Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Bainbridge Is, WA Permit No. 106 *ECRWSS* Postal Customer Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Vol. 6, No. 1 Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Summer 2003 Mark your Author Charles calendar Johnson will These events take place in the library Puppeteers unless otherwise stated. give talk on from Madrona School SATURDAY, JUNE 28 Rotary Auction and Rummage Sale at entertained youngsters Bainbridge at the library with a Woodward School, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. By Marcia Rudoff WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 spring production of Library Book Group, Seabiscuit by Prince Narcissus and Celebrated Seattle author Charles Laura Hillenbrand, 7 p.m. Princess Potentilla led Johnson will appear on Bainbridge FRIDAY, JULY 4 by Mary Knighton and Sept. 12 thanks to a joint venture by Library Closed. March in noon parade with library float. Dana Ashton. Puppeteers the library’s affiliate Field’s End and (Gather at library at 11.) included (clockwise from Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities. The event, set for 7:30 p.m. at the WEDNESDAY, JULY 9 top) Magdalena Garcia, Visually Impaired Persons support Jake Mallove, Tristan Performing Arts Playhouse, is the first of group, 1-3 p.m. Koch, and Tonada Koch. projected periodic lectures for the general Kids’ summer event: Reptile Man, public by prominent authors. Year-old Please turn to Pages 6-7 for 10:30 a.m. Field’s End is dedicated to building and SATURDAY, JULY 12 more young people’s news. supporting a writers’ community, and the Friends of the Library book sale, —Photo by Peggy Hughes lectures join the organization’s regular 10 a.m.-2 p.m. writing classes, its monthly free Writers’ TUESDAY, JULY 15 Roundtables at the library, its website Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable with at www.fieldsend.organd other special George Shannon, 7:00 p.m. events in furthering that goal. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 Fall classes slated for Field’s End Johnson, whose novel Middle Kids’ summer event: Marine Science Passage won the National Book Award Center, 10:30 a.m. by marcia rudoff tuition for the workshop includes her in 1990, is on the Field’s End’s advisory SUNDAY, JULY 20 afternoon presentation put on by the board. A former director of the creative Gail Dubrow, a visual tour “Sento at Writers from absolute beginners to council. writing program at the University of Sixth and Main”, 4 p.m. polished pros will find classes tuned to Field’s End’s class registration for Washington, he currently holds an WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 their special needs in this fall’s schedule fall will officially open Aug. 19 at an endowed chair in English and teaches Puppets Please Kids’ summer event, offered by Field’s End, the writing appetizer/dessert potluck party hosted 10:30 a.m. fiction at the university. He recently was community affiliated with the library. by Writers’ Roundtable at Field’s End elected to the American Academy of Arts SUNDAY, JULY 27 Two faces will be familiar to students from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the library. Painting the Impressionist Light, and Sciences. a slide show by Lois Girffel, who took Field’s End’s courses its first Registration material is available at the A prolific writer and teacher, he is impressionistic painter, author and year. Islander Kathleen Alcala and library and also at the website www. author of three other novels, Faith and director from the Cape Cod School Priscilla Long again to offer their popular fieldsend.org. of Art, 3:30-5 p.m. workshop classes. Alcala’s workshop class, “The Arc MONDAY, JULY 28 In addition, Skye Moody, author of of the Story,” will continue the format Kids’ summer event: Classic Anime two nonfiction books and five mystery used in her class for Field’s End’s first Film Festival, 6:30 p.m. novels, will teach a craft class on session last fall. Over the course of six WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 developing characters for fiction. weeks, students’ stories will be read and Kids’ summer event: Paws for Finally, nationally-renowned poet critiqued, paying particular attention to Reading, 10:30 a.m. Naomi Shihab Nye will discuss the what makes the beginning, middle and WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 devotion and discipline of a writing life end of a story work. Library Book Group, Nickel and in a short workshop Nov. 1. Writers of Manuscripts must be pre-submitted Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, 7 p.m. prose will benefit equally with poets. for this class, and participation will be by SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 Nye’s appearance on Bainbridge is teacher selection. The class will meet on Friends of the Library book sale, a result of a combined effort by Field’s six consecutive Thursday evenings, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. End and the Bainbridge Island Arts 7 to 9 p.m., from Oct. 30 to Dec. 4, with WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 and Humanities Council (BIAHC), and Continued on page 2 Visually Impaired Persons support Charles Johnson group, 1-3 p.m. the Good Thing, Oxherding Tale and SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 Island Theatre Play Reading at the Dreamer. He has produced a collection Library, 7:30 p.m. See you at the Fourth festivities... of short stories, The Sorcerer’s TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 Apprentice; a work of aesthetics, Being Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable, and, of course, the Rotary Auction and Race: Black Writing Since 1970; 6:30 p.m. Black Men Speaking, co-edited with THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 School’s out, summer reading has This year the event returns to John McClusky Jr.; Africans in America: Reading Celebration, 1-4 p.m. begun, and Bainbridge library users Woodward School, where donations are America’s Journey Through Slavery, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 look forward to a season crammed with being accepted up until June 27, and a co-authored with Patricia Smith as a Library Book Group, Angle of Repose activities. preview that evening ($1 admission) gives companion book for a 1998 PBS series; by Wallace Stegner, 7 p.m. The official kickoff to the summer auction goers a look at the merchandise and I Call Myself an Artist: Writings By WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 season is the annual Rotary Auction, and a chance to win a $500 gift certificate and About Charles Johnson, a collection Visually Impaired Persons support scheduled this year for June 28, the from Town and Country Market. of essays. group, 1 p.m,. Saturday before the Fourth. The Island’s Library staff, volunteers, and board In 2001, Soulcatcher and Other SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 biggest sale of the year, every year, members will turn out in droves to support Stories, his 12 historical fictions for Friends of the Library book sale, 10-2. raises hundreds of thousands of dollars the giant auction/rummage sale — which Africans in America, was released as a SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 for worthy causes — including the Friends of the Library book sale Bainbridge Public Library. Continued on page 2 Continued on page 3 continues, 1-4 p.m. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable, 7 p.m. Also in this issue: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Travel program, co-sponsored by The Traveler bookstore, 7 p.m. Summer comes to the gardens...... page 5 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Preschool Storytime, 10:30 a.m. Women detectives in modern fiction...... page 9 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Terrific Twos, 10:30 a.m. Island photographers show work at library...... page 12 Opinion We have an island You’re of unsung heroes never IT WAS NEARLY midnight when I returned from a brief visit with family in Enumclaw, so I put off too returning voice mail messages until the next day. Then, since deadline for this newspaper loomed, I chatted first young with our writers, advertising volunteers, and library staff. It was easy to ignore the call which went something to enjoy the Bainbridge like “Hi, I’m Liz from the Sun, you’re an unsung hero library. Here, Sal Iaria, and I’d like to talk with you.” But Liz was persistent, 4, smiles shyly for like most good reporters, and tracked me down at the photographer Peggy library later in the week. Hughes. Kathy Dunn, She turned out to be a pleasant young woman, a right, donned Cat in the summer intern and English major from Coe College Hat garb for a Dr. Seuss (in Iowa). It was her first week as a journalist. Like Read Across America most newspaper writers, I’d rather interview than be program this spring. interviewed. But in my years as editor of the Review and its sister papers, I’d always enjoyed working with young interns. Their enthusiasm can be contagious. Liz’s assignment was to find out more about my Continued from front page volunteer work at our Bainbridge library and, since we both love books, it was an easy conversation. I don’t Fall classes know yet (as this is column is being written) whether she no class on Thanksgiving Day. has published numerous essays, creative nonfictions, actually wrote the article or, if so, how it was edited. Long will teach “Becoming a Writer: Approaches poetry, and short fictions. She has awards from the But I hope she got the message that while I do and Practices.” This four week course is designed for Seattle and Los Angeles Arts Commissions and serves enjoy raising funds for our library and publishing beginners and experienced writers alike. In it students as senior editor of historylink.org, and as a writing the Library News; I am only one of many who make will explore approaches to developing or continuing to instructor for the University of Washington Extension. our library what it is today. develop into writers. Moody’s first book,Hillbilly Women, based on her MY OWN LIST of unsung heroes is long, and the The class will meet Tuesday evenings from 6:45 to experiences as a freelance journalist covering social list below by no means complete. We are blessed at the 9:15 p.m., Oct. 14 through Nov. 4. Moody’s class on issues, was adapted for the stage in New York City. Her Bainbridge Public Library to have scores of willing developing characters for fiction will be a craft class second nonfiction book,Fruits of Our Labor, received volunteers working in many different areas. It’s always and will require some in-class writing. The class will a National Endowment for the Humanities President’s been that way, since 1960, when the Rotary Club meet for four Saturdays from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., Oct. 25 Grant. She is the author of K Falls: A Pacific Northwest and fellow Islanders began raising funds for the first through Nov. 15. Mystery, published in 2001. Bainbridge Public Library. All Field’s End instructors are authors themselves as Nye’s workshop will cover ways of entry into daily Today, so many are involved that it’s really not fair to well as proven teachers. Alcala is the author of a short writing – note-taking, list-making, threads and seams. mention just a few. (Keep reading the Library News; you’ll story collection Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist, She is the author of numerous books of poems, most meet more volunteers in future issues.) All make a difference. and three novels set in 19th century Mexico. Her work recently 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle First among equals, in my opinion, are a few special has received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, East (Greenwillow Books, 2002). people: the Governor’s Writers Award, the Western States Book She has traveled twice to the Middle East and Asia —Barbara Winther, author, playwright, patron of Award for Fiction, and the Washington State Book for the United States Information Agency promoting the arts, who gave a year of her life to write the award- Award. international goodwill through the arts. Her award- winning “They Like Noble Causes”, a history of the She is co-founder and contributing editor of The winning poems and short stories have appeared in Bainbridge library. Raven Chronicles, and was recently writer in residence various journals and reviews throughout North America, —Sharon and Dick Abrams, who directed the at Seattle’s Hugo House. A member of Los Nortenos, a Europe, and the Middle and Far East. She has also project and provided the funding; group of writers and performers, Alcala co-wrote with written books for children and edited several anthologies —O. Kern Devin, art director, and photographers director Olga Sanchez a play based on her first novel of prose. Art Grice, Mary Randlett, Joel Sackett, and Linda Spirits of the Ordinary that was produced last spring in Field’s End classes are kept small to allow maximum Quartman Younker. The book is a visual feast as well Portland, Oregon. Long, author of Where the Sun Never attention to each student’s work, spaces are limited and as a great story. Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry, early registration is advised. —Susan Bray, who imagined and then developed our Bainbridge Speakers Forum, which brings distinguished speakers in many disciplines to challenge Continued from front page our thinking and provoke lively discussions. —Nikki Vick, who not only dreamed of a writers’ Fourth festivities and Rotary Auction community/workshop (now Field’s End) but plunged head first into the organizational work to make it happen. has been a major source of library funding since 1962. sale has funded dozens of worthy Bainbridge causes, The next big event of the summer: the annual including major building projects. —Pete Glosten, our Library News bookkeeper and perennial library booster, who is back as a volunteer after Bainbridge Fourth of July parade, at noon on the holiday. The club also backs many lesser known library- co-chairing the fund drive for the 1982 building expansion. You’ll see your library friends and neighbors here, too. oriented projects such as books for Uganda, gifts for Those participating in the library parade entry will meet summer reading participants, and a unique Hear and Say —Our many garden volunteers (see Page 5). at 11 at the library building. reading program now recognized internationally. This —The entire Bainbridge Library Board, the The Bainbridge Public Library and Rotary Auction year they are providing books for prisoners’ reading Friends of the Library, and those who work on our many board committees. have grown up together. The first Rotary Auction was programs. We benefit from the work of all these “unsung heroes” devised as a fund-raising effort for the first Bainbridge (Read more about Rotary’s library assistance and from the efforts of many who are not unsung. Best- Public Library, which opened in 1962. Since then, the programs in future issues of the Library News.) selling authors David Guterson, Susan Wiggs, and Ann Lovejoy, for example, find time between book tours and other duties to spend many hours as library volunteers. If you would like to join them, we’d like to 2003 Forum speakers announced hear from you. Talk with Cindy Harrison, Paulette Rhoades, or give me a call and we’ll find a place Susan Bray and Barbara Winther have announced Circuit; Regina Hackett, art critic of the Seattle Post- for you. There’s a lot to do. six of the seven speakers for the 2003-2004 Library Intelligencer; Jere Bacharach, former dean of the U. —By Verda Averill Speakers Forum and the complete schedule will be S. Henry Jackson School of International Affairs, Library News Editor released soon. now a member of the history faculty specializing in Again this year the popular forum will bring seven Turkey; and Tony Angell, the distinguished sculptor and distinguished scholars to the library meeting room at 4 naturalist whose otters grace the entrance to the library’s p.m. on Sundays throughout the fall, winter and spring. Haiku Garden. The topics are varied, the guests known as A fifth speaker, an expert on humor, will be entertaining and informative speakers as well as experts announced soon, Susan Bray said. “He’s a great 1270 Madison Avenue, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 in their fields. speaker, and we’ll enjoy what he has to say,” she The Bainbridge Island Library News is published every quarter by the Bainbridge Library Board, a non-profit Two are sponsored by Bainbridge Arts and Crafts. promised. organization, and distributed to all Island residents and local William Traver of Seattle’s Traver Gallery will speak on Dates for the speakers are now being firmed up, and library users. Verda Averill is editor; contributing writers are all “The History of Glass Art in the Northwest” on Feb. 8. brochures will go out soon to previous subscribers and regular library volunteers. Board members are Steve Larson, president; Verda Averill, Preston Singletary, a Tlingit glass artist whose work is others who have expressed interest. If you would like a Susan Bottles, Susan Bray, Marite Butners, Joan Gardiner, David now featured at the Seattle Art Museum, will present a brochure, sign up at the library. Guterson, Don Harrington, Richard Hassell, Wyman Johnson, Jim March 7 slide show on the new field of Native American The forum season will begin in late September Laughlin, Marlene LeMire, Bob Linz, Marty Sievertson and Val Tollefson. Branch manager is Cindy Harrison, Kitsap Regional glass art. The title: “Threshold”. or early October, the exact dates to be determined by Library representative is Althea Paulson, and Hans Rothert is past Other speakers will include Judge William speakers’ schedules. There will be no increase in cost president. Fletcher of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth of tickets. Page 2 Library history Library donors do make a difference The library’s first landscaper Mary and David Baron have made a generous gift to the Bainbridge Public Library in memory of her mother, by barbara winther Beatrice Clementson. The funds will be used to buy a collection of new books. Do you ever wonder who owns the home on Madison “Mother was an avid reader, a former librarian, and a Avenue that is set behind a large lawn with a giant very inquisitive person,” wrote Mary Baron. “She loved tree in front and beautiful rhododendrons all about the to visit the library. . . I would love to think that we are in house, one of the few private residences left on the street a small way encouraging people to use the facility more between High School Road and Winslow Way? and to appreciate the joys of reading.” That is Tad Sakuma’s home, and he was there before Beatrice Allis Clementson, 95, died March 1. She the Bainbridge Public Library was built. was a librarian in Illinois and New Jersey, and had lived When John Rudolph, the library’s architect, asked on Bainbridge since 1997. Sakuma to figure out something that wouldn’t cost much More funds needed to go in a well around the base of the first Bainbridge The library’s annual appeal for funds brought in Library building , Sakuma scratched his chin. well over $30,000 during the first five months of 2003. “I knew the space was so narrow and close to the The drive continues this summer. Board members foundation that plants would have a hard time surviving. thank those who have donated to date, but would like to Besides, with the roof overhang, it would have to be remind readers that it takes over $100,000 per year to hand watered. So I came up with the idea of rocks, big keep the library open. No gift is too large or too small to rocks here and there with lots of little river-washed rocks help. in-between. Juniper went in the planter out front. A lawn Photo by Grant Winther Those who have contributed to date include: grew on one side of the building and a few trees stood Tad Sakuma Charles G. Abbott Charles and Betty Gates near the road. It wasn’t much, but at the time it was the ANONYMOUS Clark and Cookie Gaulding best that could be done,” he said. high school is today. Sakuma started a business doing Jerry and Barbara Anderson Dennis and Kimberly Gawlik Jim and Lori Anderson Robert and Ellen Gedney Tad Sakuma had lived on the Island for 20 years when what he loved—creating and maintaining beautiful Steve and Sue Anderson Scott Glendinning that first Bainbridge Library building rose on the corner of gardens. R Bruce and Sandra Anderson Larry and Petie Glosten Charles Averill John and Margaret Gould High School Road and Madison Avenue. He had moved In 1954 the Sakumas bought a piece of property on Cameron Bahnson Laura B. Gowen from Seattle in 1941 because the head gardener for a large Madison Avenue. They moved into the old house at the Robbie and Robin Baker Alan and Kathleen Grainger Lynn and Carter Bannerman Lew Scheinert and David Green property in Pleasant Beach needed a third helper. front until they built the present house further back on Tom and Karen Beierle Jack and Donna Greenawalt That summer he met his future wife, Fujiko Koba the lot. There they raised three boys, David, Gary and Christopher and Heidi Blair Fred and Willie Grimm T. William and Beatrice Booth Curt and Kathy Gross (known as Fudge). She worked for the Harui family, Dwight, and established a lovely garden around their Michael and Cheryl Boyce Annamarie Lavieri and managing the grocery store at Bainbridge Gardens. Fudge home. Shannon Boyington Albert Gunther Ron Boynton Don and Deena Hanke lived with her parents in a red house located just south of Several years ago, Fudge passed away. Molly, one of Paul and Debbi Brainerd Reid and Barbara Hansen today’s library parking lot. New apartments have recently five grandchildren, lives with Sakuma now; she plans to Milton and Donna Brookfield William and Carolyn Harper Jeffery and Denise Brown Gerri and Dennis Harrington replaced the red house, and the front part of the lot is now go to the University of Washington next year. Benjamin Bevis Peter and Janice Harris owned by the Bainbridge Library for future expansion. Sakuma celebrated his 90th birthday this year. Vann Bucklin Dick Hassell Colin and Gillian Bull Paul and Jean Hennessy The year after Sakuma came to Bainbridge Island, “Much has changed on Madison Avenue in the nearly Bob and Sherry Burke Sally Hewett he was forced to leave. It was the start of America’s 50 years I’ve been living here,” he said. “Apartments, George and Delores Bussell Ruth and Harry Hofmann Lynn and Alice Campbell Robert Hoskinson involvement in World War II, and the US government businesses, more and more people coming and going.” John and Barbara Carver David Ansleey and Jeanne Huber shipped everyone of Japanese ancestry on the Island to He indicated the huge, old tree at the front of his Deborah and Ralph Cheadle Arthur Schmidt and Robin Hunt Steven and Christine Christensen David and Lynn Hunting Camp Manzanar. While Sakuma was interred there, he property—a native, big leaf maple. “That’s still here, Doug and Valerie Christiansen Gary and Vikki Hurt courted and married Fudge. They returned to the Island though. Also two other old trees grow on the property: Franklin and Linnea Chu Susan and Stephen Hylen Don and Neva Cole Tony and Sharon Jacobellis when the war was over, as did 28 other Japanese families. that plum”—he nodded at the tree in the middle of the Magdalene S. Confrey David Jaffe Once again, Fudge’s parents farmed strawberries on driveway—“and a chestnut in the backyard. And,” he Joan and Don Cooper Carl and Kay Jensen Patricia and Charles Corlett Jack and Pamela Johnson Chatham Hill, their property located south of where the added with a chuckle, “I plan to stay as long as I can.” Barbara Cunningham Bradley T. Jones Thomas and Suellen Cunningham Tom and Jody Kelly Thomas Daniel Edgar and Iris King Dave and Virginia Davison William and Dorothy Klein Gregg Dawson Bernard and Virginia Klimek Eleanor Deines Theodore and Kathryn Klinkenberg Wendy and Juan del Valle Arthur and Florence Koura William and Polly Diggs Dick Krutch Earl and Tina Doan Winifred Langdon Friends of the Library news Ray and Dorothy Downs Dale and Deborah Lantz Thomas and Nancy Downs John Todd and Rebecca Anne Richard and Angelina Larson by deb sweet be a prominent feature on the new book bags that we Huang Dykstra Robert W. and Lois E. Lawson will be selling later this summer. These are fabulous Henry and Tomi Egashira Dorothy Lazzarini W.T. and Jean Fenn Farwell Sheila Ann Lyons Leewens This spring the Friends asked Island artists Michele bags—functional and attractive in bright blue with the Betty and Joel Feigenbaum Nina Jackson and Ellen Lockert and Kent Van Slyke to create a logo for us. Michele is logo showing in color. They have lots of capacity for all Paula and Robert Fernandez Gary and Betty Loverich Robert and Carol Finch Edward and Patricia Lowe the creator of the sculpture of the hands holding a book the books you buy at our monthly sales, and promise Don and Ellen Fisher Don and Ginny Mannino which is used at the main desk of the Library for computer many other uses to help your daily chores. As soon as Bart and Esme Freedman Jim and Hisa Matsudaira Betty and Brad Frizzell screens. It is an art piece that many people identify with they arrive, we will display them by the main desk of Joan and Tom Gardiner Continued on page 9 the library, and appreciate for its beauty. Fortunate for us, the library. You will be able to purchase them during a Kent was willing to translate the sculpture into a graphical monthly book sale, and at other locations. Stay tuned! logo for the Friends. A black and white version of the logo Speaking of sales, during our last one someone Continued from front page is shown here. We think it is a wonderful image—bright asked if that was our last sale until fall. Indeed it and clearly linked to was not—our sales occur the second Saturday of Charles Johnson the library—and thank every month of the year. We expanded to a monthly both Michele and schedule last summer due to popular demand plus separate collection of stories. His stories also appear in Kent for their creative an abundance of great books. We plan to continue several anthologies. efforts. with monthly book sales as long as you come out and Johnson has garnered many honors and awards, You will begin support us. Last summer we had great attendance, including a 1998 MacArthur fellowship, two seeing the logo so mark your calendar and plan to get there early. Governor’s Awards for Literature, and the 2001 Pacific soon on our flyers Have a great summer with lots of great reads. See Northwest Writers Association Achievement Award announcing book you at the next sale. And do not forget to look for the for “distinguished professional achievement and for sales. It will also new book bags! enhancing the status of Northwest literature.”

