Mirroring the national recession, building activity on Bainbridge Island dropped sharply in 2001 from the previous year.
Only 166 permits were issued for single-family homes last year, a 22 percent drop from the 213 issued in 2000 and the lowest level since 1996.
“No question about it, there has been a precipitous drop in the amount of single-family work,” said architect Sean Parker, who said his office had eight to 10 single-family jobs in 2000, but only two or three in 2001.
Four Swallows restaurateur Mike Sharp always knew where to find a busboy or dishwasher.
“I’d go to the bulletin board up at Helpline,” Sharp said. “They’ve helped a lot of local restaurants out that way – and lots of young kids have gotten their first job. I wanted to pay Helpline back.”
Although they depict faraway places, the photographs in “The Cretan Glance” are the opposite of travel pictures.
Rather than the recording transient impressions, the new exhibit in the Playhouse lobby depicts the beloved home photographer Terry Moyemont discovered in 1989.
The all-night binge took place in a tent on the beach at Blakely Harbor, with featured inebriants including beer, marijuana and cocaine.
With each hit, the four Bainbridge High School seniors present would declare, “See you in the emergency room” – a gleeful disavowal, one recalled, of “everything we learned in school and the media about the evil of drugs.”
Years ago, when her parents remodeled her bedroom, Erica Jacobson left her mark for posterity. Before the walls were covered with paneling, she painted:
“The home of Joyce, Jon, Erica, Jon Jr. and Randi Jacobson.”
Sadly, the message was uncovered as the home itself was lost – flames laid bare the wall Tuesday evening, in a blaze that left the Jacobson family homeless.
Declaring that a “wetland” created by illegal dumping is not protected by law, a Kitsap County Superior Court Judge has ruled that the city of Bainbridge Island was wrong when it required the owner to get a special permit to build a home.
What price, “principle”?
Sometimes, it seems, a needlessly high one. As reported elsewhere in this issue, a Superior Court judge has ruled that the city misconstrued state land-use law when it shut down a home-construction project in Murden Cove for lack of a specific permit.
Ask any investor what his or her goals are, and the answer is likely to be:
“Financial success.”
But in reality, that “obvious” answer is more than likely incorrect, says Paul Heys, who has been studying investment psychology for years. And the gap between stated objectives and underlying objectives is the investor’s worst enemy.
Most egregious moving violation: 96 mph on the highway.
Worst offense by a young driver: a high school girl with a carload of friends, cited for going 75 mph in a 35 zone on Sunrise Drive.
Most unusual offender: probably the garbage truck driver nicked at 53 mph – 18 over the limit – also on Sunrise.
Driven by its new members, the Bainbridge Island City Council is considering a significant restructuring of the 2002 budget to trim some $2.6 million in spending, mostly from public works.
Alive and Well is just that – and playing Feb. 1 at Island Center Hall for the First Fridays series.
The pick-up band that will play back-up for guitarist Larry Dewey is a floating group of friends who support each other musically.
After Oriah Mountain Dreamer penned “The Invitation,” she received RSVPs from all over the world.
Mountain Dreamer, who will read from two books based on that first poem on Jan. 30, became a publishing phenomenon when her writing criss-crossed the world via the Internet.
There are those, we suspect, who have little sympathy for the thousands who invested in Bainbridge-based Health Maintenance Centers, on the basis that anyone who wants to be a fool should be entitled to do so.