One of Bainbridge Island’s cherished beliefs is that business and the environment can coexist peacefully.
The Puget Sound Environmental Learning Center is taking that one step further. Its mission is the environment, but it is a business that will make a significant contribution to the local economy.
“This is the largest capital construction project at one time in island history,” said PSELC founder Paul Brainerd of the $32.5 million multi-building campus taking shape off of Blakely Avenue.
Where there should have been two pairs of eyes shining in the beam of his flashlight, Andrew “Huck” Murdoch saw four.
Roused from his sleep by wild barking, Murdoch had tramped into the pasture outside his Sunrise Drive home to check the welfare of his livestock.
There he surprised a large dog with its teeth bared, savaging two of his sheep as a second dog bounded outside the fence trying to get in.
For author and scholar Hazard Adams, “Home” is both an anarchist commune and an English department.
Adams’ novel “Home,” from which he reads Feb. 21 at Eagle Harbor Books, moves between the 19th century Puget Sound commune of the same name and a contemporary university – much like the schools where Adams himself has taught for a half century.
In the time it takes to pose a question, Sakai’s Knowledge Master Open team can find the answer.
Responding within seconds to 100 timed questions, the thirty KMO team members proved tops in Washington State and eighth nationwide, earning 801 of 1,000 possible points in the winter 2002 Knowledge Master Open test administered in January.
Sandra Schwarz’s new violin is old, and her old instrument is new.
Schwarz owns a modern-style violin made in 1789, but the Baroque period instrument Schwarz plays with Iris Quartet for the Feb. 24 Housing Resources Board benefit was fabricated in the 1980s.
The two instruments appear similar to the unschooled eye, but Schwarz points to subtle distinctions.
The answers are: A) 59 B) 57 C) 58
And now the questions:
A) What percentage of American voters chose Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election – a margin invariably described as a “landslide”?
B) What percentage of Washington state voters in November 2000 said “yes” to anti-car-tab Initiative 695, a margin invariably described as “overwhelming”?
C) What percentage of Bainbridge Island voters gave their support to the park district levy on the Feb. 5 ballot – a number sitting comfortably between “overwhelming” and “landslide,” yet unavoidably described with an altogether different term: “defeat”?
Of the $74 million raised from 5,000 investors nationwide, only some $500,000 appears to have gone unspent.
And saying she saw no hope that the Bainbridge-based Znetix/HMC would become viable, federal Judge Marsha Pechman Thursday appointed a receiver to find whatever assets remain – a decision company attorneys said is a death knell for the businesses.
“I see nothing to go forward with, no assets from which a company can function,” Pechman said, ruling from the bench after a two-hour hearing in a packed Seattle courtroom.
Of the $74 million raised from 5,000 investors nationwide, only some $500,000 appears to have gone unspent.
And saying she saw no hope that the Bainbridge-based Znetix/HMC would become viable, federal Judge Marsha Pechman Thursday appointed a receiver to find whatever assets remain – a decision company attorneys said is a death knell for the businesses.
“I see nothing to go forward with, no assets from which a company can function,” Pechman said, ruling from the bench after a two-hour hearing in a packed Seattle courtroom.
The gym on Madison Avenue – variously referred to as Human Performance Center and Health Maintenance Center, and once touted as the “proof of concept” for the Lawrence business plan – closed its doors Thursday evening, and remained shuttered Friday.
A hand-lettered sign in the door said the receiver would provide additional information, perhaps as soon as the weekend, but gave no specifics.
Curious and disgruntled gym members and passersby showed up throughout the day, drawn by the empty parking lot and turned away by the locked doors.
“Damn!” one woman said, as she read the sign announcing the gym’s closure. “I was thinking of coming here this evening.
“It sucks that we’re probably going to lose our (membership) money,” she said, “but that’s not what I’m worried about. I want to still come here and work out.”
Of the $74 million raised from 5,000 investors nationwide, only some $500,000 appears to have gone unspent.
And saying she saw no hope that the Bainbridge-based businesses Znetix/HMC would become viable, federal Judge Marsha Pechman Thursday appointed a receiver to find whatever assets remain — a decision company attorneys said is a death knell for the operations.
“I see nothing to go forward with, no assets from which a company can function,” Pechman said, ruling from the bench after a two-hour hearing in a packed Seattle courtroom.
She started by looking in her own closets and corners.
“It was there,” Susan Levy said, “under the bed, behind the desk. I had it. We all have it – the art we’ve outgrown.”
Commissioned by the National Park Service, a new display on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II will make its debut on Bainbridge Island.
The display, said to include photographs and other interpretive material, will be unveiled at a ceremony at 2 p.m. Feb. 19 in the city hall foyer.
When Crisma Biggs says she’s woolgathering, she’s not day dreaming – she’s producing.
The Bainbridge High School senior and her crafting classmates have formed a new knitting brigade, with the as-yet-unnamed group making items for charity.
Biggs had the inspiration after noting a knitting trend around BHS last fall.
HMC and Znetix hoped to set themselves apart in the crowded field of health and exercise by integrating fitness facilities and medical care under the same roof.
But while the companies were marketing that concept to investors, they were not sure such an arrangement would be legal, according to documents filed in Seattle federal court by the Securities and Exchange Commission.