A Floral Boutique — We Deliver — 842-0620 Page 3 M’liss Rae Hawley Quilt books from a Northwest master by Susan wiggs title of her first book. It’s the name of a challenging quilt, which Hawley Although Whidbey Island author demystified for enthusiasts in her first M’liss Rae Hawley never aspired to book by the same title. “The Mariner’s write, she has published four books. In Medallion is an entire quilt about the this bestselling author’s work, the text is Northwest,” she says. “The center is secondary to the dazzling illustrations of a mariner’s compass surrounded by her quilts. flying geese, a forest, a lighthouse and Her lifelong passion for needlework coast guard house. Stars twinkle above and textiles first became apparent when it all and the quilt is finished off with a she was four years old, and keen on Bargello border.” embroidery. She’s also explored sewing, Hawley titles her patterns after weaving and the art of textile. A graduate many local places: Island Star, and of the University of Washington Textile Prairie Queen after Ebey’s Prairie Fat Quarters book, which is almost “I am a library patron,” says Arts program, she did graduate studies on Whidbey. The Strait of Georgia is complete. Hawley. “I love the services libraries at Central Washington University. She another pattern. Spring 2002 saw the launch of M’liss provide. I always go to the textile achieved national recognition when her She followed up with Fat Quarter Rae Hawley’s first fabric line. The latest section, garden and cooking, and usually work won second place in the Bernina’s Quilts and More Fat Quarters, which embroidery collection is titled Spring View, need help getting out. I believe any art Professional Quilt Challenge for 1996. feature her innovative styles as well as a multi format CD rom that may be used in or garden book will inspire a quilter At that point, doors opened for the the work of her seminar students. These many different sewing/embroidery machines. through colors and design. Children’s talented artist, who was once told by compilation books, currently at the top of It also has a fabric line to accompany it. She book are another treat; they offer much a college professor that she lacked the bestseller lists in this genre, are popular has also designed an embroidery card and inspiration for my work. My other necessary artistic skills for textile design. with readers who enjoy seeing a variety CD for Husqvarna Viking. favorite are the videos, I enjoy watching She was 1998’s Featured Artist in Bernina of ways to interpret a pattern. “My biggest news,” says Hawley, all types of movies, documentaries, and of America’s marketing campaign. She’s Her latest, just published, is Everyday “is my own PBS TV series! It is titled series while I sew.” a popular speaker at workshops and Embellishments: 8 Fun Quilts to Stitch ‘M’Liss’s World of Quilts,’ and is set in Note: For more information on M’liss, seminars across the U.S. and Canada, and and Embellish from Martingale press. the Northwest, especially with an Island her books and classes, visit http:// she operates her own independent textile The seasonal wall hangings in this flavor. We will be taping much of the show www.quiltclasses.com on the Web. design studio. Garden Court Quilting book were all crafted by M’liss herself, locally. I will feature my work in each is located on her Whidbey Island farm. incorporating notions, machine applique segment as well as guests and friends from She has been able to combine her love and “just about everything you can all over the world. Also, a travel segment of quilting, teaching skills and national stitch on a quilt, as well as traditional and pet peeves will be on each episode. recognition into a viable career. techniques. After that, she’ll publish a The show will be aired late next spring on The Mariner’s Medallion is the book on color and design, with a third about 100 PBS stations in North America.” Summer reading— It’s not just for kids Fill your summer with reading pleasure Gail Dubrow to present visual tour of book and you may win a fabulous basket of prizes for the voracious reader. Bainbridge by cindy harrison cultural landscape associated with once Los Angeles. She specializes in Friends of the Library are sponsoring this familiar aspects of Japanese American revealing the neglected aspects of summer’s reading bonanza. Gail Dubrow, professor of life in Seattle and other West Coast urban history through a combination of Read a book, submit a brief review architecture, urban design and planning locations. Her work combines extensive preservation planning, public art and and add your ticket to the drawing. There at the University of Washington, will research, personal narratives and vintage historical interpretation of significant will be two drawings during the summer. present a visual tour of her new book, photographs to present a striking sites. Her widely published research Check out the posted reviews. Is it a Sento at Sixth and Main: Preserving profile of bathhouses, community halls, has been supported by grants and clever mystery, a political expose, a gothic Landmarks of Japanese American farms, lumber camps, temples, schools, fellowships from the American Institute romance or the next Pulitzer? Your Heritage. hospitals, midwiferies and bowling of Architects, the American Association neighbor may have recommended a great The slide program will be Sunday, July alleys. The outstanding book design is of University Women, the National summer read. 20 at 4:00 p.m. at the Bainbridge Public by UW graphic design faculty member, Endowment for the Humanities and Summer Reading starts on Saturday, Library. Dubrow was originally scheduled Karen Cheng. the National Park Service. Professor June 14, at Bainbridge Branch Library. to present this program in March. Gail Dubrow studied architecture Dubrow served from 1996 to 2000 on the What book are you taking to the beach Dubrow’s work explores the at the University of Oregon and urban Seattle Design Commission that reviews or the mountains or listening to on your previously undocumented buildings and planning at the University of California capital construction projects for the city. summer road trip?

