 was a tremendously tough year on our business. The Winslow
Way project was nine months of absolute stress. We averaged 165-250
customers in our store daily. During the peak of the construction
period, we were lucky to get 30 customers in the store/day. As a
result, we had to make cuts in hours, inventory, and extra
services. We lost staff and regular customers. The recovery has
been slow. We are also expecting a baby boy September 1st so we are
committed to the hope that our customers will continue to support
us – particularly through the slower summer months (which are often
the toughest for our business).”
Anyone can join in on the hit. It starts at noon and ends at 3
p.m. Once the shopping’s done, the mob plans to gather at Lynwood
Center’s Salmon Canyon
Cafe for a post-hit meal.
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