B Your neighborhood F farm & garden store The Library is a Volumes of fun Bainbridge Foundation 206.842.2813 Agency Rolling Bay, Bainbridge Island

Let Our Family Putting Your Ideas on Paper... • Offset Printing Help Your Family • Copy Services Five generations strong, B & W/Color Copies COMPANY From your original helping you fulfill the General Contractor Services or your digital file dream of home ownership. • Imagesetting from Exceeding our clients’ expectations in Mac or PC Files an environment of trust and integrity. NORTHWEST • Free Delivery MORTGAGE PROFESSIONALS Commercial • Multi-family 8:30 to 5:00 p.m. New • Renovation • Tenant Improvement CFA � MORTGAGE BANKERS/BROKERS Monday - Friday 1721 132nd Ave. NE, Bellevue, WA • 425-702-6600 (360) 779-2681 (206) 842-9347 600 Winslow Way, Suite 234 WA contractor’s license RAFN**061J7 19036 Front Street NE, Downtown Poulsbo Page 4 In the gardens Volunteers keep the library grounds in shape the year ‘round, working extra hard in the summer growing season. Here (left to right, clockwise) Deb Sweet and Francis Hunt weed the perennial garden, John van den Meerendonk prunes a tree outside the Children’s Library, and a magnificent rhododendron blossoms at the Haiku Garden gate.

—Photos by Verda Averill Summer comes to the library gardens By VERDA AVERILL that the library gardens are really three tools, and go to work. Supervised by mature. Eventually there will be about distinct spaces. Ann Lovejoy, the Friday Tidies weed 200 named varieties of ferns, making Summer arrived this year with a First, there is the corner Haiku and thin plants, trim the overgrown ones, it one of the largest displays in the spectacular splash of color, more than Garden donated by the Bainbridge Island replace struggling plants with new ones Northwest. welcome after our long, gray winter. Japanese-American Community. With (volunteered by local gardeners) and Volunteers who care for the east-side Rumor has it that an admiring visitor its haiku messages along the paths, the more. There may be six or eight workers, grounds include library board members, asked Ann Lovejoy, our resident garden Japanese-style landscaping including water occasionally more. Since not everyone who turned out recently to rework paved guru, “And how large a staff do you and rocks, and a sculpture of two otters can come every Friday, more gardeners areas for better drainage, and van den have?” (The answer was probably a by Tony Angell, this garden is a place to are welcome—really needed. Meerendonk, who designed and built the hearty chuckle.) relax and enjoy the serenity, perhaps while “It’s rewarding in many ways, a real gazebo as a donation to the library. He Our library gardens are in fact remembering one’s ancestors (in whose learning experience,” said Deb Sweet, also sees to the pruning and clean-up in “staffed” by hard-working volunteers, memory it was created). The garden is one of the regulars. the garden. and their work is most visible when the maintained by BIJAC. (You may spot “And it’s fun,” added Tena Doan. The At the south end of the fern garden long days of summer finally arrive. Wayne Nakata, former library board morning usually brings a tailgate party, stands a special example of volunteer The sun shines on a burst of bloom member, pulling weeds there.) as library staff members provide the effort. The colorful garden shed was at the entrance to the Haiku Garden; a Second, there’s the colorful perennial gardeners with hot coffee (or cold drinks built as an Eagle Scout project by Fred mammoth rhododendron by the gate garden that surrounds the library on its on warm days) and snacks. Alger and friends in a local Scout troop. is shrouded in blossoms. The plant, north, south, and west boundaries. It’s On the east side of the building, an Now used mostly for storage, the garden nurtured for years, is part of the library’s reminiscent of those colorful English entirely different garden is taking shape. volunteers are hoping to see it equipped early landscaping and was carefully gardens one spots (and occasionally Stroll through this garden and you’ll see with light and water in the near future. protected during building expansions. walks through) along the Cotswold an exceptional variety of ferns, many “It will be even more useful to us then,” The colorful perennials in the border Trail. It’s cared for by volunteers who tagged with their botanical names. said Lovejoy. gardens take over as spring bulbs fade. call themselves the Friday Tidies, and The fern garden was donated by the Young people can contribute a great Many of the plants, perennials and bulbs, they welcome new members. There’s no Hardy Fern Foundation, including local deal to the gardens and are always have been donated by or in memory of membership fee, and no special skills are members John van den Meerendonk and welcome as volunteers, she adds. So are Islanders with a real love for their library. required. Just turn out at 9 a.m. Friday, Dr. Jack Docter. Dedicated a couple of senior citizens; her mother is a Friday Visitors who look closely discover any Friday, with gloves and your garden years ago, it is just now beginning to Tidy volunteer.

Time for a second opinion? Call today to schedule a no-cost, no-obligation portfolio review. If it concerned your physical health, you’d most likely seek a second opinion. Isn’t your fiscal health just as important? Do you have the right investments in place to meet the future’s financial challenges? At Edward Jones, our business is helping people find solutions for their long-term Quality Custom financial goals. Teddy H. Martin Framing Investment Representative 435 Ericksen Ave. NE, Suite 100 Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 (206) 780-9889 www.edwardjones.com (206) 780-1737 Member SIPC R Now at Island Center

Page 5 Young people’s library Students’ art closes a circle of giving by mary curtis company and student of Steiner, had opened discussions with his factory Our library depends on the financial workers about the possibility of a new support of our community to keep the school based on Steiner’s teachings. doors open and the lights on. Many Today, there are more than 600 Waldorf generous donors have sent checks to schools in over 32 countries support our library this year, and Cindy Waldorf teaching encourages children Harrison and the board of directors were to become active participants in life, looking for a special way to express their not spectators. A Waldorf education gratitude and appreciation. seeks to balance three primary areas Quite near to the library, housed of instruction: the mind’s thinking in Anne Boucher in the basement of the Eagle Harbor abstract skills, the soul’s passion for and Shannon Congregational Church, is Madrona art and music, and the body’s need for Stahl, sixth School. Peggy Hughes often sees these movement and physical work. graders at students in the young people’s library, and Back at Madrona School, student Madrona from a conversation with teacher Dana Anne Boucher explained the watercolor School, create Ashton, a collaborative idea took form. technique the students would use for bookmarks for Peggy asked if Dana’s sixth graders the finished artwork. Paper is soaked in library project. would like to do some drawings, which water and placed on a board. The paper could then be made into bookmarks, is brush wiped to remove all bubbles, which in turn could be inserted into and is then painted over entirely with one the library’s letters of appreciation color. After this prep, the artist mixes and and thanks to donors. Before long, the builds up paint on paper as forms take Storyteller painting is added to students could be found sketching in the shape and images appear. Interestingly, library gardens. They then took these white spaces are created by removing library’s art collection sketches back to their classroom and color with a clean, wet brush. Students turned them into water colored paintings. paint standing up, which frees their arms Patrons of the library are encouraged to of the frame. She is clothed in a vivid Madrona School is a Waldorf and bodies to the creative process. look for the newest painting in the library’s costume, colored with warm reds and school. Austrian born Rudolph Steiner Taken as a group, the paintings show gallery of art. oranges, and playfully decorated with founded Waldorf schools in Germany a wonderful spectrum of what’s to be “Storyteller” is fittingly located pieces of turquoise jewelry. In contrast to after World War I, when most of found (or imagined) in the library’s downstairs in the quiet room of the her still, compact form, she is surrounded Europe was in chaos, and philosophers garden. Some paintings are detail- children’s library, the room that young with small, almost doll-like children. Some and educators were looking for ways to oriented, showing thorns, clusters of people’s librarian Peggy Hughes uses for are nestled snug and close into her body, restructure political and social order. leaves, or individual flower petals. her weekly toddler story hour. listening with quiet fascination. Others This painting hangs in tribute to are listening with their bodies as children Steiner, who lectured extensively Others are broad landscapes with Stephanie Alene Price, whose Fort Ward frequently do, clothes askew, hanging on his ideas for social reform, had solid forms and massive blocks of color. daycare named Storyteller Hollow was precariously onto the storyteller’s body. concluded that true social change would Some are realistic and easily a home away from home to many island Or words? Her hands are held, covered, not be possible until people received an recognizable, while others are muted, children. Price’s sister, New Mexico artist in her lap. Her face is turned upwards, education that focused on developing blended, and impressionistic. All of the Mary Richardson, painted the piece and expressionless, except for her mouth, the whole human being—mind, body, paintings are fresh and original. donated it to the library in her sister’s which is round and resonant, and compels and soul. People with such an education, And so this particular circle will memory. you to listen. Steiner argued, could indeed change the close, as the children’s paintings are The painting is based on a Native The plaque next to the painting reads, world. transformed into book marks, the American storyteller, that matriarchal “Steph Price 1950 – 2002, Teacher, Waldorf schools take their name book marks are sent back out into the figure whose tales encompass the tribe’s Nurturer, and Friend, from the children of from Steiner’s first school, which was library community to say thank you accumulated wisdom, culture, and Storyteller Hollow.” Those who were not founded for the children of workers in to the donors, whose generosity helps traditions as they are passed from one fortunate enough to know Steph Price can the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Company keep the library doors open and the generation to the next. appreciate her gifts while looking at this in Stuttgart. Emil Molt, director of the lights turned on. The painting is easy to find. A large, painting, which honors her work, her life, solid woman sits squarely in the middle her spirit. Children’s calendar Book review WEDNESDAY, JULY 9 WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 If you like fantasy Reptile Man. Scott Peterson Paws for Reading. Join the fun, shares his love of snakes, iguanas, make your own paw prints, and by kate sloat Together they explore the boundaries of alligators, and other scaly creatures. much more. their magic. They come across several 10:30 a.m.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 If you like fantasy, you’ll like Rachel wonderful creatures, such as Ronif, a WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 Reading Celebration, including Roberts’ Avalon: Web of Magic series. quiffle, Balhatzar, a pegasus, Lyra, a flying Marine Science Center staff will treats. Bring your completed “Paws These stories are about three girls, Kara, leopard, Ozzie, a ferret who says he’s an introduce Pacific Northwest marine for Reading” reading tracker and Emily, and Adrianne. Though they lead elf, and Phel, a purple bear. But not all creatures in hands-on activities. receive a free paperback book. totally different lifestyles, they join surprises are good. They also encounter 10:30 a.m. 1-4 p.m. together to help save the one thing they a manticore and an evil sorceress who WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 all believe in. These are good reads if wants to destroy the world. Against Puppets Please. Hand-crafted Terrific Twos, 10:30 a.m. you like books that are enjoyable, short, Adrianne’s wishes, they join forces with marionettes perform in the round; WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 and somewhat easy. The author, Rachel prissy, popular Kara Davies, who wants audience participation creates fun Preschool Storytime, 10:30 a.m. and laughter. 10:30 a.m. Roberts, is actually named Shelly R. nothing to do with people like them. Will MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Roberts. the three girls stop arguing in time to save MONDAY, JULY 28 Terrific Twos, 10:30 a.m. In Circles in the Stream, the first book what they love most? Classic Anime Film Festival, 6:30 p.m. in the series, young Emily Archer meets Kate Sloat will be entering sixth up with formidable Adrianne Charday. grade, at Sakai, in the fall.

Charlie Michael’s Salon for casual elegance

Shear expertise, custom color and styling in relaxed, friendly surroundings. CONSTRUCTION INC. Bainbridge Island’s Community Bookstore • Locally owned • Custom Homes • Paul Mitchell Signature Salon Fine New and Used Books • Remodeling 6 • Revolving art exhibits Open Daily Friendly, Knowledgeable Staff • Premium quality finish carpentry Extensive Selection 6 Telephone Orders • Committed to continuing 6 education and quality Frequent Buyer Discount We Mail Anywhere Full-Service General Contractor We’ll Order Any Book In Print - FAST! serving Bainbridge Island since 1980 901 Hildebrand Lane, Suite 102 (206) 842-5332 Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Kitsap County Toll Free: 692-2375 842-3915 206.842.1160 157 Winslow Way East 6 Bainbridge Island P.O. Box 10850, Bainbridge Island • State Con Reg #RICHABC104M3 Page 6 Rachel Balas and Mara Aussendorf, Odyssey students, at the computers Children’s library Young people use the Bainbridge Public Library in many ways: to read, research, work on special projects, and relax with friends. Peggy Hughes, young people’s librarian, photographed students from Odyssey, Madrona, and Sakai schools at work on several recent projects. Seth Lockwood and Tonada Koch, sixth graders at —Photos by Peggy Hughes Madrona, work on bookmarks (Story on Page 6)

Lucas Stewart, Spencer Shepard, Tim Burton, Odyssey students Shea Kenyon and Isabelle Hoonan, from Odyssey

Ariana Mann with teacher Barry Hoonan of Odyssey Adaline Rapada, fifth grader at Sakai

More than a bookstore One-stop shopping for travel essentials Modern Collision Rebuild 9270 Miller Rd. Bainbridge Is. WA 98110 • Travel guides • Travel literature • Maps Collision Repair • Tilley hats Specialists • Eagle Creek packs and luggage Auto Rentals And much more

Bainbridge Island Poulsbo 842-3101 Open daily: Mon. - Sat. 10-6, Sun. 12-5 (206) 842-8053 (360) 697-6633 287 Winslow Way East • 842-4578 Page 7 Electronic toolboxes for savvy students by cindy harrison Contemporary Authors, Historical New York Times History Resource Center - Contemporary Literary Imagine reading the news as the Modern World Edition original readers viewed reports of Lincoln’s The new school year is arriving soon Many parents and teachers complain Criticism and the Literature assassination, the first exhibit of controversial and the library has a dazzling variety of that students lack information with a Impressionist painters, the sinking of the electronic databases available for students. Resource Center broader worldview. Lusitania, publication of Huxley’s Brave Be careful, parents. You, too, may These literary databases provide This database has coverage of 20th New World, the Normandy Landing and the suddenly find that history day research and extensive biographical and bibliographical century modern world history that is launch of Sputnik. Full text and complete science projects are irresistible. information as well as critical essays on more comprehensive and thorough but is still graphical reproduction of the New York Times The library purchases these massive than 120,000 international contemporary appropriate for a wide variety of research from 1851 to 1999 provides an exciting time databases of current reference material and novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and levels. capsule of world history with illustrations, authoritative journal articles. They are not other writers. There is in-depth coverage The content is multicultural and advertisements, obituaries, maps and more. available free through the Internet. They are of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. If the global in scope with a remarkable array accessible at the library and from your home assignment calls for explication of an Emily History Resource Center - of reference sources, maps, atlases, computer with your library card number. Dickenson or Billy Collins poem, or perhaps images, journal articles, statistics and a Hemingway short story or a novel by Italo United States Edition chronologies. As effective for country Opposing Viewpoints Covering the entire span of American From ongoing controversies to today’s Calvino, these databases will work wonders. reports as it is for in-depth research history, the History Resource Center is the on the impact of globalization, it is an hot topics, research social issues in this Biography Resource Center most comprehensive collection of United dynamic online library of current event information goldmine for the savvy This database contains award-winning States historical information ever gathered subjects. Explore a topic’s many facets, student. biographical essays from respected reference into one electronic resource. It includes organize your research, access award- Bainbridge Branch library is books as well as full-text articles from full-text periodical articles, authoritative winning reference materials to clarify or hundreds of periodicals. It is particularly planning a hands-on introduction to present all sides of an issue. Looking for essays from reference books, multimedia the navigation and effective use of helpful when the books on a particular reference material and facsimiles of labor market statistics on teacher salaries individual are checked out or you need a these databases sometime this fall. historic documents. Since it is appropriate for a hard-hitting debate topic? Searching quick check to verify factual information for Watch for more information on these for a wide variety of researchers, it can for that elusive “pro” article on nuclear an assignment. From Meriwether Lewis to incredible electronic tools in future provide outstanding documentation for a energy? Need a perfect color photo for a Ariel Sharon, from Bob Marley to Jennifer issues of the Bainbridge Island Library report on bioethics? Opposing Viewpoints Lopez, this is a great resource for school state report or the student in hot pursuit of News. is the right tool. reports or just plain browsing. an award-winning history day project. New gardening books at Kitsap Regional Library by cindy harrison Eat More Dirt: Diverting and conifers, shrubs, climbers and perennials in this guide for gardeners of all skill Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending for the impatient gardener. levels. She emphasizes the importance of Architecture in the Garden by James an Organic Garden by Ellen Sandbeck. The Backyard Playground: an overall pleasing design that successfully Van Sweden. This book is not only a practical Recreational Landscapes and Play integrates the beauty of foliage plants. She Van Sweden is a Washington, D.C.-based handbook about sustainable practice Structures by the editors of Creative includes perennials, trees, vines, shrubs and architect who provides opening chapters in organic gardening but it is also an Publishing international. annuals in her suggestions for gardens in a on the careful planning of a garden’s “good extremely handsome volume since Young families need a garden landscape variety of climates and conditions. bones.” He illustrates this with six case Sandbeck is both a skilled gardener that fits the needs of kids and adults. Start-to-Finish Sheds and Gazebos by studies of different sites that compare the and graphic designer. It will appeal to This title has suggestions for creating Larry Johnston (Editor). elements of a house ceiling, floors and experienced as well as beginning gardeners fun and safe outdoor play areas. Not only This handbook provides complete plans walls to comparable features in a garden. who will appreciate her common-sense are there play structures for preschoolers, with step-by-step instructions including He guides readers in ways to assess their approaches to soil health, essential tools, there are also projects for climbing walls materials lists, precise dimensions and own terrain. The “Gallery of Architectural balance in design and responsible pest and tree houses that would capture the reminders about code compliance. Features” offers examples of paths, decks, management. Her wit and insight provide a imaginations of older children. The book There are also helpful suggestions about edging, fences and walls to enhance the humorous and intelligent guide to nontoxic also describes backyard designs that can landscape compatibility, building basics dramatic impact of a garden setting. gardening techniques. adapt to the changing needs of a growing and tool tips. Begonias by Mike Stevens. Fast Plants: Choosing and Growing family. Sandboxes can evolve into garden Start-to-Finish Paths and Walkways by This title is devoted to the propagation Plants for Gardens in a Hurry by Sue Fisher. beds and a playhouse can be reconfigured Larry Johnston (Editor). and culture of begonias of which there are Sue Fisher’s experience working in to serve as a garden shed. The design plans Johnston is editor again of this Ortho as many as 1,000 identified species as well gardens and nurseries for more that 10 encourage outdoor interactive play with handbook for the do-it-yourself landscaper. as numerous hybrids. As an internationally years fostered her writing career. Fast trees and other plantings creating private Numerous photographs and illustrations recognized specialist, Stevens includes Plants is her seventh book and is a guide natural spaces for all ages. enhance the clear instructions. In addition information on begonia history, container to producing a lush and healthy garden Consider the Leaf: Foliage in Garden to the usual chapters on planning and gardening, fertilizers, pests, common diseases in less time. The plants she describes are Design by Judy Glattstein. design, there are also tips for trouble- and recommended nursery sources. The hardy, versatile and above all, speedy! Glattstein exploits the seemingly shooting problems with grading and work includes 95 full color photographs. She includes a colorful directory of 100 limitless variety of leaf texture and color drainage.

a journal of positive futures Subscribe Your locally owned, full-service Give a gift family hardware store also sells: Volunteer ✓ Housewares & Gifts Published quarterly on Bainbridge Island by The Positive Futures Network ✓ Lawn & Garden Supplies an independent non-profit organization that supports people’s active engagement in creating a more Fresh Summer Color just, sustainable, and compassionate world. ✓ Fishing Tackle Terrific Gardening Tools (206) 842-0216 www.yesmagazine.org ✓ Computerized Paint Matching And a whole lot more Organic Gardening Products

Washington License DRURYC*233LO We cut glass & keys Garden Design Services Open 7 days a week Garden Care Books DRURY Monday thru Friday 8-7 Saturday 8-6, Sunday 10-5 Bird “B&B” Supplies Construction Co., Inc. Fresh-Brewed ‘Soil Soup’ Bainbridge Island PROUD TO SERVE BAINBRIDGE ISLAND Gardening & Cooking Classes FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS AS BUILDERS OF New Rose Café Year Round! QUALITY COMMERCIAL PROJECTS 635 NE High School Road 9415 Miller Rd. NE • 206-842-5888 Telephone (206) 842-5644 842-9901 Mon-Sat, 9-5:30 • Sunday, 10-4 Page 8 The woman detective in modern fiction By Julie O’Neill, eye, with a few appealing quirks and coworkers. She is often assigned to find but full of humorous insights and Reference Librarian vulnerabilities, a suspenseful mystery, a missing person or to protect someone, ironic commentary about the clichés hard-driving action and a satisfying such as the uncooperative rock star in of the female P.I. - empty refrigerators, Are you breathlessly awaiting a copy conclusion. Under Contract. The action is fast- loneliness and a tendency to get beat up. of Sue Grafton’s latest? Are you number Here are a few more authors to try: paced, violence is subdued, the dialogue Susan Dunlap: Former San 129 on the library waiting list for Janet Linda Barnes: Her Carlotta Carlyle is witty. Adapted for British television, Francisco medical examiner turned Evanovich’s newest? Are you addicted series takes place in Boston, where the this series has won many awards. P.I., Kiernan O’Shaughnessy lives to the hair-raising adventures of V.I. formidable Carlyle, an ex-cop turned P.I. Patricia Cornwell: Cornwell was on the beach near La Jolla. The tiny, Warshawski, Sara Paretsky’s Chicago- also works as a taxi driver. She is 6 feet a crime reporter and technical writer for acid-tongued investigator is a fun and based private eye? Join the crowd of tall, red-haired and short-tempered. The the Virginia Medical Examiner’s Office memorable heroine. Pious Deception ever-increasing fans of one of today’s series has won several mystery awards before launching her hugely popular and Rogue Wave, the first two books, most popular mystery genres: the female and takes on major issues such as illegal and award-winning series featuring Dr. were nominated for Anthony Awards. private detective. immigrants, gun running, property Kay Scarpetta, medical examiner in Library Journal calls the writing “slick, Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone developers, hospital maladministration Richmond, Virginia. The first novel, sassy, good entertainment.” may be the best known fictional woman and drug dealing. Start with A Trouble Postmortem, was based on an actual Karen Kijewski: Katwalk was the private eye, but with the phenomenal of Fools. series of crimes in Richmond and first in an award-winning series featuring popularity of her “alphabet mystery Nevada Barr: Her tough loner follows Scarpetta through the grisly, but Kat Colorado, a feisty bartending series,” there are now a host of authors character Anna Pigeon is a National authentic details of police procedure and Sacramento P.I. She has nine lives, creating their own strong-willed, fearless Park Ranger who investigates murders forensic pathology. nerves of iron and the curiosity of - well, and sometimes quirky female gumshoes. in national parks. Each novel is set Janet Dawson: Unlike many a Kat. The Washington Post said, “Much The woman private detective is not in a different park, and the locale is a fictional detectives, Oakland, California of the terse breezy dialogue is downright new in fiction. The first collection of fascinating and integral part of the plot. P.I. Jeri Howard is absolutely normal. In hilarious.” stories about a female detective - called, Track of the Cat, set in the Guadalupe Kindred Crimes she solves a mystery simply, The Female Detective, was Mountains in Texas, was nominated as set deep in the past; the fun of the series published in 1864. Agatha Christie the best first mystery of the year. The is Jeri’s ability to strip away history and News briefs introduced her detecting couple, Tommy series has continued to please fans with piece together clues to find the truth. and Tuppence in the 1920s. P.D. the development of gutsy, but vulnerable The New York Times Book Review calls TWO NEW BIRDHOUSES, James’s fledgling detective, Cordelia Anna, the intense action and the Kindred Crimes “a welcome addition to one for flickers and one for violet- Gray, appeared in 1972 in An Unsuitable pervading atmosphere of the settings. this tough genre.” green swallows, are now up in the Job for a Woman. Liza Cody: First introduced in Sarah Dunant: Silver Dagger library shade garden. They were But most mystery aficionados Dupe, Anna Lee is a believable hard- winner Dunant features Hannah built and mounted by Cebe and consider American author Marcia boiled English private detective. She is Wolfe, a contract P.I. for a London Susan Wallace, longtime library Muller to have started the contemporary the only female investigator in a London agency. Fatlands, the second in the genre in 1977 with Edwin of the Iron detective agency and has to cope with the series, won several awards. Dunant’s supporters, and a swallow has Shoes, featuring feisty P.I. Sharon inevitable macho comments of her male writing is polished and sophisticated already taken up residence. McCone (who is still running her fictional agency in San Francisco some Continued from page 3 25 years later.) Sue Grafton followed with A is for Library donors Alibi in 1982, introducing her character Joel and Kathryn Matulys Ann and John Powel Kris Vail and Meghan Skotheim David and Nancy Williams private eye Kinsey Millhone. The no- Thomas and Louise McCloskey Ford and Eve Quitslund Helene Smart Brian Kent Williams Elizabeth White and Wayne William and Janet See Reddy Mildred and Howard Smith Robert K. and Sharon Winn nonsense, self-sufficient, jeans-wearing McCormick Arthur F. and Virginia Redfield Martin and Joan Smith Pamela Witte Kinsey, who hates cooking and drives Casey and Susan McGrath Gary and Vi Rees Sound Options Group Glen M. and Cathy E. Wyatt John and Barbara McMahon Mary Richardson Stephen and Patricia Speidel Don and Kay Yockey an ancient VW bug, clearly appealed to Lynda McMaken Chester and Barbara Richmond Dale and Carol Sperling Sandra Schubach and Edward Zimney readers and became the archetype of the Roger and Judith Merrifield Clay and Sherry Roberts Dale and Regina Spoor Craig and Sherry Hagstrom Patricia A. Miller Phil and Anita Rockefeller Marc and Jane Stewart Frank J and Ann-Marie Baldwin female private eye. Linda Hayes and Tom Moench Sheila and Dorothea Ross Richard and Margaret S. Stine Rick and Linda Smith Walsh Sara Paretsky launched V.I. Edwin and Dora Monk Scott and Susan Croy Roth Nichole Vick and Ray Styles Susan and Ronald Allen Judy and Carl Mundt Esther Rounds Jack Swanson Bob Burkholder Warshawski in 1982 in Indemnity Only; David C. Myers Marcia Rudoff David and Barbara Swartling Kim and Ela Esterberg V.I. is also a gutsy P.I., with a fondness William and Pamela Harrison Nakao Jim and Lucille Salter Don and Barbara Swenson Ed and Pat Reynolds Wayne and Judy Nakata Paul Sanders James and Christine Taylor Larry and Maggie Burke for silk shirts and Bruno Magli shoes, Craig and Theresa Olson Carol Lee Sanderson Joanne Tews James Pizzini and Holly Garrett and a propensity for getting herself into Setsuo and Yukiko Omoto Gordon and Cathy Sandridge Val and Mary Ann Tollefson Larry and Jeannie Ream James and Alice Parker Jean and Jack Sargent William and Connie Waddington Mary and Gary Tate-Phillips incredibly dangerous predicaments - Andrea and Everett Paup Bob and Jean Satterwhite Marcia Walker Karen Teal and the ability to get herself out. Other John R. and Laila Paus Janet See Jack and Luella Wells Jay M. Wiggs Karl Petersen and Joan Pearson Dallas Young Shaffer Jane and C Keith Wentworth Paul and Dorothy Noble writers have expanded this winning Andrew and Carol Pendleton Shurtleff Family James and Mary Whyte Neal and Marjorie Nunamaker formula with variations on the theme Douglas and Cassandra Picha Peter and Nancy Silverman W. Joseph and Sheila Wilcynski Fred and Susan Pasquale Mary Piette Al and Lu Simpson Brenda Van Thuijl and Harriet B. Pasquale - the fearless, feisty female private Jim and Zona Piper Robin Simons Albert G. Williams Alan and Diana Peters

We’ve had designs William S. McGonagle on Bainbridge Experienced Trial Lawyer for Personal Injury and Accidents 28 years

241 Madison Avenue N. Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 harris•zommers (206) 842-5681 • (360) 779-2092 Sh e r r a r d & Fax (206) 842-6356 McGo n a g l e , p.s. INTERIORS [email protected] Attorneys at law 126 madrone lane • 842-2525

Nourishing the quality of life Helping Keep Bainbridge Island Green and Beautiful

• Bakery & Cafe • Seafood & Meats We make our wines • Wines & More the old-fashioned way... Outside Seating, Floral Pavilion, Espresso, Friendly Service, Quality Foods, We grow them! Freshness, Full Service Deli, Organics Bainbridge Island (206) 842-WINE/9463 Town & Country Market Vineyards & Winery 343 Winslow Way East • (206) 842-3848 On Highway 305, Winslow Wine Museum • Picnic Area • Antiques Wed. - Sun. 12 - 5 pm Our wines are sold at the winery, locally, and in selected restaurants. Page 9 Meet the library staff and volunteers These three people are among those who make the library work. You see them often, but seldom get to speak with them. Matt Feisthammel and Donna Scott are library pages who shelve books and tapes and other materials. Penny Sluis is a volunteer who prepares donated books and audio materials for shelving: she puts the bar codes and spine labels on, and cleans them up for circulation. Matt, a home-schooled scholar, has been on the library staff since March 2000 while he completed his high school equivalent studies. He’s been accepted by Donna Scott Penny Sluis Matt Feisthammel Reed College in Portland and will begin around to dance and acting and sports, Volunteer Penny Sluis has for the past ask (if I could help out as a volunteer).” she his studies there this fall. and managing a household.” She attended year been working once a week for about said. She’s been coming every week since. When he’s not working for the library Seattle Pacific University and worked as a four hours. Penny is married, with four daughters he participates in the Society for Creative medical assistant “I love books, and I don’t have a lot of and five grandchildren. Anachronism, entering competitions and Donna loves the library work and energy to do very much,” she said. Penny She worked for years as a radiology even making his own armor and helmets. says, “I just wish I had more time to read. has suffered from multiple sclerosis for technologist and then managed the Group Donna Scott, the mother of three I love the library and books, and this job years, but thanks to today’s medication, a Health central radiology facilities while children ages 14, 12, and 9, joined the makes me think I’ve underutilized the lot of physical therapy, and meditation she living with MS. Finally, the symptoms library staff in December. It’s her first library all these years.” is able to walk with the help of a cane. flared up enough to cause her retirement. job since her children were born. Recent Off duty she enjoys gardening and Visiting the library last summer to Lucky for the library, she now has the years have been spent “running kids hiking and reading the classics. check out some books, “I just happened to time to help out here. Class of ‘97 donation honors Herrens By Julie O’Neill Northern Lights: the Science, Myth is an excellent guide to the habits and carnivorous plants and fish. Caution: not Reference Librarian and Wonder of the Aurora Borealis by habitats of reef creatures. for the very young or the squeamish! Calvin Hall. With nearly a hundred vivid Living with Earthquakes in the The Jade Coast: Ecology of the Bainbridge Public Library received a color photos of the magical northern Pacific Northwest by Robert Yeats. A North Pacific Ocean by Robert Butler. generous donation from the Bainbridge lights, the authors describe the science as leading authority on earthquake geology Islands, estuaries, rainforests, glaciers, High School Class of 1997, and their well as legends and myths surrounding describes the threat posed by one of raging tidal waters and quiet coves make parents, in memory of BHS biology teacher this fascinating natural phenomenon. the world’s great earthquake faults, the up the verdant shores of the coastline of Dwight Herren. Herren, his wife Jennifer The Journey of Man: a Genetic Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching Alaska, B.C., Washington and Oregon. and their two children died in 1997 when a Odyssey by Spencer Wells. This well- from British Columbia to Northern Stunning color photos show some of the landslide destroyed their home. illustrated companion book to a PBS California. thousands of species and the habitats of Herren, the son of Jan and Vern special program shows how the secrets Rain Forests of the Pacific Northwest the Jade Coast. Herren, was raised on the island and of modern man’s ancestors are hidden in by Deborah Behler. This is an overview Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, graduated from BHS in 1971. He human genetic code. of the ecology of Pacific Northwest rain 2003 edition. This is a 17 volume reissue of received degrees from the University of Gifford Pinchot and the Making forests and the life they support. a classic encyclopedia, completely revised Washington and Cornell. of Modern Environmentalism by The Age of Science: What We and updated. Grzimek’s has the reputation His life-long interest in marine Char Miller. Gifford Pinchot, the Learned in the 20th Century by Gerard of being the most comprehensive and science led him to work for a while as a famed conservationist, helped to define Piel. The former editor of Scientific authoritative reference on all animals of marine biologist for the state Department environmental politics in the early 20th American gives a sweeping overview of the world, from the microscopic to the of Fisheries. He and his wife were avid century. This is an engaging portrait the scientific achievements of the 20th very largest. Beautifully illustrated with scuba divers. of the man - his character, passions and century, from astrophysics and quantum color photos, diagrams and maps, the The high school class gave funds to personality. mechanics to cell biology and genetics. volumes will be issued over the next year. the library to purchase science books in Reef Life: Natural History and Youch! It Bites!: Real-Life Monsters Bainbridge Library is especially fortunate memory of the popular and respected Behavior of Marine Fishes and Up Close by Trevor Day. Kids will that funds from the Herren Memorial will teacher. These are just a few of the titles Invertebrates by Denise Tackett. With love the eye-popping magnified photos provide for the purchase of this invaluable purchased with the memorial funds: beautiful underwater photography, this of poisonous frogs, snakes, spiders, reference.

Law Office Look for of Bainbridge library Theodore Spearman representation in the Grand Old • Automobile & Pedestrian 4th parade. Accidents • Premises Liability Want to walk with us? Contact the Young People’s library for • Medical Negligence details. • Toxic Mold Exposure • Wrongful Death ISLAND ELECTRONICS, INC. • Civil Rights Family Dentistry • Special Education You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers. • Dr. James MacFarlane • Environment & Land Use • DirecTV • Dr. Elizabeth Bell 208 Solarmarine Building • Verizon and AT&T Wireless • Dr. Nicholas Thompson 755 Winslow Way East • Home Electronics • 2 Way Family Radio Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 • Unique, exciting gizmos, gadgets & gifts 206-842-0566 525 High School Rd, NW www.spearmanlaw.com Mon - Fri 9-7 • Sat 9-5:30 • Sun 11-5 Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 321 High School Rd, Suite D-7 • 206-842-6549 (206) 842-4794 for appointments Page 10 Greg Skei painting honors the ‘daffodil lady’ by nan wooldridge these gave me a stable foundation from which to accelerate in the fine art of large paintings.” When you next visit the library, take the stairs down Several of Greg’s acrylic paintings echo from time to the children’s room and look up. Over the landing you spent long ago on Marcus Island. His images grow see an expressionistic painting of a landscape—colors primarily from places he’s lived or visited. There’s a softly blended, maybe sand merging to sky—with a sense series of black and red paintings on China. He made of something beyond us. two series from the six weeks he spent in Nepal, one “A Simple Vision” was painted by Greg Skei and of Tibetan prayer flags, and another of the mountains. given to the library in memory of Noel Krutch, his wife’s “Sensory, intuitive,” he says. “They speak to a moment, mother, who was known by many on the island as “the to something greater than the self.” daffodil lady” for the thousands of bulbs she and her He jokes about his first opportunity to hang his work husband, Dick, gave to neighborhoods of people to plant. in a small co-op gallery in Seattle called Art Not Terminal, The primary inspiration for that painting, Greg tells located next door to the old Trailways Bus Station. (People me as he pulls out a board-mounted map, was Marcus kept coming in looking for buses, so the sign man had Island, a coral atoll about a thousand miles off the sea to put a big sign in the window, ART, Not Terminal.) coast of Japan. It was the early 1970s. He was 22, in the Recently he had an exhibit at Gallery Fraga in downtown United States Coast Guard stationed on assignment to this Winslow. One of his pieces hangs at Microsoft, others in island for two years. private collections on Bainbridge Island, and others in New It was here that he first experienced a heightened Jersey, California, Oregon and Washington. sense of nature. He remembers sitting on the He’s pleased that his library painting will be seen by beach one night gazing at the stars, and he felt children as they head downstairs. He regrets that he didn’t The artist in his workshop holding a map of their embrace all around him. “That perspective,” “get on board until I was in my 40s” and would like to Marcus Island. he said, “being a small part of a vast whole, was work with young people in some capacity to help instill very comforting,” and has served him up “psychic that passion for making art at a young age. Greg and his wife live on 20 acres of pristine wooded snapshots” throughout his life. Although his daytime job is still house painting, his land where she grew up. Happenstance seemed to govern his career. He needed own company, now called The Great Wall of Painting, “This is my kingdom,” he says as he waves his arms a job when he was discharged from the Coast Guard, and has never advertised. In fact, you won’t even find that around the four walls of his small studio blanketed went to work for a family friend in the clothing industry name in the local yellow pages. If the work isn’t good with his paintings. “The closest I can get to Creation is where he picked up great appreciation for color, texture, enough for people to recommend him, he thinks, then he creating,” he said. “These,” he nods to the paintings, “are pattern and design of fabrics. shouldn’t be getting the work. my prayers.” After working for two shops in Portland, then the flagship Nordstrom store in Seattle, he was ready to attend Evergreen State College from which he received his B.A. Field’s End honored with BIAHC funding award in graphic design and print making at the age of 30. For several years he worked in graphic design before moving By Marcia Rudoff The next Roundtable is July 15. It features George to Bainbridge Island, where he took a job as a house Shannon, an author of books for children and young painter with Dana Covert Painting Company. The City of Bainbridge Island’s Arts and Humanities adults. He will introduce the topic “Keeping a writing Thus began a series of synchronistic events. Fund will help underwrite the costs of the popular free journal: Does it help or hinder a writer?” Aware of his art background, his mother-in-law, Noel, Writers’ Roundtables the third Thursday of every month The August 19 Roundtable will depart from the invited him to the Women’s University Club to hear a at the library. All community members interested in normal format. Field’s End will host a potluck appetizer/ guest from Daly’s Home Decorating Center speak on writing are invited to meet between 7 and 8:30 p.m. At dessert party from 6:30 to 8:30 at the library to celebrate glazing and faux finishes. The minute she finished, Greg each session a local author focuses on one writing topic. the conclusion of its first full year of providing classes walked to the front of the room to ask her where she’d The forum is sponsored by library-affiliate Field’s End. and other programs. It will also mark the opening of gained her training. That afternoon he was on the phone The Arts and Humanities Fund is administered by the registration for fall quarter classes. to San Francisco with Day Studio, one of the two places Bainbridge Arts and Humanities Council, which each All Island writers, families and friends are invited to she mentioned. He spent a month studying there and has year selects projects of artistic or scholarly excellence attend. Come interact with other writers of all levels and subsequently returned for more workshops to increase his that benefit the community. genres, as well as Field’s End organizers, volunteers and skills. The city’s money will help make the Field’s End instructors. Offer your input and ideas for the future. A few years later, he and his wife, Robyn Krutch, Writers’ Community accessible to all, provide an Writers’ Roundtable will return to its regular format a paralegal, had the opportunity to visit China. It was opportunity for writers to learn from others, nurture a on Sept. 15. Playwright and author Barbara Winther will a pivotal journey. They had a chance encounter that sense of community and serve the needs of differing introduce the topic, “Building character: How do writers convinced them to reconfigure their lives. types of writers. do it?” Their guide on the Great Wall confessed to them that he could not pursue his heart’s desire—namely, to teach literature. Because of some small act that displeased the government, their guide was destined to lead brief tours Art talk focuses on impressionist techniques for the rest of his life. Learn how Impressionist painters capture color and through the Bainbridge Island Parks and Recreation Robyn and Greg looked at each other with the same light from Lois Griffel, director of the Cape Cod School of District. Island painters Sylvia Carlton, Pamela thought. They could follow any course they wanted. Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts. On Sunday, July 27 at Fermanis, Ray Styles, Nichole Vick, and Vicki Walaskay It was “vision made manifest,” said Greg. When they 3:30 p.m., Griffel will give a free lecture and slide show on have all studied with Nelson and subsequently taken returned home to Bainbridge Island, they jettisoned things Impressionist techniques in the Library’s conference room. multiple workshops with Griffel. Lisa Berman, Judy that weren’t important to them. Robyn took up sculpting Griffel’s early training included a stint at the Art Cozine, and Don Yockey will be returning for their full time, and he started painting his own work. Students League in New York. In 1971, however, she second workshop. A third event that led him to further connect with the began studying at the Cape Cod School of Art. Her mentor, Griffel is the author of Painting the Impressionist “road map of my life” came about when his wife read a Henry Hensche, was the successor to Charles Hawthorne, a Landscape: Lessons in Interpreting Light and Color Daniel Smith newsletter announcing a workshop titled student of Claude Monet, who founded the school in 1899. (published by Watson-Guptill in 1994) and three “Painting Big,” Prior to this, he had been making small Lois stayed and became the school’s third director in 1985. videotapes demonstrating her approach. Lois is working pieces in mixed media with monotypes for the primary In addition to teaching in Provincetown, Griffel on her second book, Painting Impressionist Color. Lois foundation. conducts painting workshops throughout the United States exhibits at the Wohlfarth Galleries, Provincetown and After the two-day workshop, he painted his first large and Europe. From July 28 through August 1, Griffel will Washington D.C., the Hughes Gallery in Boca Grande, canvas, about four feet by six feet. be conducting her second workshop on Bainbridge Island Florida, and the Phoenix Gallery in Utah. “It was as though I had boarded a rocket,” he said. where her techniques have earned a local following. Griffel’s workshops are open to new and returning “The work in clothing, the work in decorative finishes, Silverdale oil painter Eileen Kreml Nelson features students. For information, e-mail [email protected] or and even the work of being a house painter—all of Griffel’s color approach in classes that Nelson teaches call (508) 487-0101.

Kitsap County’s Most Complete Stationery, Art & Office Supply See our great bookmarks

256 Winslow Way E 206-842-6682 Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Fax 842-6683

Page 11 Bainbridge Island photo club struts its stuff by nan wooldridge the first elected president; Stan Johnson, vice president of competition; and Genevieve Moyer, secretary- My pencil can hardly keep pace. Bob Oze leans treasurer. By keeping abreast of changes, they have tried forward, talks faster and faster as he warms to his to embrace new technologies and re-enforce the old at favorite subject, the Bainbridge Island Photo Club. the same time. The more I listen the more I’m convinced that this is One of their most rewarding missions has been the place for an amateur photographer to be creatively to help young people in the high school photography stimulated while improving her picture-taking skills. classes. They introduced Photo Shop, a digital program The test resides on the library walls during the used by professionals, and showed students how they months of July, August and September. Scenes from can take a picture, process it, and print it even with nature, landscapes, people, animals, and photo- point- and-shoot film cameras. journalism are on exhibit to show in 60 pictures the Oze emphasized that after scanning an image and breadth of artistry among the 35 members of the Photo putting it in the computer, you can lighten or darken it, Club. remove the color, or enhance the eyes because “the eyes “Most people start out taking pictures of their kids,” are the most important part of any picture. If the eyes are says Oze, the current president. in focus, everything else is perceived to be in focus.” A Later on, they look back on these snapshots with a good point to keep in mind when students took their own more critical eye, and think, “I’d like to do better.” Enter graduation pictures last year, and members of the club the Photo Club, a place to get all kinds of suggestions, helped to process them through Photo Shop. exchange ideas, listen to experts and enter competitions. Bob Oze with photos. Various events keep members primed to produce “Many members of this club have seen a steady rise in more ideas, more techniques because someone will try better and better work. Right now there’s a traveling their competency, and are now competing in local salons something you never dreamed of trying.” show going on. Because this club is interconnected to and national competitions,” said Oze. But competition pales beside the major intention of a larger organization, photographs of members are sent The second Wednesday of every month the club — education. On education night the first hour around to other photo clubs to be judged. At the end photography enthusiasts gather at the Commons of the meeting is devoted to discussion of problems and of the year, the regional association takes the Best of from 7 to 9 p.m. The focus of the meeting alternates solutions. The second hour may be a guest lecturer or Show and displays the photographs in the area, maybe each month. January begins with a competition; a presentation by a member on a subject he has chosen in Silverdale or Kitsap Mall. Another local venue for February follows with education. Each year to research and write a paper on. A tidy stack of topical exhibit is the Kitsap Fair. concludes with a big potluck dinner. subject papers are now stored in the club’s archives. Right here on Bainbridge, BIPC members and any There are two levels of competition, A and B. Those In June “Digital” was the subject, an enormous other interested photographers are gearing up to exhibit who have just joined and are unsure of their skills may topic that included 40 pages of documentation and their work at the Commons for the August 3 Outdoor join at B level and may choose to stay there, but if they revealed the marvel of its use on all levels. Another Bainbridge Island Music & Arts Festival. Hosted by accumulate too many points, they have to move up. (One month, a photographer of international judging the Parks Department, this display drew more than 800 can’t take first place all the time!) repute, Bill Black, delivered a lecture about judging. people last year to view 200 photographs. Competition is based on the point system from three This competition/education format for BIPC was As they thrive on placing in competitions and getting to nine, patterned on the same grading system as other established at the time of conception in the summer of their work out, members of BIPC are garnering greater local, national and international salons and clubs. An 1999 by Charlie Gates and Norm Babcock. Babcock was respect from long established clubs, critics and admirers. average photo is a “6” meaning it’s in focus and has some composition. A panel of three judges, usually volunteers from the club, and one commentator, who must note two good things and suggest one correction, We’re now seeing patients! reviews the 60 to 70 prints and slides submitted. What you submit for competition is not necessarily a picture at Cobi Chiropractic Center on Bainbridge you want to hang on your wall. The judges have only Dear Friends: couldn’t clench my fist or button my But I can’t really take a lot of credit. 20 to 30 seconds to view this image, so what is most My new clinic, Cobi Chiropractic shirt, let alone compete as an athlete. I I’ve never healed anyone of anything. important? Center, is now open to serve you at 435 was afraid I’d lose my scholarship if the What I do is perform a specific spinal “Impact,” Oze says — a bright red open flower, Ericksen Ave., Suite 103. disability continued. adjustment to remove nerve pressure, sizzling silver railroad tracks. There’s no time to look for The office includes state-of-the-art The orthopedic surgeon for the and the body responds by healing fine details. equipment, and I think you’ll agree Minnesota Vikings said that surgery itself. It’s as simple as that. And we get Competing is optional for members, but the best thing there’s a warm, friendly feeling about was all he could do for me. After tremendous results. about it, Oze claims, is that you can see what somebody the place. the surgery, and many months of else did and learn accordingly. You might think, “Why Please phone me at 842-6778 for rehabilitation, I tried to return to Affordable care didn’t I think of that? It broadens your scope, gives you a time when we can get Forty-five million acquainted. I’m now Americans no longer have scheduling appointments health insurance, and for Tuesdays, Thursdays, those who do have found New members welcome and Saturdays. their benefits reduced. Many people find that Bainbridge Island Photo Club is always We are so pleased to be here, in this beautiful place they save money on health eager to have new members. The only with its friendly people and care expenses by seeing a requirements are interest and enthusiasm. the special Bainbridge way chiropractor. Contact any of the following: president, R.D. of life. When my wife and For a limited time I am Oze, 206 842 2536; vice president competition, I decided to move to the offering a get-acquainted, Hal Muhrlein; vice president programs, Tom Northwest from St. Louis, new-patient exam for only DeVange; secretary-treasurer, Pat Egaas; print we were immediately $17, including X-rays (if chairman, Pat Jennings; slide chairman, Mary attracted to this small city necessary) and a report Waterson; refreshment chairman, Bev Ericson; with its rural setting just a of findings. (The same communications chairman, Genevieve Moyer; short ferry ride from Seattle. exam could cost you $200 digital study group, Ken Hales; Web master, We were tremendously elsewhere.) Further care David Warren; newsletter, Stan Johnston; impressed by the beautiful is very affordable, and I Bainbridge Public Library, Dr. Marc, Gina and Jordan Ferrin offer reasonably priced Bainbridge Island Photo Club email site, www. and the fact that the family plans. biphotoclub.org people of this community have built and competition, but just couldn’t. Please understand there is no sacrifice maintained it without any tax money. That Years later, the same symptoms of quality. takes real commitment and dedication. began to occur in my right hand and You get great care at a great fee. My mother was a librarian, and arm. A friend convinced me to try a I’m a graduate of the renowned LIBRARY HOURS books and libraries have always been chiropractor. He did an exam, took some Logan College of Chiropractic, with a Mon / Tues / Wed 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. an important part of my life. My wife, films, and then “adjusted” my spine. The bachelor’s degree in human biology. Thurs / Fri / Sat 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Gina, and I are already introducing adjustment didn’t hurt; it actually felt I’ve taken care of tiny babies, senior our 2 year-old daughter, Jordan, to good. I could use my hand again. citizens, and working adults of all ages. Sunday 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. the wonderful world of books. So it’s The procedure worked so well that Please call me and let’s get acquainted. (See calendar on page 1 for closures.) not surprising that I would choose the today I’m a chiropractor. I may be able to help with some of your Library News as a way of getting to health problems. And we can always talk know you. My practice about great books and libraries. KRL WEBSITE ADDRESS Today, people come to me with their www.krl.org My background carpal tunnel syndromes, and with their Sincerely, Sixteen years ago, I was a varsity headaches, migraines, chronic pain, neck wrestler at the University of Minnesota. pain, shoulder/arm pain, whiplash from LIBRARY PHONE NUMBERS Then, suddenly, I developed a painful car accidents, numbness in limbs, athletic Bainbridge Island Branch...... 842-4162 condition which caused numbing and injuries, and many other problems. Dr. Marc Ferrin tingling in my left arm and hand. It was Several times a day patients thank For Computer Support carpal tunnel syndrome. me for helping them with their health P.S. For a second family member and Other Departments...... 1-877-883-9900 The pain was so intense that I problems. accompanying the first, the new-patient exam fee is only $10...... or 1-360-405-9131 (Paid advertisement) Page 12